The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-27 00:00:00

CHANGES.

Lord and Lady George Lennox, at their seat in Sussex, from
a tour; Lord Spencer, from Althorpe. for Norfolk ; Mrs. Ge-
neral Hay and family, front their scat in Hampshire, for Scot-
land; Viscount Hampden, from Hampden House, Bucks,
for Broonallant Hall, Bedford ; Hon. Frederick Caltlaorp,
M.P., from Midkurst, fur Worthing.

FOR THE SUN.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH.
[Continued)

As the character of a great and good man ever
attends him in the discharge of is public duty,
so, like his shadow, it follows him in the privacy
of his retirement, where any thing like happiness
is only to be found; and then only in the purity
of conscience, after the hurry of business, yields
to the calm repose of reflection on a well•spent
life.

For sixteen years Lord ELLENBOROUGH presided
as Chief. Justice of England, and his judgment on
all occasions did honour to the discernment of a
Fittite Administration, which truly appreciated his
worth. He was thought to be a party man, be-
cause he held a brief for the late Mr. HASTINGS,
against the Managers of the House of Common!,
who attacked him with all the wrath of Jir Ed-
ward Coke against the slain, if not murdered, tcir
%%Taller Raleigh ; and he was then looked upon as
one in opposition to the late glorious and never-
to be-forgotten measures of Government, because
he attended the funeral of the late Mr. Fox. This
lie did, not out of regard to the political princi-
ples of so great a man, but for his capacious mind,
his affability, and his generosity, which in the
early part of his lite crippled his fortune, and
threw him among Jews, Gentiles, and women
of chequered characters, who affected mora-
lity. This is all that attracted the attention of
Lord Ellenborough towards him, and what man
of sense•would not bestow it on him !
Speaking of his Lordship as a Lawyer and a
Jadge, his whole demeanour was uplifted, candid,
and equitable. lie never suffered the rigour of
law to prevail over the sweet balm 01 Gilead, the
healing tttilk of a flexible conscience. Riv,id to
suppor' right, he was stipple in his restrictions of
wrong ; to enforce one with mutual satisfaction •
to the parties, the other for their mutual benefit.
His patience was admirable, and he ga"e a lati-
tude to thespeeches of Counsel, thinking it better
to lose time than not to hear them, thought, as
Gratiano says in the play, they often spoke an in-
fluor deal of nothing. His whole life has been
one coot inned scene of labour and industry ; and
the time he has stolen fraim his temporal affairs
was ,wisely employed in his spiritual, persuaded
that a love of the one made the other better ; so
that no one was fit to hold the balance who was
not in constant commuttion with the Author
of all Goodness. Such a one was recommended
in the Republic of the Almighty, high in renown,
and wise in understanding.
Lord'Ellenborough was not less remarkable on
Trials by Jury, than he was in his decisions on
the Bench.• His brethren there never differed
horn him, and his care that a witness should mos.
lie harassed or inveigled into an answer that would
affect his evidence, was exemplary. An instance
presents itself to which the writer was a hearer.
A matt was asked whether he had not been tried
for perjury, •when his Lordship immediately told
hint nor to answer the question,
On the whole, who that knows his Lordship
can say less of him? More may he said ; for he
has afforded materials. But as a history of hint
is not intended, Suffice it to conclude, that his
virtues are as much known to his house as his abi-
lities in Court. II _this should sound-like adula-
tion, let such poison have its antithite. The
writer hereof- is an. utter stranger to him. He
knows him loot, out of his profession;, nor any of
his faintly. 'Fie speaks of 'Jim as a Conusel and a
J,,,tga,, a Husband and a -Father, a Master •and a
Friend.—Ceera desunt

A STA Ifni' PIT LITE.

The Learned Chairman' of the ‘Vest Ridiur
Sessiotss, lield in Leeds I,sf wttk. 0/ 4
y0'014411 deli ii(rielit'S punishment, beuteuccd him
tv by delivered up to his mother!

MANUFACTURERS.

[From The Leer/3 Intulligenc.er, Oct. 26,]

We 'egret to hear a report that the Manches-
ter market is flat ; that goods are rapidly
accu-
mui.+ling in the warehouses ; that employment
for the weavers is consequently becoming scarce;
and that the depression is attributed to the late
advance ot the price of weaving.
Should the report prove to be correct, and the
alleged depression become permaneht, one good
effect, tit least, may arise from the circumstance.
It ;nay serve to convince the working classes that
it is in Cain to seek amelioration of their eo.idi-
don by the demand of higher wages than the
trades at which they are employed can afford to
pay : anti that the result of all uniawfol
nations 'cannot tail to be ruin to themselves and
injury to their country.
The situation of the calico-weavers has cer-
tainly been very distressing, and their earnings
not more than sufficient barely to preserve the ex-
. istence of them and their families, atuidst _great
Suffering and privation,—nivations, he it ever
'remembered to their unour, borne, till rer
late-
ly, with the most exemplary fortitude and pati-
ence. We remember to have seen it argued by
some of the London Prints, dittitig the late differ-
ences between the weavers and cot on spinners,
and their employers, that the great sups tiority
of wages enjoyed by the spinners offer the
weavers was owing to the greater d:gree of skill
• and ability which the spinning required, and that
the exercise of these qualities entitled their pos•-
sessors to the compatatively high remaneration
with which their labour was rewarded. In our
opinion, this reasoning is as unfounded in fact,
as it is cold and unfeeling in principle. The price
of labour is regulated, tint. by the dtgree of skill
which any particular branch of labour requires,.
but solely by the demand for its produce, and by
the price which the produce of any district or
country can obtain, when placed in comovti-
tion with the produce of other countries Thus,
though the skill tequired in ,r raving must be aC
least as valuable as the skill requisite for common
day labourers, yet the wages of weaving have
been not unfrequently lower than the wages paid
to common labourers for ,breaking stones by the
road side. Thus, the wages tit many trades are
vet y high, though the skill necessary in their oc-
cupations may be acquired by any buy in the course
of one, two, or three years. Thus, on the other
hand, many artists of considerable genius, as well
as skill, in their respective professions, often suffer
under all the hardships of gutted labour.
The nub, then, is, that in this tine and happy
country, all is paid for labour which the produce
of that labour can sustain. The wages of cer-
tain trades are high, not because they require
extraordinary skill, but becanse the, masters
in those trades cheerfully share with their woik-
nien the blessings which their occultations pro-
cure, or because the labour in those pursuits beinr,
productive of a certain value, its pike finds :! level
propori innate to the general gain. On the other
hand, the price of labour in certain occnrations is
, not because the occupation requires little skill,
nor because the employers are unwilling to give a
fair portion of their profits to the lationrer, but-
hecanse the produce of the labour is of little v.-due,
in itself, or tshen brought into competition will*
other produce ot a similar description. •
Thus the wages of spinning air high,'lrecattse,
front superiority in machinery, and other adeiti.
takes, the British Manufacturer is enabled to tell
his produce at a price which affords high wages,
notwithstanding foreign competition ; and thus
the prices of weaving are low, because the Bri-
fish possesses few advantages over the Fureigta
Manufacturer.

FOR 'IIIF, SUN.

OF ICE BERGS.

Ma. EntTott,—The idea of Ice Bergs being
formed front Avalanches- is excellent, and some
no doubt are, but lint all; because they are too
numerous, both in the Southern and Northern
Hemispheres. The late great Navigator, Capt.
Cook, saw many in the former. Whirl- winds in
drift snow will raise it 200 feet high, as sand by
the same means is raised iwo domes or bills front
20 to 80 feet high, on Rose Island, at Pensacola.
tippose there is a whirl-pool at each Pole, of at
least 20 miles diameter : the re-action of the water
in its distant ascent will produce a cerrent, which,
in the first instance, will be strongest, and as it
expands will run at the rate of '2 miles, l?,1. and
one mile an hour. The masses of ice falling upon.
each other into the whirl-Fools, and-adhering,
must, in their ascent, produce Ice Bergs of various
sizes. Some of these Ice 'Bergs is their progress
from the Poles will take the ground nigh laud ;
when sand ting a stones of all sizes, and mud, wilt
he forcibly stuck in them. The rise of the tide
Or water will again float the Ice Bergs into deep
.Water, and then they tnay be fixed for a time awl
frozen up in 'fields of ice, where they may remain
for years.- Snow, rain, and frost, to glaze the
Ice Bergs, will successively increase their height
so much, that when the field-ice is broken lip and
releases the Ice BergS, they being top heavy,
will tion • bottom up or capsize, and the stones,
sand and mull, will then appear on the upper part
Hitt! sides of the Ice Bergs, and induce a supposi-
tion that they are generated upon Lind
. A CORRESPONDENT.