The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-19 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

XTRACTS. •FROM THE "DAILY' MORNING PAPERS,
June 19, 1522:

[MORNING POST.]
Agreeing, as• we do, in the general opinion re-
specting free trade, expressed by the Earl of
Liverpool, on the New Navigation Bills, on
Monday evenirg, and believing that by repeal-
ing so many cnsolete statutes, it will bring pre-
cision into an important branch of our commer-
cial law, ve would take leave, nevertheless, to
make an observation on the usual tendency of
all measures like the one in question. In legis-
lating, where present interests are involved,
and where the interference is, not to remove
sorre actual and. positive injury suffered by
those interests, it would, perhaps, be advis-
;;ble to fix a distant period for the opera-
tion of the new enactment. The natural
.course of all mercantile affairs in particular,
is to adapt themselves to existing regula-
tions. Hence each individual in trade directs
his industry, in conformity with those regula;
tions, so as to render them beneficial to himself
-and his general business profitable. Now it is
obvious that whatever suddenly disturbs the ha-
bitual order of- proceeding thus acquired, must
in a variety of ways be prejudicial to each indi-
vidual concerned. Established connections in
different quarters of the globe are shaken, per-
haps disjointed,. and that derangement of settled
plans and intercourse takes place which may
have been the work of years to adjust and con-
solidate. Nor is it easy to calculate what the
amount of the disorder thus caused may be; for in
commerce the ramification of interests is most ex-.
tended and intricate. A system therefore which in
tl-eory cannot be objected to, and which, were so-
chty to be first established, would be best, may
wider the foregoing circumstances produce very
serious injury. The balance of advantage from
ics adoption should greatly preponderate; in the
estimation of those most concerned, beforq we
think, it ought to be enforced ; or, if not, time
stould be given to foresee and prepare for the
change; and, let it be observed, that in every
Improvement,, change is implied, and that change
is in itself an admitted evil. We do not wish to
oPplse these considerations to the New Naviga-
tion gills, but we hope they have been duly at-
tended t.O by the Board of Trade; for it must be
confessed the Mercantile part of the community,
with some reason, is not much in favour of the
measures.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A new series of papers relating to the state of
Ireland, transmitted by Alarquis Wellesley, have
been printed by order of the House of Commons.
They consist of dispatches from his Excellency,
enclosing communications from Magistrates and
Commanding Officers in different counties, of
various dates, from the 16th February to the
'22d May.—The latter class is a recital of the
various outrages which have taken place in the
interval in the disturbed districts, the most in-
teresting and important of which have been com-
municated through the medium of the Irish Papers.
The dispatches of his Excellency contain his views
of the country, and dwell upon the good effects of
the strong powers committed to his hands. Great
credit is claimed for the operation of the Special
Commissions, and the propriety and ability with
which they have been conducted ; but upon the
insurrection Act, above all, the greatest praise,
is bestowed. It is superfluous to add, that these
papers are published for the purpose of laying a
ground for the renewal of this Act.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We alluded the other day to the prosperity
and contentedness of the people of Tuscany, Cre-
ated by one man, the Archduke Leopold. This
garden of Italy was, however, a perfect wilder-
ness before the accession of Leopold. Bishop
Burnet, both an intelligent and honest traveller,
speaks of it as a perfect wilderness in his time.
" As one goes over Tuscany (he says) it ap-
pears so dispeopled that one cannot but won-
der to find a country that hath been a scene
of so much action and so many wars, now for-
saken and so poor, that in many places the soil
is quite neglected for want of hands to culti-
vate it ; and in other places, where there are more
people, they look so poor, and their houses are
such miserable ruins, that it is scarce account-
able how there could be so much poverty in so
rich a country, which is all over full of beggars."
We know how this change was effected. The
means were simple enough, though we think the
Lord Chancellor would hardly have stumbled
on them ; for Leopold had very different notions'
of justice and property from his notions. He
certainly did not conceive that the denial of jus-
tice to the poor was the way to improve them.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We last night received Sunday's Paris Papers
by express. Their contents are remarkably un-
important. They contain no domestic intelli-
gence worth notice. In the Chamber of Depu-
ties no decisive question has yet come under con-
sideration during the actual Session. Complaints
are made of the oppressive partiality with which
passports are granted by the French police. The
chief matter of complaint is, that in France all
persons are obliged to be provided with rigid
documents—and a Commission of inquiry has
decided that all lodging keepers and others shall
make a return to the Magistrates of any stranger
passing a night in their houses.—The latest in,
telligence from Germany is of no importance.
There is not a word that throws any light on the
affairs of the East.