The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

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calm the apprehensions of the capitalists nor : ke he
give employment and hope to the labourers. • s Ther
Chartism, since 1838, has lost no votaries, nor Bey A
,ave the Chartists become reconciled to the of

Constitution. On the contrary, their deter- Doi
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mined proceedings in every quarter, are prOofs Of
great resolution and perseverance. While Sir all
ROBERT PEEL'S successors have not reconciled .
the Chartists to the Constitution, they have :.
driven a great number of capitalists almost into

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Chartism. At all the three great meetings very,
strong language was used against the law and:.
the aristocracy. The capitalists have begun to
attack the so-called property of the landlords,
and have spoken of a compensation, to be taken
out of rent, for the injuries already inflicted on
the manufficturers by the Corn-laws. Many of
the Corn-law Repealers, also, have become advo-
cates of Universal Suffrage. Mr. STURGE has
drawn up and published a resolution in its fa-
vour. Another success promises to convert the

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master-manufacturers into Chartists, and make
rebellion the only means by which they and the

nation can be saved from utter ruin.

One of the objections which we stated some
time back to the Government promoting a sys-
tem of extensive emigration was, that at present
our institutions are in such an unsatisfactory con-
dition, that it would be wiser, before sending
away emigrants, to reform our institutions, so that
the emigrants may carry with them righteous laws
to the land of their adoption. It is held 11
moralists that mature beings, who know thew'
selves to be afflicted with transmissible diseases,
are scarcely warranted in running the risk of
imparting to offspring their own incurable
and painful maladies. How much less warrant'
able, then, must it be in society to send eff
branch societies tainted with maladies which
they know to be susceptible of cure, perpettr
ating such dire diseases as now afflict us, instead ,
of first diligently endeavouring to cure them •
On this analogy we hold it to be the duty of the 1
public to'establish just laws at home, before they
send off any portion of their brethren to other'
Ito
lands.

We scarcely expected to find a sort of con-
firmation of our views in a journal which is dis-
tinguished by its preference of emigration to
reforming our institutions. The Spectator. of
last Saturday, however, stated that the " Wake-
field system does not provide for the government
of the Colonies; it gives no security that proper
rulers shall be placed over them ; it gives no 02'
rantee to the colonists that their local affairs
shall be properly administered." In short, the
Spectator admits and states that no provision has
yet been made for the rational government °t.
the Colonies.
At the same time we know that the aristo-
cracy have always made the Colonies subseryiend
to their purposes, and have invariably sacrifice
the interest of the Colonists to their own ag,
grandisement. Latterly this has been the Os'
more than ever ; and not a new Colony has been
founded of which the institutions have not bere
framed far more with a view to provide for the
scions of the aristocracy than to promote t",O
welfare of the Colonists. What guarantee 11aT.,1
we, then, in promoting emigration, that it gr's.'
not be perverted to the enrichment of the aribe
tocracy ? Or, rather, is it not certain that .t„„.
main object of the Starvationists, in pronlntl
emigration, would be to increase the wealth iftr,
power of the aristocracy, and extend the
to
ence and dominion of the p hvriesthood ?
e
What would be the consequence ? 28t h
of
Colony, after going through all the degree 0
oppression which an aristocracy forces on oleic
for their own purposes, would finally, as
gathered strength, which even an aristocrai_ule
cannot prevent, throw off its dominion, and t8..1
Colony, instead of remaining for ever a grate
and an attached friend, would become, like th
United States, almost a decided political enelllP
kept in a state of uneasy peace, and friendshiE:
by ties of blood, of language, and of cono 1
ne.rs.
cial advantage, which even such proud and 1.1.14,
chievous law-makers as the land-owning
cracy of England cannot annihilate. We agg';;;/'
with the Spectator that no provision. whateie,'
has ye't been made for the good government of.Pe,
Colonies. We affirm that such a provision cP;
not he expected to be made till the Governnlef,
at home be reformed and improved; and we;
main, therefore, steady to our principle that be,
must first establish righteous laws at borne ,adol
fore we adopt public measures to send
any portion of the people.
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Our readers cannoti fal to recollect not
HARMER was excluded from the Mayerat be.
on account of unfitness for the office) bubut
cause certain opinions, not professed by
,
published in a Journal under his control' were
not agreeable to the Bigots. No perso.-
more forward to oppose him than the Pt/arettt
writers in the Times and the Post. We ;lea-
pleasure, therefore, now to notice that the ye
sure they then measured out to him Is ion
meted out to their own party. Their chain bad
at Oxford is opposed, not because he is faessor
poet, and an ignorant man, unfit to be Pr°
then.
of Poetry, but because he entertains some r,po-'
logical opinions not quite agreeable to his lions
nents. This is natural. Those pseudo-reh?....er
gentlemen worked then with a principle 01 red
secution, and now the same principle is vre rR
-bow.
against them. Let the reader remark, •
ever, how they cry out when their skin cn_bett
touched, though they had no compassion 'so
they were flaying another. Mr. WILLI. 4
Committee thus express themselves
It appears to them that both these letters (Pubfelir6bo6l6,.
by Mr. Garbett's Committee) tend to establish,
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present, as well as all future elections, a princiel,eolo6.l,)i
unfair to candidates, perplexing to Members ot
tion, and fatal to the peace of the University.
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According to this principle a candidate's slieccm,
to depend upon the possession of qualities suited to
which he seeks. The electors are to be called "P°.°ooo 4
directly, and without preparation, to pledge their oPAtt.J.fr
upon important and difficult questions, PerllaMsitrrAlsl;
known to them through vague and very irnPerec:f,-Leter'.,4
sentations; and every case submitted to Convocotlx,rui
become matter for renewed excitement and dissensl".Bo' seotil;.r
We transcribe their words to preserve therlie/eidsi
memorial, and show them that much an?.. the,,dg
as they have acted on this principle, ag ltithey,9
case of Catholics, Dissenters, and infidels,
the'
testify against it whenever it is applied to
_.d to
selves. They will not in future expect us to
honour it, or to honour them, should they do
not
apply it to men of whose principles they
approve.

_We .publish in another column a
dressed by M. ODILON BARROT, the celebratiee
French Republican Deputy, to the Editor °litejle
Siecle, provoked, it would appear, byan
in the Morning Chronicle, denouncing the,i.t,i-
port given by the French Liberals to the Di be
fication of Paris. As we always agreed:o7oll,j
Chronicle upon this question, we feel Cfore
upon to take some notice of this letter, the "'",es
,it
especially as our Morning Contemporary 134,1*c,
over it very cursorily. HOBBES held the -°r,
letter acid'
trine that a state of nature was a stated f le
but ODILON BARROT out-Herods Hero fur
lir
holds that a state of civilisation is a state of
gays
also. " A nation is not a first-rate nation, c
caiko, ~t
M. ODILON BARROT, " but upon one COnditise
which is the being able, in a good and jus t,,,np
to combat alone against all, and When
says yes, to say no." According to
cep
French statesman it is net in the
lence of her laws, in the wisdom. of ,He
administration, in the virtue of her rulers, 101%e
the virtue and happiness of her people, that 'bet
first-rate qualities of a nation consists, but
ability to bid defiance to her neighbo.O., eat-
tary power is the essence of all natioli gr It
ness in the eyes of M. ODILON BARI:La; the
is true, he premises, the cause for whicl_rate
world is to be combated by a single firsl..
is
liation shall be a good and just one, but..ju,tif,
equally clear that this must be a matterot lous7by
ference, since the struggle is to be decided o_ool
right but might. What M. ODiLoN
wishes to make France, is a nation able .to 01.
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whelm any one of her neighbours
ca_
t'e
Cher the cause be just or unjust, and pot
extremity to be in a condition to bid a 00 41,
defiance to them all. This lie coaceiyeS ,c,