The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY: JANUARY 29, 1842

pealers with some modification of the existing
system, and he may even have recourse to the
Whigs to enable him to carry a fixed duty.
Our friends must be prepared to resist all coax-
ing compromising schemes, and, in order to carry
the people with them, must stand up for justice
—nothing less, and nothing more, than justice.
They must set a good example, and they will
very soon have the bulk of the nation for followers.
In a few days, the plans which the stupendous
wisdom of all the wise men in office have devised
for remedying the national evils, will be laid
before the public. The disease is violent, and
trifling remedies will not cure it. If the great
Physician be not prepared with comprehensive,
and just measures, he will soon be hooted out of
place, and, where he expects a triumph, he
will meet only shame, derision, and mortifica-
tion. We believe that such will be his fate; and
the same blow which extinguishes. the Corn.
laws, will extinguish him as a statesman, and
extinguish Toryism for ever.

Among the important intelligence brought by
the Levant Mail, is the following text of a treaty
concluded between Sir JOHN M'NEIL, the Eng-
lish Ambassador, and the SHAH of Persia :
Art. 1. The merchants of the two mighty States
are reciprocally permitted and allowed to carry into
each other's territories their goods and manufac-
tures of every description, and to sell and exchange
them in any town of the respective countries.
And on the goods which they bring into, or carry
out of the country, the same amount of Customs du-
ties shall be demanded, once for all, on entering the coun-
try, which is demanded from the most favoured Euro•.
pean nations; and in like manner on goods taken out of
the country ; and, except these, no demanda shall be
made on the merchants of the high contracting parties
on any preteAt, or under any denomination ; and the
merchants, or other persons,,dependant on or connected
with the high contracting parties, in each other's do-
minions, mutually shall enjoy the same aid and support,
and the respect (or honour) which are enjoyed by the
subjects-of the most favoured nation.
Art. 2. As it is necessary for attending to the affairs
of the merchants of the two parties, respectively, that
from both Governments commercial agents should
ba appointed to reside in stated places, it is there-
fore arranged that two commercial_ agents on the
part of the British Government shall reside, one in
the capital and one in Tabreez, and in those places
on'y, and on this condition, that he who should re-
side at Tabreez' and he' alone, shall he honoured
with the rank and privileges of Consul. - But, as for a
series of years a resident of the British Government
has resided at the port' of Busheer, the Persian Go-
vernment grants permission that the said resident shall
reside there as heretofore, and in like manner two
:tgants of the Persian Government shall reside, one in
the capital of London, and one in the port of Bombay;
and shall enjoy the same rank and privileges that the
commercial agents of the British Government shall enjoy
in Persia.
"This commercial treaty we, the Plenipotentiaries o
the two high contracting parties have agreed to; and in
witness thereof, thereunto Set our seals."

The Madrid Journals received are of the 20th
instant, but they bring no news of interest. On
the Madrid Exchange, on the 19th, six bargains
in the Threes, for 6,200,000 reals, were don:-
at-211 for cash, 22 9-10 for sixty days, and "• ,
two bargains in the Fives for 25,64 i.:,: ...000
reats,
at
iortv
321 for cash, 333, 321, 34,,
dates, with the 10 cou: ui 34, at various
ns, and 201 for cash ; 213
for sixty days, w:,rt the tvto coupons.
T 1 •

BOURSE --PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 2

First Hithest Lowest Last
Pete Price. Price, Price.
renal 5 per Cents...n.l,lll 118 35 118 35 ... 118 80 118 35
4 per Cents •103 ... 103 103
3 pti Cents 79 30 79 35 7930... 79 30
lank of frame 5375 ...2380 —3375 ...3380
Laftitte :Sank I,ooof. Stares 1020 ...IWO ...1020 —lO2O
5,000 f. Shares 5025 ...5025
...025 „.5025
3eleian Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
1.
vere 1840 105% 105% 105% 192%
ipan,ah fi c.i 2:1% Passive 5% 25% ... 255(2 ... 25%
veapolitan lO7 43 ~M 7 40 ... 107 30 107 30
..... 104 ... 104 ... 103% ... 103%
P AILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain . ..... ...." ..... 870 ... 882 50 ... 870 882 50
Versaillte, H. h
,31" 240 ... 340 340
lotion4o
L.B ••• " 1,08 73 ... WlB 75 207 50 ... 207 50
LOO 495 ... 497 5'J Orleans
540 1,86 25 ... 536 2)
itratbufg co Bale • 200 ... 230 . '230 ... 2;0

We refer the Corn-law Repealers to an adver-
tisement in The Sun of this day. The time ap-
proaches for exertio❑ ; and if energy is not dis-
played now, we may have the sliding scale, or
something as bad, for five years to come.

PROGRESS in the AGRICULTURAL
DISTRICTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stu,---The place from which I write, affords
evidence of the progress of information on the
question of the Corn-laws. The centre of an
agricultural district, which is moreover the seat
of some peculiar monopolies, or attempted mo-
nopolies, of its own,--it has _still been penetrated
by the advance of knowledge, and though the
I " pagans" or the villages may continue in some-
thing like the darkness or Thomism, the " oppi-
dans" have the acuteness to know their interests
and to maintain them.
In the first place, it is clear they have scouted
the delusion, which in souse situations persuades
the tradesman that it is necessary the agricul-
turists should rob in order that there may be .
somebody to buy. Your Maidstone tradesman
cannot tell why the money should not as much
be there to buy, if it was left in the pockets of
the rightful owners. He doubts the inference,
he demurs to the' necessity, so convincingly
evident to his non-representatives in Parliament,
that
,there must be cow-stealing in order to make
beef. He would be content to eat his beef at the
first hand ; and sees not hoW the passage through
the hands of the lordly receiver, improves either
the flavour or the price.

But he sees more than this. He has his eyes
open to the way in which meat is not only stolen
but lost. " I take three-and-sixpence a week from
the working classes," said a vendor of the inde-
scribable things called chandleries, " where if
the Corn-laws were away I should take ten shil-
lings." No use in telling this worthy tradesman,
that the less there is to eat the richer we are. If
this man could be pitted against the minister,
the result would probably be like what took place
at Lancaster, when the " Manchester man"
rolled in upon Lord Stanley like the prophet's
barley cake.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Maidstone, 28th January, 1842.

THE VINDICTIVE FRIGATE.-
(FRON A CORRESPONDENT')
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY0••••TIIIS noble ship was
fortunately extricated from her perilous situation
about eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, the
crew having succeeded, by great exertion, in
warping her into deep water on the rise of the
tide, and on the following morning gib beat into
Spithead against a strung Westerly wind, (the
pumps going the whole time,) under easy sail set
upon .her two remaining masts. This morning.
she war towed into harbour by the Echo steam'
tug and a hired steam-packet from Southampton,.
and immediately taken into the great S'outh
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of Inquiry will be held upon the offi,.
:; and crew early in the ensuing week, In
the opinion of most naval men there has been a
great want of judgment and seamanship in the
I affair, and we should say that nothing Short of
an open inquiry will satisfy-. the public hand. A
fine frigate, and the lives of Ave hundred vain-
ble seamen have been placed in most imminent
peril, and the good discipline of the service de-
mands that the investigation should be searching
and uncompromising.
Great apprehensions have been felt for the
safety of the Lively
cutter, which was despatched.
from the dock-vard with an anchor and cable
for the Vindictive in the evening of the day she
got ashore, but which never reached her. Ac-
counts Were reteived, however, of her having
been driven by the violence of the gale into
Bognor, where she arrived in safety,
The Hastings, 74, Capt. Lawrence, will be paid
off on Tuesday. Mr. 11ton, the midshipman,
whose trial and sentence have lately excited so
much indignation, came home in the Hastings,
from the Mediterranean, and has since been
hams, his prosecutor,
rence towards the unfortunate
sent to the Marshalsea Prison. Cat:Lurk Wit-
and, we may well add,
persecutor, also came
the same ship. Of the conduct of Captain Law-
passeng,er to England in
youth, -during the•
passage, y shall hear. more ano;-!,

dle-abed, but it is said that the woman was actuated 1.. y
a feeling of jealousy. She has been arrested ani 'cona
mitted for trial.

DISINTERESTEDNESS OF THE PRIESTHOOD AI TD
OTHER CLASSES.—The Tories, and those who
seek to preserve the respect of the public for the
priesthood, have adopted the method of drawing
dark pictures of the, vices of other men. Thus it
papers, books of fiction, and pro-
fisotsianiddin ie
theologicall works, that inert of the world,
who:seek their pleasure in idleness and dissipa-
tion ; and men of business, who •consume their
lives in amassing wealth, have no right to sneer
at the love ofindolence in any part of the priest-
hood, or condemn their self-seeking. These
writers who, by the bye, are generally priests.
themselves, or connected with priests, forget that
these latter claim the respect and reverence of
mankind, because they t2st and practise the vir-
tues, which it is admitted by die complaint, they
possess in no higher degree than other •men.
Men of pleasure and men of business do not pre-
tend that their occupations. are very meritorious
in the sight of others and in the sight of God.
They avow that they please their own carnal in-
clinations, and seek the gratification of their own
passions fur their own purposes. in them there
is no hypocrisy, no denial of self-seeking, no pre-
tence that they are better than the rest of man-
kind. Not so the priests, of whatever period;
and whether culled bonzes, monks, friars, pas-
tors, clergymen, oil ministers: they study their
ease; they seek wealth, they indulge in pleasure
like other men, but they always attempt to deny
that they are self-seekers; and in referring their
exertions to a
,higher source than self, they add
to all the vices which they share with men of
business and men of pleasure, the great vice of
hypocrisy.- This, then, is the distinction between
them and other men, that in reality they are no
better than others, but they pretendao be better,
and, on that pretence, grasp at the wealth,
honours, and pleasures of the world.
Some of our Tory Contemporaries arc daily
making discoveries in political economy, which,
were they only incorporated in one goodly volume,
would immortalize the discoverers, and banish
for ever the names of Adam Smith and Malthus
from the memory of man. One of them, for
example, yesterday found out that labour is rmt
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ta;iitct quote ofit en
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pictures and diamonds ? Eve;.y- tyro in political
economy knows that 5-•
but the general - ..t7ll
to allare e ,
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he
ties . rule, as app
can be multiplied :and increased by
•
...ran labur is, that the labour employed in
producing them constitutes the only rule by
-
which they may be -exchanged for one another.
The great discoverer also Thund out that it would
be less advantageous for England to buy four
millions of quarters of wheat by the labour of
machines, than produce it by the toil
.of living
beings. Even if it were so, the four million quar-
ters might be had from both sources ; we might
four millions by toiling, and sweating in sunshine
get four millions by our machine-labour, and
and rain, and maintain twice the number of
human beings in comfort. But a numerous
population gives the Tories the heart-ache, and
they invent all kinds of fallacies to prevent the
people having plenty of food, and so increasing
in numbers.