The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

LMORNING HERALD.]

There has been lately in the House of Com-
mons a good deal said about striking the average
of Corn. It would appear that one set of Corn
Exchange people combine to strike the average
as high as possible, and another set to strike it as
low as they can. It is singular that no Acts of
Pediment can be made, as applicable to corn,
money, or any other matter of trade, which
those to whose trades such Acts relate do not
contrive to evade. Act after Act has been passed
to prevent the fraudulent striking of averages,
but they have proved unavailing. There seems
to be a 'feeling growing up in the House of a less
hostile character so far as free trade in corn is
concerned. Mr. Ricardo's argument was, that it
mattered not to the nation whether it ate bread
made from English or foreign grain—that it
was ridiculous to lay such a stress on the policy
of producing 'every thing within ourselves—and
:that if a country did not .produce any corn,
and yet by means of its other productions,
was able to import a sufficiency of corn,
it was the same thing. .Mr. Ricardo always ar-
gued on the principle of the necessity we would
be under of paying for an imported article in
British produce, because, as we had neither gold
nor silver mines we must pay in British pro-
duce. It has been shown, that generally this
country hds not grown a sufficiency
of grain
for its consumption, therefore allowing an im-
portation cannot be objected to. The ques-
tion is, if imported, should it be taxed—and
how much per quarter ? The smuOlers have
taught us that foreign articles should be mode-
rately taxed, if we would prevent smuggling
So far as we have considered the subject, we.
think it would'be politic to import pain. As to
the old hackneyed nonsense put forth of the im-.

!policy of taxing foreign grain, nnd, therefore,
•taxing every morsel of bread put into :the mouth,
it is merely put forth to make the mechanical part
of the people believe that those asserting-
such stuff have their welfare at heart. We
hope, however, that no mechanic in the king-
dom believes in such humbug. There must be
a Government. There must also be taxation to
meet the expellees of a Government. The ques-
tion is, which is the best mode of levying taxes—
on imported articles, or on internal ones ? We
say, oN imported articles. We should like the
experiment to be made of importing grain at a
moderate taxation ; it might bring down the
prices of souse other articles of life, which are at
present extravagantly high. If grain were im-
ported at a moderate taxation, the farmers
would probably he compelled to turn their at-
tention more towards the production of cattle,
poultry, fruit, and other things, than they have
done for some years past.— Do not these
things want lowering in price ? And can it be
done except foreign interference be suffered to
come in competition with our landed interest.—
From our keeping out foreign corn, the system
has been going on among the farmers of attend-
ing principally to the production of grain, so that
at length little else is thought of ; the conse-
quence is, that there is not a sufficient supply of
the other description of food, and the results are
high prices.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, May 15.

Lord Chamberlain's Office, May 16, MN.
Notice is hereby given, that the King will hold a Drawing-
room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday next, the 20th inst.,
at two o'clock, to celebrate his Majesty's Birth-day. N.B. The
knights of the several Orders will wear their Collars.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

R. Roby, Radnor-street, City-road, tailor.
BANKRUPTS.
_ _ _

R. Ramsden, Wandsworth, coach-proprietor, to surrender
May 18, 22, June 26, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitor, Mr. Fisher, Bucklersbury.
! T. Dale, Holborn, coach-master, May 22, 25, June 26, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Whit-
ton, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
W. Welsby, Manchester, innholder, May 31, June 1, 26,
at the Coach and horses Inn, Manchester. Solicitors, Messrs.
Appleby and Sergeant, Gray's-inn-square.
J. Wild, Burslem' Staffordshire, victualler, May 31, June 1,
26, at the Roe Buck Inn, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Solicitors,
Messrs. Bourdillon and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside.
J. Dawe, Hellingtown-mills, Devonshire, miller, June 1,2,
26, at Gonde's Hotel, Devonport, Solicitor, Mr. Church, Great
James-street, Bedford-row. • _ _ _ _

H. Roscow, Pendleton, Lancashire, brewer, May 31, June 1,
26, at the Illackfriars-bridge Inn, Manchester. Solicitors,
Messrs. Clark, Richards, and Medealf, Chancery-lane.
S. Davis, Devonport, Devonshire, grocer, June 4,5, 26, at
Weakley's llotel, Devonport. Solicitor, Mr. Sole, Gray's-
inn-square.
W. Ferdinand Sintenis, Langbourne-chambers, merchant,
May 22, 29, June 26., at the Bankrupts Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitors, Messrs. Birch and Garth, Martin's-lane,
Cannon-street.

J. Nelson, Cheltenham, Glocestershire, tea-dealer, May 22,
June 5, 26, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Soli-
citors, Messrs. Evans and Shearman,llatton-garden.
W. Heyden, Liverpool, coach-maker, June 2,3, 21, at the
Union Inn, Birmingham. Solicitor, Mr. Hunt, Surrey-street,
Strand.

B. 0. Corbett, Friday-street, linen-draper, May 22, 29, June
26, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingball-street. Solicitor, Mr.
Parken, New Boswell-court.

W. C. Twaddle, llertford, draper, May 25, 29, June 26, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Sharp,
Essex-court, Temple.
J. Haselden, Grub-street, horse-denler, May 25, 29, June 26,
at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor; Mr.
Isaacs, Bury-street, St. Mary-axe. • -
J. Bowes, Battersea, carpenter, May 22, June 5, 26, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall. street. Solicitor, Mr. Brook-
ing, Lombard-street.
- Alexander Roberts, Montford.place, Kennington-green.
coal-merchant, May 18, 25, June 28, at the Bankrupts'
Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Pownall, Staple-inn,
Holborn.

G. Eaton, Upper Thames-street, stationer, May 28, June 5,
24, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr.
Hughes, Dean-street, Fetter-lane.
S. Ella, Noble—street, shoe-draper, May 23, June 5, 26, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall.street. Solicitors, Messrs.
Steel and Nichol, Queen-street, Cheapside.
J. 'Wreaks, Sheffield, saw-manufacturer, May 21, 22, June
26, at the Conirnercial Inn, Sheffield. Solicitors, Messrs. Til-
son and Preston, Coleman-street.
DIVIDENDS.
_ _ _

Ilnlcay 22, A. Gompertz, Great Winchester-street, merchant
J 10, WW . hitaker,
June
, Wakefield, and J. Whitaker, Lee-
green, Yorkshire, clothiers—June 5, B. P. Evans, Freeman's-
court, Cornhill, law-stationer—play 18, G. Robertson, ‘Vap-
ping, ship-chandler—June 12, J. \Vetton, W. James, and T.
Payne, Jun., Wood-street, ribband-manufacturers—June 5,
J. Emery, Rosomond-street, Clerkenwell, victualler—June 8,
V. and G. Cock, Canterbury, wine-merchant—June 5, C.
Wathen, Salters'-Hall-court, merchant-,-June 7, W. Garrs,
Grassington, Yorkshire, grocer.
CERTIFICATES, JUNE 5.
W. Jefferys, Quadrant, Regent-street, painter—R. Chidley,
Sparrow-corner, Minories, cheesemonger—r. Lawson, Bow-
ness.hall, Cumberland, corn-factor—F. King, Warwick, up-
holsterer—J. Bristow, Bristol, ironmonger—J. Crowther, jun.
Wakefield, Yorkshire, corn-factor—J. Keele, Waterloo-road,
Surrey, stationer—C. F. Staeben, Lime-street, merchant—M.
Matthews, Rochester, coal-merchant—R. Y. Birch, Hammer-
smith, medicine-vender.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Shaw and C. Twycross, grocers—R. Clay and J. Parke,
Liverpool, chemists—J. H. Kolbe and J. G. -Kolbe, Church-
street, Soho, tailors—T. Haigh and J. Kendall, Bradford,
York, gardeners—T. Drake and J. Ellis, Shoreditch, cheese-
mongers—T. Barnes and H. Wentworth, Manor Mills, Ro-
therhithe, millers—R. and W. Richardson, New Windsor,
linen-drapers--A. Paris, T. Warre, jun. J. Harvey, A. M'Caus-
land, and T. Harvey, London—W. and M. Orum, Wotton
Tinderedge, Gloucester, bakers—J. Ward, T. Baggaley, and
B. Townrow, Nottingham, fishmongers—J. and J. Hunt,
Shrewsbury, coach-builders—J. and J. E. Benham, coal-mer-
chants—J. and W. Heginbottom, Ashton-under-Line, Lan-
caster, cotton-manufacturers—J. and F. Davis, Cheltenham,
sign-painters —A. Newbery and R. Read, Manchester, cotton
dealers—J. Emerson and E. Davy, Hibaldstowe, Lincoln,
farmers—G. H. Howes and C. S. Godfrey, Thavies-Inn,
Holborn, stationers.

It is rumoured that the Proprietors of the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, intend to keep
their house open during the greatest part of the
summer. There was a meeting of the Proprie-
tors of all the National Theatres at the Lord
Chamberlain's Office the other day, but the par-
ties separated without coming to any definite
a rrangement.--(maning Chronicle.)

BIRTHS.
On the 13th inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the wife of
George William Crane, Esq., solicitor, of a daughter.
On the 13th instant, at Ihornden, the Lady of C. Tyhien
Pattison, Esc! of a son.
Friday night, at 'Harwood House, Hanover.square, the
Hon. Mrs. hascelles, of a son.
On the 14th inst., at the vicarage, Edgware, Middlesex, the
lady of the Rev. R. 11. Millington, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
On Wednesday, the 12th inst., Thomas Blake, Esq., of
Doctors'-commons, to Maria Emily, youngest daughter of
Thomas Gubitt, Esq., of Honing-hall, Nod