The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-30 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

AN APPEAL TO TRADESMEN IN
TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A person who calls himself a Landon Tradesman,
has published an Appeal to the Tradesmen in Town and
Country, on the Corn-laws, in which he assumes as
the basis of his fallacious arguments that every
quarter of wheat imported from abroad would drive a
quarter_ of English-grown wheat out of the market. He
supposes that if a million of quarters of wheat be im-
ported for the use of the manufacturers, that would de-
prive the English farmers of 'their custom to the extent
of 3,000,000 T. Our home-trade, he positively asserts,
would be at oice reduced to that amount. This is al-
together a false assumption, and only proves the
thorough ignorance, or the bad faith, of the man who
makes it.
The fact is, that the manufacturers can consume a
great deal more than the farmers can supply them
with. They do not prefer to deal with either
a Pole or a Prussian, to dealing with an
English farmer ; but after they have purchased of the
English farmer everything he has to sell at a reasonable
and just price, they would also buy of the Pole and the
Prussian. They would not deal with them instead of
dealing with the English farmer, but they would deal with
both. The consequence, therefore, of importing foreign
wheat would be that the manufacturers would have
more bread and would sell more cloth, but our farmers
would not sell a sheaf of corn less.
• The farmer really exchanges his corn for cloth, and
there would be plenty of it to give for his corn, for our
cloth-making power is nearly illimitable, though the
manufacturers were also allowed to exchange that
'Cloth which the English farmer cannot buy, for
Polish or American wheat. A decisive proof of this
assertion is to be found in the fact that we have imported
:during the last three years more than four millions of
quarters of wheat, and no farmer complains that this im-
portation has compelled him to keep his corn on hand.
The Tradesman assumes that the home trade would be
reduced by the extent of corn imported. Is that con-
sonant to experience ? The more corn, wine, oil, cloth
there is in the land the more there is to exchange, and
the greater must be the amount of traffic, as well as the
"pulence of all. The assertion that an addition to cur
--stock of food would . lessen trade seems to us one
'Of those wilful nlistatements which deserve no notice
fir answer, and we are only surprised to learn that some
men should. believe it. •
The tradesmen of London need not fear any falling
soff is their. trade by the abolition of the Corn-laws.
:.They know very well that the principal medium of ex-
change is paper, which is neither eatable nor drinkable,
and is only valuable because with it they can buy food,
• "Clothing, furniture, books, &c. Supposing there is an in-
. &ease of commodities by allowing corn to be imported,
there will' be more to exchange ; and the tradesmen of
London Will get more for their share, whether it be by
. landlords' checks, or any other paper money. They
know very well that many of their best customers
—are opulent manufacturers, and persons from the manu-
facturing districts, and they must be aware that what-
• ever adds to the opulence of those districts increases the
• trade of Laidon. It has grown to such a height, not in
Consequence of the increased rent of land, but in conci-
::quence of the great increase of useful commodities, and
of wealth caused by the extension of our manufactures
• and commerce.
We have for some time had this pamphlet in our
„ .possession, but its statements appear to us so puerile,
that they are not worthy of notice. Nor should we now
have wasted a word on them, were we not informed that
• there are some, electors in Marylebone who have adopted
the notion that to add to the wealth of the country. by
importing an abundance of commodities to trade with,
will lessee the home trade.

DUCHESS D'ABRANTES.—Anxious to
learn something of a woman who filled so distinguished
a position during the imperial dynasty, I questioned Ma-
dame de B—, and learned that the Duchess tic Abran-
tess, who for many years lived in a style of splendour
that, even in the palmy days of her husband's prosperity,
; • when, Governor of Paris, he supported almost a regal
establishinent, excited the surprise, if not envy, of his
. contemporaries, is now reduced to so limited an income
; • that nutny of the comforts, if not the necessaries, of life
are denied her. " She supports her privations cheer-
_ fully," added the Marquis ; " her conversation abounds
in anecdotes of remarkable people, and she relates them
with a vivacity and piquancy peculiar to her, which ren-
der her society very amusing and interesting. The hu-
manity, if not the policy, of the Bourbons may be ques-
t, tionedin their leaving the widow of -a brave General in
, a state of poverty that must remind her, with bitterness,
• of the altered fortunes entailed on her and many others
- by their restoration."—Lady Blessington's Idler in France.
FRENCH CONVERSATIONS.—I observe that
few English shine in conversation with the French.
There is a lightness and brilliancy, a sort of touch and
go, if I may say so, in the latter, seldom, if ever, to be ac-
e. (juired by strangers. Never dwelling long on any sub-
ject, and rarely entering profoundly into it, they sparkle
• on the surface with great dexterity, bringing wit, gaiety,
and ma, into play. Like summer lightning, French
wit flashes frequently, brightly, and innocuously, leaving-
• nothing disagreeable to remind one of its having ftp-
, pe.arecl. Conversation is, with the French, the aim and
object of society. All enter it prepared to take a part,
and he best enacts it who displays just enough know-
" ledge to show that much remains behind. Such is the
tact of the Parisians, that even the ignorant conceal the
poverty of their minds, and might, to casual observers,
• pass as being in no way deficient, owing to the address
• with which they glide in an apropos vizi, ou non, and an
appropriate shake of the head, nod of assent, or dissent.
• —Lady Blessington's Idler in Franee.
LIBERAL AND TORY ENIPLOYERS.—Sir John
Guest,. the Liberal Member for Mertbyr, and his partner,
Mr. Divett, late M.P. for Exeter, have done all in their
power to better the condition of their workmen ; they
have no connection whatever with any truck shop—
they have erected a market-house and built a church,
and a very large free school ; the church is endowed
and the minister paid by Sir John Guest, who lives in
` the midst of his iron-works. Now, what a contrast this
is to Mr. Bailey and his son, of the Nant-y-Glo iron-
works, both ex-M.P.'s ; they reside in an adjoining
county ; their men are paid at or within sight of a large
• shop ; the country people and, butchers who attend the
works with meat, butter, and vegetables are exposed to
• the inclemency of the weather on one of the coldest
mountains in Wales, as there is no market-house for
shelter, or any church at Nant-y-Glo or Bryn
Mawr, although the population exceeds 12,000 • nor
have Messrs. Bailey erected any public school to educate
the chihlren of the poor workmen, except a small one
that is too far froth the works ; but yet Nnnt-y-Glo has
been one of the most prosperous iron works in the king-
dom.' Messrs. Bailey have made an immense sum of
money by making iron, and are now buying-all the land
they can meet with in Hereford and Braconshire ; this
is the reason they support the Corn-laws.
Fanaticism is getting crazy enough 'to cure
itself, it is to be hoped, or at least to cure every body
but the immediate patients. The female fanatics have,
within a few years past, been
:smitten with the propen-
sity to public speaking, and those among the abolition-
. ists have been especially rabid in this matter. Miss
_Abby Kelly, or as the - Journal of Commerce calls
• her, Abby Kelly, Esq.,. has been distinguishing her-
_ self :in various parts of the country by holdine-
forth- in public assemblages. One Abigail Folsom has
lately become one of the most, profoundly inspired,
- and is so firmly persuaded of a "call from above,"
that •she insists upon speaking "in season and out of
~.7-especially in the latter category. -So
amazingly, powerful has the eacoethes loquendi, become
with hei4e.that she actually tired out a conventicle of
Trankenelentalists in Boston a short time since, and
that interesting body had to adjourn, as the only.ye
Hampshire, and corn-
'
of appoint-
of stopping her tongue.' •A„: few days ago she marchae'd
into, the Legislature of
_lNew.
menced a harangue upon the impropriety
ing Sekct. COmnaittees, as they were of merely human
inventien,.:al not, in her opinion, "of God." The
mi
Speaker told Abigail that she was out of order,
ng. She, however, had no idea'
and must coatiT
,speaki
command. Speak she
of obeying so. cane. a . must,
• and speak she would, until. shewas
.:commanded by
Sergeant at Arms
: God himself to desist- The tot' But was
then directed to take her into custody- one
to stop that tongue
Sergeant-at-Arms was not enough
dtl Se -
'` It was necessary to call in reinforcements,___o
f d ot keepers,
geant having been joined by a couple.
y main
her saintship was carried out of the H
t°ll c ouse bhing ro-
strength, amidst the most vociferous and p
. terfere nee
testations on her part, against so glaring an in
with personal rights and the " voice of heaven !
act
sho told her persecutors that she considered the
• " clearly unconstitutional," and we are not sure that she v
has not as good grodnds for the opinion, as the r-
ginia and South Carolina politicians have for some of.
their scruples. At all.events, there is no warrant for
such a proceedure on the part of a Speaker and his rayr-
, midons in the " resolutions of '9B."—New York Courier.
PROBABLE PIRACY.—By a letter received by
Messrs. Cobb and Warner of this city, dated Mobile ith
June, we learn that the ship Charles Gotham, of Bath,
Which clearel from New Orleans for Bourdeaux, on the

• ' ' 31st May, with twenty-three passengers, was found
• ' abandoned, with all sails set, about fifteen miles off the
Baize. Blood was discovered in her cabin and on
dec'. The sailors' chests were missing. She carried
three boats, two of which were gone, and the other was
picked up ten miles astern, also having marks of blood.
The news came from New Orleans by the mail-boat.
The ship is reported to have had specie on board. This
would appear to be a confirmation of the reports that
there are pirates afloat in the neighbourhood of the mouth
of the Mississippi. —New York Paper of June 15.
HAND-LOOM WEAVERS.—The privations of
this class continue with undiminished severity, and a large
portion of them are still in the receipt of daily assistance
in the shape of rations, or employed in breaking stones,
though, we are afraid there still remain many whose cases
have not been overtaken. At the request of the Relief Com-
mittee, the Superintendent of Police has caused inquiry to
be made into the circumstances of about 300 heads of families,
who have applied for relief, and the following has been the re-
sult :--.‘ The three hundred heads of families have de-
pendent on them 1,279 children, 529 of whom are under
n years of age. Of the three hundred heads of families,
153 are natives of Ireland, 140 natives of Scotland, and two

natives of England. The persons employed in breaking
stones are 279, cud the number of natives served daily at the
s ,up-kitchen, for the last few weeks, amount to 1,300. We
believe the poor fellows employed in breaking stones find the
work sufficiently bard for them, and it is little to be surprised
at, therefore, that they are occasionally found grumbling. It
is exceedingly desirable that some softer description of work
could be found; spade labour would be much more agreeable
. for them,r and we trust that something of this kind will yet be
r
. te4 to. We have occasionally beard at the Council table
proposals for sloping and beautitying the banks of the river
aim,.
esthe public green. Could this not be done by the idle weavers
during the preleht summer
s i wouldmu ..
suggest, since the public pays*—snehlaasgvmpast Aanrigitruasi—(We
lato agriculture, that all these men ought to be employed and
well fed by the landowners. ]