Star.
London, England, 1822-10-05 00:00:00

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1321. -
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Since the Stock Exchange Gentlemen have permitted the Fo-
reign Funds to be transacted in the Home, a great deal of bustle
has taken place. There now wilt be a mark= for all Foreign
Securities, and the prices will =aerially differ from one to the,
other.—Consols for Account, 81 j 1; for Money, 11l j.

PORTION rear.
At an early hour this morning grearbustle took place in the
market, particularly in New Spanish Bonds:. A great deal hi
business is doing up to this hour in all Foreign Securities, owing
to a report that Mr. ROTHSCHILD has taken the AlevrSpatandr
84t ; New Spanish, 70% ; Old. 79 ;
89J I; Danish, 991 I; New Prussian, 89%; Old,. 89; Neapo.
titan, 78/ ; Colombian, 90% %.
PRICKS OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
2 per Cent. Con3ols 81% % •
4 per Cent. New 101 101% •
India Bonds 50s. 525. Ne.w Annuities 81%
Each. Bills (01,000) ss. 6s.—Ditto small, 6s. Bs.
Consols for Account 81% s/s %.

Every arrival from Ireland gives the most decisive
evidence that the storm of calamity and crime in
that country has not been weathered, notwithstand-
ing the boast of the Lonv LIEUTENANT, as given in the
Dublin Journal of Wednesday, that he.was proud
be had steered the country through the danger r--
The counties of Cork, Limerick, and Waterford, in
which outrages were last year so numerous, are again
the scene of murders, robberies, and conflagrations,
notwithstanding the numerous executions which have
taken place in these counties.
Last seahou the combination against the Tithe,
System was principally confined to threatening noticest
to Tithe Proctors and Clergymen, not to enforce it 6
but the Whiteboys no longer confine themselves to,
such negative hostility ; the Tithe Corn is burned in'
several places, sometimes by gangs, and sometimes,
it is said, by the application of some chemical prep;-
ration, introduced by individuals, which remains in
the rick or corn-stack sufficient time before combustion
takes place to enable the perpetrator to escape.—
These are outrages which no person can justify',
yet the peasantry of Ireland. have some cause of dis-
satisfaction, when, during the late dreadful famine,
they have seen the Tithe Corn, the accumulation
of years. rotting on the very spot where it has
been collected.
The LORD PRIMATE of IRELAND, in his Visitation
held a few days ago at Armagh, with singular bad
taste, to say no worse of it, said—" The right of the
" Clergy to Tithes was enjoined by the Scripture of
" GOD, and confirmed by the laws of man. The tithe
" of the parish was as much the property of the inc es-
" bent as Me estate was of the landholder—nay, even
" more so. By the various revolutions of war, and
" the forfeitures consequent on rebellion, the soil had
" often changed masters ; but in every mutation, the
" property of the Church had been held inviolable."
Now, without entering on the history of the Tithe
System, the investigation of which would not be in
favour of the worthy Primate's doctrine, and without
objecting to the ample reward of the Clergy for which
be contendi, we will observe, that the laws of GOD
and man never intended that the grain and other
produce, raised by the money and industry of the
peasant" should be torn from their little landed
patrimony, and hoarded up to rot, while that peasan-
try was perishing of hunger.
The fact is, that the Tithe System, oppressive as it
is in every kingdom, is ruinous in Ireland, where it is
increased and enforced with a rigour that makes it
as odious as it is oppressive. It does not merely take
a tenth part of the amoral proddce of the soil, but
a tenth of all that increased and artificial produce
which capital and an improved knowledge of agri-
culture and industry raise: that is to say, the Clergy,
according to the present system, have not only a
tenth of the prpduce of the land, but, without contri-
butingbne farthing towards it, a tenth of allf the ad-
vantages and discoveries that science and experienci
have beeen able to make, so far as regards agriculture:
But to come to another subject, which, though kept
out of sight by the LORD PRIMATE Of ALL IRELAND,
he had most immediately in view, when he rind's-,
cated Tithes, we mean Church Revenues in general,
and particularly those immense sums which be and
his brother Prelates draw from impoverished Ireland.

His Grace refers to divine ordinances as enjoinlng
the payment of Tithes; but be has not stated by
what ordinances the large estates annexed to Epis-
copal Sees are claimed. Now Scripture is very ex-
plicit in informing us that those to whom the Tithe
was given were expressly excluded from every other
interest in the inheritance. A few passages, with which
his Grace is no doubt well acquainted, will prove this :
4, And the LORD spake unto AARON, thou shalt
have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou
have any part among them: I am thy part and thine
inheritance among the children of Israel." Again,'
s, But the Tithes of the children of Israel, which they
offer as a heave offering unto the LORD, I have given
to the Levites to inherit : therefore, I have said unto
them, among the children of Israel they shall have
no inheritance." His Grace cannot but be aware
that the tribe of Lay' was minded in the par tition
that was made in the land of Canaan, except as to