The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL ON THE
CLOSE CONNECTION BETWEEN AGRICUL-

TURK AND MANUFACTURES.

We find, in the 29th volume of Hansard's Parlia-
mentary Debates, which is quite a text-book for the
opinions expressed by statesmen, past and present, on
the questions debated in Parliament, the following sei.—
sible and statesmanlike speech delivered by Sir Robert
Peel when the Corn-law of 1815 was under discussion in
the House of Commons :
" Sir Robert Peel was anxious to correct a mistake
that seemed to prevail in the House, that the interests •
of the landholder and of the manufacturer were con-
flicting and incompatible. They were, in the view
of enlightened policy, the same ; and the success
or ruin of the one, was the success or ruin
of the other ; inasmuch as the country generally
had been enriched by the sale of our manufactures,
the landholders had received their share of the
wealth and advantages. It had been the wise policy of
former Governments to keep the price of the chief article
of subsistence as low as possible ; upon this principle
Mr. Pitt had acted with success, but the system was now
about to be changed. It was undoubtedly true that the
rent of the land would be diminished by the unlimited
importation of corn ; but if the resolutions upon the table
passed in their present shape, the manufactures of the
towns would be destroyed, and the land must consequently
be depreciated ; corn might be grown, but paupers would
be the only customers for it. It was, in truth, impossible
to separate the two interests. The value of land within
memory had increased in some places threefold ; the
owners had derived their benefit from the political state
of things, and now they must suffer the depreciation pro-
duced by an alteration in that political state. With respect
to our manufacturers, it was allowed, that during the
war our triumphant situation on the sea had enabled us to
force a trade without rivals; but now we were in open
competition, it would be madness in us to throw fresh ob-
stacles in the way of those who had so many to contend
against. In his opinion, it might be fairly argued, that
the manufacturer had been the great benefactor of the
landed interest. He did not say that his design was to
serve the landowner. That had been the effect of the
flourishing state of our manufactures, and in the difficul-
ties now to be encountered the landlord ought to par-
ticipate. By the measures now upon the table the wise
system pursued for years was about to be subverted, and
the labourers prevented from putting the real wealth of
the country into that marketable shape by which this
country had hitherto been made the envy of surrounding

nations."

" What !" we think we hear some of our readers ex-
claim, " What ! did Sir Robert Peel make such a speech
as this ? How, in the interval between 1815 and 1841,
his opinions on the Corn-law must have changed !"
Yes, Sir Robert Peel did make the above speech ; but
it was Peel the first, not Peel the second ; it was Peel the
father, and not Peel the son. He had not forgot " the pit
whence he was dug, nor the rock whence ha was hewn."
Manufactures had made him what he was ; aild while be
was willing to recognise and maintain the impollance of
agriculture, he was too sensible of the benefits which p-a.de
and commerce had conferred on the land ; too well acqual3-
ted, in short, with the true interests of the country, to allow
the landed few to sacrifice the manufacturing many by
establishing a monopoly in the supply of the people's
food. Not so Peel the son. He, for party purposes,
supports the landed at the cost, probably by the ruin, of
the manufacturing interest.—Liverpool Albion.

PICTURE WOVE IN SlLK.—This picture,
when completed, will be, perhaps, the most extraordinary
production of the art of weaving ever accomplished. It
is intended to be presented to her Majesty. The design,
which has met with the approbation of several of the
Ministers, is a work of very great merit. The de-
signer is a young, and, it is believed, self-taught English
artist of the name of Voyer, who is principally employed
in making patterns for paper-hangers and calico-printers.
The object that the Spitalfields Broad Silk Weavers' As-
sociation have in view is to show to the world that our
weavers are equal, if not superior, to those of Lyons,
who have lately produced a very masterly specimen of
their art. Mr. Voyer's drawing, which has never been
correctly described, is in Indian ink, and the picture,
when completed, will be in a self colour, resembling a
meizotinto engraving. The design is what is called
aerial. The foreground (if there can be a ground to an
aerial picture) is occupied by Mars and Neptune, with
two bee-hives in the centre. On the side of Mars, there
are medallions of Wellington, _Abercrombie, Moore,
Wolfe, &c.; on that of Neptune, Nelson, Coßingwood,
Jervis, Howe, &c., all of which are good likenesses. In
the middle distance there is a portrait of the Queen
sitting ; by her side stands the Prince Albert, one hand
resting on a marble slab, the other holding a sword. On
the left of this group is a figure of Time, with his scythe,
but between him and the Royal pair a guardian angel
intervenes. In the centre a dove is seen descending upon
the Queen and her consort. In the extreme distance
Windsor Castle is seen, or rather indicated, on the sides
of which are groups of aerial beings, intended to repre-
sent Honour and Harmony. The picture is cut off from
the border by lines. The border itself is a brocade in
the gorgeous style and colours of Louis XIV. It consists
principally of foliage, interspersed with bouquets of
flowers in all colours. In the centre of one side are seen

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the Royal arms of England, and on the other the insignia
of the order of the Garter. The picture will be sixteen
feet long. The expense in manufacturing this wonderful
production of the loom will amount to some thousand
pounds.

The Royal Assent was given yesterday by com-
mission to the Church of England Life and Fire As-
surance Trust and Annuity Company's Bill, and 150
more Private Bills.

Mr. Robert Stanhope Wilkes, of 16 and 17,
Craven-street, Strand, has offered himself to the electors
of Westminster as a candidate on the. Radical interest.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE NON-INTRU-
SIONISTS.—We have just learned, on what we consider
good authority, that the Non-Intrusionists have expe-
rienced a great mortification in the reception which Mr.
Dunlop, their accredited delegate, met with a few days
ago, at an interview with Sir Robert Peel. The Hon.
I3aronet, greatly to his credit and that of his party,
stated, in the most decided terms, that he would do
nothing for the Church until they first obeyed the law,
and rescinded all their illegal proceedings regarding
the enactment of the Veto regulations, and the deposi-
tion of the Strathbogie Ministers. Mr. Dunlop an-
swered, that Parliament might do whatever they pleased
with their endowments, but that the Church would never
retrace their steps, whatever might be the consequences ;
and thus the interview terminated.—Scottish Pilot.

THE COUNTY.—Addresses from Lord and Col.
Lowther were issued on Thursday last, to the Electors of
the County of Westmorland. They are exceedingly
savage productions, and speak of the present Government
in language which has not hitherto proceeded from the
same quarter. Ten years' absence from power has made
these nabobs rusty ; but the country will keep them wait-
ing in spite of their longings for place. The best efforts
of the Liberal interests in the country will, we have every
reason to hope, be directed to the removal of these mis-
representatives shortly. It will be a severe struggle when-
ever it takes place ; but truth is great and must prevail.
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—Kendal Mercury.
DIRECTIONS FOR STUDYING VOYAGES AND
TRAVELS.-In reading books of travels for myself, 1 have
always desired to be placed by the author, as much as possible,
in his own situation ; to be brought, in short, by his descrip-
tions, as nearly as can be, to the condition of being his travel-
ling companion ; to see things in the same order of succession
as he himself saw them ; to be made acquainted with the mi-
nuter incidents of his life, as well with the more prominent ;
to become familiar with the inconveniences to which he was
subjected, as well as with the pleasures he enjoyed; to partake
of hisindignation at the wrong. as fully as with his admiration
of the right ; to be, in short, continually present with him in all
his vicissitudes, and to sympathize with him in all his joys and
sorrows, by whatever cause produced. For this reason, I have
always preferred the form of the actual diary, in which the in-
cidents and feelings are transferred to paper while fresh and
new.—Buekingham's America.
THE LANCASHIRE FACTORIES.—Of the

1,123 cotton manufactories in 1839, 820 were in Salford-hun-
dred ; 163 in Blackburn ; 71 in West Derby ; 39 in Arnoun-
derness ; 16 in Leyland; and 14 in Lonsdale, exclusive of 62
unoccupied mills. The number of persons employed in the
cotton trade of the county in 1835, was 122,991 ; in 1838 and
1839, 152,150, of whom 67,784 were young persons, betwixt
the ages of 13 and 18. About fourth-fifths of the cotton trade
of the kingdom centres in Lancashire ; and in 1825 the capital
vested in buildings and machinery in tat district was estimated
at 8,000,0001. The declared value of cotton goods exported in
1814, was 17,241,884/., and twist and yarns, 1814, 2,791,2471.,
in 1838, the value of cotton goods exported was 16,700,9131. ;
and of twist and yarn, 7,431,844. In 1838 and 1839, the
woollen manufactories in the county were 96 ; number
of hands 4,957, of whom 1,727 were young persons :
silk manufactories, 31; hands, 5,591, of whom 2,143 were
young persons : flax concerns, 16 ; hands, 2,881, of whom
1,392 were young persons; worsted, 12; hands, 924, of whom
418 wore young persons. The total number of manufactories
was 1,278, principally in Salford and Blackburn hundreds ;
total hands employed, 166,493, of whom 63,364 were young
persons from 13 to 18. The number of unoccupied mills was
192 ; and of mills from which the returns were incomplete,
10. The number of calico printing works is about 75 ;
bleach-works, 50; hat-manufactories, 80; collieries, 330. In

31 of the parishe's there are cotton and other mills ; in 16
cotton-weaving prevails ; arid in 21 there are no manufactures.
The quantity of yarn spun daily in cotton-mills in Lancashi•e
by steam, is as much as would have been spun with the distaff
and spindle by 38,000,000 persons. The yearly consumption
of coal by all the steam-engines in the country is about
8,000,000 tons.
Chartists, be assured of this fact, that violence
ever has defeated, and ever will defeat, its own ends,
Your physical-force confederates have driven away many
who would otherwise have joined your ranks ; wise poli-
ticians look for relief to the pen, not the bludgeon ; to
the understandings of men, not to their passions ; the
reign of terror was followed by the dominion of anarc.
chy, which proved the stepping-stone to despotism.
Unite then, heart and hand, with the enemies of
monopoly, albeit they are merely the enemies of
commercial monopoly. All monopolies hang together ;
destroy one, and you weaken the whole chain
by snapping one of its links. Toryism or Conser-
vatism is now strong through the coalition of several
classes, having a joint interest in selling dear commodi-
ties to the people ; destroy their money market, and be
assured the political partnership will be speedily dis-
solved. Then, Chartists, you may prosecute organic
changes with success ; at present you are prematurely in
the field ; there is a wide gulf yawning between your
hopes and realization ; let the free traders build a
bridge across the gulf, and do you aid them in its con-
struction ; then you may cross over in safety, and scale
the fortress of corruption in conjunction with other sec-
tions of liberals.—JONATHAN DUNCAN, Manchester.—
Manchester Times.

PUBLIC PETITIONS TO JUNE 4.—Petitions
for repeal of the Corn-laws, 2,949 ; rignaturel,, 660,
against, 1,327 ; signatures, 80,336.
WHOLESALE FRATRICIDE•--A sign-board 10
Hackney contains the following terrific announcement :
" CAIN-work of aU sorts done at the shortest notice."