The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-31 00:00:00

~▪ , e e whim your limey rest. kid what do the Medlar& say -- sow ? That the sad cannot be cultivated U there Mt at all. Well, I my It is only • metier if rat g iver el. (Cheese) Bet what we intend to tell them sew ga d in future, sad what we did not my mash about lianas 1 . 2 . 4 „d at ion, is ski% that you are hypeorltse Is matte, L o am the tarsiers fa this cue, bemuse, if yea will deal with the brim% it le entirely a leadlord's gues sed if yea mama tasks the brawn pay their r e , s t w ith worst pekes by any arralpillellS R agree meat with the telemetry, why then it is a qinsion of rent, wed yes mum red's* your rest until May cis mate the tale of (-rootage prosper. (Cheers.) list it is • timearight ▪ t yo,crisi for landkreds to bring Isamit hasten, at 16, arse''' of the year, Omagh snow asd Ms ISMS of ice. Olt to the hustings, to canoe them to debit yettobta and Nv " this is a getout tartan's goodies." The Idelidermen tan Amen a vast duel more sperit and istenee than the posh ; they have not followed she leadimi is their me kr pro. t oes. On the contrary, fa deed all parts of Ire. i sek t *bet have meembied sat voted arid* Ibe leadlords, gad damereed the wen lamas am squiao Is /N the cos merry II nest of all robbieg the. Wes (madimate amount of f , a t. ' Chem.) We bare had he belsad one or two 1•,, e 0 Instances of patriotism a nd the, part of landlord. ; wou ld Hie partmularly, and I do it with gratitude t in "j t a n vors - Lte, to the cooduct of Mr. ffharstion urewford ; ; h e o or.ty ot Down. (Cheers.) Mr. Sharma Crawford, ee, of the largest landlords in the county of Down, met t h e pdationtate at Dowopetrick, headed the oppo sibon to tr , 'enabled., and carried kis amendment by • • raj .city. (" Hear. hear," end cheers.) And this b oat as has esprosed his willingness to ester into such snot , news with his tenants se will enable them to carry an tMir Mottoes on precisely the same teems, that ia, with imo toe ma* advantage to themselves, under a tyst. of Melna , • se they did under protective. (11.er, Lear.) Bat the: was sot the only meeting; there wee aeotler in Ireland alio held in the metal of DJWO. It we . athely • termer.' meeting —a lugedes lately held at Bt. rawesels of 2,060 tenant farmers sad °then itt „ de d. No landlords were mixed up with them at all. N ow , we had reed the speeches at that meeting, sad they mitt to be a wsrainc to toe landowners et Bitelsed that • use say c nee in 1t•-gland on.. the resat farmer lore e •le as those tenant femurs have span. (Hear.) want to call m teatime to in this feature of these Irian ~,!,soe is. bases. a peat attempt has been Mt , to t nag the whole testae of Ireland to beer athis eue•Gos w einiament—es attempt to make it appear that the re( e. ....atter; of Ireland are *emir, al sae maw sup f., pro:tenon of apicalture. (11.ar, h ear. ) litt Imy art the ...solort:sef the llinse el Commas dare, after Such e .geshlos es thtse—will say one dire to say that he re tre,firs tae sprit sad wishes of the mePrity of the Irish P ~,e •I on he Ems to admeete peottotsoa el industry, as a'ioe.l by these eloquent °Won et them meetings ? I • m y what my idiot& Bright has said, in a vacs which to. hen Mao 1 thronahout the Mimed, that the Irish people ate e...eslete on the hlcolish free-traders in every object in ere tor pm.iag d ors Orange and landlord emending in esel cheers); and for gettiog the ln.h pimple Ma ea . -s, that social and p aithal position white has • r toy lid by tram in the history of that no t:: snit , t.otstry. The only hope for the Irish people—the e .,. 1 hap f °tie Irish '/Miler—the oely hope for the poor I' .i re•terr. it in the *yap 04 sad cooperation and eon. 6.; 6.p et the messes of toe people of Enolond and Swot. Mod. A...d • e t.O them from this temple or free tra.bi—troin h.• e m chi re the list wont lath that ernaecipmed the e,-mer e o. this Lioplens—we tell then that the sump'. e• to* party with -h earned free trade in Elieland is at the sent e the people°. Ire!and, to girt then equal religious, and coadrniii rty with ourselves. (C hers) ) A 4 '467664 of Hos re p os. eat of Irel tad toeing Paw I-. Le; w.:b the represtatst.ves of Manchester or Yorkshire, to :h i re,: .set thesit.a the subject of the bread-tam let bet boa pe .p.• have,' tat I trust erelong they will have, a r. pea ntstian of the jet,: le'• %%AMAMI I predict that you w... t.wl :reit represent tures acting alonhs.de of Jay boa. th. ea )lr. Brig tad spa fa achieving M.ess gnat gad Lt•ir.'ta ret.rine—( rad cho.riain—wkieh run:abate so ▪ t. t e meiprocal benefit of the two islands. (Hera, heor. • Well, sir, we meet is the course of forty-Mom .n the how* of CAILMOILS, and, pad e . ng by what the • ;., • o.e-hisis have been in the c•nutry, you must ta e t . a very formidable ohanee t tlit on the subject of free tr.' e. %I ell, mkt, sass you do sot ettreet &LP saheb, wit y.. may be dhaplatiatsd. (Laugh•tr, and cheese) I • t..) much shoed that the les.ltn of tee pttitee ti‘ti•. 1..t.y, who have been denouncing Sr =bat {sing b.trayed his party—:hat s, for having re aty el. Alos.d that worn-out and old system whoa it was ett.ly taprociesble to adop: or to support it-1 an mrs.t r. c:.' vary as. who have been wooer-clog 8r It :at I'e-1, Lutes very note% would have tried to lump ism Lt• i.lsle, and tLat tt..y hid it in their eye to play prods. iy toe • the tame • lit solves. (Chien.) I rens a be* very w U in IAI, whta 1 Coate i. w pa:hasten', tuare wee an iedivietml who came to parliament at the mice time, who s.essed to Layy. Wan beough: there eseeciaLy to be let Imo* like a noasidl upon me, a:.d to bat constantly lvare.ng at me right site siztm. The late venerable Otani. Lytle, se. nobt r for bli ilL•tes, mat far me owe tight to c......r d swat maell beside Lim la the hover, and to said, "1 have Men aid y•ears a member of this ; I UM the utter if the limos of Commons, and I Lave seat fa. yto, yoa44 ma, to Lies the U arty ut offering you • • Ito:, I sever sow such a ruffian genteman tote is Lame !wig .re, as that man opposite who is always &necking yoo. iloachter tad cheers.) sow, listen to me—don't • 1...: nets take any notice st what he says ;" and, e.etaird Mr. CObdeli, I tollOWed Mr. Bjug's advice f rom !LI .61/1•:. and I intend to follow miaow. (Cheers.) That edud ont.ined in the boom force parliament; lee t,..4 .6 toe house is, it eat tot tolerate individuals like that— Hot is, the conttituents cannot tolerate them for more this cure ha:lament. (Beam hear.) dat though nut is the I.e a a leader of the proteetioaists on: of amrs, and teen joy of thew leader. (Cheers and laughter.) tin, CT, I do not expect any very fottnidable or ~.csions upon the subject of free trade; but • hare a pottiest party and • fecoious party—a r beet open mischief in • small way, co•stantly rl to v,te black tor white f-T the purpose of em. *sio - it the aoverament. Their object will be confusion , • h.v no no:re sympathy of feeling for Lard Jobe - I. e,vi than they bad for Sr Hobert Peel before; -y the cap they had taken of patting to-ward Mr. es ue pretest government has very properly stepped the so , s of S r Bober Peet; hat they will try emir, at emitareasting governmear, and roudering the pro 1,4 of t:.e Home of Commons difficult and quite d way can. Do they ever thick they will .p ea eathusissm—ever muster the ',whit. e;claw., their Semen—_o they think the Duke of I/ichmond tea toesther his is in Sussex if he plants on •L. I.).erus the fitp " &I." or "94." a Isaf, instead .1. 1" (Great Inuahter.) When did you ever hear of it,e.nt mewed in the kingdom by offering the people • met i..steed of a big coos 1 Oa the vomiter,. the :-.ms us Lave already sten eouvinee me that it there a ventral election, • dissolution on the question of the 4s, tie conetry would pees.- at a scene from one •he other, which there is sot one individual present r,om would like to witness. but whatever admin. .s 1 , m...t00/tato would have from the revival of this, Lw, then is ant one point es wldelk the faestriedin . Lot Lave bra time. the advantage. Let th.sa well muted that this quakes of the bread tax may area be 10 Um L.:di of that very slut of the community whin add fairly tad frankly own did not take the share 1 is abolishing them% law. But what we have seen avid, with the shoemakers, and at Ilinckley, with the it 4.r., will matinee you, I am sure, that this quoin . used's:nod by the asses of the people. k Hear, bear.) *pest from my own experience; in visiting Yeah. I toad the working causes viewing me with vuy .vat saes, following me in the streets of Sheffield with .I*. teat feelings to what they did five or six yens ago, I hr.: went there to advocate this measure. At that they were deluded by the protectionists. They had to • ,, me extent, persuaded that cheap food meant low •. N .., they find everywhere better employment, as or e t percent cheaper than they could get it before, • tendency to arise in wages, rattier than to • redaction ere any change has taken plass at all Tnerefore I wan tratocracy of this country—sot in support of physical c.—l want no physical Gros—bat I warn them, from the .raptosse we have already seen, that they have nothing to by a dissolution of parlisissat ea the corn laws. II j of a aumerical majority in the house, no natant& would due to earry ea parliament with each a majority against the express wish of the great mass el the arants They c..n therefore gain nothing, and I exhort them this moment to abandon the idea of any admin. a them he appealing to the country by a ventral nestles. w, geatlemn I am sorry I have had *ce ss ion ever to luta to 1102 th ousands of-tiate exhausted tale of proem 1. We thought naturally we were going to do something that flowed from free trade; that we should hate ol in the hall and elsewhere to reduce the Sandi. of the couatry ; and that we should h ave h a d sin of protectionists in following that object. Bat 1 el tell you, I believe a great part of the ensuing as at all events, will b, bet to us for all chance of either tel rat ran or any other useful measure, on account of "Yobbo wh•ch the protectionist parry tat again takes se a which will have to be met and disoosed of before sea have the slightest chine, of the no operation of the ty constituencies In carrying out financial reform. I a hue, then, in general terms to say, that all subsequent -ellen tunes 1 bad the honour of addressing you this time theme, as, eosins me in the view I then took, that it Practicable, that it Is inpatient, and that it Is Jut that we return es quickly as porsiblt—the sooner the better— ' raper.ditenellB36. (Chem.) I believe that it is teal pranisable ; say, more, I led eseviessed that it is • qt. sin whether it shell be done is one es two It nest er lens time. We are in promos ef ding it. down we shall do something anaidierable MOMS it attain ; hut if the protestioains bad tablet say etent then that which they have famed, we atld have made rapid strides towards a greet esinetles tk heathens of this country. Now, I have *sea It Meted k ,, nr .go that it is thought we should hays a wirplas el at,,. or million*, so is the next year's balsamesksote to at we must not use the money for the reduction of 'lase bet for the reduction of the debt. W,ll, nobody • men strongly than I do the necessity of rtnesag eseemous, that also.t fabulous amount of debt with 1441 we have bees burdened by our ancestors ; bet ion rialtos that I see some advantages in applying 7 farthiag 51 surplus we can get to the fo• "an of Meadow la the first place, with the pre. riptaseatatisa afar e people, with the presoak she. 411 kr et P rince a r a t i ll WO Oct of the most scommalsal L'4l), ef leaving them with say beluga k"1. we have them two millions to apply to the re cuss of the debt they may swallow up that swains by sane • artaditare ; but, if we dispose of the sundae Ise the se.e s if tandem. yes leave them without say sespins Pia/ walk Thiel sae name why I should like LI IS be s appliedN the reiaMISM of hastion. Another pima le, I this may a war km ell& prom open the Wormy of the osastry saw as an *Made is moat of the people ; r and lus amalosmom rah ant a the weellffaarn. of tka are of r the population, alai Ong Mould b. removed. Per instance, r take the amide of debar. ea say sae 'appose it is I possible, of a we hams absiiihoi the aavaation laws Is/ allowed foreign milts is am We this seastry duty free.. r is it nesible that wo oas nemliamerea lay a heavier duty= the timber with whisk our own shipwright, bald their , Yon seat, therefore, sheikh the da , y as timber la some I or other. W.II, I wasld take the some gonna with to paper. Look at the paper tax and other taus on UMW they ledge : am rs *sly inhale with the ealighteaseat people, but with the employment 011ie people. Why, you ban typographers wallas/I the owner, like pay en, im ported by their riles,; but ma is. printer would be wasting eamployasat if it were sot for the restriction pat upon kis tenspation by the tax epos papa. And I apply the same remain, to soap, and to other things; so that t 0.,. is as absolute necessity that there should be es these articles a redaction of duty somehow. If yes do sot apply the surplus you have to the reeler aoa of then tem, y.O must do it in some other way. After alluding to the advantages accruing from the FreehoM Land Ilemensest, Mr. Cu^dea concluded as follows : Now, the 'gets of fres trade in the necessaries of life are, that it will reader more steady the business and pursuits of this mutiny; it will tend to absolve yos tram these violent conflicts which have tended so mach to demoralise both ouster sad men ; for I know nothing mere calculated to lead to sash disasten is thesis, than to he at mee moment depressed into adversity, and then to be suddenly raised to the pinnacle of prosperity. If yen give equable empluyonat, you will tend to improve the character of both tee master aad the workmen; and one of the effects whin I look for from this improved condition of the working Blames is this, that I believe th , y will have more rename at their disposal, and will be witless to apply these resources mama their own moral, social, sad polities' *levities. I do not mean to my that you mos% be seiniricase exposed to vicisaitudes is true country, from a short supply of cotton or iron ether easealties Heaven forbid I should sty that say particular mown would he a panacea for all calamities, but I believe it is posadble that we emu me the skilled nue nano of this country .rata an elevation mentally and smelly higher than any labostriag mu ever attained be fore; and I shall be disaprointed iron of the affects of that im provement in their economical nankin is sot to induce than to take every poss:ble means to umber the portals of the constitution, and to take their position ea they ought to do, and as I hops they will do, by a direct act tat parliament, amongst then who enjoy the sights of freemen. (Cheers ) The hon. pm:lmams resumed his seat amidst protracted she. rims . JOHN BRIGHT, E.g., M.P. for Manchester, then rose, and we received with loud cheers. lie said : If there be is, feature which, son then soother, diatingaines the theses In which we live ' it occurs to me that it is this—the lalleskalds am oat et discussion sad investigation which in sow brought to bear on all the great social sad political postions fferies the condirioa of the eountry. (11.ar.) And tt.o meeting upon which I am now looking, is o ne proof of the fact which I am stating, and it is but one of a , seeks of meeting. which have ben held is various parts of the arantry, since the slime of the last ',aim of parliament, at which great social a. d political questions have been dimmed. Is feet, we sow live in an age of agitatioe. Tae pariamentary reeves I hue found to be isdeed very lit he of a Dens at all. (•• lieu hear," mid laughter ) • parliamentary rears is • period of fla or sin months, Wring a au:Minable airtime of which sot a few members of pardameat Hod themelves espied outside the walls of parliament in dimming the very same german which trey dismissed within them wells dans the tame that pailioneut was seating. la fact, is the runs or daring the sissies of pallawient alike these great question are being ezananied; e. d I believe every south, almost every day, in adding to the intelOpnee, and the strength of the molution of the pulelie In tavour of great and salutary po:iticsl changes. (Hear.) Now, lam beteroloz enough to say that I pearly approve of this state or things, and that I rejoice at It. (Cheers.) We never hear now of any great whig Januar, except a beams in Chesham-plan •, %nue the prime minister lives, or at the end of the station, a white belt dime. ret Greenwich. The memory of Charles James Fos appears to be almost forgotten, and I know not how long it is since it has been toasted by our !fiends the whip is any pablee meeting. Now it Is worth examioing why that as. These parties, these hereditary Motions, have tame. Ives no great fo:lowing in the country, and I believe it would be l possible for sillier of them to gut up, iu towa or country, such dinners and meetings win Watts past, to tele over the same things—to cruse the same empty pro fessions, and to lead slant large bodies of their countrymen, in favour of a policy which meant nothing if it were not inuuded for the most part to delude the public. (Clears.) But yet : Uric is an agitation log en in the country, and mere ait now, that is, within the Ain few y. ars, tha n at any former 1 period, but it is an saltation by the people and for the p-ople--leheersl—and not for the pulp at merely of bring lag into ciao, armin men, that they wily uletribute patrol'. ' age is a arta* aireetiw ; bat is favour of such a ylarty, and unit each a party, as that by which great and wise princip:es will be aerie d out is the legislation of the United Krngdois. 4 (Cheers.) MO peaty that is really moving sad gaining is the country is tending, I believe, tows, .5 a peaceable , a ism, I and enduring deurotersey. (Lo ud than.) And what is this party doing? Is it conspiring ? By no means. This is not a a duty tur compiney. This is not the time, and this i Is not th' e .untry m whit t secret conspireci s tor changing political affairs, or fir the overthrow of political power, ton succeed. (Coasts.) Couspirecin lead to violeoce—,.fen to ! bliocishtel and to MGM ; and with all such political arrange ments or combine' ions we have Dot sow, nor have we ever i bad, heart or port, for we will not interfere wi,h guy such r secret or unholy combinations. (Cheers.) But lock to the I country and ace what has bt4lll doing, AMU how that demo cratic movement to which I referred hall been carried ea. I There is an associ.tien acting in *IA metrop•lis, for the purees* of enlisting the people, as far as visible, in falser of part:amen:art rerorm. They have held great meetines is in any great towns, and they have been enthusiastically tree caved in almost all of th. in. T. a missionaries of this asso. Cation have delivered able, powerful, and conclusive speeches as to the inequality of our representative system. Bat they tell us in the broad face of day all they hope ur intend to do, I and the newspapers &atlas tacit most secret de.iberations almoat as if they were spetches delivered from the platform, I Look what else has bean doing. My hon. fii. ad wholsme ad. I dressed you has bean among hie great constituency in York shire, speaking twice on the ttttt question of free trade, once en the scarcely less important question of colonial government. I He has had the tools Cl/Ur/Lae, within a stone's throw of Loathe/a-street, to get up and denounce that erre-blind, im- 1 moral, and foolish also as of handing over the capital of this country to pay for the armaments of foreign nations, and for the cruelty of foreign despots. (Great cheering). And on this platform, and is another place in thin. town, I have ventured to call the attention of my countrymen to the coo dition of the people of Ireland. (Cheers.) AU these are questions of immense Magnitude and importance. We are not impostors. who come before the people and Witham to I follow some Will.o'-th'-Wiso, which leads only to their owa personal exaltation, and not ti the advantage of the country. I Since the very moment we ant entered public life you ttttt and our sympathies at variance with yours. (Cheers.) And in those measures we now advocate said recommend, wr act on the principles on which we always acted ; and when those mea.ures are carried—as carried out they will be—we can lay our bands on our hearts, and ray we struggled for them for your and fur the country's goad, and the country will reap the 'seised: from cur exertious. (Low! cheers.) But if we wanted another evidance of the progress of this pasty, we have it in the condition of the newspaper press. There are twenty-five per cent. more liberal papers in the United I Kingdom than there are tory papers; but this is a small estimate sits their real condition. Where one circulate. of the newspapers which publish thus• obsolete and foolish des trines then are halts-dozen of the papers whi 'lt advocate those just and wise principles we employ ourselves to ex pound. lint even this does not show the true state of this matter. Oar rulers have taxed newspapers to such a degree that they are restricted to those only who can afford to pay a high price for them. Take the paper which comes to us before ft become. a newspaper—its original price would be but small. Bat cite man who made it has his works and manu'aetory infested with the harpies of the excise. He tzanot take • key and gn to unlock a room or a box, but • government officer stands over him, to write down everything he does, and he has to pay an enormous tax, besides endurieg the Indescribable annoyance of this excise ✓ancillance;—tnen when the paper is made, and comes to the office of the Manchester Examinee or of the Guardian, its price is doubled by a stamp—a penny is added to its °Aisne! met It COMM lank printed, and a great number of edurtisemests are wen in it. The publisher wenn to offer it at a small price, because he is paid for the advertisements; bat if you see a column or two of those small advertisements, which you may remark in the Manchester Geordian on Saturday, or in the notes every day, you may be stare every one of them pays a tax of Is. 6d. to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The unemployed servant, the porter out of work, the groom in search of • situation, would be charged but is. 6d. lOr an advertisemeat; but, on account of this tax, you must charge him 3e. (Cheers.) Bat if a mill worth 20,0001. or • landed estate worth 50,0001. is advertised, the landlord or millowner pays precisely the same tax for his advertisement of halt a column as the poor man fur his advertisement for a place of 16a. a week. (" Shame," and cheers.) All this is foolish, but it becomes hideous from its injustice and Louisa. lity. (Cheers.) If this tax were abolished, and newspapers were ea free as breed now te—thanks to the people of Eng. land—aewspapen would be in the hands of men who could osty pay fit for them instead of 6d. ; and the circulation of the liberal over the tory papers would be probably in the proportion of 60 to 1. (Chun.) However, this is rather spokes by way of parenthesis. (Laughter.) If opinion be advancing, es I say it is, the question fur us is, why is legislative amion so tardy, and way is parliament lagging behind? Why does parliament do so little of that which the people wish It to do? Whv is our expenditure so great that it Is believed by men who Lave investigated the subject that it could be reduced by tea millions sterling, and yet that the efficiency of every department of the public service would not be intuited ? How ia it that our colonial eovernment remains unreformed, when it is notorious thit wherever there is a British colony, there is constant dial:paint and dia satisfastion with ter Colonial-oaks, and threats (not uttered is whispered tame) that they will threw off their allegiance as soon se they are able and why is it that the greet empire over which, by fraud and foece, this eonatry has obtained • mastery, I mean India, with its hutdred millions of inhabi tants, is left to drag on Its decaying and miserable existence, subjected to the ignorance and cruelty of Leadenluill-street la tie last century, our statesman were giving a bounty to English landowners to induce them to export cone, Is order to make • scarcity here and to raise the prism ( Seer, hear.) For thirty years of this watery they have been putting • high duty upon fore , in corn, in order to keep it net, with the same object—to create scarcity here I and to rakes the price. And sow all the leading states man el the day have gathered their lreehest and meet es TAB EXPRESS, THURSDAY EYING. JAND'ARY 31, 1850. , datiz g la b er i e/a .4 ea the very fold wkne they hen upset I this polley of presedlag stateemea ; led thia they hen skew they ben den ujen the Mufti gal mem. r modillsa et mat kam amentO tke pee*. TAO Mtn , army hew alleibeed le be deOsilmi dL (0 11 nata.) The lb w ir e that Men genentes eg ASils: ere Edam [ very esdeasslibery her are they . at I see me of ink- penestlas needap a simples= " Wh . lobe wee Mk. Gatedien He bad am: had aa as OnieL" agreghter.) What as esseeigillniep slosseiem a OM ewe Min got at °eked e V he Melee that Oohed, is wee* empides who beis net been at Oxford. (Leather.) Anther mm, as Irish laadowner, said, " Wh o are Colsdeo and Heigh{ / dm's they co me f rom the dregs el W peop:e ? " (lamskter.) Bat It 'teepees that .your peat statesmen, wheolow expose, and perhaps jastly earns that they Mall baboons la Idaaory as equal to say of their pin d•ceseurs is whim ad politico! eagasity, build then groans; sad meet awdories hoe we. a policy which we re essessalei eel belled apes la Me Pres Trade Hall lag belie is wee emendated ly *he fa the kgislatitre. (Leen cheering.) Bet we will take smeary awe to show that. after all, these lirredituy statesmen ken we great MOOD to plum themselves. We widget* swam matry. In the year 1778; England had Ivey stead,. ellinedge as tie other side of the Atlantic. Tea per. elherwards theft were sonnies ne longer, but they sled bell before the world as an iodine.- deo& nods geerifai reiseelle. Now, I would like to know weer' /aeries No her slatmssen from. It As quite clear that up to 1778 people is We gesustry—l mega Lon North and the staseerems Osiris ley—sever supposed for a moment that there were say statesmen is the co lon ies of America ; but yet, somehow or other, they found statesmen. Tone was a man named George Weebiegton. (Laud Chien,) Now George We shington was a sort of neighbour of ours, bemuse hie featly emigrated from Cheshire. In his own country he would act have been a statesman—that is very certain. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Bat if you will go down through the whole list of American presidents, tram George Washington their Me, to Zachary Taylor, I thew present preside n t, should like to ask whether, if you take the whole list of them, they do not equal in Mai enter, in sagacity, in patriotism, and la having acquired and deserved an eaduring fame, that of any prime ministers we have had from Lord North to Lad J. Russell. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Well, in this country, it is thought necessary to have very distinguished men—men of great and high birth adequately to represent the British nation at foreign courts—with about 10,00 W. a year. (Cheep and lsaghti r.) Th. Americans had an ambassador once, named Franklin—and he is a man that will be thought of leng, even alter a great many English ambassadors hays been forgotten, (Cheers.) Lately, in this country, we had Mr. Bancroft, antheander from the United 8 ates—• man who has written one of the most, per haps the most, admirable histcry at his owe ematry---• man qualified in every respect to represent the tens worth and dignity of the republic to which he belongs. Well, I want to know whether, it you trees all the American ambassador. from Franklin to Bannon, they are not fit to stand side by side in the page of history with as aristocratic ambassadors which this country km seat out to foreign courts ? (Cheers.) But now we will go to the Aniline= senate. It is annidend low on this side of the country to go into detail on this matter. It is not considered quite discreet, seeing that we live under our glorious constitution. (Hear, hear.) Now the American senate answers in some respects, bat in a very alight aeons indeed, to our House of Lords; that is, it is what is called " the upper house;" it is a repreeentative assembly, and it cousins of two members fur every state in the maim. It consists now, I believe, of sixty members. Bear in mind it is as elective assembly. It dare oppose the will of thi. House of Aw l resentaties • ; it exerts as great an influence over public opinion in America as the House of Representatives, and perhaps a greater influence. There can be no Joust that the existence of that Senate has been one of the main causes of the coiisolidation of the great American coated. ratios, and of the Ter ) wise arid just policy which, on the whole, that confederation bar o nerved. Look at their House of Representatives. Bills in that hone* I are not passed by ono-loarth of its memheis; they do not Come down in their white waistcoats at halt-pest 11 o'clock, and vote they know not how and care hot hoe, so that they tallow the particular man wham they suppose to be the leach, of their party. There is an isefioitely better attea donee in the American House of Represen.atives than there i. in the House of Commons in this country, and an Intl. ' nitely better and more real attention to the iutareata sad t, the wants of the constituencies. Now, look ; this reputlic has existsd for 70 years—people said it would not exist 70 scull.. It has had, in ell that time, about 4 years of war. It tas no national de (Hear, Mtn is JIM now some four or five millions of existing deficiency, means of ply lag of which are about to be provided. They do not incur a debt without taking steps to pay it off again. But from 1792 to 1816, a period of not more than 15 years, under your glorious ecentitutien, with your here. dairy llouse of 1., , ,rd5, with the Commons representing the lord. and not the people—rclusers)—we hays added t / our ational debt more tban 680 million pi.uuds sterling. (Shame, shame.) In Amens* they have few taxes compued with what we have; they have not the haters.% of that enormous debt to hay ; and they have not an enormous standing army and a first to scour every sea, end to bully and tubule on every coast. (Cheers.) They hate an army no greater than we pay for in Canada at this moment; and, therefore, they are free from the iaterest of that debt, and free from the vast amount of 17 or 18 millions, which we pay mutually fsr our peace armaments. And bear in mind, that although in America eight or ten millions per annum are not entrusted to a favoured sect for the purpose of instructing the people in 'morality and religion— there is no evidence to show that the people of the United States of America are not at least as moral and reli limas, and much better educated, than the people of this country are. (Cheers.) And they have loss pauperism, and less crime than we have; and they have )ter of that which is a standing disgrace to the constitution of England —they have less of insurrection. Now, it was only as I was coming here that this subject of insurrection crossed my miad, or I would have made a list of what this cmniry has been doing in this way for at least 60 years. Ou to Scotland. In 1794 or 1795 some excellent, and, I am perfectly convinced, inno cent men, were transported, because they were believed to be dissatistii d with the institutions of their country. In 1820 two men were hanged at Still:11g, and many were trans ported or imprisoned, for a small rising or insurrection which took place in Scotland. From 1817 to 1820, many of you recol:ect the disturbed condition of this district. How many of your tellow-men were imprisoned or wore transportmt. Even on this very place on which we now stand—(loud cheers), they were dig paned and trampled on by the form which this constitution brought against them. (Hear, hear.) In 1839, the insur rectionary spirit showed knell in Wales, and men, is whom ignorant men unhappily trusted, ars now at the ether side of the globe paying the penalty for their rashness and their crime. And more lately still, men, in whom Irishmen trusted, have come under the bon of the goveroment, and are now on their way to a penal settlement. Now lam not saying that these men, or the bulk of them, were not fairly tried, and fairly convicted, and fairly punished ; bat wh a t I mean to say is this, that, with • °Destitution in harmony with justice, and with the national sentiment, you could not thus have continually recurring insurrections in every part of the United Kingdom, and have your courts of Jostles itiegracad with cases of this n (cheers —when men (many of them criminal, more of them rash an d foolish) bring themselves under the heavy penalties of the law. Whether you have come to the nose COOCIII/1011 I have come to, er not, of this I am certain, that our present system of representation is hinging our constitution and govern ment to a dead lock, that great changes are inevitable, that you cannot hays that reform of abuses that curtailment of your expenditure, that di ff usion of contintasentand tranquil lity among the people, which an desirable with the present Corm of outhouses of parliament ; and it is because I am coo rioted of this, that I have ventured to-night to lay these fats before you, in the hope tnat many who did not thus entsider this question may take it horse with them, and fear linty, boldly, honestly examine why it is, if it be so, that the great bulk of the population of this country should be ex cluded from any share of political power. (Chien.) Ir, then, we hold then views—if we believe that ere long our population will have a large increase of political power, it becomes us, in all we address to them, to encoarage them to a wise and just exercise of that power. Weakoald teach them that passe, that morality, that justice, that equality in the law and the government, are the only foundations upon which a per. rammed sad prosperous state can be built up ; and we should endeavour to show them, as we may show them, what our government may be, what it would be, what the people of this country would be, as compared with what they now are, if the power of a cl ass were taken away, and the political influence exerted by parliament were an emanation from the intelligence and virtu* of the whole people. (Cheers.) Now, to-night, we have had laid before us by our chairman, In a most lucid manner, one of the means by which we hope to attain these ends. Thera is one class to whom I would address a word: not to the working men, who are exhorted to save, and to purchase a county franchise, but to the hundreds in this room who are able to-morrow, if aged be, to pay the value of the county franchise, and yet have not got it. Why should not every man who is an elector for a borough—or, wbether he is or not, if he has SOL, or 401., or 601. to invest, make it a paint to secure for himself and his sons—and advise his friends to do the same—the county franchise, by which he can have an incressal power in the representation of the country ? Oh, rely upon it, for there can be no doubt of it whatever, all which has boon gained in the last century and a half in this country for the ame lioration of your institutions, or the improvement of your laws, has been gained by the constant preasure of the popular party upon the government. (Hear, hear.) It is with the people that justice and honesty in political matte r@ mainly reads. (Hear.) Let every roan, then, by this 40e. movement, by purchning the franchise, by at tending meet* begs, by diffusing information, by everything that morality will sanction, take to himself and exorcise the power which is within his reach ; and it may be your children's children will bias you that you did not content yourselves longer with allowing the government of this great empire to remain is hands which have proved themselves unworthy and incapable of efficiently administering it. The hrs. gentleman sat down amidst prolonged and oaths'. slants cheers. THE lIANJACRE3 OFF THE COAST OF A pal& Ifiretini rea had_ ffeder reithiel, IA the Ludes 'Pavan, galled by Ilisserriffsa and tree Societies, to amides. the (Weft IMAM la barer lthe ea the our of Brine is lair ha j sad re peddles pew llamas& for she Walesa Imarifyke Malicia of the pried,* of awarding bead-mew kg Ike fleglewelie• of Irreg. Jour* Brazos, let ; ez a lsithe tie chair, read the fol lowing Utter rem Mr. t Morthester, Jan. 29, 1830. My dear aturge,—l dieU sot he back in London in tin: go thud the smiths upon the &mean Yammers en Wei. node, ; bat I ant glad yen are going to make a marts PiSesi or BAP; t r = ar l et hay o . ur L ' res ead writ ag grat every paper and report Wooing light rpm the attack apse the Saner Dyeks, sad have bees le asserts* the grouch upon which our ships if itt" salted late use at all es ocession. Moss ear- W I ;Wals no evident* stealer the 1,600 masa who &nerd in mat to death which would hey, ceavicted one rilletre ef any offence lain Bailie' wart of jetties. It smith Wham, bees a patellar and cold-blooded butchery, white breads its &ether not only with cruelty bat sawardios —for there appears to have bees set the slightest danger of reeirnies le the Dower employed in the manure. I hope for the Are, of oar country that the gouramett will be emapollsd to *meow tee wader of Burk Brooke, and believe me faithfully yours, Joseph &urge, Bq. lawahho COBD/Ur. The roue which they were there met to disease not oily demanded*, &papa*, of thou who, like himself, con sidered human hie to be ender all circumstances sacred, bell of those protasis( Christianity, who old not go so far em that point att he did, sad of every gentleman present what ever its creed or profession, in wires near ousted a single spark of busesaity. (Hear.) They were not met there to discus the grosed.s oa whisk they held their eastern possessions either Ice India or Colas, otherwise it might be shown that their presence I. these csoantnee was marked by oppression sad ideating. It must be known to them all that their brief connexion with China had been insugurated with, if print*, more atrocious conduct than had marked their history in India. (Hear.) They had made, for the sake of a few unprincipled English u is, an attack on that country arnally to make them pay for the atrocities committed upon them, without a shadow a justice. (Hear.) They were not there to *muss that question, which retarded the progress of peace and love more than anything that had ever occurred. (Hear.) Bet it was their duty as Englishmen to inquire what their resent conduct was in that part of the word, and whether it was right that their ships should be employed is currying on wholesale murder. (Hear, hear.) It might be said it was for the protection of their commerce. As a commercial man he begged to say a few words oa that point. He chal lenged thou who defended thew proseedings to produce a single instance in which pirates la China attacked &Ili* vessels mimed in legitimate commerce. And here he begged tree who heard him to observe, that there was en important distinction between Chinese Malays and Dyaha. (Hear.) He had paid insurauces on vessels to the amount a , tundreds of *wounds of pounds, and he was not aware that he bad paid one shilling lees oa account of English commerce being defended, as wee said, by the British navy. If that navy was all rattled to morrow, he believed they could insure vessels at Lloyds to any amount without plying one shilling more on that ac count. The money which they had paid in resp ec t t o the cue of the Malays had been distributed in the tollowing manner, as it appeared nom the etatemeota of the parties theopelves. In the early part of last month it appeared that the citie.n and crew of her Majesty'. snip Semarang, who are entioed to share for services against pirates ea the 3rd of Jam, 1844, are to apply for their shares, respectively, at 39, C , lllfill/. arou, on tee 29* init. The vmunt of these iedtvitlusl shares is stated es toltows:—Captein. 1,3291. 12a. 10d. ; find class, 3191. 3,. 2jd.; second class l9:1 9s. 4) i. ; third cuss, 931. 14s. 83 el.; fourth class, 831. 164 6fil ; filth class, 311. 18,. 2fd. ; 'lath class, 211. 6s. 61 1. ; seventh class, RM. 12a. 81d. Signed, Onimanuey, 8 ea, sod Co., agents Now, bees wu a narrative of a transaction that was to be rewarded oa the above scale, as everted from a work en titled " Borneo and the Indian Archipelago, by Frank S. Muryats, late Midshipman of H.M.S. Semarang, surveying vessel. Longman and Co., 1848." " Among the latter was a female child, appatently about eight months old, in a state es nudity. 1w poor little creature's left srm wee nearly severed trona its body by a grape shot. She was removed into the boar, where the rest of the wounded were placed, with as much cue as possible. A low morning sound escaped from her lipe, her eyes were {Lied, and she was evidently last cluing; I. would hays been a mercy to have pot an end to her sufferings. The dead were then thrown overboard, and the prase set on tire. The last prate, containing the wounded, was left to her fate." This case cuss before the Court of Admiralty, when Dr. Addams applied to the court to award the bounties smcdied in the tito Ga. IV., a. 49, for the capure and de. auction of piratical ships and vessels. He sub...itted that the affidavits produced clearly showed the character of the persons on board ti.e prelims, and that not loss than 1,330 persons were alive on board the several prahus at the be ginning of the attack, 350 of whom were killed.—The Queen's Adv..catta, on brh .lf of the crown, admitted that a very meritorious service had been performed, and made no oppo sition to the application.—The C ,urt pronounced for the usual bounties oat the number of pirates stated. In reading the s extrum he was struck with a thrill of horror, mid could scarcely believe these scenes possible. He believed that nothing mare atrocious had ever takes 'lace than this attack since that of the Spaniards upon the Mexicans. (Hear, hear.) He trusted it would not pass without reprobation by the British public, and that au inqui'y would be demanded Into it by the House of Commons. (Laud cheers.) Mr. AARON SMITH, a gentleman in the body of the meeting, asked if the meeting was celed to condemn Rajah Brooks and those brave men who protected British commerce in those distant seas. (Laughter.) The Chairman said that no British vessel was attacked by pirates. He was ready to produce an brume to the contrary, (Hear, hear.) Mr. GILPIN rase to order, arid said that as the resolution was not propelled and seconded he could not address the meeting at that stage, but he would have an opportu..ity of doing a . if he cams on the platform when the resolution was before the meeting. (Hear, hear.) Mr. RICHARDS theologise forward to lay before the meet ing &distinct and tell statement of the facts and circumstances of the case, in order that they might be able to pionounce • fair judgment upon it. (Hear.) He would nll the gentleman who had just *pekoe that he m. ant to impugn the conduct of Sir Jana Brooke. (Hear, hear.) In doing so he would empl ty no questionable evidence. Unhappily they had no evidence save such as had been coloured oirectly or indi. redly by the influence of Sir James Brooke himself. Ha: they the repreeentations of the wretched victims, the case would no doubt wear a very different aspect. The evidence in their presence' was that which was to be gathered either from the journals, letter, and speeches of Rajah Brooks, or from the papers which were considered his organs in the Eastern Archipelago, or from documents sent hums by per sons who were preset at the expedition, and who were in tense and unscrupulous admirers of Sir Jere,. It was necessary that he should give a rapid sketch of the put course of that gentleman ia the Eastern Archipelago. It seemed that Sir James was originally a subaltern in the service of the East India Company. Having retuned home from India, in the year 1838 be bought sad fitted out en arme d yacht— the itayalist—and, witn a cargo obtained from a commercial house in the city, sailed for the Emeriti Archipelago. It was bat fair to give Sir Junes Brooke's own statement of the feelings by which he was actuated. At the beginning et his journal he said, " I may pass over in silence my mo• fives for undertaking so long and orator a voyage; and it will be sufficient to say, that I have been firmly convinced of its beneficial tendency in adding to knowledge, incrernino trade, and sprouting christianitv." It would soon be seen that Sir James Brooke's notion of the best way of spreading Christianity among heathens was very peculiar. (Hear, bear.) Weil, Sir James nailed for Borneo. He touched, in the first instance, at the town of Suawak, which was on the north-west coast of the island. On his arrival he found the rajah, or governor, of that pro vine, engaged in putting down a revolt among his ewe sub jects in the interior. Sir J. Broeke, thinking it hie duty to interfere in this domestic quarrel, immediately placed the men and the guns of the Muslin at the disposal of this rejsh, whose name was Muda Hurst. It was sometimes found convenient to represent the Bornean dyaks as ferocious and blood-thirsty. In Sir James Brooke's owa account this war sppeared very ridiculous; all the service which Mr. Brooke rendered was to break down a stockade of bamboo cans and mad, after which, he said, he and his allies woe a complete and bloodier victory. And what had Sir James Brooks the modesty to claim as hiszeward ? Why rolling less than the cession of the entire province and government of Sarawak to him and his successors. He said that in the midst of the war Muds lisnint promised that if he would fight with him against his subjects he should have the country. Wtother the promise were made or not he (Mr. Richards) didnot know ; but if he did, he very naturally wished, after the war was over, to avoid fulfilling the pro- miss. Bat Sir Jame Brooke was not a man to he hided with. He said: Mier trying is vela sir same tine to came his eailot bi artiotia• till =dialers " the merset kr other kook seem& but he shall lean gemarder erre reryhtteseft o ity einingsse told me that 1 was lame se Meer to mks it le sea hefestiseoad 1 we, re- Wed term the strength of our. yageette aL Aclani. Moulting on lewd tiepin I sneered me peeps , my loathes and mode of swaths. eced havtag lawkd vesesre ins with grope asS "th.orr NM bromat Ivor trendies talus, I promeded on shore, wh a dlownhmite y masa, ma letting UP a pen ateh• oftwwa or the MOW. *pa dasereed sea ellalrea an issmoilLito a OlllOOl . la aPm watts I painted eat the:Meal el_ Itakets. bill e,mYYrrea ~J.,•_ LlMMN•rasion el anglaise% mil ray eseasst to attack •7 '''"'s iii'4l Mee Wm him the esesert in t won expleimed to the *IN_ Qat_ !r are( AAA. lad a limp Indy of IWgiq Is asr.sia inured Ire the wily men to prevent blecTeld wr ~........••••", oak to prerth me germ, et the corm try. The umnbs. .••• I ".is anwusseadeu lad the rebid seer • • • Undrr tie liwn ef the kayak* ear with a mad body et mesa to Muted me reereallAsLa Shaper seewri rrity of stelter ie wr iss et is we ear . C ieg dosimenat ertr iligli al. up,e_afgard. eel deaterod f t sad on the Seth of amidst, 1141. 1 wee WOMEN NIA and go- vernor or throw*sk roar of esnesie end • general display L el digs and banners from ths shore awl keels re the river." Having Ia this mammary manner taken pourers& of the country, Sir J. Brooke relied armed Mao, aad bud that in d thli s i e m ar guin w aw ere ak i 7b an ut d w idbeg kere he hir y kag . been u ing t l i ll a w el ith s tk ub r ae w in rr a t . b h ir e t. lisi eg u ak ed d the province. Ameag these were the Baker= and Sambas Dysks. In the very first insurers which he made into the provisos of Sarawak, 81r James observed up in the CALLS TO VIM 11/04.4311141V8 lint , JAN. 30. houses skulls which had been taken by the tarts from Maud Bolton liestre,Beg.. 8.A., and aloha )(organ, Req., their enemies the Barbee Yet ell James *ugh, proper were this day Wise So OD aerie of Barrirerat-Law by the About d these eseyese or two titerhostilutribeewithth chireger Sir jama s( pir took etes. Ma. Socdaq of Utig's lea, WT. RENZI ASHWORTH proposed, end ALAI. HINZ; I Bea , M.P., mended, a vote of thanks to the hon. members. who h►d addressed the meting. The motion was serried '. q melansation. The CHAIRMAN then annonoold that the Ftethold Land Committee were then sitting in the beck roan of the hall, for the porpoise dinamoting bminne. The repor.en' tables were them altered, la tzder that the enrolment of members might take plies. The promedimm of the mesas, tereskated at about Ml 4 peat ten o'clock. er his penises, ft happened that Koppel, with her Majesty's ship Hdc, wee wasdarleg shoat time seas, hang, as wee afar the ease with her Majesty's skip Dods, solthing particular to do, mail Mettle, eat be • job. (Cheers send leaghter_.) Instead, etr J. Brooke penned up on him lead preened him into his serfies. Something like a means had been held eat he • gayness''s' they had there been warmed against sm pleymg ; reproach against the vilest seen whe were thawed is the naval envies of their country. He hcg. d th ey would not dare to out an wejust repeal& as ebernalat of any man, whether gallant or ungallant, sot because of anything which might appear la the Globe, but Boss sense of justice is their own bosoms (hear); bet if they had a jest gnu:l4 for impugning the imadest of maul facers why should they not dare to Impugn it (Cheers.) Were net those gallant men their servants? (" H art, " end cheers.) Did they not wear their livery ? Did they not coadeseend to feeds* their pay, coming from the kabala of their hands and the sweat of their brow ? (Cheers.) If they found these men employing the authority with which they were entrusted by the HMSO' people to perpetuate deeds of oppression, and in eating in such • manner as to dim the lustre ~f the British name, they had a right to protest against such an abuse of delegated power. (Cheep.) Well, Captain Keppel placed him sell at the disposal of Rajah Brooke. Eepeditinas weft Immediately planned spinet the various hostile tribes, and is tee diary of stir James, it was said : '• 71st the osentry was Ulnantreated for miles, by the barn- Ismail the apital, Pad..l, sad asthma* villages; at which week and plisaderiag ear native falowees woe most espert."—(Vol. U. p. St) "The nos Avenel nounetise wm serried on et Puna; tot th e town was brew thus Paddi, sail, night setting in, the connagratice M an d u a is ealetleelis"—(P.6s.) At Ilembas, slier we bad destroyed we elledeed • log of trees. On our return to the still Mosel the ens pisheremes town of Paddi, we lobed that ismerters (Mr. Prooke's silks) bad not bean inha The ersismyreemilmillemaidd waste. Al had been demisted, together with Mir entembas Mater storm of rice. It was a melan choly slight; sad, Sr a mement, begot the horrid acme piracy and creel murder's( 011111kpagills, sedum heart relented at what I had dome—it was bat Ist • few ralautes."—(P. Very little field/nos led C opt. Keppel to the conclusion that these parties were pirates. Having seen certain b' ate around Borneo, he immediately concluded that they were pirates, and, without any indication of hoatility on their part, or any warning, jhe opened a deadly discharge upon them. On one occasion, Captain Keppel gave • command to fire • six-pounder et • den of Dyaks which were coming up the river ; and had not a delay occurred. in onsequecte of the powder having been blown off, fiat) persoLs who wt re discovered to be allies of di, Rush would nave been sent to dear long homes. (Haar, hear.) Haring with the help of her Maj es ty's vessels dangled villages and rice fields, and other poseesaims of the Djake, he thou. ht he ought to take the whole island of Borneo under his care. Accordingly, he went to the Sultan of Borneo, the highest authority in the Wand, and obtained ' from him • raCficstion of the grant of his province. And 11 , w did he testify his gratitedo for that ratification ? Why, by setting on foot at the court of the Sultan intrigues for the purposes of deposing him, aced rai-in‘ his own crea ture Muda Hints to his place, no douht with the intention of inducing the latter afterwards to cede to Wan the whole island. We said,— The Rev. R. C. DRIBBLE, a minister of the established' =unit, proposed the Ant e sea l at i on, v i t. : That the recent daughter of 1,600 or 2,000 Dyaks off the e act of Senses, by Ruttish eaamea, acting under the direction of Sir James Brooke, on a vague and general int 'retaliator pirecy,le a geese outrage on all the rights of nitise and humanity, and nAlculated to ME deep dishonour upon our national character as a civilised and Christi= people; and that a thorough and searching inquiry should be imam disitely instituted by pirliamentlisto all the circumstances of this transudes, as well as the general line of policy pur sued by Sir Janus Brooks in his treatment of the abotiginal tribes of Borneo." He atm, 4 erward to move this resolution, because as a man he felt that the right of trial before pttnishenent, which was due to the whole human race, had been violated in this eau; and moreover as a sailor, who in his e ar li er d ays h a d served In those seas ae an officer in the navy. He was aware of the evils of piracy in those localities, and of course did not for a moment excuse it; but what he contended was, that the means now employed to put it down would render the odor's profession in those seas mere dangerous than It ever had yet been. The way to put down piracy amongst those tribes was by establiahing friendly and commercial relations with thew It was not his inten'ion to pass an en tirely sweeping censure on Sir J. Brooke. (Hear, hear) Is tie interest management ot the country under his government he believed there was much to be admired and much to be commended. Mr. TURNBULL said, that as a minister of the church, though not ot the estahlerhed church, he felt great pleasure in seroaoing the resolution. The reedlution having been put, Mr. SMITH was called on to address the meeting. He said he did not come there to offer any objection to the meet ing, and would not have addressed it all, but for the remark of the chairman, that no British ship Lad been attacked by pirates in ChM. seas. He was an =cuter witness of the con trary. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said that what he said was this, that no seseel leeltimately eogaged in commerce in the Chinese seas had been attacked by pirates. (Hear ) Mr. SMITH said be was attacked at midnight, by a fleet of Borneo pirates. (Hear, hear.) lie was not in the Bei , lilt nave, and bed not received anything from the government. He 66d been in the British mercnaut service for thirty years. He spent the beat part of his lie in that service, and he could say ot the men who commanded in those seas that they pos sessed as much kindness ot heart and humanity as any class of men in this country. ("liter, hear," and " Oh, oh.") He aid nut know Sir J. Brooke, but thole who navigated in these seas were under great obligations to him and those who, acting with him. had suppressed piracy. (Hear, hear.) On the 30tn of April, IS:i6, whilst nevi getiue the Mary Anne, and engaged, as he trusted, in legiti mate commerce, he was suddenly called from Lis cabin at retidniAr, and was informed that hie e' sail was surrounded ig a fleet of y irate.. He got upon deck, and immediately a shot passed between bin and Lis steward. (thee.) An engagement of five hour,' durasion ensued, and this WWI not tag first time be was attacked by them. (Hear.) It bad been asked how they could know there men to be pirates ? He would leave the meeting ti judge whet their character was, when he toll them that tram ten to twenty of these pious, not vessels made of cane, is was said, but carrying about 100 men, and impelled by seventy or eighty oars, c n a o m l e aw t .: s at r i ro w un h d at hir c i ot h lu ip. the i y fi l ar o ' wh h . r n IheyN"'fouasindt7thehmad selves attacked in ti is way ? It was the duty of every man to defend himself. (He r, Lear.) In this engagement, which lasted, as he said, five hours, he b Leved they killed as many men in proportion as ItejAh Brooke aid. For him self, he did his btu endeavours to do ed. (" Iliac , hear," and "Oh, oh.") On that cecesien one of these prahus hoisted the British deg. Where could they get it, except by me measure of those from whom they to. k it ? I nave long known this man (the Sultan of Borneo) to be unfit to reign ; but hi„ time drawls to a close, and, from the Bret, I have never Let eight of the aueimbility of dep./dee him, and subultuting Made Laskin in lois place. The ume, however, is not yet ripe. Brune re quire% repose, and there are or may be prejudices in Eng Lind. Howe ewr, RAN day, if events follow their present course, he will cease to be sultan. What right bad this foreigner to play in Borneo the part of Warwick the king-maker? (Heu, hear) The Sultan acted u any crowned head in Eu-ope would have acted in similar ease. Having discovered the conspiracy, he seized Duda Haseim and put him and the other cosepirators to death. Sir 'ernes Brooke was thraan ii.to transports of in dignation, and said he must avenge the innocent blood. He induced Sir Edward Belcher to go up the riser with his 'queens°, and, attar picking • quarrel w•th the sultan, battered down his capita', com pelled him to reiro to the jungle, and bellowed him there, plundering and slaying on his way. Having permeated these exploits, he thouzht of returning t England. A very ela borate system of preparatory puffing was instituted. He was represented en a distinguished philanthropist, who was ionnated by very disinterested and benevolent motives He could not modestly publish his own journal; but the Hon. Captain Keppel came to the rescue, and the result was, that Sr James had eppeared before the public as a second John Howard. (Laughter., He re'uentd to England in 1846. The University of Oxford made him • doctor of lees; the Corporation of London presented to him the freedom of the city in a geld box; royalty flattered him, the rnioistry caressed him, the bishops blessed him (Laughter.) And then i' became a ques ion what should be dune to reward this distinguished philan thropist. An attempt had been made by Mr. Brooke some years before t• induce the Bri tan government to take the province of Sarawak under its protection, but Lord Stanley, who was then at the head 01 the Colonial Office, declined, and in his opinion wisely, to grant the re quest. But there was a little barren island called Lebuan, and a lineral min e try—for it wee liberal in disposing of the people's 'Loney— ( hear, hear)—set up an establishment on that rock at an ex pense of 10,0001. a-year, at the head of which was Sir James Brooke with a salary of 2.0001 a-year. In addition to this he was consul to the Sultan it 13.4-neo, and there was made Over to him a monopoly of the trade in antimony ore, besides being governor of Sarawak. Lantillet was 300 mile. from Sarawak ; and how did Sr Lines prriorm his confl icting duties? Having pocketed his salary of 2,0001. within a month alter his arrival he commenced his old work of destroying the Dyaks. It we. found convenient, when the conduct of Rajah B. ocke was called in quick's, to represent these Dyaks as desperate and blood thirsty fellows. But on • former cussien Sir James said of them that they were not as warlike as tie ether tribes of Dyaks, and that from their dread of fire-arms a few boats and six-plunders would be suffideat to put whole fleets to flight. (Hear, hear,) An attempt bad been made to mystify the public miral by contusing these Bornesn Dyaks with the pirates of the Chinese seas, although he had no doubt that under the abominable system of head moi.ey, they would soon have atrccities enough in those seas —(hear, hear)—but an attempt had been made to confuse them, while really there was a complete and broad distiuo tion. The Me .1111 of warfare possessed by these Dyaks con sisted of prahus constructed of rattan reeds, wooden spears, and wicker shields, while Rajah Brooke said that when they got fire-arms they fired them once and then threw them away. (Hear, hear.) Against such people as these Rajah Brooke fl••ed out an expedition in April, which destroyed eight Sarabu villages, and 40 tons of paddy, the principal food of the people. (Shame.) Then came the ex pedition of July, consisting of 11.111.'s ship, Albatross, of 12 guns; Royalist, 10 guns; Nemesis, a large war steamer ; besides 'event gun boats. There was also a large fleet of prahtts, brl nericg to Sir J. Brooke's barbarian &him They watched their opportunity when every male of the attacked villages were absent, on what sou alleged to have been a pi ratical expedition, although there was no proof of the fact They watched their opportunity, and, forasmuch as these people res:ded principal: on the banks of the rivers, the squadron stationed dm:selves at the mouths of those rivers, and watched for a day and • night, until they received the signal of destruction. Instantly the rajah gave the signal for an indiscriminate attack. He would read the description of this attack, given by a p non who WAS present, and who wu, by the way, a warm friend of the rajah: Trying es It was to the patience of all parties, we remained in poet tion until the Mat, during which interval every precaution human foresight could suggest was adopted to ensure sweep. About half past sewn p.m. se were engaerd in a roister of whist on board the Nemesia, and had Kismet abandoned all hope of surprising the enemy, when a spy bolt returned at best speed, with the long anal aceicausly.looked.fur intelligence that the piratical fleet had rounded Tanjong lied, and was rapidly approaching our position. As yet it was, of course, uncertain for which river they would make. Thi. question was, however, soon set at rest, and a Musk Ikea rockets from the cut ters,andi if great and small guns from the remainder of the Rajah's force stationed a t the entranee of the Kaluka announced that the enemy had attempted to force that river, and bed met with • warmer reception than they had anticipated. A rseket was new need by the rajah, and on this preconcerted signal Captain Farquhar moved round Butting Marron with the European force under his immediate command to support the rajah it necessary, and ale, with • view to enelming the enemy betwe.-n two tires, leaving, however, a strong netive lore° at the mouth of the Amebas to intercept the pirates in came of their nam ing the European ha As and making he their native river. Finding themselves foiled at the Kaluka, the enmity, gallantly followed by the two cutters, and the rajah's light skirmishing baste, which kept up • constant tire, put to Wm, with the intention of running for the Malang Lupar. Sere, however, no d iubt, mach to their surprise, they eneutin tend Captain Ferquher's boots, and being saluted with round shot and rockets ti icy divided their force. They yet, however, preserved admirable order. Some, retursisg to the Kuluka (still most judiciously by the rajah), renewed their attempt to ent e r, b u t w i t h the guarded e ar t ed bid sumer ; others, passing in shoal water inside Captain Farquher, made for the &zebus; and the remainder, having greater speed than his heavily-Eiden boat; succeeded for the present in escaping to sea. The Nenteeie hod hitherto remained at the mouth of the Sambas in position, but ready to muse at a moment's notice to any punt where her services might be required. She now meted her part, and dui right nobly. Perceiving, by the tire from Captain Farquhar's boats, that the enemy had attempted to put to sea, Commander Wattage gave chase, and fell in with 17 prams which hail rue:ceded in escaping Captain Farquhar, and were making in beautiful lion foe the Wang Lupe,. When obese, we eluted them with grape and eaniatrr from our 3 - 2 -pounders, raking the entire line, which we then broke, driving many of them on shore badly crippled, where they feil an eiey prey to the Dyak boats, which, headed by Mr. Steel, of Sara wak, In the Snake, followed the Nemesia, but n) vex interfered with her fire. We then pursued five others, and destroyed them in detail, passing round each and pouring in a constant fire of mare and canister, musketry and rifle,, until they drifted part us helpless Lye, without • living being onboard. That discharge of grape was a fearful sight as, at point-blank range, it crashed over the sea and through toe devoted prahuit, marking its era k with the Boating bodies of the dyinr, shattered prahus, planks, period directions : wherever the eye was turned it met the Wiliant double tti th e sh e ie y .... ld :re s pirates, war z g a 1 exalting I t a ti:hretahellhllls:ufrt:ht. me : l h ea ft o g l u ti m l ti d y ng " hear: e . t.. Pi vi ti V ng t t t h b o irpe: u flash of the great gun, the bright gain flame of musketry, the light. nit wreak of the rocket, or the donating blaze of the blue light ; wh Ist the ter was saluted with the boom of cannon, the roar ut mus ketry, the wild tone of the tomtum, the clear startling note of the grshf, or the still more (rueful warwhoop of the ')yIA, telling a sad tale of thetructkin and death. The pirates now, finding themselves surrounded, lost all preAhee of mind—order was no longer prenteed —the flotilla scattered and tied in every elinetkin, the crews jumping oneturat and ewinuning for the share, or running the endues aground, and taking refuge to the jungle. About twelve o'clock at night the fight might be considered as over, although isolated tire continued until midnight. The entire force under Captain Farquhar's command may be estimated at 3,000 MIL From information subsequently obtained, that et the enemy cannel be taken lower than 120 peaks end 4,000 sea The loas'of the enemy la the scion waste) embus and not lom than no men ; whilst we lost but two men killed and six wounded. In addition,bow ever, to the lees in action, the enemy sunered meat severely, tieing followed In the jungle by the layals, who, like bloodhound; tracked and hunted them down, cutting their heads eg, and 4ingtug them in es • proof of , victory ; and even adieu who essped • violent death at least one third must lave whited before they reached their hew, Wing 4ito gether destitute of food. The tetanal, at the enemy may, thereon, be estimated at 1,100 ass ; they have also lost an Immense quantity of brass gar, sairdwits, pegs, and arms of ell sorts, with whieh they wen well provided, Id widget they either threw overboard to lighten their wakes adenine& their speed and prevent them from sinking, ca alsamtemed ea taking to the bogies More than • mile of the beach of [lambic Marron was crewed with wrecks and alssodused prshui, which weretgecu hunt or cerried as prises, Mr. GEORGE IHO NI PSON thought that great praise we. due to these societies who had piled this meeting together. (Hear ) lie thought it de.irable that t. a queseton thonld be thoroughly discussed, act ho mated all pet ems who heard him to hive their opinions with the same fear lessness as the gentleman whom they had ju t heard. He hoped the question would be diecuesed both on moral mid relig.ous ground', and also on tee gvund of in ternational law and Enghett jurimatLence. He hoped it would be not only discussed on them grounds, but teat it would be brought before a higher trthithat. It would be well to state to the meeting at len.th the emcee of 'Nth Brooke before these transaction, occurred. The hoc. gentle man here gave a sketch of the lite of Sir James 8r....ke up to the time when he entered the Sarawak in his yacht, the Royalist, with a crow of 19 salon ii , .d seven Malays, whom he took on board at Singapore. On arr.vieg there he found a rebe.lion existing spirit the authority of me Sultan of Borneo. The sultan's uncle, Buda Hassan, was acting there as viceroy. Rajah ito.ke paid him a visit, which was returned by Muda Hassan. He expressed a desire, and asked for permission to visit the Interior of the island. He cot only obeeiaed that permission, but in addition Mula Ha son gave him provistens and guides fr his journey. Mr. Brooke said ta ey retired to b.d with as entire a feeling of security as though reposing in England. Sr James crossed over to Singapore witncut seeing any ot these ferocious pirates. He thou laid in a fresh st.ax of provisions, and without any c a nvoy started off to another aloud, Ce.eb ' es. lie visited every rajah ; i.e snengied in the spurts of the people, he explored the country, and foe sin uthote.s the only treatment he received we. unbounded hoe pi;ality, He then returned to Singapore, and afterwards eroce.ded to the Serawa river—that river which this gentle wait said was to dangerous. (Hear, hear.) From the journal of Mr. Rooks it eppeared to have been during ads excursion that he received the impression that a European settled at Sarawak might open a trade with the interior, and establish a large and profitable commerce with Singapore. He 'sire " I consider our re ception as an additional proof now much better the natives are disposed where they have had no intercourse with Euro puns; how perfectly willing they are to extend a friendly uospitelity wnen never previouly Injured or aggravated ,• and, as the first white men wh o hav e ever visited their country, we must bear the most cordial testimouy to their unaffected kandnisi." (Hear, hear.) Ou returning to the Screw& river, he found the war still goit.g on. The rajah asked his assistance. nxil I.e must say that down to that time ho found nothing but w net woo noble in nis conduct, and he did not wonder that he should at lest have said, " Well, I'll land my men, and see if I cannot bring this war to an issue." He cams down the river after bring victorious. A formal offer of the government was made to him; he cock time to consider, and eventually accepted the offer. Then happened what Mr. Richards had stated with regard to Macota. Then it wee that Mr. Brooke took those de:litre steps which I.d to his becoming the governor of the prosiece. He must do Sr James the justice to say, that he found him at that period sling justly—protecting the weak, and behaving better than almost any man of whom be had read under similar circumstances. But a point arrived at which be .eemed to have become desirous of a:quiring fame, and of aggrandising himself, in connexion with Borneo, and much was it to be regretted that, after conducting himself with so much propriety, he sbou.d have turned the aged and helpless out of their homes, and (imaged in wholesale slaughter. The lives teken with the assistance of Sir Ed ward Belcher were too numereus fir computation. lie (Mr. Thompson) denied that Litman was obtained in a straightforward manner. It never entered the mind of the Sultan of Borneo to cede one inch of territory beyond what was ex:cried by the dread of Cannata. (Hear, hear.) Midshipman Marryat gave an account of this visit. Rajah Brooke said, "At our first audience with the Suiten we leund his Highness es pliant and yielding as we could desire ; " that was very pleasant, was it not? (Laughter.) Ile then said that he bad obtained the offer of Labuan ; that he had prepared the popular mind ; that the account would be very agreeable to Muds Hamm; and that he had settled the teal ques tioa. (Hear, hear.) That all appeared very smooth. But what said midshipman Marryat ? He would read a few extracts from his log : Ten a.m. of this day was fixed upon as the hour for a full Preis visit to the sultan. The demands now made be Mr. Brooko and Captain Belcher were, that proper respect should be paid to the English dig, that the forts mon the island of e Monsen should be dismontled, and that the Sultm should reins:ate Mode owl Budruileen in °dices becoming their tank. These demands created great 410:141. ttafaction. "As it appeared," says Mr. Marryat, "that there was no Mame of our elem.uod being complied with without coercion, the eenierenoe was broken up by our principals rolnueg to the steamer which toy within pistol shot of the palace, and monodies the Sultan and the ministers that a few broadsides would destroy the town. Having made this observation, we all ruse to take oar departure, M' foll ti orin th g a L w y e . • among sho uld htind O manner by the beard -when, at a signal from him iic e .ol tril t iMnf l o rti r -7:7 B trveivertakti'agri'olielemln:r...i•Zidt:43ll ll l:llat EU t t h rt i: we might have toll been despatch.' in a mocuent. Mote than roe chief had his hand upon his tree as did not venture further without authority. felt a% e / 4 1111:411101 at Brune for a 140:1•• UMLII 4 { which time a pest de a l eh we am "al ber k , ed in t t h t roug wh h stte a ver Paßuge n“r havef"beetsci out t heir of w th ishm e "theme- they of diplomatic duty was gone through by the seniors of the party, leasing the juniors to amuse themselves with discovering fresh ob jects of interest, and illustrating everything worthy of notice. • • Every day en interview was halt with the Hutton, but no definite answer had been obtained to our demands. On the sixth, however ' it was retelved by our iliplomi-la that moms time should be wasted in useless discussion, but that the sultan must be at once brought to terms; Indeed our own safety demanded it, for the popularfeelhut was so much excited, and the people were so indignant at out attempt to coerce their sultan, that we ware in hourly expectation of an attack. At seven in the evening the party repaired to the audinicocluunber leaving their arms behind them, fur they Mt that any effort h u ms new Europeans to defend themselves against to many hundreds world be unavailing, and that more would be gained by a show of indifference. They landed at the platform, and the barge, in which was Lieutenant Burgh (slurs dead) and myself, was ordered to I e on her oars abremit of the audience chamber, and to keep her ff-pounder, in which there was a fearful dose of grape and canister, poicted at the Sultan himself during the whole of the interview. it was an anxious time. The audience chamber was filet with hundreds of armed men, in the midst of whom were fleet euromana dal:unarm to their Sultan. The platform whomo was crowded with tho The We, on our parts, were well prepared for fearful vengeance. E thc wild tc a:l i f a t i rlue mti Mar ws u fo te z!th ni e d f a ni ne y. tive lei the city but was am nil to huge was so placed that the wassination of Mr. Brooke an d t he ü by the slaughter of hundreds; and to the [IWO . 10011 fey tested er i. i r . with a Opting 0:4 her cable, her Mit ports,ne t ,o , V g _1..._ . t_ ,_U_ Inuule . awailiaL as by instructing for the a": ;r 4 =a e i r orirt ' l the barge, to [Wow to.i the work of death. v• It , bet e! i one of the steamer's guns to look into the audience chain , t h e reposes would have been revetment, on the tint dins-barge of our g un, sad matters easonted a serious mp earance. Woos where I our on the barge all appeared hushed In the au- I m n ues his ie b.d was . poth Emy ted di zur rec o t p.. at the r b.d ultan. h. A d m hia an . h uk eld et th re e aligyhthrided tow dienee-roons. 'could see the prime minister, Muds, and liudrudeen, ae they roes in tent to meek. 1 could perceive by the motion of their tips that they were talking, but not a sound came to our rare. This m a ce of things Weed about half an hour, and then there ht stir, and Mr. Brooke and his party marched weenie be crowd*: warriors. e .. e. •- --;-.. Ilt ny dint of trireme he lad pined hie point. . . eat ) 4 :treaty, by which he bound himself to ..„„, the Bri sake over to us the island of labuan, to . Tr • . vie W info of Manson. to discountenance piracy, • l: e . it g arudeen into erikes beating their birth 1114 • • ' i:i e ,mix. heard Mr. Brook.• remark that e yi,,: . ....x • vex* well sitar. UM. our guns were directed a ' . ii -..• Ilia lik ti ti‘ .., ... ' ..1 1 '.7. _ -. • ..• ' . , ..i 7 f ,' -• '; ' 10,0'0 or ...CIA= 1 p , ) ,, ki ty .61.1 4,,.. 1111 t7v. 5e 111 11 • 44 to v..te b teuraei::ir the it 0111 s., het no y• e. 1.4 , 1 than Icr ry the cap ✓ - ....err the Festa km the sno. 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