The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 9.

Tax resumed debate on Mr. DrseAELt's motion
proved, with one exception, as barren of tittered as
the preceding portion. There was nothing to redtera
the monotony of commonplace asseveration and paint.
less discussion save the isolated speech of Sir Roatat
PEEL. For him the occasion was indeed a great one.
It might fairly be regarded as the final hearing of a
cause of political equity which has been before the
highest court of public opinion in the realm during
the last ten years. The decree of that tribunal la
favour of free industry was made, it is true, in 1846;
but as an appeal was sober quently demanded, and the
circumstances that occurred in the interval were set
up as grounds for a reversal of that decree,
it became necessary or at least expedient to give such
facts full consideration, and to see whether any of
them could be fairly pleaded as reasons for altering
the previous decision.

The reply of the CHANCELLOR OF THE 1:I•
CHEQUER upon Monday evening last left litle to be
done in this way. But whatever remitted to he
said wu said well by Sir ROBERT PEEL When
avowing his conversion to the unqualified prioeple
of fry e trade in 1816, he had confessed that three 3 can
' experience of its partial adoption had convinced him
of the safety and wisdom of its entire and unlimited
application. The tariff of 1842 had proved half the
doctrine to be true; and at the close of 1845 Sir
ROBERT resolved upon trying the other halt
A trial period of equal duration has now
elapsed, and what is the result? Notwith.tandirg
the outcry raised, and the enmity kept alice towards
the distinguished author of the change, and clesp:te
the lose of party influence as well as official p.Wer con.
sequent on that memorable act of fearless
Sir ROBERT shrinks not from reiterating in the
strongest terms his unshaken faith in the troths of
ziness only Bernda the
commercial freedom. Additional experience of the
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great change he sacrificed so much to accon4l;ll.
He would undo or qua ify nothing which his noon-
verted followers upbraid turn with doing without their
assent; and he earnestly lull impressively counsels
the government who have reaped where he had s lwv,
not to waver or hesitate in making sure every minor
or coils eral point of industrial emancipation
And all this the unhappy followers of Mr. Distant
bore with comparative equanimity. A dull sense of
helplessness—in pert arising from despair and in put
from doubt whether after all cheapfood wu so unmixed
an evil as they had supposed in their first anger it
finding it forced down their throats—a passive state of
mind appeared to be the most prevalent among the
once turbulent and threatening minority during
the greater portion of the ex-premier's harangue.
But when, at its close, they heard him potter
that he believed no share ot the credit ot
law repeal was due to himself, but that it was in fact
a special interposition of political providence
—the patience of the unfortunate protecti .ni-u
foreo)k them, and all their fortitude gave way. To
lose their long trusted leader was hard enough; to be
told that their rents must come down to low pi ices wu
sufficiently trying to their chivalrous patriotism ; but
to have their monopoly of special providetcu broken
in upon was beyond the limits of orthodox endurance.
Who that ever read Mr. ALISON'S history of Europe,
and believed it to be true, could doubt that the affairs
of England so long as the tones held office were de-
termined by miraculous intervention? Or who that
has ever listened to Lord WINCIIILSEA vaticinations,
or given heed to Mr. CROKER'S quarterly reviews of
England's progress on the road to ruin, can entertain
a question but that the Carlton Club is under the par-
ticular patronage of Heaven, or at least of the right
reverend bench that assumes to speak its will Whip
and radicals may be clever debaters, expert
officials, or even honest men ; but as to
having any pretension to the favour of pro-
vidence, or to be supposed to have to] es.o
and advocated what was destined for the benefit of
mankind—the utterance of such a thought was no
thing short of fiat blasphemy. All Sir Ronear's dug
faded into venial colours when compared with this;
and when, to cap the climax of impiety, he wetted
them in reference to the new proposition of recurring
to a fixed duty—not to sell their present security for
a mess of potage—a shout of mingled scorn and hate
arose from the pious friends of scarcity and semi-
starvation.

At two o'clock in the morning Mr. DISRAELI TON
to reply : and if intrepid courage in assertion or biter
force of taunting sarcasm could recover a last caw,
he might be deemed successful. But the sine
solute inability he displayed to cope with the real
topics in question, and the childish uncomeciousees
with which he gave utterance to opinions and trap
sitions containing in themselves their own obviom
to
fntation, rendered the display of profitless energy antl
talent a source rather of compassion than resentment
to his outnumbering antagonists. The hopelessness
of all projects of reaction is far lees conclusively indi•
rated by the overwhelming majority that on Friday
night rejected the hon. member for Buckinghamshires
motion than by the utter failure of even his unquer
tioned genius to make any case in support of it, whe
ther at its initiation or its close. Desperate and de
lusive must the expectations be that are founded
on such projects. Certain we feel that
neither Mr. lizapaEs nor Mr. DISRAELI in their
hearts cherish any faith in dreams of a re
snscitated system of protection. We acquit them
of such folly. They doubtless harbour other scheme,
the time for developing which has not come ; but to
keep up the feud with those who abandoned them in
1846 is essential to their individual pre-eminen i
ce s
chiefs of a party, and therefore are the poor squires
and farmers amused with mock motions on the
" State of the Nation," and for a " Moderate filed
duty on corn."
We have long doubted, however, whether these
" fiash-in-the-pan " tactics may not be carried too far.
With all the experience of the one and ability of the
other in finesse, the tory leaders in the Com-
mons may out-mancenvre themselves. The cautery
gentlemen begin to look very tired of being drilled by
"an old bookkeeper," as they contemptuously stYle
the hon. member for Stamford, or dragooned ht
coll eague whom they regard as a sort of parliamen-
tary GARIBALDI. The cunning of the former, and
the daring of the latter, may be all very well in their
way, but the tones complain that they have slwaYs
been accustomed to follow persons of their own cote
dition, and their sulky silence during. the first nighfs
debate is said to have been changed into ill-orgewid
plaudits during the second only by dints
rather too plain-spoken rebukes and reproa;
in the interval. By many this galling discipline is s
submitted to, althh with a sufficiently 0°1:
Bat others actually mutinied and walked off the fiela
in dudgeon : so much so that to hide their defection
the deserted DISRAELI was fain to volunteer Swine:
mation beforehand that " many of his friends had lett
town." The spirit of English country gentlemen,
is a dogged spirit. What are the gifts of a Ina!ll
genius to them P Has he their blood in his veto?
Has he their look on a race-course ? Who was_ll
grandfather? that is the question. Polr •
DISRAELI felt this when he bethought hon
of the marvellous device of fabricating I
sham leader, through whom he might in regal
govern, and when he invented Lord GE0.50.!
Marmot for that puree. Subsequent trium;divas:
debate have deluded htm, apparently into the tit
Bu
hope that he may at length reign in person.
may not be. There is not a dumb baronet or a stem
ing lord in his party who has not a better
ch clretlice.
rubber Arto!!
being faithfully followed and obeyed as a
ho. It he cannot invent another India-o

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