The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

PRICE OF CORN AND PRICE OF

WAGES.

At the second great Liverpool meeting a working
man of the name of Jones gave the evidence of his own
eNperienet: as to the pretended rise of wages with

the rCe of corn :

" A Member of Parliament came down on purpose
to make a speech to them. He told them the Bill was
passe,' solely for their good.—(Laughter.) He said it
was passed on purpose to raise their wages. It was in
-waft works where he and his. father worked, and they had
is. pei ton for making the salt. He remembered
the first time ttieir wages were raised under the opera-
tion of the Corn-laws ; they were raised from Is. Sd. to
Is. Gd. per On.—(Laughter.) The next time they
%ere raised from 1,!. Gd. to Is. 4d. This rise took
place about 1830. In 1831 corn was 705., and work was
very scarce, and their wages were again raised from
Is. 4d. to is. 3d., all under the operation cf the Corn-
,- laws.—( Laughter and applause.) This was not the
mint part of the matter ; when they had ls. Bd. a ton,
they had a set of men for the day and a set for the
but afterwards they allowed one man to do the
work of two ; and he had himself worked twenty hours
per day for a length of time, and when he went to get
his four hours' sleep, his wife had to watch for him dur-
ing that time. Was there anything like slavery in this ?
He was at the present time working for one of the
framers of the beautiful Corn-laws, and at last he was
obliged to leave the employ of the man, because of their
atearvation. And at this moment there were, within a
few miles of this town, hundreds of men who were simi-
larly worked and similarly starved.—(Shame, shame.)"
Let the Chartists profit by the experience of this mem-
ber of their class, but not sharer in their folly.

CORN TRADE-UNITED STATES.

From statements contained in a late number of the
Cleveland Herald, it appears that the amount of wheat.
which arrived at Cleveland, in 1840, by the canal and
by waggons, for export, and exclusive of home con-
sumption, was equal to 4,755,950 bushels. Several
ether places on the lake in Ohio sxported large quanti-
ties. At Huron, for instance, the amount was equita-
lent to 472,878 bushels. The whole amount of Ohio
wheat eaportel last year, by way of Lake Erie, may
be estimated at From five and a half to six million bushels.
By the statement of the custom-house at Buffalo,
there were entered at Buffalo and Black Rock, wheat
and flour equivalent to 4,931,063 bushels of wheat.
There entered the Welland canal, wheat and flour equi-
valent to 2,878,845 bushels of wheat. The harvest of
wheat last summer, in one county on Lake Michigan,
was diminished by blight, below what was expected, as
calculated by a Committee, 500,000 bushels.
By the statement of the canal collector at Buffalo,
689,635 bb's. of flour, equivalent to 3,448,175 bushels
of wheat, at five bushels to the barrel, was cleared for
the East. Of the quantity passing the Welland canal
there arrived at Oswego 707,137 bushels of wheat, and
8,465 bbls. of flour, and of this, 83,849 bushels of wheat
and 116;300 bbls. of flour (much of the wheat being
ground there) were shipped East on the canal from
Oswego, and 33,579 bbls. of flour to Canada.
Governor Seward, in his Message to the Legislature
in January last, stated that there was delivered in 1840
at the Eastern termination of the Erie canal, wheat
and flour equivalent to 10,420,84'0 bushels of wheat.
Deduct shipments from Buffalo and Oswego, 4,691,402,
and there remains of said total, 4,729,463 bushels of
wheat, which must have been grown in New York.
The annual export of wheat and flour from the whole
United States to foreign countries, has not on an average
equalled that of Cleveland the last year.
Tho quantity sent to Canada was equal to 2,309,443
bushels. ASiut one-third of the Western wheat went
to twenty different points above Montreal ; and so com-
pletely did this quantity fill these ports, that the farm-
ers, waking up to the threatened destruction of their
interests, immediately petitioned the Home Govern-
Sent to lay duties on the importation from the United
tates, virtually shutting out the unwelcome flood. At
Kingston the accumulation had increased to a complete
gut, choking up the St. Lawrence, and occupying not
only all the facilities of transport OR a line of navigation
traversed for nearly two centuries, but had so takn up
all the means of storage, that large quantities for some
time ley out of doors.

The quantity sent to Canada, as above stated,
was
The exports from Quebec and Montreal 1,658,195

The deficiency is £6214.0
Thus it would seem that Canada, did not raise her own
bread.

THE INJURED RE-DRESSED.

A few days ago, a young and handsome lady, whose
•simple and almost wretched attire formed a wide con-
trast to her distingue deportment, requested an interview
With M. L-, a Parisian attorney.
" Sir," said she, " I have come to implore your as-
siVance ; if you withhold it, death will be my only
prospect. About two years ago I was made to marry
M. de R-, and brought him a dowry of 300,000 f. ;
from that time since, I have been the most miserable
tieing in the world. My husband, who is jealous, bru-
loil, passionate, miserly, makes me endure every imagin-
able torment ; for six months he has kept me confined
in a room of which he had the key, and where he alone
•ilaci admittance, in or,-ler to bring me coarse and insuf-
fieient food. Yesterday evening I contrived to effect
ray escape ; I have spent the night in wandering wherever
chance might guide me, and have now come to you ; with
-Nur assistance I slat!l certainly obtain a separation."
" All this is exceedingly serious," said M. L., " and if
your statement is correct, I make no doubt of success ;
4143 separation will certainly be pronounced."
"Ah 1 Sir, I shall 01.ire you more than my life ; I must •
confide to you all my immediate troubles ; -I
have no re-
inlions in Paris, rail fled without taking anything with.
fie. Thanks to you, I shall certainly obtain a suitable
pvovision from the tribunal, and permission to retire into
some religious establishnit,nt until the proceedings are
terminated ; but till then ?"

"Until then, Madame," replied M. L., "you may re.:
e in my house ; my wife will, I am sure, immediately.
*co at your disposal any articles of dress you may re-
quire. Take confidence, and all will go well."
The attorney found himself overwhelmed with a tor-
rent of thankS. On the same day, the innocent, unfor-
tunate lady, took up her abode in his house. She was
furnished in abundance with all that was necessary to
complete her toilet ; linen, shawls, gowns, and even
iewellery. The following day, the young lady had de-
;niped with all the paraphernalia. Meanwhile the at-
torney, who having drawn up his declaration, was desi-
Tou3 of obtaining further information, made inquiries
with respect to 11.1.. de who, to his great surprise he
learnt, was exceedingly rich, and had a young and hand-
some wife, but the latter, happy in the love and kind
bohaviour of her husband, had never dreamed of com-
plaining of him.

THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.—On Saturday
-n 'deputation from the Convention, consisting of Messra.
Williams, Pitkeithly, and Cullum, accompanied by Mr.
P.awes, M.P., and Mr. Buller, M.P., had an interview
with the Marquis of Normanby, with a view of ascertain-
ing if they could have an audience with her Majesty in
order that they might present-memorials for the restora-
tion of Prost, Williams, and Jones, and the release of all
Chartist prisoners. The Secretary of State said that he
Was of opinion that the interview could not be granted,
Imt that if the memorials were confided to his care, they
)ilrould receive every attention. He informed the depu-
talon that he could not receive the memorials from a
c4iemtation, as the memorials had reference to criminals.
Ttio deputation then withdrew. The Chartists met in
Sire evening, and partly resolved that in the event of their
net being adiuitted to an audience with the'Queen, they
shauld lay the memorials before Lord Melbourne and all
her Maety's Ministers. It is said that no less than
;1.,y Tory candidates have solicited the suffran'es of the
-Chartists, with a view of Nottinghamising the counties
;mon which they, hope to thrust themselves. In case of
a Clissoluttion the Chartists have pledged themselves to
wevori; Messrs. llawes and Buller.—Sunday Times.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE IN A CHAPEL.—
On Sunday
evening last-. when theZinister of the Wes-
liati Methodist Association Chal, Hill-street, ( Mr.
13e6wick) had proceeded in the middle of his discourse,
: was mak.-Ing alvery powerful appeal to his auditory
0
ovt.' the tuireasonab.eness and inconsistency of an irre-
Moms life, and pointing out the consequences that
t-w `
ould resAit
from it, in mn after state of being ; just at
fhat moment, it large black cat made its appearance in
the chapel, and ran up, and down, sometimes leaping
over the pews, and then into the windows, throwing the
,:hole congregation into a state
taken
excitement and con-
sternation, two of whom were out of the place,
Lazing fainted away with fright. It is supposed that
the cat must have e•of into the chapel during the after-
noon, when there was no service except a class meeting,
and had concealed itself under an elevated pew, next to
the pulpit, which has been erected for the accommoda-
biota of deaf persons ; and. being tired of its situation,
brae© from its concealment, to terrify the audience as
friech as it was terrified itself.—Leicester Journal.
Independently of apoplexy, we have cases of
eitruordinariiy long sleep. A woman in Hainault slept
seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years.
Another is recorded to have slept once for forty days.
A man named Samuel Chilton, twenty-five years of age,
t Tinsbury, near Bath, once slepi; for a month : in two
-years he slept amain for seventeen days, at the beginning
of which period he took food, and had evacuations, but
at length his jaws fixed : when he fell asleep the barley
was sowing, and when he awoke he would hardly believe
3m saw it reaping : at the end of a year, he fell into
sn;:sh another sleep : his farther history is not given.
Vary Tiyall fell asleep in the morning ot the 21st of
!line' and did not awake till the evening of the 30th,
vz-xt day till the Bth of August, remaining motionless,
aud without food from the first till seven days had
elapsed, when she moved her left hand and pointed to
Tier mouth, in consequence of which food was given her,
lviiich she took, during the rest of her sleep : she heard
; and, though she instantly drew back her left
Mthi' when touched with the point of a pin, the right
might Le scratched till it bled, without pain : she was
bled, blist:-.^recl, and plunged intiT eOl4 water without sett-
sation : her imilse for the first two wee_''' ,was generally
during the ad and 4th about 60 ; and the before
idle awoke 70 or 72 • her breathing4vas almost impercep-
stAble, but in the night oceasionall)trong as in a person I
asleep : she gave siptis of hearing about four days he.
fore she awoke' ; and afterwards recollected nothing that
had occurred in her attack,—neither the blistering,
bathing, nor eut.ng ; and had the idea only of having
passed a long night in sleep.—Eliotson's Human l'hy--•
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