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    before known for the diffusion of important truth among the people , and also of mischievous error . But up to this time error has had the field to itself . Truth will now , for the first time , have its natural chances of superiority . In the immensely increased number of readers which will be the effect of the cheapness of newspapers and political tracts , any writers of talent may hope , whatever be their sentiments , to find the quantity of support necessary for a moderate degree of success ,, without prostituting themselves to the hired advocacy of the opinions in vogue .

    bth July . The Irish Tithe Bill . —This will not do . Sir Robert Peel last night uttered a sentiment which is the bitterest censure upon many of the acts of the present Ministry : — ' Of all the vulgar acts of government to which a Ministry can resort , the solving of political difficulties by putting their hands into the public purse is the most vulgar . ' That is the art by which the Ministry are attempting to solve the difficulty of Irish tithe .

    For centuries the English oligarchy have billetted their own priesthood upon a hostile nation , until that nation positively will not bear the insult and injury one hour longer . No appeal to reason , justice , or even the fear of ultimate consequences , has been hearkened to . The Irish have , therefore , taken the only means which were left them ; they refuse to pay . The English oligarchy , Whig and Tory , through their organ Lord Grey , and through all their other organs , proclaim that this is all the fault of agitators ; that the Irish would have gone on paying the

    hostile priesthood for ever , if it had not been for O'Connell ; and that O'Conneli is a demon , for having , on their own showing , accomplished what no person recorded in history ever did without being reputed by posterity a hero . After having thus exhaled unavailing resentment against O'Connell , the Ministry proceed to give up to him the object he contends for . The tithe is no Jonger to be appropriated exclusively to the use of the un-Irish Church . But it is not convenient to majce up their minds this year , to what purpose it shall be appropriated . JR ^ r the sake of six months' ease to Ministers , two-fifths of the tithe are to he

    flung away . If the landlords will only be eo good as to collect it for us , they may keep forty per cent ., and we will only ask them for the remaining sixty . This is rather a large discount to give for present payment . Why so eager to save all we can this year , as if next year the whole would have evaporated , or fallen into the sea ? The entire produce of the land will be there next year as well as this year , and may be laid

    hold of by taxation then as well as now , for any purpose to which the sentiments of the people are not violently opposed . If the new appropriation meditated for next year be of n kind not obnoxious to the people , the whole tithe will be as readily paid by them as three-fifths of it . If the contrary be the case , it will be as impossible to levy three-fifths , or even one-fifth , as the whole . It is notto the tithe , as tithe , that the Irish

    people object , but to the payment of it to a hostile priesthood . Let that cease , and you may secure the whole fund with ease . Let that continue , even one year longer , and you will never , during the currency of existing leases , realize another faulting . In any sense it is absurd , permanently , arid under the pledge of the national faith , to abandon to the landlords two-fifths of what they will gain in their rents , on the expiration of the present leases , by the abolition of tithe . What harm if n °

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    594 Notes on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/64/