The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRiDAY EVENING,_FEBRITARY 21, 1845."

NOTICE To SUBSCRIBERS.

number of appiicattons hati been male to the
post-office, during the last twelve months, corn..
plaining of the miscarriage of newspapers.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table a Bill,
allowing of Bail in Error, in cases of misdemeanor.
In answer to various complaints on the subject of
want of accommodation in the present house of Peers,
Lord REDESDALE stated that lie had no doubt but
that the new House would be ready for the accommo-
dation of their Lordships at the beginning of next
session.

zitunciatefl Llf IZoi;Lita- KA•nen i,! this
avowal, whilst contemplating the career of office upon
which he was entering:—" Ireland is my greatest diffi-
culty." The truth of the averment is, on every account

The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of
LAST (Thursday) EVENING contained—
A Report of the Meeting of the Blackwall Railway

indeed, so self-evident, that its triteness is apt to detract,
we fear, from the salutary influence which it ought to
exercise on the minds of public men. And yet it cannot,
in justice, be denied, that our Governments of all shades
of political opinions have been sensitive to the immense
responsibility which has devolved upon them, with the
succession to power, of finding remedies for the evils, social
and political, that all of them have successively admit-
ted as pervading the condition of Ireland. But if this
have been the fact, their convictions would appear to
have paralyzed their remedial efforts to extinguish the
acknowledged mischief's. They saw, they confessed,
they deplored ; but, one after another, these Govern-
ments passed out of the portals of office as they had
entered them—alive to the fearful aspects presented
by that condition, but unable to announce that
they had succeeded in removing them. The public
have long since come to the conclusion that those
Governments did not adopt any well-considered or com-
prehensive scheme of observation and inquiry, upon the
results of which they might have devised and founded
an eligible plan of treatment for the very peculiar case
with which they had to deal. That treatment was never
sufficiently comprehensive. It contemplated some iso-
lated symptom, and administered only some topical
remedy. The great social disease that affected almost
the entire system of Ireland was lost sight of. It
was permitted to extend itself with impunity over the
lower extremities, as it were ; nor was it till the dis-
temper began to develop isself in other regions of that
system, whose positions it was fast disorganising, that
the business of seriously attempting to get at the root
and seat of a malady, displaying itself under so many
types of morbid action, was entered upon with honesty
and determination of purpose. In this view of the
matter no more than their due weed of praise has been
awarded to the parties who suggested the appointment
of " her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry into the
state of the law and practice in respect of the occupation
of land in Ireland," of which the Earl of DEVON has
acted as the able, upright, and most diligent Chairman.
The long-looked-for "Report" of this Commission
has just been issued in a printed form ; and we may con-
gratulate the country at large on the encouraging hopes
to be entertained of most beneficial and permanent re-
sults from the adoption of the various measures it sub-
mits for the sanction of her MAJESTY'S approval. We
subjoin a concise abstract from the columns of a Con-
temporary, which embodies a recital of the points to
which the Commissioners have directed their la-
bours and framed their Report ; and of the opinions
recorded at its conclusion by them. We should
but weaken, at present, the force of the considerations
which these opinions embody, by any remarks of our
own that we may be prepared to offer. But, after having
repeated from the "Blue-book" such passages as we may
think best entitled to the attention of our readers, we
shall return again to the recommendations (to most of
which we Shall desire to offer our humble support), com-
prised in this interesting document :

Company.
The State of the Odds at Tattersall's up to Six

o'clock.
The Spirit of the Public Journals.
Upwards of Three Columns and a Half of the Parlia-
mentary Intelligence of the Evening, containing
the whole of the Proceedings in the House of
Lords up to the Hour of Adjournment, and the
Proceedings in the Commons up to a Quarter be-
fore Seven o'clock.

Lord STRANGFORD gave notice of a motion for a
return of the number of Roman Catholic students in
Trinity College, Dublin ; and the Earl of DALHOUSIE
said a few words deprecating any discussion for the
present as to the conduct (If the Board of Trade in
regard to railways; after which their Lordships
adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four o'Clock.
The Manchester and Carlisle Railway Bill and
the London and York Railway Bill were respectively
read a first time.
Various petitions were presented, and notices cf
motion given. Among the latter were, a notice by
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, on going into Committee on
the Navy Estimates, for a Commission to inquire
into the state of the Navy, and of the defences to
the dockyards.—One by Mr. COBDEN, for a Com-
mittee to inquire into the operation of the Corn-laws on
the tenant-farmers.—One by Mr. WALLACE, for the
Gth of March, for a Commission to inquire into the
state of Railway travelling; and one by Mr. HUME,
for that day fortnight, on the subject of the recal of
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.
Lord DUNCAN postponed his motion on the win-
dow-tar to the 27th.
Mr. E. TENNENT stated that it was not at present
intended to increase the facilities of steam communi-
cation with Bombay.
Sir J. GRAHAM stated, in answer to a question,
that it was his intention to bring in a Bill, to settle
the law with respect to orders of magistrates in bas-
tardy cases.
A long conversation then took place on the subject
of the unfortunate Bandeiras, in the course of which
Sir R. PEEL repeated the statement that he had
made on a previous occasion, and added, in answer to
a question of Sir C. NAPIER, that Lord SEATON had
not sent a boat after them, to warn them of their
danger, after he had received a communication from
the Consuls. He said he had no objection to lay be-
fore the llouse the substance of the correspondence
which had taken place on the subject, but begged
Lord J. RUSSELL to defer until to-morrow a question
which he put on the subject of the spy who had be-
trayed these unfortunate men to the Neapolitan Go-
vernment. In the subsequent part of the evening the
Right Hon. Baronet stated that Lord SEATON had
placed at the disposal of the Neapolitan Consul the
means of' co.nmunicating to the Neapolitan au-
thorities the fact of the departure of the Bandeiras
for Corfu.
Mr. G. W. HOPE, the Under-Secretary to the Co-
lonies, said the Government had received no notice
whatever of the Bandeiras being in Corfu, to which
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE replied—" Why it was in Ma.z-
ZINI'S letters."

The whole extending to nearly Four Columns and a
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