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, &e.—" 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 fbr 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 wer4 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 proi,ecting 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."

GEOLOGY.—In removing the superstrata, con-
sisting of an upper thick deposit of sandy gravel, wills
the clay, shale, coal, &c. in the quarry a little west from
the railway tunnel, near Falkirk, the section now exposed,
about 25 feet deep, exhibits marks of powerful volcanic
action. Above the rock the strata in one part are thrown
into nearly the form of a circle, for the space of twelve
feet, from the centre of which there appears a radia-
tion, until the combustible materials had exhausted
their force ; to the west the convulsion appears to
have also been considerable. The appearance was just
observed when about seven yards north from the place
where the workmen are now engaged.—Edinburgh
Weekly Chronicle.
A
SINGULAR DEATH.—An inquest was held at
the St. Mary's Hotel, on Tuesday evening last, before G. B.
Corfe, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Louisa
,Alexander, an un-
married lady, residing in lodgings in St. Mary s-place. Sho
had been in good health till recently ; on Saturday evening
she took some peppermint cordial for the wind in her stomach ;
'be Was cold and unwell next day, but refused to have medical
attendance. In the morning of Monday, as she did not ap-
pear, and the door was, as usual, locked, it was forced open by
a carpenter, in the presence of Mr. Ward, the surgeon, and
the landlady. Deceased was lying on the floor, quite dead,
and as if laid out ; she had on only a clean linen chemise, and
a dirty one was folded up, oa which her head rested; a brown
tippet was pinned on her bosom. The bed in the deceased's
room had been laid in, but there was no appearance of strug-
gling. Verdict.--" Died by the visitation of God. We un-
derstand the deceased gave, just prior to her death, every in-
struction respecting her funeral, and had lodged 25/. in the
hands of Mr. Ball, of French-street, towards the expenses of
the same.—Hants Advertiser.
A FACT FOR THE CHURCH EXTENDERS.
the parish of Raubon, near Wrexham, there is a popula-
lation of about fourteen thousand persons,' and out of that
worshipnumber
anteara leyvattwofeTlh7eythousand attend regularly the Dis-
senting ehapeb,
years, and in these
period of twenty-five years. Whilst the " poor Man's
nine
Church" have only erected two places of worship during 404
them e n t
attendancegrant. hhaavev e thousandbei
been
pounds, uni d sd twenty-three
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Dis-
sent predominates in the proportion of fifteen to one.—
Berwick Advertiser.