The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-28

TO commence profitable trade in breadstuti.
and vegetables, tut because having no longer q
m odel to look to- they will lose confidence In them
selves, and despair Of setting the fashion. Now
do not hope to see all these expectations realized Ia
the course OF the next ten years; but to the faithful
believer in historical truth and Justice is comfort
TO see the elements in motion, which, III their last
| combination, must produce the long looked for re-
suit, This, you may depend on, il the beginning
Of the end. We may not see the end; but even the
beginning ofsueh drama interesting and instructive
to young people like ourselves. IL will strengthen
and confirm US in our political faith, in spite of the
taunts of our would-be European instructors, and
the lugubrious forebodings Of our own timid men.
The cause Of liberty 10 one all over the WORLD but
the English have tried to make it a monopoly for o
privileged class and privileged country. The alb
clifton Of the corn-law is essentially an American
measure; for such is the irony of fate that England
all the while she Is trying TO hamper our progress,
is contributing by her politics, her industry, and
her people, 10 our national greatness IL is our cot
ton production which has given such an immense
impetus TO her manufactures, and which, by IN
creasing the power of her industrious classes, has
curtailed that OF her mobiles. When the corn.laws
shall be repealed England will be dependent on US
for food and raiment. .
For, we must not for moment imagine that the
continental tariffs will abaie in consequence Of the
British ports being opened TO grain; on the contrary,
necessity viii compel the people the continent 10
fasrease them, 10 compete with the cheap manufac-
taros OF England. The amount of capital already
invested in manufactures is too large for the Ger
mans the French, the Russians, or the Belgians to
confne themselves again 10 agtcultureI but after the
abolition OF the corn-aws nothing but prohibye
tariff will 10 the continental manufacturer his
home markets We alone, therefore, will reap the
benefit Of the trade growing out of that abolition;
and it Is perhaps a duty we ourselves not to
tie our hands al this moment with too many treaties
the object of which consists in advantages
mutually granted TO navigation. We can lose nothing
by waiting, unless stipulaions made with re-
gard 10 great staples, such contained in the
treaty concluded with Russia and Naples A treaty
without any sucH stipulation bargaining r,.reIp fol
reciprocity OF navigation, is on the part Of the Uni
ted States mere nudnn paciuri; for there is
ton Of Europe, besides England, which with its
span Of coast can offer us reciprocity in that re-
spect Let the talents Of our diplomatiss in Europe
therefore, be not oyerrated
We have thus far dates from America to the LIST
Of December, and the Presidents message has not
yet arrived. IL has, however, been completely
foreshadowed by the Washington Union, that its
probable contents are pretty well anticipated. Not
withstandlhg this, the papers, without distinction of
party, preserve disnihed silence on the subject,
W. ich, indeed, might have been expected from the
extracts furnished in my last. Lord John Rus
sell, am credIby informed, is quite psacesbly in
cned; II he have but the least political forecast he
cannot but see that a war with the United States
would necessarily riyet the chains of the English
people. w purity may como III now, VIII De
obliged to preserve peace to get safely through the
internal revolution, The patient requires rest above
all things, and not such violent remedies ss bleeding
and cupping. He is not plehoric; the poor creature
requires food.
You have seen, from the public prints, in what
manner OConnell has received the news of the
resignation of the Peel ministry, and the conditions
on which he is ready to support Lord John Rus
sells administration. He demands much, and does
well in doing so; but he is too shrewd man to suf
fer real benefits to escape him for the sake Of doubt
full ones a distance. He will take what he can
and keep dunDing for the rest In this manner will
he advance the interests of Ireland without dimin-
shing his score against the Saxon Parliament
The French, Of all people, are the most alarmed
at the overthrow Of the Peel ministry. The Queen
of England had already accepted an invitation to
visit Paris in the course Of the ensuing summer SO
that the entente cordiae cemented to the stick
ing point and Guizo, in spite of the reverses of
the French army in Africa, preserved for another
session, when the unfortunate news reached Paris.
"Will there be warS' was the first question asked
by the spectators. Will not Lord Pamers,on, the
pert, forward, meddesome cupidon, as Princess Lie
ven baptsed him, involve France in new intricate
questions? Palmerston, while on the opposition
benches upbraided the good old Earl of Aberdeen
who was so fierce to Baron de Buown Berlin, and so
gentle to Mr. Gulzo in Paris for trucking to France
grave charge this, on the part of an ex-minister,
against minister in being; the recollection Of
which was sufficient to effect decline in the French
funds. | believe, myself, that Guzot's days are
numbered; and that one knows precisely what is
10 become of the administration of Monsieur
Theirs, in spite of the panegyric of the man by
Lord Brougham
Theirs has, as yet, proved himself bungling
statesman To him France is indebted for the Sep
tember laws, and for the Notifications Of Paris; he
was never more than a journalist. Were it not for
the Feueton, for the eternal novels of Eugene
Sue and Alexander Dumas, in five, six, and ten
b,,th he, rnn 10
whether that redoubtable organ OF the political his
torlan would find sufficient number Of subscribers
to pay the cost. 1t is, however, rumored that re-
Cancellation between Palmerston and Theirs has
taken place, which renders friendly understanding
no longer probIematical. | trust it may be so.
Meanwhile the Courier Francois has made inn
portant discoveryviz that both the British and
claims to Oregon nugatory, France being the
only power that has right to it. Would il not,
under the circumstances, be good thing to make
France umpire between Great Britain and the Uni
ted Statesi There never was grasping people
as the French of the present day, notwithstanding
many valuable things escape from out Of their
hands.
The French journals are already amusing them
selves with sarcasms at the expense Of their new
premier. yesterday" says one Of them, zone
hundred lanterns seen at the Place St. George
(the dwelling of M. Thiers) attached to carriages,
which contained at least fifty modern Diogcnes in
search Of minister" Another one repeats q new
verse of Marseilles, which was sung under M.
Thiers's windows:
Nous rntrernns ministirc
Qiani Gnzot al conSorts sy TOuUsronf plus;
Nous efdeerous ienr pouseiert,
Mois nous paiperons teurs ecus"
But the French are making fun of everything,
even of their own misfortunes. Yet are they never
more terrible than when they laugh. You know
what Voaire said Of them, previous to the revolu-
ton: "Hs RENT ,nais lis rien james This "yellow"
laugh Of theirs is anything but encouraging to Louis
Philippe's prospects of dotation for the Duke Of
Nemours. The French journals have at last united,
with the exception Of those belonging to Theirs
and Guizot,) for the purpose of advocating par
Iiamentary and electoral reforms. Perhaps this
time the masses will pay more attention to the move
ment; for since the last thirteen weeks the laborng
classes of Paris alone have Withdrawn from the
Savings Bank the trfng amount of seven millions
of francs. For the Paris Exchange, the worst day
has not yet arrived, the crash will come after the
new years settlement. -,
December "a, 1s45.
1t will look very much like vanity and conceit
that should suffer the part Of my letter to stand