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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1838.

The Times of' to-day, in speaking of the Ministers' plan
to increase the revenue of Church lands, has the following
paragraph, which is equally worthy of the attention of the
landlords and the bulk of the bread eaters :
" Is there any other instance in which it would be tolerated In this
country (at least till lately, and what may be hereafter the case we know
not), that Government should interfere between a proprietor and his
possessions, and say to him, My friend, your farms are leased out at by
far too little; we shall take them into our own hands, giving you your
present rent, so that you shall be no loser, and make what we can of
them for other purposes.' Why, we ask, should not Government pos_
less themselves of the rental of the whole kinXdom in the same manner
and on the same terms ? The taxes might thus be considerably re-
duced, and the Exchequer filled by the process!"
The " till lately" and the " hereafter," in relation to
the community taking the landowners' farms out of their
hands, are very suggestive words. Till lately nobody
would have dreamed of that ; we believe hereafter nobody
would have nourished, or even formed such a wish, but for
the conduct of the landowners. Since they first in
1815, subsequently in 1822, and again in 1828, came
before the country and said, " Our farms do not yield
us enough to keep up our numerous equipages, and
crowds of liveried menials, we cannot pay the annuities which
our fathers left 'to our younger brothers and uncles, and the
jointures with which our lands are charged for our mothers
and grandmothers, aunts and cousins ; neither can we pay
the interest due on the money which we borrowed to buy
land when there was a prospect that it would rise still higher
in value, the mortgagees threaten to foreclose, the land
will pass from our hands and the present race of landowners.
The TEMPLES, the PELHAMS, the STANHOPES, the
GOOCHES, the KNATCHBULLS, the BULLERS, &C., &C.,
must go for the remainder of their days into exile, and see
their families compelled to live by their own honest
industry." When they, after making these doleful
lamentations over the insufficient produce of their farms
to allow them to live with their accustomed extravagance,
and the dreadful hardship of beir, obliged to earn the
bread they eat, proceeded by virtue of the Legislative power,
which the traditionary respect of the nation vested in them,
to pass a law for increasing the price of what these farms
yield, and for levying a tax on the people's bread to add to
the revenues,—from that very instant, when these equally,
foolish and wicked men insisted on increasing their re -ii
venues, by limiting the supply of food, enhancing the
natural income of rent by the compulsory produce
of taxation, confounding the two under the latter
hateful term,—from that moment the idea was ge-
nerated, and it has now become patent and common,
that it would be wise for the community to take the
farms of the taxing landlords into its own hands, and giving
them even double the revenue they now derive from the
tax on bread, set the national industry free from the fetters
in which their cupidity has bound it. Till lately, that is,
till 1815, the people would have shuddered at such a
thought in relation to that class of men whom their fore-
fathers served, honoured, and obeyed ; but since 1815, the
ideas of the people have undergone a remarkable
change, and the avowed plunder then made legal
by the landowners, has shaken all property to its base.
What this may lead to hereafter we, like the Times, know
producenot , but
thee
rental,think as
the
representativest he
o f tlie avowedly
people, taxed
on to
the main principle of the Constitution, ought to take both
the levying and the appropriating it into their own hands ;
and some project of that kind will no doubt be entertained,
and justly entertained, as long as one particle of the land-
owners' rental is derived from a tax on the food of the people.
The Times says the Dissenter who objects to pay the
rates, which his neighbour the churchwarden and a select
vestry levy on him, " is NOT AN HONEST MAN." The
Her ad says that to relieve the Dissenter from Church-
rates, by improving the value of Church property, is ,4 rob-
bery." With words like these, and we use them as to the
Corn-laws, strong, and deep, and imperishable emotions
Aire connected, to which all the common political senti-
ments, for which su.4 terms stand as " Constitution" and
.." Reform," Are shalWYl, weak, and controulable ; and when
sv.e find such words hanai,i4 ,bout on both sides in Parlia-
ment, as v..,e1,1,as tbe 'rs, /VP hazard nothing in assert-
ing that a ieme conNict pr,eparing between the con-
tendin, Those who commit the injustice, now
co empeitatically deterilsed, may not mean it, but most
sufkly they will bring this
Constitution of ours
about the ears of the nation. When the contending
parties O ourish the strongort arA most enduring of all
our mora.
sentiments by the mutual application of such
zulshonest men," " plunderers," and
words as " robbers,"
it needs not Z_ZASIT%-NDA.*9€ prow e r to tell that the next
storm of political avilj44 brteAks nn the land, let it
come from what ra: it spay, will rocit
p the founda-
tions of our presetitt 10,911Wca41

Dr, CHALAff Et,A 4€l.ivexed h 4. t,totoi,a 44011 the
circurestaxaes whi4 Jamx ,aletoerf4zuckt .(jr',.v4.l-.oinents to select
one deticralitlation of cibrietianity for the national religion,".