The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-06 00:00:00

.admired variations of absurdity, the old song
of colonial all-sufficiency -- the old Spanish
scorn of aliens! There is a want of honest and
single purpose in the commercial measures of
this Ministry, which renders their vaunts of li-
beral example to all nations simply disgusting.
They had their organs everl.astingly blowing hot
and cold with one breath. We have a right to
:regard the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly on
these matters as their organ, whether Mr. Glad-
stone or more recent recruits write their "excel-
lent" lucubrations. Well, -that organ, as we showed
yesterday, with wonderful assurance throws
the blame upon foreigners for the failure (hither-
to) of foreign commerce to supply the deficien-
cies of our home-growth of agricultural produce !
It talks of " the erroneous policy of the agricul-
tural States," as the cause which " prevents the
increasing; capital of the agricultural States
from being employed in raising increased
quantities of raw produce, to be exchanged
against the increased quantity of manufac-
tured goods broug:ht to market by the more
rapidly increasing •capital of England." The
erroneous policy of-the great agricultural States!
At what period, p fist or present, have we given
" the great agricultural States" a chance of regu-
larly supplying tP.s their staples of raw produce ?
Excepting the l'.emp and tallow of Russia (whose
policy in comtnerce, as elsewhere, is a thing
sui generic), what great agricultural State have
we suffered to engage in reciprocal commercial
dealings with us? Has not the possibility of such
:reciprocity been the great bugbear of our land-
owners? Has not the express scope of our corn
and timber laws been to keep out their raw pro-
duce ? Has it not been by painful persuasion of
political leaders less insane than their rank and
file of adlieren ts, that even a sliding scale was at
length substituted for total prohibition of the
:most importa at raw produce till it reached starvieg
prices? The 'Jther Foreign Quarterly Review (not
Mr. Gladstone's own) has an interesting article on
M. Tegcb orski's " Finances and Public Credit of
Aasstria.": We find this official Austrian writer
advocating the retention of some system of re-
st tiction on the very grounds which the English
corn-laws have rendered too legitmate these
shirty years ! " tie quotes unhappy Poland,"
cbserves the Foreign Quarterly Reviewer, " and
-with justice states that she had nothing to export
but corn, and could not cultivate that upon the
mere hazard of a bad harvestin England. Justly
does the author ask to what end an agricultural
country is to go on producing corn without a
market, and whether creating a manufacturing
population to consume is nut a wise measure."
Good Heaven ! and here was our " manufac-
turing population" ready created " to consume"
--and here is Mr. Gladstone's organ, if not Mr.
Gladstone himself, declaring that. nothing but
lack of raw produce as returns for its goods
is what causes its sufferings—here was a
bread-store provided for English operatives—a
market for Polish-tillers—and why did not these
markets—sufficient to each otheN' wauts—find
each other out ? Because that party, with
which Mr. Gladstone and his new auxiliaries
act, without thinking with them, enacted laws
expressly to prevent the one surplus produce
being exchanged for the other. Because there
:was nothing our senators feared so intensely as
the realisatiou ofthat abundant access to raw pro-
duce,which the Glsdstonc Quarterly now says was
of all things most to be wished. Truly the
Gladstone satellite sees the right, while he
seconds the wrong. He sees what would have
saved us our chronic malaise—but he won't see
liefore him. Accordingly, he throws the whole
blame, forsooth, upon ioreign countries ; as if our
conduct in refusing what we wanted, and they had
to go c, had no share in perverting their policy.
And he gives no hint of repairing that grand pri-
mary crime and blunder. As if' our total refusal of
a regular trade in that vital article were not
enough to neutralise the whole effect of the
mighty liberality of the Peel tariffon some seven
hundred minor points, which not a soul, here or
elsewhere, ever thought about. But we say, in
the face of the Peel parasites who conduct the
few journals faithful to the grand principle of the
See-saw, which is the only one discernible in their
measures —that the language and conduct of these
men do not set foreigners any goad example what-
ever. They are continually oscillating between
doctrines of free trade and colonial preference—
holding out " reciprocity " with one hand, and
sacrificing it to monopoly with the other. The
last new nostrum is the all-sufficiency of colonial
trade. We are in the fair way to teach all our colo-
nies the lesson we taught those we lost. We are in
the fair way to teach them those peddling notions
of this or that petty preference— of this or that
privileged production—as preferable to tree com-
mercial interchange. We are setting up normal
schools of future restriction against ourselves.
We teach young colonies to lisp monopoly. Old
colonies improve the lesson against ourselves.
Indeed we need not wait colonial independence
to observe the application of that lesson. We
may soon experience Canadian gratitude for the
monopoly of our American corn trade.

IRELAND.
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.-STRIKING OF THE SPECIAL

JURY.

DUBLIN, JA N. 3.—This being the day fixed for the striking
of the Special Jury ie the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and
others, the parties attended at the Crown-office at twelve
o'clock, when Mr. Brewster appeared for the Crown, and
Messrs. Whiteside and Close for the traversers. In conse-
quence of the authorities having seen fit to exclude all but the
Government reporters, we are unable to give a formal report of
the proceedings, but can state that Mr. Whiteside at once ob-
jected on the part of the traversers to the jury being struck
that day, and called on the Sheriff to adjourn till the Clerk of
the Crown had furnished the traversers with a copy of the
special panel from which it was intended that the jury should
be struck. He reminded the Clerk of the Crown that when
the order was made in the case, counsel said it was from the
new panel the jury would be selected, hut it was manifestly im-
possible for the agents for the traversers to go on, in the ab-
sence of all knowledge as to the constitution of the panel.
Mr. Brewster, on the part of the Crown, objected to an ad-
journment. An order had been made by the proper officer for
striking the list, and he and his Learned Friend, the Attorney..
General, had made a minute calculation, and found that in
order to have a trial next term, it was incumbent on them to
strike the list that day.
Mr. Whiteside asserted that his Learned Friend was mis-
taken. The jury could be struck to-morrow or next day just
as well as to-day.
Mr. Latouche, the Sheriff, said he had every disposition in
the world to accommodate, but he was not a free agent ; he
could do nothing in the case without the consent of both par-
ties ; but he had no objection in the world to furnish the tra-
versers with a copy of the panel provided the Crown eonsented.
After a long and very desultory discussion, it was finally de-
termined that a clerk from each party should attend at the She-
riff's office at two o'clock, for the purpose of making out a copy
of the panel, and that the jury should be struck in the Crown-
office at two o'clock to-morrow.

It is said that an agent of the Conservative Society has been
employed for the purpose of obtaining the signatures of such
Liberals as have been returned on the special jury list to a sort
of declaration against the course of policy pursued by the Go-
vernment in reference to the prosecutions., and that the signa-
tures will be brought before the Clerk of the Crown in the
event of any of the writers being drawn on the ballot. The
person employed on this honourable mission represented him-
self as an agent of the Repeal Association, and very many gen-
tlemen have been deluded into an act which may probably dis-
qualify them to serve on the jury.

The novel of " The Unloved One," which has been
so long expected, is to appear we learn in a few days. It is
said to be a domestic tale of a most interesting character.
Cor.nuaN's .NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR
JA li A RY. —The New Monthly opens the year with as various
and attractive a melange, supported by a galaxy of names as
brilliant as could well be wished far by its warmest friends. A
paper on Talleyrand in his retirement is worth half- a-dozen of
the ordinary Magazine articles ; and Miss Agnes Strickland's
"Barak Johnson" is a nervous and powerful piece of writing.
The Marchioness of Londonderry contributes a charming nar-
rative of her late visit to the Courts of Vienna, Constantinople,
Athens, and Naples. The curiosity of the Number is a beau-
tiful poem, by poor L. E. L. Poole, Barry Cornwall, Eliza
Cooke,
adn Blanchard, Horace Smith, Mrs. Trollops, and other
standard names, fill up the sterling merit of this month's issue.
—Morning Post.