The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

Oa Monday the annual gatherings of the societies Which have been formed for perpetuating the fame of Edward Colston, the eminent philanthropist of Bristol, took place. In a ecuniary point of view a the Grateful (Neutral) Society took the lead, the collection amounting to £586. Next came the An chor (Liberal) Society, at which £524 were sub • - scribed. And at the Dolphin (Conservative) Society the amount realised was £519. Thus the total contributions for the purposes of granting annuities ,• to • the aged poor, relieving lying-in-women, and • apprenticing boys reached £1,629. The President of the Anchor Society was Mr. E. - S. Robinson, town-councillor, and the chief speaker was the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, senior member for Bristol. Mr. W. H. Gore Langton, the other re presentative of the city, was prevented from at tending by indisposition, but sent a letter apologis ing for his absence, in which the hon. member re . viewed the leading political questions of the day. In responding to the toast of " The Members of • Parliament for the city of Bristol," The Hon. F. H. F. BERKELEY, on rising to ac knowledge the toast, was received with loud cheers, which continued for several minutes. Silence having been at length restored, the hon. member said, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen,— They say, Sir, that age chills the blood, and that the feelings are less intense as we advance in years. I do not know how that maybe, but I can only say this, that a cheer fro m my Bristol friends would, I think, nearly raise hie from the dead. (Laughter and loud cheers.) I have received so much kindness - from the people of Bristol, and I have endeavoured at all to repay that kindness by zeal, but I have found all my efforts fall short of what I have attempted to do. This is the 22d consecutive anni versary on which I have been enabled to attend at the anniversary of Colston. (Cheers.) To be able to attend 22 years successively, and always on the same day, is, I think, being very fortunate indeed, • considering the evils to which we are subject in this life, the occasional indisposition we all must have • sometimes, and the other occurrences which may prevent us being present. I have ever felt it aduty, and a duty from which I think no member for the city of Bristol ought to shrink to attend this meet . . ing. (Cheers.) I believe that there is in no other • city a similar meeting. Here;_ we are assembled to do honour to the memory of the great philan thropist, and assembled in a particular manner. We are assembled in one place as one party, in another place as another party, and in a third place as all parties combined. (Cheers and laughter.) The - system has its advantages, and I have not yet , been able to see the counter'aalancing disadvantages. One advantage which it possesses is that there is a kind of rivalry between the two opposite political parties, which causes the funds of both parties to increase. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) There is another great advantage, exceedingly agr eea bl e t o me,. in it affording me the opportunity of my meet ing those friends whom Iso highly respect; and there is another circumstance which to a man of my political tenets is rather to be considered an ad . vantage—l have an opportunity of laying my poli tical conduct before my constituents. (Cheers.) Lately the Tories have shrunk from politics at these meetings, and for the first time in their life begin • to say, " Oh, perhaps the less we say of politics on these charitable occasions the better." (Laughter.) But when we remember how vividly they used to look into politics once—how the Dolphin was the scene of a vast deal of undeniable Toryism once, we Must wonder what is the reason why now they are backing out of their former conduct. (Hear, hear.) I think the reason is explained by recent events. , The Tories have now a very strong party, but they . have very little principle. (Hear, hear.) Toryism itself is dead, while party is strongly alive. • (Hear, hear.) Toryism ! There are many grey heads here who remember what Toryism used to be. There are many young gen - tleMen here who know it, who may have learnt it from reading or from their relations ; they know what Toryism is now, but they have to learn what it was then. But it is necessary that we should Allow the history of the party—that we should keep the Tories to the acts which they formerly did, and not allow them to confound themselves, with the acts they are now doing. (Cheers.) Mr. Disraeli, a most ingenious man, made a speech once in the House of Commons, one of those violent philippics. • against Sir R. Peel which now come back to him self and-his party, in which he said that Sir R. Peel had watched. the Whigs while they were bath ing, had stolen their clothes, and put them on his back. (Laughter.) Whether that was true or was not, I will not say, but certainly it is realised at the present moment in the case of Lord Derby and hisasarty—(cheers)—for the acts which they call Conservative acts are those which we have been, re-. commending for a long course of years, which we have urged on them from time to time, and which the Tories are now compellel to assist us in carry ing out. (Cheers.) This is old Colston's day. There is scarcely a Bristol man who is not well , read in the history of old Colston. We know that old Colston was an honest old Tory ; we know that he was a staunch Church of England man. We even know that we could wish to pass over certain blemishes in the character of Colston, taking into consideratiou his munificent charities. (Hear, hear.) For instance, we pardon while we do not see why • Colston in his charities should have put .a bar on all Dissent. No Dissenter can be a recipient of Colston's charities. Why do I call that to your attention ? I will ask you to walk with tne to the Dolphin dinner. (laughter.) There is no doubt a splendid and goodly company. There are assembled the beautiful ladies of the city, who have been desired to attend in full dress—(laughter) —at least, so we are informed by a supplementary advertisement from Mr. Aiken, by • which both the gentlemen and ladies arc desired more especially to attend because Mr. Aiken has got a duke. (Loud applause.) Yes, according to this ad . vertisement there is the promise that his grace the • Duke of Beaufort—a most excellent gentleman, I wish he was here—(hear, hear)—is to attend at the , Dolphin dinner; and, moreover, it says not only have they a live duke with a coronet on his head, - hut there is to be also Sir Frederick Wm. Slade. (Laughter.) " Walk up, ladies and gentlemen; walk in"--(renewed laughter) —says Mr. Aiken, " here, gentlemen, you shall see what you shall see —(loud laughter)---a real duke with a coronet on his brow, and a live lawyer stuffed with straw." (Roars of laughter.) And so they have gone to the Dolphin to see it, I hope sincerely they will pass a pleasant evening. I hope that their funds will be • increased from what they were last year. I hope— no, I will not hope that Mr. Phippin has sent his old port there, because that is said to be very powerful port. (Laughter.) But Ido hope that they may have excellent wines, excellent viands, and a most pleasant evening. (Hear.) I shall be curious to learn what principles they are now about to be guided by; they have cat all their old principles. (Hear.) They g o about t a lki ng o f educ ation —ay-e, education, whi c is to be extended to the hungry I Dissenter. Is that Toryism ? That was not the Con servatism we used to remember, Mr. Kemp s t er. (Hear.) There is another grey head sits next him ; do you call that Toryism, Mr. Powell ? (Hear.) No, it is not. What on earth is Toryism now that they have cut everythiag ? They have cut the encouragement:of-ignorance system they once re joiced in. They have cut their religious opinions, for the Jews now through their means sit in Par liament. (Cheers.) They have cut their former Con servative principles so far that they have adopted one of the points of the Charter and let people into Parliament without a qualification. (Cheers.) They have cut everything, I say. Why, they have cut old Niblett and the White Lion. (Cheers and laughter.). .The only thing they have remaining to do is to dye their old blue rag and turn it out a. dirty green. Now that is being Conservative. Well, then, all I can say is I rejoice I am not a Conservative. (Cheers.) I rejoice and I rejoice for my f r i en d s around me also, t hat we have never hidden our principles but ever kept them steadily before us; that we have ever been the friends of civil and religious liberty, and that by our acts and deeds the Tories- have been driven- to adopt the same. (Cheers.) But, then, do not let them come in under false colours, do not let them take down the old flag which was the emblem of the old party of the Tories, which was the emblem of the Conserva tives. It is not the old case. They want a new watch Word, a new war-cry. I will, tell you what their watchword and their war-cry is now. It is to be found in two short monosyllables., 'The war cry and the watchword of the Tories is " Self and Pelf" (loud cheers), and the whole of their princi ples are based on that—to attain place, if possible, as 'levies—if not, as semi-Liberals ; and, rather than not have place at all, I believe they would turn Radicals. (Cheers and laughter.) They have tasted the sweets of office lately. It is dangerous to let wild beasts taste blood (laughter), they always become mischievous, and I have always observed that Tories get vicious when they have once had a taste of the Government loaves and fishes. (Laugh ter.) But what I would warn you against is su pineness—not to allow these Tories to step into your slippers, nor to slide into your chairs, or take your place at your feasts ; reserve them for your selves, (Hear, hear.) Do not stand any Toryism in - the guise of Liberalism ; you will find plenty of is e' , w ing- I speak to you after a general election, a general election of vast importance, and if you will excuse me and pardon me for detaining your time (cheers, and "po on ") I should like to say one word on the' subject of that-election. (hear, hear.) It has been my fortune in urging that great ques tion which I think essential to the liberty of the electoral aody—l need not tell you I mean the bal lot (cheers) —in urging that question on the House of Commons it has been twice my fortune to do so on the eve of a general election, I fhlt it to lie my duty to point out to that house into what kind of matt:Malta the country was about to be plunged. I laid before them the miserable position, the de graded position in which the electors were is various boroughs. I pointed out to them that while inti midation would be rampant through the land, drunkenness would stagger after it, and bribery would not be far behind,andthat intimidat ion ,bribery and. drunkenness would reduce our electoral system —the most beautiful working system in the world in theory—to the most degrading thing possible in practice. (Hear.) Both times that which I stated was realised. Both elections proved that, instead of intimidation having ceased, bribery being dead, and the electoral body being in a more exalted po sition, it never was in a more degraded one. You have just passed through the last of the two ordeals, a contested election. You have passed an ordeal in which temptation has been held out to the poor, in which the poor wretch has been bribed until he has become the most degraded of slaves, having to place his neck teneath the foot of his master whether in county or borough. England presented herself be fore the world in a condition shocking to behold. We have had a taste of it in Bristol, and this I will say, that although I believe we were more secure than we ought to have been, I do not believe that the Tories ever took the field in greater force, and with more appliances at their hands for debauch ing, corrupting, and depraving the constituency. (Hear.) The election, however, as fought by the Liberals might satisfy even the stanchest teetotal -ler in this city. (Cheers-) I believe that a more pure election never was fought, or else the orders issued from the offiee of Baxter, Rose, and Norton would have been carried out as regards this city. We know what those orders were, they have be come patent throughout England—" Win fairly if you can, if you cannot, win foully ; and if you are beaten, petition." (Cheers and laughter.) That they attempted to win fairly may. be ; that they at tempted to win foUlly and contrary to law we know; and as regards the last of the three methods, they were unable to put it in practice, because your election here was so pure. (Loud cheers.) And ye't they dare to put it about that my friend Mr. Langton went about with money sacks in his carriage. They knew, when they stated that, that they stated. that which was untrue, and which I here declare, and maintain to any man who says to the contrary, is a black lie. (Loud cheers.) The election here was as I have stated ; what it was in otherplacesyou know. You have had precious speci mens in Glocester, and in Wakefield, and in other constituencies ; and now, Lord Derby, in talking of a Reform Bill coming forward, what does he say ? He says, " Why, • really the state of corruption in these boroughs is such that it makes us pause be fore we can extend the franchise." Did you ever hear such a wretched pretence ? Do you mean to say that Lord Derby and the rest of his party in the House of Commons did. not know that Mr. Rolt's committee disclosed -exactly that state of things which exists now ? There is nothing new in electors being corrupted and debauched. in Gloces ter, or in any other city. It is monstrous for Lord Derby to say, "I will not grant you a £6 franchise because the £lO householders are a bad lot." He knew what they were before his agents bought them—not in his name—oh, dear no ! but in other persons'; in the name of the " Man in the Ixoon," who came down and debauched various places for pleasure. (Laughter.) I think that very disgrace ful. Will it be believed, that when a gentleman and a candidate for a borough goes to the Treasury, or to the Conservative club, as the case may be, and etTers to spend £2,000 or £3,000 in contesting a small borough, is it possible he does not know it must be spent illegally ? We know how it is with. these candidates, what they all say when examined, "I set my face against bribery; I hate corruption; I told Mr. Thingamy that I would not have corrup tion for the world ' • there was £2,000 for him, but it Must be spent in the most virtuous manner poisible." (Loud laughter.) It is a most disgraceful state of things that such a set of men should exist as candi dates—(hcar, hear)—and it is no credit to the Mimic of Commons that there should be there the vast number of men who have got into it in that way. There is a farce I have seen for 20 years in the House of Commons exceeding all belief. Such a horrid state of corruption is proved in some borough —men have been bought Wholesale. Mr. So-and-So is E upposed to know something about it. He comes in to the House in a •grave and florid manner, he looks around him, and he says—that is, he makes a declaration by which he states that we are mistaken. What is it, after all ? If any gentlemen are here who frequent the theatre they must have seen the farce of " High Life below Stairs," in which there are a couple of rascally servingmen, who as sume the titles of their masters, the one being "my Lord Duke," and the other " Sir Harry." (Laugh. ter.) My Lord Duke is given to telling lies, or, speaking more politely, to romancing a good deal. Sir Harry each time contraslicts him flatly. When ever he does so, my Lord Duke draws himself up, lays his hand on his heart, and says, " Upon my honour;" on which Sir Harry raises his hand to his hat, takes it off his head, and says, " Oh-h-h." (Laughter.) Now this is what I have seen acted in the House of Commons over and over again. The candidate says," I come to declare that I have not been guilty; I know nothing of this corruption, upon my honour." (Laughter.) Oh-h-h ! (Laugh ter.) And there the farce ends, and we all know it to be a farce, because we cannot fancy it to our selves that any third person would go andpay money to elect a man to Parliament for his own pleasure. (Hear, hear.) The man wh o thi n k s p ro p er t o take an oath that he knows nothing at all about corrup tion because the money has not passed through his hands to the unfortunate wretch corrupted, is little else than guilty of perjury. (Cheers.) That is the state of things with which we have to deal. One party sometimes falls int o error , an d i s gu ilt y, as at Gloucester. The Liberals there were exceedingly gailty ; they bribed in the most extensive manner, and not only did they bribe to a great degree, but they did it stupidly. (Laughter.) The Tories, the moment it was found out, exclaimed " Oh, dread ' ful ! what a state of things in this world ! Thus it is; these Liberals, who are always talking of purity at elections, bribing away; we must petition!' They did so ; they stated that bribery by the Libe rals had taken place. A commission is issued, and then it is found that the Tories have bribed ten times mow than the Liberals—(loud laugh ter) —and that the only difference was that the Tory agents lied through thick and thin, while the Liberal agents blurted it all out, (Laughter.) It is not the genius of LiberalS to bribe—(hear, hear)—they do it badly, and very stupidly ; but it is the genius of Toryism, and they do it to perfection. (Cheers and laughter.) We had a Coppoek, the lamented Coppoek ; but he, alas! is no more ; but they have still a Baxter, Rose, and Norton, and while they have them the Tory nobility will beat the Whig nobility into fits. That is a state of things thau ought to be done away with—(hear, hear)—but it never wi'l be until the people rise in their majesty and say it shall be. As Parliament is constituted now, you cannot expect a man, a member for a rotten borough, to disenfranchise himself, but he will join that body opposed to reform. There is nothing but the people using and insisting on it that can carry it. Ido not believe now they are ready to do so. They do not lead us, their members, to believe they are in that position ; the people, in fact, aro the last to shim dby us. If they do not do so thee thing will go on in the old way ; the Whi ' z lords the Whig land lords, and the Whi g o li garc hy will bribe against the Tory oligarchy, and the Tories will always have the best of it. (Hear, hear.) If you increase the fran chise I am all for it. I will take anything they as ill give me. (Cheers and laughter.) I do not press even for that question which I think of such infinite importance, and which must come one day ; but I do not believe you will find any measure of reform sa tisfactory to the minds of the Liberal part of the country until you have a large extension of the franchise, and put down intimidation by the ballot. (Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I will not say any more on a very voluminous subject—that of politics —hut I will turn for a moment to your local affairs. I have the honour to be a director of the great steam ship; (Cheers.) Much has been said about the power of members of Parliament with their various Governments to do thin, or that, or the other. great deal was said by Mr. S:adf...—l beg his pardon, Sir Frederick Slade—who would persuade you that if he had been returned as your member in Parlia ment he would have turned every puddle in this city into a dock, and that he would have made this a ••• port for this purpose and that purpose, and a port of emigration, and so on. (Laughter.) I think it ought to be so myself, but we cannot always do that which we desire to do. (Hear, hear.) All we can do is to try. When Mr. Philip Miles was my colleague, we set to work to prove to Government that this was the best port for the departure of the West India mails. We said, " Give us a commit tee." They said, " No." We said, " You shall ;" we tried it on, we carried our conittee, and had it. What was the result ? Why, that the com mittee reported that this was Rot the most proper place for the departure of the West India mails. We did all we could ; we could only get that com mittee. (Hear, hear.) We arc in the same posl tion now with the direction of the Great Ship. We are considering the various ports from which it ought to sail. It is a difficult question to lay before you. I stand here in my character as a director of the great steamship; you may g uess which way my inclination leads, and I should rejoice at this - being the port of departure of the Great Ship. (Cheers.) As for any report that the port of departure i s fixed, it is totally untrue. The claims, of every port will be sifted, and examined into, and fully discussed, and I believe the port which is the fittest will be the one selected. As for the clgols of Bris- POLITICS IN BRISTOL. 141E' SeS, LOISboN, WE EVENING, NOVEMBER, 16, 1859. tol, I eat: dilly say they shall have fair play,—so far I can answer. (Cheers.) tint it is one thing for a man to go into a deliberative assemblage and say such a port has such advantages, and another for him to say such a port will have them. (Hear.) In the one case you arein the best possible position, while in the other you would be in the worst. I .have endeavoured to lay the case, before you so as not to be mistaken, and I will undertake that the claims of Bristol shall have the fullest and fairest consideration. (Cheers.) 'Gentlemen, on 'Friday last I arrived in this city purposely-to be present at a field-day of the Bristol Volunteer Rifle Corps. this time last year I urged upon the attention of the gentlemen assembled the necessity there was for Englishmen being enabled to take care of their homes and firesides. It appeared to me—who had been over most parts of Europe, who had seen a good many armies, and knew the life which was led by the citizens of - the - different countries of the Continent—a strang e thing, that while we are the richest nation in the world, with every thing desirable to protect, Englishmen should walk about with their hands in their pockets, perfectly unconscious of the danger of the position in which they stood. (Hear.) It appeared to me very desir able that Englishmen should be taught the use of those weapons which are perfectly familiar to all the nations on the Continent. I was one of the first of those who advocated the formation of volunteer forces ; and I do believe, and what I have seen has strengthened me in that conviction, that with pro per drilling, and proper instruction in the use of the deadly rifle the people of this country will be able, with a small army, to afford a perfect means of pro tection. (Loud cheers.) I have great faith in the Saxon spirit when once aroused. I have seen a great many opin ions about riflemen, those of general officers and others. I fake those opinions cum grano ealis. There is the opinion of Gen. Hay, which, I think, ought' to be taken with a certain reservation. Igo the whole of the way with him as regards the import ance of rifle drill ; but I believe that the volunteers of this country, after an effective drill of twelve months, after being drilled to the use of the rifle for twelve months I believe then, and in that I differ from General flay, that they will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the regular army— (cheers)—and that any who venture on the bayonets cf these volunteers will find they form a very ugly hedgehog. (Cheers.) I believe they are.capable of acting with. ,the regular troops if properly drilled. I have been one of those who have set my face against the Yeomanry Cavalry, and have urged their inefficiency in the House of Commons. I have roused their anger by doing so, and they have swarmed and buzzed around me like a roused nest of hornets. (Laughter.) They are fine fellows, brave as lions, but they have no drill, and you will find even now that the volunteers of this city in the three or four months in which they have been drilled have had more instruction and more drill than any member of the Yeomanry Cavalry has in 10 years. (Cheers and laughter.) The Yeomanry Cavalry have £BO,OOO a year devoted to them for their out fit and other expenses; if that sum is still to be continued to the Yeomanry Cavalry, then, I say, that the Infantry Volunteers have a right to the same consideration. (Cheers.) I say, moreover, that if' the Government devote £40,000 a year to the Yeomanry Cavalry, at least the same sum of £40,000 should go in support of the Infantry Vo lunteers. (Cheers.) With such a body of men, well drilled, we may say with the old poet— " Let England to herself be true, And she shall shock the world - in arms." (Loud cheers.) I am delighted with the movement, and I shall wind up with the old lines— "Blest isle, with matchless beauty crowned, And manly arms to - guard the fair." . . (Renewed cheers.) I thank you sincerely for your attention to me this evening. I have only one other word to say with respect to my friend Mr. Langton. (Cheers.) He is exceedingly unwell. I was with him yesterday, and he said to me, " I trust to you to fully explain to our friends at the Anchor that I am really unhappy at not being able to attend." (Hear, hear.) He is far too unwell to attend, and it has added much, I believe, to his sufferings that he cannot be here to-night with me, shoulder to shoulder. (Loud and prolonged cheer ing, which continued for some minutes after the hon. member had resumed his seat.) Mr. J. T. Norris, M.P. for Abingdon, ,and Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., were among the speakers. (Renewed laughter.) At the last election out of 140 constituencies changing their members the bal lot party did not gain one vote in Parliament. (Cheers.) But the Whigs, smarting as they were from their defeat, had obtained the triumph they wished, and the Conservative party were at present obliged to sit in the cold shade of opposition and look on at the measures that might be adduced. The present Administration, however, was com posed of all sections of politicians, like a happy family—(laughter)—to whom united policy was impossible, and it was also impossible for them to count on a majority on any important question, watched as they were on the flanks by the ultra- Liberals. They might almost be said to be at the mercy of their united Conservative opponents, but he for one deprecated constant changes in Govern ment, and hoped that forbearance which they re fused to show the Conservatives might be shown to them, so that their bark might be able to float on the summer sea, but if they became engulfed in the complicated waves of foreign politics or of Reform, their fate was certain. (Cheers.) The hon. gentle man again thanked the company for the reception given him, and concluded by proposing "The Com mercial Prosperity of Bristol." (Cheers.) hard:earned wages of the pecple at large that he should have succeeded in putting another brother in-law at the head of the commission that is inquir ing into the sugar affairs at Glicester. (Hear, hear.) We. are about, I miderstand, lo proceed to the in vestigation of another systen of Reform. What that is no man except the Cabinet Ministers, who meet every day, can properly tell us. Are we to have the franchise lowered, and the door thrown open wider still to the operations of bribery ? I hope and trust not; but it will remain entirely in the hands of those to whom the government of the country is now entrusted what sort of Reform Bill will be presented to the .electors at large. You in Bristol will, of course, watch it carefully. It may have an effect .on the future fortunes of England which no than can foresee. Everything depends now in this country upon what the electoral fran chise for the time being mae be. If reduced too low; and a large portion of wh at I call the democratic element of the constitution is introduced, then we may see desolation and Cismay in the country. (Hear, hear.) If, on the contrary, however, a fair balance is maintained, there can be no doubt but that England, as she has aver hitherto done, will hold her head up amid all the trials and difficulties she may encounter. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, when I was here last you know tat Berkeley and Lang ton were the mere nominees of a party. That party was headed by John Brigit, and John Bright was the man whose name was in the mouth of every one, and when I ventured to suggest the name of John Bright upon the day of the declaration of the poll, every man on the side of Berkeley and Lang ton, without an exception, took off his hat and cheered. And nowwhat has John Bright been doing lately ? He has been attempting for the hundredth time to throw the apple of discord between the working classes and the cwners of capital in this country, and using the most apparent and trans parent fallacies possible for a man to conceive. Is John Bright the man to select as a statesman to whonito confide the destinies of England? (" No, no.") He has been lately saying that the working classes contribute 40 millions out of the enormous sum raised by taxation in this country, but which ought by right to fall on the possessors of property. Why, any one who understands what represents property will know the difference between capital - and labour. The whole commerce, industry, and power of the country are made of the two combined. (Cheers.) And to say that, because there is a cer tain amount of indirect taxation which every man, rich or poor, be he living on the earnings of those who preceded him, or on the earnings of his daily labours,—to say because working men pay indirect taxation that they therefore pay it, and not the capitalist, is an absurdity, because the capitalist at last pays it, as he is compelled to pay a larger amount to enable him to obtain that labour which has to pay the taxation of the country. (Cheers.) There can be nothing more gross, more absurd, or a more transparent fallacy than that enunciated by John Bright, whom I consider to be a most danger ous man in this free country, because his talent is great. (Hear.) Gentlemen, whatever is in store for me, humble individual as I am—whether on ano ther occasion I shall be called upon tQ come forward and to the utmost of my ability fight the battle of Conservatism in Bristol—(cheers)—no man can tell. If, however, it is to be fought, and. I should again be the honoured choice of such an honoured assem bly as this, I pledge my word as lief Ore that I will nail my colours to the mast and stand to the last. (Loud cheers.) . "The Health of the Members for Bath," coupled with the name of Mr. Arthur Edwin Way, was drank with much enthusiasm. Mr. A. E. WAY, M.P.,in responding, said he thanked them most sincere ly , for the great honour they h .c . l done him, and the kindly manner in which they had received his name. That honour, in such an assemblage as that, would be flattering indeed to the highest individual in the land, and to him that honour was greatly enhanced, inasmuch as that was the ,first time he had been called upon to return thanks as member for the noble and beautifal city of Bath—(cheers)—the constituency of which, since they last met around. that table in Bristol to commemorate the anniversary of Colston, had shown their perseverance in and attachment to the Conservative cause by placing- him in the high position of member of . Parliament—(hear, hear) — thus setting to Bristol a proud example, and one which, he felt sure, if he read aright the signs of the times and the steady- growth of Conservative principles, Bristol was determined to follow on the first opportunity that presented itself, in spite of every difficulty and opposition. (Cheers.) His sympathies had long been linked with that excel lent society, and he spoke as an old member of the Dolphin when he said it must be a source of joy to all present, as it was individually to him, to wit ness so large and increased an attendance round the tables that evening. (Hear.) He hailed with joy and approbation the presence of the ladies— (cheers)—whose lot it was to lighten their labours, and who cheered them to their tasks by the radiant influence of their genial smiles. (Cheers.) There philanthropy and Conservatism progressed like twin sisters, hand in hand, and what c ou ld b e more gratifying than to witness such an association as he now found—ail association . of gentlemen em bracing in a wide spread circle every position and grade of life, assembled round the festive board to replenish the stores that a twelvemonth's charity had exhausted, to distribute funds under a dis criminating committee, pouring on misery the oils of consolation, bringing exultation to the heart of many a drooping widow, giving new life to many aged and infirm annuitants, and apprenticing orphan boys to useful trades, and conferring on those of whom it might truly be said that their poverty was their misfortune, and not their fault, a degree of pecuniary assistance which without the aid of such societies aothe old Dolphin would be quite beyond' their reach and opportunity ? (Cheers.) Their city presented on that anniver sary a very remarkable spectacle, and one which other communities would do well to follow. Set ting one day apart from active enterprise, they as sembled, after invoking the Divine blessing, each dif &Ten t society marked by its distinctive shade of go- Racal character, not to renew again bitter. ani mosities and political amenities, but to vie with one another in acts of charity and enlarged benevolence, following in the footsteps of that ' great and good man whose memory they were commemorating. (Hear.) Associated as he was in political views with most of those present he would advert to some few of the great political events which had taken place since they last met under the shadow of the Dolphin. They had seen France madly rushing into the plains of Italy doing battle for an idea with Austria, and, after pouring out the blood of her soldiers and the treasure of her citizens' like water, leaving the Italian peninsula more ripe for revolu tion and more confused than she found it—(hear)---- and it would be idle to attempt to disguise the fact that in consequence of the position assumed by France and the great increase of warlike arma ments great gloom and distress at the present-mo ment pervade the councils of Europe. It would be idle also to disguise the fact that in this country an opinion had gained ground—but he hoped without sufficient Cause—that they might be called:on to exercise all their patriotism against the fate of a foreign invasion. (Hoar.) They had lately met in China with a sad defeat, and one which ho thought might have been averted by the ordinary rules of prudence. But although their arms had suffered a temporary check in endeavouring to carry out the treaties with that country, such a state of things had been revealed as would compel them to place beyond a doubt the dignity and power of Fngland, and to secure to her a proper respect in future transactions in that quarter of the globe. (Hear.) At home they had seen a Reform Bill introduced by a Conservative Government, not because Lord Derby undertook the introduction of the Bill ?ts an imperative necessity, but because it had been men tioned in speeches from the Throne on a number of occasions. Had that bill been allowed to go into com mittee and passed, it would have added to the elec toral franchise some 500,000 votes—a larger number than would have been added by the much vaunted bill of 1852—and the question of Reform would have been at least settled in their time. (Hear, hear.) But the Whigs arrogated to them selves the monopoly of the Reform question, and were jealous at seeing Conservatives working with what they called their own weapons. Hence arose the factious opposition of Lord J. Russell, and that contest of political opinion throughout England in which his friend Sir F. W. Slade so nobly main tained their reputation as well as his own. (Cheers.) For his own part, they had been pleased to couple his name in connexion with the city of Bath, and' proud indeed ought he to be of the connexion. He looks upon his first defeat as almost a necessary an tecedent to his future success, and he would not allow himself to doubt for one moment but that when another trial came on Bristol—come when it may—would obtain what the Conservatives of Bath had already achieved—a most triumphant victory —(cheers)—and that he should have the pleasure of witnessing, as he had before, that true blue banner inscribed " Church and State"—(eheers)—floating over every steeple in their ancient city. (Cheers.) The result of that last contest, as they all knew, had been a great triumph of Conservative opinions, though that party was in a minority in the House of Commons ; and on the vote of confidence succeed thg the meeting of Parliament s ) united were the Conservatives th a t no t one s i ng l e vo t e was a b sen t —a thing alm os t unpara ll e l e d i n t h e anna l s o f Par liament. i f i o e r Bri stol in (Cheers.) e He -.could mention another fact whi c h was n si t g i o n n m i as h t c is a nt probably s f to ac t t h bu e ee spread of demo cracy. these a that very b o n. member very moment in another place in anticipating the success of his hobby - horse—(laughter) —the •ballot. An eminent writer has shown with his usual force and eloquence that though opinion is like the tide, perpetually swaying backwards and forwards, it is in this unlike the tide,—that, with all, its os cillations, it is steadily and continually advancing. The flood of one ten years is the ebb of the next, and the advancing stream carries high water-mark further and further into the deserts of ignorance and prejudice. It requires all our faith in this dictum and its author to reconcile us to what is passing before our eyes in every country of Europe in which the Roman Catholic Church exercises any considerable influence. At the time in which we live, we should say that religious differences are more envenomed, and exercise more influence- over the conduct of private life, than at any period since the Emancipation Act was passed. It is not so much that men are more really religious than they were. Faith has grown cold exactly in proportion as zeal has grown hot, and mankind are willing and eager to immolate each other on the altar of a religion to the teaching of which they yield too often but a cold assent, the doctrines of which they will not apply to the regulations of their private life and conduct, and the priesthood of which they neither esteem nor respect. The spread of know ledge is met by a more than corresponding spread of intolerance, and the decline of faith fails to give us the advantage which we had a right to expect by way of compensation,—an increase of charity and of allowance for unavoidable difference of opinion. Take Spain as an instance. Spain is by no means the paradise of unhesitating belief that she once was. She has as little of the undeviating con viction as of the military and naval strength of Philip 11. She has adopted by the aid of heretical England a dynasty certainly not the one favoured by the Pope and the clergy. She is fat with the plunder of the Church, which bell, book and candle cannot persuade her to disgorge. Yet Spain is at this moment burning with the same zeal which in the minds of Cortez and Pizarro surpassed even their love of gold and of blood. She is arming for a new crusade against the Moors, and, without waiting to achieve her own liberties, or bestowing a thought on that wholesale repudiation which makes her name a byword on every Exchange in Europe, she is about to waste the strength that should win her freedom and the money that should redeem her honour, in a profitless war, where no aspirations save those of the bigot and the persecutor can be gratified.• Spain has confiscated the property of her Church, while England has spared every convent and monastery in Lower Canada. Our religion teaches us to spare the property of others, crew though their faith be not ours. The religion of Spain instructs her to rob the Church in which she believes, and to make war upon the faith in whichnhe does not belieee, in the name of the very Church which she has robbed. Turn from Spain to Ireland. Better things might be expected from a land where a power which can not be resisted forces upon the people freedom of worship, equality before the law, a system of public education open to all sects, a perfectly impartialad ministration of justice, and an entire freedom from persecution of every kin A. Yet can any one look at Ireland as it is without tracing with melancholy distinctness a revival and increase of fanaticism and intolerance ? Dublin, if still one of the most slatternly of cities, is advancing in wealth, and the whole country is undergoing a mighty change. The rude agriculture of former years is giving place to better methods of cultivation, and, though much remains to be done, no one can doubt that Ireland is launched on a career of material prosperity, and that the increase of her capital will be more rapid as the neglect has been greater than elsewhere. But, while her material resources are thus developed, has Ireland kept-pace with them in her 'social and political progress ? Has the increase of wealth been attended with that which an increase of wealth should bring with it— good will, good nature, the spirit of union, friend ship, and co-operation ? We are sorry to be obliged to admit the mortifying truth, that while she has advanced materially Ireland has receded in many matters even still more essential to her welfare. Never, even in those gloomy days when the Roman Catholic party of Ireland attaintcd by name almost every Protestant proprietor of the soil, and the Protestant Parliament retaliated by those infamous penal laws against the Roman Catholics which have been only too good .and valid an excuse for genera tions of hatred and bitterness, was the dividing lino between -Protestant and Roman Catholic more sharply marked then at present. The feeling may not be exactly the same ; then it was the contempt of a victorious party for a despised and vanquished race ; now it is a feeling that difference of religion places a wider gulf between the two races than any mere temporal expedient can bridge over. There is a stronger disposition than ever in the votaries of each of the rival religions to live for themselves and by themselves. The marriages of Roman Ca tholics with Protestants, which were at one time be coming frequent, are now rare occurrences, op posed by the whole weight of domestic opinion, and more efficiently by the influence of the priest hnod. It'becoines more and more difficult to in duce thc clergy, f the two. religions to unite to gether for the piirpose of any public object which extends beyond the pale of their own communion. The:-elements of repulsion seem to have strengthened and gathered force from the improvement in wealth and thesUbdivision of property which have resulted from the famine and the Encumbered Estates Act. Whilst such is the attitude of the Roman Catholic' . Church in Ireland towards the Pro • testant minority—a body by no means slow to take up and respond to the defiance—we may trace the same process of estrangement with regard to the general polities of the empire. For merly the Roman Catholic body in Ireland united itself cordially for purposes of political action with that party in England which was most favourable to a system of toleration, and the Whig Government was notoriously retained in power for several years by the assistance of O'Connell and hig followers. In those days the Irish Roman Catholics acted as men who had a common interest and common feel ing with their fellow-subjects, but now these tac tics have been changed, and, instead of an adhesion to either political party, the policy pursued is that of opposition to each Government in succession. Nor is this all. The bishops of Ireland have re cently presumed to meet together with their clergy, and to address the Pope, a foreign sovereign, in terms, highly disparaging to the Government of the Queen to whom they owe allegiance. In the same spirit they are seeking to break down the system of mixed education, mainly from dread of the effect of the instruction of Protestant and Roman Catho lic children in the same school. The cause of this melancholy retrogression in the relations between Roman Catholic and Protestant in Ireland, of this increase, of intolerance, is not far to seek. It is only too apparent that since the overthrow of 1848 the polieS , of the Papacy has undergone an impor tant modification. Perfectly aware that he has no support within the States of the Church, and that nothing but foreign influence can maintain him on his tottering throne, the Pope, or rather those who act for him, have determined to look for foreign support, and to make themselves necessary 'as friends or formidable as adversaries to every Go vernment in Europe. To Austria and to France they have given support by using their power over the Roman Catholic hierarchies of the two coun tries in favour of the existing Government. In Irsland they have exercised their power to em barrass the English Government as much as pos sible in order to make a diversion, by giving us trouble nearer home, in favour of the temporal power of the Popo. How far they have succeeded with France and Austria events now about to develepe themselves will show. In this country, so far'as the political object is concerned, the machinations of the Roman Catholic hierarchy have completely failed. They have met with no open opposition from the intelligent laity of their reli gion; for that we have long ceased to expect ; but they have been, and will be, unable to stir them. to active support. Bishops and priests may forget, but no layman who is not utterly blinded by super stition can forget, the difference bet" veen the Go vernment of Queen Victoria and that of Pius IX., or lend himself to the mo ns t rous i niquity of per petuating an odious tyranny over millions of his fellow-creatures to gratify his own 6eclesiasticil sympathies. But, though the political object has failed, the is nevertheless done. To make a One of the most brutal assaults ever known to be perpetrated in the district was brought. under the notice of the magistrates at the West Riding Police-court, Halifax, on Saturday last, when five rough-looking men from the neighbourhood of Brighouse, named Sam ue l E arns h aw, G eorge Chap pell, William Stott, Charles Cookson, and John Marsden, were charged with a scandalous and bar barous attack upon two helpless females. The case (says the Manchester .Examiner) has created very great excitement, particularly at Brighouse and Elland, where the feeling against the ruffians who committed this dreadful outrage has attained a very high pitch. Mr. A. C. Foster (of the firm of Norris, Foster, and Norris) appeared for the prose cution, and stated the circumstances of the case as follows :—He said the complainants were two re spectable females, named Sarah Ann Burrow and Martha Ann Burrow. They both reside at Hali fax, the former being her uncle's housekeeper, and the latter having been employed at Mr. Kirk's dye-house, Old-lane, for the last ten years. Martha Ann has' a sweetheart, named Allan Tweedale, a native of Brighouse, but employed at Mr. Kirk's dye-house. On the Saturday night previous Twee dale met the young women in Halifax, and they accepted an invitation which he gave them to go over to Brighouse and take tea with his sister-in law in the afternoon of the following day. Twee dale promised to meet them at Brighouse, but when they got there—about five p.m. on Sunday—they saw nothing of him, and when they went to the sister's house, about an hour afterwards, she was not at home. They consequently repaired to the railway station, intending to take the 7 o'clock train for Halifax. While waiting at the station, however, they were joined by Tweedale, who prevailed upon them to accompany him to the Royal Hotel, where they had some refreshments. They then resolved to leave by the nine o'clock train, but unfortunately happened to be a minute or two too late. At this time very heavy rain was falling, and they returned to the hotel, remaining there for shelter till about 10 o'clock. The weather was then rather fairer, and the complainants set out for home on foot, Martha Ann walking arm-in arm with her sweetheart, and Sarah Ann (her cousin) with a man named Joe Wood, a friend of Tweedale's who agreed to accompany them as far as Elland, where he resided. They proceeded by the Rastrick-road. When they had got 200 or 300 yards ,away, two men cam e an d h us tl e d aga i nst them, . and the same thing was repeated by three other men further on the road ; but they managed to get away in both cases without sustaining any injury. When, however, they arrived, at the fields below Boothroyde, the residence of Mr. Charles Pitchforth, a very shocking outrage was committed. The girls were then walking with their protectors, about 100 yards apart, when two groups of men (numbering together seven br eight) rushed upon them simultaneously, and commenced using them in a most indecent and shameful manner. Sarah Ann was thrown down and held upon the ground, while three or four of the ruffians subjected her to the most brutal treatment. The poor creature screamed hard, but all in vain. Wood, who should have been her protector, seemed para lyzed for the; moment; but when presence of mind returned he proceeded to the help of his companion, and at length succeeded in releasing her from the grasp of her oppressors. As soon as she was free, she ran off to the aid of her cousin, whom she heard screaming at a distance. She found Martha Ann, surrounded by three or four of the ruffians ; but, with a degree of courage perhaps unexampled under such circumstances, she dashed in among them and bravely achieved the liberation of her cousin. Martha Ann then set off to Mr. Pitchforth's for assistance, accompanied by Twee dale. They were pursued by two or three of their assailants, but managed to reach Mr. Pitchforth's house. Before their return with assistance, how ever, the:other young woman was subjected to an other dreadful outrage. She was following her cousin towards Boothroyde, but some of the ruffians overtook her, and dragged her from the footpath to a7distant part of the field, where she was surrounded by the whole of the gang. The poor woman's screams were heard for half a mile, though the night was very wild. When her strength seemed quite exhausted, and she had • almost lost her conscious ness, one of the villains appeared alarmed at her condition, and, at his request, she was lifted up. The men now all left but two, who, after she had somewhat recovered, seized her by each arm, an d said they would take her a little way on the road towards home. The young man Wood had previously attempted her rescue, but the ruffians threatened to kill him, and he left the young womaii to her fate. When the two villains had brought her on the road some distance, however, Thomas Smithies, a young man from Elland, who had witnessed part of what had passed, went and remonstrated with them, but the brutes pushed him on one side, telling him to mind his own business, and continuing to pull their victim on the road. The poor creature was hurried on some dis tance further, when her assailants endeavoured to get her over some steps into Elland VI She, however, resisted, and Smithies went to her assis tance again, but the ruffians seized him, and tried to throw him into a stone quarry hard by. On regaining his liberty he ran off for assistance, and met with Joe Wood, who was also looking out for help ; but, as they had now to encounter but two of the assailants, Smithies and Wood returned, determined to liberate the poor girl, if it should cost them their lives to do so. By the time they got back she had been dragged i n t o th e woo d and assaulted again in the grossest possible manner. Her assailants now left, and Smithies and Wood assisted her to the house of Mr. Jones, blacksmith, Elland Lower-edge, where (being too weak to return home) she was provided with lodgings for the night. The other girl remained at the house of Mr. Pitch forth's farm servant till next day. All the pri soners were clearly identified by the complainants, but Mr. Foster applied for a remand till Wed nesday, as three of the vilest of the ruffians are still at large. Mr. Mitchell, for the prisoners, asked the bench to admit them to bail, but the application was refused, the magistrates observing that the case was of too serious a nature. The Chairman, addressing the prisoners, remarked that this was one of the most diabolical acts he had ever heard of, next to actual murder. Vir tually they were one as bad as another, and if the whole of them were hanged together the country would be the better for it. They would be remanded to Wednesday. "We need hardly say," says the Leeds Mercury, " this shocking event has created a painful feeling in the district where it happened and in Halifax. The sufferer is in humble life, but of spotless character. Her state of health now is distressing. On Friday, when some of the pri soners were first brought up, she fainted ; and on Saturday morning, when called to identify one just apprehended she fainted again the moment she saw him." 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In pigs its fattening qualiti"_,.oifesfr more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its n; wo w superiority over every other kind of comP?und ° hO n Such , factured food adopted in the feeding of swine' d e oho c at r o ttle been its marked success, that at all our great Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the P ic " Ar ded• prizes, whilst cards of commendation have nibeenbTlitf, al. the patronage of Royalty, of our principal net nrovarl clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, rallilis`owe.. great incitement to this gentleman to P. l . l r su o ducing ;f a course ; and he may confidently rely, in t• u of 51/ highly-favoured a compound, on a continue'''' high and distinguished patronage. ------'------ BIATHS. g IfP R° BRUCE.—On the 13th inst., at 43, Queen's_garden- , of L i park west, the wife of Allan Cameron Bruce, 15(1.' son. , a door' DRITItY.—On the 14th inst., at her residence, 1 .2 1 , 5, Of 4 place, Hyde-park, the wife of Dr. Drury' " ' daughter. t Eatonli.., 31AusitALL.—On the 12th inst., at 47.Eburrstreo A et square, the wife of W. 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R N sburyt 01:Da.lochi:11:ifce,::::: G D n E G E R zw: 0 On the 14th inst., at 4, St. Tames's-Ware honi ii : — A DO p . DICKEcot. R. M. Di e SMITH.—On n the 11th inst., at:Sandhurst College, Dickens Adjutant of the Staff College• ~ 0 Barn jaCe, _ tp — hitr o .lkle n i t Charlesht h h i e mt l si kith Greenwood, Lower e2Er55,13:3: l e g iloiftahovaer 0 1 , :0, ll t 1 : : Pimlico, Lieut.-Colonel josaeph'Smoith, late 14th l e t° aged 67. I' l° ' LONDON : Printed and Published by MT.JEDO 02, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TheSunOffloy - 1 " `" o f strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the cottati Middl&lex, Wednesday, Noverutor 16, 185.' The Dolphin Society assembled for the first time at the Victoria-rooms, under the presidency of Mr. P. F. Aiken, of Stuckey's Banking Company. Another novelty was the_ admission of ladies after the dinner. In the course of the evening "The health..of the Duke of Beaufort," as Lord High Steward of Bris tol, was given in highly eulogistic terms by the chairman. His Grace the Duke of BEAUEORT said, it was with no ordinary feelings he rose-to return thanks for the very kind and enthusiastic way in which they had received the toast so kindly proposed by the President. He hoped they would believe him when he said that he was vervproud of the position he held as Lord High Steward of the city of Bristol. He saw around him many of those gentlemen who did him the honour to elect him as . High Steward, and he was perfectly aware that he owed the dis tinction to no merits of his Own, but that it was entirely from regard to those who had gone before him that he was . called upon to serve the office. (Hear, hear.) All he. hoped. was, that when he departed he should leave as good a name behind him as those who had gone before him. (Cheers.) Were they to bring a stranger into the city of Bristol that day and take him round to the dif ferent dinners, he would be much astonished to see so many people, all differing in their ways and opinions, joining to celebrate the 'memory and to emtitate in a small way by their charities the ex ample that had been previously set them by the great Edward Colston. (Cheers.) He supposed that in consequence of the position he held in this city (in connection with which he wasp resumed not to meddle with politics), as Lord High Steward, he had received invitations from each of the three so cieties to dine with them that night. (Laughter.) Now, considering• his antecedents, he thought he had made the right choice—(cheers)--but if he had any doubt on his mind, the reception which they had been pleased to give. to the learned gentleman (Sir F. W. Slade) quite sufficiently convinced him that he had not got into the wrong box. (Cheers.) : It was a gratifying thing to see so-large a,gather ing met to celebrate that anniversary, ana it was . equally gratifying t o see so many on , he would venture to say the side of conservatism—(cheers) but he was sorry to say thAt at tkis moment the city was not represented by one member of that party. (Hear, hear, and cries of ." We will be.") From the strong feeling however shown towards Conservatism, he did not think it wo u ld b e ver y long before they had a representative. (Cheers.) . All he hoped was that if the eloquent baronet get . another opportunity, and they exerted themselves as they had done hitherto, they would have a good prospect of success. (Cheers.) The CrtatuatXN gave "The Health of Sir F. W. Slade, Q.C., the Conservative candidate for Bristol at the last general election." (loud applause.) Sir F. W. SLADE, Bart., Q.G., in responding to thetoast said—How shall I answer such a reception as warm as it is undeserved ? (No, no !) Do bear with me a moment ;. I S have addressed assemblies in Bristol larger than_ this and somewhat more riotous. (Laughter.) I was about to say how shall I find words or language in which to express my overflow of feeling at what I may justly term an ovation ?. (Cheers.) It is true that on a former occa sion when I had the honour of coming forward to fight your battle we were defeated, but that defeat, as has been truly said by your President, heralds a future triumph, and, whether it may be in my person or the person of a far more worthy candidate for the honour of representing you in Parliament, I foresee, as clearly as I see the sun in the heavens at noonday, that the triumph of the Blue party in Bristol is inevitable. (Cheers.) Since I met you last on that celebrated occasion when the poll was declared on the . spot where the hustings were erected—upon that. celebrated occasion when the celebrated bnndle of sticks was handed round, and when, you remember, my right hon. opponent— who gaiued his election probably' by having re course to a similar plan to that adopted with refer ence to the hogshead of sugar alluded to by the President—did not venture to meet the electors of Bristol on that occasion, as perhaps so me o f th e sugar was still sticking to his fingers' ends—(hear, hear, and laughter)—since' that time, I say, great political events have taken place. The party then in power had been turned out by a narrow ma jority, attained by the usual arts had recourse to by their opponents —enormous lying and enormous bribery. (Cheers and laughter.) I had, fortu nately the duty cast on me of exposing some of that lying and some of that bribery. I have not been idle during the time that has elapsed since meeting you in the Corn-Exchange. I have ex posed much of the system of falsehood and bribery which charaet..)riscs the opposite party, and I have at least succeeded in this—l have stripped from them the mask of purity by which they deluded the country—(cheers) —.and th3y now stand before the public, and before the world, and before, I hope and trust, their own deluded followers in their own simple nakedness. (Cheers.) Now, .gentlemen, it. was something to unmas k t h e brothers-in-law of John Bright; it was something to show that the apostle of purity could not get his two brothers-in-law into Parliament without having recourse to soft sugar. —(cheers and laughter)---and I think it comes with an exceedingly awkward grace from the man who has the hardihood and the impudence to say that the aristocracy of this country are living on the TilE POPE AND THE PRIESTS. diversion in favour of the Pope, the Roman Catholic clergy and bishops in Ireland have widened the division between the two religions, and they have placed themselves and their church in a position of isolation and estrangement from the rest of the empire, which, harmless for the object for which it was designed, cannot fail one day seriously to recoil upon themselves.—Times BRUTAL ASSAULT. COUNTRY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD—Nov. 15. The quantity of wheat shown to-day •ras rather 00, 111 wiih a moderate bu s i ness . H o ld ers were fi nn , an d is to 's i tiv:A nee was obtained f or th e b es t qualities. N e w bons% better demand. Now oats ls dearer. Malting barley.i t, !,, in demand. Flour improved ld per 141 b. Other aer ie° unchanged. Red heat, o heat, por load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s 0 tGissl w ...18s 6d u to 'Ws New red II . 17s 6d to lta Od New white „ ~ . I, .. . - 18 s 0d to 196_ . 1 Beans F o )1 ff Peas, per qr .. Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ Oats o Millers' 141 b. LEEDS—Nov. 15. go od, The show of red and whit e w h ea t is exceedinglY cer and the sales effected are at an advance of 26 per c a l s r f v ully last Tuesday's priees. Barley sold readi, and w as dear. Beans and oats is dearer. Other articles a 5 be fore. Arrivals this week : Wheat 3,710 grila Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans .. 113 Linseed 450 Flour Wheat Averages for the week : Barley Peas 2l „ .... 35s 8 / 1 1 Beans 4 3 :0 6 3 6 8 9 qr 5.,... at ........ 45s 41di 209 .... • 43s 111 4 .... :37s 4,1 Oats 378 " ... 235 90 Rye ........ od. •-• ........ 3 We had a mode N ratel W y CASTLE—Nov rood suply o f wheat to - d a p' nciehsichof met an active demand, a t 2 s advancep o n the cur ve • h 0 la.st market day. Fine barley a ready sale, and i t' s hi lfesol price. Other descriptions hula.- heavily on haw' I, l ,ageu scarce, at late rates, and in fair 'request. Oats uncA" in value. 0 0 2 Wheat ....40s to 45s Oats.. .......... 2 __g o , ...-s White do 44s to 523 Beans .......... 44s t° 43 Earley 36s to 42s Ditto, old ...•••'' NORWICH CATTLE--Nov. 12. A e b o u m .si p n r e i s s s in d g on Sco b t u s i s a h p o o r o th r o a rn tte s n , Our market to •day exhibited a good show of store , f a ir Irish, 44 Scots, 5s to 5s 6d ; shorthorns, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ;. ~i ch en to 4s 6d ; Devons, 4s 6d to 5s 6d(estimated Wig.'" fat). Fat beasts scarce, at 7s 6d to 8s 6d per stone. The best Sheep—There were few sheep in the .2ens. 85 to sheep in demand at 39s to 40s head. i per at she e P' 8s 6d per stone. dDaneNc-oet.is, and Irish. p It At P°" Pigs—A good supply. Store pigs 25s to 4 0 s; 7s Od to 8s 6d per stone. FOREIGN NAIL PACKET LIS' In the following by evening mails from London, and 31 by morning. ili aticirl a fabk E signifies that letters are desp by evening mails from London, and 31 by rac' r ": . :.-- ---...... W il . DESTINATIONS. --- rtof _______ c iae...... Australia and Mauritius, via, Southampton • Ditto, via MarseillesDespatchor Mails. Deskl o Bahamasand Havana via Newt ~.. Nov. York • y, e rnoo. . 70 v. • N0v.25, E 11 -"` v "` 01 • ' Canada, Yre. (by Canadn. , pckt.) Nov. —, E'LlverP ° • • ~ Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- npOrt Deb ' sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Singa- • Nov ig 'Nov. i iDec. 1 1 2 8; li.El 5..0.u.t.h.a.161.P.... De c 4: . • 26 pore, via Southampton. .. ,N0v.19, E SoutharnP Nov , js Ditto, via Marseilles ....:: ' Nov. 26, M .......... N° v• 16 Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 19, 3f SouthanlP so Honduras and Blewfields NloT• ig India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles badia (Bombay), via. South- , "4, am ton N0v.26, 31 SoutbaraP. 'N o r. ' N No ° v v :l .l B 9 ; Ditto, via Marseilles' Lisbon, Brazils,BucnosAyres, De - .21 and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Nov.l7, 31 SouthanV• li blalta, Egypt, and Aden, via NA Y. i 0 Southampton Nov. 19, 31 SouthallaP' SO.! 3 E I 5..0.u.t.h.a. ....... . .Nov.s,, oy, : Ditto, via Marseilles ~c o. 1 Mexico and Havana Dec. 2, M South:lll3P. v -- Newfoundland Nov. 19, E Galway • • " 24 United States and British N l, S CIV. America (by British packet) Nov. 19, E LiverP° ° Ditto (by U. S. packet) West C and Teneri fr ffe Nov. 23 E Live r P °° oast of Aica, Ma- 1.• P ee " a, West India, California, Vene- o v 1 6 zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town,Arl_____-' 5-- New Granada, c. Nov.Nov.l7, 31,50 u a2jnP