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

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JUNE 18, 1842

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g'te their assent to it, and the Act -of Alt
effecting the change would purport to be enacted by th
authority of the Queen, Lords, and Commons. To
expose this deficiency of power in the Lords, to demon-
strate their inferiority to the Home of Com Mons, and at the
same time to make it apparent that they must set their ettl
to all the money enactments which the House of Com-
mons sends up to them, required great honesty and great
boldness in their Lordships. It might be vulgar to call
the Lords the cads of the Commons, but it was made
plain, by the debate of last night, that wherever the
Commons choose to drive, the Lords must follow. Their
restiveness at the end only shows that they feel their
degradation, and cannot shake it off.

We regretted very much to hear Lord BROUGHAM
most elaborately defend, last night, the discriminating
and prohibitory duty on sugar, on the ground that to
remove it would encourage the importation of slave-
grown sugar and the slave trade. Admitting that, we
must beg leave to repeat our opinion that the Legisla-
ture is not now justified in withholding food, which
sugar is, from our own people, on any such speculative
apprehensions. Our own people are, or at least ought
to be, the first consideration with the Legislature, and if
it inflict the smallestinjuty on them, with a view to benefit
the Africans, it violates its duty to perforM anact of su-
pero._atory charity. To be generous to strangers it
tramples our people unthr foot. But we do not admit
that the abolition of the discriminating duties
would encourage the slave tract ; and we must, there-
fore, express oar decided, but respectful, dissent from
Lord Bitouonam's view.

The general distress has suggested the recommenda-
, atm to Government immediately to permit all the corn
now in bond to be released free of duty. This seems to
us advisable. It is now almost certain, that all that corn
will be broughtin at next to anominal duty before the new
harvest comes to market. Almost all the corn iu the coun-
try is now in the hands of corn- dealers ; they can regu-
late the supply almost as they--'please, and they would
be arrant fools if they did not so regulate it as to put all
the duty in their poeke:s. Suppose that there is now
1,030,000 quarters of wheat in bond—the duty
is now I Is., and the law therefore actually
holds .out to the corn dealers a bonus of 500,0001.
to keep that wheat from the market till the duty be ir
They are, we have no doubt, endeavouring to .accom-
plish that, and we have heard that circulars recommend-
ing the holders of foreign corn to follow that course of
conduct, and pointing out its certain success, have been
issued. Nothing, we further believe, but an extraor-
dinarily early harvest can prevent the speculators from
obtaining their object. With this almost moral certainty
of their success before Sir R. PEEL'S eyes, he would do
the suffering and starving people a great service by
at once permitting that orn to 7be imported
free of duty. By so doing the people will be spared six
weeks' suffering, and the fanners will receive 1.0 injury
whatever. On the contrary, it will benefit them. By
‘vitholding • this corn to the laSt moment, and famishing
the people in the meantime, the prices will fall more when
it is all brought in, and probably brought in just in con-
junction with our own harvest, than if it were at once
to be introduced and gradually consumed before our own
harvest is ripe. We hope that Sir R. PEEL will think of
this, and confer this immense advantage en the people,
which will cause no ultimate loss to the revenue, and in-
flict no injury on the agriculturist.