The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-01 00:00:00

SCARCITY OF WHEAT.

" Yesterday the bill-stickers were busily circulating through
the metropolis a large placard, of which the following is a
copy SCARCITY OF WHEAT.—Every means is now in pro-
gress by disaffected demagogues, by rich and interested dealers
in foreign corn, by persons connected with the continent, and
by those money monsters, the overgrown manufacturers of
Lancashire, whose object is to get parents and their poor
children to work for their profit at one-half their present
wages. All the above named are declaring wheat must be
higher, and encouraging the holders of corn in Holland,
Hamburg, Dantzic, London, Liverpool, &c. &c., not to sell
at the present prices ; and if the English farmer bad left of
growing corn their plans would now succeed, although the
present beneficial Corn Law Bill admits wheat free of duty,
say at only one shilling per quarter as a register. What
should now be done to soften the present dispensation
of Almighty Providence ? Let all her Majesty's Mi-
nisters—let all the Nobility—let all persons of wealth—
and let all charitable and large establishments immediately
oblige their servants to diminish consumption of bread and
flour ; and those who live luxuriously should with meat use
potatoes instead of bread. There being plenty of fine barley
and oats, let millers make them into flour, and let all whole-
some substitutes be brought into use. The farmers of Great
Britain having short crops this year, foreigners take advan-
tage at present of our distress; but let us only lessen the con-
sumption of wheat and the present Corn-law Bill will operate
in two or three months to punish all those who bold wheat
from sale, and endeavour thereby to starve the poor.
A FRIEND TO THE LABOURING CLASSES.'"
This is a specimen of the tricks of the landowners and their
friends. They wish to persuade the people to submit volun-
tarily to semi-starvation in order to escape present apprehen-
sions. As bullying will no longer serve their turn, they are
to coax the people to remain in misery. The lying, absurd,
impudent charge that the manufacturers want, by repealing
the Corn-laws, to get parents and their children to work for
half their present wages, is so similar to the language used
by the Post on Thursday last, which alone publishes the pla-
card, that it possibly knows something of its origin.

LABOURERS' WAGES IN ESSEX.—The Chelms-
ford chronicle contlins, from a correspondent, a contradic-
tion of Mr, R. Johnson's assertion, which was copied into
our paper on Tuesday, that in the parishes of Wickham,
Goldhanger, and Great and Little Totham, the wages paid
to the labourers were only from 7s. to Os. per week. I
know," says the writer, " of no able-bodied men working at
a less sum than from 10s. to los. per week by the day, and
when taking work, which is the custom in those parishes
the earnings are from 12s. to 14s. per week."
The wreck of the Magara, Robert, master, of
Newcastle, came ashore at Silwick, off Sandsting, north of
Zetland, on the 3d instant. On the previous night a light
was s, en in the offing by the people on shore, who also
felt the smell of the coal-fire on board of the vessel. At day-
light the wreck was partly drifted ashore, and the name of
the master, the vessel, and her port were seen on the boat's
stern, which is all the information obtained. The fate of
the crew seems too certain and deplorable, though none of
the bodies had drifted ashore.
On Wednesday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
a serious gig accident occurred in the New-road, St. Mary-
lebone, to two young men named Attwood and Skinner,
who were thrown into the road by furiously driving the
wheel of the gig against a coal waggon, which overset it.
They were conveyed to the infirmary, having received
serious injuries on their heads. The gig was broken in
pieces. On the same day a horse, which had been left
standing in a chaise, unattended, at the door of a house in
Whitecross-street, Finsbury, started off, and coming into
contact with a post at the corner of the street, was so
severely injured as to drop down dead a few minutes after-
; wards. It was a valuable animal, and belonged to a gee-
tleman named Sexe, residing in Stonecutter-street, St.
Luke's. The chaise was not much damaged.