The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-26 00:00:00

LONDON :
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1,:.39.

EVENING EDITION.

In the Lords petitions were presented for and against
the Corn-laws, and for the reduction of the Post-horse
duty, a serious grievance.
The Marquis of NORMANBY announced that the
second appendix to Lord DURHAM'S report would be
r to his hands on Friday, and he should lose no time in
laying it on the table of the House.
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he will to-morrow
call the attention of the House to the subject of Bo-
Nugh Courts. We hope the Noble Lord means to re-
Ivive his excellent plan for local courts.
The Poor Relief (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill
. vtas road a second time, after a short conversation,
in which Lord BROUGHAM declared his especial satis-
t,on with the 10th clause, which gave their Lord- powcr to amend this present Amendment Bill
: : . .'iession, which he was satisfied would be necessary.
true was Sir ROBERT PEEL'S description of our
er i :,-.ously slovenly legislation.
A short conversation took place as to the pardon of a
man named COPELAND, who had been twice tried within
two years for capital offences, which certainly leaves no
la s,-,:rable impression as to the manner in which the law
not justice, that has always been unknown in Ireland)
1.; whiinistered in the Sister Island. Lord BROUGHAM, for
e•niell he received the thanks of Lord RODEN, is-to-day to
weve for returns connected with the subject. Their
I..ur,:ships then adjourned ; it being no part of their
;urclions to devise means for correcting our notoriously
bk) ' only legislation.
In the Commons, amongst the pe:itions presented
was one by Mr. Blackstone from Warrington, deprecat-
irg• " the dishonest clamour raised by the manufacturers
ag,,iitst the landed interest." We hope Mr. GREG,
,Ir.SMITH, Mr. COBDEN, and others, will mark that.
To ask for justice and freedom is dishonest clamour on
their parts! They are also accused, we see, in a pe-
tit:o 1 from the East Suffolk Agricultural Protective
Society, of "avowedly contemplating the ruin of the
laeded interest. Such is the gratitude of the land-
owners, who are indebted to the skill, ingenu.. ty, ar.d in-
dustry of the manufacturers for more than half the value
of their estates.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply to Captai❑
Pr,c,Finu., said if it were necessary he would introduce
a rneiFure to alter the 38th section of the Imprison-
ment for Debt Act.

Another conversation took place on the insult to our
11:17, when it was wrung rather reluctantly from Mr.
V;oon, we br-,ow not why, that the Express packet
artiy,:d in England, and that the Admiralty
11'd seen a communication which Lieutenant
each:l?. had addressed to the Consul at Vera
(:cuz. Mr. WOOD again referred to Commodore Don-
GLAr.; being satisfied, and thought it not discreet to say
all to knew. There is more in this matter than has
yct tome before the public. It appears, too, that the
Lieuieraut has addressed a letter to his Commending
(1111t41*, which ought to be laid before the public in
viae4on of that OCricer, who was bound, occording
to an opinion prevalent in the service, as stated by Cap-
tur ai Pr.cuiA.l, to have bundled Prince DE JOIN vILLE,
whoever
ii , come en board, neck and crop into the sca.
gut 4,l!asiied ..vbether nerrotiations were still going on,
.1%1 WOOD dean:answering the question.
1\1!%,T. DUNCOMBE has become unwontedly active as
,(117:gt..:t.i.i tor, and gave notice of a resolution touching
t Aiwlicirc_sot,, for Thursday and of a motion
gTre ielij out of the workho"sea f)r; l'
Poor Mr. WYNN seems to ha(ve-ineis'g)iviinogts'offtche

propriety of his own conduct. He doubts whether ho
ought to sit, and and having stated a wish for the House
to inquire into the subject, left his case to their dis-
cretion. On the motion of Mr. JERVIS, to which there
was no opposition, a Committee is to be appointed this
(lay, to inquire whether Mr. WYNN have not accepted
oflice since his election and vacated his seat. Mr.
HArtvEv, may yet triumph over his Learned foe.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the second reading of
the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, and ex-
plAined, amongst other things, that in 2,190 parishes the
tithes had been commuted, and an income se-
cured to the holders of tithes. of 750,0001.
Sr ROBERT INGLIS spoke strongly against the
BP, and a.!clared the tithe tax to be a right
of property fully equal to a man's claim to the produce
of his own labour, or to the Earl of DURHAM'S claim to
his estate. Mr. STANLEY called the attention of the
Hilose to the Church discrepancies in Wales. Mr.
HOME contended that Church property was national
property, and regretted that the Bill did not go further.
Mr. ESTCOURT, Mr. LAW, Lord DUNGANNON,
and other ultra-Tories spoke against the Bill.
Sir ROBERT PEEL separated himself with re.
gret from his friends, and supported the Bill. He
thought it likely to benefit the Church, and therefore
he and the Whigs go together, while the Ultras of both
scles condemn the Bill on different grounds. The
Bill was read a second thine without a division, the
Church people declaring that they would oppose it
in Committee.

Tie Registration Amendment Bill was committed
pro forma.

Tile Second Reading: of the Supt.:lnc Courts (Scot-
!afid) 13ill, after a short discussion, and a tlivisien
vn Mr. WALLAcE's amendment to put it ( ff for six
months, was read a second time, by 159 to 21. Mr.
'WALLACE is too honest to meet much support in
the House of Commons.

The Factories Bill, with which all parties professed
themselves tolerably well pleased, as an improvement
on the I.fll of last year, was also read a second time.
Mr MAULS proposes in it, that no child shall
work in more than one factory cn the same
day, avarice having defeated legislation on that
v.oint ; Surgeons arc to be especially appointed
to grant certificates of age, and will we presume
be paid. We shall soon have more functionaries in
England th in in France, Germany, or Russh. The
power of recovering lost time is to be wholly done away
by the Bill, as it is in eature. The time now devoted
to education is to be continued, but rather differently
di .tibutcd. The hours of labour are to be from half-
p ist 7 in the morning to half-past 7 in the eveeiog, with
;-$0 minutes' rest for meals every six hours. Holidays
are to be observed, so that Dr. SOUTHEY'S remark that
thetory children never play, Will no longer be correct,
unless the Saints, which kindness forbid, snatch this en-
joyment from the little ones. Some alterations are also
m :de in the penal claus.-s. After a brief debate, in
which Mr. BAINES properly called the attention of the
House to the sufferings of young milliners, and to the
eff•cts of the Corn-laws in making harder the hard fate
of a fictory child, the Bill was ordered to be com-
mtted that day fortnight.
The Salmon Fishery (Scotland) Bill—but whether
No. 1 or No. 2, for on the catching sulject there are
o Bills hi the House—was read a second time, after a
division. At a Quarter past Eleven the House ad.
jtotrned, it being re:,olved to give Mr. BROIHERTON
no trouble, and to keep honest men's hours.

We have been expecting for the last month to see
some communication from the Marquis of LON-
DONDERRY to the LORD MAYOR on a subject
which has lately attracted so much public attention,
and with which the Noble Marquis is so well ac-
quainted—the coal monopoly. A letter has at last
appeared, marked by more than the usual brevity of
his Lo!dsbip's epistles, but distinguished like all
his literary productions for courteous language, ele-
gance of expression, and conclusive reasoning. It is
a hard blow for the LORD MAYOR, and coming
from such a quarter, and abounding as it does with
such irrefragable logic, it must give him ten-fold
more annoyance than all the anonymous epistles
and slanderous attacks directed against him by the
plundering, interested ►monopolists. The Noble
Lord can have no interest in stinting the
London supply—on the coitrary, all his in-
terest lies the other way, for the cheaper
the coals are in London, the greater will be the
demand at Newcastle, and as a Select Committee of
the House of Commons decided last year that a ton
of best coals could not be put on board a ship in the
Tyne for less than 10s. 6d., including prime cost,
he may always reckon on that price. The mono-
poly to him must "therefore be injurious, and he can
have no motive in coming before the public but to
put ass end to this needless agitation, to disabuse
the LORD MAYOR, and to convince the inhabi-
tants of London that the price of coals has been
fixed by a decision of this Committee, as unaltera-
ble as the law of the Medes and Persians. The
_following is the laconic, elegant, and answerable
letter :
" TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
" Holdernesse House, Feb, 23, 1839.
_

" MY LORD—The enclosed is the whole story, which
)on seem to know nothing about ; and one ton of northern
coals is worth three of your 225. coals to the consumer,
end all your monopoly grades included.
" I am your obedient servant,
" VANE LONDONDERRY.
" N.B.—The facts speak for themselves."
Now, the "whole story" is founded on this re-
port which states that taking into account, wages of
men and boys, waggons, grease, ropes, corves,
spontage, tret, discount, and scorage, del-credere
commission, half-metage paid by one party, and
half-metage paid by another, lights; ballast, and
lighters, sacks, screens, weighing apparatus, wages
of men for loading, screening, carting, shooting,
(why did it not include also the gallons of beer and
the tobacco ?) and a great many other items
which leave the reader in utter astonishment,that coals
going through so many and so complicated operations,
could be sold at the low price of 325. 6d. per tou.
At the end of each of the lists of particulars, except
one, are put down the vague terms " risk and pro-
fit," but the first probably is so great and the other
so small that the Committee, in order not to injure
the public credit of the traders, did not consider it
prudent to specify the amount. The Lord Mayor
must be mad to suppose that the best coals can be
had for 225. ; and, according to the Gallant Mar-
quis, his Lordship, instead of benefitting the public,
is actually inducing them to pay 665., independent
of the " monopoly grades," for coals which they
can have for 325. 6d. This shows how plain and
clear a great statesman can make a complicated
question, and how much the public should be on
their guard against these doings of the Chief Ma-
gistrate, who " seems to know nothing about the
story.,,

The Oxford Clerical Intolerants are at length
beginning to awake from—what GIBBON justly
calls—" the fat slumbers of the Church." The
Ministerial plan of education has evidently alarmed
them into unusual vijlance ; and they. have been
holding a public meeting in the Town-hall of
Oxford, at which Lay Lords and Spiritual
Lords, and a large host of Deans, Arch-
deacons, &c. were present, for the purpose of im-
pressing, or endeavouring to impress, upon the
public mind, the fact that no system of general
education can possibly be of the slightest avail,
that does not acknowledge, as its foundation prin.
ciole of action, the wisdom and tolerance and im-
maculateness of Mother Church ! To swerve from
this principle—or even to relax so far as to admit
that some little Reform may be necessary in our
ecclesiastical Establishment, rs—not to enlighten,
but to obscure ; not to elevate, but to
degrade, the mind of the rising genera-
tion ; wherefore the Oxford Churchmen are
resolved that, so far as in them lies, there shall
be no system of national education established, un-
less it acknowledge as its foundation creed, the
wisdom, tolerance, sanctity, and paramount practical
value of the Thirty-nine Articles, and all matters
thereunto appertaining.

Mr. VILLIERS stated in his speech on the
Corn-laws last Tuesday, according to the Times'
report, with which that of the Chronicle and our
own agree, " that no iess than 1,500,000 persons,
&wended upon the cotton trade, for their daily
, ,
bread ; that the value of that trade to the country
wa5.34,000,000/. yearly, that:the capital employed in
tit trade, fixed and floating, was 20,000,000/., that
17,000,000/. annually was employed in wages," &c.
In the Chronic/e, one phrase vaties from that of
the Times' report, and it is this—".not fewer than
1,500,000 persons depend for their support "on
the cotton trade." Of this statement the Standard
of last night gives the following version :
" According to the report of that gentleman's (Mr.
Vdliers') speech in the newspapers, he is made to state
that the value or yearly produce of the cotton trade to
this country is 34,000,0001.,' in which sum is included
17,000,000/. expended in wages for 1,500 000 persons of
all a es and sexes in the wages department ''
The Standard, in the same article, quotes Mr.
BAINEs's work on the cotton trade, as he might
hive found it there written, that " the number of
individua!s directly employedin the manufacture,with
those dependentonthenzonnst amount t 01,500,000/."
rie Standard might have known, therefore, and
must, we think, have known, that Mr. VILLIERS