The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-20 00:00:00

CORN AND CURRENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Rivers, Durslev, Gloucestershire, Nov. 19.
cannot sufficiently applaud most of the
opinions contained in " Argent's" long letter on
Currency and Corn in The Sun of Saturday last.
feel confident that if they were acted upon we
shatild be relieved from most of our difficulties. I
can nu t, however, understand his logic where he at-
tempts i. throw at the late Mr. Cobbett. He says
" the clamour against small notes originated with
Cobbett, who would never have cried them down if
he had had plenty of them in his pocket, and who
the Register,' as he did locust-
'
cried up gold in
only inference trees." Now the from this is, that
Mr. Cobbett had plenty of gold and locust-treas.
And yet, I think, this cannot be the writer's
meaning, because, if such were the case, it must
have been Mr. Cobbett's own fault if he had not
plenty of small notes in his pocket. Perhaps
" Argent" will be kind enough to let us know his
meaning, at least if he has any. lam afraid it
Was nothing but little paltry spite towards the
memory of this truly peat man, which dictated this
part of " Argent's" letter.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
GEORGE LISTER.

SMITHFIELD PRIZE-CATTLE SHOW.—It will
be seen from an advertisement in this day's paper, that
the prize exhibition, as we stated some days ago, is to
be held this year in the Horse Bazaar, Portman-square.
This is a change greatly for the better. In the new
place there is plenty of room and light, with good ac-
cess, and all who are fond of witnessing this interesting
exhibition will now have the opport unity without going
through a purgatory which did not tend to purification.
The Old Repository was the most dirty, dark, and dis-
agreeable place that could well be found in the metro-
polis for such a purpose.
To-morrow will be the anniversary of the splendid
Ival victory obtained by the British fleet under Lord
Hawke, in the year 1759.
RA TISBON, 'Nov. 11.—Their Imperial High-
nesses the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, and the
Hereditary Prince of Modena, arrived here the day
be'ore yesterday. Yesterday they visited the Walhal a
and the curiosities of this city, aad this morning pro-
ceeded on their journey to Italy.

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1839.

A Morning Contemporary says that " Sum-
monses have been issued to all the Privy Council
to attend the QUEEN on Saturday next, to receive
a communication from her MAJESTY. We are
not at liberty to allude to the subject of this com-
munication, but it may be readily inferred." ..
If it may be readily inferred, why not allude to
it, and why make a mystery about an event which
interests every British subject ? Could any cir-
cumstance at present but one call for the attend-
ance of all the Privy Council, and is not that cir-
cutngtance the intended marriage of our Most
Gracious and Most Beloved SOVEREIGN ?

The peculiar and unhappy conformation of the
Tory mind is most conspicuous in its treatment of
the Postage question. It can find no satisfaction
in the reduction of the long rates to fourpence,
none in the gradual introduction of the plan of
levying the postage by weight and of pre-payment,
none in the certainty that this will prepare the
way for the Penny Postage, and none in the mani-
fold advantages which the proposed alteration will
confer on every person who has to send a letter
beyond the bounds of the present fourpenny districts.
The Tory mind can only find satisfaction in a part
of the plan, which it supposes will add to the
sums levied for the postage of letters, and it gloats
over that with infinite delight. Since the Times
found out yesterday, and stated in An article which
we inserted, and to which we refer our readers, that
inhabitants of Birmingham and Dudley, Man,
chester St"t'
towns, would tie port, and a number of other
seriously injured by the Treasury
rournals have found corres-
Minute—other Tory ~
"Iplaints on tho carne
pondents to make heavy co,
subject. It is singular and su, spici:"s ihat non:
of the ill-treated inhabitants of those

have come forward to complain, and have pot
showered their correspondence on the newspapers
nor their memorials on the Treasury. They seem,
as far as we can judge from their silence and the
language used by their Journals, to be most pro-
vokingly pleased with the Treasury Minute. They
do not complain of the injury done them, but the
Tory Journals, all at once, become the strenuous ad-
vocates for strict and impartial justice to all classes
take up their wrongs and throw them at the heads
of the Ministers.

One reason, probably, why the inhabitants of
those towns do not complain, is that every one of
them is beyond the 4d. district from London,
and their pleasure at the reduction to 4d. for their
chief correspondence, hides from them the little in-
convenience which much reflection has enabled the
microscopic eye of the grievance-hunter of the
Times to detect. Each of these towns has corre-
sptridence
with places still more distant than Lon-
don, and on all that correspondence the inhabitants
will obtain a reduction of the rates of postage.

The only letter.S, in fact, on which the inhabit-
ants of the towns situated within the four-penny
distance of each other, will have to pay a heavier
rate, after the sth of December and before the
penny rate is established, than at present, are single
letters weighing more than half an ounce and less
than an ounce,. To ascertain the proportion of such
letters to the whole, 2,200 single letters were
weighed, and of them only 46 exceeded half an
ounce, or a fraction more than 2 per cent. On only
two letters, therefore, out of every 100, will the in-
habitants of the towns enumerated by the
Times
suffer an increase of postage ; and they will only be
liable to that if they
co not choose to substitute
thin and light for thick and heavy paper.
All the double and treble letters now sent by the
inhabitants of those townA are liable to doable and
triple postage,• but after the .sth of December, if
they do not exceed half an ounce in weight, though
they should be six-fold, they will only have to pay
single postage. To ascertain what proportion such
letters bear to the whole, 2,000 letters were taken