The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-27 00:00:00

MALT.

Returns of the Number of Bushels of Malt on which Duty has
been paid in each Year, from 1810 to 183 b, both Years in-
clusive.

YEARS. ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. IRELAND. UNITED
EINGDOg•
1810... 28,546,346 820,294 2,522,543 26,889,183
1811 ... 25,982,749 1,012,236 2,681,842 29,676,827
1812 ... 18,092,965 934,452 2,206,206 21,233,60
1813 ... 21,701,356 685,244 2,967,603 25,354,203
1814 ... 25,320,615 1,266,82 3,156,175 4 29,743,8.
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1815 ... 26,246,795 1,297,777 2,664,466 30,209,0:
1816 ... 21,158,348 1,162,024 1,879,721 24,200,09::
1817 ... 20,855,566 1,,,093,678 1,385,486 23,334,730
1818 ... 24,629,838 1,390,515 1,783,636 27,803,08?
1819 ... 22,612,290 1,454,320 1,742,444 25,809,054
1820 ... 23,881,242 1,182,208 1,792,671 26,860,121
1821 ... 26,138,437 1,305,659 1,949,315 29.,393,411 '
1822 ... 26,688,512 1,403,177 1,756,391 29,848,082
1823 ... 24,845,152 1,616,590 1,702,395 28,164,1°
1824 ... 27,615,383 2,788,608 2,107,752 32,511,7_1
1825 29,572,741 3,925,847 2,706,862 36,205,4;
1826 ... 27,335,971 2,726,555 2,406,252 32,468,71
1827 ... 25,096,337 2,714,073 1,803,091 29,613,5
1828 ... 30,517,819 3,867,159 2,409,228
1829 ... 23,428,135 3,712,963 2,012,079 ' 29,153,177
454
1830 ... 26,900,902 4,101,946 1,959,606 32,962,,g
1831 ... 32,963,470 4,186,955 2,101,844 39,252,:4`.5
1832 ... 31,669,771 3,714,334 2,006,350 37,390,4'4
1833 ... 33,789,010 4,302,036 1,984,849 40,075,8;6
1834... 34,449,646 4,491,292 2,204,658 41,142.'5054
1835 ... 36,078,856 4,459,553 2,353,645 42,8'',::
.1836... 37,196,997 4,903,187 2,287,535 44,387'149'
1837 ... 33,692,356 4,583,446 2,275,347 40,557566
1838 ... 3.3,823,985 4,419,141 2,262,440 .

Excise
OffieeC,
London,
ndoCnO, TMTarReEhL7,L,IBI3s General Accountant'
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Lord Brooke, eldest son of the Earl and Can'
toss of Warwick, will attain his majority to-morrow.
9.11:b.,e. re
will be grand doings at Warwick Castle on the occa In"
I.,dreNssierd.
allpr.inG:eldi.AleTaTerAtNo .t—he Trhoipsle
of GentlemanKildare,
wi .1,---t ad-
oin
_are
to assemble at Naas on the Ist of April, reminding -be
of the necessity of approving of the principle of Lord N.:-I-ri
manby's Government. " The language towards Iretbnes
adopted of late in England, and their ( ?) factious sPeecese
and votes
and indignation, I might say, disgust."
Dublin on
DUBLIN.—Mr. O'Connell arrived in
Monday, after a boisterous passage. at all
th
The Pilot intimates that it is reported .
no for
the parishes that have not paid up their subser.ilitcro
so in
wil
the National Annuity to the Liberator,"
.
the course of the ensuing month.
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a Numerous MEETING of PR0PR1E-
,(301,,,„ ORS. MERCHANTS, and others interested in the
AlareilB4m; aica, held at GO, St. James's-street, the 23d of
It Ras Viscount St. VINCENT in the Chair,
Ine'ved by Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. ; seconded by Sir
Iftan•lnacmsl Henry Lushington, Bart., and
eir resolved,—That the statements industriously
Ja,b-ed to the effect that " the negroes of the island of
fair Za, are not only disposed but anx;ous to lidiour for
Plat,tap reasonable wages;" and that "the state of the
Produepws Justifies the strongest expectations of increased
Pteness, which will only be retarded by the uncompro-
dislitg spirit of the planters, who desire either to gratify their
else t 0
to the changed condi,tion of the labourers, or to make a
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b laws," are libellous, and distinctly at variance with
!kr-and both as regards the readiness of the negroes to work
at for
reasonable wages, and the conduct and motives tri-
-I(ed to the planters.
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Alex. Cray Grant Wm. Wyndham Dalling
Henry Lushington Edward Smith
Charles Edward Long S. Cunningham
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from France it seems impossible for Louis PHI-
LIPPE to form a Parliamentary Ministry, the
Chambers have been prorogued, and France re-
mains without a responsible Government. How-
ever anxious he may be to play the part of a
despot, and be the NAPOLEON of Peace, it is pal-
pable that he can only govern France by means
of the orators and men of talent of the Chamber
of Deputies. Being under that hard condition,
and these men being all rivals struggling for power,
and dividing the interest of the country amongst
them, it is quite clear that what is called a strong
Government, or a Government approaching to des-
potism, is every day becoming in France a greater
impossibility. The instant it became necessary in
the progress of society and intelligence for a Go-
vernment to give a reason for every step it takes
and that reason has to be discussed by a popular,
assembly, a strong or a despotic Government
is at an end. Our Tory writers continually
complain that the Government of the United
States, which is founded on the popular prin-
ciple, is feeble ; but every Representative Go-
vernment approaches in principle that of the
United States ; and in proportion as the intelligence
of the people increases, as they take an interest in
public affairs, and as public writers gain influence
over the public mind, whether the suffrage be uni-
versal or very limited, whether the Parliament be
renewed every year or every seven years, their
Government must become weaker, like that of the
United States. If that Government be, as our
Tory writers continually affirm, a dangerous Go-
vernment, strange scenes may be looked for in
Europe ; for assuredly the Governments of
Europe, and particularly the Governments of the
most advanced nations of Europe, are in essence
and in fact, if not in name, rapidly approximating
to the condition of the Government of the United
States.

What do we see in England ? Why our Go-
vernment, so far from being strong, is bearded in a
measure which is good in principle, by the decayed
and degraded Corporation of the City of London,
and will most probably be obliged to give up the
City Police Bill. Not one, but a dozen of its
measures, have been stifled in the House of Peers,
or withdrawn from the Commons from inability to
carry them through the Houses of Parliament. Every
appointment they make is questioned ; the Church
overawes them ; the Tories jibe and restrain them ;
the Chartists mock at them ; the Convention seems
almost as powerful as the Ministry ; Mr. O'CoN-
NELL has more real dominion in Ireland than they
have ; the Corn-law Delegates have compelled them
to divide the Cabinet, because the Chief of the
Cabinet, secure of his seat in the Legis•
lature, would not give up the Corn-laws,
while the other Members of it, depending
for their seats on the people, had no alternative
but to gratify the inhabitants of the towns ;
and the Radicals, who constitute a large portion of
their Parliamentary strength, tell them to their face
that they are thought to be no longer worthy of
support. Why, our Executive, with all our boasting,
is at this moment as weak as that of Mr. VAN
BUREN. The habits of the two people are different;
we are more than the Americans accustomed to march
with our Government ; we are habituated to go toge-
ther : but when any difference arises here—between
our Government and the Church, there—between
the Executive and the Sympathizers,theGovernment
in both countries is equally powerless, and it
can only in one case deplore the not-to-be-bridled
activity of hot-headed and ready-armed borderers,
and in the other, the deep-rooted and not-to-be-
overcome prejudices of Deans and Chapters, and
the ladies who frequent Cathedrals.
Our Tories imagine that this state of things,
which is obviously a general result of the progress
of intelligence, arises from the incapacity of the
individuals now at the head of affairs. On this
blind and stupid supposition they do nothing but
attack and villify Lord MELBOURNE and
Lord Joi./ RUSSELL, the Marquis of
NORMANBY, &c. For us, one of the worst
and most unpleasant signs of the timers to see the
great mass of our "best public instructors" engaged
in this personal war, and never rising beyond the
dead level of party conflicts. The slightest tincture
of political philosophy might spare the public much
scurrility, and save it, we believe, from some disas-
ters. What probability is there, if Sir ROBERT
PEEL were to come into office to-morrow,
that his Government would be stronger
than that of the Whigs ? He may be indi-
vidually a cleverer man than Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL. Nobody has ever denied him a greater
acquaintance with the mode of managing the
House of Commons, and with the routine of
office ; but how would he be enabled to govern the
country ? What accession of strength has he
gained since 1835 ? If the clergy, somewhat shy
by his previous conduct, now zealously support him ;
if the ultra-Orangemen who formerly regarded him
as an apostate, see the necessity of rallying under
his banner; if the counties of England, frightened
at they know not what, have-imereased his Parlia-
mentary strength a little, still, if he were to come in
to-morrow, and were the day after to go to a new
election, there would be against him a most formida-
ble minority in the House of Commons. How can
he govern Ireland, pacify the Dissenters, stifle the
cry for the repeal of the Corn-laws, silence the de-
mand for Church Reform, put down the Chartists,
or make the public at large contented with the pre-
sent anomalous condition of the representation ?
He may augment the army, but an increase of ex-
pense would augment the popular discontent, and
make his task more difficult. He might have had
some chance if he could have remained with the
Moderates, but his position has forced him to fall
back on the Ultras, to make common cause with
the High Churchmen, with the Ultra-Tories, with
the Orangemen, with the Corn-law plunderers ;
and so he has become in this divided com-
munity the mere head of an Ultra faction ; he
can have now more power than such a chief. But
such power, now when all political associations and
connections are broken up, when prescrip-ion has
been generally set aside, when no political opinions
are well formed and defined, and when the whole
community is split into fragments of parties,
cannot be great, and consequently, if Sir
R. PEEL were Prime Minister to-morrow,
he would find his Government as weak, if not
weaker, than that of Lord MELBOURNE. He
would have no more power over the multitude than
Mr. VAN BUREN has over the Sympathisers.
Now our Tory Contemporaries would spare the
public a great deal of unnecessary abuse of one set
of statesmen, and praise of others, if they were
not so anxious to break up the existing Go-
vernment on the notion that the Tory Ministers
would be powerful as well as skilful. The general
principle we have pointed out forbids any such hope,
and let the Tory Ministers come into office when
they may, they will find themselves no more power-
ful than they were in 1835. Our Contemporaries
labour most zealously to turn out the Whigs ;
they work in their appointed vocation, and without
knowing it, are the blind instruments of the pro-
gress of Liberalism. Every blow they strike at the
existing Government weakens it without strength-
ening the coming Tory Ministry, and hastens
the approximation of our Government to that of
the United States. So be it.

The House of Commons did not assemble last
night in sufficient force to transact business. The
SPEAKER, it was remarked, had no great inclination
to wait till Members came in. He was very prompt
at counting, and very punctual in deciding.
Neither Tories nor Whigs were plentiful. Both are
wholly absorbed by the great question which is to be
discussed on the 11th, and cannot think of meaner
things than the fight for the Government. Some
of their shyness was probably owing to the
fact that Sir CHARLES GREY had a motion
standing for last night, which might have brought,
most inconveniently, the Boundary question be-
tween England and the States prematurely under
discussion. But the main cause of the Mem-
bers staying away was, we believe, their aversion
to transact any business while their minds are occu-
pied with the interesting question of who is to have
office. Those who have watched the progress of
legislation, and have marked that every month and
every Session brings its own task, while, year after
year, the arrears of legislation have gone on accu-
mulating worse than the business of Chancery,
are quite sensible that the Legislature has
no time to waste on merely personal ques-
tions.. Whether Lord RODEN or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL be the most blameable for his motion,
we know not, but the conflict in which the parties