The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-21 00:00:00

and they will now stow es, that they knoll haw Os prat
root our tsaching..-:Wo can sea no reason ally the
French T y aboard nut be supplied hyoids means.
If we he in error as to this lustier, we Omit he ready to
return ou► thanks to any of war more enliwltteirti eon-
tempuraries, who will condescend to pat us right.

IRISH HARMONY.
It appears, that the Marquis Wolfe.'ley has been
roughly handled at the Theatre in Dublin by, as it i,
&Hedged, the Orange- Mao, one of whom threw a bottle
at hi,n as he was sitting in his ' Vies-regal Bur:':--
This bottle-thrower is called an "assassin," end wo
verily believe, that, to spit in a fellow's (Enron' treading.
Oil his toes, will be called an act of assassination. We
heartily wish that this hyperbolical language were 13.:.i f;
aside. But, to the matter . what doss this attar's.
prove? Why, that the Orangemen are the ssrovess
party. To be sure they are; for they are the Preiestea4;
and, who has any authority, who has any power; who
hats any property, but the Protestants? bees not the
immense douraios of the Church heling to them/ All
the offices of trust and emolument? All the country
in short! And, while this is the case, will they sit
I be matters? . What nonsense it is to talk of politic
the Catholics on a fair footing with them, while the
"Church Property" remains what it now is! Every
attempt of the sort must lead to confusion. If yon re-
solve to leave the Protestant Church what it now iv, is
Hod's name, let the whole atom I To attempt to raise the
' Catholics without going to the bottom of the evil is
little short of madness. It can only tend to set the par.
ties together by the ears ; and that the Marquis. Wst.-
I.simstu will find. The lows,the distribution of pewerobe
distribution of public peopertionake the Protestant Nat_
less; alai, unless you change these, what hut irritate Jo
you do by attempting to relax the ti.s by which the
Masters hold the servants? Like all similar mastership%
this must remelt entire, or must wholly cease.—Wks'.
then t do we risk this to remain? By 00 means. We
would gladly see it wholly destroyed. Bat, we are
against every attempt to do the thing by little bits.
That roam of public property, called choral-property,
' mast be otherwise diaposed of by law, before the sway
Of those Wii• are ealltd Oessie•sen can cease.

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BED-Fat.Lows.—" Misery," says our "
bard, "brings us acquainted with soave bed fellows."
The learned commentators are at war with regard to
the bed-fellows here alluded to; some assertieg that the
bard bad certain little skipping or creeping intruders is
his eye ; while others, with equal positiveness, assert,
that he meant strange people. peo;le etrsagers to 114 ,
lbous we suet with in lodging boasts, and with wbers
tier low circumstances compel es to share a isretchett
Istd. We. for oar parts, incline to the lathe °plains ,
and we have almost under oar eye, a sorrowful imams
of this sort of ?Wing is together. Oar neighing/4
the Tramper. which, till of late $ bed (sects uit
was) to itself, bag nom actnallAlfWgesl is will, the
GloGe and the True. Briton! 1140 yet, Mr. lanes*
Arrwooo would kilo make it out, that the newspamw
trade thrives amidst aitttia g. serial distress I—N.H. The
Old Times, in a very polite note, beg• us to be assured,
that its sight %begins to fail it ; and that no other reams
span earth has induced it to en:arge the type of its ad-
vertisements.

MR. COBBETT'S FALSE PROPHESIES.
Sleek CROPPER, of Liverpool, and his tool Barr
SMITH, of that town, 7mbliabed, some tins, ago, an ar-
ticle, in which they said, that " Congaree" prophesies
werefts/sifted "as soots as 'pawned." Let rot Mom.
but the public, look well at the following article. Whet
we said, that, in a short time, there would be so mule,
we were accused of folly, and,indeed, pitied for our mad-
mess. RICARDO said, last winter, that the country was
lin a.' prosperous state!" Mind, however, all this is
just. Sir T. B. Lrrunat no c bai what he ought to have.
Let him come to " the shop." Oh ! how this will teork.
their proud, their haughty stomachs! They like Sis
Jets, do they!! They like to see Habeas Corpus Acts
snspended, do they! Go on, brave "stern path st
defy" men ; go on ; go on in that path till we cry,
" hold, enough !" and then there will be justice.
" Sir T. B. LITHRRIDOR. Barr. has at this time no less
" than Warms on his hgxda for want of tenants. Vety
" liberal abatements from former rents have been pro-
" posed, but such is the state of agriculture at present,
" that the amount to be abated, Is less a matter of coo-
" s;deration, than, whether it is retina totpay wiry reef
"at all? Several large farms in this county, which a
" short time ago, made a respectable figure on the sent-
" roll. are now pronottaved by esperienced firmed to
" be unavailing file profit eta peppereors rent; and sit
• agriculturist, upon whose judgment and veracity we
" can rely, bas assured us that as estate. a few Wirt
" from thiS town, which cost the present owner upwards
"of 23,000/. would be now dearly rented at per
• ersa.—(Thenton Courier.)
What! And, can we be glad of this? Yes. Let as
here refire, thee ! YOU WOllll, do you say ? Go en
Bien, itern-path men. (Jo on tau-gatherer, and leave
them not an acre, stick, brick or stone. Leave thew, as
the Monsirurs say, ries pee Ica yeas pour ;dearer, no-
thing but their eyes to err with.

Spanish Papers to the 51.11 Instant hare arrived, ems
hafting an official publication dead Ilse 7th, of a recent
financial decree of the Cortes. By this decree the Go-
vernment is 1. authorized to effect the sale rod emissieo
of 4(1,000,000 of reals vellon in reams, at the rate of five
per cent., to be ins:rifted on the Brett Book ; The
said relates shun be sold at the llLltest possible velar.
consistent with the time and circuinsiasces ; 3. The
tiovernment shall give circumstantial informationte the
Cortes of the produce of this sale ; 4. The tioveremeat
shall apply whatever sum may be found proper to Its
sinking fond of these sales. to victor of this Perot
the Secretary tor the despatch .41 Finance will receise
proposals for the negolistion by slie er commission
of the 40,000,1100 of reels vellons rentes ; and th 09-
verornent will, in due time, accept the prop ,sal shirk
any be found most advantageous for the public.
The Cores In their sitting of the 7tti, proceedel
to the
election of a President and Vice P7eside Li for the ensiling
month. when Senor Oliver was chosen President by n 2
votes out of 121; stud Senor Santafe Vice-Prrsoicst by
ti 3 votes out of 122. The period of the service of one
of the Secretaries, DWI Mari .18. Moreno. harlot(
Also expired, Duo Dionisio Valdes was 'basso I 5
,sis stead by seventy-one votes o-it of 13.1.—A1l these
elecions have fallen on Deputies who belong to the patty
which is considered the nto.t liberal of the Cortes. is
the acme sitting, various representations (tem Political