The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

YILT/SLIC OPINION.

The Post, reverting to Sir Robert Peel's tariff,
says :—" If, as Sir Robert has declared, France,
Holland, Belgium, and the States of the German Con-
federation, be cattle •importing countries, then there
must clearly exist certain countries from which, in
relation to them, cattle are exported; and Sir Robert
Peel's great sagacity was scarcely required to foresee
that his tariff would, assuredly, direct this somewhat
copious stream of exportation to England. So long
as England shall remain a richer country than France,
Belgium, Holland, or any of the Germanic States, so
long will England be able to command those stores of
foreign meat, which these countries are declared to
have hitherto drawn from their neighbours."

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The Times remarks as follows on Mr. Ellis's ap-
pointment to a special mission to Brazil.:—" The ap-
pointment of Mr. Ellis, who is about to proceed to
Brazil on a special mission connected with the ap-
proaching termination of the existing commercial
treaty between that country and Great Britain,
is an incident of considerable importance, and we
are satisfied that a fitter' person could scarcely
have been employed in the adjustment of our com-
mercial relations with the important markets of
South America. In Brazil we have not to contend
with a system of manufactures called into existence
by protection, and clamorous for more of that pro-
tection by which alone they subsist, at the expense of
the sound and healthy interests of the community.
The wealth of the country is essentially connected
with the soil, and with that foreign commerce by
which the produce of the soil is exchanged for the
manufactures of Europe. If, therefore, we are me-
naced in Brazil with a system of import duties which
would prove onerous to our trade, it is because no
other means suggest themselves to the Government
for meeting the exigencies of the public service. The
necessities of the revenue are the only grounds which
can give so much as an appearance of good policy to
a measure calculated to • check the whole industry of
the country, and to impair the trade of Rio Janeiro.
But it is not improbable that such a measure might be
carried so far as to defeat its own object, by acting as
a prohibition on the imports of Brazil; and the Bri-
tish Envoy will doubtless be able to show that a high
system of duties is injurious to commerce, without
really aiding the funds of the Exchequer, whereas the
rate of duties most productive to the revenue would
inflict no serious burden on trade."

The Herald observes :—" The public career of
Lord Ashley is as much to be envied as his public
character is worthy of all admiration. The Noble
Lord has left to more worldly minds the higher,
though not more important, branches of political
science and of legislation, and has unostentatiously,
but resolutely' and incessantly, devoted his faculties
and exertions to mitigate that portion of the wretch-
edness, to alleviate so much of the misery, and to re-
move all the oppression which the law permits un-
scrupulous wealth and unfeeling capital to inflict on
industrious poverty, involuntary ignorance, and im-
posed demoralisation. In this cause Lord Ashley
prosely tises amongst his order,' instructs Ministers
and Parliament, co-operates with every man, regard-
less of his wealth or station, having a like object,
pioneers the way for and directs the investigations of
public Commissioners into industrial wrongs and de-
gradation, arouses and excites public attention and
interest, and satisfies his restless activity by ocular
demonstration."
We take the following from the Chronicle
" The new Government has, by the whole course of its
proceedings, deepened existing disaffection and pro-
longed a ruinous uncertainty. At any rate it has
avoided the reproach of finality. Not a living soul
calculates on the permanence of its measures. The
Tory journals are loud amongst the prophets of
change ; with this additional item of confusion, that
they urge and expect it in opposite directions, back,
back !' cries the Post, and onwards' shouts the Times.
The interests of commerce and agriculture look on,
alike bewildered. Meanwhile the public mind be-
comes loosened from all the moorings that held it to
law and institution. Hundreds of thousands of dis-
regarded petitioners will petition Parliament no more.
The alienation of classes is either pushed to a for-
midable extreme, or sunk in more formidable union.
Assuredly the Peel Government cannot be said to have
.done nothing: It has made an annus haudmirabilis."

• • ECCLESIASTICAL.
Dr. Hook, of Leeds, Prebendary of Lincoln, and
Chaplain in ordinary to the. Queen; is Vicar of, per-
haps, the largest parish in England,. with 36 assist-
anti, and 130,000 souls. -

ELECTIOWEERXTiGd •
In the event of Mr. Litton's becoming Master in
Chancery, a vacancy will occur in the representation
la Coleraine. In such case, . Sir 11. Bruce-.and Mr.
11. Richardson are spoken of as candidates ready to
take the field. .Mr. Smith, the .new. Sulicitor-Gene-:
ral, is also mentioned.

• PUBLIC lIVIPROVMMINTS.
A new and extensive pier is about to be erected at
Gravesend, to be built entirely of iron, in place of
the present temporary pier.