The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-15 00:00:00

miss of national prosperity, as any which we have ever
contemplated. Let any reflecting person but consibuiecei
that by the proper application of steam he is ena
to travel as far in one day as he could without it :
six, and, as far as travelling forms a part of his life, he
has five-sixths added to it by this single discnre
Let him apply this to the branch of business in Irb' 1
he is engaged, and in the same proportion in whifil {or
diminishes human toil, does it substitute a rose tObe
thorn in the crown of suffering which encircles!
brows of fallen man I Here we have the real blessilf
which attend on science—the practical advantages
human thought, directed to the alleviation of htlalon
privation, helplessness, and suffering. ,
os'
The common arguments made use of by those
oppose all changes, because they derive their vrealtbh;
power, and influence from institutions liable to
ot.
affected by them, is, that steam, employed in Pr° on
lug inland carriage and locomotion, will trench ulich
the vested interests of canal companies, stage-eel ,
proprietors, and the great numbers of persons emPl°roe
Ycie:
on the roads, in the capacity of grooms) gna tine
y and hundreds of others of the ent.
kind, ft
who will thereby be thrown out of einplqino
The want of employment is generally very far .
pov
being considered an evil, unless the fruits of it airebour
forthcoming, and therefore the concentration of lab
as
by the application of steam is only an evil, sndiera.
the industrious classes have not learned to avail f
selves of its advantages. All labour by ineans 0
the
chanisrn, has a direct tendency to amass wealth in
Proper
few hands who employ it; consequently, the its
study of the community should be, not to Cheek the
progress, which is decidedly advantageous °n fey,
whole, but to counteract its tendency to enrich a.f all
to the injury of the many. Thus, for example,
iltioo
the work that now employs the labouring I)W'
ooe,
of Great Britain and Ireland, could be done bt
the
twentieth part of the time, and at a sixtieth of
em'pensebymeans of steam, no one would object to t
ployment of steam, provided he received the same:;obag es
is
which he does at present, with a facility of emPlqindrare
t o
whole time to some other pursuit from which
of ha'
for,.as
other profits. It is not labour, but the fruits
bour, for which man contends in any state coal'
Mr. COBBETT justly observed in the linnse Korbmons, the major part of the human family' on:there.
because compelled so to do by necessity. What eof
fore, the people require is not the Peritfencablir
sweat and suffering, but the secret of how t'Le
all the
wealth ought to be distributed, so as to secure t° 01-
enjoyment of the blessings which Heaven in its g
ness intended for all. ted
As to individual suffering, as far as that Is .
by encroaching upon vested rights, the public le,
posed to render it as little painful as P°sst
Jest
granting compensation wherever it appears t° be
due. This is the most any person ought tOl°Y that
to, remembering with gratitude at the same ti,ln:olg
compensation is an act of public virtue uolm°w o
n is for'
our lauded ancestors. Neither should individd°3erring
get that the public would not be justified in
to
ea Of
a scheme of national improvement in consegae' • a
l
pecuniary objections to it. Had such comp cor
been attended to when first made, we should 118 s hoar'
tinned a nation of naked savages to the present ot'of
The first inclosure of a field was certainly ahe9righ
t
aggression towards those who before claimed t lotion
on it, and the of grazing their flocks first subs° 514
of a cloth garment for a covering made of skins' lens
directn
hides. In our own attempt to injure the vested rights of the .es of
daysi we have _ heard the erlivere
the sloop and smack-owners when steam-boats
took
first started ; and at the time stage-coaches first,gail
the roads as vehicles for the conveyance of Passiteiers
we learn from the records of the times that the P.ee.
SO
of hostelries declared that the salvation of the 0,85,
depended upon their suppression. Thus it eve.to
and thus it will ever continue to be with resPeetfoild
ill be
national improvements, so long as men w JO°
too ignorant to be capable of appreciating the
08 toil,
tages of any discovery which diminishes human
and too selfish to prefer the happiness of their e
for t.
to their own private ease and pecuniary in----esejeritll
On the whole, however, the prospect is su „ tri is
cheering to enable us to state that this cl 9.-n 001
f its f
rapidly progressing in the true knowledge 0: .pies 0
great interests. Not only things, but the PrAncl., the
things, are now objects of investigation ain°ljabades
very drudges of the community. By the highTeZeY see
these truths are already amply developed' from
a
in railways, not the mere means of a conveYail-e
s' less
one given place to another in less time an
ations
expense, but a girdle which shall bind all,rt, t faatilP
„
of the earth together, as members of one 6',": of .0,,
h
labouring for and interested in the hapPine-
.es
other. Steam will indeed be the great 'Wit bostili.ti-a
real and only permanent suppressor °I moire
among men. The bubbles of national gl°rP tunss 1/111°
„e by cutting the throats of innocent fellow"—;:noratli, of
never did us an injury, and were perhaps 'l%ellectlia
our existence, will be broken by steam, and iat he nnce
man will yet weep over the possession of Ahll take an
hailed as trophies of his prowess. Wre,,, s
übj
:ct.
early opportunity of again returning to this
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Taymouth Castledsh.
HE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The I, a" Sat Ur-,
afternoon. When his Loron reetai
nor arrived at • o'clock was g
,at one . pn, he ~ olea-
gil . . %ape . .
..5.
by a salute of guns from the ip reached f Breaciawle maqu'.o'
sure yacht, on Lochtay, in wlMicharquis : the, 14:nbthe lActiOin
and a number of friends, who had ''ioreorceedea T."nrrdaliiPi•
~ was
the morning, for the purpose of e- tint It `Fhancel'°:nd $
arriving at. ienmore, the noble andme learnnu —there, -•ag,
received with another salute of stationed . alight': g
guns, 100 his ,aurta
similar demonst • ,r, ration took place at the Cast e eigh'-',l ad
Here an immense co fin the n rie f
districts hadconcourse of people ro
1 trious ,9 0
assembledwho welcomed the il Lis • roar' •
c 00
Brougham
" to Taymou, ht enthusiasti
wards c f
regard and attachment.
, iTvihteh therrmodsance
afterm•ajader b°,
menced on the lawn, and continuedmerry
yduring the.r.e thOlftje
the day, the utmost hilaritsatisfaction prevalng,e ca..
r,
y and
ined waytP 10C
out. The Noble and
Learned Lord rema
.._ to ,
till Monday, when he left for Invershie, on Ins The
ness and Dunrobin Castle.—Kelso Chronicle.
110F"-- - Ile*
DEATH --I OF THE BISHOP OF RAI' Right „r•
afflicting announcement hof the yes'"
of the death hal us ra °
William B.
, Bisset Lord Bishop of Raphoe, reac
_. lea :ie,
9_a y. The melancholy event took place, ag Wu,cleeflf° bif
Friday last, the sth instant, at Lessen Abe'. •t to de
it P
his Lordship's family seat, where he was on . age. , 011
nephew. His Lordship was in the 77th year of his allei ,
by his vill
was justly beloved and highly respected Cone $ or,
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others to whom his many virtues Were known'
more universally regretted. His Lordship suceedebcloe. to
Magee, late Archbishop of Dublin, in the See of PAP by the
which he was translated from the Archdeaconry of 11°55 IP
Marquis Wellesley in 1822. The Bishop of preliallaf'l9ll°ei
Ponsonby, succeeds to the patronage of the See of 'Cit'es 0'
with the Ecclesiastical superintendece—the TooP°1.8; pi erd
the See go to the Ecclesiastical fund. The Bishop °'e,stle'
of
fas the option of possessing the See House, RePh°°
which, it is expected, he avail himselttll° or
Palace being far inferior to that of the late Bishop's, of
Herald.—The highest salary of a Curate in the clicicaefear'
Waterford and Lismore is 901.,
and the lowest bO/.
In Ossory the maximum is 12.5/. , and the minimum 35" d jast
Viscount and Viscountess Fordwich 4rris'eqt, seo
week in Berkeley-square from Pansanger, the hosPitaP 00'
of Earl Cowper. To-day they leave town on a visiting dog
Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, and other hratno the
of the Beaufort family, leave town to-day on a visit
Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle.
Lord Tullamore is still detained in tow n bY the
lamented indisposition of bis lady.
Sir W. W. Wynn and Lady Harriet will entertai°
party at Wynnstay during the month of October.