The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-29 00:00:00

Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice that to•morrow Sir

PEEL would move that the House, at its rising, do ad-
journ to M9nday.
Mr. F. FRENCH reminded the Right Hon. Baronet
that Friday was the last day of receiving petitions
against private Bills, &c.
Sir J. GRAHAM promised to consider the subject and
state his intentions to-morrow.
The House then adjourned.

On referring to the new tariff proposed by Sir ROBERT
PEEL, we are only more confirmed in the opinion that
it is highly satisfactory, and that it will be received most
favourably throughout the country. It is of a compre-
hensive character ; it will afford relief to many classes,
and perhaps most of all to those who gain their liveli-
hood by daily labour—a class, unfortunately, in former
times neglected or forgotten by our aristocratic legisla.
tors. As an act of justice, as well as of political policy.
it therefore recommends itself to all those who prefer
fair play to selfish interests, who wish to see peace and
good order, and loyalty maintained by liberal institu-
tions and wise legislation, rather than by the musket and
the bayonet, and those barbarous and despotic laws so
much admired by the SIDMOUTIIS arid ELDONS. The
people of this country are the very last in the
world to rise against their SOVEREIGN, or evi n
resist the authority of the Executive, and seldom or
never have recourse to illegal proceedings unless when
driven to them by acts of oppression or the most glaring
injustice. The middle cl .sses, unlike those of a neigh-
bouring country, do not spend their time in billiard-
rooms, and in sauntering idly on the public promenades;
they do not, for want of better employment, hatch plots
and devise schemes of war; they are constantly engaged
in some active employments for bettering their condition,
or raising themselves a step in the ranks of society. And
as for the hard-working population, they are unequalled
by those of any country in the world. They
will perform twice as much work as the same class in
France in the same time, and no men are more thankful
for getting employment. It is the paramount duty,
therefore, of a Minister to attend to the interests of such
a class, and if he will not, or cannot grant them electoral
privileges like the rest of tie community, he is bound
by his sacred trust, as well as by the necessity of secur-
ing peace throughout the country, to show that their
rights are not forgotten by the Legislature. In this
restate, therefore, the tariff is eminently judicious and
impartial. A vast proportion of those articles which are
to be admitted duty free at once, or at the end of three
years, are necessaries of the first importance to the great
body of the people. Should the tariff not be übstructt d
by the House of Peers (and no man who wishes to
see that body respected will desire such a result), some
ten or twelve articles of consumption will be wlmitted
without the payment of any duty whatever. Among
these may be mentioned live cattle, Indian corn, rice,
bacon, beef, potatoes, pork (fresh or salted), vegetables,
cotton manufactures (not being articles wholly or in
part made up), linen manufactures, woollens, &c. But,
in addition to these, the duty on a large number
is to be greatly reduced, on many of them one half—
such as butter, cheese, candles, hams of all kinds, hats,
boots and shoes, soap, and some fifty more, which it is
needless to enumerate. In the long list, however, we
cannot discover the foreign article to which, in these
hard times, a Noble Duke attached so much importance
—curry is to be found nowhere in the three lists. That
part of the tariff which relates to corn is of more con-
sequence, perhaps, than all the rest. The impost is
to last for three years (but whether for the good of idle
farmer and landlord is a doubtful question), and then, in
the language of Parliament, " cease and determine." In
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the rich are not forgotten, for the import duties are
to be greatly reduced on carriages, silks, brandy and
Geneva, mounted canes, crystal, cut or manufactured,
lace, perfumery, velvet, and even that Russian delicacy,
caviare, is not forgotten. Altogether, the selection has
been judiciously made ; and the public cannot justly
complain that, as a quit for such material changes, some
burdens on land are to be reduced. The landlords would
do Naito accept the offer, and not provoke further in-