The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

[From the Bury Gazette, Jan. 16.]
We have great pleasure in announcing that, owing to the ex-
treme agricultural distress, a: further proof of the well4cnown
liberality of Sir THOMAS GoocH, Bart;
.of Benacre-hall, has
been displayed in reducing the rent-roll of his Benacre estate
one-fourth. By this means; we hope the tenants will be able to
bear up against the exigencies of the present times. The re-
duction is more than equal to their most sanguine expecta-
tions.

RED utTi osr OF TITHES.—We have long seen the impro-
priety of announcing, without the requisite detail or comment,
the various instances which have occurred, from the liberality
of the Clergy, and other tithe impropriators, of the reduction of
compositions, at this very pressing period ; but. as such infor-
mation was thought to be satisfactory, not only to the individuals
immediately concerned—tenants as well as landlords—but to
the 'public at large; and, as it appeared to be the ge-
neral practice of most of the Papers in this district, and
also in others, to present; from time to time, accounts
of such reductions to their Readers, we felt ourselves
under a sort of necessity to follow the example. Convinced,
however, that, unless we were acquainted with the ac-
tual value of a farm per acre, with the extent of the rent, and
With the amount of the composition, and could state those par-
ticulars to the public, me were not only not furnishing them,
with any real information, but might in reality be doing harm
rather than good; it was always with some degree of repugnance
that we inserted such announcements. This opinion is we be.;
lieve, becoming pretty general; and we therefore avail our-
selves of the opportunity of giving an extract from a communi-
cation which we have received from a correspondent on the sub-
ject. The writer whose name we had introduced, "as having
made a deduction of.lol. per cent. unsolicited, at his late tithe
audit,"
__after handsomely declaring that he takes no merit to
himself on that account, expresses himself as follows :
" Had / given you the information, I should have requested
you to have added ---4 to those occupiers who came forward
on the -day appointed—without murmuring—to pay the dues
for which they had compounded, in -August last'—because
it is from 'thoSe only from whom the deductions were made.
But, I beg leave observe, that I consider Newspaper reports
of this nature—however kindly and well-intentioned. they may
be, by those who furnish you ,with them—as calculated to do
much more harm than good, unless they:are accompanied by a
full explanation of the extent of rents, or composition for tithes,
from whence the deductions are made.—A reasonable deduc-
tion may be made, from what may be considered, in the pre-
sent times, a high rent; which, without such explanation, may
irritate the minds of tenants under moderate rents, and lead
them to look . for indulgence to which they have no claim. A
very liberal landlord may, under the extreme pressure of the
tifnes, think it proper to make a deduction from a rent already
low ; and yet, this latter has no more credit given him than the
former. Upon the whole, it appears to me, as the explanation
hinted at cannot be entered into without interfering improperly
with the private affairs of individuals, that it would be
far better that such indiscriminate- reports were aiwgether
avoided."
Entirely according in
_opinion with the sentiments thus ex-
pressed, we hope 014 our readers will, with ourselves, see the
impropriety of giving further publicity to such statements.

• WILFUL MURDER.— On Saturday evening,-an
inquisition was held before THOMAS STIRLING,
Esq., Coroner, upon the body of James Thayer,
the unfortunate man who has been lingering since
the 24th of September in the Middlesex Hospital,
in consequence of the injury he received by
being precipitated from the house No. 48,Charles-
street, Drury-lane. -Maria Angel and Thomas
Burrell stand committed for this offence, and
were at the last Middlesex Sessions remanded to
abide the state of the unfortunate man's health.
The facts. of this case have been fully stated in
the different examinations of the persons charged
with the crime. The Jury, after a short consul-
tation, -returned the folloWing verdict :—" We
are unanimously of opinion that James Thayer.
was murdered by Thomas Burrell and John
Haggerty, by " being thrown out of a window,
thereby clearing the woman of the chargle." The
Coroner immediately prepared his cqmmitment
for Burrell, and. issued his warrant for the appre-
hension of John Haggerty, which was placed in
the hands of the officers.