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which they have to deal. Lord Stanley tics L'.o
mental reservations, and we accept his manifesto in its
most obvious arid literal signification. Had he taken
upon himself the duties which the present ocrupants aI
office " are so singularly unable to fulfil, his. Lordship
would have resolutely defended the rights of the Queen
and the laws of the country against the present Popish
aggression, and token itnnsediete steps to establish for
the future the lawful relations of a foreign •eriest eith
the declared subjects of the Throne of Engancl'i Without
infringing upon the rights of conscience, without at-
tempting in the least degrea to stand between the
Romanist and his spiritual adviser, without de-
manding the smallest sacrifice of the perfect tolera-
tion accorded'to every creed and ste; in the empire,
Lord Stanley would have stopped short or tome, ing
Popery at the sacrifice of the country's °Lei ithed insti-
tutions, and of damaging the gletieui priecipl,s in
virtue of which his Queen sits upon the throne, tcd
England owes its strength and greamt is. Asa Pro-
testant Minister of a Protestant Sovereign, Lord Stan-
ley would not have been ashamed to do his duty. He
would nut have purchased popularity by patroeisir g tko
creed he is simply bound to to;erate ; neither would ho
have furnished arms to Rome, in order tbar ItAng might
strike a deadly blow at spiii.ual liberty upon timao
shores.. Lord Stanley, unlike his former Peelite es:e-
el:4es, does not yet regard the Reformation as a gr,at
calamity, or separation from Rome as a national sin.
Paseyism would, therefore, not flourish under his Ad-
ministration ; nor would confessionals be seen at Lau-
beth ; nor intolerant bishops, refusing communion with
tolerant archbishops, be in favour ; nor priests. de-
nouncing the Queen's supremacy, be deemed fit objects
for promotion. Whatever may be the country's expec-
tations from Lord Stanley in other respects, it may rely
upon his fidelity to Protestant principle, without
fear of disappointment. Lard John nu:sell, it
is true, denounced loudly enough Treat:aim'
practices and Popish insolence in his Novgmber
letter but the ebullition of feeling was not worth
the ink in which it was discharged. The community,
painfully alive to the fact, looks in vain to the successors
of the man chiefly valued as the Minister' upon whose
pliant principles it could in all emergencies unhesits-
tingly fall back; but if Popery is safe with the Whig
Minister, Puseyism is in clover with the Peelite sespi-
rants. Protestantism, rejected by both in its hoar of de-
sertion and danger, seeks refuge with Lord Stanley. And
if his Lordship deserves praise for his unshaken fidelity

to the Throne, is he so utterly unworthy of cotfid€nce
as his enemies would have us believe, because he proftasfs
extreme anxiety to heal the clivi,ior.s and to u,ia,gwte tte
hurdshipa that afflict ukorethmone.porti.4o oftl.-Fcal:l
Nobody dObbis that the law, of 1816

learful-weight upon the agricultural cl,vses. To.. ex of
ag r_cu.tural pression nu party in [ht. Site frocts, lo
card or deny. Its existence was acknowledged v,ell-fe-
m4-mbercd accents from the 'fbrone. and the tAm-ssity
immediate ren-n•dy all but couf.,,s.,ed by a tunj,,rity in a
free-trade Efoustl of Commons. Whst is if that the fa

ture Paine Minister cf Englacd proposes on haalf of a
smitten interest, whose trials Qxtort: the sympathy of
,very class? What scheme fur putting an end to (ii.cord
and complaint could be more mockrete and intehigent
than that which he propounded? We a. e bold to Fa y
that had Lord Stanley proceeded to the country the very
. . . .

morning after be had delivered his lucid stiternent in
the House of Lords, he would have found his ct,mmer-
cial policy endorsed by nearly every intelligent constitu-
ency in the United Kingdom. Men have ceased to be
cajoled by abstract theories, and are not unrsilling to
settle still-vexed questions in the spirit of conciliation
and compromise. If it be true, as it is easy to prove,
that the laws of 1846 have prevented an extensive sec-
tion of the community from earning a livelihood by any
expenditure of money, time, and trouble, there exists
nowhere but in the veriest strongholds of faction a deter-

ruination to withhold such legijation as may once more
liberate the industrious limbs which it was never intended
to bind or cripple. What honest and well-intentioned
citizen seeks to establish in the land a war of classes,

general prosperity with fearful exceptions to
the rule, abiding discontent, deity increasing dis-
loyalty, and never-ending agitation ? 'lave Free-
trade Leagues and Protectionist Associations become
normal institutions of the country, and is there

never to ba an end of that system of attack and

defence which, to the great scandal of the country, and
to the great injury of all calm legislation, has usurpf.d
the functions of Parliament, and made intimidation,
falsehood, and exaggeration instruments of public action
far more potent then facts and figures, argument and
logic? We are needy of repose, and crave for a speedy
se;tlement of differences. Lord Stanley would have
placed tranquillity within our macs, and put an end at
once to injurious dispute. Without contesting the wis-
dom of established laws, ho would have demanded the
adaptation of an existing policy to the present iiciegeo-
cies of men. His would have been the task to heal the
wounds inflicted upon society by she sudden, indiscrimi-
nate, and wholesale legislation of 1E46; and to 'Conclude
that the community at large would not have helped to
consummate the happy work is to exhibit ignorance in-
deed of the sublime cearaoter of a nation, not without its
share of fault and weakness, but remarkable, above all
things, for its love of honesty and its match lets sense
of justice. Nor would Lord Stanley's method of pro-
ceeding have proved less acceptable to the country be-
cause it involved, amongst its other consequences, the
immediate removal of a tax the most iniquitous ever de-
vised to fleet patient industry and to rob poverty of the
first results of its prudence. Against the renewal of the
income-tax in its present form, and with a view to its
complete and speedy abolition, Lord Stanley would have
directed his first financial efforts. His Lordship has
long been known to entertain a virtuous antipathy
against a mode of levying taxation which the country
tolerated at first only as a temporary expedient, and
which its author tecomesencled at a time of difficulty to
meet a special emergency. It would be idle to point
out to a community suffering at all points from the
grinding operation of the income-tax, the nature of the
grievance against which they so loudly complain, and
from whose pressure it would have been the first object
of Lord Stanley's Government to relieve them; but it. is
quite to the purpose to remind them, that the very ear-
liest intimation that came to the country from any
public man of the urgent necessity of relieving it from
the insupportable tax in question proceeded from the
lips of a nobleman whose anxiety for the well-being
of agriculturists is equalled only by his earnest desire to
support in the empire, without tear or favour, thein-
dustrial interests of all. The divisiQu that took piece
on Tuesday last with reference to Lord Duncan's
motion, presenting as it does one more instance to the
many already afforded of the utter impossibility of pro-
tracting the present state of things beyond a fro, weeks
longer, renders the late manifesto of Lord Stanley an
object again of national regard, and the future move-
ments of his Lord,hip matter of general solicitude. The
time is fat approaching when an appeal to the country
jvill be inevitable. A stable Government is required,
'End the will of the people needs once more to Le un-
equivocally (xpre!sed. The latter once emphatically
uttered, the former will not long be wanting. We have
no fear in committing the language of the Conservative
chief to the thoughtful consideration of the muses. It
is time to secure the foundations of the national faith and
to unite conflicting interests—to reconcile all classes to
the law, and to turn the attention of Parliament from
the warfare of parties to the vast reforms in the social
condition of the masses which crave the harmonious
action and the perfect repose of legislators. We cannot
advance an inch in social ameliorations until ill-blood is
stopped. Lord Stanley thews how we may staunch the
wounds of no unimportant member of the State with
perfect justice to the rest of the body politic.

SUSPECTED MURDER 42 BRIXTON
NEAR PLYMOUTH.
The village of Brixton, about three miles from Ply-
mouth, on the Tams-road, has just been the scene, it
is feared, of a very extraordinary murder. Oa Friday
eacrming last, a young man, named John Bunker,
aged about nineteen, a farm•servant to Mr. Rowe, of
fisiweil-farm, in the parish of Brixton, felt the farm-
yard, with a curt and two. horses, for the purpose
of going to a lime-kiln for a load of lime -
but shortly afterwards his body was found in
art orchard belonging to his master, quite dead, hang
ing
by a halter to an apple-tree. It appears that the
attention of a man who was going to his work, when
two or three fields from the orchard, was attracted
by the cries v.s of some one in great fear or pair,
and that, following the direction of the cries, which by-
and-by ceased altogether, the man cams to the orchard,
and after a brief search found the body of Bunker as
described. Thu appearance of the body seduced the be-
ltet that a severe stiuggle had taken place.befo.re the
poor fellow was suspended to the tree, itad it is said that
there were some spots of blood on his dross. It was
known that young Mr. Rowe entertained
feelings (1
hostility towards the deceased, !arising, it was stated,
out of the latter having been
. witness to an occurrence
which the former did not mph should become known'
and to procure silence on which it is further said that
he had given Bunker a sovereign; at all eventa, It is
y
known that the deceased had propagated a &ter to this
effect, and that in consequence, about a week '
Rowe had gone to the magistrate's clerk a. yripliiirm'„lll„,„r*
with the view of taking proceedings against•
fantation of character, and had induced that gentleman
.
him for de-
before A. Botta Esq., the cortkonerj'fiotr.
to write deceased a letter on the subject, At acnouietitq)uretsft
Devon, on Saturday evening
and also that bruises on the body these
facts were stated,
it was teken down from .11 were pafeepttble when
werethat beforeleftst
aquuei
itetign,g
thetree, and it was evident
the roadte
where the horses and tart.
coroner ordored
knete. The eiretanstazpoor fellow bad been upon his
R I.CeB Were so suspicious. that the
u into custody, and adjourned the
inquest.

itchTAL
AM.7II.I.RM' —WOOLWICH, MARCU 11.—
T ;(1 whole of the Royal Artillery in garris,in assembled yes-
teniti-
..•-
• morning on the guard mounting parade,} ut
l, the y
leillg wet, they were marched to the riding
,0 wida t
nesn the presentation of good conduct medals to the thserc i g
um- writtnii,sioned officers and gunners and drivers to whom
they have been uvrardoi, i the Ito al Artillery col ps, for the
pr-sent year. Lieutenant-General Sir Tilt Inas I oxvntnan,
C.8.,K.C. H., , oni ni an(l an t of tile garrison, previous t the
distribution of the medals, addressed t..e whole of the non-
conunissieLed officers and !nen in t e most feeling manner,
and expressed his great satisfaction with the general good
co duct of the regiment. He said he had now been all of-
ficer of the Royal Artillery for the long period of 68 years,
and be had never known a higher degree of mo al discipline
anTehxeisetrsinite of drunkenness, he waspresent, and has dune
ildeenrtacxdpuercitotdh.
faonrci,teexocnesl
glad to say- was greatly reduced, and all its attendant evita
had consequently- been greatly diminished. He was happy
t • add that the Master-General had expressed himself in
high terms of approval in alluding to the few crimes compa-
ratively which had to he reported at head-quarters. The
Mi-,ster-General and the Commandant experienced the
highest gratification in awarding good-conduct medals, and
the gratuities to which non-commissioned dike a a-d man
became entitled for their meritorious services. Brigade-
lt,jor Bingham having called over the names of the 26 re-
cipients of medals at Woolwich, each man ci.me forward,
1 ant was wesentei with his Gift by the gallant Lieutenrnt-
' General.