1825.] 
cordingly, in defiance of French prohi- 
bition. 
PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS. 
-_A table of returns from the Surveyors 
of the Assessed Taxes has been printed, 
stating the number of surcharges which 
each has made within the last two years, 
with the proportion of those which have 
been allowed. and disallowed, and the 
sums of money received by each survey- 
or on that account. A few instances 
will show to what an extent this art of 
tormenting has been carried. In Ches- 
ter there were 19 surcharges allowed 
and 36 disallowed. In Cornwall 43 
were allowed and 75 disallowed. In 
Cumberland 27 were allowed, and 81 
disallowed. What stronger argument 
for the repeal of a body of taxes, so 
little productive in comparison with 
their pressure ! 
Tue Report or THE TuRNPIKE 
Trust Commirres, for inquiring into 
the State of the Trusts within ten miles 
of London, states, that indifferent 
roads, multiplied toll-gates, enormous 
rates (provokingly and universally mis- 
applied, rather to the maintenance of 
clerks and other officers, than to the 
repair of the roads) have long been sub- 
jects of complaint: that from the num- 
ber of separate acts under which the se- 
veral trusts were created, there has been 
no general principle of management or 
control, by which the interests of the 
public might be protected; the dilapi- 
dation of the funds, and the consequent 
heavy debts of many of the trusts; the 
much larger sum raised than would be 
necessary to keep the roads in the best 
repair; that the accounts were in a very 
confused state ; and that the needless fre- 
quency of ill-directed repairs, prove the 
badness of the system. Several trusts 
in possession of estates still continue to 
levy tolls, though their necessity has 
been thereby superseded. The Com- 
mittee recommend that all the trusts 
near London should be consolidated 
under one set of Commissioners. 
The Duke of York’s mansion, now 
building, we understand was to have 
been erected by Mr. Smirke, who was 
employed and made the design for that 
re but the royal Duke, dining 
with the Duke of Wellington, was over- 
persuaded by him to change his archi- 
tect, and employ his protegée, Mr. 
Wyatt; and, without further ceremony, 
the already-commenced plans of Mr. S. 
were resigned. There is one consola- 
Political Occurrences. 
FL 
tion in this—it shews that a royal per- 
sonage may vacillate in his opinion ! 
IRELAND. 
The committee of twenty-one, ap- 
pointed to prepare the plan of a new 
association for managing Catholic affairs, 
have unanimously reported upon its de- 
tails and principles. After reciting the 
prohibitions of the recent statute, they 
expressly disavow the prohibited ob- 
jects, but maintain the necessity of some 
permanent body to watch over Catholic 
interests—public and private charity— 
religious and moral education—building 
churches—procuring burial grounds— 
“promotion of science, agriculture, and 
manufacture—circulation of writings in 
refutation of charges brought against 
the Catholics in the last sessions, and 
completing a census of the population. 
Aggregate meetings, repeated and mul- 
tiplied, are henceforth to promote the 
redress of political grievances—meetings 
in all the parishes in Ireland on a given 
day—provincial meetings, and meetings 
in Dublin for procuring petitions. 
Carr or Goop Horr.—It is stated 
that Lord Bathurst has communicated to 
the Governor, Lord C. Somerset, the 
long catalogue of accusations against 
him and intimated the expediency of his 
Lordship’s return to England to defend 
himself. Sir Lowry Cole, British Go- 
vernorat the Isle of France, is to repair 
to the Cape, and officiate as Governor 
ad interim. Mr. Greig, editor and pro- 
prietor of the suppressed newspaper, is 
to go back immediately, and to re-es- 
tablish his paper, under the full protec- 
tion of his Majesty’s Government at 
home. 
FRANCE. 
M. Casimir Perrier, the banker and 
deputy for Paris, having occasion to go 
to Grenoble on some family business, 
was not only cheered at several of the 
towns through which he passed, but was 
received at the end of his journey by a 
procession of between 4 and 5000 per- 
sons, at the head of which were forty 
young gentlemen on horseback, and be- 
tween twenty-five and thirty carriages. 
Having met the deputy, outside the 
town, M. Jules Mollien, an advocate, 
delivered, in the name of his body, a 
speech, in which he praised the consti- 
tutional exertions of their visitor, and 
expressed their hearty congratulations 
on his arrival among them. M. Perrier 
made a suitable reply, and was after- 
wards 
