The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1842

no improvement took place in the condition of the pe-
rishing people. Nevertheless they suffered on,
" hoping against hope," till Ministers announced that
on such a day in the ensuing week Parliament would
rise, as there was no other measure of any importance
to detain Honourable Gentlemen from the aristocratic
amusement of grouse-shooting ! Then it was that
the hope inspired by Sir ROBERT PEEL's promises
disappeared in utter darkness. In the figurative
language of Scripture, the hearts of the working
classes died within them. They felt that they were
duped, and awakened, as if from a dream, to a full

sense of their misery. They had told their wives and
children that the day of their redemption was at
hand—that fuller bellies and better garments would

attest in August the wisdom and the humanity of
her MAJESTY'S Government. They were bitterly
disappointed, and the turn-out followed as a natural
consequence. What showed the excessive stupidity
of the Government was the not having foreseen it,
and being prepared for it.

But whatever injustice the manufacturers may have
suffered at the hands of Ministers and their insolent
myrmidons of the Press, we think they are quite wrong
in contemplating either a whole or a partial retirement
from business. Why should they yield to the ignorant
clamours of any faction in the State ? Knowing, as
they must do, that they constitute the right arm of
the strength of England, they can have no difficulty
in repelling with interest any attack made upon them
Besides, they are intelligent enough to know, and
eloquent enough to persuade their opponents, if they
will only make the attempt in a proper spirit, that
the interests of all classes, instead of being opposed, are
identical. If the manufacturer is flourishing he
can afford to pay high wages, and the persons in his
employ can indulge their appetites in the plentiful use
of bread, beef, mutton, fruit, vegetables, eggs, and
milk supplied by the farmers. By finding a ready mar-
ket for their produce the farmers can clothe their

wives and daughters in silks, muslins, and other fine
fabrics of the loom, multipy the implements of hus-

bandry, and consume larger quantities of foreign and
colonial produce, such as wine, tea, sugar, coffee, and

the like. Thus it is with every class : the true interest
of each is in reality more or less interwoven with the

interests of all.

Mr. STURGE, of Birmingham, as President of the
National Complete Suffrage Union, has published an
address to the Irish, with a view to unite the popula-
tion of the two countries in the bands of political free-
dom and social happiness, and devise Christian means
for removing oppression from the land. His address

vas read on Monday at the Repeal Association in
Dublin, amidst loud applause, and Mr. O'CoririF.T.i,
announced his intention of drawing up a counter ad-
dress to the people of England, the object of which
would be " to draw together, by the strictest ties of
interest, affection, principle, and duty, the people of
both countries." We rejoice to see this mutual ap-
proach to reconciliation between two nations that
have been too long separated by religious pre-
judices, and by the selfish and ungenerous
policy of their rulers. This union, too, can have
nothing in it dangerous to the peace of society, the
offer having been made by a member of the Society
of Friends, and accepted by a leader who has ever
denounced physical force, and procured incalculable
blessings for his native country by moral power
alone. It was moral power that carried triumphantly
two of the greatest measures of the age, the Catholic
Emancipation Bill and Parliamentary Reform ; and
whoever recommends any other means, either physical
force or illegal associations, for the accomplishment of
their views, however justifiable, may be regarded as
the bitterest enemies of the people. The system adopted
by Air. O'Cororma. forms a new era in the history of
nations, and will entitle him to the lasting gratitude of
all who labour under oppression. It is carried on without
blood-shed, or weeping for the loss of relatives and
friends ; it conciliates evt n enemies, and in the end is
generally successful. In order, however, to carry
into effect the reconciliation of the two countries,
Mr. O'CONNELL must go a little further, and renounce
the doctrine of exclusive dealing which he proclaimed
at the Drogheda meeting. Can England and Ireland
over cordially unite if all appointments are to be con-
fined to the natives of the respective countries, or if
all commercial intercourse is cut off ? If an Irish-
man is to be hooted for wearing an English hat, would
not Englishmen be hooted in turn for wearing Irish
linen ? Commercial intercourse forms the best bond
of friendship, and if we wish to live in unity, there
must be an end to national distinctions, and the words
" exclusive dealing " must be banished from
our language. We are surprised, too, that
a man of Mr. O'CorixELL's knowledge and
experience cannot see the absurdity and
wicked tendency of such a scheme. What would
become of the Irish if they were shut up within their
own island, cut off from all commerce with other
nations, forbidden to buy in the cheapest market, or to
sell in the dearest ? In a few years the farmers would
be ruined, manufactures would disappear, the people
would relapse into a state of barbarism, and in process
of time would devour one another like the wild beasts
of the field. Such a doctrine is the more preposterous
as coming from a legislator who is in favour of free
trade, and has recorded his vote for the removal of
one of the greatest obstructions to our commercial
and friendly intercourse with other nations.

The dearth of news continues in the French
Journals. His Majesty the King of the FRENCH
addressed the following letter to Baron PASQUIER,
President of the Chamber of Peers, on the passing of
the Regency Bill by that Assembly :
" Eu, Aug. 28, 1842.
" Monsieur le Chancellier,—l am too much af-
fected by the vote of the Chamber of Peers, which
you announce to me in the letter I have this moment
received, to delay an instant in requesting you to be
the organ of informing the Chamber—until I can in
person testify to them how much I am touched by
their proceeding—of the emotion which their unani-
mous vote has caused me.

" Nothing could be more conformable to the dearest
wishes of my heart than to see the statue of my be-
loved son, whom I can only lament, as close to mine
after his death as he had himself been to me during the
whole time that Providence preserved him to me.
" The Queen and all my family join with me in be-
seeching you to be the interpreter of our sentiments
to the Chamber of Peers.

".You have long known, my dear Chancellor, what
my feelings are to yourself, and I have great pleasure
in again repeating them to you on this occasion.
" Your affectionate,
LOUIS PHILIPPE."

The disturbances in the English manufacturing
districts are commented on at considerable length in
the French Journals. The Courrier Francais has a
long and clever article on the subject, which con-
cludes as follows:

" The working population in England, and the ca-
pital which is to find them employment, are out of
proportion to the demand for their employment. New
markets must be opened for the produce of the indus-
try of England,
or she must resign, herself to behold.,

• cheering of the House of Commons when Mr. FERRAN')
I denounced the members of the Anti-Corn-law League
and the manufacturers, can blame them for thus re-
sisting the foul slanders heaped upon them in the pre •
sence of an applauding Premier ? Who that has read
the articles in the late numbers of the Quarterly Re-
view, and the daily lucubrations in the Times, can
feel surprise that the manufacturers should threaten
to withdraw their capital from trade, and leave the
landlords to provide for the wants of the labouring
population ? For ourselves we have always protested
against these criminations and recriminations. The
members of the Anti-Corn-law League never ap-
pealed to the passions of the poor with half the vio-
lence that the Times did on the question of the New
Poor-law Bill. But neither the members of the
League, nor the opponents of the New Poor-law,
were the real authors of the late turn-out. The in-
dividuals at whose door the blame of the rising
lies, are the Members of the Cabinet. The real
mischief was done entirely by them. They came
into office with declarations that they had dis-
covered a remedy for the distress of the country.
Sir R. PEEL proclaimed in the House of Com-
mons that the patient was sick at heart, and that if
consulted he would prescribe an efficient remedy.
He was consulted. The country agreed to give him
a fair trial. In the QUEEN'S Speech at the opening
of the session, commiseration for the general distress,
and praises to the people for their long, and unre-
pining endurance of misery, were liberally dealt in.
The inference from this evidently was that the evil
was at last about to cease—that the day of their sal-
vation was at hand. The session proceeded; measure
after measure followed, each announced by a flourish a
Ministerial trumpets as greater than the last ; but s

ing scenes of distress which will be beyond all ima-
gination. The English Government• has made two
attempts to gain its object. The first was the expedi-
tion against China, which originated with the Whig
Ministry, with the intent of breaking down, by the
force of cannon-shot, the bkrriers within which the
Chinese had isolated themselves, initiating them
into our ideas and wants, and creating in that
country a new world of purchasers. The second,
which is the work of the Tories, is the reforma-
tion of the commercial tariff. This is not suf-
ficiently complete and -radical to have any imme-
diate influence on the prosperity of the country. They
have not had the effect of opening the English market
to the produce of France, Germany, or the United
States, and consequently have not offered to these
nations any inducement to admit the manufactures of
Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester. In fine, foreign
corn is excluded from this measure. Sir Robert
Peel, who has proclaimed himself to be the advocate of
freedom of commerce, and has declared that all en-
deavours, by prohibitory laws, to regulate the rate of
wages must be in vain, has attempted, by his Corn-
law, to obtain a direct influence over the rate of
wages, by insuring to the agriculturists a high price
for their corn. At this time the harvest in the United
States exceeds the wants of their own population by
3,000,000 quarters. If the English were at liberty
to purchase this corn, it is clear that the Americans
would take in exchange the iron of Birmingham, the
lihen of Ireland, and the cottons of Manchester, and
consequently the workmen of these places would have
a regular increase of employment. But as the Corn-
laws prevent England from supplying herself with
corn from the United States, the Americans are at
the same time deprived of the power of purchasing,
those manufactures with which England would other-
wise have to supply them. This is the well-gr3unded
reproach cast by the adversaries of Sir Robert Peel
upon the Tory Ministry."

The Frenel; Chambers were prorogued on Tuesday,
after sitting for a month. The following is a trans-
lation of the Royal Ordonnance to that effect :

"Louis Philippe, to all present and to come,
greeting.
" The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of De-
puties are prorogued'until the 9th of January, 1843.
Our Minister, President of the Council, Minister
Secretary of State at the Department of War, is
charged to be the bearer of the present proclamation
to the Chamber of Peers.—By the King.
"LOUIS PHILIPPE.

" Tuileries, Aug. 30."
" The Committee of Deputies of the vine-growing
department, at a meeting held with the principal
Members of the Cabinet, have received an assurance
that, during the next session of the Chambers, mea-
sures favourable to the interests of those whom they
represented would be brought forward. It appears
certain (says the Moniteur Parisien) that the recess
will be employed in preparing treaties of commerce
with several of the Northern States of Europe, and
with South America. In the mean time the Com-
mittee is engaged in collecting all the documents ne-
cessary for justifying the claims that it is commis-
sioned to urge.
" Tne official part of the Moniteur of the 30th an-
nounces that the King has received the Pope's answer
to the notification of the death of the Prince Royal.
" The Duke of Nemours is to return from his tour
at the beginning of September. M. Dumont, en-
gineer, has been directed by the Minister of Public
Works to visit the north of Italy, in order to examine
the mode employed in that country of embanking the
great rivers, and to give information to the depart-
ment of public works on the application that may be
made of this mode in the Valley of the Rhone.
" The Councils-General will be invited to state their
views on the measures necessary to protect several
parts of our territory from the action of the rivers.
"In a circular addressed to the Prefect, the Mi-
nister of Public Works points out the principal ques-
tions on which the opinion of the Council-General is
required.—Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 30.
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Price. Nice. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 120 5... 120 15... 120 5._ 120 15
4 per Cents 104 50... 104 50... 104 50... 104 50
3 per Cents 79 2.5.., 79 40... 79 25... 79 35
Bank of France 3260 -.3260 ...3260 .. 3260
Belgian Fives lo2* 102 j ... 1023 ... 102
1840 lO4 ... 1031 ... 1033 ... 1031
Spanish Active 22 „.. 22 ... 211 ... 211
Passive 4 4 ... 4 ... 4
New Deferred 94 93 ... 93 ... 93
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Homan
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Versailles, R.B 287 50... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50
L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ..., 95
Rouen
Orleans. 565 •.. 567 50... 565 ... 566 25
Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 203 75... 203 75