The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

DOVER.

A petition to the House of Commons against the Corn-laws
has been numerously signed by Whigs, Tories, and Radicals in
Dover during the present week, and will, we understand, be
sent off about Monday next to our worthy Member, Mr. Rice,
for presentation. Petitions against the Corn-laws are getting
up at Hythe, Folkestone, Canterbury, &c.—Dever Chronicle.

FAVERSHAM.
Petitions in favour of the existing Corn-laws, also in favour
of an alteration in the Corn-laws and a revision of the import
duties, have, during theso last few days, been carried from
house to house in this borough. Every interest has been made
to obtain signatures to the former, but with very ill success.
This agricultural borough is doing its duty to the best interest
of the country, and we have no hesitation in saying that full
three-fourths of the inhabitants are in favour of the principles
of free trade.—Dover Chronicle.

SHROPSHIRE.
The large proprietors of land in this county, whose tenants
are the most thriving, have all expressed a desire for an altera-
tion of the present system of the Corn-laws, on the ground
that the present laws discourage commerce and trade, and op-
press the poor, withoutaffording any adequate advantage to the
firmer. The Lord Lieutenant of the county, the Duke of
Sutherland. has long intimated his dissent from the policy of
these laws ; the Duke of Cleveland declares his rule towards
his tenantry and the manufacturing classes to be, " Live and
let live," and moderate protection for the English farmer.
The Eat I of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Craven, Lord Stafford,
Lord Wenlock, Sir Francis Lawley, and Mr. Wolryche Whit-
more, and others of similar rank and territorial possessions, all
advocate a similar policy.— Shrewsbury Chronicle.
NE WCASTLE-ENILYN.

A great number of petitions have been sent to Parliament
from this neighbourhood, praying for a revision of the Corn-
laws.

MANSFIELD.

Petitions frpm this neighbourhood have been sent from the
nine places following :—Kirkby, Kirkby Woodhouse, Selston
Common, Annesley Woodhouse, Bagthorpe, Portland-row,
Bleakhall and buildings, in the county of Nottingham ; and
TilAelf and Pinaton, in the county of Derby. Petitions are
also prepared, or are in progress, from Nottingham, Skegby,
and Sutton-in- Ashfield.

STROUD.
We have received a communication from a correspondent,
from which it would appear that the Chartists were by no
means a majority of the meeting, only their turbulence made
them appear stronger than they really were. We are told also,
that the original resolution and not the amendment was de-
clared to be carried. This is ♦ery likely to have been the case,
and our reporter may easily have been mistaken, for the confu-
sion was so great that scarcely any person seemed to understand
what was the real question submitted for the decision of the
meeting.— Gloucester Journal.

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