The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

MR. BURKE ON CORN-LAWS.

In the " Cavendish Debates," just published, there
is a short, but striking, speech of Mr. Burke on the
Corn-law. A Correspondent recommends it as an ad-
mirable motto for the Anti-Corn-law Society. It
:e?nis a resolution was moved in February, 1770, to
allow of the exportation of barley. Sir John Suttie,
Member for Haddington, moved that barley and wheat-
flour be added. To this, Mr. Thomas Townshend, jun.,
objected, saying that for this amendment the House
was not ripe. In reply to him spoke
Mr. Edmond Burke—ln my opinion, we aro ripe
for the question till we are rotten. There is no such
thing as the landed interest separate from the trading
interest. What God has joined together, 1:t no man
separate. He who separates the interest of the con-
sumer from the interest of the grower starves this
country. Turn your land into trade. Export, that
you may keep your corn at home. Make things dear,
that they may be cheap. These are all paradoxes ;
but nevertheless true. You are going upon particular,
local, narrow sentiments. You will have twenty bad
harvests, if the Honourable Gentleman establishes his
principle. The sixth part of the grain of England is in
the ground. You will let nothing go out of the king-
dom but what you do not know what to do with.

ASTIEY'S AMPIIITHEA'r,
FIREAT - RE.-MOR-
day evening, about twenty minutes before six, the inha-
bitants of Stangate-street and the Westminster. road,
When they_ discovered that some of
were greatly alarmed bY a report, Which soon obta'ned
active circulation, that Astley's Ampitheatre was on fire.
Mr. Broadhurst, proprietor of the Crown Tavern, at the
corner of Stangate-street ; _ Mr. Johns, baker, and some
other tradesmen, were called trato the theatre by one of tl.e
grooms, a German, named Yock, and on their arrival
twenthe beams
eua nmdse rwtehree
They found also that the gas was
escaping from a hole in on.e of. the pipes. They imme-
diately got some sacks, Which
.try wetted and applied to
the orifice, which soon atinguis Jed the flame ; and having
a plentiful supply of water, the flames of the rafters
a slight explosion
were also got under before the‘. arrival of the eagines
and brigade of the Load" I' " e Establishment. Our
correspondent was informed that the fire arose from the
One of the
following circumstance :-- . grooms, known as
Old Joe, was engaged in clearing away the rubbish under
ronit'fire.
the pit, where some of the dressing-rooms are situated, and
in his work,
t3ok pl ice, in coinequenec of an escape of gas; and it is
having a light to assist him
a somewhat singular circumstance, that last season the
persons engaged about the theatre felt convinced that there
was an escape of gas, but all their efforts to discover from
whence it arose proved fruitless ; but it was now found
that the hole in the pipe was covered with loose mortar
and other rubbish, which on being removed by Old Joe,
caused the ignition. Mr. Ducrow, the lessee, and his
company, are at present performing in the provinces, and
the workmen are actively engaged in preparing this popu-
hr place of entertainment previous to its opening at Easter.
Doubtless, bad the escape of gas occurred at night, or
after the workmen and servants had left the establishment,
the amphithe itre asd the surrounding buildings would
i have been destroyed