The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING -PAPERS, OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—If the Times finds it impossible to
preserve consistency of opinion, and avoid self=
-!ontradiction oven throughout any one leading
article,- still more impossible does it seem to find
it to preserve any sort of coherency, or common
Tendency, amongst those motley guerillas of its
vorrespOndence columns, which it equally honours
with large type and prominent place in
the same day's publication. When knaves
tall out, it is said, honest men come by
their own ; and when Times correspond-
ents of one column fall foul with pious zeal,
and scriptural quotations, of the very palliatives
fOr our present evils which the Times correspond-
ents of another column suggest, they give wel-
come tokens of that discord in the enemy's
vamp, which must yield to determined onset—
that restless want of union in wrong, which
cannot stand before union in the right. The
scriptural gentleman in to-day's Times attacks
the last " Queen's letter" to the Archbishop of
of Canterbury, which calls on her Majesty's
loyal subjects to co-Operate with the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
is catrying on and promoting the good designs
or that Society :
" We are told in the Queen's letter that the
present state of the labouring classes in Great
Britain, together with the demand for labourers
in every British colony, affords reasons for be-
tieving that emigration will be carried on fou
many years to come upon an increasing scale,
and that the condition of our countrymen who
qbit their iaative land, and settle in distant coun-
tries, without any public provision for their re-
:l4l'l)ms instruction, gives them a strong claim upon
the Christian sympathy of the mother country."
Now we must so far agree with the scriptural
gentleman in the Times, as to say that it is in-
deed startling to find her Most Gracious Majesty
( who has done her best, at least, to provide
that her subjects should have bread at home)
reduced to apply to them in this language ! The
present state of the labouring classes (no reserve,
Rio qualification !) is such as to afford " reason
for believing" that they must be expatriated
'wholesale ! This is the first time a Sovereign of
England holds such language to her subjects!
Mani: God we have a Sovereign whose will is
innocent of these extremities ! And these ex-
:.emitics—were they not foreseen and foretold
hen the Corn-laws were first enacted ? We
have quoted the late Lord Grenville on this
tYoint. We will quote him again :
" The first petition which he begged leave to
present to their Lordships (March 6, 18150 was
"6'olll the merchants, manufacturers, cotton-spin-
ners, and others in and about the town of Man-
chester, signed by 52,000 persons. . . . .
The petition was read, and stated the mischiefs
which, in the opinion of the petitioners, would
result from a perseverance in the proposed altera-
tion in the Corn-laws, by raising the price of
p,•ovisions in general, sending skilful workmen
out of the country to France, the United States
of Americ2, &c., and ultimately proving highly
iaje.rious even to the owners of land.'
Lord Grenville, the late Sir Robert Peel, the
present Lord Ashburton, and others in both
Urouses, enforced the prayers of these petitions
with an earnest emphasis, which has proved pro-
phetic I Yes—labourers are to be sent out of the
country to relieve their whole class I—a most
monstrous absurdity—individuals may be bet-
tered—the class will not. Labourers are to be
exiled, because trade is prohibited; and agricul-
tore needs not our increasing numbers—the po-
pulation in some great acrricultural counties is
even diminishing. The landlords don't want us
on their lands—the foreigners shan't feed us in
our towns!

STANDARD.—A week, or .thereabout, has
passed since we put a plain question arising out
of Lord Palmerston's letter, viz., if the late Ca-
binet were impressed, as Lord Palmerston said
they were always, with the necessity of adopting
the principles of their abortive budget, why did
they postpone the adoption of those principles to
the month of April, 1841 ? The question
has not been answered; as far as we are
. able to discover no serious attempt has been
made to answer it. The fact is remarkable. It
certainly is not that other matters of more
pressing interest occupy the attention and the
labour of our Contemporaries; for we scarcely
remembeF a season when "a subject for a lead-
ing article was more in request, and we see
by marks, obvious to the initiated, though
die vulgar overlook them (at least we hope
so), that our Liberal Contemporaries are
not the lightest sufferers by the prevailing dearth
of topics. Day after day the Morning Chronicle
spreads its Anti -Corn-law sophistries and
crotchets - as nearly as it can in new shapes, as
one sees an old lady sometimes spreading her
fifty-two pasteboard playthings, in the hope of
obtat fling a novel combination—still with the same
wearisome disappointment to matron and jour-
nalist ; they are still the same elements, only a
little damaged by thumbing, and all the modes
of arranging them have - been long exhausted.
,]",,`ight after night we have the Globe yawning,
and making its readers yawn, over the same
dreary " game of patience." Now surely when
"a new hare has been started," one would expect
that such an unexpected chase in so dull a season
ould be eagerly followed, if there should not be
danger apprehended from the pursuit. So
ye-suspect it is : the question which we have
,pro-
,
' Funded is not one that will hear handling byhig-Radical hands—for either Lord Palmer-
ston's proposition must be admitted false, or his
Lordship and his party must plead guilty to a ten
years' gross neglect of duty. We have heard a
whispered explanation, indeed, that the Whig-
Radical Ministers were not strong enough to
:parry a free-trade law, and, therefore, they did
not make the attempt. Let us try to understand
this. The Whig-Radical Ministers were strong
enough to carry the Parliamentary Reform Bill,
the Municipal Reform Bill, various Irish
Church Amendment Bills, the East India Trade
Bill, many other Bills no less grave in their
opAmtions, and, finally, the Bill which more than
ad others outraged ancient habits and wounded
pliblic feeling, the New Poor-law Bill. All
;Lase they were strong enough to carry—why
could they not carry the free trade law? It
will be said that the combination of monopolists
opposed them upon this last subject, though not
Oh others. What, are we to understand then that
it was by the aid of the " combination of mono-

poiists "that the Parliamentary Reform Bill and
1.:!i the other great measures of the late Adminis-

were Carried?

Alas! fin- the honour o

t.:-!,orin, it' this is true—it; after all, we have re-
e;-,ved our new constitution at the bands of (we
tOttsit to write it) a combination of monopolists.

LATEST
mANctiEsTMANCHESTER BET TIN G.
As on this da • E. R ,TUESDAY EVENING.
I):,;ember. A „Iri7eek, the attendance was good for
Dtwhy. Two or th'ree. of
oilers were made on the
no. i.ions to support nalliilluential parties seemed very
de.•;iess ; rafter gentleman rele and the Lord of Hot-
-300, laid 300 to 10 against each of
tli.:11, and wards
two. same against Robert de 10 against Wiseacre, and
Gorham. These prices,
however, may he considered
11.nrIce.t ; the closing rort,rs bins
the extreme of the
or g 500 to 20 against
i t her the Lord of Holdernes4o4trialliniteele, and about
25 to I was Robert do
tered to a small
T'aoffprice; 80 to 10
s,:as laid agaitist Attila, and 11 to
to I a it',en
,oei. against Chatham ; 200 to 6 „as
atG.tayrds 1,000 t,o ; 50 on Aleteor,
agaitz offer of
t,a-ilaill against Mr. Booth's two. Sir .. ajew pounds,
to
it either,
xtcys were a good deal talked about, but the s two
0,
sayttianienst,
.$...-,..40 to 30 abet tut
or 1,000 to 15
li,l Ilk caAys. a bet to be pencilled down; 35
,4cAQC-of the Marquis of Wcstminster's tw
la.i:!(llintt William tie Fort:bust, we imagine wall he had.
4>, bet of 50 at. ovens on William against Auckland was
c,..;:red.; 4,000.t0 50 against all the mares was offered in
.t.:4 iri ; 30 to 1 was offered against William le Gros, and
l,:• 'same against Brother to Phmaix.
Tij OAKS.-5.1; to I was offered against Passion.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTS3IOUTH, DEC. 14.—0 n Sunday, sailed the Vi-
per, 6, Lieutenant Carter commanding, for South Awe-
riee, having on board Mr. Ball, Secretary of Legali°ll
She returned to the anchorage of St. Helen's this morn-
ing, owing to adverse winds.
The Serpent., 16, Captain Devereux, sailed this after-
noon for Plymouth, to join the North Ster, Captain Sir
Everard Home, Bart. These ships, in company with
the Apollo and .Sapphire, will proceed to China, the two
latter vessels with troops.
• The Belvidere, 46, will sail to-morrow for the Medi-
terranean. Captain the Hon. G. Grey, who commands
the Belvidere, has gone to Genoa by laud, to arrange the
affairs, and take charge of his late sister's family, Lady
Durham. Lieut. Bullet' will take charge of the Bell
until she arrives 'at Genoa.
The Warspite, 50, Lord John Hay, will go out of bar-
boar on Thursday.
The Athol, troop-ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, is or-
u°r'd to proceed to Barbadoes w:th troops, calling
fieneork. The Dido, 20, Captain the Honourable
he Rend, on her way from the River to Spit-
has put back to the Downs to make good her
u-ltets. having encountered heavy weather off Mui-
r ~.I..er• The Rapid, late tender to the Royal George,
1:, ordered to be fitted for the coast of Africa • Lieut. J.
.if..r.e
ba paid is appointed to command. The Royal George will
o
on Saturday, and recommissioned by Captain
Aphus Fitzclarence; Lieut. 'Hawker is appointed
First Lieutenant, vice Tryon, promoted.

The Earl of Aberdeen, and several of the Ca-
binet Ministers, visited Sir R. Peel yesterday morning
at the Right Honourable Baronet's official residence in
Downing-street,