The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-11 00:00:00

thus reduced-700 hogsheads of Surinam sugars
were sold on Saturday at Of or 9 groots, a less de-
pressed rate than might have been expected.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
When a man in the situation of Mr. Peel is
actuated by a sincere desire of promoting the
public good, and his intentions are not paralysed
by lack of talents or application, we cannot over-
estimate the advantage which the nation derives
from him. A Minister is like a light set on a hill,
the eyes of all are fixed on him,and when it happens
that the ambition of a Minister takes a useful
direction, those truths which might for genera-
tions have received no beneficial application, at
once strike deep root in the national mind. We
have no hesitation in acknowledging, that were
his labours to stop with his speech of Thursday
night, he has already conferred an invaluable bene-
fit on the country. Willingly do we pardon the am-
bition to fill the office, when it has for object to asso-
ciate his name with the permanent improvement of
his country. We have seldom heard a speech on
a subject embracing so many particulars, to
which so little in the way of objection can he
urged. Its characteristic is good sense, and ex-
emption from prejudice. It not unfrequently
happens to Reformers that they run into the Op-
posite extreme of the evil which they wish to re-
medy ; but it would be difficult to find any poi.-
tion of Mr. Peel's speech of which it could be
said that it betrayed a zeal without judgment.—
lie Is the very man to carry through an exten-
sive judicial reform, because he steps with such
caution that he can hardly ever be driven from
his ground. As he advances he will naturally
become more confident, and the public, in
return, will be more disposed to repose
confidence in him. Mr. Peel accounted very
well for the very defective state of our
Legislature. The great business in Parlia-
ment has been, not legislation, but party strife, or
the criticism of the measures of Administration.
lii fact, there are but few Members of a popular
Legislature, like ours, who can be supposed
equal to the business of Legislation ; and we can-
not help thinking it not a little wonderful that
the sense of its own unfitness should not have in-
duced Parliament, Jong ago, to have appointed a
permanent qualified Counsellor, subject to its
controul, to report on all laws, previously to their
being submitted. In other States, the Govern-
ments being free from internal struggles, were
enabled to bestow more care on Legislation; and
hence, as was very truly observed by Mr. Peel,
there were very few States which were not more
advanced in this matter than ourselves.

[THE REPRESENTATIVE.]
It is a circumstance which will, we are sure,
he hailed with the greatest satisfaction among the
Irish peasantry, that their destitute and wretched
condition has at length attracted the attention of
those who have discrimination enough to point out
the evils under which they labour, and sagacity
enough to suggest a remedy. Of this we cannot
adduce stronger evidence than that which is con-
tained in a speech made upon this subject by the
Earl of Darnley on Thursday night. his noble
and enlightened Peer, as most of our Readers
must be aware, is intimately connected with Ire-
land. lie is, in fact, the owner of 30,000 acres
of the land on which about 20,000 of the seven
millions are fed. lie stated that, 46 without any
fear of contradiction, he could assert the condi-
tion of the slave in the West Indies to
be by no means so bad as the condition of the I
peasant in the West of Ireland."—We take I
it for granted, that the Noble Peer to whore!
we have alluded, is one of the few Irish proprie-
tors who constantly reside upon their estates,who
are indefatigable in promoting the improvement
of their own property,while they humanely adopt
every means of ameliorating the condition of
their tenantry ; he is, we take it for granted,
one of the few landlords who can speak of the
Irish peasantry from personal experience, and
does not depend for his information upon the re-
ports of agents and factors. And when his Lord-
ship de.cribea the condition of the Irish pea-
sant as infinitely more wretched than the state
of the West India slave, his description is
applicable, not, we presume, to his own te-
nantry, hut to the tenants of less considerate
land-owners, who have deserted their estates. We
shall not, therefore, dispute with his Lordship
about the fact : livingly constantly in Ireland, he
has seen with his own eyes, the condition of the
peasantry; and we cannot impugn a statement
advanced upon such authority. But, admitting
the evil to be as grievous and extensive as his
Lordship represents, we were rather surprised
when he proceeded to recommend Catholic Eman-
cipation as the panacea which alone can remove
the grievances of the Wish peasantry. Catholic
Emancipation may place Lord Killeen in the House
of Commons, and substitute silk for the stuff which
now covers the learned backs of Messrs. O'Connell
and Shiel ; but how this measure can employ,
feed, or clothe the " seven millions," is, we ac-
knowledge, a mystery which we cannot fathom.
We cannot comprehend the connexion between
the evil and the means by which it is to be
remedied. If lie had said, " I recommend other
Irish proprietors to follow my exempie, live
among their tenants, employ them as domes.
tics, and artisans, and labourers, and thus sup.
ply them with food and clothing," we could have
followed the chain of his reasoning; we could
have perceived, or, at least, imagined that we
perceived, a connexion between the effect an-
ticipated and the cause which is expected to
produce it," 44 all that Mr. Macculloch can say
to t:ie contrary notwithstanding." We shall,
however, be guilty neither of the incivility nor
disrespect of saying that his Lordship must be
mistaken. We shall content ourselves, at pre.
sent, with observing, that if concession of a seat
in the House of Commons to my Lord Killeen,
and if a silk gown to the Dublin Counsellors,
should allay the hunger or clothe the nakedness
of the 44 peasantry," this most extraordinary
effect can arise from such a cause in that country
alone, in which, it is said, guns may be
found
capable of shooting round a corner.

[MOII/4ING Iit:BALD.)
We have noticed of rote's failing off in the
number of bankruptcies. WO are g.t'ad of this