The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

PATRIOTIC SACRIFICES.

" Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and
we must hence and leave it unpick't," growls Falstaff
when he is told,

" As I came along,
I met and overtook a dozen captains,
Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff."
The mandates of the Ministerial and Opposition leaders
in the House of Commons, to appear at St. Stephen's on
the 19th instant, must have encountered on the part of
sporting Members of Parliament a similar spirit of
mutinous obedience. 'Thursday the 12th of August,
Friday 20th August, "black-
cockqty,edon ettcleaymi I stt September,t
" Thursdays
" grouse shooting begins ,"
partrsihdogootisnhgootbineggiens ;"
begins in i
19tho August,
Parliamentary red-
letter days, to
speech-making begins," is mortification
.Parliamentary
enough to try a saint. It is barely possible for 'those
v
lingered on the moors to -catch a few flying
to reach London by the time Parlia-
Ns
shots
s haveon the
12
th ,
with an appetite stimulated, not satiated..
ITnlienet t'
sposirtssinan will fall asleep in the House on the 19th,
of the breezes that sweep the moor, and the
earnodwdoref dream black-cock as he springs from the heather, and
the whistle of his wings as he sweeps down the wind ; and a
roar of " Hear, hear l' will awaken him to a stifling at-
mosphere, and Bude lights, and interminable speeches.
lie will not be able to pass a poulterer's shop without
stopping to moralise—" These grouse ought to have been
of my shooting. Most likely my rascally gamekeeper
has sent them here as a private speculation of his own.'
The crack shots of the Conservative side have some com-
pensation in the prospect of victory, but it is hard upon
the Whigs to leave their sport for assured defeat. It
would nothing surprise us to learn that the attractions of
the Moors have diminished the Ministerial minority by
some dozen votes. To strut in the circles of London as
M.P. during " the season," requires no great stretch of
patriotic devotion ; but to leave grouse and partridges
" a-Parliaraenting," is equal to dying for one s country.
Slanderous persons have sometimes hinted that great
landowners have been found more chary of their game
than their principles. Our noble game-preservers in the
vicinity of London have a splendid opportunity of clear-
ing themselves from the scandal. Let them throw open
their preserves to all Members of Parliament whom the
untimely Session detains from their own more distant
manors. Virtue is its own reward ; and as the harvest
is likely to be late, what they lose in game they may
gain in the rise of the price of corn from the trampling
down of unreaped crops.—Spectator.

As usual at this period of the year numerous
bodies of Irish pea4ants have arrived in this neighbour-
hood to assist in the labours of the harvest. Owing,
however, to the very backward state of the crops, and
the smallness of them, very few of these men can find
employment, and there arc now, we regret to say, above
60 of them in our union workhouse.— -Cambric* Ad-
vertiser.
Emigration is still going on to an immense ex-
tent from this port to South Australia. It appears that
the majority of the emigrants are of the agriculturalclasr,
among whom are a pretty considerable number of decent-
looking young females. Other two ships, the Allan
Kerr, with 269 passengers, and the Marquis of Bute,
with 236 passengers, cleared out yesterday
for Port
Philip.—Glasgow Chronicle.