The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—It is not the least calamitous symptom of
such times as the present, that coarse, ignorant, and un-
principled men thrust themselves forward to denounce
all classes whom a suffering people can. be brought to
regard as answerable for their sufferings. Mr. Fer-
rand thinks proper to p'ace foremost, amongst the causes
of the present distress, such migrations as took place a
fsw years back tram the agricultural to the manufac-
turing districts. Now, if this were true, it would seem that
so many labourers had been transferred improperly from
places where they prospered, to places where they do
not prosper—the natural remedy would seem to Le
to send them back. But is it a matter of fact that it
was found they couliii prosper where they were ? Is it
a matter of fact that to be sent back is the boon they
covet ? Neither of these questions can be answered
in the affirmative. As regards the first, it would seem
to be answered already by Mr. Ferrand's statement
(if we could believe that, or any other, statement of
Arf. Ferranti), that the southern landlords had saved
two mu ,ions and a half by the transfer of their labourers.
If this were true, those labourers must have been living
upon the land as paupers. Would their condition have
been much better than it had they staid there still ?
Does the land supply unlimited funds for prosperous pau-
per maintenance ? If 2,400,000/. required to be raised
by compulsory charity for these labourers while they staid
on the land, what sum would require to be raised now,
when their number would have been increased, and the
cost of subsistence has been augmented ? Would those
labourers, who could not find profitable employment
on the land in 1837, find comfortable maintenance on it
now ? Would they have found such maintenance even
under the old Poor-law ? Ask Captain Swing's vete-
rans of 1830. 1)o those who cannot find work on the
land wish to remain on, or to return to it ? Ask the
man for w horn the Duke of Buckingham subscribed
twenty shillings to send him back to Manchester ? Ask
the men themselves who have missrated to the towns.
If we are not misinformed, they arc even now unwilling
to be sent back again. It is, however, certain that those
whose numbers were found surplus on the land five years
ago, are I, :um] surplus the towns now. That is true,
though Mr. Ferranti affirms it. Their sufferings are
certain, though Mr. Ferrand bears witness to them.
They call loudly for public and private relief, though
Mr. Ferrand says so. Relief by way of general taxation,
is the worst possible mode, though it cannot be affirmed
that public advances to suffering classes are indefensible,
under all circumstances.
STANDARD.—In the House of Lords last night,
Lord Radnor, in moving fur returns of grain entered for
home censumption, took occasion to make a long speech
upon the present distress, which he of course tried
to connect with the Corn-laws. Ile was nnswered
shortly by the Duke of Wellington, who, acknow -
!edging the extent of the distress, and avowing
his sincere sympathy with the sufferings of the
people, sated that the Government would pursue
ifs present course in endeavouring to mitigate those
sufferings, without resorting to extraordinary measures.
We would take leave to put to Lord Radnor, and to all
others who affect to discover a connexion between the
Corn-laws and the existing distress, one or two plain
questions :—First, have the sufferers from the present
depression the means of buying corn, even were it
for sale at a fourth of its present price ? This ques-
tion, we presume, must be answered in the negative.
Secondly, if the want of money, arising from want of
employment, which afflicts so many of the people arises
from the Corn-laws, how does it happen that the same,
or even a worse, degree of distress is felt in the corn-
gron ing countries of the Continent ? We are told that
our manufacturers are idle, because they cannot exchange
the pro !Lice of their labour for the corn of other coun-
tries ; but we inquire, what substitute for their
labour has been found since 1840 ? The people
of the Continent have not yet learned to dis•
pense with the use of clothing and hardware ; but
sur 1.7 Fthey had contrived to create among themselves,
in two or three years, a sufficient substitute for the sup-
ply h -retofore received from England, their condition
must, from the operation of such a stimulus to industry,
be one of unexampled prosperity. Here then is Lord
Radnor's difficulty. He has discovered that British in-
dustry is paralysed by the Corn-laws, but he cannot find
where the demand fur industry has wandered.
COCRIER.—Mr. Ferrand brought forward his mo-
tion on the distress of the country, with a proposition
of relief by a vote of one million to be applied in alle-
viation of the general state of suffering. Conceiving the
remedy proposed to be quite inadequate to the object in
view, besides its manifest impolicy and injustice in taxing
all for the behoof of a part of the population, whereby
property would escape that fair proportion of the burden
which would have rightfully fallen upon it under the
old constitutional Poor-law, we must still join with the
general voice in applauding the sterling benevolence of
intention of the truly honourable and philanthropic
mover. As usual, whenever he rises, he was assailed
from the Opposition benches with all the taunts and
scurrility which language and action could convey,
and the forms of the House admit of. It is one of
the peculiar merits of Mr. Ferrand, and happily one
leading cause of his great usefulness, that he pos-
sesses, in a remarkable degree, a coolness of temper
which cannot be ruffled, and a moral courage so
indomitable that it cannot be shaken. He repelled the
foul invectives of his opponents, therefore, with a be-
coming expression of scorn and contempt. Referring
to the accusations launched against him of exciting the
suffering people out of doors to violence, by his noble
exertions in their behalf within, he, in a burst of in-
dignant eloquence, asserted the integrity of his own
conduct, and denounced the malpractices of that nefa-
rious nest of agitation, the nearly defunct and bankrupt
Anti-Corn-law League.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 16, 1892.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap-
point Colonel Sir Robert Henry Sale, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, serving with
the rank of Major-General in Athanistan, to be a Knight
Grand Cross of the said Order.

\VAR-OFFICE, JUNE 17.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. M. Pipon to be
Captain, by put chase, vice Fuller, who retires ; Cornet J. P.
Cleaver to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pipon ; Gentle-
man Cadet J. S. S. Stuart, from the Royal Military College,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cleaver, June 17.
4th Regiment of Light Drag, ons—Capt. Lord George A. F.
Paget, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice C. L.
Cumberlege, who exchanges, receiving the difference, June 17.
7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon• Al.
Neale, from the 92d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bea-
van, promoted to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, June 17.
13th Regiment of Light Dragoens—Assistant-Surgeon J.
Sinclair, from the 39th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Clark, promoted to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class.
June 17.

16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet and Adjutant
P. Dynon to have the rank of Lieutenant, June 16 ; Cornet
A. Need to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gwynne, who
retires ; J. T. Waller, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Need, June 17 ; W. Morris, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Mayne, whose appointment has been cancelled, by
18.
•_d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. 'l'. Addison to be Adjutant,
vice Simmons, promoted in the Royal Canadian Regiment,
April 8.
6th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Duncan, from the Staff,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Jackson, deceased, June 17.
20th Foot—Lieutenant G. B. C. Crespigny to be Captain,
by purchase, vice .M‘Call, who retires; Ensign J. G. L.
Adlercron to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crespigny ;
'F. A. Ccflin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Aldei-
cron, June 17.
37th Foot—Lieutenant E. T. Seward to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Grignon, who retires ; Ensign R. P. Harrison to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Seward; W. J. Bazalgette,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harrison, June 17.
39th Foot—H. Armstrong, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Sinclair, appointed to the 13th Light Dragoons, June 17.
GOth Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. W. T. Cockburn to be
Lieutenant •Colonel, without purchase, vice Markham, deceased;
Capt. J. S. Wilford to be Major, vice Cockburn ; First Lieut.
J. K. Mackenzie to be Captain, vice Wilford; Second Lieut.
F. M. Callaghan to be First Lieutenant, vice Mackenzie, April
23 ; J. Warburton, Gent , to be Second Lieutenant, vice Cal-
laghan, June 17.
92d Foot—W. Bowie. M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Neale, appointed to the 7th Light Dragoons, June 17.
2d West India Regiment—E. T. Smith, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Orde, deceased, June 17.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut. W. Driberg, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet Major C. Wallett, who retires
upon full pay ; Second Lieut. J. B. Kersteman to be First
Lieutenant, vice Driberg; G. T. Dawson, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, vice Kersteman, June 17.
HOSPITAL STAFF—Assistant- Surgeon J. Clark, M.D., from
the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Staff• Surgeon of the Second
Class, vice West, appointed to the 99th Foot ; 11. L. Cowen,
Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Duncan,
appointed to the 6th Foot, June 17.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 14.

Corps of Royal Marines—H. J. Tribe, Gent., to be Secon
Lieutenant.

CommissiGn by the Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
Derby Militia—E. Coke, Esq. to be Major, vice, Sitwell,
resigned, June 11.
CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 16.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme—John Quincy Harris, of
Winchester-house, Southw ark, in the county of Surrey, and
of Brenchley, in the county of Kent, Esq.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 11.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Bourne, of
Wigton, in the county of Cumberland, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 14.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Markham Carter,
of New Alresford, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Conn of Chancery.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

EDWARD HILTON and NATHANIEL WALSH,
paper manufacturers, Manchester.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

JAMES ROBERTS, licensed victualler, Berwick-street,
Soho.

GEORGE HIBBERT, jun., Che:terfield, Derbyshire.
WILLIAM HEADLAND, tailor, Louth, Lincolnshire.
BANKRUPTS.

ROBERT ROBERTS, grocer, Newtown, Montgomery,
to surrelkr July 8 and at 29, eleven, at the Oak Inn,
Wehhpool. Drew and Woosnam, Newtown ; Weeks, Cook's-
court, Lincoln's Ir n, London.
JAMES ALFRED WEBB and DAVID WEBB, farmers,
Great Marlow, Bucks, June 24th, and July 29, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee, Cole-
man-street-buildings ; Waller, Finsbury-eireu..
JOHN BRETTARGH, timber dealer, Pendleton, Lanca-
shire, June 20, and July 19, at ten, at the Commissioners'
rooms, Manchester. Foster, Manchester; Nethersole. Essex-
street, Strand, London.
ROBERT INSOLL, coach maker, Brighton, June 24 and
July 29, at one, at the Town-hall, Brighton. Williams, Alfred.
place, Bedford-square, London.
JOSEPH BRADBURY and RALPH BRADBURY,
cotton-spinners, Oldham, July 4, at ten, and 29, at twelve, at
the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. J. and W. Heron,
Manchester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London.
JOSIAH CUTTELL, clothier, Holmfirth, Yorkshire;
July 1 at two, and July 29 at ten, at the George Hotel, Hud-
dersfield. • Cornthwaite, Dean's-court, Doctors'-Commons,
London; Cornthwaite, Liverpool.
JAMES HOPKINS, butcher, Le;ghton Buzzard, Bedford_
shire, June a anti July 29, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.