The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

notion, in conjunction with their great discon-
tent, that they were, politically speaking, very
powerful. They were therefore generally ready
to exhibit their power; and from these feelings,
when a beginning was given. the turn-out, it
became general and spontaneous.
_ We beg it may be remembered that we assign
neither, praise nor blame to any party; we only
give an outline of what appears to us to have
been the feelings which led to the outbreak.
There were great general discontent alid, a
conviction of possessing great power. We ex-
onerate no parties nor classes from the charge
of having caused those feelings. All parties,
without designing it, have so wrought for their
own purposes as to contribute to this general
discontent and general conviction. Some have
committed injustice others have held our Corn-
laws up to odium; others again have openly,
and perhaps not improperly, fanned the
flame of discontent. Journals of all kinds
have aided to bring about the result.
Some have vilified the Poor-law ; others
have condemned the Corn-law; others the
new law for registration ; butall have contributed
to generate discontent,' in conjunction with a no-
tion of power. Exonerating none, neither can we
blame any, except that great and nume-
rous pp which, constituting the majority of
the ru g classes, has resolutely persisted in
maintaining, in defiance of remonstrance and
warning, a great, though long established system
of injustice.

In making these observations, we have, we
think, clearly defined the extent to which the
Anti-Corn-law League has contributed—in com-
mon, we admit, with ourselves—to excite an un-
easy state of mind, without, in the smallest de-
gree, wishing to provoke a turn-out for wages.
We have assisted in generating discontent, and
in making man believe that he was more power-
ful than the work of his hands, or the idols that
he worships. In stating that, we are far from
making an apology for either the League or our-
selves; on the contrary, it is honourable to the
League. To set forth the evils of an institution,
and place them distinctly before the people, is
the legitimate and proper way to procure its re-
form. Blame belongs not to us, or the League,
but to those who frame and maintain the unjust
law.

We are far (says the Liverpool Times, a journal with
which we agree), from denying that recent discussions
on the subject of the Corn-laws have not had a mis-
chievous effect on the peace of the country, and it is per-
haps the greatest of all the objections to those laws, and
to laws designed to benefit a particular class at the ex-
pense of the community, that they set one portion of the
people in deadly opposition to another, and rouse the
very worst passions in the minds of all. This is itself
a strong additional reason for desiring the repeal of such
laws. It would indeed be difficult to over•estimate the
mischief produced by discussions such as those which
have lately occurred, in which the landlords on one hand
have been represented as tyrants, and the manufacturers
on the other, have been described as unprincipled
schemers, striving, under the pretence of humanity, to
destroy the prosperity of the landed interest, and at the
same time to force down the wages of their own labourers.

That is a just view of the influence which
the League may have had; and, acknowledging
its influence to that extent, the League should
boldly set at defiance those calumniators
who seek to make the community believe
that the Members of it planned the turn-
out, which was chiefly directed against them-
selves. We have never been anxious to de-
fend the League, because that implies a conscious-
ness of wrong. The League needs no defence.
It has struggled nobly, manfully, patiently, at
great expense of time and money, to obtain a
just and righteous end. We do not copy an ar-
ticle which appears in the Anti-Bread-Tax Cir-
cular, though it is a complete vindication of the
League, because all rational men praise and bless
its exertions. Very soon it will find the best
vindication in the price of corn, and the discon-
tent of the farmers. Already that price has fallen
so low that it has becoime profitable, it is said, to
export wheat to Belgium. Already the farmers
begin to be alarmed, and when they piteously
implore, and the landlords ostentatiously grant,
as they most probably will before Christmas, a
reduction of rent, the League will be completely
vindicated by its present opponents in the face of
the whole world.

Another large failure in the corn speculation trade
took place yesterday. The party's name is Richmond,
a Quaker. The exact amount is not yet ascertained.
LAW BOOKS FOR NEW ZEALAND.—According to
the Parliamentary Paper, No. 583, there were pur-
chased and supplied to the Government of New Zea-
land, in 1840, 3 copies cf " Plunket's Australian Ma-
gistrate," 1 copy of " Archbold's Practice," 4 vols. of
" Blackstone's Commentaries," 2 sets of " Black-
tone's Commentaries," 1 set of " Burn's Jus-
tice," 2 of " Archbold's Pleading and Evidence," and
1 of " Abbott on Shipping ;" also " Burn's Justice,"
complete in 5 vols., price 101.,1 set of the " Statutes
at Large," in 22 vols., and 1 set of Acts of Parlia-
ment, from Magna Charta to the 2d of Victoria. For
a new colony, of which the Governor is a Commander
of the Navy, that seems to us a very ample supply of
law books. Their cost, it is true, was only 1411., but
then law books will not do much towards clearing the
wilderness andbringing an unbroken soil in to cultivation.
It was not with such tools that the early settlers esta-
blished the present United States. The Wakefield
scheme of colonization is stigmatised as a mistake,
because it attempts to give the peculiarities of so-
ciety, formed by the necessities of a narrow space,
to a society which has space at its command. But
what is that to the pedantry of ruling a 'new society
by " Abbot on Shipping," or " Archbold's Practice,"
or the " Statutes at Large ?" Captain Hobson bids
fair to have as many litigants as subjects, and the
colony to be a more agreeable place for barristers
than farmers.

The large estates of Montague E. N. Parker, Esq.,
late M.P. for South Devonshire, situate at Paynton,
on the.river Dart, are to be sold by George Robins in
log::, next week, at Totnes.