The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1836

In many districts of Ireland the Tithe-war continues
to be prosecuted with unremitting activity. A writer
in the Cork Southern Reporter, alluding to this sub-
ject, says, "the whole district is in a state of siege ;
none of the farmers sleep in their own houses, and at
the break of day videttes are placed on each plough-
land, so that the poor people, on their return to their
labour in the morning, may not be surprised by the
enemy." What an excellent illustration of the bless-
ings of the Tithe-system does this compendious passage
afford ! Here we find a whole district "in a state of
sieae," farmers expelled from their homes ; " videttes"
appointed on each plough-land ; and all owing to the
operations of a system, on which Dr. BARRETT expa-
tiated with such enthusiasm the other day at the
South Essex Conservative Dinner, as being mainly
instrumental in promoting " peace and happiness'
throughout the empire ! Commend us to a parson
for finding a plausible justification of an abuse.
Your most sophistical, quick-witted layman—even
LYNDHURST himself—is a mere fool compared to
such a man. Who but the clergy would ever dream
of discovering the materials of tranquillity in a system
which has been the cause of such atrocities as within
the last few years have been perpetrated at Carrick-
shock and Rathcormac ? We remember once reading of
a Tory candidate who addressed the electors from the
hustings as follows Gentlemen, it is true I am
last on the poll to-day, hut I hail the omen : is is
auspicious of to-morrow's victory." So reason the
clergy as respects tithes. They see that it is a con-
stant source of annoyance to Ireland ; and therefore,
by a process of logic peculiar to themselves and the
Conservative candidate, jump to the conclusion that it
contains within itself the seeds of" peace and happiness."
Doubtless Mr. O'CONNELL is a powerful advocate for
a repeal of the Union, but he is not half so much so, as
is the Irish Tithe system. This is the great Repealer.
This the irresistible agitator, which, if suffered to
riot much longer uncontrolled, will ultimately be the
means of seating a Parliament in College-green. We
may refute the Repeal arguments of O'CONNELL, but
there is no refuting those of Rathcormac. A " whole
district in a state of siege" is more convincing logic than
has been put forth by the Dublin Trade's Union since
the first institution of that body. When, therefore,
we find the advocates for repeal abusing the Irish Pro-
testant clergy, we are surprised and shocked at their
ingratitude ; particularly when we bear in mind that it
is to Parson RYDER'S tithe-processes, and parson
BERESFORD'S blunderbuss (loaded by his own apos-
tolic hands) that they are indebted for their most I
efficient allies.

The Report of the Select Committee appointed to
inquire into the operation of Joint Stock anks, to-
gether with the evidence on which the Report is
founded, has been published. Our readers will find
the whole of the Report in another put of
our
paper, and we shall occasionally lay before them such
portions of the evidence as may seem to us to bear most
directly upon the main points of this important question.
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The Committee state that they have not yet brought
their inquiries to a close, but that, as far as the inves-
tigation had proceeded, it had proved the urgent
necessity of " a close and searching examination into
the laws which regulate Joint Stock Banks, the prin-
ciples on which those establishments are conducted, and
the consequences to which they lead." The natural
inference from which we take to be, that the laws are
imperfect, the principles unsound, and the conse-
quences pernicious. The evidence appears to us fully
to bear out the Committee in coming to this conclu-
sion. It seems, however, to savour somewhat of con-
tradiction to state, as the Committee do in their Re-
port, that the readiness, on the part of the Joint-
stock Banks, to meet their inquiries is the surest
pledge and guarantee of the soundness of the
principles on which they are conducted—and that,
too, in the same breath in which it is remarked that
some of these establishments had, in the first instance,
refused to give the information required.
The Report, it will be observed, does not recom-
mend any specific plan for the management, or lay
down any general principles for the constitution of

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Joit:Sto' ck-44- anks. fistb. no doubt, arose from the
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circumstance that the investigation was not concluded,
and will be renewed next session. The Committee
have, therefore, confined themselves, in their Report,
to the duty of pointing out, first, the leading provisions
in the deeds of settlement of these establishments, the
mode of conducting business, the publicity to be given
to the procceedings, the terms on which the Company is
to be dissolved ; and secondly, the inadequacy of the law
as it exists at present, to secure, under a joint-stock
system of banking, the great objects of the public
accommodation—the maintenance of commercial credit,
and a sound state of the national currency.

We have received, via Paris, intelligence from Ma-
drid to the 7th inst. The capital was then tranquil.
Brigadier-General ALAIX has been appointed to suc-
ceed General ESPARTERO, whose health has suffered
greatly within the last two months. ALAIX was then
in pursuit of G omEz, who had crossed the Tagus, and
was on the 2d instant at Boleta on his march towards
Cuenca. The copy of a despatch from ALAIX, ex-
tracted from the Madrid Extraordinary Gazette of
the sth, will be found in another part of this journal.

General Don PEDRO MENDEZ VIGO, brother of
the late Spanish Minister, has been condemned by the
authorities in Madrid to imprisonment in a fortress.
There are rumours of petty altercations between the
QUEEN-REGENT and her sister, the wife of Don
FRANCISCO DE PAULO. We regard them as un-
worthy or credit.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have
been received. They state, that no doubt whatever
existed respecting the appointment of M. MARTIN
(du Nord), to the Ministerial department of Com-
merce and Public Works. M. DLICHATEL has under-
taken to guide the new Minister in the discharge of
his official functions. The Royal Ordinances appoint-
ing him Minister of Commerce, and the Duke DE
COIGNY Ambassador to Madrid, were expected to
appear in the Moniteur of Thursday.
There is no other news of any importance in these
Journals, with the exception of the extracts which are