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

The early renewal of the Agricultural Com-
mittee,- notwithstanding the very unsatisfactory
character 6f the former Report, is a circumstance
from which the agriculturists may draw an in-
ference favourable to their interests. It is emi-
nently gratifying to persons labouring under any
severe affliction to- witness in others a deep and
sincere sympathy in their sufferings. This grati-
fication the -farmers must now feel in a very
large degree, for the Government and Legis-
lature of the country have shewn the utmost
anxiety to investigate seriously the causes
of their present distresses, and to afford every
mean% of relief NI hich prudence and even
zeal could suggest. The Committee now ap-
pointed contains the names of men in the House
of Commons who are eminently distinguished
either by the fervency of their zeal in the service
of the agriculturists, or whose minds have been
best disciplined by study and experience for the
pursuit of such inquiries as the nomination of
such a Committee contemplates. The catalogue
of names is in one respect defective, the new Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department is not
a member of the Committee. It would be ad-
visable to correct this emission, for there are few
men in the House of Commons better qualified,
not only by the extent of his information, but by
the peculiar ingenuousness of his mind, to assist
in such an investigation.

[MORNYNG HERALD.]

It is somewhat singular that the Paris Papers
have not given more decisive signs of their release
from the Censorship; it would seem as if the
timid circumspection of their period of bondage
still guided the Journals. I❑ one only we, for
the first time, observe a certain liberty taken with
the name and conduct of a Minister—it is the
Keeper of the Seals, a provincial advocate, raised
to his high office from the tractable insignificance
of his character, and who, in the courseof the de-
bates in the Chamber, has made himself eminently
ridiculous. • One day he speaks egotism and
absurdity—such as denouncing that he knows the
doings of the factious, that his eye is on them,
that he will punish them, &c. ; , and when he
finds his words reported, he becomes ashamed
of, and disavows them, sqnabbles with the Jour-
nals in his place in the Chamber, and ends in
fastening upon himself the use of such language as
indicates the want of all reflection, and the lowest
order of intellect. The last debate on the police
of the Journals was somewhat more interesting
than usual, from the importance of the particular
articles which came under consideration. The
first entered upon was that which allows the sup-
pression of a Journal conducted in an obnoxious
spirit. General Tarayre, a Liberal, proposed,
first, .that the publication of foreign events, and
of the official notes of foreign, Governments—
next, that the publication of political doc-
trines and theories, without particular applica-
tion to the Constitutional Government of France,
like th© speculative theories in the arts and
sciences, should be exempt from crimination, if
unaccompanied by observation or commentary.
Both were rejected, without a word of reply
from the Ministers. This system of contemp-
tuous silence is adopted by them in their con-
sciousness of being backed by a secure majority,
as a tactic for shortening the duration of the der
bates, and' evading the attacks which the
speeches of their friends would probably bring
down upon them.