The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-18 00:00:00

The LEAGUE and the EMANCIPA-

TION OF INDUSTRY SOCIETY.
TO THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE.

Offiee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter Hall, July 15, 1845.
Gentlemen,—llitherto I have not received any direct
answer to my letters of the 3d and 28th of March last,
nor have I heard from you any reason why it has been
withheld.

At length, however, I have had pointed out to me the '
following passage in your authorised publication The
League, of the sth of July, 1845 :
" The ' Merchant's Son ' complains that the League have
refused to enter into any discussion of the schemes of certain
currency mongers ; we declined on the simple principle that
their schemes, whether good or bad, are utterly indifferent tQ
the great issue for which the League was constituted. The
connexion between the currency question and free trade is not
greater than between Tenterden Steeple and Goodwin Sands."
It will be recollected by the public, if not by the
Council of the League, that the questions put by the
Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of In-
dustry pointed to an inconsistency in the public acts of
members of the Council of the League ; and to the ope-
ration of a fixed price of gold as opposed to its market
price in Bank of England paper—which fixed price, and
not the corn-law, will be found to have produced the pre-
sent depressed state of the industrious classes—an evil
that any further reduction in the price of corn will only
aggravate, so long as that fixed price of gold exists. if
free trade be " the great issue for which the League was
constituted," why do its leaders support monopolies in
money and banking ?
I am now requested by the Committee, as members of
that community to whose support the Council of the
Anti-Corn-law League profess to lay claim on account
of their principles, to ask whether the Council of the
Anti-Corn-law League deliberately hold the opinion
that the price of corn, or of any other commodity, and
the currency in which that price is quoted, have no
greater connexion than that " between Tenterden Steeple
and Goodwin Sands ? "

The Committee of the Society for the Emancipation
of Industry, having in view the investigation of truth,
rind being in no way desirous of eliciting an incauti,‘us
answer, beg to point out to the Council of the Anti-
Corn law .League that, should they reply that price, and
the c•arreney in Nrhich that price is quoted, have no re-
lation to each other, the public will probably have but
little respect for their wisdom ; and, on the other hand,
should the Council decline answering the question thus
candidly put to the, the public will, in all probability,
conic to the conclusion, that either they arc entirely lg-
;torant of the subject upon which they assume to die-
tate, or that they have some object in view which they
dare not publicly avow.
The reception whil.r my former letter, sent to your
office, has met with, compels me to adopt this course of
Etidre&sing you through the public journals.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
ALEX. WILSON, Hop. Secretary.

THE CHELSEA EMItANK,MENT.-I.'he entire cost
the the embankments,a( g about Cheyne walk Will be 75,4251. 4s, 1 ;
of which earlL
lo an contributes 6,7451. Os. 103,; Lord Cal-
6,„rpe, 1,706/. 15s. 4id.; her Majesty, 1„0031. Is. 6 d.; the
Chelsea Water Company, 10,4032. 6s. 2.1 d. ; the Marquis of
Westminster, 8,1231. 15s. 'id.; Mr. Sloane Stanley, 3,1111.
61,1, ; Miss I,lnwe, 1,648/. Is. ; and Colonel Talbot,
1 t3s. l id. Some of these parties, however, have not yet given
their consent to this allotment.
The crop of flax this year in Ireland will, it
supposed, produce about 30,000 tans, valued at trear,^
- 000 000/
a sullicient quantity to a{ orb{ em-,ortiale,n •- Belgium, and
• France, Ame.ric; - -

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 17.
The Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Constables Public Works (Ireland) Bill, the Dog
Stealing Bill, and the Drainage by Tenants for Life Bill, were
severally read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the Defamation and
Libel Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Lord Sondes
against the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Bill.