Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-02

ter.
The steamship Hibernia arrived at Halifax on the
afternoon of the 18th inst. Expresses were run both
from Halifax and Boston by the Journal Of Com
merce and other papers. The running time from Bos-
ton to Brooklyn, was only sir hours and forty-seren
minutes.-the shortest time on record. On The Long
Island railroad the rate of speed exceeded serenity
miles an hour! The whole time from Halifax to
Washington city-l,025 miles-was s~ixty-four hours
fOrty-five minutes, including all detentions and delays,
which were two or three hours.
Sir Robert Peel has entered on his great work Of
commercial reform earnestly and successfully, with
a ueOrking majority Of 81 in the House of Commons.
The rumor in relation to the i'll health of Sir Robert
Peel, and his probable resignation in consequence,
had been contradicted. He was said never to have
been in better health. The great speech in which he
vindicated bis commercial policy in the House
against his assailants, and especially against D'Isra-
eli, who seems to have made the main hit of the
opposition-is universally pronounced to be the most
imposing and successful oratorical effort of the min
ister's long parliamentary life.
The corn and cotton markets seemed to be gener-
ally in an unsettled and unsatisfactory state. Bust
ness was dull.
The European Times" of March a, says
The great debate on SIR Robert Feels financial scheme,
which extended over three weeks, and afforded food for
twelve nights incessant oratory, was brought to a close
on the morning of Saturday last, by a division which
gave the minister a majority of ninety-seven! The eve
of the hawk. never followed its prey with greater lnIen-
sity than the public, out Of doors, have turned to these
debates in Parliament. Not that the speeches themselves
were cared for; they literally became a bore. But day
after day people looked for the result down the endless
columns OF the daily prints in vain, until the interest
~deepened into anxiety, followed, as the dreary monotony
of words proceeded, by absolute despair.
Tha I1.f~taa Or S,fn-In- nracan ~n.ao ,,----
suits. The House, as our readers are probably aware,
consists of CSC members; of these, 27 liberals voted
with the minister and I12 tories-total 339; against him,
III liberals and 23l iOries-total, PAP; which makes the
majority of 81. There were 80 liberals absent, and Is
tories; IL liberal pairs, IS tory pairs; 3 vacancies, and
the speaker 6 making up the full complement Of The
house-656. Sir Robert Peels supporters, ii will thus
be seen, only number about a sirth Of the representation,
and in this estimate are included 81 officials. 1t is clear,
then, that without the aid of the liberals he would have
been destroyed by those who made him.
But the fate of the measure in the Lords is pregnant
with consequences of the highest, the most commanding
interest. The measure is safe in the Commons-that is
undeniable, is it so in the Lords? Will the Peers, with
a majority in the Commons of 90, and in the present
state OF excited public feeling, throw out the measure,
and thus force on a dissolution of Parliament? Our firm
belief is, that the Peers will pass the bill; and in this
belief we are strengthened by the private testimony of
several influential members Of Parliament, with whose
views we have been favored. A dissolution of Parlia-
ment at the present time would be an astounding national
calamity. Matters IN Ireland look serious, and every
day is making them worse. Disease is already doing the
work of death; and if Sir Robert Peel's fightful antici-
pations of the future prove correct, that unhappy country
is destined 10 become a huge chanel-house. No serious
evil can affect Ireland without ii being felt in England.
The physical condition Of the sister county is at all times
a matter Of the first importance-at the present time it is
painfully so.
Will the aristocracy go to the hastings on this question
with the Certain ConVietian that the voice Of the country
is against them-that its capital, Its intellect, its NUMBERS,
its energies. are all against them? No. The Lorus are
prudent men; they own broad acres, they possess splen-
did mansions, they run costly carriages, they hire lac
queys, and they desire TO retain their IururieS and their
Privileges. They will not idly risk them by running
their heads against a wall to the imminent danger Of
whatever brains they possess, and the total forfeiture of
that respect, without which rank, and station, and line
age, are but the cobwebs of a by-gone age.
Ia the monster debate to which we have referred, there
were many soporihc, and a few brilliant speeches.
Amongst the latter, and, indeed, at the head of them,
may be place Sir Robert Peel's. Old and praciced ora.
tor as he is-educated amongst a galaxy of great men
the contemporary, youthful though he was at the time,
of the gifted spirits who threw a halo round the close of
the last, and the first quarter of the present century-he
was never known TO be so sound in argument, so pointed
in satire, so overwhelmingly crushing by its facts, figures,
and deductions, as on this memorable occasion. Taken
in all its bearings, the speech will stand the test of COM
pariS0n with the most successful efforts of oratory in
ancient or modern times. 1t was the speech of his life.
He has never excelled, and never can surpass il.
Father Mathew has published a letter, accompanied
with specimens of bread and s~iiraboui," made from
Indian corn. Efforts are now making to introduce this
excellent article, not only into Ireland, but into the
three kingdoms generally, on the plan which marks its
use in the United States.
FRANCE.