The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-25 00:00:00

EMIGIULTI

CLAS

ES.

(YROMACORRESPONDENTO

However our distinguished statesmen, our dis-
tinguished aristocracy, our elevated prelates, our
opulent landowners, may affect to despise the ad-
mitted dissatisfaction of the working classes with

the principles and administration of Government,
they will find it at last like the avalanche, long in
collecting its materials, apparently forming a con-
stituent part of the mountain to which it is attached,
but proportionate in its force to the mass of its ac-
cumulation, :and overwhelmin4 every obstacle, and
covering every object beneath it with destruction in
its fall. 'We repeat it—the separation of the work-
ing classes from the &her portions of the commu-
nity, and their deep, smouldering dissatisfaction
with the Government of the empire, forms by far
the most ominous sign of the times.
We observe that an obscure political scribbler,
rabid in ultra-Toryism, has had the effrontery to
ascribe to us the infection, if not of creating, at any

rate of promotint• revolution, in the papers we have
already published on the subject before us. We
may safely leave this writer to be smothered in the

stench of his own corruption. Revolution, for-
sooth ! They are the revolutionists who engender
and who aggravate the uncontrollable elements of
popular discontent ; who kindle the spark of revolt
by the clash of their own misgovernment, and then
fan it into an irresistible flame. We maintain that

instead of instigating and abetting even the very
shade of revolution in these papers, we arc confer-
ring the greatest possible benefit upon the commu-
nity ; we are detecting and exposing the navology
of the malady which, like an insidious gangrene, is
festering upon the vitals of the national prosperity
and security, that if possible we may discover its
remedy and effect its cure.
In our last article upon this topic we stated that
one cause of the dissatisfaction prevalent among the
working classes is to be found, not merely in their
exclusion from the elective franchise, but in the ir-
ritating, the insulting reasons which are assigned
for that exclusion. \),'e proceed now to remark that
this dissatisfaction is bitterly increased by the mock
remedies which are proposed by some of our influ-
ential, aye, and of our liberal and patriotic, states-
men, for the increasing distress produced among
the industrious by low wages and the want of em-
ployment. We select one of these remedies as an
example.
Emigrate it is exclaimed ;"go to Canada,
go to Australia, go to New Zealand, go any where,
rather than stay at home, where the population is
redundant, and the supply of labour is excessive."
We shall nor hesitate to exhibit this emigration
scheme precisely in the colours which intrinsically
belong to it, as a combination of absurdity, injus-
tice, crushy, and selfishness.
And first of ail, as to its absurdit.y. It is just as e
absurd to desire tile industrious to migrate, as it
is to desire health to leave the body, strength to
depart from the frame, the life. blood to abandon the
heart ; for the industrious constitute tile health of
the political body, the strength of the political
frame, the life-Wood of the political heart. Could
we send away from out shores shiploads of our pro-
fligate aristocrats, of our toad-eating place-hunters,
of our lazy sip rein ists, battened on the burdens
of the country, of our political empirics, of
our ecclesiastical drones, of our self-seeking
" patriots," so that they might eat only the bread
which they earned, all would be well; this would be
as beneficial as the removing of unsightly excre-
scences and exhausting tumours from the corpo-
real fabric. But cause industry to emigrate, intelli-
gence to emigrate, useful labour to emigrate ! This
is a species of mortal political depletion, which
nothing but selfish infatuation can propose, and
nothing but equally interested folly can defend.
And then as to the injustice and cruelty of this
emigration scheme. \\,' hat can be more unjast
than for our bread-taxers to make the country
miserable, and then to vociferate, " The land ..ve
live in, and let those who don't like it leave it ?"
Or what can be inure cruel than to expatriate
those who have never offended—to sentence them
to banishment because they have been made poor—
to tear up by the roots their love of home, of kindred,
of country, because they have been rendered the un-
consenting victims of a blind, unrighteous, and
anti-patriotic legislation ? Away ! we exclaim,
with this odious expedient ! Change the system
of taxation Instead of drawing that taxation
from the bowels of industry, extract it from pro-
perty ; because taxation is nothing but the price
which property ought to pay for its protection. Let
legislation cherish instead of oppressing labour.
Let there be an equitable suffrage. And then go
abroad who will, let the industrious remain at
home, the vigour, the vitality, the opulence, and
the ornament of the empire.
On the 4/is/mess of the emigration scheme,
we have no occasion to dilate. We put a case
which we know—we say we know—actually exists at
this hour, and we can produce our proof of if it be
demanded. A few capitalists fix upon a tract of
country, let it be supposed in Australasia, for specu-
tiou ; by a system of chicanery pecular to the sys-
tem, they obtain what they call a title to the land;
but that land is unprofitable without emigration ;
well, a colony is formed, then a neck-or-nothing
newspaper is established in this country, to write
up the colony by the most exaggerated statements,
and either distorted or fabricated communications
from the colonists ; what is technically called " the
stream of emieration," begins to flow. The price
of land rises—the land is sold—the speculators put
their money into their pockets—their object is
gained—and for aught they care, the mushroom co-
wry and the deluded emigrants may go to perditon.
Here for the present we leave the subject.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-YESTEhDAY.

The attendance was so thin, and business so slack, that
it would be absurd to make any introductory remark] ; a
list of the bets and oilers must suffice.
DERBY.
13 to 1 agst Lord Bruce's Rosalie cult—offers to take
1.1 to 1
lti to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Marshal Soult—
taken to 251.
22 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Palremon—taken to 751.
28 to 1 agst the Duke of Rutland'a Sir Haus—taken
to 101.
28 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—taken to 101.
45 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Duke of Wellington—taker
to 101.
1000 to 15 agst Lord Stradbroke's lot—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Jack Sheppard—taken
and afterwards offered
Harlock succeeds Turner as private trainer to Lord
Exeter.

THE NEW RIDING HOUSE, &c.,