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average consumption—and, when the crops here
were abundant, the farmer could nut, in conse-
quence of prices being kept higher here than in
other countries by the duty, find any vent for his
produce beyond our narrow market, and all the dis-
idvantage of a great reduction in price would then
fall on him. If, however, the agriculturists and the
landowners are inclined to try a fixed duty, they have
the means and the power in their own hands. They
may make such a change or they may cripple the
national industry and starve the people, as at present,
who seem resolved not to help themselves. Mr.
HUME has proposed a duty to be reduced every
successive year ; such a plan would, as long as it lasted,
make all agricultural operations, all leases and contracts
for land, uncertain and doubtful, and such a lengthened
period of uneasiness is much to be avoided. Objections,
however, can, we believe, be made to any scheme.
The far-sightedness of one, and the fears of another,
will always suggest an abundance of arguments ; but as
the country cannot go on as at present—revolution being
talked of, not once a year, but every day—we have to
beg the landed gentlemen to announce how far they
are disposed to remove the fetters which they at
present fix on the national industry. We are not so
wedded to our own wish for a complete abolition of
the law!, as not to accept any change short of that
which they may condescend to make.

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LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 30, 1838.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

As we stated in The Sun, some days ago, it was
yesterday decided at the Privy Council, held by her
MAJESTY, that Parliament is to meet for the despatch
of business on Tuesday, the sth of February next.

At the time of going to press, Lord DURHAM has
not reached town, but is hourly expected. We ap-
prehend, however, from the state of the weather last
night, that the difficulty of landing from the Incon-
stant must have continued.

A Meeting of the friends of Poland was held yes-
terday at the Crown and Anchor, which was at-
tended by many of the most ardent and influential
advocates for tke restoration of that aggrieved nation ;
among others, by Lord DUDLEY STUART, who, in
a concise and animated speech, explained the objects
of the meeting, and dwelt with particular energy on
the injuries which Poland had sustained at the hands
of Russia. He was followed by a Polish gentleman,
named DEJBOWSKI, whose remarks were replete
with good sense, and breathed a truly patriotic spirit,
except in one solitary passage, where he spoke
an bitter and scornful terms of the well-known
Prince CZARTORYSKI, whom he described as
a traitor and a hypocrite of the deepest die,
who had never volunteered to stand forward in the
van of his struggling countrymen, except with a view
to betray them. Now this censure on the Prince is,
we have every reason to believe, wholly unfounded ;
and was accordingly repelled, with much emphasis and
dignity, by Mr. YOUNG, and more particularly
by Lord DUDLEY STUART, who bore testimony
to the fact that the illustrious individual in ques-
tion was, and had ever been, one of the stanchest,
most consistent, and most disinterested of the Polish
patriots ; and that he had sacrificed more to the cause
of national freedom than any of his countrymen now
in existence. We place full reliance on his Lordship's
assertions—for he is intimately acquainted with
Prince CZARTORYSKI'S history—and are persuaded
that Mr. DEJBOWSKI was wholly, though no
doubt unconsciously, in error, when he spoke, as he
did, of the Prince. True, he was the favourite, and
the Minister of the Emperor ALEXANDER. But
why was this, and when was this ? At the period
wen his Imperial MAJESTY led the Poles to hope
and -believe that he was inclined to raise their country
again to an independent kingdom. Then it was that
Prince CZARTORYSKI leagued himself with ALEX-
ANDER, and his reason for so doing was becausehe
felt convinced that that was the only means he had
left of conferring substantial benefits on his country-
men. We regret deeply that Mr. DEJBOWSKI should
have deemed it necessary to make so injudicious an
attack on the Prince. It can do no good, and
will very likely do much harm. What the Poles
now stand most in need of, is unity of- principle and
action ; and, therefore, to throw down the apple of
ediscord among them, is to jeopardize the sacred cause
in which they are all embarked. T o succeed, the pa-
triots must be united to a man. They must fling all dis-
trusts--all jealouses—to the wind ; and think—speak
—resolve.—and act—in concert. Why stand out for
this, or that leader, or this or that form of government,
at a crisis like the present. Let them first kill their
hare, and discuss how it shall be dressed afterwards.
In speaking thus, we desire to be considered as speak-
ing in the most friendly spirit possible towards the
Poles, whose cause we have uniformly maintained,
rand whose ultimate independence we have never
doubted, provided they take the obvious means of se-
curing that independence, which is, by acting in liar-
; with each other.

mon

If we call on the public to take into calm considera-
tion the best means for the repeal of the Corn-laws, it
is from a thorough conviction that the country cannot
go on as at present. Great pains have of late been
taken to give activity to the public mind ; education
has been promoted ; inquiries of all kinds have been
stimulated ; and, while mental activity has thus been

excited, the Legislature has kept the most unwise re-
straints on our material industry. It has insisted on
taking in a reef in men's stomachs, and on tying their
haul's. If the Legislature interfered in any way with
material activity it ought to extend it to the utmost
possible limit, and by all possible means, in order to
,employ the troubled and inquiring spirit of the age.
Directly the reverse of this has been the conduct of the
Legislature ; and, while the utmost means have been
taken to excite mental activity, the worst restraints
have been placed on industrial enterprise.
We think the solution of the question would not be
so difficult as persons imagine, if they were to look to
principlev, rather than encumber themselves with a
multitude of details. One such principle is, that the
abrogation of the Corn laws, would be an altered dis-
tribution of the national resources, made light and easy

We have great pleasure in directing public attention
to the report of a speech of Lord DURHAM, deli-
vered at a farewell dinner given to his Excellency by
the Brigade of Guards in Quebec, on the 30th ult.
It puts an end to the malicious calumnies set afloat by
the Tories as to the existence of any misunderstand-
ing between his Lordship and Sir JOHN COLBORNE.
The Noble Earl frankly declares that there was not the
shadow of a difference of opinion between them, and
that S 9 highly did he think of Sir JOHN COLBORNE'S
capacity as a statesman and a soldier, that he would
himself most readily serve under him. Such a decla-
ration, from such a quarter, is no bad guarantee for
the tranquillity of the Canadas.

The City of London has done high honour to itself
by the way in which the members of its Council yes-
terday entertained the motion for presenting the free-
dom of the city in a gold box to the patriarch
of Negro Emancipation, the venerable THOMAS
CLARKSON. There was not the shadow of op-
position, from any quarter, to the passing of a re-
solution, which states, in the most distinct terms,
that to THOMAS CLARKSON is due the glorious
merit of originating the great struggle for the " de-
liverance of the enslaved African." On the contrary,
every gentleman who spoke upon the subject seemed
to vie with those who preceded him in doing honour
to the bloodless conquests of a veteran, whose name
the yet unborn will pronounce with reverence. The
speech of Sir PETER' LAURIE was particularly cre-
ditable to the head and heart of one who had filled the
office of Chief Magistrate of the first City in the
world. To the friends of THOMAS CLARKSON it
must be gratifying, indeed, to witness the unanimity
displayed, by men of every shade of political opinion,
in rendering the homage of their gratitude for the
noblest benefaction that modern patriotism has be-
stowed upon England ; while, to the venerable old
man himself, it will serve as a rich requital for the
annoyance caused him by the wanton attacks made
upon his character by the Messrs. WILBERFORCE.
While the opportunity serves, it may be as well to
add a few remarks to what we formerly said upon this
very painful subject.
When an attempt is made, no matter by whom or
for what purpose, to rob a great public benefactor of
the only reward which transcendant merit is ever most
desirous of obtaining—namely, the undisputed public
acknowledgement of having rendered good service to
the Commonwealth, it becomes the duty of all honest
men to unite in correcting the smallest possible injury
that may result from the meditated injustice. The
fame of great and good men is in some sort na-
tional property, in the administration of which each
individual has a direct interest as a member of the
body corporate. It is in this spirit, and actuated
by these feelings, that we triumphantly refer to the
commentary of the City of London upon " Clarkson's
Strictures on the Life of Wilberforce," in which he
appealed to the justice of his country against the un-
feeling misrepresentations of the children of his early
friend and co-labourer. When it is remembered that
when the " Life of Wilberforce" was published the
venerable CLARKSON was in the 79th year of his
age, in the calm enjoyment of that solace which is ever
attendant upon the close of a life spent in the per-
formance of acts of the purest benevolence, and the
most unsullied philanthropy, the publication of calum-
nies calculated to cloud the evening of his glorious
career—calumnies against which he had protested,
and which it was not likely the debilitated state of
his health would permit him to notice through the
medium of the Press—the injury attempted to be
done him savours as strongly of cowardice as of a
feeling to which charity will not permit us to give a
name. Ilad the biographers of Mr. WILBER-
FORCE abstained from communicating with Mr.
CLARKSON on the subject of the " Life" of their
father before its appearance, we might attribute to
weakness of the head the expressions of feelings and
opinions which evidently must have originated in inhe-
rited convictions. Without detracting from the great
and important services rendered to the cause of Negro
Emancipation by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, we need
not look beyond his biography, as supplied by the mem-
hers of his own family, to be convinced that he was an
exceedingly weak, vain man, and that he was excessively
jealous of the public acknowledgment of the priority
and extensiveness of THOMAS CLARKSON'S labours
in the same field of Christian philanthophy. But
whatever were the instructions which he bequeathed to
those whom he appointed to hand down the memory
of his public and private actions to posterity, the
testimony of Lord BROUGHAM, of the late
venerable Archdeacon CORBET, of Mr. WILLIAM
SMITH, of Mr. RICHARD PHILLIPS, one of
the Society of Friends, and a member of the first
Anti-Slavery Committee of London, of WIL-
BERFORCE himself, and finally of the citizens of
London, as embodied in the vote of yesterday, render
nugatory all future attempts to place him upon that
pedestal which the gratitude of millions had conse-
crated to the honour of THOMAS CLARKSON, as the
first among the champions of the Abolition of Slavery.

by the fact that more would be produced. The instant
the restraints were to be removed which the Corn-laws
now impose upon industry, and, indeed, the instant
there was a reasonable prospect that they would be re-
moved, great activity would be introduced into our
manufacturing system ; there would be more employ.
ment for the people--more wages and more wealth
actually created. At present, the law both circum-
scribes our industry, and violently appropriates its
produce ; an alteration or abolition of the Corn-laws
would both enlarge the boundary of our industry, and
:allow distribution to follow more its natural course.
"IV e may not, however, expect in the present state of
OR. two Houses of Parliament, and the great
Po w,er of the landed interest, that any scheme we
coui suggest would succeed, and we must therefore
conk ant ourselves with expressing a hope that others may
be ins lucad to prosecute an inquiry into the best means
of get, ting rid of the Corn-law, inflicting by the change
the lea st passible evil on the whole community.
Sir ' rIILIMAS LETHBRIDGE recommends a fixed
duty— we have already declared against such a duty,
and hairo advanced some arguments to show that it
would 'boe more injurious than the present system. We
may adsl that we think it would be particularly injuri-
ous to the working agriculturists. It would
keep ithe supply of corn fully up to the

The disgraceful riots of which Todmorden and its
neighbourhood have been the scene, are now, we would
lain hope, at an end. Much blame, we perceive, is
imputed to the local magistracy for their want of energy
when these disturbances first broke out. Had they
done their duty in the first instance, by applying for
military assistance, when they found the civil power
that the destruction ofo 0 tfhi
nep:,.looapcweelnret
unable to resist the fury
innocent
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ts,h
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violence experienced by the
e
ignorant and misguided men's hatred would not have
taken place. The Government, it is stated, in a pro-
vincial paper, were not apprised of the events which
occurred 16th until a week after
—a circumstance
it be a fact, is altogether
at Todmorden
which, o n
if the
inexcusable. The way to deal with a mob
bent on
mischief is to act with vigour and firmness in the
outset, and not, through a dilatory and indecisive course,
allow the violence of a few, by its successful defiance of
lawful authority, to inoculate the mass. In no case is the

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1838.

maxim obsta princiviis so necessary to be nhcerved.
F 0 what is the nursing of Bristol, in she ETHERELL
riot to be attributed, but to the supineness of the magis-
trates in the first stage of the disturbance ? A few idle
boys were permitted to break the windows of the Town
Hall with impunity ; a crowd of other idlers gradually
collected ; the passion for mischief spread, and the re-
sult, never once contemplated by a single individual
beforehand, was the conflagration and plunder of a con-
siderable portion of the city.
The active measures which ought to have been
sooner adopted at Todmorden, were not resorted to
till Saturday last, when the military surrounded one of
the mills of Mr. JOHN FIELDEN—who is deeply re-
sponsible for the outrages committed by his men—
and forty of the workmen were apprehended by the
special constables. Another mill was visited in a similar
manner, but the people employed there had received
intelligence of what had occurred, and had fled.

The men taken by the constables were escorted by
the military to Todmorden and there examined by the
Magistrates. Sixteen of them, who were sworn to as
having been actively engaged in the riots, were com-
mitted to prison to take their trial at the next assizes ;
the others were discharged.

'The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday have
come to hand ; but at so late an hour that we are com-
pelled to abridge our ordinary quantity of extracts from
them. They will be found in another column.

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