The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

THE YOUR, OF LONGHAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sat,—ln a letter, dated Norwich, 21st Decernbe r,
signed " A Prey Trader and an Enemy to the Priest-
craft," the psor of the village of Longliarn are represent, d
I as " subsisting on food unfit for a horse, and living in
such hovels as to house one in would be to insure its death
from cold, and that the principal farmer had threatened
to drop the wages of his workmen to 13s. per week,"
leaving your readers very naturally, of course, to suppse
that they had not been in the receipt of much more.
Now, as every word of that is a scandalous falsehood, I
trust you will grant me the indulgence of allowing me a
small space in your columns to contradict what has hoe❑
asserted, and to state what is the fact, and which I will
defy the base calumniator to prove that it is not. The
fact, therefore, is, that the cottages of the poor are as
respectal le, and such as afford equal, if not superior,
comfort to what are general throughout the country ; and
as every workman capable of doing a fair day's work in
the employ of the " principal farmer" has regularly had
125., and several from 133. to 153. per w eck till within
the last six weeks, when their wages were reduced Is ,
in consequence of wheat coming down in price to 303. per
eootnb and under ; and as the other occupiers of the pa-
rish are pajing at the same rate, I will leave it for your
readers to judge whether it is at all probable that, with
such wages, the working class are " subsisting on food
unfit for a horse." Now, my impression being that
the writer has no spite against me individually, but that
the object aimed at is to increase the enmity which al-
ready too strongly exists in, and pervades the minds of
the manufacturer and tradesman against the farmer, I
think if he had signed himself an enemy to his country,
instead of what lie has, he would then only have declared
himself to be what, after the information now given, your
readers must consider him.

I um not ashamed of my name, which, without further
troubling you, I IA ill give, as the " principal farmer," and
your obedient setvant,

JOHN HASTINGS.
Longham, Jan. 5, 1841.

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very great diminution of temperature. On Monday night
at ten o'clock, at Hackney, the thermometer was 28 de-
grees Fahrenheit, and on Tuesday morning at seven o'clock
it was 29 degrees, whilst at noon it was 32 degrees. The
wind, which veered considerably, was chiefly N. N. E., and
made travelling ref)/ bleak and uncomfortable. There
was a slight fall of snow on Monday evening, which con-
tinued at intervals during the night, but set in stronger on
Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, and continued during
the day. The accounts brought b) the Cambridge arid
Norwich afternoon coaches were, that in there counties
and in E2sex many fresh (bills had accumulated, which
had rend, red many of the by-roads impassable. In :own
the streets have the appearance of winter having resumed
all its severity, the rods and footpath:4 becoming very
slippery, whilst on Holborn-hill and Westminster hriilge
many accidents occurred from horses falling. Penton-
ville:hill has also this year been particularly dangerous to
hors( a, and many dangerous falls occurred on Tuesday.
Vegetables and animals are prepared for almost
all climates, and for temperatures higher than the heat of
any country. Dr. Reeve found larvae in a spring at 280
degrees ; Lord Bute confervm and beetles in the boiling
springs of Albano, that died when plunged into cold water.
A species of chara will flower and produce seed in the hot
springs of Iceland, which boil an egg in four minutes.
One plant, urcdo nivalis, which is a mere microscopic gip_
bule, is said to grow and flower under the snow. Some
cold-blooded animals bear heat very badly. Dr. Edwards
says that frogs die in a few seconds in water at 107 deg.
Yct a species of tamia has been found ;alive in a boiled
as bot as human blood. —Elliotsotes Physiology.
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