The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to explain
iho reasons why the Government had not before sus-
pended the navigation laws. In Octnber they had been
informed that there was a large quantity of corn in Ame-
rica, and an immense number of British vessels in Ameri-
can ports ready to load corn for England. They
were told that in New York and New Or-
leans there were 70- British vessels ready to
load corn. They had been deceived, for although
there had been a great importation of corn, yet
it had not amounted to the quantity represented. He
looked now also to Odessa and Galatz, and as
soon as those ports should be open, it stood
to reason that the vessels on the spot
would be enabled to load earlier than vessels
sent out from England, therefore they now proposed to
suspend the navigation-laws. Then, with regard to
supplies, they must recollect that with re-
gard to Indian cern, they had not as yet
received a grain of the crop of 1846, but the
suspension of the navigation law would enable
them to receive the Indian corn of 1846 much
sooner from America then they could do if
those laws had not been suspended. With a
view of promoting the importation of corn into
Ireland, the Government had refused to be importers
of corn, but they had purchased corn in this county, and
had sent it to the west coast of Ireland without any limit,
except that they could not purchase to such an extent as
to raise the price of food to the poor of this
country who had to purchase their own food.
The orders given were to bring, always following,
but never leading the market. In some weeks the
Government had bought all the Indian corn in the
market ; afterwards it had bought barley ; after-
wards rice, and upwards of 200,000 quarters
of one sort of grain or another had been purchased by
the Government and sent to the depots on the west coast
of Ireland. The amount of Indian meal imported since
wsand a-half of persons for
was 3,700,000 quarters,
ethneourgehpetoalsuopfpothrte la
eight
corn
millionscorn-laws
four months. This had been done by private enterprise,
and was a proof that private enterprise had done more
than any Government could possibly have done. The
imports of corn from Ireland to England was less by
1,300,000 quarters this year than it had been during the
preceding years, and the export from England to Ireland
had been greater. In December 37 vessels were loading
in Liverpool with corn for Ireland. The Government
had also taken large mills in various parts of the country
to grind corn into meal, which had been sent to Ireland.
Last year there were nine depots of meal in Ireland. In
the present year there were 26 in the western counties.
It was certainly advisable that so long as the people
could maintain themselves from their own resources they
should do se, and therefore great caution was necessary
in opening these depots, because the moment the Govern-
ment appeared to interfere, private efforts seased, and, in
some cases, the opening of food depots, by closing pri-
vate stores, tended rather to aggravate than to miti-
gate the distress. Therefore, great caution was necessary
(LEFT SPEAKING

JOSEPH ADY.—This notorious personage, who has
obtained from her Majesty's lieges so manysovereigus, under
a promise of relating something to their advantage, was
summoned to the lower Hamlets Court of Requests, in
Osborn-street, Whitechapel, on Tuesday, by a Mr. William
Wright, a coal merchant in Cambridge-heath-road, Bethnal-
green, and the decision of the Court will no dorbt put some
Ady had written to Mr.
check on the proceedings of " Friend Joseph," who was re-
presented on the occasion by a man named Abbott, who
would make an excellent representative for the lay brother
in the opera of The Duenna.
Wright that he could "inform him of something to his
advantage, on receipt
.of 205., value 1,0001. and upwards."
The money was transmitted, and Ady furnished Mr. Wright
with a quantity of his lithographed circulars and lists relating
to next of kin, joint-stock banks, and clerks in holy orders,
holding shares in them, but this information was not worth a
farthing. Mr. Wright demanded value for his money. Ady
demurred, and a summons was forthwith issued. Ady's re-
presentative, Abbott, contended that consideration was given,
and the work contracted for was done. He also placed a
high value on Joseph Ady's services to the community, to
the no small amusement of the Court. The commissioners
dissented from all the propositions made by Ady's man of
business, and decided that the information given to Mr.
Wright was worth nothing, that no consideration had been
given, and that Ady must refund 205., and pay all the costs
within twenty-four hours, or execution wouldissue against
his goods and chattels. Yesterday Ady attended the Court
and paid 11. 75., the amount of the debt and costs. His cir-
culars are travelling all over the kingdom, and we believe his
dupes are as numerous as ever.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PARKS.—By order of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, a new en-
trance to St, James's Park, at the top of Constitution-hill,
has just been completed, adjoining the garden wall of Buck-
ingham Palace, which is for the accommodation of the inha-
bitants of Grosvenor-place. The passage is by a gradual
ascent from the road in Grosvenor-place _ to the Park, the
elevation being there about eight feet. The gateway is a
plain brick structure. In Kensington Gardens a new walk
is in the course of formation, at between 300 and 400 feet
distance from the entrance opposite the equestrian ride It
is to be about 40 feet wide, and will extend across the gardens
from south to north.
A JUDGE'S SUMMING UP.—" OFF, OFF, AND
AwAv."--Mr, Sergeant Adams, whose singularities and
eccentricities occasionally produce much merriment in the
court over which he presides, heard a case yesterday at the
Middlesex Sessions, in which a lad stole a piece of pudding
from an eatinghouse-keeper's in Clerkenwell. The evidence
having been gone through, the Learned Judge thus summed
up--" Gentlemen of the Jury, you have heard this case—off
goes the pudding—off goes the boy—off goes the woman;
she captures him bolting down a court, and here you have
the boy, pudding, and woman, before you ; gentlemen, con-
sider your verdict." At the close of this lucid and satisfac-
sdeetltilbeedratthneig
poor about?
jjurymen
rytory address, the jury turned to each other in their box, and
were soon in deep consultation. The impatient Judge
hastily. exclaimed, "Good God, gentlemen, what are you
mthene acatseoncise, clearand tuernneiunggh.r'o'und'hiins
alarm they found the prisoner Guilty. His love of pudding
got him a month's imprisonment, with the pleasant pros-
pect of a whipping by the gaolers at the end of the first
fortnight.

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Lecuine Val:dist by the deticit o. l i henry 'Ruins, of New-
port, who succeeded the late Duke of Beaufort in that office
in 1835.