The Tories intend, it seems, to meet any project for
the extinc- tion of the Irish Church by one for the re-distribution of its revenues. Sir Hugh Cairns, at Belfast, suggested this plan, and proposed that work and pay should be made more nearly coin- cident; that the revenue, for instance, of a parish without Protes- tants should be transferred to support a minister where there are many. What a delicious notion of justice for a future Lord Chancellor to entertain ! The complaint is, that a parish of Catholics is taxed to pay for a Protestant teacher. Sir Hugh sees the force of that, and proposes to remedy it by continuing the im- post without giving in return any minister at all ! Jones objects to pay a guinea for an article he does not want, so the tradesman proposes to take the guinea and give Jones nothing at all, and calls that a measure of conciliation.
