The Express. — London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

W m oving them a bed of mud a few inches thick is seen, w hich is cleared away and discovers the slate, which Is in vertical layers; and i• the interstices between the layers of slate the gold is found in lumps. The earth on the banks of the creek is found to contain scale go ld, which is obtained in the usual manner by ' mating the soil in cradles, which allow the gold to drop to the bottom as the soil is washed oat,—on the whole, perhaps, a more profitable employment than seeking for lump-gold. Every one competent from scientific and local knowledge to form an opinion expresses the belief that gold will be found in many other di.tricts besides Bathurst, their geolottiad f ea tures being the same. Indeed the Herold hints that already gold has been discovered at Lamb's valley, near )laitlantL Consequent on these discoveries the prices of all articles of consumption had advanced to an unprece dented height, among which we may enumerate Boer hum 210. to 30/. per ton, and difficult to be c ured at the latter exorbitant rate ; wheat , 4s. Gd. to 10s. per bushel; butchers' meat, from 21d. to sd. per lb., and other articles in proportion. What Willi* the result of the changes it is scarcely difficult to conjecture: certain it is the country will be popu lausl. From the neighbouring colonies there will be an 1111110diate aCCef , 4 of those hands, and within a few months thousands wilt bo hurrying from their fatherland: so that, nn a moderate estimate, the year 1851 and lea will add at least one hundred thousand persona to the population of New South Wales. One letter says: vulva Bathurst on Saturday, and found the gold m1:.1.1. still more vitiLmt than in Sydney, and much ins cre.,eil by the arrival of a man with a !ince of gold 31 lbs. ve:zlit, which lie turned up, as he says, like a root of poutoi-. It hail such :in effect upon him that he corn mi nerd filling his pockets with stones, thinking it all gold, and to-day covet has not recovered so far as to be able to eat. It i, ...Aka up, and as his partners have made hint swear not to open the parcel until they are all present, I have not sixit it, but there is nn doubt of its being there. _ . With the view of checking desertion for the mines, the government G0:,./te, May 27, contains a notifica tion from the governor, directing that any person, of whatever grade, employed in the public service, who shall resign his post during the existing emergency will be noted as ineligible to serve again, and will certainly not be re-appointed. But, notwithstanding this notification, the desertions continued, thinning every department, and leaving the police force far too weak for its duties. Br. Lang had been found guilty of libel on Mr. leeley, Ni.L.C., on April 25. lie was brought up for judgment, and sentenced, upon the first count of the indictment, to be imprisoned in her Majesty's gaol, at Parumatta, for the term of four calendar months, and to pay her Majesty a fine of 100/., and be further imprisoned until the sum be paid. On the second count he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the same gaol for the same yeti xl, to commence and expire from the former term of imprisonment. CD e Cottrt. DALNIORAL. MoDMovDtY, Carr. 15. Tier Majemty and Prince Albert attended divine 'mire y. stertlay in the parish church at Crathic. The service wa: performed by the Rev. Archibald Andersln. The Marchioness of Ihniro,the lion. Miss Dyng, the Right Den. Fox Maule, and the gentlemen of the household, also ath titled the service. 1 hay was no addition to the royal dinner party yester day. TCTADNY. Tier Majesty and Prince Albert rode yesterday to AM rarder. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kcnt, Mr. end Mrs. Fos Maule, Mr. and Mrs. Farqu harson of Invercauld, at,il Baroness Spaeth. LonD JOHN WKS'. ..,L.—Tbo Dublin correspond ent of the Tiows, doubtless In'sled by some of our Irish contemporaries, is in (Trot in stating that Lord John Russell arrived in Dublin on Monday night. The noble lord, with Lady John Russell, arrived on Monday at Rancor, North Wales, where he is at present sojourning.— Wok. Lord Brougham, yesterday, was at the House of Lords. The noble lord, we are glad to say, appeared in such better health than when he last was in town.—lbid. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The fine weather aceterday attracted a more numerous attendance at the Crystal Palace than is usually ' the ca.e on Wednewlays. There were a great many visitors ' from Scotland and Ireland, and several schools, one of them ' with nearly 400 pupils. A stop has atlength been put by the executive committee to the sale of season tickets, the motive being, as we understand, to remove front the public any Idea that the closing of the Exhibition is to be signalised by any grand ceremonial. The repeated hints which have been throw., wit by a contemporary on the subject, and the coincident eagerness of the public to purchase season tickets even at this late period, justified the inference that a hope way prevalent that souse grand concluding ceremony would reward the speculators in their otherwise foolish in vestment. The question of the great medals is one of frequent discus.ion amongst the exhibitors. The French make no secret of the matter, but openly state that out of 2•'xo that have been issued, they have obtained 3-1, of which 6 have been awarded to the jewellery room alone. It appears that immediately alter the Faris fifes a diem( r was given in the French metropolis to the successful exhibitors, and the holders of great medals publicly announced. It would appear from this that while the British jurors have rigidly adhered to their promise of secresy, their foreign colleagues have been much less guarded, as it is only from some of them that the secret could have oozed oat. The "(nerd feeling of the exhibitors is that the names of the medal-holders should be announced heron the close, as sonic slight reward to them (or the trouble and expense they have been at in sending such valuable goods to the palace to remain as sunk capital for four months. The police numbers yesterday were 52,757. Cash account, Sept. 17. Rearm tickets At the doom Total receipts £2,631 1 0 The following shows the temperature yesterday, u re tooled by Mr. Bennett's thermometers, being the mesa see* of 100 readings :-10 o'clock, 68 ; 12 o'clock, 63 ; 2 Aleek, 67 ; 4 o'clock, 66 ; 6 o'clock, 63. Mean tempera ture, 63.4. COLORLL REID'S TIIROZT OF TAR LAW OF STORMS. —The foUowing letter bri been recently addressed by Lord Palmerston to the various British consuls abroad, a similar cue having been despaeshed from the Colonial-elks, re. stunting their co-operation in obtaining information relative to atmospheric phenomenrwronnected with storms and hur riencs:—" Sir,—l transmit to you copies of a letter with its enclosures which I have received from Colonel Reid, of the Royal Engineers, who for many years has devoted his attention to the theory of storms, ana whose object has been to investigate, with a view to practical use in navigation, the laws by which storms and variable winds an governed. In order that an investigation of this nature may be practi cally what, it is essential that facts connected with the at mospherical phenomena in question should be carefully charred and accurately recorded over as large a portion as possible of the surface of the globe by persons of education, and whose scientific attainments or professional avocatioas qualify them for making such observations. Cul. Reid has suff restcdthat such observations could be casilyniade and recorded by captains of ports, masters of lighthouses, harbour masters, and others, whose professional pursuits naturally lead them to be constant observers of atmospherical phenomena. The inilosuzes iu Colonel Reid's letter will more fully point out the manner in which information on the subject of storms may be collected. I have accordingly to instruct you to use your hest endeavour to procure such information on this important subject, and you will transmit to me half-yearly an abstract of the information you may have obtained, with such remarks as may suggest themselves to you. If you an add diagrams to show the tracks of any remarkable storms, it would greatly add to the value of jour As it is of importance to circulate as widely as tssrlble in formation as to storm tract s yes Amid era— the pub lication of such informatics in awl perio di cal works. I am, sir, your merat c s Let besokis servant, (Sieord) Patantorron." Hatt?, TO TUE WIND-BOUND.— PORTfiIIOrTTI, WEDNLIDAY.—in consequence (lithe lo=telismed Pre valence of easterly wind., and the know dor • large number of homeward-ImM Tester were s g s er the Channel unable to tuba pet s the Rile. swot itstrurtion brig, Lieut. Frawleit, was by aipuel from Spithcad this morning s and ordered into harbour to complete provisions and premed immediately to the relief of such vessels as may require it. The ryas. stroo-slip, Cam' Leander Wellington, is known to have boss bads' about the mouth of the Channel atom Friday Yak boob; oo 0,141, 137 put her mails and on beard aa Irish stunner, by which they were roue at Plyreasth. EXTESsiVE Ronniltr IN MAT F,ua.—Yesterday Morning, at an early hour, some thieves effected an entry into the premises, 33, Curson-strect, May-fair, and abstracted •Pwarla of 2004. worth of silver plate, crest a lion rampant, Cann 50!. worth of jewellery, a carriage clocb s and • cash but containin: about 301. From thence, making their way 1, Chapel-street, West, they effected ma entry also, Slid mole about 1001. worth of jewellery, getting cleat away with their booty. BANK OF ENGLAND. THIS DAY. A quarterly General Court otProprietors was held this morning, for the purpose of considering of n dividend, and also on general business. After the reading of the minutes, The acquainted tho court that the nett profits of the half-year ending the 31st August, were 6.51,1881., being 13,3911. less than in the previous six months• The " rest" amounted on the 30th August (the 31st being Sunday), to 3,566,9611., which would enable the court to declare a dividend at the rate of 3} per cent. for the half year t,, the 31st August, free of income tan or any other deduction. The directors, therefore, submitted a mo tion to that effect for the approval of the proprietors. (Hear, hear.) Mr. COOKE felt a little disappointed, considering the prosperous state of the country during the past twelve months and the bonuses declared by the joint-stock banks, that a larger dividend was not obtained, and hoped the constitution of the Bank of England would be made more popular, so u to attract business. Mr. LEVY considered there was sufficient to pay 31 for the half-year. (Hear.) Mr. mAuxtorr hoped they would never come to a de claration of per cent. dividends. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HATHAWAY said that if 4 per cent. were paid for the 6 months the " re..t " would only be reduced 15,0001. below the 3,000,0001.. and moved that 4 per cent. be &dared. (llissent.) Mr. CL.IRII thou;ht the proprietors themselves had on former occasions fully discussed the question, and Lid down the strict principle that the " Red " should be main tained at 3,000,0001. If they invaded it f.,r 15,6001., they might another time want to take 30,0001., and so on, with out restriction. (Great applause.) Mr. HOLYMAN seconded the motion for 4 per cent. ; but upon its being put, only himself and the mover held up their hands in its favour. _ _ The LIOVERSON. then put the original motion for 31 per cent., remarking that the directors considered that by recommending that amount they were strictly acting up to the views of the proprietary, as expressed upon several former occasions. (Ilear, hear.) The dividend of 31 per cent. was then carried, with scarcely a ilk,aittient voice, the warrants to he delivered and paid on the 11th October next. The usual thanks were voted to the governor and direc tors, and the court adjourned. EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION AT TILE EASTEILN COUNTIES ]RAILWAY. Tills D.Y. This morning, shortly after 3 o'clock, a fire, at tended with a vast destreetion of valuable property, broke out in a spacious titaber-yard belonging to Mr. Robinson, a mahogany and deal merchant, situate on either side of the Eastern Counties Railway, and extending from North street into London-street, Bethnal-green. Th.: arches of the railway, numbered respeetively 7Ci, 77, 78, 79, were tenanted by the Lune person, and at the time of the out break were full of mahogany ant other timbers ; whilst Idles of deals and pines towered high above the railway walls. Bartlett, a police serjeant, who first perceived the fire, raised an alarm immediately, and endeavoured to subdue the flames, but in less than five minutes the whole range of premises belonging to Mr. Robinson. in cluding a number of high piles of timber, as well as the stores under th.: railway arches, presented nun immense body of flame, which cumpletely encircled the railway, and the reflection in the atmosphere waste strong that the metro polis was rendered almost as light as at noun-day. This caused a general turn out of the eugines, and forthwith the 'Loyal Society's escapes, with tae engine• of the parish, West of England Company, and London Brigade started iu search of the conflagration. Atter some time, the firemen reached the spot, when they found the flame* mounting high into the air, and the whole of the wires and posts of the electric telegraph on that portion of the railway were destroyed ; and so intense was the heat that the bricks kept dropping from the crown of the arches. The firemen set to work most vigorously. Unfortunately, however, although an immediate supply of water was procured, it was found in adequate to furnish all the engiues, so that fur some time the labours of the firemen were somewhat re tarded. Mr. Edinger, the inspector of the East London Water-works, on his arrival, gave orders Sir the mains to be opened to the distance of a quarter of a mile, ari o lky stopping up the gratings, a copious stream el waterless serried down the different streets to the scene of mollogssaims, and fur some hours the firemen kept pouring ismorso of water upon the fire ; but before it could be ex repNed, the whole of Mr. Robinson's property was disstreyed, the telegraph burnskdown, and serious damage 601114: to four of the railway arches. Four or file houses, belonging to Mr. Foulkes, iu London-street, are also szverely flemesed, as well as the dry cooperage of Mr. Burke, No. 76 web. 1110 total loss must amount to some thousands of winds. Mr. Robinson was insured iu the Sun Fire-office. Kr. ltichardison, the superintendent of the coaching depart ment of the railway, and Mr. Ashcroft, another official, were early on the spot, and at one time it was feared that three of the arches were so injured by the action of the flames that it would be impossible for any of the trains to pass over. After a careful survey by these gentlemen, an engine and train of empty carriages were driven over the arches. and it was then found that they were formed of seven rings of bricks, and ulthough two rings were partially de stroyed, the iron girders stretching from pier to pier were sufficiently strong to bear any weight, conse quently sot the lout obstruction to the general traffic will be occasioned am the line. now the misfurtunc occurred is at present enveloped in mystery. Mr. Marqu.ud, the superintendent, and Mr. Smith, an inspector of the K division, with &powerful body of police, rendered essential service to the Armen, by keeping an immense crowd of people out of danger. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DAY. 311:3411011 MA117:11 AND 717. JUJYtCI TM-70CW. TILE EGG THROWING ON THE "DERBY DAY.' Mr. Clarkson applied to the court, as counsel fur Henry Dimsdale, who was indicted for an assault, by pelting a re spectable gentleman with eggs on the return from the Oaks race, to order a writ of certiorari to issue for the removal of the ease to the Court of Queen's Bench. Ile said he believed that other parties who were included in the charge, and who were now abroad, had ezpressed their intention to surrender and take their trial, upon condition that the pro siest°, should offer no opposition to the peeped mune, and he was willing to do so. The lammed counsel added that he believed it would he better for the purposes of justice that this course should be adopted, as k would be the means of bringifliaput the whole of the farts connected with the case. He added that he had affidavits in support of his application. Mr. Dallantine, who appeared for the prosecution, said be had no objection to the removal of the case to the Qns Baseh. Nr. Justice Tattooed said that the court would look at the alldavita before they decided upon the application. CUARGE OP BURGLARY. Charles Whiteher, 42, greengrocer, was indicted for stealing a large quantity of mousseline-de-laine and merino, the property of the London and South Western Railway Company, and John &sward, a linendraper, in the Com merssal-road, who surrendered to take his trial, was charged with feloniously receiving the property, knowing it to have beta stolen. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Haddlestone conducted the pro secution ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Parnell defended Whit cher ; and Serjeant Wilkins and Mr. Parry were counsel for Saward. The facts of this ease have been given very fully in the police reports. The property in question, it will be remem bered, was consigned, by a manufacturer in Paris, to Messrs. Candy and Co., London, and it was stolen during its transit from Southampton to the latter place. The evidence was of a very complicated character, and there were nearly fifty witnesses to be examined on behalf of the prosecution. The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and was expected to occupy the court until a late hour. CAPTAIN COMP, TUE ADNITILALIT SUPE/tII MAIL yACILIST STATION, will shortly obtain his flag, and vacate the office of superin: Mildest in consequence. Naval men are on the gni ',Mu as to who will insTresed Captain Corry iiEoUtlinititon.Tl; name of his successor has not yet transpired beyond the sanctum of the Admiralty. The salary of the superinten dent is SOU. a year. Captain Curry is the fourth who has Med th e oath dna the transfer of the mail packet station from Falmouth to Southampton. The first was Captain Alexander Ellice, brother of the Right Hon. Edward Ellice and General Ellice, and who vacated the Mike on receiving a high official appointment at the Board of Admiralty. Cap- I taus Ellice was succeeded by Captain, now Admiral Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., a relative of the Earl of Yar borough. Sir John vacated the office on obtaining his V and was succeeded by Captain Satith, the distinguished in ventor of the paddle-boa life-boat, the naval gunnery target, Ac. &c., and who died while filling the office. Cop tain Corry, the present sawrintendent, is related to the I Earl of Delmore. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1851. MR. DISRAELI AND THE ROYAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. Yesterday tho annual ploughing match, and distribution of prizes in connexion with it, took place in a field adjoining the town of Aylesbury. At the close of the out-door sports the members of the associa tion dined together at the George Inn. Mr. W. Lowodee, of Ches.ham, occupied the chair ; and there were present Mr. Disraeli, M.P., Captain Vyse, M.P., Captain Grove, Mr. John Green, the .Rev. C. E. Gray, the Rev. E. N. Young, the Rev. E. N. Coles, and other gentlemen of the county. Not one hundred people sat down to dinner, and there was a marked absence of distinguished persons. There were only some half deem magistrates out of up wards of eighty in the county, and four clergymen. The customary loyal and patriutic toasts having been duly honoured, Mr. DISRAELI, M.P., proposed the health of the per. esdent of the day. (Cheer; ) The toast was drunk with all the honours, and was suc ceeded , I in rapid succession by the health of the "Duke of Buckingham, the president of the association," the "Royal Bucks Agricultural Association," the "Judges of the day," the "Stew ards," &c. Mr. LOWNDES STONE, amidst great applause, pro rued the health of the county members, Mr. DupPl, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Cavendish. Mr. DISRAELI, iu acknowledging the toast, after • few preliminary observations, said—l know that upon this occasion we meet under very peculiar circum stances. This association is unlike many similar associa tions of this country. It was not merely retailed for the highly intcreeting, though limited, object which we have fulfilled by the interesting circumstances which have just occurred, it WAS not merely formed to give a higher tone to the Peasantry of the country, and to animate them to faithful service, and to reward them for diligent con tact • but (and I may he allowed to give an opinion upon it, be: cause 1 watched over its earliest hours) it was also founded to guard over the fortunes of the agriculture of the country. (Cheeri.) Therefore it would be worse than mockery, meeting as you do under the circumstance., your member in the house of Commons, bound to consider your fortune., and to vindicate your interests, if he were to take ad vantage of • commonplace excuse which some times is too dbernlly exercised, and to say that politics are forbidden, and in fact avoid making any allusion to the perilous position which you occupy, and which of course is the great subject which interests you, or try to avoid that responsibility which as your member he must ever bear. (Hear.) I think it is nearly three year; since we met under the peculiar eircumatauces which have now called on together. Difficult and disagreeable as is the duty, I cannot but take this opportunity in as few words as I can to endeavour to form a far and im partial opinion of the position in which we arc pla:ed, and of the prospects which ore opening to ns, so that we may not indulge in any illusions. and that we may not try to keep up our spirits merely by the conviviality of the hour ; but that understanding the pa:Rion in which we are placed, we may at once come to the conclusion either that it is • hopeless position, or that it is one which, however difficult. may be encountered by understanding it, by union and by determined conduct. (Cheers.) Now some years have elapsed since that great revolution took place in the laws that regulate the industry of the country which has exercised so fatal an influence or all owners and occupien of land in this county, and I think that we may all approach the considerutian of that attedion with calmer feelings than we naturally did when that nitceatiun was proposed so sud denly, and from a quarter so uuexpected. (Cheers.) I think that we may be able now to view this question in a calmer and fitter spirit. You must recollect that this strange and sudden alteration-6,r strange and sudden all muse admit it to have been, whatever may he their opinion of the policy or impalicy of the measure which opened to un limited competition the industry and labour of the whole wort' with our own so far as agrieuilture was concerned. It was held out to England that the old system of popularity, called " the protective system," which was abrogated, was the bane of ugriculture—that the reason why the farmer: of the United Kingdom could nut compete with the cultivators of the sail in other countries was that they were nut men of entrgy and enterprise—that they were men deli Tent in skill, and that their want of energy, their want of enter prise, and their want of skill were occasioned by that sys tem of protection to which I have referred. No doubt these statements made in a very reckless manner, accepted by great masses of people, and not encountered at the time, at encountered too late by throe critical observations which I might have impugned their accuracy, carried what is culled I " public opinion with them ; and those alterations were made, however many may have doubted their expediency, with a very general impression that there was on the part of the cultivators of thesoil ol the United Kingdom n want of energy and enterprise, and a deficiency of skill and capital. Since that tinte the subject has become better understood, and our calmer feelings have allowed all classes to come to a more correct opinion on the subject, and there are now some great facts which are no longer doubted. It is no longer a doubt that the British farmer, who was held up as • man so deficient in energy and enterprise, in skill and capital, is a man who has raised from un acre of laud more produce thou any farmer tither in Enrope or in America. (Cheers.) That is a point now universally ad mitted, and it is unnecessary now in any society to discuss the truth of it, (Cheers.) Even yesterday, I read a state-' meat respecting the cultivation of France, and I there read that the average of the produce of France was only sixteen bushels to the acre, and in the United Stoles en., eighteen bushels. That circumstance would not seem to show that the British farmer was so dehcient in energy and enter prise. It is also a fact according to the official papers laid before the house of Commons, that at the end of the war with the American States the average produce of an acre was twenty bushels of wheat in England; and when the corn laws were abrogated in 1S iii the average produce was thirty-two bushels. I can only draw a very opposite contusion front that fact to tho.e which have been drawn by others. Ido not think it trips against the system under which so great an increase of prOduce was effected. (Cheers.) There is another fact now universally admitted. that in the period of time that elapsed from the year 1821 to the year 1846—a p, -rind of a quarter of a cen tury—the increase of population in this country was 32 per cent., anti the increase iii the produce of wheat was 61 per cent. 'that also is not a proof of want of energy and enter prise. (Cheers.) There is also another fact which now no one disputes, that in 191.5, when not a man in this country could have supposed that the protective system was in dan ger, the farmers of the United liingilotu imported from a remote port iu the racitie more than 4,000,000 cwt. of a rare, new, and peculiar manure—guano. That also is not a proof of want of energy and enterprise. I notice these things because I wish to convey to you what I think is the public opinion on the subject—that whatever may be the public opinion as to the expediency or inexpediency of the repeal of the corn laws in 1146, the pretext that it was I necessary to repeal them because the cultivators of the soil were not men of energy and enterprise is given up. (Cheers.) There was also another pretext on which those Taws were repealed, namely, that it would not affect prices. The facts are now acknowledged by the country, that the farmers—the cultivators of the soil—were not deficient in energy, enterprise, skill, and capital, and that the change has - affected prices moot seriously. Meeting here after • plenteous harvest, and hearing from all of you that, with the advantage of a good harvest and the great exertions that you have made, you still feel that you arc involved in the most difficult struggle that any great body of producers ever yet engaged in, I think we ought now to inquire what is this cause of that great depression ; and if we can arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to what is the cause, I think we ought to try to ascertain what might be the best remedy under the circumstances, and whether it is possible by union and energy to effect that remedial consequence which we all desire. Now, I have always spoken to you with the utmost frankness upon this point. My conscience does not accuse me that when the protective system was attacked I did not do my best to uphold it. But to uphold a system that exists, end to bring back a system that has been abrogated, are two different things, and I am convinced myself that that system, generally known by the "protective system," can never be brought back unless it is the interest of all classes —at least of all classes of importance—that that should be the principle which should regulate the national industry, and unless the nation speaks out upon the question in an onsastakeable manner. But, knowing the difficulties in whisk the question is involved, am 1, as the representative elm agricultural constituency, to sit still and to say that those whose interests I represent are to be allowed to fall Inei that state of dilapidation because nothing but one remedy can be acknowledged as the one that is satisfactory, whoa we all know that that is one which only can be ob- Woad under most difficult circumstances? No; I look to lbs mai question. What is the reason that the British lturist, whom I have shown is a man of energy and enterprise, who has the command of great skill and capital—what is the reason that he cannot compete with the foreign producer? The reason is, that he is sub jected to a load of taxation which overwhelms his energies, I and which curtails his enterprise. (Cheers.) I know very wall, and I say it at once without reserve, whatever may be the general weight of the taxation of the country, that the agriculturist must bear it—must take his share of that taxe d', as well as all other classes. I look to the increase of the population—l look to the increased produce of the pre doss metals, as circumstances which no doubt have a temkney to diminish the weight of that taxation to all dames of the country; but I find that the owners and ampler' of the soil have to incur a taxation which other darn of the country do not share; and, therefore, how ever you may diminish the weight of the general taxation of the country by an increase of population or by an increase of the precious metals, yet the owners and occupiers of the sod will always have an additional burden to fight against which ether classes have not. I know it was said—and I allude to it in order to simplify the case— which Is really extremely simple if it is understood—that when the corn laws should be repealed it would be found out that the interest of the owners and occupiers of the soil were not the same; but, my opinion is that the repeal of the corn laws has very much simplified that ques tion—that it was very possible before, under the then exha ling circumstances, to make out a ease, I think a fallacious Nei ! but to make out a cast that the interests of the owners wild occupiers of the soil were different ; but the moment you withdraw all those laws which give an artificial price, the owners and occupiers of the soil become wholly in the situation of partners—one brings the fixed capital and the raw material, the other brings labour, skill, sad the finite. lan capital, and they divide the profits of the enterprise moordiug to any private arrangement animas themselves. J i r r t ma as y tw dl o vi m de ercUn their Wes awl understanding of the amount of their 11111.141011 111110114 111 t p s ro w pt o rty are acco m r Partawah larding to Mamba.- , (Hear. hear.) Then, I say, if that be the eine.meo else I pier, or of the individual who may fill bolt poshV e saw tim to the land the advantage or =Le legislature and tho bedworl have acknow. I land, whether it is the clans of the wrier, eir Wall s = mmm date Ile principles which ought to extended to all THE REGISTRATIONS. HERTFORDSHIRE. The revision of the lists for this county corn minced at Watford on Monday. Mr. Boutems, the secre tary of the Reform Registration Societe, attended for the liberal parsy ; and Mr. Sworder, of 'Bert:awl, with Mr. l'smingham, thireceretary M the Protectionist Society, for the tones. On the claim of Edmund llowe, in the Abbotte Langley list being objected to by the liberals, Mr. Sworder con tested the validity of the notice, on the ground that it was dated on a Sunday, arguing that as it was the commence ment of siege! process, and as the notice was signed by Mr. Bontenu, in the exercise of his profession or calling, the dating on the Sunday rendered it invalid. Mr. Bontems denied that he had dated the notice in the exercise of any profession or calling—asserting that he had simply exercised a right given hira by acts of parliament, which prescribed no particular days on which the respectise notices should be either dated, signed, or served. Ile further referred. to the case, of " Rawlins and tire Over seen of Wc,t Derby," and •• Colville and the Town Clerk of Rochester," to .;how that the Court of Common Pleas had derided that notices might be actually served upon the parties on a Sunday, and therefore of course might be dated and signed on that day. The Revising Barrister did not think there was anything in the objection. The statute expres,ly required that the overseen should publish their notices of objection on a Senday, therefore he did not consider that other parties could be precluded from doing it. lie should therefore decide the notice to be good. The name way then struck of the list. In the parish of Aldenham the names of Robert lull and Francis Curwen Sundt were struck off by the liberals, on the ground that the rent-charges fur which they claimed could nut be proved to be good. In the same parish, and also in the parish of Bushey, the claim of Mr. J. W. P. Watlington was expunged by the liberals, on the ground that the claim had been signet and sent in by the steward of Mr. Wallington, and without Mr. Watlington's name even appearing upon it. The name of Mr. 'l'. . l'ow les was also struck uff, he having claimed for a "leasehold farm," he being only en "occupier" under a lease. In the parish of Watford James Broad was objected to by the tories, and Mr. llontems contended that the notice was bad, on the groond that it bad not been addressed to the claimant at his place of abode "as described on the regis ter," the wont " London" being added. Mr. Sworder contended that the objector was at liberty to add to the address, in order to make it plainer, and more likely to reach the party. Tin: Barrister said he thoullit so too. If the a Ilition was likely to prejudice the claiinant he should not ad w it, ' but in thee case it did not. Mr. llontune wiled the barrister to consider whether • he would grant an appeal on the point, which he promised to do, and Mr. Bontwas gave the required notice. The following is the result of the day's revision: Liberal gain—Claisus objectior slt-5S Tory gain—Claims ', Objections l7-40 Majority for liberals THE GREAT CABLE FOR THE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Yesterday the great cable 21 mi l es long, and de stined, when sunk hetween Dover and Calais, to form the key fur electric communication and correspondence between this country and the European continent, was completed at the works of the Submarine Telegraph Company, Wap ping, the last coil being securely circumflexed at anout four o'clock. The occasion furnished an interesting opportunity for observing the rather novel and noticeable processea em ployed in the fabrication of this newly devised agency for international communication as worked out through the medium of gutta percha and the wire rope machine. Enter• ing the factory, situated in the lligh-street, and which though a per:Cct p indemonium of tar, and smoke and steam, has been visited by a number of distinguished individuals, there are two well-constructed wire-rope machine., each about 20 feet hith and 15 in cir cumference, representing a large iron framework in the form of a cupola, with a shaft or cylinder in the centre, worked by a steam-engine of five-horse power. Obedient to the ringing of a bell, a concourse of workmen front the wire-rope works of Messrs. Newall, at Gateshead, took their places round one of the machines employed in the first pro cess. The machine, the action of which is vertical, being set in motion by the steam-engine, the first, or interior por tion of which the composite cable consists, was payed out on to the shaft. This first layer is composed of four electric copper wires, known as the 16 wire gauge, each encased iu a covering of gutta pereha of a quarter of an inch in , diameter. Those, placed in the machine, and with I the assistance of the manipulators, are twisted and plaited in spiral convolutions 'n the manner of an 1 an ordinary rope or cable round the shaft. The next super incumbent coil to this consisted of hempen yarn previously saturated in a reservoir of prepared pitch and tallow, and in its tura is tight twisted and compressed, impermeably and by steam power, over the gutta percha, with its inclosed copper wires. This is overlaid again with a series of hempen yarns, five or six in number, and about an inch in diameter, saturated in the pitch and tallow, with the view of what the workmen call " worming " the gutta percha. The pat,' percha thus protects the delicate wire, and the hempen yarn, in addition, acts no a cementitious material to the more perishable gutta percha, which ulti mately has thrown over it a coat of mail of galvanised wire. This completes the first process, and the manufacture of the rope in the spiral form is for tie purpose of giving flexibility. The second process consists in hauling off the cable so far completed, and pissing it, in another compartment of the factory, on to another wire rer machine, where the cord is completed, covered over with ten galvanised iron wires, each wire being about the thickness of a lead pencil, and known as No. 1 galvanised wire gauge. This galvaithed iron sheathiut is to protect sad preserve the interior layers from the action of the sea, and the weight is considered to be sufficient to sink the cable es necessitate gracitatis. The appearance of the cable thus completely encased in a shining coat of gal vanised iron, and divested of tar and dirt, gives it quite a silvery appearance. The coil thus completed is drawn off ties machine and draughted out by the men, as sailors haul rope, into the factory yard, where it now remains rolled up into a circle, some five feet in h=t, and twenty feet in circumference, re g a dead weight of 2® tons. In order to test ges sempleteness, 51r.C. J.Wollaston, the engineer who con ducted the experiments last year, and who, in conjunction with Mr. T. It. Crampton, has the carrying out of the en gineering arrangements, tired a fusee, through the 24 miles of electric cable, from one of the batteries in the building. A steamer has been placed at the disposal of the promoters of the undertaking by her Majesty's go cerement to convey the cable to Dover. The gutta percha wires have been prepared by the Gotta Perch' Company in the most perfect style of insulation, and the whole of the one hundred miles of intended communication represented by the four wires of twenty-four miles soak have been tested, and their integrity been found true by Mr. Wollaston, in the itegent's Canal. The ma nufacture of the cable has now been in hand three the men working night and day ; and it is hap= expected that the contrivance will accomplish an sawn. able end. Few persons are aware of the international value and oommercial advantage of completing this last link, the want 1 of which at present detaches disadvantageously this country bons so many of her European allies, and her own import 4flit pearrions and dependencies, and probably this could MS Mein stronger illustration than is contained in the re pomatation of the fact, that when the sob-marine telegraph war the English channel is a thing accomplished, there will ho uninterrupted telegraphic communication between England and all the following principal cities and towns of the European Continent to which the telegraph is now com pleted:—Canis, Paris, Lille, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, Liege, Cologne, Hanover, Brunswick, Berlin, Frankfort, Leipzie, Dresden, Prague. Breslau, Stettin, Craerow, Vienna, (Trieste, 1,450 miles departure port for India), Venice, Milan, and by the end of the month to Turin and _,, I Genoa. ‘'s FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY, Yesterday a public meeting of the subscribers and friends of the above society took place on the recently ac quired land situated near Coekshot-hill, adjoining the scat of Lord Somers, at Reigate. The object was to take formal possession of the estate, which consists of 21 acres of land, purchased for the sum of 3,6001. It is expected that it will make about 120 ellottmeats, entitling each allottee to a vote for the borough, or the eastern division of Surrey. The South Eastern Railway Company liberally placed at the disposal of the society a special train at the ordina_ry fares. The chair was taken by JAMES WYLD, Esq., M.P., one of the vice-presidents. A largo marquee was erected on the ground, where tea was provided for the company, which being more numerous than was expected, tho meet ing was addressed by the speakers from a platform erected outside the tent. Among the company were the following gentlemen : Captain Parrett, Mr. R. Kettle, Mr. James Taylor, of Birmingham, Mr. G. Edgar, Mr. Downes, and Mr Haggett, the secretary ; Mr. Wells, the solicitor to the St. Pancras Freehold Land Society, C. Pearson, Esq., A. Jermayn, C.E., and several members of the committee. Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting, A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. DEATH OF THE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF !ts r EDI CINI AT OXFORD.—Died yesterday (Sept. 17k ol Lt s his resi dence, St. Oiles's- street, Oxford, after a few ' illness, John Kidd, M.D., of Christ Church, Regius Profiteer of Me.licine, Tomline's erselector of Anatomy, Aldrichian Professor of Anatomy, and Radcliffe 's Librarian. Dr. Kidd was highly esteemed and respected, both in the University and city of Oxford. In 1800, being then a student of Christ Church, Dr. Kidd took the degree of M.A. ; in 1801 that of Bachelor of Medicine; and in 1804 he proceeded to the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1822 Dr. Kidd succeeded Sir Christopher Pegge, Dart., In the once of Regius Pro fessor of Medicine, to which is annexed Tomline's Praelee torship of Anatom and the Aldrichian Professorship of y Anatomy ; and is 1834 he succeeded Dr. Williams as Rad c:ilfe's Librarian. The election of a successor to the latter office rests with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the University, the Bishops of London and Winchester the two principal Secretaries Of State, the two Chief Justices, and the Master of the Rolls. other industries. For instance, take one of the great prin ciples on which the commerce of this country is governed. It is laid down as a principle that no raw material of a ma nufacturer should be taxed; well, but if you look to the land, what is the first thing you do by the present law? You tax the lona, which is the'iliw inseerisl u r fthe tamer, in every way, under all circumstances, and at the very earliest moment. (Cheers.) The farmer does not step upon the acres he has hired, but lie is immediately called upon for a rate which is, in fact, a tax upon his raw material. Well, I say how can you reconcile it to yourselves that you should lay down as a principle that the raw material of a manufac turer—of cotton, for instance—should not be taxed, when the raw material of the manufacturer of Hoar is taxed in every possible s'aape. (Cheers.) Then, this lead.' me at once to the considera tion of our local burdens; and I think I shall be able to put this before you in the cour, of a few minutes in a light in which you all at once recognise their injustice. In this room I first intimated my opinion that that was a question that ought fairly to he brought before the coon try. You know the great opposition that that proposi tion had to encounter from opponents, and the great want, of cordiality that there was amongst a very considerable ' chit who ought to have been our friends. You know when I first brought forward that question in the House of Commons, sustained only by a petition from the Agri cultural Association of the county of Buckingham, that we had a majority of more than 100 against us. You know what happened iu the next year. So great was the forte of discussion—such the magic of truth, that that great ma jority was reduced to some 25 or 30 ; and you know what happened lout year, with nothmg to assist us but continued discussion and the increased awl progrssive influence of truth and rcason—that the majority almost entirely disappeared, and that in fact it was acknowledged that the force of these views was so considerable, that the existing government could no longer contend against them. (Cheers.) Now look at this case of the local taxation of the country. I shall not trouble you much with details or figure., fur I have thought of thw subject so often, I have had to state it uader such difficult circuits: stances, and I have had to contend upon it with men of such great make and likelihood that my mind is naturally so tutored as that I can place it probably in a novel and striking light:before you. (Cheers.) There is raised in the United Kingdom, by local taxation, 13,000,0001. per annum. When we complained originally of that great assessment, it was said that the land might pay a g..si desl of it, but not more than other classes. Must property, it was said, and railroads paid a great deal, and this was objected to any statement of the case. This led to a further analysis of the ' ' gin ation, and it then resulted that of the 13,000,000 . 1. per an num that was raised from a limited clam of the property of tha country called " real property," 8,000,000/. was contri buted by the land of the United Kingdom. That, as a general statement, no one contradicts. Now let me show you the consequences of this state of affairs. I will take the rental of the United Kingdom at 60,000,0001. per an num ; that is rather an excessive estimate, but I wish to state the case rather as against ourselves. There has been such a reduction of rents in Englund, and such distress in Ireland, that perhaps that is rather a estimate to take. Well, we have pretty good evidence that the general income of the country is 240,040001. per annum; but I will take a very moderate estimate—l will take only the rateable and taxable income of the country, mod therefore I wiil not say that the 60,000,0.41. per smut= of rental is one-fourth, but I will say that itili only sue-third of the income of the country. Then, if that 60,000,00111. which contributes 8,000,000/. of local taxation (now universally admitted for objects of general and public interest), it' that 60,10a,000/. of rental, which is one-thirst of the general income of the country, eon tribute that 8,000,0101. of tuxes for objects of common interest, it follows that two-thirds of 8,000,0001., say 6,000,001., should not be borne by the laud of this country. (Hear, hear.) That appears to me to be an arithmetical proposition which no one can impugn It 'mounts to this: that the land of the United Kingdom is every year contri buting fur the advantage of the country, and fur the main tenanee of common and notional objects, about 6,000,000/. year more than it ought. (Cheers.) Allow me to ask you what is 6,000,0 )01. a year ? It is one-tenth of the rental of the country, according to the exaggerated estimate that I have taken. We read in the newspapers, and hear of the proprietors of land making allowances to their tenantry of 10 per cent., received with as kind a feeling as it is granted, though both the perniu who grants and the rrson who receives !'eel that it is not equal to the occasion. And actually the very persons who advise you to seek nn adjustment among yourselves as a remedy fur your pre sent distress, and who tell you that a diminution of rent to the amount which is now common is a sufficient specific, are at this moment supporting a system of taxation which every year unjustly levies from the owners and occupiers of the land a sum equal to one-tenth of the whole rental of the country. (Cheer.) It is now no longer necessary to argue the question that the objects for which the 8,000,000/. are pail by the loud arc objects of national in terest. When I first brought the queatiou before the house of Coininous, 1 actually had to enter into an ab stract arguineet to prove that the maintenance of the poor was a national object; but taw no one will discus.' the question, for we have, evs it in the published evidence of Mr. Corutwall Lewis, a full and complete admission of the point, and of all other points connected with the subject. Then it conies to this—that the weight of your local taxa tion, as at present adjusted, is equal to one-tenth of the rental of the country, and that it' a fair and impartial adjustment of that local taxation teak place, you, the owners and occupiers, would at once be relieved, by no sacrifice of the rest of the community, but by the principles of politit=l justice, of which we hear so much on all other sub,ccts, to that extent. (Cheers.) When 1 see what an immense relief might thus be obtained on the very princi- I plus which our opponents are promulgating, I MI surprised that any one should attempt to deprecate the elforts that have been Lamle.= your behalf on that subject. lam sur prised that a man KO able and eminent as Mel'usey, should my that it was a mere question of 0.1. in the pound in the (meaty rate. It is no such thing; but to every tenant in England it is a question of 10 percent. further reduction on the rent that lie is paying. There are other questions of equal intereat and importance which, even it we cannot bring back the eld system of protection, which the country alone can bring sack; we are still bound to work for, with out giving up our opinions—to work for and to attempt to achieve. 1 say that we should not only obtain an adjustment of taxation, founded upon equality, but the land tram all the unnecessary restrictions which are now kept up upon that branch of the national industry, when we know that every other branch is tree from thou. I won't, in order to make out a ease, touch upon the laws which re strict you from cultivating tobacco or sugar—let them pass; but I notice thou to show you that they are parts of the same system—they all prove that you have a financial sys tem in this country founded on a totally different state of circumstances to those which now exist. You raised your revenue in this country by receiving a certain market to au important productive interest, and by throwing the burden of your taxation, and straining the energies of that taxation in consequence. Tile moment you withdrew the arti fi cial as sistance which you gave to that interest, the moment you ceased to assure to theta a certain market, you should have adjusted all your financial laws in deference to that change of affairs, and should have given them relief proportiousto to the assistance which you withdrew from them. (Cheers.) But there are restrictions on the cultivation of the soil which immensely interfere with the profits of the farmer. I know nothing more remarkable than this. Look to the branch of what is called inland reveime which is raised in this country, and which produces 1.1,000,0001. a year, a sea equal to the revenue of great empires and kingdoms on the continent—equal to the whole revenue, for instance, of Au stria, who is now with difficulty raising a great loan. litre is a fact that might astonish foreigners—two-thirds of that great amount is raised front a tax on one single crop of the 13ritidh farmer—the tax on the barley raised by the British farmer annually produces two-thirds of that 15,000,000/. (Cheers.) Well, but look at the taxation of the British farmer, with respect to that particular crop. You know very well that I never took a hot-headed view of the malt tax. I always told you if you could preserve an assured market for your geuer.d produce, that it was wise to en dure the burdens that were placed on you for the public service, and certainly if a man got a good price for his wheat, he might endure a law which was a great restriction on the production of another crop. But now the assured market is withdrawn, and all the burdens and restrictions should be withdrawn. (Cheers.) I touch upon these subjects because I think I shall show you that the only mode of vindicating your rights, and of ob taining that relief to which you are legitimately entitled, is by understanding this question. I said just now that the great principle upon which the new commercial system is established was that theiraw material of no ma nufacture should be taxed. Well, then, I want to know if that be the principle on which our legislation is to be founded how any man can vindicate the land-tax ; how any man, if that principle be a just one, can now— that you have totally repealed all artificial prices and all artificial markets justify the state at once walking in and saying to the owners and occupiers of the soil (lie tween whom there is no longer any difference); " We will levy a direct impost upon your raw material i" (Cheers.) No one ever offers an argument against these propositions. I am sure no Chancellor or the Exchequer—no one in the House of Commons—not Mr. Cobden himself, can tell you it is just that the poor should be maintained by a particular class of property, or that a direct tax should be levied from one particular class from which all other classes are free, or that great restriction should be placed on a particular loss when all other trades arc exempt from these restric tions. (Cheers.) Then how are you met ? How, when the egncultural interest is suffering severely by the ad mission of the minister, and by the acknowledgment of her most gracious Majesty, suffering as all must admit, and, as we believe, from being subjected to imposts and re strictions to which no other property and no other trade is subjected—how aro you met when you complaia, and how aro those allegations encountered ? In this mar ner—" It is for the interest of the community that you should pay . taxes for the rest of the community." That is really their case. No one pretends that if they began de novo they could construct a financi al system like the Ywreilteut;But if you maintainbut, i ss t m it went to market and addressed a person who owed you_ sum of money, and said, " Well, I must have that 501. t , 1i and he said, "No doubt I owe you 601., but will you ththceyy"poseitarabllylyeanea.y that * they " I to i an so the agricultural i n t e rest must say, I" Y ou admit the injustice — we feel it, and it is your bbusinessto devise means by which some satisfactory.ar ymoc how a fair ," I r r to get it," you would naturally say, our ar rangement can be arrived at." What, then, is the practical point to which our actions should lead ? If "o have a clear case for the country ; if we can ask fur relief founded on the very principles which they themselves are promul gating; if we can show that wo are subject to unequal taxation; if we can show that we are subject to injurious restrictions ; if we can show that we are experiencing n distress which you boast that no other class of the com munity experiences, then it is for you to devise the means —it is for you to offer the terms on which we can permit the present system to go on." (Cheers.) I give no opinion upon those terms. I think it most unwise for the landed interest to go to any government and to say, we are aulfer ing, give us a fixed duty, give us a sliding scale and cure our suffering. Our business is to say, "We arc suffering —you admit it year after year—we are suffering, and we have discovered that the cause is an excess of taxation which our energies cannot endure—it is a restriction upon our industry which no industry can prosper under, and we call upon you to do us justice, and to place us on the same level as our fellow citi zens. If you can't do that, if you have some device as politicians, as statesmen, as men of the world, u members of parliament—if you have some device which is a compromise, and can conic forward with it, it is for you to do so, and for us to consider whether upon the whole, with such political and financial arrange ments, we can any longer endure the burden which we now experience—but that is your affair and not ours—we aro not to fall into the trap which yens are always making tin us, that we are a class wanting to tax the food of the com munity. What we want is lailitical justice—what we want is financial equity—iciW:us that which we demand—let us be placed upon the same level as our fellow-subjects with regard to taxation and freedom of industry, and we will at• tempt to maintain that struggle. If you can't do it—if you can't act according to thins pr:nciplsa of justice which you have so loudly declared, then conic forward to us and give us some scheme, some arrangement, which may be the re suit of your wise counsels and of your skilful statesmanship, and we will do that which tke agricultural class, us an eminently loyal class, is always ready to du—we will look , . . a , with respect and consideration to ny proposition that is matte by the minister of the Queen. (Cheers.) Now I think that that is our real duty, and I think if, instead of mourning over the past, instead of ester:ding thine whom we only have considered traitors, it instead of perpetn:lly recurring to that which is gone by—if we gu before the country and show the country that we have a case founded on justice, and that can be sta:sported by argument, wu shall obtain Vie sympathies of all &ipso in a country where justice has ever ben esteemed, and where reason has ever been honoured. (Hear, hear.) What is more—if I could condescend—when I feel that I have not only a . . s :reat, but the greatest cause to advocate—it I could Con descend, I say, to consider tactics, I would %iodine to say that it is not only most just—out only most honest—nut only most honourable, but that it is the must adroit, the wisest, and will be the most successful means. I know that we have consideruble difficulties to deal with at this mo ment. I acknowledge that there never woe—front the pe culiar circumstances of the time—in the history of this country when the fortunes of the agricultural interest were in such peculiar peril. I know what is threatened to us — I know what is nieuticed ; but that is the reason why I have urged you to tin as 1 have, and I have spoken without reserve. What I want the farmers of Englund to do is to understand their position. It has been enunciated by lips of great importance that the agricultural interest form an insignificant class. I have always counselled my friends (and I trust I have always acted so myself) to fee: the in expediency of a rraying one interest against another, and of trying to depreciate or to magnify the relative impor tance of those interests ; and 1 never have despaired, from the beginning of this great struggle, of some day seeing a policy in this country which could draw about it the sympathies of all the great classes awl inte rests but when I ant toll that the owners and occupiers of land am an insianiticaut class, want to say a word to the farmers of the United Kingdom upon that subject. I am not saying anything about territorial constitutions, or on ancient aristocracy— I am not talking about the influence in the govern ' ment—the imperishable value in a government of tra ditionary influences, which I believe myself to be ong of the reasons why the constitution of this country has ex perienced so difibrent a fortune to the constitution of other countries; but I will speak to you not only in the spirit of the 19th century, but in the spirit of the year the spirit of the economic Manchester —in the spirit of those leagues and confederations which have made such booty of your fortunes, and I ask arc the farmers of the United Kingdom aware, or can they forget that they are the greatest employers of labour in the king dom? (Hear, hear.) The employment of labour in this age is the test of the importance of a class. The class that most employs labour is that class to which the British farmer belongs, and, therefore, that class of the farmer is, accord ing to that economic new-formed test invented by your opponents, the most considerable, I presume, in the coun try, if they only understood their position. Then, let the British farmer, if he belong to the most influential party and have the hest cause—let him resolve that that cause shall prevail and triumph. Let the farmers unite. Don't let them split straws about the different courses premised by persons in whom they have confidence ; but let them, seeing all the circumstances) of the Cade, and clearly understintliug their position, make up their minds to support those who will obtain fur the land of Eng land financial justice. (Cheers.) As cur all that idle and superficial retort with which we are met, "if you take off this tax, or alleviate the injustice of which you complain—of what you complain—how are we to go on, or where are we to find the substitute ?" my answer is, " Those are considerations for politicians and statesmen, and not for the fanners of England, or for any class sufferins from financial injustice." Demand iu a manner that cannot be mistaken, and as the greatest employers of labour tan always demand—demand that financial justice shall be dune you, and you may depend upon it that you'll have public men who will find no difficulty in fulfilling your wishes. (Cheers.) I know well the di ffi culties wo have to encounter. When parliament meets it will not, probably, be in my power the moment it assembles to call upon the government of the country to do you that justice, because by a most o ur resolution, which I supported, the Limn° tax is limited in its existence now only to a few months. Either it must be continued or it must be repealed. If it is continued government has a surplus, and I shall ask in your name, if you authorise me, that the government should take adviiii•age of that surplus, and cotawenee a system of financial justice. If it is nut continued, whatever party is formed insist come forward to ask for direct tases and on your behalf I shall demand that those taxes shall be: abolished on principles of financial justice. Whatever hap pens, therefore, see have a fair chance—if we are united we have a certain chance of justice. (Cheers.) I ant told that all this is foreseen, that it is said the landed classes nro very powerful in the present constitution, and that means will he taken, as it is not convenient to accede to their de mand fur justice, to curtail that power, and we are to have a new reform bill. Perhaps you will do me the justice to emeriti's!. that I have never heels one of those who wits frightened at a large constituency. I have the honour to represent a large constituency, and if its numbers were greatly increased, I should have ito hesitation in appearing before it. And I can say that, if the ministers of the sove reign, whom I give credit for being men of honour, and men duly sensible of the great responsibility of their exalted position, feel it to he their duty to bring forward any measure, the object of which is to revise and recon struct our constituencies, (created under a measure that was not devised by your friends) I shall give to such a proposi tion, introduced by such men, mid under such circum stances, my most respectful and unimpassioned atten tion; but, if I were to find that instead of being a sea gpre brought forward from the profound consideration of wise cabinet of responsible statesmen, it was brought for ward in the excitement of the party feeling, and from tho exigency of a fictitious necessity, that its only object was to curtail the influence of the land which it has injured, or to increase the power of some limited elms or coterie then. even at the risk of being called an " anti-lteforzuer " pledge you my word that I will give it an unceasing minion compromising opposition. (Cheers.) They may carve the constituencies of this country as they like ; but the " greatest employers of labour " willmake themselves felt. (Cheers.) That is not an artificial state—that is not the social position which any political maw:metes can neutralise the influence of. I have confidence in the intelligence, iii the spirit, in the power of "the greatest employers of labour," if they only are united ; and I have confidence when we arc threat ened with these Itefonn Bills, in the genius and for tunes of the county . of Buckingham. Different places are celebrated for different things. One is famous for chews, another for calves, a third for cotton ; but Buck inghamshire has always been famous fur politics. (Cheers ands laugh.) Why it was in the bosom of the Chiltern hills that the English constitution was invented. It was amid the stately lanes and triumphal arches of Stowe, dedi cated to oratory and to public virtue, that the young ambi tion of Chatham meditated on that policy which converted lan island into an empire. (Cheers.) It WAR wider the pro phetic oaks of Beaconsfield that Mr. Burke poured forth those divine effusions which ia perplexity and trouble have been the counsel of statesmen and the consolation of the nation. (Cheers.) And let me remind you. when this isle is to be frightened from its propriety by the threat of a new reform bill, what happened in Buckinghamshire when the last reform bill was brought forward. (Cheers.) Did we wince ? Did we shrink like frighted deer from the scene?" No ; we sent up a mem ber from the county of Buckingham—not to oppose an in ereased franchise—not on behalf of that community to ex press any want of confidence in the people ; but, on the contrary, by one motion at once to increase the newly-en franchised constituencies by mom than one-eighth, and at once to invest with its privilege the must numerous class of that new constituency—l will say, even in your presence, not the least inferior in intelligence, in public virtue, and in private acts—the lauded tenantry of England. (Cheers.) You will act in the same way under the same circus dances. You have not for two centuries and a half in fluenced the political destiny of this great country now to prove traitors and recreants to your high office ; and I doubt not, whatever may be the changes that am invented or devised, that you will send men to the senate of your country who will Buckingham. (Thep hon. gentleman resumed county his seat amidst grea t applause, succeeded by rounds of cheering.) uhold the renown of the of Several other toasts followed, which protracted the pro mailings to a late hour. Jan the SUPPOSED ML'IIDES.—On Saturday ac'nnight, as John Aston, letter-carrier, of Stafford, was proceeding on his round, his dog found part of the leg and foot of a human body close to a &HI in a field near Silkmore House. The leg, which had a piece of rope tied round it a little abovo the ankle, has been since examined by several medical gen tlemen, who consider that it had been cut off after death, but not by a medical practitioner, half of the bone having been sawn through, and the remainder broken off. The leg appeared to have been perfectly healthy, and to have been lately cut from the body of • young person. Every exertion has been made by the police to obtain some clue to this mysterious affair, but at present without SUCCOU.— Irolverliampton Chronicle. BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY. Traffic for the week ending Sept. 11th, :--2921. 183.21. For the week ending 130113 qt., 1839, 2161.25. 3d. I 0