The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

sensible decrease has been felt in the demands for our pro-
duce in Egypt, Turkey, the coasts of Africa, and Switzer-
land. On inquiring into the proportions which the several
species of merchandise boar to each other in the imports,
raw cotton stands for 14 per cent, of the value of the whole
amount, and of these 94,000,0001. were for home con-
sumption. As compared with 1839, these sums present
an increase of sixty-seven and:thirty-two per cent. The
importation of silks, which gave way in 1839, recovered,
but did not reach the amount of 1838. There was a failure
in the arrivals of colonial sugars, but there has been an
increase in their acquittement. From 1835 to 1838 the
value of foreign corn brought fate home consumption has
not exceeded upon an average 4,000,000 f. per annum.
Since 1838 the importations of linen and hempen cloths
for home consumption have annually decreased. The
contrary is to be stated with regard to flaxen and hempen
threads, the importations of which in 1835 attained to
scarcely 10,000,000 E, but in 1840 were nearly 28,000,000 f.
There has been no sensible variation in the importations
of iron in bars or cast iron in its unwrought state, but
in the last article there has been a slight decrease. The
imports of coal since 1835 have increased notably; those
of 1840 amounted to 18,000,000 f., those of 1835 were
only 12,000,000 f. The amount of imports of foreign
cattle was 8,000,000 f. in 1840, and 9,000,000 f. in 1839.
The imports of foreign sugars, coffee, indigo, cochineal,
dye-woods, lead, zinc, tin, and straw-plaits, have been
much augmented. For the exports of goods from
France, which may be divided into the classes of
natural products and manufactured objects, those of
the former class have decreased one per cent. for
general commerce, and three per cent. for special ditto ;
while those of the latter class have increased 2 per
cent. for general commerce, and 5 per cent. for special
ditto. The most important exports have been silks,
which have amounted to 141,000,000 E, being nearly the
same as in 1839. The exports of cotton and woollen
stuffs have increased, by 74 per cent., and 60 per
cent. respectively
.for 1840, as compared with 1833.
The exports of wines have been greater than in 1839,
but lest than in 1838 ; they have not, however, varied
much during the last six years. Exports of bran-
dies have increased 31 per cent. during 1840.
A diminution has taken place in the exports of refined
sugars, prepared hides, clock-work, modes, jewellery, &c.
The duties of all kinds received by the Custom-house
(salt-duties included), amounted to 178.000,000 E, being
40,000,000 f. more than in 1839. This increase was
chiefly on the entrance-duties, which amounted alto-
gether to 114,600,000 f. Compared with 1839, and the
average of the five preceding years, these duties show an
augmentation of 10 per cent. and 8 per cent., chiefly
arising from cottons, coffee, foreign sugars, grains, lead,
oleaginous fruits, and cheese.
The Sentinelle of Toulon says, " The news which we
gave the day before yesterday, of the discharge of the
seamen who have served less than thirty months in the
Royal Navy, is fully confirmed. By this measure some
ships will lose 300 men. We much fear that this is a
prelude to disarming ; for, supposing that the Govern-
ment has not this intention, it would require infinite
time to form new crews.
"It is said, but it is at present only a report, that
two more ships are to be sent to Brest."
Lord Cowley and family have arrived at Paris.—
Constitutionnel.
We are enabled to state, that there is no foundation
whatever for the rumour circulated by the Courrier
Francais, that the Bank of England intended to apply
again to the Bank of France for pecuniary assistance.
Several decorations of the Legion of Honour, have
been granted to the officers and men of the gendarmerie
of the Puy de Domo, for their good conduct during the
late disturbances at Clermont.
M. Paya, chief editor of the Emancipation of Tou-
louse, and four other persons, who stood on the opposi-
tion interest, have been elected Municipal Councillors in
that town.
The Sentinelle of Bayonne states that Espartero left
St. Sebastian for Pampcluna on the 4th inst.
Advices from Barcelona of the 3d, quoted by the
Courrier Francais, state that Van Haien had re-entered
the city, and that all was quiet there.
A Constantinople letter of the 20th, in the Augsburgh
Gazette, states that the Ottoman Government is going
to construct a series of fortified camps, or barracks, on
the land side of the capital, to serve as a line of defence.
Two such posts already exist.
The Odessa Journal announces that the Grand Duchess
Helena and her daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria
Mikaileona, after remaining two months in the Crimea,
left Simpherophol on the 9th, for St. Petersburgh.—
Galignanes Messenger.
STOCK EXCHANGE, Two o'CLocK.—Five per Cents.
opened at 115 f. 90c. ; Threes at 80fr. 25c.
STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The
Market has been slightly disturbed to-day by the defal-
cation and disappearance of M. Bonnet, a stock-broker,
whose Stock Exchange liabilities, however, are believed
not to be very large. French Funds have gone down in
price. For Cash Fives have fallen 20c. ; Threes 15c. ;
Ditto (1841) 25c.; Neapolitan 10c.; Spanish Fives (Ac-
tive) have risen ; Roman 4 ; Belgian Fives and Spanish
Fives (Passive), are unvaried ; Belgian Threes and Por-
tuguese no quotation. For the end of the month, Fives,
Threes, and Ditto (1841), have declined 25c.; Neapolitan
no quotation.
DUTCH FUND3.—Amertanaw, Nor. 8.
Money. Ell's.
Actual Debt, `2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 0 per cent.
Amen Svndic,4ii per cent 9OX 1,14
Ditto, ditto, 354 per
Commercial Company, 444 per cent 1.91A 55
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 103,
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ............... 97 9
Exchange on London, One months.. 12 7%
Twoh 11 57%
Hambursh, One month 35 81%
Two months 35 L',l3

_
Dutch Papers, Nov. 9.
ISELOI AN li U NUS—Batmen' , Nor. 9.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Roth child's Loan, 5 per Cent ...... ........
Loan of Thirty Minions, 4 per Cent. 92
. 3per Cent. —
----- .. 71%
(1340) IOIA
Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. 94
Society of Commerce, 4 yi per Cent 93
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.." 31%
National Society. ......... . . ............. —
Exchange on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, Nov. 9.
AUS f MAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 2
five per Ceots. Metalliques ..............
.............. 105,,
Four per Cents
'three per Cents.
Bank shares
...Alleemeine ZeituNg. Nov. e.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 6
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
flank 5hare5........._ 1:,60 1511
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Selias lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series .... 98% 9S
Ditto in Certificates "smear ....an... 98 97%
New 4 per Cent. (1840) B6 li5A,
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5O
Ditto.. ...................... 5 per Cent —
Polish Bondi
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7s' 75%
1114 101%
teLegisanNewLoasnp,elrB3C4e,n4tcper Cant
...

Thirty .seven.

COCKNEYISM OP Ing TIMES.—This once pow
erful Journal, which every day was wont to
strike some chord that vibrated through the
heart of the 'empire, has now descended to the
very lowest grade of twaddle, and every day puts
forth trash worthy elan ancient Alderman. Sir C.
Hunter himself could not surpass an exquisite
specimen of genuine cockney simplicity which
appearedin its pages yesterday. A compositor,
who has taken an accurate gauge of our Contem-
porary's foot, wrote to explain the great distress
to which the compositors are now exposed, and
which is unhappily both intense and wide-spread.
In this letter the " mighty power possessed by
the Times" is spoken of: Its " noble and gene-
rous efforts in the cause of suffering humanity"
are praised, and it is supplicated to do for the
compositors what " it has done for Frenchmen,
Spaniards, Poles, starving Trish, Highlanders,
and distressed Spitalflelds weavers." That
Journal is described as " issuing a history of the
world for a day. to the inhabitants of the four
quarters of the Globe," with much more flummery
of the same kind. The compositor, knowing his
men, administered a dose of flattery which would
have choked a dog. In acknowledging the
many compliments the Times ingenuously says,
"we like both the spirit and the style in which
the letter is written," and it offers the writer a
place in. the establishment of the Times. Speak-
ing for the public, it -declares that it likes the
gross flattery of the Times. This is genuine
cockneyism, gobemoueherie of the biggest
swallow. After the Times has thus certified to
the merits of the Times, what will it not believe
itself and endeavour to make others believe?
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Houses of
Lords and Commons assembled yesterday, pro forma,
for the purpose of further proroguing Parliament by
Royal Commission, until Thursday, 21st December.
The Lords Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Buckingham. and Lord Wharncliffe. No
Member of either House of Pailisment was present, ex-
cept the three Lords Commissioners ; and the Commons
were represented by Mr. Lee, the Cleik of the House of
Commons.
We have pleasure in stating
.that on Sabbath
the 31st ult., a collection was made in the Rev. George
Lawson's Church, Selkirk, in behalf of the unemployed
weavers at Paisley, amounting to 181. Gd. sterling, a sum
alike honourable to the congregation and their respected
pastor, who pled with heart-touching. eloquence, the
cause of the sufferers. We think it right to mention,
that Mr. Campbell, the parish minister, intimated to his
people the object of the collection, a circumstance worthy
the imitation of Christian Ministers of all denominations,
to co-operate with one another in every good work.—
Edinburgh paper.
THE LATE AUSPICIOUS EVENT.--The form
of prayer and thanksgiving for the safe delivery of the
Queen and the birth. of a Prince of Wales, has just been
sent to us in a very elegant form. It is printed in golden
letters on a bronze ground, with the crest of the Prince
of Wales, beautifully executed, immediately over the
Prayer. It is executed by a young tradesman of Fore-
street, who deserves praise for ;the beauty of the design
and the despatch which he has shown in bringing it out,
and the trifling price at which it can be sold.
We regret to have to announce the death of
Peter Burrowes, Esq., long the well-known and eloquent
member of the Irish Bar, and who, up to a few years
since, discharged the duties of Chief Commissioner of
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Ireland, in which he was
succeeded by the son of one of the most eminent men of
his own day and party in Ireland, Mr. Curran, Mr.
Burrowes, who bad for some time past resided in this
country, chiefly for the sake of medical advice, died on
Monday at his residence in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-
square, in his 90th year. With the exceptions of the
ex-Lord Chancellor Plunket and the ex• Chief Justice
Bushe, there is scarcely a survivor left of the 'great men
of the Irish Parliament.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs
of London and Middlesex were received in State
yesterday at Buckingham Palace. His Lord-
ship and the Lady Mayoress, accompanied by
the City Remembrancer, and followed by the
Sheriffs, Messrs. Maguey and Rogers, arrived at
the Palace twenty minutes before three o'clock,
and were ushered up the grand staircase.
This party were received by the following
Ladies and Officers of her Majesty's Household:
—The Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the
Robes ; the Countess of Charlemont, Lady in
Waiting; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, the Master of the Horse, Earl of Hard-
wicke, Lord in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master
of the Household, Capt. Meynell, Groom in
Waiting, and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in
Waiting.
After having had candle served, the Lord
Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, the Sheriffs, and
the Remembrancer, were conducted by the Lord
Chamberlain to the apartments of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, to pay a visit of
congratulation to his Royal Highness. A
few of the Foreign Ministers, including
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister; Baron
Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister; the Rus-
sian Minister .and the Baroness Brunow ;
the Grecian Minister, and Madame Tricoupi ; the
Bavarian Minister, and Baron de Neumann ; and
a party of Ladies, including the Countess Dela-
warr, Lady Elizabeth West, the Countess of
Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanore and Con-
stance Paget, the Countess of Haddington the
Countess of Wilton, Lady Stanley, lon.
Cavendish, Mrs. Harcourt, Hon. Mrs. G. E.
Anson, followed the Civic party.
The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs had an
audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
who was attended by the Marquis of Exeter,
Groom of the Stole ; Lord Colville, Lord in
Waiting; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in
' Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in
Waiting.
His Royal Highness the Infant Prince was
afterwards brought into the room, in which were
assembled the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress,
the Sheriffs, the City Remembrancer, the Mem-
bers of the Diplomatic Corps, and the Ladies who
had been honoured with invitations; and also the
great Officers of State, and the Ladies and Gen.
tlemen of the Royal Household in Waiting.
The Royal Infant was carried round to all the
distinguished visitors present. The Lord Mayor
and Lady Mayoress, and the Sheriffs, then took
their leave of his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and left the Palace at half past three o'clock.
Her Royal- Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester sent, at an early hour yesterday morning,
to Buckingham Palace, to learn the state of her
Majesty and the Infant Prince.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
visited her.lVlajesty yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace jn the afternoon from their resi-
dence at Kew, and made inquiry respecting the
health of her Majesty and the Royal Infant.
Before leaving town for Kew their Royal High-
nesses returned to the Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge called to inquire after her Majesty and
the Infant Prince.
The following bulletin was issued yesterday
forenoon : " Buckingham Palace,
Nov. 11, 1841, Half-past Nine, A.M.
" The Queen has passed an excellent night.
" Her Majesty and the infant Prince are going
on well. " JAMES CLARK, M.D.
CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.
RICHARD BLAGDEN."
Among the Nobility and Gentry who called
yesterday at Buckingham. Palace to make their
dutiful inquiries, were Prince Ernest of Hesse
Philippsthal, the French Ambassador, the Por-
tuguese, Brazilian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan
Ministers, the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, the Bavarian Minister and Ba-
ronness de Cetto, the Turkish, Prussian,
and Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires, the
Danish Charge d'Affaires and Countess
Bille Brahe, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires
and Baroness Rehausen ; Mr. Colquhoun, Agent
for the Hanse Towns, and Mrs. and Miss Col-
quhoun ; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and
Madame Murphy; Count Revel, Mons. de Paiva,
Chevalier George Maunders, M. Hye Hoys,
Mons. Lobo de Moira, the Archbishop of Can-
terbury and Mrs. Howley, the Lord Chancellor
and Lady Lyndhurst, the Bishop of London, the
Duke of Buccleuch, Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond and Lady C. G. Lennox, the Marchioness
of Wellesley., Marquis and _Marchioness of
Bristol, Earl and Countess of Belfast, Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Countess of Morley,
Countess of Kingston, Countess Dowager
Listowel, Earl of Portarlington, Earl and
Countess Brownlow and Ladies Cust, Earl of
Liverpool, Earl and Lady K. Jertnyn, Earl of
Thanet, Earl of Leicester, Countess of Mex-
borough, Lady Sarah Savile, Lord Pollington,
Dowager Countess Cornwall, Earl and Countess
Radnor, Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and
Countess Malmesbury, Countess Stradbroke,
Earl and Countess De la Warr, Lady Elizabeth
West, Earl of Haddington, Earl and Countess
Uxbridge, Ladies E. and C. Paget, Earl and
Countess osslyn, Viscount Hereford, Viscount
Cantelupe, Viscount Lowther, Lord Langdale,
Lady A. M. Dawson, Lord Fitzgerald and
Vesci, Lord Marcus rill, Lord Denman, Lord
Clifford, Lord Hill, Lady Augusta Gordon,
Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lord Willoughby de
Eresby, Lady and the Hon. Miss Denman, the
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Baron and Lady
Gurney, the Attorney-General and Lady
Pollock, Honourable Mr. Corry, Honourable
C. Law, Recorder of London, M.P., Q.C., Miss
Elizabeth Law, Lady Wheatley, Misses Wheat-
ley, Right Hon. H. Goulburn,- Mr. and Mrs.
Ashley. Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Hon. Cap-
tain and Mrs. G. Campbell, Hon. Mrs. Denman;
Hon. Miss A. Denman, Hon. Miss Fox, Maj, r-
Gen. Sir H. and Lady E. Hardinge, Sir William
and Lady Poland, Sir J. and Lady Graham, Sir
Moses and Lady Montefiore, Sir R. and Lady
Peel, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Macdonald,
Lady and Miss Macdonald, Lady Taylor,
Lieutenant-General Sir C. and Lady Egerton,
Lady and Miss Trotter, Colonel Sir G. and Lady
Cooper, General Sir H. and Lady Grey, Sir R.
Chester, Sir W. and Lady Clay, Miss Clay, Sir
Charles Smith, Sir E. and Lady Antrobus, Sir
H. Halford, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir J. M.
and Lady Burgoyne, Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir
T. and Lady Barrett Leonard, Sir J. Beckett,
Sir Fred. and Lady Wetherell, Sir J. Duke,
M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Sir T. Wilde, Sir
Henry Richardson, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, Mr.
Sergeant Spankie, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant and Mrs.
Talfourd, Colonel W. Sibthorp,M.P., Mr. Ser-
geant Andrews, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. H.
Hamner, Colonel Richardson, Rev. Dr. Dakins,
Principal Chaplain to the Forces, Major and Mrs.
Weymouth, Col. and Lady J. Wemyss, Rev. Dr.
Kuper, Col. Peel, M.P., Alderman J. Johnson,
Major Macarthur, Alderman Humphery, M.P.,
Alderman Farncombe, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Bou-
verie, Captain Grant, Captain Pitt, Mr. The-
siger, M.P , Mr. and Mrs. Hume, Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence, Miss Disbrowe, Mr. Fitz-
roy Kelly, Q. C., Mrs. Fitzroy Kelly,
Mr. Courtenay, Q. C., Mr. Crowder, Q.C.,
Miss Blake, r. G. Spence, Q. C.,Mr.
George Hayter, Mr. Holt, Q. C., r. Ho-
race Twiss, Mr. D. Pollock, Q.C., Mr. Whit-
marsh, Q.C., Mr. and Mrs. W. Gladstone, Mr.
S. Sharpe, Q.C., Mr. Baines, Q C., Mr. Tem-
ple, Q.C., Mr. J. W. Ferrer, Mr. Emerson
'ferment, M.P.,Mr. B. Montagu, Q.C., Mr.
Evans, Q.C., r. 0. Hendon, &c.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
returned to the Palace in the evening.
Her Majesty and the Infant Prince were both
doing well last evening.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal took
an airing in Buckingham Palace Garden yes-
terday.
ThelDuke of Cambridge left his residence at
Kew on Wednesday for Petworth.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday.
A deputation from the Strand Union, conduc-
ted by Mr. Edward Willoughby, the Chairman,
and Mr. Dowling, the Vice-Chairman of the
Board of Guardians, accompanied by Mr. Cor-
der, the clerk, had an interview with the Lord
President at the Colonial-office, yesterday, on
the subject of the education of the infant poor.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.

The following bulletin of the state of her Ma-
jesty was yesterday exhibited at Marlborough
House:—
" The Queen Dowager remains in a state of great
feebleness, but her Majesty is suffering less from
irritation and fever than during the last two days.
" W. FRED. CHAMBERS, M.D.
DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
" Sudbury Hall, Nov. 10, 1841."
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...)he Observer of Sunday, Nov. 14, will give
all the sayings and doings connected with the birth of
the Royal Prince. A Monday afternoon edition of the
Observer is regularly published at 4 o'clock, which is
best adapted fur subscribers in the country and abroad.
The Observer of last Sunday, Nov. 7, which contained
14 of their long and wide folio columns of particulars of
the fire in the Tower, with engravings of the front and
interior when the fire was raging at its height, has been
kept on sale since Sunday, and may yet be had for a
week to come at the office, 170, Strand.

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Dmdalus, Capt. Martin, arrived at Liverpool on
Wednesday from the coast of Africa. Capt. Martin re-
ports that the Niger expedition entered the new branch
of the Niger between the 13th and the 15th of August,
the Soudan leading. The expedition had, up to that
date, lost nine hands by death.
The following confirmation of what has been so re-
peatedly stated by The Sun respecting the movement of
a French force towards the Spanish frontier, is taken
from a Madrid letter of the Ist inst., published by Louis
Philippe's fashionable London organ, the Post:—" The
Spanish Consuls at Bordeaux, Bayonne, Perpignan, and
Marseilles, Messrs, Duron, Arguendegui, Tovar, and
Viniegra, have sent official information of the approach
of French troops on the frontier, which, according to
them, come in the hope of exciting the Spaniards to offer
them some insult, which might serve as a pretext for
either invading Spain, or demanding some satisfaction."
The Commerce of Tuesday has the following remarks
on the commercial relations between France and Spain :

—" We remark with pleasure, that, notwithstainling
civil c•mmotions, and the efforts of English smugglers,
our exports to Spain continue to increase. In 1840 they
amounted to 79 millions. Spain is our natural ally, and
the results to which we have just al'uded set forth, in a
striking manner, the evil policy which has involved us
in a quarrel with Spain at a moment when the return of
order and peace held out a prospect of lucrative rela-
tions for us."

On Monday Mr. H. Lytton Bnlwer, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from her Britannic Majesty, remitted to the
King of the French, at a private audience, the letters of
recal of his Excellency Earl Granville.
A Constantinople letter of the 20th ult., in the Augs-
burg Gazette, states that the Ottoman Government is
going to construct a series of fortified camps or barracks
on the land side of the capital, to serve as a line of de-
fence. Two such posts already exist.
The Odessa journal announces that the Grand Duchess
Helena and her daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria Mi •
kaileona, after remaining two months in the Crimea, left
Simpherophol on the 9th ult. for St. Petersburgh.
A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 29th of October

states that b' the violent storm— which raged on the night
of Friday, the 27th, and the following day, at Cronsta.dt,
aused several accidents in the road ; fourteen ships
coming from sea were obliged to cast anchor off the out-
ward lighthouse, two made signals of distress, but it was
not possible to give them any assistance. Several were
damaged."

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle, in a leading article suggested
by the birth of the Prince of Wales, has the following
incidental remarks:—" Britain, at this moment,resem-

bles the land of Egypt, during the preternatural inflic-
tion of darkness. "rhos children of Israel had light in

their dwellings,' while a darkness that might be felt'
hung over the Egyptians. The favoured classes in this
country who do not feel the general distress can gather
round their snug firesides, and thank God for all that
they have, of past or of present comfort. Yet at the
same moment there are firesides where no comfort is—

homes that instead of fostering destroy the homely affec-
tions—children whose sight, instead of warming the
heart, wring it with the bitterest anguish. And this
unequal state of things, if not created, is strengthened,
extended, and perpetuated by laws, that, like the destroy-
ing angel, enter our very doors, and strike down the
first-born of our rights, our hopes, our happiness.
Yes, the Corn-laws are a national shame, a national
ruin, and a national curse ; and while they embarrass
the merchant and rob the manufacturer, they enter the
houses of our workmen, and are effectually sapping
whatever is good, generous, and kindly in the domestic
virtues, on which we pride ourselves as a nation."—
Yet though the Corn-laws are thus an acknowledged
curse to the country—a cancer eating into the very heart
of industry—discouraging its efforts and neutralizing its
successes, the Tories are resolved that the impost shall
still continue ; or, if modified, shall be so modified as
to do the least possible harm to the interests of the mo-
nopolists, and the least possible good to the community
at large: Nothing will ever rouse these men from their
infatuation, but one of those stern displays of peremp-

tory determination on the part of the people, that there
can be no mistaking, and no neglecting with safety.
The following is from the Post :—" All intelligent
persons know that the Oxford Tracts (with blemishes
of various kinds which even their authors are not the

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