The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-21 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(From a Correspondent.)
Numbers of the " Conservative" nobility and land

ords continue to enrol themselves among the payers o.

tithes, according to the provisions of Stanley's Act.
That is to say, they make themselves accountable to
the clergyman, and will hold their tenants accountable
to them. By that Act of Parliament the landlord is
entitled to deduct 15 per cent. as compensation for the
expense and risk of collection : an advantage which
some few of them have declined to avail themselves of.

However, the greater number have said nothing abou
it, and we are therefore left to conclude that they wil

,ake the bonus.

A mistaken opinion has gone abroad that these
landlords, who never before offered to lighten the
burden of the tithes with so much as a little finger, are
induced to come forward now by motives of mere bene-
volence. Even the Times, with characteristic perfidy,
pretends to believe that their purpose is to "relieve the
destitute clergy, and to conciliate the discontented mul-
titude." But whatever kind feeling they may harbour
towards the clergy, it is certainly unmixed with any

sentiment of conciliation towards the multitude,
Rather than contribute to such an effect, it is scared)

wronging them to say, that they would suffer even this
twelfth hour to pass away without making any sign of
their long-suppressed tenderness for the clergy. The
whole proceeding, in its character, its tendency, and its
objects, is any thing else than conciliatory ; it is
purely factious. They want to force the Government
into a struggle with the populace by compelling it to
assist them with military aid for the collection of the
tithes, well knowing that the only chance the Tories
have of ever regaining their baneful ascendancy is to
render their rivals in power odious to the people. If
they could be made instruments to enact Ultra-Tory
purposes, that might help the expelled faction to re-
cover its lost ground : for
" Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd
When others are more wicked : not being the worst,
Stands in some rank of praise."
With the help of the House of Lords, they expect to
do this.

Such conciliation is of the genuine. Irish breed. It
proposes to soothe the popular mind by an ejectment-
process, and reconcile it to the Church by exacting the
uttermost farthing. By mixing up tithe with rent,
these rash politicians incur a hazard of endangering
both ; but they know that a combination against rents,
by whatever means produced, must place the executive
power at their beck, and excite in England a solicitude
for the preservation of property, upon which they will
not want the ingenuity to raise an outcry to the credit
of their party. And this is the sum total of the bene-
volence which supplies a theme of panegyric to "honest
Iao" in the Times.
Connected with this scheme is another for planting:,
Orange tenants in the room of those who shall be
turned out of their holdings for refusing to pay tithes

to the landlord. The ejectment of the—PoPish recu-
sants, on which most of these benevolent proprietors
are fully bent, would be a two-edged sword, unless
there was a fresh stock provided and ready to put into
their place. A desert, sine proventu, they would not
" call peace."
Among the proprietors who have signified their in-

tendon to take the payment of tithes upon themselves,
is the Duke of Buckingham ; and with a view, pro-
bably, to meet their new engagement, his agent has
addresSed a circular to tenants who hold leases in per-
petuity under his Grace, calling in the hanging gale,
and stating that he will require a whole year's rent at
his next audit. It is a beautiful season he has chosen
for coming down with so unexpected a demand.
If there were the slightest true benevolence in the
case, or if the object were really to conciliate the mul-
titude and serve the clergy, the landlords would indeed

undertake the payment of the tithes ; but they would,
at the same time, exonerate their tenantry from all
liability on that account,. now and for ever. That
would be real kindness and genuine patriotism, of
which as yet we have no examples to record. This
relief should be given at once ; but should the depre-
ciation of all kinds of agricultural produce continue,
it will be necessary, before any final arrangement can
be justly made as to the appropriation, to subject tithe
property to another valuation. It is but fair, when
corn is reduced nearly forty per cent., to review the
state of the markets at the time that the present com-
positions were fixed. They were rated at the maxi-
mum then, and, in proportion to the present prices of
produce, far exceed what the tithe-owner is equitably
entitled to.

It is the suprise and wonder of every person that,
notwithstanding the low price of wheat, the bakers should keep
up the high price of the quartern loaf.
ALARMING FIRE.—On Saturday morning, be-
tween 10 and 11 o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at the ele-
gant villa of Mrs. Bishop, No. 22, North-bank, Regent's-park.
The flames were first discovered issuing from the first-floor
window, and an alarm being speedily given, several of the fire-
men belonging to the London Establishment shortly arrived
with the Marylebone and Paddington engines. There was a
plentiful supply of water, and, after great exertions, in the
course of two hours the progress of the flames was fortunately
arrested, but not hefgre the whole of the furniture &c„ in the
front and back drawing,Toores was destroyed. it is a some-
what curious fact that Mrs. Bishop was engaged in the parlour
reading the accounts of the conflagration of the Houses of
Parliament, when the flames burst from her own dwelling. It
is not known how the 'fire orynated.
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