The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-21 00:00:00

those excessive and unnatural variations in prices
which have resulted from the Corn-laws. The disas-
trous convulsions, in fact, of 1826, and, in the Ame-
rica trade at the close of 1;36, were preceded
by years of low pries caused by an abundance
of corn, for which the Corn-laws—by keep-
ing our Markets at all times above those of other
countries—prevented our farmers from finding a vent
all-foad. We are puzzled to account for the fact that
laws so alien to the well-being of a trading community
as the Corn-laws, so destructive to the prosperity of a
wealth-seeking people, and so foreign therefore to the
customs and pursuits of our country, should so long
have been tolerated. It results, we believe, from
the national deference to old prejudices and to
prescriptive power, which having been all in favour
of the landlords, it required the strong proofs which
are now afforded of the contemptible folly and suicidal
guilt of their legislation to overturn them. No autho-
rity can now exist which is not based on reason, and
we can confidently predict, therefore, whatever may be
the number of squires in the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, that their substantial power is at an end.

The Court of Queen's Bench has decided to-day
against the Canadian prisoners, and has found the re-
turn to the writ sufficient ; but at the same time it ha
granted a rule nisi to Mr. HILL, who moved for an
attachment against Mr. BA TCHELOR, the Liverpool
gaoler. We have neither time nor space to do any
thing more than refer to our report, which gives
the particulars.

In another place will be found so:ne news from
India, which arrived by the Marseilles mail this
morning. A Madras Paper of the 24th November
goes further than the information there given, and
asserts positively that a war with the Burman Empire
is unavoidable, and has been resolved upon. The in-
habitants of Rangoon have been strictly prohibited from
supplying any of the wants of Col. BENSON and his
suite, or from holding any communication with him ; and
he was indebted to the supplies he had carried with him
for the means of subsistence. The merchants of Ran-
goon were in the greatest alarm.

We regard the lengthened and important discussions
on the Address, in the French Chamber of Deputies,
with the most lively interest. The subjects of debate
affect not France more than Great Britain, and the
other western Constitutional Governments with which
the King of the FRENCH was once intimately allied ;
and the eloquent and able leaders of the Opposition
cannot fail to attract the praise and esteem of all the
friends of liberty and peace, by their attempt to ob-
tain now, by moral force, what was obtained in the
three days of July by a revolution, and a great sacri-
fice of human life. This is not the first time the
French have followed in the steps of the English.
' They, like the English, had a revolution, cut off
their King's head—had a republic; a restoration,
and a second revolution ; and, like the English
in 1830, they are now employing constitutu-
tional means, and without bloodshed, to control
the power and despotism of the Crown by the
people's representatives. As far as we can judge from
appearance their success is all but certain. For the
last three years the KING has been everything in the
Constitution. He presided and dominated in the Ca••
binet ; he made the House of Peers and the majority
of the House of Representatives, and ruled alone as
much as BONAPARTE, and more than CHARLES
X. Even the Carlists admit that the only change
produced by the revolution of July is the change
which is visible in the palace. For CHARLES X.
and the Duke of ANGOULEME, and the Duke of
BORDEAUX, they have Louis PHILIPPE and the
Duke of ORLEANS, and the Count of PARIS, and,
true to their principles, and in accordance with the
principles of justice, they vow hostility to a dynasty
which is not one whit more liberal, which courts with
more eagerness the Holy Alliance, and which rejects
with more scorn the popular will than the legitimate
family which, on the plea of despotism, the ORLEANS
branch ousted from the throne. The juste mi-
lieu party, with TRIERS at their head, and
the anti-monarchical section represented by ODIL-
LON BARROT are equally indignant, and men
of all parties, except the weak Government party,
attribute the present isolated position of France, and
more particularly the coldness which has sprung up
between the British and French Governments, to the
right cause—the selfish, hesitating, faithless, and de-
spotical policy of Louis PHILIPPE. The French
Government Papers charged this on the British Go-

vernment, but the recent discussions in the French

Chamber have completely disproved the imputation,
and convinced us that the intimacy and sympathy be-
tween the people of the two countries, alike anxious
for liberty, are too powerful to be dissolved either by
the crooked policy of the Court or by the wicked
machinations of the enemies of liberty in England
and France, in raking up causes of jealousy be-
tween these two nations—the great bulwarks of
European freedom. All these parties assert that
France, in other words the KING, and not England,
is to blame, and that a different line of policy, would
have preserved England as before " a powerful and
faithful ally." Nothing can be more unanimous than
their opinion on this point. The Carlists say he "con-
cluded a portion of a treaty and promised lying suc-
cours ; in every point around, alliances had been de-
stroyed or weakened, and guarantees trampled under
foot ; the consequence of which was, that France was
isolated from Italy, Belgium, Switzerland Spain, and
England." The monarchy-men tell him, that "
Eng-
land
had been obliged to sign treaties elsewhere, to
replace the hollow ones of the Quadruple Alliance," and
the anti-monarchy-men describe him as "yielding to
the Holy Alliance, and promising to be humble and
sage in order to satisfy foreign despots, without caring
for the sentiments of the country, or of old friends that
supported him when these same despots would have
crushed him to the dust." Never was a criminal con-
victed on more clear evidence. When so many men
have combined against the system, and when the
Chamber representing, so imperfectly as it does, the
liberal opinions of the nation, have deserted his Go-
vernment, we look with anxiety to the next moves in
the game. The frequent visits of SOULT to the
Tuileries lately augur well. SOULT can tell Lours
PHILIPPE that England has been his best friend, that
the reception he met with from the people here is a
proof of their desire to be on good terms with France,
and that the only way to preserve the alliance, and
perhaps his Crown, is to revert to the principles which
placed him on the throne.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
been duly received. Their contents, however are un-
important. On Saturday the last paragraph of the
Address was under discussion, but the Chamber had
not come to any decision upon it when the mails left
Paris for London. It was still the prevailing opinion
that whatever might be the Ministerial majority upon
the final vote, Count MOLE would assuredly resign
after the presentation of the Address to his Majesty.
A coalition Cabinet is still talked of, but a coa-
lition which would include MOLE and TRIERS in
one administration is impossible, and a coalition which
would exclude M. THIERS appears to us imprac-
ticable. Were SOULT and Timms to unite cor-
dially, the tomer contoning himself with the War
Department, and leaving to THIERs the management
of Foreign affairs, they could easily form a strong Go-