The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-23 00:00:00

from inferiority of qu-alitY ? To. show the ah-sui•
dity of the principle, let is take a country like
Spain, in which .communication is more difficult
than in England. It often happens that. in the
towns on the coast of Spain—as Barcelona, for
instance—The price of wheat is higher than in
England ; while in the inland parts, as the Cas-
tiles, it is quite a drug, and extremely low priced.
If Barcelona were to have its supplies from abroad
regulated by averages of the inland parts as well
as the coast, the population would be extermi-
nated by famine. That the Members of the
House of Lords greatly mistake their own in-
-terests, in making an increase of prices and con-
tinuance of high rents, through the destruction
of the commerce and manufactures of the coun-

try, is obvious to all persons capable of connect-
ing two propositions together. .They are acting
like froward children, who will have the object

of their desires whether they can or cannot be
effected: We will not say what the feeling of the
people is with regard to them, but we will say
that they have cemented the bond ofunion between
all the industrious classes and Ministers. These ex-
Ministers who, throughout, have been 'actuated by
a desire to injure the existing Administration, and
in particular by a hatred of Mr, Canning, ha+e
not certainly gone the wisest way, to work to at.
tain their object. They have given popularity
to the. Ministry, and completely annihilated
themselVes as public men. As to the Duke of
Wellington it must be a very charitable Admi-
nistration indeed, that would hereafter charge it-
self with .the ridicule of a connection with him.
No, the Opposition have effectually done the
business of Ministers. An enlightened Journal
(The Scotsman) observes on this subject—
"lt is well for this United Kingdom that it has now—we
might almost say for the first time—an Administration
more enlightened than the legislative bodies with and by
whom they must act ; who perceive how the people—the
country at large—may be benefitted ; and who are anxious
to proceed in the race of improvement even snore rapidly
than the prejudices and selfishness of the Aristocracy on
the one hand, and the commercial and manufacturing inte-
rests on the other, will admit. This enlightened spirit._
this philanthropic disposition in favour of the people, has
been so strikingly exemplified in recent instances, and es-
pecially in this respecting the Corn Laws, that not only
must the Administration have been raised much higher in
estimation, by what was meant to injure and depress them ;
but the country must also be thus induced to make great
allowances for Ministers, when they attempt less than what
might be expected of thein. They have ignorance, and
prejudice, and cupidity to deal with ; and to gain a little,
they must often refrain from attempting much. Our wish
is that the people, and those who speak their sentiments,
should so conduct themselves that the : Ministers of the
Crown may not weary in well doing. At present we have
one of the noblest spectacles ever exhibited in England—
the King, his Ministers, and the People, united in a struggle
with a short-sighted perverse Aristocracy."

This is the universal language. In former times,
when the population was almost exclusively agri-
cultural, the Crown struggled 'to prevent the
Landholders from converting farms into sheep-
walks, in order to have some exportable produce
wherewith to purchase wines and other foreign
luxuries. The Landholders were obliged to de-
stroy men to obtain the objects of their desire.—
The industry and skill of the country has enabled
them to export their produce in the shape of ma-
nufactures, so that their wines and luxuries have
been paid for, not with wool, hides, and corn, but
with the commodities manufactured by those who
consumed the produce of the soil. But what is it
the Landholders now propose to themselves ? They
propose to cut up the foreign market for manufac-
tures. Supposing, then, that an average of one-
fourth of the produce obtained from the soil accrues
to the Landlord on account of his monopoly of the
land, in what way do they look to obtain' the luxuries
pwkiteadt them are o iiiititqattigi#,Avon„,... 1 out itiwnpt:A
produce, like the Irish Landlords ? . But the Irish
Landlords are protected by England in a system
which dooms the people to potatoes and rags, that
the Landlords may consume wines at home or revel
on the Continent. Such a horrible social system
could not exist one moment, but for the bayonets of
England. Besides, the Irish Landlords have the
English market to themselves. But can the English
Landlords think of reducing the population of Eng-
land to the same degraded state ? But if they export
food for their luxuries (and what country can they ex-
port it to ?) the existing population must either
be thinned .or reduced to a more wretched con-
dition. But let us take another view of this
subject, that the ,cruelty, of the Landholders
may be made more apparent—that people may
see what it really is for which • the Earl
Greys, and the rest of the aristocratical class, wish
to die in their last ditches, Every encouragement
they afford .to foreign manufactures by the forcing
up the price of food at home, and interrupting the
commercial- intercourse with other countries, neces-
sarily-adds to the toil and diminishes the comforts
of those wretches at hinne who must toil to find ex-
portable commodities to exchange for the luxuries
of the Landholders. The manufacturer who goes
into a foreign market cannot say food is twice the
price in England that it is in Saxony, or on the'
Rhine ; and in order that my workmen may live, I
must have twice the price for my commodities that
the foreign manufacturers receive. He must sell prt
the same rate, Wherever he carries his goods, he
is met by rivals, who employ men who consume low-
priced food. The consequence we see every where
around us. In order that men like Earl Grey may
talk big, our wretched labourers and artisans are
ground to the dust. In order that our Lords may
revel in luxury, poor little infants must toil in fac-
tories fourteen and fifteen hours a pay. The wretch-
ed labourer in most, counties must toil from sunrise
to sunset, on a dinner of cold potatoes. What will
corne.of this heartlessness—this intense selfishness
on the one hand, and this increasing misery on the
other ? Where Will these aristocrats place the
limit beyond which they will not extend the misery
of their wretched countrymen and their own gratifi-
cation ?—Morning Chronicle.
The Warehoused Corn Bill, which is the title
of the tefaporary we3sure introduced by his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, .to remedy the loss of the last
Coin Bill, was read a third time in tbe Commons
last night, passed, and sent up
to the Lords,
where it was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Monday. The flouse of
Commons meets this day, when it is probable an
adjournment will be moved till Tuesday. A di-
vfsionl rather a novel description, took place
laSt night in the Lords, on the occasion of Lord
Farnham's amencimPt k-ef !-he Corn Averages
Bill, of which notice was given On Thursday.—
The amendment was carried by the casting vote op
the Noble .Chairman,and the original clause, con-
sequently lost ; but, ,31) the rq.u
should. stmd ases,iic;4 being put
whether the amended clause
part of the Bill, their Lordships, contrary to
custom, again divided, and several of the support-
ers of the amendment having, in the meanwhile,
left the flouse, it was carried in the negative,—
In consequence of this second division, both
the original and ainended clause have been thrown
pRt. The error must, of' course, be remedied,
on bAlPgillg 913 'the- report,- The propoSal: to
include the Irish Markets in the Corn AverageS
Bill, shows the fixed determination. Of the Aris-
tocracyPPort what is plausibly denonciinated
Agricultural interest. Ireland has, under
the Corn
iheto support
Acts, been all along an exporting
country, and not very long ago: one of their.
Lordships complained of the law by
.which the
grain of that country was admitted into Eng-
land, unbindena by a duty ; yet that nobleman
and his friends now come forward, and demand