The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-11 00:00:00

mirror of large dimension is Inserted in a wall l,uilt moss
the Tunnel, which appears to double its length. The
Company have also provided a camera.
It is really a disgrace to a nation like England,
which piques itself so highly on its public im-
provements, and the splendour and variety of its
buildings, ecclesiastical, legal, political, commer-
cial, and so forth, that the noble project of the
Thames Tunnel should be permitted to remain
so long uncompleted. We hope that some spi-
rited individuals will be induced to take up an
enterprize, which, from the first moment of its
undertaking, has excited the greatest interest
throughout civilized Europe.

A meeting of the Scotch Members was held
yesterday for the purpose of opposing any addi-
tional duty on corn spirits in England, when a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the
FIRST LORD of the TREASURY and the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on the subject, to
represent that no additional duty should be im-
posed on corn spirits without a corresponding duty
on rum.

In times when complaints are so general as they
unfortunately are at present, it is desirable that
every man who has any specific plan to propose for
the relief of the country from its distresses, should
receive an attentive hearing. We have therefore
perused Captai❑ PETTM AN'S " Resources of
the United Kingdom, or the Present Distresses
Considered, and their Causes and Remedies
Pointed Out," a work which gives evidence of con-
siderable reading, as well as very original thinking,
on the part of the author. On the sources of
i'ealth and of money, the fluctuations in the
value of money, the public debt and expenditure,
the excess of labourers, taxation, banking, and
currency, the reader will find ingenious disquisi-
tions ; and on the free trade and prohibition,
some very forcible arguments against the old
restrictive system so long, and so injuriously
acted on by this country. We are glad to see
Captain PETT MAN an advocate of free trade,
because his opinions are for the most part of the
Tory school, and in opposition to the settled
doctrines of the most eminent political econo-
mists. He will not find many people to agree

in his eulogiums on the blessings of war, nor to
his assertion that "he has proved that England
" is indebted for her prosperity to the immense
" wars in which she has been engaged ;" nor,
moreover, to the position " that although wars,
taxation, and a public debt, are evils, they are
" evils that have been productive of good—
" they are evils of a much less magnitude than
" those which now exist. A renewal of war,
" an increase of taxation, and an increase of
" debts, would therefore be productive of bene-
" fits !" We hare neither space nor time to
argue this matter, but we hope, if such opinions
become prevalent, some Right Reverend Prelate
will suggest some such addition to the Liturgy
as this :—" From the renewal of war, from an

" increase of taxation, and an increase of debt
" from Captain PETTMAN, R.N., and his
" dangerous doctrines and positions—Good
" Lord deliver us !"

We find the following in the Chronicle of

this morning :
" Our readers will find, in an article in another column,
under the head Birmingham and London Junction Canal
Bubble,' a curious account of the artifices practised in the
management of Bubble Companies. The account comes
forth under the sanction of a Committee of the House of
Commons, and is creditable to the industry and ability of
those who have so successfully laid open this monstrous
fraud. It is ■ot a little curious to see a convicted felon at
the Old Bailey in 1112, at the head of a grand scheme like
this, with a subscription list representing 594.7001. The
manoeuvres of Mr. Moses Levy, a great capitalist though a
convicted felon, for he died worth nearly 300,000/., are
exceedingly instructive. Had he lived, he would have
become, no doubt, a borough-holder, and thus opened a
way for his descendants into the Peerage. Of course the
respectability of a capitalist worth 300,0001. cannot be
affected by such a trifle as a conviction for grand larceny;
for these accidents will happen at times to the most able
men, who look snore to the end than the means."

In what other country but England, the Pa-
radise of morality, could a convicted felon, like
the one above-mentioned, have preserved his
standing in the community, and died worth
300,000/. ? But this is not the only anomaly
that our present motley state of society presents.
Another convicted felon in morals, probably of
a more loose cast than Mr. MOSES LEVY, is
now the admiration of hundreds of our fashion-
able females. This genius is so gentlemanly, so
handsome, so accomplished, lie pays compli-
ments in so insinuating a style, that it is quite a
cruelty to call him a felon ! Such is the way in
which not a few of our titled dames speak of a
certain well-known convicted felon.