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The Economist 1845-04-19: Vol 3 Iss 16 Sedii ok sek el rosea Yo el fe = 4K BE WAP A “2 d enenememmmnannnnelll _— The Erconanist, WEEKLY COMMERCIAL TIMES, And Bankers’ Gasette. A POLITICAL, LITERARY, AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER. | | Vol. III. No. 16. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1845. Price 6d. | 2 ———$———— | a | CONTENTS. seized and what we detain. To us the following passage in Mr Macaulay's speech puts the matter on its proper ground :— | “The honourable member for Shrewsbury told us, if we consented to the THe Portticat Economist: EPITOME OF NEWS cccscsssessesseeseserese S08 resist the claims of the various The Maynooth Grant—Sir Robert Tue ComMenciat TIMES: proposal, it would be {utterly impossible to Peel's Policy ..scoocreccecesceseseses SOT Weekly Corn Returns ......sseee 368 sects of this country—the Wesleyan Methodists, for instance. But are the | The Brazilian Export Trade ...... $58 Flax and Linen Markets........+00 368 cases analogous—have they the slightest resemblance? There are The Auction Duties on Colonial Liverpoo] Markets....c.cscscsceseeees . 369 16,000,000 inhabitants in England, and of these 1,300,000 are Wesleyan and Foreign Produce—Specula- Butter and Cheese Trade . 369 Methodists. But add to these all the other English dissenters, and would tion and Restrictions on Trade 359 Weekly Summary ...... f they approach the case of the Catholics of Ireland? Suppose the endow- Currency and Banking (Article Indigo Sales ....sess0+ 16 VII) ccccceccccccccccsccccccccceces cvcces 360 Foreign Markets....cccccccccscccesoeese 370 ments left to John Wesley, for the use of the Wesleyan clergy, had been IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT vccccccsecssceseee BOL | THE GAZETTE csccccccscceccsccsccscsecsenee Oth taken away by parliament, and vested in the Church of Eagland, and that Parliamentary Papers ........0....6. 365 | Imports, Exports, XC. ...ccececceeoreeeseee 372 the Wesleyan Methodists came to parliament for an annual grant of | Court and AristOcracy «.+escceeeee «» 365 | Weekly Prices Current.......0-.sseeeeeeee 373 26,0007 for a college. Bring me such a case, and I will give to it my best { Metropolis . pecoeees cccezecs SOS FT PRABEWV AGS ccececconcnccevencococesvese . 374 consideration. But no, there is not such a casein England; there is not *rovinecial .. soosseeee 365 | THE BANKERS’ GAZETTE: such acase in the whole world. (Cheers.) How could there be? It could Scotland oseccocerccrcccccsccessececscesccscecee SOG Weekly Account of the Bank...... 375 Foreign and Colonial c.scscscecseeseees 366 Money Market .....cccccssesssesesevee S70 not be in England; it would be impossible ; it could not be in France, nor Public AMUSEMENES,.....cccccereecereesene 366 The Bankers’ Price Current ...... 376 could it be in Prussia, It could only be in the case of a country in one CORRESPONDENCE AND ANSWERS: Conts Mattsethenececveecevccecsnsescceccccceces STF peculiar condition—and what I am about to mention reconciles me to the The Maynooth Grant .......sce0+e08 367 | Provision Markets... ...sc.ceesseeseeceseeeee O77 course | am about to take in voting for this bill, and so imposing upon POSTSCRIPT . ° . +» 367 | ADVERTISEMENTS « 378 England the support of a Catholic institution in Ireland—it could only be in the case of a weaker country connected with a more powerful country which has abused its power, and which has enabled the minority to triumph over the majority. (Great cheering.) Nowhere but in Ircland could exist THE POLITICAL ECONOMIST. such a state of things as this—never but in the peculiar condition I have indicated could or would such things be. Therefore, while this government endowment exists, | do not conceive it is open to me, however generally I might hold to the authority of what is called the voluntary principle, to THE MAYNOOTH GRANT—SIR ROBERT PEEL'S meet the Irish, when they ask me for a grant of 20,000/ for the education of their priesthood, and say, * l am on principle wren to you, because I POLICY. am against all grants from the state to an established church.’ I will not Tur discussion, on the proposition of the Government to increase now enter into the argument, as I before said, relating to the proper source from which the grant which is proposed should be derived. To-night our the annual grant to the college of Maynooth has now continued business is to settle what sum shall be given—whence it shall come, will be more than a week, and it is even doubtful if a division will take for a future discussion.” place this (Friday) night. There is no doubt that the second Of all the wrongs that we committed against Ireland, none reading will be carried by a large majority. It is, however, less was so serious, none so severe, none has so well outlived certain what the fate of the bill may be in its future stages. The*| time, and run through generations without bating one tittle opposition to it during the week len increased in violence, and of its original ruthlessness and rancour, as the seizure of all has been such as could not have been anticipated. To our view that was solid and tangible of her Church—of all but that of the question the speech of Mr Macaulay expresses the whole which was invisible, immaterial, and embodied only in a matter in a perfect oak irresistible form; and not in the slightest strong and revengeful consciousness of a persecuted faith. We degree less so to those who adhere to the voluntary principle. We seized her magnificent temples of worship, her richly endowed freely expressed our own views on the subject in our number of colleges, her revenue of seven hundred thousand a year, and the the 5th instant, and no argument that we have since seen used in legislature has dealt with and distributed that property in its own ; the House, or in the country, has tended to weaken that view, but way. And after this, when it is proposed to vote 27,000/ (about all rather to confirm it. the private income of four Irish Protestant Prelates) a year, for As a general principle, we believe state endowment to any re- the education of the priests of that whole people whom we all ligious body to be injurious to the best interests of the religion it admit we have wronged, it is surely no fair way to meet the professes to support. And we believe, for the best interests of | demand for a little restitution, for this “ penny in the pound,” by Bs Ireland, and the Catholics in particular, that the worst thing we pleading the voluntary principle. In what does justice to Ireland could do would be to render the priests independent of their consist, if seven-eighths of the eople are to be debarred and flocks. Such a change could not fail to convert the priest, in the separated from the chief rights of which they were deprived, and, course of time, to be a mere instrument in the hands of a govern- without the means of educating their own priests in the humblest ment, little mindful of the popular will or the popular wants; way, are forced to support those of a church imposed upon them. and would only tend to raise up anotber class of esudinenh priests, At the same time, fully admitting our duty to Ireland, we in whom the people would repose their confidence, and who, by cannot overlook the duty we owe to all parties in England. As their more zealous and necessitous attention to the interests of a question between England and Ireland, we look at the proposi- their people, would supersede the regular priest altogether. tion as one of simple duty. But as a question for the English _ Moreover, as a general principle, we are perfectly agreed in the Parliament we look upon it, and not the less importantly, as one injustice as well as the impolicy of taxing one portion of the com- of the means by which the duty is to be performed. England munity to support the religious establishments of another party, owes to Ireland the act—England owes to herself how the act and this altogether withont any consideration of the error or the is to be performed. And while we see with satisfaction the great truth of the tenets so supported. But holding these views as we proportion of the opposition, supporting the act to Ireland, it is do, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the case under consi- REPRE. + with no less satisfaction that we know that they will as unani- deration cannot with any fairness be viewed in this light. To us mously vote for the means being taken from the legitimate Ireland seems to be a great exception, which removes her from all source—the surplus revenue of the Irish Church. Sir Robert such general rules. Ireland and wrong, have become almost Peel will be beholden to the opposition to enable him to carry Synonymous terms. Irish Catholics, and usurpation, and confis- this little instalment of justice to Ireland. Sir Robert Peel will be cation, and persecution, are all terms among which the greatest beholden to his own party to enable him to extract the means unity of association exists in the history of the last century. The from the English Sacheeue All that is good and just in the rallying point of all that was good and liberal in England, for the measure will be carried by the liberal party coming to the aid of last fifty years, has been found in an admission of those wrongs, the Minister. All that is unjust and objectionable in the way of and in the ery of “justice to Ireland.” To appreciate, to under- doing it will be accomplished, by the Minister's own party oe Stand, what is justice to Ireland, it is needful to inquire what has coming to his assistance.
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