The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

ptionic.ts of The: efupirc, he has, been carried
Into office c:Ayre&sly-- to upltold their monopolies..
Can he now turn round and kick down, the

eiiiice he has reared ? We believe not, and
therefore, that lie is irrecoverably, bound
to the doctrines and principles Of the intolcrant
and plundering party of which he is the head.
if Le had become more liberal in lie
might have shewu his liberality out of office.
Has he done any thing of the kind? Has he
ever deviated from the '['cry policy of supporting
ever;,' coercive, every restrictive measure,

Li ' Cs

and opposing every extension of freedo t•,
and every removal of restriction, Unless it
might lie some of Which the removal promoted
the wealth of a few planters? man has
hboured o strenuously or employed so much
sophistry .to defend the bread-tax and the dis-
eritninaiingsugar duty vs Sir R. PEEL, No man
has professeti a more devoted attachment tti the
Church, or has more strongly urged the
opinion that it is the duty of the , State to
provide reli7,ious instruction in the State
religion for all the people. For Sir Ronntrr
PEEL now to concede reform—for
hint to take the lead in.proltioting the extension

of the sufirag-e, the removal of commercial re-

strietim:;, and giving perfect equality ,to all
sects--is as wild a supposition as ever entered
the heart ofma,n, It is contradicted by the whole
tenor of Sir It. Prat's political life, and by his
latest declarations. lie is the mere tool of the
aristocracy and the priesthood, to abate whose
unjust power, extorted wealth, and unbridled ar-
ro!rance is the end and aiin of all reform. Be_
fore he can Leconte a Reformer, such as is now
needed, he must change his nature, and cease to
he Sir ROBERT PEEL.

Tile Right Hon. Baronet is now in his 33d
year, and it is remarked, we think by GOETHE,
that if a man have not great ideas befbre he
reach the age of thirty, he will never be a great
man. To this day Sir R. PEEL has never dis-
played any of the qualities of a great Statesman.
He is in no sense an original man. lie is a great
actor, a good orator ;, he dreses up a case Well
ti:e House of Conunein;, but he has no love
for truth, • and be never framed a compre-
hensive plan of national policy. He acts
always by shifts and expedients. He has no
.forethought. His world is the House of Com-
His policy is liMited to parties. He
knows nothing of the great natural principles
-which govern society, and which set at nought
the decrees of Parliament. He cannot be the man
of the age, and his attempt to carry on the Go-
vernment for the belioof of the monopolists and
the corruptionists, fbr the benefit of the priest-
hood and the aristocracy, must end in the total
demoralization of society, or in a revolution.
For us it was a fittal augury when we heard him
express sympathy for the taxed foreigner, whom,
for a party purpose, he sometime ago described
as little exposed to taxes; and heard him defend
the poll-tax levied on his. own countrymen.
He preaches that cheap humanity, which costs
nothing, but he will find it his duty to enforce
the law which ptqs money into his own pocket.

mons.

In another part of The Sun appears a letter, headed
" Wages," of which the orthography is a • sufficient
proof that the signature— " A Working Man," is not
improperly assumed. We earnestly beg the attention
of other working men to that statement, because it now
depends on them, and on them exclusively, whether the
Corn-laws shall be entirely and almost immediately re-
pealed, rendering England once again the happy home
of her industrious children, and quietly insuring all other
much-needed reforms, or whether those laws. shall be
continued, banishing her people -to other countries, in-
suring,the dominion of selfish fraud, and making this
once pleasant abode of the enlightened and the free a
home only "forf.'rampant tyrants and crawling slaves.
We say emphaticallyait depends exclusively onthe work-
ing classes, for their silence,._ is the most powerful argu-
ment of the rent-owners, and Their patient submission
the strength of their oppressors. Th6y.are appealed to,
and they have but to arouse themselves, -mat 'declare
against the Corn-laws to secure the annihilation Uf the,
odious tax. • -
It ought to be highly flattering to the working classes
to, observe how the rent-owners and the capitalists now
mutually censure each other for fleecing the poor; The
rent-owners absolutely defend their own monopoly by
accusing the capitalists of only wishing to. have it abo-
lished, in order to beat down the wages of labour. The
capitalists attack the Corn-law because it loWers the
wages of labour and injures the industrious classes. Be-
twixt the two charges the people must decide.
We profess, in advocating the total repeal of the Corn-
laws, a desire to promote the general good. No man
can deny that the abolition of those laws would be the
remee.al of a very onerous restriction, the repulsion of a
serious invasion of the rights of property, and an approxi-
mation to freedom. We are guided, then, by general prin-
ciples, and not by any wish to augment the wealth and
add to the power of the capitalists.
On. several occasions this Journal has condemned their
conduct in the manufacturing districts. Although there
arc many bright and noble exceptions, they have shown
themselves a great deal too ready to separate themselves
from their fellow-labourers, the working classes, to imi•
tate the heartless vices of the rent-owners, and make
common cause with them against their own servants,
workmen, and friends. They have at present their re-
ward in being despiSed by the rent-owners and forsaken
(politically) by their workmen. We trust, however, that
the ruin now impending over them, while the class they
have sillily wershipped mocks et their complaints and
treats their demands with contempt, will make them give
up their apish idolatry, and found their success and their
power on cultivating the affections of their own workmen.
Their present condition has drawn them to the neces-
sity of courting those whom they have heretofore re-
pelled ; and our serious and earnest advice to the work-
ing classes is to meet their advances. The capitalists,
like the labourers, suffer from the bread-tax, and the two
united could, in spite of the rent-owners, command its
repeal. That will get rid of one great wrong, and enable
the community to get rid of others. The landown:r's
sense Of j latee AVOU:€I sharpened by his loss, and he
weal become the aealutis ally of the working classes in
aholialtieg other monopolies, and redressing other griev-
To bring him over to the side of justice he must
be compelled to do justice. By now uniting, therefure,
with the capitalists to secure the abolition of the bread-
tax, the working classes would bring over the law-making
classes to their side, and so ensure the completion of all
other required reforms. .
They are afraid, however, that in the meantime wa7s
would be lowered, machinery would be extended, and
they \vould be injured or starred. The Tories, by werlo
jug on this fear, drive, the werhing classes into their toils
It was admitted by the Times on Friday, that the rate o
"ages is primarily regulated by the relations betweet
4',l}lt,l4aatel demand. tt i thcreforo,".it. admits, " a con-
, ;;,,,ritTA, ofirade Witte to result from the re-
yeal of th4a.hbrn-laws, without any increase fiddle.; place
I'l I'l "141 Y q.manufactaritea labour, it might appear
probable, 'l3" Mr, CoLDEN says,' that wages 'would rise
r.l!ber than fittE, whatever might be the price ot
V'TY j'aPirlallt admission, heettuse there is ne
can be no d, tie:l a considera-
Lll:iedie:;-•;rJ:ltti add(
i•:acu in trade,
Cott ntohtebeiailutictralevt,iiiiii.i.,,,b,:ol!i.,atitet.l.
SUPPIY 11',11 is now in
uncultivated,The iu)tiotl ulna
tt
the notrltet
and thoesends of Imtule thrown out of employment to
run into the matill`, cttlring, distrustseanno t
fin
on n
retIa:(1)•
nal
et
11:t be
whichscat, i~ :t inert cliihller;l,
entertained by those who reflect, that though tins farnoT
might be injured by a fall in price, which we choir, he
would be ruined peat redemption by giving
up cuitiva-
thin. Trade, therethre, would be extendedl by a repeal
of the Cern-laws, cultivation would cer,;eiejy „nt,,ba
mediately ood, wages would IT.laca
hilt an nporahension is entortaineil that flie
woulal rather employ machinery• than men. It Anuid,
however, be core idered that he is tempted to do that
now in a stronger degree, by talc narrowness and .cUmpe_
titiun of the market abroad, the high price of fhod at
lneae, and the small margin of profit whiell consequently
remains fur him. Whatever might be the temptation
under a repeal of the Corn-laws to substitute machinery
for manual labour, assuredly that .temptation is .much
stronger under the laws—except, indeed, as the exist-
ence of the law throws thousands of men out of work,
and makes them willing to work for the smallest portion
of food that will maintain them in life.

MICCS.

The -fear of being thrown out of work by
the 1.1',0 of machinery is idle. Where is the
Ocrhand for labour most brisk, and where is it best

paid ? In the manufacturing- districts—badly, even,
. _ _

Is it is there paid

Into them labourers now flock

from the agricultural districts.

Where have the labour-

. .
er most increased ? and Micro alone do we find a la-

bourer becoming a master and a man of wealth ? Not

in tILt agricultural districts, Nrillf To everything is _ _

olized by the Squir,?s 4ntl the P6rsons.

There the pro-

cess, as our Corre:Tondent shows, is one of degradation ;
small freeholders aro sold up:-.—farmers become labour-
ers—and labourers are" driven into the workhouse.