The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

/1! E ATN, LONDON-% MoNPAY AUG'*ST no. I'4l.

did the PEEt,s, and tile GASKELLS, and the
GL'ips;roris find'the means of getting into Parliament,
and there becorning.the advocates of the landed interest?
Where, but in the trading and manufacturing districts,
and there alone, and by the means alone there to be fuund,
could they have been raised from the obscurity of their
ancestors, to become the associates, as well as the
toadies and defenders of those who revile their origin
and plunder the people. They now forget the
source of their greatness, and equally meanly and
wickedly employ it to defend injustice. Where
machinery abounds, as in Glasgow, and Manchester, and
Leeds, and Birmingham, the labourers have most in-
creased, and find most employment. In every one of
these towns, celebrated fur the employment of machinery,
large masses ollabourers from agricul:ural districts, in-
cluding Ireland, litive found *orh and a home ; many of
them have obtained comfort, maid some few wealth and
However painful some changes of employ-
ment may fall on individuals;' it is, on the whole; clear
drat the employment of machinery does not'diminish,
but increases the thmand for manual hibonr.

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distinct inn.

In fact, without our beantlful machinery we could enrry
on little or no foreign trade, and consequently Alio Im-
mense number of persons employed in manufaetureS-and
trade—amounting to more than half our people—have
been called into comfortable existence by thOse beautiful
inventions which fools deride. Away, then, with the
nonsense that the use of machine,ry diminishes employ-
ployment and lowers wages, and let us all manfully strug-
gle to get rid of the Corn-laws, and so increase trade,
raise wages, invent new machinery, and multiply an in-
telligent and happy race of human beings.

'We have given in another part of this paper
an account of the meeiing held at the That:lied
House Tavern, on Saturday, in honour of the
late Sir DAVID WILKIE. A resolution to erect

a monument to his memory was unanimously
adopted, and upwards of I,OUO/. were subscribed
at once.. Sir R. PErL was in the Chair, and he
was supported by some of the first men of taste
in the country. It will be gratifying to the
countrymen of this celebrated painter, and to
those who admire genius and upright conduct,
to learn that all who spoke at the meeting seemed
more anxious to praise his generous disposition
and his virtuous habits than to extol -those
works which ;ire brought him into notice.
His works are well known. They require no
praise i they will live when all the men who met
at the Thatched House Tavern on Saturday
are forgotten. He was, without exception, the
first painter of the age. He was the son of
a poor Clergyman in Fifeshire, came up to Lon-
don without introduction or patrons, his merit
alone introduced him info the first society, and
it is a proud tribute to genius -to find that
the first Nobles and Commoners of the land
regarded his acquaintance as an honour. He
went abroad to find new sul.•jects for his fertile
genius, was 'seized with illness, and died on
board a vessel off Gibraltar, and from the strict
system of quarantine established in that settle-
ment the body could not be landed, and was
therefore consigned to the deep. This circum-
stance alone will make hiS funeral more remark-
ablethan if he had been buried with all the
usual pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey
or St. Paul's.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. In our Summary of Public
Opinion will be found a complete epitome of their views
respecting the conflict of parties in England, to which
we at once refer our readers. The Moniteur of Saturday
announces, by telegraph, the closing of the
Spanish Cortes on the 24th instant. It adds
that on the 23d, a decree of the REGENT was
read, "appointing Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA to a seat
in the Senate. This, the same official journal of yes-
terday, (Sunday) admits to be incorrect, the person ap-
pointed a Senator being M. FACUNDO INFANTA.
The following extracts fryn these journals include all
the miscellaneous news they bring of any general im-
portance.

We have received this morninc, the Toulouse Journals of the
26th. It will be remembered that M. Gase wrote a letter to
the bar, in several towns, to learn their opinions as to the re-
sistance of the Provisional Municipality of Toulouse to MM.
Lejeurs, Astro, and Dunes, on their going to enter on their
office. The Emancipator announces that the bars of Amiens,
Limoges; and Montpellier, have given opinions favourable to
MM.Arize,-.lloaldes, and Gase.

Twenty-six persons;:. arrested at Bordeaux during the riots,
appeared on the 25th at the police office ; of this number four
were discharged, five condemned to ten days' imprisonment,
fourteen to a month, and three to two months' imprisonment..
Eight of those who are condemned are to remove, when their
time of imprisonment is expired, to the distance of ten myria-
rnees from the city of Bordeaux.—Le Constitutionnel.
The Pope has addressed a brief, dated the 12th inst., to the
Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar, in which his Holiness condemns,
in decided but mild terms, the conduct of various Catholics
who instituted the late proceedings against the Prelate. The
Pope exhorts them to return td canonical obedience, and adds
We are consoled by the thought that, under the glorious
government of the Most Serene and Puissant Queen of Great
Britain, there is no cause to fear that a fresh injury should be
done us, or that the treaty of Utrecht, which ensures the ex-
ercise of the Catholic religion among you, should be violated,
more especially since, in the most flourishing kingdom of
Great Britain, through the justice of her Majesty, the Catho-
lics and the Bishops enjoy the full exercise of our most holy
religion."
't he Mediterranean squadron, under the command of Vice-
Admiral Hugon, left Toulon on the 26th inst., to continue
its manoeuvres. The Marengo and Triton, of the line, left on
the same day for Algiers. 'the Tarn corvette sailed on the
24th for Mahon, and on the 23th the Cregeuis s:eamer arrived
at Toulon from that port.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28.

f ir.st

Highest Lowest

Price Pike. Prir:- PrCC;
French 5 per Cents ll5 95 ... ild• 10 ... 115 95 ... 116 40
4 per Cents 9O 470 ... 119 00 ... 99 tA) ... 99 60
3 per Cenci,. ex. div 76 95 ... %7 5.. 76 95 ... 77 5
Bank of r'ranee ..... : 210 ..,3210 .... 5210 ...3210
lattice bank 1.11101 Stare; 1030 ...WOO _1(25 ...1027 59
5,91,01.5,,ares 5110 ...5119 —.5110 ...;•,110
Belgian 5 per Cents.
3 per Cents 7l 25 ... 71 25 ... 71 25 ... 71 25
warilth Acme
Passive..
Neapolitan lO4 25 ... IC4 50 ... !:4 25 ... 04.1,0
tto,i.iin .. 102% ... 102% ... 102% . 102%
liAti.WA V .SHARES.
725 ... 725 ... 725 ... 725

iL Germain

Versai Iles, r.. 13 ...... 211,25 ... 211 25 ... 210 .:. 2111
It. 11 325 25 ...: :b6 25 ... 326 25 ... 326 25
'Emilia
S,rdoirvEtilial(,sharcsred 2.37,.50 ... 137 50 ....37_50 .. 2:17 :.-0
,311c..m, ....

THE MARKETS-THIS DAY.
COHN EXCHANGE.

Last week's averages of English grain were moderate, but
very large of Forcigh Wheat. The fresh supply, chiefly of
new VI heat, was gocd, but middling of other Corn. The new
Wheat is tender and indifferent in qualify, and sold with &fil-
e:till), at ha. to 7s. reduction from last Afonday's prices; and old
Wheat was per quarter lower. Barley unaltered. Beans
and Peas rather lower. Oats found a heavy sale at las week's
terms. Fkur dull at last week's prices.
A tIRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON WIN (1 I AST ‘‘ EEK.
' Wheat. I Barley. Flour
les. 450 qrs. 2,161 Ire.. 5,3519 sac as
1•2,t#7
•,9. I I 3,094 5;367 t rls
rA OF WI P.
Beans, Small (new) 4O: 41s.
(old) ..... —s.
Tick (new) :35 375,
a.•
narrow (new) 375.395.
1--
—B. —s.
Brank --s s
Oats, Feed
---- New . ........
Poland
New
Potatoe • • —a.
w_ nr~tif
Secret!
leis...
Flour Town Owe ksaek).... Os.
Seconds •
N.rtll Country.... bO, 55,.
Bran B, Vs.

English
Irish
F,reign
PRICIKS OK BO
Wheat,Red (oid) 'ls Is
----- White (old) i Oe.
Ited1841) .521. L 53.
- Fine s's.
Superfine..',4-625. (Vs.
White (1841): 555. Cis.
' Gig. 70s.
rO3. 725.
--,--
-Fcreacnfree Nit NI s.
Rye' 3B, les.
Barley 2lis
--- Grinding 324.
'Malting Stlx
Malt • 6os,
Fine New Ns. il3s.
Pease, Grey, New. 3Ns.
-- Maple New 411,. 425.
Wh4e . 34;. Ms,
375. 40s, .

SMITHFIELD.
Tli.s,i+gply of cattle at market was rather short, with a good
demand fer the line qualities ;"-the middling and ordinary sorts
a very fair trade. Of sheep and Lambs the supLly was moth--
rate; yet the &Maud was net brisk; the former about tti_e
same as list market day, the latter not SD much in request.
OfCalves the supply was rather short, with a brisk traee, and
prices rather hi4her. Of Pigs the supply WT.% ; fine
young piirla.rs sold well at the preterit priet 0, tiieother sort its

g.o,,d—tiade. • 'Beasts, 2.7:6; Sheep mid Lambs, :25,870 ;
672 ; Calves, 12+3. Btef, 4s. to 4s. Bid, ; Mutton, 4s. to
as. ; Veal, 4s. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 44.'; Lamb,
4s. ed. to ss. 4d.

f 9 qi Vr,aE

oi trade and commerce ? Bound to the interests of tilt-
'
great landholders, how can he snake such alterations in
the Corn-law as shall satisfy the community-?
utmost he can do will be to substitute the name of Re-
form for the thing itself ; and from time to time to hold
out hopes that he will never fel because they are pur-
posely vague and indefmate. \Ve predict that his Mi-
nistry Nvill be one rather of negative good than of posi-
tive injury to the country.
The .illonmouthshirc Mcitn thus speaks of the sup-
porters of the Corn-laws :—" We accuse the broad-
taxers of being arrayed in a state of permanent conspi-
racy against every class of their neighbours, and more
directly against the interests of the minim; population,
We state the grounds of this conviction to be, the prohi-
bition of access to foreign markets, caused by the land-
ocsracy's refusal to accede to the principle of reciprocity
in trade—their endeavours to restrict the demand fin
corn to-a limited home supply—and as the fatal, yet as
the inevitable consequences of all, the consequent lo%Ver-
ing..of. the labourer's wages, and decrease of the capi-
talist's-profit."
The Cambrian expresses itself as follews on the sub-
ject of the late„Manchester Conference :—"The Man-
chester Conference gives.' cheerful token that the minis-
ters of the Gospel are not forgetful of their sacred
calling: in their endeavours to succour the poor. The
organs of the monopolists may denounce them as poli-
tical priests, as.i,seditious- sectarians, as ignorant pre-
sumptuous intersneddlers, and expend upon them their
well-nigh inexhaustible vocabulary of insolent malig-
nant abuse ; at leak, they cannot call them Priests of
Baal, or Iligh Priests of Mammon. When monopoly is
denounced by all the spiritual pastors of the people, who
are held in any degree of honour, its doom cannot be far
distant."
The Manchester Times, alluding to the Earl of Ripon's
speech in tha House of Lords says—" There is no finding
the fitt;.ng time for these possessors of hereditary wis-
dom. • When the country was silent upon the question
of the Corn-law there was no occasion for its discussion;
• and now, when men are maddened by the continuance
of an 'intolerable oppression, it is not the lime to
take it into -consideration. llis Lordship's reply is
that of the cow-hiding Virginian planter, " I shan't
cease hiding you, because , you cry out." But the.
the time is perhaps not far distant when the lash may
change hands.
The Hertford Times says :—" The Liberal party, as a
whole, is now disrupted ; there is no grand connecting
link, holding all parties together, and affording a cable
with which the vessel of freedom may safely ride
at anchor, in the harbour of any port for which she may
he destined. The numerous titles by which the various
sections of the Liberals are distinguished, themselves are
signs of weakness..- Old and new' Whigs, Radicals, and
Chartists, are all by the Tories classed as Liberals."
The Dover Chronith speaks of the Tories in the fol-
lowing terms The conduct of the dominant Tory
majority, in refusing to meet the Corn-law question
fairly, we hold to be one of the most cowardly, mean,
and skulking-subterfuges ever resorted to by any set of
individuals bearing the character of rational men—gen-
tlemen is out of the question."
The Scotsman says of the Queen's Speech :—" It
boldly addresses itself to the great and paramount ques-
tions of the day, and to the critical embarrassment in
which the nation is at present placed. There cannot be
a doubt that it speaks the genuine sentiments of her Ma-
jesty, and that, almost for the first time in the recent his-
tory of Great Britain, the Crown entertains a large and
lively sympathy with the wants and wishes of the people."