The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

leave to say spreads much further than Corn-
laws—though they being the most prominent ;the
most cruel, and the most mischievons, are: very
properly first assailed—such men show them-
selves worthy to be the .leaders of the people.
They are patient, candid, firm, and bold. They
flinch not from an honest expression of opinion,
and flinch not from placing themselves in the
tront, where it is said they may be exposed to
danger. They lend words to public opinion. They
embody in their own eloquent and forcible lan-
truage the sentiments of millions, and so they
are the heads and the leaders of the mil-
lions. And when the millions have made,
as they assuredly will make, the policy of
free trade triumphant, let not the Whigs
suppose, who seem now advisedly, we regret
to say, to stand aloof from the great move-
ment, that they are to reap the honours and the
rewards. The millions—the free traders—will
require to be represented in the Cabinet and in
the Councils of the State by such men as Mr.
VILLIERS, Mr.COBDEN, Mr. M. GIBSON, and COI.
THOMPSON, who now fight their battles and lend
a tongue to their wants. They will net again
endure to see their friends excluded from office
to place in the Cabinet a rhetorician who
takes no interest in their affairs, and prefers
spreading through the land false notions of
ancient manners disguised in rhyme to advo-
cluiiiz their cause in public. They, we are sure,
will gratefully reward those who fight their bat-
tles, and be on their guard against the sutlers of
political. warfare, who lie quietly by in the rear
looking out for the spoils.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, we under
stand, deputed a reporter to attend the meeting of the
Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law League, held on Thurs-
day night, at the Mechanics' Institution, in order that •
the Society may be accurately informed of what oc-
curred. No doubt it will be greatly interested by
the sums subscribed, and by the statements made
by Mr. Wilson, confirming so many other similar
statements, all tending to show that the falling off in
the consumption of the t)wns' people is the principal
source of the fall. in the price of agricultural produce.
At length the landowners are awakening to a due
sense of their own interest, and are finding out that
there is no stimulant to agricultural improvement, and
no reward for agricultural productions, at all to be
compared.to thriving consumers. At length after en-
countering more obloquy, and gathering on them-
selves, mere contempt than is borne by any class of
men in the country, these sapient gentlemen have ac-
tually discovered that they have been labouring to
kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. If they have
not succeeded, it is because there is a vitality in hu-
man property which even landlords cannot kill.

A HINT TO TILE-MAKERS.—The landed interest is
just now bent on making England more fertile than
Sicily, by underdraining every clay field. At the
same time the diffusion of knowledge amongst agri•
culturists, and the progress of improvement, is ex-
tremely slow. " Two years ago," says Mr. Pusey,
"the agriculturists discovered that while4os.,sos., and
even 60s. per thousand, were paid for tiles in the south
of England, Mr. Burt, of Godmanchester, five years
before, had invented a simple machine, by which he
had reduced the price of tiles from forty shillings
to twenty-two shillinw, throughout Huntingdon-
shire." Five years to spread amongst them such
useful knowledge ! " The price of tiles," adds -Mr.
Pusey, "depends on that of coals," and then follows
an eulogium on Lord Tweeddale's ingenious machine
for making draining tiles. Now, as building seems
nearly arrested in the manufacturing districts, and as
they abound with ingenious workmen, we would
suggest to the tile makers, those who have works in
the neighboufhood of coals, that they turn their at-
tention to making draining tiles by machinery at a
cheap rate for the use of the landlords in all parts of
the kingdom. It will probably be cheaper to convey
the article when manufactured to where it is wanted,
than to convey the coals to burn tiles. At any rate
as the demand for such tiles, from the sudden
light which has broken on the landowners,
and the sudden necessity for exertion they have
discovered, seems likely to be very great; if tiles
be made on a large scale it will most probably be a
profitable speculation, and a great advantage to those
landlords who are desirous to drain their land. The
manufacturers should encourage the landowners by
lending them all possible skill to carry out improve-
ment. If, as Mr. Pusey says, an increase of five or
six bushels of wheat per acre were to result from
the use of tiles manufactured on a factory principle,
it might puzzle the Post (no difficult matter) to tell
how much of the increase was the result of manu
facturing and how much of agricultural labour.