The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-06
[E'rom the Lirernool Timns Iuna 10

The weather during the last fortnight has been
intensely, oppressivey hot-too hot TO move or
almost 10 think. The thermometer, at times, has
reached tropical altitude. The excessive
warmth has been without parallel in England
during the last sixteen or twenty years. That
affecting visitation of Heaven, rarely witnessed
in this country, death 10y coups de soeH, has been
frequent III different parts OF the land.
But the growing crops, Notwithstanding the
excessive heat, look beautiful. There has been
little rain, but the dews at night and morn have
been frequent and refreshing, and with the
glorious sunshine above, are bringing forward the
produce of the fields magnifcenty The harvest
promises to be abundant and, what is hardly OF
less consequence, carly-the earliest, indeed, for
years past.
The sweets and sours of life are impartialy
blended, and there are few substantial benefits
unaccompanied with more or less or evil. Now
that the great experiment is being made in the
primary food OF the people, nature pours her
bounties, in derision, as it were, of mans fore
sight. The prospect for the English farmer is
cheerless but he has to thank his too dear friends
the monopolists, for it all. An immense quantity
of foreign wheat and flour will be released from
bond at the low rate fduty when the Corn Bill
has passed, and this will be thrown on the mar
ket Just as the agricul;urist is sweeping the pro-
duce of his prolific fields into the granary. Prices
will come down, there will be an agricultural
panic, and the cry of the Corn Bill has done it''
will be raised. But the fact is otherwise. Sup
ply and demand are relative terms. If the bond
ed wheat and flour conld have been released
with certainty three or four months ago, the evil
But the friends of dear loaf carried their selfish
ness too far. In hopes of ultimately throwing out
| the Corn Bill, they imposed every obstacle, IN
vented every delay. Their tactics have proved
frutess, and he poisoned chalice has now return
ed to their own lips. The misfortune is that the
innocent suffer with the guilty. The poor farmer
suffers equally with the rich landlord; but the
farmer was no party to the fraud, the latter was.
Yet the shoulders least able to bear the burden
are those (which it will press the heaviest. 1t
IS poor consolation for the hardworking son OF
c,Vf.N natA shat, N..,,A
be achieved without some individual suffering.
If his landlord took such plea payment for
rent it were well. But alas for aristocracy in Eng
land The great bulk of the owners of broad
acres, pressed by their artificial and imaginary
| wants, are poor-too poor to understand any argu-
ment but the cash in hand. The noblenan or
gentleman, whose estates yield 100000 a-year
and spends E2l 900, is poor-as the farmers, to
their cost, know; as the natlon to its sorrow has
experienced.
The next battle on the free-trade ground will
take place in Sugar, article which has too long
taken in" the country. The Sugar Duties expire
| on the 9Th proximo, and some modification must
be introduced before that time. Peels views
have no, pi!ed no opportunity E for develop
| able Coercion Bill occupies the front of the poti-
cal STAGE and engrosses the attention of the chief
| actors.
The moves of the chess-board point the moral
of politics at the present moment. Each party is
| anxiously waiting for an opportunity to check
mate its rival The lower House has purposely
| prOCraStlnateu the - talk on the lrsn Dill, 10
afford the peers time for passing the Corn bill
and the peers have returned the compliment by
talking eisurey about Corn, and doing little, in
the hope of wearing out the patience OF the other
House, and thereby accelerating the explosion
which is to blow the Government into g smash"
| However, their lordships patience has been worn
out sooner than was expected. Probably, the
heat of the weather may have assisted the ABSORB
ton of their bile.
Under any circumstances, it has been under
stood for some days past, that Peel would not give
up the reins until the Corn Bill had passed.
| "I've saked my life upon a cast
| And will stand the hazard OF the die"
appears to have been las with the Scottish thane, his
resolve from the first. In acting, he has shown
bravery not less than excellent generalship:
But the Sugar Duties must be settled by the
present the next Government. Lord John
| Russell has scheme for reducing the duty on
slave well as colonial Sugar, on scale extend-
| ing over four years, at the end of which time the
coonists will have to shift for themselves IN the
absence ofthat now-repudated doctrine, "protec-
ton" AS all duty on Corn will cease in less than
three years,,it is desirable that Sugar. except for
revenue, should be placed on an equally advan-
tageous footing. But we are at the beginning OF
the end. The consumption OF Sugar in this coun-
try would he increased to an almost ncalculable
extent with low rate of duty, and tho extinction
the stupid and dishonest cant about slave-grown
sugar.
The announcement that the Russian tariff
would undergo immediate relaxation, has
caused great interest in commercial circles Up
the most prohbtve in the world. The principal
article purchased Ivy England is Tallow, OF which
nearly million cwt. is imported to this country,
| valued at almost a million and n half sterling. An
export duty of g per cwt. has hitherto been exact
| ed by the Russian Government, and this duty
will be at once reduced to one-half; and at the
same time reduction of the import duties on
wooen cloths and stufls will also take place un-
der an ttdsc of the Emperor, who takes a lively
interest in the proceeding. The step will be
hailed by all friends of free-trade as one OF most
cfp Ia hen
ly in the same direction by our own Government
under SIR Robert Peel.
| State of Parties In England.
From the European Times, June 1917
The state Of parties is anomalous, and betokens an
early disruption of political ties
The speedy retirement of Sir Robert Peel is more than
round again in the circle Of passing events The Pre-.
mer preparing to fall and he is destined to be rppcd
b ebef wben hs hi.
the head OF the government some four or ve ago.
so it has haunted him in the interim, and he is doomed
The course which Sir Robert Peel has followed since
November last, under the pressure of extraordinary
deaes and po
torn them up, rent them asunder with intensity Of
a strong and overwhelming of public duty which
reconcile Minister like Peel to the abuse personal
and scurrilous which he compelled to sit and
hear nightly from his side Of the House. 1t is the
penalty he pays for prefcrrng his country to his party
escape the infection at the earliest possible moment
The Irish Coe rcion Bill has been the Of fusng
the otherwise dscordant elements which run into an.
| tagonism against the Premier. The wings fortnight
back, resolved in caucus to oppose 1t; the Pro'ec.
onists did the same; and strange as j may sound Lord
John Russell and Lord George Benck found
in the boat with harpoon in hand fighting against
the First Lord OF the Treasury and his sinking vessel
A few nights back after the Protectionss had come
10 the determination of cutting the cable" with Peel
Lord George, their leader was delivered Of one Of the
bitter and personal attacks against his former lea
attacks have been biting and sarcastic but they
the poetry Of politics compared with Lord Georges
coarse and vehement prose lie finished by accusing
reel Of having chased and hunted illustrious rea
| tive of his George Canning) TO death" This speech
necessarily excited great interest II showed that no
love lost; that hate the side received
with contempt the Others that party feeling had sunk
into personal hostility and that materis dscordant,
lcnnld nnssihlA fhe hard