The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-29 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY IN'IsELLIGENCE.

CasznninGt, APRIL 23.—At a Congregation on Wednes-
day last, the following Degrees were conferred :
Bachelor in Divinity—Reverend Francis Dawson, Trinity
College. • .
Honorary Master of Arts—Sir 'Windsor Edwin Bayntun
Bachelors (f Arts—John Fry, Trinir
Trinity ; Geo. Henry
Trinity College.
SBaonwdeYrs,'Trinity College ; Walter Blake, College ; Wm.
Stone, St. Peter's College; Geo.. Gibbons' Sidney College;
(Compounder); Charles Wallington, Christ College.
The select preacher to
.whom the Sunday afternoon turns at
St Mary's Church are assigned._ for the ensuing month, is the
.1 J. Bose, of Trinity College. The Rev. Thomas Phil-
lips, H.D.
Nev. iii•
of Queen
~. school pinted head master of the
's Cle is a'
willa i triesholdan ordination in London on - Tri_
Lord Bishop o e
royal gram.
Rev. Thomas Dixon B
nity Sunday. Th ie of Tibbenh , B.A. was last week
iffstituted to the vicarage f
El
mar
Eatilyd
a4l) Norfolk, on the pre-
sentation of the Lord 131 shop o 7,

We deeply regret the issue of Mr. WHIT-
MORE'S Motion last night for a Committee to in-
quire into the present state of the Corn Laws.
The motion was negatived by a majority of 140.
But yet, s hen we reflect, what other issue could
we expect ? We need only ask ourselves whence
the Members of the house of Commons are
chosen, and who are most interested in keeping
up the price of Corn, and the event is explained.
Had manufacturers been legislators, the princi-
ples of .free commerce Could not have been in
operation in England. Disinterestedness is
not in fashion. But,
.independently of the
very powerful operation of interest in preju-
dicing the wind, it is to be observed, that
laws prohibiting the importation of Corn, either
by express words or by high duties, are of them-
selves difficult to be got rid of, because Corn,
whether cheap or dear, must be consumed, and
thus it becomes almost impossible to determine
their operation, and how far they are injurious
or salutary. Their injurious tendency is felt
only indirectly, ES they cause a rise in the price
of labour and of manufactured articles, and sel-
dom or ever directly -by diminished consume-
tioir,• or any other of those signs that in most
other cases betray a decaying trade, and indicate
the reason. Hence, their mischief becomes so;
ramified, that the evil cannot he traced to ite
source, but .is sought for in the laws regarding
the decaying manufacture, which decay is
oc-
casioned solely by the • high price of la-
bour, superinduced by the high price of
Bread, Corn, and ;Grain. Besides, such laws
carry with them a deceptious appearance -by
the large sums - of money that they return
to the pockets of the Landowners, and hence
again it becomes an utter impossibility, by any
thing short of an astounding fact, to convince
the corn growers that all is not right, or at all
events that any bad result can arise outof a mea-
sure so entirely beneficial to themselves. Thus,
then, a large and by far the most influencial part
of society put down restrictive Corn Laws as
producing salutary effects, when in truth they
may be undermining a branch of the national in-
dustry.

The cheap production of the first necessaries
of life is absolutely necessary 'to the welfare of a
state on account of the influence it must have in re-
gulating the price of other manufactured articles,
and it is therefore a curious fact (and it should
seem also a fact that plainly points to something
radically wrong in our agricultural system), that
whilst the English metchant in every other pro-
duction can meet the foreign merehant in the
foregn markets, and secure himself a profit, yet
in the sale of the first necessaries of life he c„,.,_
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at:
can-
not compete with the foreigner even in the home
markets. Thus it is evident that this. cheapness
(ilsoptrloiedu:•oerdk by
yf
illiitemds. But. here another consi-
deration forces itself on the mind, viz., that if
year of peace
superioritythe formation of our manufactures,
every year of
application of
thel,et
machinery
resultsin
oonflythefrom the
iti(e)ridorililtlyinistilli.,at
bte>vcearuyse
peace will carry instructions to our rivals in art
of the adaption ti: machinery 'to the same pur-
poses,PPrfection nearly
they will find they can pro-
duceequal to ourselves, .
iwtilils taend"
goods, both in the home and foreign
markets, as cheap and as good as the British,
and when they reach a
. .1 price of labour' is low,
for the
by reason that the
„,, low. .. 4 1e fact stat-
ed by .
HusKisSON last nigh t 2 2 VIZ. that New
mprr.ice of bread ''