The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, DECEIIBER 15, 1841.

The leader which we copy from the Times, on
the Midland Counties Conference, is replete with
ignorance and malice,—ignorance both of details
.
• land
and of princip es, thatlnaliceali
seeks to wound
by the most unblushing assertions. That
speaks the language of a great party which
journal
vhich un-
happily for the moment, is the master of the
State, and will make us pay a lono-e
, r homage to
it than would otherwise be necessary.
The Times says that the millowners, " findino. 1
their confederates are displaced, and that it is no
longer of any service to conceal their own pur.
poses, remove the mask front their faces and the
bridle from their tongues, and call out openly
and lustily for the repeal of all agricultural pro-
tection whatsoever." It quotes the language used
by Mr. COBDEN as the proof. No man, however,
who has attended to the Corn-law controversy,
can be ignorant that Mr. COBDEN and the whole
Anti-Corn-law League have for months, and
even years, insisted on the repeal of all agri-

cultural protection, and that they have not
'thrown off the mask and the bridle from their
tongues since the Whigs left office. The asser-
tion of the Times is only a proof, therefore, of
its ignorance of the details of the great question
it writes about.

Its ignorance of principles is equally palpable
end striking. It follows the landlords, with
Whom it now makes common cause, in ascribing
our diminished manufactures to the progress
which the nations of the Continent have
made in developing their own industry
since the pe_•ce. , It seeks, therefore, in
a Peddling spirit, to make the world believe,
Contrary to all experience, that the commercial
prosperity of one nation is the injury and ruin of
another. Prom a poor and an idle people
nothing can be got, but the superfluities of a
rich and industrious people give opulence to all
around them., No nation in modern times has,
by the extent of its cheap productions, conferred
such vast benefits on other nations, and so
much promoted their industry and wealth, as
Great Britain. It is as false, therefore, as it is
diabolical, to represent the progress of other
nations as the cause of the decay and suffering
of England.
By our laws We have given a forced direction
to the industry of other Countries, and made

them competitors with us. At the same time,
we have deprived ourselves of their advan-
tage—abundance of cheap food, without being
able to deprive them of our advantages, skill and
knowledge. Our machinery cannot be kept to
ourselves, but we refuse to share the food
which other nations offer us. To throw the
blame, justly due to our own Corn-laws as the
Times was wont to admit, on the beneficent pro-
gress of other nations, is extremely malignant,
regularly Tory, delightful to the landlords, and
quite consistent with their theory and practice; but
it betrays the grossest ignorance of that wise and
universal system which has made the peaceful de-
velopment of the resources of one nation, inva-
riably promotive of the development of the re-
sources of other nations.
In pointing out the wretched ignorance of the
Tines, more worthy of a plundering Arab than a
compatriot of merchants enriched by commerce,
we have also demonstrated its malice. It is,
however, worth adding, that it pours out much
rabid spite on Mr. COBDEN ; and, while it takes

care to state that the Conference retired to " an

excellent dinner at the Royal Hotel," where no
poor were present, it represents him as appealing
to the "starving multitudes on the philosophy of
taxation and the adjustment of the doctrines of
political economy." Mr. COBDEN did that in the
same sense as the Times does, when it appeals in
its columns, day after day, to the starving multi-
tude on the question of the Poor-laws. If Mr.
COBDEN'S language be influential with such per-
sons, the fault lies with those lawgivers who have
inflicted starvation on the multitude, and on those
writers who encourage them in their wicked and
mad career. If the Times is to retain its place
amongst the journals of the empire, it must get
some persons of talent to cover its vehement
abuse with the semblance of knowledge and the
appearance of truth. Such articles as the one we
refer to, stamp it with ignorance and falsehood,
and expose it to supreme contempt.

At the same time, the article should be read
for its admissions. Long ago we told the land-
owners of England that they were making the
Corn-laws a question of title to their estates.
Long ago have we stated that, by deriving a por-
tion of their rent from taxation, confounding this
with property, they were bringing the existing
right of property into question, and endangering
all property. The progress of the discussion
in the public, must satisfy our readers that we
took a long and a correct view. Now, a part of
the article of the Times was employed to defend
the property of the landowners from the attacks
of the millowners, and, in turn, to insinuate at-
tacks on their property. It begins, therefore, to
feel, and tacitly to acknowledge, that all pro-
perty is endangered by the landlords' tax on the
people's bread.

Moreover, the language of the Times implies
that the landowners and the millowners are in
collision; heretofore they were united. Ca-
pital and rent have gone hand in hand, and the
opulent manufacturers—or, as the Times calls
them, after Mr. OASTLER and the Chartists, millo-
crats—have been the firmest auxiliaries of the
landed aristocracy. It was at Manchester
and by To►y millowners that the assault was
made on the Radical Reformers which excited
general indignation. These classes are no longer
united, and the Times provokes their mutual
hostility. Combined, they have found it difficult
to subdue the labouring classes, and the admis-
sion of the Times that they are united no more,
is a fearful portent for the power of both.
The Duke of WELLINGTON once asked how
the country was to be ruled under the Reform
Act; but if such a question were of ominous im-
port when the " millocrats," as the Times calls
the manufacturers, and the landlords were act-
ing in concert, it becomes still more ominous
when they are in hostility; when the Reform
Act, and other similar Acts, have taken away
from our laws all the sanctity of prescription;
when, for the bulk of the people, the Reform Act
is a failure ; and when they are at once better
informed and more justly discontented than ever
they were before. How the country is to be
governed if the capitalists and the landlords fall
out, is a question which may alarm the most re-
solute and puzzle the most skilful politician.

Some few days ago the Times, acting on the
suggestion of its correspondent, the " Genoese
Traveller," was disposed to cultivate friendly re-
lations with the United States. No vessel from
there has since reached this country, but our
Contemporary has received a new light from
some quarter, and yesterday called on Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL not to pass over in silence a letter
from Mr. SEWARD, the Governor of New York,
to the Secretary of the New York Irish Repeal
Association. The Irish Catholics having been
long and sorely oppressed by the Orangemen—
and more embittered by old grievances than
thankful for recent liberties grudgingly bestowed,
have, for some time, as our readers are well
aware, entertained a project—we think an erro-
neous one—of procuring a repeal of the Legis-
lative Union. There is no treason in that, nor
any rebellion. They have as good a right to ask
for the repeal of a law as we have to ask for its
continuance. Mr. SEWARD is favourable to this
project, and, in reply to an application of the
Secretary of the Repeal Association, while he
declines to become a member of their Associa-
tion, expresses a high opinion of the Irish, and
says, " My indignation against oppression never
rose higher than when I found her Parliament-
halls in College-green converted into a banking-
house, and the places of her orators and states-
men filled with money-changers." For this hei-
nous offence, or, as the Times calls it, endeavour-
ing to stimulate " her MAJESTY'S Irish subjects
to break forth in treasoned revolt," that journal
speaking, we are afraid the language and wishes
of men in office, insists on effectual interference,
and would have Mr. SEWARD removed from the
Governorship of the State of New York :

" That the American Government," it says, "pro-
fessing friendship towards this country, shall either re-
frain from removing such an incendiary from the office
which he disgraces, or shall profess a Constitutional
inability to control his indiscretions, is not to be en-
dured. The redress of this growing grievance should be
seen to immediately."

This is very silly, but at the same time
it is very mischievous. From cultivating
friendship, in one short week the Times is for
provoking war. From being the opponent of
the Corn-law, it has become the advocate of
that law. If we are to take its opinions
as an index to the Tory policy, we must infer
that our people are to be starved, and war
is to be waged with the United States, in order
to preserve the power of the Protestant Tory
amriesrtcoyer,agait
.rTy, To that end consistency, honour,
sa-
crificed, and justice, are all to be sa-
Whether that will not be consi-
sidered too costly
preservation of a body of Protestant landowners,
we must leave time and the public to decide. To
find such an article in the Times, would much
alarm us, did not its late inconsistencies deprive
tencies
it of all weight and authority.

In another part of The Su n
we insert an arti-
cle
describing, by
particular
from t
instances,
sßt
aenr
ewe k
theAd i)kveolsizi, ty
of he land-
owners to the progress of manufacturers, and
their resolution to keep them down. Appended
to it is a paragraph, taken from the morning
Chronicle, stating that the Irish landlords are
still engaged in the work of clearing their estates
of people whom they and other landlords will
not allow to find employment in manufactures.
In truth the Cork papers contain deplorable ac-
counts of paupers sent back from England where
their services are not required, so that between
landlords clearing their estates, and landlords
prohibiting and preventing the growth of manu-
factures, in which the people might find em-
ployment, multitudes must be doomed to perish.
These united accounts reminded us of the extir-
pation of the red men of North America by.the
advent and progress of a superior race. Many
were the cruelties which the whites, in their
pride, practised on their savage opponents; but
they had some justification in th • en. own won-
derful superiority, and in the
horrid crueltie s

i practised, at times, by the savages. We almost
doubt whether anything done by the white men
to the red men surpasses in cruelty the practices
of our landlords to the people, as described in
the paragraphs we have referred to. They make
us acquainted with a resolute determination to
stop the progress of society, carried into effect by
sweeping out of existence more human beings
than all the tribes of the red race. At the same
time our landlords are exposed to none of the
circumstances which palliated the atrocities of
the European races in America. They are en-
gaged in no war, and the people, whom they will
not allow to live, are patient drudges, whose in-
crease adds to their wealth and power.

If the political and religious views of the
Morning Post have no other merit, they at least
lay claim to that of singularity. Thus on the
question of French intervention in Spain, the
Post was the only London Journal that espoused
the cause of Louis PIIILIPPE against the
Spaniards i and now on Puseyism the Post is
again in a " glorious minority of one " in favour
of the Puseyites and Newmanites. The Post
" charges" and " reiterates the charge against
the ultra-Protestant party and their allies, the In-
fidel or no-Church.party, of trying to drive mem-
bers of the Church of England into the Church
of Rome." As the ultra-Protestant party
are headed by the Bishops, we suppose the
Post means that there is some intention of
depriving the Puseyites of their livings in the
Church. When some of the RefOrmers of Scot-
land opposed the pulling down of the Roman
Catholic churches and monasteries, JOHN
KNox vindicated their destruction by contending
that the best way to get rid of rooks was

to cut down the rookeries. We have not heard
that the rookeries of Puseyism are in the least
danger from the Bishops; and as the no-Church
party have no Church to dispose of, the
Post in reality can afford' to laugh at them.
There is not the least danger of the Puseyites
being driven out of the Church of England
into that of Rome, so long as the latter has no
Church preferments at its disposal. The Pusey-
ites, in looking to Rome, continue also to keep
an eye to the main chance. The Reverend
Mr. GOLIGHTLY, who describes himself as a
Master of Arts of eleven years' standing,
and who for the last six years has resided
within the walls of the University of Oxford,
states his belief that there are ten mem-
bers of the University, nine of whom
are Fellows of Colleges or Clergymen of.
the Established Church, who are at heart
Roman Catholics. He particularly mentions
the Rev. W. WARD, Fellow of Balliol, the Rev.
J. BLoxitam, Fellow of Magdalen, the Rev. J.
MOZLEY, late Fellow of Oriel, and Rector of
Cholderton, the Rev. F. OAKELEY, Fellow of
Balliol, and the Rev. J. H. NEWMAN, as figuring
in this list. He further asserts, that a Roman
Catholic Bishop has been staying for sonic
time at the Mitre Inn, at Oxford, where
he was visited by, and returned the visits
of, several members of the University.
" A Fellow of Exeter," lie continues, " has
expressed his belief that seven years hence
the Churches of England and Rome
will be re-united ; some cross themselves in
public worship, others make genuflections
others openly praise the Jesuits, talk of Saint
Ignatius of Loyola, have plans for taming refrac-
tory Bishops, and talk over what they shall do, in
their day of triumph, with the clergy who reject
their views." These are grave charges; and, from
what we have learned of the recent proceedings
at Oxford, by no means exaggerated, much less un-
founded, as the Post would lead us to suppose.
Nevertheless, while the Church has the distri-
bution of the loaves and fishes we will answer for
it that these men will not quit her communion.
They may not abandon their opinions, but
they will take good care not to throw
away their preferments. The Church's doc-
trines may be distasteful to them, but they have
an excellent relish for tithes, and a division of
the spoils of college foundations. The Post,
therefore, may spare us the infliction of its nau-
seating cant about driving such hirelings out of
the fold.

It is understood that the ratifications of the
Treaty of last July, were exchanged by the Am-
bassadors of the Five Powers on Monday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—An accident
occurred on the works of this line on Saturday
last, as Kelvedon, which might have been at-
tended with fatal consequences. A viaduct of
three arches is being erected over the Black-
water river, in that quarter, and as the weather
has been so unpropitious of late for carrying on
the work, the contractor has seized every oppor-
tunity to hurry up the brick-work ; but, un-
luckily for himself and others, he has made more
haste than speed. He persisted in running the
rings out of one of the arches, although forbid-
den so to do; whilst keying the last ring, the
centerings gave way, the brickwork followed,
and with it all engaged upon the arch, miracu-
lously without loss of life or broken limb. Eleven
of the men were more or less bruised, but not
seriouly injured.

An adjourned meeting was held on the Bth in-
stant, at the Norfolk Arms, Arundel, by the
creditors of Hopkins and Drewitt, when the
solvency of the firm was demonstrated; and the
meeting unanimously expressed a decided con-
viction of the integrity of both parties.—Salis-
bury and Southampton Paper.
We beg to remind our readers that Mr. Wil-
son, the celebrated vocalist, gives his second lec-
ture upon Scotch song to-morrow evening, at
the Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square.
The " Bill of Fare" contains the following favou-
rite and popular songs :—" My love is like the
red red rose," " Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch,"
" John Anderson my Joe," and " My boy Tom-
mie." The third lecture is appointed for Mon.
day, the 27th. Mr. W. also gives lectures on
Friday, the 17th, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street.

DR. BIRKBECK, we understand, died of a dis-
ease in the bladder, combined with stone, the
presence of which was only first conjectured a
few hours before his death, but verified by post
mortem examination. His sufferings were very
great for the last fifteen months, and his exem-
plary fortitude under them convinced all who
came near him, that, in teaching philosophy to
others, he had himself become a true philosopher.

The Siecle has the following amusing fling at
Mr. and Mrs. Standish :—" Mr. and Mrs. Standish, the
heirs of the rich Englishman who bequeathed a fine
library and a magnificent gallery of pictures to Louis
Philippe, are invited to all the parties given by the Royal
Family. In the summer they were at Fontainebleau ;
and the Duke of Orleans did the honours of reception.
As he was showing them over the Palace he stopped and
said, " This is the gallery where Queen Christina had
Monaldeschi assassinated." At these words Mr. and
Mrs. Standish, who had only the day before passed the
evening with Christina Queen of Spain, were struck with
horror to think they should have been in such society."
THE LATE EXPEDITION TO SYRIA:—We
are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great
Marlborough-street, has this day published the " Narra-
tive of the Late Expedition to Syria, under the com-
mand of Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., compris-
ing an account of the Capture of Gebail, Tripoli, and
Syra, the Storming of Sidon, Battle of Cailar Meidan,
Bombardment and Capture of St. Jean D'Acre, &c.," by
W. P. Hunter., Esq. ; 2 vols. small Bvo., with portraits of
Admiral Stopford, Commodore Napier, and other illus-
trations, price 21s. bound. Mr. Colburn has also pub-
lished, this day, " Memorials of the Great Civil War in
England, from 1646 to 1652," edited from original
letters in the Bodleian Library, of Charles the First,
Charles the Second, Queen Henrietta, Prince Rupert,
Prince Maurice, Prince Charles Lodovic, Duke of York,
Henry Earl of Clarendon, Archbishop Sancroft, Marquis
of Worcester, Earl of Derby, Oliver Cromwell, Sir
Thomas Fairfax, Major-General Monk, Major-General
Skeppon, Colonel Ireton, Admiral Blake, and numerous
other eminent persons, by, the Rev. Henry Cary, M.A.,
2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound.
• The laying down of wood pavement here by way
of experiMent has commenced in the Rue Neuve des
Petits Champs, which is a great thoroughfare, and near
the Bank of France. The Charivavi, alluding to the
name given to this :pavement—which is, I believe, ste-
' reoconique—calls it, purposely, stereocontique ; and then
adds that it is likely to become stereutragique, by causing
the death of hundreds, who will be run over before they
can get out of the way of the carriages, which will come
noiselessly upon them. There is this danger to be ap-
prehe tided, for it is impossible to get French people out
of the habit of walking in the middle of the streets, even
where there are wide foot pavements. Should the expe-
riment, however, succeed, the adoption of wood pave-
ment in some parts of Paris will be equal to an additional
value of
.25 per cent. to house property, for the noise of
the carriage wheels
at night,, in some of the narrow
streets, is so great that tenanta can scarcely be found for
the houses.—Letter from Paris.
Mr. J. El. Anderson, the celebrated " Wizard
of the North," has become lessee of the Liverpool and
Manchester Theatres Royal.