The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—In the debates which have taken place in the House
of Commons on the new scale for barley, nothing has been said
on the extent t• which the averages will be affected ,:by the
large London houses supplying themselves with country made
malt. For instance, several of the London houses have agents
here, and in many other parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, who pur-
chase barley, and when malted, send it to London. If that
barley was sent to London, instead of being converted into
malt her.-, it would raise the average price from 2s. 6d. to
2s. ad. per quarter. The freight of a quarter of barley: from
Yarmouth to London is about 25., and 3s. a score carriage from
Norwich to Yarmouth, besides other expenses in LOndiwbe-
fore it can reach the brewer's store-room. If you take into
consideration the immense quantity of malt sent to London,
you will find that it will make a serious difference in the barley
averages.—I remain, Sir, yours, A MALSTER.
NLrwich, March 4, 1842.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FRUDI THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—HoW • complete was the refutation of
•the
_unfounded charges, of the baseless calumnies,
launched by the Hon. Member for Knaresborough
against those manufacturers, will be seen by the
straightforward, crushing speech of Mr. Cobden in
his own and their defence, and by the more polished,
but not less effective, address of Mr. 'Villiers ;
firmed, as his ample repudiation of the accusations
was, by a document which he read to the House,
attested !by seventy-two of the leading: manufac -
turing houses, Which, being members of the Anti-
Corn-law League, had been comprehended in the
sweeping though unsupported denunciations of
the lion. Member for Knaresborough. All this may
be seen in the report of the proceedings. But the
mere reading of the speeches will not convey an ade-
quate idea of the effeet they produced upon the House,
and especially upon the person to whose indiscretion
they were intended to furnish an antidote. The scene
was truly- graphic. The bold indignant Wile and
-bearing ofthe two honourable Members who had un-
dertaken to furnish the thfeatened refutation of the
accusations—the internal writhings of the so lately
furious assailant—evinced by the hands firmly clasped
within each other, together with the twitchings of
the. face and quivering of lips, as the loudly-cheered
effectively4orcible periods of his castigators fell,
scorpion-armed, upon his ears, scathing his now
humbled and abaShed spirit—were observed by every
one within the House. Those who had abetted the
sufferer in his unfounded attacks upon a body of
highly honourable and meritorious men; now shrunk
back abashed, as though they felt that, as par-
takers of the crime, they were sharers in the punish-
!tient: Those present in the' House Will not soon forget
the moment when the Chancellor of the Exchequer rose
to .order ; and thus stopped as -it fell—interposing a
shield between the bolt and its intended object—a sen-
tence already launched,' the import of which was
obvious. It would, if the speaker had been suffered
to complete what -it was manifestly his intention to
convey, have 'been yet most decidedly expressive, of
what no one now doubts,-than even any of the already
strongly-conveyed terms of reprehenSive contradic-
tion which had been previously applied to the gratui-
tous and injurious assertions of Mr. Ferrand ! The
result will, we trust, be, that the Hon. Member for
Knaresborough—without abating one jot of the fear-
less advocacy of what he doubtless believes to be the
wisest and best policy for the country, Tor an uncom-
promising adhesion to which he is emulous of being
conspicuous in Parliament—will Le henceforth in-
dtteed to
:distinguish between reckless hardihood of
assertion and .the unbending dignity of truth. In
tithe even the Honourable Men&er may endeavour
to argue rather- than to declaim ; and to seek, not
the ephemeral plaudits of less • venturous parti.
zans, but that solid and lasting satisfaction • which'
is derived. alone from a mind 'conscious ofiits
•pwn integrity, 'the possessor of.. which 'as, sternly'
refuses to sell his voice .as he would scorn to
prostitute his 'vote; • to' 'the 'baSe purposes of mere
party advancement' Convinced that a bad cause can-
not be long sustained by such props, and that a good
one, as it needs not, so it refuses to accept of such
support. If Mr. Ferrand—howev unlikely it may
Itiat:SO unpromising subject should ever
attain to so desirable a proficiency-74e taught these,
the first principles .of real excellence in a public man,
he -Will'uot regret thatthe lesson was enforced by the
lash ; nor • that abasement was, in him, the precursor
of moral elevation.
STANDABI).—The case of the late Sir Robert.
Kennedy affords another proof of the effect of the mi-
serable "economy" cry that has rung through the
bountry for the last half century, and which' has
rendered the rerviee of the public the worst ser-
vice -in which any man can engage. Here
is the case of a gentleman who, . serv'ed ably'
in an 'Office of great importance 'for thirty-eiglit
years, without being able to make' even a decent
provision for his surviving fainily, although that
family consisted- of only two daughters. We say
nothing of the large sums of money that passed •
through Sir Robert 'Kennedy's hands, because, in
the merit of
.-mere honesty, he is happily not dis-
tinguished from tens of thousands, and there are pro-
bably many clerks in the Bank of England through
whose hands larger sums of money have paSsed with
equal safety; but, from the nature of Sir Robert's duties,
the fate ofa:rmies, the successes ofa campaign, the honour
of his country must have been frequently dependent
Upon his activity and discretion, and the witness
best qualified to speak to his services, the Duke of
Wellington, bears honourable testimony to the
manner in which he acquitted himself. Is it not
then disgraceful that such a public benefactor
should be so ill paid as to die a pauper ?
There is another hardship arising from this
wretched under-paying of the public servants. The
paltry„pittance by which the Legislature pretends to
relieve the wants of. meritorious persons generally
is eaten up in discharging the debt of the State to its
servants and their families. We shall not be Sll9
pected of grudging the poor 1001. a year allowed to
Sir Robert Kennedy's daughters. We sincerely
lament that it has not been multiplied at least five-
fold, but we must contend that it is unjust to quarter
these ladies upon the Pension List. Their claim is a
claim of debt—equitably as much a claim of debt as
Lord Cottenham's claim for his pension ; and the
State ought not to pay its debts out of what it pre-
tends to give to merit and misfortune.
COURIER.—That the effective and telling speech
of the Member for Knaresborough should have stung
to the quick blatant Anti-Corn-law agitators—that
the vigorous manner in which he not only re-
pelled the accusations hurled at the landed pro- .
prietary of England, but carried the war into the
heart of the enemy's camp, demolishing their outposts, -
and laying bare their sore points, should have carried
confusion and dismay into their ranks, is what, a priori,
might have been • anticipated, and what last night's
proceedings in the House of Commons fully evince.
Let it not be supposed that we are friendly towards
railing accusations or sweeping charges against any class
of the community ; we always look upon such with
suspicion, as being either false in spirit or exaggerated
in fact. Good, vht aous, and high-minded men are
found in every rank- and calling of life, and it
is therefore with paln we have observed the un-
scrupulous and reckless mmner in which the
pseudo advocates of one great interest hazard
criminatory charges with those of another. 'Yet
of all men, those least entitled to complain
of the unfairness of making sweeping imputations
against any portion of the community, are the Members
of the Anti-Corn Law League; whose WhOle life—the
object of whose whole existence.has been to fling every
kind of calumnious - imputation at what they call
the landed interest and, its supporters. It was
all very fair to assail the gentry of England with every
epithet which an imag.nation fruitful in foul in-
vectives could supply—it was all .very fair for the
members and lecturers -of the League to exhaust
their vocabularies of abuse against the advocates
of protection—to denounce them as plunderers,
and describe them as monsters of selfishness
—all this, we repeat, was considered perfectly
fair ; but when an Honourable Member, stung by
these undeserved reproaches, proceeds to retort
upon their authors—when he proceeds to unmask the
knavery of the ‘.‘ truck system," or drag to light the
causes of the decline of manufacturing prosperity,
then, forsooth, these tender-hearted creatures are
shocked at the wickedness—unparliamentariness, of
such a course ; they tremble—not for their own
characters—oh, no; but for the dignity.'of the
House! 'We, of course, have no means of ascertain-
. ing what was the precise form of words in which
Mr. Ferrand had clothed his charges of knay.er,y-
and cruelty
.against the members of the
tncxl ;:f1 th to
e
unquestionably, we think, no one unde
urge such charges against all the members
body o
rs'ng English
League, much less against the great
manufacturers. Ile made specific charges
tiate in every particular.
against
some, and these, he repeats, he is prepared
to subarea_
?IVh at more does Mr. Cob..
den or Mr. Villiers require

I' tion of steam power it, marching on-
The application
had to announce the
We have already
mills a• 'lnglis, which are now we
hear in full work; and at the iwesent Lucy, the ex-
tensive miller of Perthrr:e, is erectin siraeious flour-mills, al o
at Diglis, in whieli the driving power is likes\ ise to be steam.--
Worceoer Herald.
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