The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

By the Corn Returns published yesterday it appears
that the average price of wheat for the six weeks ending
August 13th was Gls. 9d. It has therefore again
risen 2s. 5d., and the duty has consequently fallen to
18s. Bd. The average price of the week ending on the
same day was 725. 3d., or a rise of 2s. sd. on the average
of the present week. Unless the present fine weather
should cause a rapid fall in prices, which we do not im-
mediately anticipate, the average prices will continue to
rise, and speculators will look forward to a period when
the duty will be merely nominal, to make the largest
possible importations. At the expense of the revenue
they will do something to correct the mischief of the law,
and fill their own pockets.

Our readers, who remember the language commonly
used by the Tory Journals from twelre to twenty years
ago, will trace a remarkable coincidence between their
. mode of then treating Parliamentary Reform and their
present mode of treating the repeal of the Corn-laws.
At that period they continually ridiculed the Reformers.
They never condescended to argue the question—
they made sport of its advocates. All the bad
jokes, from Mr. CANNING'S Red Lion to the imi-
tation of little WADDINGTON'S Cockney-English,
were all on the Tory side. The Journalists
satirized day, after day, every person who spoke in favour
of :Reform. As they waxed facetious, however, Reform
grew in strength ; and when, as far as words went, the
Hoots and the CROKEItS supposed the day was all their
own, Reform was achieved ; and since then they have
left off laughing at Reformers, and have cursed the Re-
form Act, though they could not undo it.
Tfey have now adopted the same course as to the re_
peal of ;lieCorn-laws. Mr. CODDEN, a man of great
talent and orumanding energy, stands in the place of
HUNT or Conn76.7r, as a butt for the Tory wit. The Con-
rsf nc,Me-minded Trtqw., hr.vve--I.ft
their fiinilie% and ull ft-li* ordinary pursuits, and have
gathered together from all parts of the empire,
to give the public accurate inNmation of the dondi-
tion of the poor, is now for the Torieg what the Radicals
were from 1820 to 1830—the daily mark of their calumny,
The Radicals, however, survived the intended annihila-
tion. HUNT and COEEETT both sat in Parliament ; and,
from the present ribaldry of the Tory press, we antici-
pate a like and a speedy triumph for the cause which the
energetic Manchester men and the enthusiastic Minis-
ters who have met at Manchester, are intent on promot-
ing. The 'subsistence of the people, their health and
lives, are of too much importance to be affected by
the buzzing of Tory flies. The struggling manufac-
turers will heed them no more than their own steam-
engines heed the insects that are daring enough to settle
on them, and find, though the engine intend it not, death
from their foolishness.

The Times of yesterday reminded us of that bird
which hides its head in the sands, and, seeing nothing
itself, fancies that it is itself unseen. Speaking of the
Corn-laws, our Contemporary said, " Not the less do we
consider it unjust to plunge, without long notice and
gradual preparation, even into that state of things which
we think abstractedly best." As if, because the Times
has not given a "long notice," and made a " gradual
preparation," the subject had never been mooted. Pre-
parations have been made so gradual, notices have been
given so long,' that the public are now heartily tired of
both, and require that the notice shall be acted on, and
the preparation carriel into effect. The Times is op-
posed to the present restrictions, but it will " not write
them down," which is already effectually done without
its help, because doing so " would mix up that Jour-
nal with the Ministers." Our Contemporary is so
blindly In love with the Tories, that he un-
blushingly avows his readiness to sacrifice the
public interest lest he. should be seen in company with
the Whigs. Men are enjoined not to'follow a multitude
to do evil, but the Tines casts the Gospel aside as
easy as its own opinion when its party is to be served.
It follows the multitude.of the Tories to do what it calls
evil ; and it will not follow the lesser number, the Whigs,
to do good. We can assure the Times that the Corn-
laws will be written down whatever course it may take,
and that its silence will be as impotent to
.prevent that
consummation as its much writing was to stay the enact-
ment of the New Poor-law.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

The French Journals of Wednesday have all
been received, but the news containedin them
vvizi-ai;nfoor
,the most part anticipated in our afternoon
eof yesterday. The illoniteur, in caution-
ing the people Of the south of France against
resisting the-taking '
The census of die census, says-shotild k must and will be taken. It is fit that par-
tiesw that there is in France no Lbstacle, no
embarrassment,no suffieiently serious to check the execution
of the laws.
The, Governmentor of July will nat allow
to perish in its hands,to be scattered at the pleasure
of faction, that strong' and
the price
national unity which
our fathers founded at
has constituted
of so many sacrifices,
and which for fifty years
inotunshetituted our greatness
as regards foreign countries
m mdateur
iinternal prosperity.
In answer to the
,leathche.ngfoclolloLinngs
spirited remarks appear
of the Natio-nal:—
Who is it hoped to entrap by this common-place
trash ? Was it the factions whon iddrethe
drew up the imperti-
aos
nent circular of M. Humann ?
deliberations of the Municipal Councils of of r
Toulouse,
upu thee
Paris, Orleans, &c.? Was it the factions who taught
the people that a country which has a normal Budget
ex-
penditure of
1,300, and a deficit of more than 900 millions—a country
to which is given neither glory, nor grandeur, nor
prosperity, nor liberty, and in which the profligate
penditure of the public money is at the cost of the blood
and the sweat of the brow of the people, has a right to
call for grace, and to resist new contributions ?
Were the people in want of factions to prove to
them that they were suffering ? Is the resistance
of the tax-payers to excessive demands a new fact
in history ? If revolutions have not always ended in
•<s way, is it not always by financial questions that
they ceztmence ? You send a dictator into a town, and
you think thai. with him and your bayonets you will
accomplish your object. You imagine that houses will
be opened to you, and that you may go over private
dwellings in spite of the law and in virtue of your own
good pleasure, and that our citizens will not remember.
that our revolutions have given to them guarantees which
they are bound to defend. Because you have force in
your hands, you think you may both use and abuse it
with impunity, and you persuade yourselves that you
can thus trample upon rights at your caprice. The
French nation, so proud of its past, would sink to the
last degree of degradation, if it were to bend to your i
insolence."

FRANCE.

An extraordinary express brings news from Paris of
Thursday's (yesterday's) date. Disturbances of a very
serious character, in resisting the census, took place at
Aubusson on the 15th.

-At Ceret the people opposed the execution of the mea-
sure, wounding an officer of the gendarmes and several
of his men who escorted the revenue officers.

The Courrier Francais, in general so moderate

At Bordeaux order had been restored, but 194 persons
had been arrested, and excitement still prevailed. At
Toulouse the operation of the census was going on with-
out overt opposition. The inhabitants remained quietly
at home, but refused to open their doors to the Commis-
sioners. The town was guarded as in war time ; loaded
cannon were planted in_the chief square ; affairs were at
a stand ; many shops closed.
The Emancipation of the 16th announces that the
census was resumed at Toulouse on that day, and that
the authorities had made on the occasion an extraordi-
nary display of military force. The city was tranquil,
the people being satisfied to oppose a passive resistance
to the revenue officers, who were admitted only into a
few houses.

The question of the census was still the principal topic
of the press in Paris. Government had ordered an in-
terpretation of some points of this question to be inserted
in the opposition Paris Papers. Tumults continue
breaking out in the south. At Aubusson, and Livenhae,
they had been put down by the military.
PAnrs, Auc. 19.—Five per Cents., 1161 ; Three per
Cents., 77f. 50c. ; Spanish, 20-i.

I surely meet with attentive ears and open purses ! in iisi'lews of domestic policy, is still more vio-
-lon the part of that branch of the oligarchy of lent. We quote an extract from it, which paints
the country who support. the Corn-laws. Cal- , in still more glowing colours than have yet ap-
culating, as they short-sightedly do, their gain by peared the violent resistance offered to the
the extent of the poyerty among the inanufac- census in the Southern Departments :
turers, they will surely'not refuse to assist in Ministers will endeavour in vain by circulars, or the
Prefects by proclamations, to put an end to the alarm
expatriating those whom they have, by starvation,
which their measures have excited. The census is only
made heart-sick of their country. being made in our southern provinces under the protec
Hopeless indeed is the condition of that coun- tion of bayonets. It is a true campaign of the Ministry
try, for whose miseries emigration is the only, or
against the tax-payers. The army, which ought to be
employed for the defence of the country, is only employed
even the best remedy; but as no other can at in promoting the legal
extra rigours of the Treasury.
present be applied with such expedition in the From Bordeaux to Marseilles, and in the thirty or forty
manufacturing, districts, it is a work of !mercy to
towns which extend from the ocean to the Mediterranean,
wev see regiments encamped on the public squares
assist in promoting it. We could better spare with their onlyhei rearnion and muskets loaded and ready to fire.
any class of eur fellow-subjects than those inge- Barricades are destroyed on one point only to be set up
nious artizans who have produced the bulk of
in another, and the peasantry rise with the dame impe-
r
our wealth, and who will carry away with them tuevoosilttirngasateinwsotrikt:nceonn.
uletroisrslike a conquered country
those arts which will sooner or later render the We find i.n La Sentingelle de Toulon that the French
colonies the formidable commercial rivals of the fleet in the Levant, under Rear-Admiral De La Susses
/will consist of the following ships :—lnflexible, 90 ;
mother country; but as we would not see them Santi Petri, 84 ; Minerve, GO , Gloire, 52 ; Ambuscade,
perish with hunger and nakedness, it becomes a 32 ; . Cornaline, .32 ; Fleche, 10 ; Bougainville, 10 ;
' duty to contribute to the procuring the only imme_ . Mcsange, 6 ; and Acheron steamer, of 160-horse power.
diate remedy for distress so deep and so urgent. Thet Constantinople.
Ambu.scade, is on the coast of Syria, and the Fleche
With the strongest desire not to dry up the According to a statistical table which we have before
fount of charity in any quarter, by regarding a us, the department of the Upper Garrotte has a population
question involving the fate of a deserving but
454,7250 f
souls ; before 1836, Toulouse had 59,000 in-
habitants; in 1836, it had 77,000; and now, in 1841,it has
unfortunate body of operatives in a party point 90,000. The result of this will be, that the General
of view, or attempting to turn it to mere party 'Council of the'llrpper Garrone, in making their allotment
purposes, we deem it a duty to impress upon the of the taxes, will have to charge the city with a fifth in-
of a seventh of the whole amount to be paid by the
British people how completely it demonstrates tead
department ; . the city will pay more, the commerce less.
the necessity of a radical change in the com- This is the Secret of the resistance of the Municipal
mercial policy of this country. It is all very Council of Toulouse, the motive of the resistance of all
the kindest, the
Municipal Councils. It is local interest, the meanest,
well for the agriculturists to call for protection, the most deplorable of all interests, which
but when what protects them involves contends against the distribution ordered by justice and
the ruin, ' the ' mendicancy, the expatria- by the laws for the general interest.—Le Temps.
A Journal announces that the garrison of the capital
tion by charity of thousands of honest will be almost entirely chaged after the breaking up of
and industrious artizans, only a wicked and pro- the camp at Compeigne, which will be formed on the- Ist
fligate Legislature could consent to grant it to of nexth month.
Th
e Spanish Journal El Hablador Patriota, says—
Wee learn that the Government of Morocco is causing
them. To protect one class exclusively at the ~
expense of the lives of another, is nothing short a brig of 18 guns, and a schooner, the destination of
of murder. Is it just or reasonable to leave the W which is unknon, to be armed and equipped in the port
of.Larache. We advise the Spanish Government to have
landed oligarchy in possession of the high this armament carefully watched.—Le Constitutionnel.
rents of which the Corn-laws plunder the BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17.
people, that they may have money to f 1 rst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
squander in gambling, in keeping racing- french 5 per Cents ll6 45 ... 115 50 .., 1:6 45 ... 116 45
4 per Cents IV 70 ... 99 70 ... 95 70 .., 99 70
studs, in maintaining an army of powdered lac- 3 per Cents. ex. di, 77 50
-. 77 :,1) ... 77 40 .., 77 4)
queys, and in corrupting the poor voters by ,It anatista.nrak",Pi:•e7........;;;;; .......... .......;02111i :PIO ......312Z
bribes at elections, while thousands of Indus- Belgian sNix• Cents.
trious, sober, and ,intelligent operatives are ipanish Active .....
Passive - 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4.%
obliged to appeal to the country for the clothing New Deferml lO ... 10 ... 10 ... 10
Neapolitan ..»....,....
necessary to defend them from the inclemency ~ 102% ... 102% ... 10234
"frirW A"I SRA R ES.
of the weather in a voyage to Sydney? A thou- St. Germain .... '720 ... 728 75 ... 72.1 .., '728 75
Versatilesli ... 205 ... 207 50 ... 205 ... 207 :0
sand times we answer, it is neither just nor rea-
sonable. This cry of the poor for bread will Orleans 450 ... 450 ... 45.1 ... 450
.....- . . ... .........„ 4lO ... 480 ... 480
Strasburg to Bale 237 50 ... 537 58 ... 237 50 ::: 480
reach Heaven, and evil will befal the wicked 50
and selfish men who, to increase their own vvea:
continue the accursed taxes upon food.