The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-27 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

A new triumph is preparing for the friends of
Loyalty. All the efforts of the Faction which
has so long struggled to make the first city in the
empire the chief seat and fortress of Sedition,
may ❑ow be considered as having failed. The
result of yesterday's Poll for the election of
Sheriffs, though not final, cannot fail to prove
decisive. It shows that the Livery of London
are at last roused to a just sense of the disgrace
which it was attempted to bring upon them, and
have adopted the only way by which it could be
effectually repelled, that of coming manfully for-
ward and displaying at once the true nature of
their political sentiments, and the immense supe-
riority of their numbers. The would=be patriot
Crook is already to the amount of some hundreds
of votes in the rear of the real patriot Alderman
Garratt, and the equally respectable Alderman
Venables. The election of the two latter
is now scarcely doubtful, and indeed can
only be endangered by excess of confidence on
the part of the loyal, proceeding from present
success, and creating future remissness in their
exertions. The great plan of erecting next year
in the city a Radical Triumvirate must be aban-
doned. It is true, that foreseeing its defeat the
Faction tries to make the best of it, and even
seeks to asperse the fair fame of Mr. Alder-
man Garrett, by hinting that he is not indisposed
to become one of its own members. This is a
most artful and infamous calumny. It is made
to rest, in defiance of all truth and justice,
on the fact, that after having become, Mr.
Alderman Garrett has ceased to be, a 'Mem-
ber of the Constitutional Association. This
would fain be represented as a conversion to
principles opposite to those on which that Gen-
tleman acted when he joined the Constitutional
Association. How totally unfounded tire asser-
tion is, cannot be more satisfactorily proved than
by the manly explanation given on Monday, and
repeated yesterday, by Mr. Garratt, of his con-
duct in that instance ; an explanation which
shows that he was only actuated by motives of
the purest nature and of the most scrupulous
integrity. lie became a Member of the Con-
stitutional Association from a conscious con-
viction
of its utility, and had withdrawn himself
from it, upon the consideration only of the possi-
bility ,that as a Magistrate he might be called
upon to act judicially in cases of prosecution
at the instance of the Association.—After re-
futing the calumnies of his factious opponents
yesterday, the truly worthy Alderman made such
spirited-and just remarks on the disgraceful ex-
pedients lately had recourse to at Common Halls,
as must endear him to every real patriot and
man of honour, whilst they will render his elec-
tion proudly and lastingly honourable to the
City of London. Mr. Alderman Venables is
also entitled to our best acknowlilgements for
the unequivocal expression of the coincidence of
his sentiments with those of Mr. Garratt in this
respect,

LAW ARRANGEMENTS.-The Middlesex sit-
tings in the Court of Common Pleas, after the
present term, are postponed to October, in con-
sequence of the preparations for the Coronation
at Westminster Hall ; where alone, by law, they
can be held. This is not the case with respect to
the Court of King's Bench, which may sit else-
where. 'lt, however, has made a similar arrange-
ment. The sittings for London commence on the
day .after term, and continue .uninterruptedly,
until all the causes be disposed of.
On Monday and • Tuesday (18th and 19th inst.) as some
workmen were removing a monument at the east end of 'the
South aisle of our Cathedral, they discovered an elegant altar-
pie.v, enclosed between two walls,similar to that which was lately
found in St. Mark's Chapel.-111r. Philips, the Subsacrist,
was then induced to try the cast end of the north aisle, when a
very superb 'piece of of workmanship came into view ; the gild-
ing and colours were remarkably bright, and the fluted columns
very perfect. There were niches on each side, with small pedes-
tals, supposed to have been occupied by figures of Saints. It
is very probable that the dilapidation took place in the reign of
Henry VIII. at the suppression of Monasteries.—(Bristol Ga-
zette.)

FOR THE SUN.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
The English, dm' unquestionably a most think-
ing people, have not always had the gOod fortune
to think right upon matters of importance. This
is the sum and substance 'of the answer given by
the Agricultural Committee to the various peti-
tions of the agriculturists, with which the louse
of Commons has been almost inundated ; but the
motto,
" Parturiunt months, nascitur ridiculus mus"

cannot be applied to their Report, so far as re-
gards its bulk and extent of research ; but its la-
boured openings will, it is feared, produce no-
thing but disappointment and dismay to the poor
farmers, who have been anxiously Looking forward
to the result of their labours as a panacea for all
their evils. One is almost lost and confounded
amidst so much learned reasoning upon the two
great leading principles of cause and effect, the
whole of which, unfortunately, ends in an open
and candid avowal, that the Committee have not
been able to discover any means which, in their
estimation, are calculated to remove the present
pressure. The subject was one of admitted dif-
ficulty, to which it was scarcely possible to apply
any specific remedy. At one time a bounty upon
exportation was suggeted as an expedient. Now
the warehousing of foreign corn, under the pre-
sent system, seems to be sanctioned. Sometimes
it is proposed to repeal all restrictions upon con-
tracts relating to money, and leave the borrower
and lender to make their own terms, because it is
said that the Usury Laws have materially aug-
mented the difficulties of the cultivator. The
Committee, however, so far from coinciding in
this opinion, look forward to a reduction in the
interest of money as one of the means of afford-
ing relief. At other times it has been recom-
mended to throw a considerable portion of ex-
pensive and inferior land out of cultivation ;
then again, that the spirit of cultivation
should be kept alive : so that amidst such
a variety of conflicting opinions it is extremely
difficult to arrive at any safe or satisfactory
conclusions, and the very abstruse manner
in which the present report is drawn up, will not
tend much to relieve the subject from that em-
barrassment in which it has been involved. It
probably arises from the nature of the thing, and
a desire to do all the justice to it that was pos-
sible, but certainly the great mass of the farmers
will benefit little from any conclu'sions or infer-
ences which are deducible from the axioms which
the Committee have ventured to lay down. The
most sensible part, however, of the Report is that
which recommends a positive and steady reduc-
tion of the public debt. This, though touched
upon but lightly in the course of the Report, is,
no doubt, the great source of all our embarrass-
ments,j
and until we can be effectually relieved`
from the pressure of that, all other attempts to
alleviate our burdens must be in a great measure
fruitless. A. B.