The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

k!VENING HAD ITION

universal bread-tax. The storm of a despot's
1 Wrath strikes down only a few of the high people
ptout him- A persecuting priesthood is contented to
0 Prison and burn the most distinguished of its
hi:P"ents, but it allows the great mass to pass un-
:ed. The avarice of the plundering land-
ners.....w orse than either wrathful despots or per-
Nititing priests--reaches every man, every woman,
poo everY Child ; and in proportion as the people are
to r"n proportion as they have nothing but bread
„ eieat, do the landlords take away a large share of
feet loaf. little loaf. The ruin inflicting on our marm-
ot :re; the starvation to which the poorer classes
,e People are doomed, is, in reality, one of the
/lest grievances that any nation was ever cursed
with
and,Zeal till that grievance be redressed, the
the °ll/48 4°6-Corn-law Members ought to unite in
ttetbss4use of Commons, and resist the giant of
pp y,
foll°
aeabrell Anti-Corn•law League has now entered on
weer of great usefulness, which, if diligently
the ,1d uP, must rouse, first the electors, and next
witheteeted, to make suitable exertions. We agree
COBDEN, that this is
lideolucaohtloti.:
tie to
of expediency, but of principle.
hTeho7
tats b ecl the total and immediate repeal of theht r
kir :cause to demand anything less would
he giveoio)
to a direct robbery.—(Much c eerhtgt.o
be fra had been said about how their demands
unjust
it
oughttned ; but, in his opinion, if a law was uoi.u;
re-
Pealed !') be instantly repealed, and if it ought to
who
Were it was surely the duty of all honest mien,
eer.
Ito earneat to ask for its repeal.—(Renewed c
hP Ti2e9 had been told of interests which had grown
treat connexion with the bread-tax, but how. much
kitio4 t !ere the interests which had grown up in op.pty.
tree ° It?--(Hear.) The interests on the side of j
side are a hundred times stronger than those. ond thet
to ',Tiostice ,and all that was wanted in
to
mera_ to
IliotewiLee triumph of their cause, was merely
of
whatk
th "° suffered from that injusticen aware t
Te real cause of their sufferings.
he sacred principles of justice, so enforced,
'011,4 f
ere long kindle all honest hearts in their fa-
the ICI' The theme is too solemn for trifling. I
13: landlords can show any other title to tax the
A 811,4 bread, but their own greedy desire for
-**it, let them produce it. But no arguments of
1:41341,je11eY, which the pick-pocket and the burglar
agiance as easily as the landlords, will now
tolstf/ the League. The members of that stand
the. 'or justice, and justice they will, by the aid of
tie Public, of the electors, and of the represents,
th s, surely obtain. A continued refusal to repeal
tht bread-tax, will be an unanswerable proof that
life Constitution is utterly worthless, and will jus-
141bit6se who s.eek to destroy it, and most pro-
t Y will enable them to effect their purpose. If
Ale.]
jti.anded aristocracy will not do justice, nor allow
4wlee to be done, it will become a complete nui-
V ee' and, with all its allies, it will be swept away
e Pray that it may repent, ere it be too late.

Avv,,eregret to see by a letter which we copy from
l;4-spateh, that Mr. HARMER has resigned his
4ithmt erman,
s gown. We wished and hoped, for the
e of the Livery, that he would have given them
se°.Pportunity next year to show that they were
blstble of their fault. We should have been
essed,tor again,ohad there been a necessity to fight the
tleove
as undoubtedly there will be at
411,41 e titne or other, to have, had the assistance of
Al' influence and power as Lord Mayor, or as the
t6derman of Farringdon Without. AL the same
ewe cannot blame him for resigning. " The
tia—
icilkus pageantry and senseless ostentation" in•
I:Parable from the office of Lord Mayor can have
-"" charms for Mr. HARMER. He has lived too
mach and too long in the world not to estimate
then.' at their real worth. He only stood for the
Mive "tn silence the calumniators, who said he
unwort].y to stand, and would not dare to pre-
•
ttrtukrnself to the Livery." Possessed of an ample
exh "e) the fruit of his industry, why should he
perr°se himself to such heartless calumny and such
of sic::nal abuse as were levelled at him, for the sake
beoelug first showman on the 9th of Novem-
reti lie has studied his own happiness by
find g' and now the City of London will
le„' that the late contest has inflicted a
,ere
'l°w on the Corporation. Civic digni-
teaes were not much in request before the late con-
st' and when men of property and respectability
t nthat, in addition to employing their time and
(11:04:8 them away from their private business, civic
reties expose them to be catechised about their
on;l'us principles, and persecuted for matters of
c:in", they will carefully shun all civic honours.
" (ledCorporation will then be more and more dede-
be, and all its places of trust and honour will
L:_ filled by canting hypocrites, or men who have
071, callous to censure and regardless of the
rinian of the world.
A

-flex. a long silence, the Times, supposing that
tit
Present the remembrance of its foolish articles on
the Navy has been wiped away, returns to that
subject, and offers a defence of its conduct. It is
tensible that its patriotic efforts to depreciate the
British Navy, by publishing false statements of its
strength—to wit, a statement which excluded the
*hale Mediterranean fleet—are duly appreciated by
:be public, and it attempts by sundry exertions to
eaea
pe from the consequences of its own conduct.
Nothing can ben more distinctly unfair and un-
just)" it growls and whines, " than thus to perse-
vere) as the Admiralty writers do, in charging
113 with unpatriotically depreciating the power
of England." Poor Times ! which is accus-
tomed to assassinate with a blow, to blub-
bor a beaten school-boy :about " unfair
and ,lnjust." Its miserable plight is best shown
howevort by its recriminations. It alleges,
An inouirar would find, for instance, in certain
lists of siii).•s now building,' which have gone the round
of the Millet rial
prints within the lest month, a first-
rate man-of-war called the Royal Frederick. But he
would search in vain for any such vessel, or even for
the keel of it. A I..ttle extra investigation, however,
would bring to light the fact, that this same Royal
Frederick was rechristel:ed the Queen some time in
1839, was lately launcher; at Portsmouth under that
name ; and this appears twice in the same list under two
different denominations I This is an exceedingly easy
method of doubling the force of the navy. "
. Here no precise date is given, and no paper
Mentioned. " Within a month the statement has
gone the round of the Ministerial press,"—a
single mistake concerning one ship only is de-
tected, and that is called " an easy way of doubling
the navy." The statement, it is plain, with such a
mistake did not proceed from authority, but from
copying some old naval list. It is a notable cir;-
cumstance, however, as it affords a vindication of
the Times.

That Journal further states, " The greater part
of our present navy consists of old ships, and of a
scantling and weight of metal now generally dis-
used ; and while this is the case, we are not yet,
even with war actually threatening us, using any
adequate exertion to replace this peace-establish-
Ment navy by better buiit and more formidable
vessels." What does the Times mean by "gene-
rally disused," Our own navy, the American,
find the French navies are the only navies of much
importance ; and that our navy consists of some
small ships is a refutation of the assertion of the
Times. As long as we have small ships they are
not generally disused.
But what is the secret of our having small ships;
and the French and Americans having only large
ones ? At the close of the war, the navy of France
was nearly annihilated, and a new one was to be
formed. The Americans, till about the same pe-
riod, had no line-of-battle ships, and they, like the
French, in building a new fleet, as far as it has yet
gone, have adopted the plan of building larger ships