Star.
London, England, 1830-12-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

liseau).--The advocates of the ballot, who quote the elections at
the Bank and the India House in their favour, could not hit upon
instances leas applicable to their argument. At the Bank, we believe,
no cont•s,d election has taken place within the memory of man ; and
though at the India House the elections take place by ballot, every vote
both previously and at the time of the Election, is as well known as if
It were proclaimed at a hustings. Those who have seen the canvassing
Lists of the candidates and their friends must know that nearly every
vote Is, before the election, reduced almost to a moral certainty, the
very few which are marked "doubtful' being usually reduced to
scarcely any before the period of the contest arrives. AU that the
ballot in this case does is to act as a cloak to a few broken promises.

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Onnowicez.—We can scarcely yet contemplate calmly the history
of the past week in Paris, with the fearful crisis which threatened to
sweep away all the institutions most favourable to human happiness.
and, by the destruction of property and the annihilation of law, to
plunge France and Europe from a high state of civilization and refine-
ment, into all the horrors of anarchy and barbarism. From all the ac.
counts which have reached us, we think there can be little doubt that
a detestable conspiracy had been formed by the enemies of freedom
and of order, to take advantage of the popular feeling against
that wretched tool POLIONAC and his Colleagues, and, under
the etext of taking vengeance on them, to rouse all the worst
passions of the mob to the work of plunder and devastation,
and so texture the reign of the Jesuits and a military despotism.
We know that the furious and infatuated adherents of the Old Regime
have adopted as their creed " de tesces du seal viendra le bidne," and
that the means they must take for the accomplishment of their object
is simply to push things on to anarchy; that will produce despotism,
which will bring back the Duc de Bordeaux. To the folly and
wickedness of this design it is in vain to seek to open their eyes ;
but we cannot enough rejoice that their atrocious purpose has been
baffled, and that the recent events in Paris, and the success
of King Louis Philippe's government, in keeping down tu-
mult and enforcing obedience to the laws, have strengthened the present
order of things in France, and confirmed the power df the Citiaen-Xing
and his Government. We are well persuaded that our own ministers
share this joyful feeling in common with us, and all classes of the com-
munity in this country and that the result of the events of last week
is considered as having most propitiously determined the future condi-
tion of France, and given a triumph to constitutional order and to
freedom, over democratic anarchy and despotism. The personal excl.-
nom of the King appear to have mainly contributed, with the admirable
conduct and unparalleled zeal and firmness of the National Guard, in
the accomplishment of this glorious end.

Cnsoxim.s.--It is well remarked by the poet Cowper, when speak-
ing of a sermon of Paley's, that the Church of England possessed the
advantage of having Clergy for all descriptions of people—the higher
for the rich, and the lower for the poor : that there ought, in that
cue, to be three or four Clergymen in every parish. The Clergy, be
added, were to be found often enough in the houses of the rich, but
Ihey seldom knew anything of their poor parishioners. But a heavier
charge lies against the Church of England than thin. While the Pa-
num exerted themselves to the utmost to promote the instruc-
tion of the poor, the Church of England unfortunately set itself against
the instruction of the poori which it seems to have considered incompatible
with the authority to whch it laid claim. All who promoted Sunday
Schools were persecuted by the Clergy. When the Lord Chancellor
first devoted himself to the promotion of Education, the Clergy, with
hardly an exception, were opposed to him. They resisted Rdseadon to
the last, and only changed their system when it was in= re.
von its spread. In the last speech which the Lord sole
when in the Hous of Commons, on the subject of irohnetisorlis idled
to the great change which had taken place in the esotinsolo of the
Clergy, since the commencement of his labours. In Scotland, webfoot
n the same manna the encouragement Of discouragement of edomelsoor
the Presbyterians or the Church of England had the ascendancy. Thee is
striking passage on this subject in the evidence given by Dr. admen.
uefore the Committee on the Stated the Poor in Ireland. " In I
of the 16th century (he says), there was a very diciest wra___wwww,_
than instruction in the parishes of Scotland, and it is
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country at that time was in a very healthy nerd ondision a
Veer restoration, the act for the oessbnehang of riochiniThitheifi
was repealed, and then. usiss &Mow le Wawa, fiateptie, era Me
Seatig r•Pidisaux• which face du to what may be 'sinned Religion
Wars, that /wed for nearly Chitty lewiut from the disorder and tering-

knee of that period, along with the suspension of parochial education,
the population seems to have deteriorated very rapidly."—After
quoting the well-known desaiistion by Fletcher, of Saltoun, of the
frightful state of Scotland in lea, he " It appears from
very distinct historical documeto, that such a state of things
subsided almost per sawn, very suddenly indeed, when
the population had leave to repose from the religious persecutions, and
the parochial system of education was again general. They wete besides
plied from Sabbath to Sabbath by an efficient and acceptable Clergy, in
consequence of which the transformation appears to have been quite
marvellous." If England is now the first in Arts, we owe this chiefly
to the Dissenters. There is a curious and instructive volume published
in 1816 by Israel Worley, in which he shows that the manufactures of
Great Britain have been "foe the most pan established and supported
by the Protestant Dissenters." The Dissenters never neglected edu-
cation, and hence throughout England, wherever Dissenters are found,
the people will also be found to be less stupid and brutal.

Timas.—When it appears that in 1797 the whole expense of the Trea-
sury was 44,0001. and that in 18211 it was 80,0001. that at the former
period the Foreign.office cost 34,0001. and in the latter 85,0001. the
Colonial-office, at the same periods respectively, 94901. and 39,0801.—
when, finally, we discover that the half-pay and ishrhs in all our public
departments (the pay of army, navy, and orison, of course, not in-
cluded), was in 1797 1,370,0001. and in 18871,180,8N1—as nearly as
possible an increase of two to one; while the number of persons em-
ployed in the said departments had increased from 18,000 to 24,000 only,
or in the roportion of 11 to B—it is clear that, without going into the
gnestion whetiter the augmentation of persons was or was not too great,
the income enjoyed by each was, in a very large proportion, higher—
higher, also, than couM at all be justified by .ny real progress in the
scale of prices. We repeat, first, that retrenchment is good for the sake
of economy, because we are sure that It may be rendered productive of
some relief to the public ; 2d, that it is good as a security against cor-
ruption, seeing that the money wasted is given for the support of mea.
surer adverse to thetublic weal ; 3d, that it is good as a peace-offering
to the justly irritated minds of men, and a bond of kindness and concord
between the Crown and nation.

CnitontCLE.—The Church drew from the Puritans and their de.
ecendants most of the men who conferred lustre on the body. Light-
foot, Wilkins Tillotson, Butler, Seeker, Stilllogileet, &c. will always
be her principal ornaments. atterly, since the value of her high
places has become so enormous, interest and not merit has almost ex.
' exclusively enjoyed her chief benefices. The Church, by a singular
retribution, is now paying the penalty of her narrow policy. The
ignorance, and consequent degradation of the peasantry, enabled
the farmers and the landlords to throw part of their support
on the parish funds--a system which, when once introduced,
must of necessity be continued, from the superabundance of labour
which it produces. The chief object of the farmer at first was to make
the tithe.owner pay more than his fair share of the rates for the support
of the poor. But oppression has its limits; and these limits have been
passed, It seems, with the agricultural labourers. Stupid and ignorant
as they are, they have succeeded in obtaining by compulsion from their
employers a into of allowance, which the latter can only continue by a
general strike against the Church. The determination to resist the
payment of tithes has been universally taken, and it is
well understood that a permanent arrangement between the
land and tithe-holders is now inevitable. At present the clergy are
in a truly pitiable situation. They suffer, however, from the opposi-
tion of their predecessors to the instruction of the people—Possessing,
as they have long done, the ear of all influential persons in the country,
the power of establishing, or pretending the establishment of schools
for the people, being altogether with them—The result shows how
completely they misunderstood the true interests of the Church.—
Kindness always begets kindness. The people are never ungrateful
towards those superiors who display consideration for them. Had the
clergy been as familiar with the humble cottage as with the lordly man-
sion, and raised the condition of their flocks, they would now have been
in possession of general esteem instead of being looked on generally
with 11l wilL