The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

CORN-LAWS.

The working people of England never had such an opportu-
nity put into their hands of (wina themselves justice, as they
have at the present moment, ar7cl we tremble for the future
welfare of the nation, when we contemplate the possibility of
their allowing, by supineness or inrifference, the prcci•us op-
portunity to pass away without making svery effort to secure
the advantages which it offers. Lord John Russell, on the
pin of her .Majesty's Government, has come down to the
House of Commons and proposed a series of measures, which,
if thiy can be carried, will, without the possibility of a doubt,
effect a mighty change in the commercial affairs of this great
country. He proposes to give us
CHEAP BREAD !—CHEAP SUGAR. !!—CHEAP TIMBER !!!

AND ABOVE ALL
A MARKET FOR LABOUR, 7.1 Y INCREASING THE

COMMERCE OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH EVERY COUNTRY
IN THE WORLD ! !!
if ever a proposition demanded attention, surely it is this.
If ever the multitude thought it their duty to watch and sup-
Fort the motions and proceedings of a Government, surely it is
at the present crisis for every man, woman, and child In her
Majesty's dominions i 4 deeply, vitally interested in the event.—
Nottingham Review. _ _ _

In the discussions in Parliament on the Corn-laws there is
one party lost sight of, who profit more by the existing laws,
perhaps, than any other. We mean the speculators in corn—
men who systematically raise the averages in order to push in
foreign corn without paying anything but a nominal duty, an
thus realise imtnenae profits. England does nou, nor can she
raise a sufficiency of f .oil for her ever-increasing population
and it is abominable that the food of the millions should b
sported with, for their private advantage, by those cormorants
—those rogues in grain—the speculators in corn.—Brighton
Herald. .
ANTI-CoAN-LAW MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE.—An in-
stauce.of the feeling in Lancashire against the Corn-laws was
given ors Thursday last, when two gentlemen, appointed by the
Council- of the National Anti-Corn-law League, went to collect
subscriptions in Ashton-under-Lyne, Staley-bridge, Dukin-
geld, Godley, and H)de. They called without distinction on
Whig and Tory, and in that one day obtained subscriptions to
the amount of sixteen hundred and fifty pounds ! 1 hey had
not a single refusal, but on the contrary all political parties
Lade them " God speed."

SADDLEWORTH, llav 13.—The people of this large,import-
ant and manufacturing parish, are signing petitions to Parlia
ntent for a total and immediate -repeal of the corn and pro-
vision laws, and also an Address to the Ministers, on the truly
awful Owe of the country (and none more so than the woollen
manufacturer), the wretchedness of the people, and the abso-
lute necessity of the breaking up of all monopolies, whether of
land or the color.ics, and any other which stands in the way
cf the general good. The propositions of the Government in
respect to these matters, though very far short of what the
country requires, is hailed as a harbinger of a return to just
principles ; and wee be to the men who shall defend injustice;
on them be the malediction of a perishing people.
Co it N - ws. —We are happy to observe that, early as the
Dublin Ret.rmers have taken the field, they have been anti-
cipa'ed by those of Belfast. We may add that the Chamber
of Commerce of that thriving commercial town have petitioned
in favour of a change in the timber duties, and for a moderate
fixed duty on corn.—Dublin Evening Post.
GENERAL Potrricar. MOVEMENT.—The movement has
become general. It is a remarkable, and to Ireland a most
creditable fact, that in the country papers, we not only do not
see a single expres-ion of feeling in favour of the present Corn-
laws, bnt that, on the contrary, the most influential and re-
spectable of nur provincial contemporaries have declared them-
selves firm advocates of Lord J. Russell's propositions.—lbid.
CORN LAWS, &c.—A meeting of the Board of Directors
and Guardians of the parish of Alarylebone took place last
night, at which—after many able speeches had been made, for
which we regret we have not space—it was resolved to
petition Parliament for an alteration in the existing system
of Corn-laws. Meetings also on the same subject, have been
held during the week at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, St. Leo-
nard's, Shoreditch, at Kentish Town, in the Ward of Farring,-
don Without, and generally throughout the country.