The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--My attention has been called to a palm.
eraph in 3Tur Paper of Thursday
.last, datod
Nottingham, the 19th instant, containing stato-
meuts which I wish you to correct.
My application, on the subjects to which your
Correspondent refers, vas not connected with
the statements made at the Derby meeting, nor
did Sir Robert Peel send for a deputation from
Leicester and Nottingham to inquire into the
truth of those statements. I n3ay state also (hat
the Duke of Rutland took no part in the business
beyond facilitating my access to Sir Robert Peel.
The simple object of my waiting upon him was.
to. bring under his notice the particu;ar situation_
of the American trade, and to suggest that, if it,
were possible, it would be beneficial to the coun-
try that the corn which we might be covipeilcxl.
to import, should come from the United States
rather than from the Continent of Europe. With
these views I asked the favour of his Grace's ad-
vice as to the best manner of bringing the subject
before Sir Robert Peel, and to his kindness 1 am
no doubt indebted for the interview which Sir
I Robert so courteously granted.
I am quite aware of the difficulties that stand
in the way of partial legislation on the question,
but so far from being an advocate for the repeal
of the Corn-laws, my opinion is, that such a mea-
sure would much aggravate the present (Bares&
of the manufacturing districts, which no one la-
ments more than I do.—l am, Sir, your obedieat
servant, . RICD. MITCHELL.
Enderby-hall, Jan. 24, 1842.
[A report similar to that furnished by our
Correspondent appeared in several other papers,
both in town and country. We know nothing
personally on the subject, but the letter of Mr.
Mitchell sufficiently infbrms us why the Deputa-
tion at their interview with Sir Robert Peel were
, so lukewarm on the subject.

Mr. Christopher Moore has jest had the honour
of placing his marble bust of the Countess of Charlemont,
in the corridor of Windsor Castle, by command of the
Queen. lier Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert were most graciously pleased toe.vress their
unqualified approbation of the performance.
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND'"—A,
special general Court of the Corporation of the. above
institution was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
T. W. Atelier, Esq., was in the chair. From the last
Report of the Committee it appeared that the a5y,4.1111
was established in the year 1799, for the purpose ofin-
structing the indigent blind in a trade by which they
might be enabled to provide for their futurz subsistence..
Religious instruction was given by means of books in
raised or embossed letters, and the whole of the New
Testament had been printed in that manner for their use.
During a period of forty years 278 persons had been re-
turned to their families able to earn, according to their
several abilities, from Gs. to 1/. Bs. per week. The nana.-
ber of pupils .had increased to 70 males and 72 females.
A manufactory had been established, where the articles
made last year entirely by the hands of the blind persons
were sold for 1,74:3/ lls. Bd. The Society's receipts in:
subscriptions, money received for the goods sold,
were 8,3881. 18s. 5d., and the balance at the banker's.
from the last year made a sum of 10,3051. Os. Gd. The
disbursements left a balance of 2,241/. 12s. 2d. in favour
of the Society. The election of eight males and five
females as pupils in the asylum was then proceeded with,
and terminated at three o'clock in the afternoev. Thanks
were then given to the Chairman, and the ,meeting
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N AsYLuM. —Yesterday the
Thompson f the
London memberstic of thin
Tavern,
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8 Dio I s e
Dr.
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annual
olrpnel rtaon;l tNx
wasig.e LONDON
i
eid,
one of the Honorary Secretaries, read the Report: it.
stated the number of orphans in the asylum at Chtptora
to have been, at the period of the last anniversary, 350;;
60 had been since admitted by election, and 53 had left,.
making the preknt number 357, which would be in-
creased by the election that day to 382. The total
number of orphans relieved since the establishment of
the institution, was 1,304. The legacies during the past.
year had been unusually large and numerous, amounting.
in all to about 700/. 'The income amounted to
9,9561. 17s. Gd., which was exceeded by the expenditure
in the sum of 449/. 14s. sd. The children under the
protection of the Society were in good health, and very
favourable accounts had been received from those who,
had obtained situations. The Report having been adopted,
and the officers elected, the election of 25 orphans as in-
mates of the asaium, from a list of 143 candidates, com-
menced. The nieciting separated at three o'clock.
S unhEN DEATII.—Mr: Payne held an inquest
last evening, at the Glacli and Horses, 13artkolomew-
close, on the body of Jaems Stafford, aged 45. It ap-
peared from the evidence of Elizabeth Cople, of 68,
Bartholomew-close, that the deciaseci had been employed
by her to attend to the horses in hir stables for the last
two months. She did not actually requii, his services,
but kept him out of charity, as he was destitute, and as
his strength was impaired by disease he could not obtain
employment elsewhere. On Friday night last he went
to rest in the loft as usual, and it was remarked that he
appeared to be intoxicated. The following morning a.
man, who slept in the same loft, thought,deceased was
ill, and communicated his suspicions to witne..v. They
returned to him almost immediately, and fottOd him
dead. Verdict, " Natural' death."
SERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT THE GRE..EN
PARK LODGE, PICCADILLY.—Yesterday an occurrence
of a very frightful, and, no doubt, fatal character, took
place at the late residence of Lady Gordon, known 115
Green Park Lodge, situate in the Green Park, and facing
Piccadilly. Two men, named Jeremiah Broderick, aged
and a young man, named Daniel Howard, aged ta,
had engaged with other workmen in demolishing the
above-mentioned building, now in course of removal by
order of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests.
These two men were, about twelve o'clock, sitting under
neath one of the walls, engaged in cleaning the old bricks
from mortar, the wooden supporters of which had a short
time previously been removed. Suddenly the entire
mass of brickwork gave way, and fell upon them, partly
burying them beneath the rubbish. They were with.
ewisiderable difficulty extricated by the other workmen,
anti when so, were both found in a state of insensibility.
Bros crick was deemed to be dead, having both his tem-
pies completely laid open, his shoulder dislocated, and
his face i'vjghtfully lacerated. Howard had also severe
contusions
bout the head and face. They were con-
veyed to St. C.qorge's Hospital, and the former lies in a.
state which i.en,:ars recovery next to impossible.
()REIGN HORSE.—In a foreign
journal we find a ns
SINGULAR :kIC
otice by Dr. Bloch, of• Berlin, of a.
horse he had seen them absolutely destitute of hair, and
which he considers as a pxticular species in the caballing
genus, as the naked dog of" Egypt constitutes one, ac-
cording to him, in the canine s;ceous. The native soil of
this species. is the marshy distne:s of Persia. It appears
that three of them were brought int:: Europe at the con-
elusion of the late war between theißcesians and Turks.
The gentlemen who served on special Juries
last Assizes for Northumberland, generally agreed to
give their fees, amounting to about thirty oineas, to-
wards relieving persons confined for small debts- in Mor-
peth gaol. Five persons were accordingly dischtti:ged by
this act of huManity.
HOLLAND.-11olland, the land of cheese god
butter, is to my eye no unpicturesque, uninteresting
country. Flat it is ; but it is so geometrically only, and
in so other sense. Spires, church towers, bright farm-
houses, their windows glancing in the sun, long rows
of willow trees, their blueish foilage ruffling up white
in the breeze ; grassy embankments of a tender vivid
green, partly hiding the meadows behind. and crowded
with glittering gaudily painted gigs and stool-waggons,
loaded with rosy-cheeked, laughing country girls, decke.
out in ribands of many more colours than the rainbow, all
streaming in the wind; these are objects which strikerotlint
eye of the traveller from seaward, and forn:isa g
coaast and
view of Holland, as he sails or steams along
behind
lines tif country in the backgroundseach
up its rivers. On shore, the long main
n horizon, gives the
the other to a distant, level, unbroeklit,
Laing's Notes Of
impressions of vastness and of nov y continuity
rioltfsihii7izontal
a Traveller.
d goldthe -
hope to fin upon surface
and labour. Can we di
almost to the centre of •
It to
of the earth, when we, .
Wisdom cannot be obtained without industr7
and lead, and Sin, and the baser metals ?