The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-07 00:00:00

g irth holm sesso the _notimality whis It ism Ihmaistli en Re baud that the = i trz e se=numt tee L ad be that whist', whilst it go wow ___suss, wes willing to roma all ia • mil* el equal E i sat by amiselatiag beams, bat by teal's; the t isek at this Ouse es a indeabted sun of appeal caferiag sad diatom. We A. Sltool[ll, la imphmatient, Meted that his observe. i mg/ = sisc referred le Ile Ilferllolßl of those districts who were ennui anew 'reeled 011.1100LN said that retrasesas aid hut some 111110 , et Wier inse t be afforded, and be might swam that 'at aid disoft tome from Reload, for there was a 'eased I eat selonnal sdesistion to that elect. Then two question s hoe waft remain, should this aid ease hem part or the w hy o f ipftod ; and is what mode should this rate la aid ft levied l he mead the bet quitiu. if they were to iately ia this matter he might dhodes any polies se tow hether this aid Auld be derived bem a part I , ohs whole of Ireland. It would be meet desirable that these enisse 1110814 be ordered liable fa the he simple for t b a ugment of the rates. He believed that wee prialigolly m u st atoeX o 1: the par law es it a pout steed. He sad Hunan more lateremted is the ques t= Una ; that those prniame hordeelag is Cos aught were mon int/toted than those whim/ were farthest m oos& He believed Lanst,c to he we leaseested the BMW, sod Muster to be eases kisosted than LaMar or moor. He could no; agree with the aebis hod at the bead et the trove-asst that the oft grated fee oa the tenths of Ireland hr this par etsedieletosalis object of in-eedociag an equivalent taxa a... He was deeidedly of opinion that eitaivalent taantioa was eat a mad priariple on whisk they would pressed. Se had mid that a spoon of equivalut pasties was set wood, eves if you cull peace it to be real, but he believed he mall show that there so no reality 1a it. The right be- fteCheaseller of the Hembenter had urged the rota. fete ladle sole mud of its being temporary ; and the Oils lead (Lind J. lieserU) want still farther, sad had eleilenikel that not only was the asessare to be temporary in ft spostion, but that the evil which it was devised tensest wee =is its nature also. He (Lord Lincoln), however, et admit that the ocessierx for which this remedy was popoold was temporary. 012 the untrary, be believed they weft sow about to slept a temporary expellent to mast set only a perm meat her a gradually ineressing evil. H. regretted that the nobly: lard had not been able to propound some measure for remedying this permanent evil, Muer by Unman from the excherteer, er • permaaeu este In aid. This Me was put forward on tb• pair tittle of an modutrat ; aor what was It as equivalent fort It was odd that it s L was an i Unbent for the income pas , but they wen pro ses a enteral, bet se a spoi to l tar, I:lt ilas ea a single daft of the people only, and sum that which in this country was ezesspt hoes that very tax which this was proposed as as equivalent for. Therefore the priasiple of equivalent taxation altogether failed. He a sada that the imp' tidal' of the rate In aid t.ad to unsettle the Wads of many of the mall 1= in Ireland, for 6d. in the 'mead would to diem be a mos serious matter, and lase would be eater taised by them that the tax would be doubled is the course of s very sheet time. The rata would, moreover, have the effect of preventing the application of capital to the cultivation of the soil, and also of increasing ma unhealthy emigration, arida' from an apothem dm that something was conies upon them which would Warp the circle of preen distress. The govern ment meld not be igacirant of the fast that the plan now proposed had met with very ooseidereble °pushier, not only from mom of Ulster anal Munro, bat eves hots the die tremeddloiriets —from these who could not be payers, but who sea continue to be recipieaU The day before he had presented a petitioa from the salon of Carrieltaiseeces spinet the rate, and one of the vatic:led facts it contained mold explain to the house how that salon was situated. The umber of its inhaohants was 39,000, sad the number of its um ail 37,000, and from this: circumstances • tolerably wrest pens might be formed of what its actual state nut be with rehouse to the mattes of Unties. (Hear, hear.) The right has. gentleman the &notary for the HOMO Do- Cblt bad dwelt at great length epos a question which in . i l a touched upon in the mum of a preceding debate —sanely, th e queston of caution. He (Lord Lincoln) itt that upon teat suojeet the government would also greatly hit, because 9 was icapertent to the dee application of say rating plan to Ireland that there should be a uniform valuation ef that mouthy. The only sound stoolard to go spot would be a tesenteat valuation ; bet that was complete oily is one county. They must, teen hie, tall back on the faulty p Kerley valastioa, the in utility of whisk was as great, that in Belfast it wee 20e. ad. Uses the' towiesad valeatio, arbours., in the township el Castleblutey it was de. 3d. below it. (Hear.) He felt it d es irable that Ireland 'boatel, in one shops or ether, contribute the sum neeceory to relieve the distorters is her ishabitants; mid, if the deLate stood now as it did at the oessamiescasset of the night before, he should probably love gives his vete fa favour of the faulty proposal of the 110,1111/1 lit, because, undoubtedly, woo nested as he wen w.tk ei th er Ireland or the Webby, he should sot have ha called upon to move an amesdment. But a proposal had been nude which be con glared would be far acre his and just than • rate in aid end the hen. mown is Daseitik (Mr. M'Culloeh) had matisfactolly shows that a tax raised upon the innate and groperty of Ireland—(hoar hear)—would be a far soon Oß. seciens mow of e ff ecleg tits object her Majesty's ministers had is view; sad that 4 would be mach more jut In its bearings, sad he 1118 We/Moven in he aeon upon the rest if the popalation. (Hoar, bear.) Ho would support the asierinest of the bm. member for Longford, Meuse he osamidere.l It, al-bough defective, to be • slop in the direedes of the only sound principle, the principle el peal emelee ; and it that amendment Mould be carried ha weld lien he pr. p Jed to vote for essisillehag the th eme tea ketoses the two countries, and making Inland pay 714• end me Si la the penal. (Hear, bear.) Ced. DUNN urged that if the rate were agreed to It would mouse the Irish people that they had nothing to hope from the seesemeat, bet suet rely solely spas themselvee. Hr. MUNTZ said be should vote for the asseadmeat, =eist to be such more amount with Jetties than the et the 'eversion. Mr. Month supported the :ate, which was opposed by Er. Bt. (Inoue. Alter whisk Lord 1 . RUSSELL rise and said, I em airy rhea agar arable the Masa wish ass übnevations ; bat there were some remarks mole by the noble lord, the member for Falkirk, who rake immediattly to the Neat at lave, which I do think mare rose explanrioa. Ist me my, Is the first plat, that I think thin hour! has ashisi by mejori las w ewe points ; one ie, that some ail be given to at. distrased season. in the west of Laid, mail the other, this seek sad ought not to come from the impala' tarry, bet bem setae tea or rats hi aid levied apes busload iterif. The quotas then remains of whether thle WNW be done la ass am ways. Tie one is by reklag he titration of Inlaid with nip-et so those rapers to whisk the people of that amatry are not sow exposed, sal appropriating the ratan to the relief of daskulles ; the other, the levying of • special Ms Ot, tat for the purpose. Now, the noble hid says that I panted the rate in aid as an equivalent to Mame permanent tisane., but I beg to Rats that I did not so pro per it What I said vas that if the taxation of Ire Lad was raised to the EngliA level the btuthen would be much 11.11VitIr than that or the rate which I proposed. The sale lord went on to point out a defect in the govern ment proposal which he seemed to look upon as al• meet heal, annelr, the Imperfection of the valuation. New I had eare's:ly_ considered, before Mr. G Midis had gives hie tvelence before the committee, • Paper 4inest identical with that which has been quoted by the motile teed, but that papa appears to ate to prove, sot that the poor-law Titivation is imperfect, but that the town land abrades I. astray to correct principla. • Mr. Grif fiths states, that in &editing the townlend valitatios, he made so reference to local rents or circularise's. This mode appears to mu to he capricious and arbitrary, and sot at an so satisfactory as the poor law valu ation. It is true that that valuation I. emet. in are par of the eosstry than In others, but I think that both la the north and west it answers very well ia the fair letting yahoo.: For then rases[donor= Mr. Griffiths' evidence affords any ground he set progashis the rate. The tob!o kb! finds other halts; Ire breasts, that the rate impales a sew tax upon as Wear already homily burdened (Rear, hear.) No drift that is the am, bat yet land Is a pro ty which, both be Megiaad sad Ireleedhas always ban made subject to the euggeset of the Par There is, however, the farther queries e 7 whether It would be proper to obtain the sum required by a rate la eM, i s :: the imposition of a property or ina le inane-tax. lir sable says that if we adopt Murata& we anal get the mosey andi loam than by the impolitic@ ai the rate in aid ; but Is song rinsteatbar that whin we trek id • property tan hen the doh of April we do net tires • tali payable on est are. It is only in MIAs ft weal be payable, as& ressest leowiss. the eseteen et Thee laessdl, le sot reethed ..a1 the .leafs else dilleolty tibia = i ll the wasesenesuitif w debate,lbst it whirls sew with the reselsi zz grager he die asilaaties ef as tassels tan, that ea m e at tensest Isle aids at saes, sad therefore ft hi ray 4.111‘ le akT what the isms tax would piadase slang dm fint w a t e e r s: Rewests, if the nobie lord anti sassed is lie ea the preposition et • g tege an lAA teaantausey the hew should t presumes It it ssesdag sait proper ewe hes this day forward, Inbred ink! be ashjast Lear tar, I shall be ready to bow to the daellas bat I ware Irish ratlenten that wheats the nes be di may be a temporary tax for two years, the papery sad Mame tax, if ease levied, will artsialy beans a perm. seat burthes. (Hess hear.) At this hits hoar I she set eater late ihsePeddlils 111.8"1" rpaal ifte I heard with great r tenet kaa the right has. heart Its amber for Tumor& If they bad same ham stibla the sops of the prevent statics, I *ma settee Ursa It holds; sad if I do not now sada them, k is set tar ocesidaratice. I disk that when • gee bfs great talent ead isa =les. pawn a seem b . .t_whisis be Weis a great d bind any be tea- INN prosperous, le waled to the wet Wiwi' libation from this hews (lieu ham) Ibis rack I will m wt eirea ' nishm a tdbisall as the present da y c are sr ilia is Om be wW e• ellihment of lamal. tete& (liar, hear.) • ••I.,.__grelse so me to dlfferc nt se to do amplisalks of Pei* t sitter of ex tra ce • I sake these wer . wieur sway to Mow that I aim mat Insensible to the ..e dear/ camellia which the_ rilbl hen. Weed rem =gm to make, avoiding thee Meet d(sesmMs, 6, 41 - 7 1 . the queetian 'poet tibias the hemp Is 'best to I Isave tt.e cisaa.te sow is Ike lasiarof the bran ftilithed la my * op Lin inset the groan& of nor 'm ens ve vary that proportion, the rate is ad tell, I !me be erseLy available he the rupees of the dieser ; 5 lath, after hind tab 0 , 1-!• lord's views ere sucandel, los lirshen from Ltlsed will, I have so deabl, feel great midwifes at Mein Maimed Mk eidast. (Cams sad issobisr.) Tim eMandatee divided—Pet the siassideasat 164 4 11111 4 The original ?gaieties was Men pat, on which Kr. REYNOLDS was anlipaq v that the rate fit aid of 6d. la the _pmed he ea all salaries of government 'Mem at aet ems alear. on all is, comes desired ras the pubis kola M akertgares, and as all incomes dahal trim la Wm& He thought it only jam sad reassaable the feed he the relief of the destitute fa bawl ilaeld he aassasartall b, intending the rate to these seeress of Mame. (Hack beer.) It was sly right that Ireland should ham the bereft Oohs $ per seat inmate tax paid late the minsolidated fund from Weems* de rived trompaparty la thatematry. When belied wasthrown 111 bey own ramaraw it was but Met Istive *a basalt fig aid thus resestrws. (Hear, Mar.) The hen. member for Lemmshire (M. W. Brown) amok a babas. of 200,000,0001. rrlnked. It he (Kr. Reynolds) were se eater upon ekulatlea el es national esseame between the two manales he Wald mike tithe ether way. (Laughter.) But .omitting that ibe !gang were cermet, and that they owed this 100 000,0041, be doubted whether it would ever be paid. (Lanittee ) He ought to have sold that he had no doulr. at all oa the subject, salees they 'opposed to be made a present of as electoral divisioa in Celifornia. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—WiII this amendment be put.' a sub stantive mules ? Mr. RILYNOLDB—I intended it to be added to the ruo- When. (No, ae.) TM CHAIRMAN—Dote the boo. rollout moo it to be oittiod to elm totolution ? Mr. REYNOLD/I—Makeover is most itonsistent. (A laugh.) Lord I. RUSSELL thought It would be better to Mks the original lialltdoll as It stood. (Hem, bear.) Afterwards the hen. radon= might move to impose the tax on other kinds of property. Mr. ROCHE world suggest to his hew. Mend to pat his I motion as a oralretantivir resohdlon. He wished to vote for the proposition of the government ; he was aho disposed to vote for the motion of ale hoe. friend, bat he did not know how he could vote for them if added together. (Laughter.) It might be well for hon, gentlemen who did not wish to nuke any provision for the poor of Ireland to laugh ; but Mn were two separate and distinct resolutions which ought to be pat esparately, for if joined together they would only produce confaskin. - (Hear, bear.) Mr. SPOONER sa id that hoe. memben es that dde of the house had objesta to the resolwries proposed by the nibble lord, hamlet they conceived it oaf* to tea one kind of property slosh He now called upon the hoe. member for Dublin to show his Mowery by peneveriag in his pro posal to append wertain words to the original resolution. Mr. STAFFORD mid that having been defeated on the main question, without abandoning his opposition to the bill, he thought it would be most respectful to the majority not to persevere in opposing the proposition before the honor. Mr. REYNOLDS said he ceeld assure the has. member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spacer) that there was no misessity wt ateeer to mil wpm him to give a prime of his sincerity. He could nat he guilty of anything so discomposed to that home as the Keperig. especially at that late hoer, a notion in which he was wit *won; and having had the benefit of the Chairman's advise. memberated by that of the hen. gen tleman, he Amid porarrom la his propos!. The cosumilen Sin Moidod. For Mr. Reynolds' moles 6l Against It The home then divided on the main question. For the original solution 206 Ageing it The ressainlag resolatose were aaggreed to. The hoes, then resumed, the ebelrman reported progress, and leave was given to bring in the bill. Tee Petty Simians Bill and the Distracting for Rates Bill were read a third time, and the house adjourned at a quarter befure 2. Vie entre)Ssi. Male will be able ap ale b Y at Mt tat. Ikawasia. to be 'Dumped by abl 1111 eppeat el oil ees Paismoutl an the la tsat- e /rpeelep ea lean lowa be la No shape all be node ea ameepapera V latab its, ha haled to be forwerded Ibis vowel aset be egabily addrard 31. 46. Z=1/16a. Tlbs asa a the Mitaftirrinf/S. Boa. Ada. limpEsag, ba.. will be wade op tra th e - masa ci eel trith The sale br Plata berth Arable. sad the Called bates, will be bads op ea the waft al tbe 9th Marsh. The at Ildb. bodedlai benasda. Massa ore Noma thame. mad Mealso. sad ieshedlag th lot =B7I W I. Jaadableoregos. New Oreada. Chhi. sad VIM will beards op athe eslspaf tile 17a Yen& TM mons Sr T Opera. Lana. Madeent. Cabs ai olbrallat will be brie bp ila the waft at Me 11th the able be 9111weleer. Weti es% as baba Wade. Adds. Cal" MA. ilmodimi, awl Mae. ode Iloatbasoreek ign w i t be made apes as raerslag d as lea lab/ The mei be INA Wale. thesss Lead. sod New SW MB be b op ea * e setab Mat Nara. MON WAIT= AT LONZIOA *llllOO5. Tyr Da, —Mon lag. 04 •ala. pine 0, 41.100100000. II Ws. put I. 11111••••w—igening, VW. put 41100fliesh, •W. palt LONDON,WEDNESDAY,MAR.7. Elia CHARI.ES NAPIER tells us in his baggage pam phlet that time are but five months for making war in India—that is, from the commencement of De cember .o the end of April. As *general can sanely get his force into the field and bring his enemy to action in lees than eight or ten weeks, half this period has elapsed before his capabilities as a general as be tested. And as it then takes about the same time of eight or ten weeks for tidings to reach England, and directions to be seat out in answer, it follows that the bad choice of a gene ral, or the disasters of a campaign, are utterly irre mediable, except in about a twelvemonth's time after the fact of the Wunder or bad choice hating been found out. There is no power which it is so necessity to dele gate with immediate conditions of recall as military command. Cisil administration may tarry. A blander can bat create discontent, and discontent can wait. Then the resolves of civil government aro taken, more or less, by aidof council. Bed military authority is con centrated in one man—depend, upon his temper, his capacity, his qualities. A mistake of his may hurry thousands to destruction, may destroy armies and ruin empires. The greatest sagacity may fail in a due selection, or the officers selected may . lose the coolness and the command of self requisite for the task. Barely the remedy ought to be at hand. And What is a Governor-General of kdia fit for, if he is not to have the power of removing an incapable commander? Lord DALuoutnu, it seems, h not this power. He must see the whole Britial; army in India ruined ere he can interfere : he may, we believe, order the commander in-chief to conduct operations in this or that region, but remove him from supreme command he moot. For ten weeks or three months after the battle of the Jhelum Lord GOUGH may continue to do what he pleases with the British army. No successor from this country an arrive until the campaign and the season have expTred. Lord Wyatt has owed his recent succession of high commands in part to seniority, in part to job. He was considered no unfit commander for a dash at the Chinese ; but no one ever thought him a fit officer to command an Indian army. Had the disastrous conflict of the Jhelum been retarded some damenfficient time might have elapsed to allow of Sir W ua.ien GOMM superseding Lord (loran eventually is the command. Now, what are the reconuosodations of Sir WILLIAM Ocriew ? Age, and no more ; and such an effect have yeses had upon Sir Wawa, that his infirmities have rendered him incapable of transacting the civil badness of his colo nial administration. Sir WILLIAM (3ollm is now to be set adds by Sir Citaxim Hama, a sharp writer and swordsman, and cos in whom the army, and perhaps the have academe. But, after all, are not Sir Camas NAPIZR'S military qualities and precedents very mach akin to those of Lord Goren P Is he not a dashing sad adventurous soldier ? His chief claim is that elhaviag, at the head of 2,800 'oldie'', attacked 22,000 BeseeatMeante, andbeaten them, by sheer M frs fighting. amy (said Sir Chaim Is his dfilltaisk) Ina 1,000 yards from am lime, whisk sem traversed as tailings lag mad la a few sheer the empleest became penaliicag the beak of the river. ea TINA the sembarsats height for about dares hems er miner mfil fem ems to sea. This vas seem Me if sad sest wee meek K 111111sliisek. I TM usket breve ba Delembem, apes _ MI tisk melshlesk eel Osk. dished ever thr teak whit isemiuMm, bet dews west these bail sad shard sada the ear riselce the steam sad barest.Wh is this bat as adios essy after the saw el Lord Cloocis—with this rence ' that it was trassemdel? The Belooohess had not the die ciplineor gimmakidp, or arms, of the Sikhs, nor did the Amon bed than as the Singhs head their foi -1 lowers. Had they done so, MONA might have been a Chithanwansh. - We are strongly opposed to the eystem of large armies in time of peace. Bat we are not parties= at undertaking great conquests with a small force. The East India Oempfiny have been prodigal and bad =rof their resources. They are deeply in and they make war in a most expensive fashion. They are thus obliged to eocoomise their native force, and they mead generals to fight, as at Meaner, a force eight times greater ; and Lord Gonna had to cope with an army of Bahs double the number of his own. Of coarse, victory is only to be achieved THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1849. or attempled with ea immense eteribee of life, especially when the ndisnee is on the bull-dor courage of European soldiers, which the genersl is slwsys in haste to employ, before the enemy is prepared, and before he himself has had time to reconnoitre. We are sorry to add that she amounts received in private letters of Lord aim's military proceedings are even more serious and menacing than those which were destined fir the public. It appears that the army has lost all its camels, which crew the roads, per shin from want of water end provende r . Th e place where the army encamped is quite naked of every ras:.nrce, and supplies had to be brought at least one hundred and twenty miles from Lahore. What Sir Casein NAPIZIL lately wrote of the difficulties and inctunbranes of Indian bairssie and amp followers Misbecame dreadfully in point. The great hope is, that Lord Oouon may be sufficiently in force, widths S:khs sufficiently crippled, to render the communication with Lahore oonticsous and safe. But this is what those acquainted with the localities and with Indian warfare scarcely hope. Tun Liverpool orators in behalf of the navigation laws declare they have no faith, save in the Hones of Lords. What they hope no more from justice, argument, or fairly weighed interest, they expect from faction. Protection forms the emence and the bond of a certain political party : to keep it together is the great aim of a majority in the House of Lords. In the navigation laws this party are de fending their last ditch, and they will die in it. Consequently, the effort to overcome must be vigor ous. And yet the builder, and all concerned in the framing and the sailing of ships are, after all, a little concerned or affected, would they fairly examine the case. Let us state this in the language of their chief advooata : It has been already proved (says Mr. Toting) that there is an unseal production of 260,000 to of altipping, together with en expenditure upon repairs and oloipana that mug obviously give employment to a vest swat of British o b =tal eed and labour, the displeoneent of which ought to be spinet what I einsider the hypothetical advantage to be obtained by a reduction of freight from the employ. meat of cheaper skips. The capital invested in trades con nected with the building and equipment of ships has leen proved to exceed 16,000,0001. sterling ; the annual cost of ship-building is upwards of 3,000,0001 ; the yearly expeadi. tare in repairs and outfits, 8,000,0001.; and 80,000 workmen are calculated to be employed, whose earnings amount to l 6,000,0001. sterling per annum.—Lords' 3rd" Report, Qs. 8337. On the face of it this seems a great :and wealthy interest. It bears some impress of the energy, enter prise, and capital of England; and looks as if the people had a special spirit of maritime enterprise. No other nation in the world, and scarce all of them together, have so much capital afloat, or can muster such a commercial marine. Yet the same witness goes on to say : That if ship-building be discouraged in this opus' ry, be is at a km to know from whence we Gould derive a supply of carpenters for our chips--the most indispensable part of our crews ; or where shipwrights could be obta in ed from to sup ply, as they frequently do, the :ova dickyazds la cases of emergency. Doubtless this very statement will be produced again and again in the coming debate. The nolod proleetionists, one after another, will stand up as the champions of the shipwrights, and will have it that if Englishmen may buy ships out of Englaod, n o more ships will be built in Englaod. And yet, with out going into details, the answer is easy enough. Nearly every otter nation has navigw.ion laws. More or less, they have all sought to increase their own conunerrint marine as we ours, by imposing restrictions upon foreigners, and we have helped them. The sixteenth section of the Navigation Act de clares: That no ship shall be admitted tobelong to any particular foreigneountry sinless she be of her build and ownership or of Xliglish build, and be navigated by a native captain, and a crew, three-fourths of u loom are natives. This is precisely the description of a British ship given in the fifth section of the Ship Registry Act and the thirteenth of the Navigation Act, and from the repeal of which, so far as it concerns the place of build, such ruin is to come upon us. It must have encouraged and increased the shipping of all foreigners trading cie with us as much as it en courage d an d in re our own shipping trading with foreigners. And yet with all this help, and all that their own special — restrict'otut could do for them, tho only competitors we meet at sea worthy of the name, are a people of our own land, ein;grants from our own a nl, not nursed into naval greatness by pro tection, but impelled 0 it by the earnest cnterpr a ng spirit of their race—that spirit that sent them out as founders of the transatlantic world, and made them free there. The shipping of England is not the offspring of sarigation lawn—protect i on never nursed it into greatness. It has sprung from the inherent impulse of the people toward a seafaring I fe, and has been reared to its present gr e atne s s by the commerc:al in tegrity, the perseverance, industry, activity, inventive power, and wondrous maeh'nery, of this country. " Your very language," said a German, "is of the sea, your short, full-sounding words, your clear, load voices, and hissing l's and ss. sound like the roll and roar, and rash and splash of the sea, and as if you were born to be heard in storms." " IVt shook, be savages (said Mr. COBDEN) if we were nog sailors." But s e are sailors—a sea-born and sea-loving people; shipbuilders by instinct and in herited aptitude, and therefore free from all risk of being driven from the seas or from building ships by any sailors or shipwrights in the world. Before the committee of the House of Commons, Mr. RICARDO, who has made the questi m of repeal of the navigation laws his own, brought abundant evidence to prove that ships can be built cheaper in England than anywhere else in the world. Wit nesses were called thoroughly well acquainted with the shipping of Europe and America, and no amount of cress-examination was able to disprove their state ments that England is the great storehouse of all the raw material of first-class ships, tom English oak to copper sheathing, and that all other ship-building countries bay the greater part of their iron, copper, Zda, sails, chains, cables, nails and anchors, from 'rie cheap foreign ship fallacy was thoroughly sifted and cap wed. It rested on tho words " oak" and" ship;" whatever timb:r bore the name of oak was set down by the chairman of the Shipowners' Association as of equal strength and durability with the oak of England and Afrioi. His Prussian ships had oak in them, and were therefore called equal to English ships—the fact being carefully kept out of view that from the first they were not so safe, and would not last half so long. Even the fir-built ships of Finland were set side by side with ships of British oak, and splken of as if they were equally valuable property simply_ because they were both called ellipse. Bat Mr. RICARDO was not to be misled or driven from his point. Ho was determined to get at the truth, and he did get at it by forcing the witness to confess that the selling value of ships has reference to their classifica tion to " Lloyd's List "—that a higher price is paid for a ship in proportion to the number of years she can stand A 1 a' Lloyd's, and that • contract would therefore not be good which furnished a seven years' ship instead of a nine. It came out, too, that Lloyd's classification is neither random nor arbitrary. It forms the basis for the calculation of marine insurance by the under writers, and is admi tad throughout the world as the best test of the actual value of ships. The claudication is the result of long and carefully investigated experience of the strength and dura bility or every kind of timber, in every part of a ship, of fastenings, sheathing, and in short, every particu lar, however minute, that is known to add to the soundness and longevity of a ship. In all the random statements of the infinite cheapness of foreign ships, this simple item of the length of time they will last is kept out of sight. Our ship owners have, however, found out its great import ance, for, although anadian fi r-built ships are the cheapest in the world they will not have them at any price, but so much prefer the dearest vessels that the rate of increase of AI twelve years' ships is much than that of any other clam ; proving clearly greaterl practice the ships which cost most are the most profitable. Before the committee of tho Lords, however, the fallacy, so exposed in the Commons, was revived, and not being met there by such sifting cross-examina tion, the witnesses proved too much, and have left the evidence to answer itse!L Mr. B. Malan, of New York, states the eon of an Amorists *ass el about 1,460 teas of our mesousensent to be 141. gut les t , IMt is, for the hall, span, sells, all the riggings, andiels, sable, &o , in short, everything bat the caspimse, *orb, &roams:en, and nautical lastramente, wttisb it is imattuany fay lb. toptais N kniith.—Lards' report, 8,561 NSAM. For these we aid IL pr tnn to Mr. MINTURN% estimate, aa that the American ship stands at 161. per tan. We tarn now to the evidence of Mr. MoltZT WlGlLtit, one of onr largest skip-owners. He says : Of coarse the Mt of • skip will &pod very meek upon the time, the eireasesteoess radar which It is built, and therefore it will very iron about 221. 10s. to 251. we any take ar averap of 24!. I mean equipped mad ready for esa es a first elms twelve yeen' 2nd Report, 6017. Bo far, therefore, it appears that' the English ship *oda W. pir ton more than the American. But as the Amercan ship would only be classed 10 years A 1 at Lloyd's, and a pound is estimated as the difference in value for each year, we must add V. per ton to the American ship that, we may com pare it on opal roofing with the English. lheir respective prices would then stand: Amnion LIT per tan. English. £24 per ton. Minna against the English £7 per tea. • T. An. true that Mr. Wst. TtIDALe, another of our largest first-glass shipowners, and owning himself some four or five and twen vessels, gives about 191. ty _ per ton as the co s t o f our best ships. Mr. BRIGGS (p. 377) values a 12 years' ship, Sunderland-built (and there are none better), at 181. Mr. Yours o gives the cost of a ship of his built at Whitehaven at 211 17a. (p. 488), and she belonged to a new order, I being set down as a 13 yeas?' ship. And Captain BRIGGS, an American, exansmed before the Com mons, rap the present cost of building a ship in the United btates is 201. per ton, and she would only stand 10 years A 1. We, however, pan by these little differences of opinion, and take the statements respectively of Messrs. WIGRANI and MINIVAN, Making the English abip dearer by 71. a ton than the American. Mr. ?Litman says (third rep. Lords, 8,898) : The .sly item is ship-building which, to my knowledge, is cheaper is America than England, is wood ; and, this lon ships boa is Now 'York, has is bear heavy transportation, much of the timber bring brought by sea from Virginia and Florida, and the plank from Lake Erie, a distance of 600 77is tress is imported from England, mod pays a cliO . of 305., besides the expense of importation. The sheath ing copper/tows from England. The copper from which the bolts are manufactured pays a duty of p h : per Cent. CePPer highm. Man sn England. sails ors alnfost en tirely/mess Eng land. . . On this point Capt. Balsas states : That the vessels engaged in the trade between thiseonntry and the United States get all their sails from bore ; seldom or never are well made in the United States, and there is a dui on naval of 23 per cent. ad valorem. Canvas and cor are fully 10 per mat. dearer in the United States than a England, and the wood is nearly es expensive. "And," says Mr. MINTURN. "wages are nearly do v 146." At length, therefore, we are out of our diffi culty. The mystery of cheap ship building is cleared up before us. It is only needful to ship in London or Liverpool the iron, copper, cordage, chains, and sails, and as there is not much difference in the voyages to New York from England, and to New York from Virginia and Florida, and as English oak is besides the best, and will gain the ship two years more on the first letter (us well as other advantages), it may to as well to ship the timber too, and the needful number of alights and riggers and all other crafts men. There remains only to cress the Atlantic, le pay 30 per cent. on the iron, 5 per cent. on the copper bolts, •'25 per cent. on the canvas, 23 per cent. on doll'''. and cables, double the wages of all the workmen, and, if there be truth in evidence, such is the magic of the doubled wages of New York, that you'll sail your first class craft away at 71. per ton less oast than if you had built her in the Humber, Thames, or Mersey, or anywhere in merry England, though it be the world's warehouse and workshop of all the raw mate rials for building ships. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Cempeny's steam-packet Iberia, Capt. C. F. Barney, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her medal under the charge of Lieut. Langton, KN., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : Gibraltar, Feb. 25 ; Cadiz, Fob. 2a; Lisbon, March 1; °pee°, March 2; Vigo, March 3. She brings 17 pac ka ges of specie. On the 17th ult. Sir Charles Napier embarked at Gibraltar on board the Sidon attam-higate, and, taking the 34th Regt. from that garrison, with 'ix OA amen, proceeded to the Three Cape., on the coast of Barbary, and on to the town of Melilla without seeing any one upon the coast, and the governor of that town assuring him that it was useless to proceed, he returned to Gibraltar with the expedition on the 20th. The Cauml at Vigo is endeavouring to get the quarantine off the packets on their return voyage, and has some hopes of succeeding. They were in hopes at Gibraltsr that the quarantine would shortly be re duced to three days. Our correspondent writes : LISBON, FEB. 28. I have had occAsion to mention the nature of the elections in this country; the ministry have sustained a defeat upon the di, cuseion relative to them. Under Art. 63 of the Charter the elections are prescribed to be indirect The question as to the oen.titutionality or unconstitut'onslity of this article was bnught b. fore the Chamber in the last session, when it was, after a long discussion, decided by a large majority thst it was not constitutional. A committee having been appointed to frame a law on the ,abject called on the chamber to give en opinion as to how the elections were to be, and the ministers not agreeing a warm and animated debate arose upon it, in the course of which many expres s ed opinions quite at variance with their votes of the preceding session, until at length Mr. L B. Silva Cabral, who has already much signalised himself in the opposition he has formed to the unwise and profligate ministry, endeavoured to put the chamberinto a trainof thought upon tho subject, and having very forcibly stated that he was in favour of, and might have voted for direct elections, but it was impossible to do no, u the article prescribed indirect ones; and therefore u he could not vote for direct elections without trampling upon that charter, he would vote for indirect ones. His speech carried convicion with it, and led the chamber completely, in consequence of which minis ters sustained a defeat, the numbers being N for indi rect, and 32 for direct elections; for although the ministers declared the question open, it was only to avoid the appearance of defeat, fur in everything but their declaration and voting (as they did not vote at all), they made every possible exertion to frustrate the decision which it was expected the Chamber would come to, and which it has oome to. This deci liol2 took place on the 22nd. The report of the committee appointed to examine the lieting of the Sete Cases and the fish mange has' at length been laid before the chamber. It is adverse to the ministry, and shows the improvidence of the measure, and the ruinous loss the country would sustain by the transact/ma; but M. Falcao, the late minister, endeavoured vainly to show that his idol (le be called it) was absolutely necessary as matters were at present; he threw much blame upon his predecessor, M. Frenzied, who, he said, had brought on many embarraasniente, and, as a sort diet off to snob a teholmale uncharitable charge, he ac knowledged he bad himself miscalculated the Imans of the country; now, the fact plainly is, that M. Pransini need every envour to reined the einbarreasseets his (M. Fran zini's p (of whom M. Falco was one) had brought upon the country, and there i. no doubt but had he had fair play he would, in a great degree, have acoomplshed it. A ministerial crisis still exists. How the vessel of the state is guided no one know, but it does not, lona than-like, go ahead. That the miuby have no de cency is clear, or they would resign. fammit are multiplied—a party is wanted composed of Cabral, Terceira, and TojaL Palmella works strongly spinet it, yet, with all the workings and eminterworkings, nothing is dons. The taxes enforced, people's pro perty sold, persons advertised as debtors to the state, who in counter advertisements declare the owe no thing, and nobody paid e x ce pti ng e palace coterie, be prepared to hear that some ex plosion will be the consequence. And that this is feared has now become evident by the Minister of Was having demanded 24,000 men for the service of the year. The who/e of the na tional battalions to be retained, and new ones raised. The Mindello steamer, whieh baleen sent with an ambassador to the Pope, to tender the services of her mast "faithful " Majesty in his behalf, has returned to the Tagus. FRANKFORT Itasca 3. Russians in Transylvania ; D en m ar k declaring that it will not renew the armistice of Mslmoe, which will expire in a fortnight; Russia protest ng against the reorganisation of Germany u a violation of the treaties of 1815; considerable bodies of Russian troops assembled on the Prussian frontier, and the Rename guards advancing . towards that frontier; is ' not all this enough to inspire belief that our fear, or rather our hope, of a good substantial war with Ramie is on th ei eve of being realised ? Now that every day brings its additional indication of an im pending war with Russia, the corrupted atmosphere of our National Assembly begins to purify itself. Every man raises his head in hope that the internal embarrassinenta, which on every side swarm and threaten us, may be converted into embarrassments from without, which, at the worst, are less to be dreaded than a civil war in Germany. If Austria call in Itu•siato'aid it in Germany, Austria—or more correctly speaking the Austrian dynasty—will pronounce its own death -sentence in Germany. What most retards the establishment of national unity is the multi plicity of dynasties in Germany, and, above all, the dualism of the Austrian and Prussian dynasties. If one of these. on this occasion, bang the Russians into Germany, it most for ever give place to the other in all German affairs. The simple fact that the Aus trian government has invoked Russian aid in Tran sylvania, his done it more harm than would the loss of whole armies in the war against the Magyars. All Austrians, without exception—the military in pirt;cular—feel humiliated by the amistanoe they re ceive from Rues'an soldiers. Again, the German Austrians are indignant at the subDrdinate part they play in the Diet at Krerosier ; even while remaining on the defensive, they sea themselves daily th rea t ene d by same, despised and humbled by others. From day to day they cast more wistful glances in the direction of Germany and Frankfort. Letters arrive simul tsneonly from all quarters expressing the growth of this sentiment. The Austrian go- vernment has been compelled to enter the lists against the propaganda of Frankfort, and to great disadvantage, for the most simple, the most sure, the most legitimate weapon of this German pro paganda in Austria is the fundamental law adopted in the Frankfort Assembly—the magna charts pro mulgated in she Church of S. Paul, and distributed by millions of copies throughout Austria. The Aus trian government prohibits therm, institutes domici liary searches for them, makes seizures of them, as it did formerly of the books of the men who have given up making books to making laws, which appear to Metternich's successors equally to endanger the re pose of tyranny. The German populations in Austria begin to be moved. The city of Innspruck has sent an address to the second chamber at Munich, thanking it for de claring that Austria ought to remain part of G. r many and take part in estab'ishiag the German state. Addresses from the German population of Bohemia have been received in Frankfort, asserting their right to belong to the German nation. The whole of Austria seems ripe for great events : it is impossible that the heterogeneous elements assembled even in the Diet can long remain combined when the Russians are advancing; when Austria is preparing to began anew the war in Italy, and when Germany is about to decide what is to be the position of Austria ilithe new German empire. The decision of the Ohnutz cabinet on the draft of a constitution submitted to it (and communicated to the Left by the party of the Right in the National Assembly) has not yet been received. It is n e t ver y likely that Welker and Sebmerling can have hit urn a plan that will give equal satisfaction to the friends of Windischgratz and the friends of Vogt, Simon, and Venedey ; but the latter thought them s-lvts bound to omit no experiment that might con duce to establish the unity of Germany, before de claring that Austria is to be excluded from Germany, or rather before consenting to • decla ration of war between Germany and Austria— for that is certain to be the consequence of refusing Austria its due pasition in Germany. Ever since Russia has marched to the ail of Austria, and Austria has allowed itself to be propelled upon Italy by Russia, the chances of Austria in Germany have been daily diminiahinz, and those of Prussia in creasing. This is one reason fir disbelieving the re ports of a cordial understanding brtwecn these powers, and of a project for manufacturing and granting a constitution and central executive for Germany by the German princes. As Cato answered the news mongers and babblers of his day by naming Carthage, so I keep repeating to all such gossip, " the Russians, the Russians; and lam eons laced that their inter ference will be a rough but infallible remedy for the moral languor and paralysis of ,which Germany is sick even unto death. THE UNITED STATES. CALIFORNIA. The Niagara, Cap'. Stone, arrived in the Mersey yeiti rday, and her paperi, were brought op t, Liver pool by the tender Satellite. We have received dates from New York to the 20th ult. (inclusive), six days later than those received by the Wisconsin ; from Boston to the 21st ; and from Halifax to the 23rd. Mr. Lewis Caw, the United States ambassador to Home, was a pamenger in the Niagara. The Niagara brings the mail. of the Forth, Welt India steamer, the loss of which is thus fina'Jy con firmed. The New York mail only reached Boston ten mi nutes before the departure of the Niagara. The Her mann American steamer, for Southampion and Bra. men, wis to leave New York on the 20th. Th e Europa royal mail steamer arrived at Militia on the afternoon of Thursday, the 22nd Feb., having msde the passage from Liverpool in 11 days. Lodgings were engaged in Washiegton, for General Ta3lor, on toe 19th of February ; he was expected to arrive there on the 24th. He passed through Marietta, Ohio, early on the morning of the ICth. He was rather indisposed, owing, it is alleged, to fatigue ; his voyage up the Ohio hid been much impeded by ice. It wait stated with con fidence that he had invited the Hen. John M. Clay ton to swept the office of Secretary of State in his cabinet ; and that Mr. Crittenden had refused to form part of it. These arrivals confirm the report of a movement to organise an rinterim state government in Cali fornia; and the impossibility of any legislative action on that head in Congress before its term expired. [POT Markets, we last page.] COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. _. _ CANADA.—Our dates from Montreal are to the 17th Feb. A motion was made in the House of Assembly on the 12th by M. Lafontaine, " that the house go into committee to take into consideration the necessity of establishing the amount of losses in curred by curtain inhabitants of Lower Canada during the political troubles of 1837-8, and of providing for the payment thereof." Mr. Sherwood moved that the order of the day to that effect be postponed for ten days to give time for the expression of the feelings of the country. The debate was adjourned, sad resumed on the 16th, but without being then brought to a close, at least in so far as we can gather from oar files. The debate was most violent, and the epithets " rebel," l and " getter up of a sham rebellion , " were freely in terchanged. The excitement appeared to be extend ing through the province, for meetings on the subject were being held or summoned in every county. The opposition press was adding fuel to the flame, and en &evolving, by combining M. Lafontine's motion with a bill respecting tenures, and the fact of Lord Elgin's having delivered his speech at the opening of the session in French, to armee the jealousy and anger of the 44 Saxons"—not used as in Ireland, a word of reproach. NOVA SCOTIA.—Our dates ate to the 23rd ult. The progress of business in the upper house of legis lature had been distracted for some time by the equal balance of parties. The debates are said, for they were conducted with closed doors, to have been very acrimonious. The arrival of a new liberal member on the 21st put an end to the "lock." A petition, signed by 3,000 inhabitants at Halifax, pray ing that the house would guarantee the pay ment of 20,0001. sterling towards the Quebec and Halifax Railway was presented to the House of Assembly on the 21st by the Attorney-Ge neral The weather had bees very severe. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By the barque Roman Emperor, which left Adelaide, South Australis, on the Bch of December, and arrived M Mani on the 22nd of the acme month, we learn that sheep fanners of Smith Australia were much distressed, having drawn bills at high rates against wool shipptd, which fetched reach lower prices than they anticipated. Copper ore bad als3 fallen in price, owing to the arrival of news of the di preasion in tae home markets ; this, trgether uith the strike of the miners, had caused alall in the value of Barra Barra shares from 2301. to 1401. per 'hare. Zbe Court. A deputation from St. Saviour's, Southwark, healed • by Sir 'wink= Molesworth, M.P. and Mr. Aideimsn Rumphery, M P., and coosipting of Meson. T. Bailey, T. May, W. Lee, I. Williams, J. Newsom'. and W. Downs, churchwardens ; Mrasn. J. Thwaites sad 11. Lindsey, over seen • and Mr. H. Sturm), vestry clerk ; and also a deputa tion 'from St. blary's ' Newington, emanating of Mr. Hay wood, churchwarden; Means. Pillott and Field, overseen; Mew. Mills and Macy, guardians ; and Mesa". Waite, Kingdom, and Hera, rate-payers; bad an interview with Sir ascrge Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. A deputation from shipowners respecting the Steam Towage Act, consisting of Mr. M. Fonter, M.P., Mr. A. Mitchell, Mr. W. Harnett, Mr. J. Hamlin, and Mr. James J. Frost, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labou chere, yesterday , at the offin of the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent off yesterday c‘cmilig from the Colonial office foe the Governor of Gibraltar. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council tat yes terday, and resumed sad concluded the hearing of an appeal fees the Court of Arches, " Craig v. Farnall. ' The I.rds Present were the Chancellor f the Duchy of Lancaster, the Bishop of Londoe, Lard Brougham, the Chancellor ol the Duel, of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. PORTS AT TIIE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—An order appean in lut night's Gazette, rescinding one made in De cember, whereby the ports in Waterloo Bay and East Loc - don,' at the Cape of Good Hope, ware ordered to be 'free per• REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX. AGGREGATE PROTECTIONIST MEETING. Yesterday an aggregate meeting of permits inte tested in agriculture was held at Willis's Roomy, King street,St. James's, having been sp e ci a lly convened by the Central Society for the Protection of Agricult ure sa d Bri tish Industry, for the purpose of taking into consideration the grievance under which it is laid the fanners are Is bowing, and fer adopting the ne c e s s ar y measures for bring ing a statement ct those gnersnms under the notice of par liament. Hie Grace the Duke et Richmond, President of the Society far the Protection of Agricu lture, was unanimously voted to the chair. He was supported by the Earl of March, M.P., the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Tyrell, Bart., M.P., Mr. A. Stafford, hi P. Mr. W. Miles, M.P. Mr. Spooner, M.P., Mr. Newdeg a te , M.P., Mr. Plump re;M.P., Mr. H. Waddington, 11. P., the Hon. Col. Btresford, M.P., Mr. Fuller, M.P., Col. Vyse, M.P., and Mr. John 'Oman (Sussex). Them were also present deputations from Hunt ingdonshire, Essex, Susie:, Warwickshire Surrey, Haute, flirts, Wilts, Dorset, Cambridgeshire, & c ., all of whom were members of the Central Soc'ety for the Protection of Agricul ture end British Industry, or the several provincial 4mo:is dons in connexion with it. The noble CHAIRMAN having opened the on - ccedings, Mr. W. BENNETT, of Leighton Beamed, Beds., pro posed the first resolution: That in the opinion of this meeting, the distremalmes4 experienced by, and steel impending over, the farmers of the United liMgelum is fraught a ith the most disastrous consequence*, and ,has been mainly occasioned Ly recent legislative enactments, bringing then, into nn. equal and um wit competition with the growers of foreign corn, and, unless i-peedily arrested, must overwhelm the whole asviettl tarot community in ruin. And although this meeting repudiates the idea that any practicable reduction of taxation can be regarded as an equivalent for protection, still, in oilier to mitigate the mil as tar as possible, theyfeel it to be Incumbent apt. them to impress os parliament the necessity not only of the total repeal of the malt-tax, but also the Immediate revision of all general and Tool taxation, which presets with unequal severity upon the cultivators of the wit. After complaining that free trade is corm had taken away 25 per tent. from the produce of the land to the former, and asserting that under no possible circumstance could it be rendered advantageous to the labouring classes, to the tenant farmer, or to the country at large ; and Olathe best thing that could be done would be for parliament to retrace its steps, and to place a mtderate duty upon all atticlea of foreign produce, always excepting their own colonies, and if they pleated a lees duty in point of value on wheat and bread stuffs than open other commodities, Mr. Bennett expressed his opinion that the malt-tax must be totally repealed. He then drew attention to the local burdens of the country which pressed with unequal severity upon the cultivators of the soil. Farmers in many parts of the country were called upon to mak • and maintain roads which they never used. It was equally well.known that the roads of the defunct turnpike trusts had been thrown upon the buds of the lumen. Near his own residence, in Bedfordshire. they had to pay 90/. a year for one ads and a quarter of these roads—a monstrous iniquity. Mr. Bennett, in closing his remarks, coun selled his fellow-I . ..nun to see that the county members et walked straight," and if they failed in the slightest degree in the performance of their duty, to look upon them as bor ders on the land which must at once be got rid of. The Rev. J. COX (of Essex) seconded the resolution. He showed by reference to statistical details that peep-rim woe rapi.lly increasing in various party of Essex ; that the work houses and gaols were not sufficiently large . • and that all thi• was attributable to the prevalence of fre e trade prin ciple,. The ' , solution was carried nem. dig. Mr. CHRETHAM (Rotlandshire) moved the following resolution : That this sodety has long recorded its opinion that the malt ha praises with undue severity upon the skill soil energy of the British tamer, and Is unite injurious to the health, oomlorm, and minis of the entire labouring community, and under the repeal of the norm lows by become most oppressive and unjust. Entertaining this ori. snort, this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost exert io ns toubtain its :mme lime and total repeal. The hon. gentlemen dwelt urn the immoral tendency of the malt-tax, showing its effect upon the labouring popula tion h 7 quoting from an eminent physician, to prove that malt liquor was a most wholesome beverage for the port. by thi: malt-ttx that l'quor hal been placed !nomad their reach, and the vaisumption of opium and laudanum had increased in a still greater ratio. He would ask, 'here fore, was it rational to take away from the honest lab o urer his beer, and to poison him with drugs If the duty were taken off malt, the consumption would be considerably gummed, as there were many purposes to which it might be applied by the farmer, were it not for the heavy duty. (Hear, hear.) Since the duty had boen taken off beer, the consumption ba increased from 8,800,000 gallons to 28,600,00 U gallons an nually. It was quite clear that the brewers must put !some thing else besides malt and hope is their beer, by the price at which it was sold. The duty on malt was 2e. Rd. per bushel, and as bushel would only brew 16 gallon', It was not rea sonable to suppose that it was merely malt and hope. (Cheers.) R.:meeting to another subject, he might remark that in the year 1792 wheat was only 4Se. per quarter, and at that period the government espperiditure was 18,000,04•11.; whereas now it was just three times that amount—namely, 54,000,0001. In 1792 the wages of a day labourer was Is. per day, and that sum put him into more comforts than he bad at his present rate of wages. The poor rates were only half their present amount; the price of land was cheaper ; farms which then let from 2s. Gd. to 7e. Gd. per acre, were now fetching from 255. to 30s. One instance had come under h:s own noeice where an estate, which let a few years ago for 7001., woo now fetch ing 4,0001. The reason assigned for this rise in pries was that they grew more produce. That was true enough; hut, as it was grown with the tenant's caFital, the truant ought to receive the bene fi t of It. In IC9 , when the malt tax was first imposed, the duty was Gd. per bushel, which placed malt within the reach it all parties, from the peer to the peasant, as time wore on the us was increased, and the great, who could afford to sub'ti'ute light wines for malt liquors, gradually left off drinking them, and the result was that the tax, at the present time, was entirely paid by the poor. Mr. JOHN ELLKAN (Sussex) seconded the motion. The noble chairman then put the resolution to the meet ing, which was carried unanimously. Mr. FORD moved tho third resolution. which was to the following effect That this meeting, eomposed priori-ally of tenant.f.unners, assem bled from various parte of the idnickim, excrete unabated loyalty to oar Yost Grsedous Queen, and peat attachment to the ftritlah coned tution. They =not, however, but have witnessed with dem regret a seeming indifference in bo.h HOUNtB of Parliament to the interests of the tenantry by many of those who were oonsidered the natural guardians of their rights and privileges. Mr. HIGHAM, Ina humorous speech, seconded the IMO- Intim, which wan adopted. Mr. BALL moved the fourth resolution. It was u lol lown —. Kit the farmers of the United Kingdom having been deprived, by the operation of free trade, of the means of paying Lazes, me o f op is ulcer that in requesting ea alleviation ot burdens they are not bound to point out a substitute for those tame. Nevertheless, while the United States of Amerlan and all other countries with which we here intercourse we protsatlal theme/lees by heavy custom-house duties, it is the eon of this meeting that's moderate import duty on all foreign productions la Infinitely more jut than the system sow adaiof taxing the productions of oar native industry. r I BAKER (of Writtis) seconded the resolution, which was adopted. On the motion of Mr. WELL!, seconded by Mr. 0, BROWN, the following resolution was agreed to flat the ethemattee eras astral society & directed to communi cate with the sonny mistintssi to request them to take measures for calling coos*, under the authority of the high sheriffs, and to originate rootlike, both homes of parliament, in accordance with the moieties new Mead. A vote of thanks having been pasted by acclamation to the chairman, His GRAM acknowledged the compliment, and said—l have been much pleased, on the present occasion, to hear the yeomanry of England—to hear from them that they agree with the statement that I have male elsewhere, and which I was nearly laughed at for doing—that protection wQtt again become the law of this country. Gentlemen. I anTIE that opinion because I see in many parts of England where protection was not thought of as it ought to bays been that there is a disposition to return to the good old paths. I find a rjaing feeling, not only amongst the farmers but amongst the operatives —ay, too, amongst the manufacturers themselves—to retrace their steps with refer me to protective duties. (Cheers.) Unfortunately for them, in the year 1846 the slipping interest of this country —one of the most important branches of our domestic industry—an Interest which has great capital embarked in it—was taitmer upon the subject of protection ; the colonies, alga appeared lukewarm to protection to British industry. They now believe what we told them, that the corn law was the keystone of the arch of protection. They are now convinced of the truth of that statement, and I (Imply 1( 1 1 ••• i . • 0; \ ilti. ‘)* . .- 1 . , •••-• 11 %. tA ^ -'4 . t 4 'tgA