The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-11 00:00:00

A CAPITAL INN AND POSTING HOUSE

the centre of aiiaricet Town, on a main road, about fifteen
Miles from London, with possession,

MO BE DISPOSED OF, in consequence
of the death of the landlady, a most desirable Old-esta-
blished and Well-frequented FREE INN and HOTEL, in
complete repair, making up 30 beds, large dining and rurnerous
sitting rooms, liquor shop, and ample end domestic offices, de-
tached tap, stabling for 60 horses, lock-up coach houses, ug('
garden and paddock. The average trade will give satisfaction,
and more than the rent and taxes is made by rentals let off; the
coming in will be about 1,3001.
For further particulars apply to Messrs. Warhers and
Lovejoy, Appraisers, Farringdon-street, post paid.

34 OLD BOND-STREET.
ELTASOLOMONS' VOICE CON-
DUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS have been en-

nently successful in the most extreme eases of Defective ilenring ;
are worn unperceived, being only one quarter of an imch in diameter,
and convey the slightest sound so distinctly as to afford the greatest
ease and assis'ance in all cases of Deafness.
The success of his Amber Spectacles (the exclusive disposal of
, hich is secured to his house by Royal Letters Patent) has induced
parties to offer publicly as a new invention, professing to relieve vi-
sion, Deafness, and CATARACT WITHOUT OPERATION,
common glasses of many years' standing ground o❑ the princii•le of
the meniscus lens (employed for spec-acles forty years ago), which are
highly injurious to the sight. These quack and absurd misrepresen-
tations might have been safely allowed to pass unnoticed ; but as the
names of some medical gentlemen are used, it behoves one to in-
quire by what means their signatures have been obtained (if obtained
at all) as sanctioning a direct untruth, by proclaiming such as
"Ne-vly-invented Spectacles,' which are unanswerably nothing more
than common glasses of a pink or reddish tint. This fact may to
easily ascertained by applying to Mr. REARDON, SPECTACLE,
GLASS MANUFACTURER, residing at 41, Easton-street,
mouth-street, Clerkenwell; where the newly-invented Spectacle
Lens. s are purchased at 7s. per dozen pair, or a single pair at Mr. E 's
esta'aishment for Is.

THE CORN-LX.WS.

TO TEE EDITOR OF_THE SUN.

Stn,—lf The Sun cannot enlighten on the Corn- laws, how
vain to expect my taper will do so ; but there are places
where the orb of day cannot enter. I advocate their repeal
on the ground that it would immensely benefit the la-
bouring poor, and inflict only a partial and a trifling loss
on the landowner. I will remark in the first place, on
the advantages that would result to the labouring poor,
and I think I need not stop to prove that it would lower
the price of all kinds of provisions, but will proceed to
show that it would be the mean* of providing employ meet
to our unemployed poor ; and in order to simplify the
matter, I will confine my remarks to the article of ,heat.
It is notorious that wheat can be grown abroad, and imported
into this country at a less price than it can be grown
for here, io the extent we require it. It is not necessary to
determine to what extent we should become importers ; but
in proportion to the extent would be the beta fit to our
labourer ; if we import largely, the benefit to the labourer
would also be large. I arrive at this conclusion in the fol-
lowing way:—The amount of manual labour employed in
the cultivation of wheat does not exceed 183. per quarter,
while the atilt:runt of manual labour employed to pay for
wheat of foreign growth would not'be less than 36a. per
quarter. Now, supposing that we should import only to the
extent we diminish our own growth, it would give em-
ployment to double the number of hands. But we may
presume the diminished price and increased employment
would cause us to import a much larger quantity, and to pay
for the extra quantity thus imported would give employment
to our present surplus population. It is. I imagine, scarcely
necessary to observe, that the rate of wages is not regu•
lated by the price of provisions, and that a-fall in the price
of provisions may not necessarily be accompanied with
fall in the price of wages. The price of wages is deter-
mined by the proportion the supply bears to the demand ;
if the supply be redundant wages will fall ; if, on the
other hand there he an insufficient supply, wz.vr,.s will
rise. Under a natural state of things we ,heuld antici-
pate a considerable rise in the prices of wages ; and that
this would in some in;tanccs be the case, I have no doubt ;
but that it would be the general result, I much question.
The operation of our old Poor-laws, and the benevolence
of many of our farmers and others, have prevented wages
from falling so low as they otherwise would have done ;
and at the present moment, the same effect is,produced by
causes which are in a degree of a temporary character,
viz , the employment afforded on the railroads; and
it would, therefore, be unfair to hold out the pros-
pect of a general rise in wages ; but I think I have
said enough, to show that the labourer would he
immensely benefited by a free trade in corn ; and as
a necessary consequence. benefit all classes, not excepting
the farmer. I have now to show that it would inflict oily
a partial and a trifling loss on the landowner. I say par-
tial, because much of the land in the vicinity of large towns
would be increased in value thereby, and because much of
our poor land, which at present yields only a small rent as
tillage, would become of much greater value as pasturage,
and which would be required to supply the increased con •
sumption of butter, cheese, milk, meat, vegetables, &c.,
consequent on the extension of manufactures and com-
merce—l say trifling, compared to the loss they may have
to sustain, if, by persisting in their injustice, they madden
the people to rebellion. It is trifling, compared to the
pecuniary loss the present system inflicts on the rest of
the community. It is trifling, compared to the mo-
ral devastation it is scattering over the land : my heart
sickens contemplating the mass of misery it inflicts on
the suffering poor I—the numbers it has forced to
an untimely grave I It is trifling, compared to
their immense income derived from this source.
It is finally trifling, compared to their representations of
their probable loss. Some seem to expect that a free trade
in corn will nearly assimilate prices in this country to the
lowest market in the world, forgetting that the freight, the
insurance, the interest of money, the merchant's profit, &c.
arc nearly equal to 20s. per quarter, thus giving our land-
owners, a protection to that amount. It must also be re-
marked, that the low prices wheat has been seiling for in
the continental markets, is no proof of the cost of its pro-
duction; their markets have been unnaturally depressed,
partly by the circumstance of losing Great Britain as cus
tomers (in the six years ending with 1830, we imported up
wards of twenty-four millions of quarters of grain and flown
but for the few years before the last, we almost ceased to
import any), and partly owing to a succession of abundant
crops, the same cause which produced in this country the
ruinous prices of 1834, 1835, and 1836, when the average
price of wheat for the three years, was only 445. BJ. per
quarter, and this, too, under our much vaunted perfect sys-
tem to ensure steady prices. We may also fairly assume,
that to import to the extent required to materially lower
prices in this country, the cost of production abroad woule
be considerably enhanced ; thus affording further protection
to our landowner. There is also another protection, viz
the difficulty we should experience in finding a market for
our manufactures to the extent required to pay for a very
large importation of grain. At every point the working of
the free trade system can be viewed from, protection to the
landowner presents itself. There is, however, one fact of
which I wish to remind the landowner, viz., that at the
present moment there arc nearly one million of acres of
poor arable land under cultivation, which yield them no
rent, but being let together with good land at a certain
rent for the whole, continues to be cultivated, the good
paying for the poor : what will they lose by throwing this
out of cultivation ?—I am,
A WELL-WISHER TO BRITISH
AGRICULTURE.

MACHINERY LABOUR.—The belief that ma-
chinery injures the working cusses, maintain,:d by numbors
of that body, is founded on fallacy, that an increase in thct
part of capital appliedio machinery can be made only by
diminishing that applied to the payment of wages. The
ylvers. 1$ the fact. .
The Kelso Chronicle intimates that some of the
farmers in the neighbourhood of Kelso are making it a
condition of hiring servants for the ensuing year, that they
Subscribe a petition against the repeal of tie Corn- Laws.
That such proceedings' are most disgraceful, no one will
deny.