The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-02 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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as of Corn, for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful.
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SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS.

By the average of accounts from the manufacturing ;dis-
tricts, we collect that there is no sensibleimprovement,in
tne 'condition of our countrymen. It matters little how
thiS or that local Stateinent may be coloured by, the ima-
gination of individuals- in the neighbourhood, or. by their
knowledge, of particular 'transactions passing before their
eyes, but in no degree assignable to general eanses,
fitted to serve ton ground for inferences of any extensive
bearing. The broad-truth is, that no progress towards the
revival of trade, or the relief of the people, has yet shoWn
itself el* evidence worthy of the least attention. Supply,
extieeds detrumd—that is the naked fact, which we con-
ceivei t- iniquitous to disguise or qualify., Arguments
about. currency—circulating medium-7-a gelds standard, or
silyci'.stundard—this or that system of banking-7-this or
thet mode of employment for the .poor.---with fifty other
discussions, raised. no doubt by worthy minds,, from good
motives, and under confident hopes or effecting..sonte" ad-
vantage through them, are beside- the real question ;, they
are like Dr. Johnson's plan of scarifying the skin of his
legs' when the poor mart's "frame was sinking under incur-
able dropsy. No—the disease is more deeply seated than
a resort to such propositions would imply. The notion of
multiplying banks for the support, of: credit--or, in other
words, for tt.ill further stimulating that production , which
already outstrips the natural call for It—what are such
projects -but contrivances for feeding the disorder ?, „ The
nature .the reraedy must be obvious to those who
rightly understand the evil. Create demand,, and cheek
production—that is to say, prevail upon foreigners who
have, for to - series of years taken off about 3-sths (by a mis-
print it was stated the other day.at 3-Bths) of the whole
sutras of goods for which this country found a market—
prevail upon these customers, we say, to purchase British
cottons at higher prices and in larger quantities
than ever, and for a time you will restore our
working classes to prosperity;-for a . time, and,
alas 1 no more! . The insatiable thirst of gain, and energy
of production, have long been outrunning, throughout
Great Britain, the regular demand for , goods7--larger
bodies of jpurneymen-manufacturers have been gradually
collected, and fresh victims. to the fluctuations of trade,
have every year been accumulated : although, therefore,
a temporary spur were given to consumption, the produc-
ing power would speedily, as before, take the lead, and
another, and more aggravated, because a more extended
revulsion, would spring train another glut. Du we Warne
any man, or class of men, for these mischiefs,? No,
surely; they are inherent in the essence of a system so
exclusively, or at least predominantly, ,manufacturing as
oars. : The tendency of creation to outstrip dethand, to
lessen profits, and to bring round distress, is inseparable,
we frOm a system, where so much sagacity has ever
been employed, in the invention of mechanical improve-
ments, any pne of which may, and each of which has, in
fact, tecelerated preternaturally the course and impetus of
prodnction. The remedy, then, of a more extended null,
ket, could it be attained, would prove but evanescent. Is
such an expedient, however imperfect, practicable at this
Moment 7 Again, we fear that It is not so. !Chas long
been o:tr declared opinion, that causes of a regular and
Widely-ope,mting character were in activity for the dlr.;
tailment of British trade. • Foreign rivalahip, of these, is
the chief. ,England has flourished not-by possessing a na-
tural or equal share of the benefits derived from manufac-
tures, such as they are, but from a share of them amount-
ing nearly to monopoly. Immense accumulations of capi-
tal—a prodigious expenditure—luxury all but'universal—
reiterate& loans, and taxes beyond all precedent,-:-had pro-
(Weed a 'corresponding rise of prices---this a comparative
depression of wages—the emigration of myriads of our ar-
tisans, atO the sacrifice of myrilulkwho remain to the effects
of a competition rendered more formidable by their own des
parted countrymen. , Such are a few among the strong fee,
tures of our decline as a montsfact urink isople; for a decline
gtjeil I, et, deceive the nation, who have impiolence end
Want of principle, and pressing interests to qualify them
for such an office. Truth is our grand interest, our aim,
.t constitutes those of all men of honour. We
should look, therefore, with much indifference at the ex-
pedients patched up to cover the emergency, not to cure
it, were we not satisfied that, every such attempt ,cure
ritturislifresh fallaeies, and end in an aggravation of the
iniblic disappointments and distresses. Upon the under-
takmig 4, a branch-bank from the Bank of gngland at
Glougmiter, Manchester, and elsewhere, we-have hint one
remar3t.,to lx*e—in so far as those establishments may be
maculated to renew the old facilities of credit,. for men
who have been foreed to suspend their manufactures for
the ,want of such rissistatiee—we are sure that no deeper
curse could be intlieted,on this country than by their in-
troduction and activity. But if branch-banks be so em-
ployed as to banish unsound, country banks—to measure
credit by real capital---thus to check, instead of men-
raging, the wildneas of -speculation, and to co-operate with
the nature of things in conducting the kingdom to that
state of manufacturing industry commingled with agricul'
tural habits, in more equal proportions than we have re-
cently seen them, every .man may safely join in prayink
foe success to the experiment. In the mean tune, 100k—
we ecroitire and implore the still affluent bodies. of Eng-
lishmen-cast your eyes but once at the starving paid-
tude,e, immeent of offence, and patient amidst their ago-
niett; and withheld, if you feel it in human. nature to do
so, the hand that would succour, and save, even for 'an
lieur, without sirguirg about the adtinutte effloteimisness
of that charity which Clod commands us to exercise al-
ways towards each other. If private charity be
insufli-
the national treasury must he opened, freely and
Netier will we stand by and see our
blameless fellow creatures perishing, that systems, theories,
or even states, may flourish,-- names.
'lire deputation of manufacturers from Birmingham
have litre an interview with Ministers, but the wealth:A-not yet
transpired. Their representation of the.staw of distress in that
great manufacturing town is extremely forcible, and accompanied
•
by facts eZleulated to remove all,doubt of its fairness; but they
confine tbemelves, we understand, entirely to that representation,
and do not venture to offer
They are disposed to ascribe their mis-
fortunes fey the most part to. the interference of the Government
with the. enrrency of the elnintry, and that at a time when it
above all others, to have been left to itself. We need not
enter ion, any argument to show how imperfect an explanation
this is "I the causes of their distress, which evidently he roach
deeper ; we give only what is salt) to be the case of the Bir-
mingham: manufacturers on their own showing. riot though
they asCrihe•their distress to the tampering with the etnTeneY,
they: are taut- prepared to sasert, that a return to the old system
pads' restore the affairs of trade to their former position, or that
„fulh a return is possible after the blow that has heen struck at the
time* circulation. Prom branches of the Baal: of England they
mticipste little, unless the system of the country banks should be
partin adoirod along with them that the Court of Directors, at
jeueti nhood allow credit acCoonts: to ibe opened, and interest on
deka) neither of which modes of doing business, have,:we learn,
iheialteltest probability of being .sanctioned. The applitation of
rite itirroingham manufactured, therefore,'eomes precisely to the
same 'Obit with those which have preceded it; viz.; that the
evil is found to be ineurable, for neither the • sufferers nor .
the Government are .abletu suggest any letne.
When d the
par ,return
, an;
ties Inane just to wise as theyve
.:
verted yesterday to the prevalence of a feeliag,' that general int
t in the state of trade was near at hand, we wish to be
Pmvernen" ' to of some of the more intel-
.
understood
.as speaenie tee senumen
merattant!, rather titan our own conviction. -We -natarallyH
creditlmgeitt l►at curates to theft own affairs, for more sags.
give ; world and we are desirous also, under,
rtty than the re.ss'n-• le
• ti I view
of both sides of the
thin head), exonnt an unpar a
hv6t
consideration of both, draw
tine, that our reader') maY;flon :man', from which this pro-,
ivl7lo;:vie9rSoie7tf. to -I:ee
,inferred, undonbtedly :dogs, at
spe,
f money., or rather of unemployed
prout-ti Le very much out of this way of common observe-
tion. IThe grawingabundance o
(.944'11 °M3'll*'g scrims.
to to others. New s„pplieS
'otig evil to all those persons who
derivediratiby iiitord44, 90' atr ; for
daily arrive from varions parts of t colt ) imstornem,
Or ap,
the Meal banks,
either through distrust of the solvency oftheir
Prghtlaiiti of the competition with the branch Irak++, arktreiluuct•
11941,113 V
ing most plegs t aef;9l44lh "d b o
or!,

ploy the capital thence arising on the spot, are compelled to send 1
it up to 'London for employment. For the discount of money
bills at short. dates the only medium now considered a safe, one,
the demand is extremely circumscrilied.— Times.
,There is great tendency among.the Lords and Honour-
able Gentlemen who lent the sanction'of their names to
some of the schemes of last year, to retreat from the
things as soon as they show any symptoms of unprodue-
then," ; and when they are proved, as so many of them
ha-ve been, to have been bottomed in fraud and delusion,
those Lords and Honourables, under the sanction of whose
names half the gulls have been plundered, one and all de-
clare their utter astonishment and total ignorance about
the matter. Now this very ignorance, be it real or fied-
dons, instead of being an apology, is, we, think, a great
aggravation of the matter. - These Lords and Gentlemen,
in plain truth we must tell them, had, one and all, no
oilier object in joining any of these projects, but to put
money in their Right Honourable pockets. They do not-
condescend to soil their Spanish leather boots, or their
Bond-street pantaloons, by the vile mud of Cornhill and
Cheapside, nor do they stiffer their brightnames to wan-
der from Almack's to a filthy prompectus about log-wood,
tin, or tobacco, but in the expectation of bettering their
over-drawn accounts at Coutt's, Drummond's, or else-
where. When therefore these Honourables descend to
accept. of Directorships, &c., in those concerns, for the
mere attainment of money, surely it becomes them to
know a little of what they were about, and to be, at least,
honest trumes of the property over which they were so
obliging as to condescend to accept the controul. Were
we Shareholders then, in any of these concerns, thus si-
tuated, we would not let, those Lords and Gentlemen off
incite so easily, as there seems to be a disposition in some
cases to do. On the contrary, we would stick to the
skirts of those Honowables, and never leave tormenting
them till we. got. ur money back. We would teach those
Lords and Gentlemen, thnt Directorships, &c.,
,tae not all
honour and emolument; and that if they have been kind
enough to share these parts of the concerns, they must
submit to a fair proportion, at least, of the loss, and of
the disgrace. We, hope therefore, that Mr. Clarke will
attack the Lords as well as the Commons.—Morning
Herald.

We cannot perceive how in . the present circumstances
Of the country, any part of the press can be advantageously
employed in assuming a tone either of despondency or of
exaggeration.- That the distress of many of the working
classes is great cannot be-doubted, nor is it, on the other
band, less certain, that a strong and universal sympathy
prevails towards that distress from the King to the peasant
It is too much then to assume, that any thing like indif-
ference upon the subject exists in any quarter; and be-
cause the well-intended nostrum of every politician is not
instantly. administered to the patient, his attendants are
indifferent either to hisTsufferings or the means of his re-
eovery. fly some, the evil is attributed to the. immense
amount of taxation : this may be true to a great degree,
but what truth is there in endeavonring to persuade the
people, that the weight of taxation is principally owing to
useless places and pensiens, and to the expellees of the
Government. The very persons who say this, know that
it is not true, and that, in fact, three-fifths of the taxes
1 are levied to pay the interest of the debt, and have no re-
ference whatever to the cause to which these misleaders
of the people :would attribute the whole. We are .no
friends to a lavish or unnecessary expenditure of the pub-
lic money in any way; and have no. doubt but that , there
are expences of the Government which might and' ought
to, be reduced; but the utmost that could be effected in
this' way would act but as a drop of water on the ocean,
towards diminiihing the amount of taxation, which has
risen tn.its.present height from causes withvlnch the pre-
Sent Government arid the preient generation have hail
hale to do. When we see,, therefore, public writers
stating, that It cheaper Goverropent is the only, remedy"
for the present distress, we deprecate such language as
mischievous, calculated only to Mislead men's
Mothood.witilt them both to the real cause mid true re.
Medy for our ' ttUnyerary 4to;ititin.' We use not ititioug.
the advocates of the silly dttgintt, that, " truth should ttot
be spoken at all times;" nor do we believe that the ftf-
fairs either of nations or of individuals were ever bene-
fittAby delusion of any kind. The tirat step towards
retrieving the one or the other is, that both Governments
and private persons should looktheir real situation fairly in
the face. But knowing es we do. the Oombustiblt materials
into which hunger. and privation, convert the populace of
any country, we hold it unpardonable in any man,
to cleat
out untruths for facts, and by oVercharged.statements risk
the public tranquility, fts well is the welter . 'of those
whose cause they are thus prOresiirig to serve.-4744.

LAW T ELLIG 1111 Pit R.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Atm 1.

' • THOMAS V. MONTGOIOVRY.
Mr. MILLAR said, that about four tuentlis Ago the Court had
made an order in the late Duke of Queensbury's cause, directing
sums of money to be paid to tenants, reported by the Master to'be
entitled to them, but that the payment should not take place for
a fortnight from that time, that persons who might be
.entitled to make arrests-, might have the opportunity of bring-
ing them in : none of those arreatments had yet been
.made,
and the Learned Okitlenninthought it time to claim the benefit
of his Lordship's order on behalf of his clients.
Mr. HART appeared for the Executors; he had no instruc-
tions to contradict any thing that had been stated by Mr. Millar,
and therefore, could not make any objection.
Ifis Loans= then ordered the payments to be made forthwith.