The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-18 00:00:00

Lord Chancellor

DUKES.
Camloidge
Argyll
Buckingham
Clevel-nd
Dorset
Norfolk
Montrose
Richmond
Rutland
Wellington

MARQuissEs.
Aylesbury
Bute
Cholmondeley
Conyngham
Exeter•
Downshire
Lansdowne

• ortlia.mpton
Ormonde
Sligo
Thomond
Tweixidale
Salisbury
Westmeath

EARLS.
Huntingdon
Lindsay
Sandwich
Cardigan
Shaftesbury
Abingdon .
Hadclington
Kinnoul
Aberdeen
Orkney
Oxford

DUKES.
Beaufort
Buccleuch
Hamilton
Marlborough
Northumberland
Roxburgh

MARQUISES.
Winchester
Huntle}
L ,thian
Hertford
Waterford
Ely
Camden
Londonderry
Hastings
Clanricarde
EARLS.

Devon -----
Stamford
Winchilsea
Essex
Plymouth
Jersey
Pomfret
Moreton
Eglintoun
Moray
Home
Elgin
Airlie
Leven and Melville
Selkirk
Balearres
Kintore
Dunmore
Nlacclesfield
falbot
Mount Edgcumbe

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Herald of this day contains a leading
article which has been suggested by General Johnson's
notice of motion on the working of the new Poor-law.
In this article our Contemporary says:—" The new Poor-
law has operated most severely and unjustly on the labour-
ing poor; while it has not remedied the injustice that
has so long been inflicted on landowners and farmers.
These classes still pay nearly the %hole amount of Poor.
rate, whilst the owners of machinery—the men who create
nearly the whole mass of English pauperism—still pay not
one farthing towards the maintenance of the unemployed
poor The amount of poor-rate has, it is true, been
lowered; but it is rising in every quarter ; and even if the
amount could be permanently kept down, still all that the
farmer might, under such a system, save in poor-rate, he
would assuredly lose tenfold, in the lowered price of his
produce ; since every cause that lowers wages must ne-
cessarily lower the price of agricuAural produce."
The Times, commenting on the Ecclesiastical Duties
and Revenues Bills, observes as follows :—" The Eccle.
siastical Commissioners are empowered to receive fines ;'
but fines can only arise from the renewal of leases, which
they have not the power to effect I If this omission be
accidental, it is another specimen of Whig legislation, and
of the care and attention of the sponsors of the Bill, Lord
John and Mr. S. Rice. But if it has been intentional, it
is a dastardly attempt on, the part of Ministers at doing, in
a sneaking, underhand manner—an attempt in every way
characteristic of the shabby Ministry what they dare not
propose openly, what they know Parliament would never
sanction, if the object of the dirty trick were understood."
The Morning Chronicle remarks, in reference to Sir R.
Peel's Anti-Corn-law speech on Friday night :—" Why is
he anxious to protect the farmers now against change?
For the same reason that ladies of a certain description are,
in the proverb, represented as peculiarly grave at a chris-
tening. The name of Peel is synonimous throughout the
country, with wholesale ruin to the farmers by the change
introduced into the currency by his famous Bill. He is
anxious to escape from the odour in which he is held by
one of the few honest things he ever did as a Statesmen."
The Morning Post lauds Sir Robert Peel's speech
against the repeal of the Corn-laws in a strain of the most
humorous exaggeration, observing of this notable effusion :
Never was there a nobler triumph of eloquent reason.
ing and conclusive information. By this time it has
carried conviction with it to every corner of the kingdom."
The Morning Advertiser states, of the Bill for further
improving the Police in and near the Metropolis, that " It
is illegal and unconstitutional in principle, and pregnant
with tyranny and injustice in action."

ARTIST'S GENERAL BENEVOLENT INTSTITU•
TION.—The twenty-fourth anniversary dinner of this excel-
lent charity, instituted for the relief of decayed artists,
their widows, and orphans, is fixed for Saturday next, and
from the rank 'and number of the gentlemen who have sig-
nified their intention to act as stewards, a numerous at-
tendance is anticipated.
TEETOLALISM. The professors of this
crotchety doctrine represent their pet" principle," as pro-
gressing rapidly throughout the kingdom.