The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Business in Adelaide is rapidly improving. The colony is likely
to become more than ever prosperous—the farming interests have
wonderfully revived. For all EMIGRANTS. CAPITALISTS,
AGRICULTURISTS, MECHANICS, or GOLD DIGGERS, E.
MOSES and BON'i OUTFITS are most approved. They contain
the best and most suitable goads, and are charg. d lower prices than
at any other Establishment. A comnlete and separate Department
is kept for OUTFITTING. Full Lists of OUTFITS and all neces-
sary information relative to sailing of vessels, &c., may be had on
application, or post free to any part of the kingdom.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the nntradesmanliko
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " it's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
Obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
No Corenzton WITH ANT OTHER noun IN ox OUT OT LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156 and 157, Minories, 83,
$4, 85, and Bf, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating
London West-end Branch, 886, 507, 508, New Oxford-street 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge street.

Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Boot
and Shoe Makers. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction it will be
exchanged If desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, from which no abatement can be made.
The itstablishMenta are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
'4lu.TdaYs, 'shen business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the
Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions for self-mea-
rthartnit:mmdoay be had on application, or post-free, to any part
A hatici.onanl.
on application, Almanac for the year ending 18.52 can be had, gratis,
Ici Pon puler
Hier strichtm- Deutsch.rancal'. I Qui si parla Italian.
I Aqua se habla Espanol.

SUICIDE of A ~, .
gentleman engaged-".' '-ekeroß.—On Friday, eveni, the
n,isi. ing ' old-man' at the Theatrel
Royal, Brigi as lead. ,
eel:. John Henry Beauflet
suicide. The de
formerly apantomimist, but
has of late years folleod Iv" . but
performance at vari wed the morelegitimate line of
last engagement waTi,,,Zatrical establishments. His
joined the Brighton carp, the, lPswich
associatin company He
,and h
has suffered considerably frnratique in October'. He
ill health
very low spirited, seldom as been
actors. He was cast for the part of .E. with his fellow
,wrlthrsta
farce of Out on the Loose, on prida:ler• Capias in the
not make his appearance ; and, v;heZening, but did
understood that
found lying on the floor at his lodgings :PA, for, was
his throat produced by a razor. It is gash in
he had received notice to leave the Brighton
li* • "'Tan
and had no other engagement, and t is is supposed. 3r,
have preyed on his mind. At an inquest held on the
body on Saturday morning, the verdict of the jury was,
"That deceased committed the rash act while in an un-
sound state of mind."
THE POPE AND THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES.—Authentic
intelligence has at length been received from Rome re-
Zdg the final determination of the Pope to adhere to
decision alrea.d ono ed,prohibiting ecclesiastics
from h • ypr
.unc
olding an with the Queen's
Colleges in this y connexion whatever
Rev. .
O'Toole, who ilcaosuntry. In consequence, the •
he obtained an been for some time in Rome, where
the Government interviewh with his Holiness, has sent to
President of the Galway
sairesignation of the office of Vice-
no prohibition whatever College. There is however, 1
Roman Catholic laity against the attendance of the I
y at those colleges. i

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1852.

An augmentation of the Royal Navy of England
has at length been resolved upon by her MA-
JESTY'S Government. Scarcely any announce-
, ment, we believe, could by possibility be more
' acceptable than this to the great mass of the
population. It is the recognition, at last, of a
necessity long obvious, it would seem, to every-
body but the leaders of past Administrations. For
ourselves, we have insisted upon the deplorable
fact of its existence more urgently, more anxiously,
and more pertinaciously, than upon almost any
other want affecting the interests or the security
of the United Kingdom. We have never failed
to appreciate the magnitude of this most impor-
tant exigency, any more than we have overlooked
for an instant—as some people would really
appear to have overlooked—the circum-
stance that ours is an insular power, and one,
therefore, requiring for the continuance of its
stability—unremitting attention to the strength
and efficiency of its maritime armaments. That
this attention has not been accorded of late years
to the naval defences of Great Britain, has been
for a considerable time past a truth very pain-
fully notorious. Every impartial observer gifted
with a merely ordinary amount of intelligence,
has perceived only too readily and too distinctly
the grievous negligence of those entrusted with
the responsibility of conducting the machinery of
our marine administration. They have seen
with dismay the disastrous inadequacy of
the improvements admitted into our dock-
yards when contrasted with those intro-
duced into the dockyards of some of the
more powerful States of Christendom. it
has been a lamentable story, familiar to the mul-
titude at large, that the Navy, whose annals have
been illustrated by so many glorious achievements,
the Navy of Algiers and Trafalgar, the Navy of
NELSON and CoLLlNGwoon—has not developed its
energies proportionately with the advance percep-
tible elsewhere, during the last thirty or forty
years of almost uninterrupted tranquillity. Com-
plaints very loud and very numerous have conse-
quently been heard, more particularly during the
past decade ; and to these complaints we have
the satisfaction of remembering that we ourselves
have repeatedly, we may even say perpetually,
given utterance.

Among other things, we have asserted the impera-
tive necessity of bringing about prompt and com-
prehensive changes in our system of ship-building,
in our scale of promotions, in our acceptance of the
aids yielded by engineering, in our organization of
marine artillery, in this direction, in that direc-
tion, and
in the other—but, above all, and be-
yond all, have perseveringly insisted upon the
need of some total and immediate re-arrangement
of our preposterous scheme of manning the ships
of war entrusted with the duty of earrying unsul-
lied and respected into every quarter of the globe
the banners of the British SOVEREIGN. It
has appeared to_
sus that, among all the various

improvemer its demanded in the Royal Navy
of EnglaaV 1, the most needed were—a greater
care for ,our. seamen, a more sedulous regard
to the innovations in gunnery, a larger
interest i rt. watching over the fortunes of those
officers wl rase merits admitted of the recompence
of a speedii•ar advancement, and a judicious care
for the inor eased efficiency of our men-of-war, by
the more ge ,neral employment of the advantages
inseparable from the introduction of the screw
propeller. Such have been the principal objects
towards wl Lich we have directed, year after year,
month aftk r month, week after week, and even
dax after d ay, all the fervour of logic and all the
force of stutistics. These have been the more
noteable ref orms urged by us, time after time, upon
the considi3ration of the authorities at the
Admiralty---reforms to the absolute necessity of
which we lh, ave called the attention of the Legis-
lature, and, for the realisation of which we have
besought t h e interposition of the Government.
Happily for England, her rulers have at last
awakened b c the sense of this great need of mari-
time impro. vements. It has been intimated al-
ready in tlai3se columns that the marine force of
the British. Empire has been put in a fait way of
developing its own vast capabilities by the re-
cent adoption in so many instances of the "screw"
as a means. of propulsion. Another improvement
equally red.( minding to the glory of the Cabinet,
has now, Nv,e rejoice to know, been resolved upon
in complia n ce with the suggestions of the Naval
Commission . Somewhere about five thousand
sailors, and a proportionate number of marines,
are forthwil la to be added to those now consti-
tuting the power of the fleets of Great Britain.
Supposing that this augmentation in the
number (A' our seamen be only coupled
with a char; ge in the general system of manning
our ships of war, so as to abolish the custom of
discharging crews whenever they are paid off,
precisely at the very juncture when they have
been train e d into the most admirable state of
efficiency —-- we shall eagerly acknowledge, that
in these no ew reforms we can only recognize a
source of 13 nalloyed satisfaction. Even now, as
far as the c hange goes, it cannot but be in every
way accept,a.ble to the multitude. By the increase
of the N. 3; vy through the raising of these five
thousand c lditional sailors, we are in the most
rational n u uaner carrying out the project of im-
proving and stabilitating what are called the Na-
tional Def ea ices. Without some such innovation
the calling .out of the new Militia would have been
little better • than a fares to all intents and purposes.
The alter 11 ions proposed to emanate from the
Admiralty ;form, therefore, the most reasonable
pendant to ,Mr. WALPOLE'S much-lauded and emi-
nently suco 3ssful enactment. Granted that this
augmentati4 in of the strength of our maritime ar-
maments iv. ill necessitate no inconsiderable increase
of expend it ure—yet, while that reflexion is alto-
gether un.d enable in its accuracy, we rest confi-
dent, nevertheless, -o:tat the change, though
necessarily expensive, will prove one of a singu-
larly welcot ie and popular character. It will be
hailed with gladness by every patriot in the United
Kingdom. It will alleviate a very painful and
wide-spread anxiety. It will render the Militia
Bill more tl lan ever agreeable to the feelings of
the populetion. It will infuse an appreciable ac-
tivity into -the whole of the Naval Department of
these island 1;, and, by enhancing the vitality of our
maritime JA:,:rces, will, in the most effectual manner,
tend to ens, Ire the stability of the British Empire.
Although emanating from a DERBY-DISRAELI
Cabinet, it will not be ungrateful to the ma-
jority of a liberal and Economic Opposition.

None but persons tolerably well acquainted
with the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland, li
can form :any conception of the nature and diffi-
culty of the task undertaken by the Irish ATTOR-
NEY-GMNTEILAL, and so ably brought forward on
Monday evening. The mere digest of the multi-
farious en a.ctments spread through 150 or 200
different st atutes—the clearing up of ambiguities
—the recc mciling conflicting provisions, consoli-
dating and simplifying the whole, so as to form a
consistent code—would alone constitute a labour
of no ordiattry magnitude. But Mr. NAPIER did
far more. :He acted not merely as the compiler,
but as the legislator. He not only ascertained
the state of the existing law, but he considered,
curdy and attentively, the evils with which his
experience as a Barrister had rendered him too
familiar. He traced out those various evils to
their respective sources, and provided what, we
trust and believe, will prove to be efficient reme-
dies. He was no doubt considerably assisted by
the laboura of those who had preceded him in the
same path, but who had not succeeded in achiev-
ing any prat tical result. He has particularly de-
rived advant age from many valuable suggestions
in the Report of the Devon Commissioners. But
all would have been fruitless had it not been for
a degree of patient assiduity, coupled with a firm
determinatioLl to render full and impartial justice
between the parties, beyond all praise. He has
unquestionably held the scales with an equal and
impartial ha ad, not seeking popularity from either
side, but, as we have already stated, enforcing "the
duties" white protecting "the rights" of pro-
perty.

In his third Bill, which is that for consoli-
dating, sim: plifying, and amending the existing
laws which regulate the relations of landlord and
tenant in the Sister Kingdom, Mr NAPIER has en-
deavoured to enforce a more strict observance of
the contracts, calmly and deliberately entered
into, than Nras previously practicable. One of the
most learned and truly distinguished Judges that
ever preside d upon the Irish, or indeed on any,
Bench of Justice, was accustomed to express his
disapprobation of the tenant " paying his landlord
by a special demurrer." But it was too fre-
quently the case that " a point of law" was the
only rent which the landlord could obtain ; and
the eminent Judge above referred to was occa-
sionally obliged to give effect to objections of
which he highly disapproved, and to decide on a
mere form, contrary to the substantial merits of
the case. The extraordinary litigation that oc-
curred on .the question of reversion, which led to
conflicting decisions in the Courts of Queen's
Bench and Exchequer, was exemplified in the
well-known case of PLUCK v. DEGGIS, which was
carried to the House of Lords, and of which it was
subsequently said byLord PLUNKETT, that he would
only follow the decision of the Peers in a case in
which the name of the plaintiff was PLUCK, and
the name of the defendant, DEGGIS. It was
indeed, a case of extreme hardship, that a party
who had let his lands to another for the term for
which he held them himself, could not avail him-
self of the ordinary remedies, either by distress or
ejectment, unless he reserved some time, however
short--a singleos.m ed t
day was sufficient for the purpose
—or
demised
from the lands for the lives of different
persons
hose mentioned in his own lease.
e
It was a triumph of law over justice, and had a
very demo ralising effect, inasmuch as it induced
persons to take defence, relying on the ingenuity
of counsel rather than on the honesty or justice of
their case.
(4 Nothing," as the Right Hen.
Gentleman justly remarked--" Nothing was so cal-
culated to encourage the unhealthy system of
competition for land,
which had prevailed in Ire-
land, as leading tenants to suppose that they
might not The compelled to pay ; and they often
speculated accordingly on
the chance of not being
compelled t;o pay." By the new Bill the contracts
will be strictly enforced ; and if the landlord is
towards the tenant, the
compelled to act fairly
latter will in turn be obliged to render justice to
the former. " The rent can no longer be paid by
a special demurrer."

There are some very salutary provisions against
waste, andparticularly "against the destructive and
improvident custom of burning the lands." Under
the existing law, the landlords had no remedy,
save by filing a bill in the Court of Chancery, for
an injunction against the reckless tenant. If un-
willing to encounter the formidable expense of
such a proceeding—an expense seldom, if ever,
recovered from the defendant, as such acts were
only resorted to by paupers already heavily in
debt to the victims—he might stand by looking
on at the irreparable injury inflicted on his pro-
perty, which even under the most favourable
terms he might be =We tc, prevent, as several