Wheat paid 20_s._ per acre. Barley and oats 16_s._ ” Clover 24_s._ ” Tares 16_s._ ” First crop of potatoes 25_s._ ” After which (on the same land) turnips 16_s._ ” Second crop of potatoes 20_s._ ” Hay 8_s._ ” Onions 40_s._ ” Collards 16_s._ ” A sow 10_s._ 6_d._ A cow 15_s._ And garden and farm-yard poultry according to circumstances. A certain amount was to be paid for all small tithes, whether the tenant produced the titheable articles or not. “There are plenty of men like you,” observed Mr. Parker to Peterson, “who talk of an average of a few years on each separate estate,—five or seven years,—and would have any commutation that is proposed proceed upon such an average. Now, here is a case which shows you the injustice of such a principle. My interest in my land would be almost annihilated if I allowed it to be calculated to yield 2_l._ per acre to the church. To perpetuate such a charge as this would be to ruin the owners of land near London, and in many other situations. They say the price of produce would rise accordingly; but before it could rise enough to repay me for such a sacrifice, the people would be boiling acorns and stewing nettles for food.” “And it would ruin the church in some other districts,—” Jerom was going on to say; but Mr. Parker interrupted him with,— “Not so completely as the present plan, sir. The worst enemy of the church,—Mr. Mackintosh himself,—could not desire more than to see the church consuming the state, as it is doing now. As for men that we think wiser than Mr. Mackintosh, they are of opinion that religion was given us to bless our bread, to prosper us in basket and store, and not to devour our plenty. The people cannot but see that the reverse is the case with the established religion of this country;—that in plentiful seasons, the clergy take much, (legally, I allow,)—and that in bad seasons they take more, (legally, and therefore the more gallingly.) The people cannot but feel that as the net produce of the nation grows smaller in proportion to the gross, and as the clergy seize a larger proportion of the net produce, the question must come to this,—whether the people shall have state-priests or bread. How the clergy are likely to fare in such an alternative, I leave it to you to guess.” “So, you allow that this is a question pertaining to the people. You allow that the landlord does not alone support the church.”