The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-02-05 00:00:00

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most hale a reduelilt.4o,,l/teir etpetedit ore, and.
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Ciabtlie krnth, jt mutt matter very . little to tkpatr
whether tine be effected. by a reduction in resits sit
in taxes. The 3tAixtliou. to be solved by Paths.
anent, therefore, will be, whether the farmer; are
to be eettA•etf tit the expense of the. landlords or qf
ilte'reti4irs! The landlords, if they exert thrtn«
oervelt,..breo jhe solutip,o of this point in their own
po'Wer, and in securin their pervoital.interesis they.
will have the satisfaction of reflecting that they eel
the same time essentially promote • these of the
empire in general. •
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The rate of Ireland mutt be made • prominent•l
subject of.inqpia iq hush Houses of Parliament,
and in this subject must nrcessiirilybe involved the
question of Catholic t,mancipition. cud the expe-
diency of relieving
.the .Clergy of the Established
Church in Ireland from the cruel necessity of
!itorioin;; t4eir,nsiapstpf support from the uncertain
and dangerous mitre of collecting tithes. A
commutation of titheefor any other species of pro.
periy must be an essential oervice.to the church,
while it would remove sae of the most fruitful
sources of angry. mid vindictive ominous from the
great body of the peasantry. To the. latter the
commutation, in point of fact, would eveutuallybe.
of no advantage, because the resits would be raised
in the proportion of the tithes removed, and the
only persons served would be the landlord.. But
who can deny the omnipotence of opinion, or hope
to stem the torrent of prejudice by the silent opera.
tion of reason ?
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The Surrey county meeting to take into conside-
ration the agricultural (Nitre's of the country, wes
held yesterday at Epsom. It was numerously
and respectably attended. A Petition. ascribing
the evil to excessive taxation, and recommend.*
ing a reduction of the burdens as the only and
effectual cure, was moved by Mr. W. Worsens,
and seconded by Captain MABERLY. This up.
peered i be the sense of those who had signed the
for the meeting; but it was objected
that the Petition did not go far enough, laud was
deficient in not. including a Resolution in favour
of Parliamentary Reform, the corruption of Par-
liament being the source of the excessive taxation.
Reform, however, not bring noticed in the
RequiSition, the High Sheriff refused. to allow
it to be made a part or the proceedings; bet so
determined were the meting upon that point,
it although they approved the Petition as far as
it went, they negatived it roller tbru.pass it without
favourite Reform.. The High Sheriff then
dimolved the meeting, • considerable. party of
which proceeded to the Assembly Room, and pre-
pared a new Requisition, including Reform, which
was presented to the High Sheriff. The latter,
however, declined to call en immediate meeting, in
conformity with the precedent of .thy tots Suffolk.
meeting, alleging that he did nor think it would
be oesiisg Andy by those who had staid away from
i‘o meeting, not expecting from the purport of the
for Mer Requisition that the subject of Reform would
be introduced, nor by those who were gone away,
conceiving the business at an end ; but he con-
sented to fix • meeting for this day fortnight. A
full report of the proceedings is given in our pre-
ceding columns. They will be found very in.
tercstiug.
We have received • ulnae of American Papers,
including • series from New York to the 10th et,
January. The business in Congress is totally
titine of interest; and there is no receut intelligence
from South America.

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We have received Papers from various parts of
Ireland, including some from Dublin of Saturday
!ask, Their intelligence is of a favourable com-
plexion. A considerable quantity of young tim-
ber has been cut down by the White Boys upon
the lands of Mr. Lea DAR, in the county of Co►k, fur
the purpose of undoing pikes. This is the only
new outrage comMitied in that quarter, the local
Journals of which express a confident expecta-
tion of the immediate restoration of the pub-
lic tranquillity. 'the Aiittquis WILLESLRY, it is
said, means tu visit the seat of the recent dig.
titrbances in person. The remains of the unfortu.
nate BUCKLEY, after having beets buried for a week,
were disinterred on Sunday re'isnight, for the par.
pose of holding an inquest. The investigation is
likely to occupy a length of time. We are glad
ihAr the proceeding, however tardy, has been
adopted. An order was issued by Mr. GRANT,
and is now in force, that the yeomanry should
not be employed in *oppressing illicit distillation,
the ofl'ence fur which BucitLec was apprehended.

The funds experienced a further improvement
yesterday. Cons.ls fur account rose to 7n, but
lelt cast 771. In the course of the day it was
confidently asserted that • deputation from the
Bunk Directors bad been requested to confer with
the Miuister upon .ante plan respecting in increase
of the circulating medium, presumed to be en offer
ou their pert to discount at 4 per cent. The
reaction in the funds at the close of the market is
ascribed to this report. The buyers yesterday were
la a large amount, cud were the same parties who,
last weak, were the principal, if not the only sellers.
The revenue for the lust month is underetood to be
unusually good, and a confident expectation conti-
nues to prevail that the funds will improve.

On Tuesday Wit.LiAst Eitsatite, Esq. Willa-
cote. preornivd hit MAJESTY'S letter, appoiuting.
Itioi-our of the Ordinury Lords of Sevoinu, in 'room
of Lord BALMUTo, resigned, to the Lord Prrol.
dent in the First Division, which was reod by Sir
W•LTiR SCUTT, one of the Principal Clerks.

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