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LONDON:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1841.

QUEEN.
The followiT
ng BHE
ulletin of her Majesty's health,
was issued this morning:—
" Buckingham Palace,
Nov. 18, 1841, Ralf past Nine, A.m.
" The Queen is convalescent.
The infant Prince is as well as possible.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.
RICHARD BLAGDEN."
Her Majesty's recovery is so far advanced that
ill be issued.
more Bulletins w

We
not wrong in anticipating' a great
supportwere
from the Liberal Press for Sir ROBERT
'S prestonedscheme of
STANLEY
PEEL'S and Lord
emigration on a large scale. The Mi-n oing
day came forth as the avowed
Chronic/6. Yester
of such scheme, which it denomi-
nate
advocate
It. has no fear
that enlarged emigration
thing. d a most excellent
will prevent the repeal
- but recommends us, it we can,
of the Corn-laws,
emigration first,
of
to get an extensive scheme
and go on stedfastly to secure the repeal of -the
Corn-laws afterwards.
if distress was But
s
re-
lieved by sending away some half a million of
labourer, most of the motives for urging a re-
peal of the Corn-lawn,
except hose which pecu-
liarly weigh with a few mill- own ers, and those
which arise from a deep conviction of the utility
of Justice, which operate on only a few persons,
almost cease to
and on them but coldly, would
exist; and though a few enlightened advocates
of repeal mi;ltt remain, they would no more be
attended to than they were between 1830 and 1836.
The assumption that a large scheme of
emigration is to be adopted by Tories who
the -,
strenuously deny that the Corn-laws cause the
present distress, in order to remedy that distress;
and the view of the Tories is practically sup-
payors ted by the Chronicle. Our Contemporary
s :
But tile great and immediate benefit produced in this
country by emigration arises from its raising up new
communities of customers out of the superfluous popula-
tion that hung before as a burthcn on our hands. The
untrodden forest, the coast unvisited by trade, are thus
made to furnish new marts to our manufactures, and
new outlets to our trade. A civilised and kindred race,
having the same habits and wants as ourselves, is thus
placed in circumstance r, which enable it to supply its
own wants by furnisliin,,,, a demand for our industry.
On the coast of New 114 and, where the lowest race of
naked savages formerly fed
on grubs, and stared at a
spade, a large nod thriving population now exports a
sure supply of the material of our manufactures, and

takes in return the largest proportionate amount of the
entire consumption of the wares of Sheffield and Binning
ham, and the fabrics of Leeds and Manchester.
If emigration is to produce the immediate
benefit of raising up new communities of cus-
tomers, and if such communities are to take
great quantities of manufactured goods from
Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Manchester,
emigration must be a panacea for our distress ;
and the late Ministry acted erroneously by pro-
posing petty measures of commercial reform,
when, on the showing of the Chronicle, they
ought to have proposed—as the Tories mean, it is
said, to propose—a large scheme of emigration.
The arguments of the Chronicle cut away from
the Corn-law repealers all the ground on which
they have hitherto stood, and substantially con-
cede to the Tories that the Corn-laws do not
cause the distress of which the, people complain.
Throughout the controversy on the Corn-laws,
the Tories have said, " Build up our own
colonies, extend that trade which you can politi-
cally command, encourage emigration and the
extension of your own dominion, and your
people will be happy and your empire safe." A
large scheme of emigration is suitable to their
theories, and to this scheme and to those theories
the Chronicle assents.
All the advantages which are offered by emi-
gration, and many more, are offered by a free
Lrade in corn. The acres of the United States
woo the industry of our people ; the immediate
benefit would arise, were the Corn-trade free, of
new communities of customers demanding the
produce of our manufactures : but all these ad-
vantages the Tories, who propose to ship off the
people to New Zealand or New South Wales,
will not allow them to enjoy, because they
would then escape from the control of the aris-
tocracy, both at home and abroad. Those who
freely went to the United States would no longer
be the slaves of the landlords; 'they would pay
no tithes, and do no homage to Bishops; and
those who got wealth in England by a free trade
with the republicans of America, would soon find
much more evidence• than the existence of the
Corn laws that the privileges of the aristocracy
are injurious to the national welfare. But, by
not allowing a free trade to America, and by
sending off the people to the colonies, where
there are numberless posts for the connections of
the aristocracy, and where the hierarchy flourish
in lordly magnificence, the people are continued
in subjection, and the power of the aristocracy
may be preserved. We are not surprised, therefore,
that the Tories like the emigration scheme ; but be-
cause they like it, and because it would, at least,
stave off repeal of the Corn-laws till emigration
had been tried, the Liberals should now strenu-
ously oppose it.
When are the Whigs to learn practical
wisdom ? They are nothing, and can prevail
in nothing, without the help of the people;
yet they foolishly cast away their sup-
port by carrying out a theoretical conclusion
concerning the poor, for the behoof of the land-
lords, with a severity that has made them unpo-
pular in every part of the country. The emi-
gration scheme is founded on a similar theore-
tical view of population, which certain Li-
berals would carry into effect without
consulting the persons who are to be sent abroad.
The people do not ask to be transported; they
ask primarily for political rights in their own
country, and secondly they ask for a free trade
in bread and meat. Their prayers are met by
the Liberal Chronicle with a scheme for sending
them to till land at the antipodes, which they
are never likely to own, for their scanty wages
will not enable them to pay 20s. per acre. The
worst part of the emigration scheme is that it
will infallibly, like the new Poor-law, be looked
on by the people as an injury to them, and they
will look on the Liberal party which supports it,
as more anxious to banish them than give them
political rights in the land of their fathers.
The terrible schism which still prevails
amongst the middle and lower classes is further
evidenced by what occurred at Birmingham on
Monday, where the Chartists opposed the Anti-
Corn-law party ; and a public meeting, to hear
Mr. CURTIS, was, from beginning to end, a scene
of violence and uproar. Amongst the cries were
heard repeatedly, " Remember the Bull-ring ;"
thus the fatal attack on the people, by Liberal Ma-
gistrates, acting under a Liberal Ministry, which
we always deplored, now rebounds against the Li-
beral party, and the exasperated Chartists even
refuse them a hearing. We state a fact; we do
not excuse the conduct of the Chartists, which to
us appears wholly unwarrantable and indefen-
sible. But so it is; their passions get the better of
their reason, like the passions of other men, and
they revenge now the injury done to them in
1839, by opposing the wishes of the party then
in power. All Liberal politicians, all who side with
freedom against restriction and oppression, should
now endeavour to reconcile these classes, and make
the working men forget the neglect and the in-
juries they have experienced at the hands of
those who attained power by their means. When
that is so desirable it is inflicting, we think, a
serious injury on the Liberal cause, for a Liberal
journal to advocate the supposed Tory scheme
of transporting a multitude of the people, in order
to relieve the present distress, and to put an end
to agitation for free trade and political rights. To
defend a great scheme of emigration, which is
unasked by the people, is to break up and sacri-
fice the Liberal party to a theory of population,
which experience has shown to be unfbunded
in fact.

The meeting of the friends of free-trade at
Sheffield on Monday—elsewhere noticed—pre-
sents a favourable contrast to the meeting of the
Anti-Corn-law party at Birmingham on the same
day. At Sheffield all was order and decorum,
and resolutions favourable to free trade were
unanimously carried. At Birmingham all was
riot and disorder, and no person who attempted
to address the meeting—be his party what it
might—could obtain a hearing. Accordingly
the Birmingham meeting is a general theme for
ridicule or sarcasm ; while the Sheffield meeting
is honoured by its friends, and respected by its
opponents. We are told, however, by a Corre-
spondent, that the men of Birmingham will
speedily redeem themselves, and stand forth
worthy of their former tame—the most energetic
champions of order and freedom.

For the unseemly proceedings on Monday we
cannot imagine an excuse. Such conduct brings
public meetings into disrepute, and, depriving
public opinion of all weight, leaves no alterna-
tive but a despotic Government. If the Bir-
mingham Chartists have no regard for them-
selves, they ought to respect the wants of the
• Paisley -weavers, and of the suffering multitudes
at Bolton, Stockport, and other places, and de-
band with a voice of thunder that the bread of
the people be untaxed. Till the Chartists gene.
rally do that, they will be held in a great measure
responsible—after the aristocracy—for the misery
which is inflicted on the people.
The letter read at the Sheffield meeting from
Mr. WORTLEY is worthy of notice. The Hon.
Gentleman implies that the present Ministers
are not indisposed to review the whole question
of the import duties, though they are not likely
to agree with the gentlemen assembled at Shef-
field. Perhaps Mr. WORTLEY is not good autho-
rity for the intentions of the Cabinet. If he
were, we should say that the Ministers arc in all
things imitating, but in a most humble and awk-
ward manner, the gentlemen they so recently
displaced.

The M01'122729 Post says :
" Instead of attempting to show how the Corn-law
is injurious to the interests of the productive industry of
the people, the bold bad writers against the law as-
sume and assert that it is a wicked and tyrannous law,
and come to the conclusion that it is a law which ought
not to be obeyed, but resisted ! Such opposition to the
law as this ought to be punished."
The impudence and arrogance of this para-
graph are on a par. If one point has been
better proved than another by facts and theo-
ries—by arguments repeated to satiety—it is
that the Corn-law is injurious to the pro-
ductive industry of the people. It blows
mit the furnace in Wales; it arrests the