The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Anti-Corn-law League held another
of its " monster meetings" last night inTCov.ent-garden •
Theatre. It was marked by as much enthusiasm in the
assemblage, which filled every part of the immense , r
building, as has been exhibited at any previous meetineis
The unity of the object sought to be attained by tise
confederation ; the frequency of the opportunities af-
forded to the public for becoming acquainted wit.ti the
question ; and the necessary repetition of the same facts
and arguments by the speakers, many of whom appear
frequently in the same place, to re-state the sae facts
.and iterate the same arguments, would, ere this, have
palled upon the satiaSted ear of the mere cravers
after novelty. The 'unabated interest manifested by the
public in the struggle now going on between the advo-
cates of free trade and the supporters of monopoly, )
both in the metropolis and in every part of the king-
dom, demonstrates the firm hold which the question,
now fairly placed in :issue,
has taken of the national
wind and feeling. The trading and manufacturing parts,l
of the community regard their means of supports.rag
themselves and familiesas bound upwith the decision
of this controversy. Their sympathies are, conseqisently,
with the League ; and while thousands coogre.gate
within the buildinres in which Pars meetings are periodi-
cally or occasionally held, ten's of thousands. devour the
reports of the proceedings, wad thus become increasingly
enlightend by the argumer its, and are more deeply im-
pressed by the facts of which the speeches were corn-
posed. The meeting of last evening was marked by two
'circumstances of •somesnterest. Lord Radnor presided s
.and two tenant-farmers—members of the class for
-whose special advantage, if the advocates of the corn-
laws are to be believe& the restriction upon importation
is maintained—denounced the existing system as un-
sound in principle, and as fraught with miseshiefs to
the agriculturists ; 'while it subdues the energies of
commerce and restricts the operations of manufacturing
industry. In the course of his elaborate opening speech,
Lord Radnor stated a. fact—for the correctness of which
he referred to the classification affixed to the population
returns, taken under the Census Act—that " there has
been for a considerable number of years a gradually
seliminishing proportion of the population employed in
the pursuits of agricuicture." A collateral fact was also
stated, and proved frears the same unquestionable source,
sit., that "contemporaneously with the diminished num-
siser of the peoples employed in agriculture, the number
of persons employed in manufactures has increased."
The Noble Lod then proceeded to demonstrate, from
facts, the pi viable failure of the various experiments
which had been tried to protect the farmers from
variable and ruinously-depressed markets, by means of
what has been falsely called " a protective system ;" and
argued that the best security to the farmers and farm la-
bourers would be found in an abolition of the protective
duties. The speech of Mr. Lattimore—who announced
himself "a tenant-farmer, who would satisfy any one
who doubted that he was one "—was replete with facts
and statements strongly confirmatory of the impolicy of
the existing corn-laws, which he described as having
wrought ruin to many farmers within the sphere of his
own immediate knowledge. Mr. Lattimore proceeded to
describe the farming labourers' condition under the
" protective system." Like slavery, it is neither good
for the masters nor for the risen :—" But, forsooth, it
was said the corn-laws were necessary to be con-
tinued for the sake of the labourers. If they could
reduce that wretched class to a lower state than
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 on other work, by which
they scarcely obtained a livelihood—(Hear, hear)—
but he would tell them that the poor labourer 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,
bear, 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-
ness 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
hind.—(Hear, hear.) If they could see the deplorable
istate 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.)"
Thin, be it remembered, is no fancy sketch, but the
tatentent 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-
Tate the facts, or to disprove the statements ?
Mr. Hunt described himself as " tenant-farmer--
ers. tenant-farmer only--and, comparatively speaking, a
csor-tenant-farmer." He verified the statements of
its 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
walled upon by the landlords to assist in uphoiding.
Ins remarks on the state of vassa'agc under which the
:tenant-farmers are held .by the ex:sting, system,
sand by which they are made the mere tools of the
'landlords for their political purpost s, and selfish
-.maintenance of their restrictive laws, well deserve at-
-tendon ; 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 bydimiuishing 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 en insane and cruel policy, under the iron
operations of which both the manufacturing and agricul-
stural labourers are pressed down to the confines of
astarsation !
STANDAIII).—With touch reluctance and no small
disgust we are dragged back to the odious case of Mr.
„Mar-,11 and Mdlle. Niord, by a letter signed " George
H. Marsh," in the Mom tarry Post of this day. We do
:not know whether the paramour of the profligate in-
:mate of Madame Lodon'a establishment is cognisant
sot the publication of this letter ; but if he is, the
'publication of such an apolegy 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 " um& ulteram partem,"
'but we shall not offend further by analysing it. The
writer speaks in a style of flippant levity, which proves
:thst he does not understand, probably is incapable Of un-
tderstanding, the question between his wretched name-
*sake and the public. He argues as if the only consi-
wleration were the punishment of Mademoiselle Niord's
:paramostr—about which nobody cares one farthing—
sand 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-
zsates, or die, as hundreds of better men die daily, in
an union workhouse, is a matter which concerns him
; but whether such a man, reeking from such
'society, shall ascend a pulpit to address our wives arid
slaughters and sons, is a matter that deeply interests
tus all. But, says Mr. Geo. 11. Marsh, the man is a
penitent, and has actually discontinued his visits to
.Madame Lodon's, substituting forsooth " visits to fa-
:mites of the highest respectability of his acquaint-
lance." We do not envy the families, but this is
'not repentance. Let him resign the station that
die has disgraced, and then he may be believed
;penitent, but not till then. " Oh,"' replies his
lepologist, " to give up his living would throw
inrn on the world. It should be borne in
luind that a clergyman, deprived of his prefer-
anent, is debarred by his orders from every other
bource 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
ettfence is heinous, or the character of the party is irre-
• laimable." An officer of the army or navy dismissed
ter cowardice or drunkenness, offences venial compared
with Mr. Marsh's, has no other resource, and yet nobody
tpities him ; a man who from incompetency fails at
!the bar or in the medical profession, is as little the ob-
.-ct of compassion—people say the man took a line
sae 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 leo ardYi
en order to keep a man in a position 'Pfor which
Ie• is unfit. And is not the consideration much
Tore grave in the case of a scandalous clergyman ?
*Ve will remark upon one other passage
u nit
of Mr.
Marsh's letter, though we cannot remark
tvithout deep indignation: here it is:--" BishopsAretheo
row accustomed to deal with cases of equal or greater
enormity when recent, and properly put before them,
Nwith extreme severity? If not, Is it right to yield to a
-t'amour, partly, at least, grounded on erroneous impres-
' :Pions?" 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.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT, Lewes, March 20.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before the Loan CEUXT JUSTICE.)
The business for the county of Sussex, owing to the
'Tinter Assize, has been remarkably light. There were
only thirty-one prisoners for trial, and the only serious
rase, except one of burglary, was the charge against the
tun Lawrence for the murder of Mr. Solomon, the chief
officer of Brighton.
The Court eat on Monday, but none of the cases dis-
"posed of on either side possessed the least feature of pub-
lic interest.

THE MURDER AT BRIGHTON.
In the course of the day the prisoner Lawrence was
tailed up to plead, and, on the indictment being read, ho
said, in a firm tone, that he was guilty of striking the
blow with the poker, but that he had no intention to
lull Mr, Solomon.
Lord Chief Justice DENMAN said that this amounted
to a plea of not guilty, and he therefore directed that
,lea to be recorded.
John Lawrence was placed at the bar, charged, "for
that he, on the 13th March, at Brighton, upon Henry
F:O3 1o m on, feloniously, wilfully, and of malice afore-
Mought, did make an assault, and with a certain poker
In his right hand, did feloniously, wilfully, and mali-
ciously strike and produce a mortal fracture, rupture,
fsnd wound on the said Henry Solomon, of which mortal
Fracture, rupture, and wound the said Henry Solomon
*died." The prisoner was also similarly indieted on the
Coroner's inquest.
The prisonerat this time betrayedconsiderable emotion.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Chadwick Jones appeared for the defence.
Mr. CLARKSON rose and spoke as follows:—It is im-
to,sible to concegl from ousel( the importances of the me.