The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

1.:Al•F 11)NGliESS AT MANCHESTER l i t c'es , win now, I am prepared, not only to give them that assurance on moderate terms, but I will put their sin ! entity to the test. Bring me that public instructor in your tows, that has been telling you for the last five years, and upwards, that this invasion is so imminent; bring him to me, and I will make a proposal to him. If he will pay one shilling a week to your Infirmary, se a subscription, I will enter iota a legal bond, to pay him down tea thousand pounds, when this invasion takes place. (Great cheering.) Well, but you sometim es h en your pu bli c instructors, who write as thoueh they had some special sources ol information from London. Now I tell all those writers in newspapers in the provinces, who have joined in this cry of invasion, that they are being heartily laughed at by those in London, who are profiting by the cry. The government has no belief in any danger of, sudden invasion. I will prove it to you in a moment. If an invasion took place without notice, our go vernment would be certainly impeached, because they are allowing our largest concentrated fleet, a fleet more powerful than the whole American nary to be at a distance. Now, I am speaking deliberately when I say that we have a fleet before which if every ship of war which the Americans have were brought they eould not exist for twenty-four hours ; and that fleet is now lying at Malta or amusing themselves between Malta and Corfu (with a great expenditure on the part of the officers for kid gloves for their parties and ex cursions) ; and I say that if parliament believed what the government and the instructors of the people are saying, as if i: were derived from some special sources of informs. flan—:hat any government that ever existed in the country, and was proved, if an invasion and descant on our shores took place, to have suspected it, to have anticipated it, and M have given a hint of it to some of those public instructors In the country, would inevitably be impeached, mid de served)y so, for having left our largest fleet 1,200 miles off, and at such a distance that it could not be collected in has than a month's time. So I assure gentlemen in the vinees who join in the cry that they are oily being heartily had at for their pains, and the governmi nt, which may pro t by the cry, is by no mean s a sh arer i n t h e pan i c. Aod cli that is one of the worst parts of the panic ; that oovern mente de manage to rids over the session and gain time when they can find silly people through the country who will occupy their tellow-citizens by such a cry es this, be moan those who would be better employed in urging for. ward the government to do something are kept trotting about the country to try to prevent the mischief which these alarmists create. Don't you think, now, that I and others on this platform, who form huinOle units in the political world, might be better engaged, and might perhaps be troublesome to some party in the government, it they were not kept on trotting about by this cry of an invasion I It is a very clever contrive:lee and is the very thing that despotic governments aro always se. king for—something to keep the asentry always in a state of agitation, from a fear of inva• skis by other powers than themselves. That has been the very system that has always been adopted from the miry beginning of misgovernment ; and they will always find not only silly people who will believe them and become their dope., but also people who will perform the part of impostors to those dupes ; for there is quite as much knavery as fully et the bottom of this cry. Now, I think that we are ploying very much the pert of bullies in this matter. If I have read history to any pur pose at all, we have some at .nement to offer to the French people. We are not in is position to put our fist constantly in the face of the French, and cause them of an intention to come and molest us. The last French war arose out of a gross and unprovoked ageression on our part. The last war on the continent originated with us, from en o iglu ehieal government, fed from the resources of this great nation, but earned on against the interests of liberty and in the interests of despotism. But after that war was at an end, I think we might have expected that if there were any complaints or accusations or suspicions, they would more naturally have corner from the other aide of thy channel. I think that, under the circumstances, when we investigate the origin and character of the last great French war with this country, it is surprising that there is not a greater feel ing of resentment and indignation on the part of the French nation against the English. But are the English people in a position to begin again to exasperate the French people by accusing them of en intention to invade us, and of entertaining those base intentions agai ns t oar onee, when the only example in the memory of living man is one in which we played that part against them? If there should be suspicion in the minds of ally it should be in the breasts of Frenchmen. If W 4 follow the Christian maxim of doing as we would that others should do unto as, we should try a (lament tone, and see what a little con ciliation towards France would do. I will tell you what is at the bottom of the whole of this cry in England about a French invasion. It is ignorance in the minds of the great masses of the people as to what the real condition and circumstances of the French people are. I have told my friends who are met here from different part. of the country, mid who are proposing to take steps for a vigorous agitation on behalf of peace, that the first thing they have to do is to spread four or five lecturers over the ram of the land, to dispossess the public mind as to the state of feeling in France. We have no danger, it is admitted on all hands, from any other country. If it was not for this bugbear of France and the French invasion, there would lie lamentation and woe in some clubs in Lon don, for Ido not think they could have any excuse for keeping up so large a military and naval force. As to Minna*, they do not give us any excuse for keeping up our navy. If France was out of the way, and we had only to look to and to be prepared for competition with America, or even with Austria or Russia, that would hardly afford us an excuse for keeping up our present armaments. It is France elate that you are threatened with danger from, and I say that the people of this country are alarmed with respect to France simply be cause they don't understand the circonortanam of that nation; and, being in ignorance, you may persuade them anything. 1t is like blindfolding a man and then spinning him round once or twice. lie then does not know where he stands, and you may penned* him that anything in t'se I world is coming to eat him up; but unhendage his eyes, and he is not easily frightened. (Hear, hear.) Yon must go through the country with lecturers, deluge them with tracts, and show them the actual position of the French nation. I tell you candidly my firm belief is, and lam quite prepared to meet the consequences, that if you will let the people of this country know the whole truth as to the economical and social condition of the millions of Frame, instead of their fearing that the French people are coming to take anything they possess, they will be them selves possessed of a considerable amount of dissatisfaction that their own condition, as a mass, is not equal to that of the French. The French people coming here, like a band of pirates, to take whet the English people have ! Why, you have to deal with 8,000,000 of landed proprietors. A very worthy friend of ours, who is now usvelling . in the south of Frassas sad who is known to most of m y friends about me, has weipw within the last few days to us, that, es the re sult of Ns impizies and investigatime, the condition of the moral Ulm of France is very superior to that of the peasantry. The French peasantry are the prop ties of the land. When the man follows his horse to field there, he is turning up the knows n n his own soil. Now do you think that is exactly the popsladea to Inn over from their um to one here at a men masentie2xpedi tins ? (Appleent) Now, our sateen h g the Frank maple altogether Dle • y our awn standard. ow it is inn the have not yet quits get that appreciation of the repremataties forms of gmunmen in mu inehi. =and the habit of airee awl rein meeting, of the freedom of the mess ISM we lave ; it is bums it don not anew bite the Few& Mel issa to appeedate them things. For isaliess, die French ciajt bene am Haines Caryns4o, es we bonen Siglaad, Ss thetimmints• ether paned lbw* We nub the often inspielmese le the lansiblity of Mob ilise fiemlem, and I think we am tide eiglik But the Ina* then& they have had themes Isselftss ponsesion if pewee he Ire since; an su of ther Meets, whew hs he alleinlio Issielnes of shale ineeneldin, as ens of their emmentes liens has ewe Ihmegbt of gehlng up and a damilenemlei dues In then eine Is give :rue h=e l 2 ll / Ts= =tk a lrgi bisi ,t2 mend le See balite e enseelehm me peek meeting, it M mat OW" eats The Uses of the Ina* os. to have =Una. snob se we hue. ami diinnes - Sege gees- MOS. It is to Is Their WS le de It. Node. ; ui= d Is the einatity have used it or it wi th any Masao (Applause.) And thin these things whisk we prise, the Fronk, up te This time, have not Sewn that they attack melt imperious Sh Now the time Mue when they may hive pee** the same feelings ews that we have with NIIIIIIIIIII hi them questions. TM line may coma. Reseal* that Santo they have beea:abint 60 or 60 yens In pretty swine and nem ohs revolutions, so far as the political fusel their govern ment Well, but we had to go through a century of letelaMsa before we settled down. From the time of fia 1111111111Mosment of the civil war with Charles the lint down to the tine of our lest civil war in '46, this aseuttry paned through a whole century of revolutions. Sive them time, and perhaps at sons future time the Foul may h ave your tastes upon these questions to while you attach so much importance. And now I'll IS yea the lona I think we ought to learn from the Fes& having parted, apparently with so little re frain their representative form of government, t ill= freedom of the press ; and the lemon, I in,, le this—that we English ought to learn not to Ms M stroke our beards and to thank heaven we are not ill saw men, but we ought to say, let us take care that our =r press shall be such a useful organ, both in the morality, of truth, but, above all, useful in the sir a international peace, that the r mind shall Meg te it as an institution , and never allow it to be ia- Ittliupon ; and let public men, leading stateemms, be so ft in their representative capacities; and let them dhow patriotism enough, that the people shall have eon& done in them, and cling to their nspreseatative system, and met elands it as the French have done, because probably they bum set found those attributes of which I am speaking. NM, what the French do—recollect I am now, with all sub asimfies, indicating what I think is the line necessary for millielesturers to take, and whatever it is absolutely necessary ittebe, If wear* to put an end to this howl of a French inva des. Now, what the French do prize, and we don't prim math, is eq ua lity in social rank . The French people have dadished and destroyed feudalism for sixty years, com pletely. They don't tolerate any arbitrary rank or title or any entails, or anything which can tend to give social inequality. They carry that principle of equality into their religious ellinleiNl • the French people would tolerate one exclu sivity endowed religion, even although you had the church selected that comprises nearly the whole population. All 'people are treated alike in I. time. Every religion is put =g a perfect footing of equality. So in the taxation, welch is the most equal, fair system of taxation in the world ; you could not have in Frame a probate and legacy duty upon one description of property sad not upon an other. (Loud cheers.) Now, I see in France you cannot have what we have in this country, ;because public opinion revolts at it. You could not have an hereditary house of peers. Louis Napoleon would fall instantly—his throne The adj. , urned meeting of the Peace Conference ens 'wk.! en '1 toirsday evening in the Corn Exchange, and vie the best was well attended. Mr. Wri.son again took the chair. Mr. Ittenetina, the secretary, read several letters from In a k h cionotiondenta of the society. Mr Ise owns acid—M. de Cormenin has sent in hi. sel hese u to this conferee', in the form of an essay on the pre sent sop 4t of satin in France, and with special reference to the antoblailican me of which we have heard so much of late. It would be impossible to render justice to the admirable production of 31 de Connenin by • hasty translation ; nor would it indeed he . desirahle to present it Ui e.rteltso to this c omer, nee. Our (muds will, however, have an opportunity of Judging of its merits at so early period, as it is intended to be published with some other documents which have luso transmitted to u.. But two or three points of Vela nue bear so pertinently on the m sin subjects we have met ° consider, that we should be doing the cause, not less th a n the author, great injustice by not sub.nitting them, in hem o f a •IWI elk from M. de Cormenin himself, in proper per son. " Every government in Europe," he says, "that is silemestere.l by 1414 4 44 4 sail prudent statesmen, sighs alter once, for their interests, their necenities, their wishes, are b oun d spun peace. They have their broaen down liiraliCes to build up again; their morality to remodel; their sys tem' of education to reorganise ; the ir commerce to extend; t e c r agriculture to fecundate; their administrations to reform ; their laws to revise. Happy, ah ! thrice happy that bihulous, unknown, enviable n itiun, from whom !lea se:l has averted the two heaviest ears., that can &Set mankind —bad laws and good soldiers." Ile then seta forth, is Lr+ powerful ardl pungent style, the politico•sucial evils which, like chroaie malashee, cripple the vitality of conti nental nation', and render necessary the maintenance of fano armies, not fir purposes of foreign aggression, but to tusit down demeetic brigandage and ruffianism; and adds, that ther. is not one of these continental governments that wesod led williugly di-pease with Om payment of so and so mane hundred millions every year, expended on arms and aCeLliittrOSentil that rust and wear out, if the police of their states outd be effected by any other means ; or that would not pay a handsome sub•idy to any power that wood undertake the onerous office of keeping the tur bulent mum' in order, iike good little children. Rmerring then to the pre., he observed : ft Permit me, gentlemen, to be astonished at the English press, the first press in the world for the extent of its information, fur the completeness of its facto, for the largeness of its views, fur the science of it. detail, soul, above all, for its magnificent independence, sad yet which affects to know, or which really knows so little of es, although we are separated only by a little bit of a en ek, that it attributes to us the most bellicose inten tions M the world. Really, it I had not now for many yon known that no folks are so foolish as your very clever folks, I should be at a loss to ascribe an origin to spree crooked notions you 'good English entertain of us. They amount simply to this : that Napoleon 111. must ne cessarily blew sway a good deal of gunpowder, because his uncle, Napoleon 1., amused himself pretty coneiderably is this way. Here is a pretty kind of reason for sensible full.' to run their foolish heads against ; as though bceause sae man done such and such • thing at one particular time, it if ould be absolutely necessary for mother man to do the • tame thing at some other time. Why, then, let us goon playing tide-meock-horse, because we used to do so when we were children. I wager a hundred to one that if Alexander, Ctr-ar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, any or other of them, su d denly re-appeared on earth, they would rule some other hobby than the one that is associated with their names, and that the world would be extremely oat en-ea to see the amiable countenance they would put on. 1 certainly have not had the honour of a personal acquaint ance .14 4 11 Alexander or Cesar, nor even with Charlemagne, but I did know Napoleon, and I think I may venture to speak fur him, for ke was a man of genius ; and men of genius are so much men of their time, that they themselves male their own time. Well, Napoleon, this great man, the wailed mortal enomy of England, would be astounded et the prodigious greatness of her industrial enterprise, and would br, at the present time, her best, her sincerest friend and ally ; and most assuredly it is not his who will counsel his nephew to seize upon a few tumbledown cottages in 11.ditium, or some dozen or two mountain ruts of Savoy, instead of mining, ploughing, draining, fructify ing, and otherwise turuime to the best account the rich lands of France, and wresting from them wherewith to warm and feed us and our cattle and beasts ; to gather in our tool, wine, hay and straw, fruits and wines. If he do sot pursue this pacific count, seeking in it his real glory—the only glory worthy of a noble heart—his nephew would be mad—arch mad. la it at fortrfive years of age teat, belting himself for the first time with the girdle of war, he is going to make the attempt of rivaling on the battle-field, the dazzling but fatal— no the fatal—glory of the conqueror of Austerlitz and Ma rengo ? And who will dare to assert that to deserve well of France he must baptise his front with the blood of the English f —who ever makes such an assertion, is guilty of as taternational blasphemy—with the blood of you Eng lish, who but so recently, and with so much generosity. extended to him the hospitality of proscription. Had he demanded our suffrages only that he might madly throw away the blood awl the gold of France on the territories doer nighboun, who are our friends, I don't know what my in:ow-citizens would have done, but as for me, I would ban refuted him my vote loudly and bluntly. No; it was not to plan at our head conquerors, sod liourishen of the sable, that, twenty years *go, I first demanded for my fel isw-citizses the universal and direct suffrage. I know well that ten millions of votes are ten million times better and mkt than tea million bayonets or rifles, though even the Miss be all Mimi's." M. de Cormenin then severely la:slimes the Rumen& governments for their aggressive coarse towards weaker powers, not forgetting Ragland and be Kafir war. Mr. Richards read several other portages his the essay of M. ds COMICIAL An address from the Liverpool Financial Reform Arm cation was cad, but our correspondent could not proem 140pN411. Mr. Co'Die was heartily cheered on rising to speak. lye said—Mr. chairman and gentlemen, I confess I have hefted to thine batten from our French correspondents with feelings of shame and Inunilietion—shame, that it should be deemed necessary be our well-wishes oa the other side of the chancel that they should give us aster sons that there is no intention; on the part of France to come, sad without provocative. to i nvade our awn"; sad handiation, that there should bare been a considerable amber of the people of this country who could have been deluded by the merest child's cry, the mere baby's talk that we have been listening to, lathe last few smooths, mad that they should have behoved for • moment that &whale so ahead sad all but impossible was going to hippest. Now, let me just call your seised= to the source from which those esserasees come. The eatery that we hair in this country about an invoice from France is levelled at the amine goverameat of Franco. The parties who ars addressing us are set the partisans of that (overused. We have had • letter from M. Carpet ; he is not • hind of the present goverment. 1 have an extreme here from the Journal as Debate, whieb is • pacifies nowepoper, aet to the interest of Louis Napoleon, but a deeded advocate elegises and free trade; end what is the tine is which that paper speaks of this ay of invasion in this erantry ? It rye, that " whilst the British Poen& me every day among our government of making of its navy, we Memo tee{ main U P = U I I : O - 411 Slice Berland is einimally Mils" its Beet aad other armaments ; sad we are let Wiener that the EaStith pros eau have se other oh)** is thus Melanins smut the imagism Nulaireire of !seam then to am esel the real premeds= dem an gingen in Oat mum try." Well, yes have bad a letter teem Bmile Is (Sardis ; he is net • palm at Ps poen geeires seat; G woe aa sago seer 1M had rinektien, awl ha is mpessies . bin ambits whether the per we are midst fir " • lissiledissin Blom Frame without *ler-4m mind pee, waft bis umeollegisr tests • wad. tees the Mr& plat of this alma eatery—then he is Mike named Is there Inuit he iimstleg is to assent he the. the absurd supposities that us an pawing s lessen Orem ?rnee without ma elfsstt bemuse ash* hes over p that thine le say object We hen bad se pond; there is se lip*, —so unsettled hominy_ IlreMM marriages, u• Tahiti pietism, no Mr. Pritehasil are is no gaunt at all ; ad, than I ask me immismist friends what it is the remit en eomiag here kr, I sever meld hear an intelli gible mon (Chem.) Ilismoloss They my that some Ike *mud men an se bin to burn down one of touss, sad yet limy Moil these men will n go huh spin. I ens as mash Ma ism as M. de Oirardin team my biped peened fir say such attempt as that ; Mil rue may amend open it that you an apt to under lies as sleet ef ail this Ida of menacing demonstration Ws. The ant will be positely the contrary of what these alarmists want. band of damaging lauis Ns- Plea, ,you will unite all parties in France with him as, against England. And that is the great evil of each usestrstions as this—you snake every man in France, that km ea atom of self-respeet, ost of French spirit in his blood, l you make him feel indignant that you have lowered him rd his country to the rank of neaps, in supposing that they an to come here some day without notice, without de claration of war—a thing that never happened in any civil ised country in the world, an d you are maiming that it is Ping to be dons some day, without any fact to 1/U -ri" ; and you are making all the preparation that he sees, in your ports, in order to receive thee savages—(sheers)—and you find people that es still considered fit to be trusted in the maisage neat of their business, that yes meet in the etreeb every 110 1 s who win shake their wise heads, and toll yes that * 4 l believe that there is some danger of a Freash Jon g". Night not I my, I think there is some dearer of somebody attacking me In the street—mit MN I. l 'lth law the same lops, porno myself wi ts a Amid sought club, ezeirstpledelvefeseam;;lareinvas steellar Mete :LI Pistols, if it was my kind of provn apnea saw duel ilnallwr as that ? but I should be no alms anima fa thas " are as a amiss i l k maim dim ponigargs• France. (Cbe en-) I wish I tuna pa saw et toss public instruc t"' sad bens them to the test bow M limy are in earnest, w hen they write in the way mos el them ibambester Papers ante about • Panels Innen& Maar, her. Now, tiny k "wisdite, they Mee bees we in the same way ss lam five years; I have bad them upon me ever since u thrlater, 1847, which is above five refire ago. Tbff were, F ab its the saw way when Louis Philipps Imo rung 01 . ir toth. tad whim M. (hien was kis pies minister. , 11 sot let them of m their ponfiliti that all ;hey nut now ia to gonad In Wing en Usurper and a Pat. loh dtioy that ay bog ago as in 1847, Irk" L eah lhtt wen kint ia as Wail: as they do now. —as trieTlei ) eems is sine panic and alarm ; " 4 ;say it is high time Pat Ma peeps should take some *4 thode against the mmermages of this invasion, when THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 'A, 1853 . Inot be worth 24 hours' purchase if he was to attempt snything of use kind. (Appl ause. ) Therefore, they have their tastes, and we have ours. They do not understand our tastes ;—I can vouch fur it, from being a good deal among them, that they are very much puzzled fat our little regard for this principle of equality which they attach !so much importance to ; but they are discriminate, and they say—We envy you your jealousy of personal liberty ; we wish we had it ; we wish no man might have his personal freedom infringed. But that is not our taste. We have a passion for equality —you have a passion for personal liberty —and we should be better if we perhaps interchange the little and share our respective qualities. (Cheers.) Well, ' now, I say, let the English p eo pl e b e t o ld exact ly w h at i s the condition of French society. Let them understand, when we are told the French are coming here to rob our banks, that the French have had more silver in the Bank at Paris than we have had of gold and silver in the vaults of the Bank of England at the time that we were treating them aspirates who were coming to rob our hank. Then we talk of them coming to carry off the various commodi ties we have in this country. There are more silver forks and spoons in France than in England, a great deal. We know that if you go to a roadside public house in France, you get a nap kin and a silver fork ; and we know in all their private families the clam of people who live in that style are much more numerous than they are with us. A spirit of equality keeps up a vast mass there who have not similar tastes or aspirations here ; and therefore, when we hear of the French coming to commit a piratical incursion upon our shores, we are dealing with a people who would not be bringing all their worldly wealth like the New Zea landers or the Malays, but with a people that in many re spects are considered hy the rest of ;he world more civi lised than ourselves. 'Vic rest of the world imitates their dress, their language, their amusements, and not ours. We are dealing with a people having more of portable property in their country than they would find here. (Applause.) Well then, I say, to tell us all that of a pouple that have never molested us within the lifetime of any living being ; on the contrary, who have a good right to complain of a most aggressive attack upon their shores on the part of our aristocracy sixty years ago —I say, we aro placing ourselves in the light or an in solent impudent bully that goes about the streets holding up both his fists and trying to invite peaceable men to attack him. I hope, gentlemen, that we shall not separate until we have organised a plan by which we can spread this in formation, and a good deal more, through the country, is the interest of peace. Now, something hos been said about the financial reformers. I cannot understand what a financial reformer con be thinking of who expects ever to get any reduction of government expenditure, or any remission of those taxes which are pressing us in so many places, unless he can hope to effect a reduction in our warlike expenditure. Now, take in round numbers—l won't trouble you with figurer, but take in roans numbers our expenditure —say, eight and twenty millions go annually to pay the interest of the debt incurred in pat wan—l am sorry to say, aggressive wan; well, then, we have about 21 or 25 millions more to pay. Out of that about 16 millions go for our present warlike expenditure. Well, these invesionists tell us that cannot be reduced; and, if the iutenst of the debt must be paid, which we all admit, there you have 28 millions and 16 millions, which make 44 millions, that must not be touched. Then the finan cial reformers have left some five or six millions, which is the whole expense of our civil government. It is not an expensive government, really, for twenty-eight millions of people. The civil government costs us six or eight mil lions. Why, then, if the financial reformers join in this great cry for more warlike armaments, and give way to tnis red herring drawn across our path in the shape of an I invasion, then I think they ought to close their books and retire from business, and no longer call themselves finan cial reformers. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, if you can only destroy this wicked delusion that is spread about res peeting the conduct of France, and the intentions of France, there is a very productive mine still to be worked in this large amount of military and naval expenditure. I won't promise you that it shall be quite as productive as the repeal of the corn laws, and yet I really don't know but what, if you would give me the amount which, by putting an end to this wicked spirit of animosity which has grown up between France and England—give me the amount which might be fairly taken from oar warlike expenses, and let me deal with it in the re adjustment of taxation, in the reduction of taxation, I think I could se relieve industry by removing its trammels in the shape of custom houses and excisemen, that I verily believe I could give a new lease to trade, almost as profit able as that derived from the repeal of the corn laws. (Cheers.) And if you tell me that this invasion cry i s founded in common sense and reason, that we must be pre pared with our present armaments, and then to increase them, thee I should be guilty of the grossest imposture in the world if I were to tell you that any appreciable diminution could be made in the amount of our government expendi ture. You must, in that case, make up your mind to hear it, and I advise these who advocate this expenditure to do it without grinning, and without making wry faces at it. I would not, if I believed what then people tell me ; I would pay my taxes with right good will, and be very glad indeed to pay my money for each security. Well, now, one word upon the subject which is of most vital importance in any agitation which may be renewed from this time. We are going to make this revival, gentlemen • this is to be a revival. (Loud cheers.) Now, you will a ll remember—l am sore my friend, Mr. Sturge, will—in fact, he has said as much to me this very day himself, and therefore I need not appeal to him to confirm what I am going to say,—no taunts ever thrown upon me, have ever, to this moment, that I am aware of, led me to open m mouth to say that I disavowed the principles upon whic h the Peace Society 'is founded, and that I don't profess to go the lengths which the members of the Peace Society go. I have been told, I oonfess candidly, by political friends as well as poli tical enemies, that I was doing myself a great deal of harm by allowing it to be thought that I was opposed to all de fensive armament. My answer has been—lf anybody be lieves that of me, and chooses to make that a reproach to me, I don't suppose that if I disabused them it would do much good, for they would be sure to find something else, Ito invent something else ; and besides, I said I have so much respect for those gentlemen who belong to the Peace Society, and see that they are doing se mach good, that I don't feel disposed at all to say anything that should appear, or be construed to imply anything like a slight or disapproval of their conduct. But it is very well knows to my friend, Mr.Sturge,and others with wheal have acted— they have known very well that although I am as anxious as they are to put an end to war at ones and for ever, and see universal pesos, yet that I was not educated in the principtes of the Society of Friends, and it is generally to our education that we are indebted for our principles. And I have sever avowed, I should be hypocriliell if I avowed, that I entertained the opinion, that, if atteeked, if molested in an unprovoked manner, I would set &hod myself from such an act of ameseles. Nebedy, I preset" who wishes to do me justice, ever deemed OM I would do so. But it was not necessary, Isom I Mad everyone bullying and crying, " We will rented the ei Waterloo—we will sing ' Role Britannia,' we was nmiad them of Trafalgar and the Nile;"—it weasel nememsy I should join in reminding them of that. Bat I Iwo bed my minion as well Sr the great body of my emanynen, that an unprovoked attack would find, I dare say, as resolute a resistance from me as many of those who are now crying out is s panic, and who, I suspect, would be very likely to ran away from the enemy. (Chan and laughter.) Now, 'nehmen, the Pesos Society has just m tolerant views towards tae as I have towards them. The Peace Society has never at tempted le mere, me into their pensiples of non-redstances. I nest sey I have never found themiz ia tte i cs r = to make a pemelyte of me. They r what my ' dew are on the trail put an end to war if I am, but wall Is as i4mlke if I can prevent it. New, it is Weeded from this dot that we shall Wimp the amps of this inevament. Mim i bear.) We have met this end we have had a ateelbs whisk he asmiadsd l i a lle srL end cid time at Ilmi Lope. (Chsess.) I have soma at the very Must et this siltation asido•mieded tam put down their assn foss ems of mesz ps tisk we were to glad wind up with in our Wine after a five years I have seen KIM. put to one name this )--end M teprepased that there shall be sot a new , bemuse Ile Tome Congress Associa tion formed the seamma iptsaadas NMI& all sum alight co operate. We de met propos to !mad any new society, but we intend to 'Mead me opmatismi of that society which was founded when we helps the Peace Coagrem which visited the Contisent, and ales sat in London. We intend that there shall be a name almadent supply of the sinews of war plead in the heads at year committee by the addi tim of NM NW names in Maarkester and elm whom and me lap Its set at work not only a machinery forgarfwiNis the emmily with printed papers for its in emneeles wi instrustiem but we hope to set four or am leetaren to work ha visiting every borough in the country, and see whether we cannot counteract the poison ' that is being infused into the minds of the people. (Great cheering.) In conclusion, the hon. member read a portion of a letter which had been received from Mr. Ewart, who is now in Paris, arranging for the educa tion of his daughters, sad Mr. Ewart, after expressing his ' regret that he could not attend the conference, says :—" I I have been some weeks in France, and I believe, from all I have NM and heard, on the mat unquestionable au thority, that the feelings of the French people are decidedly in favour of peace. Indeed, I believe the general feeling of the French army to be decidedly peaceful. Nothing but sone sudden impulse—the sense of some 'apposed injury— would give to public opinion a different direction." This opinion was received with much cheering. Mr. Conner moved the third resolution. Mr. BARCLAT Fox, of Falmouth, seconded the resolution, saying, that it would be a great benefit to induce the go- vernment in Francs to suspend the conscription, and the English government to put a stop to the recruiting system ; for the education of soldiers was not'only a very costly ope ration, but had a moat unchristian influence on the people. Mr. Fox then related an interesting incident of the French war, in which a merchant vessel, the owner of which was a Quaker, residing at Neath, having been captured by a cruiser, off the Land's End, the captain of the French ship, surprised to find there were no arms on board the other, because the owner conscientiously objected to fighting, replied, " Keep your ship then ; I'll have nothing to do with her ; adieu, asoieriewr,--bon voyage I" This instance of chivalrous generosity, Mr. Fox stated, had been narrated to him only a few days ago, by Mr. Joseph Price, of Neath, the owner of the vessel; who was so much impressed with it, that in the following year, 1814 or 1815, he met a few friends in the parlour of William Allen, In London, and founded the " Peace Society." The master of the merchant vessel was gamed Croke?, and the vessel was named the Clifton Union, bound from Neath to Falmouth, with a cargo of coals and machinery. Mr. SaucaL BOWLIT moved the fourth resolution:— "This conference, believing that the intervention, by threatened or actual violence, of one country in the internal politics of another, is a frequent cause of bitter and deso lating wars, maintains that the right of every state to regu lets its ow• Grain should be held absolute and inviolate." He had hoped the day was pest when it was necessary to sabres mei &preposition as this. Mr. CASTS/. M.P. for Tavistoek, seconded the resolu tion; and, in so doing, nave • sketch of the warlike com munications between Prance arid England marls in the earlier periods of our history, with a view to show their worse than inutility. We had taken possession of and held Minorca, Malta, and made other captures, and it was our propensity to injure our neighbours, which made us afraid that they were about to injure us. Re thought we ought to keep away from our neighbours' fortresses. Ile was to support the subject of note-intervention. It would be well to consider what our intervention had produced. Mr. Carter thee referred to a number of fruitless instances of intervention on the part of Eng land. Ile thought, however, that there might be some cases where we might intervene, by negotiation, it the cause of humanity, such as in the unhappy affair in Tus cany. We might negotiate for the liberty of the slave, but not :wort to the use of cannon ball. We should learn to bear and forbear; no one would charge us with the want of physical courage, but we lacked moral courage. We were so accustomed to the language of war, that we used the terms whoa speaking of peace. In order to carry on the present movement, it was said that we required " the sinews of war," but he hoped they would prove the sinews of peace. They were going to invade the boroughs anti counties of England, and thus " carry the war into the enemy's camp." by means of lectures and tracts. That would he an invasion which none would have cause to deprecate. lie begged to second the motion. (Cheers.) Several other speakers addressed the meeting. FRIDAY MORNING. The second day's business opened yesterday morninp at the Corn Exchange, at 10 o'clock. There was a numerous attend:awe. The Rev. Dr. Devansox, Professor of Theology in the Lancashire Independent College, Vice-Chairman of the Conference, said that war was opposed to the authority of the Gospel, to reason, Davidsontice, and humanity. This was the first oecuslon, Dr. D observed, on which he had pre• seated himself in a public assemble upon the peace ques tion; but he had watched the Peace Society with great in terest, in its moat efficient action during the put few years. He did not trouble himself because they were as yet in a minority, since their cai.se was good and true. JAMES BELL, Esq , M.P. for Guildford, moved the fol lowing resolution " That the present system of governing India and the colonies of this country having a direct ten dency to foster a military spirit, to encourage an .extrova gant military expenditure, ani to involve the nation in a constant suceessi in of dishonourable and cruel wars with the native races, eminently unfavourable to the true pro greu of religion, civilisation, and commerce, this conference is of opinion that the whole system ought to undergo a speedy and thorough revisal." The pea» movement, he said, had ndw got beyond that early stage in whi h it was necessary to dilate on the horrors of war; these everyone admitted, and the only thing to be done now was to endea your to put an end to them. Mr. E. F. COLLINS seconded the resolution. The Rev. Henry Richard, the Rev . Francis T uc k er , of MeneLester, and Mr. Richard Allen, of Dahlia, supported the resolution, which was agreed». Mr. JOSEPH Stratus, of Birmingham, said there was little difference of opinion on the subject of the resulation which he held in his hand, which was merely intended to strengthen the hands of the committee, if it was found suitable to hold a congress on the continent during the pre sent year. It was :—" That this conference would encou rage the Peace Congress committee to hold a at some suitable time and place ot the continent of mope during the present year." The resolution was seconded by Mr. SWILL. The Rev. J. BrIINIT spoke is support of the resolution, and said the friends of peace would certainly have a con ference during this summer upon the continent, in the midst of some one of those foreign nations of whom we were so much afraid ; but it was not yet settled where they should meet. The more we looted into the camp of our »may, he wee sure, the more should we feel that we were mistaken in thinking there was an enemy there. (Cheen.) The resolution having been carried by acclamation; the next resolution was moved by Mr. Cm eaxxs ix —"That in the judgment of this con ference, the recent law passed for the enrolment of the militia was unnecessary and impolitic ; and as its inevitable effects will be to derange the habits andidemoralise the character of a large portion of the community, to interfere with the requirements of industry and labour, and to spread among the people military tastes and habits, which cannot fail to act perniciously on the nati.nsl character, the conference recommends that strenuous efforts should be made to pro cure its immediate repeal." In the course of his speech, Mr. Gilpin stated, that at a meeting held at the Palatine Hotel, on Thursday, it was decided that 10,0001. should be raised for this agitation, and four gentlemen put down' their names for 6001. a piece. One gentleman, this morn ing, had put down his name for 3001. ; two had promised 2601. each; five, 2001. ; seven 501.; and two, 251. Mr. CHARLES HINDLEY, et.P., said it appeared to him that the worst feature of the present state of the peace question was the apathy of ministers of the gospel on the subject. Believing that the people of every country were safe who would pat their trust in Providence, he decried all means of defence, and he rested on the simple belief of the Bible, that the real Christian was not even to defend him self by arms, but that he must trust in the omnipotence of God. They had watched with great interest the career—he might say, without exaggeration—the glorious career of their friend, Mr. Cobden, but never had he watched it with mere interest and more anxiety than he had done within the last three months. They knew the changes which had taken place in the government of this country. The ques tion had been asked, " Will Cobden be in the cabinet ? will Cobden be in the government ?" We found him not there, and if he is not there, his (Mr. Hindley's) firm and decided opinion was that he had joined and patronised the "humbug "of the Peace Society. This occasion was a test of the simplicity and sincerity of their friend Mr. Cob den, which had raised him far higher in his estimation than if he had been sitting this day a member of the cabi net. (Loud cheering ) Several other gentlemen supported the resolution, which was unanimously passed. The Steewriarr read the following extracts from a letter received from Mr. Joseph Price, of Heath, one of the founders of the Peace Society :—I am not disposed to in• dulge prejudice against the elect of the French; but a way opens to place our principles in favour of peace before has view. He will not fail to observe the proceedings at Man chester; and I think it desirable that any public speaking should not raise hostility in his or his subjects' m»ds. I me never forget the feet, that during the last French war, and before I called attention to the formation of the Peace Society, in the 6th month, 1814, in Plough-court, with dear William Allen's concurrence—a French privateer captured a sloop of mine, the Clifton Union, off the Land's End, laden with iron and coal; and on my captain (George Croker) telling the captain the Teasel belonged to a " Quaker," who was principled against war, and forbid his aiming a gun, he at once returned him his papers and the sloop, and bid bins go on his way." Mr. °SOROS THowesox, of Bristol, moved " That this conference recommends that a deputation be now appointed to wait upon the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's prime minister, to represent to his lordship the sentiments of this congress, on the subject of the great mili tary establishments of Europe, and to present to his lord. ship an address. Mr. THOYASSON. of Belton, seconded the resolution, and The meeting concluded about three o'clock. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. RESIGNATION OP THE CHAIRMAN. The fourteenth ordinary meeting of the proprietors was held yesterday, at the Bridge-house Hotel, Southwark; Yr. 8. Lama, 11. P., in the chair. The report, which has already appeared in the Express, wee coissidered as read. The Cnairistax, in moving its adoptioa, said the results of the year 1852 were fully before the meeting, and they were on the whole of a chequered complexion. On the one hand, it was very satisfactory to au that the diminution of traffic, as oompared with the Great Exhibition year, had been so trifling. The falling off in the receipt. was only about 3,400/, which was lees than the loss occasioned at Hastings; and there was every p _respect of the present rate of tra ffi c being not only maintained but increased. At that moment the traffic was going on very satisfactorily in every department. That was the favourable side of things. On the other hand, it had no doubt been a source of great dis appointment to many proprietors that, with a traffic so nearly equal to that of '6l, they had net been able to maintain the same rate of dividend. The reasons of that obviously lay In the increased expenditure ; the principal causes of the increase being the increased amount of re newals in keeping up the stock and maintaining the road, and tbe large amount which they had unluckily been coo* pelled to pay in compensations. Under the last head they had had to pay during the lest half-year no lees than 8,06 W., which, with 4,3601. in the previous half-year, made a total for 1852 of 12,4201. He used the term " unluckily" advisedly. These compensations had their origin in acci dents—that at Ford-bridge and that to the express train near Reigate ; and the cause was in each case a neglect of positive regulations. While he was oa the subject of com pensations he wished to correct a misrepresentation of the view expressed by him at the last half-yearly meeting. He was reported to have said that it was a pure question of money, whether they should spend so much money in pie cautions or so much in paying compensations for accident. God forbid that he, or anybody who had anything to do with railway management, should ever take that view of the matter. The very thing which he objected to in the present law, was that it measured the compensation, not by the degree of moral culpability attaching to parties, but simply and solely by the pecuniary circumstances of the person who suffered from the accident. (Cheers.) The consequenses of accidents as regarded the companies might be divided into two portions—punishment for negligence or misconduct, and insurance against accident. As regarded the former, the law did not bring it home sufficiently to the proper parties. Signal-men who occasioned accident very often escaped with inadequate punishment, and many who were to blame escaped altogether. For his own part, he would be very willing to take the share of responsibility which might rest upon himself as a director. If, for ex ample, it could be shown that he had appointed improper persons through favouritism, or endeavoured to gain popularity by faits economy, and that an acci dent had resulted from such misconduct, he thought be ought to be held personally responsible. (Hear, hear.) But then he must have a fair trial, and he would not be content with juries composed of gentlemen who wrote let ters to the daily papers. As regarded insurance against accidents which no precautions could entirely prevent, it certainly appeared to him somewhat anomalous to apply to railway compass= • different law from that which was ap plied to steam-boat companies. Take the case, for example, of the destruction of the Amason, which there could be no doubt arose from negligence or want ofjudgment on the part of some servants of the company to which she be longed. That seemed very analogous to the case of a rail way company which had dune its best to make proper regu lations ; yet who ever heard of • steam-boat company's having to pay compensation in such a case ? Surely, if 10e. Bd. were a reasonable and sufficient fare for the Brighton Company to charge in the case of a widow lady of small property, and whose life would be covered by 5001.. it would not be an adequate charge for the Lord Chancellor or the Archbishop of Canterbury in the same train, with an in surance of 190,0001. against all casualties by the way. However, he saw little hope of amendment in this respect ; and, as they were liable to these extraordinary charges in reduction of their dividend, they must face the thing man fully. The only way in which they could meet them was by straining every nerve to prevent accident—(hear, hear) —and, as he honestly believed that they tied done their best hitherto with that view t alt be could say was that for the future they must try and do mor e th an th e i r b est. Th e accidents to which he had referred accounted, to • consider able extent, for the falling off in the dividend. A SHAREHuLDER asked to what extent the compensa tions affected the dividend ? The CHAIRMAN said they had caused a reduction of about a quarter per cent. for the year 1842. The other item of additieual expenditure wen the extra amount for renewals. I This increase was no surprise to him, for he had predicted an increase in 1849. It would be a great mistake to shut thee.- eyes to the fact, that as their stock and line became older, a larger amount mu-t from time to time be required for re newals; and as the price of materials of every description connected with railways had risen very much, and as the emigration to Australia was beginning to affect the rate of wages, on the whole they must look forward to an addi tioual expenditure. As yet they had not &It all this to the fullest extent. Oa referring to the estimate which he made in 1849, he found that he set down the expenditure at 230,0001.; whereas the actual expenditure in the last year was only 239,0001., including the extra payments which he had mentioned. Looking at the alteration in prices which had taken place since 1849, he was astonished to find his estimate so little below the mark. After making some further explanation, the chairman went on to say, that before he sat down, there was one per- Iona! topic to which he would refer. They all recollected the circumstances under which he =tuned the post of ma naging director of that company in 1843. At that pe riod railway property was suffering under great depres sion, and very close and anxious attention was ne cessary on the rut of every body who incurred the respuusiblity of management. He undertook to give that attention, and they undertook to pay him a corresponding salary. Circumstances bed conside rably changed since that period. The Brighton proprietors might now fairly congratulate themselves that the period of gloom and depression had passed away ; moreover, confi dence in railway property and railway accounts generally was fully restored; and there were many in that room who understood such matters quite as well as he did. He thought, therefore, that close and minute superintendeace was not so necessary as it was at a former period. Be that as it might, however, he found that it was impossible for him, as an individual, to afford such close superintendence any longer. He had other engagements. He had but a limited amount of strength, and could not do everything at once; and finding that he could not give them so much of his time as he, and probably they also, reckoned upo n w h en he undertook the office of manager, he thought it only honest and straightforward to tell them so, and to resign into their hands the office, together with the salary which accompanied it. 'fhe only question was whether he should continue • director, and that point was very much in the hands of his brother directors and proprietors. Having now no pecuniary interest in the managing direc torship, he might declare his belief that, on the whole, that was the best system of manage men t ; and if they could find a suitable man who wou ld be able to give them his whole time, he would recommend them to secure his ser vices and to pay him handsomely ; and be thought the best mode of payment would be by • per centage on the divi dend, so as to attach him to their service. However, as he was not aware of any such arrangement being in progress, as he understood it to be the wish of his colleagues that be should remain, and as perhaps an abrupt resignation might prejudice the line with the public, and if it were the with of the proprietors, be should for the present continue in his post of chairman. (Cheers.) It ontld net be without great reluctance that he should ever break up his connexion with the Brighton Company ; for he viewed. it with affection, u in some sense his child ; and if he could in any way con duce to its prosperity he would be most happy to continue. (Cheers.) It would ' be for the meeting to deal with the mode of paying the directors in future. At present, 1,6001. was paid to the managing director, and 8001. to the ordi r cry directors ; making a total of 2,3001. The 1,6901. would be saved by his resignation, and it would be for the proprietors to say what rum they thought right for the di rection. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report. A SHAREHOLDER expressed his belief that the East Grin stead line could never pay, as there were only 3,800 in habitants, giving employment to 2 coaches per day. Mr. Ilanersru said there were only 700 males in the place ; and as the working expenses could not be less than 5001. per mile, or 3,5001. for the 7 miles; 6,5001., or 81. per head, must be taken before there would be one penny for the company. Mr. MAUDSLIY complained of the increase in the ex peuditure connected with the Crystal Palace; and observed that it should have been a condition in the agreement with the promoters of the East Grinstead and Bognor branches that they should receive ne interest till alter the working expenses had been cleared. He also inquired whether persona who travelled on the line to the Crystal Palace paid the regular fares ? Mr. JOSIAH Witness( moved as an amendment that the report be adopted, except so much as referred to the pro posed lease of the East Grinstead and Bognor branch.., which the shareholders believed to be undesirable. The amendment having been seconded, Admiral KELLY said he knew the district of But Grin lets= well, and was convinced that the population was much I larger than had been stated. It should be remembered that there was • line projected from Tunbridge Wells to Lewes and that the carrying out of that project would abstract • considerable portion of their traffic. Mr. BELL supported the original motion. Mr. Alderman Wri.som believed that branches had been the ruin of almost all tie rest railway companies in the kingdom. Much as he regretted the chairman's ra t gns- tine, he regretted still more that he should have left them the legacy of re-opening the capital account. He had for merly prided himself on closing it at 7,200,0001., and he now asked them to sanction an addition of 400,0001. Let them stick to what they had got. The Citerinteit thought that if the worthy alderman's views were right, his retirement was rather a subject of congratulation than of regret. They differed from him,how- I ever, trio cob as the question of policy. The directors had not proposed the East Grinstead branch without pre vious investigation. They sent their traffic manager, Mr. Hawkins, to make • personal investigation, and they now believed the district to be very similar to the Horsham one, whore the bran* laid 6 pee cent. With regard to the Crystal Palses pmesigers, he begged te my that Sir Joseph Paulen did tend kee ; cad CM ream was that the &lOUs Gempawy bsd weeded to a proposal made by the other greet esupniec that in consideration of his great ear- vißls to the fa eeuaexion with the Exhibition, that gentles= lIIMIUM presented with • free pass. The a -- _ - was that pat, when the numbers were 47 for it, and SS egiinst ft. The original remind= 11118 carried ; a dividend declared at the rate ressmiammled in the report ; and the retiring directors and emdften ro-elected. Oa the snake of Mr. Storey, 1.8001. wu fixed sethe &Bowsaw lathe directors, the division being left to them selves. _ _ -- I TO* et thanks was given to the chairman, and the pro ceedings tenainated. SPORTING. LATEST BETTING AT DUDA" Since our last, betting on the Spring Handicaps has been very limited. The only horses in force to-day are Oscar, Miss Mowbray, and Half-and-Half for Om Grand National, Trifle for the Chester Cup, and West Australian and Pharos for the Derby. Closing price : GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE, LIVER- L. _ _ _ 9to 1 apt Oscar (t) 10 to 1 Miss Mowbray (t) 11 to 1 Half-and-Half 25 to 1 Yorkshireman t 33 to 1 Maurice Daly t 100 to 40 Oscar, Miss Mowbray and Half and-Half (t) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 9to 1 apt Contentment (t) 22 to 1 Redmond O'Haolon (t) 30 to 1 Snowdon Dunhill (t) 600 to 30 Galvanism and Lampedo (t) NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 16 to 1 apt Tavistock (c) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 apt Lady Evelyn (offered) 25 to 1 Scarecrow (offered) 30 to 1 Trifle (t) 30 to 1 Constantine (t) 40 to 1 Mountain Deer (t) 40 to 1 Friday (t) 60 to 1 St. Michael (t) 2000 to 30 Augur (t) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 9 to 2 apt West Australian (t) 6to 1 Sittingbourne (offered) DERBY. 11 to 1 apt West Australian 16 to 1 Pharos (t) 16 to 1 Cineas (t) 800 to 10 Sittingbourne winning the 2,000 Os. and Umbricl the Derby. 800 to 10 Sittiogbourne winning the 2,000 Gs. and Pharos the Derby. OUNDLE STEEPLECHASE—FRIDAY. HANDICAP of 15 son. each, 10 ft, and only 2 if declared, with 100 added. Four miles. Mr. Goldby's Ploughboy, 12st 21b (Twiddy) 1 Mr. Rigging's Forest Lad, 10st 121 b Mr. Mason's Trust-me-not, list 41b Mr. Meson's Proceed, 11rt Sib Mr. Laing's Johnnie Barrie, list 81b Mr. Higgins'a Simple Peter, list 31b 0 Mr. Briscoe's Ba-Minister, Ilst 31b Betting : 3 to 1 eget Purest Lad, 2 to 1 agst Mason's two, 4 to 1 'gat Ploughboy, and 6 to 1 apt Johnnie Burl*. Won by three lengths, Trust-me-not a b a d t hi r d . FAHMILES STEEPLECIIABII SEAMUS of 5 soot. each and 25 added. Three miles. Gentlemen riders. (6 subs.) Mr. Percival's Melon, 12st 71b (Mr. Gordon) 1 Mr. Francis's Lysonby, 12at 711) 2 Mr. Blott 'a Rocket, 12st 71b, Mr. Gate's Running Rein deer, 12st 71b, Mr. Smith's Atalanta, and Mr. Francis's FOE ward Miss, 12st 71h, also ran. 7 to 4 each apt Lysonby and Melon. Won by 20 lengths. SELLING STEEPLEcHASIL—For this race Kilwick came in first, beating Tit Bit, Tom Tough, Slashing Painter, and Tipton Slasher.ibutowing to the horses having gone wrong, the race was declared void, and the money will bi given to be run fur as a handicap today. LIVERPOOL SF WEDNESDAY-if AN MCA RING MEETING. ,r for the S1 . 1:1N0 Cur. Age. at lb Weathergage 4 8 7 Cariboo Warhawk Chaseaway 5 7 9 Warwick Trosseau 4 7 2 Kitrflver The Bishop Bellewstown Timid Essen 'Doübt Needle Sister to Wanota 5 6 7 Earl of Warwick 6 6 6 Caliber' Prestige St. Michael Little Davie Caurire . Ringleader 5 6 5 Victreu Worcester 5 Richmond Harp Cheroot Lalage I Happy Joe 4 Buratuda eh it by llorl - Way out of Pus• 4 Curybsotes 3 Ploughboy 4 Goorkah 3 Pastrycook 3 Monsoon 3 Muter Norton Miss Emma Moselle 't Pride 1 Charity I.lanlarcia Mickey Free AINTILIIII PLATE. HANDICAP for the Age st lb 1 Truth Weathereage 4 5 8 Due an Durres Warwick Kohitwor Lsdy Agnes Mrs. Birch 5 7 4 Bellewstown Needle May Day a 611 Cowin) Caliban; Worcester Cheroot Age Burndale Ll True Girl May Blossom 4 ch g by Barka way out of l'uss 4 G.ime Tommy o.lfrer Green a l'ride Llanforda Mickey Free .... 3 br f by o.uneboy, ont of Maid of HANDICAP YOU TRI 0/ CHASE. 6 ft, itdoolared on o Menton 3 4 7 AND NATIONAL STAPLE ►efore Feb. 8. st. lb. Sir Peter Laurie 11 8 Warner Vainhope ll 4 Knight of Gwynn ll 2 Burton British Yeoman Mies Mewbray lO 12 Lucy Neale Peter Simple Tipperary Boy lO 10 Abd-el-Kader .... Due an Durres lO 10 Melford lO 10 Montague lO 8' Fanny Eisler Victims lO 6 Postilion Maria Day Augustine Carrig Great Western Lamienne lO 5 Half and•llalf lO 5 Leporella Charlton Forest Lad The Drag lO 4 The General Wexford Tom lO 4 Field Marshal Calmar at. lb. Remark lO 2 Shinrone Rattrap lO 2 Oscar lO 2 Maurice Daly Gera'due Betsy Prig Slattern lO 0 Dearest Mac lO 0 The Brewer 9 12 Simple Peter B,netlict Little Charley 9 10 The nearer 9 10 PoIP Vengeance View Halloo Maley Kilguade Advance Ringleader Chatterbox Odin Friendler 9 8 Ringdove 9 6 Yorkshiresan 9 6 Crat•bs Tempest The D wart Harmony 9 0 Mary Macbroo HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. STAG HOUNDS. Iler Majesty's, Tuesday, Richings Pak; Friday, Mai denhead Thicket—at half.past IL Bath Subscription, Friday, the Fir Tree, Writlelingtos —at half past 11. Ron. F. Petro's, Thursday, Mashbury Mill—at half-past 11. FOX 1101:71:09. Atherstone, Monday, Oshaston ; Wednesday, flecking ton; Friday, Nuneham; Saturday, Arbury—at a quarter to 11. Duke of Beaufort's, Monday, Newington Lodge; Wed nesday, Stoke Park; Thursday, Hullavington ; Saturday, Compton Bassett. Bsdsworth, Tuesday, Mart Village ; Thursday, Fen wick; Saturday, South Hiendley—at half-past 10. Bramham Moer, Monday, Pool; Wednesday, Brayton; Friday, Deighton Bar; Saturday, Woodhall—at half put 10. Lord H. Bentinck's, Monday, Washington-wood ; Tues day, Dunston Pillar ; Wednesday, Brattleby ; Thursday, Wragby ; Saturday, Potter-hill Bar—at 11. Colonel Conyer'a, Monday, Fyfield; Wednesday, Black more; Saturday, Takeley-turnpike—at 11. Cottesmore, Monday, Irnham-park ; Tuesday, Titton wood ; Thursday, Slacken-hall ; Saturday,.turley-on-the- Hill—at 11. Craven, Monday, Littleeote; Wednesday, Anvilles ; Fri day, Fieldridge ; Saturday, Welford Woods—at a quarter toll. Mr. ea: I, Monday, Holnest Kennel ; Thursday, Holm Bushes. East Essex, Tuesday, Birdbrook-hal ; Thursday, Ald ham-hall ; Saturday,Terling Raleigh Arms-at half-past 10. South Essex, Tuesday, Clock-house, Little Hurstead ; Saturday, Orsett-heath-at half-put 10. Erases Union, Wednesday, Rettendon Bell ; Saturday, Danbury Griffin-at h..lf-past 10. Essex and Suffolk, Tuesday, Stour Wood ; Friday, Box ford Street-at a quarter to 11. Earl Fitawilliam's, Monday, Sulehay Wood; Wednes day, Barnwell Wold ; Friday, 'Kennel-at 10. Mr. H. G. Greaves's, Monday, Claythorpe ; Tuesday, Raithby by Louth ; Friday, Hairston ; Saturday, Holbeck -at 11. Herefordshire, Tuesday, Five Milestone on Fromeshill road ; Friday, firewood's End-at half-past 10. Holdernesa, Monday, White Cross ; Tuesday, Beverley Grand Stand ; Thursday, Winestead Hall ; Saturday, South Dalton-at a quarter to 11. Mr. M. Ingram's, Monday, Holly Bush; Thursday, Shirley Park ; Saturday, Blythebury-at a quarter to 11. But Kent, Tuesday, Sweech Gate ; Friday, Paddles worth Gorse-st half-peat 10. Ledbury, Monday, Bromsberrow Heath; Friday, Sulk ley-at bar-past 10. Ludlow, Tuesday, Hitcher Common ; Friday, the Ser pent-at half-put 10. Mr. Lumley's, Monday, Serlby ; Tuesday, Stainton Vil lage Thursday, Barlborough ; Friday, Darlton Bar-at half-put 10. Mr. Lushington's, Monday, Rainham ; Thursday, Red mersham ; Saturday, Halfway House, Challock-at 11. Mr. Morgan'o, Monday, Whit.* Rocks ; Thursday, Syden ham House. Oakley, Monday, Broughton; Thursday, the Falcon, Bletsoe ; Saturday, Hail Weston-at • quarter to 11. Rufford, Monday, Waleeby Village ; Tuesday, Wink burn ; Thursday, Oxton-bridge ; Saturday, Langwith Lodge -at half-put 10. Duke of Rutland's. Monday, Piper Hole ; Tuesday, Weaver's Lodge; Wednesday, Croton Park; Friday, Great Gonerby -at hall past 10. Mr. Lee Steers',, Monday, Lordings ; Thursday, LOr wood House-at 11. North Staffordshire, Monday, Leighford ; Wednesday, The Three Crowns, Stoke ; Friday, Aluger-at half-put 10. Mr. A. Smith's, Monday, Quarley Hill; Tuesday, Care Hill ; Wednesday, Pill Heath; Thursday, Weyhill; Fri day, Everleigh; Saturday, Roche Court-at 11. Suffolk, Tuesday, Soole Inn ; Thursday, Horseheath Mill ; Saturday, Rymer Point-at a quarter to 11. Southdown, Monday, Seaford; Wednesday, Friston Mill; Friday, The Old Ship, Plashet-at 11. Sir T. Sykes's. Monday, Acklone Wold ; Wednesday, Lobster House; Friday, Kirkham Abbey- at half-put 10. Sir R. Sutton's, Monday, Bruntingthorpe-at half-put 11; Tuesday, Widmerpool Inn; Wednesday, Stanton Harold Park-at 11; Thursday, Great Dalby-at half-put 11; Friday, Glentleld-at 11. Tiverton, Monday, Combs House, Dalverton-at half put 10. United Pack, Tuesday, Linley; Friday, Chandos Arms, Knighton-at 10. V. W. H., Tuesday, Charlton Park ; Thursday, Lechlado Town; Saturday, Lydiard Park-at a quarter to 11. Warwickshire, Monday, Tile Hill ; Tuesday, Bra iles House ; Thursday, Charlecote Park ; Friday, Epwell Village; Saturday, Whimpstone Bridge-at • quarter to 11. Worcestershire, Monday, Woodeote Green ; Wednesday, Roundhill ; Friday, Stoulton-at half-past 10. Wheatland, Tuesday, Wenloek ; Friday, Billingsley at 10. Sir W. W. Wynn's, Monday, Petton Wednesday, Marchwiel Toll Bar ; Thursday, Cherry H ill; Saturday, Penley Hall-at half-past 10. Lord Yarborough's, Monday, Normanby Clump; Wed nesday, Kennel ; Saturday, Laceby Crossroads-at 11. HARRIERS. 8.V., Tuesday, Nash Court, Marnhull ; Friday, Allou Manor Mouse—at half-put 11. Brighton, Monday, Patcham ; Wednesday, Race Course; Saturday, Dyke—at a quarter to 11, Brookside, Monday, Newmarket Hill ; .I; 4 ;:reday : Telea oom►e Tye—at half-put 10. High Peak, Tuesday, Headstone Inn; Thursday, Elton • Saturday, Pilsbury Lodgs—at 11. Thanet, Monday, St. Nicholas ; Wednesday, Sere ',••• at half-peat 10. rrr .0 44' ^' • , The French Clerk of the Submarine Tt Company was not, it appears, the author of the accuracy in the despatch relativ• to the new Pr , it lb 6 4 6 4 6 2 6 2 6 0 6 0 6 0 nt IA 6 5 6 3 6 2 6 0 5 12 5 7 5 5 4 12 4 10 4 9