The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

WALSALL.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.—An address from the
Anti-Corn-law Association of Burnley was received
this morning. The Mayor and Magistrates have take❑
the precaution of swearing in a number of special
constables.

Richard Fryer, Esq., late M.P. for the borough of
Wolverhampton, has published the following address :
"To my honest and worthy Workmen at Pelsall
Colliery and Ironworks.
_

"MY Goon FRIEIs;DS,—It has been, during my
life, my great political object to obtain full and con-
stant employment for every man in Great Britain, who
is able and willing to work ; and, as a reward for his
industry, the utmost benefit and advantage he is enti-
tled to obtain in food, clothing, fuel, dwelling-place, and
every other comfort of life.
" The tax upon food is a foul offence to God and
man. I will show you the operation of the wicked
and unchristian Corn-law. I can at this present mo-
ment purchase at Liverpool, the best sweet American
flour at 7s. 4d. per bushel ; this flour is superior to any
you purchase by 6d. per bushel. Tiae flour which is
now selling in the shops in this neighbourhood, is at the
rate of 10s. per bushel ; the present duty on a bushel
of foreign flour is 4s. 7d. I could take the iron which
I manufacture to Liverpool, and exchange it for that
American flour, provided there was no Corn-law. Other
manufacturers may do the same, so that we might have
an increased and increasing trade with the Awrican
farmer, and you would have plenty of food and the
necessaries of life, and, moreover, a constant and regu-
lar demand for your labour, without those violent and
so Idcn fluctuations in prices and the rate of wages,
which have so frequently happened, and which arc so
destructive and deleterious to the interests and happi-
ness of both masters and men.

" There are two gentlemen who offer themselves as
candidates to represent Walsall in Parliament, One
of these gentlemen, Mr. Gladstone, is a friend to, and
supporter of the Corm laws—alias the Bread-tax, and
which law I have pointed out to you truly as the most
grievous oppression under which the poor honest work-
man can labour. This law was made by an oligarchy
of landowners, for the sole purpose of raising the rent
of their land by enhancing the price of corn. It has
attained its unholy purpose ; and those who made this
law, if it is continued, will perish by it. The other
gentleman, Mr. Smith, comes forward as a repealer of
this unjust law. He is the friend of truth and justice
" If any of you have votes for Walsall, or if your
fathers or brothers have votes, let all of you think seri-
ously to which of these two men you should give your
votes.—May God Almighty direct you in the right
way. " I remain your friend,

" RICHARD FRYER.
" Wolverhampton, Jan. 30, 1841."

LOSS OF THE BRIG LUCY.

A letter received at Lloyd's from the British Consul
at Scilly, dated 31st December, 1640, states that the
above vessel was totally lost, 9th December last, on the
East-end of the Ihla de Sal (one of the Cape de Verd
islands). The crew all got safely on shore without
saving any of their clothes, and they in conse-
quence were in much distress for want of them. She
was bound from Liverpool to Valparaiso. This is an-
other vessel in which the Wallaces are said to have
effected insurances upon goods that have never been
shipped on board, and for which proceedings have been
taken against them by Mr. Bodkin at the Mansion-
house, in the case of the Dryad.

CORN-LAWS.