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every debate on Church property ;—they take under
their care general—as distinguished, we suppose,
from personal—piety ; and assail the alleged negli-
gence of the clergy with a vigour that would lead
us to believe that the atmosphere of the hazard-
table is an excellent stimulant to morality.
Now these are not the hands into which the great
task of reforming, what may need reform in the
Church, can be committed. If men have need for
the aid of surgery, they generally send for a sur-
geon, and do not commit themselves to those who
are at once ignorant and hostile. The necessary
reforms in the temporal position of the Church
must be made by the hands of Churchmen, or the
pretended remedy will be far more fatal than the
evil it is to cure. The late debate on Church Ex-
tension was an example of the truth of this.
Brought forward in sincetity and good faith, Lord
Blandford's motion was made, by the Radical
Church Reformers, the excuse for attacks upon
absent dignitaries and suggestions of general spolia-
tion. Of the first of these proceedings, Mr. Hors-
man's charges against the venerable Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol formed a moss characteristic
specimen. Mr. Horsman asserted (and asserted
in that tone which characterises the individual ;
and seldom characterises any one of delicate taste,)
first, that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
accepted his see under a pledge that he would not
renew the lease of a manor near Bristol called
Horfield Manor; but allow its improved value to go
to general Church purposes, and not to the parti-
cular advantage of the see. He stated, secondly,
that the Ecclesisastical Commissioners expressed
to the Bishop their surprise that he should contem-
plate renewing the lease. He asserted, thirdly,
that the Bishop leased the estate for money. These
are the statements of Mr. Horsman. The following
is the truth. (1.) The Bishop took the see with no
such pledge. In proof of this, the Commissioners
write to him, in 1348, that "there was no impres-
sion on their mind that any such engagement or
understanding existed." This disposes also of the
second charge, namely, the charge that the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners expressed their surprise at
the violation of contract which they themselves say
" never existed." The third charge is that of mer-
cenary motives. The answer is, the Bishop let the
estate without fine, and, when the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners wished to buy his right, (an inten-
tion they did not carry into effect,) he expressed
his intention of devoting the money to charitable
and Church purposes. Will it be believed that Mr.
Horsman wound up these unfounded and slanderous
accusations by the following demand, couched in
the insolent phrase and style of the school to
which be belongs—" Would any man, except a
dignitary of the Church, dare to carry out such a
transaction, and then show his face in public as an
honest man ?" Will the true friends of the Church
leave the reformation of her temporal affairs in the
hands of persons thus capable,afterretailing slanders,
of attributing such a general character to the dig-
nitaries of that Church for which they express so
much anxiety ? We have referred to a second
characteristic of the Radical Church Reformers—
the suggestion of general spoliation. It has be-
come the cant of the present time, that the bequests
left by the pious of past times are " the property of
the country." There is nothing too sacred—no-
thing too well secured—that Mr. Hume will not
claim for the people. The maxim of the French
Socialis's, that " all property is theft," is adopted
by the English Radicals wherever the Church of
England or the Universities are in question. Thus,
on the Church Extension debate, it was coolly
proposed to sell all capitular lands—lands be-
queathed or granted for particular purposes, and
to which the deans and chapters have as good a
title as Mr. Hume has to his venerable blue coat
or drab trowsers. To be sure, they had the mo-
desty to say that the lands of the Chapters should
be sold for Church purposes. But where is the
guarantee ? Let the House of Commons once
invade private property; let them reduce these
lands to money—let it be paid to the accountant-
general or the treasury—and who is to guarantee
us that another resolution of the House does not
it to the Peace Congress, or vote it for
statues to Thomas Paine, Robert Owen, or other
1 the unappreciated heroes of modern Socialism ? As

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_„,e sale of the Crown livings, so tts to spread
the patronage over the kingdom, we confess we
think it has many advantages. The selections by
Chancellors of clergy for appointments has un•
,o doubted]y not been the best. Occasionally we find
of worth•- 'n the "

men promoteu, out not in the ratio of one
in a hundred to those promoted by the Bishops,
while the claim on the Chancellor for a living, that
too readily admitted, is political partizanship, or
"'station. Too often, also, the appoint-

s are the result of Nepotism, and in times (of

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nitant, every pensioner, every idler ; but, unfor-
tunately, it does not benefit the man who has to
give his labour at a low rate of remuneration. The
climax, however, is the most important enunciation
of opinion for which we have had to thank the
Times for months past. He says : " this same
cheapness has placed the labouring classes most
effectually under the hand of money, and the heel of
power f!" This cheapness, which benefits " all
who have money to spend," has thus degraded the
working man. Why, who doubted the fact ? Who
doubted that cheapness was intended to degrade the
working man for the benefit of those who have
"money to spend ?" Who doubted that the labouring
classes had been placed most effectually under the hand
of money and the heel of POWER. No man of sense
understood the doctrine of cheapness otherwise; and
we thank the Times for the candid admission, which
is more than his Free Trade friends will acknowledge.
But he proceeds to ask,—" Will there not be a
change, and a beginning of changes, when our
great reservoirs of human labour begin to fall short;
when every employer of the people, from the au-
thorities of the Horse Guards and the Admiralty
to the occupier of fifty acres, or the possessor of
half a dozen lace machines, begins to call in vain
for more hands ? Will it not be a day of change
when, instead of two men being after one master, two
masters will be after one man ?" It will be a day
of change, indeed, good Times; but what is the
source to which you, and political economists of
your caste, look for the coming of this "day of
change ?" To emigration of our able-bodied
labourers and artizans ! The land is to be con-
verted into a desert, in order that the few remain-
ing in it may be enabled to live ! Get away, skilled
labourers of every sort and condition ! The Times
tells you that " what keeps the English labourer
at home is his profound ignorance, his want of ver-
satility,"—you cannot twist like the Times !—" and
his habits of dependence." If you wish to be in-
dependent, he advises you to take yourselves away.
The obvious aim of the Times throughcut the
whole of this laboured, yet inconsistent, article, is
to lead us away from the contemplation of the real
causes which are driving from their country, not
only the farmers and peasantry of Ireland, but the
skilled labourers of Great Britain as well. Famine
has passed away. The potato is sound. Food of
every sort is cheap and abundant. But the
Irish are a producing people; and all this
cheapness is achieved at their expense. The
country to which they owe allegiance no longer
fosters the industry of its children, but trans-
fers its favours to the serfs of Poland and
Russia, and the farmer of the American prairies.
And why is the skilled labour of England leaving
the country ? Because free trade has proved a gi-
gantic fraud, Its authors told us that it would
bring about the very state of things which the
Times now unblushingly says is to he brought about
only by decimating our population every two years;
that state of things, in which "two masters would
be running after one man" instead of " one man
running after two masters." Our industrious
classes—the blood and sinews of our land—are
fleeing to escape being ground to the dust " under
the hand of money, and the heel of power." They
are fleeing to a country where industry is protected,
where the industrious labourer and the artisan are
the most valued of citizens, leaving their maledic-
tion behind upon that fatherland where, for so long,
" man has been a drug and population a nuisance,"
and where the cheapness, wrung from man's neces-
sities and his degradation, contributes only "to the
success of all mercantile pursuits, and to the enjoy-
ment of those who have money to spend." Happy
few, who have money to spend !

Sir T. B. Birch, Mr. W. Brown, and Mr. J. W. Patten
voted on Friday against Sir F. Thesiger's amendments to
the Papal bill. Mr. Cardwell was absent.
Sir J. Graham, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. P. Pusey, and Mr. J.
H. Talbot, voted on Friday against the third reading of
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a
female in Manchester named Swinnerton, for so cruelly
injuring her step-child as to cause its death
SHOCKING

DEATH.—A boy named Peter Quinn,
whose parents live in a court leading out of Oriel-street,
was scalded to death on Saturday. He was playing with
his brother near the fire place, when a kettle of boiling
water was thrown from the fire, part of the contents being
emptied upon deceased, whose lower extremities were so
severely scalded as to cause death shortly after Cie oc-
currence of the accident.

SALE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE.—The new regu-
lation relative to the weight used in buying and selling
agricultural produce came into operation on Saturday,
the tickets to the several buyers being made out in con-
formity therewith. There were, it is true, a few excep-
tions to this just course of dealing, but, on the whole, tha
purchasers expressed themselves satisfied with the change,
and the general adoption of the principles in all future
placed beyond doubt.

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A MissiNG —A young man named Hoohlan,
in the emp! . Walker, of Whitechapel, window-
blind manuf .cturer, has been missing since Friday night.
Hoohlan is only twenty-two years of age, and filled the
situation of junior clerk and collector in Mr. Walker's
establishment. In this latter capacity he received a con-
siderable sum of money ; and as he was at his place of
employment late on Friday night; his absence on Saturday
created suspicion. The utmost vigilance was exercised by
the detective officers during the day, but no clue could be
gained to his whereabout. He 1-. as a wife and two children.
AN INCOMPETENT STEWARD.—WiIIiam Henry Jones,
a man of colour, appeared yesterday at the Police-court,
to demand a balance of wages, as steward of the De Wolf.
Complainant shipped at St. John's for the run for £lO.
He had received £5, and now applied for the balance.
The captain and mate of the Do Wolf made a plea of in-
competence. The captain said the man could do nothing.
The mate affirmed the same, and said that Jones had told
him that he had never been at sea before, and had admit-
ted that he had " driven a coach in New York."
(Laughter.) The black cook, who was called as witness
for the complainant, was of opinion that the steward was
competent : he had seen him pare some turnips. (Re-
newewed laughter.) The plea not being sufficiently defi-
"'n decision was given in favour of the complainant.

ER OF COMMEROE.—The usual monthly meeting
of the Council took place yesterday, Thomas Berry Hors-
fall, EN., the President, in the chair: After the routine

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