The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAPPS.

"In the abstract, it can be of no censequenco to the
people, it is supposed, whether they receive commercial
reform, the needed reform of the present time, from the
hands of Sir R. Peel or Lord J. Russell. ' What we
want,' say a great number of persons, is a reduction of
the corn-tax and the sugar duties, with an extension of
trade; and if Sir R. Peel will give us that, as he can carry
measures through the Lords which Lord J. Russell could
not, we shall be as well pleased to soe Sir R. Peel in
office as Lord J. Russell. That is a prevailing sort of
worldly wisdom to which Sir R. Peel owes much of his
success."—Sun.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
MANCHESTER, Aug. 4.
Sir,—Though taken from the Radical Sun, the above
ex tract is quite true ; hundreds here voted for Sir George
Murray on this express ground. In Leeds and other
towns the same ; the people were sick of the Whigs, and
supported the Conservatives because they expected some
good measures from them, which the Whigs had not the
power to carry. But should Sir R. Peel disappoint their
expectations, I need not tell you that these would all
oppose him in future, and another election would
tell a different tale. 'No more Leeds Con3errative
Members then, you may depend. You, .Sir, have
more power than all the press besides, and I do trust
you will warn the Conservatives from splitting on that
rock of non-attention to the public will. You, Sir, must
know that any measure on the Corn-laws shortof placing
corn in such a position as to cause it to be a regular
trading article from abroad, will not be satisfactory, and
you also know that a sliding scale, of whatever amount,
will prevent merchants from trading in it regularly as in
other things.
Now, for Heaven's sake, do say something on this
point, and show the farmers, as you very well can
do, that they can prosper in the long run only as
the manufacturers prosper, and point out the supe-
riority of a - fixed duty to a sliding scale—in a
thousand ways I need not tell you. But don't forget
that with a sliding scale, corn, if wanted, must al-
ways be paid for in gold: not so with a fixed duty,
when it would be imported by merchants, like all
other produce, and only when wanted, for the law
of nature would keep it out when it would not pay.
You must see, that if the Conservatives are to stand
or fall by adhering to the sliding scale, their fall is
certain, and that before long. Let them give us
good measures—duties to protect sufficiently, but not
to prohibit. You have written in correspondence with
these views before, many times ; now is the time for you
to do so again, and if you could succeed in prevailing on
the Conservatives to meet such moderate views, they are
safe in power for years to come ; but not else, as'you
would say if you lived in Lancashire, and knew any
thing of the present state of manufacturers. Unless im-
provement come SOON, convulsion is inevitable.
CONSERVATOR.

•
When Sir Robert Peel was last in power, there
was one Member of his Administration about whose
"sayings and doings" he was said to be peculiarly
anxious—so much so, indeed, that one of his colleagues
assured a friend of ours, that " Sir Robert never awoke
played some prank which had
of a morning without expecting the fi o
rst piece f news
to be that bad
blown up the whole concern." We wonder who this
gentleman, so capable of mischief, could possibly be.
Is be to be in the new Tory Ministry ?—Liverpool
Chronicle.
Machinery, worked by a dog, is getting much
used for churning in Carnarvonshire and Anglesea.
There are two. near Dolgellau, ono at Ystymcolwyn,
naar Myfod, and one at Dolengwyn, near Towyn.—Sa-
/Tian Journal.