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of the raw material produced by the country: for this is real wealth;
hence agriculture must always prove the most useful kind of manufacture
to every state. The fruits and productions of the soil, raised by
labour and capital, are disseminated and divided among all classes, who
exchange their labour for that of the agriculturist, until sustenance is
obtained by all. It is this internal commerce which is so beneficial and
so important, from the rapidity of the exchange and the stability of it,
as far as every description of produce is consumed by the inhabitants of
a country; and by no other means can manufacturers and tradesmen be so
extensively injured as by an oppression of the agricultural interests."
While this, however, may be admitted to be true to a certain extent, it
is clear that the agricultural interests should not be protected to the
injury of the manufacturing interests, properly so called; and time, as
will be seen, has convinced the nation at large of the unreasonableness
of such a protection.

DIVISIONS IN THE CABINET.

In the division which took place on the transfer of the franchise of
East Retford to Birmingham, Mr. Huskisson redeemed a pledge which he had
given to support it; and in so doing divided against his colleagues. On
his arrival at home from the house of commons he addressed a letter to
the Duke of Wellington, marked "private and confidential," in which he
said that duty led him, without loss of time, to afford his grace an
opportunity of placing his office in other hands. The duke immediately
laid this letter as a resignation before his majesty; but Mr. Huskisson
seems to have written it solely with a view of being solicited to remain
in office. He declared to Lord Dudley that he never intended to resign,
and that his letter was marked private in consequence. Lord Dudley
immediately waited on the premier, and attempted to pass the matter off
as a mistake; but his grace declared emphatically that it was not, and
should not be any mistake. Mr. Huskisson made further attempts to retain
office; but the Duke of Wellington was inexorable, probably because he
did not coincide with all the views of his colleague; and the dismissal
of Mr. Huskisson was followed by the resignations of Lords. Dudley and
Palmerston, and of Mr. Charles Grant. Their places were filled up in the
cabinet by Sir Charles Murray, who succeeded Mr. Huskisson; Sir Henry
Hardinge, who was made secretary at war; and Mr