The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-27 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION

T

E E R A
Of SUNDAY NEXT,
Will contain THE MYSTERIES OF EPSOM,
with Comments on the various Predictions.
" BY YATES."
Together with all the News of the Week, Foreign and Domestic.
Office, 20, Catharine-street, Strand.

13, Great Marlborough-street.
MR. PLUMER WARD'S NEW
NOVEL,
" DE CLIFFORD ; or, the CONSTANT MAN."
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
A sterling work—a work not to be perused and dismissed
in a breath, but to be read and studied again and again."—Lite-
►ar Gazette.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE THIRD VOLUME OF
AGNES STRICKLAND'S LIVES
Of the QUEENS of ENGLAND,
NEW AND REVISED EDITION,
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES,
'Price 10s. 6d. bound, with Illustrations.
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THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
H E TR USTEE.
An Historical Romance of the Days of Henry VIII.
By the Author of the Tragedy of
" THE PROVOST OF BRUGES."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

[jIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
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RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
osier many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
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800 100
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TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS,
was remitted to London and vicinity by
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who remitted, during a few years, 21 large Money Dividends,
from 6001. and upwards unto 25,0001., besides many Dividends
of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland.

pßospEcrus of the 7,000 MONEY DI-
VJDEN DS which will he divided amongst
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POLISH LOAN,
Contricted in the Year 1835, under Guarantee of
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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U ‘;DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING. MAY 27.
Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled
LONDON ASSURANCE.
Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark-
away, • Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ;
Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway,
Madame Vest ris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Numbs-.
Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex-
travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Beauty, Madame Vestris : The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ;
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar-
rygelda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee.
_To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast.
Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price,
21.; Gallery Is.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at this Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Yrivate Bolts to be had solely of Mr. Andre's, bookseller,
t 67. New Bond-street.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Tragedy. Immense
sensation created by the affecting Drama of " Simon Lee."
The Legendary Romance of " Rooltwood!" with a New
Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations !
THIS EVENING, MAY 27, AND TO-MORROW.
A New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, eniitled
SIMON LEE; OR, THE 31U RDER OF FIVE.FIELDS'
COPSE.
Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Grace Hatherleigh,
Miss Vincent.

After which, the Romance of
ROOKWOOD; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD
LIME TREE.
Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Songs of
Hurrah for the Game of High Toby V " Nix rcy Dolly,
Pats, Fake away !" and " My Bonny Black Bess."
To conclude with the Laughable Burletta of
THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL.
Richard Witless, Mr. Gardner; Mabel, Mrs. Howard; Mar-
garet, Mrs Lee.
Boxes, IL—Pit, lg.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past
Eigkt.

•
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Whit Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY!! !
THE first grand ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the
rejoicings which take place in Rome at the celebration of
.‘ II giurno di S. Pietro," will be given on MONDAY, MAY
3lst, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb
GIRANDOLA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest
and most magnificent display of Fireworks in the World, with
the ILLUMINATION of St.. PETER'S, when the whole of
this vast and glorious edifice is brilliantly lighted with count-
less myriads of lamps, presenting together a coup d'ceil of in-
conceivable splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The
unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by Mr. God-
frey, augmented by the addition of many performers of emi-
nence, Win give the first Promenade Musicale et Champetre,
commencing at Six o'Clock.
The Menagerie, including the great male Orang Outang,
and several other rarities, is exhibited daily, with Dansou'a
Colossal. Pictorial Model of Rome !
Open at Ten. Admission One Shiiling.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 38 minutes after 6 I Evening 7 minutes after 7

LONDON:
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1841.

To-night the other great party fight begins
which Sir R. PEEL has challenged. We under-
stand it is not likely to end as he wishes. It is
certain that the majority will not be so great
against -Ministers on this question as on the hy-
pocritical sugar resolution ; and it is even possible
that it may turn into a majority in their favour.
At any rate, be it what it may, it cannot make a '
change disadvantageous to them. It will not
make them, we believe, depart from their course
one hair's-breadth. We are not quite sure that
it would not be extremely advantageous to them
to have, on this occasion, a very large majority
against them. It would be a proof that the mo-
nopolists, the corruptionists, the jobbers, were
not only firmly united, but firmly resolved to
keep hold of the black mail they have seized from
the people by means of the law. It would con-
vince the great public, which is only helpless be-
cause it is quiescent, that the Ministers have none
to help them, but it ; and as they have now en-
gaged with hearty good will in the public cause,
it may be hoped and expected that the more
powerless they appear in the House of Commons,
the more dependent they are on the public, the
more zealously will the public come to their aid.
Since the majority of the House of Commons
have shown the cloven foot of monopoly, we are
not sure that it will nct be for the credit of the
Ministers to be defeated. Sir R. PEEL'S resolu-
tion expresses one fact honourable to them.
They have lost the confidence of that corrupt
assembly because they are honest.

One of the great arguments of the Pro-Corn-
law men against the abolition of the Corn-laws
is, that wages would fall with the price of wheat.
The landlords benevolently keep up the Corn-

laws to benefit the labourers, and make them

Wealthy and independent. At the same time,
they•have stolen the commons from the labour-
ers throughout the kingdom. The landlords
have studiously endeavoured to keep the la-
bourers ignorant, and have put down beer.shops,
to the extent of their rower, because they fos-,

tered union and knowledge amongst the la-

bourers.

Fifty years ago the peasantry partook in most
of the field sports of the landlords, and some of
the distinguished cricketers of that day belonged
to the working classes. Then the farm-labourers
lived in the farm-houses, and masters and
servants, landlords and labourers, were friendly
together. Now the labourers are wholly banished
from the farm-houses, and are persecuted in every
conceivable way if they snare a hare or shoot a
partridge. They are treated altogether as a
worthless and enslaved race, and the riots of 1830
demonstrated that the landlords and farmers on
the one hand, and the labourers on the other,
cherish a mutual and bitter animosity. Since
1830 that animosity has been continued and ex-
asperated by the continued oppression of the
landlords, and the continued poverty of the
labourer.

We call the Times with its daily diatribes
against the Poor-law, which is a landlord's law,
as a witness to our assertion. The whole con-
duct of the landlords towards the labourers is op-
pressive and tyrannical, and it must be entirely
altered before they will convince a single human
being that they have any regard for the happi-
ness of the labouring classes. Their assertion
that they resist a repeal of the Corn-laws be-
cause that would injure the labourers, is only a
most hypocritical pretext. . .

If they had any faith in their own assertion they
would follow it out. The great employers of
labour, in proportion to their capital, are un-
doubtedly the farmers. They have compara-
tively little machinery, little fixed capital, while
the bulk of the capital of the manufacturer is
fixed in machinery. Supposing wages to fall
with the fall in the price of corn, the benefits of
that accruing to the capitalist would be in pro-
portion to the amount of their circulating not
their fixed capital, or in proportion to the num-
ber of hands they employ. Thus the great bene-
fit of that supposed reduction would belong to
the farmers who resist the repeal of the Corn-
laws, and the least portion of it would belong to
the manufacturers, who most earnestly demand
the repeal.
In truth, the reduction of prices, which might
ensue from the repeal of the Corn-laws, would
reduce the-value of fixed capital. On this ac-
count the preSent owners of ships resist the re-
duction of the timber duties, because their old
ships would fall in value. Not the manufac-
turers, therefore, but the farmers would be the
class of capitalists to benefit by the reduction of
wages, supposing wage 4 to fall in proportion to
the price of corn.
Now, why do not the landlords come to this
conclusion? Because they do not believe their
own assertion. They know, and the farmers
practically well know, that wages would not,
and never did, fall as corn fell in price. If
wages so fell from the abolition of the Corn-
laws, as the great bulk of the expense of cul-
tivating land consists in the wages of farm-ser-
vants, smiths, wheelwrights, carpenters, saddlers,
&c. &c., how can the landlords assert that the
land would go out of cultivation ? The expense
of cultivation consists in wages, which, the land-
lords say, will fall as the price of corn falls, and
consequently there will be as much profit on
cultivation when wheat is at 40s. as when it is
at 80s. per quarter. The two assertions of the
landlords that wages will fall as the price of
corn falls, and that as the price of corn falls the
land will go out of cultivation, are incongruous
and contradictory. Neither of the assertions
has any foundation in fact; they are made to
serve a purpose; they are mere fudge and hum-
bug; and the landlords who make them do not
believe them.

They know that a fall in the price of corn causes
an extension of the demand for labour. There
is more corn to give for labour, and wages do not
fall as corn falls in price. They know, too, that
the consequence of the demand for labour is that
the demand for food increases; that the farmers
will be driven by competition to improve their
cultivation, and to grow more corn at a less ex-
pense. They know that both these assertions,
to the extent they make them, are untrue and

they must be conscious that they are bolstering
up a system of plunder by a system of wilful
falsehood.

We have already stated, at considerable length,
the reasons which, in our judgment, fully justify
a dissolution of Parliament. They may all be
comprised in one sentence. A totally new set of
circumstances have arisen to divide political
parties since the Parliament was elected, and both
parties agree in appealing to the people to decide
between them. An appeal is made daily by the
press, and can only be made legally by dissolving
the Parliament. The leaders of both parties re-
cognise the propriety of the course, and only
certain journals object to it to raise a prejudice
against the Ministers.
It is natural that each party should desire to
have possession of the Government, when a dis-
solution takes place; but there is really nothing
in the desire of the Tories not to allow the Whigs
to possess the advantage which should make that
conduct unconstitutional in the latter, which the
former would adopt almost the instant they were

in power.
Such being the facts—both parties being
agreed that the new questions and the new cir-
cumstances which have arisen make an appeal
to the people necessary—to discuss whether it be
constitutional or not, as done by the Whigs or
by the Tories, is wholly superfluous. At the
same time there are abundant precedents to
justify the course Ministers mean to pursue.
We apprehend that dissolutions will neces-
sarily be frequent, unless public opinion can be
brought directly to bear on the Legislature
without going through the formalities of
an election. It cannot have escaped the
notice of any living observer, that political
events, political changes, and alterations
in public opinion, now take place with unexam-
pled rapidity. Railways, by bringing into more
rapid and close communication many millions of
people, have given their own velocity to the
public mind. They have had a similar effect on
public opinion to the doubling of the popula-
tion, and changes will be great and rapid, as if
the people of the metropolis had suddenly in-
creased to three millions. Discussion is now in-
stantly spread through the land, and a new po-
litical opinion started, and astonishing the com-
munity to-day, if it have any feasibility or
any truth, is ripe for decision in a few weeks or
months. Such a change in society,. unless by
some contrivance public opinion can be brought
to bear in a recognised manner directly on Par-
liament, will make frequent dissolutions neces-
sary to decide the new questions which will con-
tinually arise. In fact, the Chartists, without
having the Charter, seem likely to obtain, if not
annual Parliaments, Parliaments of a short du-

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