The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-09 00:00:00

THE LONDON JeUItNALs.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY TionNING PAPERS,
July 9, 1822.:.

ITnE TIMES.]
The sufferings of our afflicted fellow-creatures
in Ireland are piercing and appalling, as when
we last besought the continued beneficence of
our readers in their behalf. The contributions
are exhausted ! And what remains ? A mass of
ly,retchedness undiminished ; or, if the cry be
more feeble, and the number of the victims be in
aught reduced, it is not—with anguish we say so
—it is not that the relief afforded to them has yet
raised any above the recurrence of want, but that
famine and pestilence have swept away thousands
beyond the reach of sympathy. Let us trust
that the tide of British charity may begin once
more to flow, and with even augmented power.
If one sensation be more enviable—one more
delightful than another to the 'heart of man
—it is the consciousness of having, sacrificed
something from his own bodily comforts to
the relief and support of his prostrate brother.
If the gay and affluent would but reflect
that, each separate,..penny (we speak to, the
letter), each penny which they bestow upon this
divine work of mercy, will actually remove one
pang unutterable—that of gnawing hunger, from
the breast of some one helpless being, must they
not fly to earn happiness so exquisite, and so
cheap ? A single penny will, procure one -suffie
cient meal of his humble diet, the potatoc, fora
fellow-Christian perishing with hunger. Every
penny into which a 5/. note is divisible, and which
has been already. given 'to this God-like purpose,
.has effectually saved, for the time, the Aire of
some all but expiring human. creature—some
broken down ,father of a numerous family—some
wasted' mother, or some gasping' innocent !
One single pound will suspend the cravings of
nature for eight or ten hours in two hundred and
forty of our wretched brethren. Those who'have
already tasted the joy of communicating-to their
neighbours that.relief from torture, will need no
exhortation to secure to thenrselves, by a second
bounty, another such accession of virtuous de-
light. The King's letter ought to do much, but
it has not been acted on with the zeal and
promptitude which every injunction of that sa-
ered nature has a right to demand from those
by whom it ought to be executed. We do not
seek to give offence, but it is the guilty only
whom We can wound by declaring, that the
Clergi and other functionaries; in a great num-
ber of parishes, have been lamentably remiss iu
carrying their solicitations for the wretches= [rish
from door to door. It is their bounden duty—
the neglect of it is 'a heartless and atrocious crime.

ENEw TINES.]
In what regards the. Revenue, it would be idle
'to expect any thing like common fairness in the
statements of The Times. Yet it may not be
improper to point out the grosser errors and in-
consistencies of that print. After stating that
the Quarter's Revenue was 35,0001. less _than in
~the corresponding period of last year, (but omit.:
sting to add.that taxes to the amount of 480,000/.
had been either taken off or postponed,) the
Editor goes on to say, 44 but what may be called
Home Deficiency is much greater;" and in
proof of this he asserts, among other things,
that " the Excise of the last Quarter is
30,0001. less than the corresponding Quar-
ter." Would not any one suppose from this
that it was' meant to be asserted that the con-
sumption of exciseable articles in.the country had
diminished ? Now the fact is quite the contrary;
for, omitting the decrease on _Hops and Malt,
:there would be an increase on the Excise of
194,888/. ; and the decrease on Hops and Malt
ought to be omitted in a comparative view with a
Quarter in which those taxes were in full opera-
tion ; because, as to Hops, the diminution was
occasioned by a Treasury Order for postponing
the paying; and as to Malt, the reduction is
owing to the diminution of the duty.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The renewal of the Irish Insurrection Act be-

came the subject of a discussion last night in the

House of CoMmons. Previous, however, to that
• discussion, some observations were delivered on
the subject of the Irish Distress, on receiving the
Report of the Committee, to which it had been
referred. On that occasion it seemed generally
to be thought that a Parliamentary grant was
preferable to going from house to house for sub-
• scriptions. Mr. Bennet, indeed, observed " that
the distressed districts in Ireland had not a plea
of mere charity,, but a claim of right on the
. resources of the country, hs much as York-
shire, or any ,county in England, would have in
similar circumstances." Phis is a subject of
some difficulty; We agree that the urgent wants
of the F• 3 pulation demand instant attention. But
while we allow this, we beg leave at the same
. time to doubt how far Yorkshire, or any part
of England and Ireland, can with propriety be
compared together. The productive powers of
England are answerable for the wants of her own
population, and it could only be in the case of
the insufficiency of the produce of the soil to
meet these wants that Ireland could in any man-
ner be called on to contribute. Now in the case
of Ireland, it is not contended that the produce
of the soil is insufficient for the wants of the
population, but in the distribution of that pro-
duce betwven the producer and the possessor of
the soil, the share of the former is-less than what
is requisite for his sustenance.' The English
landlord would ia many cases receive more rent,
if his land were not chargeabi. with the mainte-
nance of the poor. We have already said, that
the present emergency justifies the departure
from' all common rules ; but speaking of the thing
. as a question of right, we should say, it was very
hard to make the English landlord, in common

with the rest of the people of this country, after
abating rent for his own poor, contribute so much
-out of the remainder to swell the ,rents of the
Irish landlords.

[BRITISH PRESS.,
The debete on the Irish Insurrection Act' took
place last night.• The reasons given for its re-
uewal by M. GouLburn go well nigh to a perfect.