The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

TO THE LADIES.

This lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news-
aper on Aug. 7, 1846. Reader, remember, this letter was put into
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
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On Saturday morning the constituency of Chester elected
Hugh Ltipus,-Earl Grosvenor,- to represent the borough in
Parliament, in the room of Lord Robert Gro3venor. resigned
to stand for Middlesex., The attendance at the hustings in
the Town-hall 'was unusually large,--and the proceedings
throughout were of a very spirited character.
The SIIERIFe having conducted the usual preliminary
proceedings,
The Mayor of Chester, D. l'imurs JONES, in rising to
propose Earl Grosvenor as a fit and proper person to repre-
sent the cif y in Parliament, felt that however much, they
might regret the loss they- had sustained by the resignation
of their late worthy and, honourable member, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, their sorrow was in some degree lessened by the
proSpect of havirig his honourable nephew as his successor.
-Cheers.) Should the constituency be now pleased to
select Earl Grosvenor as their representative, he telt assured
that the trial they would thus be enabled to mak of his fit-
ness for the trust would be such as to induce them to prefer
him on succeeding occasions. Earl Grosvenor possessed more
qualifications than he would venture to name in his pre-
sence. He might state, however, that the house of ,E4ton
was closely identified with the interests of the citY of Chester.
There was an -association too in the name of Hugh Lupus,
which the constituency of Chester milst ever feel an interest
in. Hugh Lupus, a-Norman name, was the name of the first
Earl Grosvenorovho was in many respects an eminent man,
rind had devoted himself most zealously to promote the pros
perity of the city. They had .a Hugh Lupue before them now,
and let them hope that history would record Iris annals to
be read with equal pleasure as those of his Norman fore-
fathers.—(Cheers.) The mayor proposed Earl Grosvenor for
theirsuffragea. . .
THOMAS DIXON, Esq., reconded the nomination. lie con-
gratulated the city on the 'union of interli they had met
with in the course of the present canvass The committee
had, waited personally on 1,400 electors, andlont of that num-
ber there was not more. than two dozen wllb Tefusei to give
Earl GrOsvenor.their hearty. support. -``!"
There being,no other candidate, the shirity declared Earl
Grovesnor duly elected, amid long continnZdtplause.
Earl GROSVENOIt, on standing- forward to re-ten thanks,
was received with much applause. He said—Electors and
brother freemen, it is with the sincerest pride and satisfac •
tion I now address you by that title—a title which my
ancestors have borne for many generations—a title to
which I have long aspired, and a title which I had the
honour of receiving from you on Monday last. The
son of a freeman. and the grandson of a'freeman of Chester,
I need not tell you how much gratification I feel in being per-
mitted to address you by that title, which is the only tie,
if any additional tie were wanting, to cement the union which
has se loug subsisted between this city and the house with
which lam connected. It has been my utmost endeavour
during the short time that has elapsed between the resigna-
tion of your late Member, my relative, and the period fixed
for holding this election, to make acquaintance with you all,
and should I have omitted calling upon any, I trust you
will not impute it to neglect or disrespect; but that you will
attribute it to the only circumstance from which it could have
arisen, the short time that has been permitted me to see you
individually before the nomination. —cheers.) I have the
authority of my uncle to say that it was his most earnest
wish to have paid his personal regards to you to-day, and to
have taken a farewell of those with whom he has been so
long connected by ties political as well as personal, and whose
interests he has been ever most anxious to promote; but
circumstances have prevented his intended visit to Chester.
I am aware that it is usual for candidates on such occasions
as these to make a declaration of their political opinions; but
at present my youth and inexperience must be accepted as
my excuse for not making pledges. I may, however, say,
that it is my desire to promote the extension of commerce
and support every measure calculated to improve the moral
and social condition of the people.—(Cheers.) I have again
to thank you for the honour you have done me on this oc-
casion, and be assured that, to obtain your confidence, and
merit your esteem 133 my future conduct shall be my most
anxious desire.—(Applause.)
THOMAS DIXON, Esq., had a resolution to submit, which
he was sure would meet with the hearty concurrence of
sa rs ge
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tu
' He begged to move that a vote of thanks be given to Lord
the
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n and
not
tf theanticipatewas adl enough
eoicre.
Robert Grosvenor for the attention he had always paid to the
everyhol hold
interests of the city, and for.his unceasing exertions to pro-
mote its prosperity ; and that the vote of thanks be signed by
the sheriff, and transmitted to his Lordship on behalf of the
meeting.—(Great cheering.)
Was. Bauwie, Esq., begged to second the resolution, and
said, I am convinced that there is not a man in the city who
does not feel'the deepest regret that the Noble Lord should
have been compelled by any circumstances to sever the con-
nexion which'has So long subsisted between him and the
city of Chester. It has been a great advantage to the city
to possess suck a representative as Lord Robert Grosvenor,
for his high talents, his unbending honesty of purpose, his
unvarying support of those Liberal principles which lie at the
root of all social improvement, have always been most cheer-
fully and cordially rendered, both for the advantage of the
country in general and the city which he represented.-
-(Applause.) He is . shortly to be placed in a situation
where he will have a wider sphere for the exercise of.his
talents and industry, and while our best wishes go with him,
we hope we shall have no reason to regret the unanimous
support which has this day been so cordially tendered to the
Noble Lord, his successor.

A vote of thanks was passed to the sheriff, three cheers
were given for the newly-elected Member, and the meeting
separated.

WASTE LANDS IN IRELAND.
7'6 TIMEDItO R
Cdrwar, Jan. 30, 1847.

Stn,—You who were the first to recognise the general
soundness of the views set forth in my letter to Lord John
Russell, upon the subject of the reclamation of the waste
lands in Ireland, would. I am sure, be much pleased that
the Government plan does not vary in one single instance,
from that which I proposed.
In the,Postscript to a new edition, which will be published
in the course of the week, I have discussed two most im-
portant'questions on the same subject, and which I purposely
fromof o
opinion
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pbeeectaiun bas
tlhkenthe,wa tnhde
Ire
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sgreat
in view. Those two questions are,—" What shall be the
dedxiiffeelurretdnetcdhee attention of my readers from the main object I had
maximum and the minimum size of the farms, and what
shall be the tenure." I have entered fully into those two
questions, and shall feel obliged by your insertion of so much
as relates to the Government proposal, not less than twenty-
five or more than fifty acres.—l am, Sir, your most obedient
servant, RIGBY WASON.
TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
My Lord,—The Government plan, it appears, is to
divide the unclaimed land into small possessions, not less
than twenty-five acres, or more than fifty acres. For the
reasons already given, I think these figures far too low, No
doubt the change from a five-acre possession to one of twenty-
five acres is a great and salutary improvement, for it com-
pletely obviates one objection to the cottar system, by
providing permanent employment for the occupier; but then
the benefit ceases, for it leaves in its present wretched state
the condition of the agricultural labourer. It is impossible
that the possessor of 25 acres can give permanent employ-
ment to a single labourer at adequate wages, and what is to
become of the next generation? Are the 25 acres to be di-
vided among the family of the present possessor? or is it in-
tended to introduce the principle of primogeniture? Is it
not evident that, under such a system, the population will
increase with the utmost rapidity? A joint-stock company,
whil=e first duty is to make a respectable dividend, takes no
consideration of these matters; but are they not of the utmost
importance, deserving the careful attention of statesmen?
But there is another element which I think proves the
impolicy of further extending in Ireland the system of
°eh
small possessions. Look at the following table, showing that
out of 685,;09 farms, into which Ireland is at present di
•
vided, 636,997 are under 30 acres, and only 48,312 above that
number :

Leinster 49,152 45,595
Connaught .. 155
F Arms
- • 5 acres. 15 ac! es. 30 acres. acres.
Nnmb:22eor24oof From 1 to From 5 to From 15 tel Above 30
Ulster .. •• .. 234,499 180,817 98,992 25,099 9,591
Munster .... 1b2,386 57,02 g 61,320 27,481 16,557
99,918 45,221 5,790
20,584 174:828795

685,389
I would sm.'
iously ask, Has this system produced so much
happiness or c t should desire to
1 306,915 1 251,1281 78,954 1 48,312
on entment that a stalesman
extend it? Would it not be far more wise, now there is an
opportunity, which if lost can never be ,intoregained to try
fa the
Eglish and Scotch system of dividing the nd rms
nof different sizes, cultivated by agricultural labourers ?
But then your Lordship says, "You do not think "th I
sin-
at the
small holdings of the country have been injuriou
rest weigo rd-
ht
s.
cerely feel that the expression of any opinion by your L
ship, given without any reason, would have g
with all; but when you state a reason for that opinion, and
such reason embraces a fallacy, I sin confident that your
Lordship would be the first to alter your opinion when the
fallacy was clearly pointed out. The reason you gave for
the opinion was this; "I have arrived at that conclusion from
the fact that the most prosperous and best cultivated county
other than that of
in Ireland is Armagh, a county in which the greatest divi-
sion of land exists."
Now, unless this fact can be most satisfactorily explained
se
of crop, can rely
there is no doubt that it fully justifies your Lordship's
opinion, but the explanation is so clear, sosuealftyo,nvbineccainugse,
that it ceases to support the opinion—it is that Armagh is
the centre of the linen trade. Now it has always been ad-
Highlands of
mated that small possessions in the neighbourhood of large
alrietson tttohhweeinrosesctoruriip,mieoarfsnluaafrnaedc:coearrinteadsinihnajcessemnesoploollijmfuaeriinloutur
was put by
bubpuorns„ thseurrsybumnpdatrivearnrcliols,upoprorsit
aontebteshetierr,woeraltphyubnlieni,ggo;
and not because
Belfast, with five-acre possessions, and would, not the occu-
pier be in totally different circumstances from the holder of
five acres in the wilds of Connemara or the
Scotland?
careful li
leix am
junta-positioni na t ion Lordship'sofywnuitrhti is ieers
estab-
lishes not only the opinion, but positively
a doubt its converse. I take Munster because its es
beyond
your But
a Lordship4ar
I have any reason to believe that it is the least
averse cultivated province in Ireland, Now, prosperous or
btloe, I find the relative sizes of the far, in y the above
Munster to be s Ulster and

Number of From 1 to I From 15 to
farms, 5 acres. 30 acres.
Ulster •••
234,499 100,817 25,099
Munster... ..
162,383 57,028 • 27,481
. ..•
of cotter_from 1 to 5 acres, and
not so many farms of from 15 to 30 acres as Munster. If,
double Thus Thus,
therifore, the prosperity of Ulster is not entirely owing to
another cause—that of the linen trade—surely your Lordship's
duty would be to assimilate the rest of Ireland with that of
with
numberonly one-third more farms
holdings 9 Ulster has nearly
Ulster, and increase as much as possible the number of cot-
ter holdings from 1 to 5 acres; and if Munster, with so large
a relative proportion of farms from 15 to 30 acres, be the least
prosperous and worst cultivated province in Ireland, what
can justify dividing the waste lands into a minimum of 25
acres and a maximum of 50 acres ?
Have the Government calculated the enormous extra ex-
penses necessarily attendant upon a division of land into
such small possessions as that of 25 and 50 acres. The in-
creased number of barns and offices of every description—
the enormous expense of making roads for such properties—
even the boundary fences would amount to a large sum.
I have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
..

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A LucKY NAVVY.—A navigator working on the
L.wes Railway has just received information that his uncle
bequeathed 8,70004 to be divided between him and his
brother

Without derogating either from the character of the
late John William Smith as a lawyer, or from that of
Samuel Warren as a writer, we at first conceived that
the opening article in Blackwood for February was dis-
proportionately long. On rtading that biographical
paper, however, the industry, genius, and integrity of
the former was developed before us in such. beautiful
colours, and under such a fascinating aspect, that we
cordially acquitted the latter from any blame as to the
extent of his contribution. Mr. Warren, moreover, htv,
more than any other of the eminent corps of the maga-
zine, with the single *exception of course of its editor,
rare old Christopher North, entitled himself to the con-
sideration of its readers. His admirable notes from the
.1 Diary of a Physicial,," his yet more admirable-" Ten
-Thousand a Year," and his miscellaneous papers in the
pages of " Ebony," have insured to everything that ma-
tiateS from his:pen a very peculiar attention. The mind that
Conceived the all-perfect Aubrey, the all.beautifutliate,
and.the a:1-e ily Oily Gammon, could not fail indeed to
enlist fur himself the sympathies of those who had
watched the movements of those clever creations. Mr.
Warren cannot' write anything to which his name is at-
tached' without arousing in a considerable degree the
interest of the public. And how much more is that
interest .enhanced • when the subject of his lucu-
brations is such as the character of the re-
mirkable man whose memoir he has just writ-
ten so gracefully and tenderly. Like Sir William
Follett, John William Smith was suddenly carried oil
by diseases arising from the ardour of his professional
pursuits, and of •his intellectual application, at the very
moment when the recompense of his extraordinary
capacities, and of his yet more extraordinary
industry, was beginning to be showered upon him.
Both were hurried into the grave when' the honour of
their tellow-men for them was ripened, and when the
golden rewards-of.vigalth,aml eleyation.were about to be
lavished on them by their contemporaries'. Both had
regarded their intellects in their proper light, namely, as
instruments which could cnly be employed efficiently
when embellished by knowledge and tempered by prac-
tice. To continue the metaphor—they had both embla-
zoned those instruments with erudition, and covered
them with the jewels of lore, and at the very moment
when their labour—the labour of years—was completed,
and the instruments were ready to be used—they
perished. Can anything be more melancholy than this?
Can there be any spectacle more truly affecting There
were the .EAli,s before them, beyond which was the
region where they could gain fame, and do good to their
fellow-creatures, and cause their own genius and great-
ness to be recognised and acknowledged by the
world. By intense ardour, by astonishing labour,
and by wonderful perseverance they surmount
those obstacles, they climbed those Alps, and when they
stand upon the last pinnacle, -and see the region of
fame lying before them—at their very feet—they die.
Such were the lives and such the deaths of Sir William
Follett and John William Smith. It seems a bold thing
for Mr. Warren to say that the name of John William
Smith " bas greater claims upon the attention of readers
of biography" than the name of Sir William Follett, but
the observation is justified by the circumstances in the
career of the former, and particularly by the memorial
indited by Mr. Warr( n himself: An article upon
" Modern Italian History" is-merely an enumeration of
facts taken from the biographical work, recently pro-
duced by General F6p6, the friend and follower of the
great soldier Murat. " French Players and Playhouses"
is a delightful, though somewhat garrtflous, account of
the condition of the drama across the Channel—A con-
dition rather different from that in England. Talk as
we may., however, of the diminution of the passion for
dramatic representations, the cause of the decay of the
drama in this country is of a very different kind. For a
long time there has been a suspicion that one of the
chief things detrimental to the interests of dramatic art
is—the starring system. The fact is becoming plainer
and plainer every day. Mrs. Butler has done good
service to the art of which she imagines herself
to be so magnificent an ornament, by rendering the
shameful height to which this starring system has
risen apparent, and herself eminently ridiculous. In a
characteristic review of. Horace Walpole's Memoirs,
there is a survey of the reign of George the Second.
The paper will repay perusal- as illustrative of a very
recent period (comparatively) of our national history,
and a period but too little known by the, generality.
" Mildred " is brought to a conclusion in a rather
tragical manner. It is succeeded by:" A Ride to Mag-
nesia," and the whole' number terminates with a tho•
rough Blackwoodite chapter on "Direct Taxation."