The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times reverts to the question of the African
Slave-trade and the right of search, and the altercation
with the American Government respecting this right,
and adds :—" It is no question in which English interests
alone are concerned ; it concerns the enforcement of a
necessary right, which we claim as inherent in all nations
equally, and which we are as ready to submit to, as we
are determined not to yield." In another article, describ-
ing the disorganized state of Carlow, during the late
elections, the Times states that it is exceedingly " shocked
at the savagery of our fellow-creatures."
In an article pointing out the nature and advantages
of free-trade, the Advertiser remarks, that it is out of the
question to treat the theme as one of party interest, and
that a national principle, a law affecting the condition of
a whole empire cannot, unless through aberration of in-
tellect, be supposed to militate against particular classes.
The Chronicle, speaking of the manufacturing system,
is of opinion that whatever amendments may be made
in/it, must come from the repeal of the food monopoly,
which has vitiated the system ; adding, " manufacturing
Reform is an egg on which Sir Robert Peel may sit very
long without hatching anything, not even a tax."
The Post insists that it has never contended for the
finality of the Corn-law, or any other law, but that the
principle for which it has contended as a permanent prin-
ciple, and for which it will continue to contend, is that
of adequate protection to our agricultural industry from
the competition of foreigners.
The Herald, commenting on a recent letter, by Mr.
Macdonnell:to the American Envoy in England, wherein
allusions are made to the Irish Repeal question, says that
the late Ministers, whether Whig or Tory, deserve re-
prehension for the remiss way in which they have re-
garded the discussion of this factious question.
The Dublin Pilot observes, with reference to the ap-
proaching Dublin election :—" Such is the state of the
constituency, from an increase of Liberal registries since
the last election, th at even without the weight of Lord Mor-
peth's personal character—without the advantage of paid-
up taxes by the Liberals from the late municipal elec-
tions—without the strength derived from the extinction
of the influence and organization of the old Tory cor-
poration, and the existence of the countervailing in-
fluence of the new and Liberal corporation—without
these advantages, there is on the muster roll of the cox-
stituency enough to beat any Tory candidate with any
Liberal one whatever."

The Kent Herald says :—" To Toryism we must sub-
mit, until the excesses into which its possession of power
will in time inevitably lead it, disgusts the people and
rouses a spirit of opposition and resistance, which, ex-
asperated by distress, may cement the various classes of
the community into a mass of anti-Toryism too strong
for the governance of the privileged few. In the in-
terim we hope that party men will make politics a study
—hitherto they have been an impulse, a prejudice, or a
trade."

The following is from the Plymouth Journal :—" The
advice to Congress of a revision of the Tariff, is to us
most important, and its discussion will involve the settle-
ment anew of the principles of our international com-
merce. 'Will that discussion be in the spirit of retalia-
tion, and the policy recommemded be that of protection
to the American interests ? Though we much fear this,
yet we would venture to hope that a system, seen and
felt to be so palpably unjust and injurious to British in-
terests and to the British nation, would be rejected as
unworthy of enlightened legislation."