The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1834.

great benefit on the people, while they themselves are
every day increasing in prosperity.
It is from the experience of a well-regulated system
of joint-stock banking in Scotland, and from the suc-
cess which has already attended the practice of a
similar system in England, that we infer the benefits
to Ireland, which the general introduction of solid
joint-stock banks into that country must confer on her
inhabitants. The field for enterprise there is almost
boundless, and the investment and employment
of capital there, under judicious management,
must produce great wealth to the capitalist. No law
in favour of Ireland, which the Parliament of the
united kingdoms can pass, except, indeed, a well-
digested system of Poor Laws,—no charity which the
people of England can bestow on the starving popula-
tion of Ireland,—no enforcement of legal enactments,
either by the sword or by milder measures, can ever
confer those solid advantages on Ireland, which may
be obtained from the introduction of the means of
promoting industry among her inhabitants ; and this at
present can only be done by Joint Stock Companies.
A well employed people is the only wealth of nations,
and credit and confidence may profitably employ the
people of Ireland, without compelling them to wander
out of their own kingdom.. The very face of the coun-
try itself will assume a happy appearance ; the people will
be stimulated to industry, and eventually respectability
and comparative happiness will be the lot of the very poor-
est tiller of the wretched con-acre. It is scarcely worth ob-
serving that the proprietors of Joint Stock Banks partici-
pate themselves in the benefits which they confer on the
community. All the Scotch Banks, with only one
exception, have become extremely rich by affording
means of profitable work to the industrious classes of
society. A safer investment of money cannot be
than in establishments wherein a great portion of the
tangible property of the country is responsible for
its security, and the profits -of banking al ays pay
a high rate of interest on the capital invested in them,
and, in many. instances, have added largely to the
capital stock itself. Such is the nature of the pro-
posed National Bank of Ireland ; and we can only
add, that under an active management and proper
regulations, it must be eminently successful.

The Irish Clergy will not, we trust, become the
dupes of their political advisers here. There has been
a meeting at Banbridge, on the 30th ult., at
which it was resolved to implore their friends in Par-
liament not to endanger the passing of the Tithe
Composition Bill. They feel that on the settlement
of the great question which agitates the whole people
of Ireland, in short the existence of the present Go-
vernment, their own protection and that of the Irish
Church altogether depend. And yet the Tories and
Radicals seem to vie with each other in zeal to put
it out of the power of the Government to carry any
Bill which is likely to establish the peace and security
of the country.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, TUESDAY, JULY 8.

HO USE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty minutes past 12 o'clock.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.

Upon the motion of Mr. ORD, the House resolved itself into a
Committee of the whole House on this Bill, Mr. BANNERMAN in
the Chair.

Mr. BERNAL, on the 2d clause being read, objected
to it, on the ground that it compelled Friendly So-
cieties to keep a double account, and was an unnecessary inter-
ference with their internal arrangements.
31r. ORD supported the clause as it stood.
After a few words from Mr. Wilks, Mr. Pryme, and Mr.
Baines,

Mr. BERNAL consented to withdraw his objections to the
clause, which was then agreed to, as it stood originally.
Clause 3 was agreed to without remark. Clause 4 was agreed
to, with a verbal amendment, suggested by Mr. Jervis. After a
few words from Mr. Hawes, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Slaney, Mr. Ruth-
yen, and Mr. Ord, Mr. Wilks proposed an amendment, which re-
quired the barrister to certify as to the soundness of the tables
upon which the society proposed to act.
Mr. ORD opposed the amendment because the tables required
to be of different kinds to suit the different parts of the country.
The amendment was then withdrawn on the understanding that
the sth clause should also be withdrawn.

Mr. JERVIS suggested an amendment for the purpose of sav-
ing expense. It provided that the barristers should not be paid a
guinea for the amendment of any rule upon which the fee had been
paid within three years.
The sth clause was withdrawn. The remaining clauses were
then agreed to.
Mr. ORD proposed a new clause, excluding the members of
trades' unions from the benefits of the Bill. Heagreed to that clause
which had been pressed upon him, because he thought those
unions were as near dissolution as the best friends of the working
classes could desire.

Mr. HARDY opposed the clause as'also did Mr. SLANEY.
Mr. ORD said, as he found the feeling of the House against the
clause, he would withdraw it ; and promised to bring it up again,
if any number of Members should think it an improvement.
Lord HOWCK was afraid that it would have a very bad effect
if they were to legalize unions and associations by that Bill. The
clause, as it then stood, was rather too general ; and he concurred in
its withdrawal at present ; but he hoped it would be better consi-
dered, and brought up with the report.
Mr. BAINES agreed with the observations of the Noble Lord.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY also agreed in the propriety of postponing
the clause, which was then withdrawn.
A clause was added, requiring the societies to send lists of the
sick and aged upon their funds to the barrister, to be by him
transmitted to the Secretary of State.
Another clause was added, allowing the communications between
the societies and the barrister to pass through the Post-office free.
Mr. FOSTER proposed a clause to regulate the investment of
the funds of the Society.
After a few words from Mr. Ord, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Attwood,
and Mr. Baines, the gallery was cleared for a division, when there
appeared— _

For the clause 2l
Against it 3O
Majority against the clause —9
When we were admitted we found the SPEAKER in the Chair.
The Report was brought up, and ordered to be taken into further
consideration on Monday.
It being three o'clock, the SPEAKER left the chair.

The Dungarvan Election Committee met yesterday
at 11 o'clock, and shortly afterwards came to the following re-
solution :—" Resolved, that Ebenezer Jacob, Esq., is duly
returned to serve in this present Parliament as a burgess for
the town and borough of Dungarvan, in the county of Water-
ford, and that the petition against the return and the opposi-
tion to it are neither frivolous nor vexatious."

Miss Phillips will embark at Portsmouth about the
29th inst. for New York, and is expected to make her appear-
ance at the Park Theatre in September. She is now in her
22d year, having made her debut in London before she was 16,
in Miss Mitford's beautiful tragedy of Rienzi. During the six
seasons Miss Phillips has been in London, she has been emi-
nently successful in all the leading characters of tragedy.
There are now in the House of Peers more than
sixty noblemen whose age exceeds the " three-score and ten
years," which the inspired writer speaks of as the usual
boundary of the life of man. By the death of Lord Wade-
house which occurred last week, that venerable nobleman,
Lord Stowell, has become the father of the House ; his Lord-
ship is now, we believe, in his eighty-ninth year. There are
many other Peers, whose age varies from eighty to eighty-five.
SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.—This undertaking is,
it seems, to end at Vauxhall ; so that, should the sanguine
views of its projectors be realised, we may expect to see this
Place, hitherto devoted to pleasure, become as much an entre-
pot of sugar-hogsheads, and other objects of mercantile traffic,
as Thames-street itself.
A new loco-motive engine, from the foundry of
Messrs. George Forrest and Co., Vauxhall-road, Liverpool,
was tried on Monday on the railway. It made the journey
from Liverpool to Manchester in 67 minutes, and brought back
the first class train in 77 minutes ! This powerful and rapid
engine is intended for the Dublin and Kingstown railway.
8T RA WBE RR IliS.--The extent of land cultivated
for strawberries has been much increased within a few years,
and has been estimated at more than a thousand acres for the
supply of London alone. The women employed in gathering
and conveying strawberries to London cannot be estimated at
less, during the time they are in season, than two thousand.
POPULATION OF ENGLAND.—The state of our
population makes it necessary to adopt, without loss of time,
efficient measures for increasing the productiveness of our
soil. In 1801, 9,100,000—in 1831, 14,000,000—in 1861,
22,000,000. If the rate of increase which has prevailed for
30 years past be continued for 30 years more, England and
Wales will then contain twenty-two millions of inhabitants ;
being eight millions more than are now supported with diffi-
culty. Unless, therefore, the produce of the soil be made to
increase in a similar ratio, that is, unless the acre which now
bears 20 bushels of wheat be made to bear 35 bushels, the im-
portation of foreign corn must go on increasing in a propor-
tionate ratio, and a great part of the bash of this kingdom be
sent into other countries,