The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-30 00:00:00

I some deputations which have waited on Sir
ROBERT, he has signified. his willingness, on ac-
count of the pecuniary loss it might occasion, to
postpone his tariff to another sesSion. When he
has got an income tax he will, perhaps, appoint a
Committee to inquire which of all the taxes on
, trade he can, a year or two hence, best remove.
In the mean time, he has alarmed every interest
in the country, and kindled more agitation
amongst classes generally quiet than .has pre-
vailed for many years. 'We believe that he has
effectually blown up the foundations of his own
popularity and power.
Perhaps he relies on the Houses of Parliament
and disregards PAlic opinion. He has not been
much accustomed., to look beyond. the former,
and if he can prevail there he may think his
power will be safe. The Parliament has a long
term of existence, which is just begun. Per-
haps he means to rule, by means of Parliament,
in spite of the people. Such a scheme may suc-
ceed for a season—he may pass his income tax,
and postpone or pass his tariff; but neither will
last beyond the period. when his odious, inqui--
sitorial scheme, for extorting money from the
people by the threat of exposing their private
concerns, shall have come into operation,
and shall have excited public indignation. May
it not then happen, that in overturning the in-
come tax, the power which imposes it will be
endangered? If the constituencies think it
useless to petition the Parliament collectively,
they may warn their Members individually
of the fate which.. will await them, and
await the Parliament, should it make
itself the tool of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S foolish
ambition. As the agriculturists are re-
sisting the tariff, and probably will be suc-
cessful, the townspeople ought to resist the
income tax, which will then be uncompensated
by the tariff, and will fall with double severity on
then,. On Monday Parliament re-assembles,
and if the constituencies do not mean to sacrifice
their own rights, and disinherit their children,
they will everywhere meet and express their
opinions on one of the most multifarious, most
arrogant, and most worthless changes that ever
a Minister attempted in Great Britain.

The complain t made by the W est India planters
is, that the cost of growing mgar, under the
discriminating duty, is more than the price they
can obtain for it in the. English markets. Fol-
lowing out the system, patronised by. Sir R.
PEEL and Lord STANLEY, of regulating and pro-
tecting trade, securing to certain " great inter-
ests," by means of laws an adequate return for
the capital embarked in cultivation—however
recklessly or unskillfully that may have been
applied—it will be necessary to raise the discri-
minating duty still higher, and increase the price
of sugar by keeping out everything that can pos-
sibly be used in its stead. The principle of pro-
tection followed out to its true consequences
will compel the state to go on, as the disadvan-
tages of the cultivation of sugar increase, enhanc-
ing the sum fixed as a protecting duty till the
whole property of the people be swallowed up
in encouraging the growth of sugar.
There is, however, another method by which
tha market may be extended, and which some
idle, or ruminating people, called thinkers,• say
is preferable to the PEEL-STANLEY system. They
say that men must have bread before sugar, and
that the more difficult it is for them to get bread,
or the dearer it is, the less money they will have
wherewith to buy fugar. They say, that when
bread is cheap and abundant, trade is invariably
good; employment is comparatively plentiful ; the
people have something to give the West Indians
and others who produce articles next in utility to
those necessary for subsistence; and that, conse-
quently, the means to obtain a good price in the
home market, for West Indian raw sugar, is to
put an end to the Corn-laws, and allow trade
to go a-head.

But it so happens, say these idle ruminating
people, who do not always believe all the conclu-
sions which avarice and ambition draw from any
premises it suits them to assume, that the very
same class and tribe of politicians who pass laws
to give the West India planters a high price for
their sugar, also pass laws to give the landowners
a high price for their corn, to narrow the supply
of food, to limit employment, to keep down po-
pulation, and to take from the bulk of the people
the means of purchasing sugar at any price,
much less at a high price. They both stimulate
the production of sugar and narrow the market
for it. To enable the people here to consume, at
a good price, all that the colonists are stimulated
to produce, they ought to be allowed to increase
as fast as possible, and to acquire, by the freedom
of their industry, as much wealth as possible.
But those who stimulate the labours and the
competition of the planters, by an enormous
bounty, at the same time destroy the growing
market for their produce.
The very same law-makers, say the idle thinkers,
aim at effecting incompatible objects. They
want to accomplish physical impossibilities—
to enrich both the agriculturists, who buy sugar,
and the planters, who sell it. They cannot aug-
ment by a single grain the whole sum of sugar
and corn produced, but they say that by raising
the price of both, the two being, in the end, ex-
changed for each other, they can increase the
profits both of the sugar-growers and wheat-
growers. The law-makers cannot interfere with
either without taking a portion of it to reward
them for their trouble, which is known as a tax
which may amount to a sixth part of the whole;
and yet while they arc unable to augment the
whole stock, and while they take a part of it to
themselves, they pretend that by their interfe-
rence, and by devising a discriminating duty on
sugar, and a corn-law which takes something
away from the agriculturists, and largely away
from the sugar planter, they enrich both. The
idle thinkers say that this a specimen of all the
protecting laws concerning trade, which Lords
PALMERSTON and HOWICK have lately declared,
very emphatically and very justly, isnota proper
subject for legislation. They add, that when
the system is subjected to a severe analysis, it
turns out to be a piece of gross quackery, or
gross humbug, by which the tax-collectors and
tax•consumers may profit, but by which all the
producing classes, whom it pretends to benefit,
are cheated and defrauded.

We are inclined to believe that these idle
thinkers, the class of men whom BONAPARTE
hated, and whom GEORGE 111. hated, under the
name of metaphysicians, are nearly right, and we
arc clearly of opinion that the persons who
strive to enrich the West India plantera, while
they maintain a heavy tax by a slidin:r scale
on bread, are playing at cross purposes. They
are building up with one hand, and pulling
down with the other. They set some men to
sow, and others to take the seed out of the
ground. They pass one law to raise the price of
sugar, and another to limit its consumption.
Contradictory purposes like these, which
may be traced in every two lines of the tariff, are
called political wisdom. They are what politicans
break nearly all the commandments to effect.
They are what the people are required to obey
at the point of the bayonet, and asked to worship;
and what all the respectable part of society
think it their duty to enforce at the expense of
life and fortune. The idle thinkers shake their
heads at the sad conclusion, and ask, can good
come of such a monstrous error and delusion ?

HORRIBLE AND DARING MURDER IN WISCONSIN
—A heart-rending duty devolves upon us this week.
which is to announce the death of the Hon. Charles C.
Aradt, a Member of the Council from the county o.
Brown, who was shot in the Council-roomlay J. ltf
Vineyard, a Member from Grant, immediately after the
adjournment yesterday.—A discussion of a -heated cha-
racter arose upon a motion made in the Council to re-
consider a vote by which the nomination of Enos S.
Baker, as Sheriff for the county of Grant, was rejected a.
few days since. During the progress of this discussion,
some rather violent words passed between Mr. Aradt
and Vineyard. The first conceiving himself to have
been insulted, approached Mi. Vineyard after an ad-
journment, fur the put dose of seeking an explanation— a
slight personal rencontre then took place, when the latter
draw a pistol from his pocket and fired. Mr. Aradt
reeled for a few paces, then sunk to the floor, and almost
immediately expired, having been shot through tin.
heart.-- Wisconsin Enquirer, 12th inst.
The Preabytery of St. Andrew's have resolved to
ordain Mr. Robert Smith, preacher of the Gospel, on
the sth of April next, as a missionary to the Jews at
Pesth, in Hungary.