The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-25 00:00:00

THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.

Miss Lydia filly... ... 1
Springy Jack ... 2
Distaffina
__ 3

COLONIZATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.
SIR,--I think Ministers have come to a wise determi-
nation in not attempting to conduct a systematic emigra-
tion and colonization. If they had undertaken to remove
our surplus population, they would have found it as im-
practicable as the French Government has done to pro-
vide
employment for those who could not find it for
themselves. The unfitness of Government to do any-
thing of the kind has been clearly shown, for during the
last twenty -three years nearly 900,000 of her Majesty li
subjects have been almost forced, contrary to the wish" •
of a majority of them, into the United gtates► the'Td
to
o
increase the wealth and power of our
great w
to""
out an effort being made to assist or induce
g
to our own colonies. It is creditable to Ministers that
they have refused to turn so important an affair into
them
mere job, which it would have become in their hands,
or in those of any other administration. Places repre-
sented by the most subservient and time-serving charac-
ters would have got their redundant population removed
at the cost of the nation, whilst the application of an in-
dependent Member would have been disregarded. That
we must have emigration to a very great extent is ob-
vious. The welfare of the mother country de-
pends on it quite as much as the
_ prosperity
of the colonies. The plan I suggested last month in
your valuable paper I believe would effect the object—i. e.,
for Government to give large tracts of land in the
colonies to the parishes or poor-law unions of the United
Kingdom where there is any unemployed population,
with this stipulation, that ten acres each shall be given
to such poor men as find their way to the colonies at
their own expense, and the same number of acres, leased
with the power of purchase, to every poor man who
cannot paythe cost of his own emigration. A distinc-
tion must be made to encourage people to go out at their
own expense. Had this been done some years ago, when
the increasing population became pressing and alarming,
the poor-rates would not have been halt what they are,
been
enaedvne thebwe employment
espdol uignyrme foreignaetn,t that
capitalans
Britisha n dmi
money
reteyhi
gewn
orailways, colonies
idlw not
sys,hovewouldbe. .
thfaor
cause it could not meet with remunerative investment to
the British empire. Let every parish people a district?
which it might du to its advantage, for its rates would
soon begin to decrease, and the land it obtained from
Government would improve in value as settlers were
Placed on it. We should then have such a systematic
colonization as no Government could produce.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, •
null, Aug. 14,1848. T. N.

WONDERFULLY FORTUNATE.---" Touchstone," in
the Era newspaper last week, prophesied the winner of
the Ebor Handicap, as well as of four other races at
York. Be sure and purchase this rapidly rising family
sporting journal of August 26 and 27, which will
give you full particulars of the meeting, and a peep at
the St.:Leger. Follow " Touchstone" (who has foretold
nearly fifty winners this season) lin your betting, and II
fortune will bo your reward. Order of all newsmen,
price 6d. Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand.
Lord Seymour and the Lord Advocate of Scot-
land arrived at Alton Towers on Monday last on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, who are .
about to receive a succession of guests at their splendid
chateau.

SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' Courr.---*
This Court will sit again on Tuesday, to hear and de'
termine applications for bail before Mr. Commissioner.
Harris; and the sittings of the Commissioners for the
hearing of cases will be resumed on the 14th of Ser
tember.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge 1)55
joined the Duchess and Princess Mary at Gothic Lodge'
Cowes, Isle of Wight.

On the 24th inst., at Grove-house, near Leeds, the la-,11 Of
Joseph Middleton, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Ramsgate, the lady of Lieutenant
Bursts!, R.N., of a son.

On the 20th inst., at Little Cressingham Rectory, Norfolk,
the lady of the Rev. S. B. Warner, of a son.
On the 21st inst., the lady of the Rev. Adolphus Hamil-
ton, of a daughter.
•
Mr On the 22d inst. (under the influence of chloroform), --5
J. 0. Smith, Brighton, of a daughter.
•On the 22d inst , at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the wife of
Captain G. Rippon, Bombay Army, of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., at Harley-street, the wife of J.S. Short,
-Esq., of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Upper Grosvenor-street, the lilfe of
Philip Plevdell-Bouverie, Esq. of a son.
On the `23d inst., the wife Of James Gibbs, Esq., Bombs!
Civil Service, of a daughter.

MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at the parish church of West Tw,lord,
~et
Edmund Burke Roche, Esq., M.P., to Eliza Caroline,
daughter of J. B. Boothby, Esq., of Twytord Abbey, -11""
dlesex.- -

On the 22d inst., at St. John's, Oakfield, Isle of Wig"
John Johnson, Esq., of Vernon-villa, near Ryde, to Mary,
eldest daughter of J. Percival, Esq., of Woodlands.
On the 22d inst., at St,. Michael's, Stockwell, E. Charlelon,
Esq., of Grove-house, North Brixton, Surrey, to Eliza Flet-
cher, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Ross, A.M.,
of Crawford, Lanai kshire.
On the 22d inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Plamstead, John
Lull; Esq., of Plumsteathcommon, to Mary Warden, niece
of Major H. D. Warden, of H. M. Cape Rifle Mounted Corps,
Grab m's-t own.

DIEE,
On the 20th inst., Colonel Henry John Freke, of
Hannington-hall, Wilts, one of the the Deputy Lieutenants
and a magistrate for the county, aged 72.
On the 19th inst., El!en, wite of E. Paddon, Esq., of Fare-
ham, Hants, and fourth daughter of the late C. Uagril'
Esq., of East-hill, Wandsworth.
On the 21st inst., Alexander Young, M.D., Tranent, second
son of the late W. Young, Esq., merchant, London.
On the 21st inst., at Nid Rock, Yorkshire, Lieut.-General
George G. C. L'Estrange, C. 8., Colonel of the 61st Regiment.
On the 22d inst., at Bath, aged 31, James Edward Jer-
ningham, Esq., second surviving son of the late E. Jerning-
ham, Esq., and nephew of Lord Stafford.

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, al
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No.
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the couvitr et
Middlesex, Friday, August 25, 1848,

. --