The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

CORN MONOPOLY, &c.

We copy the following paragraph, so very applicable
to the present state of parties in this country, from Mr.
Buckingham's new work on America :--
CORN LAWS, SLC.—" It is impossible to read these
accounts of the immense resources for the production of
food, which the United States of- America contain, and
which a journey 'across' the' State of New York alone is
sufficient to verify, without lamenting the first imposition of
any prohibitory laws against the freest intercourse between
this country and Great Britain, in the interchange of their
respective productions. The first effect Of our refusing to
receive American grain free of all duty, has been to in-
duce the Americans to prohibit our manufactures by a high
tariff, and to set up manufactories for themselves ; and the
next effect has been to keep up the price of food at so
high a rate in England, as to put it out of the power
of millions of our population to obtain sufficient for
their full and proper nutriment. We thus do each other
mutual injury, without the slightest countervailing good.
If we would
.permit a free trade in grain, the Americans
would take from us more than double the amount of
manufactures that they now consume, paying 'us in
wheat and flour, and would never think of becoming
our rivals as manufacturers. But because we will not
take their products in payment, therefore they not only
will not buy of us, but they set up as our rivals or od-
ponents ; and, from their abundant food, they will in a
short time produce goods sufficiently cheap to meet us
in foreign markets, while every year will increase our
difficulties and lessen theirs, till they pass us in the race,
and leave us unable to overtake them.

" The most melancholy feature of this question, how-
ever, is this—that by our free admission of cotton and
other southern .products of America, we really uphold
the system of slavery, under which these articles are
produced; while by refusing the same free admission to
the grain of the north, we force them to become manu-
facturers, and thus in a double sense take the bread out
of the mouths of our own citizens.
" It is, indeed, high time that this evil were corrected.
There is, perhaps, yet time to amend it now, but if left
for a few years longer, it will be too late ; and those in-
fluential and powerful classes in England, who now vainly
imagine that they are protecting their own incomes from
land, by this fatal policy, will be among the first to la-
ment that they did not take warning, before the labour-
ing classes of the country were reduced to a state of
want, of which the wealthiest among the landholders
will then feel the burden."

PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN THE POST-
OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS AT LEEDS.—The following alte-
ration in the arrival and departure of the mails at the Leeds
Post-office will commence bn the Ist of June mixt :
The two moil coaches now running between Manchester,
Leeds, and York, will be discontinued, and the railway
used instead. The first despatch to Manchester, Liver-
pool, Ireland, Scotland, &c., will be at 10 a.m. • and the
second, with the London letters, at 6 45 p.m. °The first
arrival-from Manchester, will be with the London mail in
the morning, at 6.34 a.m. ; the second at 230 p.m.—
Leeds Mercury..
A meeting was held at Chichester, on Saturday
last, on. which- occasion-Lard Wester& Ktteadocisand took
the chair, when he emphatically expresse4 his. decided
Ind untsalifted opposition to the Milusteriehrojes.