Star.
London, England, 1830-12-30 00:00:00

CHARITABLE DONATIONS.

Abstract of a Bill for the better securing the Charitable Donations and
Bequests of his Majesty's Subjects in England and Wales, pro.
truing the Roman Catholic Religion.
Clause I.—Enacts that Roman Catholics shall be subject to ths same
Laws as Protestant Dissenters, with respect to Schools and Places of
Worship.
11.—Roman Catholic Schoolmasters when required to take Oath, to
take that prescribed by 10 Geo. TV.

INCREAE IMF TIE ARM'.

Among the subjects which have excited the suspicion of
some, and the open censure of others, as to the policy of
the new Administration, the augmentation of the military
force has been particularly dwelt upon. It is but fair,
however, to inquire for a moment into the circumstaneee
which render this necessary. The late Ministry, by a
course of proceedings which it is not necessary to charac-
terise, except by their effects, brought the country step by
step, to such a state of general discontent as to make almost
every county in the kingdom ripe for insurrection, .and to
inspire almost all classes with a hope of some violent
change, since every constitutional effort for redress had
failed, and reform was not merely refused, but made
war against, by the declaration of the late Premier, ore
country demanded his disguises!, and for a moment his
rellignatiOlk 'aged them. Barit mast bs easily conceived,
that the elements of discontent which had been for months
sad even years progressively collecting, were not, when
once in open motion, to be at once calmed into order by a

change of Ministry. Were the great mass of the people
sufficiently well edusated, and in possession of the means
of subsistence—to both of which blessings the measures of
the late Administration gave them no hopes of attaining—
they might be able to see in the new measures proposed
hopes of amelioration, and might patiently wait their accom-
plishment. But minds untrained to cool reflection, passions
strengthened by violent exercise and agitation, and hunger
and nakedness exposed to an inclement season, have
been so wrought upon by miscreants who have not dared
to show themselves in open day, as to make these deluded
and unhappy people the instruments, not of vengeance on
those who were the authors of their calamities, but of injury
to themselves, by the destruction of machinery and property,
which, in the end, can only aggravate the evil of their own
case, and benefit no single indi:idual. Under such circum-
stances, the first duty of the Ministry is undoubtedly to pre-
vent the spread of this midnight incendiary• system, and to
protest the persons and tiLigeoarty of the suldeca and
since these are threatened In various parts of the kingdom at
the same time, there is no force so efficient, so quickly moved
so entirely unoccupied, and so constantly at command, as the
military. They are therefore right, if the object be to he
effected, to effect it at once, in the most prompt, most effica-
cious, and, upon the whole, it may be added, the most eco-
nomical mode also, since it will demand less of the time, la-
bour, and expense of the nation, than any method of locally
embodying a provincial force for the occasion. If armed
bands were to surround our electors, intimidate our de-
liberations, or cut up our citizens while exercis-
ing their right of open meetings, to petition or
address the Government, we might then complain.—
But though the Duke of Wellington would have put down
the procession of the Trades who went up to the King, by a
counter-procession of the Horse Guards, Lord Grey permit-
ted them peaceably to proceed, and Lord Brougham, at least
as good a lawyer as the Noble Duke, declared such proces-
sions of the people to he legal. This single contrast shows
in very strikingly opposite lights the different motives with
which the military would be augmented, and the different
purpose for which they would be used by the old and the
new Administration. If our Wand were threatened with in-
vasion from without, who is there that would not applaud
the spirit which should call forth the full energies of the
country under arms, to repel the open enemy ? And shall
we shrink from this, when every house and every farm in the
kingdom is dreading the torch of the incendiary, and when
tumultuous assemblies of armed men are parading the coon-
try, destroying property, and intimidating the peaceful and
the industrious ?
The great end and aim of liberty is to secure to all a
perfect freedom of person, and a full enjoyment of pro-
perty. Both of these are endangered by the practices
now spreading: and, as the guardians of our liberties, the
Ministers are bound to arrest the evil. That those who
brought the country to the state which demands this re-
medy should cry out against the mode of correcting the
evil might be expected, though the world will judge of
their motives for so doing ; but that any true friend of the
peace and prosperity of the country should complain, is
hardly to be 'expected. It would be just as reasonable to
censure the French Government for placing all Paris under
arms, to prevent violence being done to the persons of the
ex-Ministers by the populace, as to censure the English
Government, for augmenting the military force, to save the
landowner, the farmer, and the citizen, from the violates of
the midnight incendiary and assassin. If liberty be that
which the Government is pledged to secure for us, order is
the foundation on which it must be built. The supremacy
of the law over naked violence—the protection of property
from arbitrary destruction, and the security of the person
from secret and from open assault, are the first elements of
that order ; and therefore the Ministry are bound to make
it their first duty to secure these blessings by the most
prompt and efficient mode within their power to command.—
Correspomdent of the Morning Advertises.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROPOSED
LAND TO AGRICULTURAL LA

OF

" That each labourer should have the offer of half an acre of land as
nest their houses as possible, to pay the same rent as the farmer, to
cultivate by spade, and crop one halt with wheat and the other with po.
tatoes." I assent to this, and will therefore assume that it will be com-
plied with. And here I would beg to state most distinctly, that let the
quantity of land be ever so much or ever so little. it cannot be etddeated
without capital, and that the necessary capital, whatever it may be,
should he in possession of (or available to) the tenant when be enters en
the land for cultivation. This is a fact which I apprehend cannot be
doubted, which leads us to an inquiry what capital is necessary for the
cultivation of half an acre of land, as proposed according to the usual
modes of husbandry ? Cottager. enter and quit at Miebselmas, sod at
this plB2lo. eriod the °petalled begins.

I s. d.

Oct. 12. To 3 art loads of manure far 40 rods of wheat, as
4a. Od. per load 0 13 6
To borrowing on manure and spreading..... 0 3 6
To digging 40 rods, at 4d. per rod.
To 3 pocks of wheat for seed • •
To dibbling 49 rods, at es. per am* . . 0 1 0
To raking the land to cover the seed 0 1 2
Nov. To 'niggle( 40 rods, at 4d. per rod. as a necessary
1831. preparation for potatoes to pulverise by frost.... 013 4
North. To raking over with a trans and a rake to eta
ate and kill the weeds......
April. To 4 !owls of manure for potato* crop, 4.. 11d..... 018 0
To borrowing on manure
To digging 40 rods, 441. per rod, to plant po-
tatoes
To 71 bushels of potatoes tor seed
To spreading manure, planting potatoes and co.
/tering .. .

Total expenses up to )clay 6 1 6
Thus it appears that five pounds must be necessarily expended for
manure, seed, and labour to that amount, several months before any re-
turn or profit can be derived from the lend; end I trust, Open
nation of this statement, that It will be found reaseashle and just, and
nothing intro ;wed but what is necessary to insure a fair ave-
rage 'pop. 'Then comes the important question—Have the gene.
nifty of the agricultural labourers she necessary means ? Uwe
they five pounds, or Ave pounds' worth of manure, seed, .and labour
to spare, that they can make available and apply to the cultivation of
the land ? The enemy, I am fearful, in ninety-nine came out of every
hundred, would be " We have neither five pounds, live shilling*,
nor even five-pence to spere. How, let me ask yea, Sir, should
we ? When we have constant work, our wages are barely
sulkiest to lad us bread fits the day, and net what nature
requires to enable us to do a good day's week." If this is a
trite and tame statement, and whiat ham daily experience I eon firm,
then those ea the roads and receiving meal mousy ore entirely out of
the questloa—thy cam have nothing either to open or spend. But It
hoe hoes mid they shield de the ma et spars does, sad shoe their
day's labour is done. What spare dues, let me ask, as a
lab
man have between Michaelmas said A pr 1, the time the weritrades

In our last Per we gave an account of the early part of the Cele-
bration of the 18th. We have now to add, that in our recollection. eh
ever-memorable Anniversary wu not celebrated with greater spirit.
The Apprentice Boys mustered very strong, and the City was crowded
with the inhabitants of the surrounding districts. At one o'clock the
firing at the different dates, and in King William's Square took plat
accompanied by discharges of Artillery, while the treinendmis voice of
Roaring Meg, from the Quay, awakened the echoes of the 'Foyle.
The !procession of the Apprentice Boys was headed by the f.t'itt
Authorities and the High Merin, and was accompanied by man
of the gentry of the City and neighbourhood, and by the pupils
the Diocesan and other Schools. After the firing in the Diatniinst, the
traitor Lundy was consumed, amidst the acclamations of many thou.
aands—and a Rat, appended to him as the symbol of more recent ma-
chery, shared his fate. The crowd now dispersed is the greavest good
order, after giving three tremendous cheers for the heroes of 1688 In
the evening were several dinner parties, and an immense muster of the
Leather Aprons, at the different club-rooms : there were many persons
of quality present. who entered heartily into the festivities of the occa-
sion—including loyal toasts and songs. and speeches, abounding with
devotion to the principles of 1688, and to the Royal House of Brun,
wick. The repeal of the Union was strongly deprecated. The meet.
trigs broke up a little after eleven o'clock from an unwillingness to tn.
fringe on the Sabbathoday. Sunday evening, the Rev. John Taylor
preached an admirable sermon, in the Primitive Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel, Diagssine-street, to a numerous and respectable auditory. in
which pointed reference was made to the events celebrated on the pre ,
clone day, from Recluiaatee, li. 14, There was a little ciiv. nu.l
few men within it; and there tame a great king against it. and b;,iego!
it, and built gnat bulwarks *Oast it. Now there was found in I: a
poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." •
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