The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-25 00:00:00

RENT.-FARMERS.-FALLACIES.

(Abridged from the Herts 17rformen)
" The politics of the farmer," said Mr. Cayley, at the
York Agricultural Association, -" arc these :—When he
finds that his produce would not sell at such a price as paid
for his labour, and met his rent, then ought he to raise his
voice, and contend for his birth-right,—offering up his
prayers to the Legislature for a redress of his grievances."
Very pretty farming politics, truly ! Very convenient poli-
ties both for landlord and tenant ! The land is let at a
higher rate than the present price of farming produce will
admit of. The landlord exacts his rent, and the farmer is a
loser by his bargain ; and the farmer is, thereupon, to peti-
tion the Legislature to make up to him, in some shape or
other, the difference; because the produce will not pay his
rent, and enable him to live with what he thinks proper
convenience and comfort ! He might as well petition for a
grant of the public money because the turnip crop has
failed this- year, and the grass has been wry short, in con-
sequence of the dry weather. The one is just as much his
birth-right as an Englishman as the other ; and Mr. Cayley
must have a very poor opinion of the common sense of his
fellow-countrymen, if he thinks that such absurdities will
pass current for a moment amongst us.
Profits are low now in every branch of trade—how -can
we expect them to be high with us ? Land, in the war
time, produced 33 and 40 per-tent. ; it now hardly pro-
tluces 3 ; yet out of this 3 per cent. the Landlord expects
to receive the same rent. Rents, where they have -been
kept up to. any thing approaching to the war standard, must
come down, and land be re-valued, if requisite, throughout
the Kingdom. But this is a matter of private, not of Par-
liamentary, adjustment. Fair play, and legal security in all
these transactions, are the birth-right of Englishmen ; but
God forbid that we should see the day when any Parlia-
ment, or any Government, could pretend to direct us how
to proceed in them, or to determine the rate of profits with
which we were to be contest. We have the Corn Laws.
We have an absolute monopoly of the Home Market.
What can we ask more ? And how, above all, will a change
in the currency help us ? If money he made inure plen-
tiful, as it is called, we may rcceive more for what we have
to sell, but we shall have to give more for all we have to
buy, and the balance for, or against us, remains the same,
to all intents and purposes. Even Mr. Cayley does not
propose to pass an Act of Parliament to enable Farmers
to buy for half-a-crown, what costs others five shillings, and
to sell for five shillings what may be bought of others for
half-a-crown.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT

GREENOCK.

(From the Glawynn Herald of Monday. )
About half-past 11 o'clock, on the evening of Saturday
last., the dam on the Cartsburn rivulet, at the back or
south side of the Whinhill, at Greenock, burst, and in
its progress towards the sea nye:flowed almost the entire
of tbe suburbs of Grccnoek, called Crawfordsdyke. Many
lives have been lost end ninth property destroyed. By the
latest intelliaence we learn' that thirty-one bodies have
been found, although many are still missing. Of the names
of those who have perished we have heard of the follow-
ing, namely :—Mattheiv Alexander carter ; Alexandar
Campbell, carpenter ; the wife and two of the children of
Mr. Paul, plasterer ; a female of the name of Grace,
well known as having been flir a length of time cook to
Bailie Dunlop, in Greenock ; the wife and twa of the
children of Mr. Samuel M'Lca, grocer ; a man of the
name of Robertson, a labourer, and his son. The man
Alex:ine.e,a above-mentioned, had gone out to supper his
horse, and nothing was heard of him until the re,:eling of
the flood, when it was discovered that the stala, and with
it poor Alexander and his horse, baci heal all x li-
lessly swept away by the torrent. The:a were found,
mingled with other corpses:, amongst heaps of rub-
bish, at the foot of East Blaekhall Street. One man, name
unknown, was found dead in bed, having been drowned
while asleep, without the least contortion in his counte-
nance. In one house alone there were filar persons drown-
c 1 ; and indeed, it is matter of astonishment, from the im-
mense body of water which caine down, almost like a wall,
that greater 'destruction did nut happen. Many miraculous
escapes are mentioned—one of a woman who was disco-
vered in a boat which had been floated front some of the
boat-builders' sheds in the vicinity, but how she had got
into it she could not tell. One aalso of a child which
had been floated out of a house at the Starns, and
was picked up at the east end of Cartslyke, oppo-
site to Mr. Crawford, the laodwaitcr's, into whose
house it was on the instant humanely taken ; and although
• life was apparently Extinct, it was, after strenuous and ju-
dicious means used for the purpose, restored to existence
and its agoniied and anxious narents. The miller
of the Cartsburn flour-mill and la= family had a very
narrow escape ; at the moment of discovering the water
rushing into the house, he, assisted by his family, cut
through a partition in the mill, and gained access to an
upper•floor, from whence they made their escape alongst
the troughs ; but his horse, a valuable animal, worth up-
ware.s of thirty guineaa was, with its stable, swept away by
the resistless flood. There is at present no accpunting for
this destructive event ; but heavier rains have not fallen at
Greenock,for many years. We are informed that this is
the second time which this darn has burst—the first was
about twenty years ago, when it was equally destructive to
property, but fortunately less so in lives. It was originally
constructed by the Cartsdyke Cotton-mill Company, and
has since supplied the mills on the margin 'of the rivulet of
, that name with water-power.

Accounts Lave been received from Laybaelt, that
the Princess of Beira was so totally destitute of money
that a few days after her arrival she was obliged to dispose
of her most valuable jewels. A banking-house at Trieste
has remitted to her bills of Exchange to the amount of
.500,000 florins.
All the Poles belonging to the D ?mocratie Society,
who were arrested at the Batignolles, in France, have been
set at liberty.
BIRTH EXTR.A..OIIDINARY.--The wife of Mr.
James Glen, hiilsman cat Westinuir Coal-works, was yester•
day morning safely delivered of three tine female children.
Although born in -the eighth month, they are living and
likely to live.—Seots. Times. •
Considerable activity prevails amongst the miners in
several of the minins districts in Derbyshire. The price of
lead is on a steady advance.
POETICAL JUSTlCE.'Veitave received number-
less communications. on the subject of Sir Francis Burdett's
strange letter, but we Itnve only been able to find room for
aof the proceeding there is but one
IpYersons, of sound jmittment in these
opinion.
n.
But t t:t.-) titean Tsorl
matters, seem to think that in making public a letter of such
a description, without allowing the managers au opportunity
of taking it into consideration,.he has committed an unpar-,
donable offence towards the Club, and that the consequence
must be his own expulsion. If the public are to be called
on, on all occasions, to sit in judgment on. the conduct of
the members .of a Club, all confidence is at an end. It is,
therefore, thought that the very ungentlemanly conduct of
which Sir'Fraleis. has been guilty must hereafter exclude
him from Brooke2s.-11frniag Paper.
EXPORTATION EXTRAORDINARY.—On Friday
last John Maedonald, a notorious cripple, who has long been
in the habit Of progressing on all fours about the streets of
this tOwn,.selicitinAr.alms, was brought before the Magistrates
charged with having, on the preceding day. exercised his
vocation in Wilitechapel; Police-officer Elliot conveyed
him to Bridewell, where, on sear chin him, five shillings
were found in his pocket. The Mayor passed sentence
• upon him of transportation to his native country (Ireland).
—Liverpool Albion.
DEATH BY DRINKING lIOT TEA.—On Thurs*
day, an inquest was held by Mr. J. Lofthuese, on Lavinia
Firth, a little girl, who died early on the ahove morniug in
consequence of drinking some boiling tea from the spoilt
of a tea-pot. The mother of the child had placed the tea-
pot upon the table, and went to the cupboard for the pur-
pose of getting the tea-cups, and during that short'spitet Of
time the child drank the tea. Toe jury_ returncatuaerdict
—" that the dstesed died from suftocatonm
of drinking tea. —.Leeds Mercur.,v. 00041,m,11,11810cf,
otf
9 orii 10 noii
'adjourn

PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It a letter from our corre-
)gether with the Revista and
Nacional of the 14th instant, from which it appears

that an ineffectual attempt had been made by the
young Queen to get rid of her Ministry. The reason
assigned for this unexpected measure is, that her Ma-
jesty suddenly took it into her head to resolve that
the second division of the troops destined for Spain
should not quit the territory of Portugal. By what
reasons her Majesty was induced to adopt a reso-
lution of this extraordinary character, we know
not. The troops were prepared t' march, in com-
pliance with the terms of a solemn convention
with Spain ; under what pretext the Queen en,
deavoured to Violate the honour of her Crown,

and to dismiss an able and patriotic set of men

from her service, we are at a loss to conjecture.
The. first rumours of this event, which were circulated
at Lisbon on the 10th, were generally disbelieved ;
but on the 11th the fact transpired that, in consequence
of her Majesty's peremptory refusal to sanction the de-
parture of the troops, the Ministers, as she must of
course have expected, tendered their resignations in a
body. The resignations were immediately accepted.
Her Majesty, it seems, then sent for the Marquis of
Fronteira, to whom she delegated the office of forming
a Cabinet, and from whom she received, as a Corres-

pondent expresses it, " after a period of somewhat
suspicious brevity," the following names of a new Mi

nistry :
Marquis of Louie President.
Anselmo Braamcamp. Foreign Affairs.
Viscount de Sada Bandeira War Department.
Viscount de Bainba ( Sarmento) Justice.
F. A. de Campos Interior.
The first difficulty was to find a competent successor
to Carvalho, in the department of Finance. It ap-
peared, moreover, according to the Nacional, that of
the persons named, only the two first were willing to
accept office. The Marquis de Fronteira, accordingly,
was eventually obliged to abandon his enterprise, and
to recommend the Queen to recall her former Minis-

ters, which her Majesty appears to have done with no
small reluctance. The remainder of the auxiliary

troops have, we presume, already entered Spain.
In the absence of more ample information, it would
be useless to enter into any speculations as to
the origin and ultimate object of this wretched
intrigue. From the name of the Marquis of
Loule being mixed up with it, we apprehend
,there can be no doubt, that that vain and silly
person was at the bottom of it. Ever since his re-
turn to Lisbon, he has employed himself in a variety
of experiments, with a view to obtain an ascendancy
in the councils of the Queen. This is the second at-
tempt of the kind within seven or eight months, in
which he has failed—we hope for the honour and
tranquillity of Portugal, and the security of the legi-
timate Throne, that it will be the last. We should
not regret to hear of his having obtained permission to
travel abroad for a few years. The Diario was not
published when the packet sailed by which we have
received this intelligence ; but we understand that the
Queen had agreed to address a letter to Saldanha, to
be inserted in the Diario, explanatory of her conduct
in this affair. It is believed on all hands, that her
Majesty has been throughout the mere instrument of
others.—Morning Chronicle.
The Ministerial journals, which have for some time
past indulged in the expression of so much virtuous
indignation on the traitorous tendency of Orange
lodges, will now have little reason to rejoice at the
personal attacks included in their anathema of a legal
Protestant association. The celebrated Haywood fa-
brication is to become the subject of a serious investi-
gation in a Court of Justice. The supineness of the
Government in not instituting an immediate inquiry
into the circumstances narrated by Haywood in his
letter to Lord Kenyon has forced upon Colonel Fair-
man the necessity of resorting to an expensive process
to expose to the world the miserable designs of fac-
tious individuals, to slander the reputation of the
principal members of the Orange institut;on, amongst
whom is the brother of his Most Gracious Majesty.
The proceedings in the Court of King's Bench
yesterday, as detailed in our law report, will be per-,
used frith deep interest. A criminal information was
moved by Sir W. Follett against Haywood, upon
whoSe single testimony has rested the whole case
alleged against the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Ken-
yon, and Colonel Fairman, which has been com-
mented upon with such a rancorous and, malicious
spirit by the Whig-Radical papers. The observations
of the• Press in the O'Connell. Melbourne interest on
Haywood's statements have been characterised by gross
injustice, as they have not been sustained by a tittle of
confirmatory testimony. Even a Radical organ of last
unaware of what was croino- on at the King's
. . .

Bench, and thinl6tig that perfect-impunity would be
allowed in any slanders on members of Orange insti-
tutions, published a most atrocious article, in which we
find the following characteristic passage :
Flie fabulous mischievousness given to the syrcn of old
finds reality in Orangeism. Few people, free from predi-
lections or prejudices, entertain doubt as to the truth of
Haymiod's manly accusation. He, a member of the lodges,
and holding an influential station, could have no motive for
propagating a gratuitous calumny, which told against his
own party. People are too prone to discredit imputations
on Royalty. Courteous servility belongs to Englishmen.
History, however, is not to be questioned when she deals
with facts, and history affords abundant evidence that trea-
son may belong to Royalty."
At the very time, perhaps, when the writer was pen-
ning the foregoing extract the solemn affidavits of Lord
Kenyon and Colonel Fairmau were before a bench of
Judges, attesting that there is not the smallest particle
of truth in the entire story told by Haywood—that his
accusation, in fact, was, as we have pronounced it to
be, from the first, a pure
.fabrication. It will now re-
main to be seen what answer, upon oath, can be made
to the emphatic and unequivocal denials of his story
which have been put on record.—Morning Post.
The aim of the Tory journals during the last few
days, and more especially since the publication of Sir
F. Burdett's letter, has been to persuade the public
that the 'Whig Government is about to " die the death,"
and that the country is again to be blessed with a Tory
Administration. Nay, their principal organ already
boasts that its efforts in the cause of Conservatism
have already accomplished the great task of re-action—
that its exposure of the spirit and malpractices of the
present Government is complete—that the stage is
clear, and that it only requires the fiat of the Monarch
to replace the Tories in power, and thereby fulfil the
eager wishes and anticipations of the public ! Verily,
impudence can go no farther Was it not the
other day that the patrons of our contemporary as-
sumed the reins of power—that they demolished a
Reforming Parliament as uncongenial with their pur-
poses—and that, under all advantages on their own
side, they called another, which; in the brief space
of a few weeks, sent them again into retirement to re-
flect upon their past doings, and to muster their resolves
for the future ? And, without any fault on the part of
those whom the King, in the exercise of his just prero-
gative, called to his aid, by the advice and consent of
his people—and the most pertinacious opposition to
Oery.measure 'of Reform upon the part of their op-
ponents—are the former now to be dismissed, and the
latter to be called upon to supplant them ? We are
aware that the evil spirit of intrigue is abroad in more
than one quarter—that it is not in the King's Court
alone that intrigues have been carried on to no small
extent, to oust the present 'Administration, but that
they have extended to tamperings with dubious and
place-seeking Members of Parliament: But what are
they all worth ? Nothing—absolutely nothing, in fa-
vour of the Tories. If, as a party, they are not ex-
tinguished, the day of their policy, and, in conse-
quence, of their power, is gone. They may be a con-
forming, but they never can be a reforming, party in
the State. They are pledged against reforms to which
their opponents and the people at their back are pledged
to the throat,and we are to be told that the voice of the
people is to go for nothing,-and that the feeling of an
individual is to regulate the result ? Again, Sir Ro-
bert Peel did great service to the cause of .Reform
during his brief and not very creditable Premiership,
by promising, on the one hand, to yield something to
the cause of Reform ; and attempting, on the other, to
persuade the people that he was really and truly a
Reformer. The moral lesson which he then incul-
cated will never be forgotten. In him, Statesmen, and

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