The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

for themselves, while they confer benefit on the
country. The Committee appeal to them :
Young men of London! the Committee feel with
satisfaction that they have, to the extent of their
abilities, done their duty : they therefore feel they
have the right to call upon you to do yours—they
waste not time in urging upon you the necessity—
the ever-increasing necessity, of a strong, united, and
they trust, successful effort. They hope nothing from
those who yet need to be convinced of this. If de-
serted factories, with gaols and union-houses over-
flowing—if a sinking revenue which an Income-tax
has as yet failed to support—if provisions cheap, with
thousands perishing of want convince you not, then
not from the youngsmen of London can assistance in
a noble cause be expected : but it =mot, it shall not
be so. Let it not even be said that you were last in
the field—that even a time-serving squirearchy left
you in the rear.
"Young men of London ! we call for—we entreat
—we demand your assistance. We call upon you to
take that position which the narrowest selfism, as well
as the broadest philanthropy, would dictate—which
your interests as young men, dependent upon com-
mercial prosperity, and the sympathy for your op-
pressed and starving countrymen, which, as young
men, none should feel more thrillingly than you, alike
demand.

They cannot be deaf to this call, but will
hasten to enrol themselves members of the
Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association. The
rooms of the Society are at Hart's Hotel, Alders-
gate-street, and the Committee will be happy to
see the young men of the metropolis—the more
numerous the better— every evening between
seven and nine o'clock.

The Post of yesterday morning contains a
singular illustration of the influence of habit on
thought, or rather on the expression of thought.
It is accustomed, if not to think of the landed
aristocracy, at least to speak of them as actuated
by none of the motives of ordinary men.
According to its language they never consider
themselves or their own interests, but always the
good of others and what will promote the public
good. That journal always writes as if the
aristocracy had cast aside all the feelings, de-
sires, and passions of individuals, had mastered
all the phenomena of social existence, and
guided all their actions by nothing but a clear
comprehension of the national welfare. What
a strange hallucination to speak of them as not
swayed by the same motives as other men! Be-
cause we will not :give in to that delusion, and
refuse to believe the professions of the aristocracy
and of their flatterers, when they are continually
contradicted by their own actions, and not un-
frequently by their own unpremeditated
avowals; ;because we assert, confirmed by the
authority of Lord BYRON, that their whole pro-
ceedings have been dictated by a sordid desire
tp keep up rent, the Post says we treat the
aristocracy with an acerbity which seems to be
insane. What a misfortune it is for such a writer
to have been brought up in the belief that the
aristocracy are exempt from the laws which
rule the minds of other human beings, and are
not men endowed only with faculties and power
to promote, and that imperfectly, their own
welfare, but angels endowed with faculties and
powers to promote the welfare of mankind
at large !
We cannot adopt that belief, and we say that the
landlords, like other men, look mainly to their
own advantage. When we find them, there-
fore, all 'of a sudden, speaking the language of
confidence in the power of oar agriculturists to
compete with those of other nations ; when
we find them, who have hitherto taught the
farmers to look to tire law to secure high prices
instead of relying on their own skill and indus-
try, all at once reproaching the farmers for their
backwardness, trying to stimulate them to
greater exertions, telling them that they must no
longer rely on protection, because they have at
length discovered that the law cannot give what
it pretends to give; when we observe that this
new teaching comes on the heels of a great fall
in prices, and a general demand for the reduc-
tion of rent; when we hear of farmers throwing
up their farms, and of landlords offering farms to
tenants, who will not take them unless the said
landlords will guarantee the price of wheat;
when we know that, for the sake of high rents,
the landlords have for years set at defiance all
the principles of honesty and virtue—we can only
conclude that their new tone, their sudden con-
viction that the soil is yet capable, with im-
proved management, of yielding a great deal
more, and their attempt to ins pire the farmers
wish this conviction, and encourage them to go
on cultivating the ground, far less for th eir own
advantage, than for the advantage of the land-
owners—for the tenantry of England are impo-
verished much below their exertions, their capi-
tal, and their deserts—we can only conclude that
this new zeal of the landlords is dictated by the
old motive—a desire for high rent. To obtain
that, they are now striving to make the
farmers place the same confidence in their
own skill, and promise high rents, as they
before endeavoured—and much too success-
fully for file welfare of the farmers—to
make them place in protecting laws, and enter
into engagements which the farmers have only
kept to their own injury and their ruin. What
is the good of a free Press if such observations
be not spoken out in time, so that the farmers
may be warned against the new delusion which
the owners of rent are endeavouring to fasten on
them ? England can compete with all the world,
but high rents must result from success, and if
imposed before success be achieved, will strangle
it in its birth. We have said all this before, and
we repeat it to show the grounds of our conviction,
from which we cannot swerve, because the lan
guage which the Post is accustomed to use pre

vents that journal, while it admits the power of
our remarks, from recognising their truth.
While the Post is engaging our attention, we
will venture to correct another remark of our
sincere and well-meaning, but most ill-informed
Contemporary. If its assertion that persons of
great:wealth, power, and influence, have changed
their Opinions,
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soil to sell
its produce, depends on the prosperity of their
customers, the manufacturing and
commercial
part of the community, as lie knows it in 184?,
But he was at these former periods seeking power
and place by the help of the owners of rent, who
did not see the matter in the same light; and,
therefore, he concealed or glozed over his opinions'
to obtain their support. The only circumstance
which is changed is, that he is now in office, and

then he was out of office; and he cannot now
take upon himself the responsibility of giving ef-

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feet to a system which does not accord with his

own opinions, and which is attended by the me-
lancholy results now witnessed throughout the

empire.

We insert a brief notice of an Anti-Corn-law
meeting at Lincoln, which is extremely valuable
as an index to the progress of free trade opinions
in a part of the country which is exclusively ag-
ricultural, and in a city where the Bishop and
the clergy must have great influence. But their
influence and the influence of the landowners is
as nothing compared to the influence of facts and
the general distress in the country, combined
with the diminished profit of the tradesmen in
Lincoln ; and the increase of want in that neigh-
bourhood completely outweighs all deference to
the clergy and the landowners. The facts
brought before the meeting by Mr. NORTON we
regard as extremely valuable, and we would re-
commend other gentlemen to follow his example,
and make the public acquainted with the pecu-
liar facts concerning poor-rates, &c., which throw
a light on the condition of the people in their own
localities.

The herring fishery, just concluded at Yarmouth,
has been the most productive for many years. Up-
wards of 200 boats from that port alone have been
engaged (luring eleven weeks in the trade, and have
realized an average profit of more than 4001. each.
The same trade is as extensively carried on at Lowe-
stoft, and at other small ports along the same coast.
Lately the French have been very large purchasers.
Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot had an in-
terview with Sir James Graham, at the Home-office,
yesterday morning.