The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-12 00:00:00

..conets. They might all plead, that there were
;hdusands of rogues abroad who were equally
Titninal, and that it was unfair to pick them out
min the rest. The Judge would, doubtless, reply
:o this plea, that when the same rogues at large came
_.,).efo re him, he would treat them in the same way.
we say to Sir Charles Forbes. Bring forward
;ha cases of delinquency to which you allude, and
:ley shall receive the same condemnation as those
that have gone before them. But the argument is
untenable in another point of view. We cannot
command what we will in this world; we must be
content with what we can get. It would, doubtless,
be a fine thing, could every species of corruption be
put down in all things as well as in elections, but
surely it would he very preposterous, because such
a consummation is unattainable, that we should not
try to diminish the quantity of corruption as much
as possible. It would be very desirable to get rid of
all thieves, but until some plan for that purpose is
discovered, we must content ourselves with hanging
or banishing a part of them, by way of keeping down
the breed.—Neto Times.

We anticipate, from our high opinion of the
judgment of many of the noblemen who joined
in carrying the amendment of the Duke of Wel-
lington, on the bonding clause of the Corn Bill,
as well as of that of the Gallant Duke himself,

that no very serious opposition will be made this
night to the restoration of the original clause.—
Of all pieces of silliness- into which a man of
understanding can be betrayed, the most inex-
cusable is to persist in a course of wrong, be-
cause accident or misapprehension may have led
him into it. It is evident, we think, that the
effect of the amendment must have been misap-
prehended. It does not appear that the Duke
of Wellinzton is at all desirous that the Bill
should be thrown out. Had he been so, we are
convinced a man of his straight forward, uncom-
promising character, would have stood forth and
opposed it, directly, at all hazards. He would
not, we are sure, seek to gain covertly what he
was ashamed to demand openly. His Grace's
amendment, therefore, we think, must have pro-
ceeded from a want of attention to its conse-
quences. If carried into a law—supposing the
Commons to waive that privilege which, more
than any other, they have always insisted on—
the only effect of the amendment must of neces-
sity be to produce that rush oil the home mar-
ket which its supporters deprecate. If such a
law did not destroy the warehousing system alto-
gether, the necessary process of its working would
be as follows. As soon as grain rose to such
a price that direct importation would afford
a profit, vessels would be dispatched to the ports
of the Continent, and cargoes commissioned.—
But, in the meantime, one week, perhaps two or
three, according to the state of the weather,
must elapse before these cargoes could reach
England. Before their arrival, therefore, it is
about nine chances to one, that the averages
should have risen from 625. to 665., and thus,
at one and the same moment, the whole of the
warehoused corn, and the whole of the corn
directly imported, would be poured into the
market. Now, remove the amendment, and ob-
serve how the original clause works. We have
the wheat at 625., and, by the hypothesis, fo-
reign grain may be imported with a profit. First,
then, a part of the grain in bond would be
brought into the market. We say a part, be-
cause the duty being, according to the theory of a
protecting price, at a practical maximum, it is rea-
sonable to suppose, that no merchant would, .until
he saw how the market was to be affected, feel in-
clined to enter the whole of his stock. In the mean-
while, the temptation to direct importation would
be wonderfully diminished, because, it must be
obviouS, that while there was a quantity of Grain
in bond, at all times admissible, the home

market had every chance of declining. Not only,,
therefore, would not the whole of the Corn in
bond, augmented by the direct importations, be
thrown on the Market at once, as must almost
inevitably happen, under the operations of such
a clause as the amended one, but the Bonded
Grain would come in by degrees, and the direct
importation would be extremely limited. By
the clause, as it originally stood, the holder of
Grain, in bond, would act as a check on excess
of price in the.. Home Market, on the one hand,
and on excess of importation on the other. By
depriving him of the power of competing with
the direct importer, as the amendment proposes ;
we hold out a premium to the speculations of
the latter, which it is our professed object
to repress. We do not believe, however,
that, under the Amendment grain would
long be _ bonded in England. Merchants
would lay it up in preference, at the nearest
ports of the Continent ; and thus, when
the state of the Market justified importation, the glut
which we have said would, in all probability, occur
under the system of Warehousing in England, in nine
cases out of ten, would necessarily, constantly, and
inevitably, happen, in every case ; for, under the
system of warehousing abroad, the corn bonded, so
to speak, and the direct importation, would inva-
riably come into the home market together. If, then,
the real object of'Noble Lords be the same as their
ostensible object (and we believe very sincerely that
it is so), namely, to render as nearly as the case ad-
mits the supply of grain commensurate with the de-
mand, the Amendment of the Duke of Wellington is,
of all measures possible, that which is most calculated
to disappoint their wishes, while the clause, as it
originally stood, is of all others that which is most
likely to meet them. We do not intend to touch
on any other feature of the amendment, because,
when we have shown that it must necessarily pro-
duce that very evil which its supporters wish to pro-
vide against, we conceive we have done enough to
prove that the only part that prudence has left for
their Lordships, is to rescind a resolution, which no-
thing but a casual inadvertence, to which the
greatest of men are not the least liable, could have
induced them to adopt.—/bid.

CAUTION TO BUlLDERS.—Yesterday morn-
ing, some workmen were making some alterations in a
house in Marsh-lane, at the corner of Brick-street, in this
town, preparatory to which the upper part of it was sup-
ported by props. During the absence of the men at break-
fast, the front came down, extending across Marsh-lane,
and, providentially, without doing any further injury than
was sustained by the building itself. It was indeed fortu-
nate that it happened when it did, no individual passing at
the moment ; for had it been a quarter of an hour sooner
or later, such would have been the number of persons
going to or corning from their dwellings, that it is far
inore than probable some serious accident would have oc-
curred.—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE CATIIOLIC ASSOCIATION.....-The six
weeks' recess will be at an end next Saturday.
We are sorry that it was not distinguished by
the " reciprocity of generous feeling" which was
anticipated at the adjournment. At no period
of our history was sectarian rancour in more mis-
chievous or more disgusting activity than within
this short interval. The silence, indeed, of the
protecting Association seems to have given a
new and extraordinary stimulus to foul pens and
fouler tongues, not only here but in England.
These are not circumstances which invite further
quiescence on thepart of the Catholic body ;
Y
and though more than a six weeks' recess was
originally contemplated, we feel it our duty to
announce, that it is._now theinteption.,4,the
AssoCiation to reassemble for dispatch of busi-
ness an Saturday next.—,Dublin Morn, Reg.