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

SPIRIt of the PUBLIC .:JOURNALSI
PROM TI/E EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—It is impossible to imagine anything more
opposite than the statement which Sir Robert Peel made
list night, of the principle of his tariff, to the vote which
he and' his party imposed on the House against the re-
daction of the sugar duties. The principle of the tariff,
as Sir. Robert Peel last night stated it, was to effect
a great saving on the whole, by the multiplication of small
savings in the cost of hieing._ Epusc, bp obvious that-
these small savings 'are most important on the first
necessaries of life. It . must be obvious that, where
the dearness of those necessaries results from. their
scarcity (or, in other words, is the consequence of
Monopoly, which is. the mother of scarcity), the case is
strongest of all for applying the alleged principle of the
tariff. For, in those cases, a hardship is' endured be-
yond that of mere dearness relative to the cheapest
rate at which the article could be obtained. In those
cases an artificial scarcity is created, which is ex-
pressed by a price . too high for 'the means of the
people at large. Prices necessarily rise above the
means of the many, because there is not enough of the
article brought into, the market .to supply the many.
In those cases, too, the principle of the tariff may be
applied with most safety to the necessary
.object of
revenue, and with most certainty of its ultimate improve-
ment. The revenue from any article must be curtailed,
while the people aro stinted of that article. Thus,'
there is a double evil in duties intended to stilt monopo-
lies, awl a double advantage, with a view to the public
relief, in.reducing them. The public get more of the
article ; the treasury in the end gets more revenue from
it ; and the Government are eventually enabled to take off
ether taxes. The only compensations offered for the In-
come-tax are those reductions of duties, the foremost of
which, for the reasons above salted, should have been made
upon those necessaries, of which the supply is notoriously
and confessedly inadequate to the demand. It was
stated by Mr. Labouchere, from a commercial circular
issued on the Ist inst., that the stock of sugar at this
moment in England is less than it was at the correspond-
ing period of last year by 12,000 tons. The whole
amount imported from the West and East Indies, and
foreign parts, has considerably decreased during that
period, and we have been drawing on our stock in hand.
Is it possible to imagine a stronger case for the applica-
tion of the principle of the tariff ? That principle, how-
ever,' is nut to be applied this year. "Thou art neither
fish nor flesh ; a man knows not where to have thee."
The 'Premier seems ,to reply somewhat like Hostess
Quickly, " Thou art an unjust man in saying so ; thou,
or any man knows where to have me." 'Mr. Wakley
thought fit to nickname the late Ministry squeezable; but
we have pretty plain hints from this one that squeezing,
and nothing else, will extract cheap sugar from them—
next year.
STANDARD.—The colonies of the empire ought to
be treated as integral and inseparable parts of the
United Kingdom, or their connection with it will he of
.no long duration. That the colonies, founded by our
ancestors and ourselves, or long possessed—and they
make up the great mass—have the right to be so Mists
tiered, admits of no dispute. They have this right an
tecedent to all engagements, whether express or implied,
,because the colonists are the sons of Englishmen, .or
theusselves Englishmen, and can be divested of
or any' of the rights of Englishmen by no act
which the laws of his country do not forbid ; and one
of the most important of these rights is to be placed
upon} a footing of perfect equality with all of one's fellow-
subjects, whether dwelling within the same seas or be-
spud them. We have got into a habit of calling
'em: ' colonies dependencies, as if dependence ..neces-
wiily implied inferiority and subjection. This is,
I.:weever, impertinent and false ; in one sense, all the
pails. of the empire are dependencies each upon the
rests because each part is dependent upon the
s lode (Ste proteetion, and for the encourageineut
ant' ins indsistry. Thus, Middlesex is ti dependency of the
enioire ; and so are Surrey and Kent ; but in no other
sense than this can Canada or Jamaica be called a de-
pendency. The Englishmen of Canada and Jamaica are
in all respects our equals. Let this indisputable propie-
sition be once conceded, and it follows that we are as
much bound to protect the industry of Canada and A-
;make as we are to protect the industry of Lancashire,
'Yorkshire, and Warwickshire. But it will be objected,
beat the colonies in question may be left to protect their
("ea industry. The reply to this objection is, that you
du isoi permit them—you reserve in your own hands the
direction of the commerce of the empire ; and if' any of
these over-sea Englishmen, of whom we are speaking,
resists your arrangements,you call him a rebel, and
treat him as such. This, hen, is the state Of the case.
'The whole body of the British empire—the whole Eng-
'll'4ll nation—dispersed as it and they are, throtigh all
climates have an equal and a common right to the
atsaass protection of its and their industry, and
other jteterests, that is consistent with the common
good. l's•oin necessity, the chief direction must
reside in souse one of the parts of the empire, hut. it
naturally fixes ,itself in the most powerful, the richest,
and the parent ,state. With that State it rests to
equal justice, putsrg on one side all selfish views ;
• aria if it faithfully discharge this duty the empire, must
grow, and prosper, And improve in union as well as in-
telligence. We are' not of the number' of those who
think with Montesquieu, that as Rome has fallen Great
Britain too must fall—stil' - less do we think with
others that we approach the limits of national greatness,.
We miss the first 'symptom of suclL7.lamity—the de-
terioration of morals. On the other han-,-
syse witness
ssith joy and gratitude a vast moral and retie:km,' im-
provement—a growing anxiety for temporal and spfir!Satt,
Messings—the well-being of all ourfellow-creatures, on the
-fart of the people, if not on the part of the Legislature and
Gessernment; and from this auspicious omen we hold the
belie? that the British empire has not even approached its
zenith ; and we know that by the observation of a just
policy, to :U, and with the aid of such moral and religious
• improvernen• as we witness, this empire may still ad-
vance in greatnass and happiness, even to the consumma-
' -don of all thinss; If the march of this glorious destiny is
not to retrograde, we'nsust preserve our colonies, and to the
preservation of our colonies it is necessary that-awe•
treat with them with ju.saCe—not merely with such nig-
gard justice as consists in /rot injuring them, but with
she justice that we should claim from them, if oui.posi-
tion were reversed—in short, with tfi4 same encourage-
molt for their industry that we'claim for -our own; We.
meat really treat them " es integral parts of alse 'United
Kingdom, or the high-spirited Englishmen who..7eQuPY,
them will look for some other name. The name MI,
Englishman does not comport with inferiority or sub-
jection to any authority but that of laws to WhiCh the
owner is either immediately or indirectly a party. •

MONEY-MARKET and CITY NEWS.
TIMES.—'The early appearance exclusively of the Indian
news in these whims excited great interest in the City, The
loss of Ghuznee has not created any great surprise, as it was
pretty generally anticipated ; and this unfavourable intellgence
is considered to be more than compensated for by the forcing
of the Khyber Pass. On the whole, affairs in that quarter of
the world are not thought to be in so desperate a condition as
was at first supposed.
In the advice' received from the North to-day mention was
made of the failure of Messrs. Hardie, a firm engaged in the
tallow trade at Leith. Here the event is regarded as of no
great importance.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, June 4.
ILICHAKDSON V. lIOATON.
This cause came on upon exceptions taken to the Master`.report by the plaintiffs, the creditors of Sir Walter Horton,
deceased. The report found that large sums were due from
the testator, Sir W, Horton, to Sir Thomas Horton at the time
of the testator's decease, which the plaintiffs stated was not the
ease, and bad taken exceptions accordingly. The arguments
in the case engaged the Court • the entire day, and were not
concluded when Lord Langdale rose. • ' - , •

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jun e,4.
( Before Vice-Chancellor WIG aa )
Hia Hoecm a disposed of several unopposed petitions and
short causes, none of which presented any feature of public
interest; after which Counsel proceeded with the further ar-
guments in the part-heard cause of Henderson v. Hunter. •