The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

rilie session of Parliament about to open this day will,
in all human probability, not close without witnessing po-
litical changes in their consequences more important to
Great Britain and to the civilized world that any that have
become matter of history since the first movements of the
French revolution, We do not think that principles de-
structive of all good government and of all sound religion
had taken a hold so stubborn of so many minds, looking at
what is called " Christendom " collectively, before the out-
break of the dreadful war with France in 1793, as they
have done within tl-2,, last four years, being the period of the
Melbourne or offal Ministry in this island, of the O'Connell
dictator ;''tip in Ireland, of the Papineau conspiracy and
Yanlce sympathy in North America, of Popish insurrec-
tion against the Protestant Crown of Prussia on the
Rhine, of growing, and now full grown, impatience
of monaechy under any pacific form amongst the French
people. There is not one of the above circum-
stances characteristic of this awful time, which does not
go directly to the subversion of civil liberty, of all social
progress, and of all true religion. The most curious, as
well as unvarying, feature of the crisis is, that save in the
single case of the actual conflict long impending and now
commencing between the disaffected French Republicans of
1F,60 and their respectable puppet, Louis Philippe, whose
offence is, that he has hitherto played his own wires—
with that solitary exception, we say, the main phenome-
non of one and all the disorganizing conspiracies which
threaten this and other States with desolation, is the
hypocritical assumption by the Romish Church and its
instruments of the watchwords and pretences of demo-
cracy. When the fanatical Archbishop of Cologne makes
war upon the prerogatives of the mild Prussian Monarch,
and on the rights of his Protestant subjects, for the sake of
bringing both under subjection to the see of Rome,
it is in the name of civil and religious " liberty."
When Papineau and his minions revolt against the con-
stitutional Monarchy of Great Britain, and load with
the rusty fetters of a by-gone age the free application of in-,
dustry, and the independent enjoyment of privilege and
property, by native subjects of the British Crown, who
seek their domicile in its conquered province—these ty-
rannical abuses of undeserved freedom are qualified by M.
Papineau and his colonial and English advocates as a
rightful exercise of the liberties possessed by the Canadians,
and every encroachment on the legitimate sovereignty of
the Imperial Crown and Legislature is vindicated under
t! e menace of " rebellion." So, when Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell and his priests seize in their inquisitorial gripe the
wretched occupiers of the soil of Ireland, inflame them
against the proprietors of the land whereon they
live, plunge them into diabolical confederacies against
all Protestant life and English blood, and against all
property not yet confiscated to the ends of priest-
cralt—yea, when under the head of " clues" and " rints,"
and " precursor" contributions, the miserable beings are
fraudulently or forcibly plundered of the last farthing where-
with they might have procured a potato for their children,
tis all in the name, and for the sake of " Liberty." By
crimes like these the nation is beset, and its political inde-
pendence is placed in imminent danger. By analagous
iniquities to these all free Protestant nations are surrounded
—their domestic peace undermined, and their civil exis-
t nice roi:oned. Who has brought England to the brink
of this tremendous precipice? Why, the miscalled " Go-
vernment" of Queen Victoria, the mounted Popery and
;acquerie cf the realm. There is not one institution of the
empire, political or ecclesiastical, which they have not
shaken to its foundation, and which they are not still
threatening, by the machinery of a perpetual move-
ment, to uproot. In Ireland, where they have most power
to realize their schemes, the perversion of every good
principle to wicked objects is more conspicuous then
elsewhere. Take a single instance out of hundreds. The
Poor-law in Ireland was professed to be a means of relief
for destHatioo. But ho w does it operate? The election
for " guardians" under the Poor-law took place last month
in Limerick, and with what result ? Why, the better class
of population, Roman Catholic as well as Protestant, and
ia tones of bootless indignation, exclaim, that the "priests'
candidates are all returned." In fact the priests, by a
system of despotic intimidation, hove so manages', that out
of 19 guardians, 18 are Papists, and only one Protestaat!
We subjoin the list from a Limerick Paper. It is, we
presume, not unfair to conclude, that the Reverend Intri-
guers have selected not the least subservient cf their
own tools for the efficient office of guardistil ; and there-
fore that the persons appointed by the priesthood will
charge their duties after such fashion as their patrons shall
direct. So here are large funds levied almost exeiusively oa
the estates or Protestants, and administered exclosively by
Routish priests T. There are paupers to be selected also for
relief, no less than guardians have been to dispense that
relief, and no small crop of patronage, at the expense of
Protestant gentlemen, ti,us acquired and bestowed by their
ieve'crate enemies. Was this the intention professed by
the framers of the Poor-1 mw ! Next comes Mr. Daniel
O'Connell with his law for " equalizing Irish franchises aed
corporations with the English :" will he also equalize the
amount of priestly meddling and machination in both
countries? We apprehend not. Then there is but a no-
minal equality after all—security here, and there destruc-
tion Then look at those who sit at the helm, and usurp
the guidance of the labouring vessel through such a
sea and in such a storm. No country was ever yet dis-
graced by men in the ga:b of public functionaries so de-
spised and so utterly despicable. Their own majority in

the House of Commons, when out of the Speaker's bear-
ing, treat them with coarse derision anti contempt. The
very advocates for a repeal of the unpopular Corn law have
actually cooled in their opposition to the law, from dis-
trust and hatred of the Whig Ministers, whom the Times
first charged with a corrupt jobbing of that great ques-
tion for their own selfish and paltry ends, and will have
since reali7eil and proved our accusation by a series of
dirty tricks in the management of it throuhnut the whole
of England. What these men propose to do in the na-
ture of a " Queen's speech," or how to address the
country without insulting it, we shall not pretend to
guess. There is not a single bright spot on the whole po-
litical horizon, not one. Will a war, long kindled, and
now spreadieg in the East, whereof none can for,tadi the
•issue : with a rebellion and its collateral cala-nities
eat yet go:. rid of in the V,T.st., where it Lids fair at no
remote p rind to degenerate into a war with a race of
waspish rqubliews ; with Belgium and the Rhenish pro.
Vine s it,siigat,d by priestcraft to insurrectionary outraga
upon the peace of Europe; and Frames once more trem-
bling on time brink of a revolution, which must, should it be
accomp!ished, involve the whole world in confusion—e.here
or in what shape can the sLiflaudatory conies of Queen's
speech making show itself, save only, maphap, in a panegy-
sic on the Admiralty-, and some choice quotation from, or
parody of, Sir John Barrow ? At all events, there arc ma-
terials inexhaustible for attack on all the subjects horn
enumeratyti.—Times.
Last niglit there was an Auti-Corn-law meeting in
Lambeth, at whieh r..solutions in favour of a repeal of the
Corn-laws were adopted. On Friday last there was a
public meeting of the inhabitants of Leith, at which r...so-
lutions to petition the Legislature for a tepeal of the Corn-
laws were unanimously voted. On Tuesday last similar re-
solutions were adopted at a meeting of the intisbitants of
Dalkeith—an atteinpt on the part of the Chartists to de-
feat the object of the 'sleeting by a motion, that it was inex-
pedient to petition Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-
laws for the benefit of the working classes till they were en-
franchised, having been frustrated. We perceive from an
advertisement in this day's Chronicle, that an Anti-Corn-
law meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets will
be held at the Court-house, Osborn-street, Whitechapel,
on Thursday, the 7th of February, at twelve o'clock,
William Tooke, Esq., in the chair, at which the
Members for the borough will attend. On the other hand,
the landowners are putting forward their tenantry to com-
bat the repeal of the Corn-laws. The Devonporl Tele-
graph contains a report of a meeting held at Callington, on
Wednesday last, to consider the propriety of petitioning
the Legislature in favour of the existing Corn-laws. At
this meeting Lord Eliot delivered himself of a speech re-
markable only for its extravagance. What, for instance,
are we to think of the intellect of a man who can utter
such nonsense as this ?

" He was convinced that, without the fair degree of pro-
tection to the agriculturist, which they asked from the Le-
gislature, it would be impossible for this country to keep its
place among the nations.—(Cheers.) Not only would the
landowners suffer if this protection were withdrawn—the far-
mers would share in the same destruction—rents would be
swept away, and without that they could not pay wages and
other exponces ; and the labourers, from light lands being
forced out of cultivation, would be driven back to seek em-
ployment in manufactures in competition with labourers better
skilled than themselves."

A free trade in food would not reduce prices below the
average in England for the last three sears, which did not
exceed the average of the lung period in the last century
when we exported corn. Where, as Lord Western said,
can corn be grown cheaper than in England ? A free trade
would raise the prices on the Continent in some of the
ports in which corn is frequently considerably depressed
for want of a regular market. Should a demand from this
country lead to an extended cultivation on the Continent,
any addition to the usual growth would be raised at an en-
hanced price. We can understand how agriculture might
suffer from a decay in our trade and manufactures ; but how
a country with thriving manufactures, affording the means
of purchasing liberally not merely corn but all other pro-
duce, can have a suffering agriculture, we cannot compre-
hend. Another piece of nonsense uttered by Lord Eliot
r.-As this :—" He would ask the men who ra;:,,iti tii cry
against the agriculturists, what was the wealth of which
they spoke so much ? Why, when compared with the
gains of the manufacturer, the great gains of the agriculturist
so often spoken of, could scarcely be said to afford La

existence." Noble Lords, too, often take it for granted
that they possess a knowledge of all subjects intuitively.
If he had, we will not say read any work, but even
spoken to any sensible man acquainted with business,
on the subject on which he was uttering such non-
sense, ho would have ascertained that the manufac-
turer does not gain so much as the agriculturist,
just as the agriculturist does not gain so much as the
keeper of a chandler's shop. A manufacturer can embark
a hundred thousand pounds or more, in one concern, the
operations of which are conducted with such accuracy and
precision, that one man can manage the whole. But agri-
culture can only employ advantageously moderate capitals.
It has been doubted whether more than 500 arable acres
can be held profitably by one individual. The profits of
the keeper of a chandler's shop, who may have a capital of
300/., may, by turning that capital several times in the
course of the year, realise upwards of 100 per cent. on it.
The manufacturer with 100,0001., after allowing for tear
and wear, and replacing his machinery every five or six
years, will have proportionably a much smaller profit than
a farmer with a capital of 2,0001. or 3,oool.—Morning
Chronicle.

This day will witness the most degrading display of Mi-
nisterial cowardice, imbecility, and want of principle that
has ever been seen in England. For some months all the
subordinate agents and organs of the Administration have
been employed for Ministerial purposes, and by Ministerial
instructions, in getting up, in the manufacturing districts
of the country, a strong feeling and a violent agitation, in
opposition to the system under which the foreign corn trade
is now carried on. In support of this agitation, every Mini-
sterial engine has been set at work. No effort has been
spared. No Ministerial Journal, no active man, looking
for reward for Ministers, can be mentioned, who has not con-
tributed its or his share to the agitation on this subject.
And having done all this, what are Ministers going to do
to-day ? We are informed, and readily believe, that in
the speech from the Throne, to be delivered to-day, under
' the responsibility of Ministers, the Corn-law will not be
mentioned. The men who dare get up an agitation on this
subject are too tender of their own four, five, and six thou.
sands a-year to venture to put a single word about it in the
Queen's Speech. A question affecting the whole property
of England, a question touching the nearest interests of
every individual subject of the British Crown, is to be left
open among a body of men calling themselves Government.
A Government ! An 2Eolian harp, the strings of which must
perpetually vibrate according to the accidental impulses of
the external air. Upon this subject the Queen will be silent,
because the Ministers have no opinion, or are too
fond of place to express any. But Lord John Russell
we are told, will speak. The small and cunning Lord, be-
fore the debate on the Address begins in the House of
Commons, is to give notice of something about the Corn-
laws. What this something is nobody ventures to speak
very definitively. We. however, will venture to speak
what it is not. It is not manly, it is not honest,
it is not straightforward, it is not that from which an
anxious country can collect the convictions and intentions
of an able and honest Government. It is nothing more
than a new exhibition of thimble-riggery. But Mr. Flume
it is said, announced yesterday at the Reform Club that he
would move an amendment to the Address if Ministers
pursued this shuffling course. We suspect Mr. Hume of
being a confederate with the thimble rig Administra-
tion, and have little confidence, therefore, in what he
says. But, if he execute his threat, the circumstance
will be most inconvenient to the Administration, ' It will
bring them out in their true colours, if they have any true
colours, and very plainly expose their deficiency, if they
have none. In the Royal Speech of this day the affairs of
Canada will be touched upon with a hand so gentle, that,
even the irritable spirit of Lord Durham will scarcely be
aroused. It is doubted even whether there will be so much
as a decent and proper tribute of gratitude and thanks to
the useful and honourable Governors of the Canadas in
whose hands Lord Durham, when he /led, left these im-
'ortant Colonies. Of-Ireland the least pee" mention
will be made in the Queen's Speech. We have even
heard, upon authority which would make us believe
it if it were not impossible, that Ireland is net
to be mentioned at all. Of the Queen's Speech we
know nothing, for we have neither seen nor heard it ; but
we are ready to believe that it will be as shabby as the
Shabbies (the distinctive name of the presto: Ministers)
can make it. But to omit Ireland, or to speak of that
country in vague and general terms! It would seem to be
impossible. We know at least that there., are men in the
British Legislature to whom it is impossible that they should
permit such a treatment, of Leland without the due infliction
upon Ministers of indignant rebuke. It is not to be tole-
d that. a British Administration should manifest that,
indifference to the security of life and property which si-
lence on the subject of Ireland would imply. "i his is not
to be endured, cod we venture to say that it will not be en-
dured. We have already said enough to indicate our ex-
pectation that all domestic subjects will be passed over in
the Royal Speech of to-day as lightly and flippantly as
possible. There will be, however, much about Belgium
and Holland, and of the suceesful termination (the sue-
cess being yet doubtful) of years of negotiation. We
shall hear much also of the Austrian and of the Turkish
Commercial Treaties. Something, perhaps, will be said of
the state of affairs in the East Indies, but it will not be
much ; for the state of affairs in the East Indies is very
likely to occesion debate, and debate is of all things to be
avoii!ed. Such will be the opening of the session of 18:39.
—Mm* Post.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-YESTERDAY

DONEOAL, JANUARY 31.—The Betsy, Hale, from S. John's, New
Bru,,swhk, to Ballyihancon, was :Aramled on the b;:r of the Etter
port on the 29th inst., and it is expected will become a total wreck;
part of the cargo sayed.

DOVER, FEB. 2.—Arrived off the Magaden, Kirby, from Norway;
Wiihe!rn.ina, Surinam; Depiforti, London, with loss of anchor and
cable; Jane, Mitchel, Const,atinople. Sailed the Cecilia, Dennis,
fur London; Iloceannais, ditto; Trois Amin, Giddon, Antwerp,
1`.1.1.na5T7,, Fea. 9.—Arrival off the Margaret, Thompson, Forrest,
from Berin.

A 7,1 SCAT; Ptin, 3.—Arrived the Jarrow Sturtze, Ball, from
Amsler,:ans ; Venus, Chesme, wi'h loss of sails, anchor and cable.
I.ISERPOOL, Feu. 2.—Wind N. W., mrclerate.—Arrived the
Ram Salthouse, Staunton, from Trinidad ; RoyabExrhange, Havannah ;
Lancashlic La-.s, Norman, Smyrna; Grenada, Trie,te; Moinuaineer,
L,zliorn ; Popplowell, Jones, Cork ; L.ly, Glasgow ; Australia, London ;
Liclut, Bristol; Geolgo Harper, Dro;th cla ; Fair Tractor (steamer),
ditto ; BUrningbans, ditto ; Reinder, EePlast. Sailed the Erdt, Bell,
for Rio Janeiro ; Voltinteer, ditto; Livoiiia, Poole, Naples;
3en,gal ; Ann Dalt, Tucker, Charleston ; Traveller, Malta ; Pearl,
Lisbon; Ann, Constantirople; Sharkers, Bombay ; Agnes,
Flail ; Guiana, ditto ; Weal, New Orleans; Industrie, Ostend;
Thomas Dempsey, Africa; L'Angelica, Nantes; Union, Bochfort ;
liv,rpocl, New Orleans. 3.—Wind N.N. W., light breezes —Arrived
the Rapid, from Demerara; Abeona, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Royal William (steamer), Newfoundland ; Argo, Farley, Savannah ;
Charlotte, ditto.

JEKS2V, J.N. 30.—Arrived the Maria Angelina, Laing, from Nantes.
Sailed the linmena, Gibraltar ; A,lonis, De Gruchey, Cadiz.
MiIDLINGTON, Fen. I.—Tb:: folowing vessels have received conside-
rahl, damage in entering the harbour, viz.:—The Richard and John,
Pounder, from London; Finder, Sharp, ditto; Definers, Oven, ditto;
Sr. Hilda, Heeeon, ditto; Hero, \Villains, Gain,borough ; Albion,
Turnbull, Rotterdam: The Earl of Aberdeen, Clement, of Newcastle,
drove from two anchors on board of a ship, name unknown, and re-
ceived con.sid,,.rab!e damage.

RENNET, ISLE OF MAN.-111? Pearl, Black, from Lis-err-411 to Was-
gale, aild the Susan, Jane, Hughes, from Liverpool to Donegal, have
Le,nr assisted into this harbour, after discharging part of their cargoes,
having been on shore. The Planet, Hamilton, from Liverpool to Dom.,_
cal, has been assisted into this harbour, after striking heavily.
CODE, Jas. 3l.—The Pyrenees, of Bristol, with damage, was towed
round from Kinsale yesterday, and went into dry dock.
BEIfiTOL, FED. s.—Arrived the Feroina, Dunn, from Nevis. Sailed
the Eliza, M'Allan, Berbicel Dochfour, Thompson, Llanelly.
DidILFOSD, Fan. 2.—Arrived the Sylph, Edwards, from Seville. Sailed
the Moetcalm, Stockman, for Marseilles.

KlNGsrowm, Fan. 2.—Arrived Lord Castlereagh, Kellar, Messina.
LElrn, Jai. 29.—Arrived the Ulverstone, Parkwood, Dalhousie.
Sailed the Dancer, for Lisbon.

BRIDLINGTON, Fin. I. Arrived the Albion, Turnbull, Rotterdam.
BELFAST, JAN. 29.—Arrived Duke of Cambridge, Bally, London.
HOLTDEAD, FEB. 2.—Arrived off port the Australia, No. 794, and
Mersey, No. 890.

CIYDB, FEB. 9.—Arrived the St. Mary, Currie, from Jamaica; Hey.
worth, Dunlop, Demerara; Clutha, Richards, Smyrna.
KINCISTOWN, Fea. 2.—Arrived the Ardent, Mackie, from London.

Coat, FIB. I.—Arrived the Etheldred, Hood, from Jamaica; Azores
packet, Garpel, Lisbon; Agera, Jones, Newfoundland ; Nova Diligenti,
Antonio, Lisbon.
HULL, Fan. N.W.—Arrived the William IV. steamer,
Mawle, from Dunkirk ; Ariel, Dye, Kerteh ; Ann, Arthur, Cadiz;
Speculation, Thus, East Indies; Reeine, Jansun, Antwerp; Charles,
Seville; Laura, Girgeati.

A shocking occurrence took place on the night of
Tuesday last, in the parish of Midsomer Norton. A poor
man named Stephen Shore, about 59 years of age. who had
been in the habit for some time of wandering about the coal-
pits in the above neighbourhood, generally sleeping by the
fires of the coke-ovens near the pits, accidentally, it is supposed
fell down the Walton pit, and was smashed to stems.--So-
merset County Gazette.

On Friday last a huge bear, which was confined in
a stable at Ber-street, by its master, Mr. H. Harding, the
proprietor of the wild beast show, broke out of the build-
mg and entered the street. Seeing a woman named Haver-
stone at her cottage door, the ferocious monster seized her in
his paws and bit her in several places, and she was only re-
leased from its gripe by beating it off with a poker. Medical
aid was procured, and although the poor woman was shockingly
wounded and bruised, the surgeon did not apprehend any dan-
gerous consequences. On Sunday symptoms of an alarming
nature manifested themselves, which increased to so fearful a
degree in the course of Monday that all hope of her surviving
was given up.—No7folh Herald.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. I.—There is
not much to excite any interest in our Sugar Market. A few
lots have been brought forward, which have been readily dis•
posed of, at rather easier rates. The London and Liver-
pool Marke!s continue very flat ; aud, as the refiner; are
generally suspending, or slackening work, it is reasonable to
suppose they will remain so. There is nothing in future
prospects to afford encouragement to the grocers to extend
their purchases • but, until the supply is larger, they cannot
here, probably, look for much reduction.—Bristol Mercury.