The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURNI)A V, JANUARY 2

come from foreigners, for the Jaw excludes their
produce from our country. It cannot come from
the land itself, for its produce is naturally and in-
herently the property of the landlord and their te-
nants, and would go all into their possession and
keeping, though no Corn-laws existed. The Corn-
laws give them more than would otherwise come into
their possession. That something more falls not from
heaven and is not cast up by the ocean. It is taken
by the law from the rest of the people, who are not
landowners. It is literally nothing but the fruit of
plunder, ordained, we admit, but which no law can
make otherwise than to act of gross and scandalous
spoliation.

Now we feel ashamed at being called on to prove
that such an act is injurious. Does the Magis-
trate inquire whether pocket-picking, swindling, or
*glary is wrong No, he answers those who de-
fend, after committing them, by giving them an
additional dose of the tread-mill or of exile, for
adding shameless effrontery to open fraud. In like
manner, when the landowners, by themselves or
their hired scribes, boldly stand up to defend
their plunder, while its effects, impoverishing
and starving the people, are testifying against them
through the land in the harrowing accents of dis-
tress and despair, their audacious and shameless
effrontery, far worse than that of ordinary crimi-
nals, calls not for argument, but for the most vehe-
ment denunciation which a suffering and indignant
people can pronounce.

We rejoice to see, also, that the moral indignation
of the people against this iniquitous impost is every
where kindling. The landlords and their journals
may deprecate appeals to the people ; they maY
whine and wince under the lash of honest indinga-
tion, but as long as the moral sense of man remains
unperverted—till the destinction between right and
wrong be totally effaced from • the public mind—
they will be unable to escape the consequences
of their own conduct. In Edinburgh, where there
is to be a meeting, we shall surely hear again those
eloquent words by which the Devil's laws were last
veardenounced. At Manchester we have heard them;
and at Wolverhampton this day, where Mr.
VILLIERs, merely by his advocacy of the
abolition of these laws, is raised to just though
almost unbounded popularity, we shall also
hear them described as they deserve to be.
At Stockport and Aberdeen meetings are
preparing. At Kendal there was an excellent
meeting of the working-classes on Monday week,
which we mis-described, we are afraid, after a pro-
vincial Contemporary, last Monday, as a failure ;
for though there were three cheers for the Charter
at the end, they only clinched the strong resolu-
tions and the able petition which had been previously
almost unanimously agreed to for the abolition of
the Corn-laws. At this meeting the Rev ED.
lIA WE ES was in the chair, and we shall copy a
short passage from his speech to show how the
matter is working. He said—

" But I derive some hope from the new elements of
persuasion that dire necessity is raising up :—the peti•
tions for the abolition of the Corn-laws have hitherto
been limited chiefly to merchants and manufacturers,
with their immediate dependants :—they have not been
supported by the hearty voice of the people, but this
meeting of the working class is only one proof, I hope,
among many, that the sense of common danger is rous-
ing into vigorous action the whole body of the nation,
and that their united voices will compel a reluctant Le-
gislature to listen, and that their united exertions will ❑ot
cease until the Corn-laws are totally and for ever
abolished.—(Loud cheers.) Never then let us rest
until our great cause is triumphantly gained ;—let the
labouring classes in other parts of the kingdom join with
us in a firm and determined demand for the free inter-
change of the products of industry and the hosinties of
Providence, and we may assure ourselves that whether
a reluctant and selfish Legislature will or not, they ;mist
cheers.)"
We transcribe also one passage from the petition,
which will show that the indignation of the people
expresses itself boldly :
" Your petitioners, in common with the entire
labouring population of Great Britain, have no doubt
that the Corn•laws,—creating a fictitious value for the
produce of British landowners, at the expense of all
their fellow-countrymen who do not possess land,—
ire most deeply criminal towards men, and dreadfully
impious towards God.

So ought the legalized theft to be spoken of,
and, now that it is so spoken of, we feel assured
that even the brazen avarice of the landlords and
the priests will be scorched and wasted by the
consuming wrath of a justly indignant people.

One of the persons most conspicuous at the
Canterbury meeting, when Mr. -BRA DSH A w
aspersed her MAJEST V, WaS the Rev. Dr. MOLES-
WORTH. Following this meritorious act of his, he
has been presented, says the Canterbury Journal,
to the valuable Vicarage of Rochdale, in Lancashire,
by his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY. So
is the unseemly sanction given by the clergy to asper-
sions of her MA JEsTY rewarded by an Archbishop,
while Colonel THOMAS is reprimanded. The
Rev. Dr. MoLESWORTH cannot, we believe, be
unpresented, but his preferment is a gross injustice
to Colonel THOMAS. Her MAJESTY is at the
head of the Church, as well as the Army, and it
might have been expected that the Archbishop
should have been as careful as Lord HILL to re-
buke those who countenance the disloyal calum-
niatcus of the QUEEN.

The first day's trial of Mir. FROST and his com-
panions has passed over in perfect tranquillity.
None of the apprehended riot and disturbance oc-
curred at Monmouth which caused such great
precautions to be taken. That is as it should be,
for by violence nothing can be gained. The cause
of the workmen is evidently the cause of peace
and liberty : and successful violence would only

make them the slaves of some so-called hero. We
now expect that the trials will he allowed to pro-
ceed calmly to an end.

In the first day's proceedings we see nothing to
call for remark. All the forms of law were gone
through, and the Law Officers of the Crown seem
only to have performed, without asperity, their re-
quired duty. They made no opposition to Sir E
WARD POLLOCK'S motion to have the jury selected
by ballot, and were ready to give the prisoners as
fair a trial as they can have in the face of
the prejudices which have been excited against
them, and when they
are to be tried by a jury
who probably rank amongst their social and political
opponents. Matters, however, are so constituted
in society, and it is impossible for laws to give any
individual a greater security for life and property
than the guarantee of the opinions,
passions, and
prejudices of his fellow-men.
All the customary
ceremonies which are in-
tended to make a decree of a Court of Law
deeply impressive, were gone through on the occa-
sion. At a former time they would hare had
a powerful effect; and the populace would have
shrunk back affrighted and awed by Judges, criers,
and javelin-men. That time is now passed. Ex-
trinsic ceremonies cannot make a law respected or
imposing which the people have, by some
unfortunate circumstance, come to despise and
contemn. Those who have arrayed themselves
against the law in Wales, and elsewhere, say
that the whole body of the law is un-
just. They feel that in their hearts. Public
writers may tell them of treason, and of in-
jury to society ; they reply that they already
suffer most bitterly, and the law seems never to
consider as them part of socictY except whey. they
are to be made an example of. They arc acquired,
they say, to bear all its burdens, to labour without

end, and almost without hope', but they have no
part in its benefits. They owe, tilt, t.ay, no
obedience to a law which they have had no part in
making, which is made by their opponents, and
which is made to vex and punish, not to protect
them. Such saying 3 ate common amongst the
people, such thoughts have been engraved in their
minds; and the ceremonies with which this eon-
demned. law is administered, appear to them a
mockery, and impose on them no longer.

We have space only to call attention to the hit•
portant resolutions agreed to -unanimously by the
members of the new National Society in Dublin.
The horrid imputations cast upon the religion and
loyalty of the Irish by the Tory Press, have at
length roused the indignation of every patriot,
whether Catholic or Protestant, and compelled all
good Irishmen to unite against a party who would
repeal the Emancipation Act, reduce Catholics to
the debased condition of aliens and slaves, and
kindle a bloody civil war in their native land.
Some of the language is strong, but not half so
violent as that used by the Times, which, for the
last four years, has been exciting deadly hatred be-
tween Protestants and Catholics, and when the
purpose is accomplished, now meanly and falsely
casts the blame on the injured Catholics. On the
heads of the wicked calumniators be the conse-
quences.

The Madrid Papers received ate of the 24th,
hut their contents are unimportant. The Five pet
Cents. were at 271 for cash, and 291 at 60 days.

The Moniteur of Tuesday, received together
with the other Paris Journals of the same date,
officially contradicts the report, published by the
Augsburg Gazette, of the participation of the
French Admiral LALANDE in the betrayal of the
Turkish fleet to the Viceroy of EGYPT. We ex-
pected this, as our readers may satisfy themselves
by referring to an article in The Sun of Tuesday.
There is one thing, however, which we did not
expect—namely, that the official contradiction
should establish, in the clearest manner, the guilt
of the gallant Admiral. The following is a faith)•
ful translation of the article in the Moniteur—the
authorship we may attribute to the Minister of
Marine, as Admiral LALANDE has not yet arrived
in Paris :

Two letters from Constantinople, dated Dec. 4
published by the Augsburg Gazette of Dec. 3, throw
upon Admiral Lalande the mendacious in-sputa-
udon, not only to have approved of, but. to have en-
couraged and favoured the defection of the Capitan
Pilch. We arc authorised to declare that nothing is
more false. Admiral Lalande, surprised, it is true, by
the news of the death of the Sultan Alahmoud, and by
the prGiects which the Capitan Pacha attributed to the
Grar.d Vizier Chosrew, did not believe he ought to pre-
vent the Turkish fleet from leaving the Dardanelles, but
he represented to the Turkish Admiral that in sailing for
Candia, as be (the Capitan) announced his intention of
doing, he would have the appearance of delivering his
fleet to Mehemet Ali, and the Admiral obtained the
Capitan's promise that he would go to Rhodes to await
events.

" In the midst of such a crisis Admiral Lalande, who
had then four vessels under his orders, of which two
only were with him, was obliged to be content with
the engagement made with they Capitan Pacha, who ap-
peared to appreciate strongly the justice of his repre-
sentations. This is the entire truth respecting the in-
terview between Admiral Lalande
and the Commander
of the Turkish set. We the mo st formal denial
which,
to the contrary rumours according to the Augs-
burg Gazette, have beensapn Pacha."readatConstantinople by
theDrogman oft the Capitan
the idea How was i
of treachery on the
part of Captain Pacha occurred to the mind Of the
gallant French Admiral at a juncture so critical ?
How did it happen, that a time when all Ahat was-
dreaded by the Cabinets of London and Vienna,
was an engagement between the Turkish and Egyp-
tian fleets, Admiral LALANDE should have sus-
pected that treason was lurking in the bosom of the
Turkish Admiral ? How came he to hazard an
intimation to that effect to the Capitan Pacha, and
to extort a loyal pledge from him, and yet neither
to attempt to sound the intentions of the other
Turkish officer, nor to dispatch one of the
two vessels of war then with him to commu-
nicate his suspicions to Admiral STOPFORD,
then with the English squadron off the • coast
of Egypt ? In a word, what husiness had
Admiral LALANDE at the mouth of the Darda-
nelles, ?save and except to prevent the Ottoman
fleet from passing into the Mediterranean ; and if
he found himself not in a condition to oppose its
passage, was it not his duty to have accompanied
it with one ship, and have sent the other to de-
mand the co-operation of the English squadron ?
All this is so obvious, from the very words of the Mo-
niteur, that we do not believe any person of ordinary
sagacity can be so imposed upon as to credit a
syllable of the official contradiction. It is mani-
fest, from the statement of the Moniteur, that
Admiral LALANDE suggested the betrayal of the
fleet to the VICEROY, and, as far as in him lay, con-
tributed to the success of the treasonable design,
had we not the evidence of the dragoman of the
Capitan Pacha, and the authority of the private
statements, alluded to three months ago in The
Sun to the same effect.

There is no other now news of any interest in
the French Journals.
The accounts from Africa are not of a more re-
cent date than those received on Monday. The
Committees of the Chamber of Deputies are still
discussing the paragraphs of the Royal Speecl-
The life of the Archbishop of PARIS was despair(
of on Tuesday.
The following is a list of the French diplomatic
agents at foreign Courts who are at this moment exer-
cising their functions at Paris. We take no account
of the swarm of Secretaries and Attaches, and content
ourselves with mentioning th'e Ambassadors, Ministers,
and Chief Secretaries :

The Marquis of Dalmatia, Ambassador at Turin.
Count Bresson, Ambassador at Berlin.
The Duke Do Montebello, Ambassador at Naples.
M. De Bacourt, Minister in the United States.
M. Martin, Mininter at. Hanover.

M. Logreneo, Minister at Athens.
M. Do Bussieres. Minister at Dresden.
M. Da la Rochefoucauld, Minister at Wietnar.
M. De Beam, Minister at Cassel.
• M D'Eyrugues, Minister at Carlsruhe.
M. De' Borquenay, Chief Secretary at London.
M. Dc Langsdorff, Chief Secetary at Vienna.
Sir Ralph Abercrombie, the British Envoy to the Diet
of Frankfort, is appointed Ambassador to the Court of
France, but will not go to has post till after the Queen's
marriage.—La Gazette de France.
BOURSE.—P& is, TVESDAY, Oar. 31.

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BRUSSELS, DEC. 29.--The Chamber of Re•-
presentatives in its sitting yesterday continued the de-
bate on the Budget of the Department of Public
Works, and then adjourned to the 14th of January.
The Senate adopted the Budget of Ways and Means,
by a majority of 28 to 2, and the Budget of the Public
Debt unanimously.