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HOUSE OF COMMONS. LONDON, ﬂpn'l 21, 1833. night, the annual “Budget” was ught be are the House of Commons, by the ancellor of the Exchequer. In our report the debate will be found a list of the taxes which reductions are proposed to be made. .Hume well observed that “ it was impossi- that lie Country could rest satisﬁed with so reductions :” the country cannot rest sa- ed—the country will not rest satisﬁed. It

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0 Tor pleaded for the Whig; the latter ght orward his “budget,” and the former lared it to be a most excellent and admira- thing! Is it possible that Lord Althorp net perceive the motive for that support; 't possible that his Lordship can he so blind not to see that the man who thus cheered lauded him, is leading him on to a brink ' h he will ultimately ush him from P The sed taxes and the uty on soap are the principal things which are to be visited by merciful hand of the Chancellor of the Ex r—soap and car“, and travellers and windows : to he sure there is the tax on to be lessened ; but then; 'itil , at every that has a house to tile—the jazjority n have not houses, and they littl heed what ly is ut upon such things as tiles. Was not ‘I litt e bit of tile-duty a reduction of 37,0001 wn into the budget to please the m' hty w?” All those interested in the redu‘tﬁion taxation—that is to say, all those who feel ation, care nothing for the duty on tiles, small as the amount is, we do not, at this, ﬁrst blush of the thing, like the reduction . The peopld petition the Parliament— ions cry for relief—the Minister says in re- he will give them cheap tiles. With res- t to the reduction on advertisements, it uld have been better, and much more con- nient, had Lord Althorp proposed a ﬁxed in- ad ofa regulated duty : the new law will e rise to evasion, and a great deal of vexa. us dispute. The shipping interest will be ncﬁted by the reduction which is to be made the marine insurances' duty. We wish that rd Althorp would make a similar reduction the duty on ﬁre insurances. By the tax on ap being lessened, the poor man will be able ohave a clean face at a'little less expense ord Althorp has lost all his old dislike of the taxes on knowledge," and now perceives at such taxes cannot be repealed. How a it in the Cabinet alters a man !

In speaking, at any time, of the church Es- lt'shmcnt, we must beg that it may be always nderstood that we are not discoursing of the lurch; and hat in our reprobations of the user we as ittle intend an irreverence to.

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wards the later, as of the Unknown Tong Irving, we should mes the Third Person of th the monstrous “ Esta has, spiritually, about as in Church which it disgraces a have the contortions and ra ving’s unhappy victims and vi the Holy Emueuce which their insa ries merely blaspheme. Having,in ourselves, and in deference to thos Church who are our readers, made this haps) needful prefatory intimation, we recur to the question ofa Church Eslablisl n! to which our attention has been anew directed J the Resolution brought forward in the ouse ofcommons, on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Faithful, the Mpmber for Brighton, to the effect that " The Chul’ch ofEngland, as by law established, is not recommended b practical utility; that its revenues have alyways been subject to legislative enactments, (and are, therefore,b an inevitable inference, still no subject) an that the greater part, if not the whole, of those revenues. ought to be appropri- ated to the relief of the nation”—or, in other Bogds, towards the payment of the National e t. 4 The Church is one thing," said Mr. Faith- ful, “and the Establishment another: never were two things more distinct.” Indeed, ne- ver. By the Church, every true Christian of the church understands to be implied, and must be understood to imply that large and con regated portion of the English Christian poi}: ich agree in worshipping their God in g." ‘ and emanceyof ' son ant with the letter and the spirit ofthe Re- vealed Religion of their countr . But as to that bloated and overswollen de ormit which has grown up hideously out of, and is 'ngiug a death of mortal agony upon, the fair body of the Church, assuming itself to be the natural head ofthat Church—the “Establishment”— what proof ofits sacred birthright, what pa- tent of its spiritual nobilit ', can be derived front the New Testament, a tera search of all its records and authorities, from the ﬁrst verse of the Gospels to the last of the Revelations? Every open-eyed and clear-headed seeker therein will scarcely hesitate to answer—none. Unless extreme ostentation he the lineal de- scendant of extreme humility , and wealthy pa- laces, and all the complicated luxuries ofthe table, the natural and consistent possession of the successor; of the Meek Saviour and his poor Apostles, there can be no descended kin- dredship. no heirdom, between our sumptuous Protestant Hierarchy and the lowly First Prof mulgators of Christ’s simple and divine Gospel. “ That sable society ofgentleman (as the Hi- erarchy is “termed by a celebrated Wit) who possessses great part of the wealth and power of the world, and would have all, as a reward for keeping mankind in a decent ignorance and bondage” are not the Church, but its ex- crescence, and must now, as an “ establish- ment," be quickly lopped 011‘, before so much of the life of that whereon it feeds be involved

idiculing the gibberish

any impiety towards Trinity: and indeed, ent” in question, to do with the oppresses, as of Mr.

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. caring!) ' '. coming her soul from llle Spiritual incubz' Mhic ,te‘s which they cons er to b host cone-weigh upon)

in it, as to render severance and preservation incompatible. We argue not for the abolition ofthe church ; but for its ﬁrm maintenance : to be maintained ﬁrmly in the stormy midmost of the present hurricane outbreak and career of Public Opinion, it must be separated from the state: it may still, as observed by Mr. Faithful, have its “ Archbishops and Bishops; its Deans, its Archdeacons and Deacons, and all the rest of it"; and may even ifit will, mul- tiply them ten and a hundred fold, until every town in the Country have its petty Hierarchy, condary and accountable to agrand Hier- hy Metropolitan—but election and pa n!

abide with the Church: and the C urch have none but capable astors, will noe maintain itself, an triumphant. ly vindic its divinity from the State-contam- inations which have so long beset and infected

.The questit£gf Tithes, those ‘establishment’ commodities, which bear "a higher price than

conscience in any rical] market in Eng. land," is, we presum y settled in the mind of the country. or. lthorp and his

fellows ofthe Cabinet may, I words of the

Member for Brighton, “ By poss ility imagine

that they can carry on the det'Eble and mis. r

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chievous system a few years lo ; they cer- tainly may fora short space,a v y short space; but so strong is the general feel of irritation in the country in relation to it, that it must speedily undergo vast alterations} But the abolition of tithes will only be a ,n to the State : the Church needs peculiarly fatherself the greate boon of an utter sundering"o€her

no bio the and likeness of a host ofincapable persons, who weekly demon- strate in their reading-desks and pulpits how much they cannot instruct and comfort her withal~her ﬂocks would then no longer be preached away, by States-consecrated imbe. ciles, into the chapels and the ﬁelds. Young men,do not indeed, enter the Protestant Min- istry “ through love of the Holy Ghost,” but merely through the estimation and need of Mammon : they bind themselves apprentices to Theology in as much of a matter-of-course form as they would to any of the commonest Handicraft,anj havingjust learned clumsily to use its dogmas as the tools by the exercise of which they can alone subsist and “ get for. “ward,” out they turn itemselves to hunt in the chase of Church-preferment, and at length per- haps, inaus iciously for all the high and holier interestso religion, succeed to the pastorship oﬂarge ﬂocks, whom the law obliges thence- forth to starve upon such scant fare as their miserably-gifted shepherds can contrive to fur. nish forth‘to them. To be redeemed from this worst evil, the Church must be formally and forcibly divorced from the 'te, which is its author and perpetuator. I

The dissolution of the on hteous partner- ship which now existsgihetween‘church and State. having once been happily realised, how to dispose of that part ofthe National property which is at present held on suﬂ'erance by the

“Establishment”, or by dealeWI/‘hhsh

union wit the State. as an only means of h"