The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1841.

For a considerable time past the faction, which
would starve others and fatten themselves, have
been depreciating manufactures, and exalting
agriculture, as the most proper and most healthy
employment for the people. They have de-
scribed manufacturing towns as sinks of moral
and physical corruption, in which both soul and
body are destroyed. It would now appear, from
an account which a Correspondent has sent us of
the proceedings of certain Chartists at Halifax,
that they have eagerly adopted the opinions of
the Starvationists. A Chartist missionary at the
meeting declared that his " object was to per-
suade the manufacturing population not to allow
the country to be made the workshop of
the world." A large portion of the meeting
held up their hands for the Charter, and for
stopping the progress of manufacturing industry.
" Triumph, glorious triumph!" will exclaim the
landlords; " they are considerate and rational men,
not to be led away by the ' lies' and inflam-
matory speeches of the Anti-Corn-law League.
We knew we could trust the good sense of the
people."
Not quite so fast, good landlords. The Chartists
ire in love with your Arcadian pictures, and
anxious to realise them. You have inspired
them with a taste for rural enjoyments, which
they will call on you to gratify. ' They are "to
lirect their efforts to OBTAINING POSSESSION OF
P. HE LAND IN PORTIONS OF FIVE OR SIX ACRES A
PIECE," to which end they are to obtain the
Charter, and then they will be able to divide the
soil. The Tories have taught them to 'ad-
mire a rural life, and the profit of the Chart-
ists on it is, that they will have an agrarian re-
public.
This is another of those almost spontaneous
effusions of the public mind, arising from circum-
stances, of which the blame cannot be laid on
the Anti-Corn-law Press. It hastaught no agra-
rian doctrine. It has advocated the progress of
manufactures; it has implored, conjured, and
supplicated the landlords to allow the population
to flow into the towns, by allowing the manufac-
turers to find food and employment for them.
The landlords have been deaf to remonstrance and
reason, and have stopped the growth of the towns'
by stopping the supply of food. In Parliament,
and out of Parliament, they have vaunted the
beauties and the superiority of an agricultural
life, and would on no account allow, much leEks
encourage, the extension of manufactures.
They are likely to see their wishes realized;
the people will not make England the workshop
of the world, but they will cultivate the land for
their own happiness. How beautiful will it look
to see the goodly domains of Stowe, the nice
grounds ofDrayton Manor, the undulating hills of
Goodwood, the stately walks of Belvoir, all laid
out in nice plots of ground of five acres each,
with a hut, a garden, and a rosy-checked fa-
mily on every one—and all cultivated by
the spade, and by the cheerful owners, compared
to the dingy shops of Manchester and Bolton.
The Chartists have planned out a very paradise
for England, and their scheme of agrarian feli-
city does justice to that love of the beautiful in
their teachers with which the Tories always boast
their writings exclusively abound. The clergy,
too, will be delighted with the prospect of again
reigning over a true agricultural flute-blowing
population, having no neighbours with more than
five acres to draw off the attention of their flocks
from heaven by any display of worldly magni-
ficence.

The Chartists are resolute men, as well as do-
cile pupils. They will endeavour to carry the
lessons of their teachers into effect. Every man
is entitled to live, they have been told, in the
country i and as they are not allowed to live by
manufactures, they naturally fall back on the
land, the only other resource. They are good,
practical logicians, and do great honour to their
Tory teachers. They will soon realise the beau
ideal of the landlords, and spread a happy rural
population over the empire. At the period of the
next Census, the Arcadians will have the un-
speakable satisfaction of knowing that the in-
crease in the agricultural has been much greater
than the increase in the manufacturing popu-
lation.

Perhaps the condition of England may then
approximate to that of Ireland, before the
clearing process began, when squatters and sub-
tenants divided the land into portions of one or
two acres, and the nominal landowners lived
abroad because it was not safe to live at home.
Should the landlords catch a glimpse of that
possibility (and how they will reduce to ser-
vility the people whom they will not allow to
get an honest living, we cannot tell) they will,
perhaps, begin to suspect that they have in
themselves much worse enemies than in
the Anti-Corn-law League, and that a condi-
tion of society infinitely more offensive to them
than would follow the repeal of the Bread-tax,
may be the consequence of maintaining the law.
It' they will not allow England to be made the
workshop of the world, they may live to see
their estates divided, on the Chartist plan, into
tive-acre farms.

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that a large loan to
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at present so very desirable. It will take,
acsctording to our Contemporary, 400,0001. to send
60,000 emigrants to Canada, and 1,200,0001. to
send the same
number
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to New South Wales.
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moreenominal land fund
some parties here—for so trifling a relief, and
to be unproductive for twelve or eighteen idnisOtnrtehsss,
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would, in reality, add to the national
The people east of Temple-bar, not being jobbers
in colonial lands, begin to count the cost of the
project, and they hint to their West-end friends
that they must not allow themselves to be de-
ceived by interested representations.
The gentlemen of the City, who have taken
up the subject, are actively at work, and are to
meet on Monday to fix on such measures as
may be deemed necessary to promote the emi-
gration project. We infer their interestedness
from their partiality. If we are correctly in-
formed, they included only Canada and the
colonies of the Southern Ocean in the benefits
of their scheme, till they were informed that, for
the sake of decency, • they must include the
whole of our colonies.

Considering the long connection which has
existed between the corruptionists east of
Temple-bar and the Tories, we can reudilY

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