The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-04 00:00:00

A grand dinner, wjth excellent effect, was given
on Thursday at Wolverb.‘mpton to the two de-
servedly popular Members for' that borough—Mr.
ILLIERS and ?Ir. TH.ORNELY. An account
'V
of this meeting, abridged from the
Stairora7.-1
shire Examiner, will be found in another part
of The Sun. The very important documents
gjoted by the latter gentleman, which tend
to .7how that the Corn-laws will most probably
trade with the United States, as
ruin Car
they have slready ruined our trade with the Conti-
nent of Europe,• we have left in extenso, and beg
that our readers w:11 peruse them with the attention
they deserve. Those _laws leave the Americans no ,
easy means of paying their debts to us, and they
propose to augment the duties on English manu-
factured goods to redress the balance. Our trade
with the United States supports upwards of a mil-
lion of our population ; and to have them added
to the present unemployed or half-employed
terri manue
-
facturers—if the people do not, hy some bl
exertion, either help themselves or cause the authouce
-
rities to slaughter them wholesale—wiil. red
the hulk of the manufacturing population 1:.."`
the miserable condition of the Hindoos, or to
the *ill more degraded condition of the Lumper-
fed, but Corn-law-blessed and protected, inhabi-
tants of Ireland.
Turning from Mr. THORNELI'S documents,
wffich we recommend to our readers, we must notice
a pare of Mr. VILLIERS' speech which we cannot
find room to insert at length. After pointing out
the conjoint operation of the Corn-laws and the
Currency monopoly, each in its turn completing the
evil whieli the other leaves undone, affording a
pleasant sight for SATAN to see the poor crushed
in this wok Id, and their oppressors earning the hot-
test places in his dominions hereafter, Mr. 'VIL-
LIERS said it was against the " giant monopoly of
1 the Corn-laws that they ought especially to direct
' their attention." We find this a prevailing
senti-
A letter from Sunderland conjures the
went.
1 abolition of these laws be their
people to let the abo•
1 great and nobie work for this new year. But the
I people, as Mr VILLIERS said, must depend on
themselves. " Every measure," he said, and we
quote his words here to make them as impressive
as possible—
,. Every measure of public improvement has been
carried by the efforts of those of the class of life to
whom I am now addressing myself ; and I feel satisfied
that this Government, or any Government, are in to
hat'
condition at this period of our history that they
yield to the impression which the educated and middle
classses make upon them.
There are 400 men, at least, banded together in the
..lotase a Commons who declare that no change shall
t,lO place, at presents in the Corn-laws. I say, then,
if, it Oe season for men, who know what the public are
entitled 1/4t,
to come forward, and make offers orcompro-
mi,, with :den so unreasonable ?—(Hear, hear.) The
, question isnCt then, what arrangements shall we make ;
between e power which we cannot over-
the question is .
insist co maintaining the law precisely as it
turn, who i
is, and those who assert that the public have a
right to the repeal of thesere laws.
ho Had those who
islatu, and w represent the
oppose us in the Ln
.forward with any reasonable
landed interest, come
o listen to our request, we
schemes, and said, will y
verments ; but as they
might have attended to their ..?
pect the total repeal
did not do so, we have a right to a-
p. to allow millers
of those laws. There was a propositi,.:
e foreign grain
and merchants to avail themselves of th,
nort to our
which was in bond ; and to allew them to
ex,
colonies wiret they held under lock and key 1 I
0 ware-
houses, and it was rejected with the utmoto do but t'm
st icon. •
say, then, Gentlemen, you have nothing
depend on yourselves. I regret extremely the neces-
sity of advising you to agitate ; I know the disturb-
ance to business that agitation upon any question
causes.—(Hear, and cheers.) I know it defeats the
purposes of representative Government that men should
be obliged to take the law into their own hands ; but it
is actually necessary."
Mr. VILLIERS preaches flat treason, and we
must repeat his lessons. His voice will be echoed,
wo, throughout the manufacturing districts, and
out of the continued injustice of the Legislature, in
maintaining the Devil's laws, there has already