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

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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1839.

We have always advocated the total repeal of the
Corn-laws on the principles of morality and honesty.
We cannot for one moment believe that any kind of
property can be long safe in a State of which the Le.
gislature habituslly and openly decrees that the property
of many shall be continually plundered by means of
a tax for the benefit of the few. The many will not
long, after such a question becomes a matter of public
discussion, submit to be plundered, and either the Le-
gislature, composed of landowners, must support its
plunder by additional violence, if it be able (that is by
adding murder to :robbery ; for when a man is shot
or hanged, it makes all the difference between justi-
fiable homicide and brutal murder, whether the person
ordering or committing the deed have right on his side),
or its own injustice will assuredly bring about
its annnihilation. We are alarmed, we con-
fess, by the open conflict which is now beginning
between the Legislature on one side, fighting under
the spear-head bariner olphinder, and the bulk of the
,people on the other, with. the large golden, suo-illu-
mined letters of Justice on their ample 'flag, covering
the whole land with its shadow. We are alarmed, too,
for the morality of the nation, and can only expect to
see misery prompting the people at large to act on
the lessons taught by the practices' of the aristocracy
and the priesthood, and, like them, invading the pro-
perty, and supporting the invasion by taking the lives
of their fellow-creatures. We fear attacks on property
and sanguinary conflicts,: Already it is boldly declared
that the infamous Corn-tax is the right of the
landowner, and therefore to -he upheld by force ;
already he and his serfs meet and demand the
continuance of the tax alit&refer to the armed yeo-
manry as a sure hindrancelq any persons doing that,
without the sanction of law, which they make the law
to perpetrate. Already the most alarming conclusions
are adopted, and necessarily adopted, by thole who
seek to find arguments to justify the open commission
of robbery, by the highest and last authority of the
empire. A writer in the Morning Post, for example,
coolly reasons that it is of no consequence that the
legislature takes 26 millions from one class to give to
another, because the whole produce of the empire is
nevertheless consumed by the people. Here is the
passage :

Admitting, then, that a tax of twenty-six millions is now.
raised for the benefit of one particular class, it is quite evi-
dent that, as the value of all the produce of the land, if con-
sumed at home, is ultimately income to some one or other, the
income of that class would be less that amount.
On this fact, that the income of the rich, though it
be plundered from all the eaters of bread, is still the
income of that class, columns of verbiage are strung

together to show that these laws should be continued.
We have already seen these laws lead to the recommen-
dation of a vast system of infanticide, and now those
who defend them are driven openly to defend what
they acknowledge to be plunder.. When public writers
put forth such opinions in defence of such practices,
society, instead of a collection of mutually dependent
and mutually aiding men, appears little better than a
collection of banditti, and trembles on the verge of
anarchy.

• In another place will be found a paragraph ex-
tracted from the Glasgow Argus, which expresses, we
believe, the almost unanimous sentiments of the manu-
facturing districts. If the bulk of the Chartists do not
Support the abolition of the Corn-laws, it is because
their demands extend beyond it. Such a fact seems
to us worthy of Mr. O'CONNELL'S attention, who is
inclined, we are afraid, by his speech 'to his constitu-
ents; to give the demands of the people of England
only a feeble support. The landlords of Ireland, free
from Tithes and Poor-rates, receive the greatest
advantages from the Corn-laws, and have a
strong pecuniary interest in supporting them. t The
people of England, therefore, will look with close
scrutiny and suspicion at the conduct of the Liberals
who represent Ireland, and if they should now act
adversely to the interest of the English in Parliament,
on the subject of the Corn-laws, it wi!l,add amazingly
to the difficulties of the crisis Such a course of
conduct would, we apprehend, obtain a triumph for the
Tories, and replace HADDINGTON and HARDINGE
in the Government of Ireland. The English will not
suffer their manufactures to be ruined, to cnrich the
clearing landlords of the Sister Island, and they will
only deeply injure their own country and the whole
community by sacrificing political justice to their pe-
cuniary profit.

At a meeting at Stockport, of which an abridged
report appears in our Paper, it was stated that, ere long,
calicoes will be woven in,Germany and sold in Man-
chester. But we know that already ginghams have
been ordered from Elberfeld in considerable van-
tides. We learn also that that growing seat of in-
genuity and skill is supplying the English market
with velvets, cutting out out own silk manufac-
turers. We hare of late, indeed, had so many
proofs of the advance of the continental nations in
manufacturing ingenuity, that we already dread the
possibility of recovering , the ground England has lost,
and begin to apprehend that justice cannot now arrest
decay and starvation, prompting the most violent
conduct.

Mr. PAULTON who has become so celebrated in
the north of England for his admirable lectures on the
Corn-laws, has arrived in town, and purposes, we un-
derstand, to give lectures in the Metropolis.
He is urged to this by the Anti-Corn-law As•
sociations, which evince both their zeal and
sincerity by leaving nothing untried which can pro-
mote their success. We anticipate for Mr. PAULTON,
who will direct his exertions. to rouse the Chartists
from their supineness or remove their opposition to the.
Corn-laws, a career of brilliant usefulness.

Arrangements arc nearly completed for a dinner
upon a most extensive scale, to be given at one of the
large Theatres, to the Deputation appointed by the
different manufacturing towns, to assemble in London
for the purpose of urging the Repeal of the Corn-laws.
The dinner will take place in about a fortnight, and
neither pains nor expense will he spared to do honour
to the country gentlemen, and promote the object of
their mission. The boxes are .to be appropriated to
ladies, and both music and singing will be provided
of the very first class. The announcements will not
be advertised till the Deputation can be consulted as
to the most convenient day, but we anticipate one of
the greatest treats which London has witnessed for
some years.

We particularly call the attention of our commer-
cial readers, non-resident in London, to an advertise-
ment in our Paper of this day, announcing the forma-
tion in the City of London of a Commercial Club, in-
tended to consist of gentlemen connected with commer-
cial and professional pursuits residing in the provincial
districts, as well as those living in London.
The great advantages of this reunion must be ma-
nifest to every one who reflects on the subject, and we
confess our astonishment that such a Society (models
for which are to be found in every considerable com-
mercial town in the United Kingdom) should have
been so long delayed. It has our cordial good wishes
for its success, which the respectability of the Trustees
and the Committee of Management fully guarantees.

We have received several communications, animad-
verting with severity on the conduct of the Church
Rate Abolition Society, to which, as they were ano-
nymous, we did not pay much regard. When,
however, a man of Mr. CHILDs' respectability pub-
licly charges. the Society—as he does, in a letter
inserted elsewhere—with having betrayed the cause
entrusted to their care by the general body of Dis-
senters, we cannot conceal our opinion that those who
have had the management of their affairs are bound to
give an, account of their stewardship. If they do not—
if, after being thus arraigned, they refuse to plead at
the bar of, pliblia opinion—more especially, if they
do not repel the ~pecuniary part of the charge—the
character of 'the' Society is gone for ever. We
trust, therefore, that they will not lose a moment in
satisfying the public mind on the subject.

• The French Mails and Papers of Thursday have
not arrived this morning.

PRIVY COUNCIL.--(THIS DAY.)

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at the
Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the purpose of hearing the further ar-
guments in thespetition presented by some of the Sergeants-at-Law,
ger, Lord Denman, Lord
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against the throwing open of the Court of Common Pleas. The Lords
present were, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chancellor,
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the Lord ACou inrt of Common Pleas Mr.
Justice Vaughan, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the
Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.

IN THE MATTER OF THE sERCEANTS-AT-LAW.
Mr. AtIsTIN concluded his argument in behalf of the Sergeants.
The ATroRNEY- GENERAL appeared on behalf of the Crown, and had
not concluded his address when our Reporter left.

QUEEN'S EEN-CH.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court took a Crown paper this morning.
No case of interest occurred up to the time of our reporter leaving.

CIRCUITS.

SOUTH WALES.
(Before Mr. Justice Wituams and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Days and Pines appointed for holding the Levu Assizes.
Glamorganshire—Saturday, March 2, at Swansea.
Pembrokeshire, Town &County—Saturday, March 9, at Haverfordwest.
Cardiganihire—Wednesday, March 13, at Cardigan. .
Carmarthenshire--Saturday, March 16, at Carmarthen.
Brecknockshire—Saturday, March 23, at Brecon.
Radnorshire—Saturday, March 30, at Prestcign.

THE SUN., LONDON, SATURDAA, FEBRUARY 2, 1,,!:;i9.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, FEB. I.—Wind. N.N.W., fresh.—Arrived last evening, the
Dauntless, Pinder, from Calcutta. Sailed yesterday, the Ocean Bride,
Robinson, for Shields. Caine down from the River last night and to
day, and sailed, the Lady Hilda, for Barbadoes; City of Adelaide,
Donalds, Australia; Hector, Morgan, Jamaica; Sarah, Witney, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Circassian, White, Lisbon.
PORTSMOUTH, FEI. I.—Wind, N. to N.N. W., fine.—Arrived the
Toronto, Greswold, from London ; City of Rochester, Campbell; ditto ;
Yanston, Jarvis, ditto; Amelia, ditto; Charlotte, Smith, Sunderland.
Sailed the Toronto, Greswold, for New York.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Matthew, Brown, from Liver-
pool to Newcastle, with loss of topmasts; City of Limerick (steamer),
Dublin. Called, the May Flower, Cuming, for St. Michael's.
F.swiotrru, JAN. 31.—Wind,N.N.E , strong gales, with snow.— Ar.
rived the City of Limerick, Moffatt, Dublin.

LIVERPOOL, FED. 1.---Wind N.N.E. moderate.—Arrived the Express,
White, from London ; Ellen, Chambers, Dundee. Sailed the Virginia,
Higgins, for New York; Helen, Smith. Boston; Magister, Muslaw,
New Orleans; Ellen, Gille, Demerara; Aristides, Hutchings, Rio
Janeiro ; Evergreen, Mosan, St. John's New Brunswick ; Hender,
Lowthean, Calcutta; Donna Maria, Steel, Oporto; Theodosia, Thomp-
son, Jamaica ; Diana, Robson, Havannah ; Petrel, Calcutta; Vesper,
Hicks, St Michael's; Robert Watt, Johnson, Savannah; Margaret, Lis-
tel, New Orleans, King of Tyre, Lisbon.
MARGATE, FEB L—Arrived off port, Hector, Gibson, Honduras.
RAMSGATE, FEB L—Arrived Troer Vriendem, Bakker, Amsterdam.
DOTBR.—Arrived the Trois, Arnis, Gibson, from St. Andrew's.

BaisroL, FEB I.—Arrived the Anna, Wativiii, from Sydney, New
South Wales; Ajax, Stark, Jamaica; Emily, St. Vincent.
Sorriisatrrox, FED. l.—Arrived the Sportsman, Williams, Cork.
SHOREHAM, FEB. I.—Arrived the Britannia, Bowden, from Dublin.
SLIGO, JAN. 26.—Sailed the Olivera Premiera, for St. Übe's.

HULL, Fan. I.—Wind W.N.E., moderate.—Arrived the Industry,
Adams, from St. Übe's ; and Thames, Cox, London, from Newcastle,
with loss of anchor and cable. •

DucLitt, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Devonshire, steamn, from London.
Conti, JAN. 30.—Sailcd the Horatio, for Jamaica.
.WATERPOitri; -Ls N..62.4)-.—Sailed the Penelope, Cappiere, for Gallipoli.
KtKos-rowx,.JAN. 31.—Arrived'the Whelly, Weilbank, from Lon-
don ; and Waverley, Morgan, ditto.
JAN.- 30.—Arrived the Mountaineer, Hutchins, from
Leghorn ; and Lancaster, Norman, Smyrna.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN..31.—.1t• has blown a perfect hurricane the last
twenty-four hours from N. to 1...N.8. ; a great number of vessels have
slipped their anchors, and gone to 'sea. The Betsy, Iverson, of Lon_
'don, has parted with anchor and chain, and is now riding with the
ether. The Orbitt, Sissimond, after parting with three anchors, drove
on the beach, but WWI afterwards got off, crew and stores saved.

DARTMOUTH; JAN. 31.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Hope, Isbell,
from Newport to Dunkirk. In coming through the Needles, in a
heavy squall, she missed stays, and went on shore on the Sand Bank,
w!4ere she remained three hours, when she came off, and proceeded,
without damage.

LOCHINDALL, JAN.- 25.—The Ann, of Liverpool, and Scotia, of
Rothsay, which were on shore near here, have been got off, and proCeeded.
RIINL, JAN. 31.—1 t is blowing a heavy gale from N.N E. The
Speedwell, from Aberystwith, has been brought in here with consider-
able damage, having been on shore.
BRisTor., JAN. 31.—The Confidence, Phillips, which sailed hence the
4th ult. for Liverpool, it is feared has foundered during the late gales :
a boat, marked " Confidence, Philllips, of Liverpool," has been driven on
shore in St. Bride's Bay, 14th Ult.
PENZANCE, JAN. 3L—lt blew very hard last night and this morning,
and continues.—Arrived the Rivicre, Rosewall, from Glasgow, with da-
mage and sails split ; Agnes, Harris, Ipswich, very leaky. Put back, the
John and Mary, Thomas, for Strangford ; British Queen, Burton, Cork,
with lost of jib boom.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. I.—The Byker, from Trieste, which was o❑ shore
near floylake, has been got off without apparent damage, and brought
in here. The Lion, from Glasgow, which was on shore near the Red
Noses, has also been got off, and brought in here.
HOLYHEAD, JAN. 31.—The Thomas and Mary, from Aberavon to
Liverpool, drove from her anchors this morning during a heavy gale from
N.N.E. to N.E., and in taking the ground unshipped her rudder.
The Jane, from Balbraggan to Cheder, i. on shore near the Point of
Ayr—crew saved.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCS.

LIVERPOOL, COTTON-MARKET, FUDAY.—NoTIO of the cot

ton at auction to-day was sold.

We have had aelull market throughout the week, afford-
ing little satisfaction either to buyers or sellers, the former
having great difficulty in supplying themselves at any reduction
on our quotations of. Friday, and the latter in obtaining the
prices that were then current.; if anything, the business done
has been in favour of buyers. Speculators have taken 5,700
bales of American.

The sales to-day are only 3,000 bales of all kinds. The
market flat.

We have neither arrivals of any foreign mails or ship letters
this morning.
We have a complete blank morning, both for arrivals and
intelligence from any quartrr to the present time of our
writing ; in consequence of -which the British as well as the
Foreign Market are in a dull state. We do:not hear, as yet,
of the arrival of the Royal William steamer, from New York, or
of the Lisbon mail.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 921 i for the Account,
opened at 92i; Money, 92/ "i ' • Exchequer Bills, 66 68" ;
Bank Stock, 2024 203 ; India Bonds, 63 65 ; India Stock,
-2541 2551.
In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as the
closing. Spanish Active, 20ii ; Portuguese, 35} 36 ; Bel-
gian, 981- 99; Brazilian, 791 i; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 54i i..
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 203 1 India Stock , 255
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 9214% South Sea Stock 104,4,
3;4 per Cent lo ,-,4 Old Annuities —
Ditto Red. 109204 , New Ditto
New 5t per Cent too. 993's 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New 5 per Cent. • ' roci;h. Bills, £1,000
Bank Long Annuities to expire - - Ditto 500
Jan. 5, 1860 . l5 1-16 Ditto Small 6,i 69 pm.
Oct. 1,1, 1859 l4 zs . Ditto Commercial pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880 - .Bank Stock for Account
April 5, 1880 --llndia Stock for Account —
Jan. 5, 1170 — , Consols for Account 92 ',
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o'cLocK.
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds 9834 9 Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
t Ltto Account
Columbian Bonds ,
1 Ditto Account -.
Ditto Account ( Ditto Metallic —
Columbian Bonds, 1824 28,4, !Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — , Ditto Account 2olg 1. 4%
Greek Bonds —' French, 5 per cent. ...... ... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 ' --- 4 per cent.
Ditto Account -- 3 per cent ... ...... —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent..., ..,i -- Exchange. —f. —c.
Ditto Account Dutch, 211 per cent. —
Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account... . .54,4%
Ditto Account
Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... 10215%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
.. ••••... ..... 65 7611 7
14 9 V.
ty . 10

Great Western Railway Company..
Brighton Railwav
:.4..richester and Birmingham Railway
Do. Do. Extension
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
kmsterdain C.F. 12 4 Gibraltar 4B
Llitto, at sight
Rotterdam 2U. 12 414 Genoa
Antwerp...
Ilmburg..
Al,oria ,„,
1',.: i,, 3 days' sight 25 35 Pal trlllo ........._. per oz. 119
Di ztt,...... ..... ... ...... 3Ms 'ls 60 Lisbon
ll,larseille
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maiit.,, ELM. 15114 Bahia O5
I'etersbutgh, ruble 3 Us. 11% Buenos Ayres —
Berlin
Vienna, effective tl. 2M lO 3 Philadelphia 46
fi Ltste ditto lO 4 PRICE OE BULLION, PER OZ
liadrid ,`..714 Portugal Gold, coin ...t.:3 17 6
Cadiz—. ~.... '471,4 Foreign Gold, in br.rs 8 I 0
it lbw. ...
13,reelona 'l6% New Dollars
S!‘"li‘C .36% I Silver. bara. standard 0 5 0%
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUMLIN, JAN. 31.
3 per cent. Consols
.*, per Cent. Stock
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New, 1330
3!-.', per Cent. Debentures
Bank .Stock .., — City Debentures, 4 per cent....
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock
rIAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Jam. '29.
Bills. Money.
4 iti.trian MetPl'iques, 5 per rent.
Die' o ditto 3 per cent. —
Oitto cOtto 21 per cent
I:itto Bank Shares 1497 h 95
Agglo-Russian Loan 1077i; 107%
Russian 5, per cents. Metal,
Paper In,cription, 6 per cells- lu4
Russian I irrerlption, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese iiegency Bonds, 5 per cent — .
I Otto, 3 per cent —
fliitch S rer Cents.
Di! ta 5 per Cents
P.,ltsh I;.nds, 3 per cents.
NOW Tickets 155'4 155
• Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents ... 71% 7i%
Norwegian I.:Ntri of 1134, 4 per cents
.si,aiiish, in piastres, 3 per Cents
Corto4 Lean, 5 per Cent —
Greek 4 per cents. 133, guaranteed by France
EXCHA NOES ON LONDON.
II %sumac, JAN. 29.-13 54 ; two months, 13 4.
STOcE;WL:II, JAN. 22 —Two months, 12 4
Sr. I'll, I;.satmuir, JAN. 17.—Three months, 11%.
—Hamburg: Papers, Jan. 29.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 26.
Bills. Money.
St. Schukl. Sch., 4 per cent. lOl% 102%
('ru,sian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 11)2',4 101%
jk.s.change on London; three months 620
—Prussian State Gazette, Jan. u 7.
IIALF-PAST ONE.

We still co ttinue in the same dull situation as in the early
part of the morning, and do not hear of any foreign arrivals,
with the exception of the Hamburgh mail, said to be off
Gravesend.

In the course of next week it is expected that something of
a decisive nature will be received from Belgium in answer to
the last protocol.

Tire rion-at rival of the French mail is supposed to be owing
to a heavy fall of snow in France. A general report prevailed
in the course of the morning that M. Thiers was appointed
President of the new French Ministry, but we could not trace
the above to any authentic source.
Consols have continued during the morning at 92i for the
Account ; Money 92i with scarcely a bargain doing ; Ex-
chequer Bills 66 6 ; India Bonds, nothing done, 63 65;
Flank Stock, 203; India Stock, 255.
The prices in the Foreign market continue as in tho morn-
ing ; Spanish Active 20 ; Portuguese, 353, 36; Three per
Cents., 22i ; Belgian, 98i 99; Brazilian, '791-• 80 ; Co-
-28-4
; Mexican, 23i 24; Dutch Two-and-a-half
per Cents. 54i i; Five per Cents., 1024
Censcis jor the Account, 94.

TITRES 0' CLO CM

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house,
yesterday at seven o'clock A.M.

It has been ascertained by authority, that 3832,
trees were blown down during the late storm in the Earl of
Derby's domain at Knowslej.