The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-11 00:00:00

quarters, that public meetings should be held, and
..übscriptions opened, for the assistance of Poland in
this her hour of agony. The cause is glorious—
and the sentiment in favour of Polish freedom beats
in every British heart. We eagerly adopt the wishes
of our correspondents, that if evidence be required
by his Majesty's Government of the warmth and
energy of the national spirit in seconding whatever
more formal interposition might be made on behalf
of Poland, such proof may at once be furnished by
the people of England in the extent and liberality of
their subscriptions before it be too late.—Times.

The Committee made considerable progress with
" the Bill" last night. It disposed of the sixth
cla►ase, and schedule F, to which that clause refers.
The class of places in this schedule are all in Wales.
They consist of the shire towns or principal boroughs
of the Welsh counties, to which certain places are
respectively added, as sharers iu the representation,
—some of them at greater and some at less distances
from each other. The strongest opposition was
made to the union of Merthyr-Tydvill with Cardiff,
on account of the distance between them, which
was stated to be 25 miles. On this question the
Committee divided, when Ministers obtained a ma-
jority of 164 to 123. The Committee then pro-
ceeded to the ninth clause of the Bill, which relates
to the representation of Yorkshire. We must refer
the reader to the report of the debate for the argu-
ment on this subject. The clause was agreed to
without a division. The next clause relates to the
division of counties into districts ; we trust that
this very objectionable project will not be persevered
in.—Times.

We are glad to find that the question of Poor
Laws for Ireland is making its way both in and out
of Parliament. Not many weeks ago Sir John
Newport declared his opinion in favour of a modi-
fied system ; and last night Mr. Brownlow, an Irish
Member of great influence, presented, from a body
of still greater influence in that country (the Ro-
man Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland),
a petition calling for some immediate enactment on
the subject. Mr. Brownlow declared himself
favourable to the object of the petitioners, and
almost all the Members who spoke were advocates
for a compulsory provision—the only effectual pro-
vision that can be relied upon for the relief of the
poor. Still, however, there are some politicians of
the economical school so strongly opposed to the
principle of Poor Laws as to resist their introduc-
tion even under the present circumstances of
that country. Colonel Torrens, we find, is
one of these. He recommends the encourage-
ment of agriculture, coupled with a system of
emigration, in preference to one of compulsory
relief ; and certainly, if we were obliged to
choose between the two courses, we should agree
with him in preferring the former. But there is no
reason why both remedies should not be applied to
the correction of the evils under which Ireland has
long suffered. Let agriculture, and every other
species of industry, be encouraged ; but let not the
poor be forgotten. Experience, recent experience,
has shown that the most frightful exhibition of human
misery cannot open the purses of some people to
relieve the wants of their 'fellow-creatures. The
thousands who would have lately starved in Ireland,
but for English charity and humanity, are so many
witnesses to this fact. Things cannot go on always
as they have done, Benevolent people may and
will continue to tax themselves voluntarily rather
than witness the spectacle of a perishing multitude;
but it is only by the interference of Parliament to
lighten and equalize the burden that permanent re-
lief can be supplied. We would rather see even an
ill-concocted system of Poor Laws established in
Ireland than witness the exhibition of such misery
and insensibility as prevailed in that country during
the late distress.—Morning Herald.

It appears by a return made to the House of Com-
mons, that the late treasurer of Queen Anne's
Bounty died in debt to the charity upwards of
30,0001., between 11,000/. and 12,0001. of which
is found to be irrecoverable, either from assets of his
own or his sureties. It is true that the Archbishops
and other dignified Clergy, who have the manage-
ment (or rather, as far as this particular item of the
account goes, we should say the mismanagement) of
this fund, have agreed to make up the deficiency
among themselves by yearly instalments of 1,1001.;
so that in ten or eleven years, if they live, and are
of the same mind, there is a chance of the charity
losing nothing but the interest upon the deficiency,
of the means of doing in the meantime that good
for which (and not for the benefit of the treasury)
it was originally destined. This resolution is highly
honourable to their Lordships, especially as the fact
most likely is that the loss has been occasioned more
by the neglect of the predecessors of most of them
than their own. It is an act of liberality and justice
too, worthy of being contrasted with the conduct
of some who could be named, who have not only de-
clined to make up the public deficiencies of some
of their !Jeer connections, but who are strongly
suspected of revelling to this moment in the
spoils of official turpitude. But still we must
ask, what apology or excuse can be offered
for such a gross abuse as must here have
been suffered to take place, as the mere fact of
30,0001., or one-tenth of that sum, being allowed
to lie dormant in the hands of a treasurer, especially
of one who appears to have only given security for
6,0001. ? Did the persons intrusted with the care
and distribution of this fund never look at the
accounts ? Or did common arithmetic form no parr
of their education ? If it did, we should have
thought that they might have discovered that the
mere interest of this sum at 4/. per cent. would have
amounted to 1,200/. per annum, which would have
been not improperly bestowed in augmenting the
scanty incomes of no less than six hundred of the
poorer Clergy by stipends of 201. a year each, or of
504 a year to twenty-four of them. Instead of
which it was 411 wed to lie dormant in the hands of
a defaulter ; and that while Parliament was voting
still larger sums for the very same purpose, the
application of which, it is to be hoped, had been
more rigidly and honestly looked after. We re-
' peat, however, that: the determination of the Com-
missioners to replace, out of their own pockets, the
defalcation of their treasurer, affords an honourable
and rase instance of self-devotion; and one which,
we trust, wilt basic the effect of inducing those who
hold similar situations to save themselves, and the
funds over which they have the controul, from
similar losses.—Morning Herald.
After the lessons which his Majesty's Ministers
have so repeatedly read so the Opposition on the
subject of factious delay, we were little prepared for
the szene of last night. The very first of the cons
structive disuses of the Bill was found so imperfect,
that the Chancelior ,o,f the Exchequer, unable to give
any answer to the objection: which were flagrant
upon 0.3 e face of it, and finding his Le•gtted Col-
league, the Attorney-General, and his still more
Learned Ally, Mr. O'S'otinell, differing in opinion
from him and from each other, was reduced to what
we shostld venture to call the humiliating necessity of
withdrawing, in order to remodel, the first and foun-
dation clause of a bill which was four months under
the special consideration of the Cabinet before it was
introdusses! into Parliament, and of which three suc-
cessive editions have been offered to the House of
Commons. This moat esstraordinary proof of inca-
pacity and ignorance (the favourite 3Jini4terial apo-
logy of Seadvertenee cannot we presume be applied
to this case) is rendered still more extraordinary by
the fact that the Attorney-General, who has hitherto
chiefly distinguished himself by the lectures which
he has thought proper to read to the Opposition
upon the delays which they have interposed to the
progress of this Bill, should on this occasion have
excused the state of helpless inability in which lie
and his noble fiiends found themselVes of either ex-
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of those discussions which were then characterized
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