The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-16 00:00:00

powerful aid to the Rev. Mr. JuNts and the Clergy in re-
sisting the beginning of the landlord's encroachments n
the titheowners' property. Sir Rotstat, hem3Ver, is a
landowner himself, and we shall soon see whether his hatred
of appropriation is so great when he is to share its ftdrawE
tam's. When he made the declaration we have a,llutted to,
he no doubt had in his view the disposition of the Irish
landlords ; and the disposition now evinced by the f'.nglith
landlord confirms his sagacity, and will soon make the
Clergy think the 3 per cents. better security for their rent-
charge than the landowner-' estates.

By referring to a corresponderttelA will be found in
another part of Mc Stot) tinder the head " New Poor-law
Bill and the Zqattenal Loan Fund Life Assurance Society,"
cur readers will be gratified to find that the Board of Guar-
dians of the Blything Union, Suffolk, have had the good
sense to perceive, and the candour to acknowledge, the
great benefits which the National Loan Fund Society
is capable of conferring upon the industrious work-
ing classes, over and above those of any similar
Institution ever before established. When the least
thinking portion of the public shall have seen a body
of intelligent men, whose interest it is to diminkh as
much as possible the burden of a local poor-rate, thus bear
testimony to the superior efficacy of a project expressly in-
tended to better the moral and physical condition of the
labouring classes, we may rationally anticipate that even
they will be led to give it all the support of which they
are capable. In this view of the question the comspondenec
to which we direct attention is of the first importance. It
will stimulate ingri-ry, and' quicken the exertions of the
truly benevolent. The Guardians of other Unions are,
to our own knowledge, engaged in ascertain'ng to what
extent it may be desirable to support, by their influence
and example, the establishment of branches of an Insti-
tution which they begin to be persuaded might be rendered
more effective for the diminution of poor-rates, and the dif-
fusion of ennobling principles among the industrious poor,
than all the measures which have engaged the attention
of Parliament since the passing of the Reform Bill. We
already know the conclusion at which, guided by good
sense, and an earnest desire to benefit the community ge-
nerally, they must arrive. Wherever Boards of Guardians
understand the principles upon which the Loan Fund So-
ciety is founded, and have a proper regard to the discharge
of the functions entrusted to them, there will the Society
be sure to meet with every encouragement.

We insert to-day, on the principle of hearing both sides, a
letter signed " OBSERVER," impugning the Sale of Beer Act.
We took, and still take, very different views from OB-
SERVER, and we must inform him, that to make out a case
against the Beer-houses something more is required than
vague charges about their causing crime. It is well known that
the character generally of the people has very much improved
within a few years, and though we will not affirm that the
Beer-shops have contributedto that, yet, believing with Mr.
HAWES that crimes, and particularly violent crimes, have
decreased, we never can admit on unsupported assertions
that the Beer-shops have had the least injurious effect on
the conduct and character of the people.

The Mails on Railways Bill goes into Committee to-night.
It was committed pro forma on Friday last, in order that it
might be printed, as it is proposed to be altered. The
principal alterations are the omission of the 6th, 11th, Lath
and 13th clauses, and the insertion of two new ones. The
6th clause empowered the Postmaster-General, or his
Deputy, to reject the engines and carriages provided by the
Railway Companies if he disapproved of them, and to order
others to be substituted in their place. The other clauses
omitted are those which established the:right of the Post-office
to run its own engines and carriages on the railways, to
have free access at all times along the lines, and to com-
mand the assistance and co-operation of the servants of the
Companies, as well as the use of their machinery when
necessary, due remuneration being given, on the award of
arbitrators, for such services, &c., including wear and tear
of railroad.

By the first of the additional clauses it is provided that
after a contract has existed for three years, aay Railway
Company who may consider themselves aggrieved by the
terms of the contract, may have it referred to arbitrators
to determine whether any and what alteration ought to be
made in it, the arbitration to be conducted as in the case of
ir an original agreement.

The other additional clause enacts, that in all cases of
reference, the Postmaster-General, or the Railway Company,
shall nominate an arbiter within fourteen days after notice
from the other party, in default of which it shall be lawful for
r the party giving notice to name the other arbiter also,and the
arbitrators shall make their award within twenty-eight
days after their appointment, or otherwise the umpire
shall decide ; and if he refuse or neglect to make his award
within twenty-eight days after the matter has been referred
to him, then a new umpire shall be chosen as before, who
if he refuse or neglect to act, shall in his turn be super-
seded by another, and so on ad infinitum.
Besides these alterations there are provisions introduced
into some of the clauses which have the effect of limiting
the powers given to the Post-office in the original Bill. On
the whole Railway Companies have good reason, whatever the
public have, to be satisfied with the Bill as it nowstands.: There
is however one great omission in it, which we trust will be
supplied in Committee. It ought to have been laid down
as a fixed principle, that the cost of constructing and re-
pairing the railway should not enter into the calculation of
the arbitrators, in awarding remuneration to the Compa-
nies for conveying the mails.

Mr. CROKER has led the Tories into a sad scrape. The
public prejudice which he sought to direct against SOULT
has turned to the manifest injury of his friends. Neither
the Post nor the Times has of late said one word shout
his grand vindication of the national honour at
the battle of Toulouse, because all the attempts
of the Tories to make the people look coldly on the
old Marshal have only kindled and strengthened
the enthusiasm in his favour. The Duke of WELLING-
TON,WhO refused to make himself a sharer in their con-
temptible malice, and who has sct a noble example of doing
honour to his brother veteran, has naturalls (or this
been subject to Tory abuse. A Sunday paper,
which is all on fire with Tory zeal, yesterday talked
of his twaddling at the City feast, and m dieiously
quoted POPE'S line to assure the party that the Tories
must no longer rely on the Duke, down whose checks, ac-
cording to the Tory, "the tears of dotage flow." In the
House of Lords his followers slight him, and in the Press
his party ridicules hint, hrcause he aid not lend himself to
their insane projects of fostering national enmity, and ex-
citing foreig❑ Powers to attack the Government.

We have receird a file of the Jamaica Dispatch to the
2d of June, inclusive, from which we learn that on the
13th or May a slayer under Portuguese colours went
ashore on the Pedro Shoals, when two hundred and ninety-
, nine human beings, shackled together, m'serably perished!
The Captain and crew, together with five Africans, escaped,
without affording tl:e live cargo the remotest chance cf
saving their lives. Two 13riti3h vessels, the Nimrod and
, the Hornet, sai'ed to discover the wrAtk on the 92d, but
returned• after five days' Eearch, without meeting with any
traces of it. The facts, however, were placed beyond dis-
pute by the arrival of the Captain and crew of the slaver
at Black River cn the 18th of May, when a clear state-
ment of the circumstances connectA with the lost vcs.:el,
latr cargo, and the wreck was duly elicited.
The same journal quotes from the Royal Gazette of
Nassau (N. P.) the following
account of the capture
of two other s!avere, with tqraards of a thousand hum in
beings, to whi,ll we beg the attention of the British
people. A third saver Iva, Cap' Urea, lett not bef)re
11 id contrived to get rid of her cargo, by landing, them ot,
the coast of ('ohs :
" On Sunday 1 tst her brig Sappi.), Commander Fraser, ar-
rived here, accompanied by the brit; Isabella Sectinda, um:, the Portia
gu,se flag, with about .570 Africans on hoard. 11e understand that
this vessel was crli, tired In cur own waters (on the Bahama Batik), a
few days precious to their arrival here. On leaving the African coast
site had about 800 of these wifortutiote creatures, which, if we were to
judge from the am-;at-arc,c f the niti,t has e been stowed thickly.
Soon aster tbtir rinbaikation a rinniny or_quarrel 11,1 t..:en place
board, in e:incipience treret,:ng two distinct tribes of them, i, Inc!,
coded In the 0; struction or a ;.;teat number.
"On Saturday the brig DiN;,..nle, alio undi r Portuguese 4,,
arrived hero in charge of Lieutenant flats kin,, of her Istajesty's ship
Pearl, Commander Lord Paget. This vessel was capture,) by the Pearl
en the 20d ult., off Cape Antonio. At the time of her c:q•ture she had
479 on board, since which several of them have died. We have secs
neither of these cargoes, but, from what we can learn, they are in a
wretched-leoking state.

"On Sunday morning those fr,rn the Diligcutc ivere landed and
taken to the convalescent station at lt,slyn, and on rifoin!ay thr se from
the lsab •!la Secunda were landed on the nary ~'hart or yard, and a
carp erected for their couvenience.

" It will, no aoubt, ba phasing to the community gencially tt a
his Excellency the Lieutenant-Govereer in Council has decided on pro.