The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

soundest and most unanswerable arguments, exhibited
in the strongest light the folly and absurdity of the
bucolic agitation, and of the mania that has recently
taken possession of the agriculturists, and which has
led to the various " gatherings " which it has been.
our painful duty to chronicle and record from day to
day in our columns.

It would be impossible, within the limits of a
single article, to give even the most cursory
sketch of the historical research and lucid views exhi •
bited in this admirable composition. Our readers must
judge for themselves from the original, which will
be found in full in another part of this day's impres-
sion. We earnestly entreat all who are anxious to
arrive at a sound conclusion to attentively peruse,
and maturely consider the facts recorded, and the
palpable deductions from those facts contained
therein. It will, we can assure them, well repay the
time and labour that may be devoted to the study.
There are none who may more largely profit
thereby than the agriculturists. They will learn the
gross deceptions that have been practised upon their
credulity. They will discover that nothing could be
more strongly opposed to their real interests, than the
revival of the obnoxious and inequitable imposts for
which they are about to array themselves in opposi-
tion to the wishes and feelings of the great majority
of their countrymen. They will find that their pre-
decessors have suffered most deeply, under the most
stringent systems of protectior, and that the present
distress is trivial in comparison to that which was
endured by farmers when the importation of foreign
corn was practically prohibited—when they were
not only exempted from external competition, but
even when a bounty was offered on the exportation
of their cereal produce. They will perceive that the
fluctuations in prices were by far greater and more
disastrous than any that can be anticipated so long as
free-trade doctrines are recognised and observed.
Above all, they will be taught that it is essentially a
landlord's question which they are expected to con-
test; that it is to sustain high and exorbitant rents
and oppressive taxation that they are called
upon to enrol themselves as recruits, and not,
as they are led to believe, in behalf of fair and remu-
nerative prices for their produce ; that they are en-
deavouring to support the luxury and extravagance of
their landlords, and not to procure comfort and com-
petence fur themselves—to enable the proprietors to
liquidate the charges and encumbrances created by
the undue expenditure of their forefathers, and to
receive the same returns from mortgaged inheri-
tances which their ancestors did from free and un-
fettered estates.

They are manufacturers of agricultural pro-
duce, and it cannot possibly be desirable or
beneficial for persons of their position or class,
that the prices of the " raw material" the
lands they occupy—should be unduly enhanced. -If
they enter upon the task in a cairn and unprejudiced
spirit, anxious only to form an unbiassed judgment
as to the line of policy that is most beneficial for the
community at large, and even for their own particular
class, we promise them that they will rise from the
perusal not "sadder," but infinitely " wiser men."
They will rejoice, for they will ascertain
that their position and prospects are much better
than they had previously supposed, that there was no
ado quate foundation for the gloomy vaticinations and
dark forebodings which the would• be prophets dinned
into their ears with so much energy and perseverance•
They will ne longer be seduced from their industrial
pursuits and active duties to listen to the dreary and
interminable harangues and untenable arguments of
the advocates of monopoly, who, while shouting with
stentorian lungs for " protection fir British industry,"
are really attempting to defraud their fellow-country-
men of a considerable portion of their scanty
earnings, in order to support " their own establish-
ments and rank in sod: ty," " their former habits of
life," " the expectations and marriages of their
daughters," " the educating and purchasing of com-
missions in the Army or livings in the Church for
their younger sons," and, above all, the means of
corrupting the free and independent electors of the
convenient borough which returns the head of the
family to a seat in the House of Commons, and gives
him position and influence to provide for his relations
and friends, and to quarter his dependents on the
public purse. These are the objects which they
rt.:sire to secure and not the welfdrr, the happiness,
or the prosperity, of the industrious chsses, wht,ther
engaged in agricultural or manufacturing pursuits,
or the mere labourer, the "hewers of wood and
d; avers of water."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

WTe have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They are principally occupied by the report of M.
Tunas to the Assembly on the law for affording
relief to the necessitous. The report fills several
columns, and, as might have been expected from the
antecedents of the reporter and the composition of
the Committee, condemns in no measured terms all
the plans which have been proposed for the formation
of a public provision fir the poor and destitute.
The Legitimatist journal La Mode is to be pro-
secuted for falsely end calumniously stating that a
coup rectal had been determined on at a Council of
Ministers, over which the PRESIDENT of the Republic
presided in person.
PAR s JAN. 28.—Latest Prices :—Five
per Cents., BuIR.E
35 e
9
; Three per Cents., 581.; Think
Actions, 2,385 f.
o 5 s

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCEIANGE, JAN. 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 73/8 Central of Franco (Orleans
and Yierzon), 127/—Dutch Rhenish, 2—East Indian, 4
—Northern of France, dis.—Paris and It..uen, 23%
Rouen and Ilayre,