The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-27 00:00:00

LORD STANLEY's PROTEST
AGAINST THE CORN BILL.

Dissentient-
1. Because the Repeal of the corn-laws will greatly
increase the dependence of this country upon foreign
countries for its supply of food; and will thereby expose
it to dangers against which former statesmen have
thought it essential to take legislative precautions.
2. Because there is no security, nor probability, that
other nations will take similar steps; and this country
will, therefore, not only be exposed to the risks of
failure of supply consequent on a state of war, hut will
also be exclusively subject to an unlimited influx of
corn in times of abundance, and to sudden checks when-
ever short crops shail reduce the ordinary supply from
the exporting countries, or their Governments shall
deem it necessary to take precautionary measures for
their own protection; thus causing rapid and disastrous
fluctuations of price in the markets of this country.
3. Because under a system of protection the agricul-
ture of this country has more than kept pace with the
increasing demand of its increasing population ; and
because it is to be apprehended that the removal of pro-
tection may throw some lands out of cultivation, and
check on others the progress of improvement, which has
led to this satisfactory result.
4. Because it is unjust to withdraw protection from
the landed interest of this country, while that interest
remains subject to exclusive burdens, imposed for pur-
poses of general, and not special, advantage.
5. Because the loss to be sustained by the repeal of
the corn-laws will fall most heavily on the least wealthy
portion of the landed proprietors ; . will press im-
mediately and severely on the tenant-farmers ; and,
through them, with ruinous consequences on the agri-
cultural labourers.
6. Because, indirectly, but not less certainly, injurious
consequences will result to the manufacturing interest,
and especially to the artisans and mechanics, from com-
petition with the agricultural labourers thrown out of
employment ; but principally from the loss of the home
market, caused by the inability of the producers of grain
and those dependent on them to consume manufactured
goods to the same extent as heretofore.
7. Because the same cause will produce similar evil
results to the tradesmen, retail dealers, and others in
country towns, not themselves engaged in agricultural
pursuits, but mainly dependent for their subsistence on
their dealings with those who are so engaged.
8. Because the effect of a repeal of the corn-laws will
be especially injurious to Ireland, by lowering the value
of her principal exports, and by still further reducing
the demand for labour, the want of which is among the
principal evils of her social condition.
9. Because a free trade in corn will cause a large and
unnecessary diminution of annual income, thus impair-
ing the revenue of the country, at the same time that it
cripples the resources of those classes on whom the
weight of local taxation now mainly falls.
10. Because a general reduction of prices consequent
on a reduction of the price of corn will tend unduly to
raise the moneyed interest at the expense of all others,
and to aggravate the pressure of the national burdens.
11. Because the removal of differential duties in
favour of Canadian corn is at variance with
the legislative encouragement held out to that
colony by Parliament, on the faith of which the
colonists have laid out large sums upon the improve-
ment of their internal navigation ; and because the
removal of protection will divert the traffic of the inte-
rior from the St. Lawrence and the British ports of
Montreal and Quebec, to the foreign port of New York;
thus throwing out of employment a large amount of
British shipping, severing the commercial interests of
Canada from those of the parent country, and connect-
ing those interests most intimately with the United
States of America.
12. Because the adoption of a similar system, with
reward to other articles of commerce, will tend to sever
the strongest bond of union between this country and
her colonies ; will deprive the British merchant of that
which is now his most certain market, and sap the foun-
dation of that colonial system, to which, commercially
and politically, this country owes much of its present
greatness.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert drove in a pony car-
riage to the beach, on Thursday afternoon, returning to
Osborne House soon after seven o'clock.
The Royal Family rode on ponies in the plantation.
There was no addition to the royal dinner circle in
the evening.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con-
sort walked in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took their accustomed walks and rides on the sea beach,
yesterday forenoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Duke and Duchess of Cleve-
land with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at
their residence, in St. James's-square.
A Cabinet Counsel was summoned ysterda morn
oneing
to meet at the Foreign-office, Downinge-street.y At
o'clock the following Ministers assembled :—Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl
of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secretary Glad-
stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Ellenborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville
Somerset, the Earl Lincoln, the Earl of Dalhousie, the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and the Earl St. Germans.
The Council sat half an hour.
A deputation of the Directors of the Southampton
and Dorchester Railway Company, consisting of the
Deputy Chairman, Mr. John Mills,
Mr. W. Chaplin,
Colonel Henderson, Captain Breton, Mr. T. Smith, Mr.
M. Uzielli, and Sir John Guest, attended by Captain
Moorsom, engineer ; Mr. C. Castleman, solicitor ; and
Captain Griffiths, secretary, had an interview with the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests yesterday, at their
Office in Whitehall-place.
Captain Denison, R.N., had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Gladstone yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
The Ecclesiastical 'Commissioners for England bad a
Committee Meeting yesterday. There were present,
the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Oxford and
Worcester.

IBRAHIM PAC
noon HA.
The Pacha was engaged until past yesterday in his
correspondence, and received several gentlemen, not of any
public importance, being mere or less connected by business
with his Highness.
At two o'clock the carriages were ordered, when the Pacha,
accompanied by Colonel Bonfort and M. Nubar, and attended
by Major C. Dickson, left Mivart's Hotel for the purpose of
inspecting the New Houses of Parliament. On his Highness's
arrival the architect was absent ; the clerk of the works
therefore conducted the Pacha and suite over the Rouse of
Lords,
but a shower of rain coming on, the Pacha made only
a partial inspection. His Highness then proceeded to West-
minster Hall to see the several courts of law. Unattended,
he next went to see the Chinese Exhibition at Hyde-park-
corner, where his Highness remained upwards of an hour.
After taking a drive round Hyde-park, and through St
James's-park, he went to the Polytechnic Institution, where'
he was received by the principal members of the institu-
tion, by whom he was conducted over the
.different apart-
ments, and inspected the varions objects. of interest in that
public exhibition. On departing, his Highness proceeded to
the terminus of the South-Western Railway, at Vauxhall,
to witness the working of the electric telegraph. His
Highness then returned to Mivart's Hotel, where A. lajor
C. Dickson, Colonel Bonfort, and M. Nubar, had previously
arrived.
The Pacha's dinner party was confined to his suite. At
ten o'clock, the Pacha and the gentlemen in attendance on
him went to Lady Lyndhurst's soirée dansante,
at the Lord
Chancellor's residence, in George-street, Hanover-square.
To-morrow his Highness and suite intend to go to the
Zoological Society's Gardens, in the Regent's-park.
The Pacha, with Sami Pacha, Colonel Bonfort, M. Nubar,
and Major C. Dickson, did not return to Mivart's from the
House of Commons yesterday morning until nearly three
o'clock. His Highness expressed himself highly gratified
and entertained by being a spectator to the proceedings of
the House. His Highness partook of refreshments at Bel-
larav's, and enjoyed his cigar in the smoking-room.
The Pacha has had numerous invitattops forwarded to him
from the leading nobility to honour their approaching fetes
ositive answers ave
by hie presence, but we believe not any p h
been sent.
We understand that his Highne,ss intends to prolong his
proximo London for at least three weeks.to come. The 20th
p will most likely be the day of his departure.
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COWES, ISLE OF WIGH
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
RIM 19. Witch cutter, Henry Oglander, Esq., from a
cruise.
Dryad cutter, W. Delafield, Esq., from Gosport.
20.
21. St.-Margaret cutter, F. P. Delme Radcliffe, Esq., from
Plymouth.
Snake cutter, Hon. Henry Upton, from Portsmouth.
22. Sna
23. Osprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., from Plymouth.
SAILIN GS.
JUNE 20. Georgian schooner, William Lyon, Esq., for the
coast of Ireland.
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OUT
AT AND OUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Maud, Magic, Wyvern, Gem.
Cutters-
'APsare, Peterel, Dryad, Snake, Witch, Gany-
Albatross, Duchess, Noran, Eudora, Amulet,
mede, Turquoise,
Sparrowhawk.
Sir Bellingham Graham, Captain C. H. Williams, Mr.
Maxse, Captain Ponaonby, the Marquis of Blandford, and a
number of other members have been at the Squadron House
this week. There are numerous inquiries about houses for
the season, but very few are yet taken.
JumE 15.—Arrived the Russian Royal Yacht Squadron
cutter-yacht Neriede, 1:30 tons, Lieut. Abrigan c ff frone
Cronstadt, bound to the Mediterranean and Black
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The Royal Yacht Squadron cutter Ganymedse e,
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PORTSMOUTH, FRIDA.Y.—Two Government
mes-
sengers arrived at the dockyard soon
auxhall,r fivng dispatches
aftee o'clock
morning,by special train from V havi
for her Majesty, containing intelligence of the Corn and
Customs' Bills having passed the House of Lords, and also
the result of the division in the House of Commons on
ere
the
Irish Protection of Life Bill. Immediate directions w
sent to the commander of the Fairy steam-yacht to prepare
to proceed with the messengers to Osborne House,
of off and at
t
eight o'clock the Fairy left the harbour and g Mead
Creak by half-past, when the messengers were landed with
their despatches. Her Majesty could not have lost any time
in affixing her royal signature to the candommission,
to for the
royal assent to these important Bills, also numerous
others which were included in the commission, for the Fairy
returned with messengers from Cowes by half-past eleven,
in time for their leaving Gosport by the express train at
twelve o'clock. The Fairy returned to Osborne directly the
messengers quitted her. The Comet steamer got her steam
up at the same time as the Fairy, to be in readiness to go
out of harbour at short notice, in case any other messengers
or dispatches should arrive.
A ALLD DoG.—Yesterday, about noon, as one of the
Passing through Mare-street, one of
Clapton omnibuses was p
the horses was seized by the nose by a dof
tiff cu the bull-.
terrier
The
breed, which was only got off with some lty
cry of "Mad dog" excited much alarm amongst the passers-
-2)3r and through the village, and after a brisk and speedy
Chace the animal was destroyed in a yard at Liomerton,
Rites it 1144 taken rofuge.