The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

down to two per cent. Every trade, every manu-
facture was over-ridden by competitors having capital
wanting employment, and yet the complaint was
that they had not capital enough wherewith to till
the land.—(Hear, hear.) They had heard the cause
in the explanation of those intelligent gentlemen who
had addressed them—they wanted security for the
application of their capital.—(Cheers.) The corn-
law, which they ever said was for the benefit of the
agriculturist, deterred the capitalist from investing
in the land, because on that corn-law rested those
other monstrous grievances to which Mr. Lattimore
and Mr. Hunt had referred. The landowners, not
trusting to the application of skill or science to the
cultivation of the
.soil, confided only in the corn-
law, which they could only maintain by poli-
tical means—by keeping the tenantry in sub-
jection as tenants at will." They made every-
thing subservient to political power, and they made
political power subservient to the corn-law, and thus
it was that in a vicious circle the corn-law reacted in
an injurious manner upon the tenant.—(Hear, hear.)
Thus it was that the corn-law was the basis of every
grievance under which the farmers suffered.—
(Cheers.) It was not their business there to talk of
game but of corn ; but if the landowners prevented
by law the people from being supplied with goods
from other countries, they invited inquiry as to the
way in which they used the land upon which
they tinsisted we should he fed ; and if we found they
were wasting the produce of the soil for their own
useless and sensual amusements, while they denied
the people's right to getting food from other coun-
tries, then their game-preserves and their parks, and
every other arrangement about their estates became a
fair question of controversy.--(Cheers.) When he
(Mr. Cobden) was in Scotland, at a public meeting
held in Cupar of Fife, a farmer, whose name he
gave to the public on the occasion, informed them, in
a letter which he read to the meeting, that he was the
tenant of Captain Wemyss, the M.P. for the county,
and that he and two other farmers rented
seven hundred Scotch acres adjoining the pre-
serves of Captain Wemyss, and that he had
a clause in his agreement by which he was entitled to
receive compensation for the damage done by game
annually to their crops ; and in the year 1841 these
farmers received as compensation for the injury done
by the game to the crops on the 700 acres, of which
only one-fourth was sown, a sum of 7001., and yet
they assured him that that was far from sufficient
compensation for the damage done ; for the crop of
the year was not only destroyed, but the land was
poisoned, so as to affect the crops for the succeeding
four years.—(Hear, hear.) He had taken pains to
inquire as to the amount of damage done by game in
this country to crops, and the opinion of intelligent
farmers was, that the damage amounted to no less than
2,000,000 of quarters of corn.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
if they were not allowed to be supplied with corn from
elsewhere, he insisted that they had a right to call on
the landowners to destroy the vermin which did so
much injury to our crops. He was glad to find that
their friends the farmers were putting their brethren
on the right scent. Let them, instead of looking after
the League as a bugbear, see to grievances nearer
home. The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the
system observed with respect to game, and then went
on to observe that all parties would benefit from
throwing the land on its own resources. He said the
usual way was for a Noble Lord first to vote for the
corn-laws, and then to bring in a Bill to inclose the
commons of the country, in order to benefit the poet
by taking from them the commons, on which they fed
their geese. He did not pretend to be a judge whether
those commons were advantageous to the poor or not ;
but he knew that labourers were very good judges of
their own interests, and that they had a very great
objection to the inclosure of commons. He knew
riots to have taken place, in consequence of labourers
insisting upon their rights of commonage.—(Hear,
hear.) Mr. Fyshe Palmer, who for a long time re-
presented Berkshire, used to stand up in defence of
the peasant's right to the use of the commons, and,
on one occasion, he ventured poetically upon the
subject, and he said—
" The fault is great in man or woman,
Who steals the goose from off the common ;
But who shall plead that man's excuse,
Who steals the common from the goose 2"
—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Cobden) had transmitted to
him from the United States of America a speech de-
livered by a senator of that country in advocacy of
free trade, whose sentiments they reciprocated from
that gorgeous assembly. He alluded to Mr. M‘Duffy,
who had been twenty years the Villiers of the United
States. The Hon. Gentleman then quoted several
passages from the speech of that gentleman, which,
though used in condemnation of the protective
system to manufactures in that country, were per-
fectly applicable to the protective system as regarded
agriculture in this country; and he went on to show,
that what he called the calico oligarchy in America,
were as opposed to free trade as the agricultural oli-
garchy were in this country. He pointed out that
the great majority of the fifteen millions 9f American
citizens were as much in favour of free trade as the
greater portion of the inhabitants of this country,
and expressed his satisfaction at the prospects of
free trade, when the monopoly of what he termed
the oligarchy of the madder-hogsheads would be put
an end to in America, equally with the monopoly of the
agricultural oligarchs of this country. He showed
the absurdity of supposing that monarchical institu-
tions were inimical to freedom, when there were
found among the Yankees, who threw overboard
what they considered the lumber of crown, church,
and aristocracy, those who were opposed, notwith-
standing all their free institutions, to not only
freedom in trade, but also to freedom to the slave.
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And he instanced, in
proof of his position, their having at that meeting a
Nobleman in the chair. He justified his agita-
tion on the ground that even in America, where
they had republican institutions, men were not able
to see their own interests without being taught. He
concluded by stating that Mr. Gisborne, who was to
have addressed them that night, had pressed him (Mr.
Cobden) into the service, but that Hon. Gentleman
would attend on the next evening of meeting.—
(Cheers.) Before they separated, he begged to say
that he thought they would best conclude the even-
ing's proceedings by giving three cheers for the
Noble Earl who favoured them by taking the chair
that evening. He (Mr. Cobden) would be fugleman,
and let them be three good cheers.
The Hon. Gentleman then signalled with his hand,
and the vast assemblage rose en masse, and gave three
cheers accordingly, with one cheer more.
The Noble CHAIRMAN then advanced to the front
of the stage, and in a few words acknowledged the
compliment, after which the vast assemblage dispersed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WARWICK RACES (CONCLUDED)—WEDNESDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 50 added. One mile.
(10 subs.)
Mr. Minor's Molecatcher, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (S. Darling, jun.) 1
Mr. Bristow's Frey strop, 3 yrs, ist 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
Stubbings's Celeste, 3 yrs, 7st—Mr. Painter's Seafowl, 3 yrs,
6st 121b—Mr. Mostyn's Brunel, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Mr. A. W.
Hill's Beaumont, 3 yrs—Mr. F. Ongley's The Elbe, 3 yrs' 7st.
The Debdale Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 added. Two
miles. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Hyde Clarke's Leo, by the Cardinal, list 71b
Mr. Laurel's Fire-king, aged, list 71b
Mr. Warde's The Surgeon, aged, 12st 3
The following also ran :—Captain Musgrave's DrummOOT,
5 yrs, list 71b—Mr. C. Le Blanc 's Huguenot, aged, list 71b ;
Mr. F. Wilson's St. Cecilia, 6 yrs, list 71b—Mr. E. Haworth's
Marengo, aged, list 71b—and Mr. Little's Pickwick, llst 71b.
Won in a canter.

The Warwick Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared, with 40 added. Two miles. (15 Subs., two

of whom paid )
Mr. Berrington's Fathew Mathew, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Carter) 1
Mr. S. Scott's Mosque. 6 yrs, Bst in 2
The following also started :—Mr. Raworth's Vibration,
5 yrs, Bst 131b—Captain Musgrave nd Ajax, 6 yrs—Mr.
Collins' Isaac, aged, 7st 81b—Mr. Kimber's Nylghati, 4 yrs,
7st 41b—Mr. E. Dan's Jack, 5 yrs, ist 41b—Mr. Balchin's
The Curate, 4 yrs, 7st—Mr. Holford's Pickwick, aged, 7st—
and Sir C. Cockerell's Aurungzebe,, 4 yrs, 6st 71b.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Mosque, 4to 1 agst Isaac, 4to 1 agst
Pickwick, 7 to 1 agst Father Mathew, 7 to 1 agst Vibration.
Won by a neck, after a beautiful race ; Pickwick third and
Isaac fourth.
The Farmer's Plate of 50/., with 10/. added. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Lucas's f, 3 yrs, lOst 21b (Mr. Hughes) 2 1 1
Mr. Cowper's Independence, 3 yrs, lOst 21b
Mr. W. Cowper's Carmine, 3 yrs, 105 t 21b 0 3 3
Mr. Page's Chaff, 3 yrs, 10st 21b
Forced Handicap of 10 soya. each. Once round and a dis-

tance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Collins' Isaac, aged, Bst 101 b, walked over.
BETTING AT WARWICK.
CHESTER CUP.
9 to 1 on the field 30 to 1 agst Alice Hawthoi n
15 to 1 agst Pagan—taken 30 to 1 agst Everton.
25 to 1 agst Vakeel—taken
13 to 2 agst Ugly Buck—t

DER:

7 to 1 ag's't Rattan
20 to 1 agst Running Rein

25 to 1 agst Leander
50 to 1 agst Mainstay—t
The rest as before.

SPRING.—The prevalence of cutaneous visitations
at this period of the year inculcates the necessity of pre-
serving the Skin in a pure and healthy state, so that its func-
tions may be duly performed. The great celebrity which
" Rowland's Kalydor" exclusively maintains as an active yet
mild and soothing agent for extirpating all impurities,' and
imparting a healthy freshness to the Skin, is most pleasingly
evinced at the present season. This balmy and odoriferous
creamy liquid is composed of extracts from the most rare
flowers and herbs of an eastern clime—its discovery by a
lady of rank, was no less singular than its effects have been
felicitous during the last thirty years. Its universally great
demand excites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers,
who give the title of " Genuine" Kalydor to some compounds
of their own manufacture of the most deleterious character,
containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the Com-
plexion, and by their repellant action endangering health.
R is, therefore, imperative on purchasers to see that the words
" Rowland's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—All others are
fraudulent counterfeits.
Three weeks ago a mare, belonging to Mr. rather-
stone, of Tibberton, was backed for ten sovereigns to trot
four miles in sixteen minutes. The animal was in the straw-
yard, and quite out of condition at the time, but last week
she justified the confidence of her backers by trotting from
the Cross to the fourth mile-stone on the Droitwich road
in fifteen minutes and a half, being half a minute under the
time.

that in which they were now placed, it would be
frightful indeed.—(Cheers.) It was a melancholy reflec-
tion that in this country the reward attainable by in
dustry should be so small.—(Cheers.) He had heard
of the price paid for making shirts and the toiling of
poor females day and night ex other work; by which
they scarcely obtained a livelihood—(Hear, hear)—
but he would tell them that the poor labourur in the
agricultural districts was scarcely able to obtain a
sufficiency of food.—(Hear, hear.) He had known
instances where labourers, with a large family of
children, had vegetated—he would not say lived—
on 9s. a week, two of which were paid for rent,
and poor-rates were paid on the remaining 7s.—(Hear,
hear, and cries of " Shame")—instances where these
poor creatures had to subsist, with their families, on
even 7s. per week, and but for the sympathy and kind-
'gess of those who lived near them, they must all but
perish for want.—(Hear, hear.) He should like to see
the advocates of corn-laws go and take their tax in
kind.—(Hear, hear.) If they could see the deplorable
state of the famishing families of the agricultural la-
bourers, they would no doubt think it a fit study for an
artist as a frontispiece for a Protection Hall.—(Cheers.)"
This, be it remembered, is no fancy sketch, but the
statement of a tenant-farmer, whose name and place of
residence are given, and who comes forward to state
that which, if not consistent with truth and fact, is
easy of confutation. Will any one undertake to dis-
pute the facts, or to disprove the statements ?
Mr. Hunt described himself as " tenant-farmer—
a tenant-farmer only—and, comparatively speaking, a
poor-tenant-farmer." He verified the statements of
Mr. Lattimore ; and delivered :a plain, unvarnished, but
very impressive description of the depressed and de-
pendent state of the class to which he, belonged ; and
which he ascribed to the system which the farmers were
called upon by the landlords to assist in upholding.
His remarks on the state of vassalage under which the
tenant-farmers are held by the existing system,
and by which they are made the mere tools of the
landlords for their political purposes, and selfish
maintenance of their restrictive laws, well deserve at-
tention ; but our limited space forbids. Let those who
bestow their sympathies upon the over-worked and ill-
remunerated manufacturing labourers, and who would
demonstrate their humanity by diminishing their hours of
labour, and thus diminish their means of obtaining food—
let them turn their eyes to the victims of their own selfish
adhesion to an insane and cruel policy, under the iron
operations of which both the manufacturing and agricul-
tural labourers are pressed down to the confines of
starvation !

STANDARD.—With much reluctance and no small
disgust we are dragged back to the odious case of Mr.
Marsh and Mdlle. Niord, by a letter aimed " George
H. Marsh," in the Morning Post of this day. We do
not know whether the paramour of the profligate in-
mate of Madame Lodon's establishment is cognisant
of the publication of this letter ; but if he is, the
publication of such an apology is an enormous aggra-
vation of his original crime. We feel that we
offend in giving insertion to such a letter, though
commanded by the rule " audi et alteram partem,"
but we shall not offend further by analysing it. The
writer speaks in a style of flippant levity, which proves
that he does not understand, probably is incapable of un-
derstanding, the question between his wretched name-
sake and the public. He argues as if the only consi-
deration were the punishment of Mademoiselle Niord's
paramour—about which nobody cares one farthing—
and not the relieving of the Church from an un-
worthy and disgraceful member, which interests every
Christian in the community. Whether the occasional—
only occasional visitor at Madame Lodon's," shall con-
tinue his visits to that establishment, as a munificent
contributor to its support and the support of its in-
mates, or die, as hundreds of better men die daily, in
a union workhouse, is a matter which concerns him
only ; but whether such a man, reeking from such
society, shall ascend a pulpit to address our wives and
daughters and sons, is a matter that deeply interests
us all. But, says Mr. Geo. H. Marsh, the man is a
penitent, and has actually discontinued his visits to
Madame Lodon's, substituting forsooth " visits to fa-
milies of the highest respectability of his acquaint-
ance." We do not envy the families, but this is
not repentance. Let him resign the station that
he has disgraced, and then he may be believed
penitent, but not till then. " Oh,' replies his
apologist, " to give up his living would throw
him on the world. It should be borne in
mind that a clergyman, deprived of his prefer-
ment, is debarred by his orders from every other
source of livelihood. This is a motive, certainly, for in-
creased circumspection in him, but also for some un-
willingness to proceed to extremity, except where the
offence is heinous, or the character of the party is irre-
claimable." An officer of the army or navy dismissed
for cowardice or drunkenness, offences venial compared
with Mr. Marsh's, has no other resource, and yet nobody
pities him ; a man who from incompetency fails at
the bar or in the medical profession, is as little the ob-
ject of compassion—people say the man took a line
for which he was not qualified. We regret his suffer-
ings, but the public service must not be betrayed—the
property or lives of the Queen's subject put in jeopardy,
in order to keep a man in a position for which
he is unfit. And is not the consideration much
more grave in the case of a scandalous 'blergyn3an ?
We will remark upon one other passage of Mr.
Marsh's letter, though we cannot remark upon it
without deep indignation: here it is:—" Are the Bishops
now accustomed to deal with cases of equal or greater
enormity when recent, and properly put before them,
with extreme severity? If not, is it right to yield to a
clamour, partly, at least, grounded on erroneous impres-
sions?" This is an insinuation that cases like that of
the rector of Barnack, are of customary, that is, of fre-
quent occurrence, than which no insinuation can be more
vilely false.

TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING
QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK.
CHESTER cur.

9 to 1 agst Pagan
13 to 1 agst Pharaoh
30 to 1 agst Sir Robert
_ DERBY.

6 to 1 agst Ugly Buck
13 to 2 agst Rattan •
16 to 1 agst Orlando
20 to 1 agst Running Rein—taken
30 to 1 agst Leander
35 to 1 agst Grey Momus colt—taken
50 to 1 apt Mainstay
Betting very flat.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY BRANCHES.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL moved that it be an
instruction to the Committee of Selection to postpone
the meeting of the Committee on the South Eastern
Railway Bill until after Easter. He said that his object
in submitting this motion was to ensure the attendance
of Members who were interested in the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. GLADSTONE,
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL consented to with-
draw his motion.

NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE, a
new writ was ordered to issue for the Borough of Christ-
church.
EDINBURGH, SLAMANNAN, &c., RAILWAY.
Mr. GIBSON CRAIG, pursuant to notice, moved that
the order made on Friday, the 15th day of this instant
March—That it be an instruction to the Committee of
Selection to refer the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Sla-
mannan, and the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven
Railway Bills, to the same Committee—be discharged,
in so far as relates to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way Bill ; and that the Committee on the said Bill have
leave to sit and proceed on Wednesday next, without
furthernotice. The Hon. Member's observations were
inaudible.
Mr. M`KENZIE opposed the motion, and defended
the order proposed to be discharged, on the ground that
the railways were in reality but one line.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE opposed the motion.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he would oppose any de-
parture from the rules of the House. Ile thought the
resolution of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Mackenzie) was
one which the House ought not to sanction. He would,
therefore, vote for rescinding the resolution, and would
support the motion of the Hon. Member for Edinburgh.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that the terms of the rule
were quite clear and if parties were suffering incon-
venience it was through their own neglect. He must say
that ho thought it was for the interest of all the parties
concerned to adhere strictly to the rules laid down by
the House on this subject.
Sir G. GREY hoped the House would not establish a
dangerous precedent. He thought the best course would
be to extend the resolutions which the House had
adopted, with regard to competing lines, to connecting
lines ; and, with this opinion, he should vote for the
motion of his Hon. Friend.
Mr. ESTCOURT said that the order having been
made, he was not disposed to vote for its discharge.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion 65
Against it
Majority against the motion —l
THE LATE STATE TRIALS.

Mr. WYSE rose to present a petition from the mem-
bers of the Repeal Association of Ireland, praying for
inquiry into the late State prosecutions in that country.
The petition had received a larger number of signatures
than any petition that had ever been presented to that
House from Ireland. The petition was signed by 821,334
persons, and had been got up in the short space of three
weeks. It was signed by the coporations of the cities and
boroughs of Cork, Kilkenny, Armagh, and other places,
by several of the boards of guardians of the poor, and
other persons of influence and standing in the country.
There was also the greatest care taken to prevent any
kind of fraud in the signatures attached to the petition.
Means of every description were resorted to, during
those prosecutions by the Attorney-General to insure a
conviction of the traversers. The charge of the Judge
also was such as to impress upon the minds of the -peo-
ple of Ireland and also of the world generally, that there
had not been a fair trial in this case.

The petition was then borne up to the table by Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Wyse, Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. Blake,
Colonel Rawdon, and Mr. Hindley. Upon the Speaker
putting the motion that it be laid on the table, there
was much laughter, for it seemed to require the united
strength of all those Hon. Gentlemen to raise the pon-
derous mass of paper from the ground. When it was
" laid upon the table," it completely covered it, books,
ink, and papers.
The petition v% as then read at length by the Clerk at
the table, and
Mr. WYSE begged to move that the petition be
printed as it iias.---(Cries of Order," "Chair.")