The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-03 00:00:00

Vie earprefS%. 411e , and Miss ;e" it; 'man% "011•1101 , .. is pokilslial rimy Turley sal P SW *Wit. in doe Vie psi. 'a Ilse lossusisi Ise " lapress," [atlas Issalag pew, most is NI 111, Ilsiimis.sinosOry Two esissli in tamp log al paltlismiass. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BMW!. Ti,. Dai—lliwalag, Ilk. Or. Afiersisa, Ith. Oa. Twasliarr—fisnies. ISL la. Om. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3. LORD DERBY'S friends are anxiously exerting themselves to induce the country not to believe them. Treat us, they say emphatically—trust us to any extent you please, but do not credit anything we tell you. dive us your confidence to an unli mited extent, but do nut regard a single syllable we gay. Think that we are anxious to do whit is right, bat not that we are anxious to say what is right. Believe that we are men of honour, hut, at the same Moe, utterly unworthy of all credence. In fact, Lord DERBY would treat Jolts Bubb as a quack dentist treats a patient—beg! him to open his mouth and let him iut his forceps in it, at the same time assuring him that he will not make the slightest movement that can give him even a momentary pain. The efforts of the party to reconcile their lan guage with their intentions would be really amusing if the matter were less serious. The Times treats the difficulty under which the protectionists labour, as a mere difficulty of expression. They know what they mean, but they have no sufficient language in which to tell you what they mean. Mr. DisLAELl's salaries the Times acknowledges to be in contradic tion to this view of the case, but then, says the Times, Mr. Dtsaiiebt says nut what he means, but precisely what he does not mean. This is intended to be complimentary to Mr. DISRAELI, and, at the same time, to satisfy and blind the eyes of the free traders. The other ministerial organ puts a different construction on the government addresses. It de clares that they mean that " all will be done for the agricultural interest that can be done ' and nothing will be done for them that cannot be done." This is indefinitely precise, and must be highly satisfactory to the farmers. Those poor people seem to be much in the same position with the government that we often see them upon country . race-courses--" Seven and ten arc twenty-two, and eight are thirty-four, and fifteen are forty-one, and six are seventy-two. Seventy-two is a blank, and blank loam the halferown ; if it had been seventy-three, Sir, you would have had a prize of 501., and ninety-six is the great prize of 100,0001., which you mar win next tune if you go on." So speaks the woman in the bonnet to her bucolic vic tim, and so speak the government from under the shade of their bonnet to the farmers, whose con fidence they seek to keep. Meanwhile the " intelligence of the country," respecting which Lord DERBY is so anxious, is be ginning to express itself. Yesterday the intelligence, aye, and the wealth, also, of the manufacturing districts assembled at Manchester to consider and pronounce upon the statement of the Minister. Such an event carries us back ten years, and awakens associations which have long slumbered. But the League is reorganised—that agitation which excited the nation in 1542 is now renewed, —that power ful machine which the men of Manchester took to Ore m, and laid quietly aside the moment it bad done its work, is again to be readjusted and set in active motion—and Lord DERBY may thank the manifesto in which he called on the protectionists to agitate, and declared not only that he sympathises and agrees with them, but that he only wants the power to comply with their demands. At the present time Lord Deane confesses that he does nut possess that power. Do the freetraders intend to allow him to obtain it ? It is not a power to be acquired in a day or in a month. "Time," say 'the protectionists, " time is what .ve must struggle for. Yes, but time for what? Time to corrupt electorates by the distribution of government patron time to plant candidates amongst con , dum in terests; time to undermine existing time to divert the attention of the country i by a variety of specious proposals artfully developed ; Wine to raise, if possible, "a cry ;" time to set churchmen and dissenters by the ears; time to con iciliate disappointed friends; time to buy the waverer, and douhtfuls; time to do mischief; time to do evil. Orr FtweES only wanted time to send the psrlia t of England to destruction; and so tbe Minis er, with his dark lantern of protection, and the miler matches of religious discord, only wants time tee lay tho train by which he hopes to blow up the tree-trade majority. During the " tires" which Lord DERBY desires to his purpass what will be the state of P see Ass me ziaatien ara memos it tram end Mawl: may be cheated I.sagacious st the emeartaiaty, may be t timestisee between Lagged end =emay be bell is sesames; a salad govern asy i• ismemible. Ltd he the intasetafthe ma. o tise that we abseil submit to sash mailess he the trLod DIM isellientsa f If it is est. it bet meernater at ease the hissemisems et the limitable Mk time to await. in swab, Ihebt, apprebeenea, and vesartaialy. the tall of tie prig mut. The experience of umpire. nod ear present marked prosperity, speak to amp gins of free-trade principles, not only thoesododly bet practically. bilks ration is prepared at once to promeneee upon them. No w time "is required for the senaidera tioa of their verdict. If the protectionist party have any doubts as to their own segments, let them say so. Now is the moment for them to recant if they 'Mod to ',mt. • umber of the harlots of the party hie pee back hi their imminent' br ewes we do not expect dia.& szpisastisse of their pur posed palsy from the members the Gobbet who sit for sue pines se Kidhuret. or as Dreitwich. There aeotimes limos octagon to it' ins.to thew who send them to the Howe et rie Dot the Comecomos!if the Exessousa *a for . Deekleghemaire, sad was elected ler The easiti by the farmers. Mr. Quunortna site for Lin. adeshire as a Protedissiet wash., we end wallslastL So with Mr. Ilearsav in Qzford r4end with Major Bannesen he Mem all the pledges of these members will sot • be teeredenaed pledges? Aber, all, time is one meaty mesh, sow Garin himself he re-else- Mee es a member of the seteument eassernieg whom there should be no milder. Mr. Olson Rums wee a party to the proesedhege is Donetshire in lOW which led to reolpillisa of his two tot botittoo. Lard Away esd 16. iiroar,—becauss these estimable gentlemen dmained to pledge themesiree tea protestionlet palfrey : Let Mr. BANK'S acne Mrpllmmi er tae wtfrtsfiee at Mr. FAIL. 010 MARION sad the other ire et the county, what, as a limalsee et gewsresseat, he blends to dot This is se expinatisa which be ewes alike to his tomer selbsomes sad te his osenti brats. No ewe wee kiwis, this Mr. Rows in his , eitmemeietieas el the " treachery" anemic lerlers. Lt there le as mistake this time. Let there he no ellegatise at tressisery against another member for semsty et Dwelt. It is quits Lime cues add , that reestitesesies s Id pin their nesaelera their_prisipise. The arse-trades at liseeksetae wed elsewhere till the poolsetisait piety phsW they Eglave their_ gerameset in tiny ere sot te get beds prelesdee. Tsaimisistra ad tell the preteedethet party phisly that it Inhale Is gin them heat pelsolise s and the Awes aseiwasoa behalf of the gevermest, that it does set mese to give them &aphis& It therefore, the really ire* prelestise, about which ors gears amlio—ff they are not obeli of the manster they theweelves have conjured _ip, as in May yeasts tiny we said I. be--they led better appear apse the beelloge, or, es the Cauposuoa of the Illematurms prefers to sty, " the twenty and es °Van to whet they wait is the prams, ef those have contributed topless in power ia the M e they may get it. Far ow ewn pile we hisnairle i e l -trades—ad the mot ley we ripest have ne desk as le that in teation—ws Weed Is d ma thrash isles et the insollen with whisk theredienhi wield sei fate tha assir k es . d which hope Sort b 7 swaying te deslie. i.g 4r nigelle ttliere it b est the %tweet of or at the inseam itself, that there ahwlt be any delay in amigos i sad ws therehre say to the I~Mit the Most !—Resolve !—Deelarel—the copped.. elt. ie rooks, the molt is eaten. _ _ Ws hare another ma* war on hand, as ear tele graphic anticipation of the Indian news has already explained. To all appearances, we are shoat to be involved in another Burmese war. About what ? The sooner this is folly and autho ritatively stated the better. For at present—judging kern the suarernations that hare ponied on the Gab e:. 00 lima etimele—See Sherd of Control has Lord esp.=l b tras lraw i a ) d i cl il y w as usi t a h: = C h sountry goareally has bow. And though, of course, our trade tint be as dhetually protected at Ran goon as it will, we hop% asocseary, be at Theo* it is not fee way Idly Insult or trifling loss that a war with trtfullsone neighbours like the Burmese—and in so Me* end postilential a roan try as theirs—is to be ebbed by making demands whisk the well known pride and stimmly unabated praimption of their goose mist were are to refute sad reeese. Ileeebeale sm i l ie dig i Ci l n such a kiwis. 7711 Ma IMMA run some risks without ng tot for pro tection and indemnification when slimier hurt ; and the wrong melt bare been serious said tie hush see est to bs overlooked. beim the Wire ipsennonat were boned to resort to so extreme a mason se sending a naval expedition into the River Irawaddy. Past experience ought to teach our Indian govern ment to have as little to do with the Burmese as is possible. All that we, or it, want of them is their tealt timber. If they will let us have that in peace and quietness, so much the better for all parties; if they will not, our best policy is to try and do without it for a while—sure that at last commerce will penetrate even into the Burmese forests. For, valuable as teak timber may be, it is not worth the cost of another war with the golden-footed King of AVA. The former hostilities were unavoidable on oar part ; for they were . produced by large and ferocious invasions of our territories in search of the Burmese who, in theeresds, had taken refuge there from the enmities ether own rulers, and by pretensions to =districts of country that were undoubtedly property. Into those hostilities we were literally kneed in self defence, for had we yielded or retired before Burmese audacity and pretensions, we might have exposed Calcutta itself to their attacks. But, though we were at last triumphant in the war and reduced the Burmese to humiliating terms of submission and ale houses which that war ought to have epee the Inditn government were, we e, to have as little as possible to do with use sow allies I and above all things, not to raise hem dborniens on smell matters with a people sad ennetapparently as incorrigible as the Chinese, and fist mew widen. The conclusion of that war was, no doubt, a deep humiliation to the Court of Ara ; it lost territory, tt last population, it lost money ; and, more than all, it lost the reputation amongst its own people of invincibility to which it had aspired. It has every motive, but safety and a repetition of the chas tisement it then received, to resent its former heavy reverses. In the main, however, it has fulfilled the terms of the peace it was compelled to assent to. It has respected the territories it then lost, has carried on, after the fashion of a proud, insolent, semi-bar barous people, trade with us; and, if it were suspected of hostile designs during our Afghan misfortunes, they never assumed such a shape as justified our taking notice of them. Whatever, then, may have been the conduct either of the governor or the people of Rangoon, in the matters for which Lord DALHOUSIE has demanded redress in so formidable and hostile a manner, there is really no evidence, as yet, before the public, that, at a time when we are at peace in all other quarters—when we had acquired greater military fame than ever in the north-west, and had there conquered the only race from which there was real danger to our Indian supremacy, the Burmese ido -1 !larch had again randy test measure swords with us. The whole weight of testimony we yet possess is the other way ; and the practical quern= for elucidation and explanation is whether it was wise and prudent in Lord DALHOUSIE, without any such appearances, and for a minor object only, to send a squadron to Rangoon, where it was certain to give offence, and. to make demands, and use threats that were certain to excite the Court of Ava. We do not, of course, condemn Lord DALHOUSIE f o r th e step he took , the fora. he sent, or the tone he as sumed; for, as yet, the public, neither in India nor here at home, have materials whereon to come to a conclusion and to express an opinion. But a very strong case must be presented by papers that must be laid before parliament with the least practicable delay, to justifv so costly a risk as another Burmese war. And if Lord DALHOUSIE has in a moment of indiscretion picked with the Burmese a quarrel that &little forbearaace,—or even ooneasion,—would have avoided, his responsibility will be great indeed. Without having even formed an interlocutory opinion, and holding our judgment entirely in sus pease, we cannot help . saying that the conduct perseed on the occasion by the Burmese mo m& is just what might have been anticipated,-- hr it is only a repetition and counterpart of what limiserly occurred under similar circumstances, And it is not a single chastisement that abates, still less that extinguishes, the vainglorious pride of such a court as that of Ava. Still, in spite of present ap pearances to the contrary, let us hope that a second Burmese war has not suddenly come upon our hands. be Court. . FRANCE., forPARIS, Tom i V„ The abeetion of Oavaignso the 3rd et Paris, which I annoanced m yet W. by the submarine takraph, is a feat at tratawas significance. This dietnet inclndth % is gest, ea moat important section of the capital in a asnemereial pant of view. It embraces the portion of the 2nd arrondissement containing the Bourse, the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, and a . part of the 6th. By referring es t nap of 'Par* you will find that this epee is Weeded by the Rue Vivienne en mei di% Bt. Denis on the other, the bodevmde en flos earth, and the qualm on the south. liffilW net better how to describe than by this kcal delinilion all the commercial import ance of thiemider. which contains so many flourish ing streets et shim with hotels of the financial aristocracy. Oa the other hand Carnet has obtained the wearily in the fourth district, although he has fallen short by a few hundreds of half of the expressed votes, which is necessary for immediate election. If the district which his chosen Cavaignac rep/wets the shopping and monad interest of the ogled, that in which Cunt hes gained the w = represents the wine& The latter the populous diddle of Bt. Denis, tit. MIRK and the Temple, sad Sae faubourge whisk hare furnished the shims se revolt in so Isere& insurrections. la the Mb district M. Oadians brads close upon the hue of M. Permit. wed in the sewed sloths to be belt es= link me doubt both thaw ambers st the twill be returned. This the lei it the Zile ul triete into which the depart nest etas Seim is divided will have given the met dosed aseeestration el opinion against the FIR theme smelts, as the candidates = l 4 llll ll%elhee le Meths eath of fidelity to Louis sea 1111 only . as a demonstration, 2r il lteirinlp gemOMl value is as a test of public egisiss. Thom theme portions of the capital which ems battered Ives moon of the dictator will have law their lest revenge. This is a blow which the iseeemset of Louis Napoleon cannot well get ewe. Ter, if the result of all sorts of intimideden, end obstruction to the free exercise of the eleelemi right, has been to return the champion of is moderate and of the democratic republic in Ile diem most remarkable districts of the capital, no ▪ ere doubt but that with a fair field and es bow the candidates of the opposition wail hare triumphed at Paris without exception. It is Miley of remark that the Orleanists have not been m eneemeful as nu expected ; and while the repehNsees have partly triumphed, and even the sociellets have made a good fight of it, the opposition royalists are placed nowhere at aIL Thus Bixio, a republican of Cavaignac' . party, and Eugene ue, stand well in the 6th and 7th circumscriptions; while Mortimer Ternaux, Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, and the Duke de Montebello fall far into the rear. Hence we may perhaps justly infer that Louis Na poleon has much more to dread from the republican and socialist than from the royalist parties. Con cerning the candidates who have succeeded, a few words will suffice. M. Ouyard-Delalain's chief title to represent the Ist district in Paris seems to be that be received a wound in June, 1848,fighting at a barri cade near the Bastille, as a national guard, on the side of order. The name of Devinck, the chocolate maker, and president of the Tribunal of Commerce, is already familiar to you. Curiously enough, this flexible trades man came forward on the lot of Dec. as the Nadi date of the parliamentary party, and the sheimples of the electoral law of May 31. Now he represents the universal suffrage of M. Louis Napoleon. M. Fouche-Lepelletier is a manufacturer of chemical wares, such as the can de Javal used by washerwomen, & c. M. Lanquetin is president of the municipal council of the Seine. M. Koine sterter, a naturalised native of Hambuurg, of Jewish extraction, and money-lender, cannot be considered se a financial notability of high order. In the reign of Louis Philippe I believe that this gentleman espoused the republican cause, and was connected with the democratic journal Le Bon Sena. In the 9th cireeneelption, M. Oarnun, the candidate who z=lo. Use, withdrew in order to avert the dal of his can, an employe% The 61111mbi are the electoral returns for Paris: Ist elect eed einineeription : MM. uyard-Delalabs, 13,310; de Teen, 6,579; Dupont (de I'Eure), 3,044. 2nd: 110 L Devinck, 12,189; Ternaux, 4,871 ; Lame. • 2,346: 3rd : Ml 4. Cavaiguac, 14,468; Dupe rier, 12,987. 4th: MM. Carnet. 14,744; Moreau, 13,511 ; Dubai!, 1,139. sth: MM. Perrot, 13,474; Ooudchaux, 12,687 ; Moreau, 194. 6th: MM. Pouch& Lepelletier, 15,360; Bixio, 8,630; do Montebello, 2,727. 7th: MM. Lanquetin, 14,386; Eugene Sue, 7,498. Bth: Arrondissement of t•t. Ilene, MM. Kconigswsrter, 15,438 ; de Lasteyrie, 3,346; Mtchin, 1,186. 9th: Arrondiaecnient of —kmux, MM. Verge, 21,371 ; Ciarnon, 603 ; de Lasteyrie, 56. Them re sults must not be considered as positive until after the final examination. The latest government returns from the provinces state that the government candidates have succeeded at Troyes, Caen, Bayeux, Falaise, Bourges, Louviers, Olson, Chateauroux, Tours, Blois, Neves, Va lenciennes, Haxebrouck, Roubaix, Douai, Dun kirk, Beauvais, Calais, Guinea, Boulogne, Be thune, St. Omer, Macon, Rouen, Dieppe, Havre, Fontainebleau, Meaux, Provins, Etampes, Amiens, Abbeville, Mullen*, Bordeaux, Indre-et- Loire, Loire Inferieure, two circumscriptions. The only returns in this list in favour of opposition can didates are for M. F. Fevre in one circumscription of the Loire Inferieure, and M. de Rermares in lie-et- Vilaine. At Macon, although M. Lamartino de clined to stand, 711 votes were given for him against 1,808 for the government candidates. I understand to-day, from a well-informed quarter, that the imperial mantle of purple velvet, embroi dered with bees, which is to be worn by the future Emperor, his already been seen by some intimates of the Elyste. The same is said of tho silver-studded I hareem of the eight horses which are to draw the coach.illiCl iserexpected decree, hunching upon the venerated principle of the irremovability of the jedge•appaars in the Monihur. it is not, however, dory peat importance, unless it may be considered as the fittodoction of the small end of the wedge with the view to further innovation. It is wail known that it was at one time seriously in eostespietkm to mks the edg es removable at the ploorsaaoleo exesative. ibis would have been to dsrtrsoy the heble guarantee that yet exists for the adatiehhation of justice, and, after it was net considered safe to tempt public pathless es hr. The present mea sure merely enforess the retirement of judges of the Court of Cessation at the of 76, on the ground of pressed infirmi=ar all ishrior judges at the ago of 70, and the power of the Cruet of Cessation to suspen d m grs tor specified miesooduct, by empowering sew to dismiss them en the same The report et r a lletatucci, metannending the dews, to the mmetien of the Preeithet, contains a lame& wasp he the memarte and tersitilly Mrtthe vales of the principle mississee jentils• the removal of judges on the ground at their advanced age by beledag even the insensibility of old men to the decay 'Ethelr own faculties, and argues that such removal is only following the principle laid down by a law of 18114. which enacted that judges might be dismissed an the ground et axiom and permanent infirmity. Th= album that it has been hued in practioe establish the existence of infirmity ItllathliTi to the text ti that law in many oases where it bee severthelon notoriously existed. The Court it Cooed= ever dose 1610 hes had the poorer et respeadlog judges %baggily for sissoodost. This power hes been easn exercised, and .salt on the bum* have remained meat for pore legether, to the greet Idodreaor tie time of Ihe mut It is consifirred delbohie t or- medy thin iessoveolenoe, by soehling the Weird Gout Is the c u ss to &mire a judge fkr proved odossoitet. T he is the asses: Alt L. Ms Nelserlef tbe of Oauseles met re 4pe se the we eseestrive_yesees sod the Mew et the ifterle d'Alene! Rai sr the Tribeerg ef ladesee the ege it hilsee phesd la renames es sa must of their age dal esehe an their eight he a mils is sesh omi tty was dig amiss limparedesdiumses. Mason* lag Allied to prove that Wry are leireersisi seder ides& I ties weemi is theanweise at their feeeiss• Art. A re f feakk a , ts•juitee who shall have alleissi the op dud ,het. 1, shell see ewe their fesedese use shoe they dell have bees seemed. Art. A. Whoa GM" es periehml lih to the Omen ef Appal or sf NUS bolsi% shell hoe, se •• seesetwe et Ehet, bass ally pespleke esepesded, the deshies phut shill be • The Clasen of Mass Albert walked yesterday weals. la do was ofllesk*Ami Pale Film Alit" esawiled Oslossi 1•••••14 roe ast ea bousbuilk yabsity winiar. At those .'deg is the Amos by hie liss royalk high elseetys= west to Crotty alluaded °dead wer_ weitieg. The Prises of weiesohe Prisons Pagel. sad the arsehous et the rryel awn& Welt their usual yeeseeday siesatai is the peva& of laddegiken _ _ The Qom bet a e= r eterlir vi egetkleS Paine. Th. the of Priam NNW= Vike the DOWN'S et ases.bat Lear Cerireet Lyme . the Dube et Illeaheste, tie Dube eel Demi= etistkiri, 1•47 Arm Ueda Dor ms, the NM et Ilheliess. the lad ile Jersey, Mount arit Illetemsee Needi the Illehey et Larlea emil Yrs. Biembilt. Lai live" Deem Mateta. NA Baega Rowe heti _ _ _ Leal Brea has Mimi Lot 13phiemisee is hie duties as Lard ht Wadq to the tame.. TM Marehinees of Ell baa relieved the Comb., of Menet lidgesedie M biz duties as Ledyof the Bedokesaber is Waits le bar lluteety. Tb. Nam' ed isst visited the Dachau of Cilovaeater yeetirdsy, at Cilevereeer-hew. The the Is Blesilly visited the Itself... of Kent yesiseday, at Clarimes-hesea 81. The Chevalier Bums had an interview with au, Ran , at his (Akan resideme is Downim strest.Duebiliesslßral Rossiya and Mr. Wedeheme, M.P., had nee isilmiews with the sable earl. Sir Hall, M.P., had aa interview with Mr. M r Thom dads yesterday, at the Hoesenthos. Mr Thome Prostantle he an Mornay with the Chas "ear oldie Niabaquer 'Yesterday, at his GSM random, is Dowthereneet. The Oehed Conereity Crmisdaa held • wefts en Mreaonday ry , at tie tidal Mikan of the PM Lord of the Tsu is Doessiconeth Preesse— Norwith, the Dem et °Mile, the Ilisara The of the Him H. 0. Liddri4 ead the I. A. P. Stenley (Saw teey.)—The Camden's sent swath yeetwary . , whoa there woo mese* : The likkhop of Niermkth, the Dos et Car ib, UMW d Pembroke, the NA% IL 0. UAW, J. L. , Bel., the 1t.,. Pother' Poweli b le iser ;lts O. H. Jel ma , sad the Rev. A. P. thsolay I Mr. Newainto bad to interview with the Bight hon. Sir J. Pthimusen yesterday at the Otlaafal of Xi. Philip Damn hod else an interview with the *bit Mt baron Lad ea interview with the Bed of Darby yesterday. Sir Jolla Trollops sad Mr. Thomas Edward Penfaid had interviews with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday. A large body of the liberal members of the How of Comeau hays boos invited to soon Lord Mu arson at the 11th inst. with a view to some oesseitation 'ad dotoradastion on the preset position of public alliin. Bit John Trollops taday esters upon hie ditties of the Ales mate! by Mr. Baines at the PIOT law Board. TIN RIGHT HON. 811 HINNY WATITI W. Wm, H.C.8., O.C.H. bar *Ss Savoy E and Mialater Plealpitaa at Coeabasev, by Nile& W awl , arrived at tits St italibedines Wort (Tuesday) rooming, by the Game Navtallsa ra steara•altip Caul= ifUnaidle, *es Mashresg. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY BTENING, MARCH 3, ,seimee tssasmittr a to tils t Keeps if the Sea t rra siz s ian or of. 411 " 6 1 11 : 4111 = 111. = to th• of dm Small Ohitw — ; ms him dhatisssd *sus his her Item Art 1. ma sis mamas' the purity of he phirmezest Oho Mos Masa basal, beim I. den awe W Art. In of the boats, Orambea 16 therwider. an. 10. It is sat easy to pia at the political motive which has dielated the above degree, in whhia, it has been lashed Ihrword to with Enda them really apnoeas to be nothing very objedienable in paineiple. The 'meter part of the vammble ma gistrates who will be imme diat ely aniseed by it can not be enopeoled et Orleanism, as they were almost all appointed bars NIA and some of thorn have beta ea the hash Mass the time et the empire. It is true thet the onsonwe will at MOO give the government a great deal of patronage, and there can be no doubt that the new Johan will all be men thoroughly to be depended upon, either to uphold confiscation or to condemn political prisoners. The Presto says that the President has been in disposed these last two days. A.t the Hoarse, the Fives rose 75c., and closed at 104.40 ; the Threes rose 45e., closing at 66.15. Bank of France shares rose 7.60 e. The railway settlement was in favour ci the rise; Bordeaux rose 11.25; Rouen, 7.50; Havre, 5. GERMANY. _ AUSTRIA. _ The Emperor of Austria left Vienna on the 25th ult. for Trieste, for the purpose of proceeding t Venice, to greet the Orand Prince of Russia. Ile was at Luy ba ch at nine on the morning of the 26th ult. His departure was unexpected and private. The Imperial Vienna °melte brings the text of the States convention with the Bank, of which we gave a telegraphic summary on Saturday. There is little to add to that statement. The debt due to the Bank has been divided into two portions, the first of which, for 72,260,077 florins, originally advanced for the redemption of State parer, is to remain on its present footing, while the second, consisting of 1111,500,000, and which is represented by Treasury bonds and assignats in the hands of the Bank foe 71,5(0,000, and by mortgage bonds for 40,000,000, is to be covered by an assignment of the great salt works at Omunden, Hallein, and Aimee. 'De works are considered to represent a capital of 140,000,000. Two per cent. is fixed as the rate of in terest for the whole amount of the government paper money held by the bank. The ultimate extinction of one-half of the debt thus secured is to be effected by the annual application of appointed sums from the revenue, while the remainder is to be met " whenever the condition of the public finances may render it possible." an intimation being given that in any contracts for new loans the liability shall be attended to. The bank are at the same time relieved from fulfilling their nominal subscription of 10,000,000 fionns to the last loan. Henceforth such government notes as may be received by the bank are to be sent in once a month, and are to be settled for in notes of that establishment. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Fan. 28. The new municipal organisation bill has been passed by the First Chamber. One of its most im portant features is the increased restriction of suf frage in the towns, which is at the same time a re striction of the suffrage at elections for the chamber, because tho law says: "electors for the chamber arc all such persons as have the right of suffrage in their local oommnaity." By raising the local census from 30/. to 401. income, and the requisite term of resi dence, from one to three years, a very large portion of the inhabitants have been disenfranchised. The towns arc further deprived of the right of fixing the salaries for their officials; the government assumes the right of doing this, in order, it says, to secure a pro -1 vision adequate to the support ofofficial dignity ; but the real object is, to render municipal o ffi cials immediat e ly dependent on government favour. A similar object lies, too, at the bottom of the clause, that clergy men, church servants, public teachers, and the pro perty of churches and schools, be exempt from muni cipal taxation, contrary to the spirit of the constitu tion, and all laws since 1848, which aimed at abolishing exemptions with regard to public bur theme. It is hoped that this anti-constitutional bribe will win the schoolmasters for the reactionary party, which, however, is not probable; the smallness of their income makes the taxes they would have to pay so trifling a sum, that its remission can nowise reconcile them to their life of privation and the galling control of superiors. Tho clause ex cited strong opposition, which M. von Gerlach tried to meet by quoting the constitution, which, it seems, tie can do at need, as well as a certain person can quote scripture; he urged, namely, that the said ex emptions from taxation formed part of the property and rights of the church, whichithe charter expressly guaranteed. The Second Chamber has been occupied with the budget. It has granted 43,0001. for gymnasiums, or latin schools; 1,3001. for poor students; 28,0001. for public libraries and scientific institutions; 7,1001. for the school commissioners; 70,0001. for universities. The Prussian national debt was stated to amount to no more than 23,789,7771., exclusive of about four milliocs and a half in circulating notes. Urgent re presentations were made by members from East Prussia with regard to the distress there resulting from dearth, to which the government promised I prompt attention and succour. The question about reconstructing the First Cham ber will be brought to discussion on Monday, without a royal message. The committee of the First Cham ber has recommended, on account of the advanced stage of the session and the press of business, the dropping of a motion " for excluding from the Chum berm and all public offices persons not belonging to one of the recognised Christian churches," or in other words, for retracting the emancipation of the Jews. At present there is but one Jewish representative, I and he sits in the First Chamber; and though Jews do find their way to honorary municipal appoint ments, the government has kept them out of its offices by cutting off all hope of promotion, so that their emancipation was rather formal than substan tial. But the aim of the reactionista is to make a new hole in the charter, by ejecting tho principles of religious equality. The Prussian .Moniieu,Wlishes a teler-aphic despatch, dated Trebizond, Feb. 8, stating tt the recently dismissed Grand Vizier of Persia, Mirza- Taghi-Khan, had been put to death by order of the Shah. He was taken to a bath, where several of his veins were opened, and he was muttered to bleed to death. The government then seized his in treasures. TURKEY. The German journals publish letters from Constan tinople dated Feb. 14, stating that the ascendancy of Rwiobid Packs augments with every day, but that dm solution of the difficulty of the Holy Places is not that which he has uniformly advocated. A violent opposition to the new income tax has broken out, and in some places payment has been refused. The government is resolved to overcome this resist ance, and will have recourse to energetic measures in ease of need. Serious conflicts have taken place at Beyrout between tho United Oreeks. SUDDEN DEATH OF MAJOR Bon.—An hapset was held, sa Tuesday kat, beim J. Cartage, Bee., ea the hod's( Robert NUNS 8e,.. seed 76 years, w• miler is the Marl Marian. !TOM idea a~ etßisharl Brewer, is whose bars t_he mast vesided t it apparel that it was the habit at lbe allSOUld to befog deers al 11 sealesk, from his spartrawat, the aewspapar. Be the so et the house; has* tided Wie we ea the .males el Thank , the 19th, be seat up Be it. The iteeeesive returned, sad dated that lb. ewer was seated is shale with Wass before bin, sad append is • very esatsial seats. Dr. Caryl was instantly seat he, who hued dal the diseased had takes einem ea sum at • psalm nedielete. oiled " Black Darp.'• a may pewartal west* used by sold pane= as a seditheo._ A. asset was lasessely obabilleeeM. sad two otheik4r weediesi psalm= anived. The elemseh.pemp_ wee m aad mew dies, but withest east; the deemed dial shout ed hfour hears mad • half Aar Intim the pass. The jury retuned a verities. "That isseassd had ere le his death by taking ea essessive ausatity _at maim sailed • Black Drop,' hat !I. what Mae et stied he was la se dre time there was as 'Aimee M sbeer.“ The ilsesesed wee may Mows and bid* fallyealed by deems et per=r i a, Issainalesse was esemeed to as meat eves beyond his smaas. He had sellested by hi. sera heeds a very extensive eallestka at bads sad seartil suriesitiss. sad - was at sa l thine miaow appear sey • misitiled emir.. eas hued to w ero. I to RECONSTRUCTION OP TOO ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. on which the publie are nut so well-informed or so well united. We, the men who have had a responsi ble position in this agitation before, ilo nut think it ad visable to ehange our responsible position in the House of Commons from a majority into a minority —to retard the definite settlement of this question, instead of three or four months, for probably so many years more. (Loud cheers.) With regard to the course which has been recommended to you in the resolution which you have heard read by your chairman to-day, it is proposed that you shall reorganise rho League—that you shall send out circulars to all your old friends and colleagues throughout the country, asking theft to rouse themselves into action to prevent the return of any gentleman not pledged to free trade in corn ; and it is pre posed, further, that you should memorialise the Queen, and call upon your friends in all parts of the country to organise societies and to bold public meetings in order to memorialise her Majesty to the same purport—to dissolve the parliament—(hear, hear)—and give to the country an opportunity of giving a final judg ment on this question. (Cheers.) It has been said, in the terms of the resolution, that you are to memorialise the Queen to dissolve parliament at once—immeas.;:itely ; but to avoid all the cavilling of those who may think we are not duly sensible to the interests and to the public business of the country, I may its well say that an immediate dissolution of parliament is not possible. There ern certain things which, when parliament meets again a fortnight hence, must be done. You must vote a ceitain amount of supplies, in order to enable the government to go on during the process of a general election. There is one an, the Mutiny Act, which must be passed before the Is ginning of April, in order to prevent the army from being disbanded. You must do certain things before you can dissolve parliament; but what we wish the people to un denten,' is, that we advocate an immediate ditrolution of parliament, after there necessary public forms have beea gone through, in order that we may not be longer kept in suspense on tide vital question, fur the great interests of the country ore kept in a mate of anxiety and apprehension as to the possible issue of this contest. Now it a ill he said very likely, why should you dissolve parliament and seek an immediate issue on this question ? Many of our friends probably at first may think it rather rub, when we are beginning to organise, to seek to bring our opponents into mortal combat. It is tensible that one who is a member of the House of Commons may have better opportunities to judge as to the reasons which may determine such a policy at this, than those who are not within the arcane of our political legislation. Gentle men, I have the strongest belief that we are sae from everything but delay, and the tricks of politicians which will he practised during this delay. (Cheers.) I want to bring this question to a definitive issue without being mixed up with any other question. I have seen it already put forth that the monarchy is in danger if we are allowed to succeed in our olikets• Yea in Manchester and Lancashire who showed not many months ago, by that demonstration which Man chester and Lancashire alone could make—(hear, hear)—which astounded royalty and those attend ants upon royalty who Hand witnessed the great pageants of Europe for the last thirty year'—you, who astounded them all by your demonstration of loyalty and devotion to the institution, of the country —aye, you in Lancashire will be denounced as ettemieg of the m o narchy, and promoters of revolution. (Loud cheer,. a nd laughter.) I should not be surprised at any charge which might be brought against you, with a view to divert attention from this question, if you will only give your enemies time. And I say, give them no time. Let this question of the corn laws occupy the front rank. Let it be the only question fur those who think that it is • question which can be settled by one ellut more, in the course of the next there months. Let this take precedence of all that they eau possibly bring to baffle or confuse us, and then we will bring it to a suc cessful issue. But I am told we must allow the protectionists to remain in office far twelve month', to give them time to abandon all their professions and their principles. —(laughter)—and cheat their friends. (Cheers, and laughter.) Now, gentlemen, I am afraid that they will cheat us. (Hear, hear.) But what morality is this ? This is something new, surely, in England. We are to he told that a body of men who have leaped into power simply and solely because of their protectionist principles, if you will only tet them remain in office and draw their salaries—from 5,000/. a year down to 1,2001., will abandon every one s of their professions, scatter their principles to the winds, and allow their dupes—the protectionists —to go whistle for protection. (Cheers, and laughter.) That, I say, is something new in the morals of politica in this country. We have beard that such things might be done, but it is the first time we ever heard such a policy openly advocated and recommended to a govern ment. Now I tell you candidly that I do nut believe Lord Derby and his colleagues to he half so base as these advisers take them to be. Would the men who hunted that illustrious statesman almost to hisgrave for having abolished the corn laws, whose sole political capital from that time to this has been the sarcasm and the obloquy with which they have covered his name, and the abuse with which they have loaded the gentlemen of the " Manchester school"— (laughter) —are these men going to do, not what Sir R. Peel did, but ten times worse ; for Sir It. Peel, when he found it necessary, and in his conscience halieved it advisable that the Corn laws should be abolished, resigned office, and remained out of office eighteen days. He said, " I am not the man to carry the abolition of the corn laws; they must be abolished, hut I am no:the man to do it." He snowed his opponents, the whigs, to come in to accomplish that object. It was only wh.ru they had declared themselves incapable to do it that he came back to power, carrying his colleagues with him to do that which he had himself declared he ought to be the last man to do. He did not carry all his colleagues back—he left one be hind, and that was Lord Derby. ( ( 'beers and laughter.) And are we to believe that Lord Derby and his colleagues are now coming into office simply and solely that he may get rid of the principles he hat been advocating, and has denounced his former colleague for having aban doned ? I say I do not believe it. I believe the ministry to be sincere in their professions. I believe they come into office with the view to carry out those professions, but are you going to allow them to remain in office, to be sharpening their sword in order that they may stab you when they find you off your guard ? ("No, no.") Then, of that be the feeling of this meeting, the course we have to pursue is clear. We must raise the question, and keep it a question in the House of Commons, and a question to the country, until it is finally disposed of. Our own Mr. Villiers-our old and trusty representative in the House of Commons—has given notice—(baud cheers)—of a motion to bring the house to the test on this questiou. Now, as it has been said that Mr. Villiers is • brother of Lord Clarendon, and may have a whig object in bringing forward this measure, I may as well state that it was at our instance-- at the instance of those with whom we are ateelated—that Mr. Villiers gave notice of that motion ; and that he fore saw at the moment—l may speak of my own knowledge— (hear, bear)—what would be said as to his wishing to rein state the fallen ministry. Ile even raid to me, "You might bring forward the motion yourself, probably, with more propriety;" but I said it was due to him, who had so nobly maintained our principle in the house of Commons —it was due to him that nobody else should be allowed to intervene on this question whilst he remained in the House of Commons. You are told that this is a very wrong time to dissolve the parliament. Now, gentlemen, I will tell you candidly, and it is • secret probably coming from a member of parliament, that I never knew yet the proper time for a dissolution in the eyes of members of parliament. (Cheers and laughter) If by any possibility two or three months could be gained, why such is the dread of a large portion of the representatives of the people to be returned back to their constituents, that they are willing to make any possible sacrifice they can in order to put off the evil day for two or three months. Now, I think, the consent encies of this country have very much to do with it, and are very much to blame for that state of things. There is no doubt that members of parliament are grievously wronged, and robbed, and molested by their con stituents; and one-half of them go down to be re elected only to be plundered by one class or an. other not by the great mass of the electors they have no hand in it, but they are not sufficiently vigi lant, and they allow corrupt men and lawyers and others, to fasten themselves on the repreuntatives, and debase the character of the whole constituency, by extorting terms from the members which prevent the great body of the electors from having honest and faithful representatives in parliament. But that being the ease, I may as well tall you, for we are obliged here to talk secrets very openly, that the indirect threat which was held out by Lord Derby, that if we did not behave ourselves in the House of Com mons he would dissolve parliament, and make an appeal to the country, is very likely to he influential with a very large portion of our body in the House of Commons, unless you bring public opinion to bear upon us from without. If beu memorialise the Queen, and communicate to the mcm n of parliament that you think it desirable that in April or May this question should be settled. If the members of the Holum of Commons know that is the determination of the country, I mean the free , trrule party iu the country, then. when a motion is brought forward to suspend the voting of the supplies, by merely voting some of the money on account, rather than going into the estimates, you will haves vote of want of confidence in the government directly. If you are vigilant with your representatives now, a majo rity will be gathered to force • dissolution, nitherthan incur the displeasure of their constituents, by acting otherwise. But, gentlemen, your merchants, your manufacturers, your ship owners, your colonists, all require to know how tun thing is to be finally settled; they want to enter into transactions enduring over one year or two years. The whole wages and profits of this empire are bound up in this questioo. Tear, hear.) I see no evil so great to the country as letting s question remain unsettled. Theo we hear it said, " What would these men have ? These are men who are looking to some other form of government. 'I hey won't allow any government to exist. If this governmeat is not to continue in office what government can you have ?" This is the argument, and by and by they will ask Mr. Bright if he is willing to go to the Horse Guardia or proba bly they will ask if I shall become L aryl Chancellor. But, gentlemen, are there any such consequences involved in this measure ? They Say, " You contort form ant other administration except this," or " you cannot carry on the business of parliament unless you have either the protec tionists or the whiga in office." But they forget that when this question is settled the protectionist party will disappear. If you have one dissolution on this subfect you will never find another politician who will tie the tin kettle of protec tion to his tail afterwards. (Cheers and laughter.) They are all anxious to get rid of it, no doubt. But when you have abolished the protectionist party, it does not follow that it will be very difficult to carry on the government in the House of Commons, because I, who Lave never been identified, and have never avowed myself, politically, a partisan of the whigs or conservatives, I have teen that the whole of the difficulties in the House of Commons, that is, the difficulties in addition to the difficulty which we know to exist in the inherent weakness of the a hig party, from canoes which 1 don't intend to go into here, for this le not GREAT MEETING AT MANCHESTER. £27,620 SUBSCRIBED. Yesterday afternoon one of those meetings for which Manchester was so remarkable in the days of the great free trade struggle —e awe/Inger the " representative men" of the party, rather than of the public, Interested in this question, was held in the large public room at Newell's buildings, formerly known as the Picture Gallery. It had been convened by the following circular: Newall's-buildings, Manchester, Feb. 26, 1852. Dear Sir, —The accession of the Earl Derby to o ffi ce, pledged to an attempt to restore the corn law, is now a fact beyond dispute. The question which the country and the parliament of 1846 decided, is to be re-opened, sod the verdict of the English people is again to he demanded. No time should be lost in preparing for the struggle, which is now inevitable. It will not be a long contest, but it will be decisive, for on it depends the liberties and the future tranquillity of our country. lam instructed by a preliini• nary meeting of gentlemen, in whom the friends of free trade have heretofore confided, to summon a meeting of all those who were members of the council of the Anti-Corn Law League, and of others who may be disposed to join them, with a view to such stops as may be necessary to de feat the mad end wicked attempt to re-impose a tax upon corn, and thus to limit the supply of food to the ponulation of the United Kingdom. The meeting will be held in New• all's-buildings, on Tumday next, at 3 o'clock. Mr. Cobden, M Mr. Bright, r. Gibson, Mr. Kershaw, and other gentle. men, will be present, and you aro earnestly invited to meet them, with a view to consultation, and to such further pro ceedings as the circumstances of the ease may require.—l am, dear sir, very respectfully yours, dm., Onoisoa ViIUION. [A great number of letters were read in reply to the circular seat out by the Council.] We learn that there was a preliminary meeting of the principal members of the executive of the old league, held at a late hour on Monday evening, at which Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Alexander Henry, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, M.P., Sir Elkanah Armitage, Mr. - Henry Ashworth, Mr. It. N. Philipps, Mr. Jolm Whittaker, and Mr. It. Platt were present. Mr. 0. Wilson presided, and after ma ure deliberation and considerable discussion, there appeared to be but one opinion, and it was that, at the meeting of the following day, a resolu tion should be submitted, reconstituting the league under its old rules and regulations; end that a subscription list should be established to rsarantee the expenses. The fol lowing were among the gentlemen present at the meeting yes terday—Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, M.P. Mr. A. Henry, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. James Heywood, M.P. ' Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Sir E. Armitage, Mr. Alcard, Mr. P. Rylands ' Mr. H. Ashworth, Mr. Jas. Woolley, John Marshall, llora forth Hall; Mr. John Whittaker, Rev. Jas. Everett, Mr. Edward Smith, Sheffield; Mr. Jonathan Wright, Colne ; Mr. Mon tague Fielden, Blackburn ; Mr. Alderman Harvey, Charles Ihndley, M.P., Ashton; Robert Milligen, M.P., Bradford; Joseph Leese and Joseph Sidebottom, Manchester; Beesley, Liverpool; Wm. Hallivrell,Todmorden ; H. Dean, Colne ; Win. Gray, Salford ; Ivie Mackie, Manchester ; It. W. Jackson, Blacaburn ; Met Shorrocki, Titus Salt, Geo. Hadfield, Thomas Price, LL.D., Samuel Giles, George Whitehouse, E. 'l'. Bradshaw, Chas. Wilson, T. J. Spence, Martin Schenck, Nathaniel Buckley, Robert Munn, Thomas Eskrigge Edmund Ashworth, William Bickhare, Samuel Lees, S. P. Robinson, Robe. Platt, Richard Matley, William Butterworth, Thomas Worthington, James Buck ley, Ashton; Thomas Wrigley sod John Grundy, Bury; Thomas Thompson, Nottingham ; Alfred Steinthall, Rich ard Thompson, William Nicholson, William Ackroyd, Burnley; William Lees, Stockport; James GA% kroger. lleblen ; William Hamer, Heywood ; Hugh Sudgilen, Bch den Bridge; James Watt., Manchester: John Cheetham, /Banbridge ; S. Perrin, Bury; John Whittaker, Ales. Kay, Ald. Watkins, L. Schwabe, Richard Solly, Sheffield; Rev. Dr. Beard, Thomas Bagley, P. Saville (Lees;, John Hoyle, Rochdale; Edward Potter, William Mortis, Hali fax; George L. Ashworth, Rochdale; Matthews, Shef field; George Lord, Burnley ; John Ogden, Oldhhain ; John Chadwick, Eccles; Nelson Goatiide, Saddleworth ; James Ashton, Stockport; Thomas Blackburn, Liverpool; James Hibbert, Manchester; Robert Ashton, Hyde ; James Winder, Bolton ; William Lowndes, J. Simpson. --- • --- - - - - - - - - The CHAIRMAN said they had taken the liberty of convening the council of the late Anti-Corn-law League, and the friends of free trade, to confer together upon the present important aspect of the free-trade question. Ile thought they must agree with him, that nothing less than a subject of the gravest importance could justify us to the smallest extent in once more summoning together the council of that constitutional holy, which 6000 time ago closs.d its labours, under the impression that they never more would be required to be called into existence. (Hear.) But they had now to deal not merely with a conservative administration, but with Earl Derby, as the head of • proteetionmt government, surrounded and supported, from first to last, by members of his goverument who were pledged to • restoration of protection ; and if any justificativo could be required for their con vening this meeting in the middle of a market day, it must be found in the administration itself. Previous to taking such a step they had sought the advice of all those excellent friends of the League who, during three years, afforded them their support, their advice, and concurrence, and from all of them, so far as they were at present in receipt of communications, they bad bad an ample supply of them to justify them in the steps they were about to propose. There was but one opinion offered, and that was advising the revival of the League. (Cheers.) At a meeting held on the previous evening it had been resolved to propose certain resolutions to the meeting, which he would read before introducing the speakers who were to move them. They were as 4,110w5: 1. That an administration having been formed committed by every pledge that can bind the honour of public men to attempt to reimpose a duty on corn, it is resolved that the Anti-Coro-law League be re-constituted, under the rules and regulations by which that body you formerly organised. 2. That the council of the league be requested to put themselves into immediate communication with their friends in all parts of the kingdom, urging them to immediate action to prevent the return to parliament of candidates in favour of the reenactment, under whatever pretence or form, of any duty upon the importation of foreign corn. 3. That, considering how essential it is to the welfare of the agricultural, manufacturing, colonial, and shipping in terests, as well as to the peace and prosperity of the treat body of the people, that the free-trade question should be permanently settled by an appeal to the country,—resolved that a memorial to the Queen, praying for an immediate dissolution of parliament, be signed by the chairman, on behalf of this meeting, and transmitted for presentation to her Majesty. 4. That in order to carry out the above resolutions, a sub scription be forthwith commenced, and that a all of 10 per cent. upon all subscriptions of 104 and upwards be made; subscriptions under that amount to be paid in full. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., in rising to move the first resolu tion, was received with prolonged and enthusiastic cheer ing. After a few preliminary observations, he said—l appear here to serve no party of politicises •' I don't come here with the view of taking any steps whi c h shall be likely to displace one body of men as politicians, to replace in their stead men of another complexion of, party politics. I disavow any each intention whatever. I appear here solely to advocate a cause which I believe experience has shown to be worthy of an effort; and we will, if you ?lease, if we renew our labours, be under the same rules and regulation which led on triumphantly to victory on the last occasion. We will strictly confine ourselves to the subject fur which we have met together. (Cheers.) Now, gen tlemen, I say, experience has shown, that what we are en gaged in was worthy of the effort which we bestowed upon it. I may solemnly declare, for myself, that in the most exaggerated flights of my fancy, I so great • result from the labours of the League as has been witnessed within the lot four years of our experience. (Hear, hear.) Now take, for instance, the single fact which comprises almost our whole ease. Since the day we laid down our arms there has been imported into this country, in grain and flour of all kind., en amount of human subsistence equal to upwards of 50 millions of quarters of grain—(hear, hear)—• larger quantity than had been imported from foreign countries during the 31 years preceding 1846, that is, from the pesos of 1815 down to the time at which we brought our labours to a close. And now, gentlemen, in that one fact is comprised our ewe. I need not go into statistics to show you the bene ficent consequences of this. You may read it your selves, and see your triumph in the nation's inde pendence; you may read it in the countenances of people of all classes ; you may trace it in their improved clothing and improved habits ; • you may see the triumph of your objects in the diminution of pauperism and crime which is extending over the whole country ; you can see it in every upset, in which you can, as it were, feeling the pulse of society, test the condition of the great mass of the pecple. Well, gentlemen, it we have achieved so much, what ham we averted ? (Hear, hear.) How much of suf gzlila behind the privation which the mar of the most have suffered if it had not been for your triumph ? How much of vice and crime, and ememeent misery, must have pervaded the great MI6 Of the people if kept in that state of destitu tion and mintion in which they must have been but he the introduction of this great amount of human sub eisteste. These then are the reason., these are the sufficient jeetilleation for our wishing to maintain the ground we kam ashamed. There are many gentlemen—perhaps same amens those who are present on this occasion— who poem me to enter upon other questions as well as the men laws. They say, "Why don't you go for a l arger meseare of parliamentary reform, which will not only enable yen to carry tree trade in corn, but will also enable you 16 eany away ether Wogs ?" (Hear, bear.) Now, it mews toMme Met the Mae, which lies in this ergo meat er entreaty is this; it is assumed that be came we an ram to yanks an effort to pat an end for ever or this war open free trade, that therefore we intend is embeds ether people hem entarieg on the consideration et ether_sesedens. I don't see that, bemuse gentlemen join la this 'movement 6i the Anti Corn Law League again, that therishee they ars to abandon other principles, or neglect other vsevemeals ia whisk they ere engaged ; bat what we say is this, that having slows pea the net medal benefits which have admen front the emeacipatien of the people in the article of food, and the establishment of the principle of free trade in this einunedity, and having shown you the vast advantage which it his been to the mess of the people, we don't feel justified, whilst we are ' sure, or at least morally certain, that in a few months we can put this question for ever out of the category of con troversial questions —we don't feel justified in placing ourselves backward, or taking up other question?