The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-23 00:00:00

AYRSHIRE ELECTION.

(From the Ayrshire AdvertiLer.)
The Sheriff has fixed the nomination of caryiidates
for the representation of this county in Parliament to
take place on Saturday the 27th instant, and Monday
and Tuesday, the 20th and 30th, as the polling days.
Assurances front all districts of the county of undi-
minished attachment to the Liberal cause, and of in-
creasing support to the Liberal candidate, Mr. Camp-
bell, of Craigie, have now, we believe, placed his elec.
tion •ut of danger, oven though Mr. Craig, blindly
led-
lowing an indiscreet course, and hoodwinked by the
Tories, who are laughing at Lim in the hope that he is
to play out their game, should maintain his recently
avowed resolution of coming to the poll. Such a reso-
lution, however, we are far from thinking Mr. Craig
will carry into of-feet. So soon as Mr. Craig ascertains
the strength of his own supporters at the nomination,
he will throw his weight into the scale in favour
of Mr. Campbell at the poll. The other candidates hale
been busily canvassing the County during the past week.
Much has been said of their printed addresses, and their
respective claims to support. It is needless here to
dwell upon these documents. That of Mr. Campbell is
a Reformer's address, and put forth by one who h tis
been a steady, zealous, and consistent Reformer
from his earliest years. The other, that of Lord Kel-
burne, is a Tory address, put forth (in a manly and in-
pendent manner, we must admit), by one who may, in
all questions of principle, be expected to vote with those
who have, with exultation, expressed their hatred of the
very name of Reform. Things as " they ought to be,"
and thiags as they ate, or rather as they were, are their
respective mottoes. With such a choice, the electors of
Ayrshire, who, when left unfettered to follow the
dictates of conscience, set the cation an example of
Liberalism, by the return of Mr. Oswald in 183°, by
a majority of 2,152 to 324, over Colonel Blair, need
little persuasion to do their duty. True, many have
tuff.oa_d, and are suffering, for venturing to exercise the
rights of conscience, for which they ought to be held
responsible to their God alone, and with which it is
impious in men to interfere ; but there are better days
coming for the dependent voter ! Ile must not always
thus be sacrificed fur his political opinions. The
Ballot, or other moans for his relief and protection,
the Tories are fast hastening upon the country. In the
meantime, we have no fear that the Electors of Ayr-
shire will not prove themselves sterner stuff than to be
cajoled on the one band or frightened on the other.
The old enthusiasm of 1832 is rekindled—the Reform
Banners of 1832 are again unfurled—and the Reform
Bands throughout the County are cheering on the voters
to make a determined and united effort to swell the
majority for Mr. Campbell of Craigie.
A long pull, a strong pull, and—with Mr. Craig's
leave—a pull altogether, and the chance of Tory ascen-
dancy in Ayrshire is gone for ever l The Liberal voter
who shrinks from coining to the poll, is unworthy of the
franchise.

We observe that Mr. Feargus O'Connor has an ad-
vertisement in Monday's Sun, stating that he will stand
for Ayrshire if solicited, and his expenses paid. This is
very fair of Mr. O'Connor ; but the ground is already
occupied, without any such trouble or expense to the
constituency. Nobody, unless deluded, or in the pay of
the Tories, would assist them at this time, by dividing
Reformers.

WHAT BECOME (111! FARMERS'

SONS?

(From the Manchester Times.)

If farmers were not accustomed submiisively to re-
ceive their opinicns from landh:rdi they would very
soon discover that, even if the Corn-law was advan-
tageous to them individually (which we deny) it is
most injurious to them as heals of families. Vl'hat
does any man labour for? Not merely that he, singly
and without any tics of affinity, may obtain a subsist-
once, but that he may be able to secure comfort and
respectability for his family. There may be exceptions
to the rule, but they are exceedingly rare. The farmer
can bring up only one son to his own occupation if the
eon be intended to hold the same station as the father,
which he could not do if the farm was to be di%iLd.
For the rest of his sons he must find other employment.
The church, the law, and medicine, are open to them.
but in these professions a protracted and expensive
education is a necessary preliminary. Trade, therefore
becomes the resource of the surplus population of the
farm. if the farmer have two sons, he has, so far as
their settlement in life is concerned, an equal interest
in agriculture and in trade. If he have three he has
twice as much interest in trade as in agriculture. If he
have five or six he may find it advantageous to him (and
we know several such instances) to give up farming alto-
gether and remove iato a town, in order to push them ail
forward in trade. In order to show what become of
farmers' sons we here designate by different letters of the
alphabet ten farmers of Inverness-shire, Perthshire, Ber-
wickshire, Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire, with whose
family history we happen personally to be acquainted.
A. Three sons; one succeeded his father in the farm ;
one is a surgeon in the East Indies ; the youngest is a
merchant in Edinburgh.
B. Two sons : one a merchant in Liverpool, ti e
other a brewer in Birmingham.
C. Six sons : two, aged 40 and 88, at home, but
unmarried ; two, merchants in Glasgow ; one a dry-
salter in Manchester, and one a merchant in Liverpool.
D. Four sans : one an engineer at Louisville in
Kentucky ; two, farmers, who emigrated to the United
States, and one a manufacturer in Glasgow.
E. Five sons : otto succeeded his father in the
farm ; too emigrated to Canada and bought land ;
one a merchant in Glasgow ; and one a banker in
Lancashire.
F. Four sons : one succeeded his father ; one emi-
grated and boudat land in the United States ; one 0
grocer in Edinburgh ; and one a merchant in New Yolk.
G. Two lions : one succeeded his father ; the otih.r
a manufacturer in Glasgow.

11. Four sons, ail extensive merchants in Manchester.
I. Four sons, large calico printcr: in Lancashire.
K. Five sons, all in manufacturing warehow.-es in
Glasgow, and the parents now living with them.
The inquiry might be carried out by asking what
become of farmers' daughters .t) And here we kbouhl
have a similar result. In tasking recollection we find
that, on the averaLe of cases fading within our
personal knowledge, only one of a farmer's daughter: is
taut rind to a farmer.

We therefore say that even if it could be proved that
the farmer lio,; indi‘idually an interest in the continu-
ance of the colu-liw; he has, as the head of a family
and reAponsible for its settlement is life, a far greater
interest in the full development of commercial and
manufacturing enterprise, released from the imporerish-
ing influence of any monopoly, and cspeciaily from the
opLratjon of the corn-growers' monopoly.

EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.— The last
lambing season we noticed the extraordinary fall of iambs
of seven ewes to the number of 22, which were all reared
by Mr. Philip Colwil:, of Tinnacott Estate, the proi;crty
of L. W. Buck, Esq., M. P. We have now the gratiti.
cation to state that Mr. Colwiil has been still mot,. snc_
cessful with his fLck this season than the last. The last
season, one ewe, the prol.erty of Mr. Colwill, brought
forwaid four lambs. This season the same ewe yeancd
five lambs, all strong fine lambs, and doing well,
and are to be seen by any gentleman or agricul-
turist at Tennacott Farm. The same ewe is now six
rears old, and has productd her owner no less number
than 21 lambs during that period, ar.d all sared in good
condition to the highest satisfaction of her owner. \Ve
are h.ippy to add that we hear a very good and prolific ac.
count of the lambipg season generally in this neighbour-
hood and the North of Devon,hire..— Western Times.

A BitoA D HI N T.-Lady Isabella Finch,
(I,,oyhter of tit:: Earl of Wir.chelsea, was Lady of the
B:.(1.-eliarnber to the Princess Amel.a ; Lord Bath one
evening, harin7 no silver, borrowed a half-crown of her;
he sent It the next d,y, with a very gallant wish that I:c
could give her a crown. She replies!, that " though he
could nut give her a crown, he could give her a coronet,
and she was very ready to accept it."
LAM SING.—A ewe belonLing to Mr. William
Torricroft, lioustoun, yenned a lamb on the 7th
instant, which, owing to the severe frost of the night, died
on the following duo. On the 17th, ten days afterwards,
she yenned two others, 'which aro living and doing well.—
Adverater.

CHARTISTS.—A Radical paper published
at nharn says the Chartists are " a bard of rnis
creaots who have done more substantial injury to the in-
terests of the working claims awl to the progrers of Re-
form than the Whigs and 'lodes would have dared to e-
ltempt without their diabolical assi4tance for a century."