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ment, and the facts then and there, disclosed were well
calculated to shOw the by-play for plaCe and the bungling
ignorance of his Majesty's servants the performers. The
Irish tithe bill, as a stock piece, has been brought out
every season or session for several Years, not with the
slightest chance of success, but merely to please certain
amateur directors behind the scenes, who are said to
be jesuitS and popish priests. It is brought out in a more
repulsive form every successive year, and is 'ejected by
the lords; the. judges, with a corresponding increase of
execration: Lord MORPETH had the honour of announ-
cing the thing on Monday; but hiS tone was dolorous,
his accentuation indistinct, his calculations erroneous,
and his propounded fraud so glaring, that it condemned
itself.. He proposed to pay clergymen of the Church in
Ireland, having cure of souls, at a rate infinitely below
that which he pays the footman who brushes his clothes,
or the green man who preserVes his father's game. He.
offers to gentlemen who have expended at least £2,000
upon an university education a stipend not so ample as
that which Mr. BORNE, of the Mersey Hotel, pays to his
second-chop waiter—he provides for the highest class an
income which, if authorised by law, must exclude from
the church every Man of talent, and make the honours of
Oxford and Cambridge of no value, except in a mer-
chant's counting-botise or a gentleman's private library.
To speak the truth, the Irish tithe bill is a Studied insult
to the protestants of England. It bears all the marks of
having been hatched in Maynooth, that nursery of raw-
boned and broad-shouldered clowns who have imbibed
the filth and nasty Latin of PETER DENS, and who are
accredited by the Pope In confess the wives and daugh-
ters of the Roman catholics of Ireland: It is an imprac-
ticable measure. Lord Mottaorn is conseions that it is
so. He knows that it can never pass the lords. He
feels ashamed at being compelled by the Irish priests and
the political swineherd who besiege him to bring it for-
ward. But he only does his duty. It is incumbent upon
him, inasmuch as his salary is dependent upon the re-
tention of office by the present imbeciles. He has dune
his duty as sheriffs officer to the whigs—they must bear
the consequences.
If we had no other, this simple fact is evidence enough
that the measures of the present administration are mak-
ing a deep impression u;:on the people of England, and
placing their pretensions, and their claiMs to honesty, in

a fair but very humiliating light. All their schemes are
so obviously selfish and corrnpt that they have only to be
knosed.ta draw down upon them that derision and re-
prehension which they merit, but which must, sooner or
later, lead to their expOlsion and infamy. The commons
of a reformed parliament have endeavoured to nsurp the
functions of the other estate of the realm. They have
failed,in this nefarions enterprise; and we venture to
predict that the time will mite, and that speedily, when

he Lords will, backed by the voice of the nation, throw

its thunderbolts most effectually and powerfully into the
arena of the lower house,- in a way to insure its silence,
overawe its presuniption,•and Command its respect:'
We have :► ripening proof of this in the terror caused

:nt the ministerial benches w the presentation of a peti-

tion from the leading newspaper proprietors of London
on Monday. In that petition, she leading features of
which Lord LYNDUMIST e::plained in a masterly manner,
the dirty jobbing propensities of Mr. Si,crisn RicE, and
the people with whom he is cOnnected, and by which con-
nexion he is disgraced, are laid bare in a style too graphid

,0 misunderstood. If Mr. ItICE could exiricatil himsel.

from this newspaper job on the score of ignorance we
, excuse‘liim. But he is not so ignorant. fie must
koow that his plan of limiting §ize of papers in Lon-
don, the model of size being the wretched Morning
Chronicle, the worst written and worst printed paper in
England—one too of the lowest circulation, and utterly
destitute of talent, of foreign intelligence, of efficient re-
porters, of original contributions, of commanding adver:
tisements—he, Mr. SPRING RIcE, most know that his
plan, as explained, is not only a job, but a mean and dis-
reputable fraud upon the people of England. Lord
PON declared as much in his speech. The shabby vin-
dictiveness of the proposition could rot be concealed.
The admeasurement plan was too glaring—the inches
smelt, of O'CONNELL—the dimensions Were levelled at

the Times—and, fur the first in British history, an
Irishman from Limerick, whose father was some sort of
corn or butter merchant, raised to the situation of Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, on the ground that he is totally
unfit to be a respectable guager, proposes to make the
stamp tax a job, and convert the revenues of the country
into a wig engine capable of working double tides for.
power!

,It is atrocious—it is indefensible ! Mr. SPRING RICE
proposes to take the Morning Chronicle as the model of
size. On what ground ? Simply because its politics:
evince a slavish adherence to his -majesty's ministers?
and because its proprietors are certain jobbers who are
anxious to turn ministerial patronage into a profitable
monopoly. The Morning Chronicle is not the largest
paper in England; there are at least twenty journals of
much larger dimensions, and a majority of these advo-
cate whig principles. What is to be done with them
The answer is, the postponement of the budget for ano-
ther week ! The right honourable gentleman finds that
he cannot—that he dares not—make the Chronicle tho
measure of •siie, without bringing down upon him the
hostile remonstrances of several of the provincial papers.
But the original intention of Mr. SPRING RICE is
enough for our argument. His finance reforms have no
other object than the extension of whig power ; and so
desperate are the party that they seek for this in the
vilest channels, with a total disregard for character,
impartiality, and indepfmdence. Such is the present
House of Commons, with Lord Jon RUSSELL at its
head. It never stood so low in public estimation 'as it
does now. It has fished for patronage in every quarter
where a parliamentary licenSe for fishing could be obtain
ed ; and at length it throws its baited lines among the news-
papers! The lines, we suspect, have not fallen in plea-
sant places. The, speculation is not a " safe" one ; and
the hopes of the: Morning Chronicle, struggling for an ex.
istence, and deprived of the services of Lord BROUGHAM,
are doomed to disappointment.

But what are we to think of a House of Commons
which employs its legislative powers in such dirty and
huckstering schemes as these ? Much more honest it
would be to sell by inch of candle the privileges of ex-
clusive' dealing, and allow no man to brew beer, or
make blacking; or cobble 'Shoes, or sell newspapers, or
deal in Greek scrip, or sweep chimneys, who is not a
whig or a radical. In fact, thisdisgracefuljobbing must
be put an end. to,, or public opinion will, ere long make
mince meat of the House of Commons. At present we do
not deem that branch of the legislature of any use what-
ever but to pass railway bills, and correct i❑ this session,
if it be possible, the innumerable errors of the last.