The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-06 00:00:00

proceedings be commenced against them, in a
,
very awkward predicament:. It may be extremely
satisfactory for • them to compound felony—to
give up twenty-five per cent rather than suffer a
total loss; but the practice is pregnant with the
utmost danger to the community and must be
repressed. If prosecutions for felony are to be
compromised whenever it is for the private
interest of individuals that they should be so, our
Judges may doff their wigs and our Juries go to
play. In a daring burglary to an immense
amount, where the person robbed states to the
Police Officer that the thief has proposed an
extrajudicial settlement, he -is told, " by all'
means come into his terms, for we can do nothing
for you." n this be permitted, or rather,
we should say, if it be authorised; we see
nothing to check the thief of a sovereign
from offering to the plundered party an equity of re-
demption on payment of five shillings any more
than the thief of 6,000. What is thought ad-
visable by the Police in one case;"will hardly be,
called improper in the other. We think there
might even .be an improvement on the present
Mode of doing business, which calfs for 'a great
deal of unnecessary, and, it may be, dangerous
trust, in parties who do not ordinarily bear to
each other a great deal of affection.• The thief,
for instance, in the case of Grimaldi, might, by
a little mancetivring, have been done out of his
fifteen hundred sovereigns, on the one hand, or,
having received them, he might have contrived
to retain the " swag" on the other. We should,
therefore, propose, that the Police Officers who
can do nothing to assist the plundered party in
recovering his property, should help a little to se-
cure him in the attempt to recover it by his own
endeavours. Let the watches, or notes, or
whatever the stuff consists of, be handed over to
the Magistrate, and a regular invoice be drawn
out, and compared with the account of loss
furnished by the robbee, and, if found correct,
let the salvage money agreed on by the latter be
paid into the same' hands, and accounted for to
the robber in regular course. This would, it is
very obvious, save a vast deal of trouble ; and
as it would lead in time to dispensing with the
whole gang of foot patrol and horse patrol,
head officers, 'and subordinates, we are by no
means sure that the tax to be incurred for the
restoration would be greater than what is now
levied for the preservation of our goods, with
this advantage, that by the new plan the resto-
ratioriWould be certain, while, according to the
old one, the preservation is, of all things, the.
most uncertain-L-it being a ruled case, that a
warehouse or a shop may be broken into and
emptied within five yards of a watchman, and the
worthy guardian all the while as innocently un-
conscious of what is going on as the owners
are.—Netu Times.

The following is the estimate of the expence
of making a Ship Ca,ial frbm Galway to Dub-
lin. In round numbers we call it five millions ;
but as Canal projectors, like builders and law-
yers generally, call their estimates about one-half
of what their bills' amount to when, delivered in,
we should call the probable expellee of this Ca-
nal ten millions, the interest on which, at per
cent., would be half a million a-year. But even
then it would eventually answer, the purpose of
the proprietors, though not till a hundred years
hence, when Galway might become a second 'Li-
verpool, and the country between Galway and.
Dublin had become improved in any thing like a
portion tb ti• e country between Liverpool and
London. The question now is as to the raising
of the five or ten millions; it would be a very
large sum for Ireland, in the way of subscription,,
or even in the way of Shareholders, and espe-
cially as people of the present day look for interest
at least, and know that such undertakings as
Waterloo-bridge and the Caledonian Canal have
not paid the- interest, or a dividend at all and
that in both concerns the real expense exceeded
the estimated expence in a three or four-fold
proportion. Besides, the people of late have
been so taken in with schemes of various de.
scriptions, that they are -afraid to put down their
names to hew ones, however laudable they may
be in appearance or reality. We are afraid that
this Canal will be something like the (.'anal
Mr. .Curdy, or, more properly speaking, of
Messrs. Cockburn the bankers—end in nothing
but speeches. That, in the long run, such a
Canal would benefit Ireland there cannot be any
doubt ; Galway would, in time, become a second
Liverpool, though to the detriment probably, of
Liverpool ; and the country from Galway to
Dublin would be benefitted in the highest
degree. Indeed nothing would benefit Ire-
land more than such a Canal. We fear,
however, that the means will be wanting, ex-
cept Parliament should come forward with the
money ; but in such case the Parliament would
have to borrow the money, and the United-
Kingdom would have to be taxed additionally to
pay the interest ; and at present the loan.
system is out of fashion. The only people now
who like loans are those who profit by them ;
also increase of taxation is not at present in fashion.
The people wish to be relieved from much of the
present taxation. They would not like a Minister
to come forward with a proposition for*five prten
millions, and in consequence ask for additional
taxes. to the =mint of 250,0001. or 500,0001.
a-v,ear. And yet, such borrowing and taxation
for a scheme like this would be more rational,
and of greater benefit, than the plan for borrow-
ing and taxing, in order to enable the poorer
order of society to emigrate to Canada, Src.—
But we are afraid this Galway Canal will end in
words only—at least for the present. Here is
the estimate

For 182 British Miles of Excavation and Em-
bankment, at 561. ss. per perch, or 18,0001
per mile £2,376,000
For 72 Locke, Lock-houses, Gates, and Ma-
chinery, sinking Foundations, &e., at
13,0001. each
For 200 Bridges, averaging 1,8001. each
For 'Aqueducts and Tunnels, Regulators, Back-
drains, &c., say
For Extra Sinking in the different Summits,
and for Puddle Lining in various place•
FM. Tide Basins at each extremity of the Canal,
and far improvements in New Harbour
For Pavement for protecting the Embankment
against the Sea
For purchase of Water, construction of Reser-
voirs, Supply Courses, &c
For purchase of Land and Houses, and for
sundry damages, &c
For Dams, Steam Engines, Pumps, keeping
out Water, &c
For Contingencies, including allowances for
Casualties, Superintendence, &c. 20 per cent.

936,000
360,000

70,000

120,000

240,000

20,000

150,000

200,000

100,000

914,400

Morning Herald. Total £5,486,400

Ministers are said to be in woful dudgeon
with Mr. Under Secretary Rice, for having given
his fiat during the absence of his principal, to the
appearance in the Gazette of the honours award-
ed to Sir Edward Codrington for his conduct at
Navarin. By this act they are considered to
be irrevocably pledged to the policy of the mea-
sure, which, if it were not otherwise, is thus
made their own. But the measure undoubtedly
is their own—or rather, perhaps, that of their
predecessor (Mr. Canning), and to endeavour to