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E R R E It S.
FA ROMANCE of the REIGN of GEORGE 11.
By CHARLES OLLIER.
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THE REVOLT OF THE FRENCH PEASANTRY.
This day is published, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
THE JACQUERIE ; or, The Lady and the
Page an Historical Romance. By G. P. R. JAMES,
Esq., Author of " The Huguenot," " Henry of Guise," &c.
" The Jacques and their savage leaders, and the lords and
their followers, who opposed them and perished, form a fitful
and dreadful tragedy ; and the final overthrow of the peasant
force, with its Parisian and other allies, at Meaux, and the
catastrophe which closes the narrative, are in the very highest
style of this class of writing, and well worthy of the popular
reputation of the author."—Literary Gazette.
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TEGG'S TREASURY OF WIT FOR 1842.
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OBSERVATIONS OF THE TIMES ON THE
MANCHESTER CONFERENCE.-CHARTIST
PLAN FOR BUYING WASTE LAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

proceed with the account in the Times
of the Conference at Manchester.
TheDejeo.b2boe,rlsB4wlh.o make distress their staple."—
Times,But what are they to the jobbers who make
the distress that they may live on it?—who keep
their coach-horses on the blood of the people,
and dress up their wives and daughters on a na-
tion's bread ? The fault of Messrs. Brotherton,
Thornely, and Cobden, who are spoken of as if
they were individually something not to be set
by the side of a robber of the soil, is that they
have not bought their places in Parliament with
money picked from the people's pockets by the
fraudulent rise of rents. Rob Roy in his cups,
spoke so of Glasgow " websters."
" One would imagine that nobody but the members of a
certain high aristocracy could be landowners in England—
that nobody but yeomen born could farm the soil. If, in
the long run, the profits of the farmer or of the land-
owner paid a better interest for capital than the profits
of the trader or the manufacturer, does anybody be-
lieve that capital would not flow toward the- land until
the level was restored ?"—lb.
A mere money fraud, which every banker's
clerk ought to be able to expose. The dishonest
gains are all to be paid for in the price charged;
hence no rush can take place towards such bar-
gains. If the landowners were to pass a law that
all Consols now in their hands should be_paid 30
per cent. interest instead of 31, this would cause
no rush to the purchase of such stock from them;
and for the simple reason, that it would all be
charged for in the price. If landlords (as is
urged somewhere else) can only get 3 per cent.
on the price of land, this proves, not that the
landlords may not have raised the value of their

land by robbery a hundred-fold, but only that
the profits of other people, and the use to be had
for money in general, are reduced by the conse-
quences of the landlords' robbery, till men are
glad to lodge their money where it will pay
them 3 per cent.
Never forget, that we have a Government
whose continuance in office is pitted upon esta-
blishing monstrosities like this.
" But if the trader and the manufacturer, calculating
that in the long run their profits will remunerate them
for their risks and losses, choose to continue their own
business year after year—ay, and to increase the scale of
it by fresh building and machinery—let them not, after
a series of lucrative seasons which have filled their
pockets, complain of the balance of affairs, and try to
throw all the loss upon others who have never specu-
lated for any of the profit."—lb.
See how we will retort all this, when the time
comes that the agricultural interest are begging
for a merciful release from the bounty on foreign
corn. Why should not they stop their cultiva-
tion at the point which is for our interest? Re-
member again, that we have a Government de-
pendent on establishing the principle of this.

" A monopoly is an exclusive right of sale ; which no
class possesses."—lL.

A money fraud again. A monopoly which can
only be partaken of by purchase from a class at
their own price, is a monopoly to that class.
What the agricultural class does possess is a protec-
tion for the commodity it produces, and the manufac-
turing classes have a corresponding protection."—/b.
The manufacturing classes know, that when an
article is bought at a higher price than needed,
on the pretext of protection, there is a national
loss in the aggregate equal to the difference of
price. And they know that two blacks do not
snake a white—still less two losses a gain. They
know, therefore, that a Government which
should pretend to set off loss against loss, and
call it compensation, would be fit only for a den
of thieves.

" There is a strange want of sequence in the proceed-
ings of these League conventions. When a number of
powerful masters have met together to confer upon the
d►sastrous state of their district, and have called in their
reverend' coadjutors to back their announcements of
distress, one is prepared to expect among so many rich
gentlemen, that the charity sermon will be followed by
a collection on the spot. But he who expects that con-
clusion from those premises is destined to a sad disap-
pointment. There is no plate at the door."—Times, 21
Dec., 1841.

Hold the plate at your own door, thieves.
Make what you can out of the petticoats you
give away at Christmas, while. you rob all the
rest of the year; but do not insult us with a
demand to keep your victims. The man who
gives a shilling in the way of public charity on
landlord invitation, unless it be in some of the
modes which have been invented for impressing
on the receiver that the landlords' robbery is
paid by others in his stead, is a dupe and a
simpleton.

Seriously, let us look into this pretence of
charity. Fancy ourselves part of the victims in
the Turkish frigate, where the captain went to
sea with a third of a stock of water, and then sold
it to his prisoners. Then fancy a Turk, in flow-
ing robes and with the best ofperfumed tobacco in
his pipe, proposing to help the evil by a scheme of
charity. Would it not be plain, that all it could
do would be to relieve some of us at the expense
of some of the rest, and as the brutes who were
above us would always take care of theinselVes,
it was only to be taken from one of the sufferers
to be given to another? So much for the
charity" device.
.4 There is no end to the complaints made at these
meetings of the rapid strides by which the continental
manufactures are advancing in the continental markets.
Our northern mill-owners appear to think, that however'
odious monopoly may be in the case of other people,
they themselves are entitled i
to the monopoly of the whole
trade of Europe, and that if, n the general march of
improvement, other nations step in to share what, until
the pacification ir of 1815; was enjoyed exclusively by
English capitalists, the cotton lords have a right to com-
plain of the movement as an injury, and force an indem-
niby from their own countrymen."—B.