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LONDON:
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1841.

Bread was yesterday raised in price through-
out the metropolis; and subsequent to that rise
the price of wheat rose in the Corn Market 2s•
per quarter. It is expected, therefore, with rea-
son, that next week the price of bread will rise
again, and that ere long the 41b. loaf of best
flour will be 12d. or 13d. This is a somewhat
alarming circumstance, conjoined with the fact
that considerable distress already pervades the
manufacturing districts. Dear bread and a starving
people will be fatal auguries for the commence-
ment of the Tory Administration; and a short
harvest, should that be the dispensation of the
ALMIGHTY, curtailing the already deficient re-
venue, and cramping the circulation, will not
lighten the difficulties of Sir ROBERT PEEL.
The Tory Journals will probably say he can-
not answer for the seasons, and a calamity in-
flicted on the nation by means of a rainy sum-
mer, is one of those afflicting dispensations which
we cannot explain nor prevent, and it becomes
us all to bear it with patience, while each should
lend a hand to cheer and support the other.
Having so preached, following their usual cus-
tom, the Tory Journals will enjoin obedience to
the law, and confidence in the Ministers who
take office to uphold the Bread-tax as a sacred
duty and a certain remedy for every disaster and
every distress.
Their philosophy and their recommendations
will be misplaced. Both might be seasonable if
they came from disinterested parties; but they
proceed from the advocates of a law which at
the present moment levies a duty of 235. Bd. on
a quarter of wheat for the benefit of the land-
lords. If there were no such law, and no such
tax, the Tories might with propriety preach up
patience under the visitations of Providence; but
that law and that tax relieve the justice of the
ALMIGHTY from the imputation of visiting his
children with evil, and throw the whole blame
of it orithe Legislature.
• Pt is true that the ALMIGHTY sends good and
bad. seasons, but the deficiency of the supply of
food, the circumstance which makes an un-
fruitful season so heavy a calamity—is caused by
the law. That has prevented us having enough
stored up to meet such a visitation as a bad har-
vest—that has kept large masses of our population
•ino• them
on the verge of famine, instead of allow „
to be fed full, and that makes every little defi-
ciency in the crops an unspeakable calamity.
We throw back the impious accusation on the
landlords, and we charge 'them—rescuing Divine
Providence from their calumnies—with being
the authors of a deficient supply of food.
The philosophy of the Tories might be good in
an economic sense, if they did not advocate the
Corn-law. They could then, with propriety,
tell the starving population to rely on
their own resources,—to submit patiently to
what could not be avoided; but how can they do
so, while they maintain a law which is to bestow
wealth on themselves? As long as the Corn-law
exists, which the landlords say is to secure em-
ployment and good wages to the people, but
which certainly interferes both with their
work anti their payment, they have a
right to claim full employment and
fair wages from the law. Shall it secure remu-
neration to the farmer and not to the weaver ?
Shall it keep up rent and not keep up profit?
Shall it augmelit tithes and not be required to
augment wages ? Ithpossible, unjust ! The Corn-
laws give alt the labourers of the empire a right
at all times to be provided by the Legislature
with plenty of _employment and good wages.
The law creates the right and cannot destroy it,
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except by ceasing to exist.
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