The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

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denied—too demonstrative to be disputed. It would
be an utterly hopeless thing to attempt to convince
the country that it is not now in a healthy and happy
condition. It will, therefore, be their wiser course to
make that admission unreservedly and at once. The
only sustenance that we can see for their croaking
dispositions is in the future. That they may picture
in as gloomy colours as they please. No one can
contradict them there. I'Ve have no facts to marshal
against their predictions. No one can tell to a cer-
tainty what may be the condition of the country two
or three years hence. For at least one year, humanly
speaking, we are safe. We have a present certainty
of twelve months' unparalleled prosperity before us.
The class, there, to whom we allude, whose very
existence is wrapped up in gloom and disaster, should
apply themselves to the portraiture of the state in
which matters may be some few years hence. Let
their imaginations be exercised on the apehended
calamities which will befal the country in 1854 or
1855. They may affirm with impunity that before
we have seen the end of either of these years, Eng-
land will be involved in utter and irretrievable ruin.
These persons have at least the authority of one
well•kaown individual for the adoption of this
course. Mr. Henry Drummond, the Member for
West Surrey, has set them an example. Compelled to
give up the idea of clinging any longer to the hy-
pothesis, that the country as at this moment on the
verge of ruin, Mr. Drummond has bethought himself
of postponing the catastrophe, which was sure to
follow the repeal of the corn-laws, till some future
time. He does not commit himself to any definite
period for the distressing occurrence. In this he acts
wisely. It is to come some day. But on what day,
deponent sayeth not. He does not even name the
year. It was to have happened before now; but it
has not happened. Mr. Drummond postpones the
period of its occurrence with the same easy, cool
facility with which the Irishmen of St. Giles's, seven
or eight years ago, postponed the day on which Lon-
don was to be swallowed up by an earthquake. With
the croaking section of the community, we are
willing to do a stroke of business. If they give us up
the present, we shall give them up the future. If
they admit that just now the country is in a state
of unexampled prosperity, we can have no
hesitation in admitting, that some time or
other grievous disasters may befal Great Britain.
Let those that feel so disposed brood over the future.
Let them picture to their own minds, the time to
come, in the most sombre colours which can occur to
their imaginations. We are too thankful for the pre-
sent, to suffer our sense of the blessings we now
enjoy, to be impaired by the contemplation of what is
within the range of possibility at some distant, inde-
finite day. As to the cause of the unparalleled pros-
perity which pervades every branch of trade and
commerce, there cannot be two opinions. Free trade
has done it all. That which we were assured was to
precipitate a crisis in the financial and commercial
condition of the country, as well as drive all the
farmers into the Gazette, and send the landlords, in
the lump, to the workhouse, is now proved to have
been the means of saving the country. Under the
ascendancy of Protection, England, in all its interests
—its agricultural interests among the number—was
rapidly hurrying to ruin. Just at the critical moment,
when a longer persistence in a restrictive com-
mercial policy would have proved fatal, Sir Ro-
bert Peel resolved on reversing that policy. He
made up his mind to do it at all hazards. He
was the only man in her Majesty's domi-
nions that was competent for the task. He set
about the work directly. He applied himself to it
with a self-sacrifice, both in regard to his ease and to
his party and personal friendships, of the greatness of
which none but himself could form any idea. He
accomplished it in defiance of an opposition the most
formidable which ever any Minister had to encounter.
The greatness of the boon which he coferred on the
country is now beginning to be seen and felt by all.
Of the benefits of which his great fre -trade measures
are destined to be productive in the future, it would
not be possible to form an exaggerated notion. There
is just only one drawback to the pleasure with which
the country looks back on those free-trade measures
which are now spreading plenty and producing
prosperity among all classes of the community. The
illustrious author of those measures is no longer
susceptible of the gratification which a nation's admi-
ration and a nation's gratitude could not fail to have
afforded him. He has been snatched from our midst
just when he was beginning to be seen by all in the
light of a great benefactor. Had he but lived until
now—had his life been prolonged for one year more,
it is easy to perceive with what inexpressible delight
he would have looked around him, and beheld in all
parts of the country, and among all classes of her
Majesty's subjects, that unprecedented prosperity of
which his policy has been productive.

THE ACCELERATED 31ID-DAY MAIL.
We have received a list of tho several provincial
towns from which letters and newspapers are daily dis-
patched to the metropolis. This list, which is corrected
up to the Ist of October, is as follows:
Abergavenny, Abingdon, Accrington, Alnwick, Amers-
ham, Ampthill, Andover, Andover-road, Arundel, Ash-
ford, Atherstone, Attleborough, Aylesbury, Banbury,
Barnesley, Basingstoke, Bath, Battle, Bedford, Belford,
Belper, Berkhampstead, Berwick, Bewdley, Bicestcr,
Billericay, Bilstone, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bishop's
Stortford, Blackburn, Blandford, Bognor, Bolton, Bos-
ton, Brackley, Bradford (Yorkshire), Bradford (Wilt-
shire), Brandon, Brentwood, Bridgwater, Bridport,
Brighton, Bristol, Broadway, Brom.grove, Buckingham,
Burford, Bromley, Bury (Lancashire), Bury St. Ed-
mund's, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chatham,
Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Chepstow, Chertsey, Chester,
Chesterfield, Chichester, Chippenham, Chipping Norton,
Christchurch, Chorley, Cirencester, Cobham, Cocker-
mouth, Colchester, Cottrington, Congleton, Coventry,
Cowes, Crowe, Cranbrook, Crawley, Cuckfield, Dar-
lington, Dartford, Daventry, Deal, Derby, Devizes,
Dorking, Dorchester, Dover, Downham, Droitwich, Dud-
ley, Dunmow, Durham, Eastbourne, East Grinstead,
Eecloshall, Edenbridge, Ely, Emsworth, Eustone, Ep-
ping, Epsom, Exeter, Esher, Evesham, Farnham, Fare-
ham, Farringdon, Fenny Stratford, Feversham, Folk-
stone, From°, Gateshead, Gloucester, Gudalming Gos-
port, Grantham, Gravesend, Guernsey, Guildford,
Hales s orth, Halifax, Harlow, Harwich, Hatfield,
Hastings, Havant, Hemel Hempstead, Henley-on-
Thames' Hereford, Hertford, Hexham, Higham Ferrers,
High Wycomb, Hoddesden, Ilolbeach, Horsham, Hud-
dersfield, Huntingdon, HS the, Ipswich, lugatestone, Jer-
sey, Kelvedon, Kendal, Kenilworth, Kettering, Kidder-
minster, Knutsford, Lancaster, Launcester, Leather-
head, Ledbury, Leeds, Leicester, Leighton Buzzard,
Leominster, Lewes, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liphook, Liver-
pool, Loughborough, Lowestoft, Ludlow, Lyme, Lynn,
Lymington, Lyndhurst, Macclesfield, Maidenhead, Maid-
stone, Malvern, Malden, Manchester, Manningtree,
March, Margate, Mario w, Maryport, Melkaham, Melton
Mowbray, Milnthorpo, Monmouth, Merpoth, Moreton
in the Marsh, Nantwich, Newark, Nownham,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newmarket, Newport (Isle
of Wight), Newport Pagnel, Newport (Salop),
Northampton, North Shields, Norwich, Northwicb,
Nottingham, Nuneaton, oa,kham, Odism, I Ongar,
Oundle, Oxford, Penrith, Perahore, Peterborough, Pe_
tersfield, Poole, Portsmouth, Presteign, Preston, Pres-
ton Brook, Queenborough, Ramsgate, Reading, Rei-
gate, Ringwood, Rickmansworth, Ripley, Rochdale,
Rochester, Ross, Rotherham°,
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Staplehurst, St. Alban's, St. lye's (Hunt.), St.
Leonard's, Stockport, Stone, Stourbridge, Stoney Strat-
ford, Stowmarket, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud, Sunder..
land, Swindon, Tamworth, Taunton, Tenbury, Tenter-
den, Tenbury, Tewkesbury, Thane, Thetford, Thirek,
Thrapstone , Tipton, Tiverton, Toweester, Tring, Trow-
bridge, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Ulverstone, Ux-
bridge, Ventnor, Wakefield, Wallingford, Walsall, Wal-
tham Cross, Wansford, %Vantage, Ware, Wareham, War-
minster, Warrington, Warwick, Watford, Wednesbury,
Weedon, Wellingboro', 'Wellington (Somerset), Welling-
ton (Salop),Wells (Somersetshire), Welwyn, Weymouth,
Westbury, West Bromwich, Weston-super-Mare, White-
haven, Wigan, Wimborne, Winchester, Winchfield,
Windsor, Winslow, Wisbeach, Witham, Witney, Wo-
burn,;Wokingham,Wolverhampton, Woodbridge, Weoe-
stock, Worcester, Workington, Worthing, Wymond-
ham, Yarmouth, Yeovil, York, and the whole of Ireland
and Scotland.
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Lombard-ntreet, the boxes will close for newspapers
at :a quarter before 8 A.M., and for letters at half-past
8 A.M.

PERVERSIONS TO ROME.--The " Sisterhood" for-
merly settled at St. Barnabas, Knightsbridge, under Mr.
Bennett, and latterly resident in Margaret-street, Cavendish-
square were publicly received in a body into the Roman
catholic Church at Islington, on Sunday evening last.