The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-02 00:00:00

been proving, by the active part they have taken
in these meetings, their approbation of the sen-
timents of those who composed them. What
has been the result ? Let every man who envies
the present feelings, or covets the present posi-
tion of Sir John Hobhouse, of Sir Francis
Burdett, of Dr. Lushington, of Mr. William
Brougham, proceed to distinguish himself as
these illustrious persons have done, by the con-
cocting of such rhetoric as Dr. Carpue shall
applaud, and the making of such promises as
Mr. Gough. shall exact. Let the electors whose
favour shall hereafter be courted by large assu-
rances and boisterous professions mark well the
predicament in which the unlucky constituencies
of Westminster, of Southwark, of Finsbury, are
placed. They hare selected for their repre-
sentatives the demagogues who vowed the
readiest submission to their dictation, the
most perfect compliance with their caprices.
They have found that the men who were base
enough to flatter are false enough to betray
them. Let them distrust for the future the de-
nunciations of abuses which do not exist, and
the anticipations of reductions which cannot be
effected. Let them not impose upon their re.
presentatives the pledges by which Dr. Lush-
ington and Mr. William Brougham were bound.
They will then never have to impute to their re-
presentatives the dastardly desertion of which
Dr. Lushington and Mr. William Brougham
have been guilty. And, finally, let all sensible
and calm spectators of passing events observe
how difficult it is for the representative of a
hundred thousand ten-pound householders to
exert in his country's councils sound discretion
or upright independence. Legislation has done
its best to make eloquence, learning, industry,
all useless to the land which produces them.
We believe there is no man profligate enough
to deny the existence of the evil. How many
are there honest enough to attempt the intro-
duction of the remedy e—Morning Post.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR APRIL.

The month of April has not abounded in April wea-
ther—at least it has been colder and less nautiole than
usual. There has been a good deal of moisture, but no
heavy rains—cold, but not cutting winds; frosts, occa-
sionally smart, but not severe; and some thunder and
lightning. Grass and herbage is backward, and so are
flowers, and the foliage of the wood lands ; but it does not
follow that any or all of these will be ultimately much in
the rereward of the season, or in any degree less vigorous
and luxuriant ; for, if the ensuing month be mild and ge-
nial, so that vegetation may continue in an uninterrupted
progress when once it has commenced its growth, it will
fir outstrip that earlier produce which is sometimes fos-
tered by a warm April, and checked by a chilly May.
'Mere is therefore no substantial reason to lament a short
postponement of the beauties of spring, although perhaps
the garlands of this May-day may be somewhat less pro-
fusely decked with many- coloured wreaths of flowers than
usual. The weather has had the effect of altering for the
worse the colour of the growing wheats ; frosty nights,
with occasional sunny mornings, and some cold
rains, have given it rather a sickly hue, but the check is
better now than later, and a abort period of warm days
and nights will soon restore its appearance, and in the
mean time no plant is lost, except in very cold, unkind
soils, and the blade, though discoloured, is strong, and
the root healthy. Oats come up boldly and vigorously,
and present a fair promise to the eye. The main crop of
barley has been put in during the past month, and far-
mers speak of the season in very different terms, according
to the quality of the land they happen to occupy. In soils
wherein exist any considerable proportion of tenacious
loam, and where turnips have been fed off since the be-
ginning of the month, and the ploughing, consequently,
delay until the eve of sowing, there the furrow has un-
questionably turned up tough and cold, and the seed has
gone into the ground under unfavourable circumstances. But
in mild, kind, barley soils, and in light uplands of every
description, the situation best adapted to the growth of
this grain, or where the ground was ploughed up in good
time, so as to catch a few of the frosts which bave occa-
sionally chequered this mild spring, there the ground has
worked well, and farmers say they never had a better seed
time in their lives. Pulse of all kinds are in general
backward in their growth, from the lateness of their sow-
ing ; but in roan) places there is little reason to complain
of their appearance. The young clovers and grasses have
made a shoot within the last week or ten days, and their
appearance in general, bough not very forward, is
flourishing and strong; in some cases the cloves are
rather patchy, but this is chiefly where surface water
has not been sufficiently carried off, or other untoward
circumstances connected with the cultivation, or the
season, have occurred. Rye is not very forward, but has
been br, ught into consumption as the water-meadow of
the uplands. Turnips are now nearly all consumed, ex-
cept where a few lingering Swedes are still preserved in
the dry, backward uplands, until the grass shall have at-
tained sufficient growth, in those trying situations. The
turnip crop, though only partially good, and in many dis•
tricts far from abundant, has seldom been more useful or
effective than this year. The season, though not remark-
ably cold, has afforded less encouragement to the turnip
plant to throw up its flomer-stalk than has often been
known. In districts where it is no uncommon sight to
see fields of backward turnips blossoming as yellow as
gold, it has been difficult to detect a single flower. In
consequence, the roots have continued firm and hearty to
the last, and even now the few remaining Swedes are almost
as juicy and nutritious as at any period during the season.
Sheep have, therefore, done well on turnips during the
month, notwithstanding the weather has sometimes been
rather unfavourable, and the lambing-season has concluded
with partial, and not considerable, losses in ewes and
lambs. In the meat market the supply of lamb has been
moaerately good and plentiful ; that of mutton has been
limited, but both have probably seen their highest prices
for the season, and are now on the decline. Beef has
been in better supply throughout the month than mutton,
and has experienced but little variation. The state of the
corn market seems as dull and discouraging as ever; the
little appearance of improvement, which once flattered us,
soon vanished, and was followed by a heavier depression.
14 is true, the best samples of wheat continue to obtain
nearly the same sums as at the beginning of the month,
but even middling qualities do not readily find customers.
Barley is lower in all its grades, and oats continue much
at the same point, heavy corn about maintaining its value,
inferior, dull, and difficult of disposal. Time was when
such a state of things, with tha Gazette prices at 53.. Bd.
for wheat, 265. 2d. for barley, and 16s. 11d. for oats,
rind real averages, undoubtedly much lower, would have
called forth a clamour from one end of the agricultural
body to the other ; but they are now used to it, they take
it patiently—kr this reason among others, that too many
of them dare not talk too loudly of their failing circum-
stances, lest they should draw those creditors upon them
whom they have not the means of satisfying. Such is the
blessed result of that protecting system, for which the
farmer has so long clamoured and talked, and for which,
if opportunity se. ved, he would talk and clamour still.
" Laissez nous-fuire," said the wise traders of France
to Colbert, `• Laissez-nous faire"—(Let us alone), but
the farmers of England would not be let alone—they would
have protecting duties, even if they had taxes more than
enough to counterbalance them, until being pushed up by
one, and pressed down by the other, they have had, between
the two, the very life-blood squeezed out of their bodies.