The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

MR. M'LEOD.

" IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE. SUPPOSED
InISCUE OF M`LEOD BY THE CANADIANS.
DREADFUL EXCITEMENT AT LOCKPORT.
New York, July 18, 1841, Five o'Clock, a.m.
. .

_
Mr. John Connally, of Barclay-street, has kindly
.1-I:rnished us with the following most important letter re-
ceived• by him two hours ago, per the Albany boat, from
Captain
,Eustace, of Lockport. The express that brought
-the letter had arrived at Albany but a few minutes be-
fore the boat started—the rumour, however, of the rescue,
was beginning to spread in all directions, and the excite-
ment was intense. >Tone of the passengers by the Albany
.3tearn-boat could give any particulars further than these
contained in the letter; but 'they all agree that some
uiarming demonstration mast have been made by the Ca-
,
nadiaa people:7--

" Lockport, Saturday, Fonr, a.m.
" Dear J—• , - —We are sure of a war at last. Half
l!,,ur since, eec gaol, whiA. lies a little way out of
w 9,; surrounded by three or four hundred Cana-
the purpo3e, of course, of rescuing ill'Leorl—
id doubtless they have effected their purpose before
his. I say doubtless, because. as yet we know nothing-
or certain—only the arrival of the mob, the surround-
ag oF gates, and the• forcing cif the guard ; and it will
Jo impossible to ascertain all partictilars before day-break.
Meanwhile we are in the midst of such a din of confusion
and alarm as I never heard. All the public bells are ringing
—the people have turned• out en masse, every pistol, dirk,
swortl, club; musket, &c., in the village,. is being put in
requisition, and hoarse voices in all directions are shout-
ing--' To arms, to arms.' • The express rider who will
carry this from here is preparing to set out to alarm the
towns along the river, to the end I .believe of mustering
a force of retaliation, to dash right over and take instant
vengeance on the Canadians. The fellows, it is thought,
c•-i.me by way of Lake Ontario—Hark, they are firing at
the gaol. I fear we may have bloody work of it.—Your's,
in haste. &c., "' WM. EUSTACE.

P.S. By the way, it is thought poor Theller, from
New York. is kidnapped, as he is not to be found at his
uoarding-house. Rumour is also rife about the abstrac-
tion of Mackenzie. God only knows what will be the
.2nd of it. 6, w. E

TO NON-ELECTORS.
HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT MTH-

OUT INTIMIDATION.

Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of
voters, and does not possess the necessary qualifications
to get his name on the register, may as effectually contri-
bute to the return of a Reform Candidate as if he had a
vote fin- himself, and that rote was protected from inti-
midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of
voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer
at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of
August, and make a note of the name and address of
any Tory that appears on the register and is not in
every way qualified. He should immediately forward
the information, with ground of objection, to some active
Reformer or Registration Committee, who will object to
hint ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will
.be excluded from, the register, the onus of proof lying
entirely with the person objected to.
Thus the Tory vote struck off will bo one gained to
the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more
so, than a vote given by the informant under dui protec-
tion of the ballot.
Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from
the franchise, and those who have been compelled to
sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame-
ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them-
selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote
their private interest compelled them to give against
their own honest conviction.

THE EGERTON YEOMANRY.--....T. OT Francis
Egerton has written to the Editor of the Standard tos
correct the alleged misrepresentations respecting hi
raising a yeomanry troop. His Lordship states, that on
his acceptance of commissions to the corps for, himself
and his eldest son, some 40 or 50 of his neighbours and
tenants, unsolicited by him, expressed their desire to
form themselves into a troop, in the hope that his
son might obtain the command of it. His Lordship there-
fore submits that he has neither raised a troop of yeo-
manry nor taken any positive step toward the raising of
one, though he admits the force of his present corps to
be very small in comparison with the force in other dis-
tricts, and he should have little scruple in proposing its
numerical increase to the Government, had not the Home-
office already made its estimates ofthe service for the year.
ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PRINTERS.—
On Wednesday last a numerous and highly respectable
hody of Master Printers dined together at the Crown and
,sceptre, Blackwall, Mr. Spottiswoode in the chair. It
is many years since the printers have met together as a
body, although a curious document handed about the

~ables proved the association of printers was formed
ninety-one years ago, and that their place of meeting at
-hat period was in Paternoster-row. Amongst the com-
pany were Messrs. Clowes, Nicholls, Clay, Gilbert, Cox,
Taylor, M‘Dowall, Harrison, Brettel, Shaw, Saville, and
Rivington.
DEATAI Or MR. SAMUEL WRIGHT, 'OF
NEw ORLEINB.—He fell in a duel with Mr. S. W.
Oakey, of the firm of Oakey, Payne, and Hawkins, on
the 2d ult. They fought with rifles, at the distance of
forty yards, and, at the second tire, Mr. Wright fell, and
expired in a few minutes. Mr. Wright was a native of
Ihe county of Down, Ireland, and had been a merchant
In this country for upwards of twenty-five years, a large
portion of which time he lived, we believe, in Savannah.
—Vicksburgh Sentinel.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.--Two
Lrvzs LOST.—Between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday
,:ight, two young gentlemen, named Robins and John-
son, were rowing from Pntney, when they came in col-
-I,sion with a barge immediately after passing through
Vauxhall bridge, by which the boat was swamped, and
both lost their liTes ' - neither of the bodies has yet been
•

COMMERCIAL DISTRESS.
(From the City article of the Chronicle.)
Sir Robert Peel says that the Joint-Stoec Banks
during the last two years have fostered improvident i
speculations ; the cause, he maintains, of that alarming 4
stagnation of trade which all acknowledge to be general.
This way of answering will not serve the proximate
Premier longwhen he assumes the reins of office ;
neither is it consistent with the results exhibited by an
examination of the circulation during the period referred 4
to. The amount of notes payable on demand now in
circulation, issued by banks of all denominations, is
about 3,700,0001. less than the gross amount two years
back, and the action of all denominations of banking
establishments, with few exceptions, has been ex- i
tremely stringent since the autumn of 1838, or, more '
correctly dating, since the spring of 1839.
The extent to which over-trading can have been car-
ried on under such a contracted state of the currency,
must necessarily have been of a local character, while
the depressed condition of trade has spread over the '
entire country, and affected all classes throughout the 1
empire having capital embarked in commercial enter-
prise. Allowing every reasonable weight, therefore, to
the particular and well-known instances of over-trading
of which some of the Joint-Stock Banks have been
guilty in the manufacturing districts during the last two
years, it is manifest that such general and wide-
spread results cannot have been produced by such
partial and circumscribed causes. The notorious fact
that some Joint-Stock Banks in Lancashire and York-
shire departed from the legitimate purposes of banking,
and became involved with the dead weight of masses
of unsaleable securities, in consequence of unjustifia-
ble advances, is not a sufficient reason to account for
the general stagnation and decay of our export trade, nor
would a more prudent and cautious line of policy, on the
part of these and other banks, restore its energies, or
give employment to the destitute masses in our manufac-
turing towns. Over-banking, doubtless, may hare par-
tially taken place, notwithstanding the decrease in the
circulation, for supply and demand are merely relative
terms, and it is true that, although the circulation be now
nearly 3,700,0001. less than it was two years back, over-
issues have been made in some well-known cases, because
the legitimate demands of trade have not even required so
much paper money as has been issued, and is now afloat.
Some joint-stock banks in the manufacturing districts did
issue more paper than they ought to have done. They
dealt largely, also, in re-discounts and accommoda-
tion drafts upon their London agents ; but the cause
of this, the root and origin of these instances of over-
banking, is traced beyond all cavil to the depressed con•
dition of our manufacturing interests, consequent upon
the sudden fall of prices occasioned by the stringent ac-
tion of the Bank of England on the currency, after the
extraction of her bullion to pay for foreign corn follow-
ing the bad harvest of 1838. Sir Robert Peel seems to
expect that the depression in trade is temporary, and
that it will gradually disappear ; that we are only suffer-
ing from the shadow•of a passing " summer cloud," and
that the evil will cure itself. Messrs. sl-letTies and Goul-
burn struck that very note during the late debate on the
Budget, and the proximate Premier was content to play
second fiddle to them on the same kind of strain. But all
this is mere mockery and delusion. The depressed condi-
tion of our manufacturing interests has been produced by
fixed and long existing causes, by the failure of the de-
mand from the Continent of Europe, occasioned by the
supply brought now to market by native industry in the
Continental States. That supply is increasing, and will
increase steadily, until our goods are completely shut
out from the markets of Europe, unless our legislators
and statesmen turn the stream by active and determined
measures. Sir Robert Peel said some twelve months
back, that the rivalry of British manufactures now dis-
played by the people of Germany was the mere natural
result of increased knowledge and civilisation ; that it
was absurd to expect that the people of Germany would
remain stationary while we made such rapid and gigantic
strides Mall the branches of productive industry. There is
some truth in this remark, but, like all statements
of that politician, it gives only a portion of the
truth,
.and leaves the most important portion entirely
unnoticed. No mention is made of the consideration how
far we ourselves have fostered this rivalry on the part of
Continental nations, by our restrictive commercial tariff,
and the.refusal to receive their staple articles of produce
on payment of moderate duties. The soil and climati
of the countries bordering on the Baltic are specially
fitted for the growth of corn and timber. Providence has
as clearly pointed out that the inhabitants of these coun-
tries should turn their attention to agriculture, as their
chief article of export, as it has told the natives of
Great Britain to seek for theirs by calling to account
the mineral wealth which lies hid beneath the surface,
and in thus developing the superior skill and industry
of the British nation. When we find, then, the Ger-
man, and other. neighbouring States, employing
themselves in endeavouring to compete with us iu
manufactures, and the people of England occupied,
on the other hand, in devising legislative and other
artificial means to compensate their agriculturists by
protective duties against the natural defects of soil and
climate, it is manifest that nature and art are placed in
direct collision, and that the whole system is opposed to
the declared intentions of the great Architect 01 the Uni-
verse. This separation of interests is at variance with
all sound views of commercial intercourse, and cannot be
maintained with permanent public advantage to any of
the parties concerned. Class interests and individual

views may be so worked up in the existing system as to
make these parties view any step of change to a better
one with fear and aversion. No great public improve-
ment was ever proposed that did not encounter ob-
stacles from similar sources ; but opposition of that
character ought only to secure for the measure the
more active and untlinchinr, support of the patriot and
enlightened statesman. every impartial person who
considc:rs the operation of our navigation laws and co-
lonial system, and the restrictive and prohibitory cha-
racter of our fiscal commercial code, must admit that
they refuse to deal with other countries on mutual
principles of justice. The natural result is that
ether countries have retaliated, and . that we have thus
compelled- them to become our rivals. The demand
for our manufactures has thus declined. Our manu-
facturers have been compelled to submit to heavy losses.

and to keep their hand; working far beyond the 'legi-
timate demand, merely to keep their machinery em-
ployed. ' This is the real cause of the distress which
afflicts the country, and not over-banking. The remedy
is equally plain with the disease. Monopoly has bred
the contagion, and free trade must drive it away. The
only objection of any weight yet attempted against the
revision of our complex import tariff is, that the Conti-
nental nations would not reciprocate ; that they would
still take nothing from us but bullion in payment for
their corn and timber. The answer is, that this state-
ment is entirely at variance with the evidence given be-
fore the Committee on Import Duties ; and besides this,
it is contrary to the self-interests of the parties con-
cerned, for the superior skill and local advantages pos-
sessed by the British manufacturers will always enable
them to compete successfully, under a free tariff, with
those of any nation whatever. On the principle, there-
fore, of buying at the best and cheapest market, and sell-
ing at the dearest. the people of the continent would find
their profit in taking the manufactures of England in
exchange for their corn and timber. They would,
therefore, cease to struggle against us in a vain effort at
manufacturing rivalry, and again employ their time and
capital in developing the natural advantages of their soil.
The result does not depend, indeed, on argument, how-
ever strong, because the kingddm of Prussia, the head of
the Germanic Commercial League, has officially inti-
mated its readiness to revise their tariff on imports, if we
will meet them on fair terms. The United States and
the Brazils have signified as much, and unless we do so
before the approaching expiry of the subsisting commer-
cial treaties, they will be compelled in self-defence to
impose heavy protective duties on British goods, whereby
our foreign trade would become a complete wreck.

NAVIGATION of the EUPHRATES.
Intelligence has been received at the India Board of
the arrival of the Hon. East India Company's armed
iron steamboats Nimrod and Nitocris at Beles on the
Euphrates.
This gratifying event took place on the 31st of May,
and thus WAS completed an enterprise of much danger
and difficulty, which had generally been looked upon as
impracticable, and which, in all probability, nothing but
British skill, intrepidity, and perseverance would have
been able to accomplish.
The actual distance of the voyage up the river was
one thousand one hundred and thirty miles ; the ascent
occupied two hundred and seventy-three hours, or about
nineteen days and a half. The average rate of steaming
vea*.hree miles and seven furlongs an hour.
The Tigris and the Euphrates have now been opened
to vessels of considerable burthen, and the ascent and
descent of these noble streams may be made available
for the
Purposes of commerce as well as of civilization ;
for, although the success of this splendid experiment re-
flects honour on the British name alone, the advantages
which may be derived from it will be shared with us by
many nations, and, it is to be hoped, by the inhabitants
of the once-famous regions watered by the great rivers
of Mesopotamia.
The expedition was commanded by Lieutenant Camp-
bell, assisted by Lieutenants Jones and Grounds. The
behaviour of the crews was most exemplary, and not a
single casualty occurred during the whole voyage.

ANTIQUITY 011 BERMONDSEY.—The parish
of Bermondsey would form a subjectt of higher interest
to the historical antiquary than a
very early
of our su-
burban villages. It was from
abb:y, early period the
the history of
seat of a large and flourishing
monasteries,
which, as of most of our great m es, remain to be
written. Its church had been just erected at the Norman
unwonted
lie manor
survey, and the surveyors indulge in a term ofr
admiration—ubi nova et pulchra cecclesia.
belonged to the King, as it had to Earl butHarold,ce one
lordo f
the
of its thirteen hides had been granted away sin
Conquest, and thereon the Earl of Morton, the
the adjacent manor of Lambeth, had erected his nuin
sion. This circumstance is mentioned in the survey ni
the latter manor—" Isdem comes habet in Bermondsey de
terra regis unam hidam übi sedet domus ejus." Thus the
Domesday Record unfolds the existence at Bermondsey
at that early period—at once of a fair church and an
Earl's house.—Gentleman's Magazine.
ALARMING STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENTe—NAR-
now EscAPE.—On the return of the Richmond steam-
boat from Putney, on Saturday afternoon, the vessel
struck against Putney-bridge with a very great force, to
the great alarm of all on board. In a very few minutes
it was discovered that the machinery was so much injured
that it was found impossible to proceed any further, and
in order to prevent the vessel driving against Battersea-
bridge, the order was given 40 let go the anchor, and the
passengers were obliged to be conveyed to London by
other steam-vessels.
The Dog-days end on Wednesday. For years
past the weather has not been so cold nor sunshine so rare
as they have been during the continuance of those days
this summer, which are in general remarkable for the heat
of the weather.

JOHN HOCKINGS, the BIRMING-

HAM BLACKSMITH.

John, " take him all in all," as our great Bard has
it, is an extraordinary individual. For five nights,
during the present week, he has been lecturing at the
Queen's Theatre, in this town, to numerous and re-
spectable audiences. On each night he spoke for
about one hour and three quarters, and his physical
and mental powers are such, that he could apparently
continue his lecture to double the time, to the great
satisfaction of his hearers. Hockings is a stout, well-
made man, and he has a good-looking, smiling coun-
tenance. He appears. to be about fifty-six years of
age, dark complexion, and stands about five feet eight
inches in stature. His dress bespeaks the order to
which he belongs. It consists of a coarse dark-
coloured cloth frock coat, with pockets outside, some-
thing like that of a shooting coat, dark pantaloons,
striped or spotted waistcoat, and black neckerchief.
When addressing the audience he is not very p..rticular
whether his coat is on or oft Should the atmosphere
be rather warm, John throws off the coat, and haviig
relieved himself from that incumbrance, proceeds with
the subject with fresh vigour. As an orator, he may
with great propriety be called one of the Thauma-
turgi of teetotalism. His style is natural, powerful,
and eloquent ; and when describing the baneful
effects of alcoholic drinks upon the unfortunate in-
dividuals given up. to them, he is remarkably happy.
He is quite what is understood by the term an un-
educated man—that is, he never received ordinary
instruction in any school during his boyhood, and did not
know how to read till one of his own children taught
him, after he had become a teetotaller. He is eloquent
to a high degree, and carries both the feelings and judg-
ment of the audience with him. When describing the
misery and woe of the drunkard and his family, his man-
ner and the tones of his voice are such that he not un-
frequently draws tears from his audience. On the
other hand, when giving a rich and picturesque de-
scription of the follies and absurdities of the drunk-
ard, his mimic powers are so great and so natural,
that he is sure to elicit peals of laughter. Without any
regular connexion in his speeches, he goes on, with
perfect ease to himself and pleasure to the audience,
from " grave to gay, from lively to severe ;" and, how-
ever mal-apropos a word may occasionally b, he is never
short of one in the course of his address. His style of
reasoning is perfectly original. He knows nothing
about forming a syllogism, or the rules of logic, but he
brings his own experience and common sense to bear
upon the matter, and he is generally victorious. He
gave a proof of this in one of his recent lectures.
Describing a discussion he had had with a per-
son who opposed teetotalism, he said, • his oppo-
nent objected to the word " teetotaller," and said
it was like the system itself—ridiculous, as it could
not be found in any dictionary ; and, with regard to
alcoholic drinks, he contended they were perfectly
justifiable, as the barley from which they were made
was alcohol, and, therefore, on the principles of logic,
teetotalism was absurd. In reply, Hockings said he
knew nothing about logic, but the gentleman would
perhaps be so kind as to tell him what was the name
of the upper article of dress he then wore. " Oh,"
said his opponent, " that is a Mackintosh." " Now,"
said Hockings triumphantly, " what a ridiculous and
absurd thing that must be ! What dictionary did
you find that word in ?" " Oh," said the gentleman,
" that is a word merely to express the name of the
coat." " Just so," said Hockings, " and the word
teetotalism' is similar. It. implies that those who ab-
stain from intoxicating drinks are sober, respectable
men. Now, with regard to barley being alcohol,"
continued Hockings, "I said to one of my. hearers,
I say, Jack, this here pocket handkerchief is paper,
a'nt it ?" No,' said Jack, it is cotton.' Oh, but it
must be paper,' replied Hockings, on the principles
laid down by that gentleman respecting barley,—for, if
barley be alcohol, this handkerchief must be paper."'
Hockings' common sense here prevailed over his oppo-
nent, who retired from the contest crest-fallen. Al-
though the manner, reasoning, and eloquence of
Hockings are of native mint, and all three of a very
superior caste, there is, nevertheless, a coarseness
about them that would not be tolerated in any other
public man. His expressions, - however, come from
so unsophisticated a source, that they add to, rather
than diminish the effect of his discourse. Thus,
"Down with the dust"—" Any brass in your rags ?"-
-" Getting the sack"—" Cutting his lucky," and a mul-
titude of other similar phraseology, are made in the
hands of John Hockings so many ornaments to his
speech. It is quite the language he has all his
life been used to, and it flows as naturally froth him
as d spring does from its source. Hockings, in the
early part of his manhood, according to his own ac-
count, was much given to intemperance. His appear-
ance was such, he says, that " the boys would cut
away from him, as from a robber," but since he has
" joined teetotal," he has been enabled to keep him-
self and family respectable, and buy " a little free-
hold" into the bargain. He is most ardent and inces-
sant in his calling, by day and by night, in winter and
summer, and England, Ireland, and Scotland, are by
turns the scenes of kis operations. In Ireland, he was
one of the precursors of Father Mathew, and he reveres
that great man with filial affection for his efforts in the
cause of teetotalism. Although a resident of Birming-
ham he is a native of London, and has a strong southern
accent. From his long residence, however, in the above
town, he,has obtained the sobriquet of the " Birmingham
Blacksmith," a name of which he appears to be proud,
and which will, no doubt, long distinguish him in the
annals of teetotalism.—Liverpool Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—Great excite-
ment
prevailed at Wootton Bassett on Saturday week, in
consequence of the following circumstance :—A man of
the parish of Cliffe Pypard had been taken into custody
the Saturday previous by the police officer, for threaten-
ing to beat a woman. The officer, whether acting under
the advice of a magistrate or not is unknown, took him
into the parish of Wootton Bassett. and turned him over
to the policemen stationed in that town, who, without any
ceremony, put him into the Blindhouse, Wbere he was
confined until the following Thursday. He was then
taken to the County Magistrates, but from some cause
or other, nothing was decided, and he Was again placed
in confinement, where he remained until Saturday, the
policeman refusing to allow him to breathe fresh air, or
to obey the calls of nature, otherwise than in his dun-
geon ! Thus was a free-born Englishman imprisoned
for a week, without any inquiry having been instituted
into the charge on which he was apprehended. The
Mayor hearing of the matter, and understanding that
the inhabitants were disgusted at the manner of confine-
ment (the Blindhouse being a miserable hole, only 6 feet
by 4 feet), desired the policeman to take the man to the
parish where the alleged offence was committed, and in
which a County Magistrate resided. The case was then
disposed of, and the man dismissed, it appearing that he
was of unsound mind ! Surely this matter requires in-
vestigation.-- Wiltshire Independent.
THE CONSTABLE AND THE RECRUITING
SERGEANT.—On Sunday evening, says a correspondent,
as the constable of a village, not five miles from Brain-
tree, was sauntering by the way side of his parish,
priding himself on his knowledge of law, and wondeiing
how so small a man could carry about in his head the
statutes at large, he fell in with a light company, and a
recruiting sergeant began to throw his military blan-
dish ments around. The constable, deeply read in the
sections of the Mutiny Act, imagined that. i Sunday en-
listment was null and void, and, purposing to raise a
laugh at the hero's expence, he received into his palm
the magic shilling. But, alas, like many others, he
played with the law till he cut his fingers, for on Mon-
day morning he was to all intents; and purposes, bound
to stand up and be shot at for the small charge of six-
pence a day; and as the smell of the gunpowder, to say
nothing of the bullets, was likely to have a disagreeable
effect upon his nerves, he was necessitated to free him-
self from the responsibility by the payment of smart
money.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
THE Two JOHN WICKLITFES ; REMAR/L-
-ABLE FACT.—It is an extraordinary fact, but not the less
true, that there were living at the same period two John
Wickliffes—both born about the same time, both edu-
cated as ecclesiastics at Oxford, and becoming there
the heads of houses, the one of Canterbury, the other
of Baliol—both Prebendaries, the one of Worcester,
the other of Chichester—and both dying within a year
of each other. This is the more remarkable, as the
name of Wickliffe is -a local one, and the only locality
in England bearing the name is the village about six
miles from the town of Richmond, in Yorkshire,' .where
the Reformer is said to have been born in or about the
year 1824. This fact may not only clear him from se-
veral apparent inconsistencies of conduct, but from
the graver charge preferred by Anthony Wood,
Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, and other writers, that
the zeal which he displayed in withstanding the
errors of Papacy, was occasioned by nothing else than
the loss of the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall, Ox-
ford, of which they say he was first deprived by Arch-
Bishop Langham, and finally by Pope Urban the Fifth,
and that " what he afterwards did was merely out of re-
venge, and not all of conscience, and that being a man
of good parts, he exercised them to an evil end." Light
is, however, thrown upon these matters by the dis-
covery of the fact, that the Warden of Canterbury Hall
and the Reformer were two distinct individuals, which
is clearly and satisfactorily established in an article from
which this is abridged, in the Gentleman's Magazine
for August.
THE LAND BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE.--It
were well that the landlords knew their proper social
position, and that is, that they are in law merely the
tenants of the communi. This is no fiction. In law
the land belongs to the Queen—the whole land of the
country (see Blackstone) ; and as the Queen is nothing
more than the chief servant of the nation, it follows that
the whole land of the country is in reality the property
of the whole people, the landlords merely holding it in
trust for the public good ; and when they as a body
violate their tenure, it is surely full time that the na-
tion should demand an account of their stewardship.
And especially is this necessary when we find the
landlords combining, as at present, to uphold a
monopoly in legislation as well as in land, and
using their power and influence as means of coercing and
oppressing the industrious classes of the community. It
matters not whether the property now held by the land-
lord class was obtained justly or unjustly—whether
William, the Norman brigand, obtained a genuine right
to the soil by virtue of " conquering" the people who
then lived upon it, or whether. Henry VIII., the " De-
fender of the Faith," who robbed the Church of its pos-
sessions, was justified in parcelling them among his
minims, pimps, panderers, and hirelings ;—the question
now is, should the community-renounce their natural
and indefeasible right to live upon their own soil, and to
possess and enjoy the fruits of their own skill, industry,
,and labour ?—Leeds Times.
The wheat:harvest in this neighbourhood
oncom-
mencedf
ol‘r Monday, da y a
few
, daysd had a d
great
quantity- lvea t he r
wouldcontinued
have
favourable
been cut, but the wet coming on so heavily has put a stop
. to further progrea—Hants Advertiser.