The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

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'LONDON:
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1841.

In the House of Lords last night an interesting con-
versation took 'place on the subject of the. Corn-laws ;
;and we are happy see Lord BnouGliAm back in his
dace, and taking his share in the good work. His
Noble Friend, the Earl of RADNOR, that untiring advo-
cate of justice and truth, took the lead in it, and demon-
strated tha!-• the introduction of foreign corn would by
no means displace an equal quantity of home-grown
;corL, and that wages would not fall as corn fell in price.
lord AslinunTo:: contrAieted th:!'Nohle. Earl, without
refatitt him, aind failed to prove that auy labourers were
so badly paid as the Jumper-fed

The Earl of RittEwooo admitted the existence of
manUfac:aring distres, but ascribed it to overtradinp,.,
i.if that were not another name for the want of a market,
.4Pur which the Corn-kWs deprive the manufacturer.
1. Lord BROUGHAM* said he wa3.ready, two years ago,
to'invve at the bar that low wages would not result
:.from low-priced corn, but he was so much opposed that
--he:gave up his motion.

gOmelis Were forwarded a stage, and their Lord-
:.ships then adjourned. •
•., In the House of Commons Mr. O'CONNELL convicted
r. sergeant J.kca.sOi 'of having repeated a false state-
luevt to the House, without knowing the Christian
rj,132, or residence
,of the author of the false statement,
•or i ifu yenr to which it referred ; but it was a charge
agu. ast Mr. O'CoNNELL, and that made the Learned
,S,rl4 lint imbibe it greedily, and hastily throw it out in

the House of Commons. Mr. Sergeant J.-11CSON ap-
peared not at all ashamed of being so cdnyictal.
The Clerk of the Peace for Hertford was calletl to
the bar, and questioned why, lw .did not comply, with
th 3 crier of the House to supply a copy of
the register of the electors of Hertford. He
answered that the register was not in his keeping, but
in the keeping of the Sheriff, and that he could only
supply the House with a copy of a copy. After a short
discussion, he was ordered, on Mr. T. DUNCO3.IBE'S mo-
tion, to produce a copy of the register of the Hertford
electors at the bar of the Hotise this day.

Mr. WYNN having waived his motion about prosecu-
ting Mr. WEBSTER for alleged bribery,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL proceeded to explain to
the House that he did not intend to bring for-
ward the Corn-laws. The Noble Lord referred shortly
to the outlines of the arguments he should have used had
he brought forward the question, in order to show that
agitation of the public would more likely be lessoned
than increased by discussing the measure in Parliament.
The Noble Lord also adverted to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
charge, that the Ministers had two budgets, which he po-
sitively denied, and ridiculed the imputation as unworthy
of belief and unworthy of receiving any countenance
From Sir ROBERT PEEL. He proposed to tako the esti-
matec for Canada and China, and a vote of credit for the
miscellaneous estimates for six months from the month
of April. The Noble Lord pointed out the neces-
sity of appealing to the country, and declared that if the
decision were against the party now in power they would

hasten to resign.
Sir ROBERT PEEL rather taunted the Noble Lord for
speaking on the Corn-laws, when he did not bring for-
ward the question. He declared more than once that he
wished to take no advantage of his present position in
impeding the Government. He thought the dissolution
should be speedy ; he asked the Ministers for a declara-
tion that the new Parliament should be speedily as-
semblet-!, and having obtained it, contributed to promote
the business for !lie rest of the evening, with a view of
hurrying on the dissolutjon as much as possible.
Mr. VILLIERS observed that he and his friends had
been reproached with going too far on the Corn-laws ;
but now, when the Government had taken the Corn-
law question out of his hands, and proposed a measure
extremely favourable to the landlords, they would not al-
low it even to be discussed. He thought, however, such
a course would promote the success of the cause,
and he would encourage the country by reminding it
that no good cause ever succeeded at first. The land-
lords looked forward to a majority in the next Parlia-
ment and intended to stop all discussion.
Mr. WAKLEY Addressed the House at some length on
the dissolution, and as!ced Sir R. PEEL what he meant to
do about the Poor-law.
Sir ROBERT had stated that he 7ould support the
law with some modification.
Mr, LABOUCHERE defended the Government at s: me

len and explained that they meant to bring forward
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other moc. cations of the Commercial Code. He thought
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no contest wou::1. be more fearful than that of the pro-
tected interests on the ottl side, and the hungry people on
the ; and the Government had taken no extreme
course in entiezvouring to avoid that.
The CHANCELLOR o,l* the EXCHEQUER proved that the
Tory history of the finances not correct, either as to
the presumed deficiences of the Whip, Or the assumed
economy of the Tories.
Sir R. PEEL and Mr. HERRIES both replied to the
CHANCELLOR. Mr. HUME and Mr. GOULBURN followed,
and then the House went into a Committe of Supply.
Sums were voted for Canada and the war in China, and
the House resumed. _ _ _

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Bill and the Bribery
Bill were read a second time, and some other Bills were
forwarded, as if the House could not give up the ruling
passion even when it is at death's door. It would be
better to leave such work to its successor.
The House was for some time engaged with the Cltrk
of the Peace for Lancaster Compensation Bill, and ad-
journed at a Quarter before One o'Clock.

Every day brings us nearer a dissolution. In
the House of Commons last night Lord JOHN
RUSSELL gave up his intended motion on the
Corn-laws, because it would be disrespectful to
the House to bring it on after the vote of censure.
Probably some of the Noble Lord's own friends
took a similar view, and he feared, if he mooted
it, a double opposition. The, Noble Lord an-
nounced the intention of Government to take
a vote of credit, and Sir ROBERT PEEL distinctly
stated that he would throw no obstructibn in
the way of Government. He expressed an opi-
nion that dissolution ought to take place as soon
as possible, and that will be the result.
Theßight Hon. Baronet is also of opinion that
the new Parliament should be assembled as soon
as possible, and he made it a condition of for-
warding the measures necessary to a dissolution
that Lord Joux RUSSELL should state that the
Ministers meant to call the new Parliament to-
gether as speedily as possible. Though Lord
JOHN admitted that as a general prin-
ciple it was wrong in Ministers to state
what advice they meant to give, he
had no hesitation in assuring Sir ROBERT
PEEL that the Ministers would advise the Crown
to call the new Parliament together as soon as
possible. The Noble Lord stated, that after the
vote of Saturday morning, he should be anxious
not to hold office a day longer than was neces-
sary to ascertain the opinion of the country. We
are on the eve, therefore, of a dissolution, and
ere long a new Parliament will represent the
nation. A fortnight may perhaps elapse before
the prorogation, but that will, we believe, be
the extent of the delay, and those who mean to
have a voice in the elections must at once bestir
themselves.

We must again then remind the electors, that
on them now depends the future fate of the
country. They must answer to posterity, they
must answer to the Most High for their conduct
and their votes. A most important principle
is at stake. Hitherto commercial legislation,
under the mask of protection, has been a great
system of cunningly devised fraud. It is nothing
but plunder in the solemn disguise of law. So-
ciety cannot prosper under such a system, and
the misery which arrests our attention in every
condition of life—the poverty and crimes of
one class, the riotous luxury and dissipa-
tion of another, the want of employment
and the want of food which meet us every
hour, attest the evils of this system. At length
it has reached the Government. The revenue
feels the effects of restraints on industry and of
mutual plunder. The Ministers have been
obliged to declare against the system of fraud in
disguise. Their opponents openly advocate the
system of plunder. Between these two systems
and two parties the public will speedily be
called on to decide.

Political expediency, of "which fewcan judge,
must now make way for higher principles, and
all who respect virtue, all who prefer honesty to
fraud, all who wish to see the law based on jus-
tice, and be worthy of moral and Christian men,
must unite to put down a vile system of plun-
der, of which, for the first time, perhaps,
in the history of mankind, a great nation
is asked by the Tories to give a so-
lemn approval. But the electors can only do
that by sharing the crime. A law cannot con-
vert wrong to right ; and those who vote for the
support of robbery by law, will be as much the
accessaries to theft, as if they were to arm and
equip a highwayman, and share his plunder.

When Sir ROBERT PEEL was about to bring
tbrward his motion of want of confidence, it
was announced that it was intended to prevent
the discussion which Ministers proposed to take
on the Corn-laws. That object has been obtained.
The landed gentlemen who, on former occasions,
stifled the debate, who would not allow the re-
presentatives of some of the towns to speak, have
again been successful. They have prevented
Lord joirs RUSSELL from bringing forward his
motion. We are less surprised at their fears than
at their success. There may be some technical
objections to introducing the discussion after the
vote of the House of Commons, but still we must
own that we see with some reluctance that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has yielded to the cen-
sure of the monopolist;. We expected that
he would have brought forward the motion in
spite of them, that the public at large might
have the advantage of the debate before they
went to the hustings. As that is denied us, the'
press must do what it can to supply the place of
the Parliament, and kindle an enthusiasm in the
people for what is good and true.
It is a favourable sign that the owners of rent
s'lould be so anxious to stifle discussion. They

dread it because they know they are wrong. it
must be for_ the people to strengthen their con-
viction. The people must take up 'the (pie:tic n
the more warmly, since the House of the Mono-
polists has put it down.

We rejoice, indeed, to know that they are
doing so and the question is mooted in every
town of the empire. Those who look to the
House of Commons for a final decision will be
deceived. The public is a far higher tribunal
than Parliament, and a reference to it can-
not be prevented by the landlords. Though
the subject is not to be brought forward in Par-
liament, it is our happiness to know that it will
be heard at every hustings. Cheap Bread and
No Monopoly will resound through the land.
The Ministers are with us, the QUEEN is with
us, the people are with us, justice is on our
side, and though the landlords say the subject
shall not be mooted in Parliament, they must by
and by set their seal to the solemn and just de-
cision of the public, abolishing the Corn-law.

Marshal SOULT resigned office on Saturday, and
another Ministerial interregnum may be said to ha% e
commenced in France. The resignation of the Alarsh2l
was the result of a trifling Ministerial mistake. In the
Chamber of Peers on Friday an amendment was carried
upon the Recruitment Bill passed by the Chamber of
Deputies. As the Deputies have closed their sessional
labours, this amendment, though of no moment, is fatal

to the Bill, which must be postponed. for another year.
The amendment was proposed by General VAN-
BRUGEAX, and supported, among others, by the Duke
of ORLEANS. Now the object of the Peers in carrying
this amendment, was not so much to embarrass the
Government as to resent the seeming con-
tempt with which, as a branch of the Legislature, they
are treated by the Representatives of the people. For se-
veral years past it has been the custom of the Chamber of
Deputies to pass a number of important Bills, send them
up to the Peers, and adjourn ; thus in some sort com-
pelling the Peers to adopt them without amendments, or
to incur the odium of rejecting them, and so throwing
the affairs of the country into confusion. :The Peers in-
dignant at being made mere registrars of the votes of the
Deputies, have taken the preient opportunity of assert-
ing their independence. Now, as the Government knew
right well beforehand the deterMination of the Peers, it
was an easy matter to have kept the Chamber of Deputies
sitting while any Bills were under discussion in the
Chamber of Peers. When it became known on Saturday
that a Ministerial crisis had arrived, the Peers adjourned
till Wednesday, to allow the Government time to deli.
berate upon the course which it might think proper to
adopt under such circumstances.
Marshal SOULT was so ill on Saturday as to be unable
the Chamber of Peers. He was greatly incensed
to atterZi.
against the Dn.t.7 of
!ILE,A.NS. for voting for the amend-
ment upon the Recruitin,Z
- Lord BROUGHA.3I arrived on Thursday night in Paris
from Italy, and on Friday started again for England.
We are happy to learn that i 1 boviship enjoys robust
health.
The inaugural address of M. VIUTOfi WOO as a
Member of the French Academy, appears in most of the
Paris Journals of Friday. The assemblage of the Aca-
demicians on Thursday to receive the new Member wa,i
very numerous. Many ladies of high rank were among
the crowd of visitors.
The Illoniteur announces that the Calypso frigate and the
corvette Favourite sailed from Brest on the 3d inst., the former
for Toulon, and the latter for the China seas.
The Liz-Ac du Peuyle and the Almanack des Honneies
Gens were seizes ord9r of the Prefect of Police ea Thunday
last.
The Commerce announces that the Duke de Montebello, the
present Ambassador of France at Naples,Would positively suc-
ceed Count St. Aulaire as Ambassador at the Court of Vienna,
and that M. Bois le Comte, the French Minister at the Hague,
would proceed in the same capacity to Madrid.
The SentineLe des Pyrennees has the following aftiOiee
dated the Ist of June :
"M. Ganicho Iturbide was arrested the day before yes-
terday at St, Jean de Luz, by order of superior authority. He,
is at this moment in the prison of Bayonne, where he :s kept
entirely seeltrled. 'We will not repeat the various accounts
which are given of this arrest ; we have received nothing official
on the subject, but it is certain that the grounds of it must
be extremely important, since the gendarme stilifit wig to
take the order for the arrest to St. Jean de Luz, was evjoinial
to make all possible haste, and actually performed the jalirney
in fifty-five minutes."—Le Constitutionnel.
Our readers have doubtless not forgotten the unfortunate
crew of the Delphine,. of Havre, whose melancholy shipwreck
we related,*and who were left in the desert island of Campana,
suffering the greatest distress, Anil waiting for the return of the
Captain. We have great pleasure in learning their deliverance.
Messrs. Lamotte and Co. communicate to us the following ex-
tract of a letter from Valparaiso, dated the 13th of Feb„ which
contains this happy intelligence in the following terms : —°' The
shipwrecked crew of the Delphine has just arrived at Valpa-
raiso, after having passed seven months in the island of Cam-
pane. We expect the details."—Le Commerce,