The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-11 00:00:00

AMOUNT OF GOVERNNIENTSTOCK IMPORTED AND EXPORTED FROM

JULY 6, 18'24, TO JAN. 5, 183!

Transferred to
England.

Consols
3 per Cent. Reduced
3'4 Reduced
Old per Cent.
New 4 per Cent.
Ditto as New 34", per Cent

Balance in favi

1,133,500
972,600
785,000
1,3'24,100
563,400
52,500

X 5,1221 , 100

it of Ireland .....,

Transferred from
England.

3,558,600
1,1'22,800
I,t ,59,4J00
10,663,900
2,281,600
685,200

19,402,200
5,'_%21,100

X 14,151,100

Received from the Committee of the Dublin Stock Exchange,
Feb. 14, 1831.—[Times.]

It would he very extraordinary if the borough propri-
etors and their nominees did not fight hard for a system
under which they had long enjoyed a monopoly of the
" good things" in Church and State. It would be still
more extraordinary if they could, by any process of rea-
soning, induce the people of this country to beli.ve that
the peculiar advantages which they have so grossly abused
they should be allowed any longer to possess. It is in
vain for the boroughrnongers to express a most sensitive
and zealous regard for the preservation of the " Constitu-

lion." They who never allowed the Constitution to stand
in the way of the gratification of their own political ambi-
tion or cupidity, will not obtain credit for this new-born
attachment to its " endangered principles." Only think
of the principles of the Constitution being endangered
by a measure which is to substitute a real for a mock
representation of the people of England !—a measure
which presumes that the original theory of the Con-
stitution, whet► it spoke of representation►, in which the
people were to have a voice, only meant a system of
aristocratic nomination, in which the people were to have
no voice. Such is the boroughmongers' interpretation of
the theory of the Constitution, as far as the elective fran-
chise is concerned, and their practice has been an apt illus-
tration of their doctrine. But they cannot defend that
practice without admitting that corruption is necessary for
facilitating the business of Government. If a Govern-
ment be honest, we cannot understand what need it has of
corruption ; and if it be not honest, we do not see why it
should be supported sit all. The " public debt" of this
country, which has exhausted by anticipation ages of the
public revenue, and crushed the productive industry of the
land beneath a mountain of taxation, is an instance, and
a melancholy one, of the corrupt facility with which affairs
of State have been heretofore managed, to the detriment of
the national interests. A real representation would have
thrown serious obstacles in the way of iniquitous wars and
profligate expenditure, and thereby made it more difficult
fur a bad Government to ruin the country.—Morn. Herald.
The Reform Bills for England, Scotland, and Ireland,
were, as we mentioned yesterday, introduced on Wednes-
day night, with the approbation of the House of Commons,
to its consideration, and read a first time. The battle of
Reform must not, however, he considered as won—the
first reading of a Bill is only a preliminary step—the se•
cond the decisive touch, and for which the abettors of cor-
ruption and misrepresentation are mustering all their
forces—and the Committee of the House on it, the quarter

in which, in default of a decisive vote against the Bill
itself, its sense and details, it is hoped, by them, will be
frittered away, and rendered useless to the people of the
United Kingdom. Such, we fearlessly assert, are the
hopes and expectations of the dying boroughmongers—of
the lies of their organs we say nothing, and only allude to
them for the purpose of warning the people of England to
be on-tlair guard. We fight against the supporters of cor-
ruption, under the King's colours—for the King is a Re-
former, and we say to all who are interested in the destruction
of abuses, that the battle is only began—not ended—that
the fire must be kept up, and that, in order to insure
victory the able advice of a cotemporary must be adopted.
That advice is to petition for " the Bill" as brought in
by his Majesty's 3finist,rs, and not for Reform only—and
to appoint Committees for the purpose of supporting " the
Bill," as it is, and in all its parts and stages. These Com-
mittees ought to be universal—they ought to he Com-
mittees of counties, of cities, of boroughs, of towns, of
parishes, and of wards; and above all there ought to be
Committees of those towns, boroughs, cities, and districts
for which new Members have been proposed. The great
parish of Marylebone ought to meet immediately for the
above purpose—so ought Lambeth—the Tower Hamlets—
and, in a word, every other district and town to which it
is intended in " the Bill" to give representatives. The
"enemy" will be busily at work while " the Bill" is under
consideration ; and nothing but Committees throughout
every part of the country can carry it through the two
Houses of Legislature.—Morning Advertiser.

SHIP-BUILDING.—To give an idea of the
enormous quantity of timber necessary to construct a ship
of war, we may observe that 2,000 tons, or 3,000 loads,
are computed to be required for a 71. Now, reckoning
50 oaks to the acre, of 100 years' standing, and the qnan-
tity in each tree to be a load and a half, it would require
40 acres of oak forest to build one 74; and the quantity
increases in a great ratio for the largest classes of line of
battle ships. The average duration of these vast ma-
chines, when emp'oyed, is computed to be 14 years. It
is supposed that all the full-grown oaks now in Scotland
would not build two ships of the line.— Quarterly Jour-
nal of Agriculture.

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