The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

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dundanty credtc3 a disproportionate reauction.
population is now, it is true, generally cm-
Ved ; but wages are as generally low. The
weavers, for instance, during the low price of
bread, could barely subsist ; how will they be
able to subsist on their scanty pittance with
bread at a famine price ? The patience of the
Englishman, under the evils to which :he is sub-
ject, is proverbial ; but that patience will be put
to a hard trial, for which his rulers are no doubt
themselves. A writer
preparing in a Continen-
tal Review, in an able article on our army,
launches out on the admirable footing on which
it is for acting with inconceivable rapidity on
the people if necessary, and seems to think the
situation of the Government, as far as England
is concerned, a very enviable one in that respect.
Still it is prudent to keep in mind that the
people, in the manufacturing districts more par-
ticularly, will attribute their privations to the
avarice of the aristocracy of the country, who,
by annihilating the corn trade, have excluded us
from the benefit of foreign stocks during defi-
ciency at home. The foreign agriculturist has
long ceased to grow wheat for which he had no
market, and thus the stocks iu the Baltic ports
were suffered to become exhausted. This is a
consideration which will not be neglected, we
may be sure, in the approaching conjuncture.
Let us see, then, how we are situated at present.
In one quarter we hear invitation to immediate
hostilities against Russia as indispensable to the
vindication of the national honour. For our
part, we are decidedly of opinion that we are the
least open to injury from without, and are con-
fessedly the most powerful nation in Europe, as
far as the means of carrying on hostilities are con-
cerned, it becomes us therefore to be the most
patient and enduring. It is not for us to be ever-
lastingly on the alert to observe affronts, or to
show an extraordinary sensitiveness with regard
to our dignity. A nation of twenty-two millions,
with a commercial navy affording the means of
instantaneously increasing its military navy to the
extent wished for if the sacrifice were necessary,
could easily become formidable in war. The
very taunts of the French Journals are really a
tribute to our power, and indicate that sort of
eagerness to appear important, and that sort of
uneasiness with respect to the opinion of the
world, which are more often the concomitants of
doubts as to the justness of the claim, than of a
settled conviction of its validity. We do not
need to go to war, merely to show that we can
make war, in order to secure ourselves from in-
sult. When we are insulted in good earnest ;
when our possessions are attacked, or our people
injured, or redress is denied, recourse may be
had to the sword. In the case of Russia, let us
be sure of our ground before we interfere with
her. Supposing even that the Emperor Nicholas
has acted unfairly towards us—it is not every
act of injustice that. renders war imperative.
How much have we endured from Spain of late
years ? We have had even justifiable causes of
war in abundance, hut our Rulers have, in that
respect, justly considered themselves as not en-
titled to snap, as it were, at pretexts for war,
bearing in mind the dread responsibility which it
entails. But if we do rush into war—with a
population ready to mutiny for bread—and six
or seven millions in a neighbouring island deeply
exasperated against. those who would exclude
them from their constitutional rights, what may
we expect ? We do not wish to dwell on this
ticklish subject. Surely, however, our Rulers
will see the necessity of removing this charge
from 11:3.—Mt}rning Chronicle.

We lately alluded, in high terms of approba-
tion, to the Earl of Itadnor's intention of getting
rid of his gamekeepers, and of adopting a plan
which would, in all probability, do away with
much of the evil produced by the rigid exercise
of the Game Laws, while it would in no respect
diminish the fair sports of the field to the Noble
owner or his fiiends. The Noble Earl's plan
has since been more specifically announced in
circular notices, which he has directed to be
sent to his tenantry in Wiltshire, Hampshire,
Berkshire, and Gloucestershire, giving them free
permission to sport over the lands in their occu-
pation, with a right to allow or deny any person
a similar liberty, excepting only the Earl and
his sons. It is alw stipulated that a certain
quantity a game, pioportioned to the estate,
shall be sent monthly to the landlord by each
tenant. This by far the most rational plan
with regard to game that we have ever heard of,
and, as an eKpernneut, we heartily wish it sue-
To the latelowner it presents various re-
commendations, which he must be blind indeed
not to see the advantae of. It will save him
air enormous expense ;wit connects him in closer
bonds
of good undei -Landing with his tenantry,
while the Game Laws. are the source of
and estrangement ; and it gives him a body of
natural gamekeepers, who will soon render the
poacher's trade too precarious to be worth fol-
lowing. We shall be curious to learn what the
result of this experiment is;
--lough we can anti-
cipate but one result td a scheme so full of ad-
vantage, and which presents, to our minds at
least, not one objection.—Morning Herald.
Some say that Mr. Lawless, on the late occa-
sion, was made the scape-;oat of Mr. O'Cor.
nell. The latter, it has been mentioned to us,
was jealous of the former. Mr. Lawless, on
several occasions, had been a sort of illarriot
to Mr. O'Connell's own schemes, for the bring-
ing about Catholic Emancipation. When, in 1825,
Mr. O'Connell proposed those celebrated wings,
one ofwhich was to tax Protestants to pay Catholic
Clergymen, Mr. Lawless broke through and ex-
posed those wings. In various other instances,
Mr. Lawless has laid bare Mr. O'Connell's plans.
—'l'he latter, therefore (at least, so we have
heard), sent hint on a mission to the North.—
Mr. O'Connell knew that Mr. Lawless would
have to encounter a host of' foes. Mr. O'Con-
nell himself, not long since, appeared in the
North, but he did not long remain there. Now,
he well knew that, though- Mr. Lawless is a
good-natured, worthy man, yet that one of his
faults is great enthusiasm. Mr. Lawless is like
many in private life, who do the thing first, and
then reflect. So with Mr. Lawless—he plunges
into a measure without considering the conse-
quences. It is more than probable that Mr.
O'Connell knew, when he proposed that Mr.
Lawless should undertake the mission to the
causes
North, that he would fail from
olr. L,% ess,
natural z
and if he did not, yet that Iris
indiscretion would bring about a failure. After
sending Mr. L. on his ill-starred expedition, '
away goes Mr. O'Connell to the South. Mr.
Lawless has certainly done himself, individually,
no good by his expedition, nor will what ho says
hereafter at the Assembly in Dublin, be attended
to as it was, or have that weight it had. It is
singular that Mr, Lawless did not see the trap
that was laid for him ; but enthusiasm blinded
him. This journey, however, of his, and his
defeat, must have brought him to his senses, and
opened his eyes. It is in vain for the Catholics ,
of Ireland to think that they can ever again sway /

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