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the Clerks are now taxed severally to the amoun
of 21. 10s., 51., up to 101. per cent. ; and this,
too, upon salaries fixed by the new establish,
ment, which, as compared with the old, operates
a general and prospective reduction, on an
average of 331. per cent.

[MORNING CIIRONICIA.I
The 500,0001. grant for building New Churches
Came again before the House last night. We
had no idea that it would be so popular a mea-
sure. One hundred and forty-four to thirty !
No wonder that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
should pay such high compliments to the wisdom
and virtue of the House. We, for our parts, have
such a high opinion of both, that we feel grate-
ful to Mr. Robinson for his moderation in ask-
ing only 500,0001. We trust, however, he will
not confine his provident care to England—Let
him remember poor Ireland.—ln whole Dioceses
there is hardly a single church, and there is no
fund which the Clergy can appropriate for their
erection. If Mr. Butterworth find it necessary
to vote for New Churches in England to arrest the
progress of infidelity, surely he woald find them
equally necessary to arrest the progress of Ca-
tholicism in Ireland. How unreasonable we are
in demanding zeal from the Clergy of the Esta-
blishment, when we will not allow them a place
in which they can display it; for, as Mr. Butter-
worth well knows, the Tithes and Church Lands
have nothing to do with the Churches ; the incum-
bent has merely something to do with them. I f the
Tithes of a Parish amount to 60001. a year, and the
Glebe to 5 or 600 arable acres, still if Parlia-
ment do not build a Church, nothing can be done.
This sort of half liberality is very ridiculous. It
is as absurd to have clergymen without churches
as it is to have churches without clergymen. To
have clergymen without churches is like having
sailors without ships. A Gentleman who ordered
out his gamekeeper to kill game for his table,
without allowing him a fowling-piece, would
not be more unreasonable than we are in sup-
posing that the Establishment can be de-
fended against the three arch enemies of infi-
delity, Catholicism, and Dissenterism, without
possessing the instrument on which its activity is
dependent.—lt is very edifying to see so many
Members concurring with such different views in
supporting Mr. Robinson in his pious endeavour
to build new Churches. One Member votes for
them because he hates cant, another because he
thinks they will induce young men and women
to continue the praiseworthy old English practice
of passing their time jollity on Sundays—a third,
because they will put down infidelity—a fourth,
because they will put down Devil Killers (the
term is not ours, but an Honourable Member's.)
In short, the measure has it attractions for every
one—it must be a good one—when the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer proposed his liberal
measures he was attacked by friends and ene-
mies ; but he has at last hit on a measure which
suits the taste of all but two or three incurable
grumblers.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We were surprised, in the course of the short
debate which took place a few dayi since, on the
subject of the exclusion of the public from West-
minster Abbey, to find it asserted by a Member
of the Administration, that " the Dean and
Chapter had a right to make the charges they
did ; and that he knew not how the Executive
could interfere." For our own parts, we sub-
scribe neither to the fact nor the inference.—
We do not deny that, technically speaking,
die buildings of the Abbey may be vested
in the Dean and Chapter, but we contend
that they are, to all intents and purposes,
so vested in' them as trustees for the public :
just as Guildhall, Westminster Hall, the Royal
Exchange, the British Museum, and a variety of
other public buildings, are held by various bo-
dies for public purposes. The Abbey differs
essentially from every other cathedral in the
kingdom, having been invariably, from time im-
memorial, used and treated as public property.
There is no more common test to decide dis-
puted rights of property in similar eases than
the
.question of who has repaired it. We an-
sWibr, the public ; and after having contributed
so largely as we have done only of late
years to sustain and beautify the edifice, it is
rather ungracious that we should be re-taxed for

the mere permission to view our own property
under own roof. In fact, it has been uniformly
dedicated to public purposes—has been made
the receptacle of public property ; and we ap-
prehend that the Dean and Chapter would have
as much right to charge the King for being
crowned in it, as they have to deny the public,
under proper regulations, the privilege of visiting
the sepulchres of their Princes, Warriors, and
Statesmen. The flimsy pretence that the money
(2s. a head) demanded of every one on admit-
tance, is required or applied to keep the monu-
ments clean and in order, we cannot quite credit,
at least till we see something like an account of
the receipts and payments on this head. But
even supposing the money to be so applied, and
that the Dean and Chapter have no other funds
from which it could be taken, we have no
hesitation in *asserting that" Parliament would
readily relieve them from the expence, if they
would forego the ungracious system of ex-
clusion to which they have of late years
resorted. We lament the obstinate adhe-
rence of the Reverend Body to this system, the
more for this reason, that it tends to alienate the
affections of the people from the Church, and in-
creases the obloquy which ill-disposed persons
are always inclined to heap upon the Clergy.
There is something due to themselves and to
their profession upon this occasion, of which we
still hope that they may be induced to sec the
force and the importance ; but if, unfortunately,
that should not be the case, we trust they will
he taught that Parliament is all-powerful to do
justice, and that there is in this country no wrong
without. a remedy. ,