18 NOVEMBER 1837, Page 4

IRELAND.

Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Protestant Clergy of Ireland, with a new plan for settling the Tithe question ; of which the following are the principal features.

" The amount of tithe composition is, in round numbers, 600,0001. Six hundred that. sand pounds per annum. The amount of the expense of the peace preservation force, the constabulary, is also, in round numbers, 600,0001. Six hundred thous:art pounds per annum—a singular coincidence of, as it were, cause and effect. But let that pass. The next fact is—that irelend is charged with one.half of the expenses of the constabulary—namely. 300.0001. per annum. The other 300,0001. per Amami is chargeable on the Consolidated Fund. Thus Ireland is chargeable altegetlwr sieS 900,0001. per annum ; 600,000/, for tithes, 300,0001. for police or constabulary force. The next fact is—that Lord Stanley gave the landlord 15 per cent of the tithes; Henry Hardinge gave them 25 per cent.; the Whigs first 30 per sent, and aftereards 32 per cent. I propose to deduct 30 per cent, off the tithes. Both sid,s of the House are so nearly agreed on this subject—both parties ale. so near each other on this pint— that there would be no difficulty in taking off this percentage if a fin ,1 end a:alg&e. tory adjustment were ramie of the vexations and irritating subject —tithes. 'fake, therefore, on this ground. 30 per cent. off the tithes —namely, off 600,000/, per amen

There will remain nearly 420001. per annum. My proposal is. to base

these 420,0001. per annum paid out of the Consolidated Fund. 'flies every Prutestant e'er* man cull in future receive 70 per cent, of hi tithes, paid sr the Treasury without expense or trouble, or litigation, or vexation of any kind. 'Sc; would porchase peace at the expense of 30 per nut. of your nominal income. le wool I free yourselves from the expenses of collection—from the employment of atter. pies, bailiffs, • rebellion ruffians,' et hoc genus ornne. Is not Slott port seine In your motley? Bet it may be said that it will be impossible to induce the Treasury to take such an additional burden as 420,0001. per uununi—that the Euglish and Scotch Members will not consent to ally such burden. Gently, reverend gentlemen, gently. Do not be in a hurry. Listen to ti,' red of my plan. It is this: Next, I propose that the lands of Ireland, being dischar=ed of the i itht.s, shall be charged with the entire of the expenses ot the coustabulay.. Ireland will then stand this: She is now subject to 900,11001. per annum. Stoke out the Tithes. she w ill then be liable to only 300.0001. per annum—for onedvdf of the expenses of the coustabulary force. Add the other half, and charge that also era Ire. lead. The case of Ireland will then stand thus : Ireland will he relieved. say from the gross Slim of 900.0001. per annum. It will be charged with 600,0001. per annum oalq. This will actually relieve Ireland from no less th.au 300,000/. per annum for evt —being the difference between tile 90,000/. per annum MlVi chargeable, anal the 600.0001. per annum which will be in futnre eliargeahle. ' Besides this, tithes will le abolished in name, in nature, in reality. They AM gone for ever, and with them the most fruitful source of ag5arlan disturbance, tii■quiet, out vexation. Now fur the Con,ololated Fowl. Tlo,U will be relieved from the 300,0001. whichl it now pays, beteg the Government half of the expenses of the cotadalatlary. We thus !me a fund of 300.M.0/. tots aids the pars-mut of the tithe revenue to the 12,011.st:int clergymen. There would remain 120,0001. per antrum to he provided for. How do 1140,1dt-for this sum? I will tell you thus—the income arising from what see called the' Trtsh woods Mill forests ' amounts to 80,0001. Eighty thousand pounds per anomm application of that sum mould be half's() rational oust useful as to terminate .the tithe feud in lrelaud. Let this 01,0001. per auburn be pail Into the Consollaisted hued, awl thus reduce the deficiency to 40,0004 per annum. No ratioual man will object io tranquillise Ireland—to 'settle the questioll. of questions In Irish policy at so small a wies 40%001. per annual. But even that sum will be reduced. First ; the lucre's- log value of the property called • woods and forests' may be well estimated at 10,0001. „minas. Second; another 10,0001., or even 20,000/. per ammo may be obtained 'ut sof the Irish Church Temporalities. But this is trifling. The man is mad who :gild object to the foil settlement of the tithe question at so small an expense as 40.0001. a year. Such is my plan—a plan simple In its details. efficacious is its re- sult—giving to the Rrotesteut clergy in Ireland as much of annual income as their mowed friends to the House of Commons would give them ; giving them that income free from trouble, strife, or contention ; relieving Ire:and of a peetudary burden to the extent of 300.0001, per annum. and of a religious grievance which has produced, and is gill pregnant with the most affecting and tin drying consequences. There is this ad. iiiiiuuel ailsantage, that the charge of 1;00,0001 per annum for t he coestabulary force aced not he permanent. The liniment the coautry became traniplil that force would be lessened. In proportion as the countsy became tranquillized lbw expense would be