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London, England, 1849-12-06 00:00:00

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Veadeeporalag ; stork was lyhe offered, ea sold at a roaidoe. Erten.
fteehire (late C. and 8., per ant. till '3O),
1611— DI "lace") 12.1—last Lansuare, 122—lAacsahlre
god y Aftle abares), 64 Ile. dd. d.—Ditto (pref. sharta),l2l—
and oak Water; Ill) It —Ditto (ant f aurae).
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field, turd Limas (prat. @hares), Al— 604—Dlw (e
slam), II 51. 96. IAO td.—North taloa A, 2 wortry add
Carter, 10 certh Lawn sad Dover, 192—Ditto (No. 4,
WI di.), 6 111. Id. Newoutle, and Benda (61.14. X. 6 pa
cent. DU 'IA), 4e 16.

MANCHESTER, Die. 5.

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OUTGOING MAILS
end Gibraltar will be
.
The next Issas for Lisboa, Spain,
fade lap to marrow, Deo. 7.
The malls as Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Ceylon, Ind* Heap-Kong, rite., will be made up to-
morrow *maim, Deo. 7.
The ails for British North America sad the United
Mates will be tads up ea the seeping of Dee. 14.
The Was India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Revlon*,
Nassau, Headneee, New Orleans, and Mexico, and including
. these ter Madeira, BC leen-dio-Nicaregua. New °remade,
Chili, gad Penh will be dispetched on Dee. 17.
The nails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece,the loniaa bleeds,
Ens, Ceylon, Inks and Chins, Ma Southampton, will
be mode up on the merging of Dec. 20.
TII• asibi for Madeira. the Brasile, and Buenos Ayres,
will be aids up en lan. 4.

MON WILT= AT LONDON BIUDOIL
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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6.

MR. SIDNEY HERBERT MS COMB forward with a
very humane and praiseworthy motive to institute a
subscription, enabling, distressed needlewomen to
emigrate. We are sorry that so amiable a proposal
should have been backed by some very erroneous
philosophy. England, exclaims Mr. HERBERT,
apropos of her needlewomen, has too much capital, I
too muck wealth. At a time when three-fourths of
the land of England are bat half cultivated, farmers
wanting the capital requisite, and landlords obsti-
nately refusing aid resisting those sole conditions on
which cepital can be embarked in cultivation, we are
told that there is too much capital.
We can conceive too much capital in a country
where there is a lack of population—where, in fact,
there are no arms to employ. But, in a country
where there is abundance of men and labour on the
one hand, and of food and capital on the other, with
as fertile a soil as ever GOD gave, the fault of all
these three elements lying idle, and unproft able, and
starving by the side of one another, must be the fault
ot the law, the system, and of the social organisation
of the country. Foe labour to make use of materials, and
for capital to find thtm, two things ere chiefly required
—freedom and intelligence. But the land is not free,
whilst the classes upon it are utterly unable to recon-
cile present ex;geacies with old prejudices.
There is indeed one kind of wealth that is too
great in England, and this is nominal wealth—the
wealth that is rot reproductive, not annually created
or replaced, but which feeds on the real and active
wealth of the country. England is too much in
debt, the state to its sons, and its sons to
one another. It has too many idlers, too many
soldiers, too many placemen, too many mortgagees, too
many of these who represent a wealth that has long
since vanished and bcea consumed, but which is an-
nually paid out of the best arms, and hands, and
industry of the country. It is the weight of taxation,
public and private, the incubus of past and present
prodigality, which converts so much of value and real
wealth into the nominal and dead—this it is that
paralyses the strength and precludes the natural efforts
of the country.
We must own that of all the periods in the history
of English society, this is the last that we should
exp ct to find stigmatised as over-wealthy. For the
last few years, the not unfounded fear has been that
all the disposable and floatieg capital of the country
was becoming fixed, and rapidly sunk in railroads and
permanent outlay. The consequetce was, tba: other
large masses of capital invested in distant or colonist
speculation, with the prospect tf their not
being promptly or immediately required, were called
for suddenly, and not being suddenly forthcoming,
were far more deplorably lost than the money sunk at
home in embankments and iron rails. We have not
recovered from this elate of uncertainty and derange-
ment, to which has been added the derangement of
the whole continent of Europe, together with the
most uncertain and unsatisfactory state of our best
colonies. The laws of comm.rcial interchange are in
a state of abeyance and transi.ion, and thus the free use
of capital is obstructed, and its current frozen in a tar
mars than usual degree.
Such is the time in which the Right Hon.
SIDNEY HERBERT has made the marvellous disco-
very that we have too much capital. Ireland is there,
with all its lands coming to the matket, and not a
purcl:aser to take them : and yet we have too much
capital. The physician discovers that England has a
plethora of men and money, and he recommends a
copious bleeding of both in the shape of emigration
and a forced loan to pay for it, in order
that there may be lees capital to employ
in England, less produce to raise, less
mouths to feed, and less poor rates to pay. It
strikes use, that this is merely running away
from a difficulty without meeting it; and as far as the
land and the agricultural population are concerned,
aggravating the wilful inertia, the factions despair,
the superannuated monopoly, the increasing in-
debtedness and poverty, under which the agricul-
turists of England are allowing themselves to sink.
And all these sophisms and heresies of Mr. SIDNEY
HERBERT concerning the body politic and economic
of England, are all oprpos of the distressed needle-
women of the metropolis, who, it teems, are rained
by their being in too great numbers, and by the
wealth of Lombard-street having overflowed into the
tiny channels of the tailoring trade. The usual com-
petition in cottons and sugars has dwindled down
into the struggles of competition as to whoahould make
breeches cheapest, or should cabbage waistcoats with
most industrial effect. We have read in M.
PROUDIION and M. PIERRE LEROUX some very
amusing diatribes against capital and against
the bad effects of allowing too much of it to collect
and to be employed in competition. But we were
certainly more amused and amazed to find these com-
munist doctrines preached with such exceeding
gravity by Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT.
The case which excites his interest is, however,
oat per se, a very hard and heart-rending case—but
one which may be examined and diseased with-
out any common-place diatribes against capital
and competition. It is unfortunately true, that
in any kind of work requiring little or no skill,
and pursued by an unsettled, Queered for, and nomad
population, wages will soon be driven to the lowest
minimum compatible with life. And they will be
driven still lower, if the work be done by women. In
most instances women are not dependent on them-
selves. They seek work rather to eke out a living
than to make one. They soon drive men from their
trade; and then, as they do not always require to
live by their work, they do it for an 3 thing, for no-
thing. If they have not fathers, brothers, husbands,
they may have lovers. And a thousand circumstances,
impossible toenumerate or depict, place female earners
without the pale of that regular industrial state, in
which the daily necessi ice and food of the earner im-
peratively arrest the greed of the employer in his
efforts to reduce wages.
The position of a young woman, independent and
alone, earning her bread, is unnatural. In country
towns, where all are known, and where it is es
daughters and wives, that women work, there
may be some discipline and morality. But from
the wholesale employment of women in a
great capital, a state of things must arise
which shocks humanity, and must almost defy virtue.
The proposal of Lord ASHLEY to enable so.ne hun-
dreds of the unfortunate seamstresses of London to
emigrate is most humane. It is a boon and charity
to those who are the objects of it. But such emigra-
tion will not arrest the evil, or terminate the sore.
That will no more prevent destitute women from
doing a day's work for fourpenoe, than a transporta-
tion of half the boors of Donetshire would induce the
squires to build cottages for the rest. Mr.
SIDNEY HERBERT may think it good philo-
sophy to imitate the Dutch, who burned
half their spices, in order to get a better price for the
rest. He would fling half the capital of England
into the ocean that flows between this arid Australia,
merely that labourers might get a better price for
what remains. Bat in this Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT
would be utterly disappoit ted. Capital is never more
timid, inert, and useless to a population, than when
there is little of it. Look at the countries that have
On the contrary, much capital, ttiouzh it may
create competition, also stimulates enterprise in an in-
finitely greater degree. Acd no petty and puerile °on-
e:lesions from the trade of tailoring, and the practice
of female labour said wages, can affect a great
principle.

WE have seldom read a document relating to the
cmtroverly between pr..tection and free trade with
more unmingted rgieaction than the recent letter of
Mr. °Lows Fanntoc You No. In truthfulness

so touching, in candour so unqualified, in the appre-
ciation of difficulties so accurate, and in demonstra-
tion that they could only be evaded, not overcome,
so eamfacing and yet so concise—we never recollect
having lead anything more characteristic of its au-
thor, or more remarkable in itself.
The letter is quite a gem in its way, and Wee all
gems of peculiar rarity, one most turn it round and
turn it over to discover all its beauties. We shall
gladly do this friendly office in the present indent*.
Mr. YOUNG knows, we believe, that he is rather a
favourite of ours; at least we have bestowed more
time and attention upon his economic education than
on that of most other men. We don't like anything
that may savour of self-praise, but we may in passing
be permitted to observe that no pupil ever made
sloe derided progress under discipline than the pupil
la Tomtits. Our system may have sometimes seemed
severe. Bat it was in true kindness that we chastised.
And look at the result. When first we took Mr.
YOUNG in hand, he had not the slightest know-
ledge of political arithmetic. His education
bad so lamentably been neglected, that he
was accustomed to make the most absurd
mistakes as to notorious matters of fact, and,
from the absence of guile in his disposition, he used
to commit himself on all sorts of subjects in the most
curious way. Those who did not understand his na-
ture fancied ha was deliberately telling lies about ship-
ping, corn, and the Board of Trade. We never thought
so hardly of him. We saw clearly.that he really knew
no better. So likewise with respect to time. He was
in the constant habit of talking as if we were living
in the last century, when people believed in sinking
funds, witches, and the danger of paying for imports
in gold. Being rather elderly before he took to
print, his faculties and especially his powers of accu-
rate recollection had grown misty. But see the dif-
ference now! We have rubbed him up and so re-
freshed his memory that he is quite another man.
"To be conscious of one's iguerance," was the defi-
nition given of wisdom, by a very wise man ; and in
this respect we think Mr. YOUNG is growing wiser.
" Not to undervalue one's opponent'," was the maxim
of an old tactician ; and the epistle to Sir lunt4 TYR-
am. shows that Mr. YOUNG has made great uro-
green in that branch of statesmanship. "To tell the
truth at all times," was a proverb with the Dorian' ;
and when could it more fitly be observed than in ad-
dle sing one whom Mr. DISRAELI pleasantly desig-
nated as " his Doric friend," in illation to his blunt
and very inartificial style of speaking? We are proud
of our pupil, and we have a good right to be so. He
states the case of the distracted and despairing
protectionists nearly as well as we could ourselves.
And the merit is all the greater because the truth i,
gall and wormwood to his " dear Sir Join," whom
he obviously is moat averse to grieve; and the avowal
is eminently calculated to dishearten and depress still
farther their scattered followers. But virtue is its
own reward.
Oar space will not permit us to dwell on every grace
in this extraordinary composition. But we cannot re-
frain from citing and holding up as models for the
imitation of all the younger lads at agricultural
schools the following passages, which we se-
lect as they probably were written—at ran-
dom. The expediency of shirking in future
all distinct propositions in favour of monopoly,
or the re-adjustment of taxation, and of substituting
a cry fur the dissolution of parliament and a new
ministry, was shown, as he truly says, by many con-
siderations. But more than all from this—that "it
avoided the difficulty of defining any BpCeifiC measure
of redef applicable and likely. to obtain the concur-
rence of all friends of protection. We found this in-
superable, even in consulting on a measure affecting
one interest." Can anything exceed the simplicity of
this? The ablest and shrewdest of the committee
specially appointed to consider and propose " specific
measures of relief," comes forward innocently and de-
clares that the difficulty of doing so is wholly " in-
superable." If the committee had been fortunate
enough to discover what to do, they would have been
only too glad to propound it. But Mr. YOUNG says
that they could not find out what it was they wanted.
or what even one interest" would be content to go
for; and with the frankness and promptitude that
belongs to him, therefore, he tells us so in the plainest
English.
Jealous of the reputation of the committee, he then
proceeds succinctly bat argumentatively to defend the
course which they resolved upon adopting. " To have
devised a plan [of renewed protection) would have
been impracticable. It must have involved a scheme
of state policy which must have opened many points
of attack, and might have embarrassed beyond mea-
sure any government taking office on protectionist
principles, the great practical object we must seek."
How clear, how candid, yet how circumspect ! Our
pupil has learned to appreciate the strength
of his opponents. He will Lever more leave
himself " open to attack," if he can help
it ; never at all events by telling the
farmers that there is any distinct intention of putting
a tax upon foreign grain, by talking to the West
Indians about a differential duty on sugar. He is a
member of a committee who have resolved not to
commit themselves. " Native industry," and the
" general prosperity," with occasional spieerirs about
"betrayed confidence," and " visionary views," are
all, that after the most mature consideration, they
OM venture to say. " Specific measures of relief,
out be adjourned sine die. Not even the advent uf
a DISRAELI administration must be held forth as the
era of relief. " Such a government ought, on every
consideration of true policy, as well as of generous
confidence, to be left in an unfettered discretion, &c."
Who will my after this that Sir ROBERT PEEL de-
moralised or broke the spirit, or changed the feelings
of his party P Here is the tone and the very lan-
guage of 1841, reiterated with the faithfulness—per-
haps with somewhat likewise of the faintness—of a
distant echo. " The Farmers' Friend" was borne into
power by the self-same party, Mr. GEORGE FREDE-
RICK YOUNG and Sit DORIC TYRELL, Bait, being
of the number, who considered it inconsistent with
" generous confidence and true policy," to inquire
what they were making him minister for. It was
quite enough for them that he was leader, and that
they were led. " An unfettered discretion" he insisted
on, and they. most cheerfully gave. When he was
asse measly tnstalled in place, he would sit down
sad snider what was best to be done. They be-
" lined and trusted blindly—with what result they have
seemingly forgotten.
As for Mr. DISRAELI, we are free to own that we
I think he ought to be contented with the compromise
Mr. Yourto has offered. They. both want office in
perspective, and " • cry for immediate use." Mr.
DISIWILI'S shibboleth won't do. Many can't under-
stand—some can't even pronounce it. The uncom-
mitted committee have weighed his propositions in
the balance, and found them wanting • but he ought
ad to be offended at their saving so, because: they have
treated all others in the same manner. All they ask
and advise is, that there should be "no specific mea-
sure of relief" in future propounded, lest it might
embarrass his cabinet, whenever he shall be called
as upon to form one. What can be more handsome?

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN KENSAL-GREEN GIME-
Yzay.—On Tuesday afternoon an extraordinary scene took
place is Kumlsgreen Cemetery, and which has created some
considerable interest and surprise, in consequence of the body
of a gentleman, named Hendry, having been exhumed, in
pursuance of a warrant issued by Mr. M. H. Wakley, the
deputy-coroner for Middlesex, without the presence of a jury.
The deceased was a gentleman of property, residing in Hyde
Park square, and shortly before his death, which took plac,
in Scotland, be made a will, leaving the bulk of hie property
toe gentleman with whom he we. resistive at the time of his
decease. It being known, however, that be had made a will
in Ragland, inquiries wen made, when it was stated that
the English will had been placed iu the coffin with the
corpse and hence it was deemed desirable to dis-
inter the body, an adeitional reason being, that it was
said no medial man had been calltd in during his lest ill-
ness. The coffin and the body underwent a very rigid
examination, but no will could be discovered. The body of
the deceased appeared not to have been wasted, and there
were still some plasters adhering to the chest. No will
having been found, the coroner said it wou'd be necessary to
have spat soortem 'imitation of the body, and the con-
tents a the amuck were removed and placed in a jar for
the purpose of being analysed. The coroner directed that
Mr. Oanett should parkins the analysis, and that the body
should not be again interred until the jury had seen it. The
remains of the deceased gentleman were then properly
secured, and the jar and its contents were taken away by
Mr. Herren, who was dire Wed to report to the serener the
result of the analysis as ems as possible. AU the parties
then left the cemetery.
HOLTHIAD AND KINGSTOWN PACKETS.—Her
jests's steam-vessel Flamer, of slow coach notoriety, after lay
ing several months in the Whoa of Kingstown us. lesaly, at
great expense, to be ready in ease one of the fast boats
should break down, is at length ordered on Tuesday next to
Portsmouth, when the diem and crow will be tuned over
to the Fire Queen, tow fitted to sustain the postal arrange-
mesa so 'medial between Holyhead and Kingstown. A
paddle arm, ikc , broke on Saturday on board the Caradoc,
sad detained the vessel an hour.—Sawiders.