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London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

practised deception on the nation, they would .no
have brought themselves into the melancholy an,
mortifying position in which they are now placed
Happily, there is yet time, limited though th
period be, for repentance and reformation. And if the:
only turn the remaining fraction of their official existenc,
to its proper account, they may yet, in a great measure
atone for past offences, and, to a certain extent, righ
themselves in public estimation before they draw thei,
expiring breath. In what way this may be done we hay.
already shown. It is only by the introduction into he;
Majesty's speech, on the opening of the approaching
Parliament, of an earnest recommendation of certain re
forms in the legislative representation of the country
which are loudly aad universally called for by the pub
lic voice. These reforms we specified on Monday, and
consequently, do not mean to recur to them. now. Oui
present object is to impress on the Melbourne Admi-
nistration this important fact, that should they listen
to our counsel, and adopt one or all of the sug-
gestions we have thrown out as to the measures of re-
form which they ought .to enunciate in her Majesty':
speech, it will be essential that their recommendation o
these measures in the royal address be followed up by ;
decided and evidently sincere identification of themselve
with the measures so propounded, in the speeches whicl.
they will make in the course of the discussion to which
the usual Address in answer to her Majesty's speed
will necessarily give rise. As independent Journalist:
and faithful monitors, we warn Ministers that it will re-
quire much on their part to remove the unfavourable
impression created in the public mind by their past mis-
conduct. The nation cannot forget the flagrant bread,
of faith which they committed in the case of the Iris!
Church appropriation clause.
GLOBE.—The Times is terribly at a loss for a subjet
of agitation. Without one, it cannot live and fulminate
and all its old ones have become unavailable. The Poor-
law is flat, stale, and unprofitable ; and the attempt to
bully our humble selves by aid of Mr. Darby's amend
ment appears to be abandoned as hopeless. By the way
how is that the Times does not acknowledge the source
(in the wisdom of Darby) of its sudden inspiration:
in favour of a Labour Testy Is it that there is
too keen rivalry between wise Walter and wises
Darby ; or is it that the latter gentleman's county con-
stituents have set themselves so notoriously against his
crotchets, that the mention of his name as their author
would only deprive them of whatever weight the Times
can afford their anonymous advocacy ? Certain it is
that prophets have no honour in their own country ;
as Berkshire and as Sussex can abundantly testify.
But, if not the Poor-laws, what on, earth is the Tima
to write about ? Protestantism and Popery, by parti-
cular desire, are postponed. There is Lord Ashley':
agitation in the factory districts. His Lordship is
trying to popularise his party amongst the work-people
by proposing measures to secure them—at this time,
of all others—against having too much work, and against
employment being given to their wives and chil.
dren. Whether such schemes flow from simple want
of reflection, or whether . they are expressly aimed
at the object mentioned by Mr. Baptist Noel—at dimi-
nishing and drying up the sources of employment in
manufactures, as a malum in se—a nuisance to be abated
as far as possible—is scarce worth our inquiry. There is
a sort of philanthropists, who make it a merit to shut
their eyes against all practical views and consequences.
Prove to them that the consequences of their attempts
can be no other than to send children from day-
light in factories to darkness in coalpits—from the
lightest labour with the least hardship to far severer
and squalid toils—from subsistence (so far as Corn-
laws allow it) to risk of starvation—what is' their an-
swer ? They have no answer, but renewed boasts
about their motives, their pure zeal, their excellent pur-
poses. They would cure all evils by act of Parliament.
If there were any use in suggesting unostentatious lines
of effort to philanthropists, we would venture to suggest
to them the previous inquiry whether Acts of Parliament
have always proved the best means of effecting their
objects, and whether it may not sometimes happen
that repealing restrictive laws is a better way of pro-
ceeding than enacting more ? However this may
be, the " Factory System" is a stale subject, as
well as the Poor-laws, and will not serve the
Times as a topic for renewing its thunders, unfor-
tunately suspended in consequence of the delicate
position of its party. The Times cannot make up its
mind what to write about ; and fills, up meanwhile
with mere stop-gaps about Mahomedanism and Hindoo
idolatry which, it seems, a Tory Government is to visit,
wherever our power extends, with heavy blows and
great discouragernents, in order to prove its fidelity to
the Church. This. sort of tame Puseyite twaddle will
sink the Thunderer altogether, if he cannot contrive to
substitute something a little more to men's " business
and bosoms." So he falls back to his old stratagem of
writing to himself, and exhorting himself to take a fresh
start on the Corn-laws, to the confusion of the " Liberal
papers," who (says the 77mes to itself) "want to keep all
liberality to themselves, and are dreadfully annoyed when
they see you at all interfering in their professed vocation.
They know full well, that should you adopt the course I
ventured to recommend, their occupation would be gone."
It is not at all improbable that, in spite of the
early information of the Post, and the so exceed-
ingly-early- as - to - be - for - ever - in-advance - of - the - fact
(which never happens) announcements of the Herald,
the Times, if Sir Robert Peel takes his choice, as in this
instance he easily may, will become the organ of the
Tory Ministry. We are strengthened in this opinion
by the altered tone of the Times' articles, which are
written in the spirit in which Sir Robert Peel will`
attempt to carry on the affairs of Government. Liberal
measures will be brought forward, but only in the out-
set ; a sprat will he offered to catch a herring ; there will
be a revision of the Corn-laws, but even that will be
more nominal than real, and the pressure of monopoly
will be slightly relaxed in one place merely that its
chains may be tightened in every other direction. That
this is to be the policy the Times is about to recommend,
and the Tories are about to act upon, may be gleaned
from the letter of the Correspondent already alluded to.
It is throughout a broad and somewhat sagacious
hint to the monopolists that it will be advisable
for them to sacrifice a tub, if the capture of a. whale
will be the consequence of their doing so. "Settle
the Corn-law question," says Conservator, "and Ido
not believe it would be possible to get up an agitation
on any other subject whatever." After such an avowal
as this, what confidence can the people have in the Tory
promises of redress for popular grievances ? The Corn-
laws are "to be settled"—we are not told how—" to pre-
vent agitation on any other subject ;" not for the welfare
of the people, but for the preservation of the other
portions of the system which they complain against. If
the landlords are to be victimised a little for the purpose
of stopping the gap, it is net that Sir Robert Peel
" loves the Corn-laws less, but that he loves the general
interest of Toryism and monopoly more." He thinks by
amputating one of the feet of corruption, to save the
whole body ' • but the operation will be vain—for with all
his surgical skill he cannot prevent, though he may
temporarily avert, the termination that is awaiting it.
COURIER.—We have, on occasions heretofore, shown
that the Radical origin of present trading distress must
be sought in the past gigantic extravagances of that
over-banking, the prolific fruits of which were not long
over-ripening into the rank luxuriance of over-specu-
lating. Ministerial empirics indeed are ignorantly ready
with other causes, and with nostrums for cure more im-
pudent and ignorantly pretensive still. The Corn-laws
are advertised as the root of all evil, with assurance as
brazen as a medical quack once referred the real source
of all disease to a torpid liver, and the abolition of
Corn-laws is prescribed as the instant and infallible
specific for all ills, as absolutely, unconditionally, and
conscientiously, as in the case of the cunning dolt
of a Spanish valet in the Medico Supuesto, who
sapiently ordered the ancient damsel consulting him on
the loss of her lapdog, and the means of its recovery, the
one only invariable recipe for all his patients—" take my
pills." Pildaras para en contrar perros—pills to find out
lost lapdogs—has now passed into a proverb in Spain, as
anti-Corn-lawism will here, by and bye, as the sure indi-
cation of knavery and quackery on the one side and se-
nile folly on the other. We do not go so far with the
Manchester Guardian as to challenge joint-stock bank-
ing excesses on the Whig-Radical Ministry, although
they were slow to appropriate to themselves the ad-
ministrative honours of all that apparent flow of material
prosperity consequent, the full swell of which blinded
the infatuated dupes of officials to the certain peril of the
banks being finally wasted and washed away by the
foaming back water rushing after the prosperous vessel
in its rapid course. Who does not recollect the insolence
-of triumph with which year after year 'official returni'a
increasing exports and imports were flourished in the
face of doubting Members, who chanced to express mis-
givings about the substantial reality of the country's well-
doing, and would not readily enough take for granted
that all is not gold which glitters'. 'Whilst joint-stock
bank paper could be manufactured in any quantity, or pass
current for almost any amount ; whilst bills with joint-
Stock Bank endorsements could be rediscounted rn the
London money market to any extent; when bank note.
issues rather palled upon the public taste, and were re-
turned too promptly for payment in more solid metallic'
values; whilst the prices of all commodities rose with the
abundance and the easiness of the money signs, and with
prices profits prospered also, as all the world gains by a
rise of prices—why all went on swimmingly, and the
man who then should have raved against the Corn-laws
would have been denounced by Lords Melbourne and John
Russell as a more incurable maniac than any equally
sensible body who should now come forward to anathe-
matise the non-enactment of the Appropriation Clause
as the real source of all foreign tribulation and domestic
disaster. We are not sure indeed that the defunct Ap-
propriation swindle may not have had much more to do
with present misfortunes than Corn-laws even ; and
we throw out the hint for the serious consideration of
our neighbour of the Chronicle, who was wont to pour
forth strains of indignant eloquence anent Appropriation,
and its appropriate connexion with Irish tranquillity,
prosperity, agriculture, and, ergo, Corn-laws by hook or
by crook.

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