The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-19 00:00:00

gamation.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Branch to Wisbech
Harbour and Wisbech Harbour Improvement).
Eastern Counties (Hertford to Hitchin).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Wisbech to Satton
Bridge, icc );

TitURSDAY, FED. 25.
St. Helen's Canal and Railway (Warrington and Blackbrook
Branches, &c.)
Great Northern (Branches to Sleaford).
Great Northern (Extension to Leeds and Wakefield, Deviation
of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole
Railway).
Great Northern (Purchase of Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston and Eastern Junction, &c.)

nOTEST AGAINST THE « BILL
FOR THE TEMPORARY RELIEF OF DESTI-
TUTE PERSONS IN IRELAND."
1. Because this Bill is bawd on the principle, that it is the
duty of a Government to provide food for the people, and
I consider this principle false in theory, and as leading
to injustice and disastrous consequences if attempted in
practice. It is false in theory, as being, in the natural
state of things, utterly impracticable; the Government
having no store of food wherewith to supply the people,
or funds for providing the same. In practice, it leads to
injustice and disastrous consequences, because such funds
can be obtained only by taxation; and if the taxes are
levied (as they ought and profess to be) equally on all,
the whole will be taxed, and supply the wants of a part:
the consequence of which must be, that some persons on
the verge of destitution will be thus reduced to the same
state as those whom they are taxed to relieve, and that
those who by prudence and industry have raised them-
selves out of the reach of want will be taxed for the
relief of the improvident and idle.
2. Because it is dangerous for a Government to take
any step which is calculated to instil into the minds of
the people the belief, that they need not rely on their
own exertions for their well-being, and a hope that if
they omit to take proper care of themselves, it will relieve
their necessities and gratuitously support them.
3. Because the Irish people are of a temperament pe-
culiarly likely to be misled.
4. Because experience, both in Ireland and in Eng-
land under the old administration of the poor-laws,
proves that the attempt io provide gratuitously for the
needy is in its result dangerous to property and to the
independence and well-being of the people, and injurious
to none more than to those very persons whose benefit is
thereby sought; by superseding the necessity, and thus
repressing the energy of their own exertions to keep
themselves ; by diverting them from those resources
'which the pressure of want would disclose; and, above
all, by teaching them to rely on external aid, which, as it
cannot be efficient in extent, or permanent in duration,
will finally leave them disappointed and discontented,
and more destitute and helpless than before.
5. Because I fear that if this measure be adopted it
will necessarily lead to other measures of a similar na-
ture, and that though some present relief may be given
to existing misery and destitution, it will load hereafter
to an alarming increase of the evils thus temporarily
mitigated; and that, therefore, though feelings of the
most praiseworthy and benevolent character prompt its
adoption, prudence, reason, and true wisdom would re-
ject it.
6. Because charity is a proper motive fur the private
conduct of individuals, but justice the paramount duty
of a Government; and because charity to some on the
part of the latter work out present injustice to others,
and ultimately evil to all. RADNOR.

PARSNIP SEED.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—Will you allow me to suggest to the holders of
kitchen-gardens, or field-gardens, the advantage of sowing
this year an increased quantity of parsnip seed. Tho plant is
hardy, the root highly nutritious, and the culture inexpen-
sive, while as a crop the produce is greater than that from an
equal breadth of potato ground. It would be well, also. to
plant more than the usual number of roots for augmenting
the supply of seed for the next year. As an edible, I feel
sure the root will ere long be much more highly appreciated
than it now is.—l am, Sir, yours, Lee., S.
London, Feb. 16, 1847.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
FOSTER V. IRELAND.

Sir,—ln this case the plaintiff brought his action to
recover the sum of 101/. 10s., for his services as an
architect and surveyor, in and about his superintending
the building of some houses at Walworth for the de-
fendant; to which the defendant pleaded a sett off to the
amount of 68L 2s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered, and
a tender of 15/. before the actio❑ was commenced, and
alas pail that 13/. into Court. The jury gave a verdict
for the defendant, and not as was stated, for the plaintiff.
Yours, very obediently,
EDWARD GOVETT, Defendant's Attorney.
7, Red Lion-square, Feb. 18, 1847.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC,
AND MECHANICS' brs-rirrrtosr.—A dramatic reading of
Othello was given at this Institution last night, by Mr. J.
Russell, the comedian. To delineate the fine, open, manly
character of Othello, the very soul of honour, insidiously un-
dermined by a cunning fiend in human form, and by contrast
to display the knave lag() in such guise that he shall be
esteemed a bluff, hearty, jovial campaigner, and still render
his villany consistent, is a task requiring no ordinary his-
trionic skill. Mr. Russell, however, secured mid held the
attention of his audience to the mournful close of the tragedy,
and his efforts to gratify them were warmly applauded.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
General Meeting yesterday, et their office, in Whitehall-
place.

The Marquis Ina 1T
arrived at Farranee's Hotel, Upper litlgrave-street, from
their Beat, Kinmount Annan, Isl. B.