Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-12-13

Of the diversity Of opinion which prevail.
IN the Cabinet on the subject Of resembling
the Corn Laws. even for temporary pur-
pose, we may mention that another meet.
ing was held, at the house Of Sir Robert
Peel, yesterday afternoon.
FAMINE EXPECTED IN ENGLAND
Hitherto the cycle Of the seasons has
befriended Sir Robert Peel. Four good
harvests in succession have filled his ex-
| chequer-flled the stomachs Of the liepes
made the nation prosperous--the PEG.
pie contented. Alas! the scene is chang.
ed-the evil day has come upon him, snd
has found him rinprepared to face it,
Famine, gaunt, horrible, destroying Tam.
ine-seems impending. Fears have seiz-
ed the public mind. In Ireland matters
look appalling, in England gloomy. The
granaries of the continent are exhausted.
The corn fields Of the Vistula snd Danube
and the Elbe, are barely sufficient for the
local wants Of the inhabitants. The ma
ton in comlnotion, and the cry of ssOpen
the ports and let in corn, duty freer'
is heard ON all sides, reverberated from
every part Of the empire. The "pressure
from without" has made itself heard in
Dawning street; and faith in the sliding
scale-Peel's sliding scale--is gone fol
ever. A third of the potatoe crop in Ire
land is destroyed. The Government has
sent scientific professors to the scene Of
the mischief and the awful truth is out
that this large portion of the peoples food
the esculent that Goblet abhorred--is
unfit for use. What is to be done ii this
terrible, this unlocked for emergency?
"Open the ports!'is the exclamation; and
there stands the shivering Premier, like a
reed in the wind, paralized between his
affection for his sliding scale and the hor-
rors ofof a public famine. There he is,
balancing the pros and cons. But neces-
slty is superior to consistency, superior
even to law, the ports must be opened
O'Conne!l, who assumes to be the tribute
OF the Irish people, goes beyond this
lie demands grant of public money to the
extent of million and half to be expend-
ed in the purchase Of food-he calls for a
tax of fifty per cent on the absentees,
and tax Of ten per cent on the residents
he asks for the prohibition Of corn and
provisions leaving the island the pre-
vention of distilleries consuming grain
Large demands these-will they be con-
ceeded9 A day or two will solve the
question; and in the meantime speculation
will find margin for the, exercise C its
ingenuity. -
The sliding scale-that cunning scheme
to make food artifcially dear-is in the
crisis of its fate-Swept away now, as il
will be, its remposition, with the views
which the public entertain, and which con-
servative and even agricultural members
have tardily adopted, will be found impos.
slble. 1t is gone forever.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY REVULSION
The railway mania has received cuie.
tbs. Something like panic has overta.
ken the SPECTATORS in iron highways
Now that the reaction has come, it brings
in its train ruin end devastation, and bank.
ruptcy to thousands. But the end is moi
yet. A more gigantic system of Swind.
ling has rarely been seen in these latter
days, and the number of respectable per.
sons who have lent their names to suppbr,
bubble companies, makes us blush for The
cupidity Of common humanity. The tines
has been foremost in the work of eflutter.
ing the Volcians." 1t matters little wha,
motives may have prompted the potentate.
Of Pfinting-house Square to sound the toe
sin; whether jealousy of their contempo
raries or vexation that they did not bar.
ticipate, equally in the spoil, or deter
Eination to destroy the game Of those VIII,
did-all this is beside the question. "W,
try the act, the motive Heaven can Judee?'
The only regret is, that it was not don,
sooner. But certain it is, that The Times
true to its character of seizing the RICH
moment for acting upon fears, or control
lingthe public mind, kicked the beam a
the critical instant, and to some exten
produced the revulsion which is now wit
messed. But without desiring to under
value the power and influence Of the Jour-
nal in question, it would be weak to at
tribute the prostration in the share mar
ket solely to its thunder.
The Bank Of England, the critical stat
in which the food Of the country has bee
placed by the harvest, and the state Of til
potato crop; above all, and beyond all, III
ridiculous experiments which the project
ors Of the tlumberless moonshine compa
MES made upon the common sense of mar
kind-these causes, irrespective Of the di
} urnal monitor, have forced the declensio
to its present point. The wreck Of fo,
tune and character which temporary in
sanity has produced, will be, felt long ate
tie causes that produced it have passe
away. As proof of the extent to whic
this huge system of swindling has bee
carried, it mey be mentioned, that even Ii
dies were not exempt from its influence
{ The female friends and relatives Of tho.
who pulled the wires Of certain imposir
) puppet schemes, were in the daily habit
haunting the purlieus and offices Of Il
share brokers in the Metropolis, to wat.
) the market, in order to turn their lette
) Of allotments to the best account! One
the railway papers mentions batch Of {
: male Spectators who contrived to realiz
$ by this kind Of chicanery, during the he
e OF the mania, the astonishing sum Of f5O(
: 900.
Q The appropriation ofthe property Of OF
e Iers by fraud or Misrepresentation, is pr
Il nounced felony by the law of The lar