"ministers of a religion in which he himself did "not believe the payment by the Catholic pea"santry to the Protestant Clergy was one and the "chief source of the grievance." 66 Yet, shortly afterwards, he states "As far as the matter had yet been looked at, "it appeared, that to maintain the Clergy of the "Established Church, estates should be granted to "the Clergy of the Established Church. He was aware of some objections to that plan, but he was not sure that a rent-charge reserved to the "Clergy, or a portion of the land, was not the best way to provide for the Clergy and make them "useful." 66 66 To make them useful! How the deuce is paying them to make them useful? Would paying a large body of Catholic Priests in Protestant England make them useful? Would giving the Pope an estate in Middlesex make him useful? We do call upon men who set about juggling a nation to bring some skill to the trick, some dexterity, to show that they don't utterly despise the understandings of the people they design to dupe. Sir Robert Peel, when he observes their bungling, must think, with Jonathan Wild, that " he knows of a better way." Mr Stanley has, we see, given up the sad case of Doctor Butler, compelled to sell his carriage horses! and has picked up other examples of clerical distress (which was necessary, inasmuch as Dr Butler turns out to be a prosperous gentleman*); his tales of woe calling for legislative interference are now more discreetly chosen. We will take one of the strongest. "A gentleman with whom I am well acquainted, "told me that he had just been sending a sheep "and a few potatoes, and a small note, to a gentle 66 man who was formerly in comparative affluence, "and that he had neither a shilling nor a pound of 66 meat or bread in his house." Very shocking, certainly-very shocking that sinecurists should come to this! that people who do nothing should have nothing for their living. What, if the folks on the Pension List should fall into the same misfortune! But we would undertake to produce a hundred such cases in a day, not of distressed sinecurists, indeed, but of distressed industry; and there shall be only this difference, that no gentleman shall have sent a sheep and a few potatoes, and a small note, to the labourer thrown out of work by the tactics of the Charles street Conspirators. "Are we," asks Mr Stanley, "to say that for peaceful men there shall be no remedy, and that for the turbulent there shall "be instant protection ?" Let him put that ques 66 * Dr Butler, it is said, sold his old spavined horses, and wornout coach, previously to his quitting Keland for Cheltenham, where he has since resided in great comfort, with the additional luxury of a new carriage and horses. Dr Butler is a wealthy man, the result of savings during the last twenty-five years in a rich benefice.-Morning Chronicle. VOL. II. M tion here, where the peaceful sufferers by faction are yet without remedy, and where the worst conspirators-the conspirators against a nation's rights -have all protection, and all countenance, and courtesy, and respect, not to say reverence, from the Ministerial champions. The dues sought here are no pitiful tithes, they are the rights essential to the security of all property, and how are they vindicated? Vindicated, forsooth! they are whined and crawled for as a beggar's boon. It is written in the experience of mankind, that so long as the oppressed will suffer, they shall suffer. Wrongs never cease until they are resolutely resisted. Repeatedly has the grievance of Irish Tithes been brought under the consideration of Parliament; but a deaf ear was turned to all complaint, till the people took the affair into their own hands, and now redress waits upon successful resistance. So in the case of all public abuses it has ever been and ever will be. The justice of Government is necessity. It administers justice as the Médecin malgré lui administered physic, when beaten into it. We almost suspect that Reform is crude for want of this process; and that it lacks the ripening of a refusal to pay taxes, which will come hot upon another postponement. Molière perfectly illustrates the ways of justice in the following scene : "2. Porteur. Payez-nous donc, s'il vous plaît, Monsieur. "Mascarille. Hé? "2. Porteur. Je dis, Monsieur, que vous nous "donniez de l'argent, s'il vous plaît. "Mascarille (lui donnant un soufflet). Com❝ment, coquin, demander de l'argent à une personne de ma qualité? 66 "2. Porteur. Est-ce ainsi qu'on paye les pauvres 66 gens, et votre qualité nous donne-t-elle à dîner? "Mascarille. Ah, ah, je vous apprendrai à vous "connoître. Ces canailles là s'osent jouer à moi. "]. Porteur (prenant un des bâtons de sa chaise). "Ca, payez-nous vîtement. "Mascarille. Quoi? "1. Porteur. Je dis que je veux avoir de "l'argent tout-à-l'heure. "Mascarille. Il est raisonnable, celui-là. "Mascarille. Oui-dà, tu parles comme il faut, "toi; mais l'autre est un coquin, qui ne sçait ce qu'il dit: Tien, es-tu content? 66 66 "1. Porteur. Non, je ne suis pas content, vous avez donné un soufflet à mon camarade, et .... "[levant son bâton]. "Mascarille. Doucement, tien, voilà pour le "soufflet. On obtient tout de moi quand on s'y 66 prend de la bonne façon. Allez, venez me "reprendre tantôt pour aller au Louvre au petit ❝ coucher." THE GENERAL HYPOCRISY. "'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage, The Devil himself."-SHAKSPEARE. THAT precious pot of ointment, that godly gentleman, Mr Perceval, has at last had his pious will of us, and obtained from Ministers a promise of a General Fast, or rather of the order for one,-for as it is true that any man may take a horse to the water, but no one can make him drink,-so also it is certain that any rulers may direct a general fast, but no power can prevent men who have the means from ministering to the carnal cravings of their stomachs. The only effect will be to put the nation for one day through a grand ceremony of hypocrisy. In addition to the customary dinner, people will eat salt fish with egg sauce, which is a very good thing now and then for the palate, but decidedly dyspeptic, and apt for cholera, and should by no means be eaten where the disease exists. How is the world changed! Time was, when contrition showed itself in beating the breast, |