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7'o THE EDITOR OF' t
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atm e an:^h :'e; Yoe
-our Corn-laws can be to the great setre,.4-atilteiVMDNi
they entail on the wonting clesse; still I think the Lard-
skips they impose on the middle classes have not been suf-
ficiently noticed, ncr hive that class bcea aware of their
ban, fol effects on their comfors. That they consume a
deal of bread there can ba no doubt; but animal food i 3
the most considerable item in the expense of such a class,
and where there arc servants and a large family to be kept
on a limited and moderate ircerne, this srtcle ef food has
now become a most grievous and an almost insupportable
expense in housekeeping. How army peer half-rev (Slicers,
obliged to keep up a genteel appearance, must feel pinched
and totally unfit to make thu two-ends meet, from the
enormous high price of this indiepenslle necessary of life?
And what is all this owing to, what the cause of their be-
lug compelled to live on such short allowances ?—The
landlorde.food-tar, that they may live sumptuously every
day, riot and revel in every imitgii,a-y luxury, white the
rest of the community arc reale to p.;y fer it. Lreless it
be America, there is no couutry ie the weal Kilfdre 'he
inhabitants consume so much annual fool es we do. and in
no quarter of the gobe is this prime necessary of life sold
above 24. to 3,1. the pound ; end but for our bre,d and
provision-tax forced on the praple by the landlircls them-
sclvex, it would not exceed V. in this country. Our working
classes, from the high pi ice of bread and low wages, can
seat cely indulge in the use of this necessary in the mi-
nutest degree. and still there is not a suilici :rt supply in
the country; if thcte. were, prices would nut be doubled, as
at present. .The fact is the supplies of fond are not ade-
quate to the daily increasing population of this eel :try ;
and although we are surrounded with countries rend, •o
make up our deficiencies, our landlords will not permit' it
_famine prices only will induce them to allot,: our-neigh-
bours relieving us with their surplus. This is certainly a
cruel situation for the most industrious and enterprising
people on the face of the earth to be brought to, all
to enrich a set of idle speadthrifls. Is it possible
we can much longer submit to such . robberies
commit!el on the community by avaricious land-
lords and other monopolists? Can this flue country. with
her commerce and manufacture; on the decline, with an
increasing population, long hold out against revenue taxes
to the amount of 40 milli els, and ease taxes, exclusively
for the support of landlords and West India planters, to
the astounding sum of 50 millions? Impossible ! Some-
thing must be done, and that soon, or we will be drive,n to
-extremities. A free trade in corn with the Continent, though
much to be desired, will net have the good effects
we anticipate. Our restrictive laws have set them all
to manufacture for themselves ; still I hold were the class
taxes on our necessaries taken off we would be more than
cornpensa:ed for the loss of the continental market fur our
manufactures. lam one of those who hay, ever thought
we were our
.own cost customers, and if the community
ware relieved of these taxes on food and other necessaries,
they would have fifty millions to spate for the purchasing
of many articles of our own manufacture they under
ptriched circumstances could rot commsnt'. Why this
al.-ne would be equal to, if not mere
L /ew a.. 11 our exports to-
gether ; hence fresh vigour would be infused into every el--
partmeet of trade and manufacture, and retnuneratime, proll!s
and a corresponding rise in the price of lelsour wool : be the
result. The working classes wenn toe in more comfortable
umstancer, and lees use for Poor-laws ;.peace anti con-
tentment would rei
,n throughout the country, much to be
desired. I will treTass no longer on your patience. I
could have said much more on the rya efi":ets of our vile
provision r) and other tlxoy, but as you layo , ably and
lot cibly exposed them in your lib,ral paper, t uccomes
quite unnecessary. I thought it right to gi‘e you a hint
that by reusing the middle classes to is sense of the true
cause ef their many privations. you may induce many who
have hitherto been rather lukewarm in the cause to come
forward and sign the lively thousand petitions nosy pa-
pering for presentation to both Houses of Peiliament.
I am, a Constant Reader and dent :d Opponent to all
Taxes on Food, . L.
Leith, April 17, 1841.

tention to measures of the utmost importance in pro
meting the prosperity of this country. I allude, first,
to the great and important measure of the repeal of
the Cern-laws.—( Loud and ling cheering.) I have
always considered the Corn-laws as most impolitic,
unjust, inhuman, and wicked.(Applause.) They hare
been and veil he injuriousto our trade as long as they
exist. It. is offering a premium to the foreign manu-
facturer.; it is cruelty towarde the poor man, and it is
equally unjust towards him ; for the landlord claims a
vested right in his land, while he forgets thet the poor
man Las a vested right in his labour.--(ilea-.) It is
an important fact that the price of corn in this country,
on an average of 20 years, has been 50 per cent. higher
than on the Continent.—(" Shame.") There must he
a cause for this. We find seein, by calculation, that.
every shilling of duty that is lad on the importation of
corn, is a tax upon the people to the amount of
2,500,000/. ; therefore, if the tax he lOs. per quarter
on corn, it is equal ti a tax upon the people of 25 mil-
lions a year.—(Hear, hear.) It has been shown by
evidence, before the Committee of the House of Com-
mune, that the people of this country are taxed to the
amount of fifty millions n year to support monopolies,
for the benefit of particular classes, instead of the
whole community.—(Hear.) If there was a duty of
10s. per quarter upon. corn, and we import two mil-
lions of quarters, it would produce a million of reve-
nue, but it would, at the same time, cause a tax of 20
millions on the people ; because the produce of corn in
this country is estimated at 50 millions of quarters
yearly ; so that, although the revenue is but in compa-
rison lightly benefited, the difference in price between
this and other countrine is a very heavy tax upon the
whole people. You see, then, the great importance of
having a repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Hear.) A paper
has been put under my plate, stating that the taxes of
this country, since the commeocement of the Corn-law
in 1818, have amountel to 1,000 millions sterling.
Thus the people of this country have been burdened
to an extent which would have paid the whole national
debt, since the peace.—( Hear.) We can scarcely be-
lieve that such laws could be enacted ; but, when we
find persons enacting laws for their own benefit, and
as long as the people permit them to do so. I don't see
how there is any chance of preventing bribery. If they
can raise in this way so many thousands a year, do you
not think they can afford to bribe electors? Ta e
working of the Corn-laws may be illustrated by what
takes place in Guernsey. A gentleman told me, that
they import (as they are allowed to do) all their food
from France and other foreign countries, and export
all their land produce to England.. But is it a ienefit
to the farmer ? No; because the rents of land here
are double what they are in those countries. There-
fore we see the tax is laid on to raise rents, and
the Corn-lime are no benefit either to the farmer
or the agricultural labourer ; and when they can
see that it is not for their interest to support the mono-
poly, we may hope to zee it removed. Passing from
the Corn law, let us cnnsider other measures which I
feel confident the Government will bring forward. The
President of the Board of Trade has lately brought for-
ward a measure for lowering the import duties in the
colonies ; which, on several articles, have been as high
as 301. per emit. down to 71. per cent. This I consider to
be the prelude of an improvement of the tariff as re-
gards the import duties of this country ; • and we shall
find that, if we pay 25 millions a year more for our
corn than we ought to pay, we also pay five millions a
year more for our sugar than we ought to pay.(Ap-
plause.) This subject is not understood by the public
generally. The amount of the duty on colonial sugar is
4,600,0001., at a duty of 24e. per cwt., and colonial
sugar is selling at 245. a cat. more than foreign sugar is
selling at, which is subject to a duty of Gas. per cwt.
When we consider these things, we shall see that the
people of this country are made to pay 25 per cent: more
than they ought to pay—an additional tax of five millions
a year. It is the same with the differential duties upon
coffee, which at one place are 9a and at another 161 a
cwt. If we carry those principles out, they all tend to
the benefit of the people ; for, by having a free exchange
of our products with other countries, we should have
an increased demand for our manufactures. Instead
of paying 93. a pound for sugar, we should have it
at 4d. per lb. ; and then what an increased demand
there would be for it, and for manufactures too! These
are queStions that must be intere-ting to all who arc
seeking to promote the general welfare of the country ;
these are measures that I wish toproruote to the utencst
of my power.—(Hear.) I look to something practical :
I wish to have measures that may produce real benefit
to the people. We wish that our mechanics' institutions
and other places of instruction and recreation should be
open to the people, and that ail should thjey that free-
dom and liberty which tend to promote the happiness of
the land. I would call upon all reformers to fall back
upon that union, which, upon former occasions, has led
us to victory. Let us unite and combine as one man,
having one common name ; and he assured, if we unite
all reformers, we shall certainly succeed. Our cause is
the national interest ; it is the cause of the nation ; it
is the cause of improvement, and the cause of civil and
religious liberty.—(Applause.) In a Ivoeating these
noble principles, these excellent measures, I wish to be
an instrument in your handi ; and I trust I shall live
to see the time when these menopolies shall be re-
moved and that we shell all rejoice together in having
just and equal laws.—(Applanse.) The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by proposing " The health of the in-
dependent electors of the borough of Salfard."
Mr, JOHN M'aunte, as" one of the vice-presidents,
proposed "The Members for the borough of Man-
chester." So far as he knew Mr. Philips, he might say
of . him that justice was his motto, impartiality his prin-
ciple, and the welfare of the community at large his
object. Of Mr. Greg he knew less, but he believed
him to be one every way worthy of participating with
his colleague in the good feelings and approval of their
constituency.—(Applause.) The toast was received
with loud cheers, the company rising.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE:
Oxroan, Arum 17.—Easter Term will begin on Wed-
nesday next, when a Congregation will be holden for grant-
ing degrees, &c. The Proctors elect—the Rev. W. W.
'fireman and Rev. J. Foley —will be admitted into office with
the usual formalities at two o'clock.

The other days appointed fir holding congregations for
conferring degrees, &c., during the ensuing Term, are
Thursday, April 29 ; Thursday, May 13 : Friday, May 21;
Friday, Slay 28.
The Vinerian Professor of Common Law has issued notice
of a course of lectures to begin on Wednesday, the 28th inst.,
at two o'clock, in the Law School.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has instituted the
Rev. G. N. Barrow to the vicarage of St. Nicholas, with
St. Leonard annexed, on the presentation of the Dean and
Chapter of Bristol.
The Lord Bishop of Chichester has instituted the Rev. G.
C. Bethune, of Trinity College,to the Rectory of Worth, Sus-
sex, on the presentation of Mrs. Bethune, patroness. •
'1 he Rev. Dr. Richards, Rector of Exeter College,. who is
incumbent of Kidling-ton, gave a dinner to about eighty per-
sons, who came from that village to be confirmed, of which
they partook in the hall of his College.
CoslselnGE, APRIL 17.—The Rev. Thomas Riddell, Fel-
lox of Trinity College, in this University, has been presented
by the Master and Fellows of that Society to the vicarage of
Masham, YOrkshire vacant by the promotion of the Rev. G.
Waddington to. the:Deanery ot Durham. Value, 3841. Mr.
Riddell was twenty-seventh ‘Vrarigkr in 1825, and was in the
first class of the Classical Tripos.
" The Rev. Howell James, of St. John's College, in this Uni-
versity, has been presented by John Howell, Esq., of Regent-
strekt, London, tv the Rectory of Lytchett Slatravers, Dorset,
void by the death of the Rev. Chris'opher Fleet. Value, P 961.
The Rev-: C. Maddox Arnold, of St. John's College,in this
Uni- ersity, has been anointed Cimphin to the Workhouse of
the Warminster Poir-law Union.

Widian Martin, Esq.. late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Col-
iorre, in this Univenity, has been appointed Chief Justice of
New Zealand.

The Vice-chancellor has given notice, that•the Examination
f..r the Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarships will commence on the
second Wednesdays in May next ; and candidates are requested
to send in their name; to Christ's College Lodge, on or be-
fore the Ist day cf May.
The Rev. J. S. Dunn, of St. John's College, in this Uni-
versity, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Maa-
ningtree. Essex. Patron, Lord Rivers.

It. H. GREG, Esq., M.P., in acknowledging the toast,
said be was sure his colleague regretted being absent.
It was always the greatest pleasure to both of them to
attend any public festival in honour of the respected re-
present ttive of Salford, believing that a more valuable
Mcibber certainly did not exist in the House of Com-
riaonse Hitherto he (Mr. Greg) had always voted on
the same side with Mr. Brotherton ; and, as long as he
continued in Parliament, he believed the occas!ons of
difference in this respect would be few or none. It was
quite true that the dissolution of Parliament was not so
near as it seemed to be twn years ago, or even last Sea-
sion ; but, at the same time, Parliament was drawing
to the period of its natural termination, a period which
the practice of Parliament never allowed it to reach.
It ought to be matter of congratulation to reformers, that
the Ministry did not make a permanent retirement two
years ago, at a moment when a dark cloud hung over
the destinies of this country. We were convulsed in
the interior with Chartist agitation—at one time of the
most dangerous character ; we were on the point of a
contest with Naples, and of being involved in the
Spanish war ; we had barely put down a most dzra-
gerous insurrection in Canada ; and if ministers hail
permanently retired at that inoment, it would have
been attenied with serious damage to the credit of our
party, and would have postponed, to an indefinite period,
their ultimate return to office. But now their pros.
pests were different. 'rho insurrection in Canada had
not only been put down, but the wounds arising out of
it had been healed, an excellent constitution had been
givea to Canada, which was now paying its own offi-
cers, regulating its own expenditure, and carrying into
effect the reduction of duties, thesailne
soifl
otrl church
lands and the clergy reserves ; and,
be-
lieved the whole province was pacified, contented, and
happy, and likely to be a most valuable colony and ac-
quisition to our empire. The Spanish affair bad
been brought to a most successful termination ; and
the progress of future improvement was opened, which
before was closed. That progress might be slow, but
still he believed no impediment to that progress was
of by the present Go ernment. The Chartist
agitation had now entirely died away ; it was put down
simply by the power of the constitutional law ; no nea
Powers had been invoked by Ministers, as had beer
dune by the Tories on much smaller occasions ; anti
wherever siolenee had existed, Juries invariably con-
victed. 'lbis was altogether a state of things on which
we might congratulate ourselves ; and Yrhenever Mi-
nisters dissolve Parliament, and. go to the country, we
may be proud of having such leaders, and may devote
ourselves to the contest, whenever it arrives, with
earnestness and satisfaction.—(Great applause.)
The whole proceedings ware characterized by the
greatest entliusiastn, and determination to spare Rio
cx
ertions en a future occasion again to score the return
of the respected representative of. tle, 'borough of Sal-
ford.—...llanehester Guardian,.

TROLLOPE'S " SUAI'./Eit IN WESTERN
FRANCE."—It is scarcely po' Able to have clms.ca a subject
affirdir.g such ample far
r, for a pleasar.t book of travels
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has
l'''" mule "1 ,o ,e uf by t':e lively author (..,i
the forthcoming Western ,France--;.!
"el.
c'''e cd. L
tainly , " 'Summer il;
le r it)t alp-cell,' aof modem tourists. Tht
name of Trollop ~, is sufficiently well-known lii coanectio.-
with all that i•_
>most entertaining in existing literature to be
ample attrir2tion to any walk; bat when it,is rernernl:ere,i,
11,0wev'''., that the present torte must nece:tsarily crebrae,
the ',.415(1 °ram English dominion in France, and the scene
of ',the heroic adventures of Joan of Arc, the field of tl:e a'
'teas noble strut; le of La Vendee. and of
the sanguinary
wars of -the Hugu/nots at La Rochelle, and the country of
Cognac and Claret, rendered memorable also ns the spot
where flourished that ;error of the curious. Blue Bean+, tin
egnallysanguinary Gf ,offrey Grand-dent, Di,rnaof Poict icr:,
" Les gmitens d'An tour," and a %vita! host of histcri,,n;
characters cif -equal interest. The sittr„cziveness of the
author's materials rn ast be as rnAnifest as that of Dire. Trol
lope's name as Edit, Ir, •

'the Rev. W. S. Hartley, of 'Queen's College, in this Uni.
versity, has been presented to the Vicarage of Laughton-en-le-
Morthen, and the Perpetual Curacy of St. Joh n's, Rotherham,
Yorkshire.