The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I observed in The Sun of Saturday a communi-
cation statipg that a county meeting was about to be
called by the agricultural interest for the purpose of re-
sisting the encroachments of the tariff. No such meet-
ing will be called. The fact is that a requisition was
taken into the Corn Market last week, originating from
Captain Short, of lleavitree, a landowner of the northern
division, and who has been an ultra-Tory till within the
last few weeks. The gallant Captain, however, found
that although the farmers would grumble and curse
Sir Robert Peel and his measures, yet not one of them
scarcely dared venture to .sign it, and for this plain
reason, that a threat had been held out on a very exten-
sive property in this neighbourhood, that those tenants
who resisted. the Government measures would be in-
vited to leave their estates, a threat that was easily un-
derstood, and which has had its influence in damping
the smouldering- embers of disaffection which at one
period threatened the squires.

There is no truth in the allegations that passive re-
sistance is meditated on the imposition of the Income-
tax. Passive obedience is more like the creed
of a tradesman, who flourishes under the shade of
a Cathedral. But there is a deep-seated feeling of dis-
content, which will ultimately tell when the country
becomes roused to the enormous injustice of this odious
and unequal impost, which will cause the men of Exeter
to take their stand, in common with the rest of the
country. The days of the Peelers, though not already
numbered, are yet looked upon as limited. The Tories
are pressing Sir William Follett for places with great
ardour, and little faith in the permanence of the oppor-
tunity, or possession of place by their party. There is a
thankfulness for small mercies in this way, which is in-
dicative of the little to be given, and the number of ap-
plicants. Young gentlemen are accepting of a paltry
751. per annum in the Customs, in a way which makes
us fuel for their families and friends.

Our Bishop is persecuting Mr. Head ; that good man
has been compelled to put down his carriage and horses
(bought out of his own private fortune) to meet the ex-
penses to which the Bishop has put him to in the Ecclesi-
astical Court. Should any mishap befal the BishOp, angels
might rejoice, and devils, perhaps, tremble.
Exeter, May 11.

BRITISH SUGAR.—We have been shown a sample
of what is called British sugar, manufactured, we believe,
from potato-starch, which has been offered to grocers in this
town for the purpose of mixing with (that is, of adulterating)
West India sugar—the party offering it suggesting that the
spurious article (which costs only 525. per cwt., whilst West
India, of the same colour, costs about 741.) may be used to
the extent of one-fourth ; "hut, at any rate (the writer adds),
" one-fifth will never be seen or found out." This stuff has
certainly a sweetish taste, and the use of it is net so gross a
fraud upon the purchaser as that of potato-starch in its natural
state ; but no honest grocer will consent to adulterate his
sugar with any such trash ; and we hope that a test will be
discovered for detecting the fraud wherever it may be prac-
tised. It is quite enough that people should be compelled to
pay the present extravagant price for sugar without being
defrauded by mixtures of this sort into the bargain.--Man-
chester Paper.

COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—MichaeI COOte,
jeweller, of Golden-lane, who was sentenced to seven years'
transportation at the Commission, for having received stolen
property, has had the sentence commuted by his Excellency
the Lord• Lieutenant, to one year and a half's confinement, in
consequence of the state of the prisoner's health, and his pre-
vious good .character.—Dublin Evening Pont,