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London, England, 1826-05-02 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

laAILY EXTRACTS FROM' THE MORNING PAPERS;
MAY 2, 1826.

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The Public Mg look with great interest, .this day,
1041} those official proceedings whichindicate the
slate of the country more clearly than even a feithful
liurrntion ofthe facts or occurrences which have giVen
occasion to the official proceedings. Ministers tastrught
wave notice in both Houses of Parliament, that—to
meet the present occasion, as they would have it un-
derstood—they will allow the foreign wheat now ware-
limed underbond, to go forth into the market, on
paying a duty of 12 shillings ; requiring also to be
empowered to admit foreign wheat into the coun-
try in case the future harvest should fail. This
is the first indication of • fear, or of feeling, on
, ,
account of the distresses which nave ariven the
manufacturers : into their present unhappy state
of riot. For: our own parts, we will frankly confess,
tliat as a temporary measure, which is all that Mini-
sters dare avow that they contemplate at the . present
lament, we do not augur much good from it. The
warehoused grain will of course first come into play.
Now, we are not certain when this may have been
imported ; but if we look to all the declarations of
Ministers, that' they would as yet admit of no relaxa-:
lion of the prohibition against importing grain—nay,
if we look to the very division on Mr. Whitmore 'a
motion about a fortnight ago, when it was decided
that the state of the Corn Laws should not be taken
into consideration this Session, we are sure that
merchants have had no great inducement to im-
port wheat recently upon the expectation that.
,it
'Would soon be called for. There is every reason;
therefore, to believe that the warehoused grain is old.
trash, and consequently comparatively unserviceable ;
for that which Providence supplies for the use of man
every year, will not admit of long hoarding without
injury and diminution. Awl this argument will apply
also,to the corn Whith might otherwise have been ex-
pected from abroad. Sowing time is now past, and
the foreign grower has had no temptation to provide
far the English market. Whatever grain, therefore,
he may have upon hand, must be the remains of those
years when he had not yet learned, from experience, to
believe in the infatuation of our counsels, bywhich the
bounty of nature would he rejected from our shores.
A much less impost, therefore, would have been sulll-
- at present, if it were even to be doubled here-
after, when the foreign agriculturist had begun topro-
vide for the English market. But what would 'this
admission of foreign grain effect, even if it were acted
upon to a great extent ? lt would not take away the
pressure, it would only alter its position—it would re-
Move the load from the shoulders to the haunches of
the oppressed animal ; for, without the diminution of
the expences of Goitrnment, all attempts at general
rOlief are absurd. The agricultural gentry were up in
arms last night, at the proposition of admitting foreign
pain into use ;end undoubtedly such an admission,-to
whatever degree it shall take place, will, in proportion,
sink the value oftheir Commodity, and reduce their in-
comes. But of those agricultUralgen tlemen we must say,
that if they had licreto`fOre shownhalfas much energy in
the defence of the country at large against the profusion
41V1inisters, as' they now display in support of their
own separate interests, they would never have been
minced to this last shift of having tofight for their
property, with every honest and and impartial man in
the country against them. But further—and we call
the. attention of the nation to this point—ls there
it/thing ominous in this sudden change of counsels
an ' the part Of Ministers ? Have they ever ffis-
elaimed all idea of touching the public funds with
more apparent abhorrence,. than they disavowed but
it fortnight ago anintention of meddling with the
corn Laws at least for a year ? Yet the distress of
the maritiflTturing interest has forced them to alter
their resolution with respect to the introduction
Of. tereihrn grain. . To what may not the distress of
- the. agricultural interest, now supposed to be fast ap-
proaching, drive them with respect to the national
creditor ? They resemble the monkey
.chosen to
divide the apple between the two contending parties.
" Oh, this which should be half is trio large ; I will
therefore bite a piece off it ; Now that side which was
the least is become the larger ; 'I must therefore visit
it with my grinders." They never will be equal whilst
the arbitrator has any thingleft to feed upon. And so
it ia, and will be, with the monicd'and landed interests,
and illlniateis for umpire ; unless--;-which we can
hardly hOpe. to see—Loth shall unite and insist that
the government shell be carried on at a less extrava-
,
pit rata. This day there is to be a - meetin4 at the
Mansion-houSe, -tin the subject of the manufacturing
distress A i most important -.assembly it will be ;
many Peers, raid some of the Ministers are expected
Fiea
,attend. We shall have :much to say upon aal these
,iteattera to-moil ow. There is no itnportant change, in
the Money Market, as. will appear by our City
afticle.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The buildings which have been for same time going
on contiguous to the.'freasury, at the corner of Down-
,Zing-street, now begin to develo`po themselves ; and
ing of them by the standard of common sense, we
' ' id
well ask any passer by to say, whether they do not
outrage every p, mcinle which that st.indarcl can be sup-
rnsed to govern ? Who the architect or designer has
br6n we neither know nor care ; but as buildings
drected at the public expence, for public purposes, we
sumo that they arc fair subjects of public criticism.
eretaing that privilege, therefOre, we have no, hesita-
' in pronouncing them a heavy mass of absurdity,
Idn
ifk vibich ti6thing is distinguishable but a total absence
Masse and utility,. at least as far as external appear-
*ices are concenied--for what the interior may be we
hive of eimrse yet to learn. The• first recommends-
OM of any building, we Conceive to be its adaptation
to the purposes for which it is designed ; and in a
dountry so far removed from the equator as this, of
defuse light should be one of the first objects atiendeil
iti ; yet in this building we see trumpery garret win-
dows inserted into massive stone walls, an lest these
should not be dark enough, a kind of projecting gal-
Ibri is intrtxluced over theni, to intercept 'half
its little light they would otherwbie admit. The'new
Oitilding for the King's library is much in the same"
rote, had here the architect seems to have considered
that " a dim religious light" was all that the weakest
eyes required for the purposes of study. Let any one
e6mptire the windows we have first noticed with thotte
oti the dpritie side of the way in the chapel of White-
hAll, and 0 will be immediately struck with the ab.
sarditY a the artist who could design any thing so
mate, and the precious incapacity of the Committee
of Hoard of Taste that could sanction it Really, it
iii mortifying, in time extreme, when so much money is
devoted to public works, to see it so ill appropriateci
~i
1, eb,, rtir Architects fit to be intrusted with such