The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

t. , C!: a. N• r 1 04 r a l 4 b" Pl.l sr .1 Of f. :4t • . , p !. • • !.. • • . • • •• • •L t L.• ft. Ur A ! Sty k my. Lad c.a mist Ito the a pet " d ‘ 1 4 y. , r I•r &L, 1 Pp • h. ;•. .- Ir I • art !te it L• 0 • It t• F. lil bt RI • tw 1. • .:• b I I% • • tl 1. ;1 !! fit COW. WINDSOR, JAL 2S. The Listen walked this morning in the Slopes sad TM r Featly took walking and pony exercise in the t meted Weber. Feiner the castle. g, , Weiner Albert meat ant 'booth', this .. em srani.d by Ike Duke de Newoun, at d T i. ' i ni tte ad Corny', Colintel Hon. Charles Grey, Lord L. 'rift Piney. and Cid 'nil F H. Set mote. e ny ai (liana puny this *easie r ! includes kir Regal 4 „,„, ,It. Dodos of Kent, the eke sad Dubose& ileseral sad Lady Isabelle Weems, and NU. of the Grenadier Gun& etends during dinner. 11 4 ,-afe private band wall afterwards attend In the lee it, Hen. Ilies 111 itdoneld has reliesed the Hoe. Ries juk us her duty as Maid ot Honour ia Waiting to the ea. ~.a n oss and Melor•Ooneral Sir Frederick !Rosin tha Earl of List°. 4 and Culeael Mon. R. , to their duties as Lard sag Grooms in Waiting to her dr. Il,r Kriel Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived •.r nsadenee, Claming House, Rt. James's, at twelve lei terlay, from Program H s owe. Her Royal High , •..e.l the Dueness of Oloncester at Gloucester ...,,•31.41e left town on her return to F. owners House. A orpetetioa on Swans-s Dock, consisting of Mr. 11 or.an, M.P., Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. C. H Smith, Mr. ... lessen, sad Mr. W. Stroud, had as interview with i+saerllT of the Ezehiquir yesterday, at his official . - ,see is Doraispeircet. Inc commissioners tot inquiring into Smithfield a ;e s, sad markets Ia the City of L %don fur the sale of had a meet* yesterday at the Hume Office. Thom rre present Mr. George C...newall Lewis, Sir James Duke, I Refry V. easy, Professor Reliant Owns, and Mr. John ;ha Earl of Minto (Llrd Priv Seal) arrived in • osTu•ediy tr.-atop' it.in i•epatehee from the Governors of the North Anta .. province. were received yesterday at the Colonial • D 'retches were al.° rewind yesterday from the Itiih Cummi..i••aer of the Laden Islands. .ac John Russell had an ur ably yesterday at her residence i• Clandinaldnoe. . deputation of friends of Dr. . e nunieed i•l' thy Ho.. A lionneird, the Rev. R. W. the Rev. George tleett, and L. H.. 1. Tonna, Esq , interview With Lard Palm. r.ton, at the Foreign. on Tuesday, libel thep_plaesd in his lordship's heads of a nt•isivial snick else, have just addressed to ch proremost. LN FRANC RISE NI EN T OF CHELSEA. rblie meeting of the Inhabitants of Chelsea was !..t.rday evening, at the Commercial Hail, Ki yr . t into e .4mnd/ration the be.t mesas of r.:s Foli•mentarp representation for the rat Wire der c• r .mrrird within the uni.e4 parishes of Kensington, Ilanimineattb. awl Fulham. The meeting was ....ad) evil attention. 1.,%.1.1LL having taken lb* chair, ).r. ti.tt..KILL, Jun., marred: iast this mrst..4 is of 0 1 1110% that great injustice was • - • . Carlias, Keu..agc n, Fulham. and Hammersmith of pro.ing the Ittforni Bl'l, iessoLch mg the , 0 4w wen given to veri.ut bori•eghs throeutiout the inia•vir m populatwa, wealth, and intelligence, we. •helly onntted." • I.r t4)IV.t4)N (Hammersmith), Mosconi:l ig the resole -. ,5,...ane4 that so the basis en which tb• Reform Bill ..v.. teemed ChrUtia was clearly intrlncl to • repress- .e resolution ma 'hen put and carried unanimously. t. H. M . HIIEREAD moved the second resolution, r sem as UAL*** last the number of representa• ices to be returned to ileum of Comtism,s baying been had by the Reform at teSS, and tool Dumber having be. t r deiced to 656 by r caw rwathimment of Saosurs, tau dstrict is bettor es to aii.piy toot di neitne• ih 114.: te preeentation than .y other place in the C. i ed K.t.c.l m Kr reclined that, sot being accustomed to ad IV'S/ public s as . I es, he was uhanle W tin tLe fee... 111640 fall) unite. He however. observe teat the due fiat around them Led • *nag claim on a *kid pinterkaeof. 31:.ltAK'LEI KENNEDY mu.eaded the resolution. • goatceided that, aces da..g to the eurs.Putics of the matey, the C =son.' li.os.e tit pariiament should eon of ti i inem•ers, of ebbe .32 wets &vets. Ito Irish, and :0 remainder Emmen. Two bid been recently dceked t f toEmeash cnitiagent, .ad he attended that eummen wi:e ' , Armed that it shou.d be juditisusly rot red. (liter, a) Tao lour wee era parishes w. re *Ali' , u.iy the pio n enliven of the ea ant re preeentats.n. Mr. Kennedy esesided by again reading t.• +rich wept ch u-,animously. )1 sEAKLE filmainseramith) moved the third resole r lie sieved it, to sad, with the gr. stest pleasure, but . t er ' , ging its justice, he coaceiv.d that to be wbelli 'eery. (Hear, bear.) T it a petition embodying the foregoing resolutions be data by the chairman of Jib hecoling end presented to the wane at C 010010149, and that Joseph Hume, E•q., , : • perstat the sane " Me. M tilt.tTH Doccenned the resolution in an eloquent ea ed.. tive spa eb, and it was carried by acclamation. lem.iis were they voted to the comma°, and the meeting ,pared. AL. !ANT TO MR. ADDERLET, M.P.—On Monday Mr. Adderley, M P., with the 1100. Mn. Add.rl.y and te.r tunii.y, was rituals, from fitoseleirk Abbey to las., ;hew earviue upset, owing to the ivy state of the •, tit.) were turaiug too quick!) out of the park into road. Though the carr.au. was completely smashed •t.. is 4. nee of the 14.1, ar one received arty serious ~.ry tucker than • kw bruises sad slight cuts. Cfretfr.fr AND BRIGHT will attend a Inset ..? of tit* FIRMIntI and Perasuientary R-form Association, . llasenester, on the 29 h inst., wnen te tory stillieg freehold NalVelaebt win be fairly launched the a .rtb. file CuTTON TRADF.—A memorial has been made E. Cu.tom-hove authorities e y the Am milted Cotton a. o• the put of L. rpoil,ernoraciar newt: the whole tine er i es2e.l in the bu)ing and selling of cotton re or..ett,ei Mat it i. desirable. for the usterrito of merchants t empt.t)t,l in the cotton trade, to bare correct 1.!.e. A it.. .14.ntity ant d scriptions of raw cotton wool from kii.eloni, and that by the present me• el:tenni; rot e dton or exportation at the Castors .. It is impowihle to distiarank the several kinds of IjOr.'!. sod thref ,, r, to keep a oweeet account of at the different perms. 'to rectify this de rc pet itristieAl information the customs authorities arc 1 to Limo an order that all entries for exportatios .. pee tte quantity of bele., and the welt 4 .seristios of the article. as such a num ber oeigking 50 much of American cotton, or Emitma, or licit Indian cotton, as the ease may be. ,• wertained that this .1t: ration in the official - - he. n:.:e.se no sates tr •ob:e t" any of the ‘ifiters of the ...a. and the 'Raba, the bo ed of trade, at well as raeet and by ken, to obtain correct eta ivic•l informs :, it present so weversally required, and which, by the , 4 wide of a meting the swine, is quite impractice le. r:terha been customary to re urn the article ea cotton • r , ai treat any far:nit .o de.cription ' and the 111411111. .• r• Niehester, and deo the merchants and dealers • ere very anaiout to be enabled to aseertain t Ir.ct terninta of the week of cotton wool existing is •mirt.in has hae hitherto been dose. tc tie or irietr. - .:41;; following arrivals of Lace jest takes place. Tie vessel Jan, from Boin ant 7 twee of silver, eonslgaed to order; the mad, (nem Callao, 1 box of gold, aidre.se4 to an , ....et: know, and 1 bac of silver, and 1 boa of g .Id, eon , . to the Bank of Raglan ; the Righlaader, from no. I cams of saw, emaisined to ardor; the Free • item Oporto, 2 came of spine addressed, sad 1 • asigmai to order; the Olenelgtrom Port Adelaide, ep, sad the Cape elf Good Hope, 6,491 ban of tionsigned to order. 1 e of meele from the Cape, tweed, and 16 boxes of sele4r from Bombay, cosanned to • tree Charles Brownell, from Coquimbo and Volpe it; bars of copper, ad fen-d to a firm of eminence ; .141•111Cklt, from B at,., United SWIMS, GOO ban of c,pp r, similarly ...Jameson ; the Corustie, from Co& r*. 5144,40, and the Cap-, 1 box of vowie from the latter • sighed to order; the E.e. x, from Calcutta and the • I of specie from the latter plan, addressed to • 4 .1 a ranee; the Bla k Priuce. from Arica and Islay, • of copper, to a house of commercial and the sena Co.ocresm, from Calcutta, 5 boxes s t. eneidead to order. tie ON LIGHT, AIR, AND VENTILATION.—It • . tons Admit:nest by the Berke smutty magistrates, :nue., with the report of the 'laicise justices, to slop up, b .fure the sth of April neat, • great ..."4 v. wiadwte ia the county gaol at Resoling, "la titasi•ish the payment of assessed taxes," it appear. '" uo whole of the win•lows in the apartmeata mew. ott , in, besides othess, are taxed annually to no .1 .mount. The visiting justices, In their report, • , ry ...totally. that It appears " unjust and unreason *te eut,int witablialunents of public utility althea . :PMeht er pumbial taxes." In order to lessen the an. h ' . td es snhected slat this extensive criminal establish . • sua t ier oleos ligk's have Jest been suppressed, and er liuruen have beam substitat•d for them rte use. The sans paid for gas alone, during the .. amounted to upwards of 4001. A • ` t '•' tent bitICOVRRY has been made with ro '4l ts tat the men miming from Lynn. On Monday . " r"ow, and a knits were found by the aide of It ion. Upon the puree being shorn to the k 'Sell, An immediately exclaimed, " That is "' l' 411 •••• I ktnm it MeloMeru'l made it myself." She 'lnd that if it eras her uncle's, it was mended in • " 1 fith a double thread ; and oil examination an it , k . The puree, thee, o f Lien is found end identl ,....",,";:nt in sue of the mat lonely places in the county, , , ,'"ovey Mere, a pl a c e to wh i c h i t i s very unlikely e. mu, shove NO y' Cr' of a g e, would v o l un t ari ly It. , it tP ` 4114: ides Mint four miles distant from Lynn. lowa as blown from the head of a .7 4 ' ' 4 as ; hot the kn i f e , a f orm id a bl e weapon, h 4t4 " . "Mtd..../JlO7 Pat. MR. COBDEN AT SHEFFIELD. We eve. by electric telegraph, a summary _of the tags occasioned by the visit of Mr. Co bden to proceedings oocssr.ned by the vi.it of Mr. Co bden to Sbe.ld on Tuesday, and of the apaches oelieseeal to the immense assemblage in the Music Hall is the evening, together with the resolutions. We now give a fuller report of Mr. Cobden's speech. Mr. COBDEN said : Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. My object is monies you tonight is to endeavour to emeriefa how he we weiscids is our .plaices upon questions gene- Filly sleeting your intervals in the legislator*, and also to many to you, as far es I can, my own views upon mature generally, and net upon any particular ques tion before us. (Hear, hear.) Is the first place I ought to offer you my apologies for not having hal the honour of addressing you, since it was your pleasure to return me as your representative to parliament. As • matter of self-inte rest a representative of the Wait Riding, sitting on the lib.. ral interest, ought to be specially attentive to Sheffield, be. sass I believe the Sheffield polling district always sends the largest majority of liberal voters. There are, I believe, larger polling districts, but not equal, I believe, to cibelteld, is the numerical majority of liberal eaten they send to the poll. (Hear, bear.) But, gentlemen, I belie,* yea ea eves with me, that • member may possibly claim the sem& dance of his constituency, if he is at work in their behalf at wail distance from their locality, if he omits some of those visits of mere etiquette or ceremony which members am sometimes disposed to pay their corstituencies when they may probably be onlratonemente for neglecting their duty elsewhere. (Hear.) Now, gentlemen, by way of clearing the ground as we go on to this little eenvernation together, let me correct • report which has appeared insoles of the papers, I don't know la what way it originated, that I was to age pear here to-night to make a kind of fontanel' tot e electors of Sheffield, as tea certain lies of Jolley wadi I in connection with • friend, was be poems in the Maws of Common' this season; I Goatees I bans M meth ft reveal to you. I don't think the swum whim\ will take depends much on the Has etpsliey any ividual, or two individual., may cheese to adopt in that house; it depends • great deal more on the dia position and desire manifested by such an smem. bly as that I now see before me. (Cheers.) It wadi therefore be very arrogant in me to allow you to suppose that I go to parliament with the idea that I, as an individual, mu do much to forward any line of policy on which I hays set my , heart: but I vein tell you that en assembly such as this, if it expresses in unmistakeable language its opinion na favour of any line of policy, will conduce very materially to the festivities of that policy. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen what is likely to be the first business that will alone begin us at the meeting of parliament? As the animus has very justly remarked, we halm had the of protection galveabed and railed up to haunt us (Cheers sad laughter.) I must say I feel exceedingly grad eAi at the coarse the whig cabinet has taken on this sub. jilt. Oar 'fiends the whigs don't always show sufficient pluck in their public policy. (Laughter.) Now I will ve them credit fur this. I believe they haTe taken the r ight coarse ia the way in which they intend to meet the prone doubts at the opening of parliament by telling upon Mr. Charles Villien—(loud cheere)—to move the ad dress to the throne, and thereby proclaim to the promo. Monists at once that there is no change of polio, on the part of government contemplated in reference protection. Why, it is our own veteran champion sad leader who carried for seven years the flag on which was in scribed the motto, "Total and immediate repeal of the =s laws ;" and no. the old standard bearer is brought forward iato the front rank, to heist our old flag with its old moils slider tho very noses of these protectionist members, and &ellipse them at the very outset of the session, when they eire all fresh and hot from these rather disorderly meetings they ere holding in favour of protection —to challenge them at Me very outset of the session of parliament to discuss this question of protection. (Loud cheer' and laughter.) And I ' pity them that they are caught in their own trap. (Re.' mewed laughter.) Far the very last thing that they would have voted for, it it had been left to them, would have been to have had the question of free trade or protection farad on them at the first 'Bootleg of parliament I tell these worthy gentlemen who are making such disturbances at Croydon, Reading, Worcester, at their public meetings, actually fishing with the free traders, beating them where they can, driving them our of the assemblies—l tell them distinctly that we in the West Riling of Yorkshire don't intend toat they shall tax our bread again. (Cheers and laughter.) Aye, and we Hubs= at 'le fiance; but we don't intend to have any lighting with sticks and stones, or anything of that sort; for the great dif ference between as and the protectionism ia this, that we are unanimous, and they are not even unanimous is their own villages. There are some sturdy free traders who thrust themselves in, even at their most 'teleran pro tectionist meetings, and when they cry out, " Three groans ler Peel," the free traders cry, ' Three cheers tar Peel." sad they generally carry it. (Cheers and laughter.) We don't intend to have any fighting in the West Riding, be cause we are unanimoue. I want to know how they are likely, how they can periled' themselves that they are going, to carry us back to the little loaf at a dear price, when they are not unanimous amongst themselves about it. It would be stange lithe millions were going to be taxed by a minority, when the minority themselves cannot agree whetherthey shall attempt to impose the tax upon them. B.t their new dodge is " a dissolution of parliament"— (laughter), in hopes of getting a maj pity. Now, mark what lam going to my to you—that during the coming session of parliament, Omagh the protectionist gentlemen may not have much to say in the way of argument, yet they will be very factions; they will be trying in easy possible way to make government difficult, and perhaps impossible. They will be tar voting any way that can embarrass the existing govern ment; and all with some idea, that by creating confusion and causing a change in the ministry, something may tarn up tar their advantage. (Laughter.) Now, if they get • dime lution, what advantage will it be to them ? At the dissolu tion of parliament in 1841 they gained a majority of ninny for prate egos; but that did not prevent the cern laws being repealed in 1846; and the measure of Sir Robert Peel was posed in 1846, without there being a majority in the Bosse of C morose in favour of free trade. I went ever the list of those who vol. d for free trade in 1816, with a member of the House of Commons, end I could not find Bi members of parliament, out of 656, who bed voted with a trod heart in favour of total repeal, although a large mai levity had voted. I went over the Howe of Peers' list, and oat eel 490 and upwards, I could not find 12 who in their hearts were favourable to the total repeal of the corn laws. (Hear hear.) Well, then, let them get &dissolution, end get what I don't believe they can again—a numerical aajoney in fa ' year of protection— what the better will they be ? Nobody deserving the name of statesman will due adept the policy of the majority of the House of Commons, it is does not represent the opinion of the country ? (" Hear, hear," and Meer,.) Yon find on oat side of the roll the representatives of great constituencies, and you find es the other size the representatives of pocket boroughs, and nomination counties ; and who would dare to carry on government on such • basis as this ? Every man who could look two inches beyond his nose knows what it would lead to. We never said the rent should not be reduced ; and if you think, bemuse you have been getting set.eliparlianieot rents tor five and thirty years, that you have • title to come to us sad ask ice asmoeasation because you are to have no nr.re of them parliament rents, that, I ay, we are freely eddied to hod the lingo 'go that Colonel Thompson hes often Ph commended to us—" We'll talk shout netitnion if you talk sunlit comps sation." (Loud cheers and laughter.) Now, I say, every farthing of rest which has beea added to to. oent.roll of the landowners by this act of parliament has been so much extorted from the great mass of the population of this country ; and rather than they shall ever have anew eons law to take this money again, we will, rather than let then% have it, hays a sub seriptios fro. the poor needlewomen and the hand-loom weevers, and they shall take it directly as • pasper's dole. (Laud che.ors) Why, you set at their public meetings that they always proles, to be in favour of protection to aattys isidusfty —in all its branches. (Laughter.) How vary kind and considerate they are all at once. ( Great the When they passed . corn law in I'lls, whilst the House of Commons was surrounded by • trop et Horse Goads, they never said anything about pro. teams to native iodurry. Than it was mit, rent, want only, and cora laws only. It is • sane that they ought to be for ever ashamed of reviving. (Hear, hear.) There is sow • member of the House of Commons —a friend of mine—one of the best voters in that home, who at that time was a cornet in the Guards, and though ha has voted against the corn laws ever sine a be has bees a number of parliament, he was then compelled to sit on horseback at the door of the House of Commas, to ke of the enraged people whilst parliament rased that toll; and a stone was thrown which bit him on Ws WSW the head, and he has told me often that that blow whisk he got on the side of the head made him a free trader. (Lind sheen and laughter.) It made him Indio to thiak, and as he rubbed his head be thought of whoa he was Lifting there on hoemback tor, and two mete* nt's thought convinced him it was II met iniquitous billions he was helping to perpetuate. (Roe sewed laughter.) There is a gentlemen in tkie /min whe showed me before he came in • curies*. He has brought with him • penny loaf whicl was NA, in 11301. [Thai lost was produewl ; • very rwmall one, and it excited great laughter and setooishm nt spew Ming placed side by side sad contrasted with the penny loaf of the present day, which is about four times rho Mee ] Thal leaf was made in January, 1801; it weighs 21 0z..; and the gaattern loaf of 3i Ins. weight teen sold as Is. 101 d. The gentleman who posers es that end salty, and who has come from the country, hue bought a pussy loaf of ts. day. This cur Ous specimen of pro e.tirel bread an brought from Wentwixtb. rim free mat Mead, bought to-day, and made January, 18.50, weighs .4 mem. (Hear, hear.) The quarters, or 3t lb loaf, is mid at Bd.—that is sd. against le. 100. (Hear, beer) Now go hack to that else of a 1 'at for a penyy, and restore the time when a many loaf was sold at that Mee, nd then you will plea the landed interest in the ...at happy pos sible temper of mind. They will be quite 6+I , UL-el. But I think I may my that I have the sna im us vote of this assembly is favour of the bi d g e r l oa f. (Loud cheers.) Now this will be said to be an exmasively vulgar, seditious, and revolutionary sort of argument. That this gen tlemen should have brought this little loaf from West. work just to revive the remileeios of what the ward protection means, will be considered • vulgar 1101 t of argument. (Hear, hear.) But I recommend every father of a family is this countryo arts m nd ,hs• this is the only thing that is meant protection. Hear, hear ) It means the little loaf instead o the lures Of.o —(cheen)— with this addition, that when you hays the little loaf for the penny, the pennies are much more di ffi cult t o get glen when you have the big loaf for a penny. (Hear, hear.) Now, that h the very opposite doctrine of what the protectionists have always preached. They have always said, " Low prised bread mom 15w wig. 5." Well, now, then wets a good many coshing: men, when we began the league agitates, who boned that • great may of them in 1810 were net so wise es Risk !there were In 1815, when they surrounded the Housed o•Mmeme to protest sgriast the passing of the cora laws. Bet I am eel to sae that the arguments we used, sad still more enmities, of the last two or three Tears, Kaye conversed every working ma—la the north of Englead at an events—that low-priced food means fuller employment sad better wages. (Chan.) Therefore I defy the proteatiosists to delude the worklapelares of this eountry &gala s alo n appeal to the old claptrap of high prised bread g high wages. (Hear, hoar.) And when the peotectioniate go into towne like Stafford, attempt ing to appeal to the ignorance of a mob, when the ignorance no longer prevail", why, you No what the consequence is, by the last meeting that was held there. They attempted. first of all, to delude the workiag people there with their silly arguments, and then, because dry were not to be deluded, they est to work and best than oat of the room. (Hear.) Gentlemen, I leave this gaieties now in the hands of the people of this country. They know sufficient to prevent another cora law being imposed. And now, ustrefin that question to be settled, which it will be acknowledged to be in less than six months, what ought to be the policy we should pursue ? There are logical Goose quenoes from free trade, which I had hoped we should have entered upon long ago. One of the consequences I anticipated from free trade was this a re duction of our government expenditure. (Hear, bear.) I always contemplated that, when the landed interest of this country was made to enter the same boat with the ma nufacturing interest, to produce their commodities at natural prices, that they would join with the manufacturing interest fa endeavouring to have an economical goveratr.cnt. And so they will, at the moment they are convinced that they can't re-Impose the corn laws (Hear, hear.) Now, what ts my Ida of an economical government? For I don't leave it in the vague terms in which we have put It in the resolution. I rim to what I said last year. (Applause.) I say you should compel our government to retrace l's steps, at lust to the expeaditure which was sufficient in 1835. (Cheen.) I am perfectly well aware that it is not way, in a meeting like this, to settle the details of how it is to be done, but I am quite tore that It is practicable, and more than that, when the question of free trade is settled, you may rest as sured that it will be done. (Cheers.) There is no doubt that it must be done by a reduction of the expenses of our armaments. You can't get it in any other way. The whole of ear civil government ocly costa us one. th of our expenditure; out of 51 millions, less than 7 milli ms cover the whole of the civil expenditure—the home office, the foreign dike, the poor-law offises, judges, ambasssion, &c. Every expense of the machinery of civil government is carried on for ler than 7 millions eternity, and the other 47 minims it expended for interest of money incurred in former wars, cr else for the expenses of our present peace establishments. (Hear, hear.) I repeat, then, what I have said often before, that if you ere to reduce your expenditure at all in a way to be felt by the great body of the people of this country, it must be by largely reduces, the amount of your standing forges. (Cheers.) There is no difficulty whatever in doing It, provided you carry out the principle of free trade in your arrangements with four colonies. Now, gentlemen, I have elsewhere gone into a statement, with re.pect to our colonies, which some of my friends know I was anxious to have stated in the presents of this assembly. I wr..ge t e some friends here, but I found that it was not convenient for them to receive me in Christmas week, and having to go to Leeds I passed on to Bradford and delivered myself of views which I hod intended to de liver at Sheffield. You are payiog, according to a statement made by Sir W. Molesworth in his admirable spec ch upon the colonies, every year directly about six millions sterling to maintain your establishments in the colonies, and in return for which you carry on a trade to the extent of about ten milliner sterling. That is, for every pound's worth of goods you send to the colonies, you pay St. expellees. (User, hear ) That must be a very profitable trade, must it not ? Now, I want to see a new system adopted with reference to our colonies, by which you shall give to them the privileges which free men and Englishmen ought to possess everywhere—the right of sett-government ; and you must tell them In retorts, "You must pay the whole of your own expenses." (Hear, hear.) When we paid the expenses of the whole of our establish= vets in the colonies, it was under the impression , that we were compensated by having the exclusive tra ter with our colonies ; and that, in olden times, seemed a vet plausible argument, because as the whole of the tropica l', countries were possessed either by this or by some other country, it seemed as if you could not tarry on a trade any white unless you first of all conquered and pestered a ter ritory. (Hear, hear.) Spain and Portugal possessing a great pert of outh America ; Holland possessing part of India; England trying to wrest a portion of India from Hol land; France bidding for her share I. North America; whilst it became • universal 'ramble amongst every g meet in Europe to posers territory in India or America, in order that they might have the exclusive trade—it was a natural delusion that England should fall into, that we could have no commerce unless we first went to war, and took possession o: some of the territory. But when the whole of South America and the greater put of North America became free, theme:lees offering a free ex- I change to Europe, from that moment it was olavvious that our exempting to keep up an exclusive trade with small specks of islands, to the exclusion of vast conenents that were tree, must be a lesion game. And now, since we have proclaimed the principles of free trade, and have given to the colonies the right of trading with all the world on the same terms they trade with tlf, why, I say, it would be the height of folly, it would be showier that communities can carry on their affairs with a total disregard of anything like com mon sense or wisdom, if we allow the same principle to be maintained with respect to our expenditure for the government of our colonies now, that we did in former tints, when we believed that we had a full compeasation for these expenses in the exclusive trade with Ores colonies. (Rear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, I believe that by the change which I propose, by the change which is inevitable in the government of our colonies, you may not only reduce your expenditure to what it was in 1835, but you may reduce it a great deal more—(hear, hear)—be cause your army is kept up mainly for the supply of troops to your colonies, not merely the troops that you have in your colonies, but the depots that are kept in this country as a reserve to supply the relief for the colo nies, and the vast number that are always on the ocean going to and fro the distant colonies. There never was such a monstrous absurdity as the idea of sending regiments from London to Australia, and bringing them back again when the time of service is over. (Hear, hear.) f sometimes compare the con duct of England Id that which was pursued by a nobleman who, not content with the inheritance of his father, was constantly borrowing money at 10 per cent., to run about and buy estates to pay him from 2to 21 per cent. (Hear, hear.) That has been the policy pursued by this country. We have never sufficiitatly estimated the advan tages which we possess in theca islands. (Hear, hear.) There is not en the face of the earth so vast an amount of natural wealth, concentrated in so smell a surface, as we have in these two British islands; and I have often thought that if it were possible that any man should be offered the privilege of creating a territory out of the coma of the extant of them two islands, that the imagination could hardly place them in a more favourable portion,or endow them with greater natural advantages. I can siarcely conceive it possible to increase the advantages which the people of Ragland and Ireland pm sem in these two islands. (Cheers.) At a time when the possession of minerals decides the fate and the rank of nations, here we are with each superior advantages that in one year we export coal, iron, lead, tin, copper, in greater or less quantities, to every country on Me continent of Rurope—thus showing the Immense advantages we power over every other country in respect to those productions. (Hear, hear.) How is it, then, gentlemea, that, with these vast advanuges, so large a portion of the population of this country, instead of beteg the pro perous family which tory ought to have been, in the VO4(.114011 of such a rich patri mony, are so pauperi sed, and that there is so vast a share of degradation and misery in this country? I firmly believe it has arisen, more the from any other cause, from the deatsion that has prevailed in this country that we could profit by going to war to conquer ter ritory and take pessimism of barren waste., or tropical coon tn• s heaping up debt and taxation, in trying to poetess the exclusive trade of those countries, and forgetting or despising the inexnaustable resources we passer within our own terri tory. Ire= ;hat mistaken policy, more than from anything else, has arisen the debt and taxation, sad the consequent degradation and misery of the great mass of the people. One word with reference to the other guidon that has , been alluded to in these essolutioos We have heard of ' tinaeciel worm and we have beard of parliamentary re form. Now I should be deceiving you, and I should be wasting in eat.d•ur, if I did not tell you that I do not be lieve any financial 141.01. Or permanently worth a straw un less you can get a reform by which the people of this country shall have a more thorough c ristrol over the repre sentation of the modify. (t- Hear, he ar," and cheers.) I never can forget myself that we did reduce the expenditure, altar the Itetorm Biel in 1835, and that the expenditure ' grew up again ; and that although we are now attempting to reduce it again, attar the pressor, out of doors is Oro off the expenditure will go up again as it did before. 'I Therefore it is rid'ouloua to expect permanent I economy in the administration of our affairs, un- I ler you give to the p uple a more direct and thorough centrol over the representation of the country. (Cheers) And it is not merely in tbs extetneion of the frau care. I believe if you Led the franchise fairly distributed I at the present moment you would have a very different kind of parliament to whet you have. (Hear, beer.) But the ferrules is so unequally distributed that positively the divi sion lists in pull m. tit are no tests in or=nay times of the swim of public pins n in the country. A member reps ' meting, like myselt, 36,000 decline, finds himself going into I the lobby opposed to a men who represents a borough I with only 250 el rocs; ha' yet his vote counter. balances the vote of the 36,000. (Hear, bear.) We really sum times Went ourselves about the risk of giving men a share i.e the political franchise, forgetting that they have duties, and responsibilities, and privileges, as men and as tureens, of a far more important kind. Why; you leave them to educate their children; you entrust them with all your property as mechanics, as mistime% as ciente, as shoposen, as porters. Your very lives, as well as your prupsrty, are constantly at the mercy of thole' people to whom you won't give an infinitesimal shire in the representatioa of the country. (Loud cheers.) What is owe vote oat of three or four millions of votes, compared with the every day power which you piece in the man's hands, in ordinary cur e f business and in social life, owing to the responsihili , ie a which he has as a father, a husband, or a brother? Why, any hes lof a family, or housekeeper, has ten times as rerpoesible duties to perform in every day life as he would hays by having once in two or three years the right of going slang with two or three millions of other people, and tendering his THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 24, 1850. vote for this Or auldidate to go to parliamellt. (Chute.) I say, therefore, that rasa Frighten themeless overlatelh shoat these thine You might safely go beck to the Old Sam mot and lot system of esseldniog every bud Of a lardy to be • gibs's, that lea fres man and sensing him to be a free man, paying the pun' rate and tam s let that mss lase a voice Is the sepresentaUon. (Eathualeetkl sheering) As you contemplate Import ant obootoli la this eonatry by moral means alone, I advise *TUT man to think well, wheelie, he can fulfil all the dudes thee are imposed upon him, U he does not do semethlog towards arming himself with political powers le a constitutional way, and helping those who are struggling legally to gam changes in the represeateUen and in the admiaistratioa of the a ff airs of this country. I ask all men who have never thought of purchuing sweaty qualification, to watch the promsedinp of parlianteat dosing the next session. Them von will me nine-tent* sof the members tor counties voting, in the first place, for little luavu—(langh ter); in the next place voting systematically against en effectual reduction of taxation; voting, is the titled place, is almost • casuist bo fy against every measure for effecting a thorough reform of the representation of the country. (Hear, heat.) You will find aine-tenths, at lust, of the smutty members voting in a compact phalanx against every messure which you have set your heart most epee- (Hear, hear.) Weil, the question is how to cor rect that ? Don't blame those few men in the House of Commons whom you us fighting with • majority of 3 to 1. Don't moor at those w h o an fig hting against en invincible majority; but what I ask you to do is just to Inquire, every man, whether he has done what he could do to help those men in parliament who are trying to do something tuition. (Hear, hear ) I tell youhoneetly it is not • very pleasant thing to be night after night knocked about in minorities. It is pleasanter to be. la an assembly where the majority goes with you. (Hear.) I have no doubt that we shell see a great movement made is this country, In endeavouring to effect thou measures which we consider Mehl) necessary for the prosperity, the security, and the happ:ason of the whole pimple of this country. (Loud cheers amidst which the eon. gentleman resumed his beat, h aving spoken for an hour and 20 minutes ) At a later hour, Mr. COBDEN, in responding to the vote of thanks, said ; One of the most embarrassing things that can possibly so• company the public life of one who has bat a just estimate of his own feeble services, must be to have to encounter • kind and cordial and too Battering • reception, such as I witness here to-night. I assure you that I entered this meeting, as I do upon every other public occasion, with a deep convic tion of how little at y one man can accomplish la this age epos any public question. (Hear.) Something has been said about the representation of this ltidiog. There is some little disadvantage when one represents a large constituency like that of West Yorkshire—that in going from one district to another one is always followed by the public press, and you must tell • different story, eltheugit one always wants to speak in something like the same sense to each district. We can't talk in private. What I say to you at Sheffield mast be known sot only hen, but in every other polling diarist, and not only to the liberals, bet to our opponents. (Hoar.) Notwithstanding all that I think, our policy is peculiarly the policy of frankness and of openness. (Heir, hear.) Everybody knows that for a man to be representative of the West Riding of Yorkshire, whilst it is the greatest political honour he can enjsy, whilst it undoubtedly gives him additional weight in the representation of the county ( provided there be one condition fulfilled which I will, in a moment, refer to), yet nobody can deny that the represents ton of this vast district, with its local affairs, does add very much to the personal toil of a winter of parliament. (Hear.) Now, I will tell you what gives to • member of_par hareem groat additional weight as a member of the West Riding—lt le when it is known that he speaks the sentiments of a majority of the West Riding electors. (Cheers.) It is that which gives me in the House of Commons (without any adventitious aid on my own part) which gives me upon the subject of this great and little loaf ten times the weight of any county member in the House of Com mons that can vote against me. (Load cheers.) It is simply and solely became* it is known that in voting for this big loaf instead of the little one I express the opinion of the great majority of the inhabitants of the West /tiding of Yorkshire. (Renewed cheers.) It is on this account that I feel rejoiced that in my absence, when I was more than • thousand miles from you, you did me the honour to elect me to the »presentation of the West Hiding of Yorkshire. Undoubtedly it is an advantage which I never expected, and ore which arms me with ten fold power to resist this insane attempt at a reactionary movement in this question of tree trade and protection. And, gentlemen, upon any question upon which the West Riding is pronounced, upon wnich this vast constituency is known to eatertain a settled conviction, it will um your representative with vast authority and I have no hesitation in saying that ultimately, and at no distant time, any question upon which the West Riling is decided must b. come the adopted policy of the government of this country. (Loud cheers.) I remem ber that your late deservedly popular representative, who now sits in the upper house—(cheers)—shortly after hie re turn from America, gave to the West Riding a title which is given to one of the states of the American Union, which is supposed to decide brit, vote the po:icy of that union, and which is called "the empire state.' I remember his calling this '• the empire county." It is a happy comparison, and one which is strictly borne out by the facts, for there is no doubt in the world that not only will every question upon which the majority of the West Riding has given a deliberate decision, become the policy of the country ; but, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in saying —and all experience backs me out in the opinion— that no policy can be realised tai this country, no gnat change of p ilicy can be adopted, to long as the Wes; Hiding of Yorkshire has not pronounced in favour of it. (" Hear, hear," and cheers) Now, gentlemen, I mention this to show what it is that gives the power to the representative* of the West Riding; it gives me no power if I am expressing an opinioi in the house, or giving a vote in the house on which I may be charged with unfairly representing the opinions of the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the next Place, 1 menu o. it to show to every inhabitant of the West kidiag of Yin kshire what • vast amount of poli.ical power lies dormant in this conney, and what • vast metority of the male inhabitants of the West Riding are indifferent about be coming depositors in this prodigious political power, which is lying dormant and waiting for teem to exert it to pro duce the reforms which are necessary foe the country. (Hear, hear.) Why, ninon* in seven of the adult inhabi -ants of the Wilt Riding are voters for the county. If on e ! in seven of those who are now excluded from all share in the election of members of parliament were to make up their minds to quality, in order to carry out the v:ews which, I will undertake to say, that one-seventh entertain, and which are in harmony with my own, they could do more for the carrying out of national reform than the same number of men in any other part of the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) Theepsestion with reference to the future representation of the Wad Riding is in the hands of the electors, and you will be:good enough to consider me—except in reference to the repeal of toe corn laws and tree trade—merely as an indivi dual with whom you may deal as you please ; but who has no tie whatever to this district unless it be in connexion with some great principle that you want to see carried, and for the accomplishment of which I am perfectly willing to work. (Cheers.) In alluding to my humble efforts, something has been said of peace, and of war loans. lam not goiug to enter up n that subject now, further than to say I consider tree trade and peace to be natural allies. (Hear, hear.) All pod questions go together. • Religious liberty, civil liberty, conmeScial liberty, political liberty, are four sisters—they are all of one family, and cannot easily be separated. Giving the big loaf instead of the little one leaves you with money for the purpose of education and moral improvement, for the purpose of buying freeholds, and what riot. Then the lreehold movement implies temperance—(cheers)—moral reform, and peace. They will all go together. Hitherto we have only been suspend ing the fighting, and always resting with arms in ear hands. There are more armed men now on the continent of Europe than ever there were in the height el Napoleon's wary. (Saame !) There were more men with bayonets and muskets in their hands la the autumn of 1847. when I was on the continent, than there were in the time of Napoleon— more effective arms f men—more men abstracted from labour and industry, to be kept in idleness and waste by the rest of t h e oommoo i t y. (Great cheering.) Then came the revo lution—in the midst of all the bayonets came the revelation of 1818. All these governments toppled over, the thrones rolled over and mingled with the dust, notwithstanding all these bayonets, The governments r covered themselves, and where there used to be four soldiers, now there are five—(laughter)— add so there are more soldiers than ever on the continent of E uro pe. It is not a small matter—sending five mil lions and a half of money into the coffers of a man like the Emperor of Russia. Five and a half millions of money woald go a great deal further in provisioning and in sup porting an army in a country like Russia than it would in Western Europe, and Ido feel it humiliating—l feel that, in a certain sense, we are greater barbarians than he is— that we are pouring out the gains of our industry and com merce to be wasted by that despotic monarch in • manner no: only injurious to his own people but pernicious to the interests of the what' of Europe. The hon. member con cluded by again empr. lain. his ackaowledgmenta to the meeting for the kind and flattering reception they had given to him, and sat down amidst great cheering. Mr. Alderman SCHOFIELD moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded, and curled by acclama tion. The proceedings closed at 20 minutes past 10, with three cheers for Mr. C ibden. and the company separated apparently in high gratification. THE PUBLIC BREAKFAST. SHEk'FIELD, JAN. 23. The public breakfast to Mr. Cobden took place this morning, in the Cutlers' Hall Nearly two hundred ladies and gentlemen eat down, o enprising the elite of the gentry, eterenants, manufacturers, and other trader of Sheffield and its neighbourbo d. THOMAS Boum, Esq., the Mayor of the borough, presided; Mr. Cobham and Mr. T. A. WARD sat on the right of the char; Mr. Alderman WILLIY Cod Mt RICHARD SOLLY were OR the lett. &Is m! other leading merchants and some ladies also had seats at the princ pal table. The breakfast equipages having been removed, Hie Worship the MAYOR rose, and in the name of the netting welcomed Mr. Cubden. Mr. COBDEN.—Af•er, axon sing his gratification with the reception he had experienced, and at the presence of ladies on the occasion, fro. the vivid recollection he had of their services in the struggles of the League, the honourable went , bet continued : —I really do think that in the agricultural districts the dia Ines we have heard so much said about is confined to a 'try small portion indeed of the population. I don't believe the agricultural labourers, for instance, are worse off than at any lormer period. how they can be in a wane position than they were I cannot conceive. The land• orates may probably feel some Inconvenience in the bre- Bon rate, and the farmer , I fear, will be subject to • promo?* until the landlords bar some to an arrangement with them. The great bulk of the community in the agricultural die• trier are labourers and their families, and for one farmer then are five labourers; consequently, In those districts the I abolition of the corn laws has been an advantage to five against one who may suffer by cheap bread. tZh is re g ra.) And in addition to that, if you take the whole : mannfamaring districts, the metropolis, tad all your great towns suffering I believe only in the transition state,only for a time, it leaves as little allay of dianaffectioa and suffering In this rat and munificent range as we could expect. (Cheer. You may take this as a stron g p roo f th a t th e re peal of corn laws has been of great benefit to the mom of the parr of this country is a whole, sad that is the great Improvement that has taken pre* in the home trade. Mr. Cobden concluded by expressing his conviction that with the improvement now going on in trade the people would also make great program in education and moral improvement- He had always found the prover In such times to be exceedingly rapid, and he was rejoioed to think that temperer, would now come to aid them much more in this onward march of improvement. (The hon. genle man sat down amidst great cheering ) Mr. COBDEN almost immediately rose spin for the pin ' pose of proposing the thanks of the meeting to the mayor for preeidlig en this occasion. An incident occurred at this period of the meeting which gave rise to much amusement. A gentleman, whose name was afterwards said to be Sandereon, rose in great excite ment and with strange gesticulations, addressed the meeting, stating that he was one of the unfortunates who came from the rural districts, and wished to know from Mr. Cobden what they were to do. Whin there was protection they could just keep their heads above water, bat now they were completely under, and unless the manu facturers kept them up they must sink. He wanted to know what was the remedy for the agricultural classes— what the tenant former was to do ? The reduction of rents would not meet their eau. He believed the ge rental of that eounty was but 113 s. an acre. He bellesed they must have a renewal of a sliding scale, and a fixed duty besides. (Great laughter.) Mr. COBDEN said the gentleman had put a question, but he had not furnished him with sufficient data, it he was to be called upon to prescribe. He did not tell him what quantity of laud he held, what the rent was, what the con ditions of the lease were. He should have to feel his pulse and know what was the matter with him, before he could pretend te preeeribe a cure. It might be that was paying too much rent, or it might be he was paying rather too little for he had known that to be productive of exactly the same results. (Much laughter.) If it was a question of rent, he must go to his landlord and make fresh terms ; he could not go to ether people and expect them to make tenet, The hon, gentleman was proceeding to say he should like to know whether the questioner really was a tenant lamer for it was a question such as was not likely to come truss a tenant :armer,—some pereon here exclaimed that the gen tleman was a tanner from Rotherham, and he then aokn.ve ledged he did not hold land himself, but knew many farmer, and had a great sympathy for them, though doing well in his own business. (Great laughter.) Mr. COBDEN observed with much humour, that a tanner might be a judge of leather and know something about tides, but he could not understand how it was he came to speak for tenant farmers. Somehow the tenant farmers rover did tome to speak for themselves. The land owners were always ready to speak ler the tenant firmer, and saying all sorts of things in his name. (Laugh"er.) Toe landlords were the farmers' friends, but he heard of tanners enlisting fur them before. There never were men who had so many friends as the tenant farmer. Mr. FISHER seconded the vote of thanks to the chair men, and the company, who had assembled at 10 o'clock, separated about one. PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. A meeting of landholders, tenant-farmers, and others interested in agriculture in the county of York, was held is the De Grey Rooms, York, yesterday. The Earl of HaRnwOOD was called to the chair. The noble CHAIRMAN, who was received with applause, said that the present was a meeting of the landowners and tenantdariners of the county, to take into consideration the distressed state of agriculture in this county, and in England generally. Six years ago he presided over a great meeting in tots city, and be then stated that if freetrade were carried a great deal of the b.d land of this country would be uncul tivated. This assertion was rapidly being brought to a pass. TIM noble earl read lettere from L ird Faversham, Lord Grande', end Sir Henry Boynton, expressive of their ap prove' of the objects of the present meeting. The Duke of CLEVELAND, who was received with cheering, said, it was not denied that great and almost un paralelled distress existed among the tenant occupiers of land. That this distress was not partial, and not confined to a particular locality, but that it prevailed from one end of the kingdom to the other, was also en indisputable sod un disputed fact. They (tge protestionists) declared that the great distress and the low prices were caused by the cares sive and inordinate importation of foreign corn. (Cheers.) The free-traders, on the other heed, said that was not the cause, and referred to other periods of our agricultural his. tory since the peace when, at various periods, distress had existed ; and, as this had occurred when protection was at its highest point, the free:radars asserted that the removal of protection could not be the cause of the pre sent depression. The period of 1835 was frequently referred to by the free-traders, and a comparison made between that year and 1849. It was said that prices were fully as low in 1835 as in 1849 ; and why should not the same causes have operated to produse the same eistress ? But it was clear to him that the causes of the distress of these two years were diametrically opposed. He would take the two years in each period, and would begin with 1834 and 1835. Now, he would admit that the average price of corn in 1835 was as low as in 1849; ,but what was the cause of the low price of 1835 ? Why, that the two seasons of 1834 and 1835 were the best ever remembered. Never were there two more prolific harvests than in 1834 and 1835, and so great was the abun dance that several farmers fed their pigs and cattle with wheaten flour, a thing that bad n occurred before, and he hoped would again. But the population in 1835 was several millions less titanic 1849. Now, the s-ason of 1844 was a very bad one. The crop in many parts of England was very thin, and it was very badly harvested. The yield was ' short, and oati-third was totally unfit to be made int. wheaten flour. The crop et 1849 was more than an average crop, bat he denied it was that superabundant crop that some persons asserted. It wag, in fact, very little more than an ge crop, taking it altogether. It could not be then said' that the present prices were caused by superabundance, or by anything, in feet, but an im mense and inordinate importation of corn. (Cheers.) What had been the quantity of corn imported after the bad her vest of 1848, and before the crop of 1849 The total amount of all kinds of grain during the last nine months ending the sth of September (and a gradual importation had been going oa since that period, except during the last three weeks, when the navigation had been suspended by the ice) was 9,870,8 a qrs.of grain all kinds. The quantity of wheat im ported was 3,821,292 en , and of wheaten flour 3,236,993 cwt. Was it possible to suppose that so great en importa tion as this could go on without exercising a very serious effect upon prices at home And was it necessary to seek any other cause of the prevailing distress? (Cheers.) He i now came to the more serious question of what was to be done ? They would naturally say, " Return to tome pro tective duty, as the only thing that can save us front im pending ruin." And so said he. (Loud cheers) But would the legislature grant it ? If they asked aim for his ' real opinion, it was that, although he would recommend them and the agriculturists of every other cowry to pe tition parliament, yet he was firmly convinced that no alteration would be made in that fatal law of 1846. He did all he could to oppose that measure. (Cheers.) He spoke against it in Parliament, and toted against it, but he was outvoted, and as it was the law as a loyal subjea, so long as it continued upon the statute book, he bowed with submission to the will of the Legisla ture. (Cheers.) But, though he said that there was nq pro bability that the House of Commons—for the House of Lords was quite secondary in comparison in these things—would in the present session, nor that the same party would in another session repeal the law of 1846, yet he believed that when another parliament came to be called they would take &very dell few. He knew that if a dissolution took place to-morrow several protectionist mei:there would take their places on those very seats now occupied by free traders. (Lead cheers.) The present parliament a bathed that there was a great deal of distress among the tenant farmers, but that it had only existed for °Le year, and they would say that It did not proceed solely from the importation of trireme grain. So they would declare that Ire, trade must have a further trial, and that they must see matters much worse lectors they could do anything. It would also be said that the distress had not yet reached the landlords; but everyone knew it to be impossible that the tenant farmer should go I on suffering, and that the distress should net reach the land owners. It was absurd to expect a tenant with low priors to farm very highly. Toe farmer did not, like many landowner', farm for amusement, but for a profit, and for his livelihood. (Cheers.) The noble duke adverted .0 the paper in Blackwood's' Maquoine, which proved that precious to 1846 some highly-cultivated farms in the Lothiens were farmed to a small profit, but now that protection was gone these faring c old not be carried on upon the same eye. tem, except at a low of several hundreds a year. (Hear.) If high farming, then, would not do for the farmer when prices were h , gh, depend upon it it would never do when nor any future parliament would ever reverse the law of 1846. But how could that right hon. baronet say with cm a p t r a i te ce d . his Were lull conviction iuw l'ir Rarest to e Peel,the neither In a recentthe present that a law which had born paw, d by one parlismont should not be reversed by another? (Cheers.) H, (the noble duke) very much feared that the present parliament would not firmly of therefore i opinion t ssoo ner they got another parliament the better. (Loud cheers.) His would do so, and grace concluded by neo , leg— cere e pe d a i t en that parliament law, bat u t wo h u e was " That the partial system of free trade at present in ope , ration in this country is caucng • ruinous sacrifice of the capital engaged in the cultivation of the land, snd prouuchig severe dir eras amongst the tenant-farmers. their tradesm n and labourers. and must, if pewees., d in, infliet similar in . jury on the other great branches of nat ive industry. Mr. MILNES (father of the hon. member for Ponteftset) ' seconded the resolution. Six years ag t, on the occasion al hatted to by the noble chairman , his voice had been hoard in that hall on the question of the corn law. He saw then, and he also saw now, that this question, although it had an limmediate determination of evil to the agricultural interests had behind this consequences still more momentous (cheers); and that its certain effect was to change this countr) from something she had been—this country with whose happiness end greatness he for one was contented. The resolution was curled unanimously. Mr 0. DUNCOME, M. P. pr.,pee e e " That the earliest opportunity should be taken of bring ing the subject before perineum, and urging the necessity for placing a moderate import duty on corn and all other articles In the production or manwacture of which British labour is largely employed." Mr. LISTER seconded the resolution, which wu carried with only one dissentient. Mr. CAYLEY, M.P., proposed the third resolution : " That the advantage of such a measure would be two fold, insomuch Is it would enable the heavily -taxed industry of his kingdom to meet foreign competition on equitable terms, and would also, by increasing the rev afford the means of reduciog the duty on such sedan of general con sumption as do not interfere with the labour.market of this country." The hon. member said he was glad to find opinions rapidly shingles respecting the object of their present meeting. He bad met many_of his old whin friends there to-day. To one he said, "oa, what you here ?" " Why," was the reply, "it is becoming rather 'serious!" " Weal, you here, too?" he exclaimed to another. '• Why, it's becoming co joke!" (A laugh.) And so one by one, se the shoe pinched, they were coming round. Mr. FERRAND was received with deafening and pro- tracted cheering. He said—We have bun told that we are a set of madmen, but I think we have proved to-day that we have method in our madness—that we have justice in our cause, and a firm resoluTion 'o assert our rights. Our op ponents, on the other hand, have tried arguments and been defeated; they have tried ridicule, and it hes recoiled on their heads ; and they are now trying the last arguments of a beaten faction, for they are resorting to bludgeons and brickbats. We may be told that we are cowards for not holding an open meeting to day ; but the reason why wa du so is precisely because our arpuments are not bludgeons, but common reason and common sense. They (our opponents) are the men who, being defeated in argu ment, resort to physical force. How did the free-traders treat the manufacturing operatives of Manchester ? They got 1,500 Irishmen armed with bludgeons, and when the tactory operatives went to St. Peter's . square t o di scuss the Cornw and Factory Bill they set the Irish rabb!e upon them and drove them nut of the squire. Now, let us °my hive a good flag, a fair field, and ne favour in the town of Man chester, and I would not be afraid to meet the millowners even there. (Cheers.) How were the corn laws repealed, I en II ask you 1 Sir R. Peel, in his Temworth manifesto in 1811, said that the tanner ought to have teem 60s. to 664. a quarter for his wheat, and he spoke the truth. Sir R. Peel threw out the wide ministry upon that question ; he was cionvisoed then that wheat could not be grown for lees, and he stall remains of that opinion up to the present moment. But no sooner was Sir R. Peel in power than the frectraders went to him and told him, " if you don't repeal the corn laws we will .top the mills, turn ow hands adrift, ace: burn every house in the country." Bat Sir R. Peel stood firm. They then, at their public meetings, threatened i.im with s Meet nation, if he did not repeal the corn law. The hint thrown out at Sheffield was adopted by a halecrszsd Scott:llmm in Landes, and his private secretary was assassinated under the impression that it was Sir It. Peel himself. Deily the pest brought anonymous letters threatening Lim with assassina tion. If we dare to ask for our rights, we are threatened with another rebellion. Mr. Cobden, at Leeds, said this. He knew the state of the menu'acturing districts. Why, the cotton spinners of Lancashire are resting upon a eidetic% and if it should explode they will be ruined. Who are now sitting in conclave in Manchester?—the united delegates from Lancashire and Yorkshire, who complain that the mill owoen have violated the Ten HOUtte . nil:, and are trea ling the law under Men They have sat upon the justice bench and decided the law against themselves. And the work ng men hive told these millowners that if they cannot have protection by act of parliament they will take their affairs into their own hands. Are thew we lava to fight for their oppressors, and to be marshalled into Mr. Cobden's rebel army ? (Cheers.) Why, the first shot fired from such ranks would be through his own skull. (Cheers and laughter.) Why, parliament bad been obliged to step in to prevent the women empler din mills from being beaten with bludgeons, and to prevent children from being put into tabeof water to rouse them from the torpor causea by ex cessive labour. Would the tethers of these children fight with the millownen against the landed interest, whou motto had always been " Len and let live ?" No; if aver use heetraden muster their forces there will be a uggtd crew. There will be Mr. CottonOcoeral Bright, at the head of his peace Society, and Mr. Cotton-General Cobden, at the head of his armed bludgeonmen from Stafford, Liu coin, and otter places. They shall have Sir Robert Pe<l as commander-in-chief, mounted on his Tamwerth bull. Then Sir Robert Peel will sly, "Cotton-General Cobden and Cotton-Generel Bright, we have three courses to pursue. One course, but to that I should decidedly object, is to stud our ?round and fight our opponents. Ihe second bourse, and to that I should also object, is to ley down our arms and surrender ourselves; as prison.. rs of war. The third course, and that I approve of, and shall certainly adopt, is taking to our heels and running away." (Much laughter.) Why I give Mr. Cobden fair notice, after all his wretched bluster, that if 1 am one of the phalanx, and catch him, I will not allow him to compound for his existence, as he tells us he shall make us do, tor he shall be hanged upon the first tree I come to. (Great cheering and taught r.) And Cotton-General Bright, I also give him notice, shall only ceupound for his existence by performing the o ffi ce of Jack Ketch for his friends in the rebel army. (Immense cheering and laughter.) But Mr. Cobden is nob' dy it he is not patted on the bock by men in high places. Mr. Cobden says the manutaeture rs require to assistance or protectim is their cotton trade. But look at their advantages, to begin with. The cotton 'planare re quire little espial is their trade. Mr. Bright made an ad mission the other day in Manchester, for which I thank him. He said that many of the cotton spinners in Luicashire were once labourers. Now, if so, they must have com menced with very little capital. They have machinery famish in Lancashire alone to supply the whole world. They have one weaving shed in Manchester which turns out 3,090,000 yards of cotton every week. They have also combing machines, into which wool is put in rough at one end, and comes out ready for spinning at the ether. Their power-looms have destroyed hundreds of poor hand loom weavers here, and thousands in Incite. Why, they are assisted and protected by machinery. But, when the markets are glut.*d, are they not also protected ? They all a meeting ,of toe Peace Society to discu s the present state of the market. " Oh! " says oae," iet us stir up an opium war, and insist upon the government opening the Chinese ports." Oar of the most cruel, unjus:, and iniquitous ware in which we were ever engeged was undertaken to open the ports of China to the Lancashire cotton spinier. We have heard Mr. Cobden Tattering all kinds of anathemas upon the Emperor of Austria for his cruelty to the Magyars. Lot neither the Russian nor the Austrieu army were ever guilty of such cruelties as those comma led by Briti-h troops upon the unoffenoing Chinese people. I read tile letter signed " Whereat& ' the other day with amaze ment. I said " Can this be the Stuart Wortley who can vassed the West Riding in 1831, 1837, and ia 184 1 , as the champion of the agricultural interest? (Cheers, sad a voice—" He is a traitor!") Can this be the Stuart Wortley who took for his text the Tamworth manifesto. and proved that you must be protected—who went into parliament to take his place as the representative of the West Riding amid the cheers of the farmers and farm labourers, and who moved the amendment to the address in opposition to the Bs. duty, which was the means of turning oat tie whig government ?" But there is another person to whom 1 will allude, viz., Mr. Sydney Herbert, who was an honourable man until he became coutaminated by Sir it. Peel. (Cheers.) He declared the last time that he appeared before sir constituents—bacon being • cabinet =ruiner— that he would be the last man to joie Sir It. Peel it he sup posed that he would betray the landed interest. He aid join eim, anti assisted him in betraying them, and he is now employed in transporting the wretched starving female vic tims of his own policy to the colonies. (Mr. Fecund re sumed his rest amid the same tumultuous cheering which had greeted him on his appearance.) Toe resolution was then put from the chair, and canled unanimously. Mr. J. G. SMYTH, Esq., 11. P., moved the adopti•n of the fourth resolution, for the appointment of a coadr.ittee to take all necessary steps for procuring *lguana,' to a petition to parliament embodying the substeece of the resolutions adopted by the meeting. The committee were also em powered to disseminate information on the subject at pro tection to British industry, and to receive urinal iptions with this view. Mr. Smyth stated that there was one silversmith in the city of York who had, within the last few months, bought 1001. worth of silver cups and prizes front agricul turists, who were compelled by distress meet reluctantly to d d ed li t o h n e o m itre h o nourabl y s tio e n m . u . n ir d eet th p e r eeeu me n tt ing (plia hl retu b . w l .l o .)i k th o H o t A h p N ew o r te A ha t ll uto rd se ly t e t t i o otal oostaiotoot to the chair. A HINT TO MaDICAL MEN.—To THS EDITOR OF THS bcirreaaN.—Sir,-1 beg to call your ic motion to a dries of hardships we of the retail drug trade are oblig. d to labour under, brought about unintentionally, through the bid handwriting of many of our medical men—some"( them the met eminent in the yrofession. I call it a hardship, be cause they might with a little care or patience very eutily write a readable hand, instead of their present ulnae ming 'crannies. There are many of my old 'hornet*, who could testify by their past experience to the sore grievances at tscheii to the trade. Hew frequently bas the perplexed asaismnt (in order to keep the customer from suspeetin the bare possibility of being poisoned by a fatal mistake) to make a dive into the back shop, with the enigmatic+ , presc-iollun, and there consult others, or turn up b ki and rack his brains for a solution of the riddle. It was but to-day a receipt, wri•zen by an Edinburgh physi cian, came under my twice, and in it was a word that would have bothered many a decipherer of Egyptian hiereglyphica I believe it would have puzzled the eminent gentleman himself to make out its meaning. Then, again, tie poor ....want has either to submit to the black looks of his mast. r or take his discharge, with the st w ma of a lazy, ignorant usistant ; when in reality it is through the horrid, uniatelligtble scribble of the doctors that his disgrace is brought about. Medical men expect every assistant to be competent to make up their prescript one, and would wish them 41.0 to do it carefully, as they are writ aware the pa w n•'.. life frequently depenis upon the assistant' . . accuracy; — e i ve a n m i ' n a g o., P A rO D relte ß r e n t' . and vet they send forth rev.ry day a handwriting that a Le ed o mt f. s crowded audience, who were much intero4cil wi'h the professor' , details of the horrors of slavery, and its influence ld t h l i se ah la ' r u g ' e u ech l O oo b' l ri r i L , m U o B f d ur . r i e iv ;Zn d s a pel, 'c ll ' la Te ck o f n ria s r l s a - v r:a ry il: i te m 0 boob y s c 1• 8 lit ih n 6"" o l N te w: S u b M a 1 T 11 . 17 u, on education in the southern states. At the concluaien of th• lecture a resolution was carried expressive of the thanks of the meeting to Professor Mahan.