The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-14 00:00:00

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LONDON
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1842.

We will not copy from another part of The Sun the
strong language used by Mr. COTIMN yesterday, at the
meeting of the Anti• Corn-law League, but we earnestly
recommend it to the consideration of our readers. Mr.
Colp °`:i his a man of property, and a well-informed able
write' 7 well al speaker. Under the title of " A Man-
,.
chester .lanufacturer" he has acquired extensive reputa-
tion. He is by temper and inclination, as well as habit,
a reflecting, moderate, liberal man. He is one of the
. middle classes, whose welfare is bound up with peace
and order ; yet Mr. COBDEN exhorts the League to
" take any, every step to firm from the Government jus-
tice for themselves and the people." He reqommends
them -to "embarass the Government in every possible
way." He says the more they embarass such a Govern-
ment the more they would fulfil their duty to themselves
and their country ; keeping within the law, " whatever
they could do to embarass the Government they were
bound to do. They owed it no respect." " The Govern-
ment is based on corruption, and the offspring of vice,
corruption, violence, intimidation, and bribery." He
derided the notion of preserving the public credit at the
expense of national suffering ; and he held up to repro-
bation tke money cusses in London, who had never gone
beyond their counting-house doors to inquire if the
statements of distress were true or not.

Mr. COBDEN is not only all that we have described,
he is a Member of Parliament, who will be called on in
the House of Commons to defend his opinions, and who
would forfeit by vio:ence and untruth the confidence of
those who have made him their representative. To find
such a man using such language, and to know that it
meets the approbation of the numerous and powerful
bodies with which he is associated, is one of the signs
of the times which the public and prudent statesman
ought not to overlook.

At the meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League on
Tuesday, at Manchester, Mr. Alderman BROOKS, in
giving an account of the interview which the Deputa-
tion has had with Sir R. PEEL, said that " he was glad
of the opportunity of telling Sir R. PEEL that he had
become a Chartist." He had been so disgusted, it ap-
pears, by the conduct of the House of Commons, that he
had joined the movement for Universal Suffrage. Such
men as. Mr. COBDEN and Mr. Bnooas represent the
bulk. of the middle classes in the manufacturing dis-
tricts, and their sentiments are an indication of the sen-
timents of thousands. _ .

Men only respect and honour a Government for the
protection it affords them, and the Government or Legis-
lature which inflicts impoverishment and ruin en them
must be despised and hated. We do not wonder, there-
fore, at the manufacturers now turning against the
Government. As Mr. COBDEN stated in the House Of
Commons on Monday evening, there will soon be no
middle classes in • the manufacturing districts to
stand between the aristocracy and the • outraged
people. The manufacturers and the shopkeepers will be
ruined, or they will turn Chartists ; and in either case
the democracy and the aristocracy will come into per-
sonal and fierce conflict. Let not the latter flatter
themselves that this sari be advantageous to them.
Though they should succeed by military force in sub-
duing the democracy, the attempt must be ruinous to
their wealth and power. The union of all class:s in
England, society being more closely knit together here
by the authority of the constable's staff than it is in other
countries by the pressure of military power, is the main
source of our superiority as a nation ; break or banish
the middle claSses—set the democracy and the.aristo.
crazy in fierce array—require r.ri army in every town, to
preserve peace and obedience—and the power of Eng-
land will dwindle below the point which is due to her
geographical extent. She will then have the tnrbulence,
without the vigour of a popular Constitution ; and will
be worse off, till time has destroya the friction be-
tween liberty and arbitrary power, than the States of
the Continent, which run smoothly, if slowly and con-
strainedly, in the well-worn channels of despotism.

There is no person in the empire more cruelly libelled
than her MAJESTY.
_ls a measure required by the aris-
tocracy to keep out food and keep up rents, they go
through a solemn farce, and declare that her MAJESTY—
boor calumniated Ladyl—gives her assent to it. Is it
necessary, in order that the Exchequer, drained by their
extravagance, and shrunk and shrivelled for want of the
supplies a prosperous trade would pour into it, should
be filled by an Income-tax, her MAJESTY is pomp-
ously put forward, by those who should shield her
from unpopularity, as consenting that her in-
come should be taxed, and as giving, at another
stage, the Royal assent -to this terrible infliction
on her people. We have endeavoured to rescue
her MAJESTY from these foul libels, by explaining to our
readers that her gracious name is usurped by her Mi-
nisters, and that what they and what the law, with one
of its customary fictions—or, to use a better English
word, one of its customary lies—calls the Royal assent, is
nothing in the world but the assent of the oligarchs and
monopoli,zts, who, by dint of bribery, corruption, and
intimidation, have for the season taken possession of the
functions of the Government. It is nothing more than
the assent of Land, Church, Sugar, and Co., signified in
the usurped name of the QUEEN by.these who, being
her, and, for our sint our masters, are falsely called her
Ministers.
We find in the Votes of the House of Commons of the

night before last, great reason to be thankful for having
already been enabled to blunt the point of the libels
which the Tory Ministers are continually heaping on the
QUEEN. When the people are actually starving—
when they dig up and beg rotten carrion for food— when
those Ministers have refused them all aid and relief, ex-
ccpt that - which degrades them to 'mendicants, and
makes them seem to hold their lives at the mercy of
those who feed them, we find it asserted in the Votes
that her MAJEST? has recommended a grant of money
to enable-the opulent and easy classes meeting at Exeter
Hall to enjoy the benefit of singing instruction.
Her MAJESTY has given no such recommendation ; it
is, in truth, only the recommendation of her Ministers.
The Prime Minister, too, who denies all relief to: the
people. in their distress, except his pitiable scheme of
alms, was the man to present the petition to the House of
Commons in favour of the singing classes, and to libel her
MAJESTY by saying she recommended what, in the
present circumstances of the country, is a most propos-
tk.rons and disgraceful scheme. We copy the passage
from the Votes, and the reader will judge whether it be
possible more cruelly to libel her MAJESTY, than to re-
present her, when her people ask for food, as recommend-
ing the appropriation of the public money to teach them