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London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2.

TO-DAY the Free Traders meet at Manchester to
prove their force, their union, and their readiness for
the coming parliamentary fray. There will doubt-
less bo a gathering in tho Free Trade Hall of
some three thousand stanch friends of unfettered
commerce and political progress, headed by a
larger number of M.P.'s than we usually find aetiog
together in any other such public dcmonsbo-
ties. The meeting will be held under the mot
cheering auspices as regards present commercial pros-
perity, whilst well-founded hopes of future successes
throw increased light over the future. Free Traders
are, however, by the very constitution of their
minds, not the men to allow existing advantages to lull
them into a dangerous security, or to permit a rose-
tinted far-off horizon to Wind them to the realities of
things nearer home. Judging of political 'values by
political results, they estimate Free 'Trade too highly
to be hoodwinked into leaving it open to anything
like risk. Itemembering well the true character of the
men now in power, the public at large may surely
expect from Manchester such an indication of in-
tended policy as shall compel the present official ene-
mies of commercial freedom not simply to
proud the continuance of a Free Trade policy, but to
accept and confirm it. The PRIME MDtIeYER himself
stated the terms upon which he went to the nation
at the general election just over. Those terms were,
that the question of our commercial policy should be
placed on trial before the country. That trial has
been had, and the verdict has been given—a verdict
favourable, by a large majority, to the doctrines of
the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers. On his own chosen
ground Lord DERBY has been vanquished; and it
would be showing a great lack of wise vigilance if
the victors permitted their crafty foe—and still
real enemy—to escape from his self-imposed
trial, until ho shall have accepted to the
fullest extent the decision of the constituencies.
Lord Denier must not be permitted to shuffle over
the Free Trade policy as an evil before which he is
compelled to bow, but must be compelled by the
majority existing in the new parliament to
endorse,—and to carry to its legitimate conclusion,—
that commercial policy which has literally saturated
the kingdom with active prosperity.
Frio Trade, not being complete, cannot be re-
Forded as a thing requiring only secondary service
There
in its behalf. is yet good work to be done.
We have in the tariff ninny items from which
sums comparatively nominal are received, and which,
therefore, can only be permanently retained upon
the exploded theory of " Protection." When
general and unreserved Free Trade is adopted as the
policy of the nation, these would naturally, and on
the earliest convenient opportunity, be swept away.
Carrying out the same broad view that all industry
should be unfettered, we ought to be able to anticipate
tho esrly advent of a time when our Eieise Laws
would undergo such a revision as would at least
render them less mischievous than they now are; and
would rid us of all those imposts which—giving
comparatively little to revenue—are yet vexatious
stumbling blocks and impediment' to production and
trade. Thus it becomes important both for the satis-
factory present action of the Liberals in Parliament,
and for the future welfare of the policy now so tri-
umphant, that a full, free, and undeniable declaration
in favour of Free Trade bo given by the representa-
tives sent pledged on its behalf to the Parliament
about to open on Thursday.
The statement is still very current that Free Trade
is to be alluded to in the (luxes's Speech as a ques-
tion settled. Should this rumour be verified, the
allusion will, of course, be hailed with loyal satiefac-
tion ; but any recognition of the wisdom and
cleverness of such • mode for making gracefully an
extorted concession, must not blind us to any insuffi-
ciency that may be hidden under ',Tames words
to be put into the Speech from the Throne. That
speech will, of course, bo taken for its fall
worth. It will come from the pens of the
ministers, and to them the country always
looks for any responsibilities attaching to
such declarations. A ministry of consistently
honourable politicians might be safely left to work
out their plans, after a virtual engagement on their
part on any question at issue; but when dealing
with a Ministry like that now in power, it is neces-
sary to have bonds and decisions much more full and
exact than a nonchalant admission "that free
trade is settled." A set of men who pursued
Sir ROBERT PEEL with bitter and undying malevo-
lence, because be inaugurated the system we
now thrive by—who founded their claim to office
upon the championship of " Protection"—who gained
power with that party try upon the lips, and wbo
now are about to wheel subserviently round rather
than give rip the power they. have made such ill use
of—such a Ministry, we my, isnot to be trusted upon
light promisee in the very hoar of their treason to old
friends. They "promised" the farmers when they
wanted to get office ; they will " promise" the
Free Traders now they wish to keep it. Hav-
ing broken the first pledge, how much real
value attaches to the second? No. Whilst
the Free Traders halve the game in their own hands,
they are bound alike by duty and by prudence to see it
made thoroughly secure by something more exact
and real than an isgetnotis sentence in a royal
speech, an imaginative and promising flippancy
from Mr. Dlesacm, or • high sounding ova-
lien from the mouth or pen of Lord DERBY.
Whether a division of the House of Commons on
Free Trade may or may not be yet requisite,
this is scarcely the moment to diesels, but at
least all Free Traders should be fully spared
for the moment when any dip of the may be
requisite. The rawest at Ykesebestee Maly will
show that dm maybe wipandaalwedoeithe Anti-
Corn Law League are Neither despies war hristfol
of the weees-fly whist iii mecum e were wee.
They knew the value at =lidam—the ward et
which eaa shoe keep relbesene tema all they need.
—and keening that. divest swim and peneded
ample not like y to be lost the Mime et re-
gress, both in and oat of

Tim minhtafial minis in Belgium has been brought
to a termiaadme the constitution of a new cabinet
nailer the pommy of M. na BILOCCICERZ,
a msa whose satesedents are decidedly libel-
and whose selection of colleagues at the
,pmeent isegerteot juncture proves him to be
a man of esimietency, and, at the same time, of
sembratioe. The mew Ministry has bees formed
altogether el Liberal moterials. The Imile palsy of
wahmeerieg to °maim heterogeneous smuts in
the lease eeneeil, at all times imitative, world, at
s mosseat like the prommt, have tam diestrees, if
net tataL le the preens, of ewe" it is, above
all thief% desitable that a gwomman should
be liserhid,that iiftsese. shosid neither
paralyse its designs war be empested of marring
their mention. Without mum sestidence national
Neely isitaperiblo, and national spirit to bear np
under low at humiliation is not to be hoped for.
Aid of sae fortitude Belgian is likely to have need
ease& at. hog. An Imp is aware of the highly
unsatidadsey Mato eller ',hams with the existing
government et Frame ; and of the course pursued
very recently by the new French Minister for
Foreign Albin. nl. Daou TX IA Luu rs—for reasons
never eatielhaterUy placed before the pablie—has
treated the f Brims& wetly meekseletroited
thatelloedwa two age. Bo b sism swilealyos
to brook ell tions es pleb of esneperedve
tdeepoetsaes, to order to sib a easy mime offsets.
both on the public Wad of his owe sentry and
that of its neighbour, he must have foreseen would I
be of a highly exciting political nature. His abrupt
departure from Londso was calculated, as everybody
kiw, to create wises, if not angry feelings on
both die et the grind—feeliogs which, as the
east greml, within bet the meow of the highest
isgseeet Mums, and whims se the part of our
gerreeneeest would lave permitted to evaporate with-
allt wing mimalt In like sumer M. DROUTN