The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-04 00:00:00

the detaileneb b,
alsct the, ftre:o. e v f
own observation arid eirrient:c, ‘te are o opinion
t_. e and -.which a tirtieyedarop:7lll
is susceptible. 04. a; Ore
ment j-that, many of the eollllnaind" r
d and tirat
are
l.atheattrotphoelipsresent state of the suipdPieeetiortZtictrobtero'
quality of -die WelOr
"trictions as
iefirms"otetirces then those
ought to be derived trot:pelt}
now resorted to, and guarded by
shallot all times ensure its cleanliness an
1 approve'
Your Committee cannot but una7111"" ).
issioners,
these
,sentiment and opinions-of the t_74/Tln,
that the supply of water for the metropoll"-iru,sur_r:
the borough of Southwark and the ledji It I; "e:t
should be derived from a purer source than .
purity."
present; and iit furtherance of tlti, object, they re-
corns-vend drat Mr; Telford be instructed to procecd
to the Malting such StiiVeys as he shall -think ne-
cessary, in ovi_er to eialtbla Wirt td recommend a
practicable and ellicaciolis fslati of Atipplying the
whole of the metropolis ,with pure dill
water.
Your Committee, have further proceeded to in,
quire into the amount of rates paid by the inhabitants;
as compared with those paid at the periOd when
the former Select Committee investigated this sub-
Ottexe)
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to their report. • .
In observing neon this vary imPOrtaiii
your Committee will take for the basis of their fitti,
ceedings the able report of the Select Committer.'
appointed in 1821, in which, after a West full aiid
laborious investigation into the whole detail of the
income and expenditure of the various 'Water Com;
+lronies, that Committee. observe, ". That the publiC
is fit present Ni..itlieqt tiny. pi-ot.eqion even against a
further indeemite extension df derntind;..;!n cases, of
B
dispute there is no tribunal but . the oatti:a.of
Companies themselves to which individuals cats ;r.
peal ; there are no regulations but such as the Com-
panies may have voluntarily imposed tilmit them-
selves, and may therefore at any time fevoke, for
the continuance of the supply in its present state,
or for defining the Cases in which it may be with--
drawn from the householder. All these points, and
others of the same nature, indispensably require le-
gislative regulation, where the subject matter is an
article of the first necessity; and the supply has,
front peculiar circumstances, got into such course
that it is not tinder the operation.of those principles
Which govern supply and den-land in other eases.
" The principle of the acts under which these
companies were instituted was to encourage compe-
tition ; and certainly, in this, as in other cases, it is
only from competition, or the.expectation of compe-
tition, that a perfect security can be had for a good
supply : but your Committee are satisfied, that from
the peculiar nature of these undertaking, the prin-
ciple of competition requires to be guarded by par-
ticular checks and limits in its application to them,
in order _to render it effectual, without the risk of
destruction to the competing parties, and thereby
ultimately of a. serious injury to the public ;" and
the Committee proceed to remark, " The submission
of their accounts annually to Parliament for a few
years would necessarily throw light on this part of
the question."
From the general tenour of the Report it should
also appear, that the Committee considered the rates
of 1821, which included the increase of 23 per cent.
'upon the rental of 1810, as sufficient- to remunerate
the arious companies at that period ; but an inspec-
tion of the present returns shows that a gradual in-
crease has taken place, amounting to no less than
44,0001. per annum to those companies who derive
their supplies from the north side of the river Thames.

It must also be remarked, that there is no scale of
rates existing, or any criterion by which .your Com-
mittee can form a judgment upon am reasonableness
of the rates imposed; no two companies appear to
agree in their mode of rating : on the contrary, as
the amount is unlimited, so is the proportion alto-
gether uncertain; it is not regulatei tither by the
quantity of water consumed, or by the distance to
which it is conveyed, but appears to be in every in-
stance left solely to the agents of the different- com-
panies to charge as they shall think fit.
'With respect to the new table of rates, alleged in
the petition of the inhabitants of the western parts
of the metropolis to hare been introduced into a
private Bill passed in May, 1826, empowering the
Grand Junction Company to levy an addition of
from 50 to 300 per cent. upon their customers, your
Committee have examined the Chairman of the said
company thereupon, who states, that the said new
table of rates, levying a partial and oppressive 'tax
upon the inhabitants of the district, -was at the time
introduced contrary to their wishes, and that they are
desirous that it should berepealcd. Your Committee
therefore recommend the immediate repeal of the said
clause.

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In conclusion, your Committee have only to ob-
SerVe, that the late period of the Seision at which
they were appointed precludes them from entering
more fully into the subject of the investigation, par-
ticularly so far as regards that most important part
of their inquiry—the inequality of the. rates; but
they trust,, in recommending the immediate employ-
ment of Mr. Telford in the object view, and also
the repeal of the obnoxiOns clause in the Grand
Junction Company's Act of 1526, they have, as far
as circumstances would permit, fulfilled the duties
committed to their charge.
July 19.

SNIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

TUESPIAY, Sm. 2.—High water 26 milt. past five...-.
Wind B.N.E.—Arrivesi the Pauline, Joosens, from Ant-
werp—Vries'and Welvaart, Van Veen, from Harlingen—
Neptunus, Roelfaoma, from Dordt—De Vrow Helena,
Winter, from Ostend—Lime Cobb, Long, from Strang-
ford—Sophia, Bakker, from Dunkirk—Britannia, Flake,
from Dantzic.

CLEARED OUTWARDS.—AIcidev, Mounscy, for Rio Ja-
neiro—Caroline, Sherwood, Valparaiso—Alexy, Wulf, St.
Petersburgh—Prcepect, Thirsby, Pernau—Arab, Athrr-
den, Valparaiso.

PRIG

The fAlorring are
from 1792-io 1826,

s. tl.
1792 - 12 11
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798 5O 3
1799 ...... 67 6
1800 ll3 7
1801 llB 3
1802
1803

According to the last census there wait-
i3o,997 inhabitants in Fermanagh, of the:,c
67,370, or more . than one-hay; were feinalc:-J.
Of the males, about 30,000, .or less than one
halt; were capable of bearing arms, that is of
the tap to be useful in the field. The total of
malos and females from 15 to .tbree score, was
e prop°.
74,655- Of these let us say that 34,000 were
:mailyabrive:atourbaebalyrilamssaurnamks'.
enfirinitersons amungst them,
rtioesntabrietAtswaenelli that
Butss n{llll/ :03,09,,y061';eiirf:
Tales ; but as there must have been sickly and
ltiite effective for the fielo.„ ~,;:,
cilia.,
Trot
~,, , .
I. and as every bry..
cf fifteen is not
the '
CalhLles'an...Ald Protest,vitalut it
CatholicsA
lin Fennatiagh.? _ csOotrding to all the authorit,
it
is three Catholic
,t7nan.,tglt, though it
There are equal has 2,089
Antrim. The same is to h 8 Protest,attt. Per- -
protestazta Part of the "North.
and - Catholics eta
is
not the
most prote ,_ 9 armed ieomanry,
e saal.ofDoW . I"
.6 one ..-
t Derry there are only two Catholics t )ro i--
'
tagant ; but in Fermanagh
d the Protestants arc
to'tbe Catholics as only' one to ti
iree. We do,
not now go upon the enumeration ' the I
in . oatilo-
'''e census. We" speak altogether
upon
1.. . .Protes
-kulliority, and authority which '. •
taut .. ..supposo,:.
that , `il Catholics of the Kiwi
the tt,. ~ 6 1 Kingdom are tu,
-41 S only to 1, though we th• '
the Protestant. •-,,, .ini-:
it could be easily
.p. d that 1 ole , they arc to, the
iishliiilant patty, at leas›,t.en to one. Assuri.
-' tlii4' the fo .‘1
itigl theft, that Fermanagh i. -. ,1 Ent t (Or
fifth tounty of Ireland in the seale;*..lrotestan t.-
ism (whatever it may be in Oratzge!6,74), aig-L
that it contains three Catholic male adults; it);:i-
Otas,:capable..of bear irg arms, for one Protestatit,
of couil& there can be - '
testeuts iii . whole county, even though it::;
yeotttatity e4r,g1„.`,2,090. Suppose half of the
population are Piote,stant, thereare 15,000 Pro-
testants capithic ._01.,J tearing arrus-but yet wr.
have it on the,,aushoritrot the Ferrnqnetii. .lic..-
porter, and the. Evening-Wail,' that thew. ,t'c'
" twenty-ejght .thousaitd' enr6lled Orangemen in,
Fermanagh:" Well irras7 'the MOriting.chron'ac.
compare the boasthq,,s a Ole Orange Press to tin:::
vapourings of. Captazu Bobtail.
Fermanagh, however, is,e very Orange county,
Be it so. And what is the effect' upon :the stair.
of society. We answer that. it has been always
kt scene of more widely, :extended criminality than
almost any, other-part of. Ireland.. A retuin of
commitments was taken ..!)`V'iorder .Of Parliathcift
. ..
one or two years ago, and It. was found that iii
Fermanagh one in every 375 was :2 presumed
criminal, while the proportions were fours:! .to be
the following in the principal Cathplie coimti4.,'
In cork
. . It 4 . 71:3 -.
Clare
itoifoid ' ' .3..0 ' : -•- Ito 866
Mari' - ' '-',"- ... . .1 to .900
Carlow - • :1 to 1,145 .. . _

So moat for the .cohorts of; Fermattagh--for
.ts moraiity-,-aitd for its Orangcism
Horning Ilekisler.

LONG HANDS.

The Latin Poet observes that Kings have long
h rods,

" lonva re9um
to signify their extensive reach of power and in.
auence ; but, like all other sublunary matters, evey
this potency has its limit. Louis XIV., to -grand
Munarque, . who did many extraordinary things,
which it had been. well if he had left undone, at
tempted one thing, according to M. Menegeovhiclt,
though perfectly
..harmless in- itself, :all- his power
tailed to aceoMplisb. He was anxious to alter at'
old term, and introduce a new word into the •Frcncli
language, but spite of his authority, and. the 'servility
of COurtiers, he could not succeed with' his other-
wise most obedient servants, who utterly rejected it.
His son was more successful, exhibiting, indeed, a
greater .power than : the Parliament of England,
which has been :called " omnipotent," being able to
de any thing except changing a man into a woman,"
for he, the Dauphin, actually changed the genders.
When a little boy, he one day cried out, " Ou est
/non Carrosso and the -Parisians—

pleased with aa
mnftesaa
ntbhuucatr
1, tickled
were so delighted with the mistake, that Carrosst-,
which had before been feminine, ever after became
masculine, and haA remained so to, this day. We
question whetherany of our Princes of Irates ever
displayed a power equal to this Do/iihin'f therefore
Juvenal was wrorg to say—
" Dc/phinis Balance Britannica major."
But to return to Kings. If Louis le Grand failed lit
little matters, so did a personage at least equaiii
great—George the Fourth. It will be remembered
how strenuously his Majesty strove, by example, to
tender
dpans•soiloune n; into fashion,
it
is Ivealls
knchoiceo‘‘,n obajnedetsfeoltf
bltilro)ie:gteiflialtdtt.erly unsuccessful was the attempt. The
Goddess has been slandered, for it is clearly untrue
that any mode adopted by the higher ranks becomes
immediately a prevalent fashion, and a sacrifice at.
her altar. This entire failure is alone enough to
vindicate the Deity against such an imputation of
tyranny. But the long hands of Kings are not only
shortened in these trifles, but in matters of much
more importance. These hands, be it understood,
are very rarely, and the Constitution says-never, the
real, identical, natural. bands of Kings--these, -in
their proper dimensions, are short and innocent
enough. It was not Richard's that strangled the
Babes in the Tower, nor the monkey's that took the
chestnut out of .the fire. The permitted power,
abused, has been at- all times the fertile cause of
such mischief and disturbance as Kings do,-or have
good reason to deplore. This delegatiotr is the long
couldin
etsihtme;um: but it can.
itieeamppeodraul,poKninthgesmwby
it
e; s andtha
tfotrhaytemr.reirfiec
IT)hands,he.ese I
are
riitetd
vthheeer
efisnnogouetrrfesoertohtfialetseseacafiAnnmqpodriduiuifesufeetttetrohahhieleceel:pe.iiiralsir:teio:‘iyeoisva_imittimodiehsKy_uurpeosiiiiioKottririhillifixpigttaieouiensn.iri.i,i:ac.drelitidttizt‘ttiht:.aolegi?ellieritirgliatiiiydiiii,i....,.l.
Nor wants that little long,"
arduridssst nienndoe thedsv vr e- this,
00rds consequence
Hence,
ainndthSeiorvpe
to blame f
themselves vebse:us Iffrioeervr. alone,it w a
rtte
e
Kjott
masters,hi
renen ge ptesooei
f fomehplcaar
twavecs'il'iri dosMab,fst,oatinrhttnihmwselyyt telldbclua with a
which cruellyt crave,his fed, let who
ercise
themselves,
cnitsuerieves,o,f
and
iichowric'ior.ib4elleerlvfidteshet‘t.ar,ieeaorbi_tleer"hearrindsupplementaryamp eaw:,
e of Its ages of misrule;
rasalbletihnigs
easily be understood, when as-
cribed palpably against their in-
terest
their auxiliary to sordid purposes.
decidedly
evil.
lt

--" dabit Dens his quoque finem,"
orfuacw, if it should so please him. Such measures
and practices must have nn end; long as these
'lands have proved themselves, it will soon he
thought necessary to shorten them, or they will be
uutthumbered in length as well as strength, and per-
adventure utterly cut 4 dr: The sucking of the Orange
over, and it must be thrown away.

The American Charge d'Affaires had an inter-
view with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the offD.c
of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Good grammar was not so much studied a.;
good cookery, be our grandmothers. At least they us,d
phrases which offend the ear of our times. One of the
worthy ladies was accosted the other day at her own
doer hy a ragged basket-girl, selling rubbing-6tonee. 66 Ga
away," said the lady, " I don't want none, not 1."
" n'am, if you don't want any, you might, at least, hate
.pokcti grammatically when saying so."— York courant.