The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-19

morning der0ld, mas produced great sensation In
the CITY, and has exclusively engrossed attention
All sorts OF conjectures are hazarded respecting the
result but, as they necessarily mere conjecures
IT can serve no good purpose TO repeat them. A re-
last hour, that her Majesty has sent for Lord John
Russell, but we have not been able to trace the
rum0r to any authentic source.
From the London Herald, Dec. l21
The time Tor ascertaining the true Of the late
ministerial movement, has not yet arrived but some
reasons for the late change, SO plausible in the
mouths OF most men, that we will venture upon
stating one which, in our judgment, has the great
the Anti-Con Law League have, it is said, resolved
to make the corn laws the pretext for throwing out
OF employment some hundred thousand laborers
for whom the emulation Of their barbarous and fran
lett no work. The mill owners Of the League are
beings capable OF anything and even without that
necessity, which they have created by toiling men
during excessive hours OF labor, and draining the
very lfe-blood OF women and children, they would,
If they could, without great loss, stop their works in
order to carry political object. They boast that
they will do 1t IN order to carry repeal Of the corn
laws; and the boast as we have before demon
straied more than once, may be credited, because
they must do It, Their Unsuitable rapacity has
ucipated the produce of two or three years manu-
features by killing their fellow creatures with into
cradle labor and II only to get rid Of the odium Of
their monstrous crimes, they would charge the dis
tress that awaits the poor of the manufacturing dis
| tricts upon Magma Charta or the Bill Of Rights
rather than own the truth and their own guilt The
corn laws, however, present more obviously mark,
as laws that interfere with their immediate gambling
profits. They fatter themselves that they could
empty their bursting warehouses in exchange for a
| that they have welcomed famine with disgusting
lndecency OF EMULATION, when they falsely hoped
that season of famine had arrived. Thanks to the
Civer oia good, OF scarcity of bread there is not
the slightest danger; but we greatly fear
| that spontaneous or Fictitious distress,
| too certainly lowers over the manufacturing
districts. 1t cannot, we repeat 1t, be other
wise. after the overlooking and overgaining Of
doubled. This distress will be industriousy ascrib.
ed to- the corn law by its true authors and IT the
corn laws be malntained-as In jnstice and sound
policy they must-every artiice will be resorted to
to direct the rage of half million of starving and
desperate men against the legislature that maintains
them A terrible conflict, and one the responsibility
OF which the bravest man personally could wish TO
shun, might follow the success Of the leaguers prac
tees IN this respect. We can, therefore, scarcely
blame the statesmen who have left 1t to those who
helped to raise the storm to bear the consequences
| OF their own facous dishonesty; and il the trial
were confined to the internal government Of Great
| Britain, we should say, give the Wings and
Leaguers another trial, and welcome. But we can
not forget Ireland and the colonies; nor can we
overlook the foreign relations of the country and
sweeping the whole of our remote horizon. we can,
we own, nothing to relieve the gloom created at
home by the return of the Wings to Office.
| From the London Times Dec. l2l
| Sir Robert Peel has resigned, and
Lord John Russell has been invited to form new
administration. Such Is the sudden and strange
event which has taken by surprise the whole politi-
cal worlds and such the verlfication, if not the fulfil
ment, of the intelligence which yesterday week as
tonished our readers. At that time another conclu
sion OF the controversies which had evidently long
harrassed the cabinet, was confidently and justly
| expected Sir Robert Peel had then gained over
to total repeal of the laws all his colleagues
except three or four with whose cooperation II re-
port speaks true, he might very well have dispensed
He had just won the reluctant assent of the Duke Of
Wellington, and his promise to propose the mea-
sure In the lords 1t had also been settled to sum-
mon Parliament early in January for this pur-
pose Our readers then Possessed an exact
and intentions. We had not even omitted
to notice the insignificant and doubtful exceptions
| to the unanmity Unless 1t had been possible to
tell, not only what was In mems minds, but also
what might possibly enter into them, we are con-
WINGED that not even the cabinet itself could have
given truer account of the state Of affairs. Sub
sequently, however, TO the date of our announce
ment the duke withdrew his assent, and joined the
minority The premier then felt that it was not his
place, perhaps in his power carry the
On Saturday, accordingly, Sir r. Peel informed the
Queen OF the difficulties In winch he found himself,
and rendered his resignation: Her Majesty was
pleased TO express great desire to retain his SER
vices, il il could possibly be SO arranged. Sir
Robert Peel could suggest no alternative, and the
clls. On Wednesday the whole ministry resigned,
and is now only holding Office till Lord John Rus
cell has selected Government to supply Its place.
From the Liverpool Mail, Dec. Is.
That Sir Robert Peel has Undetermined at all
hazards Of honor and fame, violated pledges, and
public and private engagements to those numerous
supporters, who had raised HIM to the most ele-
waited position IN the countrywe do not tor an instant
doubt. The right honorable baronet fell on his
knees at the sound OF Lord John RussePs puny
trumpet, holding by the skirts OF Lord Morpeth and
lmporing the mercy OF Golden, four cotton spin.
ners, six cotton weavers, three bleachers, and
hPoN rf ny,fo voofcr
The Cabinet had not agreed to repeal OF the corn
laws hence the intended meeting OF parliament,
IN the first week in January, was Meuer resolved
upon hence the intimation OF the repeal could not
be arranged TO appear IN the Queens speech from
the throne and hence the whole of the boosted
priority Of intelligence, which the Times laid claim
TO-, was an impatient fabrication, concocted for a
10 bling and dlshonorabe purpose by some interest
ed person whom the Times must know, and who, il
1t ever expects to redeem its lost character, must
name and expose. To speculate upon the conse-
quences OF this unexpected resignation, In the abb
shall say is that, if Sir Robert Peel, has committed
himself 10 this wild design OF breaking up the
settled orders OF society, convulsing national credit,
the value Of corn lands, and running nine-tenths
OF all the farmers in the United Kingdom, ne
will, and ought to- perish in name and reputation for
ever, IN the wreck OF his own lnsensae Innovations.
Let US consider for noment.who are the classes
whom repeal of the corn laws would exclusively
benefit. Those rich manufacturers alone who do, or
Imagine they do, chiefly depend upon foreign mar
kets. We deny that any safe dependence can be
placed on foreign markets. subject to the will, the
interest, the caprice, the hostile position of for
eign princes, or unstable democracies. But we as
sumo, only for the sake Of argument, that these
constantly open to them; and we then ask, what is
the avowed object Of free trade in foreign corn :!
To reduce the price Of corn in England. II this re-
duction be not effected, the repeal would be mere
delusion and fraud Corn must fall in price, 9TH
erwise the scheme is abortve and its authors fools
or madmen. But admitting that the soils Of Eu-
rope and America were cultivated for the purpose OF
supplying the English markets with corn, and the
price Of wheat instead Of being SIS per quarter,
il is at present, should fall TO 35s is the Manches
ter calculation how could British farmer afford to
grow wheat not only his present rent-charge, his
taxes, and the rate Of wages but even IT his rent
were reduced iorty or fifty per cent