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arisen from the collection of tithes appear to require a change of system, which, with- out diminishing the, means of maintaining the established clergy in respectability and usefulness, may prevent the collisons of inte- rests and the consequent disagreements and dissatisfaction which have too frequently pre- 4 vailed between the ministers of the Church and their parishoners.

It may also be necessary for you to consider what remedies may be applied for the correc- tion ofacknowledged abuses, and whether the revenues of the church may not admit _of a more equitable and judicious distribution.

“ In your deliberations on these important subjects, it cannot be necessary for me to

ing to the security of the Church established by law in these realms, and to the true inte- rests of religion. ‘

“ In relation to Ireland, with a view of re- moving the causes of complaint which had been so generally felt, and which have been attended with such unfortunate consequences, an act was passed during the last, Session of Parliament, for carrying into effect a general composition for tithes; to complete that salatu. ry work, Irecommend to you,in conjunction with other amendments of the law as may be found applicable to that part of my dominions, the adoption ofa measure by which, upon the principle of a just commutation, the possessors ofland may be enabled to free themselves from the burden of an annual payment.

“ In the‘ further Reforms that may be neces~ sary you will probably find, that, although the Established Church of Ireland is by law perma- nently united with that of England. the pecu- liarities of their respective circumstances will require a separate consideration.

“ There are other subjects hardly less im. portant to the general peace and welfare of Ireland, as affecting the administration of justice in the local taxation ot that country, to which your attention will he also required

“ Gentlemen of the House of Commons.

“1 have directed the estimates for the ser. vice of the year to be laid before you: they will be framed with the most anxious attention to all useful economy. Notwithstanding the large reduction in the estimates of the last year, Iam happy to inform you that all the extraordinary services which the exigencies of the times required have been amply pro- vided for. The state of the revenue, as com- pared with the public expenditure, has hitherto fully realized the expectations that were formed at the close of the last session.

“ .My Lords and Gentlemen,

“In this part of the United Kingdom, with very few exceptions, the public peace has been preserved; audit will be your anxious but

grateful duty to promote, by all practicable means, habi_ts of industry and good order amongst the labouring classes of the commu- nity. s ’

larity of her parent’s method of stepping, and asked whether she could be expected to walk differently from the rest of the family? The moral ofthis is, that we must not be too critical upon the first step of the new Commons. one-sided, sinister movement, but it is the

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to the utmost of my power, in obviating allj'ust causes ofcomplaint, and in promoting all well- considered measures of improvment. But it is my painful duty. to observe, that the disturban- ces .in Ireland, to which I adverted at the close of the last session havegreatly increased. A spirit of insubordination and violence has risen to the most fearful height, rendering- life and propertyinsecure‘ defying the autho rity of the law and threatening the most fatal consequences, if not promptly and effectually repressed.

“I feel confident that to your loyalty and pa- triotism] shall not resort in vain for assis- tance in these afflicting circumstances, and that you will be ready to adopt such mea- sures of salutary precaution, and to entrust me with such additional powers as may be found necessary for controuling and punish- ing the disturbers of the public peace, and for

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family gait, the crooked m from which this Parliament is legitimately, descended. After all, the crab is its mo. ther’s child—a chip of the old block, In looking at the Reformation we must mmr lose sight of its sourse. The new COnsti- tutionis the offspring ofthe defunct,the pro, duct of corruption, and must we not expect to find in it some of the taint of the blood? We say this in mitigation of the My feeling with which its first backward step is surveyed. \Vhen any proceedings this sort are observed, let the reflection be to whom the body owes its being, of what stock it descends, and what propensitie, belong to the parentage. The late Par- liament confessed its own rottenness, and judged itself fit, in this state, to work out its own complete purification. With the tenderness ofa patient for his own flesh

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preserving and strengthening the legislative Union between the two Countries, which, with your support, and under the blessing ofDivine Providence, lam determined to maintain by all the measures in my power, as indissolubly connected with the peace, security and wel- fare of my people.”

His Majestv having quitted the house in the same state with which he entered, the commons withdrew, and their lordships ad- journed during pleasure.

In the Lords, the Address was moved by the Marquis ofconyngham, and seconded by Lord Kinnaird. In the Commons, by the Earl ofOr- melie, seconded by Mr. John Marshall, the representative of Leeds. Some debate arose in both Houses—in the Upper, the Earl of Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington, attack- ed the foreign policy, which was ably defended by the Premier. In the Commons, O,Connell, Cobbett, and the repealers, assailed that part ofthe Speech which referred to Ireland with unusual animation and bitterness—the first of these characterized the Speech as ‘bloody,’ and declared that it would occasion a universal wail throughout Ireland. The division in the Commons was For Mr. O‘Connell’s Amendment Against it

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“THE FIRST sense or rm: REFORM asa- LIAMENT.

“Fontaine tells us of a motherly crab who exclaimed against the obliquity of her daughter’s gait, and asked whether she could not walk straight. The young crab very reaSOnably pleaded the simi-

Undeniably it is a very

“ On my part 1 shall be ready to co-operate,

it excised the cancer, and it did not cut deep enough. But yet we have improve. ment. The old House was not fit, was too extensively tainted for a complete self-reformation, but it has produced a body having less vice. and more energy to eradicate it. Thus we may proceed by degrees, casting slough after slough, fining upon fining, till we arrived ata tolerablypure representation, and the strainer ofthe Bal-. lot—that most perfect filterer—will may- vellously accelerate the process. But the beginning is bad. ‘New broorns’ says the proverb, “ sweeps clean;’ but this is not a new broom, and has madea stroke of very dirty work. It is seen in its first act to be a passive tool of all work in the hands of Ministers. The first proceeding of'a House boasting the repesentation of people, jars against the feelings of the people. The first scene is one of trickery and falshovid. The Reformed Parliament puts up for its head-piece the mortuum of Toryism. This is a sorry sight! The genius of abuse must feel at home again seeing Mr, Manners Sutton in the chair. The corrupt parliament gave him a pension, the Reformed Parlia- ment gave him employment. Lord Grey did not think him entitled to a Peerage, and his colleagues pronounced him best qualified for the chair of the Commons. They would not send him up to the Lords, but as he finds his way into the Commons, his pro-eminent merits are said to entitle him to preside in it. "‘ "' 'k It is butjustice to Mr. O’Connell to say that he was the only man, having expe- rience of the Speaker’s deserts, who boldly spoke the truth on the subject. The whole affair has been a tissue of tracasserw. Ml msters, with all their host, could not have reasonably dreaded the defeat of any re_S pectable man, such as Mr. Abercrombie or Mr. Littleton;nor could they honestI have deemed their nomination in this mat ter essential. They should have left lb House free to choose a Speaker, and; 3‘