Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-04-02


The late foreign news is highly imp rrtant ndica-
ting changes in the internal and external policy of
the English Government, so peculiar, and we might
say radical in their character, To demand the
serious and thoughtful consideration of the Cavern
ment OF the United States. The return to princi-
Piles of free trade, devoutly wished for by Lords
Lansdown, Liverpool, Brougham and others, has at
length commenced. Sir Robert Peel, in his great
financial scheme, proposes The continuance Of the in
come tax, in orter thai the government may consul
mate it's new policy of commerce and fiscality, by
relieving the intercourse of the worl and the inter-
Is Of her own subjects from long and unwsey con-
tinued restrictions and expressions. He proposes
ga total repeal Of the mpolltic duty on cotton wool,
repeal OF the entire taxes ons exports, including
that GOALS" Sh,ud lie coed in Establishing
his me asures and harmonIZng with them the move
mens Of their vast pei teal machinery, how'w The
United States and other nations Of The world he at
lected in their private interests and public policy
There some amongst us, who, under the influence
Of business connections with English merchants or
controlled by the early and unfortunate bias of an
cesiral pre- udice 10 our republican institutions,
think that English statesmen are always nallible,
the policy of that nation always enlarged and enghl-
ened, and that Of our own always contracted and
perverse Now EngIa offers her ports to the pro-
ducer of cotton; when her policy IL restrictive it Is
said should retaote. when it is The reverse should
recprocats. Are not sound principles oil free
trade being every where desseniDat ted, adopted and
administered by nearly every powerful natio on The
Guhe, and incorporated into International c0Hpac,s
treaties. commercial eagu and assoc iations? Eng
land has moved, and must move with or counter
to her. Her flag that floats in every breeze and is
unured in eyary cline, is empazbned with the mot
of her policy, Stree trade" and the sackles Of
her commercial, mechanical manui curing and agri-
cultural interests being removed, and the beauti
Jul science Of government is being appreciated and
administered.
Again, the modification fthe duties on sugar. and
the discus sIons thereon drew from Lord John Russe
the declaration that "a distinction between areinn
free absr and foreign slave labor, sugar is Imprac'i
cable and illusory," and from MIR. James, of the
House OF Commons, that ''those who once advocated
emancipation, now seemed TO regard cheap sugar as
of more value than human freedom" Here then we
have direct proposition in one instance, and
clear intimaton in another that Eng land wishes ond
will repud her determination to emancptte sla-
very Throughout, the W. rid, and her long continued
burlhens upon planting and agricultural INTERESTS
To This she has been induce |, doubtless. the AN.
tcipated success Of our measure Of anne aion ex-
lending our boundaries, augmenting our resources,
streng hening our community Of interests, AS well as
by the election ec Mr. Polk to the Presidency, with
his well balanced policy and prudent intentions. O.