The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-02 00:00:00

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this Journal. We have again and again contended that
with an agarian population—manufactures in their in-
f.►ncy--and a landed aristocracy for the most
part deeply in debt, Ireland could nor. go on the
Stock Exchange and raise the necessary' loans for
the establishment of a complete system of Railways—.
save on terms ruinous to herself. She could only ob-
tain money by promising to pay an exorbitant rate of
interest ; this of course would subsequently devolve
upon the public in the shape of higher fares ; and thus
would be defeated one of the main objects of such un-
dertakings—the facilitating of commercial and moral
intercourse.

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Here then is one immense advantage resulting from
the interference of the Government at the very
threshold of the business. Money, for which private
companies would have to pay the most exorbitant
rate of interest, the Government may safely advance at
the lowest—and to any amount. Then, again, as Lord
MORPETH well observed, Railways, which might mate-
rially benefit Ireland, and entail no loss upon Govern-
ment, would frequently hold out no inducements to the
most ardent speculators to undertake their construction.
This is self-e‘ident. Private companies would he
guided by the certainty of immediate, not the hope of
prospective, gain. They would be obliged to re-
ject any line affording no safe grounds for a direct
return of a large interest upon the gross amount
of capital expended. In this way morsels of choice lines
would be monopolized, end a system of jobbing set on
font equally injurious to industry and public creit.
But the sensible and judicious arguments of Lord
MORPETH and the CH.A.NCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
Nled co inake any impression upon Sir ROBERT PEEL.
We have of;en had occasion to observe the obivainj
effect of Irish grievances upon the otherwise clear hie
telleet of the Right Honourable Baronet, but we
do not remember an instance in which this was
more conspicuous than in his speech of last
night on the Irish Railway question. The Right Hon.
Gentleman maintained that Ireland had palriotisin and
enterprise enough to make railways in abundance, but.
as Mr. O'CONNELL adroitly remarked, he forgot to
say a word about the money. Ho took care to over-
look all that had been urged by Lord MoueETH, to the
effect that without an advance of capital the for-
mation of a system of railways in Irehtml w::s on
impossibility. The Tories mustered strong in supi:ort
of the views of their chief, and on the division there
appeared—

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For Lord MonrEnes Motion 144
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Azains. it.

Majority in fal our of the Govz..rnmenf....

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This tm-tjority will, we have no doubt, b't incretpcd
when t'•e importance of the measure prniosed by the
Government, as a means for the pacification and pros-
perity of Ireland, comes to be mare generally understood
throughout the country.

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and iiigh Life Below Stairs.

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us to direct the attention of our readers to the report
or the proceedings at the Fifth Half-Yearly ineetiog of
the Directors and Peoprietors of the Southampton
Dock Company, will be found in our columns
of I°-(LY. We have frequ,ritly expressed our ap-
proval of the policy of rst,ihishing extensive docks
at Southampton ; and we entertain no doubt whatcscr
of the success of an umicrtakinz, which has for its ob-
ject the commoreial benefit of the British empire.

Messrs. CHRISTOPHER, CAYLEY, and Co. have eb•
tained a glorious triumph at Manchester. The factory
masters, the Delegates, those whom the landlords have
d: scriber as grinding their workmen to dust, have been
defeated by the Ciwrtises. A full and interesting account
of the riotous scene which took place appeared in The Sun
of yesterday. A great multitude rushed into the room the
instant it was opened, and the proceedings had scarcely
begun in form before a row ensued. Th friends of the
Delegates were enabled barely to move and second the
first resolution, though the gentleman aho seconded it
was not heard to the end. A Mr. CURRAN, described
as a hand-loom weaver, after the mob had silenced Mr.
JaatEs HOWIE, made a speech, the burden of which
was, that they should follow Sir R. PEEL'S advice, and
take their affairs into their own hands. Will that please
the Corn-law advocates ? He was willing to thank the
unsuccessful Delegates, and was therefore called a trai-
tor by the majority of the meeting. Than began an
indescribable scene of confusion, aad one PAT MURPHY,
at the instigation of a Mr. NIGHTINGALE, was voted
into the chair, and the Delegates chased away. Reso-
lutions were then passed of thanks to the Convention,
implying approbation of Universal Suffrage ; Mark
that! Mr. CHRISTOPHER, of the Ballot; look to it
Mr. CAYLEY, of Annual Parliaments, the dread of
all landlords, and of taking the prerogative of calling
and dismissing Parliament from the hands of the Sove-
reign, or in other words from the Aristocracy. What
do the landowners now think of their auxiliaries ? What
will the pensioned Dowagers and the smirking younger
sons of the Aristocracy say to the proposition (loudly
cheered by the meeting), to destroy those, a-la-mode
Marcus, " who consume all, and preserve those who
produce all." We congratulate Messrs. CHRIsToPHER,
CAYLEY, and Co.-on their triumph. To prevent the
abolition of the Corn•laws, they have brought the coun-
try to the verge of a violent revolution, anti the Mo-
narchy to the brink of destruction. If only themselves
were concerned, we should see the sacrifice of their
class with the most stoical indifference ; but their stupid,
obstinate folly, is involving hundreds and thousands,
and perhaps millions of human beings, in an
awful calamity.
Having thus reprobated the conduct of the land-
lords who -are led astray, we verily believe by clever
revolutionists, who, in the public press are pandering
to their passions, and urging them on by sophistical ar-
guments in a monstrous career, of wickedness, let us
say one word of the conduct of the Chartists, whose
behaviour renders them worthy of being the aux;e
Hades of the landlords in their scheme of continuing in-
justice and stirring up violence. They may have some
repugnance to listen to us, because we have all along
deprecated the course they have taken ; and therefore
we shall quote a passage from the eloquent lecture de-
livered by Mr. Fox at the Finsbury Chapel on Sunday
fortnight. The late Editor of the True Sun will never
be regarded as a Whig, or accused of a disposition to
deceive the people ; and he spoke to the follow-
ing effect of the advantages of repealing the Corn-
laws to the working-classes :
Remember how much the repeal of the Corn.law includes. The
improvement of the physical condition of thelarge masses of the com-
munity does not terminate in Itself. I' is not a barren blessing.
It acts, and acts promptly and extensively, on the mental, on the
moral, on the religious condition of those multitudes, as well as on
their physical state. We profess to desire the diffusion of know.
ledge, the general intellectual improvement of the labouring classes.
Why, what a cruel absurdity it seems to talk to a man of
intellectual improvement, of cultivating and recreating his
mi d, when he is ill-housed, ill-clothed, his meals deficient
in quantity, and not of a nutritive or stimulating quality—
when he has no opportunity for collecting his wandering
thoughts, his narrow abode forming no refuge from noise or dis.
traction—his temper incessantly jarred—books not within his
reach, or only with difficulty scarcely to be surmounted—and soul
and body worn down by carting, carking cares! Is this man in a
condition to exert himself for the cultivation of his faculties, and
apply to the study of history, of science, or of poetry ? The first
thing is to put him in such a condition that his mind can have free
and fair play; to have been better housed, better clothed; better
fed, and then let him begin his mental race, like a giant rejoicing in
the freshness of his strength, feeling his new advantages, and gra-
dually rising from the improvement of his physical condition to
improvement in his mental condition also.
Turn from the workman himself to his offspring. How is it now
that they are so debarred from the means of instruction ; how is it
that the labouring youth of England in such multitudes grow up, in
spite of all the kindness, in spite of all the anxiety that may be felt
on their behalf, that they grow up in a condition in which they have
not the means, multitudes of them, of the simplest and commonest
instruction, to say nothing of those higher forms of education which
might be and ought to be rendered universal, because there are in
all the common qualities of the human constitution which culture
should develope? Why is it that the young are so frequently forced
to premature labour ? Why is it that, even with laws to a certain
extent restricting the years as which they should be employed,
there is a constant tendency to evade those laws, and that on the
part of parents as well as on the part of masters ? Why is it that
so many labouring parents in this country. become as It were slave-
dealers in their own flesh and blood, and sell the bones and
muscles of their offspring to that premature toil. which withers
and cripples human beings, soul and body together ? Is this a
spontaneous line of conduct? I'll not believe it. There
may be a few depraved exceptions, but in general it is the
' scorpion lash of gaunt famine that drives them on to such
a course; it is the hard urging of necAsity ; it is the same
impulse in kind, though not so- strong in degree, as that which
makes the longing of the cannibal arise in crews of shipwrecked
sailors; the same in kind, though happily inferior in degree, as that
We cannot too highly extol the generous course which made the delicate woman, during the protracted beleaguer-
meat of Jerusalem by the Romans, seethe her own child in the pot
which the Government proposes to pursue with re_ meant
food. It. is the unnatural state of-society which goads them on
apeet to the establishment of Railroads in Ireland. We to that, which violates not only the dictates of human nature, of
confess Clot we had become apprehensive that the true and loving human nature, but even the animal
e'en:ours of the Tories, and the other enemies of the stioet of paternity. Would it not be a blessing, alinciant:
Prosperity of that country, had had the effect of in- eulable blessing to humanity, that an improvement in
diming Ministers to look more coldly upon the excellent the
them
condition of the labouring classes should
gdovne,traetmhcrthieh,or
toortutinleit ye
early
to,
.11ggestions of the Irish Railway Commissioners. The o-korinkfn,,forwadrd to the early educe.
.ohfnut
rhseißrl infantthe
a4lmirable speech of Lord MORPETH in the House of offspring? The best Ten.hoyurs Bill, the best wages,ive
Commons last night, in moving for leave to bring in a best No-hours Bill at all, and perhaps the most efficient Education
all upon the subject, has, however, removed every Bill, wculd be that which, by improving the physical condition of
statiga of our fears ; and we are now satisfied that tthheetrgrkeiantdmass of the labouring people, should give free scope to
atondthenciarhipeattheernaltaffection, to their solicitude for
everast
ioofnthaencdo-olpe-
;rit fever be the fate of the proposed measure, their offspring, the. Government has so far faithfully redeemed their ration of others, or even to do Inwithooautatilliatthecmolepi
i_tletiges to the Irish nation. The Noble Secretary for their children on a better intellectual standing than themselves,
Iceland
A petition against the Corn-laws is, of itself, a munificent subscrip-
t:eland not only admitted the necessity of intersecting
t:on to schools for all.
irelanti with 11.-tilroads, but he maintained it was the
ciseNAa'finednrehetaetneeictli,a,..inid.r,ieTutlniecrsairr,tutodilnaatlulorlevst,the mind to excr-
duty of the Government to give them every encourage-
before:it'd germinate;
;when
duty
assitt them by loans—to suparint end their it makes man a thoughtful being, locking
coutruetion—to accelerate their completion—and to the family affections to expand, observance of his offspring, impelsind
render them, when made, accessories to national fondness, reacting to each others' increase; when the susceptibilities
r°sPetaty, not monopolies in the hands of private and of individual sympathy can freely open, unchilled by the sense of
lacy VresPonsibie individuals.. Without looking to the po- personal suffering; when interests are expanded into the world
around; and in the harmonies of nature
.and seciety, the power is
of Ictaving the controul of the public roads of a gradually and gratefully tracedher oefatperhviasdiningnleorvestertnthnatniiss.reliegtvilolnr
k,nesloes in tile hands of private companies, the Noble
Load showed that Ireland had not the means of con- Koch as,
a generated,to al'Y
extent,iierev enreiwt
sivt:net tingwithoutec the improvementm ogf railways on a scale commensurate with the Phesical condition. In influences such as these from the removal of
of want,
her growing commerce, without the assistance a tax, on man's daily bread, we cannot but feel that the staff of life
is like the rod of Aaron, which was bare and barren as the emblem
to "door State—an assistance which could be easily ex-
(rat.e,i to
,lier, wi of tribe or class dignity, but when placed in the merck-seat it
th ample security against loss or budded, and blossomed, and brought forth fruit
113 En with
private companies had sufficed for These immense advantages softening amongst other
carrying on the most
the interventionof
extensive lines of ravay, without things the ruggedness of persecuted man, by relieving him
o the
.State ; but England was the richest from hunger and want, have been lost b the f of
country in Europe, while Ireland was the poorest ; the !the Chartists. All these, and many more, might they
one
with, "°nded •
ut an in unemployed capital ; the other was t have had by the repeal of the Corn-laws, as is evident
it t; as cultivated resources of wealth : and therefore by the taunts of the agriculturists, had they united
P in
s mockery tv.o.hp..rtepose doing, by private enter- with the manufacturers in demanding the repeal of the
Ireland,
Enziand. had been done by capitalists , Corn-laws. If they are afraid of the masters we tell
riits bas been the constant language of , them, in the language; of Colonel TitomesoN " Let us

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