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... I 1 , . THE ^O^HMN SpR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1845.
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THE CORN LAWS. ;• There is, and ever has...
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GLORIOUS NEWS FOR BRUSHMAKERSOPENING OF ...
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THE CORN LAW CRISIS.
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RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY.
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VSpivn OR CHESTRAL ORCAN . -This mamincem © S 8 £ 3 Patronised and visitea ^^ he , kri ^ STT ^ mdW" Boyal Highness Pnnce ALBERT , Solfia ^ dltion to Its former altmtions . a new ' £ d £ trt Organ , erected in the Glyptotheca , on which S ^ dS pieeesof music wRl *** *** Son , Two till Four o'CIocfe . Open from Ten till Halfpast Pour . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples which nature has built for herself in the regions of night , Is . each . The whole projected and designed by ILW . Bradwell .
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GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , WsTEBWO-PLACE , LoUDOtf . D 1 BECTOBS . The Chisholm , Chairman . William Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . John Brightman , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Francis Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Wm . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John Inglis Jerdein , Esq . Yickery , A . M .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIBE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . 6 d . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , move delicate in taste , nfiiiittJy more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great num . hers with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generaHy for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . The Test . —The proof of the cfiicacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient nse two or three cups of strong tea npon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , & c .
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- . HOTI 6 K T < i > EMIGRANTS .
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COALS . , PROVIDE FOR WINTER .. P ROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing ls per week U the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without further charge , fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s . ; Coke , 17 s . 6 d . Ofiice , 279 , High Holborn .
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Just published , price Is ., the Fourth Edition ( Translated from the Nineteenth French Edition ) , CONSTIPATION BESTROYED ; or , Exposition of Natural , Simple , Agreeable , and Infallible means , not only of overcoming , but also of completely destroying habitual Constipation , without using either purgatives or any artificial means whatever ( discovery recently made in France by M . Warton ) , followed by numerous certificates from eminent physicians and other persons of distinction Free by post . Is . 6 d . Sold by James Youcns and Co ., Tea Dealers , 45 , Lud . gate-hill , London , and by all bookseUers in the Unitep Kingdom .
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MANY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO BE GIVEN TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO TH PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender , in England , Ireland , or Scotland , or to the Publisher , Mr . C . Evans , 351 , Strand , London ^ who whl be happy to forward a Prospectus .
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TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IMMEDIATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is now imperative , because Imprisonment forDebt is now penal , notremediaL—Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John S . Benstead , 22 , Basinghall-street , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .
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TO THE EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a smaU expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .
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TO TAILORS . By aparobation of Her Most'Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert . THE LONDON aud PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn and Winter , 1845 and lg ' i 6 , ready early in October , by READ and Co ; , 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; Berger , HolyweR-street , Strand , London , and may be had of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior Yiew of the Colosseum , Regentfs-park , Londen . This exquisitely executed and beautifully coloured Print will be accompanied with fuRiizo Dress , Frock , and Riding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns ofthe New Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive
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DAGUERREOTYPE AND CALOTYPE . THE APPARATUS , LENS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , CASES , and every other article used in making and mounting the above can be had af J . Egerton , No . 1 , Temple-street , Whitefriars , London . Descriptive Catalogues gratis . LEREBOURS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET lenses for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the foUowing price : —Deep Power , 60 s ., Low Power , 25 s . Every article warranted .
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DANCE MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS . —NEW MUSIC POR PIANOFORTE . THE PIANISTA , No . C 3 , contains " The Royal British jfravy , " and " Welsh" Quadrilles , now playing at the Promenade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , 7 s . No . 62 , contains the "Elfln " Waltzes and two new songs for Is . No . , Music in Marble Maiden , Is . No . 60 , the Mazurka , Polka and Puadrille in " The Devil to Pay , " ( Diable aquatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and all the theatres , Is . No . 59 , contains the whole opera of " Sonnambula , " 2 s . No . 57 , Ditto , " Fra Diavolo , " 2 s , or the Nos . from 57 to 62 , in splendid binding , as a Cltristmos or New Tear ' s present , for Ms . Sent carriage free to any part of the kingdom for a Postoffice order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , 67 , Paternoster-row .
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat cloth , price 7 s . Gd ., THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleet-street . S ^ ff- Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,
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Chaege ACALVST a Mother fob Attempting to Mgbdeb her Child . —A mother stands charged with
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no less a crime than that ot endeavouring to murder her illegitimate male child , not three weeks old , by leaving it quite naked and uncovered , in a field , exposed to the cold wind and pitiless storm of Saturday evening last . After an examination , the unhappy mother has been committed to take her trial at the next Hereford Assizes , the offence being committed in that county . Asoiher Boiler Explosion . —Another serious boiler explosion , resulting in the death of two men , took place on Friday , December 5 th , at Seghill Colliery . "We have not been able to learn the particulars of this melancholy occurrence . One of the deceased was a young man named Stewart , who did not belong to the works , but who was merely assisting at the time of the accident .
... I 1 , . The ^O^Hmn Spr. Saturday, December 13, 1845.
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The Corn Laws. ;• There Is, And Ever Has...
THE CORN LAWS . ;• There is , and ever has been , a large section of society who appear , to have deputed to a section of thenewapaper press the power to think , the authority to reason , and the right to decide for them . In no instance during our political career , which has not been short , have we witnessed an equal assumption of all these powers to that recently exhibited in the columns of the Times . We speak not now as to the authority of that journal upon the question of the Corn Laws , but we are about to reason upon the conclusions to which the Thunderer has come upon its
own reasoning , guessing , prophecying , and assumption . The sudden change of Lord John Russell , Lord Morpetb , and Sir Robert Peel , upon the subject of the Corn Laws , are but the ordinary incidents to which ordinary individuals are liable . They are mere units , with , perhaps , occasionally as little title to more consideration in society's scale than Mr . Pecksniff himself ; but while each stands but individually responsible for his own acts and deeds , the Times newspaper is more than an " atom" in society , and consequently a greater amount of responsibility attaches upon that journal .
Since the first announcement by the Times of the Minister's intention to repeal the Corn Laws to the present time , we have read every article that appeared in that journal with close and anxious attention . It is a subject of magnitude , not at all comprehended by the Times , if we are to take its reasoning powers as proof of its comprehension . In the settlement , or unsettlement , of so long standing and so great a measure , extreme latitude should bo allowed even to a literary propheti As little ' aa '; possible should be left to guess or hypothesis , and the conclusions arrived at should , as far as practicable , be based
upon reasoning—reasoning , not only that the sophist might eke' meaning from , but reasoning from which all rational persons must come to a similar conclusion . As we have stated , we have read the several articles with patient and painful anxiety , and the following is the conclusion—the only conclusion , at which we can possibly arrive : — The Times objects to the Standard wagering its reputation , as it represents nothing substantial ; we do not like the system of betting long odds , while , at the same tir ae ; we would wager our reputation against the character of the Times , which is as Lombard-street to a China orange ,
that if a jury of twelve sane individuals , of ordinary common gense , was empannelled to arrive at a conclusion as to what the effect of the repeal ofthe Corn Laws was likely to be from the reasoning ofthe Times , and allowing the defendant the advantage ofthe best possible counsel , with Baron Platt for a judge , our wager is , that the jury would fail to arrive at any rational or even possible conclusion npon the subject . There is no doubt that the Thunderer , like Desdemona , sees a divided duty—a duty towards the League , and a duty towards the landed aristocracy ; while we are facetiously told that the people
are the especial clients of our contemporary . The ostensible reason urged for a repeal of the Corn Laws , is . the . threatened scarcity ' of food , and , as matter of common sense reasoning , we should expect the reduction in the price of food to constitute the principal recommendation of the measure . The Times , however , appears to think that the measure has sufficient support in the interest to be derived from the change by the manufacturing interest , and therefore , plausibly enough , withholds the disappointments likely to be sustained by the victors—and hence the heavy work of the Times appears to be the
conversion of the landlord . To this end we are favoured with more sophistry than could be possibly used if the said landlords were estimated as rational beings . The C orn Laws are to be repealed to arrest starvation—arresting starvation implies a reduction in the price of food—a reduction in the price of food naturally infers a reduction in the price of land—a reduction in the price of land bespeaks a fall in rent —and a fall in rent leach to diminished resources ; and , therefore , while the importation of . corn is said to be necessary to cause a reduction ; in the price of bread , and , lest the consequences which we have
pointed out should follow a reduction in the price of corn , theTimes traverses the world , visits every port , takes stock of every warehouse and merchantman makes a sum ofthe several prices at those several ports , and in those several countries , and furnishes us , as the result , that the effect of opening the ports must be an inevitable rise in the price of grain . Rather an Irish mode of reducing the price of bread . But this " stuff" is to allay the misgivings ofthe landlords ; and let us now see how far the reasoning of the Thunderer is complimentary to the intellectual free traders ; or how far , if correc t , it is likely to realise their fond anticipations .
Wheat is not to fall at all , but bread is to be cheaper ; and the certain effect to be produced by the gigantic measure is such a general rise in the price of produce all over the world as will keep up prices at home . Now let us have a * bit of free trade reasoning upon this wild assumption . Firstly , it presumes that England is the world's man ; and , secondly , it converts the free trade complaint , which was merely national , into a universal malady . We have been told that the large amount paid out of wages for bread has rendered the working classes unable to be as good customers as they otherwise would be in the manufacturing market . The repeal of the Corn Laws is intended as a cure for this national malady , and the effect , we are told , will be to extend the contagion to all points ofthe globe .
The inability of the foreigner to deal with us has always been ascribed to the operation of our Corn Laws ; but what , wc would ask , must be his position when the price of his food is raised at home . Must it not follow as naturally as night follows day , that if the price of corn is raised abroad , that the foreign labourer will have more to pay for his bread and less to spend upon our manufactures . Does it not also follow , that money—ready money—and money only—can be paid in the first instance as wages to the foreign labourer , who shall be set to work to create the supply for the English demand , and must it not as naturally follow , that less money will be expended
for English manufactures . Such are some of the blunders into which hired writers , with fruitful imagination , and anxious to serve their masters , invariably fall . They paint famine in all its . horrors r— they arouse sympathy , and awaken all the better feelings of nature , while , in reality , they magnify the evil by placing it out of the power of any to avert it . The scale of prices , furnished to us by the Times , from all foreign countries , presents a sad reality to the starving pauper , while the interested and fallacious mode of parading them are but little likely to awake the sympathy , or enlist the compassion , of the wealthy in his behalf .
The effect of the articles inthe Times has been to create fear , doubt , and apprehension everywherehope nowhere . We do not now speak of the intelligence , whether it was achieved through the peijury of a cabinet minister , or the breach of confidence ik his mistress . What we speak of is , of the rational conclusion to which reasoning men must come upon the subject , after reading the several articles in the Times newspaper . In commenting upon the subject last week , and upon many previous occasions , we directed attention to the inevitable effect that panic must have upon the market at home . Many have reasoned after the following absurd fashion : —
The farmers will not thrash , because two months must elapse before a competitive supply can come from abroad . The farmer will not thrash , because there is a great scarcity in the market ; but not only have the farmers thrashed in apprehension of the panic , but purchasers have increased the panic by refusing to buy a commodity which threatens to be reduced in value . Hence we have the candle burnins ; at both ends . We have the thrashing machines going , to anticipate foreign arrivals , and we have'the speculators buttoningup their breeches pockets for fear of the enemy . The Sun , in its wisdom , tells us that the increased arrivals from the country proves that there is an abundant supply in the country . How
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foolish ; if believed ! How malicious , if not ! Does notthe Sun fcnw if fherewas a deficiency of full oneiialf of theannual « ujr « ment , that the capricious on > r ^ gTor ' Bale 6 f ; thVrerfl *^ g-hJ ^ i under the influenceolapaniciwk in the priceyas though there was . actually a surplus in the country ; ¦ ' - •' It does not need a national surplus to insure a reduction in prices . neither does actual scarcity protect us against glutted markets . We have had this fact so fully proved in the instance of Sir Robbt Pbei / s cattle tariff , the Irish potatoe famine , and the present
corn panic , that it requires no further illustration . We learn now from the 'Mark-lane Express , as well as from the London daily journals , that not only has panic created an artificial surplus , but further , that the . price of grain is hourly on the decrease , and that , in fact , it is almost difficult to sell ifc . Is not this the fulfilment of our prediction , and has not apprehension itself caused a panic amongst the farmers ? It is unfortunate for Sir Robert Peel that the shadow should thus hare preceded the substance , as we fear that the taste of what the landlords have received will guide them in their anticipations as to what they are likely to receive .
In 1841 , we told them that we were satisfied ll they preferred ' being bitten by their owjt bog to being bitten by the Whig cur— their real policy should have been to have kept the Whigs in office with their watch dog chained at their door—our policy was to let the mad dogs into the Jsennel for a season , with a certain conviction that they would bite the system till it ran mad , and died of convulsion . We shall now shortly be enabled to submit pur several predictions , as to our Tory policy , to the working classes , and being so far right , we have a right to rely npon their confidence for the future ; and if we possess it ,
our advice during the pending straggle is , to allow the monopolists and anti-monopolists NOW to fight out their own battle , while they abstain from taking any part in the struggle until both deadly enemies are exhausted from the conflict . We say NOW , because the public mind is better prepared for diffusive warfare than it was in 1832 , 1839 , or even 1842 . The people have now learned the true philosophy of idleness , and if we could have restrained them from taking any part in the League revolution of that year , the struggle between the factions would have been
brought to an issue ; but , when we interfered , the enemies united as one man against us . Let us learn wisdom from the past , and abstain from committinj ; ourselves in future . Let us bide our time , until the result proves our several predictions , wherein we have foretold the inevitable disappointment which must follow the repeal of a measure which promised so much good , and which must work so much positive evil to all classes of society , if not preceded by an EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT , AND SUCH PRUDENT AND CAUTIOUS concessions as are due to the improved condition of society at large .
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GLORIOUS NEWS FOR BRUSHMAKERSOPENING OF THE PORTS IN SALFORDGLORIOUS DECISION IN FAVOUR OF FREE TRADE PRINCIPLES . A quiet little affair has lately occasioned considerable excitement in that part of Manchester known as the borough of Salford , by a decision of the stipendiary magistrate reversing several previous judgments en the same point . As a matter of mere news , it would perhaps attract but little attention , but , as another demonstration of the power of the working classes to work out their own liberty when they choose to do so , it becomes worth a passing comment . For several years past the Town Council oi Salford have been in the habit of summoning all hawkers who were bold enough to practice their
calling . There has been a dispute between the brushmaker-hawkers of Salford , and tho Town Council of that borough—the former insisting on their right to sell goods of their own manufacture in any market town—the latter contending that this right was taken away by the local act . In these contests , and there were many of them , the council was always victorious—the magistrates invariably decided in favour of the council , fines , made heavier by the costs , were continually inflicted , and the trade of a most industrious and useful class of men was destroyed ; some were injured by the fines inflicted , and hundreds
were still more seriously damaged , by being , through fear of the consequences , deprived of their trade . Latterly , however , a man named Hughes , more bold than his fellows , determined to try the case with the authorities . Some time ago he was summoned before Mr . Trafford , a stipendiary magistrate , and had to pay his lawyer ' s fees , in addition to the usual fine imposed by the bench . Immediately on this decision Hughes went to Mr . Roberts , who perused the local act , and expressed a confident opinion that it did not justify the interpretation put upon it by the magistrates ; in fact , that their former decisions
were all contrary to law . Mr . Roberts recommended Hughes to hawk again , that he might again be "had up" by the police . Hughes obeyed his orders , the police obeyed theirs , and tho consequence was , that Hughes was again summoned for the tenth or eleventh time , for he was a regular old offender . The case was called on —the bench was graced by two borough magistrates , bearing something of a resemblance to the Dukes of Wellington and B uckingham . The charge was stated with great perspicuity , by the police .
Hughes was caught in the fact , and there was no denying it ; nor was there any denying that the brushes were his own manufacture . We believe , too , he had "been impudent ; " but that charge was afterwards abandoned . Tho facts , as there was no doubt upon them , were admitted by both parties , and Mr . Roberts was called upon to say why the rebellious varlet , his client , should not be fined forty shillings . Of Mr . Roberts's speech we can , unfortunately , give but a poor account . We know that he told the two dukes that brush-makers were a most
honourable order of men , existing long before Noah ; that hawking brushmakers were far superior to the stationary vendors of bristles aud pigs' hairs ; that an injury to them was a blow to the constitution itself ; and that , if their trade was destroyed , "the sun of Salford was set for ever . " Having thus essayed to work upon the feelings of his ducal judges , Mr . Roberts then approached the law of the case , and through an hour and a half quoted case aftei
case , and judgment after judgment , of the superior courts , in favour of his view of the case . But it was of no use . The judges in this case were unwilling to abandon their long-cherished scheme of " protection . " "They had a duty to perform "— "Large sumshad been invested . "— "If the unlimited importation of brushes into the streets of Salford was per mitted , what would become of the shopkeepers ?—what would become of the landlords ?—how could
the rents be paid ?"— " No ; Mr . Roberts ' s argument was very ingenious—very remarkably so—they had not a word to say in reply—they did not understand the law—but they must decide as they had done before , and convict the defendant in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings . " During the delivery of this solemn judgment the dukes were evidently overwhelmed with the intensity of their devotion to the " best interests of tho borough of Salford . " However , a loophole was left . The judges had intimated that they did not know much of law ( nor did they ) , and they told Mr .- Roberts that he might , if he ' liked , appeal to Mr . Trafford ; not that they thought it was of much use , for he had always
decided according to their view of the case . Mr . Roberts seized with avidity on the opportunity , and another hearing was appointed . As we write ' are reminded of the similarity of this contest to that with regard to the Corn Laws . The poor were clamouring for brushes , good and cheap . Brushes brought to their own door they could purchase by giving articles of their own manufacture" cotton stuffij for bread stuffs . " The battle , accordingly , came off . The police-that is the Town Council were represented by Mr . Gibson . On this occasion Mr . Trafford presided , and Mr . Roberts went through an extended repetition of his former speech ; it was evidently a staggerer . The
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wply ^ f Mr . Gibson waa clever and-ihgemous , Mr . Trafford waa staggered . We can use no better description of hisem ^ assmeht , like Pkbl he waa hampered by his former decision . , Sb many had already been fined it would be unjust not to fine all the others—and yet he seemed to think that the time was fast approaching , if not already come , for opening " the brush ports of Salford . " Towards the close of the discussion he was joined by the dukes of whom we have previously spoken , but they were immoveable , they adhered to their former pledges ; they were firm as ever for protection , and they repeated
their settled conviction , that if the threatened importation of brushes should ever recur "the sun , " as we have before intimated , " the sun of Salford had set for ever . " Wednesday morning last being appointed for Mr . TraffoiuVs decision , the court was crowded with injured brush-makers , and on this occasion the advocate for the prisoner prayed for the judgment of the court—there was consternation , and considerable delay in procuring the necessary authorities— the learned barrister being evidently embarrassed by the weight of the duty imposed upon
him , especially by the awkward and illegal decisions of himself and brother magistrates upon many former occasions . The judge gave his decision , that the authorities , quoted by Mr . Roberts , were conclusive upon the subject , and that the judgment of his brother Magistrates should be reversed and that the summons should be dismissed . The judgment was received by a crowded court with irrepressible expressions of surprise , joy , and satisfaction , and thus has the first triumph of free trade been achieved by the Salford hawkers over the chartered monopoly of the Salford justices .
In no other paper in the kingdom , except the Northern Star , will this great triumph of free trade be even alluded to .
The Corn Law Crisis.
THE CORN LAW CRISIS .
FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT .
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY . At the Court at Osborne House , Isle of Wight , the 10 th day of December , 1845 , present the Queen ' s Most Exeellent Majesty in Council , —It is this day ordeted by her Majesty in Council , that the Parliament , which stands prorogued to Tuesday , the sixteenth day of December , instant , be further prorogued to Tuesday , the thirtieth day of December instant . <»
Resignation Of The Ministry.
RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY .
[ From the Morning HeraU of Thursday . ] Sn Robert Peel ' s Government is at an end . All the members of the Cabinet yesterday tendered their resignation , which her Majesty was pleased to accept . It will be easily believed that we regret this determluanation of her Majesty ' s advisers ; but we should much more regret their unanimous determination to sacrifice the industry of the country by stripping it of all protection . The important fact now announced proves how completely wrong the Times was when it stated that the Government had decided upon proposing to Parliament , as a Cabinet measure , the repeal of the Corn Laws . [ From the Hornby Chronicle of Thursday . ]
An ofhcial announcement , in another part of our paper , confirms one part of the statement which we made yesterday—namely , that Parliament , instead of being summoned for the dispatch of business , would be again pro . rogued . ' The « ther and more important part of our announcement is , we believe , equally correct . The Cabinet , we are assured , resigned yesterday . It is confidently said , that so far from the Cabinet having at any time come to a decision to recommend the repeal of the Corn Law , a large majority of his colleagues have throughout been opposed to Sir Robert Peel ' s recommendation , [ Prom the Times of Thursday . ]
Yesterday Parliament was further prorogued to the 30 th instant . The naming of so early a day would of itself imply that the Cabinet is not now in a state to meet Parliament . The rumours , however , which have been confidently circulated in the best informed quarters since Monday , and circumstances which have come to our knowledge since tho return of the Ministers last night from Osborne House , leave scarel y any reasonable doubt that the reviving repugnance of the Duke to the decision of his colleagues has rendered it necessary for them to tender their resignation to her Majesty , An unforeseen difficulty of course there must have
been somewhere . After so long and close a succession of Councils , that difficulty could only arise from a struggle between the declared intentions of the chief , and the prejudice or pride of some of his colleagues . Were the Ministry certain of meeting Parliament as the servants of the Crown , it would have fixed the day , and our prediction would have been to the letter fulfilled . That is no longer possible . Some minor changes , as we intimated at the first , there would undoubtedl y have been ; but it is to the graver difficulty that this new and unforeseen delaymust be ascribed . It is said to have been only by the most unqualified expressions Of opinion that the leaders of the Cabinet gained the unwilling compliance of the only considerable dissentient . There can be no doubt ,
thatwhat was all along to be apprehended—the representative-general of the Lords has since felt returning anxiety the weight of the numerous proxies not less rashly undertaken than rashly confided to his care . The head of an aristocracy demands , it may easily be imagined , a little more time to act , if not to resolve . It is not , however , always possible to adjust the interests of a Cabinet , much less those of a nation , to the convenience , the dignity , or the humour of an . individual . An obstinacy which is assumed with a less serious " intention may be maintained a day too long , to the yuin both of colleagues and cause . Moantime' whatever may happen , whoever may be in next month , very few hours can pass without
proving to the nation the substantial truth of our first momentous announcement—viz ., that the leaders of the Cabinet were resolved upon proposing a total repeal of the corn-laws . They Wre resolved to the utmost of their power . They were resolved to do this , or nothing—to repeal tho Corn Laws , or be no Ministers . If the Duke sees peril in that measure , or feels reluctance to undertake it , ho will have to realise the dangers and disagreeables on the other side of the scale—the dissolution of the Conservative Ministry , and
the interposition of a rival , and in some respects a more suitable agency . He will be assured that his own punctilious , so far from impeding the measure , may perhaps only render it the first of a series still less to his taste and convenience . Whateveriamount of distrust he may feel in his present ( if not b y this time his late ) colleagues , he will be only too sure of the statesmen and the policy he will help to inaugurate in their stead . If he has not the heart to solicit the Lords in behalf of friends , he will , nevertheless , not escape the still more arduoul task of conducting his little aristocratical troop against the close and serried phalanx of an unanimous people headed by inveterate foes .
[ From the Sun of Thursday evening . ] Report says that Sir Robert Peel ' s resignation was received by her Majesty without hesitation , although Sir Robert Peel ' s line of intended policy would have had her Majesty's warm support . Lord John Russell was at once sent for ; but , as the noble Lord is at present in Edinburgh , some days must elapse before he can obey the summon s . Parliament cannot now meet so earl y as was expected ; a nd upon the course taken by Sir Robert Peel will depend the prospect of a dissolution . It is believed that Sir Robert will support Lord John Russell in his general policy . The Premier was almost alone in his views in his own Cabinet .
We understand that , in consequence of tiie resignation of Ministers , her Majesty will leave Osborne House on Saturday next , in order to be in nearer communication with those who are to become her new advisers .
Resignation Of The Ministry.
[ FromtheiStendordof Thursaaycveni ,,,, ^ V 7 e can confirm the statement of the Mcminn n that all the Cabinet Ministers have tendered th * nations , and that her Majesty has accepted tlT ^' therefore the present Ministers only hold office until '" * successors are appointed . * $ it is said that Lord John Russell has been sent f the Queen . At present nothing can with Klti - f ° ' known as to who may form the hew administration do not , however , pledge ourselves for the truth f rumour . " ^
[Fb0m A C0bresf0ndekt.] It Is Said At Th...
[ FB 0 M A C 0 BRESF 0 NDEKT . ] It is said at the West-end , that Lord John ]> ,, passed through London prirately last ni ght , and is ' at Osborne House . ^ It is also said , that the leading Whi gs talk of » n ' mediate dissolution of Parliament . [ Prom the Standard ' s City Article , ] Tdobsdat , Tiro 0 'Ci . ock . As maybe naturally supposed the official announo ment of the resignation of the whole of the mennef , , the Cabinet in the Morning HeraU has produced a g , sensation in the City , and has exclusively engrossed «> tentlon . All sorts of conjectures are hazarded respect ; ,,, the result , but as they are necessarily ' mere conjecture * it can serve no good purpose to repeat them . A rem , has , amongst others , been circulated within tho la-i
hour , that her Majesty has sent for Lord j | , „ Russell , but we have not been able to trace ft , rumour to any authentic source , and Its parens will probably be found in the ranks of the Lea > where tha wish is , no doubt , father to . the though since tho last experience of his lordship ' s eonscienCS The dissolution of the Cabinet has had less influent on public securities than could have been supposed a j , ori , Consols have been done for money at 83 J and sij the latter being the latest quotation . For the accomj they have been done at 92 £ but are now 93 J . This is \\ first day of the books being shut for the dividends ; a ;] it must be recollected that the quotation for the Accokt
is now ex dividend . Reduced Three per Cents , were | j ; done at 93 , tho Three . and . a . Qunrter New at 95 , and £ s chequer-bills 21 23 pm . Bank Stock has been done at 2 ij |
The Ministerial Crisis,
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS ,
[ Erom the Morning Herald of Friday , Dec . 12 . ] We stated yesterday that the whole Cabinet had re signed . Such is the fact ; the whole of the Conservative Cabinet goes out together , and , we have no doubt , will adhere to the Conservative party . Whatever Sir Robert Peel ' s opinion upon the subject of the Corn Laws , the country may be well assured that he never did propose , and in office or out of office never will either prop ose or sup . port any change in tho Corn Laws , unaccompanied bj what ho believes to bo full compensation to the landed interest through all its gradations . Whence that full
compensation is to be obtained we are utterly at a loss to conjecture , but it is no more than an act of justice to the late Premier , as we suppose we mar call him now , to repeat it , that 7 ieiiei > er did propost , as then , famous fabrication of the Times asserted , an unqualified and total repeal of the Corn Laws . Nor , as wefirml j believe , will he ever propose or support any such measure , This is most important , because whatever diiferencefo , existed in the Cabinet has been merely a difference ia degree and not in species , and therefore cannot extend to the Conservative party in either house of Parliament ,
Lord John Russell has been summoned by the Qurd , and is now in attendance upon her Majesty as her cm . fidential adviser . And who is Lord John Russell U party to the Lichfield House compact—one who has iritb . in these last few days pledged himself by a public document to concede all the moit extravagant demands of lb : Anti . Cors . Law League ; and , hear it you opponents of the Maynooth grant , one of the party most sulcmnlj pledged to extinguish the Protestant Churchill Ireland , and to establish the Roman Catholic Churth in that gnal division of the United Kingdom . Let Conservatives think ° f this in time—and they have but little time to think of it—for whether Parliament be dissolved or not , the work of Hum will probably commence with the first week oi February .
[ From tho Morning Chronicle of Friday , Dec . Ill The only facts upon which reliance can be placed with respeot to the ministerial crisis are these : — At the time the story was published last week respect ing " the decision of the Cabinet , " tho Cabinet was vir tually dissolved . They had indeed come to a decision , but it is now understood it was a decision to resign . On Saturday Sir Robert Peel went to Osborne House , and communicated tills event to her Majesty , and on Sa . turday evening a messenger wassent to Lord John Russell to Edinburgh . Her Majesty ' s commands were received bj the noble lord on Monday morning , and he arrived in town on Wednesday evening .
Yeiterday morniag Lord John Russell left tow » m Osborne House , having had an interview , it is said , with Sir Robert Po « l before hii departure . His loi'isWj remained at Osborne Home laat night , and is expected in town to-day at one o ' clock . It is understood that before hi «* d * p * rture Lord John Rusatll addressed communications to sevtral of liii Ms colleagues , « nly one « f whom , we believe , Mr . Barisft happened to be in London .
It is superfluous to say that , und » r these circus stances , all rumours as to " ministerial arrangement * ' may be coiuid » r « d as altogether unfounded ,
The New Ministry, [From Tho Times Of Fri...
THE NEW MINISTRY , [ From tho Times of Friday morning , Dec . 12 th . ) In the present state of things iu would , of cours , & prcma ture to announce any arrangement as to the peises and places in the new Government . The following ® 1 was , however , pretty generally credited last night in p ^ tlcal circles : —• First Lord ofthe Treasury . —Lord Jean Russell Lord Chancellor . —Lord Cottcnham . Secretary of State for foreign Affairs . — Lord 1 * merston . Secretary of State for the Home Department , - ^ Morpeth . Secretary of State for the Colonies . —Lord Grey . Under-Secretary for the Colonies . — Mr . Charlw Stiller .
Chancellor of the Exchequer . —Mr , Bar inj . Attoraey-General . —Sir T . Wilde . Solicitor-General . —Mr . Duudas . Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ,-The Marquis ot' m manby . President of the Council . —The Marquis of LansiW Ambassador at Paris . —Lord Clarendon .
Extensive Post-Opfice Robberies, Reont, ...
Extensive Post-Opfice Robberies , Reont , ^¦ B .-Thistown and neighbourhood have iws 0 ! llC" ! . suffered considerable inconvenience from the \ delivery of letters and newspapers ; this evil atJe » s increased to such an extent , notwithstanding e ¦> attempt was made to trace it to its origin , tHSJ ' j course was eventually had to the Postmaste ^ wD " ' ; i who , upon being made acquainted with the F culars , thought the most advisable step wouW ^ send down Mr . R . W . Peacock , the solicitor to i ^ Post-office , and that gentleman accordingly 8 " . here on Thursday , when he obtained all themt ? ^ tion he could , after which he came to the conc » - that William Garrett , a young man empM »« L deliver the letters in Rugby , was the guilty P \ j and in order to ascertain whether hewascoir » jjj not in his suspicions , Mr . Peacock caused * , sovereign to be marked on both sides , and ' enclosed in a letter , which was putinto the post ^ at Rugby , and subseauentlv delivered into the « ,
ol Barrett . In the meantime application w"' ,, } to R . S . Gibb , Esq ., a magistrate of tlie COllM Warwick , for a warrant to search the P « ml . yiie cupied by Garrett , the result of which was , tiu was brought before II . S . Gibb , Esq ., a " j ' , ^ Moultrie , to-day , charged with having stw ty number of letters containing money , & c , the pf it ofthe Postmaster-General . From the evide ^ appeared that when the prisoner ' s house has sea . the officer discovered upwards of one hundred i ( t addressed to various persons at Rugby , an " y , three addressed to different individuals at u- [ besides fragments of others , in a partially c 0 " jji . State were found in the fireplace up stairs 11 » ' $ tion to these there were a great number olnefl sp ^ addressed to persons in Rugby , and also t w 0 _ " ^ pencil-cases , besides a variety of Jewell £ I ' ' ffcrO Seventeen letters , and several newspaj > " .. t also found on the person ofthe prisoner . B "L tin evidence having been given to justify tne w > .
remanding the prisoner , his «*•• -: | io was adjourned to allow time for those pai " . ( | ie reside at a distance to come forward and went . . ^ several articles that were found in possession prisoner ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13121845/page/4/
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