The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

" 'FE E C H I.NA S Ir) A
T T ,) r This was the state of the perfectly unemployed poor in the
year 1824. The witness was then asked, " Have you
Which was lately RE-PUBLISHED, IS NOW I observed, in your memory, that the quantity of crime has
ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. : I ;,----..sed?" The answer was, undoubtedly, during the
1 last )1" years especially. There were generally
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in each
Orders received DA The Sun Office, No.
In 1
parish from the to forty unemployed, who were -
during the day in idle games to pass •'- _ ...gaged
• insulting persons who pas,--1 - ...Jr time away, in
make them more', . ..._,... or, or in taking sleep to
would apply for weacty for their labours at night ; no one
frcq.l th: - - ark, because they were sure of support
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IN PROGRESS,

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141 it A ILWA S
With a MAP of all the RA.II WAYS in
United Kingdom; containing all the
41'
7IONS on each Railway, and a grr-
var
of Information and other panic& di
with Railways. ,raunectel

/tent is put before the public by
'EEr., for the purpose of showing
r. , operation of the old Poor-law
?Ise it to show the effect of the Corn-
dtrate the conduct of the aristocracy,
e the little utility, to the bulk of the
4ie unceasing meddling of the Legisla-
what it is plain, from the results of its
it does not understand. Indeed, that
,esents a very remarkable instance of ac-
tivity increasing in proportion as experience has
proved its. labours to be mischievous. ADAM
SMITH and FRANKLIN led the way in showing
that the less the Legislature meddled with mat-
ters of trade the better for society, and no year
has passed since the attention of the House of
Commons could be spared from finding the
means of carrying on the war, without Parlia-
ment having made several laws to regulate trade.
Mr. MALTnus came next and demonstrated that
the tendency of population to outgrow the supply
of food lies at the bottom of most social evils,
and the attempts of the Legislature to stimulate
on the one hand the increase of people, or to
check, on the other, the supply of food, had al
ways led to inconceivable misery. Not a year,
we believe, has since flown over our heads, but
the Legislature, with a fatuity which, on ordinary
principles is quite inexplicable, has meddled more
and more with the population and with food. It
would seem that, like a. passionate woman, it is
stimulated into greater . and greater enormities
by time detection and exposure of its errors.
As to the effect of the Corn-laws, it will be re-
membered that the Corn-law was passed in 1815,
when the sum appropriated to the unemployed
poor in Bly thing was 51., and in the year 18.24
it was no less than 3,5361., at which time the
Corn-laws bad been nine years in existence.
Coincident, therefore, with the passing of those
laws, began the dependence and the degrada-
tion of the agricultural labourers, while those
laws are defended on the ground that they pro-
vide high wages and abundance of employment
for agricultural labourers.
In the same nine years, but especially during
the last five years, the agricultural labourers
had btcome totally demoralized. They are de-
s: ibed as idle, poaching, and thieving. That
was the result of the combined operation of the
Corn-laws and the Poor-laws, the administra-
tion of which was entirely in the hands of the
landowners, the squires, and the parsons. The
corruption, degradation, and demoralization of
the population is clearly to be traced to them and
their laws, and we are grateful to Sir It. PEEL
for bringing before the public the graphic illus-
tration of the conduct of the landed aristocracy
during the nine years to 1.841 after the Corn-laws
were passed.
But we are now in the year 1841. We have
lived 16 years more than in 182.4. Sir R. PEEL,
then a mature-man, a forward legislator, a great
officer of State, has since had 16 years' experience.
The Legislature has paid great attention to the
subject. It has passed many new laws for the
improvement of the people; it has had unlimited
power; it has built churches, and multiplied
prisons; it has made a complete change in the
Poor-law; it has altered; and, as it is supposed,
improved the Corn-law; and now, after these
sixteen years of continual legislative toil,
what is the result? The criminal returns show a
yearly increase of committals, and a yearly in-
crease of crime ; not confined to the manufactur-
ing, but spreading throughout the agricultural,
districts. It was so alarming‘ in 1834, particu-
larly in the agricultural .districts—the Corn-law
existing throughout the period—that a stringent
Poor-law was passed, by the combined operations
of which the hungry poor and the refractory
poor may be at once coerced and excluded from
relief.

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ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY.
ELIECTOKS,
The Sheriff having ‘declared the Election in favour of
ALCOCK, and a Poll 'having been demanded, it only remains
to follow up this glorious victory by ruthin„,,, to the poll, at the
eavliest moment, and Toting for Alcsek. The poll will corn-
iraenee at Nine o'Clock This Morning.
REFORMERS, POLL EARLY !

.ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY.
Election
Tbe CENTRAL COMMITTEE for conducting the
of AS AT.COCK, E.respectfully ac-
quaint the Ele,:itorsHOM that CARRIAGES wills sp
be constantly in
readiness at -the undermentioned Committee-rooms, to con-
vey the Fr'renda of Mr. Alcoc t the Poll :
The Br idge House H0te1.,....... Southwark.
The Victoria.
Simon the Tanner ... g-lane, Bermondsey.
The C,,cr,
Rotherhithe.
Clapham.
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The T irek's Head, ... Old Kent-road.
The ' Nhitc He
Kennington-cross.
1,‘,•,, ton's Ho' el
'`'ne Red Cr ' •
Camberwell.
The, Prior .‘
of Wales
The Gr m • Ti, • • yhound Streatham.
7 ‘e Sr he F ;read Eagle. ... Wandsworth.
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,nn
ane Talbot
b e Swan
Reigate.
ne Crown
Anderton's Hotel . . Fleet-street.
' At Knight's opposite the Salo- j
pian Coffee-house Charing-cross.
The Poll will open This Mo,ning at Nino o'clock, and it is ear
testl3 requested of the Liberal Electors that they will poll early.
SAMUEL PALLIER, Chairman.
GEORGE G. DE H. LARI'ENT, Vice-Chairman,
Central Committee-room, Bridge House Hotel,
Southwark, Feb. 11, 1841.

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I:3' NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
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smoothly on to a final confluence, bearing with them the
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once
object piquant, sprightly, and dialogueish. Lastly, the
or rather ,tho moral of the work, by which it and all
animilar productioris should be tested, is uneaceptionrble ; for
etotthoughtless or giddy woman can rise from its perusal with-
ce_f"ling that it must be her own fault if the lesson it incul-
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Iits.".r,o,THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
R the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, FEB, 11,
THE WHITE MILLINER.
riLord Ortolan, Mr. C. Mathews !ustice Twiliht, Mr. W.
Rilie4; Robert Conway, Mr. J. Vining ; Saul Sneezum, Mr.
bi—...et; Lady Ortolan Miss Cooper Albina, Madame Ves-
kis; Mollowpea'r, Mrs. C. Jones ; Batty Furbelow,
• nurnby.
Aber which, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled
Co, BROTHER BEN.
Cr dunodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr.
dies Mathews; Mr. Shuffieton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy.
Zones.

Wages now, instead of being ample to main-
tain the workman, vary from 7s. to 12s. per week,
corn being at 7s. 6d. per bushel. The agricultu-
ral labourers are starving and in rags. The con-
dition of the artizans in the manufacturing dis-
tricts may be learnt from our Preston Correspon-
dent's letter. He says that there are in that
town ten thousand persons • who have not
a single blanket to :cover them. Every-
where the voice of: complaint is loud,
poverty and distress are increasing, and the
cup of discontent is full almost to overflow-
ing. Such are the results of sixteen years'
incessant meddling with the poor, with their con-
dition, and with their fond, by the Legislature,
after the ill effects of the conduct of the aristo-
c racy were known in 1824.
In those sixteen years Sir ROBERT PEEL,
and the rest of the errant mischief makers who
meddle with trade and population, having the
most glaring evidence before them of their re-
peated failures, seem not to have learnt one use-
ful truth, for they go on year after year uphold-
ing the same scoundrel Corn-law, and passing
enactment after enactment to obviate, without
ever succeeding, the consequences of their own
errors. Such a succession of mischievous blun-
ders is unexampled, we believe, in the history of
man, since he began to observe and note the
effects of his conduct.
Will the calamities which are now falling on
the people open the eyes and soften the hearts
of these blind and cruel men? They must be
doubly mailed in vanity and self-conceit if they
unretlectingly persist in their present course.
With skill and industry unexampled in the
world, possessing a productive power which has
been estimated as equal to that ofmore than a hun-
dred millions of those men who, in the ancient
world, reared the Pyramids, which still attest
their greatness—a power so vast that benevolent
men have been alarmed lest it should want the
means of exertion—blessed with all the elements
of wealth, exposed to no great natural disasters,
the land not covered with avalanches or washed
away by floods, but visited merely by a winter
of some little more than the ordinary severity,
but nothing:out of the course of nature—with the
greatest natural advantages ever owned by a
nation—with abundance of land both here and
in our colonies, surrounded by oceans teeming
with fish, and blessed by Providence, therefore,
with the most wonderful " preparations for phy-
sical enjoyment"—with all these advantages, mul-
titudes of our people are at this moment in a
state of the deepest poverty and distress, and
passing daily into premature graves.
We do not take up a Journal but we find in-
quests, recording verdicts of " death from want,"
" death from starvation," "death from the in-
clemency of the weather," which means want of
food and clothing to protect the sufferers from
that inclemency. But the deaths which the
Coroner inquires into, are only a small portion
of those which are caused by hunger and cold.
The deaths in the metropolis in the week ending
the 30th ult., was 1,107 ; the average number of
deaths for the same week of 1839 and 1840, was
926, the increased mortality being 181. The
deaths in the metropolis in the week pre-
ceeding, was 1,129; and the average of the
same week in 1839 and 1840 was 926, the increase
being 203. The average increased mortality of
the two weeks of 1841 is therefore 192, or one-
sixth of the whole. That may be taken, we ap-
prehend, as a fair indication of the increased
mortality throughout the empire, the lower
classes of the metropolis being, in general, better
off than the lower classes of the manufacturing
and agricultural districts. Thus has the want of
food, of clothing, and of comfort, to meet the
additional severity of the weather—which as we
have shown again and again, is the consequence
of the Corn and other bad laws—put to death,
within the last few weeks, one-sixth more of our
people than would otherwise have died.
Taking the population of the metropolis at

To conclude w
THE
GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMEith, entitled
AHE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN
rantaloon, MAr.M NADiopC.TotHi
jE; GIANT HELMET.
Harlequi Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Columbine, Miss Fairbrother.
ijWill be acted the New Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled
no-imor rne.
rew, The Midsummer Nigkt's Dream, with The New
Doerst.co to be opened at balf-past Six—the performances to
Dinence at Seven o'clock.
Cirerie" Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
. es. ; Second Price, Is. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price,
4 Gallery, h.
and places fo the os to b taken of Mr. Groan
4 he Box_oce,
iu from Tenß tilln Four,e where Season Tickets
'3l;rt.)e had epon application.
iltonadtzeebt7 had so'ely of Mr. And: eers, bookseller

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
dounuerful increasing popularity—Ainsmorth's Tower of Lon-
Zb—lite Cask Vaulter, and Goosey Gander, with the ce-
orated scene between the Gallic Cock and the English Bull
p g, which has caused an extraordinary excitement in
ranee. are drawing crowded houses.
Will t. THIS EVENING , FEB. II,"
!actell a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and
entitled
1)1t THE TOWER OF LONDON.
h Tal'icaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments,
4fter°tn the Designs of the celebrated George Crnikshanks.
which will Ise repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime,
entitled
q,x,-QUIN AND MY LADY LEE •, OR, GOOSEY
ja -1", nER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.
V„lluich the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask
tlnueortesri.vrill be. given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramic
tas B.,.o....loefuoSyFraima Syria; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri-
y; Mr. Southby, the Original Clo..vn ;
Sigeio harPe. Columbine • and the astonishing Gyntnastique,
from'Franceni's, at Paris.

STRAND HEATRE.
clerk," r-VERYNEW EVENING witTh the astonishing andwon-
-110„; Performances of Mr. JACOBS, the justly celebrated
visiTr Ventriloquist, Modern 3lagician, and English Impro-
terte(4),e' The numbers that nightly flock to witness the En-
of ttlenta
greati seinethis astonishing Artist, is a sufficient
°f th ant afforded.
boor. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, Is.
Secbnd Ma at Seven o'clock, and commence at Half-past.
oa'lpriceiieat a Quarter to Nine o'clock—Boxes, Is. 6d. ;
Carr' FY, 6d.
minutes past Ten.
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üblieation of the Evening Edition of Tux Sur; corn-
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