The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBIII 44. 1841.

An Official Statement will be found in another
part of our Pow of the produce of the Revenue.
of Ireland for the years ended respectively the 10th
of October 1820, and the 10th of October 1821,
distinguishing the several quarters. The statement
is so far satisfactory, as it 'thews the actual receipt
of. larger sum of money within the year just closed
than was collected within the year preceding, and
that the produce of the last quarter exceeded that
of the corresponding quarte► in the former year by
something more than 147,0004 The increase in
the receipt of the Revenue during the whole year
amounts to 216,3251. 16.. 21d. An improvement, '
we are glad to find, took place within that time in
the Customs, but in the I,..reise there is a falling of,
although the last quarter was, from the circum-
stance of the Ktiro's visit to Ireland, more than
usually productive under this head of the Revenue.
The increase in the Excise during the last quarter,
as compared with its produce in the October quar-
ter of 1820, amounts to 51,7561. so that the falling
off in this branch of the Revenue during the other
three quarters of-the year must have been very con-
siderable. There is an increase within the year in
the Assessed* Taxes, but within the last quarter
alone there is a falling off under this head of nearly
50 per cent. as compared with the produce of the cor-
responding period of the former year. In the Stump
Duties, and the revenue of the Post-office, there
is a reduction; so that ■hhough in the total amount
of the produce of the year there is a considerable
increase, it is attended with particular deficiencies
in such important branches, that, with the exception
s.f the Custom Duties, we tee no cause for congratu-
lating the public upon th►e general character of the
statement. The actual receipt of money in the Ex-
chequer is, no doubt,* po►itive good ; and if the pro-
duce of one year, no matter how obtsined,exceeds that
of the year preceding, •n advantage is obtained to
the public Exchequer which mum be acknos hedged
as a public bench.. In this benefit, such as it is,
we sincerely rejoice, and, for the present, will only
express a hope that the revenue may in every
successive year afford better evidences of • flou-
rishing condition than can be collected from the
statement that is now priblielied from authority.
In the system of the Revenue of Ireland tl►•re
are numerous radical del; eta, which earnestly coll.
cit the attention of Parlemient. Ireland ha., front
time immemorial, been a land of jobbing, where the
Government has imagined itself to require the
support of placemen and place-hunters; and where,
by a necessary consequence, it has been compelled
to connive at abuses, mid to lend itself to the gra.
tificatiou of party interests. There is not in the world
a Government more numerously served by plecemen
in all its departments than the Viceregal Govern-
ment of Ireland ; for there, places have been form-
ed, not with a view to the necessities of the State,
or to the interests of the public, but with an im-
mediate reference to the applications of men in
power, who might be anxious to provide at the
public expense for their friends, followers, and de-
pendants. It is quite shocking to see in the offi-
cial returns of the Irish Government the enormous
expenditure at which the public Revenue of Ire.
land is collected in some of its branches—an ex-
pendit iudeed which - Id he discredited by

siiive intelligence,
Revenue of Ire. other recruit in the
, ste'Oug:f gu.srded in the fortress eial returns of the Irish Gnvernment the enormous The intolerant p
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of Mumfatscli. At counts St. Pelersburgh, expenditure at whichthe publicfitskreh an
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knighted by 11
that may be deperidt•ti on, tilt the differences laud is collected in some o
which would he discredited by supporters of his
u. between Russia and the Porte wt II be amicably
Pear:ll:sea indeed
in the kingdom, if unfortunately the the breaking up
adjusted. Here (it Vtensta), at leant.
body doubts of the totatinuauce of peace. ba..isd'ill'.l:titlitelise. etivieot-it statement of its amount did not rest upon the au. Friday evening, SI
recounts final Greece represent the situation oi ment.
Tofhethneetopffirocdisulcdenoefumtielentics
uosftotmhes
of Great
oGirerertai-t Civioierpreorhaetiholand
ordere
Greeks as rather critical.—(Aaremberg Corn
apondetat, October 10.) . Britain is collected at the rate of 131. per cent.; for Aldermen were
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tBi ace Id' u. r- tSe Customs of Ireland are collected at the more than usually t
in
lecrhteheresyuclatrs. ofistil; sadnmdi ißLlttOti
of
before s Maje.ty, he ha, authorised the Ministers land at'l:s.
Si° haring been laid colleett •
pty cent. The Excise of Great Britain is consisting of betwec
Nrl at t.he rate of St. per cent.; that of Ire- bees, when Messrs,
of
5:4 63:71:113:
nie:oiS:
et taielineaplf 9nOt;:;011dtwo fconlG:pei
,na:(l4:B:riefeai d't
of thie
espres4 to all the officers of Justice taiga at 31. at 9,•. Q.. The net pro- A
ldermanie Gown
his Majesty s grecions satisfaction with their nide- duce of the re
fatigable diligence in their duty, their zeal, and Britain, iu the. it Spehretruiffuibevinogfdzitikr