The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-30 00:00:00

• 7 AUGUST 30, 1852.

THE COUN TRY MARKETS
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 28.—Prices to-day are maintained,
but we have not had much passing.
MANCHESTER, Aua. 28.—The weather ' during the
week having continued of a more favourable character,
the trade has ruled generally quiet, without slteration in
prices. Coastwise and from Ireland only moderate ar-
rivals are reported at Liverpool and Runcorn; but of
foreign wheat, flour, and Indian corn the imports are
on a liberal scale. At our market this morning
barely supported the rates of this day se'nnight. Flour
sold slowly, but for fresh-made English, the supplies of
which are very light, previous rates were firmly de-
manded. Oats and oatmeal were quite neglected, and
must be noted rather cheaper. wheat
NOTTINGHAM, AUG. —Yesterday, at Derby, a
small business only was done in wheat, at the same rates
as last week. New oats were scarce, and the turn dearer.
No change in other things. The quotations now are—
Wheat, red, 42s to 46s per 36 stone; white, 48s to 51s;
stone;
275nte0w3,02315pte0r23303; l3stone; oats, old,
b2alrsletoy2fo4rs
per
24
36s per 20 stone.—At our own market tc-day, the wea-
ther being so beautifully
fine, Nye had a thin attendance
of farmers. Fine old wheat nearly maintained its pre-
vious value, and a few samples of new, in fair condition,
were sold at 403 to 42s per quarter. In oats and beaus
no alteration. The present prices of grain and flour in
Nottingham are as follow:—wheat, old white, 47s to
superior,an °l3d' 36
3 to
5
5
to 38s per 38 stone; flour, 32s to 335;
495; new ditto, 40s to 443; red, old, 404 to 445; new,
40s to 425; barley, old for grinding, 24s to 26s per 30
stone; Oats, old, 21s to 24s per 24 stone; Beans, old,
35s to 37s per 38 stone; Flour, superior, 32s to 35s per
20 stone; fine, 29s to 31s.

WORCESTER, AUG. 28.—There were some good sam-
ples of now wheat shown in the market to-day, and some
from the western part of the county Was of excellent
quality. Wheat must be quoted is pet hag lower than
at the last market dal: 'English:silala wheat, sslod to
65 6d per bushel, and 5s 6d to 5s 10 for red. Malting
barley, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel; and
grinding, 3s 4d to
3s 10d, with an average business doing. Beans are in
rather
ri s demandhb uos at full f. u3lslT6hie
tu prices;
crop
94
old English beans,
4s 6d
to
Old better
4
turns out generally
short.
3s to 34 3d per 391 b. White peas, 4s 6d to 5s pct. bushel.
Average—Wheat,per 391 b; Irish,
1119 s 8d per quarter; beans, 11161.
At Stourbridge on Friday,
BEdopgel
in c'hsequence of the
change in the weather, the market opened with a dif-
ferent aspect, and the rise of the last fortnight was effec-
tually checked. Fine samples of old wheat were the only
article that sold at last week's prices, and they only in
small parcels; but new and interior could only be dis-
posed of at a reduction of Is per quarter. Good malt-
ing barley was in fair demand at last week's quotations;
grinding slow of sale. Beans and peas continue firm.
At Stratford-on-Avon market on Friday the farmers
brought in large supplies of new wheat and were more
disposed to soil than at last market day. Buyers would
only purchase sparingly, at a reduction of is per bag on
last week's rates. Best samples of old wheat fetched 163
6d to 17s per bag of three bushels, and red, 16$ to 16s
3d. New wheat, 15s to 158 6d per bag. Business was
chiefly confined to wheat, other descriptions of grain
being neglected.
At Wolverhampton market the supply of wheat from
the farmers was moderate, but the dealers offered a good
deal. Millers generally confined their purchases to im-
mediate wants, and the prices obtained were about is per
quarter lower than last week. Old English white wheat,
6s to 6s 4d per 621 h; red, 5s 6d to 5s 10d; and new
white, 5s to 6s per 621 b. Malting barley sold at pre-
vious currencies, viz.-31s to 33s per 3921 b; grinding,
25s to 265. English beans fully as dear, 13s 6d to 14s
6d per 1961 b being the current rates. Fine oats main-
tain their value; other kinds rather easier to purchase;
English, 21s to 22s per 3121 b; and Irish 18s 6d to
19s 6d.
Kidderminster market was well supplied with samples
of both old and new wheats; the latter being in very
good condition, considering circumstances. The few
sales made were at a reduction of fully 2a per quarter
on last week's rates. English barley in request at full
prices. Fine old beans also in moderate demand. Oats
were well supplied from Gloucester, at a decline of 6d to
Is on the previous market day. The potato disease ap-
pears to be on the decline, and the week's reports are
much more favourable.
ABIRDIIIN. Aue. 27.—Grain—Oats 15s 6d to 16s 3d,
401bs per bushel ; barley, 22s 6d to 24s Od, 521bs per bushel ;
bear, 22s Od to 23s Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat, red 35s to 425;
ditto, white 35s to 425, 621bs per bushel; oatmeal, 12s 6d to 13s
6d per boll ; flour, 30s to 31s Od per sack. Provisions—Beet,
5d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 6id; veal, ditto, IV
to 6id ; pork, per Ib, 4d to 6d; lamb, per lb., 5d to 7d ;
tallow, per stone, 33 Od to 3s 6d; new potatoes, per peck,
Od to 6d ; salmon, per lb, is to Os Od; hares, each, Os
to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 9a;
eggs, per doz, 7d to 8d ; cheese, per cwt, Os to Os Od ; hens,
per pair, 2s 6d to 3s Od; chickens, ditto, Is 6d to 2s Od; ducks, do..
Is 6d. to 2s Od; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each, 7s
to 8s0d; geese, ditto, 75 to 88; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 00s to 698; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, bid
to Od ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 141bs,
Os Od to Os Od; pork, fine small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork, large
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to Os
Meal—Oatmeal, is 3d to is 4d; barley dust, Od to 9d;
peasemeal, is 10d to 2s Od; aids,Od to 6d ; beremeal, is 4d
to is bd ; flour, is 8d to is 9d; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barles
flour, is 5d to is 6d.
DALWEITIi, AUG. 26.—The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 121 b, 16st 41b, and 16st
I lb. Oats, 13st 01b, 12st Ilb, and Ilst 91b. Barley, 16st 71b,
15st 111 b, and 15st 61b. Peas and beans, 19st 21b, Oust 011),
and OOst Olbs.
Qrs. Best. Cuirent. Inferior.
206 Wheat........£2 6 0 £2 2 6 £1 11 0
296 Oats
120 Barley
19 Peas and Beans 1 13 0 0 0 0
Average of wheat,., 41s sd.
DUBLIN, AUG. 27.—The weather has again become
fine, and harvest operations proceed rapidly. There was
a moderate supply of new wheat at market to-day, qua-
lity good and free sale—red, 21s 6d to 235; white, 245
to 25s 6d per barrel. A few samples of new malting
barley appeared, and brought 14s per barrel Bere and
oats without alteration in value. Indian corn in retail
demand at former quotations. White wheat, 24s to
25s 6d; red ditto, 21s 6d to 24s Od ; barley, new 14s to
Os Od; bere, new 9s 6tl to 108 3d; oats, old 105 6d to lls
6d; ditto new, 8s 6d to lls 6d; ripeseed, per barrel,
16s 6d to 19s 6d ; oatmeal, lOs 6d to Ils 6tl; bakers'
flour, per cwt., 12s Od to 15s; Indian corn, per 4801 b,
29s to 30s.

The receipts of CgOraßinK,4
brls of wheat, 2,833 brls of oats, and 696 brls of here.
Influenced by the fine weather and favourable barve:,t
prospects, the trade in foreign wheat has lost the buoyant
our merchants. This inactivity, however, msy
and active tone which pervaded it h.ir some time past,
and " speculation" no longer sparkles "in the eyes" of
uth.e2,7;eek amount to 259
so much from the present moderate range of prices being
looked on as hazardous, as from the fact of our principal
millers and other large buyers having supplied
them-
selves plentifully in the rising market, and being disposed
to woik off their present stock before embarkibg in fresh
purchases. In the absence of transactions of import-
ance we cannot make any alteration in prices, although
rates would doubtless be made. For pre not arise
if buyers appeared, some concession from late extreme
is considerable inquiry from the other side both for
present and forward shipments, but as yet the ideas of
buyers and sellers do not approximate sufficiently to
produce much business. Indian corn remains in the
same inert state as last noted, the consumptive demand
0 Ditto
being reduced to a mere trifle, and prices not having yetd
be quoted
at within the views of speculators; it may pared oats there
at 2a 6d to 5s per ton lower on the week. I Ike! a
partial advance of 6d per owt, has been obtained on prime
samples, but in the ordinary run no change
place.
Barrels. currency.
20 White wheat lift 6d to 201 Od 00s Od-20 sten
has token
38 Red wheat lBs Od to 19. 6d
0 Ditto . oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 do
6 13.-loy 11. 01 Lu 00s Od
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00s 03 to 00, a
00 do Ocl-0s
0 Ditto oos Od to 001 Od 0--
2 barrels whitetn
1009 Ditto ...... oos Od to 001 Od nos Od
Bere... .. los 4d to 10s 5d
249 Oats . 8s 3d to 9s Od
95 Od-0 do
234 Ditto ..
0 Ditto . ...
Os Od to 00$ Od
First quality
Fifth
0 Pigs nOs Od Per cwt
Quantity
Fourth
Third qualit - -
h bere • 51 oats
0 pigs.
sold 1141
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Wheat, 44. Barley, 0. Oats, 2,147' Pit
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PRICES OF BUTTER-
iIRRINCY.
72s Pint quality. ••••••.••.•• .. 638
. 21.
Second qualitys93
553
uality
62s Fourth quality 533
ton.
cwt.
Sixth quality 42s Sixth qualitY Au 33,
indioraeal7s ad to 7s 6d; wheat.
Cows, 56.
Pigs, 325. Sheep, 20- 3 .
Coarr,—Flour—Fint 121 6d to 13s 6 , extra 14. 6d;
seconds, lls to 12s 6d ; households .1, tolls; thirds, 75 to 93 per
meal, 956 d to 105 per cwt. Indian "fit 61 1
Bran 1830 d to 263; avers
72s 6d to 75s per ton. Hay—Farmer. ,c,,e
°Os; dealers 32s Od to 35x;. average 01sper ton. Straw—Farmers
135 Od to 24s Od ; averse 00s: dealers 32s Od to 00s 0,1 ;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to Od i
household loaf 5d to Od per 41h- Fresh butter, 9d t•
10d per lb. d t 41 '2.d per hundred, Coals—
N Eggs-4s 0 0
-, • Landore 005 ; ccir,,,
ewoort 14s 03 ; Lydney -- '
12s 6d per ton. Tallow 391 Od to 40s per my,
Whisky, 25 o. p. 5s 9d per imperial gallon. rdc,:r
.."—Beef 4id to 7d; mutton 5d to 6id; veal 4d t,
id ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sangages_bd per lb. Hope
8188 to 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates .2/ 17_s 6d to 3/ Os per ton.
Bark, red 71to Si 108 per ton. Fleece wool 1. 65 to 00s per sten..
Hemp 291 to 341 per ton Fish—Scotch herrings 16s to 00a; red
ditto, 24. to 00spper barrel ; Newfoun,tland,. 101 03 to 11/ pp
ton. Timber—Nlemel, 70s per ton , red pine, 31 55; yes...:
ditto., 3/ 15s per ton • deals, 151 to 181 per 100, Hides_
Market "Os to 28.;' salted 21s to 30s per cwt : calf skin,
3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 5d to 7d; pink,,
8W to 123. Guam Peruvian, 10/ 105 to 111 per tett. Tar_..
Archangel, 19$ per barrel.
0 a t
mßeeatlairons of3d Cattle ti.tole..,
6566:48151; f 0
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Second
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with 300
The Sentinelle of Toulon, of the 24th, states that
the Charlemagne had arrived in that port from Bastia,
where she had touched in coming from Constantinople.
The steamer Philippe Auguste, which had left for Algiers
in consequence of her boiler having burst. No one on board
h
passengers, had been compelled to put into Javen,
had been injured by the ACCiCIeD

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE moRNING PAP.ItS OF THIS DAY. -
CHRONICLE.—The clearest sigral of the Empire to
which we have yet listened is sounding in the votes of
the French Councils-General. Every form of supplica-
tion and aspiration is employed be those bodies in ad-
juring Louis Napoleon to consolidate the work which ho
has begun; and it, is not a little remarkable that, among
the small minority which simply entreats the President
to give peace and repose to his country, the departments
containing the great industrial cities are not ranked. It
is curious. too, that, the more noted a department may
have been for the fierceness of its former Republicanism,
the more unqeslified seems its present professions of de-
votion to the Imperial family. The enthusiasm of these
Councils-General stands out in strange contrast to the
unexpected coldness of the smaller Councils of the Ar-
rondissements. Were the subject worth speculating about,
we might infer that, in certain circumscribed localities,
the population is almost ananimous in its Napoleonist
opinions, while tht party of Opposition, if there be such
a party, is more widely diffused - over the department;
and this is quite consistent with what we know of the
manner in which particular forms of fanaticism have
commonly taken hold of the French peasantry.
Entire villages used to be carried away by the fever
iof Socialism, till they exhibited a unanimity to
which there was not a solitary exception; and it fol-
lowed that the election for the entire department showed
a Red Republican colour, though the Conservatives
might, throughout a large number of districts, be in a
local majority. Bat, in fact, there is a much simpler
explanation of the stronger bias towards Imperialism
which has been impressed on the Councils-General. The
comparatively obscure elections to the Councils of Ar-
rondissement may have attracted a smaller share of at-
tention from the Government; whilst, in the more con-
spicuous and important contests for the representation of
the cantons in the Council-General, we know that the
le influence
of the Executive was unsparingly ex-
ewrhteodThe screw was put on considerably more tightly
in one class of elections than in the other—and there, in
all probability, lies the key to the difference. We should
not consider it matter for surprise if a large number of
persons in France were honestly desirous of substituting
a defined monarchical system for the present state of po-
litical affairs. It is always better to call things by their
right names;
and to allow any appellation but that of
Empire to the existing Government of France, is merely
to furnish a basis for needless imposture and idle
hopes-
On the assumption, too, that a majority of the
nation is not actively hostile to the usurpation of Louis
Napoleon, we must suppose that its tolerance of his pre-
tensions extends materially beyond his subversion of the
last Constitution. If the repose and stability of French
society be worth
it i
purchasing at the sacrifice of every en-
joyable liberty, s ridiculous to allow the genius of
freedom so paltry a drawback as the Presidency for ten
years. However this may be, the French Government
tlas wantonly deprived itself of any pretext for its
farther progress in usurpation, which might be supplied
by the sufferance of the people as signified through the
Councils-General. It has wilfully impeded the articula-
tion of any wish which the nation might really feel. In
the first
place, we are not permitted to know what de-
scription of pressure has been brought to bear on the
Councils. Newspapers," says the official organ, "are
forbidden to publish any report of the proceedings of the
Councils-General, except such portion of the minutes as
the President" (who is appointed by Government) " may
think fit to communicate to them." What we do not
know, however, can scarcely enlighten us more than
what we do know, and what the French Government is
unable to preventua from learning. We know that the
voice of the country cannot be gathered from ever so
striking a unanimity among persons whose consti-
tuents had to be dragooned to the poll, whilst, in no one
collected in sufficient numbers to
form more than a few scores instance, were they beyond the bare legal
majority. We know that no councillor could be sleeted
who declined to swallow the oath of personal fidelity to
Louis Napoleon; and we likewise know that the list of
the eligible, after being thus narrowed so as to exclude
a sstem of dation
nearly all the real representatives of French
ntimi
tellect,
was still further purified by y
which has a novelty of its own, even as a passage in
the annals of the existing Government. We require no
apter exemplification of the sort of intervention which
the French Executive permits itself, than is revealed in
a protest signed by all the opulent and educated
electors in the circumscription of the Charente, against
the return of Prince Lucien Murat, in lieu of the
Count de Chasseloup-Laubat. M. de Chasseloup-
Laubat, as the Reporter of the Committee on the
Budget, was the exponent of an opposition in the Legis-
lative Body, which, mild enough originally, became
serious through the imprudence of the President and the
bolas of M. de Montalembert. The offence of having
suggested that the dotation of the paid Senators ought
to be the subject of aitjenuual vote, and that the com-
pletion of the Carrousel might reasonably be deferred,
roused the bitterest resentment in the highest quarter.
On M. de Chasseloup entering the field as a candidate
for the Council-General, the Prefect of the Charente
published a circular demanding his rejection, on the
ground that "he had disappointed the expectations of
the Government." The Sub-Prefect followed up this
proceeding by having proclamation made, with beat of
drum, that all true friends of the President were desired
to vote for Prince Lucien Murat. The protest then drily
adds, " that the greater number of the electors, being
ignorant and ill-educated persons, interpreted this
request into a command, particularly as it was signified
with precisely the same formalities as the ordinary
edicts of authority." M. de Chasseloup-Laubat lost his
election. One word more on the degree of self-respect
which may be expected from the agents in whose hands
is lodged such an enormous weight of authority, with au
unbounded a licence to use it. A few days since, the
newspapers announced that the Prefect of the Dordogne
covered the front of the Prefecture, on the 15th of
August, with an immense transparency, bearing the
words, " Dieu fit Napoleon, et se repose." However
strongly illustrative we might consider such a proceeding
of the character of Louie Napoleon's instruments, we
should never have accused the Central Government of
direct complicity in this extraordinary piece of profanity.
But the Moniteur of the 23d distinguishes the Prefect of
the Dordogne above his colleagues, by a decree which
we copy without further comment:—" Louis Napoleon,
President of the French Republic, Scc., decrees—The
inhabitants of the Dordogne are authorized to offer a
sword of honour to M. de Calvimont, Prefect, as a testi-
monial of public:gratitude.—Louis Napoleon."
TIME-S.—It is satisfactory to observe in the intelli-
gence from America not only that the fishery dispute is
fast disappearing in the preliminaries of the Presidential
election, but that these proceedings themselves have been
substantially uninfluenced by the agitation which sought
to make foreign embroilments subservient to the pur-
poses of domestic cabal. No candidate for office in the
United States is in any degree the forwarder for having
gratuitously quarrelled with the measures of Great Bri-
tain. On the contrary, although the approaching strug-
gle assumes daily a more formidable aspect, and although
the Union may be convulsed from north to south in its
political travail, the motives and objects of the contest
will be exclusively American, nor does it seem pro-
bable that even the crusading agitation of Kos-
suth, or the ready combustibility of the naturalized
Irish, will materially affect the impending decision. In
the meantime, however, the native politics of the State
have undergone a portentous development, and it ap-
pears not impossible that this young Republic may soon
be exposed in its turn to those disruptive storms which
have hitherto been thought peculiar to older and less
liberal institutions. The general reader may perhaps
require to be reminded that American Whigs correspond
substantially with English Tories, that is to say, they
are the more Conservative of those two parties into
which all free communities naturally divide themselves.
It will, of course, be easily understood that the whole
stage of politics is considerably more advanced in the
new world than in the old, and that the rigid obstruc-
tiveness of our pure Tory element is not to be met
with aorosa the Atlantic at all. But, in so far as
those two professions exist which are inseparable from
political discussion, it is the school of Conservatism
which in America takes the denomination of Whig, while
that of progress enjoys the style and title of Democratic.
Hitherto, as in Great Britain and other constitutional
countries, these two parties have absorbed within them-
selves and have sufficed to express all the natural
varie-
ties of Transatlantic opinion, and it is by the reciprocal
checks of such rival organization that the Government of
the Union has been maintained in healthy action. Re-
cently, us we have seen, two candidates have been ap-
proved for the Presidency, representing respectively the
two traditional parties of the country, General Pierce
being the nominee of the Democrats, and General Scott
of the Whigs. To one or other of these competitors the
balance of votes will incline, and the result will deter-
mine the Whig or Democratic policy of the Ame-
rican Executive for four consecutive years. On
the present occasion, however, there has been
formed a " third party," and, though we should
have Mr. Disraeli 's authority for concluding
that the maintenance of such a faction, in face
of its two opponents, is an almost impossible
feat of political conflict, it is by no means so clear,
under the remarkable circumstances of this demonstra-
tion, that one or other of the more ancient parties may
not be superseded by this new formation. The consti-
tuents of the third party assembled on the 11th instant
at Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, in what is termed " con-
vention," that is to say, a general meeting attended by
delegates, to fix by previous vote upon a candidate who
should receive the individual suffrages of the entire
party throughout the States. As it was the first crea-
tion and appearance of the league thus assuming
politi-
cal capacity, the delegates agreed upon what Ame.rincanosf
call a " platform," or, in other words, a declaration
principles on which the new party was to
This" platform" was duly published, and from its
and ob-
cles we can infer without difficulty the briefly
charac-
jects of the school. These we may vary takeits
arti-
cles
by describing them as Radical;
_bust, ,a
r°
aßgeef do not
Republican
institutions, supported by universal un
political , for
re-
furnish any very spacious
Illnuaitre-di Stairsof sconcerns
aide--
forms, the Radicalism of the
roinotion
self more peculiarly with the P t
.therefore, are in-
vancement." In this " third par y,"
possible extravagance
eluded the advocates of every
bloomerism," has ever
which, from agrariaeiste
to
regenerators of man-
suggested itself to the W'
kind. Communists and Fourierists, Owenites and Pha-
lanstariane, Anabaptists stud Levellers, are here leagued

together, the predominant quality of the amalgam being
intense and extreme democracy--a democracy, in fact,
which is to the existing democracy of the Union what
M. Proudhon's liberalism would be to Mr. Hume's. As
dleyelared accepted, but positively embodied
—and we use the very wards
a specim
en of its nature we will give one resolution.
which
in the form it deelerntion of principles set forth and
attested as
. It nut
was on
of the proposition—" that all men have a natural right
to a portion of the soil, living and dying, at
their birth and at their death, and that those
who opposed this doctrino would bottle up God's
w sunshine for speculation." Now, though this
resolution did indeed excite a clamour and " throw the:
convention," as we are told, "into great excitement,'
it was nevertheless passed unanimously, and deliberately
recognised as " completing the platform." This, of
course, is tantamount to an acceptance of M. Proodhon's
dogma, that " property is theft," for, as the New York
Courier remarks, " it all have a naturesl right, all have
an equal natural right, and therefore, if any man pos-
sesses more than his neighbour, be may and ought to be
despoiled of it,"
.mselvijesni"teFd It will be said, however,. that all this
is only the natural development of Radicalism under a
republic, that an extreme party will aleraya form itself,
and that its operation in America wiil differ very little
from its operations elsewhere. But this is not the true
state of the case. The American formation possesses a
mast xtraordiiesry feature, and it is to this feature that
attention should be directed. There has long existed
itnhe the
reSetiautielesrz,,sewcthioosne ogfrepaotlitaine
object has been the absolute extinction of slavery. lii-
berto these
people have not constituted any political
party of their own, but hive remained' indisciitninateiy
in the general ranks of the Whigs and Democrats,and
principally, indeed, among
__ -
the former. At length, hr,
ever, indignant at what they consider the tergtversattor
of their original friends, h have resolved to stand
alone, and is was in their, name,ey diallpsartaemnuouinngt
morons body of malcontents, as that of the most nu
that the convention was
opened at Pittsburgh to enlist and combine all the dis-
affected elements of the American
population, It may
seem strange to the English reader that men whose de-
sires had at least a virtuous origin, and who otherwise
pertained for the most part to the Co
should thus unreservedly league themselvesnservattve school,
raving crew of anarchists and fanatics; but with such a
that the freesoil movement itself is so wholly the truth is,
tible with the preservation of the Federal C in9""'
and would, if successful, bo so notoriously foi,its.ttatuti on,
American Union, that these philanthropists have othe
insen-
sibly become little less than organized destructives ofrheworst complexion. It happens that all other shades of
root and branch Reformers coincide with more or less
zeal in the one tenet of the Freesoilers, and these bigots,
therefore, accept all aid from all sides, unhesitatingly in-
cluding in the "Freesoil platform" the most monstrous
developments of modern Socialism. In this way proposi-
tions which might safely be left to explode of themselves
are now attached in America to doctrines of a most
righteous character, and supported by the strenuous and
organized energies of an enthusiastic school. None can
deny that slavery is abominable, and that indeunanding
the freedom of all God's creatures the abolitionists take
ground from which it would be hard to drive
them. But, by this new League and Covenant, I
abolition is made to carry a thousand follies
on its back, and sects which would other-
wise rapidly expire have become engrafted on
is party possessed of sure vitality and prepared to accept
any terms for its own success. To acquire any idea of
the case, the English reader must conceive, if he can, the
five points of the Charter identified by some means web
the principles of religious libcrty. War to the knife,
too, has been declared. The " Freesoil party," as thus
constituted and composed, has boldly avowed that it
" utterly repudiates and denounces" both the other State
parties, that it will fight against them to the death, and
that its purpose is to " takepossession of the federal Go-
vernment and administer it for the better interests of the
whole people." It has already nominated candidates of
its own for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the
Union, and, though of course it cannot secure the dee-
em of itself, there is little doubt bat that it can turn

the scale as it pleases. Such are the prospects of Ame-
rican politics; what can be effected by this extraordinary
combination of rampant bigotry, unriflecting philan-
thropy, and unbridled radicalism, remains to be seen.