The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-12 00:00:00

THE F )(PRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 12, 1849. LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF THE HOXTON 1 ---ashuniestal in fighting for aad obtaining. 1 10 P:• en h en have mask le do is the mate di:echos. The h sot yet settled with reference to tariffs gohes Meer imports, and I am afraid we 01111123% 117.1.1. — sea tothow la the reduction of dunes anises we ▪ ;;,,s_ e• d te leek ear whose.' upending:o is the face. k.-1;44o Imeseet cif the national debt is act lug* that it while hosblteg yoarulf about the ••" 4 wheal elpsaditare, bemuse nothing can At wed' which will be worth baying. Now I hea the: *akin. (Hear, hear.) I thii,k el '77 I ssues welch you might deal vita. Om • it is teas, are ca what is pith l r * • al (ser a f kat is • largo sounding, not .1* the e- - sulerstood somenciature, bat it does not *N... I deal think say contracts, although they N oored by set of parliament, art permanent, if the) . ll f :mile settled. 1 coaiiiiet them not binding in the 18 811.1 .L . Fogyie go, I believe ever, farthing taken from fOr t irs se Me tat peger should have as adequate return. tbs this the gave meat should have only se mush "Meta(% se will pay for the services to be rendered; Hasa &said Mel that they paid tat mss for that witch was Niecesreedeemi them u service, and limbo Maw beer.) If yaw ware to adogia *me wit h m yg. pia would make a most hemesellene sump rj h a r joya capeaditate. (Cheers.) Now, MOM hail wisabeeddeel el sauna( at w e damask! re fo rm missielle re el essay, thick. who hug to ham "theeouts Isom la west are called the ° whig as re lees kiad of suer about the Financial form leseeisi est of visimary, impracticable mes, alarming, ..A ambles Me public mind upon the meant of ow' Wr o tteure, whits it ie inspostible to effect anything ha* eke tedestiess they hold out." This has been the doe l ye as er two of the leading whig otgai.s. Now, ileaw the poanim of attain ? In 1848, only twe ~e g o, there was a great plot got up about the isnmesi sad the public naiad was to be slued moss; Fumes, and the coast was to be fortified, s o great imagers were tareatrued, and men were to submit rem wince of taxation for the lately of their homes and f o ols; the cry was the French wen riming. A lame_ad gossa to the pubits expeaditute was contemplated. Well, * exam* vitermen were set to be taken I. by Oda guatefted ineasies—eat of toe French, but of the tax women —opus the taxpayers. (Caren, and •• hear, hear.", tybo mil they say ? "W • will have none of this ; we wit lobate to it; we don't believe is these dangers ; we g igue submit to this increased expense. It is a hoax ;it is peep by the professions ; it is got up at the clubs ; we mat believe in it," sad toe government were enabled— *et that very time they were ming carried away by the moos they were in the hands of the strong, and were going te add t ; o the szpeaditure—they were enabled, through the * pot which the Finantid Ri form Assciation gave them, to tome the pressure, aad to draw in the e :per dimes. (Hear.) I res.stiet the present first 1 rd of toe admiralty, Sir Paco Bering, putting a question, in the committee on the awn, cloy, and ordi mom estimates, to a distinguished sauna ono was exenthied as to the amount of tome that ▪ neceenty ; and he asked him if he ever remembered a lime wren the profeuiona were satisfied with the amount of hoc. " lie certainly was lot able to say,—he did sot recoil , ct say particular period when ins peoreasiona were K noireli" (Laughter.) 'The govetsment were in the hands at t h e pr Osemose, who were hurrying them on to a larger iacreue of expeaditure, when toe Financial Reform Assad toe came to the rescue, sad to • certain extent got then eat of heir difficulties ; sad new they were to be sneered at. W e d, what has government done ? Why, ue wen told, in the lass: ial statement that was made last swim, that a saving of two millions three huts drat thousand had been effected in the annual expend. tut ; mad, sotwitbstanffing that, we were told that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not estimate that the know of the country for the next year would more than ewer the ex; 'Altars. I waat to anew what his paktum weld hove been if, after that saving, the income was only to be equal to the expenilitate, the Financial Reform Asso ciation bed not bestirred itself, and prevented that Mamie white was threatened in the yeas 1848 ? 1 tell yon that we shoolalsave bees landed in increased taxation, and we should hove Muesli further off any charmer removing those taxes, sad those Oaths which are now so oppressive upon many trenches of our industry. (Chun.) I think the Ftnancial &farm Association has already dose mach service. They have cussed committees )(Wintry upon the army, navy, and haulm estimates ; and what hale these committees eluci dated ? D tficult, as I kaow it is, to obtaia say metal inter *boa iiicommitteel, as they are oomposed la the Rouse of Comma -tor they are generally composed with a view to hide rather than elicit informati but, notwithstanding that, mach valuable inionnatioa has been elicited. i If when we find that, on a complaint, 3,000 men are struck off the navy, and 10,000 Withal army—and when we find owe diatineuished general giving an opinion one way, and another distingaahed general &wither—when we fiod committees of the House of Commons eliciting this opinion, that great works, coating a million or two each, ought actor to have been begun—we are onfy convinced that the present system of administratioa is not audieiently con trolled by the popular voice in the Hoene of Commas, to sante an economical and useful expenditure. (Hear, hear.) Imy them are cot, equences which I have a right, as a *long man, in any ass, glibly to Wing forward as proof— s positive proof, cambia demonstration to the mind of every thinkiag person—that the system of cheek and control is very tar from what it ought to be, aad I believe would be under a batter system. (Heat, hear.) Well, now, take the cue of the crown lands. We are taught to believe that the crown lands were gins to the country ; and that in return the sovereign was to receive a yearly payment kola the ooseslidated fusd. Wtryell, the crown Lando are sup posed to be given to the coun ; and in the financial re. I tams of last ear I find that heir revenue is (lowa' as 360,0001. a year. Yet bow much of this 3 60,0001. a year, which was said te be given to the cushy, wee estuary paid into the British exchequer Why, last mei about 80.0001.; the year before, I be l ieve , abut 70,0001. What becomes of the difference ? Why, a 'teat deal of the udierence is employed in paying sham aims —bear, hear)—in keeping up hereditary rangers and *Wary wades', and *thus the names of which have become so outlandish and so barbarous that I can't eves cony them in my reeoLleetion. (Chun. ) The differeoce between this 360,0001., which they ought to yield, sail 90,000 L, which are paid in, is expended, not th rearing oaks far the royal navy, but in rearing deer who eat the oaks; and in giving the deer to bishops and clergymen, sad to die ingsished paeans in the neighbourhood of the brats. (Cheers.) I was very much amused at a return I saw laid beton parliament, about the oaks that we have been told were grown is th a. royal wrests, in order to support the royal navy. I saw a return from 1940 of the quotity of mks supplied to the British navy from the new forests. It ran—" 1840, nil ; 1841 ; leen, ; 1843, it ; ISt 1, nil; 1846, ail; 1848, ma; and 1847-8 and 9, nil. (Laughter and great eheerisg.) Now, there was not a steels ye m that they had missed giving some venison to the Bebop of Winchester and the neighbouring clergy. (Renewed laughter and cheers.) Why is it not monstrous !Oat we should be told that these crown lands ere to be paid over to the consolidated land, and that pore from them al! that you give to the monarch, when we lath that there is this dilapidation of national property ? Why, I will undertake to say that, when you talk of railway easamressest—(lasghter and eheen)—l will undertake M my, there wee no Marge that woe ever brought 'garnet say director or directors of any railway, and mach lees trey sharp that was ever proved—l will sot except anybody, set even the meet dietiagnielted (load laughter and chemO—emil I won't say the meet dietingaished except in the mina e ; i 2z, th ieg iboit remarkable—(resewed hinghter); but I any, s generally and advisedly -- end by-the-bye the emu mad sp liking clause has a temperiog effect—l speak openly end advisedly when I say that no charge was ever brought against railway directors for mismanagement and miaappliances, that I could not bring against the directors lad *amen of the woods and forests; and that you would not my, it you had the evidence, was satisfactorily proved. New, Wetly , when we boar of railway audits and govern ment with, and all this excessive desire to look atter pri vate companies, and the affairs of private individuls, I mast say that 1 wish they 'would turn a tilde of their rite' sad eathedasse in the PUN of good auditing, and correct accounts, into the department of the woods and torah. (Chun) The civil list is the appropriation of • , large sum of money, io a particular way, according to the chums of an net of parliament; and one of the chasm requires that a very large proportion of that sum should be' paid in salaries to political officers, who are said to be nun. , airy to maiatain t h e dignity of the Crown; but who I con tend would, kr the honour of the position, be quite willing to accept it at any rate without them salaries. But these pensions are awarded according to sehoduke, fixed to this act of parliament ; teed they are not at all the tort of things that people generally imagine—namely, pensions and salaries allotted at the discretion and pleasure of the crown. The crown has no more to do with it than we have in this room ; it is all done by the same parties that appropriate the crown lands ;and when they exchange the crown lands toe the civil list, they take care to put In the 4 pockets a little portion of one, and a great slice of the other. (Cheers.) lam necessarily obliged, in such subj.* as matters of financial reform, to go somewhat into detail ; sad I trust I may be pardoned if I ass at all trespass- Mg epos your patience in teaching upon these matters. y(ed.' of tt g oAare say ty are familiar to moat of ou, but I hope we Mall have en effectual remedy—and I =tie them remarks in this place, in order that those ',hotted tha queo.on in their hands may know that there is an inion upon the subject ;—and that the proposal made by the of that committee on the lands, in the Huse of Comm ins will be this, that he will move for leave to bring in a bill to sell the crown lands, and to apply the mooted. to the public expeediture of England. Loud cern.) I would have none left except those which are actuary fir the personal convenience or pleasure of the monarch. All that are kept there for the papa., as it is mid, of growing oaks for tho navy, or giving the nuts or kit or fines, or what not—ell these I would have lispoied or. With regard to the army, navy, and ordnance, I lay, after thirty-five years' peaces let us bate a peace es . ..blishment. (Hsu, hear.) Let as have the number of offican in the navy beating some proportion to the walk to bei done. (Hear.) When I was at a meeting the other day, in the Free-trade Hall, I took the liberty of saying what 1 will repeat again, because I wish to say it at every meeting that I timed upon this subject—that Sir Jeaes Stirling—au of the ;most distinguished officers of the Keel, and rte whom report Imes has lately been offered a seat at the board of the Admiralty—told the Home of Lords that Uto excess of officers in the British navy, over and above what was required tor the duties to be performed, was equal te the maintenance of 20,000 able seamen. I believe ihst 31r. Cobden's budget of a reduction of ten mil lion., it no• so virionary as people would have us believe. ( " r . Y- u hero had a reduction of 2,303,00/. in the mutual izunditure. That is pinsible, for it has been done ; and here we all are ode, can sleep in our beds, and are hot afraid of the French. I believe there is no due that teems to be gradually weighing down the WM- failure' to the extent that the soap duty ie doing. We see a seastant decline in the number el raeoefaeterese of soap • and I believe they have a great difficulty la competini o w l itik the tb w s o i rld. 46 l bel laal ie l v l e i tt tu is is tru of e s tr:a p t i t n he tke pat i rat tn w i hie la h u h k s e v il e s of late years bees takes out for improving the maaufacture of soap have been feud totally insteps, because they were iaappheable wider the Exciais system, sad because, while th edi v ac ia l ito io si ns rd s l o n in f ir th e to va e ih e xepsui, we are 6 :7llR of o d b par TlMOO lige : i i .mi t° , ba t acoord‘tii"Vanieninitr:earit:o. liar.) The paper duty is a tax epee knowledge. cheers.) I would remove the paper duty—the stamp duty epos newspapers—(eiterre)—the duty epos advertneoseete (Continued cheering.) We have beard a greet deal U. this country aheut the importance of d.ffusing knowledge amongst the labouring classes of society—aye amougit all elegies; for we are all iustreeted, from day to day, by the knowledge ; that isosoveyed to as by the press and by our literature bat do we, by oar einem, tiot Impose obstacles— direct and positive ebitaeles—to the spread of knowl.dge amongst the greet masais of the community ? Mitre we gut • free press? 1 say no. I eh.e we plume our selves, asheilislimese, th a we have a tree press, but the sagacity of the English aristocracy has does by • tax what the censor of the fereign ue-pots and the peaces ti ill of foreign courts doter them. Not to the same amen; I admit, but to some extent. I advuence, the retore,untexiog the press (Loud cheers.) I think that the agricultural body, sow thatthey have lost pruh ctise, eau have waieterest Ia bad government. (Heir, hear.) They can have no more interest in it than we nave hi heavy tam, in the misapplies tine of public funds; soil now that they ate set free by the repeal ot the Coen law, I believe you will MA them turning their attention to larger creations than you ever gave them credit for. Let es consider also that we ought to press at on the made of men the getting rid of that fallacy which s ems to prevail—that there is • something shout the government cyst m more then the mere duty of providing protection te society, and meeting those wants wnich civilised men ' adopt governments to &cure. There rem. to be a sort ut idea that those who rule have, as it were, an intereet, and that cower is to be exercised in reference to the pentad,' in'ereste of the ruling few, rather than to the advantag e ot the many over whom the power is exercised. You been utllees talked of es matters in which men have veined ii tercets or r ght of property. Ad this notion seems to be pert of the feudal traditionary Ryan= which has been ' handai down to us ; aid it is for these intelligent com munities like Manchester and others to expound these fallacies and to teeth men the real objects fur whirl they tog tame., and the only objects for which they oueiht. ti ply taxa —namely, 'lmply to secure tor society those , advantages, to obtain which eiviiis,d man associates eimeelt 1 into the furin of society. But we h eve vast prejudices to contend with before we arrive at that pant; and I never heard the question raised in parliament as to the doing away with any office, or with the disbanding of any un necessary person., that some question of vented right, some question of interest, was not raised, clearly show ing that there is another principle besides the one to which I have alluded in the minds of m. n in reference to the objects and duties of gov ronamit. 1 hold, and will repeat again, that we are to look a' government no: in the slightest degree to be carried ou tor the mere advantage of these who hold the ales of power, but entirely and ergo- sively for the benefit and advantage of the community over which power may be exercised. (Caters.) We must hold the doctrine that ell power comes from the people, is given by the people, and is only to be held at the pleasure of the people ; and without that broad and important maxim, I will simply say that I believe it is the one that, in the course of events, will be deeply felt by the people ot this country ; and that it is the only maxim upon which sou ty may be secure, either from foreign danger or domestic trouble. (L lad appl suie.)—The right hon. gentleman took his seat amidst loud and enthusiastic cheering. JOHN BitIOH r, Esq., li.r., on risir.g to address the meeting, was received with prolonged ca akin—the whole meeting rising • wooed time to renew the demonstretions of enthusiasms. He said—Although I believe this is the first time I have meet my coassituents since the election in 1847, by sop-vial invitation, yet it is not by any means the fir t time sin. *het occasion that I have had an opportunity of ex pressing at length my views upset public question, end of explaining tho opinions I entertain witu regard to teem. For I cannot forget various occasions on which I have seen the Fres Trade Hall crowded to excess with the electors and iehabitants of this borough, and in which I have been permitted to address them at considerable I•ngth. 1 will not now go into any minute details of toe pm. alines which have taken place letting the last two sessions of partisan et, and in which I may have borne any part. It is not my intention its state low many divisions the house CAMP to during the course ash theme two sessions, and how many of those divisions I was present at, and at how many I was absent. I feel that those years into, during the few wake when I was en gaged in canvassing the electors ot this Innough, pay opinions and principles were fatly and frankly aided, and I was examined by blinds, and aoosaxamineal by poli tical foes. (" Ilea, hear,' and laughter.) 1 bad matting to conceal, and I concealed nothing that was necessary to the occasion. Since that time I lea that the course 1 have putsued in parliament, however much it may have fallen short of my intentions or your wishes, has at least been cor respondent to or with the declarations I then made, and that on first meeting yuu in your capacity as constituents, i have no apologia/ or Grouses to make that I know ot. (Loan cheers.) It would be impossible tor me at this time to forget the circumstances which plated me in the position of your podia mental? representative. I cannot forget, and shall never forget, the struggle in which you, and I, and many others, had been for years mimed. the struggle which in. crestsus now, as much as it did teen, not as we did then, looking foamed to the time when the principles which we held should be triumphant, but now looking abroad upon the country, Wearier the working oi those principle*, and descrying, as w ee may deary on every hand, how hilly ad the prophecies, all the predictions, all the dalaratious we made have been or are ncw beiug hal filled by the events. We see the country emerging from the condition of the deepest misery, and of the greatest difficulty and distress. It was not • suffering condition brought about by free-trade, but which was neat the cause ' why free trade at that ime triemplied. We behold the country on every hand, c is every branch of its industry, emerging slowly, steadily, bat surely, nom • state of disaster and difficulty which has rarely been paralleled. We find throughout al conditions of the manufacturing and commercial districts of the country employment becoming more abundant, and wages, notwithstanding the price of toed, tending rather to rise than fall. We fiud hood every where more abundant than we have known it for twelve years past. We find poor-rates, in the vast majority ot tee uniesse is England and Wens, radually, and in many of them rapidly fallin and we find, that which we expected to find, that the greet bulk of the labouring classes, for whom we worked as much as for any other class—(hear, hear)—that they have the means of living, andel eonnort sztemided to them to a degree which they hardly ever sinew lashan. (Hear, hear.) Now it may appear to some unnecessary to make observations on this old question with which we We so familiar, but let us not forget that the party whom we over came pretends yet not to be convinced that they were wrong; they assume that now it is necessary to go bask to their policy, and will endeavoar to force the legisla tions to the adoption of principles which to. legislature of 11611, as we thought for ever, had discarded. It may, More lia, be necessary to ask your attention to one or two facts widels bear importantly on this quzstion. I have mode some inquiry as to the cost of food in families generally throughout the country —1 mean the cost of that particular kind of food which goes by the name of flour and meal, the produces engrain. 1 find that is the families of the middle Jason—of those who are comparatively well to de in the werid—the eon is about Id. per need per day for each mem bar oldie family. I have made a calculation from this, aseaming tuat this may be taken as a moderate stalameat through all classes of the people, for if amongst the dams that are poorer a lees wetly flour be used, doubtless mere of it is used, because probably less of other vegetables sad lees of animal food is consumed. I assume, therefore, Id. per day as the actual expeaditure is float for each in dividual in the United Kingdom; and amusing the pope latioa at thirty saillions, we may come to the cost of flour far the United Kingdom. It will be 126,000 i. par day— (beer, hear)-875,0001. per week, and 46 mullions and a halt pounds sterling per annum. (Hear, hear.) That is when wheat is at 40s. per quarter. Now what do the pro terimnists want? why that they shall have • remunerating Now I won't sesame that a remunerating price Met Colonel Thompson describes it, " • bottomless pit whisk sobudy ever fathomed "—(laughter)—but I assume It is what they always said the corn laws were intended to secure them, from Ms. to Mts. per qr. They make the modest request that the price of corn shall be raised nearly 60 per cent., or something over 20 million pounds static!! per annum. Now we may as well consider what all this -w.de to, beyond what it is that we are actually disputing ; yet I won't say that we are disputing or that we are not dis puting ; bat I will see what it is these people et their agris cultural meetings say we should give them. They attribute the present low prices entirely to free trade in coin, and 10.411010 that the distress they say they now suffer arises from this new policy on the part of government. Now I have here an extract from the circular published by Messrs. Stings, of Birmingham. who are largely engaged in the corn trade, and whew authority on this point I be lieve no person is disposed to dispute, in which they eau that the averse. price, by the return of wheat in the Ga:ette last week, was 441.41., lower than it has ever been during the peasant century, except in parts of 1832, iti 1835, and in 1838, when it was below 405., and came as low as3Gi. 7el. per quarter, which was during the period when the big lest sliding scale was in force. It ought to be borne in mind that in 1832 most kinds of wheat were 30 per cent. cheaper than at present. It wi.l show that the high range of prices gives the natural stimulus, but protection le generally followed by uisastroudy low rates to growera. If this be true, we are not to be chargeable with the disastrous rumours of the distress which the farmers ere suffering, if they ere disastrous, fur we have their own evi dence before • committee in 1836, when we heard texts in let:nay more astounding than any we have heard disclosed during the last few months. It seems to be • very prevalent idea that if wheat is very low, it is the duty of pailiement to raise the price. Why, many of us might have gone during the last three years, and, on the same principl h. e, asked for • law to ewe the price of yarn and clot (Hear, hear.) Farmers are in an unfortunate position, the' they have been led to look upon government as to o som ur e eth yes. ing , quite different from that which it has appeared All their members, and the candiustes for their rein*. natation for 30 years past. have asked the for- 1 re to me sand them to parlia m ent on this specs' I plea, that they would kee p up the price of agricultural produce ; end now , when the price is Inw, they turn round upon those genes themselves in ul a tlemen who have not ffillmoned thrr ea engsgemte, and they P tolerant and violent meaner against a parliament which rces ?a lienates to give freedom to the industry and Iretdoin to the food of the nation. They suppose that agriculture is to be free from the fluctsuitiens sad vicissitudes whisk attend en o ler branches of industry, and are only now launching forth on the ocean track that should have been followed 30 years ago, and then they would not have found themselves ou estosisked and so dieteacted at the vicissitudes and °hearses they must inevitably meet with. But I think the lauded proprietors of this country have no right to come to us it certain facts we hear ere true. Throughout a gri at portion of England, hitherto, there has been no re duction of rents. (Hear, hear.) If the corn law were in tended to maintain the rents, they ere, perhaps, right to ask for it; but ask them freely if they have dons anything to meet the case of the tenant-farmer ? (Cheers.) And of the farmer', I might ask if they Lave taken the navies of a very able agriculturist is the county of Devon, Mr. Fowler, who recently, in a letter to the farmers of the county, recom mended as ene means of sustaining a competition with fo reigners, to tontine the number of their acres to the aumber of their ten pound notes, fur if the farms corresponded to the amount of capital, they could much more easily sustain foreign competition, and Lye with present prices, than they could under a es stem ot large farms and small capitals, which has been so long pursued in all parts of the kit:omm (Cheery.) lam not surprised at whet is going on in the farming districts; there is rericultural anarchy. (Laughter.) The farmers are astoiashed, because the circumstances under which they hod themselves are so unwarranted. I was looking at some tams with respect to the deficiency which has existed in Ireland, and to the amount of the importations of food into that country daring tee lest three years ? and you will see at once how extraordinary is the demand for a prohibition upon the importationof food, with the view to improve tae condition of Leland. Take the three years 184 , 1847, and 1948. and there have been imported into Ireland of foreign grain 4,425,592 qrs. ; cot British grain, 2,055,778 qrs. ; all 6,481.370 gm. In the same time the imports of foreign Haut and meal were 1,431,766 cwt. ; of British deur and meal, 2,640,729 cwt.; or altogether 4.115,496 cwt. Into en agricultural country, where a !ogee portion of the people are existing, or have been ex istiug, by the cultivation of the soil than in almost any country of the world, and far more teen may other tart of the United Kingdom, y have imported nut lea than 61 millions of quavers of gran, and no* less than 4 cello's@ of eels. of Cur and meet (Hear, hear.) And at this very moment, there c m be no doubt whatever that the im position of tiny amount of duty upon the provisions coming from toreros countri s into this, by which you would give to Ireland a monopoly of this minket, could in no degree what ever m tee to advance the true interests of the farmers, melte eaters, and labourers of that country, but must of necessity, from the competition that still exists, and has all along existed for the land, save only to give the landlord greater power over the tenant, and te exact greater rents tor the laud which he lets to thorn. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Bat vet there are rumours of this fixed duty. Mr. Gibson dots not bell-ye it. I can't say that I believe it. (Hear.) Bat WO may a:. !ell look at one or two points in connection with that. It f, mid that a great whig duke-1 don't know who they be has nodded his head or has shaken his head— (laugater) —but he has intimated that his opinions have undergone some little change. (Hear, hear) Bat it there could be now en attempt on the put of them who hold the place of power, to re-enact those laws, doe't you think that bandied' of thousands of persona who never yet consulted the clauses ot the Reform Act, or the principles i of our constitution, would begin to ask very unpleasant questions about the distribution of our representation, and about the constitution of our House of Lords? (Hear, hear.) Suppose men were to begin vs ask questions like this, for examplo :—' Why abould about 400 gentlemen. who are called neers—men who, generally speaking. have not been born in circumstances to give them greater wisdom than other men—(laughter)—who have never had the ordi nary stimulus to great exertion—who have never had the cannon inducements to comprehend that which is sets shy for the well-being of the country—why should 400 gentlemen sit there, and legislate there, with I no responsibility to anybody upon earth ? " (Lose I cheers,) Bear in mina, I am net putting this mass I Lion. (Laughter.) I am only throwing out a hint to certain parties , that if certain things are attempted cer:aln questions will present themselves very forcibly before the minds of certain other parties. (Laughter and cheers.) bis country cannot now be treaty: as it once could. When the corn law was passed, in 1815, the populstiou of this great town was more h an 120,060, hut your opinion was not *eked about it. (Hear, hear.) And that corn-law re• mained on for seventeen yens, oppressing your population and your trade, and during the whole ot that time you had no representative in the Reuse ct Commune. (Hear, hear.) Well, and now you have representatives in the II- une or Commons, observe how fraudulently the whole thing is arranged, so that your position is only thus much better than it was before, that you have men there who can at least speak your sentiments and utter your complaints tied your remmostraucts to parliament; but, as I have told you be lore, wban we sit on one side of the house, there are two men from one place and two from another, who are in no sense whatever representatives of tne people, and yet their votes Co every division aunt as much as those of the two representatives of tea. greet impuls ion. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) There are two or three eases, one of which I have stated before. In speaking in the Free-trade Hall, I alluded to Um town of Stamford, the Marquis of Exeter's borough, with a population of 7 010, and 494 101. house !udders. The blamer' of Exeter mese s e most ot the 101 houses in the boviegh (you will find that in the " Parlia mentary Pocket Companion"), and the marquis returns two men to parliament, and then you are penuaded—(there are gentlemen, good men, who will persuade you—the whig arras, for example, of whom Mr. Gibson has spoken)—that Manchester is fairly represented in the English lions. in Commons. (Hear, hear.) Then there is Thetiord, in Norfolk, with 3,844 of population, 271 IW. householders, and 160 r.'gietered ale-ion. The Duke of Grafton sled Lord Ashburton have great influence there—oo says the " Partisan:May Comp , ann." amid whom do you thick they send to parliament ? Lord Beaton, the Duke of Onitton's son, is cue of them, and the Hon. F. Defies, who 1 presume is the son of the late Lord Ashburton, is the other. (Hear, hear.) Now, you meet at an election in St. Aan's•square, you have meetings, and canvassing, and great excitement; you have addresses at the hustings, and you in tern two men to esprese your opinions in parliament, and you fancy you are represented early ; and your two last mem •ers met the two members for Stamford, and we meet the two mem bers for Thetford ; and their you s tell as much in the divisions as the votes of the repres natives of this great conetiturncy. (Cheers.) There 1- aco her case, the county o Rutland, the smallest of the counties; about as large as the parish of Ileochd *le. (Hear.) It hes about one-fourth of the population of the prim of Rochdale. (Hear, hear.) It returns two members te parliament, and their two votes may neutralise the vote s of Mr. Henry and Mr. Brown, the members for South Lancashire, or the two me tubers f er the time bi Mg of the West Ridin; of Yorkshire, and yet we imagine we are represented ' These Thetford, Stamford, and Rutlandehire men have levied taxes upon all the industry, wealth, and population of this district. (Hear, hear.) 1 say, if we are to pay the taxes and sustain the burdens of this great empire, we have a right from our population and our wealth, and the intelligeace of this dis trict, to a representation in the House of Commons, which we have Now, there are goad men and timid men who probably, readiest what I am saying, will say that tnis tends to a wild and destructive dense:racy. (Hear, hear.) Nothing is more mistaken. (Cheers.) There is no destruction so entirely without remedy to a country as that which comes from a system ot government like that which is now being pursued, and has long been pursued in this country ; a system of government which makes it a point of spending as much as can be safely extracted from the taxpayer' ; a system of gove rnment which leaves millions of the people wholly ua enfranchised, and without the pale of the constitution ; which allows to grow up in their minds a distrust of all orders in society more elevated than themselves, and also breeds in their breast a contempt for law end government, such as, at some time ter other, when occasion often, may break out into the most disastrous convul-ions, overturning institutions bad and good alike. (Loud cheers.) Now, I would ask these good and these timid men whether there is anything in the government of this counqy that they would wish to have changed; whether there any reductian of expenditure, any improvement of any kind, which they think is necessary for the well-being of the country ? Let them look at this fraud which I have de scribed—this fraud of our represectation—and they will see at once that it selves the problem of all that is evil in our system of government. Your exports I suppose to be from 55 to 60 millions st ring per annum at the very mat; your taxes come to an equal sum. (Hear, hear.) I say it is not to be believed that an expenditure like this is hir the just and wise government of a nation. (Hear, h ear , end cheers.) And if we had a parliament fairly elected should we have those official jobs which are bang per petrated constantly, and which disgusts° many of the people? Have you read a letter which has lately been written by Su Charles Napier upon the subj ect ot the Admira l ty ? (Hear, hear.) He states there a fact which we might all have known by a simple addition sum, that from the year 1821 to the year 1949, the navy have had voted to them 157 millions sterling, and of this sum 44 mi ll ions have been absorbed by the dockyards. (Hear, hear.) Now horn 1821 to 1849 we have been in profound peace ; in fact the Eugll.h ships have had almost nothing to do ; end you have heard how they have spout their time in the Mediterranean and the Tagus— everywhere, in fact, where it was plemant. (Laughter and cheers.) But yet during that time the sum of one hundred and tiny millions sterling has been taken in the shape of taxes and headed over to this department. Toe woods and forests you have already baud spoken of, bat Mr. Gibson (error the b—t thing about it. I was looking over a map ot the woods and forests estates this monolog. and I found that there is one called the forest of Salcey, en Noreiamp.on, consisting of about 1,250 acres. The ranger ship or surreyorship of this forest has, for reasons which have never been disclosed—and I dare say never will be —been given to an unfortunate fellow who was an attorney's clerk at one time in the City of London. He went down to survey the forest of Salcey, and fee took it into his head ti appropriate it to himself; and before the Woods and Forests department found it ou, he had cut down the whole of the forest, and had sold it, t and pocketed the money. (Great Isughtera Now observe, we have a nobleman woo presides at the Woods and Forests at present, the Esnl of Carlisle; I believe, before him, Lord Liucoln. (.• Hear, hear," and laughter.) lam not sure under whose govern ment this perimeter act was committed; but these 'mole lards have received their salaries of 3,0001. or 4,0001 a year for performing thi duties of this office. Have they per formed Shale duties? (Nee no.) Has anybody performed t hem? No. Has not the property of the Woods and Forests been Blipping away year atter year, and no body has paid the slightest attention to it ? These noble lords are many of them pieced in offiso for purpo-es far more ornamental than ustful.' . (Laughter awl cheers.) And I believe, if we h tenting the nation, not th at the y would not have noble lords ad a parliament thoroughly re re ) office, but that they would have neither lords nor eons- o'c:ock. moans in Mies *be did aell deem habits of heals's% and • capacity ta mew the Milts which they undertook. (Cheers.) Noy, If we hags aselparikment, our colonial office would mos be so beelpemegeb to parliament cud to public opinion se it is at mesa& (Rear, ego) That in surrection in Canada some years ago, I bilis,' would Raver have talon place; and the difficulties which are now arising in Canada might have been avoided by a different system of government. (Hear, hear.) We should not have had the atrocities committed in Ceylon which have disgraced the country, and have covered with shuns the name of Lord Tor rington, who bas been sent cut as governor of that colony. (Hear.) And I don't suppose we should have had the difti culties that are now occurring at the Cape. The feet is, that our House of Common, is a great screen to the malvereatioes aed the evildoings of all these departments. And you would not require to sit more than one session is the House of Commons to discover that that house which professes to represent the people does not represent them, but does, con almost all occasions, screen the malversations and mis deeds which us constantly being brought to light in the various departments of the public service. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) And think you, it we had • House of Commons such es I have spoken of that for fifty years or more the condition of Ireland would have been so entirely saatteaded to as it has been until yecently ? I will mot egg MOM of Ireland, for it is too grave a subject to treat thee hisishatally; bat I will say, that its position is a standing condemnation ef the government and of the constitution of this kingdom& lam not speaking sentiments which I myself have taken up but tonight, fur they were told as distinctly when I wee a candidate for Manchester as they sue now. I have hell them for many years, and the additional experience I have pima from being a member of the House of Commons, hes only gone to confirm me still more in my belief of tee urgent necessity fur the changes which I am now advocatieg. (Lau i cheers.) And I have not made this declaratisn here only, but in the House of Commons itself I have, on more than one occasion—but on one occasion especially— frankly and openly stated these doctrines, and urged them for acceptance on the house. Of ceuri• the House of CAII- , mans will not reform itself of its own will. (Hear, hear.) But there is • r ction of a party there who can, at least, tell what the people wish upon this subject; and if the people choose, by emaciation and combination, they can at every election add largely to that party, aid they can at length correct ibis greatest and most fundamental of all our evils, namely, the existence ef a parliament that represents only • class of the people, and has but small sympathy with the great mess of the industrial population of the Unite! Kingdom. (" Hear, hear," and cheers) I have spoken these things in the Mouse of Commons on your behalf and in your names, and, as 1 bell ved, for your interests and your liberties; and I trust that I have not been mistaken in supposing that when I urged these views I was sup ported by that great and ictelligent boy by whom I was placed in parliament. (Loud cheers.) I would not, for the sake of pleasing you, abandon for a moment any thing that I hold to be so important and of such neces sity as this—(" hear, hear," and cheers)—but lam delighted to believe that as year passes after year, experience will only make • still larger number of yen come up to the standard of pilitical advancement which I set before you when I asked to be returned as your representative to the House of Commons (Cheers.) lam Beasible, deeply sensible, of the usmsrited honour which you conferred upon me then. I am sensible of the kindness with which you have re ceived my name to-night. I feel that although on many occasions I may fall short of that which you have a right to expect—(no, no)—yet that, at any rate, I have a zeal in your service, and in the service of the country and of this great cause, as fervent as ever warmed the breast of an man—(tremendous cheers)—and for that distinction which you have conferred upon me, and for that power which you have given me, I am willing to make all the return 1 can make, which is the devotion of my heart and of my in tellect to the advancement of those great principles with which your town and this district are so intimately saw elated. The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst en tnusiastic cheering, having spoken an hour and twenty-foes minutes. 1.1"1 CHAIRMAN then gave. " The members for the county, William Brown, Esq., and Alexander Henry, Esq." —Toe toast was cordially r ceived. THOMAS BAZLEY, Esq. (president of the Chamber of Commerce), responded on behalf of the members, who were absent. The CHAIRMAN gave, "The borough members general election committee." (Cheers.) GEO. WILSON, Esq., an chairman of the committee, re 'paneled. However merited the compliment might have been to the commie*, who secured the return of the rignt hon. gentlemen, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Bright, he believed I that his individual services entitled him to no such mark of distinction at their hands. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Joseph Brothertou lisq., the member for Salford." (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN proposed, amidst loud cheering, " W. J. Fox, Esq., and the liberal electors of Oldham." W. J. FOX, Esq , on rising to respond to the toast, was received with tremendous cheers. lie said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am with you a willing, sympathising, and an honoured guest, to join in that moat merited tribute of respect which you have paid to two men, than whom two shore able, trustworthy, or efficient representatives of the people are certainly not to be found in the House of Conb mons. (Chien.) Most hearuly do I sympathise with you, for it has 1 ng been my mental occupation and long the gratification of my heart, to witness th e course of these two honourable and patriotic men—the one of them eabedyiug the energy, the activity, the trutbfuluess, the Meedisess, the wisdom, and the justice of the industrial dress, and the other ef them exhibiting a career which to as has been full of the liveliest interest, and such as to excite a personal regard in his cause and progress which few public men are capable of exciting. (Hoer.) I have marked with lively interest his first uoble victory over the prejudices and the associations of his juvenile years. (Hear, hear.) 1 have since marked with similar interot the gradual develop• went of diversified powers, blending the accuracy of tae Kat'Cial, the ;weer and the clearness of logic the graces of wit, the humour of eloquence and of re fi nement, and tendering him subservient to the best and greatest or political purposes. (Cheers.) And I wish to supply an omission, I think, both on his put and on that of others, in what he said to-night of his own eon s:thee lie good humouredly remarked on what he deemed the cbeiroun's &widener to paint in glaring colours his cause and service ; but I think that he himself tailed on the other aide, and by which means places before you one or two cir cumstances which is alike due to himself and just in you that they should not go altogether unnoticed. (Hear, hear.) His becoming conduct, his spirited and well-principled con duct in retiring fr. m offirial lite because he would not cum promis the position of the representative of Manchester — (loud cheers)—that has been adverted to ; but, sir, I for one —I as a frotrader, and as one ef the people of England, desirous of just and cheap government, feel similar and perhaps equal obligations to Mr. Milner Gibson fur his pre vious acceptance of office as I did from his relinquishment of it. And now, air, to advert to the honour you have done me. I feel ttsat in conferring upon me the distinguished positii n of their representative in parliament, that the electors of (Salaam have imposed upon me more bemuse's than either they or I reckoned upon originally. Though, sir, you have coupled them with me, and with the well-deserved tribute to their patriotic and generous conduct in the sentiment brought before the meeting, the electors of Oldham are not praised by fres-traders only; awl if I am always to honour their praises, I must go into ether companies, such as 1 have not been accustomed to keep. I must come not only to Manche-ter dinners, but to Guildford dinners, and to the agriculturists and protec tionists of Surrey ; and there acknowledged the compliment tendered by Mr. Henry Drummond, when he told the far mers of Surrey to follow the Manchester school in this par ticular—that they returned their representatives without cost ; aad especially mentioned the electorsof Oldham, as worthy of their pisefu ll y andacknow imita tio ledge the com pliment in this rticular. (Cheers.) Sir, I graratep of the protectionist as well as of the free trader; but I cannot quite subscribe to the oundnese of the advice given by Mr. Drummond, in calling upon them to go and do likewise with my friends at Oldham ; forgetting that there was a very con siderable difference in the men and in their circumstances. I trust that the teachers of the Manchester school, those of its professors whom see as well as those who are absent, will take the w h in hand next, and that they will say to them wheny witness those sad aberrations and tervigersations to which they are too prone—" r o d," what does that spell? Laughter and cheers.) And if they do not find the answer ready, perhaps they will wake them first taste it and then kiss it. (Renewed laughter and applause.) I trust, as I have an educational character at stake, that nobody will suspect me by this illustration of beiug , favourable to corporal waterier, for what the whip need is not a COTe9rlll correction, but • gene ral correction. (Hear, beer) how you will support your members by up^olding the Financial and Parliamentary Ass.ciation and the Freehold Land Society, which are now spreading so rapidly throughout the country. But, whether in the Manchester school or elsewhere, I have learned a little lsrson of chronology which I will impart to the postbag. Mr. Fox then alluded to the antislavery agitation, which, he said, had occupied from about the year 1774 to 1834, a period of sixty years ; the catholic emancipation agitation occupied only thirty years; the reform agitation, alter the peace, fifteen years ; and the anti-corn-law agitation about seven and a half years. Now, if there was any truth in aethmetic—(hear, hear)—the present agitation would just take about three and three-quarter years. (Laughter and applause.) Trot was a shorter time than had been allowed by even the leaders ef the present agitation for any hope whatever of its success. (Hear, hear.) But mark the coincidence. The natural term of the present par liament's existence would he over in about three years and three Roorten, so that then it might be seen, at a new election, if the parliamentary retoemers did their duty throughout the country, by the horsing of some of the proud men who had ridden over large counties, by showing the general determination of the people to have a body in poliement to express their views—it they did their duty as honestly, deliberately, and as patiently, as the An 1- Corn-law Logue did—the approach of the prophesied period might see the people freely and fairly represented. — Mr. F s : it then, on behalf of himself and his Oldham consti tent having ezpressed his hearty thanks for the kind reception which had been awarded him, sat down amidst great applause. he Right Hon. T. M. GIBSON then proposed a vote of thanks to tee chairman, which was carried with acclamation, and she proceedings terminated at ten minutes after twelve OUR METEOROLOGICAL ReveitNs.—lt will be even, by reference to oar meteorological tables, that two alterations have been m►de ;—flrat, the various places are no longer arranged alphabetically, but is order of latitude; and, secondly, the returns, which from accident may have been delayed in arriving in due coarse, are printed the day after. Them changes have been made at the suggestion of Mr. Welsher, chief of the magnetic deputraent of the Green wich observatory. El E ' rift* Ma suet sa semi. her 4.n. ropes. a short limit _ iti.tuatitabl; (L ethers.) dug. the ',raid, flay know his r, sad ee s.w It bs a man of the tardy ( shawls. ii.), bow. lath of their N. ma tug farther, "The liurovgli mg. , hi. ) P., preataad an Mao enetriag. 4-1 1..1 highly MN rec. era l ell Oh bur. ugh. I Menne 'Laurel la ay pali =Homy nelli6 tit.. chair. set fa the habit Is that rival sad dam may amt. a suss °sambas haso mush, for re pal to assaluri nit +hick X% ") With ke is Ir.visz tba dead D.* motives awry dol. team — one ; but I *imply a b. th. •• efey of of lb. 11 use of rra to bib, rat the Lima , awl tad bly lay ~..•cauluit its sad it imasjyria. a BMW el COW know trairo asa mediaana y shoald ben w aumt 'Jimmy, bat 1 de to ore.: Iwo a m snow, tag the t. (Ilea-, bear.) t lea boos cal who were Mitre ieteries in which ma uW in parin g poliwelma of the a hear that this the " 31.ne.heswir to many Um ins- Wood town took a sinprovemuats tact Ist the crmpliment, ,itourad be the sr' ha tuna chat lb* partial character. tot be inure tarns Om Wl/ a p of its iaparti.lity, w hi c h would tll antercial, mamba- Rollie 01" lair pill aa.) Little hi we eon& eon. qualm:oh re bees sad. a ear eina leen will hme °wary. It enie set —as to imports ma ma the eommercial best.) 1a• Jot 11l be, that Me ems ,ides of eta old asi► ire platted spat tho will not he PO IN. by ni• n PAO* sad of thilt dal adesn'iligir. tt entirely, bat tO it duties, and la My' ly w ith y... 0 ellaailt a that roan will oak ▪ o n by g IverLialf hem eohnt , a—(ha M i nos to thaw rnatrat tpradeat t'o'rrid f Ism I Why. at tle 60 Cape area '''"" arena , from yea than r than be a nectar o block up their Pia sled threaten '0 nand tar, hem. and laugh' The al nits, sof y, will not attomit will not c Ata nt to 1 . 1 l sg few may ch oose y ; ants. (L vil.,ere ch at colonial e,• 100 andatioa—that sod persev.r d tee with the ovieifin tu l in. dm British e su bmit to 0s 1 6 1 when placed r, y ••• Wien. 1 sa Iris—to ',Tern chooser the piftwent wow t f ro st . Kula si fug -1.411,r -bi Ill" the British Eatbfq° ll _, cabala coatis!). a themaslme, i acv a may save a ll tras i. meat of tor' col ° l n it which I Wham will 7 el filmdom which MO RAGGED SCHOOLS. Although in the above locality the usual variety of free schools have been from time to time established, and to which recently had been added a ragged school, yet all have been found unequal to the rev:leen:vents of • district abound. ing in ignorance, where, in one small spot. out of 61 children under 14 years of age, 61 attended no se• oul whatever ; gad out of 33 adults, 16 were unable to read and but three at tended any place of divine worship. With a view to re medy these evils, a committee was formed to collect sub scriptions, for the purpose of erecting a building suitable to tne'vtaists of this destitute neighbourhood, to be called " Thelinxton Ragged Sellouts ;" and, upon application, a most appropriate site was liberally presented for the purpose by H. C. Stull, BK. Notwithstauding that the subscriptions were still 4001. below the amount required to complete the building, the o ramittee, feeling confident or being supported by the in. habitants of this inality, determined upon commencing the undertaking, and yesterday was fixed for performing the ceremony of laying the f undation stone, which the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., had k redly undertaoen to perform At two o'clock precisely the noble 1 rd, accomputed by two of his sons, arrived on the ground, and were imme diately conducted to" the stCh.e," which was suspended be neath the marquee, and bore the follo 'ring inscription : "HOXTON RAGGED SCHOOLS —The freehold site on which these schools are erecteo was this gift of H. C. Stunt, This stoae was laid by the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., Deo. 11, 1849. 'A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of him tt at hath it: withersoever it turneth it prospereth.'—Prov., chap. :TH., verse B.—Clientre Rooxe, Esq,_ Treasurer; June TARRING, Esq., Architect; B ILSB HONETWILL, builder." The proceedings commenced with a hymn composed ex pasty fur the occasion by Mr. T. Pepper, which was meet effectively sung by the large concourse of assembled spec tators. The Rev. W. bliall having invoked a blessing on the undertaking, Mr. Ansell then handed to his lurdship the elegant silver trowel, upon which was eneraved a front view of the intended building, and delivered an addtess appro priate to the occasion. The usual formalities having been gone through, Lord ASHLEY said : It is not by any means necessary for me to enlarge upon the necessity and value of ragged schools, for the large assemblage be ore me shoes that they feel a necessity for their establishment in this locality. It is not possible far the rich or for government tu take the entire charge of the great duties required by the existing state of things in reettect to the large mass of di siitute children : such required the aid of all classes and degrees. Recently many emigrants had been sent from the Rugged School to her Majesty's . ; Monies who had been received in the most wretched condition. From these several letters have been received, one from a boy who had been only 3 months instructed as a shoemaker, whs had mule an excel. tent pair of slippers, which I believe I am to have tt.:: honour of wearing. That bey has written home to say that on his arrival, t 3 his surprise, his trade being known, he was immediately engaged at 304. a week. lie further wrote, "'Pell Sarah," I believe it was Tomitins, my sweetheart, if she will come over and bring my little sister, I will pay her passage, and marry her the moment she com es out. (" Hear," and laughter.) No lees than sixty letters of a similar character have been received. With such encourage ment, then we will rake the gutters and mire, and there find jewels as precious as ever adorned a coronet or a crown. I thank Ood for having put into your breasts to proceed with this undertaking and to act in the spirit of the donor of this site. Dr. Buras, Mr. Payne, the Rev. C. Dicks, and other gen tlemen, addressed the assemhlage ; and the following sub scriptions were announced : IL C. Stun, Esq. (in addition to the freehold site), 1001. ; 8 A. liankey, Esq., 601. ; the Committee, 251.; Lord Ashley, 51. ; Bail, Eiq., Si.fts. 6i. ; Doodd, Esq., 51. be. ; &c. &c. The Rev. W. Wall oaring pronounced the Benediction, the eoremdny concluded. The building is to he plain nod unostenutioas; but spa cious. The architecture is in the Tudor style ; the material brick, with stone dressings. I extreme height will be 30 feet, depth 70 feet, width 20 feet, giving sctouf room for the sccommodati in of 400 clildren, and private rooms for the muter and mistress. The interior has what is called an open roof formed of stained wood, and the building is to be completed by Feb. 1, 1850. PHILLIP'S' GARDEN ItitCOED SCHOOLS.—Tie an nual meeting of this institutton was held yesterday evening at the Idusic4rall, Store-street; Mr. 11 Cableat in the chair. The report slated that the day echool had been carried on during the year with steady suocesa. The ge number attending had been 90, and the government inspector having examined the children, had expressed himself highly ea lifted with their knowledge and ability. The evening school, not withstanding a deficiency of teachers, had been increasingly useful. It was cx.nductad gratuitously by gentlemen, and was opened on Tuesday. and Fridays from 7to 9 . The ave rage attendance was 65. The girl.' working school was open ou Weenesdays and Saturdays from 2 to 4, being kindly at tended by ladies ; and its operations had produced an impor tant change in tie appearance, habits, and industry of the children. During the past year there had been made by the children, 25 cotton frocks, 30 flannel petticoats, 2.5 pinafores, and 19 woollen frocks; and the sum of 31. Ils. had been received from the children towards the purchase of these articles. Sixty five children bad availed themselves of the advantages of a clothing fund, by which clothes were obtained at a bonus of fourpence on every shilling de waited. The library appeared to be regarded as a great boon. The number of hooks given out to read during the year was 2,600-1,400 to girls and 1.200 to bays ; the num ber of readers, 120-70 girls and 50 boys. Divine service was conducted every Sunday evening at half-past six. The attendance on the first Sunday was 30, and on the second, 70. One great feature in the school was, that many of the chi!dren had been led to join the natiouel day schools, and many to go to the national Sunday schools and to attend the church service. The committee expressed regret at having been hitherto unable, for want of funds, to establish industrial schoo's for the teaching of trades to boys, and cNtreated eubscritrions to enable them to accept the conditional government grant. During *he past year 941. 13s. 102. had been received, and the expenses had been 1001. ss. 144., leaving a Whence due to the treasurer of 51. Us. 34d. On the motion of the nee. Mr. Laing, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Oarbett, the report was unani mously adopted. On the motion of the Re v . W. Cadman, a rest lotion declaratory of the necessity for incr. aced exer tion on behalf of the institution was oleo agreed to. WRECK OF SIX VESSELS ON THE GUNFLEET SANDS.—On the night of Friday last no less than six yea.l were lost on these dangerous sands; flee of them were deeply coal-laden ships belonging to Newcastle and Shields, the other was a foreigner: all wets on their passage to London. The night was exceedingly dirk, thick, and rainy ; the wind was blowing strong from the eastward, with a great deal cd sea, and a strong ebb-tide. The vessels had each paired the Sunk-light in safety, between which and the Middle light there is a long, narrow, and dangerous navigation ; with the Gunfieet Sands on one side, and the Heaps on the other. Unfortunately, also, the Middle-light cannot be seen until the Sunk has been left a cmaiderable distance ; in • dark night, therefore, the navigation is exceedingly difficult. On Friday, each vessel struck the sands between this in tervening spice, for although the right bearings were got on leaving the Suck, the tide, from the vessels being deeply laden, set them gradually out of the pro per channel, and carried them on to these fatal sands. In all probability, also, one vessel misled the other, as they grounded very near to each other. H.M. cutter Scout soon got tiding of the disaster., and hastened to the assistance of the crews, who had wisely remained on board their Teasels. Providentially, they were !mud without the loss of a man. One collier was, by assistance, got off, and made for Yu ' mouth; the Scout succeeded in getting another off, but after being in deep water half-an-hour, she filed and went down: the other vessels became total wrecks, but we learn they were all insured in the Northern Clubs. The crews were con veyed to Harwich; but we understand the Shipwreck Society there refused to relieve them, on the ground t hat though applications had frequently been made, the New castle Society refamd to refund moneys that had before been paid in similar cues by the Harwich Society . On Monday afternoon, the united crews, amounting to about 30 men, had • free passage to Ipswich by the River Queen. The scene on board was of the most extraordinary and affecting description. The rough, weather-beaten seamen, who had gone through the perils of that night with un daunted courage, were, in the review of it, completely over whelmed with gratitude to God lot his mercy in granting them deliverance. A subscription for the seamen was made on board, Mr. George naniotne heading the list by a generous sum. On their arrival in Ipswich, they pro ceeded by train to London. We sincerely trust this heavy calamity will induce the Admiralty to place a light between the Sunk and Middle lights, In order that that lariat:ea channel may be more safely navigated.—lpsseich Express. BURGLARY AT THE RECTORY HOUSE, CUETOX.--• At the county magistrates' office, Rochester, on Monday, Thome* Godden, alias Tnomu Geddes Jones, was brought before the Rev. G. Davies, Captain Baker, and Major Whys, for final examination, charged with having on the morning of Thursday lent burgluiuuslv entered the residence of the Rev. R. W. Shaw, at the Rectory-house, Caxton, near Rochester, and stolen therefrom five seals, of the value of M., three saver medals, a pocket-compass, and various other articles. The family, it appeared, retired to rest at the usual hour on the preceding night, leaving all apparently secure. Shortly a fter four o'clock next morning Mr. Shaw was disturbed by a noise below, and having listened for a few minutes he dressed himself, and went down Mike, accompanied by • servant, when he found the drawing-room window thrown open, and a pane of glass removed from it. An Indian cabinet had been broken open, and several ar.iclsa taken away. There were drippings from • wax ca,dle on the carpet, and same lucifer matches were also bound in the room. The prisoner was taken into custody is the course of the same morning on the road between Cuxton and Graves end, and on searching him various articles were discovered which confirmed the suspicidn that he had perpetrated she robbery. He was committed to Maidatone Gaol for trial at the next assize. HUNGARIAN REFUGEES IN LEITH.—A respectable and influential meeting was held e n Saturday, in the hell of the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh, to devise means fur the relief and assistance of a party of thirty-seven Hunga rian refugees, principally military officers of rank, woo bed arrived at Leith on Tuesday evening from Hamburg, ea route to the Unit. d States of America. 11r. John Ritchie, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, was in thechair. After a lengthened discussion , a committee was appointed to collect sub criptions for the relief and assistance of the Hun garian refugees. DUBLIN, DEC. 11. A Captain Watson, of the county of Carlow, be came notorious a few years ago by a charge made agUnst him of being one of half a dozen magistrates who, at the approach of some important trials, struck off the jury-list the names of some 330 catholic jurors. The charge, as the tory newspapers allege, was in vestigated and proved to be false ; but how far this may have lx on the ease, or whether any of the charge was left unmasked, I am not prepared to state. However, it appears that this Captain Watson has been on two occasions since that time, placed first in the list of High Sheriffs - for the county, and been each time passed over in the pricking of the lists. The second of these occasions has just occurred, as announced by the Clonmel Chronicle, and will be made a case of bitter hostility and abuse against Lord Clarendon by the tory portion of his Excellency's enemies. • There is naturally very little co-operation or good Ullowship between our Chancery judges and the In cumbered Estates Commission. IVeither party will have anything to do with a case in which the other is ell,wed to meddle. Take as an instance the fol lowing announcement from the Press of yesterday evening : The blaster of the RAI, will not appoint a receiver, on petition, on any lands brought into the Incumbered Eetates Cann, except at the cost of the party applying. Furtne r, if any apple:atm be made for a receiver, in respect of lands so circumstanced, and the court be not apprised of the lac . , the order sill be rescinded, with costs, to be paid by the s,licitor presenting the petition for the receiver. Tim NENAGH CnAPEL At FAIR.—We find that the R man catholic parishioners of Nenagh memorialised Dr. Slattery, the Roman catholic archbishop, to interfere iu pro curing the applintment of the Rev. Mr. Power to the pa rish. The reply of Dr. Slattery was, that he had no power to interfere. The petitioners are now rewlved, it is stated, to make an appeal to the Pope.—Clare Journal. FINE ARTS. AWARD OF PRIZES AT TIIE ROYAL ACADEMY. Oa Monday took place the annual distribulon of prizes amongst th 2 successful students in the different departments of their art. From fifteen to twenty medals were given, exceeding the usual number, the spirit of emulation being seemingly stronger and the power of competitors more balanced than hereto fore. For " the golden medal" there were only three candidates; the subject was "The Act of Mercy," one aff riling wide range to the fancy, and calculated to humour the capabilities of eacb, in the way they wishe I to embody the sentiment. Mr. Vinter, who won the prize, has worked out his moral by representing " Blanche of Castillo liberating captives who had b..en irnpr'soned by the chapter of l'aris in 1252." Colour, composition, and expression are admirable, as well as the drawing of the ddferent parts, whether of the light playing round the he roine's visage or the expression of gratitude in the re leased. This is, we is here, Mr. Vinter's first work, which is just visible in the timidity of secondary parts, which reply requires another effort to wear off. It will be only entering in the spirit of the given subject, not to mention the ?times of the two other competitors. To the sculator was &Hatted for illustration the " Rape of Proserpine ;" though it may be doubted whether anything Privet may be got out of ni% thology : the reminiscences of the antique with which it is connected make a due observance of " forms" imperative to render it tolerable. The most healthy bas-relief is by Mr. Phiriek, and to him has been awarded the prize. The composition iv skilful, and he has increased the capabilities of the subject by making it an "upright." Two prizes were given for copra from an allegorical subject by Tint retto, which was brought from Hampton Court for the pur pose. The remainder were clever and elaborated drawirgis from the "Faun nursing the Infant Bac chus." CLERICAL. ORDINATION.—At asturclinstion holden by the Lord Thaloput Peterberungh, at the cathedral, on Sunday, the 9th instant, the following gentlemen were admitted into orders, : DEACONS. John Foster, M.A., Maud. C 11., CAmbridlre. Remy Jobs (hotrod, Birkenhead Theolopeal Coll. Edward Thomas hiortlock, B A.. Caius Coll., Comb. Bowden Aldersay Taylor, B.A , Bt. John's Coll., Oxon. raisers. Richard Boyer, 13 A., Trinity Coll, Comb. Richard Woldam o.4dart, B.A Clara Hall. Censh. Archibald Henry Marling, B A., 'frinity Coll., Dublin. Edward l'enaelley, B A., Corpus Christi Cull., Climb. Hun. Charles Frederick Octavius Spencer, KA., Clare Hall, Comb. Munich Schuyler Sutton, 8.A., Exeter Coll, Oxon. Edward Fyley, 8.A., Trinity Coll., Oxon. Cruome All ,a Wickes, B A., St. John's Coll., Oxon. And immediately afterwards the Lord Bishop granted the following licenser, v;r:. :-11, v. John Foster, St. Nicholas C., Leicester : Rev. H. J. (Jarred, St. Katherine's C Mgthampton ; Rev. E Mortlock, Tiawell C. • ' Rev. 11. A., Ducldirkton, C. ; RP,. A. 8. Batton, Roan ts, C.; WY It W. Oa lart, Little Billing, C. Patronage:rm.—The Rev. Robert Rolleaton has been Ns need by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the etiradiary curacy of ROA, in the minty of Westmoreland, on the nom i,,ati. or, of the Rev. Pletcher Fleming, the tocutabent of the am- church. Tne Rev. William Spooner Houle, M.A., has been licensed ho the L ,rd Bhhop of Chester to the stipendiary curacy of We certain, in the c runty of Cuester, on the nomisarivn of the Bev. C. S. Stanhope, the incumbent. - - The Rev. C 0. Rasa igh, fellow at Winchester College, has been presented to the limos( of Hatable, Hants, dio. Winc..csiat ; vale., 361., with residence; pat., Wiothester College. The Rev. P. C. Nicholson, B.D. (1848), Trinity Col lege, C. of St. Clement DA%,..1, LAdon, and Albemarle lecturer, by the Dean and Chap' r of Manchester, to St. Philip. P.C., &sherd, Manchester; value, 4101.; vice, Rev. Isaac Robley, dec. Tie Nev. Evan Price, Incumbent of Dunston, to the per petual earacy of Coppenhall, Staffordshire; di)., Lich.; value 851.; patron, Lord Netherton. Vac/et:cr.—The perpetual curacy of Bt. Barna ,, a. Church, Liverpool, by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Nolan. NAVAL Wootwrcit, Dec. 11.—The Lords of the Admiralty haw inn consulval those officers uho are beet calculated to form a judgment on the question of the safety of Sir John Freckle, and bis probable position, have det.nnined immediately to St out the B,ter rise and:l+.ves•ica , or again, and to despatch them forbwith via Gape Bora to Beknngs Straits. Orders were forwarded last night to Wollwielt to copper and fit out tho ve•erls wi'h all pos•ible deaf web. end a number of work men will be immediately employed in making the necessary repair+. &c.—Tiger, st.•fri4 , has been towed from Chatham to Bl,ckaull, and taken into the East India Dock-basin to have her bailers and machinery fitted. - - - • • - ItIZE Moves.—THE ACT.CON.—Notice is given in but night's Gazette, to the con= .Ltore, captain, otfizers and ship's company of her Majesty's ship Act mu, George dental. Esq., captrin, that an account of money received for the capture of tne Brazilian schooner Astrca, on t h e 9th of S prember, 1847, will be depositA in the registry of the Hugh Contrt or A.lntiralty, pursuant to act of parliament. — JOHN CHLPPEND•LE. Agent. THE SAMAKANG. — In the Gazeite of Friday last, the pr money advertiseu as payable to the officers and new of her SL,je.tt 'm ship Samarane, will be payable on 27th inst., it.steed of 29nh met., as therein stated. MILITARY. fr0at t.3:1,7 7 ,,... :: . ,:h vb.„ L e t..: 3 7 0,;w : h 0 050 (From la.t night's Garotte.) WAR-OFFICE, Die. 7. 10th Lt. Drag.-LicuL R. W. ILtrneto, from the 13th U. Drage" 10 be kat., vice BI dr, who exchanges. 11th Lt. Inners - lAeut. E J. IS BLAIR, be 'mut , nee Hatfield, who exchanges. Ist (or Re pt.) 8.-et. of F.-Ene. 11. W. Tsars, to be adj., vice Bid goad, who rveigns the adjutancy only. 82t1htthurm.b-i".-31Ens'aiwl.oltjlfRIehC.I.317j:geL:7:14no lo hom be :ev e rem. ; Ens C. F. Ge_vioffe, from the 17th F., to be en*., v. Holland. Slat F.-Maj. F. D. Ltmurr, fit= tab. F., to be maj., vice Brutike. who exchanges. 32nd F. -Ens. A. D. li.r . =wean, from 76th F., to be ens, vice staple' ton, app. to Itrd I. 33th Y.-Lieut.-Col. A. Tension from h.p. twat., to b.,1eut..(30L. vice B. F. U. Wilson. who exchanges 1 43rd E.-Lient. D. C. Oneena to be rapt., by P b nee cow. who :eta.; Ens. Hon. IL Waorriativ to be lieut., y pur., vicv Greene Eno. P. O. rirrieLators from the .i2nd F., to be ems, nve Lord Luca wan, app. to the 76th F. 4813. F.--tiapt. J. W. herrn to be ntsj , c, by par., vice Brev. Llent cA. Bruce, who reta.; Lieut. G. A. Roar:mon to be rapt., by Par, vice Bmith ; Ena. K. M. ILits. to be lieut., by par., ic e Itobalson. 6 ith F. - Fan. H. 0. Gevua, to be , lieut., by pur., vice it one, who Teta.; Lieut. W. BaJJ., to be adj., vim Burne, who 1,6. the ed. jutancy. 76th F. -Ens C. L. LUROAN, front the 43rd P.. to be ens, %ice Ifirita .1 wood, slo p, to the 32nd F. 3 r d W. i g..0.-staff Aadet.-Surg. T. Mammas, to be a. , int..sorg„ .( r ., i k .,,k, d ., vice who exchanges. o e y to n Kite R•gt.--See. Lieut. W. J. Goantair, to be adjutant. tlement, promoted. Esarricsino.-11revet Lieut...CoL A. TMIA.IIS, from the 33th F., to . be (hut...col, without put. PA. : v.:T.- fo b. intj.ire in the erotic , in the E int In Vt..- MALOII_4, of the let Regt. of Bombay Native Infantry. Quit. N. B. CitswarsL us, of the 16th Regt. of Bengal Native Infantry. 1/..PIU. twat r.-404arg. It. T. Dsutma, from the 3rd Wert lndrt Regt., to be amist..mtrg. to the forme, vice M4naJra, who examen. .