The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-09 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL INTEREST IN IRELAND.

(faces TNO DUBLIN EVINING POET.)
It is difficult, within the compass of a sentence Of
two, to describe the state of Ireland in respect to
Aviculture. The rents, generally Ppeskiag, have
not been reduced, and, generally speaking, a third of
tbeU bays net been paid. But the Waves is lying
over against the Tenant. Ile is working, as the
phrase is, for a dead horse. He has nothing that be
I' an call his own. The owner may, at any time, come
down and sweep away every thing on his farm. This
has been dope in a hundred instances,bot it can be done
no longer. If a distress be levied, and the corn and
cattle brought to the hammer, they will sot fetch one
fourth even of the present value. People either have
not the money, or, if they have, there is a combination
among them not to buy the produce of a farm so
seised. There is, therefore, no prospect of making
any rent, e►en in this meaner, and we find that there
are not so many leases broken as there would he, if
there were a market for the cattle and corn of the te-
nant. There is another circumstance which must be
taken into consideration, and which is, certainly, not
without its influence. By a clause in the new Insol-
vent Act, Insolvent Farmers are discharged from the
obligation of their 1 . They may give them op
to the Provisional Assignee or to the detaining credi-
tor, who may be the landlord. The truth is, that a
moiety of the farmers a-s anxious to quit ; aid, we
shall find, when this provision of the Act is generally
understood, that the Insolvent Curt will have a much
greater proportion of Farmers' cues to try, than it
has hitherto had.

In the mean time the landowners of Ireland are
generally pressed by their creditors; by those who
have liens of any kind upon their estates. Now, al-
most every estate in Ireland is burdened with these
liens ; with judgment debts as they are called in this
country; with younger children's portions; with
doweries; with jointures ; with mortgages. It has
been generally remarked, we believe, that it is much
wore difficult to open an estate in Ireland than the
same operation would be found in England. It is
f. need about, entailed, and demised in such a manner,
that it is next to an impossibility. very often, to com-
pel an ordinary payment out of it. So long as the
interest of the liens have been regularly paid, it is
almost in vain to think of a sale. But the very en-
tail► of which we speak; the very means takes by the
Devisors to protect the land, operate at present as an
easy and direct mode of bringing them to auction.—
For the last two or three years, there has bees scarcely
any interest paid- The hlortgagees are in the course
of foreclosing; Executors and Trustees are calling is
their debts; and the landed interest of Ireland is, at
this moment, in a condition truly deplorable. The
reader may judge of the extent ef this calamity, when
Le is informed that, in the County of Cork, which
contains a population of between seven or eight hun-
dred thousand souls, there are onlyfour Males which
are not dipt.
In one word, unless something decisive and ?sliest
he dose for the landed interest of Ireland, we verily
believe, that in the course of three years, the greater
part of the land will pass into other hands. We know
not, indeed, bow such a result can be obviated. The
general working of events manifestly tends to this end.

COUNTY CORK.
RENEWED DISTURBANCES.
The following Resolutions have been entered into
by the Magistrates assembled at the Mallow Special
Sessions :
tt We, have observed with extreme regret and
disappointment that the spirit of disturbance which
we hoped bad been extinguished, still continues to
exist among the Peasantry, and to manifest itself in
acts of Outrage and mischief, in various parts of this
Country.
" That scarcely a night passes in which some
malicious destruction of property by fire does not
take place.
" That the Property so destroyed is, in general,
corn, or Hay, set apart for Tithe, or belonging to
prisons Islas have made an agreement with the Tithe

l'roctor.
That Me wickedness of these Atte can be equal-
ed only by their jolly, because the law will give cont.
pensatiou to the individual against whom the attack
is directed, and the loss will fall upon the parish or
barony, to which the incendiaries for their own sakes,
ran intend no injur:•.
That we pledge ourselves to enquire minutely
into the particnlars of each occurrence of this kind
u Lich has happened, or which may happen in our rr-
specive neighbourhoods, and to give every assistance
in our power to those persons who may have to seek
rompensation for such losses, provided their conduct
upon the occasion shall appear to have been fair and
manly; but those persons whose behaviour has been
►uch as to give encouragement to this system of out-
rage rather than to suppress it, and those in
who have put their tithe out of their haggard.,
uf•er /wing once brought in, can expect no aid or sym-
-11,11,y from us.
These, and other Resolutions to the same effect,
ate signed by Lords Doneraile and Ennismore, and
nice other Magistrates.

zs.—lie are authorized to contradict a state-
ints.t that appeared in our paper of the 2I et of
September, copied from a Cork Paper—" that all the
izeutletnen at the Meeting, held at the Court house,
Limner', sigeed the Resolutions adopted at London
with respect to tithei—as the Dean and Archdeacon
f Lismere, and other clergymen, did not sign them.—
(WutcrjOrd.Virror.)
MURDIR or MR. CIMIAIMI'S SZIWANT.
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Conit, OCT. 2.—This day a man named Daniel Cal-
hghan, one of the Veteran Battalion, at present in the
Barrack in this City, was taken up on suspicion of being
concerned in this murder. The circumstances which
led to his arrest are as follow :—Yesterday morning this
Iran went to the house where the body was lying, and
saying he was the nephew of the deceased, began to cry
loudly, and wanted to buy a shroud and to provide other
matters necessary for his funeral. Some suspicion being
excited from his manner, be was questioned closely, and
ft eiviently contradicted himself, so much so that further
inquiry was made, the result of which is, that he now ac-
ntow►edgea he is no relation to the deceased. These
.cis being communicated to the Sheriffs and Mr. Hew-
they this day proceeded to the New Barrack io
.arch of him, and on stating their business to the Colo-
el, lie immediately said—" You need take no trouble
Inscribing the man yon want; if there be any person