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London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TifURsDAY, AUGUST 5, 1841.

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THE VOICE FROM TAMWORTH. '
(From the Non-Conformist.)
It is recorded of Byron that after the funeral obse-
quies of his mother had left the house, he put on the 1
boxing-glove, and attempted to control, and thus hide
his struggling emotions by a desperate resort to a fa-
vourite recreation. The speech of Sir Robert indicates
to us the same purpose. His laughter is not natural—.
his jokes_ anything 'but—genuine. The smile which he
wears in his countenance is a rigid one—a constriction
of muscles, not a relaxation—a thing of the head rather
than the heart. thoughts come not from within
him-Lthey look gay but they have no life in them--they
breathe not—they are destitute of soul. Everything
about them is artificial. They are nut bloom, but paint.
Their high colouring is not blood sent up through every
vessel by a joyous heart—but carmine laid on with little
skill to hide the pallor produced by anxious fear. Rhe-
torical jesting is Sir Robert's mode of whittling—and
whittling here as in America, in proportion as it is pains-
taking and energetic, indicates thoughts absent from the
employment, and engaged ia grappling unsuccessfully
with a theme too mighty for them to master. He pa-
rades his rank and file topics (to change the figure), as
a General does his sentinelS and watch-fires, as a blind
behind which to effect a retreat, and while thus scheming
to deceive the 'country into a belief, that so confident is
he of success as to be able to advance the main forces of
his mind to the confines of the ludicrous, he is really oc-
cupied in anxious investigation as to the possibility of
his long maintaining any position whatever, in the land
of office, which he has surprised by a coup de main.
All the circumstances which distinguished the posi-
tion of the expectant premier, called fur a manly and
dignified, even though it might be a cheerlul, gravity.
A great statesman, one would have imagined, if he could
have descended on such an occasion to deal with the
little and the vulgar, would have been rebuked by the
recollection that he was virtually addressing himself to
all the political assemblies of the civilised world, and that
his speech would fill a page in the records of universa
history. Such a man, one might-have expected, deeply
impressed with a sense of his solemn responsibility ;
foreseeing that the issue of the present crisis, whether
for weal or woe, would assume a character of importance
sunprecedentedh
mi nselofurr
easnonuarlese;s a ielqd
u,
aconscious ofe
ipogesnsceys
would, in his first public ,manifesto, have modestly sur-
veyedg glance a hist theo Nv
n realpos
to encounter, laid bare to their source the evils which
nrdaPiffial cublutie comprehensive
which
he
ehas
now afflict the country, pointed out the sufficiency of
and formidable take
Conservative principles to supply a remedy, and, re-
serving to himself the liberty of deciding hereafter upon
the minor details of his policy, given to the world abroad
and vigorous outline of the course he intended to pursue
in his efforts to save the sinking vessel of the State.
Instead of this, we have a series of heavy jokes levelled
at newspaper editors and affronted publicans. In the
place of a grave state oration, Sir Robert gives us the
ill-managed quips and quiddities of a sorry jester. In
the eye of Europe, lie comes forward upon the stage, and
where we looked to hear the calm and measured lan-
guage of philosophy, and to witness the staid sobriety
and dignified bearing of a statesman, we see nothing but
the commonest antics of a third rate debater ; and the
Hon. Baronet snaps his fingers, slaps his thigh, plays the
buffoon, and cries, " When I get into power, you Shall
see vat you shall see.'" We have been irresistibly re-
minded by his speech of vain-glorious Bottom the
weaver, during the period of his strange but
unconscious transformation. The ethereal beauty
of the Queen of Fairies, the witchery of her
tones, the exquisite poetry of her language, the soft
enchantment which, like sunlight, lent charms before un-
known to the delicious scenery around him, were all
thrown away upon the rude and boorish Athenian me-
charN, and elided nothing in response from him above
the level of " Scratch my head, Peas-blossom."
Nothing has so painfully impressed us, as this' speech,
with a sense of the inherent vulgarity of Sir Robert's
mind. A man who can be thus elated by vanity is not
the man competent to stand at the helm in times like
these, and take the vessel of the State through " the
devil's grip," amid the howlings of the storm which is
brewing overhead. No ! this is not the man to make
the very fury of the tempest subserve the purpose of a
commanding intellect and an indomitable will—to rise
superior to the impassioned elements of strife, and ride
upon the mountainous and hoary-headed billows of poli-
tical discontent, to national quiet and prosperity. He
may be able to manage better than other men, the
crew to whom the working of the ship is confided—
but his is not the calm consciousness of power, and
unflinching steadiness of purpose, that will dare
to look a north-wester in the face, and take
no other notice of the lightning's flash, than
to avail himself of the momentary glare to peer
further a-head upon the waste of waters. Afraid to put
boldly out to sea in the teeth of the swelling blast, and
sympathising with the timidity of passengers who think
they can be no longer safe when they have lost sight of
shore, be will attempt to coast it, and will be caught
among the shallows. Then, when his danger becomes
apparent to every eye, and the crew that he contrived to
govern discover, his incompetency for his post, he will be
compelled, amid the jeers of every party, to give place to
some less dexterous, but more courageous and skilful
pilot.
The speech of Sir Robert Peel, even viewed apart from
his previous course, gives sufficient indication that, under
Tory as well as Whig rule, we are to have a temporising,
compromising, peddling policy. The aristocrat bureau
and red-tape statesmen have not yet played out their
part. Their days, though numbered, have not yet run
out. Perhaps it is better that it should be so. The coun-
try is not yet sufficiently in earnest to appreciate the
worth of great principles. Serious men are the offspring
of serious times. They are nurtured in adversity. Their
powers are called out by perilous exigencies. Some such,
we doubt not, are now quietly and unconsciously ma-
turing themselves for future greatness, communing with
truth, strengthening principle by daily exercise, and
storing up knowledge which, at no distant period, will be
of infinite service to the State. Such men, all passing cir-
cumstances are doing much to educate. Their time is
not yet come. But it rapidly approaches—and whenever
it does arrive, One thing is tolerably certain, that Minto
manifestoes and Tamworth speeches will be buried amid
the rubbish of an obselete age of politics.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PRICE od

jealousy of German competition ; they instinctively feel
that all attempts to arrest the progress of industry in
other nations would be as unjust as it would be absurd,
and that, as Uncle Toby said to the fly that buzzed
about his venerable nose, there is room enough in
the world for both German aad.British cottons and
woollens. The Morning Chronicle has lately been at-
tempting to alarm the country, by the great designs
and projects entertained by the German Zoll Verein—
all of which are said to be inimical to our commerce and
manufactures. At one time that commercial league is
stated to be about to enter into a commercial treaty with
the United States, based on the preferential admission of
German cottons into the Republic—in utter forgetfulness
that any such engagement would be a gross violation of
the commercial stipulation of the United States with this
country, and still more forgetful that the United States
would require, as a compensation, the free admission into
Germany of her tobacco, now subject to an enormous
import duty, and that such admission would at once de-
stroy one of the most profitable sources of German agri-
cultural wealth—the culture of the tobacco plant. Ger-

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The Morning Post is, it appears, to
be the organ of the Ministry expectant. Its functions
commenced yesterday, by the announcement that Sir
Robert Peel will not oppose the re-election of Mr. Shaw
Lefevre to the Speakership. The Times is passed over,
we presume, on account of its " tainted" character ;
the great disqualification in the " new moral world " o!
Toryism. A Whig Speaker is, then, the first item o!
the mysterious Tamwerth prescription. The party takes
it with a wry face. It is a bolus for the friends of Mr.
Goulburn, and a bitter pill for those of Sir Eardley Wil-
mot. There are many for whom this foretaste of the
future will be rather melancholy. They had not dreamed
that to step into office could require such a sacrifice to
decency on the threshold; The most convincing demon-
strations have just been offered to the public that the
Speakership could not remain in the same hands with-
out a gross violation of political principle. But the
reign of expediency is at hand, and this is only the first
of many conscientious principles and valorous determi-
nations which the Tories will have to swallow. "'There's
pippins and cheese to come." The Speakership is one
of many apples of discord. Perhaps by allowing a Whir
to have it, Sir Robert may think to avoid an unseemly
squabble amongst his own partisans. It is not for us to
object to his purpose. We have always thought Mr.
Shaw Lefevre a well-qualified person ; and his conduct,
while in the chair, has beetedistinguished for ability and
impartiality. If there have been any occasion on which
we did not regard him with entire satisfaction, it was
that of his vote against the proposed address to her Ma-
jesty for the liberation of persons confined for political
offences. We thought that he need not have stood in
the way of mercy. The address would have been a gra-
cious and graceful procedure on the part of the House,
and was by no means the sort of motion which we should
have expected the casting vote of a Speaker to nega-
tive. At the same time we must admit, that there
was some vindication in the circumstances of the case.
The existence of Tory promises made to the Char-
tists, for electioneering purposes, -was notorious. The
liberation of their martyrs was part of the bribe for
which an unprincipled portion of that body had sold
itself to the enemies, not only of their inoreieate preten-
sions, but of their just righte. Tite fact oozed out from
the Chartist Convention just at the period when the
Times was proclaiming that " Radicalism has its root in
real evils and real grievances," and that, to be Conserva-
tive, it was not necessary to " sacrifice the common good
to class interests." Much may be said for the Speaker's
not allowing a vote of the House of Commons to be
made the instrument of fulfilling this disgraceful com-
pact. We rest no argument on Sir Robert Peel's having
praised the Speaker for his interposition. Sir Robert
availed himself of whatever additional party votes might
have been thus obtained ; and if the promise had only
turned a single election (the least effect that can probably
be assigned to it), that single election gave him all his
majority on the no-confidence motion ; but we do not
imagine he ever meant the pledge to be redeemed. Let
his laudation go, therefore, with a quantum valeat. The
casting vote remains an exception, but a question-
able exception, to our general estimate of Mr. Shaw
Lefevre's Speakership ; which, else, we praise unre-
servedly. We repeat, therefore, the notification of Sir
Robert Peel's first avowed intention with much pleasure.
It is, nevertheless, a departure from his principle of not
prescribing until he " take; the fee ;" a principle now
irrevocably fixed upon him by the unfortunate and blus-
tering interposition of his own confidential organ. Sir
Robert Peel has not yet been " allowed access to the
patient," in the private rooms of the Downing-street
Sanatorium ; he is not yet " regularly called in ;" he
has not felt the pulse or purse of the nation ; and yet he
begins to prescribe, and " administers the physic ' of a
Whig Speaker. Have we convinced him that his silent
system was that of a quack, and not of a regular politi-
cal practitioner ? Or cannot his consistency, under cir-
cumstances that begin to be trying, hold out for any ten
days in succession ? Must every week illustrate the
fluctuation of his sliding scale of political morality.
TIMES.—We shall surprise none of our readers who
have had their attention called to the letter of " Pittacus"
in our paper of Monday, and perhaps all who have not,
by the announcement which we have to make respecting
the Speakership. Contrary to the wishes of Sir Robert
Peel himself, as many of his friends assert, has a species
of tribunical victory been achieved over the constitu-
tional forces of the new Parliament. By what strange
infatuation this unfortunate subversion of right principle
has been consummated, it is useless at this moment to
inquire ; but so it is, and the result is a chilling damp
on the very first rejoicings of a well-earned triumph.
The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre is virtually re-
elected to the high office, of which the incapacity of his
party had virtually deprived him. The history of this --------=---
arrangement we believe to be as follows :—lt appears MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
that, previously to taking any definite mea- FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
sures with respect to the election of a Speaker, CHRONICLE.—The heavy rains of last night gave a
Sir Robert Peel, with a deference, more amiable fresh impulse to the dealers in Mark-lane to-day, where
than dignified in his position, to the opinions of a further advance took place in bonded and English
others, deemed it advisable to ascertain the inter- wheats of 2s. to 3s. per quarter.
tions of a considerable number, amounting to be- By the Manchester Guardian, which we received this
tween 20 and 30, of his own party. These, with three or afternoon, we perceive the failure of Messrs. Stocks and
four exceptions, returned answers favourable to the re- Son, being the one we alluded to yesterday, had caused a
election of Mr. Lefevre, and thus rendered the success- serious damp upon the market yesterday in that town ;
ful termination of a contest doubtful, if not hopeless. and its effect appears to have been increased by the un.
In consequence of this, Sir Robert Peel came to the de- promising appearance of the weather. Under these cir-
termination to relieve Mr. Lefevre of all anxiety on the cumstances, it was not surprising that the market was, as it
subject, by disabusing him of any apprehensions which is represented to have been, on of the worst, if not the
lie might naturally entertain of his re-election. Enviable very worst, of the present year. For manufactured
man ! to whose matchless abilities foes have vied-with— goods there was literally no demand, and the few sales
nay, have outrun—friends in doing homage. Generous made are stated to have been at a serious reduction in
and manly politicians, who. like-well-matched champions prices.
For yarn, however, the market was not quite so
in the ring, shake hands before they commence the ardu- favourable, and some business was done, though with
ous contest 1 Thrice enviable office, the solace of a defeated difficulty, and at gradually declining rates. We are glad
Ministry, which, in two brief years, has sufficed to relieve to state, however, that, with the exception of two small
its tenant froM the onus of political responsibility ! The concerns at Blackburn, no additional failures had been
arrangement, then, as far as Sir R. Peel is concerned, is announced.
The business transacted in Shares was, limited.
virtually settled. Nut what are we to say of its con-
sequences ? The principle which Mr. Lefevre's Con- Brightens were quoted a shade higher ; but in the other
servative supporters profess to reverence is, that the lines of Railway there was no alteration in price.
Speaker should be chosen solely on account of his abili- Business in the Foreign Market was rather brisker
ties as such, and quite independently of his political in the early part of the day, both in Spanish and South '
sentiments. What, then, will their colleagues, the great
American securities.
majority of the Conservatives, say to this implied.inca
_ -By the accounts received from Mexico by the last
we are happy to find that the receipts at the
theirsay
of
whom What packet, Custom-house were improving. The amount of dividend
PeaiellitYthoenr honourable
altercation
with office?him
, say to warrants cancelled at the Custom-house being, at Vera
they regard as their leader ?What will the country
pettyfil fill
this
Cruz 42,680 dollars, and at Tampico 11,000 dollars,
Mr. Lefevre, aWhig, filling the chair in a House of Corn-
ROXBURGHSHIRE ELECTION.—Great indeed
mons of which the majorite, is Conservative, after his besides the amount of 9,000 dollars which we have already
must have been the disappointment experienced by the
vote in 1835 disqualifying Mr. Manners Sutton for the stated to have been received. This statement leaves
Tories during the polling days at Hawick on account of about 150,000 dollars of dividend warrants
same office, because he was a Conservative, and the ma- to be can-
no riot having occurred. Gentle reader, only conceive . . celled, when the whole sixth portion of the customs will
eon y t of the House of Commons was at that time of the
what a mortification .it must have been, afterbe applicable to the payment of the dividends in this
Whig party ?
conveying to Hawick about thirty pairs of hand- _
ADVERTISER.--The Government is virtually de- country, for which it will only require about 100,000
cuffs ! and an ample supply of chains ! ! notwith- dollars to complete one half-year's dividend of 2f percent.
funct, although the Ministers still occupy the offices of
standing the provocation given to the people by Dow , .
,-, New Grenada has already about 300,000 dollars in
ning-stiee , and
t draw their salaries from the Trees
the ruffianly conduct of an infuriated soldiery not this country towards thepayment of
sury. The people, however, must not indulge in repose,
a single pair of them were required !e ! So ashamed , , into of inactivity. Extraordinary '(501. per cent.) of the debt. The finalsettlement •
or fah a state - with
were they of the transactions, that the whole of these or-
ment is naturally succeeded by a corresponding listless- the bondholders has been delayed by the efforts of some
naments (certainly more befitting those who sent them,
ness, and against this the public mind should just now of the provinces to bring about V. federal state of Go-
than those for whom they were sent), were huddled into
be particularly cautioned. Such promises as we have vernment, which the South American States are en-
s sack to prevent observation, and reconveyed, as if by
of h • tended olio of the Conservative Government titled to have, according to the model of the United
stealth, back to Jedburgli by the mail cart. Does this t ein
give litbreakingStates' Government, originally • _
e reason to regret the up
that is to b.e, t Promised to them ;and
throw no additional light upon the conduct of certain
of the Whig Cabinet. If we have no promise of a better the last accounts state that the Congress sitting at Bo-
officials upon that memorable occasion?—lielso Cla;onicle.
e state of things, so far as mere profession is concerned, gota had summoned commissioners or deputies from
INCREASE OF RENTS.—The landlords may ue
we have none of a worse. The Whig Government has each province to revise the constitution, so as to satisfy
truly and properly described as the cormorants of the long been, de facto, a Conservative Government, their all parties, and an immediate adjustment of the question
commonwealth, to whom nothing comes amiss which real principles of national
.policy, whether foreign or was confidently expected. -In the mean time the dissen-
will raise rents. Now, every advance of the community domestic, differing in no material respect from the views tient provinces have announced their intention of trans-
tends naturally to an increase of rent, and is therefore which the Times alleges to be entertained by the party miffing their shares of the interest on the foreign debt
sure food to their wide and ponderous jaws. No spade about to supersede them in office. Hence the weak- to London ; and Panama has, we understand, already
turns a clod of earth, no plough cuts the sod asunder, and d• - fiofthe Whigs, and thecertain ad- sent a remittance of about 3,000 dollars by the last
ness iscom ture
no pickaxe pierces the quarries above or mines under vent of a Tory Administration. There is nothing very on this account.
ground, but a bit of rent is gained ; and the success of cheering for the public mind in this circumstance, how- POST.—The heavy rains that have fallen In the neigh-
the gardener, the farmer, and the miner is sure to be ever. It is not retrogression that is to be feared, so bourhood of the metropolis during the last two tights
followed by, an advance of rent. Roads and canals are much as a stationary or non-advancing policy. Upon have of course served to stimulate speculation inl times
opened, and they,add immediately to the rent ; and if many points of legislative and administrative policy, the corn trade. At the market of this day wheat wash
increased intelligence and activity fill our stage coaches Whigs have departed, and no doubt with benefit to the at materially higher prices than those quoted held
Mon-
with travellers, horses and oats are wanted, and that State, from the routine of their predecessors 1 but for day, and these, should the country continue on Mon-
gives rent. If steam-boats crowd our rivers, or carry to suffer
many a long day with no one. question of importance, from unseasonable showers, may by and by •
shoals of citizens to- the Grave-sends and Margates of the in all probe-
affecting in its practical results the condition of society, bility be realised. 'For the present we
neighbourhood, property improves, and up gets rent. if have they shown any ability or disposition to grapple. stand that much actual business is vent o not under-
railroads traverse the inland counties, or cockneys flyventured upon,
Nor will their successors evince any greater aptitude to the persuasion that such will be the under
down to Buxton or Bath, why rent flies up on both The weather
advance the general weal, so long as it shall be found was to-day more encouraging for the case.
sides and at each teetnibils of their iron course. If , se farmer, and,
possible to push on in the old course. The impetus for an the prices made for grain by thewhilenominal
temperance and teetotalism economise the earnings factors are
improved and advancing policy must come from without; merely, we think it unnecessary to
of the artisan and the shopkeeper, they will indulge areport the advance
an upon the people themselves depends the prosperity or talked of as merely among the
in better food and habitation,. and that again addsparties themselves. That
the distress of the country. "This," says the 'Times," will be a considerable quantity of foreign
im-
to rent ; if fresh ingenuity and additional mechani- wheat will be
the Conservative principle in the variable matter of politics Ported there can be no question ;
cal contrivances cheapen articles of dress or furni- forward; but the prospects of
th much is already coming
onstant improvement, development of useful tendencies,
tore, the middling classes, save, and must have theirnatives griculturist
retrenchment of inconsistencies, or impediments to good, are not yet sufficiently developed toe
bit of garden and land, and that also augments in the season, any positive assu . warrant, thus early
accommodation to the proeress of societ, submission to
rent. If enterprising men return from the west full of 6
of the people Bythis rule the ensuing harvest, either mption as to the result of
expectations
the reasonable• one way or the other.
bile, but with a planter's fortune, or from the East minus Connected with the specul •
ill act in questions of trade and commerce ; in
Mark-
their liver, but with a nabob's wealth—k) ! they must financial they "' , , inlane, we hear of some • speculative operations in
and -
reforms and legal reforms ; police sena . . occasional dealings for the account
have their country seat and park, and that increases • • in the public securities.
the such
regulations ; in the secondary parts of questions, s These, however, have not, at
myriads of infants
rent. If vaccination saves from such as the Poor-law and the laws relating to the Partin- all events, so far as we can ascertain9carried to an
ravages of 'small-pox ; if_ parents succeed in rearing extent worth speaking of ,
grid, been
.ie disposed
mentare• franchise, and, indeed, in the practical details of
large families with sound constitutions and hearty ap- . as in the case of the rumo.urd we
are
as
little
every -I;estion." We repeat it then, that it depends upon in to
petites—if the advance of medical science preserves
the people in how far the Conservative Government shall give currency to the doubtful detailswhattransacnons
we grainare told
thousands, who would otherwise have perished before .ft • Government. The Conservatives them- upon the subject. of
be are orming The quotations generally remain
of existence •
they reached the meridian • —if cleanliness selves place the question upon this issue—they refer it to without alteration, a ' that may be taken as
and moderation improve the value of life, and virtue and the public to determine how far and how fast the Go- a pretty sure indication circufmhstance.
ssof
the
public, and
wisdom prolong its existenceh to the duration of four- vernment shall proceed "in the direction of the greatest of the determinatiot ofocatpite wlisatrsm note to involve them-
score years and more, all t iis multiplies the demand for practicable utility," making it the first duty of a states- selves in Sock Exchan - a onsibilities on the bare
room and food, and therefore improves rent, Ney, grim man to e pay homage to public opinion," in things re- hint of those whose fortugneesreasrPe staked upon no safer 1
death himself is a sure and constant customer, bargaining fereble to the category of "expediency," embracing in basis than the issue of the weather. ,
daily for a thousand little leaseholds of six feet by three, that category the whole class of subjects relating to trade ADVERTISER.—We have been informed, on what
and the lifeless carcassare the .
most greedy andprofitable
and
commerce, finance and law, police and pauperism, we consider to be good authority, that four or five yes-
competitors for land, yielding more than double rent ; the Parliamentary franchise—in a word, the practical gels have recent!)• been fitted out from Hamburgh, by a
and could the dumb tenants of the grave be but driven details of every question relating to " variable politics." foreign merchant resident in that city, with the osten-
to the hustings under some Chandos clause, what a pros- I The present hour, then, is pregnant with great events, Bibleof commerce, but which vessels are in reality
, object
to the own •
pect would not be opened owners of the soil for ,
I for good or for evil : the fortunes of the country arc in intended for the slave trade, being adapted in every re-
an additional and most welcome improvement of rent ! the hands of the people. I spot to that purpose. Some of our readers may remem.
And yet will these greedy j,eck ,ells , the landlords; have HERALD.--In the midst of profound peace .the bee the case of the Echo, to which we directed atten-
their Corn-law to make assurance doubly sure, and Morning Chronicle clamours for the commercial advan- tion a few months back, and will perhaps think with us,
grunt and sweat because the sliding rule lets slip in now Cages to England of a' Continental war. . While we that it is high time the more honourable portion of the
and then a bit of foreign
.wheat, to interrupt this infi- keep moving all the world must stand still, and Ger- Hamburgh mercantile community should seek to prevent
nitely rising series, which
,is the true algebraical formula many „peaal ly must not move a muscle. N • d • as may by implication hazard the air fume
o nation such oings
for their " theory of rent ."—.21/Orning Chronicle• must dare to weave a pair of stockings for itself, or place of the old lianse Town.
BRITISH •MANUFACTURES.--There Were in on the backs of its people a shirt or coat of home nianu-
As so much has boon said recently of affairs at
this country, about a year se
since, not fewer than 16,000 facture. If they do, everything at home is wrong,
every Vienna, it may not be altogether inappropriate to guard
steam engines at work, some of them 1,000 horse power. principle of our commercial system must be abandonedy ng
against misapprehension, by certifi the firma which
But taking them at the low average of 25 horse-power as effete and worn out. We must rush headlon into have actually suspended, andi;
thus relieving the credit of
each, this would be equal to 400,000 horses. Five men the trackless ocean of speculative legislation , we must others, respecting which; unfavourable surmises would be
and-a-half are equal to the strength of one horse ; thus, I throw away what we now have, and shut our e. y or,„ formed, As ear as we can learn, therefore, the names
the country possesses a power, through the. medium of i our ports, and see what the gods will send nes.s, The are as follow :—The nephew of Steiner, with liabilities
this vast number of steam engines, nearly equal to that ', strong practical sense of the people of England has re- I to the extent of 1,400,000 florins ; Steiner himself, said
of 2,000,000 of men. Each hone, for his food a year, 1 jected, and will continue to reject, such advice, founded to be for four 'saltine i Gey Muller, not yet pre-
consumes the produce of two acres of land, and thus :asit is upon ignorance and presumption. The feeling of olsely aseertained, but supposed for eight mil-
lions ; Alexandre Voss for 60,000 ; L. C. Smekal
800,000 acres are to spare for human subsistence, more e live mullet live" is not yet excluded from the national
than there would be if steam power were not employed , mind., and Englishmen, notwithstatang fin the special for 60,000 ; Adolphe Leon for 80,000 ; Pierre Bel-
ies the produce of the manufactures for which England is ' pleading and mis-statements of the weft-paid .Dr. Bow- . loni for two. millions ; Moses Abraham for 100,000 I
now so celebrated. Iring and the would-be-well-paid M Villiers?have no
i r.Osgi Askeroghi for 60,000 iJ. W, Themans anq C.,

many would as soon dissolve the league as injure her
agriculture by such a measure,. and no one knows this
fact better than Mr. Dodge, the United States commer-
cial agent in Germany. At another moment the alarmist
journal protests that there is nothing but ruin for England,
because the Zoll Verein and Brazil are negotiating commer-
cial relations. Now this assertion is purely imagination;
there are no negotiations in progress for any such ptir-
pose. But if they were concluded, they would not
damage England. Germany already takes all the coffee
and sugar that Brazil with her present population can
grow ; and to guppose that Brazil would commit so sui-
cidal an act as to engage to consume German dear cot-
tons in preference to British
.cheap cottons, when by so
doing she could derive no advantage, is to suppose that
common sense and national interest are wholly driven
from the minds of Brazilian statesmen. But were the
Brazilian Government to enter into so foolish a stirla-
.
tton, the Brazilian people and consumers would quickly
abrogate it in practice. The consumers of every nation
will, in spite of all treaties and laws, buy of the cheapesi,;
and if they •bannot do it legally, they will illegally; The
Morning Chronicle frequently quotes from the writings
of the political eoonomists. We think it might, without
much difficulty, find an authority in them for this
proposition ; but, perhaps, as the Devil does from the
Scriptures, it only quotes their " wise saws and
modern instances," when it suits its own purposes.
POST.—The advocates of what we consider excessive
manufacturing and trading, complain of us that we oc-
casionally comment upon their hard-heartedness. But
how can we do otherwise while they display such insensi-
bility to that which chiefly concerns the happiness of the
mass of the people ? If they will cease to advocate a
cruel and hard-hearted policy, we shall be most happy
to hail the auspicious change, and to give them every
credit for having learned better the duties which they
owe to their fellow-creatures, and the feelings with which

they ought to regard them. So long, however, as
we find the party which calls itself " Liberal," doing
its best to upset the agricultural industry of this coun-
try, and to hand that great source of employment and
wages over to foreigners, while it is expected that
by this policy a great increase of manufacturing
business may be obtained, we cannot help accusing the
party of selfish insensibly to the welfare of the people.
We must speak the truth, and to us it seems that if
there be any truth more palpable than another respecting
the condition of the mass of the people of England, it is
that the agricultural labourers are a far healthier, hap-
pier, and in every way more estimable race of people
than they who are doomed to the labour which goes on
in manufacturing towns. If, therefore, it were true,
which we think it is not, that the wealth of this country
would be more promoted by abandoning agriculture in
a very considerable degree—by trusting to foreign coun-
tries for a great portion of our supply of corn, and by
manufacturing more largely in order to pay for this
foreign supply, still we should continue to hold the
opinion that for the sake of the working people, the
nation ought to resist this mode of becoming more
wealthy. We quite agree with the sentiment expressed
some days ago by Mr. Benett, M.P., for Wiltshire, at
the Salisbury Agricultural Meeting, when he asked,
" What is wealth without comfort and happiness ?"
What does it signify to a virtuous statesman that a cer-
tain system of commercial policy would possibly add to
the capital of the country, if by that very system a
change in the employment of the mass of the people
would take place, which change would be very prejudi-
cial to their comfort and happiness ? In putting the
case thus, we are very far from admitting that the pro-
posed " Liberal" system of policy would ad to the capi-
tal of the country. We are well satisfied that it would
have precisely the opposite effect.