The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-22 00:00:00

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Dll LIC EXTRACT 3 PROM TU :HORNING PAPERS,
• . January -22', 1822,.

, • [THE. TIMES.] • ,
If his his Majesty's visit to Ireland-has ended in
the mortification of some- extravagant hopes, as
when. it took. place „we ventured to prophecy
that it would do, beneficial consequences of ano;
ther nature seem to have arisen from it, which
the magnanimity of the Irish, of course, would
not permit them to calculate, or their delicacy to
mingle among more sentimental motives for rejoic-
ing. Although mountains have not been removed
by the presence of the Sovereign, nor feuds,
almost.coeval with them, extinguished at his nod ;
more money has undoubtedly been spent in Ire-
land, by reason -of the Royal- sojourn. The re-
venue has been the better for it, in some at least
of the branches on which that assemblage of
many coloured particles which people of fashion
describe as a " brilliant Court" could more directly
operate. .More horses and carriages, and their
usual attendants, grooms and footmen, were pre-
pared from the moment when the King's visit was
lirst talked of, and the assessed taxes haveshewn
an increase of between 40,0001. and 50,0001.—
The Excise (thanks to the fashion of drinking
loyal toasts in whiskey) has improved propor-
tionally. In a third article, also, there has been
a perceptible, and, we suppose it may be said an
unavoidable, rise of the public income—namely,l
in the Post-office ; the return for 1821 being
7,0001. greater than that for 1820. It is clear
enough that from most persons in town to their
country friends, more letters than ordinary would
be written ; but it may be remarked how nicely
the correspondence was trimmed, or how natu-
rally the accounts of the Irish post-office run
into round numbers. For the balance is struck,
or rather strikes itself, with a neatness alMost
unparalleled : thus the post-office revenue for
the year 1820 was to a farthing 61,0001.-.--
that for the year following is, with a just re-.-
gard for . precedent, and contempt of fractions,
71,000 pounds, and, of course,- the surplus
critically 7,000/. This polite oblivion of the
more vulgar parts of the currency has indeed all
the air of a compliment to the occasion, and might
be fairly termed " Finance on horseback," or
the " Arithmetic Royal." The Customs of Ire-
land, like those of England, have lately taken
a favourable start : in the whole year there is an
excess in the Customs' revenue of about 2•35,000/.
above that of 1820.—The total increase of the
public income of Ireland is stated at 427,0001.
and a fraction ; but if taken, as the friends of
Ministers always affect to take the smallest pos-
sible improvement of revenue, for an infallible
demonstration of increased prosperity throughout
the country, can any test with regard to Ireland
be more fallacious ? Even as a matter of pecu-
niary profit and loss, has not the aggravated ex-
pence of governing Ireland, in consequence of
her deplorable and still untranquillized distrac-
tions, been more than an equivalent for this ba-
lance of 400,000/. ? But there is an inquiry
going on--into _abuses; and since we cannot help
it, let us wait.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It was intimated some days since by a Morn-
ing Paper, with a great affectation of mystery,
that the Ministers were preparing some terrible
scheme which was to astonish and alarm the
fundholders, and nearly at the same time an
Evening Treasury Print discoursed darkly and
ambiguously about the wondrous benefits which
the nation might derive from an Income Tax.—
We endeavoured to obviate any evil impressions
which such assertions and such reasonings might
possibly produce, by shewing that no project
could be contemplated by the*Ministers affetting
exclusively the funded proprietors, and by ridi-
culing the absurd notion of relieving the dis-
tresses of the people, by adding to the burden of
their taxation The observations of the writer
to which we have alluded were obviously
calculated to raise the impression that the
Ministers had. a modified Property Tax in
contemplation ; and the public, mixing up
the vague assertion of one Paper with the still
more vague comments of the other, seem to have
arrived at this conclusion, that an Income Tax
'Upon the funded proprietors alone was to form a
part of the permanent financial system of the
country. To this impression we may in a great
degree attribute the late decline in our funds.—
English proprietors, apprehending a severe blow
against their property, would ;ery 'naturally
hasten to transfer ii into some other funds, which
they might conceive to-be safer, and we have un-
derstood that some operations of this nature to a
considerable amount have been effected by pur-
chases of French Government securities. The
French Five per Cents. have, in consequence,
lately experienced a great advance.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Lisbon Packet brings advices to the Ist
instant. Brigadier-Gen. Moura's appointment to
the command of the Province of Pernambuco has
been changed, and Brigadier Jose Correa de
Mello named in his stead. The former is to have
the command of Para. General Baron de La-
guna had been appointed to the command of the
Province of Rio Janeiro ; Brigadier-Gen. Au-
gustus Pinto, for the Province of St. Paul's ;
Brigadier Cardoso, for the Province of Minas
Geraes ; Brigadier Claudino, for the Province of
Matto Grosso ; Brigadier Saldanha, for the Pr-
ovince of Rio Grande ; Brigadier Louis Madeira,
for the Province of Bahia; Brigadier Carlos
d'Oeynhansen, for the Province of Maranham
Colonel Da Silva Paulet, for the Province of
Ceara; Colonel .Pedro Muller, for the Pro-
vince of Saint Catherine ; and Major Cunha
Fidie, for the Province of Pehany. When
the King of Portugal established himself in the
Brazils, and all idea of returning to Portugal was
given up, Superior Courts of all kinds for the ad-
ministration of justice and public affairs, in the
same manner as at Lisbon, were created there:
By the return of the King, these establishments
have became unnecessary, and M. Fernandez
Thomas very lately made a motion for their abo-
lition. The question was discussed in the Cortes,