The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 10, 1841.

SIR J. GRAHAM'S IGNORANCE.
TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART.--LETTER I.
Sin—Your Dorchester speech, delivered'on the 22d
of July, lies before me, I sat down to its perusal without
hope, and, therefore, rose from it without disappointment,
but with a firm opinion that it does little credit .o.ther
to your head or your heart, The clearness or the for-
mer appears_to.. have been dimmed, while the feelings of
the latter have evidently been blunted, by the apostasy
which led you to make shipwreck of the principles which,
in early youth and the first (lawn of riper manhood, you
maintained with all the earnestness and ingenuousness of
conviction. That happy day has long since passed by.
You mixed with the temptations of the political world,
and were not proof against them. They were too strong
for your sincerity. They. vanquished your integrity.
Youfell before them, and became what you now are.
Alas, how changed ! how degraded!
The promise of
youth and of your entrance into manhood is blighted
and blasted. The once champion of the people has be-
come the tool of their enemies, pandering to the selfish-
ness and, sordid interests of an ariatocracy, whO use and
despise him at the same time. Oh, what might not Sir
James Graham have been, had -he never swerved from the
Principles which marked his first appearance in public
life ? And, what is he now ? A proverb and a bye-
word to hurl against every renegade who may cross our
path. But the theme is a mournful.one. The man who
was carried into Parliament upon the Shoulders of the
people, is now, I. a'fitting retribution, obliged to wander
to and fro throei '1 every quarter of the land before he
can find a place 'Ol rest,-,a borough sufficiently under
control to be brought to bear the obloquy which the
name of such an arch-apostate casts upon all who are
connected with it.

But now for your oration at the Dorchester dinner,
where, ;by the way, I observe that you entertained, in-
stead of being entertained by the electors. Much of
that speech was occupied by a lame and impotent at-
tempt to defend the present Corn-laws. Here I join
issue with you at out* But be not alarmed. I are pet
going to plunge intAtits,elengthenovi;eltotS:elf;•i;:t:
;-ou on ;hie`sel,j46t. Cort:law creed is a very shot'
one, and may very briefly be placed before you. If we
—I say we, because my. clerical income springs either
from tithes uncommuted: or land only let from year to
year,—if 'We ..get 'nothing by the Corn-laws, why
should we maintain them at the expense of so much oblo-
quy and reproach ? Why not at once repeal them, if; as
the Duke of Wellington observed, they are not aprotection
to screw up rents, but a protection—to protect nothing—a
kind of political prop and pillar—to support nothing—a
figure of speech which had a very telling and thrilling
effeet upon the hereditary legislators of the land, al-
though it only provoked a smile of contempt from the
profane vulgar out of doors,? Why, if according teehis
'Graebii notion on the subject, they are a work of legis-
lative supererogation and a dead letter, and not a rent-
screw,. as mischievous and evil-disposed people say, why
not, laurge, blot out the useless stain from the Statute-
book without delay,. and with it the odium and hate
which it brings upon us ? But if, on the other hand,
the Corn-laws are a rent-raising protection to the landed
interest; if• they sacrifice the happiness of the millions to
the selfishness of the few ; if they take from the com-
forts of the working classes ; if they diminish 'the
sources of employment ; 4f they bring upon them ruin,
misery and starvation—then, I ask, in this case, what
right have you or I, or any; to grow rich upon the
wretchedness of others ? Are not the people in this
burdened land sufficiently taxed for the support of the
exigencies of the State, without being called upon, in
addition, to toil away their lives that one master-class
may be pampered and fattened at - the cost of all
the rest ? Have you ever thought of the matter
in this light ? • Think of it now. As you are a Chris-
tian Man I call upon you to ponder over it seriously
and deeply. Oh, believe me, in the very best of days
to the working classes of' this country, the golden
threads interwoven with their web of life were " few
and far between." And, alas 4 those few are now alto-
gether withdrawn from it. What a portion is now
their's, all bitterness and sadness from the cradle to the
grave. Their's are the pains of childhood without any
of its pleasures, the toils and privations' of manhood
without its rewirds, the weaknesses and miseries of old
age without any of its comforts and indulgences to solace
their failing strength and declining years. And why is
it so ? Why does gaunt famine move within our land ?
Why, in our manufacturing districts, may dark and
scowling looks he seen in all directions, while men, des-
perate with famine, hunger-bitten, and in rags, talk
with a recklessness of the_ future which, could it be
heard by the high and noble ones amongst us, would
somewhat discompose their nerves and startle them with
apprehensions abeut coming evils of which now, it may
be, in their hours of ease and luxury, they little dream
of, but which, nevertheless; if not checked by wise and
timely legisnaiw„ ',ill come with all the fury of the lava
flood when the volcano bursts its bounds and vomits
forth destruction on all around it ? Why are these
things, did I ask ? Why do they exist ? Why do they
continue ? Simply to satisfy the lust of the demon, RENT,
which, like the home leech, is never gorged, but still, after
every meal,with increasing appetite, shrieks "More, more,"
_lmre lict/JRB 1,1,13011 my
~a.ltars,,,inorp sperithings2lol:4
avarice and -thirst for gain. Yes I such thin asll are
mentioned may now be witnessed in our manufacturing
districts, aye, and more than such things, and all spring-
ing from the self-same cause. The busy hum of occu-
pation' has died away in our hives of industry. The
loom is silent ; the shuttle is idle in many directions ;
half-starved men, 'as I said before, hang scowling and
cursing the authors of their misery in the streets; while,
if you penetrate their wretched abodes, you will find
sorrow, want, sickness, and death, rioting in every ap-
paling form and shape which it is possible to conceive.
Here perhaps, you will see some lisping child begging
for bread, which its parents, hungry as itself, have not
to bestow upon it. There, is sOmeexhaused babe, even
in its dying moments, in vain attempting to suck in nou-
rishment from the breasts of its weak and famished mo-
ther—and all this, be it remembered,: in a Christian land
—all this the work of a par excellence Christian Legisla-
ture; And when we ask what remedy shall be de-
vised ? how long shall these things be ? some laugh-
ing demon shouts aloud, "Yeomanry, yeomanry
Lord Francis Egerton will raisens yeomanry. They will
silence the discontented ; they will calm the hungry !"
They will. The sword is a sharp doctor, but a sure
one. " Order reigns in Warsaw," said -the French Mi-
nister, as he proclaimed the entrance of the Russians into
that devoted city. Solitudinem faciunt et pacem appel-
lant, wrote Tacitus of the Germans when they invaded
an enemy's country. This is the Tory receipt for paci-
fying the people to the very letter. They cry out for
bread, and they are to have yeomanry. And yet, as I
observed before, this is a Christian land, and Sir James.
Graham, when speaking otthe Corn-laws at Dorchester,
quotes scripture in their behalf. The Corn-laws and the
Scripture ! The Corn-laws, Sir James Graham, and the
Scripture ! What a trig juxta in uno 1 What a medley
of opposites and contradictions ! But this portion of
your " ponderous nothings" 1 must reserve for another
letter. I am, &e,
A CLERGYMAN of the CHURCH of ENGLAND.
Aug. 9, 1841.

EXECUTION OF THE KNARESBO-

ROUGH MURDERERS.

This day (Saturday) at noon, the last awful sentence
of the law was carried into execution upon John Burlin-
son, henry Nuttall, and Charles Gill, who were con-
victed at the Yorkshire assizes of the murder of Joseph
Cocker, of Knaresborough. The trial took place, our
readers may remember, on Monday, the 19th ult., before
Mr. Justice Wightman.
Ever since their condemnation, all the three men have
conducted themselves in a most penitent manner, and
have been attended in their devotions by the chaplain of
the gaol, the Rev. W. Flower, Rev. J. Shackley, Rev.
Thomas Richardson, and the Rev. J. Rattenburv, Wes-
leyan minister. The unhappy convicts paid the most
reverent attention to the instructions which were afforded
them by the Reverend Gentlemen, and exhibited the ut-
most anxiety in making themselves prepared for entering
upon eternity. The prisoner Gill has suffered consider-
ably for several days from erysipelas, so much so that for
a length of time he was confined to his bad.
No reprieve having arrived on Friday evening, the
necessary preparations were made for the execution.
The condemned sermon was preached by the chaplain of
the prison. At half-past five o'clock this morning the
condemned were removed from their cells to a room ad-
joining the scaffold, where they remained till their bodies
were demanded by the Under-Sheriff. Early in the
morning the Rev. J. Shackley and the Rev. Mr. Richard-
son came to the castle and remained with them until the
time arrived for their execution.
In walking across the yard from the condemned cell
to the room where they were pinioned, Burlinson and
Nuttall walked with a firm step ; Gill, who was weak
from the effects of disease, was supported by two of the
attendants.
During the night great numbers of people travelled on
foot from the adjoining towns and villages, especially
from Knaresborough, where, as may be naturally ex-
pected, the murder and consequent fate of the men
created the greatest interest. The crowd assembled in
front of the scaffold so early as eleven o'clock was consi-
derable, but after that hour, and up to twelve o'clock,
great accessions of people swelled the numbers previously
collected together.
At twelve o'clock the procession was formed, and the
men walked to the scaffold. They were quite resigned to
their fate, and when the Chaplain engaged in the usual ser-
vice they were loud and earnest in their responses. After
this the whole three were engaged in pray(ir for 'se-
veral minutes. Burlinson, who was the eldest of the three
men, was placed in the position of the drop next Castle-
gate, Gill was in the centre, and Nuttall occupied the
other extremity. Gill was more firm upon the scaffold
than might have been expected from his previous suffer-
ing from erysipelas. The other two walked to the scaf-
fold with a firm step ; but the demeanour of the whole
three was that of the deepest contrition and penitence.
After the usual preliminaries the bolt was drawn, and
the men were launched into eternity. The sufferings under-
gone by Burlinson and Gill seemed to be great ; their
bodies were very much convulsed, the other seemed to
die soon after the executioner had done his work. after
hanging the usual time the bodies were cut down and
removed to the prison, previous to their being buried
within its precincts. .
All the three were quite young nurliesun being
24 years of age, Nutt9,ll 22, and Gill 19. Burlinson and
Gill were the parties who inflicted the wounds upon the
men,
old man, Nuttall was present at the time, and assisted

in the rifling of Cocker's pockets. They all belong to
Knaresborough, where their families reside, some of
whom, We understand, are pious persons.—Yorkshire
Gazette.' .

EARTHQUAKES IN GREAT. BRI-

TAIN AND THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

Although earthquakes and their attendant and awful
phenomena are happily of rare occurrence in ourcountry,
slight shocks or tremblemens de term have been more fre-
quent in the British Islands within the last fifty or sixty
years, than we supposed until we perused an article on
the subject in " Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical
Journal" (April to July, 1841.) The title of the paper is
as follows :—" Notices of Earthquake shocks felt in
Great Britain, and especially in Scotland, with inferences
suggested by those notices as to the causes of such shocks
by David Milne, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., F.G.S., &c."
The chronological table of Mr. Milne enumerates the
various shocks of earthquakes felt in Great Britain from
the. year 1608 to October, 1839, and it is particularly in-
teresting on account of the coincidences which it exhi-
bits between the subterraneous convulsion's in our own
islands, and similar, but more formidable phenomena in
other and distant countries. Such coincidences have
often been noticed, and it has been supposed by some
writers that there are subterranean communications con-
necting all the countries of the earth. When the dread-
ful earthquake took place at Lisbon on the fatal Ist of
November, 1755, the workmen in the Derbyshire mines
were much alarmed. " The rocks that surrounded them
were so much disturbed that soil, &c., fell from the joints
or fissures, and they likewise heard violent explosions, as
it were of cannon.' It is also.= extraordinary fact that
the shock of an earthquake experienced in the West
India islands on the 23d September was sensibly felt at
the same time at Algiers, which is, perhaps, the most
striking coincidence of the kind ever known.
On examining the elaborate enumeration of slight or
greater shocks of earthquake which have been witnessed
in the British islands during the terre.,alrea.dy specified,
i2,xtrigottiiivatr-T6.4ifonW-Of ~the - phenomenon at
COrnrie, in • Perthshire, in Scotland, must excite the sur-
prise of the most superficial observer. Comrie is a
Highland parish, remarkable for its beautiful and ro-
mantic scenery. "It is thirteen miles in length by about
nine in breadth, comprising several glens at the head of
Strathearn ; Loch Earn, a fine 'expanse of water eight
miles long, bounded by lofty hills, and its banks fringed
with valuable wood.; and Ben Voirloch, a mountain rising
to the height of 3,200. feet above the level of the sea."
It appears that this spot has been visited with between
seventy and eighty light or ruder shocks of earthquake,
from the year 1788 to 1828, an extraordinary, and. in
Great Britain, an unprecedented circumstance, which
merits the particular attention of geologists and scienti-
fic men. .

In ednelusion, we subjoin a few desultory paragraphs
from Mr. Milne's tables :

" 1608, Nov. B.—People of Aberdeen, about 9 P.M.,
'dreadfully alarmed by an earthquake, on account of
which a day of Pasting and humiliation was appointed
by the magistrates and clergy. The particular sin,- on
account of which the scourge was thought to have been
sent, was salmon fishing on Sunday, and accordingly the
proprietors of salmon fishings were called before the
Session and rebuked. Some (says the Session record)
promist absolutely to forbear, both by himself and their
servant's, in time coming ; others promist to forbear
upon condition subcreyvant, and some plainlie refusit
ahy way to forbear."
" 1750 f April 2.—Liver.pool, at 10, p.m. ' • Chester,
Downing, near Holy-well, in Flintshire, at half-past 10,
p.m. It reached Wrexham to the south, and Lancaster
to the north—in all, seventy miles. From Flintshire to
Stockport and Altringham. The earthquake extended
over a district forty miles N. and S., and ninety miles
E. and W. Direction said to be N.W. to S.E. A per-
son went into the open air during the shock, and saw
multitudes of blood-red rays converging from all parts of
the heavens to one dark point, but saw no luminous
body. The phenomenon disappeared in fifteen minutes.
(Gent's Maq.) A person at Liverpool who felt it, says,
I was in a sitting posture, • and the motion I felt was
like that of a vessel falling from the top of a wave, and
rising again upon the next.' "*
" 1755. Oct. 20.—At Scallaway, in Zetland, the sky
being very hazy, as is usual before thunder and light.
ning, there fella black dust over all the country, though
in greater quantities in some places than in others. It
was very much like lamp black, but smelled strongly of
sulphur. People in the fields had their faces, hands,
and linen blackened by it. The same phenomenon was
observed in Orkney, where it received the appellation of
black snow :' and on the 23d of the same month, a
shower of dust fell on a ship twenty-fire leagues from
Shetland."

" 1755, Nov. I.—At Madera, at half-past 9, a.m.,
there were three Shocks (with a few minutes between
each), felt at LisbOn at 35 minutes past 9, a.m. The
sea rose on the coast there from 40 to 50 feet perpen-
dicular, in three successive waves: The sea retired first."

" Same day, geese swimming in a pond gave alarm
before the water was observei to be agitated.
" Same day, at Tangiers and Morocco,• the earth
wave, about sixty feet high, dashed on shore about 11
a.m., and that was followed by three others. At Swan-
sea a wave came a mile and a half up the river; at 45
minutes past six p.m., after two hours ebb, with a great
noise, fell back suddenly."
" 1761, March 31.---At Dublin, at six o'clock P.N.,
near dead low water, the tide suddenly rose about two
feet, and then retired. This was repeated several- times."
" 1789, `Dec. 30.—The same day with the earthquake
at Bergo di San Sepulchro, in Italy, three distinct shocks
of earthquake were felt at the house of Parson's-green,
on the north side of 'Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh."
* Mr. Egerton Smith, when a child, has often heard
his father mention the sensation ha experienced at feel-
-ing the slight shock here noticed,
The following paragraph, originally frgin the. French
scientific publications, may be very appropriately intro-
duced on the present occasion :
EARTHQUAKES.—According to a research made' for
thirteen centuries—namely, from the third to the sik-
teenth—by.M. Perrey, and presented to the French Aca-
demy of Sciences, it appears that they have been in diffe-
rent months, as in the following table :
January
21. April 14. July 9 October ...17.
Februaryl2. May 12. August l4. November 10.
March 10. June 13. September 15. December 28.
Thus the months of January and December have been
the most fruitful in earthquakes, and July the least.
Winter has produced 43, spring 39, summer 31, and
autumn 55 ; also, the six months from October to March
have given 112, and from April to September 79. •
Subsequently to the year 1839, we understand that
numerous slight shocks of earthquake have been expe-
rienced at Comrie.—Liverpool Mercury.

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THE SURREY THEATRE.--This theatre having
been originally built for.an equestrian
.place of exhibi-
tion, possesses many facilities—as spacious stables, the
foundation of a ring under the pit, and a capability of
enlarging the audience part to a great extent. AlLthese
aids have been skilfully rendered available by the ma-
chinist of the theatre, Mr. Lowe, who has constructed
(in the short space of time allowed by closing' the house
one night), the very finest ring in the kingdom, enlarged
the pit to the extent of nearly 350 seats more than be-
fore, converted the solid stage into an ingeniously shift-
ing one, with gas-lights, orchestra, and more than ten
feet of the part before the proscenium, all made to re-
cede and give place for a perfect equestrian circle. Plat-
forms and moveable machinery of the most ponderous
nature, and of such strength, that whole bodies of cavalry
are sustained by it, have been prepared, new scenery
painted, new appointments completed, and the whole
newly, brilliantly, and ingeniously lighted on a novel
plan, in a space of time scarcely sufficient apparently
for a tithe of the extraordinary preparations. Such en-
deavours to merit, deserve success.
A PICTURE 01? DESOLATION.—At six
o'clock we rose upon a beautiful table of land, on which
stood another gigantic church. It was the seventh we
had seen that day ; and coming upon them in a region
of desolation, and by mountain-paths which human hands
had never attempted to improve their colossal grandeur
and costliness were startling, and gave evidence of a re-
trograding and expiring people. This stood in a more
desolate place than any we had yet seen. The grass was
green, the sod unbroken even by a mule-path ; not a
human being was in sight, and even the gratings of the
prison had no one looking through them. It was, in
fact, a picture of a deserted village. We rode up to the
cabildo • the door of which was fastened and the shed
barricaded, probably to prevent the entrance of straggling
cattle. We tore away the fastenings, broke open the
door, and, unloading the mules, sent Augustin on a fo-
raging expedition. In half an hour he returned with
one egg, being all that he was able to procure ; but he
had walked up the village, and the alcalde, an Indian
with a silver-headed cane, and several alguazils, with
long thin rods or wands of office, came down to examine
us. We showed them our passport, and told them where
we were going ; at which, with their characteristic in-
difference of manner, they expressed no surprise. They
could not read the passport, but they examined the seal
and returned it. We asked them for eggs, fowls, milk,
&c., to all of which they answered. what aftenYards be-
came but too familiar, No hay"—" There is none"—
and in a few minutes they retired and left us to our-
selves.—Stephens's Travels in America.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The parish of Colne,
in Huntingdonshire, is worthy the attention of Sir
Robert Inglis. Its population is upwards of 500. It has
a resident clergyman. The tithes amount to about 5001.
a year, received by Dr. Turton. There is not a single
'inhabitant who pays Poor-rates who attends the church
service 1 It is only a few paupers who occupy the
church land that attend. The parish is celebrated for
,the virtue of its inhabitants. The poor are well attended
to, and peace and prosperity flourish. The Dissenting
minister of the neighbouring parish lives in the affections
of the people at Colne. Archbishops, Bishops, Deans,
Prebends, and all other ecclesiastics are useless and un-
necessary to the well being of this happy parish.
Nawauacu.—,-The United' Secession meeting
have got a bell hung on their church last week, which
chimed for service for the first time on Sunday. The
time is not far gone. by, when any such noise on a pun-
day,eicept. the, ringing of the parish church.bel!, would
,have- boo reckoned a desecration of the Sabbath—but
lempork
nintant.ur. We certainly may be ashamed of the
bigotry of our ancestors whe attempted to prop up their
own section of religion by such intolerant pretensions to

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNIko Muss OF THIS DAY.

CHRONICLE.—The narrow and -petty views of pub-
lic affairs with which the mind of Sir Robert Peel is
most familiar, -ere strikingly indicated by the mode in
which he prefaced one portion of his speech to his con-
stituents. Passing from medical analysis and paragraph
reforms to the proper political business of the day, he
says-7" I do not think I should have been induced to
say a word to you on the subject of party interests—l
should have been perfectly content to acquiesce in a sus-
pension of hostilities, considering the near approach of
the period when the combatants will meet face to face—
if I had not recently seen the manifesto put forth by
Lord John Russell." " Party interests," " hostilities;"
" combatants ;" these are what Sir Robert Peel sees in
the great miestion of a nation's trade and food. The
House of Commons is not sitting, and so he thinks
there might have been a " suspension of hostilities."
He would have been " content to acquiesce." There
was eo party move to be made, and so he wonders that the
affairs of the country should be brought into earnest dis-
cussion. No man could employ such language, or be
subject to the train of thought which it implies, with
whom the well-being of the community was more than
a very secondary consideration. The evils from which
redress is needed no more remit their operation than do
the great operations of nature, th 9 beneficent influences
of which are counteracted by those evils. Bread tax'
presses on, most mercilessly ; and monopoly acquiesces
in no " suspension of hostilities." The adverse in-
terests, unfriendly feelings, and growing competition
which our Corn-laws have fostered in Foreign States,
relax no jot in the warfare they wage upon our manu-
facturing prosperity. There is no suspension of the dif-
ficulties, the embarrassments, the failures, which have be-
gun to multiply so fearfully; nor of the misery they spread
amongst multitudes. Hunger is not in abeyance. The
winds blow, the rain falls, and overclouded hopes of har-
vest are testifying the hostility of_the.. elements,to hu-
-wrin monopoly:''' But what is all this to Sir R. Peel
`fir does not perceive how the relative position of Whig
and Tory can be materially affected till " the period
when the combatants will meet face to face," and,
therefore, it moves him not ; he would be content
to hold truce with politics, and entertain the electors
of Tamworth with the paragraphing of the Globe.
Without being a Nero, a man may fiddle while Rome
is burning ; inherent littleness, as well as great crime,
may generate 'a cold-blooded. indifference to what
most deeply interests all who regard their country.
What a contrast is presented, by this absortion in
the most paltry phase of political life, to the eager-
ness which we encounter in other directions. Mi-
nisters have thrown down the gauntlet to mono-
poly, and proposed to invigorate the resources of
the nation by lightening its burdens. Political econo-
inis:s are reiterating their demonstrations that the re-
strictive policy is fraught with injury and ruin. Capital-
ists are calculating the effect of closing markets. The
leagued foes of the bread-tax sleep neither night nor day
in their struggle against the pressure which must crush
them unless it be o'ermastered. The preachers of reli-
gion claim justice for the poor as part and parcel of our
common Christianity, and wash their hands of the im-
piety that taxes, while it prays for, daily bread. With
none who have minds to think, and hearts to feel, is
this a subject of gladiatorial skill, of .tongue-fence and
party tactics, but a vital question, that allows no rest
nor peace till the way be found to its satisfactory termi-
nation. Sir Robert Peel sees nothing in it but the ball
to play a party game with, when the "combatants" shall
have gathered on the ground.
TIMES.—It is to the honour of the press that there
is only one daily paper which has ever given an un-
qualified support to the New Poor-law ; and to have
that particular paper opposed to them has been a great
advantage to the friends of the poor. We could not
have desired a • better foil for our arguments upon this
subject than the.self-complacent dogmatism with which
they aro noticed in the columns of the Journal al-
luded to. It is evident that the gentlemen of the So-.
merset-house establishment who favours us with his
replies belongs to what has been aptly called the "- silver
fork" school of literature ;—his lucubration savour
of cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, and are redolent
of Euu de Cologne. Once in a month, or so, the
languid apathy of his nature is roused by the per-
serverancc of the Conservative press in attacks, which,
if successful, might perhaps touch his exquisiteness in
the tenderest part, and *even stop the supplies of lavender
water; and accoidingly he summons up resolution for
the task of writing an article, and settling the Poor-law
controversy for ever. Reading through the arguments
which he professes to answer, or attempting a logical
reply to them, is, of course, out of the question; but he
skims delicately over the surface of one or two prominent
phrases, and annihilates his adversary by the summary
process of assuring the public, upon his veracity, that
all the worst abuses of " the old system" are lurking
under every word. Reasons he does not give ; and, of'
course, would not give them " upon compulsion," though
they were " as plenty as blackberries;" but his assertions
as to matters of fact are abundant, and he throws
them about with as much recklesspertinas if,
t itpon sub-
tket were sealed'
up from all but himself. In an article of this description
on Saturday last the public were informed, that " the
Times has a panacea for all privations occasioned by high
prices, low wages, and insufficient employment for
labour ;" and that " it is to revert to the old Poor-law
practice of diserimivating relief to deserving objects."
The writer proceeded, in a somewhat more confident
than coherent strain, to expose " the fallacy of appor-
tioning relief to desert, and making it in all respects
pleasant and consistent with domestic arrangements ;"
and wound up with the observation, that "It is not to
this transparent quackery, puffed by the Times this
morning, that the labouring; people must look for rescue
from the hardships of their present condition." We need
hardly take the trouble of assuring our readers,. that
our supposed "panacea for all privations" exists only in
the imagination of the silken economist who professes to
answer remarks which he has evidently never read.
ADVERTISER.—The doom of the Corn-laws is
sealed the death-.blow of the monopoly in human food
is. about to be struck, and a famishing population have
at last the prospect before them of being able to procure
for themselves daily bread. The singular coincidence of
_circumstances marshalling themselves in antagonism to
the Corn-laws, which obtains at this moment, clearly in-
Wicates a providential interposition on behalf of the starv-
ing masses in the manufacturing districts; and proclaims
in trumpet tones the folly, as well inhumanity, of at-
tempting to uphold the existing monopoly. First of all,
we have the Ministers of her Majesty, not only as indivi-
duals, favourableto a free trade in corn, but standing be-
fore their country in the attitude of men most solemnly
pledged in their collective capacity, to avail themselves
of every means which the Constitution of the realm
will sanction, to abolish imposts which mercilessly
withhold from the mouths of the poor that food
which their appetites crave, and which the munificence
of an indulgent Providence had intended for them.
And this solemn pledge, . given, we doubt not, with
perfect cordiality, is about to be repeated in the presence
of Parliament, and in the hearing of the nation ; for
there cannot be a question that her Majesty's speec to
the new Legislature about to assemble, will contain a re-
iteration of the Ministerial conviction of the absolute ne-
cessity which exists for a repeal of the Corn-laws, pro-
vided it be deemed desirable to prevent the most fearful
anarchy, and to preserve from utter destruction the com-
mercial relations of the country. Nor will Ministers
content themselves with the mere annunciation, in her
Majesty's proximate speech, of anti-Corn-law and anti-
Monopoly measures ; the'propounding of these measures
in the Royal Address will be followed up in the Minis-
terial speeches which the discussion on that address
will necessarily elicit, by the expression of a resolute
determination never to cease their uncompromising
hostility to these prohibitory laws, until they be erased
from the statute-book. This will very materially
strengthen the position which Ministers already oc-
cupy as. the leadiug opponents of these odious imposts ;
it will inspire the people with increased confidence in
their leadership, and bring into one close and adhesive
phalanx,_ in the war now waging with the Corn.laws, the
entire betty of *hoe. opponaatc to monopoly. Th.
_ma.
nisterial advocacy of the Corn-law abolition will be
powerfully abetted and enforced by theon present peen-
liarly heavy pressure of these laws
classes. Trade is stagnant, commerce is pare avodrking
paralyzed
myriads of the population in the manufacturing dist , and
ri
cts
have either no employment at all, or are but
par-
tially employed and inadequately paid for their labour.
eriyhAt such a moment the iniquity and oppression of
hateful taxes are seen with a special clearness, because
felt with a peculiar force. The masses are consequently
ready and eager to bring the whole weight of their sanc-
tion and authority in aid of whatever efforts Ministers
may make with the view of ridding the country of these
barbarous imposts.

POST.—We insert in another column a letter from
Lord Francis
correcting the
Journals respecting his
mis.sta to an Evening Contemporary,
Egerton
Lancashire Yeomaa nry. tLeraordenstship,osf
cothnneecriohnig;ißthaditchael
troop ; nor has his Lordshipregiment
taken. any step towards:i the
. an addition to this most useful and va-
luable of blic force It is right that the
falsehood should be thus etfectua y. con-
tradicted,not merely on the general ground that it is al-
ways right to contradict falsehood, but because the lie in
this
particular instance was invented and propagated for
the purpose of creating the impression that his Lordship
and the great national party of which he is a distin-
guished member, regard the great bulk of their country-
men in the light of enemies, against whom it behoves
them to take precautions at all times, and view the re-
cent transfer of political ascendancy in the Legislature
as. an occasion that suggests the expediency of additional
precautions at the present moment. The letter of Lord
Francis Egerton appears to us to be a very seasonable
communication to the public in another point of view. It
shows the Whig-Radical agitators who labour in the in-
terest of the Queen's present Ministers, to instigate the
lower classes of the people to riot and insurrection, how
completely Lord Francis Egerton, and men like his ,ord-
ship, despise and disregard their efforts. We like his
Lordships communication, not only as it contradicts a
falsehood industriously circulated by the Government
scribes, for a most mischievous and unprincipled purpose,
but as it manifests the sober and quiet :scoru with which
the landed proprietors of England feel themselves entitled
to regard the persevering attempts of the Edinburgh
Review, the Morning Chronicle, and all the other