The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-06 00:00:00

of Lincoln to say that the shameful system of
pluralism is confined to it alone. The same is
observable in all, as a mere glance at any one
page of the Clerical Guide will spew. Let us
(lip promiscuously :—F—Dr. Fisher, Master
of the Charter-house, Dignitary in three Ca-
thedrals, and incumbent of three parishes.
G—Dr. Goodenough, Prebendary in three
cathedrals, with a lot of valuable sundries. H
Hett, a dignitary twice over, with a family of
seven livings ! I—lremonger, a dignitary, Royal
Chaplain, and the spiritual pastor of five families.
K—Kempthorne, a dignitary, with a chapelry,
rectory, and three vicarages. L—Luxmoore !
Reader, look for the Luxmoores, and count their
monopoly if you can ! M—Magendie, one
vicarage, one bishopric, two archdeaconries, and
eight rectories! Ohe ! Jam satis ! And these
are the men who would amuse us with the ex-
emplary discipline of the inferior clergy. Mr.
Wray has been taunted with being a beggar for
public bounty. This is a falsity plus pant
Clerica, as Livy would say. Nothing of the
sort can be gathered from the Correspondence ;
and we feel it due to the Reverend Gentleman
to state, that such bounty having been proffered
through us, he has declined it with as much de-
licacy as spirit—a specimen of Clerical con-
tinence and independence by no means common
in this Christian world of ours. In our first
leading article of Saturday there was an awkward
erratum, in giving an account of Doctor God-
dard's Preferments. The words no residence
were printed no bad end.—lbid.
The account of the Income and Expenditure
of the Quarter exhibits a deficiency of 347,8311.,
as compared with the Quarter ended sth of
July, 1828. In the Post Office there has been
an increase ; in the Assessed Taxes there has
also been an increase ; but in the branches
which serve to mark the well being and comfort
of the population, there is a falling off—Customs
and Excise and Sugar duties! When an Eng-
lishman is prosperous, it is soon felt in the Cus-
toms and Excise. Too much importance, per-
haps, is attached to the state of the Quarter's
Revenue. It is impossible that the Revenue
should always exhibit an increase. As to the
deficiency in the present Quarter, no one who
has attended to the commercial distress, which
has existed during the whole of it, and before,
can be surprised as to its amount. We would
fain hope that matters are at length assuming a
more cheerful aspect. It cannot, however, be
denied that too great a proportion of our Re-
venue is indirect taxation, and that the country
would be greatly benefited were mere of it raised
directly by a Property Tax. We would fain
persuade ourselves that ere long some measure
of a decisive character, in this respect, will be
adopted.—lbid.
We this day present the Revenue statement
for the quarter and the year. For the year it
would appear that the falling off has been only
90,000/. ; for the quarter the falling off has been
380,000/. ; but this latter is to be accounted
for, we understand, by the postponed payments,
on account of the collection taking effect at a
later period ; and which, we further understand,
occurs every five years, amounting to 140,0001.
in the quarter. For the year, it will be seen by
the statement that in the Customs there is a de-
crease of 1,000,000/., and in the Excise an in-
crease of 1,000,000/. ; and it will be also seen,
in the statement for the year, that there is an in-
crease on Stamps and the Post-office. The
two latter increases may be considered as fa-
vourable, so far as commerce is concerned. For
the quarter the decrease is on the Customs and
Excise ; but that is accounted for by the reasons
we have already given. For the quarter we
also perceive that the Stamps and the Post-
office have both increased—both are favourable
signs as it respects commerce. Considering all
things, the statement is gratifying, and is an
answer to that which has been put forth for
several days past respecting " the alarming
stale of the Revenue." That for some time
past there has been great distress among
the cotton and silk weavers there cannot be
the least doubt ; but that distress, we well
know, has entirely arisen, so far as the manu-
facture of cotton goods is concerned, in conse-
quence of the masses of machinery which have
been within the last twenty years erected, and
which masses have poured forth goods faster
than they can be consumed at home—though
the English people are very extravagant as to
dress, take them generally—orifaster than foreigners
can take and pay far our goods abroad. The same
reasoning, only in a lesser degree, may be applied
to the silk goods' trade. Last year, we believe,
there was double the quantity of silk imported,
which brought down the price, and that ma-
terially ; and the presumption is, that double the
quantity of silk goods were made. Now, it
stands to reason that if the consumption did not
double, the manufacturers would be overstocked,
which alone would put a stop to further produc-
tion. The consequence was, weavers were thrown
out of employment. The fashion of late years,
has been for the poor to forsake agriculture and
take to manufactures. But who can blame them?
for to sit and weave under cover is-much easier

than to stand and dig exposed to the weather. The
consequence has been, over-production of manu-
factured goods—under-production in such things
as poultry, fruit, &c. &c. Calicoes, which at
one time were 50s. a piece, are now worth
10s. Over-production by means of machinery
has brought this about ; while fowls in Lon-
don, which, twenty-five years ago, were
worth 4s. a couple, have been selling lately as
high as 12s. and 18s. a couple. }ruit and many
other things have borne prices in proportion.—
Let any one only reflect a little when they give a
penny for a small apple or a pear ; also the high
prices they pay for geese, turkeys, ducks, &c. ;
and then we think they will agree with us, that,
if people turn to manufacturing, they conse-
quently forsake the rearing of pigs, poultry,
fruit, &c. Mr. Robinson, Mr. Huskisson, and

others, by their talk, have set people mad as to
manufacturing. Every one has been striving his
utmost to produce goods ; the evil, however, has
cured itself, at least for the present. We hope
the present Ministry will, in their places in Par-
liament, avoid making long speeches about com-
merce, &c., for such speeches always do harm,
by encouraging people to trade more than they
ought to trade—to produce more goods than
they ought to produce. The consequences in-
variably are, ruin to the over-traders and over-
manufacturirs. At the same time it must be

admitted that the country is benefitted by over-
production, for things are rendered so much
cheaper to the consumer. We have often wished

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that the makers of machines _ nand
weaving spinning and
weaving cloth would turn their attention to agri-
cultural luxuries, that so we might have an over-
production of fowls, chickens, geese, turkeys,
pears, apples, &c.—Morning Herald.

We did not expect that our recent remarks on
the impropriety of the powers intrusted to Civic

Judges would receive -5.0 early a corroboration.