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To those liberal politicians who entertained doubts
as to the real views of a DERBY administration, the
speeches of Sir JOHN PAKINOTON Ind LordJonN MAN-
NERS will, we should think, give an effectual answer.
Both baronet and lordling are Cabinet ministers,
men who will sit in the councils, frame the policy,
direct the energies and administer the public affairs
of the country :—not hangers-on of the government,
mere appendages of the Cabinet, runners of greater
personages, or mere ornaments of the court ;—but
part and parcel of the government itself; responsi-
ble advisers of the crown; leaders of parliament;
persons who have immense power fur good or fur
evil; on whose tone of thought, powers of correct
reasoning, calmness and solidity of judgment, and
appreciation of the true interests of the community,
every unit in this immcuse empire is concerned. And
what say they?
Why—that we have tos much food, too much
bread, too much beef and mutton, too much sugar,
too much cheapness, too much abundance. Not, in-
deed, in words • not plainly or explicitly ; it may be,
not intentionally ; but in substance and reality. if
this be not the ogical consequence of their words
and arguments, of their language and their logic,
their speeches arc is it hout meaning—mere phrases, the
value of which they do not themselves comprehend.
Just listen to them. " A great reform and re-
vision of the tariff is called for at the hands of
government!" exclaims Lord JOHN. "No act of
the late government was so reprehensible—none
had excited such just and general condemnation
as the Act of 1846," which gave the people of
Ragland cheup sugar, answers Sir lone. "The
injustice and the absurd anomaly of our present
fiscal code remains in my eves exactly where it was,"
plainly and frankly says Coed JOHN. "I have always
been in favour of a fixed duty far revenue and pro-
timtion," responds Sir JOHN. It is dreadful, lord
bons thinks, that the millers of America and the
retires of Holstein should have the privilege of
sending in their flour and their cattle without the
payment of any duty at all. It is horrible, argues
Sir bone, to are the West Indies obliged to compete
with the produce of Cube and Brazil. "My mind is
unmoved by the threats which they (the Manchester
men) bad the audacity to utter, grandiloquently
announces Lord Jou:e. "We are prepared to bow
to the decision of the country," more modestly con-
dodo. Sir Jolts.
Wide as is the difference in the temper, frame of
mind, capacity for reflection, powers of lucidness,
and experience of men and public elides of these
two cabinet ministers —and unfair as it would
be to make Sir low( PAILINGTON personally
responsible for the absurtli•ies of Lord Jon s MANNERS,
it is imporeible not to perceive that the same penal-
clone fallacy—though in different degreesof intensity—
has possession of both 'heir miuds, aud that neither the
Colonial Secretary nor his colleague the Commis-
sioner of Public Works has got at the elementary
truth, that the welfare of the people is the only legi-
timate object of legislation. And the consequence is,
we have one denouncing the tariff generally, and the
other raising speeial claims for corn and sugar to be
excepted from the operation of competition. Neither
has the power to look at the subject Iran the
only point from which a correct view an be ob-
tained - the good of the country generally. Sir
Jonas is, of course, far lea extravagant than his col-
league; but in the principle of one clam being al-
lowed to rob another, and of producers being per-
mitted to tnc the community, they are quite agreed.
And does anyone suppose that a cabinet of such
men, of such opinions, and of such avowed objects
and intentions, is a harmless, innocent, well-mean-
ing body ? ghat we can trifle with such a ministry ?
That we may safely allow it to carry on, for a session,
the government of the country, as if it had no wish,
no desire—far less any ulterior design—to reduce the
site of our loaf? That there is no danger to the
tariff so denounced by Lord JOHN MANNERS, or to the
sugar duties FO characterised by Sir JOHN PAKINO-
TON, and the corn law against which all their col-
kagues conspire, in giving " fair play" to such an
administration as this? Why i
the cnemyare upon
us; they have gained the citadel; they are n posses
'ion of the strong places. Nay more: they tell us what
they mean to do atter they have been permitted to
scour the country. They intend to tax our bread,
to raise the price of our sugar, to exclude foreign
meet, to make "a great reform and revision of the
tariff,"—the source of our present plenty.
Lord Dean spoke cautiously and carefully ; he
knew the danger and the risk of letting the truth
out ; he his to account to the QUEEN for the
condition of her people; but with Sir JOHN PARING-
TON and Lord lons MANNERS, two of his colleagues,
there is na such discretion or moderation. "gee;
speak, and speak plainly. They mean protection,
and they tell us so. Are we then to surrender, by our
supineness, free-trade; are we to let them choose the
season for the struggle, to allow them to select the
ground for the great battle ? If such would, as Mr.
COREItN told the country at Manchester, have been
folly when we had only Lord DEIST'S manifesto by
which to test the policy of his cabinet, it would
surely be weakness and t=2 OM that Sir J.
PAKINGTON has in office his sugar motion ;
now that Lord JOHN MANNERS cannot, "for the life
of him," see how cheap mutton chops or beef steaks
benefit the labourers and artisans of this country,
because they pay a tax on their beer, on their
tea, and their soap.
Had they confined themselves to a very low fixed
duty on wheat--had they spoken in simpering whispers
and with bated breath about that—bad they told
us that by such a tax they would have rid us of the
income-tax, people might have been deluded and
misled, timid politicians would have hedges. aims
for giving them a " fair trial." Or, had they beam
new ground, such as reform in our pietism,-
tary system—had they affected great liberality
on the questions of education, ethissisetkal
reform, and such like topics—had they promised
in power to lead new and better lives, we might
have been deceived. Bat to all the vices of
political retrogress We have added the anpar-
closable fault of aggremies. They willing
extend the suffrage; they will not give us anything
but church education ; they will not diminish the per
elicits or correct the abuses of the church; but they
will interfere with the freedom of our trade, .vith
the exercise of our industry, with the price of our
food. Wheat will not content them; Sir JOHN
PAKINOTON must have sugar also; and Lord Jonx
MANNERS the whole tariff sacrificed to his blatant
wrath.
Sir Jonm PAKINGTON, to do him Act is etice is as
eager now to get at the Sugar Duties 'he was
a week before Lord JOHN RUSSELL resigned, when
be insisted on having the ballot for notices repeated
in the Howe of Commons that he might get his mo-
tion on before Raster. It was nut, then, a mere
party move with him ; it was not • skilful device
whereby to trip up Lord Jowl liessetes heels.
What was foremost in his mind while plain Sir
JOHN is still uppermost in his thoughts now that he
is a right honourable and Secretary of State. lie
looks forward to a majority for dear sugar even in the
present House of Commons : so he would prepare the
way for dear bread next session by driving the
wedge into sugar at ones. liars this look like an
abandonment of protection? Does this seem as if
his colleagues had given up all hopes of a tax on
corn ?
No; the DERST ministry is honest in its prejudices
and earnest in its ill-intentions. It means to restore
protection ; and it has told us so. And our reply to
those who still hesitate as to what the policy of the
liberal party ought to be, is—read Sir Jolts PAKING-
TON and Lord Jonv Mssitents's speeches, and you
will doubt no longer.

TT is now that such strange folks as Sir CHARLES
WOOD will have mason to regret their past short-
comings., The most palpable clap-trap of the new
ministers, for the elections or for popularity, will
undoubtedly be the abrogation of the income-tax, or
the diminution of its rats by one-half, as proposed by