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London, England, 1826-03-15 00:00:00

neous offices in the same persons—from want of
" due attention in certain departments of the
" office of Clerk of the Peace"—from "the irre-
gular attendance of, officers"—from unsuccess-
ful searches for hooks and papers—and from the
imperfect record or frequent omission of the
orders of Conn and proceedings of Magistrates.
The opinion of the reforming committee amounts
to this,--that the " whole system is at pre-
cc sent highly disreputable to the Clerk of
" the Peace and to the county, and requires
" to be thoroughly reformed and properly or-
" ganized." We are very sure that these reports,
which constitute a series of four in number, from
December, 1824, to the 15th of the same month
in 1825, reflect credit on the Magistrates from
whom they have issued, and might well be sub-
mitted to the Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, who seems to undertake with conscien-
tious , alacrity whatever enterprize may conduce
to the interests and facilitate the administration
of justice.

[NEW TI M ES.]
Owing to some accidental circumstance, the
statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer re-
lative to the comparative productiveness of the
Revenue in the beginning of the years 189.5 and
1826 respectively, was generally understood,
both by the Members present, and by the Re-
porters, to allude only to the month of 'January.
Indeed, Mr.Maberly complained that the accounts
were not brought up to the 2d of March. The
truth, however, is, that Mr. Robinson referred to a
statement of the produce of the two first months.
We have, therefore, a proof that the trying month
of February has passed over without any mate-
rial effect. On the Revenue. The whole produce'
of the Excise. Duties for, January and February,
1825, was 2,259,660/, and of the correspondent
period in 1826, 2,257,2801. leaving, indeed, an
advantage on the side of the first-mentioned pe-
riod--but what sort of advantage ? Two
Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty Pounds
on a • sum of Two Millions and a Quarter
—that is to say, about One Pound in a Thousand.
—So trifling has been the impression made
on the Finances by the Commercial Distress !
We do not mention this with a view to underrate
the real evil of the late embarrassments ; but to
show that there is still ground to reckon largely
on the growing prosperity of the country, and
to prove that its resources, which supply the
current of taxation, have not been, to any seri-
ous degree, injured. -

[MORNING CURONICI.E.]
A circumstance was mentioned last night by
Lord King,—whose speeches have contributed so
much to foment the irritation against landowners,

which, as Sir Matthew W. Ridley observed, Hit
do not subside, threatens to diminish very much
the Wilk), of their services to the country,—that
has embarrassed us exceedingly with respect to
the course we should follow in the case of the

-Corn Laws. We were awnreof the fact to which

. . .
he alludes, of. the Country Gentlemen, towards
the close of the war, being at a loss to deter-
mine whether it would be most advisable to de-
fraud the public creditor, or to tax the consumers
of corn, and that, owing to the reluctance of
Ministers, the latter course was adopted. But
Lord King says, " there was an alliance formed
bet Ween the Government, the Landlords and the
Clergy. • The Government wanted high taxes,
the Landlords high rents, and the Clergy high
tithes. The Government had relented, but the
Landlords and the Clergy were still• obdurate."
When 'we heard this, a ray of light flashed across
oar mind. It immediately occurred to us that
we had never heard any Member (lithe Bench of
Bishops speak against the Corn Bill, either due-
log regular discussions or in presenting Petitions;
and' if the Lord Chancellor took the approbation
of' the 'Bench of Bishops of the prattice of man
stealing, as at least a strong presumption of its
being in accordance with the spirit of the Christian
Religion, the approbation of the Bench of Bishops
of the Corn Laws leads us, in like manner, to
doubt whether Christianity do not demand the
continuance of these Laws. It is clear that the
Corn Laws,,, • by raising the price of Corn, raise
the value of Tithes ; and, whatever some may
think now, we aro sure, that any man who pro-
posed to lower the value of Tithes 800 years ago
would have been in danger of Suffering by fire as
a heretic. The Corn Laws must be good for the
souls of the people, if not for their bodies, if the
spiritual guides of. the nation contend .fortheM.
The peke of Athol, -since he hit the ungrateful
Weavers of Perth so hard blow, has been in
retirement on his laurels ;..and the task of cutting
up Lord King, by pointed sarcasms, seems in the
interim to have devolved on the Earl of Limeric.
His Lordship said a good thing last night, which
will not soon be forgotten. Lord King having
lest night called the Corn Laws the bead Weight
of the Country, the Earl of Limeric, with all
the ready wit of his nation, instantly observed,
that, 46 his speeches might amuse, but they
would have no weight with their Lordships."
here his'opponent found himself in a cleft stick;
for after Well a smart sarcasm, ho could not re.
tort, " that the speeches of the Noble Earl
might have weight with their Lordships, hut could
not amuse them." How delightful thisintellectual
gladiatorshil7l But the question is, how long
Lord King will be able to bear up against so
much pungency ?

[MORNING ewer.]
The business in Parliament last night was not
of much importance. In the Lords, a debate took
place upon the question of the second reading of
the Promissory Notes Bill ; but not a single son.,
tence of novelty was urged on this already most
thoroughly discuised subject. The Earl of Car.
narvon moved an amendment that the Bill be
rend a second time that day six months, which
was negatived without a division, and the original
motion carried. in the course of the discussion
the Parl of Liverpool gave notice that on Friday
night he should move the appointment of a Select
Committee to inquire in Id the state of the Banking
System Ireland and Scotland, before be should
propose the extension of the present miTsure to
those countrif.s.—Tlie Martioii of Lansttown, .
n
moving for an accomit of the imports and Ex.