The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

-.15A1L1 WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLyrsotrrif—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
ElArrnsos—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
Sourffesirrox—Wind W., gentle breeze—foggy.
FoLszgroNE—Wind S.W., light breeze—overcast.
Ttnasmcnoa—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
GREENWlCH—Calm—overcast.
STEOOD—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
SwraDox—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—overcast-
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
Ciamexpoa--Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudy.
Yasmotrryt—Wind W., calm—ClOndless.
The retnrns;from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine
o'dnck

MaturreAn—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Poona--Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LZIGHTON—Wind N. NV., calm—overcast.
HoLviTEAD—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
W lllTBY—Calm—foggy.
DABLOIGTON— Wind %V., gentle breeze—cloudless.

The barometer at Greenwich was 29.770 inches, nearly
4-tenths inch higher than it was in the prece,:ing week ; and
it rose gradually through the week from 29,162 to 30.t`34.
The mean daily temperature of the air was 61.8°, or 19 above
the average; at the highest it was 75.6°, lowest 50•5°, in
the air; 94° once in the sun, 43° once on tip grass. The
temperature of the polluted Thames was at the-highest 66.6°,
at the lowest 62.5°. The air on the whole was dry, for the
dew point (54°) was 8° below the mean temperature, yet
111 inch of rain fell in the week. On Tuesday, the 17th,
between seven and half-past seven P.M. there was a severe
thunder storm, and rain fell to the depth of 015 in. in five
minutes. A second storm occurred about eleven P.M. The
wind was variable and generally tranquil, for on an average
t only moved at the rate of 57 miles a day.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1852.

tg MGR PRICES FOR EVER 1" _That
at is the rallying
cry of the Protectionists, tinder which
they seek for
Fiery
Cross
call ;
gathering{ High Rents. It is more than their
It is fatal as the transit of the
pi.. through
ti the Scottish Highlands, in the olden
riversrawhen over
and along
mountain and through valley,
across
ig
ravines, the messenger, of fate speeded ou his di
deathly mission. They think not of it—these
and
vro"
tectionists—but their call for high prices, involv
n
high rents, is destructive as " the blast of the
Simoom," which none can breathe and live.
Well-minded ;men, who
.are fully cognizant of the
right's of property, and utterly thoughtless of its
duties—blessings on the memory of honest TRoM&s
DRUMMOND for enunciating the sentence which has
passed into our political literature, as his aphorism,
and is graved on his monument—well•minded owners
of land, we say, have ill-considered and little thought
upon the mammoth results of a difference so
slight as " only a little sixpence" between
the dear loaf and the cheap. Entirely do they
forget (if ever they knew) that in that difference,
slight as it may appear to them, are involved all the
*laments, all the principles which make the difference,
to the working man, between struggling and com-
fort.
protia t: n the truthful fact cannot be too loudly
Ts 11 th'at too deeply felt, too firmly acted upon—
. but
at few loaves of bread shall be greatly
c.eaper,
a,
ale at every other article of expenditure
alone
bee reducedreduced in proportion. Were bread
and limite,a, uutt
ip.rced, the relief would be partial
of every other artifteciePrice of bread regulates the price
falls in price when thefia.a, clothes, rent—everything
the
falls in price. Ask the
small annuitants—ask
to
tohoel officers' widows who have
pensions from 401.
has done for them ; what reduced
Year—what free trade
they taxation has done
—and they will tell you tha
actually have the
comforts, where they used to havethe hare necessities
of life. It is not merely that bead
fallen in
pensioners
se-atenths of
that only, but that everything else has fallen
and
price. Curiously enough, by the way, nist
the small annuitants and petty
vehe-
ment—we had nearly written constitutional re
There is something vastly " genteel" in the ies'
aris-
tocracy of Toryism ! The faded females Noifavoured, by courtly charity, with apartments ari:
Hampton Court Palace, look down, with" sharp „n..
tempt,on the " populace
we doubt not, whc......iike
the perfumed fop in SHAKSPERE'S play—" come
the wind and their nobility." Sans doute,l—Yet,
as the said contemned 4‘ populace"
with• paym lace" are fixed, some.
how,
ent of nine-tenths of the taxes—for
the greater part,
far, of the revenue by
ny, not the ili
e" t_is paid by the
Ma —Pauper pensioners who nestle
in Hampton Court would
, like the last horses in a
taco, be " nowhere,. if
the people did not supply

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