The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

MONDAY Li'VENING, APRIL 55 185:2.

may seem as an incident in the narrative, we have a
presentiment that it will aid in the elucidation of the
plot by discovering Esther to be the daughter of Lady
Dedlock, just as we feel certain that the myste-
rious male lodger at Brook's will be found to be Tom
Jarndyce, who attempted self-destruction. The illus.,
trations by Phiz are, as usual, excellent.

I Harriott (late Jessie), 6 yrs—Mariana (own sister to
Worcester), 3 yra—pluck, 3 yrs—lris, 4 yrs—Baccana-
I Han, aged Vatican, 6 yrs Xenophon, 3 yrs
Coral, 3 yrs—Frantic, 3 yrs—Stapleton, 3 yrs—
C by Venison, out of Passion, 3 yrs—Domino, 3 yrs—
Marchioness, 6 yrs—lraeunclus, 4 yrs—Plumstcad, 3 yrs
—Edward of York, 4 yrs—Forester,6 yrs—Croupier, 4 yrs
—F by Lanercost, out of Cytherea, 3 yrs—Huugerford, 4
yrs—lngratitude, 4 yrs—Ethelwolf, 3 yrs—Adine, 3 yrs
—Buckthorn, 3 yrs—Don Pedro, 4 yrs—Hampton, 3
yrs—Yellow Boy, 3 yrs--Bushranger, 5 yrs—Ella, 4 yrs
—The Sutler, 3 yrs—Heroine, 6 yrs—Miss Bundy, 3 yrs
—Miss Ann, 3 yrs—lanthe, 4 yrs—Tonic, 4 yrs—Gay-
lass, 4 yrs—Aitchbone, S yrs—Fauxpas, 4 yrs—Scare-
crow, 3 yrs.
The Foreign Visitors' Plate of 100 soya. Three-quarters
of a mile.
Merry Peal, 4 yrs; Scrprise, 3 yrs; Marriott (late
Jessie), 6 yrs; Lady in Waiting, 3 yrs; Forester, 6 yrs;
Dulcet, aged; Bilberry, 3 yrs; Yellow Boy, 3 yrs; The
Rogue, 4 yrs; Knight of the Thistle, 4 yrs; Coticula, 4
yrs; Iris, 4 yrs; Sprig of Shillelah, 3 yrs; Dividend, 3
yrs; Longinus, 5 yrs; Butt,rfly, 3 yrs; Robert, 3 yrs.;
Heroine, 6 yrs; Croupier, 4 yrs; fby Lmiercost, out of
Cytherea, 3 yrn; c by Venison, out of Passion, 3 yrs;
Irscundus, 4 yrs; Mariana, 3 yrs; Leybourne, 4 yrs;
Captions, 3 yrs; Linthe, 4 3 rs; Tonic, 4 yrs; Xenophon,
3 yrs; Fauxpas, 4 yrs; Narcissus, 5 yrs; happy Joe, 3
yrs; Scavenger, 6 yrs; Catalpa, 4 yrs; Father Thames,
3 yrs; Hareifoot, 4 yrs; Follow me-Lads, 4 yrs; Staple- ton, 3,yrs; flungcrtotd, 4 yrs; Joe-o'. Sot, aged; Buck-
thorn,

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Earl Fizwil:iani's lids,, Thursday, 13ulviiek ; Satan day, Apthorpe-10.
The Cleveland hds., Thursday, Clephow-10.
The South Devon lids., Thurs., Afton Brook, Berry.
Mr. Trelawney's lids., Thurs., Wadham-14
The Durham County lids., Thurs., Elm Park-10i.
The Carmarthenshire Itch., Thurs., Conwill-10.
The Tivyside lids., Thurs., Ponrarsally-10.
The Llanelly hds., Fri., Pembrey House-8.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Thurs., Llangedwin.
The Tredegar hds., Thurs., Penyland Gate-10i.
Mr. Wheble's lids., to-morrow, Hampstead Norris;
Wed., Finchampstead Ridges; Sat., Pinge Wood-11.
The H. H. hds., Tours., Brandean Common; Sat.,
Farleigh House-11.

EXTENSION OF INTERCOURSE BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
We understand that the most extensive arrangements
are in progress to increase the faciliti©s for travelling
in Ireland during the ensuing season, and to encourage
the visits of strangers from all quarters to the remote
and romantic regions of the West. For this purpose the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, have entered
into cummuuicationwith the different leading lines in both
countries, and the directors are determined to carry cut
the pla❑ upon, a most liberal and extensive scale. We
think all parties will agree, that there is nothing more
calculated to rouse the dormant energies of this country
and develop its resources, than by thus uniting both
countries cordially and practically together in such a
desirable project.
We believe that it is in contemplation to issue return
excursion tickets to lst and 2d class passengers in ail
the leading towns in England and Scotland, returnable
at the end of one month, and upon the most moderate
terms.
On the arrival of the tourists in Dublin they will be
enabled to proceed by the following routes, with the
option of stopping when and where they please, and of
joining the lines again at any point they may deem con-
venient; while ample accommodation will be provided
for them not only directly along the line itself, but also
to visit the different districts it passes through, either in
the way of business or amusement.
It is proposed that tourists should go in the first in-
stance from Dublin to Cork, and, after visiting the
scenery of that delightful neighbourhood, proceed by
rail to Bandon, and then to Bantry, taking in all the
beautiful scenery of the south and west, and opening
the vast resources of that important district, in which
the agricultural, mineral, and marine resources of Ire-
land now lie comparatively dormant, for want of that
very system of internal traffic, which it is the object of
these companies to promote.
From Bantry the route will lie through the magnifi-
cent scenery of Glengariff and Kenmore to Killarney,
thence to Mallow, and back to Dublin.
The second route is from Dublin to Galway, and
then west by Oughterard to Clifden, and by Connemara
and the Killeries to Westport, and back by Castlebar
and Tuam, &et., to Dublin. Tourists can, if necessary,
extend their routes to Ballycroy and Erris, and home
by those vast tracts of fertile and uncultivated lands
around the Nephin, to Ballina, Roscommon, and Long-
ford, through some of the richest but moat deserted tracts
in Ireland.
In addition to the above special excursion tickets will
be issued to the county of Wicklow, and also to the
Giant's Causeway from Dublin, whereby the beauties,
as well as the resources, of Ireland will be suddenly
opened to the world at large, upon a scale of accommo
dation and at a rate of price that will astonish the na
tives.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(CONTINUED dN lIIONDAYB AND WEDNESDAYS.)
Sir,--On Wednesday 31st March the debate was on
Tenant Right (Ireland). The speeches against the
Second Reading of Mr. Sharman Crawford's Bill
pointed strongly to the fact, that there was a good deal
to be said upon the other side. There is nothing by
which the useful science of Political Economy (which
has somewhere been called the mathematics
of grown
gentlemen) has been so much injured, as by throwing
out pompous enunciations of leading principles, which
may be true enough in all cases where reason to the
contrary is not established.
One of these Brands mots, as the French call them, is
that everything should be settled by contract between
parties, and that if it is not so settled, the parties have
only themselves to bleme. Now this is partially true,
and partially not. There is no doubt that the power of
making contracts should be left free and open; and
where a contract has not been made, a strong case must
be made out for the necessity of legislative interference.
No man doubts that to leave the parties to the conse-
quences, is in general the easiest, mode of dealing with
the subjf ct.
But the question is, whether there are cases where
the easiest mode is not the beat, and where it is fur the
public welfare that the Government should take other
methods to reduce the evil.
Iu Ireiand, the great complaint is, that from some
causes cr other, the lend is not cultivated as it ought to
be. The fault may be in the landlords, or the fault
may be in the tenants; but in one way or other, the
thine is not done, and no good is to be gained by preach-
ing upon the benefits of forethought and managing after
the English model or the Scotch. Whatever may be
the national eirtues of Ireland, forethought is not the
one which has ever been claimed as peculiarly developed.
Irish landlords in general are not makers of fortunes,
but spenders. They have not money to spare for im-
provements upon their land; and the general fact is,
not only that they spare none for improvements, bat
that the expenses from time to time demanded for keep-
ing the estate in its actual condition, are found by the
tenant rather than by the landlord. Your spruce poli-
tical economist will say, this ought to be remembered by
the tenant in agreeing for the rent. But Irish tenants
are not apt to remember what has not yet come to pass,
and the occurrence of which is viewed through all the
uncertainty attendant upon distance. And to such a
length has this gone, that in Ulster it appears a kind of
home-made law has sprung up upon the subject, not re-
cognized by the courts, and thereby only the more
strongly proved to be an effort for the general
weal. A tribunal of it is not distinctly stated what,
giving its decisions it is not stated where, and acting
upon rules the nature of which is equally non-descript,
goes on enforcing certain modes of compensation to the
tenant, for what he has laid oat upon the land in the
shape of what there appears a disposition to characterize
as " unexhausted improvements; and this, so far at
least as appears, with a degree of general consent
which prevents resistance to what any man might re-
sist if he thought worth while. It has never
been stated that tenant right in Ulster is enforced by
musquet balls from behind a hedge; and it would cer-
tainly have been so stated, if anything of the kind could
be established.
The question therefore is, whether Tenant Right in
Ulster is not on effort of nature to diminish an evil, and
whether as such it ought not to be recognized by the
State physicians, and possibly both recognized and ex-
tended. The question is, whether Irishmen, for want of
law, have not been a law to themselves; and whether
their handiwork is not worth looking at, like that of
bees and beavers and other non-professional architects.
The Government promises to recognize the principle of
compensation for " unexhausted improvements." In this
there may be many difficulties; but if things were given
over for difficulties, the world would not be carried for-
ward. What is to be an " unexhausted improvement."
and how is the tenant's claim for it to be measured? If
a farm-house is built by the tenant, he may at all events
have the right of carrying it away. But how if instead
of a house it is a drainage? The best resource which
occurs upon view, is to stick as close as can be done to
what has established itself in Ulster. It may not in-
clude everything; but it will be a gain if it includes
something. There is an evil in Ireland, and the object
is to mend it by law, as in some places it appears to
have mended itself without law.
On Thursday Ist April, on the motion for inquiry
into Bribery at Harwich, was some curious sparring on
the part of the Government, on the subject of the rights
of minorities. It is natural that a Government which
is avowedly governing by minorities, should have a
theory upon this subject. And the theory apparently is,
that when they the Government are in a minority, it is
to count as a majority; but when anybody else is in a
minority, the minority is to give away. This theory
wants examining; it is desirable to know how far it is to
go, and where it is to end. Is it intended to propose,
for example, that because a minority, or some minority,
is a minority, therefore justice and right demand that its
power of voting should be increased in the inverse pro-
portion? If a certain opinion be the opinion of, for in-
stance, one-third7of the whole community or of that
part of it to whom the right of having an effective
opinion is conceded, is the doctrine, that to make all
right this third ought to be divided into voting parcels,
each containing half the numbers of the others, and con-
sequently bringing their power to that equality which is
stated to be simple justice to a minority of citizens? If
this is not precisely the proposition of the Government,
it is something very like it. The times are favourable
to the examination of the question, with a view to ex-
actly knowing where it is to end.
It is characteristic of the time, that the motion for
inquiry into Harwich was negatived by 137 to 95. It is
but fair that poor persecuted abuses should have a
breathing-time sometimes.
On Friday this was followed up by voting a new writ
for Harwich without a division. It is a strange thing
that men cannot either let a thing alone, or else divide
and let it be seen who is who. Surely nothing can be
gained, by proclaiming desire and then declining a test
of power. The truth is that the Liberal party is
beaten at all ends, till the constituencies recover it. It
has quarrellel and threatened, and talked; but it has
not had the wit to keep out its opponents, and now it
must wait till somebody comes to help it. And the only
way to make anybody come, will be for the liberal aris-
tmhoest efficientoombinedbordayti;
tohfe field, to take
discipline and
toor
numbersaris-
tocracy, w
areho
another " step into the right," and bring the people 0110%
more to their side.
tihue

_
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
Blackheath, sth April, 1852.

DISCOVERY OF A NE IV PLANE 7.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
GaspariB, of the Royal Observatory
Sir,—l, have received this mornitig a letter from
de
at
oureing his discovery of another
small
lanet
I, the evening of March 17. The following are
p o
NPraopfieesys,or an n
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its observed places:

Mean time Napes.
nation.
Ascension. DeeNlionratthion.
h. m, 8.
h. m a d
March 17, at 9 52 33 n ~ • • eg.
March 20, at 9 25 27
March 19, at 8 20 19
an object which I enteredtu
The planet is stated to be
of between the 10th and 11
I have little doubt thatf 37 56.7 12 61 20
956 54.2 12 58 19
56 21.2 13 1 41
pmoang magnitude.
t ude.
equal in brightness to a star
_ this planet is identical with
chart for the 10th
hour of right ascension
R.
A.
lob.
__32 m on the 29th of January last in
. 405., and north declination 8 deg.
59 Min., and noted as of the 1 hmagnitude. This
It
chart was placed in
I did n the engraver's bands soon after, but
ot receive a proof until March 18. On the even-
ing of that day I missed the above object and imme-
diately commenceed an examination of the heavens in
the Vicinity of the bright star Regulus, where I ex-
pected to find what I felt certain was a new planet; in
fact, I expressed my conviction of having seen one to
Mr. Bishop on March 19. My search has been
sadly interrupted by thick weather and moonlight; but
on the 29th ult. I find I entered a star of the 11th mag-
nitude in R.A. 9h. 56m. 305., north declination 13 deg.
4 min., which agrees so closely with the above observation
by Dr. de Gasparis on the same night that it appears
highly probable this was really the new planet. I have
waited for the absence of moonlight to renew my search,
which, in a week or two longer, could hardly have
failed to lead to the re-discovery of the missing star.
I mention the above facts without intending to inter-
fere in the slightest degree with the claim of my friend
Professor Dr. de Gasparis to the honours of this dis-
covery, but simply to show your readers that, had not
circumstances occurred to prevent it, which were be-
yond my control, I should have been able to add this
also to our list of English planets.
Future calculations will prove whether I am right in
identifying our missing star with the planet of Gasparis.
I entertain very little doubt of it myself.
During the last four years several other planets have
escaped me through long continuance of cloudy weather.
These remain to be re-discovered.
Yours very respectfully,
__

- J. R. HIND.
Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's-park, April 3.

FALSE CHARACTERS.—At the Marlborough-street
gain the situa-
Police-conrt, on Thursday, a notorious giver of false charac-
faarltsleettcht;
ters to servants, who assumes the title of Mrs. Colonel Aus-
tin, was convicted of having given a false character to Eliza-
beth Bartlett to a lady named Smith, residing in Percy-
street, Tottenham-court-road. The Servant# Royal Provi..
dent and Benevolent Society were the promoters of the. pro..
the
ceedings against the woman Aust or Austin, and against
servant Elizabeth Bartlett, who attempted to
of
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cha-
racter. oi situa-
tion e or
.f cook
Mrs. ins hits.ith pro Smith'sved f a
them
Smith.
of her situation situation and the reference to the pretended Airs. Col
ialyppblreanitieoanns
nel Austin. She went to Mrs. Colonel Austin, and received
..
an excellent character of Bartlett, who was stated
lived in her service for the last two years Airs. Smith
have
however, did not engage Bartlett,. in . conseqc:iencers,
mation received from the detective. police, wii
enter Mrs. Aust's house, Ivo. 2, Vincent-plac had seen her
followed her to her residence to make her e, and who had
the imposition. Mrs. Bentley, of south acquainted with
forward, and said Bartlett had receuti lived in
came
by means of a false character given Ylived in her service
conviction was proved against Aust • by Aust. A former
remarking that the law was b , and Mr. Bingham, after
sidering the offences to which yno means too severe conai-
racters led, inflicted the full the system of giving false cba-
imprisonment. penalty of 201., or three months'

DREADFUL MURDER.-. 03 Friday morning about
nine o'clock, as a man in the employment of Mr. Townsend•
at his farm at liallymack, was driving out some cattle, he
found at the field-gate the body of a woman, with a dreadful
fracture on the forehead. The woman is a stranger, very
poor-looking, and aving the appearance of a strolling
hawker. She had alitle purse round her neck, which was
open—the contents, if any, having been abstracted. A man
and his wife are arrested on very strong suspicion. Marks
of blood were tracked to their house, about 250 yards dis-
tant, and in a room blood was Auld, covered over witb
straw.--,Eilkcnny Journal.