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London, England, 1822-06-20 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZeTiTRACTS FROM TILE D AIL:' MORNING PAPERS,
June 9-0 1822... •

[NEW. TIMES.J
There was. not an arrival from any part of the
Continent yesterday.—Consols for the Account
remained perfectly steady again yesterday, and
little or no business was done. The opening
price was 801, and they closed at the same, not-
withstanding 804 s were quoted in the course of
the a fternoon.—The Foreign Stock-market also
continues very heavy, and the prices remain the
same, lvith the exception of Spanish Bonds,
which declined 2 per cent. leaving them at 6211 z.
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• The House of Lords was engaged last night in
the further discussion of the Marriage Act
Amyndment Bill.—ln the House of Commons
Mr. Daly postponed his • motion respecting
the Tithes in Ireland. Mr. Hume, however,
took up the question, and moved that the House
should resolve to take the subject into considera-
tion next Session. An amendment was moved
by Sir J. Newport, pointing more distinctly at a
commutation. After a debate, which lasted until
a late hour, Sir J . Newport's motion was negatived
by a majority of 7:—(tbid.)

[THE TIMES.]
A Genc;ral Court of Proprietors was held yes- 4
terday at the, India House, when a subject came ,
under consideration, the natural interest of which
was much enhanced by that of the questions
connected with it in the course of the dis-
cussion to which it gave rise. A proposal
appears to have been made by Government,
that the Compau should wave that article
in their charter which excludes from the pri-
vate trade to India all ships not measuring
350 tons and upwards. The fact, we apprehend,
is generally admitted, that the above limit affixed
to the private trade has for some time operated as
a serious obstacle to its success ; and that if con-
tinued in its present form, a decline, if not a total
cessation, of the trade, must follow at no dis-
tant period. The above-mentioned proposition
of Ministers, however, was met, and not un-
fairly, by resolutions to this effect :*-1. That the
stipulated size of India traders is a part of the
compact with the Company, to which the faith of
Parliament stands pledged. 2. That if the Com-
pany concedes this point, it must be on obtain-
ing reciprocal concessions—one extending to
India-built ships the full rights of British re-
gistry—the other admitting East India sugars to
home consumption on equal terms with those of
the West India colonies. The two questions
thus raised are of extreme importance. It would
be absurd t.;) look at them under the mere aspect
of problems in economy or colonial policy. The
value of every maxim concerning the affairs of
Government 'must be resolved by its subserviency
to the real interests and welfare of the • nation to
which it is applied ; and the decision of Parlia-
ment upon, the demands of the Company must be
guided. less by a regard to general principles, than
by considering what measure will best protect the
sum total of the interests at issue. The compact
with the Company must be maintained inviolate
—that is clear enough indeed ; but it seems to
be the only part of this series of questions which
is not open to some degree of perplexity and
conflict. The admission of India-built ships to
registry, as if they had been built in England, is
required on the ground that ships built in all the
colonies of Great Britain 'are allowed the same
advantage ; and that by some evasion of the
letter of the charter, as alleged by Mr. Grant,
India-built ships are elbowed out even from the
coasting trade of the Peninsula, which is carried
on in great part by British bottoms. There was
a time, undoubtedly, when the shipping interest at
home would have raised a powerful outcry against
this new influx of eastern built merchantmen
to the British register; but that opposition, it
appears-, has become less animated. and for a me-
lancholy reason—viz. that what 'fragment of its
former prosperity still adheres to the shipping
interest of this kingdom is not worth protecting.
Be this as it may, the impression of the Chair-
man yesterday was that strong hopes existed of a
disposition in Government to yield the required
privilege; to the East India built ships; but that
with regard to sugars, the Treasury wished to
pause for a year before any steps should be-taken
towards an equalization of the duties.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Irish Police Bill, we are happy to state
will, when reproduced in the House of Commons
come forth divested of- some of its terrors. Ii

has been denominated out of doors a Bill for the
encouragement of Absenteeship, a system ruinous
to any country under any circumstances. In Ire-
land this system hats proved fatal, and unfortu-
nately the temper and habits of the gentry, with
all their romantic feelings and professed love of
country, tend to an aggravation of the evil.—
The spirit manifested in the House of Commons
On the first blush of this business, has produced
a salutary effect. The Government of Ireland,
we understand, is not to consist of an Ilospodar,
with his subordinate officers, alias constables, as
proposed for the Turkish provinces of Wallachia
and Moldavia. The Gentry of Ireland, however
defective in number, talent, and education, are
not to be entirely set aside as mere ciphers in
society, or something worse. They are to be
retained in the system as a set of beings worth
cultivating, and whose stake in the country may
possibly render them, with all their faults and
defects, not totally insensible to its interests.