The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.

CUATITAII, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—Thi3 morning the
Rev. J. Fornby (the Ctsairman) and other County Magis-
trates, with Mr. Tufnell, the Assistant Poor-law Com-
missioner, and Messrs. Ltissell and Heywood, the legal ad-
visers of the Bench, resumed the investigation into the eon-
duct of James Miles, the Master of the Hoo Union.

After Phillis Danes' deposition was taken, which went
to prove acts of cruelty towards her own daughter, as well
as upon the person of Eliza Screese, the Magistrates di-
rected another witness to be brought in.
Ruth Biils was then sworn.—l live in the floo Union,
and have been an inmate there for four years last Novem-
ber. I saw Sarah Barnes flogged by Mc. Miles, our
Master. She was heat with a birch rod in the hall. The
Master flogged her while she was la ing upon a table.
Her clothes were taken up by Mr. Miles. and he beat
her upon her naked person. I saw her beaten again.
Tile flogging was the same as before, and was done
by Mr. Mika, the Master. I cannot say on what day
it was, or how long, before she ran away from the
workhouse. Both floggings were done in the last
year, but I cannot name the month. I know Char-
lotte Barton. I cannot say I have seen her beaten,
but I have heard her cry. I was in the same room at the
time, but I cannot say that I turned round from my work
at her crying. 1 have heard her cry when the master had
threatened her for having done wrong. I never held any
girl but Eliza Screese when she transgressed. I held her
down by standing opposite the master at the end of the
table. The master her a few strokes with the birch
rod. Ile tinned her clothes down, and hit. her across the
shoulders. Ann Je•fierics held the child Eliza Scrcese
down as well as I did ; Scrense untied her clothes herself.
I know Mary Paste. I have not s-en her flogged. I
never saw Sarah Rayner punished. I was not down where
the children were.

The next witness called was Mary Lewis, a married
woman, whose evidence was of the same character as Ruth
Bills'. She was subjected to a scorching examination, in
the course of which the following facts were elicited :
Mr. Tuffaell said there is one question I should like to
ask the witness. She has said that the infants were
taken from the breasts of their mother wheu the! were only
ten months old by the Master. Ile had no authority to
act so, and it is a very serious imputation of misconduct on
his part. I wish to ask if there was any reason assigned
for depriving the witness of her child ? Witness—The
doctor said it would he better that the child should not
suck the breast as I was obli4ed to take opiate.
By Mr. Ellers—l do not know the reason the other
pauper children were taken away, but there was one woman
who cut her threat. She told the Master if he took her
child from her she would cut her throat ; and he did do it ;
and after she left the house she carried her threat into
execution, aad did cut her throat.

Mr. Prall—lf that fact is taken in evidonce, we must go
into all the circumstances of the case. If such a statement
;s allowed to go forth under the Influence of an oath, we
ought to rigidly inquire into all the details. It is a very
grave insinuation agiinst the Master.
Witness—l do not charge the Master with anything. I
only repeat to you what the woman said to me, and she did
cut her throat.

Cross-examined—The woman was the mother cf Mary
Paste, the girl who was flogged. The words used were
these—the master said to a girl, " Take that child down
to the school-room." The child was about twelve months
old. The mother said, " I will rather cut my throat than
my child shall be taken from me." The child was taken
away from her. The Master did not threaten her at all,
but said, " Pooh, pooh I go and get your supper." The
next morning after breakfast she left the house and took
all her children with her, and about a month afterwards
she cut her throat, finding that she could not support her
children (as the reporter understood the witness).
A lengthy discussion here arose between the Magis.
trates, as to whether they should proceed with the inves-
tigation or adjourn until afu ure day. Some of the Ma-
gistrates expressed their Willingness to sit until midnight,
if there was any prospect of getting through the case.
Mr. Essell said the next witness was an important one,
and her examination would take several hours.

After another brief examination, the investigation at aix
o'clock ails rgain adjourned until Monday morning.

MR. HILL.—We noticed in our last the recent
death, at an advanced age, of Thomas Hill, Esq., fami.
liarly designated by his acquaintances (amongst whom ho
reckoned the most celebrated of the literary men, artists,
and actors, and the leading publishers of his time),
" Little Tom Hill." His good humour, and certain
harmless peculiarities, rendered him at all times a wel-
come and an amusing associate. No one knew his age,
nor could he ever be prevailed on to confers it—a re-
luctance which one of his friends ascribed to the acci-
dent of the destruction of his baptismal register in the
great fire of London (1666) ; whilst another charged
hint with having once admitted that it was he whe had
contracted for supplying Guy Fawkes with gunpowder.
But upon this point lie was banter-proof. Of late years he
was celebrated as the supposed prototype of Paul Pry—a
fact, however, which we believe the author has never ad-
mitted. That he was the original of the good-natured Hull
in Mr. Hook's " Gilbcr' Gurney," and of many points in
the character of Little Jack Hotobleday in Mr. Poole's
" Little Pedlington," is unquestionable. Of his resemblance
(accidental though it might have been) to Paul Pry, the
following is an amusing instance, and may be relied on as
true. Calling one morning upon Mr. —, the eminent
bookseller in Pall-mall, he found him in his counting-house
along with a gentleman with whom he ( Hill) was utterly
unacquainted. Presently Mr. was called out, leaving
the stranger and Hill together. Upon his return Hill
took his leave. " Pray, Mr —," inquired the gentleman,
" who is that extraordinary person that has just left us? I
assure you he has asked me more questions in these ten
minutes than I have been asked for the last ten months."
" 0," replied Mr. —, laughing. " That is Little Torn
Hill, the supposed original of Paul Pry." At that iden-
tical moment Hill popped his head in at the counting-house
se
door with—" Beg ,
pardon-1 forgot my umbrella .
Brialiton Gazette.
THE LATE ACCIDENTS ON THE BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.-On Mondsy an inquest was held on the bodies
in progress, notgcaught
hay-
of three meri killed on the Brighton Railway, under the
circumstances described in our paper of that day. The
occurrence seems to have originated in the chimney of an
engine used in the constructionorg
ftl: the v
in " a heading." or tunnel,csss,orthkrsolutagsi:n
trig teen sufficiently lowered in time. This was the fault
of the men in charge of it, namely, two of the deceased.
It brought down the soil upon the engine and tender, and
caused them to be overturned. Verdict—Accidental death,
with a deodand of Is. on the chimney of the engittc
MORTALITY OF CONVICTS.--0, •
Tuesday
an inquest was held at the George
Ura,Yon, Wool-
wich, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, on the bralies of two con-
victs, named Benjamin Lewis and Waiter Youngman. The
evidence of Mr. Bassy, surgeoa r;f* the dockyard, went to
prove that the death of the deceze.,ed
convicts
occurred
from natural causes, and the jury returned a verdict to
that effect. One of the jury inquired of Mr. Bossy if it
was true that the convicts in the dockyard were compelled
to wash every Saturday night in cold water? Dr. Bossy
answered that the convicts wa,l -1 every Siturcias, out
the water was Rlll4ll,

The following catalogue of winters of extraoldinary
severity, together with their peculiar physical and
historical results, will perhaps at present be interestug%
It will he remembered the thermometer was not invent-
ed till 1390, by the celebrated Sanctorio : nor reduced
to a correct standard before the year 1724, by Fah-
renheit. We have therefore no precise observations of
temper,:ture further back than a century prior to that
period. We enu3t glean our information from the loose
and scanty notices scattered through old chronicles
respecting the state of the harvests, the vintage, and
the endurance of frost and snow during the winter. A
bulky work, published by Pilgrim, in the German lan-
guage, at Vienna, in 1788, dispLys wonderful indus-
try in this research, and from a translation of it the fol-
lowing passages art, abridged. The comparative mild-
ness of recent years will he particularly observable.
In A.D. 401 the Black Sea was entirely frozen over.
• In 452 the Danube was froz7n, so that Thvimede:
marched over the ice to avenge his brother's death in
S ,vab a .

In .545 the cold was so intense in winter that tl e
birds allowed thea:selves to be caught by the hand.
In 703, not only the Black 6,:a, bu the Straits of
tin Dardanelles, WSS frozen over. The snow in some
places rose 50 feet, high, and the ice was so heaped in
cities as in some pl4ces to push down the walls.
In 822 the great rivers of Europe, such as the Da-
nube, the Elbe, and the Seine, were frozen so hard at to
bear heavy waggons for a month.

In 860 the Adriatic was frozen.
In 874 the snow continued to fall from the beginning
of &Nem},ler to the end of March, and incumbered
the ground so mueh that the forests were inaccessible
fLr fuel.

In 591, rind again in 893, the vines were killed by the
frost, and the cattle perished in their stalls.
In 1037 the cold was so intense that most of the
travellers of Germany were frozen to death on the
road-.

In 1133, it was extremely cold in Italy. The Po
was frozen frnw Cremona to the sea ; the heaps of
snow rendered the roads impassable : the wine-easke
were burst, and even the trees were split by the action
of the frost with immunse noise.

In 1179, the snow was eight feet deep in Austria,
and lay till Easter ; the crops and .vintage failed, and a
great murrain consumed the cattle.

In 12:34, the Po urns frozen, and loaded waggons
crossed the Adriatic to Venice ; a fine forest was killed
by the frost at Ravenna.

In
/236, the Danube was frozen to the bottom, and
remained long in that state.
In 1:269, the frost was most intense in Scotland, and
the ground hound up ; the Cattegat was frozen between
Nor,..ay and Jutland.
la 1221, such quantities of snow fell in Alstria as to
bary the very houses.
In 1292, the Rhine was frozen over at Breysach,
and bore loaded waggons ; one sheet of ice extended
between Norway and Jutland, so that the travellers
passed with ease ; and, in Germany, 600 peasants were
employed to clear away the snow for the advance of
the Austrian army.
In 1;303, the rivers of Germany were frozen, end much
distress was occasioned by the scarcity of provisions
and forage.

In 1316, the crops wholly hii'ed in Germany ; wheat,
some years befme, sold in England at Gs. a gum.-
ter, now rose to 21.

In 1323, the winter was so severe that both horse
and foot passengers travelled over the ice from Den.
ni3rk to Lubeck and Dantzic.

In 1339, the crops failed in Scotland, and such a fa-
mine ensued, that the poorer sort of the people were re-
duced to feed on grass, and many of them perished
miserably in the fields ; yet, in England, wheat was, at
this time, sold so low as 3s. 6d. a quarter.
In 1344, it was clear frost from November to March,
and all the rivers in Italy were frozen over.
In the year 1408 was one of the coldest winters over
remembered. Not only the Danube was frozen over,
but the sea between Gothltuid and °eland, and be-
tween N,,rway and Denmark, so that wolves driven
from their forests came over the ice to Jutland. In
France the vineyards and orchards were destroyed.

•
The tuxessive winters of 1432, 1433, and 1434 were
uncGrnmonly severe. It snowed 40 days without inter-
mission. All the rivers in Germany were frozen, and
the %cry birds unit snelter in the towns.
In 1460 the B tltic was frozen, and both horse and
foot passengers crossed over the ice from Denmark to
Sweden. Th. Danube likewise continued frozen two
months, and the vineyards in Germany were destroyed.
In 1468 the winter was so severe in Flanders that
the wine distributed to the soldiers was cut in pieces
with hatchets.

In 1344 the same thing happened again, the wine be-
ing frozen into solid lumps.
In 15G4, and again in 1665, the winter was extremely
severe and protracted. The Scheldt froze so hard as to
support loaded waggons for three months.
In 1571 the winter was very severe. All the rivers
in France were covered with hard and solid ice, and
fruit-trees, even in Languedoc, were killed by the frost.
In 1594 the weather Sias so severe that the Rhine
and the Scheldt were frozen, and even the sea at Venice,

In 1621 and 1622 all the rivers of Europe were .
frozen, and even the Zuyder Zee. A sheet of ice
covered the Hellespont, and the Venetian fleet was
choked up in the Lagoons of the Adriatic.
The winters of 1658, 1659, and 1660, were intensely
cold. The rivers in Italy bore heavy carriages, and so
much snow had not fallen at Rome for sev.:ral centu-
ries. It was in 16.58 that Charles the Tenth of Swe-
den crossed the Little Belt offer the ice, from Holstein
to Denmark, with his whole , rmy, foot and horse, fol-
lowed by the train of bagga;e and artillery. During
these years the price of grain was nearly doubled in
England, a circumstance which contributed, among
other causes, to the Restoration.

In 1684 the winter was excessively cold. Many
forest trees, and even the oaks in England, wero split
by the frost. Most of the honks were killed. Coaches
drove alona, the Thames, which was c )vered with ice
cluen inches thick. Almost all the birds perished.
In 1691 the cold was so excessive that. the famished
wolves entered Vienna and attacked the cattle and
even men.

The winter of 1695 was extremely severe and pro-
tracted. The frost in Germany began in October, and
continued till April, and many people were froze❑ to
death.

In 1709 occurred that famous winter called by dis-
tinction the cold winter. All the rivers and lakes were
frozen, and even the seas, to the distance of several
miles from the shore. The frost is said to have pene-
trated three yards into the ground. Birds and wild
beasts were strewed dead upon the field, and men
perished by thousands in their houses. Thu more
tender shrubs and vegetables in England were hilled,
and wheat rose in its price front two to four pounds u
quarter. In the south of France the olive plantations
were almost entirely destroyed, nor have they yet reco-
vered Ihat fatal disaster. The Alriatie Sea was cp.tiio
frozen over, as was the coast of the Mediterranean about
Genoa ; and the citron and orange groves suffered ex-
tremely in the finest parts of Italy.
In 171 G the winter was v.'ry cold ; on the T.iates
booths were erected and fairs he'd.

In 1726 the weather was exceedingly severe.
Io 1729 much injury was done by the frost, which
lasted front October till May. In Scotland toolti-
tu,les of cattle and sheep were hi!led by the snow, and
ninny of the forest trees in other parts of Europe were •
killed.

The successive winters of 1731 and 1732 were
Gkc-
wise extremely cold.

II
I. he cold of 1740 was scarcely inferior to that of
1709. The snow lay eight or ten feet deep in Splin
and Portugal. The nyder Zee was frozen over, and
many thousand persons walked or skated on it. At
Leyden the thermometer fell ten degrees below thi
zero of Fahrenheit's scale. All the lakes in Etiglani
froze, and a whole ox was roasted on the Thames.
Many trees were killed by the frost, and postillions
were benumbed in their saddles. In both the years
1709 and 1740, the General Assembly of the Church' in Portugal, tl:e
houses, through
of Scotland ordained a nation.d fast to he held, on ac-
count of the dearth which then prevailed.
In 1744 the winter was again very cold. The Mayne
pweaospcirceorteitll dsheivaercnilywecerkees,paonudtaot
fEvt
their,l
heaps of snow.
The winters of the five successive years of , 174-':) ''
1746, 1747, 1748, and 1749, were all of the
sis very culd.
In 1754 and in 1753, the winter was a< • rain execed_
ingly cold. At Paris Fahrenheit's t 1 tertno ne ter sunk
to the beginning of the,scale,
''
-
and in Lngland the
strongest ale exposed to the air in a glass was covered
in less than a quarter of •
an hour •
an inch thick. A ith ice, an eighth of

The winters of 1766,1767, and 1768, were very cold
all over Europe. In Frame the thermometer fell .six
degr,!es below• the zero of Fahrcnhelt's
In 1771 the snow lay very deep, and the Elbe was
frozen to the bottom.

I
\ n nelt7ro7z6e in the cellarsmuchlstowf both in
fell, and d the cold was intense.
France and Holland,
Man people were frost-bitten, and vast multitudes.
both of the feathered and fiuny tribe, perished. Yet ti e
quantity of snow which lay on the ground had checked
the penetration of the frost. Van Svinden found in
Holland that the earth was congealed to the depth of
21 inches on a spot of a garden which had been kept
cleared, but only nine inches at another place near it
which was covered with fur inches of snow. •
The winters of 1784, 1765, and 1789 were exceed-. •
ingly cold, and of 1793, when tho republican armies of
France overran Holland.
The, winters of 1799, 1800, 1809, and 1812 were re-
markably cold.
In 1814 a fair was held on the river Thames, which
was frozen over, and punting presses were set at work
on the ice,

In 18'24. the son of the lebratod Radical, Henry '
Hunt, drove for a Wager 114 uk eriablackin-van) drawn
by six horses, across the ice oil, a Seroone.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, IE4I.

The Morning Post has become an advocate of
free trade, apparently without knowing it. It con-
tained yesterday an article on money, which might
have been written, as far as its principles are con-
cerned, by Mr. COBDEN. It said,—" The prin-
ciple of regular supply and steady prices is free
ompetition in production, in distribution, and in
exchange." The italics are its own. What is
this but the principle of free trade? Free compe-
tition in production is the promoter of regular
supply and steady prices. Thank you, Post.
For this we have long contended as to the Corn-
laws, and you have contended against what you
new admit to be the fact. Free competition is the
principle of regular supply and steady prices. A
sentiment which, being found in a Tory journal, is
worthy of being printed in letters of gold.
The article goes on to contend, au we free-traders
have heretofore contended, against the theory that
a currency must be made to fluctuate, exactly as it
would were it a metallic currency. We have shown
the absurdity of such a theory, by stating the
simple fact, that the use of paper is to supersede
metal, which sets free the quantity of labour and
capial required to procure metal. It increases
huiiness, and diminishes the value of metallic
money, by making less serve, and so puts an end
to the metallic standard. The Post, agreeing with
US, states—" To gay that the currency ought, if
possible, to be made to fluctuate as it would do
were it exclusively metallic, is to say, in fact, that
prices ought to be made to fluctuate, far beyond
the bounds of what is natural and right, by law."
It ascribes then, too, as we have repeatedly done,
the fluctuations in prices, beyond what is natural
and right, to the law. It also traces these fluctua-
tions to the " plain reason, that in every country
the price of one at least of the two metals must be
fixed by law." The context of the article shows
that the word must is irony, for the Post, quoting
some unknown pamphlet, says---

The consequence (of fixing the price of gold)
obvious. If, at the time of such a demand, the is
veryr•ie of
gold is higher in the foreign markets than oUiti\lint
price (which, gold being our standard, and i
not the
standard of other nations, cannot very, however their
price may vary) the whole supply must to front
England—no matter how short may be her supply—
and down must go
_ our currency, and down must go
our prices ; and down must go our credit and our com-
merce, our manufacturers and our merchants.
We have more than once denounced the lie
decreed by law, that gold shall always be worth so
much per ounce, and here is what the new convert
to free trade facetiously says on the subject :
Theme wise men of the west make monetary laws
by which they bind themselves to buy our gold, or
be
sell us theirs, to any amount,it ever so scarce with
them—be it dear or be it cheap in other markets—at a
flied undeviating price ; and when we happen to find
• Illitkle which enables us to ease them at their utmost i

need of a few millions, and to fob, by way of profit, four
or five per cent., in their compunctious visiting% they
fall to work, like monks or maniacs, to flagellate and
slash themselves!

So the Tory Post speaks of the Tory law, or
Tory lie, that gold shall always be worth 31. 17s. 4d.
per ounce I After such observations we do not
despa;r of seeing the Post become an advocate for
the repeal of the Corn-law, in order to ensure
steadiness of price, and fullness of supply, by free

competition.
Before we leave our Contemporary, who
has so
ignorantly blundered into right, he will allow us to in-
form him that there exists a certain work on popu-
lation, written by one Mr. MA LT lIUS, Which is of
high authority amongst the Tories, of which the
main principle is, that population has a tendency to
outrun subsistence, and that, therefore, it is the
height of folly for any Government to undertake the
task of providing comfortable employment, or em-
ployment of any kind, for all the people. If our
Contemporary had been acquainted with this cir-
cumstance, he would have spared the public the
following oracular words :—" The comfortable em-
ployment of our large population ought to be the
first consideration with every wise and benevolent
statesman."
What do statesmen know about employment ?
In the progress of society new arts are continually
springing up, such as lithography, gas-lighting,
steam-engine making, &c. &c., which provide much
profitable employment for the people, of which the
statesman is ignorant. He only hears of the exis-
tence of these employments after they have grown
to considerable extent, and his object in general is
to protect the old employments, such as agri-
culture, prevent the new from succeeding. All
statesmen are, to a great extent, Conservatives, and
inimical to the new branches which society is al-
ways sending forth. We, therefore, deny alto-
gether that it is the object of statesmen to consider
the employment of our population. Their duty
is much more limited. Let them content them-
selves with protecting each and, ail the people in
their respective rights, without interfering to enrich
one class at the expense of another, and the
people, if benevolent statesmen will condescend to
let them alone, will find employment for themselves.

It is scarcely our business to defend the Minis..
tens from the charge made against them by the
Standard, that they have pardoned FROST. If they
have done so, their conduct would not require de-
fence—it might be deserving praise. They would
have shown some deference to the prayers of seve-
ral hundred thousand persons, who have taken a
deep interest in behalf of Mr. FROST. If he had
been tried and found guilty of some abominable
crime, against which " all nature cries aloud," he
would have met with no sympathy ; but he was
tried for a political offence, which becomes by suc-
cess no offence at all ; and though he was terribly
mistaken—most unsuccessful—yet because an im-
mense number of the people have come to look on
the Government more as their enemy than their
friend, his attempt has found much sympathy in
every part of the empire. If the Ministers, like
the Tories, mean to despise and endeavour to crush
the great multitude of his friends, they ought, like
the Tories, to take every opportunity to sabre and
hang them ; but if they think the millions worth a
little soothing attention, they would not have done
wrong, now that Mr. FROST is removed to the an-
tipodes, and can do no more mischief, had they
lightened his sufferings. We do not think it our
business, therefore, to defend thew from the accu-
sation of the Standard : we should rather be in-
clined to praise them, were it true.
We are sickened by the tawdry, brawling cant of
these Tories. They rave against the conduct of
FROST, which we now condemn, as we always con-
demned it, and they glory in the Manchester mas-
sacre, which has ever since endangered the peace of
the empire. They vehemently condemn the violent
language of the Chartist leaders, and they applaud
the foolish fallacies which Sir ROBERT PEEL pro-
pounds,—not being convinced by them himself,
and therefore the more dishonest,—to justify his party
in preserving the Corn-laws, which annually starve
more people than FROST could ever assemble. The
total disregard of the Tory Journals for human life
and for human happiness, when either stands in the
way of their pet schemes of government, makes us
look with abhorrence on their odious and hypocri-
tical attempts to excite animosity against the Minis-
ters by charging them with having pardoned FROST.
We know nothing of the particulars of his case,
further than we have already stated. Every person,
however, knows that transported felons on arriving
at New South Wales are assigned by the Governor
to individuals, or employed in gangs for the public
service. Some are assigned to agriculturists, some
to merchants. Some labour in the fields, others at
the desk. It is highly probable from the nature of
his education and acquirements, that Mr. FROST
may have received the latter destination, and also
probable that some such assignment is the founda-
tion of the charge made by the Standard, and of
the anathemas heaped on the Ministers by several
Tory journals, because they are supposed, without
any reason whatever, to have ordered the liberation
of Mr. FROST. The conduct of the Tories should,
however, teach the Chartists that the support they
have given to the Tories has not in the least les-
sened the hostility of their ancient oppressors.
For months many of the Chartists have been making
common cause with the Tories to turn out the
Whigs. They now know how the Tories hate
them. Should they succeed, their reward will pro-
bably be that FROST will he set to work with a
chain gang, and that those who most contribute to
the success of the Tories will be as speedily as
possible, on some pretext or other, sent after FROST.

The Corn-law averages, published in another part
of our paper, state the average price of wheat for the
week at 61s. Bd. per quarter, and at the same time the
duty is 275. Bd., which represents at this moment the
tax levied on the food of the poor for behoof of the
landowners. Without entering into the immediate
effects on the farmers of abolishing the Corn-law,
after they have paid their Michalmas rents, on the
pledge given by the landlords, but not guaranteed
by the people, that they should be allowed to levy
this tax of 275. Bd. in the price of their corn, we wish
to ask the reader, and ask the public, what would
be the effect on the poor of now abolishing the
Corn-law ? The winter wheat is all sown, and
the crop no longer much depends on future labour.
Whatever may be the price of wheat, that will now
have little or no influence on the next year's crop.
To abolish the Corn-law would not cut off a grain
of the home supply. To abolish the Corn-law
would, however, at once let in all the corn that is
in bond, and would cause large importations from
America. It would at once lower the price at
least 205., if not 305., and that fall in the price,
efili:odoitrigtoecmopmlom)arinndenntioforer
th
boutnrgadteh,
giveiiplgenpales,tiatnnudluesnat
food, would at once ensure the comfort of thou-
sands, and the lives of many hundreds. We look
only at this fact, and we affirm that the Corn-law
is at this moment starving many persona to death.
There may be a question between the profits of the
farmer, the rent of the landlords, and the death by
starvation of the people ; and great shame to those
who have by the law raised the question, or put
these interests in opposition ; but there cannot be a
doubt that the present duty of 275. Bd. is at this
moment keeping food from the people, and starving
many persons to death.

Electors of Walsall, we now dwell on this fact,