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LONDON:
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1841.

If we do not remark at any length on the
tiebates on the -no-confidence motion, it is that
we believe; the minds of our readers are long a;o
,
well'inade -up as to. the enaracter of the:
'siers and. tlieir opponents. Whatever may.
be titaimuf the former', that of the latter is much
vrenqe.',, -BOWERT PEEL'S motion and his
o.lln • . .
sp9echlv ere both made:to.blaelieu the character‘
3e hieorivals„. and we never listen with any plea-
&fief° • •

to q 141.3 . n4t.
,the disCusgiOri. _from, a,n,
infe.rior to their
Vats in argument ;c-thikßon-EnT

PEEL'S constitutional doctrines, as we explained

on Saturday, were completely overturned, while
his own conduct refutes the first proposition of
his resolution. Mr. MACAULAY showed that the
chief business of the Ministers was to conduct

the executive government, and Sir ItoBERT I
PEEL himself did not deny` the Ministers his
confidence in that capacity. He voted the sup-
plies into their hands; he seconded the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S resolution on
the subject of the sugar duties ; he de-
clared that he had no wish to em-
barrass the Government; but, as an honest
representative of the people, if he had no
confidence in the Ministers, it was his duty to
withhold the supplies from them, and his duty to
embarrass and impede men in what he supposes
to be and calls a ruinous career. By taking an
opposite course his practice refutes his own as-
sertions, and contradicts his affirmation. We
cannot comprehend the consistency which de-
clares Ministers unworthy of confidence, and
votes to place the national revenue in their hands.
As the administrators, too, of the executive
government, the Tories do not deny that Minis-
ters have shown consummate ability in defeating

the secret designs of M. TRIERS, without pro-
voking a rupture with France. Nor do they
deny that all our foreign relations have been well
conducted. As to home affairs, the quietness of
Ireland, the peace which has been preserved in
England, while the people have been subjected
to the greatest privations and greatest injuries
that ever were inflicted on a nation by dastardly
plundering it by law, attests the goodness of the
administration. It is true that Ministers acted
more harshly than we ever approved of towards
the Chartists; but when we compare their con-
duct to that of the Tories under somewhat similar
circumstances, we must concede to them the
palm of equal vigour united to much greater
moderation.

We admit that we began to think, and so did
a large part of the public, that the Ministers
were fast forfeiting the confidence of the nation,
and' their great superiority to their opponents is
manifested by
,the simple fact that the instant
A
they tQok 'sifip worthy of their former conduct,
and'ealculated to restore them to the confidence

;)t the nation, tlje Tories vehemently assailed
and defehtedl them. a' They then proceeded to
record tfieir oWfp; JiptNß4' to the people by a vote
)f censure• on the ainisters: for proposing to re-
ieve tfie' public 'tlitre.ss.:-'ifthe Ministers by
-heir late conduct,have iforieited,the confidence
the House of Commons, they 'have regained
that of the public, which will carry them
triumphantly through the fiery ordeal into which
they have been forced by the Tories.

The reader will remember that one of the
main arguments adduced by Sir it PEEL as a
proof that the Ministers had lost the confidence
of the House, was their defeat on the sugar ques-
tion. By that measure the Ministers intended
to give relief to the peop:e, and the Tories
would not allow them. They maintain that the
Ministers act contrary to the spirit of the Con-
stitution by remaining in office after that defeat.
So the Tories demonstrate their hatred of all
which is for the public good, their determination
to inflict distress and ruin on the nation, and
their vast inferiority to their rivals.
One of the circumstances which, in our estima-
tion, ought to recommend the Ministers to the
approbation of the Tories, is made by them a sub-
ject of bitter reproach. They quote over and
over again Lord MELBOURNE'S speeches against
repealing the Corn-law, and against the agitation
by proposing such a measure; and they con-
clude that Lord MELBOURNE must be really as

mad and as wicked as the Noble Lord
described those to be who would agitate the coun-
try for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-
laws. There can be no doubt that Lord MEL-
BOURNE, who is distinguished for his frankness,
spoke his honest convictions on those occasions.
Nor can there be any doubt that he has been
most reluctantly compelled, by the evidence of 1
filets, to take a part which makes him appear in-
consistent, and practically exhibits him as the
opponent of his former statements. Every mo-
tive, except that of a determination to do his
duty, knowing the facts of the case, prompts
Lord MELBOURNE to stand by those statements;
but public distress is so great,—he is so well
convinced by the facts, from various quarters,
that the commerce of the country has reached
its maximum under this system, that the
revenue is fitlling off, that the greatest danger
is to be apprehended from adhering to his
former opinions, that he braves all the censure to
which his presumed inconsistency exposes him
do what he believes to be his duty to her MA-
JESTY and the country. Such high-minded con-
duct should recommend him to the Tories,
who for ever boast of their own high-minded-
ness; but it has brought on him the most severe
reproaches. His self-sacrifice, too, which ought
to convince them that the necessity to which he
yielded, is overwhelming, and ought to make
them give up the Corn-laws with a good grace,
o ily hardens them in their iniquity. Their own
base nature disables them from conceiving the
existence of an honourable motive in other men,
and they set down the denial which Lord MEL-
BOURNE is now giving by his acts to his former
sentiments to a paltry love of office, instead of an
honest but reluctant conversion to the Anti
Corn-law creed.
It is unquestionably curious to see a nobleman,
who denounced the opinions which we, in com-
mon with the Anti-Corn-law League, have long
held, as the opinions of a madman, at the head of
a Cabinet which is now invoked to carry them
into effect, and which is prepared, as the only
means of saving the State, to take one stride
towards our object. But though curious it is not
unexampled, nor even unusual, to find those who
have most vehemently expressed the most erro-
neous opinions, become the speediest and most
hearty converts to the truth. Lord MELBOURNE
is an ingenious, frank gentleman, and we do not
despair ; we do not even doubt when the true
nature of the starvation law is made known to
him, by the accumulated evidence which the
public press has brought to bear on the question,
that he will become that madman he formerly de-
scribed, and go along with us in abolishing at
once, as the only safe, practical, and just method
of proceeding, the whole system of Corn and
Provision-laws.

When once men have attained the 'conviction
that the Corn-law curtailsd the supply of food,
and annuallystarvesacootuisti
oefrablenumberofmen,
bexistence, it seems
women, and children
to us not merely superfluous,
of the
almosti a mock-
ery,,: auwrosdusb,ea
wasting,
any
less to justify the abolitionmum
Itset:ca_aeuthors com-
mitless imposing arguments.
slow and deliberate
most painful to which man be sub-
ject, murder by the lingering, creepinno•
torments of starvation. To be shot through
heart, to be exposed to instant death by assassina-
tion, though a crime of the deepest dye in the mur-
derer, is a mere change of being to the victim,
aid whether it be • for good or for evil is known
only to HIM to whom all things are known. But
mueler by a starvation law, " foul and unnatural
as at best," murder is, is "most foul and unna-
tural," for the torture may be said to be con-
tinual, and the murderers see and hear, year
after year, the panes and groans of their victims,
and hear And see them unrelenting and unmoved.
The murder is basely committed, too, by those
who are trusted
with the guardianship of their vic-
tims. The authors of this great crime ask the
obedience, ask the ri.spect, ask the reverence of
the people, on account of affording them protec-
tion; they call themselves paternal legislators,
and having obtained conhdence they use it to
consign a'multitude of the people annually to the
horrors of starvation aifd a premature grave.
Such being ' the effects of the Corn-law on our
suffering people, "and being made by those
who elahaltuthority for their superior goodness,
it see_ ns to us
.a.greiitMnFkery to argue the ques-
tion of abolition on any grounds of price, or ad-