The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

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present stands, the duty on wheat when selling,at 65e•
per quarter is 21s. Bd. ; when at 505., is 365. Bd, ;wbel3
at 365. per quarter, it mounts to the absurd heig;a4fol
535. Bd. A concession which substitutes 5s- fbr,,i, ?..01
and 20s. for 535., is certainly no inconsiderable ao*i,s
ment of the claims; of the agriculturists, and we ii 7.11,
probably consider Mr. Christopher in a great weasel
a,
as speaking in the character of their representative. 16-0
will be observed that Mr. Christopher proposes to Pre- I
serve intact the principle of a sliding scale. eittifn°l7t
ledging, however, the evils to which it gives OCC3S.b. i
and the fraudulent tampering with the averages evhn- "
invites, he proposes. to remedy these mischiefs--first, I,:i
the change just mentioned in the details of the sealet„i +:1
no part of which is any such rapid rise of duty to be 11'0
troduced as existed in the previous scale at the prfc.,teLn.
705., 715., 725., and 735., where the duties were resE ,Lds
Lively 10s. Bd., 6s. Bd., 2s, Bd., and Is., and, secondlYt .'!.740
drawing the materials from which the averages Virg
to be compiled from the gr6wer, instead of i
dealer, demanding, indeed, separate retnins ft, et
each party, but using the latter only as a ch
_,31,0
upon the former. With all this, however, Mr. Chri'tVe
pher states himself to be decidedly opposed to any aft
ration of the principle of the Coin-laws, to which 1a 7
considers that we owe the important fact, that from 181 ~
to 1838 the price of wheat has varied less in Engian
than in any other country except Sweden, and eery fnn;
siderably less than in any of those countries and cities.
which he quotes, except, St. Petersburgh, and perbqr: '
Trieste. Now this is very much the kind of reed'
which we expected from Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
ment. And all those who, with this paper, have advo-
cated the gradual relaxation of the existing restrictiuiosce
—whether they are or are not prepared to aecle to
in this as a final arrangement,—have great reason
on
congratulate themselves at the amount of coneessi
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which is at once tendered. How far this scheme . ~
meet the views of certain of our Conservative Conte;l r
poraries who were filled with virtuous indignation at °li
o f
daring, some few months since, to predict something le
the kind, we will not venture to divine, but
them to settle with Mr. Christopher ad their and the
leisure. With regard to the amendment proposed in°
means of taking the averages, we have little to ,t7i,
It is a practical question, full of minute diietur
which we hope his scheme may be effectual in n, to
coming. At the seine time we may be alloweu to
say, that, his statement, of, what he almost avowyso/ve.
be the Government scheme, seems likely to in Of
a good deal. thatijis. artificial and complicated. Ao., -
this, however, it is plainly impossible to inuti7it
till we have, .the details_ before us.. On the anlciodi,
of evils resulting from the system in its present unnit .9 .
will lets
fled form, he and every one else have and can
but one opinion. The sliding scale may not be luaus 4itt'
'lnch '
but the attempt to cure it is an experiment which ft
look on with considerable diffidence of its tuecess'soe-
would be unjust both to our Contemporary, whoseyen-
guine prophecies of Corn-law inviolability we are if we
turing to discredit, as well as to Mr. Christopher, "het
neglected to confess that this latter gentleman s°lnalloon'
energetically disclaims the character of ' pilot bye
so
with which we may seem to have saddled him. tide et
far from wishing to throw doubt on his disclaimeer'this
still we cannot help thinking that we do cm; those
expression of sentiment on his part to some °,.' wee
CO
unconscious sympathies between members of ti'Lling
party which we may contintially observe deleSw.
themselves in the strangest and most incredible ee;;;r0
dences. Whether by a mysterious intuition, or bYohortt
similarity of principle, or by any other process _low
of course, of the obvious and ordinary modes of ene7tpeet
nication between man and man), we cannot but of
to find that the mind of Mr. Christopher and thnnsfsno
our Conservative governors have been movie ; ill unison
in this matter of the Corn-laws ; and we shall he'Vit, to
to bear the blame of some presumption in our cwere
divine that able gentleman's mind and motives events
clearly than he is himself able to analyse them,I
do not before long bear out our predictions.i'
DIONEY—TRADE—CODIIVEZSCr" held on
At the meeting of the East India Proprietors,
~,,00
Wednesday, Mr. Montgomery Martin presented 31"lintile
rial to the Court, signed by every East Indian Ine,reo trade
firm of consequence. Its import was to show t° ruined
and manufactures of India to have been utterly f
which
by the competition of this country ,• one instance costs
he gave in the fact, that a piece of bandannas, wiTule object
at Madras 205., costs only Bs. at Glasgow. Hise tediet
was to obtain a reduction on the piece goods 0-shawls.
particularly those of cotton manufacture and on 00 the
The motion was seconded, but finally withdravr,n4e the
suggestion of the Chairman that a petition woul".„d the
most effectual way of carrying out his views;. °-
measure was left in the hands of the Directors!
COMMERCIAL =roam-
bed by the
Upwards of 100/. have already been subscribed lion
Manchester Penny-a-week Anti-Corn-law Stlhentir
Committee. A noble example for other toivns.
ht on the
At a lecture delivered on Wednesday nig'cospeets
Corn-laws, by Col. Thompson, he stated that the coming
of the Corn-law Repealers were every day be pad`'
brighter. Free-trade principles must and do keep
and the energies of the people are daily rallying', ,t thfi
Mr. Taylor delivered a lecture on Wednesdef .0100,10
ssoea este
Metropolitan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly A
_orneteinti.e
on the Corn-laws, after which the meeting 11,t,:„ Jo- ~a
the 3d of
NAVAL AND 11127.XT.algiriffV COO;
Lord Saltoun, with the three ships appointeduowloy, 0
out troops to China, sailed from Plymouth on ~.., etteir°
The Lords Commissioners of the .Adalir" .0-mile
13 via ' cot
placed at the disosal of the Council of the A.0g,..h, OW
School, two annual nominati-ms of volunteemoi '- ~,.100'4
lass in the Royal Navy to the two most meritorious e,,
lars,of the establishment destined for the naval ser/ie ,04
LAW AND POLICE. e
The commission of lunacy which was expected t° a•
been issued against Daniel Gundry, Esq., who has 51-pts
used himself so' much lately by assaulting his ser.`Ot is
and the police, tind for which he was put under restt,ieg
a lunatic asylum, ivill not take place, a eaves, tiquirf.
been entered at the Lunacy-office, preventing suclinceln'e
A Jury, composed of thirteen benchers o!..,laings, t?.
Inn, was empanelled on Wednesday, at Stone-n_Theate of
inquire into the, circumstances attending tilt; witnesses
John Miller, Eeq., QC... The examination °I
stated in
elicited elicited nothing further than has, before antral death. eii
The Sun, and the verdict returned was e Nrs. vairitt ii
R. Johnson, a man in thegemployment of Me7;slrodoesdaktcf
and Co., of the Westminster-road, was on, 1„,,.5 to tb_inffr
charged at Union Hall with robbing his emPi pledge'ili
amount of 1001.; 75 duplicates of various articles
witted. „,-oe
by him were produced, and he was fully eon; shout lu,jl
Dr. Mullins, who was dangerously stalohelth ,toeSt it
days ago, by a lunatic gentleman named Grim.quarete ot
applied to Mr. Burrell on Wednesday at Queeni-talins. tue,,:a
know whether, upon the depositions of 1)r• '''`or wake s
Magistrates would send Mr. Evans for trial,' ,00.
dtoThls
representation of the case to Sir James Gran dread
latter will be pursued, and the case stands a r A
~iif
to Tuesday weels.
Mr. Leaky, a solicitor, brought an action 0111,Verdrinoeis'"olb
in the Court of Coinmon Pleas against the M,,9%i1t °I-'f
Westmeath, for the recovery of an Attorney Sari
Seri
costs incurred iii the various suits taken by notice,
}_-; t- , and
chioness against his Lordship, in the cei
Court, the English and Irish Courts of C
the Rouse of Lords. The case occupied the taboos be
._
entire day, when all parties agreed that its goonnts :..;
turned into a special case. The amount clairaen
to nearly 4,0001. hanceltiii the

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French Journals state that there is no longer a
doubt of the condemnation of M. Dupoty, by the Court of
Peers. This is the crowning atrocity of that infamous
Tribunal. M. Dupoty had just as much to do with the
attempt to assassinate the Royal Princes, as he had with
the assassination of Henry IV. of France, or the massacre
of St. Bartholomew, or any other crime committed a cen-
tury before he was born. The Peers know this, but they
want to establish a precedent for crushing the last re-
mains of the freedom of the press.
The prosecution of Dupoty. has even stirred the phlegm
of our German Contemporaries. The Augsburgh Gazette,
with the approbation of the Censor, comments thus
strongly upon it :—" The prosecution in progress against
Dupoty is a serious affair, and we are not astonished at
the energetic complaints made in that respect by the
Opposition prints ; on the contrary, in fact, we feel bound
to admit that they are just. It cannot be denied that
the French press at this moment is placed in a position of
extreme danger."
The Constitutionnel announces that a promotion of
Peers would be made before the opening of the session.
Among them are to be two or three members of the
Institute, and M. Gasco, President of the Chamber of the
Court of Accounts. A French Peerage will soon be a
mark of infamy. To stamp the character of a political
scoundrel, the King will only have to create him a Peer.
To be enrolled in the list cf Peers will be to have reach-
ed the lowest depth of political infamy.
The Journal des Debats has the following observations
on the eomtnents provoked by the change in the Cabinet
and diplomacy of Russia :—" Several Journals, in an-
nouncing the nomination of M. de Boutinieff to be Mi-
nister. Plenipotentiary from Russia to the French Go-
vernment, have attached to it a great political impor-
tance : but there is nothing in it but what is, very. simple.
A long time
.ago the Emperor Nicholas deci,ded that he
would have only Ministers Plenipotepgmy , or charges
d'Affaires at the several Courts of -Europe-. Prince
Lieven, Ambassador at London, has, - in'.
,consequence,
been replaced by M. deßrnnow, and M. 'de Tatischeff,
who was Ambassador at Vienna, by Al. de Medem. Yet
this has not prevented England and Austria from keep-
ing Ambassadors at St. Petersburgh."t
The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. announces that
50 negro slaves in the Island of. Cuba revolted, and shut
themselves up in a factory. A detachment of troops was
called out, fired upon the poor wretches, and killed 6
and wounded 10 of them. None of the soldiers were in-
jured, from whence we may infer that the revolt might
have been put down without this murderous effiision of
blood.

A letter from 'Madrid, of the 13th inst., contains :the
following:—" M. de Salvandy has since his arrival here
already, received several important personages, particu,
lady the President of the Council, and Sir A. Aston, the
British Minister, to both of whom this day M. de Sal-
vandy returned their visits. The conference between
Sir A. Aston and M. de Salvandy was of long duration.
M. de Salvandy is to be presented to the Queen and the
Regent at the same time in two or three days. The pre-
sentation will take place with great state.
The Madrid Gazette contains a circular to the poli-
tical chiefs of the different provinces, ordering them to
set at liberty all persons who, in consequence of the
affair of the 7th September, were arrested by way of pre-
caution, unless there be charges against them which it
is intended to bring before the tribunals.
The Castellano states that the Jury of Accusation for
offences of the public Press has decided that there are
grounds for the prosecution of the Corrco Nacional and
the Conservador, for articles inserted in those Journals.
A letter from- Mahon, of the 21st November, in the
Correo Nacional, announces the arrival there of an Ame-
rican squadron from the Levant, consisting of the
Brandywine frigate of 60 guns, the Cyane corvette of
24 guns, and the Preble corvette of 24 gans.
The Diaria di Boom says that a fresh persecution of
Catholic Missionaries has taken place in China, and
that the Vicar Apostolic, M. Ignace Dalgado, has been
put to death with the most excruciating tortures. Up-
wards of 20 other Christians are said to have also been
put to death.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Post says :—" It is a pity these Whigs
are so deaf to reason, and so. blind to the signs of the
times. If it were not so, they would have discovered,
long ere this, that the British public are weary of pro-
mises, and think that an ounce of performance is not
only worth a pound of promise, but any other measure-
able quantity. The Conservative Ministers, notwith-
standing their refusal to make pledges, or to state what
they were going to do, before they had means of consi-
dering what ought to be done, are really believed to in-
tend to do much more than their predecessors, with all
their fine promises. True, the Whigs said that if they
were continued in office they would confer prodigious
benefit upon the commerce of England by the encourage-
ment of free trade. True, they said that they would re-
plenish the exhausted Treasury by relieving the public
from the , payment of taxes. True, they said that the
British public was very sensible of the soundness of their
policy, and would record their approval if they had an op•
portunity, though the late House of Commons would not.
But what signified all these sayings ? Were the people
thus to be beguiled fir ever,? No ; they judged of the
truth and sincerity of what was said by what had been
done."—The Tories are yet to be tried, and if they ac-
quit themselves on their trial with but half As much suc-
cess as the Whigs have done, notwithstanaing their fre-
quent errors of policy, they will take the country as
much by surprise, as if on some fine morning they were
to turn-patriots, But, as we have already takee occa-
sion to observe, we have little hope that the Tories will
falsify the notions generally entertained of 4iiem49f,dc
The Herald recommends the immediate !expulsion of
• the Rev. Mr. Palmer froth Magdalen College. Oxford, in
consequence of his late declaration in favour of unmiti-
gated Puseyism :—" We call on the President and Fel-
lows of Magdalen, if they have any regard and reve-
rence for the memory of Hough, to take immediate
steps to ensure the removal of this hater of Protestantism
from their society. They are bound, as they value their
own character, to make this appeal to their visitor. The
College tutor who dares to anathematise the principle of
Protestantism, can have no feelings of loyalty to the
House of Hanover. He must secretly detest the Revolu-
tion, which expelled a Papist, and which can alone be
justified by the principle of Protestantism. Is this the
man that should still be allowed to remain a tutor in the
University of Oxford ? Is this the man to instruct our
young divines in the principles of our Protestant
Church ? We lately pointed out a case in which the
Bishop of Oxford was called upon to examine into the,
charge that auricular confession was notoriously admi-
nistered by some of the Puseyite clergy in his diocese.
But the present case is, if possible, still more flagrant.
It is that of a Fellow and tutor denouncing the principles
of our reformation from Popery."--If the Puseyites have
any regard for consistency of character, they will all, to
a man, quit the Protestant Church, for it is highly im-
proper—to use the most courteous term—to continue to
receive the emoluments of an Establishment to which
they are opposed on more than one vital point. Advo-
cating Catholic doctrines, let them go over to the Ca.
tholic Church, and then, however we may differ from
them, we shall at least respect their manliness of spirit:
We take the • following from the Advertiser :—" Our
Paper of yesterday recorded another death from starva-
tion. The unhappy victim was a poor woman residing
in Chelsea. Such deaths are—we write it with horror—
becoming matters of hourly occurrence in all the manu-
facturing districts. We can scarcely glance our eye over
the columns of a provincial journal without encounter-
ing one or more instances of mortality from this cause.
No one will ask, what produces the starvation which ter-
minates in death ? There are not, and cannot be, two
opinions on the point. Even the monopolists themselves
know, though they will not acknowledge the fact, that the
great cause of all our commercial embarrassments, and of
the penury and destitution which now prevail to so
dreadful an extent—terminating in so many instances in
death—is the odious impost on foreign corn. That tax
is a hideous English Juggernaut, the workmanship of a
cruel Legislature, and the monopolists are so many
priests for whose special benefit thousands of our coun-
trymen are daily crushed beneath its ponderous wheels."
—There is scarcely a large town in England in which, dur-
ing the last few inclement weeks, many deaths have not
occurred from absolute starvation, with all its train of
protracted horrors. Apt comment this on Tory legisla-
tion, and Tory monopoly ! Starvation at Christmas !
There is a world of impressive meaning in these few
words.
The Chroniclegives the following seasonable hints to
the great :Tory. landholders:—" The landowners may
depend Ote,it that the nation will not long submit to the
injustice which, in order to swell already inordinate rents,
does not scruple to sacrifice the best interests of the
country. A terrible retribution awaits them, if they do
,not in time listen to the demands of a people who seek
ouly to exchange their industry for the bread which they
cannot obtain at home. Pride will have a fall,' if they
do not take warning in time. Let them bear in mind that
laws derive their force from the conviction that all are
benefited by them. Desperation is eating into the heart
of the poor workman, who, looking info the faces of his
starving children, envies the fate of those who have suc-
ceeded in effecting their escape from a country afflicted by
all the evils which follow in the train of Corn-laws."
The Times thus expresses itself on the subject of an
alteration in the Corn-laws, which was alluded to in a
speech lately delivered by Mr. Christopher to his Lin-
colnshire constituents :—" A speech which has just
reached us, delivered by Mr. Christopher, M.P. for Lin-
colnshire, to his constituents, on the subject of the Corn-
laws, will be perused with no inconsiderable interest.
The connexion to which that gentleman alludes as sub-
sisting between himself and the Duke of Bucking-
ham, the information which he quotes as coming to him
from a gentleman who is in communication with the
Government,' and the distinct tone of his proposals,
mark it out as almost affording pretty clear indications
of what may be expected from the Conservative Ministry,
and from the agricultural interest. Mr. Christopher consi-
ders that the law should aim at fixing the price of wheat as
nearly as possible between 665. and 655. per quarter. This
he pronounces to be the extent of protection which may
be justly claimed as necessary to the farmer's well-being,
and conceded without unfairness to the rest of the com-
munity. And this, or something like this, he proposes
to secure, by affixing a minimum duty of ss. per quarter
on wheat, when the averages amount to or exceed the ---
t exe
sum of 655. and then, as prices decrease, increasing the
duty (at what rate he does not mention) till it arrives at The tobacco monopoly
law of e F bruari' 2 185 •
its maximum of at least 205., or at most 30s. For our- on the Ist of January, 1842, but a
0, yanuary, -
in France was •°,,,
selves we could scarce suppose that Sir Robert Peel would prolonged its duration until the Ist t
into operation;
suggest even the least of these sums—an anticipation The new law will accordingly com
eof tobacco Pr'detaf..;
ed
which would not be weakened by considering the body few aptys. In 1816 the manufacture
.e 46,300
to whose tastes Mr. Christopher was adapting his pro- 3.3,000,000 f.; in 1823, 41,500,000 f.; ; ittel
pesals. But taking it at 205., it must be allowed that ,in 1834, 50,800;000E.; in 1839, 64,500
this would be a very material change. • 'Ai the scale at I 1840, by revaluation, 70,000,000 f,

SPORTzpro. head °f
Sudbury Park contains a herd of nearly 1 000
,
deer. 1- ' grouse
Friday,' the 10th instant; was the last day Oafopt
shooting. Though there has been no scarcity"„o.D,tlitn:f
on the Derbyshire moors, a sort of epidemic •anl°,7l,uolo)
birds has strewn them about the heather, helplefeeem7iivl
able to move. eld
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THEATRICAL. i 900;91
We see by,the Madrid papers that Rubini con ili
,r
be a great favourite in Madrid, and that the tr-2.u_`Tt,- 0;
her sister are generally present when he perform•sta 4/si
engagement has expired, but he has undertaken te,i.'ll4ol
twice for the benefit of the charitable establishal jo(11,0
the capital. ~w0a,,,,54
COURT---rAszIONABLZ. 4(1 d
Sir J. Graham left town on Wednesday on a , ,o - t/4/30
her Majesty at Windsw Castle. • VAitTrtli
Lord Bagot will entertain a large circle at Blit •,,,
Aii'l 'I
his seat near Stafford, next week.
Sir IL Peel left town on Wednesday afternoon fe0r60.13111
seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. no fightol,l)oo
Baronet travelled by the London and Birminaha°3
t fil3 he t -, lf I '
way, and left the terminus in Euston-square Y
o'clock train.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at Dal'
Palace last week. „Lt.': ed at
MaltaV iscforuonmt
GCjahsrtelietreera, Castlereagh
theirand ,aparty have -iv
The Marquis and Nfarchioness of Norman.
girTehneu pArtahregiurips roajnedcted
Marchionesseontinental: tour for
Londoedlock- i)
ton-on-Tees,the Ladies
Saturday
Wl 2srtn,y afrr do
from
t o,unnetar,s te AIPA:mt
thtbsYPhilialrii:
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Newtownarda, Ireland. The Noble and GalittllCA:l3
quis and his amiable Marchioness receive a successltill, •,,t
visitors at the former seat during the holidaYsm, reot4 •ig
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough I"' ~, 0
ia,- ,
company at Exton during next month. rablill79lP
The Earl and Countess of Limerick are asse--„, .100,..0014
large circle of distinguished relatives at South-hP' '''-', 3'l', sli
,-
in Berks. nun,etotts,
The Marquis of Salisbury is entertaining!. Tr• I'oo
and distinguished circle at Hatfield during this wee-- I,')"',b
inniczia..aNzous.'- ",
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Six large corn stores are being built in the t0m,40.• •
Headford, Limerick, at ihe sole expense of the bell-
lent landlord, R. St. George, Esq. f• Bre°
The Visiting Justices of the ounty gaol °' tien
are stated to have drawn up a memorial for presentaner
l
to her Majesty in favour of the six Chartist Pri,'"sf,,,ir
now undergoing the sentence of two years hard „.
each in that prison, and praying her Majesty lOOl be g;.airir
ciously pleased to remit the remaining portion
sentence.
RUMOURS or =TIM DAT.
sot
The Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Beaufort, ot
Earl de Grey, are candidates for the` blue ribuard rcilas
by the death of the late Earl of Westmorland. : -it ..00
not been definitively arranged upon whom the sele4ll,o
will fall, but it is understood that the claim of the P
of Beaufort will probably be preferred. that
A rumour has prevailed this week at Brighton; , of
her Majesty is expected to arrive here in the cou SCLO
the ensuing month ; but no intelligence to that effect. 1',...e
been received at the Palace, and we believe that tee'
exists no foundation for the report.
the
hersh, now Earl of Westmorland, is spoken of as
'I
Courtis s stated tee
of Spain,
tli atSi Sir A.
been Aston,
recalled, British Aaedni
Lb aiisrsda dßour
Ithis
successor.
-....mmimillMONNlM....l•lon..
—nil.