The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI, JUSt 28., 1841.

ut that which Lord GREY aimed at? Why has

he essayed to substitute a nominal for a real re-
presentation of the people of Ireland ? Why has
he not given the electors the Ballot, that they
might be protected from the threats of wealthy
lordlings? His answer is
" I looked upon that measure (the Reform Bill) rather
as a protection against, than an introduction to, perpetual
change ; and I am prepared to resist endeavours rashly
to break in upon a settlement so recently made, by alte-
rations of a more democratic tendency." _ _

He will not now carry out the principle he
adopted in 1830. He has shrunk back affrighted
from his own work, and gone over to the Tories,
but he shows his respect for the principles he
has deserted, and demonstates his belief that
they prevail among the electors to whom he ap-
peals, by putting them prominently forward, and
claiming credit as a servant of the good and
noble cause which he has deserted and be
trayed. If that should be doomed fur a mo-
ment to be in a minority in the House of Com-
mons, which for the honour of our countrymen
we will not believe till the -fact be recorded
by votes, it must only be to obtain a more cer-
tain and speedy triumph, since Lord STANLEY
promises himself success by hoisting the colours
of freedom.

Lord STANLEY strove in 1836 to form a
party of his own, and at that time, as his
communication to Mr. HANDLEY proves, placed
no confidence in the Ministers. If he found it ne-
cessary to tell the electors that he had not confi-
dence in them, he might have accompaned it with a
true statement of his reasons. Since 1835 he
has been zealously endeavouring to circumvent
and overthrow the Ministers, yet he assigns as
reasons for not confiding in them their conduct
since 1839. Nay, he has lost confidence in the
Government, he says, because " they brought
forward, in 1841, such a question as the Corn-
laws with a distinct avowal that they have
no expectation of being able to carry it."
He avows himself a friend to protection
and the fluctuating scale; he is a friend
therefore to plundering the consumer for the
sake of the landlords—a friend of restraints on
commerce—a friend to dealing with false mea-
sures—a friend to the accursed system which im-
poverishes the many for the sake of the few; and
he expects, we presume, to be believed, when he
at the same time describes himself as the friend
to civil and religious liberty. Terrible mistake.
Lord STANLEY may delude himself by well
rounded phrases ; at that he is an adept; but
he will not deceive the clear-headed
men of Lancashire. They will set him
down, with his fluctuating protective duty, and
his desire to strengthen the Church, as the de-
clared foe of civil and religious liberty, and they
well know that he is supported by men who are,
like himself, foes to both. He is a renegade
who still wears the colours he has deserted and
betrayed; and were he to be expelled from the
representation of North Lancashire, he would
meet with his deserts.

Whichever party may have the majority in
the new Parliament, one thing is quite certain,
the counties and -the towns will take opposite
sides. The Tories ,boast that several county
Members have been obliged to resign ; and the
Whigs boast that several Tory borough Members
will not be returned. Thus we shall certainly
have in the next Parliament the Members for
the towns ranged on one side, and the Members
for the counties ranged on the other. The old
feud will be revived of the cottnery against the
town; the contest will be one of substantial mate-
rial interests—nothinEishadowy and uncertain—
nothing vague and Otionally unimportant, like a
contest whether one nobleman or another shall
hold the seals of office, but a contest between
great social interests which, according to the
theory of society, are one and the same.
We look on that, as a much more serious
matter than whether Lord MELBouurreor Sir R.
PEEL shall be Prime Minister. These statesmen
now stand at the head of great adverse social in-
terests, not merely political parties, and they
number their adherents, not by hundreds in the
House of Commons, but by millions in the
country.

How come the people, who are said to have a
common interest, to be thus banded against each
other ? Why should town and country—which are
mutually and reciprocally as beneficial to each
other as area weaver and a spinner, one being the
customer or the mark et for the produce of the other
—be thus drawn up in hostile array. The Corn-
law, which enables the country population to ex-
tort from the town population more than properly
belongs to them, is the source of the animosity.
It is the necessary consequence of the law, and
must be reckoned amongst the benefits or evils
that it inflicts on the country.

The conflict between such material interests
seems to us a great evil; but it will continue as
long as one receives a very undue preference to the
other. We must inform the Pro-Corn-law men
that the contest which they deplore, and which
is heightening every day, is one of the beauties
of the system which they uphold ; arid town will
be arrayed against country, and country against
town, to the great detriment of the peace and
happiness of society, till the cause of the dispute
be removed.

A new candidate has started for the Tower
Hamlets, an old Member of the House of Com-
mons, and remarkable in that Assembly only for
the fickleness of his character, namely, the re-
jetted of Worcester, GEcoRGE R. ROBINSON. He
represented Worcester in the garb of a Liberal,
he spoke, and long tedious speeches he made, in
favour of reform and free-trade, and when the
tide went strong in that direction he was always
found in the majority, but whenever there was a
nice balancing of parties, he never failed to vote
against his Liberal constituents, and join with the
aristocrats who resisted to the last gasp the
Reform Bill. We always put him and another
ejected Member for a northern borough, of the
same Christian name, down as wolves in sheep's
clothing, and we have not been mistaken. Mr.
ROBINSON comes forth now as a true Tory, and
in an address to the electors denounces the " weak
vacillating policy of her MAJESTY'S Ministers,"
but, at the same time, takes care to keep a loop-
hole open for jumping into place whichever party
may prevail. "To the alteration of the Corn-
laws and the Sugar and Timber Duties," be says,
" under the circumstances in which they were
brought forward, I am decidedly opposed ;
but it would be my duty to give to any
proposition that might be made for their
improvement the most impartial and delibe-
rate consideration." He is thus prepared
to give any vote that suits his convenience, and
we know well from his past conduct to which
side he would give it, should the Electors of the
Tower Hamlets be deceived by his professions.
The Whigs would give him nothing, because
they could not trust him, and when he lost all
hope in that quarter, he shook off the dust of his
feet against them and joined the Tory camp.
We do not blame him rashly; his own address con-
firms the worst suspicions of every Liberal
elector of Worcester. No one accused him of
asking for profit or favour, but his guilty con-
science could not conceal the truth, and he there-
fore comes forward with these pompous declama-
tions,"bound by no obligation to either party, seeh-
ing no favour from any Administration, my object
would be to promote your welfare and serve the
country." We see there are four Liberal can-
didates in the field opposed to this patriot, whose
only object is " to promote the welfare" of the
inhabitants, of the Tower Hamlets. They are
not mad enough, we confidently hope, to divide
the Liberal interest, and allow the numerous
and independenbilsonstituency of the most popu-
lous borough in the metropolitan districts to be
represented by a renegade. Let them therefore
consult together in time—let the weaker give
way to the strongest, and save themselves from
the reproach of contributing to the success of a
party who have ever shown themselves the ene-
mies of the people.

The battle begins to-day, and it is encouraging
In London to know that the spirit of the people

in the manufacturing districts is excellent. There
all seem to be united, and all determined to win.
Southwark, we presume, where there is no op-
position, will be the first return made. Let the
City, on Tuesday, only show itself worthy of its
ancient honour, and all will go well. In and.
around the Metropolis one-fifteenth part of the
population of the whole empire is concentrated.
In that space there is a still larger portion of the
wealth and intelligence of the empire. The ex-
ample, therefore, will have a powerful in-
fluence over the whole. Let the citizens of
London remember that the fate of the empire
mainly depends on them, and as they dopr neg-
lect their duty, so will the country be prosperous
or miserable, and they be ..honoured or despised
in time to come. To vote for the Tories and re;
straints on trade, to vote for more taxes and less
freedom, is to commit a great social:crime. The
only honourable course is to elect the champions
of free-trade, and of providing for the exigencies
of the State without adding to the burdens of the
people, by great and triumphant majorities.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all
reached us. British politics now form the leading theme
for discussion in the columns of the Parisian Press. A
painful sensation was produced in Paris on Saturday by
the arrival of news,a the loss of the Pollux steamer.

The mortal remains of M. GARNIER PAGES, the elo-
quent Radical Deputy, were, on Saturday morning, con-
signed to their last resting-place in the Cemetery of Pere
la Chaise. The hearse was followed to the grave by
2,000 students, who walked four abreast. The whole
number following the melancholy procession was sup-
posed to exceed 8,000. Strong detachments of military
were in attendance to preserve order, but not the slight-
est disturbance took place. M. GARNIER PAGES has
not left behind him in France a man worthier than him-
self of the confidence of his countrymen.
We were enabled on Saturday to anticipate the greater
portion of the Levant news published in these Journals.
Other portions will be found in another part of The Sun.

We have received the following letter from Toulon of the
22d June:—

" Reports of war are again spread in the West, and seem
this time to gain much credit. It is announced that Vice-Ad-
miral Hugon is going to receive orders to return to port with
the squadron, and that all the ships are to be victualled for six
months, and immediately afterwards to proceed to the Levant.
" It was even said that Rear-Admiral Lalande was promoted
to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and was placed at the head of our
naval force in the room of Vice-Admiral Hugon, who would be
Maritime Prefect at Toulon. On the other hand it is an-
nounced that Rear-Admiral Lasusse is to be sent on the 25th of
this month with the division under his command.—Le
Consti-
tutionnel.

FREE TRADE OR MONOPOLY.

AN APPEAL TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-
ELECTORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
FELLOW COUNTEXMEN,—The day of our deliverance
is at hand, if you be but true to yourselves. Whether
you 'be Tories suffering for the past misdeeds of your
rulers—or Whigs indignant at the partial non-fulfilment
of expectations too warmly cherished, or whether you
be Radicals and Chartists, more sanguine than wise—for
each and all of you there is a day of promise in store
which shall spread joy and plenty throughout the land,
if you but now think and feel for yourselves—think as
men worthy to be free, and feel that you are brothers
having one common destiny ; that you are fathers of
children who ought to be happy—the husbands of wives
who look to your protection, and the sons of a country
that yet boasts your birth.
Countrymen, the hour of action is come—a general
election ranges over the land, and your votes are can-
vassed by many men who have deceived you before, and
will deceive you again—men of fair premises, beyond
their power of performance; others, whose want of can-
dour is made up by profession—of all such beware.
Reflect on the past while you look to the future,. and
take heed while time tarries. ~g'o-day is your own, but
to-morrow belongs to the winds ; if you vote honestly,
you can better your condition; if you do not, your power
is departed, and you shall reap the whirlwind ! Why
should you still act foolishly, by confiding your trust
to those who have so _frequently deceived you ? Why
suffer your eyes to be blinded by men who will see
only for themselves ? Why should the majority of
such gentlemen be so anxious to get into Parliament on
your account ? If yonajudge of their labours for your
benefit by the result, what have you? Bad laws ill-
administered—dear bread, and scarce withal—other
necessaries of life taxed, if not beyond endurance, yet
taxed beyond all precedent. And for what—all for your
good ? Away with such mockery ! Turn from such
men, and look to men whom you think you can trust,
not men whom you *have tried, and found wanting.
There are thousands of good and trustworthy men
among you ; select for yourselves ; choose your, own
shepherd from your previous knowledge of his character,
and do not be deceived by strangers to your interests,
Wandering wolves in shceps' clothing seeking to devour you.
Of such you have had too sad -experience to wish for
more. Look at the statute-book—that mound of mono-
poly; the work of their hands—atax upon tax to restrain
your enterprise abroad, and coerce your exertion at
home. If their Legislative labours had been for the
good of the many, simpler laws would suffice ; but their
ingenuity bas been tasked to benefit the few—class in-
terests against the ivelfare of the people ; hence the mul-
titude of their partial laws framed to embarrass the
judgment by perverting the truth. The iniquity of their
doings was at times so -gross that its very nakedness
became too palpable for decent evasion ; yet they per-
severed in their evil course—the road to ruin was wide
enough for them, however long it might be for the sufferers.
And shall such things be repeated ? Will you be robbe,'
of your votes under the vain delusion of party colours-
-the badges of your slavery ? What charm has orange,
or blue, or yellow ? Such colours are only the blazon of
- your servitude—the standard of reproach—setting forth
your unhappy divisions. Cast them aside, and hoist the
national colours. Blend your distinctive symbols in One
. harmonious banner—the banner of reform and justice.
the National Union ! Sink your animosities—abandon
those prejudices, fostered only to prolong your nick-
names of Tory, Whig, and Radical, for the profit of
others,—forget and forgive as much as humanity can
• tolerate,—choose the best men you can find, whatever b(
their creed or profession, and you are likely to have a
good Parliament, composed of representatives who wll
endeavour to correct the errors of the past, and providt
for the exigencies of the future,—a Parliament which
shall maintain the just prerogatives of the Crown, while
it protects the liberties of the people.
Electors !—Bear in mind that you hold your trust
not for yourselves alone, but for non-electors also—j us
as nature provides for the care of the young, by makin'
'sage responsible for their safety till they can proVide fot
themselves, so the electoral trust is accorded to you a.
the holders of more property for the benefit and protec-
tion of those who are labouring for your comfort while
they promote their own. You are mutually dependent,
and it should be the solicitude of those who possess and
enjoy the advantage of present position to watch over the
interests of their less fortunate brethren. Their fate to-
day may be yours to-morrow. Be therefore just and
fear not.
But some will say—" Look at the corruption around
; us ! 'Where is the chance of our individual exertions
doing any good fur others, while we invoke certain de-
struction on our own heads? Patriotism prompts to be
honest, but dis:Tetion steps forward with the monition
of self-preservation. We are caught in the toils, and
have not the courage to sacrifice the comfort of our chil-
dren, though we have fortitude to endure the loss of our
own."
All this may be very prudent—perhaps correct. But
bear in mind that nothing great was ever yet accom-
plished without some sacrifice in its achievement. The
hardest won battle has proved the most glorious ; and in
proportion to the glory or good is the price which the
victor pays for his laurels. Look at your present condi-
tion, and ask your conscience—your pride—your pa-
triotism, if such be altogether worthy of people who call
themselves free—not only free, but the freest people on
earth !—people whom your masters are constantly hold-
ing up as living under " a constitution which is justly ( ?)
deemed the pride and envy of the world ! ! !" If it be so,
you have not found it to work over-well ; but they wish
you to believe it has worked, and that it does work well,
because it was the beautiful work of their hands, and the!,
profit by practising the deception on you. They flatter
your vanity while they pick your pockets.
Certainly the practice has hitherto worked well for
them; but you are beginning to awaken from your torpor
and learn to think; the more you think the more your
eyes are opened, and the further your vision extends.
From the low depths of ignorance and imposture you are
ascending a higher position, and behold more clearly as
you ascend the enormity of the jugglers who kept you
entangled in the webs of legal sophistry and self-inte-
rested or class expediency. By a sort of legerdemain,
which they miscal laws, they have been feasting on the
produce of your labours, while they doom your families
to starvation. Their commanding position has for ages
enabled them to tyrannize over you, while they mock ycu
by swearing with an unholy assurance that it is all for
your good. Such profession is utter blasphemy against
the common God of all; an insult to the reason tha.
guides your steps—the spirit that animates your doings!
Hitherto you have suffered and paid others to think
for you ; henceforth think fen: yourselves and save your
money. Instead of being the slaves of other men':
opinions, be the masters, the arbiters of your own.
The all-wise Creator has given you reason, sensibility,
and action—why not employ them to your own advan-
tage ? By so doing you will be making a grateful re-
turn for such gifts, and benefiting not only yourselves,
but your children—your neighbours, and, as the circle
of good-will enlarges, the world around, by your ex-
ample. As evil suggests evil, so good begetteth good.
The sway of tyranny is only fearful because it is tole-
rated. The slave smarts under the lash while terror
keeps him without the range of the whip ; but let him
once take courage, and rush in—it is only a few stripes
more in the struggle—the price of his redemption! and
he waves the scourge of the scorner over the head of his
oppressor.
Even so will it be with you, patriotic (lectors, if ycu
be true to yourselves at this all-important juncture—
this crisis of political life or death to your liberties—this
glorious opportunity, which our 'gracious, our beloved
QUEEN, has afforded for the exercise of our patriotism !
Can we hesitate to work out our deliverance from the
despotism which has, under all hues of dissimulation, so
long cramped our energies and blasted our fairest hopes,
that class interests should flourish and monopoly predo-
minate ?
Electors and Fellow-countrymen !—Whatever be your
political bias, you have all endured more or less alike.
Let it teach you in victory to forgive. You are all chil-
dren of one family—the human race. Your masters
have erred like their progenitors ; from what causes it is
perhaps useless now to inquire. All human motives
urge to power ; instinct in brutes is but ambition in
them : they could not resist the impulses of their nature
any more than control their destiny. Make them feel the
enormity of their avarice by the magnanimity of your
mercy. To forget is the lot of those who do not feel ;
the idiot heeds not for lack of sensibility ; but you have
felt and felt sorely—forgetfulness in your case were im-
possible ; but in the very agony of your triumph, dare
to be great by being generous,—show the extent of
your humanity by your clemency ; prove to your van-
' quished but mistaken enemies, that, in their day of ex-
ultation and extortion, they injured men more worthy
than themselves. This is the purest triumph that
patriotism can achieve, or Christianity inculcate,—a
triumph blending charity with hope, and winning men
more by the suasive charm of conviction in your in-
tegrity and kindness than by all the terror inspired
through the magnitude of your power.
To detair of success in a just cause is but to doubt
your ewu worthiness. That you have manifold diffigui.