The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A Common Hall was held yesterday, for the pur-
pose of addressing Parliament on the subject of the
Corn ,Laws ; and resolutions, claiming the admissiOn
of foreign grain, and a reduction of public expellees,
were therein unanimously agreed to. We do not say
that every day discloses new facts upon these impor-
tant subjects--they have been too well considered
already to admit of that—but every day calls forth
into, notice, from the heap of facts previously known,
some one peculiarly important: Thus, that rents have
been tripled in the last thirty years, while the wages
of the labourer have continued the same, is a most
affeeting truth. His pittance is' so much less ade-
quate now to purchase the necessaries of life, that he
may be said to have lost the taste of animal food, and
even of bread he cannot have enough. Tithes were
also the subject of attack. We are sorry for this. We
would leave the injustice of plundering the church to
the landed interest only. The fact is, that the agri
cultural party cannot meet, without indicating their
hankering after this property! They think they have
it in their grasp. What right a body of merchants
and traders have:to join in the iniquity, we know nut.
They can gain nothing by it ; and we are sure the
poor man will be a loser. For our awn parts, we
hope the distresses of the country will not induce the
belief that a remedy may be found by depriving its
inhabitants of religious Instruction, and of abolishing
an intelligent, learned, and respectable clergy, for onlY
greater distress could ensue from such a course. Seize
greater
if you please, for they may be
founded in such iniquity as no prescription can render
:.;acred.—Times.

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The late accounts from South America form a sad
contrast with those which we were in the habit of re-
ceiving from that country some years ago, as well as
with the statement which some of our contemporaries
put forth only a few months back. Every thing,
cording to.the more early accounts, was in a state of
progressive improvement—the energies of the people
eqtralled, if not surpassed, those of Europeans—the
resources of the different States were almost boundless,
and the world were taught to believe that many Re-
pnblica like that of the United States of America were
formed: and would soon rival that country in patriot-
ism and industry. Colombia, particularly, was pointed
out as a second land of promise. Bolivar was reaarded
as another Washington, and was to rival him in A
the great qualities which distinguished that General,
The last accounts from ell these States, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of Mexico, present a very different
picture. The State of Colombia, which, probably
owing to the great name of Bolivar, contrived to raise
loans to a greater amount than any of the other States,
is now reduced to the utmost poverty. Nearly half a
tnillion sterling will soon be due to this country, and
poli ably will long remain due, as the interest of these
lons. At the departure of Dr. Foley, it would ap-
par there were not more than 60,0001. in the Miht of
e BBogota. The small quantity of dollars that lie was
commissioned to convey to this country was arrested at
Carthagena, partly for the pmpose of paying the troops,
And partly to be reserved or future exigencies, and he
was left to make the best of his way to England to
raise an additional loan of four millions of dollars.—
No folly or mismanagement, with the exception, per-
haps, of that of the present 13panish Government,
could equal this. We confess that we were not at all
Istirprised at it. The flourishing aceonota c,£tlntt coun-
try, given in an evening paper, which we occasionally
gaVe as Advertisements, and which tender mercy alone
prevents OS from repeating on this occasion, ought to
have, put every reader upon his guard. The authentic
accounts, too, from those countries might have con-
vinced any one tvlio attended to the subject that the
South Americans had too much of the old leaven of
the Spaniard in them ever to be able to establish Con-
stitutional Governments like that of North America.
,ThouL,Th some of the chiefs may have liberal views care
considerable energy, the great body of the people are
inl most respects like those of 'the mother countries.—
They are under the contrail of bigotry and indolence
—two of the greatest bars to improvement. The for-
mer will never be removed so long as the priests have
such influence, nod the latter will continue while the
effects of heat remab the same. If the Governmenif
t
and people had had the least energy or public spirit—
their conduct, in filet, had not been quite as impolitic
and preposterous as that of tits Spanish Govermnent
with regard to the Cortes Bona,, would they not have
made every-exertion and sacrifice io preserve their elm-
- racier and faith with this country ? They knew the
Revenue of the State, they knew that it debt of seven
millions, had been contracted, and that, the interest
the
must be pait2,, or their character ruined, ye et not
least provision ,appears to have been mad. On the
contrary, o
like spulthrifts and sluggards, instead Of
eying their debts, the interest 'of the debt,
they
1.;,1* the
the effrontery to r:nike application for a new loan
as the only means of paying the interest or saving the
country. If such an example inset by Colombia, with
I3olivar at the head of the Government, what is toleb
expected from other States ? Mexico, from the at
accounts, appears to be acting with the most honour
and consistency. We would wain our readers, how-
ever, against trusting too implicitly these accounts,—
There are, too many people interested in the minesh
and
loans of that State that they must be but too muc
dined to tO raise And propagate any report that can put
them in a favonoble The general character of
the people, and particularly the late instances of folly
given by so many of the South American States, ought
rather to be taken as guides, than those flourishing
statements wbizli every now' and then appear, and
which none but tine concoctor and the publisher know
any thing about.,;—.Pforning Herald.
It is a very old practke, among our Scottish neigh-
bours, to trace almost every clinic committed in their
country to the Trish' who have migrated into it. Their
anxiety to trace the origin of hemoto criminals to the
„sinter island was never more remarkably displayed than
in the case of the M'Keands, who perpetrated .the
recent murder at Winton. However much the incli-
nation of the Scots to throw such
imputations off
themselves may have tended in their eyes to acme.
ciate beyond its due level the character of thei
this
very
respect to entertain of the his apparently
cent history of the West
much corroborated by the re
of Scotland. For several years almost every .hialge
who has been in that quarter bas taken care in his
charges' to animadvert in strong terms upon the increase
of (lune in the West
singularof Irish labourers in
of Scotland ; and it is a Very,
fad. that the emigration
ropora.
the West of Ocotland has been exactly conte
• I onterit
"6" with these complaints. The number
.of. these
emigrants has hecoirte. sup of
...,,,geller„al
in that quarter, and ,tbe, • I).iik6 of nalnllton ex-
pressed himself conceriaing,tbein in a manner which
can scarcely be tolerated even:inihe preen.
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of Scotland. if the lower claSies of the Trisii are
degraded in their manner a Wing, and &hand in