Star.
London, England, 1830-03-08 00:00:00

Again, speaking of the remedies, he thus proceeds :

The distress and eufferingy which Parliament must now direct
its attention is to that of tip productive classes—those who are the
only real producers of weafili, whether from the soil, the loom, or
the anvil. It into their soffkrings that we could can the mention
of a beimnent government and an enlightened Pediment ; and, in
doing so, we must likewise tell them to laugh to scorn those
who (whether of their own number or not) would fain engross
ill their pity, and who would have the cry of bread from a million
of famishing mouths disregarded, to listen to their whinings at the
abandonment of a town-house or en extra carriage—the substitution
of a back for a hunter—or of port and =Weirs for champagne
and daret.

Bin we are much afraid that the distress of which we speak is
not sufficiently known to those whose province it is to redress it ;
for them who feint sumptuously every day, and ride in gilded
Genial" are not those to whom the scenes we now allude to can be
familiar; therefore they mint be told of them, and that in language
sualciendy plain to be understood, rather than hereafter in terms
so strong m not to be misunderstood.

The distressed population of England have borne dub sufferings
nobly; but their rulers must bear in mind that patience, like every
thing else, may be exhausted. To starving men, our solution of
the came of their sufferings will not be deemed sufficient reason for
further endurance, and they are now adays too wise to believe the
old threadbare fallacy of our being all taxed and burdened alike.
They are not such fools as not to see and to feel that $6 per cent.
taxation our income bears very differently on him who has but forty
pounds a year, to what it does on his neighbour who has forty
thousand. They well know that a fourth from the latter would still
lame more than an abundance for all the artificial as well as real
wants of pampered luxury ; whereas a fourth from the former would
deprive the posseesor and his family of the means necessary for ac-
tual existence; yet so it is, no less truly, than that there are of the
former number men sufficiently selfish as to wish to withhold, for
their own benefit, the lest crust necessary to the latter, for the sup-
port of mere animal existence. But we hope and trust that those
of abetter fueling are sufficiently numerous and strong to defeat the
unchristian attempt, and that as the corn laws have been so con-
ducive to the present crisis, so will their repeal be put in force to
avert its consequences.

FREE TRADE.—The Parliament of England laid a
heavy duty on Norway deals, not foreseeing that the Birmingham
cutlers would soon complain that the Norwegians nu longer bought
goods for which they had no means of payment. IVhatever is int.
ported front abroad, into whatever country, secures a corresponding
export; importation, therefore, so far from injuring, in fact en-
courages the sale of the produce of the importing country. Nothing
is brought front abroad that can be had better at home; the Slaw
acts unjustly when it insists on its subjects making bad bargains
with each other. Nothing will be sent abroad that can be sold for
a better price at home ; yet in England are very severe ngulationt.
to hinder any one from sending wool abroad to sell it at a greater
loss; and England is the wisest nation in the world, except the
French, who are trying to be their own razor.malters, by which they
will lose the sale of those products of their soils and indugtty, which
we could pay for with our cutlery !—ltaly as it is, by the Author
" Four Years as Frame.

COST OF THE CRURCII IN TILE NETHERLANDS.
—The charges for religion, which supply the spiritual wants cf the
whole community, except those of a few Jews, do not In the whole
exceed 252,0161. or ten. pence per head per annum for a population
of six million,. This Num is even less than the revenues of the
Church of Scotland, which amount from 260 to 270,000/. per
annum for a population of two millions and a half. But what shall
we say of it when compared to the revenues of the Church of Eng.
land, which, bn the moq moderate ettimate we have ever seen, awl
that proceeding from a quarter in which we certainly cannot t spec
exaggeration (the Quarterly Review), amount to about four mil.
lions sterling rxr annum. 1,1 e believe this to be much under the
mark, but, dividing it by a population of thirteen millions. we find
the average sum paid by each individual in England and Waits
be 2d. per annum, above *even three mtwe than in the Nether
lands. And if we reptd the fact, that at least or.o.third of the in.
dividuals paying this Its. 2d. are not members of site Established
Church, the expenses of that Church are in the twin of 1.. 3d. pee
Nadia that portion oldie people which belongs to h.—Forma
Quarterly Review.
SUPERSTITION RELATING TO Sraeas.--Palladio
tells us, " The ancients observed not to make the num-
ber of steps even to the end—that beginning to arcend
with the right foot, they might end with the urns foot,
which they took to 100 a good omen, and with greater de-
votion so to eater the ample.°