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IGth April . The Tithe Bill . —This project appears to us no improvement upon the tithe commutation of teat year . Both schemes have many of the requisites of a good measure , but the present one is open to objections far more weighty than those which have induced Ministers to abandon their original proposition .
We fully concur in the principle laid down by Lord Althorp , that no portion of the tithe must be given away to the landlords . The amount must remain undiminished , not indeed for the reason he assigns , that it is all required for the maintenance of the Church Establishment ; but to preserve what the € Examiner' very properly calls the reversionary interest of the Stafe .
Both measures , that of last year and the present , leave the aggregate tithe of the whole country unaltered in amount . But the former left also to every individual tithe owner , the very sum which he had been accustomed to receive ; while , by the present bill , there will hardly be a receiver of tithe in all England who will not either gain or lose by the commutation . It is obvious
that the poorer the land , is , the less rent it will yield in proportion to the produce . On poor lands the gross produce may be ten times , or any number of times the rent ; on some rich lands it cannot be more than double . The tithe being proportioned to the gross produce , must bear an infinitely varying proportion to the
rent . Yet the commutation is to be a per-centage uniform for a whole county . If the average tithe of the county is one-fourth , or one-third of the rent , though it may not be exactly so in any particular instance , it is to be fixed at that proportion everywhere .
In one half the parishes of England , therefore , the tithe owner will obtain an increase of his income , and a spoliation of property will take place to the prejudice ef the landlord . In the other half , the life interests of trie clergy will be impaired , the lay impropriators robbed of a portion of their property , and the
landowners gratuitously presented with an addition to their rent . So extensive an invasion of vested rights is scarcely consistent with the unbounded respect for them professed by all English ministers .
It \ attempting to avoid one evil , Ministers have fallen into a worse . Against the scheme of last year , which fixed the tithe everywhere at its present amount , it was urged that an incumbent who had rigidly exacted his utmost clues , would bo
confirmed in the possession of them , while one who had been lenient would forfeit the right which he had forborne to enforce . We do not think there wa « much in thia argument , since no injury would have been done to the more liberal incumbent by giving him no more than he had himself adjudged to be sufficient ; while tho
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/42/
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