The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-04 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Mn! Ling 54 minutes after 51 Evening l5 minutes after 6 TO THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS OF ENGLAND. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the LI CENSED VICTUALLERS of BATH and its vicinity, held on MortnAY last, at the Thrt:e Cups Inn (Mr. Ralph, Pre sident of the Bath and Bath Forum Licensed Victualler? Associa tion, in the Chair), the foStowing Resolutions were unanimously adopted:— Moved by Mr. Wittsitlnis ; seconded by Mr. STRICKLAND, " That this Meeting believe it to be the duty and the interest of the Trade, to ;:e-operate with the Committees of the Metropolitan and the Provincial Associations in their exertions to resist the at tempts making by the Beer-shop-keepers further to encroach upon the interests of the Licensed Victuallers, and to obtain, if possible, during the approaching Session, some imp rovement i n t h e B eer Bill." Moved by Mr. J. HUNT; seconded by Mr. HAWKINS, di That this Meeting, seeing that " The Erav newspa7,er has been established for the furtherance of these objects, :lid the for mation of charitable institutions, is of opinion that every member of the Trade should be solicited to take in " The Era" newspaper ; and recommends to the Committee of the Bath Association the pro priety of adopting an immediate canvas:, ior that newspaper." Moved by Mr. HI/NT; seconded by Mr. Bicvvoon, " That the thanks of this ►Meeting be given to the deputation from London for their attendance that day, and valuable assistance." A vote of thanks to the Chairman for his able conduct in the chair was also cP.rried by acclamation. Feb. Ist, 1 , :,39, J. HUNT, Secretary. Similar o .emon.trations hare been made at Manchester, Birming ham, an , : Bristol. MISS PARDOE'S NEW WORK. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE ROMANCE OF THE HAREM By MISS PARDOE. Author of " The City of the Sultan," " The river and the Desart," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. lIIS Majesty the EMPIftOR of AUSTRIA, His Majesty the EM I 2-EROR of RUSSIA, And His Majesty ';.re KING of PRUSSIA. having AUTHORISED :'_ a d GUARANTEED several Distribu tions of Money, which ',though they are NO LOTTERIES, and do NOT EXPOSE "tie Shareholders t• Blanks) offer great many possibilities of obta,nirg L — ARGE FORTUNES, HEI',E BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NO7i SELLING SHARES for any of the said DISTRI BUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Distributions contain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TIVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS r,,nd upwards. Orders for lcss than 10/. cannot be attended to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving any order, the Prosrectus and Particulars, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELA V, a fine to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. ?'O OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 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Second Editions, containing the Debates in Par liament up to the hour of post, in the Evening as usual. N. B. The Paper will be ENLARGED, to the extent of about Eight columns of its present Size on Wednesday next, which will enable us to give the Debates more fully, a»d more of variety for those readers who do not, or have not time to read all the Debates. Tze puplication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 ;minutes past Three o' Clock. „tsa r '41 441 _4 0:001,, :Mr._ - :. .4 --- , . „ ft, „ :On e-- 4 .t ,, ,, 4 -'.,1,-',44,- r 1111 + LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1839. It is a common and cunning trick of pickpockets when they are detected and pursued to join in the cry of " stop thief," directing it against some °O ner person, and thus endeavouring to escape. This ;As the sort of tactics which are now pursued by the. Tory defenders of the Corn-laws. The bulk of the nation is clamorous against the landowners, for saving plun dered it, as is admitted by the Post, to the annual extent of 26 millions ; and now that they are com pletely detected, their advocates 'set up an impu3ent cry against the fraud and avarice of the manufacturers. They demand the repeal of the Corn-laws, and are met by the assertion that they want to commit a gross injustice. The Corn.-laws are said to be an act of justice, and the repeal an act of frand and violence. The landlords r,ut their hands violently into our pockets, and, worse than the common thief, they add to this viol:ition of our property the impudence of de claring tl)at they have a right to do so. Urader such a state of mutual excitement and mratual vituperation, we see with pleasure a calm, - philosophical, convincing article on the Corn-laws in the columns of the Monthly Chronicle, which demolishes a host of fallacies by dint of a single definition. The greater portion of it will appear in The Sun to-morrow, and will puzzle the Tories to refute it. The instant it is stated that the Corn-law is a prohi bition for the manufacturer to exchange his produce for food, the gross absurdity of such a restriction in a community that flourishes by trade, and the gross in justice of such a law proceeding from a Legislature which is bound, if it meddle with industry at all, to remove every impediment out of its path, becom e glaringly evident. By what right does the Legislator, who happens at the same time to be a landlord, de clare to the manufacturer that he shall not buy food by his own labour when and where he likes, and that 'he shall only buy it of the said landowner ? There can exist no such right, and the landowner who claims it seeks covertly to revive amongst us that sort of feudal vassalage when the landowners' serfs were obliged to buy from him permission to exercise a trade. The Corn-laws should be resisted, therefore, not on account of the pecu niary damage they cause to the community, though that is enormous ; not on account of the injury they do to our national greatness, though that, under their withering effect, is fast dwindling away ; but on account of the principle of slavery, as well as of injustice, which they enact, and which we consecrate by submission. We think the author alluded to might have gone further in his definition, and at once have stated that Corn-laws are a prohibition to procure food. They decree starvation, and it is very like folly to ask whe ther such a law ought to be suffered. It may indeed be a question whether the Legislature, which persists in maintaining such a law, should not at once be anni hilated like a horde of pirates, but there can be no doubt that the law ought instantly to be repealed. The only doubt that we ever entertain is this : the community has long tolerated this law, and has become a particeps criminis in the landlords' scheme of plunder and starva tion. It may therefore have no right to throw all the evil (if any) which may arise from the repeal on its partners in guilt ; it may be bound not to press exclu sively on them ; but we can have no doubt whatever that it ought instantly, now that it is sensible of hav ing long tolerated a flagrant injustice, to put an end to it. And what are the reasons, let us ask, on which this injustice is defended? One man says it costs more to grow wheat here than in Russia. Who can assure us of that ? Or, if it be so to-day, who can I convince us that % ziwing to some valuable discovery, it may not be, altered to-morrow ? But even if it were not 'so, how can any Legislature go into the profit and loss—examine the slovenliness or care—the sloth and enterprise, of bodies of industrious men here and abroad, in order to make them the basis of a law ? The idea is absurd, and the changing calcula tions perhaps beyond the reach of the human faculties. The result will depend on the sum expended on the worst farm and by the worst farmer, and a law calcu lated on such principles, will become a bounty on sloth, Ignorance, and negligence. To defend the Corn-laws on assumptions an price, in o pp os iti on t o ti:,e `. 1 .. calculations of relative plain principles of the duty of the Legislature and of justice, is nothing more nor less than excusing murder or robbery for its pecuniary advantage to the robber or the murderer. But even these pecuniary advantages have no existence, as is clearly demonstrated by an article from .Mr. It usToN, which appears elsewhere. Let us not be understood as exonerating the manu facturers from the charges of avarice and grasping. Those propensities they share with the whole com munity. They are not worse, however, than the landlords, but the Legislature treats them very differently. It embodies the grasping and the avarice of the land lords into a law, and gives a legal sanction to their vices. What the manufacturers now ask is, only to have fair play ; and what the Legislature ought to do is, to show no favour to either. At present the manufacturers justly complain of the greediness and avarice of the landlords as exhibited in a law to enhance the price of food ; and they ask to be relieved from that law, not to place a single burden or restriction on the landlords. To represent their demands as " gross injustice" can only proceed from the dullest intellect or shameless impudence. In conclusion, we must observe that we disagree with Mr. RUSTON as to placing a fixed duty on corn, to be lowered every year. As long as such a duty is in progress of abatement, agricultural operations, the taking of leases, and letting of farms, will be uncer tain ; and it is far better to come at once to those natural laws regulating production and distribution, which are as permanent as society. Moreover, Mr. RUSTON him self shows. that the landlord need not be alarmed at the price of wheat falling very low. For a year or two at least, on the contrary, the price will be high, and to continue a fixed duty, is really to give up all principle, and at once say that those who have hitherto plun dered us by law, arc to be rewarded for their crimes. It is reported that Mr. HuAtE is to move an amendment to the Address, if it do not contain an allusion to the Corn-laws. That would be perhaps unwise, as taking a decision before the question has undergone discussion. It would prejudge the whole matter. There are also many persons who would support a direct motion on the subject, who would oppose an amendment to the Address: It would seem, therefore, not to be prudent to act as it is reported Mr. HUME intends. As the Session approaches, however, a feverish excitement begins to manifest itself, which will not be abated by the " Na tional Delegates" having begun their proceedings be fore the National Parliament. They met to-day, and are now organizing their plans with discretion and zeal, which might be worthily imitated by higher assemblies. As to the Corn-laws, a good deal it is felt will depend in Parliament on the sentiments of Sir ROSERT PEEL- If he shows h;mself, as we hope he will, and as the Weekly Chronicle implies he will, favourable to the repeal, it will din be impossible for Ministers to lag behind him ; and . that which is most devoutly to be wished, nami.dy that the Legislature should voluntarily and gracefully do an act of justice, will come to pass. We are 'happy to announce the unqualified accept ance, by 'his Majesty the King of HOLLAND, of the Uhimatum of the London Conference, for the final settlement of the Hollando-Belgic question. His MAJESTY'S instructions to his Minister in London, iVI. DEDEL, to sign the definitive Treaty arrived last night. We trust Belgium will no longer madly persist in perilling the peace of Europe. Enough has been done to entitle her to quit the contest with honour. The plot thickens in the East. The " cloud" which political seers have been so long watching for, is apparent above the horizon of Persia. What effects the excessive caution of some Powers, the excessive timidity of others, and the mutual jealousy of all, may have upon the consequences threatened by the storm now gathering from the shores of the Caspian to the banks of the Indus, we presume not to predict. In the meantime we copy from the Augsburg Gazette, received to-day, the following significant para graph from the Constantinopolitan correspondence of that semi-official organ of the Cabinet of St. Pe tersburgh CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 10.—Mr. M'Neil is expected here. It is said that he has left Persia because he could not come to an understanding with the Schah. Hence it is be lieved that hostilities will certainly begin between the East India Company and Persia. This, at least, is the opinion of mod of the English merchants here. Lord Ponsonby ex presses much displeasure at the conduct of Mirza Mohammed. He finds that his character was misunderstood, and that he should not have been placed on the Throne of Persia. Mirza Mohammed, therefore, plays a very hazardous game if he should really quarrel with England, so as to oblige the East India Company to employ all the means that it has at its com mand to depose him. These means are great, and of many kinds ; to which the Schah must inevitably yield, unless he apply to Russia for aid. But, from what we hoar, it seems that the Schah really enjoys the friendship of Russia, which may certainly make the Cabinet of London and the East India Company more cautious, and remove the apprehensions of an invasion of the Persian terri tory, nay, even excite an expectation of the evacuation of the island of Karrak by the English, on which the Schell insists. Meantime the armaments in the Russian ports are said to proceed without interruption, and every preparation to be making in case war should be inevitable. The same is doing at Malta. Accounts from Malta state that the English squadron in the Mediterranean will soon be increased to thrice its present strength. A part of the English fleet stationed at Malta is placed on the war establishment. Three first rates are to leave the road in a few days to re pair to Smyrna, and, if circumstances should require, take up their station off the Dardanelles. The dissolution of the French Chamber of Deputies —no longer a matter of any uncertainty—occupies the whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Satur day. We have elsewhere given the ltoyal Ordinance for the dissolution, followed by a Ministerial defence of the conduct of the KING in having recourse to a policy very liable to misconception, in a country to which the exercise of Constitutional forms are yet so novel, as to be but very imper fectly understood b) the great body of the elec tors. Some of the French Journalists, ignorant of the simplest principles of Constitutional Government, and likewise a Morning Contemporary, who shares , largely in their ignorance, are in the utmost alarm at the present position of political affairs in France. The latter, after describing the conduct of the KING as little better than that of CHARLES X., and denounc ing the resolution of the Sovereign, with the advice of his Ministers, to appeal to the nation, as a coup d'etat, similar to the fatal ordinance of the Polignac M,lnistry, asks with great gravity if " insanity do no,t prevail over the fate and in the Councils of France ;•" Might not the same question have been put when WILLIAM the FOURTH preferred Sir ROBERT PEEL to Lofd MELBOURNE, and, with the advice of his Ministers, appealed to the nation whether the Sovereign or the House of Commons represented public feeling? The conduct of L O UIS PHILIPPE up to the d a t e of tht late ordi n a nc e no one can defend. It h as b een at va riance with every principle of a 1 .11 - nitea Mo narc h y an d a responsible Goverint ; but his last act, so far from being arbitrary, or unconstitutional, or insane, is the very reverse, and the only one, indeed, which a Con stitutional KING, under such circumstances, could adopt, He considers himself right, and M. THIERS wrong, and before yielding he asks the advice of his people. When that decision is given, the world will be able to judge whether he is the madman repre sented—whether he will rule without a Parlia ment, or by and with their advice ; but to condemn him at present for a step which has been almost invariably pursued by our own Sovereigns, and which in fact has proved the safety of the Throne, amounts to something like the folly of contending for a Constitutional Government, and repudiating the great and main principle on which it is founded. The aspect of affairs in France ought to be cause of re joicing to every friend of liberty, and to none more than to Louis PHILIPPE himself. It shows that the French begin to estimate the use ofrepresentative G overn - went, and wish to controul the Sovereign through their Representatives, in place of resorting to their old prac tice of rising in rebellion, substituting one Sovereign for another, and relapsing again into submission, till some new grievance compelled them again to change the dynasty. Nor are we without fancying that we perceive another reason, and, to our thinking, a very satisfac tory one, for the dissolution of the Chamber of Depu ties by the KING at the present moment. It is well known that were the Opposition to come into power now the first act of the new Cabinet would be to in struct Belgium to resist the Ultimatum o(the London Conference. To this policy M. THEERS is already pledged, and we know enough of him to feel certain, that in this particular instance he would amply re deem it. France would thus be dragged into a collision with four of the Great Powers, for against the Belgians Louis PHILIPPE dare not bare a blade. Thus the peace of Europe would be rendered subsidiary to the triumph of a Mi nistry. Now it is very clear that before the new Chamber can meet, the Belgian question will not only be settled, but we trust well-nigh forgotte❑ ; and then the KING may, without danger, bow as lowly as a Pump-room master of the ceremonies to the im perative behests of the electoral colleges. The latest advices from Madrid are of the 26W ult., but they contain no intelligence—metropolitan or pro vincial—of any British interest. We have not room to-day for the (we trust) final protocol of the London Conference for the settlemen t of the Belgian question, with its all but interminable notes of reference ; but we shall endeavour to snake room for it to-morrow. The Corn-law Delegates met to-day, and by passing the following resolution place their cause in the hands of Mr. VILLIERS "That Mr. Villiers, having in the last session of Parliament, given notice of his intention to move in the ensuing session for the repeal of the Corn-laws, be rcqueste.l to place on the books of the House of Commons a notice of motion on the earliest convenient day, with a view to their total repeal." MEETING OF THE NATIONAL DE LEGATES.--(THIS DAY.) A preliminary meeting of the above body was held this day at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street, for the purpose of dis cussing th 2 rules laid down by the Committee, relative to the constitution and formation of the National Convention. Mr. Douglas (delegate from Birmingham) was Chairman, at the commencement of the proceedings, who began the prelimi nary business of the day by reading ever the names of the delegates present, with the number of signatures to the peti tions from their several districts, and the amount of National Rent reported by each delegate. They were as follows: Birmingham and surrounding districts 94,643, 167/. ; Staf.. ford 2,000, —l. ; Fifeshire 45,000, —1 ; The Potteries 12,000, 101. ; Ashton-under-Lyne 13,000, —1 ; North Wales 3,461, 371. ; Monmouthshire 5,500, 101. ; Edinburgh 5,000, —/. ; Dunfermline 16,000, 33/. ; Glasgow and liber ties 84,000, 60/. ; Newcastle-on-Tyne 55,000, .--1., Lanca shire 20,000, 1001 ; portion of Wiltshire 5,000, 301. ; Metropolitan district 19,000, 15/. ; Manchester district 40,000, .__....1. ; Yorkshire (West Riding) 52,000, 2251.; Preston 7,000, :5/. ; Nottingham —, 501. ; For farsbire 17,000, 281. ; Oldham 13 566, —L ; Newport (Isle of Wight), —, 101. ; Ayrshire, 13,000, 130/. ; Bol ton, —, 251. ; Carlisle, —, 50/. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the next business for the meeting to transact, was the election of a Chairman for the day. A DELEGATE observed, that it would be a matter for con sideration whether the Chairman should be elected perma. nently, or day by day. The CHAIRMAN said the Delegate was referring to the Chairmau of tho Convention, which was in fact not yet formed. It was then moved and seconded, that Bailie Hugh Craig, (delegated from Ayrshire), should be Chairman of the day, which was carried unanimously. An eloquent and impressive prayer was then offered up by Dr. Wade (who is a delegate from Nottingham). After which, the meeting proceeded to the election of a Secretary, and were discussing this business when our Reporter left. Mr. Lovett ( Secretary to the Working Man's Association), and Mr. Handley (from Birmingham) were severally proposed. MEETING OF THE DELEGATES ON THE ANTI-CORN-LAW QUESTION. A meeting of Anti-Corn-lawDelegates took place to-day, at one o'clock, at Brown's H o t e l, W estminster, to consider the measures to be adopted in the ensuing Session. The resolutions agreed to at the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, were adopted by the Delegates. About two o'clock, Mr. Ewart, Dr. Bowrin g, an d M r. Vil liers, M. P., entered the room. Mr. Tho rne l y , M . P., and Col. Thompson were also present. A Deputation from the London Anti-Corn-law Association attended. Mr. AIKKN proposed that Mr. Parkes should be app o i n t e d Agent to the A n ti-C orn -L aw Association, and Mr. Austen Counsel. The same gentleman recommended that steps should be immediately taken to secure an interview with Lord Melbourne. The CHAIRMAN said, that many delegates having conscien tioui objections to travelling on Sundays, only a few delegates had yet arrived; to-morrow, or nest day, more active measures could be taken. After some discussion, it was agreed that the motion for ap pointing Counsel, &c., be postponed till to-morrow, when there would be a full attendance of Delegates, and when a Committee co u ld b e appointed. Several Delegates expressed their strong opinion as t o the importance o f us i ng every effort to gain permission from the House of Commons to have evidence beard at the bar. The TOWN CLERK of Stockport proposed that Mr. Villiers, M. P., should be requested to be the Parliamentary Advocate of the Anti. Corn -law cause. Mr. VILLIkes said he could not see the necessity of such a course. It might appear invidious to other Members. There could be no doubt that he would be always in his place, and ready to do whatever he could for the cause.—( Hear.) Mr. ASHURST remarked that some expectation had been en tertained that Mr. Hume would, on the Address, move an amendment with an A nti -Corn-law tendency a course which might prejudice the success of the cause.—(dear.) Dr. HO WRING suggested it would be as well that Mr. Villiers bring should o give theq notice u e s ti 0 t n. o : 1 210rroz ( li e : This was ultimately agreed to, and it was se'tled that the r tb h a e t ar, on .) a certain day Le s h o uld Delegates should meet to-morrow at 11. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW:-. CITY (TEIS DA Vi, TWELVE 0' CLO CK The Royal William steamer has arrived from New York, left the 16th January, by which we have received papers to the 17th January, Jamaica papers to the 26th December, state that the Le gislature had been prorogued, after a short meeting ; the As sembly and the Governor had separated under the influence of highly excited feeling 3; the Assembly appears determined to adhere to the resolutions passed by that Assembly, on the subject of taxation, and that subject is again to be referred to her Majesty's Ministers. The 'Gibraltar Chronicles to the 20th January, and Malta Papers to the 9th Jan. do not contain news of any importance. According to the accounts from Brussels, some fear was en tertained that disturbances would have taken place, owing to the popular demonstrations on the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives on Jan. 1. Two battalions of infantry and a squadron of guards was arranged in order of battle, over facing the Chamber of Deputies. Fifty gendarmes formed the police, preventing crowds from assembling. A battalion was shut up in the Palace ; a half-battery of artillery was placed in the Court-yard of the ancient palace of the Prince of Orange. General Buzen bad the Command in -Chief, and refused the aid of the civic guard. At the first signal of pillage, orders were given to fire. THIL FUNDS. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 02f, buyers for the Account, opened this morning at 92i for Money and the Account, with little doing as yet'; Exchequer Bills, 66 68 ; India Bonds, 62 64; Bank Stock, 202,E 203; India Stock 2541 255 i. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which closed on Saturday 201 has receded to I9y -1, a fall of 1 per cent. ; Portuguese, 35} ; Three per Cents. 24 ; Belgian, 98i- 99 ; Brazilian, 791 60; Colombian, 28}; Mexican, 23124; I)utch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., b4i ; Five per Cents. 1021 1. - The Jamaica Papers state that the speech of the Governor was extremely mild, the following is an extract : " I very much regret having been compelled to convene this new General Assembly, at a season when absence from your homes may be attended with personal inconvenience, but a sense of the difficulties likely to ensue from the want of those important laws now about to expire, would not permit me to forego the earliest opportunity of appealing to you for their renewal, and I feel assured your zeal for the public service will supersede all other considerations. ",Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly.—ln provid ing for the financial exigencies of the island, I hope you will be able to meet the claims of the public creditor, with a due regard for the interests of your constituents." PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 4.03 .2;4 I 3 per Cent. Red. 93!4 !di I 3 per Cent Cons. 9 ^ Ts !i 3 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 64 62 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities 90% Ditio Red. 100%% I New Ditto New 3% per Cent 99 7, „ 100, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities tocxpire . Ditto 5OO ...... CS 10 pin. Jan. 5, 1800 ls' Ditto Small 6B 63 pm. Oct. ln, 1959 — Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 —l Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — I Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1880 --; India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 —' Consols for Account 99 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds ' Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, n per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditti Account Chilian Bonds 1) tto Account Columbian Bonds — . Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic.. Coluinbian Bonds, 1824 — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account .B,t, Sl % I Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account —; Ditto Account 19 3 4 4% ISN Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. ...... ... —II —c , . Ditto Bonds, 18 0 ...5 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... —-- Exchange. Ditto Account , Dutch, `Ni per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account ...54't % Ditto Account Neapolitan I Ditto Account 102% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ,_ Paid. R 'a I del Monte Mining Co., Registered G3l. lOs. Gd. Ditto Unregistered — Great Western Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway i o , don and Birmingham ' Railway Company 9O Ditto 1 4 Shares 5 London and Croydon Railway Company l6/. Bs. Ditto New Scrip London Grand Junction Railway .. .. ..... . ._ .. Per Shal e. N ain Midland Railway Company 55 Bahia Steam , - Colonial Bank - Ditto Scrip General Steam Navigation Company ......... ;PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DU :MIN, FEB. 2. • ~ , r 4 3 per Cent. Consols 336 per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced - Ditto New, 1830 ...... - 33.1 per Cent. Debentures Batik Stoc k. -ICity Debentures, 4 per cent.... Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock - BELGIAN I. UND Actual Debt, 254 per Ce Rothschild's Loan, 5 pc) Loan of Thirty Millions Ballast Office Debentures,4 per cent — /S—BRUSSELS, FEB. 2 ent. r Cent. 96% T, 4 per Cent. BfN 3 per Cent. 66 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 5l . _ • - National Sejiety : - —Brussels Papers, Feb. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 25 Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. e AI Bank Shares l4 '3,', —AligemeincZeitung. Jan. 30. HALF-PAST ONE. His Excellency Sir Lionel Smith made the following answer to the Address of the House of Assembly of Jamaica : " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " The tone of your Address is a source of extreme regret to me. " I have the satisfaction, however, of reflecting that my conduct has not provoked it. " I have ever been governed by a desire to cultivate the best understanding with both branches of the Legislature, and have only been frustrated in that object by the policy you have thought proper to pursue this Session." During the discussion in the House of Assembly on Dec. 21, the door being still locked, the Provost Marshal made his appearance for the third time, and repeated the three knocks as before. This not being immediately attended to, he pro ceeded with a loud voice to desire the immediate attend ance of the House in the Queen's name, in the Coun cil Chamber. On the division, the door was thrown open,- and that officer appeared at the Bar, repeating the summons, upon which the Speaker and the whole House went up, when his Excellency was pleased to close the short and eventful Session with the following Speech. " Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly— " I return the Council my grateful acknowledgments for the desire expressed by them to proceed with public business, thereby endeavouring to serve the best interests of the colony, and I have to congratulate them, that no proceedings of theirs have tended to bring this Session to so unsatisfactory a con clusion. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " The authority of the Imperial Parliament to legislate for the Colonies has been gratuitously denied by the late House of As sembly in the declaration that what was passed by the Lords and Commons of the Empire, and sanctioned by the Sovereign, ought to have no power or effect in this colony. I did my duty in appealing to the sense of the electoral body ; and I remark with regret that the majority of you, Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, in pursuing the same destructive course, con sider such conduct corroborated by the full' and cordial sanction of the constituency of the island. " Although I am fully; sensible of the dangers' and difficulties to which your resolution exposes your country and my Administration, I shall be found firm at my post, and, without resorting to that phy sical strength' alluded to by you, I am confident I shall be able to, defend the weak, to punish oppression, and to uphold the majesty of the law. Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly— " I do now, in her Majesty's name, prorogue this General Assembly to Tuesday, the sth day of February next; and it is hereby prorogued accordingly." We have important information this morning from France, Jamaica, and Mexico—from the former, the dissolution of the Chambers ; from the second (Jamaica) the still absolute conduct of the House of Assembly, obliging the Governor to prorogue that body. From Mexico, General Santa Anna, after having joined the Government, attacked the French and drove them out of Vera Cruz. The accounts from Lis bon are rather of a favourable nature. Consols are heavy at present, 92f for the Account; Money 921- ; Exchequer Bills lower, 68 66 ; India Bonds, 64 62 ; Bank Stock, 203 202 i. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active is very heavy—re ceded to 181 19 ; Portuguese, 351 ; Three per Cents., 221 ; Belgian, 99} ; Brazilian, 794 a ; Colombian, 28} ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. 54f f • Five per Cents., 102+ Most of the Fo r ei gn F un ds a re fieavy, and receded. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, Oil. BRIGHTON, SATURDAY —Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta continues to suffer from a severe cold ; but, from inquiries made this morning, it was stated that her Royal Highness had passed a favourable night and was rather better, Lora John Russell's Parliamentary dinner to-day takes place at the Foreign Office instead of his Lordship's private residence In Wilton•crescent. Invitations have been sent to about forty Ministerial Members. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset gave a sump tuous dinner at Wimbledon on Friday last to a select party. The Countess do Sells had a dinner party on Friday evening at her residence in Carlton-gardens ; in the latter part of the evening there was a '.carpet dance." The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and Lord An son arrived by the railway at Euston-grcve on Saturday, at two p.m., from Banton Abbey, Staffordshire. The noble Postmaster-General will dine with Lord Melbourne to-day, in Downing.street. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, and Lady Charlotte Hill, have left Easthampstead Park, Berks, for Montreal, near Sevenoakes, on a visit to the Earl Amherst. The Noble Marquis returned to town to-day, to dine with the Conservative Peers at Apsley House. Her Majesty's private visa to Drury-lane Theatre, to see Van Amburg's lions fed, has caused such inquiries at the box-office for a public exhibition of it, that it will take place to-night, immediately after the opera. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBItrAItY 4, 1839 CIRCUITS. (Before Lord ABINGER andHOME Mr. Justice Talrrimate.) Hertfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Hertford. Essex—Monday, March 4, at Chettnsford. Kent—Monday, March 11, at Maidstone. Sussex—Monday, Marc h 18 , at Lewes. Surrey—Monday, March . '2,5 , at Kingston.upon.Thame3. WESTERN. (Before Mr. Bare--. GURNEY and Mr. Justice ERSKINE.) Southampton—..fhursday, Feb. 28 , a t Wi nc h es t er . Wilts—We'...nesday March 16, at New Sarum. Dorset— iuesday, March 12, at Dorchester. I)eeon —Monday, March 18, at Exeter. City of Exeter—Same day. CA,,nwall—Tuesday, March 26, at Bodmin. Somerset—Tunday, April 2, at Taunton. 'he Earl of Durham, we are informed, has con sented to preside at the ensuing anniversary dinner of the Printersl be ' Pemea ns nsion Society. We trust hi s Lordship's presence wil the ' of attracting a large company and liberal subscriptio , i in aid of this very useful institution. An clec. tion of more pensioners, lie see, will take place on the 11th of March. SIR JOHN BARROW. " I have received no favors from the present Board of Ad miralty—l have asked none—l expect none—l do my duty to the best of my ability—Conservative as I am, ever have been, and aver shall be." "JOHN BARROW." —( Extract from the Times, Jan 24.) Now here appears a fine, independent principle ; but though Sir John, by his own showing, is thoroughly so, as regards the present Board, how stands the case of the obligations the worthy Baronet owes to the Whigs, to the party to which the present Board belong. Sir John Barrow's son, William Barrow, was given the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy, 28th of October, 1829, by Lord Melville, fourteen lon. years after the peace : he consequently, from his then age, could not have served one hour in war. Two years and a half afterwards, on the 9th May, 1832, he was promoted to the rank of Com mander by a then Whig, Sir James Graham, over the heads of old meritorious officers, in both promotions—men who had borne the " Battle and the Breeze." Again, under a similar preference to better c4iims, Commander Barrow was appointed to a fine sloop, the Ruse, on the 24th of June, 1834, by a Whig First Lord, Lord Auckland. Questions to Sir John Barrow : Without the most distant thought of calling in question the value and character of Commander Barrow, what were his professional claims, to be thus early and rapidly ad vanced and employed, to the detriment of others of long and arduous services ? Though Sir John has neither asked, received, or ex pected favors, from the present people, did he obtain those showered on his von without asking?—(Receive he cer tainly did ) •• Conservative as I am, ever have been, and ever shall be," did he condescend to ask and receive benefits, un earned by length of service, &c., to the prejudice of others —from the Whigs ? SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE. MONDAY, FEn. 4. LORD GREAT CUAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 2. All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being pre sent on the occasion of her Majesty opening Parliament, on Tuesday, the sth of February, will have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if the announcement be made at this Oflice before five o'clock on Monday evening, the 4th of February. . . _ No lady can be admitted into the body of the House ex cept in full dress. No strangers will be admitted, except by a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain's Office. The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock. (Signed) WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY, G. C. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The fourth Session of this Court, in the present Nlayoraity, commenced this morning in the Old Court, before the Right Hon. the Recorder, Aldermen Lainson, Alderman White, and the usual Civic authorities. The RECORDER, in his address to the Grand Jury, remarked that the large number of prisoners awaiting their trial (up wards of 300), was probably owing to the long interval which had taken place since the S ssions was last holden. His Lordship observed, that though there was only one case of murder, there were several very serious charges. In reference to the case of John Bull, charged with the murder of William Itushbroke, at Hoxton, he said the Jury would have to decide if the killing took place under feelings of provocation or terror, or whether it was 'done with malice, In the event, however, of their not being able on the evidence to come to a clear decision either way, it might be advisable, by finding a bill against the prisoner, to put the case in course of regular investigation before the Petit Jury. Although there is only one case of murder on the calendar at present, it is believed the Grand Jury will shortly have to consider one or two others. Some excuses were urged by persons who had been sum. moved as Jurymen, which were highly curious. For instance, in one case a medical certificate was produced, stating that the person summoned was " indisposed." On which the Re corder gravely observed, that doubtless the gentleman was " indisposed" enough to discharge his duty as Juryman—( A laugh)—a more explicit certificate, however, must be pre sented. Another said he laboured under dyspepsia, and could not stand long abstinence from food.—(Laughter.) The Recorder said the Juryman could retire for ten minutes at one o'clock, and would go away at five: surely that was eating enough for the most dyspeptic. —(Loud laughter.) A worthy " citizen of credit and renown," earnestly urged that he was an overseer. _ 10 ~i 77 9% ►'o 29% Alderman LAINSON asked how many overseers there were for that parish ? Applicant replied eight. RECORDER—Oh, they can spare one.—(Laughter.) COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and her August Mother attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard, from the Revelations, chap. 22d, and verses 16th, 17th. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Wesley, and the altar service by the Bishop of London, the Sub-Dean, and the Rev. Mr. Knapp. The chants were by Beethoven and Hawes. The Te Deem and Jubilate were King's in F. The Sanctus by Hawes. The commandments by Nares. The anthem, " God is our 11, , pe and Strength" ( Greene), was sung by Messrs. Sale, Welch, Evaas, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Barham, Marchioness of Tavistock, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Harriet Clive, Lord Lilfurd, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Robert Otway, and Colonel Wemyis. Lady Flora Hastings was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty and suite returned in three carriages to the New Palace. The Sacrament was administered at the Chapel Royal by the Bishop of London, assisted by the Sub- Dean and the Rev. Mr. Knapp. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at the New Palace. The Royal Dinner Party, on Saturday evening, included the Marchioness of Tavistock, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Clarence Paget, Lord George Paget, Mr. and th• Hon. Mrs. Hamilton. Her Majesty took equestrian exercise on Saturday after noon in the riding house at Pimlico. Viscount Melliourne had an audience on Saturday of her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Royal German Chapel in South Audley-street, Miss Kerr and Major Stephens were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. The Duchess of Cambridge attended Divine Service yes terday morning in the Royal German Chapel. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. Her Royal Highness was attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck. The Duchess of Cambridge sat to Mr. Hayter on Satur day, for the great picture of her Majesty's Coronation. The Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Major Stephens, honoured Covent-garden with their presence on Saturday evening. Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with Viscount Mel bourne on Saturday, in Downing-street. The Russian Ambassador and Don Vicente Paps transacted business on Saturday, at the Foreign Office. Major M'Phail and Captain Hobson had interviews with Lord Glenelg on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. The Earl of Lismore and family arrived at Farrance's Hotel yesterday, from Paris, for the season. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council Chamber, to consider the petitions of certain Sergeants at Law—Sergeants Teddy, Wilde, Spankie, Atcherley, and Merewcther —relative to the exclusive privilege of practising in her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. The Lords present were the Lord Presi dent, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Denman, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, Lord Wynford, Lord Brougham, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Vice-Chancellor, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Vaughan, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the High Court of Ad miralty. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Mr. C. AUSTIN resumed, and concluded his address in sup. port of the petition, the prayer of which was—" That her Ma jesty may be advised that the Sergeants-at- Law are entitled to exclusive audience in the said Court of Common Pleas, and to order such measures to be taken in regard to the premises as will restore to the said Sergeants-at-Law the exercise of the rights and privileges which they have immemorially enjoyed." The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General were af terwards heard by their Lordships. Mr. Austin was heard in reply. The following is the form of the Sergeant's oath which was read by the Attorney-General : " You shall swear well and truly to serve the King's peo ple as one of the Sergeants-at-Law; and that you sitall truly counsel them that you be retained with, after your cunning ; and you shall not defer or delay their causes willingly for cove tise of money, or other thing that may turn you to profit, and you shall give due attendance accordingly, so help you God." The Court rose at four o'clock. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, in Belgrave-square, from their seat, Buchannan Castle, D u mbartonshire ; Lord and Lady Beresford, in Cavendish-square, from their seat, Bedgehury Park, Hants ; Sir John and Lady Shelley, in Bel grave-square, from Scrathfieldsaye ; Lord Harrowby and Lady Harriet Ryder, in Grosvenor-square, from Landon Hall, Staf fordshire; Mr. Errington, in Hill-street, from the seat of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., Hooton Hall, Cheshire ; the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere ; Mr. Buller, M. P., in Park-cres cent; the Right Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng and family, in Eaton.square ; and Mrs. Cox and family, in Grosvenor-place, from Hillingdon; the Right Hon. Tennyso n D'Eyncourt, in 'Park-street, from Lincolnshire; Sir Francis Burdett, in St. James-place, from Ashby-de-la- Zouch ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond, in Belgrave-square, from Brighton ; Lord George Bentinck, at Harcourt House, Cavendish-square ; the Hon. Mrs. Norton, at Mr. Charles Sheridan's, in Bolton-street. Sir John Shelley, Bart., has taken a villa at Par son's•green, Fulham, for the spring. The Hon. Bart. intends to break up his largo establishment in l3elgrave-square. ON FRItE TRADE IN CORN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. , SIR,—In calling the attention of th e p ublic to the subject Wit " Free Trade in Corn," I am aware' I may be told I alp °i d repeating that which many others h av e often written upon's° that with more forcible arguments than I can make use of:to Long habit has so accustomed the pu blic to p a y from 8 e• it lod. for a 41b. loaf, that they never s to p to in q uire whetbFr4 is right they should pay it or no t. If p eo p le think at all an it, they are apt to consider it chea p at 7d. or 8(1., becau s e 4 has been-scarcely ever below that price for the last 30 and when it rises to 9d. 10d. or I Id., it naturally strikes tli° as the effect of seasons. consumers eirtssaorehatphpeehnasrtdhatwtohrekilnagrgepomratijoonrityofefththee egorrucaint lusnrid; and others with large families; and these have not the 1 7, b a d of judging what it is prevents bread from being lower; • ". 0 think about it, their thoughts on the subject extend onlY comparison of prices within the reach of t heir own mentoriot ii and as they can all remember much h i g her p rices, they $l, down content when (what they think) mo d e rate p rices prev.ols never dreaming that Acts of Parliament prevent them their loaf at a much lower price when the bounty of Pr e ar det.cy would permit it. f eye Many are aware no doubt, but few to whom it is o most consequence, are aware, or never think of it, that l, moment the landowners are threatened by a bountiful Pr°l(jo deuce with a good crop, up they start with their readY•elB,27 Act of Parliament called the Corn Bill, and say to th e millions of people, '° No ; this bounty on the part of Providee_cap may bu very well for all other nations — they may cat drug bread, if th&r rulers please to let them, but it won't 6 ° 3 j landlords of this little island to let you do so : we have tastep:i and always enjoyed (in our times) the sweets of high rents, l!ust we will still continue to do so as long as we can, which is J o , as long as you will permit us ; and as you (the people) 1),10 never, in your times, enjoyed the sweets ty: low prices, Y °° ,o not know any better, and therefore you do net miss it, hee'tse lour ignorance of the cause makes you rest cooteut with effect." edit t° lam stating no more than fact, nor do I take t he er- 00 myself of stating anything new ; some few dozen persoos written to the same purport, but unfortunately dozens t he/ write in vain, if the millions won't read , a nd act wilah t have read. My friend's calculations, so often to be seen in the Prl ii newspaper, under the head of the City article, are pert true, where he shows that the same money will buy T wo le° 4 of bread at Dantzic or Hamburg , that here in England re, must pay fur oars ; and in Paris, Amsterdam, and other &L ie n nut sixty hours' journey from hence , bread is almost as o°4; I know you cannot go to Danisic or Hambur g to eat Y°o bread, but that is no reason why Dantzic or Hamburg sboesi not be permitted to send it to your own doors, that you n i eat it as cheap as possible. If what is called a protection to our landlords is ne cessal l: surely the expense of bringing wheat from Poland, P0110 111 ;0 Mecklenburg, &c., is a large one—being fully 15s. a g uar , , ' from the places in which it is actually grown in those countribis to the time it is actually consumed here ; and observe, thet protection is exclusive of any duty on its arrival here , so that f difficulties that naturally exist in the carriage and t rans p ort, corn are largely in favour of the home grower without creete)! artificial barriers to the suppl c food. Far more noise was made about gr. Pitt's tax upon the light b d s the sun than is made about the landlords' tax upon the stoula r , of the people, because that tax was felt by a desc ri p tion of Peer sons who knew how to make their voices heard in the Pol o , quarter; whilst the millions who are paying the bread tax e ve ii meal they eat, are nearly unconscious they pay any tax at so insidious are the Corn-laws. the So far then all I have written only goes to show that bo landlords enjoy a tax on corn, and that the people, sv a l are least able, pay the greatest part of it ; but I shall show enough unless I prove that notwithstanding all the cico cekoneuoprut in my n a g g h em t o feed e ete office, given the f people, ehe fo the t lan a d s o t w r t i wnteer appears y_ they e igbbty have years,a o u ncc no tts I t he foreign arrivals of all sorts of grain and flour in the P ° 'l of London, that it has amounted to an annual average„., ° / about 300,000 quarters, notwithstanding the almost excl ue l duties. I take it that London on an average has impotte one-third of the whole of the kingdom; aid with all the t elusive system, we have had about an annual average i01.,13'9,. of near two millions of all sorts of corn, and to get tbis (1:;; tity what an enormous tax. the landed interest nuact i be squeezed out of the people on all that they have groS ° uw cause they have a sure guage to guide them, as they ,o by the graduated scale of duties they have nothing to (0).4 long as they can keep the top price of wheat anything 85s. per quarter. So a little refit ction will show the eett f mous tax the people pay on about forty m illion quarters 0f c gdw o u.e r t come ; should.: rn: w e o t grown k eaen sode n p u a tl them surelyl paying y e , a b net from this advanced ai t ns h s ctn e ea y udr t starving cpiaarn price ei et a bout two millions l at es g w o h n h : esnta fortytae of million tpinchhi n a g c s t t q , u ti a h o tern annually to support high rents on poor lands o r on 41.11 land whatever. Land is the commodity of the landlord the same as al other article is that of any merchant, trader, or shopkeeP e e ; and they have no exclusive laws to protect them; then siisJe .l' should the landlord have any ? If the landlords paid a ll 5 , Poor-rates, Tithes, County-rates, and all the State Telco, then indeed they might have a pretext for protection, bet tad , then the taxing of bread would be too odious to be tolerate so It is not even the interest of the landlord to retain the r e laws, for they have this bad effect the last six years, that c ° „ merchants have had their capital locked up in bonded gr s ',: which otherwise would have been employed in holding th e plus wheat grown during the said years, so that whenever produce more (be it ever so little) than we can actually ee:;4 sume, down goes the price, from the inability of farmers $ t merchants to hold it over, the landlords having taken care tl3ll, the farmer shall not be in a condition to do so, by keePl his rents high, and at the same time showing him the C el t ) Bill as a pretext, and after all, he cannot pay all he enegle to do, though I must say, the landlords have very genero us t o given him back 20 to 25 per cent., which I have often done it my debtors under a more proper title, " say Bankrupt LaW s ' but then my generosity has not been stuck in the papers. the By the working of the Corn Bill we virtually say to , merchants at Dantzic and other places, " We will not t3l sack of your wheat at the moderate:prices you offer it at. 1.4° ',. we will wait until our necessities oblige us to give you 2 05, o 30s. more than you would be willing to take or we can afford 0 give, with this disadvantage, that we show you our help situation as we go on, so that the Dantzigers may with t' n , more safety take every advantage of it, and having clearly ee et fessed our urgent wants, you would be to blame if you did n'/, profit all you could by our folly." So we either import larg e b u s at a very high price, or we take not at all, which causes t prices to go very low at times on the Continent : by this tins% tied and widely fluctuating state of the corn trade the foreig cultivator gets but little for his corn. The merchants of Il e : cessity must get it low to insure them against loss by our caPr i i cious laws; and hence the boors and serfs live in a state 4) poverty, when, under a different system, they would constitu t " . thousands of our best customers fur our manufacturers. I wish to observe, for the satisfaction of our landlords, tbat they need be under very little alarm, for the price of w heat being so low at times on the Continent is not because the Y 4 the foreigners, can afford to grow it so low, but because we Wii nut take any. Wheat does not get down to 255. or 30s. pei, quarter at Dantzic because the farmers in Poland can grow " at 20s. Certainly not; the low price (at times) is caused by the reasons I have before stated. If we had a free trade id corn up we uld instantly get their price of land, labour, aP e charges of all sorts, to a price corresponding with ours ; 0 " but the merchant's profit of a shilling or two after adding freight and other expenses to England of full lOs. per Tear - - ter ; this in itself is a protection to our landlords, and quite a; much as they ought to expect ; there ought to be no legislativ e interposition with the bounty of Providence. I have purposely avoided naming the farmers in anythieg• I have written, because I am satisfied, and I believe they are also nearly all satisfied, that the Corn Bill does thent no good ; I know that they very generally see it so, and veil properly term it exclusively a landlords' Bill. What signifies it to the farmers in general ? Nothing. Nor can it signiff, unless they could all at once, and ail of them, get new sou, long leases at the low rents of forty or fifty years ago, an then such a Corn Bill might indeed do them some good; bu t as it is, the landlords, to say the least of it, get every shilling and more than the farmers can afford, or ought to afford, to pay, and the very best of them do but just live, and that they must and would do, if there were no Corn-laws at all. Of course I have heard it asserted that the farmer pays the poor-rates—that I grapple with at once, by boldly denying that he does ; because there is no man who takes a feral (if he is not an idiot), without first ascertaining what the poor-rates arc, and taking them into his calculation. Then it would appear to follow as a matter of course that the landlord pays the poor-rates if the farmer does not' but not so, for he has taken care the last forty years to more than doubly protect himself by Corn-laws, which have caused such an advance in the price of corn and land , in consequence, that even if he does pay it (all), still h e has not only nothing to complain of, but is a gainer to a very large amount. But it is the public who keep the poor in the end.-- it is the public who pay all of this rate and all others, in the price of the produce of the land ; and even if the landlords did actually pay all, why should they not do so? Ought not the soil of any country to keep the inhabitants of that country Tell me if you can why the land should not keep the aged , decrepid, fatherless, and widows, in short, all the really neces' sitous ; or why the landlords should stand between the bountY of Providence and the hungry stomachs of their fellow-crea tures, merely because they are the landlords, and per conse quence the law-makers ; and which fact of being the landlords they can all trace to mere accidental circumstances? There is no divine right in being a landlord—it is fortunate, and no thing more. To elucidate what the tax on wheat (commonly called Corn-law) amounts to per annum, and at the same time to bring it home to the understanding of every one, let n 0 suppose that they (the Corn-laws) make bread only 2d. per loaf dearer than it otherwise would be ; this 2d. then amounts to the very enormous sum of 10,833,333/. 6s. Bd. per annum; and if 3d. per loaf, 16,250,0001. per annum ; and if 4d. per loaf, it amounts to as much as half the interest of the national debt, and quite a fourth of the whole revenue of the Govern ment. That bread is dearer in England than on the Con tinent by nearly 100 per cent. at this present time, is a fact , 6 not to be disputed ; therefore, as the price of bread is now 9d• here in England, and we take it to be sd. abroad, this dif .11 ference of 4d. shows the 25 millions of her Majesty's subjeets',ll are paying near 22 millions per annum more than the satnn' number of people on the Continent are paying for the same fl thing. This calculation is made at the rate of one loaf of -fibs. per week each person, young and old, which is as near 13 0 , A possible the fact. And another striking fact is, that it take s ,, i , 250,000 qrs. of wheat to make only one loaf each for the people. In continuation of my preceding remarks on the necessity al