The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

The TO CORRESPONDENTS.
of itrPraph to which Mr. Small refers expressed the opinion
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Guardians of the Billericay Union, for which we are
responsible. We cannot find room for the petition
tain:st :be clan .e to he proposed by Lord Eliot.

withdraw anything we- said against the conduct
of the middle classes i n relation to the working
classes. Of the forme. r, the latter are the faith-
ful and immediate servants, whom the middle
classes,thoughmuchpo •werhasheenintheirhands,
have never protected from oppression. Let us
mention an example 1 ehich has always appeared
to us as a flagrant dereliction of duty on the part
of the middle classes, which applies particularly
to merchants and'shipowners such as may reside
at Liverpool.
The middle classes have had the power to stop
any and every Government, however strong,
fre,m invading their property, and they have ex-
erted that power for their own protection. But
they were served by seamen who were for years,
or even ages, treated. worse than dogs or thieves.
When did the shipowners or the merchants step
forward to remonstrate against the treatment the
seamen received? Where is their indignant pro-
test against that disgraceful enormity, impress-
ment ? When did they throw the shield of their
power over their oppress s.d men ? When did they
move a finger to protect their own servants,
though thoy frequently shook the empire to its
foundations to protect their own property ?
Where is to be found proceeding from them a
remonstrance against the disgraceful practice of
man-stealing inEnglan.d, which is far worse than
man-stealing in Africa, for here it is practised by
those who are bound to protect the seamen ?
This is, unhappily, only an example of the
general conduct of the middle classes to their
faithful friends and servants, wanting whose
assistance they could have and could gain
nothing. Their general conduct has been similar
to this. They have done no thing to protect
the lower classes from the oppressions of the
ruling classes, they have rather sided
with the upper classes in committing
injustice. What bolt that could have so
alienated the lower classes from them as they
are at present alienated ? In the great mistrust
which the lower classes have of them they may
see the natural and necessary consequence of
their own conduct. We have no wish to dwell
on such painful topics, but when we are in a
manner challenged to make good the assertion
that the middle classes seek only their own inte-
rest—for which, howev'er, we did not blame them,
for we know that it is natural—we cannot avoid
reminding the middle classes of some. of those
circumstances which have alienated from them
the affections of th eir friends and servants.
Would to GOD it wei'e otherwise ! for then we

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nEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
cat the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
*WM THIS EVENING. MARC 9
be repeated the New Comedy, in Fivel Acts, entitled
Sir n LONDON ASSURANCE.
'court Courtly Bart.,
Charts W. Farren Hark-
blr. Bartley • Courtly, Mr. Anderson ;
ktiti44lphus S• tinker Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
41t,i,""; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace HarkawaY,
l'eet:l3,",:estris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
• Hubv.

After which.
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
r Awn;
Macheath, Mr: W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W.
,n; Lockit Mr.' Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harlot' ;
ts:"m, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly l'eachum, Miss Hainforth ;
lLockit Madame Vestris
I.)ooln,"rww, Assurance, with The Critic.
tb.tz lre opened at hall-past Six—the performances to
br:tta at Se./en o'clock.
,
elts-P"es 7,. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; Fir3t and Second
uS• ; ' fecund Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second I, rice.
Gallery is.
at til:lts and places for the Beat to he taken of Mr. Grogan.
°4l3' 04,7,1_;°ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
) 4", urn application.
'67 ;e 4301 t. to bo had so'elv of Mr. And; la.!, bookseller,
asondsteet.

might
dencc
ness,
peace

hope to witness the restoration of confi
between these pillars of our national great-
and might anticipate a continuance of
and good-will inthe land.

Atnazin, ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
attraction. Signal success, and brilliant overflows.
• of „rement of Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance
Tl estre" Jack " has surssed aformer efforts. The
fife soon after the doors are opened.
Rill THIS EVENING, MARCH 19.
, Poacted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called
111 \\h. " J ACK • OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.
,ch m
r. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the

The public may see. which way the crxrent is
setting by the following remarks of the Times.
The advocates onhe Corn-law Li in the metropo-
litan daily journals are now t.ne Post, Standard,
Herald, and Courier. The. opponents of those
laws are the Times,' the4.3lorning Chronicle,
the Advertiser, the G/ole, and The Sun.
Looking at the numbers published by these
journals, respectively, the weight of public
opinion is prodigiously on our side, and
it is increasing day by day. Some linger-
ing fears of the effects of a great change
may still keep back ai few timid, or some very
opulent, towns-people, but the evidence against
the Corn-laws is oven w helming, the distress ap-
palling, the justice of our cause undeniable, and
the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. A
union of the aristocr key and the priesthood, a
pertinacious continue nce of oppression, we
solemnly warn Lord I MELBOURNE, may destroy
the Government, may overturn the Legislature,
may drive the nobility from their estates,
and the clergy *Gan the churches, but it
will not, it cannot, prevent the abolition
of the tax on food. We hope the Ministers will
in time of need take the lead in a movement
which, though it be slow, is irresistible. Let
them mark and weigh w hat the Times of yester-
day said, speaking of the hand-loom weavers :

Company; will perform.
After Thieh,
MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.
Barry Haulyard by Mr. T. P: Cooke.
To conclude with
1, Pr' , A DAY AFTER THE FAIR.
IL" 'Air. Buckingham and Miss Martin sustain Six diffe-
\_ rent Characters each.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1841.

Peers were •
yesterday almost exclusively
ga-reA
‘4. examining witnesses at the bar, and
Tell_iring into the appointments of subordinate
"5 under the New Poor-law in Ireland.
itti Pursuit is congenial to their Lordships' tastes,
/t°rt.by of their abilities. When we have
---ea
rt•
tio n . tned—which cannot be till the examina-
hl
closed—what they have discovered, WE
al
lailip s make it known to our readers., Their Lord-
-1 Prosecuted their researches till dinner time,
Tao.lourned at Eight o'Clock.
F'r:he Commons had several subjectsbefore them.
e
Mr. HUMS would insist on explaining to
fro louse the objects mentioned in a petition
11,111, a large body of the people, which being
datable to
the Honourable House, as it ge-
iletall •
Y 15, to listen to just complaints, Mr.
SIP was what is called put down by the
,5,r44:E1l and the Honourable House.
Ce.,„.• ItICE move 1 to refer the Report of the
Slllissioners on Harbours of Refuge to a
hl`Q Committee, to inquire into the state of
4t;Rarbours of the North-Eastern Coast. The
tie,'°ll was opposed by the leaders of both par-
-1;' and after a considerable discussion was lost
102 to 28.
kkAt2. ALSTON, with creditable perseverance,
71-cin brought the ease of Captain LA RocHE
th et the notice of the House, and moved that
Vetition be referred to a Select Committee.
THOMAS COCHRANE and Admiral ADAM
drrt)ed the motion, which was ultimately with-
ki4:ll' Captain LA RoCHE, it appears, was dis-
tlere;:illseiedraafirttooyintohis command in 1807 by the sen-
Aje Of a court-martial, and every successive
whom he has made application has
remove the stigma then cast on him.
t:" Mr. ALSTON'S object to procure a more
be°,llrable verdict from the House of Commons,
trhe failed.
EASTHOPE moved a resolution, that the
Cli:ts°nraent of Mr. BAINES, for refusing to pay
th'e-lell-rates, was a punishment for acting on
tit dictates of his conscience, and was a viola-
putt of the principles of religion and justice.
of treaders are well acquainted with the merits
gritth:e case ; they know the honesty and lute-
°f•ar. BAINES, and the vile oppression of
i'hurch, to which he is a victim.
Re h "e leaders of both parties in this case, too,
regret to say, united against the resolution.
lutP' Condemned Mr. BAINES' conduct as a viol
tlain-°ll of law. Lord JOHN RUSSELL importu-
tie't 'Y stigmatized it as a crime against so-
' Sir Sir ROBERT PEEL took similar ground,
as Preached up obedience to the law
If ,111 dispensable to the peace of society.
aotr,at• be so, the law should be made just
for gteasonable and it is a terrible calamity
kaCcietY, and a terrible reproach to the law-
cort:-.1., when lie enacts or maintains a law which
resi'elentious and honest men dare not obey. If
Who;
to the law be a crime, there are great
11als) fir greater criminals than Mr. BAINES,
11°4 '-)Y making an unjust law, compel an
of at Inan to disobey it. That our whole system
has Church-rates is an injustice, the Legislature
lama'4lnitted. It abolished the system in Ire-
the ' because it was unjust. It has condemned
14ct,sYstern Englind, for the same reason. In
i(!ss .4 National Church, where men pro-
fur ilifierent religions, which cannot be national
i 3 a great injustice. By supporting and
gaol i.--1 fling the law which consigns a man to
soor not subscribing to what he regards as a
itspelfers.tition, the House of Commons may bring
Istati into contempt; it will neither make the
the °. nal Church a proper institution, nor induce
rat People to love it. After an interesting de-
bei,:o.tue resolution was lost by 45 to 40, there
.Atoawith the tellers and the SPEAKER, just 90
eeriers to decide this important question con-
a quent,. the liberty of the people. It' it had been
present
of office, there would have been 600
4
fork' -' Raving achieved this piece of shabby
Rouse adjourned at Eleven o'Clock.

It is no slight addition to the claims of a cause, which has
already so much justice and reason on its side, that they are
backed by the most appalling statements of the present desti-
tution and progressive decline of our manufacturing popula-
tion. The. sufferings of millions demand relief, even thaugh.
that relief were not identical with the truest policy of Eng-
land. But the welfare of the mass is identical with the interests
of the country ; and it is because the general privation and the
general loss have not been fairly asured against the par-.
titular advantage of a protected interest, that the energies of
the country are weighed down by an unequal and injudicious
system of taxation. We argued the other day in favour of a
reduction of the sugar duties on behalf of the West India
planters; and we now confidently await that measure, with
some ethers of equal importance, from the Cove, nment. But
with how much more weight should we have spoken if we had
dwelt on the sufferings of a people afflicted by the curse of
scarcity : and if we had ask ed our rulers not only to benefit
the planter, and to increase the revenue, but to feed the people
by diminishing the duties (m colonial produce—by adjusting
the taxes on corn upon a system better calculated to avoid the
evils of excessive fluctuati. m its price and entire prohibition,
and by sweeping away tlae duties which exclude us from
Iforeign markets without aiding to our own revenue.

We direct the attention of our readers to the
proceedings of a select few of the Middlesex
Magistrates to obtain for 51r. Sergeant ADAMS
and his successors, as Chairmen of the Middlesex
Sessions, 1,0001. a year out of the county rate.
The notice of the Bill, which intimates the in-
tention to apply to Parliament for powers to en-
able the Justices to break up the establishment
of the New Prison, Gen the site and materials
thereof, and apply the proceeds in aid of the
county rates, appears to have totally escaped the
recollection of these -worthy Justices when they
drew up their petition, and when the Bill was
framed which they applied for, and which is now
in progress, under the paternal care of Colonel
WOOD, Member fbr Brecon, and Sir JAMES
DUKE, Member for Boston.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Tuesday. On that day Baron MOU-
NIER read the report of the Commission on the
Foitifications' Bill in the Chamber of Peers.
The Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS were pre-
sent, and a large assemblage of the Peerage.
The reading of the report produced the liveliest
sensation, and we certainly do not wonder at it.
It commenced by stating that in the opinion of
the majority of the Commission the plan of sur-
rounding Paris with impregnable fortresses was
absurd and impossible. That no walls would
enable Paris to stand a siege, and that the proper
place for defending France was on the frontier.
The plan of fortifying Paris, proposed by the De-
puties, the Commission were persuaded would
be injurious to France in a commercial and poli-
tical point of view. Neither free trade wor free
institutions were compatible with bastions and
towers, which were everywhere disappearing be-
fore the march of modern civilisation and the
authority of the law. The Commission had
therefore rejected the continuous line of walls,,
with ramparts and bastions; but, in conformity
with the wish of the Chamber of Deputies,
which -required some works to be undertaken,
recommended the following amendment of the
2d article of the Bill :
Art. 11. The works shall consist, •
1. Of works casemated and gorged, and supported by St.
Denis, Charenton, the heights of Ivry, and Mount Valerien.
2. Of an enceinte de surete (protecting wall), embracing
the two banks of the Seine.
The adoption of this amendment the Noble
Reporter stated would effect a saving to the
country of forty-five millions of francs.
When the report was read there was quite a
hubbub among the Peers. The courtiers were
up in arms against it. Nevertheless it was or-
dered to be printed, turd to be taken into con-
sideration on Tuesday next. Immediately after-
wards the following Peers inscribed their names
to speak against the Amendment of the Com-
mission :—DE COIGNY, ROSSI, ST. SIMON, LE-
BEAU, MOSiWA, PERSIL, D'ARGOUT, COUSIN,
and PELET ; and in favour of the Amendment,
MOLE, D'ALTON, SHEE, NOAILLES, CASTEL-
LAINE, DE FEZENgAC, VIENNET, GUATIER,
Durart, and D'HARCOURT. 1
.. ,1 irs .. -41.
Zive,,,, '-ert, elsewhere a few remarks from the The conversation in the House of Commons on
Iselktivi-001 Journal on some observations of ours the- 12th inst., relative to the Eastern Question,
for th: to the late meeting at Liverpool, not occupy a prominent place in the Paris Papers
1)14 to I'u' Pose of entering into a controversy, of Tuesday. A summary of what they say on
diea.,Publish
The Sun.
the subject will be found in another part of
Posed n
of a what appears intended as a vin-
a -1e Liverpool merchants against a Sup-
in treinChamd
already contained in The Sun. We have maRETRESENTATIVE REFORM.—Theb propositiofnanoctf. MM..
tion. Lexpressed our regret that the explana- Chamber
Dtoe;eudt
juecsewtasesnullbillmitetredof paidto the bureaux on
1151,,,w111.1je1l satisfied Mr. DUFFEY, wa3 not pub- Tuesday. Its di ion was authorized, and we shall there-
zi
,t,,,rt ,t 1 tli thr_s oriqinal report : and. having since fore have an intpoeant debate on this first step to electoral.re-
'Ll,: c x , ' form. M. Tillers, in his bureau, supported M. Mauguin's
t(111-11kitis. ' pAanation, wt gale it a place in oar ' ;,..otion. M. Dueliatel, the Minister of the Interior, spoke
At ti s rongly again4t thol:roposed diminution. Three bureaux an-
te Sallie ' thorlzed the discussion of the motion, six opposed it, but, as
tu,tie, we are not disposed to
three b
ureglla suffice to enable a proposition to be debated at a
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