The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-06 00:00:00

RAILWAYS. Tsui DAT, Two (Mom The business transuded in the share sesehat Unties unimportant, nevertheless the May in provement which ore noticed 71111.1161 aia• tinges unchecked to-day, and it Abe sum from the official list of Dusan= line :that decidely better prices hare been gives; sad Dir lAnest Cheat Westerns have rea li sed 89; Laois Westerns, 113#; Midlands, 22. Other lines generally esstina• Arm at yesterday's quotations. 3osir4 prism Tate,lay. alas Wig If to" IfliMIL Brno Lamar so se so 1 4 '1 17 dsla Too . • Asloyot..lseNt I e. Delo Bole Wool. OPA SO owl or via sossolos 11 D 0.111111101611 11; Virio.WityJiltosalloS 1k00..W010., ale ado pOi. or • goomoloa Is Do. ellboota 7i Doom. Smo.ool erisovi awl bolo' ... VS Do Da . D om . Da MS PrOmossrill• sad 11 01 2 1214 - i D :: "." lskiit 2.8,2 . ;... 3 em us. rs. ile.j . I ( IS si DO1.10•41 aCL ME le smarm coatis. .. ... le Da It Osa IP. CIL.- • Do. Eat.. p. 0. Dal q Do. io. M Do. Lk IL Ipa Cu.. is 4 Do. Oita ... ... 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Iftoomaxamtwsz.—The asszkd speed nstbm fit, bat Or 'Amon axes bole= was dow, sad prim wars lamer. BIRMINGHAM, ()dolor 5. btu-SzczAties.--1111ares were very fist in this motet trsisy ; there ie la bet to little bolsi that prim do apt sus Nulty to rally st prestut LARDS, Ottokr 5. evocm-liMlLimms.—Besisms is mill miry Ad sad this immune so Wilma Ins transacted szatpt In North Sheds, whisk wen doss d fa sod 71 dlis BRISTOL, October 5. Blooz-IsOWllB.—Tlat minket to-day was mak taw awas as sapela Dim aldwesit meoewhat more aeries. Great Wedees Odder rimer deed at Ile dY. Nceth Staffordshire, 71 M Yak Qaarior dome. WA se tlt ; Ditto, New, *prim Bead temmerdel ZOOM" 10j. YORK, October 6. Prom Excluxoh.—Nosth British Prif., 61. Oa. 6d.; Erik WNW& 'Wortslo t Took, Nortartio, sad Berwki(Novr. web Shisaske), IS; York sad North Ilkilsod. M. MILT' WISTIIMN OF CANADA.—A meeting of the ham bitaata of Loadow Canada West, was lately held, at which th e , moo to the noolution to authorise the corporation to gins u town's guarantee to tha directors of the Western RWro~d, to Ole amount of 20,0001., for the of ex roguing in. owsgietion of that important pahlio weak. Ma 1 14 11 1 10i 101 ex di• D' IS 111 11 Vie erpreso. OUTGOING MAILS. The nails fel Vigo, Oporto, Bisbee, Madeira, Cadis, and Gibraltar, will be made op on the .ssorsieg et Oat, 8. The audio, tic ldaresillee, to the Matillemwees. ECIPt, Ceylon, India, Hous- lout , he. will be made up on Me evening of October I. The mile for British North America sad the Baited States will be made up oa the 'maim of Oet. 12. The West India Mails, emeludiag Bermuda, Havanna, Nemo, Hilid•Tell, New Orleans, sad Matadi., those ter Madeira, M. laaa•deNiserague, New Granada, Mai, and Peru, will be made up ea Oct. 17. The mails ter o:braltar, Malta, &mos, the Imam bi Egypt, C e ylon, ladle, sad Miss, Ma Southampteall be made up ea tits mersdag of OM. 20. The mails kr Madeira, the Nov. sad Bassos Lyres, will be made up es the seeming off Nor. 5. NOM WATER AT LONDON =IDOL Tule Day—lfrolmo. Ir. sor ARansoa. a R 43•1. WOMILYIP,Mgainis IL 6 .. ..... .• aftessea. I h. II or LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6. Tunis is not a calm new a theme, nor a claim ever started, more just, mop logical, =m o rtal's or more imperative. then tie equalisation atma- Won of electoral rights; and yet we know of sue more ungrateful to take up, or so unlikely to Mile either the eloquence of the orator or the attention of the listener. For why ? The question is altogether too plain, the reasons too powerful, the conclu elms toe self-evident. The injustice with which the franchise is distributed, the distinction and pre ference which it shows to one man above another, to one class above another, in numberless instances with out a shadow of right, use, or even advantage to thaw preferred, is something:so crying, so absurd, that ems if snob a system was attended with no prectical injus. rise, no dangerous political effect, no formidable dia minatint, it ought to be instantly remedied and trot aright, were it but for the sake of rendering the basis, on which our entire political fabric rests, on a level re in common justice, fairness, and right. Pi ltale wont to be very severe and very contemp tuous on the subject of the charters and the electoral systems which despotic princes think fit to octroy, or condescendingly grant to their subjects. But what would we say, or what would the rational world of Europe think, if his Majesty of Palmas, or Count Preawriazwatino, or the Czar, were to give • sew stitution, the chief conditions of which were, that the landed population should monopolise five-sixths of the representation ? If kings were to ordain that the franchise should be distributed in the inverse ratio of the density of population, the accumulation of wealth, theexpanse of ideas and education • if they were to decree that large domains, with a ser f and utterly dependent population scattered over them, should be amply' endowed with representatives, these serfs forbidden even to pretend to an independent vote by the right of their lord to watch and to know the vote they gave, their tenure of land being dependent on the will of him who overlooked them ; if the small towns and villages, which were merely adjuncts of this agricultural pounlation, and us dependent on the very !serfs as the lords of that land and population, were, moreover, to be endowed with an overwhelming majority of representatives, whilst those places in which capital and industry and ntelligenos bad cone lomerated, one half the civic popu lation in number, but all the spirit and talent and wealth of the civic population in quality—if these were to be indulged with merely a few representa tives, to afford, perhaps, some expression of opinion, bet no importance, much less preponderance of vote: —why,. if HATNAU orMANTRUPFEL or any inconceivable and unpronounceable minister of R s , were to propose anon a charter and such an electoral system for even the benighted regions of the east, all Europe would stigma tise the juggling with derision. The Emperor of AUSTRIA would be hooted for such an insult to the people. The King of PRUSSIA would be pelted with a shower of mad that his 500,000 bayonets could not ward off, and people of even moderate and calm opinions would furbish their mnsquets, as the only final remedy and reply to such outrage upon common freedom and 0111 Mon rights. Yet such is the sem of England at this very day ; of England, which sts to be at the head of civilisa tion and free government, but which in this great and fundamental question of electoral law, and the basis of political rights, is at the very tail, perpetuating one of the m set disgraceful complications of jugglery, injustice, corruption, and abuse, which history could record, or imagination conceive. Take the twelve members returned by the clod hoppers or their dependents mentioned by Mr. HUME, and counterbalance them by the twelve members returned from a million and a half of the most wealthy and intelligent of the civic population— Sixteen of our largest boroughs (said Sir Joshua Wellesley) 1ne.141 London and the seven suburban bo-nughs, with Li , limuthestter, Birmingham, Bristol, Wolverhamp ton, alfoed, Leeds, end Sheffield, contain one-half of the borough population of the kin/dont, and yet return only 33 members to the House of Comm ms, whilst the other moiety mums 290 members. (Hear, heir.) There are 30 boroughs eostainiag lees than 300 elective each, several with leis than 200; there are 63 with lens than 400 ; and 81 wit" telethon SOS electors in each ; whilst large and populous dis tricts, containing thoussads of house, of the annual vales of 104 and upwards, are totally unrepresented, save through their county members. Eighty six members are sent to the House of Commons by a leesaggregate number of electors than are contained in the Tower Hamlets, who send Only two members—one of whom, however, my hoa. friend Mr. Thompson, is a host in himself. ( Hear, hear.) Sixty-nine of our boroughs are virtually beyond the power of co p u lar influence, almost as much so as were Elation or p opular &rasa. (Renewed cries of " Shame !") The county repro mutation, like county meetings, or the show of heads on the day of norainttion, is little better than a mockery, being for the moot pert under the cowed of a few whip or tory landowners, whom combined will, as far se the sesualtuenekie are concerned, is law. (A voice—" That's true.") When their interests matron be made to coalesce, the tenant farmers are complimented by a voting paper, cob- galaiba the mass of rho blue or reel candidate, and sot seswinply, haimp_subsequently driven to the hustings like sheep to the (' It is se.") Bach is our system of M 'static& to population ; if we examine it 2tr a teepta ti le popery, we shall find the same preponde radio poem in the Mob of the governing few. One half *enema vales el property in England is represented by nibs seeelies sad see - kindred and silty. one members. The other half by thirty-see counties, and three hundred and tea munkeee. again. use half of the members of the House of COMBOS' repentant peeper to the annual vales of six mil lions two hundred theesaad pounds ; the other kelt represent seventy sight antis= of yearly value. If we ampere a large berserk with r meaty. both as reassets peculation and preperty, the MIA Inequality exists. Li=i, for instance, 'intakes these to tow hundred thousand is assessed to upwards of a minks sad a half to the pear's rote, end re turns tee mentiorre te parliament, whil.t Bueltin:th with erne Isomired and seventy . thousand of population, assamoi ker half the amount of Liverpool, sends eleven mem bers forewent her interest. One amid think that so plain a tale would be s it a lundleient to sweep objections before it, and away those opponents of reform that were de termined to defy conviction. But that class, which has se long . held the monopoly of p oli t ical influence and direstioa, is, naturally enough, inclined to keep iti The Reform Bill of 1832 was simply the result of a schism In that predominant clam, a civil war between the York end Lancaster of the aristocracy, in which the weakest party hoped, by the aid of the popular element, to establish, not pmular influent*, bat their own fractional predominance. - But why has ref 'tin failed P Beams" the whip wanted to scotch the Wrier, but not kill them; to make use of the =, not to give them power; using them as a , which in their hinds could mow down all before it, but which the whigs hung up as soon as they bad got in their crop. But the two aristocratical parties which warred in 1832 have come to a matured understanding by this time. The events of 1848 have frightened both, and they bold together, playing into each other's hands, the more adroitly and success fully duping the people, by the juggle of one party sitting to the right of the Brasasit in parliament . , the other to the left. They get up debates, indeed, for form sake,and squabble about the Cape of flood Hope or Vancouver's Island. They are tierce enemies when the interests of the antipodes are to be dis missed, but on questions affecting the liberties or the burdens of Englishmen—upon these all are agreed, county and small borough members, except where large, enlightened. and industrial communities have returned members in the popular interest. It is for the inhabitants of such important towns as Norwich to say whether this jugglery shall con tinue. And Norwich especially is to be looked to, as calculated to give a most important and impar tial judgment in the matter. In the midst of an agricultural county, yet with all the tradition, and instinct, and exper mace, of manufacturing industry and trade, both ire struggling elements ere there in prc ellielh The natural result of such a struggle in the *ldes time was a compromise between toryism and liberalism in the choice of an enlightened whig. But it ear dayi a Whig may mean wails. It may I mean the Lord Jour( Itossau. of the Reform Bill, or of the Test and Corporation Acta, or it may mean the Lord Joax of the Balmoral letter. And few oonstituencies will he nceforth be contented either with Janus repsesentationor Janus politics. The true touchstone is reform, suffrage commensu rate with rating, the ballot, a fair distribution of the ' suffrage amongst districts, and frequent perliernente. Whoever is not for these, is for aristocrat° privilege and rel., and is a foe to the plainest principled of jos tice,soonomy, and social order. The opponents of these reforms have not one plain and fair argument to urge against them. The sale plea with the timid consists of the danger of change; find to this we would set off the still greater danger of remaining statioeary. The plea with which they meet the movement pie ty simply that the public is Mamma LI!!!„ Omsk/wady sontsstvi--the the middle classes are sat to be taxed and to be quiet, and to be poorly and partially represented, as they are. Now to this argument no one can reply but the public itself, and the industrious classes, who are challenged to speak out; even out of their silence and their quietude is forged the very sceptre which the aristocracy wield, and the fetters which they daily forge and fasten on society. A great difficulty with the industrious classes, how ever, used to be, how they could make known their opinion and desires without creating disturbance, and alarming the very interests which they sought to enlist. That difficulty, however, no longer exists. Through all the kingdom have sprung up and been organised societies for parliamentary and financial reform. They are open to all, and are affiliated with the London Society, which owes its origin to the spi rit, real, and talents of Bir JOSHUA WALMSLEY. But of London reformers we may be sure. There their efforts need not be enormous. Neither do the great manu facturing towns ?noire more efforts to collect or to represent their opinion. But in the scattered and hirer foci of civic interests, and opinions, kept down as they are by superincombent influence, moral exer tion is required, and a labour of emancipation has to be undertaken. We are glad to see this task so well begun in Norwich ; at d we trust that it will be taken up and carried on simultaneously in all the im portant provincial centres throughout the kingdom. SEVERAL mills in Lancashire have within the last ten days been closed, and many are preparing to work short time. It is chiefly of those engaged in spinuieg the coarser kinds of yarn that this is true. The value added by their operations to the raw mate rial is comparatively small, and the margin for profit is proportionately limited. When cotton, therefore, rises materially in. price, or is expected to prove scarce for any lengthened period, these are the first to feel the pressure, and the promptest to take self detensive measures against the danger of working at a loss instead of a gain. Heavily laden ships are the most liable to suffer in a storm, and the soonest compelled to lighten cargo when they find it coming on. Bur it will be well if other branches of textile industry do not likewise suffer from the same cause ere winter closes in. The cotton crop is likely to fall short this season in America of what it was last year. Of the actual amount of the yield it is still too soon to speak confidently. Some weeks may yet elapse ere we know precisely how many bales the anxiously watched and counted shrubs will supply ; but the only question is as to the extent of the de ficiency. That there will be a deficiency, greater or less in quantity and quality, as con trutei with the crop of last year, nobody seems to doubt. Fluctuations in the produce of cotton are as inevitable as in that of other species of culture, and the only means of equtteing, or at least adjusting in some degree the available supply, is obviously by a resort to tke same expedient which we have lately learned the wisdom of adopting with respect to food. Variations in agricultural produce, and consequently in commercial price, labourers' wages, and capitalists' profit, are necessarily in the direct ratio of the contracted superficies devoted to that par ticular kind of cultivation. As we enlarge the area, and multiply the regions whence we look for supplies, shether of corn or cotton, the fluctuations become less perceptible as the varia tions of yield counterpoise each other. But our pre sent supply of the main staple of our industrial life may be said to be practically drawn altogether from one country, and the consequence is, that upon the casualties of the season in that particular territory the welfare or impoverishment of millions of our people are annually suspended as upon the gambling chances of a die. It is quite true that in America the cultivation of cotton has, of recent `►ars, made considerableprogreso : as the subjoined table serves to show. the crop yielded in— Yews. Asks. 1011 1104 MSS ....................... 1636 ... • 1,422,930 1637/ 1,360,533 11136 1640 1611 1642 ..... ........ 2,379,8 7 5 1813 1844 1645 .„ 2,100,537 2,317,441 1643 ••••••••••••••••• 2,7v7,000 Thus we perceive a large augmentation of the an nual yield, though chequered at every period of three or four years by partial failures. We attach little importance to the ingenious calculations that have been made of the supposed cycles of abundance and intervening reasons of scarcity. No rule can be relied upon where the daily bread of multitudes is directly at stake which approaches no nearer to uniformity than that which the foregoing :figures sustain. The competition of diverse soils and dissimilar climates would afford us better guarantees of safety ; nor are we disposed is credit the pretentious promises that are founded upon any other basis. Meanwhile the certain and startling fact merits the deepest consideration that the increased demand has, daring the period we have named far exceeded the increased supply. Twenty years ago there were retained for home consumption in the United King dom 208,987,000 lbs. of cotton wool. Ten years me there were retained 672,000,000 lbs. During the last ten years the increase has been less rapid, being not more than that which the following table indicates : 1839 ~ 1,044,000 bales. 1640 ...1,883,000 „ 1641 1842 1643 1844 1843 1846 1847 1646 1,503,000 ~ Yet even this rate of progression, it is clear, La out strips the rats of extended cultivation which the capital and labour of America afford. And were it not for the supplementary suppliesdravrn from other quarters, there can be little doubt that ere this the evily of an inadequate market for the raw material would have been mach more severely felt than they have yet . been. Nor is this all. The consumption of America herself begins to form an important item in the general calculation. In 1832 but 173,000 bales were retained for domestic consumption in the United States ; whereas there were last year retained 600,000 bales, or one-filth of the entire crop of 1848. Supposing the American demand to proceed during the next few years at anything like this rate, it is manifest that one of two things must happen—. either our cotton manufacture must be com e factitiously contracted within dimensions wholly irrespective of its natural capabilities, or the wants of the world; or new and additional ootton-fields must be found whence the raw material may in future be derived. We have left wholly out of view the manifold and serious considerations which physical or social ca lamities may at any moment entail. 'These in them selves would amply suffice to fill the mind of any fore houghtful eta amen with solicitude lest at some unexpected juncture the means of popular subsistence in Lancashire should suddenly be cut off as we have seen that of Connaught by an inscrutable decree. And there is more than enough in the political institutions of the cotton-growing states of the American cold, deracy, and in the hostility entertained towards those peculiar institutions by their northern brethren, to cast over the spirit of the most sanguine or credulouy misgivings as to the security of a crop, every fibre of which is raised by the labour of slave.. An inexhaus ible auxiliary field lies fallow within the range of our own empire. India, the native land of the cotton plant, longs to be permitted once again The following are the imp ortation of corn daring the past month and for the eight month, of this year, together with corresponding tables for 1818 : Mann ended SW IlgBt Months ended . 9ep6. Bth Sept. AZITCLZIL 1848. 1849. , ,- 1843. 1849. , Wheat gra 181,077 379,151 967,985 2,791,873 Harley „ 104,184 137,038 464,090 956,857 Oata „ 165,226 161,522 513,565 781,964 Rye " 613 44,133 4,862 106,330 Pei 1 0, 8 13 21,448 55,629 114,386 Brum "„ 32,384 21,870 340,543 369,663 indiau earn, or assize 105,002 203,297 873,946 1,732,744 Wheanneslor fieez 06 88,096 320,973 474,020 2,449,976 Oatmeal Rye meal . Indian torn meal " 5,431 6,366 167,150 95,148 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1849. to floorlott ii matunal growth. Nothing bat the per +tufty of "west' misrule forbids. Had he a voioe to the election of But India directors we should soon tee an Oriental u well u lams-Atlantic) supply of cotton. SIRJ.FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. FURTHER I'ARTICULARS. We (Shipping (ladle) have now to ley before our readers the following interesting details, which have rea ched us this day. It will be men that the letter of our Hull emergent announces the important fact that the ships oft two expeditions were in daily communication with each other : Pilot MN, Hull, Oct. 4, 1849. Sir, —l have no small gratification in being able to for ward what I believe to be an authentic account of Csntain crialcuel SISAI OM companions. The xlisesuie, arrived here lest night from Davis' Straits, bringing a plan which Captain Kerr, of the Superior, received from an Esquimau:, describing the ships under Franklin to be beset on the north side of Barrow's Straits, and Sir J. Rose's ships on the south side ; he also states that on the 30th March, this year, he (the native) was on board Franklin's ships, and that a daily communication was maintained between the respective commanders. The plan is drawn by lead pencil, and is a very creditable pro duction. Thomas Ward, E•g., the owner ,of the Truelove, will by this mail forward the plan and other information to the Lords of the Admiralty, to whom he has already for warded a telegr +Ade communication. Sincerely hoping and believing that this information is based on a sound founda tion, I am, eft, yours obediently, Dams Snow's. The following is the communication referred to by Mr. Brown, which wee received at the Admiralty this morning : Hull, Oet. 4, 1849. Sir,—l had the satisfaction of making a short communica tion this morning by telegraph, relative to Sir John Frank • line expedition. I have now to forward for the inspection of their lordships the Admiralty chart of Baffin's Bay, &0.. which Captain Parker, of the Truelove, has put into my hands, together with his remarks, which will, perhaps, con vey better information than any lengthened detail of mine ; and a rough sketch made by an Esquimau:, given to Cap tain Kerr, of the Chieftain, who handed it over to Parker. It appears that the Chieftain and other ships got to Pond's Bay a day or MO before the Truelove; immediately they reached that plans, some of the natives went on board, and without gueetionieg, the man drew the sketch, and by signs and In words of his own language, understood by the masters of the whalers, stated that two of the ships had been frozen up for four y can on the west side of Prince Regent's Inlet, and that the other two had been frozen up on the met aide for one year—that the two ships which had been there the longest had Wow to get beyond Cape Ronne% but not being able, bad come into Prince Regent's Inlet to winter, where the ice had not broken up since—that he and his companions had been on board all the four ships in March last, and they were then all safe. After receiving this account from the master of the Chieftain, Mr. Parker turned his attention to the endea vour to reach Prince Regent's Inlet, or at any rate to exa mine Lancaster Sound, for the purples of giving such infor mation eamight be obtainable of the state of the country,&c., and of using his utmost efforts to carry oat the instructions of their lordships. He accordingly left his fishing-ground off Scott's Bay, and proceeded north on the fled July, on the to Lancaster S iund, and having met with the Advice, re ia t:it Penny, of Dundee (with whom he was on friendly terms), agreed to accompany him. At that time both the ships were well fished, the Truelove having 145 tuns of oil on board, and the Advice 140 tuns ; but the masters judged (and rightly too) that although the risk was Frost with such valuable cargoes on board, they would be disgraced if the attempt were not made to render all the assistance which they wire capable of doing. On the sth August they got as far as Croker's Bay, where they were stopped by a solid body of ice stretching across the straits to Admiralty Inlet ; and no water being visible to the westward, they were compelled to return, coming close in with the edge of .he ice, and on the Bth of August Mr. Parker landed a cask of preserved meats, and 30 bags of coals (which had been sent on board by Lady Franklin) upon Cape Hay, deposited the letters, cylinders, &c., cording to the instructions of their lordship', and having erected a high pole to attract the attention of the ships or boats which might pass at a future time, they made the beet of their way back to the fishing ground, which they reached on the 17th August. 1 trust their lordships will consider that this attempt to reach the expeditions may be worthy of favourable consider ation, and be disposed to recommend some compensation for the risk run and the loss of time occasioned thereby ; but this is a point which the present is not a fitting time to urge, and I merely allude to it lest it might be imagined that any future appliattion was an after-thought not worthy of notice. The innumerable interruptions arising from the anxious inquiries of the public generally on the subject which so long has interested them must be my apology for any errors or omissions which I may have made ; end all that I would venture to add is the expression of my earnest h , pes that this information, however imperfect, may ultimatel7 lead to the adopt-ten of such steps as may extricate those brave men from a state of danger and aifficulty. If their lordships wish for further information, or to sub mit specific questions, my humble endeavours shall be used to obtain correct answers; and if they would prefer that Mr. Parker should attend in London, he la ready to do so, on receiving orders to that effect. I am respectfully, sir, your most obedient servant, THOMAS WARD owner of the Truelove No trace WM seen of the Investigator's launch, neither did there appear to be any was m to doubt the correctness of the statement made by the Esquimau:, that the upper part of Lancaster's Sound was a solid mass of tee. Oa the Bth August, which was a clear day, Mr. Parker landed on high ground at Cape Hay, with his telesoone, to see if anything could be discovered of the North Star, but no ship of any description was visible in Lancaster's Sound except the Advice. Capt. Hamilton, R.N., Admiralty, London. TRADE AND NAVIGATION. ACCOUNTS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR THE MONTH ENDING SEPT. 6, 1849. These accounts were published yesterday. EXPORTS. They again exhibit a most remarkable increase in the export trade of Great Britain. The declared value of our exports stands as follows : For eight months ending Sept. 6,1849 .... £39,203,322 For „ /I 1848 .... 31,833,214 Increase £ 7,670,108 Upon the month the increare is proportionate! still greater: For the month ending Sept. 6, 1849 £ 6,323.457 For „ IP 1848 £1,815,995 It thus appears that daring the put month the export trade of England has increased nearly two millions in comparison with the trading during the same period of last year ; and that on the year gene rally there has been an increase of upwar d of seven millions and a half! It will be seen from the following tabular state ment that the increase is not partial or confined to any particular trade, but is shared by every branch of manufacturing industry throughout the empire. The only articles in which there is a trifling defi ciency are bricks and salt, and the deficiency is those cases probably arises from accidental causes. Dlcl4z Va Ltli. 1846. 1849. Increase. Decrease. knoll Beer and .le Butter Oodles 4,068 9,830 1,742 Chew Coals end calm Corddie end/461m 10,321 13,306 4,785 Holton nienuteetwen 1,404,166 1,830,043 449,879 Cotton yarn 616,117 1,016003 370.688 Earthenware PLh Oho inanufeetwee 13,248 21,247 2,999 Haberdashery 84,058 120,366 36,668 Hardwareandentlery 139,195 224,403 64,810 Leather 26,021 30,780 14,737 Linen manufacture, Lbws yarn Machinery Metals 011 e Painters' Colours 28 18,7841 ,827 19,M1 1,037 Salt silk Manufeetemee WAN 96,430 46,414 2,N6 Bilk Thrown Bilk TIMM 1. 5 71 8, 5 13 7,171 Bosp Statuary Bugle, refined 42,451 43.492 3,041 Wool 19,141 63,773 49,834 Woollen Man 770,188 611,486 138,702 Woollen Tern 63,298 164,443 99,147 Total 4,807,462 6,323,437 1,827,004 Deduct demesne 11,64 Ingram on the math 1,813,995 tbe Cella Ossoitrut, Ocr. s.—The Queen and Priace, wren peai•d by his Royal Highneu the Duke Alexander of Virirtemburg, walked auiy this morning in the park of Osborne. M. younger branches of the royal family walked and rode as usual. His Royal Highness Priam Albert, and his Royal Higlumes the Hake Alexander, after wards went out shooting, attended by Coked F. Seymour. The royal dinner party yesterday inelnded the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Mr. Birch. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester arrived in town yesserday mining, from her residence in Richmond-park. 11W Royal Highness Prince George visited her Royal Highness. The royal dasher left Glou cester Rouse in the afternoon, on her return to Richmond- Park. _ _ _ " A cabinet council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-offior. The wielders present were Lord John Men% the Lord Chased*. the Stennis et Leedom... sir Geom. Grey, Viscount Pabnentos, Earl Grey, the Chinosllor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Hight Hon. H. Laboaehere, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Carlisle. Tke council sat two hours... Lord and Lady John Rusiell returned to town yesterday from Woburn Abbey. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood arrived at their residence in Downing.street your. day morning, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bed ford at Woburn Abby. Despatches were sent off yeetenlay evening from the Colonial:office for the governors of the North American colonies. REMOVAL OP THE COURT TO WINDSOR CASTLE.- Aeoording to present arrangements her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the royal children, will leave Osborne on Tuesday next for Windsor Castle, proceed. ing from °worthy special trrin to the Farnborough station. His Royal Highness Prince Albert will commencs shooting for the sassonon Wednesday, on the preserves at Bagshot. THE PRIME MINISTER has presented a donation of £lOO to the usmiation for the relief of those who hare suffered from cholera in the Metropolis. (Pram bat sight's Oasetle.) LORD CRAMBERLAIN'S.OPTICE, SEPT. 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Rev. John Lord Bishop of Chester to be Clerk of the Closet in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of:the Right:Rev. Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich, deceased. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. Yesterday morning the Com t sat at the usual hour, and proceeded with the revision of the lists for the ward of Farringdon Within. The result was as follows: Liberal claims al:owed 3 Ditto disallowed Ditto objections sirtained Ditto (stied or withdrawn Conservative objections sustained Ditto failed or withdrawn Double objections susttintd The nest ward was that of Farringdon Without, and the following wu the result: Liberal claims allowed 1 Liberal objections sustained Ditto failed or withdrawn Conservative objections sustained Ditto failed or withdrawn Double objections sustained MIDDLE6EX. Yesterday the Court was bald at the Sussex Arms, Hammersmith. The lists revised were those of the parishes of Chiswick, Fulham, Hammersmith, Chelsea, and Ken sington. In the Hammersmith list Wm. AYRES attended to sup port a claim at out of four houses, held under an on ginal lease of 90 years, one being his residence, and estimated by him of the annual value of 601., the others being small houses, stated by the claimant to be worth 301. a year, the ground rent on the whole being 601. The claim was ob jected to on the ground of insufficient value, and the rate boole. were appealed to, and from them it appearing that the whole of the property was rated at only 631. a year, leaving a beneficial interest of only 31. a year, the barrister decided that the name must be struck off the register, as the quali fication for the county vote, when arising out of leasehold property, must be of the clear annual value of 101. Two other inhabitants of the same parish, who stated that they had for some years past possessed the electoral qualifi cation, complained that, although they had claimed to be registered secordiag to the act of parliament upwards of two years ago, their names did not appear upon the list of voters. Oa inquiry, it was explained that the overseers for 1847 had not made out any separate list of new claims, but had inserted the names of all the new claimants in the old list, as was the practice previous to the pass ing of the Registration Act, and that the bar rister at the revision of that year decided that as he had no list of new claims to deal with, he could only insert on the register such of the claimants as were in attendance to prove that they held the required qualification. Some few who happened to be present accordingly had their claims allowed. but the majority aot having been objected to were absent and their names were struck off. The present applicants were of thoes who had been thus disfranchised, and they now urged that as they had been deprived of their electoral rights without any fault of theirs, they having complied with all the requirements of the Act of Parliament, they ought to be restored. . _ The BLRIiISTIIR having ascertained that the parties had not sent in any claim for the present year, said that the act of parliament gave him ne discretion in the matter • he could not place their name' on the mister ualess they had claimed this year. They must send in their claims next year, and then if the qualification was sufficient, they would be placed upon the register. The applicants inquired if they had no remedy against the overseers. The BARIIIBTER replied that they no doubt might have brought actions against the overseers at the time. The applicants said that they were not aware their names were not on the register until lately. In the Chelsea list, Mr. PATER (the conservative agent) raised a point as to the validity of a notice of objection made by the objector of the liberal agent. against the name of E. W. Bachelor on toe register, for a freehold house and land at Queen's Elms, and described al residing at Laagridge, near Bath. The notice was signed by " W. H. Walker," the name being followed by the wends. " place of abode, 10, Southampton street, Strand." Mr. Payne contended that the form of notice for objections from third parties, laid down in the schedule of the act of parliament, was required by the 7th section of the act to be literally fol. lowed ; and that form required the name of the objector to be followed by the word ' of," instead of " place of abode." (A laugh.) The omission of the word "of" he urged was tate], and this view had been taken by the Court of Com mon Pleas, in the case of Gadsby v. Warburton." Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in that case, said, " I think the test to which the sufficiency of the notice should be brought, is to compare it with the form laid down in the schedule, and see how far they correspond." In this instance they did not correspond, and therefore the notice was insufficient. The ruling of the court was clear in the ease he had quoted. The BARRISTER having referred to the cue, said that the court had not held that one particular word must be used when an equivalent was substituted. In the present case, Instead of the word " of," there were the words " place of abode," which meant the came thing. He was never desi rous to favour the objector; but here there could be no doubt that the notice was rod What the act required was, that the name and address should be so connected that the party objected to might satisfy himself that the objector was the same party whose name appeared on the register as of such address.. - The esrvirgi of the objection was then proved; and the party not being in attendance, the name was struck out. Mr. Lome (the agent of the liberal party) subsequently applied to the hamster to disallow certain of Mr. Payne's objections, on the ground that he had struck out the word " of," preceding the address, from the printed form of no tice, leaving the signature and address Julian Payne, 1, Clifford's inn. _ _ The BARRISTER considered that the notice was sufficient for all the purposes of the act, and refused the application. In the case of John Batten, of Harker -street, Chelsea, who had been objected to by Mr. Payne, Mr. James contended that the notice was informal, the true place of abode not having been given. The notice was signed JOHNS Payne, 1, Cliffords-inn. Turning to the directory he found that 1, Cliffsrd's.inn was the office of the Middles.% Con servative Association, of which Julian Payne was described as the secretary—and he was also in a position to prove that Mr. Payne's place of abode really was in Bermondsey. The act of parliament distinctly 'squired that the objector should give his bete place of abode, and this not haring been done here, the objection must fall. The BARRISTER—Is No. 1, Cliffords-inn, the address given to Mr Payne's name in the register ? Mr. PATKE—Certainly it is, and that is my place of abode ; that is, it is my office, for which I pay rent and tales, where I transact business, and where I am to ibe found. I transact the business of the Conservative Associa tion there, it is true, as well SI other business ; but the office is mine. The BARRISTIR said this wee in effect the same caw which he hcd decided on a previous day ; there could be no doubt that the place of abode was properly described. Mr. JANES argued that the legislature intended, by re- Linking the place of abode to be stated, to give some security to the voter for the costs which might be awarded to him by the barrister, in the event of the objection being frivolous. Those costs, if not paid, were recoverable by digress on the goods of the party ; and, if costs should be given against Mr. Payne and he did not pay them, it might lead to come inconvenience, and probably to mime litigation, if the officer proceeded to seise the stools and sticks of the Conservative Association. (A laugh.) Mr. Prawn assured the court that the stools and desks in the °Biers in Cl.ff,rd's Inn were his own, and not the pro perty of the Corserrative Association. The Breasturraa—Would not a letter addressed to Mr. Payne, at I, Cliffsd's Inn, reach him ? Mr. JAMES admi.ted that it might; w would a letter ad. dressed to the Bank of England, tor one of the clerks in that office, reach him; but surely it would not be said that that would be the true place of abode of the party. The BARRISTER saw no grounds for reverting the decision he had previously given. The question was not one of law, but of het—whether the address given was the true pu t . of abode or not. It appeared to him that it was, for su the purposes of the set. The overseen of Chelsea intimated that some of the objcs. jeatians t eehy had made they wished to withdraw, es th ey b io , tiered h parties possessed the regulate qualification. Mr. PATN3 suggested that the overseers having made ote. jections mild not withdraw them. The fact of the OTt ry eA objecting, prevented third parties from objecting. The BAKUISTIII said that it would be gaiter open for third parties to object if they chose, whether the overseers objected or not. Mr. Janes urea another reason why en overseer Gould not withdraw an objection ; viz., that there were two Ind sometimes three overseers to each partsh,and as the objtctioa wee the joint act of all, one could not nado that act. g e submitted that unites parties were present to prove thej t qualification the objections of the overseen must prevail The BAHRIBIIIB decided is accordance with 0a• • the parties objected to not being ors.-- • 'new, and mar were oat of the La . lins court will sit to day at the Now Gobe, Mile•ead. road, for the revision of the hate of the parishes in the MA. end polling diet:int. PUBLIC BREAKFAST TO THE EXPELLED WESLEYAN MINISTERS. Baker, offi nao r i V t. tt e o o substantialr se . k aeblisl eee m a t eaehnnyi manner commented nk the Yesterday morning, a breakfast, given by e relN pious public, sympathising with the Reeds. Messrs. Entett, Griffith., and Dunn, took place at the Freemascies'-hall. Amongst those present were the following : The Itsv Me , Brock, Baptist minister; the Rev. Mr. Hopkinson, D r. Hare. At A ld t eu th n e . C co a n ite ct r us in ion' Rev. Mr. SuMitinstom, of Helper, was called to t he chair, The CHAIRMAN, atter a few prefatory observati ex. pressed gratitude as an individual, and on behalf of a la te it Vad on d o ef f e the ndrd re t lig he i° e " xp p e ti ll b ed lic l at lame length on the application of the terms "slander" aad " calumny" by a large body of Wesleyan minister. to thcse gentlemen; contending that there wag so zany indisputable facts in the " Fly Sheets," that such language was altogether unjustifiable. The Conference had foolishly committee reelf is this matter, and after leaping over a precipice, the best that could be hoped was that it would be raised up again, hum, bled and broken on the wheel of public opinion. (Ch. en.) He was no enemy to methodism, nor would he do anything for the world which could in hie opinion injure its bog into. rats ; but he considered the gentlemen with whom they sympathised to have been injured, and he could not rest eatistied until they had been restored to their former pod. dons. (Cheers.) The following letter from the Rev. W. Brock (who had left the room) was read by the secretary : " The last moment hes arrived that I can remain, and I therefore time this means of saying a few words on b, halt of the expelled ministers. There was an expulsion once at Oxford which produced wonderful results, and may he the expulsion at Manchester will produce results equally V/04. dental. (Cheers) The first was the expulsion of Be, Wesley, who organised Werieyanism -, the second, be hoped, would lead to its re-invigoration." (Loud cheers.) The following le:ter was then read from Mr. Odor, a as. gistrate of the Tower Hamlets:— My Dear S,r,—l am greedy obliged to you for the loaned Mr. Jackson'. pamphlet. Believing that the W. [thyme have done much valuable service to society, I was desirous of learning from an authentic mince the cause of the pewee agitation in that body and in the public mind, by the sudden expulsion of three pi',us ministers of the gospel. I have read Mr. Jackson's pamphlet, and deeply regret to find 'it a flimsy and Jesuitical attempt to defend en unjus tifiable instance u f oppression and tyranny. The legal instrument or deed upon which Mr. J sham relies (p. 55) gives power to the Conference to mini Wain ten for any cuu e which to them may seem fit. Sash large powers must be equitably construed. In law a Mae II II litigation. In this case no charges were made, no (aides* produced, no cause is alleged or tried, but judgment is given without trial ; and these three highly . respectable gentl-sma are suddenly turned out of their linage, without the blity of appeal, and are sent. disgraced and dishonoured, to seek shelter in the sympathy of their fellow-Chrimituis. Had they been poor men they, with their families, might hare been driven into a union workhouse. Mr. Jackson up sks of anonymous pamphlets "miudiem ous and libellous," " in a tone of scorn and bitter *.limit.,, personal hatred, and vindictiveness," "with a fearful die regard to truth," "vehicles of slander and defsmitione," "honoured ministers of Christ were recklessly ma tiled," " a sin of fearful magnitude and aggravation," "the sin of slander reviling and defamation, placing upon publie record!! (in an anonymous " Fly Sheet") &grim us trutlw," • the sin of promoting evil speaking, jealousy, sad wrath," "deliberately planned and perpetrated through & series of years with unabated malignity," "in all their atrocity," " a triumph to infidel scoffer.," " biting and de. yourieg," " this grievous system of immorality, ' " most vile and malignant conspiracies," "a great sin, "wanton falsehood and defamation." Them are Mr. Jackson's own words, and they throw a serious doubt upon hit union with Him who was "meek and lowly," and who, when he was reviled, reviled not again, This is the character he gives of cereain "Fly-Sheets,' and gravely puts the question to every minister, " Are you the author whe wrote these enormities ?" Why, my dear sir, hid my man dared to ask me, Are you full of scorn and bitter nese, malignity and hatred I—are you a vindictive list, slanderer, reviler, and defamer I—are you an atrocious, malignant conspirator ?—I must have turned from him with unutterable se .rn and contempt ; or have said to him, " /Joni soil qui mat y petve ; are you one of those hypo- crites described by the Saviour, beautiful outward, like a whited sepulchre, but within full of all uncleanness? Yost own heart is evil, and hence you think evil of no, and put questions which are an outrage to common deceocy. I have crdered a copy of the " Fly-Sheets," and will, if possible, compare thorn with the original editions. Fifty years' close observation leads me to doubt whether, instead et all this slander and wickedness, they may contain ex posures of some hidden works of darkness, by the direl sure of which these violent passions have been aroused—some misapplications of the society's money, et that proper can was not taken to prevent robbery and peculation in the funds of the Connexicn. Mr. Jackson says such charges might have been brought before a committee ; but heaven protect the luckless Wight who dared complain to such men as appear to lead the Coa ference. The case is a melancholy exposure of much filly and is; tolerance. The anonymous " ly. sheets " will now be reed by thousands who otherwise would never have heard of them. Mr. Jackson and his colleagues will become objette of pitiable contempt, while the sufferers will receive cam fessor's honours. I cannot close my letter without remarking on the puerile, if not imbecile, notion of Mr. Jackson, that there it something analogous to this case in dissolutions of partner ship (p. 42)—the marriage ceremony—the examinations of insolvent debtors—and the conduct of elders to their ene rant' and children. For, first, partnerships are either dies' solved by mutual consent, or by an appeal to a public omit of equity. If six persons were in partnership, and five of them tarn one out neck and heels, how short would he their triumph I 2nd In the marriage service a solemn caution is given to each party, that the ceremony will not cure say legal defect which, if it exist, might plunge them into ex treme peril; if they decline to answer, the ceremony pro ceeds. Upon this principle, had the questions been put to these gentlemen, 'Do you know any reason why yea should not continue your ministry ?" and they had muds no answer, they must have been honourably continued. 3rd . Insolvent debtors, being convicted on their own voluntery confession of their inability to pay their lawful debts, are very properly bound to account for their creditors' property. 4th. It methodist ministers are degraded from all mealy freedom to bee me the servants and children of Catila elders or rulers, it does not justify those elders in tyranny re oppression. None of the eases as put by Mr. Jackson are in the. slightest degree analogous to that of those three get:Memos; but even if they had been, it is a poor plea for injustioe— " Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil." But this case stands alone. Mr. Jackson has found no parallel. NOW, he could have pleaded with truth that similar gumtrees were put in that abomination of desolation—the dreary courts of the Inquisition, where persons were put to fearful tortures and death for refusing to answer questions; and that he aad his coadjutor, acting under the influence of this enlightened age, only turn their victims penniless upon the world, to suffer the privations of distress or want. ference any reason to be ashamed before either angels at The question is asked (p. 33j, " Has the Methodist Coln men of having thus acted 1" In reply may it not be ex pected that all impartial, sober, candid, and religious tsar will answer " Yes." They ought to be ashamed, and repast in sackcloth and ashes before God, angels, and men, for each a violation of equitable, just, and religious principles. I am, my dear Sir, yours most truly, Hackney, Oat. 4. 1849. GEORGE OFFOR P.S.—Tbe Rev. J. Lomas is wrong in supposing that any man is put upon his trial before evidence has been heard upon oath. When a grand jury on that evidence return the indictment as a true bill, then, and not till then, the party charged are to plead guilty or not guilty." ' The Rev. Mr. DUNN, in acknowledging the honour conferred on him as one of the expelled, said it was thirty years since he lest appeared in that hall, during which period be had laboured at home and abroad as &Wesleyan minister. Little did he think thirty years ago that the time would arrive when Wesleyan ministers would be expelled for meshing and writing the truth. The Conference had been eonverted int ) an inquisition, and for himself, he must say that he would never consent to abandon the principled which had guided hie recent conduct. (Chem) Mr. PEARSON stated that several months before the ex pulsion took place, he had been told that the offending par ties were to be thrown overboard. The Rev. Mr. GRIFFITHS said, that one of the charge' against himself was that he was a chartist. He had learned his political principles from the Bible, and he should always preach In a-cordance with the principle of doing unto others se he would have others do unto him. The Rev. Me. EVERETT said, the reason why he and his brethren had been expelled was, that they had sought to improve Werievaniam. History proved that society was continually changing, and where improvement is religious ad mirdstration was n , those 11110 sought it should not be punished . should novae desist from pursuing the course which he had done. 11 4 had no desire to see Wesleyaniem departed front. On the contrary, he urged the meeting to cling to it, while they sought to correct its abuses. (Hear, hear.) Though ex pelled by the Conference, he eotertained no animosity towards to members. (Cheers ) Dr. BURNS believed that what had occurred, though painful to the individuals, would be of advantage to th e Wesleyan body, by leading ultimately to a reform of, abuses . (Hear, hear.) A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. I' bor bes lea Dili ga: