The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tnii DAT —Warning, 44 min. after 1 ► Evening, 10 min. after 2
To-Moaaew—:morning, 37 min. after 2 f Evening, 3 min. after 3

TriF WEATHER.—Srm OsricE, JAN. 27.
TtEERWOMETER, Lowest, 24; Highest, 49; Noon 32.
BARONETZIA. 30.55; an extraordinary rise of more than
an inch in twenty-four hours-107 points. This is
the most rapid we yet remember for years.

WlN..—The wind went in the afternoon of Saturday
from variable at W. to N.W. to N.E., with a clear blue
aky and a cold, cutting, frosty wind, at which it re-
mained until nine o'clock this morning, when it sud-
denly veered back to W., and by noon it stood at S.W.,
with a light breeze and fine sunshiny weather, which
continued all day. The frost during the night was
very intense, and was the more felt from its sud-
denness.

JAN. 28.

TgErs.7:7‘.),MTF.lt, Lowost, 28; Highest, 33; Noon, 38.
13A.RONETIM, 30.05; a fall of half an inch since yester-
day, the mercury going down nearly as fast as it rose.
WIND S.W.—cloudy, dull, mild weather, with indica-
tions of a ;term in the Atlantic, the pressure of whieh
has not yet reached here.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1830.

On Thursday Parliament will once more have re-
aas.smbled. Another session will afford the Protec-
tionist minority a more available opportunity than it
has hitherto possessed of impeding the progress of
public business, and, while only damaging their own
small repute, and conducing to their own more speedy
discomfiture, throwing every possible and impossible
obstacle in the way of the Government. From the
noisy character of their recent demonstrations we
may reasonably anticipate a series of vociferous and
almost interminable discussions. For the defenders
of an obsolete policy, the apologists of an abandoned
system, the exponents of decomposed doctrines and
decaying principles, have an obtuseness of intelligence
similar to that of the fool mentioned in the
proverb, who, convinced against his will, continues
obdurately of the same opinion still, however
logical or conclusive may be the refutation of his
sophistries. We believe, on a moderate calculation,
that every Free-trader in both Houses of the Im-
perial Legislature his been required, now by one
party, and now by another to demonstrate upwards of
a thousand times the reasonableness of his convictions
—a thousand times, we mean, since the passing of
the great measure which carried confusion among the
monopolists. Yet, although the question has been
argued to very nausea, though the folly, or rather the
fatuous stupidity of Protection (so called) has been
expounded with the clearness of a syllogism, so that
not a blockhead in her MAJESTY'S dominions could
fail to recognise the justice of the deductions made in
favour of free trade, the Country Party have
closed their ears, have shut their eyes, have
shrouded their consciences from the recognition of
truths self-evident to everybody else, and demand
again and again the repetition of reasons that are
becoming proverbial, and of calculations that are
growing mcstunrnistakeably tedious. It is the intermin-
able rolling and revulsion, the advance and retrogres-
sion of that stony error which can never gather the
moss of common-sense under the hands of the political
Sisyphus. It is dipping for water with a cullender,
attempting anything like rational debate wi.h
men who are indifferent to the force of the most un-
answerable demonstration. ./s.nd men such as these
form the tatterdemalion regiment which becomes
scattered only to rally again round the old, worm-
eaten, threadbare, faded, abandoned, tarnished, and
nearly forgotten banner of Protection.
Every one is prepared for a last and desperate
struggle for office on the part of the little Quixotic
squad proclaiming itself the body guard of Agricul-
ture. Every one is prepsred, consequently, for the
contention of the opposing forces on the floor of the
Leeds and the Commons. The certainty that the self-
styled friends of the farmers will battle, so to speak
to the life and to the death for the seizure of the red
boxes, is the le flect;on which nielely tends to impart
zlct to the prospect o' the approaching session.
AVIS txtrlyy fom tie it full appreciation of this
tee
Ire im at the memb rs of the Administra-
,
r, 1.4 ed the most redoubtable of all the
f rade to move in the House of