The Express. — London, England, 1849-04-13 00:00:00

co mplete& ai d the directen mut, therefore, rely • proprietors' suali Ince is their maaagement, whilst re for th e punt any eaplanuksa as to the d- tulle of eft wegraiatkass • bat they can emirs the skarehuli re we Author sal' es the Mares is astkipatod, either for g,. repel Of ossepl• deg the Breen &nide or for the re • of the ship Tank Alter taking taco fall son. all the affairs of the umpany, the dinners feel satideetim that they sea resuanteod the de ef a dividend km ON last sla memths of the year p o p,gibe rate et 21. per sham free of biome taa, payable .. Ra g from the 17th lastast." ""t ke CHAIRIIAN did rot feel it neouary to maks any oureatieem en the denumeat which had been reed to the yo u* mid should content himself by inanely moving that • mpest be adopted and printed fur circulation IMO/ g use r oom hi the anal manner. If say gentleman had any e kesnadedo to maks upon the report before its adoption wig outing the preseat wea the porn time for their sahmitred. Mr. TOlrlf DER having seconded the motion for agrees, lone folowl• gr. RIDGWAY rose sad staled that he had drawn oat aststmeat, which he read, which s•atement he thought o pilattorily mond that the proprietors ought not to • satiLied with the divelend of 21. per share, yes of income Utz, for the last sit months, as ~ c post•l in the report. He sated whether, after Wag all the laws and canelties which they had eoesia.d, they ought not to have an addition to it dividend as proposed by the dirt ctn., sad ha being of at elision thereto,* would propose that theses otilk. per j eis be added to the dividend now pump 4 The amendment woe then put, hut fell to the ground in marrquesce of its au being seconded. Aftee some farmer disc...mon, the report we. agreed to, mined to be printed, and caudated am mr g the pro Oyu. rs. !be CHAIH![AN them intimated that the dividend mould b ge erza i lde am end slur the 17th iostaut. In en-wir to • fru a pr..poistor the dieing/as observed that he had sever heart of security being regrind hose the captain of a• alp Is incur a penal . , it he lost his vowel. The emptily bed *dosed the b. a. -cause they scant to their 0810Ial by plying tut at liberally, as t it tney were caroler* they wire dfamk+st; that wee the estent of punishment that bad hitherto ben weaned to them. The guanines so to whether simething o aft not he elected In order to make captains sore isareent wee under the consideration of the director. John lyd g , Eq., an.: Charles Willosoi Short, were welesitd dietician, sad Atnbun George ILbarts, Esq., was ioclrievd auditor The CHAIRMAN, In answer to a question from another peril 4, told teat everything h.d Men done in order to press the of the colotany upon the estate of Aeraman and Ce., tf Bristol, hut he was isfr.iid then; wool! not be a pea sant g from that soars*. Darks .-tre tun voted to the chairman end directors, bsrine b..eu responded to, the chairman quitted the and the Re. Lag separated. EAST INDIA-HOUSE. mast place 6,000 ad.litional liberal meesters ow the re rimer. He now told them they molt place 6,000 wore. (Hear, hear.) The amount of iratharimm which they got up at melt eniestings se the pneeet must not be the test of their sincerity ; bat each iadvidael should endeavour to show hie eamestaeoi im the Ganes by silently working day by day ie the Mop or in the street. One veto, it should be re melabercd, ma worth a thousiutd Moms. (Cheers.) And it wee only by wilful organisation and watchful attention to their interests tbat they cou!d hope for • moms% to ottani as their member • maa who truly represented their mad mate. (Applause.) The toast with which he had hem entrusted referred to international arbitration. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) What could be add apes that subject had bees so well said by gr. Ceram that if he (Mr. 841 y) should endeavour to add ir e a n d ythingitweald he like an attempt to " mist the lily or to the rose." (Criss of "04 on.") He mast also mealiest at there were amay elegasat tea tlemsw to follow him ; sad lie bad else la kis mind a certain Premiums who, when gelled epos to my slam easeinknis to ma Englishman is Paris, mid, " Thu ipmallemsa hes a great tales( for silence." If any remarks he bad imaidid to make were worth hearing, they would no deisla keep, sad he might have as oppartuaity sometime soma of saying what be had to say in his own diarist. He begged, therefore, to preps— " M ay laternstionsl arbitntios be adopted In ell our future treaties with forein nations, and speedily supersede the %inches lan appeal to the sword in the settlensent of national' disputes." The toast was received with cheers. The CHAIRMAN—I have now great pleasure is calling num sty ?neat Mr. Itieklethwalte to peeps* the nest tout. (Cheese.) J. MICKLETHWAITE, Eq., alderman, Wakefield, said, Mr. elminsaa and patleseen. I rise to propose to you the name of $ gentimeas whisk I ma sum you will all re rim with enthusiasm I beg leave to propose the health of Mr. Bright. nramenm chemise, *hid was proloogsd for some time.) He had heard it said that one vote was worth a thousand rimers ; but, rill, melt geodes sheets se those did • ma's firm Fri when he cams to Yorkshire. (Ap- please.) He lnagid to repose— Mr. Bright,the undaunted obis:spies of civil, religiose, and emassersiel (readout." JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., then roes, and was re setuel with a hard of applause which lasted for several adautee. When dime had been obtained, the hos. gentle man spoke u follows : —lf my one now present, before en tering this room, felt dispirited at the pea ion of public affairs in this country, and at the apparently slow progress which the great principles are making—end t confess I had no such feeling—l think the aspect of this assembly, its numbers, its straneth, its undoubted intelligence, its seal and resolution, and the manner in which it has received my friend the member for the West Riding—(" hear hear , and applause ) — the manner in which it has 'mussed its ap probation of those great ant statesmanlike views which he has laid before the meeting—l say all this is admitted to dispel any want of cherrfalnees, if such might have existed before the meeting in the mind of any penes now present. (Cheers) But I confess that, for myself, I am disposed to take a cheerful view of the position of English polities at the present time. (Hear, hear.) There we many symptoms, I think, before us, which show that we are at least making es great • progress as our fathers did at my former period, end greater progress, probably, t t greater ends, then we otarselms bus witnessed dairies the few years la which we hem been engaged in publ c life. (Hear, hear.) There is one circumstance which strikes me se not a little singular, and that is, that almost all the dinners, public sere, that are given and eaten, and a great majority of the path* meetings that are held throughout the country, are hell asiort a different dam, for different objects, on dif ilfeent principles, so these that we nave been accustomed to read and hear of in past years. (Hear, hear, and cheers) I have bees endeavouring to look back to the time when the last great tory dinner or banquet was gives. (Laughter and cheers.) And I do most solemnly dukes that I am rot able to recollect one of any political impeet asee, except, I think, (DIN or some, that took place jut be. fors the tortes obtained power is the year 1841. (Hear, hear.) That party then made • great rally for what to them was a great object, the possession of place and the perpetus dos of the monopoly in core. (Hear, hear.) The other meat constitutional and trwlitional party, the whigs, are very much in the same position. They have held no great meetings, no ereat banquets, for exclusively whist_ objects, I believe, for about twelve year". (Hew, and applause.) Pot', from 1837, they may be described as a party fretful of going along with their heretofore supporters, and therefore losing hold of the enefidenee of the country, and becoming small ard select, rather then great and powerful. (Heir.) The last time we heart of them, I believe, et a political dinner, was et Gresuwich or Blackwell, when the cabinet suiristers mem bid to eat large quantities of whitebait. (Hear.) A few of them, I believe, mos that time, a few of the more anti quated, have dined at scam club in St. Jameesstreet, and called themeless " The still-existing Fox Club;" but there is no great san -cable like this. (Hear, hear.) There gra no meat sesemblles lake there that have been held of recent times in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. (Cheers.) It is not now parable, In any part of the kintadoro, to sell together great and enthusiastic assemblies of oar country men, to welcome with loud applause the worn-oat principles wad policies of the two parties by whom this country has, until now, been governed. (Applause.) The fact Is that there is a nee element lIROWIIII to great magnitude in all parts of the Veiled Kingdom; that good sense which, notwithstanding our many blunders, still does prevail am rugthe English people, is gra d ually —l would say rapidly '—wing throes* ell the debasion. which have bees practised upon our fathers a.td upon ourselves. (Cheers.) And we ere about to brash away from the scene, mach of that which hem heretofore bate looked upon with reverence and with awe, as though it was necessary to the greatnew of a east people. (Hear, bear, and chests.) That very movement which was only in progress to its final maws the lest time that I had the pleasure of meeting a large assembly in this room,—that great movement has done marvellous thine' for England b-sides haulm down the price of ems. (Hear, hese.) It has taught men to love and value the principle' which have been enunciated here to night,—principles which show that the political rulers of pest asps have either not known or have wilfully concealed from the people principles which are irfinitely more essential for our well bring, and for our per manence as • nation, than any of those bold and empty phrases by which, in past times, they had beguiled us. (Chien.) I look back to that seven years struggle as a struggle far many victories in one. (II -er, hear.) 'Ti. true we spoke of free trade and abolition of the restrictions upon imports of corn ; but we taught the people that there hero nations all over the earth, maces like this nation in the eye of heaven—nations like this nation, which might Intik^ greater progress did all the maims of the earth understand each other, —(hrar, hear)—and wren they ltherattal cross the shackles of prejudices which had hype them in hostility, and which had prevented their mutual improvement and prosperity. (Cheers.) Now, what could he more practical, whet could he more rational, what could be mere worthy of our serious attention, than those projects which have been laid before us this night by me hon. friend, your representative ? What can have come over thin country, whet can we t ave been living under, that any 'can shall get up and say these things are impracticable schemes. sod merely the projects of a visionary mind? (Hear, hese.) Why, if we bad never read those absurd histories which we studied when we were children, and which unfortunately we too much Relieved now we are men—if we had not looked bark, as if it was true, upon all those effigy which have bees told us of the wisd on of many of oar sne-stors who wen not very wise, and the greatness of some of our tratesmen who were not very great—if we came to look at thus osestioss as if we could shut out all the past —there is not a man here there is not a 112411 in Yorkshire—there is not • man in Bag land, who would net say be looked upon this project as a project which we ought to have adopted long ago—(cheers) ; that it ought not to have bum now, in this year 1849, that we propose rearechauut, a great disbanding of our forces, and the abolition ot:mneeemary expenditure, that these one rous government taxes should have 011111= for the flit time to be thus seriously considered by the people. (Loud chum) I said there were symptoms abroad which prevented me from; feeling any despondency. I came back only to you last county election. I won't go into the question as to who differed, and upon what they differed that has nothing at all to do with the argument which I draw from it. (Hear, hear.) There may lave been mistakes, more or less, on both sides, and misunderstandings which will not occur again. (Cheers.) But this fact cannot be concealed, end here must be declared, that somewhere about 12,000 electors of this riding voted in favour of principles, of opinions, set forth by • candidate—l maintain in the face of all who may contradict it—opinions more truly liberal than any county candidate, I believe, in any county in Busked. (Gnat cheering) It is perfectly idle to say that thee. 12,000 men are hereafter to be counted nothing in she emer gent Mon of this gnat division of the county. My friend Mr. Cobden referred to the Hampshire election, end I thought he spoke rather severely of these femurs who bad been making an effort to set up for themselves. (Laughter and applause.) I admit the truth of what. ha says as to the great mistake they commit if they keg they an ever set up spinet the equine, to get a roaming which 'the squires themselves admit they eannot get. (Hear, bear.) Their only th anes of claim anything is is man. They have the class, which is their equal class, is social radio°, in the towns ; end the sooner the great body of tenant farmers of this country come alknow that their interest. are not with the leaded proprieties, bat with the people lo the towns, are, is fee, with ell the member, of tree trade societies—the sooner will they accomplish anything for themselves. (Applause.) But stall I would rather see even that terrible andthat spasmodic action on the part of the farmers of Hampshire, ay, or say other county or constituency, than that d, hopeless , stagnancy in wttieh county districts' are generally line. (Hoar, hear.) Why, is the Memo of Commons, on last Tasedey night bat one—that was the day 44 the election—it was be that Mr. Shaw was returned for Hampshire; and it was stated to me by many, whose authority ayes of the BM kind in the house, that they be lieved Mr. Portal, the squire candidate, mead ant have • dance—in fvet, thattharne wee scarcely anybody for him ; and these is no doubt whatever that bat for theta:emulsion which kos already be en alluded to, Mr. Shaw would have been esegrawl by a large majority. As it was, he polled between WM reil SOD votes, and the 'neonatal candidate only some- Mang Mu 1,100. t 'Chistm.) But the reformers are ring to re eater... and they say that by mether electies they will have a great many 'more on the register, end the the 300 y o ke now against Atm will he cheated to a majority in their g eo m. (Load comm.) Well, thr Hampshire 14111111T5 are lemming something a Adis they am imam, to try f ar a little independence. (H.Nar, hear ) And whilst they are registering these Lundrees of votes at a tfme, I hope they mill pith up a little Gomm ethrer sod thy when there does cows a stray le "gas, we shall if Myer. it aw bu ha g d ilt bee wi n th retarn a (Hearbettteithurr") Btatthall'ak• see of the horoefoe in your own esounl—Sheilleil--at this =smut. A radium is ablest sa Lee Mussed for that Yttt•rday a Cum tof Directors was held at the lot Itftio-hraw , , when the new (limy' , elected on Wed. pa ce! Isar—rit.. 8:r Rohs rt Calaph.H. Bart., William jemayk Itattwbeh . Bag . Bir James W.ir gar, Bart., Vest - OA What& Hoary Bak.* J he Clorraaht Whiteman, bi., a:d Bir H. sr: Wi !wit, K.L.B.—took tho oath and dew aeais. hiej .r-broas.wl 84 Archibald 0 .B.away, K.C.8.„ ents eh I*n. Chainav , an.. Joh* Bteph. rd, Esq., Deputy. Chaitson, to :he year ineraimg. CORONERS' INQUEST, YESTERDAY. A CIIILD BOIL‘T to DZATlL—llefore Mr. Bedford setae in MO, Carty-etre en the bnuy M Joel Harris, eyed t t-re yewv• wise at. d under the following dreadful sie nna:mt. s:—Th:. Oman d Heed with his parent. I s Y ates *. • as. Carws•etrem, lesewinh , en. On Wednesday th• dli'd s mitt went to e. e of CFe upp, r yawns wit'• a e•e+. end 6 ...Jinx Ott dose Ivo Itched she left the og re the • ;r •ettile the went dw eke key, Led the de pend attot'tor e thl t'ere left s'ettdhtet en ..kw drip tt• ti t • mite, whisk wa• quite at of the way d bie The servant had kw% live down "'btu she Mad ei bet wr.e..tna end to Jog baelt end stetted the dodo of the d in•tt, i &at s na tow ea..d ht the Land elbewher . Tim Hen .1 re 'min tr•lard a• we as , a+ 4 h •re tat nto the Kia t h College Ll spiel, m e Moe. d• • Me. 6 1 r, Oh, tone. tureen, ; b e t h e Wee ▪ iret ••Stftj t.t' w I 'e, n...t, eel that be essay-') ..1 wh at • • Tie jury returned .1 verdict of oNiigata! Asa h WEST f•IDI NG BANQUET, IN HONOUR 07 D COBDEN, ESQ. M.P W. y- • te• y -,1•71` r• pat cf M•*. Cobden's I meek m• 0.• IC ' ! die tr. Ws zoo T.:, or the remain-' b a p .e.t.•- Tit .t.,s ..T4 tnpo-a " Thr -oPP.rt•ri of W. Cris! savour e , N 0... i 1 TlPi.olUo. sad may Dr ;a no er a he pp .piss d ht the dream s rime w a se.. • • 1.1 4.4.14 po J.aurit uA1..311.1LL, Zig , toward sseos 71 ceived with egg's .v ll^ iss klr. Minions sad geolve.v,—After the W stot •x* si-ti eery/wee% we bemoan listen. d tes oilers molt shoo he. w• I sot boormo um .oil.irces you at De ; hot, c.o.'s I mosy array, I 'Loll sot De hash v y ray vivo of Vic boo iur y bans sop 4 . • 3 s I. gmy a I:4* wthth • 1$ who impel t' • 11. , e.- se eleh .high one till Wider gem m wed c-r. • I a., 1-1 saris (CUM..) IRA, 014111 . m .t 1 of erode tido to the he veer welonaa obiela this Ive c a- tidily It -a vow Riven ',lts micreesutse Wier, ht.. P. F* 31211/11 with VIII V int I. o oly of those team 1 see sr and In*, a a 1111 i of tt • RAW', tad ads of that perti:a the constituency nha ws see slyly elected bias et ti' t rot - vow 11::-; bat rat% r. bastion ths Loaner t t ho I a bkik tript In the came amembly as hives I , I tope auw to have the pleasure of Wend r y pot, , aol tearimeny to the contionewo of than h'a h sial tics e' sleepily and cosier which hare untied him 14 Garry. alms alit him • whole people, and effikk we have p ere* :O. 6 hall • will tonliatte t, he exerted la bun. it :a net is e.ay, bersover, fee our in into rto gamy w,. h lin tote Hoes. of C.:names& (lbw, hear ) Mao, ad.. ne v.einsliace, al 1 advents ihtirretvo, have to 11- e ntrome •••••eire I.ree sioassnes of comosit all and financial nitro IP% be curia thr 4 neb that asadobly. (Rev.) It ▪ Dam os shall ht or to ilit'•t th.• pied teed. huh by inch; sad wi;si toe rives rem tehimt se dad ewe -manly supporting MR mice. vet • •v, sad to h. re who we loli vc will dernd yea the smcuri they naive ham great savtings hire bit. (Caws.) Wa lithe rut to he owes buty In air disentiscae tie as WSW 111.4 y &AM IT to be Ike stow w.rk of cur political =ads/; toe though st , w, It is aura. (Hear.) The real affisalties Jr.. in iff.ving large and 'weeds; rtorenettroents in eationaleatililshmer.ta We all el estuary not unbcquitatly ef t plan for carryhur oat rattan in our two pri• lob e'llUTel.; hot what do we do viler such eircumeateast Ds we is, st at all bscords on effecviur, at over, the whole of wldt We 6.1c11 to Wahl, or licit our improvement to that Ala wt find we tan aconsplish daring the first efforts? Wylie n. 'tier—we cut and come men—f" hear, hear," and leirlerti—ttke is lame • slice as poirible the timt due. and rims spin •ro the fiekb. It is true no successful efforts can he made to carry on soy plan of financial or other refoent, sakes we t city. by getting a tear dead the extent at which wi cued t^ sim• as t which we hoe• reason to hope to at tain Toat is preenoly what the gr •it Cobden !modest has dons farm; it has gives us•elsar and determinate view of what hems mss ne a sad isai , ty. No doubt ty laying down and Inarlas baton, that pablie a largo and comprehensive mas teries, r pled:dative !age laid himself open to army at tacks. 11 ., ,ny smell olsketions have been reads. Now I have sir= shat I (outsider due atocrobsn to all these, and they do t, t, say Wad, weigh for ore moment against the rest ol jec. embodied I. his plan. (Cheers.) The question Wight Wore tia la simply, is the heavy tax laid upon ts a Meat National aril or ant ? (Rear.) Next, to there any arrest nett vity, for the perposes of nationsl def-nee, to maintaiti the rust expenditure of our naval and military Ner vier. ? rest investigations before puliamcntsry con.ntl tem have thrown. great light upon the qihation, and, to my miael, have ooschisivaly shown that there is mom (or an ex trr sive T041;0.60n in its topcoats. Neither ought we to eon eider this question of finaudd reform merely a rands, shit nip, end pence question. It is most intimately, though perhaps indireetly, connected with our beat lllter•Sts. and cheers) fitsarity from f ast attack is • great thief, but national wealth and pro Well is gradual. We may have worse evils still than the issados eta foreign enemy. What does hbtory show ran this point ? We vas scarcely find au instance of any and prosperous osoununity that has been Tidied by invasion ; and, bola the Roman empire downwards, we Ind instances without number of groat and prosperous commu ting that have been ruined. eenvet'sed, and revolutiouised, by the pressure of excessive hordes, of taxation. (Cheers.) fling therefore come with a clear conviction in my own Ilad that our honourable member bits seized upon a great mild truth. I tear not for the small mistakes he has In* hi it ; a man who has the energy and the seal which h man who is capable of leadieg as the people lergrt b a uds of troth—may well Wind to make tome nee Mail in detail. I have always been • zealous sup e—(hrrar, bear)—of the- great practical truth., and as Mai trued to go on to the sad. (Load cheers.) DOLLY, EN., of Sheffield, said he had been on. toad wi.h a tour; but he hat that the honour which had has thole hint was sot in any degree merited by him wit Its rather took lies en acknowledgment of the services tithe liberal ranee, is all the mutest* fir the West Riling, elder had been rendered by the electors of the district of ffidield. (" Hear, hear," and chows.) Ha most say, with am degree of pride, that they did exert themselves to the Monet at the hut contest, and they unhesitatingly declared firm at•achment to the present member, Mr. Cobden, noon trey fe:t tnat if they did not make a determined lad upon that occs.ios, they would have had no change •w_lleterair.g him at • future time. Some of the letters hiliffittkey had beard read, he thought, must be tolerable lalwag to them. (Hear, hear.) Their illustrious member ha enured to a variety of " Utopian " ideas, whit*, it wee Mihe entertained ; but he would ask, where senhi the Limit/ of Yorkshire sine year. ago We ffineil aft Otoptas ices—an; thing more extraytgant—then lIIIMLIC•that their prevent hon member should mg 1111. &at the in'ereits sf the West Riding in parlienmett llinifthem9 Some gentlemen even west the lesgth et M eg that n wee Utopias to Hippos@ they could over rend, Vitt. Utcpia R and Voice—" Not at all.") He did sot think it h e was sure the majority of the people Murat did not think so either. (Cheer.) Bet if tba wise tt raters him again. it mat be by foilw • Coign's) trivial. When he ems . tho h ‘feet la a !man egg a, he told Ibura that they THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1849. borough—(ionatese cheering)—of linear ability, who, as say, that, allowing for that diluter°, which mat always a smother of pa/Mount. and in other capacities, has ten- east between certain individuals and paramaphs, and dewed great suedes to the liberal eauss for many years pat— ardelos which (bear, kalz os gea m tr si ssaa ra w ideal hose q v u irr e n imi are ; tio h l i gra w b il lr well in appear in all newspept ra from time rin U s u tn e, th iakiag is, it has the nisa rlal if e etor r ha that t desir *l a rlial to . oi fm ain m . turned for Sheasid, I take it, without opposition. (Cheers.) tale thine great principles whisk La nca shire 4na and Yorkshire Why ? 'Beaus everybody in Sheffield, those few whips have unitedly done so much to support in the politics of this who vety properly support him, and those toga who do not country. (Applause.) I amid recommend to say, man oppose him, kiwi, perfectly well that the great bulk 4/ the has who takes a daily paper, to take the Daily News. I trepidation of Sheffield are at least to go tar, would recommend you in all your towns to increase its dr eads are olved that their members p a r h e ana d es o as far as Mr. Ligation. to give it all the halo you can by means of such Roebuck professes to go. (Cheers.) Now these us all adarthemsats "s o ya may find It iveseisry to invert in • symptoms to me that we are not in • state of stagnation, and manias apes You must not mind what other people and that there Lao canes to despond ; and things shall be a great other parrs may say. Your cause is your own, ad you must deal worse than they are before I give up hops (Chan) support it. or will never triumph. (Applause.) I have on If we go into the homes of parliament, there is sot a very former otensions spoken of the condition of Lancashire and cheering prospect there. I laelaStinkeiS walk to the bar of the Yorkshire, melba stand connected with the politics of this Hosea of lords; it is a many that one is not permitted to kingdom ; and lam delighted to he here to-night, for Italy go any farther. (Laughter and cheers.) There is no liberal affords saoltsr opportunity of esssonting that good feeling party in that house at all now. In times ppast then were men which must, and, to a tans *tout, Aosta, be held between who nada fair defence for the rights Hike rale. Thoth the two canna (Hear, hoar.) These two counties, in is ass man there still wise la now on one 14, and now en population, still woe in lodualty, mod in wealth sad another; on who wail once too much honoured In being par- intelligence. and in power, are a king thins nutted to represent this county. (" Hear, hear," ad chars.) selves. They hays mare res ponsibility than say ether Bat the Haas of Lords does not appose to have an idea counties in the country. Oar ts see saga beyond that which it bad yam and yssrs ago. (Haar.) alike, oar industry sympathissesatu e rr te 4 f ory. kshiremingend It repealed the oora laws only an compulsion ; and it no Lancashire men possess generally speaking the ems wadi. Islas to manta* its character, that it will not repeal any ties which lad to samen, whether ft be is runnier In bad law, or soma any good law, except on the prams of the pursuit of public questions. (Hear, hoar.) We us. It some nut vary creditable motive. (Hoar, hear.) la the is true—no, we were—divided by a mugs of kilk. whilithe Hams of Commons they are not quite so sheaciass. The industry and skill of your countrymen have cut 1 actin, sine their rally in 1841, have never barn able to ally (" Ruh. hew," and applause.) We are united new s al alai*. In ran, they made so great an effect, that they have bops we never shall be Nbseveted. (Chows.) Lat sis Y' ever-reached their mark, and from that time to this Mailman, with our sasociatiou, with our to-beim/an& they have been in a state of gradual or total disioca- powerful association, de our utmost ; do your *MA don. (Cheers.) Thus is • party calling than- in Yorkshire, with your association ; and if yen onseljnat selves the protectionist party, numbering 180 cc 190 a parliamentary reform yet, by which men in vastly grata at a strong division, and led by a gentleman of no small numbers will be placed upon the register, let us avail our. ' ability—of singular reposity, in some particulars; but I selves of that great instrument, 'he 40s. freehold, by whOb don't think very meat capacity as a parliamentary leader or we can work out our own political redemption. (Cheers.) • statesman. The country gentlemen—what a hopeless cos- And u. these two counties much slag together in the dition they are brought to! All the men of their own clan carom of freedom—u they show all lords and gentlemen who are mu of power and intellect have abaudomid those. who will not go with the people, tor load the people as they They are not able to find from their own reeks a man whom might do, that the people will march along by themselves— they can even put forward with the pretence of nuking him (applau se)—and as cowl be the virtue, the comhios • leader ; and they are led at the present moment by a gone don, the force, the inoelligeuese, the ancares of tree Masa who one can scarcely thinkt bun many sympathies In two counties stab-ea, so do you ! ad th roe qualities dove common with them; and I am quite sure, as les looks loped in all other °onetime in the kingoom; and in • few back to his left, over those forces who so loudly years In eau, when we can our oyes bask over the pot, we sheer him, In must wish from his soul many atlas that they will sea that the years whisk we has lived latest have been had something else in them beyond the power to make a those wherein we have exercised the greaten of malolievirtue, noise. (Hoar, and cheers.) But pass across the table and and where our exertion* have boa attended with the you come to the whig government. Now, I don't like to gre test of public beneficial insult. speak disrespectfully of the whip government. Inetividmilly, The hoe. ratlonan resumed his seat amidst the enthimi there are admirable men in that government, but collectively, wok plaudits of the audience. I say here what I have said there, that a great feebleness Mr. FaRBES, of Bradford, proposed the next toast. Hs mark, their polity. (Hear, hear.) They have too much said, Mr. Chairman, and gentle/am, I observe that there aro coneciencs to take the policy fairly and broadly of their old a number of eloquent speakers to follow me to sight, and I opponents, the toga; their sympathies are much more In feel, therefore, that it would he emu impertinent on my the direction in which we go, but they have not the part —a resident of the West Riding—to detain this assembly courage to graph, with the circumstanees—(cheers)—and one moment. Moreover, Mr. Bright has so fully elucidated with the hostile forces that stand opposite them, and the the sentiments of the present assembly on the subject not very cordial support which they meet with from of the toast which bas been entrusted to me, that I shall the country, it seam to me net likely that they will simply read the sentiment and cone:ode. Did I suppose be able to maintain their present condition long ; for a moment that the sentiment would to the slightest but certainly they will not be able to carry out degree suffer from a course of that kind, I should endeavour that policy which the majority of tho people of this to offer a few remarks; but, inasmuch as it is well known country are so anxiously I oohing for. (Hai, hear, and that for elms years I have on every becoming occasion applause.) The government, in fact, if at a deed-lama. strongly advocated an extension of the suffrage—(hrar, Oar consitatioa has been boasted of to the skies, and ell the hear); no parties win suppose I am attempting to blink world has been celled to look at it as the most admired* the question. (lieu, hear.) I believe that if the opinion thing which human wisdom ever contrived. Our castita- of this asionthly was taken (for, of course, the sentiment lion now is exhibited to the woold as a machine does not enter into detail as to the extent to which the re that has trim much praised i bat alder all, the presentatith 'coca mitht be enlarged), there would not be tints comes when it will not work. (Hear, hear) one man w:.o did not believe that some extension was highly Now, look for • moment to the condition of this deeirabl t, and ou nit to be conceded. (Applause.) Again country. Take England alone first. Look at its pleat and anis I heel heard it stated that oho revolutions which pauperism, ins periodical great discontent, its perfrolieol counter-1 France and the continent in the course of tho past partial insurrectionary movement, arising partly out of tis year clearly prove that we ought not to extend the suffrage sufferings of the people, and partly out of the h clings of of this country. Now, from these very circumstances, I the people that they are shut out from their 1: gitimste plum myself argue in a very opposite manner ; and I believe the in the coonitution of our country. (Cheers.) 0) across the stability o: all our valued institutions at the very time of the channel • and look at Ireland. You will see there thot ooavalsions on the continent proves that our mew are en. under this boasted constitution you have a state of things an titled to an i onneion of the suffrage; end it would be well fri_htful that anarchy in its wildest moods, anarchy wholly for those p.m, ii who oppose it not rashly and improperly uncootroldd by reason or by continence, has never offered a further to o ob, what is so-on olio and j tar, bearing in mind more hopeless and frightful picture to the girl of an w` at has • .ken Wee., on the continent ot Europe. The sea. astonished world. (H .ar ) More soldiers than td-store in • timeot committed to myself is: country governed upon constitutional principles ! (Shame) "hay the basis of the r. presentative system be enlarged, A vast church establishment in a country where there are and the national institutions thereby rndered more stable, few belonging to the church! (Hisses.) Ahillef every par- and s it more worthy the universal attachment of the lion of the local taxation of the counts, matoged by an ono- pe mho." spoceible party, entirely without the etectoral or represents. The CHAIRMAN gave the health of ties cyst :a ! (Hear, hear.) Almost ne taxes chat ged up re Cd. '7HO dPS3M, to which the :folioed colo-el replied In that country, and yet landlerds awl people spotty demure- a h ief epeeeh In which he urged noon the auditory the do. lised and peuperited ; and, in fact, onsthird of the United sirahleoest at i &ciao a noire am moot all classes of sociem, Kingdom lying prostrate, appealiog to the industry of this :or the ou Omni m advancing the no swore, whiith Awl, he's Wend f,r the very means whoeby its population must live. rivommen lel to them by the hon. ranutor for the \Vat (Heir, bear, and applause.) But don't stay at Ireland. G . WOO-. to India, a country with 100 million inhobitaots under the ROBERT CARBUTT, Em., or Lc 4, then gave the next rule of this country; with a perpetoal series of most b'e'efy, gentian% He • ill ear man who Is list.. eit t a such 'peak and many of them moot unnecessary and unjust, Wars— inr as bee h d healed that evening e old so far colleen his (blew, hear, and app autos) —a country loon woich that youths are ommonet his feeling. as to venture to address 11% during the last fifteen years, has tthim mar us sloth ten at any l•nspli upon the subject which was sub. = f ir millions' sterling of taxes ; and Its not returned sailed ro h min the scotins rat he wee shoot •ei pr pop ; but more than 1 i millions of hat enormous rim in any of three 'thonsuch 33 it 'oar seem ly been eh del to during tun even improvements which are necessary to the prooperiM of India int, rs, v t!Nifon wffr.li witch hod Amyx.' from the g idiot —such as roads or adrosda, or canon, or tanks, or bridle., colonel, he (Mr Carlon.) "gigot veronre to address to them essay of those other wakes without which the prosperity of s few restarlia, which hotfooted woultt be attentively listened India cant advance. (Cheers.) And of your atonic, t o . To e ....w o nt with which he we , en - rati o woe 0e r 0 u 0 ,,,, : also, you have host& I hors In my I. o iiket • latirdoo " The to of r oval of the oovi 'anon lows,—the last newspaper, making precisely thaw complents to which Mr rem mot - f the auttgaated and vicioug system of roc Cobden9ll.l44. A pshlio "owing hod neon coned to rotesit is goty and oroterion." This ere. a ecottment to which again.t their ^teat expeoditoro and peer.ia parliament to he most h sto:ty responeloo, a oeniirneot which he had give them each a repo. eittedivo matelot of government as we I entercinel for many years For. having lived abroad, boa already given to Conga, hut which we only gave to sod having witnessed the iniu limn coo.equocos to our Canada after Canada had rebelled. (Chien.) Well, now, own commerce ;from the f.i.o -yomr. ii legolation upon air, whet is the remedy for all this state of things? Wative thet p i to he 11.4 lono an) c into to 'he c onclusion that is it thatowe all any hinter now than we were twenty-flvo co it would be for the hsnefl of •hi i coontry to repeal the thirty year+ ago? Was it because the House of Lords took nonganon tans. Hs would just venture t' siva them a sight the forctnat lad in reform of any kind ? Is it **mole of a system of navigation Lio a fibi,k existed iu the that great party, that territorial party, which ger in which ho had reside I, as oe:y Homburg. That city rola tho Commons, that led on in toe WO. k W4II Sitn.iff.l on the north aids of the LI or, end oppoita on of political improvement ? No ; but every change that it are the domains of the worthy rid. , .ot our royal family, ria kave bad from the tine when the disentors were Land the Kiogs in llar.orcr. Just opp oit • to the town was situ by tests sad oaths he'ore they could thee office under steel the ton of Harbour,. Tree riv r era there cxceedisgly a mgronament or municipality—going through all these wi .e, and was intermsted by numeroom islands, but during *saga catholic t monnation, the Reform Bill, the time of the occur tenon ol liemhuig by the French. they municipal reform, the abolition of slavery, all those found it to their interim to build • woolen bridge to faciii- rat • changes which took place of recent years in tests the communication. It was found tq bar of immense *a tariff, down to 'he abolition of the corn law—l Rialto re ' Bat after the rederegretion of all the guilds ask you whether them is one of these greet changes which is and eerrations in their 'inutile privileges, it wee found owing to these great and ancient panes in your bowel of soon to be an armies thing to keep up this bridge, legislation-ow are they not all owing to the resolution, tie end vary much to the advantage ot the guild and cur griming intelligence, the combination and tho energy poration ot watermen to have it destroyed; and • system of the great middle and industrial classes of this of navigation lace was estatilished, of which ho would give country ? (Cheers.) They call us destructive, if we ask the audirnec a specimen. Tho Ha inburgeie were at liheny that your one million of electors should be lucre's dto on entity their own anode over to klubouto ; but the Has throe or fur or five millions. They call us desuctive, home/ions sold, o You shan't take any of our goods bark when we ink hot theall aeries a rip/pies which par- again ; that in our right end privil •ee." So they canes liament already has "auctioned with resoctit to other mea- heck smeary ; the Harhounrieme brought over their goods arr. (Hear, hear.) -But I say there i. anthem a destrac- to Hamburg, and in return were sent away without • ' ties in the present position ot ths people of this country, na return cargo. (Hear, beer.) That was • sort of exempli the determination on the part of the powerful and the ligation on a email seals of the operation of these navig Mon smaller eases to withhold from the people thos3 ironical laws ; and if any man relent seas "eked whether each • rights to which they are so justly entitled—(cloors)—and system could be at all advantageous, either to one party or which they 11l loudly demand. (Renewed cheers.) The the other, be would decidedly saner " N a." So far was this Property of the rich and powerful can only be sus- synths carried, that when steam-boots came ta be in us • hind permanently upon the same great principles they brought an old tub of a storm boat, which sailed at that will sustain the property and the industry of the rate of four miles an hour, between Hamburg and liar toe great mass of the people. Let us have iridustry free, bourg, and for several years they would only allow it . xpenditure as light as possible, taxes IS light as poseihle and to carry passengers, and not a single bit of goods was as egnel as possible—let no man have it to say that govern- allowed to be conveyed. The course of events, however. sent is a maehine to tax and to oppress, and not a machine broutht the people to themselves they found they could to protect and to conserve—and then let a man's estate be not keep the carrying trade in that direction union they over half a county, or let it be in a cottage merely, or in the gave up their mutual jealousies; and many years ago they isdustry of his right hand, and all property is most secure had returned to a more liberal and better system of carrying and equally secure is any civilised and governed country in on their trade. (•' Hear, hear," and applause.) This would the world. (Chars) Now, how is it we are to bring to exemplify what** aviation laws were to us. In their bear upon our government that ma' public opinion which origin, the navigation laws were no better than this: In the I believe to exist, and to be daily and hourly incase year 16.51, it was exacted that no goods the produce of Asia, ing ? Surely toy that union and combination and co ope- Africa, or America, should be brought to us in any bottoms ration by which in put years so much has been already but English vessels. We repeated something like the Ham gained. (.. Hear," and cheers.) We hare established, as berg and Herboung quarrel; ocly we said they might come you know, probably, in Manchester an auction* whose in hers and take away our goods, but that they must bring mediate object is to stimulate, not in Lancashire only, hot their own ; just the reverse of the other case, that no nation is all parrs of the kingdom, a due attention to the capita- whatever should bring their goods to Borland but in English cation both in counties and boroughs. (Hear, hear.) We vends only. However, after the in epondence et the wish to take every man who has a liberal sentiment. and tined Statas of America, we acknowledged that it names" who wishes it to be spoken in the House of Commons and eery to give to the American the right of bringing rods to have it embodied in your statutes, and the only mode by from their own country to this. However, ths Americans which to effect this is by placing his name upon the thinking a system of navigation laws might be usafut to register, sad to add to that name other names them, established them; on the same principle as our own. in long and every day incasing muster, who hold similar No *age took plum till towards the year 1818, when the sentiments as himself. And wo believe that now the time circumstances of the win gave as a monopoly of the carrying has c .me when there is opinion enough and resolution trade, and it woo never found to be practicable to endeavour oimugh; that with a little otganisetion in Laneashirs and to fora us to abandon that scheme. However, it was found Yorkshire we may complete is them counties that great necessary to come to toms understanding, and it would be work ; and radiating trom them soanties, there may go to seen that we bad gradually given way to the force of ants the furthest corners of the United Kingdom a spirit and a stances, and so far from obtaisiog our rational navigation determination, and en organisation also, by which all these laws, we had gradually ceded to one nation alter another. great opinions may be brought to set in concert, and whoa it (Chests.) mica does so act, there is no power in either house of pulls The CHAIRMAN said the next toast was one which he nice—no power in the traditicesal reverence for these great ;armed with groat plensurs—araely, " The West Riding parties—that an prevent the honest and fair fulfil. electors resident In Lancashire." (Applause.) sent of the national sentiment. (Hers the hon. gen- WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., it.P. for Sotth Lancashire, tleman's observadoss wen lost amidst loud applause .) »tuna thanks on behalf of the West Riding electors lai r may be allowed to say here also that there is one great dent in Lunashire ; but the hon. gentleman war almost agency which we ought never to forget to support, and entirely inaudible to our reporter. that is, that portion of the public press by which these FREDERICK SCHWANN, Esq., of Huddersfield, one great principles are fairly and honestly defended. I need of the vim-presidents , begged to propose the health of Alex sot point out to you the newspapers in Yorkshire or in ceder Henry, Esq., one of the members ibr South Luca- Laiteashire which defend and support these principles ; shire. (The sprat was drunk with three chars) you know them well, and you appal them well. (HILT, ALEXANDER HENRY, Esq., in acknowledging the hear.) With respect to the London prers there is ono paper toast, said—l am much *bilged for the honour you have dons which, to my mind, has at this =sea a peculiar claim me in inviting me to be present on this interesting occasion, epos the nrepathy and support et the great mom of than when you an mat to do booms to the man whom we all who are in Maar of peace, sad retrenabassot, and walls wish to honour, and whom am love for the great political tauter. Worst. The Laden mossagjournake, the now, principles which he bolds an and for Om good which he has nu Claroreicho the Herald, the Morruni Post, are not the already e ff ected, In than king you for too levitation, I can papas that support your opinions. (Hear, boar.) Whoa only say that I cameleer commerce sad manufactures as the your opinions are in the saosndant ; when parliament is greatest preservers of pesos amongst nations. I em, unto)- .bout to enact the laws that you mak • when &groat minister tunately, not known to many of the grades's present ; but, eons% down and throws away his p arty for the sake of hi. perhaps, I may be permitted to say that it is as much u cry, rhea a powerful newspaper will COM to your assistance, forty-five years ago since I first sat foot is Yorkshire. Since when you lack not its aid. (Hoar, hens) Bat when we that time, I have been burl; engaged in exporting the find a paper in earnest, se we do for ono in the Morning otanufectures of this distzict of Rue country to foreign lands, Advertiser (which has a large and Influential metropolitan and I hope I have, in soma degree, coot! bested to the cons eiroslatios), and especially in the Daily News—(cheers)— menial prosperity and the productive industry of the West we find their honestsupport to the pcneipla sad the Riding of Yorkshire. (Caws.) With regard to the ex. opinions which we advocate . (Applause.) You have heard tension of commerce, I may remark that I believe the that the Dail, New has lately changed hands. That is manufacturing interests of this country to be compare not entirely the truth ; bat it is not a matter that I am Cooly in their infancy, and that its future prosperity dap -ndo **How to conceal that' aortae penes is the north of upon the continued nunistry and ingenuity of its population Zaigad—and in various parts of Hogrand, for it is by no enabling them to meet that competition of .oreign nations, ' Means Ossinn to the north—bate beams, in sons degree which must nscesearily grow up, In the course ot time, front Interested in the prosperity sad prospects of that jasper. the changes which are inevitably taking plum. The mann (Hear, hear.) And iaterosted with no pecuniary aim; but restorer should protect himself by his akin, his industry, his interested entirely wi th a view to great public pgneiples aad in/tenuity ;by adapting Heal( to lb. was of foreign coun• publie °lied,. (Applause.) I say nothing of the ants tries; and by taking from eariagaufaturer his rupee carnet of that or say other pare • I speak of it sines that live productions. I .tonld also have the farmer protected; poloist change took plain, which may be dated from the and protection to him is a reduction of rent—that mast bo opining athb NNW of parliament, and I am bouad to his protection. I woad have. too, the labdlord protected and he must be protected by a reduction of taxation, by a reduction of naval expenditure. (Hear, hear.) II these things were done se thty ought to be done, I am persuaded we should have happiner and prosperity throughout the • gantry. Respectfully thanking you far the kindness of your invltatios, I heg most cordially to bid ye u good night . Mr. COBDEN then rose and said—Oentianen, I have now a toast to propose, and I beg you will BB your glues. We have a duty to perform to ours +lose and our worthy chairman before we leave this hall. Chairmen, gentlemen, like poets, are not made • they must be born chairman. There are certain qaalitid necessary for a good chairman, which tan only be rein by nature. There must be as end e+ fivw of saimal spirits,. an unfailing suavity of manner, and a handsome pretence an the chair. All these good qua lities we have had the pleasure of witnessing to-night, and I have also experienced a like satisfaction on former oc casions, and I therefore beg to propose the thanks of the com pany to one worthy chairman for the admirable manner in which he has discharged his duties ; long life and happiness to him, and may we again often meet, and again have hies as our chair an. _ _ _ _ _ _ The toast having bees drunk with honour, Mr.OOODMAN thanked the amiably for the honour conferred upon him. The last Meet of the evening the chairman announced was " The ,iee•cbairman and stewards." The tom% having be. n drank_ E. BAINAB, Beg., of Leeds, in responding, said : On babel( of the chairmen and steward., I beg to offer my cordial thanks; and at this hour I will not do you an act of injustice in detaining you by a speech. I have heard with mush pleasure a very important pledge which Mr. Cobden has recorded in this presence that he will bring on, year after year, this all-Important question of arbitration and peace, and a rodustion of armaarenta. And we—l speak peteonally for myself and for the vice-chairmen and stewards, and I be. Hove I may say fee the West Riding,—will pledge ourselves ro him that as long as he does 6o we will support him. (Cheer.) Mr. GOLLY here proposed the health of John Brooks, Eq., of Manchester, and, a round of sheers having been given for Mr. Cobden, the proceedings terminated shortly before eleven o'clock. ported before. Indeed, previous to the sr plini ion of steam to naval purposes, Sir R. Peel's tariff wouhl have been a nonen tity, but they were now imported from Hamburg at a abeam rate than they could be imported from the interior of Ireland, and the ruin of that portion of the empire had been com pleted by the recent measures of free trade. (Cheers.) The tandem of this country had been saddled with many taxes, and they had quietly borne them all. But the time had arrived when a period must be put to this increase of tax ation. The farmers ef England het been compared to the : camel, who would bear any weight upon its back, until it broke. He thought, however ' that a fitter illustration would . be the elephant—a noble animal, which would bear any . weight that was fair. Bat the elephant, when he thought he was too much oppressed, would turn, and rend the hand o• that fed him, and the man that should have guided him. (Cheers.) But the present measures of so-called free trade, were not free trade at all, tenet as far as agricultural produce , was concerned. Malt could not be imported into Eogland,, because there was a revenue derived from the home-grown; . and tobacco could not be grown here, because of the revenue derived from foreign tobacco. (Rear, hear.) It was said that they had not had any experience of free trade. They had not bad a very long experience it was true ; but what they had experienced had been very bitter. It was also alleged that there had been a free trade in cattle for some time, and that it had not affected the price. He admitted that the pine of cattle did not fall immediately that the tariff allowed foreign cattle to be imported ; but the reasons for that were palpable. In the firm place, the foreigner was unprepared for the admission of his cattle into this country, and they were not in a fit condition for the English market; bat the moment he found that be would he sure to touch our gold, be would bring his cattle into the beet possible condition. Foreign stock would then be largely imported Imported into this country, and the stock farmers would be more injured than ever. (Hear, bear.) Another reason why the price bad not immediately fallen was that the foreign beasts that had been imported into England had introduced with them a foreign disease—(cheers)—aad a meat fatal disease it was, which had at least decimated the farmers' stock They need not wonder, then, that the 1410 bad not fallen, for the farmer had only nine tenths of his stock to tend to market, and a great portion of those were diseased. (Hear) He would just allude to one other subject, showing .. tho effectsof free trade on a branch of cultivation ire which he and a Rood many of his neighbours were concerned. He grew often to a great extent., mid hal been acne touted regularly to spend 31. 10.. en pie in the year upon them in manual labour alone. Immediately upon the tariff passing, the Sieve; peeple, who grew those things f, r next to n ehing, sent in such quantities that the trade was altogether upeet, end had never recovered. He now did not spend le. en are upon them, and did not even cut them. (Cheers.) Undoubtedly that was a great loss to him ; but it was a great loss also to the perish upon which the poor people, who were thus thrown out of employe meet, were obliged to fall back. (liver, bear.) The reso lution atm stated that they wished to repudiate the idea that any practical reduction of taxation could be regarded as an equivalent f 4 protectian ; still, shot in order to mitigate the evil as far as mosible, they felt it ineembent upon them to impress upon parliiintut the necessity for the im mediate revision of all geuer2l and local taxa tion which pressed with unequal Foe fit upon the land. He Lad noticed Jett the ministoy,theigh they 'puke of cheap things being geed, and of cheap times benefiting the people, forgot that cheap tim'a should etteOlte them to live a little ch. seer than they had been in the habit of doing. He per ceived that Mr. Ward, the memloe f r Sh'ilield, hal ob tained the appointment of Chief C .miefiei eller of the lonian Islands, and that Mr. Tamil, an old whipper-in of the whip, had limeade' to the Admiralty ; but be did not perceive that ei th er of them bed connated to the office with a salary one farthing less now that provisions were cheep than when they were much demote (Hear, hear.) For his part, be believed that the old-fashioned rules of our forefathers were in many instance the best ; lied, though he &Omitted that the farmer should profit by new inventious and ine pre-elements, he did not believe tkat newfangled schemes such as free trade could either promote the interests of the farmer, or he !minded as in gee rite ce with principles ef justice and fairness. He was of opir 1 c that there was no easier way of raising a revenue thus 'or imposing taxation upon all (union articles whatever, and by taxing as little as o• genie the productions of Remise t. He eared not whether it were the productions of the soil, or anythh,e else ; but let them tax England as little SP mositele, and the foreigner as mush as might he necessary. (Cheers. t With these views he begged to submit the resoluti AI fir their adoption. (Cheerio) Mr. WELSH, of Southall, in twendine the etiolation. said • h- t distress Oid ex or —them +here we• a very severe strain on One sericulture' letereet was admiteel by all. lie was sure that they were ell unanimous on this point. With the eve rages of wheat tor the six weeks t ndino 2 tth March last at 4fie. Bd., barley 294. 3d., ora's 17s 21., rye 965. 6d., Titans We. Id., peas 32s 7d.—with me ttow Lay Felling free e We to 65e nee load, ono the price of beef lower tban it hod been for 27 year., he thought the" the emit. ern would not be ti led with much money —certainly with not mu I of en aria •oerstie kind. t Hear, hear) Ihe Chancellor ef tie Exthe ere r, in a late memereble spce'h—m. amiable to its sllacies—admittee that eseiru •-: rat oi-dress d d cake, but be thought •hat it was t ortined to the eenthera conries. Mr. Sidney He thert aloo admitted the deep es, but attri• huted it to the badness of the nun., sayine that the Conners had no corn to sell. Mr. Carley dented that the die: f(Si was limited to the south, but asserted that the north was also in the same conditi en. We have only to take up some of the local papers to see how things were nine on. A wee country farmer, w icing to the Cornwall Gazette, said, ' Wheat are we to do ? How are we to •ive, and pay rent, labour. eased rates ? Improve ments iu rut oration are out of the question. Must wo sell up it tone, and emigrate ? " (iieer, heir ) The mellowing also eppeerel in a if siiir artiele of the S:o0.1ord ••f March 28:—'• Hit One° t^e Delta of lilifibolo , l 41 has received notice of their ieeteniier to quit th it fines at elichaelmas next from the occupier' of 7 COO acres of Med." He thought that these faces, coupled with men esteem with which they as 're acquain'ed, cot to riedien !n -eatens of land to lic given up in their own neighbourhood, were rather signitinint, and ineffi cient to prove the extent ef the exi• tir a dieters. (It• ft ) It lead been and was conotintly uroe4 that there lied hoc low prices before, even lower than now, and the year 1h36 had been pointed o—that model year ef the finencisl re sormers, which the present onvernmen• earl tench a heroer if. Let them take best year. They hal, it was acknowleege.l, very low prices then, but under very different circumstances. There was then, ae also the year before, an irnm 11119 yield : this year the yio Id was just the reveree—it was bad. So great was the yield of 1835 that only 68,905 quieten of wheat were imported from abroad that year. Sir R. Peel, quoting " Tooke on Prices," said, " There was a great similarity of snaps in certain regions of the earth. The csuse tries, lying within the same degrees of latitude endured very merit' the same vicissitudes of pro t wit, and miefertuoe in respect to agriculture." This was no doubt to a great ex.- tent a correct observation, and if it proved anything it cer tainly went to show that when ere had a prolific year in England, other countries in the sane latitude were likely to have au abundant heivrat also. Ito would ask, if they should have a yield of 1835 again, as he treated they should have, what would then In th. it prices ? (Hear.) If distress existed now, in the shone of too low prices, it was, as the erolution stated, still impending over them. A letter dated Washington, March 17, and published in the Hew York Herald, says :—" I wish you to notice the im mense amount of wheat which hag been detained in the interior by the long whiter, and I enly wish that the whole had been in the grain stoles of Leiden, as it would assist in opening the eyes of rime of your free-trade landed gentry. I think they ongfot to have opened their eyes before." Mr. Hume gave it as his opinion in 1839, that nee trade would bring the prices of corn throughout Europe as neer to a level as the cost of carriage wool) allow." Now that was a very sound opinion, the weight of which was duly appreciated by the manufacturers of Man chester, though not by the landed interest. But there was another argument that would do very well for the land. It lied been said by Mr. Ward, the free trade member for Shef field, "that they could obtain to 'torn from France none from Belgium, none from Holland, Portugal, or Spain : He also said, that es to Odeon it was impossible to draw a supply from that plea., on account of the enormous price of corn imported from such a distant part, and that t his coun try was limited to the Baltic for a supply of grain. Now that was en argument that did very well for the laifded inte rest, and, like moat others addressed to them, had turned out most fallseioue. (Cheers) Now be could only see the moat diessMou consequences as likely to ensue, and which, lint speedily arrested, must overwheltn the whole agricul tural community in ruin. If, as they beard, land was given must ensue! up, labourers must be out ef employ — t he wh ole machine must be stopped. What disasters Sir R. Peel said, in 1839, " Seeing the state to which agri culture had arrived in this country—seeing that it contri buted to the health of its inhabitants—he told the oppo nents of these laws (the corn laws) fairly that be and those who thought with him, would be sorry to observe cultiva tion receding from the tops of those hills to which it had climbed, and the whole if the country, though it might be productive of greater wealth, converted into a series of large manufacturing towns, connected by railways, travelling through abandoned and deserted rural districts, even though there might be greater wealth, he never 'mulct see that change in the social condition of England without the utmost pale." This state of things, with the exception of the wealth, wee already come upon Ireland, and was im pending aver ourselves. (Cheers) Free trade m%ht tell them, as it had told them, to Mender our (*WA to the banks of the Oder and the Vistula, but as Sir Robert Peel asked in 1839, what was to be 0000 with team where bad lands were thrown out of eultiva tion; when the occupation of farm ers, who were attached to I. cality, was gone, what was to become of men advanced in lie, who had no peat fancy for mercantile speculaelon, who could not understand them, when they found this dee trios prevail ? (Hear, hear.) Looking at what hal pawed, es well as at the present, and speculating on the futon, he thought that they ought immediately to moues themselves to protest against the late legislative enactments, which had brought them into this unequal and unjust com petition with foreigners—an unjust competition, onelderiag their heavy hurtling, both general and loss). But the new measures of fret trade were pared with such haste, and such was the fascination of the ora tor of the Manchester school, that those 'who ought to have been their protectors went over with Sir R. Peel to the camp of the enemy. Not only did pirliameat remove pretsetwe, but they left them burdened with all the imposes end expense , whin they had borne under the aye tem of protection. (Hear.) Was not the whole ablest of the retinal of the protective duty on otarn s oWre - Once its price ? DM as not Mr. Hume British corn would be malaillated to t-• • . 1 • 0 .04.,.. Lod yet the free-trade legislature r e g o g o. • _.,.. „, the burthens with which thA. _, W rem than the cruel system mimed by 1,:o..; err -- e • . . moisten who required the same qua. I:raw, their free trade rulers required " etStOSVIIIFIe t 1 714, - '- 4 ; - o i.- . 1. .4 L'll el ~4 , .....;_; :y e t:- . " 7, ,73 UXBRIDGE AGRICULTURAL MEETING. [Peon ova owe REPORTIRe.] Yesterday being market-day in Uxbridge the opportunity was taken by the friends of agricultural pro tection to convene a meeting of the tenant-farmers usually attending the =whet. The large apartment in the public roomy was well filled with pusses of that class, whose ro bed forme and florid consplesiens harmonised but indiffer ently with their general complaints of destitution and sp• proaching ruin. There were also present a dissentient party, alleged to be oonnuted with the town, but, as will be seen by the subjoined report, every attempt upon their part to obtain a hearing, was summarily put down by the chair man, aided by some vigorou friends on the platform. We may add that the question seemed to excite little interest in the town or ns ighbourhood. The poster& announcing its advent had been in meet instances defaced, whilst there was pretty gencrady circulated a counter handbill, calling upon the townsmen to attend and propose as an amendment "The abolition of all useless 'sinecures and appointments," the bringing down of the public expenditure in accordance with the income, and a lair representation of the people in the House of Commons. At half-past three o'clock, Mr. CHARLES NEWMAN, of Hayes, took the chair • and along with him on the platform were:—O. C. Duped, M.P. for Backe; 11. de Burgh, West Dayton • J. M.P. Esq Langley ; Mr. Brown, Cowley; Mr. Weald, Harrow-wel d; W. Lightfoot, Esq., Cowley; Mr. Taylor, Henwell; Mr. Mason, Cippenham Court; Mr. Lac est*, Cnerisey ; Mr Nightingale; Mr. Bate, ; Mr. W. Tramper, Hay field ; Mr. R. Healey, steward hbr :mm t rr o .. the wvih. iw iD t t i ti tto k : e tt jo o n. f g.,l S oen o e er n; G. M r. Ch a nd l e r, . i Williams, an ae ld ;Lit a 1 c ui • ; J. li, eh, Hayes; Mr M Scent, Hermondeworth ; Mr. J. Tramper, D sons y; W. Herten, Esq., Plied lge ; Mr. T Shackle, Haves; Mr H PuUta. Celanrook ; Mr. A. Welch, Southall ; Mr. H. Wells, Maidenhead; Mr. Kendall, Lang. ley ; Messrs Bake, Hemmenmith; Mr. W. Jupp, Brent ford; Mr. W. White. Rickmanaworth farm; —Cox, Esq., Hillhouse ; Mr. C. Newman, Harrington ; Mr. Andrews, Woodford ; Mr. C. Saunders, Brenttord ; J. Montgomery, Esq., Beentfurd ; W. Ball, Esq., West Drayton; Mr. J. steliff, lierefiad ; Mr. Atkins; Mr. Bothem, Salthill ; hit. Statham, Detebet ; Mr. Jourdan, ilanwell; Mr. P. Powell, Denham, Bte. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceediogs, observed that, as a tenant farmer, he had not hesitated to come for. wart upen this occasion, though be saw many around him much better fitted than himself to occupy the position to which he had been appointed. He thought that the time bad arrived when they mud join hand aced heart, In crier to prevent any further destruction of their property. (Hear, hear.) He believed that they should he enabled to prove to the Chancellor of the Exchequer shit the distress of the egriculturles was not pctsal, but general, and he Wasted that the farmers, as a body, would he supported by the meeting in their present movements. (Cheers.) Certain resolutions had been prepared to be submitted to the meet ing, and the gentlemen near hies bad consented to propose them. Thom eentlemen were connected with the IJebndge market, although not living in the immediate county, still he hoped and trusted that they should be able to carry their resolo• ions, and to convince, the country that they had a jut eleins 111140 the legislature for relief. (Hear, hear.) Without any further comment, he Lego& to call epee Mr. Laelete to introduce the fire. resolution. Mr LACOSTE, of Curtsey, then presented himself. The resolution which he had to propose was in the following firma : not la the opi. , ien of this meeting the distress already expert. Med by, Sad still impentlins over the farmers of the United King dom. Is leseebt with she must dilsurrous ounsequenoes, and has been mainly occasioned by recent legislative enactments, bringing them into unequal sal unjust coilidou with the growers of foreign men, and unless speedily are must overwhelm the whole not waltural community in ruin; and though this [PPM ing reputlates the idea that any practicable reduction of taxation can he regarded as an equivalent for protection, mid in order to mitigate the wit as far as p Nibble, they Mel it to be incumbent upon them to impress upon par liament the necemity of the immediatr revi.ion of all reneral and local taxation which pre e. sitb unequal severity upon the land. In obeying the call that had been made upon him by the committee, and in answering with promptness the request of the chairman, that he should move this resolution, be dis claimed any ambition to thrust himself forward in any cause, though utadeub:eally this was a time for men to come boldly forward, when the legislative enactments of late y_ ears threat ened to invo l ve classesiscommon ruin. !Cheers) It might be asked why a Surrey man should be *ailed upon to propose the first resolution to a meeting in the county of Middlesex ? Fur many p us, however, he had 'wen away connected with agriculture. He was, moreover, a free holder in Middlesex, and be occupied 300 or 400 acres of land, none of which was a mile distant from that county. (Hear, hear.) The last occasion upon which he was prtsent in that room was when Mr. Cobden was addressing them and telling them, as tenant farmers and occupiers of land, that they had not the lust interest in this question, and that they would not be injured by it in the slightest degree. Ha (Mr. Lacoste) believed, however, that bitter experience had proved to them ere this that the tenant farmers were the first to feel the blow. (Cheery.) He would not say that the tenant farmers would be the t only class to gaffer ; because, if that were the case, they might sigh and groan alone. Bat after the tenant farmers, would corns the owners of the land, and it would not be long before they were made to suffer. But another clam—the poor labourer —would also smart under the inflictor. (Cheers.) The labourer bad been deluded with the idea that cheap bread was to be everything to him. There could not, however, be a greater fallasy than suth a notion; for mere cheap bread alone was of no avail, unless the poor man had the means of purchasing it—(than)—and he had no hesitation in saying that at this moment the consumption both of bread and meat was far lees than when the y were at a higher price. This was to be attributed to she want of the demand for labour, and so king as that continued, so long must the poor man be in a wane position than when there was a ready market for his labour. (Cheers.) Those political economists who had said that the farmer only wanted a little pinching to make him farm better had shown their immense Ignorance of these mutters, for to talk of making a man farm better by redwing hie income one-ball was certainly an extraordinary proposi tion. (Hear, hear.) Having previously referred to Mr. Cobden, he might be allowed to allude to an anomaly which :truck kin as very remarkable. Mr. Cobden prided himself on being the son of a tenant-farmer, end asked whether It were likely that he, as the Poe of a farmer, should attempt to injure farmers. But he had ceased to be a farmer, and had become a cotton spinner, and well he had lea thered his nest by it-- 70,0001. was not easily made by farming. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Next to him came Sir K. Peel, the son of a cotton spinner, who tame forward as the farmers' frig ad. and was selected by them to be their leader. The farmer's son became a cotton spinner, and the cotton spinner's son became a friend to the farmer, and both together conspir d to rain him. (Chews.) It was an tel bird that fouled its own neat; and of these two he knew not which was the worst. Hesheuld say little of theme men who, led by Sir H. Peel, had forsaken their pledges, and betrayed them—he left thus to their own feelings. (Hear, hear.) In intro ducing this resolutian to the meeting, be would briefly ad vert to one or two of the topics which it contained. The first allegation in the resolution was, that the distress already experienced by, and sell im pending over, the fermen of the United. Kingdom, was greater than could be borne. That could not be denied. (How.) Ho knew a man who had lost upwards of 1001. by a flock of sheep ; he was, perhape, also losing 6001. a year by his farm ; yet he was compell ed to pay the income tax though he was a loser instead of a gainer. The commis sioners did not examine the books of the farmer to see what his profits were, but upon the half of hie rental he paid the income tax, alike in good times and in ban, whether a inkier or a fuser. (Chan.) Various other taxes premed upon the English fanner hkewise which ware Ata Bother unknown in those foreign countries which were allowed to send in their can to compete with him. The tram of row rates, too, pressed unduly upon the farmer — the burden wee almost exclusively upon the land, and was decidedly unjust now chat that peas• tine was removed from him on which be bad bees taught to rely. The farmer wanted nothint unfair. The Britdle farmer was a kind of model of an Englishman, and was never afraid of anyone if he met him fairly ; but when their hands were tied behind them, it was impossible that they amid con-pets with the foreigner. (Hear, hear.) But many things bad warred of late to increase the difficulties with which the farm re were surrounded. The introdect.on of steam to naval par. pow for e temple lead,rhrown d pen to the foreian , r much greater ?wadies for the InOroduerinn of his cern Into this country than he posoesed before. It enabled him elm to send In live beasts and calves, which be could not hays int