The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We know not precisely what may be the
cilise; but there certaiiik never was, within 'our
r3collection, any occa'sion in which the periodical
statement of the year's and quarter's revenue
made so little noise, or excited so little. atten-
tion, as that of the year and quarter just finished.
Perhaps people, being convinced that Ministers
cannot make matters better, see no use in open-
ing their mouths, or charging their pens. The
City articles are almost silent on the subject. If
it he true—as is however asserted in an evening
paper of yesterday, and as we are inclined to
think—that the increase in the Customs is owing
to the tax upon foreign grain let out of bond,'
then witl that measure have exactly hit the mark
as a political eipedient-; it will 'be proved to
have nicely answered its purpose, and that pur-
pose a wise one, by affording relief or aid to two
parties most in want of it—the poor of the coun-
try, and the revenue of the country ; to the 'for-
mer, by giving them bread to eat, and to the lat-
ter, by increasing its much-wanted aggregate!
We believe, however, that the whole of the duty
paid by corn let out of bond did not amount to
more than 400,0001. We have said that we
are inclined to think that the fact is, at least in
part, as stated ; and our reason for so thinking
is, that the Excise returns are not very flatter-
ing. Now, a bare adequacy of the necessaries,
or chief necessary, of life, which was provided
by the last Corm Bill, is exactly that kind of in-
ternal consumption' which would not swell the
Excise. The Excise mounts up from the little
family-comforts of the people, of which, we fear,
there has been no great abundance ; but how
much. worse would the case have been, if, in ad-
dition to the restraint upon the middling classes,
the lower had-pOsitively wanted bread to eat?
The complaints..of absolute distress have ceased;
and' the landed interest—a body whose slightest
grievance (we mean in the pocket, for political
arievances trouble not them)—whose slightest
0
grievance finds ten thousand mouths to blazGn
and exaggerate it, have been for a while silent :
we presume, therefore, they are as content as they
ever are. However, it must be observed, that
no foreign grain 'was sent into the market except
that which was actually in the country, and un-
der bond, on the Ist of last July. With re-
spect to the propriety of admitting foreign corn
generally, we must confess, notwithstanding our
reverence for the several reports of the Emigra-
tion Committee, that it does seem to us to be as
rational to bring the corn to the people, as to
,send out the people to make corn.—Times.

As neither inconsistency, hypocrisy, nor as-
surance, are necessary accompaniments of all
public diuners, we find that a meeting was held at
Chester on Tuesday last, simultaneously with a
certain feast at Hereford, which we have already
noticed. The Hereford dinner called itself by
the name of " Pitt," in honour of those political
sentiments and doctrines which were the objects
of Mr. Pitt's reprobation. The Chester festival
was just what it professed to be—a meeting of
men known all their' lives to be- Whigs, where
none but Whig faces - were seen, Whig toasts
drank, and declarations corresponding with
those of the men who accomplished the Revolu-
tion of 1688 were uttered. The course of events
and of opinions in this country has gradually
tended, since the peace of 1815, to spread over
the whole community,- and to nationalize, what
had for more than 100 years been the charac-
teristic of a class, though doubtless the most
enlightened and valuable class in the State,—
viz. the doctrine that there is no legitiinate
government but that which exists for the peo-
ple. The principle and its opposite have
not, it is
,true, within our memory, been il-
lustrated by any formal domestic conflict be-
tween the two nrders of English politicians ,
who held them, but their actual presence,
and their adverse bias, ' have been visible in
the spirit of their respective partisans. The
weapons used have been of English fabric,tliough
the scene of combat has been every where but
on British soil. The line of demarkation in
practical policy was made manifest to all the
world, between Mr, Canning, who, in con-
stitutional (though not the party) sense of the
word, was a Whig, and his predecessor, who
would have been any thing t!ift suited his inte-
re.,,c, but who professed to btwnothing. On the
only theatre where they were required or enabled
ta exhibit broadly their respective creeds,- in re-
lation to the principles of Government, Lord
Londonderry betrayed himself by identifying
England with the Holy Alliance, formed for
making despotism universal and eternal; Mr.
Canning proved his more genuine blood by dis-
solving all connexion with it. In support of his
barbarous seheme of policy, Lot it Londonderry
had the. patronage of the Crown and the merce-
nary tools of place and power ; the heart ,of the
country was arrayed againschim, and he knew it.
Mr.,Canning's weakness was what had been the
strength of hiS unworthy rival ; the oligarchy
was against him,—the people, and the King
who understood the people of England, were for
him. The mixed and amalgamated Cabinet
which was framed by his Majesty to repair, so
far as possible, the loss of Mr. Canning, has
succeeded to his interest in the breasts of both
Sovereign and people, and has left thiat old Lon-
donderry faction—in what state ? Why, naked
outeasts,relected,—destitute,—without King
to countenance them, or people to prop them
—without one principle of sound or recognised
policy. at home or abroad to appeal to as the
touchstone of their fitness for the government of,
a ,free nation, or for the confidence of others
aspiring to be free. Eldon, Peel, Westmore-
land, Bathurst. Ask any weaver,*any cow-herd,
le om, what he has heard
through the
whole kingdom, what he has heard
of these inen,---whkingdat he thinks of theni,whe-
ther he has learned from others to respect or de-
spise them,--and, his language , will correspond
with that of every well-taught and independent
Englishman, who looks attentively at public
officers, and calmly measures their pretensions,
that in their high rank, and considering the won-
derful men, and times, and revolutions, with
nhich the accident of their being in office had
with :Acted their names, but without (and this is
the scafAely credible part of it) having ever for
one minet,!. connected them in renown or repu-
tation, the whole -click who composed the Liver-
pool Cabinet, and of which the survivors ran
away on Mr. Canning accession to the Trea-
sury, were, and are, beyond comparison, the
most contemptible set of beings that ever held
the government of a great nation since the lives
and characters of'
Meetipublic, men were made subjects;
of historical record, 'truly it 63n1 of them •
at the Whig Fleeting ra'tilYChester, that 6' they
loved all that
nNevas old and wrong ;
whatever was they hated
age
right ; they were quite
unsuitable to the"a. etii?en
.which they lived ; they
should have lived tne the Plantagenets ;
they were like men walkingt about in their sleep
at noon-day. Such are materials out of

which must spring, apparently, the opposition in
Parliament to his Majesty's present Administra-
tion.—:-/bid.

A great commotion is springing up on the
new malt duty, now come into operation. It
does seem, to us, we confess, most perverse, that
Government should direct the manner in which
an article shall be manufactured, in order to ex-
tract the greatest revenue from it. This re-
duces the most ingenious manufacturer to a level
with the most ignorant. The method ought to
be, to attend the manufacturer in his progress,
suffer him to pursue his own course, and measure
the article, for the purpose of revenue, when it is
perfected. What right can a Government have
to order that the barley shall remain so long in
the cistern, so long in the couch, so long on the
floor, and, perhaps, even, so, long on the kiln ?
This prescribes the manner in which the malt
shall be made ; it does not ascertain the quantity
produced, which is all that Government has a
right to know. And let it be observed also,
that if an onerous and fatiguing duty be imposed
upon the Excise-officer, the seductions to de-
cline it, and to enter into a good understanding
with the maltster, will but be so much increased.
In fine, the quantity of the article manufactured
ought, no doubt, to be ascertained—the method
how, should be left to the manufacturer.--Ibid.
a _ _

A person keeping in the way of his business
a great number of horses, has ilk e which (as
those acquainted with the nature of this noble
and generally docile animal know they some-
times do) becomes vicious and unmanageable.
To correct this, and to secure those who come
in contact with it from danger, he finds himself
under the necessity of using such means of co-
ercion as to his judgment, and those acquainted
with like matters, seems best. What the kind,
of iron, or addition to the harness, which was
adopted for the purpose was, we do not exactly
gather from the description ; but it seems it puts
the horse to pain when he moves the way indi-
cating his restive qualities. This we take to be
unavoidable ; pain, to a certain degree, being
one of the necessary and unavoidable means of
taming and bringing into subjection the brute
creation. Well, some humane and good dis-
posed person sees the horse in this unusual si-
tuation, and deems the method pursued by the
owner as an act of cruelty, and takes him before
a magistrate, who, as humane as the complain-
ant, be-t probably a much better Justice than
farrier, threatens the owner with the penalties of
Mr. Martin's Act, unless the objectionable in-
strument or part of the harness, is done away
with., The owner protests that if he does this
he must kill the horse. " Well, kill him you
may," says the Justice, "but you must not ma-
nacle him in this manner." Now this, to us,
at least, is new law : •nor can we imagine what
upon earth a Magistrate could have to do with
the matter. The cruelty, if it be such, to come
within the reach of Mr. Martin's Act, must be
" wanton," which, surely, this circumstance can-
not be deemed to be ; and if Magistrates are to
take upon themselves to regulate how horses are
to be harnessed, or vicious ones to be restrained,
they should prove their competency to the task,
by first'undergoing the necessary examinations at
the Veterinary College. We are quite as •warm
friends to humanity; and enemies to cruelty in
the abstract, as the Magistrates or Mr. Martin,
or any of his followers can be ; but there are
matters which laws were never meant to reach :
and- which, if they could reach, would render
them a plague and nuisance, instead of a benefit
to the community. Of this description is the
circumstance to which we have alluded ; and if
a magistrate has the power to determine how a
vicious horse shall be treated, he may next come
into our houses and regulate the size of bird-
cages, and the domestic management of lap-dogs.
In matters of this sort a great deal must be left
to the good-feelings and common sense of indi-
viduals, controlled as their conduct necessarily is,
by the observation of their neighbours and the
public ; but to give Magistrates the power of in-
terfering in such matters, would, in its very
nature, he endless, and its result intolerable ;
and the thing may, in the end, be carried so far,
that whips and spurs will be annihilated, saddles
and bridles pronounced instruments of torture,
and when the Zoological Society have esta-
blished their airy spaces for lions and tigers in
Regent's Park, some wiseacre may take it into
his head that those over Exeter 'Change should
be allowed to go at large. We treat the princi-
ple with ridicule, as the best way of dealing with
it. Nothing defeats nonsense like laughing it
out of fashion.—Morning Herald.
The testimonies of national gratitude and af-
fection which have been so profusely showered
down upon the illustrious Wellington during his
tour in the North of England, giving to his
whole journey the appearance of a triumphal
progress by a recent Conqueror among a people
newly restored by his achievements to happiness
and freedom, has excited the silly spleen and
wounded the selfish vanity of a faction ever alien
to the generous sentiments and insensible to the
true glory of their country The organs of this
faction reiterate with needless industry the assu-
rance that the devoted homage of the people of
the North of all parties and degrees has been
paid E'clusively to the military services of the
Noble Duke, and that his political conduct has
had no share in procuring for him these unpre-
cedented honours. The military glory of the
Duke of Wellington, we admit, has nothing to
do with party; it is national property—the pro-
perty of the whole nation. Far ,from us be the
idea of excluding even the Whigs from their fair
share in it, although neither we, nor tliey appa-
rently, can forget how anxiously and sedulously
ally strove to • impede the splendid career in
which it was won. As a military hero, his
Grace stands alone, and personifies the warlike
genius and valour of England. The political
reputation and services of the Noble Duke on
tne other bans.L deservedly high as they stand, do
not stand alone, and although they would
command the suffrages of the most intelligent'
and respectable, as well as the most Mill:10-
nm and powerful portion of the commu-
nity, they would not command the applause
either of unprincipled Whigs or • mischiev-
ous Radicals. But there is still a material
question, all allusion to., which the Organs
of the Whig Faction are Most careful to avoid.
What 114,8 given rise, at this particular moment,
to an unprecedented burst of national gratitude
and affection, twelve years after the performance
.of the last of that splendid succession of achieve-
ments, which are, if the party will have it so, the
only foundation... of those sentiments ? What
has fanned the dormant embers of national feeling
,into so sodded and so intense a flame ? What
but the Conduct. of ;he party itself, which by its
leaders in Parliament, and by the congenial aid
lof hired mobs, strove to depreciate '-the man;
Iwhom the nation acknowledges with pride, as the
'chief cause and instrument of its salvation ?
What but an earnest desire to administer a rebuke

to the leading Whigs, and to repel the suspicion
that any part,of the people of England, however
certain of their opinions may here and there have
been adopted, are capable of sympathizing in the
slightest degree with their base and un-English
feelings ? Who does not perceive that the pro-
ceedings in the North have nobly vindicated the
English people from all participation in the foul
mysteries of Whiggery ? With this view of the
subject We are satisfied. The puny men who
dared to wag their feeble tongues in Parliament
in disparagement of Wellington, have had their
answer: the desperate men who planted mobs to
insult the saviour of Europe in the streets of the
British metropolis have received their punishment.
This is enough. We desire to push the triumph
of our party no further. Nor are we anxious to
enquire even whether the people of the North,
who have supplied the materials of this triumph,
are Whigs or Tories. We are contented
to know that they are Englishmen. If
indeed they are in any considerable proportion
Whigs, we can only acialowledge that they differ
in character altogether from any of that na►ne
with whom we have hitherto been acquainted ;
that they are Whigs, in short, who deserve to be
Tories. For they have shewn that they think
as much of the interests, and salvation, and
glory of England as of their own little party ob-
jects and feelings.. They have received with, pa-
triotic acclamations the Hero of England, al-
though he had been recently calumpiated and
denounced by the leaders of their party ; although
that Hero is himself a distinguished Tory ;
although his business among them was to pay a
visit of honour and of friendship to another dis-
tinguished and vituperated Tory ; although the
troops of friends who perpetually surrounded
him were altogether Tories ; although the toasts
drank at the festive boards which he honoured
by his presence were exclusively Tory toasts ;
although some of those toasts were in honour of
Tory Members of an abdicated Tory Admini-
stration ; and " last, not least," although neither
the existing Administration, popular as it is
among the Whigs, because it is polluted by an ad-
mixture of Whiggery, nor any one of its members,
was ever noticed in his presence at all, even as the
poor preface to a formal glass. Notwithstand-
ing all these unpropitious circumstances, the Hero
of England was received upon his recent visit
to the North with unbounded and universal ac-
clamations. Every conceivable expression of
popular affection, and gratitude, and esteem,
were prodigally poured forth by all orders, ranks,
and descriptions of the people. Yet all this does
not entitle us to contradict the assertion that
some of the people, and some even of the Cor-
porations who united in these general testimonies
of regard, are Whigs. Let them be so ; they
are, perhaps, a variety of the Whig species which
has hitherto escaped detection ; or which is still
more probable, they are Whigs of the old stamp,
only overpowered and carried along upon this
occasion' by the irresistible torrent of Toryism:—
Morning Post.

In another part of our Paper will be found a
comparative statement of the arrivals of Corn in
London during the last four years. From the
very extensive importations of Foreign Grain
which have taken place within the last few
months, it may be presumed that this account
will not be wholly devoid of interest to many of
our readers. If the importations have been un-
usually large, the quantity of Foreign Corn on
which duty has been paid, hat been equally so.
From the commencement of the year to the Ist
of July it was as follows:

'7,071 qrs. Beans 27,907 qrs. Rye
Oats 565,894 I Wheat lBO

Pease. 10,048 1 '
From that period, the Act of the last Ses-
sion, which permits corn to be entered at a scale of
duty corresponding. with the average prices until
May next, came into operation ; and since that
time the quantities entered have been—

Barley 91,306 qrs. I Rye 2,023 qrs.
Beans 35,065 Wheat...... 194,089

Oath 417,279 I Flour 6,848 cwt.
Pease - 6,424
Making the total taken for consumption at
this port, in the first nine months of the present
year, as follows :
Barley 91,306 qrs. Rye 9,094 qrs.
Beans 62,972 Wheat 194,219
Oats 983,173 I Flour 6,848 cwt.
Pease 16,472

With respect to Oats, however, there is this
difference, as compared with other grain—that
the Act alluded to has had but little share in
producing such an excessive importation, as the
price on the 15th of May exceeded 305., and,
consequently, under the old law of averages, the
ports became open until the 15th of August, at
a duty of 4d. per quarter only ; and during the
13 weeks upwards of 730,000 quarters had
duty paid, making an average of about 56,000
quarters weekly. The duty was then increased
to 4s. per quarter, and the quantity entered
since has not averaged 6,000 quarters weekly--
thus clearly evincing, beyond the possibility
of contradiction, that a fixed duty for any
lengthened period must, at all times, tend
to encourage importation to a degree be-
yond measure injurious to the agricultural inte-
rests of this country. Nor can it be said that
the law, as it at present stands, is entirely free
from objections, as it confines the Corn that
may now be entered, to such as had arrived prior
to the Ist July ; and in consequence several par-
cels that could not reach this country before the
time specified, have been re-shipped to Hol-
land, there to await the final decision of the
Government as to the terms on which it is to be
admitted after May next ; for merchants choose
rather to send their grain to those places where
the difference in the warebotse reevnetnwaifltlermtoirlee
than compensate them for the additional expense
of freight, than to keep it here with the uneer-
ttaiminetyfixo
efdfilf'odrintghea inreacroiCnesider
tfor it,iation of the Corn
Question shall have elapsed.—Netv Times.

FALLS OF Ni4o4B4,—We laver already
stated, that a brig of 300 tons has been purchased by the
tavern-keepers at the Falls, in order to gratify the curio-
sity of their patrons. She will be decorated in a splendid
manner, with all her canvass spread, and piloted by a
Fre:-...0--an into the Rapids, above the Horse Shoe. She
is to proceed On her voyage the latter week of September,
and must appear ploughing thrOugh the roaming rapids, and
descending through the 'stupendous cataract, as magnifi-
cent a spectacle as ever man beheld. The pilot is prepar:
'ing a balloon, in which he will ascend from off the deck
upon the brig's entering the heads of the Rapids.-- Canada
Paper. • •
A CLASSICAL SON OF CRISFIN.--A Shoe-
,
tna.ker, for the purpose of eclipsing an opponent who
lived nppns4e to him, put over his door the well-known
!noun of " Arens conscia recti." His advers4ry, to offer a
ipore general bajt to the public, placed a bill in his win-
dows, with these words—" dens and Womens conscia
;recti." This anecdote brings to our recollection a joke
which may have escaped some of our readers, although
the witty Joe Miller has recorded it in his laughter-stirring
volume. A painter was desired to make a hatchment, on
which was the motto " Sic transit gloria mundi." It so
happened that he was desired to deliver in his performance
o:: a Monday; it was not, however, finished before the
succeeding 'day, and, as a proof of his attention and ac-
curacy, he altered the motto, and delivered the melan-
choly emblem of death to his customer, with the following
alteration, " Sic transit gloria ,Tuesday."