The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

FRASER.

The opening article of Fraser will be read with
great interest. It is a carefully digested resume' of
all the various systems of National Education at pree
sent in operation in the different countries of
Europe, and it contains more really useful informa-
tion on the subject than is to be found in all the pon-
derous octavos and lengthy letters with which the
public has of late been bored on the subject. This
article is followed by a romantic Mexican tale, " Mata-
siete, the Hunter ;" and then we have a paper on the
" Condition of Authors in England, Germany, and
France," from which it appears that pencraft in Eng-
land is more amply remunerated than in other
countries, always excepting those brethren of the
quill who devote themselves to the concoction of
dramas, for whom France is a very El Dorado, and
which fact fully accounts for the monopoly of
dramatic manufacture which France at present
enjoys. Lord John Manners is the literary legis-
lator who sits for his portrait this month. The
article is elaborately written ; the author treats his
subject evidently con amore, but he rates far too
highly the talents and the influence of this interest-
ing, but, certt s, not altogether disinterested enthu-
siast—if enthusiast he be. The political article for
the month treats of Lord George Bentinek's desti-
tute shareholders' relief Bill, under the title of
" The Great and Comprehensive Measure." The
writer evidently began his article with the
intention of going " the whole hog " in
praise of the proposition of " the stable mind,"
but as he went on, his common sense revolted at the
stupendous folly (and if not folly the something
worse) of the proposition of his hero, and he ends by
confessing that he " cannot much lament the issue."
He, however, throughout argues as if that proposition
were to advance money to the Government to con-
structthenat otional railroads, instead of being what it
really was—a proposition to advance money to share-
holders rig
expenditure
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of marketwh theich with
public
Government
was overt
to
have no control. The question as to the propriety or
impropriety of the Government undertaking the con-
struction of railroads in Ireland as great national
works for the national benefit, was not brought be-
fore the House by Lord G. 13e ntin lc. It was
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have been advantageously carried into effect, because
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, and it ill becomes them now to complain, unless
thy first cry peccavi. In the following observations
on the measures to be adopted for the social regene-
ration of Ireland, we entirely concur, and use trust
that landlords of Ireland, when they read the senti-
ments of this, the organ of the Tory party (they al-
ready know the opinions of every other party in the
empire) will, instead of indulging in vain complaints
or vexations, because fruitless, opposition to the Go-
verninent measures, set their shoulders to the wheel,
and aid and assist those who are doing their best to
regenerate their country. The writer says—
" The tenures by which land is held, in property and
in occupancy, in Ireland, exhibit such a mass of confu-
sion and complexity as cannot be paralleled any when:
else throughout the world. This must be remedied.
The right of sale, in whole or in part, must be conceded
at (n)
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perty. is there any just cause why Ireland should
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not in every other respect be assimilated to England. If
years and (
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converted r utomi pro-
perty. -
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English rights and immunities be conferred up-in her, it
but, tpir !hat she should pay Eneish taxes. Hereto-
fore her exireme povert), and the backward state of her
population, have afforded excuses for a tardiness in le-
gislation which could not stand a moment's impartial

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