The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONIIk.TS.

We love already contradicted the false report alluded to by cur
Correspondent who writes from the Isle of Wight.
It would be unfair towards many parties to publish the state-
ment communicated from Boulogne on anonymous authority.
The suguestir,n of " A Plebeian" comes too late, as Lord John
Russell has already given a pledge to the contrary.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1841.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Letter to the Electors
of the City of London, acknowledging the requi-
sition, and asking their suffrages, is worthy of
his talents and his high character. It is a
able document, both for the neat mane in in which
it expresses the ‘,‘ wish of the qtr.-kn....Nis Gorcra..
ment to lighten that taxp.'4,ton which, while it
yields nothing to.. the Eachequer, presses heavily
upon the people," and the honest confession it
makes that tte Government has, " at the same
time, eneavoured to give every fair considera-
tion to the protected interests of the country."
It clearly explains both the good intentions and
the faults of the Ministers. They have wished
to relieve the people, and, at the same time, to
uphold those for whose behoof the people are
oppressed. The two objects are incompatittie)
for nothing will satisfy the proteCted interests
but the present or some more restrictive laws,
and nothil-Ag can, or ought, to satisfy the people
but the abolition of that taxation which, while it
yields nothing to the Exchequer, presses heavily
i upon them.

The protected interests, as Corn-law robbery,
timl;er-duties plunder, sugar-tax theft, and such
similar enormities, are what the people justly
complain of. They constitute that great sys-
t.ln of class le,;islation which is a reproach to
all law• making i• which presses heavily
on
tie people, while it yields nothing to the Ex-
clequer. It is, therefore, a systeni, of un-
mitigated wrong and mischief: The protected
interestsare parts of the community, and the law
which proceeds on the supposition that Akey ca
be benefited by injuring the rest, strikes at the
first
principle of all society, namely, that the in-
terest of one and all are identical. We regret
that Lord Jomx RUSSELL lends any countenance
to this system, by giving it a fair consideration,
which, in Parliamentary language, means taking
it into favour.

We have frequently stated our conviction that
the plan proposed by Ministers gives much too
favourable a consideration to these protected in-
terests. Sharing our opinion, the Spectator had
yesterday an artic:e to prove that the Corn-laws
can be changed for the worse. The Leeds Tires,
too, after quotin,,,, like the Spectator, Mr.
M'CuLLocx's rece#t pamphlet, sho,wing that the
proposed fixed duty exceeds the duty actually
paid on wheat since the present law was in force,
says, " Surely this is
.not a thing to run mad
about." The fair consideration, then, shown by
the Ministers for the protePted interests, damps
the zeal of journalists and of the people, and pre-
vents the Ministers flom attaining due and effi-
cient support.
We sincerely wish it were otherwise. We wish
that Ministers would adopt a lower protection
if they cannot be induced to abolish the Cora- 1

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law..'-We wish that they would lower the duty
on Colonial sugar as well as on Foreign sugar,
and lower much more than they propoSe the dis-
criminating duty on timber. The people would
then hive before them objects more worthy of
their exertion. We by no means despair
of seeing the Ministers embrace these views.
Lord BROUGHAM, three years ago, was in
favour of a fixed duty; he now only ad:-
vocates it as a step towards repeal. When-
ever that point eumes to be discussed it may be
satisfactorily proved that a fixed duty, as a step
towards total repeal, would be much more inju-
rious to the landed interest than the total repeal,
which justice and expediency alike demand. States-
men are slow to adopt that enlarged and wise mea-
sure, because the people are indifferent. Ifthey had
been energetic in demanding the total repeal, the
Whigs, instead of now proposing an Bs. duty as
a fair consideration to the protected interests,
would have boldly come forward with a measure
for the total repeal of all the taxes on provisions.
Though we restate our objections to the Minis-
ters' plan, there can be no question that Lord Joux
RUSSELL, as a candidate for the City of London,
far overtops all his Conservative rivals. They
have nothing apparently to recommend them,
more than the cuckoo cry of, " I am strongly
attached to • our Constitution, but will not op-
pose substantial improvements." But the Con-
stitution will not fill the bellies of the
hungry people, and to enable them to subsist,
they must now be relieved from the burdens
which press heavily on them without yielding
any thing to the Exchequer. With Lord J.
RUSSELL we cannot doubt the truth of the prin-
cioles on which the Ministerial measures are
founded, and it will speedily depend on the citi-
zens to signify their hearty approval of those
principles, and at the same time to inform Lord.
JOHN RU SELL and his friends that they
must carry them further. To determine
the fate of the people
_for the next few years
will speedily be tie duty of the electors; and
'as they act, so will the nation be prosperous or
decaying, so will it advance in freedom, virtue,
and happiness, or sink deeper into thraldom,
crime, - and misery. Even the supporters` of
Lord Joni.; RUSSELL must give their votes to
the cry of " Down with all monopolies."

We publish some further correspondence be-
tween the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
and Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet by no means gets out of the scrape in
which his haste to enjoy a triumph, at the ex-
pense of truth and justice, plunged him. All the
writing in the world would not wipe out the fact
that he made a statement in the House of Com-
mons with a view of making that House believe
that the deputation of the Chamber of Com-
merce had solicited him to read Mr. °REG'S
book, and declared that they would abide by his
decision after reading it, when he knew at
the time that the deputation had not called his
attention to that book, and had never, in the
most remote manner, intimated an intention of
being bound by its contents. No writing can
wipe out the fact that he represented Mr. GREG,
the author of the book, as the champion of the
Chamber, when the Chamber had never elected
him to the office. Sir ROBERT PEEL stands con-
victed before the country of having sought and
obt..ined the ready cheers of his roarers by a
dishonest artifice. Nor is it the first time i i the
annals of Parliament that the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet has been convicted of a similar offence.
In the present case, it has been clearly wrought
home to him, and he evinces in his letter how
very sore he is—not at having committed the
offence—bu t at having been detected and exposed.

We are glad to see that Captain PECIIELL has
begun an opposition to the Highways Bill. As
he is a Sussex Member, and the Bill is forwarded
by Sussex Members, it kooks as if the Gallant
Officer knew that it was intended to promote
some nefarious local:lob, and _therefore lie opposes
it. But if it be to serve a local purpose, could not
Slr C. BURRELL and Mr. DARBY bring forward
a Bill to enable them to keep up the particular
turnpike trust they favour at the expense of the
rate-payers of their own neighbourhood, without
introducing a general Bill, placing such great
power in the hands of the Justices all over Eng-
land? It is bad enough that Members of Par-
liament should use their legislative inactions to
subserve their private purposes, but it is qui`e
abominable that one or two Members, in order
to cover a job of their own, should inflict a tyran-
nical Act of Parliament on the whole commu-
nity. It will be seen by our report of the *pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons on Saturday,
that Captain PECRELL resisted the Bill, because
it confers great power on the Magistrates, and
that the debate ou the bringing up the Report on
the Bill was adjourned till this day.

The metropolitan boroughs, we are glad to see,
are putting forth their strength on the great ques-
tions which are now agitating the country. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL has nobly come forward to con-
test the City of London against the monopolists;
Mr. Alderman WOOD, the long-tried friend of
the City, has also announced his Intention of'
fighting the battle of free trade and Mr.
PATTISON and Mr. CRAWFORD have deter-
mined to support than n. The borough of Lam-
beth, we believe? 'secure. We have heard
that Mr. P..,,,Lbw. IN intends to lose money
in quarter, and we wish him success. Mr.
TOOKE is anxiunt to represent the bigots of
Finsbury, and to turn out Mr. DUNCOMUE, the
tiemy of all bigotry, and, next to Mr. HuME,
the most useful Member of the House of Com-
mons. The electors of Finsbury are not to be •
deceived by the professions of a man who has
been rejected by his own party. Sir BENJAMIN
HALL and the Gallant NAPIER will be returned
for Marylebone ; and the Tower Hamlets will
support Mr. CLAY, and find a good substitute
for Dr. LUSHINOTON, either in the person of
Colonel Fox or Mr. GROTE. At all events the
electors °fault-liberal borough will suffer no mo-
nopaist to represent them in Parliament. For_
the county the venerable, the consistent, and the
staunch friend of Reform, on every occ7.sion,
Mr. BrNa, again comes forward, and is certain
of success. Perhaps no man in the House of
Commons is so universally respected and be-
loved—he is the father of the House, and
we only regret that he has not more
obodient and dutiful children. He is de-
termined, however, to the last, to set
them a good example, and, as he has often said,
to " die in harness" in the cause of liberty. All
these circumstances lead to the belief that the
county of Middlesex, which has sach an influence
on the country at large, will lead the way in this
great question of commercial reform, and be
t;.illowed by every liberal community throughout
the kingdom.

We understand that at a meeting of the Sub-
Committees of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, Sir BEN-
JAMIN HALL, and Mr. YOUNG, it has been agreed
upon to call a public meeting of the Liberal elec-
tors of the borough of Marylebone on Wednes-
day next, at the Colosseum, Regent's Park, when
the retirement of one of the two new candidates
will be decided by ballot. As nothing short of such
a demonstration on the part of Mr. YouNd and
his friends can persuade that gentleman that he
has lot the confidence of the liberal electors, the
course pointed out is one most likely to prove
satistiletory to all parties. We have little dolibt
that the liberal electors thus appealed to will do
their duty manfully. They comprehend the mag-
nitude of the questions upOn which an appeal is
made to them by her MAJESTY and her MAiESTY'S
Ministers. These questions involve HQ. ordinary
'political considerations. They embrace prac
tically and immediately the life or death; of
thousands of our fellow-creatures
same laws, living- under•tare same' ir►s`tti~tiian~;;
and burdened with a d6nble-Sliiire--OrtirC toil ;
afflictions, and privations of the most dis-
tressed of the llectoral body. The Liberal
electors of Marylebone will, therefort, support

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