The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-31 00:00:00

CO,YTEMPQRARY PRESS.

It is now thirty months since Lord Grey and his eabal
velocipeded themselves into their berths at the donwe.
,
01 quick of a popular hurricane. Let them ' now ea
clance backward, and measure, with what crumbs
omfort they can muster, the whole latitude and 1,0,0,g...
tude of the state of things, which their " thunder
brought forth. The Crown and the Government a.11!;e
.
sunk in public credit ;—the aristocracy and all the 510thrie
ous recollections which twined their laurels roun un
brows of the barons of England reviled and &ivellubr,
to contumely ;—the.Commons, no longer reflecting Pfan,
lie opinion or constitutional freedom, moving like d
toccini to the wires of ministerial manipulation,
engaged, one hour in the bedevilment
and the next, in disencumbering themselves of thou:
momentary hallucination of an independent existence!
—the Church, with its once venerated forms and il,?r
tutions, flung down as a sop to the lusty appetites oluurret
ever-waking, never satiated foes ; industry, agrieul.t, re-
ships, colonies, commerce, manufactures, and eyerj.
Of destruct 7
cognised element of a nation's greatness and well-beU
cankered, and gangrening to their heart's core! is
that cavils with the colours in which this picture
drawn has long summer days before him ; let bin' „
vel the land where he listeth, and he shall wend his g•-;
in no direction, but the first field, or dockyard,
°
or workhouse which he encounters, shall tell him,
net
though our pencil may shadow out darkly, it has
given one outline but what the finger of truth hello
might have drawn. Yet what care the party for ,
abyss into which they have hurled our nobler dentbs.4
Where is the brow of their's that attests one Pas,sl:er
cloud of regret, though their clutch be drawing °L.„,e-ri,
and closer still the halter round the neck of every P 1?
tisli interest, great or trivial, national or indivicluad,
The worse the plight to which the country is red°c,
the further they deem that the chance of its redemPtiti;
by Tory hands is removed; the more inextricable
,1;•s,
difficulties in which they can involve it the more `4O.
tant they account the prospect of wisdom and honese(i
being found at the helm. But they reckon without-11s, oi
host; every advance they.make is happily a fresh se` to
madness or folly on their side, and a fresh incentive
contempt and disgust on the part of their fellow-61;1 n,
trymen ; they cannot pull one string without drasc'toe
°0
the other; so true is it, that " if. an ass find its wsl.o„,
Mecca, even though it be the ass
,of the Prophet 04,
self, he never comes back any thing but an ass !"
pray to be excused the vulgar invidiousness of the 0-0;
parison; but really, we cannot think of Russell,
Palmerston, or Althorp, or, in truth, of the hoc Slit
onzne, without having our mind's eye directed to bait
animal likeness. They would have us all be patient,uic
der the bitter penury and distress _which the last thlr
months have worked out for us; alas 1 'tis the "Patien,„
'
;,-
good friends !" which the wolf enjoined the ass to :re
chew,—whilst tearing him limb by limb—And when',l
come to cast our eyes abroad, what a scene of nati,. °-$
degradation meets them ? There is not at this hour
genuine English soul amongst • us who can stammer
the first two letters of the political alphabet witht
blushing to own his descent ; for it was not always to
there was no euphony to his ear in the names of .AlPedy
and Antwerp,—Batavia and Braganza,—the Bosph°:,;(1
and Byzantium. We may not pronounce Ancona P-0f
Belgium in the same breath ; they were ever the star,
foreign intrigues and domestic contention, nor has Dot
ing-street cared that they should belie their olden new
riety in the present day.—Guardian.

Mr. Sadler, whose general politics we deprecate, bijot
from whose noble exertions for the poor children it v;10%1
be base public ingratitude to withhold our most cord`„
admiration, has addressed to the Leeds commissioner
nominated on the importunity of the cotton master9l
protest upon some of their proceedings, which teems mat
spirit, shrewdness, and just severity. It appears tPir
these gentleman, by name Drinkwater, Power, ands
den, the last a medical man, have agreed to make -Pi
course of their examination into the factories privatei.
that is to say, to give. the masters an advantage will,
the unfortunate children had not, inasmuch as all the tr'-
timony dfieered before the Parliamentary committee %/0.
public, and exposed to cross-examination, as well as
the revengeful visitations of those against whose tyral3%
it was directed; but now the commissioners being, 0.10,
alleged by Mr. Sadler, in constant communication to
the masters, at whose instance, and, it may not be tie:,
fairly presumed, for whose sake Lord Althorp assentecii!
nominate them, are to have ample opportunity of er:,
l;ng their reports as they think fit, without the iewi
chance of any undue bias being made known, or any °A
their errors or possible misrepresentations being detecteu.
" It was but too manifest under what species of impe9i
sion Lord Althorp laboured when forced to speak •oe
upon the principle of the factory bill. His lordship a.r
peared, in short, to have caught the cotton-master's Jni
fluenza, and if the commissioners whom he has appoint
be of the same kidney with this not very eminent, thour
we take pleasure in adding, very "upright and well-inters'
tioned, minister, it is easy to fortel what sort of protec-
tion the poor children may anticipate from their inqt
ries. The state of these infants is really, in our eyes,
blackest guilt with which England stands chargeable
the present moment, and we are convinced that the re-
formed House of Commons will remove it without farther
delay—whatever these commissioners may report—what-
ever new devices the hard-hearted manufacturers nial
have recourse to, and however- ministers may counte-
nance other schemes for procrastination, as they hate
countenanced this scheme of a commission.—Times.

In every point of view, whether of justice to the clerg'
or information to the public, it is right that full informa-
tion respecting clerical property should be plainly esbl-
- and the monstrous exaggerations which have pre-
vailed, to the great disadvantage of the church, removed
With this view we return to a subject treated in our last;
and taking an entirely independent view of the question'
it will be found to produce results completely coincident'
The whole rental of Ireland is calculated by the best
authorities at twelve millions.

But the rental bears only a certain proportion to the
whole proceeds of land. To be profitably occupied, lan.d
must yield much more than the rent. In England land 15
let to tenants on the calculation of its wielding a stun'
which, divided into four parts, would leave one part t 0
the landlord as rent, and the remaining three parts in the
hands of the tenant, to cover tithes and taxes, seed, and
farming utensils, labour and interest of capital—and to a'
ford the farmer a fair profit on his time, skill, and industry'
Land, then, in England is said to yield FOUR RENTALS'
But say that, in Ireland land is not, from want of ,ca-
pital, skill and due cultivation so profitable : it is stall
well known and admitted, that-it yields THREE RENTALS
at the least.

The net amount, therefore, of the produce of land it!
Ireland would be thirty-six millions of pounds annually' •
12,000,000 3=36,000,000.
According to the vulgar error, therefore, which attrii
O.
butes to the clergy a tenth of the produce, the amount 0,4
tithes would reach the monstrous sum of THREE MILLI O`9
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.

But the truth, as proved by the official and incontr°2
vertible returns, is, that the actual income of the clergy
does not amount to quite seven hundred thousand polo's,
a-year—or, (according to what we proved in our last b),
a different process) to considerably less than one-third (4'
the supposed income : in fact it does not amount to 00-
FIFTH !

Now, of the thirty-six millions arising from the Prr
duce of land, twelve millions are supposed to reach tu
pockets of the landlord—SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND
e
POUNDS to be paid to the clergy ; and the remainder'
amounting to TWENTY-TIIREE MILLIONS THREE ITUND9EP
THOUSAND POUNDS, remains with the occupier to answer
all other charges against him, and afford him a reasonable
profit.
It is quite plain that no deduction is to be made from
occupant's share on account of tithes, because "
amount is calculated and deducted from the rent be con-
tracts to pay. Neither is the clerical income to be de-
ducted from the landlord's share ; because his rents'
stands clear, as mentioned in his lease, without any ad-
dition to or deduction from it, on account of tithes.
The landed proprietary of Ireland do not claim the,
tithes as theirs. Their fortunes are not a jot diminished
by the payment of them.
But were it otherwise;—were they reduced in pro-
perty by £700,000, it should be a consideration with
them whether it were not better to pay this sum cheer
fully, than to open the flood gates of spoliation upon
themselves by contributing to, or even permitting 141"
confication of the property of any other class.
See how the case actually stands. The democracy, er
his Majesty's Ministers, require the appropriation ef,...34
certain sum of money for the service of the state. Tui
sum amounts to £700,000 a year, and belongs to a fee-
ble body called the Church.

But three leading Noblemen of Vngland have amongi
them private fortunes which amount to a greater annu3
sum. We need not name them. If the democrat)' cs;
Ministers should again need a similar subsidy, what is ,c
prevent the spoliation of these noblemen ?
We could point out three creditors to the nationalt
debt living within half a mile of each other whose joi°
claims would exceed the income of the Church of Ire./
land. What is to oppose the spoliation of these, or °
the whole class, amounting only. to 250,000 individuals,
when once the example is set and the principle esta-
Wished?
But to the land proprietors espeCially this is a matt,,,er,
of consideration. Were there no tithes, it is true ti'7o
would have seven hundred thousand a year in addition
their twelve millions ; but then they do not want wbatult
not their own. All the charge they are at is 31)°03
fifty thousand pounds a year for maintaining their go.
places of worship, they being almhst universally ro,
testants. We appeal to them is this unjust or Iran'
derate ? If unjust, let them say so, and justify the
selves: if it be immoderate, let them reduce it with
or
proper bounds • but do not throw the burden on tie
Clergy.—Dublin Evening Hail.