The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-23
Correspondence of the Journal Of Commerce.
LONDON, Jan. Sd.

LONDON, Jan. Sd.
Incendiarism still continues its frghtfu xcesses
whist the torch is held by haggard CANT
spair. The awful distress prevails, in the mt
ropolis as we'll as in the provinces and it is TO be
feared that its increase is as certain as il will be m
pid Every day, and evsry newspaper, bring add
onal details ofthe most horrible desttutoa and all
accounts agree that there is remedy for such aw-
full calamiies. Private benevolence has done its du
~ and there have been more lareesses bestowed du-
ring this Christmas than have been renemt cred for
half century the public charities, too, have ex
tended their bo,ns, and expended heir phian hropy
but the cry is heard "give"' give" 'give" and the
plninlivc wall of he widow and maiden, thrills upon
the heart she ceases from her wearisome toll OF
m aking shirts for farthing each. Deaths from
hunger have furnished the c0roners with inouests,
but Died of alrophy is the high ounding nam. given
TO demlses IN the bills Of mortality.
The government holds on its course in the midst
OF these sad events with, ut making effort for their
palliaton, OF even giving the community a promise
that they shall be dny considered by the cabinet and
some remedy entertained. Bot in three weeks Par
Lament will have assembled and then the distress of
the country must occupy great share offs atten-
tlon In VAIN will Sir )ber Peel try TO get rid OF
the fearful subject by few c0ndollng phrases and
common place abstr actions Bnd his home sec, etary
Sir James Graham, will be permitted TO cant with
mpunly about ying in the face Of Providence by at
tempting to legsiste for individual distress. With
ten millions OF pauPers IN the kingdom, such petty
objections permitted t. have any force against mo-
ton invoking remedy for evils so dire and sppul-
ling But legislators here are formed of an e1 elusive
class, they have never felt want and peehance
will, and 1t Is difficult and dangerous task
deavor to pc suade Il EN- that deep seated misery will
not mend Of itself This has been the doctrine and
panacea Of every PREMIER for the last twenty years
and long he finds lis echo in ma iority of Par
iamenary supporters, what he for the sugg =
tons OF le opposition, or the hopes and imploraiions
Of FINISHED people
Connected with this point is the movement Of the
Anti-Corn Law League, with its leaders of "stern
stuif, andswbo bid fair upset the old system of
merely taking glance at calamities. They are re-
solved that the distress of the country shall be cons.
dered, not chatted over that it shall not be delbe-
rated upon not derIded. But in the present parlia-
ment Notwithstanding all their efforts nothing will
be done, beyond demonstrating this fact that the
succe ssor to the existing House Of Commons will be
elected to do the bidding of the people, that Of
the premier.
Mr.. Golden and Mr.. Bright have been progressing
throughout the country, and with the exception of
some patry and pitiful interruptions from Charism.
under auspices the most desirable and exhila
They have hid meetings in the principal towns Of
the north of England, and have collected large sums
towards the League Fund, Of hundred tho,fsa nd
pounds sterling Already more than half that amount
has been subscribed and the remainder is sure of be-
ing collected.
The monopolist party are much cnraged al this
Pro-Corn Law Leagues are TO be established. and n
we are to believe the ultra papers, tho advocate
lection, the Manchester confederation i. to be .peed
lily crushed You, OF course will credit nothing of
the KIND but rely with certainty that the AnliC
Law League must finally triumph The mode in
which this body Is proceeding is proof positive to
me that the mission Of its leaders cannot fail. and
when you consider that with them is banded great
wealth, and the most powerful intellect combined
with energy and perseverance, of character perfect
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doubt upon the subject of to have the slight
est hold upon the Imagination
The plans which they have adopted for coptestinp
every vacancy for the House of Commons are now
thoroughly matured and Mr.. Golden at one of his
meetings, declared that the Duke Of Ruck;nohan
was to be combatted in his closest family boroug
rumor was prevalent, the other day, that a yacan
cy was likely to occur IN a northern borough a bv
that nights post five thousand publications of the
League were distributed to the electors.
Great activity prevails in the naval dock wards
throughout the country and the British navy yyca,
as II now Is, will be powerfully augmented IN the
course OF the year. There 10 line ofbattlc .hip. IA
frigaes, ~ slops OF war and IL steam now
building. In addition to this new force the Iorr NJ
the Admiralty have ordered fourteen iron
70 ee oun' 'or 'he purpose OF carrying dispatches,
and TO be used as tenders with engines of one HIM
drcd and fifty horse power. Two largest class steam
rigstes are to be built expressly for each Covern
men port, to be manned from the flag ships stationed
there, and to act entirely for the defence of IN,
coast need not point out the deep Importance of
this extraordinary and gigantic naval movement
have previously alluded TO the spirit which b,.
animated the Repeal poetry, and told you how mpor
tant an item II forms in the monster indictment
have also cmphaticsly declared that the poet woud
not be put down by prosecution, and that the ys,,
effort made legally to fctier him would only be fol.
lowed by augmented hatred, and an accumuiative r..
tensiy oflosthiug and Jetcstation Take the follow
ing, for instance, from the Freeman's Journal and
from the pen Of Mr. r. Stanton, as corrobora,iyc oe
my belief, conclusive a. to the snmus Of The ,vr.
and as proud proof Of the whitening .scorn. con
tempt, and defiance with which her MsIes,y's Attor.