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rality, which is observed in
1"1, ;. rl.ll

public life

_ s mere chattels ;
and ought not to be allowed to he used for the

pool, are not to

ere adva
In this

ncement of politic

tate of r
reptprl +.n

)inion attention was

we have either commerce, manufactures, or a mo-
nied interest to retain the services of his scurrilous
pen. It is the same policy which is being pursued
by every rising nation in the world, and which,
when there is energy in the people, as in the case
of the United States. is rapidly enabling them to
approach that condition, in which they will be ena-
bled to rely for every necessary of life upon their
own unaided industry. It is the policy advocated
by all the great statesmen of the present and past
generations, when this kingdom was ruled by gen-
tlemen ; before we had learnt to prostrate our intel-
lect before the politico-economical dogmas of the
Scotch doctors, or imbibed the crude and levelling
tees be at once theori

n of a fitting can-

seat, should

I to of

as if by common

consent, ti

airman of

Uhamber of
, Esq. In thi

Commerce

omas Berry Hors-

appy to observe

eh have up till now so

fatally divided the

Te at once ti

ative party in the town,
e, every section of that
rson of Mr. Horsfall the

party recognising in ti

Candidate most certain tci contest the field success-

resent mer

rst earnestly,

call upon the
. Let

,ency to be up

assers actively at work

s picked up at second-band in commercial
rooms, and propounded to the world, as their own
discoveries, by quondam bagmen and promoted
sweepers of calico warehouses.

ar in r

Dw is the opportu-
-of relieving this

,orough from Whig,

at the same time,

And what, let us ask, is the experience which we
have bad of the system which the Times would
urge us to adhere to as something superhumanly
excellent ? The experience of a period of be
five or six years only, during which, one after ano-
ther, every class of the corn rnnnity has had to pass
through a probation of unparalleled suffering ; and
at the close of which the very men who inaugu-
rated such system are compelled to lay down office,
because they cannot satisfy the universal " impa-
tience of taxation" which their policy has caused.
The country, it is clear, will not consent to pur-
chase a safe extension of our free trade policy at
the price of a continuation of the income tax. It
repudiates the necessity of devoting a portion of
its surplus revenue to the liquidation of the na-
tional debt. To carry out some sweeping change,

and to the con-

a empire, a

great moral

twee n

No observing man can no%

ntertain a doubt

that a m (

and in t

N\T
too, is

'e do not refer

to a poll.

s country

ar, if it may

We do not r

s, although that,
t be said to have

trial. or a

'er to an intim-

What we r

igh both appear

ligious

be called upor

Dint to is a great re-
iggle; in which the

if we

o decide, peaceably
a hand

bared to ff

I required,

a its Protestant

and its

inst the insolent

is liberties

pretensions, and the encroachinf

spirit, of a system
I to decelope itself

n anowe

fully i

portion of the world

thout

producing

al despotism

once men, created by
ttle lower than the

angels," were prostrated to a position scarcely
above that of the unreasoning "beasts that perish."
During th

and-twenty years we have
ing bulwark after bulwark
Weak

een engaged in rer

of the Protestant faith in t

ealms

rising statesmen have been opening, one
after another, the floodgates, and admitting the
tide of Popery into our land. Liberalism and
Conservatism have vied with each other in inviting
sting the insidious aggressions of this
power; whilst the bulk of the nation have
their danger, and have stood calmly
nmersed only in the anxiety to

and ten

and tole:

ig On

Drshipping new

gods. The -writings of the political economists
have been our Bible ' • calicoes and woollens, im-
ports and exports, hare been nearer to our daily
thoughts than the cultivation of religion and lofty
principle ; and the true happiness, the healthy
mind and body, the temporal and eternal welfare of
of our people, have been weighed as a
the balance, as compared with the reali-
heapness. But
watchful, and

a portion of the community might possibly be in-
duced to submit a little longer to that inquisitorial
tax ; but no safe and moderate financial measure
will tempt them to do so.
We may, however, assure the Times that what-
ever men may take the reins of Government at the
present juncture, he is not like:y to have his tem-
per ruffled by anything in the shape of a " protec-
tionist imposture." Perhaps, however, he will be
made to learn that the country will not tolerate a
continuance of agricultural persecution. Possibly,
too, he may find, before many moons are over, that
the moderate men of his own party will not be
disinclined to discuss the question whether such a
revenue duty upon foreign corn as would not ma-
terially advance the price of food might not enable
a Chancellor of the Exchequer to remit or reduce
some other imposts which at present press most
severely upon the consuming classes. At all events
this will be done when the community shall have
come a little more to their senses.

THE budget, and that novelty under Whig legis-

feather in

f our wo

roper,

is never s

never re

:ing its effor

—in adversity " crawling
•pent," and as it gathered

is belly like the

strength rearing up its head in proud anticipation
of coming triumph,—that dark apostacy has been
steadily progressing towards the goal of its ambi-
tion ; and what feeble-minded statesmen have
designated as its recent
but the challenge—the

insolent aggres

sion" is

gage thrown down— for a

lation—a surplus revenue—have been the death. of
Lord John Russell's Government. We can imagine
the mingled puzzle and delight beaming upon the
countenance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
as he sat down to deal with his unexpected two
millions; how gravely he weighed every claim made
upon his generosity ; how nicely he divided and
subdivided the sum at his disposal ;—laid down a
plan and then pulled it to pieces again, until, at
length, the happy point was hit, and the great
production—which was to immortalize the name
of Wood—lay revealed in its perfect proportions
before his vision. Proud, doubtless,was Sir Charles
of the result of his cogitations ; proud as was that
maternal bird, to which the facetious Punch has
irreverently likened him, of its one chick. But,
alas for the blindness and ingratitude of men !

The world rwned and sd at the fruit of the
—.illy do we believe that neither the pre-
Chancellor'fs o
incubation.coffe Rude people pecked at it
dent government—if, indeed, we can at this moment
be said to possess one—the present race of states- on every side, as saucy sparrows peck at a stray bird
men, nor the great majority of the British nation, of gaudier plumage than their own. Its superlative
are fully alive to the real extent of the peril which wisdom was unrecognised by the million ; and the
we have brought against ourselves. A small sec- first budget of 1851 is already numbered with the
tion amongst us—and a very small one it is— unremembered multitude of Whig efforts at legis-
venture to hope that the petty measure introduced lotion, untimely strangled. Under such circum-
by Lord John Russell will suffice to meet the pre- stances, need we wonder if Sir Charles Wood were
sent emergency. Another set of politicians, of the to retire in disgust, not from office alone, but from
ultra-liberal class, would have us adopt no measure public life altogether ? The age is not worthy of
of repression at all. A third and most pretentious his eminent financial talents.
class would attempt to save the land, and the Pro- We would not advise Sir Charles to take so
testant church of our p , fathers, from the encroach- desperate a step • for, unfortunately ;leis secession
i
ments of Rome, by infusing into the formularies
would deprive the world of the valuable services of
and the doctrines of that church as much as possi- the Greys, the Elliotts, and their numerous progeny,
ble of the mummeries and the erroneous doctrines handy in any situation, and especially punctual in
of Rome. The masses of the people, however, and their attendance on quarter days. What could
especially the middle classes, are sound at
the colonies do without their present sweet-tem-
heart; but, alas ! they are disorganised, without pered Earl? What would Pio Nono think of
-enknised leaders—without a definite policy. The England, deprived of the eminent diplomatic ser-
al treacheries of the past few years have bro- vices o f Minto ? What, above all, would the brood
..Q„ up all unity of action amongst them, and o f Elliotts do for a living, the doors of office being
aught them that it is unsafe to put their trust in irrevocably slammed in their faces ? We almost
tatesmen.
shudder at the thought.
It 'er, too late to repair the past.. The questions, however, of most vital urgency
ie Protestant majority of the British nation may now are—to what new hands shall we commit the
b tabled t !rcise their just influence in task of governing the country, and what is to be
!cting the nation's affairs, an otecting their
their policy. The first will probably he solved be-
.
estant church and their civil and religious fore these remarks are placed before our readers.
rties, alike from assault from without, and With respect to the second, all that we can make
.
treachery from within, their borders. To effect sure of is, that their financial measures must he of
this, they must lay aside for the moment the ques- a totally different character to those announced in
tion of free trade or protection, as mainly intlu- . the recent never-to-be-forgotten budget of Sir
encing them in the exercise of political and civil Charles Wood. An obtuse public cannot be made
''nns. They must not allow themselves to be to see the propriety of allowing themselves to be
—noningly--devised financial operations, saddled for three years longer with an iniquitous
7,ets. What they require at the income-tax, to enable a Chancellor of the Exche-
a Government and a House of quer to play at ducks and drakes with the money,
sound constitutional men, or to fool it away upon petty reductions of duties
au resolute to maintain the Protestant on chicory, : gricultural seeds; foreign timber, or
trumpery modifications of the window-tax. The
institutions of the country against all aggression,
blic are absurd enough to think that there is still
from whatever quarter it may come. Shall we be
room in our fiscal system for. the successful efforts
told that such a Parliament must, of necessity, be
o f a great statesman ; that, if tolerated at all, the
wanting in administrative talent ? Is the intellect
income. and property tax ought to he made to press
of the Protestant nobility and gentry of this empire
equitably upon. those who pay it; that the duty
so stunted, that we cannot dispense with men who
upon many articles of consumption might be modi-
have graduated through the hacknied paths of
fied, and that the duty on tea, for.example, might be
office, in an atmosphere of red tape and sealing
reduced at least 100 per cent., without any ultimate
wax ? We do not believe that we need jump to
loss to the revenue, but with incalculable benefit
any of these conclusions. The preSence of sound
to the consumer and advantage to the export trade
principle is not, of necessity, concurrent with the
of the. country. Such is the generally received im-
absence of talent of the very loftiest order. Sound
pression of
.what the financial policy of the country
principle, en the contrary, is the surest guarantee
ought to be, if we. are. to act on the principles of
of that straightforward and only safe course of
Free-trade ;
.an. and it will require to be followed by
action in statesmen, which the present emergency
whatever ministry may be formed to succeed the
of the nation demands; whilst mere administrative
defunct government of Lord John Russell.
or parliamentary cleverness leads invariably to those
With respect to another great question,—the
utilitarian and expediency subterfuges, the conse-
question of the measures to be taken to put down
quinces of which in our recent legislation we have
the aggression of the Papal see,—we can only ex-
enuch cause to deplore. press an opinion that it cannot be shirked. Popery
may bully as it will ; but the country will not
tolerate for an hour anything short of the full car-
rying out of the will of the Sovereign, as expressed
in the speech from the throne.

life or death strt

politic,

is not, howel

the Protestant majority of

directing the nation

or clap-trap bud

present
Cor

ons composed of

'nest a

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A STRANGER to our country, unacquainted with
the political changes of the last few years, on
perusing the ribald attacks upon the agricultural
interest, which appear from time to time in the
columns of the Times, would very probably- be led
to the conclusion, that the classes dependent upon
the cultivation of the soil were a mere handful of
the community, and an incubus upon the energies
of the toiling or scheming majority. He would
imagine them drones in the hive, seeking to be
kept at the expense of the nations' industry ; a
ecuzn of filthy and lazy Lazzaroni, claiming to be

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, KIRKDALE.—The seventh of
the fortnightly sermons, exposing the corruptions of the
Church of Rome, now delivering at Kirkdale Church, was
preached on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. D. James,
incumbent. The subject, according to previous announce-
ment, was—" The five spurious sacraments of the Church
of Rome." The sermon occupied an hour and a half in
delivery. Afterwards a collection was made in aid of the
Church Pastoral Aid Society, amounting to £l5 4s. Gd.