The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

,f DN. D N THURSDAY EVENING, RI ULY 10, 1856

PUBLICATIONS.

THE NEW NOVEL,
Ev.E„L Y N MARS TON,
By, the Author of " Emilia Wyndham,"
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ON TRUE sh FALSE SPERMATOItiIitA,
with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
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the Bishop of Oxford, Rev. William Landells, Rev. Samuel Martin,
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Spirit of the Public 4ounials.

(F o& the Times of this day.)

The opposite.taste of England and France have
given a corresponding tenour to their respective
labours, experience, and fortunes. While, in spite
oarevolittions and disturbancea, shaken dynasties,
and shattered Governments, France Lae still re-
membered the art to which she owes ,so much re-
nown—while in the midst of peace she has cffn-
tiimed to study the principles and elaborate the
resources of war—while she has accustomed each
of her great cities to the pone and excitement of
the camp, and trained the youth of her people in
the recurring lessons of military discipline and mili-
tary combination, England has been prosecuting
her own studies ou fields of mole congenial adven-
ture. While France has never ceased to prepare
foe the day when she should revive the martial
splendours of the Empire, England contented her-
self with battling against the doctrines of a commer-
cial theory which she felt to be strangling her ener-
gies and hampering her progress. Protection was the
Austria and Prussia of herdomestic campaigns, The
Corn Laws were her Austerlitz; the other protective
duties her Jena. Engaged in this conflict, she
averted her gaze and her thoughts from those
more dazzling and imposing objects to which
France devoted herself, and the result is to both
what both might have expected. When a war,
not of theories_ but of rude material force, hreaas
out, England, roused from the quietude of 40 years,
finds herself at first unequal to the duties of a new
position, suffers in her materiel, suffers in her mili-
tary reputation, until she brings her full energies
to bear upon au organisation which she had too
long neglected. France in war finds only the prac-
tical application of studies to which she has long
been devoted. A campaign is, in the majority of
its incidents, a repetition of the life is the canton-
ments and garrisons of home. But, war ended,
when she recurs to her industrial labours, and seeks
to find new fields for her commercial energies, she
has to contend with the same difficulties that
menaced us, to learn the lesson which we have long
since conned, and to win the victories which we
achieved years ago.
At this moment Franco is repeating our old con-
flict of Free Trade and Protection. All that by
yearly and monthly discussions was hammered into
the English mind, until the whole stock of com-
monplace arguments on either side was as familiar
to every average Englishmen as his relations or
his creditors, they have now to handsel. The
French are a quick people, but the keenest wit
and the clearest vision are blunted by the fogs of
mistaken self-interest. Judging, then, by our own
'experience, we may suppose that they will con-
tinue to hear and repeat among themselves for the
next eighteen months those formulae of belief
which ten years ago flaunted on the banners of the
Bond-street Association and agricultural gather-
ings Protection to native industry,"—" No
foreign competition,"—" Charity begins at home,"
—" Our own interests before those of our neigh
bours,"—" France needs not the productions of
foreign States; she is sufficient for herself,"
diee. Such for months to come, we may infer
from our own experience, will be the shibbo-
leths of French Protectionists. The only dif-
ference between their English prototypes and
them will be that, as the former represented the
territorial jealousies, the latter impersonate the
manufacturing fears. But we do net observe that
this makes any difference either in the vehemence
or the reasonableness of their clamours. eautato
amine, all else is the same. The manufacturing
is in no degree superior to the agricultural mind;
and if the Emperor proceeds—as sonic persons ex-
pect that he will proceed—resolutely in the direc-
tion of Free Trade, we may make up our minds to
hear or read numerous and hearty declarations that
" the sun of France will set for ever "—" the glory
of the empire will depart "—" the descendants of
the heroes of Marengo and Austerlitz will siele into
slavery," from the moment that French housewives
buy useful and durable crockery or hardware of
foreign make for about half the money that they
are now forced to give for knives that won't cut
and plates and, cups that are always falling by their
own gravity, and never fall without breaking in
pieces.
All this we have ourselves gone through. We
know the worth of these predictions to the last
penny ; and, if it will be of the slightest use to
our French friends, we will make them a present of
our own experience. We need hardly repeat the
_terrible prophecies that were prompted by the
coming repeal of our Corn Laws. Who does not
recollect the land that was to go out of cultiva-
tion,—the untilled acres which were to be the
grave and monument of a once happy but now
famished peasantry,—the decadence of our most
illustrious families,—the extinction of the species
"country gentleman," with the exception of a few
who were to be preserved in some favoured dis-
tricts, like the dodo at the Mauritius or the mega-
thorium at the Crystal Palace,---the absorption of
such labourers as were not starved, or who did
not eat one another bodily, into cotton twist,
jennies and steam-engines—to say nothing of that
sun which was always going to set, and that glory
which was always going to fade ? Well, all this
and a great deal more was prophesied. And what
is the upshot of it all ? Not a single acre has
gone out of cultivation. The price of corn—not
during a year or two of the war, but the average
price during four or five years—has risen concur-
rently with the growth of population, the exten-
sion of trade, and the importation of foreign grain ;
the value of landed property, so far from falling,
has also risen ; and with all these there is an im-
provement in the condition of the agricultural
labourer throughout four-fifths of the counties
of England. More than this, that which is true of
England is remarkably and strikingly true of Ire-
land. There the landed interest is enjoying an
equable and diffused prosperity such as it had not
known for half a century of protection ; and the
improvement in the condition of the Irish labourer
is shown by tho Poor Law and emigration returns
which we have recently cited.
But land was not the only interest which en-
jeyed ba which lost protection with us. Sir R.
Peel laid the same hands which despoiled corn of its
" 4 protection " on no less than 540 other articles.
Despite the interested protest of acme manufac-
turers or producers, he applied the same prin-
ciples which had abrogated the Corn Laws to sugar,
leather, glass, hides, cattle, fish, and silk. And
what has been the result ? The general interests of
the country have derived immense benefit from the
change, and the industry which protective laws
fixed in certain grooves has aowsd, oat into new and
numerous channels of productiveness.
We do not know whether our French friends will
take heart from our example. Abstract reasoning
has, as we know, but little influence on the actions
of men and nations. It was not abstract reasoning
alone that carried the repeal of the Corn Laws in
our country, but the active and energetic combina-
tion of men whose interests we thwarted
and passions irritated by their continuance.
In the same way France will owe any re-
laxation of her protective syst not to
essays and speeches so much as to the combined
action and intelligence of men whose capi al, in-
dustry, and hopes are embarked in those large
commercial enterprises which involve her material
prosperity. When all who are engaged in the silk
manufactures of Lyons or the wine manufacture of
!Buy gaudy and the Gironde feel that commerce is a
thing of mutuality—that it cannot be one-sided—
that a country cannot export without importing,
and that every singlesou which is paid for a bad
article made at home rather than for a good article
made abroad is really two sons taken from the
means of the country—then, and then only, -shall
we begin to hope that the combination of iron-
founders and cutlers and cottonworkers will net
succeed in fixing upon France a burden which we
have shaken off, and hindering a development of
resources of which she is probably as yet ignorant
herself.

(From the Daily News of this day.)

Interesting as all the phases of American politics
are to Englishmen, our first attention is naturally
given to the contest for the Presidentship. On the
choice of the next President hangs the question of
peace or war between- the United States, and
various foreign countries—England being among
the foremost on the list. Not that we believe that
any possible President—we might say any Ameri-
can citizen—would directly and sincerely go into
a war with England ; but one at least of the can-
didates in the field is pledged to a policy which
would render war almost unavoidable. While,
therefore, it is understood that other changes, and
many of them, may take place before the election
in November, we observe with strong satisfaction
that the Republican party is showing such vigour,
spirit, and resolution as to afford a good prospe-1
of the return of its candidate—Col. Fremont. Mr.
Buchanan's Imlay were confident of their ability
to decide the matter their own way, because they
could have done so last year ; but, as an emirsen t
American lawyer once said, there is nothing !
difficult to foresee as the near future of America