The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

monopoly, monopoly of legislation, monopoly
of wealth and taxation, and monopoly of poli-
tical power. Lord PALMERSTON expressly stated
in his eloquent speech, that the dispute between
the two parties in Parliament was for the main-
tenance or the abolition of monopoly. The
Queen's Government is for the abolition, and
there is now an excellent opportunity for the
people, who are sufferers by, and the enemies of,
monopoly, to put it down.

There are, however, some amongst them who
fancy that if they put down the landlords' mono-
poly they will strengthen the monopoly of the
factory lords—that •they will only enable the
manufacturers to lower wages, and only debar
themselves the longer, azid the more effectually
from political power. Is that opinion borne out
by experience ? HaS the suppression of one
monopoly strengthened another? To use Lord
PALMERSTON'S examples the suppression of the
monopoly which Churchmen had of political
power, as against Dissenters, by the abolition of
the Test Act accelerated the suppression of the
monopoly which they had against the Catholics,
and facilitated the lessening of the mono-
poly which a few persons had of the repre-
sentation. Since the Parliament was reformed
the monopoly of corporations has been destroyed,
and now the greatest of all monopolies, that of
the landowner, is successfully threatened. The
course of modern experience proves that one mo-
nopoly is not strengthened by the abolition of
another, and that to abolish one is to weaken
another, and hasten its destruction. All the
working classes, then, all the Chartists, who are
the determined enemies of monopoly of every
kind, would act in complete opposition to their
own principles if they were not to embrace the
opportunity which is now offered them to de-
stroy the landlords' monopoly.
We say emphatically destroy, for we are no
advocates fur the Bs. fixed duty ; and if the Minis-
ters, who have proposed that because they have
no hope nor see any possibility of carrying any
thing better, even if they can carry that, saw a
strong, a hearty, and an almost universal demand
for the destruction of the monopoly, they would
assist in destroying it. We trust, therefore, that
all the working men, whether Chartists or not,
will, fbr their own credit's sake, rise up against
the monopoly of the landlords, and demand its
destruction.

If that were to lead us, as some of them now
say, to the reduction of wages, whose fault
will that be? If they are now able by union
to destroy the monopoly of the landlords, will
they not then be able by union to destroy any
other monopoly by which they may be op-
pressed ? The priests are now united with the
landlords to support the Corn-laws. Both are
rivals, if not opponents and enemies of the
factory lords. Deprive them of their present
monopoly—destroy the Corn-laws—and the whole
army of priests and landlords will side with the
people in any quarrel they may have with the
factory or any other lords.

There is not one clergyman who will not be
immediately filled with the most moving charity
for the factory children. They will be the pa-
trons of a Ten-hours' Bill, or a Six-hours' Bill, if
the people ask it. They will take the working
classes under their protection, if the working
classes desire it; and invoke religion against any
injustice on the part of the manufacturers. We
do not fear that the manufacturers will practice
any—the people do ; but having, as they will then
have, the landlords and the priesthood on their
side, they will be guaranteed against any injustice,
and be much better able to protect themselves
than at present. Common sense now commands the
whole of the working classes, whether Chartists
or not, in order to obtain their own ends, to unite
heart and soul, in the great movement towards
liberty now begun, and aid, in the first instance,
in destroying the monopoly of the landlords.

A great deal has been said about the landed
gentlemen who have deserted the Ministers, but
no notice has been taken of the representatives
of towns who deserted the Tories. For example,
the Hon. WM. LASCELLES, a son of the Earl of
HAREWOOD, and Member for Wakefield, voted
with the Ministers. Mr. LASCELLES is a strong
instance, and unfortunately a rare one, amongst
the Tories, of rectitude prevailing over interest
and party ties, because he is not only connected
with the land, but his family are connected with
the West Indies. The Earl of HAREWOOD is
one of the leaders of the West Indian body.
How far Mr. LASCELLES was influenced by his
abstract love of the principles of free trade, or
how far by respect for his town constituency, we
cannot say; but it is an encouraging ex-
ample for all the towns which take an interest
in the repeal of the Corn-laws to exert their in-
fluence over their present representatives, and to
take care, in future, to place none in Parliament
but such as are determined friends to repeal.

We may not, perhaps, add the name of Mr.
BARING WALL to that of MT. LASCELLES, for he
has, on more than one previous occasion, op-
posed, by his votes, the rabid and mischievous
policy of the Tories. At the same time it is
highly gratifying to find that there are some
men amongst the Tories honest in their inten-
tions, and open to conviction. The deserters
from the ranks of the Whigs, such as Mr.
HANDLEY, Lord WORSLEY, Mr. HEATHCOTE,
Mr. HARLAND, &c., we make light of, because
their motives are obviously and avowedly of the
most interested, and, for legislators, of the most
unworthy and sordid character. But there being
some honest men among the Tories, we ;are not
without hope that the number may be increased.
There is much more discrimination and more
honesty amongst the electors, and throughout
the community, than the habitual jobbers in elec-
tions, whether Whigs or Tories, reckon on ;
and we anticipate, therefore, when an appeal
shall be made to the people on principle, a
very different result from that expected by
Whigs and Tories. In the counties the free-
holders may want some bold man to lead them,
and when he is found, many a Tory who fancies
himself safe in his seat will be overthrown. At
any rate no chance ought to be thrown away, for
in the counties cheap sugar and cheap bread will
be as welcome as in the towns.

Never, throughout the history of Great Britain,
did the working agriculturists suffer so much, and
complain so much, never were they so impo-
verished and degraded, as during the last twenty-
five years, when they have been living under the
landlords' corn-tax. Over and over again, the
farmers have been sold up; over and over again,
they have lost their capital ; over and over again,
they have received eleemosynary relief in the
shape of remittances of tithes and taxes, which
never happened before the Corn-laws were passed.
Such facts warrant us in hoping that even the
farmers, when they are stirred up by a general
election, may be brought to vote against those
who have degraded their honourable and useful
occupation into that of tax-gatherers for the owners
of rent.

provernent. They will only give a greater sti_
mulus to the people to rise up to its aid. If the
Tories would stop the Supplies to obtain power,
they would dethrone the QUEEN.

Our readers will perceive, by a Report in an-
other part of The Sun of this day, that a great
public meeting has been held in Sheffield—
one of the most important manufacturing
towns in the north. At this meeting—which
was attended by upwards of eight thousand
resolute Anti-Monopolists—the spirit in fit-
your of Ministers was as alert and energetic
as could be desired. There was no waver-
ing—no vacillation—no unworthy distrust or
timidity exhibited—the different speakers seemed
to vie with each other in their determi-
nation to.uphold, by all means in their power,
the Government course of policy. And such
is the spirit displayed at Sheffield, so is it gene-
throuo;hout the provinces. Every where, we see
indications of a calm, settled determination of
purpose that, when the day of struggle comes,
will sweep all opposition before it.

Madrid Journals, of the 13th instant, have
reached us. They bring no news of interest.
Nothing was decided about the new Cabinet.
The British Ambassador, Mr. AUSTIN, had di-
missed the English Consul at Carthagena, who
had been guilty of insulting the Spanish flag.
'
The funds had not improved by ESPARTTraIos
election to the Regency. The Five per Cents.
were at 27i for cash.

The French Journals of Thursday have all
reached us. The followi:4 is a summary of the
latest news from Fr(lnch Africa :

The Government l'."ds received a telegraphic despatch from
General Beaugeae., dated Algiers, May 13, which, as it will
be seen, is a ':.onfirmation of that which we gave on Tuesday,
under the grate of Toulon 17th : The expeditionary corps re-
turned on the 9th to Blidah, having deposited a large convoy
at iVsedeati, and another at Miliana. Several slight combats
'nave taken place. Ori the 3d it was attacked under Aliliana,
by 9,000 foot and 10,000 horse. This small army was put
completely to the rout, and left 400 dead on the field. On the
4th the whole of the enemy's cavalry was driven beyond the
bridge over the Chelif-el-Kantara, which the French crossed.
On the sth our cavalry beat at Beny-Zug-Zug, on the left
bank, 4,000 horse, commanded by Abd-el-Kader in person.
Four squadrons of his regular cavalry experienced considerable
loss, having left 184 on the ground and nineteen prisoners.
This victory delivered up to us the tribe of the Beny-Zug-Zug,
who lost all their tents and moveables, part of their cattle, and
eighty-two women, who have been breught to Algiers, where
they are well treated. We had 140 wounded and. eighteen
killed."
French soldiers are unquestionably among
the bravest in the world; but the immense dis-
proportion between their loss and that of the
Arabs exceeds human credibility. In the above
paragraph we have an account of three separate
engagements, in two of which the Arabs lost 584
men, while the French are reported to have only
eighteen killed. Be it remembered, too, that
the Arabs are a brave race, and that they are
fighting for their country and their religion.
The non-recognition by England of the
sovereignty of France over Algiers, begins
to create much uneasiness in Paris. The
Duke DE VALMY, Baron D'llAussEz, and
Count DE GUERNON-RANVILLE, have pub-
lished declarations to the effect that the Mi-
nisters of CHARLES the Tenth never gave any
pledge to England to evacuate Algiers. The
first named of these personages insinuates, that
as England always protested in the strongest
manner against the occupation of Algiers, she
would not have remained so long passive had
not the revolutionary Government pledged itself
to abandon it.

Galignani's Messenger formally contradicts
the report of a disagreement in the French Cabi-
net. The SouLr-GUIZOT Ministry is represented
as unanimous upon every question, and as resolved
to stand or fall together.
The defeat of the English Ministers upon the
Sugar question, is announced in all the Paris
Papers of Thursday. It produced no effect upon
the funds, as it was known that an appeal would
be made to the country.
Y The Toulonnais of the 16th inst. states, that a telegraphic
despatch was received on the preceding day from Paris, direct-
ing the authorities to remove the ex-Caid Ben Aissa from the
hulks to the fort of Lamalgue. This celebrated chief, sen-
tenced to twenty years hard labour, is not to undergo that pc..
nalty, amd the rich costume which was taken from him when
he was lodged in the Bagne had been returned to him.
The same Journal announces that the ships forming the new
Levant squadron, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Lassuse,
were to sail in the course of the ensuing week. These were
the Inflexible, 90-gun ship, and Santi-Petri, 84, and the fri-
gates Minerve, Didon, and another expected from Brest.
Admiral Roussein has suffered a confession to escape him in
the Chamber of Peers, which is a fatal blow to the Ministry
of M. Thiers. He said that the fleet was recalled to Toulon
because it would have been imprudent to leave it on the coast
of Syria, where the exasperation of the two fleets would have
produced an inevitable collision. Thus, what M. Thiers and
his friends has hitherto denied in the Chamber of Deputies is
confessed in the Chamber of Peers. The fear of a collision
•nade the warlike Ministry shrink. What reason can 111.
Thiers have to reproach M. Guizot ? France has been mysti-
fied ; this is clear. The Ministry wanted the fortifications of
Paris, the purchases of horses, and the twelve regiments of the
Dukes of Orleans and Nemours.— Gazette de Ficace.
The Editor of the Gazette de France having appealed from
the sentence of the Court of Assize of the 30th April, con-
demning hint to a fine of 5,000 f„ received yesterday a new sum-
mons to appear before the Court of Assize on the 21st of May.
M. Eugune Roch, a naturalist of Wurtemburg, who is
settled at St. Louis, the capital of the State of that name, has
lately made a very interesting discovery, of which the following
account is given in a letter of the 16th of February from Boon-
ville, in the State of Missouri :

" DI. Roch, being lately in the little town of Occola, on the
Osage river, learnt that an ancient tradition, very generally
spread among the native tribes, that there formerly existed a
race of gigantic and terrible animals, which committed great
ravages, but that at length they all
.perished in a dreadful con-
test with each other, and were buried by the Great Spirit near
a stream, now called Oschety. M. Roch caused search to be
made in this place, and at the depth of about twenty
feet he found two skeletons, one quite perfect, the other
nearly so, of an animal of gigantic stature, and hitherto
unknown. These skeletons are oetween sixteen and seventeen
feet high, 34 feet long, and 8 wide. The Tibia are 4 feet
long, and 40 inches in diameter. The upper jaw projects
15 inches below the lower jaw, and is armed with two tusks,
each curved at the lower extremity ; the head including these
two tusks weigh eleven hundred pounds. Al. loch has given
them the name of Missourium, and has sent the skeletons to St.
Louis, where he has a fine Aluseum of natural history. He
intends to publish a detailed description of them.—Le Com-
MITCe.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 21.—Our Cotton
Market almost throughout the week has been very inanimate,
the trade generally showing no disposition to purchase more
than an immediate supply. Prices, notwithstanding, remain
tolerably steady, which is the more remarkable, when we con-
sider the heaviness of the stock and the immense increase of it
during these last few days. Brazil and Surat have been
more in demand, at last week's quotations. 300 bales of Ame-
rican and 100 bales of Surat are taken on speculation, and
200 bales of American, 150 bales of Panams, and 950 hales
of Surat for export. 1,200 bales sea placed are declared for
public sale on Friday next.
This a general holiday no business has been transacted
at the Stock Exchange.
The Thomas P. Cope, arrived at Liverpool, from Phila-
delphia, in lat. 44, lon. 52, fell in with a great quantity of ice,
and was in it five days ; weather very thick and stormy from
the southward. May 6, lat. 45, lon. 49, from eight A.M. to
six r.af., passed a sail of square-rigged vessels standing to the
westward; next day passed fourteen sail standing same way.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.—There IS
rather more disposition to buy at low prices, although there is
but very little doing. Manchester and Birmingham, 244
25*; Manchester and Leeds, 52 53, North Union, 83 84;
Glasgow and Greenock, 29; Glasgow and Ayr, 37 38; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 38 39 ; Manchester and Sheffield, 7 8 ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 18 9; Manchester
and Salford, 91 10i.

Owing to the state of political affairs, the various markets
for commercial transactions were in an exceeding dull state.
The exports have been of a very trivial nature, and the home
trade was only sufficient to meet the actual wants, and large
parcels of goods have been brought to public auction, and sold
at reduced prices. The intelligence of unfavourable accoo:,'„
from the manufacturing districts, with the failure of. so.-.fie old
standing firms in the City, has caused
moneycourse of the week, to become scarce, and iP. demand.
The approaching elections will alsc! during the
lw,:calize every descrip.
tion of beeiness, as well as the operp:
few days the tu-moil of electior Lions in the funds. In a
will commence, which will
decide the cast of the die.
Consols .d

,cols opened t! ,is morning at the leaving off prices of
yesterday, 89i . -,
for the Account ; Money, 891 I, with °.,,
no-
thing, doing a '
s yet ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank
...
2 prP_Lnium.
o 6 169; India Stock 250, 252; India Bonds, par.,
Stockl lr .5
the Foreign Market the prices are nominal, as yet.
Spanish Active, 234 1 ; Deferred, 11a a ; Passive, 5a 1 ; Por-
tuguese, 331 34 ; Three per Cents., 24 ; Colombian, 22i i ;
Mexican, 28 4 ; Brazilian, 67i 64 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 52i 1 ; Five per Cents., 991/2 100.
SHARES.—Great Western, 24 281/2 prem. ; New, 131
14i prem. ; London and Brighton, 4 31 dis. ; Blackwell, 7 6
dis; Birmingham 6870 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per share.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS, Paid. Per Share.
Great Western .•,,, 65 -
....
Ditto New
London and Brighton 50 46if ... to
London and Blackwell
North Midland
I'i:irk and North Midland... s° 100
7i 0 7 to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American ...••• •• .40
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAI: 2p,
Ditto New, 1830 ... .... 97-, P''
3 per Cent. Consols ...... Bank Stock..... ~,
Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal St,- *„." .......
Ditto Reduced ...
86 per Cent. Debs.
The British Fin—. 1 R al Canal Stock
in the es*l-- ••'* ' " same state of inactivity as
continue iu the .
rr --usin either
feature
_us. 6 per cent
the present hour. Next
. the Markets worth noticing
to
oßritish Market, it is not ex-
'? Tuesday being settling day in the
will take place until
~ .alcuvidual. y part of the morning;
pected that any business of consequence
„ .fter the above *intl.
morning' at S9l 90, for
nave
,eerawe4 "I' ;' 'Corriiiis liaie• continued-during the
u march the uidly. to arrest the Account, the opening price ; 9' 90 - Money, 8 , Exchequer
there is not a
tions.
_ v clQvunineut in the way of lin- in tt F x ket there has yet= only Ang quota ,
9 Weigh ar
Bills, 9 10 prem. ; Bank Stock nothing done.