The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

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LONDON?
TU ES DAY MORNING, MAY 17,11842.

lt is bet er late than never, and .we can at length
congratulazte some of the mere Whig Journals, which,
iti the first .instance, found Sir U. PEEL'S tariff redo-
kat of wick:, on having acquired sagacity enough to
adopt z;ir R. PEEL'S own conclusion, that it will con-
-ler little or no benefit on the people. We shall have
CheapnesA with it, that is very likely. To make dear-
nesS the.,;e must be, in relation to the things to be
sold, a great number of buyers. But while our
agricultu mai productions have not, so far as we
can un, lerstand, undergone diminution, the
number of buyers, and their means of pur-
kiasing, have probably decreased. We are very
therefore, to have commodities cheaper,
'.vkether PEEL' S tariff be used or not. We shall
nor to Illwe thank ,him for the cheapness, but only his
ha-line-tax, which will diminish the power to pur-
Chase. If some of our Liberal Contemporaries and
Liber,Nl f.iends had been less sparing 'of their commen-
dation of the tariff at first, Sir R. PEEL might not
have found it so easy to pass his Ines, 'me-tax. That
was pa7tly tu.,cepted on his assertions that the tarift
would compensate the tax ; and his ass r:tions found
credence, because they were echoed by th ose who now
reproli.c b him with havittg made the assertim is to deceive.

• Mr. ConnEN's letter, which was read at the Man-
chester meeting, places the recently, not C. liscovered,
knit published, corruption of the House of Commons
in its proper and important light. The II 'a (imble
Member says—" If all that I hear be tr ue, of the
bribery, corruption, and intimidation—of the ,brutal
violence, even- to homicide, which are sai d to, have
distinguished the late general election beyond all' .that
preeeled it, then I have no hesitation in (lcelaAing
that the present House of Commons has no a ioraf or
Christian title to the obedience of the pee% .6
Parliament, if so returned, is not the choici of a
nation, but the representative and offspring of its
suborned vices." The reading of Mr.ConnEN's letter
was followed by loud cheers, so that the charae:, ter of
the House. of Commons, which is the offspring of cor-
ruption, is well known and widely spread.

It is iTt,:4l,:rprising that the Tories should begin. AO
rep' ,int that they conceded Mr. ROEBUCK'S COl7l-
- His ardour took them by surprise , and
-when they had time to reflect they saw their • error;
but coal not extricate themselves from theii 7 con-
cession.. They are afraid of haiing more con option
expmied.. 'They are afraid that the bread-t axing,
income-,'axing House of Commons will lose all autho-
rity—aunt its laws will be disregarded or cond
.eraned
before the y are well passed, and they are anxit ms to
prevent tht inquiry from throwing too much light on the
mode of cc 'ilecting the House. Will they find.), neans
t,, render it -Pain ? Will they in some way or , other
baulk the C ornmittee, And baulk the expectation:3 4a f the
people ? We are afraid they will ; we hear it wt
his-
pered that such is their' intention. But do vr hat
they may-they ,?annot Wipe ont of the public k)towlt
tl:eileep impres3ion already uta;.4e, that the Partial n en t
is, as Mr. COBDEN says, the represe.ltative and off-
spiug of the suborned vices of the n'sition. ITen I
will not have such a power for their
rnaste....

Pew publications at any period of the wt chi have
excited more attention and created a deeper int erest
than the Report of the Commissioners to in u ird into '
the Etnploymentof Children in Mines. A greatg '1 sel isa-
tion was created a few years ago by
cthe public dim t of
r
Ahe accounts given by the Factory
men; 71.1.
_Express of the 30th of
the unremitting toil of children ettkornlissi‘
cruYeedlti inhe New York Evening
the fa'. ',.1 Apil, received yesterday by the Britannia steamer,
wries, and of the scarcely remitting
Coto whici
via Liverpool, contains a Report of the Committee
they were exposed; but that sensation was fa '
on foreign relations, on the trade between the
pared to the impression made by the presen t Report
ually use ,United States and the British Colonies in North
int cora:
The .metropolitan and provincial journals er
the htiquage of surprise and indignation. " ) itl requires Acnerica and the West Indies. As the Report
the s,%rfogest evidence to make us credit w„,u:d occupy upwards of eight of our
meats, V. writes one ; " the immorality v flit, state.
Ind A:ruelty cohuro,ls, and is moreover an exceedingly dull doeu-
s.