The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

EDITION

t Fit FREE-TRADE CRISIS.
• (From -the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.)
The Tories, of their own accord, assumed a new name
..; after the passing of the Reform Bill, and refused to be
.. called anything but Conservatives. They must now,
. however, whether they will or no, receive another appel-
.. .lation, and be known hereafter as the Plunderers or Mo.-
' nopolists. Sir Robert Peel has committed himself and
his party completely to the advocacy of sinister interests,
in opposition to the interests of the public. He is the
captain of a crew of pirates, who have at length, after a
long chase, been compelled to hoist the black • flag of
-Piracy, after trying to skulk under all kinds of false
n • colours ; but we have to fight them yet, and must clear
• our decks for action. It is something that we know
their numbers and their mettle ; let us take care they
do not get the weather-gage of us. It may be ques-
tioned if all the records of Parliament can furnish such
an example of the hypocritical resort to false pretences,
to bolster up private interests, as was exhibited in the
ine of argument adopted by the monopolists in the de-
bate on Lord Sandon's resolution. Lord Palmerston gave
a masterly exposition of the pretended concern for dis-
couragement of slave labour which has been made so much
of to prevent us from obtaining sugar at a natural, in-
stead of a monopoly price.
(From the Monmouth Merlin.)
We appeal to the
them, farmers of Monmouthshire,
them and ask
made how
many of possessed of long leases, have
money—nay, have ever saved their original capital,
after deducting the expenses of living ? Has not the
Operation of the sliding duty been to buoy them up with
raise hopes-of having perpetual good crops, or of having
a greater average of them during the term of their lease
than experience has warranted Have they not, conse-
quently, been induced to offer a greater rent than they
could afford ? And have not their means consequently
passed into the hands of their landlords ? How, then,
can the Corn-laws benefit them ? The only benefit for
them
whath
is to lower the landlord's rent ; and this is precisely
Government measure, of a fixed duty, is in-
tended to do. Come what will, the Reformers are deter-
Mined to fight the battle of free trade in Monmouthshire.
(From the Somerset County Gazette.)
Put twenty rats into a trap, and throw amongst them
cheese enough to'feed twelve of them ; see how they will
aht for the morsel, and almost tear each other to pieces
'4 the struggle. In just such a manner as this are the
oyle of Great Britain treated by the food laws. We
.I.vt in an island limited in its size, with a vast popula-
tion increasing at the rate of a thousand mouths a day,
than our legiSlators say, " You shall have no more food
an we, the monopolists, are able or willing to furnish
You with, and you must take it at our own prices or
starve." They throw down among the hungry twenty
up.llions food that would not be more than enough for
ull(i
re,olgrhetxerten ue,,en:fed millions, and the result is the struggle
the fierce, relentless competition for a bare
maintenance
which makes life in this country a ceaseless
re
of toil and care. We are unfed, or half-fed, we
may have money or money's worth in our pockets, food
is offered to us abundantly and cheaply, but we are not
Solfered by this barbarous legislation to purchase a grain
it ; a famine is made by law ! an artificial scarcity is
created ! and it is to abolish such a hideous violation of
the benevolent provisions of Providence as this, that the
nation at large is entering upon a contest with monopoly.
Ina cause so holy, a cause which has on its side reason,
religion, justice, iimanity, opposed only by a league of
. selfish interests, the end cannot be doubtful, though it
may be protracted. The system of class legislation is
tottering to its base, a few determined blows, well and
vigorously planted, will ensure its overthrow.
• (From the Welshman.)
A change in the Corn-laws is necessary as,well for
the interest of the farmer and the landlord, as for the
Prosperity of our commerce ; that change is now pro-
Posed ;- it can be attended with no evil, and has every
t rospec, _ot
proving the salvation of the country. Let
very man, then, whether engaged iu agriculture or com-
merce, exert himself for the success of the Ministerial
"Leasure.

(From the Leeds Times.)
THE CORN MONOPOLY DOOSIED.—Thc tide in favour
or free -
ree trade has now set strongly-in ; and if taken at
the flood, it may yet "lead on to fortune." The working
classes have long been suffering from the operation of
Corn-laws, and the various other burdens upon their la-
bour and industry ; but they have hitherto complained,
1441 petitioned, and agitated, for redress of grie-
Vances, altogether in vain. No party in the State
3-3 deemed it of sufficient importance to take up the
question of abolition of Corn-laws, on account of
the suffering working classes. At length, how-
eee, the shoe has begun to pinch the middle classes.
ayino• trade, increasing competition, and diminishing
Profits, he'
awakened them to the necessity of further
extensive reforms in the laws—especially in so far as
they relate to the exchanges of the products of industry.
They also have complained, and petitioned, and agitated,
for some time without apparent effect ; but at length a
Powerful party in the State has taken up their cause,
and declared for an extensive alteration in the Corn-
laws and Import Duties. There is a sufficient key to all
this in the fact—that the middle classes are in the imme-
diate possession of political power.
(From the Bristol Mercury.)
What must be the inevitable consequence of the sys-
tem we are pursuing of bolstering up monopoly ? Why
the prolongation of slavery all over the world. A
pretty example we are setting to tempt foreign nations
to give up slavery ! The eyes of the world are upon us,
and what do they see ? We proclaimed aloud the supe-
rior, cheapness of free labour and we maintain a duty,
114: 14'unting to absolute prohibition, to prevent free hi-
'nu' corning into contact with slave labour ! " Ay,"
~43? foreign nations, f 0 England paid twenty millions to
n'e her slaves, and she has since had to pay over twenty
_iaillions to keep them in freedom !" Is this the likely
to tempt them to "go and do likewise ?" No :
o'f.73' penny we, by unjust legislation, add to the price
t• 'roe-grown sugar, is an additional reason for the icon- of slavery in countries not subject to our sway
premium paid to the slave-trader.
(From the Kelso Chronicle.)
THE CRISIS.
—" The hour," as Lord Melbourne
a„,ras es it, "
is come." After long years of suffering
slid experience, the people would seem to have
ir%used themselves from torpor and inactivity. The
tr'it grasp of hunger has done its work. The energies of
dit!emhave borne her up against the most monstrous
e Inc_ of monopolies which man ever devised, and the
ta,_es.trects have become apparent in our crippled
The Ministry have met the emergency in a
u. and candid
from
nr:atincriina_ manlier. They have not shrunk
tax, toile avowal of the necessity of imposing fresh
b, . o the people, or relieving trade and
.commerce
and water. gi a renewed stimulus to the intellectual
co capabilities of the country. The idea of
country new loans, and still further burdening the
diseou%with an increased national debt, has been wisely
timber", naneed
addition tnolit+ll' ; and the reduction of duties on sugar,
been pro;-- d'e imposition of a fixed duty-on corn, have
as the legitimate means of securing an
the
of le notional revenue. If the people listen to
tares of so„rueaasoo—if they will be guided by the dic-
their hap pine experience—of philosophy—
bas is• nPutneC "-
ss
will be established on an indestructible
selves to on the other hand, should they suffer them-
nientalists__e, cajoled by false friends—by political send-
ing-hams °Y wolves in sheep's clothing—by the Buck-
t ~Winchilseas, and other Tory Peers of the day
amileY, will plunge themselves in an abyss of calamities
to emerge, from which they may never be able
ge.

rrm. (From the Southern Reporter.)
those middle classes are with the Ministry, not merely
Ppek"ue of their own political party, but Tories also. The
et is of no politics but those of self-interest ; and a
",r Y manufacturer will not reject a just relief for•
an un-
rt party triumph
result . There is no calculating what may
of a general election, grounded on great
tt•reforms. It is true, ine, that the most pro-
financial
t g'e tT
hi
t ee
. newspaper in the world, that unembarrassed liar,
imes, is, in its number of Monday, smoothing the
wa . ...
4. Tor smooth Sir Robert to adopt the very plan on
whit„h lie seeks now to drive Ministers from office ; but
Zitilitete-- be a Principle of honour in Englishmen, they
4.; • spurn the man who recklessly sacrifices character
and honour .
~ in a despicable pursuit of power.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
SIR T?
" 40 . ROBERT PEEL AND HIS PARTY.—NO man has.
4, , tnore scandalously maltreated by his party than Sir
44 by 44ert Peel—no man has been more villainously attacked
44, l° Organs of the faction of which he is the head and
1. "ir'mt than the Right Honourable Gentleman. The lead-
.. . •
1,•• egg Mortification of the Tories is—they avow it—that they
'''
llnt go f d without him. They hate every bone
A:.f,.. ,in his ornar „ , • f ed to md-
e-; ~, ; skin, but then " the fellow, tney are orc •
"t„Ill' is so clever, so plausible, so handy at a sophism,
,--... --.4% away with such oiliness, and labours a topic with
it., Nlleh a plenitude of diction,—that he not only cannot be done
~, wi,thout in. debate, but that a Tory Cabinet without him-
-B,ll.l;P"ing the
.possibility of such a lusus naturx—would
13 ' ill the moment of its birth. This the reasonable
eo •
Ple in the coteries are ready enough to acknowledge,
&•,;.
,_lt they continue to express their hatred of the Right
.).... 'tut
-mumble Baronet nevertheless—the Aristocrats, be-
':!: 'P-411se lie is a' Plebeian, the mere place-hunters, the mere
titled traders, such as the Emmerson Tennents, the Ned
~T 0,44. and the Parliamentary small fry, because he does
a" enoose to write himself, or to speak himself, down as
ylile_44l3tincipled and shameless rascal, with the sole
N.": or obtaining office that he might give them
:I" 'lces. Sir Robert is not a political•favourite of ours,
:ninetfrocfeeoiuvrinogwn part we are delighted at the keel-hauling
from his friends;, but with regard to these
th© only feeling in the country is utter disgust.

THE WEATHER.--Noox, MAY 24.
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i . UR EIGHTEEN ABSENT LIBERALS.--A
.. Correspondent wishes us to call upon these gentlemen to
ac, count for their absence on the division on the Sugar
• • ' 4)uties. We leave this duty to their constituents, who in
' • 4 few weeks will du it in a ivai that cannot be tnisunder-
, st( pd.
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nsb,il.s L,ORN-LAwS.-THE MEETING OF WEDNES-
,, b4V.--Our local Anti-Corn-law Association has reason to
gczli. tungratulate itself on the result a its public appeal to the
.citizens generally. The largest place of meeting it could corn-
tc!. to ens
Was filled to overflowing, and many hundreds, who would
.44!. -.41'13'e gladly lifted up their voices agai the cruel bread-tax,
o,,uttk,;,ere obliged to turn away for want from. Throughout the
~,,„ - iarge assembly too, but one feeling prevailed—detestation of
v,;"`ki all monopoly.•and an earnest desire to see our trade arid corn-
..,' ,tt.- .Merce relieved from the mischievous shackles of restriction.
:*. The Chartists, from whom opposition was expected, and who
The made a formidable attempt to defeat one of the resolu-
, "ions proposed by the Association, rendered essential service
to the demonstration, by declaring, in language that cannot he
l'i!lisunderstood or misrepresented, that they are determined to
nave the Corn-laws abolished, and that their only reason fur
because they do not
,nnt co-operating with the Repealers is,
"vlieve that the object that both parties have in view can be
otherwise attained than by the general adoption of the princi •
. 11.5 eoutaiued in the Charter,—Aberdeen Herald.