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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

farthing of tithe arrear could- possibly be .recovered in
Irehnd but by military force ; and then—we,pray the
reader to mark this—When they were asked whether they
would perin'a the soldiery to assist the clergy to collect
this, otherwise irrecoverable, !tithe, fOr the purpose of
making that payment to the state on which they them-
selves, the -whigs' (in opposition), insisted, the answer
Was " Oh, no, by no means in the world,—not a single
file of men!" We do not think that in the records of
faction any thing ever yet paised so cruel towards .the
clergy as what we have now brought to mind, nor any-
thing, following up such a fact, so audacioUs as the pre-
sent proposition of Lord Niorpeth, under the eye of the
&'irne English nation. But there remains the novel part
of the noble lord'i bill—we might say; without meaning
•a pun, the. romantic part,• for ,sure we are that such a
farrago can never have any real existence—to wit, that
which directs the distribution, a word synonymous, we
take for grahted, with dispersion of the revenues of the
church.

What! when one eryiag evil of the established church
has been the inadeqnate•payment of the effective clergy,
and the gross injury to the service of religion, as well as
grievance upon the ministers' themselves, thus perpe-
trated, the remedy propounded by this whig friend and
• patron of protestantism is the creation of a new hierarchy
of clerical serfs and paupers, ranging from £5 per annum
—abOue one-twelfth part of the stipend and perquisites
of an omnibus cad—up to £7O alear, about. the wages
:Of a gentleman's upper servant, only that the latter ha§
• his board and lodging besides. Well might Sir R. Peel
exclaim against the barbarity of setting down a clergy-
man so educated as to be capable of teaching the doc-
trines of christianity on an income of £7O a-year ! What,
then, shall we say to 1.:5q. a.-vear ?—and £lO a.:year ?
and £5 a-year ? But :till more stupid is the expectation
that for the highest of the sums .now named any compe-
tent clergymen will be found, more especially in an esta-
blishment of which the larger livings are to he almost
Universally cut down to the maximum of £3OO per an-
num, and which therefore will present no hope or. pros-
pect to men of liberal education of ever being promoted
to a competency. Why, look at the modest, frugal hum-
ble, much (and justly) praised church of Scotland. The
average incomes of that church exceed considerably £2OO
per annum. The incomes of the popish clergy of Ireland
average a good deal more than £2OO per. annum. And
here we have a faction whose members4o not call them-
selves infidels, though a large portion of them are papists,
listened to by a British protestant parliament, when they
dare talk of doling out to the clergy of our. national
church militant in Ireland, with a. hostile power, pittances
disgraceful to be named by an English minister as fit re-
munerations for performing the offices Of our religion !
If, under the subtle influence vvhichnow reigns paramont
in the councils of our protestant King, if we say, under
the influence of the College-green legislator, the decent
existence of the protestant clergy is to be crushed, and the
popish priests of Ireland are to press their clouted heel
upon the prostrate bOdies of our pastors, no.longer hating
them for their access to the society of gentlemen, but
scorning and spitting on them for: the abject. poverty
and misery into which they have fallen, let us be told
that such is the policy of the O'Connell Cabinet, and we
shall be prepared for the worst, whether to bow our
head's or to bare our sinewy arms. Appropriation of a
surplus indeed! Hideous mockery ! Where all is melted
into surplus, we ask is this what the Whig-radical O'Con-
nell ministers had taught the country to expect? We ask
again, is this what the country will endure ? or what
protestant Ireland, that En&lish garrison ima beleaguered
fortress, 'will tolerate without more than murmurs? A.
surplus, forsooth! . Why, do as Sir Robert. Peel admo-
nished you,—pay• the clergy of the protestant church
with even parsimonious prudence, give them an average
of but £250 a-year, scarcely sufficient for the naked
wants of life, and where will be this mighty surplus?, It
is a shadow, or a bit of moonshine—which you will—but
with nothing tangible in it, nothing real. Away with
pluralities, as Sir Robert Peel advises. Away with sine-
cures. DiSenCumber the church, but do not starve her.
This popish bill will never pass through a civilized or
even half-educated parliament; and if the.whig-radicals
are to stand or fall with it, wby then they will infallibly
fall together.--,•Times.

I The nomination of the candidates for the representa-
tion of. Ayrshire took place. on Saturday. In our first
.page a 'full report is given of the proceedings on this im-
portant occasion. F.w elections in the west of Scotland
have excited a deeper interest than the present contest
betwixt sound conservatism and rank whig-radicalism-
Our hopes. are indeed most sanguine,.that, notwithstand-
ing all the ruffianism and intimidation which the minis-
terial candidate can any day command, the good cause
will trinhoph. Every friend of the church in Kyle, Cun-
ningham and Carrick, ought to strain their, every, nerve
to secure the 'return of Sir John Cathcart. They al-
ready see, from the conduct of ministers towards the
established church in Ireland, their utter subjugation to
O'Connell and his papistical tail, that protestantism is
threatened with extinction. After the Irish church is de-
graded or destroyed, the English church'will be made the
next point of attack and after that the Scottish. Will the
descendants of those bold and fearless men, whose an-
cestors so freely shed their blood in defence of a pure
faith, give their suffrages to one whose highest recom-
mendation appears to consist in his devotion to the inter-
ests
of the reckless men who now conduct the affairs of
this country, under the joint sway of the big beggarman
and his hedge priests. On the day of the election we
are sure the independent protestant voters of Ayrshire
will fully vindiCate their attachment to the .faith of their
forefathers, by rejecting the governmentnominee, . Capt;
Dunlop, even though he has recently procured a charac-
ter from that sage senator the Laird of Kelly, and the
the worshipful owner of the "shocking bad liat."—Glas-
gow Courier.

DAVID HUME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

In the year 1763,`the celebrated Infidel, David Hume,
compared with whom the Infidels of our day, in
point Of intellectual stature and attainments, are timid
and imbecile dwarfs—was reaping the harvest of his bad
fame. in Paris.. Writing to a friend in Britain, he says :
—"Here I eat nothing but ambrosia, drink nothing but
nectar, breathe nothing but incense, and trend on nothing
but flowers.— I feel little inclination to the factious bar-
barians of London."—Who would imagine that in this
elysium of our Arch-Infidel, and, in the very hour he
wrote this pompous sentence, that his opinions, and those
of his fulsome flatterers, were ripening..to all.the horrors
of revolutionary phrenzy ! Hume moved in the politest
of the Parisian circles; among them the demon of -unbe-
lief had found a distinguished place; and the accomplished
jadies of Paris did, What se, vulgar women have: done
With us,—avowed themselves infidels!
The consequences too soon appeared. Not many years
after, the French, a people celebrated 'through the earth
for their suavity and politeness, were suddenly trans-
formed into democratic fiends. All softer passions were
swallowed up in one boundless appetite for blood. *Mur-
der was aided by . mechanical skill, and thirteen heads
were severed in one short minute.

So fixed and indulged was the passion for slaughter,
that a solitary or dual execution would not collect a
crowd;—it was, only. when numbers. bled, that spectators
could be obtained. The unearthly mania raged from the
capital .to the ktremities of the empire. Louis was no
more, and Robespierre reigned.—Sermons by the Rev.
J. Bromley.