1822 .] [ oof) ] 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN DECEMBER. 
Beai2S3£»=. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
S OME accessions to ministerial 
power have taken place, and tome 
cold-blooded cyphers have retired, or 
are about to retire. The Marquess Wel¬ 
lesley is appointed Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland ; the Duke of Montrose, Lord 
Chamberlain; the Marquess Oonyng- 
fiatn, Lord Steward; and the Duke of 
Dorset, Master of the Horse. The 
Orenville party are also to receive 
appointments; but the arrangement 
which most gratifies the public is the 
substitution of Mr. Peele for Lord Sid- 
2 non til as Home Secretary. A change 
m tills department was devoutly to be 
wished, as in the liberal and maenani- 
mon.s performance of its duties depends 
so much of the happiness of the people. 
The following account of the Monies as¬ 
sessed and levied in England and Wales, 
for the relief of the Poor, will prove the 
state of pauperism to which high rents and 
taxes are driving the mass of the people. 
YEARS. 
Total Sain 
Assessed 
and Levied 
Sums ex¬ 
pended for 
relief of Poor 
1748—19—50.. 
£730,! 35 
£689,971 
! / «•••.•* 
1,720,316 
1,521,732 
1783—84—85.. 
2,167 748 
1.912,211 
1803.. 
5,348,204 
4,077,891 
1812—13. 
8,640,842 
6,656,105 
1813—14. 
8,388,974 
6,294,584 
1814—15...... 
7,457,676 
5,418,845 
1815—16. 
6,937,425 
5,724,506 
1316—17_ 
8,! 28,41.8 
6,918,217 
1817—18. 
9,320,440 
7,890,148 
1818—19.. 
8.932,185 
7,531,65.0 
1819—20. 
8,719,655 
7,329,594 
The following are the amounts expended for 
the maintenance of the Poor in each county 
Year 
Counties.. Ending 25th 
March, 1820. 
ENGLAND. £. s. 
Bedford..... 73,465 1:2 
Berks.... 123,280 1 
Buckingham 133,163 16 
Cambridge... 91,163 10 
Chester ...... 121,169 16 
Cornwall 1 15,254 5 
Cumberland 59,"64 15 
Derby 
Devon 
Dorset 
Durham 
Essipc 
Gloucester 
Fie re ford 
Hertford 
Huntingdon 
rr i a 
svert 
Lancaster 
Leicester 
Lincoln 
Middlesex 
Monmouth 
No: folk 
103,7 64 
249,963 
10-1,825 
101,755 
312,087 
182,791 
81,108 
100,667 
38,798 
394,619 
317,057 
159,678 
1 
7 
2 
14 
1 * 
3 
9 
2 
6 
19 
10 
172,971 18 
625,065 10 
33,0e2 19 
272,939 19 
Northampton 162,546 9 
NorthumberL 82,030 14 
Nottingham 105,3; 8 io 
£. ». 
Oxford 
143,230 
9 
Rutland 
1 2,425 
9 
Salop 
111,617 
8 
Somerset 
191,887 
11 
Southampton 229,566 
12 
Stafford 
153,132 
7 
Suffolk 
245,076 
s 
Surrey 
277,271 
10 
Sussex 
286,066 
11 
Warwick 
J 81.984 
18 
Westmorland 
29,112 
9 
Wilts 
188,808 
12 
Worces ter 
107,260 
17 
( E. R. 
105,867 
19 
York! N. R. 
91,666 
14 
f YV.R. 
346,814 
WALES. 
Anglesea 
14,836 
19 
Brecon 
20,270 
Cardigan 
r-,213 
19 
Carmarthen 
35,942 
9 
Carnarvon 
18,030 
10 
Denbigh 
39,920 
15 
Flint 
23,18} 
13 
Glamorgan 
43,558 
9 
.Merioneth 
16,290 
16 
Montgomery 
33,402 
19 
Pembroke 
25,466 
17 
Radnor 
15,180 
2 
i mai m pHgland and Wales. 7,329,59-1 
l-xjjanoed «a Towns. i 3 ? j 49,5 
Expended in other Parishes ....... 
An account of the average price of Wheat 
per quarter, in England and Wales, from 
the 25th of March 
1811, to the 25th of 
March, 1821. 
1812 — 197 
10 
1817 —. 
87 
4 
1813 —- 28 
8 
1818 — 
90 
7 
1814 — os 
— 
1819 — 
82 
9 
1815 — 70 
6 
1820 — 
69 
5 
1801 — 61 
10 
1821 — 
62 
5 
Average of 10 Years 
84 
11 
A decision of the Dank Directors to 
discount inland bills at 95 days, will 
assist botSi commerce and agriculture; 
but the reported reduction of one per 
cent, on the interest of the funds is a 
consummation devoutly to be wished ; 
for while it would relieve us from ten 
millions of taxes, it would place funded 
and other property more nearly on a 
level. 
IRELAND. 
The sufferings of the poor tenantry 
of Ireland have contributed to excite 
them to most frightful outrages. They 
assemble by night in the south western 
counties, and they rob and murder, or 
they burn the houses of all whom they 
consider as oppressors of the people. 
Every night increases their numbers 
and their victims. We have not heard 
cl any concessions or commissions of 
enquiry with a \ iew to cure (he disease 
by destroying the causes; but a legal 
commission lias been appointed to sit 
at Limerick to try the offenders, and 
subject them to the penalties of the law. 
Already four convicted murderers have 
expiated their crimes; and it is said 
that a hundred others remain for trial. 
The arrival of the Marquess Welles¬ 
ley is, therefore, anxiously looked for, 
in the hope that he lias full powers to 
apply his true Irish feelings to the grie-c 
vances of his country. If our opinion 
reach him we conjure him to bear in 
mind that in allaying irritation, gentle 
means are the only specifics, and that 
44 a spoonful of oil always goes further 
than a quart of vinegar.” 
In our last we alluded briefly to one 
of the most savage massacres on record, 
and we now give place to the proceed¬ 
ings relative to it, before the Coroner’s 
inquest. 
Nicholas Shea, of Seven Acres, farmer, 
deposed, that he is brother of the deceased 
Edmond Shea; knows the bodies of Ed¬ 
mond Shea, Mary Shea, Edmond Shea, 
jmi., Mary Shea, jun. Nicholas Shea, pan , 
Wm. Shea, and Margaret Shea. Witness 
was called out of his bed on the morning of 
the 20th instant, by John Butler, about 
the 
