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I read. 'd I •d. T i p of *sines hi a 'whichthe neiet remembered to have heard any thing of the kind frank him hefOre, and if alit?* attributable to tem porary warmth he could tinily have missed it over ; hat really to draw up such a statement sod carry it about, neatly folded spy and plated in his poeket-booli, end deliberanty to draw it oat and recite it to the Hoosiy . carried with it very much of the eminence of * connexion with some recent traninctiOni. Of ell the motions which he should lune to contend against this Session, he appre. heeded this would be the most easily dealt with. bir.o Cs replied, and air R. Haltom said a few word's in stipport or the *rile*, which was then agreed to without a divisiou. 4.IIPRIMITS OF JUSTICE IN IRELAND. Ilf,* l ll l lllA Rica, in making the motion of which had given notice, relative to the Courts of Jos.- Ireland, said, that if he was right in his re 'collection, when the Report was brought in, which stated, that in the opinion of the Committee the letter of the Chief Baron was not satisfactory in some points, sod that on others it was desirable that furthet information should be furnished, a pledge Was given by the Noble Marquis. that in the inter ims between the close of the last Session and the opening of the prevent, steps would be taken by Government to procure the information desired. He did not knew Whether any steps had been taken for that purpose, and one object he now had in view was, to ascertain what further infor motion had been obtained. He hoped that tin der the new regulations of the Courts in Ire. laPai s ilie most 'in t im:int measure of reform which since the Union had hero applied to Ireland— nonippointment to any office in those Courts would he given to any individual who had been held up in the Report as a delinqoent. The Chief anon in his letter had referred to the conduct of the Court of King's Bench, as justifying his own pro ceedings; but he (Mr. Rice) believed, that so far from that being the case, it would he found that the conduct of the Court of King's Bench would by no means bear him out in his justification. It was therefore important that if any communica tion had taken place on this subject between the Court of King's Bench and the Government, it should be made public. It was due to the charac ter of the venerable Judge who had been so many yens at the bend of that Court, upon whom this was the first time that any imputation hsd been cast. He therefore moved for— " Copies of all !esters between the Irish Goverment and the Jokes of the Courts of law is !reload since Ow 11th Mar, 1151. respecting Ilse proceediogs of the Coasosiosionere of 'poky into the Courts of Justice is Ireland." Mr. GOULBURK said, he had much pleasur e in . . assuring the House that a Report, whtch he had al►esdy laid upon the table of the House, and which was in the course of printing, contained much that bore upon this subject, and would afford much of the information which it was the object of the liish Government to obtain; sod he hoped ut no distant period to be enabled to add to it whatever further information the subject required. Whatever sp poiutments the Irish Government had made, or might bereiifter make, under the new regulations of the Courts in Ireland, would be regulated by a ihicere desire of appointing none but persons who were every way qualified fur the discharge of the dories of those offices. Sir J. NEWPORT said, that owing to the order of proceeding adopted by the Commission, for which he by no means blamed thrtn. the Report on the subject of the compensations to be granted to perimos holding offices which were to be abolished would he made at as late a period of the Session, in to preclude the House from exercising that dis cretion of careful scrutiny tutu the propriety of the adjudwatioo of compensation agreed upon by the Commission, which it was desirable the House should at all times exercise on such subjects. And as by the form of the Bill antler which that Com eti;smon was framed, the House was required to say Ilisy to such part of the said adjudication as it might not thinic proper to approve of, before the close of the Session in which the Report should he made, otherwise such adjudication would be tnial, he recommended un *lteration to be made in the Bt for the purpose of declaring that the ad judication shookl not he considered as final until the close of the nest Seeslon. He fully concurred in opinion with the Hon. Member for Limerick, that it was due to the Chief Justice of the King's Bentltifiat the correspondence for which he moved should he laid before the House. Mr. GOULBORN sgid he had not addrewied hint. •elf to the last topic mentioned by the Mtn. Biro• nee, because at the lime when he left Ireland lie was sow aware that any such correspondence existed. The mmion was then put. and agreed to. Mr. SPRING Rice then moved for a retnrn of the number of Commissions for taking affidavit,. and the fees taken on the same in the Court of King's Bench, in Ireland. in 1821 ; also for a re turn of the amount of fees charged in the Court of Excl►eyuer in Ireland on the swearing in of She. alai in 1821.—Ordered. Mr. DickiNsoN moved the appointment of a Select Committee, to inquire into the laws end practice of the Commissioners of Sewers —which was agreed to, and e Committee appointed. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The Order of the Duy for the Monte going into a Cnintiniteil of Supply hoeing he... remit— Mr. Misr sore to cell the salvation of the Howse to a few obaerratiens relating to some statemeiii• made by him en ■ former otght in theCominittee of Supply, which had been contradicted as flatly as hrosible by the Secretary of the Admiralty.— (Fleur, hesr.)—The statements which he had made were from the estimates before the Douse ; but, strange to say, those statements had been met by others from the Honourable Secretary, whieh were not to be found in ally ratinititeo whatever. l le did not imagine himself quilitiett, as that ilon. Member w rtdteit, in make fine speeches; tripled should due to itired to In ■ fair that if let with expected dam he de. Stem but be Inaai enrieuirats tea itt OPOLCO 'them ai tiectirately' as th e me a ns within his power would permit him; and any inaccuracy which might here escaped him was sot lobe corrected or disproved by the flourish ing of the Honourable Secretary shout his not being able to distinguildi sea from laud, wood from stony, ' and barracks from ships. He could ow; in the high rhetorical flourish of the Honourable Secretary, desesot on the connexion and dependessce of the prosperity and welfare of the country na the ' prices of beef and pork at various periods; hut he treated that he was able in speak plain facts, and to those he had confined himself . ..—. To Come to the two must important points. the di& ferenee between his statements and those of the Hon. Secretary (Mr. Cruker). He (Mr. Hume) listed on the farmer eireiling that the Navy Estimates in 1817 were 5.985,0001. sod the Honourable Secretary then rose up and charged him with the blunder of forgetting to add 671,0001. to that sum for old stores; but lie refused to add that sum, and he should .tidy the House that he was correct, anti that the Hon. Secretary to the Admiralty was wrong. It happened that in the Bth Report of the Finance Committee he (Mr. Home) found the same estimate drawn up ; It Sage 54 of the Report, after enumerating the items, the total amounted to 5,985,0001.; yet the Hon. Secretory, with that coolusion of iutellect which he attrtbitted to others, had charged him with error. There was another statement of still more importance that he hail to make. In looking at the publications of the day, he observed, in a certain Evening Paper, his own statement pretty fairly given, indeed it was a transcript from the Morning ehresick; hut the speech of the Ho nourahle Secretary was changed bruit in matter and style. He (Mr. Hume) had stated, that from the termination of the war to the end of last year, the sums voted by that House amounted for ordinary repairs, building, rebuilding, and re. pairing ships of war, to 17,738.6451.; every item of this had been compared and verified since by an Honourable Baronet who sat near hint, and the Host. Member fur Rochester (Mr. Bernal). Yet the Hon. Secretary challenged him (Mr. Hume) to make up even a sum of five millions. The House would recollect the mode in which the Rona Secretary charged him with ant understanding the subject, because he called it WA, and wear instead of wear an 1 tear. The Hon. Secretary was tier. fectly at liberty to exercise his wit if he only stuck to correctness. Those who went to war take their chance for blows, and he (Mr. Home) was quite ready to take his chance, hut he hoped for fair play. He (Hume) stated the charge from 1815 in 1821, to be seventeen mtllions and upwards. and from the papers on the table it appeared there was— For ar,ar and tear.... i 6,131,110 For ordinary repairs For building, rebuilding, Ike 8,566,896 For merchant: pied* 438,111 Making a total 0f....1 17,736,645 and in that he had not taken in half n million for rigging. He (Mr. flume) entreated the protection of the House against the sort of treatnieut he had received from official men. Hr had no object but to lay the truth before that House and before the public, and lie must consider himself treated in en unfair, unparhanientory, and unhandsome mariner. He then moved, wash amendment, for a detailed ac count of the coin of 1,781,3i5/. which they were now called upon to vote in confidence. Mr. Commit did justice to the sincerity of the Hon. Member's statements, or he would not have re peated theta to-night, when he had got only deeper into the mire—fur the statements he had made, were either inaccurate in amount, or where the amount was accurate, the Hon. Gentleman was mistaken so the meaning which he affixed to thew. The Hon. Member had spoken of his own statement as cor rectly mitten in an Evening Paver. but that his (Mr. Croker's) was corrected by some mysterious hand. He could assure the Host. Gentleman he never cor rected bat two of his speeches; one was on the Duke of York's question, the other on the subject of the Catholic Claims, and he had not, he believed, writ ten a word in any newspaper for the last two years. The lion. Member Now stated, that he had on a former night said the naval estimates in 1817 were 5.985,0001.; hut what. he (Mr. Croker) lesrles.ly asserted was, that the Honourable Member had called it 5 300.0001. [rite Honourable Gentle men here entered tutu • detail of the circumstances of the former debate, to prove that what he now stated man correct.]—The Honourable Member was led into the mistake by the awkward manner in which the old stores were deducted from the total amount in the printed estimate—(Hear, hear, hear) —fur which indeed the office was nut liable, as it was ordered by the Act of Parliament so to be made up. The Honourable Member had on the former evening said the 17 millions were expended for building of ships, arid added, that it was a sum liege enough to build the navies of the universe.— The Honourable Gentleman opposite might now wish 10 change the terms ; but in the Ho rinsirable Member's speech he confined the expen diture to budding only ; besides, now he bad taken two years hue than he (Mr. Croker) understood him. lie lhouglst he had stated the expenditure was from 1817, and nut from 1815, and when he (Mr. Croke") read the items from • hound volume of the Nary Earirnates which lie then held in his hand, be commenced is 1817 • and the Hon. Member, though he was correcting sod eierkiste him, yet seasserced, and did not slop him to say he should have begun at 1615 The Host. Member now came down to more fur a new trial at two points only, bat in hiss former statement these were many points. [Mr. Center here receptinlaird some other diffi renew, that he coustilcreil as inaccuracies its the Hon. Member fur Aberdeen ] He concluded by assuring that Hun. Gentleman that it was not hie faith but hie iigures who h he doubted; hut it appeared that be bad puzzled himself with his apneas, and then came down to imitates(' the Moore. Mr. BERNAL amid, that on she former evening his ears were open, mad he hail understood bin Hon. Fliend (Mr. 11 " 111 e) in say, Old 17 twill were expended in seven years in the building, re-building, and repairing of ship". The Hun. Member then noticed some variant ea in the navy "cli mates and lb. detailed account of the years 1817, 1818. and 1819,in inetchantie sod the East lushes. Hr concluded by sh chrius that he was eunvinceil of the accuracy of his Hon. Friend, and was 'whaled be was right ist bus statement of the 17 millions. 3.r H I'ARNEVL observed, ant on the grounds of pro b ihility, if there tvele no ether argument, it was n ot likely his Houtpurable F.irnd (11e. them.) bhuuld he mistaken, for In a pamphiet that was plisteed and published last June, at Ittdcwity'sr ot Piccadilly, precisely the same statements he had env's were made in a spsech of hie th m . Asa the More eraneus to bear this festtiouuy, as he hit de • aria thee the -ektireetwi'ebt . fal. Mon. Prime. Seawall should stand usalnteemited. • Mr. RICARDO disliotiffiremolieeted elm Mere* In Rua ties. His Hos. Friend (Mr. Home) stated that the sum a 5,900.0091. was the NM aessawhid Were the d,duetiost 4 old storesA Whereas the Hon. Secretary (Mt. Gelber) had Award him with Stalin diet this was the sum elf lei the de duction. Sir G. CLERK 6orrobeireted the Statement of his Friend (Mr. Croker.) MI. BROUGHAM wished to make a very ftw observe- Hoes upon the preseet subject, fur he could not help think. lag, (ions all the cocetmataiices, both from the challenge of his fionourable 'Friend (Mr. Hume) to investigate h a statements, and from the Steeled exposition of the Ow nOurelde Gentleman (Mr. Croiert, that the siceeraep of Mr. Hume was unimpearlwd..--(Hear.)—That opinion was net merely founded wipe Lis exparienie of his How. Friend In that Horse, it vies founded 'tetra his long serrai•tanee l i with his character in various kind. of business in orimeh he had token an active part ; he founded it, moreover, upon the candid admission of the Secretary himin If, who coo nweeed by giving his Hoe. Friend credit fur sincerity. As aiseedotes or these subjects were somethiog iw vogue, he should state one that bad occurred to him to-night. When be had entered the House, he was told that an attempt was made to prove that all the statements of h-s HO/I. Friend were false. He immediately asked what was the amount " Oh milliona! to the antimut of ekeen millions!" He im mediately said, " Impossible." In these complicated at ' rousts, he should nowise enervel if • e.eresn would make • mistake of owe or two, or thr. eor 401 pounds. BO even in these blundering calrulatimai, these admitted blunders, mistake of millions on the part ails Hos. Friend was ninpusa . rible.—(Cheers.)—He happeseeJ to have in his possession • newspaper which contained a statement of what occurred un Friday night. He should just read a passage which he thought was conelosive.—iffiere Mr. Brougham wag called to order.)—He begged pardon of the House for introducing ' so obnoxious an article. God forbid that he should even glance at a report of the proceedings of that assembly. However, he could not help reenioking that he had sees • very short time back, a very curious document, a small portion of recent history—(Mueh Isughler)—which cos. tanned a statement somewhat curious. For bad he sot bee. morally slid legally convinced that no pert of their delibe rations could meet the public eye, he should have said that he bad sees the self-same identical speech which had fallen on Friday night from the Member for Aherdeco —(Repeated (asighter.)—A stronger resemblance he had never sees. It happened curiously too that this historical fragment was treating of navy estimates; and marvellous to retells, the very statement which his Hun. Friend iiiolood upon t o . eight, appeared almost verbatim —(Cheers and !aughter.)— Beet he for one meet protest against the line of argument pursued. Argument it could sot be called. Attack was substituted upon his Houuerebte Fiiend, who, n est after night, upon such difficult gyrations, d.ciding vast soma, touching important tatet.sis, bail eislighteaed the Howse with his multifarious details, and was actually Wrll,lllff o we! by Mn exertioss.—(Hear, hear, from the Ministerial Benches.)—Let not Gentlemen opposite exalt t he could assure them that was • kind of wear and tear that wonld nut do the.,, much aervice...-(Chwers)— For well h. knew, wise,, he returned to that House in a few week., be should Awl his How. Friend, pleated in the same spolomirseliog the same course with the same oorenei 44 i 4 ig assiduity, Ise should see him receiving the theerfal sod wi!ling homage of his countrymen few his meritorious exertions. and extorting from Gentlemen oppo. site, aye in despite too of their interest, their unwilling ap probation.—(Cheers.j.--He WOlllll not be detested by the q u ac k s oeGeediense• opposite, who bad placed him last Friday up** his trial, and found him guilty ; but to-night he moved fee a new trial, and world he honourably acquitted. They should bear the language of the above ea med documeut : " Oh, poor Mr. Such.s. owe ! be is Nodose; all his statements are tocuerect; no one will place any dna pendanee on him in future. Noss we shall return to dame glorious halcyon days, when we amid cough, aye, Ihusde down any Mal who peesuwed to inquire into our estimates; when we breaded such sa in tor with the aupethilloo of Jaeobia, Bensapertist, die. men WhOptiesepted to „raise 4 vs. roliefi.n on the basis of society!! ! " —(Conturued tau eh ter.)--. But he knew his Hoe. Friend would nut be itsionsdated ; he would in ou through good retort and ev.l report, reckless of imp attacks to which every public man was exposed; sled in pursuing that cower he retold do still more good than he had •Icady done, great though tt was. (The Hun. Rod Learned Gentlemau sat .'owe amid loud cheers.] The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was serpriaed at the course the discessioa had taken. Instead of cousidering estimates or supplies to be voted, they were deliberaiik upon ooe of the most important questions (far exceeding isi interest the agricultural question) that was discussed that Breslin. It was neither more nor lies than what degree of reedit was to be given in future to the slate.enh. of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen. He sever beard greater dismay then seemed to prevail. All Brookes's seemed to have taken the alarm. The great calculator (Mr. Ricardo) had been called lo as readmit, and even the Hun. and Learned Gen, Heinen (Mr. Brougham) bed discharged all his swillery upon the questiou.—(Mucb laughter )—lt would be tu be proved that night, whether all the snuff-boxes the Honoura ble Member (Mr. Hume) bad received from various parts of the country were to be re-limbed to their respective owner.% —(A laugh.)—Whether, in fact, he was disqualified for being • Member of Parhatneut ; and in future who. bq arose to address the Howse upon a matter of calculation, whether be were entitled to any credit whatever. But as the Honourable Gentleman oases his trial, he should end to raise him on his legs, fur his Honourable and Learned Friend bad thrown him ou big back. If his argument were right, his calculations were wrong. He would give the Hon. !Itemiser his choice of sides io the dilemma.—(Cheerv.)— lie could not have sat down without expressing hip opiuiee that the House would be much more profitably . employe/1 . in di.cussing the estimates. After on explanation from Mr. HUM E and Mr. CR OK ER, Mr. WM. SMITH addressed the House for • few mi 'butes in corroboration of the accuracy of Mr. Hume, The House then divided at half-pito twelve:— Fur Mr. Hame's Amendment • 78 Against it Majnrity fur the Motion Sol We were oot re-admitted into the Gallery. MINORITY On Mr. Homes Maiic.efi;ailtHiil albs glenie kmintra Car the Naval Service of t►e curtest Year.—Febreary 27. Althrirp, Lord Guise, Sir %V. Pyns, P. &bewail, Vise. Graham, S. Ricardo, D. Banco, S. M. Honyouud, W. P. Ridley, Sir M. IV. Bennett, Hu. H.G. Haldimand, W. Robin., Ab. Beeps!), B. Hill, Lord A. Kubik's, Col. Berusl, R. Hotibuuse, J. C. Robinson, Sir G. Birch, J. James, %V. Rumbuld, C. Brougham, IL Johnson, Col. Rice, T. S. Bright. Henry Jervoise, G. P. Stanley, Lord Bury, Viscount Leyeesier, IL Serino, Earl of Boughey, Sir J. F. Landaus), J. G. Scott, J. Calvert, C. Letnisrii, T. B. Sykes, D. Calcraft, John Lloyd, Sir E. Stuart, Lord J. Cavenili.h, Lord G. Slabrrly, John Taylor, M. A. Ciolllelil, Hon. H. Marjorilmeiks, S. Tierney, Rs. lints G. Colborne, N. R. Maierly, %V. L. Tenuystan, C. Coocrution, Laic. Slsediniald, J. Tonoskrod, Lord C. Cr y,"l. Marna, Joi,n Webbe, E. Dr Crespiguy, SirlV.Normaoby, Vise. Whitbread. S. Davies, T H. Newmau, W. Wilkins, W. Droisun, W. J. Huron', Lard Williams, W. Do , Vise. O'Callaghan, J. Wilson, Sir R. Modes, Huu. T. Palmer, C. F. .' Wyeill, M. Ebringion, Visc. Paris, Thos. Whitmore, W. W. Ellice, Ed. Parurli, Sir H. La.. Ferguson, Sir R. T. Pus lets, Hon. %V. Hume, J. Fits; riald, Lord W. Price, R. __. bonsai W. FROM CA &ICC AS. From our correspondent /It Comes:As we harm under date of the sob Novem ber, that every thing there Wes tromed.- The Spaniards Mod returned_ tit Porto Corbelio, A Colonel Nwstos wss shot. ist CilfaCeall the 30t1 , , tor A:ss. C'ily Gezetre.) ' .• • • • • ir _L iUßLiiiilEk Till' PArriXg. - ____......._-_. . . • .... , L i- jCiTABLIMIXIINtS AT HAII.IIIIO/11t grip . . ~ 1 • ,____ ADDINCOMBE. • A RETURN of the *sent Establighomst pt **Gillis at Hinteybiwei eistingaiebbig the Nemo of the Pommes employed, the Oates they hold, the Awesome of re/ 0114 Alkewraacei of erica, and the A...t of dlikolfells. ~..:, PROFRIMORB and ausrms. • Per asoomp. The Rey. Dr. Rama, Principal, 1•11 ProteMer 011. I . P , Chimes tied General Literature .. .1411144 Ditto. Allowaare hie COI* ale The Rev. C. W. Cm Sas, Prelemecof Illetboasaike t' sod Natural Philewmpby. . - ...• •00.4 Dot., ea Deem of the Wiese ..... e , . 4 . 50 .. 48 .4 ISM , . The Ker. H. %Salim, Perifessur of the same....:•• , 10•1 • 1 1/ The Rev. K. Leese's, Professor of Haesaaity sad Philology • Ditto, as Registrar sad Libraries .... The Rev. T. R. Malthus, Professor of History gad Political Reiroomy Charles Stewart, Reg. Professor of Arabic, Poi. was, sad Hisidusiaoi . . Graves C. Haughtos, Esq. Professor of Ssa.trit and Beng•lee Sir James Mackintosh, Protes.or or Law • 5$ . • Alluietece fur House Rent St 10 The Rev. R. G.A. Recite, Assistant Profertwir its the Driest& Department ..... j .... •••••• • P • • • • l5OO 0 Robert Anderson, E.q. Assistael /9010110001,em the Oriental Department ' • '' . ... . SOO • Charles Wilkins, Reg. Visitor end Emellitter is:1116 Orleatal Department ,••• 100 0 Mr. T. •Medlsod, Drawing Muster "for Hyder, Persian Writing Master Allowance for House Rest IVO 0 di....,—...—... Total.., Skits Is A RETURN, in detail, of the usenet listablishweal at the Military Smithery at Addisembet distineuishimx this Names .r the Permits essiduyedyeloOMtes they hold, the Amount of Pay sad Allowaime of each, and the Total of the whole. C. 8.41 111. Major new. Fir Howard Douglas, Bart. .' • • •• a tf. Public Examiner Charles Wilkins, Esq. F.R.S. LLD. Tsetse . • and Public Examiner la • the Oriental De partment ... (No Salary.) RESIDENT PROFESSOR. MASTERS, kr. De. dames Andrew, Professor of Mathematics sad He'd Classical Master Mr. Alexander Andemn, M.A. Mathematical Assistaat Mr. Shovel Parlour, ditto Mr. Pew Oger, French ditto l5O 0 0 Mr. JAN Junes, Classical ditto Robert Answer, Arsill.ra baritone b. 0 7 Dodd, Artiiltey Cc poral IS Peltlic Servants .• MO 10 0. NON RESIDENT PROFESSORS. Joseph Itordwia•. E•q. Professor of Forlifirs lige sad Artillery lOO 0 0 ChrtMs noisrlio, Esq. Professor of T. p..grs pilikial Drawing sod Military Sa.vrying 3OO 0 0 Jobs Ilhakesprar, Esq. Professor of His ' diestal,t Hasgletoo, Esq. Assistant Srio 0 0 H• Aga°. jell. Ertl Broad Sword Mosier lOO 0 0 Dr: 9ACallutb, Chemical ILeetsrer 330 0 0 Total. 4,691 9 3 • 1101 has N.ee►, W. ABINGTON, 110100W1114 In& f o#ll' Military Seminary Cos. ./ t_ L _ 4 • . • IRDfroit or ?Hi DierriOlf Plass. Sew—The proposed plan of the Chaserllor of be Earle. goer will be rendered more intelligible to mislay small Stock holdres if the caleulatinas ale 'nee in small sums, either than is amounts which teed more to (lassie the imagism. thou than to enlighten the judgment; and as the question is nut now whether it is a hardship to various individuals to have their incomes diminished, but whether they shall ' to greater injury, steer themselves to be deluded (as leo asersy.bave already been) by theme who hope to prods by the Panic they are so eager to create, I think it may be bole dein! if you will insert the following calculatiou in your in dep.:ideas and most impartial Juurssl : Present prices—Consuls, 781; 4 per Casts. 971 ; 5 per Cents. 103. t a. d. jot. 5 per Cent. Stock yields 1031.1 pewot 4 6 0 0 ........... J f Which sum, if transferred to the 3 per Cool s oill pstrei:ette,l3ol in that Abodtissilinnisal 3 lit 6 Jadeite,' of rillpicle he 1 1 4 Illeiog a differenee of 1 estimate the new 4 per Cent. Slack (to be crested) will be woad) 1 per cent. more then the present 4 per Cent. as it is iodoopeeweed from redemption by Government fur seven .yeeske prefer of Government, therefore, is competition with the above . • ode of tramder, stands thus : r a. d. t a. d. 1061.4 per Cents. et 981 i 193 Ifs 6 or inlerest 4 4 0 . feausfereed ail abore.... 103 0 0 3 13 111 1.115.669. p t. tht " jai. " I 016 'I prioripol, or 0 6 ter's offer . . per Croat. per •111111.. J. B. Fetlessarip 211, 1622. 'IRE 13 311., PRE S S. LONDON; THURSDAY, FssavaßY es, 1822. We entertain a kojie, in consequence of what fell last night in the House of Commons from Dlr. WALILACIN that Parliament will be required in this Sevaion to consider the propriety of removing the duties of import between England and Ireland. The existence of soch duties betray a feeling of jealousy which ought no longer to exist, and are in principle opposed to every currect notion of politi cal economy. • Private interests may undoubtedly be effected by their sodden end total removal, but the public welfare demands the sacrifice; end sooner or later it moat be accomplished. The union of the two Islands is incomplete until this great work be perfected. If the Ministers of the Croon be sincere in the declaration of the . epinion that no relief cotdd arise to the country from the reduotion of - any pdrtion of • the taxes, lU:becomes a matter:of suriniee that. they stsonldat so'early petiod of the . Session have . , with an opitarent readiness,' voluntarily proposed to . decline the renewal of theannual osalt,t4x4 This is the snore eensarkoble too, •a s, ootsrulistisoislitte these. orliotentialt. threads during mars? svitt4faili Otte' sinking fund, they have an at dtkitoliffitiMPOlMC • meant of aiunlitti Is comiusunity, is to enable itrimim en enssets fur the liqaidittinn of the debt to large sums of mislay esery year into the Market. We have adviiedly used this Mode of 'ertPres.ing the opeva: lion of the .inking fund; for it would be a siloehery to talk of reducing the national debt at the Motimeut utheu the capital of the debt is about to be inerroord, weer% millions by the transfer of the 5 per crow.. and four mafiosi by a loan from the Bank to pee mote parochial •rieteutagance. There is io the *hole of the proceedings of the Ministers so moth of inconsistency and of contradiction', that if theit Principles were to be collected from their actions. Ilse pursuit would porezle many a careful i quiver. We cannot doubt, however; from their own declare- Bone, that they are the devoted advocates of hie lion, and we must thence infer that the proposed remission of the annual malt duty .rises from a feel lug upon their part more nearly allied to prudence. if not to absolute apprehension, than to a sincere desire to relieve the sufferings of the country. lu the mode adopted by the Ministers and their friends to support their position in favour of tats. Lion, there seems to be a want either of candour or of precision. They affect to believe that the only complaint now urged by the agriculturists is tl.e extreme depression of the prices of agricultural practice, and that those who pronose the reduction of taxes are impressed with an idea that the only way.,in which such • measure would operate bene- Ikially was •by raising the price of corn in the market. There can be no doubt that if, by the di minution of taxes affecting generally the great mass of the people, the power of consumption could be enlarged, the increased demand consequent thereon must have the effect of proportionally raising the prices of such articles as might thus come more extensively into regnesl, sad in this way the agri. culturist might indirectly obtain relief. But it is a mistake to suppose that the farmers complain of low prices in the abstract, and nut because such juices are found inadequate to meet their expendi ture. All that the farmers require s, that their incomes should bear such a proportion to their out goings as would remunerate them for their indus try and the employment of their capital, and to them it matters very little whether this object be effected by the enlargement of the one, of the diminution of the other. Some very nice calculations have been made, both in and out of Parliament. - to shew that the amount of taxes paid by • farmer fortes but a small item in his expenditure in comparison with his rent, and that it is to his landlord he ought to apply fur re. lief, and not to the country. The question then lies between the landlords of Great Britain and the Ministers ; but it cannot be forgotten that the landlords hare already made large sacrifices from their rents, and that unless relief be extended to themselves by a diminution of their taxes, •sod s reduction in the various demands which, from the weight of universal 'elation, fall upon. them directly and indirectly, they must reduce them. selves to very serious distress if they make any further reductions. The tenant of the soil is certainly entitled to the first place in public consideration, but we ought not wholly to deny our sympathies to the interests of the landifwners, whose capital is the laud which is intrusted to the skill and integrity of the cultivators. The only question, therefore, that properly belongs to Par liament, is the expediency of continuing any tax which might with safely be remitted. We confect' that we think the speech of the Marquis of LANSDOWN, on Tuesday evening, was, upon this topic, wholly unanswerable. We have received Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday. The former contain reports of the pro ceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, in which some matters occur that at this particular juncture of our own financial affairs are well de. serving of attention. A project of law cori?erniog the regulation of the accounts of 1820 was discussed in the Chamber, and the opportunity was seised to offer to the people of France a general view of the financial condition of the country. M. Dumatsa Di H•traANNE, after observing that the receipts and expenditure of the Government were consider. ably larger than they were before the Revolution, said, Our financial situation is highly flattering ; it is, I believe, the best in Europe. A floating debt of 67 ni,llions of francs (about 2,800,0000 offers nothing to alarm us. Not only . have (it resources been sufficient for our expenses in lux I and 1822, but a cons :1-.able excess of receipts has permitted us to diminish the land tax. The excess of 1840 was 37 millions; the year 1821 was nearly the same. More than forty millions of tem porary expenses will be extiogssiihed from year to year, and the liquidation of )Ite consolidated debt will proceed with rapid pace. It is from the midst of misfortunes which eeentedeready to overwhelm our country with embarrassments of every kind, it is after the liquidation of enormous tributes that France rises more prosperous than ever. Honour to the Government of the Kim and to the Chamber, which have never despaired of our safety, and• which in happy Concurrence hareec :4elipliehed the restoration of • out flounces.st - This ,es. a most flattering' pict ore the state of the • Peach treasury, bat we believe it to be fully llittimited. The Minister of Finance did not take a part in this discussion, wllich - referred to the de. _. kilLill ridicule he did net consider as his forte; he I he kne" , his place better. and hoped he irliardsoeh.y a.vn i what t or t: ii ~' "al crodid manner. and he had expected at they ware met at all they would he me' is I `troew and candour. It could not he ex nl him. who had tin wens to official ell exts, th•it he should be as accurate in tl Jr 141 . 1 * i' l his stateme n t s as the ilolinotrahle Nit 14 rY, %Ito hail brew ten years in ; lb. —... 4p I I