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First , —That an eminent * mean of improvftig the condition of the labouring * class , and -diminishing' pairpeiism , would be to afford labouring' poor small portions of land on easy terms .
Secondly , —That this practice promotes industry , furnishes employment to the risingrace , prevents a dependence on parish aid , is most favourable to morality , and prevents lesser offences , tending to greater crimes .
Thirdly , —That it has in some districts operated to the keeping * down , in others almost to the utter extinction , of Poor ' s Rates . It will allow itself only to express the most firm conviction that the measure above recommended will benefit every rank ,
enrourage trade ,, strengthen most eminently the bonds of civil society , and greatly contribute to the security , prosperity and happiness of the empire . For the Provisional Committee , BENJAMIN WILLS , Sec . King s Head Tavern , Poultry , 13 th March , 1819 .
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nearly one-fifth of the whole- surface of the globe .
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Intelligence *—Miscellaneous . —Parliamentary . £ 75
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~ " ^ W »" Parliamentary . House of Commons . April 22 . Sir John Newport moved an address to the Prince Regent for an inquiry into the state of the Established Church of Ireland . He stated various instances of
neglect and abuse , arising * from non-residence , dilapidations and the consolidation of living's . In some parts of Ireland , said he , ten or eleven vicarages had been formed into one . Many parishes were never visited by the clergy , except for the purpose of collecting the tithes . —Mr . Wilberforce said that the strict performance of their duty on the part of the clergy ought to be as attentively watched and as rig-idly enforced , as that of the highest civil or military officers , and even more so , as to the former was committed the more important duty of the care of souls . —Mr . C . Grant and Mr . L . Fostfr expressed their warm concurrence in the motion , which was put and carried .
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Before the Easter recess , a motion was made in the House of Commons by Mr . Bennet , and seconded by Mr . Wilberforcf , for stopping the sailing of a couviet ship laden with females for New South Wales , but negatived without a division .
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The Fire-Jet Clergy Bill has obtained a second reading in the House of Commons , nnd , as far as we can gather from the Dehates , the temper of the House is in favour of the measure .
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A Committee of the House of Commons is appointed on the motion of Sir Jm Newport , seconded by Mr . C . Grant , to inquire into the means of providing some remedy or mitigation for the state of disease in Ireland . Within 6 fteen months , no fewer than 43 , 000 patients had been admitted into the fever hospitals of Dublin , Cork , Limerick and Waterford .. The disease is attributed to want of food and fuel .
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House ef Lords . Monday , April 26 . The Marquis of Lansdown presented a petition from the Unitarians in Liverpool , for relief from the Marriage Laws .
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Population of the Globe . —The table of population and territory of the present civilized world , as lately exhibited , gives to China 200 , 000 , 000 of souls , and 1 . 200 , 000 square miles of territory ; to Great Britain . 20 , 000 , 000 of population , and 100 , 000 square miles ; and to the United Slates 10 , 000 , 000 of people , and 2 , 500 , 000 miles :
and the total of the whole world is , of population 435 , 800 , 000 , and of territory 9 , 687 , 000 square miles ; so that the United States have the largest iiome territory of all the nations except Russia . China is not included in this , because it contains many parts barbarous . Britain possesses 150 , 000 , 000 of subjects in her colonial empire , and possesses a dominion equal to
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The question of the right to use Patent Coffins is now pending before the Ecclesiastical Court , Doctors' Commons ; the Rector of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , heing * cited thither for refusing to bury a corpse in one of them . The Bishop of London
had been applied to , but had declined interposing- his authority . The objection seems to be , that these coffins are of wrought iron , and therefore less liable to decay than coffins of wood or lead ; though we apprehend that there must be some further
reason , and probably of a religious kind , tor refusing their admission into consecrated ground . The resurrection-men might consistently enough quarrel with them ; for when once closed , they cannot ( as we
understand ) be opened even by the maker . Mr . E . L . Bridgman , of Goswell-Street Road , is the patentee . His coffins are sold at 3 / . 10 s . each . The clergyman has entered his appearance , and the case will be decided in the course of the ensuing term .
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The following paragraph appeared as an advertisement , in the Times newspaper of the 15 th instant : — < The public days at Lambeth Palace for this season will commence on Saturday , the 244 hinstant : dinner at half-past six precisely / ' It is an apostolic canon , that a bishop-should be given to hospitality ; '" * perhaps it is necessary that an archbishop should advertize his hospitality . i m * m ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/63/
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