The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-27 00:00:00

CHURCH OF IRELAND.

(Prom the Morning Chronicle. )

We are much mistaken i 4 the symptotos described ire
the following article, from the Dublin Morning Post,
he not the expiring throes of the Prutestant Church of
Ireland. Let that of England take warn;tig in time
COLLECTION or Thurs.—The following is extracted
from a letter, which appears in the Eeenin, Mail, pur-
porting, and we believe truly, to be written by a Clergy..
man of the Established Church, resident in the emanty of
Kilkenny. We have struck out what may be called the
stuffing of the letter, which contists of abuse against the
Catholics of Ireland, Bishop Doyle, and his Majesty's. Mi-
nisters. We give the marrow of the riefle, however, be-
cause we have reason to know that the sta:ement of facts
is substantially correct; but chiefly, however, for the re-
commendation with which the letter conchae!, as the
necessity of making the Government of the country to:
great ti he collector. We believe it is elifheult enough to
collect the taxes, or county rate.', and we imagine that Mi-
nisters will not volunteer in the new office which the
Church of Ireland seems so ready to aasign them. The
following are the excretal' 1—
" The state of the Queen's County, Kilkenny, Wex-
ford, Carlow, and parts of Kildare and other adjoining
counties is simply this :—an organised and systematic re-
sistance to tithes exists throughout them—a resistance
carried on by every possible means, either of open hosti-
lity, or avowed intimidation. The consequence le, that
in many parishes the clergymen are at this moment in the
greatest distress, the majority of them having large fa-
milies. The Protestant clergyman has no other resource
but either to starve in contented penury, or if he doer
seek to obtain those rights to which the laws entitle him,
to bring down upon himself the perseeurionsand vengeance
of every Papist, infidel, and radical, who, however they
may differ in other respects, agree in making common
cause against him. I point eat many pstiotiee.
where the clergyman would hardly dare to ask any of Isis
Catholic parishioners for tithes. Intimidation has
used to such a degree that I may almost say the clergy-
man stands alone. Any man that has the manliness air
courage to assist him, is denounced at once. hie person en-
dangered, and his property injured and destroyed. The
consequence is, that it is new almost impossible to obtain
a Proctor by any means, either to value, receive, or hays
anything whatever to do with tithes. Is he to be the
seller and the buyer, and the asctioaeer, and the pound-
keeper, all at the same time, and to oppose in his own
person, or perhaps with the assistance of at most one or
two more, an angry mob, for he can olot,in no assistance
from those around him, nor call open the police to protect
him until a breach of the peace has been committed ? I
really do not know how there Clergymen who are alto-
gether dependent on their livings (which the great majo-
rity are) will be able to exist, if Government withholds
its interference. The idea of litigating (even though suc-
cessful in the end) every individual sans eine for tithe
throughout a parish, would be as impracticable, as during
the proceedings it would be impossible. 'Where is the
money to do so to come from, and what is the Clergy-
man and his family to subsist on in the mean time? The
very means by which a successful terminatien could alone
he expected, is the matter in dispute; and I see no other
rem iurce for a Clergyman, except to become an actual
mendicant for any portion of his own property which his
plunderers may think fit to spare. Mr. Stanley is re-
ported to have asked, what were the Government to do ?
If be is sincere in asking the question, let him adopt a
suggestion, wiiich I will take upon me to say, will meet
with the approbation of most of the Clergy. Let Govern-
ment collect the tithes, each Clergyman giving th' m a
power of attorney recallable at pleasure, to do so, and
paying a suitable collection. I ere bat one course Ict for
the Protestant Laity as well as Clergy in Ireland, and that
is, a systematic and organized emigration from this un-
happy country to distant and more peaceab'e shores."
Emigration, no doubt, if practicable, would be a good
plan; and the Clergy reserves in Canada would furnish
convenient retreat.--having this advantage besides, that
t e Parson would have still fewer souls to superintend
than in Ireland, there being no inhabitant, in or near
nine-tenths of those forret lands. This, in itself, would be
a great good, fur there would be no one to fielt withal,
but the wolves anti bears. But as to the transportation
of the Protestant Laity, we must say it is an extravagant
proposition, and would not, If carried into effect, con-
tribute very materially to the advantage of time Clergy,
the Protestants being infinitely more opposed to tith ea
than the Papists themselves—a proposition which may
be demonstrated from Swift, from History, from the re-
solutions of the Irish House of Commons, front experience,
anti from the writings of the late Doctor Phelan, directed,
an the latter are, with special vehesntreee, against the Irish
landlord..

But seriously, the condition of the incumbent, in se-
veral parts of the country is deplorable ening". They
alive rendered themselves, we admit, extremely unpopular.
But waiving all considerations of this kind—we are satis-
fied that the period is at length at hand, of a great change
in the Church. The system cannot muck longer be
carried on. It is falling into ruins by its wrn weilAt—
ruit mole sun. We would wish to tare the actual incum-
bents. We would secure to every M3ll all that lie has
right to, his actual income for life. Indeed we never met
an honest and sane Reformer who had any other inten-
tion. And the Bishops' Lands would be amply snikeient
for this purpose. If the Church be not taken in hands in
time—the dies ins, dies ilia will envelope it in one wide-
spreading ruin.

THE CASSOWARY.—An instance of the faci-
lity with which this clan of birds swallow hard substances
took place a few days since, in a fine adult bird at the
Surrey Zoological Gardens. Carpenters bad been employed!
in erecting palings round a paddock intended for this bird,
the tops of which bad been sawn off, consistieg of pieces
from one to two inches in length by an inch in thickness,
most of them cut with extremely sharp angles. Thirty-
one of these pieces, with a piece of brick about the stole
size, and a tenpenny nail, had been picked tip by the bird,
the whole of which passed through the stomach at ons
time, without any apparent inconvenience.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 16th inst. con-
tains the following, dated Passau, Oct. IS :—" We have
just received the official communication from the Aue'rian
Government of the breaking out of the cholera at Wells.
Thus the disease is approaching Bayafia. A soldier who
had returned to Wells from the dissolved cordon at Grucl:
on the Leitha, communicated the disease toe little girl, iind
both died on the same thy. A surgeon who kad opened the
corpses shared the same fete. Seven persona fell victuns
to this scourge boors it was recognieed as the choler .
Since the arrival of this intelligence the Bavarian front!• is
and the cordon
leavneowbeecnomgpniaerttelelyd
rewmithwrieedhcaoa.bled vigilance,