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rishioners and the clergy of Ireland lived on the must amicable
terms. Their evidence of this has been shown by Mr. Camp-
bell. In addition to what has been already stated, 'I may, per-
haps, be permitted to speak of myself without incurring the
charge of egotism. In the.years 1b29 and 183.1 I was curate of
a parish in the west of the county of Cork; the parish was large,
and many of its protestant inhabitants were unable to attend
the church as regularly as they might have desired. lu order
to meet this state of things, it became necessary on appointed
evenings of the week, both winter and summer, after the labours
of the day were over to lecture in different parts of the parish,
either in a cabin or iu a school-house. The hour when our
meetings began was necessarily late, and the evening and time
being previously appointed it was well known in the country
when we must have been on the road. During the time that 1
was in that parish I never received the slightest insult from any
person, nor'ever heard that any clergyman was insulted or bin-
dated iu the administration of his duties either by day or night.
• But what is now the state of things ? Iu the year 1832 or 1633
a curate was appointed to that parish, (as I taid been called to
another,) and he had scarcely been settled in the place when
he received notice that if he did not remain at house by night,
his life should pay the forfeit for his zeal. The clergy formerly
went forth to their duties, returned unmolested to their homes,
where smiling faces, and a cheerful fireside, greeted them, and
all the sweet charities of domestic bliss were around them. The
times are now altered; a dark shadow has fallen on the land.
Men who formerly were the liberal dispensers of alms are now
compelled to be the receivers of public benevolence to supply their
own wants. The door that forineriy was opened at any hour to
the applicant must now, in many eases, be doubly barred after
the shades of evening have closed around, and the bullet-proof
shutter must sometimes exclude the cheerful light of day. And
what is the state vvithin these once happy mansions? They are
dismantled of furniture, sold to purchase the common necessa-
ries of life—the table is scantily supplied with the coarsest fare
—the voice of gladness is no more heard—the half-clothed fa,
mily, like Jacob's sons during the grievous famine, "look one
upon another," tearful of hearing the expression of each.other's
inward sorrow—while the parents look upon their families with
suppressed emotions of anguish, sadly foreboding • yet heavier
calamities to fall upon their offspring. And what is the cause
of these things? Wbv ate men of uominaily sufficient income,
of unblemished character, ef holy zeils of charitable actions, so
stricken, depressed, and lowly ? What has extinguished the
fire on the hearth, and driven plenty from the table? What
has withered the smile from the lips, and changed the bloom.of
health into the ashen paleness of inward disease ? Why are
tears ou the cheeks during the darkness sf the niaht, and sleep
driven from the pillow ? Why canuot the clergy still exercise
their liberty, and traverse the length and breadth of their pa-
rishes to teach and preach Jesus Christ? Why are these things
so? A spirit has been brooding over that laud .for many years
past, which at length threw its energies into the form of physi-
cal power,--concentrating itself in one spot; success; then
crowned its wicked efforts—impunity. nerved, it with courage,
and arising with a giant. strength it dispensed its law of misery,
starvation, exile, and death, to all yea° would not crounh be-
neath its tyranny. That spirit is the spirit of popery, which
has seized upon the physical strength ..of Ireland,. and embodies
itself in an organised system of opposition to the payment of
tithe. I will out calumniate the church of Rowe; I will not
bear false witness against her; God forbid it! But I will.speak.
the truth. I shall beg, then, with your permission, to read to
you the remarks of a celebrated matt on this subject, whose
judgment must be decisive of the question :
" I'o the statement I have made I may be permitted to add
this reflection, with which I wish to conclude this part of the
examination to which lam subjected. It is this, that though I
have adduced these documents, and gone into the history of the
opposition to tithes, I did not do so for the purpose of exculpat-
ing myself from a charge which has been preferred against me,
of having acted in opposition to the law, and by doing so acted
in a manner unbecoming my office, and my duty as a -subject.
I wish to justify my conduct. In that opposation I have joined,
and far from saying I did not, I take to quit& great credit for
having done so, and if it should in ther4nd be successful, as I
am sure it will, because it is the cause of justice, I shall consi:
der myseltas having aided and assisted- in a work of reforma-
tion, the next best that has been done in Ireland for 300 years.
" Did it not so happen that within your diocese this opposition
to tithe first commenced, awl to which it. has been nearly as
vet confined? I think this last opposition to the tithe system
has originated within my diocese. I mentioned on Saturday,
however, that instead of endeavouring to exculpate myself upon
this matter, as if from blame, I take nu small credit' to myself
for having comineticed that opposition, though I regret exceed-
ingly that it is attended with disasters or breaches of the peace.
lu that work did you not express yourself to this effect that you
hoped the opposition of the people to tithes would be as lasting
as their love of justice? A very happy form of expression which
occurred to me, and which I like exceedingly." This is the evi-
dence of the late Dr. Doyle before the committee of the House
of Commons in the year 1832. He acknowledges that lie com-
menced the opposition, and therefore we cannot be accused of
calumniating the church of Rome by bringing such a charge
against her. I would beg now also to read to you a letter I bare
received within the last few days from a dignitary of the Irish
church, of rank and influence in that country, and who is well
known to many individuals in this room. He writes thus:—
" A respectable fanner, a Roman catholic, with whom I had
formed au acquuintauce, and whose mind was so far enlighten-
ed us to see the errors of popery, but who had not the courage
to stand the persecution that always follows the public retrac-
tion of them, determined at last to dispose of his property iu this
country, and retire to America, where he could profess what
system of religion be liked without suffering for it. • Oh the day
before lie left the country, he came to me, and, after regretting
the uecessity of our separation, said, `Now. 1 am going to tell
you one thing, which, if it was known I had informed you of,
I should not bring my life with ire to the ship.' I begged of
him not to tell me; but he said, ' Your kindness has been so
utiithrinly shown tome, that 1 could not leave the country for
ever without giving you inforniatiou that intimately concerns
yi' and the parsons, as they call the clergy iu the south.' He
conitnenced iu nearly the following, words, and added ' You may
make what use of it you like after I am gone. If the emancipa-
tion hill had nut passed the lords, (this occurred in the autumn
of 1829, and we had apt the slightest idea that the lords would
have been so foolish as.to pass the bill,) there was to have been
a general stoppage of the paymeut of both tithe.and rent through
every part of Ireland. The whole plan was organized, and at
a given signal the stand was to be made. The emancipation
bill having passed the two houses contrary to their expectation,'
the plan has been deferred for two years,and in two years (1831).
the war-cry, will be raised, first, against tithes, and, it' they suc-
ceed in that, the same warfare is to be curried on against the
payment of rent.' I expressed my doubt of the twill of what
he said. In answer he said, 'I have now told you the truth,
and time will tell whether I atn speaking truth or not.' •I need
not tell you the cry was raised against tithes in 1831 by a popish
bishop, now no more; and, if success attend that measure, rent
will follow of course. 'The Romans,' :said my informant, 'will
never rest till they gain the possession of the land-enti drive out
the Saxons.' Ihese were nearly his words, and you may make
what use of them you like, and my name also.'
This conversation took place in the the year 1829. In De-
cember, 1830, the first opposition to the payment of tithes began
in the parish of Graigue, on the borders of the counties of Kil-
kenny and Carlow, and from thence spread throughout the south'
and west of Ireland before the end of 1832. We have here, then,
the evidence of Dr. Doyle, shoWing to what source we are to
trace the miseries of our protestant brethren. I shall now pass
on to lay before you evidence of the nature and extent of those
sufferings. It may be, perhaps, needful for the to tell you by
what means I have become pcssessed of the present informa-
tion. We held a pritate meeting in the Blue Coat . Hospital
for the purpose of making arraugemeuts for a public meeting.
Being then appointed by t e committee as one of the speakers
for the preseut .occasion:k forwarded a list of questions to Li-
merick, Kerry, Cork, Wa erford, Tipperary, and Lougford, in
answer to which I have received much painful evidence respect-
ing existing suffering. It may appear tedious, but it is neces-
sary that vou should know the full amount of clerical distress
contained .in these letters. 'I will first read an extract from a
letter from a clergyman in Limerick descriptive of the noble spirit
that animates the clergy of Ireland.
" Forty-three young men were ordained here, some of them
gave up situations and tuitions of £3OO and £4OO, and even in
one case of £7OO a year for a curacy. (Hear, hear.) I had
upwards of twenty of these young
,men at my house for a
prayer meeting a day or, two previous to the ordination. The
great majority of the forty-three were devoted and pious men,
having a single eve to the glory of God in the work to which
they had been called. Any of our English friends visiting Ire-
land at this moment would never suppose that the clergy were
in difficulty or distress, to judge by their spirit and conversation ;
all are rejoicing at what the Lord is doing through the. instru-
mentality of our beloved church. At our clerical meetings nut
a word of complaint or murmur, not a word about temporal
things, no politics, except they all with one voice raised their
protest against the late iniquitous measure, which, while it pro-
mised and would have given relief from all our embarrassments,
would have struck at the root of our very existence as an estab-
lishment; would have compramised the principle of a national
church, and would have handed °vet, bound hand and foot, to
the priests, tens of thousands of souls, in 860 parishes !! ! We
should prefer to beg or starve rather than listen to such a pro-
position." I shall now read read you a letter front Kerry :
" It happens remarkably enough that I was called on a few
weeks since to answer en inquiry similar to yours, made by the
primate, through the bishop of our diocese. I am, therefore,
furnished with all the information 1 can give, SO as to be able to
answer your letter even at this distance from hutur. 'la your
queries—Tithe has never been paid in kind in our diocese, ex-
cept on occasions of wishing to give vexatious opposition, For
the last few years the whole of our diocese has been under com-
position, and, in most cases, the Coinposition has •been deemed a
valuable boon by the occupier. I should say the first opposition
took place about three years since, not before it became yatteral
and violent elsewhere, so that our peasantry. were &thee ytieded,
amid forced than-voluntary opponents. • i'llo nut 'eiractly reitietn-'
'her the date, but can assert this as fact, that the, farmers were.
universally about to pay the clergy, .iii various instances had
done so, when Lord Althorp made a memorable declaration- in
parliament of the determivatiou of government not to- assist in
enforcing tithe revenue; of course they stopped. paying; and I
know one instance in which a clergyman who had received a
large portion of iris tithe being tnenaced if he did not refund,
and Lord Althorp's speech referred to as a proof that he had no
right to denitiud it. The priests have almost universally led the-
way to resistance, if not openly, by such advice as this,'" Far-
mers, you may do as you like, but I do not mean to pay tithes,
le.c." I never heard of resistance being carried so far as to re-
fuse to tilt land for the clergy on payment for it. In some iu-
stances civil process has been successful, in a few equity suits ;
sometimes criminal prosecutious, for rescue of tithe distress,
' upon the clergy interfering to obtain mitigation of seutence,
has induced a payment. Upon the whole I think heretofore
the people would never of themselves have resisted, if they were
let alone; but it is impossible to say what effect successful re-
sistance and impunity may have produced on their spirits; in-
deed I fear a fatal one, and that the present triumph over tithe
will be felt in other departments of the social system, now little
thought of. For the state of the clergy generally, it happens
it one diocese that, whilst most of then are paupers as ecclesias-
tics, very few have net some private property of more or, less
amount, which prevents the deficiency of tithe income from
being yet apparent. The credit of the clergy too continues
still, and I am sure that great numbers are involved
in debts which were contracted in the prospect of same
settlement of the question, and which now leave the debtors en,
tirely at the mercy of any creditor who chooses 'to press. I know
_-
one clergymatt, who has an execution against him for plain
clothing for his family; this state of things cannot last; but as
I think exaggeration never serves, and souner.ur later impairs
the credit of a statement, I am bound to say that matters have
not yet, in any instance, arrived at the great extremity reported
in other places. Several of the clergy have availed themselves
of the 'milky:sr; 'of cour,e,itsdoes .still impend over those who
have done so, others who were in circumstances favourable to
the collection of tithe were, 1 believe, unwilling to submit to the
diminution of income consequent on the million loan. 1 think
it right to mention that when the English fund was being ap-
plied to the use of the clergy I was wiitten to to. state " what
clergy in my. neighbourhood might be suffering from want of
professional income, and were without other resources." I
then looked over the list of our clergy and found few without
some other resources, one or two, to whom I mentioned that
there was such a
_fund, declined to avail themselves of it front
motives so becoming to themselves as, I should thiuk, the most
prejudiced should admire. Such is the state or things at pre-
sent in that part of Kerry which lays about Tralee. I shall now
call your attention to the.county of Cork, and. previous to read-
ing this letter, I bare uuly to add, that the state of the writer's

health was so bad that he was obliged to employ an ainanueus is.
[From this letter it appeared that out .uf a nominal income of
.f.:SOJ, due for 1831, the writer had only actually been in the
receipt of £BO. It also stated, that after Lord Althorp's state-
ment in the House of Commons the priests had maple violent
speeches in opposition to tithes, and that after that period nu
tithes had ever been paid. It also appeared that the writer was
in the greatest distress and penury, and that overworking, iu
consequence of not being able to maintain a curate and great
mental anxiety, had produced a severe illness.] I fear, con-
tinued Mr. Lyon, I shall be tedious in reading these various do-
cuments to you; but they are calculated to give you an idea of
the state of the clergy in Ireland, and, therefore, I pray you that
you will bear with me still with patience whilst I read to you
not general details of general suffering, but individual instances
written by the anee themselves of their own sufferings and of the
sufferings of their families around them. I shall now call your at-
tention now to the county of Cork, the- state of which is de-
scribed by a rector of that county. I extract a passage :
" I must call your attention to the million fund, which most, if
not all, the clergy in this neighbourhood availed themselves of,
and which enabled them to live fur a while under the circum-
stances of the deprivation of their properties. But it is to be
observed, that in various instances the money thus received was,
I may say, already eaten and drank, and much, the largest
portion, of it went, not to. support their families for the future,
but to discharge debts coistratted: for their support for the past.
It was, therefore, very soon exhausted, and when that was the
case they had nu alternative, (such at least of them as had no
private properties) if they had not friends able and willing to
assist them, but to starve. Friends, God was pleased to provide
for them. Several of them I have heard say that they could not
have lived were it nut for such assistance. They have, of course,
incurred debts, and as the cause still continues those debts must
still hang over them.. Aq on this point let rue say a word of my-
self exclusively. You are acquainted with my family. I have
nine children, several of theta grown up, but, as not being; iu cir-
cumstances to add to the family 'peens, only drawing for that rea-
son more largely on those means, I have not been able to save but
iu order to secure something fir my children after my death,
I insured my life, and, being pretty far advauced in years wheu
did so, the premiums of two policies of insurance amount to
upwards of £lOO a-year. Now, is it not possible for a clergy-
man to be iu great distress, though not absolutely. starving ? It
is too much the custom to consider that the want is but little if
they are not brought to an actual state of starvation. Bat rota-
toes and milk will prevent that extremity. Potatoes and milk
will not pay the premium on an insurance amounting to
nor relieve the clergyman from the anxious and melancholy
fo-rebodhigs of the helplessness and destitution in which he will
leave his children when Guil pleased to call him. From
those forebodings, I thank God, I have 'hitherto been saved.
But how ? By incurring a debt about a year ago of upwards of
£2OO, for the purpose of paying may insurance, then due, and
discharging other pressing demands (which debt, of
,course, is
still hanging over me) and for the coming insurauce, to be due
in about three weeks, by the receipt a few, days since of 1.;50
from my bishop, and by, some other aids, *hence supplied
cauuut really say, but surely from the good'providence of God
—a providence that assisted me before, about a month. since,
when I bad to send my two eldest boys up to college and was
considerably short of the means of doing so, by sending me re-
lief then also from some unknown source. Truly I have reason
to say `,.hitherto bath the Lord helped me.' In another part
of the same letter be says, " I am sure I am beyond the mark
when 1 say that hour the year 1818 to 1831, when the opposition
commenced, my expenses in legal preceeuiugs for the recovery
of my tithes did not exceed £3, not so much owing to any forbear-
ance on my part as to the regular and satisfactory dealings of
the people, which made it quite unnecessary to resort to any ex-
treme measures to euforce payment of my claims." But 1 fear
I ant drawing too long on the attention of the meeting by read-
mit this documentary evidence. (Hear.) I shall only read you a
very short extract fi um another letter. A clergyman thus writes :
" I am indeed acquainted with one family, chiefly young ladies,
who, from competenoe, have been so far reduced as to become
anxious for the situatien of governesses, and Who afterwards,
when situations becamo vacant, were for some thne obliged
to decline them from the actual want of decent clothing."
A beautiful spirit of cbristian love pervades all these letters.
There is contained in them the manly avowal of wrongs received,
and the open acknowledgment of sufferings endured, yet there
is no railing accusation against the authors of these wrongs, nor
of unholy murmuring against the God who permitted these af-
fliCtions. Patience and resignation, and thankfulness—" re-
joicing with trembling"—shine brightly through these letters.
They are evidences to the world that the truth preserved in the
united Church of England and Ireland has the Lord, the Spirit
within it. And still we draw back from expressing the value
that we place upon this truth. Shall we hear of our brethren
struggling amid difficulties, and ready. to faint beneath their
burden, and lend them no assistance in their hour of utmost
need. It cannot, it must not be so. The spirit that animater
the martyred suns of England's church has not yet wholly de-
parted—the footsteps of the Saviour, "who went about doing
good," are not yet erased from the vidw of faithful men—the
sympathies of the great High Priest of our profession has not
ceased to vibrate nu our ears and hearts—the kindly feelings of
our nature are not yet blunted and seared by the blighting in-
fluence of that church which would hold back the rightful pro-
perty from its owner, and crush the temporal and spiritual li-
berties of the victims of its delusion—that church which plun-
ders the people of the bible, and virtually robs them of their Sa-
viour. (Applause.) Let us then arise in the cause of God and
his truth ;—let us stand by our protestant brethren and show,
as far as our influence reaches and our mesas will allow, that
we are determined, according to our ability, to stay the enemy
that would endeavour to starve protestantisin out of Ireland, and
thus undermine our church in this land. Let us then, by libe-
ral contribution, prove that it is the desire of our hearts to re-
lieve a brother's woe, and alleviate a parent's anguish. The
rev. gentleman sat down amidst loud and general applause.
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was carried by ac-
clamation.

The Rev. Huerri M'NetnE said, the immediate object, sir,
of the resolution entrusted to my charge is a request that pecu-
niary assistance may now be afforded fur the relief of the distress
which has already been proved to exist. Before' you can be
' fairly asked to enter into a liberal subscription, you have a right
to demand that we should show you sufficient cause; because,
' although there not only is, as has been already stated, a very
' general report of the existence of distress, but the public prints
• contain a variety of details also well calculated toexcite our sym-
pathies and command our liberality, 'yet the inhabitants of etch
town as they are successively requested to join in the sub,erip-
Got% may very fairly require a renewed statement of the facts of
the case; and if -regressive impiiry shall have called forth
' fresh facts, then those also, and I may say chiefly, should be
publicly made known. Connected as lam with Ireland, though
' not with those districts where distress at present prevails—in-
' vited by a numerous cominit•ee both of clergy and laity, to take
part iu the 'proceedings of this day—cordially desirous to co-
. operate with all my brethren in every lawful effort having for its
object the support of our common christienity, and therein es-
pecially of our established church—and supplied with facts such
as those which have been. largely communiciated, and which I
shall not much further enter into—l now stand in this responsible
situation, wherein, with pure intentions, I have full confidence
in my God that he will enable me to be of use, and wherein,
permit me to add, I have confidence in this assembly, that if,
on the one hand, I am able to impart any information, to urge
any appeal, to advance auy argument calculated to aid and
enforce the sacred cause we have in hand, full weight
will be allowed to such statements, without any detraction on
account of the want of station, rank, or personal influence in
their advocate: (Hear.) And that, on the. other hand, should
I unhappily, be betrayed into anything which yen, sir, or others,
may deern_a mistake, you will not ascribe it to any sinister or
unworthy motive. (Applause.) I would not further advert to
the letters we have received from Ireland, but that one in my
possession contains intelligence of a semewhat different character
to what has gone before. I have many of that kind by me,
which I have removed out of the way, seeing information of the
character they contain has been largely submitted to your no-
tice; but this letter is of a different character, it.is from a gentle-
man who tells me I may make his name as public as I -please.
The gentleman is Mr, Dwyer, secretary of the Clerical Society
of Ireland. He says, "To authenticate facts I have only to say,
that I have for upwards of a year acted as secretary to the
Clerical Society of Ireland, and therefore have become inti-
mately conversant with, the melancholy details of the sufferings
which the clergy are patiently enduring. I have by me a book
in which are recorded the answers to the following query
' Has the income of your benefice been always paid, and is it
likely to continue so r To this we have 1077 auswers-321 in-
cumbents say that they are paid-756 say that their incomes had
ceased altogether to be paid, and were likely to remain unpaid,
owing to the direct interference of Lord Althorp's speech, and
the combination produced by agitation of the priests, as appa-
rently countenanced by the whig government. The sufferers,
then, amount to 756"--observe, this is , the number of iucuni-
bents, independently of the curates necessarily involved in the
sufferings of the rectors and vicals-" some of whom, having •
private means, I would not be justified in. saying that all are
suffering want. I may fairly, however, from. the details given,
estimate those who are in indigence at upwards of 200 indivi-
duals, and of those reduced to galling and degrading dependence
upon the bounty of their friends and other casual and voluntary
support to about dangle that number. I shall now give you some
naked facts, and the only comment I shall make on theca is,
that give the names on the faith. that you will feel. the delicacy
that accompanies their disclosure. Gentlemen of education
shrink front an exhibition of their distress to excite sympathy ;
and I have known their suffering endured in silence, which only
required exposure to have ensured relief. The Rev.
late a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, with an income of £9O
per annum, and a congregation. of 60 pi.utestants, has had his
income withheld for two years. He has a glebe of ten acres,
tinder a rent of £4O per dllllUll4 which is more than double the •
value of the laud. He tics been compenedio part with the Pro-
duce of the land to satisfy:the landlord,: who will net pay the
tithe, and has been thereby reduced tosuch an extremity of
want as to have deprived him of his reason." here is a fresh
• feature in the case, fur the sake of which 1 nave adverted to this
letter. From what we have heard it is perfectly clear that the
-distress endured by the Irish clergy at. this time is of the most
painful character—that they have been obliged to part with
their furniture, their books, and even 'their beds, selling or
pledging these articles fur the purpose of procuring the necessa-
ries of lite ; their life insurances, for a long time sustained,
though with difficulty—fur it has always been a matter of diffi-
culty to pay the annual. premium—are now left to the casual
I support of christian synipathy, and in some instances actually
forfeited. The education of their childreu has been suspended ;
some of their sous brought from school to be employed in the
plainest operations of agriculture, in order to assist the father
to procure a supply of potatoes fur the mother and sisters. Nay,
even in a few instances, this last resource has failed, and actual
hunger.has been endured.. Oh, it is easy to talk of such things:
it is easy to speak of hunger at a distance ; but if these facts now
so largely laid before you were not only hearkened to, but en-
, tered into with anything approaching the liveliness of christian
sympathy—if we were enabled to present before you the hus-
band and father in the silence of manly sorrow, strengthening
himself, while he feels. his situation as a man, to bear it is a
christian—if we could present before you the wife and mother,
in the tender fortitude which belongs to the sufferings of the
softer sex, endeavouring to conceal her anguish lest she should
add to that of her husban47,striving, perhaps, to smooth his
brow by assuming a tone of cheerfulness foreign to the feelings
of her heart, the amiable design of which defeats its own object
by adding tentold bitterness to his cup, in the consciousness
that he has no means of comforting such a partner—if, turning
away our eyes from the parents, and looking across the scantily-
furnished apartment, we could direct them to their children—
the elder ones, uuder some mental centred', eieleavouriug to
catch and imitate the meekness of their mother, the younger,
not yet able to feel anything beyond animal instincts, yielding
to their sorrows in piercing and agonising cries—oh, instead of
wondering that our Irish communications record one instance
of derangeineut, our wonder would be that there was only one.
For assuredly such a tempest of feeling, without any human
prospect of returning calm, would be sufficient to account for
the most appalling aberrations of human reason. (Hear, hear.)
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable grace, our brethren have
been preserved fur the most part in calmness and peace—pre-
served in patient submission to his will. •Everything has tended
to render their eudurance difficult. There is nut, sir, a stronger
feeling in human nature than indignation against injustice.
We know how the man who will liberally unit-cheerfully spend
and give away pounds and ill inns will rise in vehement resist-
ance against being imposed upon even to the value of a few
pence. Assuredly not because of, the amount, but because of
the injustice. 1 say that our Irish clerical brethren have been
treated. with the roust shameful injustice. (Load cheers.) Ac-