The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

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lay the foundation foi• iutprovetr •nts, which
would make a. gradual .zmeli,-)ration :in the state
of society." That is in truth the a r iswer which
be gives to the complaints of the people. He
admits their d:stres, but lie says F t niiament
unable to relieve it. They :nest, th e refore, suf-
fer on—they must die of starvation-- -they must
rot out—the omnipotent law can do. nothing-for
them.

This sort of language might be a ccepted by
the people if it were used at all tin les, _but the
reveese is the case. Does an Ora age landlord
complain of the perjury of the Cat balk peasan-
try, there is no doubt entertained lot' the power
of Parliament to remedy the evil, and Lord
STA-NLEY will undertake the task at sight. Are
the Irish parsons obliged to sell the it plate and
their libraries to get wine and roe.st beef, or to
lay down their carriages, ParHanle at will im-
mediately relieve them; and it takes a million
Pont the toil-worn people of England. and
chucks it into the lap of the Irish tithe owners.
Do the landlords whose estates az,e mortgaged
merely apprehend a foreclosure f rom falling
prices, the Legislature can preve n t it; and a
Corn-law to raise prices and take awray the bread
of the poor attests both its power and its will.
The Legislature is only impotent when the dis-
tress of the people is to be relieved; it is power-
ful to coerce, and powerful to plunthe r them.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, mistakes the case.
lie is not asked to improve the condition of the
people by legislation, but by pu.ating an end
to legislation. The Corn-law is the people's
They ask him to remove it. Their dis-
tress is not owing to any natural causes, it is ex-
clusively owing to unjust legislation.- The people
lmnibly supplicate to have that repaoved. They
lvant a bad law abolished, not another bad law
enacted. Sir R. PEEL implies that the Legis-
lature cannot undo its own act. According to
him it is powerful only to work mis chief, and so
impotent to effect good that it cannot even re-
dress the wrongs it infiict.
If the people an not, therefore, to continue to
starve, they must help themselves. Self-pre-
s,,e-vai-ion, they must remember, is the first law
cf nature. Sir J. GRAHAM will tell Sir R.
PEEL, if he consult him, and the former Right
lion. Baronet have not changed. his opinions
klinee he published " Corn and Currency " in
.1726, that if he cannot relieve the distress, he
co;lengers society by pretending to administer
I.lle Government.
"The paramount duty of every -Government,"
says Sir JAMES GRAHAM, " is attention to the
interests of the community, of which the
labourers must form the great majority; THE
AjCIIT PR:.:PERTY ITSELF is instituted for the
,good not of the fe AT who possess wealth and
honours, but of the many who have them not;
IF THE MAJORITY BE DEEPLY INJURED, THE

curse.

PUBLIC pEACE IS ENDANGERED ; IF THE mAJO-

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to the SECRETARY
At presen:, according
Department, the
of .-:•I'.ATE for the Home
pub lit, pea -cc is endangered, and private
prouerty a nuisance. For this
ium sate things alarm-
the Premier alleges—the com-
placent, smirking, bustling, courier-despatching,
speech-making prime Minister, declares—that
Parliament can find no rein?.(ly. At the same
time he has displaced a Governalent which of_
-.:re::1 a remedv. Poor people, says this preten-
I know you are starving,
der to statesman;3l-;ip,
but I can't help you, and I will not allow you to
31°1-0 youmelves.

It is most discreditable to the CT 'overnments of
Prance and _Zugl',nd that they both are con-
meti► g. a loan, and augmenting their debts in
a season of profound peace. Their schemes for
iay:;:g the v..ind are both pubE,
tuoe. 'f hey are a hopeful pair.

,bed at the same

The l'aTis
,journals of i'vlonflqs• have all rrached us,

but the express receivedye:Llli; from Paris cat bled us
to anti:ripate mull of their contents in our Af.ternoon
Edition. In the National we find the following brief re-
•/),,e1; of the Oistarbanc,a in the cu:;ital :
The crowds were mere nurceron, but quite zs insignificant
n tundaY evening as the IT,Terlirg (lav,3. The curious were
the majo,ity, and at seven o'clock the re was scarcely room
to pass on the Loulevard, and in the flue Sr.
From time to time cries tit' " D .ten with the police 1" were
heard. A police agent, in plain clothes, who had just ar-
rested a )°ung man, was surrounded, and forced to loose
bls hold of the pi, oiler ; having been disarmed, he
would have probably undergone rough usage, had he not
taken refuge in a wine shop. some discharges were made by
the hone municipal guard. We are informed that several of
the curious were wounded, among whom were some women.
.1t half-past ten the crowd had dispened. We have heard of
serousnothing having taken pace durino• the evening. V, e
learn that several citizens wire WOI.IT:dA gnu„ ":511 who
Lad bet n pierced by the bayonet of a municipal guard, was
Carried to the Hospital St. Louis in a hopeless state.
The speeches of Lord JoHN ItussELL and Sir ROBERT
4-'Em., in the House of Commons, are commented upon