The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-13 00:00:00

They excite suspicion in some quarters, and
disapprobation in others. An open, manly,
and straight-forward course best becomes the
claims and pretensions of the Protestant Dis-
senters.

The Frankfort papers mention that a part of
the Poles who had been ordered to quit the
Canton of Berne, had obtained passports from
the French legation, and all taken their depar-
ture with the exception of four.
Some extensive beds of coal have been dis-
covered in Greece.

VIENNA, MAY 2.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99
Four per Cent., 89 ; Bank Shares, 1,262. —Allge.
meine Zeitung, May 7.

The French papers of Sunday state, that the
whole budget 1,009,008,531 f. (40,368,341/.
sterling) has been agreed to by the Chamber
of Deputies. Letters from Barcelona state
that General LLAUDER was raising a corps of
volunteers in Catalonia. The Swiss Govern-
ment have, it appears, resolved that the
peaceable refugees shall be allowed to remain
in Switzerland.

Accounts from Barcelona to April 30, state
that the Carlist faction of Arragon has been
defeated and dispersed by Donna MARIA'S
army in Catalonia with the loss of 600 killed
and 200 prisoners.

Mr. -CAVENDISH, brother to the Earl of
BURLINGTON, will start for Derbyshire. No
opposition is anticipated.

The Brussels Papers of the 11th inst. state,
that M. CASSIMIR PERRIER, who, as Chief
Secretary of Legation, will fill ad interim the
post of Minister Plenipotentiary during the
absence of Count de LATOUR MAUBOURG,
arrived there on the 10th.

A letter from Liege of the 9th of May, states,
that there had been an explosion of fire-damp in
a coal-mine, at Val Bensit, by which four or
five men were killed, and several others severely
wounded.

It was to be expected that a Bill, the object
of which is to lay the axe to the root of cor-
ruption, should be virulently assailed ; and that,
under the guise of humanity to the poor, those
interested in the mal-administration of the
Poor-rates in every parish would be loud in
their exclamations against the reform. That the
persons interested in the mal-administration
of the poor laws in every parish are
extremely numerous, no one conversant
with parochial affairs will for a moment
deny. Let the rate payers be upon their
guard, let them but put these questions to
themselves :

How much of the poor rates are, in our
parish, distributed acknowledgedly to pay the
rent of rooms, in small tenements, by which
means the landlord secures to himself an
enormous rental, the speculation afford-
ing a return of twenty-five or thirty per cent.
on his capital, and as the house is tenanted by
la pauper, whose means of paying the exorbi-
tant rent to the landlord is solely derived from
the poor-rates, through the medium of out-
door relief, the house is struck out of the as-
sessment, thereby still further increasing the
burden of those who do pay the rates ?
Again, let the rate-payers in every parish ask
themselves this question : Hob much of the poor-
rates in this parish are immediately squandered at
the neighbouring gin palaces ? And here again
another host of opponents to the proposed re-
form rise before our view in the shape of pub-
licans, brewers, gin distillers, &c. &c.
Let the rate payers, and above all, let the
poor themselves beware of such supporters, they
are directly interested in the abuses which
the bill will put an end to. We have no
dread of an opposition to the amendments from
the poor themselves,—who will soon perceive
that if their wages have been reduced by the
mal-administration of the poor-laws, and that
the remedies proposed in thePoo'r Laws' Amend-
ment Bill have, wherever they have been tried,
elevated their condition by increasing the remu-
neration for the daily labour they perform, that
instead of grinding down the poor and making
the whole labouring population a herd of
paupers, the proposed remedies, wherever
tried, have effected an immense improvement in
the moral and social condition of the labour-
ing poor, they will approve of the proposed
change in the law. We need only refer to
those parishes where this has been ef-
fected, which are quoted in the remarks on the
Poor Laws' Amendment, Bill, by Mr. LESLIE,
published in our paper of Saturday and yes-
terday (and which pamphlet, we perceive by the
advertisement, is in course of publication by
RIDGWAY), to show the advantages to the
poor themselves from the proposed plan.
We call the attention of the rate-payers
generally, and of the eastern end of the metro-
polis in particular, to the following evidence
given by practical men of that locality,
as to the evils of the existing system.
The remedies proposed by these gentlemen to
avert the dreadful calamities which the mal-
administration of the Poor Laws has entailed
on the ratepayers, will be found in strict acr
cordance with the evidence of all practical
men on the subject, and also with the Govern-
ment measure, which therefore deserves the
warm support of the intelligent rate payers
throughout the country, and of the metropolis U

particular :
" The conclusion of most examinations of witnesses
in the deeply-pauperized districts is usually of the
following tenor :
(The parish officers of the parish of Bethnal Green,
London, examined :)
" Mr. Hooker,—' My trade is declining ; so is the
trade of my neighbours. From year to year my re-
turns are less ; so are theirs ; and respectable people
are leaving the place, which makes it still worse.
" The condition of your parish being such as you
describe, sunk deep in debt, if not absolutely bank-
rupt; houses deserted in consequence of the pressure
of the rates ; the pressure increasing ; rents declin-
ing, and ruin impending ; what remedies have pre-
sented themselves to the minds of those who govern
the parish ? what new courses are they prepared to
I take?—l do not know; I have not heard of anything;
we cannot do anything ; we must depend on Provi-