The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-14 00:00:00

men, so dear, so very dear to their country, in a
good state of body, as we incline to think there
is, then we humbly submit to Sir Francis Burdett
that his favourite sports are entitled to no parti-
cular favour on the score of their salutary tend-
ency, and that foxes, hares, stags, &c. may claim
the same right to legislative protection as badgers,
bears, and monkeys. We will now propose a
very simple plan, by means of whHi 'Squires
may not only he preserved in good health, but
also unspeakably improved in morals. Here we
know that these Gentlemen will wax impatient.
" You will be for giving us stewed prunes at bed-
time," they exclaim, " or a dinner pill or one
of the Scotch aperient bolouses at night." We
mediate nothing of the kind, we have no
such stuff in our thoughts—exercise,good healthy
exercise, Act of Pa rliament exercise, invented by
Cubitt and approved by the Collective Wisdom
of the laud, is all we propose. The Tread-mill
is the most healthful of exercises, as appears from
the Parliamentary Reports, and it is there proved
in evidence that people on the wheel tread them-
selves into such an increase of flesh that, like
over-ripe plums, they burst their coats, by
ieason of their- excessive bodily aggrandise-
ment. Now, instead of riding over honest
people's fields and torturing stags, and foxes,
and hares, and killing horses, &c., why
may not the 'Spires promote their health at
tread-mills ? A mill would cost a mere trifle
(or be actually profitable), while a hunt is im-
mensely expensive—what possible objection can
there be offered to this plan ? The gentlemen
may wear red frock coats, leather breeches, and
top boots (spurs we cannot allow, because they
might throw thefts down), and twenty of them
in this costume mounting the mill together
for the sake of company and the emulation of
milling, may halloo, and bawl, and tally-ho, and
shout, and cry '('owner, Rattler, Nimrod, Dido,
to their heart's content, while no creature or
thing will be the worse for their healthful exer-
cise. We would have, however, the whipper-in
to stand by with a delicate long-lashed whip in
his hand, just to touch up in the rear such
millers as may hang back in the sport, because,
colite co6te, they must be kept in health, and
therefore we must see that the exercise is pro.
perly taken. Already we figure to our mind's
eye Mr. flolme Sumner on the wheel, and fancy
we hear him congratulating Sir Francis Burdett
on the pleasures of treading and spouting Parlia-
mentary Returns on the Joys of the Mill, or may
be giving vent to h;s inward delight by warbling
Hawthorn's sporting song, with a necessary
variation.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We this day give (part in a Supplementary
Sheet,) copious extracts from a very interesting
Parliamentary Report on the state of Ireland. In it
we cannot see, at least in our opinion, any grounds
for the late Act for putting down the Catholic
Association. In this Report there are some cu-
rious questions and answers regarding what in
Ireland are called Middle Men—that is, men
who take land from landlords, and who let it
again to others at an increased price per acre.—
It was formerly supposed, and strenuously assert-
ed in Ireland, that such men were nuisances,
and that to them most of the existing evils in Ire-
land were to be attributed. About this time last
year we defended these men, and, in contradic-
tion to the generally-received opinion, we assert-
ed that they were a class of people beneficial to
the State—for that, as a matter of necessity, they
commonaly resided near the land so leased to
them, but which they re-let, and that] conse-
quently what profit they realised they spent
among the shopkeepers and farmers in the neigh-
bourhood—and that in a national respect they
were greatly to be preferred as good members of
society, and as efficient subjects of the King,
before the landlords themselves, who commonly
lived out of Ireland. We put the case in this
way—suppose A, the land-holder, had an estate
which was worth ten thousand pounds a year,
and that he employed an agent to reside upon
the spot, and that he gave that agent 24- per
cent., or 2501. a year for collecting his rents ;
and, as is the case generally with Irish estates,
the landlord lived in England or France, and
we will even suppose the Rent duly collected—
bete would be 2501. a year spent in Ireland
by the agent, but 9,7501. would he remitted
to the laudlord to be spent by him in England
or France. But suppose a middle-man were to
take the estate from the landlord, and was to
give him 8,000/. a year, then of course the land-
lord would have to spend only that sum of money
away from Ireland ; but the expenditure there,
in consequence of such tniddle-man being the
lessee (who would probably reside in Ireland),
would be 2,0001. a year, or more by 1,7501.
that would be spent by the agent. Now
we should think that, take it in general, an ab-
sentee Irish landlord would prefer to let his land
all in one lease to a responsible man, for 8,0001.
a year, than employ an agent, at 2501. a year,
to watch tenants who might or might not pay the
10,0001. a year. Most great landholders know
how tender-hearted many agents are, and that, in
too many instances, they are as open to be in-
fluenced by tenants as many are for whom soli-
citors and, secretaries reserve shares in modern
schemes.