The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

GREEN WICH ELECT lON.

The Tories of Greenwich have for some time
past been doing their endeavour to disturb the feel-
ings of kindliness and good neighbourhood which
it is so desirable to encourage among the inhabi-
tants of the same parish, by mixing up party poli-
ties with matters purely parochial. They have
been lately taught a lesson which will do them
good, by inculcating, experimentally, the propriety
and prudence of " letting well alone." Nothing
would serve them but a public trial of political
strength with the Liberals, at the late election of a
churchwarden. The result has been a most humi-
liating defeat. They hare been soundly thrashed
with their own weapon, and instead of displaying
their strength, as they meant to do, they have made
a truly mortifying exhibition of their weakness.
From the address of Mr. Wheatley, the successful
candidate, we copy the following passage, which
must, we think, be little more palatable to them
than an infusion of wormwood and senna
" It requires little penetration to perceive that the
real object of the late struggle, on the part of those who
have so wilfully thrown the puish into turmoil, has
been to test their strength as an electoral patty. The
experiment has been fairly and fully tried at their bid-
ding ; and although the result of it may not be to their
entire satisfaction, they will at least bear in mind that
it is their indiscretion alone that has occasioned the
escape of a secret which they might otherwise have
held in peaceful possession until the next election. It
is their own finger that has placed THE NUMBERS on
the wall.'"

His Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Ambassa-
dor Extraordinary from the Court of Naples to the 13ritish
Court, arrived on Saturday last from Paris.

CORN LAWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

April 24, 1640.
SlR—lcannot help thinking that the following despatch
from Lord Liverpool to Viscount Wellington in 1811,
might be circulated with some effect at the present moment.
Lord Liverpool was a sensible man, and a Tory, from
which party alone, in the opinion of some people, " all
good works do proceed." Be that as it may, he had a wiser
head on his shoulders than any Secretary of State can
boast of at the present day, and we are smarting in 1840
under the very evils he predicted in 1811. The inform-
ation contained in the despatch seems to have made but a
transitory impression upon the individual to whom it was
addressed. He profited by it at the moment; but the
experience acquired in the barren fields of Portugal was
forgotten under the .hadow of the broad oaks of Strath-
fieldsaye ; and the strawberry leaves of the ducal coronet
have fostered the growth of our present " admirably ar-
ranged" sliding scale.
I remain your most obedient servant,
G. G. O.

Wellington Desptches, vol. 8, p. 446.
Extract of a letter from the Earl of Liverpool to Lord
Wellington :

" London, Nov. 21, 1811. 1
" I am sorry to be under the necessity of informing
you that °wing to a.blight in the month of June, the crops
of wheat and of barley (especially that of wheat) are now
ascertained to be very far below an average crop.
" You are probably aware that in an abundant year, we
cannot do more than feed ourselves ; but upon the occasion
of fermer scarcities we have bad the resource of importa-
tion from other countries, particularly from those border-
ing on the Baltic. In the actual situation of Europe it
is doubtful how far this resource will be available at all,
probably not to any great extent; and, even if available,
the corn will be to be purchased by some exportation of
specie, which in other views of the subject, will be greatly
inconvenient to us under the present circumstances.

" 1 am aware of the inconvenience that must arise from
the exportation of specie to meet these demands; but the
only remedy which occurs as applicable to this evil, is an
eadeavour to make the purchases by British manufactures
instead of by coin, and if this could b 3 accomplished, a
double advantage might be gained. Notwithstanding the
prohibition of the Americans, there arc some articles of
this country which must have become really matters of
necessity to them, and whieh they must be desirous there-
fore of procuring at some risk." &c, &c. &c.