The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-15 00:00:00

HURRICANE IN SCOTLAND.

We were visited on Thursday by a severe gale from the
westward, which rendered walking in, the streets somewhat
unsafe from the falling of chimney-cans, slates, and stones,
from house-tops. A chimney in the Castlehill fell across the
whole breadth of the street, but luckily caused no accident.
At the south-west corner of Bank-street a large stone fell
directly on the chair upon which a woman, who keeps a fruit-
stand, was accustomed to sit, and smashed it to pieces. She
had cnly left her seat a few minutes previous. The Dundee
mail, by way of Newhaven Ferry, and the Perth mail, by
Queensferry, were considerably behind time—from the diffi-
culty in making the passage across the Frith—the one about
three hours, and the other two. The sea was dreadfully
rough. The hurricane abated, however, towards evening.—
Scotsman.
At Montrose on Thursday there was a complete and de-
vastating hurricane. We lament to state that the Suspension
Bridge here has, by the awful storm, been rendered impassable
for a time. Exposed as it was to the whole force of the hurri.
cane, and from its great length, a very considerable vibration
was experienced on the bridge during the afternoon and even-
ing ; and at twenty minutes before seven, a large portion of the
platform or roadway started and sunk, with a report resem-
bling that of distant thunder. Portions of the wooden
material of the bridge have been washed in on Rossie
Island. It is aseertaire-d that no person passed through
the Toll on the south end immediately previous to the
accident; and we fervently trust there had been no more
from the north. The mail from Aberdeen, which arrived in
rather less than an hour after it was due, was detained in town
during the night. Sorely tried as the tension rods and chains
of the bridge must have been, they have stood firm and do not
appear to have sustained the slightest injury. We anticipate,
therefore, that the interruption to the ordinary communication
will only be for a very limited period. Nearly an hour after
the accident at the bridge, and exactly as the work people were
leaving the premises, the chimney of Messrs. Richards and
Company's power-loom factory, which:was ninety feet high,
gave way, and two-thirds of the erection, about sixty feet, fell on
the boiler-house, carrying with it a considerable portion of the
roof ; but we are happy to learn that no personal injury was sus-
tained. It was fortunate that, in falling, the chinirey took that
direction in which the least mischief could be done. Consi-
dering the vast number of individuals employed in this work,
their escape, without accident, is most providential. A gen-
tleman who passed, after dusk, from Rossie Island, by
Dun Bridge, to Montrose, informs us that in the course of
that long circuit (of seven miles) the stooks are completely
levelled, and in various places large trees are uprooted and
thrown on the road. Within the burgh the number of chimney
cans strewn on the streets is very great; in the High-street
many panes of glass have been broken, and several shop-keep-
ers closed up their windows ; many gas-lamps, especially in
sonic of the cross streets, were extinguished, and the confusion
was thus consequently increased. Gardenr, have suffered se-
verely. The hurricane abated about eight P.M., although the
wind still continues very high. Lamentable as are the losses
to property which we have briefly noticed, we fear that still
worse accounts will yet be received of the eff,ets of this tre-
mendous gale, by far the heaviest we have been visited with for
many years.

THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.—The Chartists lack
neither activity, vigour, nor determination of purpose in the
prosecution of their objects. We see almost daily reports of
meetings for the adoption of the Charter in various parts both
of England and Scotland. Our views on the impolicy of agi-
tating for a remote and impracticable object instead of concen-
trating the ardent and undivided energies of the great body of
the Reformers for an attainable good, need not iteration. In
our requisitions we place food first, the Suffrage second. The
right to vote appearing to us seconday to the right to live, we
would first obtain untaxed bread, and then demand an ex-
tension of the Suffrage.

MRS. PARKER.—A report of some proceedings
at Bow-street appeared in our last publication, in which this
person, who is the widow of Parker, executed for being con-
cerned in the mutiny at the Nero, whose fate has always ex-
cited much sympathy, laid claim to some property near this
city, and represented herself to be unjustly treated. We
are enabled to state that she has no cia;m on the property in
question. It is true that proceedings on her behalf were taken
to obtain it, and that twenty years ago she obtained a verdict,
hut it was subsequently set aside by the Superior Court, on
the ground of its having Leen obtained by fraud and perjury,
and the property immediately passed into the hands of the le-
gitimate owner. Mrs. Parker never received a farthing from
the property, and was never in possession of any portion of
it.—Exeter Flying Post.
The St. Petcrsburgh Journal contains the fol-
lowing statement of the exports and imports of Russia during
1637
Exports. Imports.
Foreign countries
Finland 5 882,:356 1,244,029
Poland

Roublrs
In 1836 the exports amounted to 283, 748,233 roubles, and
the imports to 2:37,251,204 roubles.

CORN -LAW FALLACIES, WITH TilE

ANSWERS.

(Continued from The Sun of Wednesday.)
117.--TuAnxsuivino FOR THE HARVEST.—It has already
been stated that Lord E. at a recent meeting in Northamp-
tonshire, expressed himself strongly in favour of a general
thanksgiving for the harvest, and that his Lordship's views had
been adopted and enforced by the Rev. Sir G. R.—Conser-
vative ;Journal and Church of England Gazette, 6th
October, 1838. _

ANSWER.—/The landlords have effected turning the
blessing of a good harvest into a curse. Men pray for a
few bad harvests in succession, as the cheap way of remov-
ing the overbearing evil. If any such " Churching" of the
Corn-laws be attempted, the people will do well to meet
it by collecting in their ovtn places, and repeating the
" Prayer against the Aristocracy" from the Morning
Chronicle of the 29th September. Lord E. and the Rev. Sir
G. R. know their interests, and the people know theirs.

11 8. —The violent clamour which is now raised by Whig-
Radicals and revolutionists against the Corn-laws, is only an
additional manoeuvre for deranging and destroying the exist-
ing constitution of society,—ld.

-A.—So said the Border cow-stealers, when Bailie
Jarvie and his fellow-workers set about making every man
live on his own. And true enough, it was a deranging
and destroying the existing constitution of society. It
was pulling down a dishonest constitution of society, and
setting up an honest one instead.

119.—and, if successful, must be followed by national
bankruptcy, anarchy, and ruin. —ld.
A.—The cow•stealers, in the same way, prophesied the
end of all things. Chaos was to come agan, when there
was no eating other people's beef.

120.—1 f the taxes are now raised with difficulty, even with
our present arrangements, what would be our situation if the
landed proprietors were read: red insolvent?—/d.
A.—We must lay the taxes on the honest people in-
stead. It might as well have been pleaded, that without
cow-stealing there would be nobody to pay taxes.

121. —Who, then, would be the customers of our rnanu-
facurers?—ld.

A.—Those who had the money honestly in their pockets.
The fraud attempted to be put on the manufacturers is,
telling them that unless they let their tills be rubbed, there
will he nobody to purchase at their shops.

122.—Take a farm of 900/. a-year in its gross produce : of
this 3001. comes to the landlord as rent, 300/. goes to the far-
mer for his capital and management of the crops, end the re-
maining 3001. is spent ott the cultivation, and as wages to the
labourers. Compare this receipt and expenditure with that of
capital employed in trade or manufacture, and you will at
once perceive how much more beneficial to the public, though
not to the proprietor, is the expenditure of agricultural capital
a, compared with that employed in manufactures, or in foreign
trade.—ld.

A.—A manufactory where 6001. a-year is produced to
the conductor F, nd his workmen, does the same as the last
two items here enumerated. The difference, therefore, is
this ; that the landlord has 3001. a-year raised for him by
the contributions of the eaters of bread, without working
For it. This is the way in which the application of money
to land is peculiarly " beneficial to the public."

123.—8ut if the produce of this farm were reduced to 600/.
per annum, then the rental would probably not exceed 150/.,
because the expenses of the cultivation would remain the same ;
and what, then, would the proprietor be compelled to do ? He
mut take the farm into his own hands, and thus save the ex-
pense and destroy the profits of the farmer. Would this be of
any advantage to the middle classes of society ? Would it
benefit either the agricultural or the trading part of the com-
munity ?—/d.
A.—" C'ircumbendibus" apart, the landlord would be cut
down from 3001. a•year to 1501., and some other individuals
would keep 1501. in their pockets. The argument, there-
fore, is, that those other individuals ought to subscribe it
for the landlord. As if it would not do just as well where
it is.

124.—The outcry which is made against the owners of
landed property, is the most senseless and unfounded which
can possibly be imagined. It is raised agairst men who sel-
dom receive more than four per cent. for the purchase
money
of their estates, and who never receive more than one-third of
their gross produce in the shape of rent. —ld.
A —lf highwaymen sold their walks as milkmen do,—it
would be no justification of highway robbery, that it was
difficult for them to make more than four per cent. on the
purchase money ; and just as little, that after paying for
hire of horse and pistols, they had never above a third of
the booty left for themselves.

Honest rent has something less substantial about it than
any other kind of property, and is to a greater degree the
creature of public consent. But the dishonest, which
is raised by Corn-laws, is the simple form which highway
robbery has taken since the roads were guarded by a
horse patrole.

125.—0ut of a farm of 9001. per annum, 6001. goes among
the middle and labouring classes of the people before the land-
lord receives a sixpence !—ld.
A.—Let the landlord be thankful that he is allowed to
raise 3001. a-year out of the pockets of the bread-eaters
through the price of corn. But let him not go about to make
his 3001. a-year 6001., by robbing with a Corn-law besides.

126.—We by no means wish to undervalue the importance
of our foreign trade; but it would be impossible to show
that any foreign trade can produce such home expenditure as
agriculture, amongst the middle classes of society.—ld.
A.—The great difference appears to be, that in trade
and manufactures there is no 300/. a-year levied for the
landlord for doing nothing, out of the pockets of other
people.

127.—A great part of the profits of foreign trade must
always go among foreigners, and of the remaining profits
nearly the whole is absorbed by the master or proprietor.
There is no home farmer, no middle man, the intermediate
third belongs to the foreigner.—ld.
A.—We want to have the trade that is profitable to
ourselves, without caring how profitable it may be to the
foreigner besides. The great charge against us is, that
we do not levy 3001. a-year from the consumers, for a land-
lord who does nothing.

128.—These are plain facts, founded on no dubious specula-
tions of political economists. They deserve the candid atten-
tion of all who would not wish to se© England become the
prey of unprincipled vagabonds and scoundrels. The ruin of
the landed interest would not only be the ruin of the best por-
tion of the community, but the certain destruction of the whole
kingdom—and nothing but rapine, beggary, and bloodshed
would prevail.-- Id.

A.--An accumulation of evils, from the cessation of cow-
stealing! But " they deserve the candid attention of all,"
who would not wish to see England in the situation so well
described.

TO BE CONTINUED.

COMPARISON OF FOREIGN GRAIN
AND FLOUR WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET.

The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality at
Paris is 72ic. the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than
bid. the loaf of 41b. English weight ; and the price of bread
of the first quality in London being 10d. the loaf of 41b., the
difference is 538 per cent. that bread is dearer in London than
at Paris. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality
is 67f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 425. 2d. the
sack of 2801 b. English weight, and the highest quotation of
flour of the first quality in London being 60s. the sack, it fol-
lows that flour is 424 per cent. dearer in London than at
Paris, and that with the sum of 31. a man may buy 3981 b. of
fine flour at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only
2801 b. in London.

According to the official return the average price of wheat
at Paris for the preceding month (September) was 18f. 78c.
the hectolitre, which equals 435. the quarter.
The following is the state of things in other parts of
France :-
At Abbeville the highest quotation of wheat of the first
quality is 25f. 50c., which equals 58s. sd. the quarter. At
Bergues the registered price of wheat of th€ first quality is
28f. 51c., of the second quality, 26f. 71c., and of the third
quality, 25f. 37c., which gives a mean price of 26f. 86c., and
which answers to 61s. 7d. the quarter. At Bordeaux wheat
rules from 21f. to 22f., which is from 483. Id. to 50s. bd. the
quarter. At Blois the registered mean price of wheat is 20f,
88c., which equals 475. 10d. the quarter. At Rouen wheat
rules from 22f. to 24t'., which is from 50s. sd. to 555. the quar-
ter. At Verdun the quotation of wheat of the first quality is
20f., which equals 455. 10d. the quarter. At Marans wheat
rules from 17f. to 18f., which is from 38a. 111. to 41s. 3d.
the quarter. At Toulouse the highest quotation of wheat of
the first quality is 20f.,': which equals 455. 10d. the guar-
t.tr. At Soissons the quotation of wheat of the first quality
is from 304 f. to 313 f., of the second quality from 292 f. to
303 f., and of the third quality from 268 f. to 288 f., all per
muid of 13 hectolitres, which gives a mean price of 22f. 67c.
the hectolitre, and which answers to 51s. 1 ld. the quarter.
The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is-68f. the
159 kilogrammes, which equals 425. 10d. the sack of 280Ib.
English weight, and the highest quotation of flour in London
being 60s. the sack, it follows that flour is 40k per cent.
dearer in London than at Soiss :ns, and that with the sum of
31. a man may buy 3921 b. of fine flour at Soissons, whereas
with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b. in London.

NEW DEFINITION OF TIIE WORD LUXURY*—
A worthy divine the other day asked a farming man, whom_
he had noticed at church the preceding Sunday, :if he liked
his sermon ? The man answered in the affirmative ; and he
also said he understood it. When asked if he knew the mean-
ing of the word luxury, which had been several times used in
the course of the sermon, John said, .f Ees, [ knows the word
wheel enovv; it mean the inside of a pig."—Sheffield Iris.
On Tuesday morning, William Smith,
driver of the New Company's Bath and London coach, cm'
tted suicide in the following determined and extraordinary
in,mner :—Having tied his legs together on the bank of the
c nal. he cut his throlt on the brink, and then fell into the
water. The deceased is supposed to have long laboured under
insanity.—liath Gazette. formerly