The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

THE LANDED INTERESTS.

Mn. EDITort-4t would be truly surprising.,
after the glaring exposure of facts made by the
communications of INvEsnoATo a on the.subject of
the price' of Bread, as compared with that of
Wheat, in. the two letters published,by yc,n the
26th and 31st of October last, if the Landed
Interest did not. take it up with the fixed deter-
mination of causing- it to undergo a more prying
scrutiny than it has ever yet received. Why
the one bears no reasonable or relative proportion:
in value, or rather in price, to the other, calls
aloud for investigation ; and that too the most
speedily practicable, so that the Agriculturists
may not only be ready to make their complaint,
but also be prepared in some measure to suggest
an efficient and practicable remedy for this crying
abuse : by which the consumer is defrauded,
whilst the farmer is kept in a state of continual
decline and fretful irritation, alike unprofitable
both to the State and to the Public.

The subject is one on which much has been said,
and on which much more remains to be said, with-
out exhausting it ; but I-shall at present limit
myself in calling upon the Landed Interest, whe..
ther acquiring that character simply as occu-
piers, or as proprietors, or in thosa united capa-
cities, to come forward openly and speedily and
claim attention to their case. Let them now make
application direct to the proper quarters of Go
vernment and they will be heard ; it is true they
have already made their appeals to the Legisla-
ture, more than once, and have not succeeded ; but
let them not be discouraged, for their cause must
and will ultimately prevail, if they are but true to
themselves, and that too at no very distant pe-
riod : they must not, however, sit down passively
with their hands folded in idleness, but be up
and stirring. There never was a more, or
even so favourable a conjuncture for their act-
ing in concert as exists at this present mo-
lt-lent ; the manufacturing population of the coun-
try is fully employed—the town pays a price for
its bread, which would admit a full remunerating
one for wheat, and is content so to do, whilst the
farmers, at the same time, are d w ind ling, and Iv. n
perishing, through supineness ; in not taking ad-
vantage of this unprecedentedly favourable con:-
bi►►ation of circumstances, effectually 'to urge their
claims. They certainly cannot reasonably expect to
succeed, unless they will exertthemselves to obtain
the object of their wishes, step by step ; there..
fore let them no longer be exhibiting the charac-
ter, nor acting the part of the waggoner, who
only called for help ; but let them rather adopt
the rational plan recommended to him, and apply
their own shoulders to the wheel manfiffly ; they
cannot, and will not, then call for help any more
in vain. Above all things, they should not suf-
fer that dilatory, listless supineness, which like
fatalism is and ever has been their bane, to
usurp or encroach upon the province of deter-
mined action, for the matter is urgent ; circum-
stances imperiously and unceasingly press on their
notice, and the time, as well as the opportunity,
for beneficial and profitable exertion is fast wear-
ing away. It is no party question in which they
have to move, but if they allow desponding apathy
to prevent their movements, or usurp the place of
well-grounded active exertion, they will here-
after have to utter unavailing complaints,
and unprofitable' lamentations ; if it be suffer-
ed to be a neglected opportunity, when they
might have laid a deep and sure foundation
for obtaining their desired aim and end. They
have heretofore been borne down in Committee
and Debate, by specious flimsy volubility, back,
ed by the groundless authority of names which
could only for a moment impose upon dupes; but
I have no hesitation in asserting, that a like re-
sult awaits their future efforts, if they again en-
gage upon the same arena, and enter the lists no
better armed than before. Let them, therefore,
arm and prepare in time ; they will find, if they
begin to-morrow, that they have_no time to waste
or be idle ; and had they commenced their exert
tions earlier, it would not probably have injured
their cause or its advocacy
London, Nov. 3, 1821. BY-STANDER.

Yesterday being All Souls Day, the annual
sermon was preached at the parish church of St.
Margaret's, Westminster, according to the will
of Mrs. JOAN BARNETT, commonly called the
" Oatmeal Woman," deceased. She left to 20
poor widows of that parish forty shillings a.
year for ever by her will ; twenty shillings for a
sermon, at which, if able, they are all to at-
tend ; twenty shillings to the officers of the pa-
rish for a treat, and one of the dishes at the en-
tertainment, in memory of her, is always to be
an oatmeal pudding ; and two shillings and six-
pence each to the clerk and sexton.
MUSICAL KALEIDOICOPE.—A very curious in-
vention has been made in the art of musical coin-
position. Cards are prepared, on each of which
a bar of an air is arranged according to a certain
rhythm and key. Four packs of these cards,
marked A B C and D, are mingled together;
and as the cards are drawn and arranged before
a performer i►► the order of that series, it will be
found an original air is obtained. The cards
hitherto made are as waltzes, and succeed per-
fectly. The invention may be called Musical
Permutation. It has received, however, impro-
perly, that of the Musical Kaleidoscope.