Many letters have reached us lately, from some of the - stanchest
Liberals in England and Scotland, strongly urging a combination among the friends of free trade and progressive reform to secure the continuance of Sir Robert Peel in office. This policy also begins to' be advocated stoutly in the more independent of the Liberal journals. -Here is a specimen, from the Nonconformist- " A Brahmin was seized by a tiger; and =English :Wilier on the march went up and fired his musket down the animal's throat. I am hungry; give the a beef-steak,' said the soldier. ' What ! from the sacred cows? impossible!" Then kill your next tiger yourself ' " It seems settled on all hands, that a similar course is to be pursued towards the Minister. He is to be thrown into the fire pour encourager les autres. Ad- vantage is to be taken of the opportunity, to teach us net to look for further rood until another Minister is found to make a holocaust of himself. As the Chinese burnt a house to roast a pig, so the roast-pig of salutary reform is not to be enjoyed except by firing the house about the ears of the Ministry that authorizes it. It is in truth to be a grand example, for the depression of all the Do-some- things, and the exaltation of all the Do-nothings. The reason, probably is, be- cause the people love to have it so. It is in accordance with the policy which so constantly carries an election, by producing a man-who will promise to do less. The Obstructives have had a march stolen upon them; therefore the Obstructivea are to come back again. They and the robber caste-are to make-common cause, for making a sad example of those who have dared toonake.us a trading country.
"The responsibility will lie the beaviestwith those who have-the most power to show their gratitude. It does not look as if a spirit of wisdom were.abroad among them. In the exultation of getting leave to buy and sell, they forget that there is ever anything to come afterwards. There is a wide difference between the wis- dom which sees with satisfaction that an enemy's doom is, sealed, and the school- boy elevation of spirits which disbands and throws the muster-Woks into the lire, byway of trying if there is a chance for the adversely to recover. "Assuredly the world is' not governed by-man's wisdom, nerhy men's either. Yet Corn-laws pass away, when 'they will be borne notorger • raid other evils-will end by taking the same course. The continual working Ofthie public mind, which simple lords reprobate, but wise men feel to be like the acts of respiration-tothe body, is the-appointed means."
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