The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

Neornrear Dirraser.

COUNOIL Tenement.. Under Si. Prom 91. to 101.
Donegal ... 43,898 26,262 11,823
Donn ... 69,313 40,717
9,906 12,226
7,299
Mae ssibma ......... ............ 31,351 13,706 10,141
MIL
1100111211% Dreralcr.
(beak.. Tenementa. Under 31. Prom 51. to 101.
Clare — 23,259 13,403 7,440
30,751 14,899 3,953
Tipperary
Total

A glance at the various other classes of tenements
will show a curious uniformity of progression in the
numbers, in the two districts under examination, and
that, tried by every test, the inferences we originally
, ventured to draw are fully sustained.
Novranug Durrater.

TicTidTogr, £2O
sod upwards.

lloldinfs, £3O
and upwards.

-1;i"d uplradi.

Donegal.
Down
Londonderry
Monaghan
Total

Clare
Limerick ..„
Tipperary

Total .....1

2,f90
7,220
2,773
1,031

14,614

Holthngs, £2O
and upwardm.

3,175
7,613
$0705

1,318
3,843
1,533
887

7,383

Monier.

Iloidimp, 301.
and upwards.

1,664
6,101
6,315

445
9,195
768
479

Hodings, 40t.
and upwards.

111,418

1,294
1,583
3,641

maw

8,518

Whatever objections there may be brought against
the prevalence of small farms, it is clear that in Ire-
land it cannot be said to be productive of, or even pro-
portionally coincident with, the prevalence of
agrarian crime.

THE numerous classes who are burdened with
unequal or over-heavy taxation are all rousing them-
selves. The anti-excise association of the north con-
tinue their efforts, and even the slow-moving paper
makers of England are preparing to take the field
with them. The advocates of reduced duties on tea
had an interview with Lord J. RUSSELL yesterday.
The opponents of the window-tax in all our great
towns are thinking of a concerted movement. The
leading provincial journals are, like ourselves, raising
their voices against the stamp and advertisement
duties. There is scarcely a tax that wiU not have its
assailants in the approaching session ; ministers will
have to do battle for every one of them seriatim.
On the other band, calls for increased expenditure,
instead of retrenchment, arc not wanting. The Irish
accounts are not yet closed, and part of the loan voted
to Ireland, it appears, was stuffed into vacant
chinks and crannies of last yeae.:. Much may
be said in behalf of an increased educational grant.
And then there are our invasion alarmists—though,

to do them jus.ice, they are becoming more moderate
in their demands, and appear likely to be satisfied
with some slight addition to the defences of Dover
Castle and with the fortification of Osborne-house.
Ministers will, of course, avail themselves of this
cross-firing on the part of their besiegers, and let
With prudent thecipline, from north to south,
Austim and Franee shoot in etch other's mouth.
We have no intention to prejudge the arguments
against any proposed reductions of taxation, or, what
is still more likely, in behalf of increased taxation
that may be elicited from the actual balance of
revenue and expenditure. But as all mere mortal
ministers are naturally disposed to place the neces-
sities of their own position in the fore-ground, and
the necessities of the paying public in the middle-
ground, if not, indeed, the extreme distance or vanish-
ing point of their financial pictures, we deem it ex-
pedient to lose no time in entering upon record the
plea of the tax-paying portion of the community.
National expenditure and national income are al-
ways estimand iu money which, in this country,.. is
assumed to have a fixed value, and which certainly,
though all of us are aware from sad experience that
it has its rises and falls as well as other commodities,
fluctuates within a more limited range than the most
of them. At all events, it so happens that the value
of money continues tolerably high at the present
writing, and that at the name time a great depres-
sion in the values of all kinds of produce has