The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-01 00:00:00

This :—The inhabitants of no part of Europe
will prow any corn for our
_peopl'e till it
reaches the enormous price of 70s. per quar-
ter. They therefore prohibit the cultivation of
corn. They doom, as it is known they have doomed.
large.tracts of land in Germany and other parts of
Europe to barrenness) or they have converted
wheat fields, which were cultivated for our people,
into sheep-walks. They have also prohibited the
cultivation of corn fo: the use of our people in the
United States. To what extent they have im-
peded the growth of wheat in foreign countries no
human being can say ; hut undoubtedly, were it not
for the Corn-laws, thousands of acres which now
do not produce a grain of wheat for us would pour
their produce into our country. Nor would that
supply impede the cultivation of one acre at home.
There might be no rent, there might be no tithes,
but the expense of cultivating the soil here, the whole
of which resolves itself into the wages of labour,
which depend again on the price of corn, would be
diminished as the price of corn fell. It requires
less labour to produce wheat here than in other
countries ; it would therefore be cheaper, and the
law which allowed foreign produce to be freely
poured into England, would extend the cultivation
of our own soil. Then we tell the landowners
that the Corn-laws curtail, to an unknown and in-
conceivable extent, the cultivation and supply of
food ; and that they—not the seasons—not the laws
of population, are the causes of hunger, starvation,
and many untimely deaths. They are responsible
for all the sufferings of the people.
Of what consequence would one bad harvest
be, if, in ordinary seasons, the people had
abundance of food ? They would have to cur-
tail their superfluities ; but when they are kept
perpetually short of food by a law which con-
fines them exclusively to the produce of the land in
their immediate neighbourhood, instead of drawing
their supplies from the wide globe, when they con-
tinually increase up to the very borders of the nar-
row supply, and are not allowed to extend it,---then
a deficient harvest reduces them at once to extreme
want. They have no superfluous food to spare,
they have nothing to give up, and are at once
doomed to distress and hunger. Whatever may be
the case with a savage, the labour of a skilful man in
civilized life produces in every part of Europe much
more food than suffices for his own consumption.
Providence, then, is bountiful to industry—Provi-
dence does not dcom it to want and hunger ; but
our landowners, for their own selfish pur-
pose, with monstrous arrogance, only to be
equalled by the monstrous folly which sub-
mits to their arrogance, dare to prohibit the cul-
tivation of the earth, dooming the labouring classes
to hunger, sorrow, and suffering, and impiously
dare to charge the miseries they cause on the wis-
dom of the ALMIGHTY. By one and the same law
they inflict immense physical suffering on the too
obedient people, and sow in their hearts the seeds
of Atheism.

The Aristocracy are digging their own graver.
They will not require the aid of any Radical sex-
tons. Losing successively their close boroughs and
close corporations, they are now resolved by their
blindness and stupidity to lose their domination
over the counties. Mis-using the remnant of
feudal power sttfi possessed by them, in the mono-
poly of municipal rule in the counties, they are de-
termined by abuse of their privilege of selecting
Magistrates and Deputy Lieutenants, to ensure to
the people the early possession of an elective system
for the counties similar to that obtained by the
Scotch Burgh and English Corporation Reform.
Not content with the nomination of county Magis-
trates, the Tory Lords jealously envy the Executive
Government the veto on the appointment of borough
Magistrates.
Our readers doubtless recollect the recent im-
peachment of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in the House
of Lords, for his alleged partiality in the municipal
commission of the peace for the town of Birming-
ham. The Duke of WELLINGTON led the
onslaught, attended by his aide-de-camp, Lord
WARWICK. Those who first thtow stones should
take care of their own windows. Lord WARWICK,
by gratuitously and falsely attacking Mr. JOSEPH
PARKES, has caught a Tartar. The Noble Earl
seized the first opportunity, within twenty-four hours
after the Birmingham riots, to endeavour to fix the
responsibility of the loss of property on the new
Magistracy. He condemned the commission of
the peace for that newly incorporated town as a
rank party corps of Ultra-Liberals—impeaching
Lord JOHN RUSSELL for his nomination on the
presentment of the Town Council, and at the same
time exalting his own remarkable impartiality, as
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, in his selection
of county Magistrates. His Lordship further de-
nounced his fellow townsman, Mr. JOSEPH
PARKES, as the patron and manufacturer of the
Birmingham commission approved by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. Truly the Noble Aristocrat is no con-
juror. Mr. PARKES has sorely blistered and
blemished the Noble Earl. In a letter addressed
to the Warwickshire Lord Lieutenant, Mr.
PARKES has pilloried his Lordship, and left him
standing the laughing-stock of his county. He
has exhibited the hereditary party spirit and muni-
cipal abomination of the " WARWICK FAMILY."
The present weak Nobleman is shown to have
imitated his father in an invariable selection of
Tories, and an invariable rejection of Liberals, in
the Warwickshire commission of the peace. For
half a century the " Lords of Warwick" have made
the Magistracy an almost exclusive political corps
of Tories. We should say that the Warwickshire
Magistracy has been the essence of Toryism.
Dozens of Conservative Parsons have been placed
in the commission, and almost every Liberal
Clergyman excluded. Mr. PARKES shows up the
motives of the Noble Justice-maker. Lord WAR-
WICK and his father were wise in their generation.
The nomination of two Representatives of the
county town was the family object of the family
policy. We thank his Lordship for exposing hits-
self and his ancestors. If he had not blindly courted
inquiry by his self-praise in the House of Lords, he
might have carried on the baronial system ad in-
h'nztuni. We doubt whether it will now last over
his time. The scorching exposition of his party
county Magistracy, will not only end in the demo-
lition of this scandalous individual monopoly of
dealing in justice, but it must originate similar
exposures. We call upon the Liberals in all
other counties ruled by Tory Lords Lieutenant,
to follow the example, and imitate th© courage
of Mr. PARKES ; to obtain immediately copies
of their county rolls of Magistrates, and through
the Public Press to expose their party com-
position. In every county there must be similar
individuals in the Liberal party of general local ac-
quaintance with their county Magistracy. Let
them only trick out the politics of the Magistracy
and Deputy-Lieutenancies, and schedule the rela-
tive numbers of Tories and Liberals, not forget-
ting the Parsons in the Commissions, and public
indignation will soon burn out the plague-spot in
our county system of dispensation of justice. The
Duke of WELLINGTON has been held up to the
public gaze for his partiality in the Isle of Wight.
Surely the Hampshire Independent may give us,
by some means, an account of his GRACE'S dispen-
sation generally in Hants. A few more such
exposures as that of Mr. PARKES will do
more to demolish the county system of municipal
misrule than years of desultory discussion in the
House of Commons. This is the way to pare the
nails and prune the insolence of the Tory Parsons.
The letter of Mr. PARKES, which we in-
sert in another part of Tice Sun, is a prece-
dent for Reformers of every Tory-ruled county
in England and Wales to "go and do like-
wise." We only exhort them to be correct
in their facts, and to chronicle the names of
every Parson Justice. Poor Lord WARWICK
We think, like the Duke of NEWCASTLE, he will
be mute, and not court further punishment. If
Lord COTTENHAM does ustice he will use the
Great Seal to put au end to this abominable sys-
tem of political partiality and Aristocratic inso-
lence. His Lordship cannot do better than begin
with Lord WARWICK.

It will be seen from a Report in another part of
the Paper that between three hundred and four
hundred inhabitants of the large and influential
parish of Marylebone dined together at the White
Conduit House to celebrate the anniversary of the
Marylebone Vestries Act. The speeches were not
confined to local subjects. After a few modest and
judicious observations from the Chairman, Mr.
SODEN, Mr. G. A. YOUNG made a long speech
on Poor-laws and Corn-laws, which strongly re-
minds us of the oratory of his prototype and name-
sake Mr. GEO. FRED, YOUNG, late Member for