The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-22 00:00:00

expenditure of Ireland ; of the Revenue of Great
Britain and Ireland ; of their exports and im-
ports ; of the consumption of certain articles of
produce; and of the tonnage of the Irish ports.
The document is important, and we imagine
will hardly afford Mr. FINN the arguments he
expected to find in it for a repeal of the Union.
The first of the returns we have enumerated
will perhaps give some mob orator an oppor-
tunity of declaring against the foreigners " who
suck the life-blood of Ireland," but even the
most ignorant will, on reflection, see the rotten-
ness of its foundation. It appears that, exclusive
of loans raised in Great Britain for Ireland,
there had been remitted from the British to the
Irish Exchequer, from the year 1792 to 1833,
the sum of 8,251,2741. On the other hand,
the Irish Exchequer had remitted to the Bri-

tish, during the same period 19,640,4531.,
making a balance in its favo►►r of
11.389,1781., being at the average rate of about
307,8691. per annum. Mr. FINN, even if you
take this account alone, we fancy you will have
no argument for a repeal of the Union so good
as might be urged by Cornwall, or any other
Engl►sh county, who might have people silly
enough to think of such a thing. The total
present expenditure of Ireland is 2,910,8081.
Its revenue in 1817, the last year given in the re-
turn, was 4,304,6291. In 1801, the year after the
Union, it was only 2,645,736/. This is no great
sign of the retrograde movement of Ireland since
that event, and when the establishment of some
temporary legal provision for the poor shall in-
sure tranquillity, whilst the rising generation is
educated in ideas of independence, industry, and
order, we may hope that so fair a portion of the
e►npire will be able to contribute something
more than a poor million odd to the
common expenses of the State. 'flee
consumption of foreign luxuries appears in
both countries to have been stationary,
or to have declined between 1801 and 1817.
The consumption of tea, for instance, was in
Great Britain 20,358,7021b5. in 1801, whilst in
1817 it was 20,246,1441b5. In Ireland there
was, during the same period, a slight increase
of consumption in the number of pounds, in the
first named year, being 2,926,166, and in the
last 2,990,580. The falling off in the con-
sumption of wine is remarkable in both coun-
tries. In 1801 it amounted in Great Britain to
7,728,871 gallons, and in 1817 to 4,420,807
gallons. In Ireland the figures for the same year
are 1,024,832, and 439,602 gallons. On the other
hand the consumption ofarticles of domestic luxury
greatly increased in the same period. That of
home-made spirits doubled in Great Britain,
whilst in Ireland it actually trebled. The amount
of shipping belonging to the ports of Ireland is
only 108,128 tons ; but let complete tranquil-
lity be restored to the country, and both com-
merce and manufactures will arise. Peace now

appears, from all the accounts we receive from
Ireland, generally to prevail. Ministers have
done much for it—have even, by their later
measures, incurred odium for paling for peace,—
and show a disposition to do more. Agitation
may be justifiable where no disposition to im-
prove is shown ; but when it is shown, and proof
is given of it, common sense would teach us not
to disturb the operations of those who are
working for our benefit.