The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-26 00:00:00

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CALIFORNIA.
This day was published, in One Volume demy Bvo., with a New
Map, by Arrowsmith, Plans of the Harbour, and numerous
Engravings, price I4s. cloth boards,
AHISTORY of UPPER and LOWER
CALIFORNIA,ifrom their First Discovery to the present
time, comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Pro-
ductions, Agriculture, Commerce, (S:c. A full View of the Mis-
sionary Establishments, and Condition of the Free and Domesti-
cated Indians.

By ALEXANDER FORBES, Esq.
With an Appendix relating to Steam Navigation in the Pacific.
Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhiil.

Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA,
His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Distribu-
tions of Money, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES, and
do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to Blanks) offer possibilities
of obtaining

LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and
HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DISTRI-
BUTIONS of :MONEY, at various prices. The Distributions
contain various portions, from
NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS
and upwards. Orders for less than 101. cannot be attended to.
Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving
any order. the Prospectus and Particulars, upon addressing,
WITHOUT DELAY, a line to

HEINE BROTHERS at HAMEURGT-I.

T a PUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants
_a_fr-a- of the Borough of Liverpool and its vicinity, at the Ses-
sions-house, in Liverpool, the 16th of January, 1839, called by the
Mayor, in pursuance of a requisition, numerously and respectably
signed, to take into consideration the subject of the CORN LAWS,
and to come to such resolutions thereon as to the Meeting may be
deemed expedient,

HUGH. HORNBY, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair.
It was moved by THOMAS THOR.N ELY, Esq., iILP., and seconded

by CHRISTOPHER RAWHON,
That, in a country of limited territory in proportion to its po-
pulation, the resources of the manufactures and foreign commerce
are absolutely essential to the support of internal prosperity, and
to the maintenance of a position of power and influence in refer-
ence to foreign states.

It was moved by HENRY BOOTH, Esq., and seconded by JAMES
MULLINEUX, Esq.
That the clear and direct tendency of the existing Corn-laws is
grievously to cripple our commerce and manufactures, to limit the
employment, and cut short the supplies for the maintenance of the
labouring population, and thus to destroy, or seriously to curtail,
the main sources of our national prosperity.
It was moved by JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Esq., and seconded by
WILLIAM RATHBONE, Esq.
That merchants and manufacturers, whose trade and calling are
with other nations, have as undoubted and undeniable a right to
dispose of their commodities or manufactures to distant countries,
and to receive in return the produce of those countries, as the
landowner has to reap the produce of his fields, and to dispose of
that produce as may best conduce to his own advantage.
It was moved by JAMES A SKIN, Esq., and seconded by
GEORGE HOLT, Esq.,
That a free system of trade is the only sound system, whether I
applied to raw produce (and most of all to the food of man) or to
manufactured goods, each article being subject to such moderate
duty as may be required for the purposes of revenue. And, that an
unrestricted foreign commerce can alone secure to this country that
pre-eminence in manufactures and that general and permanent
prosperity to which it is entitled, by its natural products and re-
sources, by the enterprise and capital of its merchants, and by the
unwearied industry, skill, and ingenuity of its working population.
It was moved by RICHARD SHIEL, Esq., and seconded by THOMAS
HARVEY, Esq.,
That the petition for the repeal of the Corn-laws now read,
being founded on the great principles set forth in the resolutions,
be adopted by this meeting.
It was moved by ROBERT ELLISON HARVEY, Esq., and seconded
by WILLIAM PURSER FREME, Esq.,
That the petition now adopted be transmitted to the Members of
the Borough for presentment to the House of Commons, and that
they, as well as the Members for the County, he requested to for-
ward the great object of the petitioners by supporting its prayer.
That, in the House of Lords, the petition be presented by Earl
Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Sefton, with request that their Lord.
ships will give it their very best support.
It was moved by ROBERT ELLISON HARVEY, Esq., and seconded
by WILLIAM PURSER FREME, Esq.
That a subscription be now raised, and a Committee be formed to
carry into effect, as fully as possible, the objects of the petition,
and that the Committee co-operr,te with the Central Committee in
London for that purpose, and that the movers and seconders of the
I esolutions constitute the Committee, with power to add to their
number.

HUGH HORNBY, yor.
The Mayor having left the Chair, thanks were unanimously
voted to him f*r calling the meeting, and for his conduct in the
Chair.

TO OUR READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
Frorrr the pressure of the long and important Meetings
on the Corn-laws, we have been compelled to omit
several Articles and Communications, which we
shall endeavour to find room for on Monday.

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at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1839.

The ponderous and pert Globe has a " shrewd
guess" last night at the source whence we derived the
information, our possession of which has thrown it into
such paroxysms of irritation. But though the authority
it alludes to is unquestionably great, and we should
state on that without reserve anything communicated to us,
we must inform the Globe, that its guess, though
" shrewd," is erroneous. We derived our informa-
tion from a source higher than the one indicated by
the Globe, and only find in the eagerness with which
our disappointed Contemporaries have sought to
discredit it, additional reasons to believe in its perfect
correctness.

The Standard of last night so quotes a passage from
The Sun, under the name of " an Evening Journal,"
from a fearful unwillingness to name The Sun, that
newspaper readers may suppose that the Globe or
Courier is meant. Now, as we have no wish that our
Contemporaries should be burdened with our faults, or
receive credit for our merits, we beg leave to inform the
public that the following paragraph of the Standard,
which it ascribes to an Evening Journal, refers to The
Sun, and neither to the Courier nor the Globe:—
"We rejoice," says Mr. Black's admirer, with eminent
candour—

" We rejoice to see the matter brought to this short issue,
because there is no end to the fallacies which the perverse in-
genuity of public writers, under the influence of strong emo-
tions, continually coin, which they, we admit, honestly believe,
and which delude others as well as themselves."
" We rejoice to see the Corn-laws attacked by stark star.
ing nonsense, because we feel that in the field of argument we
have not a foot to stand upon." Is not this the confession of
Mr. Black's commentator?

We trust that our readers will not see any reason
for supposing that we are deficient in arguments
against the Corn-laws ; but we are so well aware of the
puzzling ingenuity of those who set out on the prin-
ciple of supporting a cause or a party, without pos-
sessing a well-grOunded conviction of its truth, that we
are glad, for the sake of our readers, to come to a short
conclusion, on moral grounds, against the Corn-laws.
We are old fashioned enough to believe that honesty
is not merely the best, but the only policy, and that
which is essentially unjust never can be expedient.
" The question," said the Times, on the 19th instant, 1
" is one,ln fact, of right and humanity, which no con-
siderations
of artificial expediency can be suffered to
withstand." Such, too, is our conviction, and we
are also firmly convinced that the Corn-laws are an
act of Legislative robbery, solely intended to enrich
one and not the most useful class of the community,
namely, the receivers of rent and tithes, at the expense
of all the other classes, which the Legislature has no
more right to be guilty of, than we have to knock a man
down in the street and take away his purse. Indeed,
the act of the Legislature is worse than that of a
common thief, for it is entrusted with power to pro-
tect property, and to find a comparison for its act of
plunder, we must suppose the robbery in the street
committed by a policeman. We know that the
Standard, in common with Mr. BENTHAM, pro-
fesses the dangerous doctrine that the Legislature
makes right and wrong—that nothing which it prohibits
is virtuous, nothing which it orders criminal, and that
nothing which it neglects to notice has ;any charac-
teristics of either vice or virtue ; hilt such doctrines
are not ours ; and no act of the Legislature can, in
our opinion, make that which is like the Corn-laws