The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

SCRAPS FROM CORBETT.

BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION.—You, sir, who are- a
lawyer, as well as soldier and statesman, know very well the
nature of church property in England: you know that it is in-
terwoven with every acre of land, of whatever tenure, in the
whole kingdom. You are too good a judge of these things not
to know that, if once this property be touched, in any shape
whatsoever, unless by a general sweeping measuse that would
make a distinct line of demarcation, the touch will extend itself,
directly or indirectly, to every estate id-the-wniggy. You.well
know that it is impossible to make aims. to take away the value,
or part of the value, of an advowsun, without causing the same
principle to be applied to the holdings of bishops, deans and
chapters, and colleges. You well know that you cannot touch
these without extending the touch to laydithes; and you know
that these cannot be touched without proceeding upon a princi-
ple which. would resume the abbey-lauds, and place them at the
disposal of the state. And, sir, that lam not talking of things
here which are mere matters of imagination, let me beg You to
observe, that it is confidently stated in his own papers that the
minister means to meddle With advowsous, and with the pro-
perty of deans and chapters.
THE ENGLISH MONEY-MONSTER.—It is the interest; the
pressing political .and party interest; the interest of the minis-
try, of the tory party; of the King and his family; it is the
obvious and pressing interest of all these, that the tax upon malt
should be repealed. There is no possible argument against the
repeal ; and reasons so strong for it, that no man dares enter
the lists in argument against it. Yet, in spite of all this; in
spite of the imminent danger in which the new ministry is
placed; in spite of the certain security which they would derive
from the repeal of this tax, we are confidently told in the news-
papers that the minister will risk even his place and his power,
and leave the King again to the mercy of the whigs, ratherthan
repeal this tax, his only reason against it being, that without it
be cannot keep " national, faith? Here you have a practical
instance of the power of the money-monster. Hereou see us
just in the track of Neckar and Colenne ; and here Iy am afraid
you see the beginning of an end not very much unlike that'
which you have seen before. It signifies not what wealth we
have. If we had ten times as much as we have, it would be all
absorbed by this monster; for it is utterly impossible for any
creative power, for any wealth, for any resources to stand
against the power of a hundred add fifty-two men, who receive
in interest, in gold, nine millions of pounds sterling a year.
THE FRENPH MONEY-MONSTEIL—InTrance tithes have long
been abolished: there is, in fact, no dominant church; there is
no hereditary legislature; the mere titles of nobility are a
mockery; the King is elected, and may be turned out any day.
There is not one ancient institution, and consequently no abuse
of suet) institution left remaining; yet, by the means of this
atrocious money-monster system, the people are inure degraded
and more miserable slaves than they were udder the sway of
any of the descendants rof St. Louis. It is the Bourse that
arms the ruffians called the National Guards, every one of
whom carries a bayonet to compel the people to toil to pay the
interest of the debt; and they slaughter them with as little
mercy as they would kilt rats and mice. You detected your
horrible bank in suborning the pees.. In France they do the
thing more openly and effectually: they sitffr vu man to be a
JOURNALISr unless he first become a jiindhader, and unless he
acquire and keep the ownership.of stock, on his own exclusive ac-
count, to the amount of four thousand eigle hundred pounds
sterling.