The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-09 00:00:00

ETENING EDITION.

(Vint the Morning Post.)
The weekly toady of the Adrnihistration has a dis-
sertation upon " the Tory preparations for power," in
which it is said, that " as the people would have no
share in bringing a Tory Minister into power—as, on
the contrary, the restoration would be right in the
people's teeth—so in the exercise of Ministerial power
there would be no popular leaning." For what block-
heads does this toady write? Is there any one so ig
norant as not to know that the people are with, the
Tories and not against them? Only let her Majesty's
Government give us a general election—an opportu-
nity for the people to represent their present opinions
in the House of Commons—and the Ministers will
soon have an opportunity of being pract.cally con-
vineed that the people are with the Tories. But
Ministers know this very well, and won't try the ex-
periment, The toady knows it very well too, but to say
yesterday, called the Observer, which
so would not be toadyism, by the which he thrives. ln
a newspaper of
declares for itself in capital letters that it i 3 " patronise'
by her Majesty and all the Royal Family," we
found the following leading article
4. Great secrecy has been observed by ti
journals respecting the mission of j, Conserv-
say to the King of Hanover ,rd Stuar•
.zis Lore'-' •

and, although his report is kept secret, we hear, from geed
authority, that no direct attempt to dethrone her Majesty
kill be sanctioned by Sir R. Peel, notwithstanding the
traitorous declarations of his agents at Canterbury and
Ashton."

We are sure that her Majesty cannot " patronise" such
miserable impudent stuff as this, whatever the publishers
cf it may delare on her Majesty's behalf. Are we to
regard this as a specimen of nose-and-neckcloth plea-
santry ? Alas! for the dolt who conceived it, whatever
be his title or degree. Surely this is not the sort of
wit to which the gay Lord Melbourne and the gallant
Lord Palmerston accustom the Court of Queen Vie
toria. Such wretched trash would hardly be tolerated
in any taproom, even though the regular joker of the
place were hired to utter it.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)

interested beginning to bestir themselves for a change n
We are glad to see those who feel most immediately
i
We arc confident they need now appre-
hendthe Corn-laws.
was given last
smarstists. But we
Near by
ts
hueeliinterruptionmobsnt
stghueii,ri
eedffocrti
should be sorry to see this made a class
interest. We
than a party one. We should be sorry to see it
wish to see manufacturers and agriculturists compare
re
matter of exclusively manufacturing We should
note:, and a:, repentant sinners are asked
they can, to make out—What have the Corn-laws c
the devil done for you ?''—so we would wish themtd , if
one
for any body ? It has been a most unfortunate um-
stetalt simultaneously by all whom they injure, that they
nee in the effects of these laws, that they are not
create an appearance of contrariety in the two great in-
terests of this country, by exciting discontent in the oue,
while they seem to secure advantage to the other. Thus
at periods
ofhigh prices the farmers have regarded the
directed the fair remuneration of agricultural
outcry against the pressure of those laws as an outcry
labour againstand capital. Again, at periods of plenty the farmer
alone complain of low prices ; and a temporary stimulus
and ease are afforded to other classes,which indispose !beim
to agitate against the dormant influence of the Colu..laws.
We have thus fluctuated between the temporary show of
protection afforded by the Corn-laws to our landed in-
terest, and the temporary flu,li of prosperity to com-
merce and industry occasioned by the Unction of those
laws (or rather by the reaction caused by them
from excessive scarcity to excessive production.)
The natural regulator of our home markets—the de-
mand namely for agricultural produce (which there is no
doubt in the world the nearest cultivators will have most
share in supplying)—has been replaced by the artificial re-
gulator of a curiously contrived scale of duties, intended
to regulate prices more satisfactorily toour home producers
than the ordinary principles of commerce would Zle
without interference. This attempted regulatior, has
resulted in fluctuations more enormous than erettid ever
have been expected from the utter absence of restriction ;
and these fluctuations, we are convinced. may Le regarded
as periodical, and predicted with as much certainty, and
nearly as much precision as the next con-w.f. Tbs,
landed interest has sought to secure advantages ey
legislation, which the natural effects of ne use
perous come
and wl".ich no
it
ice the decline of that
merce would have secured without, ;
Legislatiou can cause to sure.
commerce.
"007 skilled labour co,
rmmands fu-
long we may be regarded as ex-
e i remuneration,
porters of agrici'Lural produce in the most compeer
form—the or!.
e form in which produce so bulky can be
exported over sea and land to such an extent. Tile
artificer or manufacturer, living in England, must
always be a large consumer of English farm produce,
and the more he exports, will be the better able
to pay for what he consumes at home. the English agriculturists resolve to have those
consumers to themselves. Not contented with th e
vast prepanderance over all agriculture? rivals which situation and the expense of trans Bert
secures to them—not content even wig ;t the m Aeraty
e
fixed duty which might be claimed, both for tb., sake of
rer burthens,
revenue, and as a set-off agains". peculi
our agriculturists have resol.ved to monop Mize the sup-
ply of wants they cannot at all brace. satisfy. They
have resolved to dieable the most, numerous class ,4
their custoreers from being, as they have been, their
best ones, and from afford.ing prices which suppose un-
abated means for their payment.
(From the Gamier.)
The Anti-Cotn-law Association, whose head-quarter,
are at Manchester, are, as we gather from the illanclays-
ter and Salford Advertiser, on the alert. A meeting of
members was held on Wednesday evening last for the
purpose of preparatory arrangements for a grand festival
in January. We have not the smallest objection to some
feasting first, and flourishing speeches after, of these
Manchester gentlemen. On the contrary, we like to s
good old customs kept up, of which Chrismas festir
,ties
and New Year's revels are not the least we'
of our traditionary bequests. Let us hope
e. 011 ,oliao
the forthcoming occasion the merrymaking
will not
be desecrated with the satr.e exhibition of
and low-lived abuse of 'Landholders an will
11. aristocracy,
which in the set cent and phras.., of that tor,
~e poured forth at
of factious oratory
was so liberiell
former gatherings of these poop ,e, In the Utopian
miraclesf
tto Ist evorked by any P.,lteration, or by the abo-
liti
erficial on ohe f;orn-laws, so `;thently dwelt upon by su-
p reaeoners, we have as much faith as in ,those so
undoubti•egly attributed to our good Lady of Loretto,
for dienelief in which we heretics are just as unce-
remoniously consigned to eternal perdition b z
-Monkish zealots, as the landlords are nserciles
denounced for persecution and eitermin,
by the fierce familiars of the Anti-Corn-la.,
quisition. Assuming that the principle of C ern-laws,
as of laws applicable to any other commodieh must
7ffolection, it may, or may not lee, a fair teebject for Le
in-
quiry whether that protection would be be dispenstel
by a duty fixes in amount, 'or by the fluctuating scale
of duties now in operation.. The objections to such an
inquiry being entertainell at all are of very serious im-
port to the mennunity at large, for the perpetual
itch for dah'oling In legislation, which is the ',no-
uomania of ",he present day, inevitably tends to un'eiege
the tent re and stability of all property, and to e'onipto-
mise or mystify the possession of all rights. Itr_ volution
after revolution we have had in Currenr,saleen Corn-
laws, and laws for the regulation of tr Ade, for the last
twenty years, to say nothing of rev olutio,ns po
and the result of all this quackc,y, which has beet,
dignified with the sounding title (-Apolitical economy, is
that, after just as many peri.edical stages of nation-1
and individual stoppages, we, are as far from the lane of
promise as before, if the Anti-Corn-law men are to be
credited.

(Fram the Standard.)
We are told that the present Corn-laws lea'ls, to
ruinous fluctuations. The very reverse is o,:he fact,. us we
have long since proved by a reference to the v ariation
of prices before and after the passir,g of tivae laws,
the matter is dis-
and as we shall again prove by a republica of the
authenticated table of variatir,o,
puted. Fluctuations in the prices of corn there alwaNs
good to Providence to vnry
must be while it shall seen -
Ace of the earth ; but it is plara
the seasons and the proe
that such fluctuations. will be least felt under a syste
which encourages to, the utmost the provision of a lic.oie
supply, and throrn open our ports to the world vihe..s
that supply sj,all be deficient—the system of t'ae
present Corn.laws. Fluctuations in thr, price of
corn there always, we again say there mu ,t be,
while the 'physical constitution of a 0 worl,d shall
remain what it is. But what would be the effect of
such fluctuations upon this country . if the Corn-I,iws
were repealed? Why, that the stream of crapital which
now escapes casually in V,ad serasons, and is more
than replaced in good ones, woe:ssl go out in a fiood,
the constant current tkaat a regular importation of
corn must produce be4ng swollen into twofold, per-
hrps tenfold, violer,ce, by famine at home and high
prices abroad. Pow long could the country stand
this ? The first, event of the kind would bring anar-
chy, and then let the monied capitalists, the gre: At
movers of the Anti-Corn-law sedition, look to the
selves. 'We do not expect that they will, for no'
,hing
is so blind as avarice ; but it behoves us all to
ourselves against that state of anarch,„ in w' arch
ich its
greedy authors might be justly punished, but
of which
we all, though innocent, would be :he victirr,s.

PRACTICAL APPLICAIi•ION OE SCIENTIPIC
KNOWLEDGE.—A few yea:As since A ship
arrived at
v Liverol, after having been for several weeks the spot,.,
wasb.ed
cA
of w:,nd and waves. TI-Ae compass having be
overboard in a storm, their voyage was dreary aria pro_
crastinated, much ution being necessary ; und despite
, he..a. the simple fact
which, their fate, but for a fortuitous eireuedsta•ace might
one Op• board, the peril might
an uP„-iight
have been inevitably sealed. Now
of the extreme ease with which a :
111P.riner's needle might
g-'aeedle, c,r the blade of a
be made, been known to any
have been avoided. A sewin
penknife, being held in
a hammer, and subseque,-
~tly floated 'oy cork on water, or
Post.ure, and struck 1•.,y
suspended by a threr:i Without
;Jon, would be come a
magnetic needle, '. •
ant., point nertl„, and south ; e,r the end
of a poker held Pe% tical, and, Passed over its surface front
one extreme te, the other, would impart magnetism.
which, if the the
be of steel, would be of a perm*.
nent character." I take this from a " Mechanics' kill.
gazitie," pul-:Xished in America. Again, I read 'in a, ilewsPaPer the other day as follows :—" A penknit br
accident ,e., dropped into a well twenty feet deep. A start_
bean from a mirror was directed to the bottc Ai, witdch
rendered the knife visible, and a magnet fa
Aitened to a
pole, brought it up." And so of thousands . of' oases that
occur daily in the mechanics' h i
-us-ness'ahr' A a little science
Comes in play very well here, thong' a a man does not
know am more.—Claztotes Hints t‘
.., -mechanics.
RAILROAD AtCIDENT.
cident occurred on the Cr On Saturday an ac-
breaking of an axletree
_,-ydon railroad, owing to the
,
belonging to one of the spoil
wagg°l7.s, which for 4 time obstructed the line, but waa
O'hefly of "nse°,4ence from the serious injury it caused
to one of tl',
‘1 poor workmen. This man chose to rid''
on the '
part of the engine (though often warred
nave oack
it dangerous), and thereby received sur,,il a
t was
....la
concussion as it is feared may terr nine,
',., o ' blow from the , ,
-- v fatally. He was conveyed to St. 'Thomas's U.ospital,
othe-
„ de R
-.nip has returned; where he shortly after
expired.

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1N( EDITION.

DEATH of MR WILLIAM TAYLOR,

THE STOCKBROKER.

During the whole of Saturday the ne7ghbourhood of
Islington was thrown into a state of excitement in con-
sequence of a very gene.-al rumour becoming prevalent
that a gentleman had been poisoned in a cab. It appears
from inquiries instituted by the reporter, that between
one and two o'clock on Saturday morning, a hackney-
e lb (No. 1,169) drove up to White Conduit Tavern,
and upon the driver, James Smith, opening the door of
the vehicle for the purpose of letting out his fare, he
discovered that his passenger was huddled up with his
head resting against the bottom of the cab, and his
person partially in a sitting posture, as if he had fallen
forwards. Smith endeavoured to arouse the gentle-
man, but could not succeed, and, in consequence, lie
b.,came alarmed, and called to Sergeant Collins
(24) to render assistance. That officer immediately
directed Smith to drive to the house of Mr. Preedy, a
surgeon in Chapel-itreet, and on arriving there that
gentleman at once announced the deceased to have been
dead some time. The cab, accompanied by the officer
and the surgeon, then proceeded to the police-station on
Islington-green, where the latter attempted, but without
success, to bleed the deceased. On searching the cab,
his hat, containing a quantity of dark coloured fluid,
was found, and from his person was taken a silver watch,
a purse, and a small sum of money, with other property.
Some suspicion was thrown into the case, in consequence
of the deceased having been List seen in company with
a total stranger to him in Tottenham-court-road, and
also to the circumstance of his being recognised by
some of the police as Mr. William Taylor, a stock-
broker, formerly residing in Cannonbury square
ill and
Willow-grove, Islington, but Latterly having led an irre-
gular life, and lodged at a house of fame, No. 6,
Cnariotte-terrace, Islington.
The police officers lost no time in searching the latter
place, and they locked up the room which was pointed
out as the one that was occupied by the deceased. In-
for-nation was likewise sent to Mr. Wakley, the Coro-
ner, and, from the peculiar features which presented
th.anselves, the inquest was appointed to be held at an
early hour on Saturday morning.
In the meantime the body of the deceased was re-
moved to the dead-house in St. Mary's Churchyard,
Islington, and singularly enough on the doors of the
same edifice was posted a document connected with
some proceedings that had been taken in Chancery
against the deceased, for the purpose of restraining him
and other parties from transferring a sum of 5,0001. in
the funds, which, it was alleged, he and others had
sought to do unfairly.
It appears that the deceased, whose city offices were
in Pope's Head-alley, Cornhill, had not been seen at
business since the month of October last, and that his
clerk was the only person with whom he held confiden-
tial interviews. The matter, however, respecting the
transfer of the 5,000/., it is represented by the clerk,
will shortly come fully before the Court of Queen's
Bench, and, therefore, to give any detailed statement of
the transactions of the deceased (except upon oath)
might appear irregular. Notwithstanding the utmost
exertions of the police, no clue had been obtained in re-
ference to the young gentleman who was last seen with
the deceased, up to a late hour on Saturday.