The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-13 00:00:00

SATURDAY

is a deficiency in the amount of available labour.
Toere never was in Ireland such a demand for labour
as there is at present ; and there is, too, every pro-
spect of the demand continuing. The famine and'
emigration have thinned the population to so great an
extent, and the process of agricultural improvement, ts
going on at so rapid a rate, that all in the sister couta.
try who are able and willing to work Wln confi-
dently rely on ample employment and fair remunera-
tion for their labour for many years to come ; and
vet the passion for emigration is as vigorous as ever.
The mania has not in the slightest degree abated ;
nor is there any prospect that it will abate for
some time to come ; for if it be so strong at this
season of the year—a season in which emigration has
hitherto been comparatively unknown—what may
not the extent of the emigration be expected to be-
come, on the advent of spring—the season of the
year to which emigration has heretofore been all but
confined ? At first, and for some time, the recent
and still continued emigration was regarded in the
light of a great benefit to Ireland. The population
of the sister country was deemed too dense. It Woo
thought that if a million or so of the inhabitants
should quit Ireland for distant shores, the result
would be decidedly beneficial to those who remained
behind. Now, however, that so large a number have
already left their native land in quest of a new home
in some foreign clime, and that the tide of human
beings, still moving towards other lands, seems only
to acquire additional force with each succeeding day,
the expectation of good has been turned into the ap-
prehension of great and manifold evils, from the extent
to which emigration has been and is going on. Some
districts of the country are absolutely thinned of their
population. Particular places look comparative
deserts, so far as regards the appearance of
human beings. Those that remain, naturally enough
ask, where all this is to end ? And as they cannot
answer the question, they no less naturally become
alarmed. There+, cannot be a doubt that the extraor-
dinary rate at which emigration is now going on,
without a moment's interruption, in Ireland, is tem-
porarily a great evil. It creates much social disorder
in the districts in which the emigration spirit most
extensively prevails. Trade is diminished, confidence
is destroyed, and a species of despair takes possession,
of the public mind. But though emigration be thus
a present evil, it will prove a great ultimate good.
The mania for quitting the sister island cannot always-
last. It must come to an end ; and when it does, a
healthy reaction will inevitably follow. England and
Scotland have population enough and to spare. Bj
and by, when Ireland has got rid of all who mean too
leave her shores, there will be an extensive immi-
gration of English and Scotch ; and this
what Ireland wants. A copious infusion of Saxon
blood is just the agency to which, more thon to any
other, we look for the moral and socialregewnberaatetvioaer
of the sister country. There is no reason
why the west and south of
Englishlrelandand s should
before long, be crowded with o etch
settlers. Why should not the Saxons take possessie n of
the territories which the Celts have thought prupe r. t o
desert? The foolish cry which the latter, under r
a-
spiration of the demagogues who are now spend.] fig
their days in Australian exile, used to get up was -
" Ireland for the Irish." This cry must never ag a4n
be heard. The Irish have forsaken, and are forsaki Di;
their country. And since, therefore, Ireland cal snot
be theirs, seeing they have located themselv es in
America or Australia, they surely cannot carry their
anti-Saxon prejudices so far as to object to the
English and Scotch settling in a country fro ji which
they have fled, without the slightest intern is in of ever
again returning to it. It would be ca.rry,ing Irish
feeling to an extent for which no one is prepared,
were the Celtic settlers on the other tic le of the
Atlantic, or at the antipodes, to prefer s,e., ?ing their
native land converted into a comparative dese rt, rather
than that it should be taken possession of by the En-
glish and Scotch, and cultivated by Saxo n enter-
prise. Were from 150,000 to 200,000 of the
more energetic of our English and Scotch popu-
lation to plant themselves in the west ank d south
of the sister country, they would, in a few
years, effect a change both in the physic al and
social condition of Ireland which would appit, ar in-
credible to the Irish themselves. In six or seven
years we should see the counties of Connaught and
Cork presenting an apearance which would justify the
conviction, that in ten or twelve years more we she uld
see in them the peace and prosperity which prevail'. in
the north. It is the liberal infusion of the Saxon
blood into Ulster, under the inspiration of Protestant
principles, that hath made that province what it is,
and the same persons, the same spirit, and the seine
Protestant principles would do the same for any other
part of Ireland, however hopeless its condition, under
the combined influence of the Celtic character and the
Popish faith, may at present appear. We feed a
thorough conviction that the regeneration of Ireland
is only to be achieved in this way ; and however much.
present inconvenience, and even suffering, may be
caused to those who remain, from the extensive scale
on which the work of emigration is now going on,
we regard this emigration as the precursor and pledge
of unspeakable ultimate good.

APOTHECARIES' MALL.—The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, Sept. 11, 1831: —Thomas Wynne
Williams, Denbigh; Henry Lowndes, Liverpool; William
Notly, Manchester; George Earle, Beverley ; Henry Folkard,
Old Brompton.

FIRE NEXT DOOR TO A STLEY'S A➢IPITHEATRE.—
A fire, that might have been attended with very fearful con-
sequences, broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs.
Miller and Field, booksellers and stationers, Westmitrster-
road, next door to Astley's Theatre. The fire happened
during the performance of the first piece on Thursday night,
but owing to the judicious arrangements of the police on dutq
in the street, the accident was kept perfectly quiet in the
theatre, although the fire was rushing out of one of Messrs.
Miller and Field's windows. Had the alarm reached the
audience in the theatre, it it impossible to conceive what
might have been the result. The engines of the West of
England and Brigade quickly attended, and the flames were
extinguished before much damage was done.

THINGS WHICH. MR. HOBBS IS AT PERFECT LIBERTY
TO PICK.— To pick all the undeserving lords and ladies out
of the pen4lbn list. To pick the Locke on the Irish Under-
standing, if it has not been too much hampered by the keys
of St. Peter. To pick the padlocks that fetter political pri-
soners to felons and criminals at Naples. To pick as many
of the wards in Chancery as are likely to fall into the bands
of priests. To pick a quarrel with Lord John Russell, if
something is not done by Government to check the sedition
of the Cullens and Cahills. To :pick the Irish thorn out of
the British lion's foot. And lastly—to jump from painful
subjects to comic—to pickall over the world a better periodi-
cal, it he can, than Punch.

THE MECHANICS' INSTlTUTE.—Yesterday 'qr. E.
Wheeler gave the second of two lectures at the London Me-
chanics' Institute, Southampton-buildings, on " The History,
Principles, and Construction of the Conway and Britannia
Tubular Iron Bridges." After a brief allusi Ai to his re-
marks of last week, in which he had explained the prin-
ciples of construction as applied in the case of the Conway
Bridge, and as generally applicable to others, he entered
into a description of the Britannia Bridge, with illustrations
of the mode in which the tubes were raised, and of the uti-
lity of the hydraulic presses employed on the occasion. kie
next considered the question whether such bridges were safe,
showing to the satistaction of his audience that they were
so, and then concluded, amid much applause, with an asser-
tion that, with the happy combination
.of profound science,
practical ability, and unbounded capital, which England
above all countries enjoyed, there remained scarcely any en-
gineering difficulty, not an impossibility, which she could not
remove.

CRICKET.—A match was played on the Lord Nel-
son ground, Old Kent-road, on Thursday, between the Blom-
field (Paddington), and the St. George's (Surrey) clubs,
which terminated in favour of the Blomfield Club by 104
runs. Score—Blomfield Club, 72 and 147; St. George's
Club, 71 and 44.

STEAM-BOAT RACING.-A BLOW VP.-0.0 Thurs-
day afternoon last, between three and four o'clock, two
steam tugs, the Rangier and the Conquest, went out of the
Tyne to run a race from Shields bar to the buoy at Sunder-
land-pier. They had got placed, when a fearful discharge
of steam, and a great noise from the Ranger, indicated that
something was wrong. The other boats ran to her assis-
tance, and found that the pressure that had been put on had
occasioned one of the tubes of the boiler b give way. One,
of the crew who had got scalded jumped overboard, and villa
with some difficulty rescued. He was nearly drowned. The
other men escaped comparatively unhurt. The boat was
towed into the Tyne again.
THE ARCHBISHOP Or CANTERBURY AND Tit
BISHOP OF EXETER.— We understand that the Bishop
Exeter has, within the last few days, unceremoniomily, and
under circumstances which some would consider to
parhaati-
el()
insult, refused to license a young clergyman of evangelic
principles to a curacy in his diocese, though the applicant'sa
testimonials were countersigned by the Archbiahn c
terbury. Well done, Harry of Exeter ! At an v-i" o' Can-
impossible to help admiring the boldness of Dr:
—Advertiser.

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THE SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR MORPETR.--TbiS
singular affair has now been brought fully to light. Mr.
Milburn, sen., anxious to know something respecting hiss on,
gave Mr. Drummond, the superintendent of
police at Bed-
lington, instructions to proceed in search of him. Mr.
Drummond at once proceeded to Liverpool, arrived there oa
Sunday night last, and had not been long in that town before
he fell in with Heslop, the person suspected of assisting Mil-
burn in his flight. On being questioned, Ileslop denied all
knots ledge of the matter, but on a search being made for
Milburn, he was found in a public-house near the do
cks,
reading the instructions for proceeding to Australiai
stn inst.
ship named the Eagle, which will sail about th• !i-
-d been eo
Milburn told Drummond that Heslop and he ri.dthctho
had
Heslop
triving this fill. a considerable time before,
and that
meet him
was to go to Newcastle to et a horse and g
~, ib'eadid, provided
at or near the place of the" murder,' w,"elw. Newcastle by way of with clothe?. They then drove to
annington-bridge they
Hepscott and Stamaington, and at gtvibich he had provided,
tbrew away a bottle containing
b'it had forgotten in their hurry, to spill upon the place where
his hat, &c., were found. 11
castle, and next morning
31. t to Whitehaven, and thence tolilbetv spent the night in New_rn left for Carlisle by the first
train, where he took a b 0
Liverpool by rail.
ford Bank, which stopped
,°arrind for circulating a number of
The notes of tbesgßo
payment several years
,have been convicted and punished in this
which some Parttt are not, it appears, all exhausted. On
nted one of the notes for 101 at the
city and
t a
the chstrz
man prese
Friday last primrose, baker, in St. Augustine's, and asked
shoP 'l' '''"-- Unfortunately Mrs. Primrose, having no suspi-
cion that the note. was valueless, gave him a good 51. note
And five pounds in gold and silver. She has no recollection
of his person. On Saturday another note for U. was pre-
sented at the same shop by a man who is described as stout,
full cheated, and rather low in stature. It was refused, but
the man lim alloyed W Walk 11WaYmmEertvici gentry.