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LONDON:
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1841.

The Lords adjourned over yesterday.
In the Commons Mr. LINDSAY, the new Member for
Sandwich took his seat. The petitions presented were
numerous, a great number of them relating to the Corn-
laws and the Import Duties.
Mr. MUNTZ altered his notice concerning the Earl of
CARDIGAN, to an Address for an' inquiry into the Earl
of CARDIGAN'S conduct in the command of the 11th
Hussars.

The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. CHOL-
XONDELEY, who declared that he should give his stre-
nuous .opposition to the Government measure.

Lord ilowicx. .directed the beginning of his speech
to the refutation of Dr. LUSITINGTON'S opinions, and
contended that free labour sugar would be able to com-
pete with slave grown sugar. The planters would never
succeed, while they leaned on the broken reed of pro-
tectibn and monopoly. The new system required that
the late Owners of, the colonies should reside there ; and
undersue systeM he was persuaded that sugar could be
grown cheaper by free labour than by slave labour. If
such were the case, to abate monopoly and protection was
to encourage the growth of cheap sugar in our own colo-
nies, antithe first pound of free grown sugar that would
be sold fOr less than slave-grown sugar would
extinguish .slavery for ever. The Noble Lord also re-
ferred to Mili4ltAnsToNE's establishment at Demerara,
and did nOtlesitate to give another severe blow to the
sham humanity-monger, by remarking that on the
Gladstone estate, at Demerara, more sugar had
been made, and more human lives sacrificed,,
than ever were known even in that colony so generall.y
fatal to life. The Noble Lord made a sound and sens;:ble
speech in favour of the Government plan.
Mr. C. WyNN spoke against it, and Mr. W. 78vaa.is
for. it. •

Lord WORSLEY, like Mr. HANDLEY, said he !meant to
vote against it, because it was touching an out.tvork of the
Corn-law. It was giving a blow to protection, alias
plunder, and the Noble Lord sacrificed, his political
principle to maintain his plunder.

- Sir A. GRANT heard the Noble Lord's speech with
great satisfaction, and stood up for the honesty, integrity,
and fair dealing of the planters.
Mr. ions O'CONNELL, Sir J. REID, Mr. GISBORNE,
and others, filled up the evening. The debate was
brought to a close by Lord STANLEY, who made a heavy,
tiresome speech, full of repetitions and misstatements,
which his Right Honourable Friends behind him
corrected as he went on. One or two good hits he made
towards the end, as he thought, when he demonstrated,
by reading a. corn-market circular, that the people out
of don were quite sure that the Tories would never
allthi the measure to pass, and when taking.. up
the weapons which had broken harmless at his
own feet in 1831, when hurled by the
Tories, he accused the Ministers of inscribing revolu-
tion on their banners, and seeking to enlist the masses
against property. On his Lordship resuming his seat,
which he did amidst the tumultuous applause of his
friends, the debate was again adjourned.

The people well understand the nature of the
present contest in Parliament, and those will fa-
tally deceive themselves who rely on either Coe
ignorande or the indifference of the people. The
owners of rent derived from land in England
and the West Indies, and the owners of profit
derived
from capital embarked in shipping, cul-
tiveting sugar, and felling Canada timber, all of
which is much enhanced by taxation, and mis-
4orilled property—the whole brood of mo-
-nopolists, and the spawn- of corruption, have
united to resist the very small abatement
of the taxes levied on industry ?or their
behoof, proposed by her MAJESTY'S Ministers.
The landowners unite with the ci-devant slave-
owners, the owners of rotten timber craft, colo-
nialsocieties and land companies, and jobbers of
all descriptions, to defeat the Ministers on a pro-
position which goes to reduce the price of sugar
about ls. 6d• per *cwt. They complain of the
smallnesa of that relief, but they resist it because
it is part of a
system, and the reduction
would be followed
bytilai
ia rieduction or abolition of'
the duties on ao•ricul
produce, giving relief
to tenfold the sum. tbe so small, and, at the
same time a boon to
th
ofive other than the
stateiand:yapeople, from what
m
determination etlelrmination of all
these classes to
main
odious and oppresiive monopoliesa_
e.and taxes, do
Chef resist it? The -bulk - ofhazards, their
th people are all
:aware of the motive and the nature of the con-
test now begun.

At the head of all these monopolists and cor-.
ruptionikiis is Sir ROBERT PEEL, and he proposes
10 take the 'Government on the principle of
staining entire their exactions. We beg'
leave to Inform Sir ROBERT PEE;,,Bild to inform
all who adhere to him, all who look for_safeq
and security, for ease and protectim .from the
aUaCeas _ of combination of sinister interests
agaisurtne public weal, that 'they' are' building
on-saud.: Their own 1.-dices aril their own hands
an against them, and they will be compelled to
Pia 40w4 tlieir owllbliilcng. They pro few a love

rof justice, they institute laws to do jus-
tice, they use power to enforce justice,
and yet they propose to found the next
Administration on a large scheme of plain and pal-
able injustice. They aim at constituting a Go-
vernment on a vicious principle, which they in
theory repudiate. They combine to make the
Government an instrument for plundering the
people. They are running counter by their acts
to the laws of GOD, and the nature of the human
mind, which laws they acknowledge by their
words. To constitute a Government on the prin-
ciples of these combinations, is to make it the
duty of the nation to hunt down that Govern-
ment like any other criminal, like a thief or a
murderer. We would earnestly warn these gen-
tlemen, by whatever other means they may seek
to overthrow the Ministers, and make themselves
masters of the Government, not to do it on the
vicious principle of maintaining sinister interests
against the interests of the public.

We recommend attention to a letter on the
‘! Brazil Trade." The writer, no doubt, is inte-
rested in the trade, but he states so distinctly
—and are not our manufactureres, our shipowners,
nay, every class of the community, and, above
all, the poorer class, interested ? He does not
merely argue the question, however; he states
facts; and let the one-eyed philanthropists say
what they will, this country cannot afford to give
up a market of such importance. Were we mad
enough to isolate ourselves from slave-holding
or slave-dealing, States, they would soon find
means to dispense with our manufactures; and
without in the slightest degree alleviating the
sufferings of the negro, we should incur the grie-
vous sin of driving to the workhouse, or starving
to death, thousands of our fellow-creatures.

The Sandwich Election was carried, we under-
stand, by open bribery. The voters were bought,
or coerced, beforehand. There are 63 pilots
voters for the borough, and of these 62 voted for
Mr. LINDSAY. What an admirable foundation
does this establish for our' representative system.
If after the House of Commons is packed by cor-
ruption the people should wholly disregard it,
who would be to blame. the bulk of the people
or the opulent classes, who poison the source of
legislation, and make it a public duty to stop it
up if it cannot be purified'?

The Debate in the House of Commons on the
Corn-laws and Sugar Duties is creating a great
sensation in Paris. All the Journals of Monday
have articles upon the subject, in which this
country is represented as on the eve of a vast
revolution. The movements of the Chartists are
regarded with much more attention on the Con-
tinent than they are in England; and as no
aristocracy can henceforth resist the will of the
masses when unanimously expressed, the soberest
men in France are convinced that nothing but a
prompt surrender on the part of the Tories can
save the country. The Presse, the organ ot•
Count MOLE, a moderate constitutional states-
man, writes as follows of the struggle now car-
rying on in the British Parliament, and by the
British people in Great Britain and Ireland :--

It is impossible to mistake the matter, a :social revolution is
about to take place in England. She had hitherto escaped such
an event, becawe the Nobility always directed the political revo-
lutions which have been accomplished, and because they took
care to occupy the national mind with questions ex-
clusively constitutional. But now the hour of serious
reforms is s'riking. The struggle commences on both
sides with unexampled animosity, and there is no possibility
of avoiding a solution of the qu, stion. This in!ernal
position of Enuland merits the serious attention of those
statesmen who direct European monarchies. They can naw
comprehend how much they would mistake their interests if
-they thought of forming a durable alliance with England.
That country can offer them no guarantee of stability, for
hrnceforward she is delivered up to all the chances, all the
shocks of a revolution. In the higher regions t.f the Govern-
ment what do we behold? Two parties carrying on a ran-
corous war with forces nearly balanced—one exerctsi,,g all its
ingenuity to contrive snares into which its rival may tall—
the other avenging its fall by conjuring up a popular tempest,
which may carry away with it even more than the fortunes
of the Aristocracy. On both bides we see violence, passion,
-blindness, imprudence, and above, in an elevated sphere,
-where it would be so necessary to have a strong hand to up-
-1 bold the ;Monarchy shakon by this forint., agitation, is
placed a young woman without experience, a stranger
to every great idea of politics, arid interfering in the
struggle with all the whims of her caprice. What support,
we ask, can be given by a Government so constituted and so
directed? None whatever. It can only communicate the ma-
!'lady with which it is attacked—a malady contagious in the
highest degree. And certainly we cannot reckon on the wis-
dom of the country to drive away the perils in which the Go-
vernment is placed. The English character has an admi:able
quality—that of respecting tradition, even in the abuses it
may hand down. It is to this quality that it owed its repose,
when we changed all at once our form of government, our man-
ner of living, with all the attributes and elements of our na-
tionality. hut if the English character is patient, if it sup-
ports the yoke long before it rises to fling it off, it is only the
mo:e intractable when once roused.

PITT arrested the progress of Reform in Eng-
land by the sword and the halter; GREY saved
the Aristocracy and prevented revolution by
granting the Reform Bill. The masses are more
Frawerful and nearly as dissatisfied now as they
-were during the Administrations of PITT and
GREY, and it rests with the Government and the
Aristocracy what fruits their dissatisfaction may
bring forth. Hempen remedies for political
grievances would now but aggravate them. The
language of the Courier Francais, though not
so offensive in its tone as that of the Presse, is
entirely to the same effect :
"The Ministry have comprehended their situation too
late—personal danger was necessary to suggest to them a sen-
timent of the perils in which England is placed. It is TO
prolong their existence that they hove proposed a vast com-
mercial reform, of which the change in the Corn-laws is
only the principal point. Ihis proves, by an aAditional
instance, that little causes often produce great effects. We
cannot say whether this proposition of reform will enable
the Ministry to get over their difficulties, but we feel con-
vinced that even should they be obliged to yield, the a-6'ita.
tion now raiseq will not be stopped. The actual ;,risis is
the commencement of a great struggle between tle interests
of the aristocracy and those of the nemocracl. It is in vain
that England is the most aristocratical country in the
world. There, as elsewhere, privilege must yield to coin-
: mon sense.

The Temps attributes 0,4 r present disorganized
social state to the va&Alation of the Whigs. We
regret to be oblicged to admit that there is by
far too much truth in the following description of
their general policy, cordially as we support
their present endeavours to obtain for the work-
ing man a cheap loaf, and a well sweetened cup
tea or coffee

Is the country tranquil, does the opposition ►rant a truce, at
once the Wigs become Tories. On the ccritiary, is the coun-
try agitated, they resume the offensive, put themselves at the
head of the people, and march to the destruction of aristocra-
tical privileges—quite ready, at the same time, to stop short,
_ and cheat their allies of the fruits o f the war, if their adversa-
ries concede to them some pet tonal advantage. This deplur-
see-saw system has been the tactics of the Whigs ever since
their acceession to power.
A. Contemporary treats these observations of
the French Press with derision. We, on the
Icontrary, deem them wathy of serious attention.
The Aristocracy, above ail, will do well to ponder
deeply upon them,..and., to inquire among the
working classes how far such sentiments find an
echo in the hearts of the.oppressed and starving
millions. A little stone cast from a great height,
makes a wide circle iff smooth water.. Where
the buildings are combustible, and the wind
favourable, a spark is enough to consume
a city. When the mass of the working
classes are once deeply imbued with a
sense of wrongs, which only an entire change
in the administration of the country can
abolish, they are as easily ruffled as the surface
of a pool by a pebble, as readily ignited by the
fire of all-subverting revolution, as an Oriental
city by the spark from the pipe of some uncon-
scious wayside smoker. If we except Revolu-
tions in Palaces, in which it was a struggle
which wolf should ravage the sheepfold, there
:,ever was a revolution where extreme oppres-
sion had not prepared the people for it. Our
Aristocracy ought to think of this in time. They
ought to look abroad in tire world, arid
.catch at
every echo of the public voice. They should also
know that the very indigent, like certain wild
animals, have but one cry—that of despair and
rengeauce, and that when it is heard, all notices-
iion comes too late.

There is no domestic news of any interest in
the Paris Journals of Tuesday. The sittit'
the Court of Peers during the trial of DARMES
will be secret.

The weather was very stormy afpuuhgne °Li
Aonday. The packet boats were delayed one
tide in consequence, and two fishermen were
druwned in attempting to enter the harbour. The
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