The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-24 00:00:00

We give in another column a memorial ad-
dressed to Mr. OWEN, the philanthropist, by
certain Members of the Sheffield Regeneration
Society, which he had established. We should
with great pleasure have inserted it on Tuesday
last, had not the parcel in which it was sent
miscarried. Its object is to show the futility of
Mr. OWEN'S scheme for regenerating society ;
and it is impossible not to feel that it attains
that object most completely. We hope, however,
that it will have the much more important effect
of making the landowners aware of their true
position. There is no concealing the fact that,
in spite of the losses they themselves sustain
both directly and in4from the corn laws,
the impression is be lxed in the minds of
the labouring classes that it is to the cupidity
of the owners of land they are to attribute their
own increasing wretchedness. And have they not
reason for so thinking ? Those that are mar-
ried find they cannot get food sufficient to sup-
port themselves and families in return for the
labour they are willing to give. Those who are
unmarried feel that, from the operation of the
same causes, the taking a partner, instead of
bringing increase of comfort and happiness, will
produce to them augmented misery. They can
make cloth to an unlimited extent ; but have
not food : their neighbours have corn ; but are
naked. Both are willing to make the exchange
that will so improve the condition of both ;
but the owner of land steps in between
them and forbids the barter, fancying that
his half-starved fellow-countrymen, wrought to
death, prohibited from marrying, or enjoying
any of the comforts of life, must be a better cus-
tomer than if permitted to increase and multiply
upon corn brought from abroad ! Can it be
matter of astonishment, we say, that the working
classes, seeing these things, should begin to con-
sider the laws of the landowners as having been
made for their own benefit alone ? The hints
the memorial contains of the state of desperation
to which the victims of the corn laws are re-
duced, should be taken by the monopolists as
warnings of the violence of the flood, which
will sweep them away if they permit it
to accumulate by further opposition. It is
when we consider the ruin and desolatio

which would fall upon the innocent as well as
upon the guilty from a sudden outbreaking of a
long enduring people, that we particularly rejoice
at the formation of the Anti-Corn Law Societies,
which are all over the country collecting and
guiding public opinion. It is this combination
of the middle classes—of those who feel the
effect of the corn laws in the diminished pro-
fits of capital, in the difficulty of settling their
sons and daughters in life, with those who feel
their effect in the more pressing form of a diffi-
culty in saving themselves from starvation, that

gives us our hope of the bread-tax being
safely as well as surely removed. The
enlightened portion of the agriculturists them-
selves, know that compelling their senseless

partners to open their eyes to the danger which
threatens them is the only safe course left open
to them. The following paragraph, taken from
the morning papers, contains a statement which
we hope to see made of other agricultural
districts:—

" An agricultural meeting was held on Tuesday at Cow-
bridge, Herefordshire, Colonel Morgan, of Landough
Castle, in the chair, to petition Parliament for the repeal
of the corn laws. Several gentlemen spoke on the sub-
ject, and a committee having been appointed to carry the
objects of the meeting into effect, the parties separated."
We are sorry that we have not a more de-
tailed report of the proceedings, for the speeches
coming from persons interested exclusively in land
must have appealed to the reason of farmers,—an
appeal likely to be of more avail, now that their
fears compel them to listen, than heretofore,
when they rested in ignorant security upon their
imaginary " protection."

It is stated that the rate of the proposed in.
corporation of this borough will exceed 2,5001. per
annum. The inhabitants of Dudley are about to petition
against the incorporation of that place on account of the
expense.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
The papers from Freemantle, Western Aus-
tralia, to the 21st of August, show the astonishing high
price of their colonial productions, mutton being Is. 6d.
per lb. ; fowls, sa. each ; fresh butter, 35. per lb. ; po-
tatoes, 4d. per lb. ; pork, Is. 6d. per lb. ; eggs, 43. per
dozen s hay, 101. per ton ; and vegetables, 3d, per dish.
There was no fresh beef.

A very violent storm, attended with vivid
flashes of lightning and tremendous peals of thunder, was
experienced in this neighbourhood early on Sunday morn.
ing, which is rather extraordinary, considering the season
of the year. 7he wind was very boisterous, so much so
that at Woolwich three sentry boxes were blown down
with their inmates.—Maidstone Journal.

We understand the subject of the " acted
Oratorio" this Lent at Covent•garden is to be Jephtha's
Daughter, which subject Alia Jtophino Lacy is at present
engaged upon, selecting appropriate introductions, chiefly
from Handel.

A few days ago a hare, perfectly white, was
coursed and killed near Penkridge, by a dog belonging to a
gentleman at Wolverhampton.

Mr. Combe mentions a porter who, when
drunk, left a parcel at a wrong door; on becoming sober,
be was told of his mistake, but could not remember what
he had done with it until the next time he got drunk,
when he at once called to mind the house, and went and
recovered the parcel.

The country papers from all parts of the
island contain paragraphs exemplifying the extraordinary
mildness of the weather in the early appearance of flowers
and vegetables.

EXTRAORDINARY MILDNESS OF THE
SEASON.—At the village of Stourton Caundle there is at
this time a peach tree in full and perfect blossom, and,
what is still more extraordinary, it faces a North Eastern
aspect, and is of the late kind, which does not commonly
blossom before the month of May. The blossom has been
standing for the last fortnight,— Sherborne Journal.
,PETER SIMPLE AT COURT.---All illustrious
personage is said to have perused Capt. Marryat's amusing
adventures of " Peter Simple" with a peculiar relish, many
of the scenes depicted having a locale which, from early
habits and associations must be dwelt upon with consider.
able pleasure even in his present mired station.
At Brussels, (luring the last year, there were
3,983 births—namely, 2,052 males, and 1,931 females;
866 marriages, and 1 divorce; and 4,277 deaths, viz.
2,092 males, and 2,185 females.

we are convinced that our readers' disgust at the
idea of a " messenger of peace" doing his best
to cherish the seeds of dissension between state
and state, will render any remarks of ours super-
fluous.

We refer our readers to the letter of " Inves-
tigator" on Friendly Societies, inserted in another
column. The animus appears to us sufficiently
interesting to induce discussion.