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London, England, 1852-03-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12.

Ow Wednesday moll the new PRESIDENT of
the BOARD of TRADE the following startling
statement:

Tithing the United Kingdoms from the year 1846 to the
preeent dmo, the camber of pimplee parting through the
pole was double last year compared with 1816.

This Mr. HENLIA announced in the Shire-hall of
Oxford, where statistics are not, of course, very nar-
rowly scanned, but where popular belief is rather cre-
dulous. Returning, however, in the afternoon to town,
our new Cabinet AI inister seems to have been troubled
with railway doubts of his own accuracy; and, as
his Loudon residence is only two minutes' walk from
the scat of his official labours, he appears to have
dropped into the great house in hiteludi, and
there,—eonsulting Mr. PORTER and Mr. FONDLANQUE,
—found he was wrong by exactly one-half. It would
never have done for a grave man like Mr. REZ4LLY
to have been corrected -by Mr. LABouenzait on such
a point as this; so to avoid that discredit at the
very commencement of his ministerial life, in the
evening he addressed the following note to • eon-
temporary

I have Ifeen told that I said. whoa tularemia' my anal- I
aunts el ()Omit " that, comparial the criminals
committed fur trial in the years 184.5-6 with these of IS O,
they were double." If so, it was s mistake. I at le
any, half es many sputa. Be so good either to comet the
report or insert this letter is your paper.
No doubt Mr. HENLEY would have much !in-
ferred the correction—as be inaccurately calls it—of

the report to the insertion of the letter; and so have
got rid of the inconvenience of his own very gross
exaggeration. But it has been otherwise ordered,
and we have the fact of a cabinet minister clapping
just 50 per cent. upon the criminal statistics of the
country; and then,—with the fear of parliamentary
accuracy before his eyes,—taking off in London the
increase he had added at Oxford. This is not a very
fortunate or auspicious beginning in Mr. Hexirr's
presidency of a board against which his party has
perpetually urged imputations of inaccuracy in
figures. It may, however, teach him modesty and
caution for the future.

But why did Mr. lirstnv refer to this increase of
criminals committed? He did not, it is true, ven-
ture to use his own fact very boldly, or to apply it
very openly. Nevertheless he meant that other
should draw inferences which he himself was either
too conscientious or too timid to deduce. He in-
tended the statement
To points semi sad 'dors a tale.

And none can doubt that what he wished to insi-
nuate and hoped to have believed was, that under
the operation and by the influence of free trade,
morals had deteriorated, and crime had increased;
that the increase of commitments of criminals wu
owing to the abolition of that monopoly of bread, by
the agency of which religion and piety had
OD eminently flourished in times past in this
realm. If this was not Mr. Hymn's object
and design, in referring to the 'abject, be was merely
wasting words and talking nonsense. But, as he is
one of the proment cabinet who really knows the
meaning of age and weighs what he says be.
fore he Ulan it. Mr. Hszit.tv had a motive in
making the stNsmeatt sad what that motive could
have boo, bat r orsnost cheap bread with crime, it
will peas any ono to dierover.
If so. Mr. HLNLILT is • ly illogical, and
not vary honest. Per, in the list ee, an mammas
in the Banshee alt perms mnamitted den not in
itself pore an inmate at mime; to MAN& that.
eves aspeoldeially. he out show an Isom, el per
mono 'omitted after otnandttal; and eves then his
owe ell set be mall eat head= say really have
dabbled in the ematry, dough 6eeeavietions for
aim may have inmost. It is dais( the last
tow years only, that the rural poles has bon este-
blitskstho teedisey of that fonts is to &Mat, send
for and senviet a large armnst of crime which,
him intablastbe, went awiateeted sad an-
L'lr; and asp apparent banes. in ethos is to
sesosated fir. Sines iMi, the mg patios
ban hew spud seer whole maths; its mai aad
entivitp lava &upland the ateligiass aid WM-
ma at tka patty saellabin spawn; sad the result
It that am sub ere Mee saw when we have a
ropeasive and obbsthe marry at each thew taihrs,
—Without at
Ewa proving ea harem of atm es a
datarbsatim at &

—tat 14 ins 11116 dews by been an inclines of
commitments, to ascribe that inertase to any abets
of free-trade is little baler than midsummer looney.
For it is to allege that a demand for labour, that good
wages sad amp pmeeidens we a provocation to vise
and 1111=111111111.111 Old TiIhINOL Mr. HENLEY
himself be had dine& that the working
Mows would haw less mars aisnd in the way of
wages dean they ham° New 'Meta ! Why,
mes sow k the agehialtural distrine hays been
:Tilliwortl to
fa givin veer trem men have '
ses.
t 'Alter
healfar Am Newuelds
sheens Nortbembedwd. a purely rmdeoao.
ty, tho
hang
de *suing yaw were
greater le des bat yur. And
in as perio of ousersastern Sum hew
an amount of to
the wade at the premonition. when thsalatiol its
=are lowest. And hied what the free-
always weans& wadi he the result of cam •
peddle. What they argued was, that it would
prow web a stimulus to.production in this country
as ammopso bad never given. And so it has.
Wages, Umn. it is seslemed by Mr. HENLEY, are
voespostedly gelds and good wages are, he has
sem* poland admit, the consequenoe
of a gnat denewill he Maw; and labour being in
dewed, and wages high, and food cheap, wort-
hiness are empty. That he esa not deny. But how
=, and to what extent e•••law expenditure has
her—who is so fear a and glib with gaol
shut' —h not the mailer to tell the Oxfordshire
'equilsa Let us mpply his smiesien. In only one
eousty in England peashebire) Iwo tkm met of
trriaineressed m 1851. la the other emetics,
llato of deareme ranges Dam 14 per cent. in
Waseriaiire to per cent. in Northumberland ;in
all it avenges 8 per cent. ; in Oxfordshire it is
slightly above the average, being 8.4 per oent. Of
ablebed paupers relieved in the first week of
January, 1852, as compared with the first week of
January, 1851, there was a decrease of 12 per cent.;
and oral classes of pauper! 3.2 per cent. Nor is
this decrease only charactenstio of a single year ; it
has been going on since 1849, when we fully escaped
the sonsequences of high prices. The total reduction
of adult ablebodnd pauperism for the first week in
the present year, compared with the first week of
January, 1849, is no less than 35 per cent.;—the dif-
ference being, of course, absorbed by the present de-
mand for labour.

If, then, free-trade has given the country good
wages and an enlarged demand for labour, concur-
rently with cheap food and clothing—if it has
" emptied the workhouses" (we use Mr. HENLEY'S
own words), and has augmented the deposits in
the savings banks—if it has increased the con-
gumption of grain to the extent of ten million quar-
ters annually, and of sugar by nearly 70 per cent.—
if it has promoted industry, and stimulated enter-
prises of all worts—will any human being uncon-
nected with the Daßer administration attribute to
free-trade an increase of orime,—if increase there be ?
Mr. HENLEY might as truthhilly argue that it had
produced the Burmese war.
What, then, can we think of a cabinet minister
who so far sets all experience at deffanoe—who so
utterly disregards causes and effects—who is so
recklessly resolved to make out a case for monopoly,
as to insinuate that comfort and plenty, good work
and good wages, so far from promoting morality,
good conduct, and domestic improvement, have filled
our gaols?
" Char workhouses are empty, but our gaols are
full!" Those were the words of the President of
the Board of Trade in the blear cabinet. Can any
one doubt what he meant? He added: "The work-
house door could be closed against the poor man, but

Latiantaii are proverbially more frank and com-
municative than Englishmen. Accordingly no one
is surprised to find more light let in upon the character
and aims of the Dra' ministry by its Irish candi-
dates for melection than by its English. The latter
have preserved a dogged, hens-dog-looking silence
as to their chief's wishes and intentions • the latter
have with characteristic etourderie blurted out some
things that they had better have kept concealed.
The air of England—and, of all parts of England,
that of the Essex fens—probably acted as a damper
upon the exuberant loquacity of Major BEIESFORD.
Wo are consequently indebted to bum for nothing
more than an incidental illustration of his leader's
character. Major BERESPORD designated the Pax-
mint by an epithet which Englishmen are not accus-
tomed to hear one gentleman apply to another,
though it is the current coin of that flattery with
whi4 the oppressed peasantry of Ireland are
in the habit of soft-sawdenng their oppressors.
"The master' is the dulcet epithet with which
the ragged and jeering flatterers of the Irish
peasantry—who by centuries of missile have been
taught the whole art of wheedling, but whose sense of
the ludicrous not even destitution an subdue—tickle
the ears of magistrates, drivers, and other little great
men. "My master" wee the title by which it pleased
Major BERZBFORD to designate Lord DEBBY on the
Braintree hustings : the gallant major was " proud
to serve under such a master." The public have been
rather at a Ices to account for the transmutation of a

whipper-in" into a Secretary at War ; but all who
know the weak side of the present Palm Mumma
will have no difficulty, sines the North Essex elec-
tion, in seeing that the profound veneration and
implicit subjection expressed in the wily Irishman's
master" has been the means of ingratiating him
with the haughty Lord of DERBY. Poor Mr. G. F.
YoVNO was very much annoyed some time ago by
the insinuation of a contemporary that he had never
been invited to Lord DERBY'S table ; and to this
day Mr. G. F. Youmo's intercourse with his chef has
not extended beyond a forenoon calL If the
sturdy Englishman would but take a leaf
out of the book of the supple Irishman and
call the PREMIER his master (the CHANCELLOR of
the ESCHEWER might say Rab *), he might have •
chance of getting his legs under the mahogany in
St. James's-equare. Former prime ministers had
eolleagnes. Lord DERBY, it appear", insists upon
having servants. Lord CAMELFORD is said to have
spoken of putting his footman into the House of
Commons for one of his close boroughs. Lord DERBY
is for putting his into a ministerial office.
The AITOZNET-GENIZAL for IRELAND, speaking
in his native atmosphere, WU more out-spoken than
his countryman in the Essex fens. lila revelations
are proportionably mote important; they afford some
• t into the contemplated policy of the new
with reference to two important subjects—
law and general education.
_ _ _ _ _ _

Oa the saldesi of law reibms, Mr. NAPIER was
Ibrief and pithy es an ancient Brea= " With re-
eptet to law relliwas, he wu opposed to the cheap
system, that it wee tie interest of the
pails to a respeseallis and edueseed
bar, es the bosh mans
_et posse
the rights
of mad esaillilotional freedmen" It
has at Isery:trusatirists, that as
a body they are incapable et Wyss& their
class interests. Bat the range et the
new Irish Ar rotosT-Onntzu. is still me limited.
Hanna take in the interests of the whole lawyer
class ; it cannot expand itself beyond the oontempla-
" lion of the section of barristers. When a cheap
system of law is spoken or, the wk test by which
Mr. NATI= OM try it is its poadhis effect upon the
pockets of the slam to width he beings—the bar-
risters. Cheep law earths only ewe meaning to his
awreheasien, and that ie s Meannties in the number
aa unmet et by hr. Me dose an appear to be
awn, that there we ether lopedismle is the eats of
nits hellos barristers' her. Mt ineepable of un-
ders=attefig hem of proms,
ing the
spease--= be abridged, um
would nese willingly mart their rights us aerie of
law ; and that one annerese eases would tem-
p ude even the banisters for diminished re-
esipb bon any individual nue. Mr. NA-
ma onset even sn the tree interest of
hie we chin h the quellsa et law ream) how
mid he be sported to lee, or ease for what is the
interest of the public? Mr. Neim is a protec-
tionist lawyer; be wants to maintain a tartlet legal
eons that will enable him to exact high prises kr
few prohnimml wises instead ot hie pekes hr
many. Owed the ergs= et the Dnuir
Prowls.
in the newspaper press have been byieg to
the public that however averse it might bo to ether
reforms, it weds' be found eager to uses& large
and Liberal seasons et law reirern. The thelaration
of its Irish Attorney-Genera will Megan men on
this point.
On the subject of rural education Mr. NAPIER
MI/ equally mink and equally unsatisfactory.
" Belaring to the snailisn of education, he agreed
with the Ms Preheat Wetruatou, that in all
MMus amides anodes aught to be scriptural,
andhet its prepegation should form a just claim on
the public hods. It was the intention of the
Earl of Dam to institute an inquiry into the 1
of the national system of education in
1
with a view to make it wind it purported
to be--a truly national system." If any one boon
has been conferred upon Ireland since the Union,
from which the patriot and lover of his kind can
warrantably augur permanent good, it is the unsects-
ran system of education introduced there since 1830.
gibes* but surely and steadily, it is elevating
Idahoan of all creeds—the Orangeman as well as'
the Ultramontane Romanist—above unreasoning
submission to priestcreft and bigotry. It is enlight-
ening that quick-witted people, and impressing upon
it habits of self-control. It is preparing the way for
their emancipation from sectarian uncharitableness
and liability to be led into frantic and aimless ex-
cessenby trading demagogue. It has been the work
of nu one faction or party : whig ministers, it is true,
laid its foundation, but the draft of their measure,
fully matured, was found hy them in the archives of
their tory predecessors.
declares Mr. NAPIalt
explicitly and unequivocallyit is the inten-
tion of Lad Daisy to subvert. An inquiry is to be
instituted into the working of the national
system of education in Ireland as a
el
liminary to essential alterations in it. These
alterations are shadowed out by Mr. NAPIER,
in the conventional language of his party, as contem-
plating . a propagandist enforcement of scriptural
instruction—that is, in plain English, the conces-
sions made to Roman catholies on the score of scrip-
ture reading are to be abolished. The elementary
schools, of Ireland are no longer to be a neutral
ground, on which Romanist, protestant, and those
who cannot well be called either, may meet for com-
mon advantage and edification. They are to be con-
verted into seminaries and foci of sectarian hatred;
made a standing grievance for agitators. The bene-
fits of sound secular instruction are to bo withdrawn
from Ireland, and fresh fuel added to its theological
heartburningn Lord Deane is, at least, consistent.
It was by an inveterate spirit of sectarian domination
that Ireland was made the rock upon which the
Reform Bill ministry was shattered. It was his in-
tolerant and vindictive bigotry that made him desert
his early and hereditary political allies, and link
Ihimself with a faction with which he had then no-
thing in common but his lordly self-will. Ho is still
resolute to persevere in his truculent bigoted policy,
and the announcement of his intention, by his Irish
Atrotovre-GENtast., was received with • peals of
Kentish fire and other Orange demonstrations."
The recent impertinent assumptions of the part

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01l this Igoe& The wash— not beat Ire the sill and fantastic memos at the
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is dos alhoislisi Oa the , 1811, see that tiam fac ' • is
shomes. smart sagas in. of a • f; la Nide are. not 11,1zie courilered b '
In ems duly this year Ism Wes, NO. With -heticas bigotry on theather. You"
what or grace eau Xr. IRKLIIT pretend devils by Beelzebub winos of devils." to
that do door has bum aimed against real fleiently arduous taiik for rational ma saki-
• waAsor or iailmilzr P vators of sincere, charitable, unostentatious 'ley, to
and isimisd Wad want the cause of pro- have to contend with the 'Win of Tull el Ire-
tertian be, whim eau eablati idolaters are coo- land in behalf of reason and mutual tolenmee; but
pellcd to defand it by insiaustiag tabohoods sod to be placed between the crass fires of three wor-
boldly making the vaned min-statements. But thins and the Dram Orangemen is a position of
lower 'WI am. in the el a ministry in unutterable peril.
which one of lo mem-
bers could imillgo •gosato at =Ls easily
and readily diapered.

company of Havre ; and the
‘'' insurance against hail oom-

'944.4 of the Interior has addressed a
Eircular to the pretests regulating the ,operitions
of the wen* of areensement for the national
guard. The age el Inscription is fixed at from
76 years to 60. and there are to be four spe-
cial corps authorised in the departments —ma.
peurs-pompior, cavalry, artillery, and engineers.
The great point insisted on is to accept only such
men as are noted for their devotedness to order, and
those penes, who, having arrived, during their ser-
vice, at the age of 50 years, and are still lit to serve,
are to be allowed to continue their service. The
number originally fixed for the various companies is
to be always carefully kept up.
M. E. Th 1, French minister in Bavaria, has
been appointed director of political affairs in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The decree nominat-
ing him declares that he shall have the title and
rank el minister plenipotentiary of the first class,
and may, on his demand, bo employed in a diplo-
matic post abroad.
M. Lturita, the Spanish ambassador to London,
left Paris to-day for his poet.
Colonel Ouinard has been set at liberty without
any conditions.
At the Bourse the Fives fell 50c., closing at
103.25; the Threes fell 95, and closed at 68.25. It
was reported that the aspect of the Swim question
was more serious. Bank of France shares again fell
30fr. Taste and Bordeaux shares rose .17.a0, but
most of the other lines fell slightly.