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and indeed must, be desirous to divert public
attention from what he hasalready done,it seems
not unlikely that he will suffer himself to be in-
fluenced and persuaded to attack the monetary
system of Scotland, in order to make the world
forget his sliding-scale, his tariff, and his income-
tax.

We know no statesman whose past deeds are
so little calculated to inspire future confidence.
He is strong, undoubtedly, from the support of
a party, and weekly and daily journals say there
is no one like PEEL. They said so ten months
ago, and that he was distinguished from all other
Ministers by being able to carry what he pro-
posed, or convert his own will into the law of
the land. We do not deny that ; we do not say
that a mob of gentlemen, of City merchants, and
public writers, do not place implicit confidence
in him; but we say that his 'past deeds do not
warrant confidence, and that his will is a
very worthless law. Their confidence and
his will have doomed the people of this
country to greater sufferings during the
last twelve months than any people ever
endured from the acts of a so-called paternal
Legislature. Is it when the whole country
begins to demand the repeal of the torturing
income-tax, when the tariff and the sliding scale
are denounced from one end of the land to the
other as being an intended delusion, as having
conferred no benefit on the manufacturing
classes, and as having deeply injured the agri-
cultural classes, that the public ought to be told
that no man can do anything for the State but
Sir R. PEEL ? When we find his weekly and his
daily friends puffing him off in this auctioneer
style, we conclude that they begin to doubt his
merits. They try to uphold him in public esti-
mation that they may have an excuse for their
own continued fealty. A mere trimmer between
difficulties, like Sir ROBERT PEEL, is not the
man to place our currency on a just or safe foun-
dation, or to conquer a body which was too power-
ful thr LIVERPOOL and HusKlssoN. He may at-
tempt something of the kind to divert public
attention from his other failures; he may carry
through Parliament the measure he proposes;
but ifit be the offspring of his own mind, it will
be equal to none of the difficulties of the ques-
tion, and be as lamentable a monument of im-
becile and puerile conceptions as his adjustment
of the sliding scale, and his unsettling of the
tariff.

We have long ago been aware, and have more
than once stated, that the Conservatives, as they
are falsely called, are as eager to change our
laws and institutions as the Chartists, only they
want to make the change in an opposite direc-
tion.- They want to put down all parochial and
vestry discussions, that the parson of every
parish aided by his churchwarden, may levy
what church-rate he pleases, and regulate all the
concerns of the parish, as if they were, like paro-
chial divisions, of a purely ecclesiastical nature.
They wish to extend the power and augment the
wealth of the Church, choke Dissent, muzzle the
Press, and curb the people. They complain of
the manufacturers, and they want to put their
fetters on the steam-engine. They demand that
manufacturing capital—which, being only another
name lbr ingenious men, speedily finds the
most profitable location—shall be heavily taxed.
They say—
Our manufacturing system, under the auspices of
the steam-engine, is, or has been, essentially a new
one. It had to be tried. It has been tried, and it
turns out that, with wondrous powers of good, it con-
tains numerous ingredients of evil, amongst which,
the scope it gives to avaricious speculators for
oppressive tamperings with the meagre earnings of the
working poor may be reckoned the first. We say that,
now, when the bane and the cure have been brought to
light—when, after the lapse of half a century, it has
become clearly evident that the mischievous features
of the system will not cure themselves—now, we
say, the aristocracy of the land, with all the men
of sense, religion, and philanthropy, should act
boldly, energetically, and promptly. They should let
it he plainly seen, that, while England means to take
advantage of every step in the progress of science
towards perfection, she will protect her people against
the contingent inconveniences by which that progress
is accompanied, as a skilful gunner, availing himself
of the power of powder, takes especial care to keep
out of the, reach of its explosions.

They have found out, after a half century,
that there are evils in the manufacturing system
which will not cure themselves, and which can
only be cured by the enlarged, comprehensive,
and subl me wisdom of the Lords spiritual and
temporal, and country gentlemen in Parliament
assembled. But Conservative legislators have
not being idle during the last fifty years. They
have made as many regulations as they could
well forge every session, for one branch or other
of the community, and the result is manifest in
its present condition. What reason have we to
conclude that the restrictive legislation they now
propose would be more beneficial than their past
legislation ? The system and the evils of the last
fifty years will not be the system and the evils of
the next fifty years. To make their proposed
restraints effectual to good, they must know
beforehand the direction which the national in-
dustry will take. They had no fore-knowledge
fifty years ago of its present condition, and they
can now have no knowledge of what will be its
condition fifty years hence. In no two
periods of fifty years was the condition of any
society, except, perhaps, the Nomadic tribes, ever
identical; and, if the Conservatives, therefore,
were now to make laws to prevent the evils of
the manufacturing system, in the nextfifty years,
it is perfectly certain that they would make laws
for shadows. Their ambition, however, is gigantic,
and, under the vague generalities we have quoted,
they endeavour to procure restrictive lawslor
manufactures and manufacturers,in order to pre-
vent fifty years hence the evils which they say
the Conservatives of fifty years ago ought to have
prevented. They want a political millenium like
the Chartists; but in their millenium, agriculture,
and what they call healthy commerce, are to
flourish as they did when GEORGE 111. was king.
Our present manufacturing system, founded
" on the steam-engine and other discoveries," is
to be controlled, and, if it be not very obedient, is
to be extinguished. It is great political quackery
to attempt to hasten the progress of society by
legislation, but it is insignificant compared to
the Conservative quackery of making society go
backward till the supremacy of the clergy and
the squires be restored and acknowledged.

COST OF CONVEYING AMERICAN CORN THROUGH
CANADA writer in the Morning Post concLuntGed
a long article yesterday to show that the expense of
conveying American wheat and flour through Canada
would be so great that our agriculturists need not
fear any import from that quarter. The writer was
obviously ignorant 'of the proposition made by the
Committee of the Canadian Legislature to grant a
drawback on all flour exported from Canada when
the price of flour exceeds 30s. a barrel at Montreal,
which will compensate the difference of cost of con-
veyance. We can at the same time state, on the
itauthority of the above-named Committee that the
cost of conveying a barrel of flour to Liverpool, from
01.,i0 through the Erie Canal, is 3s. I id. less than by the
way. of the St. Lawrence. The Committee calculated
that this 3s. lid., in conjunction with the 3s. duty,
will 'rake the advantages of Canada and the United
States equal, when the price of corn here is 625., and
at all prices below that, the advantage will be on the
side of ;sending the produce of the United States '
through 'Canada. When the price is 625., the farmer
needs littlo protection, on his own principle. When
price falls below that he needs protection, and then
Lord Stanley's plan will allow corn from the United
States to be brought over from Canada free of duty.
As much corn will be smuggled into Canada, to al-
low a drawback will be in truth a bounty on
smuggling corn from the United States, free of duty,
into Great Britain.

The Marquis of Clanricarde met with a severe fall
while hunting with Lord Howth's stag-hounds on
Tuesday last, from the effects of which his Lordship
has nearly recovered, and the grand steeple-chase be-
tween his horse, Dtrvernay, and Mr. Mcore's horse,
was to come off to-day.
TESTIMONIAL TO LORD MORPETIL—At a nume-
rous meeting of gentlemen who have interested
themselves in this public tribute to the Noble Lord,
held at Wakefield last week, it was determined that
the presentation should take place early in the ensuing
year, at the Earl of Carlisle's seat, Castle Howard. The
subscriptions amount to 4,0001.
:TILE BISHOP 9r TASMANIA.—As the Bishop of
'Tasmania was proceeding to the railway station, on
Tuesday morning, on a visit to the Bishop of Ripon,
he was.attacked by severe indisposition, and returned
to the Vicarage, where he at present remains under
medical superintendence.—Leeds Timm