The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

THE NEW LORD LIEUTENANT,

If we had not been so often deceived by the quips and
quibbles of diplomatic jargon, we should say that the
professions made by Lord Wellesley, in his speech at
the Mansion-house, were fair and candid. But, unfortu-
nately, this species of composition is so constructed—so
ingeniously contrived to catch the ear while it deceives the
sense, that we have resolved to judge of governments in
future by their acts rather than their words. Nothing 'cer-
tainly could have been more complimentary in language
than his observations with respect to 'the Corporation
—nor anything apparently more determined than his
expressions of firmness with regard to the administration
of the laws, and the preservation of the peace—but then,
alas! let us turn from these specious " sayings" to the
actual " doings" of those whose representative Lord
Wellesley is. Are they not about to grind to very
powder that body of which his Lordship speaks in such
flattering terms ; and have they not probably aban-
doned the country to Priests and Popery—robbed the
Church—destroyed the influence of the gentry—insulted
the aristocracy—elevated the democrat—promoted the
agitator—held out a premium to rebellion—encouraged
resistance to the laws, and subverted all the principles
upon which justice had heretofore been administered ?
And with all these facts staring us in the face—facts that
can neither be controverted nor denied, is it by a honied
speech at a public feast, or the indiscriminate conferring
of titles upon public functionaries—is it by silvery sounds,
or the enactment of scenes outdoing in absurdity any-
thing recorded in tire "Arabian Nights' Entertain-
ments," that can restore confidence or re-establish faith ?
No, no. The Protestants must look on. Government
begin to feel and to know that the affections of this loyal
and ill used people are estranged, andthat they contem-
plate protection and relief in the dissolution of tithes
Which, seven years since they would have Maintained
with the outpouring of their blood, and upheld by the
expenditure of their treasure ; and thus feeling, and
knowing, and, what is more, thus fearing, they foolishly
imagine that soothing sentences and unmeaning sounds
are to set all things straight again ; but they will find
themselves mistaken. -The Protestants of Ireland have
heit.. too often deceived again to trust themselves within
the power of their enemies. They want no ascendancy
excepting such as wealth, station, knowledge, and moral
superiority entitle them 'to command—they seek for
justice, nothing more—and they will not be contented
with anything less.—Dublin Mail.

A WORKING MINISTER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING PACKET.

Sir,—My attention has been directed to •an article in your
publication of yesterday, headed " The Church," in which
you, with so much justice, exhibit the duplicity of the Whig
Administration, and in particular my Lords Grey and Plun-
kett, in their conduct towards the Protestant clergy of Ireland,and
illustrate your obsktvations by a statement of the transactions
connected with the appointment of the lion. Thomas Plunkett
to the Deanery of Down. In quoting the passage from my
Lord Grey's speech, which describes Mr. Plunkett as a " zea-
lous, efficient, and most exemplary clergyman, who was in
every sense entitled to promotion as a working minister of the
established church," you observe that he was at the very time
of his patron's eulogy, " a non-resident, and dwelling above
200 miles from the parish in which he is described a work-
ing minister.'"
I beg leave, sir, to direct your attention to another working
minister of this amiable family, the Hon. and Rev. William
Plunkett, the rector of this parish. This working ministel• of
the established church has not, within the last twelve months,
been resident for three mouths in his parish. In the parlia-
mentary sessions preceding the last, he was in attendance on
his father in London. On his return, after presiding for map
Sunday in this church, he went on a shooting excursion to the
west of Ireland, in which clerical amusement he occupied him-
self with perhaps the occasional interlude of a fishing party, un-
til his presence was again required to accompany .his father to
London, in his attendance in the last parliamentary sessions,
from which he has just now returned. Whether or not this
may in Lord Grey's view of clerical duty. be an exemplary dis-
charge of it, is not forme to say; but of this I have little doubt,
that if any other clergyman held the living and neglected the
duties of it in a similar manner, Loid Plunkett would have
availed himself of the circumstance to enforce in the House of
Lords his observations on the necessity of church reform.
I recollect, sir, that in the statement made in the House of
Commons, as I think, either by Mr. Hume or Mr. Cobbett, for
the purpose of showing the moderation of my Lord Plunkett in
the provisions made for his sons, he represents the income of
Hannibal the Fourth (meaning, I believe, the Honourable and
Reverend William Plunkett,) froni the parish of Bray, to be
about four hundred a-year. This was an error. The parish,
when held by Mr. Knox, the predecessor of Mr. Plunkett, was
then an union of Bray and Rathmichael, rated at four hundred
a-year, and never producing more. The late Archbishop of
Ddblin divided the union, giving. Bray to Mr. Plunkett, the
1 tithes of which that "working minister" immediately raised
to six hundred a-year, to effect which, some of the tithe-payers
under the Composition Act are charged at the unprecedented
rate of 7s. 6d. per acre ; and Rathmichael, the other diVision
of the parish, given to the Rev. Mr. Hurst, pays him between
'three and four hundred a year.—Your obedient servant,
A PARISHIONER OF BRAY.
Our correspondent might have likewise stated, that the Rev.
William Plunkett, Vicar of Bray, was, during the elections for
the representation of the city of Dublin, • which preceded the
reform bill, to be found continually at the, hustings, and that
during the sittings of the committees who tried the petitions
which
_followed, the vicar was usually to be ,found eaves-drop-
tiltsabout-the nous'. of Obutmons. ...- • -