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the landlords in ,Parliament decree, so long will
landlords give to their will the 'gui;e Of law, and so-
long will they plunderanddestroytlet*ns-people by
the consent of the latter. They must by kotik,,:seci„nc!t
honouredi and we have' heard, we oviritStA
atisfae-
tion; in 'several 'Of the manufacturing towns the
people hav,e
.declared that they neither can nor will
pay the rneoine4ax.- Late as it Is to influence the
Parliament this session, we are convinced-that a. new
face would immediately be put on things 'were the
Anti-Corn-law League now solemnly to declare that
all protecting and discriminating duties.are a flagrant
violation of right, and ought to be resisted. Such a re-
solution would go to vitiate the bulk of the taxes, which
are mixed up with discriminating duties, and, were it
adopted, might bring the landlords to a sense ofkis-
tice. As long as their avowed wrong is actjuiesced
in they will never want reasons to show that it is
expedient. Men are bound to pay taxes for the.sup-
port of the State; there is no moral obligation an
them to pay protecting and discriminating duties ;
and, till these be abolished, all taxation, in any way
mixed with them, is in danger of being resisted.

The General Shipowners' Society, have informed the
public that they are by no means pleased with Sir B.
I'EEL. This is to be considered as another defective
from his ranks, because that body belongs. to the mono-
polists, and in general supported the Tories, in the dx-
Pectation that they would maintain the protective prin-
ciple. They say—

The Report presented by your Committee at the last annual
general meeting was addressed to the shipowners of the United
Kingdom at a moment at which the great question was about
to be submitted to the test of a general election, whether the
commerce and navigation of the country were hereafter to be
conducted on the principle of protection flrwhicii the Commit-
tee had ever contended, and were
,thenstruggting ' • or in ac-
cordance with the theories of-tree trade, to which they have
ever been opposed. Since that period the doctrines hitheno
repudiated by the advocates of the shipping interest have beta
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-,ed supported. feebly -

of corning.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff, they cicciare, contains
In almost every page propositions for 'cbanges unfavourable to
British navigation, some of them of a character and extent-cal-
culated deeply to injure, if not entirely to destroy, important
branches of the carrying trade; and almost -all opposed, in the
opinion of your Committee, to the protective principle on which
the maintenance of.Britishnprititne commerce-. depends. .
In consequence of these views, thefivrined, it ap-
pears, a combined, plan of .operations to oppose the
tariff, particalarlftbat part of it which abolishes a pro-
teaing duty of 455. for Canadian timber. The 1)1(4w •
enabled them to send their Vessels in ballast acrosf
Atlantic, and they found ample payment iii thefrcight home
for the expense of the two Voyages. Bet they were not
successful, and their explanation why "they were not,
confirms Sir RICHARD VYVYAN'S statement of the man-
ner in which 3leriibers have been coerced into voting 4'0e.4
Sir R. PEEL.
Throughout our .communications, (they say) we sedulously
endeavoured to restrict. our -arguments to proving that-the
actual effect of the measures we deprecAted would be different
from that anticipated by 'Sir :Wien Peel? and it only remains
for us to express .our deep regret, that kmatters of navigation
the opinions of practical thipoWners should be deemed entitled
to so little weight,:;,— •
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friends,
Poor-la.
by what
which I
had relied." The shipowners, like other Tories, are for-
saking their chosen but faithless chief. Sir R. PEEL is
fast losing the support of his own friends, w bile his mea-
sures do not command the cordial approbation-1;f the
other party. At present, he is a necessity for all parties.
There could be no Government were he to break up his
administration ; but as parties get sifted and tossed into
fresh places, this necessity will disappear. Sir R. PEEL'S
power, which is at present completely dictatorial, will
then disappear too. He is routtng at oKnding the
monopolists, but he is not winning the free-traders. He
is destroying all parties but the Chartists, and seems pre-
paring the way for apolitical anarchy.

We are glad to bear testimony that the British public
are supporting British ships in earnest ; this is as it
should be. The General Steam Navigation Company's
favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Captain J. Fife, left the
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, yesterday, for Antwerp,
with a cheering number of passengers. Several families
of distinction were on board, among wl om we could ob-
serve his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam and his family,
Major Mackinlay, and the Rev. T. BOurdier. The
Wilberforce (British ship) had arrived previously from
Antwerp, having had an excellent passage of ot,iy 171
hours. Antwerp, June 2;.—The Wilberforce arrived
from London in 17 hours.

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embraced, or supported, or feebly opposed by the friends on
whom the shipowners have relied, and changes are in progress
of which it would be weak and uncandid were the Ceminittv
not to express their conviction that the are fraught with Abe
most alarming consequences to Be: maritime corwercot
which, by the in of s -appear'a to be 'keeled
to decay.
Their rdsa say„that the: at the . 9PPYAIIO:O°
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session was 4.4oiiititttiiiiernhktiakfer,thstafrisertaf *Ore*
solutions niuvea by Mr. GLADSTONE on the t!oloniettii-
toms Duties wore..." calculated Ix) serious injury' ou
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the Briiish carrying.trade." They repre4ented thali..eto
Air. GLADSTONE, and then the general vies s' exprathed
by the Viee-.President of the Board of Tvade;_excited in -• ' -1`
their minds serious apprehensions of, what, was coming.

nee weigo,
succeeding steps on these all inipartant measures have
ime to time been preseated to the public through the
ry channels of Parliamentary information. Throughout
rogress the proceedinghave been marked by a character
as it is without reeed-nt, the CoMmittee hope will re-
rithout a parallel. The case of the stiPuwaers appears
havoafforded an illustration of the position of every great
duringt of the nation the discussions on the tariff. The
;trances addressed to Ministers and to Parliament have 44-
alike unheeded ;"'tie, exertions of the friends on Whose
support the ship,ortiers:have been acenstopied toirely
E.en paralysed by politiCal 'considerations,apel by the lin
position in which party connections hare placed thona ;
ion has been unavailing; and even' iinpraesticable • and '
3 affecting in vital degrees the best, hitttekti of British
ion have been sanctioned by the House Commons
little apparent consideration as if they had constivated
the most ordinary matter of official. routine.
-induct without precedent," which the ship-owners
may be without parallel,' - deserted by tileir
!, just as the Tories have also deserted their Anti-
.a.W pledges, " considerations. oe justice overruled
at is due to party," such are- .some or the feuttine,
the shipowners find in the " frivittls on whom they
riihn chinnurnnrc lilrn ntlenr Tnriac earn f, •