The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

New London Evenini -Paper, price Threepence THE EXPRESS. woman, and saved her child, which survived The newspapers of that colony are loud nunciations of this sentence. The affair a sensation in the Mauritius. The Aekbar brings intelligence of an on Aden by the Arabs, who marched in the town. They were repelled by the garrison • loss to the enemy of 7 killed and many wounded. more serious collision was looked for the same n; . , but no apprehension was entertained. The Arabs would pay dearly for their temerity. ivecl 21 homes.::, " --/ ' " in their de- I LhasP"duced attack made t ( force outside • irrison with a wounded. A re same night, illtot(A:11 watehedover their interests; however much theybad been de serted by others he, at least, had been always faithful to their imamate. (Cheers). It was consolatory to reflect that amidst the rootage:lo spread around by AO many delinquennts, who had abandoned their principles at the bidding of a minister who had abandoned has also, their honoured guest and represen tative had remained true to his colours. The speakes went on to contrast the assertions made by Sirßobert Peel and his friends at different times as to the effect of a repeal of the corn laws, remarking how beautifully some of their notions seemed to square with the sublime ideas of the political economists; and he then proceeded to remark, that the men of all others to be benefited by a repeal of the corn laws would be the great manufacturers, who were (he said) by far too rich already. (Cheers). It had been asserted by the Anti-Corn Law League, when they found out that the poor were not to be deceived by the cry of cheap bread, knowing as they did also that it meant low wages, that such was not the fact, they averred that the rate of wages had nothing to do with the price of corn; he (the Chairman) however, maintained that the price of produce would ultimately regulate the pries of wages: in Poland and Ramie, and other corn growing countries, where earn was cheap, the wages of the serfs were little more then 3d. or 4d. a day and such would be the case in Eugland ; for he fearlessly asked any farmer whether he could pay the labourer the present rate of wages when wheat was 40e, a a quarter. (Cries of "No ".) He enjoined them therefore to bestir themselves, and never to relax their efforts until Sir Robert Peel &satanic party, the nehle lord unbent** tingly abandoned him. (Cheers.) Ravioli' , alluded, in com plimentary PlicameMmp:tuns lordship's speech in the House of Lords on the Corn conclud, d by observing that it stamped him as the greatest orator of the day, and proved him to be one of the most profound constitutional statesmen of whom there are any recalls in British annals.. Mr. New degate swain thanked the meeting for the honour done to himself, and proposed as a toast, " Lord Stanley and the Protectionist Members of the Rouse of Peers." " The member for the Southern Division" having been next proposed, Lord BROOKE responded in an excellent speech. T. Ustazaa, Esq., of Wappingbary, next stave the health of " Lord George Bentinek." In the course of the few pre fatory observations of the speaker in introducing the toast, he said, that, although he himself was no orator, yet he was satisfied the noble member for Lynn would turn out a second Pitt; and he expressed a hope that, in addition to repealing the Corn Laws, the noble lord would " repeal the Currency question."—The observation created much merri ment, but the noble lord's health was well received. THE EXPRESS " will contain, in addition to I the news in the Morning Papers, a SUM MARY of the HOME and FOREIGN INTELLI GENCE which may arrive cat the day of publication. "THE EXPRESS" will have the benefit of the F iiggnn Expresses, Cor eespoudence, and other costly characteristics of a m or Journal. But the full and carefully pre rieREPORTS of the MONEY, RAILWAY, DUCE, CORN, CATTLE, and other MARKETS will be the marking feature. 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TEH RBER'S CHAIR, and numerous other I BA ORIGINAL ARTICLES, wW appear In DOUGLAS JERROLD'S 'WEEKLY NEWSPAPER on Saturday next. • Order of any ZieIVEMIII. THE CHURCH. MOUSE'S CHURCH and STATE LETTERS.—ANTIORN-LAW LEAGUE MEMOIRS—The CONDITION of the PEOPLE of ENGLAND-11w BARBER'S CILAIR—and numerous other ORIGLNAL ARTICLES—with ALL the NEWS—every Saturday, in DOUGLAS JERROLD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. Order of any Newsman. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY, Four o'Clock. RETURN OF HER MAJESTY AND THE COURT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. CowEs, Sen. 9.—This morning at the hour of nine, the report of guns from the Castle and R.Y.S batteries annonneed the return of her Majesty and suite from their trip to the Channel Islands. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family were onboard the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, and were attended by the Fairy yacht, and Black Eagle, and Garland government steamers. Her Majesty did not, as usual, land at the Trinity Wharf, East Cowes, but proceeded to the more private landing place in Mede Creek, to which place the royal property of Osborne extends, and from thence proceeded immediately to Osborne-house. We are happy to hear that the whole of the royal party are well, and that no untoward event marred the pleasure of the excursion, which must have altogether been delightful, the weather having been such as is usually enjoyed by her Majesty during her progresses. INDIA. BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. ARRIVAL tIF THE OVER- LAND MAIL. By an Extraordinary Express, which reached town this morning, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we ale is reioipt of news from Bombay, 6th August; Madras, 27th July; Calcutta, 23rd July; Delhi ' 22nd July, and Scinde, 20th July. The intelligence has been received by a special steamer, which was dispatched from Bombay rather unexpectedly in consequence of the dangerous indisposition of the Governor. The "Ackbar " arrived at Suez on the 27th ultimo, with the following passengers:—Sir George Arthur, Bart, Governor of Bombay; Lady Arthur; Captain Arthur; Mrs. Martin; Captain Hunter; Lieutenant W. F. Leeson; Lieutenant H. H. Hewett; and Doctor R. D. Peek. Mr. REID, the senior member of Council, has suc ceeded Sir GEORGE ARTIIUR in the temporary Go vernment of Bombay. We are happy to say that cholera had entirely dis appeared from the camp at X urrachee, though it con tinued still to afflict the town. Sir CHARLES NAPIER had ordered the fortifications to be levelled, and the ditches to be filled up. The pestilence appears to have followed the course of the Indus, and was by last accounts deso lating Hyderabad, where the average number of deaths was 800 daily. Fever had abated at Sukkur, bat Her Majesty's 17th Regiment, which had suffered severely, would, it was expected, return to India, and from thence proceed to the Cape. Among the deaths recorded in Scinde, we find the names of Lieut. Campbell, 17th Native Infantry, and Capt. John Napier, nephew and Military Secretary to the Governor. It is now estimated that 10,000 indivi duals. including 500 Europeans were cut off by cholera at Kurrachee between the 14th and 30th of June. The Governor-General and Lord G wcii were still at Simla. LORD HARDINGE had summoned to his councils the political officers from the North- West frontier. This, when taken in connection with reports of an army to be assembled on the Sutlej, was considered ominous of hostilities, to be undertaken as soon as the cold season would permit of warlike ope rations. The troops at Lahore continued healthy, but the state of matters in the Punjaub was unsatisfactory. The Vizier,instead of consolidating his strength was do ing all in his power to become unpopular. It is reported that MAHARAJAH GOOLAUB SINGH has refused payment of the indemnity he had guaranteed on behalf of the Lahore Durbar,and it was even said he had threatened to resist any attempt we might make to compel him to perform his engagements. He probably expects assistance from the Mooltan Chief, who is determined to assert his independence. The Government of the QUEEN MOTHER and of LALL SINGH at Lahore, was threatened by acts of violence. The Akahalees, a band of notorious fanatics, were collecting in the neighbourhood of the capital, and fears were entertained of some sanguinary con flict, In fact, - the tranquillity prevailing, was solely attributable to the presence of a British force, and when this is withdrawn, as stipulated by treaty, the spirit of turbulence now prevailing throughout the kingdom generally will doubt less extend itself to Lahore. There are rumours of a movement on the part of the Affghans under UCKBAR KHAN, through the Kyber Pass, intended for the re covery of Peshawar, some years since conquered from them by RUNJEET SINGH ; but these require con firmation, especially as DOST MAHoMED has shown a pacific policy, and is anxious to maintain friendly re lations with our Government. _ The British dominions, up to the latest account, were tranquil. The Monsoon had proved a favour i t - able one, and the whole of western India had been blessed with abundant rains. The Nizam's territories continue in a wretched state—the treasury exhausted, and a mutinous army. General FRASER, the British resident, is an able and an excellent man, but the local malady is beyond the reach of any remedy he can administer. The me dical school at Bolarum, for the instruction of native youth, lately abolished, is restored. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir THOMAS 'M'Mallom, has been dangerously ill at Poonah. The station was unhealthy. The death of MEER SOBDAR KHAN, one of the Ex-Ameers of Scinde, is announced. He expired at Dam Dum, near Calcutta. This is the third of these unfortunate Princes who have been cut off since the commencement of their captivity. The appointment of Sir DAVID POLLOCK to the Indian Bench was approvingly spoken of at Bombay. Her Majesty's 88th Regiment are to move from Scinde is Bombay. Commercial news from Bombay is more favourable, The money market was easier, and a brisk trade was confidently expected. The proprietors of the Oriental Bank being dissatisfied with the expenses and con duct of the home management, have resolved to put an end to their London direction. Tlat Times has news from the Mauritius to the 1 Ith lulnfeceived by this opportunity. One of the most re markable circumstances mentioned is the expulsion by Sir W. Gomm, the Governor of that island, of a Roman Catholic priest, who, by his skill as a surgeon, per: formed the Ciesarian operation on the body of ea dead BOMBAY, sth Avocet., 1848. The alarming and continued indisposition of our Gov ernor, Sir George Arthur, has at length induced him to attend to the earnest solicitations of his family and medical advisers that he would returg to his native land, them to seek for that renovation of mind and body which a more genial clime and the relinquishment of the cares of office are ntturally expected to bring about. It would perhaps have been well for Sir George and his family had the advice ten dered him some months since been accepted. His constitution is said to be greatly undermined by his late severe sickness, and it is thought that he has put off for too long a period the measure he has been at length compelled to adopt. I bear he intends residing for some time in the south of France prior to returning to Eno land. Sir George Arthur was a man of the most indefati gable industry and strict integrity. He is said invariably to have declined appending his name to any document which be had not examined for himself, an that some notion may be fiinned of the Herculean task he thus imposed upon himself. His scrupulousness on this head was naturally somewhat dis tasteful to his colleagues, who fancied probable that it im plied a degree of suspicion as to their integrity and uprightness ; if so, I think they did our Governor an injustice. He wished to know everything far himself, and took the most laborious method for attaining his object. More able and upright colleagues could not be desired by any Governor than it has been Sir George's good fortune to have associated with him during his administration of the government of Bombay, and, no doubt, he felt and ac knowledged their worth. Stormy debates in council are said to have been of no unfrequent occurrence ; but as the meet ings of the members of the government here are invariably held with closed doors, this is, of course. mere rumour. It is well known that others could have performed a great part of the task imposed by Sir George on himself, with as much, if not more, ability than he was capable of bringing to bear ea many subjects; yet still one 'cannot very mach blame a man for conicientionsnees in the performance of his duties. Our Governor was of late' incapable of attending to the multitudinous subjects constantly re quiring attention, ar,d it followed as a matter of course that a considerable number, often those of vast importance, were neglected by '"him, which other members of the Go vernment could have at once have disposed of; hence the complaints so frequently and justly made of the tardiness of our authorities. That the home authorities must have been well satisfied with Sir George's mode of conducting affairs, is, I think, pretty clear from the known fact of his having had conferred on him the provisional Governor- Generalship of India, in case any mishap should have be fallen, during the Sikh campaign, that able and gallant old veteran who now presides with so much ability over the destinies of Ilindostan—Lord Hardinge. The presidency has certainly benefitted by Sir George Arthur's rule; and though some few instances of his patronage have given rise to censure, I believe he in this yelped could hear comparison with most of his predecessors. Sir George was not a lover of " balls and suppers," and in con sequence was not much in favour of those who remembered the host itality of governors of some years back. The rarity of government-house entertainments was a subject of remark amongst all classes, and I must say with a great deal of truth. This may have arisen from a distaste for such amusements, as Sir George was of a pious turn of mind. He scarcely ever visited places of public amusement, and was known to have had a decided aversion to theatrical performances. His character in private life is sail to be exemplary. He declined all public demonstrations of respect en his departure, and embarked in a quiet, unostentatious manner under the usual salute from the garrison. The Honourable L. R. Reid was sworn in as his temporary successor at three o'clock this afternoon. Speculation is rife as to who will be appointed ftom home, Sir H. Pottinger and Sir George Clerk being mentioned as the likely parties. They arc both men of large and varied experience in Indian affairs, and would be hailed with delight to our shores. The pro. tern. Governor had about a fortnight since a slight attack, I believe, of the same ailment as that by which Sir George Arthur has of late suffered so severely—determine ' tion of blord to the head. The Commander-in-Chief has also been indisposed, hut I am glad to say is all right again. The Court of Directors have bestowed 500/. on Captain Cruickshank, the engineer who constructed the caneeway (Lady Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's) which connects the Island of litembee w h Pandere, as a w.ark of their spprebatiu of the skill displayed by him in its construction. Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent Indian Navy, is said to he about having quarters constructed for himself in the dockyard, at present the scene of so many improvements of the gallant officer's own planning. A naval hospital is to be built for the reception of seamen of the Royal and Company's navies, in which all the young officers now " &Mowed to reside on shore" on sick leave will be under the eye of the super intendent and be properly looked after. Such a build ing has long been a desideratum. Estimates for the fortification of the harbour have been handed in to government by the chief engineer -250,0001. being the sum stated as requisite for the purpose. Sir Erskine Pem has resigned the vice-presidentship of the Bombay branch Royal Asiatic Society, and Dr. James Bird been e!eeted in hie stead.—Three vessels with detachments of the Bth Foot have arrived—the Mutes of Cornwall and Portland, and the Mary. Twenty officers, 502 non-cornd. rank and file, fifty six women, and sixty-nine childen in all. The only casualty since leaving England occurred on the 3d instant in Fort George, a man having been dr rimed in the tank in the middle of the square. They all embarked for l'oonah today under command of Major Oreathed. The monsoon has been an exceedingly favourable one all over the country, and tee crops everywhere are represented as in a flourishing condition. Not less than eighty inches of rain have fallen in Bombay up to this date—half as much again as what fell last season. The weather has now un dergone a change, and it is probable we shall have but little more rain this year. We cannot complain if we do not. The cholera has found its way into Candeish, and places seldom visited by it have had sad ravages committed in them. The Bheel corps at Dhurrungoun has suffered pretty severely. It has also re-appeared in the city of Poonah. At present Bombay is quite free from the dire scourge--a bless- ing to be in a great measure attributed to the cleansing of the native town by the Conservancy Board—one of the fruits of Sir George Arthur's rule. The complaint of " no news from Madras" this month does not hold good. An outbreak has taken place in the Cudda pah Collectorate, and skirmishes have taken place betwixt our troops and the insurgents. A pensioned Poligar, resid ing in a place called Dooroor, having become refractory, a party of police peons were sent to take him into custody, but the Poligar assembled his adherents and put the peons to death. He now marched at the head of his followers, who are said to amount to about 9,000 men, to the Tahesildar's treasury, which he plundered of 3001.,illtreating the native officer in charge and his wife, and earning off his daughter, with 1,0001. found in his possession. He also took 3,000/. from a merchant residing sn the village. All this took place at a distance of sixty or seventy miles from the collector's head-quarters, Cuddapah. The collector im mediately applied for a detachment of troops to pursue the depredator, and by the following morning four com panies of aepoys, under command of Captain Nett, were on their way. The insurgents were making for a hill fort some fifty miles distant, and are said to have been promised as sistance by some petty Prince close by. The last accounts received, state that Narisimma Reddee, the insurgent leader and his party, were sorrounded by a party of 150 of the Kudnool irregular horse, the infantry detachment being eighteen miles off. If the horsemen could manage to hem them in and prevent their escape till the sepoys came up, a good account would soon be given of them. 400 Arabs are said to be amongst the insurgents, and they had given out that they intended plundering every town in the district. Should they escape to any of the hill forts around, it will be some time before they will be dispersed. Sure.-Gen. M'Leod has left Madras for the Cape on sick leave. The residence of the Marquis of Tweeddale on the Neilgherries is said to entail an additional expense of 1,6001. per mensem on the shoulders of government ! The 94th Foot are to be relieved from duty at Aden and Moulmein, and turned over to the Bengal pre sidency. By latest accounts from Goomsoor it would appear that a number of insurgents had been captured, bat they had been again rescued from a party of our troops, who narrowly escaped annihilation. Such is the fruit of the driblet system now in vogue of scattering troop& in small parties over a country with which they are unacquainted, opposed too, as they are, by fire or ten times their number of hardy insurgents. If possible, affairs in the NiZRIII . 6 territories are assuming a worse position than ever. The state treasury has long been as empty of cash as the ruler's cranium would= , to be of brains. Murders are perpetrated in the within sight almost of the palace and the British Reddens", yet no effectual measures are by us attempted to shirk as glaring a state of anarchy and misrule. The Prince will see listen to our Resident's advice, and constant referee ere are being made to Calcutta as to the measures to be yearned, without, apparently', any good results. The Bolr.rum Me dical School, lately abolished at the recommeadation of General Fraser, the President, is said to be age:m about to be restored, the Resident being . convinced thee the dodirdre recommended by him had been injudicious. It is td W*l- sided over by Dr. Maclean , the Residency eargemi, ' From the northwest provinces of liujia there is now nothing to report. The two noble lords, Hardinge -and Gough are at Simla, where it is rumoured the seatof the Supreme Government will be for sometime located. There is evidently an expectation of something requiring to be done in the cold weather, either in the Cis or Trans-Sutlej territory. Our troops expect shortly to leave the Punjaub, but some notion must be entertained by the Governor-General that they will ~ /uickly bare to re turn or he would, I should think, never intend Axing on remaining where the whole season. It is said that he is about sumrce.ming his council from Calcutta to join him. All the nortts-western politicala—Meese. John Lawrence and Greathix'. Majors Lawrence, Mills, and Meekesed— have all Prr/ceeded to a confab at Simla with his lordship, which gives 'additional cause for suspeedngthat all's not right on our frontier. The captured Sikh guns have arrived at Beimees, where they were received with great Pomp, the Mako-General, commandants of corps, and heads of denartelelea, having gone out to meet them ; a band of one of the restive corps playing before them into camp. The C'alistribo Cathedral is to be built within the fort. Letter, patent have been passed under the public seal, eon stitu'dng and appointing the lion. Mesas. W. 0. Carr, Ja:. Stark, and C. Temple, Esqrs., to act pr. visionally as .:nief, senior prime, and second poisue, juit ; :oes of Me St s ' prime Court. • MM.'s 16th Lancers and the Khelat-i-Ohilzie corps, hswe reached Calcutta; the former are to embark for England as soon as tonnage can be procured for their transport. The 34th Bengal N.I. has been restored to the army list; their ' facings are to be scarlet. A new church called St. Stephen's, was lately opened at Kidderpore, in presence of Sir Herbert ' Maddock and suite, and &large assemblage of the gentryand inhabitants of the place. An assistant in one of the offices in Calcutta, haying divulged to a newspaper editor the amount 1 of cash (eight-and-a-half millions sterling) in the treasury, has been dismissed from his employment. The amount sub- ! scribed in Bengal towards the Irish relief fund up to 24th ! July amounted to 8,2501. I have much pleasure in informing you that the statement given in my last, from one of the Bombay papers, of the ! the number of victims from cholera at Kurrachee, turns out to ba nearly double the actual amount. The 86th have lost altogether 276 men, women, and children. Almost one of the last victims to this dreadful scourge was Captain J. Napier, 62nd Foot, Military Secretary to the Governor,whose death was sincerely regretted by every one who had the slightest acquaintance with him. He was the third ' European officer cut off at Kurrachee, the o'her two being Captain Satan, of the Fusiliers, and Lieutenant Dawson, of the 12th N. I. Lieutenant Campbell, of the 17th N. 1., hasbeen ' cut off by the same disease at Hydrabad, whither the fatal scourge had slowly travelled up by the bed of the river. Upwards of a hundred death. occurred in the town on the first day of its appearance. The inhabitants es usual fled ' from the city. Fortunately our troops have in a great measure escaped. Sir Charles Napier was adopting every sanatory measure possible at Kurrachee: the walls of the town were to be levelled and the ditch filled up—the town dealt undergoing a thorough cleaning. The badness of the food in the country is said to be the great cause of sickness, the cultivation having diminished considerably within these few years. A few cases of cholera still occurred in the town of k arrachee, though of a less malignant character. The 17th Foot have suffered so dreadfully from fever, that it has, I believe, been resolved to withdraw them from Ochs& as soon as possible, and send them off either to the Cape or to England. Here is another of her majesty's carps rendered unserviceable by the climate of Bak kur, which Sir C. Napier has at home got the credit of having rendered comparatively healthy by the erection of the famous bond from that place to Shikarpoor to keep out the waters of the inundation! The Bombay army may well be proud of their conquest, when a European corps in to be put hors de combat every second year of our occupation. witness the Highlanders in 1844. Another of the captive Ameers has paid the debt of na ture. Meer Sobdar, of Hydrabad, died at Dum-Dum, near Calcutta, on the 9th July. The state of affairs at Lahore is described as presenting anything but a favourable appearance, and the preparations for the evacuation of the country by our troops are said to he about to be immediately set on foot. Our army will in this case have returned to Hindostan by the end of October oe middle of November; which is about the time rumour gives nut for the assemblage of a large force in the north-west. The discharged Seikh soldiers are in and around Lahore in large numbers, and you may depend on it that our evacuation of the Panjaub will he the signal for the renewal of those lawless acts which first induced us to intermeddle in its affairs, though a s' strong govern ment" Is as far as ever from being esta " lished. We are bound to leave Lahore when requested to do so by the Dur bar. The Prime Minister is said to be an object of hatred to the people, so that nothing short of infatuation can account for his desire to be rid of for he will certainly be amongst the first victims of the assassin's knife after our departure. The people are reported to be desirous that we should take the country hen our own hands altogether • and no wonder that they should. But before this can happen, fresh provoca tion must be given, and a second campaign must take place. All sorts of improbable reports were as usual in circulation at the capital, which were tending to increase the anxiety of the inhabitants alto future events. The Nazim of Mooltan is said to be at last determined to resist the demands of the Herber, and to have harangued his troops on the subject, who were so enthusiastic in their protestations of obedience to his will, that he presented to all the officers a pair of golden bracelets, and to each infantry soldier a donation of 10s., and each man of the cavalry 20s. Our protege the Maharajah of Caehmeer, Goolaub Singh, is reported to be about to show his gratitude to us for favours conferred by refv-eizg to?arform hi 4 part of the treaty, and rebid any at tempt to compel him to do so. This is extremely probable, and exactly what might have been expected from the man whom Lord Hardinge delighted to honour. Our troops at the capital continue healthy. Rumours of intended risings of the people in the Jullundur Doab are becoming prevalent. Large quantities of military stores were being accumulated by us at the Phullour maga zine, in case of any untoward circumstance occurring. It was said Sir John Lit•ler was to be appointed permanently to the Jullundur division—l presume on the retirement of our troops from Lahore. Heavy rains had fallen all over the province, which had proved by no means comfortable for those who had not the good fortune to have a good roof over their heads. The country is said to have been flooded— which the inhabitants attribute to the pr.senee of the English, such rain never having fallen before the present season. SCINDE. For the last fortnight we have had very few letters from Scinde ; the events there presently in progress are, we presume, of no great public importance. What they are has been in a very imperfect measure revealed to us. The troops at Kurrachee are now entirely exempt from cholera; its last and meet distinguished victim was Captain John Napier, nephew and Military Secretary to his Excellency the Governor. His loss appears to have been deeply and generally regretted. Sir C. Napier has been exerting himself to discover the causes of the late mortality, and, if possible, to hare them removed. The almost total exemption of the officers from the pestilence, the terrible suffering of the men, and half depopulation of the native town, tend to throw considerable light upon the subject. There is no doubt whatever that the inconceivable filth of the town of Kurrachee, and the poverty and squalor of its inhabitants, were calculated to make it a den of pesti lential disease ; and accordingly the ditches have been di rected to be filled up, the ruined fortifications to be knocked down, and openings to be made in the worst portions of the town. The remedy will only he complete when the present buildings are destroyed and new ones on a better plan and site coneructed. Cultivation has of late years grievously fallen off in Scinde. Numberless warnings had been given of the danger of an eridemic arising from the badness or scarcity of provisions where the resources of the country became taxed to supply the wants of some 25,000 hu man beings, half soldiers, half followers, end their families, added to the usual population. The searching enquiries now being made, and measures being, or about to be, adopted for ascertaining, and if possible improving, the quality of the food supplied our people, sufficiently indicate the suspicion that heretofore it has not been ouch as was satisfactory. The accommodations of the troops have hitherto not been such as health and safety require in a hot country. A standing camp quickly becomes a standing nuisance; and in Seinde as at Cabool we are averse to admit the fact, that cantonments for an army so enormous as that which has hither to been maintained upon the Indus, were required, lest the wisdom of the policy which took us there, or the popularity of our government might be questioned. The omission in the one case is punished by a Ghilzie insurrection, in the other by cholera—the loos of British subjects occasioned by the two being pretty nearly equal to each other. The month of June 1846 appears to have occasioned as much loss of life at Kurrachee as January 1841 did at Khoord Cabool and Tezeen, The price of the two triumphant campaigns are about equal ; the difference lies in the manner of payment. We have little doubt bat that the Governor, who cannot have want of decision or energy impu ted to him as a frailty, will do his best to bring such arrangements about as will avert future attacks—but he must in this case dispense with half his army and give up a year's revenue to provide them. with proper quarters. Rain, which rarely falls in any considerable quantity, had poured down in torrents for days U , pther, so as greatly to endanger the barracks in which some of the troops were quartered, and injure other buildinp. The fall had been general: it was peculiarly heavy at Hydrabad and Kurrachee, chiefly so on the ens-shore. We have no precise returns of the amount of casualties from cholera at Hydrabad, or from fever at Sukkur : they have at both places been formidable in number. At the latter place Her Ma il kity's 17th had been the chief sufferers: they were on their way to Kurrachee, in the view, it was said, of returning to India, and proceeding thence to the Cape of Good Hope. At Hydrabad cholera appeared in the town shortly after its disappearance at Kurrachee, and 100 deaths are said to have occurred the first day. It then be gan to commit fearful ravages in the jail, when the Go vernor humanely ordered that all the prisoners committed for minor offences should be liberated. The troops at our latest dates seem to have scarcely suffered. Lieut. Campbell, of the 17th Native Infantry, was the only officer ent off. Meer Sobdar, another of the Ameers. has been released by death from the wretchedness of his captivity. Betwixt three and four thousand pounds sterling have been sub scribed to purchase in the ornaments and attire taken from the Seinde Princesses in 1843, and advertised for sale as prize booty. THE PUNJAUB. JULLIINDIIR Do.lll.—The British provinces in the Pun jaub appear to have been visited by deluges of rain: the country was new and the climate unknown to us, and we seem to have been but indifferently provided for many of the contingencies of an unusaally wet rainy mason. A large ma mine had been established at Phullasr, and was being filled with military stores. One thousand rounds of cannon shot had been provided for each gun, and five hundred of musket ammunition for each soldier. The Seikhe were en listing slowly and reluctantly in our regiments: they are de scribed as very fine and,powerful men indeed. The people on the Noorpsor frontier were said to be mustering in strength, with a view of assailing us: the wonder is that such rumours, whether true or not, have nothitherto been rife. The name (Punjanb) may now be restricted to that portion of the country of the Five Riven remaining in the hands of Dhuleep . Singh. The Lahore Government does not seem to be making much progress in strength or consoli dation., or in the affections of the people. The Vizier seems an italorrigible reprobate, with many of the word vices of the dtbauchee, despot, and upstart, happily combined. He is said to have expressed a wish for the retirommt of our troops I so loon at omenienti and they aro not INaly to Main be. ?sod the time originally prescribed. How soon they may spire to return remains to be seen. But few of the dis banded soldiers had been paid up the arrears which were due to them: they were grumbling and threatening fearfully, and went not likely to stone without a struggle. The Mooltan Chief had become bolder in the spirit of disobedience, and seemed disposed to throw off the mesh and assume supreme authority over the province he ruled in subordination to the Maharajah. Goolrub Singh was said also to threaten to become troublesome; but he seems so entirely in our power, and so closely bound to as, that from this quarter at all events no danger need be apprehended. There were rumours of the descent of the Affghans under Ukhbar Shan on Peshawur; but these appear to arise continually when any season of turbulence is at hand. The Birder seems to keep the whole of these countries in awe, and when any unusual alarm occurs, or is intended to be created, the cry of Ukhbar is coming, is enough. ,I It was the same thing in Europe with the name of Boone parte some thirty years ago. A man had been convicted of murdering no fewer than five females at Lahore for the sake of robbing them of their jewels. He was subjected to the severest torture, then roasted on a slow fire, and finally blown up with gunpowder as life was becoming extinct. Some severe accidents had occurred cii • he rivers, which had become suddenly swollen from enormous falls of rain. Dr. Cox narrowly escaped with his life on crossing the Beas ; six men, who had been in the boot along with him, were drowned. A party of forty natives, who had gone to sleep in a ferry boat, were all swept away and lost, from the sudden rising of the stream. THE NIZA.II'S DOMINIONS. The misgovernment which has long existed, and atrocity which from time to time has threatened the Nixam's domi nions, continue as they have been for years. The public treasury is exhausted, trade languishes, and et erything sutlers. General Fraser, the Briti-h resident, is an able and excellent man, but the local mainly is beyond the reach of any remedy he can administer. The medical school at Bolarum for ehe instruction of native youth, lately abo lished, is thought very likely to be speedily restated. THE ORIENTAL BANK. _ ..... In our advertising columns will he observed a series of re solutions mooed at a meeting of the shareholders of the Oriental Bank, which took place on the 27th instant, as intimated in oar last. IVe are most gratified to find that it appears that there is no bank in existence which at present seems more prosperous, or holds out better hopes of success, than the Oriental. I - provides an immediate dividend of eight, and holds out hopes of another of ten, per cent. as most likely to fall due. The allegations that enormous sums had been sent home, that investments in railway scrip had been made, and that the Bank had wound itself needlessly up with an insurance office, are all it appears erroneous. The only investment made at home is that of the reserved stock in Government funds, the best at once and the most convenient security that can be ob tained. So tong as England remains solvent, that is, so long 83 she is England, the money is secure, and it can moat con veniently be made available at any time in case of remit tances of an unusual amount being required. We believe that few money operations in the Bombay market would pay better then those which took advantage of the prices of Oriental shares depressed to a most unwarrantable extent by reason of unreasonable misapprehension,—Bonsboy Times, July 29. BOMBAY MARKEIS, Aror, .5. MONEY.—Gcsernnerd Piier --- ;;4 7 hecinotedais follows :—Five per cent. Lout of 1825.26, R.. 110 ;Tour per cent. do. of 1832.33, Rs. 99; Four per rent, do. of 1132.30, Rs 96; Five per cent. do. of 1841-42. Rs 103; Four per cent. do. of 1312.13, RM. 96 EXCIIANGE.—The money market having become ander, exchange on England has given war. time our lad, bills have been sold at 2a. Old. downwards, and the rate of transactions for this date may he quoted at Is. 110. to 2s. per rupee, at 6 mouth.' sight. On Caleuva at GO days, the rate Is at par ; on Madras, at 30 days Its, ; aid on Chins, at 60 daya RA., 206 at 288 per 100 dola. BANKS.—We quote Bank of Bombay share% at rm. 410 premium, and those of the Oriental Bank rs. 155 to 175 premium per share. PRICE OF BULLION.--.Sovereigna, each, rs. 111; Bank of Eng land notes, per en. 11. PRETOTTN.—Freighta have latterly sustained a further decline, owing to the heavy arrivals of tonnage. atERCTIANDTSE.—.‘r the commercial season is sole now on the point of re-opening, there is little of importance to communicate. The monsoon ban been most favourable—the fall of rain haring al ready excenk.o the total annual *rouge, and the mount,' received front the major part of the agricultural districts continue satisfactory. METAL.S.—We have few changes to notice in the prices of any de nomination of thew. We quote tile comet about 4 a rupee lower than before, and nails are cuite nominal In iron but little altera tion has taken place in the value of any variety. We are informed of a axle of 184 ton. of flat bars at lin 30 per mad)' ; and another of 1,000 bundles of hoop, at It.. 6.10.0 per cwt, ia likewise said to have taken place. Pig lead has slightly advanced in price, and quicksilver bas declined to the extent of about Rs. 5 per mound. Saks of 300 tuba of sweedish steel at R., 10, and 200 cases of the same at IDA per cwt., have been reported In the papers. OOTTON MANUFACTURE-it—The market for thew ha. been, tM ! now, almost entirely closed, and we have consequently but few trans actions to record. The only sales indeed communicated to on are the following ;- 230 pieces Grey longeloth., 38 rds. by 45 in., at Rs. 6 4 0 per piece. 500 ditto ditto 38 oda by 39 in., ~ 54 0 „ 150 ditto Grey Domestics 60 yds. AT 28 In„ „ 69 0 „ It to expected that the fsvourable character of the monsoon will lead ere long to a renewal of business transaction. on an extensive scale, unless counteracted by a renewal of the scarcity of money. YARNS.—Prices remain without much change, and no transactions have been reported for publication. though we understalad that sales. to the extent of abort 0,000 of Water, at 74 annas for No. 20, and 84 emus for No. 30, have had effect since our last. MARINE STORES.—Paints have given way in price about ID. 2 to 4 per cwt., and Cordage about Rs 4, whilst In Coal Tar an im provement of Rs. 2 per barrel has taken place. We hear of notrana action.. BEER.—The dealers haring supplied themselves prior to the Issue of our tart price current, nalcs ha. e been subsequently very limited, and we have only heard of one of about 50 Mids. of Allsop'e, at Its. 60 per bbd. SPIRITS are unchanged in value. We hear of a sale of 20 hhda. of Brandy at Re. 3 1 0 per gallon. COCHINEAL has slightly declined; we quote the article nominal, atae r . r 3 n sfer lb. N.—The transactions in this staple have not been extensive, and there is but little alteration in prices to record. We emote Broach and Surat at Rs. flO to 824 per candy—which is about Ba. 14 towel than last toonth. Other sorts are without change. The quality of the cotton now at market is inferior. In other articles of Pastern produce we hear of no variation in price wee Cam* which is 1 real per lb. dearer ; nor ate there any pur chases of importance to notice. CALCiTTA MONEY AND StIARE MARKEY, Juty IA. The money market Colltiflite% to exhibit smote healthy appearance, and the rates of Interest in the Bazaar have fallen. As soon ac the prompt of the last opium sale is provided for, we may expects quiet state of things, it the advice! Item home are &mumble. Government Securities of all descriptions are rising rapidly in vale. Exchange is less brisk. We have not heard of first-rate paper going off better than 2s. 2d. at 10 months' date. Bank Stock looking onwards. _—.-- ium 10 0 a 11 0 0 B a par. 1 0a 1 8 4 0 a 4 B discount G 8 a 7 8 5 0 a 5 8 Transfer Stock Paper, 5 per cent Bombay S per cent Old Sieca 5 ditto, ocoardleigto numbs.-•• New Company's S per ant Third 4 ditto New Cy. 4 ditto - Bengal Bank Ws li. (4.000) pram 2,675 a 2,700 tnion Bank „ Agra Bank, Oriental Bank North Western Bank rant OF III'LLION, &C. Co.'s 88. 104 12 0 a 105 0 0 p. 100 a. wt. R - 77a 8 Ci li old Bars l5 8 0 a 16 8 0 0 Cold Dust l5 8 0 a IS 8 0 t P er sa • wt. Spanish Dollars „....„..... 221 10 0 a 221 IR 0) „ Mexican ditto 221 00 a 221 4 • f 100. Sovereign. ll 3 0 • It 4 0 1 ~ Madras Gold Mohan .... - - - -- - --- - -- MADIIAS MONEY AND SHARE MARKET.—Jotr 20. Fire per emit. Icon of 18th Atimust, 1823. At the rate of Subscription, viz., 106 i Company's Rupees per 100 Sksia Rs. • • Pox to 21 Premium. Fire per Cent Loan of 13th January, 1830. At the rate of Subscription, viz., 106{ Company's Four per Cent Loan of let May, 1832. At the rate of Subscription, viz., losi company.. Rupees r 100 Sicea Four per t. Loon of 31st March, 11436 ... ••• ... f Discount. Fire per Cent. Loan of 30th June, 1841 ... Premium. Four per Cent Loan of Ist February, Discount stock of the Fire per Cent. Book Debt Ivan Premiums. Promissory Notes of the Tanjore Debt .. .•. 10 Discount. DINNER TO MR. C. N. NEWD'IGATE, THE 1 PROTECTIONIST MEMBER FOP.. NORTH WAR- WICKSHIRE. (From our own Reporter.) COLESHILL, Thursday Morning. Last evening a Grand Dinner was given to Mr. CHARLES N. NEWDEOATS, by a 'mien of his constitueats and Mends. The entertainment tech place in &spacious teat erected at the back of the Swan Ina, in this town ; and the number of gentlemen who sat dowm to dinner was about 270. Amongst these were Sir Edmond Herten)). Bart.., the Chairman ; Lord George Bich ack, M. P. ' • Lord Brooke, M. P. ; Viscount Newport, Df. P. ,• C. B. Addr, Esq. M. P. ; Richard Spooner, Esq. M. P. ; C. R. Cole, Esq. M. P. ; Henry Pp), Esq. ;; J. Wheldon, Esq. the Vice- Chairman, &c. The usual loyal toasts having been given and drunk in the usual style, the CRAIELMAN gave the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, the Earl of Warrick, one of those noblemen (be said) who had shown that he did not prefer to maintain his place at the sacrifice of his principles; and be oongratasted the company on the fact of their having amongst thr.n so excellent and talented a young nebkman as Lord Wetwick's son (Lord Brooke), who so highly distinguished himself during the late session of parliament, and had earned the good opinion of all those whose good opinion was worth possessing. Lord BROOKE, ID iczknowledging the compliment paid to his ether, said that ilia lordship had always been a warm and stedfin protectionist, being fully sensible of its import ance to the best interests of the country, and for it he would be ready to standup to the last in its defence. The two succeed:mg toasts were, " The Army and Navy," acknowledged by Capt. NEWLAND ; and "Prosp erity and debility to the F_Atablohed Church of the country, proposed HENRY Pla, Esq., and responded to by the Bar. W. " 3 ,., 1 / 4 ?" , ne'cor of Coleshill. The C1).1811AN again rose to propose the toast of the evening, 'the health (he said) of their worthy representative Mr. Re- g d ega te. !The toast was received with the Kestrel; the.) To do honour to him that banquet had had been pre- We'd ; to testify their approbation of his conduct in parliament --'of the zeal, the treitituty, sad **talent with which he had they regained that Protection which they had lost, or until they had shifted those burthens which at present pressed so heavily upon them, on to the backs of those who were Low so much more able to bear the hurthens of the country. He was satisfied, moreover, (he said) that the recent change' , had not been brtnight about by a Parliament representing the opinions of a majority of the people of the country. (Cheers.) After some other complimentary reference to the exertions of Mr. Newdegate in Parliament, Sir Edmund concluded by proposing that gentleman's health, which was del nk with very considerable enthusiasm. Mr. NEwnen ATE an rising was again very warmly greeted. It would be most ungrateful (he said) Ist re he not fully alive to those kind and neighbourly feelings which made his friends so highly appreciate his bumble exertions in their service. He attributed, however, the kind manner in which he had been received more to their partiality than to any merits which he possessed; but he assured them that his will was with them, and that if he did fail it was not because of his indisposition to serve them. (Cheers). He had endeavoured, he said, to carry out those principles which he had always possessed, and which ware a guarantee for his future con duct the last time they did him the honour to send him to Parliament. He might, indeed, well be abashed could he for one moment imagine that he merited that vastly entertain ment which had been got up to do him honour ; he attributed it, however, not to his own exertions ; but he felt it t o b e a proof how much they honoured consistency, and that they had assembled there to testify their respect for political liberty and good faith. (Cheers.) He prided himself more than anything in the fact that his political principles were the same in 1846 as they had been in 1841, and that theirs remained also in complete union with his own. (Hear.) That great meeting assured him that his heart beat with theirs in opposing them innovations which went to deprive native industry of its just rights and just protection. (Cheers. I And he fully recognised that principle which held it to be the duty and province of the Government to hold the Wane,' of capital and labour. and by fiscal regulations to protect the capital and native industry of the country; ar.d he thought they would agree with him that a government abandoned • part of its duty and disclaimed its proper functions when It' neglected to act up to that just principle. He (Mr. Newde gate), heard Lord John Russell say that he would support' the measure of Sir Robert Peel, because it was the foundation of a great system, one which would neither foster one branch of industry nor the other; •,rticulture or mannfactures—tbat he would leave each to florish or to fade according to its merits and its intrir sic value to the country. (Hear). The adoption of that principle be hell to be a repudiation of duty by the government. (Cheers). He (Mr. Nevelt-gate) re gretted extremely to find that the potatoe disease prevailed to so frightful an extent, and especially because, as the effect of it would be to 'maintain the price of every description of food, it would prevent many from satisfying themselves as to the precise effect of the repeal of the corn laws. Ile knew that at that time there was • feeling abroad that prices had been maintained, and that everything was going on well ; that there was no influx of foreign grain ; that there was no probability of the artisan, the labourer, or the manufacturer feeling distress; bat he assured them, that the present state of things was delusive: it was the inevitable consequence of consequence of that lamentable deficiency on the potato crop of which they had heard and seen so much ; but he assured them, that the ill effects of corn low repeal would be as sure to be felt sooner or later as that the winter would in due course follow that reason. (Cheers). He still maintained the price of wheat must fall below 40s. per quarter on an average, and he faked the farmers whether they could then maintain their present position, and pay their labourers, if such prices were to urevail ? (Hear.) He asked them wbethdr t try were prepared to stand by and see all the best ' interests of the country sacrificed to foreigners? (Cries of " No.") And he asked them whether the state of the markets at that time formed matter of congratulation amongst them •, or whether were at all satisfied at what had been done in the last session of Parliament ? (Hear.) He begged them to hear in mind that though the Anti Corn-law League professed to have died, it was but the assumption of a cat's sleep—it had one eye open ; they were on the watch, and ready to take every opportunity of carrying out their principles to what they called their legitimate solution. (Cheers.) He urged' them to judge more themselves in future—to be cautious who they trusted. During the whole of last winter they had heard grave doubts expressed, and seen dark realities, with reference to the conduct of public men ; but the summer which had just gene by had shown to them a faithful party betrayed; it had brought to light a plan long laid, and long secretly determined upon. (Hear.) It was with extreme regret that he had witnessed the conduct of many honourable men; but he felt hound to say with reference to them, that it was the duty of agricultural constituences to no longer place their best interests in the hands of men who would sacrifice them. (Hear). The recent parliamentary struggle had raised up and shown to them what elements and what enormity ofstrength they possessed. They had shown strength such as Lord Brougham said con stituted The real strength of the count. v. (Hear). Their struggle had brought out cis noble friend Lord George Ilentinck, who now occupied a prouder po. ition than any man in the country. he was the recognised leader of a great party in the House of Commons, and a powerful party in the country. Ile had arrived at that position from no ambitious feeling of his own ; he knew how he had rimed others to take the lead ; how he waisted them with valuable informa tion, and how he had given place to all ; but by the strength of his own charaoter, and 'by his own powerful talents, and superiority of intellect, in eight short months he had placed himself on a footing with the most experienced parlia mentary leaders of his time. (Cheers.) It was with pride that he saw some of the old blood of the country again showing i'nelf, and that, too, in so good a cause. (Cheers.) We had probably seen (he said) a letter from their late leader, Sir Robert Peel, which that right hon. baronet had addressed to the inhabi tants of the town of Elbtng in Prussia; in it ho had actually declared that he introduced the income-tax in 1812, not as a temporary expedient to meet a difficulty, but as the foundation of a new system of taxation. Mr. NEWDEOATie remarked at great length on different passages in the address, and went on to ask what confidence could hereafter be placed in a man who, according to his own show ing, introduced measures merely as a blind and a delusion ; Sir Robert Peel had (he said) endeavoured to show that the effect of his monetary measures had been to give paper money a fixed value; tutbe (Mr. N.) asked, had gold* fixed value ? Had they not heard of a tightness in the money market, and did not the amount of bullion in the hash depend on eircumstancro ? The fact was (he mid) the lam Premier had. mortgaged all the beet interests of the country at the shrine of the foreign trade. Mr. Newdegate text entered into an argument to show, that, meddled as the eteuntry . wes with a heavy debt, it was imposaible to carry out the princi ples of free-trade, and then wc.at on to aver, that, in his opinion, Sir Robert Peel had sacrificed the mainstay and independence of the country by his attempt Ile carry out the object he professed to have in view, of our buying the cheapest, and selling in the dearest maeket. The time had some (he said) when met man migiht look his neigh,. hour in the face with suspicion, since the state sould na longer protect his property.(Hear.) The lionourable gentlenasa nest adverted at some length, and in a somewhat tune:mess strain, to thorecent free-trade dinner et Sheffield: he likened Lord Morpeth, Ms. Parker and Mr. Ward to the three weird sitters in _Vaebeth. The lively wit of Lord Morpeth had taken fire at something, and as hoexploded, the same was communicated to Mr. Parker, who acted as the saltpetre, and thence to Mr. Ward who somewhat resembled the limestone. He ridiculed that noble lord's invitation M all foreigners to come to England with their commodities be exchange for our manufactured good"; adverting also to his lordship's decla ration that it would be as dieSeult to *gain impose the pro tective system as to remove the Pyramids or step the }tills of Niagara—he said that necessity might render that essential which the nettle lord appeared to imagine impossible. (Cheers.) He remarked next on the enteitsinments which had been got up in Frazee in honour of Mr. Cobden, aid on the fact that Sir Robert Peel had given a pension of NW. a year to Mr. M'Culloele, which lab condemned. He then went on to say that he deemed it right to move fora Committee of the House of Commons le inquire into the uaeonatitu tional manner in which the AntieCnen-Law League had interfered with the elective franchise; that report ha I not (ho said)unfortunately been made early enough to admit of a bill founded upon it being . introduced into the late Session of Parlianent, but they might rest assured that something would be done. (Hear, hear.) It had been proved that no less than 23,000 objections had been limed frosa the League °Sees in Manchester in one day, and although it had been over and over again declared that none of the funds of that Association had been expended in purchasing votes, yet it had also been proved, that by • little scheming 24,0001. had actually been expended in the purchase of qualifications in three counties. (Hear. ) He (Mr. New degate) therefore urged them, by every means in their power, to put down such a tyrannical faction ; for that pur pose they must combine, (he regretted to be obliged to recommend such a course,) but it had become indispensable. He had been engaged during the last session of Parliament, wader the Duke of Richmond and Lord Stanley, in the attempt to organise a new party, and he felt proud to act under such leaders. He assured them his task as whipper-in had been no light one, but he was hopeful they would eventually succeed; and that, when an election did come, the scale would be turned in their favour. (Hear.) He said nothing for that county, but for the sake '.of his party no private considerations should stifle his voice ; he urged them to remember tke words of Sir R. Peel when he was one of them—" Register ;" and he hoped that before a very long period had elapsed the country would have awaked from the intoxicating Abet lately produced by the noisy cry after " Free-trade." He congratulated them on Das: seeming such • leader as Lord Stanley, a mad of splendid—iner r l d led talents—and whom integriq woe unimpeach#e. Hear.) When the Whigs swerved hem their prinetples, Stanley abandoned them; and whoa LORD GEORGE BENTINCE in acknowledging the toast said that he was there that day in common with a great many of them to do honour to his boa, friend, Mr. Newdegate, and to bear testimony to his laborious exertions during the hot session ofperliament, and it was most unaffectedly that he told them how much his own friend merited their approbation. (Hear.) It was quite true that the Captain of a ship gained the cre dit of a victory, but it was to the master and the mate for their organisation of the crew that the real credit was due ; so it was with his hon. friend—whatever battle! , they had won, were to he attributed to his exertions; for whilst others were standing aghast at the treachery of the late government, his hon. friend was assiduous in organising an oposition to defeat their purnoao , (Hear.) If amongst the representatives of the county of Warwick, there were'any backsliders, the eonstitti ency had still cause to be proud of their position in the country. They could not but admire the untiring seal of their honoured guest, neither ought they to forget his noble friend'(Lord Brooke), for when they considered the figure he had already made in Parliament ,the talent he had displayed, and the exceeding beauty in what he expressed himself—of him also they might be justly proud, and he only hoped that many other constituencies would fellow their excellent example by returning many such mengo parliament. (Hear.) They wanted men who would assist them in getting justice for themselves. l'he landed interest of England had never for any long period been trampled upon ; and if the landlords and the farmers and the yeomen would only remain true to themselves they would, at the next election, regain the day they had ion. (Cheese.) He (Lord George Bentinck) was aw are that there w many who would say, " Oh, we have good prices, so free- .de has not injured us much after all ;" but he advised all moms to look at the facts before they so deceived themselves. (Hear.) They would recollect that at the close of the last year there was a chain cry got up respecting the failure of the potato crap to serve the purpose of an administration ; he was now sorry to see that that feint had become a reality ; that the potato failure had apnea tram one end of the kingdom to the other— the Land's End to John o'Orosta, throughout the whole of Ireland, and throughout the whole of the counties bordering upon the Atlantic. (Hear.) He was, fain to confers, and he did so with sorrow, that this time there was me sham, but he greatly feared that this sad reality was the just vengeance of Providence toe the great ingratitude we had displayed in needlessly complaining of Hi• beauty. (Hear, hear.) But when it was adduced as an argu mentin favour of Corn Law Repeal, that prices had not fallen, he prayed them to look at things as they were. This was the complete destruction of the potato crop ; oats, a short crop; beans, a scarcity ; and barley deficient. Under inch circumstances, almost the whole hurthen would fall on the wheat crop ; what then could he effected but that prices should be maintained. (Hear.) He would, however, draw their attention to a few facts. We were (he said) now in September, actually com mencing the consumption of the crop of 1816, so that we had corn to provide for four months more in this present year than we had in 1845, and unless the growth was one-third greater—which was net the fact—there would inevitably, before the next harvest, be a great scarcity of grain. (Hear.) And when he looked at this fact, be turned to the eon tinent to see what supply might be expected freer there. He looked to France, but before he spoke of that oountry be turned to the report of the French Minister of Agricul ture, who did not attempt to deceive people as the Minister did in England last year. (Hear). Well, he formtl that two millions of quarters of corn additional would actually be this year required by France herself, so that, admitting there was a large quantity in the United States (and lance it un doubtedly was), there might still not be mit% ient to supply this country and France. One thing; however, was certain, that pric.s would he kept up,. and that would help to sustain the delusion that the rental of the Corn Laws had caused no injury. (Near.) Had it not, however, been for that scourge with which it had pleased the Almighty to visit this countrptuid Ireland, corn would undoubtedly have been at such a•price as could raver tarn mails it era.uaztatiac to the grower. ) lie asked them to look for a moment at whatewita the price of wheat on the Mth of Much and on the 1/th of August in. the present year: the first date being before the corn-bill passed, and the last about the time when thedlentet amongst the potatoes was discovered to bo general! oa. the 20 of March, he found that Ted wheat, the growth of the year 1814, was selling at from 57a. to 70s. per quarter an the 10th of August, wheat of 1846 1•1111sellinr; at kom7l4e. to 48s. per qr only; and what had happened 1•a the. laterals!? Why, in the interval, the corn-bill had pate al, aria termaillions of fo ' reign corn had been brought in for our consumption, and corn grown in the country had decree sed ire value, to take the average of 16.. eel. the quarter. (Bear, liar.) He found further, that, on the same day of the month in March, wheat was offered for sale, the growtt , of the year 1845, in the counties of Oxford and Suffolk. —it was a bad sample—and it fetched from 51s. to Gss. pe r quarter. On the 10th of August last, a sample of the same wheat was offered for sale in the same market, ar .d it fetched from 38s to 4fis. per quarter only. (Hear, hear.) In the last week, wheat of 11116 was lle 6d. cheaper than wheat of the same quality offered for sale c a the 30th of March; and wheat of 1845 was Os. per r uarter cheaper; and the duty being now 10s. per quarter ;it made just the difference be tween the duty as it stand, and as it was before the Free trade measures passed. (' clear.) The noble lord next re marked at Rome length of the Sheffield meeting, end on the fact that Lord Morpeth, 1 .ord Brougham. and others, had not always been such at aunch Free-traders ; he thereafter went on to say that MO' ,of the Arguments adduced by the Corn Law'Repealers roe minded him of an anecdote related by Colonel Thompson in o ne of his Free-trade speeches ; it was that of a Quaker, who said to his man, on being equipped for Yeomanry Corps. ' Take care thee doesn't cut down any of - our customers," ant (continued the noble lord) the gallant colonel, taking a wick r view of it, appeared to think that for us to make all the w , ,rld our customers would be the best way of putting au end to war. But he (Lord George) looked at other ex nsequences as likely to result from free trade ; he found ' that our exports amounted to 58.000,000/. only, whereas nu' r home consumption was upwards of 200,0 00 , 0004 ; who h he saw, too, that Coventry and Nuneaton were exporting ' silk to the amount of about 630,0001, and that our home consumption was upwards of 12,000,0001. those, in thew dyes, were facts which ought to make us anxious ta.prear .'ve our h one-trade. (Hear.) He found, too, that four-fittla of the eoods asawslitetured In Binniegham were for boom consumption, and that forty-nine-fiftieths of tne saddles m .nufactared was fee our own use, it occurred fo him that w e shoal do well to take care that, whilst the free-trade aw ord was.laying bare the home-market, it was not loathe* ?,own ear beat customer... (Hear.) The nohle lord Mae ad verted to the recent alterations in the American taraff, with the view to show that three was nothing Ike a reeiprocity of fee Mast on the part of the Americans, with re fcreece to our free-trade policy; they still imposed (he Raid) ancidamlorens didy of allagoodt exported'from this ea entry, I, which duty is larded, not at the prim they are inannfaetureci, but at the price daey are imported. Referring amen thee rt icle agree pens, aftwhich (his lordship said) one hundred mil -1 bow are inapanied annually; aaW, taking these at a penny ;leer,* Ural* Sam actuay adds by that one thing four haadred the:wand pouadt to the United States revenue. (Hear.) Lfie urged the repeal ed the Excite Duties it pre ference to the Customs Duties.. Why, he said, heel not Sir R. Peel bees as anxious to take off the tax kom soap sr front 'the light ',heaven (which would save many persists large quantities.of oil andtallow) as he had bean to take the duty off the importation of cons; but he apprehended, he said, that this right him. baronet's sympathies did sot lie in that quarter. (Laughter.) Ministers had thought proper to take QM duty off slave-woven sugar, Ind the enuequence was illat sugar from the Cuba had glen ss. fad. a cwt., or 5/. lals. a ton ; whereas, if the excise :reties wow taken off, though we might get the articles mach cheper, (as was the case with leather, for he was not aware that we got our beets much Ammer, ) still the ben , At was fele by somebody he the country; and for that reason he would prefer that the excise deities 'should be as speedily removed as passible. (Appian's.) He urged the farmers tn, at the next election, imitate the example of the mss of Nottinghamshim, and might fairly seeme their victory "off their owe bat." Something had loan said, he observed., about Si, Robert Peel having schemed a triumph over preju di ce and self interest, but said the nobles lord, in conclusion, when the right hon. baronet can look with patience upon the wife, by her procuring husband sold, then I shell look with patience to the triumph by which Sir Robert Peel sold agriculture— the wife of kis choice, and who. he was pledged to protect and cherish—to the forced embniete of free-trade. (Much cheering.) Lori Baooxe next gave the health of the chairman. Sir EDMUND HARTOPP acknowledged the compliment, and gave, in highly complimentary terms, the health of Mr. Spooner, the member for Birmingham. Mr. SPOONER replied at considerable length. He ap peared there (he said) as the representative of a large manu facturing population for two seasons; first to tell his hon. friend (Mr. Newdegata) that the marnoiacturing districts thanked him for his exertions; and sec o ndly, to congratulate him on the fact of his having come eont as a leading character in the world,and on hishavinesegalmirably acquitted himself. For his own part he had eaways felt that agriculture and commerce were twin-eistera, born at a birth, and that they must die and be Muir a l together. He went on to ex press his regret that 'ate bad the misfortune to differ with my of his constitaents, and proceeded to remark that a more contemptible fallacy was never invented than that of (in a country which as this is), our buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market. The labourer must be employed—the taxes must be paid, and so long as we had the obligations to discharge which we at present bad, the cheapest Oiarket for us was undoubtedly the British—the home raarket. (Hear). lie differed from his right hon. friers?, (Mr. Newdegate), when he said that capitalists wo uld . be benefitted by this chanitei, a speculation might exist for a time, but the capitalist who knew how tc . ) turn his money to account, also knew that the portion _el the country only could be improved when its labour was fully employed. (Hear). He . believed that by meow of protec tion for tion the country had arrived at its present pitch of great. •Ow reporter wo soderstood the oak lord; but moil Ms lord ship did not lona tbst nod pens wen sold st a paw tn."