The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

THE REVENUE-GROSS FRAUD.

'A reference elsewhere will show, by the tabular returns for
the last quarter, that there has been a decrease in the revenue
of £613,000, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last
year.
This deficit, great as it is, would have been infinitely more
but fora trick practised by thinisters amounting to a fraud: and
one unheard of in the annals of British government.
Every one conversant with public offices knows, that the sth
of January is the quarter day, on or before which the public
servants were always heretofore in the habit of being paid their
salaries.
Will it be believed, that on the present occasion this mean
and paltry and sinking government, with a view of suppressing
a fact, and promulgating a falsehood, have actually witheld pay-
eat from the persons holding public situations until these re-
turns had been made. out; thus running the quEtiter's salaries
of all clerks; &c., into the current quarter; and making the
whole collection appear as received—omitting the deductions.
We have not time or space just now to analyze this. It will
be sufficient, in proof of our assertion; to state, that in one pub-
lic department, and Certainly not one of the least important,
the Post-office, not a Single clerk has received bis salary, due
the sth—every penny cif which has gone to swell the revenue in
favour of ministers ; and the same thing has occurred through-
out the kingdom.
If this be not a falsification of a record, and a fraud upon the
public, we should like to know what is ?—Dublin Evening Mail.

LETTER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM.

( From the Record.)

We have been favoured with the following important letter
from his Grace the Arattoishop of Tuam, to which it is unneces-
sary for us to solicit the attention of our readers. The fact
stated, and the advice given, are alike deserving of consi-
deration :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD
Sir,—Your letter, containing a bank post bill for £408135. 2d.,
has just reached, and shall (please God) be duly acknowledged
in the Record.

It ii,;es me pleasure to be enabled somewhat to sgutemy way to
better days awaiting my oppressed:and persecuted,
resigned,
and patient and deserving brothers, the clergy of the Established
Church in Ireland.
That vdttrerble society, called the " Lay Association for assist-
inggsuthceceirssif:ii it
thye
seu°smtaPin°esclitim"anlYersirusi't'
have during the-Aate term, the Clem in recovering
s
against the composition payers, and many conspirators, against
this property (fearing 4he heavy costs to which persevering
resistance would expose them) have struck, and paid
des full
demand due to the clergytnan, and this without the most itant
hazard of collision with the lower orders. This happy vindica-
tion of the law will (under God), I confidently hope, relieve the
generous English from this heavy draught upon their unbounded
liberalitv,and I would hope (and I feel that I speak the sentiments
of a large body, and probably the whole 01 the clergy of Ire-
land) that .the present existing law will be left alone by the
powers that be; that they will cease to legislate further upon
what is called " the Irish Tithe Question ; and thus the clergy
will in future with little difficulty, without any intercourse with
the lower orders' upon thesubject, peaceably receive their
hitherto acknowledged, undatibed property ; and as far as that
question isse.concerned, peace may be restored to this unhappy
land. • • . ••• . .
our faithful, and much obli ed
I have the honour to be, Sir, yg,
Dec. 7, 1835. Powiza Tuem, &c.