The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

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tionably ; but
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that. industry
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:ilities which
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mid and inter-
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ties for trading
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means. Every
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le, maintaining
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For its means of
industry. Look
ing intercourse,
ably employed,'
ditch are most
and pauperism,
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distres sing, and
skits of the land

kind. Those
Aber, unable to
of its influence
n 20 to 30 miles
mass of inhabi-
'nging their pro-

" In Ireland, of canals and rivers
" rail-roads

duce over by-ways and mountains, and upon horses'
backs, to raise a comparatively heavy tent, the fruit
of which, to them, is, to an Englishman's eye, a
miserable hovel with a potatoe•diet.
" The Committee, in their report, observe,' that
in considering the question of public works they are
of opinion that, under proper controul and superin-
tendence, the execution of public works is peculiarly
deserving of Parliamentaty aid and countenance, a,
being calculated to give an additional and a perma-
nent stimulus to industry, an increased demand for
labour, a greater facility of access to markets for all
produce, and, as a further incidental advantage,
making the administration of the law and the opera-
tions of the police more effective.'
" As to the means which Ireland possesses of
creating internal trading intercourse, we find, be-
sides other minor navigations, one prominent fea-
ture,—one great leading line of available naviga-
tion—the river Shannon ; running through the
centre of the island, and offering the advan.age3 of
double coast, as it were to correct the inconvenience
arising from its great breadth. Yet this first and
most imposing feature in Ireland's statistics remains
comparatively unproduc ive as a means of internal
trade. One half of it almost unknown, and the dis-
tricts through which it passes for 150 British miles
above Limerick, except in a few situations, deriving
no aid from its navigation.
" -In addition to the navigation of this river are
the two great canals, both falling into it, and in-
tended to connect this line of water-communication
with the metropolis. From the constitution, how-
ever, of the companies governing these canals, their
long mismanagement, and the original blunders and
waste of means in their direction and construction,
both became bankrupt without effecting an inter-
course between the great vale of the Shannon and
the metropolis.
" Let us then compare, in their aggregate, the
relative means of internal trading intercourse in Eng-
land and Ireland.

British Miles.
" In England there are of canals 2,400
" In England there are of rivers, enumerat-
ing those parts only which are navigable 2,000
"In England there are of rail-roads now in use 400

---- 4,800
" In Ireland there are of canals
"In Ireland there are of navigable rivers l5O
" In Ireland there are of the 230 miles of
the river Shannon, below Limerick alone
having been hitherto available 6O

" 4,800 miles in England against 490 in Ireland.
" The contrast is striking. Could it be expected
that the contrast would not be equally striking in
the condition of the respective populations of the
two countries ? The annexed map, taken from
Bradshaw's excellent sue of the inland navigation of
England, will exhibit this contrast in a new and
forcible point of view.
" Even in the present year, the relative dispro-
portion continues to increase. In England, where
a superabundance of the means of trading inter-
course would appear to exist, there is yet a greater
length of new navigations and rail-roads, now in
progress, or under the consideration of Parliament,
(independently of the great improvement making in
her roads), than all the existing lines of navigation
of Ireland taken together !
" In England, there are now in progress of canals
and rivers to be made navigable, about 4O
" Of rail roads 5OO
--540
50

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" Thus England will shortly exhibit an extent of
locomotion for the elements of trading, equal to
5,300 miles, while Ireland will probably be confined
to little more than 500.
" Mr. Nimmo, in his evidence before the Com-
mittee on the state of Ireland in 1824, observes, We
have more inland navigation in Britain than in all
the rest of the world put together. The whole ex-
penditure upon all those canals and rivers improved,
has amounted to 30,000,0001. sterling. All the ex-
penditure upon canals in Ireland, public and pri-
vate jobs, and altogether, has amounted to about
3,500,000/. I' "

. •
" Will it hereafter be doubted, that the share
which inland navigations have had in England has
been among the great features of her commercial

prosperity
We must add, however, as a saving clause for
our own steadfast opinions, that whoever legislates
effectually for Ireland, must provide relief by
law for the poor of Ireland, or all the rest is
like the Frenchman's " ruffle without the shirt."

CHOLERA NIORBUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Perceiving by your valuable Paper that the
cholera morbus has made its appearance in London,
I have inclosed a receipt for it, which I should thank
you to make public.
64 Upon the first appearance of the cholera morbus, take
two or three half-pints of water as hot as it can be swal-
lowed. In about a quarter of an hour after take from ten
to twenty drops (according to the violence of the disorder)
of laudanum (dropped into any absorbent mixture, or if
that cannot be obtained), dropped into some plain water,
and, on the following day, take a dose of castor oil."
Should the first dose of laudanum prove ineffec-
tual, another may be taken within an hour after.