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the tithe , be sufficient to render us entirely independent of forei gn supply , the sole effect of relievin g the agriculturist from the burthen is , that we shall grow more corn , and import less . The landlord , therefore , will pocket the whole amount of the tithe ; and by laying an equivalent burthen upon him in the form of a rentcharge , he will be left , while the Corn Laws continue , in the exact position in which he is now .
This suggests one most serious objection to the present measure , and to any commutation of tithes not accompanied by a corresponding reduction of the duties on foreign corn . It adds to the injustice of the Corn Laws . It increases the artificial premium upon raising food from the soil instead of importing it . We are perpetually told , and it is true , that if we tax our own corn , we
must lay an equal duty on that which comes from abroad . Equally true is it , and for precisely the same reason , that if we tax foreign corn we must levy an equal duty on that which is grown at home . If tithes are a reason for retaining corn laws , corn laws are a reason for retaining tithes . If we relieve English
corn from tithes without relieving foreign corn from corn laws , we create a new factitious inequality ; we hold out a fresh motive to a disadvantageous employment of labour and capital ; and besides , we encourage the breaking up of lands which will be thrown out of culture , and the expenditure of capital which will become useless , as soon as the Corn Laws shall be repealed .
: Happily that period is near at hand ; and happily , too , this is so obvious , that although the landlords , as a body , will , b y fair means or foul , do all they can to avert it , neither landlord , nor farmer will like to risk much of their own money upon the chance . We do not believe , therefore , that much extension of
cultivation will take place . The uncertainty of the Corn Law has long paralysed all such speculations , and will continue to paralyse them as long as any bread-tax exists . 17 th April . National Education . —The declarations of Mr . Spring Rice on Monday , and of the Lord Chancellor yesterday , amount to a promise of the very greatest benefit which could be bestowed upon any country at so small an expense—the establishment of Normal Schools . Ministers will atone for a thousand
faults by this admirable measure , if the care and pains devoted to superintending its execution , correspond to the good intentions which dictate its adoption . Doubtless it is important , that additional schools should be established , a greater number of children taught . The
diffusion even of merely nominal education has been greatly exaggerated ; few persons are aware how large a portion Oi our people are still destitute of any means of instruction whatever . But the mere quantity of teaching is a secondary consideration to the quality ; and that we believe to be , for the most part , more thoroughly bad , than any one without facts before him
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856 Notes on the Newspapers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/44/
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