The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-01 00:00:00

I 2 regrew. We 111111/1,1111 elesely that the onaties wield be wee. (Rees, bor.) liew the eseig b e e be e e se g %Ibsen an en el , Mae.) Hew Ike orodes, whisk •Cr iliSt. ewe f oe seem One liqr eae or other of the goat ge lded Mil throw off the pito, saA iodise ebsooloss *ore mensal exempla this pllso hude this eveake(gesid sopiause). We removed the if seblek pseenitt e rt no great geodes sold ow or ore Olio geed kilete. rri~l j.rly.Ne f. the battle-beld. Hiewever, we hung lealess omega esio ewe nolo Oar Oshiews (eh= Tam — Oflloulo est aldiatio= god ries)-oar loses, sad a boo Of is* Moir sad prepared ter a geed skoi-isp Sat ; awl teem to lot so sea eau 'barge 4 ..... /Lbs, that whatever it was—obathes low ER it ken the tosimeatel prindpie of beim a di = el the Wills skim Osaelooll, it wield be a seams egoist eerie Is myself se well se to Oben. if we drought ON 111 bilinsivesd fosse moot the north et soy odor peat gosillso We united ell the great towns he eke float Moe la this wastry 'a history, sad we skewed by deluges that the. wee as coati= of parties whist odd he ray keg& at tine goatees the ospnessi .!wows sy kip oaalbstion could les ° = legraders ler great sod asilkoolaida. Ten yore nod ease has dews be to bow sad how exam ely the teas al seek iopestast town s ea every great owed's, end to yews eopseisswe hes shoo us naturally, bow power fully th e r sa roposi to sob akr end (Applane.) And w Ok e hoe toed =perigees =we kos se a l *paostrte those who have to bilow us— that the eskess,, ai,deme et suck gatheriep as these are kle oat soli tbreng die her wells of ibis baldi, bet *roughest the globs. (Lamson applause.) ng . Tao CHAIRMAN onaladed his address, dot roadie. the Lens ci Mr. Ibeasser Elliott and lir. Racist, by pro voke " The Qom : may her re!ge be long, peaceful, ►proe =l The too was drank with great "God me the Qom" The CHAIRKAN.—The not tort is. " The Pres-bade Hasher et teeth Homer of Puritanism : esteems to them is their eadeavour to repeal the mama= laws, and to ems piste the restrow dal samopers." (lead area.) A= I shall sot my tau* bat I art so I area knew • wake whir hr bean presented to the Has. el Cossaoss r oa all Geneses with equal ability, to that for the re of the ears laws. (Hear, hear) We have preset tesight ear mama Mead, Ile. Vilhote—(teed and prassied Maw- Img)—the weeldrothe =are he Sea* Lmenhine— (seghter)—and I shall tell epee him to respond. (Re newed dream the least being sbeak with great en- Its Item C. P. VILLIERS, If P., ern rose, amidst eatheartie "hsee,_ sad said: =edema sad admiewkdee. walk every Arlie' of rear= gtalllade tbesseilel =horns with width yen have homer= my mane. (Obsess.) And I beg to aRa, on the part of these miemiless el the Hs= of Censor, indeed the =a hem of the legisidare that have bee& twisted in the aransee =Mt Yr boss mewed to yon, their respeottal aelesewlsdpasnle he the beam that you have dons them. (Cheers.) Gender n, I ma wareyou, it would kre bees • matter of deep regret if I had been pre vented trem areadiag en this ocerion. (Hear, hear.) There is ea aweigh:les= is this assembly, whether I look at the Ware or die wpm, or the persons whom I have the berm st riansiat,that must be felt by every man who lama la ewes, and does not regret his service in it. (Heir, fir ) Ima set my that lam sot ass of then peallset Preleaden (emihter) that war friends the) pro seeded= raft to (Mar, hear, and cheers) that I MI ad Ina of them that they say are still ter the =Mem sale. (Laughter aad cheers.) at lam proad of lagelei takes • promisset part I. err =sale ; and I lasi mew nen =wed of the widen, the *dee, am the polity of the as= the& I ever fat area any termer r ani= (Lc= amme.) Gladsome, it was ten le_lee_ ev that I meowed is fhb awn to slate to you the difiselties with =kb I was net Is advotarm this queer ds& of the repeal of the an laws =ma single hood= (heat, bar sea bed aeon), sad tededul year std. I nisl sot say Mat I tai are dada appear was this seeries ma=s4 to asksewledie the sad seeresstal efforts whisk you have made == dal =Met (Chem) Awl, gestiames, I ahead set have_ logatlon. it I had net twaledel by my Abel the shalmek_ dm& I do new la= le the espihd .1 dat Melast, Sat esamed spot ms • awl mesh eestadima l allaost the MOM Mat say man an rear fan hi felleireldsre, Laleelaim- InMed with the repraantatita of their atm= In parlis =at ; and ear lag, 4 dose. from one of the most moor toot reationmeles is the Urged lLizer isa l tout ever refer ft with Iv atha t and peals' (Cheer.) And ~ knewing that now opeathi Wks may of the sled= of the asthma Mai= of the sully of Leaseada, I that lam be mu= he tare essaled madam he =lig whet I ham always desired to Chop si a o se s h im a si ewigr e se ser te: tire the p;ose ctl ew iters.) with whisk die time hes boa them bet pew. , for I lame k is the only ate, as it the rasa, =ea we ma edam= that per whisk we issikt, that which we had is Mew dwatiglies% a= that whisk we tasted to sempremiss. (ChasM) Fee ngardlgre sera kw es yes did, as see of his reshot wag , as et the greatest biro hat ever Mimosa li i Msiiatia ; regarding it r imheires Is a= the emsal it es unjust to nose, be modderimi Sat the obaraelist tithe esestry could hardly les sedssmad, er the Prise et the 'arse saddled, Mart aloft it from the pages of the statutes— !s la rallies to Oak that the baads of the Mal will - make het few nor mortises bs the arab of year tell, sad the Mho of the rent* wYI be tahy realised. (Ohara) Gestbnes, it Is not my fah titan yea have to mbar to the sea of handdra or =deed hen et the gees law during the lest three yeas. (Hear, hear.) Fr tree to the instruction that I received her yes, ad tionlehently with that annual isogon that I was accatatomad to mate—(lmmense cheering.)—l dY,isriag the pawn" of fair Robert Peel's bill propme, a I had des' ix sight yeas before—(Applause.) that the dada spparn the resew= of lifs do mass and Estonia' imme i YMly. (Chests.) And, gentlest's, there Ice a maw eseasbasy . 1, the way gin which events have /MUSA lustrhise we have done on this subject. Yet enliai Me 10 moans that this mitigated form of the sale Ms less ha spastics, 16 of those the law has bees =isaaltogether. (Hear, hear.) And, what is sseeik, that preebely one year after I tai that masa is the blues—asking it in March, 15.1—1 raw ere light WI/ the Hems of Commons and saw the peeleslima -sake fret Dosesehbe, Yet. d. Banks, the =se miedea is Mink 1847. (Laugh. tar New what bared tdr. G. Beaks, the arks, for Dersetekir• to make the notion. He loam ace waholsel as to my whether it was that he is • anon Is die =ink ear whether it was maples of otoodoo" I de met haw but Thaler the fact was that the was me go i n toto port at that time. (Cheers and =Oat ) Osedmiat, lam sot sorry, hemmer, that this latenal =erred. (Hoar, bear.) I an not wry, bermes it km given yea time tor reflection ; it has given yea time to tee yourselves, and to satisfy the world, whether yea were right, or whether you repented bet= it was tee late, et what yon had dons becalm this is net a neetlng that follows the drat Bask ofd Mary , whoa lase do sot re clearly what they do, ast MUM& (Beer, hear.) But this is a misting Mr these yearn st &albums eanaderathe of what yes had ellik sad what yes had reinbeil. sad it comes at a tier when Ma= times at Um and ashmitim arced have withheld mangy of the malaria Meanies that you had reason to ripest Ssa this mama ; whim. I may say, the whole wadi ha resolved • sleek—when Um= has ban ow eased when esabonses have her rained—what ow Wen' intelligem has been gusticaed, when the di; Mass of ladividnah Mgt have shaken the hick elms, sad whoa sw b er has hew dose to =idea option upon thh attek , hew.) I lay that these turn all cc conai, sail Ms testis' the weld it mitts to know whether those tea who had the iatellagesee, and who had the to tomes Its amp la the awasercia palsy et etsi; are Use to their eiwistisse, sad Maher they sista tar pritiales. AM whoa they ant that all that as wha sealseall Sir mast is this came, whether by their melllar I teatileallow to this diarist, Meter by their tines eir their seseiltas of that, ot ham" sit par sit, that ewe miliv, whoa they haw asessablet harass the proem etewka, eat whoa they bare es met set 19 ex press their eadisseil awl esalleswil eialseimat who they have taw hat he tams sem than Mbar live. ;V . = ratth d tbst mat 118 enable this haw it was the SIMS of ealauthe opal tp these that have occurred as the eastisest They at *sly = me thsoughest the wield es a great ditty et sad petit mph% butt a andtats Is the 'weeliL the Ma Me tea sseithh drags he the polity of ado washy loam *dr 'Meta whea q tr om eer s ed dy in fbe seagillo. and Imo met angel thole and that they kehl se sated the et eiwrimda as they do those to se the liberty utilises*. (Clint.) GN- I hist that yea aseseithk • still hat he I Wine yen bat so tar seeseital your appesena ki l la t ewe are at to seas to In this city, who, if they were MIA hi deft 4111611116 alr ela arelia, Weald Noumea the seatoption at AM *Wet ot stistt re would pause ethe system ot sos the is d ssespidso at Mk, Midi by mans hue list abolhlteL Olhelrt) Aa, If I was to Mt* it AM les emend ineo the, at asesei kw the abatis st this lair I believe AM If RE Ildisrq Peel had grgthat the tains should ease at the ISt ot Apill, ilussid at the Ist ot Fehrmy, 1849, 1 believe you vett have hed eh oar Mande et 17, Old Ildwl.efudg ei u d ee tatela (Lughtur sad riest b al ig l believe we tat had theyea Ss the Mara C. Ileasi itel r fort mot any pains at that the' pie there was es mask alana het we 'WM tallo u at our who di& sot thin it we et the avessest refirsis sod that tads rest sere as itieresse au been =lx.: the line they were 'My to bus sited at _.,_.— Cariamt (Latter.) Thew ft Mies & at wawa' =r at i r ea = s le thaw le shit gestleme, who the Ws etaiuse, whisk was pseheas Ike smelt sad the aegy nets AM west have 'Sorted as ra ems he sea a 110 then whisk Wu seserrai is edser wishise. I wee to tater* to assent tar ta aNdideseirellyea maintain yew est dolt NA as sew to shake year nth spas then ttee li r= grif it Wes beams dot roe die is this mu m was ....." 1 /1 00 , d h . Mks. (Mina) Ittrythnse amang was Asa hi peaks winireilLiolesce: Asti this Is a vestal Mat It stay set bo en tat amt es Mee, bat it is a mad kit fa Ms ea - r . "Z Mee Eb.i wed it yea wool& have shwas sew .."-. sag afralles dm us yes awl in that they are Jul mil peeillable MI them by peasefel memo. (Lead them) „s. 11 met oily meal to mandate OM VIM they about say shams la the leithlathe plea et Os wind.% 0 5 7 were determined to de it only by weal MIS ihay will not be wideled Woes they can ea t of the tinsmith aad htily et ethers. 1.4 them, though Is. the poredto admit bow smash there is ! flat illeCettve la our buttattioms, bow mash there is of Whim that seeds to be deny; yet it is gratifyieg to reflect that we have maimed this pitch a aalisetion, that if a muse is just, mod its mimosas yammering and aMe, truth nil proven. The amiss will be ealielassed : beim that blesses every goverment mum yield. (Applause.) I hare, imatiesme. is is said that we were a long dam is resexing this set of judos. It would be extromd, *Miens to ge through the proems again whomever we weak south Mather reform. lot' beg to say in fathom, la the but pies% that what appears a lea, time to as Jodi. admit is bat a short time la the hammy et a auk* And he tat eon pies', having washed this episode° hem the A to the last, I beg to say I think the difficulties IMO sash that say weeder is that we accomplished so mach la !so short a thee, after so much delay. Fos it was am only that we saw the majorities of both houses of perils ale% bin that the powerful co-operatics of the worlds, elms. of this comay was withheld from ua. Not that they approved of the Corn-law—they were the het to speak against it—bat they were treated with great severity at the math end were determined to agitate for nothing bet "Mimi power fur themselths. Bat I think the troth should be Mews. When this gamtlea woe Auk agitated—whea I was the natestwaste Mmes led M mem this la the House of Oemeiseo-.4ense- Mks Ike ',apathy la away of our menshiladeg Mahan formetklag likisynipathy I. many of oar meimenial towns, was shown when earl, in the day I esethelled myself with my Mend Mr. Cobden a that piestin. ( Applause.) I said, if we Wended le attack them wekdteral gmtlemes, we mast be mead at lame. (Hear, bear.) And before we attack the House of L ode, we mut be as that those who have homes in London sad Liverpool have not some glass ems in whisk they live. The feet k pntheses, when I mad Mr. Cobh* were mama* as to the best means of getting lid of this most mieettievoste system, we Mend that had had a very lame family in this coun try—Omaha" that thmo the cora-law rem armies', the gases rheag them, though it was the hope of the family, yet these were seem of the meager branches as stern and eameleas of whet they held, as the but born of the family. Lad are pesple did we meet so frequently in admires' deems et drier: ems as ear Meads of the near hogsheads, the bed timber: the old ships, and dear coffee. Thies was always—they brie mak ether—(layghter and chars)—ead they loved oath other meadingly. But when. ever we appeared, they wen all in the same boat dimelly. (Hear, hear.) Well, thou, ia all those cases, ignorance chime a large seethe to the ewsy, and prejudice has a gnat hold upon a pest number; am that it was .at all phis sa tog in thh agitation, and tesYieg was beer that that this was met a battle of rime epithet mire, DM talker one et liberal-minded am manna these whe MMlgtheaut pre judices en the ether skit. (" Hoer, loth" NA MOS/11.) It was that led me, at an early period, to mmthiesthete with my friend, Mn Cobdec when he was Lams his brains sight and day—(kind eheers)—yd these of his friends to whom the organisation of the league is den He said that it was mot a matter that he malt amemplish at ones, that it was sot a thing that mold be Mee at oxen. My hemmed Mead is the lest nth he he mitaken on that pith. He saw that It was a gambit of time, a gum ties of pationse, of liesee, of distamiea—(less, hear) 411111.1111 who arguing the league ill we met retain the abed as we ear dad ea war side. (Cheers.) We west have the ablest speakers and writers, and we mut have the path sad we must ask Mends le senteibeite hem their poem (Cheers.) Though ear weenie mid that ff the genie mar high, and that wages is.. high, that was the 1011011 of hoopla, faith with publics craft Now, all those Chimp had that. effeet, and there was se me I. thayier thin. It was said Foyle were poor en emottaut of bread being dear. They said we wise a eat of grinding eapitalists, who whited to reduce the poor to the lowest rate of warm pemilde; sad if we said the people spent all they got ea bed, sod astaaFanfae. tares, they said that was the hat of ewe (Ap plause.) AM, we know there me the eel the who hod • great deal of thir la P lat tr prism and the mhos et beer. In eon of this we were Ws to email. ea iellassoe over the orbits of the sentry whist leaked the repeal of the fora laws. (Apekuse.) TM hem. imam= then en tered into a haul of the adaisteriell niemeres ea the gam- Sea genial oat by Sir Rooert Peel and Air James Graham. Prom Jose M. 1546 to 6, 1849, matinned Mr. Vil liers, I have takes from the edictal tablas that are published by the authority of government, there were imported into this country 23,640,000 quarters of wheat. New, *et was in two man and a half we imported 23,610,000 limners of bead neseseary hr the 'apply of the pea pion, pin (Kw, bear.) Now, this prebeibe ▪ esea law, owlish was the MEN et =Meg us patestly thelmendeat of Magner, to supply the people, after 10 men' espeeimes, be us with a daisiesy if 13,610,000 quarters stoma, or of 'aortae a year, at a cost of = 52,621,0001. a ng li f a ir was Milan the promisee of , tha Cora Law, that we amid reppty easeelvea Well, the by seals that we impeded that time wee 681,000 be et mettle sad at meadow 2, 6,000 hundred weight. In the year 1542 I reposed that the duty on live cattle and ea provisions dheiM be taken of, sad it was scouted fa the Home of Oemmose, ad vet when we do take the duty off the Meth we hays* 681,000 had of cattle, and 2,716,0 M baled weed of provisions. (Chan.) Now I have used theme to Atom Yew far the premise of the pro tective system, and the Cora Law were realised as regards food ; and mind yea what they are offended with ; what they are envy with as for, is that the system did not exist by which this Masan ;meant of Daman food is excluded from the matey—ee that you not only have a delciesey in your own supply, but ou learn from this what en amount you have ex from the country of what was actually necessary for the food of the people. (Cheers.) Now, then, there was an argument that I invariably put forward in the Ileum of Commons with respect to the Corn. Law, which was, if there was en artificial rise in the peas of any kind of food, you:drive the great rams of the people to use tome inferior kind of food; and if that hilod, there would be a dreadful famine in the country. Now I believe we have it within oar ewe past experience, within the lam 20 years, that the people of this mantry have been resorting more and more, to the potato, than they , even did before. In every direct:on of the country the potato bad increased, and the people became m ire dependent upon it. Amongst all writers and speakers against the torn laws, no•uing could be more pointed than that you drive the people to en inferior kind of hod, sad, if that tails they starve. Now, that has ba cti me z i c i- t -in Ire land la the year 1847 that was realised. There is means eagle argument. then is not a that eau be urged agaimet them. We leer a peat deal, they are writing every day eighth the free wa s what, and they way that other eemeries don't rental war gab. There are them smiting imelempes with!: the last twenty yams in 'width voltam beta redasting the slaty of the productions of the ematries soda eentiall•t, end they have no:relaxed their Isystea t no, and yet oar enemas have iscreased to them, while we have been impaling more it.. them. Te France, Germany, red the Ualted States we lave been gradually, during the MAO year, relaxing oar dudes on goods re caved them iseuath , m they lave not relaxed the duties on our sad yet our exports to them have been inmeming, and as this is an 'sporting illustration of the vases we are advocating, sad which you are en esselosed is right, yoa will allow me to mai those ihde whisk tend to establiah (Chan .) Ia 1829 we impeded to Preece 491,3118 pomade valet ; 1546 we areal* the same country 2,716,9631 sterling. (Hear.) To Garimsy, la 1829, we exported 4,470,0001; in ISM we empertel UMOOOI. ( H ean) To the United Surfs, tall2o, we amnia 4.800.000/ ; fa 1846 we exported 5. 1 10 1 3A00 1 . (Mad elkeedep.) Why all these semtrise have net relaxed** dense en oar ithashoteeth bat we have lammed mr wpm* to them, iambi that we pay those ormethries la oar ainnallelthos, sad that we benefft em eehee and them by piling what we want boa them It is said our polo/ hoe bad me alit ca the psis la these seeable & I deny flat( ilia set primed. We ad lib people belly lam had • mime fa the had lib areables ea *be madam; emi wherever = iii hr id e had ft, they have lauribi savembe of bee trade emseelem (Hesa) I was ea the oedema myself this ea aura, end _whoa I was M damn I _haat dim was INP!!!.. feet mitheemen for bee trade. I soma at Parmidlool ems eaten hem 40 eenumwelal essperadeas it MOW bled to rem ea the legislature the deep Mb= fa dee . trade. I head a large bee trade eieb bd a bia meablithed to whisk 60 mentbsee et pailiesesat re d Wag ourmithig they seMl sabre' en the the rap wiertiag - sway bee fed.; tail b three deg we see paMhied is the aineipapers se. Imam me mussed is the dudes. (Olosese.) is t d rupse Os hems. it is oaths bang in Seem et tee balls ris _greater is Me Assembly dris e Manbm ef The Mamma et tbe gi =b ll l imam is muck gnaw sew tee formerly, end with PPM Meld mudded we do ia that direetbm .They Mimi we were not damn Debi% tat MOW lb* 1 111 hem sogimio the eon laws they Wen thet we me dr em Om fa IW u mid lama they they read of this mill wieelfred 1 111. thit tab me Mil INSPL A Miami Ilyerwasi 'dims GC the interest le beellealt liddidlia diglibligi et that came la esseby, ma we webs io a l than the • seselpb tie bssournbie Mei ir. Oslo rims glue el free trade lb many aluMet. .) he weed less be sot rese , wht epee eria• hawse he had maddleiml to Wiles" that dew hi this essam. Dem fieff ma believe that the UMW fluter are lees slid ID Me bade Deem. we ham seitesied the sera lawa l tr a : ll l megama doss. I holism be halms bide of what b ft the United &atm. ear hear.) leathern slates were in favour of d free trade. mat ueitio.wastsra dell% yid* have • digest Manua la km bless that *MO, Proldwd b eel to be a pielestiom be, Niels is net los Mad alma ea fa es helm lostiesed. (011.1.) seem L e e rfarther se p ia a, the Ms. geetbsese set dews sad& bed shows g. Glee—" Here la reel pet." • t UOKLLIIKAN : I bog loft aim le NI Ira It. Oshlsa. Ohara abasthsp) ''Kr. COBDEN noshed wilt laid assay. ma rlr=grfit.4: had dm et sialmraise maw Is ebb ball, I may "Mara to ar that ea Sow wag= Ism. Wyse Apia/Mal, sad par Sat et bereft a salirstios soft Cbsoi.) I bays . Ni i!. 8 1 hi". Ida K EXPRESS, THURSDAY r...,,,,,,,.„:„......, ,, „,, , , Irt 4 ams ehlferth Illite... m. etwore)--anda I Mlle this five se matt at 16h t, news / t o ) m y m e ad ilo. Villigin who Dr edit us, I. the • she abie,Mati emeellget speed; h e b e , j ol t es to, that it is of the utmost ee l not Feed to this country, bat th e " c og. Abed world, that it shook( be undressed that these who berm the agitation fee free-trade. soil theeserhorzelcid it through, are um as dumb sad Ira to then pried** as they ever were during the time of the retest. (Load cheers.) I see all my old Mem* of dr years' standing around me; they leek u detrained, as unwaveriag, as Arm, sow as they did ten years ago, and I am happy to my *et Nee el Ohm look say older. And. gentlemon,we are us = g s Mwo es we goer were—(bias, hear)—we are as wa fer as we were fi r years ago—(sharers) —and if we 111111111114 in putting down monopoly—(cheers)—if we in putting down monoroly when the nomopo- See es the ahadel, I ask our opponents now if they ire sesesells turfing pritection when the citadel is in the Mee of the bee trader. ? (Cheers.) Now I don't sr this beediblly, or in the spirit of triumph, fr I ein sexier that there should be nothing in this night's that should indicate for a moment that we are =l l. { feelings of exultatien over a fallen foe. (Cheers.) Do win we see that another individual (the Duke of Iliabeeeml)—(bar)—when we see a man who. however he my mo s di mmi d ge — , .. mover he may west talent—(hear, hearN—breevier be may war who: we call here Pluck—(A lamp eel dame) —whist we see a man who wears • alielik lei is galled his grace--wham we see him sum =ng.ittro 11". bulks s r o fu me,., l wise we sr this die tryfor to ho odwink, w -- d Cellar, and bonhomie the peer tem who had been dupe d s for ten years we em him trying to persuade the farmers Us he eau Neter protection, and is trying to MI the brews *mash the south of Ingland Itafter this will o' -wisp—protemion— (cherre)— then we would save the farmers from getting into begs and mine again, by telling the duke that we in this ball, when we beat mmopo'y before—by toting him that he shall not restore oue shirting of provetion. (Vehement sheers.) I see his grans meets his Mends the favors of 'Brighton, and tells them that he will go up to London, sad present their petition to Lord John Resell sad Lord Stanley, and talk to them about re. storing protective to the farmer. (A laugh.) I tell his rift that it is no use his going to men in power to talk about restoring the oorn laws. (Cheers) Wean in power apse the cora laws. (Load and vehement dreering. and t= handkerohnh.) Now, I do mime that I feel e indignant at this barefaced ate-opt to delude ' loran* seem (Chien.) I have had "relit given to me for keeping my temper seven years in the agitation of this ques tion. I can't keep say temper with humbugs. (Loud cheer.) I west it to be understood that in dissolving this league, we We not going to revive it again to have a fr esh combat about preleMbe; we have done with that. If the Duke of Rich- Irma bed err rough to be • leaguer he would be able to ppesswwiw something coming up behind the Anti-Corn-Law Lsagu. (Loud cheers.) He would be able to see it is not merely protective duties that are getting out of favour in this runny. (Hear, hear.) He would be able to see there is an opinion terming, however strong or weak it may be at precut—it is forming,—and it is gra dually grow*, too, which is decidedly opposed not merely to the duty of protection—but to all duties for revenue at all. (Cheers.) And I venture to say you will never live to soe nether statesman in this country who will propose eaceinieessteens duty on any raw material, or any article of but essemity l ike corn; you will never live to see molter statuerm ha this country—certainly none who will have say roped for his future fame in the councils of this ruby—peeress seedier excise, tea, or customhouse duty at en. (Her, Year.) Is this the time when any man who bee en eye to look abroad and survey the date of the = ais to be ring up and down the country crying out in sands, they can get beck the corn law ? Hew, geatimese, why I am verb anxious that no other fresh damns timid be practised upon the country is this: is the ism glass, I do act want to hear of the necessity of noun teeing the League, which we are going to bury to-night. Cheers.) But in the next place, it is because I want to see lit ho an now being bananoslod—l want to see them —look about them for the difficulty which they have to "mounter, and est rationally to work to remove my ingoolhents they may find to the fair exercise of their feriestry fa competition to the agriculture of the when wank and if these impediments, if then grievances, lido*, lon of game laws—lie is the form of the want efa better law relating to the right of landlord and tenant—if it re to any or general question that demands legida. tie. at all —w y they will find this assembly, sad those Mira this assembly represents, as willing to co nosed* le an act of justice to the farmers as to any other class in the community. (Cheers ) and the only difilculty, the only queition, which can rise now in the farmer's mind is this, "How are we to aspen) with foreigners ?" It is no use talking of having a restriction pas upon the supply of food ; thermust compete with foreigners as you sower with them. Yon ask for no protection ; if they can point out any protection in manufactures I will vote against that protection, but I will vote for no probates to the farmers or any other classed the community. (Chew) Thearant as a winkles of carrying on trade, tiz es tell as, prices of provisions. I tell them Dish of pro are incompatible with the well being of esm• inanity, and I will not foster the class of farmers at the ex pens" of the rest of the population of this country. (Cheers ) Let them go hack, as my hots. friend lir. Villien has said, and test the 'cedilla!' of this country in every respect during the last ten or twenty years, and they will re that es the farmers have hod their way the net of the ama emit, hat suffered in every one of its phases , whether moral, social, pecuniary, or in whatever form yes can test the condition of the people. (Cheers.) Bat I say we canoe: submit to a principle which induced every admit/ which could fall as a curse upon the people of a country. We therefore say, we must have food as cheaply se it can be got upon the face of the earth. We will allow no impediments to prevent the importation of the AM and most necevary gifts of the Creator; and if there be any body of men in this pantry who tell us that the state of things which contributes to the happiness of the great mass of the people is incompatible with their well befog, I tell them to search oat the cause, in what it lies, if it may not he remedied by legislation, and I will contribute to any out the measure as ardently as any protectionist in there ranks. (Applause.) With this declaration of our determi nation to maintain the free trade in corn, our willingness to contribute to the removal of any burdens or grievances the !antra possess, and an expression of our snare hope that the Leman will net allow themselves to be duped by those men who tell them they can get pereeden, I leave the subject, for Mr. Villiers ha. said waraphlog I had wished or intends Ito say. And now, Wise awl gistle meet hero for the lest time as mastlisra of dot neat and united bode which effected the smamelpatisa eferw si chsby, I cannot help saying I feel the deepest regret at the separation this evening, though there is something la the tout which I am about to propose which leaves me la bops we 'hail not separate after all. (Cheers.) The toast I bete to repose is " Fns trade and p. ace the best guarantso of piper rights, the b - st promoters of na ticaal and the most effectual means for the reduction of satire' burdens." (Loud cheer-.) New I esti, gandasete (continued Mr. Cobden) I don't think welbellespere beg after all; for if fres trade and peace be united togrber, why then I think there is something yet to do before we have fiWsd our work, (Hear, hear.) I think that we may esusistraly co-operate together to any . out the second older in this toed, an I claret be lieve there is one in this vet emomfdy that won't be as wining to co-operate for Om so I eoraplishasat of one as the other, and wise Iren a t j agree with me that the most logical cessimirs we can come to is this, that having secured hoe trade we an bound as free traders to eel ifwe cannot snore pease also. (plause.) Now, when I speak of peace, let it be imbrsr what I mean. I have no great feu of war. I have not had for a long time, and for this reason, that nations throughout the world have all spent so mesh money In ruins wars that they are too poor to go to war again. (Hear, hear.) But what I want is, that tee should reap the fruits of pease. We have not pace—it Is =st mi an armed true. (Afghan) Why, our war east us more every year now than war east a k the middle of the last century. Yes, we speed MOM now every year in our pow Wohlishwits they we open fa say year derby the sena yens' war in the mffiffie of the lest awry. I sheet 1 cell that peso at all. (Hear, boom) And why is I it? nowt who an whesetee of pew should try sad see if we enact wire to the county the fruits of pens. Gentlww, I can talk to yea, ea this Wins of paw, In a very Moen spirit, on wi th a very diffident ropes", to that whin I am obliged to submit to Is the eseme bly to which I am going to-morrow. (Laughter.) Why Is that assembly, se was well ohosrved by my fried ilr. Gem, the last time he addressed you Itere, s if i lt about pew they immediately charge you with Pow sollissaint ; if yes hope for pesos up Paw doss gostlemon dimity who are quits oln An your hoes are may, and that they sea dime at war sonewlere. (Loaglater.) Have you not bred the exultation that " Cobden wee eltegether out whoa be laid 1 we . were going to have pmee"—that the milr eir ol the ectatineat were Inorfidly disposed? A times have gentleman got up and nuningly de. ' p ea. upea the Wk. An is said fa a igion of as if times woe* gmatfothumpit tor scshody— eel but ihr sew leftist Wires to yarn MEr 1 4 11111 agginese.) lbw I will tan rat k ei s s /M Ws vastenprodisems Hinman up pesos Own Wine %rm bk., la the eentry. TOD 14 te beide On inmost, ittehteee vellieoch m a i mr4 ,, estistraisvw.mr .., ; isec.....l.=l,Tzirshxzeits 4111 at write ; glee to a tete es seals h ty, and mink s wea r i the nide foe Worm ties a large pasties of the essamitrin ma essoloost. I want to me these maw 1 Mllebre been exerting therseres so long to awn s spread of free trade, sunk* their interest la frame whet they have sat yet ellected-1 011 ea a not mei estl,, seiner romileg, all that has besa • Oil_ 'pit est lohiset, I reiterate what I said balm - Mot erne -me there a time whoa the ' whole o ß e f ign se yak to linen to adamest nabs by the this Wiest Asa they ens few. Eiclftilleso 'saintly told se that whet ,in this resin be its t' world. Why i:Atilitiliebibresd gives g li t : great nosing shish took Mao ia hell faun the Fres* pow, espied by the Gammtrwidl Mks gradmellethe limo ef deny mown fa Park imy poor sr*. eans are se pont* = e n Paris as y am he (Applause. Wen, bet this the mast the immune lower to pub. 'VRNING, FEBB,u 1. 1549 - k npinisla threndlipa tn. worm ( kid in in MIMI 311 r_e_M — (si fat ig )— T tao inaknosinitiels ad MINN 1 1 104•01 bate• fa fa— now. :Bee. theughout Itoesk RO 010•011 with *Oa esiseall b eit es— vier, i e they &ROO in Germany ; and. =OP *OA teat, r snlsolo67 try as' tug Mary phone bat the will _ ere the inuershipin Germany until the petstestae the sera laws again. They are determined that Mir peens shall be hence forth a reed passe, and not an armed puree. (Cheers.) At teat the Isegnerenn not astustasted to expect to have then greet changes worked in ass session, or in one year ; but we shall me a step taken next swim in the eight direction, and that is • very different thing to last year, when an attempt _was made to take a et) in the wrong direction (Load applause.) It is a sign of prapaa. What I want to see is, our friends everywhere, ell their different localities, united to gether fur ;he purpose of patting down this spirit of war so spread about amongst us, and to help Um men in the House of Commons who will be prepared to bring forward mamma for the reduction of our expenditure for warlike purposes. (Cheering.) And if we have the co-opera tion of those who are represented by this assembly it will not take seven yeses, ma the repeal of the care laws did, to effect a very large reduction in the expenditure of this country. i hold that the reduction of the expenditure width' lightening of the burdens of this country are absolutely o essay for its well-being. I say we are very heavily rated—l say there is too much m ney wasted, and that it would be unbecoming in us, as a commercial, manu facturing, and industrious community, if we al lowed that waste and conversation of our property to go on any longer as it has done. (Cheer.) I don't ask, and I won't be mironderstood, I don't ask my friends to put themeless in the position to be taunted with desiring instantly to abolish all armament*, and to abandon every means of defence. I don't ask them to put themselves in that position—l don't a-k if that be the position most tenable—l mean most nimble whea referred to the highest of all standards, the New Testament. If put to that test alone, we are wrong. and they are right who are on the tvin.detensive principle ; but, speaking sa a legislator, as a politician, and as a man of the world, I stead here to advocate a large reduction of our earl ke armaments. (Loud cheers.) I uon't think it neces sary that, on the 31st Jas., 1849, we should entertain ary othi r proposition ; I don't cheese to entertain it; but I do it'voute a loge and lung stride in the directi in of the Peace Buitty—and en instant stride if we can make it. But when that pmpo.ition—so rational a measure as that you should be content with spending ton millions a year, when that is propcsed in the House of Commone, why then instantly I Bed myself turned round upon, with the charge that we are wishing to disband our army and navy, and lay ourselves open to the attacks of all nations. Why ten millions is a larger revenue than that of the Prussian, nearly as large rs that of the Austrian, half se much as the Russian, and twice as much as the American ne for warlike pupates. Then, I think, ten millions is enough of annual waste for fighting establishments, with nobody to fight. Ant then they turn round upon me, and call me a quaker. _ (Loud cheers and laughter, in which the junior member for Manchester joined.) And then they say—" this man, his head is turned with his tree-trade MONO • he went over to the Continent, and be c inset people feted him, he thought everybody was going to turn free-trader, and that everybody was for pesos. ' I never said, in public or io private, that I was sanguine that the nations of the Cunneen would follow our example in a year or two. I have said, both in public and in private, from the time I went on the Continent, it would take in other ne•hus ir.aay years of discussion before they would follow oar example. And I defy anybody to find any proof of my having said, either in public or in nrivate, anything cone teary to that principle. I did not talk of revolutions—almost every revolution that hielaken place his been justified by circumstance.. (Loud cheers.) I heard Lord John Russell say, in tne House of Commons, that the nations of the Con tinent were paying a heavy price for their liberties; but they did not pay a higher price than they merited—not a higher price than they were worth. (Cheers.) Bat I do maintain this, that we are fairly, logically supporting the progress of tree institutions abroad with the progress of pacific rinciples; for, notwithstanding all that may be said ab3ut the tendency of democratic principles towards war, the more pub'ie opinion is brought to bear upon foreign polities as well as on domestic affairs, the ,-zreiter is the chance for the preservation of peace. (Loud cheers.) Give me the time, gentlemen, when foreign affairs shall be taken eltorether out o: the secret cabinet of a foreign mini& r, and shall be made to undergo the same discussion in public assemblies that domestic affairs do now. (Cheers.) I am against all monopoly, end I hope to live to tee the monopoly of the Fuer-office and the most poly of the ca binet so far invaded shot they shall tof engage in a treaty to involve you and your liberties in war, without having fleet to undergo the ordeal of a public diecussi n. (Loud cheers.) And I am equally prepared to maintain that free-trade principles necessarily conduce to peace ; and I will maintain this without reference to what has been done on the Continent. I will take free-trade as the settled plan of England, and that it Rives us the best possible guarantee for the preservation of the peace of England, as it takes away the most potent argument, the most approved reason, why we have gone to war for the last two centuries. It has been stated very justly by Mr. Huskison in one of his celebrated speeches that all the wars of England fur the last two centur ies c said be traced to the desire for commercial monopoly, and I believe it may be fairly rated that the object of these wars for the last 200 years has sprung out of a desire to obtain com mercial superiority on the ocean, that we might recompense ourselves for the expenses of the war. And so it was at the beginning of the French war. For seven years we were not fighting the French in their own land and in their own cities, we were only going to capture and seize their colo nies—(hear, hear)—and we were never easy for six months together, unless we had the bells ringing for some fresh island conquered, or for some fresh success of the English arms, and at was believed by the statesmen in this country, th-t whilst we were spending tens nod hundreds of millions in this way, we should be reimbursed by the revenue they expected to derive from the possessions acquired in these wars. (Hear, hear.) Well, but gentlemen that delusion is past i'we have put into practice by the triumphof the League, that principle a high Adam Smith promulgated 70 years ego, that you cannot gain even commercial advantages by con fining your trade to particular countries. ' He demonstrated, 70 years ego, that to take tropical countries, in order to grow tropical produce in your own territories, is equivalent to get ting your own market gardener to grow your own vegetables, rather than go to the common market to purchase them. In short, he demonstrated—considerably in advance of his age —that we have no prospects of success except by the free. trade principle. Then there can be no excuse for going to war at all. It appears to me to be a simple pounds !Shil lings, and pence calculation. There can be no suck belief in future ; therefore, yen have taken a practical step for secur ing peace. I have full faith that other nations will reciprocate with you, and as you Increase yone len poreyou will be awing upon the principle laid down by Mr. Villiers be increasing your exports. (Loud cheers) I have a convietha that by enumerating tl ern principles, by citrying them out logically as you have identified those principles with those of peace, you will gradually, but not immediately,—but gradually and cer tainly, circulate and spread those opinions throughout the civilised world. It will be the bi ginning of the great world's revolution, which will tin:ohne round the globe, and .nd only with time itself. The germ of that important revolu tion has been laid in the meetings in this free-trade hall. (Loud and prolonged chem.) The sentiment was drunk with three times three cheers. Col. THOMPSON, M.P., was received with loud plaudits, and said: Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen—My appointed service this day is to call your attention to the organs or leading instruments through whom you have accomplished these gnat ends. Tie true, in one sense, no exertion has been made by which any man, woman, or child, has been taught or led towards the truth which may not claim, to a certain extent, a portion of the triumph thus oh tabled. (Hear, hear.) But, when that was done, it still was necessary that our farce should be collected in some leading channel, which should convey them to the auditory nerves of those who wen to hear and obey. (Cheers.) I need not tell you I point to the constituencies of this country. You art a orenstitunoy, but I am specking to all of you, and when I point Doormat& to success that is past, I point forwards to smisses that may be obtained hereafter. (Chan.) If it der happen that we don't be separated, the study of whittle Vas by must be our direction for the future. RMIIIMMI this, that as soon as it was made maaifest Sul** organs of ialdwil power in this country, the poplin will was de on *L= point we are to speak of, the question was decided. If one power would not grant your will, another was fraud to take their plan. And so, happily, ft will be hers. I can imagin e unsay thins which, with year habits, with your yen &dm to attain; that you wish the osier non o sassy Wens that are prejudicial to the world, end most ruinous Wynn own comforts. Useless expenditure— nachos, boned exposiditen, is the evil that crops the wee of sink man's demons happiness, and we must and will lay the an to the root of the evil (Loud cheers.) And within no loos time you moat mast here again to con gratalatneasoinssives upon a snood success, of which the first was but the harbinger. (Cheers.) Look at the ssymptomsj the times. Araredly your power is felt. What do I hear at last, but the feet of your 'mon& habits is riajgg limn* and the Lords of the Admiralty ere going to takif stook at Christmas ? (Lend sheers, and laughter.) Tien is hope in that. I me In it mare certainty of sower. You have inotilythema yeenedne, end here is the tome quern Wimp* de she. yensesives, what is than you will have to se, at ? semi have retrenchment. w e e mut, we will Ws pesos, Din that ` tom pest thing far retessoimasal, in as far •as war is gnat leak and satinet all national enpumittnre. (Applanse.) It is an old saying—" To have ponmhe prepared fir war." Well, then, suppose we close wft Mott wewat to be prepared fee war. Now, I have a prinsipienet area sew, I believe—but still of seminsovelty upon this inblost Suppose it still oar oh =peepers fee wet .t headlight saki the uncertainty of nun, we de net kw* Met within our own times =west Mom wen uses, great neessity for national Omni that: what shall we, es modest mon, dot Losk mound, and view the .dtion of than neighboum, wham every men en point to, who ban risen tom Ina *Wangs, sad have arrived at a nealth of which, to the eyes at sans of us, thanes= tole no end. How did they come by it ? Not by spading _every shilling as fortas they could gut it. (Loud chem.) Net by borrowing of the pawnbroker. Chests.) No man ever hoard d thin In then Minden. Laughter ) And whet is fending, to a station, but borrow ed the pawnbroker ? (Cheers.) What, then, is Inn dear, &then be - any analogy t ipulls and private predawn, than thin the way to be ed is not to spirt all yogi have heitrehersd, Take the am d /num ili ss eur a toragsmto t Lessibt• that a compost of the p et Ass esealey. and louse the sense asnosity for whsle his existed is former times ; what, then, Ye the Prima about ? Why the last thing that we hew of Wet is, that they me going to reduce 120.000 men of their army. (Chun.) I de eugratulate 'spell by the vision of 120,000 French mamas* when all adieu men are home—what dancing and =...!a uw tking there will be, and what a cup of honed for the government for thisserviee. And then, if ‘ 1 7 .".... 5aa1gy should, require their strength, the e men veil be ' ready—Me man having two more at his side ready to come forward to give their services to their counter. (Applause.) Yea Emit/aye and wens which none know better how to make me of; all I oLtat, parsimonious —all just economist*, ineresse and multi; ly. Lay by, then, in that manner, if yon only can, something in 'eore against future necessities, as you do in the management of your own private concerns I do believe something like a sense of the justice of this principle his gone Barth to the nations of Europe. Tate the lead, as you have done before. Don't stop to see who wall step into the ground before you, but let it be announced that the English people have asked the government, end the government did not think of refusing it,—to be the first to set en example, by being the first to learn the way to human hap rineas, by destroying the greatest of all the ilLwhich hitherto have depressed it. 'ton say there is work before you. (Laugh ter.) There will be agitation before it is done. What are we good for, butwhen agitation arises within us. Truly I believe, with seine gentlemen, agitation is sometimes unjustly blamed; for, although there may be a harmful and injurious agitation, there is a healthful one, necessary to the existence of lift itself. We have lived in agitation, all of us. It has brought us no harm, and let us, then, go on hopefully, and let us apply ourselves in oar own constituencies, in other oonstituenues, to improve that great experiment tried by our ancestors, in order that we may leave to posterity a grateful memory like that we have of those who have pre ceded as. Gentlemen, I propose to you to drink the health of the constituencies which have returned free-traders to par liament. (Laud cheers.) Drunk with great enthusiasm. There WAS an interval of ten mtnutet after this address. JOHN BRIGHT, Esti ,H. P., proposed the next senti ment " The Free-trade Struggle may the rights it gained be secure for ever !" The remaining sentiments were, " Our Agricultural, Corn :lnuits', and Minoru:twine Interests, whose welfare is bast promoted by the removal of all legislative restrictions " " The Anti-Corn Law League, the labours and success of which have renderei such signal service to the country and the world at lar." The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mr. Hope, having addressed the meeting, at a few minutes to twelve o'clock, a party of singers who were stationed in the gallery, sang Mackay's celebrated song, " There's a good time coming, boys," and as twelve o'clock struck the whole company rose en spouse and cheered moat vociferously for several minutes, hats and handkerchiefs were waving, and the cheering was again and again renewed. At the conclusion of the cheer ing, Mr. George Thompson addressed a few observations to the meeting, and the proondir gs terminated at half-put twelve o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, The period being arrived at which the business of parliament is usually resumed, I have called you together for the discharge of your important duties. It is satisfactory to me to be enabled to state that both in the north and in the south of Europe the con tending parties have consented to a suspension of arms for the purpose of negotiating terms of peace. The hostilities carried on lathe island of Sicily were attended with circumstances so revolting, that the British anti French admirals were impelled by motives of humanity to interpose, and to stop the further effu sion of blood. I have availed myself of the interval thus obtained to propose, in conjunction with France, to the King of Naples an arrangement calculated to produce a permanent settlement of affairs in Sicily. The nego tiation on these matters is st 11 pending. It has been my anxious endeavour, in offering my good offs, es to the various contending powers, to pre vent the extension of the calamities of war, and to lay the foundations for lasting and honourable peace. It is my constant desire to maintain with all foreign states the most friendly relations. As soon as the interests of the public service will permit, I shall direct the papers connected with these transactions to be laid before you. A rebellion of a formidable character has broken out in the Punjaub, and the Governor-General of India has been compelled, for the preservation of the peace of the country, to assemble a considerable force, which is now engaged in military operations against the insurgents. Bat the tranquillity of British India has not been affected by these unprovoked dis turbances. I again commend to your attention the restrictions imposed on commerce by the Navigation Laws. If you shall find that these laws are in whole or in pert unnecessary for the maintenance of our maritime power, while they fetter trade and industry, you will no doubt deem it right to repeal or modify th it provisions. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, I have directed the estimates for the service of the year to be laid before you ; they will be framed with the most anxious attention to a wise economy. The present aspect of affairs has enabled mo to make large reductions on the estimates of last year. MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I observe with satisfaction that this portion of the United Kingdom has remained tranquil, amidst the convulsions which have disturbed so many parts of Europe. The insurrection in Ireland has not been renewed, but a spirit of disaffection still exists, and I am com pelled, to my great regret,to ask for a continuance for a limited time of those powers which, in the last ses sion, you deemed necessary for the preservation of the public tranquillity. I have great satisfaction in stating, that commerce is reviving from those shocks which, at the commence ment of last section, I had to deplore. The condition of the manufacturing districts is like wise more encouraging than it has been for a con siderable period. It is also gratifying to me to observe that the state of the revenuers one of progressive improvement. I have to lament, however, that another failure in the potato crop has caused very severe distress in some parts of Ireland. The operation of the laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland will properly be a subject of your inquiry, and any measures by which those laws may be bene ficially amended, and the condition of the people may be improved, will receive my cordial assent. It is with pride and thankfulness that I advert to the loyal spirit of my people, and that attachment to our institutions which hu animated them during a period of commercial difficulty, deficient production of food, and political revolution. I look to the protection of Almighty God for favour in our continued progresr, and I trust that you will assist me in upholding the fabric of the constitution, founded, as it is, upon the principles of freedom and of justice. ATHENS, JAw. 18. 11e Malay ikw Foreign Abbe died on the 12:h of lied, et the aps Ma years. The Minister of the Wider bee limn the radii* of the doomed for tho time being. The 41101•1% makes but little prowess ; in fact, in Orta end farina there have been so cases Mn.. 27th ult. Letters Lem Wade give as alit:ding lad frightful &scrip tied of the imuntry. Political vengeance and brigandage are mixed so to an awful extent; murder and pillage are the order et the day; and the government appears either imbecile or Whoa The land I mentioned In my last a in festing the matrons of Thebes still continue their depredati ons. A face has been sent against them, which will no doubt " fratendes." Vessels from Constantinople are sent to 51:1 the quarantine against Turkey being again reta in esesewsessee of the cholera breaking out anew. The bill, width, asserding to the Greek Calendar, was to have taken place en the 7th ' was postponed until the 15th, in consequence of the Kin g's Maas, when it came eff in regal splendour. The budget he 1849 has been presented: Revenue, 15,557,955 draAmm ; advanced be the three powers, 3,836,474 drathatas ; osmium 19,411,429 drachmas : wetly a balance. The weather has been very bad ; nothinr but heavj rain, theader, and li ghtning, with dreadfully told N.R. winds. MALTA, Jaw. 22 lledilorresee. the Malta liberal peva, has been again penhecated by the crown advocate fir libel, in an article which appeared acme months since, respecting the pretties ot assiving seapersoe youths Into the madhouse, to maim Hera their fears sad reclaim them, without the knowledge M the government, and the fact of oat youth having bo oms unused in uosiotionoo. INDIA. .~ THE OVERLAND MAIL. The Overland Mail brings advice' from Bombay Jan. 3, and Calcutta Dec. 23. Our last advice' from Mooltan were to the 3rd, and from the army of the Chenaub to the 6 . 11, amber. The only movements which have warred since then at the former of these places arc two reconnoitres by the engineers, w h en no serious molestation was offered. On the 11th, the detachment of Bombay troops under Moi re Mallet, consisting of the 3rd N. 1., Turnbull's and 500 of the Seinde horse, arr i ve d in camp the 15th, the let Lancers joined. the mil t (solemn had not commenced crossing the ri m on the 18th, but were all expected in camp W ore Christmas, when operations would immediately b. re-commenced. Moulrej had 2,000 picked *on o in the fortress, 3,000 in the t own, and gbok -2,000 in the suburbs ; or, including tho se ca w Nartain Singh, 9,000 in all. General Whish h a d 8,000 Bengal troops, and the Bombay column, 8,000 oniony, was expected before Christmas. Hi s v . tillery amounted to nearly 100 guile, of which 70 are of the largest calibre. The allies, under Major Edwardee and Colonel Cortlandt, amount to about 12,000, so that the beseiging army is abed 28,000 strong, or more than three times as numereas as the besieged. From the commander-inschkes camp we have news up to the 21st ult. Fur the log fortnight the troops had rested on their arms ; not are they likely to have taken the field till New Year's. day. This is said to be in consequence of orders from the Governor-General. Major lAwrenes was in the camp of Shere Singh. His inter preter had been made use of for the purpose of mega. dating for an amnesty, to which Major 51inkeion, now in political charge with the commander-in-chief, bird ra. plied that he could enter on no terms with rebele is arms. Attoek, under Lieutenant Herbert, still hem out; and Captain Abbott contirued to maintain himself in the Hazareh country. Lieutenant Robin son, the assistant of the latter, had made hi s way to General Thackwell' a camp. These had been no military movement of any note daring the fort. night. The present procrastination and delay was and is the subject of universal complaint. It is said that the Governor-General waits for inetructicas from home. Sir Henry Lawrence reached Kotrse on the Indus on the 15th, since which time he has not been heard from. He expected to be with the com mander-in-chief by the 10th of January at latest. It has been int:mated that three regiments will immediately be sent out from England, sad an augmentation of the B enga l army i s talked Oar army at present amounts to abo ve 250,000 men, being stronger by 50,000 men an d 834 o ffi cers than it was on its last peace establishment, ten yeses since, when the Punjaub, Scinde, and Giralioe were all unsubdued, and the Affghan war was it prospect. For two years we have had 52,000 man with 100 guns on the frontier beyond Meerut, whets • 24,000 men with 60 guns were all that Lord Ellen. borough considered necessary ; leaving the garrison for the rest of India still 28,000 stronger than it was in 1837, when it was considered quite adequate for the duties assigned to it. Oat of a free income of sixteen millions, our army costs ten millions annually. The Governor-General was at Loodhises on the 19th ult. Everything continues tranquil throughout the Company's dominions ; not so in Coy. lon, where by last accounts (13th Dec.) the reappear. anon of rebellion was momentarily expected. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The following letter is from the Mofusselite of the 26th of December: CAMP MOOLTAN ' DEC. 18.—But little new . s ei n i ng . The whole of the Bombay division, with the si.ge traia, are to march in on the morning of the 21st, and en. comp in front of our cavalry brigade, but with their front towards the fortress. We shall soon commence ma move to take up a final position. The 60th Rifles and B. bay Fusiliers are said is be very fine corps. Bob of them upwards of 1,000 strong; the latter nearly 1,100 *oak with 45 o ffi cers. The capt ure d guns were sent the day before yesterday, with the sick and wounded &Mese and men to Fercespore. Another reconnoitring party west Out yesterday, which enabled the engineen to take a gad look at the fort and suburbs of the city. Moolesj is said to have only about 6,000 men. Capt. Maitlasid, 72nd ; Liest. Herbert, 10th Foot ; and Lieut. Irwin, 49th, are greatly ra, covere d (ec ru their dangerous wounds ; they, too, have gone away with the sick, &o. Dent Plumer, of the 49th, wee buried the day before yesterday. The llth Cavalry and Scinde Horse went out this morning on each side of the fart, to meet at the ghat on the north of it, expecting to cut off Narain Sing, returning from Jung with supplier. They have not et come back. The army, under the Commander-in-Chief, crowed r the Chenaub on the 18th instant, without any km, excepting a few camels. They are now en camped on the right bank. Great quantities of rain fell during the hours of three and six, ca the morning of the 19th. Information bad been re ceived in camp, and was credited, that some thousands of Affgbans and 12 guns had come down as far as the Jhelum, but refused to cross and aid Sher, Sing until they received a certain amount of pay in advance. As coin and food are both very scarce in the camp of the enemy, it is expected they will march back again. A letter had been received from Major Lawrence on the 17th. Its contents are notyet known to any one save the chief. Abbot was all safe, according to the latest accounts from General Thick well's camp, and Attoek still held out. Mookars brother had joined Shere Singh on the 17th, and was received with a salute. A letter, from General Thaekwell's camp, says that "Nartain Sing is re. ported to be on his way from Mooltan to join Shere Sing with about 4,000 men." The following is also from Camp Ifoyls December 19th : CAMP HEYL& , Dec. 19, 1848.—Since the battle of the • 3rd all have remained quiet. Negotiations, report positively asserts, ere going on between Shen Singh and our govern ment, by which the former is to give up his guns and munitio: aof war, provided he and all his followers be f imjrobablc, as the enemy arc e ncam p e d i n a ver y s traw allowed a free pardon. Such a c o nsumm a tors I f an cy position, one flank restiog on the river Jhelum, the other on a particularly thick and high jungle, which the British army must pus before it can attack the Sikhs, and which both General Thackwell and Major Makesoa have reported impracticable for any arm of the service. The Sings themselves seem very quiet. The Comm an de r -in-Chid crossed the river yesterday, and Th sc kw e ll' s force was to have marched this morning to Guzarat, and join the head-quarters camp The march was countermanded. Bri- gadier Pope, with three guns and two regiments of cavalry, remain at itamnugenr. A brigade of infantry with three guns is at Wuceerabad. BrigatherEckford,you see, is ordered to Lahore. The 73rd N.I. are no longer in the army of the Punjaub. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, JAN. 2.—Our market for imports generally con tinues in the favourable date &deed in ear last report as then mkt. lag. Seeder of maadietaree have been to a limited extent, mil la' they have tem moved tiff m qtddtly se teethed, our market so allemee very breed tenet dedflptime of fated and an hennaing dime& ri dos iemmilleted by deshes to &akimbo the expected arrival,. and* messy aearket la easy, and we have no new feature to notice. Comm Pince tione—atiena grey shillings, of all qualities, her. bees fa entire deiced, nail the p res s obtained show further atireoca , dare out hat. 41.1nek widths have also been in request at fro. rttight Grey Malapellsine continue to be much inquired . m 1... expertemed an additional advance in price. Grey . Jaeitaaatehava Mia Uthe aught after. Light 24-yard domestics are math emallad, be a s steaks mist. T-cloths continue in good inquiry, m alp Illie Maw gad bray arks' of domestics, but the finer kinds are MR lithe aright der. Orey long.eloths, suited for dyeing par. mem, MP steady, head is math beeed7._ Stains Cheed—lildrffig mid dededeamen °continue to be meek ; sought aft, hat weedy my at them Adria ham come to hand ta the late eeriest Meer* et Mewls amtheeeh rent MN*, MI the entell a = Sleighed her keen eagerly be mu ambits see of reedy at game edema al • preview rade Talk are et geki. Drs AND Tamer G 0 pida de& Is fa fair derma, bat within hameedisat be prim loth SI somewhat Wert as elm T. B. met aid ii te, particularly of Inferior quality. Tuley red pride de la demand. Carrot! Tar.-111e Ws Uttle done In the put fortnight Dram Taut.—Tbe wicket ler Turkey red held has been very dull slow o by. r .ba.mike d=titled report a yel old stock having been wad off we lb. Ottcaanur.—The hrudibt we been marked by a total abeam of Jaquith awl the geisa hes Imam( eanewhat In ceneequeme. Miners.--thrgaer : theaddig, beads; Ideal bottoms, ad Mew clap , hem beds la geed daimat ohm the date of our last, mil em Et i o= s ti o d: Mee adman es the prism then ruling. bee t A le quad brewed& Was. British bar is alm:idgedy poi ii. NA fa mbethatellemaiderable improvement in dor* 1W pod hrtitigkit. sink km le In much mutat, has run gran * la rip. MI TA 1031 h square and round, is in deal 1n21.414 both lanotr am d aft% has advanced In raise, and a moat, while any Iran. Opener is dull, mu has etiU further. earreow.—This erthke has expaiaseed a sudden and considerable dee fa Woe. Acrems.--Cerres Woot.—After the date of our last, prices of this eta& needed eiffl further la maagoena of miter:m*l)le womb from Mikhail daerwhet better bdtg Me been caused in the maalegen=disa nisWed Kai Endhad by the last mail. et. Aa. ; le Lades, 2 81. 2 13 re. 4. lid. to Si. be.; to Liverpool, per , 12 to 111 maths' eight, per 100 ra, lc 100. to Oh* . Is. at IlArathe la 9gd. ; Mina, at. OD days' eight, Per no,r n* ; 43 0 dare Vt. 99 re. ; Calcutta. at 60 da ger MO ea, par; at 30 days* la, 12 same prem.; at sigh, I es a t i M ital itiriC Bunk, 32 M. per cent. men.; Orient* Balk. I. mil MO up), Al re. per awe. die.; Commercial Bank ßank, k 011 re. per (I matcth.; eats Bank (6krs.), l 0 rs. per cent. pram: Madras ,100 ra), par. . LORD BLOOMFIELD, the British Minister at the Court of St. Pstitnibarg, ha just arrived in London from Bus tia Ift congi. 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