The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

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-I,ONDON, SA WAY, ArRIL T3,-1844.
LOrd Anizrx, andlthe changes
.
whion that event must neceiSkily prodUce--first, a
vacancy for Horsham; whOsee present representative
becomes a-Peer ; uBxt, the all but certain promotion of
Sir FBEnEntcx roL,Ocx to the judicial 'seat in the
Exchsver, creating a .vacancy, for guntingdon;
third, the raising of ,Sir W. -FOLLETT to the Attor-:
ner•Generalship, 'requiring a new election for Exeter
-=arid, lastly, th 4 acceptance of the -Solicitor-06,-
vacancy
either for cambridge
or ' foX Woodstock—cause . considerable •speculation-
, as to the result of these elections, and as- to'ithe.,
cO4lict the electoral bodies of these" 'cOl;stituencies
will .pursue. The earteeiquteBtion of; Whig or Tory,
is one but little-raised
b;toiadone:ft,ila4ndoborriledmero,
raendimmpoorr
moreiotl
intelligible
suire
intecriFible'nlir;* ref
varrindeleepis
on
of- a ,particpjuoleawtrepar party, with
than the mere ascendancy
a view' to the -wielding of political
favoured leader, is now submitted to the_ conseteimtue-
gree trade—abundant and cheap
tood—inc,
derate labour, not forced to excess. by the necessity of
working to procure; the means of existence—form
the great, the':importint. subjects, now 'prominently
submitted to every Constituency. Fc4r this change in
the subjects upon which the. electors have to think
• 'l' •
and _consider, the, country is ,indebted to the Anti-'
Corn-law League, and te..kable and zealous advo-
cates of that body, in Parliament and out of Parlia-
ment. 'And it' IS a "great fact," that a body of men
like the Council .of the Anti7.Corn-law League,
.sotild have been able to bring 0.,,i4p4,44.int0
such a state that, even amidst the turmoil of elections,
which in this free cowry have loDg been the Gbozeu

scenes fOr the free exercise of every base, and selfish,
brutal, ,and degrading passion ; where freemeit have
sought to barter their consciences for gold, and their
consciousness for liquor—the voice of argument and
of. truth shall even there be heard and attended to.
The triumphs of London and of Durham—the not
inglorious, though .unsuccessful, contest of Salisbury,
Show the-Strength and power .of free trade principles.
-And- although-Devizes, .11a:stings,- and Christchurch,
gays ago laur,els .to the. Leagnerfhekbore testimony 'to
the energy,. th-e`ieal,..inel th courage,-with Which the
apottesleffree trade atii-dislimiatitelheir
in pktces where, some fov years back, the men 7.
tioli of such notionsl Would' have roused the' very
stones, against the intruders upon the agricultural sto-
lidity which then pervaded those boroughs:
Not a contest of any kind ought to take place in
England, where the voice of the League should not
be heard. - In every borough, every county, the op-
portunity ought to be seized of discussing those prin-
ciples, which, sound, AS, they. are, 'require' to .be ex
plained and expounded to men whose prejudices cause
them to dread innovation, and whoie ignorance re-
quires enlightenment. Net. chance of procuring
the return of a free . trader should be omitted, and
every means should be adopted to call honestly into
exercise the franchiSe in -favour of free trade principles,
and toprevent that buying. and selling of the electoral
rigid, which, in many places, is the only understood
notion of free trade at present. . .

But we do not counsel the League, nor do we
think it advisable for them, to put forward candidates,
and to go to the poll with candidates, when the chance
ofsuccess,, so far from being even-remote,' is totally
impossible. We object to a majority against free
trade being compuliorily and needlessly 'recorded,
without necessity, and against all good judgment.
We object to any splitting of interests, or apparent
alienation from one common liberal purpose, of per-
sons' who should be found• under the same banners,
but who, knowing and feeling a contest hopeless, dis-
like being forced into it by any persons, or for any
purpose whatever. We object' to a plan of action
which contemplates only defeat, and which seems to
ensure complete and apparently entire discomfiture,,
by excluding as many friends from the ranks as pos-
silsle. The constituencies of England are, as yet,- to'
a very great extent, corrupt; the seekers and the
sought of eorruptionists. They must be taught,)
trained, and drilled, before' they can be relied upon in
action. As well might raw recruits be put to facel
veteran soldiers in the. Open field, as the uninstructed!
electors 'be placed against the means that corruption
uses. The first great'object of the League ought to
be to inform, educate, indoctrinate the people, with,
',the knowledge of free trade prinCiples,. and the inju
.rious effects of all monopolies. Show. the people that
:their own true interests consist, not in legislation fort
claSs, but for the whole people—not'in aiming atj
.the benefit of the few, hut at .the good of the many.)
1-When they-have effected this—i.and. seeing what they
-have already.d!ine, it cannot 'belong to wait until it be!
..c3mpleted---7thre is not n Constituency,ip
,the empire to'
which they may not appeal with confidence of a suc-;
tesstul -result. The CRUSe.Of the League is a righteous!
cause ; it must and will 'prevail and the name of
,Corglxiv will in, after ages be iieard of, when mono
posy is only mentioned, as a monster which he mainly
assisted to destroy:

The Morning; Post and the Morning Herald have
got up a " very pretty. quarrel"--as Sir Lucius
O': trigger, would phrase it—on
the 'subject of the,
Agricultural Protection Society, which seems to be
as much disrelished by the former, as it is approved
kby the latter,' journal, The Posd accuses the first
Tract of that Society, which has justiissued from the
press, of coldness and insipidity, and of having a de-
cided tendency to send the farmers to sleep. The
,Lieralcl,, on, the other hand, avers that it is, a dispas-
sionate appeal, to the good sense of the great hody of

`the people, as to whether the agriculturists are not
justified ip the course which they have taken; and
!adds, that " to have filled such an. Address with
warm and- spitlt-stirring exhortations to energetic
action, as the Post would recommend, wouldhave been
a practical blunder of the most palpable description."
-It is amusing to see two journals, both professing
toryisrn, both zealous in its cause, and earnest in
their denunciations of -the, antagonist principle of
Reform,' thus going to loggerheads together on a sub,
ject of coMparatively little moment, and the exact
merits of which none but themselves can understand,

The. Herald, it appeurs, is too tame for the Post--the

Post too uncompromising for the Herald. < This is al
that we can make out respecting' the difference be.
_ _

tween them; except, indeed, that the Herald" is of
opinion that the present Government is the best of all
possible Governments, while the Post insists—to quote
a.homely adage—that it is "no great shake§." -Yet,
despi4 this discrepancy of sentiment, we frequently
find Loth journals fighting side by side in the ranks Of
Tory iim,ond besgattering their mutual opponents with
an equal, amount of Billingsgate, and, in particular,
laying `the lash on the unhappy backs of Messrs.
.
CoUntS'and*Baiatir
_with all the energy they can
muster; so that we are
_really not a Utile
_perplexed

to know what is the reason that they are. just now so
inveterate with each other. Perhaps they will
vouchsafe ta enlighten us on this point ; and mean=
While we will proceed to makes few comments on the
following diverting passage which appears in the Herald
of this morning :—" The predicament of the agricultural
body, at present, is that of parties in possessioni and
who desire nothing more .than to be let alone. They
want no new legislation. - require no agitation.
Their whole abject is to maintain their present posh
tion ; and this object will be mare, effectually achieved,
not by rasing ,the country into aflame, but by calm-
ihg; as fur as may be, the agitation which has of late
years exi?ted." The naivete of this passage is inexpres-
sibly entertaining. Who does not know that the, mo-
_

nopolists " desire nothing more than to be let alone ?''
Who requires to be told that "they Want no new
legislation?" Who entertains a doubt that their
" whole object is, to maintain ;heir present position?"
As a matter of course thiry are actuated by
these 'feelings, for however injurious mono-
poly may be to, the crest of ,the community,
those who thrive by it—fatten on it—and turn it to
a most profitable account, are naturally anxious to
'maintain the system just as it, is, without the slightest
alteration or, improvement. But because the mono-
polists entertain these views, is that a valid reason
why the wintry at' large should entertain them?
The boroughmongers were not less anxious to main-
tain, possession of the rotten boroughs; but Lord.
GREY, with .the people at his back, did. not consider,

this a sufficient argument against Reform. • • Tit.
Herald adds, in reference to the Atiti-Corn-law'
League :---" We should be glad to set the Protection
Saeleii)endeavour to farce from-rthe' League, by a
' demand, an 'expicit statement of its- real
objects. It .14most , a unique example
of 'auccessin,the trade of fraud and imposition that a
set of nien,'Who will neither tell the public, who they are,
nor whit they are really aiming j,itt, should yet have
succeeded in drawing from the public a contribution
of several thousands ftif pouudi." The League, we
conceive, has already quite sufficiently explained its
" real objects,' and surely, there is na need that, for
the .twentieth time at least, it should repeat its ex-
planation! Itslreal :object is to put down monopoly
—as our Contemporary knows right well, notwith-
standing-.his affected ignotande-,-to 5110V1 favour to
none, buttf'see that fair play is' given to the indus-
try and enterprise of all. As for the Herald's COM-
plaiut.ihat the, League will mot 4t tell, the public' who
they are; has not ,the- leader. of that great Con-
federacy already told th'e public that he is the On of a
Sussex 'farmer; and does, not the whole country know
that he is an intelligent Mandhester manufacturer, a
Member for Stockport, an able speaker, a judicious
man of business, an object of fear and abhorrence to
Sr. Bdixizs.of Doitet4hlFe, and a thorn in the side of
Sir 'R PEEL ? If thef,!Herald,' on the part of the
' I
pUblict, is anxious to gain more. Particulars respecting
the gieat leader of the League, we •dare say that, an
making due application to him, Mr:CoanaN, who is
a courteous gentleman, will supply him with all ne-
cessary information respecting his age, his habits, his
studies, where he
.was christened, , and *hen he was
married

N' S ii

The 'ciiuscof Popular Education" is one which,
in the.; aiiyPilict;, is calculated to enlist the universal
stiTpeFt of.the community., All classesthe-noble and
the corniiioileV,- the lichithe;raiddle, the poor, the des-
titute; the desolate,hltVe,i)-itettficie, a direct inte-
rest in its' progress, an, ultinateinttirest in its succesfo.
For, what is .theciiatiiiit %totiden&y, of education.?
What is its inevitable result (=less in cases where