The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

seem reason to believe might be prevented. There are a wl topics connected with the subject which, were it not that! keen there are several gentlemen in the room who will have to speak upon the resolutions which will be sub woad to you, I might be tempted to refer to. I could say "whin reference to the water monopoly, and upon the tie. essisty of considering water when we are providing for the h oa lth of the community as great a nee.e teary of life as bread. j aws.) I might refer to the report I have received from irj o ffield to show the great improvement and economy that ham been etfeeted them since the time—only a few years whes water was obliged to be brought by hand to every h ot ly ; but even now there is, as I understaud, a proposal by which the difference in the met of supplying each 1,000 of water, as compared with the charge now made by water company of Sheffield, will be as Id. to 6d. (-Hear, b e sa,) I Bel very great difficulty in dealing with any point which involve, consideration's of revenue ; but 1 may never theless be permitted to express a hop that some such arrangement may be made with reference to the window-tax —(lond and repeated cheers)—as shall secure to the very lowmt classes, in their hours of misery and sadness, and In the p o verty of their dwellings, the solaee of a glimmering of pods light. (Cheers.) Thoe who have seen the total ab leate, as I have, of due o'ol Won for light and air in the dwellings of the pow of this metropolis, know the difference of countenance exhibited by those who are huddled together batik, close, dirty rooms as comper d with those who can o btain the light of the sun and the free air of heaven. (gear, hear.) I trust that that public attention which has latterly marked the progress of this question will be ex.', tended by meetings such as this to all parts of the country, sad that you will be able to give that moral support to—l sat rare I am justified in sayi.ig—a willing government in bringing for earl and carrying through strong and compre beanie measures of legislahou, which shall at last overbear that opposition which, in its nature and amount, is truly contemptible. If you do that you will have the satisfaction of looking forward to as improv,d state of things ; and viewing this question patriotically and c nnprehensively, you will add to that which is the best foundation of our national strength, the vigour of a thriving population—(hear, hear) —and restore to the working classes at least a prospect of what used to be the boast of this ouuatry, the modest com forts of an English home ; and so far as depends on the re pnf the counteractiou of all these noxious istluences, will secure to the rich and txte:al to the poor that first of worldly blessings, the healthy condition of mind and body, lbw MOM Jana in cutpore sa..o, without which no luxury eta be enjoyed, and with which there is hardly any pries tics which may not be es dared. Toe noble marquis apo logised for having so far occupied the attention of the iliselsog. and resumed his seat amid the cheers of all preeen Lord i. ASKIAIT, who was received with loud and general clearing, moved the second resolution : That the vast amount of disease always prevailing, greatly , aug mented during the pan soot pre ant years, and likely to be Mail fur tMe increased by the visitatl.l of the cholera—and proved by seiner ire government commissions, as well es by recent local investigs. tins, to exist in every part of the empire, m connexion with cameo admitting of removal—renders it imperative that sanitary legislation Mould br immediate, and as univeraal as the evils it seeks to remedy.. Dr. GUY said he should not lave come forward in so early a stage of the proceedings as the seconder of the first resolution, but that - being a medical man, he could enforce that resolution with some facts end figures of considerable importance. Ile believed that in the present age no case meld lye argued effectually without the use of figures, and, therefore, he would lay before them a few facts and figures illustrative of the state of the public health, merely pre mising that be based his calculations on an average the most' moderate risible. He would take an average of human life below that of the registrar-general. and he would tall them the result of his observations. The system of regis tration had been in force about nine years, and in the healthiest year the number of deals in England and Wales above what he considered a lair and moderate standard, say two in a hundred of the population, was 23,000. Peg the return of the United Kingdom, allowing the epee MP. the number of deaths above a natural standard, wield be 43,000. (Hear, hear.) 'Take again an average of *ems years, 1841 being the middle year, and testing the ma= by the same moderate standard, an lens of 30,000 be friend. for England and Wales, and 51,000 for the United Kingdom. Now, it had been estimated tnat for every on. necessary death there were 28 casts of unnecessary sick ness. Exception might be taken to that estimate as exagge rated, but take 20 ca-es of =memory sickness for each un necessary death, and that would give in the healthiest year an amount of no less than half a million, and on an average of seven year., an amount considerably exceeding one million cases of unnecessary sickness annually. (Hear, hear.) In the case of the metropolis, the annual waste of human life was 10,000 : and the eases of unnecessary sickness 2.50.000. In his opinion these facts fully justified the first clause of the resolution. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the second, insisting on the imperative necessity of sanitary legislation, he would merely take the figures of the registrar-general. It appeared that, taking 116 districts of England and Wales. there occurred in the year ending September, 1843, 161,000 deaths ; in 1844, 167,000; in 1845, 171,000 ; in 1846, 178,000 ; and in 1847, 210,000 ; being a difference between 1843 and 1847 of no lees than 50,000 deaths. (Hear, hear.) They were beginning to hope that this fearful mortality woe abating, the number of deaths for the last quarter being somewhat less than that of the corresponding quarter in 1846, but scarcely had they cons. menced their congratulations when the influenza made its appearance, and in the week before last took away . 700 per. eons above the average. ( Hear ) Last week it had increased to 1,400, being no lees than double the usual mortality. He would merely add one fact from the recent report of the sanitary commission, which ought to be in everybody's hands. From 1845, through 1846, down to the present year, what he would call our pet pestilence—typhus, had been hameasiog year by year, week by week. day by day. This, if figutes would prove anything, was final as to the justice of the c ncluding portion of the resolution. One more re mark upon the subject of cholera. He was extremely anxious not to create any unnecessary alarm on the subject, but it was right to state that some clues had been actually reported in the metropolis. (Hear, hear.) He was willing to put the most favourable construction on this report, to assume the possibility that the physicians might be sandshoe, , but what then ? The whole past history of the present epidemic led to the conclusion that it was the precursor of cholera. How were we prepared to meet it ? In fact, we were wholly unprepared to meet this frightful enemy. (Hear, hear.) The report of the commission to which he had alluded pointed, however, to one consolatory fact, namely, that the disease was not contagious, so that no one need fear to attend hie friend or relation. (Hear, bear.) But it also proved that the cholera track was the fever track and the filth track ; that it was to be found in the same spots, clinging to the same houses, and carrying off the same elms of persons. (Hear.) This was amply borne out by evi dence from all parts of the country. In corroboration of this he would state, that at the preliminary meeting held on the previous day there were present two gentlemen, one from Sheffield, and the other from Nottingham, who stated, in almost the same words, that in both towns cholera haunted the spots previously tainted by fever. (Neer, hear.) He must also add, that during the part week the spots in the metropolis which were notoriously unhealthy, had exhibited the greatest mortality. Thus, the west London district ex hibited a mortality of 19 out of 40,000, while In the seat there died 76 out of the same number. Hackney, a com paratively healthy district, lost 37, while St. George's-in the-East lost 82. He would merely, in conclusion, make one observation with regard to fever. He had said that it was our pet pestilence, and certainly if we loved it, we could not have taken more pains to keep it among as, to nourish and to extend it, than we had done. (Hear, hear.) We had been told that wherever there was filth, there would be found fever, and yet we had taken no more pains to remove the filth, than if it were an actual blessing. (Hem, hear.) Three quarters of a century since the prisons of this country were visited by the benevolent Howard, and he protested against their then condition in the same terms that they (the Health ofTowne Association) now used in describing the condition of the houses of England. He pointed out the in justice of adding to the necessary punishment of crime the physical punishment of disease. The condition of the primes was reformed, and what was then done for felons, was new, three quarters of a century later, obliged to be asked for for the free labourers of this country. Was not this a mockery ? (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.) He said it was a shams to the legislature that what three quarters of a Century since was done for the prisoner was now withheld from the industrious labourer and artisan. (Hear, hear.) Was it not saying to the labouring man, " the only way In which you can get air and light and clean water, is to com mit • crime and thus get into prison." (Hear, hear.) But better times he trusted were approaching. Benevolent men were applying sound commercial principles to the question, and would assuredly find that the more healthy the commu nity the more economical would be its support. (Hear, hear.) He had one thing more to say; every one who had attacked an existing abuse with vigour, had been charged with exagaeration. They had been charged with we lion, but he was not greatly offended at the charget i M was not a matter so much for the intellect as for the and where the feelings were concerned, was at all times a more excusable error M. difference. (Hear, hear.) But people were elline.l how )beginning to believe them ; to believe dig they were placed in bad circumstances for the security of their own lives. Let any man read the popular literature of the day, and they would me the authors bunting even Into poetry on this all-absorbing topic. It was to be found in the fashionable novels of Disraeli and in the everywhere popular works of Charles Dickens, and, what was better still, some were misting the cause not only with their pens but their purses. Some writers might in their descriptions evince the indifference of the artist. Not so Charles Dickens, whe, not satisfied with writing on these matters, had helped the cause by contributing out of the hard.won earnings of lin ten the liberal sum of 101. to the association. (Loud cheers.) Hating apologised for the length at which he had occupied the attention of the sieetimg, Dr. Guy concluded by second- ing the resolatiem, witch woe put and carried unanimously. The Hon. 2. P. Magmedre, M.P., moved, Ma Me Eralig ripe& loth lively satisfaction the earnest re se msmanion MINN in glr from the throne—the ex trema adonalisden et Mr advisers to renew the efforts made by lorilthida lag ta forma WWWWI ot par lament, eat the puling isp Nam by the UP Chaneellor in re modelling the Nearopthis @armee Onnendeinnh Mr. CARDWELL, seeded the resolution, and ob served, that by giving to the spoor In large town' the means of practising cleanliness—which they could not in their pre *tint small and over-aowded dwellings—they would extend to them the means of cultivating domestic attachments, virtue, and religion. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. I •Mr. SRAM) ADAIR, next moved, That all pan expertanoe, and the nature of the cue, enforce the ne. comity of combining In any sanitary measure an efficient local ad ministration responsible to the rate-payers, with the superintendanos , If a government department dilly represented In parliament. Mr. nuywoon, M.P., seconded the resolution, which wi:i about being put from the chair, when the proceedings Imre interrupted by crimef " Cochrane," proceeding NOR . !..oite person at the lower cud of the room. The Marquis of NORMS/MT said he could WITS the meeting that he was not at all unwilling to hear Mr. Coch rane, but, ifrermitted, he would state how matters actually stood. (Cistern uproar and one or two cries for Cochrane.) If gentlemen p e rsisted i n interrupting the business, other meeernis most ohm's be taken. (This hint had a coast , astable effect in restoring tranquillity ) He wished to ex plain that certain arrangenstnta had been made bf . the com e. of the Health of Towns Association ; certain mole dons had been entrusted to certain persons, and he had no thing to do hut to carry out those arrangements. If the gentleman would wait until the resolutions had been dia -1 posed of, he (the Marquis of Normanby) would wait to hear him. (Loud chin.}—The resolution was then put and armed to. Lord ESSINGTON, M.P., That , ailhosidr greet meth= cr o i . .. e .t made by sanitary moth, down N Z the is mere the petite mind to tome a th, awl neeel—whieh ea M o m, betropeeleny the posewel. mach lowa= ersdastilarmids. I AM that tile maim while it piglets Wit to ell the “Ilealth d Tow= Amssietteo. Is the eftft vow asia ke their valid sepeelelly ash wpwa the cher ere of the= prelbedon exert their powerful Mien= IA birthstones of this pesteSket. Mr. Burwis. M.P., seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. BLANEY, M. P., moved: That the thanks of this meeting be reapectintly tendered to the Most blohla the Marque of Normanby, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair, 111111 his valuable terviees to the causerie all ossitalone Dr. SOUTHWOOD Suite, who was received with loud and general cheering, came forward to second the resolution. He said he had the greatest possible pleasure in seconding this resolution, and in asking those present to give it their cordial support. (Cheers.) From the first day of the ex istence of the Health of Towns Association down to the present moment, through all its hopes and fears, in all its efforts, whether suscessful or doomed to the dis couragement of temporary failure, their noble chairman had been its constant and faithful supporter. (Laud cheers.) Whether in office or out of office, whether in this country or I abroad, he had always given it his counsel, and further, the , authority naturally resulting from the sanction of • states. man so distinguished for his benevolent sympathies. (Hear, bear.) And what was still more, he had used all the influ epee of office to carry those sympathies into practical effect. (Cheers.) He asked the meeting, therefore, to give cordial expression to the gratitude which all must feel towards their noble president. (Loud cheers, interrupted by persevering cries foe " Cochrane," proceeding from some halt-dozen per sons in different corners of the room.) Mr. COCH RANI at length came forward, and was received with loud cheers by his friends. He made • somewhat rambling statement, the purport of which was, that he felt hurt at having been overlooked in the arrangements for that day's meeting. The resolution was put and carried by acclamation ; after which The Marquis of NORMANDY returned thanks, at the same time stating a fact which had come to his knowledge since his entry into the room, and which be tkought was well worthy of imitation. In the parish of St. Mary, White chapel, the trustees had by virtue of a late%ct appointed two regularly qualified medical practitioners, under whose cer tificate any nuisance or accumulation of filth was immedi ately removed. (Hear, hear.) The meeting then separated. THE LATE MR. LIST:W.—From the poet-mortem examination of the body of this celebrated surgeon, it ap pears that the cause of death was an aneurism of the aorta, as large a. an orange, pressing on and running into the trachea. The first alarming symptom occurred while Mr. Liston was receiving patients ; and, when perfectly quiet, he suddenly felt his mouth filled with fluid, and retinng into hie dressing-room, he coughed up between thirty and forty ounces of arterial blood. Drs. Watson sod Forbes attended and examined the chest, but without detecting anything morbid either in the lungs or circulation, and the deceased was himself the first to suggest the formation clan aneurism; but, in the absence of physical signs of such a lesion, a favourable view was taken of the case. The remains of the lamented gentleman will be interred this day, in the High gate Cemetery. REPORT OF THE PAST HARVEST.—A report is pub lished in the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette of last Saturday from all parts of Great Britain, which pre sents as far as such returns—the first which have been attempted—can exhibit, the useable produce of different districts from the last harvest. The most important point it elucidates, and tho one on which there is the least liability to err, is the quality. In almost every case the weight of grain per bushel is much greater this season than it has been en the average of past years. To the unin structed it may appear to be merely a matter of 3 or 4 per cent. importance, whether the bushel of wheat weighs 59 lbs. err 62 lbs. ; but this is because they do not know the miller's report on the matter. An acre, producing 30 bushels of 59 lbs. wheat, yields less food than one pro ducing the same measure of wheat weighing 62 lbs. per bushel, not merely by the difference of weight which the respective bulks exhibit, but also by the quality of the article with which the bushels are filled. Taking the two extreme cases there given, we find that a bushel of wheat weighing 56 lbs. yields 461 lbs. of flour : while one weighing 62 lbs. yields 531 lbs. The bran is not a proportionate loss ; it is greater on the bushel of least weight. FIRES.—IN HOLBORN.—A fire broke out at about eleven o'clock on Saturday night on the premises of Mr. T. Wells, carpenter and dealer in fixtures, 183, High Holborn. The flames originated in the workshops at the rear of the dwellieg-house, and in a few minutes penetrated the roof. Numerous engines were shortly on the spot, but in spite of an ample supply of water, it was not natal past one o'clock that the fire was extinguished. Besides the damage Mr. Wells' property has sustained several of the neighbouring houses were much injured.—lts ST. °BORGES' IN THE EAST.—This morning, shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke out upon the premix' o f Mr. Stebbier, linen-draper, No. 3, Capel-street, St. George's, attended with the destine !ion of considerable property. A police-constable of the A division hadhis attention drawn to some smoke issuing from the fanlight over the door. He at once sprung his rattle to 'rouse the inmates, who had retired to rest ; but before they ' could be awakened the flames forced their way through the upper part of the shutters. A large number of police were speedily at the scene of the disaster, and two powerful en gines were quickly brought to the spot, and the firemen suc ceeded in confining the flames to the premises of Mr. Steb biog, although the adjoining house, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas, a watchmaker, was much damaged by fire, water, and hasty removals. MR. COBDEN AT STOCKPORT. A meeting was held on Friday night, at Stockport, at which the electors of the borough were present, by invi tation, to receive their late representative, Mr. Cobden, now member for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in order that the honourable gentleman might take his leave of them, and ex • plain the motives which had influenced him in resigning his seat in favour of the West Riding. Mr. Alderman Boothroyd presided. Mr. COBDEN said—lt was my intention, so I expressed in • letter to you, written at Dantzic, to have appeared before you immediately on my return from the continent to thank you for the honour you did me ; but on my return I found myself unexpectedly returned for two constituencies. Now I must contest that after I first found that I was returned for the West Riding of Yorkshire, my own incli nation, indeed my own determination, was not to aempt that honour ; but I found on my return home that the opinion of my friends—the opinion of the electors of Stockport—(hear) —public opinion in general, as far as could be ascertained, had decided the question for me, and I found no alternative but to elect to sit let the West Riding. Then, gentlemen, finding that I had the painful choice to make between& sea for the borough to which I was previously indebted for your kindness and confidence, and another constituency, the hut ! est, most important, and moat wealthy, in - the empire—having that painful task thrust upon me, contrary to my own wiakes and expectations, 1 then said the next best dint, to do is this—to save that constituency which I cannot regemest much as possible a protracted contest for my sncessetw. was not out of any disrespect to you, gentlemen, nor to the West Riding of Yorkshire, that I did not state for which sew stitnency I would sit before the night before last in dee House of Commons. I sedulously abstained, both in pablia sad private, from stating to any one what my &Kiska would be. In order to justify the step taken, and he clear myself altogether from any charge of dia roopect because I have not qualified till the pre med moment, I will explain my views and send l i - moats towards you. (Hear, hear.) Some people may my the constituency of the borough of Stockport have' pounds of censure, that I have run away from Stockport, in order to make the stepping-stone of my ambition, and find a krger and better constituency. Gentlemen, they chance me *at know nothing at all of the advantages which • large coo t otttoency can give over a smaller one in the House of Com ' nuns I say there is no advantage whatever to me in repea -1 rantin g the West Riding of Yorkshire after representing Stockport. Whatever I could do in parliament as the repre sentative of the West Riding, I believe I could do equally well as the representative of Stockport. However, I am quite sure of this, that I shall not find the constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire show more kindness or forbearance to wards me than I have found from the electors of this borough. (Hear, hear.) When in the House of Commons, we are, I may say, a perfect republic ; every man who enters the doors of St. Stephen's is there on his own intrinsic merits, and what ever those merits may be, he will be judged of by them ; no matter whether he sits for a county with 30,000 electors or a small borough with merely 200 ; he will soon find his level in the Horne of Commons. I - coneented to sit for the West Riding, because when I returned home I found that I had no alternative but to do so; and I tell you what I told them in my address--had I been in England at the time they proposed to put me in nomination, I should not have oonsented to their doing so. (Hear, h ear.) And now, gen tlemen, having made this explanation with regard to my own personal feelings, I think you will not be satisfied unless I address myself a little to other subjects of far more impor tance to the constituency. (Applause.) lam known only by the electors of Stockport—l may say I was known at first, and am known now mainly as the representative of a princi ple in parliament. (Hear.) It is to that principle I owe whatever measure, of usefulness Inmy have been enabled to effect, through your kindless and instrumentality in placing me in the House of Commons. I speak of course of the principle of free trade. Well, gentlemen, I will not disguise the matter from you that we have,entered upon the "free-trade experiment," as some people still call it under very trying circumstances. It seems to me as if we had to go through a sixths of martyrdom in order to test the faith of the men wtio hive avowed themselves thorough-going free-traders. (Applause.) The question is,how many o us are prepared to go through this ordeal, and still adhere to our principle, or how many there are who will be found to have been merely =timer birds--fair-weer ,item will not bear • gale or morm—that ran to the Ol d pof monopoly whenerer HE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1847. there Se a age ( Applaime.) Now I must say that slam say feting M Reedemd have been delighted to fled so little reasden on the subject of free trade. (Hear.) I may my that I lad no retakes; that the man who was a free trader five, six, egthrt•yeea vesu lac i , is • free-trader now. If men are found weak awl in principle, it is only because they had no mg slam printrp •at all to begin with. (Applause.) What are the grounds on which we are now told to abandon the principle of free trade? We are told that we have not been prosperous for the last year or two in England. It is true we have not; but the question is whether the aikesesldg has sprung out of free trade, or whether it has spew. Oa of monopoly. Our opponents tell us that we have had free trade, and it has not answered ; but I say we have had 30 years of monopoly, and have not got free trade yet. Fur ther, it is said that tree trade in corn has caused those dia meters to the trade of this distriet which we have at the pre sent time to lament. Why, we have not had free trade fa corn yet; we have only been passing through a trunnions state ; we have only got half-way through the three years we were to have of the fag-end of monopoly, and hare not yet had trial of our principles at all. (Hear, limo) But those 'mailmen who find fault with free trade in corn for having produced the distrese of the last twelve months neglect to show us bow the restriction on trade in corn would have produced a better state of affairs. If I under stand our position for the last eighteen maths, we have beta suffering from the want of the potato, from the failure of the means of subsistence. We have had to lay out ten millions in food to keep the Irish alive. I want to know whether it would have benefited us under these circum stances to have had a high tariff. People soy that it had produced a drain of gold to pay for the corn. Why, if we had not bad the eon, if we had the gold many people that are now olive would have been starved. I understand, for I have not been in the habit of reading everything published in the borough, but I understand that it has been charged against me that I made predictions of prosperity that was to arise front free trade in corn, which predictions have not been verified. Gentlemen, I never did deal much is pro phecies, but I possibly might have told the working men, that with free trade in corn we should have American flour at three-halfpence a pound. I stick to that opinion still. (A Voice "When ?") When we get free trade. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) I believe I am charged, too, with having stated that you would have more mills and more employment, more houses, carriages, churches ond chapels, with free trade. Yee, and I say no still. (Applause.) Bat, gentlemen, I did not say that if you had a failure in the cotton crop in the year 1848 that you would here your spindles running when you had no raw materiel to work upon. (Applause.) You leave been suffering in the cotton districts quite as much from famine in cotton as from famine in corn during the teat twelve months; and if you had had corn ever so cheap, and the demand for cotton gooda had been ever so great, you could not have employed ell the mills and machinery ; and for this simple reason, because you had not cotton in existence to keep the machinery in employment. To bring this charge of having made a false promise against me and the free traders generally, to make me responsible for the failure of the cotton crop is just as absurd as it would be Sr I had promised a man that if he was moderate and tempe rate in all things he would have good health, and in come quence of that man falling down and breaking his leg you chars' d me with not having fulfilled my promise. (Laughter and cheers.) Give us ordinary—give us natural circum stances, and then when we have free trade I maintain the same doctrines as I always did. Before we have prosperity in Stockport, we must have free trade in corn and other things. I have said that we have been suffering in the co:- ton districts from a diminution of the raw material, and when I think of the combination of evils that have passed upon the cotton district., on the trade of Lancashire during the last twelve months, I am only astonished that you have not suffered more than you have. In the first place, you have had wheat at one time as high as 100 shillings • quar ter, a price hardly known since the war. It has been up as high as 120 shillings in Uxbridge market. At the game time, cotton was fifty per cent. higher than it was the year before, and along with there two evils you have had a high rate of money, such as has never been known since the war, arising out of inoreinate en gagements and speculations in railroads ; with the combination of these three evils—dear cotton, dear corn, and dear money—l repeat it is only • matter of astonishment to me that the cotton districts have escaped so well as they have. You must bear in mind that it is not merely in England that we have had this distressing state of tillage but throughout Europe. With the exception of Russia, there is no country in Europe that bee rot antlered from scarcity, and in many parts there has been famine. Now a large portion of our trade is carried on with the owl tinent ; end if the people are suffering from scarcity of food— from high-prioed corn, it stands to mama that they will be unable to purchase the same amount of manufactured goods as they could under ordinary circumstances. You have, then, bad • limited demand from the continent for your produce, and a limited demand at home at the same time; and this combination of evils, I again repeat, has never been known before since the time of the war. We may, at all events, draw this consolation from the facts men tioned to you, that free trade has been subjected to an or deal at its commencement, which it is not likely to undergo again ; and if we pass through this ordeal without forgetting our principle, we may fairly expect in ordinary times to reap the advantage we looked to from them. Now, gentlemen, we have some protectionists still in the House of Commons— there are not many of them there—there are not many of them in Stockport ; still we have those curiosities, those ec centricities still in the House of Commons. (Laughter.) To return to what I was talking about, they tell us we have been out of our predictions. They say we promised good employ ment, and you are wanting work in the manufacturing du tricta. They say we promised there should be no drain of gold to pay for corn, and now they say there is • drain of gold. They remind se of our promises, and say we hare fulfilled none ; but they seem to have quite forgot their own predictions. They said that if we had the repeal of the corn laws the (armors would be ruined ; why the farmers have never been doing better than they have done the last year. (Loud cheers.) They told us that the land would be thrown out of cultivation, whams agriculturists have never been more busy in cultivating the land than they are at this moment; and inning a their predictions being fulfilled, that our landlords would run away to Australia, they are at the present time getting higher rents for the land. Cheers.) Now if they have been out in their predictions, and we have been out in ours, it is quite certain that the time must come when one or other must be right; and I only ask for the time which is necessary to test our principle in order that we may see which party is right. It is certain that we cannot both be right, and therefore the time will come when events, when experience, will show who is wrong. I *eh the protectioniets to wait till the arrival of that time ; let us have free trade before they taunt us with not having kept our promises, and if by the result we find we are wrong, if we find monopoly better than free trade, we will then return to monopoly. (Hear, and laughter.) Now, since I came into the borough, I have read a speech made by a gentleman here,largely engaged in the export trade, in which he complains of the operation of free trade abroad, particularly in the article of yarn sent to Russia. (Hear.) I ant glad to hear that there is some gentleman here who seems to have had some faith in the statement. If I under stand it Mr. Marshall has cent 12,0001. worth of cotton twist to Russia, consigned it to St. Petersburg, and he finds before he can liberate it be must pay 8,0001. of duty. Now, I believe that is not an exaggerated statement. (Hear, hear.) But he is under this mistake, Mr. Marshall is wrong when he says he 'hall have to pay that amount of duty. Gentlemen, it is the Russian consumer that pays it. (Cheers.) Well, then, this is made the ground of complaint against the tariff of Russia: let us look at this, and do justice to the Russians because we like justice here. (Hear, and laughter.) You will probably have read that in the time of Napoleon, be established a system of continental blockade to prevent the introduction of English manufacture : and among the rest with Russia be tried it on, but they consented to go to war , rather than shut out our twist. Well, a peace was made in 1815,when we had put down " Boney," as we were in the habit of calling him. Then our landlords pat a prohibition upon foreign corn ; that is, they allowed none to come in till the prios at home reached 80e., which was a virtual prohibition. Well, when the duty en corn was 80s. the quarter, what did the Russians do ? They waited several years before they put high duties upon our cottons . (Hear.) At last seeing that we had done this with regard to tern, they imitated no and pot a high duty upon o'er manufactures—but not a prohibitive duty, according to Mr. Marshall, for he finds it profitable to consign 12,0001. worth of twist there. (Cheers and laughter.) But, gentlemen, at that time when we did not allow the con of Russia to come in one year out of five, still the trade of this country with them in twist was one of the very largest we had. Now I put it to Mr. Marshall and his admirers, have not our exports to Russia been the largest we have enjoyed for many yew, except those of Germany ? (Hear.) Why, far more of our milk have been employed in Stockport an making twist for Russia than for any other country. The duty has not been prohibitory, and it would not have been as bad as it is but for our bad example. And now what is the argument they would draw from this fact ? They say put on your duty upon corn again until the Russians take off their duty upon twist. Why, gentlemen, I tell you the duty Is not paid by us : it is paid by the Russian consumers, and, if they choose to put on a 'high duty to have clothing made dear, is it any r eason why we should put one upon their corn, in order that we may make provisions dear ? (Loud cheers.) I venture to say, though I ant not fond of making predic tions, that, if we maintain the sound principles of trade npoa which we are now entering—if we continue to adhere to free trade in corn and provisions, that the government of Russia will follow our good example sooner than they followed our bad example, when we excluded their corn. It seems to me that the protectionists are most inconsistent people, even to their own principles ; for they condemn us in getting the establishment of free trade, and predict all sorts of disaster, LB a consequence of it, and yet they taunt us that foreigners do not follow our example. (Great laughter.) Now one reason why foreigners do not follow us in our free trade experiment is, that they read English newspapers, that they see noble lords, that they see gentlemen who are mem bers of the House of Commons, that they see men who are among yourselne—raillowners of Stockport—calling out for protection since-{cheers and laughter)—and they any, " We cannot pet be convinced that free trade is to be the permanent policy of your country," (" Hear," and cheers.) They say, " We see so many men of high rank, we see a* many men in high places who are still calling out fora return to the corn law and for protection, that we are not satisfied that it will last" (Hear, hear.) Why, it is a question I have been asked over and over again whilst travelling on the continent " Do you think free trade can be maintained in your country ," My answer hasbeen, " Certainly. We are not a people giv en to change, when • question has been discussed, and w hen a decision has been arrived at by public opinion." " But," they said, " we see a great many lords and other men arguing for a restoration of on, and regretting that fro trade has been adop ; and we must wait :we No yen as. not agreed among yourselves." And so it is : Shale INK who taunt us that we do not see any progress mating other nations in free toade are themseives taffyw a re I S it. (Cheers.) They are the cause of and are the non who are throwing °Whole; in the way of our pogrom, by exciting distrust as to the contiammas and permanence of the bee-trade principle here. Nee that I think it will be em obstacle long; for though burping as that tame we dukes, and great lon'a, sad MEW INESIONO-411Ongli time may be some men of great hiss and of 14* rank arrayed against us—though their umena rlbleo OM aide, they must perceive that all the g lle Eat intellect, and the taleLt of the opratry, b tho of free trade. (Loud cheers.) And as they know, brains in the end do prevail—tamers and lenclion) —why I think they are hat contiag . to the oonelopen that we are not likely to go back again under the rule or the blockheads, (Renewed cheering and laughter.) Per I must say that in my travels on the continent I mode this observation, in every country in which I went—in la Prance, in Italy, in Germany, in Russia—er I found every man of intelligence on the side of our (Cheers.) I found among the statesmen and everywhere that the ablest moo were the men most dimsead to imitate the English example and carry out the ftrieltitilas principle. And I saw there was everywhere on the pert of the cleverest men in the country a conspiracy to deb die vigilance of the protectionists, and establish the filo Inds principle if they could without their knowing it. (Laiestarig.) Why, I believe if our bad example in England had met leg almost everywhere else to the establishment of this bad prin ciple—if the government/ of the continent, instead of their present absurd, complex, and injurious tariffs, bad now sheets of white paper on which to write their tariffs, and had to write Man over spin, I believe there ia not a country on the con tinent of Europe would establish a restrictive system at all; because now the disposition is everywhere to establish free Made, and to undo the mischief tint has been dune by their predominate. (Hear, hoar.) We have had the taunt Brown out spinet us, I say, in this country, of our net having Melia other countries to follow our example : and see gaol / homes gentleman in the House of Commons has la& 'firm an show me one country that has followed our example I will become a free trader. Well, I take him at his word: I'll show him a country that has followed our ex ample—(cheep and laughter)—and it is the country which it is of the most importance to this oouutry should have bees indaced to do so : it is the United States of America. (Hear, hear.) Within sit months of the passing of the bill repealing the corn law, by our government they remodelled their tariff, and established a tariff for the admission of our manufactures on a considerably lower scale than they had fixed it at before. (Hear, 'near.) And I look at it as a moat fortunate thing that Sir Robert Peel made the change at the time be did, because it gave them the oppor• tunity of making provision for our wants. The Americans had just one season in which to prepare before our famine came upon us; and had it not been that Sir Robert Peel had changed the rate of duties to a scale ranging from 10i. to Is., so that the merchant could calculate on more steady prices, and could venture to import corn with more certainty of a reiaunerotion, I believe that we should have had thousands and tens of thousands of our people starved to death. (Hear, hear.) Because it is well kaowu, gentlemen, that under the old sliding scale the Americana never would move their corn 1 from the interior for this market, that they never would start ' it from the interior down the Mississippi and Ohio with a view to sending it here, because they could never calculate that the prises would remain low sufficiently long to enable them to introduce it to all, (Hear, hear.) The same arirtmont applies to Ruleill ; for it the duty on foreign corn had not been fixed within a moderate limit at the time it was, we should sot have had a quarter of the corn we had to supply our wants with from tne corn-growing districts of Russia. (Hear, bear.) It may be an interesting fact to know that so great is the distance of the corn-growing districts of Russia from the port of St. Petersburg, from which the great bulk of it is shipped, that the Russian corn we have been eating this year is not the crop of last year, but of 1846. (Hear.) I was told in Russia that the earn they had shipped was the crop of 1845; that it takes two mamas to bring it from the interior fm the purpose of being hipped, it being frozen up half a year on their great rivers, and one year being lost be fore it can arrive at its destine:ion. Now when you recollect these circumstances, when you consider that but for the establishment of this free-trade policy, the growers of corn would not have speculated with a view to supplying us, you will see the vast adventure, the immense and almost providential advantages, we halo derived from Sr Robert Peel repealing the old sliding scale and establishing the corn law of last year. (Loud cheers.) I believe we could net have been supplied with corn if we bad depended upon the ordinary sticks in the ports of Hamburg, Leghorn, and Odessa, and if we had not had the stimulus which was given by that measure aril which led to the ettraordinary supplies we drew from the vast prairies of the interior of Russia and America. Now, gentlemen, these are the justifications I offer for the policy we have proposed with regard to the corn-laws, and that it has not prevented great calamities from overtaking us no one can wonder. Why no one could have expected that we should have to purchase ten millions worth of grain for Ireland, and twice as much for this country, making in all thirty millions worth of corn to meet an unexpected and unexampled scarcity : no man could expect we should go through such an ordeal as that without some suffering. (Hear, hear.) But whet shall we say of the men who try to palm upon their too credulous hearers, the belief that we have been suffering all these evils from the effects of free trade, contemporaneously with a large importation of corn ? hy, gentlemen, we have had an increase of exportation to America. During the last nine months of the present 3 ear the exportation of our manufac tured goods from Liverpool t i Americo has been 90,000 packages more than we exported there is the same time last year. You hate had an increase! demand, but you cannot suppose that you will have that increased demand to meet an import pion of corn, which arises from a sudden and un expected deficiency, which you would have had under a regular and growing trade. (Hear, hear.) If there had been some sudden calamity in America, through the destruc tion of all their clothing, cutlery, ploughe, harrows, spades, axes, and other implements of agriculture, contempo raneously with our famine here, then you might have ex reed a sudden demand from them just the same as we had here for their food. (Cheers) I have spoken of the dis tress you have suffered in the cotton districts through the want of the raw material, but there is great consolation in looking to the other parts of the kingdom to find that in those places, where other descriptions of manufactures are carried oa, they have not suffered so much as in like periods of high-priced food before. Yeas will recollect that I have been engaged in this controversy for something like 10 years, and that during that period I have had many opportuni ties, whilst visiting other districts, of witnessing the condi tion of the working classes there. You may remember that in the years 1839, 1840, and 1841, we were suffering from the high price of food, and that very great calamities re sulted from the stagnation which followed to our trade. I was visiting other manulacturing towns, such as Bir mingham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and the Potte ries, and I remember, then, that they suffered to the same extent u we did in the cotton district. Nay, I remember that there was more suffering in Sheffield and Leeds than in Manchester. (Hear, hear.) There were 20,000 people in Sheffield, and 60,000 dependent upon paro chial relief in Leeds; and Wolverhampton, and Birming ham, and the Potteries, suffered in the same way. And yot may recollect that Paisley was converted into one genera: workhouse ; but that is not the case now. It is worthy of remark, that whilst you have been going through great ref- ' firings here, they have had comparatively none in those places. (Hear.) As I have told you, you have been suffering here from the want of the raw material for cotton manu factures as well as high-priced food ; but in Sheffield, Bir mingham, and Wolverhamplon, they have been sustained by the manufacture of the goods peculiar to those places—goods intended 'chiefly for the American market, and bought in exchange for the corn brought over to supply our wants. , (Cheers.) I lay give to this district an abundant ' supply of the raw material, and you would have had comparatively little suffering. And now that we have seen that in America they will have an abundant crop of cot- ' ton, and now that we have the price down in Liverpool almost at as low a rate as ever, and that you have corn at a reasonable price ; you are not paying touch more than three. half-pence a pound now—(hear, hear) ; and seeing that indigo and drugs for dyeing purposes were never lower than they are now—l say this district has a good chance for a state of prosperous trade, as you have ever had here since Stockport was Stockport. (Loud cheers.) Give you these elements—abundance of raw materials, an ordinary price o food, and money at an ordinary rate of interest, and you never can have bad trade long in this district. (Hear, hear.) With those elements to help as, I don't despair of seeing a revival of trade. But it must he borne in mind we have not got out of our railway difficulties yet. (Hear, hear.) Yoe see wears at a dead lock with trying to do too much at mote. Some men have tried to mystify these things by talking of a paper currency, but if you made all the table cloths and goods in the country into bank notes, it would not enable you to make all the railways that have been attempted. Now only last year, before I went abroad, I peened myself a petition for our Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in which I predicted all that has now happened in consequence of these railway schemes. (Hear hear.) You may say, wby dld I not raise my voice in the House of Commons ? Why, gentlemen, we were all engaged In the House of Commons in these very 'chemise; we had aff some constituency to repre sent with railway interests at stake, and we were all so rail way mad in the House of Commons, and carried away with thous enterprises, that I believe if anarchangel from heaven had come down amonget us, be would not have been listened to. (Laughter.) But, gentlemen, the evil is curing itself; something is being now done by arliament to relieve the immediate pressure arising from the attempt to make all these railways at once ; we are going through a penitential process; and at all events, if we do not apply a complete remedy, we shall prevent a great deal of mis chief. With abundance of the raw material of our manufactures, with abundance of food, which means cheap cotton and cheap food, we should also have cheap money, and we shall have a return to a better state of things ; but if you have these railways bidding for the money at seven or eight per cent., they will come into competition with the nmonfee turer in the money market, and will be a disturbing element to keep back that prosperity which awaits us. (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, let it be remembered that some of our pro tectionist friends have been helping ta get us into this, mew —this railway difficulty—and do not let them now turn mug moo yon and say that it is the result of tree trade. (4. Vase: "The taxation has something to do with it." Teti the taxation has a good deal to do with it. (Laughter.) WIE sow, upon the subject of taxation. It is too much lost Voot, that subject of taxation ; and I ham o ft en been sw eat it 'honk], be with the Emilia people, who ere SO ponied ; but somehow they do not seem to bring the same 6111111110 a soli to bear upon it al they do upon their own prima anikoal affairs. 'What wradhed economy you are silty or in beneath slain. I'll be baud to say that if my Mina the Wm dark were to ta tax yen a halfpenny Wet he 19•11118 yes eleomer • • street you would raise a rebaUlem gambol .) When your elec- time take place for mnsieipal oasis you always support these who will vote for emmeny in bmwagh affairs. Now tell ma why It is you do net airy the tame tialUlialk mom into the oloollese be w ishes of podimmoit (riere.) empire& wit those Your bps Wang of the samosa. Tea take mete ekes the spirts and Par IN attention to the bung. (Laughter, and loud cheers.) I have looked with some interest to the proceedings of the tut election ; I was abroad to be sue at the time, but I was con stantly meeting with newspapers, and read the speeches at the hustings, and the questions put by the electors to their candidates. Well, I declare to yeu that Ido not remember • single instance in which oat of the hundreds of questioners one of them asked the candidate about the expenditure of the state—whether there was going to be any retrenchment. We know they are very fond of luxury and extravagance in public affairs as well as on private. Do you expect the House o, Commons is going to be more economical ? Do the electors think that the government, that the ministers, are going to curtail their establishment if they are never asked to do it? Why, it would be about the most difficult trek for a minister to go into office to retrench and cut down the expenditure some two or three millions. He would have te dismiss servants right and left, who in return would abuse him in the news papers ; he would have to say to his colleagues, " I am sorry for it, but I must cut down the exp•aditure, by dis missing these men, and cutting down the salaries of others, because the people demand it, and public opinion has decided it shall be so. lam sorry for it, but it must be." No doubt the expenditure of this country might be very much curtailed, and I will tell you how—not by cutting down this sr that paltry pension, or reducing salaries of 5001. or 1,0001. to 3001. or 4001. a year. If any reduction is to take piece, let us strike at one great item, army, navy and ordnance-17,000,0001. • year. (Applause.) And if we cannot curtail that expenditure, why all the rest—such as cutting down some pitiful salary of a man in the Pat-office or customs — may do very well for sham-politicians to make a fight about, but will never reach yeur pockets. (Applause.) How is this reduction of expenditure to be accomplished / It is only to be done by the strength of public opinion. If you think in England it is necessary you should manage the affairs of all the world, with your ships of war and your armies, then you cannot reduce the expenditure of the army, navy, and ordnance. (Hear, hear.) Why, I see in the papers of to-day that there is a talk of increasing the artillery, and that fortifications are to be made along the southern coot. It is not very Me -1 cal, after proclaiming free trade last year, and announcing the opening of the ports, that we should decide to receive our customers with the cannon's mouth. The way is which Englishmen are taxed is through their fears. They tell you that somebody is coming to rob and attack you if you don't pay seventeen millions • year: while the fact is, nobody is coming to molest you at all. Since the war upwards of six hundred millions sterling have been expended on our armies —nearly as much as the national debt. Now, I tell you, you must not expect men in parliament to reduce their expendi ture until a radical change takes place in the opinions of the electors. The people mart first become economical; the House of Commons will follow ; and last of all we must ex pect the contagion to reach the minister of the day. lam I glad m 7 friend yonder reminded me of this great question, otherwise I should not have thought of it. The state is too ex travagant, expends too much money, and we shall have to do with regard to our public affairs what many private people have to do now • days—reduce the es abliehment—draw in • little ; we must cut our coats according to our cloth. Well, gentlemen, I do not know that I have anything more to say, further than to express my sincere regret that we should have to nart. I repeat, I have nothing to gain by going from Stockport ; you never gave me any trouble on account of local or private business. I did not get a letter once • month, and I believe I was never asked a favour by , any elector of Stockport. I do not believe any member can say as much. I should have been a very foolish fellow to have wished to leave such a constituency, and go to one with thirty or thirty-five thousand electors, embracing all the manufacturing towns in the West Riding of York shire, the local business of which will necessarily take up • great deal of time. But I am not insensible of the honour which has been conferred upon me by the most numerous, most wealthy, and most influential constituency in the empire. Having been returned for that constituency whilst 1,000 miles away from it, I had no more idea of what was taking place than I had of going to the moon. I feel gratified by the compliment paid me, and exceedingly sensible of the high benour ; but what I tell you now, I told the electors of the West Riding —that if I had been here when they proposed to nominate me, I should have done as I did in the case of Manchester — taken the most natural count, end declined the honour ten dered to me. (Hear, hear.) I have only to say that if my representing the West Riding of Yorkshire should in any wise enhance my influence in the House of Commons, as I know it does in the eyes of many—should it in any way give me the means of increased urefulneu to my fellow country men—l can only say that I place my services, upon public questions and upon public grounds, es much at the disposal of the constituency of Stockport, as ever I did when I had the honour of representing you.—Mr. Cobden resumed his seat amidst the continuous plaudits of the meeting. Mr. Corrocx regretted the separation, but looked upon it as a dispensation of Provideace, to which they were all bound to submit, and hoped the borough of Stockport would not be lost sight of by the 1., pri sentative of the West Riding. He moved, seconded by Mr. Rayner : That this meeting expresses its great regret at the determination which severs Yr. Cstiden's parliamentary connexion with this ho- rough. It still, however, lays claim to some shore of his retires/sta. ties enenyins, and hopes, in whatever sphere of action be may be pissed, to retain a hold on Ws sympathies, and rely, in some degree, upon Wtaervices. - . . . - The resolution was pared unanimously. Mr. Coaoase again came forward. He thanked them for the manner in which they had received the much too flatter ing .eulogy which his fronds Mr. Coppock and Mr. Rayner had passed upon him, and he should be very glad if he could think that anything in hie past conduct, or anything which he should endeavour to do in future, should deserve it. He thanked them for the forbearance they had shown to him, and confessed that he came upon the platform with a feeling of great anxiety, and nothing but a reliance upon their candour and kindness could have made it at all endurable to him, and enabled him to appear before them. He had come from London as soon as possible—as soon as the forms of the House of Commons would permit a writ to be issued, to make his explanatory statement, and he should be happy to see either publicly or personally any of his late constituent.. He begged that this separation might not be considered at all as a severance of the connexion ! which had hitherto existed between them. (Applause.) Now, he ought, he knew, not to say another word more, and in what he was about to say he begged that it might not be understood that he was canvassing for any indivi dual. If he was an elector of Stockport, and a member who was retiring came there to solicit his vote for a successor, he should at once repudiate that interference, and say, " You have done your duty . ; we have given you a cordial recep- Coo, and our connexion is at an end." But without wish ing to canvass for any man, he felt that Stockport and free trade principles were too much identified, not only in Eng land but through the world ; he felt that those principles with which his name was associated, mainly through their kindness and confidence, were too much at stake in the con test now about to take place—he felt too much interested in the election Yu Stockport which they were about to make, not to express a hope —he felt convinced that they would not allow themselves or himself to be stultified before the world. (Several rounds of applause.) He felt convinced from what he had seen of the electors of Stockport, that they would not show it to be said in this country, or in any foreign countries, that the name they bore, and which is always associated with the ques tion of free trade—that this great agitation and movement for free trade had bean nothing but a sham all the time — (hear, hear)—that the inhabitants of Stockport were not in favour of free trade after all ; and that the member for Stockport, when he talked of the name of his constituency, as being the representative of free trade principles, wu tell ing nothing but a falsehood—that there had been another election for Stockport, and that the Stockport electors bad sent a protectionist to parliament. (No, no.) lie spoke of no particular individual—but let the man they sent be true to those principles which they had so eminently contributed to maintain. Let him be a free-trader, not a eonformer— not a man who wanted to get into the boat when it was in the breakers, in order that he might help to swamp it. But let them send a man who is earnest in his convic tions' and wants free trade, not because he should give tree trade to our people in the same proportion as the Russians or the Germans give it to their people, but who wants free trade for Eng.ishmen, leaving the Buesians and the Germans to carry out their principles of despotism. " Give to Englishmen," he said in conclusion, " freedom ; let 'Englishmen be free , and let foreigners, if they like, be slam." (Great applause.) Mr. BRADLEY, as elector in the body of the hall, wished to ask one question of Mr. Cobden, for his own satisfaction, and also for that of other. abort him. Mr. Cobden had said if we had had a sufficiency of the raw material. cotton, we should have been better off than we are now. Now, he (Mr. Bradley) argued that if there had been • plentiful supply lof cotton, the warehouses would have been filled sooner, and that instead of a few failures only we should have had a very great many. Mr. COBDEN thought the gentleman forgot if they had had cotton 60 per cent. cheaper, instead of 60 per cent. dearer, as it had been, that there would have been a far greater in crease in the eassamption, and consequently trade must have been better, tease there are always more customers for a thing when ft Is asap than when it is dear. In pro- portion to a thing Wag scarce it was dear; but he could not under any circuses contemplate a disadvantage to any people in haring ea abundant supply of therm material. '—btr. Cobden concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman, which pried unanimously.—The proceedings then terminated. IRELAND. DCBLIN, Dec. H. We are again in the depth of a profound lull. All from the provinees is peace ; and were it not for a few cases of "threatening notices," " arms' spolia tion," &c., the Tipperary boys would pass for the gentlest race in existence. The sudden and violent outbreak of the preceding week has been succeeded by an equally sadden calm. Such appearances, how , over, are delusive, and originate in local and tempo rary causes, which the world would wish were of a more permanent and abiding character. The neigh bourhood of Rostra, on the authority of the Minster Express, is being emptied of its gentry, who appre hend violence in the open day. Highway ro bb ery begins to manifest itself, bat for this crime the police are more than a match. It will not spread.. There is a vacancy in the Bing's Rer,ch. Judge Burton died yesterday, having near' l completed his 90th year. For some time his once vigorous faculties had been on the decline, ex A t his re ti remen t was announced, but he gave the li e t o tumour en d adhered to his duties almost ',43 the last day of his life. Judge Burton was 00. 0 of the ablest lawyers add best an the iria4 bench. lie was 111 Englishman, and having come over to this country at the close of the last century under the patronage of Curran, who appreciated his abilities and extended to him hi s friendship, he was called to the bar in 1792. His career was a distinguished one, and on the bench, to which he was promoted in 1920, he displayed the highest judicial qualities—learning, judgment, at tention, and mildness. He had one child, the widow of the late Mr. West, Q.C. Speculation is already rife as to his successor. The poet falls of right to the Attorney-General. In the event of his refusal Mr. Monahan becomes the fortunate possessor, and obtains repose . from election broils and the entanglements of the Irish office. In the event of Mr. Moore's acceptance, Mr. Monahan would be attorney-general, and probably Mr. Mit chell solicitor, while his non-acceptance would have the effect of substituting a Roman catholic solicitor general for Mr. Monahan. Mr. Ilatchell being a protestant, thus would remain in itafn Another has been added to the I:st of paid unions. Mohill, in Leitrim, over which the Hon. Capt. Cle ments presided, is to be administered by paid officers. This is the ninth union under the direct control of the poor-law commissioners. Of all the catholic clergy who have fallen under the popular displeasure of England none has been more vigorously . denounced than the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott, parish priest of Strokeetown, where Major Mahon was murdered. The memorable words "He is worse than Oliver Cromwell, and yet he lives" were branded into the public mind even before Lord Farnham impressed them still more deeply. The language attributed to the rev. gentleman left no doubt of the personality of the attack, whatever con nexion there might have been bet wren the denuncia tion and fatal consequence. Nuw, the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott denies in the most positive manner the heavy charge brought against him. His words are—" I have now to assure the public, by the most solemn asseverations a clergyman can utter, that the late Major Mahon was never denounced, nor even his name mentioned, from any chapel altar in Strokes town, or within twenty miles of Strokestown, in any direction, on any Sunday before his death." This LS a decisive answer to the charge of personal denuncia tion. The memory of Mendelasohn has been worthily honoured in our city. His great work " Elijah" was produced on Thursday night by the Society of Ancient Concerts for the tint time, and created as immense sensation. The performers were numerous and well-disciplined, having been engaged for nearly four months on the score, under the able and inde fatigable leadership of Mr. Joseph Robinson. All the musical society of Dublin can think of nothing else, while the public journals regard it as an his torical event. Stich a work and such a performance reflect lustre on each other. A meeting of Mr. Reynolds' friends and supporters was held yesterday, to protect his seat for the city. Among the contributions were Sir John Power, 1001., and Mr. N. Maher, M.P., SOL Several smaller autos were acknowledged. The entire amount of subscrip tions was about SOOL SCOTL AND. EDINBURGH, DEc. 10. Fever and death will soon supersede ' the cry of fever and filth unless some change speedily take place. The usual mortality bill for November by not yet been issued, but the Mail of to-day states the mortality in the Edinburgh Infirmary to have been 170 during the past month, while during the corre sponding month last year it was oily 55. Since the beginning of December the deaths have been 75, nearly 11 per diem. The same authority states that about 60 privates and several officers of the 70th Regiment have died since the regiment was stationed in Edinburgh Castle, and adds, that this mortality exceeds that experienced in the corps during its stay in the West Indies. If this acconot be correct, the fatal results must be ascribed to change of climate rather than to anything locally insalubrious about the castle. The same cannot be said as to the infirmary, which is in a crowded and unhealthy vicinity, whilst its continual occupation by hordes of fever patients mast have concentrated virulent odours within its precincts. _ _ . - . A sanitary association is to be formed in Stirling. The preliminary meeting is to be held on the 17th. The Inverness branch of the Scottish Patriotic Society have purchased two large fields, in the neigh bourhood of the town, for land allotments. The rent paid by the society is 61. per acre, and the charge to their sub-tenants is to be Ss. for the sixteenth of an acre. The Scotch iron trade, lately so flouriahing - and lucrative, is now greatly depressed—particularly as regards the affairs of companies formed for carrying on this branch of business. The Ayrshire Com pany's affairs are under investigation, and although from the opulence of individual proprietors the public will sustain no loss, the shareholders personally will suffer. The East of Scotland Company has also issued a statement of their affairs. In Ayrshire miners' wages have been falling rapidly. Some time ago they were earning ss. a day—the masters reduced them to 4s. 6d.: a strike was the consequence, and after a time the men were glad to resume work at 4s. Now they are receiving 2a. 11d. PROVINCIAL. DISTRESS IN BRADFORD.-- 7 -PROPOSED EMIGRA rioN.—On Saturday last a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Bradford, convened by the mayor of that borough, was held in the large room of the Exchange-buildings, " to take into consideration the alarming extent of the destitution at present prevailing amongst the poor in the neighbourhood, and to adopt the best mode for their immediate relict."—The )furor took the chair, and expressed a hope that the result of the meeting would be such as to benefit the poor.--Nfr. H. B. Bytes raid the report of a committee, which was appointed at a public meeting convened by the mayor en the 2.5 th of October last, to devise the best means of removing the existing distress among the woolcombers of the district. At an early meeting of that committee it was resolved that, in consequence of the increasing destitution among the woolcombers of Bradford, and the probability that, in consequence of the increasing use of combing machinery, business was never likely to be permanently improved. it should be recommended to 1 the proprietors of manufactories to instruct the younger members of that branch of business is the art of weaving. The report went on to state that the woolc 'ushers in the district were estimated to number from 12,000 to 16,000, and that, as any measure calculated to benefit the woolcombers permanently was not likely to be of immediate effect, it was deemed advisable that two sets of measures should be in operation at the same time—one tor the present relief of the distressed, and the other for their more permanent welfare ; and also that it should be recom mended to the board of - guardians by a memorial not to en force too stringently . those roles which had recently guided them in the administration of relief ; and that a subscrip tion should be promoted in order to establish soup lutehens. for the distribution of food, that hunger may be relieved in. the approaching season . The committee, in making them suggestions, were not insessible to the burdens now pressing. upon the middle and troths( dames • but deemed it a duty upon all to supply the pow wide braid.—On the motion of J. Rand, Esq., J.P. ' restedi by Alderman Rogers the report was received and adophaL—The Rev. Dr. Burnett, vicar of Brimhbad, expressed his imp rympathy with too, operative deal/ of the neigithaurbood, who were row suffering disarms from the want at employment, at a time when a sasetni nearly all gresiesof society. to V eS testimmy to the patience , with which those dinner ben laree by the unemployed, of the town and seletheasheed t eel emsedadeel by prupesireg That this moilleg,Asympolities teeth • lame Immune/ e.ii hikes-Menemon. some the meeleemeeee, who,,serording s o the we 0014.11 wet Ogress, i.i-of opinion Vida= Mid be nseallealy seanneed, and. & I NM/ kr enetheetes shift* mi. nib a Mr. to such MS es my be Wig Ohlolllllll/114 nick that the who have desell thi l= wa to*, vane le a semalttea web power to adds , lc talus Menet aell to erport,whseever sum mar Vs se nisi J. Rand, Req., sioceded the renlviles.—W. Walker, Frig., supported the motion, in a bake shirms.—Thereesolution wan then put and carried.—The Rev Dr. Acearth, of Breton, College, moved " that this mating recommends. wi. PM effective means of affording relief, that sow km. * he forthwith prinided under mak regulations, as the C4IMIIiNA• may think proper to anise." Aldenom inns soneeled the rasaletiot‘uhki pool unanimou*.—J. Pollard.lol, rid that **laments laymen by the eaters of the bend ad seiedim, sad the abeam of the Issihell, to which @lin den bed beta mime nthandy demeadmited the. Masan of Mom Be eine± . ..Vod 210eklet Hate& en e Nan eseaund egerethes me aniseir2seneett . a ase enetimthe the V"...1.16 4 1 7 .. :7"=g1==.1 e= the m thambse he math tan ther ens somme es en& pee% .emit he leeenspre be se neon fp/ Mir hesmenson. men; sel SA ttemelthe bessieulel a Me era asp albs, rosy thee Mann, dem a mannethe nth tbe trerAzt a czeneise gasser filles t rA i l is e ell =este ate i rr the a seepliee C. Hardy, Beg. rewind tke notation, sad enproned aria readiness to Mist, by ell man la hie DOWN. be the aped of the warAfril,-I[r• W. B. Pules, I = h a that the assesity should line arm for s asst like that to lithe late its oceidereden the propriety of audio. the best panel die ernonnelty—tkeltnee, s end narro de dm I neglo —ln emirate. Hs wee Mtionit theA they Remit mot leak to emigration Aker be ilk fo sior:, of dieINSIS like that which now existed; yet awn might be spa* cues in - Which such a coulee of p rocee d* might ei, hod scene sad kg 1 9 0111040 4 eket the eke of ills