The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-06 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE;MARcit 6.

From the ever•abundant supply of Monday, which n et wl,ll
link demand; oar stands this day are covered, and the tnealing
Vade being dull, what little doing is in the best quality, a
Mut dsy's prices. Our Barley trade very limited, and the best
malting samples hardly maintain last day's prices. The Oat
trade as on Monday ; for prime fresh Corn that day's prices were
obtained. The demand for Pease and Beans rather brisk, at;
Monday's quotation for seed corn.

TIIE LQNPQN. JOURNALS.

E7-ri.IIACyS FROM THE D N'ILY. MORNING PAPERS,

c!arch 6, 16'2'2.:

[NEW TIMES.]
The. Constitutional Association has obtained a
foukh".verdict against the -dealers in Sedition and.
ialasphemy. Let us only reflect • how • deeply'
society is indebted to this most excellent Insti-
tutio'n, for opposing its efforts to the. progress of
the- moral pestilence, which was making its way,.
so alarmingly among the lower classes of so-
ciety ! The very circumstance that men had
been brought up from .so. distant a, part_of the
yountry as Yorkshire, to serve in. the avowed
" Mart for Sedition and Blasphemy," is alone
suillcient to show how the fanaticism of Impiety
and Disaffection was. spreading. The offender
has- been sentenced to hard labour ; which we
mail as a most judiciotis and appropriate pu-
nishment. If Carlile himself had been so sen-
tenced-, the example Would probably have de-
terred others front continuing his detestable
traffic. If Hunt had been so sentenced; it would
perhaps have saved the House of Commons-some
part of the trouble they have had in diScussing
his petitions. By the bye, these two culprits
have engaged in a quarrel on their respective
merits, or rather demerits. Carlile, who con-
tinues in defiance of the law, to publish a most
infamous paper, called The Republican, has ad-
dressed a letter to Hunt, in which there is one
passage at least deserving of • notice. " Your
assertion," says he to the Wiltshire Farther,
" that your's is the heaviest sentence for a poli-
tical offence that has occurred since the reign of
the. Stuarts, is not. correct. Mr. Henry White,
the Editor of The Independent Whig, was con-
fined three years, in the room, from which I write
to you, for one libel, as it was called, in his
paper. Iu the'reign of George the First, one
Matthews was hanged for that which' now ap-
pears trilling in:comparison to the sentiments you,
have expressed- at public meetings, considering
that you were instrumental in congregating the
bodies of people whom you have addressed. I
doubt not but there are many other cases on re-
cord 'Mich more aggravated' than yours, although
I know none where so much cry and fuss has
been made by the sufferer." We recommend!
this passage to the ignorant and illiterate Mem-
ter of Parliament, who repeated Hunt's impu-
dent assertion, that his sentence was the severest
passed since the time of the Stuarts: Mr. Carlile
is better versed in English history. Within. ihe
last century, persons have been hanged, drawn,
and quartered, for offences not a jot more atroci,.
ous than Hunt's conduct at Manchester.

. .
[THE TIMES.]
It will have been seen that a motion is in con-
templation for instructing the Agricultural Com-
mittee to consider whether it would not be more
beneficial to repeal the Salt Duty than the Malt
Duty. A decision hi the affirmative on such a
question would imply a double error in the pre-
v:ous proceedings of Ministers and the House—
the repeal of a duty, by.which repeal -.no great
good was likely to be effected ; and the reten-
tion of another duty,-which ought to have been
repealed. Without calculating the ultimate-a&
vantages to, be conferred on the agricultural
interest by the repeal of the duty of 1 shilling a
bushel on malt, we must say that farmers, malt-
sters, and brewers are subjected to an ntineces-•
sary state of anxiety at present, from the want of
sufficient explanation respecting the manner in
which the repeal is to take place. The value
of the boon is actually diminished by this Un-
certainty. If it be true, as was observed
in the House of Commons some nights ago, that
the importation prices being imposed during the
period of a depreciated currency, have now
mounted up with the increased value of money,
it must also be added, that the taxes imposed
upon the farmer, together with his rent and
tithes, have likewise increased in value, in the
same proportion ; so that the maximum still
maintains its ancient relative position. How
calmly every one talks now of the late deprecia-
tion in the value of money ; though, when the
evil-existed,. a House of Commons was found
capable of such an insult upon common sense, as
to ,declare before all the world, " that the pro-
" missory notes of the Bank of England were,
ti on the 15th of May, 1811, and had hitherto
4‘ been held in public estimation to be, equi-
" valent to-the legal coin of the realm."—
"' How could a House of Commons do this
thing ..?"• If any one asks the question, the
answer is prompt—that the House-, in that
affair, obeyed the motion . given. it by a
Chancellor of the Exchequer and his profound
colleagues. We recollect a similar incident in
the history of the,dark ages, when the Crusaders
took a
,peronage or two equally sapient for their
leaders. The affair is thus related by Gibbon :
" The rear (of the Crusaders) was pressed by a
" herd of '200,000 people : some Counts and
" gentlemen, at .the head. of 3000 horse, at-
" tended the motions of the multitude, to partake
" in the spoil; but their genuine leaders (may
we credit such folly ?) were a GOPSE and a
" GOAT, who were carried in front, and to whom
" these worthy Christians ascribed the infusion
"of ;the Divine Spirit. Fuit aliud scelus
" detestabiie in hac cOngreetaticifie pedestris po-
" pull stulti et vesan levit his, unserm quen-
" dam 'DiVino Spiritu. ass'erebant 'afflatum, et
" capellain non minus eodetti'rePletam,;et
" sibi duces secanthe via! 'feteratit.'"=-Gibbow,
ch. 58, vol. xi. . -