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of hypocrisy and fanaticism which has been openly prac-
tired.
" We are rejoiced," he says, "to find that the foul knavery of
the thing is likely to be exposed. Lord G. Beresford, in an Ad-
dress to the. Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of
Waterford, has nobly pledged himself to this task. "fhe contest,'
says be, 'in which I have been engaged, for the honour of repre-
senting you in Parliament, is suspended, but, believe me, it is -hut
terminated. 1 will resume it where the genuine principles of the
British Constitution will decide the -controversy. "I propose," con-
tinues his Lordship, " to petition the House of Commons agaiust
the return. which has been made of Members to serve iu Parlia-
ment for this county ;. and I will expose to the Legislature, and
to the EMpire at large, the means by which that return has been
effected. I will prove that the Roman Catholic Clergy have
exerted the vast spiritual powers of their Church, to accomplish
a temporal oldect—that they hare A PCLIP.O THE VERRORS O 1 AW-
meta woaLD to the political concerns of this—and have ern-
plOyed all their influence over a deluded multitude, for the esta-
blishment of despotism which threatens to involve our Laws and
Liberties in one common ruin."

We should think the Catholic who voted for a Candi-
date who deemed his religion a ground of disqualification
for the enjoyment of civil rights, had some reason for
decoding the terrors (j. (Mother world. If he is sincere in
his belief that the Catholic religion is the best, he cannot,
without being an arrant knave-the most contemptible
wretch that crawls on the face of the earth, as despicable
as the Catholic Baronets of the North of England—vote
for that man as a proper Representative, who would pu-
nish him for that belief. To demand this of a Catholic
freeholder is as great an insult as if a Catholic freeholder
were to go to Lord George Beresford and coolly ask him
to perjure himself by assisting him to make out a false
alibi. We are by no means of the number of those who
deem it. necessary to encourage the use of the shillela in
Ireland, but really the recourse to it in such a case would
be pardonable..—The open and barefaced manner in which
the claith is put forward to the votes of the freeholders a.:4
a matter of right, like the landlord's rent, is certainly
rather calculated to startle us, particularly when ,we hear
an appeal made in the same breath to the genuine princi-
ple: qf the British Cionstitution. Do the genuine principles
of the Biitish Constitution require that " the wishes and
interests of landlords.'' should alone be consulted by the
Freeholders on their Estutes ? Better at once give the
power directly to the Landlords, than tantalize the poor
wretches with a semblance of free will. We are glad to
see that the Catholic Association is about to adopt effec-
tive measures for the protection of tenants. against the
vengeance of their landlords. It would not be amiss to
publish a list of all landlords who give way to such vindic-
tive feelings, that. the Catholics every where may be aware
of their, enemies, and know how to deal with them. In
conjunctures like the present, nothing is gained by tame
submissiveness. The Orangemen are not to be soothed
into kindness towards them. .•

[THE BRITISH PRESS.]

Ware:led. again and again to return to the subject o
the distress in the country, in the hope that, .by our per
tinacity in exhibiting our views, we may be able to induce
some persons to think on the subject. The principle
which we stated yesterday we would repeat us-day—that
all less necessary commodities on which labour is employed
derive their value from, and have that value increased by,
the abundance of necessaries. This proposition is so clearly
demonstrable, that, its truth is almost obvious from its first
enunciation; and it seems extraordinary that the conse-
quences resulting from it have been so little attended to.
It is certain that a man possessed of jewels and ornaments
to any amount, if he could not procure any other covering
.would give all those jewels and ornaments for a piece of
cotton ; and it is certain that a piece of cotton itself
would be sacrificed if food could not be otherwise pro-
cured. In proportion as necessaries abound above the
demand for them, in the same pro Portion precisely will a
new demand be created for less necessary objects; and as
prices increase in proportion to the demand, the value of
superfluities must increase precisely in troportion to the
abundance of l has necessaries. 'his bet!ttirecittetstly observed
i
ia partatadar nstances; but, from the intervention of money
in all eases of sales, reasoners have generally stopped short
at the medium of barter, and instead of considering all
commodities as. mutually exchangeable„ and calculating
their respective values from their relative abundance and
,iitility,:phey 'have compared all commodities with currency,
and have given an undue importance, in consequence, to
an increase in the circulating medium. Now, it is certain
that the over-prodUction of any one commodity, even of
corn itself, will increase the price of all other commodi-
ties, while it lessens its own value, and will, therefore,
cause misery among the producers_ of that commodity;
but from the principle of political economy, by which it
is asserted that population increases in the same ratio as
the means of subsistence, it is clear that the over-produc-
tion of necessaries is less detrimental, in the long run, than
that of any other commodities. In our political system,
instead of the excess falling on our agriculture, it has taken
place in our manufactures, and the over-production of
manufactured articles has raised the value of agricultu-
ral produce, as compared with it, to an extreme degree;
whereas, if the agricultural production had kept pace with
the manufacturing, the relative proportions between the
two would have been preserved-=we should have had an
excess of both to export, and even if we had not found a
market abroad, no misery would have ensued, because all
commodities would have existed at home in equal abun-
dance. The great object of the Legislature now ought
therefore to be, to increase the proportion of necessaries
by all the means in their poWer, whether by permitting
the impoCtation of corn in the mean time, or by contriv-
ing such enactments as may tend to throw a great propor-
tion of the energies of the country into the agricultural
department, and by directing these energies to the pro-
duction of necessaries in the first place. The social sys-
tem, in this respect, requires a balance as equally poised
as that of the planetary system; and a single excess of
one article, beyond the due proportion which ought to be
assigned to it on account of its utility, never fails to cause
calamities among those who produce it. It in not so
much the ithielnte quantity of commodities manufactured
that must be Considered, as the relative quantity of one
species of commodity in proportion to another. Hence
thu,great aim of the Statesman ought to be, to assign its
-,roper degree of encouragement to every article of pro-
alij to take care that no part may exceed its natural

[ 'l' II c REP RESY..NTATI VE.I
There h; " no point of view in which the situation of
Greece can be contemplated, without exciting an extraor
divary degree of interest in her favour. At different pe-
riods of the contest she bad been divided against herself;
but she has at length learnt wisdom by experience, and is
now united against the common enemy. The nature of
the warfare icy -which she is engaged is such as might have
sunk her deeper and deeper in anarchy, and excluded her
from the. sympathy and social relations of Europe; but
ber conduct under it has produced the reverse effect, and
the suspicious and prejudices which were raised against
her have yielded to admiration. A. system of order has
grown out of eiremnstances which would have thrown
most states into irretrievable confusion; and few establish-
ed governments could have resisted the shock, wh
ich, in
Greece, has been the means. of reaction, of strengthen..
ing the egecntive authority, and of deVelopiag the cha-
racter of those whom she has placed at the _head of
her affairs. In fact, Greece is evidently rising supe-
rior try_ all the difficulties -that ;noticed her—she haS
via betat, . barbarized by her barbarous oppressors-.-she
tfaa nor, been conquered by overwhelming force—she has
Pa 1:0191 intimidated or reduced to submission by, the
abandonment of those to whom she looked for succour
sel„,it?!ritiriesciet beenctittif,t:ytrayed by any of her children, what-
she h4i,
neither. ,b4T,
forced,
enntoerrteaui jot.
serVittale--,she has'not listened either to threats or to ne•
44,i I Isotoreaberlilboettir intor—
gociations, when a return to the Turkish yoke has been
proiscitii3 even under the guarantee of a perfect. amnesty,
Although she has experienced unczarnplet i financial ern.