FOREIGN ITEMS.
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From the tenor of the foreign news brought yes- terday, appears that all prospect of any reform in the corn laws by the si.tng parliament. was entirely hopeless. On the 4th of October, the Duke of Well lngten, in reply to some remarks from Lord Brough- am, stated that he had no intention of bringing for ward any scheme for their alteration Despairing of reform by parliament, several nobemen favorable to change, resolved to the privilege of asking audience of the Queen, to present in person, the memorials and petitions which had been sent to them from various parts of the kingdom. By the advice of her ministers, this was refused.

 On the Mcleod case some of the London papers were more bitter than The London Times, an organ of the dominant party, leads the in traduc- and abusing the United States. writer in that pa- per, conjecturng that there is be war sooner or later, proposes plan of offensive operations, the substance of which is conveyed in the following pro- positions:

 al. The breaking up of the Union, by detaching the southern states from the northern and middle states.

 "2. The destruction of the resources of the nortl- and middle states.

 "Great Britain, he adds, should immediately pre- pare ally herself with the southern states and wage upon the resources of the northern."

 The other journals attack these propositions, with out mercy, well the ground of impracticsbility as ras0ality. The Herald calls them .devilish, and denounces their author as "in heart freebooter and buccaaeer."

 The following is the conclusion of the Heralds ar- ticle;

 "What right we indignantly ask, has England to attempt to split the American Union into two sepa- rate nations1 To make the attempt would be a crime unparalleled in history, and unequaed in the annals of civilized atrocities. There are but two states in either continent of America, in the enjoyment of international prosperity-Imperia Brazil and the re- publican United States; and the proposition under consideration, is. that there should in future be but one5and this, that we may. get cotton penny a pound cheaper, and postpone, for few gears, the r valry of American manufactures. For such nisera- ble advantages we to endeavor to break up the American union, and destroy that connection be- tween the South and the North which is admitted to he the great preservatve of peace between England aud the republic. The proposition is, politically speaking, an absurdity morally considered it is an indictment to crime taken in all its phases, it is we repeat it, dsvilish.

 But if attempted to be carried into execution, it would bs self-relaiiatory Does patriotism whis- per into the suggestor's ear-Irelandl Has he nev- heard the threats of the altorous repealers as to the connection between Ireland and Britain?- Does he not know of the correspondence between the repeal association and the Irish settlers in the Uni ted States! And can he see danger in the appl- cation of the detestable principle of his proposition Go that portion of the British Empire Are the Can adas, too, devoid of inhabitants sympathisng with republican form. ofgoyernmentl

 The dangerous folly of the proposition exceeds sfs wickedness. It with 1t, however, in all probability, ts own antidote as it reckons, we must believe, entirely without s host; and it's author ap- pears to be utterly forgetal of Mrs. Glasses golden rue--frst catch the South.I

 Why notice such subjecl we may be askeda- | Our inducement has been vindicaie the British ton from any participation in such e scheme; and beAnse tho writer has had tho impndence to lay his tho1gtae sp f MT Ar Naieaiysa soyaEomank aad