The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-03 00:00:00

(~,p7,,,,,,,,, ~,,,,,.),,,t,,,,z,w„,,,,_c.-1 7
e.-vvi---e,e7
\
p----
f 1/41........
, • -,
--
,
. • v
> P', ,• • - i ...,, , ,e, VAI---.; .., ~AA, - ~,,..„‘..._ . 4. v I,%'''re"-- . -4141
ittn+
-.lC‘i - • 1-zi.T.,..... ....
'.:10-,-,00a,
- ~,,,.....a, - DA
~.,,yw y., , • -,
- ) -'-'7:11-,-- _ -IV ilipt- laV •,' ~trar„,.. -- z- 0/T t

WILLIAM.

~.~~zt^~~'T~

* Immo

PRICE

such high examples in his favour, the humble slave-
dealer of the district should feel himself in hone urable
company, and really regard his occupation as one of re-
spectability and public utility.
From thenee we proceeded to the City Prison, an old
and loathsome building, where we examined two i unges
of small stone cells, in which were a large numl per of
coloured prisoners. We noticed five or six in a s Ingle
cell, barely large enough for a solitary tenant, ant ler a
heat as intense as that of the tropics. The keeper a tated
that in rainy seasons the prison was uncomfortabl wet.
The place had to us a painful interest, from the fat :1 that
here Dr. Crandall, a citizen of the free :Mates, wit s con-
fined until his health was completely broke n down, al
finally released only to find a grave, for the crime ofha ving
circulated a pamphlet for emancipation, 'al -Awn by of .c of
the friends who accompanied me. On inquir vof the ket per,
he informed me that slaves are admitted int.( his cells, and
kept for their owners, at the rate of 34 cents, per day, and
that transfers of them from one master to an ,other same-
times took place during their confinement, th us ct orrobo-
rating the testimony of the keeper of the pi -Iva+ ;e gaol
before-mentioned ; that this city prison, the p. roioep yof
the people of the United States, and for the A thudding
of which a large sum of your money has been ai Tnopri-
at2d, is made use of by the dealers in human be,u gs as
a place of deposit and market ; and thus you, in com-
mon with your fellow-citizens, are made indirect pa;
rtici-
pators in a traffic equal in atrocity to that foreign t rade,
the suppression of which, to use the words of your Pre-
sident in his late Message, "is required by the pt. iblic
honour and the promptings of humanity."
As one who has devoted much of his humble labo urs
to the cause you wish to promote, I perhaps shall be 9c-
cused for thus stating these facts to you as they all
passed before my personal observation in the course of
a few hours. I shall deem it right to publish them
in Europe, where I am about shortly to A3turn. :Re-
collect they all occurred and exist within the district of
Columbia, and that those who elect the legis,lators who
uphold the slave system are justly responsitsle for it
in the sight of God and man. Is it not all the .natural
consequence of your electing slave-holders, and their
abettors to the highest offices of your state and natio n ?
Some of your most intelligent citizens have given it. as
their opinion that fully two-thirds of the whole poj ela-
tion of the United States are in favour of the abolit ion
of slavery ; and nay own observation, since I landed on
these shores, not only confirms this opinion, but his
convinced me that there is a very rapid accession to their
numbers daily taking place ; and yet we have the ex-
traordinary fact exhibited to the world, that about 250,000
slave-holders, a large proportion of whom, bankrupt in
fortune and reputation, have involved many of the north
in their disgrace and ruin, hold in mental bondage the
whole population of this great republic, who permit them-
selves to be involved in the common disgrace of presenting
a spectacle of national inconsistency altogether without a
parallel. I confess that although an admirer of many
of the institutions of your country, and deeply lament-
ing the evils of my own Government, I find it difficult
to reply to those who are opposed to our extension
of the political rights of Englishmen, when they point
to America, and say, that where all have a control over
the legislation but those who are guilty of a dark skin,
slavery and the slave trade remain not only unmiti-
gated, but continue to extend ; and that while there is
an onward movement in favour of its extinction, not
only in England and France, but even in Cuba and
Brazil, American legislators cling to this enormous
evil, without attempting to relax or mitigate its horrors.
Allow me, therefore, to appeal to you, by every motive
which attaches you to your country, seriously to consi-
der how far you are accountable for this state of things
by the want of a faithful discharge of those duties for
which every member of a Republican Government is so
deeply responsible ; and may I not express the hope, that
on all future occasions you will take care to promote the
election of none as your representatives who will not
practically act upon the principle, that in every clime
and of every colour " All men are equal."
Your sincere friend, ' JOSEPH STURGE.

LETTER FROM EARL FITZ-

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DONCASTER GAZETTE.

. Sir,--I am induced to trouble you with a few remarks,
in consequence of having observed that, in a speech deli-
vered at Thorne, Mr. Wortley is reported to have stated
that, " Lord Fitzwilfiam said the repeal of the Corn-laws
would not reduce the price lower than it had been for
the last eighteen years." lam quite sure Mr. Wortley
would not intentionally misrepresent any statement of
mine, but, in order to give your readers a more correct
view of the proposition which I advanced in the House
of Lords, and which Mr. Wortley so very much miscon-
ceived, it is desirable to state it more fully and accurately.
The conversation in the course of which it was made,
referred to rents, and to the effect which would be pro-
duced upon them by the Ministerial measure. Your
readers are probably aware of a statement having been
made that it would occasion a reduction of one-third of
the rental of the kingdom ; on the other hand, the
proposition which I advanced was, " that any existing
rent which was fairly calculated from the average price
of the eighteen years from 1821 to 1838, both inclusive,
(or even from the 20 years, to 1840,) need not be
much reduced in consequence of the change proposed
by Ministers." I then maintained this proposition in
Parliament (as I will now in your columns), by showing
that the average of the above-mentioned eighteen years was
565. Bd, and that, including the two dear years, 1839
and 1840, it was only about 58s. ; and, further, that the
average with a duty of Bs. would probably be about 535.
or nearer 535. than any other price. It is obvious that a
rent calculated from 535. would be nothing like a third
less than one calculated from 565. or from 585., and,
having advanced these propositions, I expressed the be-
lief, which I continue to entertain, that, with an improving
agriculture, prosperous manufactures, and a thriving
population, land would yield in the first instance nearly
as high a rent, and, ultimately, perhaps a higher, under
the ministerial system than it has under the present
Corn-laws.

Having been led thus far, I will just observe, that I
have been all along referring to a fair rent, but your
agricultural readers need not be reminded that rents are
. .

not always fairly calculated. One of the many objec-
tions that I entertain to the Corn-law is, that it supplies
landowners, but more particularly land valuers, with a-
pretext for fixing rents too high. sixty-two, sixty-
three, or even sixty-four, has generally been considered
the price, which was to be secured to the farmer by the
present Corn-law, and consequently this price has been
taken as the basis for the fixing of rents. Nevertheless,
the average of the last twenty years has been about 585.,
and (excluding the two dear years, 1839 and 1840) only
565. Bd. But though the average has been thus low,
too low to enable the tenant to pay a rent based upon
635. or 645., the consumer has frequently had his table
furnished at a much dearer rate—far dearer than if the
Corn trade had been left free with a moderate fixed duty.
This has been occasioned by the capricious character of
the law. When in the winter 1838-9, the average, de-
pressed by the bad quality of the wheat, fluctuated be-
tween 755. and 80s., the price of such wheat as was fit
for human food was 90s. or upwards, and flour was at
3s. or even 3s. 2d, a stone. This arose from the follow-
ing circumstance:—Vast quantities of the wheat of 1838
were unfit for the use of man, but nevertheless they passed
through the markets, and thereby contributed to pull
down the averages, to retard the admission of foreign
corn, and actually to raise the price of bread. This
is the most painful part of the whole question.
The average being kept down, the duty kept up, and the
foreign supply was excluded because the averages were
depressed by the bad corn, while good eatable corn rose
to an enormous height. I am, therefore, very far from
saying generally (as Mr. Wortley supposes I did), that
" a repeal of the present Corn-laws would not reduce
the price lower than it had been for the last eighteen
years." On the contrary, I believe that it would lower
it materially at those times when it is desirable to lower
it, or rather, that it would have a material effect in pre-
venting an exorbitant rise in the price of bread, corn, or
flour, when, from the character of the season, such might
be the natural result. At the same time, I believe that
would not lower the average of any long period so as
to affect, in any perceptible degree, those rents which
have been fairly set with reference to the average of the
initionwsillarbee
twentynt t
hyoeuagr sh. Thahveesenotwdooubo pt
Ps
tierd el-
clasontsis;
they are otherwise.that
I remain, Sir, your very faithful
servant
Wentworth, June 28, 1841. PITZW,
ILLIAIL

MUNIFICENT
BEQUEST.---We have much sa-
tisfaction in learning that it appears from a letter, from
the Lord Bishop of Cashel and Waterford, to Sir John
Newport, that the suit respecting the munificent be-
quest
hof the
b late Mr. Fanning to the poor of this city,
and Burin which as een pending in the Court of Chancery of
Englg so many years, and in which Sir
John Newport interested himself much, is at last
happily terminated by a decree of the Chancellor,
directing the Master's report thereon to be con-
firmed, and that the sum of 34,000/. stock in Three
per Cent. Consols should be forthwith transferred to the
credit of the Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests
in Ireland, for the benefit of the 'poor of Waterford.
The transfer is expected to be made on the earliest day
of Transfer, viz., the sth of July. Sir John Newport
has been for a long series of years most assiduous in
tracing out and satisfactorily establishing the claim of
the city to this munificent bequest, and the venerablet
Baronet has now the gratification of seeing his indeNt -
gable labour successfully consummated. The Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cashel, since his translation to
of
to
this See, has been the active and colleagueuntiring_
Sir John Newport in the matter.— Waterfor d
Mirror.
comeA tostlrigehntgatinmsetannilemeangoefr,reinsotlhuetticonalvandaoss. recently
,et the seals on
Jus-
tice of the Peace, whilst proceeding
the goods of a deceased lady.astae
rests of an only daughter, said protection i
insane,
rests
whour p
risdeeedlarbeyd
-os
with the expense of the
tthheatsushdedeneppappeertahneceseaolfs tbheiisngdapuugthtz,
intending not to be chargedet
mad, as it has been re-
operation,
me from marrying 0_
ported ; twoad• and-twenty
toagommyy
liking,mother
and preventedleeke
locked
me upmy mother should live ;
long as
to any one again, a S
and
here I am to look after my own
in my room. a lecthen made a vow, never to speak
I have kept to it,
concerns."
n
The lady
appears but in
hern o
person wayaffie es
muchted
in men-
tally by her long confinement,
al-
tered, and she is now her 40th year.