The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. T. Attwood, voted on December 16th, for the House to go into a Com-
mittee on the Civil List on that day, when the Liberal party, headed
by Mr. Harvey, proposed to postpone the Committee till the follow-
ing Monday. His name does not appear in any other Division on
the Civil List. On one stagikof the proceedings with regard to that
List he rose to propose an amendment, the nature of which is not
recorded ; we presume it was a sweeping one, as the Speaker declared
that it was inadmissible.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock.

WITH WHICH
THE I, TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1838.

The weather is now looked to, in consequence of our I
unfavourable prospects, with considerable anxiety, and we
rejoice much that to-day again, as yesterday and the day
before, the country is blessed with fine ripening harvest
weather. A few such days, or two or three weeks such
weather, as compared to the rainy, cold, disheartening
weather of the last,month, will make a great difference in
the quantity and quality of the corn securely gathered.
At the same time, though these three days must have
effected a favourable alteration, it cannot be doubted or
concealed that great apprehensions exist as to the produce
of the harvest. From all the accounts we have seen we
infer that, in the South of England generally, the corn is
remarkably fine, the ears are large, and the grain well
grown, while in the North generally, and on the elevated
districts of the centre, it is very deficient as well
as very backward. A little fine weather, therefore, would
secure the plentiful harvest of the South, and bring the
backward harvest of the North to perfection, while cold wet
weather would destroy the crops in the North, and damage
those of the South. The period is extremely interesting,
and speculation is, of course, all alive.
The public fully share in the interest. The representa-
tion made at Birmingham of three loaves, the English
being small and high priced, the French bigger and lower
priced, and the Russian still bigger, and still lower, has
gone the round of all the Provincial and Sunday pa-
pers, and has spoken to the eyes and the hearts of
the people. Wheat is at 785., and the :oaf at lOid.
To-day the Common Council have met, and though
they refused to take into consideration the propriety of
petitioning the Legislature to allow the corn in bond to be
brought in free of duty, that such a motion has been made
betrays much anxiety ; the papers teem with calculations as
to the probable prices, and as to the probable deficiency ;
we are threatened with a dearth, and with wheat at 100 s.;
Parliament it has been stated may be called together in
November; fearful apprehensions are, in fact, growing up in
the land, and everywhere there are indications of a moral
storm which the return of bad weather would rouse into a
violent tempest. We did our duty several months ago, by
endeavouring; to draw attention to the subject, and
are happy to know that our endeavours were at
the time appreciated by the Press ; but the united
efforts of many journals had not the small influ-
ence over the landowners, whose hearts are hardened
in the ways of wickedness, and who out of selfish
pride refused to concede even the small privilege of allow-
n g foreign corn to he ground in bond. 'They may have at-
tained their object of keeping up rent, as Mr. VILLIEItS
said a few nights ago, though we shall presently point out
some reason to suppose they have injured themselves, even
in a pecuniary point of view ; but they have earned for
themselis the Chronicle said on Friday, the fierce
hatred of the hulk of the towns-people. That seems to us
a fearful condition for the Aristocracy of England ; but it is
terrific for them to feel and to know that they deserve this ha-
tred. Latterly they have displayed all that love of plunder
which was one of the distinguiihing features of the Barons
of the middle ages, without the boldness of those ma-
auders. They have sought to attain their objects by mi-
serable legislative juggling, and they have added the
meanness of pedlars and the hypocrisy of priests to the ra-
pacity of robbers. The mailed hand of the feudal plun-
derers did command obedience by fear ; but our pecuniary
Aristocracy, have neither power nor courage to enforce
and maintain their reprobated system. The contempt felt
for them is fully equal to the growing hatred.
Now what do they gain, to compensate for being
thus the objects of national contempt and hatred ? Not
even a little wealth. The Corn-laws are kept up for the
sake of the titheowners ; and if there were no Corn-laws,
there could be no tithes. The landed Aristocracy would,
by the destruction of the tithe system—the inevitable
consequence of free trade in grain—be in truth en.
riched. But they first of all foolishly, and for the
sake of maintaining a useless and noxious Church
Establishment, allow tithes to be taken from their
lands, and then, to make up for that loss, they knavishly
plunder the rest of the community. In fact, the abolition
of the Corn-laws would overthrow the tithe system, and
enrich all the landowners, who were not also titheowners.
Moreover, the motion of Mr. WOOD, on Friday, to
bring in a Bill to enhance the duties on foreign fruits, made
another fact known to the public, with which we have long
been familiar—namely, that the Corn-laws, by enhancing
the price of everything grown on our soil, is a bounty on
many foreign productions. In the present commercial state
of the world there are a great number of things besides
corn on which the people subsist. Tea and coffee, and
sugar, for example, are substituted for malt and hops.

Raisins, and figs, and currants, enter largely into consump-
tion, and prevent the growth and sale of many fruits at
home. The price of the home-growths being greatly en-
hanced by the increased rent of land—the consequence of the
Corn-laws—promotes the competition of the growers of these
foreign productions, and is so far a bounty on_ their con-
sumption here. The same fact is true of corn itself ; its
enhanced price drives men to seek sAstitutcs of all kinds,
many of them the growth or production of other countries,
or other trades than agriculture ; and the Corn-laws, by
limiting the consumption of corn, do in fact lessen the
advantages which the landowners might derive from the
soil.
Another fact is made apparent by the presen't condition
of the corn market. It is the business of the agricultui ist
to grow, not to store corn. The latter is done by another
class of men. The instant one crop is gathered, he must
begin to prepare the soil for the next ; and in the great
majority of cases he must sell one crop before lie can com-
mend labour to grow the next. This is his inexorable fate.
The consequence is, that at this period of the year, the
agriculturist scarcely ever is the owner of the corn which
remains from last year's harvest ; and all the advantage of
the rise belongs to the money owners. The present state
of the corn market makes it evident that the farmers do not
benefit by short crops and high prices.
Those who command money, can and do influence the
market by their speculations. They are now looking to
the period when bonded corn may be brought into this
country at Is. per quarter, and to obtain that, the own-
ers of the bonded corn will, no doubt, go into the mar
ket and buy, and hoard what they buy. Suppose
by buying 12,000 or 15,000 or 100,000 quarters at a
high price, which they may afterwards be obliged to
sell:at a small loss, they get up the price so as to be enabled
•s introduce 500,000 quarters of foreign corn with-
out pa).lg any duty. The difference between the present
rate of duty .7rlCl wren corn may be imported at Is. per
quarter is 15s. per q!tarter. The duty which may be saved,
therefore, on 500,000 qui:rters of corn is 375,000/. What
a sum to tempt the gambling and speculative propen-
sities of those who, by owning money, can command
the corn market! They will take care, we pre-
sume, to • get this feat accomplished by or before
the time to buy of the home grower. The foreign
corn will be brought in just in time for the money-owners
to beat down the prices which the farmer ought to receive
for his short crop, and will certainly prevent that deficiency
being compensated by a corresponding rise in price.
Then will come the old story that Hodge, by the failure of
his crops, cannot pay his rent ; and Lord this, and Squire
that, will be munificiently puffed off in the Tory and
Church Journals, for their liberality in remitting ten or
fifteen per cent. of what is due from their tenants. Why,
then, the rise of rent on which the land-owners
hug themselves is merely nominal, and they deservedly
earn the national hatred and contempt, to enrich the
money-owner, and to promote gambling in. corn. The
very laws they eulogize offer, as we have just shewn, a
large bounty, perhaps as much as 400,000/., at this moment
to those who can get up the price, and bring in bonded corn
all ready stored at hand, free of duty, and tempt them
so to bring it in as to prevent the tenants, who ought to
get 80s. for his short crop, from getting above 655. Such a
temptation to those who can command the market will be
surely embraced, and the Corn-laws will thus be the
means of enriching the money class and taking money
out of the pockets of the tenants. So be it, for those
who seek to plunder others deserve to be impoverished.

The illegality of the proceedings adopted by Lord
DURHAM and his Council, towards the ringleaders of the
late insurrection in Canada, has been and is, the subject of
much comment. On the first view of those proceedings,
there unquestionably does appear to have been a considera-
ble departure from the ordinary forms of justice, in sending
these men, however clear their guilt might have been, into
banishment, without trial. There is a fact, however,
stated to-day by a Morning Contemporary, on the authority
of Mr. CHARLES BuLLErt, Chief Secretary to the Council,
which totally alters the complexion pf the case. It
now comes out that the deportation of the prisoners
was their own act, and that Lord DURHAM merely
gave effect to their wishes, they having actually petitio'grd
his Lordship "to be disposed of without trial." In such
circumstances there cannot, we should imagine, be any
necessity for a bill of indemnity to protect Lord
DURHAM from the consequences of this act of
grace, for such in reality it is. The unhappy
men who had in fact forfeited their lives to the laws of
their country implore the Governor-General not to
bring them to trial, and throw themselves entirely o❑
his mercy. And surely never was so much mercy
shown to culprits whose offences were of so heinous
a character. All that Lord Duattam required of
these unhappy men was, that they should leave
a country in which they had excited a rebellion, adding
the condition, that if they returned to it, they wozld
certainly be tried. To imagine that it was Lord
DURHAM'S intention to hang them without trial
if they came back, seems to us an absurdity. We think that
Lord DURHAM, placed as he is in circumstances of almost
unparalleled difficulty, has taken a humane, wise, and con-
sistent course. _ _ _

We publish a communication- on Canaan, from an au-
thentic source, which hears out awl corroborates the view
we have taken of that important question.

The successor of Mr. Hue, in Middlesex, on Friri.!y
night, gave a proof of his will, but fortunately not of his
power, to make the inhabitants of the maropolis pay for
the monopoly enjoyed by some of his constituents. The
President of the Board cf Trade a Bill this Session has
properly reduced the duty on foreign fruits to a 5 pc r cent.
ad valorem duty, in order that the public may be supplied
at a moderate rate with what may be termed not merely a
luxury but one of the necessaries of life. Owing to the
unequal supply, the price here is sometimes enormous,
while en the other side of the Channel it is comparatively
low; and this state of things Captain WOOD would con-
tinue, to keep up the landlords' rents. The House seemed
lost in wonder at the proposition of the Hon. Member at
the present moment, fur, as far as the report goes, not one
of his own side supported him. The Tory Member for
Sunderland, Alderman THOMPSON, told him if he wished
to be.. consistent, he must impose a duty on all fruit
brought by railroadg, and Mr. VH.LtEas described this at-
tetript to mulct the inhabitants of London as an " indica-
tion of what the country might expect if the landed interest
gained power in that House." We expect vet to see the
day when the apples of Normandy and the wheat of Po-
merania will be placed on the same footing.

We are indebted to the Times of this morning for an
abstract of the debate in the Diet of Lucerne on the 6th
inst., on the demand of France for the expulsion of Prince
Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE from the Swiss territory.
Those who have read the article in The Sun of Saturday
upon the subject, will be struck with the coincidence be-
tween our views and those of the majority of the Deputies
who spoke on the occasion we: are alluding to. We are de•
lighted to Lind that Switzerland is still resolved to main-
tain her old independence, despite of the threats 'of France,
and the machinations of Prussia, Bavaria, and the petty
despots of Germany.

Letters and papers from M drid, of the 4th instant, have
reached us this morning. The Cabinet was still in a state
of suspense, as no despatches had been received from Gene-
ral ESPARTERO. However one circumstance had occurred
to raise the spirits of Count OFALIA and his friends,
Generals NARVAEZ, ORAA, and SAN MIGUEL, had ad-
dressed letters to the Government, threatening to resign, in
the event of the Cabinet being modified to suit the ambitious
views of ESPARTERO. Thus is the army the. focus of fac-
tions as fierce as in the capital itself.
According to the Gazette of the 3d, Baron DE MEER
made the apocalyptical number of 666 prisoners at the
capture of Solsona. A Spanish friar would concoct a very
tolerable sermon out of the fancies sugge3ted by this
little incident.

he whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Satur-
day have been received. To testify the high regard in
which Louts PHILIPPE holds the services of Count MOLE,
President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
his MAJESTY, accompanied by all the members of the
Royal Family, except the Duchesses of ORLEANS and
WURTENSEBG, honoured the Count with his company at
dinner on Saturday at the chateau of Champlatreux. To
prevent any attempt on the part of the disaffected, the
day announced in the Journals of Friday for the Royal

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