Star.
London, England, 1831-07-06 00:00:00

ABSTRACT
ended Sth

Customs
Excise ......
Stamps
Post Office I
Taxes
Miscellaneous

of the NET PRODUCE of the
July, 1830, gad sth July, 1831,
YEAH ENDED JULY 5.
1830. I 1831.

Increase.;
I

16,385,0491 I 16,307,295, ... 77,754. I
17,083,179 15,644,559' .. 1,438,620 1
6,624,5011 6,504,213 .. 120,288 1
,337,00• 1.397,9171 60,017
4,938,581 4,935.7091 Z• 672.
549,427 272,662; ... 76,765,

46,717,737; 45,061,45:

60, 017 1,711

Deduct Increase

60,017 i,
1,656,2321)

' BRITAIN, in the
or DECREASE on

QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5
1830. I 1831.

3,985,995
3,757,150
1,691,471
311,000
2,045,297
47.796

[11,638,709

3,745,865
3,332,097
1,674,109
6,0,006
2,016,981
48,993

'11,141,050

on the Year

on the Quarter........

ears and
ch head tl

0,201

X.
231,130
425,053
61,362

25,316

743,861

697.659

• . .
INCOME and CHARGE on the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the Quarters ended sth July, 1830 and 1831.
413. INDID JULY 5. WM INDSD JULY 5•
1830. 1831. 1830. :1831.
INCOME. —....--- ommeM/0... CH ARGE. ---. ---
.e. .e. , .e. .e.
Customs . . . . 3,985,995.2,456,333 'Exchequer Annuities . . • 1,922 1,572
Excise . . . • 3,757,14913,332,097;150uth Sea Company . . . 81,953 01,365
Stamps . . . . 1,691,47011,630,109 Bank on their Capital . 89,125 89,125
Post Office . • • • 311,000 358M6 'Dividends . . . . 8,434,982 8,097,567
Taxes . . k .
Civil List
12,045,297 2,016.981 National Debt . . . 251,480 623,848
ldiscellaneous . . . 47,796 48,99,_ . . . 191,483 515,604
-- I
, .
--- ---- Pensions . • . 94,708 88,103
11838707 9,842,568 Other Charges . • . 135,543 112,816
Tontine Money . . . . 11,518 11,344 ---- ---
To Cash brought from the Civil List 1,025 9,281,196 9,610,000
Hereditary Revenue brought to Con- V 2,761,721 675,890
soliJated Fund . . • ... 72,5131 Surplus
ToCash brought to this Account from ,
, Exchequer Bills issued for the Consoli- 12042917 10285890
the Ways and Means to replace the I dated Fund, at sth July, 1831, and paid --....-- ..—.---
like Sum issued out of the Grow- off out of the Growing Produce of the
ing Produce of the Consolidated said Fund in the Quarter ended July
Fund inlreland,for Public Services 191,667 359,465,
5, 1831, after deducting 400,0001.
---' ----1 cancelled by the Commissioners for
12042917:102858901 the reduction of the National Debt I
per Act 11 G. 4, c. 26 . . ... 4,382,940
I Surplus at sth July, 1831 . . 675,890'
"Issued nut of the Consolidated Fund, on
account of the Supplies granted for the
service of the year 1831 . 1,691,586 995,696
I Total at sth July, 1331, to be provided ...-----
I for by an issue of Exchequer Bills
I, charged on the Growing Produce of
Ithe Consolidated Fund in the Quarter
ending 10th Oct. 1831 . ... 5,378,63 i

15,3711,636

•
ON IRISH DISTRESS. fatal silence to its consummation ; when 1 was, in fact,
TO TILL EDITOR. merely deducing a general conclusion from general prin-
Birmingham, April 27, 1820. ciples ; I was merely deducing consequences, from causes
SIR—.I did intend to have devoted this letter to the answer which are now at work below the public eye, and which al-
of some of the principal objections which have been urged ways did act upon the human mind, and always will act
against measures similar to those which I recommend ; but upon the human mind, in producing consequences which the
I have been invited, by several gentlemen whom I highly public have yet to see.
respect, to proceed immediately to the discussion of the con- With these prefatory observations, I come, then, Sir, to
flexion which exists between the attempt to restore the old the consideration of the Ribbon-men, or distressed farmers
metallic standard of value, and the political disturbances and of Ireland. If they had had the discretion to take this lat.
outrages which agitate and threaten every corner of the court. ter name, which is their real name, instead of the former,
try. I am aware, Sir, that in undertaking this, I am which is merely an assumed name, they would have carried
moving upon tender ground ; but having no private Mw- with them a moral weight, which would have given more
rests to serve, and no party passions to gratify, I shall pro- force and consistency to their object than the bayonets of a
ceed,witkall the fearless confidence which becomesa good sub. hundred thousand men.
ject, and a mind conscious of rectitude, and anxious for the It is well-known, Sir, that the state of society in Ireland
national welfare. But I must first deprecate any invidious is very different from hat it is in England. The farmers
interpretation of motives. When I show how poverty leads there have at all times been in a state of great poverty,
to despair, and despair to crime, it must not be thought that when compared with those of England. They seldom occupy
I sympathise with crime ; nor must it be thought that 1 mote than from sto 30 acres of land, and all the capital which
look with any feeling but that of honor at the aspect of they possess is probably a spade and a rake, and perhaps a cow
things, when I point out every sign and every sound which and a few pigs. 1 believe I may say with truth, that there is
is fraught with our approaching fate, and every little ex. scarcely such a thing as a waggon or a threshing floor in Ire-
plosion of the public sentiment, which is but a prelude to land. Tire consequence of this extreme poverty is, that the
that grand explosion, which threatens full shortly to scatter landholders have been obliged to employ a class of men who
our whole fabric of society to the winds. are called middle-men, and whose business it is, to take
Unless I guard myself ty some observations of this kind, large quantities of lands front die landholders, at certain 'm-
it may almost be thought that I have sonic secret connivance vied rents, and to underlet those lands to the little farmers,
with the instruments of thebe explosions, when I insist that for as great a profit as they can make. By this mode of
they will inevitably follow in rapid and terrific progression. proceeding the monied rents of land in Ireland are generally
In my letter of the 24th of February, which was insetted in raised;to what would be deemed an exorbitant rate in Eng-
your Journal of the 28th of February, I made use of the land, nearly the whole produce of the land being required to
following expressions :—" Parliament is slumbering on the pay the rent, and leaving little but potatoes and buttermilk,
verge of a precipice • a gulph is before them ; a gulph has and perhaps a few pigs, to support the farmers, with their
almost opened behind them ; let them slumber a little longer, families and labourers. During the war, however, whilst
and I will defy the wisdom of man to save them." On the I what are called the high prices of agricultural produce ex-
very day this letter was written, the diabolical Cato-street fisted, the farmers were enabled to pay these high-monied
plot was discovered in London. If 1 had made use of the I rents, which, it must be observed, had been still raised as
word Ministers, instead of that of Parliament, it might al. I the monied prices of agricultural produce had been raised.
most hare been suspected that I was making particular al- Thus the whole, or nearly the whole, of the monied rents of
lusion to that particular act, which was then hurrying with If
Ireland, became accommodated to the high monied prices of