The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

BO URSE.PARI9, MCNDAY, MARCH 8.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
F, ench 5 per Cents lll 65 ... 111 L 0... 11l GO ... 11l 81
4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 98 .. 98
3 per Cents 77 5 .:. ;7 40 ... 77 5 ... 77 35
8 ,nk of trance
L :ifitte Bank 50001. Mares 5155 ...5155 ...5155 ..M55
ielgian Bank
5 per Cent........
3 per Cents 7O tiO ... 70 6U ... 70 60 ... 70 re,
New Loan... .....
... 101% ... 101%
4panish Active 251,E ... 2514 ... 25 ... 254
Passive 6 ... 6% ... 6 ... 6
New Deferred
Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ... 19% ... 19% ... 1934
N •apolitan ••••••••« ...... .... lO2 50 ... 102 85 ... 102 50 ... 102 85
iO3llBll lOl% ... ini% ... 101% ...1(11%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ...........
Versailles.R. B 412 50 ... 412 50 ... 412 50 ... 412 50
L.B. 312 Ms ... 315 ... 312 50 ~. 315
Orleans .
.
Strasburg r. Bale 2ll 25
.. 242 50 ... 1:41 25 .. 241 95
Bordeaux to La 1 este 420 ... 420 ... 4211 ... 4TO
Wulbausen to 'Mann ..
louen 460 ~.460 ... 460 ... 460

Madrid papers of the Ist inst. have reached us.
They are destitute of news. On the Bourse busi-
ness was somewhat active. The Five per Cents.
were done at 281 for cash, and 2Si for sixty days

But a very short period will elapse before the
intentions of the United States, with respect to
Mr. M'LEop, are fully known ; and although we
do not attach so much importance to the insult-
ing, and, if we must speak the truth, lying Re-
port of the Committee of Foreign Relutions, as
some of our Contemporaries, we are not indiffe-
rent to the important fact that upon the decision
of the Federal Government now depends the so-
lution of the question, peace or war. With the
particular Government of the State of New
York we have nothing to do. As a nation Eng-
land is not officially cognizant of the existence
of such a State, nor of any of the other twenty-six
States comprising the Union. Our business is
only with the Federal Government, and if that
Government refuse to afford us redress the con-
sequences will of course be visited upon the whole
Union. An American journal, which takes a
very sensible view of this question, suggests, that
in the event of Mr. M'LEop being hanged, Eng-
land might make reprisals on the citizens of the
State of New York. England will do nothing
of the kind. She will not imitate the Govern-
ment of New York in the judicial murder of in-
nocent individuals. If a hair of M'LEoro's head
fall, there is but one step to be taken by England,
and, however distressing it may be to resort to
that ultima ratio regum, there is no doubt but
that it will be instantly adopted. What-
ever Mr. Plc KEN may suppose, England
is not in a temper to permit her loyal
and innocent subjects to be hanged with
impunity. We are as far from wishing to
indulge in threats against the United States, as
we are from being the objects of Mr. PICKEN'S
calumnies; but this we may be permitted to say
without offence, that should the unfortunate
events now under the painful consideration of the
two countries lead to a war, there are sufficient
elements of discord in the different Republican
States, as to make the utter disruption of the
Union a matter of very little difficulty. Several
of the States are already opposed to the deten-
tion of Mr. M'LEon, and assuredly they would
not, in compliance with the provisions of a con-
stitution now proved to be unsuited to the neces-
sities of the Federal Government, make war
upon England to screen his murderer from the
vengeance of outraged justice. And were it
otherwise, as Lord MOUNTCASHEL well observed
in the House of Lords on Monday evening, we
have, in the institution of domestic slavery in the
south—in the wrongs of the aboriginal tribes—
in our gallant army—and in our powerful fleet,
ample means of terribly avenging any outrage of
our rights committed by our brethren on the
other side of the Atlantic. But we still trust
matters will not come to this.

Mr. WEBB HALL, whose pamphlet we on Mon-
day noticed, states that the landlords, or the
owners of the passive capital invested in land,
take advantage of the attachment which the

farmers, or the owners of the active capital, ne

cessarily and naturally form to the spot they
cultivate, and, in cultivating, beautify and adorn
it, to rivet on them the chains of their odious
tyranny, and not unfrequently to enrich them-
selves at the farmer's expense.

An influence he says) as cruel as it is base, is attempted
to be exercised upon them, to induce them to prostitute their
convicti .ns, when an owner of an estate dares to draw upon
their attachment to a place they have sedulously improved, and
for the use of which they may have paid more than a just equi-
valent ; while a watchful crew of candidates may be ready at
any compromise to pounce upon a harvest of improvements
they have never made.
To inflict subserviency and degradation upon
the farmers, the landlords profit by

Attachment to a locality on which the farmer might have
been brought up,—the improvements he may have imbedded
upon his farm, and ,WHICH THE LAW, HUT NOT JUSTICE,
GIVES TO ANOTHER,—the inconvenience and hazard to those
most dear to him restrain removal, and the want of that gene-
ral knowledge, which would enable him to turn his attention
to other pursuits, if his inclination would allow him,—or,
lastly, the indisposition to quit the country that gave him
birth, and seek another where land is more plentiful, and
where its price is nominal. Such are the ties that bind the
British farmer to his pursuit : to all his trials he sets the word
" home," and frequently clings to a spot, under the most ad-
verse circumstances, rather than fwe the alternatives which
change might bring.

Instead of cherishing and honouring the Arca-
dian attachment of the tenantry to the homes of
their fathers, which is justly said to be the
source of many virtues, Mr. IVEun HALL
says, that the landowners erect on that at-
tachment their hateful dominion, and exercise
their tyranny, because they know that the love of

home will make the farmers submit. The te-
nantry desire that their bones may be laid in the
same church-yard as their fathers, that their
children may be baptized at the same font, and
married at the same altar, where they and their
parents were baptized and married, and on this
sacred affection the landowners would build their

oppression. How unworthy ! how base ! how
utterly are such facts at variance with the cha-
racter which the Corn-law advocates ascribe to
the owners of land ! We must make another quo-
tation. Mr. WEBB HALL says—
There are instances where. the improvements of a tenant,
not protected by a lease, have been most unjustly appropriated
in part by the landlord to hi. own use in increased rent; to
obtain which, the legal power over the whole may have been
used as an instrument, or have been the influencing motive for
the concession of a tenant ; while a landowner may have been
tempted, behind the scenes, by offers for the gathering of that
which he had never strewed, and therefore was wholly unentitled
either to let or reap Many of the evils re-
hearsed in the foregoing review will attach to the tenancy of
land, which is continued to be owned by the same individual
or his family, for a long course of years. There are other cir-
cumstances which give additional pressure to these : when an
estate changes hands and becomes the property of a purchaser
to whom a tenantry are unknown:---whose connection com-
mences from the day of his payinent for the estate, estimated
at the value which it then possesses, and a considerable portion
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tools. The landlords them nothing in return
for rent but degradation.
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stance of their conduct,
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give another
which shows them extendinf,
labourers as well as the tenants :
To show how erroneous are the sentimentsyrwahni:
high, and what ought to be well-informed, quarter
subject, it Qua be stated, that the administratorsstooufpaioeunsttihcei:
assembled in ter Sessions, have been known
in several instances, that it served farmers right, when robbedclare
by their labourers, if they suffered them to keep a pig ! ,1 his
sentiment is alike tyrannical and absurd. What is there in the
contract between tenant and labourer to authorise so gross an
assumption of arbitary power
At the same time the landowners who make
the tenants' case the plea for taxing our bread,
leave the property of those tenants shamefully
unprotected. We do not speak of the manner
in which the landowner's game devours the
tenant's crops, while the tenant is forbidden to
kill what are to him destructive vermin, but of a
neglect which the following passage explains :
Can it be believed, when first detailed, that all the flocks of
this country, kept to supply its inhabitants ltith clothing and