The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-21 00:00:00

BIRTHS.

On Saturday,
the 19th inst., in Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
Lady—Burghersh,•of a son.
In Harcourt-street, Dublin, on the 15th inst., the lady of
John Theophilus Boileau, Esq., of a son.
On Saturday, the 19th inst., at his house in Somerset-street,
Portman-square, the lady of C. H. Pilgrim, Esq., of a son.
On the 3d inst., at Florence, the lady of Thomas Illedwin
Esq., of the late 24th Light Dragoons, of a daughter. ,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Nor. 21, 1825.

[TILE TIMES.]
The increased, we might say extravagant price
of corn, together with the several varieties of
juggling practised in regard to the system of ave-
rages, has revived in a sensible degree that eager.
ness of attention and inquiry which was, at each
former period of high prices since the peace, di.
rected to the subject of the Corn Laws, and to
the most effectual means of relieving the country
from their pressure. The enormous cost of grain
is aggravated, not reduced, by the frauds inci-
dental to that very apparatus which was designed
by Parliament as some sort of guarantee against
it. False returns are notoriously made—accounts
are garbled—the authority for admitting foreign
importations is deferred until they are made im.
possible by the season ; so that the people of
England have not only to bear the privations
arising out of a stern monopoly in human suste-
nance up to a certain point of dearness, but
to see that monopoly extended beyond its
understood limits, through gross dishonesty
in the use of those qualifications which alone
could have rendered it supportable. It is little
felt by the authors of the corn laws what a waste
of the national resources they have entailed upon
us. They do not seem to know the obvious fact,
that when the inhabitants of England are forced
to pay 60s. instead of 40s. for their wheat, they
are in truth compelled to reimburse the English
agriculturist for employing, in the production of
1% million quarters of that article, a capital yield-
ing him 36 millions sterling per annum, instead
of the body of consumers being enabled to sup.
ply themselves with the same amount of wheat
for 24 millions annually, leaving one-third of the
former sum—viz. twelve millions sterling per
annum —to be employed in the acquirement
of an equivalent mass of comforts, from which
they are now excluded. There is no end to the
variety of mischiefs brought upon the nation by
this cruel tax on bread. It adds a third to
the wages of labour in all branches, and les.
sens, in the same ratio, those manufactured ex.
ports, which form the subject matter of our
competition with foreign states in peace, and fur-
nish the best source of protection against them
when they become our enemies. The corn law
adds a full third to the expences of the land.
owner himself, not merely in the support of his
house, but in the management and cultivation of
his property : not only is it in clothing, carriages,
house-rent, horses, servants, butcher's meat, and
so forth, that the price of the 41b. loaf re-acts
upon him, but in the implements of husbandry
and wages of labour, which go to the debit of his
rent. That the burden of this law should be en.
dured much longer, it is difficult for any man of
sober sense to imagine; but that its folly should
not soon be made palpable to the very order of
men for whose sakes it was imposed, would be a
circumstance to our minds not much ers:er of
explanation.

[MORNING HERALD.]

Our attention has been- drawn, as doubtless
tat of many of our readers must Lave been, to

a letter published in the papers, purporting to
have been written to his parents by a young man
who was executed a few days since at the Old
Bailey. We are far from meaning► wantonly or
unnecessarily to impugn the motives of any one,
and are inclined to vie& with feelings of admira.

tion the labours of any one who dedicates his
knowledge, his virtue, and his time, to the sub-
lime task of preparing the minds of wretched
criminals for the fearful change which the ex-
treme sentence of the law condemns them to un..
dergo. But we think that the contents of this
letter, and of many similar ones which have been
published, if they are genuine, speak too plainly
not to be understood the sectarian purposes for
which they are concocted and made public. It
must be• remembered that the same thing was
done in the case of the unhappy Fauntleroy ;
and scarcely an execution at the Old Bailey has
taken place for some years when Dissenting
Ministers, of one persuasion or another have
not stepped in to perform the duties of
the Ordinary of Newgate, and whose la-
bours have not been afterwards most carefully
and circumstantially made known to the world.
—Now, if the frequency of this arises from the
fact of, persons condemned for crimes not being
themselves of the Established Church, which may
be the case, we do not know of a stronger or
more convincing proof that could be given of the
superiority and efficacy of its faith and principles
over those of every other creed or persuasion ;
but if it originate, as we suspect it too often does,
in the zeal of proselytism, and a lamentable spirit
of religious quackery, it is fit that its efforts
should be resisted, and the veil withdrawn from
such imposture. No one can for a moment doubt
the propriety of having the minds of wretched
beings about to undergo the dreadful punish-
ment of death brought to a right and a reli.
ous state—that they should be so brought on
true and safe grounds is no less important—
but to assume that the Ministers of any par-
ticular sect have a panacea for this awful
change, and that it i-s only through their means
that true repentance and just preparation for
death can be brought about, savours too much of
that arrogant self-sufficiency which priests of all
ages and of all sects have been too apt to assume.
To judge from this and similar letters which
have been published, one would be almost led to
conclude that criminals who go out of the world
in this manner die much happier and better
prepared than other men ; and the frightful
inference would be (and we believe that the
tenets of Methodism have something in them
very like it), that the surest way to attain sal.
vation is through the medium of those crimes
most injurious to man and offensive to his
Maker. The very suggestion of such an idea is
abhorrent to every right feeling; but we put it
to those who have marked the nature of the
many exhibitions of this kind which the public
have of late years witnessed, whether there is not
no small danger of such an inference being drawn
by minds inclined to vice, and anxious to catch