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__— done ey. Y. ~,,, verl w 0 no m d 51 084 ' ) n of lb° good e l: ,ppo l ° til 0 read li t le ill t".° but )oro c ". 1,139 9,9 , 0 bl. .--------' , i , prices Def o° , j fr. 11, 30 0 . IJig hl ►e lA"' , Ag°" , r 1 10 % 1 1 'wog" isto o , o ° ded be B een 15 thouta il Urge° this sDa E h. long . of no tori,.„ r sod P : ;fowl. B P•l3 titO ber II • iyo3ol3l' • a f Alto c be rile krtife d ' A rri' A , co, ("' v olip ari"4 Jg ll ` ie 14; 13 !!, ise, •L!,t; oo,: 0 13°11 ' fiddler' ~. ...rived, 00 in wits it, .13 r• rovie b ' eto ber , r bola• d slO w i r ed ogger Retti ° ' Mond; FRANCE. WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magda lena, Captain Vincent, with the West India mails and Mexican mails, arrived this evening at eleven o'clock. Her dates of sailing were Vera Cruz, Oct. 5 ; r i a i r e a v , an l e dt 9 h th ; Chagres, 9th; Jamaica, 12th; ; Trinidad, 10th ; Barbadoes, 12th ; Gre nada, 11th; Antigua, 14th ; and St. Thomas's 7th. The cargo of the Magdalena comprised specie and bullion on merchant's accounts from Tampico, 56 ,358 dollars; ditto from Vera Cruz, 137,600; specie and bulli o n o n account of Mexican dividends , c , ' 8 . 67 6; total amount of dollars from the Gulf of Mexico, 220,635. Specie, bullion, and gold dust received across the Isthmus from the Pacific ports, 30 1,977 dollars ; specie and bullion from Californi s, 410,477 „ doll a r s ; f ro m Carthagena, Santa Martb `Anigres, and Greytown, 65,591 dollars ; front Ja• ia lea, 6,962 dollsrs ; from Havana, 16,805 dollar ; f :n r em other parts of West, India, 20,949 dollars ; to tal v alue in dollars, 1,045,399 dollars , and a large ge neral cargo. _ The Hou se o f Assembly at Jamaica was to nteet for business on the 9th November. The small -lox acd. measles had entirely disappeared from Kipp t on. "ate had fallen, and heavy falls had been experienced, Which had done much damage. Porto Ri co h a d b een v i s it e d with a violent sto: - m, b yWhioh more than one hundred lives ha d been 1, Est. Martinique and Guadaloupe had been visited vt ith Ite alignant African fever, which had caned off the troop s in large numbers. Whole families had be en carried off by it. The yellow fever was ravaging Barba does. Cons• h l s 9'rY-General Neil had been c a rried off b y it, anti, : /, cL , OO four days, his wife and four c hildren had sh ared the like fate. The Island of St. Thomas was very sic k ly . Thir ty anthe t roops h a d di e d w ithin the last three mont hs, ahs d Very large number of deaths had occur re d "ftgst the crews of the ships in the harbour. 4 t Carthagena, on the 9th of October, a severe storm Occurred, and the house of the British CO DA ul A ss, n struck by li g htning. eelle Jamaica House of Assembly was to meet on 9th of N o vember. The smallpox and measle s ha d entirely disappeared from Kingston. T he oh screw steamer Tamalapas arrived at Jamaica the 1 Itb, and was to leave on the 13th for e ,,rePico. d ,„"net Charles de Montholon, Fr ench Char g e I ,.°Lfraire s to the State of Ecuador, has arrived by the f . 4a gdalena, with his family and suite , ha vin g been forc ed) e ( I) by a series of insults, to abando n that State sad enek redress from his own Governm ent. A ccounts Sh from British Guiana state that slight e wers have fallen throughout the c olon y . The e, P P I Y of provisions had increased. Labour was 3 ree and d ea r. The Court of Policy sat on the alt., and an educational bill had been i ntroduced. T i n 'a St. Lucia a favourable change had taken place cr the weather, and the last remnant of this year's 1 3 had been shipped. Trade was much depressed. 0 ,,n Antigua, dry weather had succeeded the storm he 22d of September. a °tiling° was rather unhealthy. 0. 4 _. fearful gale devastated the Virgin Islands, St. Guadaloupe, Nevis, Antigua Montserrat, Domingo, ,-itiadaloupe Martinique, and other islands, on the . : 4 24 ~.,of September. Notice of the effect of this storm th °t• Thomas's was received by the last steamer, th: Orinoco. A great deal of damage was done to s!liPPiog and small craft, and on shore many buildings had been injured. T 1 ,4 n Jam a i ca t h e pro d uce mar k e t was firm. Sugar oadvancing in value, and the prices of Pimento i ct • ll 'um were well supported. Breadatuffs were in e demand. Fish an ample supply. taJ) 90 days, on London —Jamaic ' f per cent. preen ium.a and Colonial PENINSULAR MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3. c The P en i nsu l ar C om p an y's steam ship Madrid, a Pt• Weeks, with the Peninsular mails , ar r i ved this m orning, a t seven o'clock. Her dates of sailing we re ,\-/ibraltar, Oct. 26th ; Cadiz, 27th ; Lisbon, 29 th ; lorto, 30th ; Vigo, 31st. She brought a large cargo Of fruit, five packages of specie, and 43 passengers. f r ,Yhe screw steam ship Melbourne, Captain Cox, : 111, London to Australia, with cargo and 146 pas dangers, put into Lisbon on the 24th to repair t nages, having all her top-masts and jib-boom ', l . ?ried away ; the wreck getting entangled with the screw, stopped its action, and it was with ditE ,!,' aho reached the Tagus. She was repairing. Ther e r e is little political news by this arrival. address Commercial Association of Oporto have, in an par b i : ot t bf i o o iri n ) "Fess to the Government, expressed their full ap probation wine. of the recent decree relative to the exporta tionexchange on London is 54 for bills at 90 qa date. being All Saints' all the Political Paris journals as a close holiday, and Day, was observed by therefore not one of them was published yesterday. This is the first time (Rays Galieritani, which Bp- Peered as u sua l) t h at All Saints' Day has been so Clos ely kept by th e pu bli c press in Par i s ; f or, u p to the change of Government in December last, there s ere two or th ree journals in existence wh i c h did ot keep these religious holidays. Abd-el-liader, says the Currier de Lyon, is ex pected in that city about the end of that week. . highly interesting publication has just been 'salted from the office of the Revue des Deux Afondcs, Which, under the name of the Anxuaire dus Deux 4end el, gives a very full history of the different it ates of th e c i v ili ze d world. The wor k i s no t a mere dr y c ompilation of facts and stati s tics ; but a history, ill i the true sense o f th e wor d , w hi c h , b r i m ful of in .:4//lation, is y e t very plea s a n t t o rea d. The chapter uevoted to Great Britain occupies 86 large pages, !" is Written with impartial intentions. The whol e th us Wound up : yea Year 1851 has, in fine, been for Great Britain a The less full than those which have preceded, and ; te n perhaps of a more animated character, both as teen th e metropolis and the co l on i es. W e h ave j ust , e , O e l l the p ro di g i ous activ i ty of the Austra li an co l on i es, ° vicissitude s o f the Kafir war, and the results so tepidly obtained in the no less important war which "da „,_fresh prestige to the English power in Asia, we 1 7" tan the war against the King of Ava. Our readers 14enow appreciate the great ameliorations accom „_ _d or rejected by the mother country, in her legis ;Tien for these vast and numerous possessions. At home, L . London Exhibition concentrated, for a moment, the a ttention of the old and new worlds, and occasioned an .t.raordinrsry movement of population on the English °II• As if to show that material interests do not form the sole pre-occupation of England, a great political agitation, one of those popular manifestations whic h i tIIOW so well how to rest within the • • limits of legality, suc ceeded the concourse of so many people, come to admire 14 London the marvels of human industry. The nation [ tailed the chief of an insurrection (Kosauth) which had l io deeply moved England in 1849. U n f ortunately this Imonstration although it did not depart f rom E ng. 811 legality,the limits of international exceeded b pro- Is'eleties, and the Foreign Minister, .y mixing him e gi t h , oP with it, officiously compromised the British Lubin • f I reat powers of the Guth:lowt et in the ey es o t g „uls situation became more complicated in conacqnence •i," the events succeeding the coup d'etat of the 2d of - I . l ' e pnaber in and tile chief of the Foreign-office 1 1 4 , 1 ' 10 suffer the I consequences, reserving to himself, h ow ever, the right of reprisals on his colleagues, who tact abandoned or rather dismissed him. Hence follows th a r , tr uggle in the heart of the Whig party which led . to 1 1 , - advent of a Tory Government. The recent elections p r e probably served only to exhibit, in a stronger light purua dislocation of parties ; but while rendering the th ie c tlee of Parliamentary Government more difficult, critical phase o f parties imposes on English society b a d e nglish government new duties, in which i t ma y f toso : rmed they w ill not f a il . Th e C ont i nent ma y f a ll 0 Lie extreme to another—the English constitution Nvi toe Lite the such agitations without being shaken by them, w hi _!be British soil itself in the midst of the waves 4, , U beat its shores." for4:_e article on France is well worthy of attention, of, I :, the Annuaire being only at the commencement tL e 4 . ,1 1 - . ll i hope, a long series, lays the foundation of th attire series on a deep and copious exposure of Turksual state of,the country in its various relations. th e Y, too, is handled in a large spirit. Altogether of Work may safely be recommended to the student ,thuu_ternporaneous history. th Paris Bourse has been active e ' en d of the present monthprices are somewhat in advance of he l • r i at 82f. wing rates of Saturday ; Threes left 75 _ . u 0 ?., and Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at Per cent,' The market closed as follows :—Tbree , for cash , 1 °Ur.B f. 75c.; for account, 82f. 60c. ; ae„ an d - a-Half tl nt 1 e per Cents., for cash, 105 f. ; for Au str ,: n ->f• on. ; Bank of France Shares, 2,990 f. ; .4 Loan 94f • T • 4nd Neapolitan , • , urkish Loan, Spanish Threes, eapolittua not quoted. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS A T THE LONDON bTOCK EXCIIANGE, Nov. 2, 1852. 7 1 /i 'Jon and Besancon, B%—Grand Junction of France, i:1-41xernbourg, 4714—Lyons and Avignon, 15—Namur and t:e (with interest), 834 —ditto (ex interest), 634—Nt ern of France, 35%—Orlean3 and Bur leaux, 22 ' n d 1.y0n4 301 l'aris and Orleans, (19—Paris and Rouen, • .3, arts and Strasbourg, 31—Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg, ,T,,_;4---Rouen and Havre, 1.91 i ; Sambre and Meuse, WA -Pans e Aef4 of k'utuce) THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. A.tivices from Madrid are dated the 28th ult. It was said that the Government intended to send Gen ?ral Manuel de la Concha, one of its most illus trious officers, to represent the armies of Spain at the funer 1 obsequies of the Duke of Wellington. ThE re was a report that the President of the Counc it intended to put the Government salt mines up to salE . Madrid Bourse, Oct. 28.—The Three per Cents. 47 1-116 paper ; Exchange on London, 50 30 paper. BELGIUM. The independance of Brussels of Sunday confirms the account given by telepraphic dispatch, from Brussels, of the way in which the new Cabinet in Belgium is composed, and states that the new Minis ters were to take the oath to the King on Sunday. It adds .—" None of the members who compose the Ministry are unknown ; but it will not be useless to mention the claims of each to public confidence. M. H. de Brouckere, after having studied at the uni versity of Liege, where he acquired a high reputa tion, was named Substitute to the Procureur du Roi in the same place. Elected in 1830 as member of the National Congress, and appointed by . that as sembly as one of its secreta ries, he took an active part in its labours. On the 29th August, 1831, the anon di,sement of Ruremonde sent him to the Chamber of Representatives ; on the 30;.11 May, 1833, after the dissolution of the Chambers, which took place under the Leb2au Ministry, he was elected for Brussels, when he represented until 1848. He was ap pointed in 1841 Governor of the province of Antwerp, and afterwards of that of Liege. In 1850 be was named Plenipotentiary of the King of the Belgians in Italy, and concluded the treaty with Piedmont. He is a Minister of State. M. Liedts, who is also Minister of State, is, like M. de Brouckere, one of the men whose loyal and firm liberalism and experience in affairs is generally ad mitted. 111. Liedts has been in turn Substitute of the Procureur du Roi, and President of the Tribunal, and was also one of the secretaries of the National Congress. He was member of the Liberal Ministry of 1840-41 ; was named, in 1841, Governor of Hain• ault ; and afterwards Governor of Brabant. M. Ch. Faider was educated at the University of Libge. lle was named Substitute of the Procureur du Roi at Louvain, and afterwards held the same post at Antwerp. He subsequently became Procureur at Antwerp, Avocat-General at the Court of Appeal at Brussels, and then of the Court of Cassation in the last-named city. To great firmness of principles he unites great moderation of character. M. Piercot, who, before accepting the portfolio of the Interior, was Burgomaster at Liege, was born at Brussels. After studying at the University of Liege, be was named Avou6 at the Court of Appeal there. He is a firm and sincere Liberal, and is an eloquent orator. GERMANY. A letter from Berlin, of the 27th ult., in the Jour nal de Frankfort, says :—" The deputation of the Prussian army which is to attend the funeral of the Duke of 'Wellington will, it is said, be composed of Baron Hiller de Gartringen, general of infantry, on the retired list ; two aides-de-camp of the King ; and of the colonel and some officers of the 25th Regiment of Infantry, of which the Duke was the Commandant. M. de Hiller is the only Prussian officer now living who commanded a considerable body of troops at Waterloo. In addition to this official deputation, more than 40 generals and officers of the staff will attend. It is said that the Prince of Prussia will leave Coblentz on the 15th for London for the same purpose. M. de Kisseleff will return to Paris in a fortnight. General de Wrangel will return from his journey to Constantinople at the beginning of No vember." ITALY. With respect to the ministerial crisis now pending at Turin, the Opinione, of the 30th ult., states that Count Balbo has not yet succeeded in forming a cabinet. His advances to Count Revel and Baron Manno are said not to have had the desired result. TURKEY. The new Grand Viceroy is the personal enemy of the Viceroy of Egypt, and it is thought in conse quence that before long circumstances will arise to cause a rupture between the Porte and the Court of Cairo. The revolt which has broken out in Syria and Mesopotamia assumes a threatening aspect. The Arabs have organized a system of pillage on a large scale; the caravans, as well as the vessels in the Euphrates and Tigris, are rifled. The Sheik Montefesch has put himself at the head of thousands of Bedouins, of the tribe of Oms, and has proceeded as far as the gates of Bagdad. An English ship has been arrested at Bus sorah, and the English missionaries who formed part of the crew taken prisoners, for whom the Arabs demanded a heavy ransom ; but the English Consul having strongly protested against such a proceeding, the Arabs released both the ♦essel and the mission aries. Four other vessels were arrested on the Tigris, not far from hut. The number of insurgent Be douins daily increases, and the Sbeik Jobal has joined them. The Arabs are precipitating themselves on the plains of Mesopotamia like a hurricane. There were rumours of an outbreak in Bagdad. It is necessary that Turkey should put forth all her power to suppress these revolutionary proceedings. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 2. The following had the honour of dining with Her Majesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, the Princess Adelaide and the Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe, the Count and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, and Sir G. Couper. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, went to London this forenoon by a special train of the Great Western Railway. The Duke and Duchess of Nemours are expected at the Castle to-dsy on a visit to her Majesty. The Marquis of Exeter and the Right lion. B. Dis raeli have been invited, and are expected to arrive this afternoon. Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace from the Trinity House, yesterday afternoon, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. The Prince left the Palace at a quarter before five o'clock on his return to Windsor Castle. Sir George Bonham had an interview wth Sir John Pakington yesterday, at tho Colonial-office. General Campbell had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. bait. A deputation from the parish of Lambeth, upon the subject of sewers, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-offics. The deputation consisted of Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. J. P. Mur rough, M.P., Mr. Robert Taylor, churchwarden, Mr. John Sewell, churchwarden, Mr. Thomas Denyer, over seer, Messrs. T. Giles, S. Hodgson, and J. Lemon, sur veyors of highways, Mr. J. B. Clark, vestry clerk, and Mr. Thomas Rofrey, clerk to the surveyors. A deputation, consisting of Mr. T. A. Mitch°ll,:M.P., Mr. M. Forster, M.P., Mr. W. S. Lindsay, and Mr. Stafford, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Sir Charles Fitzroy Maclean had an interview on M ,, nday, with Sir John Pakington, at the Colonial office. Despatches were rece i ve d y es t er d a y, a t th e Colo nial-office, from the Lord Iligh Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE, DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S FUNERAL. Mr. Mr. Mr. Yesterday Lord I m ia i r i d i inge and Sir Charles Barry, in visited tho cathedral to pro gress, and availed thenasienlsv cowPanY with Dr. !Dan, the Dean of St. Paul's, inspect the preparations in pro ggestios of the opportunity of offer ing some valuable au to Messrs. Plunkett and Watmough, who are carrying " out the scenic and other arrangements for the solemnity Messrs. Cubitt reaantdintere E s . having these arrange- L::r uh cl i.te ll ra a t r i d o i n ng in e andtios theunderstood e ffi ce r officers to o f Wood stake a reeferenee ' f a i ts ; tthoothsuogdgiessptoisointtsoont ohfisthlooridasrhniep m mi t n ar g y staff or rthteatre of that will be in attendance on the occasion . ..4 the original design connected with the am seats has been made within the last day p which accommodation will be obtained for 17,000 instead of 13,000 persons, as originally contemplated. tions were also received yesterday by Mr. Golding, the head of the department to carry a service of g as jets ' round the four arches that spring from the Corinthian the great dome, with a wreathing of e th o e lum sa n m s e su tinrpopuonrdwghat are called the quarter galleries, which will be set apart for the clergy, together with a reticulation of lustres round the architraves and cornices, under the whispering gallery, and that reign generally round [the cathedral. From each of the semicircular arches supporting the dome will depend gas chandeliers. To expedite the interior construction the number of men has been augmented to between 300 and 400, and the hours of labour since Monday have been lengthened to as late as ten o'clock. The great range of seats extend• ing 200 feet in length by 100 in breadth on either side the centre aisle are nearly completed; and yesterday the massive trut•swork for the tiers of raised seats, over the transept; ou the north and south, 240 feet long on either aide, and radiating from the central area under the dom e, was thrown u p. Some of the beams are 47 feet high. and 4 or 5 feet thick. The quantity of timber carted into the churchyard up to the present time is 1,500 1 )ads, each load representiii 100 cubic feet of timber, giving a gross total of woodwoik within the cathedral of 150,000 cubic f ee t. Th e i n t er i or o f th e grea t edi fle i workshop, e l'.c' en t t he 3 all t eis d e o. day ) f th t e h e appearance sawing and ndofotahner enormous machines reenactizag in every clixtctiya. SPURTING NOTES. No. CCCXL. EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING. I Mr. Dorling, as usual, successful in all he undertakes, has given us for to-morrow a strong list of sport. It will commence at half-past twelve with the Match between Abdallah and the Greek. At one, the Paddock Ste.kes of 3 soya. each, 25 added (over the mile and a-paarter course), will be run. At half-past one, we have the first stake of any note marked for decision, namely, the Beddington Stal.tes of 100 sovs., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 1,0 sovs. each, half-forfeit if declared by nine o'cicck this evening (one mile). It is impossible at the present monaent to say what will start, but it seems the list will include the top and bottom weights, who now hold the positions of first and second favourites. NotwithstanAing Exact's performance at Newmarket, winning as she did, cleverly, with Bst 81h up, I cannot fancy that, with the stiff finish at E; soul, she can carry 9st successfully. Little David, Lady Louisa, Gossip, and Echelbert have no attractions for me. Beverlac and Corybantea, at 7st Blb each, are more suited to the course than any of those whose names I have just now given. Miss Agnes at 7st 51b, end Miss Tennyson at 7st 41b, are of no use here. Michas Imes Maid, after the curious proceedings about her which took place at Newmarket, I shall de cline meddling with. Valour will, I believe, give way to his stable companion, Charming Woman. Psaltery is a runner, more I know not. Dioracdia, I should say, is a very doubtful runner. Ellen, and the Faugh-a- Ballagh filly, I think, aro made safe by the Charming Woman, who at 6st 71b ought to run very forward. Lady Flora, Shropshire Lass, and Mrs. John arc hope less. Hatchet has many friends, and I think the ground and distance aro in his favour. At Est 61b he is not overweighted ; neither is Littlo Swift, at Est 41b. Frenzy at sst 121 b, and Tobolski, at sst 71b, aro let loose ; the running of the former, however, being much the best. Tobolski's only previous performance was running a bad fourth, and last to Pride, at Egham. The race, in my opinion, will be with CHARMING WOMAN, Hatchet, Little Swift, and FRENZY: the first and last named for choice. The horses entrusted with the prin cipal amount of the cash for this race, are Tobolski, Exact, and Hatchet. Pelion, Cheddar, atty Darling, Amazon, Eulogist, Ireland's Eye, Hobby Horse, Alti tude, and Fcramorz, have paid forfeit. The Epsom Autumn Handicap will be run at a quarter past two, and is over the Now Derby Course. The field will probably comprise Hobble Noble, Candlewick, the Proctor, Allegro, Dulcet, Don Pedro, Vermuth. Tested, the Varmint, Plunistead, and one of Lord Clifden'a. The running of Suarry and Chief Justice is doubtful. The merits of the animals I need not discuss at length, but merely state that the race. in my opinion, will be confined at the finish to the Varmint, Candlewick, and Tested—the VARMINT, if that is Dawson's intended, or Tested, in all likelihood, proving to be the winner. The Bentinck Plate in its result will depend so much on the previous races that I shall not attempt a selection of the winner. This stake brings the day's sport to a conclusion. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. P.S,—Allegro is in great force for tho Autumn Han dicap. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING. TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, for three year-olds, &c. One mile and a quarter. 4 subs. Mr. Tufts's fby Don John, dam by Mundig, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (A. Taylor) 1 Mr. B. Land's General, aged, lOst 71b 2 Mr. Marsh's Forest, lOst 71b 3 Betting-6 to 4on the filly, who won in a canter Handicap of 5 sons. each, and 40 added. The winner to be sold by auction for 80 sous., and the second to receive 101. One mile. 15 subs. Lees's Deceitful, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (lliett) 1 Goddard's Priam the Third, 3 yrs, Tat 41b Smith's Gauntlet, 5 yrs, ist 4lb 3 Mr. Brown's Lucy, 6 yrs, Bst Mr. J. Day's Snowstorm, 6 yrs, 7st 61b 0 Mr. Foulkes's Lady Bibina, 6 yrs, ist 2lb 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Deceitful, and 7to 2 agst Priam tho Third. The favourite made all the running, and won in a canter. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 3 only if declared, with 100 added. Two miles. 29 subs., 6 of whom declared. Mr. G. Drewo's Odiham, 4 yra, 7st (Charlton) 1 Mr. Rowden's Happy Joe, 3 yrs, Est 2 Mr. Davies's Titterstone, 4 yrs, ist 61b Sir W. Booth's Baoton, 5 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. Cocper's lanthe, 4 yrs, 7st 61b Mr. Hutchinson's Young England, 5 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. Dawson's Lerrywhent, 3 yrs, 7st 31b 0 Mr. Crossing's Madame Wharton, 4 yrs, 6st Mr. Darling's Thunderbolt, 3 yrs, Est 41b Mr. Buckley's Royal George, 3 yrs, Est Betting-2 to 1 agst Lerrywhent and 6to 1 each agst Odiham, Titterstone, Happy Joe, and Thunderbolt. Won easy by six lengths. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs, each, and 25 added, for three-year-olds and upwards. Wiener to be sold for 1501., &c. One mile and a quarter. 9 subs. Mr. Wile's Miss Talbot, 4 yrs (201.), 7st Glb (Aldcrofs) 1 Mr. Lyster's Priam the Third, 3 yrs (301), 7st 61b 2 Mr. llowde❑'s Lady Speedy, 5 yra (201.) Bst Colonel Clowes's Dr. Husband, aged (301), Bst 91b 0 Mr. Day's The Moor, aged (301), 9st 31b 0 Mr. Mason's Haresfoot, 4 yrs (200, 7st 91b 0 Mr. J. Day's Anti•Radictsl, 3 yrs (201.), Gst 41b 0 Mr. Flintoff's Taley, 3 yrs (201.), Bst 2tb 0 Mr. D. Samuel's Tne Gift, 3 yrs (201.), Est 41b 0 Betting-2 to 1 ngst Priam, 4to 1 agst Dr. Husband, and 6 to 1 each agst Taley and Anti-Radical. Won on the post by a head. The Scurry Handicap of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, the second receives 10 sovs., half a mile, 8 subs., was won by half a length by Mr. Jones's Exchange, 2 yrs, 51t 41b (Cliff); beating Mr. Jones's Flora, 4 yrs, Bst 71b; Mr. Shepherdson's Ithuriel filly, 3 yrs, Bst; Mr. Owen's Carinetta,:3 yrs, 7at 71b; and Mr. E. Herbert's Gauntlet, 5 yrs, 6st 41b. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. WORCESTER STEEPLECHASE. 3 to 1 agst Bourton (t) 4 to 1 agst Proceed (t) EPSOM HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agst Varmint (t) 6 to 1 agst Vermuth (t) 6 to 1 agst Hobbit) Noole (t) 8 to 1 agst Don Pedro (t) 8 to 1 agst Tested (t) URES FOR 1852. :MBER. Stretford ................ . 12 Warwick .................. 16 Aberystwith ............ 22 Shrewsbury Autumn... 23 ES TO COME. :MUER. „, 28 A. • , ' THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1 52. FREE TRADE BANQUET AT MANCHESTER. Last evening the groat demonstration in favour of Free trade took place at the Free-trade hall in this town. Tho object of the meeting was to afford an opportunity to the advocates of unrestricted commercial intercourse, on the eve of the meeting of Parliament, of declaring their firm adherence to those principles of Free trade which received the sanction of Parliament in 1846. The public announcements of the meeting de scribed it as a " banquet," but, unless the " feast of reason" is regarded by the men of Manchester as a com pensation for the more substantial viands, the entertain ment certainly had no pretensions to such a designation. It was, in fact, a mere dessert, and its character may best be judged by the following bill of fare, which would scarcely be objected to by the advocates of vegetarian diet :-4,000 pies, 4,800 meat sandwiches, 3,000 fruit sandwiches, 2,000 raspberry and strawberry tarts, 1,000 black currant tarts, 3001bs. of biscuits, B.3wt. of grapes, 4ewt. of raisins, fewt. of almonds, 3cwt. of figs, 6,000 pears, 6,000 apples. Among the gentlemen who accepted the invitation of the League were—Mr. M. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Alcock, M.P„ Sir James Anderson, M.P., Mr. arnes, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. 11. Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Biggs, M.P., Sir R. Bulkeley, M.P., Mr. Ball, M.P., Mr. H. Brown, M.P., Mr. Brady, M.P., Captain Bellew, M.P., Mr. Crossley, M.P., Mr. Crook, M.P , Mr. J. Clay, M.P., Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Sir W. Clay, M.P., Mr. Cogan, m.p., Mr. Dunlop, M P., Mr. Esmonde, M.P., Mr. Eccles, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M P., Mr. C. Forster, M.P., Mr. Geach, M.P., Viscount Godo rich, M.P., Sir G. Goodman, M.P., Mr. Gardner, M.P., M . r p . Greene, e,M. M.P., Alr .p lla ., dfield, M.P., Mr. Heywood, m Ingham, M.P., Mr. G. Langton M.P., Mr. Lucas, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, M.P.. Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Kenn e dy, M.P., Mr. Keogh, Mr. Milligan, M.P., Mr. ' Serjeant Murphy, M.P., Mr. Joha Macgregor, M.P., Mr. Milner, M.P., Mr., Oliver* M.P., Mr. Otway, Hr. P. O'Brien, MX Mr. Potter, M.P. Mr. Pellatt, XX., Mr. Pilkington M.P., Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P., Mr, Roebuck, M.P., Mr. Scholefield, M.P. Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P., Mr. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. J. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. Sullivan, M.P., Mr. Serjeant Shee, M.P., Mr. F. Scully, M.P., Mr. Swift, M.P., Mr. Thornely, M.P., Mr. Thompson, M.P., Mr. Thicknesse, M.P., Mr. Wilcox, M.P., Mr. M. Wilson, M.P., Mr. Urquhart, M.P., Mr. Devereux, M.P., Mr. W. D. Seymour, M.P., Mr. M. Philips, &c. The invitation W Cwhl have v. m rseej e . .nrßFet mentioned,joetxilMev, rear, received from n dmf H r mo e pm y wr. m o Arme r : t rrc h .. JIMGI eventually. r gy. hn H . e Fi s i r tpr y z.ir , g)e. was also accepted by several members of the late Par eilivrcarnlßoebuck, d m ° s w .t h p a t o e t : w t d e mi v h n e i gr r r .. , and Mr. Ricardo, and some others of the number we Letters expressing regret at being obliged to be absent, M,P., Lord ' Radnor, Mr. Phinn, Dunne,m Molesworth, sm M i .r . P r IVI Duke, .. eGp:r S ,ma h c ma. Grace, tr. M.P., mMr. Cowan, :Ppm.e, Pete, O S . ,m i pi WI: Sir G. Pechell, Mr. Locke King, M.P., Mr. Duffy, s t am i r . M. Mr, Locke, J. Mr. Townley, M.P., Mr. T. F. Lewis, M.P . , Sir G. Strickland, M.P., Mr. Bouverie, xp. ri Lord F. L. Smith, M.P., Mr. Kirk, M.P., Mr. G. Duncan, M.P., Mr. J. Wilson, M.P., Mr. Headlam, M.P., Gower, Lord Monck, Mr. V. Smith, M.P., Mr. M. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Miall, M.P., Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., Sir D. Norreys, M.P., Mr. F. Peel, M.P., Sir C. Wood, M.P., Mr. Lowe, M.P., Mr. Strutt, M,P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Currie , M.P. , Sir B. Hall, M.P., Mr. 0. Ricardo, M.P., Sir W. P. Wood, M.P., Lord R. Gros venor, M.P., Mr. Westhead, M.P., Mr. V. Scully, M.P., Mr. Mitchell, M.P., and other members of Parliament. When the meeting was resolved upon in October, 2,700 tickets were issued for the accommodation of ladies and gentlemen at the tables, all of which were taken up within four days. Additional provision was subsequently made for the admission of persons whom it was impos sible to provide with seats, and, including those who had merely standing-room, considerably more than 3,000 persons must have been present. The arrangements for the acco mmodation of so lar g e a number of guests as were admitted to the banquet may be briefly indicted as follows:—A.leng the body of the hall, at right angles to the platform at the west end, were 16 parallel lines of tables covered alternately with white and pink drapery. In order to facilitate access were ather centre of the lines, so that there ltoge to the seats, a wide avenue crossed the hall about the he tables in this part of the building; half of these afforded seats for 56 persons at each, and the others for 62 each, making 1,888 in all. In each of the two side galleries were two lengths of tables, with seats for 76 persons at each, and four tables in the front gallery, with seats for 224 persons. On the platform were six lines of tables, with seats only on one side, accommodating 72 guests and 167 vice-presidents. At half-past six Mr. G. Wilson entered the hall, and took the chair amid loud cheers from the vast assem blage, which became enthusiastic as Mr. Cobden, Mr. Gibson, and Mr. Bright made their appearance after him. Grace was said, or, rather prayer offered, by the Rev. D. M'Kerrow. After rather more than half an hour spent in disposing of the viands. After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk. The CIIAIRM&N said, with respect to many who were now present it would be impossible to ask their admira tion of a meeting in the Free-trade Hall, on the score either of its members or its novelty; but he did think that when they considered that at the present meeting they had among them distinguished guests, a very con siderable proportion of the members of the House of Commons, and in addition to that, those who most truly might bo called the representatives of the industry and energy of this country, collected from all parts of the kingdom, then this meeting must bo admitted to be in some respects unprecedented. (Hear, hear.) Why was it that this question still retained its hold upon the public opinion of this country ? Fourteen years ago, as they recollected, it was the most neglected of all public questions; no statesman of any eminence dared touch it; almost all rising men iu Parliament refused to look at it, as one of the most uncompromising subjects in the whole calendar of national grievances. It was reserved for some seven gentlemen, three or four of whom were now present, to initiate the idea, to draw public attention to it, to draw around it an organiza tion, greater perhaps than ever was known in this country previously. They saw that idea gradually grow and increase in magnitude until it absorbed nearly every other ; they saw Ministers, who formerly had deemed it almost the height of absur dity, become its great apostles and teachers and pro mulgators ; they say it afterwards become the rallying point of the antagonistic feeling of the country, then be come an Act of Parliament, and become handed down to posterity as their contribution—at least of the good things of the world—to their successors. (Cheers.) Three years ago, at a similar meeting in some respects to the present, they ushered in a great era of free trade amid rejoicings. Those who had been known to each other in that arduous struggle for many years—those who had left all their pursnits and sacrificed all their connexions for the prosecution of this object, took their final leave of each other there. So far as they were concerned, ho did not believe one gentleman present at that time ever anticipated that, within the range of the remotest possibility, they ever should be called to gether again upon this subject in that hall. (Hear, hear.) They left, it might be said, unlike other generals, the field in possession of the van quished enemy, They marshalled themselves under new leaders, casheried their old officers, hoisted their old flag under new generals. They took possession, as it appeared, of the forlorn hopes of this country, and through meetings, speeches, marchings up to London to wait upon their great leader, and merchings down again with assurances from their great leaders, the Free-traders looked on with the most perfect indifference. There was certainly one occasion when they felt some little annoyance at the observations of the noble earl at present at the head of her Majesty's Go vernment, and that was when, early last year, he assured a deputation from every county of England, which bad met first at Drury-lane, and was then adjourned to St. James's-square, one and all, that if there was in any district in England any one who entertained the idea that there was in his mind any flinching or change of opinion, ho authorized them to go back and announce to those whom they represented, that such was not the case, and that, in the memorable words of the Duke of Wellington, he only wished for an opportunity, he said, to say, " Up, Guards, and at them." Well, g en tl emen , at that time, certainly, they felt themselves a little ruffled, but they consoled themselves with this fact, that tho noble earl had omitted to notice certain portions of the subject, which were certainly necessary to his success ; first, that the Earl of Derby is not the Duke of Wellington, and that they (the Free-traders) were not the French. (Loud cheers and laughter.) So long as these were their practical amusements, the people of this country showed no evidence or traces of anxiety. But early this year a change came over the complexion of parties. They found the Noble Earl, the head of the Protectionists, also the head of her Majesty's Government, and called to administer the affairs of this country according to the principles which ho said ho was bound in all honour to maintain. They saw him surrounded with all those who had uniformly backed his opinions during th e last seven years; all the great offices of the state occupied by men who, rank and file, had no recommendation or antece dents in this country but as genuine, downright Protec tionists; and under these circumstances was it surprising, or not at all to be anticipated, that the people, feeling, perhaps, some temporary alarm, began to think that the time was come when it would be necessary to inform the Noble Earl at the head of her Majesty's Government, that a demonstration should be made which should imme diately, on the slightest appearance of danger, spon taneously burst forth to an extent beyond any of which, from any previous anticipation, he could have the least idea? Under these circumstances, the merchants, traders, and manufacturers of that district met at Newall's-build lags, in Manchester, on the 2d of March, and in the short space of 25 minutes put down somewhere about 27,0001., which sum was afterwards increased to 70,0001. (Cheers.) Since the League was reconstructed, it was certain that they bad heard very little of processions up to Drury-lane. lie believed that building was now to be had very low indeed. And there was not much said about Protection now at the Carlton, where, at the beginning of the year, there was always so much noise made on the subject. Somebody must have caused ail this, and as to who it was he left them to draw their own conclusions. There was one thing which they were bound to do, and which they were met now to put in operation,—to take care that this question was brought to an immediate settlement one way or the other. (Great cheering.) Experience of the benefits of free , trade had given the working man au interest in this . ggeetion stronger than he over felt betimes lb h am as wet' as Lord Derby, or that ingenious trifler the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. who found the money. (Laugh ter.) Ls therefore called on the distinguished gentlemen on that p :a'form to lend their able and energetic efforts to brine i t to ;an immediate and satisfactory issn „ , (Cheers.) hecged leave to propose the " Health of the Free-trade mere 'bars of the House of Commons." The toast having been drunk most enthusiastically, the whole assembly r. ising to cheer. The CHAIRMAN Cal led on. Mr. Cobden to respond, as the representative of ~.he 'Largest constituency in the kingdom. (Great cheer;ng..) Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on xi sing to respond, was received with most enthusiastic oheering, the whole company rising and giving cheer aner cheer for some time. He said,—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am much obliged to my friend, the chairman, who has explained to you the reason why he has chosen me to return thanks for the toast, on account of the extent of my con stituency rather than any personal merits of my own, or I should not have had the presumption to appear before you to represent so numerous and so influential and distinguished a body of men as those for when I have now the honour of re sponding. Gentlemen, a portion of the Free-trade mem bers of the House of Commons have been tried men, and therefore they need no voucher from me to commend them to your confidence; but there is a very large por tion of the present House of Commons consisting of new and untried men. Many of these are now before you, and I have no doubt whatever that when they appear on the arena in Westminster they will be found as true and faithful to their pledges and recorded principles as any of those with whom I have had the honour of fighting and winning some Free-trade battles. (Cheers.) Now. gentlemen, I was very glad to see ono sentiment so loudly applauded when it fell from our respected chair man in connexion with this toast. It was where he said, what you expect from us is that we should bring this question of Free-trade and Protection to a speedy set tlement. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I confess to you that, so far as Free-trade is concerned, in this meeting to-night, it appears to mo that that is almost the sole object we can possibly have in view. It does not appear to me that we meet hero to discuss the question, when all the arguments relating to it have been worn thread bare by means of discussion; it does not appear to me that it requires we should convince ourselves or con vince others of the superiority and justice of; Free trade as opposed to Protection;: but what mo must ask ourselves is this:—How is it that, when un doubtedly 19-201hs of the population of these realms are in favour of Free-trade—when in all our commercial cities you cannot find a sane man who is for Protection —(Loud cheers)—when, I verily believe, in the whole metropolis you could not find a score of individuals out side of Bedlam who would commit themselves to Protec tion—(Cheers and laughter)—when the whole agricul tural labouring population are vehemently in favour of Free-trade, how is it, I ask, that in such a state of things as that it can be necessary that we should meet here, in this not very temperate atmosphere or very salubrious room, again to protest against a Protectionist Govern ment ruling this country? Why, gentlemen, the reason is this—and although I am as little apt to infringe the rule of a Free-trade meeting by introducing extraneous topics as anybody—the truth is this, that our House of Commons is a packed House of Commons. (Loud cheers.) It is a House of Commons where the intellect and the wealth and the power of the country are so unequally and unduly represented, that, instead of its being a fair exponent of the opinions of the country, it seems to be little more than a machine where ingenious jugglers, like Signor Blitz himself, can shuffle the cards and play their game, and win the stakes in spite of the opposition of 19-20ths of the population of this country, (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I still think that if the Free-traders who were sent to Par liament at the last election are, as I believe they will be, tree to their principles, we may bring this question to a close, as we are bound to do, in my humble opinion, before the next Christmas. (Cheers.) Now, as you have shown that you are in favour of the immediate settlement of this question, and as I am sure the Free-trade members of the House of Commons would be glad to have your sanction, or to in quire the opinion of a body so influential as this—so powerful and socially so influential in all parts of the kingdom —as to the mode by which wo should bring this question to an issue, I ask your opinion on the plan which I humbly submit ought to be followed by the Free-traders in Parliament. (Cheers.) We want to make a Government declare its opinions. (Cheers and laughter.) We want to know what are the opinions of the Government, in order to know whether the Govern ment be in harmony with the majority of the House of Commons and the vast majority of the population of this country. Have we not a right to know the opinions of our Government upon the question which,of all others at the present moment, concerns the welfare and the happiness of the people of ;this country ? Then, I say, when Parliament meets we have a right to know what are the views of the Government upon the question of Free-trade and Protection. When I had tae honour of meeting you in Manchester in March last I stated that I had had a conversation with Mr. Villiers urging kim to put a notice on the paper of the House of Commons, pledging the House to withhold its confi denos from any Government that was not pledged to carry out the principles of Free-trade. You are aware that when we mot again, after the short recess, and after the Ministers had been re-elected, that motion was altogether evaded by a declaration from Lord Derby, and his representatives in the House of Commons, that the Government did not expect or propose to carry any measures in the House of Commons, knowing they were then in a minority, but intended at the earliest pos sible period to take the sense of the country on their policy. Lord Derby told us at the same time that he would call Parliament together before Christma , , in order that we might come to a decision on the commer cial policy of the country. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentle men, we have had that election, and, defective as is our representative system, still there is a considerable ma jority of the House of Commons pledged to free trade. (Cheers.) I have a very high authority in these matters with the Government, Major Beresford, as for the fact. (Cheers and laughter.) W ell, now, gentlemen, all I stipulate for is, that when Parliament re-assembles we should know whether the Government be now Protec tionist or Free-trade. Is there anything unreasonable in that? Why have we had a general election but to de cide that question? Why do we meet now before Christ mas. but avowedly, by Lord Derby, to settle that ques tion? I propose, therefore, to follow out that view which seems so much in accordance with your sentiment; I pro pose that the Free•trade Members of the House of Com mons should bring Lord Derby's Government to a decla ration of their principles on this question. Now, I say that if the Queen's Speech does not contain a distinct renunciation and recantation of Protection on the part of this Administration, then I think the Free-trade majority, if they are true to their principles—as I honestly hope and believe they are—are bound, either by an amendment to the Address, or by a substantive resolution in the House, to declare that no Government will have the confidence of the House of Commons which does not avow—mind I say avow—(Loud cheers)—its determination to adhere to the policy of Free-trade, as it has hitherto been adopted, and to carry it out in every practicable way. (Cheers.) I sas the House of Commons should call upon the Government to avow its opinions, because I draw a very great distinction between a decla cation of the Government or the intimation—the mysti ral intimation—from the Government, that they don' intend at present to interfere with free trade, and an avowal of the Government that they have changed their opinions, and they are honestly in favour of Free-trade. I say that, having nineteen-twentieths of the population of this country, and a largo majority of the House of Commons, in favour of a certain policy, our constitu tional system is a farce unless you can have a Govern ment in harmony with that majority. (Loud cheers.) It is not enough to satisfy you, I am sure, that those who have been the inveterate enemies of the principles which you have met here to support, should be left in possession of the Executive power in this country, and free to damage the progress of those principles, or to prevent their extension, and if possible to bring back a return of Protectionist principles. That will not satisfy you nor satisfy the country. But why I wish a determinate and specific course to be taken by the Free-traders is this, that nothing short of that will ever settle the ques tion in the agricultural districts. (Cheers.) The great home of this delusion of Protection is in the dark cor ners of our agricultural districts. (Hear, hear.) It is there that still survives this 'faith; in a Ministry which promises one thing at the market-table and talks in an other tone at the clubs and coteries of London. I need not tell you how rife is this faith in Protection in the agri cultural districts. We have seen almost every agricultural county, swayed as they all are by aristocratic influence, owing to the system of voting in this country—we have seen them nearly all carried in favour of Protectionist candidates; and, in fact, some of our best and ablest mon among the agriculturists themselves, such as Mr. Pine and some of our Liberal aristocracy, like Lord Nor reys, in Oxfordshire, for merely. saying "we have no faith in this delusion;" and eminent men, like Mr. Cornewall Lewis, in Herefordshire, have been discarded solely on the ground of speaking for and of leaning t o Free-trade opinions. And who encourages this? The political party who have crept into power on the faith of this delusion. And you ca nnot p ut an end to this de lusion in the agricultural d istricts b y any other p rocess than that which I have alluded to—by carrying this theory to an immediate issue in the House of Commons, and compelling the Government either to avow it se lf Free-trade, thereby opening the eyes of these deluded people in the agricultural districts to the delusions prac tised upon them, or else declaring themselves still for Protection, and then going, as they must honestly go, into opposition to advocate their principles. N ow , I don't blame members of Parliament, and members of a party. for advocating, perseveringly and continuously, principles in which they believe. I say, if the mem bers of the present government are still of the same opinion that they were when they were in opposition, let thorn avow it, let them go into opposition again. They are in a minority, but you have seen that when you have faith in your principles, and belief in those principles being true, you may make a minority into a majority, but that is a process to be done in op position and not in the Government. (Hear.) Now , the agricultural districts of this country have been kept for the last six or seven years in a state of suspended animation by the course that has been pursued by the political landlords of the country. They have prevented men from devoting themselves to their pursuits, and re lying entirely on their own energies; they have be en looking to those members of Parliament and those poli tical parties to do something for their interests, which can only be done by their own 'individual and united efforts, The agricultural constituencies, in the way in I which they have been standing agape at these political A parties, and beliefn,t; everything that these political jug glers have told them, have reminded me of a bumpkiu on a village green watching a juggler, who is pullin ribs.nds by the yard Out of his mouth and scvallowin::: Eire, and believing that he is doing all that in the cours; of nature, and nit by mere artifice and legerdemain. (Laughter.) Now, gentlemen, I have had some oppor tunity of witnesAing the effect of this long continued de lay upon the interests of agriculture. You ore prospering here in the manufacturing districts, and if they are nor prospering in the farming districts of the south of England to the same extent, it is very much owing to the fact that those engaged in the rural pursuits of this country have had their attention and energies di ' verted from their own individual pursuits by the delusion that has been practised upon them. The agricultural labourers of this country aro not, I am sorry to say, so well off as they should be, though they are certainly better than they were under the auspices of Protection. But I sometimes hear it stated that you are short of labour in this part of the country. Now. having resid e d some ti me in a purely agricultural dis trict of England, I venture to say that the wages of agricultural labourers in the southern countios—inelud• ing Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Su , sex, Surrey. and all the counties southward, includ ing Devon and Dorset—the wages of agricultural la bourers, the heads of families, honest, industrious men, do not average 9s. a-week, and in DJrseishire and Devonshire many are working at 7s. a-week. They ara better off than they were under the regime of Protection, when the price of the loaf was double what it is at pre sent; but they are not so well off as they ought to be ; and " the reason why " is, that there is not capital enough in the agricultural districts to give the people full employment. You cannot improve the condition of the labourers in the agricultural districts of England— and I want to see them improved there, rather than to see them compelled to come here for employment— (Cheers.)—more effectually than by investing capital in the cultivation of the soil, with the view of affording them employment; but if you want to deter the flow of capital to the land you cannot do it more effectually than by keeping up those delusions under which the farmers of this country are looking to Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby for their safety, rather than to the increase of their capital and the application of skill and industry to the culture of the land. (Cheers.) In the interest of the agriculturists. therefore, I call upon the Free-traders in the House of Commons to bring this question to a decisive issue. (Cheers.) Now, gentle men, will this suit political parties ? Will it suit the old game of Whig and Tory ? I hold that we are not to consult political parties in the settlement of this ques tion. (Hear, hear.) When we first assembled in Man chester fourteen years ago, we resolved that we would keep this question distinct and free altogether from the old political combinations, and it was owing to that re solution Cote that complete success was the issue of our agitation. Had it been otherwise—had we joined the Whig ranks—it was impossible that Sir Robert Peel could have taken up this measure. It was by hold ing entirely aloof from both Whigs and Tories that we enabled Sir Robert Peel to take up and to settle this great question. Now, do political parties want to procrastinate this question that they may play a game of delusion, in the hope of mixing it with some party struggle, tripping each other up, and having Free-trade in reserve as a small and infini tesimal subject for party discussion? If so, have no thing to do with any political party whatever. (Hear, hear.) We want to bring the matter to an issue— (cheers)—and having cleared the question of protection out of the way of all parties, we leave them to make some new combination. Indeed there is no honest man, whatever party he may belong to, who wishes to see progress made with any other question, who is not inte rested with us in removing the questions of Protection and Free-trade from the category of political discussion. (Hear, hear.) I know that it is very fashionable among certain politicians to say, " Why don't your Liberal members of the House of Commons get together and form yourselves into a party?" Some people out of doors will say " You should form a Radical party." Others will say " Why don't you form yourselves into a progressive party?" I must confess I think that all people who look to members of the House of Commons to form parties or to determine the policy of the coun try have a very insufficient notion of what it is that con stitutes the force of political movements in this country. (Hear, hear.) What is it that makes Free-trade now a powerful political question that gives to the question of Free-trade the vitality and force which it possesses in Parliament? It is not because a few members of the House of Commons got together, and determined that they would make a party question 9f Free-trade. (Hear, hear.) Free-trade did not become a powerful question in the House of Commons or among politicians until some men, rather young in years, and who had never before been known as politicians, engaged most actively and energetically in the advocacy of the principle out of doors, and by means of such meetings as this, gave an impetus to the question which enabled members of the House of Commons to carry Free-trade as it was carried. But if anybody supposes that till this question is settled any members of the House of Com mons could form themselves into a party for any other object, unless the people out of doors indicated what they wanted, and prepared a question for Parliament to deal with, such person has entirely forgotten the history of the Free-trade agitation, and must be totally ignorant how parties aro constituted in the House of Commons. (Hear.) Therefore, whatever other subject may be most yours out of doors—whether you want an extension of the suffrage, ballot, or any other measure, you are inte rested in clearing the ground of this Free-trade contro versy. Get rid of this out of your path, and then, like sturdy, honest Englishmen, set to work, bringing out some men not above 30 years old, because you will want some time to do it ; and whatever is just and right and politic, if you only work for it, you will let sure to succeed in obtaining. (Hear, hear.) Now I should not wonder if we should be met by some wise politicians with the question—What are you going to du if you turn out the Government ? How will you mak.. another? Well, I think that question is much easier 01 solution after the experience of the last six months that it was before. (Laughter and cheers) I don't think we shall ever be in any great difficulty in finding a Govern ment, after the experience of the last Government. (Renewed laughter mid cheers.) Wo have a Cabinet now, I believe, comprising a dozen very worthy and respectable men, but I venture to say there are at least 500 men in the body of this hall who are quite as competent to fill the office of Cabinet Minister a: those gentlemen. (Laughter.) It has been show', that it does not require that you should have an cesters who were Ministers before you ; it does not require that you should have been chin deep in " red tape" all your days (hear, hear) ; it does not require that you should have a broad coat of arms, or even a crest—(A laugh) ; it does not matter what lineage or race you belong to—(Laughter and cheers)—there is no sort of embargo henceforth against anybody being a Cabinet Minister. (Cheers.) Therefore, the difficulty we used to be met with is everywhere lessened. (Hear hear.) But we started—the Free-traders started, by declaring that they bad no political rights to serve. (Hear, hear.) I confess I won't be chargeable with suce transparent hypocrisy as to affect the modesty of not being able to be as good a Cabinet Minister as some half-score gentlemen now in office. (Great cheering.) I hope it will not be supposed that I have any ambition to fill any such office—(Some laughter)-1 have no snob desire. (Hear, hear.) Not that I think, where people can hold office and hold their own convictions too, it is not a most honourable and desirable post, a post which gives men great power to do good. (Hear, hear.) But I think nobody will charge me with having any ambition of that kind, in wishing to see the present Government brought fairly to brook, and compelled either to give it on the question of Free-trade, or to go out as Protec tionists. (Hear, hear.) But, I think, we are fairly en titled to say this—that whatever else the men may be, we insist upon having a Free-trade Administration. (Cheers.) And when I say a Freo-trado Administra tion, I mean a body of men, if they are to be the men now in office, who shall distinctly and emphatically re pudiate all the doctrines they have been promulgating in their past lives upon this great question. (Laughter and cheers.) We have seen that done before by greater and better men than they (cheers); and Heaven forbid that in these times of marvellous change, when the world itself is undergoing transformations almost like the ka leidescope, where we see such incidents occurring to upset all calculations and combinations in the physical world, I should deny it to men at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh and three quarters , to r e cant all they have said upon the subject of Free-trade and protection. (Hear.) But it must be emphatic. (Hear.) They must say that Free-trade does not lower wages (hear, hear); they must say that Free-trade does not cause a drain of gold from this country (hear, hear); they must say that Free-trade has not thrown land out of cultiva tion in this country (hear, hear); they must say that the land of this country is still worth something (hear, hear); and they must say that wheat, good wheat, has not been imported into this country, and cannot be, at 245. a quarter. (Hear.) Those are a few of the things they must say, when they said the very opposite before. (Hoar, hear, and cheers.) And we must have no aceampaniment about " compen sation." (Hear, hear.) Do you look in and see what the word "compensation" me ans. t a a n_d_ , rt your dictionaryo will see that if there is any compensation due lB a 6 1 1 vre : s to those people who, from 1815 down to 4 kept upon short commons by the a ristoora n cy. wo ( Recollect that when we launched our Lesg 0 Cheerer) opted and unconditional for our motto—" Total, immediate; repeal." (Hear, hear.) Co I boldly deny that there is any loss. ( ation ; millee:r hear Owe"' but I declare, and challenge the adversary'todenylaint,d,thtaatkitnhge value of land in this country, agriculturalile county with another, is one acre with another, anndloB44. (Gear, hear.) I do greater now than it was i not mean to say that there are not particular cases; where, f o r instance, some of the g re at landed _ proprietors were oo li s h enough to prevent .railroads coming into their neighbourhood s, in which there may not b e f oun d some empty mansions and stagnant country towns. That is the fault of those who opposed railroads, as they. did Free-trade, and everything else that is goo d . ( Hear , bear.) But that is more than compensated by the vast increase in the value of the land where railroads have been allowed to run. (Hear.) But taking one with another, I am prepared to maintain and prove that the value of land has not diminished since 1844, before the Corn -laws wore touched by Sir R. Peel. ( dear. hear) But I do not mind if it had. Have not the landlords had their share of compensation already in the advantages Free-trade has given to them, in theprice of living, and in other way s ? (Hear, hear.) be sides that, if they had h a d no such advantages, And, I main tain that no class of men in this country can have a vested interest in laws. (Hear, hear.) individuals may have a patent right and may be entitled to compensation if their individual interests are invaacd for the benefit of the country at large; but classes, great classes, such as drapers or grocers, or any other class, can have no claim to compensation when their interests are affected. Take the cue of the lawyers: We hare lately had grtiit changes in the law; we have had " John Doc and Richard Roe" abolished. (A laugh) They wore much, more ancient acd venerable than Protection, and yet th, e lawyers, with the modesty that characteriz d there— (laughter) —lever asked tor compensation. No, there must be no eprnoonsarion. (Hear.) The party that holds office in a Free-trade country like this must be prepared to carry out Frea trade to its legitimate 'conse quences—(hear, hear)—to advocate Free-trade, to argue in favour of Free-trade—(hear, hear)—not to sneer at "the Alancheser School," but to put themselves to the Man chester School to learn their lessons, (Hear, hear.) We must be able to present before the world a Govern. ment which, when it meets foreigners, as it does in its foreign relations, shall be able to show them the reason why we :are Free-traders, and to lay before them, with industry and pertinacity, from year to year, the fruits of Free -trade in this country. (Hear, hear.) Could an w p e e a t r l e y in to friendly uil lit y ambassado r b e b etter employed than in conveying en i r n ei i '' a t e t relations, s the o , fi° r s e t i a gn t withstSictaalteirsuits( 4E r wh om c e, trade in this country? (Hear, hear.) Could anything be mere convincing to a Treasurer, a Chancellor of the Exchequer abroad, than if the Chancellor of the 'r&x chequer in England took care that he should know that the revenue had improved rather than fallen off in con sequence of Free-trade? (Hear.) But how can you ex pect the Chtheellor of the Exchequer to do this so ex pressed as he is adhering to the opini on h e has always that Free-trade is sure to cause a great falling off in the revenue? (Hear, hoar.) You must have u Government not only avowing itself in favour of Feao trade, but prepared, in every possible way, to pro mote the extension of the principle in all its ra mifications and consequences. (Hear, hear.) F or instance, I am very much sneered at sometimes because I couple with this question of Free -trad e the question of pacific relations with other countries. I am told I am Utopian. Why, lam only doing a little more practically what those who support Free-trade do theoretically ; for I scarcely ever heard a good free trade speech but what the peroration is showing the con nexion between Free-trade and pacific relations. lum only carrying Free-trade to its consequences when I say it will have the effect of rendering nations more de pendent upon each other, and that they will therefore be the more bound together by ties of amity and friend ship, as was most happity and beautifully expressed by the Rev. Gentleman who asked a blessing to-night, and whom I always hear with pleasure (Hear, hear), ono who has invariably denoted his powers of mind to the advocacy of sound principles. (Hear, hear.) lam not Utopian—l am practical ; I give a reason for the faith that is in me. (Hear.) I see Free-trade an accomplished fact in this country, as the greatest commercial country in the world,—l see that its example must be followed, and that that example must lead to the extension of the intercourse between this and other countries ; and I see in that, not the Utopian realization of a dream, but I see cause and effect (Hear, hear) ; and I say men will be made peaceable because their interests will be allied in the cause of peace. (Cheers.) Now, I only ask you this in conclusion—to watch our proceedings in Par liament—(hear); and, as you come from ail parts of the kingdom, and I have no doubt have had a powerful voice in the election of perhaps hundreds of members of Par liament, I hope that you will have your eyes steadfastly upon us all—;hear, hear); and if any of us falter, if any of us seem disposed to palter with this question, and to postpone its final and definite settlement from this short session to another, that it may be mixed up with other questions and bo made the gam© of party, that you should admonish us and keep us to our duty. (Hear, hear). It is with that feeling that I beg to propose as a sentiment, " Health to the constituencies who have returned Free-trade members to Parliament." (Great cheering). The CitAIRDIAN then proposed " The Health of Sir W. Clay." Sir W. CLAY, M.P., was received with loud applause. lie said, the toast which had been given from the chair was "The Constituencies which had returned Free-traders to the new Parliament." They were, no doubt, perfectly aware that the constituencies which bai returned Free-traders comprehended, almost with out exception, every large town constituency in the United Kingdom. There was one doubtful exception, to which ho would not allude, but it was not very remote from the place where ho was now spcaking. (Hear, hear.) With that exception, every great town constituency in the kingdom had returned Free-trade members to Parliament. And those constituencies, in so doing, had only pronounced and given voice to the opinions and deep-seated convictions of the entire people of this country. But what was to be the result of the entire views of the people of England being pronounced in behalf of the principles of Free-trade? Why, those results must flow from it to which his hon. friend had so well alluded. lie agreed with him that the time for ac tion was come. The arguments in favour of Protection had long since been swept into that lumber-room where were accumulated the exploded fallacies and forgotten sophisms of the past. With regard to the men who had used them, they were fast vanishing from their view; it was becoming more and more difficult to meet with a pure Protectionist. They would very shortly disappear from view in the dim obscurity of distance. He was going to say that they would " loom " obscurity in the past, but a great man had especially devoted that word "loom," to what he denominated "great objects." Now, he (Sir W. Clay) believed that nothing could be smaller than Protectionist statesmen, and every day that passed rendered them smaller still. They would soon take place in the imagination with those venerable persons whom come of as still remembered—gentlemen with powdered heads and pigtails, with knee-buckles end ;op-boots, and whose chief delight was, be believed, in long whiskers. But if this was now the state of public opinion, it was not always so. The time was not remote when this great question first assumed its due importance ihere was a time, net remote, when one large part of the people of England were ill-informed on the subject, and a yet larger portion cold and indifferent. He could himself remember when, some 15 years since, ho pro posed to the House of Commons the repeal of the Corn Laws. (Cheers.) lie remembered that when he brought forward that motion ho should have been well pleased to obtain the encouragement and support of that giro at con stituency which then, as now, he had the honour to re present. He could not obtain it; there were fe iv who gave him any encouragement or support. But what was the fact now? There had recently been long and. fierce contests in that borough; there were five candidates, and not one of them would have dared to present him self to that, the largest borough constituency in the kingdom, if a doubt had hung over the sincerity of his devotion to his principles. One of the first men he applied to at the commencement of that contest was among the largest, if not the very largest, of the ship owners of this country—that class among wnom Protec tionist principles had lingered longest. Ile said, speak ing the views of one of those parishes which constituted the port of London, " Give yourself no trouble, we are all Free-traders." If this was now the state of the constituency, to what was this blessed change mainly owing? In his calm and deliberate opinion, it was mainly owing to the men of Manchester, to the Anti- Corn. law League, and to his hon. friend who sat near him, whom he need not name, for his name had become a household word. (Loud cheers.) It was the mca of the Anti-Corn Law League who had, by their well directed exertions, informed the ignorant, confirmed the doubtful, given courage to the timid, aud, at last, by their unceasing perseverance, rendered those trutbs, once perceived and contended for by the few, the pro perty of the world. (Cheers.) He remembered the first beginning of that League, the feeling with which it was regarded, the sneers with which it wan met, and among the sneerers were not only Tories, but those who sat apposite to Tories, some of whom were a C terwards floated into power upon that title of public opinion to which its exertions had given the first motion. (Cheers.) They had persevered and triumphed, and round the greatest compliment paid to thorn in the imitation of their method of agitating by char opponents. They said the League distributed so many tracts, and they - would distribute so many more hundred weights, and they might possibly have succeeded, for heavier literature than Protectionist tracts it had never been his misfortune to meet with. The men of Manchester and the League had set a glorious example, and he hoped the people of Eogland wo uld fol low it. It was from the battle-field oe whic h the y had planted their victorious standards that the friends of progress and constitutional reform must a dvance to fur- tiler' triumphs. (Cheers.) The next toast was " The Anti-Corn -law League." Mr. BRIGHT, who wa s Called upon to speak to the toast, was received with several roun s d of chee rs. Ti e said—Being called upon to respond to this sentiment, 1 meeting somewhat likeheld feel myself in a very singular position; for, on recur ri ng to the proceedings of a eaents Was that of " the M nearly four years ago, I find that, among the sentie of the offered to that meeting, ~ Memory Anti Corn -law League. (Laughter and cheers.) Ido not recollect whether it was rceeiven in mournful silence or with acclamation—(a laugh)—but this I know s th at ( t all lineaments, a m h e e a n r t . 5 ) i ( W , r e the recollected benevo lence we felt wo had followed the League from its . ment to its extinction, and we fancied that Lornece ithe pertentou ' s warning which we had seen l i PfOleotid,h i e i t n s g a r i a t e s n t i d o g e n u r :r v f e o o . f r it hold out to the should see it again b u t we never imagined t O h p a living combination, as woaptreswsnor have seen it during and the unjust ; the last eight months, and as e see it by it s representa tives Our opponents said gathered withi n this hall that it to-night. (Hear, hear.) not the first body of people League. well, th e y are was but the ghost of the who have been driven - from the field by a ghost. (Laughter and cheers.) i last 4en take leave, however, to assert chat the manif estat i on of opinion during the period of the general el na cc o t n io th n s ;h an s d especiatlY dung the period of the been such a 3 to 6tICIW, that if the League was buried , its spirit is still an existing and a living spirit—( h c eera)—a spirit that dare and does defy any Cabinet that may exercise authority in this country to touch again the sacred question of Frce-trade. (Loud cheers.) If any man says that we were wrong in reor f=3wzing• the League, let him for one moment look at the facts. Lord Derby, the notorious and unscrupulous h ader of tho most intolerant of the Protection party—. (hear, hear)—came into office. It isdifficult to say how he came there. (A laugh.):l have heard of generals sur rendering with whole armies at discretion. I am not sure that the leader on our aide of the House did not surrender without discretion. (Laughter.) Some say hi s staff was disordered; some say his troops mutinied. Some felt that they were almost as often led into the racks of the foe as led against thorn. (Hear.) But whatever be the reason, somehow or other Lord Derby came into office. We had Protection blasts, and, finally, Lord Palmerston offered himself as the great trumpe 4r, and the walls of the Whig Jerioho fell at once to the g , hand. (Laughter and cheers.) But having Lord Derby in office, the re presentative of a great, though a mistaken policy, we can hear nothing of that policy. (Hear.) When the:Reform Ministry came into office, everybody talked about re form; the followers of the Government were encouraged to talk about reform. Whoa Sir R. Peel came into office, after his temporary resignation seven years ago, evet v. RACING FIXT NOVE: Epsom Liverpool Autumn 9 CowUridge Hunt Northallerton.... ...... 11 IRISH RACI NovE: Kilkenny ... NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEVONPORT. Noy . 2. Tho Dido, 18, Captain W. H. Morshead, C. 8., arrived here to-day from the Pacific. Her dates have all been anticipated. She is 112 days from Tahiti, and from Rio the Bth September. She has brought home the officers of the Bonotta, as stated. to attend an Admiralty inquiry. She is ordered up harbour to have her defects made good. In the event of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Peliew accepting a command, either to his nephew, Cap tain Halsted of the Dauntless, or Captain Fitzgerald, it is said, will be his flag-captain. Naval Instructor—H. M. Lefroy (1845) has been ap pointed to tho Impregnable, flag ship, Dovonport. Master's Assistant—Charles W. Rosy, to the Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth. SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE Ships.—The conversion of the Hannibal, 90, at Deptford, into a screw-ship, is being proceeded with, and from the number of men employed on her it wou!d appear that she is to be completed with out the least delay. She is to be lengthened about 10 feet abaft. Same of the stern timbers have already been removed. • ____ ___-- -- - THE NEW EXPRESS ENGINES,--SOMO time ago we noticed the contract entered into between the directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company and Messrs. Fairbairn, of Manchester, for the construe tion of a number of locomotive engines, designed by Mr. M'Connell, of Wolverton, for the attainment of high speed. The positive announcement that before the end of the year the important town of Birmingham was to be brought within two hours' distance of the metro polis, naturally excited great interest, and the construc tion of the engine has been watched with anxious atten tion, not only by its designers and constructors, but by the most eminent scientific and railway engineers. Messrs. Fairbairn have already completed the first engine, and at the preliminary trial, which was made at their establishment on Saturday last, the entire success of the novel principle was fully established. Without pressurewa indicated. of at precent entering into a detailed description of this new application, its extraordinary effect will be under stood by recording the fact that, within 45 minutes of steam e a m The equal time the tim e w h en t h e fi res i n th e b o il e r were first lighted, a t o requiredl 0 Olb . upon r the this processsquare i i n inch ordinary locomotives power is nearly three hours. The calcu lated of the new engine when running at a high voice ty is not less than 650 horses. No doubt we shall soon be called on to report the n, actual performance upon the road of thi s new • ' ye r, and the easy accomplish ment of a long- sus t a i ned speed , of 70 miles per hour, as another of the ‘, great fact a hint to the authorities , s o o f f the age. In the mean time,Euston-square to let us have on the day of trial a clear road and no favour may not he out of place. 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