The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-03 00:00:00

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country ; a class of men who, not as Legislators
only, but as proprietors of the soil, hare had
the power of immediately controuling, the 'cps
toms and practices of land tenure. Is it just
that these men should for so long period sanc-
tion, and after they had ceased to sanction, per-
mit, through indolence or inattention, the conti-
nuance of the ancient practices of land-11°151g
and land-inheriting, and then suddenly retrace
their steps, and 'turn their tenants by thousands.
out of their houses ; thus, by the very num-
bers ejected, choking at once all. the possible
channels in which the unfortunate people might
lave found some other trade or employment.' -
-We repeat it, the people of England' are entitled
either to a suspension of the intercourse with
Ireland, or, if the intercourse be- continued, to
lie secured againt the destitution, famine, and
disease, poured in on them from !that country,
and the addition to their burthens from the num-
bers thrown by emigration on the parishes:—
This is not a question which is to be eluded by
the wise saws of Mr. William Lamb. How
are the people of England to be secured from
Ireland ? If emigration, at the expence of
England, relieve the present pressnre, what gua-
rantee can the people have that the . evil will not
be of immediate recurrence ? Perhaps the Irish
Paupers will take Mr. William:Lamb's advice,
and become rigidly economical, and enduring,
persevering, industrious, and so forth, abandon-
ing their old habits. Perhaps the cottier system
will be destroyed, and cabins will no longer be
let to people who pay their rents by their mi-
grations to England. Credat Judeirts Appella.
You cannot count on the prudence and fore-
sight of a man who is already so low that, he
cannot fall lower. Prudence and forethodght only
exist where men dread the loss-of advantages of

which they are in possession. How and in
what manner the people- of
_England can ie-

cured against immigrations from-Ireland, except
by the agency of poor laws in frelan d, we are at
a loss to discover. We admit thy' they would
be of difficult execution in the out c. _ We ad-
mit that the landlords would suffer severely from
them ; and (though the evil has-been produced
by the landlords themselves) we would recom-
mend that, for a certain number. of years, a
grant should be made out of the taxes. in the way
of relief—say for 10 or 12 lyears--the sum
g.,..anted to stiffer a diminution eMy year. By
(living, the people a claim on theland, 'the land-
ford would have the most powerful of all motives
for preventing the growth of paupers on his
grounds. People cannot live ,eveir in Ireland;
without hovels ; and landlords, when chargeable
with the poor, would take care to keep down the
number of hovels or cabins. Sir John New-
port talked of the absence of a, resident gentry
in Ireland ; but the good of • Poor-Laws wouh-I
be, that landholders would find it for their is-
Iciest not to be absentees. When estates are
possessed in both islands, those in one can be
disposed of, in order to have the whole,toge-
then There is no hardship in this:• But be ,
this as it may, the welfare of the body of the
people of the two islands must not be sacrificed
to fanciful considerations.— Morning Chronicle.
• The short debate which toOlt place the other
,
evening on presenting tne petitions of the
Hackney-coach Owners to the House of Com-
mons, coupled with the state of so many of the
public vehicles, prove, we apprehend, beyond a
doubt, the propriety, the necessity', 'and the po-
licy, of doing away altogether with that 'most
:iseless of all public Boards, the Hackney-coach
Commissioners, and throwing the supply of

coaches, chariots, cabriolets, 'B:re.''open to ,who-
ever may think proper to take out- licenses and
alund;er plates fOr that purpose. In short, let
these vehicles, all over the kingdom, be piit un-
der precisely the same, or as 'nearly as circum-
stances will admit, the same regulations as stage-
coaches—which have gone on;" year after year,
improving under a free trade, 'just in the same
!,)roportion as the former have deteriorated under
,a restricted one.—Morning Herald.

When the Battersea Enclosure Bill was first
proposed, we deprecated it as another instance of
encroachment on the few open spaces that 'remain
in the neighbourhood of London for the health
and recreation of its inhabitants. We are glad
that the jealousy of Parliament was excited to-
v;ards this Bill, and that it his been thrown out.
It would have been well for this country, in all
its local interests, if by far the greater proportion
'of the Private Bills which have passed into laws
during the last twenty year had met a' similar
fate. There is no branch of jobbing in Elia-
land carried to a more vicious extent than the
Private Bill system. It had become an intoler-
able grievance. Until lately' tbose things called
Private Bills were seldom inquired into. by the
Members of the Legislature in general, and
formed no topic of discussion with any but those
-who were interested in' whatever projects such
Act of Parliament were necessary to sanction ;
W 1 the persons whose rights "such things went
td abridge, or even to annihilate, used to remain
quite- supine while the engrossed parchment
which srus to give the force,of law to the sordid
and rapac&Nis desires of a few confederate indi-
viduals wa Gassing quietly through the forms of
s
Parliamentary enactment. We know nothing, and
care to know nottis.inp,, of the manner in which the
Battersea Enclosure Bill was.concocted; it is suffi-
eient for us to understand that its object waSto make
the advantages of open prospect and wholesome
air still more scarce tliart they at present are in
the neighbourhood of the metropolis. ,'But cer-
tainly Enclosures Bills, in general, have been
„the richest sort of jobs for those who. have had
Any thing to do in the manufacture of, them.
Tl always pay well to the attorneys, the laud-
surveyors, and other persons concerned ;
:whether such Bills succeed or fail, they are sure
Its be pre: luctive of enormous bills of costs.
Gt eat credit is due to Mr. Alderman Thompson,
and the other I`,.lembers who supported him, for
the resolute and uncompromising resistance
which they gave to the Battersea Enclosure Bill.
They ha.z.-e done good, not only in this' .particuP
lar instance, but tey have also afforded an
ample which will have a I.4ceful effect-in encou-
raging persons whtse rights'may be at, stake, in
other es to come forward, as the.inhabitants
of l its neighbourhoOd did,,t,-;, excite
a tim • 'opposition in Parliament to such thing,3,
It has been too much the practice, until very lately,
to allow Private Billseo pass sub silentio ; and
the consequence has been, that the evil has not
been exposed until it was WO late to be remedied.
The question of how far the in.rodUction of ;a
modified poor-rate into Ireland might tend to
the tranquillization of that country, is one which
merits grave and deliberate investigation. We
are by no means prepared WI pronounce, exsti-
iiiedra, on so complicated a subject, nor do we
think that the public, any more than ourselves,
are in possession of data sufficiently authentic
whereon to found a sound judgment. At the
first blush of the subject we should be inclined
go along with Mr. Peel ; and allowing all the