The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-02 00:00:00

THE CORN LAWS

(From the Somerset County Gazette.)
The movement against the Corn-laws is growing serious.
The country is beginning to take up the question in right
earnest. It is not a little gratifying to find that the farmers
arc rapidly arriving at the conviction that it is their interest
to abolish laws which benefit only the landlord and the corn
merchant, to the serious damage of all the rest of the commu- •
nity, themselves included.
As it is certain to be a prominent subject of iiscussion in
the next Session of Parliament, our readers will not be sorry
to learn that two Members connected with this county base
already recorded their votes against these " Devil's Laws" as
they have been aptly termed by The Sun. Mr. Labeuchere,
the Member for Taunton, although one of the Ministry—
(he is much too good for them)—is an avowed and strenuous
opponent of the Corn-laws. On several occasions he has
voted against them and he will do so again, and help, we
trust, by his profound knowledge of the subject and his great
and deserved influence in the legislature in procuring their
speedy abolition. Mr. Bainbridge, the other Member for our
borough, also voted against them on the last division, so that
the people of Taunton will at least contribute their share to-
wards the salvation of their country.
But there must be an expression of public opinion upon this
subject through its legitimate organ, public meetings. Yeti.
tons should go up from every town, previously to the next
Session, canine for a repeal of the Corn-laws. The univer-
sal cry of a suffering people will be rejected, we believe, be-
cause the Parliament does not represent the people, but it
will hasten on more important reforms still.
We do, however, entreat our readers not to suffer even the
Corn-law agitation to withdraw them from the more impor-
t tant efforts for the ballot and a simplified suffrage. By ob-
taining the last you insure the first, bit by seeking only the
first, while it is more then doubtful whether it could be ob-
tained, even if won, the battle must be gone over again to
win the last.
Among the opponents of the Corn-laws in this county is
one whose opinion, as an extensive landowner and gentleman
of much experience and deep reflection upon the subject, will
be valued. We allude to Sir T. B. Lethbridge. That Hon.
Baronet was their determined opponent in Parliament when
they first stained-the statute-book—he is their zellous oppo-
nent now. He proposed then, he proposes now, a fixed duty
instead of a fluctuating one, with this difference, that for-
merly he suggested a high fixed duty, he nould now prefer a
low fixed duty. In any endeavour which may be made by
this county to rid the country of an incubus which weighs upon
its energies and cramps its efforts, the Honourable Baronet
will no doubt take a prominent part, and the example of so
great a landowner cannot fail to put rn end to the absurd
fears of many persons who have taken up the strange notion
that if the Corn-laws were abolished land would go out of
cultivation. Sir T. Lethbridge would show them a very dif-
ferent picture. He would tell them of his own experience in
the wool tax—of the manner in which free trade in corn
would make farming a steady pursuit, yielding equal profits,
instead of being a mere gambling speculation—of the substi-
tution of one kind of prouce for another—of land improved
in value by the progress of the arts and the extension of towns,
end he would pion the sincerity of his arguments by point-
ing to his own broad domains, ranging from the rich plains of
Lydeard to the bleak hills of Luxboreugh, anal saying, " If
by abolishing the Corn-laws the evils will result that you pro-
phecy, by advocating their abolition I am uroo'ng my own ruin.
There is the pledge of my sincerity and of the earnestness of
my conviction."
We trust very soon to hear the Honourable Baronet dis-
course upon the subject at some public meeting. He will
find many to second him, for we are acquainted with several
landholders whose opinions on this topic chime w ith his.

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Some time since advertisements Inquiring for the
next of kin of a man named Francis Braddel, were inserted
in various newspapers. Braddel was a native of Castlecomer,
in the county of Kilkenny, and left this country about forty
years ago for America, where he resided until his death, a
few months ago. He had amassed property to the amount,
we understand, of about 250,0001., and the " next of kin,"
the successor to this immense property, turns out to be a pri-
vate of the 94th Regiment, at present in Cork garrison! His
name is Joseph Braddel, and he is nephew to the deceased.
The requisite steps to obtain possession of the money have
been taken, and the necessary declarations made.—Limerick
Paper.

QUARRELS.—Two things well considered would
prevent many quarrels : first, to have it well ascertained
whether we arc not disputing about terms rather than things;
and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is
wcrth contending about.— Colton.
The weather has been somewhat broken during the
week, but a good deal of grain has been cut notwithstanding.
there are yet, however, many green fields : and the felt. is that
in some of the cold lands, in the higher parts of this county,
there is much corn that will never ripen.—Carlisle Journal.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—The reproach that has so
long rested on Sunderland, that it does not possess a single
public building at all worthy of its wealth and general impor-
tance, is about to be wiped away. A subscription, in ten-
pound shares, to erect an elegant edifice, containing a lecture-
room, museum, exhibition-room, &c., has just been opened,
with a degree of success that leaves no doubt that the object
in view will be speedily attained. We hope such of our fellow-
townsmen as have not already subscribed will at once step for..
ward in support of this desirable measure, which, it is reason-
ably calculated, will prove beneficial to its promoters, even in
a pecuniary point of view.—Sunderland Herald.

LEA RNlNG.—Learning, if rightly applied, makes
a young man thinking, attentive, and industrious, confident
and wary ;an old man, cheerful and reserved. 'Tis an orna-
ment in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, an entertainment at
all times. It cheers in solitude, and moderates upon a throne.

On Saturday morning, about half-past nine, as
three men were working the large crane fixed on the Now
Pier, at Chatham-place, its load overpowered them, and they
were precipitated into the river, then at high water. The
skull of one of them was so dreadfully fractured by the handle
of the crane, and also by the stone it held, that he was con-
veyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital apparently dead. The
others escaped with only a ducking. Too much praise cannot
be given to the whole body of labourers, coal-porters, and
others, whose prompt assistance saved the lives of the others.

" FROM THE FULNESS OF THE HEART THE
MOUTH SPIIAKETH."-One of the fair Yankee girls, born and
bred on the green mountains, was lately thrownfromatvagnon,
and carried to a neighbouring farm-hou,e, with a dreadful
pull across her chenk, and apparently devoid of either sense
or motion. The village Esculapius was sent for,
flounced it necessary to sow the wound up, when the rustic
beauty immediately opened her eyes, and said, " For Gad's
sake, Sir, stitch it neatly 1" who pro-
AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT IN KERRY.—
Mr. Pierce Mahony is now occupied in making preliminary
arrangements for establishing an Agricultural School between
Gunsboreugh and Listowel. Our superintendent of national
education in Kerry has been called ono confer with Mr. Ma-
hony's son on the elig,ibility of the site. We have to add that
Mr. Mahony has also given 10/. towards the buildings of the
Listowel National School. All this is exactly what we would
expect at the hands of Mr. Mahony. For manifold spi-
rited undertakings the Irish community is deeply
indabted.
We make him a tender of our gratitude, and of our most stre-
nuous co-operation.— Tralee Mercury.
We say to every woman—" never marry a rake.
Let him be the most handsome, the richest, the most elegant,
and pleasantest of men, he is a bad bargain, even with a coro-
net on his head and a county in his rent-roll. After all,
Peace in the married state is only to be found in virtuous
and healthy children ; and if a wife would have exemplary
'Oll3, and happy, prudent, and heart-pure daughters, let her
never look for that in the offspring of that man whose life, at
the time, when the mind, brain, and constitution are being
formed, has been passed in the profligate debaucheries of
modern society. Until women remember, when they are
asked in marriage, that they arc not only to become wives
but mothers—that a poor, plain, sober, and virtuous man
possesses gifts which must produce far greater future happi-
ness than all the wealth and rank of Creestis without these
qualities, and the domestic felicity is to be found at the fire-
side, not in the carriage or ball-room, society will never ad-
vance in the direction best calculated to secure its ultimate im-
provement.—Sidney Smith's Phrenology.
A PRED ICA mENT•—“ What does are these,
Jasper?" said a gentleman the other day to a boy who was
dragging a couple of was?ish-looking terriers along Sand-
(g.aarnte,-s,tri,etehte.
1.)11‘ mI dfrieneusah keeonaChSir," ,
theyreplieadte the
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urchin
nti ,t ban
,Duna ken whaur to gang."—Ayr Observer.
Pheasant-shooting commences this day. Much
sport is expected, as the birds in the preserves are tolersbl‘
numerous, strong, and in good condition.

DLTNDEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY. This
railway is to be oFened on Saturday the Gth proximo. Gen-
tlemen from all quarters, including the Provosts of Arbroath,
Perth, Forfar, Montrose, and other towns, are to be present.
Few lines combine so many advantages as the Dundee and
Arbroath Railway. It passes through a level country, with
no inclination on the Railway which can be at all persTived ;
indeed, we believe four-fifths of the whole extent is a perfect
level. There are no tu•:ncls, and no expensive work of any
magnitude; and, from the handsome and truly liberal con-
duct of Lord Panmure, who, we are glad to hear, is to be
present at the opening, the greater part of the land required
has been obtained at a nominal rent. With these manifold
advantages, and with an expenditure of only 6,0001. per mile,
the: present undertaking* cannot fail to prove profitable to the
shareholders, and of great benefit to the community._Dundee
Advertiser.
RECIPES.-The white of an egg frothed, a table
spoonful of brandy in a wineglass of hot water, mixed and grated
plentifully with nutmeg, is an infallible remedy for cramp or
cholic. A very mild, safe, and effective relief, and frequently
a perfect cure of dyspeptic and bilious attacks, is made as fol-
lows :—A pint of best French brandy, an ounce of best
Turkish rhubarb pulverised, and a half ounce of caraway seed,
shaken well together and stood awhile to settle. A table
spoonful (more or less, as the case requires) should be taken
before meds, until the disease is removed.
The rage for erecting gin palaces has spread into
the country towns—one in Hull, which is pompously advertised
in the local papers, is surmounted with the Royal standard,
and has other splendid ornaments and decorati.ms to attract
the pence of the paupers.
About thirty years ago the name of a very afFe.4.7.(1
la ,w
of fashion W 11,3 publicly mentioned, who always left town
toe .::)untry, to hr abacut on Michael: ms Day, because, as
she said, the metropolis smelt so abominably strong of roast
geese.