The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-01 00:00:00

call
info the fullest developmentailthe energies of the Eng
ltsh soil, all the powers of English capital, all the capacities
of English industry. Under
such a system, labourer could
ever_„ want employment—no capitalist could ever want a sphere
ucolloriai
operations, either in agriculture, or in the mighty home and
trades, which would spring out of the adoption by
, dGovernment of the principle indicated. In years of abun-
ance' Government might buy the farmer's surplus produce,
soon as prices fell to a certain level. In years of scarcity,
Government could sell from the stores in the public granaries,
wber,
prices should rise to a certain predetermined point. The
results would be security to the corn- grower—unbounded em-
ployment to labourers and capitalists of all kinds—together
'lb a guarantee against famine, and against dependence on
foreigners.
The Agricultural Committee, which sat in 1833, re-
ported that the country has become annually depen-
"ent for a portion of its] supply on importations from
abroad." But for them this year, at least a tenth of
°ur people would be in absolute want of food. To
act on the landlords' scheme, as propounded by the
Herald, implies, therefore, the extinction at once of
the tenth part of the population. Two million four
hundred thousand human beings must be starved out
of existence. The anti-centralizing Herald, too,
would make the Government the distributor of food
end, as if it had not power enough at present, would
Place
at its mercy the whole subsistence of the people.
It would give it the complete monopoly of the Corn-
trade. Moreover, it would make the Government the
principal employer of all the workmen, and would
,Place their wages, as well as their subsistence, in the
,flands of the landowners. The Herald, in its phi-
lanthropic care of the working classes, would provide
Thore work for them, and give them less food.

The address of Mr. O'CONNELL and the Precur-
13or§ of Ireland to the Radicals of England, which
appears in another part of The Sun, is worthy of
Pilblic attention. He gives our misled brethren some
excellent advice, which should be enforced by the
remembrance of the former services of those to
*whom he counsels them to adhere. 'We agree,
0, with his observations on the Whigs and the
Tories ; but it has now become essential to the
popularity of the former, and even to their continuance
in power, that they should bring forward some bold
4,;(1 comprehensive measures. Perhaps the Ballot,
Triennial. Parliaments, the Abolition of the Corn-laws,
11.'4
- an Extension of the Suffrage might do something
to reconcile the people to the Legislature, from which
They 'ncilv seem totally estranged. The art has not yet
33een discovered of governing a free people against their
!ill' ,and we therefore look on the estrangement of the
'asses from the Legislature as the symptom of a fatal

As e have of late mentioned more than once
- this Journal, there seems now to be a well-grounded
alarm that the working-classes, much fretted and irri-
tated by a long continuance of oppression, are pre-
haru _ Lug an.d resolved to have recourse to physical force
do themselves justice. They are resolved to be
Judgesla in their own cause, and take the making of the
w into their own hands. A Correspondent at Bir-
ra Ingham informs us that a stronger indication has
been given there of a disposition to resort to physical
o
thece by a certain party than he has known for years
i""h be remembers well the disposition of the people at
e pE:riod of the Reform agitation. The London
" Westminster Review contains the following para-
?lA, which throws some light on a statement we
tle six weeks ago, that guns had been stolen from a
h a
°"k le in Kent :
toillo re are known to us many facts picked up during a home
the t his autumn, which prove that the discontent among
thva:vur king classes is leading them to rely more on. rifles
',.)11 right. In the beer-shops of Kent, as well. as in the
ar •lu°Ps of Manchester, the stuff out of which insurrections
Lena de is becoming rife. In the manufacturing towns of
tfleme4.k hire a portion of the working classes have formed
whie,7etves into two kinds of societies—political unions, in
tio,s_a, .olities are discussed, and where arms are never men-
.and targeteer clubs, where arms are practised, and
liolitics we never heard of. The members of the targeteer
Cl,nbs sut scribe weekly sums, until they have as much money
zineetect as will buy a rifle. When a rifle is bought it be-
-47 Wes arize+fhor whichft all those who have not got rifles shoot
malt emuarse..of
it
;e
andri eththeusugnsouecscienstsofutlhceahny:ddastebsegsot fittedon
suiLo
ing and competing until they succeed. A similar method
i Ps -actisectin Scotland, in some parts of which the rifle is
11% ;sandy practised by working men, both by daylight, and by
'4W lelight.
Yo,sterday both the Chronicle and the Herald
4d lot lg articles on the disposition of the people to have
41 euurst to physical power to obtain their ends, and
1, r
7'tb aeed in stating that a large portion of the
chartists, under the influence of Messrs. O'CoNNox
STEpIiENS, have resolved that at a certain time,
Universal Suffrage be not granted, " the masses
shall, simulta.neously, bring their physical energies
:O bear upon ithe decision of the question I" This
I the
was enthusiastically responded to, says
• Herald, by • assembled tens of thousands, and
i
'tt' adoption induced the Birmingham Political
Union, with Mr. ATTWOOD at its head, to call a
eating of the people on Tuesday, and, after an
:C'uous struggle, they obtained the assent of the people
t 4 resolution in favour of peace and order. This re-
-1110,1"t10,i, however, it is plain, does not carry with it
13 the ilirmingham people, many of whom adopt Mr.
C°NN, OR'S scheme. What the physical-force men
alaY be ab le to accomplish, we cannot say : what they
11 at, is th us described in the Herald of yesterday:—
'But the ~ Oysical-force" men—" Are they," it may be
he.m, "really iormidable ? Are they in earnest in their
h e!\tB ? Are the mad enough to contemplate the overthrow
violence of the ctablished arrangements of society ?
,r
these questions, we answer without hesitation, that the
lo llsical-force" men, are in
earnest. They may be
chars c-
lamed
At .°llY—for madness---for t7uilt of the most atrocious
it? but no person who has I:aken the trouble to ascertain
sit 'r Innermost feelings can dou'bt, that they are terribly in
west I
L7.ok at the composition of the par..'y I In that party may
found enthusiasts, bent on the asserjon, at all hazards, of
lkt. ,• errie principles, having the entire reconstruction of society
','Us
avowed end I In that party, may b 2 found men, de-
iltvl! of any change that shall afford them the chance of
Ing by spoliation, and by the depression of those classes,
.e,", at present rule the world ! But above all, and .
nfi-
tot •'t more formidable than all besides, in ,be,, ph ysica -
%lie: Party, may be found tens of thousands of industrious
Nit an; rendered desperate by ill-rewarded toil, and .y un-
'l Oppression.
N Ve shall at present make no comment on these facts
ti
oir statements, but leave them to the good sense of
. readers. Those, however, who suppose that the
press Int institutions and laws of this country are little
cordance with natural justice, or the natural order
toti%)‘ 7..iety, will see in these proofs of wide-spread dis-
, ph!""t, prompting a resolution to seek redress by
•"i 'cal force, a subject of paird,ul alarm.
- -

AVV e have received this morning the whole of the
w ititrih l ; Jom:nals of Thursday, from which, together
tot, those of the two previous days, extracts will be
. ..e
11 ,lb lin another part of The Sun. The King of h
ei
-i,..,; •
k. i tans was to set out from Brussels on a visit to the
-kill
11 g of the French this day.
latei be Journal (.47,,., Paris says—" It is said that the King has
to et Y made his w;11. By this document he is said to have
4111 a: ated the persona; right of all the members of his family
leap 'S important successi:m ; then, as it is possible that he may
1%,,,e minors, Louis Philipce is said to have designated before-
-114,;'' the Members of the t_
"dumber of Peers who should re-
rtt,, E Ilt the i to be regulates by the com-
e 1 ,w.„ m ; the successioi.

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SA.
NCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
?lit
171 'lt DUNN COMPANY V. THE NOR'ilt MIDLAND RAILWAY
• Till COMPANY.
111/Int• cave came before the Court upon tvotion for an in-
ner I°n to restrain the defendants, the Company Of Proprie-
, Sef •
in the
_North Midland Railway Company, from ,sumcmon-
g a
Pau. r Try to assess the value of the land required by the om-
lop the purposes of their
WAKMFIELD was opening themotion when our Reporter

ICE-CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.)

SOUTHAMPTON V. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGH

A Th„r RAILWAY COMPANY.
%y, b... gurnents in thi3 part-heard motion were resumed to-
-Ikt )tiovn had not concluded when we left. The object of the
44 d,-,!I to restrain the defendants from encroaching on the
01 the plaintiff.