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BRITISH PLEDGE SOCIETY.—To ttll-
powered by Act of Parhament.—Capital 30,r01t. (to be
shareincreased if necessary), in shares of 25/. each. Deposit,
21.
per

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Win. Allen, Esq., F.R.S. ,I. P. Piumptre, Esq., M.P.
J. T. Barry, Esq.
J. :NI. Rosseter, Esq.
James Go'die, Esq. H. Thompson,Esq.
H. 'leathern, Esq. Geo. Webster, Esq., M D.
Jos. Maitland, Esq. G. A. Young, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
STANDING COUNSEL—David Pollock Esq., Q. C. ; J. Sydney
Taylor, A
JJINT SOLICITORS—Thos. B. Fleming, Eq. ;J. H. Pollock, Esq.
PAHLIA 3I EN TA Icy , AGENT—George Webster, Esq.
SECGETARY—Mr. Thomas Mullinder.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
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The objects of this Society are—To lend money to the poor on
pledges at a very reduced rate of interest, and on the most equita-
ble terms.
To put a stop to the alarming in.roase of crime which is encou-
raged under the present System of Pawnbroking.
To create a large for charitable purposes out of the profits
of the business, after paying a fair interest to the Shareholders.
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Although fro'-, the nature of the business the responsibilities of
Socirty are necessarily limited, ample provision will be made in
the (lee.k of settlement for securing the Shareholders against any loss
berni their respective Shares.
No call beyond the deposit will be made till the Act is obtained,
nor will any call exceed 51. Three months' notice of each call
will be given.
Joseph Pease, Esq., M.P., at the request of the Society, has
kindly consented to take charge of the Bill, which has been read a
first time.
Applications for prospectusses and shares to be made, post-paid,
to the Secretary, at the temporary offices of the Society, 3, Ab-
church-lane, London.

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CXXXV.
Will be published on Thursday the 12th.
CONTP:NTS.
I. GEORGE the FOURTH and QUEEN CAROLINE—ABUSES of
the PRESS.
9. WHEWELL'S MECHANICAL EUCLID—PRINCIPLES of MA-
THEMATICAL REASONING.
3. JARDINE on the USE of TORTURE in ENGLAND.
4. SLADE, SPENCER, and OTHERS, on RUSSIA, TURKEY, and
CIRC,VSSIA.
5. LIFE of WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, BY HIS SONS.
R. MISS MARTINEAU'S TRAVELS in AMERICA.
7. LORD BROUGHAM'S SPEECHES on SLAVERY.
S. CLAIMS of the WHIGS and TORIES.
9. TRADES' UNIONS and STRIKES.
London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black.

The publication of Tait SUN NKWSPAPER commenced this day
at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock.

WITH WHICH
" THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW
INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1838.

In the House of Lords last night the Earl of RIPON
took advantage of a motion for a return of the expenditure
of the Irish Ecclesiastical Commission, to arraign the policy
of the Government in not more actively supporting the
temporal interests of the Protestant Church in Ireland.
The Noble Earl referred with much self-complacency to
his own Ministerial doings in 1833 ; and bewailed with be-
coming earnestness and decorum the impiety of those who
regarded anything connected with the Irish branch of the
Church Establishment as a " grievance." There were no
fewer than 46.5 livings in Ireland, the incomes of which
varied from 304 to 2001. a year—a lamentable proof of the
destitution of the Irish Church, as well as a powerful induce-
ment to Ministers to try what might be done to increase,
rather than diminish, the Church Temporalities in the Sis-
ter Country. Parliamentary Protestantism consists of a
spire, a glebe, and the tenth of the parish produce. The
piety of a district is tested by the weight of the Rector's
strong box. Where the tithe-collector has no difficulty in
gathering into the ecclesiastical granary the tenth sheaf, the
tenth potatoe, and the tenth p;g, there religion is sure to
be in a flourishing condition, though the village Sabbath
may never have been gladdened by the chimes of a Church-
bell. It is, moreover, one of the peculiarities of Con-
servative Protestantism to act upon the principle, that
though Church livings may he too poorly, they can
never be too richly endowed. We are often re-
minded of the number of Church-livings in Ireland
under two hundred pounds a-year ; but we never
hear a syllable about those whose income exceeds as many
thousands. Neither are we told how many of these small
livings are not held by rich- pluralists—how many of them j
cannot boast of a Protestant parishioner—though they ma
have Churches which are never opened ; while the Catholiei
who are taxed to keep them in repair are often, from their
extreme poverty, obliged to worship GOD under the wide
leanopy of Heavon. We have ourselves often witnesse
Ilineh a spectacle ; and therefore, before bewailing th
poverty of an Irish Church-living, we should like to kno
whether it imposes any clerical duty upon the rev. recipi.
ent of even the paltry sum of 1501. per annum. The smalle
annuity is handsome when there happens to be nothin
odo for it. But admitting that a few livings in Ireland
Eire too small, the remedy is as simple as it is obvious.!
Take from the fat pluralists—the rich absentees in lawn,
and make up the deficiency in the present incomes of the
working clergy. Where there are Churches without con-
gregations let the buildings be sold, and the livings conso-
lidated. The experience of two centuries ought to sa-
tisfy Parliament that no endowment of the Irish
Protestant Church will ever have the effect of
changing the religious opinions of the Irish people.
The cause of this is plain enough. The Protestant
Clergy have no motive to trouble themselves about the
religious instructing of the mass of the people. They are
as well paid for doing nothing as they could expect to be
were each of them charged with the care of fifty thousand
souls. As COBBETT used truly to observe, few men who
can help it ever think of working, and the rule is as
applicable to parsons as agricultural labourers. Lord MEL-
Bo UR N E, in agreeing to the motion, taunted the Conservative
Peers with having prevented the previews settlement of the
Church question on terms more favourable than could now
be obtained, and distinctly stated that the Cabinet would
not be guided in its conduct by the advice of its political
opponents. We shall look to the future conduct of the
Government for proofs of the sincerity of this declaration,
and right glad shall we be to have many occasions of re-
cording them. The avoidance of Tory councils is all
that is wanted to ensure the safety of the Cabinet.
Th

Ie present plan of deciding questions of Controverted
Elections gave rise to another scene of scandal and another
question of privilege last night, in the House of Commons.
Our readers are aware that a Report of an Election Com-
mittee has unseated Mr. PoourEa, who has repreiented
Shaftesbury in several Parliaments, and has seated in his
room a Captain M.ITHEw• Losers are privileged to com-
plain ; but Mr. POULTER, who is said to be a Gentleman
of rather an irritable disposition, and who probably has a
large share of the general mistrust and gereral contempt of
Election Committees, scorns to have allowed his privilege to
carry him into conflict Ivith the privileges of the House, and
for the present fLey have got the upper hand, and he has
been order.Ato appear at the hgrun Monday, to answer forhis
lang;:lage. Mr. Pot;
LTRtipoured out his vexation in a letter to
IhO electors of Shaftesbury, which appeared in the Jforning
nroriiek yesterday amongst the advertisements, and which
Mr. BLACKiiroNa, a Member of the Shaftesbury Com-
mittee, thought it his duty to bring under the notice of the
Howe. We will not excuse Mr. Pot•LTEe's language. It
i certainly being much too irritable to speak of having been
an/witted "by an unprincipled combination." Several ma-
jorities of Election Committees have behaved so extremely
bad that Mr. POULTER, we are sure, is not warranted in
describing the majority which unseated him as the " most
corrupt that ever degraded the administration of justice,
and the name of the Commons of England." That imputes a
degree of culpability of which we are unwilling to believe
Mr. BLACKSTONE and his colleagues capable, and he did
rightld'eraltavour to exonerate himself and them from so
heavy a charge. No gentleman can be expected to tolerate
c\iiip ttiomof being the blackest of the black. But
-r,:if Itliiikd.still stronger language. He said of the
Mari i cif this iitiost corrupt Committee, that their " ig-
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:.: garance was :seennl only to their corruption," and nobody
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