The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

WINTER CI RC UIT.

'lt is understood that the Judges, from the informa-
tion they have received in reference to the state of the
gaols throughout the country, and the number of pri-
soners already confined in them awaiting their trial,
have come to the conclusion that it will be necessary
to have a winter gaol delivery, and it is expected tha
a Commission will be issued for that purpose in the
commencexnent of the month of December. It has
long been felt' to be a serious evil that fer a great
many offences there could be no gaol delivery between
the Summer and Spring Circuits, comprising an in-
terval of more than eight months, and it frequently
happenod, frompeculiar circumstances, that a prisoner
was twelve or thirteen months in gaol before trial,
thus not only entailing a great expense upon the coun-
try, but, at the same time, inflicting upon individuals
presumed to be innocent a •.very severe punishment.
A case of This description occurred two or three as-
sizes ago upon the Home Circuit. A woman was
Committed shortly after' the Spring Circuit upon a
charge of poisoning' her husband. She was at the
time in the, family way, and when the Summer, Cir-
cuit came on, the evening previous to the day on
which the trial was fixed to take place, she was de-
livered of a child, and was 'consequently 'unable to
take her trial, which was postponed ,to the next Cir-
cuit. She then remained eight months longer in
gaol, and was ultimately tried at
,the Spring Cir-
cuit, and acquitted after remaining under such a
dreadful charge for more than a twelvemonth.
This is not a solitary instance, and many
others of a similar kind might be adduced. It also
frequently happens, that during the long interval be-
tween the committal of the prisoner and his trial,
material witnesses die or leave the country, and thus
the ends of justice are defeated. The recent altera-
tion of the law limiting the jurisdiction of the
Quarter Sessions, will cause a much greater number
of prisoners to, be committed to the Assizes, as the
1 Justices are now precluded from trying all offences
involving the punishment of transportation for life,
and 'several others, •specially mentioned in the Act.
In consequence of this alteration, there are already a
much greater number of prisoners: in the different
gaols throughout the country awaiting their trial at
the Assizes, than under the old arrangement there
would have been at the time for the usual Circuit.
In Essex there are thirty prisoners for trial, and sup-
posing the same. average number to be committed. up
to the Spring Circuit, there would, by that time, be
ninety prisoners for trial, besides those that would
be committed to the Assizes, at the first gaol de-
livery. In Kent the number will be still larger, and
it would be impossible for the Judges to get through
the criminal business without occasioning the Circuit
to extend over a very long period. It is therefore ex•
pected that there will be a gaol delivery at the time
above mentioned, and one Judge will go upon each
Circuit .for that purpose.

LORD MORPETII AND TIIE AMERICANS..--II is said
that Lord Morpeth is preparing his observations on
the Americans for the press. The opinions of so
distinguished a statesman, so honest a politician, and 1
so good a man, with regard to the Americans and
their institutions, would be particularly useful at this
period. All classes of politicians would look with
anxiety, and be prepared to receive with reverence,
his Lordship's opinion with regard to the working of
the ballot
,and ' the man suffrage " in America—
points that will inevitably be brought forward and
discussed in the next. session of Parliament. —Shur-
field Iris. • . .
TnE LORD CIIANCEILOR.—Iiis Lordship sat in the
Court of Chancery yesterday for the _first time
since the long vacation, and we are exceedingly happyun
in being able to announce that the Noble and Learned
Lord has nearly regained his usual good state of
health. The Chancellor has been sulk i rng a
severe indisposition, but for the last three weeks his
medical attendants have not considered it necessary
to continue theirhavtlis\irtteisi,eniraeanydis
ahlnissoo 'Lordshipsftoautnefoundation
na hasttni.od resumed
shoi s
confidently,regt ll a r diet.
t
for the reports which have appeareda i:lnonthe news-
papers relating to his Lordship's
ing the Great Seal. This at
great satisfaction, not only towill gtve
the Court over which the Noble Counsel practising in
ably presides, but to the Barand Learned Lord so
generally.
NEW COMNIISSION or LUNACY... Tv. 1
man-
sion on the south side .of Lincoln's Lie large
the residence of Mr. Harrison, lnn-fields, formerly
Parliamentary
lately deceased, has be •
been taken for the establishment
connected with' the Lunacy Commission. Mr. En-
field, who 'has for ' masituation in the n
y
years , held an important
lunacy departMent, under the Lord
Chancellor, has been
this Commission appointed to the secretaryship of
announcement olulteeemeillalloNW:hreaeatslieigvdneor.
,with a salary of 1,000/. per annum.

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- DWARKANAUTH TAGORE.
It is with sincere pleasure that we publish the fol-
low;ng interesting letters. We cannot imagine any
thii:g more gratifying than the tribute paid by the
Cot:rt of Directors to the zeal and philanthropy of
this gentleman, unless we except the sltisfaction
which must be felt by every friend of India, to find
that the just and liberal rule of these merchant
princes (the Honourable Court) has received the ap-
probation of a distinguished native of that important
empire :

" East India-house, Oct. 21.

" Sza,—On the occasion of your return to your
native country, the Court of Directors of the East
India Company are desirous of presenting you with a
testimonial of their esteem, and of the approbation
with which they regard the public benefits conferred
by you upon British India, by the liberal encourage-
ment you have afforded to the diffnsion of education,
and to the introduction of the arts and sciences ; and
by the generous support you have given to the chari-
table institutions of Calcutta, whether established for
the relief of the Hindoo or of the British community.
The COurt trust that the noble course which you have
pursued will have. the effect of contributing to the ac-
coniplishment 'of that object which it has ever been
their anxious desire to promote, viz., the identification
of the feelings and interests of the native and Euro•
pean populatiob committed•to their. Government, and
thus strengthening the bonds which unite India ►with
Great Britain.

" Impressed with these sentiments,. the Court re-
quest your acceptance of a gold medal, for the prepa-
tion of which they have giveri the necessary instruc-
tions. In making.this communication on their behalf,
permit us' to assure you of the satisfitctiOn which we
derhe from being :the medium .of conveying the
Court's feelings and wishes, in which we most fully
participate,.and:to express our sincere hope that your
visit' to this country has been productive to you of
much ,gratification, and that your future career may
be Marked by happiness and prosperity. We have the
honour tohe, Sit, your most obedient humble servants,
"-J. L.
" JOHN COTTON.
"Dwarkanauth Tagore."

" Paris, Oct, 2.;.

Gentlemen,--I have received with a pride and
pleasure I cannot find words to express; the letter
with which you have honoured me. If my 'efforts to
promote the improvement of my countrymen, and the
welfare of my native land, had been attended by suf-
fering, privation, or evil to myself, P should have
sought no higher recompense than the flattering opi-
nion the Honourable Court of Directors have been
pleased to express of my conduct, and the gratifying
testimonial of that opinion to which you advert, and
which -I shall indeed be proud to wear. I repeat
that if distress and danger had beset my path,
I should have considered myself more than re-
warded by the distinguished honour now con-
ferred upon me; but I felt with confidence, and not
less with gratitude, that under the just and liberal
rule of the Hon: Court an honest citizen seeking to
improve the condition of his country by legal and not
unworthy means,. had everything to hope for, and no-
thing to apprehend. I have worked in my humble
sphere under a firm conviction that the happiness of
India is best secured by her connexion with your
own great and glorious 'country ; tind that the ntore' the
people of that vast empire were enlightened, the more
sensible they would become of the invincible power
of the protecting State, and of the excellence of a
Government whose pure and benevolent intentions,
whose noble solicitude for the welfare and improve-
ment. of the millions t ommitt4d by Providence to its
charge, may challenge • the adiniration of the whole
world: • • • • ; •

" To yourselves, Gentlemen, allow me to offer my
unfeigned thanks for. the manner in which you have
communicated, the gracious sentiments and intentions
of the Hon. Court. The honour, so great in itself,
has been rendered doubly acceptable by the terms in
which your. kindness has conveyed' it. Indeed, if I
might be allowed, I would solicit permission to pre-
sent ray humble and-grateful acknowledgment s to the
Hon. Court individually, as well 'as collectively, for
their generous hospitality, delicate courtesy, and un-
varying goodneis, Which I shall not cease to remem-
ber with gratitude 'while" live;

" I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect,
" Gentlemen; your most obedient servant,
DIVARKANAUTII TAGORE.
" Sir J. L. Lushington and John Cotton, Esq., &c."

MONUMENT TO THE SCOTCH
REFORMERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—lt is now some weeks since I troubled you
with a letter connected with the memory of the above

men, which you were so obliging as not only to in-
sert in your liberal and intelligent paper, but also to
prelude with some most pointed and valuable re-
marks of your on n.

During the above interval our Town Council hare
been giving their attention to various matters, but
,carefully the question, whether they would
recbtinnend a. site being given to the subscribers who
wish to commemorate "the' g•reat sacrifices made by
these tnartyrs in: the cause of Reform? The osten-
sible excuse for this was the sickness of the Honour-
able and Knightly Member who opposed the grant
when before the Council. ,That gentleman, however,
is so well as to be able again to attend to ns duties,
yet theponsideration of the subject is still delayed.
Whether the delay, has really arisen out of the
cause assigned, or whether the ascendancy of Tory
principles has damped the spirits even of those who
are considered our steady Reformers, I cannot pret end
to determine; but, at all events, I may be. allowed to
contrast the conduct of the men whose memory it is
proposed to honour, with that of this man who opposed
the contemplated honour upon the disproved aspersion
that these Reformers were not truly honourable men..

The Members of this Town Council have been
fighting for places with the Non-Intrusion party, and
the Honourable Member and his party (who fasti-
diously objected to granting the site wanted for a
public monument to commemorate the sufferings of
menlwho exposed themselves to danger and to death
in advocating a cause that has since been approved of
by the whole community, and has ultimately flou-
rished under the sanction of the Legislature), under
pretence that these men did not show due respect to
the laws of their country, have themselves been de-
voting their energies to a party who have put the,
laws of their. country at defiance. This is a line of
conduct that cannot be .approved of by any party.
how much more ingenuous would it be for a party
whose avowed principle it is to maintain Church and
State in their pristine vigour to say—" While we
support the Constitution, let us give honour to those
who fell a sacrifice to its invigoration?"
I am, sir, your
,obliged and humble servant,
W. M. AN OLD REFORMER.
Edinburgh, Nov. 1, 1842.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.

The only Derby bets laid
yesterday were 13 to 1 to
1001. agst :sir G. ileathcote's lot ' • 25 to 1 to a small
amount ng:ot Winesour ; 125 to 25 (five points less than
the odds) agst the Progress colt, 500 to 20 agst Phillip,
300 to 10 agst Aristides, 400 to 10 agst the Oxygen colt,
400 to 10 agst the Languish colt, 50 to 1 to 701. agst
Dumpling. and 1,000 to 15 agst Delightful colt. Offers
of Bto 1 agst A British Yeoman (take 17 to 2)— Oaks
—9 to 1 laid to 251. agst Maria Day, and 300 to 10 agst
sister to Sarcasm.
As Thursday has always been a sort of dies non in the
winter months, it has been suggested that the room
might as well be closed on that day until after Christ
mas ; it would certainly improve business on the Monday.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1843.
MONDAY.
1 40 sous.
Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 5 yrs, 9st, agst Mr. (Void.
deston's Martingale, 3 yrs, Est. T.Y.C. 200, h ft..
FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1843.—TtirsDay.
Duke of Bedford's Oakley, Bst 71b, agst Lur'si ,xeter,a
Celia, Bst. T.Y.C. 500. h ft.
FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1843..___T
out of Memina—
lIESDAY.
Nominations for the Hopeful Stake 4
:Ts todautat ()
and
nd Datumci:
Duke of Bedford's f Liberty,—Lore
Belt'
Ilerbxeertet:s'sb fc
bby
—Mr. rrp. Liverpool, out
teohf clibeyecraleannidpofteltiar
Jane Mr. Oshaldeston's Iby The
Dlllerf.eGneoeo doorinuatynoe'fsn
ibEsloanfi.—:
itchi'ald's b c by Ve-
locipede,
out of Vulture, and bl.
Saddler, i ics,
onel Peel's c by Touch-
-Mr. Shelley's br f Jill cby lon, out of Mary Ann
hill's Sister.to Erre • b Sister to Jack—Mr. Thorn-
e, na.
oduatmof
bNy ain)ainre...:3oll.usratlni_o°Prf.e.o,
Gpie.le—fLenz!",

TIIITIISDAY.
and f by
The Rutland Stakes of 30 Sovs each, Sze.
Duke of Bettord's Liberia—Mr. Crockford's Sister to
Cardinal Puff—Lord Exeter's cby Beiram, out of Agn9s.
Defence, out of Virginia—Mr. G. OngleY'b F b
yPeel's
11'----irarn. out of Demure—Sir J. B. Mills's
. cß:sy.
selas, out of the Queen of the Gipsies' dam—Col..,_,s _ .
eby lon, out of Malibran—Duke of Ruth..n 1 )),
Liverpool, out of Minx
• tic—Mr.lN refor s
Thornhill's cby Albemarle, out of Lx.o , ,
ma—General I ates s
f by Sultan Junior, out of Moni
7s dam—Mr. Sbelley's f Jill—Mr.,d,
1 b c Slanderer.

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF TWO KINGSWINFORD
CONSTABLES.—WiIIiam Onions, constable of King-
swinford, William Price, his assistant, and William
Roberts, butcher, were indicted for compounding with
Phoebe 31illward, for the sum of 31., a felony which
had been committed by her son Jesse llillward, at
the parish of Kingswinford. The Jury returned a
verdict of guilty against both defendants. The
Chairman, after expressing.his regret at seeing an old
constable like Onions brought before them on such a
grievous charge as that which they thought, had been
clearly proved, sentenced Onions to pay
to the Crown, and Price 51. The tines" were paid.—"'
IVorcesterxhire Chronicle.
The Prussian navy, royal, and commercial, ted
innoun- .
last summer, to 790 vessels, of 10,600 tons burden,_
_aro
employing. a fine of 10/.
6,800 sailors. Towards the year 17V
Prussia had 2,000 vessels, tuad.lo,ooo. men. ! -

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tr OUIS I A N A STATE DIVIDENDS.
The DIVIDEND WARRANTS falling due on the
9th instant, on the LOUISIANA STATE BONDS, eon-
tri.ezed by \V. S. WARRICK, will be PAID on that or any
segveding day, Tuesday and Friday except?d, between the
1-I,!urs of Ten and Two, at the Counting-house of Baring,
13rother3, and Co., No. 8, Bishopsgate-street Within, where
Lists may as usual be obtained.
•

FIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided in NEXT
MONTH, amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN
nentiated in the year 1820, andGIJARANITED by the GO.
VERN MENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE
o BADEN.
1 Dividend 50,000 Florins ...... 50,000 Florins
1 do. 25,000 "
1 do. 12,000 "
1 do. 10,000 "
1 do. 5,000 " .. ••• 5,000 "
8 do. 1,000 " 8,000 "
10 do. 500 " . 5,000 "
10 do. 200 " •• 2,000 "
210 do. 110 "
200 do. 105 "
467 do. 100 "
7,300 do. 94 "

8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or
£74,400 Sterling Money.
8,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain
one of the above Dividends.
Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4
Smallest Dividend £ 7 16 8
12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per
the day's exchange.
ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY
DEDUCTION WHATEVER.
Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT
DELAY, to
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.
Bends are on sale NOW at £l3. Against the end of this
Month the price will rise to £l4, and the Sale will close in the
first days of November.
Those who remit £l5 BEFORE the 28th instant, will re-
ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with
the Bond.
To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re-
mittances will be returned by first
HEINE BROTHERS.
HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. '

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 4,
Will be repeated the Operatic Play of ROB ROY. Rash-
leigh Osbaldistone, Mr. C. Pitt; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr.
W. Harrison; Rob Roy 51.Gre vie Campbell, Mr. Cooper;
Dougal, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Diana Vernon, Miss Rainforth ;
Helen M'Gregor, Mrs. Salzberg.
After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic
Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The
Ladies' Club," Ike., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker,
Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper Mr. Bartley; Gallop,
Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper,
Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee.
To conclude with the Farce of COUSIN LAMBKIN.
Squire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ;
First and Second Circles Os., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
'rickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office • of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 4,

Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Faucitt, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c.
After which, DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford,
and Mrs, H. Beverly.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Preche
Ginbilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.
H. P. Grattan.
To conclude with NORMA. Polio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
In consequence of the numerous applications for Mr. T. P.
Cooke to appear in a succession of his favourite Characters,
and the nightly overflows to witness his inimitable acting,
be will change every evening, being the last times of their
performance.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 4,
ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS,
supported by the best Company in London.
After which, BLACK EYED SUSAN, with the Original Cast.
To conclude with the Farce of MILITARY TACTICS;
or, THE LADY AND THE LANCER.
Places and private Boxes to bo had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

HIGH W ATEit AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
i.iornine 29 minutes after 2 I Evening

LONDON :
FRIDAY 21101ININGNOVENLI3ER 4, 1342.

The provincial papery teem with plans for in-
creasing the quantity of food grown at home,
Apparently the landowners have begun to per-
ceive that the present system cannot be much
longer endured, and they hope to turn aside the
wrath of those they have injured by promises of
future plenty. Great systems of tile drainage are
spoken of. Every acre is to he made to yield
double the present quantity, and the landlords
will ensure us a vast supply, if the League will
only cease its agitation, and allow the present
Corn-law, and the present so-called protection,
to continue.
Amongst the schemes for increasing the home
produce, and for conferring additional benefits
on the landowners, the one put forth by Mr.
BLACKER, of Armagh, " a good agriculturist,"as
he is called in the Northern Whig," but a worse
than indifferent political economist," seems the
.• most preposterous. It is bad enough to propose,
with the generality of the landowners, that they
should he allowed to underdrain and improve
the lands by means of a tax wrung from the rest
of the people; but Mr. BLACKER proposes, in ad-
dition, that the Government, which is a continual
borrower, like a paper-issuing bank, should also,
like a bank, turn lender, and ensure prosperity to
agriculture by a loan of public money to land-
lords, of one or two millions a-year, at 31 per
cent. We need not criticise such a plan in de-
tail. It is too childish to merit notice, and we
should not have bestowed any on it had it not
been favourably spoken of by some of the land-
lords' journals. All schemes for the direct en-
,couragement of agriculture seem to sin agtinst
common sense and the best established principles,
end we should regret to see any of them adopted.
.On this ground we seldom trouble ourselves with
those which fall in our way, being convinced
• that they are all essentially erroneous, and must,
if acted on, occasion mischief and disappointment.
The best and the only encouragement to agri-
-culture is au increased demand for its produc.s,
that is people to consume them who have some-
thing to give for them. The farmers and land-
lords gain nothing by multiplying beggars; but
the increase of merchants? who bring wealth of
vacions kinds from other countries, and the in-
creas,z of manufacturers, artisans, and. artists,
Who by .their labour and wealth gratify the %wants,
natural or artificial, of the agricultural classes,
bestows on them a rich reward for their exer-
tions. The increase of commerce and manufac-
tures is not merely the best, as Sir ROBERT PEEL
has stated ; it is, we repeat, the only encourage-
went which can make agriculture thrive. To
encourage agriculture,. therefore, we must permit
manufactures and commerce to extend, and
those who would encourage it by stifling the
latter, or checking their_ growth, are as ignorant
•
-and barbarous as those savages who, by muti-
lating the human body, count on increasing its
beauty and vigour .

At present the complaint of the agriculturists
,is that they do not get enough, or a remunerat-
price,
grumbling
fbr what they, produce. They are
ing
from Cape Clear to Flamburough
Head at the fall of prices. At the same time, ;t
.is plain, frOm the high price of agricultural pro-
' duce hitherto, that they have had more than
their share of the produce of manufactures and
trade. The - law intended to give them more.
The law has, at the same time, curbed manufac-
tures and commerce, and put a limit to their pro-
AuctiOns. ir The chief cause of the present fall of
Prices is the comparative inability of the manu-
facturing and commercial classes to buy. They
have little or nothing to give in exchange for
agricultural produce. There are thousands of
mouths in our towns hungering for food, who,
receiving hardly any wages, cannot be good cu.-4-,
v_vstomers of the farmers. To raise
)--1. r --114-$' crease the effective demand for
.. prices, to in-
)a farm produce, ,to
1. 71,74::::f",:- encourage agriculture, the only way is to Put
.these men in the way of earning wages. The
Z:y
cri;424:-'''',Prriercial products must be increased before there
-.I• I -$' ' '''' s:4tan be anything
- more to give to the farmers.
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Prices will then rise, and the farmer rho now
grows a great deal more than he consumes him-
self, will be enriched by exchanging his surplus
produce for the produce of merchants and manu-
facturers.

But all such schemes as those of Mr.
BLACKER, those of our tile-draining, stock-im-
proving, Corn-law making landlords, rest on one
leg. They increase agricultural produce, but
they do not increase commodities to pay for it.
No doubt the principle .of population will supply
mouths, but if mills stand idle or work half time,
or if our shipping get but half freights or lie rot-
ting in port, there will be no increase of manufac-
turing and commercial wealth to exchange for
agricultural produce. The more that is increased
without an increase in trade and manufactures
the lower will its price fall, and the greater will
be the distress, till a new life be given to manu-
factures by the excess and the cheapness of the
produce of the farmers. As long as agriculture
is carried on—not merely to supply the wants of
the agriculturists but to exchange its produce, it
is absurd to suppose that it can thrive without an
increase in the wealth for which that produce is
to be exchanged. The landlords fix it on one
leg, and then expect it to walk rapidly forward.

We do not deny that the land may be better
cultivated, and sustain more persons than at.
present, without any increase in commerce and
manufactures, but they must be persons who
cultivate it to live on its produce, and not to ex-
change it. Encouragement to agriculture, with:
out a corresponding increase in trade and com-
merce, may fill the land with, for aught we
know, happy and healthful cottars—machines,
as they have been described, six feet high, for
turning potatoes into human beings; it may
crowd every gentleman's estate with thousands
and thousands of squatters and allottees, but we
are very much mistaken if that is the sort of
population, however happy in themselves, which
our landlords desire, or which would increase
their rents and add to the security of their pro-
perty. What mode of parcelling out the soil
may be for the greatest happinev of the great-
est number, we will not venture to inquire, but
for a Government which derives the greatest
part of its revenue from commerce, and for opu-
lent landowners who revel in foreign luxuries,
we can conceive no scheme more pregnant with
the seeds of destruction, than one which should
encourage the cultivation of the soil for the chief
purpose of subsisting those who cultivate it, in-
stead of growing a large surplus to exchange.

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