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London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

lowed by his guards, in order to seize such a
supposed rival, and transport him by his own
bodily strength, and the strength of his fbl-
lowers, would be considered madness. Ile can
gratify his lusts after a certain methodised and
organised manner; but they are not the less
lusts, nor is he the less wicked, nor are his ac-
tions less evil.

If, for example,: the gentlemen landowners of
England can, by passing a certain law, extract
from each man a portion of his income in the
price of his food, would it not be silliness in them
to go to the actual work of picking pockets to
attain the same end? If the Anglican clergy be
endowed by law with a large portion of the an-
nual produce of industry, and are elevated into
the dignity of dictators to other men ; if they, by
being so endowed with the produce of othermen's
labour, are enabled to live in ease and comfort,
and to wield a vast portion of political power
without exacting fees or dealing. out spiritual ana-
themas; if they have ecclesiastical courts to
compel men to obey their behests, what need
have they of personal exertions to attain the
same end? If they were to use violence would
they not be regarded as mad, like the Emperor
NICHOLAS, in the case above cited. A dominant
individual, or a dominant class, which can attain
its ends and gratify its wishes by making laws,
would be inexcusable if it had recourse to other
means.

But those who have not the power of making
laws as a means of gaining their ends, are driven
to have recourse to violent and illegal means,
which in the others would be objectionable. It
is certainly very bad of the Catholic priests to
threaten the people with spiritual penalties if
they do not vote as the said Catholic priests
would have them; but does nothing of the kind
take place under Protestant priests ?
The Established clergy hold many of the peo-
ple in the rural districts in such a state of pecu-
niary and mental bondage, that they never dare
to think, even on any public matter, without
asking leave of the squire and the parson, who
are generally leagued together. The organiza-
tion of the Church by law, as the servant of the
aristocracy, is so complete, that it works in the
rural districts unfelt and unseen. Having such
a power, which it quietly uses to the same ends
as the Roman Catholic priesthood use their
power, it would be mere silliness in them were
they to threaten men with spiritual punishment
on any special occasion, in order to obtain a vote.
They know better; they have that power by law
which the Roman Catholics have in spite of the
law, and hence thei.e is a difference in their
mode of action, but the nature of their power is
the same, and so are the ends it is employed to
attain.

We have no faint recollection, too, that not many
months ago, Mr. HETHERINGTON was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment for merely publishing
a book which expressed opinions not relished by
the Protestant priests. It is true that the law
was the instrument of punishment, but the law
was framed and set in motion by the Protestant
priests. There was in Mr. HETHERINGTON'S
case no vague threat, it was the positive infliction
of punishment. Other cases of the like kind might
be enumerated, but of severer punishment. Per-
sons have been imprisoned eighteen months and
two years, not because they did not vote as the
English priests told them, but because they pre-
sumed even to think differently-- from those
priests. We dislike and condemn the tyranny
of the priests in Ireland, but we hate and re-
probate, to the whole extent of our strength,
the greater tyranny of the priests in England,
which is exercised in the name of the law, and,
by Protestants, in the name of resistance to
ecclesiastical tyranny.
Some persons may suppose that there is a
great difference in the cases, inasmuch as the
law is on the side of the English priests and
against the Roman Catholic priests in Ireland.
We cannot see any difference unfavourable to
the Catholics. They have not the law to work
with, and therefore they act spontaneously
on their own authority. The English priests
shelter themselves behind the law. They add hypo-
crisy to arrogance. Having made the law their in-
strument, they have no reason to act personally ;
but it is because the law in Ireland is not the in-
strument of the Catholic priests that they are
obliged to act personally. This is all the differ-
ence between the two parties. The law maxim is,
who acts by another, acts for himself; and while
the Protestant priests cowardly slink behind an
enactment, the Roman Catholic priests boldly
exercise their power in their own way. We say
this on the supposition that every thing reported
of the Roman Catholic priests is true; but we
must not omit to observe that the testimony
against them, on which the Tories rest their abuse,
is that of opponents and enemies, heated and
chagrined by electioneering defeats.
Were some of our Contemporaries, who are
very forward in abusing the Catholic priests, not
because they desire different objects from the
Protestant priests, but because they use diffe-
rent means to obtain them, only to reflect that
the Protestant priests have in the law an instru-
ment to gratify their lust of power or wealth,
while the Catholics have no such instrument,
they would not, we think, expend all their anger
on the Catholic priests; at least, they ought not,
and ought to reserve some of it for the Anglican
priests. But one set of priests may, according
to the proverb, steal a horse, while another, de-
siring the horse equally with his fellows, must
not look over a hedge. One is our own priest,
and we honour him as a divine, the other is the
priest of some other man, and we treat him as
the patron of superstition.

To show how general is the disdain and contempt
which the Tories entertain of the manufacturing
population, we must mention that the Morning
Herald yesterday, like the Quarterly Review,
the Standard, and the Morning Post, spoke of the
millions of the manufacturing districts as hav-
ing no right to exist, because they alarmed
and endangered the Government. Instead of
the Government being the servant of the indus-
trious classes, existing only to protect that pro-
perty which has no other source than industry,
it has become their absolute master, entitled, ac-
cording to the showing of tlic Herald, to starve the
manufacturers out of existence, or prevent them
ever coming into being, lest they should en-
danger the Government. Unconsciously. the Tory
scribe betrayed the whole secret of his party's
policy. The multitude are to be sacrificed to
the convenience of the few, and Government
and law are the subtle instruments the Tories
are to employ to obtain their ends.
It now stands confessed on all hands that the
Corn• laws are maintained to keep down the ma-
nufacturing population. Lord ASHBURTON-7.-
poor sentimentalist—does not like to see the land
covered with tall chimneys, and the rest of the
Tories do not like to see the increase of a manu-
facturing population, it is so different from the
scattered and obedient serfs they are accustomed
to command. The quiet happiness of the work-
ing millions in their own way, the peaceful en-
joyments of their own comforts with their wives
and families, their domestic bliss and their do-
mestic sorrows, are all to be put down by the
Tories to secure the Constitution and the Govern-
ment. The Corn.htw, we repeat, is one of the
instruments by which they hope to secure the
success of their horrible and even hellish system.

We invite special attention to the subject
which has for two days engrossed the attention
of the Proprietors of East India Stock and the
Directors of the Company ; we refer to the inte-
resting case of the dethroned and exiled RAJA of
SATTARA—a Hindoo Prince of ancient and high
lineage, who has been deprived °fills power, his
dignity, and his private property, without a
trial, and upon testimony, which we think every
candid mind, who examines the debate, will
pronounce in the. highest degree unsatisfactory.
It is, however, most gratifying to perceive
that the debate has had the effect of bringing