The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-10 00:00:00

CORN-LAWS.

LORD KING'S PROTEST AGAINST THE PRE-
SENT LAW, ENTERED ON THE LORDS'
JOURNALS, JUNE 16, 1828.

" Dissentient,—Because the Bill, imposing high and
most unreasonable duties on the importation of foreign
corn is most impolitic if intended as a source of revenue,
inasmuch as taxes laid upon the necessaries of life in-
crease the cost of labour, diminish the profit of capital,
and are the immediate cause of general decay and impo-
verishment. It is most unjust if intended to enhance the
price of coin for the advantage of individuals, inasmuch
as a monopoly for that purpose is opposed to the first
principles of legislation, and invades the rights of the
community at large.
" 2. Because it is an abuse of the legis'ative power,
held in trust for the public good, to enact laws calculated
to promote the private advantage of any one particular
order. The use of law is to secure equally to all the fruits
of their labour and industry; the abuse of law is to take
away, either directly by unnecessary or unequal taxa-
tion, an undue proportion of the produce of the labour
of the community, or indirectly to compass the same cud
by odious and destructive monopolies, conferring exclu-
sive privileges on one order, at the expense of all other
classes of the community. If the landowners have as
undoubted right to the property they possess, and to the
absolute disposal of the produce of that land, the people
of the country have no less an undoubted right to obtain
their supply of food either from the home-grower, or
from any other who can afford it at the cheapest rate.
" 3. Because the present Bill affords no expectation of
establishing a final settlement of the Corn-laws, so de-
sirable and necessary for the country, after suffering the
evil of monopoly, fluctuation, and uncertainty, for a pe-
riod of thirteen years ; but utterly hopeless until the pro-
posed laws shall be consonant to sound policy, common
right, and equal justice.
" 4. Because a varying scale
of duties has the effect
of making the corn irregular, on account
of
favourable
of the appre-
hension of unfavourable, or the expectatione
fixduty would en-
opportunities, whereas a
modest
cap
and in the corn-trade,
,
caonudrattre
rea
blary gaeffionridesttmheenbn:e sof
security which the nature
of the commodity allows, of obtaining steady prices, as
unier than to the producer of
less desirable to the, cons
grain.

6, KING."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took their usual walking excursion this morning in the
Slopes and Little Park, and the new grounds.
In the afternoon the Royal party left the Castle for a
drive in the Park, in several carriages ; in the first (an.
open carriage and four) were her Majesty and the Queen.
of the Belgians ; in the second carriage were the
Duchess. of Sutherland, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
Countess Vilain XIV. and Viscountess Palmerston ; in
the third carriage were his Excellency the Belgian Mi-
nister and Madame Van de Weyer, the lion. Miss Pitt,
and the Hon. Miss Cavendish ; in the fourth carriage
(a poenvYersPohaet°n)were the Duke of Sutherland and Lady
E. L n Gower ; in the fifth carriage wereithe Earl
of Fingal and Mr. Rich ; in the sixth (a pony carriage)
were her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her
attendants ; in the seventh carriage were Colonel Buck-
ley and General Goblet.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies
Eleanora and Countess Paget, and the Right Hon. Sir
William Freemantle. will have the honour of the
Royal circle .at the Castle at dinner this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street...
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Thursday
morning, from Windsor Castle.
The Right Hon. Henry and Mrs. Labouchere have
left town for Germany.
Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas Were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

ANTIQUITIES IN THE CITY.--During the
excavations which are now making in Bush-lane the workmen
m have discovered several curious relics,
ewhflch°Yelt
belongseemintoeiiging to different periods of antiquity. Among
them are a large earthenware bottle curiously embossed with a
human face, and a coat-of-arms, a gold ring, engraved with the
words " Espoyr de ioye" (espoir de joie), in Gothic charac-
ters, a bronze key of very antique workmanship, and a curious
hollow sphere, most rudely fashioned in brick earth, the pur—
pose of which it is difficult to conjecture. These curiosities
are at present in possession of the landlorn of the Bell Tavern,
opposite to 'which the excavations are being made.