The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

mania is in its infancy. It may or may not succeed:
With the solitary exception of Liverpool and Man--
chester, the most extraordinary instance within a mo-
derate distance, of import and export, of raw material
and of manufacture, that exists in the world, we have as
yet Ile instance of any one of these schemes answering
yen to the projectors, still less to the public. It is bad
enough that private property (even of comparatively
small value) should be cut up and dilapidated to serve
the purpose of such doubtful speculations ; but it is
infinitely more objectionable that the cupidity of at-
torneys and surveyors, backed by gambling share-
holders, should have the plundering audacity to in-
trude their projects into the very heart of the metro-
polis, depopulating whole streets and neighbourhoods
to an extent of individual, and of consequent public
injury, for whicn nothing like an adequate compensa-
tion .will or can be offered. Nothing can be more
pal._ry or contemptible than the conduct of the Corpo-
ration of London upon this subject. These patriots,
who arc for ever tinkering the State, content them-
selves on this occasion with protesting against rail-
roads and.locomotive engines entering the City, as if
the mere existence of Temple-bar -created, in this
respect, an actual difference between Fleet-street and
the Strand ; while the truth is that, in thus confining
themselves to local distinctions, they abandon the very
principle for which they profess to be contending.
That principle is, that railways should not be allowed
to enter the metropolis at all ;—but once admit that
they are unobjectionable in Pancras, Clerkenwell, and
Shoreditch, and the objection to their traversing the
City, to reach Puddledock, Billingsgate, and Mack-
wall, becomes untenable. So much for the wisdom
and the policy of mere short-sighted lookers at home.
But for the present our objection to these schemes
is in amine. Before demanding a passage
through, or a terminus in the heart of the me-
tropolis, let the various projects now on foot for
connecting London with Birmingham, Bristol,
Southampton, &c., be themselves completed. This,
as far as regards the most forward of them, requires,
we believe, from two to three years from the present
time. None but mere speculators in shares, and
those who are to thrive by expending the deposits,
c-.n be injured by Parliament taking a little breathing
time before it turns these destroyers of property loose
upon thousands of quiet and industrious inhabitants
of this great city, in which expression we embrace
the whole of the great Leviathan of London, not the
confined constituency of the Corporation. It will be
time enough to permit, or even to discuss the pro-
priety and necessity of this entry of these nuisances
into the heart of the metropolis, when the lines which
are to supply the traffic have been completed, and
found to answer: At present these schemes are at
least premature. They purpose in fact to put the cart
before the horse—to accomplish a world of mischief
with no certainty of success ; and all apparently, for
the present at least, for no other purpose but to put
money into the pockets of persons who have little or no
interest or came about the ultimate success of the
projects in which they are embarked.—Morning
Herald.

We are much surprised at the importance which
a pear. 3 to b 6 attached, by some of our liberal contem-
poraries, to certain objections which have been urged
a.,minst the Tithe Commutation .Bill, particularly as
re Teets the compulsory clause, and the establishment
of a fixed, in lieu of a fluctuating, charge. But as
Lord John Russell observed to a dcputation which
aited upon him on the subject, '' if we wait till a
Commutation MU he brou;olt forward not liable to
objections, tithes will remain as they are." And cer-
tainly nothin2). could evince greater weakness and inca-
pacity than to reject a measure teeming with great and
general 2ood, on account of trilling objections, or par-
tial evil effected by its operation. It is utterly imnos-
sihl.2 in any state, and above all in this country, where
interests are so complicated, and where abuses have
become so closely interwoxen with all our institu-
tions—it is utterly impo3sibie to effect any reform
er chaty7e, however hencficial,.- without inflicting

a teater or le',s amount of iniuty -on some par-
Statesmen, therefore, should 10,1*ishlte for the
whole people,. an'.l not for a fractional part. In
rt.'cr.nlco to thg first objection—that is, to
rin'inq thecommutation com:mb;ory—as we have
shown in a former artic!c, 'without this compu!sory
clause the Act would he totally inef&lent—for those
whose interests would ba cotnproinisal would, as a
matter of vour"-;e, if it w_ re left to their option, claim
f,-om its operation. And as vo!untary com-
mutatlon may take place without tln nrervention of an
Act of Parhanicnt, those who 'ohject to the compul-
sory clause imply that the Act so far is unnecessary,
as the:provisions el..lmuling on it are aireatly available
to an paver; and receivers cf tithes as are mutually
cks;rons for sucli arran?j.alcut. Tht.r.fori, the Act is

excali):

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r slipyrtlitoti3 and uuc lied rw, or L11;2 compul-

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;0,., chtise !mist. be in-c:-:erved in order to give it eitlit.

fit ' . Another objection is, that land at present, or
for th:e last seven years in a hi,il state of cultivation
wail, by fixing the tithe according to the average of
that period be permanently burdened with an undue
proportion of the impost, and land badly cultivated for
the tmine period will escape with a proportionately.
smaller share. Though this objection at fir6t seems
plan,:ible, a little reflection will prove it to be almost
as untenable as the former. It is the existing system
which taxes industry and improvements, and if these
have been undeitaken in defiance to the increasing
burden of tithes,—supposing that burden to continue
in the same ratio, there is no reason to suppose that
the same industrious and improving spirit would not
continue when the impost had reached its maximum,
nay, that its exertions would be increased where it al-
ready existed, and created where it did not. If the
Bill, owing to the existing law, have an ex post facto
operation unfavourable to the skilful and industrious
cultivator, it is the unskilful and the idle who in future
snffer by it ; so that to hesitate on such grounds
would evince a solicitude to-.protcct indolence and ina-
bilitv. Besides; if the average be apportioned as in
the Irish Commtitation, according to the value of the
land in the whole parish, it will scarcely be felt by the
individual tenant, however great his improvements. In
the case of Ireland, the land was valued by Commis-
sioners, and divided into three classes, first, second, and
third, and the tithe fixed in proportion, so that the in-
crease on improvements being divided, it was less sen-
sibly felt. This we consider would satisfy all parties.
—Morning Advertiser.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

FITS LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

CROWN-OFFICE, MAxcit 22, 1836.:

3IEMISEILS ItITTTTRNED TO snuyslN THIS TILESYNT 'PARLIAMENT.
Town or Burgh of Paisley—Archibald Hastie, Esq., in the room
of Alexander Graham Spiers, Esq., who has accepted tht Chiltern
Hundreds.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOAN DOPSON, draper, Binbrook, Lincolnshire.
BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

WILLIAM —ilOiiGKll;lgoN, furniture-printer, Margaret-
street, Cavendish-square, from April 1 to April 12, at ten.
FREDERICK GAMBLE, preserved provision-merchant,
Gracechurch-street, from April 1 to April 12, at twelve.