The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

IRISH TITHES' BILL

The clergy or the diocese have had a meeting mid petitioned.-
both llquses of Parliament against the Irish tithes' bill. In
their petition'. to the House of Commons they protest against its
adoption, as' being " deeply injurious to the interests and pro-
perty of the. Irish branch of the established church." After
!cpresentingto the house the situation which the act 2tl and 3d
WILLIAM IV. has placed them in, they proceed to say:—
" We think it right furthei to press do your attention that the
helpless and'as a body unrepresented clergy, who are thus to be
deprived of so large a portion of their property, are persons
who previously to entering on their profession were subjected
• to the costs of an expensive education. That possessing merely a
life income, many of them have effected insurances and con-
tracted other fixed engagements, in full confidence that the
rights of property would continue to be respected. That they
are besides liable to various charges imposed by law, which
were regulated by and proportn.aed to the amount of income
• hitherto enjoyed. We have to remark also, that while so great
a'sacrifice of income is required from the incumbents, they are
still for a time at least to be exposed to the difficulties of collec-
tion. While, however, we deeply feel and warmly remonstrate
against the grievance and injustice of the proposed measures as
they affect ourselves, much more strongly do we deprecate them
as utterly, ruinous to our successors and to the future interests
of the established church. Although it is proved that the un-
taxed yearly tithe income of the present incumbents averages
only £278, out of which curate? salaries and other charges are
to be defrayed, the measures proposed by one party, with the,
tax already laid on by the church temporalities act, would re-
duce to one-half of that small amount the income of their sue-
_ cessors, while the resolution of the majority of your honourable
house go to the length of undefined and unlimited confiscation..
We shall not farther advert to the contemplated plan than to,
remark on the injustice of that part of it by which a direct pre-
',ilium is given to insubordination and outrage, while the honest
and well-disposed are taught to regret an obedience to the law,
by which they have suffered a pecuniary loss."

StAlOnN DEATH.—We have to record an awful'instance of
sudden. death, which occurred on Tuesday afternoon to Mr,
T. It. Gillet, jun., a passenger by the Retalliator, Exetertand
Bristol .coach. Mr. Gillet, with several other passengers, had
descended from the coach, about a mile on the Bristol side-of
. Weds,. in order to walk up a hill, and, on the coachman draw-
ing tip he perceived Mr. Gillet in the road, supported by one
of• the passengers, apparently very ill, The coachman went
to him, and asked him the cause of his Indisposition, when he
•answered it- was a fit of asthma, and that he was dreadfully ill.
It was then suggested that be should get on the coach, to which
he assented but in endeavouring to do so it is supposed the un-
fortunate gentleman's sight failed, he reeled forward into the
arms of a bystander, sunk to the ground, and expired, A medi-
cal gentleman, who was promptly on the spot. gave it as his
Opinion that his death was caused by spasmodic attach of the
heart. Mr. Gillet was the proprietar of the. rorrotalli Gazette,
published at Truro, and was, we betkve, a IPeit sVitd, goal
that place to. Bristol.--Bath Clmorisfe•