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London, England, 1822-02-07 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOU/U:AL-,.

DAILY tXTPACTS FROM Tilt: , MORNING PAPERS.

February 7, 182'2.

LYEW. TIMES.]
Now that the Parliamentary discussions have
begun, we may expect to see the questions which
have for some time „past agitated. the country
brought to aclear understanding. Some rubbish
his been already cleared away-. Opposition has
sent Out. i ts.eidons perdus, Sir F. Burdett and Mr.
Joseph Hume; each of whom, after much firing
is the.ail•., retired, and left the ground clear'for
more .weighty combatants. A chieftain of a
higher class, Mr. Brougham, is next to exhibit
his prowess;; and from what has already dropt
fromthe.Learned Gentleman, we-expect that his
principal .object of attack will be the Sinking
_Fund. Still we presume these are only prepara-
tory'. Movements in the tactics of Opposition ;
and.that Mr, Tierney himself will finally appear
at the. head of -his forces as Commander-in-Chief.
Hitherto, the doctrines of the Opposition Mem-
bers have been as various as their faces, and there
i 5 no discovering any tenable principle on which
tt...y can all, unite for the great and laudable pur-
-pose of- overthrowing their political antagonists.
In such a state of things it would be vain to can-
vaSS-general arguments, on which no stress might
eventually be laid by either party. We must
wait till we see on what grounds the Members
of Opposition mean to take their stand, before
we can either praise or censure them as a body.
One or two incidental points, however, have
arisen, which it may not be improper to notice.
Of these we may particularly advert to the Malt
Ta*„.witicb seems to have given rise to some strange
. misconceptions. A. Noble Lord, at a late County
Meeting, -is reported to have said, " during the
harvest the harvesters still have beer, on every
pot _of which there is, one way or another, paid
to Government a duty of three-pence." We
presijrne his Lordship meant 'to allude to the
general._ duties On Beer, Malt, and Hops. Now
on the beer brewed and delivered by the fariner
to !Lis. work people, the beer duty is not charged
at ail. .fkarvest Ifeer is commonly brewed at the
rate. of not less than .five, probably six, barrels
(of :,",6 gallons each) to the quarter ; and as the
duty oh a quarter of malt is 28 shillings, or 336
pefte, tt na the number -of pots of such beer is
14410, the duty paid to Government on each pot,
both for malt and hops, is not a halfpenny.

• [THE TIMES.]
The dispatches from Lord Wellesley. cover a
petia of,neatfy one month, extending from the
:3dif.4anuary to the 29th. It appears, we re.-
grefo:stati.i that the disturbances continued in-
crOtiv.* dUrineall.this time. In the first dis-
patch,. the greatest number of men mentioned as
assOnbled in hostile array is 200. The last dis-
Patch speaks or as many thousands, and the mis-
chief effected by the Insurgents is in proportion
to thki,r, augmented ferce. What projects Mi-
nisters --May have itvtontemplation for the sup-
pression of those disturbances we know not.-
-LOrd: .LiVerpool said it was his intention
to arm the Executive Government with addi-
tional I).owv-s, Jiut
,only. during the Session
of .Parlfilment ; and similar expressions were
used... bf, Lnrd. .Castlereagh ; but there does
not appear in fhe pohlished part of the Marquess
divatchesiny call for penal emict
Ifir:.Lordship -simply states, that -44 he
had .r.e.sortetrt.6..additional measures of precau-
tion; and military operation ;" and a Mr. Wil-
son,- tiiie o 4 •his• Lordship's correspondents, says,
" that all the well-informed were most anxious
for the renewal of .the Insurrection Act :" and
expresses his own belief, -" if some strong measures
were..not resorted to, or at least the old military-
stations again-occupied., that the county of Tip-
perary would soon be as bad as that of Limerick."

• , PRESS.] '
The Miniitsei's seem to speak highly of their
exertions in the wide field of retrenchment, and
in particular 'they to one point ,which
must- gratirying to the public—namely,
the diminution of the salaries throughout the
extended scale of official ranks, reaching even to
the heads Of-the several . departments. This
is precisely. as the matter- ought to be, and
though this ,reform has been but tardily yielded
to the reiterated demands of the public, it will
be received- with. the sincerest satisfaction.—
It was ,a' measure suggested by the plainest
and most' obvious principles of common justice,
that the men who regulated the reduction of
salaries among the persons of the lowest ranks,
shouldextend the principle to themselves, and
to others within their department. W trust
that the .amonut-of the Civil List will not, in
the getieral distress .of the country, be consi.7
dere& too sacred to be. touched with the prun-
ing,,,knife.. There is . a rank• luxuriance in its
.spreading branches which 'cannot be pleasing to
the public-eye; and it :would be no less a Mea-
sure of wisdom and prudence, than of expe-
diency and -justice, toirender-it more consist-
ent than it.,xis at present with the general state
of the country.

•
Cligg'Sf-NG ItERALD.]
.rt appears from the proteedings in both Houses
on the opening of Parliament, that Ministers are.
resolved to enter 'forthwith into the most import-
'ant pUblic tifsinesS of the Session. Neither of
Ihe.diviSions on the two amendments to the Ad-
dress are any-index to. the. relative strength or
-the two sides in the House of Commons. The
fate of Mr. Iftene's motion for pressing upon the'
•notice of the EXetutive Government, in an uncom-
'promising 'form, the necessity Of retrenchment, is
not decisive even upon that topic. The amend-
ment of Sir F. Burdett for postponing the consi-
deration, of the Speech, though borne out by
Parliamentary usage, was rendered -unneces-
sary from the change of tone in the Speech
from the Throne, which now-a-days .pledges
the House to nothing' beyond- mere generalities.
The Honourable Baronet reiterated his recom-
mendation of Parliarnentary Reform, and, we
:think, by 'rather a hasty or short-sighted
association, compared his adherence to this.