The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

APPOINTMF..NTS.

Commander—H. N. Denham, 1835 (additional) to the
Royal Sovereign yacht, at Pembroke, for surveying or 'tidal
engineering.
Lieutenants—George Marriott (from the Fdru2aable),
Frederick Robinson, and Walter J. Pollard (additional), to
the Penelope ; Thomas Davies (b), to the America ; Wm.
Morris, to the Tortoise ; A. Woodley, from tb.e Growler to
the Gorgon, vice Story, coining home in tha Pearl ; J. W.
Whyte, to the Ringdove.
Mates—Chas. H. Young, to the Prometheus; H. Bain-
bridge, to the St. Vincent; J. J. 0. F. Oarmichael,- to the
Excellent.

Midshipman—J. Maitland, from the St. Vincent to the
Lucifer.

Masters' Assistants—Frank Inglis, from the Victory to the
Dee ; T. R. Collingwood, to the Victory.
Assistant-Surgeon—J. D. Hooker (additional), to the
William and Mary, for special service.
Mr. W. F. Tarrant (late of the Beagle), passed his .exami-
nation for a Master, R.N., on Tuesday, at the Trinity-house.

Is moral principle so utterly extinct in the British
Parliament, that not one of its Members evinces sufficient in-
tegrity, or possesses the common honesty to protest against
the flagitious robbery contemplated ha the condscation of the
small remnant of right which the avarice of landlords has
left to the poor of England in their native sell ? Can it ba,
that the power of doing wrong with present impunity has sc
deadened the feeling of shame for the meanness of plunder-
ing, and so completely extinguished every spark of genero•
sity, and sense of manly pride in the' aristocracy, that not
one of its body shrinks from the intiuny indissolubly bound
with the act of spoliation projected by the parents and sup-
porters of Lord Worsley'a Bill? It would appear so, from
the facility with which this unnecessary, indefensible, and
most odious measure, has passed through its second stage ;
and that we are now to witness the further augmentation of
overgrown estates, by the annexation of every patch, strip,
iandng es
uhp
ir shred t
y of
o f
lantt which has hitherto escaped the maraud-
ing landlords, and assisted the over-taxeC,
over-worked, and more than half-starved labourers and cot-
tagers, in the preservation of their miserable existence. For
the vast mess of the population—for all, in fact, who da not
actually occupy as owners and tenants—this Bill, the me-
ment it becomes a statute, severs every tie that connects
them with the land of their birth. They have no longer any
claim upon it ; it has no longer any cfaim upon them. ft
belongs to those who have taken possession of it in the exer-
cise of their power as legislators, and all others are tres-
passers and aliens. Bit by bit, and parcel by parcel, the
landlords have seized upon the property of the people, with m...
advantage even to themselves correspondent to the amount ',xi
pauperism which they have engendered. And it is not ;be
least remarkable feature of these acts of robbery, that each
has been preceded by an affectation of sympathy for th,A pocr,
and a protestation that the deed was intended to give thew
additional employment. Every successive act of rol,ii)ery by
means of Inclosure Bills, whether private or publi;;; has been
defended on precisely the same grounds, and eve,q, sucke6eive
Act has left the people eventually in a worse ce;ndition than
before. Private estates have accumulated, tvid in the same
proportion the means of general subsister.celhave decreased.
i We have at once the wealthiest aristocracy, and the greatest
number of hopelessly destitute, that cw 4 be found in any
country of which the soil is abundantly capable of sustaining
its entire population. Look on the subject in what light
soever we may, a melancholy plcturva is presented of a free
people degraded into slaves, and 4 riAmpant aristocracy Neal-
lowing in wealth, which bas h, den iv xumulated by abase per
version of their power as legislators S. Men condemn the act
of the highwayman, who, strong in weapons of destruction,
I plunders unarmed travellers ; yet, the seizure of the rights of
the weak by any act of power whatever, is substantially the
same. The name alone makes t'he difference ; and, if this or
any other Bill of a like nature for the general inclosure of
common lands become a law, let him that is endowed with
inexhaustible patience endeavour: to discover the actual dif-
' ference between a house of lane,iortio and a den of thieves.—
' Morning Advertiser.