The Sun. — 1841-10-16 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—It is a fine thing for the destinies of the most densely peopled of commercial countries, and the most dependent (whatever may be brayed by her elodocrats) on foreign supplies to eke out her deficient production of the first necessaries—it is a fitfe thing for such a country to be ruled by statesmen who hold out a premium of official adoption and countenance to the grossest fallacies and the plainest blunders, on matters connected with national subsistence and commerce. It will soon be known to all Envoys and Consuls of England in foreign parts, that a grand central depot of all the ignorance and delusion they can scrape together from every quarter on the Corn-laws, is opened in Downing-street. Plausible misinformation may be addressed to the Premier ; whatever is too strong for him, to the Home or Colonial Secretary ; or if too far above proof even for throats so well seasoned on both sides, then to the Paymaster of the Forces, or the Lord Privy Seal. The occasion of our present remarks is the monstrous bugbear vlhich Lord Stanley, in his last speech at Lancaster, made of certain statements of Sir Edward Baynes, our Consul at St. Petersburgh, which the wily Premier touched very tenderly. But the Hotspur of the Cabinet flies at all game ; there is no reclaiming him. It amounts to an advertisement to all rivals of our manufactures that they can cram our Consuls with any nonsense they please ; and that our_ Ministers will repeat it ! It will go forth to all Eurrjpe that the Anti-Commercial interest rules England '; and that no figment is too gross to be received and 'retailed by the chiefs of that interest, and palmed upor_ a people resolute for commercial suicide ! The Times has done, for one* in a way, good service to the cause of free trade, by giving an abstract, in its this day's columns, of the correspondenctv procured by the lute Government from oar Consul's residing in various parts of Russia, Poland, Swe',:ten, Denmark, Prussia, Hamburgh, Holland, B'elgium, and Sicily, relative to the price at which foreign grain could be imported into England. roe general result of that correspondence is the utter exposure of the absurd apprehensions of an overwhelming deluge of low-priced corn. One article, however, of that correspondence was calculated to increase that apprehension by statements absurd on the very face of them. It is hardly necessary to say that this is the article pounced upon by our present rulers, and retailed with exaggeration of exaggeration by the Noble Secretary of the Colonies. Truly this offers a most instructive contrast between the past and present Governments. The former, by a Circular dated 30th June, 1840 (a sufficient proof that their Free Trade measures were not the mere offspring of the moment), called for information on all the particulars requisite to be known in order to opening the British trade in corn at a moderate duty. The latter made no other use of that information than to extract from it, and improve upon the only gross arid monstrous mare's-nest they could find in its pages ! People of England, this is the exchange you have made of Governments—from one which sought information to benefit, for one which perverts it to delude you!