The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDl'i'lON•t

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latest state of perfection ; set foot on our farms. an'
you suddenly find yourself driven from the world of th`,3;ii
nineteenth century. into the scenes and habits of otll
great-grandfathers."
It is the case of the Corn-law men, that
could be imported from Odessa, and various"'
other places, at 225. per quarter. That is an eor
geration ; but it could undoubtedly be brought fr°lll
there cheaper than from Paris, and, by the
exchange of our manufactured goods, the Pr°d"ce
of our unrivalled machinery,
might be ob
tained from various places by an almost incredibly
small quantity of labour. To form a cartel
opinion on the point, we ought to ascer'
tain by what quantity of labour our Ion!.
facturers could buy bread under that free-trade
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system, mentioned by the Circular, less than the
agriculturists of France can produce it, a to;
Parisians can buy it. We cannot even guess i
the amount, but if we were to say that it would be
another penny on a four-pound loaf, we should not
exaggerate. On this reasoning, but for the COO,
laws, three-pence halfpenny would be the price
the four-pound loaf in London, instead of tell'
pence, and with that glorious reduction bring"3g
plenty to al!, commerce would extend raPidlYei
and peace and good fellowship would be ens°

with all the nations of the earth. • et to
But we have not done yet. Coals are suhie
a heavy tax in the Port of London, and to a Mil'
tude of noxious local regulations which enhal
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the price of the.coals. Flour and wheat are sobs'
ject to no such tax. The trade in them le frig
and the trade of the baker is free. It is not 5% ip
Paris. The trade in flour and grain there le s
ject to a noxious set of regulations, like
trade ; the bakers are obliged to Conform tu'eert4A
rules ; and all grain and flour, we believe, th°l3!,,fs,'
,we have no book at hand to verify our belief
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subject to an octroye, or *tax, on, 01-0;
ing the City of Paris. A small
ought to be deducted on this account from ther6e
of the 41b. loaf in Paris, to arrive at what wOl4OO.-
the price of the 41b. loaf in London were there
Corn-laws. Our whole statement runs thus
Present price of a 41b. loaf in Paris 6d. In London
Deduct from the Paris price en ac-
count of the different standards...
On account of less labour in od pr uc-

t,a Pi • pi+
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ing corn in Fagland than in
France 1
On account of the less labour by
which English manufacturers
might buy corn abroad
Say for the o..itro3e
4
3f
Price of the 41b. loaf in London with free trade . .... •,,...

Sum lost to the labourers, if net all paid to the 1511(1-
owners, on every 41b. loaf ............................
Or, the price of the labourer's bread is Ilearly
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trebled by the bread-tax. thst
We see, by the Anti-Coat-late Circular,
the League recommend more petitions to be Our
up ; we hope that will be zealously set about, b
we fear it will not be. If the middle classetei
the towns were as earnest in this great cause as t.
are about shutting up public-houses, and other
lar means of annoying the bulk of the P"Ple' a„th:
increasing their hostility, they would in one
frighten the landlords from their rapacious To
ruinous injustice. But the middle classes of
towns, it must be stated, are not hearty in
cause ; they do not care about the bread-tax, and-10
as in their hands is the power, on their heads
the evil of continuing this unexampled and 1174.1i04
ruinous system of plunder. so
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We charitably believed that the proposal°
the Bishop of LONDON, backed by his fiftriltre "I°b
! • ,;‘,n
Thames Clerl'
gymen to stop the navigs--
River on Sunday, was the perfection of abstituoirir-
but we have been wofully mistaken, they have e
far outstripped by another body of Clergymen
North, who, claiming for theMselves and thtir
countrymen the exclusive merit of keeping I,,be
bath after the fashion of the ancient Jews, ari
termined
.at all events to outstrip them, and eV.'
stop--on Saturday as well as Sunday--to navir
Lion on the open seas. A motion, with this °I r.',
ject, was made and unanimously carried at the li.
meeting of the Wigtown Presbytery. The (01100-
ing account of the proceedings adopted by this
Inquisition is furnished by a Correspondent of 1
Dumfries Courier : •
The Rev. Mr. Forrester brought under the oslidtri,
ration of the Presbytery, the desecration of the Sabbasi
caused by the sailing of the Cotintess of Goll°:st
steamer at a late hour on Saturdays, so as to arr'vZ by
Liverpool,on Sabbaths, and being often driven bao` (iv
stress of weather caused much profanation of the I:(itpE
Day in his neighbourhood ; he moved the adoplijr
ti;
a memorial to the Directors on the.stibject.
chardson, of Penninghame, concurred with Mr. Ferrel
in his observations, but suggested that the matter Ibl
At
lie over till their next tneegtin as he understood t—of
the matter would likely be brought under the notir
the Directors in a few days. Mr. Muir, -of Kd Cop.
breck, supported the adoption of the memorial, ito
d ered the circumstance stated by Mr. RichardoP'gba.
an additional reason why it should be adopted rblth.ose
Presbytery, in order to strengthen the hands 0'
Directors who may feel anxious for the removal atO ,
crying an evil. The memorial was ultimately sgree,l‘,.:
unanimously, the Moderator being authorised tp•
scribe it in name of the Presbytery. ing
Now, if the reasons urged against this el es
evil" are founded on anything bearing a.reserubisnf
to common sense, and if these gentlemen hale .an
o er.
regard for one of the great commands of thel*
whom they profess to obey, they ought to ej°eviii,;:o I`.l :l
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their prohibition, and order the port of Garliest° b.,
and all the other ports within their iron rule, t° na.
shut up at once and for ever. W
commerce compared with this cryinghat areevil,tari d; n1114‘,.:1
can prosperity attend them if they lead. t° ';•1;
desecration of the Sabbath ? The vessel
starts on Friday, taking the weather into seet(Zpot!o 0
°psi to
(one of their items of calculation), will rua.or
risk of reaching Bristol on Sunday; One ths___„tt si
on Thursday will desecrate the Sabbath at Faharl:te
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a third leaving this sacred place on Wednesday. ~a
scandalise the Sabbath worshippers .at P0rt0014.),4.,1f
No place, in short, is safe 'against these
skippers ; and if the Reverend Fathers,wish t°
unto others as they would be done by, let thellosAol),o4
about the business on a grand scale, was .1 the
hands at once of this crying evil, and blodruP
d}. ft
harbour by sunken vessels and chains. The d'ilee*::,,tl
commandments will not:admit of partial obediC°-.iii,-
He that sinneth in one point, is guilty of all ; of
as the Eul of GALLOWAY is a frequenter4o.:
Exeter Hall, and Consequently a pious mall, Set 1
worldly gain at nought, whenever it interferes withe ff
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religious duties, he will, unlike the heather'!'. ".
n •
Corporation of London, forego all his emu
bonel
rather than be the means of desecrating the Lora
day in any one nook of the United Kingdom'
This is a subject, however, too serious
treated altogether in jest. To reason with s°
byterP
men as the majority of the Wigtown Pres s.
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is, of course, out of the question. lhey °
but
be • answered according to their folly ;
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these is another party interested n toe
the'r
tion—the unfortunate people subject tO .
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tyrannical dominion. We receive Mules
ships
complaints frOm Scotland of the grievous hard
ati./
i inflicted upon the religious people of that
co
reeding
by the new race of inquisitors. They are sP hi,
over the land like locusts in every direction, P
llsr°, •
of
biting one of the most solemn rites, the hu . „
the dead, on Sunday; disturbing, with their me
interference, the domestic peace of families; tien°o"e'
at .! 4'3.01
and y
ing from the pulpit private individuals ;
, was ,
ever •
alio
ing inflnitely more spiritual ower than
claimed by that Church which. they modestly caittoetldre-°
firehran
the " Whore of Babylon." Since _these d ths I"- 014°
—the offshoots of the CH A L NIERSES. fovi,
he district °
C A NDLlSllES—obtained a footing in I
Galloway, the quiet church-going peoPideisq'seenre:: blialtlle4!"42l4l°l
influenced formerly either by bigotry or

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