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1 ; Restitution . —We possess information from the first source , tfiftt tjie motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer which will come beft > f » the House of Commons on Monday night ( after our last sheet has b&m worked off ) on the subject of Church Rates , will include a plan for thpr abolition for ever , which cannot rationally meet with any objection from any religious sect , or political party—the restitution-making party . ex ^ cepted . We are not permitted to state what the plan is ; ( tne Examiner of last Sunday comes so near it , in speaking of the administration of ecclesiastical funds , that the writer might be said to 'burn ';) but we may
state what we know the plan is not . The Church rates will not be paid by a general tax upon the people : nor will the exquisitely absurd current idea of the Tories be realized , —namely , that the registration of all the adherents of the Established Church * and of the Dissenteri respectively , will take place , in order that the former may be assessed
with the Church rates exclusively . The plan is upon a totally ditfererit footing . Political equality among the different sects of Christianity is the first principle ; and this is valuable because it includes freedom of conscience . We had that before , individually ; let the mass of the people take up the cause against the No-restitutionists , and tki great grievance will be destroyed for ever . —] £ d .
2 . Si ^ fts Re-action . —The Irish Corporation Reform Bill passed the House of Commons on the 22 nd ult . ; and the Tories enjoyed the sweets of " re-action , " in a majority of 80 against them . The Standard i morning Post , and other organs of Toryism , console themselves that the majority against them was not greater , and call upon tfie House of Lords to exercise their hereditary privilege by crushing Of crippling the measure before it becomes the Lex Scripta of misgoverned Ireland . The remarks of the Examiner on the defeat of the Tories
$ re , as usual , of the finest wit . After observing that " there is a tStie for everything , " and that " the time for Toryism is manifestly the recess / ' the Examiner adds— " In September the frog begins to swell * and to call upon all the world to bear witness he is as big as the . tiiH ; by Christmas the bull is a mite to him ; and by February the frog bursts in measuring with the bull . " Toryism is also compared with adtt ^ irable aptitude , " to a ditch , which grows the greater the more it is hollowed out . * It is indeed time that the vast sink , which has so long been filled from year to year with the mangled hearts of the people , should at last be hollowed out , and , after sufficiently exciting our wonder at the extent of its maw ,
be filled up with earth , over which honest men may drive the ploug h * 3 . Slave-thade otf the coast op Afhica . —This execrable de §* cription of traffic is yet continued on the coast of Africa £ — -in the Bi £ bts of Benin and Biafra , and also , although not to the same extetit , bcftw $ etf Gatnbia and Sierra Leone . We rejoice to observe , therefore , ihai some important captures of slave ships have been recently made by £ ufr Bflfc tish cruisers . The Curlet&j under command of Lieutenant Norcott , ta » been &igdft » y succestfuL thi * enterpriaintf and intrepid naval offi *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/65/
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