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London, England, 1842-04-30 00:00:00

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gaffes for mat of work rivi worst of toNi. A. .
paper of last evening contained an account of a b
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men at Manchester taking away bread from the shy*" '-
Hunger, approaching to actual starvation, is at IA7
moment the lot of great numbers of industrious, bAid-1
working, honest men ; and Ivhen such arc the calamitou
circumstances of the people, the Legislature, called too, by
way of [noel:et-3-, paternal, enacts a law to levy according to
thepresent average prices, a duty of 13s. per quarter, or
22 per cent. of the value, on the food of the people.
Such an enactment at this time, and after public ex-
perience has condemned and repudiated a similar law,
we can only stigmatise as most unjust and most impious.
The authors of the old law might plead ignorance; the
authors of the new law can use no such plea; and they
will stand convicted and condemned to all time, of know-
ingly passing a law to keep out food, after experience
had demonstrated that the effects of such a law are most
ruinous.

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At the same time let us state that the new
law is a milder injustice than the law it atolisited.
According to the averages published yesterday, the
duty on wheat under the old law was 27's. Bd.,
or nearly 48 per tent. of the price—what a mon-
strous iniquity, while the people are actually starving :
under the new law it will be 13s. The duty on barley
under the old law• is 225. 10d. ; under the new law it
will be 10s. Oats, under the old law, 19s. 9d. ; under
the new law, Bs. Rye, under the old law, 19s. 9d. ;
under the new law, Os. 6d. The law comes into opera-
tion from the time of its receiving the Royal Assent,
yesterday; and these diminished duties, collected under
the old mode of taking the averages, till 4 sufficient
number of averages by the new method has been col-
lected, will henceforth be payable. The declaration
of duty on Friday next, we presume, will be the re-
duced sums we have just mentioned.

What will he die immediate effect of the law coming
into operation, we will not venture to state with auy
positiveness. The average price is 595., the duty is
135.; for the importers to sell with a profit, therefore
they must have imported their wheat, and paid all ex-
penses, fur 455. We should suppose that very little or
no wheat has been imported at that price, and conse-
quently, great as the reduction of duty appears, it will
not be worth one straw to the consumer. It such be
the case, Sir IZ. PEEL'S law, even before his system of
averages ha; come into operation, will be of no advan-
tage whatever to the public; and his Corn-law is, we
fear, a type of most of those other mock reforms hi
the Tariff; with Which he has bribed many people to ac-
quiesce in an Income-tax.

In the debate of March 9, Sir It. PEEL says—
But what, I again ask, will be the consequence of rejecting
this measure? In proposing it I offer a great mitigation of
the crib complained of in the present system. Reject it, and
what other arrangement can be made? Is the Noble Lord
strong enough to carry his duty ?Is any other party strong
enough to maintain the existing system, or to give a Corn-law
more favourable to the agriculturist? The only alternative is,
leaving this question the subject of prolonged agitation and
discussion, interrupting all commercial intercourse, disturbing
the relations between landlord and tenant, and making it im-
possible fur any man to know upon what terms he holds his land.

This law, therefore, is not described by him as just ;
it, is a mere compromise between parties at the moment,
the relative strength of which is varying every hour.
le proposes the law to mitigate the evils of the old law,
which no party, he says, can maintain. He plainly avows
that there is no alternative but to accept his compro-
mise, or submit to that prolonged agitation and discus-
sion which has made the old law untenable. He pro-
moted the compromise to put an end to agitation and
discussion. He has not succeeded ; he cannot succeed ;
the whole Parliament, pass what laws it may, short of
total repeal, cannot put an end to agitation and discus-
sion. His compromise, therefore, is worthless, and his
unjust law will not be even momentarily expedient.
By his allusion to agitation and to the impossibility of
maintaining the laws, he acknowledges a master; but at
the same time he will not carry out what that master
pres:ribes. Agitation will again force him, or some,
other Prime Alinister, to take the question up, and
will ultimately be obeyed. To bow to agitation as capa-
ble of overturning the law, anti yet not to take the law
which agitation dictates, is showing a refractory temper,
not a discerning mind. Influenced by such a temper Sir
How= PEEL has reduced the Legislature to enact an
injustice, and to degrade its own character in the eyes
of a discerning people, for no other object than to effect
a momentary balance or compromise between fluctuating
parties. He and his supporters may call that wisdom—
to us it appears the folly of a very cunning man.

SALE OF THE WORKS OF THE
LATE :SIR D. WILKIE, R.A.
Notwithstanding the attraction of Thursday's Drawing-room
,n the immediate vicinity, the foul th day's sale of this em:nent
artist's effects went off with increased effect, in part no doubt
,swing to the approaching termination of the sale, as alsu to the
greater interest which the majority of the sketches poses over
those sold on the previous days.
Amongst the most interesting objects of this day's sale,- as
fetching the highest price;, may be selected the following,
' and to which, in most cases, are affixed the names of the par-
olia.ers
413. Arab Servant of the Australian Consul at Alexandria
- io/. los.
416. First Sketch of the Letter Writer (Leslie)-_
3ul. 19s. 6d.
450. The Sheik who aeco!npani«l the Travellers from Jaffa.
Jerusalem, signed and dated, capital drawing (Schloss)-_
661. 3s.
451. The Muleteer from Jerusalem to Jaffa, capital-51/. 9s.
457. A Turkish Family, with Slave lighting the Chobouck
-14/. 14s.
461. Mr. Aloore's Dragoman, signed and dated-301. 95..
452. Portrait of a Cirbassian Lady, capital (Walsh and (moo.)
-45/. 3s.
463. The Dragoman of the Austrian Consul at Alexandria,
done in Constantinople, very fine, signed and dated (Holloway)
-371. 16s.
465. Madame Josephina, the Landlady of the Hotel, Con-
stantinople, in a Turkish Dress (Graves)-351. 14s.
567. The Dragoman of the Austrian Consul at Alexandria,
done in Constantinople, very fine, signed and dated (Graves)
-561. 14s.
468. A Persian Prince, his Slave bringing him Sherbet, fine,
.igned and dated (Gibbs)-571. 15s.
471). Admiral Walker, signed and dated, capital (Colnagbi)
-31/. 10s.
471. The Daughter of Admiral Walker, in Turkish costume
signed and dated, very fine (Colnaghi)-73/. 10s.

A novel application of the Arehitnedean screeni for
the purposes of ventilating buildings, mines, ships, and, indeed,
all places where foul air requires expulsion, and fresh air
supplied, is now at ratting the attentio;i of the scientific
by reason of the simplicity of its principle, and the certainty
of its results. As much of the comfort of the inmates of
hospitals and factories derinds upon the wholesomeness of.
the atmosphere inhaled, it must prove a positive boon to
those establishments. From the experiments which we
have witnessed at the agents to the ingenious inventor
(J. Richardson, of Millbank-street, Westminster), we ate-
fully disposed to call public attention to the merits of this:
discovery ere the Legislature finally decides upon the sy,terat
of ventilation for the Houses of Parliament, the more so on
account of its economy and its not requiring the aid of fuel
or great personal attention. Messrs. Day and Smyth, the pa.
tentees, have likewise applied it with success in the core of
smoky chimneys, and the same apparatus in the summer sea-
son materially assists in ventilating the apartments, by getting
rid of the offensive smell that fills the room when the wind
hlovvs down the chimney. Hitherto the course for such an
evil has been stopping up the flue with straw or shavings, or
by a chimney-board, a remedy much worse than the nuisance,
as it prevents a thorough and healthy ventilation of the
apartment.

By far the best account of the pugilistic contest be-
tween Broome and Bungaree appeared in Bell's Life in Lon-
don, in which Journal there is also the most authentic and im-
partial report (to the extent of two and a half folio coltimns) of
the Newmarket Spring Meeting.
DREADFUL FIRES.—FirTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS
WORTH OF PROPERTY CONSEMED.—Within the last four or-
live days, we regret to say, several very extensive conflagrationss
have taken place in various parts of the provinces, attended witbt
immense sacrifice cf valuable property, particularly at Hudderse-s
iield, Beaminster, near Bridport, Kid‘lerminster, and Andover ,
es will be observed by the following particulars, extracted fro,
_u,etteis and accounts received yesterday by the different ins!, tr-
ance offices in the city :—The fire at Huddersfield ocettr red
on the afternoon of Sunday last at the extensive mills and far story
belonging to Messrs. Learoy and Co., fancy woolen factors. . situ-
Ate in a 'dace called the Lane, in the suburbs of the town. , •
It was
art entirely extinguished till two o'clock the following morn-
ing. '1 he destruction of the mill is estimated between 1 2,0001.
and 13,000/. They are only insured for 8,0001., namely,
5,0001. in the West of England Fire-office, and 3,00 C 1. in the
Atlas-office. That at Kidderminster took place at 4 late hour
on Tuesday night, and occasioned the total destrts stion of a
large manufactory and warehouse, situated near ' the canal.
l'he buildings were in the occupation of Messrs. A llcock and
Co., upholsterers, and Mr. Law, an extensive he mp manu-
facturer. The loss is stated to be 4,0001., part only of which
is insured. Other destructive fires have happen ed at Cheri-
ton, in Devonshire, at Morleaton, and at Mal, in Dorset, since
Monday last, and many houses were destroyed.
lsovE AND `menses.—Thursday forest Don an in.
quisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at. the George
the Fourth, Bagnigge
Wells-road, on the bed y
of Margaret
Fairfoot, aged 21, who poisoned herself. Ar are Flanning a
married woman, residing at Easter. place, said tha ,t About a moo th
ago the deceased came to lodge in her house. . Last Tuesday
morning, about half-past eight o'clock, she , ,rag in bed, when
witness asked her to get up to breakfast. She got up and
dressed herself, and remarked that she h; Al some rhubarb
to take before she had her breakfast. Wit Incas urged her to
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take the rhubarb after breakfast, but she t as jetted, observing
that it would do her good if she took it first s Having mixed a
powder, that she had in some paper, w t
t -Lk! Ater she drank it
off. At breakfast she cut herself two, 11 ' s Of bread and
butter, and had two cups of tea, immedial eleafter which she
exclaimed, at the same time flinging Wilsey
I Jack in the chair,
" Poison, poison, poison." Witness, Imre ediately sent for Mr.
Dobee, a surgeon, hut she died about eV ,sen o'clock the same
morning. By the Coroner—A paps.'r' wl id. had poison printed
on it, was found in her pocket„' She was attached to some
young man, whose name silt 'used frcqu ently to repeat in her
sleep, exclaiming, " Poor fellow." '1 he doctor stated that
she had taken enough poison to kill: 100 persons. She had
often wished herself dead. Verdict, " Temporary insanity.'
LEIPSIG, APRIL 4).).---llis tioval Highness the
Crown Prince of Hanover, travelling ; Wider the title of Count
of Diepholz, with his suite, arrived 1 sere yesterday by the iron
railway from Magsleburg, and home slit .tely went on to Alton-
burg.
The growers of hops have 'wen very unexr,eetedly
informed that the import duty tsposa fa reign prokuc'e will be
amongst those articles to be re jueed in, ti to tariff. Consider-
able excitement prevailed in Canterbutry market on Saturda
when the news was circulated, and in, al ie afternoon of th
day, a large and highly-respectable met ing of planters was
held at the Rose Hotel. The princil i growers were pr
sent, and a Memorial to the Board oS T ,t de was agreed upon
—Kentish Gazette,