The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-12 00:00:00

is, what must we do to be saved from this great
iniquity ? That will test their souls, and, as they
answer it, so will they be free men, or the slaves of a
grim and blood-smeared idol, which the aristocracy
have invested with the benevolent and majestic attri-
butes of law, and call on them to worship.
It was well observed by Mr. COBDEN yesterday, that
the people did not require to use physical force when
they are unanimous. This is the plain consequence
of the
.fact that legislation derives all authority from
opinion. The aristocracy has no power to enslave us if
we are not willing to be slaves. Government can only
coerce the people by the power of the people. There is
no means, as Mr. BURKE long ago said, of drawing up an
indictment against a nation. If the great majority,
then, is determined that the aristocracy shall not plunder
us, by that determination the power of their grim idol
will be at an end. Let the people then be true to them-
selves. Let them declare against the bread-taxers. Let
them support the noble and courageous proceedings of
.the Conference. Let them cast off their respect, amount-
ing almost to reverence, for those who brutally oppose
them. Let them in one word resolve to be free, and the

power of their oppressora will be annihilated for ever.
We can give, we are happy to say, encouragement to
the Conference and hope to the people. We learn from
various quarters that intense indignation is felt by the
multitude against Sir BoaEnT PEEL. He is looked on,
not only as an oppressor, but as a cheat. He has for
several months excited hopes that he meant to relieve
the natio►ial distress, which were much augmented by
his cunning trick of ousting the Duke of BUCKINGHAM
from his Cabinet. But now he not only denies relief,
he mocks at the national sufferings, by asserting that
the law has not caused them. In proportion to their
hopes is the indignation of the people at the injury inflicted
on them, and at the miserable trick by which Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL has hoped to beguile and delude them.
Such consequences may inspire the Confere►sce with con-
fidence, while its present conduct proves that it is the
worthy organ of the high and noble resolves of the.
people.

To prepare our readers for the great crisis which is
evidently approaching, when reason shall be brought into
violent conflict with the blind obedience which has hi-
therto been preached as a duty, we have occasionally
adverted to the absurd assertion of the Tories, that unless
everything called a law be
.obeyed, whatever crimes it
may ordain, society will fall to pieces. Society is not
held together by strife-begetting, demoralising, murder-
ous laws, such as it has pleased our selfish landlords to
make for the purpose of enriching themselves. Nor have
such barbarous enactments, rightly uneerstood—tthough
the ceremonies have been gone through of crying out
" tho Ayes" or " the Contents have it," and of reading a

little Norman French, by which the Ministers for the
time being give the nominal sanction of the SOVE-
REIGN to the Bill to which they have obtained the as-
sent of the two Houses—the proper and just authority
of law.

Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE says, " This law of nature
being coeval with mankind, and dictated by GOD him-
self, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It
is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and
at all times : no human laws are of any validity if
contrary to this : and such of them as are valid
derive all their force and authority, mediately, or
immediately, from this original." Founding on this
high legal authority, we have no hesitation in affirm-
ing that the Corn-law, which cuts off the com-
merce between nations—that is ordained by. the AL-
MIGHTY, like the different climates soils, and natural
properties of different countries, from which it grows,
which plunder s one class of the community to enrich
another, and which starves a great multitude of human
beings, violating the two express commands, " Thou
shalt not steal," and "'Thou shalt not murder,"—found-
ing on the acknowledgedly high authority of Mr. Justice
BLACKSTONE, we unhesitatingly assert, that the Corn-
law, which violates both the revealed law of GOD and
the law of nature, is of no force or validity whatever.
It follows, as a necessary consequence, that it is wrong

in the people to obey such a scandalous embodiment of
immoral selfishness of the landowners. They have, by
their obstinate adherence to an unjust law, brought
man's moral duties and their enactment into conflict.
The energetic proceedings of the Conference yesterday
has made this important truth apparent, and will make
it necessary for the community to choose between obe-
dience to the moral law, or obedience to the aristocracy.
We rejoice to believe that the bulk of the people are
ashamed of their long submission, and they will over-
rule any decision of Parliament which goes to perpetuate
the Corn-laws.

If Mr.
_CVDDEN may be relied on, and we trust and
believe lie may, the "Members of the House of Cop:it:nous
will be told' the truth on this subject (hiring the ensuing
discussion. Ile must, however, be resolute, and pre-
pared fur much opposition. The forms of the House,
which have been partly constructed to stifle truth, on
pretence of preserving order, will be invoked against
him. It will be said that it is unparliarnentary to at-
tribute motives; that he must not, in Parliament, de-
nounce Parliament itself'; and the young aristocrats
who, to the shame of the people, misrepresent them in
their own _House, will endeavour to stifle arguments they
cannot answer. Let him, however, stick firmly to his
points, let him tell the House of Commons in plain terms
the ruinous consequences of their law, let him expose the
base motives of those who enacted it, and let him fear-
lessly unveil the effects on the public mind of persisting
in such an iniquitous enactment; let him do this and
the voice of truth will be more powerful even in' that
assembly, than the ferocious tirades of Lord STANLEY,
the heavy hypocrisy of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or the
shallow plausibilities of the PREMIER himself. We have
never, for one moment, doubted of the ultimate success
of our cause. The conduct of the Conference yester-
day, the encouraging news we receive from all parts of
the country, and the expressed determination of the
Liberal Members to speak out boldly in the House of
Commons, combine to convince us that, in spite of all
the monopolists of the empire, complete success is both
near arid certain.

Among the absurd regulations affecting the newspaper
Press of France, is one which prevents the smallest in-
crease in their size without an increase of the stamp-
duty. As the increase of stamp-duty would more than
swallow up the profits of an increased circulation, the
newspapers are not enlarged, and the consequence
is that they are totally unsuited to the wants
of the community. Thus, no matter how impor-
tant the debates maybe in the Chambers, they can afford
only to give a mere outline of them, nor is that done
without sacrificing nearly every other item of intelli-
gence. No Paris journals will bear a moment's compari-
son as a vehicle of interesting miscellaneous intelligence
with a London daily paper. Each paper there addresses a
section of the public. One devotes its columns to reports of
law and police investigations and trials ; another at-
tends to theatrical affitirs ; a third is the oracle of the
Chambers; a finial' condescends to notice nothing which
is not talked of in fashionable circles ; in a fifth the
Feuilleton, or literary department, is the chief feature; and
so on of upwards of a score of daily, and five score
weekly papers. We grant that the leading depart-
ment in most of the French daily papers is generally con-
ducted with great ability. Hence the weight attached
to their opinions, which are the inure formidable as they
report no facts to contradict them. If they ridi-
cule a Parliamentary orator the reader cannot
divest himself of the impression by turning to the
report of a speech, of which the Journal only con-
tains a meagre outline. For some time past the
leading Opposition French Journals have complained
much of this evil, and it is,*therefore, with pleasure that
we find some of, the Government prints beginning to
dwell upon it. The Presse, in particular, recommends
that no extra duty be charged on Journals for enlarging
their size, and is for placing the French Press on the
same footing as the English. In fact, a complete re-
form of the laws affecting French Journalism has become
indispensable.
From Madrid the rapers are of the 3d inst. ; bUt the
intelligence, with the exception of some paragraphs in
our Summary, are of no political interest. The Fives on
the Bourse were at 32 for cash.
A Toulon letter says that the Prince de Joinville will have the
Uranie frigate, besides the Belle Poule, under his command during
his voyage round the world.
The Palinure brig of war arrived at Toulon on the sth Inst. from
Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French
Consul. General to the Regency of Tunis, and M. Pichon, who has
been visiting all the ports of the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, on
a secret mission from the French Government. The Palinure was
soon to leave Toulon again for Tunis. A letter from Sfax, in the
Regency of Tunis, 14th ult., and published by the Portafoglio of
Malta, states that Sidi-Mustapha.Schep.i.Tirear, General.i n-Chie!
of the !orces n! the Bey, had arrived at Sfax, for the purpose of
raising recruits. He had acted with great rigour, and in order to
extort money, allowed the wealthy families to substitute slaves as
recruits, on payment of enormous sums for this permission.—Galik.
nani's Messenger.

Several journals make this morning objections to the project of
law for the construction of the great lines of railways. We shall
not answer till these objections are more completely
.stated ; we cbn.
tent ourselves for the present with observing that the objections,hi-
therto made to this project are almost all at variance, and thus re-
ciprocally refute each other.—Monfteur, Feb. 10.
The Moniteur of this morning has no official part. It quotes
from the Messager a lung article on the culture of silk in the French
colonies, which the French Government wished to introduce from a
consideration of the necessity of finding some employment suited to
the free negroes, who form, as it were, a new population springing
up without means of procuring a livelihood.
Yesterday Marshal Soult paid his first visit to the Palace at one
o'clock in the afternoon. The Marshal was received successively
by Madame Adelaide, and the Duke and
the King, th, Queen,
Duchess of Orlesuss,,...Constitutionntl.