The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

ORNING EDITION

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF TILE
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post of yester,i,pabserves in a leading article
on the subject of free trade :—" The tendency of flee trade,
or the reciprocity system; as some people love to call the same
thing, is an abandonment of the weak to the strong—of the
labou -ers to the capitalists—of those who have great difficulty
in fin sing emp'oyment, to those whose interest it is to beat
down wa4es by the competition of foreigners. This system
-would soon lead to intolerable distress and consequent convul-
sion. It would make Great Britain the victim of grasping
avarice." The Morning Herald contains a '.eadiug article on
the late repeal meeting on the Curragh of Kildare, the object
of which is to turn into ridicule the tpeech made by Mr.
O'Connell on that occasion. The- Morning Chronicle, in an
article on the question of the Irish constituency, and the re-
turns lately moved for by Mr. O'Connell, says :—" The entire
constituency of Ireland at this moment appears from these returns
to be about 88,000. This for a population of eight, or nearer to
nine millions! We have heard of ghosts of voters ' • here is the ghost
of a constituency. If such a body of electors be a mass of im-
purity and fraud, we would fain know whether there are any
good votes in Ireland at all. Is it all canker ? Is there a leaf
of the rose left? If the ' characters of hell' are so gigantic,
it i, plain that there is not ample room and verge enough' La-
them in a ro:1 of 3t4,000 voters. ' The Times, alluding to the
American Boundary question, remarks as follows :—" The
boundary strife, if not already rendered incurable by some
desperate outrage on the part of Maine in executing the mea-
sures of hostility against the Queen's forces enjoined to the
Governo: by the resolutions of the LeLrisla•ure, may possibly,
and just possibly, assume a more favo,ii•able aspect when the
Ile 4' Administration comes into effectual I lay. But the symp •
toms which incline us to such a-glimmering of hoj.e are far,
we confess, from de, ided."
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF 1 EiTERDA Y.
(From the Globe.)
W:thcut any disposition -o allude istv7diously t) the
mugs terous attemitts t) I.rajudit.e his sfraits, see may be
card need if we recur to the uniform success of Lord
S;,denham's enertions throughout his career as Go-
vernor-Genersl of Cin sea, as the completest answer
whisli man ever gave to the c Islamics of an enemy.
lir= the very first moment that he ;aided at Quebec,
in Ostober 1839, to t te day when the union of Canada
was consummated, in February 1841, it would be diffi-
cult to gainsay tit ter his policy or his practic-. It is
fortunate that it his b.e s so ; for Canada has been so
often deludrd by false: hopes, by the prom:ses of men
w re:ha; s, but unable, to red:z • the exprc'a•ions
which they excited, that it Fat needed a rare union
of cenfi knee aid ability to overcome ele disossition t)
doubt and Intsitste. Oa the part of the ds:ersrtiont
ut borne, thet.eosficlenee has rot bee t witliheld. On
ths cootrary, it h ts been yielded readily and clrdi 1!! .
0.1 the part of Lard Sydenlism, it has been sec:-.trdsd
with at) abity which is cheerfully and brat fully
neknowlisigeil, not only 1)-) Canada, but by the other
North Atneric in Pri.viriecs ; far it was rot the 1 a t
dial eirtening of the prospects of that part of tle
British dominions, thrt the disaffection which resulted
in the re• e lice of Loner Canada, threatened to spread,
though in less emba-rassiug forme, through the ether
Provinces, with results, we fear, had the tide not been
ed, that must have been eventually still cure
disastrou.. TEe success of Lord Sydenham in Ca-
nada, and his presence (etiforciag his policy) in the
ether provmees, has been a powerful, if not the chief,
means of giviq a new and more hopeful turn to off iirs.
In estimating the value of these la'-ours, it is ina-
possibin not to boar in mind the ve-y grudging support
which the Conservative stutamea of this country gave
to the great nu asures which Lord Sydent am has hewn
the means of carrying into effcct. The ire emperance of
the Bishop of Ese'er is but a more NiAent und deter-
mirs-d-type of site feeling manifested with more caution
by the less demon,irstive partisanship of his Tory culla-
borsteurs. Fortunatay, the better spirit prevailed ; and
though we look not withoct anxiety to the first move-
meats of the new Constitutice—to the excitement that
must attend a reviv,-.1 of consftutional rights in owe
part of ti-e Provincs, and the exercise of eleeteral pri--
ssleges throughout the Province—we perceise in all the
aisciunts that have reached us, such strong evidences
of whet we arc apt to call round British feeling, good
sense, and practical loyalty, that we cannot but allow
ourselves to believe that it only a fair share of con-
fidence and support be afforded at home by the peo; le,
by party tiler, and by the Government, the prtriesce,
-skill, and energy of Lord Sydenham, will meet with
ea' ctual support and confidence in Canada.

-.
(From the Staudard.)
There is a question which we wish to be answered
by the Conservative Peers who opposed the Bishop
of Ext t-r's motion upon the San Sulpice ordinance.
Tnese Noble Lords profess to believe the ordinance
a bad thin;; in the abstract, a rescinding, indeed,
of the Reformation, as far as the province
of Canada is concerrel, but they hold that the
Legislature is bound to sanction the evil, because
Lord Bathurst suppl'el what has been tortured
into a pree-dent for it, and, further, because of the
long possession of the monks of St. Sulpice, and of
i.ins dropped by Lords Goderich and Aberdeen
that . this possession might, on certain condition?,
(not, however, the conditions reserved in the ordinance)
be Permitted to continue. Now the question arising
upon this argument which we wish to have answered is
the followir; :—Were not the Irish Corporations, lately
destroyed by the Howe of Lords by the active influ-
ence of some of the Conservative Peers, and with the
aid of the learned Recorder of Dublin, entitled to con-
tinue their existence, and to preserve their privikges
and prone. ty, upon much stronger arguments (though
of the same kind) than those to which the House of
Lords, under Consertative guidance, yielded in the
me of St. Sulpice ? The Irish Corporation had a
possession varying from 650 years to about 2.50 ; the
longest possession that the monks of St. Sulpice could
cl tim did not exceed a century, and their posses-
sion under the English Government was nothing
like so long. The right of the Irish Corporations
was guaranteltd by charters of English Kings, re-
cognised by solemn Acts of the Legislature, and
protected by the law, which forbade that the conduct
of corporations should be questioned anywhere but in
the supreme court of criminal jurisdiction. The right
of the monks of Sin Sulpice, such as it is, rests upon
the charter of a French king, extinguished, as all such
charters must be, by the conquest of the province, and
on those obscure and equivocal intimations of Minis-
ters, without legirlitivo authority, to which ife have
referred.

(From the Courier.)
We conceive the Times itself will not be disposed
to deny that the effect of any sweeping change in the
Corn-laws would be to displace a very large propor-
tion of the working agricultural population, that is, to
eject them from the labour market of land, and cast them
by consequence upon the labour market of manufac-
tures, already redundantly supplied, for support. We
ask, therefore, how, on what is something more than an
hypothesis, the condition of the hand-loom weavers is
to be ameliorated by throwing upon their special craft
the ruinous competition of, to take a low figure, some
two or three hundred thousand additional hands? For
to that craft the ejected agricultural labourers must be
driven for employment, if employment they were to
have at all, inasmuch as hand-loom weaving is the least
:skilled, the moat readily learnt, and the most attainable
Of any species of industrial occupation whatever. A
man, Woman, or child may acquire the art of weaving a
piece of calico or fustian in a week, and in a month
would become a veteran in the service. The Times,
me know, would argue that bylettingforeign in corn
the field of manufactures would be enlarged so as to
absorb beneficially, both for new comers and old prac-
titioners, the additional mass of labour as displaced
by d I d
by the abolition of the Corn-laws and fo rcetd uponm aaneu-
factures. Non constat : nothing can be moTrefialreie t
is h
no
conceivable o
such an inference from such premises. There
conceivable improvement in our foreign trading relations
which could achieve such a consummation. All nations
have, and have long had, their own special industrial
and manufacturing interests to care for and to encour-
age, and there is not one where those intzreAs arc not
of as old, or older, date than in this country, whatever
be the supremacy
to which we have attained in parti-
tcular branches.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—As from the first, th! ckalings in the public
securities arc confied to the jobbers and bpeouhtors, who,
reading the news received from Aire, ica as more Evour-
aYe to the maintenance of peace between t}:e two coun-
tries, have .0
-day supported the Government stocks at al
alvance of f,ll a quarter per cent. upon the latest pcices
of yesterday, and tlic market closed with much firmness,
although business, generally speaking, was not attire.

POST.—The view taken at the Stock Exchange of the
remit brought yesterday by the Columbia steamer, from
New York, was favourable. lie measures that wire
about to be adopted by the American GJvernment for the
efenr e of the country had, up to the end of the past month,
been quite insignificant in comparison with what was done in
1838, on the occasion of the tumults which then occurred
en the Canadian frontier, and which had the a2probation
even of men like Mr. Clay and Mr. Webiter. The know-
leg', too, that a deputation composed of indi,iJusls not
inimical to Btitish interests was about to proceed to
London for the purpose of arranging the M`Lcod aTair,
tended to restore confidcnca among the johbe:s, and, we
may say, among the commercial classes also.
CII RON IC L E.—The news Iroug'it by the Columbia
steamer trout Oa! United States it fay.aurab'e is the cause
of pi ace, and the state. of the E:Tllth Funds pm v:s :ha.
thin is the general Ppirnon here, by a tiie of i per cen..
The private correspondence received by various houses
in the Citf continue to or,sent ti,e same rem akaLle f.ta-
ture as that to which we alluded un a forn.er occasion,
They enter very fully into tt e stat> of !h.; batiks and the
Aorlicata Money Market, but ate he f: ctty El_•nt as t , the
nutiati of any 'Aar tc..v.een this ciun ry and the U. i•ed
Stater, what, they con,4ratul ire tr,e commerci 1 wo:11 g( _
cerally upon the ,ettlement of the Eastern question.
The rumoured appointment of Mr Clay on a ire.
~. vial mission to the Court of S. Jarr.ei'F, supposed
dig d,ffcleaces
-,sir7.leiPt"tat44 the purpose of arranging
''''''' - '''_, sFeeii,_,th.2, two countries is I)c,ked for wi:h much
''' A(44.l*.4*.i:,___L-V\is by no means unlikely ti be true, f)r
—..4-1.4
---it Itt• itilioitor-Ukat
in the-tilliiirii64 A •• •
Mr. Webster, now Premi,r Mie'ster
dministratian, was desirous to hare
such a eciiiise'l adopted boundaty question so
far back itittiejear 1839.7ridtt hhat it was stopped by Van
Buren_, bec'ilui. party feeling
- lest "Me ciFebster for the d:;Ynauld and public
pert: it hiss t,
yentad him a
'frona'fixing upon 'an public heeling I r'-
Y one else. Cornmer-
//cially, howerer, we cannot find much in the .Amorican in-

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