450 Political Affairs in May 



Guide," the numbers appfau'(i to be — 4 

 archbishops and 18 bisliop<, 33 deans, 103 

 •liKnitiiries, 178 prebends, 62 vicars choral, 

 107 rural deans, and 5l2 minor canons, 

 &c. Here was a staff' for so small an 

 army. The population of Ireland con- 

 siisted of seven millions; one million of 

 ■ivliich was Protestant (liall'of that number 

 lieing dissenters), and the oilier six millions 

 Catholic. It would be remembered that 

 Adam Smith said, '' If you would have a 

 clergy idle and useless, pay them well ; if 

 jou would have them active and useful, 

 I'.ay them what is necessary, and no more." 

 According to the best calculation which 

 could be made, the value of church pro- 

 |»«rty in Iieland was estimated at 

 j,'»00 OOOJ. This being; the case, it was 

 important to ascertain what proportion 

 the members of this chuicli bore to the 

 Catholics. Wakefield stated, that in 1733 

 the proportion of Protestants to Catholics 

 in Waterford was one to four j at !he pre- 

 sent moment, it was as one to a hundred. 

 In many ca^es, there was not a single Pro- 

 testant family in a benefice: while those 

 attached to the rich Protestant Establish- 

 ment were decreasing daily, the Catholics 

 were rapidly increasinsj. Their church 

 consisted of twenty-six bishops, who were 

 resident, jurtormed their duties punc- 

 tually, and received severally an income 

 of between 300/. and 700/. The inimber 

 of Catholic priests was upwards of 2300. 

 AVhen it was seen that there were no less 

 than 150() Protestant clergymen to attend 

 to 500,000 Protestants, the number of 

 Catholic clergymen could not be consi- 

 «lered too large, when it was recol- 

 lected that they had to administer in- 

 struction to a population of 6,000,000. — 

 Much has been ."aid respeeiing the man- 

 ner in which the well-paid Protestant 

 clergymen in Ireland peiformed their du- 

 ties. Tlie result of all the inquiries he had 

 made, was a conviction that they were very 

 deficient. According to a return on the 

 table, it apjieared that the number of 

 ])arishe8 having benefit was 2t'2l. In 

 181 8, the total number of incumbents was 

 1?89. Out of tliis number 753 were 

 resident, and 531 were non-resident. The 

 non-residents, therefore, formed a consi- 

 derable portion of the whole number of in- 

 cumbents. The tithe-system afforded a 

 sufficient explanation of the state of things. 

 In the parish of Ballyvourney, Cork, 

 where there was no gh'be, or glebe-house, 

 or residing clergyman, or church, and not 

 a single Protestant, the Catholic inhabi- 

 tants were called upon to pay tithes, 

 ■varying from 500/. to 700/. a-year. In the 

 parish of Toma Drummoiid, in which there 

 was only one Protestant family, the tithe 

 amounted to 700/, In .-Vha Boilog, where 

 there were live or six Protestant families, 

 but no resident clergyman, the tithe de- 

 manded from the inJiabitants was 900/. 



[June 1, 



In Innis Carr, wliicli contained three Or 

 four Protestant families, the tithe was be- 

 tween 2000/. and 3000/. In three other 

 parishes, namely, Clondrobid, Donough- 

 more, and Whitechurcli, in which the num- 

 ber of Protestant families was eight or 

 nine, the tiihe was 2900/. Thus it ap- 

 peared that the tithes, which were almost 

 wholly paid by the Catholics, amounted in 

 three parishes to more than 7000/. annually, 

 for the celebration of divme service to 

 eighteen or twenty l^rotestant families' 

 — The Hon. Member concluded by 

 moving the following resolution : — " lie- 

 solved, that it is exjiedientto inquire whe- 

 ther the present church-establishment of 

 Ireland he not more than commensurate to 

 the services to be performed, both as 

 regards the number of persons employed, 

 and the incomes tlicy receive."-— For the 

 motion, 79 — Against it, 152 — Majority, 73. 



The bomb Terror, Capt. A. D. Y. 

 Arbutlinot, lias sailed from Portsmoutli 

 for Algiers, takinjj despatches forVice- 

 Adiniral Sir Harry Neale, informing 

 liim what lias been the final determina- 

 tion of raiuislcrs with respect to tho 

 Dey of Algiers. It would ap|)ear, from 

 the nature of the preparations made and 

 ordered,tliiit it is not intended to make 

 an attack on Algiers by a united force 

 of siiips; but, if the Dey should still 

 refuse to accede to necessary, lint what 

 may be deeincd coercive, terms, attacks 

 will be nightly made upon the town and 

 defences of Algiers, by the employment 

 of bombs and mortar vessels. 



The 8th of May being appointed for 

 the departure of the Hcda and Furif 

 from Ueplford, tiie officers and crews of 

 both ships were mustered, and Capt, 

 Parry soon after arrived on-board, and 

 was received with loud cheers. Final 

 orders were then given to get under 

 weigh, and she dropped down the river. 



A new Columbian Loan of 4,750,000/. 

 stock, has been contracted between 

 Don M. A. Arrubia and Don Francisco 

 Montoija, agents of the republic of 

 Columbia, and the bouse of B.A. Gold- 

 sclimidt and Co. London, 



Lord Laudeiidale lias carried a 

 standing order in the Lords, that in future 

 no stock-companies are to be incorpo- 

 rated by law till four-fifths of their 

 nominal stock is vested. 



On the 28th, the truly patriotic Mr, 

 Hume exposed the arbitrary practices 

 of the magistracy, by .showing that in the 

 two last seven years there were commit- 

 ted 47,000 and 93,000 respectively, of 

 whom 18,000 and 31,000 were not con- 

 victed, A single magistrate had com- 

 niitled 152, of whom only 58 were con- 

 victed; 



