The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

CII.A.NGE OF CLIMATE.

" It is long since many, of whom 1 am one,"
says Lord DREGHORN, " have maintained that
the seasons are altered ; that it is not so hot now
in summer as when we were boys. Others laugh
at this, and say that the supposed alteration pro-
ceeds from an alteration in ourselves, from our
having become older, and consequently colder.
In 1783, or 1784, in the course of a conversation
1 had with my brewer, who is very intelligent
and eminent in his way, he maintained that an
alteration had taken place. This observation he
made from a variety of circumstances, the'dimi-
nation of the number of swallows, the coldness
that attends rain, the alteration in the hours of
labour at time of sowing barley, which many
years ago was a work performed early in the
morning, on account of the intenseness of the heat
after the sun had been up some time. _He added.
that for many years past he had found that the
barley did not malt as formerly, and the period
he fixed on was the year in which the earthquake
at Lisbon happened. I was much surprised at
this last observation, and did not pay much at-
tention to it till last summer, when I happened
to read Les Annaks 'Politiqucs of LiNcurr, a
very scarce book, which I was sure my brewer
had never read ; for there, to my astonishment, I
found the very same opinion, with this additional
fact, that in Champagne, where he was born,
they have not been able since that earthquake to
make the same wine. He says, too, that he has
seen the title-deeds of several estates in Picardy,
which proved that at that Lion; they had a num-
ber of excellent vineyards, but that now no such
accountcrop
philosophically
rearso attempts
ha tyo.
int, 'SUCH errecis." Thus far Lord DREGHORN.
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for thatjie earthquakea l
l'The country about Placencia (the retreat of
CHARLES V.) once one of the most fertile parts ofl
Spain, is said by the inhabitants to have lost its
fertility since that great earthquake. It is ano-
ther extraordinary fact, upon the same subject,
that the herring fishery on our eastern coast com-
mences now a month later than it did in the days
of our grandfathers. _ _

That the climate of England is changed within
the last century, is now generally admitted. Mr.
WILLIAms attempted to account for it by the-
great introduction of foreign •trees and grasses,
which being natives of hotter climates; give out a
far greater evaporation than our own indigenous
vegetables. The sun-flower, according to lIALEs,
transmits, when three feet high, about 'a pound
and four, ounces in 12. hours. And WATSON,-
from certain experiments, calculated that an 'here
of land transpire t;, in 24 hours, 6400 quarts of
water. The fact is very curious, and the appli-
cation ingenious. But it is manifest that the
solution is not
.adequate to the phenoinenon : for
change of climate is equally complained of in
other countries, where planting is not in fashion,
and where no improvements in agriculture have
been introduced. To those countries it is not
applicable, neither Nrill it explain the increased
prevalence of west and-south west winds.
-Mr. WILLIAMS proposed, that electric mills
should be erected over, the country, to supply
electricity to the atmosphere, when there is a de-
ficiency, and draw it off when there is an excess.
I)AR-wires scheme of towing ico lands to the tro-
pics was nothing when compared to this. But
let philosophy tell us all its dreams, the more
prospects the better.; -there-is no danger of their
being adopted before they have been well
weighed, and though ninety-nine may deserve
the ridicule which the wliole hundred are sure to
incur, the hundreth may nevertheless succeed.
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On Monday, the 28th ult. No. 14,041 was
drawn aPrize of -.C21,000 Consols, and sold by BIsH, in Sbares,

VIZ. :-

One Quarter at
One (;carter in
One Eighth in
One Sixteenth at
One Sixteenth at
One Sixteenth at
One Sixteenth at
One Sixteenth at
One Sixteent7l in

Cartnarthen
London
London •
Bath
Edinburgh
Maidstone
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London.

Bish also sold thefollowing Prizes, all drawn the same day:-
11,331 - . , 41,000 7,269 - £2OO
1,616 - 220 19,584 - 200
3,317 - - 220 11,476 - - • -•110
11,367 - 220 13,521 - - • 110
16,673 - - 220 &c. &c.
Disir also sold, in the Lottery drawn in March, Three Prizes
of 21,000, and several sMaller Capitals.—Every Ticket or-Shsre
tliance bought on or befoTe the 28th May, was finally deCided
on the 28th May. Ticket and Share Chances are on sale at
Offices, 4, Cornhill, and '9, Charing-Cross, London;
and by his Agents in the Country..-7 All the 3,002 Prizes, in-
'eluding the £20,200 Prizes,- muse be drawn the 14th of Tills
3.10 N TII (June).

EniTon,—it has appeared to tne- very
- extraordinary, thatthough the principles of Mr.
:1111:U.TIIUS have been often noticed in the-Hou.
of Commons, and have been the subject of much
discussion' among all who have turned their atten-
tion to Political Economy, no, person except Mr.
ITARDORD, in his incidental and cursory, yet per-
•tinent observationS; last night, has yet-taken Par-
liamentary notice of Mr. GODWIN'S work on
POPULATION, which, according to the opinion Of
many sound judges, has entirely ovei dimwit the
system Ilie former. Even so recently as last
night, Mr. BaouGnAm, in reference to Mr. SCA R -
LETT'4 Bill on the Poor Laws, alluded to the
work of Mr. MALTn-us, and_ according to the re-
port in your paper this days Mentioned a prin-
ciple as deducible from that work, which appears
to me: to be not only incompatible:with every
idea of humanity and justice, but absdlutely ridi-
culous, viz, that " children of marriages con-
tracted at one time would be entitled to. relief,
while the- children of marriages..contracted at
another time would not be entitled to it." Per-
haps it may be for want of due knowledge, but
I cannot help feeling shocked at such a principle,
and I conceive that it was the duty of Mr.
BROUGHAM to have read MI% GODWIN'S work
before- he referred to that of Mr. MAtirnus,
and if he was satisfied with the refutation
which Mr. GODWIN is understood to have given
to the whole system of the former, GIIAIII
ought to have stated it to be such to the House.
But as the subject of Political Economy is so
often adverted to in Parliament, and must-always
be a subject of occasional consideration, it is the
duty of every Member of the Legislature, in both
Houses, to be thoroughly conversant with that
subject. Mr. HA ItBORD has at length drawn
Parliamentary attention, to Mr. G-'.onwiN's elabo-
rate, deep, philosophical work, and his example
ought to be followed by every Member who really
•regards the: public welfare., I read an Extract
from Mr. GonwrN's hook, in the SUN, immediately
after its first publication, and as the subject is
very interesting- and important to the community,
and will always he so in every civilized state, I
was in hopes that you, or some of your. corres-
pondents, would have given renewed. attention to
the work, not for the purpose of panegyric, but for
that of sound investigation. If you insert this
letter, perhaps some of your numerous corres-
pondents (and it must be admitted that you have
many highly valuable) may be induced to take
up the subject at this particular period, when
the Poor Laws are brought into legislativediscus.;
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