The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It has never been our lot to hear of any system, under
which such heartless rapacity and cruelty were pampeied
by a course of such disgraceful fraud as the present code
of English Corn Laws, upheld in their prohibitory rigour
by that expedient called the system of averages. The
barefaced boldness with which frauds therein are resorted
to, that commercial capital may stagnate, the .poor be
starved, and the landlords gorged, we can illustrate by a
single occurrence. On .the. L'ith instant, when the ave
rages were struck for the six weeks ending on that day,
the declared average price of Oats was 265. 6d.,----just 6d.
under the importing price, liked by Act of Parliament at
275. This 'point being settled, the holders of oats are se-
cure against importation until November next. Now
mark, nn the Monday following, only six days after the
average had beea struck at 265. 6d., .up goes the price to
a, point far above the minimum affixed for importation : the
lowest price of oats was •on that day 29i.---2s. over the
Parliament level; and the average about 335. (l.)-5s. 6d.
beyond it. At yesterday's market there was a further
advance, which, we do not mean to dispute, may have
been occasioned partly by the growing evidence of a defi-
dent crop but had the market not been garbled, and the

prices 'unfairly packed on the 15th, it is very certain that
foreign oats must, ere now, have been admitted, and the

iinpoitations from abroad, been operating to empty the
Warehouses of our manufacturers—to employ the idle,,and
to relieve the destitute.poor. The truth is, that Ministers
ought, ere now, to have acted on the power vested in
them by Act of Parliament, and to have permitted the in-
troduction of part • at least of the 500,000 quarters which
were lately left-to their discretion. They need not fear
any future consequences of a responsibility so honestly and
humanely exercised. Every poor man in the kingdom will
bless them for it, and every wise and -upright man among
the classes which do not suffer privation. The demand
for one manufactures may be thus revived, since every
qoarterof foreign grain imported must be paid for in them;
and the increased price of corn, and consequent rise of
wages thereby gradually produced upon the continent,
would still further serve the British manufacturer-amidst
the general competition.—Times.
Understanding that a clumsy attempt has been made
in a Sunday paper (no doubt much interested in divert-
ing the public attention from the real facts connected with
a late rencontre) to distort the circumstances that occurred
at Cowes, we think it right to assert., -in the most.. posi,
tive terms, the correctness of our former statement.—Had
it been.. (as absurdly alleged) an ex-parte or erroneous at-
count, no doubt Captain Gordon would have felt it his
duty to his principal to set the public right, and would
have called. upon Colonel Anson to join ••• him in rectifying
any false or malicious statement.--Mid.

Nothing can show more clearly to what a state of bru-
tal debasement men can be reduced by the practices of ft
dishonest cupidity, than the scenes constantly exhibited at
the scheme and bubble meetings. When looking through
the reports of those meetings we can hardly believe that
tbq ptesent us with the, language and manners of the in-
habitants of a civilized country. The ferocity of disap-
pointed gamblers is proverbial, and certainly there is
quite enough of 'that displayed by the mortified, but not
repentant, crew that surround the hazard-table of joint-
stock speculation. Every thing rapacious, mean, shuf-
fling, boisterous, and vindietiVe that the "hells" exhibit
quring the nocturnal orgies of their infatuated votaries ap-
rar, in as full relief, in most, of the " bubble" assemblies,
as in the dens where Mammon is worshipped with the mu-
sic of the dice-box. Men who once desert the course of
regular and kniest industry, to embark in fraudulent en-
tarprises, and fill their pockets by the credulity of Man-
kind, become very savage when checked in their immoral
purpose. • By the habit of deceiving others, they at length
deceive theMselves, and look upon the unlawfid gains
which they anticipated as property to which they are as
Much entitled as if they had given value for it. The con-
sequence is, that when their intended prey is rescued from
their gripe, or when men whom they luni conspired to
plunder adopt better advice, and cease to be their dupes,
they storm and rage as if their estates bad been confiscated,
far their estates are founded on the folly of mankind. How
have characters of this sort passed in review before us
during the last two years! What a combination of base-
ness and arroganc&--of vehement pretension, and con-
temptible perfOrmance have they not exhibited ? We
know not whether to he more astonished at their meanness
or impudence; or to feel more disgust for their shallow ar-
tifices or licentious principles. Such persons have brought
great disgrace upon this country of late. They.have done
all that lay in their power to banish fair dealing from corn-
mereial• transactions,,and to drive all honourable sentiments
from among mankind. They have not hesitated to carry
their •objects by various modes of treachery and violence;
but,the disgraceful. era of s their career is approaching its
termination. The exposure of time bubble system will
sweep away this swarm of human locwits from the land
where they have endeavoured to consume " every green
thing."—Morning Herald.

There are in the agricultural and manufacturing districts
two main causes for the present apparent excess of popu-
lation ; in the one, the mischievous system of throwing
small farms into large ones, and leaving the peasantry for
the most part without any occupation of their own ; and
in the other, the introduction of machinery; where mecha-
nism now performs that in which handicraft was hitherto
employed. The document relative to- this subject deserves
the fullest consideration. .The Committee, as the ground.
work of its proceeding*, takes the excess of population for
granted ; which indeed, ivithout a total change of system,
such as, for the' present, at least, cannot be contem-
plated, may probably he admitted to he the case. It is'
proposed that youth, under a certain age, sent out, should
be bound apprenticei for a certain :'tune---say four years;
In reference to this part of the subject, we' cannot but
remind our readers, that dining the list spring a consi•
derable agitation was excited by a supposed threat held
out by Sortie parith Officers of sending away a youth in
their workhouse to Canada, This, if we remember
rightly,. was at the time flatly and strenuously denied by
the persona to whtim it was imputed. But what turns
mit to have been the real fact, from the evidence ap.
pended to this report ? " I hive in my hands," says Mr.
Clairtibers, the Police Magistrate, in his evidence before
the Committee, " a communication from the Directors of
the parish of Matylebone, who any, that they, highly ap-
prove of the plan of sending children to Canada; that
they have now in their workouse 56 boys and 25 girls,
from the age of 12 to 25,.and a great number wider that
age,
.whom they will be just as touch at a 101 is to provide
for as they are for the 'others." Now, after this, can any
one doubt that the report alluded to was true, and that
the eontradiction'of it was false? It is equally too, we
should think, a matter of astonishment, that in a parish,
the population of which is said to have reached 100,000,
the proportion of such children 'should he 'SO very small,
as that so,much fuss should he Made about them, lf this
be tie extent of the evil in Nfirlyieholie, we eat) only say
that the interest of the'money spent in erecting the Neiv
Court House would, amply provide for them all :Yr,
year. in his evidence Mr. Chambers also, states thataf the
St. Giles's parish there are 50 boys and 271 gi2r0L50d......
same ages; and in St. Luke's, '2,6 boys end the. metr°-
Now if, in three of the, prim;
t
polis, only 200 such aProultArha ft riltlly it t"► at least
no
i %
proof of any overwhelming incres-"'of inference,
I►hinter; but
it s a proof, as far as it,goes,
are
.6cnetiolea attempted. to btelladtravAevrnY fonts very
freant Materialc—fla
has for
some which distress
Among the different
quarterL to which the attention of
some time prevailed, thel'e t_",‘
.nore particularly direeted,
Newspaper Writers oughi t"
a asset's among a body of men,
as the dmtregti-in" that case, iers nor literatUre could be
without Whom neither new1.1:1„ho are so inseparably con-
diaseminated—a class 'I nrLt.- Wiedge, that the prosperity
fleeted with the diftuailo of ~,no
es-timated by observin
oniterature may be more just y
whatever.;
their gatimi'ort that, by any other criterion t

bodes little good to the cause of knowledge that the im-
'mediatCkstift!ttt*'Wh.O-eer-ve to propagate it are now suf-
fering
.under a more than proportionate share of the cala-
.mity which has'overwhelmed so many occupations, not at
all connected with -the march of intellect. We .are dis-
posed to give all due consideration to the case of manufac-
turers in silk and cottoir—to those whose business it is to
Assisi in clothing the body : but we confess the labours of
'the printer appear to us of far more importance in society.
The printer is superior indignity to the manufaCturer of
.stuffs, in as much as the mind is,,soperior.to the body. It
is true his employment is mechanical—but, without the
'mechanical operation- which he performs, the influence of'
mind and genius would be very circumscribed ; and it is
seldom that a compositor doeS not catch someting of that
intelligence which is continually passing through his hands.
If such a class of Men are withotit employment, it affords
a bad prospect for science and literature—it shows either
that the mind of man is blighted and unfruitful, or that
:there is no market for its productions. If printers are
without employment, authors cannot be in a very flourish.
ing condition ; and, it becomes the British public to come
.forward to the assistance of both. It would be impossi-
ble, it is said, to give even a faint outline of the distress
which at present prevails in the Printing Business. Every
week brings a fresh number of claimants on the charitable,
funds at the disposal of the Committee. It is supposed
'that about SOO are at present receiving relief in the Metro-
polis.--British Press.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the undermentioned shipS were thus
timed, viz

The Atlas, for St. Helena, Bombay, and China; and
the Bridgewater, and Lowther Castle, for Bombay and
China, be afloat 14th November, 1826, sail to Gravesend
29th, stay there thirty days, and be in the Downs 4th
January, 1827; the Repulse, Duke of York, and Here-
fordshire, for Bengal and China, be afloat 29th Novem-
ber, 1826, sail to Gravesend 14th December, stay there
thirty days, and be in the Downs lath January, 1827; the
Vansittart, Buckinghamshire, and Sealeby Castle, for
Bengal:. and China, be afloat 14th December, 1826, sail
to Gravesend 28th, stay there thirty days, and be in the
Downs 3d Feb. 1827; the Inglis and Charles Grant, fin•
Bengal and China; the Windsor and Hythe for Bombay
and China; and the Farquarson for St. Helena, Penang,
Singapore, and China, be afloat 28th, December, 1826,
sail to Gravesend 12th January, 1827, stay there thirty
days, and be in the Downs 17th February ; the Bombay,
General Kyd, and Waterloo, for Madras and China, be
afloat .12th January, 1827, sail to Gravesend 26th, stay
there thirty days, and be in the Downs 3d March. The
new ship building in the room of the Kent, and the Kel-
lie Castle, for China direct, will be 'afloat 25th February,
1827; sail to Gravesend 13th March, stay there thirty
days, and be in the Downs 18th April. • '

MAHOMET'S PARADISE.—.That Mahomet ex-
elude; women from hie Paradise, is one of the stupid falsehood.
that have been fastened on him by his enemies ; for he reiterates
the declaration, that " whoso worketli good, whether male or fe-
male, shall enter Paradise," (Koran, xiti. 25, xviii. 92, xxxviii•
52.) where the same glories are distinctly.promised to both. And
lest there should he any doubt whether the wives of the bitlievers
are to keep theni tlempany, he expresely describes the faithful as
entering the gimlet) of Eden " with their fathers, their wives, and
their children ;" where, in another place, he eayrt, " they and
their wives shall recline in shady groves." But the Eden ofMil-
ton is not more chaste, and is infinitely less reserved, than that of
the Arabian ; and no contrast can be stronger than between his
imagery and that of the Hebrew poetry which he might have
taken for his model. In his description of the women of Paradise
there is nothing to excite a voluptuous idea. They are said to be
virginti, like the virgin daughter of Bethuel ; and, like the other
1 believers, they are restored 'to the prime of yout,hfel beauty, in
which mankind may he supposed to have come from the hands of
the Creator. But they have neither necks like towers of ivory,
nor mouths that cause the lips of those that are asleep to speak,
nor bosoms like clusters of the vine, nor breasts like two young
roes that ere twins feeding among lilies, nor thejoints of their thigtui
like jewels the work of the hands of a conning workman. They
neither invite their pararlisaic partner to kiss them with the kisses
of hie mouth, nor to lie like a bundle of myrrh all night between
their breasts, nor ni turn and be till daybreak' like a young hart
among the mountains of spices, nor to get him to the moun-
tain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense till the shadows flee
away, nor to take • a thousand current: coins' from his vineyard
while the keeper of the fruit claims two hundred in return, nor
tempt him to the fields under the promise of there giving him
their bosoms to his joy. These are the luxuries of other creeds,
the figures which the nationi of Europa think fitted to excite re-
ligious hopes and pious expeetationa! The spouses of the Arabian
teachers sit with dark eyes cast down in thei.r huebands' presence,
like pearls concealing themselves. within their shells; and even
the patriarchal polygamy seems forgotten, as something tplerable
on earth but not gond enough for heaven. The beatified pairs re-
cline by the never-failing waters of 'Eden, surrounded by the
harmless luxuries which constitute derneetio comfort or splendour
in the East; and if they,sometimes fill their cup with a richer
draught, it is described `au innocent and harmless, with no power
to disturb the intellect or disorder the mind. Their convene is
unearthly and pure, and tinged with the delightful consciousness
of souls escaped from earth and safe in heaven— '
". No vain discourse there heard; nor,thought of sin,
" But
.this one word---Peace, peace."—,../Coran.
Such are' literally the words of the much-ebirsed Arabian ; but
still the Koran must he licentious, and all the figures of European
theologians severe, and blameless, and divine ! To judge froin
the outcry, it might he supposed that a whole hook of the Koran
had been devoted to the exhibition of voluptuous delight. And
because woman, pure and innocent and downcast, is found seated
in the second Paradise by her htishand's side, comes this sacerdotal
hubbub, and Intinkleh delicacy is up in arms in defence of the
purity of heaven ! And this; too,' from believers who avowedly
cherish the fervour of their own devotion with descriptions,
which, whatever inay be their antitypea in heaven, present on
earth the most accomplished display, of amorous joyancu the world
can boast of. Westtniftter Review.

One of the most barefaced et:Forts to " run " a mall
cargo of spirits, took place in the afternoon of Thursday se'imight,
at Herne Bay, accompanied with circumstances as remit kable as
the glaring manner in whiCh the attempt was made. A boat was
observed in the offing making. very rapidly for' the shore ;,,itesv_,
ap-
pearance, as may be expected, excited the attention of the I ic.h the
tive man on duty at the time, but berme he "41
ninon the
spot whence the men intended to debark, the men 4att:lnadows.
boat, and each taking a couple .of casks, bolted ac , the spot,
An alarm being instantly given, several men rushed.dropping
.1..0,
and the smugglers were under the necessity ofptadtor
as hrb:igijlt. triads
to secure themselves from apprehension.
scrap of emerald as ever parted till tl: ~" f, e,l'°. :,bi'tib,..ltnsrritls'e.,
kept scent, and traced the " w*FCW°.„"mpanions, e demanded
where after waiting the arrival of n:ttti,„
staked the landlady.
entrance. " Where's your NV11%.,t, :
let me in directly, or,
" Flith,why do yen ax ?" .replied'hat," However, " locks, bolts,'
and his " todther uses," thaeti: yeas
were despatched to a Magistrate,
owpheinieed„,haceaconr:;/1 i ii!tYr,
et
~,,,,,,,,..°,r,....,mi,th.ttoe
ty,tha)oretwi:i:n.:l4y
r, tly, the door
la'ryulphlyarnah'"n:temye;tilnektinfioin;n7brilti,stit entel;lcetearnyodtodlenobftatlirne paurwsiaterr_
rant ;
'-gPreraestencoat, bawling,
ilia appearance
if DI, when'? , .
, An 7rt' and he was allowed, without giving
exeited n,O
„(1 • lut„( 'mos A few minutes elapsed, when , out
the
ecd".:7ofiu'ulitn;,:teOilog. personage. Still Paddy's. suspicions,
stalk
rf , A third then' showed himself; 'hainted in the
were not /tome , ,
r-b of s gentlermaa coachman ; as in the preceeding instsoces,
um was allowed, nr.e.gress. All this time the emeraider was
apluttering about, and boasting of his " capther," when up came
his assistants, who had been to obtain a warrant; and the consta-
ble demanding admittance, was instantly taken int but while this
was being about, a fourth man escaped front a beck window: and
safely retreated. Immediately Pat entered, he identified a person
in sailor's attire, nor did threat or assertion penmade him, to the
contrary, anti he was taken into custody! the up-stairii rooms
were now carefully examined without success, when Pat "emelt
a rat," that the men he was` in search of were the identierd ones
who 'pulled him in disguise. The Man in custody war then taken
to,the watch-fnmae, And turned out to he a coachman in A gentle-
man's family at the Bay, who, rommiserating the smuggler's situ,
ation, &at:banged dress with him. Ile was detained till morning
and then allowed to depart, when it was ascertained he really was
nn smuggler. The boat was seised, The trick canoed great mer-
riment in the neight?puthwidi to the: chagrin of the. Preventive
men, who waxed exceeding wrath at the turn the affair had token,.
—Kentish Gazette..