London Reviewer (Newspaper) - May 4, 1834, London, Middlesex THE MAY VOL THE WEEKLY The Tenth A Illustrations of Taxation By Harriet Fox London This tale without any the most beautiful and forcible illustration of the desolating tendency of the Tithe in all the physical and moral relations of the that has ever been put forth in the great and good work of its Mark Hellier is the pious and amiable vicar of a rural parish as much a churchman as a With the mis taken view of vindicating the rights and wellbeing of the he enters into lawsuits with his At the first news of his probable re his own are rung for joy by his flock and the arrival of intelligence of his having obtained a verdict in an action at law for tithe of laborers wages no imaginary as our readers will distinctly remember which reaches him in a where his little daughter Alice has been delighting herself with the making of her papas own Tenth own churchbell is tolled by the same hands and the sound reaches his ear as he lies bleeding and dying on the his Tenth just been shot by an unseen revengeful whilst stood perhaps the size of the This says Mac an Infidel of making a cler gyman a revenue Poor Hellier might have made a very good or a very good reve nue officer but it is beyond any mans power to be without betraying the one trust or the The Miss MARTINEAU weU cannot but feel that as the net produce of the nation grows smaller in proportion to the and as the clergy seize a larger proportion of the net the question must come to this the people shall have or How the clergy are likely to fare in such an she leaves it to be That the Church must either retain its present or she does not She thinks that there is an The nature of that alternative is thus dwelt upon by one of the personages of her story he is addressing the Vicar THE CHURCHS The transformation of the so that it may fulfil the original purposes of its establish When the Church was established for the promotion of religion was the only kind of education which could be given to the The tine is come when not only must the church b made an educational in order to fulfil its original but the religion which it fesses to protect cannot be supported without the Hid of If it could it would be su and not days of the present mode of existence of the Church of Eng land are Religion flourishes so more so much more extensively when supported by the freewill of the and has been so indisputably proved incapable of an in corrupt union with the as to leave no doubt that the Church of already a very minute sect among the worshippers of will soon become too insignificant and weak to main tain its unless it quits the ground of its pre THE Is there no To ease the anguish of a torturing hour sent monstrous and takes its stand on the cultivated reason of its I do not know why clergyman as you look surprised at what is far from surprising to those who are not Look at the map of and see what space is occupied by our Look at Great Britain and mark what proportion the Dissenters bear to the Observe how many are coming forth from those the zealous and the from the very nature of the the lukewarm and indifferent remain in the bosom of the the certainty that the worldly and careless will go over to the Dissenters from the moment that dissent reaches the point of ascendancy over aid then say whether there be any other alternative than the Church of England mast enlarge its and prove its or Miss MARTINEAU is for the commutation of Tithe into and so if Church ift to be respected all but we must strenuously protest against that part of her pro ject which would subject improved lands to a for the increase of the clerical which would only be the conversion of retail into whole and the thrusting of the curse into a She must have relatives in the and her affections molest her justice and philosophy or she could never have broached such an absurdity as this as a of her of politico clerico There are some Quakers introduced to us in this who read many good lessons both to Church man and which we are sorry that we have not space to We must be content to say the same of a sublime answer which Miss MARTI NKAU makes to the but very question of What would become of religion if it was to be left to be supported by free instead of by legislative impost faithless us she truly of all the of the quenchless religious principle in from the be ginning of time of all the priests of all the trini ties which the world has the ques tion asked by THE when he sent forth the bidding them have faith that they should be supported by freewill offerings better than by The whole passage is a splendid piece of truthful and with the last sentence of it we will close this hasty notice of its vehicle To question whether religion can be supported by free will instead of by prescribed is to libel to doubt the and to stand with a sceptical spirit amidst the temple of Gods DRURY new of some called Secret was on Tuesday night rendered more than ordinarily successful by the justness and excellence of FARRENS re presentation of the leading The scene is laid in during the Consulate of Napoleon when plots and conspirators were abun and the utmost vigilance of the police and secret authorities necessary to preserve the First Consul from Michel Perrin FARREN is an old and simpleminded after sixtyfive years residence in his little from the fields and lanes and birds and flowers and people simple as himself of he had never finds himself suddenly bereft of his em ployment and the means of by the sup pression of his He comes to Paris and is compelled to throw himself upon the bounty of his Therese Miss MURRAY a who lives in a back room up five pair of and is about to be married to a young Ber nard This marriage is suddenly in consequence of the burthen thrown upon the poor to support the old parts with all her little and is at length reduced to the utmost The old man suddenly discovers the ruin he is bringing upon the and in he looks over the newspaper to see if any situation is vacant which he can An advertisement from the Bureau de Police meets his signed by the Minister of that de and Michel remembers that one of his pupils bore the same With the vague hope of the minister being his little he is on the point of writing a when the Minister himself COOPER enters in search of his old The Clergyman represents to him his and having to attend the First immediately commands his secre tary WEBSTER to give the good old curate mistakes the of the Ministers and employs the curate upon secret at the salary of twenty francs a The simpleminded curate knows nothing of secret not even what it means and being told that he is to do nothing but walk about in the public and dine at the he imagines the to be the delicate phrase for a He becomes un wittingly a secret agent of the discovers a and after considerable misunderstanding between the Mi and the case is explained and to heal the wounded feelings of the he is presented with the curacy of his own little which has been revived by the influence of COOPER was characteristic and forcible as WEBSTER as seemed to be all the while he was whether it would be better to make the character or humorous he did The other characters were respectably new entitled The Female was on Auguste Durand a young farmer Cliff not Bloquet a parish clerk Bap tiste Mouflet a musician and Chopin a village schoolmaster are and all desperately in love with Miss who is betrothed to and Chopin plead in consequence of general ill to Serjeant Fran which wont do 1 and afterwards to the court the first here represents himself as having an impediment of the second as and the third blind and they enact their parts so that they completely impose on the and are consequently discharged as unfit men for soldiers a plea of exemption is also sent in for Adele appears or perhaps we must say volunteers before the court as tod being much below the required sta is quickly then enters and discovers the imposition as far as he is con to Captain and is forth with enlisted Serjeant francois requests of the Captain to let him see his list of the and points out the and undertakes to prove them to be to the Captains entire satis retire to play the part of Adele enters in her female and soon after who talks love like a hero next who what do I and then with what do I and the three quarrel away like Turks the Captain is thus per convinced of the and packs them off for It finally appears that the Serjeant had formerly saved the Captains and Durand the and gratitude works her good and the a worshipper of whose period of conscription has just volunteers to be of who is thus left to the worship of and to take care of his old father and The acting of Miss Oxberry and was very and highly appreciated by the consequence of some very just remarks which appeared in our last weeks journal upon the management of this once promising thea the managers have thought proper to verify our observations by withdrawing the name of this paper from their Free Liat 1 A total silence for the future relative to its very and almost is the only acknowledgment which we shall deign to make of this proceeding of ABBOTT and We rather pity than blame them to endure the correction of his a man must have common sense and for what he has to neither GOD nor man is any human creature THE FRENCH LAFOND concluded his engagement with LAPORTE on Friday enacting that occasion his popular characters of in the vaudeville of that and Paul de in Pere et both of which he sustained with more than his usual drollery and The two first acts of in were given by him with extraordinary spirit and effect he seemed anxious to shew on the eve of his the true metal he is made LA and also contributed to our THE GRISI has been re her previous performances during the and with redoubled effect and will be with us again in about a and will remain until the close of the MARYLEBONE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC this on Monday EDWIN ATHERSTONE delivered a Lec ture on It was the work rather of a mere Poet than of a and we somewhat too gave much satisfaction to his and was loudly applauded at the close of his He flew a kite on the too but with less suc cess than FRANKLIN in days gone the Doctor got at the lightning with his machinery only caught up the FINE ROYAL The Exhibition of the Royal Academy will open tomorrow to the who will once more be called upon to see a numerous collection of por traits exalted to that bad eminence of which a Member of the Lower House has pronounced them to be utterly and usurping the places of historical which have no doubt been for warded to Somerset Sir and have all contri buted them with and the President him the scene with fancy and others have furnished some A Por Tiis by the occupies the central position at the north side of the grand whilst that side opposite the entrance is adorned by A Portrait of Her In the centre of the south side is placed Editha and the Monks searching for the body of by On the same and just is A Dutch Coast by CALL On the central position of the west is a group of Cymon and by GEORGE Immediately below is Scene of the Olden Time at Bolton his is The Golden Bough by At the same is The Escape of Francisco de Carra and his from Duke of Near The of by We must pass over the sculpture for the present with a mere just stating that there are some and by BAI pre sent at the private on Royal party arrived in five at a quarter past Their Majesties were received at the grand entrance by the President and Officers of the Royal Their Majesties remained in the rooms about an hour and a In our we intend giving some specimens of the glorious and noble sentiments of the poet and the Christopher upon Elliot and his poetry Poland and the suffering sentiments which are nary coming froth such a quarter and some passages from a starry continuation of Chris which lie has taken our advice and after many months of which the following wild rhapsody is the only specimen our space will this week permit UB to give one single sole sweet we in Yet so spiritual is our that we care not even if it be 11 the jor its own happiness is pur almost lifelong pure as it is pro jealousy ever disturbs Iks assured re SHE may hold dalliance with all the airs and lights and shadows of open her to to her inmost in its delirious madness the shivering Oh 1 blessed is the that breathes over all emotions inspired by the beauty of lifeless things 1 Love creates delight that dies not till she dies and dead seems all the But wherever Love be through the Great her fee Beauty pitches her And how divine their of Love in the arms of the Palmtree Well I a pity the never wrote in verse I r I not so with a male old are of no in the fairness of a Thing Thing life I J as by the tolling of abell in Air for some unknown funeral and the whole grows nightlike 1 That may have shall the wife of your of Loves than the thought even 0f see her walking all in in her info i le her fair facti crimsoning as if breathed front the Love would roses in her hair then too a hole which distraction crowded and heaped all that is most on this bl of ticle in the current would it nob THE MAGAZINES FOR are alternately delight ed and disgusted with the contents of this double number of Blackwood delighted with the truth and fervour and holiness of poet and the disgusted with the errors and stubborn bigotry of the There are matters in thesis con tents for the worlds exultation and there are others for its pity and contempt an extraordinary mass of brilliancy and exciting our astonishment how the one can maintain itself and not be dissolved and dispersed by the hot splen dour of the others We have before had occasion to remark upon this strange inconsistency in Blackwoods an inconsistency which has never been more apparent than in the number which is now before There are deed whole breathe the pure and explain the sentiments and of Radi there are others which nothing but cruel and atrocious Toryism exist ence savouring only of a bitter and unrelenting spirit of stretching of the already which the tyrants will break ere they This in a There is much inferior poetry in this number of the greater portion of which would have better suited a religious It as sorts but strangely with the breadth and occasional coarseness of the Cruise of the Bob Burkes Bob Burkes Duel is a long story about nothing the hero fights a duel for a lady and afterwards abandons her the charms of the heroine are thus described She was a fine grown full of flesh and rose five foot nine at least when had many excel lent and stepped out upon her She was somewhat of a it must be for you could hear her from one end of the Walk to the other and I am that as she has grown somewhat she shews symptoms of but I knew nothing of the and did not mind the because I never had a fancy for your young with their mouths squeezed into the shape and dimen There portance and liuj Evils of J secret of the 4 system spirit of the present which or aristocracy be with it in that general confusion to w difficult to perceive we are being Notes on the arr jiew upon the striking of the Poor Nation Tithes and are ably apd and Howitt have to this num We delighted w the application of the Terms The poetry of the a high and distinguished character beautiful little pieces in this number Iti limits will only allow of our giving of a Song of the the music of w adorns the A MAYDAY My 0 but look upon these budding O do na they remember thee 6 childhoods happy hours When we upon this very did thou wert like the morning a nightless r v On The gowans they were frae their An rin in noisy wi ei my An place them in white fpr which smile on I saw nae mair the saw I only saw On that Like twa fair roses on a we we An as we grew our loves grew feeing their dew ire An thou wadst thraw thy wee bit about my u An breathe young that after hasna H O that Mayday 1 O is nae this a joyous breathing forth In an in oer the wide wide earth The linnets they are lilting on ilka bush an t O may sic joys be ever my by and Oft this Mayday
