The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

the question of appropriating their property.
The general ignorance, or rather the neglect to
notice, the new relations which are continually
growing up in society, seems to us the best pos-
sible excuse that can be formed four the conduct
of the Legislature. We cannot suppose that it
would wantonly and with demoniac art in-
flict on the bulk of the people the dis-
tress they now suffer. That it is all brought
on them by bad legislation, to which they
have in many- cases consented, cannot be
denied. In general that legislation may well be
described as a violation of the commandment—
" Thou shalt not steal." And we do the Legis-
lature the justice of believing, that it would not
have violated that commandment, if it had been
thoroughly well informed of the nature of pre-
perty.

Our readers will find in another column a let-
ter addressed to the Editor of the Dublin Regis-
ter, to which we invite attention, on the prolific
subject of Irish grievances. When the advocates
of a repeal of the Legislative Union appeal to
the common sense of the British and -Irish
people as the supreme arbitrator of tl.te
bility and patriotism of their practica-
policy-, we are
always ready to listen to t
attention. But /:iem with the most se-
riousihtherto they have ad-
d me; :it calculated to weaken our con-
victionn h
eal of the Union would add ten-
fold to theo aat r
ag -
miseries of Ireland. The torch of civil
and r'::iigious discord burns distinctively enough
wi.`:ftotit the addition of a mock Legislative bear-
garden in College-green. Mr. O'CONNELL, and
those who think with him upon this subject, may
expose as often as they please,the violent, cor-
rupt, and unconstitutional means by which the
Union was carried. Statesmen, and men of
statesman-like intellects, must look to things as
they exist, and not to their origin, It may ap-
pear paradoxical to say that time frequently
sanctifies injustice, but such in reality is the fact.
Most of our colonial possessions have been won
by acts of violence, and many of them by the
grossest frauds; but he would be a sorry Legis-
lator who would contend, after our improvement
of the moral and physical condition of their inha-
bitants, that we ought on that account to aban-
don them to barbarism or foreign slavery.
The abolition of the Heptarchy, the union
of the kingdoms of England and Scotland,
the great work of the Reformation, were not ac-
complished without crimes, and black crimes
too; but surely that is no reson for declaring
Scotland an independent monarchy, acknow-
ledging the supremacy of the POPE, and dividing
England into seven separate kingdoms? Thai
Ireland has many great grievances to complain
of we know, and lament as much as Mr. O'CoN-
NELL himself. But do Irishmen suppose that
grievances are unknown in England and Scot-
land ? Are they led to believe that starvation,
and ignorance, and crime, and oppression of the
poor, are unknown in England? We can with
difficulty even allow them a monopoly of misery.
If the people of Ireland knew the whole truth,
we much question whether they would not be
grateful for that Parliamentary neglect which
they now resent as a national injury. We could
here well dispense with the constant and vexa-
tious intermeddling of the Legislature in matters
beyond the pale of its proper jurisdiction. The
voice of the Legislature is rarely heard but in
the imposition of some tax on ir,dustry, some re-
striction on commerce, or some ridiculous and
annoying interference -Arith the holiday comforts
and amusements of 'ihe poor.

The Anti-r' League are working their
cause w
cepti, They have met with a cheering re-
(on from the electors of Bury, and an ac-
c'uunt of their proceedings appears in another
part of The Sun. A resolution was unanimously
adopted not to support any candidate for Bury
but one who will pledge himself for the total and
immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. By thus
making their creed a test of parliamentary fit-
ness, they will secure for themselves great in-
fluence over the Members of the House of Com-
mons.

We learn from a Correspondent, who has at-
tended most of the meetings of the League, and
been very much engaged in the discussions on
the Corn-laws in the manufacturing districts,
that in no instance has any person ventured at
any public meeting to stand up in defence of the
Bread-tax. That task is left exclusively to the
Members of the two Houses, and one or two Lon-
don Journals which are supported by those who
live and flourish on taxes.

We understand that an opinion prevails in the
manufacturing districts that the country has
now passed through . its season of adversity, and
that there will be a recurrence of great and pro-
fitable trading years as in 1831 and 1836. We
see no prospect of that. We must have at-least
two successive good harvests before the price of
wheat can fall below 40s. the quarter. There is
no disposition in the Bank to enlarge its issues,
which are now ten millions less than in 1835, and
no chance therefore of any return of those bub-
ble years. To meet the prevalent opinion, how-
ever, the League has appropriately published a
hand bill, in which it is forcibly stated that dur-
ing those prosperous years the Americans were
borrowing our money and with that paying for
our goods. In that period the amount of our ex-
ports much exceeded our imports, and now the
Americans, being unable to borrow any more,
and being obliged to pay the interest of their
loans, will be unable to trade with us to the same
extent as in the period between 1831 and 1836.
There is no probability that upwards of eighty
new joint-stock banks will now be established as
there were in that period, and no hope whatever,
unless the Corn-law be repealed, of any return to
former prosperity.

The communication from Weymouth, which
appears in another part of the paper, will be read
with painful interest by every sincere friend of
the Established Church. The proper deport-
ment of the defendants, and the very reasonable
plan they suggested for setting the question at
rest, contrasts strongly with the arrogant and per-
secuting spirit of those employed for the recovery
been bribed to throw addi
of the Church-rates. Had the proctor and church-
wardenson this harrassing and up,:
just tax, and make Dis-
fi:mai odium
senters hate
Establisl-
-111°,:e and more this lordly Church
with its wealthy Bishops, rebel-
-iieans, meddling Clergy, and Popish doc-
trines, they could not have taken more certain
means for effecting the purpose. The imprison
ment of fifty THOROGOODB could not give such a
heavy blow to the Church, as has been inflicted
by her Injudicious supporters at Weymouth. It will
rouse to battle even the mild and peaceable
Quakers. We refer our readers to the report of
the proceedings, that they may judge for them-
selves.

The following important intelligence is taken
from the Augsburg Gazette of the 11th instant,
received this morning
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARcn 24.—Accounts from Teheran
of the 14th of February, received by way of Trebisond, bring
the important intelligence, " That the differences that existed
between Persia and England are entirely settled, the Shah
of Persia having declared himself ready to restore the fortress
4f Gurian, which was taken by his troops in the last war,"
In consequence of this the British Ambassador was imme.,
diately to return to Teheran.

Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have been
reteiMh On day the Senate formed a
Ithilse and voted thanks to the army for the ser-
vices it had rendered Spain. The report of the
Committee pronouncing the legality of Queen
CHRISTINA'S abdication was also adopted. The
Chamber of Deputies stood adjourned till the
10th inst. On the Bourse the Fives were at
25 13-16 for cash, and 26 5-16 for sixty days.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Wednes-
day have reached us. The only political news of
; paragraph, which we copy from the
importance found in them is embodied in the fol-
iuwin'emps
4, We give the following fact a 3 of :
" The Five Powers who signed the Convention of London,
ainst France. Lord
prepared a treaty of defensive alliance ag
Palmerston wished that it should be signed immediately. Lord
Melbourne, more prudent, communicated it to King Leopold,
his habitual mediator in those kind of communications. Leo-
pold, in his turn, informed the principal person interested.
This put an end to all irresolution, and we re-enter the Euro-
pean_ concert, on condition that the other Powers will renounce
the idea of forming an alliance against us.
f the debate in the Chamber of Deputies
failed to elicit the secrets of the Cabinet, it
helped Europe to another 'exposition of the po-