The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

manufacturers. The real market for our manlt7
facturers, that for which they exchange their
produce, is the prOduce of agricultural labour,
and not the gross produce, for much of that is
necessarily consumed by those who grow it, but
the nett produce, or the amount which
remains over and above the expense of cultiva-
tion, including the 'consumption of the cultivators.
How the gross produce is increased, or can be
increased, by the Corn-law no man has yet shown.
At the same time, it is palpable that the nett
produce cannot possibly be increased by it. The
very intention of the law is to force cultivation,
to make men break up ground and•keep it under
the plough, which, but for the law, would not
yield •. enough to pay for the cultivation, and
consequently cannot possibly yield any nett
produce to give in exchange for the produce of
manufactures. It is a misdirection of the capitals
of individuals. The real home market, then, we
repeat, for our mandactures,lihe articles which
actually pay them for their produce—for they are
not paid for by bank checks or promissory notes—
are the nett produce- of agricultural labour, and
neither that nor the gross produce is increased,
but decreased, by the Corn-laws.
The Post, with the other Corn-law advocates,
would frighten the manufacturers from demand-
ing justice, by threatening them with the loss of
the home market. If the Corn-laws were to be
totally repealed to-morrow, not a grain less of
produce would be grown for the next eighteen
months, if even then ; and consequently the
home market would not be lessened to the ex-
tent of a single grain. The landlords might
not buy so much silk, but the labourers would
buy more fustians. Supposing the produce
were lessened, it could only be to the small
extent of putting out of cultivation those
lands which, but for the Corn-law, would
not yield a sufficient produce to repay the ex-
pense of cultivation, and leave a nett profit. At
most that is not one-twentieth of the whole, and
the other nineteen parts of the home market
would remain, while the manufacturers would
have, in addition, an extensive market in all the
foreign agricultural produce which the Corn-
law will not now allow them to purchase. The
Post writes as if not the twentieth part, but
the whole of the home trade, which we have
shown to be very dependent on foreign trade,
would be annihilated by the total and immediate
abolition of the Corn-law.

In concluding, we must observe that we have
rather endeavoured to expound the principles of
the great question on which we differ from the
Post, than controvert its verbal statements.
Our object, as we trust is apparent, has been
to establish what we conceive to be the truth,
not to indulge in controversy or endeavour to
achieve a triumph.

We learn from Liverpool that at the grea
meeting, which we yesterday noticed, every re-
solution was either moved or seconded by a Tory.
We have already mentioned that all the resolu-
tions were carried unanimously, and we are in-
formed by those who have local knowledge that
such a display of unanimity amongst Whigs,
Tories, and Radicals, never took place in Liver-
pool before. That is a profound homage to the
truth and excellence of the principles of free
trade, which, like the genuine spirit of patriotism,
can hush all party differences, and make men,
otherwise ready to combat one another, unite to
obtain a peaceful and a righteous end.
We yesterday referred to one of the reSolu-
tions, which denounces all laws as demoralizing
which limit the field of employment. We have
since learnt that the second resolution, which
appears with the rest in another part of
The Sun, was expressly meant to embrace
and denounce all protection, whether manu-
facturing, agricultural, or colonial. With
such a sweeping condemnation we can find no
fault, and we can only regret that the explana-
tions which, offered at the moment, satisfied
Mr. DUFFY, were not made public with the rest
of the proceedings, so that the whole community
might have been as convinced as he was, that
the merchants of Liverpool took some interest
in the sufferings of the working classes, and were
not exclusively occupied with _considering their
own p•rofit.

We subjoin an extract from a letter from Alex-
andria, which we have just received from a naval
officer of high rank, who took an active and dis-
tinguished part in the capture of Beyrout and
Acre, and whose views are quite in accordance
with those which we yesterday expressed re-

specting the hatti-scheriff or firman conferring
upon the VICEROY the hereditary Pachalic of
Egypt. Having already, published that docu-
ment, the translation which he so obligingly
sends us comes too, late ; but we are not the less
sensible of the kind intention thus manifested to
serve us. We unite with him in the expression
of a hope, that the British Government will
insist upon those modifications being made
in the firman, which MEHEMET ALI re-
gards as essential to the maintenance of his
authority in Egypt. England cannot and will
not accord to the SULTAN the right of nomi-
nating any of the VICEROY'S sons he pleases to
the Pachalic of Egypt. To do so would be to
deliver over the country to the horrors of a perio-
dical civil war, and to deprive the reigning PACHA
of the allegiance of his own family. We know
that the .:Porte would never hai-e ventured to
carry its to the height it has done,
but for the underhand intrigues of Lord PoN-
SONBY, and therefore the wisest thing the Go-
vernment can do is to recal this diplomatist
from a -.post in which he has 'long ceased
to be distinguished for anything but mis-
chief. We: must confess, however, that the
chief ground of our confidence that justice
will be accorded•to the VICEROY, is based on the
presence of Commodore NAPIER at Alexandria,
wlio throughout has displayed equal saga-
city and courage in bringing this question to
a satisfactory final adjustment. The Gallant
Commodore is not hackneyed in the crooked
paths of diplomacy, and we 'have no doubt
that • his sterling good sense will be more
than
~a match for the chicanery of the Divan
undeftligsapient guidance of Lord PONSONBY.
While NAPIER remains at Alexandria, we are
sure that the VICEROY will be under the
guidance of counsels in perfect harmony with
the best interests not only of Egypt but of Eu-
rope. And now for our extract
I now send you the translation of the liatti-
scheriff, conferriniron,Melwmet Ali the heredi-
tary Pachalic of Egypt. He has consented to
the 2d, 4th, sth articles, and the part of the 6th,
which regards the' construction of ships of war.
He very-properly rejects the Ist article, which,
if accepted, would set all his family by the
ears, and bring on .a civil war. Article 3d he
has begged the Porte to modify, as being too
oppressive to Egypt. He also objects to the
conceives a deviation froth that
part of article 6th, which relates to the appoint-
oaprnfill-ialle :this hatti-scheriff has been
appoint-
ment of officers. Hitherto the Pacha haS ap-
pointed all officers under
.the rank of General of
ze his army, and indeed create a
Ponsonby, who carries his en-
NmDvoi;ru,tiliisndityodn.iiss,
'Ali beyond all bounds. The.
Nredtapier Convention, and the me-
nacing attitude of the Turks, which obliged
Ibrahim Pacha to pass to the eastward of the '
Dead Sea on his march to Gaza, has hurried into
the next world many thousands of men, women,
and children, and if .the Allies should insist on
the first article of the hatti-scheriff, there will be
discord in the family and civil war in the coun-
bfeyhtle7ne
try. Syria is BONY completely evacuated, and the
Turkish steamer, has returned to Constantinople
with Mehemet answer, couched in very
submissive terms. It is to be hoped the British
Government will use their influence with the
Porte to change the offensive articles, otherwise
this country, which is now in an improving state,
will be thrown into disorder and confusion, and
there is no need of that, for the Ottoman Em-
pire will find quite enough to do in Syria and
Arabia without creating anarchy here."

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