The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-02 00:00:00

81'iaIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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.--The coming general election, as it would
the and that which must come before the election,
e 'elY•
jiLessiion of Parliament now about to commence,
too to find the Conservative party by no means
is i„ell Prepared for either struggle. Their case
ie teed one which might well discourage politicians
„`l,ained and exercised in the hard and bracing
Dar?' of adversity. It is now 19 years since the
1,0i3' broke up rather than accept the free-trade
reLeY of Sir Robert Peel ; twice have they
t,o`ged to office, and twice they have proveddunsaublee
qoZtain the power which they had
hearrninent of Lord Palmerston hlgrasnow lasted
ase
of that time
Ilree six years, and during the i
acti„ave constantly heard of steady oConservative. re-
Do 'll- The events in America, the prosperity which
the e and free trade have brought upon the country,.
colaniet:44iction that, whatever may be the theoret icai
f our institutions, we are the best governed
le,ll4`tY in the world, have all tended, as it would
Lam' to reconcile opinion to the Conservative party.
try 4 Session they challenged the verdict of the coun-
ks;ll a question which they approached with every
Cage tele advantage. They had besides the
.advan-t
(I,°;f an alliance with the Roman Catholics, no
hvehrned by any merit of their own, but by the
of C'ell of the Papal Government from thef policy4l)l °„1;(1 Palmerston ; and yet, with all these alvourr-
kaei„",reurastances, they were defeated by a larger
186PtY than that which drove them from power
'leti;;.e They have during the last five years failedto
littehY themselves with any principle which can
74then their union or enlarge their influence.
Of e"l,l),e_ak much of their friendship for the Church,
44W---en they would, no doubt, make very good
take ecrald they only persuade their adversaries to
'loth,.any step hostile to it. It is quite clearp. that
Pxfo-,4,lgean be done in the direction of Mr. isr.aehli's
iarßes,"' SPeeCh, to the bold innovations of which
ber of his own party are strongly opposed.
Piele,liestion between the two parties has resolved
41easi,„'re than ever into one of Men instead of
to 6—es,, and the only issue distinctly raised seems
should Whether, supposing the Conservative party
filed Succeed to power, the offices will be better
at th,:"11(1 the public affairs better administered than
not tPresent time. We believe, however, this is
Ar0,04,e question on which the. Conservative party
'hied be most anxious to meet their antagonists
thete,,r, in Parliament or on the hustings. Something,
o irre, must be done, and there is little time to
a 414 bla• It is rather late to take up new ground,
otittile eniergency leaves the party no choice. The
2r%
who and the man has presented himself—
inwu° is well adapted for such a case, beinglong
fighttltnde hard battles, and possessing the for-
Sfl winch can support defeat, and tile pertinacity
ry caPii?zaintain a conflictif it cannot secure a vic-
rblie 0 see, by a circular just issued, that a great
Anti,Srin-„,eeting of the farmers of England, headed
of „.-,itzroy Kelly, is convened at the Central
;44-Tax Association on Wednesday, the Bth
dent, -rtarY, the day after the meeting of Parlia-
ie4gj number of members of Parliament will,
I[ll, be present, and it is expected tha.t all who
tic de
abolition of this obnoxious tax will exert
t Oen, es to secure a large attendance at this pub-
,"4'te -crustration. This rings very much to the old
,40t old times. The object of the meeting does
loiriO4),,.ear to be to " demonstrate" in the sense. of
t;thatle'r convincing, but to make a demonstration
-"a b "3, to show the numbers and influences that
itl:,94l,%eo°..ncentrated. in a single hour, in a single
li ° (10 r the purpose of repealing. the Malt Tax.
ellll°t doubt the qualifications of Sir Fitzroy
V offloccupying the chair at a meeting the ob-
k;,`‘Nitf, is neither to convince nor to persuade ;
Flo ex,:e,very deference to his reputation as a tried
th
hod,lle,nc a 'culturist, we cannot help think-
15'M t,:4sic undertakes should have been con-
rett.' gentleman whom an evil destiny has too
the. eyed from the honours and trials of public
14: Aer,-"ed We say that we allude to Mr._ Chowler,
tlia-J orator of Protection, who used to remind
acithe t,the farmers owned more horses than any
tl°\irt fei4S in England, and threaten to trample
;1414 trade dertlelioofs of a resistless agri-
ta''''ttian cavalry, under
We do not doubt that every
'4titi' (3,-; will he made to recruit the numbers of the
li
tLif and that. thingsgo off nearly, as
cawenll_
I;l4lpt,"aa: attended, spontaneously,willinstead of being
i-1 am the circular proposes it shall be,by
Ill°4 eh solicitation. -The- object is, of course, ma-
t,-„,"t th4Teh. The farmers are to be made tO be-
ta of 41,1_.ey have a large pecuniary interest in the
is ‘!len, ;Ile Malt Tax ; that if they are only true
14,1,1veltiQe14.ves in the coming election that repealto
thi the ;cbeir reach, and that they have only
h:ilrk,ofit'r.ervatives in power in order to secure
t desirable object. Now it may seem
rest hip . o ene
la eh counter with argument a movement
kre
.1.1.1001 "rii by the circular we have quoted to
4-taiaip more on numbers than on reason, nor
to „'" rax.-vared to dispute that the repeal of the
,°hsid;,„Wolild be a public benefit. What we have
is whether it is the most obnoxious tax
holh'eh 'e) and whether the gap in the revenue
beg' otll,„l'ePeal would occasion can be filled up by
belle
ti;4 tax less obnoxious and oppressive. We
laqat a long agitation against
.separate taxeste
of cony' ed
-t an 011 r t mo the public that it is mere was
htla4Y. paa.t?ediscuss the expediency or inexpediency
allhpai a Ular tax, without reference to our whole
not P'teln, to all other existing taxes, and to
abk,l SSible Bilbstitutes. The question is relative,
poilit • lite •
'very tax is an evil in itself, and the
1144 gad n decide between a greater and a lesser
'ver% (41rm.; it is, we may take it away, and then.
!IN', or h:es obliged to replace it by something
111011. Il'aVe untouched some tax still more ob-
havticlod ti::4e movement, we have said, is evidently
been of the farmers of England. They
ihav4 am °bite: misled before, and Sir Fitzroy
be - th 'IS friends very naturally believe they
r„ work en). a, •
'e(l 0 mine of credulity which can never
tiar upon We beg the farmers, however, to
fall8"1 Whom the burden of the Malt Tax
prk• rip(' who would be benefited by its re-
lvv,e•jadie ere is no doubt that the owner of land
f 'ea b
14eti, -g up ,-,f Y any doubt which discourages the
atl,fretl article, tlae pro somehat laud into a mann-
541,ightbhatn rise of rent on barley
tj Th. expected if the duty on malt were
to .t,'lltity on ere ig also no doubt that the imposition
'kt.",,t',.tee of that ingredient of beer enhances
elata-t. thail . beverage, and this to a much greater
p„e% rePresented by the duty itself. Two
Avhatlalt Tark'x a, then, would gain by the repeal of
lleca, Would landlord and the consumer ; but
k4le the farmer gain ? Say that his farm
lc, 1)0_7 productive and yielded him a larger
te'ttitrthat
Profit think that he would be able to re-
coit'elt for himself ; or is it not, on the
I4.llo;:preveilt ISCrtain that the competition of trade
'to4t ordh7 profit on barley land from rising
ora e ary level, and that whatever extra
It 18 ultimately accrue to the land:
• -e must ._ •
•C20ta,4.1- Supino",,,, as was in the Corn Law contro-
lrk t'Awa fraciTig the result of the repeal of the
41\ vay(:
prgel Zein,atl2.e whoare now attempt-
ulcted agitation against the Malt Tax
would be, a reduction in the pro-

fits of farming, the loss would have ultimately fallen,
not upon the farmers, but upon the landlords ; and
yet the farmers allowed themselves to be made the
principal agents in an agitation founded on grounds
which turned out to be false, but which, if true,
interested them very little. It is quite enough to
have been once beguiled in this manner ; no class
can afford to commit so capital an error twice in the
same generation.

DAILY NEWS. —A most meritorious though unas-
suming institution was brought before the public on
Monday, under circumstances which at first threat-
ened to impair its usefulness by obscuring its good
name. The Boys' Home, in the Euston-road, is an
institution for the reception of boys who have been
previously vagrant and disorderly, but have never
been convicted of crime, and it has been very success-
ful. The boys have been selected from numerous ap-
plications as being destitute, end in danger of lapsing
into crime. Fifty are lodged, fed, clothed, and
receive instruction in various trades in the Euston-
road Home, and a branch of the school has been
established on a farm at Barnet, where the boys
acquire some practical knowledge of dairy farming.
The boys are made to assist in some measure for
their own maintenance, yet a large expenditure,
chiefly caused by the extreme youth of many of them,
is necessary to enable the managers to continue their
useful exertions. Sergeant Rayment, the master at
the Euston-road Home, appeared before Mr. Barker,
at the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, to
answer a summons charging him with unlawfully as-
saulting and beating George Ivey, one of the in-
mates. The prosecutor, we regret to state, was the
Marquis Townshend, a philanthropic nobleman, by
whose means the boy Ivey was introduced to the
Home. The boy was taken into the institution off
the streets. He was perfectly destitute when ad-
mitted, his parents being unable to provide him
with shoes or stockings, although the appearance of
his father in court in a state which forbad his
examination as a witness showed that they had
money to spend in drink. At the Home he was
clothed and fed, and set to work with other boys
at chopping wood and turning a wheel—labour
which he told the magistrate was too severe for
him, although he admitted in court that he had
never complained of it while in the institution.
His story was that Sergeant Rayment had beaten
him upon the hands with a cane, cutting
his knuckles and laying open his thumb. The boy
was taken out of the Institution by his parents, and
there seems to have been a great deal of going
about, and fetching and carrying of notes. The
priest saw him, and then the chemist, although
neither of them appeared in court ; his mother also
saw the Marquis several times on the subject, and
in the end this prosecution was brought. Mr.
Barker, after a patient investigation, said that he
saw no evidence of unnecessary violence in this
case, and that there were great contradictions be-
tween the statements of the mother and the son.
His impression was that the wound on the thumb
was caused by the chopping of wood, and not by
blows from a cane. The charge had not been
proved, and the summons must be dismissed. An-
other summons against the foreman of the Home,
arising out of the same case, was also dismissed.
Happily the charge so inconsiderately brought
has wholly failed, and no doubt the Marquis
Townshend is well pleased with the result. We
shall be glad if this most useful and deserving in-
stitution should receive advantage from the atten-
tion which has thus been unexpectedly called to it,
and if the gentlemen who conduct its affairs find
themselves placed, by the kindness of the public,
in possession of increased means of usefulness as
some compensation for the annoyance to which
they have been unjustly exposed.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AYERAGES.—Wheat, 38s Gd ; barley,
29s Od ; oats, 19s 3d; rye, —s to —s ; beans, —s —d ;
peas, —s —d.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 72,510 ;
barley, 71,913 ; oats, 7,804 qrs.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

To-day's market was but moderately supplied with beasts,
both as to number and quality. Nearly all breeds moved
off slowly, at Monday's currency. The general top figure
was 5s 4d per 81bs. The show of sheep was limited, never-
theless sales progressed slowly at present quotations. The
best Downs in the wool realised 6s 2d per 81bs. We were
scantily supplied with calve; which met with a dull in-
quiry at late rates, viz., from 4s 4d to 5s 6d per Bibs. Pigs
and mulch cows were very dull, but not cheaper.
Per 81b to sink the offal.

sdSd ads d
Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 G 4 2 , Pine crs-wool sheep 5 6 5 10
Second quality do .. t 4 4 10 Prime 6'thdown 0(16 0 6 2
Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2 La-ge coarse calves. 4 4 5 0
Prime Scots, &c.... 5 2 5 4 Pratte small d0......5 2 5 6
Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 4 410 Large hogs ..3 4 3 10
Second quality do ..5 0 5 4 Small porkers ...4 0 4 6
Lambs....os Cd to Ui Od.

Sultling calves, 17s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s
',so 25s each

Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts
Cows
Sheep
Ca VC.4 ll9
Pigs

- - -
Beasts OBO
C:Avs .. 120
Sheep .
Calves l2O
Pigs 32)

MEAT MARKETS.

NEGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are
moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows :—Beef, from
3s 6d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; veal, 48 Od to
48 10d; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 81b by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, Feb. I.—The supply of stock was tolerably
good, and sales progressed slowly, as follows :—Beef, from
3s 6d to 5s 4d ; mutton, 4s 2d to Gs Od ; veal, 4s 4d to
5s Od ; pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs. to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Feb. I.—Prime stock sold freely at full quo-
tations ; otherwise, the trade was in a sluggish state.
Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s 4d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; veal,
4s 4d to 5s 2d; pork, 3s Gd to 4s 6d per 81bs. Suckling
calves, 15s to 20s; quarter old store pigs, 20s to 245; and
milch cows, £l5 108 to £2O each.