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Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 15, 10 November 1852, Page 2

When the last arrivals left England Parliament had been prorogued, and the dissolution would follow in course immediately. The protectionist administration were pie- | paring'to meet the country with a modified 'policy. The impossibility of governing the nation, on other than a 'free trade system, has, doubtless, been, during their short occupation of the ministerial benches, brought home 'to 'the minds of most of them-^if they ever truly entertained other opinions— •which is more than we give them credit for. They will now, most probably, leave their party in the lurch, and try their hands again, if the people will let them. | To the p-.ople of England it now matters little what party is in power. The administration now a day must be one that suits the aroused intelligence of the nation, or, its existence will be short. Certain it is that the dirge of protection has been sung— it may be considered dead , ' and buried, and the impossibility of its resuscitation, in the face of a powerful opposition ; and the will of an united people no longer doubtful. Class legislation is for ever at an end -, would that we could say the same of its consequences. Mighty have been the efforts of late years to save the nation from the ruin which half a century's misrule had entailed. But will they be ' successful ? or has the disease gone too far to admit of a remedy. Daring practitioners have been at work, and they have cut deep ; indeed, it may perhaps be asserted truly, that they have reached the seat of the evil ; and that the simple question now is, will the patient sink under the operation or not? I By the mischief of the past, the capital of the country has been accumulated into few hands ; iho middle class has been well nigh destroyed ; and the lower class arrived at a state of degradation and penury, when po-

verty is ready to shake hands with crime. Her state is desperate, and her excessive and increasing population, much against her. Yet are her wealth and resources unbounded and she stands in the world's sunshine apparently invulnerable, while the elements of the earthquake are busy beneath. Extensive emigration would assist her much ; it is true it would drain her of some superfluous wealth, but it would also relieve her of some of the materials of' convulsion in the shape of those who yet honest and good, are, nevertheless, on the ere of trasformation, and will quickly be prepared to join themselves with the uncompromising and maddened votaries of anarchy. The effort must not be on a peddling scale, but commensurate with the emergency. More than fifteen years gone, she gave by a single act of legislation, twenty millions to assert, a great principle, and emnncipate the West Indian Negoes ; 'let her vote a like sum for emigration, many interests more or less 1 considerable, are compelled to busy themselves, and the country is prepared to make a mighty effort, with the same object ; let the poor rates be mortgaged for a few millions more, and her over burtheneu" system will find some telieT. To icy and humanity alike call upon her few some such measure. Little would be thought of blowing away twice this sum from the cannon's mouth in a single year, to assert some ipoint of nation honor, should the occasion arise. How much more beneficient would the exertion be'if made, on behalf of her own suffering population and Struggling colonies.