The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-03 00:00:00

LORD MORPETIL

In another part of our paper will be found a lengthened
report of the proceedings of the free-trade banquet at Wake-
field on Wednesday. Very great interest was attached to
this meeting in consequence of the attendance of Lord Morpeth.
The Noble Lord's withdrawal from public life for the last two
years has been a source of deep regret, as well as a real loss, to the
Liberal party. The circumstances attending Lord Morpeth's
temporary retirement were such as to increase the attachment
which his countrymen already so strongly felt for the many end.
rent qualities which distinguish his character ; and his re-appear-
ance amongst them was by many hailed with the greater enthusiasm,
from its being regarded as the preliminary step to the re-occupa-
tion by his Lot dship of an active position in the ranks of his party.
And we trust this anticipation may not be wholly disappointed.
The speech of Lord Morpeth is another indication of the progress
Of opinion upon the subject of free trade. Like the letter of Mr.
Gibson Craig, it is one of the facts that denote this pro-
Ilffess, as it were, by stages. In 1841, Lord Moipeth was
a strenuous advocate of an eight-shilling fixed duty.
Such a compromise as that his Lordship now thinks
is vfholly unattainable. He thinks, however, that even still a com-
prothe
audiencefalseisd esirable ; and, notwithstanding the adverse opinions of
by which he was surrounded, he candidly avowed this.
But , he added, if within a year a low fixed duty is not adopted, he
weuild then join the League in demanding a total repeal. And thus will
it he with the whole party which is now fixed in favour of a duty.
The, operation of the same cause: which have converted a sup-
porter of an eight-shilling duty into an anadvocateeth of a five-shilling
thr
did: F. must induce the advocate of the
tlling duty, by and
by, to join the ranks of the total repealers. However desirable
may be the adoption of a low fixed duty, as a compromise of a
qui stion upon which two great interests of the nationareat issue,
or however just, in point of principle, it may he regarded by
yet all imm
P°
are coming, by degrees, to feel that neithermany
yet
ground of justice, or still less of expediency, can such a settlementu
be /toped for, after the obstinate resistance of another year, The
combination against it is becoming too strong. It is, day by tu
absoirbing into its ranks some new element of power, which, like
the conditional adhesion of Lord Nlorpeth, renders its final triumph
orJy a question of time.—Chronicle.

A FALL OF PORK AT DEVON PORT. Saturclav
morning a loitilding in the market of this town, which was
supported on pillars, and appropriated for hanging the car-
cases of pigs on the erN.s-beams attached thereto, not being
able to sustain the weight of the dead pigs, in consequence
of the rottenness of the timbers, fell down on a number of
person', who were engaged in business under the roof. The
utmost confusion ensued. When the parties were taken
froth the ruinw it was discovered that a pigdealer from the
country had his leg and thigh broken, and otherwise injured ;
an industrious woman, a butcher's wife, had also a leg broken.
Four others were severely hurt, and many slightly. Had the
accidont happened half an hour later, some serious disasters
woul dno doubt have been the result. The parties whose i
bonen were fractured were taken to the infirmary at the
work house, where every attention is being paid to them by
desirp of M. E. St. Aubyn, the steward of the manor.