The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-23 00:00:00

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

I'aid.
11+)
54!'12
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Albion Copper Mining Company
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 5!. pm.)
Columbian Mining Company (issued at 51. pm.)
Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 91/.

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Ditto Unregistered
United Mexican (Isisticsi at .'l. pm.)

PRICES OF HUSH STOC

Per Share
474 5
42% 1% 2%
13

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KS. DUBLIN. MARCH 20.

3 per Cent. Consols ........ 9l,i Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 92
Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent 62
3': per Cent. Stock 9B; Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, 183(1
Ski per Cent. Debentures 91% National Insurance Company •'S
Sank Stock 9'24 ,i. City Debentures, 4 per cent... 82%
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock 9-1N per cent 92%

the serfs of Russia—not a shilling of the surplus that
remains after providing every thing necessary for protes-
tant worship—where there are protestants to worship—
shall be applied to the great national object of raising,
by education, the miserable population from that de-
grading state of ignorance which will, while it con-
tinues, defeat every Legislative attempt to establish
order and peace in that unhappy country.
But, say the Ministers and their supporters, " we
hold that Church property is inviolable and cannot be
diverted from Church purposes—that is our principle,
from which we cannot swerve, for with us principle is
everything." Without stopping to inquire how far the
claim of a rigid adherence, to principle may be liable
to question, let us see how the doctrine of inviolability
has been practically maintained.
The Church legally claims the tenth of the produce
of all cultivated land. This, say the Tories, is its ina-
lienable right----" the law allows it and the Court
awards it." This right extends over all land as soon
as it is brought into cultivation ; the moment a bog is
planted with potatoes the parson comes in for his
tithe. Now the Ministerial Tithe Bill entirely ex,
empts all the, at present, uncultivated portion of the
Irish soil—which is far the greater portion of the sur-
face of the island—from any charge for tithe in all
time to come. Is this the way to maintain the rights
of the Church inviolate ? But this is not all. The
Bill cuts off one fourth of the amount of tithe
payable from the land now under cultivation. Instead
of 1001. the proprietor of the soil is in future to pay
only 751. Now let any man who takes common sense
for his guide, ask himself whether it be not a greater
violation of the principle contended for by the Tories
to extinguish altogether----to annihilate, at a single
blow, so large a part of the revenue of the Irish
Church, than to apply a portion of its wealth—that
portion which it does not want—in such a way that
the Catholic nopulation may participate in the be-
nefit to be derived from it ?

Some such application as this of the surplus fund
of the Irish Church is imperiously demanded, not less
by jus'ice than by good policy. For the mere change
in the name and form of tithe is a boon too unsubstantial
and we must add, too tardily conceded, either to in-
spire much gratitude or to impart much hope. One
great source of irritation will be removed, but until
means are adopted to conciliate the' Irish, by conferring
on them some solid and substantial benefit, the Parlia-
ment may heap statute upon statute, but it will be in