The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Times yesterday devoted a long
article to enforce upon the country gentlemen of its
party the duty of feasting. Eating and drinking to
repletion have been found. it seem!, most excellent
auxiliaries to Toryism. It. is now feared by certain
gourmands, that having effected the main purpose for
which they we,e employed, Conservative festivals arc in
danger of fulling into disuse. " These admirable fes-
tivals must on no account be relinquished," is not only
the friendly admonition of the Times, but the fond hope
of many a rampant Tory, who was wont to be favoured
with a ticket at the Tory candidate's or Member's cost—
es the price of his sweet voice: at the poll, and his voci-
ferous cheers when the party toasts were announced from
the chair, after the removal of the cloth from the din-
ner table, taking special care not to be betrayei into
any un-Toryfied expression of lnyalty to the Sovereign
on the proposal of " her Majesty's health," should it t
deemed rather " too bad" to shirk that time-honoured
compliment to the Sovereigrk,by " Church and Queen,"
the new-fanged form which is now extensively used en
such occasions. The Times .evinces considerable tact
in thus drawing attention to the influence of the
stomach on the principles, or, Tattier, the voles, of its
party. The Tories are univursally good feeders. The
disposition evinced by the " respectables" of the party
to barter their suffrages for soup, and their consciences
for claret, has a due and a pyropriate influence upon
these who occupy a lower plum: in the scale of society.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle perseveres
with commendable assiduity, if ;its case were a good one,
in the Anti-Corn-law controversy. The state of deser-
tion in which our respected Ccs temporary sands seems
rather to animate than to subdue. its zeal, and day after
day it pours out its closely-peeked columns, under the
disheartening testimonies from .all sides that its labours
are but moderately approved o 1 or, worse, that they fuse
net read. It is an impression of the latter kind w'ssich
'wields our reply to the Moral:4g Chronicle as often as
we could wish. This disheeefteniog fear, that one
writes for a thankless public, ;that will not even con-
descend to the perusal of what. Ins been written, hai
bean, at least since the days of Persius—" Quis leget
lima? Nemo, Hercule, nemo"---ethe most powcrfnl and
melancholy restraint upon the exercise of the pen ;
and the person who can expect readers for any long
article with the awful stigma, ‘' Corn-law Question,"
in its front, must have a higher opinion of his powers
than we are conscious of. Nevertheless we adhere to
the hope that toleration, and event a minute's attention,
is possible for a few words upun a very striking and
important fallacy. Under this :impression we venture,
though still with diffidence of .aucccss in catching a
to submit, and to notic a in a few words, the
following extract from the Morning Chronicle of th's
day :
" In another column will be found an account of an
import mt fea trade meeting at Sheffield on Monday
last, at which were present :Earl Fi.zwilliam, Johe
Parker, Bei., Sir Arnold James,..and nearly all the mot
influential merchants, manufactures, &c., of the pl ice.
Resolutions disapproving of legislative interference
to protect the manufacture or the growth of anything
in any national locality,' advoca.l6 ng free intercourse
between the nations of the earth !for the various articles
of manufacture and natural production,' and expressiel
a readiness to abolish all prot,tetive import duties on
foreign manufactures,' were prop )sed and seconded by
masters and oreratitei, and carried unanimously.
" We had supposed that the manufactures of Bir-
mingham and Sheffield would be %the last to suffer from
the corn monopoly. But we regret to perceive in
the statements of some of the leseatng manufacturers ir-
refragible evidence that the trade-. of Sheffield has suf-
fere I from it to an extent which ve could hardly have
credited. Mr. Ibbotson observed that five-eighths of
the manufacturers of Sheffield go to the American
market, the severe prostrations of vihich has been of five
years' standing.
" What (said Mr. Ibbotson) is the reason of all this?
Because the Americans have bad nothing-to give us in
exchange for our goods.—(Hear.) America has an
abundance of what our people are dying for—not lite-
rally dying, but wasting away for want of adequate sup-
port."
The reason, then, of the stagnation of the American
trade during the last five years is to be found in the
Core-laws ! Prima facie, this seems strange when we
remark that the trade, the temporary stagnation of
which is complained of, had grown up under the system
of protection, end had prospered beyond example and
beyond hope under the Corn-laws for at least 21 years.
COURlER.—Westated some rime ago, that the con-
dition of the sister country was gradually and steadily im-
proving, as will with regard to the feelings and habits,
as to the material comforts of the great body of the
people ; and notwithstanding the atrocious crimes that
have recently been perpetrated there, disgracing the na-
tional character, and rolling back for a time the tide of im-
provement,we sea no reason to alter or qualify our opinion
in the slightest particular ; on the contrary, various
subsequent events have but served to strengthen
and confirm it. The land-hunger that obtains amongst
the Irish peasantry is almost incomprehensible, it
the main source of instigation to the many savage and
brutal murders of which that unhappy country has
been the scene, embittered and aggravated by fierce
and furious agitation; and by the lessons of contempt
for law and disregard for human life which it inculcates
with such industrious malignity. Truthfully, and gra-
phically does a late revolter against the desolating des-
potism of that system trace the close, the inseparable
connection subsisting between its preachings and the
murderous practices which pass in the sister country
under the designation of agrarian outrages.