The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

PHUT of the--PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
C; LOBE.—Syniptonis indicative of increasing discon-
ts et among the supporter's, of Mildsters are exhibited at
the Agricultural Protection meetings. The near ap-
proach of the Parliar:actuary Session scorns to have been
se:ected for these manifestations of landed dissatis-
faction with the policy of Government—possibly with
the hope of awing Sir Robert Peel into obedience.
We scarcely know which is mcst the object of pity
to lookers on—a Minister whose policy is watched
w;th jealousy, and whose measures are the subjects of
incessant upbraiding and complaint by the party which
pieced him in power as the protector of their interests,
or the piKty "the agricultural interests," said
the Doke a Richmond in the House of Lords, " placed
tie Minister where he is, and it can deprive hint of
este power it conferred, if he betrays the in-
Wrests to which he owes his elevation." Though
uttered by a Duke, the head of the Pretec-
tion-to-Agriculture party, they were vain words. From
• the day they were spoken, down to the present day,
• the agriculturists have filled the country with their com-
plaints of the sad consequences of Sir Robert Peel's
" tliding-scale " and tariff, followed, as they were, by his
Canada Curn Bill and other measures of minor influence,
but having the same tendency. Yet Sir R. Peel con-
'limes to preside over the councils of the country. In-
different alike to the supplications and objurgations of
the agriculturists and the other protected inter( sts,
whom he deceived by his cajolings when leader of
Opposition, he continues to alarm their apprehensi )ns.
They meet, it-!-; they have often met, to upbraid Sir
Robert Peel with his perfidy ; to deprecate any further
inroads upon their interests ; and to threaten rice
with their vengeance if he venture to proceed ono tier
stop in the course of free trade, of which he has op my
eepres-ed his admiration and approval "in the ab-
stract." Which, we repeat, is most to be pitied—the
b.trayer, or the betrayed ; the Minister who acqu'red
power by deceptioir ; or the interests which trusted to
his smiles, and put a desired interpretation on his
ambiguous phrases ? The agriculturists now confess
that they find themselves in a worse position than
they would have occupied had the Government they dis-
placed been allowed to pass the measure which excited
their alarms, and provoked the combined opposition by
which it was defeated. They are now'the prey of dis-
content and anxiety. Perplexity as to the future in-
creases the burden -of their dissatisfaction. They toil
without recompense, and have no hope of a beneficial
change. Such is the staple of the lugubrious speeches
which have been delivered at several Agricultural Protec-
t-on meetings recently held in different parts of the country.
We have the proceedings- of three of these meetings
hat within the present week. At Glom ster, the at-
tt ndance at the anniversary meeting of the Farmers'
Club was extremely meagre ; and those who were pre-
sent were there rather to give utterance to complaints
against the Government and their landlords, than to
communicate anything satisfactory as to their present
or prospective condition. The report, though evi-
dently drawn up with caution, stated that "On the
subject of the tenure of land, it had been a point
tl at had excited much doubt, whether it ought
properly to bo introduced for discussion in a
society whose more immediate object was to promote
iractical improvements in agriculture. It was, however,
old, that no very great advancement could be made in
firming unless some security was felt in the tenure by
which the farmer held his land, so as to secure him a
re turn for capital expended, and therefore the Committee
had sanctioned the introduction of the subject, which
Ns mild form ono of the early questions for discussion."
'1 his question gave rise to considerable disagreement.
Whether the landlord should not make the out!ay,
and charge a per tentage upon the rent, instead
of requiring the tenant to supply the means of improved
cultivation out of his diminished resources, was warmly
debated. In the end, however,- " a Committee was ap-
pointed to draw up a form of agreement between land-
lord and tenant, suitable to the wants of the Vale of
G:oucester." One tenant-farmer (a Mr. Watts) declared,
that the cause of the very thin attendance at the meet-
ing was " the disinclination of landlords to help their
tenants in these times of difficulty and distress." Another
d• dared, " these were not times for farmers to lay out
the it money in improvement,.." The health of Earl
Dscie being given from the chair, was the signal for
cot siderable altercation ; some refusing to drink the
tot st because of his Lordship's speech at a meet-
ine of the Anti-Corn-law League in Covent-garden
TLeatre, in which he declared an opinion fa-
vourable to the abolition of the corn-laws ; others
calling upon the objectors to confute his Lordship's
arguments before they refused to drink his health on
account of them. Is not this a pretty state of things
at a Farmers' Protection dinner ? Verily the straw is
moving—and in the right direction too. At the North-
ampton Agricultural Protection meeting, on Wed-
nesday, the symptoms of dissatisfaction with the
measures of Ministers were yet more unequivocal.
Sir Charles Knightley, one of the county Members,
spoke out his mind in terms which would be
worthy of attention. were they likely to be fol-
lowed up in Parliament- by any movement indicative
of a settled purpose. As it is, they are mere empty com-
plaints ; expressive, however, of the deep regrets of the
party for having sold themselves to Peel, who leads
them captive at his will. The Hon. Baronet, -how-
ever, did his bet to convince his auditory that he felt
and deplored the helpless condition in which they had
placed themselves. He begun at the beginning ; enu-
merated each of the measures relating to agriculture
which Sir Robert 1). el has introduced, and showed
the evil effects of those measures on the interests of
agriculture. At the Sussex Agricultural Protection
Society meeting, held yesterday, the Duke of Richmond
in the chair, there Wig much of compliment to the Noble
Duke who presided—much of earnest exhortation to
union of opinion and action, in order to effectually stem
the torrent which was setting in against " protection ;"
and a manifest wish on the part of the Duke to modify
and subdue the restlessness and discent,nt which existed
on account of the policy which her Majesty's Ministers
hove adopted with respect to agricultural produce.
The Duke has had the mortifying ond nauseous
task imposed on him of eating his own leek. His threat
of expelling Peel has failed. Tie agricultural
Members in the House of Commons have shown that
they lack the pluck for which his Grace of Richmond
gave them credit, when he lifted up his warning voice in
Parliament, and threatened the Minister with venge-
ance. They have broken faith with their constituents,
as Sir Robert Peel has done with the agriculturists, and
other class interests. Their votes in the House of Com-
mons are in direct antagonism with their speeches at the
hustings. Sir Robert Peel knew of what kind of stuff
his majority was composed, and lie acted accordingly.
Like the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hen. Baronet
knew and still knows, he " can do what he will with his
own." He has tried, and proved them as subservient to
his purpose as ha could wish. His future policy will he
shaped in accordance with the past.
NDARD. —We insert elsewhere the opinion
given by the Queen's Advocate and Mr. Bethell against
the several measures proposed to be offered to the Ox-
ford Convocation on the 13th proximo. We own that
tl,is Opinion surprises us, not only because it seems, upon
Kinciple, very unduly to limit the power of the Uni-
versity, but also because we have reason to believe that
tl e board had not taken the course that it adopted
without the very best legal advice. However, if the
matter is to go off it is much better that it should go
off upon a legal quibble than in any other way.
The board has honourably vindicated itself before the
country by seriously attempting to do what is right—and
the country will " take the will for the deed," whatever
the event. This is the position in which we are placed by
the real tyrant of this. nation—the grim despot who
paralyses every legitimate authority—" Law - Costs."
'Lo proceed by legal process against Mr. Ward would
prol,ahly cost the Unieersity ten thousand pounds, and
every attempt to enforce the proposed statute, if adopt. d,
would probably cost as much. The bishops in the same
wey are p.ecluded from clearing the Church of un-
rthy or disgraceful ministers—" Viral lex," as Rngsle
rnekes his " Ignoramus ". exclaim, and an " Ignoramus"
e must be, who can patiently contemplate the con-
tinuance of such a state of the law.

- MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Pike Cai•rent of Jan. 24.)
ITGAII. —To-day there was no public sale of any laud
of raw sugar, but 5,000 ba:s of Bengal, 529 bar,s'Of Mau
ritius, and 301 bags of Madras are declared:, In the Brit i3h
Plantation market there was little
.bu,inesl transacted
in any hind, and prices are still drooping, making the
decline for the'we, kl3to Is 61, excepting far good and I
fine yellow. which have, generally sustainel the former
currency, the supply he!. g scanty. The total :ales I,ir
the week are only 990 blids and trc g, being a small ,
quantity. For fair brown Jamaica 51s per cwt was ac-
cepted.
BEFINED.—Tho home trade have purchased the low
and middling descriptions of Refined Goods with caution
this week, but 'the refiners generally at present are not
inclined to further reduce their prices. Brown Lumps
have been selling at 71s to 725; Standard Lumps 72s GI;
Tittlers, low to middling, 71s to 735; good 73s 6d to 765;
fine and very fine 773 to 81s; Hamburgh Loaves 73s to
81s; double ditto.:4s to 90s; and wet Lumps 70s to 71s
per cwt. Bastards are plentiful, and prices are going
down. There are free sellers at 37s to 39s for low, 40s to
42s for middling-, 43s to 46s for good, and 47s to 52s p7r,
ewt for fine. Pieces, fine at 65s to 68s, good 61s to 645,
mbluling 67s to 60s. and low 53s to 56s per cwt. Treacle,
boiled from West India Molasses, selling at 203 to 21s,
patent 21s 61 to 235, and golden syrup 213 to 26s per
ewt. Crushed Sugar, for forward &livery, at 3ls 3d to 31s
Gd per cwt. Loay.,s are firm in price and in lively demand.
Turkey, double rdloed 1 2f to 41bs on board British
ship 363 to 41s, Itamburgh 6lbs 34s to 355, 9 to 101bs
335 6d, 13 to 1111)s-324 Gd to 335. T.ttlers 20 to 3011)3
32', 0.,u1 Prussian 40 to 4511)s 31s Gd per cwt. Pieces
are 253 to 275. -Berstards. 203' to 21s for 11and 193
for Brown. Treacle 13s Per cwt. The Yvalueeow,
Crushed Siigar'is :28s to 30s. -1 • •
Manitrrius.-:—There is still a atron desire on the part
of importers to realise, and they having.
decline in prices
supplied the
market largely; has produced,a,f
of 6d for good and fine yellow, and 14 to Is 6d per cwt
for low and middling' and brown qualities.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal has met with little attention
this week, and the supply having exceeded the wants
of the trade,--a decline in' the value, of is per cwt, has
taken place ; by private contract little business has been
transacted in white, ,brown, or yellow ; public sales of
9,4g6 bags went of flatly, a part only finding buyers.
FORtlGN.—There has been no public sale of Foreign
Sugar this week. Holders of lellow Havannah are un-
willing to reduce. their prices, and supply the market
sparingly ; bat the • business transacted privately has
still, if parcels were to be offered
been extreme'y limitod,
rather under Pacident.ratis. they would find purchasers.
White is not cheaper. Brown Brazil is not much wanted
at present. White is held, for, the former currency. In
the value of other kinds of Foreign there. is no alteration
to note.
CoFFEE.—This afternoon the public- sales comprised
680 mats of Manilla, 96 bags 210 brie of Rio, 216 ca.sks