The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-21 00:00:00

[TIIR MORNING lIERAILD.]

We are glad to .see-that.one of the parishes at the
east-end of the town has at length been goaded into open warfare
against the iniquitous system of jobbing and local taxation, arising
out of the proeeedinga of its " Select Vestry," and that it has
been already joined in its object by two parishes in Westminster,
similarly circumstanced. The flame thus once kindled, we trust
will spread ; and that the result will be in the first Session of the
new Parliament, either a total overthrow of the system, or such a
revision of it as will at leait take from these Dogberty Legislatures
the power of self-election, and give to the rate-payers the power
of controlling and impeding the raising and expenditure of public
money. But the, truth iy, that the whole system is so rotten at
the core, that we doubt whether it is capable of any amendment,
aa4, like at house infected with the dry rot, the disease, we suspect,
toi•rinly to he remedied by its being entirely pulled down and re-
built. No system has run tu riet 1;ke• this ; while, with a reckless
disregard of pablie opinions, its profligacy has only increased as
its enormity has latanma more known and exposed,. What we would
stcommend to pedalos is, •a• joint co.operatiori on a subject
of such vital interest' hi them ell. A Committee, farmed
of one or two intelligent persoos from each parish, to meet and
compare notes, may.bring together, by the meeting of Parliament,
such a collection of flute, as can hardly fail to blow this nefarious
system into the air. In the mean time, war having been declared,
the parties will do well not to put.their adversaries before hand
into possession of theireaSe. • This, howeVer, we ere sure of, that
the result of a well-combined operation wilt be the amelioration
of the condition of the poor, the improvement of every other de-
scription of parish concerns, and a diminution of expenditure, in
ime parishes of at least ons7half, end to all a considerable saving.
Cite improvement on this subject is quite obviowi,--44.: that
instead of each parish being governed (aa is now the case through
half the metropolis at least) by local Acts—of which in one parish
there are four or five—and the law, therefore, different and un-
known on opnosite, sides of the same titreetall these toed Acts
should be at once saespt away, as being, what they really are—
but so many nuiaanefNiS' end the whole Metropolis, if not the
whole Kingdom, placed undo. one general rule and regulation
in such matters. We are aware that the formation of such
plan will belt work of. no Small labour, and will of course be
thwarted and opposed by the little trumpery Parliaments who
live and fast, and job under the existing; 4hu,ses. But a few
practical men, with the knowledge they •poliesti, 'aided as they
will he by deserters from the enemy's camp, till soon clear
away the rubbish that will at first impede them; and lay 'the
imindation of an edifice-, alike creditable to the architects them-
selvds,- SW useful to those- to IVIUMI, its occupancy will belong.

Though, generally speaking, u. man has no right to
.co plain of the result of a bargain made with his eyes open, yet
it is equallrtrao that people's eyes are not always open when they
think they are; and figticienc6 also sometimes whispers to those
who have gained an inordinate and nulooked-for advantage by a
'contract, not to {bract the pnawl of flesh, though the strict letter
of their bond may give it them. This, we think, is in some
measure the state of the case with Mr. [Olsten awl the Drury.
lane Committee. Booty one actinainted with drawbacks and
iittetuatiOns incident to theatrical property, must' hay trembled
for poor Maori when he became the lessee of the theatre. The
coot bus proved that their fears were but too well founded. But
it it reasonable, we would ask, that tin• l)tury-late owners should
now icy
,hands upon the whole property of axe lessee embarked in
the concern, merely hecaute lie Was improvident enough to sign
a lease containing so preposterous a condition ? No (me, it is
true, can deny their rights; hot rights are wrongs in some
rakes; anti we think that both Ir. Ellistou and his credit,. ►
wadi have but tog much reason to complain, should such tights
aa,a4.101 upon this occasion with top rigid a tenacity,--Ibict.