The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-25 00:00:00

.Idgese warrant, to wbiell bail can be put in; the'otlier to
itoue a Writ such as O. at ti t.ich has been served upon
Jollie, and tr; ahict 17,31, :i1 can be admiited. The
Prosecutor has chosen the lager cour.e; and on Wednes-
tit), last, Mrs. Jollie, a widow, the mother of five children,
Was placed in the goal of Carlisle, where (unless relieved
°Y certain motions now pending in the King's Bench) she
!bust remain until the Bth of January next ! We dare
llnt trust ourselves to speak of this act, nor of the manner
in Which it has been executed, as our feelings prompt.
the public will not fail, however, to see it in its true light.
" Such a proceeding is almost unprecedented. even
'earned counsel being unaware of the practice,—the usual
and almost invariable rule being to proceed by judge's
Warrant." _ _

We are inclined to hope that Lord LONS-
LIALE cannot be cognizant of this proceeding,
and that his law agents libel him by supposing
that this " sharp practice" (which so looks like
a desire to be revenged upon one defendant for
the escape of the other) will be agreeable to
him• But at any rate we may ask, whether that
law ought to go unamended, which allows a
Private individual to inflict at his discretion a
Punishment of six weeks or two months for an
offence which the Judges might think sufficiently
met by a trifling fine, or imprisonment for one
tomb.

It is with regret that we notice the revival of
Incendiary fires throughout the country. To-
lay we give accounts of a few of them, but
not a day has passed for some weeks without
our having intelligence from some part or other
01 the country, of outrages of this description.
The main proximate cause of attacks upon pro-
perty by large bodies of the people is distress,
itrises from want of employment, that is, from a
deficiency of food. Putting aside the abuses of
the poor laws, and the inevitable tendency they
have to produce the excess of labouring popula-
tion now so severely felt in many of the southern
counties, let us see what can be done to relieve
the country of the excess of people independent
°f the free admission of foreign corn in return
for their labour. The opponents of a free trade
.41 corn are divided upon the question of whether
It is better to encourage emigration or discourage
It. Lord GODERICH, it will be remembered, in
°Pposing Earl FITZWILLIAM'S resolutions upon
the corn laws, whilst he denied that the want of
food was felt, urged that those who were dis-
tressed for it, found a refuge in the colonies,
Which would be cut off from them if foreign
torn were allowed them in England. The argu-
tnent was rather inconsistent with itself, but
still we may gather from it, that Lord GODERICH
thought it politic to get rid of men whose
hungry bellies might prompt their hands to
desperate deeds. The other class of the corn
monopolists, however, boldly contend that there
.14 no excess of population, and are now exert-
ing themselves to the uttermost to employ the
4gricultural poor in the cultivation of land. Mr.
MILL, in his article on Colonies, originally pub-
lished in the Supplement to the Encyclopedia
13ritannica, but now incorporated into the seventh
'Polume of the new edition of that great work,
has some observations upon this fancy of theirs,
which they may benefit by. They are in part
quoted by the able author of " England and
America." Speaking of the very great error into
Which the class of opponents of the free ad-
inission of food, to whom we refer, have fallen,
Mr. MILL says:—

"The explanation of the phenomena is easy ; but it is
!leo of the highest importance. When the supply of food
too small for the population, the deficiency op-rates, in
modern Europe, in a manner different from that in which
It operated in ancient Greece. In modern Europe the
greatest portion of the food is bought by the great body
''f the people. What the great body of the people have to
give for it, is nothing but lab,ur. When the quantity of
d is not sufficient for all, and when serve are in danger
4f not getting any, each man is induced, in order to secure
4 Portion to himself, to give better terms for it than any
ether men, that is, more labour. In other words, that
Part of the population who have nothing to rive for food
but labour, take less wages. This is the primary effect,
Ik`ar, immediate, certain. It is only requisite farther to
trace the secondary or derivative effects.

" When we say, that in the case in which the supply of
Tod has become too small for the population, the great
body of the people take less wages, that is, less fo,A, for
their labour, we mean that they take less than is neees-
tory for comfortable subsistence; because they would only
Ilkee what is necessary for comfortable subsistence in the
N. in which the supply of food is not too small fur the
ttlaole.

" The effect, then, of a disproportion between the food
and the population, is not to feed to the full measure that
l:ortion of the population which it is sufficient to feed, and
leave the redundant portion destitute ; it is to take, ac-
'ording to a certain rate, a portion of his due quantity
from each individual of that great class who have nothing
to
give for it but ordinary labour.

•y, " What this state of things imports is most easily seen.
e great class who have nothing to give for food but
4dinary labour, are the great body of the people. When
every individual in the great body of the people has less
than the due quantity of food, less than would fall to his
share if the quantity of food were not too small for the
population, the state of the great body of the people is the
%tate of sordid, painful, and degrading poverty. They are
tetetchedly fed, wretchedly clothed, have wretched houses,
44d neither time nor means to keep either their houses or
their persons free from disgusting impurity. Those of them
*6, either from bodily infirmities, have less than the
erdinary quantity of labour to bestow, or, from the state
el their families, need a greater than the ordinary quantity
of food, are condemned to starve; either wholly, if they
i'lkve not enough to keep them alive, or partially, if they
44ve enough to yield them a lingering, diseased, and, after
411, a shortened existence.
"What the ignorant and vulgar spectator sees in all this
I, not a redundant population, it is only a poor population.
He sees nobody without food who has enough to give for
To his eye, therefore, it is not food which is wanting,
but that which is to be given for it. When events suc-
ceed in this train, and are viewed with these eyes, there
sever can appear to be a redundancy of population."

So there appears no redundancy in the eyes
of the SADLER School, and so there appears to
the incendiaries in different parts of the country,
not a want of food, for that they destroy,
but a want of the means of purchasing food,
and they accordingly attack the owners of pro-
Perty to make them give higher wages. The
Only effect of this, if there were an absolute pro-
hibition of foreign corn, would be to cause them
to have food at the expense of some one else.
They would merely put some one else in the
Position of leading " a lingering, diseased, and
Shortened existence," but as it is the effect is to
Cause an additional importation of foreign corn,
for which the manufacturer who buys it gives
more than he ought. Mr. MILL then proceeds
to show why it is that a redundancy of popula-
tion was-seen at once in ancient Greece, and is
hardly acknowledged in England, where thou-
sands are stinted in food :
"In ancient Greece, the greatest portion of the food
%vas not bought by the great body o. the people ; the state
Of whom, wretched or comfortable, legislation has never
Yet been wise enough much to regard. All manual labour,
at least, the far greatest portion of it, was pet formed,
nOt by free labourers serving for wages, but by slavts, who