The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

HONE W AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at'Liverpool, yesterday, was very dull,
and prices were more in favour of the buyers-1,000 bales
were sold. Business in Shares was rather better :—Eastern
Counties Registered were 12i ; .Grand Junction, 226 ; Great
Western Fifths, 19h ; Liverpool and Manchester, 224 ; Bir-
mingham, 233 ; Ditto, Quarter, 28k ; South, Western Eighths,
; Manchester and Birmingham, 411 ; 'aris and Lyons,
21. 15s. 6d. ; Ditto and Orleans, 33* ; and South Eastern, 35h ;
Ditto, New, 35a,
The intelligence received from the East Indies to-day has
been the subject of very general conversation in the-City,
and much regret is expressed at the loss 'that has taken place
in the Indian army. There have not as yet been
'any.cemmercial letters delivered, nor can they be expected.
until to-morrow or the following day. The ship-
ments of manufactures for • the East Indian and
China markets are rapidly on the increase. The
mercantile intercourse with the Chinese must become ere
long of immense, advantage to this country, if we may judge
from the anxiety of the merchants and the shipping interest
to enter into transactions with the subjeets of the Celestial
Empire.
There is not an arrival from the North American and other
Colonies to-day of later dates than those before received.

TENA NT FARMERS" AND TAX-
PAYERS.

or, in other and 'synonymous •terms, money_ itself ;so
much dearer, that-it .now requires, with the labour of
most classes of artisans at 2s. peiday in place of 4s. per
day, calico at 4d. in place of at 9cl. per yard, corn at 63.
instead of at 10s. 6d. per bushel, and other articles, the
produce of home industry, in the same proportion, about
double the quantity of labour, calico, corn, and other
necessaries of life, to provide for the taxation of the
country.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
zni a farmer's son, and I do not think there
are many far mers' sons in the country who have exerted
themse,lves more than I have to place Sir Robert Peel
and the Conservatives in power, but if I ever do so
again, in ay God forgive me.
Sir, we have been deceived, sacrificed, plundered,
robbed.

"That, under the peculiar position of this country,
with a demand upon it of 50,0000000 L per year to pro-
vide for pensions, sinecures, annuities, and salaries, of
nominally unchanged and unchanging, but of thus really
increased and still increasing amount, almost another
50,000,0001. per " year, or an additional 250 millions
of days of labour per-. year, or of about the same
increased proportion of calico, corn, and other
necessaries of life, have, . since the year 1819,
thus silently and almost: imperceptibly, but virtually and
actually, been obtained- from _the, tax-payers of this
country • and that such an. increase of its taxation is
obviously sufficient to account for the difficulties of the
country, the unprofitableness of trade, and the scarcity
of employment and low rate of wages for labour.
" That, as in addition to the foregoing, your petitioners
apprehend .a still further decline in the value of the
labour and produce of this country; arising from a belief
that, notwithstanding the impolitic encouragement given
by this country to the owners of foreign gold mines, in
maintaining for gold the present fixed standard price of
3/. 1.75. 100. per ounce;and leaving all its banking and
trading establishments so completely dependent there.
upon—gold is an article that will not be increased in
the same ratio as it is the natural tendency of the popu-
lation and powers of production of this great, and intel-
ligent, and .scientific country to increase. They there-
fore feel their imperative duty, as tax-payers, and espe-
cially such of them as are occupied inproductive industry,
to petition your Honourable House for a redress of these
grievances.

I have ha td a little leisure lately to investigate political
manoeuvres to the bottom, and, perbaps,.you will afford
me space to Elbow how this has been done.
Suppose a .farmer has taken a farm of 200 acres, at a
rental of 30s. per acre, and with a reliance that his land-
lard and Members of Parliament would support a corn-
law that shall maintain for his corn the average price of
Bs. per bushel..
The average annual produce of an acre of such land in
22 bushels, which, with corn at Ss. per bushel, is 81. 16s.
per acre. Suppose that his landlord and M.P.'s (having
thus let the farm and made promises) " turn round,"
jump " James," (aye, and jump " Robert,") and support
a Minister and measures that shall reduce (and have
reduced) the value of his corn to 6s. 6d. per bushel—and
this, mark, without passing any measure declaring that
the rents agreed to be paid should fall in proportion to
the fall in corn, as tested by the averages;—this differ-
ence of ls. 6d. per bushel is 335. per acre for the 22
bushels, or' 3301. per year! being 301. more than all the
rent agreed to be paid !
Now, all this has, on the average, been filched from
the pockets and capital of the tenant farmers of this
country, and no wonder is it that the Bank of England is
full of gold, and that the farmers of Ireland and Wales
have become seditious, and that those of England are
fast becoming Liberals, at being thus hocus-pocused out ,
of it. This gold in the Bank is nothing more nor less than
the draws, and gains, and savings of the great moneyed
capitalists, sinecurists, and even landlords, by the last
notable introduction of the " Conservative" Premier's
" principle of cheapness." I will show how this is
effected for, even the latter (the landlords), and there
can be no doubt upon that of the former. (The gains
and savings of the moneyed man and sinecurist, from
buying things so much cheaper, are without any draw-
back whatever, if the matter of the income-tax be ex-
cepted ; and even in this case the farmer or other pro-
ducer is called upon to pay it as well as he.)
With corn at Bs. per bushel, it took from the farmer
750 bushels to pay his rent of 3001. With corn at 6s. 6d.
per bushel, the landlord extracts from him 923 bushels.
Suppose that, in imitation of the crafty Premier, the
landlord makes for one year a return of 10 per cent., he
still obtains 831 bushels, or a gain of 81 bushels, whilst
all the difference between the 750 or 923 bushels—
namely, 173 bushels, or about 20 per cent.—becomes in ,
all subsequent years a permanent actual increase of his
rent.

At a meeting of the Shareholders in the London and
Westminster Bank, held this morning, a dividend
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was de-
clared. The balance of profits, after bad and doubtful
debts were provided for, expenses, &c.,were stated to amount
to 51,6961. ss. 7d. From the balance of profits the income-
tax was deducted. The reserve fund is now at 66,8221.165. sd.
There has been afirm market for British Securities. Consols
for the account have remained at 97i to i, at which the de-
mand has continued dull up to the present hour. . The Com-
missioners took their usual amount of Stock at 97i for Con-
sols. Exchequer Bills are 69 to 71, and India Bonds 89
preMium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
102 k to 4-t.
The Foreign Market has been buoyant again, and Spanish,
owing to the advance at Madrid, have touched 25 to i for the
Actives, and 35i to i for the Three per Cents. Colombian
Bonds have been 14 to 15k, with a good deal doing. Brazil
Bonds are at 80i ; Portuguese Old at 77i ; Peruvian at 3134 ;
Mexican at 344 to 35; and the Deferred at 14h to 14.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.-are 55g.
There is a moderate business doing in Railway Shares, and
they bear full prices generally. Great Western, South
Western, South Eastern, and one or two others, have risen,
as the list below will show :
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 97% %
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1560. ....
India Bond 5,1,000
Ditto under 1,000 B9
Console for Account 97%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 134 cl
500/.
pm.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. 15% 15% 14%%
Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. ,.... 34
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred Stock
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 30%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. 77
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25%%%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account ••• 85304 4
Dutch 21x6 per Cents
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl% 1C2%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PZR SMARR
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto New
Bristol and Exeter '7o 69% to
Chester and Holyhead 5 5% to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 25 li% ... to
Ditto Extension l3s. 4d
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 59 I 4 ... to
Great Western
Ditto Shares
Ditto Fifths l2
London and Birmingham. Stock 234 to
London and South Western
Ditto Eighths
3% ...... to
'
Manchester and Leeds 113% to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Norwich and Brandon
Newcastle and Darlington Junct lB
Northern and Eastern 45 57% to
Ditto Scrip. l5 93% to
Ditto_ % Shares
North Midland

In respect to the laws affecting the paper money of
the country, your petitioners believe that it would be
less impolitic in your-Honourable House to enact that a
favoured company of bakers should be permitted to dole
out, at their own price or pleasure, all the bread that is
required within sixty-five miles of the metropolis, than
that any particular and irresponsible clars of her Ma-
jesty's subjects should possess a charter to supply all the
money within the same most important part of her
Majesty's dominions,- itiasmuch as the former (bread) is
only one necessary of life, and it is the latter (money)
that commands every necessary of life.
" Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable
House to take into your serious considerati6n the fol-
lowing proposals :—That in place of basing the cur-
rency entirely upon a very • scarce, uncertain, and • fleet-
ing foreign metal,, you found it distinctly upon the
available real or real and funded' property of the coun-
try; and that, in lieu .of one laivlor a portion of her Ma-
jesty's subjects, who are proprietors of the Bank of
England, a second and third for bankers in England and
Wales, and a still different one, allowing to,bankers in
Scotland and Ireland a privilege that is denied to those
of England and Wales— that of issuing one pound notes,
you make one uniform law for the entire kingdom, and
the entire people. That your Honourable House ap-
point a board independent of the Government, but re-
sponsible to the Privy Council, Parliament, and the
country, in whom shall be vested the-power and exclu-
sive right of issuing paper money, for the general-good
of the country; and that such board be empowered to
make advances thereof to such persons as shall consent
to deposit double the amount of real-or funded securities,
and pay an interest of two or two and a half per cent.
per annum interest thereupon. That such notes be for
sums of one pound and upwards, and their total number
or amount such as shall be found necessary to give the
heavily taxed producers and industrial classes of her
Majesty's loyal subjects, such an advance upon the pre-
sent low and unremunerating prices for their produce
and labour as your Honotirable House may consider
their past and present hardships justly entitle them to
obtain. That such notes be at all times taegal tender
in discharge of taxes, and all other payments, but re•
deemable at the office of issue in either silver or gold at
the market price of such metals, as from time to time
may be carefully computed by the state of the ex-
changes, &c., and published in the London Gazette.
" That your petitioners believe that the enactment of a
measure of this kind by your Honourable House, would
greatly tend to emancipate the industry of this great
mercantile country alike from undue, subjection to the
influence of foreign gold and hostile foreign tariffs.
They believe also that it would, in a corresponding .
manner, restore the monetary laws, and finances, and-
trade, and agriculture, and labour of the country to a
healthy and satisfactory state. Your petitioners there-
fore ask your Honourable House to pass it into law ;
and, as in duty bound, will ever. pray. .
Signed on behalf of the meeting,
" MARTIN NUNN, Chairman." •

Thus the landlord pockets a considerable portion of
the farmer's total loss of 330 L per year each. He then
mocks him by telling him to " buy guano" (when his
money's gone), to improve his (the landlord's) land, and
to produce more.
Sir, the work has now been done, and I know suffi-
cient (having studied the laws that regulate the currency
as well as those that regulate corn) of what must inevi-
tably be the low price of corn under the present Corn
Bill, taken in conjunction with the spoliating Currency
Bill of 1819—a measure which made a difference of at
least 2s. per bushel, or 440 L a year to the tenant farmer
of 200 acres—that I would recommend every tenant
farmer in the country to join the Anti-Corn-law League,
provided the League will join them in forming an Anti-
Currency-law League, for the purpose of repealing
Peel's Currency Bill of 1819. By an equitable, and
sound, and enlightened Currency Bill, leaving gold to
find its actual level.in value, like all other things, and as
they do in all other countries, in place of maintaining
for it a fixed or monopoly price of 3/.:175. 10d. per
ounce, corn may be ensured on the average of seasons,
even with an entire free trade in it, at 7s. 6d. per bushel.
Under the present monopoly given to gold, and the mere
abortion of protection to corn, and actual discourage-
ment to trade and consumption, it will not average 6s.
per bushel.

..... . .
Ditto Thirds 2ll. 13s. 4d 3O, to
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ..... ................... 20 .... ..... 33%% to
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover 5O 35%% ... to 36
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch

Sir, I see by an announcement in the papers, that
what is termed the Anti-League, is about to have " a
great national meeting" at the Freemasons' Tavern, on
Monday next.

My advice to the tenant farmers is, be cautious and
yet awake—firm and resolute, and, if needs be, even
savage, or this " Great National" League of yours (?)
will prove to you " a great national" humbug. (What
are words put into the Dictionary for if they are not to
be used ?) If your landlords can succeed in putting you
against the League, in throwing you off the right scent,
in setting you to hunt and fight your fellow-producer and
fellow-sufferer, they will pocket the last gain of 173
bushels or 20 per cent., without being seen, and come
the same trick over you again in the course of a few
more years, when you shall, in obedience to the advice
of your "friend," the Premier, have sunk the relics of
your capital in " guano" and produce more for- them
At present they say they won't alter the currency laws
in order to restore, or relieve, or do justice to both you
and the manufacturers, because, forsooth, the spoliating
law of 1819 was the handy-work of the man whose
slave they were, and are, and whose slaves they still
wish to be. For the same, and, in addition to this, the
still more unworthy reason of direct pecuniary interest,
they tell you to fight their battle for certain high rents
for them, and uncertain. prices, or rather certain low
prices for you. Tell them that you have been fleeced
once too often. Tell them that this won't do. Tell
them that they possess the power to see that justice is
done to the country, and that if they do not do- it now,
whilst they may save their estates, you will join the
League and they may lose them. Tell them that by
maintaining Peel's law of a fixed or monopoly price for
gold, your produce has fallen from 10s. 6d. to 6s. per
bushel ; the manufacturers calico from 10d. to 4d. per
yard ; and the labour of the silk, calico, and stocking-
weaver from 11.75. to almost 7s. per week. Tell them
that by this hocus-pocus and "slidingdown" in the money
value of almost everything, it now takes about double
the number of bushels of corn, and pieces of calico, and
pairs of stockings, and days of labour, and everything
else to provide for the taxation under Peel in time of
peace that it did under Pitt in time of war ! 1 Tell them
this " great fact." Tell them that this has doubled the
value of Sir Robert Peel's funded property, of the Duke
of Wellington's property and income, and of Lord
Brougham's and all other pensions and that you now
see through it. Tell them that you are thus made to
pay nine per cent. interest for all the corn and labour,
&c., that were lent from 1797 to 1815, amounting to
600,000,0001. in declared value, and this whilst money is
at three per cent. ! Tell them that under the present
monstrous monopoly for gold, and no monopoly for
either corn, or manufacturers, or labour that is worth a
rush, you are being only cajoled, hoodwinked, and
robbed. Tell them that that monstrous monopoly—the
Bank Charter—shall be broken up, now the opportunity
offers, and that paper-money shall be advanced to, and
be allowed to be issued by, all persons who deposit ample
real security, and pay an interest of two-and-a-half
per cent. thereupon to Government for the privilege ;
and that the amount of the said notes shall be such as
shall give the labourers and farmers, and operatives, and
'manufacturers, an advance of 20 per cent. upon the
present unremunerating prices, and gold and silver be
left to find their natural level in value.

COURSE OF EXCHAJ
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine 122

GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 75
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice ........
Naples 3B/
Palermo, per oz ll7l
Lisbon' s3i
OportO s3fr
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold,bars..X3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9
Silver in Bars 0 4 11

SHOREDITCH ANTI-CORN-LAW
ASSOCIATION.

Petersburgh, 3Us 36i
Berlin
Vienna, effect 11.3 M 957
lrieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Last evening a meeting of the members and friends of the
above Association was held at. the Dun Horse, Kingsland-
road, for the purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr. Sidney
Smith, the great burden of which was to explain the clauses
in the Acts of Parliament relating to registration as regards
voters, more particularly those which affect the occupiers of
compound houses, lodgers, and others, the duties of the over-
seers as to making of the rate-books, with a view to the ex-
tension of the franchise, it being considered the most effectual
means of obtaining the total repeal of the com-laws. The
large room of the tavern was crowde4and every accommo-
dation wag afforded for the convenience of the visitors.by Mr.
Gregg, the worthy proprietor of the establishment. Mr,
Solomons was called to the chair.

Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Sevilla —

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH s.—The market
continues firm, and a fair business has been done at the quo.
tations :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Registered, 12} ; Ditto,
unregistered, 59; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14i ex-dividend;
Sheffield and Manchester, 70i ; Ditto, Quarters, 7i ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 42.

The SECRETARY read the minutes of the previous meeting,
a portion of which related to a vote of thanks to Dr. Shen-
dan, the editor of the Morning Advertiser, for his able and
consistent articles in opposition to the corn-laws. The Se-
cretary also read Dr. Sheridan's acknowledgement of the vote
of thanks, in which he declared it to be his great pride to
lend his best aid to " release the bounties of Heaven from
the bonds which the iniquity of man had placed upon
them."—(Applause.)

The minutes were then agreed to.
Mr. BINGLEY said that the letter which they had received
from Dr. Sheridan was so worthy of his head and heart, that
he thought it ought to be placed on the minutes of the Asso-
ciation, and he moved that it be inserted accordingly.
The motion was put and agreed to amidst cheers.
The CHAIRMAN then shortly explained the object of the
meeting, and concluded by introducing to the company
Mr. SIDNEY. Sbirrx, who
proceeded to address them. Al-
though his observations were lengthy, the matter to which
they referred can be laid before the public in brief form, and
we shall endeavour to give it in that shape, believing that by
doing so we shall aid the object ,which the lecturer had in
view, namely, to disseminate his views amongst the great
body to whom his remarks were more particularly directed.
He said that the Anti-Corn-law Leage were so conscious of
the truth of the principles which they sought to inculcate
amongst the people, that they were anxious to show to the
people how they best could obtain the franchise, in order
that the people, in the event of their concurring in the views
of the League, might support those who advocated free-trade
principles.—(Hear.) If the League did not believe their
course to be that of truth and justice, they would, by the in-
formation which through him they proposed to give to the
working classes, to enable them to be placed on the registry,
be, in fact, giving a stick to break their own heads.—(A
laugh.) There was a saying of Wm. Penn's—that " a wise
people never had a bad government." This he believed
truly, and his belief was, the more power the people had, the
more they would exercise it for the improvement of the Go-
vernment.—(Hear.) There were only 800,000 electors fn the
three kingdoms. Now, if every man did what he ought to
do, there would be at least 2,000,000 electors on the registry.
Why should not the working men do this ? By a recent de-
cision in the Court of Common Pleas, which was now the
final Court of appeal in reference to decisions respecting the
franchise, it was declared, in fact, that any man paying
4s. 6d. or ss. a week, was entitled to be placed upon the re-
gistry. That being so, it was the duty of a person to adopt
the necessary means to be so placed on the registry. If they
did that, they could get a sufficient number into the window
of the House of Commons, and that body, joined with others
in it, would come and open the door to the great body of the
people.—(Hear.) The first thing to be done by persons paying
rent was to get themselves rated, and although they might
have compounded for the rates in the rent with the landlord,
and although the landlord might also have compounded with
the parish, still, if they paid 101. a year, and were rated to
the parish, they had a right to be placed upon the registry to
be entitled to all the immunities of citizenship ; and it was
the duty of the churchwardens and overseers, under the 6th
and 7th Wm. IV., c. 96, to place in the parish book the name
of every occupier of a house in the parish, as well as that of
the owner, and indeed, unless they complied with the pro-
visions of the Act they were liable to be fined 5/. upon con-
viction before a justice of the peace. and the parishioners
could see if the parish officers did their duty, for the Act in
question enabled them, without fee or reward, to take ex-
tracts from the parish books in reference to this point. But
it might be said that the landlord with whom they had com-
pounded, would not pay the rates due on the 6th of April or
the 20th of July, and thus the tenants might be affected.—
(Hear, hear.) But in the parish of Shoreditch, at all events,
they had a local Act which enabled the tenant to pay the
rates, and stop them out of the rent, so that in that
.parish
the omission of the landlord could not affect the right of
the tenant. They were aware that every occupier of a
101. house, warehouse, shop, Sce., was entitled, if rated,
to be placed on the registry. • The ingenuity of lawyers
had thrown considerable difficulty in the, way of the, work-
ing of the Reform Bill, and had limited its operation
very much. The recent decision in the Common Pleas had
however, declared in fact that the owner of any room is any
house, he having the key of that room, and having sole con-
trol over it—the party being rated to and paying 10/. a
year rent, was entitled to be placed on the registry. The
case submitted to the Judges in the Court of Common. Pleas
was shortly this :—A factory, four stories high, and con-
taining several rooms, each of these rooms was let off
to particular parties. Each tenant had an exclusive
right to the room occupied by him, and had a key
for it. There was a common entrance, and the land-
lord paid the rates, the rating being of a joint character.
The Chief Justice, upon this case being submitted to the
Court, decided that all these persons were entitled to be on
the registry, and in this decision the whole Court concurred.
This decision, therefore, fully established the right of every
person paying 101. a year for a room in a house, if rated, to
e intended to take steps
classes, and they ought
be placed on the registry.—(Hear.) This placed a great
to powertak
to have the whole case simplified, so that every one could e i and tvl al en
tha ga nedosf iotf. t hTe
hlev oLrekai ng
un-
derstand how to work the matter hereafter; and if the
towns only did their duty, they could easily beat the county
Members returned, through the influence of the Chandos
clause. The Lecturer, after adverting to other topics, con-
cluded his address by urging the people generally to take ad:
vantage of the suggestions which he had thrown out.
Upon the motion of Mr. BINGLEY, the thanks of the
meeting were given to Mr. Smith, and the meeting separated.

Mr. Editor, by such a course the farmers and manu-
facturers will force both the gold monopolists, with Peel
at their head, and the landlord monopolists, with Rich-
mond at their head, to do justice. The farmer will be
placed in the position he was prior to his last fleecing,
in 1842—the manufacturers will insure freedom of trade
in money as well as in corn.
Farmers ! demand that your League shall be an Anti-
Currency-law League, and Anti-Corn-law Leaguers will
join it. Manufacturers ! assist the farmers, in an
Anti-Currency-law League, and they will join your
Anti-Corn-law League. oth the gold lords and the
landlords will then be forced—if shame itself do not the
work—to abandon both the spoliating Currency Bill of
1819, and the Corn-law Bill of 1815, as patched and re-
patched until 1842. At present they are making the
tenants', and manufacturers', and shopkeepers' capital,
and the labour of the poor, at starvation wages, pay for
the double taxes, &c., in peace as in war, and for their
rents, &c., being raised 50 per cent. in 1819, and again
20 per cent. in 1842, without the victims perceiving the
hocus-pocus juggle by which it has been effected.
You shall hear from me again.
March 1, 1844. A FARMER'S SON.

P.S.—As there is nothing like being " up and doing,"
if those of the hundred thousand readers of The Sun,
who are either members of the League, Anti-League,
farmers, or advocates of a sound paper currency, secured
upon the property of the country, and approve of these
views, will address a letter to that effect through the
columns of The Sun, a compact may be quickly formed
that will ensure justice being at length done to the
country. At present the sinecure and annuitant class
of this country are getting 30,000,0001. per year more
than their just rights, and allowing foreigners to gain
a further 20,000,000/. by maintaining gold at the present
fixed price.

REGIMEN.—" Long habits, either of practice or
pursuit, are never suddenly changed with safety; and after
the (etas vergens especially, the human body does not freely
admit of changes. Sudden repletions and depletions are
equally injurious. Those who have been long accustomed to
a generous diet of flesh-meats and wine, will not bear a sud-
den change to a low diet ; and, on the other hand, those who
have lived, long on water and vegetables, very soon suffer
from one more nutritious. Still, where the original fault lies
in the too great indulgence of the former of these extremes,
we cannot reasonably hope to remove its consequences but
by amending it—keeping in mind at the same time, what
will not bend must not be broken.—Dr. flume Wiatherhead
on Diet.

THE SUN, 1401'1130N, WEDNESpAY EYRNING, MARCH 6, 1844.

THE. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE
. IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE; SHROPSHIRE, AND
HEREFORDSHIRE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
During the past and present weeks, Mr. Falvey has been
lecturing in Tewkesbury, Leominster, and Ludlow on the
evils of the corn-laws, and the advantages of industrial free-
dom. The lectures were delivered in Tewkesbury on the 27th
and 28th ult., in the Town-hall, and were remarkably well
attended. On the second evening large numbers were obliged
to go away who could not obtain room, such was the intense
interest felt by all classes of the inhabitants in the all-im-
portant question of the day. Mr. Elisha Robinson occupied
the chair on each occasion, and in a clear and explicit man-
ner, stated his reasons for supporting the principles enun-
ciated by the Anti-Corn-law League. Mr. Falvey spoke for
two hours each evening, supporting his views and answering
objections to the entire satisfaction of the meeting. When
the lecturer stated the firm resolution of the League to put
down bribery, the cheering was absolutely deafening. At
the close of the proceedings three times three cheers were
given for free trade, accompanied with a vote of thanks to
the lecturer. There is little doubt that, in the event of an
election, the men of Tewkesbury will relieve their monopolist
Member from his Parliamentary duties. Mr. Falvey lectured
at Leominster, on the Ist instant, to a large and respectable
audience in the Assembly-room, at the Lion HoteL At the
close of his address, a Mr. Cartwright stepped forward and
delivered himself of the most ludicrous address that, perhaps,
was ever heard at any meeting. lie said the corn-laws were
passed to make bread cheap as well as dear ! that free trade
would inundate us with bread, and that then the people would
not get any ! The other parts of his speech were equally
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which a vote was taken, when six hands were raised in favour
of monopoly, and about five hundred in favour of free trade.
Mr. Falvey is to lecture at the same place again this (Wed-
nesday) evening.
On Monday, being market day at Ludlow, Mr. Falvey
addressed the farmers in the Market-square, at three
o'clock, and again at seven in the evening, in the large room
at the Golden Lion Hotel. He was listened to on each occa-
sion with marked attention, andwas never interrupted except
by the cheers of his auditors. Mr. Falvey delivered a third
lecture on Tuesday evening in the same room.
Perhaps the most pleasing feature in all these meetings is
the ardent desire manifested by the people to see an end put
to the soul-debasing system of bribery and corruption at
elections.