The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-23 00:00:00

seXtion the that kb`,6si.itive tffittlitir-s had
liven derived ft"orn the Baltic or I\•orn t'raiice
Itear 1.) tie would triN the interests of
_lreland tit the Legislation Of a flritisli Parliantent.
A Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rose) had said.,
that in Ids opinion the import price should be
froM 725-. to 765. He ()Ir. P.) would not dis-
pute about a tew shillings, hat would only obsCi ye,
that most of the persons who were hest competent
to judge had stated eighty shillins, acid he
could accept this as a fair price. He could not
approve of the descending scale of his Ho-
nottrahle Friend (Mr. Baring). The great object
was the protection of the farmer, who never could
be. encouraged to improvement, if in the lapse of
a few years, he might expect to he met and under-
sold in the home market by a fereign competitor.
It was said, however, that this measure would ren-
der food dear. fle agreed that it was important
that' the m:anufacturing classes should have their
food at as reasonable a rats i§ possible; but then
this rate must be such aslo' render it consistent-
with other interests of at least cqualTimportance.
Lie acknowtOged also, that tile Resolutions, if
adopted, ivektild have the immediate effect of rais..
jug the price ti 4 (pod but
.he.otterly denied that
they would permapuntly have that elect. On the
contrary, by. prodiMing a certain and steady sup-
ply, they would make food much cheaper, on an
average of years, than if we were to trust to un-L
certain importation, 'while oar own agriculture
Was depressed. Mr. l'OnsottbY concluded, amittst
loud cheers trout all parti of the House, with de-
claring that he gave the Resolutions, his warmest
conCliffence.

WHITBIZEAD was :not surprised that the
House should- have strongly felt the argumenta-
tive speech of his Right lion. Friend who • had
just sat down. .In his (Mr. 'V.'s) opinion, how-
-1 ever, both writers and speakers on this question
had much exaggerated their conflicting cases. ! In
endeavouring to make up his mind on the point
now before them, he thought that the ihfittence
of legislation had been, greatly overv-alued. It:
• was pretty clear that the measure-would he nearly
nugatory to Cele farmer for the present time, and
would probably not have that effect in future
which was expected. He had . thought himself
rather hardly treated by an Honourable Friend
of his, and still more so -by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer on- a former night, in relation
to an article in which 'he dealt : but now he
could free himself and the body, to -which he be •
longed from that reproach. He had to announce
that the price of beer had fallen that day (cries of
bear, hear! and laughter). He was not surprised
at this information being hailed by the House;
and be could assure them, that it was lowered at.
a public meeting of the brewers with as much
good humour as the information, was now re-
ceived, though they could not help thinking that
the attack upon them by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer was rather cutting and unmerited.—
Sometimes, hotv ever, the meekest of men and the
modestest of women said the severest things. The
assassin-like attacks of anonymous writers be dis-
regarded; but to those %OR) thought the brewer's
profits too•great, he would only observe the price
of beer now was 15s. more than it was CO years
ago, and of that Government had I Is. leaving to
the brewer four-fifths of one halfpenny per pot of
profit. Take away the taxes, and the brewers
would be able to- sell as cheap as they did sixty
years age. His Honourable Friend (Mr. Bar.
iug), had said it was a combination to raise
the rents of the country ; and another Mem-
ber (Mr. Marryatt) had stated the immense rise
of rent that had taken place on a property of his,
as a- sort of challenge to,landholders : but they in
their turn • had an equal right: to ask what had •
been the profits ,of his commerce. The rise of rents
had not been an iniquity. It was a fair increase, re_
salting partly front the depreciation of money and
the rise of prices. It was a popularthing to say to the
landlords, Down with your rents ! but he would as-
sert they ought not to come down. How much of
the capital of landlords -had been expended oil
inclosures, on roads, on draining,? All the bogs
between this and his county had been drained
since the time that Gen. Oglethorpe shot snipe;; in
Berkeley7square. The farmer, in what were called
the good_old times, often slaved on his land ;
an increase of rent had in many instances stimu-
lated his exertions, and in a few years he had
found himself with much more money in his pocket
than before. He was perfectly convinced there
had been an unfounded clamour against the rise
of rents. True, some lands had been extrava-
gantly let from overdone speculation ; but taking
the country generally, land had not been extrava-
gantly let. On the other hand, he thought that
his Hon. Friend, the Member for Hertfordshire,
had too gloomily painted the embarrassments of
the Landed Interest. It was a mere panic, which
would. soon blow over. lie applauded the mode-
ration which a Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
(Mr. Rose) had this night shown. Ile was a most
seditious person last year. The very types and
capitals which he employed in, his pamphlet (ia
imitation of those of " Pigs' meat,") would have
banged him hi former revolutionary tintes,—(A
laugh.)
After a great variety of observations and re-
marks on the subject of the Corn Trade, inter-
spersed with many anecdotes and allusions, Mr.
• Whitbread concluded by observing, that whatever
had been the case as to the harveSt in Ireland or
elsewere, he had lived to see the day • when it was •
urged, that distress was occasioned by the appre-
hension of Corn not being too cheap. • • .
Mr. Rose explained. Lord Binning explained,
and stated, that lie•had never expressed any thing
that could encourage hostility to France, Mr.
Ponsonby alSo eXphined, ami considered it most
injudicious to hurry on so important a question.
fast the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the dibcussion was intiourned to this,day.

Monday,. two journey -.blacksmiths who were
drinking, at the Spanish Patriot, White Conduit-
street, Pantonville, having a dispute ahout\some
truing. affair, agreed to decide it by the fist, each
staking a -pound .note. They went to a neigh-
bouringfield and set. to, when, alter fighting se-
veral rounds, one of them, of the name of
was carried of the , a senseless state, and
expired iat a.:4loft time al:Lefty:Ards,