The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-22 00:00:00

Just ready, with characteristic Illustrations by Leech,
THE WA..SSAIL BOWL.
By ALBERT SMITH, Esq.
. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF
" THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c.
Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
TII E JACK O'L ANTERN
(LE FEU FOLLET);
OR, THE PRIVATEER,
A Story of the Sea,
By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq.
" The characters are various, including Nelson himself. The
Admiral is capitally sketched. With same limitations, we
think The Jack n'Lantern' is one cf Mr. Cooper's best no-
vels. The personages are drawn with discrimination, and the
dialogue is conducted with a dramatic ease andlife. Every part
01 the work, toot bears the stamp of reality. Of familiarity with
seamanship it is unnecessary to speak in the case of the origi-
nater of the modern nautical novel."—Spectator.
Raoul Yvard, the hero, is the clever dashing rellow. whom.
C; per loves to put on board a craft."—Athenaeum. -
" Rapidity of action, striking and continuous interest, faith-
ful delineation of life at sea, variety of incident, and bold
s..A7,tclies of character, are the admitted characteristics of Mr.
Cooper's fictions. ' The Jack o'Lantern' will probably.take
place as the best of all his sea novels."—Salopian Journal.
" This romance will add to the well-earned reputation of
s accomplished writer. The chase and the battle, the board-
in.; and the burning, and all the peculiarities of naval strife, are
depicted in such vivid terms, that even landsmen, like our-
selves, kindle with the dauntless enthusiasm of the gallant tars."
—Caledonian Mercury.
One of Mr. Cooper's best novels."—Hampshire Adver-
tiser.

" The first place among living writers of fiction belongs,
without dispute, to Mr. Fenimore Cooper. He has conceived
and delineated, better than any other man, the poetry which
adorns the life of the forest and the sea. ' The Jack o'Lan-
tern' is worthy to rank with his former celebrated productions."
.--Sunday Times.
Riehard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
To be had at all the Libraries.

ETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal-
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been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement
of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc-
ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce-
ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge
upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea-
ture is their vast inferiolity to the Patent Brandy.
It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such
attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are
again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured
only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-1)41-s, leading to St.
John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at
Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength.

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to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,200/.
to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001., and 6001. to Liver-
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and 600!. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham-
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THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING. DEC. 22,

Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand
t"!,^ra of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide
b-, lliss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from
I.:, principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe,
Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J.

After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr.
Waiter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop,
Tdr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper,
:Yrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee.
Ooors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mali.

THEATRE ROYAL. HAY-MARKET.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 22,
Will he performed Congreve's Curoydy of THE WAY OF
THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699.
Mir Wilful) Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining;
lll.rwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witt•oud, Mr. Charles Mathews;
Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwe7l, Mr. Strickland; Mil-
Ir-nant, Madame Vestris; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover.
After which, a new Drama, called THE BA STILE. Louis
Quatorze, Mr. H. Hull; Fricandeau, 11r. Webster; the
Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma-
same Celeste.
To be followed by Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER
versus CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's original Farce of THE
LUSH LION.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 22,
Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER-
CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters
by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard,
Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan.
After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU
KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith,
Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, and Mi=s Faucit.
To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Giubilei.
To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
I\,erma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 21.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 56 : Noon, 55.
BAROMETER, N.W.

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WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
M ,ruing 45 minutes after 4 I Evening 9 minutes after 5.
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LONDON :
THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 22, 1842.

It is said that the Royal Agricultural Society.
has employed persons to watch the meetings of
the League, and report accurately all statements
-which may be thought to affect the agricultural
interest. It is further said, that the various
statements there made, the obvious condition of
the public mind, and the increasing repugnance
which is shown to the principle of protection,
have wrought a general conversion amongst the
farmers' friends. We see proofs of this great
change in their speeches at agricultural meet-
ings. It is further rumoured, though we do not
guarantee the authenticity of the rumour, and
quite agree with a Contemporary, that whatever
may be the presumed change of opinion in the
landlords, the best exertions of the League and
the bread-taxed people will still be required; but
it is rumoured that some leading member of the
agricultural interest—Mr. PUSEY, it is surmised
—will, on the first day the Parliament meets,
give notice of his intention to move for a Com-
mittee on an early day on the Corn-laws, with a
view to their total and immediate repeal. Such
a rumour,- even if well-founded, ought not, we
repeat, to relax the exertions of the League, to
which the alteration of the opinion of the farmers'
friends is owing, till the Repeal Bill has received
the Royal assent; but we also repeat that we can-
not and do not guarantee the authenticity of time
rumour, though the bare possibility of such a
course of conduct has suggested to us several
arguments in its favour.
Our known opinion on the utility of totally
and immediately repealing the Corn-law renders
it unnecessary to say a word on that poinc ; our
remarks will be confined to consider the immense
advantages which would ensue to the landlords
themselves from proposing and carrying tilat
repeal into effect. To the honest manufacturcr,
to the trader, to the labourer, it is of no conse-
quence whatever who puts an end to the law;
but to the landlords and, to the Government it
is of almost infinite importance whether the law
be abolished by a voluntary movement of the
landlords, or be forced on the Legislature by a
society banded together—aye, and honestly
and
rightfully• banded together--to put down the
unrighteous law. Who will answer for the pur-
poses to which such an organisation as that of
the League, stamped with eminent success,
which will be sure to raise up leaders with great
ulterior objects in view, may be applied? Allow

it to be the means of carrying the repeal of the
Corn-law, as it undoubtedly will, should the
landlords not now gracefully and volunt :rily
give the law up, and most likely it will become
the means, in the hands of some dangerous men,
of attempting a great revolution. There are
abundant materials in the community, properly
piled together and kindled, to produce a devouring
conflagration. Then there will be no question
whether the landlords shall divide amongst
them a few paltry millions a year, more or less,
having, at the same time, to pay great additional
charges on account of pauperism and crime ;
but the question will be, whether they shall
have any property at all, and whether their
lives can be protected. A law which directs the
hunger of the populace against the State is at all
times pregnant with danger ; and much it be-
hoves those who chiefly profit by our political
arrangements, to put an end to such a law. For
the safety of the State, with which the welfare
of the landlords is closely connected, they should
take the lead in abolishing their own enactment.
At present they are as much abused as any
class of men that ever existed, and because they
are palpably in the wrong they
.are obliged pa-
tiently to bear with what is said against their
political conduct. For the sake of a few paltry
millions a year distributed amongst them,
they are becoming discredited with the
community, and losing their hold of the
public respect, which is the basis of all
political power. All the censure and vituperation
now daily heaped on them they may at once
stifle for ever,—all that discredit they may in-
stantly cast off, and regain the esteem of all ho-
nest men, comprising the bulk of the nation, by
gracefully acting as the rumour states they in-
tend to act. All the attacks made on them last
session, which, going forth from the Houses of
Parliament unanswered and unrefuted, had a
powerful effect on the public mind, will be re-
newed next session, enforced by many additional
facts, many additional arguments, and much con-
demnation of their own principles by the
GonINGs, DICKINSONS, and other members of
their own party. Such attacks, repeated session
after session, will destroy their character, and
their political power will disappear. They will,
in the end, after suffering in public opinion, have
their so-called protection snatched from them,
while they can only be impoverished and de-
graded by continuing laws which injure them
and the community at large. The further loss of
character, and further loss of power, with which
they are threatened, will be at once arrested by
Mr. PUSEY, or some other leading farmers' friend,
proposing the repeal, and at once they will ac-
quire the renewed respect and the confidence of
the public. The tongues of their enemies will be
immediately tied. Those who assemble toblame
will be loud in their praise. The torrent that
might wash them away will but clear out the
channels of public prosperity, and fix the struc-
ture of their greatness on a surer basis. The
wonderful change that would take place in time
public sentiments by the landlords pursuing the
graceful and generous course which the rumour
indicates, would require several columns to de-
scribe, and we content ourselves with merely al-
luding to the suppression at once, and for ever,
of all discussion in Parliament, and out of Parlia-
ment, on this question, and to the sudden con-
version of the loud and deep curses of the nation
into warm and heart-cheering applause.

If they take this lead they may be entitled to
say to the public, " the law was the act of your
organised and recognised authorities, and the
whole nation is responsible for its consequences.
Do not, therefore, make us suffer exclusively by
the change. Give us compensation for all the
damage that may accrue to us from the repeal.
Stand betwixt us and our creditors, should the
value of our properties fall, and we be unable to
meet our engagements." But by alone resisting,
the change, they make the law exclusively their
own. They might. now have a capitulation; but
if they force the rest of the community to storm
their stronghold, they will then be entirely at
the mercy of the conqueror. Let them take the
lead in proposing the abolition of all Corn-laws,
and they may almost dictate the terms of the
compensation.

Another consideration is, that our whole sys-
tem of criminal jurisprudence, that many of
the laws concerning property, particularly the
laws concerning the tenure of land in Ireland,
the laws concerning the currency and banking,
the election laws, including the whole system of
registration,—that the fiscal system of the coun try
and the extension or reformation of the Church,
urgently demand the attention of the Legislature.
But as long as this bread question is a subject
of agitation—the subsistence of the community
is of such primary importance, that it must and
will absorb every other. Till that be put at rest
it will be impossible either for the public or the
Parliament to attend to any other great question;
and as it can in no way be so certainly and wisely
settled as by the landlords taking the lead in
abolishing the law, we are not surprised that men
should say that they mean to adopt that course.
We are almost ashamed to support views that
concern the whole empire by mere party consi-
derations ; but at present there is a great proba-
bility that this will be made a party question, and
then it might be fatal to the Administration.
Were the landlords to take the lead, and propose the
abolition of the law, it would be instantly stripped
of all party character. Mr. PUSEY would at once
annihilate Mr. VILLIERS as a Repealer. There
would be nothing for the Whigs to glorify them-
selves about, and nothing for the Tories to be
ashamed of. Sir ROBERT PEEL would be in-
stantly relieved from all his present embarrass-
ments on this question; the mere contests of
political parties in a fair and open field might be
renewed; and lie, as the cleverest administrator,
as the most influential man in the House of Corn-
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conceive nothing so extremely advantageous to
Sir R. PEEL and the Conservatives generally, as for
Mr. PUSEY to give the notice we have alluded to on
thev veryi first night of the session. The union be-
tiixttle Premier and the landowners would be as
surely cemented as the reconciliation between
the landed aristocracy and the bulk of the peo-
ple. Puttingparty considerations, however, out of
view, and looking
only at the character and poli-
tical power of tha landowners; looking at what
they will suffer by allowing the agitation of
this question to be continued—and only by the
abolition of the law can it be put an end to ; and
looking at what they will gain in reputation by
proposing a repeal of all the Corn and Provision-
laws, which are intended to promote their advan-
tage, without effecting any such object, we are
decidedly and clearly of opinion that they could
adopt no more manly nor wiser course than that
indicated by the rumour which has given rise to
our reflections.

We called attention
,on Tuesday to the connec-
tion which exists between agrarian outrages in
Ireland and the want of employment in Eng-
land. We pointed out that so long as there wai
an active demand in Scotland and England for
large bodies of emigrants from Ireland, the
competition for land there was diminished, and
outrages decreased. That circumstance affords
the explanation, we believe, of the diminution
of those outrages during a portion of the time
the Whigs were in office, and not any great dif-
ference between their mode of administering
the Government of Ireland, and that of
the Tories. The country Magistracy was much
the same under both Administrations; the
lawswere the same; the protection given to land-
lords, and to the people, was about the same ;
the notice was the same; the tenure of land was
the same; and, therefore, wo ascribe the compa-
rative freedom from agrarian outrages, which took
place between 183Gand 1340, tothe brisk demand
during the greater portion of that period for la-
bour in England and Scotland. It is of some
impoLtance to repeat this view, because politi-
clans wi:.l not sufficiently consider the natural
circumstanc,
which determine the welfare of so-
ciety, and low.
chiefly to the statute-book and
to parties to exp 'lainits varying condition. It is
of especial importa. nee, in regard to the present
state of Ireland ; fbr a number of Irish noblemen
and gentlemen are pre2,,iting,ACcordingto the Du-
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