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

RIDE AND DRIVE MATCH.

Another ride and drive match took place yesterday morning
from the 45th mile-stone, near Basimpitoke, Hants. • A 'Gentle.
Man of the name of MABBEILLEY undertook to perfornrit milts
in three hours, for 100 sovereigns, and to go the first ten miles
on fiat, and ride one horse, and to drive one. He accomplished it
as follows :—The ten miles on foot took him an !tour and five
minutes, when he mounted a fast half-bred bunter, and rode ra-
ther more than 20 miles in an hour and seven minutisri he next
mounted a light gig in waiting, with a blood more in 4inics, gut
accomplished the remainder of the distance in a minute and a few
seconds within the given time. He was not bound to trot in har...
ness, or the match must have been lost.

Orders have been issued by his Majesty's Post
Masters General, and directed to William Mackenzie, Esq.,
their agent, for four chosen seamen, belonging to late Plin/-
chinbrook packet, to repair immediately to Linden, and join the
crews of the new post-office ;deem-packet:4 that are about to be
employed to and from the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
PE'rnn PIWNE hi a grocer in Leaden-h ill, mid by
dint of watering the currants, sanding the sugar, and chopping
the broom into the tea, during km apprenticeship, becomes
free of the city, and looks wistfully wink yet a boy, at the
fat equipage of London's Lord Mayor. Peter goes
,to the
Mansion-house Ball on Easter Monday, and his, heart is
held in thraldom by the well-sported ffirtativeness of /0.11
Jemima Ginger, of St. Mary-axe, who talks alma Apoller, and
Wenus, and the Graces. Scant siege brings tint fort to capitula-
tion ; because Mr. Ginger has a large &wily, which eannbt be kept
on nothing ; and as he is a man of figure, he knows full
that if you take one deughter from six, the permanent remaistler will
not exceed four. Peter Prune visits the. Gingers ; and Peter iv
an altered man; for Jenlitria WAS finished at a west-end semiu..
ary, at which were the daughters of my Lord Hack, (by what
mother is not said, as they ask for no certificates of marriage
at the " finishes.") The fair ' bride in hope, disdains even
the piano, but screeches out a fashionable opera tune with
true Billingsgate cadence, and perforMs other ' feats at,
which the heart of Peter. Prunnis'molten like sugar'
The day is set, and the fair one lode 'eh:Leming at church ;
but she must have a COUntry house, two maids, and" a' foot boy
in livery. One extravagance follows another, and as there is
nothing upon which the heart of Peter Prune, small as it is,
can rest, the third moon finds the lady aband'oned to extra-
vagance, and poor Peter either to the ale-house or the Gazette,
while, solely on account of the absurdity of her education, the
poor female sinks, ere middle life, to a condition which hail better
' not be mentioned. But, cousins, the Subjed is long, and the time
is short. Adieu.—(From the A 1?..)
Two BROTHERS DROWNED.---The Baltimore
Patriot of the 18th ult. contains the following distres-
sing statement
Colonel sTErinew KERR and his bitother, WILEEAM
Kra It 2 were drowned in the to nodoguinet Creek, about nine
miles rims Carlisle, Pa, on 'Wednesday, the this inst. Cohi.
nel Ktittu owned a mill and distillery near the above creek,
and not being near a market for his produce, he attempted to
navigate the creek in a skiff: when, in passing a dams the
akift, in which was NVILLIA Pot KEttn, ithe Colonel being on
shore), was drawn into a whirpool unit tilled by the water
flowing over the dam. Colonel K can attempted to rescue his
brother from
wfrirpohid .
,panerdilboti,itsh
soiftuthatt,il'l T;ekrneltloWsat:'”
BLOWING-VP OF AN AMERICAN STgAtt.BOAT.l'lluidf drawn
—The steam-boat Telaca, belonging to Messrs.
Bnoa and Co. of Lima, whilst lying at anchor in the
port of Guarmey, coast of Peru, was blown. up by
the supercargo, Mr. METROVITCH. He committed
the act while the passengers were at dinner on the poop
of the vessel, by firing a pistol into the powder maga-
zinc abaft, which instantly blew the after part of the
vessel into the air. The melancholy effects of .this
suicidal rlet, eventuated in the destruction of nearly all
who wore at dinner, consisting of Captain 'GIBE,
master of the boat, and four. passenger, killed,. and
tmworrwßootymided
rci. T
i,
was
author
se
found,a of the
among the
affair,ortti.
nately two American Gentlemen, Mr. MArritEwsox,
formerly supercargo of the ship: Mercury, of Proil-;
denes,,, and a Mr. SWEAT (passenger belongitv. to the
steam oat, were on the shore at that time. There is
but littiAloubt they would have shared the flute of that
appren-
of their unfortunate companions hal they been 00
beard."--(American Paper.) •
who
wereTh telrotaleesd ionf.l:4l4laoki the e
wuneefriltn:?b,L'ilap's
as have been
up and brought to Liverpool. PHI" 'aDe tw.
held on them, and verdicts of to Accident a
picked
trietesu,rnheads.notnyleet tbweetiTy
foofunThd.omAo al,'Unett) an

THE' LONDON JOURNAtS.

DAU.T EXTRACTS FROM THE .11ORNING PAPERS„.
APRIL 22, 1826..
•

•
[TIM Timms.]
One ofthe usual, and most ,fearful. consequences of
famine has ensued at Blackburn, in Lancashire—
namely, riot ; and it is more than probable, if great
care be not taken, that disease may follow. The ltiot
Act was read; and the military put in motion ; but it
doe* not appear that any lives have been lost or .blood
shed. We= would wish it to be understood by the
distressed workmen themselves; that though we have
described riot as the ordinary consequence of famine,
it it by' no means a justifiable consequence ; nor is it at
all t'ealeulated to relieve; but rather to aggravate, the
rniserylsy which it has been preceded Property, we
• tan:, tell them, must be protected, and particularly that
iipet4es of property against which their blind rage is
moat exerted—property consisting in mechanical inven-
tions ; for it is owing to capital and machinery united,
that we have obtained such vast advantages over all
other manufacturing. states. Let us put out of the ques-
tion the many power-looms that havebeen made abroad.
114 w many have been even sent out of this country
without the knowledge of Government?" And if we
are to be the only people not allowed to use them, when
all know ,how to snake them more or less perfectly, we
of -course shall be the only people who must cease
frUin manufacturing even for ourselves, inasmuch as
our neighbours wine able to,supply us more cheaply.
Let the workmen,. also, at Blackburn, recollect the
exertions that havebeen made, by the wealthier inha-
bitants of the place and neighbourhood to alleviate the
distress; the public meetings that were held, and the
division of the towninto.districts,, for the purpose of
being visited, and. more easily receiving relief: and let
them ask themselves whether suck kindness merits a
return of violence and outrage. We observe
part also,
that a of the master manufacturers have entered
into resolutions to pay higher wages—higher perhaps
than they can well afford, in the present depressed
state of trade and the, condition of the money-market ;
for at other time, tompetition will always ensure high
wages to the good -workman. But, in the mean time
has Government .done ? They have sent sol-
dress to quell the Act.. Have- they sent nothing else ?
I.is hard to give men`who ask for bread, bullets and
bayonets, and: only bayonets and bullets. We trust
that while Government has controlled the excesses of
the sufferers, it has. also " relieved their pain," or as-
sisted in relieving their pain. Otherwise, it has not
acted with paternaLkindness, or even Christian huma-
nity..

From the case of the wretched murderer and suicide
Pollard, and of others who have perpetrated atrocious
crimes under the beastly influence of eXcessive drink-
ing, we wish that' some effectual means could be taken
to render drunkenness a vice of less frequent and ge-.
neral occurrence: If Ministers have a taste for high
duties, there is not in; the' whole range Of:taxable com-
modities, one whick-would more deserve the severest
visitation of the exciseman, than 'that of home-Made
spirits ; ,Or which might be more honestly and pro-
htahly discouraged than the - iniportation of spirits
fiom abroad. The moderate consumption of beer
noes, generally spealang„ for health and. comfort ;
that of gin,
,and..rurn, and brandy, . hardlLever. stops
4i'the point ••of -seduces,' inflames, and
Maddens. It is 'lice and • misery, and nothing else.
When, therefore-, tlie Minister Caine'. forward, on
several 'successive 'occasions, lately, and proposed the
redtiction i f vaffeits:•• by way of relief to the
people, it was with. some astonishment that we saw a
Atirtuttution in the spirit duties preferred to one in other
Urn-itches of the revenue, where real case would have
_her affor4ded, and: where the interests of morality
.iroidd not hai a been wounded as they have been, in.
a degree the 'most deplorable, by the invitations thtis
held out to a more• desperate and reckleas indulgence
in the use of, spirits. If the Prime Minister dia.'
'charged his . trust- with the wisdom and humanity.
"Which his country has a rightto expect at his hands, he
would lay on, spirits of all descriptions the very
highest tax that could be made 'instrumental to their
Banishment from general consumption.. He ought to
'lo.l.iy. the taxation of perniCious an article to the ut-
most pitch that would' be compatible with any means
..3f successful resistance to the smuggler, instead of
• risenting a bounty to. the dram-drinker, and setting
an indulgenee• to, spirits, against a discouragement
Wholesome beer.. The 'consequences of the policy
• pursized by MiniSters, On this subject are equally ma-
-nifest and grievous'. The multitudes of human beings
• • trittiiied or frenzied: by the cheap recourse to ardent
Sprits are increasing.every day, and the victims both of
4etticiotts crime - and of sanguinary legislation will, of
necessity, multiply in the sine ratio; Wo do trust
• that Mr. llobinsom will be dispoSed and prepared to.
'Submit to the next Parliament,' if not. to the present,
a systematic and decisive reform of thisz very faulty
financial management ; i-dr''sur6 we 'are, that •'it decent
regard to the morality of- our revenue laws, 'as well as
to their productiveness., will not render them less pa-
!stable to the legislative body, or' less effective in
their practical operation.—(Mtd.)
•

the other affairs of life ! Suppose every merchantp
were called upon to state his profits, every trades-
man his gains, every lawyer qind physician his ,
fees, every landlord his rents, &c. ; nay,' what
is worse, supposb that yo had entrapped these
persons into a secret and confidential commu-
nication of the 'facts, and that you' then made
them public !—would not all the world cry out against
the iiiiarny of such a proceeding ? And in what de.'
gree is the present disclosure less infamous ? The
truth is—and it .is necessary to call public attention
to it—that if an Opposition Member' demands any
thing, however tyrannical, however inquisitorial, how-
ever disgraceful, it must be granted. The Stamp Tax
on Newspapers is, beyond all comparison, the heaviest
tax in existence ; it is hard enough to be obliged to
pay 300 or 400 per cent. oil the prime cost of the
article ; but it is dreadful to have that tax made
the means of prying into our private affairs, and
laying all our concerns before the public !
do humbly, but confidently contend, ihat the Col-
lectors of the Revenue have no right to divulge
secrets, which they learn in the discharge of their offi-
cial duty. If they have that ri&lit with regard to News-
paper
Stamps, they nave it with regard to all other
Taxes ; they
~have a right to publish the name of
every man who borrows money of another, the amount
of every man's stock in trade, the quantity of goods
that he buys and' sells, ' the profit that he makes, or
the loss that lie sustains. In short, the inquisition was
nothing to the power thus given to the Tax Collectors.
The Inquisition acted secretly, and on a few persons ;
this mode of destroying a man's credit, and thereby his
existence, is open, public, and universal.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
If our readers will refer to an article in another co.
limm, .reSpecting tit result of the colliers' combina-
tion at Glasgow,. they will perceive that Mr. Hume
has still further reason to covratulate himself on the
amazing benefit which he hies'ipnferred on the " ope-
rative' classes (as they are now. elegantly termed), by
procuring a repeal of the -Combination y Laws. Not
warned by the distress which the Bradford combers and
weavers, and even those nearer them- still—namely, the
weavers of Glasgow .and Paisley—brought on them-
selves, by holding out for an increase of wages,• the
colliers must inhale the same mischievous spint--mis-
chievous, however, in the end, only to themselves and
their families. In the pride, or rather vanity, of their
hearts, and in the intoxication of their joy, at believing
their apostle (IVIr. Hume) had enabled themto force.
what terms they pleased from their masters, they
lavished from their " hard hands" their " vile
trash," in order to present their emancipator with a
piece of plate. Plate from the colliers of Scotland !
Had 'the present been a pewter: platter, the lead fur-
nished by Lord Hopetoun's miners, milled with 'a
smallquantity'of the fine tin of Cornwall, and ac-
companied by a born cuttie spoon (our friend Joseph
formerly understood what that means), we should have
expressed nO' surprise ; but for any portion ofhis own grave
calculating countrymen to think of giving him a piece
of plate,. for ,enabling them to undo themselves and
starve' their fainllies, we confess it does excite our
amazement. We recollect that, like Caesar's affecta7;
tion M refusing the crown, he once put away the
plate ; but that 'was when there was little likelihood of
its being subscribed for, even after he had been accuse
of offering to Make up any deficiency in the amount
of
the subscription that had been at first agreed upon. It
ht-fortunate that he never got it, if the,poor 4aolijora Can
make use of the silver, or the money that may be raised
by its being melted again, to- relieve the diktresses
brought on them by this eminently rhetorical ad-
vocate of all sort of freedom. We are far from
thinking it right that masters should be allowed to
combine to screw down their workmen io a bare pittance,
while they give n6.' corresponding reduCtion in price to
their customers. But surely that must be an alteration.
for the worse, which legalizes the combinations of the
working 'classes, and induces them to go to the still
greater length or ihtimidatitig and absolutely.brutally
assaulting those who are inclined to labourat the price
which the masters offer. The consequence of such..
conduct is, that the latter are' compelled to incur a
heavy expellee in keeping up a large armed force, to
protect the sober and industi'.ous men who are
willing to .support their families by honest labour,
and by- so doing to increase thewealth of their eM-
ployers'and eventually the resources of the nation. •

[MORNING CIIIIONICLE.]
The declaration of Sir francis Burdett, on Tues
day night, that " be was not so disinterested as not to feel for
himself and tls4 belonging to. him ; and if, as a Gentleman of
England, possessing a landed estate, he could feel that the measure
in question was likely to be seriously injurious to him, he should
oppose it," is entitled to praise for its manliness. Sir Francis ens
deavours, in the course of his speech, to shew that the Corn Bill,
by injuring the interests of all the other classes, could not possibly
benefit the landlords ; but were it otherwise, were it possible that
a measure which was injurious to the other classes could be bene-
ficial to the landlords, he frankly owns that, AS a landlord, he
would support it. And it may be safely laid down as a rule, time
the body which is in reisiession of. poWer will always exercise that
power for its own advantage ; and that the moment when the
interisit of the body becomes distinct from that of the public, that,
tnoment the former receives the preference. Lord Milton, who
thought with Sir Francis Burdett, again observed, " that it was
impossible the landed interest could be ruined while the commerce
of the country flourished," yet blushed for the order to which lie be-
longed, when he thought of the arguments they resorted to for the
purpose of supporting the Corn Laws, which could not be maintained
on those arguments on which other prohibitory laws pressing on this
ternary had been maintained. The..laws to which he alluded had
not been maintained avowedly for the benefit of a partiCular cleat,
but beeause that class had bad the dexterity and ingenuity to per-
suade the Government and the Legislature that such laws were in
fact for the benefit of the whole community. Lord Milton may
be assured, that the order to which he belongs do no more than'
any' other order would do similarly circumstanced, so long as they
'are convinced that their interest is promoted by the course which
they pursue. His 'Lordship seems to think .that men ought to
promote the public good in preference to their own, when the
two are distinct ; .while Sir Francis seems to think men ought to
prefer their own good to that of the public in a similar state of
things; but neither of them can well suppose, however they may
differ as to what men ought to , that any body of men will
really prefer the interest of the public to their own. For our
part, we blush for those who have read human nature to so little
purpose as to place-the least reliance on the. professions of any
body of men, except in cases, When what is professed is agreeably
to the interest of the body professing. We would have men under-
stand one another. A man cannot help being wronged.; but there
is always the greater chance of his being wrong, when he can at the
same time be duped. It was said by Mr. Huskisson, " I mean to say
that I think prohibition with respect to corn, not only to be a
most irrational and pernicious measure, but it is a tenfold greater
evil than prohibition with reference to any other article whatever."
The Bill in question has produced the most disastrous effects, and
till it is repealed, we must lay our account 'with further mischief.
So king as an industrious country like this carries, on trade with
the Continent, so long will 'the prohibition of the trade in an
article of so much consequence as grain, constantly derange the
other branches `of our commerce. Mr. Jacob has shown that the
destruction of the corn trade ()idle -Countries on the Baltic has led
to the eonversion of corn fields into sheep pastures. - Our farmers
are not met in our markets with foreign corn, but they are met
with foreign wool. If, therefore, the Corn Bill enhances the price
el corn, it lowers the lace lot wool; But the price of the
fleece ought to ~bear auQ small proportion to that of the whole
sheep. Let it not be suPposed that the bowie and hilly parts of
the country are alone interested in wool. Tliere cannot be good
agriculture where a considerable proportion of a farm is not