The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-05 00:00:00

more than shut the mouths of the labourers. We
do more than prevent them from consuming : we
prevent them also from producing, when we de-
prive them of full employment !—lt is not too
much to say, perhaps, that, including Ireland, our
present annual production of wealth might in the
very next year be doubled ! The labouring classes
not only consume less agricultural produce than
they are capable of consuming : they consume less
of every article of manufacture,—of every object
of utility or comfort that is desirable to man.
The increased consumption which it is in the
power of the country to excite, by the greater
increase of production to which it would give
rise, must have the effect of increasing rents and
profits to all parties. Land-owners and Capi-
talists, by combining agriculture and manufac-
tures, in one concern, on their estates, are certain
to have ample rents in the surplus produce
remaining after the wants of the labourers
have been abundantly satisfied, and after the
moral culture and intellectual improvement of
the people have been carefully attended to. See
to what an extent foreign commerce and national
prosperity might be carried under such a system !
It is gratifying to find The Morning Post, a
paper so much looked up to for fashionable in-
telligence, and the more elegant varieties of a
newspaper miscellany, also turning its attention
to those profound principles of political sciences
the right application of which is so essential to
the well-being of all ranks in Society. The im-
portance of elevating the value of labour is also
ably illustrated in a pamphlet just published,
entitled " Practical Observations on Mr. Ri-
cirtoo's Principles of Political Economy," tkc.
By JOHN STUCKEY REYNOLDS, Esq.

ROBERT OWEN, ESQ.--This eminent philan-
thropist, we understand, has arrived in town
from New Lanark, for the purpose, we presume,
of finally arranging the preparations for the
Establishment, which is about to be erected, on
his plan, at Motherwell, in Lanarkshire. Should
he again submit his propositions to the Public,
or to Parliament, in the present Session, we think
it highly probable that they will at length re-
ceive that attention and accurate investigation
which their importance merits.

IRELAND.-The accounts of atrocities are still
numerous ; and amongst them it is most painful
to observe that there has been another horrid
murder. A. party of Whiteboys on Sunday morn-
ing surprised the wood-ranger of the Earl of
ORMONDE, at Kilcash, and destroyed him with
their fire-arms. No less than nine bullets
were lodged in the body, which was shock-
ingly mutilated.—The condition of the poor in
the south of Ireland, from the great scarcity
of potatoes, (almost the sole food of the pea-
santry), is described as being most wretched.—
A meeting of the respectable Inhabitants of the
town and neighbourhood of Bantry, we are glad
to see, has been held for the purpose of taking
the distressed condition of the poor there into
consideration. The Earl of BANTRY, who was
in the chair, subscribed a hundred pounds. The
Cork Mercantile Chronicle states, that several
cargoes of potatoes are expected from different
ports in the English Channel, and from Guernsey
and Jersey. In Cork the price of potatoes had
rapidly risen, in consequence of the scarcity ;
and the expected supplies were most anxiously
looked for.