The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—A few months since a number of
Socialists managed to gain an audience with se-
veral of the new Cabinet Ministers, and were
most graciously received. One, at least, of the
sages to whom the Government was committed,
expressed his acknowledgments for the light
which had been thus communicated. We allude
to the circumstance, because we think it fur-
nishes a clue to what would otherwise be difficult
of solution. Of course, those who had so unex-
pectedly become enlightened, would endeavour
to enlighten others. They would not conceal, but
would • rather endeavour to impart, views and
doctrines calculated to work surpassing benefit
to the community; seeing . those doctrines at
once develope the cause, and propound the cure,
of the evils which afflict the working population.
One of those evils, according to the " new Social
system," is that " the distress of -the ,working
classes arises from scientificand mechanical power
producing more than the existing regulations of
society permit to be consumed." This was espe-
cially dwelt upon by the Socialist deputies in their
interview with the Cabinet Ministers The effect
of this clear exposition of the evils which afflict
our social condition, was almost immediate upon
the members of the Government. The seed fell
on soil ready prepared for its reception. Machi-
nery, improved by scientific discoveries, has oc•
casioned the distress of the country, by producing
a greater quantity of our manufactures than the
existing regulations of society will allow of being
consumed, was regarded as a solution of the pro-
blem at once easy and flattering to those who were
predetermined to accept ofanysophism rather than
apply themselves honestly and heartily to search
into the cause, and apply the remedy. The ad-
vocates. of commercial restrictions immediately
became converts to the Socialist dogma. In
Parliament and out of doors, by the sup-
porters of Government in the • House of
Commons, and by its organs of the Press,
nothing else is now heard but the mischief-
Working powers of machinery. • With • our
better-instructed readers, we may incur the
blame of reiteration if we devote an article to
such worthless dogmas. We believe there is
not, within the whole compass of political eco-
nomy, a fact more capable of demonstration
than that the application of scientific power,
and the various improvements which have been
effected in machinery, so tar from causing popu-
lar-distress, have counteracted, in a consider-
able degree, the effect of our absurd commercial
laws and accumulating national debt ; and have,
as yet, averted a national bankruptcy. The steam-
engine has fought our battles, and pays the inte-
rest of our debt. If improved machinery did not
tend to reduce the expense of producing manu-
factured goods, we could neither sell our fabrics
in the foreign market, nor keep our inferior lands
in cultivation. The low rate
.of wages paid for
labour on =the Continent would wholly exclude
the English manufacturer from the possibility of
competition with his Continental rival, while
home consumption would be contracted, because
of the utter inability of the agriculturist to pur-
chase what, from its high price, would be utterly
beyond his reach. Were it not for the application
of that very scientific power and improved machi-
nery towhich the organsofthe monopolists foolishly
and falsely attribute the distress of the country,
the whole of our foreign trade would be annihi-
lated, and one-half of the land be thrown out of
cultivation. We repeat—and with a confidence
increased by the result of the investigation which
the pertinacity of our opponents has rendered
it imperative on us to undertake, for the purpose
of repelling their incessant and varied attacks upon
machinery—that the widely-spread and deeply-
seated distress of the country will be found to
originate in far different causes to those on which
they are charged by the Post, the Herald, and
such like oracles. We unhesitatingly refer
them principally to those barbarous restric-
tions upon commerce, that deprive us of the
coutimied sources of the prosperity which, in the
natural course of events, and under a system of
free external trade, improvements in manufac-
tures would open to a country whose doMestic
agriculture can be no further extended without a
diminished rate of return upon capital. The
only appropriate remedy for this evil is to re-
move the restrictions upon foreign trade;,to per-
mit the national industry to flow in its , natural
channels. Thus the power of consuming will be
made to increase with the power of producing.
Popular discontent, disaffection, and disorgani-
zation, caused by popular distress, will cease
with its provocative; and the return of com-
mercial prosperity will restore and secure the
perpetui t.! of domestic peace.
STANDARD.—The present is not a fitting
titre to dwell upon the consideration of the im-
inefli:e authors, or the immediate causes of .the
.n ri', Ins that have driven the populace of Lan-
e.t,. ire to transgress the laws.. " Mows comp°-
• nere fluctus" will be the first care of conscraii-

Lions men is all such cases; and in the particu-
lar instance there is more reason to reserve
the truth, if it should happen that the guilty
parties are persona most directly in the
power,
and most obviously obnoxious to the vengeance
of an I:filleted and oppressed class. Sparing,
however, the men and the means, by whom and
by which the working manufacturers have been
stung to the commission of folly, there can
be nu good reason for the like -:(prbearance
with reference to-remote influences; - Upon the
Whigs. then, in the first. instance, we charge the
crime of teaching the people to despise the laws.
For tiny years and more they have tbstered the
principle of political Intimidation. For upwards
of half a century they have sedulously taught the
'lesson that in the physical force of the populace
there exists a rightful authority above .the au•
thority of Queen, Lords, and Commons, and
of course an authority entitled to dispense at
pleasure with the enactments of the sovereign
Legislature recognised by the Constitution.
Having installed this despotism of the populace,
the Whigs have armed it with intimidation as
the instrument by which it is to enforce its will.
How often this process of intimidation has been
resorted to with more or less success is proved by
the meeting at St. Peter's-field,
this day is the anniversary—the Spa-fields and
other similarof about meetingsin 1819—of which
the same time,
of all which the Whigs were the promoters and
apologists—the meetings of 1831, at Birming-
ham, Bristol, Nottingham, &c., where they
taught those lessons ,of rebellion for learning ,
which they hauged.tt-gir pupils. - - The_B4!isemialy
of vast4tasses is,levrever, but one, and 'Mat
alone the/ least eflicieat means of intimidation;
conspiracy is another, and a more dangerous
instrument. It was by the combination
of both that they forced the Reform.
Bill, which they vainly hoped would give
them a perpetuity of office. Can any one, then,
wonder that 50 yearsof labour to create a tyranny
of the populace, during the last 11 years of which
50 the authors and flatterers of the tyranny have
held the government of the country—can any one,
we ask, wonder that a tyranny so anxiously cre-
ated and so flattered, does not quietly resign its-
power? Is not the wonder on the other hand,
that the populace have exercised their fancied
despotism as rationally and as mildly as
they have exercised it? It is not the want of
Whig advice and encouragement, still less
is it the influence of unworthy fear that has
saved the country from a Republican revo;•
good sense and
Christian
it
ans
pisirittiolef tihnestninateitoin? ln Chartism, time
necessary successor of the political unions—in the
Anti-Corn-lawLeague, the child of their dotage,
the Whigs have, however, left scourges that will
prevent an oblivion of their early lessons of
popular despotism. The Whigs have taught to
control the sovereign Legislature by intimidation,
and they have left Chartists and Leaguers to
practise the lesson they have taught. Here,
then, we have adequate causes for the exist-
ing disorders, and for disorders much more cri-
minal and dangerous, among any people upon
the face of the earth except the people of Eng-
land ; and surely it cannot be disputed that these
causes are fairly assigned to the present events.
What is the principle of the movement in the
manufacturing districts? Is it not intimidation?
Intimidation, in the first instance directed
against the industrious workmen, willing, if per-
mitted, to continue honestly earning the means
of supporting their families; but intimidation
ultimately directed against the Legislature.
It is not, however, merely the fact that the
Chartists and Leaguers have been the only
teachers of the poor people; now arrayed against
the law, which fixes upon them and upon their
Whig teachers the guilt of the present state of
'affairs—they predicted it ; and all know that to
predict disorder is in all cases to promote it;
nay. some of the Leaguers threatened distinctly
to resort to those very means, which, by placing
large bodies of labourers in the alternative of
starvation or rebellion, apply the match to the.
mine. For the reasons which we stated at our
commencement, we.,Will not pursue this. part' of
the ingnir'y fic-ther.

THE RIOTS IN TIIE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—
Dispatches were received by Sir James Graham at the
Home Office at an early hour yesterday from Man-
chester and oth( r disturbed places. Dispatches were
also received at the Horse Guards from the commanding
officer of the troops recently sent into that district, which
we hear give a favourable account, and that it is not at
present intended to send any reinforcement to the mili-
tary in that quarter. If, however, a necessity should
arise, every precaution has been taken to have them
dispatched on the shortest notice. Mr. Wm. Brown, a
Magistrate of Leeds, had rather a long interview with Sir
James Graham this morning ; some short time after-
wards Lord Fitzroy Somerset visited the Hon. Baronet
at the Home.office.
Tn. ALARMING STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—The
Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-
law Association held a meeting yesterday at the Asso-
ciation's rooms, Wrest Strand, for the purpose of consi-
dering. the .teps which ought to be adopted by the
Association in the present alarming stake of the country.
The unprincipled attempt of the monopolist Press and
of ,be Prime Minister to insinuate a connexion between
the disturbances in the North and the opinions and ope-
rations of the Anti-Corn-lawLeague, was brought under
the consideration of the meeting, and strongly depre-
cated. It was finally arranged that . a meeting of the
various branches of the Association shall take place at the
Association's rooms on Thursday next, at one o'clock.
A new system of equitation has been introduced
into the French Army by M. Baucher, and the military
critics speak in high terms of its success. The plan not
only teaches the young soldier to have a good seat on
horseback. but instructs the Cavalry in general in the
shortest and best mode of breaking in young and refrac-
tory horses for the service. The process has been lately
submitted to Marshal Soult, who approves of the practical
effects he has witnessed. It would appear that the lead-
i_young and viscious horses, consists in giving suppleness
anLperlailsictiicpilteyotfo the vertebrae system,
as regards the breaking of
r of the animal's neck. How
that is to be accomplished is not stated • but it would be
a subject worth inquiring into by Riding:masters, and
ill those connectectwith Cavalry depots.—Naval and Mi-

litary Gazette.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday, at twelve
o'clock, an inquest was held at the sign of the Compasses,
Little Guildford-street, Southwark, before Mr. W.
Carter, Coroner for Surrey, and a respectable Jury, on
view of the body of John Palk Fenn, a rite youth, aged
16 years, who was drowned off Mason's-stairs, Bankside,
on Tuesday evening last, under the following distressing
circumstances :—lt appeared that the deceased, who was
apprenticed to Mr. Las Cases, a cooper in the neigh-
bourhood, left home in company with a youth, named
William Chance, to bathe in the river, and after having
remained in the water for some time his companion
(Chance) advised him to come out and dress himself.
Deceased called out, " Wait a moment until the steamer
has passed; the waves are so fine," and was almost im-
mediately after lost sight of. The drags were procured,
and every endeavour made to recover the body, but with-
out effect. Deceased was only an imperfect swimmer.
The finding of the body off Billingsgate
mornir, last was deposed to by a lighterman named
John Poett, after which the Jury returned a verdict of
s on Friday
" Accidental death," expressing a hope
that the police
would prevent persons from bathing near the spot where
the accident occurred.
WILL OF THE LATE LORD MANNERS.—The will of
the above nobleman, whose decease, about six weeks
since, will be recollected, was proved on Monday last in
are Lord Charles
tiaestor bequeathes to the
The executors
Manners and the no,. Thomas Man-
tnheersPsruetrteo:nga,
Sub
e-Dean
neoACaenitnerbury.
; his Lordship's widow,
Lady Manners, being appointed co-executrix. The
sworn to be under
effects is arranged in
a2t
hmseoo,
following
lOt
iaof
nngpd e
executors before-named the whole of his money secured
mrt sahonenn aedl r s
p—oproperty
e o
ttestator
ts h
upon mortgage, and all money in the funds and on other
securities upon trust, with the consent of his son, the pre-
sent Lord, to be invested in the purchase of lands, and
directs the estates purchased to be settled on his son.
To his widow, Lady Manners, he bequeaths a legacy of
2,0001., and so much out of the trust fund as will make
up the amount of her marriage settlement. Her Lady-
ship is also to have the enjoyment, during life, of such
plate, books, linen, &c., as she mayirequire. To each of
the executors the testator gives 500/. The residue of the
estate is bequeathed to his Lordship's son and heir, the

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corner,
th ebeen
present peer.
A frightful crime was committed a few days ago
in the commune of Chanegy, near r
2t oyes. A carpenter,
named Damoiseau, came to reside in the township about
six months
s of a ago,ge! )ringing with him
a young wife, seven-
y She was as remarkable for her attrac-
tions as he was repulsive in manner.
lie treated her ill,
but she was, nevertheless, much attached to him. Last
week he called her into his workshop, and the moment
she entered struck her down with a blow of a mallet. In
driving
a moment she was covered with blood, but this had no
savage husband, who, taking her up, placed
a compass into her temples several times. The inhuman
lettv's of the 29th ult. state that the French
alonclagtedhenindepprriisNo
Smyrna has .
wretch
squadron,. under the orders of .Admiral de la Susse,
esileion the 2,8t13, for. Syra.

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