The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1645,

The capitalists and the engineers of this country have in a
short time, by quickening communication, brought Europe
practically within half its former space. Let us but have
peace for some years longer, and a reduction of war esta-
blishnsents, and the nations of Europe will be as little dis-
united socially as were the shires and counties of England,
not to speak of Scotland, a century or two ago. Rudely and
defectively as this work may have been done, if it had not
been moved by, capitalists, and on commercial principles,
there was little chance of its being done in our time in any
other way. There are, however, amongst these who have
considered the subject comprehensively but. few dissentients
from the opinion, after the completion of the larger lines
of communication, that by, continued and immense applica-
tion of capital in that one direction, without waiting for tee
results of important experiments, -'and more matured expe-
rience, the work will . certainly be overeone, and enor-
mous waste and loss occasioned.
This work of bringing towns nearer to each other is, whilst
they are in their present condition, too frequently bringing
seats of pestilence nearer to each other; it is too frequently
further overcrowding the already overcrowded. We have
no doubt that the railways will be a most important means
of relieving this evil, especially when the fares have beer. re-
duced ; but they have not yet been so. In the instance of
the formation of the Blackwell Railway it was distinctly
proved, that in cutting down a mass of habitations of the la-
bouring classes, no new ones having been provided, the dis-
lodged occupants were driven into the over-crowded_ rooms
in the same neighbourhood. Besides the influx of visitors
and of traffic, often at a greater rate than there is accommo-:
dation for, one part of the present railway rush is to carry
their termini into the centres of crowded towns, to mow down
whole lines of habitations, apparently with the same result
as that proved to have followed the formation of the Black-
wall Railway.
Under these circumstances of immediate dread for the ca-
pital itself, as well as for the population, whatever may be
the strength of hope, of " things shaking right," most per-
sons who review the present tendency of capital will be dis,
posed to hail with us the appearance in the money market of
an enlarged scheme for the application of capital on commercial
principles to the relief of towns themselves, by the improve-
ment of their sanitary condition. 'We refer unhesitatingly
to the announcement contained in our advertising columns,
and the prospectus, at the head of which appear such names
as those of the first chairman of the Liverpool and Man •
chestor and Grand Junction Railway Company, the first
chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway Com
pany, the first chairman of the Southampton Railway, and
that of one of the leading promoters of the Great Western
Railway, and the present chairman of the Brighton Rail-
way, who, with such men as Mr. JAMES Monaisox, Mr. T.
BARING, NT. SAMUEL JONES Lair's, are promoters of a project
"to provide towns with water on improved principles of
supply; to effect their drainage and cleansing completely
and systematically; to apply 'their refuse to agricultural
purposes; and to carry out any similar or collateral works
that require the union of science and capital for the sanitary
imp ovement of towns."
As the chairman of this enterprise we find worthily
placed the accomplished nobleman, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON,
whose ancestors took the lead in the first great improvement,
by inland navigation. We stay, however, to notice one
name amongst the promoters of this work, that of Mr.
Anis CROSTIIWAITE, of Liverpool, who is alluded to with
another merchant in •an article, " Talk on the Exchange,',
in the Liverpool Journal of Saturday.
" The talk during the last two days is, that the moralists
must amend their theories; for the means of luxury pro-
duces temperance and ardour after riches a noble disie-
_ gard of money ; that this has been made manifest by
ies'elfthin consequence ofe richer to an
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PARISH OF KENSINGTON.—CHURCH-RATES.—Fri-• two Liverpool merchants, and that the history of chivalryday a numerously and respectably-attended vestry meet- and the annals of aristocracy cannot parallel their example.
ing of the inhabitant ratepayers of the parish of St. Mary "The instances alluded to are those of Mr. Crosthwaite rind
Abbotts, Kensington, was held, pursuant to public notice, in Mr. James Brancker. ,People wonder while they exult that
the vestry-room of the Old Church, "for the purpose of ex_ one of those gentlemen sustained an endangered undertaking
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maintenance, and repairs of the church during the current extent of 70,0004 he, rather than his motives should be
year." The Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, vicar, having questioned, threw up his shares, and although the sacrifice
taken the chair, and the notice ending the meeting having was not to the full extent accepted, he nobly consented to the
been read, the accounts were then passed, without• a dissen- loss of 20,0001 s every farthing of which he could legally
tient voice. Mr. Bellworthy then said it was his duty, as retain. The other instance was not less creditable. The
churchwarden, to ask the vestry to grant a church-rate for chairman, though in all the secrets of the Liverpool and
treartteo,
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seconded
dsevda s applause, not censure—holding no more shares than qualified
the current year, of one penny in the pound on the rental of Bury Railway—though he could. have enriched himself be-
thehim for the office for which he has proved himself so worthy.
parish, amounting to 10,051/. It was a very unusual yond the dreams of avarice, refused to profit by his oppor-
circumstance in that parish to have only a penny church- tunity, and preserved his honour and disinterestedness for
:bleep yottioonsafyoritawpaesnsnuyffircaietne.t.
Afterltir. Cshomese- a
discussion, the chairman said the only motion before the The talk is that the 'Change can parody the Grecian mother, meeting was a rate of one penny, which was carried by an and say, ' Liverpool has many such men, and long may they
immense majority, the only dissentient hand held up being continue her ornaments.'
that of Mr. Sullivan. Thanks were then voted to the vene- These gentlemen state in their prospectus, that
rabic chairman, and the meeting broke up. " It is sufficient merely to advert to the advantages of the
VOLUNTEERS' FOR THE NAVY.—Since the establish- proposed improvements to the health, comfort, and ;es
ment of the rendezvous at Kingroad in our port, for the of the population, as cogent motives to hearty co-operation,
reception of volunteers for the navy, no less than six hun- while the pecuniary interests of the
dred able-bodied seamen have entered. Of these, a party of consulted. It is, however, strictly on the basis of profitabb
forty- two sailed from Bristol for Plymouth on the 2d inst., returns that the Company is founded, as it is only on that
on board her Majesty's steamer Alban. - This mode of basis that those advantages may be expected to be rapidly,
manning our navy has proved eminently successful, and we :economically, and completely realised to the whole of the
understand that at no other port in the kingdom have so community, or that thecapital be justly expected to be
, s can
many efficient men been of late raisad "to, bear the Britian raised, and science applied to the works in question ; all of
thunder o'er the seas."—Bristol Journal. ' I which, it is now proved; must, when completely carried out,
The take of herrings all along the west coast of effect large reductions of various existing money charges,
Ireland is so immensely abundant, that the people cannot to landlords as well as to even the lowest class of tenants."
procure salt in sufficient quantity to say e them. Even the They set forth that
frequented bathing-places are full of them. - " The commercial principle proposed for adoption, as ad-

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