The Scotsman - Saturday, 20th May 1843, page 2

(Fr'w our Pr'_ira _^' _G'rw _}W!( _ifnl.) _LONDON, _Alay _IS, _1_S-13 . (_Thursday morning.) I HAVE suspended my communication with you for a week past, tlie Corn-law _debate having _almost _exclusively _occupied the _House of _Commons . Considering _the _fullness of _the _Parliamentary reports in your columns, my commentary on _the _discussion, and _relative merits of tlie _speakers_, may well be spared. The _sccno on _Thursday _last, which purposely and prematurely _terminated _tlie debate, Hpohe for _itself, and _required no _remark. Mr Cobden*_s _most ahio and politic _speech on tlio following evening _was a _blow which the Tones would fain _have averted by _forcing' on a division _on the _preceding night. Tlio member for _Stockport is carrying tlie war into tlie enemy's country. _His _address _was pointedly _directed to tlie _interests of tlie _landowners and _tenantry. ITaving _wrought the _conversion of all tlie town _communities, _lie _has now put on ' tlie " calico" and _assumed tlie "smock frock.** Mr Cobden Invades the country of tlie _monopolists, and storms their _fastnesses, _Nothing can exceed tlie roufc and terror of _the Tories _caused by his rural _incursions. Nor is _the excitement of _the _tenantry confined to the action of _the _Anti-Corn-law _League. County meetings are being convened by ultra-Tories and _free trade _partisans, united_, in common hostility to _theosis'ting law. On Saturday _, a most important _meeting of Berkshire _freeholders will take _place afc _Heading , at which tlio tliree _county members must be present, and where Lord _Radnor_, Admiral Dundas , and other liberal landowners , will attend. _In all _these public _meetings _one common _feeling of hostility _against ministers appears to be _prevalent. Such 13 tlio state of the agitation _against _monopoly . ' Tho 'Peel government lias _satfsficd'no 'ciass, but _has _displeased _and incensed every _class.. _Nor _will the _Canada _corn _question _to-morrow _evening _lessen the Tory disaffection. A _meeting of malcontent _Conservative _members of the _House of Commons _has titis _week been held on that subject, when it was resolved to send a _deputation to Sir Hobert _Peel. Mr George _Banlscs and Sir John Trollope were _the missionaries to the Premier. Tlio interview _was _productive of no contentment to either party. It has been _further distinctly communicated to tlio malcontents, that if any _considerable number desert _the ministry_. Sir _Robert Peel _has _resolved to resign 1 Moreover , the personal friends of the _Premier openly give _out _that he is sick of _his _troubles_, and _grievously _, _disappointed by _the existing state of _public _affairs. The Premier pretended to _possess the wand of a magician . He _was" ;within a year to _restore tlie _revenue—to _revivetrade and _commerce—to govern _Ireland with satisfaction ' to all _classes—and , as "a Btrone _government,", to introduce_, and _pass _innumerable _administrative measures of _surpassing national _benefit. The _result'has been the total _failure oC-aU his pretensions; '._His-best _friends do not _scruple to admit _that ho now, _only _retains power _because the _liberals are not _sufficiently united to _tolse itfromliiirit _^Such is in truth the real condition of parties at this _moment. By their own fault, the _Liberals ,. certainly ,: _have no proper and _regular _guides, no _leaders; in the House of Commons. Lord John _Eusscll_^and aome:, forty. followers _vote _againat _' _-Mr _^Villiers's motion, while 124 other Liberal members vote for _the motion _I _Then _Sir Labouchere _places _a notice On the order.bookfor an _amendment on the _Canada _Flour 1111 on Friday, to address_, _the _. _Crown-ito ' _withhold assent to _the act passed by _theprovmcini parliament of Canada. '._^Noiv _^ I. believe that _, _tina . Colonial Flour bill, _particularly " asr .exglained _;on ' _,_L _Tuesday night .by , Mr _Gladstone, :in. reply _' to Mi_5 Thomely _^n _a_^ rank' _deil_^_slon_^ _; _^ _' _rbelieYB _: _that_,_'; practically , _its _eSdCb would be to'imnosfl _^_a'hlch 'er_^" _•—"" _I—— _^ _^ _^-_•^• _. L-V" _^.'_"; -_^_. _; -_^^^ 1 _^_-_^:;' _,:., _"}? -_^ _inBuanauian insn _HTeruge aucyou imponoi uour._»M_^"_^^ rBu[v_^unu_>,T ' _l_,-.-., _L- _' _3 _._dS_- _.: _l _<^ _-_•^• _- _- _•^ _a_:.... _l _- _- _^^_-_^^^^^ _:. _v_^_-_^_. _^_i_^^_A_»_-- _._•^ _Jj_^_._^_-A _._U_^^^^^ _,..,,,.,..

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