The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

SAUNDERS' POLITICAL REFORMERS,
containing Portraits and Memoirs of
GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P.
Right Hon. C. P. THOMSON, M.P.
(From Paintings by George Hayter, Esq.)
And THOMAS WYSE, Esq., M.P.
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PORTRAIT OF PAPINEAU,
THE CIVIL WAR IN THE CANADAS,
With a general and a highly interesting Account of the Pro-
♦inces and their Inhabitants; comprising :-
1 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Settlement. 2. Re-
sources and Trade of the Country. 3. Description of the Country
and Climate. 4. Social Condition of the People, Manners,
Habits, Customs, Amusements, Songs, &c. 5. Religion, Educa-
tion, the Press, &c. 6. Population. 7. Information for Emi-
grants. 8. Memoirs of the Canadian Leaders, &c. with
VIEWS, MAPS, PLANS, AND PORTRAITS.

London : J. Saunders, Jun. 7, Dyer's Buildings, Holborn Bars.

DEDICATED by PERMISSION to HER MAJESTY.
On Thursday next, March 22, in 2 Vols. Bvo., with Portraits,
Q UEEN ELIZABETH and HER TIMES,
A SERIES of ORIGINAL LETTERS.
Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord
Treasurer Burghley, the Great Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries
Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and most of the
d.stinguished Persons of the period.
Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F. S. A., &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

EAST INDIA DOCK HOUSE.
20th March, 1838.
T HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice, that a
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIE-
TORS of the said COMPANY, will be held at their House,
No. 49, Leadenhall-street, in the City of London, on WxnxEsnay
the 28th instant, at One o'Clock in the afternoon, precisely, for the
purpose of considering of a Dividend to be made on the capital
st.,ck of the said Company for the half-year ending on the 225th inst.,
1,11,1 also for the election of four Directors of the said Company in
the room of the same number going out of office by rotation.
By Order of the Court,
THOMAS BAKER, Secretary.
N.B. The chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
The Transfer Books of this Company will close on Thursday
22d inst., and open on Monday the 2d of April next.

MEETING OF THE ATTORNEYS AND
SOLICITORS OF IRELAND.
At a GENERAL PUBLIC MEETING of the Attorneys and
Solicitors of Ireland, convened to consider the provisions of the
" Bill for the better regulation of the profession of Attorney and
Solicitor in Ireland," an for other important professional purposes,
held in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin,
JOSIAS DUNN, in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were unanimously entered into :
Moved by Mr. BEASLEY, seconded by Mr. BA RLOW—
Resolved—That as the interests of all classes of society are so
eply involved with the performance of the duties of the profession
of Attorney and Solicitor, the exercise of that profession should be
delegated exclusively to those whose respectability and professional
education shall have rendered them capable of discharging those
elties with integrity and skill, and of preserving inviolate that
e,eifidence which must of necessity be reposed in them, and with-
oet which the relation of Attorney and Solicitor and Client cannot
with safety exist.
Moved by Mr. GODDARD ; seconded by Mr. TANDY :
Resolved—:That the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament,
and the rules and bye-laws of the Benchers of the Honourable So-
ciety of Queen's Inns, made for regulating the profession of Attor-
ney and Solicitor, are found by daily experience totally insufficient
fie- the purpose, particularly of examining into the qualifications of
persons seeking to become members of that useful and honourable
profession, and that it is necessary that those laws and regulations
s..ould be amended by Legislative enactment.
Moved by Mr. AitstsTeoxo ; seconded by Mr. MeAnes—
Resolved—That although the Benchers of the Society of the
Queen's Inns were heretofore elected as well from the profession of
ikttorney and Solicitor, as from the members of the Bar, and
although the profession of Attorney and Solicitor have contri-
hated upwards of 100,0001. to the funds of that Society, more
tt:an one-half of which sum has been paid for the express pur-
pose of erecting Chambers for the exclusive use of the Attor-
neys and Solicitors—yet for many years past the Benchers have
I,ien exclusively elected from the profession of the Bar ; no
Chambers have been erected, and the Attorneys and Solicitors
gerive no advantage whatever from being admitted nominally as
members of that Society, except a limited use of the Library. It
.s therefore just and expedient that such anomalous connexion
should cease, and that henceforward the Attorneys and Solicitors
should not be compelled to contribute to the funds, or be under
the controul of a Society from which they derive no benefit ; in
whose Council they have no representatives ; in the manage-
ment of whose affairs they have no voice, and over the applica-
tion of whose funds they have no controul. At the same time, it
as not by any means the object or wish of the profession of Attorney
and Solicitor to be freed from the controul of the Judges of the
uperior Courts.
Moved by Mr. WATT ; seconded by Mr. COSTELLO :
Resolved—That the faithful and zealous discharge of the duti
of ev cry profession is greatly promoted by having some honou
able preferment, to the enjoyment of which the members
such profession may look forward, and that the spirit of em
lattou, which the hope of attaining such preferment is calculat
to produce, should be especially encouraged in the profession
Attorney and Solicitor, which profession eontributes more largel
than any other to the revenues of the country ; and as ever
other profession has set apart exclusively for its members, situa
tiowe of emolument, or retirement, the Attorneys and Solici
of li•eland are entitled to the emoluments of those offices conn
with Ole practical administration of the laws, not being judicia
but purely ministerial, and the duties of which,,they are from their
professional education and habits best calculated to discharge with
advantage to the public.
Moved by Mr. GLENNY, seconded by Mr. TUCKER,
Resolved—That with a view to remedy the defects in the ex-
isting laws in relation to the profession of Attorney and Soli-
citor in Ireland, and to relieve that profession from their anoma-
lous connexion with the honourable society of Queen's Inns, the
present measure has been prepared, by which it is sought to vest
in the profession itself, (subject to the controul of the judges of
the superior courts), the power of making rules for the regula-
tion of their profession, as well as for admission of Attorneys and
Solicitors into the several courts ; reserving, however, an, ulti-
mate appeal to the discretion of those Courts—and further, it is
sought to enact, that the several offices connected with the practi-
cal administration of justice in Ireland, should be set apart exclu-
sively for their profession.
Moved by Mr. WATT, seconded by W. SCOTT :
Resolved—That a Bill founded upon the foregoing Resolutions
be forthwith brought into Parliament, and that the Draft Bill pre-
pared for that purpose be now read.
(Signed) JOSIAS DUNN, Chairman.

The publication of THE SrN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

WITH WHICH
t, THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW
INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1838.

Mr. Vitraua's motion on Thursday excites a great deal
more interest in the community than in the Legislature.
We refer to that as another proof of a want of sympathy
between the tmo, which perchance may be compatible with
safety in an absolute Monarchy, where the Sovereign
relies on his guards, and rules over slaves, but in a repre-
sentative country, must in the end be fatal to the Legisla-
ture itself. One correspondent, whose useful and practical
letter we insert, also suggests that as the laws were passed
by force, by force they should be repealed. We dare not
further notice his method for carrying that object into
effect, lest we be charged with exciting sedition ; but that
one man can be found to conceive and recommend
attacks on the landlords—and thousands would, we
know, be ready, at the least glimpse of a chance
of success, to execute them—ought to appal the land-
"owning legislators. It would be for us, were we land-
wners, frightful to reflect on the manner in which
they have sunk in public esteem since 1815, and how al-
most universally they are hated and cursed. Only a few
gears ago they, and all who were connected with agricul-
ture—the noble art by which the community is fed—were
the great objects of public admiration. Too much could
not then be done for the landowners and the agriculturists"
whose services were considered invaluable; but the instant:
they taxed the food of the people to enrich themselves, a'
revulsion took place in public feeling, and the hatred which
the legislative landlords have incurred is so great that
the immense services of the working agriculturist can
scarcely save his useful occupation from contempt and'
obloquy. The law perverts the natural current of men's
moral feeling, and like the pestiferous usurpations of an,
ambitious priesthood, which lead men to deny God, is
•one of the greatest curses that can be inflicted on society.
No occupation, sure►y, ought to be more honoured, as
none is more honourable, than agriculture ; none ought to
be better rewarded, or more crowded with youthful aspi-
rants to share its emoluments and promote its improve-
ment ; but none is in fact more avoided—so that for any
)outh not the son of a farmer to think of agriculture as
a means of getting a living is scarcely ever heard or. To
have the noblest of arts thus doomed to public contempt

The Tories are thrown into extacies of joy when they
can find a single spot in Ireland in which the conduct of the
inhabitants can, under any plausible pretext, be held
up as an exception to that tranquillity and obedience
to the laws which gencrally prevail in the sister
country. The reign of Toryism there was the reign
of terror and confusion, and the party cannot stomach the
happy contrast which Ireland exhibits under Lord Ain:
GRAVE'S Government. This sufficiently accounts for the
eagerness with which the thundering organ of the Tories
pounces upon the calendar of the county of Tipperary for
the Spring Assizes, which happens to be, in appearance,
heavier than it was last year. It was in vain that the
Judge who presides at them! Assizes pointed out the cause
of this fallacious appearance, namely, that all cases of man-
slaughter are entered in the calendar as cases of murder,
and expressed his hope that this misnomer—so common on
the other side of the wate ar in ordinary parlance--should
in future, be avoided in th. e language of criminal law. It
was in vain that good faith and good feeling dictated a pause
in vituperative proceedings, until the result of the assizes
should have been known. 'What influence can be allowed
to such considerations in the breast of a party hack, who
lives, and moves, and has his being, in the atmosphere of
misrepresentation. While this wretched creature applies
his microscopic eye and multiplying glass to the calender of
the county of Tipperary, (Ines he notice the singular and
rather important facts, that; in the county of Roscommon
there are but seventeen pri: itmers for trial, and that too for
offences of the most insigni. Scant character? That in Lei-
trim there has not been asi agle capital conviction ? That
in the town of Galway thorn •e has not been one solitary
offence for the investigatiot I of the judge during these
assizes ? No, all this is car efully suppressed. Show us
such a state of things under any Tory administration that
ever governed Ireland!

At no remote period the T. inns justly proclaimed to the
world that in politics we had) too much Church." Well

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have prevented the people from creating, we should think
them great losers by bartering for that the affections and
respect of the nation ; but when we know what has been
their uneasy pecuniary condition since 1815—how conti-
nually the agriculturists have complained and supplicated
for relief—how, year after year, it has been found that they
were absolutely unable to pay their full rent and their full
tithes, we are at once convinced that no class has suffered
so much from the Corn-laws as the landowners and
farmers. One source of increased rent is increased agri-
cultural skill, which supplies more produce at less cost ;
and a law which like the Corn-law makes all that is con-
nected with agriculture and the land hateful to the most
intelligent part of the community, necessarily keeps enter-
prising youths and keeps capital away from agriculture, and
checks the progress of agricultural improvement. Thus the
suicidal Corn Law prevents the increase of rent ; and the
blind and avaricious landowners, grasping after a handful
of eggs, have strangled the goose which was laying them a
golden egg every day throughout the year, and year after
year.

One of the stupid pretexts on which these foolish men
both impoverish themselves and earn the general hatred is,
that the produce of our manufactures is protected by
duties against competition, and therefore the growth of
corn must also be protected. But if it had never been
demonstrated, as it has been over and over again, that
these protecting duties are in the great majority of cases
injurious to the manufacturers, there is such a wide dis-
tinction between food and silk, that it argues a total want
of discrimination to apply the same rule to both. Of what
importance is it to the great community, that the land-
owners' wives and daughters must pay a trifle more for their
gowns and shawls, and the landowners themselves must
pay a little more for their cutlery and hard-ware, than they
would have to pay—though we do not know that they ac-
tually pay more—were there no protrecting duties for Eng-
lish made silks and steel work ? Such protecting duties
may in the long run limit employment, and prevent the
people from obtaining food ; but the effect is so distant and
doubtful, and the process so indirect, that no sentiment of
aversion, mush less of ardent hatred, can arise in any part
of the community, in consequence of such protecting duties.
But the Corn-laws immediately limit the supply of food—
they declare is no doubtful or uncertain terms, that no
man living in the land of England shall supply himself with
bread not grown here, unless he pay a large tax, not even to
those who grow his food here, but to those who possess the
monopoly ofthe soil. The operation of such a law is immediate,
direct, and certain ; it restrains the willing industry of the
people, and compels them to submit to idleness, hunger, star-
vation, and death. Of its indirect and remote effects,they
know nothing. It dooms parents to see their offspring starve
and perish from that hunger which they cannot relieve,
though willing to purchase food by labour ; and as they
bury their hopes in the cold grave, they loudly
curse the authors of their sufferings. The intense-
ness of the hatred which the Corn Laws have
justly excited is well depicted by EBENEZER ELLIOT, the
Corn-law Rhymer, who speaks the sentiments of his class,
and describes them brooding over a dark and malignant ani-
mosity towards the bread taxers, such as can only be matched
in Ireland, or France before the Revolution. Such is now the
altered condition of the landed Aristocracy of England, who
were once honoured as the first men of the world. It is felt,
too, that the Corn-laws and the new Poor-law have the
same origin—at least the landowners are the persons for
whose especial benefit it was passed. On the one hand
they pass a law to exonerate themselves from relieving the
necessities of the people, and on the other they will not
allow them to exchange their labour for food. They doom
them to starvation, and appear to deny them relief. The union
of two such laws, springing from the same source, seems
almost to justify resistance ; and we cannot be surprised
that the Poor-law should be opposed in the manufacturing
districts, where the starving effect of the Corn-law is most
painfully felt. To justify such a measure, which produces
such mischievous effects, by alleging a trumpery protecting
duty on silks and steel, is quite worthy of the stunted
intellect of our legislating landowners.
We are sure that we shall have continual opportunities
of referring to a law, till it be destroyed, which separates
the landowners from the rest of the community ; and we
shall now content ourselves with directing public attention
to our correspondent's letter, who has ably adverted to the
effects of a Corn-law on our foreign trade.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD'S Bill to amend the Law of
Copyright has been printed. The object of the Bill, as
our readers are aware, is to extend the time for which
authors possess an exclusive right in their works, by giving
the author of any book, hereafter to be published, a copyright
for the whole term of his natural life, and sixty years beyond.
This is the main provision of the Bill, which is drawn up
with care, and seems well calculated to effect the object
aimed at—as far at least as that can be done by legal enact-
ments. In any measure for the protection of literary pro-
perty introduced by the author of " Ion," (a tragedy) it

was not to be supposed that the interests of the Drama
would be overlooked. We find, accordingly, from clause 23,
that where the solo right of representing a dramatic piece
now belongs to the author, it shall endure for his life, and
for sixty years after his death ; and if the author is dead, his
representatives shall enjoy it for sixty years from his death.
Some of our Contemporaries have taken alarm at the
!effects likely to be produced by this.measure. We cannot
say that we participate in their fears about a monopoly
against the interests of the public. In our opinion the
principal effect of the Bill will be to increase the popularity
of the Learned Gentleman among the literary coteries
f the metropolis. We have been informed by an eminent
üblisher, that the lapse of a very few years extinguishes the
slue of the copyright of ninety-nine out of every hundred
orks that are published, and that he would not give an
dditional farthing for a work in consideration of any exten-
"on of the term for which copyright is at present held.
his may be mortifying to literary pride, but authors are
orn to mortification as the sparks fly upwards. Be this,
owever, as it may, Mr. TALFOURD has provided against
any chance of detriment to the public, by inserting in his Bill
a clause providing that if five years shall be allowed to
elapse,either after the twenty-eight years of existing copyright
or after the author's death, without publication of any work
out of print, any one may, on permission obtained from the
LORD CHANCELLOR, re-publish such work. This provision,
will, we think, afford a sufficient security to the public
against any want of supply in the article of literature.

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