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London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

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LONDON:
'TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841.

On S '
atl irday we stigmatised the policy of the
Tories 7 'arc aking up the Ministry in June, be-
cause t he y would on no account permit the
Corn-1; tw:s to be touched and recommending in
Augu st th at very change, as an untrue, unfaithful,
insinc ei :e, and scoundrel policy. It may sound
harsh t o same delicate and politely attuned ears
to use at ch language, but politics are a most se-
rious e .n d important branch of morals, and no
more p rc per to be spoken slightingly of than
murder • a nd parricide.

The lin e taken in June by the whole of the
Tories, fr am Sir R. PEEL downwards, was to op-
pose ev-,:r.y kind of commercial relief and every
abateinc tof monopoly, and even Whig land-
lords vc .tcd against the Ministers on the sugar
questior t,.becanse that was the precursor of Corn-
law rei ICal. On the principle then announced
the whc eof the county elections were decided,
and ton L iintain it a majority of the House of Com-
mons w a s collected. Its ascendancy has already
banishe d hope from the minds of commercial
men an .d driven many to bankruptcy. It has
convinc. pc 1 the bulk of the working classes that
they Cal x expect nothing whatever from the Le-
gislature., and they look with exultation rather
than of lierwise at the Tory success as the herald

conft sion. Their convictions that the Consti-
tution i lever can work well are confirmed, and
they wi 11 rejoice at its overthrow. The Tory suc-
cess has also engendered great and just discon-
tent in I 'r eland. The cries for repeal have be-
come m e urgent, and threats are now there the
staple oi fp üblic harangues. The Tory success, by
nourish' ng arrogance in one party and dread in
another, k indling alarm and encouraging ha-
tred, hula a heady done no inconsiderable mischief.
There ca ..n be no doubt that it was promoted
by the fi ar cc denunciations of the Tory press,
but almc ist before the success has been achieved,
before th .e mischief is completed, a conviction of
error has , taken the place of bold confidence, and
those w' ao in June denounced every abatement
o mono- )oly have become in August converts to
the nec ersity of modifying or abolishing the
Corn-la\ ,vzs. The Tory success was 41so in some
measur due to the fierce denunciations poured
out ago in st the Irish Catholics, as the allies of
the NV-hi gs. Religious hatred was used to
strengthen political animosity, and stimulate
Tory ex eruion. Lord MoapErn was especially
rejected by the West Riding of Yorkshire, be-
cause he seas the friend of Catholic Ireland, and
the ally 3f Mr. O'CONNELL. The journals and
the part y that in June nourished these senti-
ments se em to repent of them in August, and
now ess iy in vain to heal the deep wounds they
have int licted. These circumstances are so full
of evil, aourishing seeds of frightful convulsion,
which are wide-sown in the land, that we can-
not treat, :them lightly or speak of the policy from
which they flow, however cunningly contrived,
in any other language than that of the severest
reprobati Lon.
The T. Imes yesterday gave us another sped_
men of t he same conduct, and the Times is only
worthy cif notice as the organ of the Tories.
After abusing the Catholic priests and the
Catholic population of Ireland for many months,
proposin g at one time to reconquer the country,
atanothe r calling the priests " surpliced ruffians,"
so that the Times has been singled out by the
Catholics of Ireland, as affording, by its large
circulation, an index to the hatred with which
the English regard the Irish Catholics,—the
Times yesterday uttered the following hearty
approval of the policy adopted by its opponents,
and the. following severe condemnation of its own
conduct. Speaking of the Protestant Association,
the intemperate language of which has been re-
peatedly condemned in The Sun, the Times said—

When we find a professedly religious society speak-
ing a the collective clergy of that communion in the
sister island, as " not more honest than those of Maho-
met, not more pure than those of Paganism, not less in-
human than th e of Juggernaut," we really cannot
sympathise with o wholesale and monstrous an accusa-
tion. It is too like the assertion made last year, at a
meeting of this same Society, that " Popery is the re-
ligion of the Devil." Words such as these are foolish,
intemperate, and profane ; they excite nothing but dis-
gust in the minds of practical and moderate men ; their
inevitable effect is to recoil upon those who use them.
To the use of such language it justly ascribes
much of the irritation which has been kept up
in Ireland; but till the elections were gained and
the temporary purposes of party were served, the
Times, far from condemning such language, con-
tinually used it. While the stirring up of strife
and the encouragement of intolerance could se-
cure avote, the Times was the most diligent hand
at the cauldron. Now it puts out the fire in
order to smooth Sir R. PEEL'S difficulties with
Ireland. It takes the Protestant Association to
task for borrowing its facts, quoting its language,
and following its example.
ral the Wbigs We fekly defeated, their policy,

i and the character and conduct of that part of the
I population who supported them, were incessantly
condemned ; but now that their opponents have
a great chalice of acceding to office, their
policy is praised and adopted, and their sup-
porters are not to be vituperated by the Protest-
ant Association. Such changes can only make
the PEEL party thoroughly contemptible. They
must be regarded as dishonest politicians, and
the sincere men who supported them, from a
belief in their sincerity, must be ashamed of
their company. The Protestant Association was
one of their pillars. The bigotry which that
Society has nourished was one of the elements
of Tory success; but now that the Tories have
scaled office, as they suppose, the ladder is to be
kicked down as a worthless instrument. The
Tories, in fact, find it is impossible to carry out
the policy they have long been advocating with
such mischievous effects, and they are now
jostling against each other, in their hurry to
leave it. The country will, however, yet call
them to a severe account, and brand them as
wilful and designing political knaves.
The writer, who abuses his imitators to vaunt
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S moderation, proves at the
same time that Sir- ROBERT PEEL can govern
neither Ireland nor England. Sir ROBERT is
to vindicate the supremacy of the law. If that
remark be not that mere common-place stuffing
ith which writers and speakers fill out their thin
mannikin of sense to some required fullness, it

shows that Sir R. PEEL cannot be successful.
The Irish, like the English, with respect to
trade, complain of the laws, not of their supre-
macy not being vindicated. The laws of Ireland
have always been made by a small and narrow
oligarchy fl)r the purposes of preserving their
own tyranny. To vindicate the supremacy of the
laws in Ireland is to ensure Orange domination.
and maintain the hated Church Establishment.

In Ireland, as in England, the law is the source
of the mischief ; and to take office with a deter-
mination to vindicate its supremacy, and pre-
serve it unaltered, is to provoke and justify re-
bellion. It seems now desirable to enforce on
politicians, and particularly on the Tories, the
maxim that unjust laws ought not to be obeyed,
and the only way to vindicate is to abolish them.

We direct public attention to the letter of a
" Clergyman of the Church of England" to Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, and we are happy to say, for
the reputation of the Church, that he is not the
only one who has taken the side of justice and
the poor. It is not yet wholly too late for the
body of the clergy to redeem themselves in the
public estimation, and restore the Church to some
share of the confidence and affections of
the people ; but they have no time to lose,
and must at once become, like the Reverend
BAPTIST NOEL, Corn-law repealers. Jou N
BULL was never yet starved into affection, and
the clergy never followed a more short-sighted
policy, than when they generally took the part
of the bread taxers. Unfortunately for them,
their pecuniary interest lies on the same side,
and the people look on them as having trampled
under foot the principles both of morality and
religion, to gain the most sordid ends. If they
do not retrieve their character by some general
demonstration against the dishonest regulation, by
which they are supposed to profit, no claims to
holiness will ever suffice to replace them in the
affections and confidence of the people.

A Liverpool Journal, an advocate of the Corn-
law and the aristocracy, tells us, by way of ac-
counting for the difficulties in which our com-
merce is involved, that
We produce the cheapest—i. e., the lowest priced—
goods of any manufacturing nation. Our goods are no-
toriously the rubbish of half the markets of the world,
and the least in estimation. It is no longer a recom-
mendation for any article to be of British manufacture ;
but, on the contrary, the term stamps it to be of doubtful
and spurious quality. We have become quack imitators
of other men's wares, and pirates of other men's pat-
terns and fabrics. We steal even their labels and adopt
their names ; and, as a natural result, when we do pro-
duce and offer for sale an article of our own, it is viewed
with suspicion, and purchased only at a depreciated
price. From the consequences of such a system of car-
rying on our operations in foreign markets it is that we
are now suffering. To this cause at least is to be attri-
buted a great portion of our distress. We have for
years boon affliotod with a mania for procluo;Angaka °hoar
rate ; and, as is the case of all venders of cheap wares,
the buyers have become tired of exchanging their
money for trash."
We are much afraid that there is a good deal
of truth in this, and that our merchants and
manufacturers driven by the difficulty of
making sales from high prices, are willing
to imitate the aristocracy and the priesthood,
who are notorious for taking that which does not
honestly belong to them—have been endeavour-
ing to keep their heads above water by the arts
described by the Liverpool Standard. Suppos-
ing the observation to be correct, it is calculated
to excite no inconsiderable alarm. That Eng-
land cannot hold her high place amongst na-
tions, nor provide her present vast revenue
without extensive trade, is quite certain; but if
that extensive trade, or much of it, be conducted
on the principle above stated, it must soon come
to an end. Honest rivals will beat us out of the
field ; and, as the demand for our manufactures
decreases, our mills will stand idle, the popula-
tion will be unemployed, and the consequences
of that are enough to fill the stoutest heart with
fear arid dread. We at least read the paragraph
of the Liverpool paper with apprehension, as an
additional proof to the many which crowd upon
us, that our national prosperity has reached its
height, unless the laws be altered, and an ex-
ample of honesty and justice be set by those who I
make them.

The French Journals of Sunday have all
reached us, but their contents are of little inte-
rest. They confirm the reports which have been
hitherto circulated respecting the intrigues which
the KING of the FRENCH is carrying on
in Spain. A revolution for upsetting the Re-
gency is already organised, and it is reported that
large bodies of the National Guards and troops
of the line have been bribed to support it. But
ESPARTERO is a man of energy and courage, and
we are confident that if an attempt to overturn
the Government be made, he will not be wanting
in those resources for the protection of the State
which the Cortes have placed at his disposal.
The following are extracts from these Journals :
PARIS, Ana. B.—Petitions to the Chamber are
—:,
igmcleB. France.— T h e
pre-
paring for the abrogation of the law of the fortifications.
Moniteur of the 6th has no ota-
part.
M. Gui •
sot set out for Eu yesterday morning.
Wa have received this morning the Toulouse jour-
nals of the sth.
The Journal de
Toulouse announces that on the
morning of the sth
numerous arrests took place at the
same time in different
parts of the city.
M. Arzat received on the 4th a summons to
evidenceap-
yofste
pear on the sth to give hi.-
the President, in the affair of disturbances.w•itn witness before
The Emancipation
arrest of the editor of the unitaet in consequence of the
he
the publication of that rs, Arzat has sus-
the affairs of the disturbances '
PaPer • the inquiry into
proceeds with great ac-
tivity. It is announced that 1,1. Denonand formerly
Commissary of Police, who has been arrested
will shortly arrive at Toulouse.— .at Paris,
constitution-led,
August 8.
PARIS, AUG. 7.—The King will remain at Eu •
till
the end of the month, when he will come and
reside at
St. Cloud.
Couriers are sent every day to Eu, with despatches
for the several Ministerial departments.
Palm, AUG. B.—The Emancipation of Toulouse of
the sth says, " It was reported that the day before yes_
terday M. Maurice Duval received 400,000 francs out of
the secret funds for the payment of spies. After the re-
ceipt of this sum, part of the spies, who had not sufficient
employment at Toulouse, are said to have been sent to
the neighbouring towns. Let the patriots be on their
guard against new faces. The police, or the extraordi-
nary Commission sent here, must have received some re-
ports, for we are assured that several detachnlents of
troops have marched for different places.—Le Commerce,
Aug. 3.

Since the above was written, an Express has
arrived from Paris, dated Monday, bringing in-
telligence of considerable importance, both as
respects France and Spain, which will be found
in another column.

THE SOLITARY SYSTEM.—Howard has the
merit of having drawn attention to the miseries of pri-
sons—and he thereby did infinite good—but he was also
a severe disciplinarian, and the promoter of what a
writer thereon terms, " the climax of human oppression,
solitary confinement"