The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAWS.

On Saturday, a deputationbetween thirty and forty
gentlemen waited upon the Lord Mayor with a requisi-
tion signed by upwards of 500 names, that his Lordship
would be pleased to call a meeting of the constituency
and inhabitants of the city of London, to take into con-
sideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for an
alteration in the present Corn-laws. Amongst the de-
putation we noticed Mr. Travers, Mr. Fearon, Mr. Dillon,
Mr. H. Taylor, Mr. Ashurst, Mr. William Pritchard,
Mr. Foster, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Greig, Mr. Heppel,
Mr. Norris, &c.
Mr. FEARON having presented the requisition, the Lord
Mayor went into the next room to consult the Town
Clerk, and soon afterwards 'returned, and stated that he
was happy at all times to afford the greatest facilities for
the expression of the public feeling and sentiments, and
that he would grant the request of so large and respect-
able a body. He thought he was bound to say, how-
ever, that his view on the great subject of the Corn-laws
was decidedly opposed to those gentlemen who waited
upon him. He was the farmers' friend, and he appre-
hended that if the Corn-laws were repealed, that exten-
sive class of persons would be actually driven to the
workhouses. He fervently hoped that the meeting
would not engage in anything calculated to pauperize so
meritorious a body of their fellow-subjects.
Mr. FEARON declared, that if the gentlemen present
contemplated any such result as the reduction to pauper-
ism of the farmers, or any other class of their country-
men, they would use all their exertions for the adoption
of a course directly opposed to that which they were
now pursuing; but he apprehended, without meaning to
give any offence, that his Lordship took not only a mis-
taken, but an exceedingly narrow view of the question.
They (the deputation) were the friends of the farmer in
the best sense of the word. All interests were necessa-
rily linked together, and one interest could not be de-
pressed without inflicting injury upon all. He looked
upon the question to be one in which the entire trade
of the country and the support of the existing popula-
tion were involved. Peace was said to be the
great civilizer of mankind—it was the great equa-
lizer too. The continuance of monopolies and the
continuance of peace were wholly irreconcilable. Eng-
land had taught other nations in manufactures to fight
her with her own weapons, and unless she relaxed
in prohibitory laws they would cease their commer-
cial intercourse with her. Germany, Belgium,
Switzerland, and even France, were in some degree
becoming her rivals. He might add the United
States. The trade of England with the old countries
of Europe had greatly declined in consequence of her re-
fusal to take their produce, and her exports kept up their
present amount by the increase of her colonies, the open-
ing of the Brazil connection, and' other new markets.
Now, he begged to be informed by the Lord Mayor how
was the deficiency in the revenue to be supplied without
increased pressure upon the people. His Lordship had
said that the shopkeeper depended upon the farmer, and
the farmer depended upon the Corn-laws. He begged
to remind his Lordship that the whole depended upon
our trade. England could not shut up herself from
foreign connection, and if the Lord Mayor's views
were carried out, the millions of workmen who were
called into existence by our manufactures would
place the property of his Lordship and the property
of all other men of substance in the greatest pos-
sible jeopardy. The shipper was the customer of the
manufacturer ; the manufacturer was the employer
of the workman ; the workman was the customer of the
little shopkeers, and the little shopkeepers were the
customers of his Lordship and other large dealers, and the
whole were the supporters and customers of the agricul-
turists. As a man having a stake in the country he felt
the deepest interest in the success of the measure to
which the requisition called his Lordship's attention,
feeling assured that its denial would tend to impair the
national energies, lessen the spdtairity of property, and
place the masses of the working population in a position
alarming to every friend of his country. But if it was
carried we should not only sustain our present position,
but a new course of greatness would open upon England.
It was well known that in the great cotton manufac-
tories the men worked no more than four days in the
week—his object was to enable them to work the whole
six days.
The LORD MAYOR—YOU must not misunderstand me ;
lam not hostile to the manufacturers. I have had a
great deal to do with the manufacturers, and supply thent
with the oil which they use in the prosecution of their
labours.

His Lordship then appointed next Tuesday week for
the consideration of the question of the Corn-laws in the
Guildhall, and the deputation left the Mansion-house.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S VICTORY.

Another such victory, and we shall be ruined."—
Duke of Wellington's Despatches.
The long debate ended at last in a majority of thirty-
six monopolists against the Ministry. Rights of sugar,
rights of timber, rights of corn, all sorts of rights were
respected, except rights of the people; and all sorts of
dangers were deprecated by the alarmists, save danger
of starvation and ruin. Sugar-men, coffee men, timber
men, corn men, all sorts of horse-leech men, joined in
the cry—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" and, for a
time, they have triumphed.
But we are mistaken if Lord John Russell is the man to
be put down by a coalition of class-interests, however for-
midable. The country have waited, and waited in vain, for
an exposition from his rival of that grand scheme of policy
which was to heal the wounds of the State, and to throw into
the shade the unstatesman-like remedy of the Ministry.
Sir Robert Peel avows he has none to offer. This he
tells us in language so equivocal, that the most opposite
sections of his party are each persuaded that he has
pledged himself to their particular views • while, in rea-
lity, has contrived-to leaveiree on all the
points of sugar, timber, and corn. The time for alter-
ing the sugar duties is not yet come, according to his
notions ; but he thinks slavery is no impediment in the
way. A fixed duty on corn he will oppose, but some
alteration might possibly be made in the sliding duty.
These admissions, with many protestations of adherence
to the principlelof free trade, leaves him, as he presumes,
at perfect liberty to trim his sails to any wind that
blows, and to claim to be the man on whom the mantle
of Mr. Huskisson has descended, or the bosom friend of
the Duke of Buckingham, just as the popular feeling
may show itself more or less strongly in the interim.
There can be no great wisdom or ability in conduct
like this. On a momentous occasion like the present,
we did not expect a statesman to cavil at the inconsist-
encies or official errors of his rivals—to turn to account
the arguments of the wrong pamphlet relied on by his
opponents, or to put his whole trust in Hansard—but to
grapple with the mighty reality of things. From many
smooth-shaven Respectabilities and Plausibilities, Nye
might expect such things, but not from a " proximate
premier," called upon in a great crisis to decide a ckange
in the whole policy of the empire.
Not only did the monopolist leader not meet, the ques-
tion like a statesman, he did not meet it at :LP,. As Lord
Palmerston reminded the House, he did not, utter a single
word about the Brazilian Treaty, or the
-United States of
America, and Germany. He argued the question as if
our foreign trade was flourishing, a` if our deficit were
purely temporary, and as if there were little or no dis-
tress in the country, although 'in certain districts the
people are glad to eat carrion, to sustain life. Sir Robert
Peel cannot shut his eyes to the fact that we must either
sacrifice our monopolies or our foreign trade. The lives
of our surplus milhons depend upon the latter ; and as
we can neither expatriate our people, exterminate them,
or pass the ploughshare over London, Manchester, and
Birmingham, as prayed for by the Quarterly Review, we
must find employment for them. There are some ques-
tions, like those of the Sphynx, which a statesmen now-
a-days must solve on pain of being devoured, and he will
find the corn monopoly one of these. If the Tories re-
fuse to speak out there is a way to make them by mo-
tions, as Mr. Charles Buller hinted. Let Ministers once
force their slippery antagonist to commit himself in fa-
vour of direct taxation or against free trade, and he is
lost. The country is in no mood to put up with a Mr.
Facingbothways as its ruler.—British Queen.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE J. T. B. BEAU•
MONT, ESQ.—On Saturday the remains of the late John
Thomas Barber Beaumont, Esq., F.G.S., F.A.S., were
removed from his late residence in Regent-street, for
interment in the cemetery constructed by him at Mile-
end. The mourning-coaches contained J. A. Beaumont,
Alfred Beaumont, and Henry,' Beaumont, Esqrs., sons
of the deceased ; Sir Henri!. l'ym, M.P. ; Sir Richard
King, J. G. Booth, Esq. ; and other immediate friends..
For nearly two hours previous to the interment, Beau-
mont-square, Mile-end, and Alfred-street, &c., along
which the funeral passed, were lined with well-dressed
persons, anxious to pay a mark of respect to the memory
of the deceased gentieman, who was highly esteemed by
the inhabitants of the district, in which he possessed
large property ; and the shutters of most of the shops
and houses were closed upon the occasion. On arriving
at the cemetery the body was conveyed into the chapel,
and the coffin was consigned to the tomb opposite the
chapel, prepared by order of Mr. Beaumont previous to
his death.

The Hon. and Rev. Edward Southwell Keppel
has been appointed one of the Deputy Clerks of the Closet
to her Majesty,

WHAT HAS THE CHURC DONE
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln case the present plan of Ministers 'for in-
creasing the revenue should not be carried, I have a Val!
to propose founded on the following reasons, with which
I believe three-fourths of the inhabitants of England,
Scotland, and Ireland will agree.
The Church as by law established, was established for
increasing Christianity, producing uniformity, the de:
struction of Popery, the expelling of ignorance; and that
in every village in the kingdom there should be one from
his knowledge, wealth, and office capable of assisting the
poor and oppressed against the oppressor, a man looked
up to as the father of his flock.
That in the Legislature of the country there shelld
be a body of learned men to defend the interests of reli-
gion, of peace, and of the poor.
Has it increased Christianity ?
Who visits the miners of Cornwall, the colliers of
Kingswood, and the ignorant village population of Eng-
land generally ? Certainly not the clergy, but the Dis:
senters ; the clergy in many villages preaching only ono,
in three weeks.
Has it produced uniformity of religious opinion ? a
It found England with only two sects, Papists an
Lollards, at the time it was established ; now there are
nearly two hundred.
Has it destroyed Popery ?
The Catholics have considerably increased in Ireland'.
and the Protestants decreased.
Has it expelled ignorance ?
• 'sell
It is notorious that in thosefew villages which DO
has not reached, the ignorance of the people is gr.al
than anywhere else. Could Tom, alias Sir W 1;
Courtenay, preach with such success anywhere but in td?
neighbourhood of the principal cathedral in Englan a
The clergy have adopted SundaY schools only to clefen
themselves from the Dissenters, who have used the.°
successfully for years.
Are the clergy looked up to a 3 friends ?
The most unpopular man in a country village is the
parson, who is generally overbearing to the poor, an
subservient to the great.
Are the interests of religion defended by the BisheV
They never speak of religion in the House, but tre-
quently of their temporalities.
Did the Bishops ever attempt to prevent war ?
Never ! ! !
Did they ever attempt to prevent want ?
No ! Look at their votes and speeches on the Cow'
laws.
Did they ever raise their voices for the abolition .°f
slavery ?
Never ! ! !
As the Church has failed in all the things expected °I
her, and as she is the cause of much disturbance anu
unchristian feeling throughout the country, and of meet,
obstruction in the Legislature, since not a public Act
and scarce a Railway Bill can be passed which does Ilbe°
meet with obstruction from her, I propose that she o$
abolished, and all her property, as soon as the preseof
life holders die, be paid into the funds for the purpose
reducing the National Debt, which it would half aceenr
plish.
I think John Bull may now say to her—MOO/1 1
i
have no further need of your instructions, and asi°
have totally failed in your agreement with me, and 0 4
you cannot rule your own family at Oxford, I shall er
pay you: salary any longer for instructing mine. ,
DISTANT THUND"

Frome, May 16, 1841.

THE MARKETS.
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS,

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. P"°.f...,
L',r Quarter s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. s. to s. t°
tarlisle — 30— 46 40
Hexham 52 f 6 28 32 20 24 44
Morpeth 5O 64 24 27 22 24 34 36 a,
Penrith 6B 32 2t 63 ••••• 44
Sheffield — 65 31 23 44
Winchester 52 62 28 11 20 26 40 42 35 d.
Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s.d 5. , 5,
0
Carmarthen t, 6 7 8 0 0 3 7 0 0 2 3 5 6 0 0 0 0 00
Cowbridge 79 80 00 4C 00 30 50 53 ot, 00
iwansea 7B 8 8 4 0 4 8 2 8 3 0 5 6 6 0 5 6
Per 8011.
JO
Barnardcastl 15 0 18 080 93 64 76 90 100 97, 10
Durham 'l3 515 8 0 90 6 3 7 0010 6 9 . (I
Richmond I 0 ISO 70 86 56 R 3 0 9 6 190 90
•I
Stockton I4 0 16 (i 9 0 9 0 5 0 6 6 8 0 10 0 8 0
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suilblk —s. 53e. to 61s. One mi.
Lin, and Cam.

150 18 0 8 0 93 90 106'
136 166 ti 0 .90 00 106
1,0 IS 0 70 86 96 190
140 166 90 90 80 100
WAKEFIELD G. ..111kET.
1, Norfolk and Suilblk
• Lin. and Cam.
Yorkshire
white ~.
Foreign, Bed ---
ass:
... .
—65-5291
tic::
56tbi ; ; 09; s:: I.: gi Edenin ng,
fine 67;;;;:::
White --s, —a. to 60s. rine f,.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --a. to 2.is fine o''..;
' Se '
----.- Lincolnshire
•-- Yorkshire Wold
--- Foreign
--o. to 3t3s fine ~
Beans, New
Old ••
Oats, Potato
---- Poland
--- vriesland and Sinall :: : :
7....
.3 7asgsg
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tt 4ttt
0000 43 92
0221
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float 11 eeL.4O
rsos:1:".
axealing
..... -.... 1241. to 1234ds pet ,
...,),
Shelling 2Bs. to 295. Od. pet J •`"'"ii,,
Malt
.. ... a L.O.- _ ...L.-924_ fine_42. • P.,....r Lot
Rapeseed .

—J. Os. 321. Os. 341. Os, per
NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE.
Bed. White..
Wheat, Northumberland s4g s CO. 64'.
.--- Norfolk and 5uff01k............... 655. C 73 Cs. 69,.
-- Berwick and Scotch... ......... ... Ols. 1135 --s. 671.
--- Foreign 62s. G 75....... f3s. 633•
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk BSc 405 --.• —l*
-- Foreign 29s. 333 —s• —."
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 355. —s —s. 36s'
Grinding and Feeding 2Bs. 30s. -s• —4;
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk... ........... .... 54s 60s ...41. --s•
Beans, Small 33s. 401....... •••4.
--s. ---- Tick ....... -10 s. 423 ---s. Pease, White 4os. 425. . ... --I. ___._
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t2s. 44s --5. ----. Oats, Northumberland, P0tat0e......... 255. 26s —4. --se
.----- Feed . 549....... ....4.....44
Foreign ........ ............. ....... -4.. •m•ii....... .11.,..4
Flour (per sack). 4ss. 404......_ • __L

ITCH MARKETS.

Wheat.

Barley.

Oats.