The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND PHYSICAL FORC

CHARTISM.
In a country where the right of petition and of public
meeting, the license of printing and the licentiousness of
speech are unlimited, where every
e male adult possessed of'
command a county
201., may, by the existing franc
vote, and the door of the constitulison, is open to at least
three times the number of those who choose to take the
trouble of entering it, sedition must be supported by
the credentials of the most disinterested patriotism, tomake itself at all respectable. But at our present advanced
stage of intelligence, and in the state of implicit mutual
dependence, in which, in our artificial social condition,
we all exist in this country, any man who proposes to
accomplish any political good by means of disorder and
violence can only command credit for his sincerity at
the expense of his understanding. Order is the first
law of nature—it is the very life and soul of civil
society. To twenty•eight millions of human beings
crowded together on two small islands, surrounded
every where by rivals or enemies, and so broken
into civilization that even the poorest and
the meanest cannot be helped to the supply of his most
ordinary wants without the assistance of many of his
fellow-subjects, the peace, regularity, and security of the
movements of' every part of the social machinery are as
essential to the stability of the fabric on which all de-
pend, as the harmonious working of bees is necessary
to the existence of the hive. Our soil does no.
nearly support our population, increasing now at
the rate of 450,000 souls every year. Our mere
natural and physical resources are totally inadequate
to our subsistence. Our very being depends on menu
factures and commerce. We are the ministers of the
artificial wants of the world. We cannot, like Antceus,
fall upon our mother earths and gather our strength from
that. Nut one-fifth part of our population find employ-
ment in the cultivation of our soil. In the present
year we have fed nearly six millions of our people
entirely on foreign produce. Three millions of
Irish have been maintained exclusively at the
public cost. The failure of a bank may make a
whole county starve. Send half a dozen manufacturers
into the Gazette, and tens of thousands will be reduced
to ruin. A run for gold in 'Threadneedle-street, a fall
of 10 per cent. in stocks, the bankruptcy of a score of
merchants, consigns millions to beggary. And of all the
sufferers, the poorest are the greatest. Those who have
land can fall back upon that—those who have capital,can
take flight with it so long as anything is left. But those
who live from hand to mouth, and exist on wages, w he can
get no food without money, and no money without em-
ployment, and no employment without capitalists, and no
capitalists without credit, who so helpless uud destitute
as these, when anarchy and distrust bring the social
French
en-
ginery
to a stand still ? If we grant that the
Revolution was necessary, we must also concede
_trheat.
it was only a necessary evil. It has transferred
the money market of the Continent of l
Europeol,
from Paris to London. It has driven
whole available capital of France into our stocks. It
has brought employment, and
therefore the means of mere physical
Republic. The heroic
wages, and
herefore
existence, to a
temporary close in that d
men of France have lost their capital, and have no
means of conducting manufacturing enterprise. Their
powers of production are arrested by want of money,
and they have, consequently, nothing to sell.
They have no current coin, and they can, there-
fore, buy nothing. Cargoes of produce, chartered
for French ports, have been sent directly to England to
sell for what they would bring. Whole fleets of mer-
chantmen, laden with the raw material of manufacture,
cotton, silk, wool, and leather, have turned helm at
llavre, Toulon, and other Gallic harbours, the moment
their captains heard of the disorders of the Republic,
and steered their ships at once for Liverpool, Bristol,
and Southampton. Upwards of 6,000,0001 of
English money were annually spent in France
by our absentees—as much more was yearly
squandered in the other countries of Europe.
rlii
12,000,000 L, and their owners have ail been frightened. home. Hosts of wealthy continental foreigners, losing
faith in the stability of their property from the
threatened violence offered by the people, have col-
lected all their money, invested it. in our, securities,
and are trooping here to spendit among us
Vast consignments of colonial produce intended for the
continental market aro sent onto us,:and large orders
for manufactures, originally destined for Germany,
Switzerland, Belgium, and France, have been trans.
ferred to England. Five millions of dishonoured bills
have been returned t 9 the United *Wks alone from

Havre. Trade has no lofty aspirations. Commerce bas
no preference for one paper constitution more than an,
other. Money is sordid, timid, and without wage°, !
mity. They look to profits alone. Liberty, Eneal,,%
Fraternity, are to them but sounding brass an
t
tinkling cymbal, unless they mean security, Pt "
payment, and sure profits. They fly from ~
Continent, because they cannot trust it. #l.,bef,
come here because they think they are sate. Thee
refuse to give 35i for French Three per Cents., beta for
they cannot rely upon payment—they give 84
English Three per Cents., because they have confliles:ce
,
in their stability. So timid is capital, so nervous a thing
is trade, that in a few months we might be in poasesalol:l
of that which made us great, omnipotent, during the vise
—the commerce and manufactures of Europe. Intro-
duce order among us, shatter our credit by creating
fears of violence, destroy confidence in our security by
threats of rebellion, treason, or the subversion of out
stability, and the golden opportunity will be lost, capitel
and trade will fly from us to the United States, and W.
masses of our population will suffer an amount 0t
0
misery and permanent disaster, far greater al%
that which is the lot of any other country
the world. The majority of the population 71
every other state, except Holland and Belgium,
dependent upon the soil, which can never fail them' 0
whatever other changes may happen. The mess ii
of our kingdom are as completely dependent upon ere ,0
and commercial security, as the price of Consols, or I
rates of discount at the Bank. France, with net
6,000,000 of yeomen may survive a shock to credit. g
land must sink irredeemably under it. At this monlia,
we have the ball at our foot. The fine weather is raPlu
reducing the price of food. The returns of the revene.
are less discouraging than was anticipated, exhibiting s;
increase on the quarter ending on the sth of April, of
less than 402,575.. In the next three months the
crease of consumption from the influx of absenteso
foreigners, and capital, must be materially enlargedis,bo
it is Just at this turning point in our fortunes that 1101.
physical force Chartists do their best to frighten cof
prosperity away from us, by the open avowal of designs..„
treason, disorder, and violence. They import the Cetic!'„l,
of Meagher and Mitchell, and the cellar martyr (013rie",,,
into the sober regions of the more calculating Sots
and considerately warn us that if their Irish Pstrily
become martyrs in Dublin, the whole Milesian PePuebs
tion in England will rise en masse. and revenge on Its lir
punishment the law inflicts on the heroes of the COO es
deration. While we should be enjoying the 2(1,0°40
of our insular position, of our political neutrality, e'
profits and the credit which are the material fruits of CO„-ti
viction among mankind of our stability, good faith,ut-0
love of order, the most strenuous efforts are made by turn-0
who must inevitably suffer most by popular convillsw,
to saw off the branch on which they are mounted ft°,
the tree that supports it. Three months of tranquillikl
harmony, and peace, would see us with the whole trade as
the greater portion of the capital of Europe in our hands,„.....
our revenue flourishing—our labouring classes in tulle";"
ployment—our middle classes afforded breathing tinae„
devise and enforce needful reforms and extensive retretieni
meat. Our internal distraction may not only deprive us °,1.7,1
these advantages, but encourage the violent and turbo;
spirits of the continent of Europe to overbear the pearl
tendencies of the Provisional Governments, by pleartinia
our weakness as their opportunity for striking a
blow at our power, and plunging us with Ireland o 0 v's
hands into a war that must be paid for out of the 001,ss
of our toiling masses, and w hich may so embarrass °"d
finances as to end in our ruin. The Reform Bill has phi%
Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Annual
ments, within the reach of the people by peaceable
constitutional, lawful means. Nothing can keep b$
Charter from them, if they choose patiently to PF2,O,
the battle of the Constitution in the registration Co `e
The power which achieved Free Trade can aahie%
a Universal Franchise. There arc thousands of Pea
loudest bawlers for the Charter, who are qttsli,.„,B
to be registered under the existing law, but rei:o
to take the trouble. There are tens of thousands sis'os
who could buy a life-rent charge of 40s. for £lo,ets
15Z, but prefer to spout and plot, and pick the poeheir
of their gaping dupes, rather than to work out %is
political salvation. It we are misgoverned, it is foor
to deny that, with our present opportunities, it is, -rse
own fault. We could point out many physical 0,0
Chartists in the large boroughs, who sold their Y°',l
at the last election, for Tory gold. We know h 1
hundreds who were placed on the register the
the exertions of the Anti Corn-law League, is
metropolitan boroughs, who hawked their franc'',
to the highest bidders, and at last knocked the-;
selves down to the monopolist candidates. Icy;
time that all this tomfoolery were put a stop to. ho'
the Irish, who are maintained in England, beware
they abuse our hospitality, by putting into execution sst?
attempts to create a disturbance among us, as the sloe
pathisers of the Mitchell conspiracy. If they
ssu-011,
stimulate the national animosities of John
and the prejudices of the Scotch, they rho▪
!!
be the first to repent the retaliation `„"- e
ruffian bluster may provoke. Meanwhile, it ie
for the well-affected to be up and doing. The best "a• j,
to suppress disorder is to prove that it cannot stirt-00
If the Government is paralysed, that is no re7eqs
why the people should be unprepared to stlPP.„e'
violence, or to concert measures to meet any crat•
gency which may result from the state of Ire7te
The cause of order is the cause of liberty. Tress
and thieves alone thrive by confusion. The ptql tee
of popular power is founded on knowledge, as' wet
best fruit of knowledge is peace. It is kings „11
autocrats whose trust is in the bayonet, and whose 7,00
faith is in the rifle and parks of artillery. Let the Pew:is.
show they are worthy to be free, by practising the f'",
tues of freemen—by a reliance of the power of r°7o;
on the march of intelligence, on the force of pub
opinion, opinion, on the justice of their cause, and the cer7a,
triumph of truth and right, naked and unsl;ll3.tie
except in the panoply of virtue, and the Marto
spirit of humanity. Let them look upon be
moral miracle which Lamartine is working and of
ashamed at their own scepticism of the efficaeiiirs
moral forces. And let our middle-classes and role
redeem this stirring time, and by timely reform
Parliamento9'4-
meatshuerems,owrehincehcemssaTrealniedvperienscisasis. gtrv,
merited revolution. Not an hour should be lost La P'oi
popular contentment.firmness and concede redress W'ing
Dispatch.
Let them midge
capmonoansdnicnyi
plgirwaot
conciliation
000nl eteswo m t eh
they enforce authority. While all Europe is refornno
itself, or being reformed, it will not do for England
'
lag behind.— Weekly

NEWNIARKET RACJ

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from our Third Edition.) •
Match—Festus beat Lovelace.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each. D.Ni
St. Antonio walked over.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs old no•t
gaged in either RidciLsworth, &c. D. M.
Dover walked over.

.ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—On Saturday -h
House was honoured by the presence of the Duct:l6ol:3,
Kent, who occupied the Queen's box. her Royal Higl;
ness's suite comprised Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady All:
Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Lord James Murray.d
Sir George Couper, and Mr. Bruce. The Queen 1)(';
ager's box was occupied by the Marchioness 01 Orraoro
Lady Adelaide Paget, and Colonel Dixon and
There were also present the Duke of Wellington, 155
Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duda%
of Leeds, the Prince Gulitzin, Prince Louis Napcle°o'
the Baroness de Brunnow, Muffle. Olga do Leohne., tLt
Hanoverian Minister, the Swedish Minister, the Cole
de Backe, the Sardinian Minister, M. de Berg, tj
Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis °ie
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marchioness of Ey, the
Dowager of Sligo, the Ladies Browre, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Chesterfied•
Earl Spencer, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of 13°511,-;
rough, the Earl of Darnley, the Earl of Pembroke,
Earl Granville, the Countess of Cardigan, tle
Bruce, the Earl of Delawarre, Viscount o,sulstont
Viscount Canterbury, &c.
VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S GRAND
ENTERTAINMENT TO THE PRINCE of PPUSSIA.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston gave a grand e,O
tertainment on Saturday evening, at their roiidenoe f
Carlton-gardens, to his Royal Highness the Prinee.,,°,
Prussia. The Prince arrived in company with his x4;7
cellency the -Prussian Minister and attended by the
Count Paurtales, shortly before eight o'clock, and Wee
received by the Noble Viscount with the distinction "°f
to his high rank. 'rhe following had the honour
h 0
meeting his Royal Highness at the banquet
Prince Lowenstein, the Marquis Anglesey and Lads
Adelaide Paget, the Marchioness of Clanricarde 931
Lady Emily de Burgh, Viscount and Viscountess
(tinge, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and
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Lady John Russell, Lord and Lady Beauvale,
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selectink the T m p lees. s e
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baltye
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Visctheountess
o had a

BIRTHS.
On the 31st ult., at Pakenham, near Bury St. Ednstuld'if
Mrs. Stedman, of a daughter.
ife
On the 2d inst., in King-street, Portman-square, the w •
of David Fullerton, Esq., of a daughter.
'Ref'
On the 4th inst., at Long Bennington, the wife of the ---
G. E. Welby, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at Camberwell, Airs. Stephen Spurling'
of a son.
On the sth inst., at Westbourne-park Villas, Bayswater'
the wife of R. A. Routh, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 31st ult., at Wandsworth, the wife of Arthur Plor,
Esq., of a (laughter.

411.41tR1ED.
On the 4th inst., at St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Henry Muggeridge, Esq., of St. Andrew's-hill, Doctor's-commo"
to Mary Ann, daughter of William Hoof, Esq., of madelef
llouse, Kensington.
On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Camberwell,
Dunkin, Esq., P.R.A.S., of the Royal Observatory at Green'
wich, to Maria, eldest daughter of Samuel Joseph Radio"
Esq., of Peckham-grove, Camberwell. p
At Trinity Church, Chelsea, Mr. James L. Maheny, oft
Russell
Lipper Chelsea to Miss E. M. Cierlans Roper, of Great
. street, l3lootusbury.