The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-06 00:00:00

1F13s13110:1 LIC JOURNALS.
well, the "ns-nr`ler jst`).u.';',,err,
ire( sue Queen's Speech has answered
for itself el to tl.lssit any more about the matter. It
feint any one who knows anything
jesnaousr letes-a7tbe,,r: ;and,
rat:tale; er4
to ring e Pe . ,ether with those authors, it was
brought -that is, it has already been reed to
its foundation iti both
saes of Parlialtene, to which it was
-addressed. The Cep 01.
see amendments n. .at Ives in bath Houses abstained from
llsere were Conservative and other
moving
made ea le
a the Co to Anuses worth a dozen amendments—net
a wor o
question, wheel,
lea!
4,117. AI! the Speech—not a word of that
ckee which that ir Jualet,e so much disturbed the kingdom, and
seel:
mn,.rho is most promlnent in her Majesty's
public councils
me ete ett others
rcone—we en eird keit Buss h more se In her drawing-
sop thc maw. aacto`. ii.s,torees Gi I---nes found it necessary to
ineronuce, t
pi for a • by pledging himself, if not to
no word of
tht: corn sera-law modification. But if there was
the env" A -.ow; t i her in the Queen's Speech, or in
-- enough, :ge_nt -"dress eer Majesty, there was more than
those 'limed little else north mentioning, in the speeches of
that so' oble and Hon. Personages who formed in both Houses
the
etallyV ofl eadlinethendage Parliameeatiary proceedings which is
"Sl'ae-!aPe end buckram" of the first day of
the C ire
mover~e and seconders of each address to
- • Mae 'town. _,le -.Love'.ace and Vernon, with Mr. Wood, of
oat
aiseeeht; sten in tern.
et—nantehi,
`Corremons, let out, or, in other words, forced
ret .ve beet atuthor.i. ttaat the confidential friends of Ministers
.he satin I. et to insinuate a division in the Cabinet on
.re Corn-tax, which Lord Melbourne, when
pressed
. 'on e,
eenasorie7 .er toe subject, achnowledged. , by stating that the
made aid ;in favour of modification, but that they had
question. . •varialeft it—that political mousetrap—an " open
bly
levees kJ, The fact is, thatbetween the opposite terrors of the
ons terest and the commercial, the Ministers have no
Lord li in them. As a Cabinet they dare not budge an inch.
tentiar elbourne gave an explanation of his own Corn-law in-
mate ..;' which would have better become the namby-pamby
bra, e!ity of a bedchamber-woman. "I am not prepared to
ir , ina Bill for repealing the Corn-law Bill, nor will 1 bind
slt' 'elf on no future occasion to give my vote against it." A
se Way this of splittine the difference between the manufac-
r wers and the landlords—at kind of bidding for whosoever
shalt turn out to be the strongest. The Duke of Welling-
-1 duti's attack on the omissions of the Speech was
spirited and tudicious. His Grace, after a feeble in-
terval, tottet c a over by Lord Melbourne was followed
by Lord Brougham in one of his most hitting speeches,
who ein he put the Indian policy of his own cousin in
no very fascinating light, as an attempt to dethrone the King of
Caleal because the King of Persia had done something to dis-
nblies him. Lord Brougham further pounced upon the corrupt
and tisgracetul omission of O'Connell and his incendiary and in-
sureent measures in the very same public document, which held
tip the far lees malignant mobs of the north of England to the
venees.nce or the Legislature.- We can forsee that Ireland,
Canada, and India will be sore subjects for her Majesty's Minis-
ters ere long. Previous to the discussion, Lord Durham ex-
Prened an &aloes; wish that the Canada question might be
broleht (messes 27 soon as possible.— Times.
Tee Parliaments, y campaign has commenced. The speeches
on "ceing and seconding the address in the House of Lords de-
part in some sesecets Irene the established practice, which is
tlre they should it •ep as closely as possible to the text of the
see,' On thi. occasion Lord Lovelace adverted in a very
mare ed mantle: ti the effect of the Corn-laws. His Lordship,
However, justifier, ministers for not introducing the question into
the speech from ,1..; ;krone. Lord Vernon went still farther
that, Lord Love. • e and spoke of the necessity of an early set-
tlement of the tut t.. on. The Duke of Richmond seized the op-
portunity which :.t ~e speeches afforded him, to express his dis-
sent from many r onservations which had been made by
the noble move: reel recender
Ile was one o. tuose who looked with great regret at the
endeavours wine. .. ere making in many parts of the country to
set the menu fame nee against the agriculturists.—( Loud cheers. )
He was well netionceil that if the Corn-laws were repealed, the
agricultural intei it Great Britain must go to inevitable ruin—
(Cheers)—arr te7' ;u their ruin they would be accompanied by
the manufactir 't r ,‘' the country.—( Vehement cries of " Hear,
hear, hear l'') hould like to see the manufacturer who
could stand wens .1. reeved of the home market of England."
Who ever sari tee. the manufacturer could stand if deprived
of the home in I.!‘te d Fn ;!and? This would be abous as wise
as saying that :!: mess could stand if deprived of the home
market. tennese to a great population of twenty-six
millions agrinehu. 3 end manufactures are necessary to each
other, is the' : ,:::on for robbing the manufacturers for the
benefit of the I:note-seers e The production of food is one branch
,of industry—the ~tuctton of cloths is another branch ; and
Justice to the see i est classes of producers demands that no
privilege shout i o ;even to any one at the expense of the
others. But it. e ~:ippens that the other classes of producers
supply the aew lee': I. tete, and export forty or fifty millions
worth of good.; gee t se. The return for these forty or fifty
miUtons deternews she price at which the agriculturists
purchase at. hems. rho agriculturists, on the other band,
producing less thee the country demands, and having a
monopoly of the • ones market, are enabled to tax
She manufacturers. to a very heavy amount. This
iS not merely mist -- it. is foolish; for the monopoly to be of
any value, supposes to ability of the manufacturers to continue
to support the competition with foreigners, and they are pre-
pared to prove that Smeignetst are driving us front one branch
after another, through She advantage they have in the lower price
they pay for their fon I The Duke of Richmond ought to be
able to show that Briteei agriculture could flourish without the
British manufactures, .chose ability to purchase he is insanely
'destroying. Lord Wire:Linea endeavoured, by connecting the
Ministry with the sentiments uttered by the noble mover and
seconder, to -taunt. them into a declaration of the course they
intended to pursue with regard to the Corn-laws, and proceeded
to attack Lord John Russell for the letter to one of his consti-
tuents, which we puleished some time ago. Lord Melbourne
having been thus 4:hallengetl, said that "the Corn-laws had
been, ever since the formation of the present Government, an
entirely open question--a question on which all the various
members a the Government had formed their own distinct
Opinions, and had ever acted according to those opinions.
Unquestionably, ray Lords, 1 believe that the majority of
these gentlemen are yavourable to a change in the present
system"' Lord Melbourne then proceeded to say—
" I am not willing to go into any debate on the Corn-laws on
the present, occasioc. 1 wish to avoid it, but I have no reluc-
tance to state my individual opinion on the Corn-laws ; and this,
my Lords, is the; which I stated in the few observations which
I made last year ; observations which attracted considerable no-
tice, more oi comee worn the eminent station which the indivi-
dual who delivered them happened to possess, than from any in-
trinsic force cl their own. The opinion, my Lords, which I
then expreesed, and to which I now distinctly adhere, is that
though I am nail rrepared to pledge or bind myself to the
maintenaw c the present system as the best possible, lam
not at the trete time prepared, either as a member of the Go-
vernmenf, s rats a Member of Parliament, to pledge myself,from
any inii)r)^lion which I have, to a change or alteration of the
law as it s,,in,k.--(11-car, hear.)"
It hapeses, fortunately, that there pre now in London, at
tie§ time, es sera] men anxious above all things to have an oppor-
tunity to enlighten his Lordship on this momentous subject, by
• the.produeti, it of unquestionable evidence. We regret that it
should ben nessary to have yet to enter on the task of converting
the Prim: minister to sound opinions on the subject of the
Corn-laws; as he professes to be open to conviction, we
trust that he is riot in the state which the Catholics describe as
luvincible
In the Iletee 01 Commons, Mr. G. Wood, the seconder of
the Address, t;hairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Man-
chester, entesed into various details, with a view to show the
state of the :eels) and shipping of the country, and, adverting to
the exertises 1107/ prevailing with regard to the Corn-laws,
observed-s.
" That the :neouragement foreign countries had given to
those of then. imbitants who were engaged in manufactures,
was now nen- „itig to produce its effect by a successful competi-
ti"walabia' ,;.,)•,ntry, not only in the nations of the old world,
but in the rceseser markets, where our exports were seriously
interfered wit o . A due alarm was entertained by our manufac-
turers, that Gut' •,Tosperity as a manufacturing country would
thus be seriously'endangered. If such apprehensions were well
founded, the tire lufacturers felt that there were no means of
amending thine elondition but by an attempt which, even if it
were practienies, at all, all must deplore, to depress the wages of
labour. What; sr that became necessary or not it was the duty
of the Legislatere, in his opinion, to place the manufactures
of this country on a footing as nearly equal as it was possible
to that on wheel the manufactures of other countries stood."
Sir Robert ?eel craftily availed himself of some of the state-
ments, of Mr. 13eorge Wood, and thanked the Hon. Gentleman
for the views which he had taken upon that important topic, and
which he believed would carry the greater weight, from the high
authority which, the Hon. Member was known to be upon such
a subject, from his knowledge of the facts connected with the
matter, and he was exceedingly obliged to him for the clear
manner in which lie had expressed himself, and certainly for the
very able speech which he had delivered in favour of the exist-
ing system." Sir Robert's speech was that of a partisan, not that
of a statesman viewing the subject coolly and dispassionately, with
reference to the interests of the country and justice to all classes.
We are
sorry to find that Lord John Russell endeavoured to
hymn cold water on the demand of the merchants and manu-
facturer, to be heard at the bar of the House in support of
their chlaim. "He was not prepared, at the present mo-
tnente he said, " to enter into a discussion of the sub-
lence te; but he thought that the respectability and import-
of
the interest calling for the repeal of the Corn-laws,
entitled
them,
not perhaps to be heard at the bar of the House,
but to the most patient investigation on the part of the House, of
any facts which they might bring forward."
Why should the inquiry demanded by the delegates of the
great towns be refused? Assertions are met by counter asser-
tions, and even Right Honourable Statesmen endeavour to ex-
tort from statements a meaning which they cannot fairly war-
rant. In such a state of things the question can only be satis-
factorily determined by evidence. Why do the landowners wish
to stifle inquiry? They either believe the facts to be in favour
of their own views or against them. If the former, why do
eneY !dine the manuracturers and merchants the satisfaction of
learning the cogent arguments to be derived from the evidence in
favour of a centinuantes of the present system : If they believe in-
quiry wpuld show tha'...iw laws ought to be repealed,do they imagine
that the Country sviil eliew itself to be mocked by such a mean at
tempt to escape trom tin, course which impartiality prescribes?-
They know nothing o: aee spirit which now actuates the mer-
chants and manufactuse. s, and indeed all the respectable classes
in this country (with, 'he exception of the agriculturists), if
*they think that these classes wilt suffer so great and momentous
a question to be put tr; est after Mich a fashion. They may
rest assured that they sin] never in' satisfied with any course of
proceeding short of thee whichjiistn•e and sound policyprescribe.
The landowaers will not he sufiere.l !,‘, ride rough-shod over the
rest of the commuait s..- Mornino rtvonicle.
If the " Queen's Speech" :velei eally her Majetsy's com-
tesition, and not that at her nlnnsterie the delicacy and respect
eue to her sex and st...tien would erevent us saying one word
upon the subj ect. But every bud.- nowslitat with the Speech
from the Throne, exceet as to nelivery, the Queen has no
114,e to do than any teher lady welen her dominions. Each
t mister contributes hi quota of intellect" and " literature"
siolothis joint produetitet of the I.h:bidet, and the result of
collective effort is eertanee worthy of the men-
"' Poverty and ineptitude of the is dministration whose lan-
rage it speaks. Lord Melbourne e:las had the credit of some
i
, theme'rOof acquirements, but hie smnstant residence under
tion of royalty has not. improve:, his genius for the composi-
app nm Royal speeches—if tligentse spirit, intelligence,. be at
etaogecessary for such production-. It was considered a high
Pitt 'Von the ready graeefulnees the oratory of the younger
speeches he n could speak a King's sewed, off-hand." Such a
a, Dr as3l6that, which is now before ue could be spoken off-hand,
men, to maninesen said of Ithephetsen's " Ossian," by "many
Y women, and many • eekiren. It was a hard task put u
interest P°'l England's maiden Queeo, to clothe, as she did, with
nons ev r, T'oduction so totally deetit tite of talent, sense, expres-
. The e
`Yrninthe c
H h
eral arm of her ass,: ouplished and graceful elecu-
realized 12 d.
!!ch delivered yesterday tram the Throne completely
the part 'o'iire anticipations. It was a deplorable exhibition on
oefipliettheTti alitisters of weakness, eteardice, and want of prin.
ere is riot to be found from the beginning to the end
teens ouzlwession of one manly theught, or the announce-
subject honest and vigorous determination upon any single
be antic; "fi respect to which any formidable opposition could
sieueti a pate& The question of the Corn-laws, upon the con-
bound enation of which Ministers, and all whose fortunes are
with theirs, ground their hope of the Administration
unintainie
cause be eei itself in power, is left oat of the Queen's Speech, be-
the sepi;:ns course itlinisters may retain for a few weeks longer
ant their her
the of their few agricultural friends, while at the same
aY most effectively stimulate an agitation which they
• noftherents have excited, for the most selfish and sordid
purpose,
and ineasi.,npiat laity The subject of the Canadian insurrections
as jar", ! ere shirr d over in terms the most general and un-
nen o,"ll._ec"ause any clear and ingenuous expression of Mi-
t ween on one at these subjects might have hastened