The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, IVETNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1841.

servation, they must remember, is the first law
of nature. Sir J. GRAHAM will tell Sir R.
PEEL, if he consult him, and the former Right
Hon. Baronet have not .changed his opinions
since he published " Corn and Currency" in
1826, that if he cannot relieve the distress, he
endangers society by pretending to admi4ister
the Government.
"The paramount duty of every Government,"
says Sir JAMES GRAHAM, " is attention to the
interests of the community, of which the
labourers must- form the great majority; THE
RIGHT OF PROPERTY ITSELF iS instituted for the
good, not of the few who possess wealth and
honours, but of the many who have them not ;
IF THE MAJORITY BE DEEPLY INJURED, THE

PUBLIC PEACE IS ENDANGERED; IF THE MAJO-

RITY WANT FOOD, PRIVATE PROPERTY BECOMES A

NUISANCE."
At present, according to the SECRETARY
of STATE for the Home Department, the
public peace is endangered, and private
property is a nuisance. For this alarm-
ing state of things the Premier alleges—the com-
placent, smirking, bustling, courier-despatching,
speech-making Prime Minister, declares—that
Parliament can find no remedy. At the same
time he has displaced a Govern-.nent which of-
fered a remedy. Poor people, says this preten-
der to statesmanship, I know you are starving,
but I can't help you, and I will not allow you to
help yourselves.

It is clear, from past experience, that union
is necessary to enable the people to obtain re-
dress from the aristocracy. On this account we
regret that there should have been an interrup-
tion to the unanimity of the meeting held in
Southwark on Monday, even more than we re-
joice in the great number of persons assembled,
and in the powerful speeches which were ad-
dressed to them. The meeting will, notwith-
standing this drawback, have an excellent effect
throughout the country.
If there were at present the least chance of
uniting the bulk of the people in favour
of the Charter, we should have no objec-
tion to pursuing that object; but there is
not ; while, as the bulk of the Chartists
are favourable to the repeal of the Corn-laws,
there is a great probability, by using common
discretion, of being able to unite all classes for
its attainment. We cannot, therefore, too
strongly reprobate such attempts as were yester-
day made at Southwark to thrust in on meetings,
having for their object the removal of commer-
cial restrictions, including the Corn-laws, reso-
lutions for the promotion of the Charter. They
only serve to defeat the purpose of the Chartists.
They nourish the arrogance of the aristocracy by
at once convincing them that they have nothing

to fear.
We must add that this conduct on the part of
the Chartists is heartless and cruel to their suffer-
ink fellow-workmen in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. It is but too clearly and too abundantly
proved, that thousands of human beings there are
reduced to the last extremity of want. It is sup-
posed, asserted, and, we believe, demonstrated,
that the total and immediate repeal of all the
starvation laws, would give immediate relief
to them. Employment and food would
both be instantly obtainable. That hu-
mane and noble end can, however, only be
reached—justice can only be wrung from the
bread-taxers—by a union of the suffering people.
Under these circumstances a few crotchety or
misled Chartists, or unfeeling leaders who
consider only their own ambitious purposes,
present themselves at all meetings, and,
with a wicked, dog-in-the-manger spirit,
prevent their fellows from getting food, because
they cannot immediately get the suffrage. The
injustice of the aristocracy is great, but the
heartlessness and cruelty of these meddling
Chartermongersare,to the public and to their own
starving fellow-creatures, quite as injurious.
Following out these remarks, we repeat that
there is no hope for the people but in combina-
tion. Manchester has done well, South-
wark has followed its excellent example, Glas-
gow is about to imitate, and, we hope, surpass it,
but these few meetings are not enough. Meet-
ings must be held all over the country, and the
procrastinating, cunning Premier, who evi-
dently designs, by the slow but effectual
means of penury and starvation to crush for ever
the now humbled spirit of the people, and so be
enabled to curb and drill them after the true
Tory fashion—the cunning Premier must be
at once convinced that his designs are seen
through, and that the people will not be con-
ducted by the painful process of a winter's star-
vation to the Tory goal of perpetual tyranny.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached us,
with Madrid Papers of the 12th inst. They contain no
news which was not anticipated in our Afternoon Edition
of yesterday. The following extracts from them are all
that remain to be noticed :

The Temps announces that searches were made yester-
day at the shops of the dealers in arms to ascertain whe-
ther the regulations are executed, and if the barrel's of
the fire-arms are dismounted, &c. In these visits seve-
ral sword-canes were seized.
Positive information was received on the 16th at
Grenoble, not only that the census had been resumed at
Saint Barnet, without difficulty, but that the doors of the
houses had been opened to the tax-collectors. The writs
for the arrest of the instigators of the resistance made on
the ;first day, to the controller have been executed.
Twelve persons have been arrested and conveyed to the
prison of Gap. Others have fled to avoid falling into the
hands of justice.—Le Constitutionnel.
The Emancipation of Toulouse of the 16th says—
" Yesterday our garrison was under arms in the bar-
racks, where all necessary preparations were made to
put our city in a state of siege; all the posts were dou-
bled. It is probable that these arrangements will be con-
' tinued to-day. Otir population has remained calm amid
all these demonstrations, which it attributed to serious
news received at the Prefecture."
The census has commenced at Cascapare. It is
expected that the inhabitants of that town will close their
doors, as those of Toulouse did.
Several persons who were arrested in the late assem-
blages, have been set at liberty.—Le Commerce.

It is most discreditable to the Governments of
France and England that they both are con-
tracting a loan, and augmenting their debts in
a season of profound peace. Their schemes for
raising the wind are both published at the same
time. They are a hopeful pair.

THE DILIGENCE OF NEW BROOMS.—Sir Robert Peel
surpasses Lord Melbourne amazingly in his attention to
business, and no doubt the country will be so much the
better governed. We every day read such announce-
ments as the following in the Tory Journals, set off
with large type :—" Despatches were sent off this morn-
ing by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to her Majesty
at Windsor."—Courier last evening. " A Treasury mes-
senger was sent off with despatches this morning for her
Majesty, at Windsor Castle."—Standard of Monday.
Besides these the meetings of Ministers with Sir Robert
Peel, and of law officers with Ministers, which are re-
corded every day, are as numerous as steamers in the
river, or horses in the street. John Bull will be at once
satisfied. " How they do labour," he will say, " how
well we are governed ; these are the right sort of lads."
Softly honest John. Do you remember the old adage,
" The greatest talkers do the least they say." All the
quacks that have ever existed from Paracelsus to Peel,
have been great and pompous talkers, making a great
show, sending their servants hither and thither, as if
the world were not wide enough for their energies.
Boz or Marryat, we forget which, perhaps both, with
great knowledge of quackish nature, makes a doctor
who wanted to get into practice, hire a person to rap at
his door at night, to show that he was in vast repute.
On the same principle, if Sir Robert does not actually
send his Treasury messengers to her Majesty daily and
hourly, the Tory Journals do it for him. He is a phy-
sician, according to their reports, in wonderful repute.
Lord Melbourne at least managed affairs in a much more
quiet manner.
Mn. WAKLEY AND THE TORIES.—The mutual com-
pliments which these parties bestow on each other begin
to excite the notice and the suspicion of the public. On
Monday evening Mr. Wakley, speaking from a Tor)
bench, said " that all Sir Robert Peel required was time,
and he considered that was but a fair demand." " It
was but a reasonable request, and he thought it would be
unjust to refuse it." Mr. Wakley, therefore, speaking
out in his own behalf, in behalf of the Radicals of
Finsbury, thinks it unjust not to allow Sir R. Peel and
the Tories time to consolidate their power, and time to
starve down the people to their purposes. For this or
some similar good turn-, the Standard of last night thus
praises Mr. Wakley :—" The best speech of the night,
after the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, was unquestion-
ably that of Mr. Wakley: in which the Hon. Member
for Finsbury, with candour and manliness, exposed the
unworthy delusion attempted, when it was pretended
that either the Ministry or the Legislature could by any
act afford present relief to whatever distress exists in the
manufacturing districts. We earnestly recommend Mr.
Wakley's argument to the attention of those who fancy
that corn can be made cheaper in seasons of scarcity by