The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

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LONDON ,
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1842.

The tariff went through a Committee last night in
the House of Lords, and is to be read a third time this
day. Compared to the Cominons, the Lords have made
quick work with this complicated law ; but why should
they discuss a measure they must not alter ?
.Lord
STANnotE, indeed, objected to the admission of cattle
as now proposed, and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM sup-
ported him. On a division, however, only eight Lords
voted against that part of the tariff, and 44 for it. Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S opinion on the point is correct ; the
landlords alarm themselves very needlessly. If
they are contented with the protection given to corn,
they may be pleased with that given to cattle, to im-
port which, from any great distance, is, as it were, pro-
hibited by the cost. But some of the Peers do not think
that a sufficient security, and they would willingly incur
the hatred of their countrymen, in order to clinch the
decrees of nature by a decree of their own manufacturing.

There is that.in the proceedings of the Anti-Cora-law
Conference yesterday which will command attention
We shall offer no comment on the bold and honest lan-
guage which was uttered, but only recommend the ati;-
tocracy, if they wish to learn what is passing in men's
minds, to study the speeches at the Anti-Corn-law Con-
ference.

Mt% MortrusoN, who spoke -in the debate on Wednes-
day evening, is one of the greatest and most successful of
our inciacanti.— -are preSumptuous enough
to believe that newspaper writers, who have no interest
but the public good, are in the great majority of cases
better judges of questions of legislation affecting the
whole community than any class of merchants or traders,
who seldom see much beyond their own immediate pur-
suit, still we are not averse to have the testimony of such
that one 1
a practical
vemsatantetcoLcoovnfier r ma
nodu r
over n
avgi ea Is:
chief-
source of the mischief done by the Corn-laws, is the
putting an end to a foreign market for our goods. Sir
:ROBERT PEEL has recently
ttold us that commerce is
me: ely a barter of eommodities-7-that is, one commodity
is the market for.another—and consequently to prevent
the owner of a cotton-mill exchanging its produce for
foreign wheat and flour, is as cifectual a method to stop it I
as to burn it down. Confirming this view our great
practical merchant said
" He believed that there was not a nation or a people
in the world, who would not be glad to take from us more
of our manufactures than they were at present enabled'to do.
, p
If we will not buy we cannot sell. The law says we shall
not buy the very things we most want—namely, food—and
y
The great difficulty they laboured under was in finding equi•
valents to exchange for the produce of our Manufacturing skill.
Tills he believed was at the bottom of much of the distress of
which the country now complained. We were distressed,
not because our prices were too high, bat because other na-
tions could not purchase more of our goods, in consequence
°col'
uoludrgliazvsusexicnluedzienhgntghee importation- of the produce the
,
therefore the law prohibits the people from selling. To
prohibit' them from selling is- to prohibit them from pro-
ducing ; hence our mills are idle, and tho people out of
employment, and in distress. The Whole mighty mis-
chief, therefore, which is now filling the land with woe,
is caused by the accursed law which forin •
ds our people
from s,dling their goods for food in any and every part
of the world.

While we thank Mr. DionatsoN very earnestly for his
admirable demonstration of the murderous folly of the Le.
gislature, we cannot ;o along with him in advocating a fixed
duty on corn. We are persuaded that the public is becom-
ing fast convinced that all corn• keeping-out laws are suici-
dal, and nothing less will satisfy the public mind, or the j us-
of all such lawF.
e victims of fan-
cied benefits to arise from dishonest legislation, to submit
tTictiee opfeotlpt el e chaasvee, bbuetenthteo too tl
oanbl algebenohllaiitdeiace)nntehry
; and though in
tmhuecshulioiguggieer
tthoeysust mulidsera
kick down the authority of the
House of Commons—a circumstance which now seems
by no means improbable--they will never be contented
till every remnant of the systo4 by which they have been
impoverished and aotually starved to secure the pre-
sumed greatness of the landowners, have been swept
:sway.

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