The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-23 00:00:00

Population.

England, 13,894,000 62s. 4d.
Scotland, 2,365,000 43s. 3d.
Ireland,
_ 9 lls 4d.

Our clamorous fellow-subjects of the Green Isle,
who affect to be the most oppressed of God's
creatures, and often put down intolerable taxation in
the list of their grievances, pay, man for man, just
5.4. for every 20s. paid by the people of Scotland,
and ss. for every 28s. paid by the people of Eng-
land ! The French, Austrians, Germans, Prussians,
Italian, &c. pay from 15s. to 30s. per head to the
State. It has been truly said, that the Irish are the
most lightly taxed people in Europe !
Now, let us apply Lieut. Drummond's method in
these data, in order to ascertain what number of re-
presentatives each country ought to have.
England. Scotland. Ireland.
Number expressing ratio of

.
population
Number expressing ratio of

579 099 322

taxes

8-20 097

Both numbers united

1,399 196 405

. ....
Proportion of Members due
to each country, accord-
ing to joint ratio of popu
lation and taxes

4C4

Scotland is to have 53 Members under the new
Bill, which is 211 per cent. below what is due to
her when taxes and population are united; and
Ireland is to have 105, or 26} per cent. less than
her proper share. Even on this principle, four ad-
ditional Members will bring Ireland to an equality
with Scotland; but the government of our country
costs almost nothing, while the Green Isle needs a
garrison of 20,000 regular troops, besides a costly
armed police. 'Where the expense of ruling each
country deducted from its fiscal contributions, Ire-
land would scarcely be entitled to the 100 Members
she at present returns. We wish much that some
Member would move for an account of the free re-
venue remitted to the Exchequer from Ireland, after
defraying internal expenses.
The above statement differs only in a trifling
degree from that which we published from conjec-
tural data, in our paper of 24th December.
Scotland has, all things considered, as good a
right to call for additional representatives as Ireland;
but our countrymen will not play into the hands of
their enemies, by raising foolish objections about
fractional shares of representation ! They know
better than to embarrass their friends, and risk the
entire loss of a boon, which, even as it stands, sur-
passes their expectations. We have before said,
and we repeat it, that more good would be done by
diminishing the Members for England, than by in-
creasing those of Scotland. The grand difficulty
every where is to find fit representatives—men who,
when returned to Parliament, are of any service to
those who sent them. Leaving out eloquence, a
Member requires honesty, activity, a considerable
range of knowledge, business habits, leisure, and
fortune, to render him useful to his constituents;
and at this moment, many bodies of men shortly to
be enfranchised, who are looking out for proper can-
didates, know well how few they can find who
unite these qualifications, or from whose conduct in
Parliament they have anything to expect.
At the Union, the revenue of Scotland, if we re-
member right, was to that of England as 1 to 301.
It is now nearly as 1: to S.—Scotsman.

Mrs. Waylett is endeavouring to purchase
some premises in the Savoy for the purpose of building a
theatre.—The Haymarket opens on the 15th of June with a
very strong company.—Arnold does not open till the middle of
July, and at the Adelphi instead of the Olympic, as announced.
—Covent-garden and Drury.lane close July a _ _

Poor Kean owes the wreck of his splendid
genius to Lord Essex. His Lordship once lectured him upon
the beauties of sobriety, and conjured him never again to get
drunk. From that hour, poor Kean was never sober.
The anti-Reformers, in honour of the most
pugnacious of their supporters, are now called by many persons
"The Croakers,"