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A " . t,' 7 Let the Axe SsiLe at the Root, the Poison-tree will fall ; And where its venom'd exhalations spread Rain, and Death, and Woe, where millions lay Quenching the serpent's famine, and their bones Mulling unburied In the putrid blast ; A garden shall arise, in loveliness Surpassing fabled Eden." rll HE Nobility, Gentry, and Public, arc mos I respectfully informed, that the AUTHENTIC RECORDS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND last Seventy Years, will speedily be published, in l e !;.lnc.: of ell attempts and exertions to suppress them. This unique and extraordinary Volume will be published soon as possible. and particulars will be made known by lilverti,einent previous to its appearance. nEAFNESS, NOISES in the HEAD, EASES of the EAR, NERVOUS DEBILITY, and STOMACHIC AFFECTIONS.—Thes• distressing Maladies, which in many instances are so annoying as to :end.•r life truly miserable, are successfully treated, without the least pain or injury to the most delicate habits, at the Medical Institution, 92, Phillips Street, Kingsland Road, Shoteclitch, London ; where, for the satisfaction of Patients, ire to be seen numerous and highly respectable testimonials of the moat surprising cures, among which are cases of from ten to twenty years' duration, which had baffled the skill of the most eminent of the Faculty. The charge moderate. Attendance daily, Sundays escepted, from Eleven, to Evening. Patients in the country, who cannot conveniently attend at the Institution, by stating their cases i y letter, post paid, addressed as above, and inclosing the usual medical fee, will have a suitable supply of medicines crwarded, with every information requisite. UUTLER'S VEGETABLE TOOTH POW - 11 DER. This Dentifrice has so long been in general I use, as an appendage to the fashionable Toilet, that it is almost unnecessary to offer any further recommendation in I :rour of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the admix. var.:. of any mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is , f:ce from the usual objections so justly formed against the tae cf other dentifrices. Its detersive power is just suffici ent to remove these destructive particles which adhere to the gums and the Interstices of the Teeth ; and, if used regularly, will praserve them in a sound state, even to old age. Said in boxes at 2s. lid. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Chcapside, corner of St. Paul's, London, and the principal Druggists and Booksellers. Of whom may be had, OTTO ROSE. ORANGE FLOWER, ALMOND, LAVEN DER, MUSK and CAMPHOR, SOAPS, possessing the must delicate fragance, and altogether different from articles .:Atier the same name. The above articles when Genuine, will lave the mime t.r.d aadress of 3lessrs. attached to them. l'a:tkular attention to this caution is required. A CLEAR AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION. AIRS. VINCENT'S GOWLAND'S LOTION preserves the Skin and Complexion in pure whit. nes, and healthy bloom, against every assailment of Time, Climate, and Defect; eradicates all Eruptions. Tan, Sun. hire, or Redness ; imparts to the Face a roseate bloom, :nd sustains the attractions of loveliness and beauty to a remote period of life. It gives immediate and soothing relief in cases of parched skin, stings of insects, or any in flammation; it allays the smarting irritability of the skin, Producing a delightful and pleasing cco!ness truly comfort. zt,le and refreshing, and thus prevents those thunders which disorganise the beauty of the female countenance. It imparts a matchless and pleasing appearance to the com plexion, preserving firmly the fascinations of loveliness, and guards them against decay to a remote period of life. Mrs. VINCENT'S GOWLAND'S LOTION is patronized by all the Female Nobility of England, and recommended by some of the most eminent Physicians. THE REAL PEARL MILK is the only Cosmetic in the World that prevents the face, neck, arms, and hands, becoming wrinkled; and what is more remarkable, if a Lady or Gentleman begins to be wrinkled • through advance in years, or from illness, which is often the case, the real Pearl Milk le so soothing and softening to the skin, that by a few times using it the wrinkles will disappear, and the skin will become level ; and is the only article that makes the complexion clear, beautiful, and healthy; is pleasant, cooling, refreshing, and so innocents that it may be used with safety to infants. It clears all etmneous eruptions, spots, pimples, redness, blotches, (and even actually clears itching pimples). Persons subject to I.:prosy, King's Evil, and Scrofula, will find the real Pearl Milk the finest remedy; and it makes coarse, sallow, _tad sickly complexions a healthy bloom and radiant whiteness. Ladies who use the Pearl Milk will have no occasion to rouge, paint, &c. as the best of them is un healthy, and Injurious to the skin ;—therefore Ladies ought to be particular what they use for the skin, as the Ain is naturally thin and delicate. There are young as well as elderly Gentlemen who are subject to pimples, and palicularly elderly Gentlemen, whose chins naturally get ~it and begin to wrinkle, and shaving becomes difficult, and oftan cut themselves, but by washing their face with the Real Pearl Milk, or by putting sonic on the soap when shaving, instead of water, it makes the chin hard and plump, clears all imperfections, and shaving will be comfortable. Several Ladies have declared they have spent pounds for articles tor the skin that are so puffed in the Newspapers, but they found they have been defrauded, as it did more harm to the skin than good ; but after a few times using the Real Pearl Milk, they were so pleased with it, as it began to beautify their complexion, and they found the oftener they used it the more it cleared away the red spots they had been subject to: bet they said it was a pity it is so dear or they would use it oftener. A Lady of Distinction, about forty-five, has declared to the Proprietor, about two years ago, after recovering from an illness, observed wrinkles under her eyes. that made her look years older : and had had the first medical advice, and used several French and English Cosmetics, yet found the wrinkles increased. but of ate washing her face with the Pearl Milk, her skin gradually became smooth and even, and made her complexion look healthy and youth ful. And what makes the real Pearl Milk so valuable to young Ladies, as well as eldesly, when washing with it the face, neck, hand., and arms, makee them look healthy, fair, and beautiful. y* - - In short, if the Royal Family, Nobility, and Gentry, whohave not used the Real Pearl Milk, willbonour it with a trial, they will find it the most valuable article no the toilet. There Ire some Ladies and Gentlemen, no doubt, who think it impossible for the Real Pearl Milk to possess the above remarkable virtues, but a trial will con. vince them of its efficacy. Price, a Sovereign per Bottle, or Sis Bottles for Five Pounds ; and as several Ladies and Gentlemen applied to the Proprietor, and wished him to sell smaller Bottles for trial, the Proprietor has now prepared Half-Sovereign Bottles ; but a Soveteign Bottle contains near three Dalf-Sovereign Bottles. Sold by Prince, 9, Poland-street, Oxford-street; Sanger, 1 f.O, Oxford-street, opposite New Bond-street ; Prout, 2C6, Strand ; and Johnson, 68, Cornhill. The reason the Pearl Milk is so high a price, is through the principal ingredient being very rare and very expensive, bet a Bottle lasts a long time, and a little has great effect. A good price given for old discoloured and unshaped real Pearls, unfit for Ladies' ornaments, as real Pearls is the principal ingredient of the Real Pearl Milk ; sod if a Lady has each real Pearls to dispose of, the Proprietor will either give a good price, or exchange them for Pearl Wilk. Forwarded to any' part of the Country, or to the Con tinent, by sending a remittance.—Direct to the Proprietor, Air. PRINCE. No. 9, Poland Street, Oxford Street, London WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1831. N°. 13,828. THE REVEI ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the RETENI stb July, 1113; distinguishl 10th Ott. 1829. CUSTOMS EXCISE .. STA M PS Taxes under the Management of the Commissioner _ of Taxes, including Arrears of Property Post Office One Shilling and Sixpence and Four Shillings in the Pound on Pensions . Hackney Coaches, sad Hawkers and Pedlars .. Crown Lands Small Branches of the King's Hereditary Revenue Surplus Fees, Regulated Public Offices Total Ordinary Revenue Imprest Lid other Monies Total Revenue Applied to Consolidated Fund To pay off Exch. Bills charged on Annual Duties Applied as part of the Ways and Means of the ye Total ... ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of sth July, 11 CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS Tales under the Management of the Commissioners of Taxes, including Arrears of Property .. Post Office ... ls. 6d. and 45. in the Pound on Pensions Hackney Coaches, and Hawkers and Pedlars .. Crown Lands Small Branches of the Ring's Hereditary Revenue Surplus Fees, Regulated Public Offices ...... Total Ordinary Revenue Imprest and other Monies.. CD.. • • Total Revenue.. .. Applied to Consolidated Fund ...... ..... To pay off Exch. Bills charged on Annual Duties Applied as part of the Ways and Means of the Year Total .. 5,028,656 5,268,237 1,747,698 501,306 358,000 16,174 111,116 S 1,145 12,940,346 143,531 13,083,877 8,745,425 1,716,749 2,6'21,705 13,083,877 REVENI 10th Oct. 1630. 5,069,349 5,118,635 1,701,378 531,175 370,006 9,762 17,300 3,547 12,821,172 73,871 12,895,043 8,593,957 1,851,637 2,449,449 12,895,043 E of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Tear ended the Quarters. QUARTERS ENDSO sth Jan. I Sth Aped, 1830. 1830. X. 3,851,876 4,869,022 1,558,573 2,017,075 321,000 11,639 29,080 2,095 23,445 12,683,805 5,709 1g,689,514 ,C. 3,51 8,521 3,1 113,771 1,626,751 374,903 347,000 11,9: 4,5; ;202 9,073,0931 32,344 9,105,657; Stb July, 18So. 5,955,995 X. I 5,757,150 1,691,471 2,045, 511, • 1,918 15,5541 11,828,439; 10,270, 1103380 Y6AR ended July 3. MO. .e. 16,385,049 17,063,179 6,624,501 4.938,561 1,337,000 51,690 60,795 4,220 40,574 46,525,683 192,054 46,7 l 7,737 7,065,032 1,251,039 4,375,443 29,616,365 3,015,646 14,085,726 7,232,0611 6,575,847 47,838 ; ... I 1,825.718, 5,262,862, 9,105,637; 11,838,709, 'E. of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Year ended ti the Quarters. QUARTERS ENDED sth Jan. I sth April, I 1831. I 1831. 12,689,514 sth July, 1831. 3,769,495 4,831,220 1,535,683 2,062,030 330,005 17,437 28,235 46,717,737 TEAL ended July 5, 1831 .e. 3,713,386 2,362,607 1,587,043 2,533 25,153 3,754,861 3,33g,09! 1,630,101 325,523 339,000 14,272 4,308 1 8,075 16,307,295 15.644059 6,504,213 2,016,981 . 358,006 11,372 12,300 4,935,709 1,397,017 52,863 62,143 12,651,991 8,043 12,660,034 8,354,215 11,113 7,994,131 1,018,592 3,647,311 1,49( 4,030 36,775 12,660,054 5,146,787 139,617 3,078,924 PRICE SEVENPENCE. agricultural produce, and were in fact grounded and sup ported upon those high, monied prices. Even during the existence of these high monied prices, the high monied rents would nearly requite the whole produce of the earth to dis charge them : but supposing the high monied prices to be reduced one half, it is then certain the payment of the same monied rents would require more than the whole produce of I the earth, and of course could not possibly be long effected. Now, if these high mottled prices had been protected values, that is to say. if the strong hand of the law had interfered to guarar tee to the farmers the same monied prices as formerly, then it is clear that the farmers could still have continued to pay their high monied rents with the same ease as they did during the war. The monied rents or really protected va lues, which are guaranteed by the law, would still have borne the same proportion to the whole produce of the earth as they bore during the war,and thereahre the farmers could still have discharged them with the same ease. But unfortunately the Government of this country, listening to the advice of theo rists and lawyers, who have read all books but the great book of life, and who have been so occupied in studying their own a bstract and antiquated theories, that they have omitted to notice the progress of things under their own eyes ; I say, the Government of this country, listening to the advice of theorists and lawyers, have proceeded to render all these high monied prices of agricultural produce con vertible into gold at the low prices of gold which existed before the war ! They have removed the causes to the action of which these high monied prices owed their existence ; but they have not removed the protected values which were charged upon them ! The consequence of all this is, that the monied prices of agricultural produce are necessarily re duced again to about one-half of their former amount, or to nearly the level which existed before the war ; and of course, the protected values swallow up the whole ! These dia. tressed farmers, or Ribbonmen, are now literally compelled to pay greater monied sums for the rents of their lands, than the whole produce of their lands will sell for ! But the poor ignoran , creatures know nothing of the fatal principle which is thus imposing upon them a task beyond the powers of nature to fulfil: they writhe and agonize under the pressure of the old metallic standard of value ; but, instead of direct ing their legitimate exertions, in a constitutional way, to the overthrow of that standard, they turn their mortal rancour against the laws which enforce it. This, Sir, is the whole mystery of the proceedings of the ibbon-men. We find, from the resolutions of the land holders of the county of Galway, and from various notices and papers which the Ribbon.men themselves post up, that their objects are, first, to compel the landholders and middle. men to reduce their monied rents : secondly, to compel the farmers and others not to pay more than certain fixed rents : thirdly, to compel farmers and others not to pay less than certain wages ; and, fourthly, to compel the labourers not to receive less than certain wages. It is by these means that the Ribbon-men, far.. mere and lalmu , attempt on the one had to force dos n the protected values which they have to pay, within the range of the present reduced prices of their pro duce ; and on the other band, to force up the wages of labour so as to enable the labourers to support ex. licence. The depression of prices occasioned by the attempt to restore the old metallic standardof value, has broken the backs and the hearts of the farmers. They arc compelled to pay double monied vents, and double monied taxes and debts of all kinds, out of half the monied means which they possessed when they contracted to pay such rents, debts, and taxes; and therefore it is utterly impossible for them to pay them. The same depression of prices which has thus ruined the farmers of Ireland, not by thousands merely, but literally by tens of thousands, has of course forced them to discharge their miserable labourers, and to cripple the humble corn. forts which they formerly enjoyed. It is thus that both farmers and labourers have all united 3n their efforts to over. turn Um low.. Th.. law, no longer offind protection to either, but, on the contrary, exact contributions from the former, which they are utterly unable to fulfil; and take the very ground from under the feet of the latter, by preventing the possibility of their employers' making profit by employ ing them. It is no wonder, therefore, that Ireland exhibits a mass of discontent and disaffection, from one extremity to the other. The yoke of society is made too heavy for so ciety to bear, and therefore society becomes agitated and con. ',wised, and all its elements are shaking to dissolution. If the same effects have not been visible in England, it is because the farmers of England are a cultivated and civilized race of men, and have been enabled to rest upon ' their capital during several years of depression and distress, in which the same ruinous principle has been at work among them. But men who take narrow and superficial views will say, " Why do not the landholders of Ireland reduce their monied rents correspondently with the reduction of the monied prices of agricultural produce, which the attempt to restore the old metallic standard of value has occasioned ?" The landholders have contracted monied debts, taxes, and engagements upon these high monied rents, and they have formed their establishments and expenditure upon them : they are, therefore sufficiently short of money, even if they continue to receive their full rents, but if they are compelled to reduce them one half, they must necessarily break up their whole establishments, and throw their labourers and dependants upon the public : they are, therefore, compelled to exact the payment of their full mo nied rents, or nearly so. The law presses them on the right hand, an d they are compelled to press the "middle men" on the left hand. Thus, the "middle men" are, in their tutu, compelled to press upon the distressed rmers, or 3 Ribbon-men, and these latter are goaded to madness and despair. If they are not bound by legal leases, obligating them to pay the high monied rents, they are at least bound by the habits and custom of the country, which have nearly the force of law, when once rooted and established in a country. How distressing, then, is this state of things in Ireland ! Hall the "limited annuitants" in the kingdom had been swept into the sea, it would not have occasioned one.twentieth part of the havoc and injustice, and of the misery and ruin which the attempt to restore the old me tallic standard of value has occasioned In this single instance. And how vain it is to expect that the disturbances in Ire land can cease, as long as this cruel principle continues in operation. T hey may be suppressed, from time to time, by military force, but they cannot be permanently suppressed, unless the cause to which they owe their origin is removed.- The unfortunate " Ribbon-men" may be executed by hun dreds, and by thousands , but they cannot be made contented until they either receive death or justice. Then they will be at peace, but not till then; because, until then, the law exacts impossibilities from them. The Ltw holds with its iron grasp, Ribbon-men, middle-men and land-owners. It is not possible for one to relieve the Other, because the man that is a creditor on the right hand, is a debtor in the left hand; and his own obligations being payable upon the ratio of high monied prices, he is compelled to exact the high-monied payments himself. The landholders and the middle men arc forced to exact from the Ribbonmcn their double munied rents out of half their monied means. The poor wretched Ribbon-men have no capital to rely upon, as the English farmers have. They look round on every side for relief, and they find none: they toil, and struggle, and starve, but all is in vain : they consult together in their mu tual ruin : all manner of wild and distempered thoughts present themselves to their distracted minds : until at last, irritated by suffering, and infuriated by despair, they take up arms against the system of their country, and endeavour to obtain by force that justice which the mistaken policy of the law denies them. And can we wonder at such conduct under such drawn stances ? Can we expect any other conduct from thou kw. dreds of thousands of distressed farmers, as long as we mist ' in exacting from them the fulfilment of impossibilities; long as we persist in compelling them to pay double moodoil tents and debts out of half the monicd means which they seised when those rents and debts were contracted f pressure of the old metallic standard has reduced the amis. prices of their produce one-half; and if govenratig bog not omitted the precaution of reducing their medal uomo and debts Pone-half, they might still have canolossi exist. But as government has omitted that preaudao, k i% not post It leer these unhappy men to hear tbe burden which the law imposes. They are doomed to cultivate a fertile soil, never to tase its produce. Their corn, tin ir meat, the very produce for their children. are a!' sw lowed up bp their protected values. And even then the law is not satisfied. It holds them with its iron gra p ; and when they give all that thefhave, it still calls for more. I Let us follow them into their wretched cabins, and when west'. them and their children, let us ask our own hews whether these are the men from whom the law ought to grasp a doubled payment cf their rents and debts ? And when we hear the sighs, and the deep and bitter curses which are sentry from the bottom of their hearts, let us no longer be surprised at any extremities to which want, and misery, and despair. may goad these forlorn and desperate omen. Let us rot be de. ceived by the apparent tranquillity which force impo-es. but let us rather acknowledge that it is not pos-ihle fm r Ribbon-men to be at rest, until they rest in the gra; c. I remember In the year 1816, that the markets of E: ,g -land were literally deluged with Irish pigs. These ere m. turd were thrown upon England, like the locusts upon Egypt, to devour the land, rather than to be &vowed themselves; for although they were sold almost as cheap as the very earth on which they stood, yet the poor Englishmen who wanted to eat them, could not raise the money wherewith to buy them. It was generally thought at the time, that the sudden inundation of clear strangers upon the English markets, was occasioned by the cessation of the consumption which they formerly found in the Royal Navy But I contended, that it was occasioned by the depres sion of prices of agricultural produce, which had doped a million of Irish mouths ; and not by the discharge of a few thousand of sailors, who would snit have con:wand nearly as much pork as before, provided they could but have obtained the money wherewith to buy it. Events soon after proved that I was correct ; for no sooner were the prices of agricultural produce raised again, by the Bank of England sending out its millions of legal tenders, than these Irish visitors disappeared from the English markets as if by magic. For the last year and a half, however, the Bank of England has been compelled to withdraw its mil lions of legal tenders again, and accordingly the prices of agricultural produce have again been reduced ; the Irish mouths have again been closed ; and again the Irish pigs have presented themselves by thousands in the English mar kets. It may appear strange, that the depression of the prices of agricultural produce timid check the consort:26,m of meat in Ireland, but it is not less strange than tine. The simple explanation of all this is as follows: As lon as the prices cf agricultural produce in Ireland were re served at the high war level which existed when the mimed rents, debts, and taxes of Ireland were agreed upon or incurred, the little farmers, or Ribbon-men of Ireland, we-e enabled to discharge these protected values out of a ecrtait. portion of their annual produce. reierving to them el t s another portion, though a small one, for the support art themselves and their families. But when the attempt to render these high war prices convertible into gold at the old standard, has reduced such high prices to nearly the old level, the consequence is, that the discharge of the protected values requires all the pro duce of the Ribbon-men, and leaves none for the support of themselves and their fimmili.s. It' the protected values take half at high prices, the take all at low prices. The little farmers are obliged to sell all their produce fur the purpose of paying their rent.; and debts. It is thus, that a million of mouths are closed in Ire land ; and that the Irish pigs, having lust these innumerable markets at home, are forced to seek other markets upon Eng lish ground. It is vain for their owners to expect a mar ket upon Irish ground ; for if the Ribbon-men could by any means afford to buy them, they would not have been compelled to sell them. It is, therefore. that these myriads of strangers are forced upon the English markets ; and unfortut.ately, they come at a time when the very same principle is at work in England, closing. or nearly closing, trillions of hungry mouths on one hand, and glut. ting tho markets with produce on the other hats I. The prin. cipal obj:ct which I have in view is to open these mouths again. These are the markets which lam looking to for the restoration of agriculture ' • and to similar markets I look toe the restoration of trade. The measures which I recommend will give to the Ribbon-men of Ireland, and to the distressed mechanics and labourers of England, the me mats of con-ton ing all the agricul.ural produce with which the Almighty hes blessed us. quite as fast as either Englii!. or Irish farmers can bring it to market ; or even as fast as al the merchants In the world can bring it to marks' ! And if those measures should fail in this (Let— if they slieuld fail to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, to render justice to every net, end to restore peace and prosperity to all, I would most readily lay down my life. But mark, Mr. Editor, things ate raildly changing around us, and men's minds are changing with the change of thing& Men's mini!' have lust the spring and elas.icity which they possessed a few years ago, but which is sow broken and worn out by a loo s ...ifs of disap. retina& hopes, and by cares, anti sufferings and privations st hundred kinds; and, In the place of this healthy prin.- elide._ which disposed the turd; of men to move with confidence in the pursuits of busin.ss, a degree of tau moral excitement is rapidly taking effect among them. whidt disposes them to nothing but anarchy and blood. Irritated, agitated, and inflamed by a hundred passions, they leave with disgust those social and peaceful habits which, for year after year, have presented little bust scenes of disappointment and unrewarded labour, and they turn with velicannce to thoughts of fury and despair. Now the measures which I recommend are calculated for men and not for demons. If, therefore, the Legislature should think proper to delay them until every black and hellish passion is roused into action, I shall recommend them no mote Let the men, whose infs. tuated measures have brought all this mischief among us, controul it by better means if they can. Mier all that I have said, Air. Ether, l trust that I have sufficiently shown that the proceedings of the Ribbon.nien are the inevitable effects of the extreme hardships of their situation, acting upon irritable and uncultivated minds ; an l that they originate principally in the depression of the prices of produce, occasioned by the arbitrary and urjust attempt to restore he old metallic standard of value. There will be no peace for Ireland until either the law, or the old metallic standard, is overturned. I ant, Sc, your obedient humble servant, THOMAS ATIWOOD. r. . 1 > "fiffie I/10MM) 2. 0 1788. NUE of GREA' the INCREASI Excise Stamps Post Officio Taxes . • Deduct Ti 11,117,2E6 44,944,604 23,224 116,851 11,141 45,061,455 8,170,923 1 29.905,858 1,294,4811 4,504,327 1,675,586 10,851,270 -..--- 4 11 ' 141°35° 1 45,061,455 ABSTRACT ended Sth Customs Excise ...... Stamps Post Office I Taxes Miscellaneous of the NET PRODUCE of the July, 1830, gad sth July, 1831, YEAH ENDED JULY 5. 1830. I 1831. Increase.; I 16,385,0491 I 16,307,295, ... 77,754. I 17,083,179 15,644,559 ' .. 1,438,620 1 6,624,5011 6,504,213 .. 120,288 1 ,337,00• 1.397,9171 60,017 4,938,581 4,935.709 1 Z• 6 7 2. 549,427 272,662; ... 76,765, 46,717,737; 45,061,45: 60, 017 1,711 Deduct Increase 60,017 i, 1,656,2321) ' BRITAIN, in the or DECREASE on QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5 1830. I 1831. 3,985,995 3,757,150 1,691,471 311,000 2,045,297 47.796 [11,638,709 3,745,865 3,332,097 1,674,109 6,0,006 2,016,981 48,993 '11,141,050 on the Year on the Quarter........ ears and ch head tl 0,201 X. 231,130 425,053 61,362 25,316 743,861 697.659 • . . INCOME and CHARGE on the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the Quarters ended sth July, 1830 and 1831. 413. INDID JULY 5. WM INDSD JULY 5• 1830. 1831. 1830. :1831. INCOME. —....--- ommeM/0... CH ARGE. ---. --- .e. .e. , .e. .e. Customs . . . . 3,985,995.2,456,333 'Exchequer Annuities . . • 1,922 1,572 Excise . . . • 3,757,149 1 3,332,09 7 ; 1 50uth Sea Company . . . 81,953 01,365 Stamps . . . . 1,691,470 1 1,630,109 Bank on their Capital . 89,125 89,125 Post Office . • • • 311,000 358 M 6 'Dividends . . . . 8,434,982 8,097,567 Taxes . . k . Civil List 1 2,045,297 2,016.981 National Debt . . . 251,480 623, 848 ldiscellaneous . . . 47,796 48,99 , _ . . . 191,483 515,604 -- I , . --- ---- Pensions . • . 94,708 88,103 11838707 9,842,568 Other Charges . • . 135,543 112,816 Tontine Money . . . . 11,518 11,344 ---- --- To Cash brought from the Civil List 1,025 9,281,196 9,610,000 Hereditary Revenue brought to Con- V 2,761,721 675,890 soliJated Fund . . • ... 72,5131 Surplus ToCash brought to this Account from , , Exchequer Bills issued for the Consoli- 12042917 10285890 the Ways and Means to replace the I dated Fund, at sth July, 1831, and paid --....-- ..—.--- like Sum issued out of the Grow- off out of the Growing Produce of the ing Produce of the Consolidated said Fund in the Quarter ended July Fund inlreland,for Public Services 191,667 359,465, 5 , 1831, after deducting 400,0001. ---' ---- 1 cancelled by the Commissioners for 12042917:102858901 the reduction of the National Debt I per Act 11 G. 4, c. 26 . . ... 4,382,940 I Surplus at sth July, 183 1 . . 675,890 ' "Issued nut of the Consolidated Fund, on account of the Supplies granted for the service of the year 1831 . 1,691,586 995,696 I Total at sth July, 1331, to be provided ...----- I for by an issue of Exchequer Bills I , charged on the Growing Produce of Ithe Consolidated Fund in the Quarter ending 10th Oct. 183 1 . ... 5,378,63 i 15,3711,636 • ON IRISH DISTRESS. fatal silence to its consummation ; when 1 was, in fact, TO TILL EDITOR. merely deducing a general conclusion from general prin- Birmingham, April 27, 1820. ciples ; I was merely deducing consequences, from causes SIR—.I did intend to have devoted this letter to the answer which are now at work below the public eye, and which al of some of the principal objections which have been urged ways did act upon the human mind, and always will act against measures similar to those which I recommend ; but upon the human mind, in producing consequences which the I have been invited, by several gentlemen whom I highly public have yet to see. respect, to proceed immediately to the discussion of the con- With these prefatory observations, I come, then , Sir, to flexion which exists between the attempt to restore the old the consideration of the Ribbon-men, or dist ressed farmers metallic standard of value, and the political disturbances and of Ireland. If they had had the discretion to take this lat. outrages which agitate and threaten every corner of the court. ter name, which is their real name, instead of the former, try. I am aware, Sir, that in undertaking this, I am which is merely an assumed name, they would have carried moving upon tender ground ; but having no private Mw- with them a moral weight, which would have given more rests to serve, and no party passions to gratify, I shall pro- force and consistency to their object than the bayonets of a ceed,witkall the fearless confidence which becomesa good sub. hundred thousand men. ject, and a mind conscious of rectitude, and anxious for the It is well-known, Sir, that the state of society in Ireland national welfare. But I must first deprecate any invidi ous is ver y different from hat it is in England. The farmers interpretation of motives. When I show how poverty leads there have at all times been in a state of great poverty, to despair, and despair to crime, it must not be thought that when compared with those of England. They seldom occupy I sympathise with crime ; nor must it be thought that 1 mote than from sto 30 acres of land, and all the capital which look with any feeling but that of honor at the aspect of they possess is probably a spade and a rake, and perhaps a cow things, when I point out every sign and every sound which and a few pigs. 1 believe I may say with truth, that there is is fraught with our approaching fate, and every little ex. scarcely such a thing as a waggon or a threshing floor in Ire plosion of the public sentiment, which is but a prelude to land. Tire consequence of this extreme poverty is, that the that grand explosion, which threatens full shortly to scatter landholders have been obliged to employ a class of men who our whole fabric of society to the winds. are called middle-men, and whose business it is, to take Unless I guard myself ty some observations of this kind, large quantities of lands front die landholders, at certain 'm it may almost be thought that I have sonic secret connivance vied rents, and to underlet those lands to the little farmers, with the instruments of thebe explosions, when I insist that for as great a profit as they can make. By this mode of they will inevitably follow in rapid and terrific progression. proceeding the monied rents of land in Ireland are generally In my letter of the 24th of February, which was insetted in raised;to what would be deemed an exorbitant rate in Eng your Journal of the 28th of February, I made use of the land, nearly the whole produce of the land being required to following expressions :—" Parliament is slumbering on the pay the rent, and leaving little but potatoes and buttermilk, verge of a precipice • a gulph is before them ; a gulph has and perh a p s a few p i g s, to support the farmers, with their almost opened behind them ; let them slumber a little longer , families and labourers. During the war , however, whilst and I will defy the wisdom of man to save them." On the I what are called the high prices of agricultural produce ex very day this letter was written, the diabolical Cato-street fisted, the farmers were enabled to pay these high-monied plot was discovered in London. If 1 had made use of the I rents, which, it must be observed, had been still raised as word Ministers, instead of that of Parliament, it might al. I the monied prices of agricultural produce had been raised. most hare been suspected that I was making particular al- Thus the whole, or nearly the whole, of the monied rents of lusion to that particular act, which was then hurr y in g with If Ireland, became accommodated to the high monied prices of ^. . ~~ ~~ Z (0, IMPERIAL PARLIAM EST. HOUSE OF CORDS-Jut.v 6. GLAND JURIES IN 'ARLAND. The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented two dons from parishes in Meath, praying for repeal of the Irish Grand Jury Assessments Bill. The noble maiquis supported the object of the petitions by a state en, of various abuses which had occurred under the Gr.., d its y system. The Marquis of SLIGO moved for a return of the number of magistrates in the commission of the peace in IrelAn.l. Ordered. COMMON LAW COQals BILL. On the motion of Lord WYNFORD the common Liw courts bill passed through a committee, and was ordered to be teed a third time on Thursday. Several Members from the House of Commons bmu?ht up the expired commissions in Ireland bill, and a private WI, which were read the first time. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the licu‘e adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter to four o'clock, at that hour there was again a very crowded attendance of members, and almost every seat in the house was taken by the presence of members, or the affixing of their names to the backs of their seats. Mr. M.O'CON NELL presented a petition from the Gra ziers' Company, against the Hibernian Steam Navigation Company. .SETORM PITITIONS. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from Ashton-under- Line, for universal suffrage, annual parliaments, and vote by ballot. The petitioners expressed their opinion that every male adult paying taxes, of sound mind and free from crime, should be entitled to vote for representatives in Parliament, and he, Mr. Hunt, entirely concurred with them in that opinion. He was surprised that the number of those peti. tions did not prove a warning to boutrtuable gentlemen on the same aide of the house as he sat, but he could not help think. ing that before long both Whip and Tories would join in granting what the petidoners wished for: he was, however. surprised that gentle m en opposed even the bill brought in by ministers, which went but a short way for the people's rights, The petition was read and ordered Wbe printed.— Tbe hon. stombeetben presented petitions from four parish's in Brecknoelmitire, detailing the evils of the tithe system, and praying foe an alietariee of the tithe laws.—Read, and ordered to be printed. • Mr. L W ELLE:BUY presented a petition from inha bitants of Marlborough, in favour of Reform. The hon. member referred to a petition which had been presented nn a former evening against the Reform Bill. He (Mr. L. W.)