The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-26 00:00:00

COMPLETE SUFFRAGE.
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A - -
PUBLIC MEETING in favour of the princi-
ples of COMPLETE SUFFRAGE will be held in the
-HALL of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 242 A, High
Holborn, on MONDAY EVENING, Ang. 29.
JOSEPH STURGE, Esq., in the Chair.
The Chair will be taken at Eight o'Clock precisely.

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HAMBURGH, 12rn Annus; 1842.
HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA,
AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA,
Raving A UTHORISED and GUA HAN TEED several DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which,
though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES
may be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
sue Selling.
GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS

for the said DISTBIBU HONS.
Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS
o giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI-
CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH.
P.S.—NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on 15th
OCTOBER, 1843.
NEXT POLISH DISTRIBUTION on 15th MARCH,
1843.

NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION on let of NEXT
MONTH.
SELECTION for the PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on
Ist JULY next.
SELECTION for the POLISH DISTRIBUTION on
let MARCH tirxt.
The SELEC TION for the AUSTRIAN DISTRIBU-
TION has, already taken place, namely, on Ist of JUNE, THE
DISTRIBUTION TAILING PLACE ON THE FIRST
OF NEXT MONTH.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 26.
Will be performed the Drama entitled SELF ACCUSATION.-.
characters by Messrs. Gabe' ry, W. H. Bland, Lynne, Green, Miss
Granby, and Miss Faucit.
To which will be added, the Farce of DEAL' AS A POST.—
Tristrain Sappy, Mr Harley ; Sally Nlaggs, Miss Stanley.
To he by the Bui Litt. of BLUE BEARD.—BIue Beard,
Mr. J. Bland; Shackoblack, Mr. Oxberry ; Fatima, Miss Crisp;
Irene, Miss Sta,ley.
To conclude with; THERESE.—Carwin, Mr. Diddear; Therese,
Dliss Faucit
Boxes, 4s. Pit, W.—Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ;
commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine . .
Pnvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ;
and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at theit Libraries.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 26.
The pfffornances will commence with LA SONNAM.
MULA.—Asnioi, Miss Ramer; Liza, Mrs. Serle; Rodolpho, Mr.
Later; Elvino, Mr. W. Hirrison ; with an increased Band, and a
powerful t;horus, conducted y Mr. t Stansbury.
After which, THE QUAKEIL—Steady, Mr. Leffler.
To conclude with, the Comic Extravaganza of ANGELS AND
LUClFERs.—Benjamin Brimstone, M'. U. Wild; Sally Gingham,
Miss Terrey.
Places and Private Boxes may be had of Mr...l.SKerschner, at the
I ox Office, from Eleven fill Four daily.

NA, ATER AT LONDON MUDGE THIS DAY.
"shs'rning 33 minutes after 4 I Evening 48 minutes after 4.

years they have been writing against cheap
bread. The Post was at the pains, for several
months, to prove, almost daily, that any pos-
sible reduction of the price of corn would not
amount to half a farthing a loaf, and it held up
to the scorn of the people the demand for the
repeal of the Corn-laws. It affirmed, too, al-
most daily, that to give our people cheap bread
would degrade them to the level of the black
bread and sour trout eating Germans. It main-
tained stoutly that cheap living implied low
wages, and it treated those as the enemies of the
people who asked for cheap bread. The Herald
took a somewhat similar line of argument. We,
therefore, were astonished to find the Post yes-
terday pouring out charges against those who
kept up the price of bread, though
"wheat has fallen during the last few
weeks 20s. per quarter." Far from now thinking
that this fall of 20s. should have no influence on
the price of a loaf, it called those " rogues in
grain" who do not sell their 41b. loaves "for 7d.
at most." We cordially congratulate our Con-
temporary on his conversion to the doctrine that
a cheap loaf is beneficial to the eaters of bread.

The Herald is a convert too. It now takes
the common sense view, and cries out that the
41b. loaf ought to be only 6d. " The bakers
and millers," it affirms, " are at the root of all
the evil of high prices of bread," and " the odium
now thrown on the agricultural classes, is justly
chargeable on the bakers and millers." Both
the monopolist journals, then, have suddenly be-
come the advocates of cheapness. The clue to
their contradiction is this. It was supposed that
the repeal of the Corn-laws would benefit mill-
owners, manufacturers, and others of the middle,
classes; now it is supposed•that the high prices'
•benefit millers and bakers, and in both cases envy
of the well-doing of industrious tradesmen prompts
the contradictory opinion. They are an evidence
of the hatred of tradesmen which the. geUtry
nourish, and which their organs express, and of
nothing else.
Very little of our own farmers' crops is yet
brought to market. They, therefore, cannot
have reaped the benefit of those high prices'
which are maintained for their advantage. Be-
fore they can have sold more than a few bushels
of wheat, prices, the Post says, have fallen 20s.
a quarter, or one-third. What a vast fluc-
tuation in a few weeks. In the next few weeks,
probably, prices will' fail still further. Why
should the monied men who command the
market—and who know, as well as they know
that two and two make four, that the farmer
must sell—give him one farthing more than they
can help? They will not buy on the benevolent
principle, though the farmer be wholly unable to
pay his rent.
Two million two hundred thousand quarters of
foreign wheat have been entered for home
consumption, while our own harvest is abun-
dant, and the price of wheat must fall far
and fast. Behold one of the beauties of PEEL'S
sliding scale. Prices were forced up, and kept
up, by all possible means, to catch, it possible,
the bounty of 800,0001. which the law offered to
the adventurous holders of the 2,200,000 quarters
of wheat, could they bring it in at ls. duty. They
have lost the great stakes they played for, and
the bankruptcy of the corn dealers—throwing
their stocks on the market—is the consequence.
The high prices which have ruled of late have
been artificial, and the farmers and millers have
not, in fact, experienced that great reduction
which appears to the public, and on which scores
of writers are now complaining of them for not
lowering the price of flour and bread.

We need not recommend our readers to pe-
ruse the trial of SulssE, the Marquis of HERT-
FORD'S valet. It is a sort of reading of which
they are greedy, and they will devour it. - The
moral lesson which that trial teaches will not at
this time .be lost on the public. They will not
fail to remark in what manner the wealth of the
aristocracy is spent, while our artizans are starv-
ing. The connection which exists between their
miserable poverty, and the unwholesome wealth
of such men as the Marquis of HERTFORD, is ap-
parent, and it is equally apparent that a more
equal distribution of wealth than now obtains

would confer immeasurable benefits both on the
poor and the rich.

Scarcely a day passes without some additional
proofs that the conduct of the metropolitan police
is directly at variance with the spirit of the Con-
stitution, and dangerous to the liberty and secu-
rity of the subject. No investigation, as far as
we can learn, has been instituted into their vio-
lent and illegal proceedings at Kennington-com-
mon; the rest of the body, therefore, naturally
follow the example of the Inspectors who rode
down the people, and the constables who used such
unnecessary violence, and unless some measures
are taken by the Home Government to abatethis
dangerous" system, no man's life will be safe. Is
further evidence than the following required?
On Tuesday two men in a frolicking manner
knocked down a flower-pot in-a street within the
Clerkenwell district, when a policeman was sent
for, and one of them by design or accident in the
scuffle which ensued, struck him on the mouth
with his hand. No . evidence was given that
the blow was intended, or that the police-
man had suffered the slightest injury, yet
for this trifling affair, the constable, whose name
is Marsh, dragged him into the road, knocked
him down, and then raising him up, dashed him
with great force against the road. He then re-
peated the act, when the man appeared quite
dead, and was carried away on a stretcher. Well
might the Magistrate say that " the policeman's
conduct was most violent and atrocious, and with-
out a shadow ofjustification." The other case is
still worse, as the unfortunate victim was entirely
innocent, and the wanton assault was committed
by a Superintendent, we presume, on horseback.
A youth fifteen years of age, was pass-
ing through the open space in front of the
Clerkenwell Sessions-house, on his way home
from the City, and while there, says the corres.
pondent of a Tory Contemporary, " a cowardly
brute, mounted on horseback, rode up, and with
a violent blow of his truncheon struck the uu-
offending individual senselesS to the ground;
when partially recovered, the monsters (mean-
ing the dismounted force) showed him no com-
passion, but told him to go round by the City-
road. This he did, was laid on a sofa,
and was immediately seized with vomiting,
uttering wild and incoherent expressions." And
are such deeds of atrocity to be endured in a
laud of liberty, and committed, too, daily by
men paid by their victims to preserve the peace ?
No exertion appears to have been made by the
Police Commissioners to discover the unmanly
assailant, for all the satisfaction the father of the
youth could . obtain was, that if the man could
-he identified, every assistance would be rendered.
.IVOW,.this is pure 'mockery. Can there be any
diNcuity in ascertaining who the inspector was, •
when the deed was witnessed by, perhaps, fifty
of the men, and the Commissioners know what
fll'otirited officers '(probably not more than one or
two) were on 'duty-at that spot? Sir R. PEEL
would du well to look into these , proceedings.
'He has the credit of having established this new
force, (tad if be abet such unconstitutional con-
duct, .the.public will justly say that his object
was to break the free spirit of the people, and
mitintain his political principles and a Tory Go-
vernment by means of brute force.

We have adrices from Madrid of the 17th
insta►;t. General ZURBtNO, of whose cruelties
E414,0pe has heard so muchfis to be rewarded fui•
recent services by the title of Marquis of
GIRONA, The Manta Donna CARLOTTA ap-
pears not to have been idle during the short
period of her stay in the Spanish capital. Her
Royal Highness's genius for match-making is
thus alluded to by the Castellano—a journal
whicl► rarely supports the measures of the RE-
GENT. It appears that ESPARTERO had good
grounds for removing her from further commu-
nication with the young Queen Anima ISA..
BELLA. 11. :
" It has come to our ears that certain intrigues, to
which we alluded in• one of our previous numbers,
have had no small share in producing these disagree.-
Lucas—intrigues. coutilved, if not by the uncle and

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