THE promised measure of the Reform of the English Church
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cur( of the account to be delivered, but it was necessary for him
perty, which we cannot but consider unauthorized and inquisitorial. Nor can touching the property and vital interests of millions. Not so with the Admi • nitration in which your Lordship holds a prominent office; they prejudge a case—administer to the passions and vices of the mob, to obtain their concur-
corporate body of the clergy, than the highwayman has to take your purse." new ships, we should have heard little of the distress of their
Tlwei follows a good deal of preachment about the sin of mcd- body. But the business of shipbuilding has not been at a stand tiling with Church property, and its consequences—the violation while all others have been advancing,. Ships are now built on int- o(' the Coronation Oath—and more stuff of the same nature; from proved plans, and at a cheaper rate ; and the old ones of course are which we should be inclined to believe, that the report is correct deteriorated in value,---just as hand-looms have given was to which assigns the authorship of this precious composition to a power-looms in the Lancashire factories. But we imagine that the certain Tory parson, who not long since called upon the guests at gentlemen who urge a return to the policy of the old Navigetion- an Anti-Reform dinner, to gird up their loins, saying, " Let laws, would deem a Manchester millowner little better than an
us forth in the name of the Lord to battle." idiot, were he to demand protection for the hand-loom, or the Lord ALTRORP may take a useful warning from the insolence establishment, were that possible, of such a tnonopolizing system of this reply. Ile may learn from it the kind of cooperation which as would render their employment as profitable as it was formerly. the High Tory party will lend towards carrying a measure of We do not deny—it were absurd to do so—that the capital of Church Reform; and the consequent necessity, if any thing is to many shipowners has been materially diminished by the alteratioo be done, of acting vigorously, and satisfying the just expectation in the cost of shipbuilding, and the breaki,tg up of the monopoly of the country on this subject. Hitherto, we are very much in of the carrying-trade enjoyed by this country duria:t the war. the dark as to the nature of the projected alterations. Lord JOHN But we cannot believe that men auement their capital is any busi- RUSSELL informed a deputation of his censtituents at Plymouth, the ness with the sure prospect of ruin before them. 'floc hollowing other day, that the right of performing the marriage and burial passage from the Shipowners' Report is therefore, we conceive, un- services would be conceded to the Dissenters, but that nothing fur- authorized by theliets of the case.
ther was determined upon in relation to their claims, which are in " The increasing stake of an individual in shipping can no longer be advanced many respects the same as those made by Churchmen. We sus- as conclusive evidence that the capital already embarked is profitably invested. pect that at present all is uncertainty; and that, as was the case Tenacity of pursuit of maritime commerce is shown to be perfectly compatible in so many instances last session, the Ministerial plan of opera- with long-continued loss, and to afford no proof of any present prosperity or tions is not to mature such a measure as would be satisfactory to approaching improvement. Even the production of new ships is proved, from
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