The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-02 00:00:00

TIPP SUN-, LONDON., WEDNESDAY, OCTOMM 2, 1839.

v en-Anent have strengthened themselves by the addition ,
of Roman Catholic associates. That because the na-
tion, people, Parliament, the Church, the Methodists,
and multitudes of pious Dissenters have loudly pro-
tested against a scheme of education which they have
declared to be infidel, the favourer, if not the promoter,
of that condemned scheme is made a member of the
G overnment. That these things are clone openly and
ostentatiously, and these motives made matter of
boast. These are matters which, as they severally
come before the public, we have not failed to-notice and
to make the subject of indignant commentary. '
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Out of evil cometh good. The late Chartist demon-
s trations, though attended with the temporary incon-
veniences of certain trifling breaches of the peace, and
though having filled for a time the minds of the wiser
and better classes of the community with serious
apprehensions and alarm, promise to be produc-
tive of incalculable advantage to all ranks of society.
The entire extinction of the Chartists as an organized
party, coupled with the condign punishment which is
being inflicted on some, and which inevitably awaits
others of the desperate demagogues who sought to
throw the country into anarchy, and to involve the work-
ing classes in utter ruin, will be attended with the most
salutary results, not merely for a few years, but for
generations to come. Not only have the poor simple
persons who were deluded by the artful designs of some
half dozen unprincipled democrats, had their eyes so
entirely opened to the supreme folly of the Chartist de-
monstrations, to which they were parties, as to preclude
all possibility of their being ever again entrapped into
a similar course of insanity ; but their children, and
children's children, will look back on the events of
1839 as to a beacon which warns them of the tran-
scendent absurdity of clamouring for those wild and
ridiculous concessions which are demanded by the
Charter. From the same events they will also learn
the perils to which those persons expose themselves
who adopt and avow the preposterous doctrine of
" physical force." Since, therefore, the result of the
recent Chartist exhibitions will thus be to sober down
the minds of the labouring clasies, and to render them
proof against any and all the attempts that may be
made to mislead them into a practical concurrence in
the revolutionary purposes of designing demagogues, the
temporary fears of the people, and the transitory
breaches of the peace in particular localities, cannot be
regarded as too high a price to have paid for benefits of
such incalculable magnitude.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The price of wheat fell on Monday, in Mark-lane,
eight or ten shillings a quarter ; and from several parts
of the country, accounts have been received, to the
effect, that the prices of grain are falling, more or less
rapidly. Such a result will damp the ardour of the
anti-corn law zealots. Exceeding stress has been laid,
of late, on the helpless condition of the Bank of Eng-
land ; and much vituperation has been directed against
the Corn-laws, in consequence of the fact that foreigners
are found to prefer English gold to English manufac-
tures. We have, repeatedly, shown that a repeal of
the Corn-laws would prove no corrective of this incon-
venient craving, on the part of foreigners, for bullion in
exchange for their corn ; while, in so far as the Bank of
England is concerned, why should the Corn-laws be blamed
for vices;that may be inherent in the system of our cu-
rency ? The vital necessity of protecting native in-
dustry by means of laws excluding untaxed foreign
grain, is in no way impaired by the fact, that the Bank
of England may, at particular seasons, be found ill pre-
pared to meet its liabilities. The agitators for the
repeal of the Corn-laws are, however, benevolent men.
They shudder to think that the labouring poor should
be subjected to the miseries that are (to labourers) in-
separable from " dear bread," and " a scarcity of
bread I." Now, it so happens, that, of late years, there
has always been a large section of the labouring classes
to whom bread has been " dear"—and to whom, there•

fore, bread has been "scarce ;"—ay, even when wheat
might be selling in the market of England, at 35
shillings a quarter ! Might it not be worth the while of
our humane Anti-Corn-law agitators, to inquire into the
causes of the " dearness," and " scarcity," to which
we have alluded ? There are, for instance, in England
at this moment, hand-loom weavers to the number of
eight hundred thousand, to whom is allotted, under our
modern system of manufacturing production, scarcely
one-third part of what they received in the form of
wages, some five-and-twenty years ago. To these men,
therefore, bread, without reference to the character of
the seasons, is perpetually becoming " dearer" and
" scarcer !" These men frequently want employment—
and, as a necessary consequence, they not unfrequently
want bread. But do the Corn-laws rob these men of
bread, or of employment? Undoubtedly not ;—for these
men possessed abundant occupation at remunerating
wages, during a long tract of years, in which corn was
nearly twtce as dear as it happens to be at this mo-
ment. There must, then, exist some cause, altogether
apart from the influence of the Corn-laws—nay, in di-
rect opposition to the influence of the Corn-laws—
which tends perpetually to render bread " scarce" and
" dear" to a large body of our fellow-subjects. 'Why
do the more zealous agitators against the Corn-laws
fail to inquire into the nature of the cause in which
this " dearness" and" scarcity" of bread take their rise?
The Corn-laws add to the extent of the field of employ-
ment for labour. The use of untaxed machinery, on
the other band, tends perpetually to narrow that field.
The loudest clamourers against the Corn-laws are the
men who profit most largely by the operations of un-
taxed machinery ; and in denouncing the influences of
the system which renders bread " scarce," and " dear,"
to the poor, they are, in truth, pronouncing the bitterest
condemnation on those social arrangements, in virtue of
which they are permitted to rob the labouring poor of
profitable employment.

The Courier of last evening, alluding to the state of
the present harvest, says :—" The accounts of the
crops for the last ten days have been watched by those
who are aware of the effect of a deficient harvest on
the currency, with the most intense anxiety. It may
be said that it depended on the accounts to be re-
ceived
up to this date, whether the state of embarrass-
ment and difficulty in which the commercial and trad-
ing interests have been recently involved, and from
which they are now just recovering, was to corn-
tinue from bad to worse, or whether by the subsi-
dence of the corn-panic the money-market would again
return to a sound and healthy state. It is with great
satisfaction, therefore, that our readers will observe the
very considerable fall in the price of wheat yesterday at
th:: Corn-market. We may add that the general feelinc,
is that the present prices will not be sustained. This feel-
ing, and the impression, which is now general, that the
harvest in the north is by no means a deficient one, have
restored confidence to a great degree, which is confirmed
by the circumstance of orders having been despatched
to stop all purchases of wheat abroad. The appre-
hension of a further demand on the country for gold
in payment for foreign corn, is thus materially relieved,
and it is trusted that the money market will rapidly as-
sume a firm and healthy tone."

The Globe thus alludes to some articles that have
lately appeared in the Times on the subject of Lord
Monteagle :—" The Times is amusingly angry at the
array of figures by which we, on Saturday, demolished
the reiteraterated falsehoods it had put forth respecting
the Comptrollership of the Exchequer. After chewing
the bitter cud of chagrin for three days, the bully assumes
a swaggering air ; and, with the usual portion of asper-
sions, threatens what wonders in the way of disproving
the plain matter-of-fact statement it will achieve at
some future time. We (says the Times of this morn-
ing) left the article without notice yesterday because we
had matters of more importance than Treasury lies to at-
tend to; and we do the same to-day, and for the same
reason.' We know—and the most inexperienced of the
public in the tactics of the Times know—what this lan-
guage means. The more important matter' which occu-
pied the Ti»zes columns of yesterday was an article on
Lord Brougham's pamphlet on Education ; in which
extracts were strung together with about as much
regard to harmony of design as a school-boy shows
in stringing birds' eggs. The more important matter'
of this morning is Daniel O'Connell ; who has sup-
plied our Contemporary with topics for the last five or six
years : and, to use the descriptive appellation he has
so happily and good-humouredly applied to himself with
relation to this daily vituperation poured upon him by
the Times—has thus become the best abused man in
the country.' We have in vain looked into these arti-
tidies for anything that can be regarded as novel or
important.' There is nothing in them which the Times
has not said in similar language on a thousand former
occasions ; while the only quality they possess is power-
fully soporific. This their readers will attest—if, in-
deed, on ascertaining their contents they did not wisely
abstain from risking the result by avoiding a perusal."
The Standard, speaking of Mr. Drummond's evi-
dence on the Lords Irish Committee, remarks as fol-
lows :—" The Morning Chronicle still persists in boast-
ing, in behalf or Lord Normanby, of the increased
tranquillity in Ireland. We have repeatedly shown
how little substantial ground there is for such
a triumph. Our Contemporary picks out little
tid bits of the evidence given before the Irish
Crime Committee of the House of Lords (almost
exclusively confined to that of Mr. Drummond, who
has an interest, putting all his political predilections out
of sight, as a particeps criminis, in whitewashing his
superior), and then proceeds to insist, either that
all that gentleman's statements and inferences, co-
loured by the wish which is
" father to the
thought," are correct, or that we want to charge him
with perjury ! That Mr. Drummond has seen everything
in a most favourable light for Lord Normanby, and
that ho has shown a natural dislike to become the
depository of disagreeable intelligence—any infor-
mation, in fact, calculated to verify the charges
against the late Viceroy, is most certain ; and
these facts afford abundant excuse for not re-
ceiving his testimony without due qualification.
We wholly repudiate some portions of his evidence,
because it has been flatly contradicted by several of
his own witnesses ; but we do not, therefore, charge
him with wilful and premeditated falsehood ; because
it is clear that on a question in which a man's personal
interests and personal prejudices incline him to a parti-
cular view, he often becomes comparatively blind to