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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Correspondent of Stepney-green-terrace, who writes
on Poor-rates, labours under a mistake. The county-
rates are paid out •of the poor-rates, but they are not
proportioned to them.
The services of Mr. F. are not needed, and the article

Hill not be used.
"An Observer" has our thanks for his hints.

know their value.
We learn with no surprise that the Tories at Weymouth
are endeavouring to establish a system of exclusive
dealing, but the letter cannot be published.
We cannot use Peter P.'s poetry.

LONDON :
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1341.

Th hollow PEEL, organs are endeavouring to
ItlOw out their favourite rind into a show of sub-
stance by the sickly breath of spurious huma-
nity. He is said "to have acknowledged in em-
phatic language his sympathies with the dis-
tresses of the working people." How kind in
him to sympathise with those whom lie dooms to
starve. Oh, but he does not believ,e, we are told,
that his preventing the cutters of Sheffield from
exchanging their scissors'and knives for the flour
.of the inhabitants of the vale of the 111ississipi
causes any distress. He does not believe that
for those to lay restrictions on trade, industry,
and liberty, who are honoured and paid to pre-
vent all such restrictions, is injurious or wrong.
"What Sir ROBERT PEEL really believes; we pre-
tend not to•say. He has been so long, in the
habit of using words, lawyer-like, to attain an
end, not to signify his own belief, that we doubt
very much wit-ether he himself knows how to
.express what be belieVes ; but if he really be-
Seve what is ascribed to him by way of excusing
lldui for withholding bread from the people, his
credulity surpasses that of the devout believers in
the slaughtered Tuo;tr.. . We cannot accept an
excuse for the Right Hon. Baronet which anni-
hilates h.'s intellect, to give him a heart, and we
set down his pretended syMpathies with the dis-
tresses of the people, as included•in the part he
was fir the moment called upon to aet,.' •

He does not believe, it is said, that. the passing
Of such measures as, the late Ministry'reCom-
mended would give relief to the people ; which is
possible, but for that belief we should • not guar-
rel ivith him. We never approved of the Budget.
We always said that the duties du Our colonial
tiaigar should he redUced, and a larger reduction
made in the discriminating duty on foreign
sugar. We always said that, to make the, reduc-
tion of the sugar duty profitable to the revenue,
it was indispensable that the Corn-laws should
be abolished. We never advocated or defended
a fixed bread tax in any shape or form. We
should not quarrel with Sir R. PEEL, therefore,
for taking a liberty- with the Budget which we
took ourselves ; and our condemnation of him as
a statesman in respect to that, rests on very diffe
rent grounds.

He admits, we are told, the distresses of the
people, which are undoubtedly very great, if not
unexampled, • and he sympathizes 'with titem.
.
He is aware of the deficiency
.m the revenue,, for
that is the chief
ground 'on which his party ac,
cuse, and most unjustly accuse,.the late Ministers.
Here are - two admitted.eVils, which any states-
man haViner a heart an 4
saottld not be too ioOn remedied. If he loved his
countrymen—if he valued our institutions, en-
441Tel:ell by deficient f' of means on the one
hand, andgreat diseoritent onthe other—he would
have discarded all other considerations, and
called on the Parliament instantly to devote fts
best energies to ascertain the causes of these
evils, and possible to apply a.remedy to them.
Did he so patriotically conduct himself? Not
he. Not only did he take no step, which was his
duty as a Member of 'Parliameni, to relieve the
public distress and increase the public revenue,,
but he would not allow others to take any such
steps, and stopped and threw them down when
they made the first feeble and totterinc, advances.
By that he served himself and his party, but he
committed a high crime and misdemeanor
against the nation: •

•
Acknowledging these: two facts of the distress
of the, public• and the deficiency •of • the revenue,
the Ministers announced a' series' of measures
which they affirmed would reliev'e the distress
and
,auginent the, reVenue. Did Sir
alloW .;he House of Commons patiently to ex-
amine those measures, and ;explain to the public
that. after ,an examination they. were inefpL-
cient;anauseless ? Did he, too, at the same time,
having a stateman's mind rich in means to 'pro-
mote.o 'nation's welfare, lay a Budget of his own
alongside that of M. BARING, and honestly earn
the well-merited confidence of his countrymen by
proposing some well-considered plan to give
higher wages to the people and money to the

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