The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-01 00:00:00

As a great deal is still said about cheap corn

lowering wages, we will add one word on that point.
The abolition of the Corn-laws will have no effect on
this year's crops. Whatever they may amount to,
that quantity will be increased by what is brought
from abroad, in consequence of the abolition of the
Corn-laws. Who is to eat the increased quantity.
The landowners have food enough, the parsons
have enough, the middle-classes generally have
enough, and, consequently, all the additional
quantity would go to the now under-fed labourers.
There is no other class to consume it, and that
additional quantity would fall to the labourers in
the shape of increased wages.
Would the quantity decrease next year ? The
landlords say Yes, the land would go out of culti-
vation. Why ? The landlords would still want as
much rent as they could get, the farmers as much
profit, and the labourers as much wages. All
the motives which now exist to cultivate the
land would then exist, and would probably be
strengthened by the competition of other farmers.
The fall in the price would cause a corresponding
diminution in the expense of cultivation, for, in no
business, in proportion to the capital employed, is
so much paid for wages as i❑ farming. To tell us,
then, that the land would go out of cultivation next
year is a mere bugaboo, by which it is sought to
frighten the Legislature from doing what is right.
We say, too, in the language of Scripture, sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof. Let the morrow,
and still more, let the next year take care of itself.
But an infallible means to save the land from going
out of cultivation is to make it over to those agri-
cultural labourers who now pay -'twice as much
rent as is paid by farmers for the allotments they
cultivate. So will the land not go out of cultiva-
tion, and so, if the Corn-laws be abolished, will
the harvest of every year be increased, like the har-
vest of this year, by corn imported from abroad ;
wages will continue to rise, and the nation will
prosper and be contented.

The Afoniteur of Monday, which we have received,
together with the other Paris Journals of the same
date, publishes the following telegraphic despatches,
bringing the latest news from Africa :
" Toulon, March 29.—Cherchel, 15th.
" MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.

" The army took possession of Cherchel to-day, The
enemy did not offer any serious resistance, either on ti e
plains of the Metidjah or on the mountains which surround
Cherchel."

" Toulon, March 29.—Algiers, 22, 6 P. M.

" MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
" The expeditionary corps returned from Cherchel
the 2lst, to the upper camp of Blidah, without having an;
combat to sustain. The weather has become very bad,
and prevents any further movements for the present."

" Toulon, March 29.
" THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE

MARINE

On the 12th the Spahis of Oran and a battalion of
the Ist regiment of the line having made a sortie from
Mizerghin, had to sustain, at half a league from the camp,
an obstivate conflict, from ten in the morning till five in
the afternoon, with several thousands of Arabs, who cam,
to carry off the cattle of the Douairs. Our loss was 41
killed and 51 wounded. That of the enemy is estimated at
400 killed. We remained masters of the field of battle.
The Commandant of the Marine at Algiers announces the
voluntary surrender of Collo."

The Toulon papers publish the following :
fl The Duke of Orleans is to arrive here on the .stii of
April, when everything connected with the grand expedi-
tion against Abd-el-Kader must be ready for sea. The
Duke of Orleans will be accompanied by his brothers, the
Prince de Joinville and thepuke d' Aumale. The steamers
are getting ready for the voyage of the Princes."
A letter from Toulon, published by the Constitution-
nel of Monday, says that reinforcements are going to
be sent direct to Oran. Marshal VALLEE not being
able to detach troops from his army on its march, it
seems that the 6th Regiment of Light Infantry, in
garrison at Toulon, the 3lst of the Line, at Marseilles,
,and the 13th of Light Infantry, at Perpignan, have
received orders to hold themselves in readiness to de-
part for the province of Oran. These forces. it is said.
are to be divided into two active columns, one of 5,000
men at Oran, and the other of 3,000 men at Mostaganen.
It is reported that CABRERA intends visiting Mont.
pellier for the benefit of his health. Being no stranger
.o the efficacy of money, lie will come well provided
,vith Spanish dollars, and accompanied by the mlnbcrs
of his family.

The Car ists have seized another Spanish vessel laden
with wool on the coast of Valencia.

The French Papers say that arrests have taken place
at Strasburg, in consequenee of an attempt to smuggle
muskets across the frontier. The persons implicated
,re supposed to be Bonapartists.
Letters from Bucharest, of the 9th ult., state that a
Company is forming at Galatz for clearing away the
obstructions to the navigation of the mouths of the
Danube. The want of such a Company has been long
very severely felt. Messrs. Lauron and Mieville, book-
sellers, who publicly sold at Kiew books which are in-
cluded in the Russian Index Prohibitorunt, have been
banished from Russia. The attempt of the Servian
Government to surprise Prince Michael on his return
from Constantinople, with a small corps of new regular
troops, has failed.
The above includes the only news of any interest,
not only in the French Papers of Monday, but in the
German and Brussels Papers received this morning.
BOURSE.--PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 30.

f irst Highest Lowest last
Price Price. Price. Price
r rench 5 per Cents ll3 55 ... 113 55 113 45 ... 1 3 50
4 per Cents
3 per Cents B3 60 . 83 61 82 53 ... 83 55
hank of rramce 3l€o ...3 60 ...3160 ...31611
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1062 5" —lOll5 ...11 62 50 —.1.65

5,000 f. Sh 5190 ...5190 ...5190
ielgian Bank
5 per Cents lO5 )05% ... 105 ... 105%
United States Bank Loan lOO% ... 10% ... 100% ... 1Ik)%
New York B9 50 ... 89 75 ... 89 59 ... dJ 75
Ohio lOl 25 ... 101 50 ... 101 25 ... 101 50
Spanish Ac ise 2636 ... t.:81( ... '28% ...
Passive 744 7/'s ••• 7%
Neal,olitan lOl 55 ... 104 55 ... 104 55 ... 104 as
:onian lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 114

RAILWAY SHARES.
.4. Germain ........... 667 5n ... 667 50 ... C 62 50 ... r 65
Vcrsaille,. it. B 557 50 ... 555 ... 5.)7 50
L.B. 375 ... 3:5 3:2 50 ... 375
Orleans 485 490 ... 453...49,
StrasOure to Bale
•••••
... 390 ... 390 :385 ... 388 75
llulhausen to 'Mann

GREAT WESTERN RAI LWAY.—This fine was
opened on Monday last for public traffic as far as Reading; and
the day being unusually fine, attracted a large concourse of
people there to witnes the arrival of and departure of the trains.
TLe Company appear to have made the arrangements at this
station conducive to the comfort of the passengers, as well as to
the facility of carrying on a vary considerable traffic in that im-
portant town. On Saturday last the Directors WVBt dawri fee
the purpose of nnally inspecting the station and line, previously,
to heir being opened to the public. The train, consisting of
two carriages, and a truck, with about forty persons, left Pad-
dington at eleven o'clock with the Fire. Fly engine, and reached
Re ding, a distance of 34- miles, in 45 minutes, being at the
rate of 47-1- miles per hour. On their return With tw.
engine and train, after stopping atlwyford for water, they
travelled the whole distance of 303/4 miles, from that station to
Paddington, in 37 minutes, being an average speed of 50 miles
per hour. The maximum speed obtained was at the rate of
58 miles per hour.
The Great Western may be expected to read;
Bristol on or before Friday ne;st, 011 her WWII froFfi New
York, bringing accounts tiithe 10th tatiiiio,