The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON.
Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted !
Unequalled! Unprecedented;
THIS EVENING, DEC. 27,
Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY • or, THE TRIALS
AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil-
liam Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul; Susan
Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic
Tragedy),

After: which, ROBERT MACAIRE.—Robert Macaire,
Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner.
To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan-
tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR,
THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN-
DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora-
tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical
Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con-
sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also,
a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu-
sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the
Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes
only, at Half-past Eight.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
SPLENDID CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES.
Monday, Dec. 27, and every evening during the week, Mr.
JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT
MODERN MAGICIAN, whose performances during the
last two seasons created a great sensation, will, for a third time,
have the honour of submitting to the public his unrivalled and
truly pleasing performances. His NECROMANTIC TEM-
PLE will be found superior in every respect to those on former
occasions. His Ventriloquism has undergone considerable
change and improvement; in the delineation of the various
characters he is the first in Europe ; a great treat is afforded to
the audience in this department.
Mr. Jacobs, in addition to his own interesting entertainment,
has added these of Mons. ROSSEAU, the celebrated
FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; Herr KREUZER'S PHAN-
TASMAGORIAL DISSOLVING PORTRAITS, which
are on an entirely new system ; and the Classical Experiments
of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS. The tout ensemble
forms a Combination of Talent not to be surpassed.
Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes,
2s. 6d., Children, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal-
lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine ; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, no half-price.
Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven.

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LONDON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1841.

The Morning Post has supplied a
_ wonderfulwitl'a testitnh:e_
of conduct which cannot fail both toli establish
character of the Tories, and be
provement to morality, considered as a science.
" Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S speech," we are told, 4C is
a specimen of yenhine liberality, whielt affords a
favourable contrast to the spurious liberality
whereof Whig-Radicals are so apt to boast." We
need not at present describe or discuss the latter,
for which we claim no more credit than it de-
serves, and we shall confine ourselves to analys-

ing the former.
Its essence consists, according to the Post, in
" Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S willingness to make such
changes in the present Corn-law as will lessen.

(lower, qy.) the existing bar to the import of
corn under certain circumstances." He proposes
to lessen this bar, according to the Post, by an
alteration in taking the averages, and by substi-
tuting, for the termination of the sliding scale
in a nominal duty, a minimum duty of ss. and a
maximum duty of from 20s. to 30s. The proof
of the genuine liberality of the Tories, and ,p I
.arti-

cularly of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, lies in the effects
of these two alterations.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan for altering the ave
rages, is to " exclude all the head quarters of
rge consuming districts, such as Wakefield;
ondon, Liverpool, Hull, &c.," and " to
make up the averages by the sales of both
buyers and sellers, in every market town (the
above excluded) in the kingdom." He proposes
also to take the averages from the sales of the
growers as well as the buyers. The certain
effect of his plan would be to exclude from the
averages all that corn which has paid the cost of
conveying it from the agricultural districts to
the " head-quarters of large consuming dis-
tricts." It would also exclude the profits of all
middle men concerned in the sale of corn in
those districts, and till it reaches them. It would
extinguish the means of speculating for a rise,
and increase the means by which the agricul-
tural interests, made by this plan the controlling
master of the averages. could keep them down.
In fact, the averages under this scheme will be
mainly determined by the agriculturists, and
will not exceed the price of wheat on the spot
near to where it is grown. The striking effect, of
course, would be to lower the average prices
to which the liberal Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S new
duties would apply.
On this question, as we stated on Thurs-
day, details are principles; and hence it is
of great importance to ascertain how much Mr.
CHRISTOPHER'S plan would lower the averages.
We cannot state precisely, but he has supplied
us with the means of making an approximative
conjecture. "Looking back," he said, "to the
real state of the averages, and taking one year
with another, since the passing of the present
law, the average price of wheat in this county
has been about 565. per quarter, and in the
country about 68s. per quarter.—(Cheers.)" Mr.
CHRISTOPHER'S plan would substitute the average
of Lincolnshire, 565. per quarter, or the average of
the agricultural districts, for the average of Eng-
land, 68s. per quarter. Accordingly, his pro-
posed scale of duty would come into operation,
on a series of average prices, 12s. per quarter, or
about 20 per cent. lower than at present.
Perhaps the difference would be something
greater, for the present general averages include
the low averages of the agricultural districts as
well as the high averages of the " centres of
consumption," while the general averages under
his scheme would wholly exclude the latter.
But taking the difference at 12s. in 605., or 20
per cent., let us see what it would amount to.
At present, when the average price of wheat
is 735. per quarter, the duty is nominal. Mr.
CHRISTOPHER proposes that when the price is
655., the duty shall be ss. But 655., raised 20
per cent. by his scheme of taking the averages,
would be equivalent to 78s. by the present mode of
taking them ; and whereas we now import
wheat when the price is 735. at a nominal duty
of Is. Mr. CHRISTOPHER shows his liberality,
by proposing to levy a minimum duty of
ss. when it has reached a price equivalent to 785.,
under the present mode of taking the averages.
By his alteration in the averages, equivalent to
135., conjoined with his minimum fixed duty, 55.,
he would, as compared to the present scheme, en-
hance the price of wheat whenever it reached 655.,
and as long as the starved people had anything to
give for it, 18s. per quarter.
When the price is below 655., Mr. CHRIS-
TOPHER proposes an ascending scale of duties,
so that when the average price under his system
shall be 505., equivalent to 625. at present, he
will levy a duty on it of between 20s. and 305.,
whereas the present duty is 11. 4s. Bd. We quite
'agree, therefore, with Mr.CHRISTOPHER, that the
Lincolnshire farmers—and they responded to
his statement by cheers—" taking all matters into
consideration, would, from the settlement of the
question, and the destruction, to a great extent,
of fraud, derive more permanent benefit from a
fixed minimum duty of ss. at 655., than they now
do with the present scale."
These consequences would. ensue, thougtrthe
farmers and landowners, who are not supposed
now to have worked the averages to their own
advantage, were never to make any fraudulent
sales with a view of keeping down the averages
and keeping up the duty and the price of good
wheat. But the control of the averages, which
this scheme would place in their hands, would
enable them, by selling parcels of inferior wheat
only, which they would probably keep by them
for that purpose, and by other contrivances, to
regulate the averages as suited their interest, and
instead of being lowered only 20s. per cent., they
would be lowered 30 or 40 per cent.
To increase the benefit to the landowners to

that enormous extent, if possible, is no doubt the
object of the genuine liberality of Mr. CHRIS-
TOPHER and the Tories; but from submitting to
that, may Heaven and our own strong resolution
cruard us!

Without taking into consideration the impor-
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tant proposed change in the mode of forming
the averages, Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan would be
worse for the consumer than the present scheme.
We now, by evading the intention of the law,

import most of our wheat at is duty. His 3s.
would be a fixed duty at all prices above 655.
" Within the last four months (says the Morning
Herald, Is hich has adopted our views), a million and a
half quarters of wheat have been entered for hoMe con-
sumption under the Is. duty at a cost of only 75,0001.
Mr. Christopher's proposition is that 300,0001. should
have been paid thereon, and that without the smallest
additional benefit to the home grower. Does the landed
interest really think that the adoption of such a scale
would get rid of Anti-Corn-law agitation ? We believe
that such a minimum, and, so far as importation of fo-
reign wheat is concerned, such a fixed duty, as ss. would
increase and strengthen the agitation."

The Herald, therefore, declares against Mr.
CHRISTOPHER'S scheme, though the Times ap-
proved of it, and agrees with us, that a plan
which abolishes the nominal duty, and levies a
fixed duty, is opposed to the principles of the
Cabinet, and cannot receive its assent. The

Tories, therefore, disagree as to the genuine libe-
rality displayed by Mr. CHRISTOPHER. That is,
however, a minor consideration, compared to the
enhancement which will ensue in the present
scale of duties, should Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S scheme
be adopted.
This proposed aggravation of an accursed law
is the Christmas present which the Tories talk of

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making to the starving people. At the time when
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the whole Christian world celebrates and glory-
fies the mercies of the great CREATOR, the Tories
of England, aided by the priests of England,
who are for ever canting about religion—of which
they have apparently no other conception than

that of a device for giving them wealth and
power—at this Christmas time, when the land,
instead of being immersed in festivity and re-
joicing, is covered with wretchedness, caused

by the avarice of the canting, bypocriti-

cal classes, one of their members, supported by
the journals of his party, has the astounding
impudence and ungodliness, under the tmask

of liberality ' and generosity, to propose a
scheme for increasing their own wealth, and
for increasing the burdens and the sufferings of
the mass of the community. Their conduct, in

our estimation, speaking of them not as indivi-

duals but as legislators, deserves but one epi-
thet. It is political villany ; and the public

mind must be blunted to all moral perception
—all right feeling must be extinct amongst us,
if such conduct excite not that kind of indigna-
tion with which we pursue a determined thief

till we have chased him from society, or brought
him to condign punishment.
It must be to the Corn-law repealers an exqui-
site satisfaction to learn from the liberal gentle-
man who proposes this substitute for the present
law, that this latter cannot be continued. 4, The
reckless agitation now so rife," according to Mr
CIIRISTOPHUR, nmst be got rid of.
" You will please to observe," he slys, "that Parlia-
ment is now caged to entertain the question and what-
ever we may think as to the prudence or policy of Par-
liament entering into this discus:don, it is not in our
power any longer to resist it.
"I would ask you. as
practical men, as men not
merely well acquainted with agriculture, but well versed
in general public affairs, can you, in the present state of
public, feeling, refuse any longer to consider in detail the
existing Corn-laws

The ")"-law rep lerB, then, have driven

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