The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

THE LORD MAYOR.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.
SIR,—.I beg leave to suggest, through the medium of
your columns, that the title of the newly elected Chief
Magistrate of the City should be—" Lord Mayor of the
City of London, and Lord Mayor of the Faith."
The addition of the latter words will serve to distin-
guish the triumph of the truly religious and immaculate
party, who have converted the office•into one of a sacred
character. It is true that Ido not recollect any such
office being instituted in the Old or New Testament ;
nor, in fact, is there anything to be found there, to lead
to the supposition that the best reward of the true be-
-I;ever is to be found in the possession of a salary of
10,0001. a year, and a gilt gingerbread coach to ride
about in ; or, on the other hand, that the best way to
punish heretical opinions, is to deprive their advocate of
such advantages.
I have been led, indeed, to infer from the words—
" My kingdom is not of this world," that the brightest
cod highest rewards of the Christian believer are to he
looked for in the realities of the future, rather than of
the present. Pray, Mr. Editor, can you tell me if it
is to be the order of the day that a few rich prizes, such
as the office of the Lord Mayor, &e., are to be held out
aspirants
as baits for the orthodoxy of laymen, just as the rich and
luxurious
of equal
the Church ?
equal value, prove for that of
the zealous bishopricsisliop
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I confess that I do not sec what great victory has
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dogma. I
fear,
rather, that instead
of this having been accomplished, the late conquest has
called forth much malignant and uncharitable feeling,
and j
gross injustice towards an individual, as alien per-
haps to the spirit of Christianity, as are the opinions
that have been so much denounced.
I would observe, in conclusion, that whilst it does not
by any means follow that all who have voted for Alder-
man Harmer are to pass for Atheists, Deists, and im-
moral characters ; so, on the contrary, would it be
stretching credulity to an extreme point, to take it for
granted that all who have voted against him are entitled
to the character of Christians.
Deploring the result of the late election, as a sad
example of the power of religious intolerance and bigo-
try, and a disgrace to the first city of the world (alas !
that it should be the first and foremost lin the march
,
backwards
EofNtEhemny-linid,)o, Ibe
CANT
AND
to subscribe myself, Sir,
p 0 c
RISY.
North Brixton, October 8, 1840.

HOP DUTY.

;Ht,-In
TO Tl
readingl EE
yDolur c Truall: OF THE
on the circular
SUN,
of the
Messrs. Barclay, which announces an increase in the
on trlei a
have
a gvreov ; e
e grownand as dur-
ing price of ale, in consequence of the present high price of
hops, I am surprised to find that 3ou do not notice the
injustice of the hop duty being levied, not on thequan-
tityieg theaetulaalsl
last few
fei consumed,
but
manymore
were required (as the immense quantity of old hops
on the market, almost unsaleable, proves), the
Govern-
ment has received many thousands of pounds of duty on
an article which will never probably he used, and on
which they'refuse to allow the drawback,
occasion to refer
Should you have to this subject
b t
may find this il useful.
again, you m
I am, Sir, your's, &c.
A LONDON HOP MERCHANT.
The public may doubt thenecessity of any advance in
ale, as most of the brewers are holders of hops grown in
1838 and 1839, at very
growth to
and when obliged to
purchase hops of thilsbeg h
low. to mix with them, their
average cost will so ,
40.
London, Oct. 7'16 u
[This does not touchor argument ; for though the
hops may remain hand,
on
Thethey have in general been
sold by the farmers. capitalists who have bought
of the farmers, d
and on whose hands the hops remain,
might with propriety demand the drawback cf the duty,
or a delay in paying it. File growers can have no
claim. It may be a
,e most erroneous principle to levy
the duty on the
whole may be equally true
that the farmers have not been remunerated for grow-
ing hops, but whY do they grow a commodity which
does not pay them, or
_qmy eti_,
submit
to have their
trade ruined by taxation? 'rile hop-merchant knows,
and we know, that the hop-growers have been pleased
with the duty, and lia'e not wished that it should be
removed, because the duty_ kept the growth of hops in
compif the aratively few bands. The growers were afraid
duty were abolished, every cottager would,
that
as Cobbett said, growl
his own hops. The hop-growers
now have their rewar
d.]
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IN A most remarkable arti-
cle, which,
E
years ago was sent to this country
as ballast,
now sells in a fine state as high as lOs. or I Is.
per pound when spun into thread. One firm spins as much
India rubber thread every week as would reach from Lon-' country
don to Canton, theit is imported from. There
are twelve patents for thi article, and these patents have
DI
oinll7al3 few it.
—This
Icost more to dJend in law than the amount 'Hid for India
rubber since the article has been known to us as of any
Experiments are now making in England aad'
Ivalue.
I France to apply the article to the cure of consumption!