The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR--I consider it but justice due to you, for the
very correct report of the proceedings before the Privy
Council on Saturday, partly given in your Paper of
the same day, and continued in that of Monday, to
offer you my tribute of praise for your laudable en-
deavours to inform the public of facts a 9 they really
are ; and to express my surprise that the " Court Cir-
cular" should be so misinformed respecting these mat-
ters, as to give an account, which was, with the ex-
ception of the names of the Lords present, wholly in-
correct. This erroneous statement was copied into
most of the Morning Papers, but if the high Gentle-
; men who preside over these great engines could brook
a word of advice, they would do well to admit some
genuine light now and then from " THE SuN,r in-
stead of being led in the dark by the " Court Cir-
cular."--I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,
AN ADMIRF.It OF REWARDING MERIT
Tuesday, May 9. WHERE MERIT IS DUE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—lt is well known that the money so gene-
rously subscribed in England for the relief of the
starving Irish was very injudiciously expended; but,
having perhaps profited by past experience, it is to be
hoped that, in relieving the distressed manufacturers,
our money will now be applied to purposei from which
the country may derive some permanent benefit.
You have said that " the duties on the bonded corn
would amount to 200,0001., and recommended the
application of that sum by Government wholly to the
relief of the manufacturing districts."
Suppose, then, that one hundred thousand pounds
were to be expended in the purchase of. tracts of waste
land in the near neighbourhood of Blackburn and Man-
chester, the subscriptions being added to the remaining
100,0001. would form a large fund for the purchasing
of cheap implements of agriculture, and for the giving
of daily wages to the manufacturers who might be set
to work upon the wastes, they might be supplied
with tents from the Government stores till huts for

their temporary residence could be built for them. It
is quite clear, that without any other, Jabour being ap-
plied to the lands than enclosing them, they would
become much more valuable; and if the purchases
had . been judiciously made, great profits might
be obtained by selling farm after farm, (suppose
of about one hundred or one hundred and fifty
acres each) as soon as the bounds and the division
fences were completed ; in this way the funds would
increase. But, if it were thought advisable- to raise
crops immediately, for the subsistence of the manufac-
turers, or for sale, by paring and burning the soil be,
fore the end of May, some crops might be raised at
that late season.

Though the plan I have recommended may not be
the most effectual of all others permanently to relieve
the existing distress, I am nevertheless quite
convinced that it will be found to be sounder
policy to settle, at the expence of the na-
tion, the unemployed manufacturers, or the unem-
ployed agricultural labourers, upon the waste lands of
England and Ireland, than, with their own consent, to
ship them to Canada or Nova Scotia, or to any other
distant country.
I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
A PROPRIETOR OF LAND,
In the South of Ireland.

May 8, 1828.

A few days since, a couple presented themselves to
be married, at a church in the eastern part of the town, but not
having between them wherewithal to pay the fires, the eenemouy
was refuted;
whereupon they left the church, but soon afterwards
returned, having, it appeared, begged SUfficiOut to pay the clergy-
man, and to provide a wedding-dinner to hoot.
On Monday evening the body of the only son of
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. who was unfortunately drowned whilst
bathing near Harrow school, reached Truro, in a hearse drawn
by six honisa• on its way to the family burial place, at. Mylor
Church.