The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

X. Y., if "friendly," as he says, might have favoured us with
the. name of the house in question.
We make a rule to lend all the books. which Are replaced in the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
C. M. if possible in our next.
We have not yet had time to read the rather long letter signed
a "FIREMAN."

Zbe Ilibcrpool g-,tanbarb?

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1835.

We have received Jamaica papers to the 12th of Feb-
ruary. The importations of white labourers continue
to increase. A ship had arrived in Annatto bay bring-
ing one hundred and fifty-two emigrants from Kent,
among whom were carpenters, masons, ploughmen, and
a number of women and children. They are distributed
among the several estates, and they have expressed their
entire satisfaction with the arrangements made for their
residence and their employment. It is also stated that the
arrival of these emigrants inthe colony had-created some
alarm in the minds of the 'apprenticed negroes, and it has
tended in no small degree to keep them more obedient.
.and tractable. They have sense enough to perceive that
their future subsistence and that of their children entirely
depends upon their industry and good conduct, and that
insubordination or idleness on their part would only en-
courage emigration and depriie them of employment
and bread.

The colonists, generally, exiness much dissatisfaction
at the retention of Lord Situ.° by Lord ABERDEEN, they
having been indneed to believe that the noble marquis
had been recalled, arid in that belief they had censured
his conduct rather severely. It is much to be regretted
ti6t his excellency sthould be on t bose unpleabant terms with:, '1
the partiesivith 'whom he must necessarily come into con-
tact ; but we still flatter ourselves that the conduct of Lord
SLIGO will" be conciliritory and conservative, and that he
will acquit himself rriore to- the satisfaction of.the planters,
particularly; at his duties will in future be better defined.
and his powers perhaps more enlarged. • •

The whit; and radical factiOns were defeated in the
Comthoni on Friday b), a majority of 15, in a house cod-

sistiug of 411 'members. The subject was the commuta-
tion of tithes in Ireland, in respect to which the follow-
ing resolutions, carried as above mentioned, were moved

•
by Sir HENRY HARDINGE
"1. That tithes should be abolished, and that a rent-charge of
£75 for every £lOO should be substituted in lien of tithes; that
this rent-charge should bapayable, not by the occupying tenant,
but by the owner of the first estate of inheritance ; that
the rent-charge should be redeeMable; attd that the pro
ceeds of the redemption should be laid out in land or otherwise
fur the benefit of the party entated to the tithes. 2. That
the parties to whom- advances have been made under the
million act shall not be called upon to refund, and that the sur-7.
plus of the million—so much as has not been already advanced--
shall be devoted to the saute ptirposi,s as the other part of the
The-ground of the latter resolution, it will be seem
was, that while former measures have provided for the clergy HP
to 1833, and the bill now about to be introduced will provide for
them fur the future, there is nothing wherewith to pay the partici
to whom tithes are due in the year 1831 but the surphis remain-
ing under the Million act, which anMunting to between £300.00-/
awl E,100,000 will by no means satisfy the amount of the claims.
though a't may mitigate. the distress of the persons entitled at
the tithes, and unable to collect them without bloodshed."

Mr. JoSEPB 1-IU4 moved that the consideration of the
resolutions be adjourned, and he was baCked by a large
.portion of the very consistent 'i:vbigs who approved of
them; but Sir ROBERT Pram would not yield, and, as be
insisted upon the sense of houSe being taken, tire
result was as we have described.
We take this to be tantamount
.to a finial decision on
the tithe question,,and a more satisfactory one could not
be:devised. The, protestant clergy of_ Ireland have now
the landowners for their debtors, and the land itself for
their security. . They are toreceiv4:s per cent. of their
rights, which is certainly 30. per cent.., more, than -they
have received for the last fre, years. The
:tenant Will
henceforward have nothing to
.40, with the payment of
tithes, and all agitation- on this bead will of 'necessity
cease. The-tenants of DANIEL.' O'COSiNELL, and of
NIEL'S son's wife,lind of a femthousand persons beside,
have been enabled, for wise purposes no doubt, to plun-
der the ministers of religion; but by the new law they
are thrown into the back ground, and DANIEL himself is
called upon to pay for his frolics and past frauds. Thank
GOD,-this is retributive justice!. Aye, they must pay the
u!.terinost. farthing! Seventy-five per cent. in hard mo-
neY,and no trouble, no driving, no pounding, no wait-
ing, no tit4q-bit payments, is as good as, if it be net
better titan, the full claim under the old system? The
wings last year offered 60 per cent., and that was tole-
rably liberal for 'them although not quite honest. Ma
75 per cent. is Sterling justice,- and the burthen of it 16
imposed upon the tight ret sons. Lord LANSDOV;NE, the
Duke of DEYONsHIRE, and -others, will-find that the
prompt payment of the tithes...will make a considerable
hole in their annual. receipts. Witat, did they care, so
long as they obtained their rents,.what snuabbling took
plaice between their tenets and the clergymen. It was
nothing to then, who was robbed„provided they, were
paid. To hunt.a tithe-proctor or murder hint—to plan
der a Clergy Man tar-shoot tritn—to starve out a parson or
'-Irurn:ont a 'magistratewars sport to them so long as theY
got their eiorbitantrents. The middleman was allowed
to pillage and grind the faces of the :peasantry with im-
punity. The poor wretches saw no evil in this. They
were told, and they believed, that they owed all their mi-
sery, their raggedness, and their hard fare to the hereti-
cal parsons, and that tire tithes • were the sole grievance'
Now, however, the tables are turned—the peaSant
exempted frOm all landaurd must pay, and
pay -too whether he receives his rent or nat. . •

O'CoNNEIA., we perceive, is half frantic at the contem-
plated success 011ie measure: He never dreamt that lie
would be called upon .to pay for his own mischievous po'
;icy. Resistance to tithes was a delightful thing so lung
as his purse could be filled with-the shillings and.peno
dtie to the protest ant chat gy ;. but it is any thing but de'