The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY SUN

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
eirrning 55 minutes after Sat I Evening 41 minutes after 10.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 11141.

7,44/147rr,„.04
The Corn Awararas, published yesterday, show
a rise in the weekly average, which is 70s. sd.
above t average, ptrisii/ive+Tetstergiariposek, of
4.4464411"644 2s. 2c , w ile the average of the six weeks,
6 . is ls. 2d. higher than the average of
the praceding six weeks. The prices continue
to rise, therefore, throughout the country, and
there appears no probability of their soon coming
to a still stand, or falling. The additional 2d.
that has been recently put upon the
loaf may be nothing to the man " whose
every single morsel, which he pokes with
his golden fork between his teeth, costs
more than a hard working man's pay per
day," but it will be most severely felt by the
overworked hind in Dorsetshire, with 6s. 6d. a
week and a sleeping-berth in the hay-loft, by
" th e poor sempstress, whose thousand stitches
can earn her at the utmost one penny in the
hour," and by the " poor widow laundress, who,
up at three in the morning, labours through
weeks, months, and years, and takes in wash-
ing at a penny a piece to preserve herself
and her poor orphans a shadow of honest inde-
pendence." All these, and they are chosen as re-
presentatives of the millions, will shower their
curses, if deep suffering and toil have not effaced
from them all the imprint of humanity, on the
cruel system which withholds from them the
bounties of nature; and their curses, like the
prayers of good :nen, will surely be heard at the
throne of grace, and will wither the system which
blights and blasts their happiness and their being.
Many thin combine to assure us that the
accursed system must speedily come to an end.
Our opponents are giving way ; but they talk of
a compromise. The great London merchants,
who hase stood aloof during our three years'
contest, a little alarmed at the decay of trade, are
beginning, by their various organs, to advocate
a fixed duty. They see in prospective that their
own pockets will be assailed, and that touches
them more than the seared hearts, wasted limbs,
and miserable deaths of the suffering hand-
loom weavers. Some of the clergy, too, more
alarmed, we believe, at the pecuniary disasters
which they apprehend than at the moral de-
solation
which is spreading over the land,
have taken up their pens in favour of
an alteration of the Corn-laws—speaking, how-
ever, in favour of a fixed duty, and carefully
shunning the noble
principle of a perfectly free
trade in food. An alteration, then, we must
have in the Corn-laws, and it will depend on the
Manchester men whether that shall be a fixed
duty or a total repeal. Their maxim is, that a
fixed duty is a fixed injustice. That is our
motto; we would not leave even Mr. M`GRE-
ooß's one shilling a quarter as a rag of the sla-
very from which, with perseverance and courage,
we are _tire to be emancipated. We trust, there-
fore, that the League wilt zzot accept the
compromise, and will remain firm to their
principles, despite the coaxing of lately converted
friends and half inclined enemies. They must
be true to their principles for the sake of rais-
ing up the morality of the people, not for the
sake of lowering the price of wheat one or two
shillings.

We trust, too, that the ministers who are to
meet in Conference at Manchester on Tuesday,
will stick to the moral principle of this now
great and absorbing question, and not heed the
jeers or flippant observations of that class of
public writers and politicians who will see nothing
in politics more important than a means to enrich
the aristocracy, or more sacred than the success
of their party.

We adverted yesterday to four cases of per-
sons committing offences that they might find
shelter and food in a prison. It is unnecessary,
perhaps, to inform: thosewho rely much more soLi
police and law than on morals—they themselves
setting the example of doing justice to others—
that their hopes of checking crime must be at
once extinguished, when the very punishments
which they have devised to repress it actually
become, from the miserable condition of the
people, temptations to commit crime. If they
imagine that these are the only cases, or that
the temptation .can only arise in large towns, and
when the
_punishment is trivia], we must, by
quoting another case, undeceive them. When.
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL addressed the Grand
July at Lewes, on the 3d instant, he made the
following observations
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