The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

ZrEIViNG RDITION

has resulted frOm foriuer debates upOn this important
subject, the agriculturists of this kingdom will, by addi-
tional application a skill and capital, be enabled to raise
• • a sL:fficient supply on an av(rage of seasons for the wants
of our iner.2asing population.
We never had a doubt that the agriculturists
Cu raise sufficient, on an average of seasons, if
11”1-). be rigidly maintained, to supply the
pOputatioh, blit at what
y'ate wint: increase ? People must have food,
and if they submit to a law which limits the
supply, however wretched may be the 'skill,
!tn,d.,deftcient may be. the capital of the agri-
to what he can Produce, they can-
tot increaSe beyond that. But the mode
in which the law limiting the supply of
food oPerateS, is to starve down the peo2le
to ! the supply, not to raise the supply of
food to the level of the natural increase of popu-
t latiOn. Unappalled -by the terrible calamities
Which pervade society, unawed and unaffected
by the shocking scenes of destitution which are
Metwith in every part of the empire, law-makers
like Lord WESTERN exult at having made the
skill and capital of the agriculturist supply the
t. Population whom they have starved down nearly
i„ •to the level of what our soil can supply. To
obtain a clear view of the immense mischief
,011 which their sordid legislation causes, we must
always remember that the tendency of popula-
tion is to increase—that this increase -is the
healthy spring of social prosperity, and that the
short by
law which starves it 'down to a quantity of food,
a single quarter of wheat or ton of sugar
of what it might otherwise obtain, is the source
of all that vice, crime, and misery which result
.:. !iota checking the increase -of population.

- We beg to direct public attention to the great
0:1, :and influential meeting heldat Manchester on
11lisday. The resolutionS were nearly upani-
. Paously. carried. The second denounced the.
Corn-laws as suicidal, and the thirdi-while it ex-
Pressed satisfaction at hearing of the measures
Proposed by Ministers, said," that the changes
contemplated, so far as they are known to the
Public, although not so extensive as to fulfil the
Wishes of this community, tend in a right direc-
• , 0°11." That sentiment . will be found to per-
vade the manufacturing districts. The Minis-
ters' •, measures go on in a right direction, but
they
do not go far enough. On Tuesday evening
,
• Sir E. KNATCHBULL stated that as long as
1 , this
question was agitated, business would be
Partially suspended ; but it will be agitated till
justice be done, full and ample' justice. By no
Other means than doing justice can the agitation
be extinguished. Will it not therefore be pru-
dent, wise, and politic in the Ministers to join
With the suffering manufacturing population in
. Procuring the total repeal, conjoined with a much
.larger reduction in the sugar and timber duties,
and 34 for ever prevent the revival of the agita-
tion ? It ;will cost as much trouble to realise
their plan of the fixed duty, as to effect
• . 'the ; total repeal, and the former will
• cause quite as much disturbance to property
And vested interests'as the latter, besides keeping
the
pbssessors of them continually uneasy. It
,;. has been said by authority, that the Corn-laws
are a"great national injury, and never, as long
asthere is suffering and poverty ip the land, will
'the- nation quietly submit to them. It will be
Wise in the Ministers, therefore, to propose the
total repeal.
The picture of distress, suffering, and want of
• employment, drawn by Mr.ICEUsnAw, is terrific;
and' it was emphatically said more than once, that
the wealthy people of I.ondon, have no conception
of the misery. . which prevails in the manufactur-
' ing.districts.• ,When; they learn, its extent they
will, and must: be, 'ashamed of their apathy, not
to. say their liostility, to their poorcr brethren.
Perhaps, too, they may be alarmed at the una-

.nitnity which prevailed, and at finding the
• • working classes of the manufacturing districts,

are eagerly embracing the opportunity which is
~..Itow.offered them of obtaining redress. Perhaps,
moo, they may,begin to think it time to look
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.them, when the gentlemen. in the ma-
nufacturing districts propose to .follow Mr.
°'CONNP.LL'S example—repeal the .union be-
tween them and the agricultural districts,
and establish a Parliament of manufacturers
111 opposition to a Parliament of landlords.
These are so:ne of the wild thoughts which the
(lerng, monstrous injustice of the bread-taxers is engen-
and they will probably be frightened.
like' Satan at the offspring of Sin, at the horrible
progeny they have begotten.
The m.
anchester meeting will give the tone to
9ther-meetings in the same district, and through-
;lsi.tt,., out that hive of industry the voice of the people
11IN „will be raised for the total abolition of the bread
Lax. It• was felt there, and expressed by more
that!
one speaker, than the people can achieve
'thisth great victory if they will ; and they were told
they do- not succeed it will be their own fault.
I:..heir future fate and happiness are placed in
:heir own hands, and it will. depend on them-
!lves whether they shall continue or not to be
the slaves of the landowners.

on (411 llQuses of Parliament adjourned over last night.
Ar e Commons meet to-day, the Lords do not meet till
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3.

'the Paris Journals of Tuesday have all
r' . .teached us In the Moniteur of that date w e
l'''''i ' dl' following . telegraphic despatch :
,iii
lit i. , the
TOULON, MAY 17, 1841.
ili "til .: (Received at Half-past Seven o'ClocicisirnztaheeservTenni:gN.
A) v
Y.
tiNi, 'lilt. SIARITIME PREFECT TO THE
11i:tell
Algiers on the 9th
..iii.)
.'2llii:ll,Tallent exvilditiGnnavry
nco•orrpasndreh-ies
Highness the Duke de Nee: 1iv1,i,,..',' koin:a*arrived thereoer
on the 10th ir(ititanttileaf3t(eir ha'n,g
instant thec
Nit,
~:7.l:_itittalled Medeah and
1 !tltY assembled, upon the mountains above Milianah, from
titll)ii., 010 6,000 Kabyles, and his regular infantry, which, in
304.. . elie of need, was to be supported by a mass of 15,000 cavalry,
‘tii; .F.Follteted in the plain of the Chelif. . After a feigned retreat,
- ali'eharge was beaten along the entire line, andthe_,Azabs
Dili ';' 11M in the- uttriost disorder, leaving several
. hundred
s d ad on
i Highness the
141... the in
The . left wing, commanded b
seriyously attacked, and,
, . itt iepellinNgetmancrhsar' gwea,shis Highness led on
,bravelye
itsheLle4uth.
ii2j-:' 4Viinent of the line, of which the Duke d Aumal
'''
'lllrijt:°l6l3(l'. - Pon t-el-Kant ara, on the Chelif, an
4,6
inoerketin_rnaeign
1 returning from
our gensdarmes, the Alloorriotegeeer
a-
%/9 ~ dailnes, and the regular cavalry of- the Emir. mir.
combat,
p
du t several
tt„
..,. - "Pria.; 175 itrab cavalry wereput h
t a 43c,qt,efs were killed, 60 women or eliildre% some of whom were
4141.41 Xdiitinguished rank, were eapture-1, to'gether with 17. other ~'•sii 1. 4P4setierk, and front 1,500.i1" l'i°°l°l t4nde &avast they tribe, of the
1 I"k,,;!'Ctu.theBth inst. a razzia was.ina• s—
or sheep were seized.
1) l'll'iir7urrriata with
telexhe.gteatest succes.s.
.. ,
~.
Nii ... .I' During pedition we hatelt.ad 10 Gr. 12 men killed.
t) 4,nd 50 wounded. The loss of the en,,my is rated at more than
it '''' ,4°O. ,kilted.. Coleah was attacked vigorously on the Ist inst.,
i'' ',l„,°llt notwithstanding the weakness of the
, garrison the enemy
..tii '.; ''t`ltali repullied. 'With loss, upon all- poir.ts.'
1,411 l'') !tali
utterly destroying whole villages,.
hcaltlielde
sio ~ ;')l•zzias, is a'favOurite mode of 'warfare wit i
~,
;'', l'retteh in Africa. It would appear that there 11
s'i (4:•-'84111.etiritig.pleasaritly exciting to the French so
v0.,,,t '''
,try' in surrounding suddenly with a large body
I•llfil.i:44oUtnaops an isolated Arab village, and regularlytrwcii, ' luSillading every unfortunate wretch attemptingi.
loi
r.'to.
escape from the flames by which he finds inn
!Iti.:.: .gelf encircled. The war in Africa, like the Ame-
-14,1 . , tican war against the Red Indians of Florida, is a
- ..,:.. lirar of extermination. Such wars are hardl ►
'1.);;,,.,; :, !fibre hurtful to the destroyed than the destroyer.
liiN .. h 1 the one life is extinguished ; in the other,
ii•jc,,,
L kevOry moral and
11%,,„: good feeling which elevates man
;li,_osve the beasts that perish. The soldier becomes
titta .itt, demon. He murders without necessity and
se
zit( t"-' : r without remorse. The* unarmed finds no protection
.
i*:'z . u poll his knees, begging for what GOD gave, and
' a4,;:' What GOD only has a right to take away—life. A
•:. Musket ball or a bayonet thrust arrests the prayer
k'li- - - fut mercy- in his throat. And this is the scho(.l
s', in which the sons of Kin
g Louts are perfecting
':' • iir
i• 'it,:,„,,,..einselves in the art of war 1
,441 I 7zr, Letters from Tiflis, of the :25th March, announce
is "I
ti•thsttbat ailuSsian army of 45,000 'men, and SO piZtees
t'oritLiPS cannon, had set out
,on its march against the
el ft!).4.llcircaSsians, WhOm Nicitoi.As does.not despair of
~,4•34 *liicini,to a State of vassalage: . Tie following
''lti),." ..,4ititils are froth a letter in . the Constitutionnel
I'll'itt tze,of ttieSciay :
`IA•
•-eiv_t,, lliis army is accompanied by an immense waggon-train. It
i.. • —is destined to aet'particularly against the brave Schanid and the
• ...et-4e.l;etehenks, orening its opertt
°ns
watiuthrethaensdl,ect,o f Zhte sti
lipl.v
.. i,,a piazl.l:lpilelvdeeftentdoe.d, binltil by
be hprignable. The Russians at-
l'Hi' 11 Aluliked.it lacing the het campaign with an imp9sing force, bur
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igable aryft
dour in defendin is tle ordinaryg reshistdencenati
ve f Sch
... a-
, it indef at land
Rui3iau aggiession excites universal admiration and