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THE FAMINE DEBTS. What is called "repudi...
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ADULTERATION OF FRENCH FLOUR. The articl...
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MOVEMENT FDR DIOCESAN SYNODS. The Derby ...
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EPISCOPAL SALARIES. The scheme, prepared...
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divulge it ; but he felt assured that Lord John Russell would not make a pledge which he would not fulfil to the very letter , and whether or not it would meet with ge neral acceptance , he was convinced it would be a substantial measure of enlargement of the franchise . ( Loud cheers . )" Sir Page Wood has nothing more to offer as a guarantee for a substantial measure than trust in Lord John Russell !
960 Cft* Fyeaitet. [Saturday
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The Famine Debts. What Is Called "Repudi...
THE FAMINE DEBTS . What is called " repudiation" in Ireland has caused some stir and a little sharp correspondence between the alleged defaulters and the Premier . Lord Luean heads the non-payment part , THE FAMINE DEBTS . —MEETING- AT BALLINASLOE . A public meeting was held on Tuesday in the Court House , Ballinasloe , which was attended by Lords Lucan , Crofton , and Clancarty ; Sir Thomas Burke , Baronet , C . George . Esq ., M . P ., John Reynolds , Esq ., M . P ., Anthony O'Flaherty , Esq ., M . P ., the Reverend Mr . Daly P . P ., & c , to consider generally the justice ot the demand of the Government for the repayment of advances under the Relief Act , by striking rates , until an account of the expenditure be furnished . _ Lord Clancarty in the chair ; when the following resolutions were proposed : —
Lord Lucan proposed the first resolution— " That whilst we are ready to acknowledge our liability to the repayment of the Government advance , when it can be shown that value in public works has been received , and to the repayment of such portion of the moneys expended in relief as can fairly be charged against us , we cannot , in the absence of all particulars of the Government demands , consent , by striking rates , to make ourselves parties to the imposition of . a tax so onerous to our fellow-countrymen , and one which will continue during so long a period of time . " Seconded by Sir Thomas Burke , Baronet .
Lord Crofton proposed the second resolution— " That we consider a careful investigation should be entered upon before committees of the two Houses of Parliament , to ascertain to what amount repayment can , with justice , be demanded and be insisted on , with due regard to the interests and circumstances of the country . " Seconded by Anthony O'Flaherty , Esq ., M . P . Colonel Knox Gore proposed the third resolution : — " That the guardians here assembled must object to being made agents for the collection of a tax which does not strictly come within the limits of their duties ; they consider that such a course would not only seriously interfere with the due working of the poor law , but introduce the novel and most dangerous precedent of boards of guardians being converted into collectors of the public revenue . "
Christopher St . George , Esq ., M . P ., seconded the resolution . W . H . Gregory , Esq ., M . P ., proposed the fourth resolution : — " That a memorial , founded on those resolutions , be forwarded to the Lords of the Treasury . " Seconded by Thomas Jones , Esq . Similar meetings , as we mentioned last week , have been held elsewhere . As the above resolutions contain the " case " of the so-called repudiators , so does the following letter from Lord John llussell to Lord Lucan set forth the claims of the Government : — " Tan-y-Bwlch , Sept . 27 , 1851 .
" My Lord , —I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 23 rd instant , conveying the observations of the boards of guardians of the county of Mayo . These observations do not appear to me to take away the force of the remarks made in my previous letter . " Whether the moneys advanced under the act you mention , were squandered in a . reckless manner or notwhether the persons to whom the relief was extended were those entitled to relief or not—it is clear that it cannot be incumbent on any persons charged with the execution of the law to set the example of resistance to the law . But further , the guardians must recollect
that the sums borrowed were borrowed by local bodies and charged upon the ratepayers . It was impossible for a Government to distinguish the proper objects oi relief from the improper—all they could do waa to appoint local bodies , apparently the most deserving of confidence , for the purpose of selection . " No one will deny that there was much waste in the expenditure of the Kuma advanced . But no one will deny either , that of the hundreds of thousands who received wages in money or relief in food , the greater part were victims of tho great calamity which at that time afflicted Ireland .
" I must repeat that the object of the acts of Parliament you mention was , not to make useful public works , but to give food , or tho means of procuring food , to the destitute . " But whatever abuRes might exist , cither from local mismanagement or the inability of the Board of Works to control so vast a system of relief , the sum of four millions granted by the Imperial Parliament must have surpassed the amount of sums ho thrown away . " I must again ask your lordship , yourself a member of the Legislature , to withdraw your plea of Netting your-Holf above the law , and to substitute for it those considerations to which tho Treasury cun properly listen . " 1 have the honour & c , " Tho Eurl of Lucan . J . ltussi : i , r .. "
Lord liUtiun ' N reply to tho above in dated Balliiiftbloe , October /> . He says , that " Tho guardians did not consider that they advanced any plea oi setting themselves against tho law , or that they net any exumplo oi' retUBtoneo to tho law , in not couHcutiug to be made agents ior tho colloction
of a tax so unfair in its object , so unjust m the mode of its assessment , and so seriously oppressive to all classes of their fallen country , and in declining to take upon themselves duties foreign and obstructive to their ordinary functipns . " He asserts that " it could without difficulty be shown , that in the county of Mayo not one half mile of road was executed by the relief works "; and that " the whole amount of relief was still quite disproportionate to the frightful sum of six mpions now brought in charge against the country . " He asds for " particulars of the demands "; for an investigation of the charges against the unions , electoral divisions , and townlands , to ascertain how far the claims can be justly demanded . In short , he amplifies the resolutions above given .
Adulteration Of French Flour. The Articl...
ADULTERATION OF FRENCH FLOUR . The article in the Leader of September 6 , referring to this subject , has been commented upon in several provincial newspapers . The Doncaster Chronicle , Cambridge Chronicle , Eddowes' Shrewsbury Journal , Waterford Mail , and Carloto Sentinel , have reprinted the article , and in some instances with piquant remarks . The Waterford Mail , of the 24 th ultimo , writes as follows : — " The subjoined article is written by a hand perfectly familiar with the subject . The journal from which it is taken , although addressed to a very general class of readers , and of extremely progressive faculties , devotes much attention to the condition of the agricultural interests under the pressure of Free-trade . "
The Carlow Sentinel , of the 27 th ultimo , has these remarks : — " We learn from a London journal , the Leader , that French flour is fast falling into disrepute . It has been ascertained that vast quantities of this flour , which superseded to a great extent the use of the home-made , manufactured , wholesome article , was adulterated—in fact , mixed with marl ! In consequence of discoveries lately made , families , in London especially , have withdrawn their custom from those bakers who manufactured
it , and deal only with those who use the home-manufactured flour . We foresaw that those who opened marts for the sale of this foreign drugged article by auction could not dispose of it at the current prices then reported , upon fair commercial principles . It appears now that it is an article unsuited to the digestive powers of Mr . Cobden himself ; and should the mania for the purchase and manufacture of this flour soon cease , we fervently hope that the victims sacrificed at the shrine of Free-trade will be few . "
The editor of Edowe ' s Journalis under a mis-apprehension when he states that the Leader is falling off from Free-trade to Protection principles . First , the Free-trade we have at present is a sadly one-sided affair ; it is in fact not Free-trade , hut free imports of grain and flour that is all ; next , the millers do not ask for Protection , their agitation has been much misrepresented and misunderstood , they ask that flour should not be allowed to be imported any longer on more favourable terms than wheat . Mr . Jackson , of Leeds , one of the largest millers in the kingdom , an
Ultra-liberal , and area / Free-trader ( who was returned to the town council of Leeds by the Chartist interest ) , states in his second famous letter to Mr . Cobden " wheat and flour arc the only substances tohere the manufactured article is admitted on more favourable terms than the raw material , " and he shows that in freight alone there is a saving of near 100 per cent , on importing flour rather than wheat ; in no way can it be considered that it is a departure from any political principle when we advocate a genuine article in preference to an adulterated one ; it ia a moral principle that is involved in this question .
I he Doncaster Chronicle by way of preface to the article states : — " The Leader , a journal which professes extremely progressive politics , has taken up the subject of French flour and its ruinous cilects on the milling interest of the country . " Again we beg not to be mistaken , the millers themBelves have showed how far their trade is injured : wo merely endeavour to illustrate that the consumers , tho bread eaters , and especially the poor , are being injured in health and pocket by having an aduterated and deleterious article sold to them for food .
Movement Fdr Diocesan Synods. The Derby ...
MOVEMENT FDR DIOCESAN SYNODS . The Derby gathering of the clergy who advocate the restoration of Diocesan Synods was held on Wednesday . Many notabilities of the Church were present , and several laymen . Tho resolutions passed contain the amount of practical work done ; but they give no idea of the tono of tho meeting , which was earnest and solemn in n befitting degree . Thoro wus a consciseness in moat of the speeches which made them all tho more telling . Tho Ilevorond Thomas Collins occupied the chair .
'I he report read by the Reverend W . Pound spoke cluu'ringly of tho efforts of the committee- hitherto ; of their satisfactory correspondence with the autliorities of the Church , of their endeavours to collect the necessary information ; and the projected meetings at London , ( jl loucester , Manchester , and Derby in the coming yeur . Captain Moornom moved that tho report bo recei ved and ado pted , which waa carried . Mr . ¥ . H . Dickinson moved : —
" That this meeting desire * the earnest and ^ prayers of all members of the Church in behalf « f T revival of synodioal action , considering it to b 7 i he to the completeness of the constitution , and to th * 2 ciency of the practical working of the Church . " In the course of his speech , Mr . Dickinson broa ^^ the subject uppermost in every mind , of tho «„! a tion between the Church and theState ° nnec" Before he entered that room , a person wlm i , supposed w » s aware that that meeting was to be ' heia \ ? into his hand a tract issued by the Antir State Chiiih Association , in which there were many things with wv £ they , of course , could not concur ; but its first statement struck him as containing a great truth . It was to fh effect , that one reason why there Bhould not be a con nection between Churh and State was , because it w absurd that the interests of religion should be com mitted to a Government composed of men entertaining £
various opinions , and who , indeed , were not even r « quired to hold any religious opinions at s , U . ( Hear \ He ( Mr . Dickinson ) regarded it as a shame and a dis grace that such a state of things , should be . He did not say the Government had no duty to perform in watch ing over , the interests of the ( Church ; but that it should be allowed to usurp the sole control and entire management of the Church ' s a ffairs he held to be a shame and a disgrace . He did not stand there to propose , as the writer of that tract wo uld the total severance of the Church from the State—probably no one present would advocate such a step ; but they looked for alterations and changes , not of a . Radical character , but such as would adapt the great principles on which the Church was first established to the circumstances and wants of the present day . "
The Reverend Archdeacon G . A . Denison seconded the resolution in an admirable speech , advocating very warmly and earnestly the restoration of synodical action to the Church , and uttering the grand thought that "in such questions as these , a Churchman ' s success teas to do his duty . " He said the laymen had been " hardly used , " and he urged upon the meeting to " proceed quietly , patiently , temperately , not compromising one jot or tittle of the faith , but trying to do all In charity . " The resolution was unanimously carried . The Reverend Mr . Merryweather moved the next resolution : —
' That the encouragement which the committee have already received from nearly all persons in official situations with whom they have held communication , is an additional motive for their continuing to press upon the minds of Churchmen the necessity of diocesan synods , with the same respect and deference for ecclesiastical order and authority which they have hitherto exhibited . " He professed great respect for authority . But he said that , «• It was one of the greatest difficulties which Churchmen had now to encounter , that in assuming occasionally , he did not say to conflict , but respectfully to differ with authorised persons , they had to remember the office which those persons filled , and they must give them credit for the conscientious views which they might feel themselves called upon to take . "
The Reverend Canon Trevor seconded tlie resolution , and made by far the most complete exposition of the reasons why synods were needed . His ^ main argument was " the divisions of the Church , " the " enormous division , " the almost universal prevalence of " disputes and differences " among brethren ; and as it was impossible for a honest clergymen " to yield to the dictum of a single individual / he asked ior a synod . " He felt that , unless diocesan synods were granted , the Church of England waa at its last gaap as an establishment—that some disruption like that winch occurreu in Scotland , would pass over our Church , unless some such remedy were provided . "
And what was a synod ? " He answered simply , that it was the gathering together of # the clergy of any diocese to consider me buriness entrusted to them , and how they could best consult the interests of the laity committed to their charge . Ho also thought tho Uity were " hardly used , ' having to submit one yoar to " high , " another to " low , " Church practice and doctrine . 3 * . "" thought also that the clergy were hardly used , having to submit to the "ipse dixit" of a bishop . SeeulM ; government by tho Church of the Church a "" ° mfluenco of public opinion was what ho distinct y hinted at . And , he exclaimed , " in tho confeaHca impotence of particular bishops to restore unanimity , in the " divisions of the Church . " I find an
argument for diocesan synods . Tho remaining business of this highly importan ^ meeting was formal , and it waa adjourned January 22 , 1852 . Then the publio consultuttou w » bo held in . London .
Episcopal Salaries. The Scheme, Prepared...
EPISCOPAL SALARIES . The scheme , prepared by tho . KccleBiiwticril ( tojnj misftionern , for regulating the incomes oi tho hc > v _ archbibhopH and biehops of England and Wnl «» i * published in a recent number of the official ua ^ - Every nrchbiehop or bishop appointed Hinco J'iIlUI " [_' 1848 , in required to furnisli a correct account , « e ttod under his own hand , on or before the / otn March , and 29 th of September , in each year , ot
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101851/page/4/
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