The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1842.

always been famed—was magnificent. Lyon and
Marston were both called for at the conclusion of the
piece, which was announced for repetition every
evening, amidst the loudest applause. The drama of
the Dumb Savoyard and his Monkey followed, in
hich the performance of Wieland (who is starring
it here for a week) as the Monkey, drew down roars
of laUghter from all parts of the house, which was
crowded in every part.

SCOTLAND'S GREETING.
(IN THE MANNER. OF COWLEY.)

Scotia ad Angliam, suam sarorem.

Down from its glittering nail
Queen and bright sister, I my harp have taken,
And all its golden-chorded strings awaken,
To hail thy coming, and thy passage through
Our land of lochs and mountains hid in blue—
Homes of thy warrior-clansmen, brave and true.
Yet neither chaunt nor song, I know,
Amply grand or fully sweet,
Thy serene approach to greet,
Or rich embroidered verse to fitly throw,
As carpet for thy feet.
Nevertheless the song,
Shall, opening, pour along,
And tell thy graces, which, if fit extolled,
'Mid the rich music-stream,
Would shine about and beam
Like gold and rubies in a river rolled.
Soon as the Hesper star,
Leapt to his matin car,
And with his diamond-glancing eyes
Lightened up the Eastern skies,
Then silken winds and every tuneful gale,
Swelled the full snow-white sail;
While Neptune's golden horses drew
Her bounding vessel thro' the blue ;
Till pressed her queenly foot the strand,
Of Scotland's rock-enthroned land.
Lovely the white young Moons,
On high Ben Lomond's summits shine,
When the transparent clouds
With gold and interlucent gems,
Weave glistening bands and diadems
Round their sweet brows divine ;
But to her people's eyes,
No moon was ever seen,
On the high hills or in the skies,
Or at its full, or at its rise,
So fair as their own Queen.

Fair as our light-crowned fountains,
Our purple-shaded lakes, and spiry mountains :
Bright as a thousand other things—
As jaspers of our silver Lowland springs—
Or morning exhalations, seen
In splendid dimness veiling every scene !
Beauteous thy blue uprising, morn in heaven,
With sunbeams wreathed around thy hair serene,
But lovelier never dawned upon Lochleven,
Than dawns our Queen.

Brief was the song of homage sang,
But loud and loyally it rang,
From cotter-huts, and mines, and looms,
From golden-ceiling'd halls and rooms,
Throughout the Scottish land :
While lordly revel held the night,
And street and city swelled with light ;
And thousands clad in tartan pride
Roll'd their full joy on every side ;
Amid the pomp and bonfire's blaze,
All Scotland poured abroad to gaze :
The Eagles heard them in their nest—
Then spread their plumes, and fired their crest
And screamed in anthem grand ;
While as the people's mighty shout,
From tower, and town, and wall rang out,
The hills and caverns sounded back
A glorious-echoing coronach.

Alone to grace the festal time
One voice was needed—one sublime !
Of him who ne'er may be forgot—
Deep-reverenced bard—immortal Scott !
Dead King of Melody—though long
Thy harp bath hushed, and flown thy song—
Tho' long thy shade from earth hath faded—
Long the damp yew thy grave-house shaded—
Yet daily glorious—more intense—
Thy memory kindles to the sense,
And gains a new omnipotence !
Ah ! only Scotland well can guess
What verse of lofty gloriousness
Had strung thy harp, and nerv'd thy hand,
To hail thy Queen to Scottish land.

TRIAL of the CLIFTON RIOTERS.
SALFORD SESSIONS—MONDAY.

This morning the Chairman (Mr. Foster) took his
seat at nine o'clock for the purpose of trying the
above-named case. He was supported on his right
and left by several county Magistrates, amongst
whom were Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P. Mr. W. F.
Hulton, and the Rev. Mr. Mills, of Oldham.
Several of the prisoners were out on bail. Those
in the gaol were placed at the bar, and the rest
answered to their names as follows :—George Bes-
wick, John Bramall, John Holland, William Wil-
son, Hugh Farren, William Roberts, Thomas Chad-
derton, Thomas Newton, John Lane, William Town-
send, Joseph Brierley, Thomas Edge, James Taylor,
S. Stores, James Entwistle, Thomas Chadwick, John
Lightbourne, Benjamin Hawksworth, John Stafford,
Richard Rogers, Joseph Dunkerley, David Nightin-
gale, John Cooper, Thomas Orme, John Tipton,
Joseph Salmon, John Simpson, Thomas Hanley,
John Jenks, George Hankers, John Fielding,
Peter Singleton, John 'Wood, Thomas Sut-
cliffe, Thomas Charleston, 'William Hoffton,
George Hay, Ralph Taylor, John Hargreaves,
John Marshall, Thomas Wood, Joseph Bowring,
E. Holt, Joseph Taylor, John Wolfenden, Samuel
Scholefield, 11 illiam Burgess, George Rose, John
Hanley, T. Evans, and William Brooks. The indict-
ment charged them with a riot at Clifton, in :the
parish of Eccles, on Saturday, the 20th of August,
with having riotously and tumultuously assembled
together, to the number of 300 and upwards, and that
whilst so assembled they turned out the colliers at
Mr. Knowles's, and at other coal-pits. They were
also charged in another count, simply with a riot.
All the prisoners pleaded not guilty, and did not avail
themselves of their right to traverse.
_ _

Mr. Brandt and Mr-. Hulton appeared for the pro-
secution. Eleven of the prisoners were defended by
Mr. Green, twelve of them by Mr. Whigham, and the
rest were undefended.

Mr. Brandt having stated the case for the prosecu-
tion, called a great number of witnesses, but with
the exception of the first three or four, their evidence
was merely to the effect of identifying the parties who
were present at the riot. It appeared that on the
morning mentioned a large meeting, composed chiefly
of colliers, many of them from a distance, was held on
Kersall Moor, about three miles from Manchester.
From this meeting the parties went in a body to
several of the collieries near the road leading from
Manchester to Bolton, where they turned out the
hands. The plan of operation was this :—When at
a short distance from the works the general body
halted, and six or seven went to the place and en-
tered into conversation with those who happened to
be on the spot. They then demanded in a menacing
tone why they were at work, and immediately the
whole mob made its appearance in such formidable
numbers as to cause considerable alarm, and imme-
diately the hands left work. Intimation of their pro-
ceedings having been given to the authorities, a
large body of county police in several omnibuses
followed them, as did also a troop of the Ist Royal
Dragoons, several Magistrates, and General IVarre
with his staff. The military and police came up
with the mob when they were leaving the colliery
of Mr. Knowles, at Clifton Moss, where they had
turned out all the hands, pulled out the plug of
the engine boiler, and cut down the banks of
the reservoir, which would have the effect of
stopping the works effectually for some time. No
sooner did they perceive the advanced guard of the
Royals, which consisted of about half a dozen of the
company, than the mob, which then were about 300
in number, and armed with sticks and bludgeons,
scampered off in all directions. They were pursued
by the police and dragoons, and nearly sixty of them
captured, about half a dozen of whom were taken out
of a tunnel not more than a yard in diameter, where
they had concealed themselves. Most of them it
turned out were entire strangers to that neighbour-
hood, being residents of Oldham or its immediate
vicinity, a distance of at least twelve miles from the
riot. The bludgeons taken from several of the pri-
soners were produced in Court, and were of a very
formidable description, and a cane was found upon
John Bramall with a large round iron head to it.
Many of the defendants were apprehended in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the place were the mob
first dispersed on seeing the military.; others were
pursued across the fields, and taken either by the mi-
litary or police, and several were apprehended about
an hour and a-half; or two hours, after the riot.
The case for the prosecution having closed.
Mr. Green proceeded to address the jury for the
defence.

Mr. Whigham also addressed the jurypon behalf of
his clients at considerable length.
The Learned CHAIRMAN summed up the case with
great minuteness.
The jury retired, and were out of Court half an
hour, when they returned, and pronounced a verdict
of Guilty against John Bramall, John Fielding, John
Holland, John Lane, Thomas Orme, and Ralph
Taylor, and acquitted all the rest.
Mr. Hulton said, before the Chairman passed
sentence, he begged to observe, that there were other
cases to be tried of a similar nature to that.

The CHAIR➢fAN having consulted with his brother
Magistrates, said they would not sentence those con-
victed then, but they would consider what punish-
ment to inflict. The Jury had made a distinction
between some of the cases. Undoubtedly there were
a few against whom the evidence was slight, but in
other cases he did not see the 'distinction the Jury
had made. However, he did not find fault with the deci-
sion of the Jury ; but it was necessary to inform
those who were acquitted, lest they should leave the
Court with a wrong impression, that parties who
were present at any assembly collected for an un-
lawful purpose (and they could not be so ignorant as
not to know that the turnirg out hands from their
work wai illegal) were liable to be punished for
breaking the law.
The case then terminated, at eight o'clock.

MERCHANT GUILD OT PRESTON

PRESTON, MONDAY EVENING.—The festivities of
" the guild" have commenced this day under cir-
cumstances as auspicious as those of any previous
occasion. By general consent all business appeared
to be suspended, except so far as this was connected
with the festivities of the week. The Royal stand-
ard was hoisted at the top of the principal parish
church, and banners and flags floated in all directions.
Thousands of persons wended their way in all direc-
tions, and several of the lines of railroad connected
with the town put on extra trains, and will continue
so during the week. At previous guilds the occasion
has always been of much municipal interest, but the
passing of the Municipal Reform Bill, depriving the
corporation of many of its old customs and rights, re-
organised the body. The burgessess now living have
their former privileges continued and confirmed, on
being regularly renewed in the guild books, but no
new freeman can now be created or admitted, so that
in the course of a few years, when the present body
is removed by death, the legal necessity for celebrat-
ing this jubilee will no longer exist. These circum-
stances have all contributed to render the present
meeting one of considerable interest, and during the
week the town will be crowded with the elite of the
surrounding counties. Although the Premier, who is
one of the patrons, will not honour the town on this
occasion, his eldest son, Mr. Robert Peel, will be pre-
sent, having already ordered a dress for the fancy
ball, at which, as well as the other entertainments of
the week, most of the other noble patrons will attend.
The formal opening of " the guild " took place at
two o'clock at the Town-hall. From thence the pro-
cession, preceded by the band of the 60th Rifles from
Manchester, followed by halberdiers, the Mayor,
t
Re-
corder,and Vicar, and about 200 gentlemen, proceeded
tol e thega
nCorn
fittedu
p Exchange,for the L Lane-street,
of the week.e tments 9 which had been
e
The area of this latter place has been covered over,
the fittings-up and decorations being in the Tudor
style of architecture, above which are an elegant suite
of rooms for the purpose of refreshment, connected
with which is the " guild fancy fair." The effect of
the meeting in this room was very imposing. The
band of the 60th Rifles, who were stationed in a tem-
porary orchestra, having performed the national an-
them, and the chair having been taken by the Mayor,
the Recorder addressed the meeting, which consisted
of nearly a thousand persons. He said that within
almost a few years the town of Preston had arisen from
a comparatively small village to distinction as an im-
portant town, and that chiefly through the talents and
energy of that family of which the Mayor was a re-
presentative. Not only had it so been indebted to his
family, but he had recently by his courage and per-
severance preserved the peace and safety of the town
underosid
ofetrheed such m
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individualiasutrsepsisci
auspicious.
s .The Town-clerk, whopresiding at the guild he
c
sence
on this occasion officiated for the third time, next
him the customary fee
read the various charters relating to the corporation,
dafetremr
ewhh%ic,hhotshveerlelpayreosre,hßt,e;sovreder, and the several Al-
of Is. each. A Latin oration suitable for the occasion
was delivered in a very effective manner by Master
T. Humber, a pupil of the Preston Grammar School,
who was presented by the Mayor with a silver medal.
The whole of the pupils of the Grammar School after-
wards promenaded the room, and were regaled with a
sumptuous entertainment in the hall. The procession
afterwards returned in a similar manner to the Town
Hall.
ed with means
li
The town has been abundantly
supp
of recreation for the poorer classes. Chadwick's Or-
chard, the chief arena of the late distressing circum-
stances in which the town has
been placed,
with exhibitions, many of which are of a is crowded
higher order
of intellectuality than on occasionssimilarin Lon-
don or its vicinity. During the
tn orning there were
th
e own, con-
several amusements in various parts of t
sisting of cricket-matches, wrestlintrge influx of
and a boat-
match. match. There is, unfortunately, a
swell-mob men in the town, but their efforts will be
neutralised by the efforts of the county and metropo-
litan police, who are in sufficient numbers to detect
offence or prevent outrage.
_

THE CLUBS.—The Queen and Court being absent,
Pall-man and St. James's-street, are utterly deserted,
and most of the Clubhouses redolent of the paint and
scrubbing-brush. The Senior United Service Club has
undergone a complete purification, both in the interior
and exterior; and the few members whom business re-
quires to be in the metropolis are located at the club-
house at the corner of Bennet-street (late Bond's). The
Travellers' Club-house is undergoing a complete repair,
and it will be some time era their members congregate
at the accustomed spot. The salon of the Oxford and
Cambridge Club is under the hands of the decorator, but
the members are accommodated in the other wing of that
splendid building. The carpets are up at the Reform
Club, and the workmen are giving the finishing touches
to that beautiful specimen of the architectural taste of
Barry. 'The Carlton Club is having its annual purifi-
cation; and the Junior Conservative Club have removed
to 59, Pall-mall, while the temporary repairs of their
house are made; it is not expected that the Club will be
able for some time to get possession of the Old Thatched
House and surrounding premises for their new club.
The Colonial Club Lave removed to the house recently
occupied by the Parthenon Club, who have migrated
to larger and more convenient premises in Regent-street.
Herr Dobler and his wife miraculously escaped the
alarming accident which took place in Edinburgh at the
period of the Queen's procession. The Herr is now per-
forming at the Theatre Royal in that city, and will con-
tinue his entertainments during the Royal visit.
G A me.—Partridge-shooting commenced yesterday.
As the fields will be soon cleared of corn, and birds are
abundant in all directions, capital sport is anticipated.
Grouse and black cocks are very plentiful on the hills,
and in the best possible condition, but they are so wild
and strong on the wing. that it is with difficulty they can
be approached ; there is, consequently, much work for
the sportsman and small result.—Ross•shire Advertiser.
THE GREEN PARIC.---The improvements on the
site of the late Ranger's Lodge are in a state of great for-
wardness, and in a few weeks the ground will be thrown
open to the public. The workmen are now employed
in forming a new walk leading from the gate opposite
Hamilton• place, through the grounds of the late Ranger's
Lodge to the Earl of Coventry's garden, where it
branches off to the old road.
AMERICAN FLOUR.—Several cargoes of American
flour have recently entered the ports of Limerick and the
adjacent counties. No later than last week several hun-
dred sacks of flour, most excellent and prime in quality,
were discharged in Sligo.—lrish Paper.
THE STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—A few days
ago an unknown friend called upon the treasurer of tins
charity (Mr. T. Farmer), and presented him with the
munificent donation of 2001. in aid of its funds.
Th. Millerites are prophesying that the end of the
world is to be in April, 1843 ; an yet at the same time,
in this month of August, 1842, they are taking subscrip-
tions for a newspaper for one year in advance. Not bad
that.—New York Herakl.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--Circulars have just been
issued from the British Museum to all the publishers in
the kingdom, calling their attention to the new Copy-
right Act, 5 and 6 Vic., cap. 48, by which it is directed,
penalties, that a copy
under certain of every book,
pamphlet, sheet of letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart,
or plan, published within her Majesty's dominions, shall
be delivered, on its publication, at the British Museum.
The provisions of the said Act to be enforced in every
case in which any of the above-named species of publi-
cation shall not be delivered as the Act directs.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Yesterday the members
of the corps draniatique assembled On the stage at twelve
o'clock, having been convened by the stage manager,
Mr. Serle, for that hour. Among those present
were Mr. Harley, Miss Romer, Mrs. Nisbett, and
Miss Horton. It was communicated to the performers
that the theatre would not open until Saturday the
Ist of October, when the performances, as at present
arranged, would consist of Shakspeare's As You Like It,
with Mrs. Nisbett as Rosalind, and a new farce. The
entire operatic strength of the company, including
Madame Vestris, Miss Romer, Miss Norton, Miss Grant,
will be in the old English opera, by Purcell, of King
Arthur, some of the music of which was given out for
study. In consequence of the theatre opening a week
later than was anticipated, some of the principal artistes
intend to make short provincial tours.
Partridges are said to be to unusually abundant this
y
said
ear. Grouse, too, arehe above the average.
The bare fields, owing to e early harvest, offer but
slight chance of escape
to theth sportsman's prey. Birds
were so.d in Wolverhampton en Thursday at 3s. per
brace.—Sicifordshire Examiner.
It is in contemlation to have a steamer, with a
party of revenue
police on hoard,
at Killibegs, for the purpose of visiting the numerous
putting down the baneful prac-
ticeinzerick Chronicle.
islands of the coast, and
of illicit distillation.—L
THE NIGER ExrEnrrioN.—Her Majesty's steamer Al-
bert, belonging to this unfortunate expedition, was lying
at Akension prior to July 2. Her Majesty's ships
Rapid and Waterwitch were also 141% there.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—Though we never thought so ill i
of Lord Ellenborough as the Standard, which, before
his appointment to the Governor-Generalship of India
(which induced, it must be owned, a change of tone),
spoke of him as a man so low in all the requisites of a
statesman, that any Cabinet must suffer in public esti-
' oration Is hick -should commit itself with him, we yet
were under considerable alarm when the fate of India
was entrusted to him. When the Times, at the con-
clusion of a long eulogistic article, ludicrously ob-
served that " it was no ill compliment to Lord Ellen-
borough to say that he combines in a very high de-
gree the qualities which have done most to honour
the career of his predecessors"—those predecessors
being Warren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis, Lord
Wellesley, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Hastings, Lord
Amherst, Lord W. Bentinck, and Lord Auckland—
we did not refuse to give his Lordship credit for ac-
tivity and knowledge, but we at the same time re-
marked that what good qualities he possessed were
in point of utility, "greatly endangered by his singular
want of conduct and utter indiscretion • and it. the
Governor-General of India were really entrusted
with uncontrolled power—if the decision of the
great questions on which the fate of our Indian em-
pire from time to time depends, were to rest solely
with him, we should tremble at the prospect of in-
terests so vast and a policy so delicate being com-
mitted to so unsteady a guidance." Though from our
knowledge of the character of the man, we were
under considerable uneasiness with regard to his
doings in India, we were, at the same time, not
without a hope that as India contains many able and
experienced men, some of them might be able to take
him under their guidance, and thus prevent his want
of judgment from endangering our Indian empire.
We admit the danger of building on so insecure a
foundation, as that want of judgment may be ren-
derous innocuous by the judgment of others. It is
generally characteristic of men like Lord Ellen-
' borough, of considerable quickness of parts, without
judgment, that they are beset by a sort of fear of
being thought influenced by others, and,- to
) avoid being considered incapable of judging for
themselves, they take no advice. We do Lord
Ellenborough the justice to believe that he has
thought for himself. He has been his own counsellor.
Lord Ellenborough's order was in pursuance of the
dastardly policy of evacuating Afghanistan under
circumstances calculated to create, not merely in that
1 country, but throughout the whole East, an impres-
sion that our military skill and bravery had been
greatly over-estimated, and that it was only neces-
sary to emulate the Affghans to wrest from us the
sceptre of India. Fortunately for the reputation of
the country his order has been countermanded, and
the brave troops whom Ellenborough arrested in their
career to victory, will be yet allowed to vindicate in
the face of the world their title to share in the old
renown of their country's arms. But the retreat is
thereby made only less mischievous and disgraceful
than it would have been if Lord Ellenborough's
policy had been suffered to take full effect. The Go-
vernment may have atoned to a certain extent
for the misconduct of Lord Ellenborough ; it can-
not escape from the disgrace of having put it in the
power of a man like Lord Ellenborough, whose want
of judgment was notorious to every clerk at the India,
House, to compromise the safety of our Indian ern-
pir., and to expose our brave countrymen in arms to
the humiliation of a retreat before savage hordes, un-
able to meet them in the field, but able to harass them
in a hundred ways before they can re-cross the Indus.
There is no mistaking the character of the retreat.
Had Lord Ellenborough been suffered to have his
way, England would have been a by-word to the
nations. As it is, what Englishman does not feel
that Ellenborough has lowered the character of the
nation ? If, in the language of the poet, it was a
subject of boast to every Englishman,
" That Chatham's language was his mother's tongue."
it was equally felt as a disgrace that General Whit-
lock and Sir John Murray were Englishmen. And
to the latest times Ellenborough will be associated
with all that is cowardly and dishonourable in the
pages of English history.
TIMES.-'-In spite of Lord Melbourne's heartfelt
expression of hatred and disgust against " the kind of
man that gets up in his place and says, ' something
must be done," we are inclined to agree with some
of our Contemporaries that• i‘ something must be
done" with respect to the state, of the manufacturing
workmen. What the particular " something" is to
be, is indeed a highly serious question, which nobody
as yet appears especially successful in answering.
The only truth which seems to be brought home dis-
tinctly and universally is this—that there is neither
pleasure nor profit in remaining liable to such periodic
visitations as this late outbreak. The recipes are many
for calming these troubled waters for the future, but
none certainly appear very thoroughly to meet the
difficulty. A Liberal Contemporary would have it
that the mere act of repealing the' Corn-laws would
prove a sufficient and entire panacea to the diseased
state of the country—that this single act would elicit,
" as if by magic, new states and cities on each side
of the Mississippi, formed by great agricultural
communities, whose prosperity would depend upon
English commerce," and " create an overpower-
ing interest in Western America, which would at
any time find it better to separate from the Atlantic
cities than to sever or weaken its commercial con-
nexions with England." A very potent magic cer-
tainly, which would suffice to create a fresh nation of
Jonathans of this kidney—a magic 'amply sufficient
to make black white, or green gray. IVe do not
deny the poetry of the notion, so far as that attribute
can be infused into such subject-matter ; nor of its
professed corollary, that "the doom of restrictions
throughout the world will be sealed" in the hour ,
when England "declares by one great act, that her
past restrictions have been blunders, and that she has
grown great, not because of them, but in spite of
them." The wording and the sentiment are equally
impressive —we almost fancy ourselves in the
French Chamber of Deputies. But, glad as we
should be to deliver ourselves to such magnificent
visions, we must avow that we foresee some little
obstacle to their full realization in certain circum-
stances to which their author appears partially alive.
" Influential men," he says, "in America may
.be
pointed out who are favourable to restrictions in-
tended to encourage home manufacture." Unfor-
tunately they may, in the past and present history of
that country; and we believe they include pretty
nearly every statesman who has ever borne the office
of President of the United States, from Washington
downwards, who have, one after another, in their re-
corded speeches, commended the principle of protec-
tion to the adoption of their country. Nor are we
1 sanguine enough to suppose that a settled idea of so
long standing will be dispelled like a cloud by the
imposing recantation with which• it is proposed that
England shall favour the civilized world. Let us see
how the argument would stand. England, says onr
Contemporary, cannot maintain its population by agri-
culture, and is therefore compelled to force an expan-
sion of its manufacturing capabilities to the utmost
possible limit. England, it is perfectly plain, will, with
fair play, undersell any country in the world in its
own markets; and manufacture for the four quarters
of the globe. Therefore, it is concluded, let us he
no longer wanting to our destiny—let us sweep away
that protection to agriculture which answers no pur-
pose but that of inciting 'squires to throw away good
money on bad soils, and teach the world, by a glorious
example, that the prosperity of manufactures 2S not
promoted by protection. Now, we are not goinif to
Con-
temporary; with the practical conclusions of our
temporary; but we must be allowed to doubt whe-
ther our Transatlantic relatives would draw precisely
the same conclusions from those premises. There is
a distinction—not, indeed, very new, but not the less
enthusiastically adopted by many would-be manu-
facturing countries—between established and rising
manufactures—between a dominant and organised
system of capital, connexion, and machinery in the
Height of its skill and strength, arid its weakly
competitor struggling into a precarious existence
against the weight of its gigantic rival : and it is not
an uncommon notion in foreign countries, that the
policy which is plainly the wisest for one of them is
by no means the most conducive to the development
of the other ;—that while it is the interest of the one
that no check should be placed on the " expansion"
of that power, of which it has already gained pos-
session, it is necessary for the other to be lifted above
water—to be "protected" in its tender outset by
artificial means against the crushing contact of its
full-grown competitor. Some light may be thrown
on these romantic expectations from foreign, and
especially American, candour, by considering the
present state of opinion in that country respecting
English motives in the abolition of slavery. They
are fully aware, and remark in print, that that mea-
sure was carried proximately, by apopular cry, utterly
ignorant and careless of consequences ; they are aware
that our planters protested against it as ruinous to
themselves ; they are aware that our Government, in
consideration of that confessed injury, granted them
a compensation to the amount of 20,000,0001. of the
public money ; they are aware and themselves urge
that the event has corresponded with the expectations
thus professed by the planters, allowed by the Govern-
ment, and not protested against by the abolitionists—
that the value of West India property is destroyed—
that the experiment of free labour is (as a matter of
political economy) a failure. Yet, in spite of all this
plain sacrifice, they will not be persuaded that our
professed philanthropy is more or less than a deep and
selfish plan for transferring to our own East Indian
colonies all those branches of industry which are -at
present monopolized by the slave labour of the
Western hemisphere. This conviction, American.
writers tell us, has taken a firm hold on the public
mind of their country, and,it is surely sufficient to
show, that whatever estimate we make of the resat of
our commercial measures, we shall not act very 'wisely
in building so romantically upon the expectation, that
Our example will at this period of our imyl their. 40m.