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N°.18,587.] LONDON, SATURDAY
~,411.4

SPIRIT of the.PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM PIE MOANING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
TIMES.—Lord Derby had better have " gone to the
country" at once. - Discussion is as damaging to Pro-
tection as education to Popery. His Lordship thought
perhaps that the notseltY of..a nos-Whig
Cabinet and
the prospects fof a fresh Administration might cover a
few peculiar conditions of finance, but his supporters are
determined to: drag .him into broad daylight. Mr. G.
F. Young and Sir Fitzroy Kelly have undone all that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was bent upon
doing. Protectionism plainly turns out to be nothing
but Protectionism, and Lord Derby and his colleagues
are the men to restore it. So says their own Solicitor-
General, and says their own chosen champion. And,
by way of clearing the road for Protectionism, Sir Fitz-
roy Kelly and Mr. G. F. Young have .been at work
for the last fortnight in demolishing free trade. Our
readers have been made aware of the remarkable line of
argument now adopted. - It consists in a plain, simple,
and ecucise assertien that free trade has not douo so
much as it hes undone, for that our home producre has
diminished in a greater degree than our imported
produce has increasal, so that the aggregate of ge-
neral consumption-meat inevitably have been less. " Not
one additional ounce of bread," says Sir Fitzroy
" has found its way to English mouths." . With some-
what more statistical elaboration Mr. G. F. Young has
been recently " dernonatratiug" that " oar vaunted
prosperity" as, in every single item, a delusion; that
.papperisue and beggary have been increased, the com-
forts of life dimiuishod, and commerce virtually ruined
by the operetitiu of free trade, while our own assertions
that feee trade has been eminently satisfactory to all but
the losers of former monopolies have been subjected to
" analysis and disproof." It is usualiy accounted un-
civil to leave a letter without au answer, and as Mr. G.
F. Young has just concluded his eighth communication,
be probably expects a " reply." The extent of our in-
dulgence, however, in this respect must be the reduction
of his whole ease to half-a-dozen paragraphs. Truth
eisan—generally, be put very ehortly, and the real
test of the entire question is at everybody's
right hand. Mr.• G. F. Young declares, in contradic-
tion to ourselves, that Protectionism has gained by the
trial of fiee trade, that converts from the
latter to the former policy have been made, and that
the acquiescence of the country in Sir Robert
Peel's great measure is a palpable fallacy. This is tie
sum and substance of his arguments. Now, Mr. Young,
will you have the kindness, for the sake of public in-
formation, to answer us one simple question? You have
been striving to prove that not only are the producers of
corn dissatisfied with free trade and anxious for protec
lion, but the consumers of bread as well; in fact, it is
the purport of your case to establish circuitously what
Sir Fitzroy :Kelly poeitively affirmed, that bread-eaters
have had less bread, as well as smaller means, under
free trade than under protection. If this is the truth,
pray tell us what aro the apprehensions which prevent
Lord Derby- and. his Cabinet Iroise honestly declaring
theiiiselees Protectionists? Two month ago the Go-
vernment of the country tumbled into their hands, and
as it was the second time of tumbling, they were fain to
pick it up. They are now, as the phrase goes, "in
powers' and yet you have seen that there is not a single
Minister who has ventured to unfold the standard of
protection. Not all the taunts or tactics of a formidable
Opposition have been sufficient to force Lord Derby into
an active profession of his political creed. On the
contrary, the members of the! Administration,
exactly in proportion to their responsibility, have fought
with the necessities of their position by every trick of
fence, and have shunned the very word " Protection,"
as if it carried with it the stigma of duplicity or folly.
How, then, on your assumption that the country is us
sick of free . trade as' you are, do you explain such
timidity as this? It is perfectly notorious to every man
in the three kingdoms who can read or listen, that the
present Ministry is apprehensive of such a resistance to
a protective policy as may defeat their attempts. It is
also clear that this opposition .is anticipated from the
great mass of the community,.including especially those
without direct representation in the Legislature, for, as
to mere Parliamentary strength, the Protectionists have
always turned " territorial influence" to sufficiently good
aceouut. Yet Mr. Disraeli himself at Aylesbury did
openly acknowledge that whatever, in his eyes, might be
the merits of the system, the acquiescence of the country
in ever so small a protective duty on corn was a
thing to be almost despaired of; and even Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, no longer ago than last Wednesday atWoodbridge-
market, after expatiating on the universal ruin result-
ing, from free trade, was driven to suggest that " the
restoration of the corn-laws, and the re-investment of
agricultueists with the protection they had so long en-
joyed,"_ was likely to prove so " impractieable" as to
compel the adoption elan equivalent. We donut quote Mr.
Cobden or Sir James Graham on this point; we take the
words of the Protectionist leaders themselves, and we
only state a notorious fact in asserting that they appre-
hend a certain insurmountable resistance to the revival
of protection and the reversal of free trade. Now, pray,
Mr. Young, if the whole country is indeed suffering
together, how is this resistance to be constituted, and ou
what convictions does it depend ? Wiil you be kind
enough to tell us this ? and will Sir Fitzroy Kelly ex-
plain in his; next address why upon earth it should be
deemed " impracticable" to reverse a system which has
grievously offended one class of the population, without
giving " one single additional ounce of bread" to the
others ? Is it not manifest to every man who can
put two ideas together that the Protectionists are
wishing to get something at the expense of the
nation, and that they are afraid the nation will not per-
mit them to turn their accidental power to such ac-
count? And, if such .is the national feeling, as it
plainly is, for otherwise the Peotectiouists would rather
lose than gain by their present dissimulation, on what
can it rest except a national satisfaction with free-trade
policy? Why, in the name of common sense, if the
operation of free trade has made the revival of protec-
tion universally desirable, should the universal repug-
nance to protection be so strong that even Mr. Disraeli
despairs of reviving it except disguise? If, as Sir
Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. G. F. Young have computed and
affirmed, there is no class or interest—not even that of
bread-eaters—which has not been a positive and visible
loser by the effects of free trade, where are we to
look fur that strength of the Free-traders before
which the Protectionists shrink with an irrepressible
presentiment of failure? We 'assert once again that
no complaints have ever been brought against tree trade
except by those who originallyiepposed its introduction.
The impugners of free trade at the present moment are
composed exclusively of
.the adversaries of free trade in
1846. They have not experienced the accession of any
political converts, whereas, on -the other hand, it is im-
possible to take up a newspaper- without reading the ad-
dress of some quondam Protectionist, who, atter de-
nouncing the " way in. which free trade was carried,"
and owning perhaps to a private hankering after the old
fleshpots, concludes, nevertheless, with an acknowledg-
ment that, as the policy " cannot now be reversed,". he
is willing to make the best of it. If Mr. G. F. Young
has any doubts about the meaning of such admissions
as these we can set them at rest for him. They mean
that, as the people have now had a taste of cheap broad,
it is felt " impracticable" to take it out of their mouths
again.

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-HERALD.—Has the free importation of foreign corn
increased the quantity of bread consumed by the people
of England? This is the question upon which Sir
Fitzroy Kelly has boldly taken issue with the Free-
traders. We cannot permit our friend of the Times to
escape the issue upon which, on Wednesday, he staked
his adherence to the cause of free trade. Yesterday he
endeavours to escape the consequence of his imprudent
admission—that the question of free trade was disposed
of, if it were untrue that it had given the people more
to eat. Whether our contemporary abides by that ad-
mission is certainly not a matter of indifference, because
we do not undervalue the importance of such an adhe-
sion as that of the Times would be to the Protectionist
cause. But the nation, let the TiMas act as it may, will
thoroughly understand and appreciate the importance of
the question with which we have headed these re-
marks. The late Sir Robert Peel was the first who
adduced the argument of the increased import of
provisions as a proof of the success of the policy of
free track. Is it necessary to repeat that the fact of
this increase in itself proves nothing? The argument
against the repeal of the duty on corn was that our
supplies of food would be brought from abroad. How
on earth does experience contradict that argument
when it preies that they have been so? The asser-
tion of the Protectionists was, that the effect of this
foreign supply would be to substitute the produce of
other countries for that of our own. Toe contro-
versy Was not. as to the increased importation
from abroad, but as to the diminution of the produc-
tion at home. Our readers will bear in mind the
boasts of the increase of the quantity' of food consumed,
founded on the increase of the quantity imported.
Will it be believed that yesterday the great organ of
free trade confesses that these boasts were made
without any data to warrant them? No man can dare
to assert that our people have been better fed under
free trade who is not prepared to 'tell us what is the
quantity both of corn imported and of corn grown at
home. The aggreglite of these quantities constitutes the
national supply. No Protectionist ever denied that the
portion of the aggregate which consists of foreign sup-
plies would be increased by free trade. The controversy,
we repeat, was only es to that derived from our own
fields. Indeed, the only assertion that. the foreign supply
impossible
would not be increased proceeded from the free-traders,
who assured us that our expectations of au excessive
import of foreign grain would never .be realised. The
people has increaod
Times, however, of yesterday explicitly tells us that it is
ascertain whether ,by any authentic means of information to
the consumption of bread by our
.or diminished under free trade. Sir
Fitzroy Kelly has .
diminished. „
Wep.dedged himself to prove that it has
odonot b-lieve," writes the Times,
W Buonot believe that ho can, simply
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istence. This is toe confer •
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the conviction
qf its fallacies, under the pretext that there are no data
from which the calculation can be made!! Let us, if
this be so, in' the name of common honesty, have no

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more of those pompous statements which have been so
triumphantly put forward of the increased comforts of
the people. Lot the sense of the country be no longer
imposed upon by arrays of figures that prove nothing"
long estimates of imports that lead to no result. Let
us come to the real question: Has the home production
fallen off as much as the foreign import has increaseo
If it has not, we admit that Etc bread consuming people
of these countries do purchase more then theydid under
a system of protection. If it has, the only effect of free
trade has been to enrich foreigners at the expense of our
own agricultural population. ,We do.not agree with the
Times that there are no data from which the calculation
caa be made. Mr. George Frederick Young's letters
have afforded them. The very article in the Times that
denies it indicates the materials by which the truth can,
within reasonable limits, be ascertained. The Times ad-
mits, that if we are to take the returns of the inspectors
in the towns of the quantities of corn sold in this
ncoeuarnityryna'stdhee opropositionhas
of
b,e
Sir Fitzroy
betweenitzro 18
yliellyi4s6rind
very.n
1850, a diminution in the quantity of corn, of home
growth, sold in our towns, very nearly equal to cennters
balance the increase in importation from abroad. But
in addition to this we are to place the almost total
cessation of our inaportutions from Ireland upon the
debit aide of the account. In that ill-fated
country
half a million of acres went out of wheat cultivation
in two years. In estimating the quantity now consumed
by our people we roust place the wheat raised upon
t:diminished quantity sold in our market towns, and
rohge:hearertehseyoeuxeetehde negative side, together with the
the increase in the importations.
If there be doubt or dtffieulty in the matter let it
be cleared up. We surely will not be told that the
country is so deficient iu the means of statistical infor-
mation that it is not possible for us to ascertain whether
we eat more bread now than we did in 1845. Will any
Free-trader in either House of Parliament venture to
move for aCommittee to inquires,into the fact? If there
be no eqa hardy-anon* fa„self; irvint we may perhaps
conclude that it is because the inquiry would exhibit as
great a falling off in the food consumed by the working
Classes as that which undoubtedly has taken place in the
incomes of the better classes. The subject is one which
obviously cannot be let drop. Its correct ascertainment
will obviously influence the verdict which the country
will pronounce upon the question of free trade. We
challenge the advocates of that system to prove
that a single additional ounce of bread has
otvheerraltieps tohr an Englishman. It
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been done to the national cause by the Solicitor General
and Mr. George FrederickiYoung, when they challenged
the investigation of this subject. The more thoroughly
it is sifted, the greater will be our triumph; and we are
still of the opinion which the limes held on Wednesday,
that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's speech
at Harwich placed the question of Protection upon
grounds which, it established, as we know they will be,
will go far to terminate the war of classes, and secure
for the Protectionist cause the opinion of all that is
enlightened and intelligent in the nation. Let it not
be forgotten that all our opponents now venture to as-
sert is that the truth cannot be ascertained, and that
there are "no data from which a correct calculation
can be made!" No wonder they assail the speech (they
have not attempted to assail the Jotters) that has extorted
this retractation. It were ungenerous, perhaps, to tri-
umph over the contrast with the vauntings of last week.
A few plain and manly words have verily done good
service to the cause of home industry and truth.