The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

Ilth were chartered for Enrow.can ports., 26 vessels, 4 for ig,w York. 4 Cape of Oood Ho p e, 2 for the River Plate. I Warr %mum—Discounts are again lower, being f ec .,trthtiim iat 6 per orcut. Exchange opened at 2$ upon ::11,1 from the bth has ruled at to J, get.erally I at '. 2 Le tr Ritef Plate bill. have been passed at 26; to 24, at R, _sitar traniactims upon prance, Be., it 331 to 311, uul at TX* t03:16 foe French government bills at 30 ds.; ' li e doviro, at 61$ to 620. Stock : Sales on sth ' sine small &solute at to 93. Nothing noted in : Doubloons have imkroycd from, VA to 30 7101.. :00, and since the arrival of Prince , have bees tißet.,il at 30 doh. 400, Considerable sales of Pitt:ot lair.. List quoted at 1 dol. 920. Uraxil have been i 41.1 st 171.,E 960. Shires : Of Comosercial link sales Live ,t& cud at 650 d 01..; Brazil, at 40 pr,Anium Pocket. at 336 doh. to 3W dais.; Omnibus at 111 I at 123 dole. 6 r.u.—lmeours.—Enteral inwards this day ; 360 :0; bole. Cheese, lit toes Coals, 170 cos emir c a ds. e, 4611 p.. Coffee Ilagging, 8,000 lbs. Linseed Oil, to; 74 at ,sans Pelt, 14) keg. , Shot, 13 pipes Vinegar, 6.:sw go. Walt, 122 pipes Lisbon Vine. Stk. thi4 slay. 7,00 0 bates shipped since yt i n g.,111,011 bap; stock this day, 100,000 Eteas:si.s..--11egulir amounts have been passed this ~ t , w.thout .my tauten-A ...Iteration in the respective rates; It • ka' au or want tendency, however. We estimate the •41e. the Severn, at '275,006/. upon London, viiit f...ne, upon Franc:, tee., 276,000 snares bane() upon Ibedori• _• CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. TIIE KAFFIR WAR. Sc the Teelot, arrived this morning at South anr-ton. let hae reeei‘ed the regnlar monthly mail Inen the Cie of Good hope, whose datees are to Kostniter 4. the intellim nee hr night by the Inst post from the Louder is entotne,:t.K. Cen. Somerset had inflicted on the Kaffir% in the ‘Vaterkloof a succession of de feat attt ailed with heavy loots to them. The r•Oth Ititt.s had male their appearance in the 'I. A, and their weapons hnd told with great effect. It a Is sapp..se.l that Ilaeomo would not be able to held out much l o nger. The Kafflis were still in mem fon e in the Fish River Bush and in the Ama p ; . t . I, is feared. however that any opening pros ef slicers would lead to a Ni ider extension of the a tr, and v.hich may before long spread cost ive(' heron.' the Kei, and northward beyond the Orat,:e r. - - - - Muc'e satisfaction was felt on the arrival of the F ond- , I ordinances, comprising the frame-work of btly liberal form of government. There is an LIP :•;,th• move:mut in t.ic country districts in fuwur .1 the immediate establishment of their con titutieu. This movement is considered most im- ',stunt. The folloirmg is the monthly summary of the Cope r„.,„ /Lc. 4 : At the date of the latest news recorded in our last sum mary. tL^ mass ut hostile Kattirs and Hottentots, estimate.: at sus- thou o.lsAl in number, wcro within the colony, divided two boils s, the our post,d in the Fish River Bush, about thirty Mte• math-east of Graham's Town, and the other in the (Vats:U.4 about filly unites north-west of that town. ILI. enemies in the Fish Bitter Bush were watched on the wi.t by Lir ut.-Col. Eyre, who, with a force of nearly .510 111 , 11. r.,t113.1 Graham's Town,—on the south by Major Wilmot, with • small detachment at Fort Peddle, — and on th. east Ey perm:hag parties scut from King William's T. + a. Several skirl:U.llms have taken place between these d*.r.isra..iits and varioas marauding parties of the me-.v ; ti.e later have invariably been repulsed, but no ih.pcitont .necc•cc has been gained over them, except in ra ill , :arorr. A hotly of about 800 Kaffir, and 11..tteutots otympted, on the 2,1 ult., to drive off several th0...-aol cattle and sheep from the vicinity of Fort Brown. Tll who was in command at that post, ininuli at. ly oat with the fore.: at his d.-pomil—about 220 chiefly ol the 12th neut., and the Finyo 111:11 r. r it the plunderers, killed IU of them (many more being I artie I awry wounded), and recaptured nearly all the spoil, hclag effected with no serious casualties among his . No attack baa been lately made upon the main body of the eaeeny in the River Lush. The efforts of our trope have been directed inanity against the large body under the thief Macomo, in the strong fastness of the Woterklaof. Oa the. 12th ult. Major-General Somerset mar.lied towards this stronghold, with a force of about 3non en n, composed of the regular troops of the 2d, 6th, 12t'.. 71:h, and :list Itegt., the Royal Artillery, and stape Wanted It.el N—of mounted volunteers from Graaf- K. lint and Fort Beaufort, —and of the First Corps, Beau fort West, and lingo Levies. On the 11th, and again on lb. pith, 11w N% aterkloof was penetruteel in different (Brim- Go, by the two brigades under Lieut.-Colonels Michel and I and by other corps detached by the Major-Gcural. All aecounts egree in describing the operatinns of the tn. ps as conducted in a masterly and must effective aniner, evincing equally the skill and coolness of the com manders and the bravery of the troops. The result was, that after several Lours of hard lighting, ou both days, the enemy was completely driven out of the Waterk loof, with Heavy luxe, his whole camp being destroyed. The fugitives, however, took refuge in the neighbouring talky" of the illinkwater and 1. uller's Hoek, where they were again attacked on the: 23r1 ult., and, after some sharp lighting, once more routed and dispersed. The &loch. d bands continued to cling to the fartuesses about the Krenuno Height', and preparations were making, at the last accounts, fur anetiier movement against them, on the nh. In the engagement of the 23rd, the 60th Ititles were present, and their destructive lire, as well as the practice of the hail a great effect in dis te.ying the enemy. The Cape Mounted Rides, nude r Ai C irey . are stated to have rendered very valuable service is the engagement of the 11th, charging the enemy three time in the must effectual manner. The conduct of all the verge enzage el is highly praised by General Somerset. The for oilier troop. on the 11th and 16th is officially reported at 6 killed and 26 wounded. Among the latter w. re Li v id, .orris, of the Gth llegt. (since dead), Capt. A! :i.e., of the 2nd, severely, and Ensign Ricketts, of the :'Lt, dangerously wounded. On the 23n1, one loss en ton men killed tor the 60th !tines, and 74th High fowler& and five wounded. The number of Kaffirs killed steeesi by some at as high as four or tire hundred. I.urino the past month, tit. , district of Albany has becnin a er .t: ..st,isure preserved from the marauding incursions et t.., in my, through the protection afforded by the de t ..nieuts under Colonel Eyre, Major Wilmot, and Major II ante But in other. of the frontier districts, very heavy I •loose been suffered by the farmers. On the 3d ult., Its , Clan :0,009 sheep and nearly 300 cattle, belonging to -hitaahlant Pringle and other colonists, resident at and To Lyndoch, in the Somerset district, were swept off en a sown day. by a party of 31acomo's Kaffir', about 300 is Lutul,er. The owners mustered about 40 of that e. i.thbourl, pursued the marauders, and attached IL. in, but were unald , to recover any of the WI! too colonists wens killed in this unfortunate WNW, Vs the 16th of September, the Tambookies, in a body */ nearly two thousand men, made a descent upon Upper Vies t. tie and Crudes k, and swept off several thousand bites% cad a large number of cattle, killing ten of the lingoes •to t:uoreled them. The farmers in that quarter finding Gam-elves unable to withstand these inroads, have begun to r. tare to the westward with all their moveable property. At the List account it was estimated that a hundred thou- Lind sheep, belonging to the retreating farmers, had been driven through the town of Cradock. The Tambookies have also recommenced their incursions into the district of Albert, and have carried off some hundrests of cattle. Several colonists have been killed in these attacks. tit, of the moot influential burgher commandants of the frontier districts, Messrs. Pringle, Ileugh, Erasmus, Bouwer, and llowker, have called upon their fellow telonists to assemble, on the 30th inst., at Post littler, for • grand combined movement, with the object of driving the plunderers trom the colony and following them into Is the Orange River sovereignty affairs remain in a very unsatisfactory state. The farmers being anxious to put an tad to the confusion which prevailed in the province, took urou theisseltis to make a separate convention with the llasato chief, Moshesh—each party agreeing to refrain from mobiting the other. The British resident expressed his disapproval of this arrangement, but admitted that while the disparity between his forces and those of "the enemy" ternainid so great, it was necessary that defensive measures should be strictly observed. The two companies of the 4.rith Riot., and the GOO Zulus, who were scut from Natal to the aid of the resident in tit: sovereignty, were still in the latter province. The Zulu warriors were much discon tinted ra having nothing to do. At a recent review of this force by the resident, at the town of Bloem Fontein, the following singular colloquy is reported by the local paper to have taken place : ' The Zulu chief asks first, ' Why aro we here ?' Ile then stated, ' We have left our fields unprotected—our ' tattle without herds ; and our young men have left genic; where there earning money, to obey the command of the &sit...governor (Pine.) V. c cannot afford to sit still. We therefor e want to be up and doing.' " The British resident answered, ' I thank you forcom ing t Our aid.' I want you to go and sec Muroko (chief of the horologists), who is a great friend of mine, and a good loan. Moroko also wishes to see you. The hoer. are very bad, and so are many of the English—even in this town. It they tell you anything against Moroko, do not believe them, but tell them they are liars.' " The Naha Witness informs us that this "commando" of Zulu., on first leaving Natal, numbered about a thousand men. They had been assured that a reinforcement of 29 Natal farmers (boen) would join them ; but finding them selves deceived in this expectation, about four hundred de serted, and returned home. In the attempt made by the officers to check this desertion, one Zulu, it is is stated, was killed, and another wounded. The tangled web of South African politics has been still further perplexed. by the interposition of a new and rather potential influence. The independent community of emigrant beers beyond the Vaal River, who have hi therto had aloof from the present disturbances, have at length made a movement, professedly with a friendly ob ject. iome of the farmers within the British territories, t•dether With the chief, hloshoeh, aro mid to hare called upon the well-known Pretorins, commandant-general a the emigrants to interfere for the restoration of peace in the sovereign ty. In accordance with this requ e st, and with I the subsequent instructione of the council ot this common wealth, Precocious addressed a letter to the British real deut, expressing the desire of the emigrants to conclude a "lasting treaty of peace " between themselves and the British government, and also to try "to prevent this ' untortnnate war and deselation which are on the point a, occurring" in the sovereignty. Major Warden returned a proper reply to this letter, declaring that he would with m's Ii pleasure forward to the high commissioner any I Oltannardeatilna which might assist lit bringing sheut env objects which the emigrant farmers hat in view ; but i wt.:sine teem diet white the ;latish go ierrinteut is ever decorous to cultivate Cie friendship of all, it wilt never tole rate uncalled for interference in any portion of the Quern's I In this position the a ff air at present remains . It i s as y e t doubtful in what iight the cemainautler-in-elitel will erg the proeeeeinee. It has been atithoritatively stated that the. two assistant-commissioners (Messrs. Rogge and Owen) are I shortly to proceed to the sovereignty with a force of no less I than 1,500 men, for the purpose of settling the ell sirs of tket proviiiee. The proeriety of sending so I urge a force to such a distance from the principal theatre or war, fur no apparent object, It u been seriously questioned. A Natal paper state, that the Boers of the Klip River District, in Natal, being alarmed at their defenceless posi tion, since the troops list been sent by Lieut. Governor Vine to the sol.reiguty, and being disquieted by some rumours Repelling uto hertile intentions of the Zulu C:tief, Venda, sent to l'retorius to solicit his interfer, ace. Pretorius therespen sent word to l'anda, that if he made soy attack upon Natal he (Pretorias) "would be down ir on him, and sweep him from the face of the earth.', Panda immediately derpateheel an ambassader to Lietv.-teevernor Pine, pro .s -sing most amicable disositions, and requesting that the Rent.-eriverucr would meet him at the Tugela, to establieh pear:tut relations. It thus appear; that the community of emigtant farmers in the interier, some ten or twelve thousarel in nuin`ier, awe able not only to defend themselves from the neig:ileouritig tribe., but ales to interpose the it good offies fur the protec tion ot the British settlements. Their !Cite Ily conduct is the more remarkable, ice :null as the two erovincei which they are new undertaking to protect (the eovereignty and Natal) were their own original settlemea.e, from which they It ire been sacceesively (Liven to their present terri tory. At CI , triad expulsien from tho fierereiguty. three years ego by 11. Smith. Preterione vms proclaimed a traitor attil ell outlaw, and a reward ot 1,0091. was offered for his capture ; and this preelamation has never been re called, although Pr, for ions is now in amicable correspond ence with the Be.:ish Resident. The last reinforcements which arrived in this colony from England, namely, the 12th 'Le i Cilltellt of Lancers 540. the 21 battalion of tho lAth Hides, have lately reached head quarters. The !tidies have just taken the field for the first time, finder General Somerset. It is reported thet the Lancers (who are not yet completely =wanted) will form art of the force that is to be sent to the sovereignty. Some hundreds of colonial volunteers (mostly Hottentots) have lately been *cat to British Kaffraria from the west, and h..ve taken tit.; place of about the same number, who have been discharged and hare returned to their homes. Some rather important political events have occurred in the pas; month. The nominee Legielative Cuuneil which has lam imperfect awl in abeyance since the r. signatioa uf the isopul irly nominated 11121111bCT9 in Oct., 18.30, has been again titled up, in accordance with in struction- trent benne. Some difficulty w.s experienced In 1 dieting this purpose, owing to the extreme disrepute into whl.h the office of nominee councillor has fallen, Of tho five new members, three are ordinarily resident in or near Cape Town, and one in Swellendam. None of them are expected to, offer a very strenuous opp ssi tion to any measure which the local efticials might mink proper to press. Apprehensions have consequently been entertained that the council, instead of proceeding imme diately to establish the promised constitution, would under- take the work of ordinary legislation, in opposition to tho tigeneral wish, and to what ../.1 1111 , 1011tOOd vi be the inten on awl promise of the colonial minister. l'eotests against such a course have been nnmereasly signed in several of the western iltstricts. The Swellendan protest was brought to Cape Town by a deputation of about fel of the most ro spectable landed proprietors of the district, who rod: a dia tom° of more than 140 miles fur this purpose. 'flit. ....,:entations which have been made with regard to the alleged apathy and "do cgcd indifference " of the rumen, have been acutely feet, and have called forth these dismonetrati,es of sentiment on their part. The se cretr.ry to government has, however, declined to receive these document., on the ground that " no government can receive a protest." At the first meeting of tho newly-formed council drafts of five ordinances were laid belhre it by the secretary to go verninent,—one for amending the tariff of wharfage-dues in Table and Simon's Bays, another fur raising a load of 40,0001. for the repair of colonial prisons, a third for alter lag certaiu regulatious of the Dutch reformed church, a fourth for removing squatters from government lands, and the fifth for enabling the commissiouers of inquiry into the Khut Hive r rebellion to summon witnesses, punish for non attendance, and take evidence on oath. All theme measures have been strenuously objected to by various parties as not necessary ur proper to be considered at the present time, or by any other than an elective colonial legi- attire. At the second meeting of the Council, on the 31st of October, the important information of the arrival of the conatitutional ordinances from England was given. But by route unaccountable neglect the necessary authority for reading these ordinances in council had not been obtained from the governor, and it has therefore been necessary to tranonit them to his excellency for this formality—thus causing a needless delay of probably two weeks. Froa the information which has found its way to the public concerning the nature of the proposed farm of colonial government, there is reason to believe that it will be satisfactory to the colonists. This impression is general at present ; and the desire which is conse quently felt, under the present eircurashuices of the co lony, for ti.o early establishment of the new constitution, and the pranpt convocation of the parliament, is naturally very great. Arrivals in Table Hay.—Oct. 2, 11.1. at. Cyclops; 22, Styx, at.; 31, It.NI. at Propontia. Arrivals in Simon's Bad - .—Oct. 2, Hermes, at. ; 10, Retribution, at.; 16, Styx, at.; 20, lthadaniauthus, at ; 22, 11.M.5. Dart. Arrivals in Algoa Bay.—Sept. 21, Cyclops, st.; Oct. 3, Ilennes, st.; 10, Styx, st.; 11, ithatlaman , thus, st.; 17, Phoenix, at. THE LONDON NECROPOLIS .'.ND NATIONAL lite- Sf.LLUNI COMPANY.—A deputation, consisting of the fol lowing gentlemen, Sir JUTIIC. Duke, /tart, M.l'., W. J. Voules, deputy chairman; C. It. Thompson, Esq., John Gardiner, Esq., directors ; W. A. Coombe, Esq., solicitor to the company ; 11. It. Abraham, Esq., architect ; and Mr. Richard Churchill, secretary • had the honour of an inter view with Lord Seymour, at the Office of Works, on Wed anal iy morning, when the deputy chairman and surveyor mutually explained the proceedings and plans of the com cntLpltipctitirlydntfietfterretnacguto tariff — the grea t t :ir p i ti nti pt e r ffr u t n e e .d . rigs, only Frs., with liberty to send one or two attendants to Woking and back—that of the class immediately above the poor—the proposed compensation to the incumbents of parishes from which bodies are removed. The deputy chairman, in reply to Lord Seymour's inquiries, said that the company proposed to appropriate portions of their site to the different parishes, who would thus have the control over their separate grounds, and have their own clergy to officiate, if desired, and at the same time be enabled to avail themselves of the inexpensive mode of transit and the ample staff provided by the company ; and that the notices of application to parliament had been duly given, and the petition fir the bill would be presented at the earliest possible period. The foregoing points were particularly urged upon Lord Seymour, who received the deputation very courteously ; and, in conclusion, the deputy-chairman said he trusted his lordship would recognise in the ar rang( ments of the company the solution of the difficulty of providing for immediate extramural interment without calling upon parliament or the parishes fur the advance of one fraction of the public money. LOCOMOTION IN THE 'AlEntorotts.—The inhabi tants of the metropolis may now congratulate themselves that a fair start has been made towards providing them with conveyances at a reasonable scale of charges. Ou most of the omnibus routes the fares have been reduced at least a fourth, in a few cases the reduction is a third, in others about a half, and on the Oxford-street line not less than from two-thirds to three-fourths. The penny and twopenny buses arc liberally patronised, and some of the conductors do not hesitate to admit that their takings now amount to fully the average of theme received under the high fares. Some of the monopolist companies, how ever, far from being reconciled to the change, run their vehicles in a way to afford their cheap rivals the largest possible amount of annoyance. LONDON MECHANICS INSTITCTION.—Laat even ing, a aoinse and cotirersazione in celebration of the 2Sth anniversary of this institution took place in Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane. The entire suite of rooms be longing to the institution were thrown open on the occa sion, and various objects of much interest were exhibited, including a collection of paintings, sculpture, specimens of manufactures, and models of machinery, together with several specimens from the Great Exhibition, and especially those articles which were forwarded by members of the institution, and for which prizes were awarded. These ob jects were all displayed to great advantage, and were the source of much admiration amongst the company. In the course of the evening, is musical entertainment was pro vided, and a lecture sTas delivered by Mr. C. J. Varlet' on the subject of galvanism and its effects. The amusements were altogether on the most liberal and varied scale, and the win-se was conducted throughout in a manner ilea latest to benefit the institution. ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.— Yesterday a quarterly general court of the vice-presidents (her Majesty the Queen is president) and governors of this charity was held at' the Institution, Bartholomew-close, to receive the report and transact routine business, Sir John Wood, treasurer, in the chair. From the report it appeared that for the quarter ending Sept. 30th last 4,819 patients were admitted, of whom '2,632 were permanently cured, 961 re tiered, 12 had died, and 1,214 remained under cure. Tho annual income, including interest upon stock, is not more than NW., while the expenditure of late years averages 9do!. In consequence of its inadequate support, the com mittee, that the efficiency of the charity might not be off. cted, have had to authorise the sale of stock, and thus peril the existence of the institution. NAVAL APPOINTMENT.—ADM —,litootswaia W. Inglis, to London. r. DEC. ]O. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1851. Clic Cont. OSJORNE, WEDNISDAY. The Queen and Prince and the royal children walked as usual early yevt.aday morning. Lord John Harwell anived in the aitemoon, from Lon don, on a vi3it to her M ijesty. The royal dinn , •r party included the Duchess of Sent, Lo: John Rus-ell, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Ron. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps, and Sir Ocorge Cooper. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson jr.,l Sir Ge0..g..: Coup( r, returned yestereiay after noon to her residence, agniorc, near Windsor, (rant Os- borne, I.lz of Widlit. The lion. Mr. K:anaird had an interview with Sir George Gray ye.terday, at the Home-tam The Centinittee on Education of the Lords of her Ma jesty's Most Honourable 1'61.3-Council hid a meeting yester day, at the Conned-orrice. The lords present sr( re the Lord President, t! 'e Earl of Carlisle, S., Georje Gry y, and Use Chancel:or of the Exchequer. The Right lion. M. T. Baines, First Cornmhsioner of the Poor-laws, had an in•ereiew, ye.dt rday, s ith the Chan ' culler of the Eschquer, at his official residence in Downing ' street._ Lord John Rowan arrived at his residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, ycsterday afteruoeu, from O: borne, isle of Wight. Lord 31ontenalc had an interview, yeaterday, with Sir George Grey. )Ir. Adair had al , m an interview with the fight hon. bartniet at tllo THE SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW. DLNNEIt TO THE HON. R. J. WALKER, AT MANCHESTER. A dinner was given by the merchants and other inhabitants u; Manchester on Tuesday evening to the lion. it. J. WM:ter, secretary to the Treasury of the United S:ates in le4e, anal influential in the important rcduc:ion of the high tariffs then existing upon British manufactures. The company included a great number of the members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Associa tion, and was presided over by Mr. T. Baziey, president of the former. There were also presideut Mr. Cohrlsn, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Charles Hindley, M.P., and Sir Armitage. Among the Americans prewo, in ad dition to the Hon. Mr. Walker, were General Wallbrialge, Colonel Celt, mid Mr. Steil. Mr. Malcolm Ross, of the Comm rehl Asaiviatiou, was vie , -president. The CHAIRMAN gave—" Our distinguished gucet, the lieu. R. J. Walker, and may our commercial relations with' the United States 41.1 unfettered, and amity between the two nations be rendered perpetual." (Cheers.) lie would now briefly refer to those commercial relations. He would observe first, that probably our own vicious fiscal system had led to much mischief, nut only in our own countr( ' but in every civilised country ou the face of the earth. "rider the system called • the protective system, this country hail sustained shocks of na: ..ry and commercial revolutions, to which he lit little diepeUtioa to allude ; but the transition from that state, by our change of policy, has been decidedly manifest, and, thanks to tile valiant arms of gentlemen now in this room, and thanks to the lamented Sir It. Peel, he hoped that seem had been forever annihilated. (Cheers.) The increased comfort of the people, the increased business of the manufacturers, world testify that the change had been beneficiul. Ile would not trouble them with statistical de tails, to prove that the abolition of the corn-laws, among other important changes, had led to the belie:its he asserted ; but ho would state a simple fact,—that our exports alone now cloned an increase of full 30 per cent. ou whae they were during the restrictive period—(clacers) —and the cin :amptiuii of curaforts by tho people had also increased, ten-ling to place them in an improved and something like a civilised condition ; the increase of the consumption of ouch ankles might also be represented by 50 per cent. (Cheers.) Uur trade wide the United States had also very greatly increased. As for shipping, not only our own shipping had increased, but the shipping of every other power that sends vessels to this country. We received the raw materials and manufactured produce of every region on the face of the earth. Veseels came from every part to our own ports, and though our protection ist %Temente might be very much chinned by these con tributioas of the world, we should receive them, none making us afraid. (Cheers and laughter.) The policy of the United States had been changed in some respects simul. twicouslv with our own. A very importiat change was effected by the instrumentality of Mr. Walker, in the year 1815. At the time we were exerting ourselvee to change the fiscal system of this country, when Sir R. l'eel had the moral courage to come forward to effect its alteration—at that meted their honoured friend Mr. Walker was engaged in the same line of duty in hie own country. It was hoped he would Le successful in his armee; he hail plae..d himself at the head of a most interne, ut body of his own community; and with their etforte and his guidance, he (Mr. Basley) anticipated a result satisfactory to Mr. Walker and our selves. (Cheers.) Ile (Mr. Reeky) submitted that in the United States of America, at this tune, the prote tetl cla , *cs were receiving a larger amaunt of revenue than the whole tale. of tho United Stales, which together went to the sup port of the establishments of that great nation. (Cheers.) He therefore inferred that when the body of the people iu the United States came to appreciete this fact, they would no longer permit a party among them to tax them to • greater extent than their own treasury taxed them. The Ilea. Mr.WALKER, in rising to respond to the toast, was received with loud cheering. lie said (after a few in troductory remarks)-1 believe, gentlemen, that nothing has tended so much to iacrease aria to perpetuate those friendly relations as the striking down, in 1816, by the joint action of both countries, a considerable portion of those barriers of restriction and of high tariffs, which separated them from each other. (Cheers.) I believe that commerce, the most extended commerce, is pre-eminently the friend of peaco—(hear)—and that by the joint action of these two great countries in the repeal of your corn-laws, and in the reduction,thc very great simultaneous reduction, acme. duties—more we+ done by those two single acts to cement and perpetuate the friendly relations of England and Ame rica than by all the preceding nets of parliament and the statutes of the congress of the United States. (Hear.) Some reference has been incite to the changes that were effected in the American tariff in tete ; but I believe that the radical change that was then elfected in our entire system, and the very great and important reductions that were then made, and the totel ab %Tido:meat of the protec tive principle, confining our duties exclusively to duties for revenue—are not so universally known among you. I have read within the hest few (bays a speech animadverting some what mom my humble self, from a member of parliament— I am told a dietinguishedemember of parliament, and a worthy and amiable gentleman, although displaying, 1 must say, some little of that nervous irritability on that oecesiun which generally accompanies those who are advocating a weak causes—(•' hear," and langhter)— it was a Mr. Newdegate —(" hear, hear," and laughter) —in o towering some humble arguments presented myself, as indicating the great pros perity that hail resulted to the United States, as inducted by our statistical returns, under the tariff of ISI6, he said, the reason of our prosperity was that the tariff of 1810 was is pro tective tariff. liuw, I wish very much that Mr. Now degate would du ass the kindness of paying us a visit to America, where he would be received with all hospitality; and that as an English protectionist he cuu:l convince our American protectionists that the tariff of 1816 is a protec tire tariff—(laughter)—because their great objection to it is that it is nut a protective tariff. And if, gentlemen, he could (co still further, and convince them that that tariff was still too high, there is too one who wuuhd rejoice more in such a result than my humble self. (Cheets and laughter.) Gentlemen, 1 stated that the change made in the tariff of 1816 was a fundamental change. For the first time in the history of our government the ground was then assumed that it was unjust, impolitic, and unconstitutional to impose any protective duties; that we could justly and properly impose no duty except for revenue—(hear, hear).--and imp..e no duty beyond a re venue standard. (Hear, hear.) Nuw, gentlemen, may I call your attention to a few of the items in the changes that were made b y the tariff of 1810, as compared with pre deccesor of 1512. The first item is that of bockings and baizes. It had a specific duty of 11 cents per square yard, which WAS equivalent, as shown by imports and revende, to 41 per cent. It was reduced by the Lira of 1846 to 2-i per cent. Next comes Duties under The attendance of buyers yesterday at the show- l yard in llaker-street was quite na nit:nen - nu as on the open lag day, nor was the general public is less force. Ju.lging from the greater density of the crowds of admirers by which the mere raudieent of the prix: animals were surroundal at various periods of the day, we should say that re. ecipts 01 the day were larger than tlio , e of Tuesday. Upon the whole the stock, that is the horned cattle and sheep, appeared to he matte lively and healthy than upon either of the two pr..vimas days, having completely recovered from the fatigue of 11,1130C31. The pit., however, remain :a Ree same ktote of lielples.s lassitude as when they were de posited in their pens—au occasional grant when :.oue anxious butcher, wishing to ase,rtaiu their preiniies of bedit, essays in the task of getting them on their legs, i.iL; the only of lite they give. One of these porcine monstrosities—a black 21-year-old Ilampshire and sus,cs pig, which eatain..4 the sheer medal in the extra stock cliss, attracts genitral attention. Ile is almost as popular as the Koh-i-noor was at the Great Exhibition. and during the whole day is surrounded by a host of admirers. The greatest attention is paid to his comfort ; and oh one occasion, when the heat was more than usually oppres sive, we ote•erved a careful valet applying cold wince as a soothing stimulant. The weight of this enormous mass of living i.t cannot be less than 50 steles—and sec have heard that the price asked for hbn is 40!., but at present he is without a purchu,:r. The sales continue I with consider able vigour throughout the day, the competition aniong.t the butchers far the possession of the prize tstitaals being I keener than on the owning day, and if anything larger prices were realised. Towards evening large numbers of the stock en sale had att:tched to them the usual an nouncing the name of the buyer. The sheep and pigs were nearly all disposed of, and of the larger animals a small I.ruportiou comparatively remained unsold. Tit E DINNER. The utual annual dinner of the club took place in the afternoon in Freon:L.3oll4e Th:re were present the Duke of RICHMOND, the Pre.itleut of the club, who took the chair; Lonl Berner., Gen. Went) ss, Cul. Sibthorp, Mr. J. Villiers Shelly, Mr. Fidler llobb , , Mr. Willmore, Mr. Ituksr, sad rev::4 of the member. of the socioy, muct of thu prize takers, and some of the purchaser of the prize cattle. The cloth havinq ly...en cleared. The ellA11131.1:s1 ruse to propose tho health of her Majesty. lie regrett e d that h. r Majest y and the Prince Coo hail not been able to visit t`te show I14:41 year as usual. As the prer.i‘Ltt of the Cleil ty he had intimated to her Majesty and the Trine that thcv alight visit the show with enufert t o themselves, and without inesnvenieuee to the butane,: of flu cluh, on Monday, after the judges had wade their award; but the answer was, that u neither her Majesty nor the Priuce could !At at Windsor, it would not be eenvenicat to attend. The toast was drunk with loyal honours. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Prince Albert. Thu thanks of the club were due to his royal highuos for the countenance ho gave to it by Rending his tattle to the show-yard. (that, hear.) They ow,,d to his royal highness a deep debt of gratitude for the support he had always ain't to agriculture, and they could not but feel th..t he had paid to that interest a high compliment in attending the dusuer of the Royal Agricultural Society at Windsor this year. (Hear, hear.) Ho would couple with the toast the Is..altit of his Royal Ilighstan the l'riuco of Wales and the rest of the royal family. The tout having been duly honoured, The CHAIRM.iN again ruse. He said—The next toast was one which he wits sure would be cordially received, viz., " Success to the Smithfield Cattle Club. (Meer.) Ile believed the show of the present year had answered the spectatious of ita warmest friende, and certainly lie had seldom seen finer anneals in the did, rent breeds of cattle and abeep exhibited. The club decided on the previous der at its meetina, that for the future the animals should Wee hibittal in classes, according to their several breeds, and the premiums awarded accordingly. (hear, hear.) The paper as to the arrangement of thil prizes had been referred to a select committee of the members, who would report at the meeting of the club tomorrow, when the new regu lations would be made public. He would not presume to give any opinion on the subject of the proposed changes, but he might state that it was received with favour by a large majority, at the meeting at which it was submitted. (Mar, hear) But it should he recollected that this society was one of the very few that paid its way before hand, and one consequence of this new classification would be, to draw still further on their funds, though he was happy to add that their funds were well able to meet the demand. (Hear.) The toast was drunk with loud cheers. Mr. GIBBS having read the awards of the judges in the various classes, The CH.IIRMAN, after delivering the prizes to those of the successful exhibitors who were iu attendance, gave the health' of the successful competitors, iu each division of claws seriatim, coupling with the toast the name of the highest prizeholder. Mr. DRCCE, of Eynsharn, Oxford, the gainer of the first prize, and the gold and silver medal fir the best cow or heifer, in returning thanks, said he had succeeded by fol lowing the advice the chairman had given at a previous meeting—viz., to persevere, cud not give in because he was beaten. It was his opinion that cruising the breed was advantageous in other animals as well as horned cattle. He had been crossing South Down and Cotswold sheep of late years, and he fuund that the more be crossed them the heavier and the finer, both in flesh and wool, was the pro. duce. (lieu.) Mr. LosoxonE, who obtained the first prize and the gold and silver medals for the best ox or steer iii the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, sth, and fith classes ; and Mr. "Wens AW, who took the first prize and the gold and silver medals for long-woolled sheep, also returned thanks. The Duke of RICHMOND, whose health as president of the club and the successful competitor in the class forshort wooled sheep, and the gainer of one gold and two silver medals, bad been proposed by Lord Boners, said that ho had accepted the honour of the appointment of president of the club on the death of his ever lamented friend Lord Spencer, who for so many years had exerted himself, and with so much success, on behalf of this society. lk felt proud to hold the office, be• cause it brought him in frequent and friendly contact with the great body of practical English farmers whose in terest was one and the same with his own, and from whom, not being himself a remarkably good farmer, he thrived vs. luable information. As a shod wool-owner and a large flock-master, he must admit that he was ashamed of the ewes and rams he observed at the late agricultural show at Wiedsor. When be saw them there he observed defects he had not discovered at home, and he found, when he saw them beside the sheep of Mr. Jonas Webb and others, he' kucw they would not do, and that if he showed more such animals the credit of his flock was gone. Ile had followed the advice he had often given, to persevere when beaten, and try to win next time ; and though ho did not like the sheep he exhibited at Windier, he thought those he had brought to the present show would be a credit to any Hock. He begged to thank them for the manner in which they had complimented him, and to assure them that be was not one of those who would ever be ungrateful to the farmers fur the many favours he had received at their hands. (Hear, bear.) General WEMYSS who, u Prince Albert's steward, had taken the prizes awarded to his royal highness, returned thanks on behalf of the successful competitors in Classes 19, 20, and 21 (pigs). He said his royal highness had the greatest desire to promote the success of the Smithfield Cattle Club, and since he had become a member had always shown himself assiduous for its prosperity. It was true his royal highness did not breed the stock he exhibited, but he (Gen. Wemyse) apprehended there wasno great disadvan tage in that, if he looked out for the best breeds of cattle in the country taking the trouble to select from the tenant-farmers the stock they bred, but which they might not feel desirous to feed up and exhibit. The prince, in his opinion, did as much good to the agricultural interest in bringing forward that stock and gaining prizes with them as though he had bred them. The CHAIRMAN then gave the unsuccessful compe titors. Lord BERNERS returned thanks, observing that though an unsuccessful competitor ho was perfectly satisfied with the award of the judges, his own sheep being far inferior in condition to those which had carried utf the prizes. The " Yice-Presidents of the Society" was next drunk. The CIIAIR.3IAN gave the Judges, who, though they must have had great difficulty in making their decisions, had, he believed, given general satisfaction. (Cheers.) Mr. CHAMBERLAIN acknowledged the compliment. The usual compliment was then paid to the honorary secretary and other officers of the society, after which the party broke up. WEST LONDON REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The West London Reform Association held their anniversary meeting yesterday evening, at the Commercial Hall, King's-road, Chelsea. After the routine bu■iuess, which consisted in the re-election of officers, adoption of a report, and en rollmept of members, and which occupied a very consi derable time, the meeting was addressed by Mr. Searle, Mr. Hartley Kennedy, and other gentlemen. Tariff Tariff Imported Articles. Twit of 1442. ad 11111. DOG. Bockinds odd beim 31angthcturisot cotton,not dyed nib. duty ... 49 ... Ditto ditto dyed Cotton twist, yarn, and thread, untoourid ditto Ditto ditto ditto, coloured ditto Tarred cables and cordage Ls. per potuul ... 71 ... 25 Untarred cordage Ditto yarn Cotton bagging 4c. per ay. yid d ... 93 ... 20 Iron in bars or tern, whole or part at inulacturtd ty robing 25 dole. per ton ... 77 ... 31 Railroad iron ditto Pig iron 0 dole. per ton ... 72 ... 30 limp iron 24 mute ... 137 ... 39 Iron cabins or chains Other iron tearing spnido duty Plitla moulded or premed tam- biers Ditto iitopped, OT bOROMS ground Window glues, specific duty Salt 127 ... su world which entered the United States, under the reduced tariff of 18-50, was British tonnage— ( heer, hear)—showing, gentlemen, that you fully participated in the benefits of the great change that has been effected by the reduction of our duties. It was the =Me thing with the tonnage which cleared from the United States. The total American tonnage which cleared out in the year, was 2,632,003 tons; foreign, 1,728,000, of which there was Britivh,l,4o4,ooo tons. (Hear, hear.) Free trade, then, gentlemen, may be truly styled the true means of perpetuating peace between the two countries—(loud eheers)—hecause it has brought the fi 'es of England and America together up'ni the slimes of both countries, and re-united their cummeree and industry. (Hear.) Well, gentlemen, the British crews that entered the hinted States in the year Wish amounted to 77,000 persons; and of those which cleared from the United States the crews that were British amounted to 75,000. The exports from the United States in 1810. amounted to 1.31,515,000 dole., endow imports to 178,138,0dt dole Now, of all our imports, there were from the British empire, 85,1117,000 dole. ; and of our exports to the British empire, there were 82s,3ss,otra. Tee combined imports and exports from the Deified' empire to America and teem America to the British empire amounted, in 1830, to the sum of 103,495,000 dots. But, gentlemen, in 1851, the augmen tation is stilt greater. I have not the results of how much came to such particular country-, but I have the results of the whole ; and if the proportion was as great to each—and I have no doubt it was greater —it would mike an argregate of the imports and exports front the British empire to America, and from America to the British empire, I of 211,543,000 dole. in the single year of 1851. (Applause.) Such, gentlemen, are the great, I might say the gigantic, results that have been produced by the reciprocal action of 1 England and America in Olen deletion sod repeal of duties ; 1 it has raised the reciprocal commerce of each with the other ' up to the annual sum of 211 millioa of dollars. Now, gen- tlemen, in relation to cotton. Why, gentlemen, I have the honour of addressing the honoured representatives present of a city which manufacture!, more of our cotton than any other city in the world—not merely in this coun try, but even en our own country. The city of Manchester manufactures and COII,IIIIICI more titan one-third g reefer titan any ether city in the world of the cotton of the United States And, gentlemen, your t, gel exports of cotton manuf te tures free Great Britain, in 1819, amounted to 28,252,000 h sterline, and the total amount of your manufactures of cotton for the year 1830, autounted to o 2 millions sterling. (Hear.) Such, gentlemen, is the vast, the enormous trade that has grown up between Englund and America, as represented by the single article of cotton, which is ?grown by us and le manufactured by you. Gentlemen, the numbers of hands employed in the United Kingdom, ou thelsth August, 1850, in cotton factories alone, were 332,121 Pchehti• Add to that your crews engaged in our commerce. 77,000; those engaged in other employments connected with the United States, '200,0 9; making a total of 009,000. And, if we suppose that each of those persons but represents a fancily of three, it wield make the number of those who are supported in the United Kingdom by manufactures and commerce connected with tho United States, autount to 2,434,190 perform. (Cheers.) And now, gentlemen, this trale Las been progressing ever since the two countries have reciprocally adopted the repeal and the reduction of duties ; and if peece is (mannered between the two parties it that current of friendly feeling which now seems sweeping all before it, in both countries, with resistless tide, pushing over all anchait prejudices and opposing el:stacks —if that peace, that comm.ree, and that friendly feeling arc to be continued and perpetuated, as I trust ie God they mey—(ipelmse)—whet limit, gentlemen, are we to assign to the reciprocal commerce of England and America? (Hear, hear.) . 'Why, gentlemen, evetythine i. , teudieg to its iucrcase. There are the milieu& iu both countries bringing their produce and manufactures at cheap rates upon the seaboard of each. Then, there is the great expansive pewee of steam, which has bridged the Atlantic, and brought our respective countries within ten days of each other ; and, gentlemen, what limit are we to assign to these vast improvements aril discoveries ? Who will sty that that same telegraphic power, by which you can communicate acmes a breech of the ocean, and along its coral depth, with the continent of Europe, shall not flash from England to America the thoughts, and the friendly messages and the commerce of both—(sheen) when the manufacturer and business men in Man chester shall give his directions by telceraph to his correspondent in New York, and they shell hear upon the same day news each from the other. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, something has been said by your I worthy and excellent president about the further re- Auction of duties. Well, lam one of those who have distinctly avowed, in my own country, that I am in favour in due time of a further reduction of our duties, (Cheers.) But, ecutlemen, you can give us some little help in this. If we have our 30 per cent. duties on your manufactures in the United States, that aro d seined by you a little high upon rouse of your manufactures, permit me to soy that you here one at le net that is exerbitantly high upon one of the principal agricultural products of my country—it is your duty on tobeceo--(hear, hear)—ranging fro:n 3s. to 9s. per pound, amounting, emending to my arithmetic, to 1,200 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Now, one of the main arguments used in the United Sham, end particularly in our impor t:lnt teliaceo states, against the tariff of 1816, and against the free trade policy, in favour of an augmentation of our duties, and against the reduction, is this duty neon tobacco. (Ilear, hear.) I do not mean to make any unreaeoneble remarks or proposition ; bce tee , I know you must raise a certain armlet of revenue. But the question I sub mit to you is this,—ls it possible that a duty of 1,209 per cent. must net be largely above the revenue standard? (neer, hear.) Then, gentlemen, when you look at the vest expenses connectee with the collection of this duty on tobacco; at the vest number of officials eating up the revenue by their salaries; when you look at your revenue vessels, at your expensive government stores connected with your tobacco; vhen you look at the prosecutions for smuggling, and fraud, and other crimes; and when you look it the fact that the smuggler, where the duty is 1,200 per cent. follows close at the hoes of the imeorter—l appeal to you, whether no a mere ques tion of revenue, this duty might nut be immensely re duced, and luring as large, if not a larger, amount of revenue? (Applause.) If you, my worthy friends, will help ua in this matter, and whilst we aro reducing duties, it' there are any (its I believe there are), too high under our present system, you will reduce this, it would be of essential aid to us in that great cause; and I believe it would be highly beneficial to Great Britain, and to both countries; because, if you take more of our tobacco, we , would take more of your manufactures to pay fur it. Gentle ineu, I believe that if the free-trade statesmen of England—be cause they can more 'readily have access to the statistics— would take up the tariff' of all the world, and, by a pro cess of reaseeniug somewhat similar to that employed by my worthy friend the president on this occasion, would demonstrate by prices current and by actual results what was the loss sustained by the entire world, by the tariff system of each country, by driving labour in every country ou the bum of the globe into unproductise pursuits—. (hear, hear)—and taxing it, I apprehend the world would be astounded by the results. (near, hear.) Why, gentlemen, if the world is composed, as is generally believed, of a thousand million people, and only two hundred millions are employed in such labour, and that labour is reduced but Id. a day to each of them, in conse quence of its being driven out of those pursuits in which it would be must profitably invested in every country, but for the intervention of the laws of men, the loss to tho whole world, and to the labouring industry of the world, in ono year, would amount to the incredible sum of four hundred an I eighty millions sterling. (" Hear, beer," and applause.) Gentlemen, protective tariffs arc the walls and partitions which separate men and nations, and they are the great causes of war—(hear, hear). —they are ,the great causes of war expenditure—they arc the enemies of peace, of pro gress, and civilisation. (Applause.) Nor, gentlemen, is this question of tariff a mere question of dollars and cents. It it had been, I ale mid not have devoted au much of my Average 66 ... 26 humble time to the question. No, gentlemen, it is a ques- The average being, of those duties embracing most of the lion of justice, of humanity, and of philanthropy. (?pear, I great necessities of life exported from England to Amc- hear.) It concerns the comforts and the subsistence of rice, eighty-eight per cent. under the tariff of 1842, and nearly all the industrial classes. It decides whether twenty-six per cent. under the tariff of 1846. (Hear, hear) they shall have comforts and plenty for themselves and Now, when you bear in mind that from the organization families, or whether they shall be reduced to want and of our government under our constitution in 1788, down to penury, or driven to the poor-house and the grave. ' December, 1845, no American secretary had ever dared to (Hear, hear.) It is not, then, gentlemen, a question of propose the abandonment of protective duties, it must, I mere dollars and cents, but it is a higher and a more lofty think, be conceded that the change made by a single step question, which concerns the happiness, and the welfare, was great and important. (Applause.) Under the tariff and the morals of the people. (Herne- hear.) I have heard, as it then stood, there was scarcely an article manufactured ge ntlemen, some talk made, ante I have been here, about of cotton that the manufacturers of this day could have ex- what you aro pleased to call " Old John Bull." But, ported to the United States. With duties ranging from 41 I gentlemen, I do not think that he is old—(hear, hear)— I to 70 per cent. they would soon have become, in fact they but rather in the vigour of youth and manhood. Ibe were becoming, absolutely prohibitory. Now, the export is lieve that he has been growing younger fur many years nearly quadrupled. (Hear.) Well, these are some of the I past. (" Hear," and laughter.) I believe, gentlemen, results, as I have noted them from the statistical tables of that he is much younger than he was in 1831, prior to the Visited States, of what has been the effect produced in I the passing of the Reform Bill. (Hear, hear.) I believe that country by our reduced Midi: Our exports, the last , that ke is younger than Ito was in 1844, when you re year of the tariffof 1842, were 113,498,516 dollars; in 1851, I peeled the duty on cotton. I believe he is much younger under the tariff of 1846, they were 19.3,898,6 , 50 dollars. I than he was in 1816, when you repealed your corn laws, (Hear.) Our revenue the last year of the tariff 0f1842 was I and we reduced our tariff—(great cheering ) — and, gentle -26,712,000 dole.; the last year, under the tariff of 1846, it was men, without intending to intermeddle (for I have no right 50 millions dollars. (Hear.) Thus, whilst we have reduced 'to do so) in what concerns your purely internal policy, I can our duties in this enormous ratio by one single step, our only state, from some meetings I base seen in Manchester revenue already is nearly doubled. (Hear, hear.) Our I and elsewhere, that should it be my happy lot in some few tonnage in 1816 was 2,562,000 tone ; in 1851 it was 3,780,000 , years hence to return to England again, I believe I shall' tone. (Hear.) Our ships built from 1842 to 1846 were ' hod what you call the "Old Gentleman" still younger -501,000 tone ; front 1846 to 16.30 they were 1,090,000 tons. 1 (laughter)—by a further extension of the right of the suf. Our railroads built from 1812 to 1846, were 1,892 miles ; fr.'m (rags to the industrial classes, and by their education. 1816 to 1851, the length of railroads built was nearly 6,000 (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Permit me here, gentlemen, miles. Our coastwise tonnage in 1846 was 1,117,000 tons; in ! to say one word, in the most kindly spirit, and with the 1850 it was 1,431,000 tone. (Hear.) And here, gentlemen, best wishes. Notwithstanding that there are many things let me call your attention to the last two items. It is sail by in my own country that undoubtedly cannel compare with the protectionists in the country, that although your foreign yours (as lam free to acknowledge, and as every candid trade may greatly augment, you will overflow and destroy American will du), yet on the subject of education—(bear) your internal commerce and industry. Well, now, the extent . —permit me to say that all our industrial classes are the of that internal commerce is exhibited by the increase of our roughly educated. (Cheers.) Atv , , gentlemen, if we have railroads and the coastwise tonnage ; because it is our rail- I succeeded in anything, either in agriculture or manlike roads and coastwise vessels that carry the products of oar , tures—or if, with our high wages,we have maintained com internal industry from state to state, and from city to city. , petition with the foreign market in anything against the rest Instead of the prediction being realised that this decrease of the world, it is owing, more than to all other causes cow of duties, although it might increase our foreign trade, liMed, to the thorough education of our industrial classes. would destroy our internal commerce—precisely the reverse (Hear.) Although, gentlemen, we have not so many hands had been the fact, and our railroads and coastwise tonnage, • at work, as the hundredth part of the world, in our indult iadicating the progress of our internal commerce and in- trial class, yet Ido believe that, so far as that lases is eon dustry, have increased in a ratio unprecedented since we ccrned, we have more heads at work than all the rest of the were a nation. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I will show world. And, gentlemen, *Mee manufactures have become you the participation which you have had in some of these the work of machinery,. the application of mind to matter, results; becatme I believe that there is a perfect identity of ' and the education of the industrial classes who are concerned interest between England and America—(applause)—that in our workshops and factories, become an element iodise the more prosperous we are, and the more able will we be to pensable to success. :(Heer.) Gentlemen, in this great race, purchase, and the better price will we be able to give, fur whether it be on the ocean or on the land, I will not say your manufactures. (Hear.) And, again, the more pros- , which is a-head, the United States or England. 1 believe, : perous England is, the more will you be Ode to purchase , that they have kept up a pretty . close race. I believe, gen . of our cotton, our rice, our breailstuffs, our provisions, I tlemen, that they are not moving is diverging lines or in our tobacco, and other agricultural .. products. (Hear.) parallel lines, but that they are moving in converging lines, , The American tonnage entered iu the United States during , that they are both moving to the same great point—perfec. the year ending 30th June, 1850, was 2,573,000 tons ; the : Lion of laws and liberty, and of constitution, for the benefit . foreign tonnage which entered our ports during the same j and the happiness of the people of both countries. (Hear.) time was 1,773,000 tons, of which there was of British, i Gentlemen, one of the complaints made in my country , 1,440,000 tow : that is, 4-sths of all the foreign tonnage of the at this time, is that we are sending you too much gold. It is not complained that we send you too much cotton, or send you too much bread-stuffs and provisions, er riee, or tobacco; but it is one of the great coinplainte of the pro tectionists at this day, that we send you too me h gold. Well, now, gentlemen, I have not the exact e! tidies on that aubject, but they ere suf fi ciently accurate eidge of the results. It is at in the Times, that the pea Weil of the gold mines of Ceiithrida this year were 75 raillMns of dollars • cur own papers make it much higher. It is stated that we have sent this year to all the world, princie pal.y to you, some fusty teillions of dollars. uow, if that be so, we have retained of this gold 3i m !liens of dollars at home. Now, the question is, whether it is for our own g est ; have we vent out too much or tim little of this gold ? On 'seeming the life of Ferdinend and Isabella of Spaiu, the other dey, by an eminent Americ to his torian, Mr. Prescott,—one differing from myself in poll s'e that distinguished historian steles it as a mere historical fact, that prior to the .IF:silvery of America, tepain was sue of the most mom roes of nations, and particularly in eniumerce and netaufacturex. She dis covered America, and those mines of untold teillions of gold unit salver ; she monepolieed the whole as fer as she could ; she brought them 41 within the limits of Spain ; and then, to luxuriate in this gold and silver here..f, and to deprive all thereat of the world of it, she pistil it less for bidding the export of the precious metals from Speia. What was the result 2 Although the law was but pare illy exe cuted, the historian states that it increased so vastly the amount of the precious metale and currency threiighout Spain as to augment in so great a ratio the eNOOMILS of Livia; and of producing and of man af icturing in Spain, tie compared with other couivres that had a smaller proportion of currency, that it ut terly oseraheiraed and destroyed the indmtey and manufactures of Spain ; and from that blow, tens given by too large a currency, Spain to this day ben never recovered. (Hear, hear.) She was inundated wiflt foreign imports; she resorted to high prohibitory duties ; but the safety-valve was open..l, us it always will he arc 1•r such duties, by the smuggler , and she has never to this nay re covered teem the injuries inflicted upon her by Idling up, in too great masses, the precious metals witein her limits. (Ileac, hear.) I think the question then is, not, have we sent out too ranch gold ; but have wo re tained too much gold at home ? I believe g‘ otlemen, that the events which have recently transeieed In France, are of momentous maguitnee to Ragland, to the I.7nited Gates, and to tee world. It is true, ip utleinen. there may he a momentary repose of despotism, i, true that that man who lies combined in himself the c meracters of a traitor, of an ineuri,ent —(hear, hear), met of a I.,;litary tuutiwr—(near, hear), may trample down for the moment the liberties of France. ilut, gentlemen, I pro..mad this solemn qua stieu to Euglishmea—if he do's aura ,St, who can doubt that it government established by the army of Louis Napoleon—established in favour of a man whose hands are dripping with the warns lift-A..ld of his countrymen, of every nv, sex, end that a government thus estalui.lied will not beconie a mili tary despotism—that Louis Napoleon will net lee (-eine a mere pawn to he moved on the political chess-hoer,' by the iron finger of the Czar? (Hear, hear.) And, at...thence, is it for the interests of England that she should have an other military despotism en the continent of liar re es, end immediately on her border.? Is it her inter., •• it the interest of the constitutional government of Earl I -that all the continent of Europe be mere(' by Pyete: is which are the Tay antipodes of her own ? Is it her ine et that throughout that great continent there shall be uO :event meats hut those that arc bland in armies tout i t ..naps? Will it increase her commerce I Will it renter her more site and secure from the reeentlta of de spotic powers? Will Euelaud be more safe when there is nothing but despotic eeverinuents on her bore and throughout the whole continent of Europe? it is not fur me t, attempt to draw the veil which cenevals the future. It is my fear, my apprehension—for I desire not to see any such results—that lengland will be asseili ,1 by the military elevations of Europe. (Hear, hear.) 11 iiy, gen- Bianco, this despotism of Frau, ' being ore created by tho army of France, meet necessarily be mixings:rent faeeeitisin- The army must have employment. It is not to light e.i.iinst the despotism of Europe. This act has ;dread>. ,so tained by the despotic power of Austria, and I. I i, • ao doubt that you will find it sustained by the Rossi a clw, and by sill the despotismes of the continent of Europe. Thou if the imperial array of France is to liar • spiky men: may we not look hack to history ? La !Mai had we not a somewhat parallel catastrophe, when the ...institu tion of Franca was uverthrewn by Napoleon Bona parte, and an imperial government wits re-estahlislnd tit France, as 1 believe it soon will be in France again, when the transparent yell shall be torn :edits.): What followed on the establishment of tile imp, ri il rind military power in France in 1801, may it nut follow in 1851? Sow, gentlemen, I hope these events sa rev not follow; I hope that we shell have peace—peace w hh Eng lund—peace, if possible, with all mankind. (Appl +use.) There is nu genuine freetrader that can he otherwise titan the friend of peace. (Al , ;! Luse) And Idos ay this, that I do not believe that it is the interest of England to ally herself with the despots of the continent of Europe. (Hear.) And I say further, that if upon her refusal to de so, she eliouid be assailed by those despotic pow.- Pr; if, maintaining her own constitutional government, her awn trial by jury, her own liberty of speech and of the press— (cheers), the 'Mould moire our aid—l speak what I know to be the unanimous sentiment of my country, tie! entire American populatioa, hacked by their government, will come as Oat° HMI, and !Mitt the battle with you, if it be necessary. (lunnenee cheering.) Gentle:tan, 1 return you my thanks for the manner in which you have receives! my remark*, and I lag to offer the following toast, " Eroiperity to the towns of Manchester and Salford, and free treat a over the world." The lion. gentleman resumed his seat amidst most hearty cheering, having spoken an hour and three minutes. % JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.l'., on rising, was received with loud cheers. Ile said that whilst reflecting on the in teresting circumstance* which hail called them nefether, ho had considered how far such a meeting might be useful or otherwise; and it had occurred to him that one result of this and similar meetings was, in some degree, to counter act a misehi, I which was sometimes complained of. Lab . terly, there hail grown up what he believed was a veryjnst feeling—a suspicion of all secret diplomacy. There had been a well-founded opinion forming that so lone as the self tiro of nations were managed IT some particular individuate in each nation responsible for the most part to public opinion —until it was too late far public opinion to act—they would have between nations many errors committed, and that the intercourse of nations would be often carried on upon mis. taken principles—often on very narrow views; and that great events— events of immense importance to countries and to the world—would he decided, perhaps, to suit the interests of a dynasty or of a party, rather than the in terests of a people. (Load cheers. ) Now he considered such meetings as the one then held as tending very much to counteract whatever of evil there might arise (cons this secret system of diplomacy; because they were met, as it were, people to people. This was a year in which we had taken to teaching the whole %med. The nations of the world had had a great examination in Hyde lark; and some had been the first in one branch, and some in another; and America had in some respects ranked high. And although the country gentlemen of Englund had a great horror of American corn, yet they had gathered in great numbers from various parts to witness a remarkable machine, the result of American ingenuity, which would en able them more easily to cut the corn grown in this country. (Cheers.) Well, then, in free trade they might learn the United States something, although they hail no right to be arrogant in their teachings, for they ha I great difficulty to persuade this country that free trade was right, sad therefore it would he wrung in them greatly to shone any other nation that has not attained the point which wo have reached. It was a curious fact that the question of protection was maintained by the same arguments in every country, and that they had proved in every country to be equally unsound. sow, he would like to ask the opinion of any man (not those, however, who subscribed to tho Anti-Corn-law League, because they were known to be la bouring under an infetuation)—(laughter)—but those who looked dispassionately on the country ; and he thought it impossible for such men not to have observed that there waste great improvement in many important feature, of tho. country between IW and ROL Ile did not prophecy that commercial crises would never come, but they must bo much lets frequent—much less intense and destructive in their •consequences on the great body of the traders and artisans of the community. (Hear, hear.) And a feeling had (gradually gained ground, that social order was in no danger of being disturbed. Ile believed, if the statesmen of the two countries would keep clear of personal and party feelings, and look only to the true national inter ests, behaving honourably, ?justly, and courteously to each other, both making concessions when fair and reasonable, bearing and furbearing, believing the best of each other always, then it would be impossible these two nations should ever again be embroiled in discard; and thee, whom God intended for ever to be brethren, though separated by the wide Atlantic, would be joined in that holy alliance to which their guest had referred, endeavouring to secure tho best institutions possible, and offering to the world the great example of what flee nations might become. (Great cheering) The CHAIRMAN next gave—" The House of Commons and the representatives of the boroughs of Manchester and Salford." (Cheers.) The Hon. T. el. Gibson and Mr. Joseph Brotherton, both rose, amidst loud cheering. Tho lion. T. M. GIBSON said ho felt it • matter of some difficulty and responsibility to re turn thanks on behalf of the House of Commons. Mr. Ilndherton, he was sure, was well able to speak for himself, and he should not anticipate anything he might have to say. la being expected to return thank, for the House of Com mons, as a compliment to it on account of its having passed measures of free trade, he felt it to be rather u difficult task, because the house of Commons resisted free trade so long as there was any chance of retaining protection on the statute-book. And when that important measure, the repeal of the corn-laws, was carried, it came from that honour able house rather in the form of a surreutkr and capitula tion, therefore he had to qualify his obeervations with re ference to the thanks due to the House of Commons. Expe rience, however, had convinced many of those who opposed the repeal of the corn-laws, that it was a souud policy, and that Icy adopting it the government had consulted the beet interests of the people of this country. (Cliceie.) the parliamentary returns and statistics of both countries had been sufficient to convince the most reluctant. Mr. Walker had spoken of the vast advantages which had been derived in America by tho education of the industrious classes. lle (Mr. Gibson) thought of that remark when Mr. Walker was referring to the ills which were afflicting France. It was his (Mr. Gibson's) belief, that there was nothing so injurious to the good order of society as tiro want of general education. Even c:hstitutional gyvrtip ments could not exist sal, ly amidst the ignorancie of tho I people. And there was no education so valuable, in ride , mime to the welfare of society, as information *lnn the re. ~.~ ~ ,