Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-07-10
Further Extracts from Foreign Papers
received by the Steamship Britannia.

! THE CORN BILL-Ail fears Tor the safety
Of he corn bill are over. The most critical srage
That OF the commitlee-has been passed irium.
phanlly, and with a numerical Strength greater
than was anticipated.
| The House OF Lords went into committee on
The bill last Monday. On the first night, the
Duke Of Buckingham moved an amendment, the
effect OF which, ii carried, would have entaied
! upon The country 4 permanent sliding scale, va
rying from four shillings 10 ten shllings per quar-
| Ter.
This is the import duty which corn will have
10 pay until February, lS49, when nominal
duty of shilling per quarter is 10 be imposed
for registry. The Duke, in proposing his amend
nIent, did so in tame, huni-drum speech, which
showed that he had no faith in its success. The
result proved that he was right. The votes
showed clear majority OF thiny-three against
il. There was large muster OF peers on either
! side, and as proxies are not admissible in COM
mi,tee, the supporters OF the Government were far
more numerous than preyio Gale laions point
ell al.
The United Stales, our grca! commercial rival,
cannot long remain inert. Her Legislature VIII
march with the times. FOR il would be libel upon
The intelligence Of that great and potent country,
to suppose that she can long be insensbe 10 The
enlightened reciprocal views in commercial mat
I ers which English philosophers iavc chalked out,
and which English statesmen have carried prac-
iicaiy into effect al Tie sacrifice u their dearest
personal mi puii,iea! connexions, nr@luaices,
ana srmpaihles.
The world has never witnessed, never viii
witness, devotion less selfish, patriotism more,
pare. than Peel mas given, by sacrificing his
mower and parry on the altar oi Free Trade
But bright reward will he his-the brightest re-
ward which great and honest minister can ex-
perience-
ssTo scatter plenty DER smiling land,
And read his history IN a natiohseyer."
From Hillmer g. S1aitt's Times
OMMERClAL The weather during the
| last fortnight has been intensely oppressively hot
TOO hot 10 move or amcs. 10 think. The Their
momeler, al tines, has reached tropical alli-
,ude. The excessive warmth has been without
d parallel in England during the last sixteen
/ or twenty years. That affecting visitation OF
| Heaven, rarely witnessed in this country, death
| by couys dc so,cll, has been frequent IN different
| parts OF the lard.
But the growing crops notwithstanding The ex-
| cessive heat look beautiful. There has been lii
lie rain, but the dews al night and morn have
| been frequent ard refreshing, and with The Slo-
rous sunshine above, are bringing forward the
produce of the fields magnificenty. The harvest
promises 10 lie abundant, and, what is hardly oil
less consequence eahy-lhe earliest, indeed, Tor
years past
The prospect for the English farmer is cheer
less but he has 10 thank his foo dear friends, The
monupoists, Tor IL all. An immense quantity OF
foreign wheat and -four will o. released from
bend al a low rate o! duty when the corn bill has
passed and this will he thrown on The maTket Just
l as tie agriculiuIist is sweeping The produce ~
! his prolific fields into The granary. Prices VIII
| come down, there will be an agricultural panic,
and the cry oil the corn bill has done IL will be
| raised. 80
The next battle on the free trade ground VIII
take place in sugar, anarilcle which mas 100 long
taken in" the country. The sugar duties expire
ON the 5th pro1imo, and some modification must
be introduced before that time. Peels views
have no, ,ranspired; no opportunity for develop
ing them has been afforded him. The inleImina-
BILE coercion bill occupies the front OF the polili-
cal stage and engrosses The attention oil the chief
actors.
Lord John Russell has scheme for reducing
the duiv on slave as we'll "a colonial sugar, on
| n scale extending over four years, al the end OF
which time culunisis will have 70 shit. Tor them
selves in The absence Of that now repudaed doc
rine-"prolecion As ali duty on Corn will
cease in less than three years il is desirable that
Sugar, except Tor revenue, should be placed On
an equally adyanta geous footing. Bu weale al Tie
beginning OF the end. the consumption Of Sugar
in this country would he increased 10 an Amos
ncalculable extent with low rate OF dnty, and
the extinction OF The stupid and dishonest CAM
about save-grown Sugar.
THE MEXICAN Wharf.-The rupture be-
tween Mexico and the United States has, OF neces-
,i,v. attracted much attention, and has nteriered
| more or less, with business. The fear Of ship
ping in American bottoms has. like the haseless
iablic # vision, disa appeared, bu, Loyd's still
cling riiicuousiy 10 tncIr high premiums. The
| telling is no, confined 10 England. The
Paris paper In Pycstc, assert fact that MANY,
American orders have been ccunIernanfed IN
France IN consequence q The !uf,ufe between
the two Republics.
TIE war irsef has exercised The pens and The
lonsues of all the professional politicians IN the
old world. In,hc early stage OF The struggle on
The banks OF The Rio Grande, when the Ameri-
can forces sustained one or two trihins guerilla
reverscs, good deal Of sympathy was shown
Tor The Mexicans, and if Jonathan had suffered
more, the sorrow, we gTieve 10 add, woud not
have been intense. But when the Britannia ar
rived with an account OF the battles 81 "Palo
Alto" and the palm Ravinc" in which The
Me1icans, on what they claim as their own soil,
with force Two or three times greater than their
antag onis,s, were ''woopred" by The Americans,
all sympathy disappeared, and contempt vas The
feeling universally felt and unequivocay ex-
pressed; A brave people can afford no symPa.
on his own dunehill, is only fiji TO grace the spit.
By Ihe way, The briet and lucid dispatches q
General Taylor have attracted much admiration
His pen, like his sword, deals only in the prac-
teal Merit is generally allied with modesty-
and as he judiciously RETAINED from PLAYING the
brasgar on paper, the same Selfconfdence. !, IS
clear, sustains him in he field.
STATE OF PARTIES.-The state Of par
ties j. Anomalous, AMI bcio!cn: al early cisrur-
ion Ct political lies.
The specGY retirement Of Sir Robert Peel IS
moe .han riu5lemalical, AM The advent oi The
/ Whies has come rcbre aga =. lie c:c!e ..
Passing egent>. Ihc Premier is preparing 10
;a.,, ana lie is destined 10 " iripped d the heels
on an IIi>h QUESTION is lie found Ireland his
s'chief difficulty 9hcn he commenced his career
as The head Of The government some tour or i've
wears ago SO il has haunted him in the interim.
and lie is doomed 10 make il his political grave.
The course which Sir Robert Peel has followed
since November last, under the pressute oil extra
ordinary events was calculated 10 tear up BY The
roots the nearest and dearest personal and Polti-
cal associations. Ii has torn them up, rent hem
asunder. with an intensity ot which there mas
been no parallel since 1929. il must be strong
and overwhelming sense Of public cuty which
can reconcile Minister like Peel 10 The abuse,
nersona and even scurrous, which he IS com
PEELED 10 Sll ana near DlgHtil iIon us omh si'S
of the House. II is the penalty he pays for pre-
fering his country 10 his party and II can hardy
be- wondered al, tina, he is anxious 10 escape The
infection a, the earliest possible moment
HIUmey & .Smu.'s Iimes.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEOS.-A meet
ing of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers
has taken place, 10 consult on the line OF policy
10 be adopted towards Prince Louis Napoleon,
and il has been agreed that, until they receive
instructions from their different Courts, they will
abstain from personal intercourse with The
Prince.
Correspondence Of the Liverpool Times.
PARIS, June l5.-The Journal dss Debais has
lately published remarkable article on the Stale
of affairs between Mexico and The United STATES
Your contemporary asserts lha, Mr. Pois has
ONLY gone agains; Mexico 10 compensate his de-
feat in Oregon, and TO regain lhe popularity
which that delea, had brough, upon him. II
thinks that Mexico is totally unable 10 Tesls me
United States and that the existing hosiililies VII!
result in It's dismembermenf.