The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-25 00:00:00

EVENING -1114DTTION

tyranny and rebellion, %rid the moment the country was
restored to peace and liberty amends were made for the
violation. He heartily thanked the Premier
and his colleagues for the tone in which they had spoken
of the citizens of Loudon, and of those privileges which
they had held t' the satisFaetion of every preceding
Government.—(Cheers.)
The Loan MAYOR, in a complimentary address, pro-
posed " The Health of the Attorney General:'
Sir JOHN CAMPBtLL said he had ever looked ilea
the City of London as an instance of the preservation
of the pure privileges of Municipal Government, that,
although he was himself a barrister of seven years
standing," yet he did not contend for any superiority
over the excellent Magistrates of the City ; and that be
thought there had been some misapprehension on the
part of the Corporation, as he felt satisfied of the fa-
vourable intentions of her Majesty's Government to-
wards the City.—(Loud cheers.)
" The Representatives in Parliament for the City of
London."

Bon,
Sir MATTHEw Woon said, that he and his
Colleagues were very anxious to serve the City faith-
fully, and that he trusted the Government would not
persist in a measure which would deprive the Citizens
of one of their most valued rights.
Mr. CRAWFORD, M.P., also returned thanks, and ad-
verting to the important question now pending between
the Queen's Government and the City of London said,
I have been a regular and consistent supporter of her
Majesty's Ministers, because I approved of then'
general policy. My first impression was that their
were right in this question also ; but when it becarn.f
my duty to enter into an investigation of its merits
order to guide my own conduct in Parliament, first began to doubt its propriety, and ultininte''l,
was fully satisfied that it was not founded on any l'l3t
cessity, and that it would be highly injurious. My OPP°:
sition to it, I beg it may be understood, is not therefor;
that of prejudice, but of conviction ; and I trust most
sincerely that it will not be persisted in.-0611c
cheering.)
The Loan MAYOR next proposed the healths of tbn
Sheriffs of London and Middesex, and hoped th St nof
Act would he done calculated to render the servinils„,
such high officers less available to the community tu-
they had been previously in times of danger and diffie4lll;
Sheriff JOHNSON, in returning thanks, hoped tu„,B
the Sheriffs would see their rights and privileges as
Le
tire at the conclusion of their year of office as tu"d"
found them at the commencement.—(Hear, hear.)The healths of the Governor of the Bank of Eng tali(
and the Deputy Chairman of the East India Comi^s.l
having been given, the company retired to the dravil
rooms. At 12 o'clock they broke up, highly &Hight
with the evening's entertainment.

EFFECTS OF REDUCING T
PRICE OF CORN ON FARMER'S PROFI'fr

(From a Pamphlet by Hewitt Davis.)
A manufacturer having demonstrated to me -
much he would be benefited by a slight reductiO
the price of labour, but which could not be made wits
1
a proportionate reduction in the prices paid by his lab
ers for their food, I was led to reflect that if amanufact,S'
would be so benefited by a reduction in the price of;
food which his labourers consume, surely a fill,
would also feel materially the benefit. And I en:i
voured, by calculating on one side the loss in the 5,01,,
my wheat, and on the other side, the gain by a prOP;so
tionate reduction in the price of labour, to asce
what the consequences would be to me in my fart Poo
and as the results present a very different appearance
what I expected, 1 beg to lay them before the publ
During the winters of 1829 and 1830, I obt titito
from many agricultural labourers in Surrey, a r 000
of how their wages were expended, and I fours'
averaging them, they were spent in the following)
portions.
tf° I have considered that a man, woman, and- 41
children, are the average of labourers' families, ri,it
that they earn fifteen shillings weekly, when wheat
at sixty shillings per quarter.
Decimals of 15s. s. 4,
Flour or Bread 375 equal to 5
Meat 120 ... 1
Butter and Cheese OBO ... 1
Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Beer, & Spirits l7O ... 2 "'
,"
Firing, Candles, and Soap
...I
Clothes 1 5
105 ...
Potatoes O5O 0 S

1,000 lb C isti
This amount shows that when wheat sells at tp
shillings per quarter, and a labourer and his family %et
fifteen shillings per week, five shillings and seven-P.rie
halfpenny, or iths, are spent in flour ; but suppo4 jo
decline of twelve shillings per quarter, or one-01101
the price of wheat, then four shillings and fieepence;ir,
purchase the same quantity ; or, in other words., ht
teen shillings and ninepence halfpenny, when %or
averages forty-eight shillings per quarter, is e'eo
valent to fifteen shillings when wheat average,
sixty shillings per quarter ; and, therefore, °ter(
possing a farmer loses twelve shillings per cilia
in the price of his wheat, he will save one
and twopence halfpenny in fifteen shillings, or seven P.
a half per cent, on his annual expenditure.
As I am desirous of making statements on I)
own immediate experience, I have founded my
culations on the wages I pay, which are high, 4:4
not on the average of all England, although 'of
latter would give a much larger proportion in favo r
reduced prices ; for where wages are lower, a In
portien is expended in flour.
Now, suppose the case of a farm cf one thou 01/110
acres, of which two hundred and fifty acres
permanent grass and wood-land, and seven huntrii
and fifty acres are arable, and that the arable
ej
cultivated in five courses ; in that case, one Ilund
and fifty acres will annually be sown with will it)
and reckoning that the crop shall average, one year
another, two and a half quarters per acre beyond'
seed sown, the calculation will be as follows :
An Account to show the Annual Profit and Loss fry
decline of 20 per cent. in the value of Wheat, v"
Farm of One Thousand Acres.
. -
DR.
1 I

LOSS.
Loss on 375 qrs. Wheat, the produce of 150
Acres beyond the Secd sown, at 12s. per
quarter .....

' 225 I

ca.
X. 0

GAIN.
Saving in Wages, by r. decline of 71 per cent
on the gross expenditure, 2,000/
Ditto in Parish Rates, by reduced price of
bread, 7 per cent. on 2001.
Ditto in Tradespeople's Bills, viz., sawyers,
carpenters, bricklayers, wheelers, collar
makers, smiths, &c., 73. per cent on 2001 l5 ci
Ditto in cost of Flour consumed by my Fa-
mily, 20 per cent. on 501 lO 61
Ditto in cost of Clothing, Furniture, Servants'
Wages, and incidental expenses, 71 per
cent, on 150/ ll 1!
Reduction in Tithes, 73- per cent. on 2001 l5 r

Difference (equal to 2d. per acre additional 216 5:
rent) 8 /

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A considerable &Tree of excitement was creflittO
in this town, on Monday last, by the report that a
of a female had been found at a farm-house called Br' el
rigg, about three miles from this place on the Bow' oies
road, which was much increased by several dark st'
about a murder supposed to have been committed or 'OO
spot many years ago. As is invariably the case in 0,
circumstances, much exaggeration was found to thave t :
place. The ground had been sunk for the perpos
making some repairs in the pantry, and a number of 17, 014
were found, together with part of a skull. Close
some tufts of red hair, and a glove, and a silk 110'14 'be
,
chief, the two last crumbling away at the touch. d
workmen had evid, lv be