Mr. Sharman Crawford has midi essed a hales to his
fellow country- men in Iodate], calling upon them to repudiate the new Irish Tithe Bill ; which he stigmatizes as a delusion—" the consummation of the political farce of the Appropriation humbug." lie says-
" Your rights are to be surrendered. The iron grasp of evelesiastic.0 mono- poly is to be riveted on your wrists, under due pretence of a paltry reinis-ion of a part of the tithe assessment. I say, under pr4rnee ; for, iii reality, you, the people of Ireland, will not obtain one fat thing of real bellefit, in return. 1 know you will be told, that you are to have a reduction of 30 per cent. Recollect, this 30 per rent, is offered avowedly as a buitua to the landlords. Now, let me ask you tido plain question—how can it be a bonus to the land- lords, unless it be levied off the tenants? \Vito, the tuition comes to make a new bargain he will rind to his cost, the truth of toy assertion. Ile will noc only have to pay the tithe, but let him rest assinol, that he will also have to pay to the landlord proctor's fees.
The unfiatunate tenants of Ireland may, perhaps, he taught to curse the day when they transfel red time tithe to this new taoktuaster, to be the proctor for the Established Church. " • • •
"1 warn you, the plan is to surrender—to take from the Lords a Corporation Bill mewled to their fancy ; a new and irresistible title is to be given to the tithes ; and thus your religious and political liberties are to be crushed. You have been called on to proclaim your confidume in Government ; you have been excited by an artificial alarm ; and thus you are to be made the agents in com- mitting a suicidal act upon your own liberties. " And, after all, if you had this ten per cent., what would you gain' No- thing ! You already get this money from the national funds, and you would get as much more as would he lequired. England loor now to pay a portion of the means to repair the consequences of her own iojustice ; but, hereafter, Risk education is to fall upon the resources of her own poverty, extorted in the form of plunder, and then a tithe of the plunder returned as a boon. You would, first, pay the tribute of the slave, and then get the alum of the beggar, or the plunder of a robber, in return."
We think with Mr. Crawford that the thing is a humbug, but that be is unnecessarily alarmed : neither the Corporation Bill nor the Tithe Bill will pass.
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