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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

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SIR ROBERT PEEL'S LETTER AND THE

ELECTIONS

(From Fraser's Magazine for August.)
Did Sir Robert Peel's measure with respect to the
Corn-laws really tend to relieve the distress which fell
upon the country ? Was it not the necessary result of a
change from a fluctuating to a fixed duty, rather to en-
hance than to diminish the price of the necessaries of
life in the hour of need ? Under the old law, corn no
sooner rose to an average price of seventy shillings than
the duty ceased. Under Sir Robert Peel's act, it was
liable to a duty of four shillings, over and above the mar-
ket price of the grain, be that what it might. Can as-
loran,- go much further, then, than the writer of the
rth lett, r has carried it, when he claims credit to
fbr s. nR," a measure involving the ultimate
• tiL placed food within the reach of
:rving p, ? iar is this from being the fact, that
4.1 of the ,ensures of 'Lord John Russell's admini-
.ration w• to suspend the Peel law, and suspended it
aas cont; Red to be ever since. Think of this man
boasting lout exploits, from which no human being has
slightest benefit, from which no human being
Li be benefited to the end of time !
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first n

e been good in themselves, or
t is a question in which, for the
)t interested. They are gone, and pro-
a statesman worthy of the name in the
ns of reviving them. But if they were
)bert Peel is responsible for all the evil
done ; for, besides that he was their
vocate for more than a quarter of a century,
ig method of repealing them after he did make
d to follow in the footsteps of the League, ren-

up his ni
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their transition state more mischievous
ever were while in full vigour. Nor is this all.
that the time had come for repealing them ; M-
T argument's sake, that Mr. Cobden was right,
hike of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, and
elbourne wrong ; was it, therefore, necessary for
me minister not only to stultify himself, while
ling his party, but to drag through the mire such
Mr. Goulburn, Lord Aberdeen, and even the
Waterloo himself Why did they consent to be-
s tools ? Why did a mistaken notion of loyalty -
vas never shaken—prompt them to recall their re,
as after they had once sent them in, and aid him

lowing

condemned even while they took part in it ?
If Sir Robert Peel intends his letter shall serve as a
Dint round which men shall gather. for the purpose of
ming a party distinct from that of Lord John Russell
he one hand, and Lord Stanley on the other, we beg
him that he has egregriously mistaken the tern
the people of England. Read it will be, read it
cry political circle; but if we may judge
effect upon other men's minds from the impression
which it has made upon our own, the writer has not risen
`he estimation of any of them, but fallen. For our-
-"e can say with truth, that we bore with Sir Robert
-,nd patiently, and experienced the utmost dis-
-.anon to fall off. from him to the last moment : but
All that feeling is at an end now. He has shown himself,
in his Letter to the Electors of Tamtvorth, to be without
orinciple whatever ; indeed his protestations of

Peel lon

seem to convict him of a readiness to betray them. Nor
has he alone, of the members of his cabinet, contrived
to destroy, at the end of the session, whatever of prestige
they may have carried about them during its progress.
Sir James Graham has thought fit to come out in the
character of a reviler of the Church. His attack upon
the bishops has done him more damage than his opposi-
tion, however misplaced, to the erection of the see of
Manchester : and it will not be forgotton, we beg to as-
sure him, in a hurry. Indeed, we have good cause to be-
lieve, that if Mr. Goulburn lose his seat for the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, and Mr. Gladstone fail of winning his
for the University of Oxford, both the one and the other
will owe his defeat, much more to the fact that they sat
weir

in the same cabinet with Peel and Graham
shortcomings, whatever these may be.
We are no Whigs. We anticipate little from the pre-
sent Government ; except a series of blunders ; for they
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are confessedly, one and all, the worst men of business
that ever undertook the management of public affairs.
But were the necessity of choosing between them and the
return to power of Peel and Graham forced upon us, we
should infinitely prefer the Whigs. Let us hope, how-
ever, that better men than either are to be had, and we
look anxiously to the general election for supplying them.

A PRIVILEGE REPUDIATED !—ln the reign of Edward
the First, the Town of Ross, Herefordshire, sent mem-
bers to Parliament, but the privilege was relinquished
upon petition of the inhabitants, and has never since been
resumed. Probably the electors had to pay their repre-
sentatives for their services, and hence determined to do
without them.

THE RACE NOT FOR THE SWIFT BUT THE LOVING.—
lt is death in Lapland to marry a maid without her pa-
rents' consent ; wherefore if one bear an affection for a
maid, upon the breaking thereof to her friends, the
fashion is that a day is appointed for her friends to be-
hold the two parties run a race together. The maid is
allowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the
race, so that it is impossible, except willing of herself,
that she should be overtaken. If the maid outrun her
suitor, the matter is ended, it being penal for the man to
renew the mention of marriage. But if the virgin hath