The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

n( thing, but he will. find it his duty to enforce
the law which puts money into his own pocket.

In another part of The Sun appears a letter, headed
" Wages," of which the orthography is a sufficient
proof that the signature— " A Working Man," is not
improperly assumed. We earnestly beg the attention
of other working men to that statement, because it now
depends on them, and on them exclusively, whether the
Corn-laws shall be entirely and almost immediately re-
pealed, rendering England once again the happy home
of her industrious children, and quietly insuring all other
much-needed reforms, or whether those laws shall be
continued, banishing her people to other countries, in-
suring the dominion of selfish fraud, and making this
once pleasant abode of the enlightened and the free a
home only for ram ant tyrants and crawling slaves.
We say emphatically it depends exclusively on the work-
ing classes, for their silence is the most power; ul argu-
ment of the rent-owners, and their patient submission
the strergth oF their oppressors. They are appealed to,
and they have but to arouse themselves, and declare
against the Corn-laws to secure the annihilation of the
odious tax.

It ought to be highly Hatt 'ring to the working classes
to observe how the rent-owners and the cepitalists now
mutually censure each other for fleecing the poor. The
rent-owners absolutely defend their own monopoly by
accusing the capitalists of only wishing to have it abo-
lished, in order to beat down the wages of labour. The
capitalists attack the Corn-law because it lowers the
wages of labour and injures the industrious classes. Be-
twixt the two charges the people must decide.
We profess, in advocating the total repeal of the Corn-
laws, a desire to promote the general good. No man
can deny that the abolition of those laws would be the
removal of a very onerous restriction, the repulsion of a
serious invasion of the rights of property, and an approxi-
mation to freedom. We are guided, then, by general prin-
ciples, and not by any wish to augment the wealth and
add to the power of the capitalists.
On several occasions this Journal has condemned their
conduct in the manufacturing districts. Although there
are many bright and noble exceptions, they have shown
themselves a great deal too ready to separate themselves
from their fellow-labourers, the working classes, to imi-
tate the heartless vices of' the rent-owners, and make
common cause with them against their own servants,
workmen, and friends. • They have at present•thei.r re-
ward in being despised by the rent-owners and forsaken
(politically) by their workmen. We trust, however, that
the ruin now impending over them, while the class they
have sillily worshipped mocks at their complaints and
treats their demands with contempt, will make them give
up their apish idolatry, and found their success and their
power on cultivating the affections of their own workmen.
Their present condition has drawn them to the neces-
sity of courting those whom they have heretofore re-
pelled ; and our serious and earnest advice to the work-
ing
classes is to meet their advances. The capitalists,
like the labourers, suffer from the bread-tax, and the two
united could, in spite of the rent-owners, command its
repeal. That will get rid of one great wrong, and enable
the community to get rid of others. The landowner's
sense of justice would be sharpened by his loss, and he
would become the zealous ally of the working classes in
abolishing other monopolies, and redressing other griev-
ances. To bring him over to the side of justice he must
be compelled to do justice. By now uniting, therefore,
with the capitalists to secure the abolition of the bread-
tax, the working classes would bring over the law-making
classes to their side, and so ensure the completion of all
other required reforms.
They are afraid, however, that in the meantime wages
would be lowered, machinery would be extended, and
they would be injured or starved. The Tories, by work-
ing on this fear, drive the working classes into their toils.
It was admitted by the Times on Friday, that the rate of
wages is primarily regulated by the relations between
supply and demand. " If, therefore," it admits, " a con-
siderable extension of trade were to result from the re-
peal of the Corn-laws, without any increase taking place
in the supply_ of manufacturing labour, it might appear
probable, as Mr. COBDEN says, that wages would rise
rather than fall, whatever might be the price of food."
This is a very important admission, because there is no
doubt whatever, there can be no doubt, that a considera-
ble extension would immediately take place in trade,
while the supply of labour beyond that which is now in
the market could not be immediately augmented.
The notion that the land would be left uncultivated,
and thousands of hands thrown out of employment to
run into the manufacturing districts more than at pre.•
sent, is a mere chimera, which cannot for one moment be
entertained by those who reflect, that though the farmer
might be injured by a fall in price. which we deny, he
would be ruined past redemption by giving up cultiva-
tion. Trade, therefore, would be extended by a repeal
of the Corn-Jaws, cultivation would certainly not be im-
mediately lessened, and wages would rise.
But an apprehension is entertained that the capitalist
would rather employ machinery than men. It should,
however, be considered that he is tempted to do that
now in a stronger degree, by the narrowness and compe-
tition of the market abroad, the high price of food at
home, and the small margin of profit which consequently
remains for him. Whatever might be the temptation.
under a repeal of the Corn-laws to substitute machinery
for manual labour, assuredly that temptation is much
stronger under the laws—except, indeed, as the exist-
ence of the law throws thousands of men out of work,
and makes them willing to work for the smallest portion
of food that will maintain them its life.
The fear of being thrown out of work by
the use of machinery is idle. Where is the
demand for labour most brisk, and where is it best
paid ? In the manufacturing- districts—badly, even,
as it is there paid. Into them labourers now flock
from the agricultural districts. Where have the labour-
ers most increased ? and where alone do we find a la-
bourer becoming a master and a man of wealth ? Not
in the agricultural districts, where everything is mono-
polized by the Squires and the Parsons. There the pro-
cess, as our Correspondent shows, is one of degradation ;
small freeholders are sold up—farmers become labour-
ers—and labourers are driven into the workhouse.
Where did the PEELS, and the .GASKELLS, and the
GtansToisEs find the means of getting into Parliament,
and there becoming the advocates of the landed interest?
Where, but in the trading and manufacturing districts,
and there alone, and by the means alone there to be found,
could they have been raised front the obscurity of their
ancestors, to become the associates, as well as the
toadies and defenders of those who revile their origin
and plunder the people. They now forget the
source of their greatness, and equally meanly and
wickedly employ it to defend injustice. Where
machinery abounds, as in Glasgow, and Manchester, and
Leeds, and Birmingham, the labourers have most in-
' creased, and find most employment. In every one of
these towns, celebrated for the employment of machinery,
large masses of labourers from agricultural districts, in-
cluding Ireland, have found work and a home ; many of
them have obtained comfort, and some few wealth and
distinction. However painful some changes of employ-
ment may fall on individuals, it is, on the whole, clear
let the employment of machinery does not diminish,
but increases the demand for manual labour.
In fact; without our beautiful machinery we could carry
on little or no foreign tr,le, and consequently the im-
mense number of persons employed in manufactures and
trade—amounting to more than half our people—have
been. called into comfortable existence by those beautiful
.inventions which fools deride. Away, then, with the
nonsense that the use of machinery diminishes employ-
ployment and lowers wages, and let us all manfully strug-
gle to get rid of the Corn-laws, and so increase trade,
raise wages, invent new machinery, and multiply an in-
telligent and happy race of human beings.

• .„,
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—On Mon-
day last the quiet inhabitants of the Bow-road. Middlesex, were
thrown into no little excitement by a rumour that a Mr. Denni-
son, a brewer, had eloped with the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of Mr. S—, a wealthy gentleman. It appears
that 11r. Dennison is 25 years of age, and had long paid his
1 ' 4dresses to the lady, who is still in her minority, and has
, 'wined her twentieth year. His attentions were dis-
just a,. , the. young lady's father, but through the con-
oouraged by r one's maid, stolen interviews were ob
nisance of the 5....:
taimd,
and on Mends). morning, before any other members
of the fain& were stirring, .:Miss S. left her paternal borne,t
and .lew to the aline of her lo.f r., who conducted h
post-chaise which was it' Vi *lt IT! g , WILLA the northern
and the happy pair set off at Nil speed tow-
.rain they met
road, with the intention of getting into the first -
0,,-eding to
with on the Northern Counties Rallwtevf
four horses atetracbed,
Gretna-green. When the flight of the lady
e fir fugitive he.
pursuit was commenced, but too late, and thn .
mail
tours be-
came Mrs. D., and escaped with her husba d
had taken.
fore her pursuers ascertained the route they _.,
trosincalist disco:Wed
on Saturday at
M A RYLEBONE VEOTRY•
'Thomas to reduee the, the Chair), the
ad-
the meeting of the Vestry ( mr. Lovrier
journed debate on the motion et' I‘.- •
length opposed the
500/ to
ded that no argument whatever
vestry tot come to s
salary of Mr. Flood, the vestry clerk, from . 4501., was
resumed.—Mr. Foster contended
such a reso--
hivatdiohne.—enTadhdeußceecll,,topirn.d
motion. After a discussion of nearly four hours, a division
took place, when there appeare.clo. r,
er retry motion, 16 ; against
it, 22 ; Majority against reduein, ta clerk's salary, 6.
Dueiebdthi:
at
ggyas
TUE CENSUS.__The vestry clerk read a com-
munication from Mr. H. C. Wilson, the superintendent re-
* trar of St. Marylebone,
gis showing the sum total of abstract
of enumerators' schedules for each registrar's district of the
-
parts • h , fro vs which document it appeared that the number of
houses in the parish inhabited were 14,316; uninhabited 574,
building 187—total 15,077. The amount of population enu-
merated therein is : Males 61,079, females 78,375—t0ta1,
' 139,454. It showed that there had been an increase of about
20,000 souls an the parish within the last ten years, or 2,000
au,nually
BANQUET TO LORD MonPETH.-The great
national banquet to he given in Dublin to Lord Morpeth will
I take place in the Theatre Royal there on Septernher the 14th.
. . .