The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-22 00:00:00

in turnips to be consumed by sheep. Thus no man can cal-
culate, with tolerable certainty, on any , thing, and we have
become -it nation of gamblers. Sir Francis Burdett observed,
that " the more food there was for the manufacturers, the,.
more manufacturers there would be—the more their skill would
be exerted—and the greater returns there would be ' for the
produce of the agriculturist." He would have been more, correct
if he bad said, that agriculture and commerce were merely branches
of our manufactures—that originally the manufacturer is• a culti-
vator, and the cultivator a manufactunr ; but that in process of
time, it is found more advantagmeAlutt the cultivator should have
his clothes--his plough—his plough-irons, made by. others, who
receive from him part of the greater quantity of food he is enabled
, to raise, by devoting himself exclusively to that branch of industry.
The perfection of the arts must necessarily and in all times include
within it the prfection of agriculture as part of a whole. There
is no instance of a perfection of agriculture without a general per-
fection of the arts—nor an instance of the perfection of all other
arts while agriculture is imperfect.—Every fresh improvement in
mechanics adds to the surplus of the farmer; and every improvement
of agricultural skill is felt in the other arts.—The landlords in this
country may be sure, that whatever adds to the industry of the.
population, and increases their resources, will really, in the end, be
most for their advantage. They have necessarily the monopoly
of the soil. • Every addition to the wealth of the country must
necessarily render that monopoly snore valuable. A free trade will
enrich our neighbours, and we shall feel the benefit of their in-
creased wealth. We gain by whatever they can ,raise for us, by
less labour than we Should have to bestow ontitising it at home.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It is the fashion now-a-days to envelope every sub-
ject in such a cloud of words, that the object is in the end lost
sight of. Sbakspeare, whose mighty -mind seems to have grasp-
ed a knowledge both of nature and society, in times past, present,
and to come, designates thii; when he describes a man as "spin=
ning out the thread of his verbosity beyond the staple of his argu-
ment." This seems to be very much the case, not only in the
late debate upon the Corn Laws, but in the multitudinous pam-
phlets, petitions, Ste., which have appeared upon the subject. If
the intricacy of a subject were to be judged of by the words' which
have been bestowed 'upon it, this might be deemed- one of the
most obscure that ever engaged the attention of mankind ; where-
as, in fact, there never was, one more simple and obvious; and
all that has been said upon the subject might be easily and effec-
tually answered by a parrot,- were he taught at the end of every
harangue to repeat these plain words, "The Debt." Those words
contain the whole sum and substance of the *latter, as far as
the country is concerned-:-all the argumerits, all the calcula-
tions, all the eloquence, resolves itself into this,: that the taxed
grower of corn at, home cannot compete with the untaxed far-
mer of foreign countries, without an adequate protecting duty.
To wince the matter in any way, or to attempt to mystify it, by
reference to abstruse, unintelligible theories, is only to practise an
imposition upon the common sense and understandings of man-
kind ; and the only difficulty really is, at what point to draw the
line—or, in other words, at what amount that protection duty
ought to be fixed. We believe it is quite notorious to all who
are practically.acquainted with the subject, that land has, upon
the average, never paid, either to the owner or the occupier, , any
thing like the same rate of interest as would be considered
a fair mercantile profit upon the, same . amount of capital. As
far us the ownerlis concerned, it seems. to have been admitted,
and submitted to, by a kind of common consent ; for while
the interest of money was five per cent. and often more,
men were satisfied with two-and-a-half and three per cent.,
as a return for investments upon land. But why the retiring
farmer should be so much worse off than any other tradesman
we never could understand ; but that he is and always has been so
;(except in seasons of extraordinary rise) we believe is quite noto-
rious, and that while the shopkeeper, with a capital of 2,000/. en-
joys from the profits of his trade all the comforts and many of the
'luxuries aide, the farmer, with twit* Alutt capital, has often only
the ehemmess of his own housekeeping tO,produce him any thing
like an adequate return. We do not deny that there is in his edu-
cation
and balsas, as well as in the very nature of his business,
ranch which compensates for all this ; but 'at the same time,
it' is fit, when something very, much like a clamour-is raised
against a partieular class of the community, that their disadvan-
tages should be fairly stated, and that the public should not be
misled as to their, real. situation. That the first necessary of life
should be rendered to the people at the lowest possible rate,
m 1 that the principle of free trade should extend to that
6ininctlity, in which of 41....,0thers it -is most important
that it should ,exit, are,"itiNins which cannot be denied ;
but to tat the agriculturist with one handr and. then
.to call
up6n.him,to render his commodity at such a price as it
taxation ea isted,h so Manifestly absurd, as to require no elucida-
tion. Unshackle the fiirmer, if it were possible, and then deal
with him, and expect him to act as a free man ; but to compete in
price with the foreign corn grower, as he now is,i were as prepos-
terous as to ask him.to run a pace against the sanueperson on Bag-
shot Heath, with thq chains abouais neck and ancles which you
'tare placed there.

:The Meeting of. the Shareholders in the'. "'United Chilian
IVliiiing Company,".which was held the-other, day, exhibited a ape-
eimen of grotesque misery, Surpaseing any thing that Fielding has
described, or Hogarth ever painted. When we compare the rue-
ful visages of the complainin's groups that assembled under
the ominous sign of the Vulture, with the lively, joyous, and
expectant countenances which they displayed some twelve moons
since, we can hardly credit their ideutity—yet they .are the same
persons; but, all 1. . how changed from what they were! Then
they were rushing to suly.eribe to " the bubble," which, by the
talismanic aid di% press: . is, that worked like the spell of an
enchantment, seenied io their eyes a mountain of solid, yellow,
glittering gold ! Now the charm is dissolved, they find that the
Projector had the faculty which -Shakspeare ascribes to the Poet,
of giving to " airy nothing a local habitation and a name,"
and they wonder at their.own infatuation. This comes of peo-
ple not being .content to go on in the plain old-fashioned Eng-
lish way of getting rich by regular industry. A disposition
for dash, show, and extravagance has been generated of
late years among those classes which had. formerly been con-
sidered the'most sober in the community. Regarding the
counter, the ledger, and 'the pen behind the ear, as vulgar
things, and not-to lie tolera '.4 in this age of "mental improve-
ment," thousands'of our ci rens, whose fathers had placed them
in reputable lines of burin . left "the shop" to take care of itself,
and endeavoured to becope ddenly opulent, running to projec-
tors, as silly girls who want husbatuls go to fortune-tellers. They
dreaMt of nothing' but villas,, mistresses, rich banquets, packs of
hounds, and the grand tour ! But while they were capering in
imagination onward to the regions of pleasure and fashion, they
found themselves, like Tony Lumpkin's company, "soused into
the horsv-Tond at,the bottom of their own garden." 7 Then there
wee wringing of hernia and all sorts of lamentation. But the day
of reckoning was to come, and one of those days of reckoning was
that to which we have alluded, of the meeting at the George and
Vulture. There was a uieb Ohne') assembled, who some time ago
blessed their "lucky stars'''that allowed them, while enjoying
the luxuries of London, ~' $O. rake the bowels of chili and
Mexico for gold ; aud, like bun who commanded tbi slave of do,
lamp, to receive the preeicine metal, without the vulgar equivalent
of labour, until their very caprices were saturated with gold. In

that the day of-iiceriate4-ropeetatton, we warned thews in vain of,
the consequence Predicted what has now happened; but the
warning was as trap:and as neglected as the prophecies of Cassandra.
—But is it not wonderful that among the amazing mass of fools
which that season 'produced, the Members of the Chilian Mining
Association shouldAe sturdy in their' credulity. Let it lie re=
membered, that oite;of their most active Diret;toTe was a Peer of
the Realm, and a hereditary Counsellor of the Croivii—and surely
he who has the privilege of 'advising the Sovereign in cases of
emergency ought be competent at any time to give sound and
useful 'counsel ti the people. Did those who put faith in the
promises of Lordleynham find it SG? Let the shareholders of the.
United Chilian Mining Society answer. Aetieon, torn in pieces by
his own dogs, did not cut a MOM lameiitablii figure than his Lordship
did the other night, when turned upon and worried by the " pack
of staunch .ones" which he had been so long feeding with golden
hopes. What a situation for. the stainless honour of Nobility to
had itself in ! Well might Burke say, that " the age of chivalry
was past," if he had lived to see 'Noble Lords and Honourable
Captains running the gantelope through a crowd of exasperated
tradesmen, hitting them right and left with coarse sarcasms and
saucy invective, as the only satisfaction they could take for being
deluded into vain hopes, and abandoned to bitter disappointment !
But perhaps Lord Teynhain may console himself by not having
had to pawn his star, and the Honourable Captain Curzon may
look forward with some redeeming anticipation to the next list of
Naval promotions.—() ") •

REMARKABLE DAY.—This is the anniversary.of
the birth of Henry Fielding, the author of « Tom
Jones," 1707 ; and of the total eclipse of the Sun,. n
I'4l:gland, when the darkness was so great thatihe starstaintlY:appeared, and the birds went to roost at ten in
the morning, 1715. - •
Mr. KEAN arrived at .Charleston on the 12th ult.
and was to make his first appearance in the character of
Richard the Third.