The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-29 00:00:00

THE CORN CROPS.

The change in the weather is the mc st propitious that could
be desired. We have a warm atm sphere-72 in the shade
and 90 in the sun, and the mercury rising to " fair." The
corn-fields in the districts round Dublin are already pierced by
the sickle. This week, if fine, will enable the farmers to do
wonders. The wheat stands beautifully erect, and there is ea
appearance, so far, of any damage.—Dublin Pilot of Monday,
The state of the weather, a matter of such all.impottant and
engrossing consequence to the entire country, has, we regret
to say, been anything but auspicious since our last publics ten.
Friday morning was ushered in by a promising ray of sunshine,
and up to two o'clock was singularly fine. About that hour,
however, a heavy mist began to descend, and continued, ru-
lievedt only by some heavy showers, until about ten at
night. The rain then commenced falling in torrents, and, as
it abated little in its violence till towards morning, must have
been highly destructive to the crops in this neighl:ourhood.
The storms which have been so prevalent for some days have,
however, quite subsided, and the wind, which was caatelly
yesterday, has this morning come round to the westward.
There has been no rain since day-break, and from ten o'clock
there has been warm, ripening weather. As the beromt tar
also gives indications of a favourable change of temperature,
we hope matters may improve. As it is, great damage has,
we fear, been done, but even at this late period any alteration
for the better would enable much of the harvest, especially on
the high grounds, to be got in uninjured.—Southern Reporter.
In the west country generally both wheat and oats are ROw
assuming the yellow hue, and if the weather only continue as
it has been for the last eight days, the reaping of both these
kinds of grain will commence in about a fortnight or three
weeks hence ; but, from all appearance. the oats will be ripe
fully as early as the wheat. Barley harvest in the west will be
general next week ; while in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh,
and other usually early places in the east, Barley will be about
a week later. On the other hand, the Wheat harvest will
commence in Mid-Lothian a week or ten days earlier than in
the west country. Oats appear to be in about the same state
ef forwardness in both districts referred to. From the Forth
northward, through the agricultural districts of Aberdeenshire,
the fields present the most abundant appearance; but towards
the north the crops get gradually later ; and in the county
last referred to, Oats—the principal kind of grain raised_.
will be at least ten or fourte.en days later than in the West of
Scotland.--Glasgow Chronicle of Monday,
A farmer and his son, who reside in ale neighbourhood of
Paisley, left this ten days age, and having landed at Belfast,
travelled by the mail to Dublin, from that city te, -Enniskillen,
and from the latter to Londonderry. T.l.,ey state that the
wheat is above an average crop ; I.riat the oats look well ;
and that barley and potatoes "'.;l be a good crop. Flax excel-
iota, seldom better. altil sown in autumn, partly cut down,
and the remainder rsady for tho sickle. The harvest in gene-
ral is not muelt more forward than in Renfrevrshire. If the
weather prove favourable, there is a fair prospect of an shun-
dant crop.—Paisley Advertiser.
The gladdening prospect which was stretched before
our view has again been covered with gloom—the sanguine
hopes which were entertained have been disappointed--for on
Sabbath lap it again to rain heavily; —it has alto done the
same to-day (Monday), and at present when we write there is
no appearance of the weather becoming fair. This state of
things is calculated to awaken strong anxiety in every reflect-
ing
mind, and to fill it with rather melancholy forebodings ;
but we do fondly trust that the weather will speedily become
propitious, and thus that the crops will soon become white for
Lrvest, and even be carried h,,ne to the stack-yards. The
barley crop, in general, has assumed autumn's tinge, and the
same thing may, in certain instances, be said of oats, but
wheat remains unchanged. A considerable quantity of mea-
dow hay was cut down during last week and put into small
heaps. A portion of the rye-grass hay is still remaining in
ricks in the fields, and if not carried home ere long to the
stack-yards, it will become sadly deteriorated. We do hope
that our prespnts, %Ilia, in the meantime, ',lre to a certain
degree dark, will brighten, and ela tress lee tare
among the
different classes of society.—Dlmf:ies Times,
The gloom which the few
the return of hale
weather,
(12e'tt trays at the close of last week -
spread among the agt.e-Iturists, was yesterday dispelled by
generally ri and the carting of corn was
earned. A considerable number of labourers have
retu:ectl from Rochford and Deegie Hundreds, and the
etauthern pelts of the county, to their own parishes in the
rZoothings and more northern parts, where the heivest will
become general in the course of the present week. —Essex
Herald of yesterday.
Reports from all parts of the county speak very favourably
of the condition and quantity of the venous crops. Cutting
corn is now becoming general throughout this extensive agri-
cultural district.—Lincoln Observer.

GREAT METROPOLITAN DEMON-
STRATION IN FAVOUR OF THE PEOPLE'S
CHARTER" AND THE ‘. NATIONAL PETITION."

The Woking Men's Association have been making active
preparations for some time past for getting up a Great Metro.
politan Demonstration in favour of the People's Charter and
the National Petition. About a fortnight ago they determined
that it would be highly desirable to hold the meeting in that
oldpolitical arena Palace-yard, as no impediment now existed
—the Parliament and Courts of Law not being sitting. Ac-
cordingly a portion of the Association, belonging to West-
minster, got up a requisition to Francis Smedley. Esq., High
Bailiff, requesting him to call a public meeting in Palace-yard
on Monday, the 17th of September next, for the purpose of
petitioning Parliament to pass into a law (with such improve-
ments in its details as may be necessary) the outline of an
A•zt of Parliament, ehtiticd the " People's Charter." This
requisi'ion very respectably signed, nas presented to the
High nailiEby a deputdtien from the requisitionists, and he, in
the most liberal and courteous manner, aimed to call the
meeting,•, and to preside himself on the occasion. From the
general excitement throughout the country on the subject of
this demonstration, we augur that it will be one of the most
numerous meetings, and we hope the most orderly one that has
ever been held in this metropolis.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIF, DAY.)
DEAL, Auc. 28.—Win. S S W, fino.;.—Arrived and pro-
ceeded for the River the William "ta 4th, from Quebec; Na-
ples packer, from the llediteranean ; and the Rambler, Hael,
from Cadiz. Sailed tb;:a morning the Dement, Riddell, for
Hobart Town. Came down from the River the Wear, Bar-
rett, for Alieant ; Catherine and Elizabeth, Merrett, for Deme-
rara, and remain with the outward bound.
PORTSMOUTH, Auo. 28.—Wind S. E., fine.—Arrived the
Ariadno, Lundberg, from Bahia. Sailed the Vile de Paris,
for New Orleans; Mary Ann, Tarbut, for Madras.
PLYMOUTH, AUG 28.—Wind E.—Arrived her Majesty's
ship Athol, from Portsmouth, and sailed for Cork. Sailed
the James Pattison, for Sydney, New South Wales; her
Majesty's ship Columbine, for the East Indies ; Ronsanoil,
Turnbull, for Quebec ; Newburgh, for Lisbon.
R*4,llOElll, Aug. 27.—Wind variable, light breezes and fine.
—Arrived the Malvina, B; tile, from Leghorn. Sailed the
Braganza steamer for Vigo, Opoit, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib-
raltar.

LIVERPOOL, Atm. 28.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrived
the 13elgrave, Ravely, from Archangel ; Carl Gustave, Isbert,
from Rostock ; and Haabet, from Copenhagen. Arrived off,
the Aurora, from Apalachicola ; and Albion, from St. John's,
New Brunswick, Sailed the Enterprise, for Miramichi ;
Phenix, for Antigua; Catherine, M'Donald, for gichebucto ;
Sarah, 'leiter, for Newfoundland; Alciope, Bennett, for
Monte Video ; Alice, Knapp, for Virginia ; Melby, for
Cerra; Duke of Gloucester, for Algiers; Propontis, for
Boston ; Freedom, for Palermo ; and Ilope, 'for :Rotterdam.
The Ebro bound to Havannah, has returned i❑to deck with
4.laage, having been in contact with the Franconia, for Boa.
ton ; the latter proceeded.
PENZANCE, AUG. 27....-.AreiVed the Hayle, Rosustow, frcm
Pei nambueo,
Tustimt, Alto, 27.—Arrived off, Dumfriesshire, Quebec.
CLYDE. Ave. 26.—Arrived the Glengarry, M'Donald,
from Tiarbadoes ; and Ariel, Bannerman, from St. John's,
New Ilruns‘liek.

WATE'RFORD, AUG. 26.—Arrived the Elio, Welch, from
Newfoundland.
CAMPRELTOWN, Aco. 26.—Arrivcd the Sally, Mitchell,
from Archangel.
SHIELDS, Acc. 27.—Arrived the Ann, Scott, from Arch-
angel ; Princess Victoria, Radford, from ditto ; Albion, Kidd,
from St. Petersburgh ; Newburg, Burgess, from Pillau; arid
Oustava Leopold, from Wolgast.
DOVER, Auo. 28.—Arlived cff port, the Maguasha, Chase,
from the Cape of Good Hope.
Atm. 28.—Arrived the J. Gleame, Wachrnan, from
Hamburg Crowley, Mather, from Archangel ; and Canton,
Uunkerly, from St. Petershurgh.
ALDBOROUGII, AUG. 28.--Arrived off port, the Ida, Hobbs,
from St. Petersburgh ; and ficlons, from Memel.
SWANSEA, AUG. 28.—Arrivcd off port, the Laing, Hud-
son, from Archangel.
YARMOUTH, AUG. 28.—Arrived the John and Jane. David-
son, from Archangel.

The Broughton, Stephenson, bound to St. Petersburg'', has
put back to Shields I.,:aky, and must discharge.
The Salem, Robertson, from Shields to London, was on
RActir Sands, on the 25th inst. —crew and stores saved.
The Adelaide, from Liverpool to Alicante, W 33 spoken on
the 19th inst., in lat. 47 lon. 10; by the Fly from Figuera, on
the 14th inst., lat 47, lon. 32. -
The Malvina, Buckle, arrived at Falmouth, and spoke the
Gertrude, from Gallipoli to Falmouth, on the Bth inst. off
Cape de G att.

The Nais, Gethine, arrived at Cork, spoke the Spruce, Aus-
tin, from Gallipoli to Cork ; on the 30;h ult.; by the Agita-
tor, from Belfast to Mira:Diehl, On the 24th inst.
GkimsuY, Auo. 20.—The Jane, Finlay, from Shield; to
Middleburg has been run on the mud, near this harbour, in a
ltdky state.

,
MILITARY INTELLIGEI:\ CE.—Lieut.-Colonel w.
1, C. Ward has succeeded Captain Lewes, of the Royal En-
Cork; and a draft, con-
ginecrs, in Limerick garrison. A detachment of the 77th
Regiment, consisting of two sergeants and forty-four rank and
to
command of Lieutenant
b totuckosn
contradict
ly
afor report'Yalta,
lvh i
ch has
fi,
i!:t;i
nhga have marchedo, ent)mf red:: Gunadltevray
Captain Steels has
obtained treat
S ,n;ttiticeirt:
credence, that any desertions had taken rit4eite(mr
place eit,‹r in the
Royal Marino Artillery or the battalion„, of r oyal Marines
serving on the north coast of Spain
• -1
h. of the Turkish
gentlemen who have been so long ... '"
tidying at Woolwich for
artillerists have departed for Turl- - .".
A STEP-MoTitER, —ey,as ern. cient etliTs.
A farmer in the neighbour.
of Boriiskoue Lavin, -,
tcund a partridge's nest had the eggs
removed arid pi- , -
td under a brooding hen. The feathered
step-raothcri . -
“as now a half dozen of thriving young partridges
ft l',/..w:-
...iig her abDut the field es fondly and attached as if they
were so many chickens.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JO URNALt4.

We shall not take it upon us to criticise Mr. O'Con-
nell's new plan of agitation. •He is an able master; the
Tories have made him perfect in the art ; and we have no
doubt his lately developed plan of operations will produce
the requisite amount of ferment in the country. Let us
congratulate the Tory statesmen upon the fruits of their
husbandry. Men reap as they sow ; and it is also v,riLten,
that they who sow the wind reap the whirlwind. The
wheat and the barley may foil ; but, thanks to the industry

with which the Tories
_ll-ave. through the past Session har-

towed the feelings of the Irish people, we may reckon con-
fidently upon an abundant crop of agitation. Success,
therefore, we say, to the farming of the Peels and Lynd-
bursts ! Success to the harrow husbandry ! A merry au-
tumn is before us, and if we may not thank Pan, we may
thank Peel for our full granges. Thank " the bounteous
Peel," ye " unlettered hinds !" Who but the unlet
tered hinds will thank him for such a harvest of

uproar as we are likely to be blessed with in Ire-
land ? Let whlt will come of the corn, we shall have

enough of the Corn-Exchange, the good people of Eng
land may be certain. The ears of our English wheat may
be empty, but there are Irish ears in millions that will be
full enough of the harangues of demagogues, the only grain
upon which Tory policy places no embargo. The trade
of agitation is free at any rate, and it is the only trade that
the Tories object to cripple. The consequence is, that if
bread be scarce upon this side of the Channel, agitation
abounds upon the other, and the policy of Conservative
statesmen is to feed the people of England with the
clamours and complaints of Ireland—the bread made of the
whirlwind, which those who have sown the wind gather into
their garners. Irish hubbub is luxurious feeding, and if
Englishmen will not live upon it, they musthave coarsepalates,
and deserve to eat nothing better than wheaten bread all
their lives. The very prospectus of the Precursor Society is
a dish that one might live upon a week, with the proper
Tory gust for a meal of uproar. What a deal of eating
there is in one of Mr. O'Connell's speeches, if the reader
has only the true appetite for the Irish cry, and can live,
like Don Ventoso in the romance, upon the blast of a
trumpet, or the winding of a horn. Perhaps the Tories,
after all, know the stomachs of Englishmen best ; and to
be sure if the people of Ireland, as is an established fact,
manage to live ipon mere excitement (for they have no-
thing else to lit e upon except potatoes), we do not see
why the people of England and Scotland should not thrive
equally ;Tell upon the same airy, or rather stormy, diet.
Success, then, we say once more to the harrow hus-
bandry, and the Lyndhurst bread made of the whirl-
wind ! The Corn-laws in England, and the Corn-Ex-
change in Ireland—not Ceres but eEolus—not the horn of
plenty, but the trump of agitation. A tempest for our
breakfast and a tornado for our dinner ; the Precursor So-
ciety for the morning meal, and a Repeal Association
for our evening repast. We trust we shall have no hypo-
critical murmuring at the coming storm, even should it
prove a hurricane. If you desirelpeace, Tory Lords and
Gentlemen, you should have sown the see of justice—
as you scattered affronts and injuries, it is to be presumed
that you prefer commotion to tranquillity. The public be-
lief is, that you have not yet had enough of Irish agitation,
and that you wish to hear once again the roar of an ag-
grieved people. Depend upon it, your professions of anti-
pathy to demagogues will not go down with that great
majority of Englishmen who are out of Bedlam, and exempt
from the custody of the Lord Chancellor. The man
knows nothing who does not know that but for you
the Irish Agitator would be as idle as the Irish Parson ;
and that itis your own rash and most unprincipled legislation
that creates the ferment you have the astounding effron-
tery to rail at. You, who have most factiously, most pro-
fligately, and, we are compelled to add, most dishonourably
and most treacherously, prevented
j the concession of de-
mands as just and mojerate as justice and moderation
obstructing the obvious
themselves—you, who, by I:'!°3
course that expediency no less than :visdom recommended,
have effectually provided, as far as in yoti tsv,for the re-
vival and continuance of popular commotions,--are you
the parties to complain, if the roar of the demagogue
up again, and the empire is again shaken with his thunders?
Pity, that in your behalf the laws of the moral world are not
reversed, and oppression made the parent of tranquillity,
and thrice repeated contumely the source of peace and
satisfaction. Pity, that the Irish people are not the stocks
and stones for which you would seem to take them. Of
what is it you complain, Tory Lords and Gentlemen ?
That you cannot oppress and insult the Irish, exempt
even from the slight and most inadequate punishment of
hearing their complaints under the lash. They will not be
silent under the scourge ; they insist upon the privilege of
screaming under the harrow ; they are determined that the
empire shall hear their cries, if the Legislature will not re-
dress their grievances. Most unreasonable people! How
little they deserve the distinction of being ground to the
earth under tyrants of such high renown as Peel and Lynd-
hurst ! How unworthy they are of the splendid despotism
of the Tory Peerage ! How utterly undeserving to wear
the chains of men like the Newcastles and Winchilseas,
the Westmeaths and the Rodeos ! A people of such little
fortitude that when You strike them they strike in turn,
and when you trample them they turn under your heel.—
Morning C'hronicle.
The accounts from the continental fairs apd markets re-
specting the produce of wool this year, and the prices cur-
rent at sales, appear extremely advantageous to the growers,
and exhibit also great progress and activity in the woollen
manufactures, particularly those of Prussia and Saxony.
Although the markets have been abundantly supplied, yet
prices were considerably higher than those of last year.
At Stettin, in June, the quantity exhibited amounted to
about 28,000 centzners, which was all quickly disposed of
at a considerable advance upon the prices of last year.
The buyers were numerous, but the principil purchases
were for Prussian and Saxon account, the English and
Belgians having found the rates too high. The fair at Stral-
sund, a few days previous to that at Stettin, was equally
well supplied, but prices not so well sustained. At Cassel
rile ending the 30th of June, of 15,000 centzners, 6
only remained unsold. At Lubeck, about 9.45,0001 b.
weight of Hol,teio and Nleckli,nburg wools were exposed
for sale on the :20th of June and days following, and sold at
prives ranging 40 per cent. above those- of the year before.
Here the buyers were chiefly English and Rhenish Pius.
sian manufacturers. Numerous purchases had been made
by anticipation, it is said, on account of English bouss from
the growers in the interior on mot e favourable tcr,ns, which
lessened the quantity of wool that otherwise would have
Leen sent to this fair. At the fair of Warsaw, also held
in June. this sales amounted to 13,600 centzners. At the
fair of F,-unkfort-on.the-O,ler upwards of 10,000 centzners
of?ordinary and midal:m qualities were purchased, prin-
dpally for account of Berlin hones. Consideinble
supplies of wool were arriving at Berlin from Wes-
tern • and Nerihern Prussia ; the whole of the clip of
those provinces and Poland, which was expected to
reach about the middle of this month, would make
the stock Oa hand at Berlin from 50,000 to 60,000
erntzners. These era the wools known as Pru sian
which obtain a prefe e.ice with manufacturers g ne-
rally, uniting the softness and substance of the Silesian
kith the strength of tine Pomeranian and Bran:lenburgh
wools. It is remarked that throughout Germary the pur-
chases hate almost exclusively been for account of Gar-
man m inufacturers, the English operations gradually
diminishing, on the contrary, every year. Purchases for
German account had been made at Berlin to the extent
of 50,000 centzners, at Stettin of 30,000, and at Offenbaeli
of 10,000. The profits of wool growing in Prussia are
alluded to as very considerable, and yearly on the increase,
from the great encouragement given to this branch of in-
dustry by the Government ; and as the domestic manu-
factures absorb so large and yearly increasing a proportion,
it is clear they must be equally flourishing and extending
with the raw product.—Times.
The presentation of a sword to the infant son of the
Bake of Orleans by the municipality of Paris, is truly
French and fantastic. A pap-spoon would have been a
more appropriate present. But that would have been
something rational, and servile flattery has as little to do
with common sense as common honesty. The same muni-
cipal body that has exhausted its ingenuity to find out some
novel and extravagant mode of expressing its fulsome adu-
lation to the " Citizen King" on the birth of the young
Count de Paris, were equally adulatory, and quite as sin-
cere, when they did homage at the cradle of the infant
King of Rome ; and yet the dynasty of Napoleon which
that birth was to consolidate has vanished from the earth.
Not less profuse and preposterous were the expressions of
their devoted loyalty 0n the birth of the Duke of Bor-
deaux, the pledge and guarantee of the stability of the
throne occupied by the representative of the elder branch
of the House of Bourbon ; and yet the Duke of
X., like Bor-
deaux Na. is an exile, and Charles
in a foreign tomb. So
poleon and his son, reposes
h Thrones
much or. for, the consohdation of French by the
fantastical lip-service of the municipality of Paris to
royal babies in their cradles !ft is true we have the autho-
rity of the Greek poets for the fact that the infant Hercules
performed his first labour in the cradle
by strangling the
serpents that a malevolent power had placed there for his
Majesty,
had The royal infant, son of his Olympic
had only his naked hands wherewith to defend himself
. from his envenomed persecutors. Nobody thought of de-
positing a sword in the cradle of the baby. To furnish the
'cradle of a new-born infant with such a weapon wee reserved
for the wisdom of the nineteenth century and the muniee
pality of Paris. Happy King of the Barricades !. whose
gra.odson is better armed in his nursery cot than the infant
Hereu?ea, and that, too, for the purpose of destroying the
monsters t'a't may attack—not him, but France—France
threatened with :Ile monster of legitimacy and the monster
of republicanism at I.lte same time, which, no doubt, the
sword of the royal baby a 4,11. ut into a thousand pieces.
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The eloquence of tl.e Prefect of Paris upon laying the swerl
beside the pap-boat was quite as original and striking as the
gift itself. " This sword," says the orator, "in the opinion
of the municipal corps, should neither recall that of Char-
lemagne nor that of Napoleon." We admire the geave and
solemn modesty of such a disclaimer. The municipality of
Paris disdains to make of the grand=on of Louis Philippe
a yourg Charlemagne or a young Napoleon. - Again, the
Prefect, to whom the panegyrist of Trajan, and Lcentias,
the rhetorician, were bankrupts in the language of flattery,
thu.s delicately extracts a compliment from the sword of
the grandson to the pacific virtues of the grandfather.
" Permit us to say, sire, it is a sword similar to the one of
Louis Philippe we bring to his grandson, which only starts
from its scabbard /or the deface of our territory and insti-
tutions—the sword of the Prince who knows at the same
time how to make himself respected by Europe, and to
consolidate in France the reign of liberty under the laws."
If England had a wise and able Government, the words of
the orator, in allusion to the sword of Louis Philippe, would
not be, as they now are, the enunciation of a ridiculous fiction.
Such a Government would have taken care that the sword
of the crafty and ambitious King, whom his flatterers have
absurdly called the " Napoleon of peace," should never have
" leaped from its scabbard" except for the defence of the
territory and institutions of France. Since Louis Philippe
has come to the throne which the Buonapartists and Re-
publicans of July won for him with their blood, no foreign
power has committed any aggression upon the territory or
institutions of France,and yet the sword of Louis Philippe
has frequently been drawn, and has shed a good deal of
blood. Have we not seen a French army, in a time of
" profound peace," let loose upon the Netherlands to
slaughter the subjects of the Dutch King, while the Eng-
glish flag heisted with that of France, under the auspices
of the combined diplomacy of Talleyrand and Palmerston,
threatened the coast of Holland with the broadsides of
" naval demonstration ?" The conquests of France in
Africa—the barbarous destruction of Mascara—the sack-
ing of Constantine—are they to be enumerated among
the acts of blood and desolation achieved by a sword only
drawn in defence of the territories and institutions of
France by the Napoleon of peace ? We have no doubt
the day will come when an English army will have to drive
the French out of Africa, as our arms formerly drove them
out of the East Indies and Egypt ; but it would have
been better to have prevented France from making con-
quests on the shores of the Mediterranean, than to be
obliged, hereafter, to expend much blood and treasure in
dislodging her from those conquests—as assuredly must yet
be the case when an Epicurean Prime Minister shall no
longer
sacrifice the great interests of this country to volup-
tuous indolence—and when the destinies of Great Britain
will be protected by other weapons than the shafts of Cu-
pid. If the Prefect of Paris were what is vulgarly called
a " wag," we might have supposed those allusions to the
defensive sword of foreign conquest were covertly but bit-
terly sarcastic. As to the expression describing the Go-
vernment of Louis Philippe as" the reign ofliberty under the
laws," it has all the air of solemn irony. The " reign of
liberty under the laws" in France have been exemplified by
incessant state prosecutions, ever since Louis Philippe
mounted the throne of July, to put down the liberty of the
Press and all freedom of opinion. So much for the truth of
the absurd flattery uttered over the cradle of the Royal
baby that is to " consolidate the institutions of France, and
the dynasty to which she has intrusted her destinies."—
Morning Herald.
If any man were to assert that the prosperity of a peo-
ple was to be promoted by rendering the necessaries of life
of difficult attainment, he would be considered as either
demented, or making, through sinister motives, an expres-
sion of opinion contrary to his conviction. An abundant or
sufficient supply of food is the first essential to a people's
comfort and happiness. To dispute this position, or plainly
and boldly to assert a limited or scanty supply of food to
be conducive to the welfare of a people, would be an absur-
dity too gross to be perpetrated by any rational being. But
the very assertion which is, in its broad fallacy, eschewed
by all desirous of being regarded as reasonable beings,
is insidiously advanced through tortuous sophistries by
those who contend for the present system of Corn-
laws .
for under whatever plausibility disguised, the ar-
gumentsvour of the continuance of prohibiting du-
ties oncoin f 4
rnreso!Ye themselves into the monstrous sup-
position that cheap food is injurious to the well-being of
society. To a supposition so manifestly opposed to common
sense and reason it would be a waste of time to attempt a
refutation, as even the parties endeavouring to impose on
others by delusive declamation'in favour of keeping up a
high price for corn, must themselves be convinced of the
fallacy of their own arguments. With the exception of the
landowners and the recipients of tithes, whose tenths are
increased proportionately to the increased price of corn,
there is not a single class throughout the whole range of
society-which does not suffer more or less injury from the
operation of the Corn-laws. Save in the incomes of the
landowners and titheowners there is no evidence tobe found
of their utility, and even in these instances the advantage
is obtained by a sacrifice from the rest of the commu-
nity infinitely more in amount than the benefits derived
by the favoured parties. In vain do we look around
through the i ,dustrial classes for evidences of the
beneficial effects of the Corn-laws ; every testimony in-
dicates a contrary conclusion. Neither is the revenue
of the country increased by these exactions ; but the
reverse ; for as the prohibitory duties limit the extent of
our commerce, the revenue must in this mode be seriously
impaired. But the effect of the Corn-laws is not only to
diminish the revenue, but increase the expenditure of the
country. While we are by the high price of food, pre-
vented from bringing our manufactures into foreign markets,
on terms of equal competition with other countries ; while
we are, in fact, placing a drawback on our own energies
and skill, which enables foreigners to supersede us in mar-
kets where, otherwise, we might establish an exclusive
trade, we are under the necessity of victualling our navy
and supporting our army at an expense far beyond that of
any other country in the world. England was never in-
tended for an agricultural country. Her superfices is not suf-
ficiently extensive, and even if it were, it is on her commerce
she must ever base the pillars of her greatness. An agrtcul u-
rid people may be a contented and comfortable people, but
there is no instance on record wherein they ever le:-
came a great, a powerful, or a wealthy people. The most
powerful and we dthy States have been those who have
drawn their provisions from -foreign sources, as history
amply testifies. It is to her manufactures, not to her zer,-
culture, that England must d.rect her solicitude, if she
wish to maintain her influence abroad, or her comfort,
peace, and prosperity at home. If it be desired to check
the excitement in favour of extensive political change, the
abolition of the Corn-laws affords the most certain medium
of effecting the object. It is only when the people feel
straitened or distressed in their domestic relations tha• they
become clamorous for change. Let them have what they
expressively term " frill and plenty," and they will care
little to interfere in political agitation. So that if it be
desired to suppress the clamour for Universal Suffrage
Annual Parl aments, Vote by Ballot, a Reform of the
Lords, and the other Reforms from uhich in their distress
the people seek to work out their r..generation, toe most
certain mode of effecting this object is a " Repeal of the
Cora-la ws."-111orning A.lvertiser.

CRIMINAL COURT-TUESDAY

OLD COURT.

Mvans.—After the acquittal of the woman Pow, one of the
Counsel of the man .113ers stated that he was exceedingly de-
sirous to surrender at once, and take his trial along Kith Mrs.
Pow ; but he was strongly advised not to do s.), and, acting
upon that recommendation, he reluctantly declined to appear.
It was said that he now int-nds to wait until the next Session,
when he will surrender on the first day the Queen's Judges sit.
Ann King, aged 44, was indicted for feloniously cutting and
wounding William W.lson, with intent to do him some grie-
vous bodily harm.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the evidence, observing
that the woman appeared to have acted in defence of her hus-
band. whom she considered in danger at the time.
Thejury found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault.

A few da)s ago a NEW COURT.
young girl of genteel appearance, of the
name of Mary Brown, alias Henderson, was convicted of
stealing two handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. J. Smith.
From the time of her apprehension down to the period of
her conviction she strenuously refused to inform the Sheriffs,
or any one else, respecting the residence of her friends or
her connexions, which, from her dress and demeanour, were
presumed to be respectable. She stated, as a reason for her
silence, that she did not wish her friends to know where she
had been. At the time of her conviction the Common Ser-
geant told her that if she.would give up the address of her
friends, she should be forthwith sent home in a coach, without
its being known whence she was sent ; but, in the event of
her refusing to do so, she must take the consequence. The
prisoner upon this assurance immediately gave an address,
which proved to be incorrect and unsatisfactory.
The COSINION- SERJEANT in passing sentence upon her this
morning said she was the most extraordinary child he ever
met with. The Court had hesitated whether they should not
transport her, but it had been determined not to proceed to
t' at extremity. The sentence, therefore, was, that she be
imprisoned in the House of Correction for six months, and
kept to hard labour.

'Henry Smith, alias Edward Jones, was indicted for stealing
two boxes containing a dressing-case, a workbox, various ar-
ticles of jewellery, a Bible and other bnoks, besides a large
quantity of wearing apparel, of the value of upwards of 40/.,
the property of the Rev. Henry Powell; and J. Crouch,
Mary Williams, and Winifred Brady, were charged with re-
ceiving the same, well knowing them to be stolen.
Mr. C;,ARKSON, in opening the case, said the prosecutor
was a clergyman of the Church of England, and in the early
part of the present month had taken his place on beard a
vessel to proceed to India under the auspices of the Church
Missionary Society. The Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to state at length the history of the boxes, from their
transit from the Society's house until they were found in the