The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

hem should be required to share the charges which are

incurred for the Public welfare. Those Who are in fa-
vour of free trade have no right to complain of its neces-
sary consequences ; and those who, in common witch
myself, have constantly opposed it, cannot be responsible
for any calamities which it may occasion.
If the payments were reduced to the level of the
prices, Parliament might repeal, immediately and en-
tirely, the taxes on malt, hops, and soap, as well as those
on sugar and coffee produced. in British colonies, and
these measures would be most popular both in towns
and in the country.
Nor is this all. Tobacco should be grown and sugar
manufactured in this country without the payment of
any duty, for free trade cannot be said to exist when the
cultivation of the one is prohibited, and the production
of the other is taxed. Your industry would thus be en-
couraged and rewarded by additional employments of a
profitable nature.
The retail prices of bread and meat should be regulated
by law according to the wholesale prices of corn and cat-
tle, and the price of beer according to the price of malt
and hops. You would thus be enabled to provide your-
selves with bread, meat, and beer, at much lower prices
than you pay at present.
The Tithe Commutation Act should be immediately
amended, for it is no longer just or applicable, and the
poor-rates, as well as local taxes, should be paid asjus-
tice demands, by the whole community, according to an
equitable assessment.
The tenants who hold under leases should be empow•
ered to surrender them on giving six months' notice, and
should not be left, as they now are, at the mercy of their
landlords.
The continuance of free trade will render necessary the
adoption of these measures, which are founded in strict
justice, and ought to receive your zealous support. They
will of course involve a considerable reduction in the
payments which are now made to fundholders and to
other annuitants ; but these payments would, however,
remain in value, though not the same in amount of
money. If the dividends which are now paid even to
the.smallest fundholder were to be reduced by one-third,
the apparent loss would -be more than compensated to
him by the reduction, to a great extent, of the prices of
the necessaries of life.
Do not be again deceived by those who have already
betrayed you, and do not be misled by those who,
whether in or out of Parliament, have shown that they
are unworthy of your confidence. Rely principally on
your own exertions and perseverance, and unite together,
without regarding any party distinctions, in demanding
a redress of your grievances and equal justice to all
classes of the community.
I am, as ever, your most faithful friend;
December 11, 1852. STANHOPE.

LICENSES AT THE BENDIGO DIGGINGS AT PORT Pin'
LlP.—Generally speaking, the diggers here don't bother
about getting licenses ; those who have often some spe-
cial reason, such as wishing to send gold by escort, and
afraid that it might be liable to forfeiture if no license
be producible. A few get licenses in order to
cbiaientle;
successfully to bounce others out of certaT le. Go-
and a few, a very few, get licenses onbringociPpatriotie
vernment cannot expect many
as to trudge four miles to some
resides, to pay
of Bendigo, where the commisslsonear
month, for °unknown quarter
ob-
into her Majesty's treasury u
their still more valuable
who save their money and
Fifers,
;
but the executive
taining no privilege or Preference at all over thousainds
time. That this is so, 8 P
grievances •; but, in
adiggers. I do not like
the
our
to harp on the old string
ofreasonahle, what can the is to to blame, and not
the name of all that is
by
withholding from 80,000
torian government meanorderly, and virtuous subjects,
industrious, .
peaceful, d by the denizens of every
privileges enjoyed
rights and
corner of this great world, save and except us unfortu-
nately lamd. Here
monthly tenan
old and wet, ts
with Australian the out mea us of l egally ob-
we are ' c I
wherewith to drink the Queen's health,
taining a nobber
or eonfusion to the beggarly Government that begrudges
to the poor man a share of the wealth so lavishly scat-
tered over our favoured country—the Government that
would fain try to prevent the former world's drudges
from gathering up the wherewithal to pass their declining

fears in peaceful ease—the Goverment that would snatch
from
elevatethe p
himselfoor man's
ii ihe
handt h lever by which he is trying
to sfotociael scale. Some may think
these remarks uncalled
openly prevented —r,
as the Government have
Igrogiunggh;
never
btutraonmy
theo netNevgliinonhing
has
closely watched its policy (I
throughout,
of the gold mania till now, will °suee' f
their applicability.
Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
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and gamekeepers. Telescopes, possessing such extraordi-
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will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and
the double starsigrhey supersede every) other kind, and
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to 12 miles distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle.
—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albe-
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