The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

DAILY WEATEiE3 TA131.4h.

6tate of the Wind and Weather at each of the foi;owing
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The s!tations
z?,,e arranged in order of latitude.

Plmintrrir —Wind N., gentle breeze--overcast.
ILL•rmeG.—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
SOTITRASAWOI4-Winti W., gentle breeze—foggy.
Formarroznt—Wind S.W., light breeze—overcast.
Tuara:namcm—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
GE.E&NWICII—CaIm overcast.
STKOOD—Wind S.W. calm—overcast.
Sworpore—Wind gentle breeze—overcast.
Cal.r.•,FackrrEs.—Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
CutsffunGE—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudy.
Miatritotrrit—Wind W., calm—cloudless.

'Ate returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine

Ifin.Lnrciu—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Pool s—Wind N. E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LzicarroN—Wind N.W., calm—overc.aat.
dourfumaD—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Wurn3T— Calm—foggy.
DAr.r2iTcrrav—Wind W., gentle breeze cloudless.

The barometer at Greenwich was 29.770 inches, nearly
4-tenths inch higher than it was in the preceding week; and
it rose gradually through the week from 29.462 to 80-034.
The mean daily temperature of the air was 61.8°, or 1° above
the average; at the highest it was 75.6°, lowest 50.5°, in
the air; 91° once in the sun, 13° once on the grass. The
temperature of the polluted Thames was at the highest 66.6',
at the lowest 62.5°. The air on the whole was dry, for the
dew point (54°) was 8° below the mean temperature, yet
1.91 inch of rain fell in the week. On Tuesday, the 17th,
between seven and halr-p3st seven P.M there was a severe
thunder. storm, and rain fell to the depth of 0.25 in. in five
minutes. A second storm occuized about eleven P.M. The
wind was variable and generally tranquil, for on an average
t nuty moved at the raze of 57 miles a day.

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" Mau PRICES FOR EVER. I"—That is the rallying '
cr..? of the Protectionists, under which they seek- I.or
;
High Rents. It is more than their gathering call ..
It is fatal us the transit of the Fiery Cross through
the Scottish Ilighlands, in the olden time, when over
across rivers and along
mountain End threugla valley,
raviner, the messenv: of fate speeded on his dire and
deathly mis4on. They thiLils not of it—these PP:).
tectionists—but their call for high prices, involving
high rents, is destructive es " the blast of the
Simoom," which none can breathe and live.
Well-minded
,men, 'Who 'are hilly cognizant of the
rights of property, and utterly thoughtless of its
duties—blefringi en the memory of honest TgomAs
DRUMMOND fOr eatlnciatilog the sentence which has
passed into our pclitical litn'ature, es his aphorism,
a7.d is graved. on his monument—well-minded owners
°l;lane, we Say, have ill-considered and little thought
Pon the mammoth results of a difference so
61101% as „ ,
the
(iat.
loaf only a little sixpence" between
and the cheap. Entirely do they
forget (i/i•
a
• It
a, it
re 7 Choy hnow) that 111 that .difLrcnce,
elements, all :..,Y appear to thorn, are involved all the
to the
verianLig-rperinciples which make the difference,
t_an, lo3tween struggling and com-
fort. For --- -
prociamad, 7340
ilhee truthiul fact cannot be too loudly
it is not that u few t'At, too firmly acted upon—
it is•
bat that ,veures of bread shall be greatly
shall also be reduced luoTher article of expenditure
alone to be half- priced,
th,Proportion. Were bread
and limited. But the price of bread
would 1.--.) partial
of every other article—food, ooVeregulates the price
falls in price when the loaf falls inS'Yent—everything
small nnnuitanto—ask the of eery' widows Ask the
Pensions from 40/. to 1001. a ye,„___ "5 who have
what free trade
has done for them : what reduced taxation his done
—and they will tell you that they actually bay
e t:oe
comforts, where they used to Inve the bare h,,,ss.
of life. It is not merely that bread is chtmur, and
that only, but that everything else has fallen in
price, Curiously encugl, by the way, nine-tenths of
the small annuitanta and petty pensioners are vehe-
ment—tee had nearly written constitutional—Tories.
Thee is something vastly " genteel" in the aria.
tocracy of Toryism ! The faded females who are
favoured, by courtly charity, with apartments in
Hampton Court Palace, look down, with sharp con-
tempt, we doubt not, on the
" oonulaue" whc —like
the perfumed fo? i,., s " , ~,1
nv " come
HAKSPERE S r•-, ""--
'twixt the wind and their nobility." Sans doute,l—Yet,
as the acid contemned t5,P0,,,,1 ace,,
k' ore $x- d, some-
how, with payment of nine-tenths of the taxes--for
the greater part, by far, of the rev anueis, paid by the
Many, not the Rich—puper p •
"stoners who nestle
in Houipton Court would, lake the last h
orses in a
race, be . " nowhere," if th RI not
e people did -
supply

THE

SUY

them with charity-lodgings. Therefore the pauper- •
dowagers, the feeble Ladies Co N STAN C E and j
the feebler Ladies PLANTAGENET, and the
Honourable Misses—amiable Sexagenarians l—ought
to know that if public charity pensions, feeds, an
lodges them, it is cut of the poor man's labour that 1
their ease comes. To know this, by such a reflective
process as Thought, is far beyond the mental power
and calibre of the faded flatterings of illustrious
mortality whom, in this audacious article (as they
will call it), we have brought into public view.
Small matter as to the rich may appear the dif-
ference between sixpence and a shilling in the price
of food—it is all-in-all to the masses. It is much
that the labouring man may now—thanks to PEEL—
give untaxed foci to his family ; but it is more, by
far, that the reduced rate of food necessarily brings
(indeed, must bring,) a reduction in all other prices.
The rich chiefly think of what most interests them-
selves, namely, the maintenance of Rent. But if 10s.
a week of wages go as far now as 15s. would have
gone ten years ago, merely by parity not only of
reasoning but of practice, twenty shillings
per acre,
from Rent, should go as far as thirty shillings per
acre used to go ? The landowner must not reap
more than his proper share of benefit from the altered
condition of things. He, also, is greatly advantaged,
in his expenditure, by Free Trade ; his household ex-
penses are a third less than they used to be ;—what
claim has he, also, besides this gain, to have the
additional advantage of undiminished rental from his
land? If to him, as to others, twenty shillings be of
as much value, in exchange for articles of consurnpe
tion, as thirty shillings used to be, why should he be
so unjust as to expect and demand the larger amount 1
from his tenants ? To sum mheunpot rtheeduaregeahmiselentitas o:ne
interrogation—WhY d
Protection, if it mean anything now, im-
plies nothing more nor less than keeping up
the rent of land. It would be easy to show
why this is—but we can give the explana-
tion
howand
on a future occasion. Meanwhile, we ask any
man of common sense, whether the DERBY Ministry,
including as it does a clever leader and many clever
followers, all of whom must know the actual state of
things, can dream of maintaining, as a vital principle,
that Protection which has naturally and properly
graduated into something nearly as immaterial as the
famous Cock-lane ghost, which, some eighty years
ago, challenged the evidence and alarmed the imagi-
nation of SAMUEL JOHNSON, the author of that
Di
ary, by which, single-handed, pitted against
the Academie of France, (to quote GOLDSMITH'S
graceful compliment)—
"He beat forty Frenchmen, and would beat forty more 1"
No, Protection is defunct. Not all the force of
fifty PAUL FOSKETTS, Or a hundred GEORGE
FREDERICK YOUNGS, can put it on its legs again.
The twenty-seven millions who form the population
of the United Kingdom -will not stultify them-
selves by consenting that landlords may keep up their
rents to pay a shilling for the sixpenny loaf. They
might.assent to abstract reasoning, but when it comes
to paying two sixpences for one they naturally decline
all accedence to the experienced theory. Are they not
right ? Ask the mothers and the chubby-checked
children !
What is the cui bond of these remarks ? Only

this, that whoever may continue to cherish the ex-
pectation, vague as vain, that the Earl of DERRY and
his Cabinet will bold on by a shred of Protection,
will be awfully disappointed when Parliament meets.
A lively quadruped confidentially confided to Cap-
tain HIRAM SMITH, of the Kentucky sharp-shooting
rifles, that he was " a gone coon," and requested him
to spare his powder and shot as he (the racoon)
meant to come off the tree and be killed and skinned
quietly. Protection may make up its mind to be
decently abandoned and interred, being voted
"dead and incapable," by common assent ! Nobody
thinks of cherishing the deserted orphan ! Everybody
votes it defunct—if not dead it ought to be—and of
all people in the world, the DERBY Ministry are most
anxious to as3i4t at its funeral, to prove its "last -will
and testament," and to administer to the effects of the
dead and gone deceased. It is defunct, and neither
Low' Daunv in the Lords, nor Mr. DISRAELI in the
Commons, wishes for its resurrection. We can readily
imagine what a nonplus these brilliant gentlemen
would be at, if (by accident), the elections had vita-
liz?.d Protection ! They want to have it dead—it is
a terrible barrier against them. At all events, they
will treat it as a defunct " party," and act an its
executors.

Au excellent resume of the recent Chancery and
other Law Reforms bas just been issued by the Me-
tropclitan and Provincial Law Association, which,
from its clearness and fulness, is entitled to every
commendation. It is a common, and ought to be an
exploded error, that lawyers are opposed to law re-
form. Of all persons, professional men are the best
fitted, by actual knowledge and experience, to sng-
gest practical improvements in the theory and work-
ing of the Common and Statute Law. Without
going back too far, we may mention that JEREMY
BENTHAM, who sought to introduce common sense
into law making, was himself a lawyer—that SAMUEL
RoMILLY, SO long at the bend of his profession, la-
boured earnestly and strongly for the reform of the
Criminal Law—that limos BB.OUGHAM, whose effoi is
as a law reformer have gained him unfading honour,
has effected his chief improvements by reason of
the experience gained at the bar and on the Woolsack
—that Lords DENMAN, LANGDALE, and CAMPEI3LL
have taken leading parts in the same good cause; and
that the Law Amendment Society, which has sug-
gested and supervised many of the legal changes
within the last eight years, is principally, though not
wholly, composed of gentlemen of every branch of
the profession. The association whose Circular we
have now before us consists exclusively, we believe,
of solicitor's and attorneys—men who, in general, are
supposed to have a direct interest in the maintenance
of a cumbrous, and expensive, and dilatory system of
jurisprudence. But, as stated in their Circular,
"every real improvement in a court of law is certain CO
be followed by a corresponding increase of business."
Indeed in law, as in trading, the cheaper the article
the greater the demand for it.

In
Equity,duringthe past Session of Parliament,
three
important Acts have been carried, by which t
is hoped that some of the principal abuses in the priie-
triecme
oovfatlf
the Courts will be abolished—abuses, " for the
have earnestlyvlllichlab:;,' laboured
theecisfrom
Circular,
olathefira"ttehsetaCboirstinnnitit;lneot
of the Metropolitan awl Provincial Law Association."
First comes the abolition of the office of Master in
Chancery, and throwing upon the Judges the duties
twat have hitherto devolved upon those subordinate
officers. The Committee remark that they have still
„ some fear that the wholly itlEuTicient number of
Judges provided for bringing the new practice into
' operation
tho bces of
and
thatited
thus the practice may become
discredited before it has received a fair trial." They
addthe Courts has
been (and
found the
quite
rksarewellA'ort of grave
consi.
deration)—'' Ther
as business already
Bch Eis could be got through
by the Judges, the m
asters, and the Masters' clerks,
yet by this Act, although
e o
inixty
o a
operation,d
in their
°e veltbangb the Masters are only re-
ema
nenumber ofJudges
fficQ
r 3.
re-
tained to wind up the
in
at the time of the
Act coming
thelasa, no increase is made in the
to enable them_to perform the new duties cast upon
the Judges is less
The Commit-
than the number of Masters' Cler
them, and the number of Clerks to the
under the new
tee believe that the business might,
expeditiously
system, and with a sufficient judicial throe,
be dig'
posed of much more satisfactorily an
than heretofore ; but they cannot see how the Judges,
who have been bard-worked hitherto, and have been
unable to keep down arrecrs, can, if they
devote
ea7proper time to Chamber business, prevent the err :
from accumulating. The Committee, therefore, felt
creasing
it to hzt their duty to call the attention of both Houses
of Parliament to this, and prepared a clauso for in-
number of Judges, which was moved
when th the e
Bill waa in Committee in the House of
Commons, but rejected. A report has reached the
Committee that it is the intention of the Judges to do
but little at chambers ; but the Committee cannot
believe that the Judges will pursue a course which
would inevitably dofeat‘ the intention of the Legisla-
ture, and the fair expectation of the public."
cThe Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity
At
is one of the fruits of the past session. The
Committee report that in their opinion ell these
changes in the practice of the cl
---° —eurt will be of great