The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

CORN -LA WS.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM J. RYAN, ESQ.,
M.D., TO THE [ION. C. P. VILLIERS, M.P.
" take the liberty of addressing you on a
subject of vital importance—the necessity of cheap
bread for our artizans and their families ; and although
I may offer no new suggestions, still, as a medical man,
I feel that the results of my experience may be with
propriety added to your valuable stock of information
on the subject.
" My practice is much among the poorer classes in
this populous town and neighbourhood, for, in addition
to my private engagements as a professional man, I am
the medical officer to the Stockport Board of Health,'
consisting of upwards of 3,000 members.. I find, Sir,
" 1. That a large amount of the labouring population
in this neighbourhood is insufficiently fed and clothed;
that the scarcity of clothing arises from the high prices
of provisions, which thus absorbs, for the support of life,
nearly all the hard-earned wages of each family, and
that the cause of the insufficient diet is—the high price
of flour.
"2. I find that the scarcity of good substantial food
is productive of many very fatal diseases, and much
misery among our people, and especially among
children, whose sustenance ought to be prigeirr.;,iy-fari.
naccous.
"3. That among many, very many, families, portions
only of whom can at present find employment, the small
amount of wages accruing weekly is consumed in the
purchase of oatmeal and potatoes ; that whole families
subsist week after week on meal gruel, and that the
payment of rent, and the purchase of fuel and clothing,
are out of the question, and that the result too frequently
is, the confiscation of their household goods, and removal
to the workhouse.
"4. That to avoid the disgrace of seeking parochial
relief, the most extreme misery and starvation are con-
stantly endured by families in this town, and although
the standard of wages is continually falling, the necessa-
ries of life are advancing in price, and therefore the
ratio of misery is perpetually increasing.
" 5. That from authentic sources it is evident, that
the mortality of our fellow-subjects throughout the
United Kingdom, is influenced by the price of Corn—
' that in 1801, when wheat was 118 s. 3d. per quarter,
the number of deaths was 279,825 ; and in 1804, when
wheat was only GOs. Id , the deaths amounted to
223,970, leasing a surplus of 55,855 to be attributed,
I fear, to the high price of Corn in the year 1801,
Again in 1807, when wheat was 735. 3d. per quarter
the deaths only numbered 240,540, while in 1810, when
wheat had risen to 106 s. 2d., the amount was 074,320,
leaving a surplus of 50,350, as the increased rate of
mortality above 1804.
"Such, Sir, arc the impressions I have received in
going from house to house, among our labouring poor.
Day after day am compelled to witness the most
heart-rending scenes of misery, and privation, such, in
fact, as nona but medical men are allowed to behold,—
for the decent pride of an Englishman ever prompts
him to conceal the full extent of his poverty from the
public view.
" I have given you, Sir, no laboured de.tails,—no
speculative theories, no proposed methods of ameliora-
tion. I leave, Sir, the remedy with confidence in the
hands of men like yourself; who, prompted I trust, by
the principles of sound and unflinching philanthropy,
will never rest until laws so unjust—so impious—and
unnatural, as the Corn-laws are—be fOr ever erased
from the Statute-book.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN RYAN, M D.,
Member, Royal College of Surge-4ns,
Stockport, May 13, 1840."

SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON TUS STOCKTON
ANn DARLINGTON RA IrAvAY.—Last T Ilee.a a train of coal-
waggons arrived at the weighing mAetin ye, near Darlington,
and the engine-man was oiling t'ne wheels of the waggons,
which were going at a slow rate for that purpose. While thus
engaged, his foot caught wood sleeper, and he fell down be-
tween the engine and the tender, the latter passing in a slanting
direction over his brmst, and cutting off one of his ears. He
now lies in a very askagerous state.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Strt—ln the Globe of Tuesday last a lengthened ar-
ticle appeared, attempting to negative my letter to the
Press on Egyptian affairs.
The Globe says there is a great difference between
the emancipation of Greece and the regeneration of
Egypt. It says -that everybody felt for the Greeks
because they were fighting for their freedom, but
Egypt., it argues, is very wretched, governed by a
tyrant and a traitor. Allowing this assertion to be
true (which it is not) would the Globe wish to infer
that Egypt should still continue wretched because she
once belonged to Turkey ? So did Greece, and it will
trouble . common-sense kind of people to find out any
difference between the emancipation of the one and
the regeneration of the other.; because if the principle
of freedom is admitted with respect to Greece, that
principle cannot be denied to Egypt.
The Globe's article , would almost -appear . to have -
been written at a desk at the Foreign. Department, it
smacks. to inueb of office ; the words tyrant,, rebel,
traitor, are' merely sounds known occasionally
ema-
nate from there towards Mehemet Ali. The fact is,
Egypt, the rebellious country, is greater than Turkey,
the once governing country. Such is the fact. Who
can deny it, and say on conscience he denies it except by
words ?
I would have you inform lour Contemporary, the
Globe, that two countries arc now in the market, and
these two countries are now at the refusal of England.*
Suck being the actual state of things, it behoves me to
speak out boldly. These countries arc Turkey. and
Egypt. Turkey is nearly knoCked down to Russia, -
Egypt is bid high for by France, and England appears
at the auction as a looker-on and afraid to bid. This is
the RC: Ral state of the case, and it is not the sneers of
the Globe that can keep me from the expression of these
most weighty truths for the benefit of England.
The " eel tab] Mr. Wagliorn: of whom the Globe
speaks as, " having his brain fired with the ambitious
project of disposing of empires," and that all his re-
marks arc "absurdities" and " trash," would tell you
that he does not in himself bow to such allusions. No,
Sir, on the contrary, in speaking for myself I fear no
personal sarcasm from the Globe Newspaper, because I
have the gratification to feel and know that my aim is
to see our country keep on maintaining that pre-eminent
position in the eycs of all the world which has made
her great.

Tie British Ministry and the Press arc ignorant (or
if not ignorant, pretend to be so,) of the immense power
and resources of Mehemet Ali in Egypt, Arabia, Syria,
Asia Minor, Turkey, Persia, Circassia—l might go
further, but the foregoing is enough for my purpose—
and from my heart, although but one man, do protest
against the present policy of the British Ministry
towards that great and extraordinary man. Such
policy is almost bordering on insanity, the Mania of',
which is obtained from and kept up by our AmliassaLar
at Constantinople. That Nobleman's late carter in
diplomacy has brought about nearly all the mishaps
which have happened to Turkey of late years. TOlirn
is to be attributed the faster going down of that power
since he filled the post of Ambassador to England at
Constant;nople ; he counselled wars upon Egypt, and
thereby diminished the Sultan's resources, and placed
him in the position of being twice defeated by his own,
vassal.

H;s policy (forgive me for calling it poP.cv) 4rought
about the note from the five Powers, th-,i the. Sultan was
not to treat with 111Aemet Ali, 'out that the Powers
would do the needful. How has that pledge been ful-
filled ? France recalled her Ambassador, Roussin, far
conceding to it ; Russia commended hers ; the names of
the other two Powers were merely words to that note ;
and England has now to thank Lord Poesonby for the
non•settietnent of the differences between Egypt and the
Porte ; and this is the dilemma in which your Contem-
porarary the Globe is hereby informed the Foreign-
office now finds itself.

Within the last two years the following Noblemen
and Members of Parliament have visited and seen
Egypt, &c., under Meh.:met Ali, and all testify to bls
improved system of government there, when compared
to the corrupting and decaying one of Turkey :—Lords
Prudhoe, Exmouth, Southampton, Rokeby, Polling-
ton, Walpole, and Claude Hamilton; Col. Dawson
Darner, Messrs. Fector, Necld, and many others: all
their opinions arc put on one side, as being erroneous ;
while those of Lord Pcnscnby prevail in their stead ;
this last, too, having no means of information but what,
is communicated to him by those whose interest it is to
deceive him with respect to Egypt. So bad is the go-
verning system of Turkey at this moment, in con-
tempt of the Hatti Sliceriff, that the last iota-
ligence from Constantinople tells us that no
less than four Pachas of the important districts of
Widdin, Aidin, Broussa, sled Adrianople had been
summoned to the capital, to render an account of their
extortions and malvelfations--r-yet this is the corrupt
system of administration which Laill Ponsonby's Policy
wishes to substitute in Syria and Egypt, for the good
order and protection to person and property introduced
by Mehemet All, who, instead of being a tyrant, as
the GLbe says, has done m.:'re for Egypt in his time,
than any other living man has done in any other part of
the world. He found Egypt the seat of war between
France and England ; he found it desperately wretched,
without medicine, education, sanatory laws, &c. ; he
found m..n opposed to man in it, even its inhabitants,
caused by the Marnelukes ; there was no safety to life
or propel ty in any part of it. How is all this now ?
The above Noblemen and Gentlemen will best tell you,
and that Egypt is rising and improving in all things,
and will go on rapidly improving, it the chilling and
blasting policy of Lord Ponsonby towards it be not car-
ried into effect. The removal of this Nobleman as our
Ambassador at Constantinople is requisite, because his
hostile feelings towards Mehemet Ali, added to his fit-.
mous note of the Fire Powers, has placed the whole of
Turkey in jeopardy, Empt in a renewed state of war-
fare at all points, besides risking the loss of that mast
valuable communication through Egypt to our Eastern
empire, now more precious than ever to us, become so
by our war with China.

And let me warn the Foreign-office, through your
medium, not to procrastinate the pacification of the
East by any mad attempts to crush Mehemet Ali, which
no party in this country will ever vote money for. A
delay of a few more weeks may bring about an explosion
at Constantinople and its remaining provinces, which the
meddling and irritating policy of Lord Ponsonby has
been fomenting at all points. When that explosion
takes place it will swallow up all the abettors in Turkey
of European interference, and may deliver that country
into the hands of Russia beyond redemption.
The policy of Lord Ponsonby at Constantinopl has
been approved of by no one except the enemies o 1 Great
Britain, and so long as he is allowed to e:icereise his
baneful influence there, and at the Foreign-office here, it
is in vain to hope for anything but disasters and confu-
sion. Public opinion cut of doors is, that Lord Pal-
merston feels his hands so tied bythe tamily influence,:&e.
of that Nobleman that he calm
of this fatal policy by 'ot shake off the source
Ycir:aving him from his present
post. Nothing but that happy removal can keep off
the storm that is
If it be the t`.ireatening to burst on Turkey.
Let that Lord Palmerston does not pos-
sess the -power to rid himself of Lord Ponsonby's ruinous
policy, it is high time Parliament interfered to pre-
! vent the certain evils which can only be the result
of still keeping that Nobleman Ambassador for England
at Constantinople.
I am not the man to write upon any subject I do not
thoroughly understand. Circumstances placed me in a
position to arrive at a true knowledge of the whole, and
the aforesaid is exactly the present state of things=
indeed, an acknowledged matte of things by nearly all
except Lord Ponsonby.
Your Contemporary the Globe is known to be the
" omnibus" of Downing-strect, and is said to have at-
tacked mo by permission of the Foreign Department.
Some say that the article itself came from there—how-
ever, 'a dozen of such will not alter the facts of the
case, or induce
silence on my part, though I Lie taunted

again.

While on this subject, having stated the disease, I
beg to hand the cure, viz.:--Let the Foreign Office,
through a new Ambassador, induce the withdrawing
the Note of
.the Five Powers, write another, begging
Mehemet All and the Sultan will settle their differences
at once ; and in one month Egypt and Turkey will be
reunited. Mehemet Ali, once more the vassal of the
Porte, not only paying tribute to Turkey, but helping
and aiding the Sultan in the future preservation of
Turkey from Russia. This is the policy ! Who says
it is not a proper one for Great Britain to pursue under
the existing state of'things with reference to the Eastern.
Question ? And now we will hear what the Globe
will next say in answer hereto, aismh ,y object
the public in possession ofuca
col sn
trt veo t;
zuyt
facts
will bring to light.
I have the plensure to be, Sir,
Your's very faithfully,
THOS. WAGUORN

London, May 25, 1840.

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