The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-07 00:00:00

tween the present and former times is, that the''
number out of employment at any one time bears a
smaller proportion now to the whole number em-
ployed. We are in a state, however, very different
from any other country, owing to the prodigious
congregations of people in one spot. Scotland alone
contains as many large towns as all Germany.—
Morning Chronicle.
The distress of the people about Manchester has
reached that point which renders men reckless of
their lives, and as willing to run the risk of the gal-
lows in order to satisfy their vengeance, as to return
peaceably and quietly to their work on the terms
which they propose. " The populace," says a pri-
vate correspondent at Manchester, " appear to be
driven by their privations, which have long been
great, to the utmost point of desperation; and
at the Meeting which took place on Monday,
one of the speakers, in addressing the persons
assembled, is reported to have said—' You have
now many of you reached the point of starva-
tion—we have been passive long enough—let us
now proceed to action; and if any one is afraid of
hanging, let him turn A general shout of We
are not afraid,' arose from the assembled multitude ;"
and the proceedings which ensued, bore ample testi-
mony that there was no one afraid of the punishment
to which the speaker alluded as the penalty of their
conduct. At this moment the most breathless anxiety
prevails throughout Manchester, as it must do here,
to know what the result of such daring outrages will
be; but such is the dreadful state of the town and
neighbourhood, as well as the grounds for melan-
choly foreboding, that no one seems disposed ever to
hint at it ! Of the causes which have produced
such an alarming state of things, we have already
offered what we deem a correct explanation. But
the cry is for bread !--and it is the want of bread
—the reduction of wages below the point of ne-
cessary maintenance—which is the immediate cause
of all the disturbances, and which nothing but
a supply of bread will effectually quell. Is it
too much, then, to ask the Legislature to revise the
Corn Laws—to reduce the duty on the import of
foreign grain, and thereby supply our manufacturing
population, not only with cheaper food, but also
with a new market for the disposal of the produce
of their labour ? " To this complexion things must
come at last ;" and the sooner, as Mr. Huskisson
well observed on Tuesday last, that his Majesty's
Ministers determine to follow, instead of attempting
to impede, the progress of public opinion, in this
matter, the better. Those who carried the Catholic
Bill in spite of all the opposition that was offered to
it, need not surely be afraid of trying a revision of
the Corn Laws.—Morning Advertiser.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

TUESDAY, MAY s.—High water 30 minutes past twelve
o'clock.—Wind South.—Arrived the Alfred, Symonds,
from Seville ; Jane, , from Charlestown ; Cathe-
rine, Hogart, from St. Vincent ; Julia, --, from
Ostend ; Union, Richards, from Antwerp; Lydia, Wil-
liams, from Charlestown ; and Pomona, Major, from
Charlestown.

CLEARED OUTWARDS.-Zeno, Lawson, for Buenos
Ayres; Mary Ann, , for Buenos Ayres ; Meelzalc,
Witteven, for Ghent ; Morgenstern, Appel, for Arch-
angel ; Orion, Campbell, foi Dantaic ; Peace, Bruce, for
Quebec; Irton, Gaitskill, for Montreal; Mentor, Webb,
for New York ; Minerva, Putnam, for New York; Wm.
Baker, , for New ()duns ; London, Brown, for
New York.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MAR
Adair's _ 28s. Od,
Beaumont 26 6
22 0
Killingworth 29 9
LiddelPs 24 3
Pelaw
Percy East
Percy Main 27 8
Tanfield Lea
Townley 27 6
Willington
WallsEndßewicke&Co. 32 0
Ditto 28 6
Ditto Burraton 29 6
Ditto Carr and 26 3
Ditto Clarke and 6
Ditto Hilda 26 9
Ditto Heaton 32 0
Ditto Northumberland 29 0
Ships at market, 82%--Shl

K E'l .—May 6.

Walls End Neennarcb.. 30s. 6d.
Ditto Peareth 26 0
Ditto Perkins and Co. 97 6
Ditto Russell's 31 6
Ditto Walker 31 6
Neshani Alain 29 0
Walls Did Hetton 33 3
Walls End Lambton—. 32 3
Walls End Ly0n5....... 31 0
Walls End Stewart's —33 3
Culla Drim 27 0
Fordel Main • 33 0
Hartley 31 0
Llangennech Coal 40 0
Silkstone Field and Co. 27 9
Tanfield Trader 28 6
Beaumont 12 0
Lambton small 17 0
Londonderry small 19 0
ips sold, 45—Unsold, 37k.

COUNTRY CORN MARKE"

TS DURING THE

WEEK.