The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT orthe PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM Tim EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY,
STANDARD,—The Quarter's. Revenue, as we
stated Yeaterday, Nat be made up this evening, and
tre understand that the year's account will show a
very considerable increase in all the main branches
of revenue. The quarter's account will exhibit
an inerease, as compared with the correspond.
ing quarter of last -year, on every item of revenue,
thus 'testifying a progressive improvement in the
commerce and trade of the -country, and the ceg-
elitism of the several classes of the population. On
Ilk year we understand the revenue will
.ex..
need that of the year ending sth April, 1843, up-
wards of one million five hundred thousand pounds;
it probably will be nearly two millions. On the
quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of last year; the accounts, as at present made up, show
an increase in the Customs of upwards of 300,000/.
In the Excise the increase is from 40,000/. to 50,000/.
The property-tax remains much the same. There is
an increase in the Post-office returns, the stamps, and
is every -Other branch of the public revenue.
GLOBE.—" We are assured," says the timeS of
this morning, "on unquestiOnable authority, that the
rumour current yesterday on the subject'of the meet-
ing at Sir Robert Peel's is wholly without founda-
tion. The flikussion did not turn at all on the Fac •
tory Bill, nor was there any threat of dissolution."
The " child at Limerick" being the "killed, and the
" report contradicted," we turn from the Times facts
to its theories on the Factory question. The Times
takes Sir James Graham to task for the following
passage of his speech on that question :
" I will now pass to another argument hardly less
terrifying—the argument that 'se have now arrived at a
new social state—(Loud cries of " Hear")—such as to lead
to a departure from .all fixed principles which have
hitherto guided the wisest- men on the subject ; that
we must meet thiS new social state by a new scheme of
legislation on. this matter, and that whereas all men
have hitherto held that interference with the market
of free labour was unjustifiable, or only to be justified
in a strong exceptional case, this rule must now be in-
verted and legislative interference must be general.
there must be no limit, excepting not even the necessity
of the case, but even the possibility of the case.—(Hear,
hear.) . . . I say a more dangerous course
has never yet been opened to the view of a legislative
assembly. Within the last forty .eight hours I have seen
an expression used, to which, on the whole, I am willing
to give my assent—that this is the commencement of: a
Jack Cade system of legislation."
To this the Times replies, that the Poor-law
Amendment Act (upheld by Sir James Graham, for
which offence the Home Secretary seems to have
succeeded Lord Brougham as the Times"' whipping
boy") was founded on the same argument which Sir
James objects to—that vve had arrived at a new social
state :
" On the very supposition that we had arrived at a
new state of things—that our increasing, population
burdened the land, and that our increasing trade and
commerce afforded an opportunity for relieving the
land of that burden—the very persons now so old-
fashioned and timorous did ten years back, either as
principals or accomplices, perpetrate the New roor-law—
the greatest social revolution England has yet seen, and
the greatest break into existing law, and rule, and Feet-
cedent. Yet when this new state of things,. thus created,
imperiously demands to be met in its turn by new mea-
sures=when the most prominent necessity of the day is
proteetion of labour—our statesmen suddenly. affect a
constitutional horror of novelty. Nothing is too new
when the landlord or the capitalist asks them, for relief;
but the millions are at their, feet, then, 'For hea-
ven's sake,' they say, let's have no novelty: Thus do
they ride and tie with protection and -political econemy,
with novel emergency and legislative precedent."
According to the Times, then, the New Poor-law
created a new state of things—and thereby created ,a
necessity for new measures of " protection for lab:S-11r."
Those who supported.the New Poor-law are incon-
sistent in refusing to support these new measures.
Presently, however, the Tillie* discovers that.the new
state of things is "not of Our Making,"—not, there-
fore, of Sir James Graham's Making, nor the, New
Foor•laws ;—and that those Who" supported that mea-
sure were riglit,in their view of the circumstances on
trhich,thqy fonnAca it
" Such is the ',present exigency. A. new power of
nature has steldenly started up in the midst of us; as it
it were a mighty river suddenly gushing out of the
earth,'-or a new" Order of exiStlextees, half brutal, halt
rational, with which we suddenly found ourselves
allied. The whole nation feels its benefit ; in.
dustry its aid ; but the, labourer . its. competition. At
the same time our population has: fearfully increased
far beyond our natural' capabilities. These changes
nee not of our making ; heaven has sent them. We
cannot close cur eyes to the fact.. Though we
tried to reject, . the fact as , a whole,- . still we
should be obliged to encounter
.it in, a' thoUsand 'de-
tails. The disorders of the country are new. Their
symptoms are anomalous and monstrous, if we look only
to what has been before. The learned practitioner cas-
sot find them in the old works' f pathology ; or, if he
thinks he has identified the new with the old, is set right
at last by the 'discovery that he has made some fatal
blunder. A vast and friendless population, driven
through the most miserable straitness of life, thronging
nod crushing, and treading on one another, pass be-
tween the Scylla of excessive working and the Charyb-
dis of destitution. Where shall we find the like of this
Sa history ? Then, why, are we to insist on the neces-
sity of a legislative precedent,
.if there be .noneexactly
to thopurpose ?"
The Times, then, subscribes to the opinion that
"our population has fearfully increased 'far beyoaa
our natural capabilities." How ,does the Times har-
monlie this opinion with its other' opinion (implies'
by its .
.support of the old poor-law practice—for the
principle of poor-law relief still subsists—nor is thene
anything uprecedented 'in unions of parishes, nor in
anion-workhouses)—the opinion, namely, that it is
the duty of parishea to enable every Man to live com-
fortably on his native spot—to make'good to every man
from public funds any deficiency of support wbich he
can derive from his hereditary mode of industry, unless,
on this theory of paraehiatehligatidn, the-Times' poor-
law talk is meaningless. .But this theory of pa-
rochial obligatien, is untenable,', if it is true .(as tie
Time; also thinks), that " Our, population has. fear-
fully increased far beyondsdur natural capabilities:'
To guarantee :lupport :to the labouring people in
their- naive • parishes, and their- Old 'emPloyments,
is to act on the presumption that they have net
." increased beyond, 'our natural capabilities.". But
the Times say they Bare. We can tell the Times that' it
has &battle to fight for its own consistency before it,
is in a pOsition to take up the cudgels against' Sir J.
Graham s. Leaving the 'Times to reduce to harmony:
as it can its own clashing propositions, we take that,
one-of them which we , think true=that our :people
.
increase. beyond (Air merely internal resources-7-and
we pursue no further, fur the present, the; plain ad-,
vantage thisiivei Agninst an adversary. who is
incessantly, clamouring for • the right of labourers,
wherever they are born, there to be main.
tained from those resources— for migration is usually
necessary to Stake, advantage of other resources
—those, namely, supplied' by Manufactures and com-
merce. "We leave the Times, for the preient, unmo4
lested in its selfcontradictOry stain quo on that
point. We make use of it's admission solely as it
beers on the factory question. What is the inference
SS regards that question, from the 'admitted- increase
of our population far' -beyond- our' natural- capabili-
ties? Is it not that 'we are to that' eXtent (a
large extent, by the showing of the Mites)* dependent
on foreign demand, and on foreign, returns for our
manufactured products ? (When we say foreign,
woe include celonial, which ,Lord :Stanley treated as
foreign, on Mr. Butt's motion.) Is the inference rea-
sonable that we' can .aftbrd to Ain bur hands, and to
slacken our nachinery-,--that we can afford to produce
less for demand, just in proportion a we want more in
supply ? It is n 4 perhaps' voncleifttl, thitT so large
a section of those, politicians should legislate to hint
, oar means Of buYinig; who hate legislated against our
having the thine-s we want to buy. As well lay fcr
nething,aNv sorfaor,nothing. restrictive Time Bill
way be not an unnatural pendant to a restrictive corn-
law. But ever spa many restrictions 4611 not- Make
one liberty, 'Short hours are not cheap. bread ; ansi
short bread involves long work to all who are so happy
as to get it. ,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

BLOCKADE OF ALICANT AND: (IA
G ENA. 1711 -
, (Copy of a letter received at Lloyd's.)
Spanish Consulate-General, 37, Old Broad-street.
April 4, 1844. •
Sir; I have just received a circular from his Excel-
lency the First Secretary of State to my august Sove-
reign, in which he communicates to me, that as the
fortress of Alioent is nclw subject to the legitimate
Government of her Majesty, the blockade• has been
raised, and confined to that of. Carthagena, along the
coast comprehended between the ",Cabo •de Palos'' and
" eat* Tinoso."
. I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant
(Signed) JOSE MARIA BAREEiO,
Spanish Consul-General.
To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.

The Edinburgh Observer says the Record, for-
' and attached to the moderate
party in the Scottish Establishmeannounced a paper of ‘Vbig politics,
nt, isannounced to appear
ish ,
under a new form,. as the organ of Episcopal
,
the ' Scott
Church. Its politics arc to be those most ittitea to advance
the intermits of that Church.
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a 'lady, ',rho had just-arrived in from
'London. by railway
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illness. , Fortiinately- there —Arai :Vont in the coach , for
another ms pasengar,,and. tho -coachman, John ,:Edes,
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eaeu *eote4. ' The lady now' appeared to inceyereil,
anti:a4 went en well until they arrived Within about five.
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