The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

PART 11.

I saw a grieving artizan beside a workhouse bier,
His three pale children, hand in hand, were standing grieving

near ;
I said to him, my honest man, 'tis vain to mourn the dead ;
He answered rot, but cried—Oh, Lord I wilt thou deny us
bread?

I paced our merchant cities, and I found them strangely still,
The ironworlks were silent, and mute the cotton mill ;
And round stood groups of starving men—my heart was filled
with dread,
As I heard them hoarsely 1-nun:luring, the laws deny us
bread.

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Lprophesy the day will come, when all the hardy North,
And Lancashire and Warwickshire, shall send their millions

forth,
And Stafford-hire and Derbyshire shall match, by famine led,
And cry, in one resist►ess voice—Proud Lords, untas our
b read.

And we're supported by the Queen, the glory of our band,
Dukes Cleveland, Bedford, Devonshite, anti noble Suther-

land ;
The Earls of Spencer, Leicester, too, are ready all to head
The peaceful battle that shall give to all of us cheap bread.

DEPARTURE OF LORD FOR-
TESt;

(From the DulEn Post of Thursday.)
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant held an, undress
Levee this day, which was numerously and most respect-
ably attended. From eleven o'clock carriages continued
to arrive until nearly twelve, at which hour his Excel-
lency appeared in the State apartment, accompanied by
the Officers of the Household. While the company were
assembling in the ante-room, and during the ceremony of
presentation, the most general topic was that of high ad-
miration of the public career of his Excellency among a
large majority, while a considerable portion of those pre-
sent, being of Conservative principles, were as liberal of
their expressions of respect for the amiable private cha-
racter and virtues of the man, although they were op-
posed to his political opinions. Taken altogether, the
expression of public feeling which took place this day
was one of the most flattering and gratifying compliments
that ever was paid to any Governor who presided over
the destinie!. of Ireland.
In the course of the presentations his Excellency con-
ferred the honour of Knighthood upon Nicholas Fitz-
simon, Esq., Magistrate of Police, and formerly M.P. for
the King's County.
Shortly after one o'clock his Excellency left the Castle
on horseback, accompanied by his Aides-de-camp, and
followed by a train of private carriages and gentlemen on
horseback.
The cortege. composed of a vast number of carriages
and other vehicles, arrived at Maretimo, the seat of Lord
Cloncurry, where the Countess of Fortescue and the
Misses Genie awaited his Excellency's arrival, and then
proceeded with it to Kingstown. Opposite the Jetty the
Shamrock steamer was in readiness to receive their Ex-
cellencies, who immediately ivent on board. Lady Burke,
of Marble-hill, and several other ladies were also on
board to take leave of the Countess Fortescue. At a
quarter past three o'clock the steamer left the quay,
amidst the cheers of a numerous and fashionable assem-
blage on the beach.

DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER.—TIIE CORN^
T AWS.—BonoucH MEETING.—By a requisition, adver-
tised in the first page of the Manchester Guardian, we
observe tha;, in the opinion of many hundreds of our
merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, of all classes,
the extensive and extending distress in this town and
neighbourhood, is the result of the corn and provision
laws. They propose to consider the propriety of me-
morialising, the Queen not to prorogue the two Houses
of Parliament till • they have entered upon a full consi-
deration of these mischievous laws. The Mayor, to
whom the requisition was presented, has convened a
borough meeting for Thursday next, in the Town• hall,
and has requested the requisitionists to attend a preli-
minary meeting on Tuesday.
We regret to announce the death of the Mar-
chioness ofßute, which took place on Friday at Walmer
Beach. Her Ladyship was in the forty-eighth year of
her age. Her
.Ladyship before her marriage was the
Lady Maria North, eldest daughter and co-heir of the
third Earl of Guildford. The deceased Marchioness had
no issue.

The folks are so uncommon dull down at Ver-
mont, that it takes ten nac n to make a joke.

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Lord Ponsonby was on the 18th ult. preparing to 1t.5a7.7
Constantinople for England on a leave of absence likel
to extend to the term of his natural life. We shall be
delighted to witness the return of his Excellency to his
native land. He was mischievous at Perri, but he will
be useful in a certain House of ill repute in Westminster.
Had it not been for t'-:e restraint imposed upon Lord
Ponsonby by Lord Palmerston, England and France
would by this time have had a sad story to tell.
A French vessel which left Tunis on the 10th ult. was
robbed by pirates, off Cape Bizerta;of 19,000 fr. in gold.
There were 15 pirates in a. boat, but only one boarded
and robbed the vessel, which had on board, besides the
crew, 17 passengers !
The Journal des Debate of Thursday admits that the
object of the Commercial Treaty with Belgium is t,
exclude British manufactures from the Belgian market,
which is only to be open► to France. 'France, on her side,
offers an exclusive market for the staple produce of Bel-
gium. John Bull will-not patiently stand this. As re-
gards him, it is a specimen of Irish reciprocity—all on
the one side.

PITSZT.O

The Times, in an article whose object is to contrast
the unanimity that exists among the Tories, with the
differences that exist among the Liberals, makes the fol-
lowing remarks :—" There is every probability that the
sections of Liberalism of which Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Roe-
buck,' and Mr. Cobden are representatives, will act pretty
uniformity together'; and it will in no degree surprise
us, if their united forces should be found to out-number
those of the Whigs; properly so called. Thus there will
be virtually three parties in the present Parliament :
Her Majesty's Ministers, with their supporters ; her
Majesty's Opposition ; and her Majesty's Opposition's
Opposition. The probable termination of this state of
things will be, the dethronement of Lord John Russell
from the office leader ; and, in such an event, we
might possibly have to congratulate the Conservatives
upon the accession to their ranks of that personally re-
spectable, and • every way well-meaning Nobleman."—
The Radical party will only draw off from the Whigs,
in the event of the latter failing to discharge their duties
promptly and vigorously as an Opposition. At present,
we see no cause to doubt that they will be true to their
principles ; but should they play false, and make gradual
advances to the Tories—and stranger things than this
have happened !—the last, desperate struggle will then
commence between the privileged and unprivileged
classes; between the combined Whigs and Tories, backed
by the whole weight of the House of Lords, on the one
hand; and the vast majority of the oppressed and unre-
presented people, on the other The struggle will be
long and severe ; the Few will exert every energy they
possess ; but the victory will be with the Many.
The Post is still harping on the late Byng dinner at
Brentford, which seems to have greatly disquieted its
nerves. In particular, it is quite enra7,,ed with the Hon.
Member for Middlesex, for presuming to assert that we
are " now living under an aristocracy." Our Contem-
porary's evident soreness on this point, is another illus-
tration of the old adage, that " naked Truth is exceed-
ingly unlovely." We are " living under an aristocracy ;"
and the proof of this may be found in the fact that the
present Government possesses the entire confidence and
sympathies of the House of Lords—which same House
has invariably set its face against, and mutilated where
it could not wholly destroy, every really liberal measure
brought forward by the Whigs for the last ten or twelve
years.

The Advertiser, remarking on the prospects of the new
Cabinet, and Sir R. Peel's position, says :—" With a
Cabinet constituted as we have shown the Cabinet to be,
it were impossible, even did he possess the disposition,
for Sir Robert Peel to conduct the affairs of the country
on liberal and enlightened principles. Lyndhurst, Stan-
ley, Buckingham, and Graham, are not made of pliable
stuff. They will not obey his high behests, should he
happen on any occasion to assume the tone and attitude
of a dictator, when under the inspiration of one of
those fits of expediency with which he has, in former
years, been sometimes seized. They have too high
an opinion of themselves to acquie:,ce in any course
of policy which does not quadrate with their despotic
notions of the fitness of things. Instead of being his
slaves, the new Premier will speedily discover that he is
much more likely to be placed in a position of bondage
to them."—Sir Robert Peel, we suspect, has discovered
this already. He has been compelled, much against his
inclination, to take the Duke of Buckingham into the
Cabinet; and to throw poor Lord Londonderry over-
board, because Lord Stanley objected to him. The new
Premier may boast, as he pleases, of his independence,
but he wears a fetter on every limb. He is the mere
puppet of the aristocracy, who pull the strings that set
him in motion.

-The ChrOnith predicts the failure of the Peel Go-
vernment in Ireland, observing :--A moderate Tory Go-
vernment in Ireland, we repeat for the thousandth time,
is a politiCal impossibility. You may try the experi-
ment which has been tried before, and send to Ireland a
man of courtly manners and splendid fortune, and he
will succeed, as did the Duke of Northumberland, in
winning popularity, in a gay, though impoverished ca-
pital. His liberal expenditure and his more liberal
charities suffice fur that. And if he only abstain from •
administering his political functions, he may pass with-
out discredit through his viceroyalty. But the Secretary
of a Tory Government in Ireland has no such option."
—A tame system of temporizing and expediency may do
well enough in a season of halcyon calmness ; but when
party spirit runs high—as it does just now in Ireland—
it is a sheer humbug—the last resource of conscious,
hopeless incapacity. Sir R.. Peel's attempt to trim be-
tween the two great Irish sections of Orangeman and
Liberal, will be—as it deserves to be—a miserable failure.
Let him side: either with the one or the other ; but not
stand halting between two bundles of hay. The Orange-
men have, we conceive, strong claims on his gratitude,
which he ought not to overlook. They have aided him
in all his of to force himself into power; and now
that he has actually succeeded in breaking into the Trea-
sury, it is but just that he should allow them a handsome
portion of the plunder. When a burglary is committed,
all parties engaged have a right to share in the swag.
The Herald observes:—"Parliament will not, and must
not legislate on the Corn-laws during this continuance of
feverish excitement, which is altogether opposed to rea-
son and moderation. If it be absolutely necessary to the
relief of existing distress, temporary appliances must be
resorted to ; but no permanent legislation on this ob-
ject, which exceeds all others in importance, must be
had recourse to until times of greater quiet and less cla-
mour. The Parliament of 1815 passed the original Corn-
law in defiance of brick bats, bludgeons, riots; and pub-
lic disorders ; the Parliaments of 1841 and 1842 must be
equally impervious to sia:ilar Whig-Radical infl uences."—
This notion of our Contemporary, that it grievance is
not to be removed while the people are in a state of
"feverish excitement"'about it, is too palpably absurd to
demand any lengthened exposure. Pray when is an evil
to be redressed, if not when a country is smarting under
it ? The grievance that occasions no " feverish excite-
ment" is one that it is scarcely worth while to remedy.
The Inverness Courier makes the following remarks in
reference to the new Ministry :—" One feature in the
Ministry will give general satisfaction, the absenceof that
extreme party, so hostile to Ireland, of which Lords ,
Roden and Winchelsea, and. Sir Robert Inglis, may be
considered the representatives. Not a single Orange-
man appears to have found favour with the Premier.
Mr. Goulburn is rather Of the old exclusive cast, but
he is not so eaten up with bigot zeal as to threaten an
explosion in the Cabinet. The new Irish Secretary,
Lord Eliot, is highly spoken of for his generous and
conciliatory character, and, according to the Examiner,
there could not have been picked out of the Tory
party a successor of opposite politics to Lord Morpeth so
like him in all his urbane and kindly qualities.' Lord
Ripon can scarcely be considered an acquisition to any
Ministry. The- lustre of Prosperity Robinson' has
long since left him, and there is a nervous timidity and
sensitiveness about him in public, which age has much
increased, and which ,must ever prevent him from being
a useful or powerful debater."
The Leicester Mercury gives the following .advice to
the Liberals as respects the new Poor-law :—" The Li-
beral phrty have suffered much, unjustly, through the
Poor-law. Let them now, as we have before recom-
mended, vigorously agitate for the removal of the whole
Board of Commissioners ; with the removal of whatever
is harsh from the Poor-law; and, though they will find the
hollow Tories against them the masses will be with them."
The Western Times states that there is little hope of
Corn-law reform from the present Ministry, observing:—
" Though some people affect to believe that Sir Robert
Peel, because he sold the landlords on the Catholic
question, will betray and sell therfi again on the Corn
question—yet that is impossible in the present case, for
they have fastened him down too tightly to allow him to
wriggle down the sliding scale to any extent mischievous
to their supposed interests. The Duke of Richmond said that
the landlords had made Sir Robert Peel Minister, and
the same power would unmake him if necessary. The
Duke of Buckingham and Sir B. Knatchbull, two of the
strongest supporters of the Corn-law, and the Earl of
Ripon, the author of it, are all members of the Cabinet.
How then can those who look to a reform of the Corn-
law for an improvement of our commercial affairs, ex-
pect to receive that reform at the hands of the Peel
Cabinet."
The Dalin Evening Post entitles the present Cabinet,
an Aristocratic one, and adds :—" We do not like Re-
publieanism—far from it ; we like American Demo-
cracy still less ; but, we confess, of all the forms of Go-
vernment ever invented by the wit or the malice of man,
we detest an Oligarchy the most. But what signifies our
blared. The people of England. we arc told, are /fled
with delight, and the
people of England will have their
fling. Oh ! they are a
fine people and a proud—pity it
is likely they are about to be a starving people. What
of that ? Have they not a Cabinet of Lords ?".

zsoNn-2.--TrZAVZ—COIZIWERCZ.
Baron James Rothschild, of Paris, was at Brussels on
Tuesday last, for the purpose, it is said, of entering into
a negotiation relative to an iron railway from Valen-
ciennes to Paris.

AG-2,ICULTU2II.Z.
As proof of the capability of the Irish soil for pro-
ducing fine flax, a very beautiful sample has, lately been
grown and handled in the neighbourhood of Armagh,
and a parcel of 150 stone of the same quality purchased
at a high figure by an inhabitant of the town.