The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1842

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resolutions in to law.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, Fc.B. 14,
Will be rrformed, Otway's Tragedy of VENICE PRE-
SERVED.—PriuIi, Mr. Elton; Jaffier, Mr. And•rson ;
Pierre, Mr. Phelps; Renault, Mr. G. Bennett; Belvidera,
Miss Helen Faucitt.
After which, the Popular Farce, entitled THE WIND-
MILL—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Barnett;
Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley ; Marian, Mi.s. Keeley.
To conclude with .the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime,
ca led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER: OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE. . _

Doors Ix be opened at Halt past Six, and the Performance
to begin Seven o'clock. Boxes bs., Second Price, 2:. 6d.
Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d.. Second
Pr.ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

which has latterly been extremely flattering to ! THE WEATHER.-=Noox, FEBRUARY 14.
:Sir ROBERT PEEL, teaches US .to believe that ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELAIDE-STREET,
Sir ROBERT PEEL will not be able to make his 49 Lowest 33
Thermometer... 45 ) Highest
, Barometer 30.12.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Dry►.

His own testimony has proved. that the law he
proposes to alter has been a failure. He admits,
by the alteratiun, that it has given landlords an
Unjust protection. He adopted all the arguments
which the opponents of the law have urged
against the gambling and speculation to which
the averages have given rise ; he stigmatised the
law on that point as heartily as its opponent. At
the same time he admiited that he could not tell
what would be a remunerating price, and hexed
a duty on the people's bread by guess. It is
agreeable to - his fancy •to have wheat sold at
about 565. per quarter, and, therefore, he
limits the supply of food. In assuming,
not proving, the basis of his system, he
supplies the community with unauswedble
arguments fbr denouncing it. "No better
reason," says the Peelite Spectator, "was
offered to sustain the monstrous intervention of
an Act of Parliament to diminish the natural
supply of man's food, than the old saw, ' depend•
big on foreign countries." While Sir ROBERT
PEEL condemns the old law, and proposes to
repeal it by his resolutions, those resolutions,
be it remembered, are not law, and may be
opposed and resisted to the utmost of our
power.

It is a great point gained to have the old law
condemned by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and to have a
ground in that condemnation for asserting that
his resolutions will be as noxious as.the old law.
At present his sliding-scale is his quack medi-
cine, and nothing more, and it is the duty of the
people to prevent it becoming more. They
must turn legislators, and refuse, in advance,
their sanction and their obedience to the new
and scandalous enactment suggested by Sir
ROBERT PEEL. To sanction that now, after the
experience of fourteen years, and after so much
suffering, would be a proot' that we are more
ignorant or more wicked than. the ignorantor
wicked authors of the law of 1828.

The way in which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan
for continuing the ' Corn-laws will rouse the
country is apparent by what has already take-a
place at Leeds and other places. " Never,"
says the Leeds Mercury, " since the temporary
defeat of the Reform Bill, have we known so
strong a feeling of disgust and indignation ex-
cited in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and among
the trading classes generally, as has burst forth
on the announcement of the Government juggle.
In Leeds; Manzhester, Bradford, and Hudders-
field, the expressions of disappointment, grief;
anger, and almost desperation, were loud and
strong. Even the Tories were aghast at the
measure. Great numbers of respectable indi-
viduals, under the influence of their feelings,
spoke of resorting to organic changes which
before they had not contemplated." Under the
influence of these feelings a public meeting was
immediately held at Leeds, of which we insert
an account from the Mercury.
Though there was some opposition, we are
glad to see that the Anti-Bread-tax party
was completely triumphant. Sir R. PEEL'S
refusal ,to grant a Ten Hours Bill must have
weaned from him some of his supporters. His
Corn-law scheme must have opened the eyes of
all the working classes. They must now be sen-
sible that he either cannot or will not alter the laws
for their advantage. He will neither allow them
to have more food nor cheaper food. To suppose
that he will grant the Charter, after refusing the
Ten Hours Bill and maintaining the Corn-law,
is a gross delusion. The working classes,
then, to save themselves froM starving—and they
cannot suppose that they will be less able to.
obtain the Charter with full bellies than with
empty bellies—must now unite cordially and zea-
lously with the Anti-bread-takers, to procure a
repeal of the Corn-laws.
The working classes cannot have failed to no-
tice that all the leading speakers at the Confer-
ence expressed themselves decidedly favourable
to an extension of the suffrage, and are ready to
co-operate with the working classes in attaining
that act of justice. Let them, therthre, now, as
practical men, assist the Repeaters, and they will
have the proud Satisfaction of compelling Sir
ROBERT PEEL and the Tories to do their bidding.
Surely it will be as honourable to them to have
the present Prime Minister and the Duke of
WELLINGTON passing a Bill totally to repeal
the Bread-tax, as to have such a Bill passed by
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR and Mr. LOVETT. A
cordial co-operation on their part with the
Anti-Bread-tax party, in this crisis of the na-
tion's fate, will bring the Duke of WELLINGTON
and the House of Lords, and will bring Sir
ROBERT PEEL and the House of Commons, on
their knees to the Hall of the Anti-Bread-
' taxers, to know what is the pleasure of the
nation. That would be a glorious triumph for
the democracy, and that triumph the Chartists

may now achieve. They may humble the aris-
tocracy for ever by cordially uniting with the
members of the, League to demand a total and
immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.

A notice has been published, that the Post-
office is to extend the time for posting letters
until a quarter past six o'clock. All letters posted
after a quarter before six must bear an extra
penny stamp above the postage stamp. This is
only a very small step towards granting the ac-
commodation which the public have a right to
expect. Mr. HILL'S scheme has been, we think,
unfairly tried, though it has succeeded beyond
expectation. When it was brought into use our
commerce was labouring under great difficulties,
and business knew none of the elasticity it felt in
the previous years. It was brought into use also
without adopting those facilities for receiving,
sorting, and distributing letters by mechari-
cal helps, making the public contribute to the
Avork, which are necessary, in consequence
of the increased number. Because these auxi-
liaries were not supplied, the system is much
more costly than it ought to. be, and the public
do not receive so much accommodation as they
ought. If it were pOssible to get up a rival post-
office—if we could only bring the principle of
co in pe ti tioii to bear on the est, —sco.. es
of improvements would be made in a week, and it
Would shoh,attain that perfection we behold in
individual undertakings ofahnost equal magnitude.

Loss Or THE JOHN LEE, OF GLASGOW.---WC regret to
learn, from, a leiter addressed to Viscount Canning, the
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to,the Chairman at
Lloyd's, that this vessel was wrecked at the rocks of
Lavadouras, off the mouth of the Douro, on the 14th of
January. No ,papers or charts had been found, and
nothing heard of the crew along the coast within three
leagues of Oporto. This communication was made by
the British Consul at Oporto.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.--WO have received a
report of a meeting held at Armagh on Thursday re-
lative to the Marriage question. Dr. Henry was called
to the chair, and several resolutions were passed, but it
is needless to give them, as the subject has been taken
up by the Government, and a Bill will be passed without
delay to legalise all such marriages as that which has
given rise to so much anxiety among the Presbyterian
community in Ireland.

THE TURKISH PREMIER.-CONSTANTI-
NOPLE, JAL. 17.—1 have been at some pains to find out if all
the atrocities which have been lately imputed to the Grand
Vizier are founded in fact. There is some truth in these
stories. The Vizier has revived the old custom of perambu-
lating the streets of the capital tepdeal, or incognito. Enter-
ing, the other day, in the disguise of a mendicant, the shop of a
cadaifli, or seller of a favourite species of Turkish pastry,
he humbly asked the dealer to give him half a piastre's worth of
that dainty ; but the latter, who teemed to have very wholesome
ideas for a retailer, disdaining to make pennyworth's, told him
to go about his business; and, upon the seeming beggar im-
portuning him still further, and stating his particular long-
ing to eat a small piece of cadaif, he answered, be might eat a
piece of his posteriors if he liked. .• Well," rejoined the beg-
gar, throwing off the hood and cloak, and displaying the Grand
Vizier in all his terrors. " Well, sirrah, if I must eat a piece
of what you say, I will at least have it roastud. " Ho, there l"
he continued, addressing four stout cavashes, who now rushed
from their hiding places, " seize the caitiff, and roast him on
his own oven." The erder was no sooner given than executed,
and the Consequences, I lament to say, were terrible, and such,
it is to be hoped, as for the sake of humanity, were not contem-
plated by the Vizier, who, I believe, though t as little of really
roasting the poor wretch as of eating hisn. It seems, how-
ever, that though the iron plate on which he was placed was
only heated by a slow fire, it actually injure Id the part of the
body called the perineum, which caused inet.mmation, and sub-
sequently death.