The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

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LONDON
TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 26, 1842.

We see with pleasure that Mr. Hum: is again in the
House of Commons. He took his seat last night, and
immediately began that career of usefulness which we
hope he will long continue. The Liberal party gains no
vote by substituting Mr. Hymn for Mr. CHALMERS, for
the latter gentleman was a staunch Radical, but it gains
an active, diligent, robust, well-informed Member, for
one whose health did not allow him to be as useful as he
wished. Mr. HumE also has acquired, by his long and
steady advocacy of Liberal principles, the character of a
leader in that party, and his advice will be listened to
and his example followed. He will do more than
merely bring his own vote and speech to bear in the
right place ; he will influence the votes and the speeches
of a few other Members to support his own. He will
serve as a rallying point for a considerable section of
the Liberal party, and will give consistency and power to
scattered and weak forces. On these grounds, as well as
from the conviction we have that Mr. HUME will now again
turn his financial acquirements to good account, we are
much pleased to see him restored to the House of
Commons, looking as strong and healthy as we ever
knew him.

On Thursday week Lord STANLEY made a remark-
able statement in the House of Commons relative to
emigration, which we noticed in our leader of the fol-
lowing day. The substance of that was, that all our
colonies nearly were overdone with labour, a d that
henceforth, unless capital emigrated as well as labour
there was little chance of labourers finding immediate
employment. Canada the Noble Lord made an excep-
tion to the general description; but the best he could say
of Canada was, that he thought it likely to become a
scene of profitable employment to the emigrant. At the
same time he admitted that "in many instances the
emigrants had suffered severely." Such being the con-
dition of our colonies, we learn with much regret that
emigration has begun this year with increased activity.
The tide of Emigration, (says the Limerick Reporter) from
the Irish ports has never been remembered to flow so strongly,
so rapidly, and so continuously as during the present season.
The persons quitting their " own loved land of sorrow" are
generally of the better class of farmers—or the more able. bodied
and active labourers—the bone and sinew of a State, and who
uniformly bring sufficient means to enable them to set up inde-
pendently in the country of their adoption. A letter from
Waterford, received this morning, assures us that the quantity
of emigrants which has left that port within the last few weeks
is almost incredible—it is computed that two thousand have
already quitted their native shores in vessels from the Suir, and
that one thousand more at least will leave before the season
closes ! From Wexford, we perceive by the Independent, that
several hundreds have left the port of New floss—and from
Limerick, we need only observe that emigration has never been
known to equal what it is at this moment, and what it has been
for the past fortnight. The number entered at the Custom-
house to this day is about eleven hundred, and more are imme-
diately to follow.
In our last publication (says the Glasgow Saturday Post)
we drew the attention of our readers to the extent of emigra-
tion going on amongst the most miserable part of our popula-
tion. Since then, the large ship Renfrewshire, of tilt tons
bu den, has sailed from Port Glasgow for Quebec, with 540
passengers, belonging to the Glasgow and Paisley Emigration
Societies.

It is painful to reflect what is to become of these per-
sons, thus drafted off to countries where their services
are not wanted—where the land is, in fact, already as
completely appropriated by the Government as the land
is appropriated by individuals at home, and where they
can no more squat down on an untenanted common and
supply their own wants by their own industry, without
paying a rent for the use of land, which . they have no
means to pay, or without buying it, than they can
squat down in the park at Drayton Manor. If they
were departing to some country which no Government
had seized, carrying with them provisions for a few
weeks, and having a knowledge of agriculture, we
might spare our pity. They could help themselves.
But they go from amidst one aristocracy-ruined people
into the midst of another people and another
land, where the very same aristocracy, and the
very same laws and regulations, will consign
them to only a continuance of the suffering
they have been exposed to here. We feel for them,
therefore, the sincerest pity, and look forward to hear
bitter tales of their calamities.

In the present state of our colonies we much question
the humanity and the justice of any classes in Glasgow
and Paisley relieving themselves, by sending away mul-
titudes of persons on the uncertain chance of their ob-
taining employment and subsistence in the colonies. if
they send them to the United States, they can guarantee
them nothing. 'rhe people from Ireland appear to go
of their own accord, carrying with them their household
gods; and we can only irr their case blame the Govern-
ment, which, undertaking the superhuman task of locat-
ing all the people who acknowledge its sway, has not in-
formed them that most of the colonies are overstocked
with labour.

Such facts as these disprove at, once the notion
that a want of land is the cause of a want of
employment for the people. Our community is not