The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

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MORNING E p IT1()N.
THE PRESENT CONTEST.
The gauntlet has been • thrown clown ; frea -trade or_ re-
stricted, monopoly or no monopoly, the landlords or tue
people, is now the question—there is no shirking it, and
every man must now take his aide' and. prepare himself
for the coming contest ; and, as we Must have a fight, as
we must in spite of ourselves go at once to the object
- and end of all that which is called organic reform, what a glorious contest it will be for us, either in victory or
defeat.—(Hear, in
hear.) Honesty and truth against hy-
. pocrisy and falsehood—(Cheers)--gamblers and specula-
; don against fair and legitimate traders--(Renewed
cheers)—the mass of consumers against the narrow class
interests. A whole nation.struggling for bread and life,
against an oligarchy oC Peers and large overgrown landed
'proprietors.(Hear, hear.) Is this mere declamation?
'lf the landlords have any other right than that which
belongs to the strongest, to take our bread and to starve
our population'. for their own benefit, .why then I ac-
knowledge that this is mere declamation. Thc taxes
must be paid. Ought they to be paid by the rich or the
poor? But look ,at this Corn-law. It is not even a tax
which the poor man pays into the stock of the State; it is
put into the pocket of the landlord. It takes from the
needy to enrich those already rolling in wealth. Is this
morality—is .this Christianity—is this consistent with
the word of God, which especially denounces those who
rob the poor?7—(Cheers.) Oh, this protection ! ,Wh!
don't we grow our own wine, cultivate vines as we do
corn, in expensive and ungenial soils, and by large pro-
hibitory duties upon foreign wines protect the cider and
perry manufacturers; the currant and gooseberry man,
and thus establish one griping and eternal stomach-ache
throughout the land ? These home wine gentlemen have.
perhaps, a better right to their tax, for theirs would fall
exclusively upon the rich; the torn taxfalls upon the poor
man, his sole food is bread ; whOes,s if the rich man pay
more for his bread he gets mote than an equivalent for it
in the price obtained for his corn. But I can assure you,
Gentlemen, bread forms but a small portion of the.Ceas
sumption of the rich man's table. It is somethitssi, upon
the plan of Falstaff's bill in Shakspear4 pl.—" Bread
a halfpenny, sack a pound."--rain-tuid laughter.) •
They consume plenty of made dishes, plenty of foreign(
wines ; but all the bread they ewer-is perhaps com-
prised in an anchovy toast after dinner for the purpose
of excitihg a thirst. But these monopolists, beaten from
one positim4, take up a thousand others, each as un-
tenable as the last. They say, "But if corn is higher Iv;
this duty, wages are always high in proportion." r.P.Lics
is untrue, as Lord Fitzwilliam has proved,es eav alwaes.
be proved by a comparison of the pricesy.rat hy year.
corn and wages ; it is false in facts IliSeundin theory.
The rate of wages depends 1,1130.7 ii quantity and quality
of labour in the markatlf there be much iaboar in the
Market,. or. Inttny§Uperfluous hands, labour will be cheap.
Competition makes labour, as other thiugs cheap. g on.
the other hand, the population is Well and ?idly employed,
labour will be high. Now let me ask one question. sup_
pose all our manufactories stopped and our ports slAat, some
million of hawks would be thrown•out of e„.nployment.
Wattld they go to the land, to agriculture, in relieve their
distress ? They , have too many laatfids already, for
wages are too low. But work 1113-,4t be found, and wages,.
with this competition superk:eled would go still lower-
-(Hear, hear.) Nowi open •vour ports,--kt in corn
from foreign parts,....saa than the bleased change. Your
deserted feet-ti would be peopled and crowded with
dechaniea, artisans, and labourer*. 'of every'class and.irpuion,
siption, all employed, each in their separate capacity,,
in making and finishing the*. goods which are to be ex-
changed for the food ed estr. life. Not only would our manufacturing tow w., le,/ the immediate benefit, but our
ports and hl,*arst would be crowded with vessels and
shippi%4 :Pact human beings to transport those goods to•
tkart aeveral: destinations. Every village, and every
iivll.lot ilerougleaut the empire, to its remotest Corners,
feel the benefits e,f this great; this salutary
change ; for if labour ho required, Ana cannot be c,l)- •
talned at hand, it must be fetched from If it can-
not he found at Portsmouth or elsewhere, it must he
broaght front Hastings, or wherever there is a surplus
of labour, and wages are low. Wherever a rope can be
spun or a ship built, thew, amongst other sources, . will
be new and prcitAtable employment for labour. This
will be the -atiavoidable consequence of• thie coming
era of our prosperity—Free trade.:- (Hear, hear.)
" Oh ! but," say the manopolisfi, the landlords,
with the parsons to help them,—when every other argu-
ment is cut from under them,—" this is all very welt,
misery stalks, over the land, but, but,"—what ? " God
has ordaiassi. it." The Bible says, " Render unto Caesar
that which is Caesar's ; submit yourselves to the powers
that he !" New, first of all, is the bread tax Caesar's?
The landlord seizes it ; so far it belongs to the imperial
family a ttke,. S:Zeizers—(Hear, and laughter)—but not
others is* Submit yourselves to the powers that bes.
'Theo why does not Sir Robert Peel submit himself to
the powers that he, and abandon his most ambitious and
factious opposition v Is not her Majesty One of the
powers that be P Mind, I only take them upon their
own argument. But it is rank blasphemy to assert that.
God has ordained our misery?—(Cheers.) Man hat
woomplished it by his monopolies ; and Corn-laws .arse
as much denounced in Scripture as any other crime.
God may permit thew for a time ; but it is left to our-
selves to destroy the accursed work, and God,beasturecl.
will never help those who do not help themsaives.—
(Cheem) Now, we have a great labour before us. To.
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our beloved but much injured country is a pOsitiont
to develop her crippled and dormant Atergies. This is
your high lot. Hitherto she has`been treated like
a shackled and imprisoned giant. You have now the
key of the prison. -gate ; if you cannot open it by such,
means, thunder 'at the portal, and all the host of .gaolers
and tussikeys who guard and block up tite entrenees
to
the courts of monopoly will fly hefot..l your •asseali like
dust before the wivid.—(Applausc.)—Mr. Adam Smith's.
Speech

SHIPPING iNTELLIGENCt.
(LT.OYVS),
LONDON, JUNI 7.—Wind this day at noon, &est.: breezes
from the northward, with heay.yclouds at times.
DEAL„ JUNE 5 and 6.—Arrived the Alert, Pa tier, from
South Seas ; Helen, Tay/or, Pernambuco • Martha (barque),
Westward. Arrived from the River tho/Charles Brooke, for
St. Vincent. Sailed the Oriental, for New Zealand ; Terror
and William Turner, Sydney; Hesperia, Mauritius ; Swallow,
Para ; Kingston, Jamaica; Blundell, Trinidad ; Sir W. Scott,
Fanny, Quebec; Oak, Mirarnichi, Ann. Louiia, Newfoundland;
Victoria, Tenerifre ; Vixen, Malta. The Lord Eldon, arrived
in the Downs, from Sydney, New South Wales, reports hav-
ing fallen in with much ice in let. 52 S., from lon. 116 to:106
W. The Foxhound, Simmons, bound for the South seas,
did not run on the Goodwill Sands, as reported on the 25th ult.
DovEa, JUNE, 6.—Arrived off, the Morgiana, Galbraith,
from Hayannah.
BALRANALD, NORTH VIST, MAY 26.—A jolly boat marked
Emily, Glasgow, Alexander, was drive. on shore at South
Some logs of fir apparently not long in the water, have
come on shore at North and South Uist.
COWES, Jur:a s.—Arrived the Madonna, Ayton, from
Bahia; Famitnent, Christofferson, do.
ARA/VIED OFF THE NEEDLES.--The Antelope, Hultman,
from Batavia, fur Gothenburg.
SALCOMBE, JUNE s.—Arrived off the Lawson, Brite,
from Mount Video • Oak, Matanzas, for Amsterdam.
PORTSMOUTH, just 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Ante-
lope. Shaman, from Batavia. Sailed Jan. 24, and proceeded
for Gothenburg, Arrived off, the Louise, Fleetwood, Bahia.
STANDGA,TIi CREEK, JUNE s.—Arrived the Brilliant,
Williams, from Palermo.
Sarni A AtrrON, JUNE s.—Sailed the Royal Tar (steamer)
t 5
_Vigo, &c,

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LIVERPOOL, MAY s.—Wind N.W. flesh,--6,
light.—Arrived the Stephen, Whitney, from New York, sailed
15th ult. Memorandum.—The Britannia (steamer) was to
le:Ave Boston the 16th ult. for Halifax and Liverpool. Mat-
thew Plummer, Buenos Ayres ; Horsford, Marackibo ; Falcon,
Mauritius. Memorandum.—The Eliza, Wylee, from St. Do-
mingo, did not arrive as reported on the 3d.. Sailed the C.-
runna, for Calcutta: Margaret, Bombay W. S. Hamiltmi,.
China; Eve, Rio Janeiro ; Manuela, Havana ; Meridian, Rich-
mond; Solon, Wilmington; Lotus, Savannah; Lucy, 130-ton;
Rochdale, St. Vincent's ; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Jane Walker, Ditto ; Ocean Queen, Quebec;
and Emerald and Wave, Genoa, Lancashire, New York. Ar
rived off—the Forth.
PLYMOUTH,JUNE 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Middlesex,
London for Port Phillip. Sailed the David Clarke, Sydney,
New South Wales.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind variable; 5, N.W.,
breezes.—Sailed the Lyra packet, for Madeira, &c. Ar, ived
off port the Mary Marsden, Wilbams, from Buenos Ayres, and
proceeded for London.
hasxv, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Joseph, Lowe, from Ha-
vannah ; William and Maria, ditto.
SWANSRA, JUNK 4.—Arrived the Georgina, Valparaiso.
Conic, JUNK 4.—Sailed the Canton, for Sydney. Arrived
off port the Astraean, Webster, from New Orleans, and sailed
for Havre.

STOR NA WAY, MAY 'lg. —The Leda, ll'Ope, from Glasgow.
which sailed hence the 25th instant, has put back very leaky.
and lanai discharge to repair.
Srunna)s, JUNE G.—Sailed the Concord,Thompson, Quebec.

SPOKENsSt
Liverpool,E ssLondon to Calcutta, on
the 24th April, lat. 4, lon. 21 ; Iron Duke, Calcutta to
1 ult., lat. n73bsarts
by the Caledonia, arrived
at Liverpool. Tabago, bound to Antigua, and Margeret of
Boners, for Rio Janeiro, lat. 49, 100. 12, by the Haidee, ar-
rived at Dublin. Neptune, M'Donald, Liverpool, far Valpa-
raiso, 14th April, lat 1, S. lon. 24 W. ; General Washington;
Liverpool to New York, 17th ult., by the Stephen Whitney,
arrired at Liverpool. Cyrus, from Valparaiso, 19tb ult., lot.
38, lon. 43, by the Tiber, arrived at Falmouth. John Her..
rocks, Liverpool to Singapore, 6th Jan., Ist. 3.5, S. lon. 14 ;
Sophia of St. John's, 15th ult., lat. 43. lon. 56; Susan and
Jane, of Donegal, 29th, lat. 53, lon. 18, by the Clydesdale,
arrived in the Clyde. Charles Heard'', London to Sydney,
24th March, lat. 33, lon. 20, by the Lord Eldon, arrived its
the. River Amanda, of Greenock, Newfoundland to Barba_
does, 4th ult, lat. 31, lon. 51 ; Win. Haynes. of Bristol, 24th,
lat. 45, lon. 1.2.; Lord Althorp, 28th, lat. 48, lon. 11 ; Heine.
of Liverpool, 29th, lat. 50, lon. 9, by the Lady Shaw Stewart,
arrived at Whitehaven.

JONATHAN ONCE MORE —There is a man ilk
Vermont so fat that it is said a ctiitd has been crushed to death
by
IC 11,h i mll
sis . DEATHshadow—o R E WOOLWICH. CO r4l
v h
an inquest was held at the Salutation
.
on the bodies of six more convicts, whs.
roos wafalling7,Saturday
had died li of
within the last few days on board the Justitia Hospital-
ship.. The following are the names and cases of the deceased
convicts:—Hobert Clarke, aged 57, convicted at Leeds 7th
March, 1840, and sentenced to seven years' transportation, and
died en board the Hospital-ship June 3, after six weeks' Woos
attended by Dr. Hope. William Malthouse, aged 31, con-
victed at bilasgow May 14, 1840, sentenced to seven years'
transportation, died on board after two months' illness, on the
3d June, attended by Dr. Hobe. Frederick lioltwood, aged
26, convicted at Chelmsford June 30, 1840, sentenced tc
seven years' transportation, and died on board Jane 2, 1841,
after four weeks' illness, attended by Dr. Hope. James Hosie,
aged 34, convicted at Edinburgh Pebruary 3, 1840, sentenced
so seven years' transportation, died 2d June, 1841, ater three
weeks' illness, attended by Dr. Hope. John Clarke, aged 32,
convicted at Chelmsford 30th June, 1840, sentenced to ten
years' transportation, died 3d June, after four months' Mee*
attended by Dr. Hope. And Joseph Denman, aged 27. con-
victed at kirton Lindsay Jan. 4, 1839, died sth June, 1841.
alter four week's illness, under sentence of seven years' trans-
portation, attended by Dr. Hope, Dr. Hope said that every
possible attention and kindness had been paid to them during
the time they were under his charge. Their deaths were the
result of na,ural causes. and chiefly from affections of the
returnede
the t. Their bodies presented an
the
dax:nappcarjauttreye
of
great
inm ac
estillh"
Um. The Coroner summed u
case verdicts of Natural Death.