The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON JeUitNA.L.

EXTRACT' FROM THE D 101,Y NIOIINISO PAPERS,

FewziarN Ifi IS`22.

[BRITISH Pit ESS.]
The interest universally excited by the promise of Lord Lon-
donderry's exposition of the state of the Nation, drew great
crowds of persons yesterday evening to the House of Commons.
The number of the Members who had assembled on this occa-
sion was unusually great. The gallery appropriated to strangers
was crowded to excess, but the accommodation within the
House was insufficient for those whom 'an anxious desire to
learn the fate of the country had drawn together, and who tilled
the lobbies and avenues leading to the House.
,The country
will see by our report of the Noble Secretary's exposition, that
their anxiety was well repaid by the value and importance of
his communication.

[NEW TimEs.]
The King's Ministers have now shewn to the country that
they do not merely talk of retrenchment. They have efficted a
reduction of little less than two millions ! They have reduced
the Army, the Navy, and the Aliscellaneous services, certainly
quite as much as sound policy can justify—perhaps something
more. We speak now with reference to tti2 particular interest
of the Agriculturists; for we have very strong doubts whether
the diminution of the general amount of the taxes must not add
to their distress. Certainly the Marquis of Londonderry com-
pletely disproved the doctrine of Mr. Brougham, • that taxation
was the sole cause of the distreis.

[MORNING Posi.]
The Marquis of Londonderry made his promised statement
last night, and its nature is too gratifying nut to equal, or even
to surpass, the hopes of the country. The reductions already
eilicted in the various branches of our Establishment amount to
the immense sum of nearly two millions. The relief which the
country will immediately derive from this saving will be the re-
peal of the Additional Malt Duty, which will deliver agriculture
from an annual burthen of not less than one million rive hun-
dred thousand pounds. Taxes to a greater amount would have
been remitted, had not the present state of Ireland occasion-
ed an extraordinary charge of £350,000 and the failure
of the usual course of revenue during war, one of 320,0001. for
the Greenwich Hospital. Both these charges, however, will
terminate with the present year ; for with respect to the exist-
ence of thg disturbances in Ireland, the Noble Marquis was
happy to say that it would be confined to a very limited period ;
and as to the charge for Greenwich Hospital, arrangements will
be made to comprise it in future within the Navy Estimates.
Important as is the repeal of a tax which pres.led so heavily
upon Agriculture, it is only the first step of a regular diminu-
tion of imposts, which, if no new war should arise, will continue
till the country has regained her buoyancy, and hee expendi-
ture is brought down lower than her income.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The curiosity which prevailed with respect to the plan of Mi-
nisters filled the Gallery of the House of Commons at an early
hour yesterday; and me passages to it were eicwded during
the afternoon and evening with persons anxious to learn the
nature of Lord Londonderry's prop ositions.—Well, the public
have now got possession of the mighty secret, and the ques-
tion is, will they be satisfied ? How has the loud call for re-
trenchment, heard from one extremity 61 the Kingdom to
the other, been answered P Ministers have, from .the whole
amount of the civil expenditure of the country, consented
to renounce little more than 150,0001. !—that is, they have
consented to the deduction of a small per centage from their
incomes, which, in consequence of the improvement in our
currency, will still, after this deduction, greatly exceed what they
were receiving during the war All the overoown and unpro-
fitable establishments are kept up,- all the sinecures and pensions
are religiously retained. " Necessity," quoth Lord London-
derry, " is the Tyrant's plea," by winch we are to understand,
no doubt, that the old system of waste and profligate expendi-
ture is in no manner to be sacrificed to the necessities of the
Agric•dlturists.

THE TIMES.]
The trick exploded cast night, but not exactly as we pre.
dieted, nor at the place where. We said that a message would
come from the King, announcing something which was to
impose upon the Public as retrenchment; and that the mag-
nificence of the person announcing was to throw that kind
of glare which is equivalent to darkness, upon the pro-
posed or pretended reductions, and make that which was
really nothing pass for substance. The country Gentle-
men throughout the kingdom—we mean those who are paid
in some way or other out of the taxes for the loss of
their rents—might have dilated on the goodness and con-
descension of his :Majesty in thus announcing his sense
of his people's sufferings by a Royal Message; and such
an act of attention might well be taken for an earnest
of his sincerity to do all he could in order to relieve the-dis-
tresses which he felt so sensihly. This would have been
enough : real and effectual retrenchment would have been evad-
ed : those who wished to talk of an immense standing army in
peace, extravagant civil list, useless places, would have been
stunned with the incessant repetition of " Message from his
Majesty"—" Communication from the Throne"." Gracious
intentions of the Crown ;" and sensible opposition would for
a while have been overpowered by these sonorous phraies.