The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY CAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Morning Post has been praiseworthily labouring to
fill the world with abhorrence of Vac desire to purchase
cheaply. In the new code of commercial ethics the 'en-
ing is to be proscribed. People are to go into markets,
not for the purpose of discovering what is cheapest, but
what is dearest. If two men have the same commodity of
equal goodness, the one who asks the highest price de-
serves a preference. But we will allow our fashionable
Contemporary to speak for himself:—
" The principle of buying wherever you can in the world
cheapest, and of taking nothing into account but cheapness,
we contend to be the meanest, barrenest. and worst descrip-
tion of national policy that can be conceived. It is very well
for the interest of the least estimable class in the community,
namely, the greedy class, who make a god of capital' er mo-
ney ; but every man who wishes well to the nation as a whole,
and who feels for the people, ought to regard with abhorrence
this &sire of cheapness, which is but another name and form of
• grinding the faces of the poor.'
'The principles against which our Contemporary now
thunders, have so far corrupted society, that sellers are
afraid of purcl(asers who erc indiff. rent t) price. They
even suspect that he who does not care how much he pre-
mises to pay will not care to perform his promise. Men
who go into a market with ready money are uni'oenly
found desirous of purchasing cheaply. They are tainted
with the abhorred desire of cheapness. But to descend
from the sehhrniiies of our Contemporary to humbler
inattcrs—i. seems the advantage of soling dearly is to be
cor.:ined to one class, the landlords, ph,,, uu the otha
alc to be allowed to purchase :he produce of manufas ter-
jot! Industry in the cheapcst market in the two, :
Wiizt certain trading capitalists appear to want," he 7,rtys,
" is that they may take all the advantage which wealth gives
in every part of the world, and at the same time have the na-
tional advantages which are peculiar to England. This cupi-
dity is not to be borne. If they possess the advantages of Bri-
tish localities, British materials, British energy, and along with
these the capitol, sahLth is of equal power everywhere, they
must be content to hear with the one disadvantage which be-
longs to EnJantl, namely, a redundancy of population which
must be supl.orteti. and habits of living on the part of that po-
pulation which are more expensive than in other parts of the
earth. The desire to drive British cultivators out of em-
ployment because the corn they produce is somewhat. coverer
than ti. a blob foreign cultivators produce, is a base awl sor-
did desire, which it would be suicidal madness of the Legi,da-
tore to gratify."
Undoubtedly the manulicture-s cannot have the land-
lords' coitimodri!a at a cheap rat' because the agriculit.r 1
produce ref the Bi.di h Islands is inadequate to the
supply of the popol st•on ; and, as we must imp urt
not me sly corn, but butte-, cheese, hams, egg;,
and on all these commodities bevy duties are impo,el,
Ills price t the British consumer must always exceed
th,t of the peop'c who export, by the frights end
charges, and duties.. But the manufaeturcr must se lat
tj the ageisultu-ise He is an emote'', and
therefox protecting duties would him nethi g. The
P ice he receives in the foreign msrket determines
the psi e ; t hem^. L a manutheterer could sell at
lea own price at home, he would rct incur the
trouble and risk of expuitation. It will not do for
11:m to al'ege that he has costly habits of livieg, and I
therefore he cannot afferd to sell under a certain price.'
He mu it sell for what he can get, and if his 'titbits of iiv-
ing ((re bay and his receipts, he must go into the Gazette.
The public how, ver, understand the Tie-tan. It is a
question (lithely of power The landlords have a prepon-
oerating influence in the Leg slature, and they use that
influence to indulge in costly habits of living at t'e expense
of other The brigand, when he has a travelle • in
his pewee. does re t stop to convince him that it is proper
he ,fioul Ihe pideged. The landlords d t net themselves
bel'eve in the jushee of their cause ; but it is convenient
for teem to Leve the mosey ~f other people. It is er.ti, ely
a stand-end.de ives aff:i
" Buying in the cheapest market," observes a Contemporary
(the E.:tanniaer), " and selling in the dearest, is an econnini-
cal truth acquiring solidity ant form, because almost all the
most distinguished of ou, landowners and legislators have long
laboured to prove its truth and efficacy in Mat branch V trade
in which they are engaged.
" The manufacturers say, naturally, if you maintain it as a
practical truth for yourselves, that selling in the dearest mar-
ket and buying in the cheapest is the best for you, why compel
us to buy in the dearest market and sell in the cheapet?
Allow us to try your own maxim. We have always more cloth
to sell than you want to buy. You have never corn enotvah
to sell to supply our wants. Yeti therefore buy from us at
competition in ice,, and you compel us to buy of you at the
price of monopoly."
But thecg,) injustice may prevail for some time longer,
yet it sin only prevpii from fee supineness of the people.
o Symptoms of impatience on the part of the masses begin
to. be maiiiiested. The people will only suffer up to a (,r.
ta n point. When once the determination to get rid of
t‘ e evil becomes general, the landlords must give way.
There cal be no efficOtnt resistance to an united people
The Morning Post of this day, alluding to the question
of the Hanoverian Stide Duties, says:—" On the vast
trade of England :he amount of the Stide duties is a
trifle so ins'gnificant as to be no more flit than a fly on
the chari it who el of her triumphant commerce. Its t
eussion from first to last was a maligeant, and as it has
turned out, a detested and profitless attempt. to insult aid
to injure his Majesty of Hanover. It has been demon-
strated to be in all its main features utterly untenable,
and the peneieg adjustment Lf its minor details will
have precisely the opposite effect from that anticieated
by its movers—it u ill give greater permanence and a
clearer title in the Crown of Hanover to the ancient
right which it has vainly attempted to defeat. Englaed
has no longer any material interest involved in this ques-
Sion ; and if Harnburgh, or any minor community, may
still fret under the discharge of an obligation to which it
is liable, not as an exception, but in common with the
rest of Europe, it must make its complaints to and its
terms directly with the Government of Hanover itself, and
not by disingenuous representations to the people, or in-
direct insinuations against the Royal Family of England."
The Morning Herald observes, in a leading article sug-
gested by Mr. Ewart's motion on the subject of a public
prosecutor:—" Congenial with the legislation of Mr.
Fox Maude for improving' the administration of justice, is
Mr. Ewart's motion for a Select Committee, with a view
to recommending the appointment of a public prosecutor.
Do the public know how much of innovation upon the estab-
lished principles of the administrative system of British
justice such an appointment would involve? It would ne.
cessarily lead to the abolition of grand juries and prelimi-
nary investigations before Magistrates. We have already
a public prosecutor io the Queen's Attorney-General.
But he cannot, except in certain cases of misdemeanour,
put subjects of the Crown upon trial without the interven-
tion of a grand jury. The public prosecutor which Mr.
Ewart and his party wish to have appointed, is one, we
presume, who is to determine whether accused parties
shall be put on their trial or not, without the intervention
of a grand jury, or even a coroner's inquest, which now, by
means of its finding,' or inquisition,' can put the law
in motion against any person charged with homicidal
crime, such 'finding' or ' inquisition' operating like a bill
of indictment."
The Times thus refers to the late visitation at York,
and the inquiry into the Ex- Dean's conduct :—" Had not
this visitation been held, the traffic in spiritual preferments
and other notorious and habitual malpractices of the ex-
Dean of York would have been continued, to the mani-
fest scandal of the Church and injury of religion. glad
any less sentence than that of deprivation been pronounced
the purity of the Church itself must have been compro-
mised, by suffering an individual convicted of habitual
simony (the worst kind of fraud), and who had even
affected to glory in his shame, to disgrace her high
places, to occupy her pulpits, to officiate at her altars, and
once mote to dispense the patronage of the noblest of her
cathedrals. Nor is simony the only ground upon which
the removal of such a man from such a situation would
have been necessary. It is easy to imagine acts of contu.
macs?, which, although they might legally justify, would not morally require, so severe
a penalty as deprivation.
But a temper and deportment so violent, so flippant, so in.
decent, as that lately exhibited by the
misguided
misguidedperson
who is the subject of our remarks, amounts in itself to a
moral disqualification for any high !spiritual function."
(From the Globe.)
The Times extends equal solicitude to the interests
of the Church and its churchyards ; and is not more
iudignant at the desecrating practices of the ex-Dean
of York, than at the want of consecrating efficacy
Cemetery.
in the enclosures of the Abney
Christian burial is indeed the best that the vin
afford to one of its proteges after another, in
matters
ecclesiastical. It has followed so many silently to the
tomb, that no wonder it is anxious to be sure of cense.
crated ground for their successive accommodation. It
is lmt yesterday that the Times was exulting in the
mi silty revival which the pretensions of the Puseyites
1104 achieved in the frame of the Church. Where is its
Orford protege now ? It is dead and gone ; or at least
Aril le snort ; and the Times is exalting the " direct
and summary corrective jurisdiction" of Whig-made
Baishops. The sort of non-juring contumacy which
:springs forth every now and then in the Church, and
of which Dr. Hook has again appeared as a sturdy
provincial ringleader, is no longer to be encouraged in
its sallies by Tory journalism. We are glad thnt
common sense is so far restored to the organs of
Opposltion. That gun is spiked which was to do such
execution on Whiggery / They have more than one
s acheverel ; but unluckily no Swift ; and more than
one
with Church champion " to the death "—consistently
keeping their living. The Times therefore is
driven back to its Meditations' amongst the Tombs ;
and bas discovered a new source of eccle-
siastical dangers in the cemetery companies \Vh it
is endangered by thes 'companies, so .far as
simply
we understand, are the fees which arc
secured to clerical functionaries by the present dis-
graceful and fatal system of interments in and around
churches. And those fees are the only things secured
by that horrible system ; for to talk of security
to the dead in our populous church-yards, is
ant
insult to common-sense, and a gross speculation on
public credulity. Every metropolitan sexton could ex-
pose the nature of that security ; to say nothing of the
wholesale removals which the omnipotence of those
public authorities, invoked by the Times to perpetuate
the present destination of cemeteries, can at any time
decree, for the purpose of public improvements. We
have no care, or concern, for any particular cc.
metery speculation ; but we are sure that no imper-
fection in the security which they may offer the dead
can be so great an evil (though, of course, it is one
which ought to be remedied) as the present accumu-
lation of centres of infection and mortality to the
living. That these sourcee of disgust and disease arc
kept open throughout the metropolis, in spite of de-
monstration, ad nauseant, of their inadequatenes.s. for
eeWiroOfe;tshesed,,!ii,Urp.,ose,and their inevitably pernicious
•
of a vast population, the Times
l pleases, as a proof of religious
1,1 .1 in the doctrine of a
resurrection. PNrSti'ne-,
Our: • it, esider it the grossest remnant of so.