The Sun. — 1845-10-21 (London, England)

CORN-LAWS. - The pernicious working of the corn-laws was never more plainly seen than in the course of the last few weeks, in which we have witnessed the paradox of prices going up and the averages going down, that is, food of home growth becoming dearer, and the prohibition against assistance from abroad becoming more stringent at the same time. Even the boldest and most unblushing champions of popular starvation never contemplated such an anomaly as this from the operation of the slidingscale. flow then has it been brought about ? The thing is easy of explanation. Not only is the wheat fit for human food included in the averages, but what is damaged, either spoiled by the wet or sprouting in the ear, and destined, consequently, for the feeding and fattening of pigs. is also taken into account and made the ally of monopoly against the country. As the corn-laws themselves are now in the last gasp of their existence, it is, perhaps, supererogatory to call attention to this portion of their mischievous performance. Otherwise, it would be a subject requiring immediate consideration and amendment. In fact, if any circumstances should induce the Premier to struggle for the continuance of these iniquitous enactments beyond next session of Parliament, this part of the question should be taken up by the free-traders, and au effort made, that in future no wheat unfit for human food should be included in the averages returned. As we have recently seen, a contrary practice is working most mischievously against the country.—AB on.  The late George Harwood, Esq., of Grimstone, has bequeated 5001. to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 500/. to the Blind Asylum at Norwich, 500/. to the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital ; and, moreover, he has made this last charity the residuary legatee of his personal property.—Norfolk Chronicle. NORTH LANCASHIRE REVlSlON.—Revision courts have been held since our last at Poulton, Preston, Kirkham, and Chorley, at which large gains have been realised; and the activity of those who have attended for the free traders is above all praise. Whilst numbers of new claimants have been added to the list, bad monopolists' voters, with which the register abounds, have been freely struck off at every court. Last year at the revision court at Kirkham, the two brothers of Talbot Clifton, M.P., were expunged from the list, having no qualification ; and on Wednesday last at the same place, the name of the Honourable Gentleman himself, Member for North Lancashire, shared the same fate ; so that the representative of freeholders, having no freehold himself, has not even a vote in the division for which he is Member, and in which he resides. It gives us no little pleasure to express our confidence that North Lancashire will shortly be placed among the freetrade constituencies that shall assist in expelling from the statute-book that greatest of all curses—the cornlaw.—Preston Guardian.  TilE BRAZILIAN SLAVER " Eccno."—This vessel, on board which the murderous conflict took place with the crew of the Felieidade, is now in Ilfracombe Harbour. She was sold at Sierra Leone, after condemnation as a prize, arid now sails under the British flag ; she is named the "Elizabeth" in her new register. The Elizabeth (Eceho) left Sierra Leone about three weeks after the Eclair,