The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-15 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There seems to be a tremendous noise now making
in Dublin, upon a subject which has, pro ter pore,
superseded the treat of Limerick, the repeal of the
Union, the Catholic Association, and an hundred
others- A "i'aestion has arisen of and concerning a
cominerci'si or banking establishment, called the
Hiber.nian Joint Stock Company : one paper, tkt-
trAs just seven columns touching a public ;fleeting
which was held upon this Bank, four toluunis being
a report of speeches, and three a istanment Or article
thereon ; but, strange to roily, we can 'decline quite
solemnly, that after an attventive perusal both of text
and comment, we cannot undentand a single syllable
of the matter really in dispute,—viz., whether the
said Joint Stock Citiv!pany ought or ought not to be
dissolved : anal vsliy ? It appears that a consider-
able number the shareholders have petitioned Par-
'lament to dissolve the Company, and (we believe)
to obtain, for them, the petitioners, a restitution of
the tntiney Illicit they had advanced for their shares ;
thiq an Act is in progress for effecting those objects,
end is supported by Sir George Hill (an ugly name
we confess), Mr. Lamb, and other personages, Nsssis,
as we have said already, it is altogethc; .isarsossibie
to discover, or even to guess, tst#m the furious
partisanship of O'Conv:ll's statements, and of
those made by the ilmblin editor, what are the
grounds on wislich the petitions for dissolving
the Compassy, with the consequent Act of Pa:,
liarnent, }save proceeded. Hints, we can coßect, have
been enrown out of misconduct in the Directors,—
sueli as fraudulent representation, unwarranted pur-
chases of depreciated stock, illegal issues of un-
stamped tokens, and so forth. Moreover, it turns
shit that the shares, originally—that is, three yeakS
ago—worth 251., have since fallen so low as 17i, lbs.
Like every thing else (with few exceptiont) 'that has
been attempted in Ireland, vast prottslses were is-
sued from this Hibernian banking concern ; large
and lofty views were desse}oped,—a mighty surface
was measured out, ans's a prospectus of exploits and
advantages almost unheard of in the circulation of
coin and paw, was exhibited. But it would not
do : the performance being Irish as well as the plan,
has fs.7lled, or the parties would not have fallen out
among themselves, and one set of them put forth so
loud a hue and cry after their evaporated specie.
Two other circumstances are likewise observable to
an English reader of these vagaries. Even upon the
management of a bank, the discussion assumes the
most violent political character; and by way of
guarantee for its absurdity as wellas violence, Coun-
sellor O'Connell plays the most conspicuous part.
We would ask these demagogues—ls this a time to
divert the at Sention of the Irish nation from the great
and tr.nscendant question of their religious ar.d
rigl'ta ?—Times.

The advantage of institutions which give the
peopie a controal in the management their own
affairs over absolute, arbitrary, -and irresponsible
power, with which the peoVle 'cannot interfere ex-
cept by revolutionary violtnce, .was never better,
illustrated than in the result of the late French
(Actions. By changing their deputies, eye electors
of France changed the Ministers a the Crown ;
and with the change of Ministers, altered the entire
system of administration.. The censorship of the
press has been since abolished—the influence of the '
Jesuits has-been rheeked—ahe frauds and despo-
tism of the Prefects have been denounced end
curbed--encouragement has been giver; to primary
education, and curbed--encouragement
to its advancement re-
moved : public lecturerS, eminent for their literary
qualifications, and distinguished for their eloquent
pretensions, whose courses had been eutrended for
the last five years, have been agaitt permitted to re-
sume their labours in the university—every depart-
ment of the internal administration,has been put in
a train of it-aprovernent, and the foreign policy
of France has become so liberal at •ro merit
suspicion both in Madrid and Cabo& - Had
not the voice •of the nation been heard
through the electoral colleges,- 'the, prejudices
of the Court would still have' 'directed the
measures of the Ministry, and a rapid tendency
towards the old regime would :have been impressed
upon the €overnment. The present Cabinet, pur-
.wug the only course whirl the feelings of the
Chambers and the necessities of the position allow
them, have, on account of the recent changa of sys-
become the objects of violent attack with the
partisans of the late Ministry, And the inmates or
frequenters of the Palace.. Every day we find whole
eoluttnis of the Gaaettt tic France filled With ex.
pee,sions of alarm at the alleged revolutionary pro-
ceedings of the Government, and the democratic
speeches of the Deputies At ene tithe they are
accused of attempting to destroy the necessary in-
fluence of the Prefects by eVing the regular tris
bunals of justice a jurisdiction in questions of elec-
toral abuses; at anotker time, they are charged
with endangering the. monarchy and religion, by re-
moving the salutary restraints imposed on the lieeti-
tiousne±,s of the press, The praises which the Mie
ulster, sometimes reciprocate with the Liberals, or
the etanfideneewhieh theymutuallyrepose in each other,
are aggravated into crimes; some of them are accused
of supporting revolutionary doctrines in foreign jour-,
nals, and e. en an innocent mass lately "said or sung"
for the soul of Napoleon, is construed into a proof
of ttreir connivance at treason against the Bourbons.
Rancour and uncundid insinuations on one side, ne-
regsarilv lead to violent recriminations on the other;
but, judging from the style of discussion-employed,
and the nature of the doctrines advanced by the
Constitutional party, there seems very little ground
for apprehension to the most loyal supporter of the
monarchy. Haviug obtained a power which they
never have been able to command since the restora-
tion, after having been long oppressed by the Ultras,
the Liberals may be expected to display some impa-.
deuce in calling for necessary reforms, but hitherto
vo dangerous innovation has been adopted. On all
the questions hitherto brought before the Chamber,
they have shown an exemplary moderation; and
whether it be from the improved habits of debate or
the greater impartiality of the President, no session
ever advanced so far with .so few explosions of pas-
sion and intemperance.—Mid..

The Bill lately introduced by Mr. H. Drummond,
to
ond,
to assimilate the Licensing System of so
that of England, has deservedly excited grmttadnis,a
tisfaetion the former country. We have received'
various communications on the subject ; and among
them a printed letter, addressed to the Convener of
county of Lanark, by a Freeholder, which states
the objections to the proposed measure in a very able
and forcible manner. Every ome acquainted with
this country is aware that the prop erregulation
of
public-houses is impeded by nothing so much as the
power of licensing. Public-houses art unquestionably"
't proper subject of Police regulation, becalm their
ltighbours ought to be secured against brawling and
disorder, especially at unseasonable hours. 'Nothin
. g
Cary as to prevent irregularities 111
even public-
iThe en under the present system of licencing.
The Legislature has only to attach a penalty to the
departuren
c u
thel
l
ier . ••certain rjtle,‘, and to let loo.e. the in-
;r
oment you introduce Liceneing,
over
the hold you have the publican is destroyed.—
A factitious value is
given to the house in consc-
ounce of the monopoly; and when repeated
conuuct draws attention to the manner in whia
it is conducted, the offending publican is re-
moved, mid a new man introduced. The Brewer
and the -Justice, therefore, not only plunder the
public under the Licensing System, hut they deprive
,
the people of the competition which alome secures t,,
o
them good treatment, while they give impunity t
misconduct. In the Letter addressed to tho
Convener of the county of Lanark, the writer
observes—" At present every man of good character
it! Scotland may get a license to sell spiritsfrom two
Justices—and practically he may open his house
wherever he bias there is a demand for it ; and
has the greatest interest to choose an unoccupie-i
situation. if the English system of arbitrary mono-
poly should be suffered to pass, from a clamot.r
against the number of public-houses, two Justieri
stay put down every public-house they dislike,
set' up one wherever they please ; an instrument of

r. . ,
TArtianty Oa. oppression Much is too Out a temp-
tation for prior hetnan nature to be entrusted ;szrza.
In England a license to a particular isd:ise is often
worth 'one thousand 'poundb. The great brewers
are known, to get the limited number of such houses
into their o:7'n hands, and giVe the public., si_' et
liquor es they please ; and the tillidoii Police
reports prove that this litnitetl'en has no effect in
preventing itriprOtret . houses from being opened.
Now what is the false pretext by which the Scots
are tO be tricked into submission to this English
nuisance, just at the very time when all is7iiglaricl
cries aloud against it ? That it is itecl'&:sary for-
sooth, to enslave our tio-tk and land-owners to two
Justices, As the means of diminishing the grievance of
'WO Many public-houses. But it will not diminish
this grievance. . . • . But what, after
all, is the logic of the objection to a number "of
public-houses ? It is a pelpable sophisre is S'essi•ose
that there is less drunk. in a Tint ii number of
630 public-houses in A 'eity, than would be if, by
the present free isene bt licenses to good characters,
the number. Arr.; 650. The same thing holds true of
dealers ill sugar, tea, fruits, and confections, It is the
I.' este and revenue of the consumer that regilate th'e
extent of the consutnption s3t
.all steh 'art' ea, and
also of liquors. . s
.s. ..I if the number of public-
houses must be di'Minishett to please bad reasoners,
and trindeen nglisli oppression be transplanted to
.scotland at the very moment when England revolts
at it, there seems only one mode of retotelisig this
new scheme of limitation of tite pla‘Ces and numbers
of public-houses—wit, a 'ballot.' We have more
than once observed .tt disposition in the Scotch Aris-
tocracy to Worm themselves into the powers of
their brethren of England. Some years ago we
assisted in defeating a conspiracy for obtaining all the
beauties of English Sessions and English Sessional
Law. Xfftunately for the people of Scotland,
the jeaWy of the Aristocracy entertained by the
Crown while there was a Pretender led to
the destruction of feudal jurisdictions, and the
improvement of local Courts of Record presided
over by Judges who administer justice according to
law. The Justices of Peace are deservedly held in
contempt in Scotland, as they would be in any coun-
try in which any provision whatever was made for
the regular administration of justice.. But the Aris-
tocracy not wishing to be behind their English
neighbours, are exceedingly anxicus to force their
unpaid services on the people, And hence the pre-
sent attempt to burden the people with. tile mono-
poly of the English Licensing
have little faith in the Syisiern. The Scotch
;,1,1, ii ()Wei of Magistrates to ins
prove publican% 5
greatly fear that their own
morals t:',11.1 not be mended by the supervision of ale-
tuses. At present it is a rule in Scotland to pre-
venthqUele from being sold in toll-houses. We have
heard of cases where Scotch Magistrates, possessing
cottages in the neighbourhood of such plates, have
not been ashamed to make the license a pretext for
taking six times the rent of such cottages. We may
be assured that wherever money is concerned, a
Scotch Laird will not be behind an English 'Squire.
Let him once get his hand into the pockets of his
neighbour, and we will answer for it, if there be
aught in he will contrive to draw it out. Leave him
to pay himself, and he will do himself at least justice.
Morning Chronicle.
The proclaiming of Don Miguel King of Peittlt;
gal, in the principal cities of that kingdom, and the
unqualified abdication of Dun Pedro in favour of his
daughter, may be said to have settled the disputed
question, Even before the news of this unexpected
abdication arrived, few could doubt that it was the
wish and the intention of the Portuguese people to
make Don Miguel King. But now that his brother
has resigned—has, in fait, declared that he has no
further 'claim Or right whatever to the Portuguese
Crown—there can be no doubt who shall be the
future Sovereign, lie has resigned, to be sure, in
favour of his darighter, a child of nine years of age—
yet, even admitting that the had some claims to the
throne, her tender years, her sex, and the much
stronger claims ,of her uncle, would ' cast the balance
with the great body "of the people entirely agnins't
her. 'On looking at. the question, however, im-
partially, we have always been inclined to think
that, this child had no claims whatever. Iler
only tight is by the gift of her father, but
the father cannot disinherit his son. If Don
Pedro was legitimate Sovereign of Portugal, but
found, from the wishes of the two nations, as well
as from the fundamental laws of Portug,al, that while
he remained in Brazil he could not exercise any au-
thority over Portugal, his son certainly was the next
in succession, and as soon as he came of age, would
most probably quit Brazil, assert his right to the
Crown in preference to his sister, and excite a civil,
war. We deny, however, that the Emperor of
Brasil had, after his father's death, any claim to
Portugal.. At that period the separation of the two
states
.was . virtually completed, and neither Don
Pedro, nor any of his family, could exert any Sove-
reign power over the mother-country. Looking at
the question, therefore, in either point of view, his
daughter must be thrown entirely out of account,
and consequently Portugal is without a Sove-
reign. There can be then but one opinion as
to who has the best right to fill the vacant
throne. Before the .news of this abdication
reached Portugal, the people, it appears, were gene-
rally in favour of Don Miguel, and this formal deed
of the Emperor will render them unanimous, not
even excepting the Constitutionalists. A settled
Government, though not the best that could be de-
sired, must appear to all preferable to a Constitu-
tion which, in the present state of the nation, is a
mere nullity, and which might, sooner or later,
bring on a civil war. The best course, therefore,
the Courts of Europe can plastic is not to recall'their
Ambassadors, but allow affairs to go on as the con-
Stituted Authorities evidently desire, and press on
the Emperor of Brazil the propriety of yielding to
the wishes of the great body of the people. Such a
course it is the duty and policy, particularly of Great
Britain, to adopt, because it is the only probable
way to prevent collision, not only with Portugal,
but Spain and France, and would tend to the re-
newal of that friendship and union which have so
long existed between this country and Pertugal.—
This affair, whether we look at the mode of fixing
the line of succession, the concoction of the Char-
ter, or our Portuguese expedition, has been, from
beginning to end, ill-arranged, and, consequently,
unfortunate. We trust that this country is now fairly
out of it,. and that we shall never see its like again.
—Morning Herald.

A meeting of the inhabitants of Bridge Ward '
was held yesterday in St. Magnus Church, to op-
pose the projected plan of approach to London-
bridge. Mest of our readers are aware that by the
Act of Parliament the same approach which leads to
the old was intended to lead to the new bridge.—
The road would by this means pass down Fish-
street-bin, turn up Thames-street, tin it reached the
end of the bridge, and then turn once more to get
over it. At present the pull up Fish-street-hill,
' coming north, and the
will be much
bridge, going south, arpetdgrl
etaot,the but eocnn trc
the anret obfri
bridge
the difficult
greater, front its being
!'
level, and from the ascent to it being much more
rapid. it would be difficult, perhaps, for a person
not in • terested in upholding it, to fancy an argument
o a plan by which the whole
for supporting of the
much of the utility
beauty and so
destroyed. Fitstef so noble a
structure would be the
of' draught, and then trnake
bridge level for easeoh.attdo\pt a
which NN ould convert t
mode of approach w
enormous augmentation of
circumstance into an c
manifestlyabsurd, that, we state
draught, would be
t interested in it could
it again, no one who was
There is but one , mode
for a moment defend ir.
in which the difficulty can be ,not over, and that
~
street, and by the
is by a land-arch over Thames
_street,
of an approach in the line of the bridge. Se-
veral plans for eff been submitted
ecting this object have r
to the public. Those of the engineer a
elegant, but the principle is similar in thet the most
whole—
to avoid the draught—and besides obviating the dif-
ficulty and danger of two turns of the road, each at
right angles, and within a distance of seven hundred
' and fifty yards, to let the bridge be seen by the inha-

bitamt or.ht city, whose Most .c..plendid and durable
monument it is destined to be. On the detail of
these plans we do not mean to enter. That whieli
combines least px.penee, with e <litr r std t 6 it
doable object of faCility and propriety, is certainly.
preferable. The objections to the proposed an..
proach to the bridge by the inhabitants of Bridge
Ward, may be summed up in one- word—kis ityl
the old one. It is ..said that ft ihi
• t
traffic between Thitifii:Areet, anti the bridge; but
;hoW,' 1-Eire is no other street to which it can
pass ? Wharfs or cellars cannot be formed in the
new line, therefore no damage can possibly accrue to
those which now exist. If the object of the people
of Bridge Ward, who may suffer, be merely fair and
adequate compensation., we • 012.11 mast certainly go
4ong with tcheaf. We admit the justice of their
`dant:, and will give our aid to its enforcement. But
let them not seek such compensation as would block
up one of the finest bridges in the kingdom, to the
injury of all who may pass along it for a thousand
years to come.—lbid.

YrOM the Report Of the Commissioners ap-
POinted ttl inquire into the state of the supply
of Water for the Metropolis, an abridgment
of which we have this day given, ,it appears,
Ist, that on the side tuitnfiV, tilett is nti
ground ;i6r i'eaionable complaint-2dlY, that
the impurities mixed up with the water sup-
plied by the New River CompanY from their
own sources, may be got rid of by proper care —3dlY,
that the impurities which mingle With the Thames
Water cannot be gut rid of by any plan of filtra-
tion—=hut 4t14, that ail the itnpurities to a
Certain degree, but chiefly such as are chymical, are
injurious to health. One of the strongest evidence
to these facts is Mr. Mills, and his words are too
remarkable to be omitted. Speaking of the Thames,

he says-i,
"it it 'wittier mere nor less than the common sewer of
London, so far as receiving the contents of all the sewers,
which on the north side, as numbered by the Commission-
ers of Sewers, are 99 ; and on the south 46 ; indeed there
is no other recipient; and this commixture is conveyed by
the eblt a feiv miles downwards to the east ; then, by the
repassing London, a few miles upwards to the west;
but neither reaching Teddington nor the sea."
And again—
" A slender portion of common stnse authorizes me to
affirm, that a stream which receives daily the evacuations
of a million of hunt= beings,i of many thousand animals,
with all the filth and refuse of the various offensive manu-
factories, which of necessity must be carried on in one of
the most populous cities of Europe, cannot be required to
be analyzod, except by a lunatic, to determine whether it
ought to pumped up as a beverage for the inhabitants of
the metropolis of the British empire. 'the question which
you will decide, is not whether a few grains of this im-
measurable filth can by chemical process he extracted from
a bottle of water taken here or there, and subjected to the
process of a tea-kettle elaboratory, but whether, without
any process at all, this stream, palpably known to contain
all this mass of filth, should contititie to be supplied."
It is unbecessary, we should think, to add a word
to this statement. Now for the remedies. Mr.
Francis proposes that each Water Company that
now draws its supplies from the Thames, should
sink wells instead. The land springs always occur
nearer the surface as we approach rivers or the sea,
and for the same reason. We find in this plan
ample security against impurity, but not against
scarcity. Dr. Kerrison proposes to bring the sup-
ply of water from such a distance up the River, that
the risk of impurity shall be infinitely small, and he
points out a line by which this might be accom-
plished ; but there are great difficulties, and much
,
expellee, in tne way of its practical application.—
In October, 1824, when the Joint Stock was
at its height, Mr. Philip Taylor submitted a plan to
an incipient Company, called the Thames Water Com-
pany. His plan was to raise the water from the Thames
between Brentford and Richmond, and convey
it by a tunnel to st reservoir at Hampstead,
whence it could be distributed to every quarter
of the 'Metropolis in the ordinary way. ' The
estimated cost was '750,0001. Other plans were
submitted to the Commissioners; but, though of
some value as hints for future speculators, they do
not require much notice in a practical point of view.
The conclusion to which we should come on a con-
sideration of the whole Report would be, that Go-
vernment should appoint a small Commission, with
powers and means-Ist, to direct such surveys as
might be necessary in order to ascertain from what
point pure and abundant water for the metropolis
could be procured-2dly, to ascertain the expense
of so procuring it—idly, that the supply of water
to the metropolis should constitute a part of its ge-
neral police, and not be abandoned to the interest of
ally body, however respectable; due care being al-
ways had to the reimbursement of existing institu-
tions for the expense to which, in reliance on Acts
of Parliament, they had been subjected.--New
Times.