The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

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LONDON?
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1842.

We rejoice to see the condnct of the Conference. It
has resolved to continue its sittings, and it has appealed,
by circular., fur support, to all the manufacturing towns.
It has also requested the ministers of religion to put up
their supplications to the ALMIGHTY in behalf of the
suffering people. They cannot consecrate the great
work they have taken in hand by too much earnestn: s;
and solemnity. Let them not conceal its magnitude
from themselves. In the teeth of the Parliament, which

has passed a law for keeping bread from the people,
they have undertaken the great task of procuring the aboli-
tion of that unhallowed law. In. commencing this great
undertaking they have piously, humbly, and wisely ap-
pealed to the ALMIGHTY for assistance and support.
The language used, too, is hold and manly, worthy'ef
the men -who have singly resolved not to pay taxes as
long as taxes are _ contaminated by class plunder.
4, Winged words"
.have ere now "scattered armies;" and,
now that our friends have adopted a bold course, they
need not despair of scattering the monopolists-
Teir language. is the true description of vast suffering
amongst the people, and has already penetrated to the
heart of the Premier. He dare not encounter the awful
responsibility of meeting the winter, whether the harvest
be good or bad, with such a masa Of unrelieved distress
ataf stele a mass of persons out of employment. The
Conference has acted nobly and admirably in taking on
itself the responsibility of remaining• assembled under
melt ciretonstances, and in speaking to him, to Partia-
tnc:nt, and to the eountry in strong and emphatic terms.
Now, what does it ask ? The-total and immediate re-
peal of the Corn-law just passed. That is the motion
31r. Vll.LiEris is to submit to the House of Commons
this evening. And what is that motion to do, if carried?
We answer, give employment instantly to the majority
of the unemployed, and give bread to all.
:At a meeting
'of the Conference Mr. InitoTsoN declared that he would
enunlcy five hundred-men the day after the law was re-
pea'aal, and he asserted that, in a short time there would
not be an unemployed workman in Sheffield. Deputies
from Dundee have made a similar statement ; but we
did not want their assurances to convince us that such
would be the case. We are well convinced that the instant
the Corn-law is repealed, speculations for the supply of
the foreign market will give employment to the bulk
of our manufacturing artizans. 'Having employment,
they would be able to purchase toed and clothing, and
present distress would disappear as if it had been
charmed away.
And what objection is made to the measure? It is
said that it would throw agriculturists out of employ-
ment, and add to the existing distress. Let us calmly
look at the objection. Harvest is approaching, and not
a single farmer will fail to gather in his crops, whatever
may be the state of the law. At present, therefore, not
work in agr:caiture diniiiiLled by'
'-ijollshlng the law. Will the farmers plough and sow
tar next harveii', or the harvest afterwards? That is
questkn to he decided. It' is abundantly certain
that no •Areat•quantity of food has been anywhere pre-
riri,l to add to our supply this year. We must wait for
a twel% einOnth before much can be grown for us. In the
meantime. our. people are much in want. The conse-
quence, therefore; of employing them would be at once
greatly to increase, the demand' for food. The mouths
are ready, but the food is not. 'Undoubtedly, therefore,
there Would be a greater demand for the first year than could
be supplied from all.theworld, and in that demand would
be a complete security that the farmers would nut plouge
and sow less next year. There would be no diminution
whatever of agricultural employment.
The assertion that agricultural distress would arise
from repealing the Corn-law is a mere fancy—a fiction
of the brain ; but the distress of. the manufacturers is an
actnal and painfalexistence. It is- clearly caused by the
law which impiously shuts out the food they would ho-
nestly earn and honestly purchase. Supposing it
possible or probable that the agriculturists would
be injured by the repeal of -this law—which
we ceny—the manufacturers have a right to de-
mae.d,iitat misery he not inflicted on them, in order to
save others froth misery. Admitting, for argument's
sake, all that is fancied about land going out of cultiva-
tion, and farmers going to ruin, they are to be saved
frJm the decay and ruin to which nature, on that sup.
. ' 01)/Oon has doomed them, at the expense ef the ma
nt4itnrerF,. The latter have a right to demand the in-
staitt repeal of a law which inflicts poverty and misery
om them, whatever may he the consequences of that re-
peal to others ; and they have a right, before GOD and
man, to resist a law which, on mere suppositions and
fancies, actually and positively dooms them to starvation
and death.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
lest the House of Commons at half-past one
this morning, under the impression that the debate on
Mr. Wallace's motion " for making Inquiry into the
Present Distressed State of the Country," would be ad-
journed. 1 was mach surprised to find by this days' paper
that the House came to a division, and regret that I eras
not present to record my vote in the minority.
Faithfully yours,
RALPH BERNAL, Jun.
Saturday, July 9, 1842.

• ________—__
In our report of the proceedings at Union-hail or.
Sattirday, there will be found an appeal to the Court, made
by three climbing boys, whom elts• Chimney-sweep Act
have put out of employment. They have a right to say
that the law intending to promote humanity has &wined
them to starvation: - They had been brought ep to the
trade ; they cannot find another ; they are no longer
allowed to exercise it, .and they must go to the poor-
house, starve, or commit criines.. We quote that case as
an illustration generally of the °fleets of legislati-e
thu-
manity,
and, of the probable effect of Lord ASHLEY'S I The Barcelona journals statea hiteatthat city was per
Co fiery Lill. It prohibits certain persons, from getting fectly tranquil on the Ist lust.
intelligence
i:fetthiceeirit::ll:itelait.es
their living by the labour to which they have been march of General Zurbano upon Catalonia had ea
brought up, and it will certaialv doom no inconsiderable terror among the Carlist
bands, and se
nttagut cry ' 'lr
bad already crossed the French frontit.r. On the 24th
"Viva
number of them to desti utiun and the poor-house.
Such a case enables ult, a party of fa:tions entered Ali
eS 1.13 to as,ert that a Morning Con- Carlos V. !" The inhabitants having 'bee "'—
temporary, diAtinguished for his zeal in favour of Lord surprise, offered no resistance ; but a
few taken by
.A.agLEv's Rill, and not Spa,.;„
g iii his insinuations and Guards having collected in front of the Casa National
charges-- against those who , under the command of a retired officer taloned Loreelt;t•e'
du .nut support it, con-
founds together the evil and the pr, 4) '
osed remedy. Punti, kept the invaders in check until reinfo ... " . rt,,ments
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for the exaggeration of the Re- •.
of Commissi
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