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London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

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NOTWITIMANDINO all the impossibility of a return
to Protection, an impossibility assumed on the idea
that no parliament is this country, however elected,
ma quite lose its senses, it is still requisite to obviate
something more than sock a return. The very hope
of it, sad agitation for it, must be put an end to ;tor
as beg as both exist, we shall have an agricultural
clam neglecting industry to trade in politics, and
locitieg to increase its majority in the house rather
thee its yield on the farm. And with the
we know
quesi
thus kept open by prolonged mistry,
not what element of irritatioe, what coalition or
aplitiing of party may arise to mingle with t, and
reader it ones more formidable.
There are few well-advised persons who do not ad-
mit that a return to Protection would be s ra
in sp* to
which
a
nate of things pregnant with revolution,
every material aid incentive for an onward move-
ment, not only against corn-laws, but against aristo-
cratic privileges and enactments, would be amassed
and crested, and placed in those hands most able and
willing to use it. A return to protection must, in the
we of every wary politician, too strongly resemble
the last policy of Loris Pnitierz,—that by which he
united all the middle and lower class agauist
not to excite fear and their dissuasion.
To prevent any such struggle or collision with
weapons and on fields beyond the limits
the of the con-
stitution, there is but one mode—give antagonist
Wherein a fair field within the area of the coustite-
tion. Make a more just and equable pertition
of the true and legal element of power,
tilolotonehise. As at present shared, u now en-
the landed interest, although the smallest in
population and enlightenment and wealth, has most
eacratous and undue advantages in the return of re-
presentative. to parliament and in the packing of a
majority. Conscious of this, their daily appeal is to
a new parliament and new elections. They have
the superiorly, and are ardent to use its And
liberals, at leant of moderate colour, are too signed
and torpid, and argue that it were better to let them
keep their advantna than touch the coutitution in
order to deprive them of it.
:inns even go so fir as to say, let them have the
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majority, they durst not use it. We cannot, however,
me any security in regarding the English constitution
es an aristocratic one, tempered by fears of revolution.
We had rather put the antidote to revoltrion in the
constitution itself, and make parties so equal in the
eye of the electoral as of other law, that the minority
would be at once content with its defeat. But at
present a vote of parliament 4sciees nothing. Tie
party which gave up protection from prudence, know
the power which exists in the aristocracy and the land
to raceme it ; just as the party on wich it miht
forced counts on the ;eopular resiatauhce that itg to has
fall beck upon.
we w sh to avoid a civil war betwese two
contending parties and interests, we must
them to combat fairly withia the pale of
constitution, and give to each interest that voice
,o power in elections to which it is entitled by its
population, intelligence, and weight. There is nothe
-••• advocate that durst rive and my that t
distribution and enjoyment of the fella-
is jest, that it really satisfies any
or leads to a final and satisfactory
And as ling as the great national and
tribute!, erected at a time of general
, to decide upon the great questions which
and divide the country—as long as this tribunal
partially mastitated and suspected one, so long
l us decision bring nailer settlement, nor peace,
eoutentnent.
'• do, therefore, repeat, at the commencement of
• year, and at the approach of a new session
old parliament, that now is the time whi n
true conservatives should think of amending
:diciest part of the framework of the constitu-
by passing a measure for the extension of the
franchise, as well as for its more equable and proper-
- distribution. Without it, the whige may
up their minds to be swamped, and to be driven
the stage of public life. The combat of interests
assume a mote fierce antsgonient than they can
Nto between. Their enemies and the enemies
a people have an electoral system which may
them the majority, and we must not count
either their a isdom or forbearance not to use
• a majority so as to provoke outright revolution.
I England contain a man mme rash then L
iLLY?—more unecrupulous than those who act
t him
,tut even if such fears are exaggerated, the mere
existence of them is full of peril. Even with a par-
liament tomtit :ted like the present, that great gum-
don which unsettles the empire remains, and is
likely to remain, an open one. Nor is this state of
' -les to be meaded by a dissolution . Although
public man of dominant parties has as yet
.ached one word of the expediency of extending
electoral reform, we cannot believe that at such a
crisis, when every event saygests, and every circum-
stance demands it, that such a statesman as Lord Jonet
Rensue. does not meditate a step, and a held one, in
that nirection. If he does not, he is unmistakeably
batwing both his party and his cause.
But whether ministers meditate or shrink from a
line of policy necessary for the maintenance of even
the little liberalism they profess, the bounden duty of
the great popular party, and esp-cially of the middle
cuss reeormers, is to straggle without ceasing for the
exteui in, the independence, and the apportionment
of the 'tillage, Lot only as the best safeguard against
the return of high deities, against the reinstalment
of for y principles in office, and against the possible
convulsions that might ensue, but also from the intrin-
sic justice of the demand, and from the necessity of
giving popular opinion and interests that direct
voice and part in the working of the constitution
which dry posters now dung mealy, because indi-
rectly, and from without. As things are, agitation,
and association keep it up, form a necessary
element to the constitution. But tor it we should
b upe p
surtaxed, and down trodden, befooled beyond
tneurance; and the people in self-detence are drives
to the very tro.able.ome and costly expedient
eI
eternal agitation. For no sooner do they lie still,'
titan the aristocratic governments fallback upon
old courses and follow in tie old beaten rut. Naytheir, if
we 'dumber, we should soon find them coalesce again,
to swell the expenditure, keep up colonial patronage,
eh ,ke hands with aristrocratic despotism all over
th•••• world, aye, and after all resign themselves very
probably to the reactionary polit y of protecting duties.

Tan colonial doWnimts of (beat Britain (exclusive
of the Eat India Company's territories) have en ex-
tent ,of about 6,000,000 square miles. Of these, about
2,600,000 are situated to the north of the tropics,
rather more that. a million within the tropics, and
about 2,500,000 to the south of the tropics. They
were inhabited in 1848 by about 6,300,000 persons,
of whom nearly 2,600,000 are whites, 1,500,000 being
whites of British birth or decent. Toe number of
emigrants from the United Kin4om to these colt,-
tars rise 129,831 in 1846, and 238,270 in 1847. The
aversge velar of the casual exports of British manu-
factures and produce to view c,looirs w 0,985,9481.
for the five 'ewe 6.1 cling 1836 ; 13 433,6391. fur the
bye )e .re endi. g 1811 ; ar,ei 14,335,461/. for the five
rani mints 1846.
Te totters a e sufficient w impt, Fs upon the mind,
of toy reflecting mrn the deep uiterest abet the is. 1,
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