The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-22 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN.

The great attraction of Saturday night was the
appearance of Madame Vestris for the first time this
season as Lydia Languish, in Sheridan's " Rivals."
She was not, however, well seconded, for Mr.
Charles Kemble was absent from indisposition ; and
poor Captain Absolute was consequently in a state
of absolute torpidity in the hands of Mr. Searle.
In the " Hundred Pound Note" she was seen to
much better advantage, and had a glorious opportu-
nity of exhibiting her remarkably pretty legs, as a
short-petticoated Bavarian broom-girl. It has been
well observed that brevity is the soul of wit; we
think it also the soul of a petticoat, for we never be-
fore saw Madame Vestris dressed to such advantage.
Most of her songs were encored. Wrench as Mont-
morency, vice Jones, acquitted himself to the satis-
faction of a respectable, but not crowded, audience.

WINDSOR, OCT. 21.—This forenoon the
KING, with his household attendants, heard Divine Service
at the New Chapel Royal. The Rev. Mr. Sitvnroult officiat-
ed. The KING has not been out from the Royal Lodge
since Thursday last, neither has his MAJESTY received any
company since that day. If the weather proves favourable
this afternoon, it is expected that his MAJESTY will take
an airing in the Great Park, after Divine Service. It is
now expected that his MAJESTY will pass the whole of the
winter at the Royal Lodge. • Notwithstanding, alterations
and improvements are carrying on at Cumberland Lodge.

The Duke of CLARENCE left town on Satur-
day afternoon, for his seat in Bushy Park.
Prince ESTERIIAZY, the Austrian Ambassa-
dor, and Mona. Bone, the French Charge d'Affaires, trans-
acted business with the Earl of DUDLEY on Saturday, at
the Foreign Office, Downing-street.
Lord HOLLAND and Mr. TIEItNEY had in-
terviews with the Noble Earl on Saturday, et the Foreign
Office; as had 'also the Right Hon. FREDERICK LAMB,
our Anibamador to the King of Spain.

Mr. HumussoN came to town ox Saturday
evening from Claremont, where Mr. H. bad been staying
for some days past, on a visit to Prii.ze LEorotn. The
Right Hon. Gentleman visited Viscount OODERICII yes-
-terday, at his residence in Downing-street.

. • On Thursday last, being the Michaelmas
SeiiBlollB at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Right Worshipful
BENJAMIN &MUM, Esq. Mayor of that. town, gave (ac-
cording to ancient custom), a grand entertainment at the
Mansion-house, to the Magistrates who had sat upon the
Bench, the Recorder, Sheriff, Barristers, and Gentlemen
who had served on the Grand and Petit Juries—in all
nearly eighty gentleme►Y, who spent the evening with great
hilarity and satisfaction.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Lord and Lady
Aboyne, in Charles-street, from Aboyne Castle ; Montague
Gore, Esq. in. Mount-street, from Warwickshire; Mr.
Motteux,. in Stratford-place, from Norfolk ;' Colonel
Magennis, M.P. in Grosvenor-place, from the Continent;
the Dowager Lady Hopetoun and Captain Hopetoun, at
the Brunswick Hotel, from Scotland ; N. Hubbard, Esq.
at ditto, from Newniarket.

CHANGES.—The Earl and Countess of Bel-
fast, for the seat of the Earl of Chesterfield, in Notting-
hamshire; Mrs. L. Fox, from Mr. Bulkeley's in the New
Forest, for Chatsworth, the seat of the Duke of Devon-
shire, in Derbyshire ; the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn
Abbey, from a visit to Lo►d Altliorpe, in Northampton-
shire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, at
Woburn Abbey, from Newmarket ; Lord John Russell,
M.P. on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Bakewell;
the Earl and Countess of Tankcrville, at Bakewell ; Major
and Mrs. Nairn, for Birmingham, from Sussex ; General
Sir R. Ferguson, M.P. for Haddington, from Raith,
N.B. ; Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, at Leamington,
from Scotland ; the Earl of Essex, at Cashiobnry Park,
from Grosvenor-street ; E. Maclew, Esq. at Brighton,
from Piccadilly; Sir T. Bowser, at Brighton, from Lead's
Hotel; N. Fazakerley, Esq. M.P. at the Marquis of Lans-
downe's, Bowood, from Tiverton, Devonshire ; T. Mills,
Esq. for Saxham Hall, Suffolk, from Portman-square; S.
Crawley, Esq. at Stockwood, Luton, from Hoekhasn
Lodge, Larlingford; Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. at Wynn-
stay, from Acton Park, Wrexham ; General Hughes, from
Regent-street, for Scotland; Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. R.
Chetham Strode, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Blencowe, and
Son, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, for ox-
ford; J. Gibbon, Esq. and W. Gibbon, Esq. from ditto,
on a tour.

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11. R. Rhodes, Rev. Air. Eckersall, Mr. Otway Cave,
P., Mr. Dell man Engleheart, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Church,
Mr. Morrell Hounot, Mr. Sherborn Waring, Mr. Latham,
Mr. Brim), Miss Barph, Mrs. Wright, Mr. Hanson, Mrs.
Grant, Mr. Owen Cave, Mr. H. Dudley, Mr. J. Gower,
Mrs. Webster, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Robinson, Mr. Nelson,
Mr. Jadworth, Mr. 'lll‘dormick, Mr. AVEvoy, Mr. R.
Percival, Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Mr. Turner, Mrs. Grant,
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ARRIVALS AT JONES'S TERRACE HOTEL,
Asxrta N. —W. Hepworth, Esq. Mrs. Hopworth, Ponte-
fract ; Miss Elliott, Miss ' Crossley, Rochdale ; Mrs. T.
Hall, Pontefract Priory; Mr. Whitham, Sheffield ; Miss
M. Lorton, York; Mr. G. Sykes, Hull.—.Doncaster
Gazette.

ARRIVALS AT UrIBR S HOTEL, EDIN_
BUUGH.-The Right Hon. the Earl and Countess of Cas-
sillis, Lady Mary Kennedy, Captain and Lady Ann Baird,
and the Misses Baird, the Hon. Colonel Elphinstone,
John Drysdale, Esq. of Jerviston, Charles Jerret, Esq.
John Anderson, Esq. and Lady, M‘Neill Hamilton, Esq.
of Kepploch, H. Morrice, Esq., Captain Halgrove, H.
Stockterfont,'Esq.,Captain Mitchell, Duncan Stewart, Esq-
SET OFF FROM GIBE'S HOTEL.--The Most
Noble the Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, the Hon.
George Edwards, Donald Campbell, Esq. and W. D.
Sheriff, Esq. John Jones, Esq. and Lady, William Moon,
Esq., Thomai Morton, Esq. of Clonmell, James Middle
Cott, Esq., W. A. Crawford, Esq., Charles Hawington,
Esq., L. Rellerinan, Esq.,
James Fleeming, Esq., Major
Eoletle, G. T. Brown, Esq., Robert Alorrice, Esq., Cap-
tain Waldegrave, James Sherriff, Esq., Joshua Briggs,
Esq., David (;day, Esq., Robert Ellis, Esq. and Lady,
Monsieur Quadri, Colonel Lindsay, George Fabri, Esq.,
Major Robertson and Miss Hunter, J. C. Haurie, Esq.,
David Watson, Esq.,' James Thrupp, Esq., Captain
M`Farla,ne,r,4cptaman.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

His Majesty's Stag-hounds will 'nest on Friday, at
Swinley—at half-past 10.
Mr. \Vickstead's Hounds, on Thursday, at Stoke Heath ;
Saturday, at Swinnertown—half-past 10.
' Mr. Muster's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Buleote ; Thurs-
day, at Stapleford Moor ; Friday, at Cuttarn Thorns
half-past 10.
The New Union Harriers (Suffolk), on Friday, at Mend-
hani-street-11.

Sir R. Puleston's Hounds, on Wednesday-, at Millbrook;
Saturday, at Shocklath Green-11.
The Plass Ted; Harriers, on Vednesday, at Rhea ny
eae—.4o. _ _

The East Sussex Fox-.bounds, on Thursday, at South-
ease; Saturday, at Exceat Bridge.
The Brighton Harriers, on Wednesday, near the Race
Course ; Friday, near the Dyke—quarter before 11.
The Lewes Brookside Harriers, on Wednesday, at Ash-
combo (the alternate Wednesday at the Kennel, Ilford) ;
Friday, at Telescombe Tye—half-past 10.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Thursday, at Sneiston ; Sa-
turday, at Wichnor—hall-past 10.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Woot-
ton House ; Friday, at Elkingttna Cow Pasture ; Satur-
day, at Chace Hill-11.
The Puckeridge Hounds, on Wednesday, at Rickling
Green ; Satniday, at Box Wood—half-past 10.
The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at West End
Wood ; Friday, at Irmwood.
The Coned( Harriers, on Friday, at Maar' Mea-
dows-11.

The Chundeigh Club, on Tuesday, at \Vixen Fat m
House ; Wednesday, at Stone Bridge ; Thursday, at By-
cott ; Friday, at Colleton Farm ; Saturday, at Wallah-
worthy Village-10.
The Somerset Subscription Hounds, on Tuesday, at
St. Amides ; Friday, at Aeholt Wood-10.
at Ex-
Mr. Greenhill's Harriers, on Tuesday, at Edington-9.
Mr. Long Wellesley's Forest Stag Hounds, on Saturday,
at the Kennel, Woodford Wells-10.
The Earl of Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at
Spofforth ; Friday, at Wilstrop Wood-10.
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The Vine Hounds, on Thursday, nt Warren Farm ; Sa-
turday, at West Sherhorn Church-10.
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The Lamhton Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Panshaw
Mill ; Thursday, at Stone Bridge House; Saturday, at
Rainton Bridge-10. _

The furvorth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Rudby ;
Friday, at Entercom►non..-10.
The NorthuMberland Fox-hounds on Wednesday, at
Moredon ; Friday, at Gosforth-10.
The Ashdown Park Coursing Meeting is fixed for the
29%h inst., at Lambourn, Berke.

We announce the prospect of the delights of the Chace
being about to be recommenced et Lincoln the ensuing
season. It is currently reported that Mr. Foljambe, of
Doncaster, intends re-establishing the Hunt in the neigh-
bourhood, by bringing his pack of hounds to Blankney,
when they will be hunted twice a week during the ensuing
season.—Stamford News.

THE RING.-FIGHTS TO. COME.

Oct. 523.—Young. Dutch Sam and Bishop Sharp, 1001

a side.
Oct. 23.—Barney Aaron awl Redmond, 501. a side.
Nov. 18.—Ned Neal and Jem Ban, 1201. to 100/. a side.
Nov. 13.—Ike Dodd and Pick (the Bristol Youth), Si.
a side.

Nov.2o.—Jenninge and Clegg, 50/. to 401. a side.
Sampeon and Paul Spencer, 501. a Bide.

THE FIGHTS FOR TUESDAY NEXT.

The matches between Young Dutch Sam and Bishop
Sharpe, and Barney Aaron and Redmond, will come off on
Tuesday next, within fifty miles of St. Paul's; and con-
siderable bustle prevails in the Betting World in anticipa-
tion of the result. Sam came to town on Wednesday,
preparatory to his benefit on Thursday, and looked better in
condition than ever we saw him before. Notwithstanding
this, however, such is the confidence in the Bishop, who
continues in close training at Colney, that he has been
backed freely at six and seven to four; and these odds are
offered to any amount. Many are not a little puzzled that
Sam should be held so cheap; and most unquestionably,
when we reflect that he has youth, length, and science in
his favour, we should have been disposed to think that the
odds ought not to be expected. Such is the passion for
following a lucky and a brave man, however, that all these
matters are set aside ; and, therefore, the Bishop's winning
is booked to a certainty. That Bishop is a good and a game
.man, no one can doubt; but still lie is not invincible, and
we see nothing, in a fair view, of the comparative merits
of the men to justify such unequal speculation. Sam, as
we have stated, cannot be better than he is ; and he speaks
with great confidence of success. We know he is backed
by some persons highly respectable in the Sporting World ;
and his own interests will urge him to do his beat, and as.:
some thecloak of his gallant father. Some say that' he is
not yet come to his strength, and that the Bishop's mode
of fighting with his left foot foremost will puzzle and con-
fuse him ; while, if he receives one or two of the Bishop's
famed body hits, his constitution is not sufficient to
throw it off. This is all good argument, and if the
Bishop can plant his favourite hits, no doubt things
will look green; but, then, Sam is a good out-fighter,
he stands well on his legs, is active, and gets away as
well as any man in the Ring; he will be prepared, there-
fine, to meet the Bishop at all points. All these matters
will, no doubt, have passed through the minds of our
readers, and all we hope is, that the laurels of victory may
adorn the brow of the best man. The Bishop, we hear, is
right well ; he takes his exercise with regularity, and is as
confident of success as if the battle were over. Experience
is certainly in his favour, and it must not be forgotten that
ho Liss fought and beat some of ;lie best men of his weight,
including Woolwich Burke, Ben Warwick, Gypsey Cooper
(four times), Alic Reid, and last, though not least, Toni
Gaynor, independent of an infinite number of private battles.
Sam has only fought Stockman, Tom Cooper, Gypsey
Cooper, and Manchester Davis, all of whom he polished
off in very scientific style. Dick Curtis goes in with him
on Tuesday.
BARNEY AARON and REDMOND fight on the same day.
It will be recollected that this is a renewed snatch, for 601.
a-side ; both men are well, and Barney is the favourite at
II to B, bnt we have not heard much betting. Redmond
continues at the Castle, Child's Hill, Hampstead ; and Bar-
ney at the Coach and Horses, Ilford.

• NED NEAL AND JELL BURN.—The second deposit for
this important match will be made good to-morrow even-
ing, at the Rising Sun, Windmill-street. Jem has arrived
from Bristol, looks well, and promises to show Ned some
sport. Ned is fine health and spirits, and is backed freely
at 2 to 1 and 5 to 2, and he offers an even hundred he
licks Jem in 50 minutes.. Ned Neal bee fixed his benefit
for the day before fighting, and Jem Burn for the day
after. The place of fighting will be named at Neal's
benefit.

BALDWiN AND REUBEN MARTEN. —At the meeting, at
Harry Holt's, on Friday evening, it was stated that White-
headed Boh is willing to kilt Reuben Marten 225/. to
2001. We are authorised to state, that if Bob will fight
2501. to 200/, and not exceed twelve stone in weight, the
match can be made without delay, and the money staked
to fight in two or three months.
SAMISON AND SPENCER.-The second deposit for this
light will be made Monday next. The fight /is to take
place half-way between Liverpool and Birmingham.

GAYNOR, AND JENNINGS, AND JENNINGS AND CLEGG.
—Gaynor and Jennings attended at the Castle Tavern on
Thursday night, with their money ready, but just as it
was about to be staked, Clegg's brother " dropped in," and
announced that Clegg was waiting for Jennings at Goren s,
to make the match so long talked off. Jennings, thinking
Clegg had the beat title to his favours, having won his
money before, declined the match with Gaynor, and agreed
to fight Clegg ou the 20th November, 50/. to 401.
BILL YOUNG AND BILL LAMB.—A match was made
between these little trumps on Thursday last, to fight on
the 27th November, within 20 miles of London, for ftbl.
a side.

Two fines, amounting to one pound five shil-
lings, for assaults upon two females, have been paid to the
Worcester Infirmary, by tho Right Iron. and Rev. Lord
Aston.—Worcester Journal.

ST. JAMES'S PARK.—Dttring, the last week
the workmen employed in the Park have enjoyed some
high fun at the expence of numerous dandies, who daily
annoy them by their prying propensities. The workmen
being greatly obstructed by the persons whd are continually
getting on tha temporary bridge over the canal, have
adopted a plea which has heartily sickened some of them.
When they go to dinner at twelve o'clOck, they loown half-
a-dozen planks in different parts of the bridge, so that it is
impossible for any one to cross 'without stepping upon ono
of them, when the plank slips, and he is instantly accom-
modated with a cold bath, gratis, finding
himself up to the
neck in water, amidst the roars of laughter from the work-
men who are at dinner, and who instantly assist the un-
lucky gentleman out of the wales. From it)" to six per-
sons each day have been aboet the average number during
the week, and they arc then styled by the workmen free of
the bridge.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We alluded on Saturday to an article in the
Quarterly Review, on Agriculture and Rent,

which the writer intended, we suppose, as a sort
of pleading in behalf of the partizans of the pro-
hibitory system, and which would do credit to
Sir Thomas Lethbridge himself. The writer
flounders on, through his three sheets, with a
satisfaction with his own lucubrations which is
truly edifying, and without having the slightest •
suspicion, that his premises and conclusions are
perpetually at variance. If the quantity of laud
fit for cultivation were unlimited, and all land
were of equal fertility, the difference between the
manufacture of food and the manufacture of
other articles, would amount only to the degree
in which the manufacture of food was less sus-

ceptible of improvement than other manufac-
tures. But land is not only limited, but of va-
rious degrees of .natural fertility ; and as the
wants of a community force into cultivation
muste x
of cultivation poorer and poorer soils, the price of produce
perciencevaotl
atieorresponding rise, for the axe
tension to
poorer soils, yielding
with equal labour a smaller return than the lands
previously in cultivation, can only proceed from
an increase in price stilEcient to indemnify the
agriculturist. The owners of the land in culti-
vation claim as their share, under the name of
rent, the difference between the expense of la-
bouring the poorest land which the price in the
market allows to be cultivated and that of
their respective possessions, varying in amount
with their relative fertilities. This theory of
rent is an well established as any point can poss
sibly be established. It does not of cottrac
exclude the. influence of monopoly, for we may
suppose an island of equal fertility through-
out, and densely inhabited, where a high rent
would be exacted by the landowners ; nor does it
exclude the influence of situation. • A country
increasing in population, while the produce of its
other manufactures is continually increasing
,in
proportion to the labour bestowed, from the in-
fluence 'Of improvement in the processes, finds
the improved processes in the manufacture of
food counteracted by the decreasing fertility f
o
the soil, so that the quantity of labour is conti.
nually increasing its ratio to the quantity of foot
blitained. This is clearly and forcibly stated by
Mr. Malthus, in his Inquiry into the Nature and
Progress of Rent. " I have no hesitation, then
(he says), in affirming, that the reason why the
real price of corn is higher and continually rising
in countries which are already rich and still ad-
vancing in prosperity and population, is to be
found in the necessity of resorting constantly to
poorer land—to machines, which require a
greater expenditure to work them—and which,
consequently, occasion each fresh addition to the
raw produce of the country to be purchased at a
(Treater cost ;—in short, it is to be found in the
important truth, that corn is .sold at the price
necessary to yield the actual supply ; and that
as the production of this supply becomes more
and more difficult the price rises in proportion."
Nothing but. an enormously high price of Corn
could indemnify the owners of many bare hills in
England, as for instance bills in the neighbour-
ing county of Surrey, torn up by the plough for
a scanty crop at a sacrifice of the beautiful
sward on them, the growth of hundreds of
years, and which centuries will not restore. We
do not mean by this to say, that much of the
land lately taken into cultivation, was not ac-
tually as good as much of the land peviously in
cultivation, because common rights, operations
of draining on a large scale, and a hundred
other circumstances might and did prevent the
community from having the benefit of excellent
land. The Quarterly Reviewer has perplexed
hinalf and his readers in a most_ astonishing
manner,- with the circumstances to which we
have alluded. He sets up all manner, of wind-
mills, and combats lustily these creations of
his own brain as the creation of political econo-
mists. He has given, for instance, a long ramb-
ling history of agricultural improvements, to
prove that additional cultivation has not always
been attended with a proportionably diminished
return ; as if any one writer ever thought of
denying the influence of improved processes, or
well-contrived works, such as the operations in
Lincolnshire, &c., in counteracting, as far as
they go, the rise in the cost of producing food.
" The owners and occupiers of land (says the
Reviewer) are induced to look upon the manu-
facturers of this country as a body which endea-
vours to deprive them of the fair returns, which
they are entitled to derive from the cultivation
of the soil ; while the latter, in their turn, are
taught to view the former as a greedy and insa-
tiable class, eager to rob them of the profits
which they have a right to expect from their ca-
pital. The corn-grower and cotton-spinner are
thus, in too many instances, trained to regard
each other, if not as enemies who should be
annihilated, at least as rivals who ought to be
watched, and if possible circumvented. Nothing,
however, can, in truth, be more unreasonable
than the jealousy thus excited between two
classes, whose interests, when correctly viewed,
will be found knit together in bonds that cannot
be severed, without serious injury to both.. .
It will not, we think, prove impracticable to
convince every inquirer, whose mind is not
enslaved by the most invincible prejudices,
that whether we refer to the extent of the ca-
pital embarked in agriculture, or to the produc-
tive character of the labour employed in tillage,
the cultivation of the soil is more important to
the community at large, than the most
ingenious
operation& of the manufacturer, or the most and-
ccssful speculations of the merchant. From
the
way in which these matters are sometimes treated,
it might be imagined that manufactures are ill
thernselyes productive ; that they make an addi-
tion to the quantity of food required for the str
port of the population of any country. We should
have thought that even a child might perceive the
absurdity of such a notion. The
,application of
the most ingenious machinery ever invented by.
the art of man to the fabrication of cotton or
cloth, never can by any possibility add one grain
to the quantity of corn 'grown upon an acre of
land : its effect is merely to enable the owner of
agricultural produce to. fabricate a given quantity,
of wrought commodities, with ()sites a smaller con-
sumption of corn and beef. No proposition can.
we think, be clearer than that the fruits and ve-
getable productions of the earth constitute the
fundamental riches of any country; and that all
States owe infinitely more to agriculture than to
env other profession of 'life. When the matter
is 'impartially investigated, it will appear that
grain of every kind, flesh-meat, wine, oil,
and a
long list of et ceteras, all proceed originally from
the cultivating and watchful care of the • peasant ;
and that the manufacturer merely exercises his
industry upon the productions of the cultivator."
As raiment, shelter, and fuel, are equally neces-
sary to subsistence as food, it might with as
much truth be said, that
the agriculturist merely
exercises lif industry upon the production,s of
the clothier, the collier, and the builder. The

whole resolves itself into labour. If the
farmer were to produce, himself, all that
he requires, he would produce proportion-
ably less food ; and if the maker of cloth or
iron were to be also farmer, lie could make less
cloth or iron. The industry of a country must
be viewed as a whole. The importance of the
various branches is in proportion to the numbers
in them ; and if the numbers employed in all
the other branches of industry greatly exceed the
numbers employed in the branch of raising foi6d,
it is folly to say that the latter is more important,
seeing that the industry distributes itself accord-
ing to the wants of the community, and that one
branch of industry is equally important with
every other, or it would not be followed. ;All
this talk of relative importance is pure twaddle.
The only question is in what manner the industry
of a country can be employed so as to raise the
greatest return of all that man desireS to have.
It may happen that agriculture may be the
branch in which additional labour can be em-
ployed with most advantage ; it may happen that
cloth or iron, or potteries, are the branches. In
former times corn and cattle were the branches in
which extension of labour was the most pro-
fitable, as is proved from the exportation having
been chiefly of those commodities. Now it
happens, on the contrary, that labour can be
more profitably employed in this country in al-
most any other way, from other commodities
being exported, and corn and tallow, hides, but-
ter, cheese, &c. being imported. The point is
always to leave the labour of the people to em-
ploy itself in the way in which the greatest re-
turn is obtained. In this manner the greatest
addition is made to the wealth of the community
considered as a whole. If labour be more pro-
fitably employed in the soil than in cotton, men
will prefer agriculture to cotton, and vice versa..
It may happen that a community, from having
no land fit for cultivation, employs its industry
exclusively in the manufacture of cloth and iron.
Holland was an instance of anconsiderable nation
deriving hardly any portion of its food from its
own soil. A country maybe barren in soil, andrich
in mines. VQ by should such a country not work its
mines, if their produce exchange for abundance of
the other commodities required by the inhabitants?
They would work up the corn produced elsewhere,
just as the producer of corn elsewhere would
work up the iron which they produced. And
here it is that the people of Great Britain say to
the owners of the soil, you avail yourselves of
your political monopoly to force labour to he
employed in a less beneficial manner than it
might be employed, namely in raising food at
home at a higher cost than it can be obtained
elsewhere, and thus for the sake of a supposed
personal advantage, you make the amount of
wealth of the community, taken as a whole, less
than it would be, but for your mischievous inter-
ference. It is here you are the enemies of the
community. Your hand is against all who la-
bour, and all who labour ought to know you
as their enemies. As long as cultivation is forced
on this country by protecting duties, and the
industry of the people cannot be employed in
producing that which shall exchange for more
food 'than it can exchange for under your restric-
tions, so long are you the grand enemy against
whom every one ought to direct all his efforts.
" It is perfectly clear," says the Reviewer, " that
the extent to which the manufactures of any
country can be pushed, except by rendering the
population habitually dependent for food upon
the produce of a foreign soil, must correspond
with the amount of the surplus produce which
remains beyond the food required for the suste-
'lance of the men and the animals, actually en-
gaged in the cultivation of the land. It is this
surplus, remaining after the consumption tsflhe
men and animals actually engaged in the labours
of agriculture has been provided for, which forms
the basis of trade and manufactures ; without this
surplus they could not even exist; anti in pro-
portion to the increase or diminution of this sur-
plus, will manufactures and commerce flourish
or decay.' Ah ! this dependence on foreign na-
tions for a supply of food ! There must be no
food imported, but all must be raised at home ;
and then, of course, the food remaining after the
supply of the agriculturist himself, will deter-
mine the amount of manufactures and trade. But
why not let industry be employed in the produ-
cing of that which will exchange for food, so long
as food can be obtained in abundance abroad?—
Morning Chronicle.
Whether the delay which has occurred in the
appointment of a Lord Chancellor for Ireland is
to be ascribed to the difficulty of finding a person
duly qualified for that important office, or to the
conflicting opinions of different Members of the
King's Government as to who is the best quali-
fied person, we are at a loss to decide. It ap-
pears evident however that the presentPovern-
ment, from some cause or other, finds '.'iv incon-
siderable difficulty in adjusting its list of legal
functionaries. We feel great confidence that no
other than a man of sound constitutional prin-
ciples will be appointed to the Irish Chancery ;
and this confidence rests in no degree upon
Ministers ; it rests upon an influence and an
authority greatly superior to their's. But we
have not the same confidence in respect to the
manner in which any other vacancy to be created
by that appointment may be supplied. Nothing
but a frequent compromise of principle, or
rather a continual principle of compromise,
can keep together the conflicting mate-
rials of which the Administration is com-
posed. The Whigs, tenacious as they are
of place, will certainly have the spirit to
require that some appearance shall be held
out to the world of their having a voice in
directing the exercise of the legal patronage of
the Crown. How this appearance maybe creat-
ed with the least degree of permanent mischief,
is a question well worth the attention of the
country, and particularly of those Tory Members
of the Administration who begin to feel that they
now occupy a position which cannot be lasting,
and who are accordingly anxious to escape from
it with the least possible detriment to their own
characters, and the least intermediate injury to
the State. We sincerely hope that such ar-
rangements may be devised as will keep the
Bench free from the contamination of Whiggery,
and limit the scope of Whig ambition to offices
held only during pleasure. With tltese feelings
we ardently hope there is no truth in the report
that has prevailed for some time of the intention
of Lord Tenterden to retire from the high judi-
, eial station which he now fills so much to the
advantage and satisfaction of the country. His
Lordship's retirement at the present moment
would be an event pregnant with danger and
calamity.—Morning Post.
On Saturday last a proceeding took place in
the court of King's
not merely Mr. Bench, which ought to fill,
Hartshorn, who was released by
it from a situation as bon ible as it was utterly
unmerited, but all :men who have cbgacters to
lose, or feeliugs of honour and virtue to be
wounded, with thankfulness that there exists a