The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-21 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF vsseesoay.
GLOBE.—The straw is being moved. Tice Food
Exclusives may read with advantage on the one hind
the Marquis of Londonderry's Address to his Irish
tenantry, and on the other the address of the Leeds
Parliamentary Reform Association to the Merchants,
Alanufacturers, and Operatives of the West Riding of
Yorkshire. The Tory Ovid in Thrace has begun his
Tristsa to some purpose. Lord Londonderry's perora•
tion is the Dirge of the Corn-ltww. Disappointment of
diplomatic glories has made him a sadder and a wiser
man. We recognise with pleasure indications of good
sense and good feeling in this address, which we hardly
looked for combined id anything from Lord London-
derry. He gives his farmers the good advice to trust
solely to their own exertions, and to call into action all
the powers of production possessed by the land, as their
only bops, the only prop on which they can safely rely.
It is most cc: twin that to their own energies the farmers
can alone look for safety. But the miserable vice of the
present law is, that the more they exert themselves, the
mare they sometimes suffer by over-production (rela-
tively to their profits). The stimulus given by the
art ificiel prices of scarcity to bring an increased breadth
under cultivation, and resort to expens.ve processes,
ioc-eases the produce, with the aid of a succession of
good seasons, to an extent not indeed excessive as com
pared with the wants of the people, but, nevertheless,
incompatible with monopoly profits to the farmer.
Monopoly profits depend upon getting high prices for
lenited quantaies. For menopnlists to produce abun-
dance is, in (Ea, to burn their cwn fingers. They have
paid high for the instrument of production (the soil)—
tl:ey lave psiJ tnermoasly, in the years of scarcity. for
the very sect they put into it—every incide st of their
occupation had ha .n made as costly as possible by law
—aed, lo and behold ! when they loek to reap the
profits
of ther own exertions, without even any of the dreaded
foreign lac-se -ition at ail. 'Ten is renewed the cry of
a.;ricaltztral distress ; toe tubule tsis stilted system last=,
we are doomed never to have our ears empty of out-
cries. While Lord Londonderry therefore tsl;s his
tenantry to exert themselves, he might also tell them
their operations will never be pieced on a safe bazis,
till precisely the (vent occurs nlich he and they dread
in common—the destruction of a monopoly the fruitful
source of miscolculotions.
STANDARD —Whatever might be thought of
sech a proceeding in the fiCte :nth century, when
d'a ik Carle affirmed that to " erect a grammar
school was most traitorously to corrupt the youth
of the realm"—in our dly it is not presumed that
whoever provides the means of education for his
poor neighbours, does so with a corrupt motive. It
is therefore to be confessed, without much fear of cen-
sure, that, among many other acts of kind munificence,
Sic Robert Peel sleet actually support a free school at
his own expense at 'rammer:li ; nay more, we believe
that he takes a great interest in it, and when in the
neighbourhood, bestows much personal attention upon the
establishment. Mr. Savege has not dared to deny this
and, we suppose, not ruisseelculatiog the temper of the
times, has nut even offered an apology. Let us repair.
the omis,icia. Lord Hale told a certain person who
leo.:sttel of hii skill h imitating the handwriting of others,
that he possessed "a very dangerous talent ;" and re-
cent, facts have proved that the talent of writing, possi-
My first ac:in-ire:l in Sir Robert Peei's unlucky school,
has been turned t. (7isloonest account. We teed not
mention a certain Anti-Corn law address lea led with
forged signatures. But though we cannot altogether
acquit Sir Robert Pe, l's school of having perhaps
imparted the power to commit forgery, there is, in
the selection of a respectable clergyman as the
superintendeat of the school, proof that he did all
diet in him lay to give an honest direction to the
exc:cise of the power imparted ; and it is quite
'lain that he was no party to the late forgeries di-
rected against himself. It is a melancholy truth,
that every power is subject to abta4e ; and that in
teaching persons to write, you qualify them as in-
struments for hirel Anti-Corn-liw lecturers, and all
other itinerant professors in the science of falsehood.
Even the little truth respecting the existence of the
school is, however, al ot ed r'ith faliehood. That
the school exists, we have said ; but it exists without
any reserve of any kind. We have authority to
state that 'the late Sir Robert Peel endowed the
school, without any condition whatever, either in refer-
ence to the return of Members of Parliament, or any
political consideration, and that the terms of the endow-
ment have never been in the slightest degree modified
by his successor. With the admission, that Sir Ro-
bert Peel supports a school for the education of poor
children in Tamworth and its neighbourhood—no great
offence, it is presumed, after all—ends the whole of the
truth f Mr. Aclind's apologist.
COURIER.—There is not a day passes without
the most contradictory and unsatisfactory decisions
being arrived at. in the various Registration Courts
113071 open ttroughout the kingdom. The judg-
ments, which have been so diatnetticlty opposed
to each other, severally delivered by Mr. Arnold
and Mr. Coventry on the right of Pens of Parliament
to have their names retained on the lists of electors,
have caused no little excitement in the public mind,
and an anxious desire that so glaring and inconsistent
an anomaly should be provided for and guarded against
for the future. It is not our intention to enter into the
elaborate argument of Mr. Arnold, or to discuss it with
a view to its refutation or approval. Our object is simply
to point out tho defeet of these Courts, viz., the con-
flicting decisions which are given by the Revising Bar-
risters us to the claims of trustees of freehold pro-
perty. Property, and the claims of its owners to vote
in respect of it, are surely not to be decided upon
by the caprice or ignorance of the Revising Bar-
rister. The clause relating to trustees in the Reform
Act provides that those trustees only who are " bene-
ficially interested" to their own use, shall be entitled
to vote in. respect of such property. This language is
ertainly contradictory, but it cannot mean that the
trustees are to be beneficially interested in such manner
that the proceeds of the estate are to be applied to their
own private use, because in that case they would cease
to be trustees, in the general acceptation of the term.
The property, it vested in trustees in fee, ought to be
represented by them and for this purpose, and in order
to prevent any ambiguity remaining as to the construes
tion of this section, as it at present stands, and to pre-
vent Barristers deciding in one county that trustees of
this description are entitled to the franchise, whilst per-
haps in the adjoining eounty they take upon themselves
to expunge such claims, a short declaratory Act might
be introduced, and passed with little, if any, opposition.