The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-04 00:00:00

THE MARKETS-(TIIIS DAY.)

Very small arrivals of all descriptions of Grain and Flour
The weather being very favourable made the Wheat trade ex-
tremely dull, and though the factors would not submit to less
pries than Monday, they could not make sales. In other
Grain no variation. ..
Flour heavy of sale.

ARRIVALS.
Oate. I Flnur.
Wheat Barley.
1,147 ,acks
English ........ lA, 0 Irs. 29 qrs. —1"- I
Irish . ............
---
brls.
Foreign ......... 6,10 i 100 700
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
There were good supplies of all demand was better. kinds of killed meat, and the
case with Poultry and Game.
ICITY FISH MARKET.
The supplies were moderate, and the demand in proportion ;
prices steady. Turbot, ss. to less. ; Cod, Is. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles, i
I Ito to
13. 3'
s. per pair
lb. ;Lo ; sters, 9d. to 3s. ; Good Salmon, i
s. 6d. Oysters,and 40s. p Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, &I. to Is. .
c,der bushel; i
TEA SALE—(THIRD
The attendance of the trade is tolerablDAe ; t Y).he merchants are
firm, and former prices are supported, but not above one-tenth offered has been sold.

Trust no man for what he says he will do, but only for what
he has done. If you think that in working on these and other
subjects for fifteen years I have given you any security, send
one or two from your respe6ive trades to help us in the present
contest. Our colour is white ;—the flag of the unrepresented.
We shall have thirty candidates under it at the next general
election. Organize yourselves for that time, as fast as you
are able. Anything we fail in now, shall be perfected an
other opportunity.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
T. PERFtONET THOMPSON.
York Hotel, Manchester, Sept. 2, 1839.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 4.
Will be presented an entirely new original Nautical Drama,
in Three Acts, entitled
ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT.
Reuben Armstrong, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Abel Armstrong,
Mr. E. F. Saville ; Annis Mildred, Mrs. H. Vining.
After which (15th time) the successful Nautical Drama of
BEN BOATSWAIN; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS.
Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with,
DI ANE DE CHIVRI, THE BLIND GIRL !
Leonard Ashton, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Diane de Chivri, Mrs.
H. Vining.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE.
TO-MORROW, THURSDAY, SOFT. 5.
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM-
PETRES,
By the unrivalled Band.of this Establishment,
Conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
Exhibition of the Wonderfully-intense and beautiful new Light
KONIAPHOSTIC,
Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter.
And the ERUPTION of MOUNT lIECLA.
Admission Oce
Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six.
In compliance with the incessant requests to secure places
for viewing the Eruption a number of reserved seats have
been erected, which may be engaged by previous application at
the Walworth entrance.

HIGH L': ATE:: AT I.OND:;N BRIDGE TO.MORROW.
Morning 2 minutes after 0. I Evening minutes after O.

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LO ND :
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1839.

We understand that the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, and Mr. ROBERT STEUART, one
of the Lords of the Treasury, visited the General
Post Office on Monday evening, to examine the
sorting of letters, and the general working of that
department, with a view to the introduction of the
Penny Postage, when the necessary arrangements
are completed.
A Treasury Minute is in course of publication,
offering a reward of 2001. for the best plan for faci-
litating the operation of the Penny Postage,
whether by stamping the letters or otherwise ; 100/.
will be awarded to the second best plan. This
clearly indicates that the Treasury are anxious to
introduce the system in the simplest and most efi.
cacious manner, and with the least possible delay.

In another part of our Paper will be found a
considerable part of an article contained in the
Examiner on the Close of the Session. The com-
mencement of that article is also of some impor-
tance, and we shall give a portion of it a still more
prominent place by inserting it here, and requesting
our readers' attention to it. The Examiner says:—
The country has at this moment much more reason
to congratulate itself that evil which might have been
done has not been done, than to lament that more
good has not been accomplished or attempted. What
has not been done in interference with public
iberty is matter of rejoicing which compensates
for other omissions of a contrary character. The
conduct of the Government with respect to the
proceedings of the Chartists deserves the highest praise.
In the alarm at the threatening language and equally
threatening organization of the Chartists, any coercive
measures which Ministers might have proposed would
have had the applause and support of a large majority
in Parliament, and also of the majority of the aristocratic
and middle classes in the country, for timidity becomes
Tory on occasions of apprehensions of popular outbreaks,
and Liberals are sometimes carried away from their
principles by panics. Had there been in the Ministry
any disposition hostile to liberty, it would have been
brought into action upon the menacing appearance of the
Chartist proceedings. There was not only every pretext,
every excuse, fir some suspension of Constitutional

TO THE UNITED TRADES
IN MANCHESTER AND ELSEWHERE.
GENTLEMEN—As it is but just that you should be furnished
with a printed record of my opinions on points which are of
importance to you, I take the liberty of effecting it through the
means of an Address.
On the question of the CORN LAWS, I have for many
years done any utmost to impress upon all who are in any way
concerned in manufactures or commerce, that the restriction on
the exchange of your manufactures for food, operates precisely
in the same way as would the building of a wall round your
town, for the purpose of obliging you to give two yards of cloth
instead of one for a peck of corn, to the owners of such patches
of ground as were capable of growing corn within the incloetne.
The owners of the land say to you, " Give us two shillings for
a peck of corn instead of one, and then we will spend two shil-
lings upon you instead of one, and buy two yards of cloth of you
instead of one." Is this anything but. saying, " You shall give
us two yards of cloth for a peck of corn instead of one." I should
have thought any man who can keep his fingers out of the
wheels of a machine, could have seen into this.
G-eat numbers of you do see into it. And why is your
seeing of no avail? Because the numerous classes are almost
entirely cut off from any share in making the laws by which
their condition is to be determined. In a market, the poor man
is at liberty to exert the influence of his small property, and
the rich man of his great. Just so would it be if all men were
admitted equally into the great market of legislation;—whit::
is UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
When the richer classes consult their own comfort, they in-
variably vote by Ballot. An officer sitting on a court-martial is
directed by law to take an oath that he will not reveal the vote
or opinion of any member of the court ; and a medical officer on
a board of medical inquiry, is directed to make a declaration in
still stronger terms, that he will not disclose his own rote or
that of any other member. And what is the reason? It is
because the law considers the vote of the officer as a trust,
and therefore gives him the Ballot or what comes to the same
thing, as the means of enabling him to exercise his trust with-
out danger. The law assumes, that he is more likely to exer-
cise his trust faithfully without intimidation than wit.'. Lord
John Russell says he will not give the Ballot to the people, be-
cause voting is a trust. So much for THE BALLOT.
The lengthened duration of Parliaments is nothing but an
invention to give the people the short end of the lever. There
is to be a stir and hubbub once in seven years, and the man
who wins is to set you at defiance till the end of that term,
like the men who of old were supposed to sell themselves to the
evil spirit. What would you think of anybody who proposed to
you to settle your accounts every seventh Christmas ; or every
third either ? This, therefore, points all reasonable people to
ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS.
If there was a Jury of which the members had all taken an
oath that they had a pecuniary interest in the case of one class
of disputants that were to come before them, what would be
the opinion of society at large on such a fact? Yet. every Mem-
ber of the House of Commons takes an oath, that he has a
pecuniary interest in everything that favours the rich against
the poor. There is no use in Hon. Gentlemen pretending to
bounce at the assertion ; for the visible practical consequence
before our eyes is, that the poor man's shilling's-worth of to.
bacco pays eleven times as much duty as the rich. When there
was some talk of a Property Tax, where the man of ten thou-
sand a-year should pay a slightly higher per-centage than the
man of two hundred, the rich set up the cry of "Confiscation.''
But to pay eleven times ;—" think of that when you smoke
tobacco!" Does this point or not, to the propriety of abolish-
ing the PROPERTY QUALIFICATION for Members of
Parliament ?
When numbers of men spend huge sums to get into a
certain position, it is a reasonable inference that if they do not
take it out in meal they take it in malt. Not only is a poor
wise man kept out of Parliament by a Property Qualification,
but. it is by all sorts of other inventions made impossible for any
man to enter the House of Commons without prodigious ex-
pense. The evils arising will never be remedied, till you can
send men into that House who shall not only be poor if you like
it, but shall be paid by you to do your work. No master trades-
man would employ an overseer, who said he would work for
nothing because he should be " aye picking up something
about the decks." Just so there will be no good representation
in the House of Commons, till you come to the PAYMENT
OF MEMBERS.
The laying a finger on the ancient prevision for the poor,
while the Corn-laws are continued which prevent the indus-
trious poor from obtaining their own bread, is such a manifest
outrage on all justice and policy, that it is only miraculous
where the men can be found who will go on not opposing the
SEW POOR LAW.
Knowledge is power; and those who dislike the power of
the people, dislike their knowledge. Religion, which has in
ail ages heen perverted into an instrument of oppression, is
made one here. The different religious sects might get over
the difficulties in the way of appropriating the national
funds to education, in three ways. First, by consent-
ing to introduce such instruction on religious sub-
jects as all can unite in. Secondly, by agreeing to
leave religious instruction to the teachers of the several
sects at the ordinary times and places. Thirdly, by directing
that those who are to be instructed should pass an hour or other
fixed period in receiving religious instruction from their respec-
tive teachers before they enter the general school ; the teachers
and the parents of the scholars being bound to provide arrange-
ments for the same. But they will do cone of them. They
will do nothing but set up religion as a stalking-horse, the
real object being to prevent the people from being instructed,
or else to keep up a kick-a.ndejostle match to see who
shall take most money from other sects to spend upon his
own. The men who do the last, do not trust with your throat
in a dark lane. If they do not cut it, it is only for fear of
being hanged. It is doubtful whether in this country, money
will ever be got from the Government for free education. But
there is other money than the Government's ; for where did
the Government's come from? The public must subscribe fur
itself, to set on foot an education to teach men what is neces-
sary for their civil callings. Religion is not made a source of
squabble at the door of a cook's-shop ; why should it be at the
door of a shop for food for the mind? All this points to the
necessity of an education which is not sectarian ; or, in a single
term, of SECULAR EDUCATION.
One subject more. There has just been a great effort made
to forward some of these objects, and it has failed. It failed
because it took the wrong way. Having taken the wrong, is
any body now disposed to take the right, and try to advance
our cause by the legal and constitutional method of Parliamen-
tary exertion? We act at fearful odds ; but- resolution and
perseveranee eat through a stone wall. There is a plan for the
purpose stated, going on in different parts of the country. Of
those who join, only two demands are made. One, that they
disavow violence. The other, that they will follow the Irish
leader's advice, to " take all they can get, and then ask for
more "