The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-26 00:00:00

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by establishing ber incapacity to reign, as hMas
two daughters besides Donna MARIA, on the
eldest of whom the succession would devolve
in the event of the decease or dethronement of
the present QUEEN.

Don PEDRO may be an ambitious man, and
his ambition, like that of his brother, may at
times have a criminal tendency ; but persons who
know him thoroughly say he is not a fool. Now,
who but a fool would think of acting as Don
PEDRO is said to be desirous of acting in the
present state of Portugal ? The whole
country, with the exception of two large
towns and their immediate vicinity is held by his
brother chiefly through the effect of the calum-
nies which represent PEDRO as being actuated by
criminal as well as violent passions, and would he,
at such a moment, by his own conduct, stamp
authenticity upon these statements, and not only
confirm the suspicions which are entertained in the
province, but also raise against himself a powerful
party among the honest and independent por-
tion of the inhabitants of Lisbon and Oporto ?
1 The malice of the report is hardly so great as its
absurdity. It is right to add that it has reached
our Government through a demi-official source
not of the purest character, and that the Tories,
having become acquainted with this fact, have
not hesitated to assert that Ministers have ob-
tained the full assurance that Don PEDRO
really contemplates the dethronement of his
daughter. When Lord PALMERSTON shall
make up his mind to send no more Tory am-
bassadors abroad, he and his colleagues will be
no longer misled by such ridiculous communica-
tions.

We understand that the Earl of DURHAM
will, in consequence of ill health, leave England,
in the course of a fortnight, for the Continent.
His departure will set at rest the rumours of his
being about to join the Ministry. Indeed, if
the Noble Earl were willing to take office, we
do not see how, after his recent liberal declara-
tions, he could do so without some material
modifications of the Cabinet. The accession
of the Noble Earl to the more liberal portion
of the Ministry, may not, however, be very
distant, notwithstanding his intended departure
for the Continent.

The Spanish mail arrived this morning. The
accounts from Gibraltar, from Cadiz, and from
the principal places of the south of Spain, con-
tinue to state that tranquillity exists, and that
there is not even the appearance of any rising
in favour of Don CARLOS. The QUEEN'S
Government has become very popular in the
southern provinces, on account of remission of
duties on commerce ; particularly at Cadiz, in

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abolishing the gate duties, which were very
heavy upon goods imported.

Some sensation has, it seems, been created in
the City by a paragraph in one of the Morning
Papers of this day, announcing that most of the
Ministers were gone on a visit to the Duke of
BEDFORD, at Woburn Abbey. The specula-
tors are at a loss to conceive what important
circumstance have led to this visit. They will
find on reference to The Run of vpstprd.v.
that tliscussing politics at
Woburn, are on a shooting party, and that they
will discuss nothing in the country but pheasants
and partridges.

Of all the exquisite pieces of doltish absurdity
it can WI to the lot of a journalist of the nine-
teenth century to record, none can excel a dis-
play made last week by certain landowners of
the county of Bucks. It is indeed so rich of
its kind, that the idea has once or twice passed
through our minds that the Windsor Express,
which narrates it, has been hoaxed by some
clever rascal who owes the gentlemen of Bucks
a grudge, and has taken this mode of bringing
them into contempt. The object and motives
of the meeting to which we allude, are thus
detailed by our provincial contemporary :

" On Tuesday last, according to notice, a public meet-
ing of the owners and occupiers of land in the counties of
Bucks and Berks was held at the Windmill Inn, Salthill,
to consider the expediency of the proposed railroads from
London to Bristol, and from London to Windsor.
" The knowledge of its beim!, the intention of the
directors of these roads to apply to Parliament at the next
se,sion, for an Act to carry into execution their intended
plans, had caused great sensation among the owners and
occupiers of land through whose Grounds it was the in-
tention of the Company to direct their line of road. The
farmers imagined that no great advantages could be
rendered them through the introduction of such a plan,
for this neighbourhood being an agricultural district had,
therefore, no manufactut, a to export, as Manchester had ;
and, as to the imports, it was likely that the produce of
Ireland would be largely sent to the metropolis, by the
cheap facility of carriage afforded to the Irish farmer, and
could be nn other than injurious to the agriculturists in
these counties, besides the peat havoc and destruction it
must naturally commit upon their estates and lands."

This is no libel, except in so far as it is true ;

or it actually appears, by the proceedings of the
meeting, that there are things having the faculty
of speech, and therefore complimented as be.
longing to the rational part of the creation, who,
i❑ the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three,
talked of the injury that would result to them
from facility of communication between the
metropolis and the remoter parts of the empire !
The meeting, we are told, was numerously
attended by the nobility and gentry of the
neighbourhood. Lord ORKNEY, who has
property in the county, and who takes in this
matter an enlightened view of his own interest,
stated to them the advantages that would accrue
to the whole line :of country through which the
railway was to pass. He represented to them
that many hands in his neighbourhood were now
out of employment, from mills having ceased to
work ; that the mills might possibly be set to work
again, if they could get coals carried to Maidet;-
head for 2s. per ton, instead of 125., the sum
now paid ; that, at any rate, they would have
the benefit of employing their idle hands in the
construction of the railway ; that they should
get all commodities at a cheaper rate ; that it
would enable them to take their produce to
market cheaper and quicker ; that poor rates
would he lessened, that the rents would be raised,
&c. But all would not do; the farmers of
Buckinghamshire have got it into their wise
heads that they will be injured by facilitating the
arrival of provisions from Ireland to the London

market, and a mathematical demonstration to the
contrary would not, probably, move the com-
posed ignorance upon which they rest. Some
days back we referred to the opposition which
landowners in the neighbourhood of London
raised to the improvement of the communications
with the metropolis years ago ; but we referred
to it as to a matter of history, as to a matter with
respect to which the eyes of ever) one were now
open. We acknowledge that this was a capital
blunder, for it requires but a second thought to
show that the men who oppose the introduction of
corn from abroad under the idea of being in-
jured by the prosperity it would occasion in our
manufactures, must in like manner oppose its
introduction from any where else. Accord.
ingly, the farmers of Bucks, by their good will,
would deny every part of the country, except
Buckinghamshire, the power of supplying the
metropolis with provisions. A philosopher of
antiquity, whom the Bucks farmers certainly do
not resemble, has said, " Bray a fool in a mortar,
and he will still turn out a fool." We should
have said that the case of these gentlemen was
equally hopeless, that even grinding them
tinder the wheels of a steam-carriage would
not convince them of its power, did we
not see that the landowners near London, at
least, are convinced that they have not suffered
by the free introduction of food into the metro-
polis, and that the people of Bridgewater,—as
Mr. ROBARTS on Tuesday told his incredulous,
because ignorant hearers,—who, when the Man-
chester and Liverpool Railroad Bill was intro-
duced into Pa:Ex:lc:sat, oppo;Gd the measure
most strenuously, on account of the line o►` road
passing through the town, are now strongly in
its favour. But although these are proofs that
the peculiar•minded race who oppose all the
improvements which reason suggests, have really
some ideas in common with those around them,
have some glimmering of what is their interest
when put within an inch of their noses, although
invisible to them at a distance of two inches,—
although we say these striking facts do present
themselves to us, it is clear that the advocates

of a free trade in food will have a hard task in
their attempts to enlighten their opponents. A
specimen of some of the balderdash swallowed
by the Salthill meeting, will serve to show the
deplorable ignorance both of the utterer and
the audience which could hear it with patience.
A. Mr. MAURICE SWABEY has the honour of
fathering the following select bits:—

" The people of Bristol tv, re not to blame for thus en-
deavouring to get up a railroad. It was no mere than
the county of Bucks would do, under similar circum-
stances. He had resided at Clifton, near Bristol, and was
nit unacquainted with their views. He bad some know-
ledge of the county of Gloucester, and could speak of her
grievances. Bristol was anxious to get her trade back
again, which she now had so little of, and this road would
be the means of relieving her of her burdens. Many
gentlemen in Gloucestershire would assist in the forma-
tion of the road, but under present circumstances, that
assistance could be but little. Bucks would thus confer
more benefits on Gloucestershire, than Gloucestershire
could grant to Bucks. Some gentlemen argue that the
railroad would confer great benefits upon Bueks, by the
employment of those out of work. It might employ
many in want of something to do, but the evil would
be very great ultimately. The general accounts re-
specting the rates in Bucks state them to be very
high ; but do they expect that, in return, Bristol
will come forward to assist them ? Instead of
to the expenses. Not only would those unemployed
in the neighbourhood be put to work, but there would be
a large influx of labourers from different parts cf England,
nay, even Ireland ! Beer-shops would be increased, and,
instead of giving assistance to the different tradesmen round
the neighbourhood, they would resort to the beer houses,
where their morals and habits would become depraved, to
the great injury of the neighbourhood around. Gen-
tlemen in that room would soon perceive the dif.
ferenee. It would be giving employment to a num-
ber of persons of the lowest class, such as navigators, Irish
labourers, and others, who would flock to these counties.
One class of persons would, he thought, benefit by the
road—the innkeepers. The railroad going through Slough,
Colnbrook, &c., would enable the tradesmen to send to
town much quicker, but that, he considered, was no
particular advantage. The principal advantage, again,
might be urged—that it would afford the produce of
Ireland, which is freighted across to Bristol in the num-
berless vessels, to proceed from that port to London much
quicker. But the farmers of this county had the produce
of their own land. It might cause the produce of Ire-
land to be sold cheaper, but what assistance would that be to
the farmer? Even if Parliament should grant the Act,
he could see nothing beneficial in the plan, but could
view it in no other light than as a visionary scheme.
It was benefiting Bristol at the expense of Bucks and
Berks. It was regaining for Bristol what she had already
lost. He had no hesitation in coming to these conclu-
sions, for what was benefiting Bristol was destructive to
them. Buckinghamshire was an agricultural county, and
not a manufacturing county, and for that reason he ob.
jected to it."

The trash is too sickening for us to go on fur-
ther. The meeting concluded by a subscription
being made to defray the expenses of a committee,
which should oppose the Bill, and the expression
of a wish for the county Members to aid it.

Phrenologists propose to discover the capacities
of men by examining and comparing the degree
of development in certain parts of the skull, but
. .

the Bucks farmers have a much readier method
of discovering the fitness of candidates to re-

present them. They have only to put them in
a row, take a yard rule, measure off the length
of their ears, and the question is resolved to a

icety.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

HAY M A RKETS.—(A t per Load of 36 Trusses.)
C UM BERL AND.
A limited supply, and a steady trade; prices as last quoted.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to .t 3 10
Vew Meadow Hay 3 15 4 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 13 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 5 4 10
Clover Hay
4 5 4 10
Oat Straw......£l 6to £1 8 I Wheat Straw , 1 8 1 10

SMITHFIELD.
Supply tolerably good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
Coarse neavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
qew Meadow Hay 3 10 4 5
Useful Old Ditto
3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay .....
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 0 ..Generally ,„ 3 5 4 10
oat Straw ... XI 4to X 1 6 1 Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10

We are concerned to state that on Monday
evening last some miscreant set fire to a large bean rick,
standing in the rick yard of Mr. William Phillip., at
Bicester, in this county. A reward of 501. has been
offered by the inhabitants of Bicester, on conviction of the
diabolical incendiary.— Oxford Journal.

An immense shoal of pilchards passed within
a quarter of a mile of St. Ives Head, on Sunday last, sup-
posed to extend not less than two miles in length, and
being of considerable depth. There were not many of
the scans in readiness, and but three catches were made ;
had the pilchards appeared on any other day, it is be-
lieved that a quantity would have been taken sufficient to
fill all the cellars in the place.—The Mount's Bay seans
were put out, and have been on the alert ever since; but
though large shoals of fish were seen off the coast, they
did not approach sufficiently near to enable the seans to
shoot. One of the driving-boats took ten, and another
took five hogsheads of pilchards on Tuesday night; some
of the other boats took smaller quantities.—Devonport
Telegraph.