The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1841.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.
Friday morning, Lord liowick arrived in this town,
and immediately commenced his canvass, accompanied
by a large number of the most influential of the Liberal

party.
Shortly after twelve o'clock, pursuant to public an-
nouncement, his Lordship addressed the inhabitants
from the balcony of the Bridge Inn, and was heard with
an unusual degree of attention, and received with loud

applause. -
After a few introductory observations, the Noble Lord
spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, you must in general be
aware what are the principles on which I come forward
to solicit your suffrages ; you must be aware that I
stand here as a member of the great party which
has taken a very conspicuous part in the affairs of
this country. I have been a humble but sincere
supporter of the measures of that party from the
year 1825 to this time. I supported the abolition
of the Test and Corporation Acts, by which our
Dissenting fellow-countrymen are now placed in
a station of equality with their fellow-subjects of
the Established Church. I supported the emancipation
of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; I supported
measures during the former Government of the Duke of
Wellington, calculated, by degrees, to remedy the then
glaring defects in the representation, and when all these
efforts failed—when by the blind resistance of our op-
ponents to even the most trifling and cautious measures
of improvement a great change became ultimately ne-
cessary—when this took place, and the Reform Bill
was brought forward, I had the honour to hold a sub-
ordinate situation in the Government by which that
measure was proposed, and of it I was a most earnest
and sincere supporter.—(Applause.) Gentlemen, since
. .

that time I havesfilled the situation Of a Member of the

Government ; I was a Member of the' Cabinet by
which a change in our municipal institutions was pro-
posed and carried—a change by which the principle of
self-government was introduced into the great towns and
cities of this empire—a' measure which, in the first
instance, was only applicable to Scotland, which was

afterwards extended to England, and ultimately, after
three or four years of delay and resistance by our oppo-

nents, was extended (though I regret to say in a some-
what crippled shape) to Ireland.—(Loud applause.)
Gentlemen, this will be sufficient to give you a general
knowledge of the political principles on which I now
claim your support. I cannot but believe that in this
town, which derives the right of returning Members of
Parliament from the Reform Bill, a person like myself
connected with the Government by which that measure
was carried, and closely connected with the head of that

Government—(Hear, hear)—l may feel some confidence
that from you I shall receive support—(A shout of
" you're safe," and applause)—against any member of
that party by which all these great measures of improve-
ment and reform to which I have adverted have been

strenuously and obstinately opposed. ~ But, gentlemen,
there is another ground on which, at this parti-
cular moment, I make bold •to appeal to you for
your support. You are aware our opponents tell
us the questions to which I have adverted are now

settled, that there is no longer any dispute on the
subject, that they do not wish to repeal the Catholic
Emancipation Bill, the Test and Coporation Acts, the
Parliamentary Reform and the Municipal Reform Acts
—that these matters are all settled, and that on these
points there is no difference between us. Gentlemen, I
think you mustadmit this is, after all, but a very weak
and inefficient argument ; you must believe in the pro-
gress of human affairs, new questions are constantly
arising, and that those who, in times past, on questions
now settled, have been found to take a part which ex-
perience has shown to be a wrong one, who have
resisted to the latest moment at which resistance
was possible those great and necessary improvements
—you have a right to presume that such a party is
not to be depended upon for effecting further im-
provements, if they .are required. But, Gentlemen,
this is not mere conjecture. At the present mo-
ment you must all be aware that the country is
greatly divided upon subjects of extreme impor-
tance to the well-being of every man among you. You
know that the great line of distinction between opposing
parties at this moment is respecting the financial and
commercial policy recommended by the two great par-
ties into which the country is divided. On the one side
you have a party insisting upon maintaining what they
call protection, and insisting upon maintaining, under
that name, restrictions—arbitrary restrictions by law—
upon almost every branch of our industry; above all, re-
striction upon the trade in the first article of human
subsistence—l mean corn.—(A shout of "Protection,
Sir.") On the other side you have those (and it is
among these we have taken our stand) who are of opinion
that the languishing commerce of this country can only
be made to revive, that new energy can only be given to
the productive powers of the empire, by a cautious, but
at the same time, a decided advance towards a more li-
beral commercial policy.—(Applause.) For myself, from
the first moment I had a seat in the House of Commons, I
have uniformly supported this opinion ; in the years
1827 and 1828, immediately after I had entered the House,
the Corn-law was the principal topic of discussion. It
was at this time, as you are aware, that the act now in
force was passed. At that time I was one of a very small
minority by which the principle of that Act was strenu-
ously opposed. I was then too new to the House of
Commons to take much part in discussion, but as far as
my vote went it was given on every division in favour
of every amendment proposed for making the system
more liberal, and more especially in favour of the prin-
ciple of rather adopting a fixed than a sliding scale of
duty. Gentlemen, experience appears to me fully to
have confirmed the justice of these anticipations of the
mischievous effects of the existing Corn• law, which at
that time influenced my vote, and the votes of those with
whom I acted ; I think it impossible practically to ob-
serve the operation of the present Corn-law without being
satisfied of its being most deeply injurious to all classes in
the community. As one deeply interested in the con-
tinued prosperity of the landed interest, with which my
personal interest is entirely bound up, I have uniformly
held that it is most mistaken and short-sighted policy for
ourselves to adopt this selfish system of excluding the
competition of foreign corn from our markets ; I think
the justice of this opinion has been proved by the result.
I remember since this act was passed, nearly half of the

years which have gone by havenbeen years of agricultural
distress. I know in the years 1833, 1835, and 1836, a
large proportion of the time of the House of Commons

was occupied by the consideration of complaints, and
just (complaints, of agricultural distress. If I look on
the other side I also see the law which in many years
worked most disadvantageously for the landed interest,
working still more so for the manufacturing and commer-
cial interests. Can any man doubt the stagnation of trade
of which you have cause to complain at this moment in
this town ? Can any man doubt the difficulties by whieh
all the great branches of industry are encumbered, arise
very much from the consequence of bad harvests, aggra-
vated by :he existing Corn.law—a law which seems care-
fully and studiously devised for the purpose of filling
all classes with vain expectations which are not to be
realised.—(Applause.) We were told when the law was
passed that the descending scale of duties insured the
consumer from the difficulties and distress arising from
high prices. Has that proved to be the case ? What
benefit is it to you the duty descending to one shilling,
if, by a complicated arrangement of the law, the whole

of that which might be paid in duty really goes to com-
pensate those who before sustained great losses, or the
payment of the rise in price on the other side of the
water, which takes place in consequence of the capricious
and uncertain manner in which the ports are opened ?
Why, if the consumer be equally to pay an increased
price, it seems better that the money which may be
realised should go into the public treasury, and relieve
you from other taxes, rather than it should be wasted by
an arrangement advantageous to nobody but the gam-
bling speculator.--(Loud applause.) Such, shortly, are
my views upon the great question which now occupies
the attention of the country. I must further state with
reference, to the recent change of Administration,

that if I should be returned by your votes as a member
of the Commons, it will not be in my power to place any
confidence in the new Administration.—(Applause.) I
shall undoubtedly not offer any factious opposition to the
government of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) When-
ever his measures appear to me to be right, and calcu-
lated to promote the good of the country, those mea-
sures, notwithstanding my want of confidence in him and
hie government, shall receive my fair and sincere sup-
port.—(Applause.) But upon all questions which imply
confidence in that Administration, it will be impossible
for me to vote in his favour ; I say it will be impossible,
because during the 15 years I have been in Parliament, I
have found myself almost. uniformly taking a different
view of public affairs and of public interests to Sir Robert
Peel ; because, if I look back to Sir Peel's past career, it
appears to me he has shown himself most lamentably de-
ficient in that foresight and judgment as to what are the
real interests of the country, which are the most essential
qualities of the real statesman.—(Applause.) And, gen-
tlemen, if this is my judgment with respect to Sir R. Peel,
whose talents, notwithstanding, I greatly admire, and al-
lies whom he has called to join him in the Cabinet cer-
tainly do not tend to conciliate more of my confidence to
hint. I will not go through what might be so invidious
as any discussion of the personal claims to your confi-
dence of all the different members of. the Cabinet, but I
cannot avoid recalling to your recollection that in this
Cabinet are included two persons whose opinions on all
questions of commercial policy, and more especially the
question of the Corn-laws, are diametrically opposite to
those I entertain, and which I think mustsbe entertained
in this great commercial town •, of course you are aware
I allude to the Duke of Buckingham and Sir Edward
Knatchbull. You know when the present Corn-law was
passed both these persons, then having seats in the
House of Commons (the Duke of Buckingham being
then the Marquis of ChandOs) were the leaders of what
I may call the ultra agricultural party, who contended
the protection even of the existing Corn-law was in-
sufficient. You know up to the latest time, within one
or two years, on which they have made public speeches
on this subject, they have protested against the slight
alteration of that law, and you know also that they are
the parties who have uniformly held language the most
opposed to every thing like an improvement in our com-
mercial policy. This being the case, it is totally impos-
sible I should place any confidence whatever in the Ad-
ministration m.hich has been lately formed, but at the
same time I ant bound to admit that the country has de-
cided in their favour. The verdict of the country (I will
not now inquire for what reasons) has been given against
those Ministers who lately were in her Majesty's coun-
cils. For one, lam not discouraged by this event. I
think there are many reasons, into which I will
not now enter, that may explain what has occurred;
but I am perivaded, though the power and patro-
nage may for the present be transferred to our op-
ponents, there is a steady advance of public opi-
nion in favour of those great principles of liberal po-
licy on which I am now here to solicit your votes.
(Applause.) It is upon this conviction I appear among
you. I have to• day canvassed some portion of this town,
and on that canvass undoubtedly my success has been
more than equal to my most sanguine hope.—(Applause.)
canvass ; I shall endea-
I shall immediately resume my

your as far as possible to see every elector, and I trust
I shall continue to` receive the same- general assurances
of support with which I have hitherto been honoured.
Gentlemen, I know not that there are any further ob-
servations with which I need at present detain you.—(A
voice, " The Poor-law.") I shall of course be ready to
give explanation on any point on which explanation may
be demanded, but for the present I shall take my leave
of you, and when the day of nomination comes. then I
will,perhaps take the liberty of stating.to you somewhat
more in detail the opinions, and the grounds of those
opinions, I entertain. His Lordship then withdrew
amidst enthusiastic marks of approbation, and, accompa-
nied by his friends, immediately resumed his canvass.

TBE ELECTIONS.
CARDIFF.

The Judge-Advocate has been here two or three days,
during which he has visited the tributary boroughs of
Cowbridge and Lantrissent. Mr. Tynte, it is said, op-
poses him. It was expected that the election would have
taken place on Wednesday, but, as, from some mistake
in the Crown-office, the writ has not up to this morning
reached the High-Sheriff, the election cannot take place
previous to Friday. The Judge-Advocate left this morn-
ing (Sunday) for town to attend a Council.

DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. o.—The King and Queen
are expected at Ostend on Saturday.
The Ami de l'Ordre says:—" We have re-
ceived frontier information from the Grand
Duchy of Luxumburg, which authorises us to
say that the accession of that country to the Ger-
man Customs Union will be shortly completed.
Notices have everywhere been posted up an-
nouncing the free importation to and from Ger-
many of corn, tanners' bark, and sonic other
productions. Travellers are no longer stopped at
the Russian Custom-houses on the frontier, or,
rather, there are no Custom-houses on that side.
Russian Custom-house officers are sent to the
frontiers of Belgium. The accession will be
complete in the month of October next."
The Courrier de la Moselle gives a similar ac-
account. _ _

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 10.-It seems now that the
King and the Queen of the Belgians will stop at
Paris some time longer before they return to Os-
tend, where they will stop a day or two, and be
at Lacken on the 18th or 20th of this month.
We understand that the Belgian Commissioners,
who are at Paris to negotiate a treaty of com-
merce with France, have just applied to M.
Tarlier for a report on our book trade.
ANTWERP, SEPT. 9. The British Queen
steamer arrived in our road this morning at eight
o'clock. This magnificent vessel excited the ad-
miration of the spectators who crowded the
Quay's. The few persons admitted on board im-
mediately after its arrival are lavish in their
praises of the elegance with which it is furnished
and the good arrangements of the chambers and
saloons. The British Queen carried the Belgian,
English, and American flags.
The accession of the Grand Duchy. of Luxem-
burg to the German Customs Union is no longer
doubtful. The sacrifices made by Belgium to
prevent this incorporation have not been able to
hinder it. After such a result the Belgian Go-
vernment may ask itself whether there is not
ground to revoke certain measures adopted by
us, on account of our former connection and
sympathy with that country. We learn, in fact,
that the Minister of the Interior is engaged on a
plan to this effect. The revocation of the law of
June 6, 1839, is spoken of.
The Luxemburg Commissioners, summoned to
the Hague by King William 11., are enjoined to
observe the strictest secrecy. The Commis-
sioners, nine in number, are divided into three
sections; they have met several times in the
King's palace ; some of their sittings have been
prolonged till midnight. The majority in each
section was composed of independent men.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 8. —On Friday next,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Frederick of the Netherlands, and the young
Princess Louisa, will set out for the chateau of
Scheldau, near Eidmansdorf, in Silesia, which
belongs to the Princess Frederick. After stop-
ping there some days they will go to Potsdam,
and after a short stay there return to the Hague.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 9.—ln the examination of
the budget for 1842-43, the sections of the
Second Chamber ofthe States-General, remarked
in general that it by no means answered the
expectations that were entertained with respect
to economy and the simplification of the financial
administration. It was expected that Ministers
would have profited by the many observations
made by the States-General in the examination
of peeceding budgets, whereas this budget is
scarcely different from that of 1841.
DETMOLD, AUG. 27.—President Eschenberg is
gone to Berlin on a mission, as we hear, relative
to the accession of our principality to the Ger-
man Customs Union, which is expected to take
place at the beginning of the next year.
WARSAW, AUG. 29.--The Grand Duke of Saxe
Weimar arrived here the day before yesterday.
on his return from Petersburgh, and having vi-
sited the Prince Governor, left us again yesterday.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMBTXRDAM, SEPT. 10.
Monet. Bills.
Actual Debt, '2)4 per Cent 51% 51%
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arno' t Srndic, 4% per cent.... ............
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 755( 75%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155% 155%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. .....
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 % -97%
Exchange on London, One month.... .... . 12 0754
Two months .....
Hamburgh, One month 35 68%
Two months 35 43

Dutch Papers, Sept. U.
HbLUTAN UNDS—Baussmo, SEPT. 10.
Actual Debt, 2y4 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9:3
- _ 3per Cent. .....

—.Thirty.seven--- 7ll
---------(1840) lOl3
Loan of City, 1`232, 4 per Cent... ......
Society ef Commerce, 4 per Cent 93N
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............
NationalSeciety. ... —
Exchange on London (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 4
five per Cents. Metalliques
FOMf per Cents. •................"...
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ... 1572
—4l4reineine Zestung. Sept. 8 -
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, &Pr. 10,,
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. •......... ....... ..... 0000000 ..... 107%
Bank Shares l6OO
Angle-Russian Loan lO-% 1084
Russian 5 per Cent. Rst series,.Cortlficate
Inscription, Ist Setics o. 102 101%
Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 934 93
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86
Dutch ,cttial Debt, 214 per Cent :.0% so
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 75. 75%
N,.t wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. l(_3( 104 k
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, SEPT. 10.-13 s'.—Twe months, 13 4.
PETEREBURGII, SErr. 3.—Two months, 394 pence.
RIGA, SEPT. 2. —Three Months, 39N .
brocauomis, SEPT. 3.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bzemv, Seer. E.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 ~. per cent. 104% 10414
Prussian English Loan, 1&30, 4 per cent 102 101%
.11; xct,an g e on London, three months 6 18%
—Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 8.

THE CONTRASTS. A BALLAD. By SN. SIDNEY.
I saw Sir Robert Peel proceed with gravely cheerful face,:
After long absence, to resume his unforgotten place;
I asked the cause of his return—an old man answering said,
He's sent to save the people, Sir, by giving them DEAR BREAD.
I saw a band of shouting squires, with horse and hound, and
horn,
Go galloping across the fields where sprouted the green corn ;
An aged pauper breaking stones in answer to me said,
They care not how they crush the corn—they thrive upon DEAR
BREAD.
I saw a beauty in the park, not famed for chastity,
Bespatter with her chariot wheels a modest passer by ;
Rich jewels decked her lovely arms, rich gems adorned her
head,
All given, they say, by one of those who thrive upon DEAR
BREAD.
In France's brilliant capital I heard a young Lord say,
Let merchants, manufacturers, and such low men decay ;
For we're the salt of all the earth, well born, by God well bred,
And tho' we choose to live abroad, we'll make them eat DEAR
BREAD.

PART 11.
I saw a grieving artizan beside a workhouse bier,
His three pale children, hand in hand, were standing grieving

near ;
I said to him, my honest man, 'tis vain to mourn the dead ;
He answered not, but cried—Oh, Lord ! wilt thou deny us

bread?
I paced our merchant cities, and I found them strangely still,
The ironworks were silent, and mute the cotton mill ;;

And round stood groups of starving men—my heart was filled
• - - •

with dread,
As I heard them hoarsely murmuring, the laws deny us

bread.
rprophesy the day will come, when all the hardy North,
Arid Lancashire and Warwickshire, shall send their millions

forth.
And Staffordshire and Derbyshire shall mind], by famine led,
And cry, in one resistless voice—Proud Lords, untaa our
b read.
And we're supported by the Queen, the glory of our baud,
Duke; Cleveland, Bedford, Devonshire, and noble Suther-
land ;
The Earls of Spencer, Leicester, too, are ready all to head
The peaceful battle that shall give to all of us cheap bread.

DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER.--THE CORN-.
LAWS.—BOROUGII MEETING.—By a requisition, adver-
tised in the first page of the Manchester Guardian, we
observe that, in the opinion of many hundreds of our
merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, of all classes,
the extensive and extending distress in this town and
neighbourhood, is the result of the corn and provision
laws. They propose to consider. the propriety of me-
morialising the Queen not to prorogue the two Houses
of Parliament till they have entered upon a full consi-
deration of these mischievous laws. The Mayor, to
whom the requisition was presented, has convened a
borough meeting for Thursday next, in the Town• hall,
and has requested the requisitionists to attend a preli-
minary meeting on Tuesday.
We regret to announce the death of the Mar-
chioness of Bute, which took place on Friday at Weimer
Beach. Her Ladyship was in the forty-eighth year of
her age. Her Ladyship before her marriage was the
Lady Maria North, eldest daughter and co-heir of the
third Earl of Guildford. The deceased Marchioness had
no issue. _ _

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The folks are so uncommon dull down at Ver-
mont, that it takes ten men to make a joke.
AN ANCIENT WARRIOR.—There is now
iving in the house of industry an old man named Joseph
Watson, who entered the 4th battalion of Royal Artil-
lery in 1776. He was wounded in the right thigh at
Mud Island, near New York, and obtained his discharge
in 1779, and a pension of 6d. per day, consequently he
has received from Government, during 62 years he has
existed since he left the army, the sum of 5651. 15s.
Pretty well for gime
years' service.—Hamphire Inde-
pendent.
AMERICAN Furr.—" Mrs. Grimes, lend me
your tub."---7" Can't do it—all the hoops are off—its full
of suds—besides, I never had one—l washes in a barrel
—and wants to use the tub myself."
SECRECY.—What is mine, even to my life, is
per's L love ; but the secret of my friend is ut mine.—
' Sir P. Sidney.