The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-07 00:00:00

EVENING' EDITION% t

coed with the Poor-law Bill on the lith, and Mr. N.V.At.rsit
said he would bring forward a motion to slop it.
In answer t) questions from Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. Rug"
SELL stated that the preliminary arrangements made by Car
tain ELLIOT at Canton had not been ratified, and that the
Government generally disapproved of them. Captain ELLiox
had been recalled. Sir HENRY POTTINGER had received his
appointment, and was about to depart immediately for
Mr. Fox MAULE stated in reply to Lord • MAnorcti:at
was true that considerable "mortality prevailed =bilge 1111'.'
convicts at Woolwich, but it alzo prevailed amongst the tailiOtt'
there. •

Mr. HUME's motion fcr the production of paper; relative
to the destruction of the Caroline, was resisted by LOrd JO'
RUSSELL, on the ground that negotiations were pending, aim
no information was elicited by the brief debate which ensued.
The motion was negatived without a division, Sir R. Psei'
supporting Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S views.
Colonel SIBTHORP moved that the appointment of Mr.
VIZARD as solicitor to the Home-office, ought to be cancelled.
The motion was resisted by Mr. MauLE, and the Gallant
Colonel declined topress it to a division. The House only sat
till a Quarter past Seven.

The West Tndia Proprietors, the British North
American Colonial Association, the General whip"
owners' Society, and a multitude of other persons
interested in various monopolies, have taken the
field against the Government plan for giving re;
lief to the people. This was to be expected, an
their celerity in hastening to the field shows ill
once who are the real enemies of justice and lin;
nesty in the community. Look at the names 01
those who attended the West India Meet-
ing on Wednesday. A Nobleman was in the
chair. He is the owner of estates in the West
Indies, and for many years the zealous opponent
of all the efforts made by the anti-slavery P3rtY
to ameliorate the condition of the slaves. Th'i,tl
there were Baronets, Knights, M.P.s, 13311°-
Governors and Directors, ci-devant Colonial At-
torney-Generals, &c. &c. To them we must add
great shipowners, American Associations, Chair'
man of LLOYD'S, and the bulk of the titled and
moneyed aristocracy. These are the real, living.,
active oppressors of the working and industrie"s
classes; Government is merely a cunningly COn'
trived tool with which they work, and legislaiion
in their hands is little better than parchinentfa-
cept as they animate it by their will.
The great and the unspeakable merit of the
Budget, including the alteration of the Cali'
laws, is that it strikes at the principle on which
rests the power of these oppressors. What (10
all the Dissenters and all the enlightened frientl
of the voluntary system of Church discipline.
complain of throughout the Empire ? A favoured
and protected Church, a Church not springing
from the Gospel but from the Legislature, mar
tamed and protected in various privileges 3°
spite of the rest of the people. What do an the
consumers of bread, the merchants and onniti:
facturers whose trade is suffering, the labourer
hat
who are reduced to starvation, complain ofy
of the legislative protection given to We
owners of rent ? What do the Chartists s*r.
is the cause of all the evils of society ?
that one class is exclusively endowed with, al
protected in, the exercise of the functions °
legislation and the Choice or legislato:es. 1V.123t
are the differential or diseriminating sugar do
but a protection exclusively granted to thee
owners of land in the West Indies ? What rat
discriminating dutig on coffee or timber—w_ ieo
the duties on silk 4Kron, and the whole sev
~vhich crowd the statute book, except revello
:
.duties, but protection accorded first to one 1
and then to another ? Through the whole 01°_.
fiscal, economical, and political regulations ;
find this one. principle—PROTECTION, opera°
most mischievously to great classes of the COl0
muni:y, and the object of complaint and vituPe,
ration.
Against whom, too, are the different Pre
vileged vileged classes protected? Who assails itime
Church, or is discontented with it ? Not. 0,
French—not the Americans—not the Ru36l3for
uor any foreigners--they care not a armor
he Church—but large masses of her 31AJj'i idol
,objects who (10 notbelong to it, and c 3;.„ 41*
share its privileges. Who assails cw01)11t;
,)f the Corn-laws ?--the Germans? No; the ill
tabitants of our toWns. Who complains of tl7;
xelusive franchise ? the labOving classes; `110,,i-
-,re deprived of it. So on throughout; the Pro- t
ection bestowed by the Government is 'blot,
gainst foreigners, not against enemie
!gainst masses of our own countrymen, fbr
,rotection means privilege, or monopoly'
rred on
.some to the injury of others. 111°01
ho demand protection mistake the function'
(4overnment, and fancy, being led astraY bY.ch
•nisapplied word, that the Government ‘O,ll,
•xists to protect them from foreign jovalol ct
corn crimes and their effects, is bound to Pr°`dle
heir monopolies against the just claims of
. est of the people.
All protection, so explained, is the oPPre-•
d' those against whom the protections are o,,„wiee
wined. They are violations of that equal.init
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,vhich all classes, and every individual, et,e
Litled to from the State. If this inequality.eh
ight, let it be carried out. Let the law 'will
akes away an ounce of a man's sugar,
miontutnldmovf,
uhnisdebrretande,
uanlisvoercslaali titnt
his
fe °
to
and
self-P if
iervation, no man any longer owes allegiaocc'
ke be capable of escaping from its power. Thiacie ar
sti
,)rotecting laws do,' therefore, in part what a VI
tle tl iof
if
directed against a man's life does —lv° Jr
authority, and make it only a question o
of
)orary expediency whether the law slim'
hall not be obeyed. e r
Now this is a very important matter, Pr'' 110
tbr the especial consitkration of the classes $
claim and receive these protections. It 15
id
common and general belief that• society e°`
not hold together a day without the authoritY•ty,
human law. Whatever weakens its author'
therefore, endanger s the very existence 01.1:if
ciety. All these protections being unjust ig.t;ithe
own nature, conferring privileges on some 0' of
people at the expense and to the darnt4el-e
others, weaken the authority of law. They In- it
it contemptible and hateful to those whti'iot
unjustly injures, and they tend to bring about
disobedience, confusion, and anarchy.
ior#
It is a lamentable Mistake to suppose that -01
are to be obeyed, whatever may be their
character. If the three Estates should be Ad° t
•
to pass a law to burn a million quarters of IbotY
or break down the dykes on the' eastern,;oter
Lnd again cover the now fertile plains with tell it
,Lud sand, we should indignantly diSobeY. sa l )Ir'
and we should have Mr. HANDL gl EY iviosf
2iinISTOPHER as leaders in the rebellio°'
nerefore, it is plain, are only to be obeYe` holt
hey are in their own nature just ; and tmitis: sve
iike the various so-called protecting (401.4704 e,
'lave ad;erted to, provoke and justify disobeal 1,010
they give their own characteristics to the,n the
fabric of legislation, and expose society L-4,411,
danger of being crushed and dislocated by its. the
Now one great value in our estiniation.n,tatint.
propositions of her MAJESTY'S MiLliter4 y
/he
they strike at this principle of protection• ieh
make no pretence to remove it altogether) hot
vere much too arduous and gigantic a • tttsi:' ye
they are milt, a y to that principle. TbeY .y,
I
the beginning of a just and good system.
'r on'
ur something like them, something of their tee,
ture and character, gradually to remove Prn,
dons, and as they remove protections
th
r
grievance, and abolish a wrong, are nn- 111
pensable to restore law, by making it just/ 4,0
proper authority over the mind of man: dit
We do not give her MAJESTY'S Ministers
eel ex'
for being actuated by the views we hitc-rdsY,
pressed. On the contrary, we stated Yesuiriveo
and we repeat to-day, that they have been!tie of
unwillingly and reluctantly, by the neenss.l4crie4
the State and the fact that the productive enc
of the country are unequal to supply all .tlicehtsso,
mands made on them by the protected ,tec
and the State, to attack the principle
~ of Pr" con•
tion. Their conduct, dictated by necesslo.,s iffi•
firms these views, and demonstrates thatit,.!
~tago
under the double burden
ger any longer
are
tection and taxat;on. es "
possible for the productive part of society tcypro'
making common cause in
Now, as the bulk of thefalvlro°utie• cotte' dthee'lfptisns'llciPle