The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

THE HARVEST-THE CORN-
LAW S.

large. The crop of pears, and the prices at market, are not
above the usual average. '{'here has already been en extensive
importation cf walnuts from France and Holland, the English
supply being totally inadequate to the demand, owing to the
large destruction cs walnut trees duri,g the war for reusket
stocks :,nd other purposes. Foreign grapes are abundant in
the marki-t,, tvlsch are now exhausted of oranges, none of this
year's fruit having yet been received. lhe supply of plums is
very considerable ; but there is a scanty demand for them for
the purpose of preserves, on account of the high price of sugar,
which renders our own dearer than foreign preserves. . Cu,
cumbers have been very plentiful ; but the demand for them
has never rallied since the outcry against this fruit at the time
of the Asiatic cholera.
Wi,STMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY,
GERA an-sTar‘er, SOHO.—The increasing demands of th• sick
poor on the funds of this valuable Institution render an appeal
to the public imperatively neces.ary ; f,r. notwithstanding the -
active exertions of the Secretary, W. J. Ellis, Esq., the funds
fall very short of the expenditure. It is impossible to turn
away the wretched objects who daily present then.selves, lsbcur-
ing under every variety of disease. This establishment has now
existed nearly seventy sears, and the great good it has achieved
in the amelioration of the sufferings of our afflicted fellow. •
beings, gives it a strong claim upon the sympathies of the
benerVl,nt.
LEIT .—Fo n EIGN GRAIN —We last week,
noticed the unprecedented importation of foreign grain.
the arrivals since then have been still more numerous,
not fewer since Saturday than a hundred foreign vessels
having within these three days entered our harbour
with grain, and, at the time we write, numbers are ap-
pearing in the roadstead. The Docks, eastern and
western, are literally crowded with shipping—a narrow
passage is just kept for those going out and in, otherwise
the docks might be crossed over, the vessels
abreadth. There never was such a number of ships in
the Docks at one time before. The appearance is more like
the crowded port of the Thames, or the great docks of
Antwerp, than anything we have seen. Vast numbers
these three days past are visiting our harbours to witness
this great assemblage of shipping from the continental
ports. The great variety of build Comm striking fea-
ture in the group—the tall-masted German, the burly
rounded Dutchman, and the slim tapered Prussian, con-
trast finely with the massive British barque lying along-
side.—Ediaburgh Paper.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE AT CHISWICK.—
Since Saturday last the family and establishment of a
lady named Churton, residing at Sutton Court House,
Sutton-lane, Chiswick, leading to the banks of the
Thames at Stroud-on-the-Green, have been in a conti-
nued state of nlarm and excitement by the windows of
the mansion being continually broken, apparently by
some supernatural agent, every method adopted for de-
tecting the party guilty of the outrage failing in its ob-
ject. The mansion in question is a detached one, with
extensive grounds around it, the whole of which are en-
circled with high walls, so that the roof alone is visible
from the outside. On the opposite side of the lane is .
also another high. wall, which surrounds the domain of
the Duke of Devonshire, so that no other building over-
looks the premises. The windows first commenced
breaking on Saturday last, and in consequence of the
continuance of the outrage application was made to the
police. Since then two constables of the T division have
been placed on duty in the house and premises night and
day ; and with the assistance of the gardner,,coachman,
butler, and other male servants, a continued watch has
been kept up, but witaiout preventing the outrage or ob-
taining any clue as to the perpetrators thereof. From
half-past twelve to one o'clock on Wednesday morning
several were broken, and from the fact of their being
broken at the front as well as the back of the house, the
matter has become more mysterious.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 15.—ROYAL ARTIL.•
LERY.—Lieutenant-G eneral the Right Honourable Sir
George Murray, G.C.B. and G.C.H., the Master-General
of the Ordnance, is expected to visit the Garrison at
Woolwich in the course of this or early next week, to be
introduced to the officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal
Engineers, diad the. heads of the departments in the Royal
Arsenal on his appointment.
ATTEMPTED SELF-DESTRUCTION.—A des-
perate attempt at self-destruction was made yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. James, wife of Mr. James, the thea-
trical hair-dresser of Russell.court, Drury-lane. From
what could be learned during the confusion it would ap-
pear that husband and wife had had a few words, when
she deliberately walked into the front shop, and taking
up one of her husband's razors, made a gash in her throat
almost extending from ear to ear. A surgeon was sent
for, who immediately set about sewing up the wound,
, but little hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Yesterday evening, between six and eight
o'clock, the shop window of Messrs. G. and W. Yonge,
No. 156, Strand, was cut, and sixteen new watches taken
from it ; two of them were gold, twelve silver, and two
very valuable enamelled repeaters, set with fine pearls,
portraits on one side, and moving figures cn the other.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH.—Yes-
terday forenoon a party of the Royal Horse Artillery at-
tended for practice on the Common, principally to ascer-
tain the speed and efficiency of some horses recently im-
ported for the service from Ireland, compared with the
horses recently employed. When charging across the
Common, one of the riding horses came down with his
rider, a fine young man, of No. 4, Rocket Troop, a
driver, of the name of Wilson, and before the other
horses could be pulled up he was dragged about ten
yards, and the wheel of the gun carriage went over his
head and killed him on the spot, the skull being literally
crushed in. Drirer Wilson, who has thus met with an
untimely end, was unmarried, and highly respected in
the regiment.
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.—Last week
the Turkish steamer Peeki Schewlet departed from this
port foe Suda, with a sabre of honour for Tahir Pacha,
and several decorations for officers who particularly dis-
tinguished themselves in the late eApeditions against the
Candian insurgents. The Tairi Bahri has since arrived
in this port, with highly satisfactory accounts from
Caneda.

With a few days more of weather equal to the last
leer days, the harvest in this neighbourhood will be
over, and the bulk of it secured ; and then the farmer
inay sec, in the felling markets, how little interest he
t rally has in supporting. the preseet system of Corn-
lmws. A thoesand times we have been told, that with-
out ti c protection afforded by these or some similar
Ist, m of 1 iws, agricu't ere in ti,is country must be
nod ; and it has in sain been asserted and demon-
ace I, that in whatever light these laws may be
represented by these hatioie an interest in upholding
them, they were intended* only for the protection
of the landed propeemr. His interests, cettsinly,
have been effectually serseil by them, as the rent
paid for land in every district of the kingdom most
amply and unequivocally testifies. But although the
farmer pays an addi:ionel rent to the landlord for the
protmtien it is supposed those laws afford him, the ques-
tion stili recurs as to whether they do afford him that
protection for which he pays. It is clear, that any al-
teraiioa of the laws having the effect of diminishing the
price of agricultural produce in the market, is just so
much inotiey out of the pockets of the farmer who pays
a money-rent for his farm ; and it is equally clear that
he has no claim for indemnification from the 1 ind!ord
for aly loss he may so incur. Let us consider for a mo-
ment, then, how far this protection for which the farmer
pays, is effectual.
For several years preceding 1838, farming had been
ose of the most unfortute..t • concerns in this counts; . All
farmers had been losirg money, and many were nit :rly
ruined. A suceessioa of hue seasons sonic years
before the period of which we are now speaking,
had brought time price of wheat, of as fine
quality as ever was proilue td in this country, as
law as forty shillings a quarter. The lower the
price, the griever the quantity thrown into
the market, for this pain reason, that the farmer bad
a certain sum to make up in payment of his rent and
other expenses ; and if one hundred quarters of grain
were not sufficient to make up the sum, he was under
the necessity of sending such further quantity as might
be required for the purpose ; and thus time very efforts
he was making for his extrication, only involved him the
more deeply, by te.!ucing the value of his commodity in
tee market. The large quantities thus brought into
the market were bought up and stored by speculators,
.sho calculated Slflly that the first yeers of a defective
crop would afford them an ample return for their
money. In the meantime, the farmer is grievously
pr ssed for cash, and for a succession of years every
bushel of grain was out of his hands as fast as is could
be got into condition for the market ; and, with
very few exceptions, the stick-yards were thoroughly
cleared by the month of March. This state of mat-
ters continued for several years, till about the time teat
the crop of 1838 was brought to the market, when mat-
ters began to improve. If the farmers bad then
had in their possession the grain which they had been
forced to sell to speculators, by whom much of it was
still hold, it would have enabled them to pay every one,
and have left an ample reversion besides. It was not,
however, in their hands, and they had the mort:fic
tiers of seeing wheat which they had grown, and had
sold at 40 a quarter, bring 70s. and upwards in the
market; while they themselves, from the inferior qua-
lity of time then current year's crop, could realise only
about 60s. Thus, from the difficulties which several
years of low prices had brought uroa them, they had
to force their produce premsturely upon the market,
and dispose of it at such prices as they could obtain ;
and so, with only oceasional slight differences, matters
base continued tel the present season. This year, the
crop, with few exceptions, was out of the hands of the
farmer by the end of April ; so that a very small num-
ber of them only have benefited, and that only to a
small exten', by the recent advance in the prices ;
and thence arises the question as to how far the
farmer is protected by a system of Corn-laws for which
hs pays to his landlord an additional rent, commen-
surate not to the protection he gets, but to the protec-
tion he expects. In the first place there is no consider•
able rise in price till the farmer has no grain to sell ;
itad hence the holders only, and not the growers, are
be: eked. But the question as regards the farmer,
does not remain in this neutral state. There were
symptoms this season of an unfavourable as well as a
deficient harvest ; and, while the farmer trembled at
the appearance of a scanty crop, and that of inferior
quality', the speculator was at work, pouring in thou-
sands of quarters into our bonded warehouses ; every
expedient being tried (revolting as some of these ex-
pedients are) to keep up the averages till they arrived
at the price at which grain can be admitted to our
markets at a trifling or nominal dut;.. It must be
closely kept in view, that tl.e farmer, meanwhile, is de-
riving no benefit from the high prices, his crop
having been disposed of some months previously.
Tut averages, however, at last arrive at the point
at which the grain can be liberated ; and the ware-
houses everywhere being choke-full, the market is in-
undated,. and the filmier is deprived of the power of
realizing the price for his grail which otherwise he
would obtain, and that at the only retied during which
it would benefit him—that is, between the end of
itarvest and the middle or end of spring, when he has
grain to sell. So it has been for years past, and so will
it be now The grain in bond wid be immediately set
free, and brought to marke', in competition with the
farmer, at the ocly season of the year when it is in his
power to be a competitor at ell ; and thus probably,
for a time, reduce time prices he:ow what will remune-
rate him for his outlay and labour.—Scotsmen.

AN ENGLISH LADY IN A PAGODA.
WhtlK at Wallajahbad I became acquainted with a
Brahmin, whom Mmjor C had rendered some
ktle service, and he was frequently at our house, and
endeavoured to teach me the game of chess, in which
he himself was a great proficient. On one occasion
when he was in high good humour, having beat me
4atne after game for a whale week, I mentioned to
him Vl° great desire I had to see the inside of one of
the Conjeveram pagodas, no Europeans being ever al
lowed to go in. lie hesitated a great deal, and at last
told me it was impossible to grant my request ; how-
ever, I still persevered, and at length carried my point.
The following day a feast or ceremony was in the largest
and most beautiful of the temples. My Brahmin told
me to be. there an hour earlier, and he would see
wnat he could do. I gladly and readily av tiled
myself of this permission, and accordingly was
conveyed in a palanquin to Conjeveratn, and had it
placed under a row of fine trees opposite the great
domed pagoda. I had gone in a very long white mus-
lin dress, and had braided my heir across my forehead,
and twisted it behind like the natives, to be as little
conspicuous as possible, while a large and thickly-
sprigged black veil was over my head and face ; I had
also black silk gloves and stockings. I alighted and
walked into the outer circle of the pagoda, with two
of my bearers close to me, the torntoms, drums, and
cymbals, making a most deafening noise. I had qa-
cloned myself near the door of the grand entrance,
"here I hid not remained above a few minutes, when
iny venerable friend made his appearance ; Le tel.,' me
he hof consulted with one of the head people, and I
might be permitted to see the place before the
grand ceremony commenced, provided I would
enter without my shoes and give ten rup,es to
one of the gods, both which conditions I agreed
to. I hastened back to my palanquin, and took
off my shoes, and, accompanied as before, resumed my
place within the grand entrance. My boys were
ordered to remain behind ; being of a different caste,
they were not allowed to 'go further. I followed my
conductor through m toy long and dark passages, where
I heard shriteks and groans, apparently proceeding
from recesses that were close •by me. My heart neat
very quickly. I heartily repented of my curiosity, and
yet felt ashamed to turn back. ' At length we arrived
in one of the most beautiful vestibules I had ever beheld
or my imagination could ever picture ; it was lighted
from the top of the dome, and the mid-day sun
cast his piercing rays down upoa us. The pavement
was of the finest white marble, inlaid with
coloured stones in the shape of hideous mon-
sters ; under what class of description to place
them, it is impossible to say. The walls .• ere also of
marble, to the height of perhaps 150 feet ; they were
shaped so ai to form recesses of about four feet broad,
and about ten feet between each other, in which were
placed images, or as trey call theta, swameys. These
were alternately of silver and gold, some of them
ten or twelve feet high, with emerald and ruby eyes,
and some of them seemed to stare down upon us
in the most awful manner. Before tinny of these
were men lying flat on their faces, who, from fear of
calling down the vengeance of the god, or to avoid a
glare from their precious eyes, would crawl on their
stomachs like a snake till they were out of sight.
My Brahmin friend, I saw clearly, began to be anxious
for my departure, and though I felt much inclined
to rebel against his authority, he conducted me
once more through the dark and narrow pas-
sages, and we reached the outer court just as a crowd
of Brahmins and dancing-girls were entering the great
gates. I hurried to my palanquin, being anxous to
put on my shoes ; for, though a very hot day, I telt
chilled by standing so long on the marble pavement.
I inquired next day of my conductor whether I had
been mistaken in imagining I had heard shrieks and
groans as we passed along the dark passages. He said
I had not, and that they were occasioned by some mem-
bers of the community inflicting penance on their bodies.
—Mrs. Major Clemons.

CAB ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday - morning,
about 12 o'clock, as a cab was about to pass through Vic-
toria-gate, Bayswater, a boy named Thwaites, between
nine and ten years of age, attempted to jump up behind,
but failing to do so, his right leg became entangled in
one of the wheels of-the cab, and the limb was broken
in three or four places. The poor boy was conveyed to
St. George's Hospital.
The Embassy at Vienna has been given to
Major-General Baron Von Canitz, hitherto Ambassador
to the Court of Hanover. Count Von Suckendorf, Am-
bassador at the Court of Bavaria, is to succeed Baron
Von Bulow at London, and it is said that Major-Gen.
Lindham will go to Munich; Baron Von'Martin, who was
intended for the embassy to Lisbon, retires entirely from
the diplomatic circle.—Dutch Papers, Sept. 15. .
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 14.--The Hanover Ga•
zette has the following article :—" Berlin, Sept. 7.—
Official notice has now been given that Baron Von, .
Wenther, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been suc-
ceeded by Count Maltz, hitherto Ambassador at the
Court of Vienna."
THE GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAIL-
WAY.—A meeting of Railway Proprietors of a most im-
portant character took place at the City of York on
Monday last, namely, a meeting consisting of deputations
from all the Railwtiy Companies south as far as Rugby,
the Leeds. and Manchester Railway Company, the
Great North of England Railway Company, the New-
castle and Carlisle Railway
,Company, the Durham
Junction Railway Company, and the Brandling Junction
Railway Company. The immediate object these parties
had in view was the means of carrying into effect a plan
for extending the Great North of England Railway from
Darlington to Newcastle : the ultimate object was, we
are rejoiced to be enabled to . state, confessedly to
secure the execution of the communication by railway
on the Eastern or Coast line from Newcastle to
Edinburgh. The scheme by which is iislaiplzosetdo
Company, with a capital •
t.,,0,
,ewxet;esntdi e tihse
toG rfoe
furor
itn
aN onretliv ()t.
of 500,0001•, for the purpose of .making a railwa, froth
the point of junction of the Great North of E-ngland
Railway with the Stockton and Darlington Railway,
until they reach the Durhatt junction and the Brand-
hug Junction Railways, which will at . once complete
the line to Gateshead. Mr. R. Stephenson, the cele-
brated engineer, haS estimated the cipense 'of this con-
necting railway, and he states in his Report that it can
be executed far loss than 20,003, per mile, so that
the proposed capital would seem to be fully acluquate.
We leatutot, perhapS, adduce a stronger argument to
show the opinion really entertained by the influential
and wealthy . parties supporting the measure, of the
profit likely to be derived from the undertaking itself,
and incidentally—the immense benefits 'which will re-
sult -61nri it to the other railways already enuinera:el,
than the fact that they offer to guarantee to the share-
holders-in the new railway 6 p..!:'- cent. for their capital
fur 10 years! The project, we are happy to 5;r.t..., met
with the approbation of all present, and the details were
left to be maturely considered at an adjourned iiieti!it.,....,..
to be held on Monday, the ',7th a September. It is b;
lievt,cl that this connecting* railway, or; • in titficr,..7lU'
the entire line frUm Darlington to Gateshead' 1 i
b e
necessarycompleted P a Parliamentary atm': on
ty-aerayrsp lo.rw6el'ar powers,
itshrslPimnortant
be obtained without difficulty. Let butforward with per-
undertaking succeed, and we shall look
the speedy ac-
feet confidence to the accomplishT
through good and
complishment— of that work w
years so strenuously recommenls.
ern coast line from
I:%e,htiicmheitot ob_tnaviliciiitnelart
v‘thiell
eilkcitrii.
Newcastle to Edinburg,ll.—Tre ,
tCheart oolfi
onnae
evil report, the railway on the hied:::%t•e have fur several
aNI eos r,
I LI
on Tuesday, the 24th instant,
and of the wife of the other.
of the Editors of this.sparotiecl
1 year on the 4th of Fe-
bruaryHe had completed
Ghatiesl i
OBITUARY.—D'ed att,l
ji.,a,sleepighlt
was a native of the village -of
last.
bookseller, when of age, at Shef-
siness as a printer and .
~,
field, in 1787, the Shdr .ad Register. Persecuted on ac-
Eckington, De3rbryr:shire, in England, and commenced bu-
for seven years, he itnigrated in 1794,
ac-
count of his political principles, after publishing that
popular paper
with his faintly, to the United States, spending on his
way some months in Germany ; arrived at Philadelphia
in August, 1795, beginning business as a printer there,
and after a time purchasing from the elder Oswald, the
establishment of the Independent Gazetteer, 1N hich he
published for a year, and resold it to Samuel H. Smi di,
Esq. (afterwards the founder of the, National Intelli-
geneer) ; emigrated to North Carolina in September,
' 1799, and there established the Raleigh Regis; r,
he published for forty years, and which is still publishedkh
THE FRUIT SEASON.—The supply of fruit t
'
~_
by hisyoungest
t o' duty, the
seasons past, and notwithstamling the reduccd_ra e .The
latter,
father having only a year or two ago retired from the
every description has this year been much larger than for some
importation of foreign fruits I,as been vary 11 u :concern.—National Intelligencer.
ANEQUESTRIAN LAMPLIGHTER.--On `yell-
varieties, when
has been ebountfinnoetd
at
toalthl
nesday evening last, says the Hertford Patriot, we wit-
L AN
his productions were brought into the may c
apples i, unusual:y large, both at Covent-g ••
(t'orainrFtersfuerpepiwyi(thf
tsl7etnir
hie
oolmf
ge'tihglete seurish;bolef
fi tsorts from Kent
put, the finest nessed the novel spectacle describcd in the title of this
markets, where, from ►the great
og
25., 6d. rakaten and SpitUfields
per bushel, being e paragraph. One of the men who officiates as city lamp-
may be procured from Is.
ft.inds..-t
Cambridgeshire, from which I, ' lighter had mounted a horse, and with torch in hand
a rate se
letv.l"at aPlteia the London markets, will not pay was driving through the streets at a furious rate, neiliiii".
large supply. is brou4
that any competition from foreign a short call at every lamp-post, and hearingl 's fiery caird
ii ,
the of carriage; so
au price
with this fruit is quite out of the question. In me at the top of each. He did not get off once in perform-
sciderreecsounties the crops are represented as being unusually ing his entire route, and yet he stopped frequently to a-light