The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

LONDON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6.

Considerable disturbances have taken place re-
cently, in consequence of the farmers lowering the
wages of their workmen—what the wages were
from which a reduction of is. per week was deter-
mined on we know not—that the distressed state of
agriculture calls fur every justifiable economy is self-
evident, and that the labourer can subsist upon
much less than he could when provisions were so
much dearer than they are now, is equally plain ;
but we can scarcely restrain our indignation when
we look at a document now lying before us—it pur-
pirts to be an account of the proceedings of a meet-
ing of the Magistrates in the Grand Jury Chambers
at Winchester, and declares that in making future
orders for the relief of the poor, they will order for
each individual per week the price of a gallon loaf
and fourpence over, and recommends—.

" To the Officers of every parish, when the family shell coo-
sivt of a man and his wife, or a man with one child, to offer to
•anti such man, 4s. per week from Michaelmas to Ladyday,
and .is. per week from Ladyday to Michaelmas, so that he
might he engaged to serve the whole year; and any man re-
loving that offer shall not be entitled to any relief. If no snob
offer be wade, or no such employment can be found whereby
any such Men can maintain himself and his wife or child, the
allowance is to be 33. 6d. per week, and no more.
." To every unmarried man the justices recommend the offi-
cers of every parish to offer 3s. per week from Michaelmas to
Ladyday, and 4s. per week from Ladyday to Michaelmas, so
that he way be engaged to serve the whole year ; and any un-
married mom refusing that offer shall oot be entitled to any
relief. If no such offer be made, or no sufficient employment
cad be found whereby any such unmarried man can maintain
himself, he Grail be allowed 2s. W. per week and uo more.
To a woman with one child, 34. lid, per week and no more.
To every single woman, the Min of 2s. Gd. per week, Walla
More.

In this meeting there were eight Magistrates
present, and five of them were Clergymen !
now we would ask, can the parties here particu-
larized by these Reverend Gentlemen absolutely
exia upon these allowances—we reply to that ques-
tion feazlessly that it is impossible, and had we
signed such an order, we should live in constant
apprehension that the justice of the Supreme Power
would overtake us, if the Inisera6les we had thus
condemned to starvation or dishonesty, did not
snake a signal example of us, to deter others who
have to legislate on such occasions, from forcing'
fathers to listen to the cries of hunger from their
children, or to appease those cries at the risk of
the forfeit of their lives to the offended laws of their
Country.

In order to impress more fully or his collea,,mues
the necessity for the accession of Mr. Canning, Lord
Liverpool, in the late discussions, laid before them
the plan of the new financial arrangements, which
he has it in contemplation to propose in the ensuing
Session. One important part of these arrangements,
we understand, is, the substitution of a Tax on
Property for Assessed Taxes,which are to be repealed
to the amount of some millions a year. In this way
it is hoped that the country gentlemen slay be qui-
eted, without any sacrifice on the part of the Ex-
chequer (the amount of Property Tax equalling that
of Assessed Taxes repealed), and that consequently

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the Civil and Military Eapdslisbraents of the coun-
try may be preserved from farther reduction. Be-
sides, the expectation that monied men will be wade
to pay much more by a Property Tax than they do
at present, while the country gentlemen will pay
less. Ministers may also have in view the reaching
those who now consume their revenues übroad, and
the tempting those to return whom the Assessed
Taxes have driven away. Of course every shift
will be tried before entering seriously on reduction. i
Whether or not the country gentlemen will be satis.
lied without any reduction is a question which will
of course be variously answered, according to the
notions entertained of them.

The subscribers to Lloyd's having in May last
voted from their funds the sum of 1051. to Lieut
J. W. Jones, R. N. some men under his orders,
and others, for saving the crew of a Russian vessel
wrecked at the back of the Isle of Wight, a repre-
sentation of the circumstances was made to the Rus-
sian Consul-General for the information of the
Ambassador; and on being communicated to his
Imperial Majesty, the Emperor was graciously
pleased to allow in his own name the sum of 1201.
to Lieut Junes and the parties who saved, and af-
terwards rendered assistance to, the Russian seamen
on that occasion sod which has been transmitted
to them through the Committee of Lloyd's.
Great reductions are taking place at the military
dlepartments in Scotland. The clerk.: in the Ad-
jutant-General's office are reduced; and we under-
stand that it is expected that Lord R. Kerr, with the
assistance of one clerk, with the salary of 2s. fid, a
day, will be able to undertake the business of this
department.
The following is an extract of a letter from
Zante, dated August 24:—" Some days ago we
heard on our coast, at six in the morning, a most
terrible cannonade, which seemed to come from Na-
varino; it continued some hours, decreased by de-
grees, and entirely ceased at noon. A fishing boat
tiom Navarino has just this moment come in, from
which we learn that not far from that place, awl
close to the Gulf of Sendai°, there had been a severe
engagement between the Turkish and Greek fleets,
greatly to the disadvantage of the latter. The fish-
erman said he had encountered several flying ships
between Navarino and Arcadia, from which he es-
caped with great difficulty, as they pursued hint for
some hours." . _ _

Papers from New York to the 24th of August
inclusive have arrived. The couilagration, reported
to have consumed half the city, proves to Le a fire
of no extraordinary magnitude, and to have occurred
not in New York itsell; but in the suburb of Brook-
lyn, on the other side of East river, about a mile
distant. The property destroyed consistol oi. build-
ings belonging to private individuals, in whicii were
deposited about 1,400 bales of cotton, and 12,000
barrels of naval stores, and the total loss is nut sup-
posed to exceed 100,000 dollars. From the report
of the Board of Health at New Yerk on the 23.1, it
appears that 35 deaths only from yellow lever had
occurred since the commencement of the iwiectiou :
it war deemed necessary, however, by the Boards of
Health, both at Philadelphia and at Baltimore, to
prohibit all eofnumnication with New York. Ou
this latter point, it should be observed, there is a
discrepancy itt the accounts, some stating that the
communication hss, and others that it has not, been
interdicted ; but the former must be received as the
more accurate statement The crew of the Macedo-
nian frigate, removed to Crafty gland, were reported
otheislly to be nearly all in a state of convalescence.
—The triennial meeting of the stockholders of the
United Suites Bank was to take place at Philadel-
phia on the 2d ultimo; and on account of the pre-
viously unsettled state of the concerns of that
establishment, excited much attention from the per-
sons interested. Much speculation is already em-
ployed in the United States' journals respecting Cie
next appointment to the Presidency, though the day
of election is as distant as the year 1825. Among
other candidates for that distinction is the celebrated
" Hero of Orleans" (as he is termed by the Ameri-
cans), General Andrew Jackson, a man fitted by his
abilities for almost any station, but the last, on ac-
count of his arbitrary notions, to be placed at the
head of the government of a free country.
BRIOHTON PALACE —lt will be remembered that
the King purchased the hue of houses front Church-street to
Marlborough-house, with the exception of the corner hose. and
• blacksmith's shop, the owner of which, thinking that they
could not be dispensed with, demanded a most ithaiueful price.
Hy an act of Parliament his Majesty could haze compelled him
to sell at a fair valuation, but this be disdained to do, and they
they remain in the saint poises/ion; but within the last few
weeks, and daring the absence ef his Majesty, a wall has been
ran up between the King's house and the house in question,
which effectually shuts oat all sight or communioation. This
retaliating spirit, however just, is beneath a Kiug and we re-
joice to say that his Majesty knows aothing of the patter.—
There is therefore reason to expect that the wall be removed
on his return I. Brighton.

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