The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-27 00:00:00

tion which will soon rob him of all his customers' !! To
ensure the loss of his customers, however, it is not only
necessary to drug his beer, but that he should be detected
in so doing. How this is to happen the Chancellor does
not inform us. It is well known, that beer that pleases the
palate will find consumers, whatever it may chance to be
composed of. Now the publican must be a simple fool
who will not take care, that whatever be chooses to brew
with, shall be agreeable to the taste of his customers. And
he will find no lack of customers if his beer is agreeable in
flavour, whatever drugs he may choose to put in."
Our limits will not permit us to extend our no-
tice of the pamphlet farther at present ; but we
shall return to the subject again and again. In the
mean time we beg leave to remark that the advo-
cacy of the free-trade system by some of the brewers
is in every respect as selfish as it is assuredly unde-
served by the licensed victuallers. The former cal-
culate upon securing, by the throwing open of the
trade in beer, the greater part of the trade in the
vicinity of town, and in this object they will no
doubt succeed ; but what will be consequence ?
Why, that the small beer brewers who supply it
will be ruined, and that the trade of those who rent
their houses being divided with the new corners,
they also will be ruined. Now why this change of
property—why this spoliation of one set of indivi-
duals in order to enrich another ? What benefit
will the public derive from such an effect of the pro-
posed measure ?—Morning Advertiser.
The speech of Mr. Poulett Thomson, for any
good it has done or is likely to do, might as well
have been recited to the sea-gulls from the cliffs of

Dover. There is no use in Honourable Members

striving to induce the Government to reduce the
taxes. The Duke of Wellington has told them
plainly that he can't, which means he won't do it.
Therefore there is an end to the matter. It is in
vain to talk while the Minister does not care three

straws for all the debates and dull harangues of
the House of Commons. That Minister is the
Minister, and there are not fifty Members in the
Lower House of Parliament who have the courage
to declare the open truth concerning his measures.
He is as indifferent to their divisions and opinions
as he is to what point the wind blows from. Do
we complain of this? No. It ought to make
Englishmen ashamed of themselves; but, while it
will hasten the ruin and degradation of many of
them, it will work good in the end. This
obstinacy to the wishes of the nation—this neg-
lect of the sufferings of the people—this total reck-
lessness as to consequences will the sooner pro-
duce that re-action which will put a period to the
Wellington Administration. What is passing in
France will hasten the catastrophe. So far from
murmuring at the supremacy of the noble Premier,
or the folly and infatuation of his policy, we rejoice
at it beyond measure. He is doing that which we
wish to see done. He is creating universal disgust out
of doors; he is increasing the mass of dissatisfation ;
and he is, therefore, the best radical reformer who
ever aspired to power since the accession of the
house of Brunswick. The people have lost all confi-
dence in their Representatives—the late conduct of
the Bishops has inspired feelings towards the Lords
spiritual which we cannot describe—and events are
ripening which will make the next Parliament a
very different assembly from the present. Mean-
while we are doomed to suffer. We have not yet
suffered enough, but before next spring the struggle
will be nearly over. It is sometimes a blessing to
have Ministers who neither feel for the calamities
they create, nor have the faculty to understand what
they are doing. This is the case with the Duke of
Wellington, and we bid him God speed I We in-
tend hereafter to cheer him on, trusting to the old
adage that when a certain person is on horseback, he
will ride to the devil !—.Morning Journal.
The retailers of beer in the metropolis and else-
where have evinced some alarm at the contemplated
deprivation of their chartered rights. Monopolists
naturally have no great taste for these changes; and
if they of the beer business be likely to sustain any
material injury, we are bound to pity their fate and
sympathise in their misfortunes. With these feel-
ings we take their case into consideration, and
proffer them our humble advice. We take for
granted that there is not a man in the country who
does not rejoice at the intended opening of the beer
trade. It will do far more to reduce the price of the
beer than the reduction of duty. It will also tend
to improve the quality of the article, and put an end
to many monstrous abuses, some of which we shall
notice anon. It is, therefore, most desirable that the
beer trade should be opened. But will the people
called publicans or licensed victuallers suffer from
the improvement ? Decidedly they shall, unless
they adopt that line of defence which is quite
practicable. When the trade is opened it is more
than probable that beer will be sold by the green-
grocer, the cheeseman, the oilman, anti various other
sorts of tradesmen. This will draw a good deal of
the small change from the public house to the bene-
fit of the unprofessional rivals. In these circum-
stances what should the orthodox beerman do ?
Why, cannot he sell butter and cheese, and hams,
and every article of green-grocery ? He already
sells tobacco, why, therefore, not tea and sugar and
pickles ? This is called the age of improvement;
but it is no such thing; it is the age of retrogres-
sion, and we are fast retracing our steps and adopt-
ing the rules and practices of our ancestors. We
are rapidly approaching the age of barter, and it is
only necessary for the complaining parties who
dread the loss of their retail trade in beer to carry
the war into their rivals' quarters, and undersell
them in their own prescriptive commodities. This
might easily be done, and we have no doubt will
be done, in case of any unfair interference with
their trade. The publican, by setting apart a room
for the purpose, might ruin all the cheesemen and
bacon retailers in his neighbourhood. His house
would thus be converted into an American store,
out of which all the wants of the labourer might be
supplied at a cheap rate. There would be no high
shop rent to pay—no attractive windows—no show
—no delusion, for the articles would be bought
wholesale and retailed at the lowest possible profit.
In this way the profits, no matter how inconsider-
able, would compensate for any decrease in the sale
of beer, anti the grocers and oilmen would be met
on their own terms. This is a hint.worth a Thames
of porter, and we expect the publicans will express
their gratitude and vote us their thanks for it at
their next general meeting. _Morning Journal.

The position in whiph the collision between the
Throne and the Chamber of Deputies has placed
the French government and people is, it must be
admitted, both ezotraor4inary And alarming. It has
been observed with some plausibility, that had the
King not proceeded at once to disperse the Cham-
ber, lint waited to see whether, after censuring the
Royal choice of Ministers, it would proceed to the
last extre►nity of obstructing the progress of public
business in the Legislature, in order to compel obe-
tiiente to its.dictates, he might have strengthened
the cause Of the Thrime, an 4 in the same proportion
have weakened, in the opinioriof the 'nation, that Or
the party whose object it evidently is to pervert the
Charter of France into the basis of a government
essentially republican. That the Chamber which
vichtte4 the respect due to the Sovereign in the ex-
(cialse a a -fan4;o!?, in the c?nstitn.tional sense most
peculiarly his Own; that tiat iely of'selecting his
nisters, would have adopted in succession all the
other means necessary to the success of their inci-
pient usurpation, could not be doubted, however,
unless upon such a calculation of the weakness and

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and that he will not so far abandon the spirit
and essence and intention of the Charter as to be a
King only in name, but in reality the off.cer merely
and servant of the Deputies of Depai:tments.
the present Chamber of Deputies should not re-