The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-22
New YoRK, July 81, 1876.
To the Editor of he Union:

~ VIC A<uh" W VIC CfNOHs
The people Of New York were taken by sur.
prise this morning by the announcement that the
steamship Great Britain had arrived. No one ex.
pected her appearance soon. She reached the
| lower bay about midnight and landed at her berth
| in the East river at about a. She has made
! the quickest trip across, between Liverpool and
| New York, on record She experienced head winds
during some parts of the voyage. She brought out
los passengers, and S3, 500 offreight During the
three days preceding her departure, and subse-
quent to the sailing Of the Cambria, no news of mo-
| ment had TRANSFERRED. A few additional names OF
persons entering the service Of government under
the new ministry are given. Mr.. Golden. ate,
| spending some weeks in Wales, contemplated pro-
esedIng to Egypt and spending the winter a,
Thebes for the benefit of his health II was ru-
mored that Mr.. Bright contemplated visiting the
United States.
/ lbrahm Pacha continued to be the lion of the
British government and of the people.
The speech of Sir Robert Peel had been highly
complimented in the French journals. Some OF
them declare his retirement was more of triumpb
than a defeat; and, like Marshall Turenne he died
entombed by the glory of his own victory. His
fame Abs a space IN the public mind as wide as
the area of civilization. Ii is no longer confined To
the narrow limits of the British isles, but reach.
es to the farthest verge of civilized intercourse II
belongs to the world and the age in which we live
and will endure long the civil institutions OF
man shall exist.
lnose IN this country VINO have so ably and use
fully devoted their lives to the noble work of COM
mercia reform-to the ameliorstion Of the oyertax.
ed agricultural and other laborers for the benefit Of
capital, should the present revenue bull pass--ean
exclain, on resgning office into the hands of tn,
people, with clean hands and clear conscience \
in the noble language of Sir Robert Peel ii
shall leave a name execrated by every monopo-
list, who from less honorable motives. main
tains protection for his own individual benefit:
but it may be that | shall leave a name some
times remembered with expressions of GOOD will
in those places which are the abode of men
whose lot it is to labor, and TO earn their daily
bread by the sweat Of their brov--a name Temem-
bered with expressions OF good will when they
shall recreate their exhausted strength with abun-
dant and untaxed" clothing, iron, sugar, salt, and
other articles of necessary consumption, the more
valued because "no longer leavened by sense
OF inlustice-p In England there, was a monopoly IN
bread; here the monopoly runs on articles which
clOthe the body. One a monopoly OF the
laboring mans stomach; the other il a monop-
oily Of his back. One taxes his hunger, the other
taxes his nakedness. One compelled him 10 buv dear
food, that the millionaire landlords might grow
richer the other compes him to buy dear clothing
&c, that millionaire manufacturers nav grou r;cb
er. The principle is just the same in each case
You VIII see by the arrival Of the bsruue
Harmony, at thi. port, from Rio Jrneiro. thai
important changes we're under vay At San,inro.
Chlls and that Rivera had been elected president
Of the republic Of Banda ORIENTAL 40 saws the cor
respondencs Of the New York Sun.
Tho~ fs-a Poia.-The Courier and Enquirer, vi,h