The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

(Launceston) and of Devonshire, and last, not least, of
the county of Dorset.
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The electors for counties

Westmoreland for

le, of which) the repreentation is, to the
lands of the LOWTHERS, and Muamouth, which
belongs to the BEAUFOUTS, being either the
pure aristocracy, or persons strictly dependent
on the aristocracy, it required Sir ,I..GRAH AM'S
peculiar sense of moral accountability to ask,
triumphantly, was " that an appeal to the aris-
tocracy ?" In the whole of the constituencies
mentioned by Sir J. GRAHAM there is no mix-
ture of democracy, or it is so small as to make
his implied assertion a mere mockery. As if to
meet ins mode of perverting facts, we have
previously stated in Time Stn that not one of the
Ministers represents a populous place, or a de-
mocratic constituency. Again, then, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM' informs us what we are to expect from
the moral sense of the Tories by coolly insinuat-
ing a palpable untruth.
We must pass over a number of other illus-
trations of the nice moral perceptions of the
men in power, on which alone, owing to the
foolishness of the public, we have now to rely,
to come to what Sir JAMES GRAHAM says of
protective duties. He is " for such a duty as
will give native industry," he says, " fair play in
its Competition with foreign countries." Now
one would hardly suppose, without reading
further, that under this form of speech he means
a duty on foreign corn imported into this
country, and the native industry he speaMs. of
is tha industry exclusively of the rent-collector.
Our native industry which comes into competi-
tion with that of foreign countries, is the industry
of Manchester, Sheffield, and. Leeds, the pro-
duce of which meets Swiss cotton, Prussian
knives, and Saxon woollens, in the markets
of the Brazils and the United States, and
must compete with them there. Our agri-
cultural produce being seldom or never
exported, comes not into competition with
the agricultural produce of other countries,
and cannot therefore need any so-called protec
tion. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, however, under the
very general terms " native industry," means
only the industry of the rent collector, and he
has such a nice sense of moral responsibility
that he insists on every other native industry
being taxed to facilitate that peculiar, and, for
landed gentlemen, charming species of labour.
He calla taxing the native industry of Manches-
ter, Leeds, and Birmingham, protecting- it, and
the Dorchester men cheered his statement.
What is a protective duty on corn? A pro-
hibition for the Sheffield cutler and the Man-
chester weaver, to buy flour at New York, and
wheat at Dantzic, unless they first pay
to Sir JAMES GRAHAM and his colleagues
10s., 155., or 20s. per quarter, as the case may be,
more than their wheat is worth. The protective
duty is an attempt, reprobated by all scientific
writers, to fix a minimum price below which
wheat shall not descend. If the price of wheat
must be kept up, why not the price of hats, the
price of labour, and the price of every other ar-
ticle ? Because that is impossible, and the mo-
ral sense of our Tory legislators, at whose mercy
the people have placed themselves, is shown by
keeping up the price of that article which be-
longs to themselves, and lowering the price of
all the articles fbr which it exchanges. They
deal with false weights, which is an abomina-
tion in the eyes of the LORD ; and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM calls so dealing a protective duty. In
this case he shows that nice sense of moral ac-
countability which distinguishes the aristocracy
by glazing over a palpable legislative fraud by
which his own class is enriched.
After this exhibition of his moral sense, the
Right Hon. Baronet, who, according to the
custom of Dorchester, put himself into nomina-
tion, was declared duly elected ; and so he again
becomes a member of the Legislature, to act on
his sense of moral duty. From the Times we
learn that the nation has nothing to rely on but
the sense of honour and justice which pervades
the breast of the Tories; and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM'S speech informs us that their sense of
honour and justice prompts them to insinuate
falsehood, to gloze over fraud, and to commit
and justify the most barefaced oppression.
Against that there is, we are afraid, no present
redress, for the public has decided that it is far
better to have Tory tyrants than no tyrants at all

Now that the advocates of the Bread-tax, in
consequence of their patrons being in office,
have full swing for their ribaldry, they promise
very soon to make Mr. COBDEN the second best,
if not the very best, abused man in her
MAJESTY'S dominions. The Post, for example,
yesterday, spoke of him as " principal agitator
of Manchester," whose "speech on Thursday
was.very impudent and no less ignorant." "He
has all the noisy vulgar impudence of O'CoN-
NEL." "He is a mere dunce." Impudence is
his sole stock in trade. " The man is 'a confident
presuming dunce." " A bungling dunce." " A de-
tected dunce." " A man destitute of the com-
monest habits of observation." "He knows no-
thing." "As to matters of fact, and the connection
between them, he is as ignorant as the door-postsof
his house."
.He is "an impudent dunce." Such
are specimens of the epithets applied to Mr.
COBDEN in one leader by that genteelest or all
journals the Morning Post. What, then, may
Mr. CODEN expect from the hardened and vul-
garjournalists or that same party ? He has already
attained a great eminence, otherwise so many
missiles would not be hurled against him. He
will soon, if the sa:ue progress continue, rise
above Mr. O'CONNELL, and be the very best
abused man in the empire. Verily he ought to
be much flattered by the attention paid him by
the laadownem' scribes.

It does not follow that because the President
of the UNITED STATES has rejected the Bank
Bill, there is, then fore, an end of the measure,
in the sane way that there would be of a Bill
vetoed by the SOVEREIGN of these realms. By
the constitution of the United States the PRESI-
DENT can reject no Bill which has passed the
House of Representatives and the Senate with-
ut stating his objections in a message to Con-
These objections are subject to the deli-
)eration of the Legislature, and it; after exatuin-
ing them, two-thirds of the Members of both
Houses persist in voting for the Bill, it then
becomes law, without the concurrence of the
PRESIDENT. By this regulation the veto can
merely delay, for a short time, the passing of any
measure deemed by the representatives of the
people essential to their social or commercial
t:Lterests.

Tess.

The French Journals of Monday are filled
with details of disturbances in different parts of
France. We have given elsewhere an ample
account of these outrages, gleaned from different
Papers. The attempt to assassinate one of the
Royal Makes—for it is still doubtful whether the
assassins aimed at the Duke D'AUMALE or the Duke
of ORLEANS—produced a very painful impression
in the French capital. It was supposed that the
wretch who fired the shot, and whose name is
NICHOLAS PAPAItT, was merely the agent of a
secret society in Paris. Now, that societies of
assassins should exist in the capital of France,
is a fact which reflects the utmost discredit upon
the character of the French people. They them-
selves begin to be sensible of this, and denonrice
witi). indignation and horror the perpetrators of
such atrocities.

at d:r,satsfacfion prevails in every part of
The public mind is in a ferment, and
fe:..r that before it can be allayed much mis-
chief will be done. Already the tiger-mobs of
Paris shout aloud for blood to quench the old

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revolutionary thirst.
The Swabian Mercury asserts that, during the man-
oeuvres of the lioyql Prussian Guard. near Berlin, before
the King set out for Silesia, the men sometimes forgot
themselves so much in the sham-fights they had to
execute as to put stones and pellets of turf in their mus-
keth, the consequence of which was that several were
badly wounded. In a charge of cavalry, where two
reg-,hnents had to ride through each other, many of the
men did not use the flats of their swords, but struck at
each other in earnest with the edges, and the officers
could not succeed in getting them to leaye off before
several men and horses were seriously injured.
A well-digger employed a few days o,1;.o in his busi-