The Sun. — 1842-07-08 (London, England)

LONDON , FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1842.  The tariff went through a Committee last night in the House of Lords, and is to be read a third time this day. Compared to the Cominons, the Lords have made quick work with this complicated law ; but why should they discuss a measure they must not alter ? .Lord STANnotE, indeed, objected to the admission of cattle as now proposed, and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM supported him. On a division, however, only eight Lords voted against that part of the tariff, and 44 for it. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S opinion on the point is correct ; the landlords alarm themselves very needlessly. If they are contented with the protection given to corn, they may be pleased with that given to cattle, to import which, from any great distance, is, as it were, prohibited by the cost. But some of the Peers do not think that a sufficient security, and they would willingly incur the hatred of their countrymen, in order to clinch the decrees of nature by a decree of their own manufacturing.  There is that.in the proceedings of the Anti-Cora-law Conference yesterday which will command attention We shall offer no comment on the bold and honest language which was uttered, but only recommend the ati;tocracy, if they wish to learn what is passing in men's minds, to study the speeches at the Anti-Corn-law Conference.  Mt% MortrusoN, who spoke -in the debate on Wednesday evening, is one of the greatest and most successful of our inciacanti.— -are preSumptuous enough to believe that newspaper writers, who have no interest but the public good, are in the great majority of cases better judges of questions of legislation affecting the whole community than any class of merchants or traders, who seldom see much beyond their own immediate pursuit, still we are not averse to have the testimony of such that one 1 a practical vemsatantetcoLcoovnfier r ma nodu r over n avgi ea Is: chiefsource of the mischief done by the Corn-laws, is the putting an end to a foreign market for our goods. Sir :ROBERT PEEL has recently ttold us that commerce is me: ely a barter of eommodities-7-that is, one commodity is the market for.another—and consequently to prevent the owner of a cotton-mill exchanging its produce for foreign wheat and flour, is as cifectual a method to stop it I as to burn it down. Confirming this view our great practical merchant said " He believed that there was not a nation or a people in the world, who would not be glad to take from us more of our manufactures than they were at present enabled'to do. , p If we will not buy we cannot sell. The law says we shall not buy the very things we most want—namely, food—and y The great difficulty they laboured under was in finding equi• valents to exchange for the produce of our Manufacturing skill. Tills he believed was at the bottom of much of the distress of which the country now complained. We were distressed, not because our prices were too high, bat because other nations could not purchase more of our goods, in consequence °col' uoludrgliazvsusexicnluedzienhgntghee importation- of the produce the , therefore the law prohibits the people from selling. To prohibit' them from selling is- to prohibit them from producing ; hence our mills are idle, and tho people out of employment, and in distress. The Whole mighty mischief, therefore, which is now filling the land with woe, is caused by the accursed law which forin • ds our people from s,dling their goods for food in any and every part of the world.  While we thank Mr. DionatsoN very earnestly for his admirable demonstration of the murderous folly of the Le. gislature, we cannot ;o along with him in advocating a fixed duty on corn. We are persuaded that the public is becoming fast convinced that all corn• keeping-out laws are suicidal, and nothing less will satisfy the public mind, or the j usof all such lawF. e victims of fancied benefits to arise from dishonest legislation, to submit tTictiee opfeotlpt el e chaasvee, bbuetenthteo too tl oanbl algebenohllaiitdeiace)nntehry ; and though in tmhuecshulioiguggieer tthoeysust mulidsera kick down the authority of the House of Commons—a circumstance which now seems by no means improbable--they will never be contented till every remnant of the systo4 by which they have been impoverished and aotually starved to secure the presumed greatness of the landowners, have been swept :sway.  for trial of several gr;l.3ievofourseotffheenSdpeeeial Commission rs. qiPPei.a7 d conlpletett its ao4l4st olec it hoproz-04need sentence of trans.!