The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM.

MATCH PIM, 100 Sovs.---Captain Parker started from Hyde
Park Corner at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, to go on foot
to the 38th mile-stone near Beading, Berke, and return (76 miles),
in 19 hours. Heavy bets were pending at five to boar on time.
The pedestrian reached Longford (16 miles) at three o'clock,
where he refreshed with a glees of wine. lie reached Maiden-
head (25 miles) at five o'clock, halting half an hour. He
reached half the distance at half-past eight o'clock, and returned
to Wargrave (seven miles) at ten o'clock, where he breukfitsted,
and then started to do the remaining 33 mile* back to London,
at a quarter before eleven, leaving himself eight hours and a
quarter to perform it in. He reached Longford at, ten minutes
before three o'clock, end when at Hounslow had three hours to
spare. He arrived at the Park
gate ten minute' within the
given time, and won his match cleverly.

THE RING.
NZD O'NEALZ AND PUMP sAbirSofil..--alt DIAD:h betWeeit
rtiOleadi.liacTkl:ei II eulal,mcdodwep:iel
these men was made last night-, at the Clutle Tavern, Holborn,
ea(
3u4iotlh. f stewl4i:,le
mils to
he b7ettimadNeovgeotmlbderat;
for two ndrud pounds aside, to fight on Tuesday, the 13th
Decemberavithin thirty miles of London, on the Birmingham
Harry Hotta, cmaa.jano, Long Acre, on the 14th October. A
third deposit of 501. aside to he made good at Ned o.Nealie,
and the fourth and last deposit of 1001, aside, to be made good at
Josh Hudson's, the Half Moon Tap, Leadenhall-market, on the
6th Decomher ; and in the event of failure on either side, the
party failluil to forfeit the money tinwn.—O'Neale the favourite
5 to 4. ...
Gerinut AND SHADIM—The second deposit for this fight will
be Inside good at Tom Beleher's this evening.

HA? MARKETS.—cuT
Iris ,
(At per 1.044.1 of NI 'I sum)
ST. J AMES'S.
Lowland Meadow 11ay.f.3 10 to 410 ClO .tray...... lt) to 16
410 S chtigrAw .... ....... Ht
Rye-gr ay
4. 50
Ho) Wheat Ditto ..... Ilu 114
New Meadow HayA
good suPPIY, and a steady

Rule, at Saturday', prim,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Nothing can mark more distinctly the total disregard of
tommon honesty (to say nothing of common decency) of
some at least of the " highly respectable" persons who
became Directors, &c. of the various bubbles which arc
now bursting, than their absenting themselves from the
meetings which are celled for the very purpose of enabling
them to account for their conduct. If shame has any
thing to do with it, that might be admitted as some apo-
logy ; but men who have acted as some of these have
done, must have been long dead to shame, or to any hos
nourable feeling. It should be remembered, too, that
these persons are not among the number of those who
have had honour thrust upon them. They were not
elected by the free and open voice of those whose funds
they have either pocketted or dissipated ; but, in nine
cases out of ten, they were named in the first instance by
'
themselves. and were, in fact, either themselves the pro-
jectors, or the ready tools in the hands of the projectors, of
theie conspiracies upon public credulity ; and not only so,
but:it was upon the faith of seeing the names of people of
supposed integrity attached to the different prospectuses,
that the greater portion of the silly dupes were induced to
become subscribers. Really these gentlemen must have
a marvellous share of cold-bloodednees and
,disregard of
• character, if they imagine they can now set at defiance
private duty and public opinion, and still expect here-
after to show their feces in society as honest men.
Some 'cif them, we observe, have had the trumpery,
quibbling kind of honesty to return their wages, or the
premiums for hush-money which have been placed to
their account by the chief concocters of the several
freuds.' But do they suppose that people are weak enough
to he imposed upon by such shallow, such sham honesty
as this? To our minds, it only furnishes an additional
proof, if any were wanting, of the actual dishonesty of
the parties who can so conduct themselves,. The very re-
funding of money under such circumstances, is a tacit ac-
knowledgment that it ought not to have been received.
This refunding in a small way is, in all probability, the
workaif some low, quibbling attorneys, who say to these
honest Directors, " Give them back their money, and they
can have no claim upon you." Give them back their
money, and we should say so too; but to restore the wages
cued pocket the deposits—to refund the per eentage, and
retain or dissipate the capital—is a species of logic which
common honesty cannot sanction, and which the law, we
trust, will not permit. The roguery of these things, hi
fact, becomes every day so grossly notorious, that \ye do
hope sortie examples will be made of these precious speci-
mens of honmir and honesty. Opposed as we have been
all along to these schemes; and companies, and things of all
descriptions, we fear that the suggesting a new one will
come with but a bed grace from us. But we would al-
most ourselves consent to belong to a Company " for
bringing to Justice the Directors, the Schemers, the Soli- '
chore, &c., of the various Bubble Frau& which have
been concocted during the last Eighteen Wals." • One
of the first acts of such a company should be to publish
sort of " Vade Mecum, or Bubble Fraud Guide," in which
a brief particular of each scheme should be given, with the
name* of the Directors, &c., and the result of each thing
as far as it,is known; including, of course, the amount of
solicitors' bills, per centages, premiums, and wages to Di-
rectors. Towards the formation of such a useful little
book we have furnished materials, not long since; amid we
should be glad to see as an appendix to it, the result of the
actions brought by some of those immaculate persons
against the press for makinif knew,' their frauds, and blow.;
ing them and their bubbles into the air.—Morning Herald:
A very general Impression prevails that though the
sipening of the ports has caused a sudden and considerable
decline in the prices of grain, such depression will not be
'acting, but that home and foreign corn will, between this
and,Christmas, experience a considerable advance. In the
mean time it is to be regretted that the effect of the present,'
hill is felt almost exclusively by that class of agriculturists
who are least able to bear it—we mean the small
farmers, whose circumstance, will riot permit them to keep
back their corn from market, but who are forced to take it
to market under every disadvantage, to enable them to pay
their rents, their tithes, and taxes, and the very labour,
.too, of their rich neighbours, in the shape of poor rates.
There iano class,of the community who deserve more pro-
tection, and receive less, than the class of small farmers.—
A man farming less than 100 acres of land is, hi most
parts of the kingdom, worse off than a labourer; yet
these were the men who, fifty years ago, formed the chief
source by whim means breed corn was raised throughout
the kingdom ; and who, undergoing a life of labour, and
contented with smell profit, made not only Corn Laws
tmneeessary, but this an exporting nation.
.By throwing
their small farms into large ours, the greater part of tins
valuable class of the community host disappeared ; and in-
stead of these have arisen high rents and political teems-
°mists, and a train of luxury and folly which has converted
the simplicity of rural life into fox-hunting farmers, bedis
inlet! mothers, and over-educated daughters, unlit for any
useful or creditable occupation. Great as this evil is, it is
not very likely that, the landlords or the tithe owners will
do, much to discourage it; and it is only to the Legislature,
tailed by the good sense of the country, that these people
vaniook for any measure which may avert their total eic.
tinetiom That remedy, if found at all, -is to be found hi
compelling the large farmers to giVe a far price for labour,
insteasi of throwing the greater pat of 'it upon the Poor
Rates. It is this that keep down, and will in the end, if
not corrected, extinguish altogether the race of small
farmers, in whose continuance and restoration the country
at large tire so deeply interested.—llloening Herald.