ave
information to the Government and revenue board in Madrid, on
the 22d of November 1841, that having attempted to make a
seizure of contraband goods in the town of Estepona, in the
province of Malaga, where he was aware a large quantity of
smuggled goods existed, he entered the town with a force of
carabineers and troops of the line. On entering, he ordered the
suspected depot of goods to be surrounded, and gave notice to
the second alcalde of the town to attend to assist him in the
search. In some time the second alcalde presented himself, and
at the instance of M. Prim dispersed some groups of the
inhabitants who had assumed a hostile attitude. In a few
minutes after, and just as some shots were fired, the first
alcalde of the town appeared, and stated that the whole
population was in a state of complete excitement, and that he
could not answer for the consequences; whereupon he resigned
his authority. While this was passing, about 200 men, well
armed, took up a position upon a neighbouring eminence, and
assumed a hostile attitude. At the same time a carabineer,
severely wounded from the discharge of a blunderbuss, was
brought up, so that there was nothing left for M. Prim but to
withdraw his force immediately out of the town, leaving the
smugglers and their goods to themselves, since neither the
alcaldes nor national guards of the town, though demanded in
the name of the law, the regent, and the nation, would aid M.
Prim's force against them!"

All that consummate statesmanship can do, will be done, doubtless, by
the present Government of Great Britain, to carry out and complete the
economical system on which they have so courageously thrown themselves
_en avant_, by the negotiation and completion of commercial treaties on
every side, and by the consequent mitigation or extinction of hostile
tariffs. Without this indispensable complement of their own tariff
reform, and low prices consequent, he must be a bold man who can reflect
upon the consequences without dismay. Those consequences can benefit no
one class, and must involve in ruin every class in the country,
excepting the manufacturing mammons of the Anti-corn-law league, who,
Saturn-like, devour their own kindred, and salute every fall of prices
as an apology for grinding down wages and raising profits. It may be
well, too, for sanguine young statesmen like M