The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-11 00:00:00

must be modified. To protect industry, and the
industrious classes, is the first duty of the Go-
vernment.

As it is plain that they are not protected, it is
equally plain that the ruling classes grossly neg-
ect their duties. For many years these ruling
classes have been Tories, and Tory principles
have been followed, and Tories have made the
laws. Every Sovereign is at heart, it is said, a
Tory, implying that despotism or misrule"and
Toryism are one. Owing to the influence of
Toryism, industry has been deprived of its
rights, and the industrious classes have not been
protected. Toryism in fact is now, and has been
for the last half century, another name for a
system of plundering, instead of protecting those
classes. Hence its probable advent to power is
seen by them with dismay or horror, and is
heralded by deep gloom, numerous bankrupt-
Ces, great distress, and—let us solemnly warn
that Quack who is at the head of the Tories—
still
greater apprehension and greater danger.

It was not to be expected that the Standard
would silently behold the Times mauling and
maiming the Protestant Association—that be-
loved body, with THE Cnisnor.m at its head—
and not endeavour to shield it. The Evening
Tory is, however, too prudent, or too faint-
hearted, to quarrel with the Morning Tory, and
so it protects the Association, without hitting at
the Times. It modestly contents itself with say-
ing that the Association, the language and con-
duct of which the Times vituperated, " surely
deserves the support of the country." The Times
and the country think not, for the Association is
fast dwindling into a collection of self-appointed
office-bearers. Our Contemporaries are becom-
ing at variance on so vital a point as the support
of Protestantism; and as that will scarcely ad-
:nit of compromise, we expect to see them, ere
'mg, renew their former animosity.
To both, who have lent their columns to the
idle and unfounded stories of the Irish Orange
Journals, we must say that the tales they record
3f voters being carried off and hunted out, can-
not be true; for such offences, whether practised
by Catholics or Protestants, would be offences
at law, and might be severely punished. If, in-
deed, the voters consented, and the violence were
simulated as a means of protecting them
from the vengeance of their landlords, for
whom the electors would not -vote, and
against whom they dared not vote, there
would be a good reason why the offenders
should not be prosecuted. On no other supposi-
tion can we account that the numerous pretended
outrages recorded in the Irish papers, and thence
transferred to the columns of the London Tory
prints, have not led to as many complaints and
prosecutions by the abducted and outraged vo-
ters. The law in Ireland is strong and rigorous
enough to punish such offences; and to affirm
that they are committed without being punished,
is to calumniate the Tory electors and the Orange
Magistrates, who have the administration of the
law in their own hands.

A Correspondent, whom we have every reason
to believe well informed on such matters, begs
we will call attention to the reprehensible and
unbecoming liberties which Tory gentlemen, so
called, and Tory ladies, we grieve to say, take
with her MAJESTY'S name and character. It is a
common practice, we are told, particularly in shops,
in and where the word of the said Tories, whether
he's or she's, must not be contradicted, to lament
that VICTORIA. is Queen, ' and to throw out
hints that she is unworthy to reign. It is quite
sufficient to prevent these Tories from buying an
article to be told that it is named VICTORIA.
" I will buy nothing," is the remark, " called
after the QUEEN, she is a bad woman." Whe-
ther meant or. not, such insinuations produce a
considerable effect on the minds of shopmen,
who shake their heads when the QUEEN is spoken
of, and shopwomen, who thank their stars
they are not like her MAJESTY. It is a gross
offence to speak ill of the political dignitary;
but to calumniate the woman is in the highest
degree offensive. The super-pure Tory ladies
and gentlemen who do so cannot be too severely
censured. We are prone to believe these state-
ments, because it is our fervent conviction that
the Tories will do anything to get into office,
and anything to vent their spite at being kept
out. The men and women who do not hesitate
to consign thousands of their toiling countrymen
and countrywomen to a premature death, will
not stick at such a trifle as calumniating her
MAJESTY.

We published in The Sun of yesterday, Lord
FRANCIS EGERTON'S letter, explaining the cir-
cumstances of the formation of a corps of yeo-
manry, attributed to his Lordship. Than the.
Noble Lord there is personally no more amiable
and enlightened gentleman; but the political
Princiiiies which he has now unhappily em-
braced, and the political party to which he, un-
fortunately for him, belongs, compel us to say
that, as a politician, nothing can be suspected of
him which is too bad. The great party of opu-
lent idle gentlemen, who can combine to with-
hold food from their labouring fellow-country-
men, and who annually starve a great number
out of existence, must not be surprised at the
public readily entertaining. a notion that they
would have no hesitation to put those to death
by the sword whom they put to death by the
law. Before Lord EGERTON'S yeomanry were
heard of, we had pointed out the exist-
ence of an armed body of men exclu-
sively under the control of the owners of
rent—and no better than serfs in all political
questions—as. giving Ahem a fearful preponde-
rance, and as being intended to enable them to
sustain their system of plunder. Suppose that
Lord FRANCIS EGEItTON had done exactly what
the 2lfanches trio Tintre and the Liverpool Mercury
describe,. he would only have acted consis-
' tently with the principles of his party and his
,
omen He cannot complain of that being MULL
buted to him which he would be ready to do,
and what his friends and eonipatdOni glory in,
namely, arming themselves to maintain the
supremacy of the laws and to 00HW uhedience
to it 3 though that law be the Devil's law, and
the law which withholds food from the people;

The following letter, Noett ri,otti the Ewa;
and inserted In that- pittiia.l lrl large types with=
out an.y date=-and trier 010 WiriWr iettef on the
=sate Eiiiijectt with the same signature has been
described by more than one of bill' Ocntelii
poraries as the pittztvte Of Printinglhotise=
square—must be taken to Speak the sentiments of
the editors of the i§ Wliirt4.ot hUtie
as an ititiOk hi thei? and to public opinion

TO THE EDITOR OF THE
Sir,—l congratulate you oti the tbi+Ota bf
which the public•Aitolt hAig has brought upon
you fresrok 'th%zt, 'f Liberal" papers. The fact is, they
*Wilt to keep all liberality to themselves; and tire
dreadfully annoyed when they see siutt ia filter-
fering in their professed "'MU ill. Tll4 knbw full
well, that should you adopt the biitifSe I i'eittufed to
recommend, their " kvettpatibii Would
,030;" for
I hesttatt Mit jibE,l3% *ill fatly
tititi support any Government that will satis-
factorily settle this vexata questio of the Corn-laws,
and, what is more, that no Government who shall oppose
such a settlement can by any possibility remain long in
power, whatever may be their present numerical ma-
jority. Hence, Sir, the rage and wrath of your Con-
temporaries, lest you should by your powerful efforts,
now put forth, prevail on the Conservative party to play
this golden card.

Sir, the constituencies, in giving such a majority to the
Conservatives, di I it, not because they would at all
hazards maintain the existing Corn-laws--no, but
because they mistrusted the Whigs ; were tired
of them and their do-nothing policy ; suspect-
ed their motives in their proposed , measures I
doubted their honesty in carrying them out, and de-
termined that they would have the Governinent of
affilirs placed in other and abler hands, such as they
could trust and implicitly rely upon ; and, Sir,
having effected this object, they are, doubtless, pre-
pared to give their support to such a Government in'
carrying uut whatever measures they shall recom-
mend, ay, even though they shall be more liberal
than those proposed by the Whigs, Let Sir Robert
Peel look fairly into the various departments of
the national affairs—come forward, ttnd -tell us
honestly the true state of the case; and such will be the
confidence placed in his statement, that, as I said before,

whatever may be necessary the people will support him
in effecting. But let him do less than this—let him lean
a little to this or that party in order to meet their views
—adhere inflexibly to the favourite sliding scale of some,
or the "No surrender" of others, and he will have lost,
I will not say the confidence of the country, but the op-
portunity of conferring as a gracious benefit what will
one day or other be extorted as a right.
I trust, Sir, I have said enough to induce you to give
the Conservative party at large the benefit of your own
views on this matter, fully assured that, coming Into power
as they do without a single pledge, in spite of all the fish-
ing and pumping of their opponents, there never was such
an opportunity for a Government to work out the salva-
tion of a people, and no one is so able to strike out the
path they should take as yourself. You have led the
people of England before—do so again, remembering
that to do so effectually you must go wit': the stream of
public opinion, and not against it. Only settle this Corn-
law question on such a basis as to cause it to become an
article of regular commerce, like other things, and
such will be the relief given to commerce—such the
benefit accruing to the revenue—such the employment
given to the operative, that I do not believe it would be
possible to get up an agitation on any other subject
whatever. But, on the other hand, neglect or refuse to
do this, and every other grievance, real or imaginary,
gives force to each and all, and their combined pressure
may become intolerable.

I beg pardon for thus trespassing on your space, and
conclude, as I commenced, by subscribing myself,

CONS-ERVAtOII.

Our fellow-labourers in the cause of Corn•law
repeal, will rejoice to hear that, in the opinion
of the Times, no Government can remain long
in power, whatever its majority, which refuses
to settle the Corn-law question. But how settle
it ? " By making corn a regular article
of commerce," says the Times, like other things,
that is doing away the sliding scale, which
is to give relief to commerce and improve the
revenue. It is to supply employment also, and
to render agitation on, all other topics—even the
new Poor-law—impossible. We would say
nothi'ig more favourable to the Ministerial scheme,
of which the Times thus avows itself a defender.
It takes this view, also, because that is coinci-
dent with the stream of public opinion,—because
the bulk of the people will rally round a Govern-
ment which adopts this course, though that is
the course the Tories and the Times have for
months zealously opposed, when recommended
by Ministers. This letter, therefore, short
though it be, will be an infusible conductor to
carry away harmless into the ocean of oblivion
all the thunder-bolts which the Times has been
hurling against the Ministers for the last few
months. .

But can Sir R. PEEL act on the principles Of
the Times ? Impossible, without confessing
himself to be the most stupid and ignorant, or
the most knavish politician that ever pre-
tended to guide the affairs of a State.
Against settling the Corn-laws in the sense
of the Times Sir ROBERT PEEL has ar-
gued over and over again, and no person has
shown more forcibly than he has the mischief of
a fixed duty. He cannot come into office to
settle the question in that way, without
making a complete wreck of his yet float-
ing though half dismantled hulk. Nei-
ther can he • propose the total abolition
of Corn-laws, though there is less in his
way to that end than Lord MELBOURNE'S,
without forsaking and destroying his party.
Nevertheless, in spite of 'both these leaders—in
spite of the landed aristocracy—in spite of all the
ruling powers of the State, we have no hesita-
tion in now saying that the total abolition of
the Corn-laws must be granted ; and whether
that be undertaken by Sir R. PEEL or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, whoever proposes it shall have our
support. Another thing, too, is quite certain,
namely, that the Times cannot and will not sup-
port Sir R. PEEL unless he swim with the stream,
and settle the Corn-law question, by making
corn an article of (free, qy.) coinmerce.

The express from Paris published in the after-
noon Edition of The Sun of yesterday, antici-
pated much of the news contained in the French
Journals of Monday. The reported death of the
SULTAN, though not generally credited, created
some stir in the French capital. His High-
ness was supposed to be much worse, and as
some eminent physicians have given it as their
opinion that the habits in which he indulged
would soon put a period to his life, the question
naturally occurs, what is to be done with the
Ottoman Empire? The heir-apparent is a mere
boy, who will require by law to be many years
older before he can be permitted to sway the Im-
perial sceptre. A Regency is therefore inevitable,
and among the candidates for that office already
in the field are HAUL PACHA and MEHEMET
ALI. The Viceroy of Egypt has purchased
powerful friends in the Divan, including some
members of the Imperial family, and could he
but overcome the scruples of the Moollahs, there
is little doubt that the great bulk of the Turks
would be delighted to see him invested
with the Regency. But would the ambi-
tion of the wily Albanian soar no higher?
Would he with the sword of the Prophet
within his grasp hesitate to enrobe him-
self in the Imperial mantle? Would the mur-
derer of the Mamclukes scruple for an instant
to crush the spark of life out of a child stand-
ing between him and the attainment of the very
summit of human ambition? Reports of con-
spiracies among the great officers of State to in-
vest him with the command of the Ottoman
army and fleet during the life-time of the SUL-
TAN, and .so place the Regency entirely at his
disposal, have for some time been rife at Con-
stantinople. They may be unfounded, but
they advance the interests of the Vassal, by
making the public ear 'familiar with his pros-
pective greatness. Thus everything indicates
the commencement of a new era in Oriental
politics.
The Toulouse affair has had its clay, and the
Rarisians begin to get sick of it. They want
something fresh, and Madame LAFFARGE sup-
plies the newest topic of conversation. Not that
they take any deep interest in her fate, but they
have nothing else just now to talk about. A re-
port of the trial, so far as it has proceeded, will
be found in another part of The Sun.

The Courricr Francaise of Monday has rather
an extraordinary article on the state of Europe,
the purport of which is to demonstrate that
every nation. is going to the dogs but ratie e?,
It will be difficult to make the starving poor of
Franke believe thig:

,1--- he Eithhei:l3llibnbitoitibtisti Stait'S theti 111 ens
sequence Of thkaffki.ei tif Hs regPetisible &liter; the pitb-
licatidu of the tliilitaire has been Mthe iittirnettt sirs=
puttied:. 24; Arzac had been summoned to giVe efi4iineW
concerning the disturbances before the competent autho-
rities:. 'Flits jotifilolittyitibes an angry document from,
its tespotisible.editofj IVl:!liiiitlet; iPiio ie detained in the
pfl;tdit of l46.tSettetiOl in that terns (the warrant fur
his arrest hafatig.ii6eii ..!iitiilifoid intd it *Orrint ef deten=
=it
tion); prdtesting in strong terms age the Vidgeedinge
adopted akditist him: The Journal de Toulouse, of the
sth instant; Akts that numerous arrests were simultane-
ously,.effected diet rito niitt In -Potions parts of the town,
hut NO
lib iiiit.SliEeitt t • fetk.hig thnq aprehendpti.
I AliirM. it dimi trii Mieseilles lids decided,
by a rnajdritk df fent' to too; that a repreAtitdiliftl shertild
be mu !e al WU biiiiefiof titithikities; requesting that the
ileW iiithishieg ediieerfling Me issBsment sheuld be pilt
an end td, since they apii6Lirel id file Connell not alb=
formable to the formalities established by the laws and
regulations with regard to the direct taxes.
= 'file • iliti+i*H• d' tnelre-et•Loire asserts that at
Nevers and 'Olifg ilitist tit iliti itibellitents have refused
to admit intd their hdtigeS the iiseal itgeno tittlfged with
concitiaili the 81116* tif th 6 Cetistis:
----- TN MdifFird 40i
iiii .g(6..i iiiiCilofi* II Stthie
Video, of May 27th, which stat 4 LA Pb*MiN Hie t'dei
with his squadron of six ships, had attacked o,ciiiialt4ll:ife
Brown, of the Buenos Ayres navy, who had only three
ships ; but after an obstinate battle of upwards of three
hours, Coe received so much damage that he was obliged
to return into port, with twelve men killed and twenty
wounded. The Argentine artillery and crews are sail
to have been much superior to those of Monte Video.
The Armoricain of Brest states that the military
and naval authorities have become so fully aware of the
tremendous effects produced by the guns a la Paixhans
upon batteries of all kinds, as shown during the late
operations in Syria, that they have determined on
mounting all the batteries in the ports of France with
artillery upon this plan. It has also been found neces-
sary, it adds, to change the position of the powder-ma-
gazines, and they will all be put under ground, or under
works casomated in an extra manner, since common
bomb-proof masonry' is not proof against Paixhans'.
shot. The actual magazines of Brest, it observes, would
all he immediately bloWn up, and the upper town de-
stroyed, if au attack were now to be made with such
artillery.
~.- The Gazette du Midi states that General Changer-
pier pas!.!d through that city a, few days ago, from Al-
gierp,- on his way to Paris. - , ~,
'COireipondent of the.-Presse, Writing yen& L;on-
stantiiipple„ Rti the 17th ult., asserts that a Conspiracy