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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE third
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"To the Very Reverend the Dean and "Chapter of Ely.

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pose should be delivered to the possessors of the tithes, whether such posSince the publication of the second sesors be ecclesiastical or lay persons. edition of this pamphlet, the bills relat-The following requisition which is about ing to tithes which were brought for- to be presented from a parish in Suffolk, ward by the Archbishop of Canterbury will show the form in which such notices and others during the last session, have should be drawn up. been put an end to by the prorogation of the Parliament. Whether it is intended to introduce any measures "quite "We, the undersigned, occupiers of as efficient" in the ensuing session, I "land and rate payers in the parish of do not know, nor have I thought it" Lakenheath, in the county of Suffolk, worth while to inquire, as the time is, I" being advised that the rectorial tithes think not very distant when the right "of Lakenheath, which have been for a reverend promoters of these ingenious" long time past appropriated to the specimens of delusive legislation will" private use of you and your predethemselves become the subject of enact- cessors, the former deans and chapters ments of a much more efficient descrip-" of Ely aforesaid, are not vested in you beneficially, but are received by you With the exception of a trifling ad-" in trust, as to one-third part thereof dition to one of the notes, 1 have not "for the use of the poor of the said found it necessary to make any altera-" parish, and as to one other third part tion in the work as it stood in the last" in trust for the reparation of the edition; there is, however, one point "church, and the other purposes for upon which I take this opportunity of" which church-rates are assessed upon offering a few additional observations." the said parish, do hereby request that I have been asked what course ought to you will henceforth be pleased to be pursued, and whether, in particular," render and pay over two third parts of a bill in equity would lie, to compel the" the said tithes to the parish officers of possessors of tithes to appropriate to the" the said parish, to be applied by them poor and the reparation of the churches, "to such religious and charitable uses the two third parts of the tithes which as aforesaid. they hold in trust for those specific pur- "And in respect to the manor and poses. My answer to this is, that the lands within the said parish which abuse is of too long standing to be re- "formerly belonged to the monastery medied by an application to a Court of" of Ely, and which are now in your Equity, and that the proper and usual “ possession, we farther require you to remedy in such cases is, a legislative "exercise those duties of charity and enactment, declaring, restoring, and " hospitality which constitute the tenure confirming the ancient rule and practice "and condition upon which the said of the law; and that the Parliament" manor and lands were granted to your should be petitioned and the members" predecessors, in the reign of King of the reformed House of Commons in- " Henry the 8th; but which duties structed to pass a law to that effect."have been wholly neglected and abanThe law of tithes affords several in-doned by you and your said predestances of such enactments, in cases where it has been found necessary to It may possibly be urged as an obcheck the encroachments of the clergy.jection to the above requisition, that in But as some time may possibly elapse the case of deans and chapters, it does before such a statute can be passed, I think that in the meantime it will be advisable that in every parish where the inhabitants are desirous of having the tithes restored to their legitimate uses, a notice or requisition for that pur

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not go far enough, and seems to contemplate only a partial reformation of abuses, when it is almost universally acknowledged to be absolutely necessary, for the interests of the commonwealth, that deans and chapters and other sinecurists,

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and useless and burdensome dignitaries" by those entrusted with its care. Why of the church should be wholly sup- "should there be a single district or pressed. It should, however, be re- corner of the country devoid of such membered, that the requisition does not "excellent institutions as infant and profess to embrace all the measures" industry schools, schools for mutual which are conceived to be necessary for" instruction, parochial libraries, and the accomplishment of ecclesiastical re- "mechanics' or labourers' institutes, form, but merely seeks a redress of" with apartments for reading and lecthose particular grievances which are "tures? Why are those arrangements discussed in the following argument. "left to chance and partial adoption, With respect to the possessors of tithes which, in the loudest and plainest generally, I cannot conclude these ob-" tone, demand universality and sysservations, without remarking, that it" tem? Why are the poor unassisted appears to me that they will do well to by Governments in their endeavours consider, whether, in the present state" to frame such establishments, and left of public opinion, a ready and cheerful" to struggle for their attainment compliance with the just and reasona- through destitution and difficulties, ble terms of the requisition, does not "without any certain and definite aid? afford the only possible means of averting "The aid is withheld, and the people a total abolition of tithes. "are induced to consider the governing "classes as the enemies or hypocritical "friends of knowledge and improve"ment. Of what value are the isolated "endeavours of a few enlightened indi"viduals? Of much, indeed, every

1, Garden-Court, Middle Temple, Nov. 17, 1831.

FEELOSOFICAL QUACKERY.

THE following specimen of this, the worst sort of quackery, I take from the Morning Chronicle of the 23d instant. All that the writer says about the abuse of tithes is right enough, and is worth reading it is with the first part of this article that I find fault, but on which I will reserve my remarks till I have inserted the whole article, as follows:

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way to their immediate neighbour"hood and to themselves, as responsible "to GoD and their conscience, but of "little to the nation at large. We may "remember what a vast proportion of "the incendiaries and rioters in the "south last winter were unable to read "had not attained the first step to"wards mental improvement. Such a "state of things may be comparatively "innocuous in a country devoid of the In an excellent pamphlet, just pub-"temptations and ideas arising from the lished, under the title of "Thoughts on "glaring inequality of worldly goods “Education, Union of Classes, and a" which prevails in our artificial or Co-operation, suggested by the late" civilized position; but how can such "Riots at Bristol," it is observed, that" ignorant beings comprehend and feel "the rulers and the heads of tribes '" "the advantages resulting from the "men possessed of leisure, of know-" guardianship of property, even to him ledge, and of power, hearts to plan "whose sole property consists in his "and tongues to utter wisdom '-have" daily labour?" "either totally or partially neglected "the plain and essential duty of furnish- try who indulge in the delusion, that ing to every human being throughout one part of society may set an example "the country a well digested course of of heartless injustice, engrossing selfishinstruction, applied to every period of life. Before long, this point will be seen in its proper light, and the neg"lect of the public mind regarded with no less blame (to say the very least) "than the neglect of public property

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ness and rapacity without bound or limit, while the rest of society will contentedly respect and obey the laws. In the language of the SENATOR of VENICE, in Mr. COOPER'S Bravo, they say, or would say, to the inquiring or disaf

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fected poor, "Thou art accustomed to This was the error and the crime of the French "comment on measures and interests Revolution-it should be the object of a British Parliament to restore, not to subvert or de"that are beyond thy limited reason, stroy. "and thou knowest that thy opinions "have already drawn displeasure on "thee. The ignorant and the low are "to the state as children whose duty it "is to obey, and not to cavil." The day for this language to produce its effect in this country is gone for ever. Let us look around in every direction, and we shall see disaffected paupers, unwilling slaves, alienated from the institutions of a society which they think has treated them with injustice. The torch of the incendiary throughout all the agricultural counties of England ought to warn us of the danger of being surrounded by fellow-creatures between whom and ourselves there are no ties of sympathy, over whose minds we cease to possess influence.

The Lord Chancellor has, it is said, a plan for establishing parochial libraries throughout the country. But in England the public funds must be applied to such purposes, if we hope for any result.

Now the immense mass of public property in this country, called Church property, has never been distributed with a view to public utility, but exclusively to private ends. In Ireland, matters are rapidly approaching to an adjustment. No man acquainted with what is passing in Ireland can have a doubt that a new arrangement of public property is at hand.

"Every disinterested man (says a correspondent of The Dublin Evening Post) of sound sense in Ireland, desires a new settlement of Church property, as indispensable to the future peace and prosperity of the country. It will never be possible to collect tithe and apply it as heretofore in Ireland.

"The legislature, in dealing with this subject, should not for a moment leave out of its views the ends and purposes for which this property was originally granted. To these purposes alone, or to purposes intimately connected with them, it should be exclusively ap

Ought, then, Church |roperty,' which was intended for the service of religion, be suffered to remain alienated from that service and to poison the political atmosphere by its -to become the inheritance of certain families, corrupt exhalations? Ought the provision, consecrated by the piety of our ancestors to the relief and comfort of the needy and the poor, who, regardless of the destitution and starvabe left a prey to the rapacity of administrators, tion of the actually poor and needy, lavish it on the genteel support, as it is called, of the pride and vanity of families of extractionNo! the state has a right, and is obliged to ruined, perhaps, by idleness and dissipation? interfere decidedly with every such violation of the primitive and most sacred relationship of society. The state has a right, and ought to exert its sovereign power, as a power derived from God, for arresting the abuse which those, whom the law protects in their possessions, have been tempted to make of the property entrusted to them. But the state should not

itself be guilty of what it coudemus in others, by applying to the general purposes of the empire what was dedicated to certain fixed and ascertained purposes, or what was consecrated to the special interests of religion and the poor."

But will a reformation be confined to Ireland? Certainly not. Public utility, and not family aggrandizement, must prevail in the distribution of public property, if we hope to see the population restored to a healthy moral state. The Church swarms with abuses of every kind. The ecclesiastical divisions are any-thing but suited to the present state of the country. One parish is a pro

vince, another consists of a few hundred
acres-one contains a population equal
to that of the greatest capitals, another
contains only a few hamlets.
cannot continue long in an enlightened
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The author of the pamphlet already noticed by us, observes, that as yet the clergy have been, in many in"stances, the opponents, or the luke"warm friends, to any considerable ex"teusion of general knowledge." In a letter in the Times of yesterday, the causes of their hostility to all improvement in the country are ably pointed out. It appears that what influence

plied; for when the state, overlooking the rights of individuals or classes, applies to its own general wants, or to the benefits of the people, en masse, what was entrusted to 'corporations for the benefit of individuals, or of particular classes of communities, it commits they possess is all exerted to mischievous gross injustice, and wastes its own resources. purposes:

"In consequence (it is observed) of their | the foolishness is so great, that you dispersion through the country, their education, the nature of their office, their habits of hardly suspect that there can be any life, and other circumstances, their influence roguery with it; but, at the bottom, is very extensive and their opposition propor- the basis is real roguery. The feelosotionably formidable. At all elections they fers lay it down as an axiom, that riots are seen as active agents, if not always at the and fires proceed from the ignorance of hustings, yet commonly in their respective the perpetrators; and that ignorance parishes, on behalf of the Tory candidates. They are now every-where on the alert, not consists in an inability to write, and to only because they apprehend that a reformed read newspapers and Brougham's stupid Parliament might diminish the value of the stuff called "Useful Knowledge." This good things which they covet, but from the well-founded conviction that it would lead to they lay down as an axiom. the political destruction of their Tory patrons. of being able to read thus, they hold All the manœuvring that Machiavellian policy that the poor creatures cannot comprecan devise, as well as all the modes of opeu hend the "blessings of accumulation ; attack, are resorted to by these powerful allies they cannot " of the boroughmongers; and they bespatter with every species of obloquy, such of their brethren as conscientiously stand forward as the advocates of reform."

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comprehend and feel the advantage resulting from the guar"dianship of property." No, poor things, they cannot comprehend the advantage that results to them from This last paragraph shows a want of barns and stacks being kept safe for the knowledge on the subject. The thing use of those who deny them all but cannot be settled in this manner. Tithes potatoes, and hardly a stomach full must remain as they are, or be abolished. of them. The poor "ignorant beings They cannot be exacted for any other cannot comprehend and feel this adpurpose, or by any body else, than the vantage without the aid of “ apartments clergy. They would not be a present to read" Brougham's Useful Knowmade to the landowners at all: the ledge: much less can they comprehend whole of the community would share in and feel the advantages resulting from the benefit of taking them from ten or their being (men, old men, boys, and twenty thousand families of idlers. The women) compelled to starve, or to draw land would, then, bear that sole internal carts and waggons like beasts of burden. tax, which I, in my THIRTEEN PRO-It really does need a "Labourers' InstiPOSITIONS, propose to lay upon it. "tute with apartments for reading and

Now for the first part of this article," lectures," to convince that it is adwhich closes with telling us that the vantageous to young women to have LORD CHANCELLOR (watch his their long hair cut from their heads by a pranks!) has an intention of proposing brutal hired overseer, and to have their the establishment of “Parish Libraries bodies covered with serge with a badge for the purpose of educating the work-on it; or to be compelled to become ing people! Only think of apartments prostitutes, or to starve. Poh! you for reading and lecturing in every pa- miserable Scotch quacks! It is the rish! Only think of a village of Chop- employers that want to be educated: sticks having apartments to read in the landlords, parsons, and big farmers, By , these people are mad! They want to be taught that it is their true know no more about England than they interest in the end, to cause the workdo about the moon, and the land in the ing people to live well, and to possess moon. "Labourers' Institutes, with the means of being well dressed. And apartments for reading and lectures! "this is precisely what you do not teach. It is madness; and not a hair short of What a beastly notion, that bookit. To propose that sheep and oxen learning is wanted to make a labourer and horses should be taught to fly, as birds do, would not be a bit more sign

of madness.

Yet, at bottom, it is reguery; it is roguery that shows itself in foolishness:

honest, industrious, and contented! Even as to farmers, in nine cases out of ten, book-learning is an injury, rather than a good. The best managed farm that I ever saw is in the hands of a man,

who, when necessity compels him to write, can hardly put his meaning upon paper. And is he an "ignorant man?" He understands his business, and does it well; and what do you want more of him?

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Park, Alderson, and another, I think, held to be a good objection to him. that it is come to this at last the freemen of the wards have a right to elect any freeman that they please; a perfect right to do that; and the Court of AlBut the roguery at the bottom is this! dermen have a perfect and absolute right those who put forth this quackery want to set the election at nought without cause the present funding and taxing system assigned! This is, I think, as neat a to go on; because, if it stop they must specimen of the right of election as we go to work. They rail against the have ever heard of! I always thought tithes, indeed; but they want all the rest Mr. SCALES wasted his time in any to go on. Now, it cannot go on with- attempt to get amongst such a out starving the labourers. These tax- crew, especially after a reform of eaters do not dare to say, in direct the Parliament becanle unavoidable. terms, that they wish the labourers to That crew may rest assured, that one starve; and, therefore, they will never of two things will speedily take place, a allow that the riots and the fires are reform, or some change of greater magnicaused by the pinchings of hunger. tude; and that, in either of these cases, Hence they beat about for causes; and, not only will they cease to have the just at this time, their favourite cause is power to annul the elections made by the want of "labourers' institutes," in which freemen; but, that many and important the labourers are ma le to see clearly, past transactions will be pretty scruputhat it is reasonable and just that they lously inquired into. At present this who make to come all the meat and crew beat the boroughmongers all to bread and beer and wool and leather, to nothing; for, if the freemen of any town live upon potatoes and water and go half-do happen to elect a person that they do naked in their bodies and barefooted. Poh! you quacks; you Scotch quacks; establish well-loaded bacon racks in the villages instead of libraries; teach the landlords and farmers to feed and clothe the working-people well; and then they may sleep in safety: otherwise they never will again, though the world be inundated by your miserable roguish quackery.

not like, they do not pretend to any right to set the election aside upon the mere allegation that they do not think the person chosen a fit person. Mr. SCALES should now publish a list of the names, callings, and other circumstances of the whole of this crew, so that we may have them upon record against the time when the record may be useful.

MR. ALDERMAN SCALES.

MR. SCALES was duly elected by a vast majority of the ward of Portsoken. The Court of Aldermen would not swear him in, because, as they alleged, he was not a freeman, having been apprenticed a month or two too soon or too late, though they had made him perform all the duties of a freeman for twenty-six years. They alleged, besides, that he was an unfit person," and that they themselves were the sole judges of the fitness or unfitness. This the judges of the Court of King's Bench, Abbott,

THE REMEDY.

An Ounce of Prerogative worth a Ton of
Corrupt Influence.

THE Bill of Reform of the Commons has passed, and is rejected by a small majority in the Lords.

The country is almost unanimous in favour of Lord GREY and his administration.

But how is the bill to get through the Lords? If by secret influence, are we not degrading our noble Premier in suggesting any such means; and should the Lords now pass the bill, or as effi

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