The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

FREE TRADE.
The prolerity or our inartufactariag towns is so pa-
tent, acid spl- Bahl a 'act that nobady. -now hai the bar.
dihoed tc (16,y It, Mil.es it_ he in thesdreiggfing tail of
satne maudlin rhaptod w's.ath qe writer knows is
to eseorilitees for criticism. Tr,k any rriee, women, or
neelisn.“listrites. cud teif them teat the-people are now
It:ana.eny idereb:e :owe uk.„ -northern
or
Illoa'PioYede s arviug, houssles3, and eaiseiable, and
your hearere witteetyou down es a maniac broken loose
from some neighbourivg asylum. But when we pars
frees the condition of the towns to that of the rural dis-
tricts, we come at once to a sphere where the greatest
vuessieides make comparatively little show. If you
drive through a prosperous manufactu-iug torso, you see
factories and new streets rising on all sides; crowds of
well-dressed women sad children puseing to their work
or their homes; new shops, new anhurban villas and
gsrdens—facts all vivid and significant as a
poet
or a pointer would venture to - describe.
On the other hend, a rural village, whether in the height
of prosperity, or in the depth of adversity, presents
mush the setae aspect to the casual spectator. In neither
case is it likely to exhibit new streets, new edifiCes, well-
die ssed crowds, showy sheps, cr any outward circum-
stances of happinets and wealth. Hence there is rather
more Istitude for opinioa in measuring the progress of
such a place, simply because the proofs aro not °culls
subjecta fidelibus; yon have notehe Eamo.palpable teat.
Po this intut be added that. notorious disposition to
grumble, which is the invariable iastinct of farmers, and
which communicates itself in a greater or less degree to
all classes connected with them. The landlord is always
the most complaining of capiteliste, and the labourer
the least satisfied of operatives. But-as for the farmer,
no course of the seasons, no combination of the ele-
ments, no proportion of sun and rain, ever did or ever
wall satisfy him. So from him, at least, we may wait
long enough beton we shall find au explicit admission of
prosperity.
But oven our rural population is now too prosperous
to Conceal its condition. The valued correspondent to
wham we have so often been indebted for painful re-
velations of the state of Darseishire, and other agricul-
tural counties, has lived to see, as he now interns us, a
delightful change come over that dreary scene. • Even
iu teat dark region of Protectionist squires and un-
protected nsbourers, ho discovers, on a careful induc-
tion of all order and classes, that nobody has to com-
plain of free trade. Lsedlorda get their rents without
iVdegr X6'th
the necessity of p,rtnanent reduction; the clergy
ti-
t
beenscavcn,id,nroveligtivs
nsooctietic.,
thPir 1,1 intlee; the established ch-
nim:.dheirwisthubsdcreimptainoduss:
la:nearer:4 fare hatter even with their wages in some in-
stances reduced ; tail wheat and " casualties," as the
betehers call them, are not in such request ; boards of
guardians have not so much to do. Whichever way you
welt, the 8311610 agreeable symptoms meet the eye. Be
it tree trade or not, be it California, or emigration, or
simply a kind Heaven, so it is in fact ; Dorsetsbire is
caved, end its great pattern squire, by a remarkable co-
inuidence, finds himself in power jest at a time when he
ties nothing more to say ; With his party in the azessint, boy cause is bankrupt, and the great patron
of landowrii re, framework knitters, hatidloom weavers,
and other distressed ct4eses, has now nothing to do but
convey to her Msjesly the decisions of courts-martial.
We are very far from asserting that free trade, and
free trade aione, had pr. duced ell these gratifying
t tilts. In the skein of nernan affairs there are many
different teresds, :eel, if Providence seems to forward
els development of the new pulley, it is not for us to
diSO fill that opportune aid. But this we must say,
that when many circumstances of the national pros.
perity can be dir.ctly relented to free trade, and when
the evils that were predicted have not come to pass;
when naanuraeturers are prosperous, and agriculturists
are not ruined; then artisans, mechanics, and labourers
are all thriving.—then we must claim a victory. If that
be not allowed, then there can be no appeal to results,
and no end of controversy. Our Donetseire correepon-
dem: has brought the question to a very simple issue.
so far as regards the sinister auguries of Protectionist
prophets. He asks that his county may be polled,
and says that the labouring class will return an
almost utianituous verdict in favour of Free Trade.
But even Mr. G. F. Young has at length crowned
h.s long crusade by admitting the gerieral prospe-
rity. lie cannot deny it ; so he accounts for it
se ter his own fashion. It is not owing to free trade, he
declares, but in spite of free trade. It comes of the
famine, of emigration, of Califorois, of Australia; and
we know not whet besides. We shall not venture now
to disturb the serenity of the Hon. Gentleman's convic-
tions, or to mar the perfect ,quareness of his theory.
Let us hope that he believes what he says. Happily, he
hiss come to the same practical conclusion as the
rest of his political friends. Whether " the
big loaf," which he says will convert him when
he sees it permanently secured to the labourer
by free trade, or some other more potent considera-
ration, has moved hies, certain it be that the last of the
Protectionists has now merged protection in the para-
mount necessity of a Conservative Administration,
Here are the last words of Mr. G F. Young:--" Let
me, then, solemnly conjure you at this crisis to take, as
electors, the only course that offers a chance of averting
the consuramadon of your destruction. If you begin
now to reconstruct corn-laws and navigation-laws, and
fixed duties and sliding scales, and diminution of
burdens, and the thousand and one expedients with
which friends perplex and enemies decoy you, be as-
sured you are lost. Divided and distracted,
you will be defeated. Lord Derby's Government
will be displaced. Lord John Russell, taking
to himself seven other spirits more evil than himself,'
will again be installed in power, and your ' last state
will be worse than the first.' * * * * Again, then,
I say, select as candidates men whose character is a gua-
rantee for their honesty, and ask them now only the one
question,
Will you support the Government of Lord
Derby ?' It is too late to raise other points."
Mr. G. F. Young is certainly taking the only possible
course. Therein we commend his prudence. But we
aro not so sure that even this only possible course will
give him the satisfaction he desires. Lord Derby, with
protection, is intelligible enough. Lord Derby, without
it,
is an enigma which neither his friends nor his foes
have yet attempted to decipher, and Mr. G. F. Young
evidently recoils from the task.—Times.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL :9.—A
long and angry correspon-
dence has prised between the Hon. Member for Kerry,
Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, and persons acting in the
name of the Liberal electors, the upshot of which. is
that Mr. trConnell will not be a candidate for that
county at the next election.
The candidates tor Louth are Mr. Chichester For-
tesque, Mr. J. M Clintoek, and Mr. R. M. Bellew. jn
his address to the t lectors, Ur. 13.-llew promises to vote
for Mr. Crawford's Tenant-right Bill.
The edit,er of the Dundalk Democrat publishes the
official notification which ho had received that a ?toile
prosequi had 10.t.1n i entered u the prosecutions COM.
menced against him by Government for seditious libel.

nRuR y-LANE THEATRE.
some miiende.rstand:ng, not as yet clearly
Through
hbetween Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr. Bunn, the emtrrnt Englidi tenor br,i ceated to appear at this
pis ablishment, ma to
r, has eecured the
services of two of cur most popular vocalists, Miss Louisa
Pyae
and Mr. Harrison, who appeared last evening in
the Bohemian Girl. Miss Pyne triumphantly sustained
her high reputation, proving that her voice is fully equal
to a larger areaa has ht!,retofore been beard in.
Last night she elicited enthusiastic admiration by her
brilliant execution, the purity and sweetness of her voice ,
and the delicacy and spirit of flu. acting. Mr.flarrison
was hailed in his old part of Thaddeus with vehement
plaudits. The opera was very powerfully cast, Mr.
Whitworth, Mr.Drayton, Mr. Manvers, and Miss Isaacs,
being th© representatives of the other ch. The
eiljo)rnent of the audience was unbounded,a andracters the bolts°
extremely well attended. The manager is makingsi
in-
defatigable efforts to keeup Old Drury, and
.it is incumbent on the Phsygoing world
"to
give hilu
This evening Fidelio is announced, in order to introduce
the celebrated soprano.
ROY

-AL MARIONETTE THEATRE.
Some Ethiopian Marionettes wore introduced here
Last night, and treated the audience to a regular negro
serenade. Upon the curtain being drawn
up, the per-
formers were discovered seated with their instruments,
and their conductor or manager, Mr. Lignum Varnun,
after a few words of introduction, called for an overture,
which was followed by several songs and dnetts, accom-
panied by instrumental performances. The ebony choir
performed to admiration, the little figures playing in ad-
mirable time; while the unseen instrumentalists and
vocalists discoursed most eloquent music. One very im-
portant improvement was discernible, or rather we
should say undiscernible, with these newly imported.
figures, namely, the total want of those two visible wires
which, if necessary, are certainly a disfigurement to the
other figures. The American Marionettes promise to
prove a great accession to the troupe of performers at
this elegant theatre.

DEATH BY DROWNING.-011 Friday evening last
a painful excitement was created at Oxford by the an-
nouncement that two young men, named Arthur Mope?•
shopman to Mr. Evans, and George Perrott, shopmN! tO
Mr. Oliver, linendrapers, of this city, bad been drowned
.!1!
Sandford Lock, by the sinking of a boat in which ttre.riirawry
three other companions, had been.to Naneham. By near the
assistance which was afforded by several persons
party were
spot at the time of the accident threet_
oft the two above.
rescued from their perilous situation;
oallnedge,Wdsziedthaetti
named young men perished, notwiot L
was used to effect resuscitation by Mrs.
andeve ryP
i 611ffs°.°13— mr t 3
at the Littlemore Asylum, and ed to this city, and
hisntaeblun,deitnitg
belong
Dbeyv"DAtch army, states that Hollow '
Perrott, who was 20 years of age,
his
assistraensti
,deaintr.außrgiceokz
Christmas last. MoyseY wag
re Oxford Journal.
his father, who was servant
Lieutenant of Dragoons
of a farmer living in
~ADVEETISEMENT.~~
Holloway's
Rheumatism
nnted as sure remedies, bathing,didhivmaP°anur baths,
Juncture
in the 0
several months' trial,
cTuhriesdnoffif cßerh'ev.u-hino is
have cured him of rheumatism "•~
Pills and Ointment
incurable, as neither sea
peared to be.inc
licommen leehiteahkingLt
yrierairnsi Trinity
College,
nor preparations vaunted
. At this
was without sudecersus
bbin h •
these pills, an g t e ointment into the
h. h I complaining
treatment of the doctor,. after
ts twice a day, w lc et ectually cured him in the course of
p.m-
,, _
weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for
bexiur.
.1. B. Stratraan, of Bois-de-Due.—Sold D 'ld by all Drug..
e- uc.—So
'ts and at Professor Holloway'sLondon. Establishment, 244, Strand.

ExTRAOEDINA,Ky
TAKE OF PIKE.—On Monday
last
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three gentlemen belonging to Derby went out to have
day
fin e sport at pike
aching near Burton-on-Trent. The day
was and the sFot-t admirable, as may be guessed from the
1 i et, that one of the fish caught was not less than forty-two
was fully
inches in length, weighed upwards of 251 b., while another
dition. They were caught, we understand, in the Water it
121bs. in weight; and both were in excellent con.
the back of Bladon eastle.---,DerbY Aferciffiri