The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

THE CORN LAWS.

TO

THE EDIT-757-THE SUN
SIR,--1 am a constant reader of your %aluahle Paper,
and have agreed in all your remarks relative to the
Corn-laws. About six weeks ago a county meeting wa-
called, to take place in the Shire-hall in Worcester
to
petition Parliament against any alteration in the Corn-
laws. Lord Lord Coventry came forward as the farmer's
friend, and said he was a large land proprietor in
the county, and when he saw the commercial part of
the kingdom come forward, as they did, to press upon
the agriculturist, he could not sit still and allow that use-
ful body of men to be ruined from such changes in the
LAWS. But to the surprise of the Farmer and Trades-
man, what had that Noble Tory Lord since been doing ?
Why, rent his steward, to all the farmers who occupy the
heavy wheat lands, and said that unless they signed a
document to pay 10 per cent. upon their present rent,
from Michaelmas last, they should be served with a
notice. About five years ago, his Lordship took 10 per
cent, off the clay farms, and not two years ego the 10
per cent, was put on the tenantry again, and now 10 per
cent. more is put on, which makes 20 per cent., because
the prices in Worcester Market average about Os. 4d.
per qr., and that from a deficiency of crop is the cause ;
My iaformant is one of his Lordship's tenants,who rents a
a large clay farm, of upwards of 800 acres, not mare
than seven miles from Worcester, and has rented under
the present Lord's grandfather, father, and now his
Lordship, and never neglected paying his rent when
called upon. This farm, and others in the same neigh--
bourhood, forty years ago, was rented at 10s, per acre ;
now they are 'ram 20s. to 305., and from the improved
system of farming by furrow draining, &e. &c., the firms
certainly produce double the crops they did in those
days, but the expenses in improving the land have kept
the farmer's pockets about the same average they did
when rents were low and less productive ; therefore
I think, instead of the farmer being benefited by the
Corn-laws, it is the landlord only, for they are put up
and down just as the market rises and falls. There
are no leases given to tenants in this county above seven
years, and at the expiration of that lease, if the tenant
have improved his land, his rent is certain to be raised.
Vet, remember we have many most excellent landlords
in our county of AVorcester, and Hereford ; and his Lord-
ship stood rather high in the estimation of our
neighbourhood round Persho:e, until now. The
Worcester Chronicle, our Liberal paper, gave this
statement the week before last, but the Editor
was wrongly informed, he only stated that his
Lordship had put on the ten per cent. that was
taken off when wheat was at 13s. per bag. The two
Tory papers did all they could to bring his Lordship
unstained out of this terrible dilemma ; but the Chronicle
last week still persisted it was true, and the farmersres
i give the Chronicle great credit for taking t nr;of tmy
tain
way it did. I hope you will excuse the length
t,ibutl statementknoly
will youvl doo
slthteinmkenths iodtotht: theC rena-ulasieree.
repealer., and I hope it will go through justice
all the Li-
beral Papers. I am, Sir, 8: a.,
A CONSTANT READER.

Lady Lytton Bulwcr's Novel of Cheveley, or
the Man of Honour, is indeed fulfilling the language of
the " Athenaeum," by making the town rirg with the cla-
mour of tongues. The urgent calls for the work have
been so numerous as to have already taken off a very large
portion of the second edition, although it was published.
only yesterday.
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wearer, and certain relief and benefit to weak, dim, and
defective eve-sight. The Messrs. Solomons have also in-
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a seven-shilling piece : it fi:s into the cavity of the ear, is
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Hotel.
Louisa, the last surviving daughter of
to the great
Linnaeus, died at Upsala, on the 21st ult ,
90. She has left some fortune, which go iI- a g
resd.
J e two
great grandchildren •f Linnaeus, widow Martin and Ni
Riederbjelke.
Miss E. Blair, the young lady who was thrown
fromnstt e.
d George's in her
horse
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Monday
afternoon
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died
yesterday
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sustained.