The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-20 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIOENCE.

Marrs•roltr., 'Fr.D. 14.—We save had more 11014 chiefly
frern the Weald of Kea, to-day and yesterday at the Fair
than for several weeks
_past; we misdate the quantity a:
about WO Bags and Pockets, shout MU of which. huve
been sOld. Bags (Weald of Kest) frona.ll3a. to 728.—Pockets
ELs. to 76,. A stnalk panel 0n.)7 of rtidelle Rent Bags at $61..
:Ina a few ir,e pockets as high m fg,s.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
7i.e regret the indifference manifested by the
1-Pountriy Gentlemen with respect to economy and
ifttrenchment,. Because a repeal of taxes cannot
instantly, raise prices, they seem to think it a
nutter of no- consequence, whether the taxes
remain high or low. We shall be told,- perhaps,
that they are well. enough aware of the advan-
tage of.low taxes to the country in.general; but
chat high, taxes are of great advantage to them-
4-elves in particular. We cannot, however, help
tninking that sinister interest is in- this case pow-
erfully aided by delusion. That many of the
c-ountry Gentlemen have still a hankering after
the flesh-pots of Egypt is proved by the readiness
irith which they swallowed Lord Londonderry's
c,ordial of a double average, in the hope that
a cecoplete monopoly of the home market might
ther-ilby be obtained, and through that monopoly
perMhnently- high prices.—They still repeat the
;words Agricultural interest, CoMmercial inte-
rest, and Manufacturing interest, as if these inte-
rests were in reality opposed to each other ;
as if the Agriculturist, the Merchant, and the Ma-
nufacturer, were not all deeplY interested in the
success of the operations-- of each. In an early
itage of society the man who cultivates the ground
is his own manufacturer; in the progress of time
.cultivation and manufacturing are allotted to se-
parate hands, and the• trader conducts the ex-
changes between them. distribution of
functions, dictated by generaLinterest, should
not make as forget that the three are essentially
the same; and to talk of this interest being more
important than that, or of depressing one interest
for the sake of another, is much about as wise as
to say that the legs are more important than the,
hands, or the hands than the legs—that the legs
should be fettered for the sake of the hands, or
the hands manacled for the sake of the feet. The
advancement 'of agricultural industry promotes
manufacturing, and the advancement of manu-
facturing promotes agricultural ; and the more
free and unrestrained their' respective operations
are so much the better for all.

[NEW TIMES.]
To all persons who tincerely wish the distress
of Agriculturists to be relieved, it must be matter
of satisfactory reflection that a Committee has
been appointed by the House of Commons to in-
Cestigate the subject fully and fairly. Hitherto
we have heard nothing but idle declamation on
this subject at County Meetings and it is a
great disgrace to the persons who have attended
those meetings, that not one of them has so much
as attempted to make a clear and comprehen-
sive statement of the facts of the case. Nobody
has attempted to show what is meant by agri-
cultural distress: to class the sufferer, to analyse
the hardships, to state the amount of loss.—
There -are three, and only three, possible heads
under which the Farmer's loss can by possibility
fall—either the demand is less than what he
had fair reason to anticipate, or the supply is
greater, or he sustains unexpected loss by a change
in the currency. Now, none of all the orators
has attempted to show, that there are fewer con-
sumers now than there were six years ago, or
that they analyse the hardships, or to state the
aroma of loss. Nobody has attempted to show
how far the consumption of agricultural produce
has increased or fallen off—how far the cost of
production is capable of being lessened—or how
far the alteration in the currency has operated
adversely to the agricultural interest. The la-
bours of the Committee will serve to ascertaimand
to class all these facts.

[THE TIMES.J
The diScussion on agricultural distresses began
on Friday, and ended on Monday, by the re-ap-
pointment of the same Committee which did no
good last year. The prospect, therefore? is pe-
ouliarly- happy and promising. Government, in-
stead of food, does not, indeed, give the agricul-
tur2l petitioners a stone--it gives them speeches
and theories. However, it is an obvious device,
and not drawn from the penetralia of political
economy, but from the very surface, to declare
that the reduction of the taxes can do no-good,
it' beg previously determined not to reduce the
taxes, or to reduce them as little as pos-
sible. liow.stange! A tenant has to pay his
landlord, we. will say,
.a hundred a-year rent:
but from the produce of his farm, the salt-tax
takes five per cent.,. the leather-tax as tnuch-2--
the wool-tax,. the soap-tax, the iron-tax, the
assessed taxes, all pull away their respective
portions from that very small sum which he
first br'ought from market after haviag sold his
grain ; and yet he is able to save the rent out of
his residue, as if none of those taxes,had deduct-
ed,any thing, or as if each had deducted much
lessflian at present! ,To us it appears, that in
otrdei..to keep the 'farmer in a fixed position 'of,
comfort and respectability, the taxes which press
most 11,, on him should decline with the price of
his. grain ; or that the one should follow- the
other as proinptly as possible.

[l4O lINING POST.]
The labours of Parliament Lave already been
attended with a saltitary effect; they have tran-
quillised the fears of the country. A rumour had
been iedustriously.spread far and wide, that the
only mode by which GoVernment intended to
meet the diffiCuities of the times was one which.
would have proved as oppressive, and still.mOte-
as.lious than those,difific4lties themselves—the re-
vival Ji the Incomejix. This rumour created
alarm wherever it'penetrated. That a war im-
post, tolerated only in consequence of the mag-
nitude and dead-ly nature of the contest in
which we were cm".gaged 'at the time when it
was laid,,, should, be 'renewed after seven years
of peace", ,would Indeed have announced a spe-
cie,'s 'of' conduct' 611-the part of. Ministers which
nothing- -gut.' an indispensable choke .between
so Fwful an infliction and national ruin could
have justified. It is therefore matter of no small
congratulation to find from: the state of the it e-

venue, not only that the Government are able to
carry on the public service without this tax or any
other, but that they were not in a situation which
could make the idea of its revival even enter their
• minds. With a diminished expenditure and re-
duced taxation, the country will "soon-emerge
from the temporary distress which afflicts agricul-
ture, as it has done out of all the difficulties. which
.fora few years pressed down trade and manufac-
tures to the ground. Its prospects are now en-
tirely changed. Instead of accumulating burthens,
it beholds not merely a promise of reduction,
but an actual diminution both of expenditure and
of taxes. The Sinking Fund has suddenly been
raised to an unexpected amount ; and its activity
in clearing away the National Debt restored.—
.Secure abroad, as far at least as the British Em-
pire is concerned, peace has re-assumed her
reign at home ; and all announces that days of
comfort and prosperity 'will shortly replace those
-of alarm and of distress,and that England will once
,more become, in all that constitutes human and
national greatness, the admiration and envy of
the world.

[IIRITISII PRESS.]