New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-05
Reform In England.

% w hnever is ,houghtfuly familiar with that SUBJ
lime pa ssage of Sacred Writ which reads in part
And after the earthquake fire but the LORD was
not IN tho fire and after the FIRE a still, small
voice"-will have been struck long since with The
lieh, il reflects on the annals OF our Race The
true history Of Mankind is not written in the lordly
tones which record the irtrigues and butcheries OF
despo,s and men of blood. Even within the pres
en-, Century scores of mighty warriors and brilliant
victories have faded into forgetfulness while the
achievements and trumphs ofahe true heroes OF our
tme-the founders of Sunday Schools the reform
ers Of Prison Discipline the inventors OF the Steam
boat, the Cotton Gin, the Power Press the Railroad
DC. Sc-have hardly begun TO be appreciated as
they must and will be. The day Is rapidly ap-
proacbine when the inventor of any process calcu.
lated TO increase the comforts alleviate the pains
of Human Life will stand higher in the rolls OF hon
orable famo than tho most ferocious destroyer OF
men who Numbered In the train OF! Napoleon or
Wellington.
The recent course of events In Great Britain ex-
empliGes kindred truths. For twenty years the
United Kingdoms have been convuscd with the
struggles of parties to accomplish or prevent Para-
men,ary Reform, Corporation Reform, &c. and lat
have been effected the latter is about to be- Yet
tho mass of the People have derived no substantial
advantage from the Reforms accomplished, and
they will derive little or none from that which Is
now being unacheved held up 10 Them as the great
measure of delive,ance-Co wit the Abolition OF the
Corn.Laws The real earnest Reformers of Eng
land-bet,er known a, home as Chartsts-sec and
declare ,h's. They do not object to the Repeal OF
the Corn Laws, but they insis, that tho Toiline'
Millions shall not again be duped into the belief that
this or any other perfci,l measure is adequate 10
the removal of their heavy burthens the alienation
of their courtleos miseries They are perfectly
willing that the present otrugSle between Cotton
Lords and Land Lords shall result in the d!scon,
future Of the latter; but they will not be fooled into
the belief that this is really the Peoples battle in
which victory shnll be followed by general and en-
during plenty. Full well are they aware that
Wages will ultimately graduate themselves TO the
stric: necessities Of the receivess-tha; Cheap Food
will be an arerms at for and means toward Cheap
Labor--,hst Union Workhouses will siill DO in de-
mand and amply tsnanted-tha, so long rs the ma
ny have no resource bu, to sell their Labor in the
markc, for daily bread, the few will purShase it ar
their own and oilen al starvation prices; and that
the only efectual remedy for the woes Of the multi
,uds is not Free Trade but Free Land.
To the discerning and upprejudiced, this would
seem self evident The coil from which Thirty Nil,
lions of Brilons and Irshmen must mainly draw
their sus,enance is nearly all owned by few thou
sands OF their number. The Mi!liona are doomed TO
bid sgains, each other for opportunities to cultivate
enrich and be subsisted by the common mother OF
us all All the arabic land belongs 10 the idle nom
producing few who riot in luxury anu not the fruit
fu alone, but all the unfruilful also. There lie hor
sands on thousands of acres of bog and heath which
have never yielded far,hins's worth since :he
deluse: but the poor man who should venture TO
transform ono acre of this waste into blooming,
fragrant. bouneous garden; would be by law tres
pssser and liable to a, least an action for heavy
damayes The best he could hope for would be a
gracious permission from the heir OF some Norman
robber, who came in with the conqueror, 20 held
and cultivate that patch of ground on condition of
paying therefor annual rent. which would buy
several acres outright In this country. Hence al i'm.
provemenis In Agriculture and the auxiliary Arts
tend almost entirely TO the enrchins of the andords
not at all TO the increase Of the Farm Lsborer's
wages. The weeks work viii bay far less food now
than il did hundred years ago. but the rental of
every estate in the Three Kinsdomsis increased enor
uously and still increasing with the increase of Pop,
ula,ion and of Agricultural science and efficiency
Such thing as farm patch of ground failing TO
command the old rent on the expiration OF lease is
scarcely known. while the increase ofsents al each
letting 10 new ,enan, is almost matter OF course.
Thus do noble Dukes secure incomes of over One
Million Dollars year, and reve IN stately sunP'
,uous palaces, surrounded by parks and ssme-pse-
serves each of which if rightly used. would afford
ample employment and bounteou' scs'eoance 70