The Sun. — 1839-02-19 (London, England)

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL  SUMMARY.  The Times of this morning, in a leading article on the Navy, and on der: most effectual means of manning it, says, " the tar has powers which belong to him alone. He is a monopolist, and commands his price. The British merchant and the foreign merchant sometimes pay that price; the British Government attempts to secure the article at a lower price, and fails—fails miserably. The real solution of the pretended enigma—why cannot the British man of war obtain hands enough tp navigate and fight her, as she used to do?—is, that the British sailor has not the same inducements as formerly, to prefer the Royal service to other sea-faring occupations." Our Contemporary then proceeds to comment in a favourable spirit on a naval pamphlet lately published by Captain Berkeley. Tire Morning Chronicle, in a brief digest of Lord Brougham's Anti-Corn-law speech last night, observes, that " his Lordship exposed very happily the inconsistency of the advocates of the Corn-law, who, on its first introduction at the close of the war, were quite indignant on being told that they wanted to raise the price of corn— they only wanted to make the price more steady." In a second leading article on the Corn-laws, the Morning Chronicle justly and pertinently asks, " Among the most unreasonable of the pretences now in requisition against the hearing, by the Legislature, of evidence on the Cornlaw grievance, is that of its being likely to prove an interruption to the course of public business. What business has either House of Parliament that can compete with this in importance ? The entire population of the country is interested on the one side or the other. The price of the people's food is surely a paramount subject of inquiry ! The safety of starvation is no very valuable security. The size of the loaf touches us nearer than Normal Schools or Irish Corporations." These few sententious observations are neatly and forcibly put. The Morning Advertiser, alluding briefly to the Marquis of Normanby's departure from Ireland, remarks, " the appointment of a successor to this Nobleman, ought to be a matter of great care with the Government. One more justly popular, they cannot well find; but to appoint one who would not do the same justice to the country, would be an act of political suicide." The principal leading article in the Morning Herald of this day, refers to Lord Brougham's speech on the Cornlaws, which was delivered last night in the house of Peers. Our Contemporary pronounces his Lordship's speech to be "a dull, prosy, inconclusive harangue," but, as he gives rather a rapid summary of it, than boldly grapples with its arguments, it is clear that they are far too strong fur his weak digestion. In another article the Herald essays the facetious on the subject of the Marquis of Normanby's departure from Ireland, and remarking incidentally on Lord Glenelg's resignation of office, says:—" By this manoeuvre his Lordship's honourable colleagues have killed two birds with one stone; they have provided a place in the Councils of the State, for O'Cennell's Irish Viceroy ; and they have half appeased Lord Durham, by turning out the Minister through whom they administered a reprimand to the ex- High Commissioner, for his silly and seditious proclamation."  The Morning Post, contrary to its wont, is quite statistic on the question of the Corn-laws, and adopts as its foundation argument the hardy assumption that the present movement against this impost is " wholly artificial, altogether unconnected with any genuine conviction, or honest impulse of the public mind—anti. national, not in a political sense merely, but-in a moral sense also, and tending, it success were possible, directly to the ruin of the country." Of a verity, cheap bread has the directest possible tendency to ruin a country