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London, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 3.
Trig long-threatening avalanche of protectionism
Las at length descended ; bat, unlike those of Alpine
origin, it has been rapidly dissipated, instead of
gathering augmented weight in its fall; and the
Downing-street hamlet, instead of being overwhelmed
with ruin, looks more happy and self-eatistied even

than before.
When, after two rather longish hours of elaborate
accusation, Mr. DISRAELI sat down, there was first a
pause, then a murmur of "is that all," and
forthwith a universal exclamation of " Divide." No-
body seemed disposed to waste his neighbour's
patience or his own strength in a reply. Mr. Home
did not rise to move his amendment; Sir ROBERT
PEEL looked " perfectly satisfied" with the unavailing
attack noon the policy which he began, and which he
helped the whigs to finish; and it was not without
obvious difficulty that Sir Cesium WOOD could be
persuaded to undertake the task of supererogation—
namely, to prove in detail that a speech which pal-
pably had produced no impression or effect, ought to
have produced none. On all hands the effort
of Mr. DISRAELI was about as great a failure
as his worst enemy could have wished. It neither
atimulyed the passions of his followers nor displaced
any assertion or conviction of his opponents. The
rhetoric oonsisted of florid genenliam beyond the
reach of raralcompeethension, and the facts were of
that most ineffective kind which nobody is con-
cerned to dispute. What the 'squires had mustered
in scores to hew their prophet did not say. Not a
word about rents,tumbling, or hopes of office to come.
Nothing bat a weary lecture on natioual character—
the beet way to find a market for cottons,
and the duty of systematic emigration. What
do country gentlemen, up to their chins in wasting
mortgages and wasted county rates, know or care
about " the future destinies of a great empire?" Mr.
Daum.: has now a second time this session trifled
with their discontent, and mocked their hopes of the
aristocratic restitution of all things.
But in this studied omission of the main question,
and of all that could bring it too vividly before them,
we freely own that we think that " little BENJAMIN
their leader" showed infinitely more discretion than
the princes and lords, of whom they sometimes are
thought to take counsel. He knows well how peril-
ous it is to promise the dull and downright confra-
ternity whom he leads an thing tangible or positive
in the chaps of reaction. His huffiness is to play with
their feelings, not to stimulate them into action • to
tickle the ear of their prejudice, not to sound a stir-
ring war note of attack. Like General Comm, his
sad position admits neither of serious attack nor total
cessation of asmalt The difficulty is to find
shot that won't make an available breach
into whose fatal jaws he might be irresistibly
hurried. Many sympathise with the cause of the be-
sieged who don't care much for their persons. But
neither will seer fall before the dilemms-stricken as-
sailant : their own folly or faintheartedness is their
only real danger, and his only secret hope.
For Mr. Diatom doss not dare to strike in
earnest the principle of free trade. He knows fall
well how dire must be the consequences of such a
proceeding. He knows that, even in the lower
house of landlords, prudence would bid a majority of
two to one repudiate the thought of retrogression. But
still more perilous must be the ease, were the
parliamentary preponderance made for the moment
to a *therotherwise.ln the minds of the public at
largeppear the question of free commerce is settled for
ever. The people have entered into possession of the
benefit of cheap necessaries and luxuries. Drawing-
room demagogues and Drury-lens tragedians may
rave ad Wien on the misery of abundant food and
an unbounded vent for production ; but no Mi-
sister of the Home Department will ever un-
&risks to be answerable for the tranquillity
of the country, and no Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will ever venture to stand " the look of
of things in the City," on the condition that a return
to protection is to be proposed. Mr. Disiteeu un-
derstands this well. Rents are of no more value to
him than any other inappropriate figure of speech.
Corn may remain at a moderate range without his
being much the wan off. His aim is office ; his
danger a parliamentary fix or an administrative
failure. He clearly tees that, under the flag of pro-
tection, he can never hope to enter the place he
covets as a victor. He modestly allows some of his
poor deluded followers to carry the faded rag,
while he caracoles in front in a very surprising, but
to them wholly unmeaning, manner, without even
the semblance of a sword in band. From the begin-
ning to the termination of his oration last night not
a sentence or a phrase escaped the wily lips of the
orator, that if recorded and cited hereafter, would need
to be retracted or withdrawn as inconsistent with an so-
quieecence in the established system of free trade. Re-
proaches, insinuations,tannts,and sneers at all thathad
been done there were in abundance ; but in answer to
the obvious interrogatory, what do you propose ?
—the wary member for Buckinghamshire would
only say,—when the house is willing to go into com-
mittee on the state of the nation, at my instance, then
I will tell it what I would recommend. A safe niter

trot
happy squires! Unhappy formers! Ye are in-
deed an ill-used and oft-deluded race. Even for re•
trenchment your champions will not at present vote,
although they eloquently declaim "against the incon-
sistency of keeping up the salaries of protected times
with the prices of free trade. For the
of debate, and in the hone of surprising Mi=
into a cheer, economy in the public expenditure is
declared to be the jut and natural corollary to free
trade ; but the radical cheer being once 'filched by
the empty proteges, the ambi-dextrous debater
torthwitt, preteens t2l.l7.traps for a similar
from his navel and military dupe!, by onerarg
usual peerages regarding the maintenance of the
power and toilsome of the monarchy.

THAT rat organ of absolutist diplomacy, the I
limes, in nips in one of its old malignant attacks
upon the Hungarians. When their cause was in Its
and weak, and when the cause of the Romans
tralancluilarly hopeless, the 7tmes had nothing but
words of contumely for both. As both defended
themselves like men, and showed the soldiership and
the statesmanship that co
the the Times
felt obliged to into:sprinkle its attacks with terms of
laudation and The Romans still command
these ; and of Wag, se at first, kicked aside
as a handful of brigands and foreign insurrectionaries,
it was but too manifest that each a handful could not
resist 20,000 Frenchman, to admit of such a flippant
calumny being peesevoredin.
The Hungarians when triumphant were respected
and lauded by our contemporary. But no sooner
have the Ruskin horde' surrounded that devoted
country than the Hoses joins them as as auxiliary,
seeding no_doubtaeorreepondent to the Russian camp,
se it woody has ale at Ormixar's, and of course
riivela thats=ent a title to the favour of
by an article of abase against
the
OrIEZ have thought that Hungary's achieve-
ments Rieke for themselves. WINDISCHOZATZ was
peammien of Path, and marched from thence with
pewmfal way to the Theis'. Yet he and his troops
wise elm sempletely out of Hungary. These are
=at inveations of the " German radical press,*
Weeds exists no longer. The Time'
swam the logliela journals favourable to
the Hsingselans of exonerating their moms and
renumme. Bat we leave ft to any one to judge which
wee rights Se Vows, which at fire represented the
Beavertails se beaten everywhere and incapable of
pat %Vmoistens% or ourselves, for example, who
ia the mom as in the jostles of the Han.
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