The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-12 00:00:00

them to begin their future career by openly dis,
carding their nostrum of a fixed Bs. duty.

At present the price of wheat is 50s. per guar-
, ter; an Bs. duty is therefore 10 per cent. on the
people's food. At the cost price of the wheat
in foreign countries, supposing that to be 40s.
per quarter, the proposed duty will be 20 per,
cent. Taking the question in one way, the Whig
scheme would levy '2O per cent. certain, and
taking it the other, 16 per cent. certain, on all
the food'of the community for the advantage of
the landlords. The greater proportion of the in-
come of the bulk of the people is necessarily
spent in food, the price of which enters into
the price of all other articles, and therefore the
Whig Bs. fixed duty proposes to take 16 per
cent. from the income of the bulk of the commu-
nity to put into the pockets of the landowners.
What an enormous, and yet what a partial in-
come-tax ! That cannot be borne ; and now that
public attention has been roused and fixed on
the subject, will not be borne ; and therefore, if
the Whigs wish to obtain public support, they
must advance .to total repeal. They gave up
their opposition to unsettling the Corn-law; they
proposed to unsettle it, and tailed; and now they
must make another step, if' they mean to main-
tain a political existence, and, by uniting
cordially with the League, insure the total
and immediate abolition of all Corn and Pro-

Au immense deal, we think, hangs on their
decision, at least hangs on the total and
immediate repeal. That may, but nothing else
can, place
.our trade and agriculture on a right
basis, and restore the national prosperity. Sir
R. PEEL'S system is worse than the one he has
altered. It degrades prices without kindling
enterprise. What will be the consequence?
Increased suffering and probably an increased
aversion to unfetter commerce. Following our
bad example, and encouraged by success, of
which they know not the cause, threign countries
have already altered their tariffs with a view to
raise their own trade and depress ours. For
want of freedom our trade will probably decay;
the bulk of the community are more likely to
suppose the cause of that to be those foreign
tariffs than • our own suicidal regulations. Old
national enmities, which trade would stifle, will
probably be rekindled, and England will become
involved in poverty and discontent at home and
war abroad. Such fearful and disastrous con-
sequences it is in the power of the Whigs to
avert, by boldly following out the principles they
profess, and becoming the avowed advocates of
total and immediate repeal,
_and. of unlimited
freedom of trade.

Something like a reproach, we see, is thrown
out
.by the Journal des Debats against the
French Government, and it is echoed by
the Times, because that Government is
obliged to regulate its measures by the
prejudices of certain manufacturing interests.
But what is the case with our statesmen ? Sir
ROBERT PEEL, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Lord
PALMERSTON, with almost every Parliamentary
leader, have declared broadly in favour of the
principles of free trade. They must be the
most deceitful of men, or they must believe
that were our laws to be framed on these prin-
ciples it would be beneficial to the community.
But they do not, and dare not, carry out their
ownprinciples. They succumb to the prejudices of
certain landlords. The true government resides
not in them, but in some combination of igno-
rant and prejudiced owners of the soil. They
sacrifice the principles which they believe to be
the true guides of nations, and consent to govern
the State—consent to administer public affairs,
contrary to their own better judgment, on the
narrow, selfish views of an ignorant, besotted
class of men. Instead, then, of the nation being
governed by their wisdom, it is governed by the
selfishness of the landlords, of which our boast-

ing statesmen make themselves the humble
tools. In their conduct is neither courage nor
dignity, and they who profess free trade prin-

ciples, and consent to administer the Govern-
ment in the interest, and under the control, of
the landlords, are, in our judgment, not with-
_

standing their high offices, poor, low-minded
servile, dependent, degraded men.

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Colonel Jones, arrived at his residence at
Kew on Thursday afternoon, from a visit to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, at Canford House, Dorset-
shire. His Royal Highness visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House,
yesterday, and in the afternoon returned to Kew.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council had a
meeting at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the
Colonial-office. The Lords present were—Lord
Wharncliffe, the Lord President ; the Duke of Buc-
cleuch, Lord Privy Seal ; Sir Robert Peel, First
Lord of the Treasury ; Sir James Graham, Secretary
of State for the Home Department; and the Earl of
Ripon, President of the Board of Trade. Their
Lordships sat two hours.

The Earl of Lincoln visited Sir Robert Peel yes
:crday at his official residence in Downing-street.

GREENHITHE PIER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
Mr. Charles Bayly's compliments to the Edi-
tor of The Evening Sun, and, as a Director of the
Greenhithe Pier Company, he begs to correct an error
which occurs in the notice of the opening of the Pier,
contained in The Sun of the sth instant, in respect of
the names of the engineers who have designed and
executed the work. Those names should have been
Messrs. Birch, and not Bush—the gentleman con-
nected with the " Light of All IN ations" having
nothing to do with this Pier. Mr. Bayly, therefore,
trusts that the Editor will correct the mistake, as a
measure of justice to Messrs. Birch, to whom alone
any merit attached to this structure is due. %

Rnockholt Lodge, near Greenhithe, Nov. 11.
[The error must have been committed by the
printer mistaking "Bush" for "Bitch."—ED. Sun.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SLOGGETT V. VIA? T.

Sin—As there is an error in your report of this case
before the Vice-Chancellor yesterday, I trust you will
rectify the same. The name of the cause is Sloggett
v. Viant, and not Bryant, as your Reporter has it.
But the most material error is the assertion that .Mr.
Bethell's motion was granted, whereas the contrary
is the fact, his motion for security for costs having
been by the Vice-Chancellor dismissed with costs.
I remain your most obedient servant,
JOHN YONGE, Plaintiff's Solicitor,
Nov. 11, 1842. 20, Tokenhouse-yard.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 13th day of August, to the sth day
of November, 1842, both inclusive, published pursuant to
the Act, 3 and 4 W. Iv., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation ..X19,903,000 Securities ..... £21,934,000
Deposita 9,072.000 Bullion 9,789,000

4:28,975,000
Downing-street, Nov. 10, 1

£31,723,000

NATIONAL OPERA.—We are enabled to state' upon
the best authority, that the long wished for Music
Hall is likely soon to be in course of erection. The
patron of this national undertaking is no less a person
than Prince Albert. Earl Howe s, and other distin-
guished names, will shortly. appear ; and when we
add, that the Committee will consist of such practical
men as Messrs. Broadwood, Erard, Collard, Addison,
Chappell, Beale, Cramer, &c., there can be no doubt
that they will be eagerly supported by all lovers of
national music. It is gratifying to us that our in-
quiry o:" last week, as to what had become of the
National Opera, is so satisfactorily answered. We
shall lay the full particulars before our readers next
week.—Dramatic and Musical Review.
CELEBRATION or TIII3 PRINCE OF WALES'S BIRTH-
DAY.—WhiIe some of the tradesmen of Brighton
were celebrating the birthday of the infant Prince, at
the White horse Hotel, on Wednesday evening, the
company were disturbed by some miscreant throwing
through the window a stone of two or three pounds'
weight, which glanced by the head of the high con-
stable, who was in the chair, and fell on the table.
Several persons immediately rushed out, but the
ruffian had escaped.
Loss OF TIIE RlCARDo.—Extract from a letter of
a passenger in the Ellenborough, Captain Close, ar-
rived at Calcutta :—" We had to witness the calami-
tous catastrophe, the loss of the ship Ricardo, which
was in company with us the day before, and next day
struck on a sand bank and swamped. Out of thirty
men on board her our boats were enabled to save but
twenty, the other poor fellows being drowned or
seized by alligators before they could be resued."
Sir Robert Peel has honoured Mr. Martin, the
historical painter, by nominating his eldest son to the
appointment of a Supernumerary
Surveyor of Taxes. ,