The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We quote from another-print the statement of
a proposition, which appears to us to lay claim
to much respect at the present moment, when the
precise form and detail' of the Corn Bill are not
yet finally settled. _ This scheme goes to the ma-
nufacture and deposit of foreign flour as well as
corn, for exportation, as a preventive of the de-
cay to which the latter is liable when stored for
any considerable time. The landed interest, as
far as we can judge, ought not to feel alarm, and
it is to be hoped that they will not affect it, at a
plan which in no denee whatever extends the
principle of relief to the poor, or encroaches on
that of protection to the landlord, beyond the
point avowedly, contemplated by Lord Liverpool
and his coneagues. If the flour in store be ex-
ported; the exportation willte duty free ; if con-
suilled at home, it will be subject to the same
duty as foreign flour. It is strongly affirmed
that this proposal goes to strengthen the system
of endeavouring to rival the republican growers
of North America in the supply of flour to the
West India Islands, which, now that the non-
intercourse is rirgidly enforced, must be carried
on circuitously through the Gulf of Mexico. We
do therefor trust that so reasonable and useful a
measure may be permitted to succeed. Report
says, that the Duke of Wellington, who has had
credit within these few days for a disposition to
withdraw his blundering and mischievous amend-
ment from the Corn Bill, repents of such a re-
turn to good sense and right feeling, as out of
character for one of the party to which he has
now engaged himself, and will carry his amend-
ment, if possible, with a view to the defeat of the
Bill. This will piobably produce a hard en-
counter in the Upper House of Parliament ; but
if a certain inauspicious Potentate stands neuter,
we doubt not that the amendment will be lost,
and the Bill, though perhaps with a moderate
majority, be carried. The following is the para-
graph to wAlich we have alluded :
" A 'eetition has been presented to Parliament from a
Mr- James Surrey, praying, that in the port of London,
other places where corn is permitted to be bonded,
mills should be allowed to be entered under lock, for the
express purpose of receiving and grinding foreign corn, for
the manufacture of flour, and exporting the same, duty
free ; but if such flour should be taken for home consump-
tion, then to pay the same duty as foreign flour.' The
prayer of th's petition, which appears to us a very rea-
sonable and useful extension of the warehousing system,
Mr. surrey supports in the following manner :—' I will
endeavour to show the expediency of admitting such a
clause in the said Bill (in the event of the clause allowing
foreign flour to be imported, should remain), and I contend
that such an Act would be but justice to our millers, and
would not interfere with our internal trade, but would only
give our manufacturers a fair chance, by the aid of their
superior machinery and power, which would enable them
to compete with the foreign millers. There appears no
good reason why; our millers should not have that privi-
lege ; althotegh I consider foreign flour will he bonded, I
am persuaded it will not be introduced for home consump
tion i y any material quantity. But Ido consider, and
fnity expect, they will send it for the express purpose of
exporting it from hence to our colonies, and for the supply
of our shipping, which I submit will be en hindrance to our
manufacturers of that article ; it will also he an injury to
the labourer and owners of machinery, all of which we
have in abundance. The latter cannot be exercised to
advantage, unless the millers are permitted to grind the
foreign corn duty free, and deposit the flour (the produce
of the said corn) under bond, instead of such corn, which
will enable the millers to make flour at a cheaper rate,
fresher, and of a better quality than the foreigner can pos-
aiLly do. I do not hesitate to say that our merchants
si%Juld be enabled thereby even to compete with the Ame-
ticans in the supply of our West Indian islands in that
article, as our ships now go from hence half freighted, the
freightage of which would be a bonus to the owners, who
would therefore be enabled to freight it at a cheap rate.
And as regards the first cost of the flour made from foreign
wheat, it would stand nearly thus :—lf the average price
of our mallets is Ns. per quarter, the duty on the foreign
wheat, for home consumption, as proposed in the Bill now
pending in Parliament, would be 28s. 6d. per quarter ;
therefore the same corn, without duty, could be purchased
in the London Market at SOL per quarter, to yield the
same profit to the importer, which would enable the millers
to produce flour therefrom at about 4s. 6d. per bushel, or
15s. 9d. per barrel of 1961 b., in reference to the present
quality now in bond. There are now mills unemployed
within the port of London, with sufficient machinery and
power, equal to the grinding of 200,000 quarters of corn
annually, which will be further unemployed when the very
extensive mills now erecting by Government, at the Vic-
tualling-yard, Deptford, are completed.' "
The merchants of Liverpool, Glasgow, and other places
interested in the West India trade, ought to support this
application, which, if conceded to, may lead to the more
important consequences, on account of the interruption of
the direct trade between the United States and our West
Indian Colonies.— Times.

From the following article in the Dublin
Morning Register, we perceive that the Catho-
lic Association are to meet for the despatch of
business on Saturday next. The reasons for this
step do not seem very intelligible. We had
understood, that the Members of the Catholic
Association wished to remain silent in order not
to embarrass Ministers at this trying conjuncture;
but it would seem from this paragraph, that their
object was to soften the hearts of their Sectarian
opponents, who have, OR tlic contrary, been more
mischievously active, during the interval, than at
any former period :
. .

17‘ THE CATHOLIC A ssocianoti.—The six weeks' recess
will be at an end next Saturday. We are sorry that it was
not distinguished by the reciprocity of generous feeling'
which was anticipated at the adjournment. At no period
of our history was sectarian rancour in more mischievous
or more disgusting activity, than within this short interval.
The silence, indeed, of the protecting Association, seems to
have given a new and extraordinary stimulus to foul nens
and fouler tongues, not only here, but in England. These
are not circumstances which invite further quiescence on
the part of the Catholic Body ; and though more than a
six weeks' recess was originally contemplated, we feel it
our duty to announce, that it is now the intention of the
Association to re-assemble for despatch of business on Sa-
turday next."—Morning Chronita.

Mr. Murray's shop, in Albemarle-street, was,
daring a great part of yesterday, very closely be-
sieged by persons desirous of obtaining copies of
the publication of the Correspondence between
his late Majesty and the late Lord Kenyon, and
between his late Majesty and Mr. Pitt, on the
subject of the Law affecting the Catholics. For
this publication, we learn from Dr. Philpot, the
Editor, the world is indebted to the liberality of
the present Lord Kenyon. As it must be the
wish of those who have laid these documents
before the world, that they should be circulated
as extensively as possible, we have taken the
liberty of transferring them to our columns.
They are valuable materials for history. From
this Correspondence we have abundant confirma-
tion of what is stated in the Memoirs of Lord
Waldegrave, the tutor of his late Majesty, that
his education had been greatly neglected, for the
composition is harsh, and the language ill-chosen,
and grammatical rules are set at utter defiance.
Lord Waldegrave complains, too, of his close-
ness and want of candour. Of this, too, we
think there is no lack of proof in the Correspon-
dence. We find his iNlajesty corresponding
with Lord Kenyon, with a view to ascertain how
far the Coronation Oath would allow him to
consent to concessions to the Catholics in the
beginning of 1795. During the long interval
which elapsed between 1795 and 1801, he seen*
to have kept Mr. Pitt, who ought to have hadi
his full confidence, nearly in the dark with re-'
- By the way, if there be the quar.!ity of unemployed
mills that Mr. Surrey alleges, is not the erection of new
ones by the 'Victualling Board a most improvident applica-
tion of the public money ?