The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

elusion of the productions of France from all
British ports would inflict upon France a greater
injury than that which would be inflicted upon
England by the exclusion of her productions
from the ports of France." This gentleman is
reformed to a strange purpose, if he were ever
imbued with the principles of economy. All
trade being barter, England, including her co-
lonies, would be as much benefited by opening
her trade as eitherßelgium or France. Neither
of these would buy more than we should sell,
and neither would sell one yard of cloth or bottle
of wine more than we should buy. In all bar-
gains voluntarily made the buyers and sellers
are mutually benefited, to the exact same, ex-
tent; and trade between nations, being nothing
but a buying and selling between indi-
viduals, is exactly the same. By open-
ing, or by establishing, or extending any
trade, the two parties to it, whether they dwell
under the same or under different Governments,
are equally benefited by it, otherwise they would
not engage in it, and would not carry it on ; and
the " Reformed Political Ecomimist," who is very
properly quoted by the Tories only, proves that
he has reformed himself into a thorough and
complete ignorance of the very elements of trade.
We thought such nonsense as he utters had been
annihilated for ever. For him Smith has written
in vain.

MAMMOI WORSHIP.—The Morning Herald
has again begun a crusade against Mammon
worship, and describes, with becoming energy
and indignation, the inordinate love and influence
of wealth, among the most elevated as well as in
the lowest classes of this country, as fatally cal-
culated to sap all the noblest foundations of so-
ciety. It speaks of Mammon worship as a pas-
sion as intense and absorbing as gaming. If these
sentiments be not assumed by our Contemporary
in order to enact some part, why does he not
carry them out to their just conclusion, and join
us in denouncing that embodiment of this terri-
ble passion into a Corn-law, and in denouncing
the sanction and encouragement it continually
receives from the Legislature. The pursuit of
wealth by individuals is not reprehensible,
and it is only when it is urged forward by laws,
and strengthened by their encouragement, thatit
becomes mischievous. We deplore, in common
with our Contemporary, the innumerable private
frauds that render all property insecure ; but are
they anything more than an offset of that greater
fraud, the Corn-law, which is ordained by the
Legislature ? We regret and lament the love of
filching which occupies our people; but what is
it more than an imitation of that same love in
the clergy, which is consecrated by Acts of Par-
liament, and enforced by the Courts, both eccle-
siastical and civil ? Every man of discernment
must deplore the worship of Mammon by the
people, but that worship is consecrated and ho-
noured by every Act of Parliament. To increase
the influence of property, to give it alone politi-
cal power, to brand poverty as a crime, and keep
down the poor, however virtuous and honest—are,
and long have been, the great objects of the law,
and the chief temple of the hated worship is the
House of Parliament. Had the Legislature taken
as much pains to honour virtue and protect in-
dustry, as it has taken to swell the rent-rolls of
the landlords and increase the income of the
priesthood, Mammon would not be worshipped
as at present, nor would idleness revel in luxuries
while industry is starved into discontent and re-
bellion.

The perfect unanimity of the British Press upon the
subject of the French designs upon Spain appears to
have staggered the London organ of Louis Philippe's
Government. Our Contemporary is already beating a
retreat—or, in more appropriate metaphor, is instinc-
tively running from the tumbling house. It is not fair,
however, to insinuate the blame of his backsliding upon
Lord Aberdeen. "We happen to know that Lord Aber-
deen is rather close and reserved as to what he does or is
likely to do." Such was the piteous whine of the Morn-
ing Post yesterday. This is what, in homely phrase, is
termed " letting the cat out of the bag." And so, because
Lord Aberdeen is " close and reserved"—the Post " hap-
pens to know" it—is that a justification for doing its little
possible to embarrass his policy by abetting the hostile
proceedings of a foreign Court ? This is worse than
pettiness.—Morning Chronicle.