The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

TH1.4.! SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, A` ST 25. IA4O.

be made in a greater degree than at present dependent
.upon an import trade, as it would be by a repeal of the
4r,11 the power, now ,o wickedly exercise
would bo infiiiit-ly enhanced—the food and lives of the
people would become tie subject of daily speculation—
the Stock Exrlangc would be as a dove-cote to the
rookery of Mark•lane. Let the people think of this in
time.

The Corn-laws, then, do not work well for the
landed interest, which—abhorring jobbery and plun-
der, which, being pure, virtuous, and most pa-
triotic—is struck aghast at the " villany" it has so
innocently and unexpectedly engendered. An old
receiver peaching aga►nst a young thief, because he
will no longer filch for him, and endeavouring to
bring him to the gallows, is an apt type of tilt•
HANDLEY, and other Pro-Corn-law men, scolding
the corn dealers because they work the Corn-law to
their own advantage. If the virtuous indignation
of the Bristol Mirror and the Standard did not
wholly overwhelm the little judgment and sense
with which they are endowed, they would know
that the whole of this gambling is the off-
spring of the Corn-laws, and is intended
to enable the dealers to being in the foreign corn
they have i❑ bond without paying any duty. The
speculations as to the averages have hale or no
effect on the actual prices at which corn is sold to
the miller and bread sold to the poor, except ulti-
mately to lower that price by increasing the supply
of food, to the benefit, pro tanto, of all the eaters of
bread, which makes us heartily praise what the
Standard calls "villany ;" but they have a great effect
on the return of the prices made to Government, and
on the duty payable according to law on the corn
brought in tor home consumption. Mr. HANDLEY
very unconsciously—poor silly Corn-law advo-
cate—proves all this, when he shows that the prices
at Boston, Uxbridee, and Guildford do not corre-
spond with the sales at Mark-lane. They have,
we repeat, no effect on actual prices.
Neither are these fictitious sales made with a
view of now importing foreign corn and sending gold
out of the country, deranging commerce, for the ne►w•
harvest is not yet ready to be imported from the
Continent, and the old harvest has been before
now nearly all brought to England, as far as it can
be spared. The single object is to enable the
holders of corn now in bond to introduce it into
consumption at no duty, and so pocket the vi hole
amount of the duty. They will be greatly enriched
by their success, the people will by no mea►es be
injured by the increased supply paying no duty, as
only the erroneous, silly landlords will be vexed to
see other people enriched by the villanous law
which they devised to enrich only themselves.
Praise be to trading, praise be to smuggling, which
correct the folly or the knavery of fiscal legislation,
though they can neither prevent nor wholly cure it.

A letter from Culne, which appears in another
part of The Sun, expresses grief at our re-
marks on Mr. WOOD for his conduct in endea-
vouring to repress the riots at Collie. We meant
neither to grieve any of our readers nor inflict pain
on Mr. WOOD, but at present the imperative duty
of the press requires us to keep a watchful eye
over the conduct of the irresponsible Magistrates in
relation to the people. In their present condition
—in a state of starvation for which they are not
culpable—exasperated and angry at the novel
means employed to coerce them, they de-
mand the utmost tenderness in the handling, and
it is especially necessary that the Magistrates should
avoid everything which can exasperate them. Un-
der these views we spoke of the conduct of Mr.
WooD, which, judging by what appeared at the
inquest, seemed to us extremely indiscreet, and
more like that of a man who used his authority for
his amusement, than that of a grave Magistrate
dealing with one of the most weighty affairs he can
ever have to manage. We see nothing in our
Correspondent's letter to make us alter that opinion,
though his attestation to Mr. WOOD'S general
.400 d conduct, and to his scrupulous tenderness
for the liberty of the subject, may serve
to place that gentleman's character fairly before the
people. Our Correspondent, unfortunately, for the
people of Collie and for Mr. WOOD, reveals the
true state of the case when he describes the cause
iif the riot, and the necessity for such a military
force as may prevent the recurrence cf lawless and
savage attempts. The new police are so unpopular
that they need an army to protect them, and the
gentry at Collie, who have been anxious to intro-
, duce that police, are evidently destitute of all in-
fluence and power over the " misguided populace."
This is the secret of the whole affair, and Mr.
WooD and the rest of the Magistrates, having no
influence over the people, rely on soldiers and
Riot Acts.

England, by a succession of bad legislation, by
oppressive conduct in the upper classes, and by
careless, if not oppressive, conduct in the middle
classes, is fast becoming an insecure abode, and if
Heaven does not turn the hearts of those who now
rely wholly on police, soldiers, and sharp laws,
in a little time, be in a worse condition, as to
security, than Ireland.

The leading topic in the Paris Journals is the
Eastern Question, but no new fact is brought for-
ward to throw additional light upon it. The pa-
cific Journal des Debais, which hitherto supported
the British Liberals, now puts the Tories on the
back, ignorant or forgetful of the fact, that one of
their accredited daily organs has laboured, and is
labouring, with might and main to sow the seeds
of discord between the two countries. The Con-
stitulionnel is content to quote the opinions of a
part of the London press, devoting its original re-
marks to the question of African colonisation. In
the Alonileur Parisien of Saturday night the fol-
lowing laconic official communication appears :
" Tne Government has received by telegraph the
news of the arrival at Toulon of the steamer Etna,
but no news whatever was added to this pure anti
simple announcement of the arrival of the vessel.
The scaled despatches which she has brought, and
which have been forwarded to Paris by courier, had
not arrived this day (Saturday) at six o'clock, P.m."
It is very singular that the news of the refusal
of the Paella of EGYPT to restore the Turkish
fleet, and to yield to the decision of the Four
Powers, which was copied from a Lyons paper, and
published in London yesterday, should not have
reached the French Government at six o'clock on
Saturday evening. It is moreover strange that
despatches should be so provokingly late, and ru-
mours creating such fluctuations on the Bourse so
very common during the Adtrunkration of a Ca-
binet, the chief of which has so much need of
making the public forget the old stories in circula-
tion during his former Presidency of the Council.
About the profitable working of the Bayonne Tele-
graph in the matter of certain official jobbers in
Spanish Bonds, M. TRIERS is said to be as
thriving a Minister as \VALPOLE himself, who
with an income personal and official, never ex-
ceeded 12,0001. a year, lived for twenty years at
the rate of 20,0001. per annum, and retired with
savings exceeding 200,000/. Of course we cannot
exactly tell in what way these things are managed
in France, though we could give a shrewd guess
as to how they were formerly conducted in England.
" It is reported," says the Commerce of Sunday,
" that the French Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, M.
de Barante, is to be recalled, and a simple Charge d'Af-
faires, M. Casimir Perier, late Secretary to the embassy
at Naples, is to be substituted for him. It is in this
manner that the French Government is determined to
ripiy to the bid conduct of the Cz it towards France.
He it was wim played the principal part is the drama
01 London. Tile recall of the Polish exiles from the I
island of Jersey is part of' the reprisals to be used against
the Czar. Among them is LeJocliowski, particularly

obnoxious to the Emperor for having caused the deci-
,ion of the Diet of Warsaw which proclaimed that the
Czar had forfeited the crown of Poland."
There is no news in the French papers of any
interest. On the 20th the English had nearly all
evacuated Passages, and the French frigate Her-
mione, had taken down her flag, which was hoisted
at Tricandor, and was also preparing to leave the
coast.

itE"EAL AGITATION.

TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta----1 our eorr.spon.tent Lst night (under tihe s'g-
nature of an " Honest Reformer") inquires " What is
the real ol.ijeet for which the Ulster Constitutional As-
sociation is formed ?" "Is this movement honest ?"
Or is it ant intended to play the subtle game of rulers
whose motto is Divide et impera ?"
Permit me to grapple with your correspondent's
queries seriatim, or at least so to shape my reply that it
shall embrace them all without evading any.
I shall take his second query first—and I reply to it,
that the Ulster movement is an honest one ; whilst
the apparent apathy that he complains of on the part
of the Ulster Reformers, for a given number of years
past, has been (ab ovo usque ad mala, your Corres-
pondent loves a scrap of Latin) essencially and prac-
tically insiacepe. Their tacit acquiescence during the
period alluded to, in the irregular guerrilla manmuvring
of Mr. O'Connell, (destitute us it has been of any one
fixed principle worthy of adoption, or recognition as a
party movement, by any high-minded party in the
State, was continually at variance with their better
feelings, and their better judgment.
The motive of this silence and inactivity on their part
was quite intelligible, viz., so long as it was possible
for them to do so, to leave in abeyance every vexata
questio that could for the time divide the Liberal in-
terest, and approach as nearly as they could to that
unity of action in party movement, in which the Tories
are so imrneasureably their superiors. Tins, however, has
no longer been permitted to them ; and the reply I
I have to give to your correspondent's third query will (if
my assertion a 3 to fact be true) sufficiently demonstrate
that the late independent movement of the Reformers
of Ulster has not been a voluntary secession on

their part from the retaining great and influ-
ential body of Irish Reformers ; but has been '
forced upon them by Mr. O'Connell's recent exhu-
mation (rather than resuscitation) of that long-since
dead and buried foe to Irish freedom and Irish nros-
perity,—the Repeal question. It was to have been
hoped, that after his memorable break down on the oc-
casion of seeking to make it for the first time the sub-
ject of a substantive motion in the House of Com-
mons, (when not one solitary voice from Eagland,
Wales, or Scotland was raised in its behalf;* and
with the great majority of property in Ireland equally
hostile to it,) it was, I say, to have been hoped from
that time that it would have been suffered to moulder
ot.it its time in the silent tomb ; and not be again called
forth to stalk like an evil spirit through the land,
scattering dissension, where union, a tout prix, should
be the one great paratnourst object with every sincere
Reformer. Such hope, alas! was vain. The war-
whoop of Repeal (but without a tithe of its former
supporters to re-echo the cry), has again gone forth,
and one of its first results has been the Ulster Consti•
tutional Association ; for be it known to your Corre-
spondent that the renewal of the Repeal agitation pre-
ceded and led to the formation of that Society instead
of being a consequence of it ; and when he asks me its
" real objoct," my answer is, that it is to show to the
world that all the anti-Repealers of Ulster are not Tories,
and that whilst it is matter of notoriety that every man
in Ireland having two pence to lose, and two grains of
sense to take care of them, is against Rveal, there yet
exists in Ulster a body of Constitutional Reformers (in
Church and State) true to their principles, and neither
ashamed nor afraid of avowing them.
I remain, S'r, your very obedient servant,
A LANDOWNER OF ULSTER.
Liverpool, Aug. 23.
Mr. Kennedy, the Member for Tiverton, was a solitary
exception.----En. Sun.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.

There was not much business done ; but the firmness
displayed by the merchants prevented any decline in prices
of moment. Raw Sugar was taken off steadily by the
groceri, wh..) ware compelled to psy extreme rates ; the
►efinera, however, were buyers in few instances. Ci ffee
went off heav►ly, and prices were the turn lower. Rice
sold slowly, but not at lower prices. Pepper was in
good request, and the sales made p►oduced somewhat
higher rates. Cassia Lignea much inquired after, but the
article being withheld from the market, business was pre-
vented.