The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-31 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

Disapproving of au irreverent alliteration made
use of by an Essex landlord, a supporter of the
Church, we may state without offence that PEEL,
by the blessing of Providence, is effecting
changes by the measures of last session, of which
at. the time he had no conception. The agricul-
tural moan-La meetings bear testimony to the
fact. For the last twenty-seven years the cry

among landlords and tenants was "protection to
the landed interest" Now the cry is "no more
sleep, no more slumber, no more folding of the
hands to sleep." The burden of the song at

these agricultural festivals denotes a new era in
England. Not a whispr transpires about the
heavy burdens on land or tithes, or poor-rates,
or even highways, which are more burdensome
than ever ; but lAndowners, farmers, and even
the very clodhoppers sing "up and be stirring,
for the enemy is upon us." We do not attribute
this revolution to PEEL, but to the
mother of invention. The landed interest,
by a concurrence of circumstances, has now
no reed to lean upon. Deserted by both
Whig and Tory, it is left, like the
orphan, to trust to itself; but in the true
English character it is determined not to be
beaten by foreigners, nor needlessly repine over
disappointed hopes, nor give up in despair a con-
`.est which every other class manfully resolves to
The very protection so long clung to as
neir salvation, they now admit has made them
only indolent, checked the spirit of improvement,
and encouraged them in the belief that the wis-
lom of their ancestors was not absolute wisdom.

meet.

This certainly is a great step in advance within
a few months, and must be regarded as one of
the new remarkable features of this progressing
age. No one; not even the Duke of BUCKING
HAM, who was afraid to meet his Aylesbury
friends last week, even dreams of the re-
peal of the present Corn•law, but submits
to his thte in solemn silence. The Duke of
RICHMOND, who haS heard at Gordon Castle
language very different from that which he was
accustomed to hear at Goodwood, has not cer-
tainly imitated the example of his brother of
BUCKINGHAM, but has feasted his tenants, and
made speeches, and talked much about agricul-
tural improvements, and tile-draining, and bone
manure, and turning waste land into arable, but
DOE a word about turning out PEEL. This is

only what was to be expected from a nobletnan
who is allowed by all to be a pattern to his
order, for his manly independence, hiS strict in-
t(•grity, his domestic virtues, his habits of busi-
ness, and his fearlessness of danger. He sees
that he in error in supposing that PEEL must
obey the men that mode him, in despite of dire
necessity ; and, like a wise and just legislator, is
resolved, without repining, to make the best of a
hopeless case. We trust when he returns
to a quarter where they
.are much needed—
the south of Etiglandhe will bring, with
him some of the &Chines,' and customs,
and agricultural systems
_which prvail in his
northern duMains, and instil them Mi.° those
jog-trot farmers, who use four horses to do the
work of two, who swear by their fxreat grand-
fathers, and hate the very name of Reform, who
rebel against iron ploughs and turnip drill, and
.and clean trim-looking thorn
fences, sacrificing their own interest and that of
their landlords to the love of ease, the bigotry of
custom, and. the dread of change. While eVery.
interest throughout the kingdom is moving at a
railroad speed, while our manufacturers are in-
defatigable in their inventions, and the very
operatives themselves are making rapid advanceS:
in everything that relates to their trades, the
great source of our wealth, as the Church-and-
State men say, is comparatively an uncultivated
field. Let the landlords then bestir themselves,
and'seize the present opportunity for advancing
with the spirit of the, age. The first great
movement should commence by throwing off all
political ties between themselves and their
tenants, and looking not to party but to theirosin
interests. , They have learned from experience
that Toryism is as ineffectual as • Whiggism in
keeping up monopolies; that the duty of Ss. by
the sliding-scale has been as injurious as the
fixed duty of Ss. proposed by Lord Jour; Rus-
SELL ; and that if it ever should benefit their in-
terests, the advantages will be more than coun-
terbalanced by the tariff, which affects corn as
well as cattle. It is vain to pray for protection,
and they must at last take the poet's advice and
pray only for those things which they can obtain
by their own exertions. The first great step
for meeting the changes produced by the mea-
sures of last session, is to grant long leases. Men
holding land froin year to year at. the will of a
capricious master, have no security forthe money
expended,. and no encouragement to venture on
improvements, of which they may never receive
the benefit. There is abundance of wealth in
the country ; money never was so plentiful, and
if only one-lnilf had been laid out in breaking up
waste land, and adopting new systems of agri-
culture which has been threw away in loans
to foreign States, England could have produced,
at a moderate price, ample means of subsistence
for all its inhabitants. If two quarters of wheat
can be raised at -the cost of one—and the system
adopted in the north verifies the fact—the land-
lords of England may set all the competition of
foreigners at defiance.

We have received, by the Columbia steamer,
which reached Liverpool on Saturday night, New
York Papers, 11 days later than those brought
by the last packet. She left Boston on the 16th,
and Halifax on the 18th, and made the passage
home in about twelve days. The Belgian
steamer, the British Queen, sailed from New
York on the 7th. The news from Canada, which
we hay:: given at length, is important. Sir C.
BAGOT has closed the session of the Provincial
Parliament, and in a very brief speech thanked
the gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly, for
the liberality with which they had voted The
supplies requisite for the public service. The.
Speaker then declared it prorogued to the 18th
of November.
Mr. LAFONTAINE, the Attorney-General for
Lower Canada had been returned for the fourth Rid.
ing of York by a great majority ; but Mr. BALDWIN
had been defeated by Mr. MURNEY, a Tory cane
didate. Great rioting took place at the elections,
The news from the United States is not of
much interest. Trade continued extremely dull.
It appears the Phoenix Bank of Charleston had
failed, the whole capital of which had been
loaned to two firms without adequate security,
the papers being so arranged at the time of exa-
mination by the Bank Commissioners as to elude
the most careful scrutiny. • A dividend of profits
of three per cent.' bad been declared payable on
;the very-day thalAbelAnk stopped payment.
Wu34A/a WYMAN) ex-prtsident,and 'Luaus