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windier they should hail as a blessing those pros-
pects of plenty, or regard them with fear for the
consegisenceskand submit totbilikerkh Went resig-
nation,* M. evil of which tbor**.soina tort
compleickeentlee they do obi chatirtlee -how it
wasp Wight be averted. Whin it is re&
collected how much the yeomanry of the country,
and those depending on them, suffered last winter
from the short prices of agricultural produce, it is
painful to contemplate what their future situation
will be, with a More than overage crop, and the ex-
isting prices less by half than those which they ob-
tained last autumn. The accounts froai-Ireland
stale, that • large proportion of the soundest pert of
last year's corn remains yet undiaposed of, and that
she present crops promise to be more than usually
productive. There is no reason, however, to con-
strue this indication of happiness into an omen of
permanent prosperity, after witnessing, last winter
and spring, in that unhappy country, an anomaly
.which was never known to exist in any other,
namely—direful famine raging in the midst of
avowed plenty. The pnblic being divided in opi.
nion with respect to the causes which produced
this lamentable state its both countries, cannot, for
that very reason, agree in the choice or application
of a suitable remedy. The discovery of any remedy
has already baffled the wisdom and experience of
the ablest men in the kingdom. The various plans
which were proposed in the House of Com Tons
last Session, had not even the merit of speciousness
to recommend them for adoption. They were pro.
posed, amply discossed, their futility exposed, and
immediately withdrawn. The object of introducing
them at all was, evidently, to shew the country gen-
tleman that his interests were not neglected—
" Show his ryes, and grieve his beast—
Come like shadows, so depart."
This is, however, • subject in which the interest
and the existence of the nation is so much involved,
that public men ought to apply themselves to it
with more earnestness. Inattention to it cannot be
excused on the plea of foreign war or internal com-
motion. The country, probably, never enjoyed
more universal domestic tranquillity. Our foreign
relations have not been known for centuries to be
established on a securer or more amicable footing.
Nothing exists in either to divert the attention of
the Government and the people from prosecuting
with success plans of internal improvement. The
fume acquired by British valour. and by British
enterprise, in every part of the globe, may be flat.
tering and intoxicating, for a while, but it avails
little unless supported by wisdom at home. Parni
aunt psis arena, nisi est conciliators demi. Whether
this anomalous state of our affairs is to be attribut-
ed chiefly and solely to the pressure arising from
over-taxstion, as many persuade themselves, or to the
excess of agricultural produce, over necessary con•
sumption, according to the doctrine of others, is
an inquiry intsivlsieh we cannot enter at present.
Both those manes have, no doubt, their respective
shares in producing the calamities of the wield.
turalists. It is evident that any reduction of taxa-
tion that might be made at present by the thrifti-
est political economists, consistently with the main-
tenance of reasonable and moderate establishments,
could not afford any immediate relief from agri-
cultural &stress ; while, besides eight millions of
poor rates, thirty-two millions. year must be raised
for paying the interest of the national debt.
Much, however, may be accomplished by convert-
ing to the production of other commodities a por-
tion of the land now usually cultivated with wheat.
The corn markets of England have been kept down
by the inundation of Irish produce. The corn
grown in England would scarcely support its own
population. The object, then, to be accomplished
is, to divert to other purposes besides the produc-
tion of wheat, some part of the Irish soil, whose
richness is peculiarly •fitted for the growth of flax,
hemp, barley, &c. The City of London Commit-
tee, whose exertions, aided by the benevolent pub.
lic, have been so successful in rescuing from star-
vation the Irish peasantry, impressed with this
consideration, sent over, early in the spring, to the
South of Ireland, a large quantity of flax-seed.
This example ought to be acted upon more gene-
rally. It is a fact worthy of observation, that the
northern counties of Ireland, where the linen mann.
facture is the chief employment, were entirely
exempt from that distress which overspread the
southern and western counties. The people are,
besides, in general, better educated, and more
cleanly in their habits, as well as more independent
in principle.—(Bristol Mirror./

Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK and
CAMBIUMS visited his MaJILSTT yesterday.

The LORD Cuancaraoa had ao audience of the
Kt No yesterday.
Letter• from Peterbbu►gh, dated the 14th or last
mouth, state that the banker Rothschild had arrived
there from London.

The draught of a Petition has been prepared for
the signatures of the landowners and occupiers
of land in the county of Pembroke, the object
of which is to obtain from the Legislature a commu-
tation of tithes. The legal right of the clergy to
their tithes is admitted at the outset of the Ad-
'ilress, as well as the necessity of assigning to that
'body an ample and suitable maintenance. But
the ground on which the proposed remedy is spe-
cifically pressed is, that the existing system, from
circumstances known to be connected with it, "has
tended most. materially to injure the interest, com-
fort, and happiness of the clergy, end the spiritual
and temporal welfare of their parishioners,"

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