The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

Drama. STRAND. A dramatic work in o acts that occupies nearly • cniple of hours is repreentstion, arid that contains only four Orate/item must almost inevitably In more re markable for the oopiowasta of its language than for the variety of in inkiest" or the latticed of in plot. Asa this is the case with Mr. Troughtm's " nave sod original comedy" (adapted from &vibe), preload at tie Strand Tlilea‘i lost sight with the effective title of the Fly and their& To say that the pine w.u'd bear etzialling onky feintly denser the kind of operation to whirl it ahotid be subjected. Mereileedy, td without a Omani pen, Mr. Trotted= ehoold take pea in h•nd tad draw It through who , * lines of dialogue, ie the tall war aaee that his self-saorifieiag hareem will two with its due reward. Not that any fellatio to be found with the author's Isognap In itself. Oa the coatrary, his words ate c rtfully chow, end ofteutimee Neatly pointed, as by • literary workman whoknows how to handle his tools. But the:ears toi many words. Prolixity is the great fault of all the oWsofers in the pine. To relate the story of Mr. Tranghton's work is sot a task of difficulty. Tho date chosen is 1760. Behan, a young wife (Mhos Ada Swiehorough), is married, apparentlyog or at her inclit a. trots, to a wealthy Cheepside mercer, old dough to be her tether, who at the opening of the drama, and at tie end, too, for that matter, is away at Lyda os Widnes". Tile abased hosten I has le't Ws wife under the care of a confi dential clerk, Trusses Parselle), who n a modal of all the pdprietia, aid a very Joseph in wining fel:deans allarestuate. Now Selina leads a dreadfully doll life when her hothead is at home, so tat when he is away she determines to indulge somewhat freely in the gaieties of the town. She wens, of course, to do this innocently, but it soon becomes evident that Glitter, a young man of fashion (Mr. Edward Price), whose acquaintance she has made, entertains de• signs upon her Loaner, which render her politics extremely critical. He is the spider, in fart, who Weans the "web" in which she, "the fly," is to get entangled. A greedy epidee, too, for he is at the lame time doing hie beet to allure Selina's serving maid Amnesia (Miss Benham) to destruction. In other words he thee to carry on an intrigue with maid and mistress at the same time. Of wine, however, Truman is on the watch to defeat the Bedtime designs of this Lovelace, and that he does defeat them will occa sion no surprise when it is etated,that, like most extremely moral gentlemen in French dramas, be does not scruple to indulp is any amount of hard lying is ceder to serve the interests of Truth. The piece has been placed upon the stage {with much Male and elegance, the costumes are rich and brilliant, end the 'ornery is new and effective. Miss Swaaborough and Mr. Parse& act with spirit, and yet at the same time with an ease and refinement which Mist Raynham would do well to imitate; and Mr. hiss's humour is displayed to good advantage. SURREY. A new four act play, of a domestic character, adap•ed by Mr. Jobs Oxenford from "East Lynne," the most successful of Mrs. Henry Wood's novelv, was brought out at this house last night, and received with every gigs of approval by an inoooverdently crowded audience. The original story has been much simplified, and nine, in he dramatised version, somewhat as follows :—lady Label Carlyle, the wife of a fiourishieg solicitor, deserts her lord and master to elope with a consummee scoundrel, one Cap. taro lavison. The motive that urges her to this fatal step is jealousy—jealousy unfounded as Othello's. Mr. Carlyle has been in the habit of holding secret communications with a Miss Barbara Hire, the daughter of • justice in the neighbourhood ; but these communications have related en tirely to matters of business. The lady's brother, Richard Hare, has borne for many years the suspicion of merles, and has borne it unjustly, seeing that the murder is question was committed by Levieen. However, yens' Hare has been biding from justice for 1101110 time, when he suddeely makes his re-appearance in his native place, ears. fully disguised, and snowed, in convincing !his sister of big innocence. Hence the mean for Barbara's mysterious consultations with Mr. Archibald Carlyle, which lead to the elopement of that gestleman's wife. Some time after this lady's flight conies the intelligence of her having been killed in Fleece by a railway accident ; and Mr. Carlyle, relieved from certain scruples of conscience which haunted him during his first wife's existance, marries again on ascertaining that she is really dead, sod converts Miss Berbera Hare into Mr& Archibald Carlyle. Shortly after his second marriage, Carlyle consents to be put forward as ceadidate for the representation of Lynne in !parliament. The Ministry sends down an emissary to oppose him, and this is no other than Captain- -now Sir Francis—Levisca. Meanwhile a strange lady, with green spectacles, grey hair, and a frightfully disfigured mouth, has taken the post of governess at the house of Mr. Carlyle. Such is the pod tion of circumstances at the close of the second act. The remainder of the piece is devoted to the working out of the only results that are artistically possible under the circum stance& The strange governess turns out to be the lost Lady Isabel, and dies of • broken beirt, forgiven by her husband, while Sir Francis Levison, convicted on the clearest evidence, is carried off to transportation for life as a murderer, sad young Hare resumes his place in the society of Fast sod West Lynne. This ta'e has been adapted for the stage with all the tact of an experienced hand. It would be very easy to suggest irnprercenente ; and we cutlet help fsneyiog that an anti climax is involved in the close of the first act. When the audience has actually witnessed the flight of Lady Isabel, it is quits unnecessary to bring on the serve r, the children, and the husband, in order that they also may be ernvineed of the painful feet. There is hardly stress enough laid upon Carlyle's interviews with Barbara to &comet for the jealousy which drives Lady Isabel from her home. The very subject of these interviews, Richard Hare, becomes in the ply a very subordinate and insipid character. But, in spite of these trifling faults, the piece is written and put into shape with great skill. It is well mounted and wall acted. Miss Avoola Jones, who has been absent from the stage for some time, made bee re-appear ance in the character of Lady Isabel Carlyle, and played, particularly in the later scenes, with mush force and tenderness. In the earlier portions of the play her voirc wee • little too subdued. Mr. J. Fernandez looked very gentlemanly and patient an Archibald Carlyle; and Mr. E. F. Edgar—who dresses rather care lessly—realised our notice of an sriateeratie villein. The acting of Mr. Henry Thompson as Dill, confidential clerk to Carlyle, was full of humour; and Mrs. Moreton Brooks sustained the character of Mies Cornelia Carlyle with eccentric dignity. There is no doubt that East Lynne will draw good houses for some time to come, even after the glories of the panto- mime shall have departed, and the audiences shall be com pelled to fall back upon the attractions of the comparatively legitimate dims. Einibtniltp Entriligentr. OXFORD, Fix 3. The lectures to the Ladies' Class have met with such success, and have been so well attended, that it blue been decided to have course, of lectures on other subjects likely to be of beeetit. Professor Goldivia Smith has kindly offered to give a few lestures on the Influence which Womes have exercised in certain chief events of English History. The first lec ture will treat of the characters of Edward IIL and IV. as affected by snob influences. Professor Coningtou also will give some elementary lea tares on the Latin language, takirg Ovid as his text-book. Mr. Chandler, tutor of Pembroke, has also consented to give a few lectures on Greek, taking se his text-book Aristotle's works on the History and Nature of Ani mals. Professor Rogers hopes at some future time to lec ture on the Principles of Political Rocmomy—a subject of vast importance to those who in all probability will be hereafter the mothers of families. It is earnestly hoped that the services of these eminent professors will be duly ap preciated, and the umbers attending the lectures be es great as those which have hitherto attended the Ancient History class. ROYAL INSTITUTION 01 GREAT BRITAIN.—At the general monthly meeting yesterday, Earl Percy it the chair, the Earl Spencer, K.G., Mr. Joseph Brandeis, Mr. Charles Lscas, Mr. Frederick Mona*, M.D., and Mr. Abraham Walter Pauline, were elected maniters of the inatltatioe. &mu %mama Tow Muszum.—During the week midis( February 3, the visitors have be am follows : Oa Monday, Tuesday, •od Saturday. flue ds, 01 , 012 frgn 10 SAIL to 10 p.m., 10,708. On Wednes day, Thursday, and Friday, studios? days (admission to the public, 6d.). own from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1.617 : total, 12,325 ; from ibcopeoing of the Mamie, 5,796,110. ; 1 1 • uotc. Si a . MONDAY TOPITL&M COMilink The concert of last night brought before I. Loudon public our Emilish purist par ix-client:4 Arabella Goddard, for the drat time this seem Her reception by the crowded audience was inch as was to be expected. and we need not attempt to describe it. Ire 2'l'll leave it to oar readers to imagine the satbudessu that prevailed. The following was the programme cf the co:mart : ',VAT L Quartet, tn D minor, tor twO violiti viola, and violoncello, MM. Km; L. Nen Webb, and Pique. Luitauy, Sleep, thou infant angel," Ml's Banks (Dinka. Senate, In lt M. 00. 44, The Farewell" (Les Athens A CkeneulD, for pianoforte alone (drat U at the Monday Popular Concerti), Ma dame Arabella Goddard PART IL Soeata, In F nailer. Op. 24, for pianoforte and violin, Madame Arabella Goddard ens Herr Straus Barcarolle, "O'er the bright flood,• llisa Banks Schubert. Quartet, in B fiat, Op. 33, No. 2, fur two vkilins, viola. and violoncello, IIM. Straus, 1.. Ries, Popular Cond e Pique ;drat lime as the Monday rto Conductor —Mr. Beasdict. Frans Schubert's reputation, great as it is, is limited to a narrow branch of his art ; the composition of Lieder —scoop and ballads—which be pound forth with • pro- fusion unequalled in the annals of music, and which gaited for him • fame such as no other artist bee ever earned by the SUDO mains. He essayed other departs meets of composition, bat by no means with similar suc cess. He wrote a symphony, several quartets, and other instrumental pieces de longue haleine, but they never attracted attention in his lifetime, and it is only of late that attempts have been made t 3 revive them. One of these is the quartet performed last eight, which had been previously brought forward two or three times at these concerto. An artist of Schubert's genius could hardly fail to chow it in anjttiog he wrote, and accordingly tine quartet exhibits many beauties— pass iges of much melody, expression, and freshness. It was beautifully played, and some portions of it, puticularly the lively andante con solo, wise justly applauded. But the work, as it appears to us, is deficient as • whole in sym metry of form—is prolix, imoherent, and there fore not entitled to be railed • chef d'astere, Dussek's 'moat^ in E at has prohibit not been publicly performed, in London at least, within the memory of any one now living. And yet it is one of the m isterpieces of the greatest pianist and composer for the pianoforte whom the world had ever seen in or Defers his day. Three quartets of • century ago, before the name of Beethoven had yet been be.rd of, Duna had produced mono for the piano so immensely ia advance of his age, that it may be regarded as contemporary with the greatest works of Beet hoven himself. His compositions had, nevertheless, fallen into oblivion.; and it is one of Arabella Goddard's many claims to the exalt d rank as an artist which she has now reached, that she has bad she tarts sad energy to bring to light many of the forgotten gems of the olden time, and to disp'ay them in all their pris tine brilliancy and freshness. This achievement she man more accomplished last night ; and now that Dummies I once famous sons* " The Farewell," has been heard in all its original grandeur and beauty, there is no fear that itAl ' ever again " become • prey to forgetfulnem" The fair pianist's performance was • wonder—a thing not to be described, and the audience listened with admiration and delight. The two beautiful pieces of Beethoven and Haydn, which formed the rest of the instrumental portion of the owed, are familiar to amateurs, and gave as much pleasure as ever. Miss Banks, always a favourite at these concerti, was received with the usual favour, but she sings the "Infant Angel" a little too often. Let her remember the adage, " Toujoun perdrix." SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.— Haide's Season* will be performed on Friday evening next, the 9th inst., Mies Louisa Fyne, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. G. Perm, and Mr. Lewis Thomas being the principal nudists. *parting Entelligenct. TATTERSALL'S. -MONDAY. The activity displayed at the Victoria Club in the early part of the day certainly led us to expect eomethiog of • correapooding nature at Knialnebridge ; but we were not prepared for the heavy transactions which actually took place at "The Clan." Lord Lyon was made a warm favourite for the Two Thousand in Wellington-street, where he was supported at 11 to 4, to upwards of 8001. ; but at Tattersall'. anything over 5 to 2 was snatched up no eagerly that before the close of the room he was backed in the aggregate for about 2,0001, at prices varying from 51 to 2, to 5 to 2, and certainly the latter quotation was the highest offered before the room was cleared. The mystery about Student Wire:Dans, although it was hoped that the presence of him who is best able to dispel it—we mean the owner—would have removed the doubts and fears of the early backers of the Bailey horse. But then was no disposition to tike any liberty with him, and we are inclined to think that bad any one ventured to " perform" upon the supposed " roarer he would have been "shot' from a quarter be little dreamt of. The seasatiooat doings on the Guineas detracted from the interest which might otherwise have centred in the Derby, for which, however, Runic would have been again backed for money at 7 to 1, while half • point more was accepted ro 1001. about Lord Lyon. Janitor was several times inquired after at 20 to 1. at which, however, layers and backers were about equal as tot:metal aooommodatioo. WolseyandStratheoaas founds.- veral friends at their quoted prices, and that other persistent outsider with the "great good-looks ”—Laneret—had his own special knot of admirers, who took 1,000 to 15 five times about him, the Duke of Beaufort's second string, Jack-in-the-Green, being favoured with a single investment at the same figure. The business done on the Liverpool Steeplechan requires no s peci al comment, if we except one bet of 2,000 to 80 about Oortoloei, the favourite also being in great request at 20 to 1. Mr. R. Jardine's nomination for the Waterloo Cap was entrusted with 901. at 33 to 1, and the others in the subjoined het were supported at their respective price.: LIVERPOOL BTEEPLECRASK. 100 to 6 agst Mr. Wellltt's Creole, aged, Plat !Mb (off, t!0 to 1) 10 to 1 Lord Ponlett's Innellan, aged, 10 at (t) 3.3 to 1 Lord Poitiers Cortolotd, aged, 11d liD (t) 25 to 1 Count de Daropierre nd Heart" aged, leat 41b (t) 33 to 1 Mr. E. bournet's Laura, 6 yrs, Mas it) 33 to 1 Mr. A.W. Clayton's Light Hout, aged, llstblb (t) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKE& 15 to 1 met Mr. H. 0. Nothwootes Natation, 3 yrs, Est (t) TWO THOUSAND. 6 to S eget Mr. R:Buttoe's Lord Lyon (t, and on) 4 to 1 Mr. Merry 's Student (I. and on) SO to 1 Duke of Beanferrs Jock In the Gross (I) DERBY. 100 to 15 agst Links of Beaufort'; Rustic (off, t 7 to 1) 15 to 4 Mr. R. Batton's Lord Lyon (t) It to I —11 r. Merry's Student (off) 20 to 1 Baron Rothschild's Janitor (0, and off) 1000 to 20 iiir Joseph Hawley's Wolsey A) 1000 to 20 Mr. Watt's Stratheonan (t) £OOO to 75 Mr. G. Bryan's Linnet (t) 1000 to 15 Doke of Beaufort's Jack in the Green (t) BETTING ♦T MANCHESTER-MONDAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 100 to 8 apt Maidalatoptelea I 100 to 3 apt Mow Haworth --- - - - (%)- ' 100 to 3 At. (t) 100 to 7 LIVERPOOL STIMPLICHASE 100 to 6 apt ere Ole - 25 to - 1 apt Cortoloot t) to to 1 Laura (t) 25 to 1 lonellan (t) 26 to 1 Balder (0 CHESTER CUP. 40 to 1 apt Sandal 3) I 40 to 1 agst Lord Zetland3) DERBY. 7to 1 apt Rude (t troT I - 8 to 1 apt Student (off) 8 to 1 Lord Lyon (off, ( 1000 to lb Loneret (t, and t 9 to 1) I off) mbar ant Military. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 5. —A.PPOINTMILVIS. --Captain A. P. Bardle► Wilmot, R.N., C. 8., to be naval aide-de camp to the Queen, •Ice Mom*, deceased. J. Martin, storekeeper at Bermuda, to be storekeeper and accountant at H►ulbowlice. vim Ede ; Ede, store keeper at Haulbowlise, to be storekeeper of the Royal Victoria Yard. vies Jameson ; T. Jameson, storekeeper of the Royal Victoria Yard, to be storekeeper of the Royal William Yard, vice Triscott, superannuated. Chief Engineer J. Lamont, to the Simoomoommissimied. Engineers W. Maxwell, to the Simoom, commimicmod ; D. Millar, to the Asia, for service in the Earnest. First-Class Assistant Engineers G. J. Weeks and W. B. Cleverly, to the Samoan, oommisMesed. KIDNAPPED EY • Cufludttllt.—The desire of the Chinese to adopt European children appears to be so strong as to lead them in some instances to break the law. Re medy • Chinaman was arrested epos the crimieal charge of stooling a child. The accused states that be has bad the child in his polemic* for some time, sad we em only my that it looks as if it had been well cared for. We have reason for expressing a desire that the case will be fully investigated. In menexice with this, we may state that the Chinese have • great inclination to adopt Euro pean male children to wheat their cut of countesance may be pleaslag. Instances are under our own knowledge where the Celestial has offered a good round sum in ex change fur a child to whom be had taken • liking.—d 'tora hs,' pap but and Itisr it waiikl ease to 88.4100. - 0004. nearly the amount staiel by the Economist. - - wise of barley now and emsgariag It with the peke is the time of Jamie L, when beer was sold at ld. a quart, he could not see why it should set, were there so malt dot,, be sold at 2d. a quart. Is eancluiron, be advised suited and energetic action, mid loadiag the table o( the House of Commons oestinaally with petitions against the tax, a course which he amused them would ultmately resat in aurora. Colonel Bantrrignor, Y.P. supported the resolution con aiding that the ogrieultural interest bed not received that fair attention from the government and parliament which had been accorded to the inantifecturieg intimate. The malt tax, which ought to have followed immediately the repeal of the bop duty, yielded so large a revenue, sad WY so favourably regarded be the Chancellor of the Exelie quer in consequence, that unless an irresistible pressure was brought to bear upon the government it was not likely that so fruitful a source of income would be abandoned. The Malt for Catt'e Bill and the Malt Weighing Bill bad been in operation useless for the objects for which they were intended. It wet said the removal of the malt duty would be unjust to the spirit duties. But if so the matter was in the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who might take the tax off malt and put it os beer. ("No, no.") He was not advatirii.g a tax upon beer, but he suggested this as • mode of adjustment as regarded the spirit duties ; !alio& however, convinced that if a tax were put upon beer the outcry against it would be so strong that i , would be repealed almost as soon as it was imposed. He pro mised his beat assititascis in parliament in furtherance of the objects of the matins. Lord CURZON, LP., president of the Midland Counties Anti-Malt Tax Association, likewise supported the main tine, referring to the cattle plague as an additional ground for urging upon the government some recognition of the claims of the agricultural interest. Mr. G. Barra-BOOTH, M.P. ' who also spoke to the resolution, did not attribute the failure of the demand for repealing the malt tax to want of unanimity is the House of Commons, but to the apathy of those out of doors. Many clergymen and others, from a worthy but mistakes motive, refrained from joining in the agitation against the ' tax on the ground that it would teed to promote intern perince. lie bad no such apprehension ;on the contrary, he believed that by placing it in the power of the labouring population to onetime wholesome and cheap beer you would promote sobriety. Be disputed the argument that the repeal of the malt tax could only be purchased by an increased income tax, observing that no tax could now be repealed except out of a surplus of revenue; and no one would propose to repeal one tax by the imposition of another. As to the argument that wise, spirits, and other oonsnmsble articles were taxed, and therefore beer should be taxed, be advised them to accept it—(No)—and to say, take off the melt tax, and, if neoaaary replace it by a tax upon beer. (No, no.) The tax woul d then be paid is proportion to the quantity actually brought into consumption. Mr. BALCWIN of Birmingham, had always contended for the total reposed the tax, and to that he meant to stick —(hear)—and if they all determined to do so they would smelted. The resolution was thee put and carried amid loud and general chserng. Mr. JOSH. FLILDEN, of Yorkshire, moved, "That eater taisisg the views expressed in the foregoing resolution, this meeting earnestly calla upon all supporters of the cause to persevere in using every possible means to obtain the im mediate reduction and ultimate total repeal of the malt tax, and strongly advises that public meetings, with that object, should be held forthwith throughout the country, at which the following petition to parliament. hereby agreed to, is recommended for adoption." He referred to the rapid progress of the aasociation, which had within the last three years spread over the whole country. They bad had to contend against misrepresent*. tioes emanating from, not anonymous Femme, but payees high in thevonadence of the Queen and the country. whose murepresestatimui bad been spread far and wide by a cor rupt press. (Hear, bear.) Until lately he bad Dever heard it asserted that the tax amousted to 70 per cent. In par liament, last year, be did not remember that any speaker had pot it at more than 30 per cent. Taking the average price of barley at 31c, the tax which was imposed at tome stage of its conversion into malt was 21s. Bd. ; but be sides this, it operated as a tax on the farmer, by preventing his cultivating his land to the best advantage, and mattes the produce of has land useful for the feeding of his cattle. He contended that to the man who brewed his beer at home the tax was equal to 100 per cent. ; sod to the man who bought his beer at the bar of a public-house it was equal to 140 per oent. Mr. M. Gibson, in 1864, pat dome the tax as only 124 per cent, but he (Mr. J. Fielders) had shown that the malt tax was a tax of 70 per cent. in the first instance, and 100 per cent. afterwards. Last year, when the subj ect was again brought forward last year, Mr. Gibson said his figures had been so much queetiooed that be was afraid to go into statistic*, bet that he adhered to his Mateosest. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) But no proof of the correctness of that statement bad been forthcoming. Then Mr. Gladstone, who stated that Mr. Gibson's statement was rigidly just, put the tax down at 20 per cent. When malt was un taxed cottage brewing was universal, and the consumption of malt was 6 bushels per bead, while now it was only per head. At present beer could be brewed by cot tager. in small quantities at 2d. a quart ; but were the malt tax repealed, it could be brewed at ld. a quart—* difference of 100 per cent., not 124 per amt. (Hear, bear.) And beer, which was now charged 6d. a quart ie public houses, could, were there tio malt tax, be sold et 24d. a quart, allowing 100 per cent. for profit and cost of manu facture—which he took to be a difference of 140 per that. But he contended that the proper coarse was to estimate the percentage of a tax according to the price of the article at the stage when the tax was levied. Now the tax on tea was 25 per cent. ; ea coffee, 36 ; on sugar, 49 ; on champagne, 11 ; and on malt, 70 per cent., in the first instance, sod 100 per cent. afterwards ; _and its effect was to tax the be of the man who brewed at home, 100 per cent., and that of the man who bought his beer at the public-house 140 per oeat.. Mr. C. Larrueoza seconded the rtholutirm„ and com plained that the tax limited the growth of barley. enforced an undue repetition of wheat to the injury of the farmer, raised the price of cattle food, and increased the price of beef and mattes. The question was a fiscal not a politi cal one. Who paid the malt tax! According to the au thority of Montgomery Martin, the riot paid 1-sth, the middle-class 2-sths, and the labouring classes 2-sths ; so that the incidences of the malt tax just reversed the inci dences of the income tax. Colonel NORTH, M.P., to support of the resolution, pro mised his best services in the House of Commies in sup port of any measure tending to the repeal of the tax in question. Mr. ADDZRLTY, M.P., also spoke in support of the reso lution, and stated his week:two that a claim supported with so much energy sod so uoanimonaly by the landed interest could not be resisted. Six millions of taxes resting upon one article of consumption was of itself a greet &ea inequality and injustice. (Hear.) It might be said that it could not be withdrawn without some substitu'e being provided, but there was another way of making np the de ficiency which would be oocasioaed by the repeal besides im posing acme new tax, and that was retrenchment ; sad it was to be remembered that retrenchment was one of the principles by which Mr. Gladstoars held office. If Mr. Gladstone held that the malt tax was so advisable sad unobjectionable an impost that it raised a large revenue without affecting any body, why did he not say at once, " Here we have found the philoeopher's stone ; we have here a tax which nobody feels, and we will therefore abolish sll others of our fiscal imposts, and raise the entire revenue from the malt tax !" ("Bear, heir," and laughter.) He wished the apical. tural interest to show as much determination in support of their just righta as would have bees witnessed on the part of the manufacturing interest had such a duty been imposed upon cotton. . . . . — The resolution was adopted unanimously ; as was the petition which we gave in yesterday's Express. Mr. FOWLEN, of Bucks, moved the third resolution : " That this meeting pledges itself to support., by subscrip tions and otherwise, the Central Anti-Malt Tax Amociatioo, which has been established in Loudon as the medium of communication with parliament and the central authority for organizing and conducting the agitation for the repeal of the malt-tax—and request. the council of the association to take prompt measures to have the question brought before the House of Oommone on an early day." Mr. Corintrr, formerly M.P. for Oldham, seconded the motios, and asked if Sir F. Helly would move for a com- mittee io the present session to inquire into the pressure of the tax, whether it was on the malt or on beer. Sir F. Hamm; Id.P.,replied that iisioreileilglng himself to do so it would be neesmary to watch the course of events, and ascertain what the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to do. If be thought the demand would be conceded, he would make that demand the moment parliament met ; bat as to the time or the nature of the motion he might ultimately bring forward, he should feel it his duty to consult with those who took the mine view before giving any r p . Coi led I( ge. errr was satisfied with the answer. He had always regarded the malt duty as • tax of 100 per coot. He would have preferred last year a reduction of Vie malt than the tea duty. He believed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had, by reducing the tea duty, placed within the reach of many who bad not used it before one of the most detrimental foreign drugs that came into this country. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) All doctors now held that tea was not only not good, that it contained no nutriment, but that it produced baneful consequences, and one of them went so far as to say that it produced madness. Dr. Smith, of the Consumption Hospital, said, in his book on dietary, that tea was useful to the corpulent and over fed after a full meal, but was hartful to the poor and Si ted, sod was not calculated to qualify • man for exertion. (Hear, bear, and a laugh.) Dr. Melva, in his book on wines, extolled the introductioe of cheap Hungarian and other low wines as being calculated to drive out the "enervating tea." (A laugh.) Hs (Mr. Cobbett) remarked that the first of these books was dedicated to Mrs. Gladstone, and the second to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He hoped the right hon. gentleman would read them, and then he would see what his own (the govern- meet) doctors thought about tea, the duty upon which he bad taken so much credit for reducing, while he retained , . of these doo•ore rentaielne beverage. se did Mr. ;Miaow, the repeal inrtal- Cobbett bed raid, be %irked him to drink 1 that fn the union , always preeerfirel The yes - Juice 12;;i;g been carried, • vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed by Major Panasz, M.P., secotede4 by Mr. ERAlurpoif sad carried by acehmiatioa, which baying bees sckisoeleapd the mailing persarated, the proceedings having extended over nearly foal hours. THE LOSS OP THE STEAMER LONDON. Yesterday the official inquiry instituted by the Board of Trade ioto the circumstances attending tbe foundering of the steamer London was resumed at the Greenwich Police-court, before Ur. Trail; the district sti pendiary magistrate, sod Captaiss Hams snd Baker, the nantioakedlealeere. Daniel Thomas Smith examined by Mr. O'Dowd—l wee boatswain's mate on board the London. I have bees 17 years a seamen. The weather when the London left Ely mouth was very line, and contioeed so until Stusdai, the 7th, when t h e wind freshened. The wind Massed but not with great violence, until Moodily. The wind was from the S. W. on that day. We were going wider steam with head to wind, and so nib wen sans. The wield in creased to a full gale at 8 o'clock that evening, when we set the miren stn sail, the forestay sail, the maintopmast staysail, and ruled the spanker. The maiotopmast stay sail was carried away at 8 o'clock p.m. When we were carrying these sans on Monday sight we were on the star board tack. Nothing further occurred until elne o'clock on Tuesday morning, wiles the jibboom was carried away, and at the same time she pitched, sod the wind carried away the foretopmsat, foato . pgallantmast, and main royalmast. To Mr. Traill —The pbboom went overboard os the star board side, and the mash hung down abaft. To Mr. O'Dowd—On Tuesday we tried to clear the ship by cuttieg away the waste, but the ma rolled over the ship so head's that we crruld not get near. To Mr. Traill—We got lines and secured the foretopmest to the foremast. The main royslmast was left hanging, but sot in a situation to do any harm. To Mr. O'Dowd—W. got the jihboorn on board on the afternoon of Wednesday. After we had got it on board we lashed it to the after part of the fore rigging, on the port side. To Captain Baker—We !ward it to ring bolts ou deck. To Mr. Tesill—The eying jibboom wee taken aft sod lashed by the after batobway. The lenath of the part of the eying jibboom on board wu about 25 feet, and it lay seer the engine -room hatchway. I lashed the after sad of the eying jibboom myself with 2j inch rope to the after stsa chion of the after hatchway. To Mr. O'Dowd—l saw the eying jibbooni at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening, end it was secured To Mr. Tredll—l don't remember having wen the jibboom in motion as loose at all baton t►e hatchway was carried . . O'Dowd—Did you ever say to my clerk that it was sweeping from on. side of the deck to the hatchway, and that it was striking against the combings of the hatchway Witoess—l cues say that I did. Mr. Twill—Did you state you ever heard any owe say so? Witnete—l don't know. It is not a fact that I saw the jibboom flying about the deck aid striking against the combings of the hatchway. To Mr. O'Dowd—l did not see the flying jibboom again from 7 o'clock on Wednesday eveolog until an hour after the engine -room hatchway bad been carried away. It was then cast adrift, and the end of it was put down the hatchway. I did Got see it unlashed. I saw the men puttiag it down the hatchway, and I assisted them. All the water the ship was theta taking was coming down the hatchway. I noticed that the scuppers were blocked up at that time with coals. Yr. ? Witness—l believe so. Tbe ands were cheered off the deck on Wednesday afternoon, and some of theta were thrown overboard. To Captain Harris—l got a round bar of iron to clear some of the scuppers, but I failed to do so. To Mr. O'Dowd—l tried to clear two of the scuppers in the after starboard side. The flying jibboom end some sails, blanketsand =Atreus. were stuffed into thehatchway, and several of the men were washed into tho engine room while they were doing so. The heavy seas prevented us putting a tarpauling over the hatchway. I was not on deck when the ship got on the port tack. I went below at noon on Wednesday, and she was then on the starboard tack. I came on deck at 4 o'clock on Wednesday, and re =iced there until I left the ship on Thursday, about 2 o'clock. The ship remained on the port tack until she wore round, about one o'clock on Thursday. to enable us to lower she port Gutter. To Captain Harris—l don't know bow the wind was. believe the engine was stopped at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon when the insintopsail was set. The watches were not kept regularly after 4 o'clock on Wednesday after noon, as the crew were all turned out to get in the wreck. At the time the stern lights wale driven in I was in the lower saloon getting op the sails. The lashing of the jib boons were, in my opinion, sufficient. As soon as the en gine hatch was carried away mowers put to the paws, and the steam winch was put to work subsequently. The donkey engine was working whoa we left the ship. The tlyieg jibboon was lashed to the dick as goon as it was brought up, and it was nottlying about the deck for 24 hours. To Mr. Traill—l did not see any spars loose on the deck. We tried to put back the skylight two or three times, but the heavy NU prevented us, and the skylight waismsahed to pieces. I caul say what the weight of it was. To Captain Harris—l don't know that it was a couple of toes. Mr. C. Wigram said he could not state what the weight of the skylight was ; but it might be a couple of tons. Witness to Captain Harris—l do not believe the ship was making water before the hatchway was washed away. I assistedin potting a sail over th e ongiese-roona hatchway and nailing it down to the deck on Tuesday evening. I don't know that any tarpaulin was put over it. To Captain Baker—l don't remember that the yards were square and the skip put before the wind any time after we left Plymouth, except when she wore round to enable us to lower the port cotter a few minutes before we left. She was on her wind on the port tack when the main topsail was split The engines were going whet the jibboom pitched away. It did not seem to me that the ship laboured more heavily than any other ship would in such weather. The weather was very rough, sod there were high erase seas. To Mr. Traill—When the ship wore round before we left she answered her helm easily. Several of her crew were hurt on Wednesday night, but they gave the best assis tance they could until they were worn oat. Walter Moleaworth Edwards, examined by Mr. O'Dowd —I was midshipman on beard the ship, London on bee last voyage. It was my first Tome. I joined the London on the 28th of December. The weather was flee and calm on oar leaving Plymouth, sod continued so until 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Salacity. when it commenced to blow hard. Prom that time till Wednesday I remained on deck with the exception of a short time on Tuesday, when I lay for a few minutes on the lines chest. I went below on Wednesday. and thinaieed in my cabin until the sky-light was earned away. 1 wee not sick. I remember that the jibboom wss carried away. It wss brought in on Wednes day, and I saw it at H o'clock in the morning abaft the funnel on the port side. The thicker end was aft, and it wee sot fastened, and it stroek against the bulwarks on the Port aide as well ea the engine -room hatch. I saw it spin m the aftersooo, and it was still knocking about. I did sot see any attempt to secure it dating the day. I ob served that the jibboom was striking sideways against the framework of the hatches. I went below sometime after 3 o'clock, and the jibboom might have been fastened about 4 o'clock for anything I know. I was below when the engine -room hatch skylight was carried away. I did sot goon deck again until Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, when I saw the engine -room skylight at the port side. It was quite whole, and did not appear broken at all. To Mr. Train—lsm quite sere of that. I could not have been mistakes. I saw no attempt made to pat it in its place. The captain was on deck and must have seen it, at I well as several of the Grew end passengers. To Mr. O'Dowd—When I same up oa desk they were all engaged in lowering the pinnate. Nearly all of the pas- I 'engem were on deck while the pauses was being lowered., sod when she swamped, they went down below. Some of the paisengers intended going in the boat. I saw use lady —a Mrs. Owen—going in the boat, but the captain dis suaded her not to go. Mr. Traill—When you saw the skylight why didn't you I point it out to anybody and say, " This is the very thing we want,* and get it in its place? Witness—l had spokes to Mr. Angel about something before, and he told me to mind my owe business. To Captain Harris—l asked King, Smith, sod Daniels , to let me in the boat, and they desired me to come. I jumped from the mizen shrouds to amongst them, which was a fall of about ten feet. The other midshipman was also told to jump in. but be was afraid to do so. and he was lost in the ship. Daniels was quartermaster on board, and agreed to be our' hammock man, as we weld get no ! servant. Therewere 2 cwt. of biscuits, 2 bottles of brandy, and 2 bottles of champagne, in the boat. I found three of the four bottles in the bottom of the boat, and I pulled , them up and hid them under my boat. Mr. Greenhill and Daniels knew I bad them, but no one else did. About three o'clock in the morning after we left, a sea broke over us and bail filled the boat. One of the passengers ! was bailing the whole time. Every time we were nearing a sea we turned our stern to it. When we got within about fifty yards of the Italian barque, they all got so excited that they neglected to turn her stern to the waves, and the boat was nearly swamped. To Captain Harrts—When we left I saw the captain in the poop. Mrs. Owen and her little child were going into the boat when we got away. but the captain said there were several drunken seamen who might get into the boat, and in that case she would only change a speedy death for a lingering one. At 5 o'clock on Thursday morning, the captain went into the saloon and said, " Ladies, there is no hope for us, Pm afraid—nothing short of a miracle can save us." These were his exact word,. The periaeogers had their meals regularly up to Wednesday evening. The captain WU not at dinner oa Tuesday or Wednesday events', as be was °minded on deck. The dre in the donkey engine was put out on Wednesday, and the . pumas were worked by hand all that day. It was aims Dallied on :SS, TUESDAy XVEMISCI t FT IL O F MALT TAX. y" : 4 . CV o .. ti t " T r a r °l but antberity upon yr be Tote. n faay'S mg, at th e ireemaaallr attuausaki...._ the quantk BERNEHIB, e . 06.innia, reed 'bat Whited was paid blwl 6 at 6,000,000 t ar, feeling it his bounden ditty to express quantity of beer made from that o take his eull abase of responsibility in soy cito,ooo 000 of gallons , and calculat • • . per tan 1 7 what one the Neon , was : I N he ome and so ad he belie, . wee 80 motion, 111 Of • • daft who '" - o go for the quarters. taking tha Jo is of what Mr. Cot malt at 800,000,010 observed that his physical:a cleat. ale tier the price at Is. 4d. wkosarre wine and lees tee ; and he found 1 00,0004. or 410.4100,0001., banes ia the aonatry the needled was i geottortsfst. Taking the wine at bear aad Dot tea. takes ihe, cia publicly and to question aff•stieg the apioulsesal laterals. As an adore oats of 20 years standing for the repeal of the melt tax, he rejoiced to me so large sued influential a neettins. (The great hall was about two-thirds fall.) They had formerly failed for want of untie, bat sow he hoped the farmers sad egricultazists of Reglad were untrue mous in demanding from a reluctant parliament the repeal of this obnoxious impost. (Cheers.) At a time like the present, when all dames were suffering is one way or another from the effects of the cattle disease it was their deity to use every effort to remove the restr.ctions upon the food of the people. This question of the malt tax wee not only a social, but a moral one. The effect of the tax upon the price of beer wee to euhanos the cost of this neces sary one third generally, and one half to the labourer. Thus it drove the poor man to the publ c-house, where instead of a pure beverage, be was supplied with an @dol. terated article, which increased his thirst and excited his mind, leading him to improper indulgence, debt, and often ultimately to 'time ; whereas formerly every agricultural labourer was furnished, as part of his wages, with a bushel of malt, which he brewed himself, and from which he and his family gathered health end strength. He quoted Mr. Hasidism's opinion against the tax, observing that that statesman estimated it at 60 to 70 per cent. on the value of the barley, and the restriction upon trade which it ooea sioeet to at least 30 per cast. more. Sir J. Graham, Mr. Cobden, and others, before the restrictions upon the corn laws were done away with, met the farmers by the area -1 meet that so long as the corn laws remained uarspealed it would be unjust to take up the malt tax, but that when they untaxed bread they were bound to untax beer also. Mr. Villiers and Lord John Russell also acknowledged that as soon as the corn laws were repealed the malt tax must follow. (Hest) That, too, was the opinion of all the free traders of that day. Again, in 1831, Sir R. Peel eared to give the repeal of the malt tax if the agricultu rists would accept the repeal of the oorn law,. Or coming down to more recent times—in 1852, Mr. Disraeli, in his budget, proposed that one half the malt-tax should be taken off on the ground that every impediment should be taken away front free consumption of malt, quoting as an authority Sir H. Parnell, who declared that so soon as a aufloient supply of barley was secured to the country, so soon should the malt tex be reduced oesehalf. He advised the farmers and agriculturists present to press the matter epee their neighbours and friends, but more especially to bring their influence to hear upon their representer Fires is parliament, telling them that they required no exclusive privileges, but ware determined to have that which in right and justices the atricultural interest were warranted is demanding. Mr. PetresTr, of Seat, moved the first resolution as follows :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the excite duty upos malt confine:este inflict great and serious is jsstica upon the growers of barley, which, after wheat, is the chief product of our native soil ; that it is a grievous burden upon the consumers of oar national home beverage, especially the working classes, by whom beer is so largely used as a portion of their diet—and is wholly at variance with the tree trade policy of the country." The tax was wrong in principle, had always been so, end they did sot mesa to pat up with it any longer. This meeting was a combined demeestratio• of a number of associations for the repeal of the melt-tax, to dodoes that they would not submit to the injustice which that impost inflicted upon all classes. It WY intended t, go to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday seat, and enforce their arguments is detaiL The right hon. gentleman had asked that the deputation should sot be so numerous as that of last year, when he could not go into the question as fully as he had otherwise rotended to do, therefore he had Finite.' the number to 50— (hear, and laughter)— a number merely sulliciett for business. He thought they had a much better chance is the new par liament than in the lest, as members would better remem ber the pledgee they had made at the hustings than they did at the close of the hurt parliament. They should go to the government and ask them to weigh the question as a fiscal as well as a social question. Let them demand that the axioms of free trade should be honestly applied to the ease of the malt tax, and they (the agriculturists) need not fear the result. (Hear, hear.) He could not believe that all the principles of free trade had disappeared from the minds of free-traders with the death of their great leader, Richard Cobden. Then they should go to the repre sentatives of the landed interest and remind them of their duty to those by whose votes they had been returned, and also intimate to them that is the lost parliament they had sot (with same noble exceptioes) shown that united front and determination which was doe to the interest whose cause they were returned to uphold and defend. He be lieved if they all held fast to the object they had in view, they would succeed, rot perhaps this year or the next, but succeed ultimately they must. (Cheers.) Mr. C. S. READ, M.P., who was received with loud cheers, seconded the motion, observing that twelve months ego they held their first anti.tosit.tax meeting in Nor wich, when about 100 farmers, two or three landowoers, and a few other perecns were present. On Saturday week they held their second county meeting, when 1,500 people ware present, and the four county members each moved resolutions. On leaving that meeting he met a scaltoter, who said to him, " If you carry this repeal I shall have to veil my malt, for which I now get Be. a bushel, for 4s. &L" In that little statement rested the whole question. The legislation of late years bad been to benefit all classes but the farmers. All other classes were growing richer and richer, while the farming interest woe, if out growing = s ited poorer, at least remaining stationary. Yet the were taxed at least as highly as the other clams. Free trade had benefited all but the farmer. After charging free trade with being the cause of introducing the cattle plague, he proceeded, as a tenant-farmer, to show that malt might be advantegeously used for feeding sattle, and contended, on the part of the labourers, that hoer should be as free from taxation as bread and cheese. Why, he asked, should not the same principle of reduced duty, conducing to increased consumption and increased revenue, be applied to beer as well as to tea and other articles of every day consumpttiioonn,, in reference to which that principle had been so snooedwlly applied? For one, if the tax were necessary, he would prefer that it was imposed upon beer rather than upon melt. (Hear, and "No, no. " ) If the malt tax was the first tax that Earl Russell repealed be hoped it would be the last. (Cheers and laughter.) He hoped they would at lent succeed in obtaining a redac tion of half the tax. ("No, no;" " All, all.") Well, all of come if they could get it, but at all events half. _ . Sir F. Re:me, M.P. ' who also spoke in support of the resolution expressed his fear that they would have again to press Mils question upon the attention of an adverse majority in the House of Commons. Though not treat rag it as • party question, he could not but remind them that the only attempt made to relieve the agriculturists from this tax during the last half century had come free' Lord Derby. (Cheers.) He could not under stand how this tax could possibly be maintained oonsiateutly with free-trade principles, which were now generally admitted as the basis of the financial and commercial policy of the country. (Hear, hear.) It was upon those principles that they demanded the repents Upon every other article which constituted the necessaries of life the taxes had either been repealed or largely reduced— (beer)—and how the retention of a tax could be justified opoo an article which entered most largely into the con sumption of the lower portion of the middle and the whole of the labouring classes he could not understand. The duties on corn, tea, sugar, and even epee foreign wises (the luxury of the rich), had been either repealed or largely reduced, while the tax on malt and beer,which was necessary to the great bulk of the people, had not only been main tained but actually increased. While the repreesatatives of the agriculturists were supported by the feeling of their constituents and the great body of the farmers and land owners they would do their beet to impress upon a reluctant government the j ustice and necessity of the demand they were then met to enforce. Hitherto they bad been met by no arguments either on the part of their opponents in the government or the legislature. Last year the Chancel lor of the Exchequer opened his case on the malt tax after his four hours' budget speech. when he knew that it was impossible to answer him, and then, and then only, did be stteept to give what be supposed be meant as • reasoo for not taking off the malt tax. Free trade had no doubt effected great good to the community at large, but that free trade which was advocated by Mr. Huskieroe, and brought into practical effect by the late Sir R. Peel, demanded the repeal of the malt tax ; and this had been admitted by Sir R. Peel himself, who said, " If you take away the duty on corn, I cannot commies on what ptinciPle you can maintain the duty on malt." And Lord Russell, on one occasion, eaid t supposing the corn laws repailed, and he were Prime Miaister, the first tax he would call on parliament to re peal was the malt tax. (Hear, hear.) Lord Russell was now Prime Minister, and he called upon him and Mr. Oladstone to redeem that pledge now that they had the power. (Cheers.) He could only account for the tea having remained so long by the fact that in parliament there was a preponderating majority of the representatives of the commercial and manu facturing interests, who, taking a wrong view of their own real interests, prevented the principles of free trade, which they advocated in other articles, being applied to malt. He could not conceive how our government, while impressing free-trade principles upon other oountriee, could continue an impost so fundamentally opposed to them. All they asked wag that the surpluses arising from the applications of free trade should be fairly applied to the relief of the agricultural and labouring populations. (Hear, hear.) They bad to meet the opposition of the temperance bodies at well as the government. He wished to souk with all respect of those bodies who had laboured so hard to improve the habits and morels of the people, but be did not think, except in the matter of spirits perhaps, it was the duty of the state to interfere for the purpose of enforcing sobriety by means of taxation. (Hear, hear.) But if they did not so interfere in the matter of foreign wises, the luxury of the rich, how could they do so in order to limit the supply to the labouring classes of that which was really to them • necessary of life I Upon what principle of justice could they say to 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 of people we will make beer so dear that you shall n'.t get se much se is good for you, because if we do not some few hundreds of ill con ducted people will abuse the advantage which they might obtain from cheap beer by drinking to excess? (Hear, bear.) He maintained that at least one-third of the price paid for beer by the consumer arose from the malt tax, and that third amounted to 20,000,0004 ; for he maintaieed that the effect of tke malt duty direct end indirect was to im- Thursday morning, sad the elegise welt down. There was no ecneen imis ,ll4 wesky gees, bet some of thorn were tryos ad leayhallle two Airs' compeers in the boat. Several ef mend, and were rioting ready to r , t h a we let away. tut King and Danish um th ei a e l! . % ;Vero pumice. They weat to do as, *lll wee' to - assist them, and elh i I esyseed, they both slipped away, sad lose* r and we got off. Harris—Did thecapta' retain hk ediiiii Witness—He did. The only time be lave he told Yrs. Owe& sot top in the boat 8; 1 Z 1 1 into t 0.,.. Mr. Greet behaved my welt, y f""• 1 1 complimented him oe Ids exertises. Mr. fle a An also exerted themeelvse 4 1 Mr. O'llowd—Did you roootufee Mr. Erode, I s amosset the piaboopro who exerted th imiehle W ibises—No. To Mr. Traill--Tbe. xisnewofforeozPooted Yoe could en it is testi. foam _ Mr. Traill—How did you feel yourself ! • Witness (with emotion)—l felt sorrow foe mother, but I had no fear abort going dock felt some fear. To Captain Harris—At 3 o'clock on Wah l * • weasel utterly rao into oar stern. The examination of the witness, who is a laid sixteen year of age, wss then coecloded, listened to throughout with mud' iotemst. John King, examined by Mr. O'Dowd-1 east% on board the Landon. I have been der - teas i sm i l rot On the Moodoy after we left Plymouth I e n lashing CMS oe the poop. On Monday night p a l was blows away. Captain Martin and some of myself tried to get it Ur, and succeeded in deluge:2! 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning the jib-beat away, sod we lost the starbosrd cutter ant pp aat 7l_ Os Wednesday I fell off the poop and was AntbW. sot go as deck after mail half-past eight o'clesb day morsiog. I was sot on deck whet the tar* washed away. Whet' came cm deck op It pa a - 7, W log I did easel the skylight, hut I noticed ths-ap72t hatch off. The ship was not before the wiad on deck, except for a few minutes before we left ti I wee in the starboard Menace when m h o was Captain Martin had given order for the twn ' I L boat shoat an hoer before she ate lowered We ail we could to save the boat ourselves. maid flag were lowered we weld carry fifty pasmatwa i WIG to let go bis fall when the ship went to leeward. I ar niy fall, but Smith held on his, and the bust e lm a: bow foremost. I was in the watrr about twehe when a sea washed me up to the rails of Me epp o i got of board. Smith and I the') proceeded te de g the port boat, bat no owe would assist us, as tkep of so use. Smith and I then agreed to go in tbo yip and we got a beg of bread, a beaker, two bottles of and two bottle' of eliaapagoe. Moro I get be. th - 3. 1 I went to Captain Mortis and said. "Copula g i p': you going ie the boat!" He relied, " E l ,. Lig lam going to remain ea board, 1 this saber aim; the room to the nearest land possible. He ea& .gu, to Bent." I asked how marry OWN, sad h oak 1k wl was 190. Mr. Traill—What makes you inidentand It wY all! Witmer—From what was told me by the tegig g barque. We were before the wind for tweety ware more than ninety miles from land Asa w it picked up. Our compasses west wrong, as *mitt eoristsucted far an iron ship. We stewed bg all night to 'lilies the examfastion of this witness ens anisil the court aijoureed until this worming. MR. COBDEN AND THE PEACE scam. The Secretary of the Peace Society has la* the following letter in answer to so address arldek fa body sent to Mrs. Cobden on the death of Mr. Cain: '• Danford, Yidhont , Jam id, jik My dear Sir.—l Wino mast of es ars am la subjects which ere deep and mitered to our Waft * we mu free ~selves from worldly cares, and al fitting opportunity to give utterance to the heart% ga sorrow. This, l admire you, has been the case sir a in this brortattoe, as in many others, where my reidg I addresses ought to have been more prompt, to hors more in accordance with the expresaima .1 bag* condolence contained in them. The address heath Paws Society was one that had peculiar claims iimiq feelings, from the close intimacy sod earnsd esm* which had always subsisted between my boost*** and that body. He mew, with deep joy, *Wm of the ultimate triumph of the policy he had aim advocated, end which your society was assail to promote. And he indulged is the hem, mi* sot Utopias, of the dawn of that day * war shall be no more, sad esti= shall be at pre 14 nation. I beg you will, on the part of myself a* di dren, convey our earnest attknowWgmesta to the.** and the members of the Peace Society, for their Wm dela* and sympathy with us in our great ben** Pray accept yourself, dear it, the ammo, of gm pat' esteem and regard for you aa one of my dear barb most valued friends ; and believe me to remain. anym cerely yours, C. A. 00=121. —Rev. H. Richard." MB. GRANTELL, M.P., 419. D 11E1011L Mr. larsifell, M.P., writes to the Tdernspi:-. "Is a leading article in the Daily Teleyropi of this you accuse me of having changed my *Mame oe nits since the general election, and of having spreads iti tend* of voting against aa extension of the sera* * collisions on reform are exactly the same sow es the es in 1862 and in 1865. I have no Station of wig against a measure for the extession of the sulk* If I had changed my **lone, sod waited 61 the morrow of a mend eteetioe to publish my manna I should fully deserve all you say of me. I differ from Om members of the liberal party who, both by their semi. sad votes, caused the rejection of Mr. *SS@ hal lel year • but I have ever done justice to the iodncied them frankly to avow their changes of operiss the eve of a *nerd election, and I hope that if lido* curved with them I should have folio eed their mask I agree with you that my opinions on reform may no consequence to the public at large ; coosequeetly, is* letter to which you &Beds, I have made so min of them. The letter in question was moaat to pasta what I believe to be a very prevalent °pm*, avast, that useful sad practical liberal meseu , es might= diesel by alto mptiog to briag in a repetition of a bad so recently excited feelings of alarm among wig Liberal members. It was also iateoded to Wig:steamed tie late election the question of extendieg the atop' boroughs was not, as in 1859, the point at issue hies opposing candidates ; coosequeetly that fewer tout/ were distinctly pledged upon the subject. I may *lad had repeatedly alluded to the existeoee of these in the path of Reform in my speeches to my cosi** doriag both my electioes." IMPROVED INDUSTRIAL DWELLINGS Casual M .-- The half-yearly report of this sompany, to be proselalw the 10th reek, recommends • dhrkievd at the lite OP cent. per ssettm, and the appropriation of 266/. to arrow fond for repairs sod redemption. New buildise oul coon* of emotion is the City-rood, which will es rtes date about 72 families, and others are 000.esiyisteid Greenwich. The whole of the property of au tooff i g comprised is the four estates at Wapping, Smith Bageigge-wells, sod Hines-cross, is fully oompistal l t occupied, sod a groat desire is shows to obtain admiffm• whenever any vacancies occur. RAILWAY AND OMER BILLS IN PARLIANINV e Mums. Smith sad Free, the examiners upon stash" order proofs. resumed their sittings yesterday at Mug' star. The following unopposed petitiosa before Yr. IBM were declared to have paused steadies orders :—TM Nur bent sad Darlington Railway, the Mid-liasts Rauh Pembroke sod Trashy Railway, Cambrian Railways (oo' buts) Holyhead Waterworks, East Barges Oas sod Cork Harbour, Great South mud Western Railway, sat° Manchester Imprewsuiest. Than was soappearuce atoll is the unopposed Caledonian Railway (a:lesion to larg4 and the Amhara sod Netley Railway. The fusorokli e titions of the Salisbory sad Yeovil Railway sad t he Sox& bridge Railway were adjourned until tomorrow (Wediu day). The staadiog orders were complied with is t h e cue of the adjourned unopposed petitles of tie West Bromwich sad Walsall Railway. Hr Prove - declared that the ritualist orders bad bees o il " plied with is the following unopposed yeitions;- 7110 Barry Railway (alterotios), Laseashire sod Yorkshire gal way (extension of time, ko.), West Middlesex Mts. Loodos sod North Western and Whitehaven Jumbos Railway Companies, South Staffordshire Railway, Loos*, Cattle Market, Town Hall, and Improvement; BOA Gee, Worcester and Birmingham Copal, Amicable life Aw ' swum Society (transfer, he.), Loudon Gas,Bishoe's Crib Railway, and the Dowopatriok, Dundram, aid New slOh Railway. The unopposed adjourned petition t f the Yeld and Denbigh Junction Railway (branches sod deviaticlei ' also pared standing orders. The consideration of the It posed adjourned petitioes of the Loodon, Brightosis!, South Coast Railway (Surrey lines), and the Ofw Western Railway (further powers) was postponed OW* morrow. The standing orders were declared not to law hum complied with is the cue of the Solway hauthe Railway (branches) opposed postpooed petition. Errs's HOMOEOPATHIC COCOA.—Honmeo .A Psti te Praektiosers. and the Medical Prof maim) generally, reeetne'___, Y s cocoa as Wog the meet healthful of ail beverages. ww.• doetitne of houtompathy was firs . . introduced lute Mb cid* there were to be obtaln u e ce d i n=parations of cocoa eitheratimet to tire the taste or to the stomach the sot was Walter supplied in the crn • date, or so uuskilfulll wett la► tared as ea obtain little nodes. J. Epps. of London. liesiP, petite chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to taro Iffs ton to this subject, and at length succeeded. with the mi. of elaborate machinery, In being the first to prods r tsumatMa e Y pure In Its co and so refined by the peliel it receives is the proems It passes through, as to he °ci t...o w l I able to the delicate stomach . For general use, Errs's ... distinguished as an invigorating. grateful breakfast betel!. with a delicious aroma Dr. Rawl, In his week. ° _,_ree el its Adulterations," says:—" Coops contains a great warme s t portant nutritive principles : every ingredient aeoeseM7 rna •"' growth and sustenance of the body." Again, Ala amp cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea. tins:—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder us a Madded?" . filled an with Wiling water or milk. Secured in tipliestibet and 1 lb. Libelled packets, and sold at la tat Per l e " et graters, confectioners, and chemists.—le Iver.watidd fl. LAII NAB . 11 • 12 ' C ' P Air 011 1 .CriD). Artbeileetifig ♦ guanonotnint * s ot' oilr;rbetter tCrierroa obe bafidl or * lIMPORIDOP, 1,11011 dos. The Clualtnan, in Peertabge who k owe °I pies of inetitu He be done the world, or ert b• balm? to s o bias ; but if au •ly the fund' • mot companies , he that Pot" Th. wo e to be reePone d o . oar in which oaks past of their wh o , loans or cam • sot be admitted looked at Me f t in the Botl i t it a would narks • • et almost. , mersatile or* then guarantee . • fade relating to dieeretion at to 3 Who in hie • Terldelt escoritiee ohs same se if be i ‘• goer," sad le to • eituatios of Tur . eat arid its poll body elee, Unmet • content to r • k rate of inter Wes ia the w • which is time yielded oo firm which 16 no oesealaseat • add themeelves tru *se !sate o rfoefais each leas .) In referees r profits otitht to nowt to the a o w e ake great balk arnoste for 1864. greet bolt had • Viso eres 150,000 1 . which wee • . early is the and realised • • so made came t of sures that p gbe rear before, the additional 10a. louse the alculatio had based his este of 8,000,0001. The the fair Moat et 1 80,0001. ou of the 8,00000W. t only 2, w ording to . that the made 20, 00 9 4 , with really did do was to up 61 r 4 their spit the Italian loan. T and the roevereion • trenmetio• was al • = i l o s the least d a of the dlreo rbrought on., etold have hes proprietor wanted to idtftsr as " bull" oe eurtriely not, and h hie colleague& (" : to the Turkish loan, • metres of gist 1 .the advasist red he panorsally made went to the Geyer set say this in self • Tartish government make the cootract w He was thus placed time the oostreotor consequently asked three se confer with a gone oa quite vsey o misiderable but 10 carrying the whim the ripen larger than bad bee came to this, that r to which he was en Wes left for the made over all his sb did he take any Nue ing la the position o ought to participa talked of directs shares, he orosside that if he bad right uader the co than all his director' for ten yeses to co half-yearly meeting the matter ; but opposed to the no ea the busieeme effi it, and be contend mode of dealing by eandid es the last • resolution that a have been very em think such a course dance, would have sash a meeting in ie the midst of the Turkish onus materially damaged &aims which inigh °pastor such of the leg judicious to cal requisitica, sod • As to the member of state at once that, f 13,000. so that ans there on the mark freehold premises land at the time sell the property mot moment, but the coat price. As in the securities tit and not invested io adopt the suggestio up shoo"—(trugh lbs. a sham He be boas t and would p messing. An attempt was particulars of the • meeting was so it the chairman to offered to do so he A SBAZIHOLDZIt whether the rumou less true or no". The CHAIRMAN meeting, be would bulbar. (Hear, h The adoption of t and carried linguini. The retiring aadi sleeted. The Quitman, Alderman f3alomoo that the peeittea • eisteet with that o Westminster Bank, similar henries's. had retired ia • strong advice of his 'This being the wh The Osamu, 0 sorry to tell them would prevent his chairman. Hs felt from his residence Mama in that with Ins. He and autumn tb nrged upon him as he was doing, se many its ash conversion chairmanship. N coseinded, and whit and he had been ab all matters to them infests than that i with the very ardu the chairmanship of by saying that b to the sp ereer i e s e retains 6l interest ts.dire Ida advice Mat be deemed a tbet he would take simidd sim should he be ioed ple :ley meld 0002 ving himself till the neoessary hs thank the share resolved at their of them in the en h Mr a. WOLF, Case4the regret retirement of th e * ey , pitaT. A 'medi a l vas of i s hmklll4 thi plots