The Sun. — 1841-11-19 (London, England)

STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle perseveres with commendable assiduity, if ;its case were a good one, in the Anti-Corn-law controversy. The state of desertion in which our respected Ccs temporary sands seems rather to animate than to subdue. its zeal, and day after day it pours out its closely-peeked columns, under the disheartening testimonies from .all sides that its labours are but moderately approved o 1 or, worse, that they fuse net read. It is an impression of the latter kind w'ssich 'wields our reply to the Moral:4g Chronicle as often as we could wish. This disheeefteniog fear, that one writes for a thankless public, ;that will not even condescend to the perusal of what. Ins been written, hai bean, at least since the days of Persius—" Quis leget lima? Nemo, Hercule, nemo"---ethe most powcrfnl and melancholy restraint upon the exercise of the pen ; and the person who can expect readers for any long article with the awful stigma, ‘' Corn-law Question," in its front, must have a higher opinion of his powers than we are conscious of. Nevertheless we adhere to the hope that toleration, and event a minute's attention, is possible for a few words upun a very striking and important fallacy. Under this :impression we venture, though still with diffidence of .aucccss in catching a to submit, and to notic a in a few words, the following extract from the Morning Chronicle of th's day : " In another column will be found an account of an import mt fea trade meeting at Sheffield on Monday last, at which were present :Earl Fi.zwilliam, Johe Parker, Bei., Sir Arnold James,..and nearly all the mot influential merchants, manufactures, &c., of the pl ice. Resolutions disapproving of legislative interference to protect the manufacture or the growth of anything in any national locality,' advoca.l6 ng free intercourse between the nations of the earth !for the various articles of manufacture and natural production,' and expressiel a readiness to abolish all prot,tetive import duties on foreign manufactures,' were prop )sed and seconded by masters and oreratitei, and carried unanimously. " We had supposed that the manufactures of Birmingham and Sheffield would be %the last to suffer from the corn monopoly. But we regret to perceive in the statements of some of the leseatng manufacturers irrefragible evidence that the trade-. of Sheffield has suffere I from it to an extent which ve could hardly have credited. Mr. Ibbotson observed that five-eighths of the manufacturers of Sheffield go to the American market, the severe prostrations of vihich has been of five years' standing. " What (said Mr. Ibbotson) is the reason of all this? Because the Americans have bad nothing-to give us in exchange for our goods.—(Hear.) America has an abundance of what our people are dying for—not literally dying, but wasting away for want of adequate support." The reason, then, of the stagnation of the American trade during the last five years is to be found in the Core-laws ! Prima facie, this seems strange when we remark that the trade, the temporary stagnation of which is complained of, had grown up under the system of protection, end had prospered beyond example and beyond hope under the Corn-laws for at least 21 years. COURlER.—Westated some rime ago, that the condition of the sister country was gradually and steadily improving, as will with regard to the feelings and habits, as to the material comforts of the great body of the people ; and notwithstanding the atrocious crimes that have recently been perpetrated there, disgracing the national character, and rolling back for a time the tide of improvement,we sea no reason to alter or qualify our opinion in the slightest particular ; on the contrary, various subsequent events have but served to strengthen and confirm it. The land-hunger that obtains amongst the Irish peasantry is almost incomprehensible, it the main source of instigation to the many savage and brutal murders of which that unhappy country has been the scene, embittered and aggravated by fierce and furious agitation; and by the lessons of contempt for law and disregard for human life which it inculcates with such industrious malignity. Truthfully, and graphically does a late revolter against the desolating despotism of that system trace the close, the inseparable connection subsisting between its preachings and the murderous practices which pass in the sister country under the designation of agrarian outrages.