The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

Corn-law sedition. " Among the artifices of the. Tory
Papers (says the Advertiser) at this moment, is that of
withholding from their readers accounts of the meetings
which are taking place in every part of the country in
favour of the Ministerial measures. They affect to
say the matter has made little stir, and the country
is wholly indifferent about it. This deception will
be all the worse for the Tory party, for the
truth will burst upon them in a form so overwhelm-
ing, and so sudden, as to make the consequences far
more disastrous than they might be if the prudence or
the fears of the more considerate of the party were inci-
ted to avert or mitigate them." When this extraordi-
nary storm does in reality " burst" upon us, it will be
quite time enough to reef every rag of sail and humbly
to scud along under bare poles ; but, so far, the gales
could not be more propitious, and all our anxiety is to
catch every breath of them, with top-gallants gallantly
flying as we make for the country to which our course is
bound, if the New Poor-law Papers may be believed.

STANDARD.—The violence with Which a dissolution
is threatened by the organs of Ministers causes us, we
own, to doubt whether such a desperate expedient is
really contemplated by the Cabinet. We have long been
accustomed to interpret by contraries all announcements
from the same quarter, and we have generally found reason
to be satisfied with the interpretation. Besides,
there is an obvious motive for such menaces at
present, quite unconnected with any regard to the pro-
bability of their execution ; they serve to alarm all
hesitating Members of the House of Commons whose
seats may not seem to be very well secured, and to
awaken to activity the busy, bustling persons throughout
the country, whose ephemeral importance is born and dies
with a general election, and to engage them in the service
of the party in power to agitate upon those questions
which it is supposed may have an effect at the
hustings. Still it would be the utmost imprudence to
neglect a vigilant and energetic preparation under the
impression that no dissolution will take place. In poli-
tics, as in war, a feigned attack is sometimes turned into
a serious one with decisive success ; and if Ministers find
their opponents either negligent, or dispirited, or catch
them committing any fatal mistakes, they will cer-
tainly dissolve Parliament, whatever may be their pre-
sent intention, supposing them to have any definite plan
determined on. To us, however, it seems very apparent
that they have no such plan. The agitation is, as we
think, merely an experiment upon the fears of the
House of Commons and the sense and intelligence of the
people, with, of course, a reliance upon the chapter of
accidents, which has so often opened in favour of the
Cabinet. As far as the House of Commons and the
people are concerned, the agitation has most miserably
failed.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

TIMES.—The Exchequer Bill Market was in a more
active state to-day than at any preceding period of the
week, with a corresponding increase in the premium, in
consequence of the still easier state of money at the
Stock Exchange, while out of doors for commercial pur-
poses it appears to be as scarce as ever. The large, or
1,0001. bills, bearing 24-d. interest, were last quoted Bs.
to 10s. premium ; the 5001. bills, Bs. to Ils. premium ;
and the small bills were done at 1 ls. premium, but Bs.
to 1 ls. premium was the last price. In the English
Stocks the business was comparatively unimportant, with
very little variation in prices.
POST.—The permanent funds continue free from agi-
tation, and the Money Market proving less under the
influence of pressure than it had been, Exchequer Bills
and India Bonds have both realised higher prices. The
defeat of the Ministerial schemes connected with the
commerce of the country by the imposing majority wit-
nessed, seems, in fact, to have produced a general revival
of confidence. It cannot be denied, however, that the
most intense anxiety is expressed by men of business to
ascertain what ulterior measures will be resorted to by
Lord Melbourne and his friends, as a means of extricat-
ing themselves from the position in which their rashness
has placed them.
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The failure noticed by us yesterday, as having oc-
curred in connection with the Brazil trade, is of more
consequence than was in the first instance generally ima-
gined, and the event is one that few persons were at all
prepared for. We understand, upon more minute in-
quiry, that the operations of the firm alluded to, were
less with Brazil than with Columbia and Mexico. It is
said, indeed, that they were almost exclusively with the
latter countries.

We learn with much satisfaction, by letters received
this morning from Paris, that the French Government
have come to an understanding with our own, respect-
ing the affairs of the River Plate, which will be equally
useful to Buenos Ayres and the neighbouring republic
of Paraguay. Both nations (France and England) have
an extensive commerce in that quarter, and it is of the
utmost importance to the subjects of each, that the
complete pacification of the rival States should
if possible, be effected, and we certainly con-
sider that it is so. We are assured, on what we deem to
be good authority, that, as the result 9f several diplo-
matic communications which have passed upon the sub-
ject, instructions have been sent out to the British
representative, Mr. Mandeville, to the effect that he
shall use his good offices with General Rosas, and that
he should co-operate with the French Charge d'Affaires
in his efforts to bring about a reconciliation. The Euro-
pean Governments (French and English) have done no
more than circumstances fully warrant, so far as they
have been permitted to transpire, in suggesting, as we
believe them to have done, to their respective Ministers
that they consider the war between the two republics to
have ceased.

The public will probably hear but little more of the
fitting out of ships-of-war and privateers in this part of
the world for the present.