The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

FLOUR.

Many of our eader; mill doubtless recollect the
trials caused by the adulteration of flour with gypsum,
bones, and oiler deleterious articles, and the heavy
fines imposed. on the culprits, even before the rise in
corn. It is now but too well ascertained that much of
the present -crop is utterly unfit for human fond. Sti 1
it is to ba reared that, by mixing this worthless trash
with old wheat or foreign corn, an article will be
brought, into the market even more detrimental to
health. than gypsum or bones. This may be avoided by
purhasing American flour in barrels, in which form
adulteration need not be feared ; and, by the last quo-
tations, it appears that 196 lbs. of it may be had for
385., instead of 655. per sack (of 280 lbs.) for British
corn meal, which is nearly one-fifth dearer, irrespective
of its probable inferiority in quality. We have
beard many anathemas against slave-grown sugar and
coffee. If the argument is sound, the principle applies
equally to bread grown under the iniquitous sla-
very of our Corn-laws—a system to raise the price
of the poor man's loaf, under the fallacious hope of
ke.Aping up the rents of the aristocracy. Instead
of paying 655. per sack for flour thus enhanced in
price by the selfish legislation of the monopolists—and
perhaps adulterated too—we may obtain, at a much
lower price, the staff of life, made of the finest
wheat, grown in the free States of America.
It is our interest—hay, our duty—to encourage Fits
couvamption ; for our American brethren, instead. of,
exacting gold for grain, offer us ample supplies of
their flour in exchange for the product of our looms
and workshops, forges and factories. Let our people
once understand that they may always supply their
necessities in a manner so mutually beneficial to the
people of Britain and America, and a new argument
will be afforded for more zealous efforts to effect the
abolition or modification of the Corn-laws ; and a new
hood of union formed between two nations who aro
bound by every principle of duty and interest to mi-
bister to each other's wants, and by their co-operation
in all that is benevolent, become the benefactors of
mankind.—Correspondeut of a Provincial Paper.

The Corporation of Limerick, the third town
in Ireland in extent, population, and commercial ac-
tivity, was proved by the result of Parliamentary in-
quiries to have been one of the most notorious amongst
even the Irish institutions of the class to which it
belonged. The appointment to all the civic offices, from
the Chief Magistrate to the lowest among the bailiffs and
servants of the body, had been usurped by the late and
present Viscounts Gort, who exercised, in fact, the same
control in the nomination, as in the selection of their own
domestic servants. The election under the Act of Victoria
came en last week, and the result was that the Liberal
candidates succeeded in the proportion• of four to e_ le ;
and it only remained for the newly chosen body to as-
sume the civic functions given them by the Act of Par-
liament. Accordingly, a deputation waited upon the
I Mayor—a Mr. Vereker, a relation of Lord Gort, be it
remembered—" respectfully to call upon him to give up
to them, on behalf of the Council, the possession of the
Exchange, and all hooks, records, and corporate property
under his controul, or that of any corporate officers under
him." The Mayor refuses to accede to this request, on
the (alleged) ground of the illegality of the proclamation
and other proceedings at the election; the consequence
of which will be an application for enforcing the law
against this recusant functionary.
,
Several of the Cabinet ministers bad interviscwP
with Sir Robert Peel yblierdiry morning.