The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-26 00:00:00

410,71 a

57,231

153,250

£974,940

75,078

£1 050,708
The first and third sums; amounting to 410,980ke.
constitute what is called the Regium Donuni, which•
othereamon en nuttnme commenced
Protestantye
aeh
ndedn i nnfi o ss.v7tBaDg4mr
granted,
amounts
uert
neit
dtth
es e:
tsbo.
u3ta Seceders,s It w
been
and in 1692 for the'
Per
among the ministers in salaries varyingoesl:eirnoonmglyr whichdOl u/2i.aBo,ltdio(YliivigiOduoegd/-.
The liberality of Government to religious parties in Ire-
land is in inverse proportion to their wants. The
wealty Episcopalians are richly endowed ; the less
wealthy Presbyterians have half an endowment ; ana
the poor Catholics, incomparably the most numerous;
sect, and professsing what may be called the national!
religion, have nothing ! Were every other Irish
grievance redressed, it is evident that as long as asJ
tional pride and the sense of justice exist in the human
breast, an establishment of this description must be a
standing provocation to discontent and turbulence.
bas Since 1795 the Catholic College of Maynooth
had an annual grant of 8.700/., amounting in 44 years
to 382,6991. This is all the Catholics have received,.
and none of it goes to the clergy. Lord Ashle3, how-
ever, seems to have suspected that amidst the innume-
rable grants so lavishly bestowed on Ireland, somes
of the
tbe
money might have found its way into the pocket
priests or bishops ; and ho accordingly moved far .the
return in the following shape, which he no doubt tho ng
the ,
he
best calculated to fish out the truth. Return of
total amount of money pto man Catholic Bishops
a
and clergy, distinguishing pyments out of the Conso-
lidated Fund, from the earliest period to the date of
this
but rfien.turthne. been nil,
To the Rev. Dr. Troy, in the years 1801 and 892,
"folTloisvingreittgern'm spade
would
have
for repairing or rebuilding Roman Catholic chapels, de- .
stroyed or injured during the rebellion of 1798.
2,1131. 13s. Id. Exclusive of the bfaynooth gr"
earliant.
this is all the Catholics have received from the est
period." Hoar much has the Established Church re-
ceived in the same time?
In the twenty years from 1817 to 1837 the Esta-
blished Churches in Great Britain received .170,0 ed Wlla
.
in drawback on wood and other materials amp (0Y
the erection of places of worship. The Irish Church-.
would, of course, have its share, but we have no docu-
ment at hand showing what it was. Lord Asvey
however, seems to have suspected that ,the Catholics
and other Irish Dissenters might get their hands into
the national treasury through this channel, and be ac-
cordingly moved for a return of the amount, vrhicki
turns out to be nil. Thus the favoured sect makes one•
unjust monopoly a foundation for another. It is worthy.
of. remark. that..the drawback on church-building ,mate-
dills, about which a word has scarcely ever been
has amounted on an average to 8,5001. a year—verr
nearly the sum granted to the Catholic College, %chichi
has been the subject of so much clamour. The hypo-
crites and bigots in the Church who grasped at this
paltry advantage, though amply supplied with public
money otherwise, have raised a mighty cry against the
one pittance granted to six millions of the poorest per-
sons in the Queen's dominions. At present, when the,
Church-extendiug mania is spreading over Britain, the
drawback allowances will amount to double the. average
above-Mentioned.
In the Colonies a more' equitable rule is foilowed.
though in these also the lion's- share 'falls to the episco.
pal establishment. We speak of grants of money only,
and not of revenues derived from tithes or lands. By a
return of last year, which we do not remember see;ag
io
any of the newspapers, the grants to the clergy of si-
rioas denominations in the colonies were ai
small►part of which seems to be.paid from Local
only a
funds :
Church of England £134 450
9 967
Church of Scotland - ,

Dutch Church at the Cape, Heligoland, Deme-
rara, and Ceylon
Church of Rome
Wesiz.yzns, B3ptists, and JCWO

6,886
14,764:
2075

X 168,242
The Church of England hes clergymen paid by the
State in every one of our thirty-nMe coiortes, except
Holigoland.
There are clergymen of the Scottish Church so paid
in twelve colonies, viz.:—the Cape, Lower Canada,
Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ber-
:nada, Jamaica, Bahamas, D,merara, Berbice, blow
South Wale F, and Van Diemen's Lund.
Tus Catholic clergymen are so paid its fourteen co.
lonics, viz.:—Gibraltar, the lonian Isles, the Cape„
Nlatiritins, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, New Bruns—
wick, Newfoundland, Jamaica, Trinidad, Demerara.
B:;rhice, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land.
Dividing the colonies into groups, the grants received
then arc as followa
Mediterranean and African Colonies (the
Cape, Mauritius, Gibraltar, &c.) £16,209
Canada (exclusive of about 14,0001. a-year from
the Society for Propagating Christian Know-
-1 • 17,902
edge)
Nova Scotia and the Lower Colonies
Jamaica and BabalTlati
The Leeward Islands
British Guiana and Honduras 27.602
Australia, Ceylon, and St. Helena 26,134

£168,242
A part of this colonial church expenditure is for chap-
i•titis to the garrisons ; with which exception, and an
allowance for missionaries, every shilling paid by the
mother country may be considered pure waste. Take,
for instance, the case of Jamaica. Its Church establish'
meat costs 39,943/., of which 3,333/. go to the Kirk
it Scotland, the Wesleyans, Baptists, Catholics, and
Jews, and is marked as " voted by the Assembly." The,
sum received by the Church of England is 36,6101., and.
not being so marked, is paid, we presume, by Britain. Of
the latter sum the Lord Bishop alone gets 4,000/.," the
Venerable the Archdeacon" 2,000/. After these come
twenty-one rectors, with stipends from 400/. to 8501. ;
rest twenty•one " Island Curates," withsiitosetip, six garrisonendsof
3001.
each ; then thirty stipendiary curates, with stipends from
c.chaplains,owoit/h. Bsaaclahrjes
. Totriere are, be
100/: each. Now, for whoss
tecommodation are the seventy.tvvo rectors, island
,:,urates, and stipendiary curates,
with the Bishop and
he venerable the Archdeacon maintained ? Is it not
;or the planters, their clerks, and overamen, the attar-
i„}•,, and others of that class, whose gains are far supe-
rior to those of the middle classes in Great Britain 7
will repine at being taxed to establish missions
swooz, the poor negroes, but why should one shilling
;,e taken iron, the packets of the industrious classes in
Britain to provide religious instruction for the plan-
f erg, attorneys, and other men more wealthy this
themsch es ?
In many of the colonies the endowment is an tin-
:nixed evil. It creates heartburnings by raising one
ct above the other, in a society whose essential prin-
,iple is vgallitY. If ail sects share the grant, the:o
is !
still partiality in the division, and the rich, who
Castnf(oissassistance, are always most favoured. la
Canada and No Se'-'tia, the Church has been the
~star evil of the country ; and it has already sown
the seeds of discord in all our Australian colonies.

The St. Vincent, 120, is in the Basin, iiid will
be rigged and stored forthwith. It is rumoured that this
beautiful vessel will be niddu the 11 g-ship at this •port,
and bear the flig of our present (..;,,mmander.in-Chief ;
and that her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, will proceed to
the Mediterranean early in the spring to reinforce- our
squadron there. It is further reported that Admiral Sir
R ?ben Otwiy will take the rommArd of the fleet.--
Po.e.,;;;roei.'ll Par 'r.
. IN. on. Bart.,lias.al.riveil at
ti; ,• std Duchess. of
NJrthurnberland,' who entertains a Small *Sill cittlet
thia Christmas. •