Star.
London, England, 1830-04-14 00:00:00

MINISTERS AND THE SEASONS.

Every one must be aware that the actual misers,:
of poverty and want must be greater in winter than st
summer ; and that in such a winter as we have jos
emerged from, the sufferings of cold and hunger must
have been greatly enhanced; but it is an impious mockery
for people to be told that they are to look to a change sS
season as the only alleviation of evils which their ruleli
hare brought upon them, and which their rulers could, a
they pleased, in a great measure 'move. The bounties of
Providence we all know the value of ; but it is not the
duty of man, first to thwart those bounties, and then
to appeal to them as the refuge of those from whom
they are, in a great measure, intercepted. That an
abundant harvest will greatly alleviate the sufferings
of the people no one can doubt ; nor is it less certain
that another deficient, or bad one, would plunge them
mill deeper in ruin and despair. But it is the duty
of those who wield the destinies of nations to provide
against such contingencies as the last—not to depend
wholly upon the uncertainty of the first. Would am
man have believed that, at the end of 15 years of peace,
this once-prosperous country could have been reduced to
such a pass as to have the existence of its population de•
pending upon the change and state of the seasons ? Y
such, or very near it, must be our state, when the main
consolation which the organs of the Government can hold
out to the people is, that when Nature puts on the livery
of Spring, they may stand a chance to smile too. What
a hand-to-mouth life must a nation lead that depends
upon this sort of logic for its main political consolation!
We would warn the Government and the Legislature
against trusting to such a life of expediency as this; for
let their reliance upon the seasons but fail, and then, ac-
cording to their own doctrine, there is a limit to the
powers of human endurance. No, much as the bounties
of Providence may benignly aid the efforts of man, it is
the business of the latter, in a political capacity, to place
the affairs of nations beyond the mere contingencies of
seasons ; awl it must be quite clear to all who look calmly
and impartially to the causes of our present distress, that
though the hand of Providence may, in its mercy, relieve
us, it is to the errors of our Rulers that we owe them,
and that it is to a retracing of those errors that we have
a right to look for permanent relief.:—Morning Herald.

[lt is at all sinus most gratifying to us to find our opinions and
sentiments corroborated by the independent and intelligent portion of
our corm mporar es ;—and we have selected the foregoing article &ow
the Alorniny Herald, as affording a striking instance of the wind.
deuce of thought and feeling which the consideration of the same
subject has elicited, in the observations of the Herold of this day,
and in our comments of Monday, upon the comparative tendency of
two ankles, the first of which appeared in the Age, and the second in
the Intelligence of Sunday last: —We then said it does. seem " use.
less to discuss the causes" of an apparent, and at best a very incest.
siderable, increase, which is so alarmingly counterbalanced by the
ruinous certainty of such a falling. )ff. And yet, in the face of la.
controvertible facts, such as would warrant even more startling anti.
cipations than " the AGE" has put forth, we see the " March of MI-
, material INTELLIGENCE" indicated by the sagacity of political
economists, who can ascribe all our calamities to " the state of the
weather"—and censure those who are honest enough to proclaim to
the world that " BI rwirrnis and not THE SEASONS" are to blame."
If the " INTELLIGENCE," even on the faith of such " °Erie.

communkations," as he loves to boast of, will point out to us any on-
" measure of minister,'" which has had " an influence in promoting
favourable returns, without at the same time increasing the burthcn►
of tuation,"—..we pledge ourselves not only to forego all opposition
to them, but