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THE NATIONAL LIBRARY. Edited by the Rey. G. R. GLEIG, M.A. The Proprietors of this 'Work feel themselves stimulated to fresh exertions by the distinguished favour wi:11 which it has already been received. The Volunus of the National Library already before the world may be confidently appealed as proofs of zeal on the part of the Proprietors, to engage, without regard to expense, the assistance of writers of bight celebrity, arid to present to their readers a series of productions, which, as_they are connected, not with ephemeral, but with per manent subjects, may, years hence as well as now, be consulted for lively amusement as well as for solid in struction. The Life of the illustrious Byron, by Mr. Galt, who was personally known to the poet, has been stamped by the voice of the public with the character of a standard work, authentic in particulars and dispassionate in judg ment. That it should have met with opposition from some quarters was an inevitable consequence of the task, since the very name of Byron Conjures up at once a host of angry disputants, who, lity,ing each his own theory to support, cannot all concur in the statements and opinions of the biographer, be these what they may. The memoir in question has. however, been so fortunate as already to rise superior to its assailants. In speaking of the RCN. Mr. Gleig's History of the I3ib!e, it has been said in a contemporary Journal, that " it would be some ground of reproach to the friends of truth, if they had entirely neglected the new species of monthly publications as a means of diffusing religious knowledge among the higher and middle classes of society ; an d t h e present volume shows, in the happiest manner, how well they are adapted to convey that knowledge which snakes faith snoresure, and piety more enlightened." 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And, in conclusion, the Proprietors trust they shall not be accused of unjusti fiable pride in expressing their belief, that, in the progress of their undertaking, they shall he the means of publish ing, at a price accessible to the public at large, a body of Literature deserving the praise of having instructed many, and amused all ; and, above every other species.of eulogy, of being fit to be introduced, without reserve or exception, by the father of a family to the domestic circle. New Burlington -street, Jan. 1, 1831. " Literary Gazette. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. (From the Morning Chronicle.) It has been well remarked by a cotemporary that almost the only instruction received by the agricultural population is conveyed by the exe cutioner. But with the present way of thinking of the country, we fear the lesson recently given, and about to be given by that personage, is cal culated to produce a very different impression from that which was intended. The extract which we yesterday gave from the Hampshire Telegraph, commenting on the uncalled-for severity of most of the sentences, speaks the lan guage of a number of communications which we have received. That punishment may be efficacious in the way of example, it ought not to revolt the general feeling. However, this is a delicate subject at present. It is high time we had recourse to some other instructor than the executioner ; but we shall not now occupy our selves with the question of education. The home co - unties, the scene of the recent outrages, have long suffered from the glaring injustice of the Legislature towards them. We have more than once stated that the removal of manufactures to the coal districts was attended with very unfortunate effects to the labouring population, as the unemployed workmen were thrown on the parishes, and the redundancy paved the way for the tricks under the poor laws, to which we have often alluded. This evil has been greatly aggravated by the injustice of the Legislature. The able author of the " Observations on the Duty on Sea-borne Coal" says that— " The repeal of that would do more to promote industry, and consequently to increase the demand for labour in the districts subject to its operation, than any other measure it is in the power of Par liament to adopt. Those acquainted with the me tropolis can hardly require to be told that the pres sure of this most impolitic tax has already caused the desertion, to a great extent, of several manufac tures established in its neighbourhood. " The mischievous operation of the coal duty on the poor is, therefore, as clear as the sun at noon day. It deprives them of employment, and be numbs them with cold. We would beg to ask whe ther there be a gentleman, connected with the southern counties, ignorant of the severe privations occasioned by the scarcity and high price of fuel, and of the depredations to which plantations and palings are in consequence exposed ? Let none, therefore, presume to say that the distress of the poor of Kent, Surrey, &c., is of a sort that cannot be sensibly relieved by legislative interference. To afford them material and immediate relief, we have only to treat them as we treat others; to allow them to supply themselves with fuel in the same way that the peasantry of Yorkshire and Northumberland are supplied. We do not mean to say that this relief would be sufficient; but no reasonable person can doubt that it would be very considerable; and it cannot be withheld without prolonging inequality and oppression. " Dr. Smith has truly stated, that considering the vast importance of plentiful supplies of fuel, if a bounty could in any case be justified, it would be so were it given upon the conveyance of coals from the rnine to the consumer. But such (he adds) is our policy, that where coals are naturally cheap, they are consumed duty free ; where they are naturally dear, they are loaded with a heavy duty !' (IVcalth of Nations, iii. p. 451). We leave it to others to de termine whether the disastrous influence of such a tax, or its glaring injustice, be its most prominent characteristic. " But injustice can be carried even farther than this. Nothing can be more oppressive than to lay a peculiar tax on seaborne coal, unless it be to tax ,uch coal when carried to peculiar districts only. Now this is the fact with regard to the duty in ques tion. It falls with its utmost severity upon the southern counties of England, while it is compara tively light in Wales, and does not at all affect Scot land The gabelle in France, which had no incon siderable share in bringing about the revolution of 1789, was not more unequal than the coal duty. Most certainly, however, we do not object to Scot land being exempted from it ; and on this ground, it - least, she is under solid obligations to the late Loa! Melville. What we object to is, that a tax ••- - which has --- n repealed in one division of the em pire, because it was proved to be subversive of the public prosperity, shotili be • maintained in others, where it is quite as injurious. Are the labourers of the Lothians and Berwickshire less able to pay a tax on their fuel than those of Kent and HampShire ? Are the manufacturers of Norwich less likely to be ruined by the coal duty than those of Perth ? Every one knows that these questions must he answered in the negative; and yet from the want of a Henry IX., or some other cause, the southern counties con tinue subject to a scourge from which the north has been exempted for forty years." It is curious that the injustice of which the author of the observations so forcibly complains, should have been urged as an argument against any alteration of the constitution of the House of Commons, in a very able, ingenious Tract, published in 1793, by .tt Mr. Brand. Mr. Pitt had been defeated in an endeavour to do justice to all parties by taxing coal at the mouth of the pit, by the paramount influence of the northern and midland landholders ; and as the Reform then projected would have given additional weight to the landed interest of that part of England, he inferred that thereby a greater influence would be given to injustice— '. It is always (he observes) public virtue not to give up a partial or total exemption from any gene ral charge; to resist the imposition of a new or the extension of an old tax. It is'a kind of local pa triotism ; and the honours of this pdtriotism are acquired in villages, by cheating the hundred for the good of the parish; in the hundred, by cheating the . province; in the province by defrauding the nation; and in a nation, by robbing the world in general. And if any individual belonging to one of these So cieties endeavour to counteract these objects of pub lic utility, he is looked upon as a betrayer of the public interest, and a traitor. Hence, if a county Member of the remote district Were to give his vote for the equalization of the land-tax, he might nor only lose his seat, but retire under no small load of popular odium." Waiving, however, this somewhat fine-spun deduction, Mr. Brand 'gives us a most striking picture of the mischief entailed on the home counties by the coal-tax. " Manufacturers have al ways," he observes, " gra dually .migrated into countries where fuel is cheapest, when there has been no great disparity of other cir cumstances. To this cause the depression of many branches of the manufactures of the home district is to he ascribed, which formerly flourished there; and that part of the kingdom may have long occasion to regret the loss of the Bill brought into the Lower House by the present Minister a few years ago, laying a tax on coal at the pit's mouth. If it had been withdrawn on being carried coastwise, it would have formed an equalizing and protecting duty, and given some remedy to its natural disadvantages. " If this difference of situation affect the sub sistence of one class of the labouring poor in the home iistrict—the manufacturers—and attack the very existence of the manufacturers themselves; it produces effects no less fatal to the morals and in dustry of another—the workmen in husbandry. Before wood was almost extirpated there, the labourer could purchase firing : or, as it was of little value, much was given him, its scarcity has •diminished very mach, if not annihilated this supply, from the liberality or sufferance of its superiors; and its price renders him more ready to steal than able to buy. He- goes out in the night in search of it; and opportunities frequently present themselves to him at the same time of making other depredations; and the wood•stealer is thus tempted to become, and frequently does become, a robber of a still more dangerous character. This is one great in ductive cause of the profligacy which the poor are arrived at in the home district; and from which I conclude, that cheapness of firing has greatly tended to preserve those of the remote division. It is well known how much the flourishing state of r. country depends upon the morals of the lower class; and in the home district there is every cause in action to hring them into a state of degeneracy which can operate in the remainder of the kingdom, with almost an additional necessity imposed upon them by the dearness of fuel, of beginning the practice of night stealing." It might be instructive to sum up the advan tages which the lower orders of England derive front a Constitutional Legislature. They are not indebted to it for access to Justice, they are not indebted to it for Education. But they are indebted to it for the Game Laws, and in the home counties for the alternative of being starved to death, or becoming thieves. Perhaps Mr. Justice Vaughan may endeavour to make them sensible of these advantages in one of his next addresses. We yesterday promised to point out a few of the ways in which the poor have been sys tematically injured in England within the last fifty years. Before, however, entering on this subject, we call attention to an eloquent " appeal to the justice of his Judges and his country, from an agricultural labourer on his trial at Salisbury for machine-breaking," transmitted to us from that city, and which our readers will find in another column. The " agricultural labourer" alludes feelingly to the mockery from the judgment seat, that he was " indebted to the benevolence of the law for a provision against want," and shows that this pretended benevolence had been to him the extreme of cruelty. He shows that the state to which he had been reduced was the re sult of the violation of law by his superiors to wards him ; that he is informed " neither over seers have the power to make, nor Magistratcs to order, any payments to able-bodied labourers already in full work for individuals, and conse quently, that he had been deprived of the oppor tunity of earning fair wages, not by the law, but by i:s abuse and infraction ;" and he asks, " am I alone to suffer for breaking the law ?" We answer yes ; the laws are not made for the punishment of the rich, but to enable the rich more effectually to keep down the poor. There is no law in England for the poor, but abun dance of law against them. In vain he urges— " The object of the farmers and overseers, who contrived the practice, was, as I have said, to save the difference between the wages I should have re ceived as a farmer's labourer and the pittance I did receive as a parish pauper—to take this difference from me and put it into their own pockets. I will not presume to say the Magistrates shared this motive; but every Magistrate who owns land must in his rents experience the benefit of a contrivance which reduces the gross amount of wages and poor rate, at the expence of the unmarried and unburdened labourers." The arm of injustice is weakened by exposures of this nature. The farmer is the mere repre sentative of the landowner. The landowner profits by the injustice—profits by a violation of law. He is the receiver of the goods stolen from the labourer. 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