The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-25 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1841.

On Monday the Times published three pieces
of official information Which neither of its Con-
servative Contemporaries posSessed, and it placed
them as its first leader. The public immediately
said, the Times has assumed the livery of the
Torie.T;, and these are its first vails. To connect
it with the Minigters now of great importance,
and we remind the publii:•.pf its appearance in
livery on Monday, to show that it is now the ser-
vant of the Ministry'. •

It has lost, been the policy of Sir H. PEEL to
represent the national distress as trifling and
temporary. For this purpose he made use of
arbled extracts relative to the Manchester Infir-
ry, and chuckled as he referred to the silly

esentations of Mr. Sub-Commissioner MOTT
about Bolton. To succeed with the House of
Connilons, if not with the country, he is
busily einployed, we have lately been told,
preparin.g statistics to elucidate his views, or
dressing- a case fOr the House on the
opening of Parliament. Acting in conformity
to the wishes of the Ritl,Att Hun. Baronet, if
not in obi die.nce to.iiisprders, the Titres yes-
tiutde an. atteiript to burlesque the suf-
ferings of the starvine pentle.
" Talk," i; Said,
," or pZiisley and Spitaldelds,

indeed ! we pledge our honour that certain
unobtrusive sufferers connected with the Whig-
Radical prints are at this moment enduring an
amount of wretchedness, compared with which'
the misfortunes of the thread and silk commu-
nities are Paradise itself, Their ingenuity," it
added, " has been industriously employed in
fabricating a given quantity of distress in the
towns of Sheffield and Birmingham." Thus
the valet Times, which, for several years
has been magnifying, day after day, the
hardships and sufferings of a few indi.
vidual paupers, losing no opportunity to set'
every case of death from destitution which could
be traced, however remotely, to the Poor-laws,
in leaded type, and dilating on every mischance
to a poor person as a great national calamity,
now turns round, to serve its masters, and mocks
at the sufferings of Paisley and Spitalfields, as if
they were far surpassed by the personal and
party disappointment of Newspaper Editors,
which make no man sleep a: jot less sound, or
take from him a single indulgence.

What the people have to expect from the
masters of this swaggerer is now plain. The
schemes which Sir ROBERT PEEL required time

to develope are palpable. He will make light
of the miseries of the people ; he will as-
sert, with a face of brass, that the Corn-laws do
no mischief ; and his newly-erected barracks at
Derby, Ashton, Carlisle, Bury, &c. &c., will
enable him, he thinks, to tell the people they
must accept the alternative offered by the land-
lords of starving in peace, or suffer themselvesbe to
quietly shippedoff for the plantations. With such a
sordid faction master of the Government, and
working for the most sordid purposes, with such
supple tools for Ministers, and such scavengers
in the press, ready, for a trifling reward, to do
the dirtiest work, we can only pray that GOD
will inspire the hearts of the people with such a
love of justice and such a hatred of oppression—
with such prudence, and yet with such a keen
sense of indignity—with such strong personal

feelings, and yet with so much patriotism, that
they will be able to render vain the cunning
schemes of the starvationists, and save the
country from the immense calamities which
await it from the possession of the Government by
time landlords and the Tories.

The announcement that Government means to
promote emigration on a large scale, excites
great interest in the manufacturing districts,
where the intense sufferings of the people may
probably make them snap at any bait. At the
same time, the most influential Journals of the
manufacturing districts, such as the Leeds Mer-
cury, strongly protest against sending our
people to the antipodes to raise food; or, like the
Manchester Guardian, only accept emigration
as a means of carrying the people to food, be-
cause it has no hope that the landowners can now
be compelled to allow food to come to the peo-
ple. Whatever relief emigration may give to
those who go abroad, it is clear it will give none
to those who remain at home. The void made in
population by shipping off a few thousand
families will soon be filled, and taking them
away will not increase the food for the re-
mainder. Not one of the causes which now
make food dear, employment scarce, and wages
low—not one of the causes which now spread
irksome and unhealthy restraints through every
part of society, will be removed. The heavy
hand of the landowners and the clergy will not
be lightened, but rather made heavier, by emi-
gration, for there will be, in the first instance,
fewer persons and fewer resources to bear the
undiminished weight. We throw out these few
words to keep the subject before our readers ;
when we have less demands on our columns, we
shall again advert to it.

In the Courrier Francais—a moderate Oppo-
sition Paris Journal—we find the following ob-
servations on the Report of the Court of Peers,
which we recommend to the careful perusal of
the upper and middle classes in England :

" Secret societies, such as they exist in France, are
principally dangerous for the• classes which enlist in
them. There is no fear of these societies overthrowing
the Government or social order. The danger is lest
they may demoralise, by penetrating further amongst
them, the class which lives by the work of its hands.
These secret societies isolate and corrupt the lower
classes, au evil bad enough, without searching out for
other imaginary ones. The operatives live by our sides,
but not with us. They have their own habits, opinions,
planes of meeting, their journals, their clubs, and even a
language of their own, which we do not understand. If
care be not taken, the lower classes, especially in great
towns, will soon resemble a band of gypsies. This isolation
of the operatives, which divides society into two camps—
barbarism and civilization together—is it the fault of the
operatives ? The lower classes began by being
hostile to Government ; they have ended by being
hostile to society. Fatal circumstances have, no °doubt,
contributed to this. But the selfishness of the upper
classes, and the negligence of Government, are also to be
blamed. The French Revolution mingled and assimilated
all classes. The lines of demarcation have again reap-
peared. If the poor detest the rich, and the ignorant
the educated, it is that all sympathy has disappeared.
France is perhaps the
.country in which there is most
disdain for social ameliorations. We have schools, and
yet there are but 50,000 children in the asylum schools.
Prisons and hospitals do not improve. The indigent and
the prostitute have no asylum but crime, which opens
for them a prison. There is no such thing as home for
numbers of the operatives of Paris, who pass their time
in the wine-shop, make it their domicile, and who end by
conspiring there. The people are now without temples
or fetes. There is nothing but labour to distract them
from. bad habits and bad passions. If something be not
done to amend this state of things, daily increasing de-
gradation must be the consequence."
The personal 'experience of every man who
goes abroad in the world of Lcndon must satisfy
him that an almost similar state of things exists
here. :True, there are no secret societies here,
because our Government is too prudent to pre-
vent the people from giying utterance to their
grievances; but in all other respects the simi-
larity is most striking. The operatives here, as
well as in France, have their own habits, their
own language, and their own literature. Between

them and the classes above them there is no
longer any sympathy. The middle classes op-
press them, and they reciprocate that oppression
with an intense defiant hatred. The upper
classes regard them as slaves, whose sufferings
are only to be stinted by the limits of their en-
durance. Thus left to themselves, and to the
had passions engendered by misery and despair,
they form a hideous wen, which society endea-
vours to keep out of sight only by casting a veil
over it.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been
duly received. France, it appears, has sent
counter-orders to the troops which were to
form a cordon sanitaire on the side of Belgium.
This 'is in consequence of remonstrances ad-
dressed to the French Cabinet by the Belgian
Ministry, supported, as it is believed, by a
strong remonstrance on the part of England.
From the amicable terms in which the French
Ministerial Journals now speak of the Regency
o_rafESPARTERO, we anticipate an early with-
d val. of the French troops now assembling on
the Spanish frontier.
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The Paris Gati,reeewh to the
orTaesday takes up the question of
the right of
sea
vtsh eals,v,. same ith
way
as
sexercised by England over French
01,psuppression of the slave-trade
in ee
these journals attempt to- show that the treaty could have
been carried into execution without the exercise of this
right, nor will it admit that the
Nenrull
illation of reciprocity
takes away all the character of degradation from the
Tilt on this subject.
journalisttr might,
el°t"cleueesssirot oi.strikethethle'irnetnleiaht Gar °1
upon as good ground, complain that the
ment had degraded itself by permitting the:glish Govern.
whieb; according to them, does not shake
re reciprocity-,
ty,
to which they resort. The Globe asks ::1; theth argument
seize French vessels, and allow those of Illaned English
In reply, it may be asked, " What proof is therettoh pass?
English do any thing of the kind." The Globe says „It the
sacred principle- of maritime right, for which torrents of
a .
Frendh- blood have heed shed, that the flag coverssthoef
cargo; but under the pretext of putting down the slave
trade, the Duke de Broglie, , when Minister of Foreign
Affairs, signed a treaty which permits English cruisers
to search our vessels on the African coast ; and, in pal-
liation of this piece of ' shaine, the Minister of Marine
talks of the reciprocity granted by England, which is a
derisory one, and of the existence of the same treaty, as
regards Sweden, Denmark, 'and the Netherlands
boar . We
e
sent a vessel on the coast of Africa, to take on d
hundred negroes to recruit a black regiment at Cayenne,
and it was captured by an English cruiser, without
doubt in virtue of the treaty of 1833. Why does Eng-
land seize our• vessels, and allow ' those of Holland to
Pass, although Hblland, ''like - us, ;has conceded the
right of search ? We have reason to believe that
the King of Holland has bought a thousal