The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

PEEL'S BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE SUN
Sin,—A letter headed " Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Cn"'"-:"
and signed One that wishes the cat to be let out of thebsgur
which appeared in your paper of the 19th, I will, with 5";)t.
leave, say a word or two on, if it' be only to assert,---"P;„
that I agree with him in Coto ; and that, twelve years t:,703
I published a short letter on the same subject, which I ',of
you herewith, hoping you will allow it to be inserted in or
columns. At the time it was so well thought of, that ag ba
tleman begged of me to allow him to print it off, which
did by thousands.
Allow me to say I am, however, neither " Tory nor ?aly,
servative," like your correspondent, but exactly th°tn)
trary ; nevertheless, " will yield to no man (not even
in an honest and hearty desire," to use his own words, " t°1:0‘1,
mote the happiness of the poor, the farmers, and (I IntlY het
too) the manufacturers." I am also persuaded, like hints`„tr
we should never have heard of either " League" or '‘ ,"1,10
League," and Mr. Cobden might have remained quiet in l,ie
mill, printing off daffo-down-dillys and dandelions 00 oi
calicos, had that ruinous blunder, that deed of plualyA
called " Peel's Bill," never been passed and beeonse the ;lot
of the land. But Sir Robert is your " Conservative's/der.
that is to weather the storm," his " serpent ilk the I
ness," which he may gaze on, but without healing hi lita
Therefore, to save him, or themselves, they must shaketoc
off; for there is but-one road to safety—they must go ,s
,n,,.
by the way they came, to secure themselves from ua—
ruptcy and ruin.
iecls
Look at the Baronet all this 'while ; his fortune in the Th into
stands at its nominal amount, while ours is droppiugmit I
annihilation. The lower we go, the higher he stands;wto,
suppose we must " grin and abide it"—all I know 16 the
that " the Bill" has rained the masses who are to Ps/ the
taxes. Not, however, to be too prolix, I here give Y. 02
letter I promised above, and am your obedient servant,
Wolseley, Feb. 21, 1844. C. woLsELEI
“ TO THE EDITOR OF THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL'obe
"Sir,—l have sent the following letter to the Editor °f
Morning Herald.'—
" Sir,—l have just been reading an article In the wrm is
out
ham Journal of the 31st of December last, taken fron's
paper, on tho subject of the Currency, and the folly and
quity of what is called Peel's Bil I' The folly ancl
uess of which, no man with two grains of common seal bed
be.ignorant. When that famous Bill passed into a law, ! et
a mortgage on my estate of 4,3001., the interest of whicebo, t
5 per cent., had been paid for years, at the expense of t,l5I
360 bushels of wheat. How many bushels, I prttf, 101
obliged to furnish, at the bare thoughts alone of Um" 1s1(
coming into effect, two years even before it becstane" 11
-thin
when wheat dropped to ss. 6d., and that we were
rrect,
48 hours of Barter?' Why, Sir, if my calculation I. hscl
not far short of eight hundred. If the Bill had nese
hocus poets enough in it to have made nlYdonbls
grow as large again as they had been, and that I
the. the ~.„ t
quantity of corn would have grown on
ln-
should have had not much reason for complaining, '" Lori
fortunately they remained in statu quo—or 4,840 0(1 to
yards, and so they remain to this day. But, Sir, to come
..„t
the object of my letter, that of corroborating the stateloP,
of your correspondent as to the assertion of the late Sirtbe.
bort Peel, the father of our eminent statesman, who by-f.' hie
by, it is said, when young offered him at the shrinef,, gy
country I' as a curse or a blessing, I shall leave those
ints-
who are now perishing with hunger by the acts of his Distbeg
terial blunders. I know a gentleman to whom his whys
said, after having deplored the obstinacy of his son tike ota
Sir, he is going to add 500,0001. to my property by tu;sol.
in question! No wonder then, that having built a eof
in the air,' he is now building a more
/substantial en be.
Drayton Manor, near Tamworth I ! am, Sir, Yonrd.
client servant, "c. voLsll,
" Wolseley-bridge, Jan. 10, 1832."

A I).
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD'
TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SVI. ea
perceive in the Evening E&tion of last mil
Sun a paragraph headed " The price of Bread," in "4 lit,
is stated that the bakers rose the bread yesterday to,94',''
and some of the West-end bakers even to 10d. ,‘per Otbs
Allow me, Sir, to contradict this false statement. f°ritlia
highest price of bread is but 9d., and the greater part °,ot,
trade charge only Sid. I remain, Sir, your obedient seri
A FULL PRICE BAK.EIL,
Feb. 22. and Subscriber to TAeD'esst.
(A Correspondent in stating what he considers $
should always give his name, for communications like cor
made on anonymous authority, lose half their value-, tot
Correspondent on referring to other journals will flat' re.
The Sun was not singular m making the announconeeb
(erred to.)

FACTORY OPERATIVES SUMMONED FOR LE' ''c'
THEIR EMPLOYMENT wrrnouT NOTlCE.—YesterdaysiK
ad
tory operatives, named Edward Cullen, WM. Parry, J.7e,e,
Blakemore, Win. Hughes, John Dillon, and Thomas W,11009,
appeared at the Borough Court, in answer to a sug',l:joat,
charging them with having left their employment w" t
giving due notice. Mr. Bent, who appeared in suPP°r,
the summonses, said the defendants had been
the employ of Messrs. T. Hilton and Co., at the figni?,,ti
Mills, Buxton-street, who kept 500 hands. winders er
l
They rood),
their wages on Friday evening, and on Saturday thieY,„ther
sented themselves from work, thereby causing seven" 'OlB
hands to stop, and putting their employers to consider_j
expense. The terms upon which all of them were eng4b-ii
were that, before leaving their employ, they should C.ivesle.
days' notice, "or be dealt with according to' law." Tod
turdayevening the defendants went to the mill, and oeir
they had done wrong, and asked leave to go back, but :Log
employers had made preparations for supplying their I" ao
have absented himself had he not been compelled t
with
.other hands ; and Dillon remarked that he would
to dwer
to save himself from disgrace.—Christopher Wood, man of
in the mill was then called, and stated that six pa" alr
wheels were stopped in consequence of the defendant' 0.1-
senting themselves, and their piecers were also st°ll.egi
Their places were filled up as soon as possible, but a 3 ;aces
hands came the defendants enticed them away. All the P- • 6,
were not filled up before Thursday last—James JOrdtip'z'oji
overlooker, proved that the defendants were engaged gel
the terms stated by Mr. Bent, and that notices were Pi°oys
in the room where they worked, to the effect that 14. r de-
notice was required.—The defendants alleged, in thei iota
fence, that the manager had introduced improvements oet
the spinning of the yarn, and that it was impossible t° -`,050
form the work without some one to help them. They.tate
said that the overlooker would not permit them to 'too.
their grievances to their employers, and that they Irer°oll4
that f they resumed work on Monday morning theY.„non4
each pay a fine of ss.—Mr. Wood, in answer to qua
from Mr. Maude, stated, that the alteration alluded
"
the defendants took place about three weeks ago, and trio,
be an advantage to the men if they would give it a fair 01
The defendant Dillon said he had tried it eight dEt :late
was 3s. deficient in his wages. Mr. Wood sai4 1,0.0
would have given the alteration a fair trial they weal
~„0.4
got more in the end, and the winders in the other rf:, to
were at present earning more ; and, as to the 'rine, it v at
go to the Infirmary. There was no fining in their a'° ttio
Maude (to the defendants): We think, 11P9vIcii to
whole, you have taken a very foolish step.
say that those millowhers are not to make any imllLut if
ments or alterations whatever In their machinery would
you had gone on working to the end- of the week, yell or
it is too unirae-
have had-good ground to have summoned the niasA'esfore,
the difference of wages below that which you earnet,,s
and if we thought it had made a deficiency in your or
should have given you your wages at once; but, ins
_,Jr'
that, you have taken the case into your own hanad a t"
Bent said, he was instructed to press for the pay de Is
cost of the summonses, but nothing further.—Mr.
Blauthere any chance of these parties going back to ineo
—Mr. Wood : Not at present. —Mr. Bent :
Thy
places are filled up, but the proprietors have no ottle,. _coo,
thai. ade,
putting their names down for the next vacancy
if they 'will agree to the regulationa in future.---Dil
been the
rto th.e defendants): We think that you have
to Pa"./ 11!r
easonable parties in this case, and that you ought _ tbia
the summonses. I hope in future that on anything
kind occurring you will come here, and we will tell. r,;10,
the. of
e.
once whether there is any breach of contract on
.ve _ce as
masters, such as will give you a right to the din Iv'
wages. MIS nee
occurred case of painful and singular interest eloce
occurred on the island of Arran, having a considerable reoleenutirn..
in its details to some ofthe tragic border ballads of them
A few days ago the daughter of a respectable farmer
out to De
caitn, a village three miles south of Lamlash, wa,.s,.n_u„23,roge
to
married to a young man of her own rank in life. '..,ere in-
day arrived, and, as the custom is, a cavalcade of file " 100.
at lbw ni
coed from thence to meet the bridegroom, who resided _ worni
vited to assemble at her father's house at an early hour •portD„
end of the island,. some fifteen miles distant. Th"..., 011
was very stormy,' so that from that and other.e7,3 03,
three appeared to proceed on the journey. The brate'',
circumstance' as a contemptuous injury done to be:. fie:bis...
Character, and could not brook the thought of der "roil
pn
band witnessing such a small number approaching to
p_'_.erons..
the road, especially as she knew his company would ,:70 rear
So intense did her mental sufferings become that ereremLLoie
is
son was unhinged, and the young and blooming bridour-ii, or I
wild and fearless maniac. The anxious bridegr"r" etresti"'
arrived at her father's house, but she resisted all his d
till "
and refused all consolation. The fearful malady incrst, her
ChtirCbYaru.
bridal bed was made cold grave of Klhnorriu
lure was exhausted and vitality expired ; and on Fr.claY 135
Glasgow Journal,