The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-21 00:00:00

newspapers lout accounts or the wealth and the
'resources ,of Colombial Mexico, and Peru,
,and
what not (but which writers of Constitutional ef-i
fusions then held Colombian, Peruvian, and
Mexican Bunds), hwee sold these securities, and
!eked the proceeds u Spanish Constitutional
Bonds at a low price ; and that this change from(
one security to another may account for the ex-I
traordinary twist which has within this day o 0
two been given to their literary lucubrations.

EMORNII4O CHRONICLE. j
The following paragraph appeared in The
County Uhronick
" As a great.:uninher of.lrish labourers were last week wait-
ing for employment in the fast.coming harvest, about forty of
theca were employed in tie interim by the surveyors of the
highways of the parishes of Orston and Thoroton, near Bing-
ham, Lincolnshire, in breaking and spreading of stones on the
roads; the labourers of these villages, not approving of this
beneficent act of the, parish Surveyors, arose in a body on Sa-
turday, and drove the.poor Hibernian completely out of their
precincts; and in the'hight betwixt Saturday and Sunday, Mr.
Wm, Maltby and Mr. Joseph Moggs, the gentlemen who had
compassionately set them to work, had the throats of two valu-
able sheep cut, by malicious incendiaries. A handsome re-
ward 1a offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of this dia.
bolical act."

We pity the conditio►► of these unfortunate Irish
labourers, but no one who considers the situation
of the agricultural labourers of this country,
from the excess of their numbers beyond the em-
ployment from them, can be astonished that they
should resent the introduction of strangers to add
to their misery. The hay time and harvest used
formerly to be looked forward to by the labourer,
as a period during which he might gain enough to
enable him to set apart something for the time
when work is slack ; but the farmer can now have
strangers in any nu►nber, so that the resident poor
derive no benefit from these seasons. It is use-
less to circulate Reports of Committees of the
house of Commons, recommending a return to
provident habits, and dwelling on the importance
of the labourer seeing the connection between the
demand for labour and the supply, if the power of
giving effect to these views is to be denied him, by
emigration from another country. It is the interest
of the labourer that the market should not be over-
stocked ; but the farmer deems it his interest to
encourage strangers, with a view to keep down
wages. The law favoursthe farmer,and the labourer
being unable to reconcile the law with his ideas
of justice, becomes an enemy to the former, and
has recourse to acts of violence. It seldom hap-
pens that a new Doctor takes up his residence in

a country town with impunity. The Lawyers
send a brother to Coventry who leaves one
Circuit for another. Even the unowned dogs
in a Turkish town, who generally have to
complain of a scarcity of bones, have their
proper streets, and an intruder always pays for
his temerity. Nothing, therefore, is more natural
than thnt the labourer should view with jealousy
the introduction of strangers to share with him
a fund which is too small for himself. Let it be
remembered, that the employment of strangers,
under such circumstances, though not prohibited
by law, is, in reality, committing a robbery on
him. The labour of the poor man is his pro-
perty ; and those who disregard that pro-
perty, can hardly be astoni,hed that theirs
should be disregarded. No experiment can
he more dangerous than that of placing men
in circumstances which tempt them to violate
the law. We are informed on good authority,
that the Keeper of a Gaol, of a County in which
there were several arsons some time ag •
CI, in every
one of the numerous commitments which were

the consequence, traced the crime to some act of
oppression on the part of the individual who had
suffered in his property. The bow ought never
to be bent too much, lest the string give way.
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