The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-16 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16,

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will hove recourse to everx tdatational eilbrt to prey
vent thti, ilgeiNgeilat and that Legidattire frbni ,qtly
• d Lqng,,pl.,reating taai„,cause wivo cvii,c,mpt n
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tlaVing tavocateu filet:al.:se Ca iiieameUltui.ists through
r.i'V7ll Tepart and though geiiid,repoit for years past,
as a 'cause intiniately 99nntete'd,
the rikti6l A We., 4'6 rejoice to observe tbe public
si,ecnabth which now collects aroUnd and.
guided, as we trust 'it ai1:6:664d anti
enerv,
,Ant.4t oii to ctiscomfit the unpatriotic—the
t‘ii-LngliSh party, who could see thelilowli i4ttinj iii
the up.finished furrow-L="44 1k(),14t..4(tt 9,31 Lt ;nods-
try sivkintr 9:18 liiinthe ctiltiVator of the Oil ecin
qi\eti to the gaol or die I,Vdrklibilsed. Anil the I.lc.'•atitiftil
fields of Engllnd Made dCtAilaii:l, for the benefit Of
and the advantage of the,fOreigner rr4
rear friends of the, agricidtUriftS Wiii iidt;Oe th
action above 'All OikOtr--ist was by such unity that the
inhOikilViis of towns carried the repeal of the ItOnSe
tax. Therefore did we diligge, Ot the advice given
by the Marquis of Chandos to the landed interest and
the farmers, to avoid identifying the question of agri-
cultural distress with the question of the currency.
The broadest basis for moving Parliament to institute
an inquiry into the causes of the distress should be
taken. When a Committee is granted, then will be
the proper time to offer evidence as to the CaUses. If,
as we believe, the Currency Bill is one of the great
causes of the low prices of produce under a heavy
pressure of taxation, evidence to that effect can ate
given ; or if it can he shown, on the other hand, that
the Currency Bill is not one of the causes of agricul=
tural distrees, then will the mind of d large portion of
society be disabused of an error that, in the present
state of things, becomes more prevalent every day.
Independently of the Currency question, there are
many matters worthy the consideration of a Parliamen-
tary Committee, as connected with the relief, or, at
least, the mitigation of the distresses of the agrieultu=
rists. We alluded the other day to a more equitable
arrangement of the land tax—besides which, the com-
mutation of tithe—...the mitigation of the local burdens
of the former, consisting of County-rates, Stc., and a
poor law for Ireland, ought all to be taken into the aca
count. It is Well enough rok Mr. Spring Rice, our
very superficial Chancellor of the Exchequer, to tithi-
tit the-returns of Irish produce exported to this coun-
try, as proofs of the prosperity of Ireland. But when
we hear periodically of thousands of the Irish popula-
lation dying of famine in the midst of plenty, we look
at those returns as most melancholy evidence of Irish
destitution and misery. If the great mass of the Irish
population had the means of becoming consumers of
their fair proportion of the corn, the bacon, the but-
ter, etc., produced in that country, the markets of this
country would not be inundated with Irish corn and
other produces All these matters, as connected with
the question of agricultural distress, are proper sub-
jects of inquiry before a Committee of Parliament, and
we hope the " Central Agricultural Association,"
though confining their efforts, in the first instance, to
obtaining a Select Committee upon agricultural dis-
tress, will keep them in view, and be prepared with
such information as may be made available to the
elucidation of the truth during the progress of a Le-
gislative inquiry.—Morning Herald.
We give in a-preceding column a letter of Sir Francis
Burdett to the electors of Westminster, which is worthy
of perusal. This and the other recent productions of
the Hon. Baronet acquire an additional interest from
the Liliputian flippancies to which some of the Minis-
terial Journals resort, in the vain hope that the vigo-
rous and manly sense by which they are distinguished
can be overcome by arms so superlatively small. Sir
Francis Burdett may have made some of his moves
not precisely en r?gle ; and what then ? Sir Francis
may have selected as the medium of his communications
a Journal which the Whigs loved while it wrought
with them, and hate, now that, with a conscience
slowly convinced, it can work with them no longer ;
and what then ? Sir Francis may have given the pub-
lic the advantage of knowing his sentiments through
the
.Press, when, according to etiquette, he should first
have tried the chance, forlorn as it was, of moving the
managers of Brookes's in a manner more direct to- a
manifestation of gentlemanly and English spirit ; and
what then ? Sir Francis may be,,of a temper too im-
patient to wait till February for 4n opportunity of
showing that he has..no community of feeling with
one who abjures and derides the laws and usages of
society ; and what then ? The honourable impatience
of an English gentleman to cast off all suspicion of
belonging to the same class. as Mr. O'Connell may
well be _pardoned ; and it is not by dwelling on any.
supposed irregularity to which that impatience may
have given birth, that the O'Connell Journals can
reasonably hope to divert the attention of the British
public from the main subject. The 'question will still
remain, whatever offence the Club may deem it politic
to take at the course pursued by Sir Francis Burdett—
whether Mr. O'Connell is a fit companion for English
gentlemen. This is a question which we regret to see
some of the Whig Journals evade by every artifice of
rhetorical ingenuity. We do not ask if Mr. O'Connell
is a fit companion for some other of the members of
Brookes's Club. It is probable that he is. We will
not insult the great body of English Whigs by asking
if Mr. O'Connell is a fit companion for them, for we
feel assured that he is not, although some of our con-
temporaries, who profess to represent them, pay them the
compliment of insisting that he is so. What we askis,
whether Mr. O'Connell can be regarded, afterall that has
passed, as. a fit companion for English gentlemen ?
This is the question that .Sir Francis Burdett has
raised. and raised in such a manner that it will cer-
tainly be decided by the public, however the journals
in the interest of the O'Connell section of the Ministry
may labour to perplex and obscure it. It is a question
which; even without the light which Sir Francis Bur-
dett has the merit of having thrown upon the subject,
would not have been very difficult to answer. We
thank the Hon. Baronet, however, for having illumi-
nated it as he has done, and for having braved, in
doing so, the hostility and malice of that division of
the Whigs who are willing to submit to any association,
however degraded, for the chance of remaining in office.
The fitness of Mr. O'Connell for the association
of gentlemen is entirely independent, we beg to
observe, of the judgment which may be formed of
the course pursued by Sir Francis Burdett.. It is
no vindication of the former to say that the latter
has denounced him in a manner and form which
may be justly charged with irregularity or indiscretion.
Supposing that Sir Francis had disqualified himself as
an accuser, do the O'Connell section of the Ministerial
party flatter themselves that this circumstance can im-
prove Mr. O'Connell's position or their's'? Do not
the character and conduct of Mr. O'Connell still re-
main as distant as ever from those which have hitherto
been supposed to entitle a man to admission into re-
spectable or decent society ? And do that portion
of the Ministry and its retainers who, for the love
of place, cleave to Mr. O'Connell, entertain• so
mean an opinion of the great body of the Whigs
as to suppose that Sir Francis Burdett were
to withdraw to-morrow from the field, no member
of Brookes's Club would be left with sense and
spirit enough to feel and to express any sense 'of
degradation from a companionship so unworthy
'as that which has excited the loathing and contempt
of the I-lon. Baronet ? We invite our readers to a
perusal of Sir Francis Burdett's letter, because it ex-
hibits a specimen of the feelings which the character
and conduct of Mr. O'Connell cannot fail to excite in
every manly and honourable bosom. What is more
especially addressed to those electors of Westminster,
who formerly supported and now oppose the Hon.
Baronet, is of little importance. The persons whom
it is apparently intended to convince of their error are
at once so insignificant and so incorrigible, that to be-
stow any pains upon them were equally derogatory and
useless. Such persons pursue their natural instinct
when they desert Sir Francis Burdett, to range them-
selves under the banner of Mr. O'Connell. All that
the former has to regret is, that he had ever anything
to do with them.—Morning Post.

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controul.

PRICES OF C,ANALS,pocK sTOcKs,
surtiASzeE Comp NNIPg; 816. &c. &c.

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Number Dividend , , kr: ee
of CANALS,
per, , .., . , ,ppr
hares NAnnum.,, ~• ~. ~, t ~, . , . , paid.. Share.
1,7110 61 Pe, cent. Ashton and Oldham ....Average 97i.155;01).
ti-W1 61.! . sl4ll,Wtleile-Zoucli . ''Avervre 1131. sh. Ca
igo
1,935 , Si. ~ lkeckuock ;;nd Auerg,:t.'!.:?,,,t,.....74ph, 0. 85 ,
1,0013 sh. 121., Aos. rirai4g)lani, 4 sliAre,..4 • .4":'.. in. 241
4.9°,,, )1t Go and, Li, pool ~,1tinct....1,1,41/. sh. all pd 6,1
Tl° ....., ..,.'..!!,P":.',-.'o';.....nilt'Venn,t,c4n ...:100/. sh, All nd 61
01 14. Cbclrnerand tiiactivW.r.n.' .. :,. .... ... ..101/, 01. 10K
50Q 421.. CovFiltr,y •• • - „:
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.. :-. +.{,r .k, .
4,5116. .4r 4 ~, . qtoyd<Ni '' ''' ' ' 'average 31/. 9.i.10,1 ,i).
,":!,- ',12!.:!,:11; tio,l!-Ir '" ' ' " - ' ' 101. sh. 79
_.,, 11')) 6/. Der by , •!“ ; 1 , 1 floi •,,
~i, I:20
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20'000 -• • Danute and,Mavne " e 4,1 13f. 44. 51, ad 51
3;57354 ~',,,'' Elle irriere and Chester " A.verage 133 i. S.l. )R5
7, , ,431. yr y..,..,5ii
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•4,2117 ‘2`,11. r 6-i ...V. iitti f';',*l. ;the .1" AV crage 441(,..1. ,r;,s; sh. 600
11,7,09, 121. 'rand itine."--` ... .......... • . /11/7,.*.101/i ili. 23‘;
f,',9491 , (hang( Pni,,,.0 10,)4 al/. 24,1
1;14 1- ..:: . ::...; 1 (ip,:kl§tirKe/ ..
..
loq. sh.
20,0001, 4/. per c6ilt. ...t•ri (..71,tin' An T;oan • " - , " 1(N/.
3,1116 (Iran,' Weverii "'''ll 0, r), j iIT pd 20
... finC 131. 12s. 2d. (11am-rg,anshire, Average cost 172/. ~A 10i 480,
yilc:::,:..: (Alourfer and Berkley 19'1. sh. 10
4-. I. 'lt/41 yiiiff ;;; "'' 150/. sh. 202
6,233 11. 10s --rddt.tl2 ../9 .1' ' '"'" vehige sfif, Os. 6.1 sh. 341
loa Kensington , "'V' ,f111,511,,q1,i ro, 10
21,:',9 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 391. Si. 190. ••50: 4,144
2,1.1nt 40t; :eeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 1739
513 141 tejee:liet l4Ol. sh. •
07 41, .4.,1,'414.1 and 44)rtithatnp:on...Aver 2331. Ins. .79
5,53 ht per cent. Liskedfd and ..ride ildiana,..23l. O. all pd.
70 144/. Lou gli!,nrcitigli
2,499 9J, MniirrinUtllShire .i • - ii -, fee, 911. ISO
239 Ot. leittin Mowbray• •.. .• • • 100/. sh. 1181
Pf 11", /31; 11 efsey and iritell • .....,, •• • ••100/. sir: s,§l
3,000 ~•, ••• Macclesfield • • .4.100/. sh. all pd. 56
247 15/. Scatli.-• - • • •. • • - -41901. sh 300
Itifi ;
.!„ i., Tighe llailgation 1/Onds .‘,lOOl. sh. 1001, 14. 190
1,138 i:t2't „ Oxford - 4 11,11(1 • • -,,10 P/, sh; OP
022 . 4. tkliam ..... ,
~,liki 41; Oak hifest f.,../ ...,,Average about 7,11. Ob. led
21,418 14s. egent'e pit I A)titidu) Aver. 811. 10s. 86. sh. ,11
5.(111/ St pet cent. ROchilaie - • - •A.Verage 851, sli. 141
500 Si. Shtrlpshite •- • • 1261, sh. 140
Still Itit, ' Payak,r6kt Coal .. - • • 150/. sll. lht
45,V00/. 61 per cent Ditto Lock t 11•11 fl BtoC* a• ••• 121. 103. sh. 1t
700 . 304 Staffiird and Worcester' ...4.4,14://:::1441/. sh. 690
500 11/. Shrewsbury /26/, ei?„ '245
111111 rt, PltOrfritridge •,a.,
3,017 11.10 s. Stratfotd-Oft.AVoil ~,Average 791.95. 841. sh. 1441
533 131. Swansea
kli2ll, Severn and Wye and Railway ...At 95/, sh. 171
2, )0 sit. 32/. 19s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sll. 620
8,1 9 Thames and Dledway... Aver. 19/. ss. Bd. sh. 15
1,0003h•l ) ir, Warwick and Vleinlngbotri toot. sh. 280
1,01;01s11..5 '
NO /2.. Warwick and•Napton ,riti NV, 51). 420
11,000 St 10) Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 78/. flt Stf. 8.5
54000 4.55. Wilts and Ilerki .. Average 67!. 10s. 80. all. 40
Mo 01, Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 73
1213 ...... Wisbeacli • • ..... ..105/. sh. 45
905 11. Wey and Arun llOl. sir. 221