The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-19 00:00:00

position of the present Government," but he is com-
pelled to own, notwithstanding, the general correctness
of their views. The writer in the Post owns, too,
that the Bank of England cannot reasonably expect
any further temporary metallic accommodation from
the Bank of France, and that the supplies of gold and
silver from the mines of the Western World will be
just now less than what they have been. After making
all these admissions, however, our contemporary
finds new and sudden solace in the hope that the
continental merchants "will receive payment of the car-
goes of wheat sent to the British ports in good and
valid foreign bonds, "a safe," he sagely remarks, " and
convenient mode of exchange to resort to on the part of
the shippers." But "the shippers" will not try it while
they can get solid food for their cargoes ; they are not
the men to be satisfied with paper ; and as they made
this country pay 7,000,000/. in hard cash in 1839 for food
to the people they will take payment in the same me-
dium in 1841-2. They have no inducement to do other-
wise. As to the miserable conceit advanced by our
Contemporaries, that they will be cajoled with Austrian,
Russian, or Prussian Bonds, it is really too absurd to
deserve serious attention. The credit of the Continental
States is by no means improving. After twenty-seven
years' peace they have all, more or less, been lately in
the market as borrowers. Their debts have increased
instead of being diminished, and there is nothing suffi-
ciently attractive in any of their Stocks to make men
prefer them to gold.

WHAT ARE THE STARVING •
LABOURERS TO DO ?
Seriously we entreat the attention of all classes to this
all-important question. At this moment, thousands of
our fellow workmen, of the fellow creatures of the com-
mon family ; beings possessing immortal souls, bora for
high and noble ends, arc literally dying in tha mid of
plenty, although willing to labour for the scantiest remu-
neration. .
Within the circle of our own individual I as vledge
there are, in two districts of Manchester alons, u2wards
of two thousand men wholly destitute of the means of
livelihood.
These men are walking in little knots up and down
our streets with despair upon their spectre-like coun-
tenances and bitter hatred to their oppressors, we fear,
strengthening in their raging breasts,
Why not go to the workhouse ? it may be said.
First—Because in nine cases out of ten they have no
settlement.
Second—Because by going there they consider they
undergo imprisonment for the crime of poverty ; a crime
not of their own voluntary perpetration, but of the mo-
nopolist's infliction.
What must these men do ?• Must they die quietly in
our streets ? They ought to live, to be happy. Must
they beg from their more wealthy neighbours ? alas !
they, too, are sinking. Must they steal ? No, it would
be a crime. What then are they to do ? Let us con-
sider a little.
They are starving in consequence of the splendid pro-
fusion of the land-owning monopolists. The monopo-
lists around Manchester receive double rents as the price
of the miseries of the poor. We hear the landowners
are generous, we will test their•generosity.
Thomas Trafford, Esq., a bread-taxer, residing at Traf-
ford, two miles from Manchester, gains about 20,0001. a
year by the Corn-laws.
Lord Francis Egerton, residing at Worsley, seven
miles from this town, gaini much above 50,0001. from
the bread-eaters.
Lord Stamford, who lives at Dunham, ten miles off,
gains by the same means 8,0001. a year.
Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton, fifteen miles
distant, about 25,000/.
The Earl of Wilton, Heaton Park, three miles from
the town, about 15,0001.
••.
Total gains, per annum, of the five. '" generous
bread taxers" by the sufferings of the masses, 118,000/.
Let the starving two thousand make personal applica-
tion to each of these mon for assistance, and let them
offer to dig over and sow with grain their spacious
parks and pleasure-grounds, as the only means they have
of recompensing the landowners for their charity.
By this plan the landowners will be no worse ; the
poor men now starving will be fed, and Lord Francis
Egerton will be relieved of the necessity of arming his
tenants, to put down the starving weavers who may rise
and demand the food they are unable to purchase.—
From the first number of a publication called the
Anti-Monopolist, published at Manchester.