The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-16 00:00:00

EVENING E ITION.

tion for injuries inflicted by accidents caused
by their servants, would, we believe, at once
make the Directors use all the care in their
power. We are far from saying that precautions
of this description would suffice to -put an end to
accidents on railways, which must be the result of
time, but they would, we believe, contribute much
to bring about that result. We repeat, because we .
know that self-interest may misconstrue our remarks,
that we are warm friends to railways, and wish
them to be so conducted as to merit public support.

The Acadia steam ship has reached Liverpool
from Halifax, in ten days, being the Eecond packet
of Mr. CUNARD'S line that has accomplished the
same feat. We learn from the Nova Scotian that
she arrived out in eleven days, aed we see by her
log, which that Journal publishes, that the length
of each day's voyage was very nearly the same. ,
when it took twelve or fifteen days to go from the
the time of communicating with them is reduced t°
the same number of days, may not remain for ever
united to the mother country. They must not, ia"
deed, always be treated as colonies, any more than
Steam-vessels, taelai
cmi - yes
coulds el s , inbe fact,
governed now' performb y
en their
0Y
voeyreiagesg n ,
across the Altantic with as much certainty
mail. coach goes from London to Falmouth.
The alteration will be fruitful of political con-
our
sequences. Steam-ships have brought
American Colonies nearer to London, in time,
than was Dublin or Edinburgh a hundred
years ago. If England, Ireland, and Scot-
! metropolis to the end of our home territories, wo d°
not see why the North American Colonies, now that
Scotland and Ireland, but like an integral part 0

the State.
The anticipated separation, then, of the Colonies
from the mother country, of which so much was
said during the last Session of Parliament,
and
which was so confidently predicted by some of civat
wisest statesmen, such as Loid BROUGHAg an
Lord A skIBURTON, is 110 longer a PhYsicai-
necessity, and will be brought about, if_
at all, by moral, not physical causes. 10128
threatens repeal and separatiox because f'
our injustice, growing out, of a political Pre!'"
rence of one religion to another ; and the Canada's
seem not unlikely to suffer from the same cll.
The Church of England is the parent of RePeB
and the Church of England will be one main eause
of the separation of the Presbyterians, Catholic!:
and Methodists, who inhabit Canada, from tuts
Our ar
mother country, whenever that occurs.
have conquered both time and space ; but knave,
ledge has not yet conquered selfishness, nor en,
lightened bigotry. If we could hope for that e°B
quest, we might predict that the connection both
with Ireland and the Colonies would be eternal*

Professor ARNDT, after being shut UP
t his
fortress for twenty-one years, his struggles
sufferings, and his name almost forgotten, has'
learn by the German papers received last nih
gt;
been restored to liberty. Young men will ask' wa
v. glow'
are afraid, in Germany, as they ask in •'-'n'" rs
who is ARNDT ? Four or five and tweet} Ye-
ago a professor of his name was the terror of
:I;
German Government. He was imprioned'
t dents
for his misdeeds, but his popularity. The.sbuto.
sung his hymns to liberty, repeated h's the
ing words, and frightened Kings. French
patriotic exertions of the Germans, the
they de,'
were driven across the Rhine, and when l
mantled their promised reward of a Libel.°
Aungons,
tution, they were answered with stripes, row
and fetters. ARNDT, we believe, was one
who felt most deeply the faithlessness of the v.
of PRUSSIA, and most loudly and eloquentlY
pressed his indignation. For that he was inlP-
soiled, and for that he has been kept in prison fi)r
twenty-one years. The present King of PRuSSI'I
has the merit of releasing him, of restoring hist°
his Professorship, and of compensating bi°
for a part of the pecuniary loss he ha
sustained by his imprisonment. But the is
rant who confined him, could no more rest°;
ARNDT the years of which he deprived him' thiisas
he could restore the dead to life. ARNDI ass
been robbed of them, and robbed of his fame'li,„,
all human power to give him redress. For en',
and he
one years he has been dead to Europe, a I,
apt
comes forth from his dungeon only for men t°
who is ARNDT ?

T he following article appeared in our i"q...,
.Edition° of Monday, but was kept out of our ..--'ew.
tnr, Edition to make way for important foreign nevi's;
of To-day the Herald itself states that the labaur:fir.,
r. everyi country are the great consumers of its -ye,
lcutural produce, which almost supersedes th°,iirier
cessity of pointing out the consequences of its ler'
article : d has
We must believe that the Morning Hera'i.n re
a great desire to benefit the labouring classes' theirs'
t continually makes a profession of zeal in
co
b ei tali.; but its reasoning on the subject is
most
extraordinary. We give a specimen :--- ;ii the,
Tlle Corn-laws, by taxing foreign corn, vest -de
labourers of England a mono )ol of the great tr°tijcir
growing food for the rich consumersiY of food alOng (I t°
thee
eo nrtirr ceonn's consumer
That
of mono
fo io!./y.
arna:lis ersa.ti
raises
price o.f roof
all
the labour that is
Corn-laws, theref
of all classes of employedlabourers.' in
ure, operate as a tax on bo.
amongst our countrymen—a tax operatint,:thafo:r-fp:brotieedhe;°rCr i he:-
alarwtifisefiraolnsitavtieoloa
ft i he Cora'
growing.
It is important to preserve the spirit of t i, sa
society,
like
imbportant,thperreelf:irise'intfaf,
I,h'heeapriccohrna.lonDeearyo,r ilaebt at which
becoming c"fiet (if
land, to prevent cornthe benc-nt in
emploYince-F,or
onnection with the soil—these, in a country lilt.ty,. if
land, are the great tests of the labourer's Pr°sPehril, 'cl3°L',
employmentathn the labourer have,
corn, inan thedo upirl°cnngt fromrtionf '
corn,be
ii
sint
sruceormen
en
tmeocbteei orr.in.cody a with
fau
ltih e soilsu rh co
fne-o-
ion foorste:
such 3 CO
;
never,inea in r
dear to him. No : corn is, then, dear onlY to the To)/
onlyand corn
edtehaer,laibnosuurcel:. ;circlul,s)rtatanbcie:c.:
rt
no
jail'
the
bre: t
IF,olfre
Whatever causes tend to"to din'inii' 'eon:
lish marl!et, and, at the same cheapentime
amount of the English labourer's en;ploPlent :aoe-
nection with the soil of his native country---thes-iof''
act most injuriously on the English labourer's Conditb 'MI
Ve have it admitted in the first paragi°Pa o'o6
the Corn-laws operate as a tax on food, an t the
the price to the rich consumers of food. 13ti ta
poor eat as well as the rich, and, in norti°"
pro,
it.bott
their means, cat a great deal more hreaa' nentleti
seven-eighths of the income of the poor is ex,,,r of °
on food, while the proportion of the inc°nl- oy to
above them expended on food declines conti°,eti, of
the highest rank, where less than one-twetibiteitefore'
tax, i, di'
the income is expended on food. The
weighs proportionally heavy as the incorne
Loth of
minished, and takes away a part, say f° obile
the seven-eighths of the income of the poa' r
,
tietop
it only takes away a fourth of one-oven
less, of the income of the tich. the he
Next, the Herald advocates the tax four
co ~,,td
i-
fit of the labourers on land. B e notßutt ear
more than the half of the labourers ar
played in this monopoly, and the half 1119tt 50 ow
061
ployed must be, on the Herald's argutne"
for those who are. tato/lents
The most strange, however, of all the s
,00 or
is this :—" It is important to prevent
out the
Throng.n.e tas?
labour from becoming cheap."
statement, the writer uses these as correhd!vbour, to
and to have dear corn is to have dear I' pot
have cheap corn is to have cheap label."'" • 1,05
very eig oil
labour is chiefly exchanged for corn. Se , f co
of the income of the labourer is laid
7:11:1,g pa'
To speak in one breath of both th -ojleet
to
chased and thing purellasin being deg?