The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-27 00:00:00

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'a ot O li s r o e e • cle tee tle°o9l :: 1 ) 15 tra de ite rti o °l ion sir 0 1 ' o r u e n trP, f intereg;;cer and ‘L i g ord 0 1 ° ,1 ' se i, ', f a rni-L o n t or. o i ge "res e ;ie u i to tt their P e rt jo, ti the P r ey g cu rl Pr e y s e .10 won ne 1,10,`,,e9 "Qs b - r f °r fi cie fee s jeut...e gale .0 tof be dio .urae L ' A t ition' o rif f %tr eon.. o v ' th e :4 the f o r 411 0 ,) d t eana e .d the ;bee te c '35 '3lOOO 0 Of 15' fore i , $ ledol n anY la' ot • the den` n' , eek' g s ta t sje o e w rr bis 1 ,, • ,ioo ,) „ 4 • c h a- , 0 00 - foe 0 ' I de • re Th e n ot g i wau be- to 0 e re o ,ea ,0 0 . 0 0 , surf,' ;d or v ei l ,' b eea ia pre, . 1 t ,en th te a ; p eu ,l not ° r i t e e c e il ltu: o l riteu de ag o . 0 . 1 to tb e itur° t lle i 3 , r ico 11, 3 di, 5 i' n 'telre s siio,:f 1 0 ; ec tion• ire 1 1 ,:o " :ra t sl' es t •c i' l' or bat e 9 " e t2e 0 1 0 ,;,t it o' d rioo bee he had tha" o f tb e i , 1 , 1 1 . 4 1 your •f tile r t - 35 a ii 0e" if v'" l s c he o ver ar ; cl s ee o n ip e;,, 1. at I , s rore f f r n e ivi r t tha t ° to r :A li ' d ot ° e had 0 0 ,015 e% ,crea°' r the rii ifi • co ore the 000, we dw: th at t n 16 4 ' io alb as- 4t s.„ ' l c o ell tha t . t h il' be„Fie e ,ble ,e 5 : co vt ai% t ,i 5 e eklY don 30?. v i ao ci a o "ott," 3 meat, g5010`; h of caroler Che:t. 10 ,, 0 t?, 3 (7 th e we sa t :tad t ad le f t ....00 / tb° rerted to all the main arguments in favour of protection, he Would now proceed to say a few words with respect to that tilv.haitcahrgeoas:tialtled the colonial argument. Now, with regard to he would vent ure to say that the position in which !" . Y had put the colonies had been as he always understood urban n ro should b e, in the same relation to the British tall as were the counties of Middlesex or York, or any er Engli s h county.. Put it was reserved for this debate t !they should adopt a most fallacious policy, and one which ...as Injurious to the imperial interests, merely for the purpose stt serving the interests of the colonies. But he believed that e s r. e it a i 3,111 eurr:eadsobnying applied to the colonies as to any other part er ai s ; iesty's dominions. The colonial argument was his Hon and Gallant Friend the Member for tlverpool,'as well as be the Honourable Member for Box tittlyegh• They quoted ie support of their arguments th t speeches of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Huskisson, as well as Oar,! °T the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury. But when he (Mr. ~,sayrJ,n,,;elhl)atlooked at the speeches of Mr: Pitt, he found him what was good for the mother country was also Z u r.u a , or the colonies, unless the circumstances wore very pe wi r and Tceial. Having said thus much, he (Mr. Card vteula believed embers on his own side o the House, rnwoenther they there was any strength in the argu the i l l ' t 'llich he that evening feeb'y endeavoured to lay before sistib i "Se? If their arguments were not so absolutely irre pear ,aid their facts not so perfectly conclusive as they had ap s;kll to consider them, what was the position in which they re sat b efore the country ? Were there any strong argu the f s against them ? Were they not seeking to leave upon fe u : l °d or the people a tax, a very small portion of which Positio ns hey into the coffers of the Exchequer ?—(Loud Op t!, 'n cheers.) Were they not claiming to raite an arbi 14rY barrie r in the way and proper course of trade ?—( Hear. ) of d i e s t h , y not seeking to deny to industry its obvious right . era t i n Pnjina of its own productions according to its own . dis ling6n Cheers.) He had not troubled the House with a Adam t at 'stic, but he would venture to read an extract from `nlh, which he was happy to say was quite opposed to Prob. h ''ld by th ose H on . M em b ers w h o were i n f avour o f erti a „" to agriculture. The Hon. Member having read the his P-oceeded to say that an jilts ration had occurred to he in connexion-with a different subject, which, if 11 01 , - ;rt he permitted, he should like to mention to the t had llear.) A young man who, during the late war, ead risen selfhim conspicuous in the defence of his country, of le tC eti to echairran of a commission for the consideration t e r ' t ate of the maritime dsfences.--tHear, hear.) TIAN course of a conversation with a Gentle -01 ,„ td n T e, stud he was afraid that the wooden walls taie rie rsngland were in danger of being thrown, in con.se estnt:-. nl the improved condition of the vessels of foreign 'etst'" The gentleman, however, with whom he was con feo• f4'holet the difficulty by saying, that England need not b 1 ire '-tenet met foreign improvements in maritime torces at all Pr"vernents in her own and be prepared to face them the ,trit'ae,s•—(Ch ers ) The same should be the conduct of Tor th'e'''alturists of this country—let them prepare themselves Pep, ~Nnpetition of foreign countries.—( Hear, hear.) Such sar t 4uld be labourerss of improving the condition of le / a3' Ura,l of this country. He would ° I th e th ose Honourable Gentlemen who were afraid (C 4 e march of improvement, protective afraid . of it.— e grisi e i r i t s ; ) In removing the p duties fr t om f ' l re the Legislature would be increasing the amouno 'or ee n rul ; and this country would, as the . Hon. Member Nao s r ."'sbury had eloquently expressed it, become a i T 'n which the demand for agricultural produce would re late th n ' r .ease, and that they would find that by such a mea- Drornote tnterests both to commerce and agriculture would be ed.--(Hear hear.) Ile would now beg to *telt rg another statistic before the House. From a Ptared Published in 1833, by Mr. Porter, it ap !,4o b ,,, t hat the population of Manchester had increased eent., and that of Salford, 194 per cent. during 4 'lth ty' w Years. The quantity of butcher's . meat and wheat ta n rtpis at vsst increase of people would require for consump ecessarily be immense, and the interests of agro• gust also be p romo t e d b y t h a t i ncrease o f popu l ation. % t i t, ‘ , (1 that the population of Liverpool and ether manufac er P l aees had increased in a similar ratio, and the effects of etp°ol A very remarkable speech was lately made at in whi c h i t appeared, that i n 1845 the increase t ars w) ve b r the p rece di ng year was near l y 4,000, and he (Mr. e e"ed h' H Friend the Member for Durham, }) /tl, Y i att entio " " on ' • •h t The increase in the East India trade s'" be n , t a • - • atild th . en about `.20 per cent. despite hostile tar'ffs. He t en d ee ' 4 k it presumption to come to the Houso of Cmmons . o s° ent e l ,!, re ,sa sanguine anticipations which he might be' . pleased giles f am, of the great increase of those commercial and ' „. °ll nec aet a ltri ng district. with which be had the honour to be t i th. t : hut the Speeches which he had quoted, wero th d e ,''atit - th e ' Then. Those men said that they really believe Commerce ofthis country were left unshackled the t `' the country would be most beneficial.—( Hear.) Ra n for hi s ow a said t , n part believed that that merchant of Liverpool ors nat the benefits which would accrue to the conntry t ~r et a trade could not be calculated, bad said no more than , i 'otj t i l With respect to the timber trade, a few facts would il ' i t trl i e b l er at i i , t i h t i b d e i i n n c g reased since the removal of its protective : r sde, „" 1 1 841 the increase of vessels, engaged in the timber ~.`shee „ - a i s nearly 200 000 tons. And with regard to those 33(70n)inithe Baltic ' trade, the amount of tonnage in 1845, only 22,000 in 1842. Seeing the Hon. e fnr t ourederland (Mr. Hudson) . in his place n's,l„sreae3.tacsn,xiooll,s disabuse his mind of . a policy which he ap ,' reir,,,"tt under. We had received 2 . ,000,000 quarters tcdtridadl gal and thahad consequently increased our ex ua If the Hon. Member would permit so humble as ldis,he, 43 hiself Mr. Cardwell), he would . venture to vqtat would be the result of that proceeding—it was 91e industrious navigators had been. benefited by • raLlation of those 2,000,000 quarters o . f corn, they n • '' w est great portion of their receipts in . railways, which rer' n d s• great deal towards promoting useful intercourse with ons;,` Parts of the country. Such, then, were the cenclu• th at t f i l4 4 he (Mr. Cardwell) had arrived at, and he believed Nth, "c co nclusions were based on reasoning of the most t b e the ki n d. T hose op i n i ons b e h a d a l ways entertaine d it thr he elto.a7 never( a r attempted h ear. ) He had never disavowed to disguise them.—(Hear, l her For \v.eoritvaeirribly did vote against his Hon. Friend the s ell "ad alwa • ampton two years ago on this question . , .for °Ylq )s considered that great changes of this kind L'e refs as questions of time. And he (Mr. Cards ti al"Nd not , • it oeny tnat at the present time, above all other lintll4 WIS necessary to look out for a supply of food. He i ee t 0 1 d eny that this measure was brought forward to tyrot4eat emergency, and he believed it was calculated "e• re u . tlie good of the country.—( Cries of Hear, bear." j, ! r e Hot Ch ' tflis wh had never dis ek e i• em trs in ti no,,k tri Thopinirmsm whic e H h he had exp ouse ressed, o and he would % i o s eteaitrg.- that there w e re a great commercial interest in l an t , th e ,' who hail lent their support on the present oEcca a;4 were nv ernment. He believed that the people of they Oita.k to learn from abstract documents, but ti-e' tha t learning from experience—(Hear, hear)—they s t h l . l ee h ad experience of the last three years, and that expe_- N'elt ti lev n nt been lost upon that great and reflecting people C,, at and i . .,, r! P r et , ented. He maintained that the support of the It]'''ervat:"Pc.)rtant commercial interest was essentialto the true t e ,o ric i st softh is country. He would frankly aeknow_ of' r sh , ) s , the 'members of this lame and powerful influence had tion't o watch the ever-varying circumstances Hear, hear. ) He begged to apologise for t e h lt e d t ßt ' e ' a t t i o z at 'ai ei tttett.lnn t ent to w hi ch he had trespassed upon the kindness etad on House. of th He believed that in the cli ' asr,' and .P r 'ees, in the general removal of sources of dis- P generous and discriminating regard to all the 1 .4 r, latti.,,,tte interests of the country, that the present was a tla s 4t e atom r l nlletent to decide.--( Hear, hear. ) And if that , 14 !.% )41 , tr ( decide in the affirmative, they would bestow upcn ri ng Y ' lay pasting these measures, great, lasting, en ' anti 4,, • r• PI N e,istltnable benefits.—( Hear, hear.) th -4 , 4 ; " said lie felt great reluctance to address the N e 'ast fl o p ooll l say, • ‘yer that the speech delivered by ° L i at did Alernber, did great. 'credit to his taste and temper. t ails d te rt : t t hink, however, ' that it was a speech cal tq °I th e -rr .Y great weight with the country. His glowing de- Xo ' ) t.°ll l . ur t ZP, e rlta of the manufacturers would tell powerfully lltet w as o n a ' ''de of the House to which be (Mr. Card (,.a s • ' for if they were in this flourishing state 14 li, "ccia o>f •••r, heat Protection, why did th e y w is h Pr( "Perit v Ile (Mr. Finch) believed, however, that al terat - i„,.:',. L `t have been greater if there had been none ar ' he ar. ) 1 -ut " 1 1 had been made in the last tariff.— 'aet made “e had noticed the speechei of many . Hon. tre°!" hart i„ r T the opposite side of the Hope, but in none 4 ,1 aein g • eff, uttett able to discover that they had succeeded Nib w rough t 's to cause:, nor had they shown how the tan t!thorp. tit t he p;osperity.—(" Hear, hear," from Colonel ri enti rit It considered that there were many reasons to li ar 'riff t . u r the prosperity previous to the passing of the di, America was in a state of complete prostration, I e and her finances were gone, and insolvency covered i ati `t t • s • natural consequence great distress was ht, th , t, as a n ar er countr y both in America and amongst our manu tti4'e a tt s i- T rad however, revived,. and withthatrev ti l l • s a_l ct s . creased demand for goods in the manufacturing heenthis country.—( Hear, hear. ) In addition to this, 14 nati" iat,ited that railway speculations had given a stimulus a rL ustry, and thereby caused considerable improve thos~'sts, e N t e_ti `produced great prosperity . to the agricultural lie s I triT trf :_ . " thought it was going too far . to say_ that t Ar :(I t v ist `7nents were attributable to the tariff. He be rathleati, . thq were to follow the tariff through all its h te tha ns, it would be found that it had operated as a bar one o „ i n a stirnulant.—( Hear, hear.) When he hail the seat in that House, he occupied the opposite lat,, s 4 don, he Noble Lord, the Member for the city of ti ti ,and th:p.en a strong protectionist, the question betwee '!ght Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Ill,; )1 'ly not then one of protection or no protection, N I , ()tie parttlerence as to the mode of applying that protection. lo g B ated . were in favour of a fixed duty, and the other t h'at ' „ h ang:llag duty ; but now, however, there was a strik %lt '1 ) 14 e only sliding scale that there was now left was Roe' 0111 moll we had seen the Right Hon. Baronet sliding VetterC t e a.nd the Noble Lord sliding in.--( Hear, hear.) t ie leaders of him that there was a sort of moral murrain among the e'„Y°Glenot t. w 0 great parties.—( Hear, hear, and laughter. ) ;11ink, however, that the opinions of either kt r 'l l t• I f Zu or the Right Hon. Baronet could have much 1141 j-road e , c onvertion o f the Noble Lord had been effected h e et!r l e, the conversion of the Right Hon. Baronet 11(, lueeted with the speed of the electric telegraph. If colllif9n. Baronet had, like a Noble Lord in the Upper oti c t„' uts!altly ensconced himself in a chateau at Caens, ' l. "as o t Prance, and surrounded himself with all the ars,-e,ullet.h.°°lutnes of Adam Smith, Malthus, M'Oregor, has te a h rl d . all other political economists, he would iwith h t hen e c'o'ne to the conclusion which he had. He AOyn e hack to England, like the " fair penitent,' 1 1 ae, `i u rather say, the contrite statesman ; he might_ ,eigh'on o t i'lled the Cabinet, triumphantly regained tll .l th en the seals of office, and -(Cheerss oiions br s ' ni :ter,) It en entitled to seme weight. ( and t he A n t aboutcleanse in his opinions seemed to have been Oar d n nti Co e h,Y a combination of circumstances. There was th'eu,„'aw League mounted upon the boards of Covent ti4bat There was heard in the distance the sounds tr 'n: the A;V th e Confusion of war and bloodshed in the Pa ths-eendoes v, 4r itie, and the Western possessions, in fact a t i g ri i k i tl i ori t tre:f uu t te l l o r t o aL a c North American war. Then came Then in their affrighted ima lJ a, rn.a r e e y ae elirut jihoeilrildtt r. Connell,op. at th e . head . of his repeal y o ... t_h ( is House, brandishing his javolins, of Cheers from the protectionists.) neon n e th eurnstances, he did not consider the change of "lte nb e , l e,.i„ b , Part of her Mejesty's Government worthy ti f or ' ti " And, with reference to the Noble Lord the iakee eare r 'e 1 Ity of London he bad. no doubt, about dr tt Of it • • • t (10 111)t t , ,e dissensions in the Cabinet. .He had r ade ; . ` l St they were directing their course in favour arid 'toysiediately passed his free trade into Scott s ,:nri t i d ' , us ed ' e his famous letter to the electors of London, bade tas:refrnon.seh,sen.sation throughout the empire. Ho It fe e s u h. e ' , ucapite all the speeches which had been I tr i lie o 'l L t l it, T i b et, they had just left the question where they 111 4 4' 'ad r ea d he Noble Lord, the Member for the West 11,11 and i t s re a l.. v , er . y solemn lecture to the aristocracy of 1, "se er 43 trij a , them of the immense forests ono Ame fi:ds, yip s , tile s 01 . in exhaustible wealth—he said thing, s t Y i he Nobl subject of American opinion respecting free t tleri„ e sis . l . ;n r rd must have known that the democratic t o nt of a„ adverse to free trade, and that in Penn -5,23' utaditr...!nerabers returned to Congress, 25 were q t . ' , %reel) ef the of the tariff of 1841. With reference iiher,hPartiewar: Ilia Hon. Baronet made a few nights ttst e t tati y : wow (' sa of which were terrific for a Minister to 111 44, 4 ellar sc r th at It possessed so little claim to a de gto s t t :i n, that et. ; an _, to much of the wildest krisyse ret "as perfectly necessary that it 1 4 order to Dhow a complete fallacy, and to detect the sophistry of his a-gument. But where could they find sufficient talent equal to the task? Where the penetration, the clearness, of perception, the coolness, the intellect, and the comprehen sieeness of mind equal to the task. He (Mr. Finch) would undertake the task. The arguments which the Right Hon. Baronet adopted were such as these ;—" There is a failure of the potato crop, we must throw open the ports." That they denied. " The ports being once opened, you cannot shut them again." That they denied. He (Mr. Finch) would ask of what use it could be to the Irish peasantry to open the ports ? It was no remedy at all. The Irish peasant, who could not give 153. for oats at his own door, how could be be able to give 50s. or 60s. a qr. for foreign corn?—( Hear, hear.) Besides, the very arguments which the Right Hon. Baronet produced went against him; for he had told them that the ports had been opened, but he had never told them that the ports were kept open. He thought that the statesmen of this country were too much in fluenced by popular clamour and agitation. He thought that that man was not fit for a statesman who was not clamour proof. He had heard of a French canary bird who, by con stant training, became accustomed to fire off a cannon, and he bad no doubt that Ministers might soon be made unaeeailable by clamour. If the Right Hon. Baronet had proposed the system of free trade at a general election, be (Mr. Finch) was sure that he would not have met with the support which he had received. He believed that if the people of this country were left to themselves, they would soon throw the system of free trade into the British Channel. The Right Hon. Baronet, in his statement respecting foreign silks, said that since the reduction on the importation of that article the silk manufacturers had carried all before them ; but he (Mr. Finch) thought there was no doubt but that the result would be the total destruction of the silk trade of this country.—(Cheers.) He had also boasted of the advance of ship-building in consequence of the reduction which had taken place on the importation of timber, and of the number of peti tions which were presented in favour of the measure from ship-owners, but he (Mr. Finch) thought that some petitioned one way, and some another, and it appeared to him that a great mass of evidence was, on the whole, ag a i ns t th e Right Honourable Baronet. With respect to feather-beds, the Right Hon. Baronet seemed intimately acquainted, although he (Mr. Finch) could hardly conceive how that could be. He could hardly understand how he had so much intercourse with feathers, because he thought, he and his colleagues were reposing for a long time on beds of roses.— ( Great laughter.) With respect to the article of flax, the ar guments used seemed to make as much against as for the Right Hon. Baronet. With respect to the linen trade, notwithstand ing the improvement which had taken place in the manufac ture of that article in Ireland, he never saw any Irish linen that could at all be compared with the linen of Alsatia. The Right Hon. Baronet it seemed to him made an unfortunate allusion to Anacharsis Clooty. He was anxious, he said to amal- gamate all classes, and to act with them on the principles of being citizens of the world. When the Right Hon. Baronet could gather round them Belgium, Holland, Germany, Prussia, Denmark, and every other state to deal with him on ouch principles, then he might fairly state that the country which would produce the best articles should have his custom. The Hon. Baronet would, he hoped, permit him to refer to the splendid peroration of the Right Honourable Baronet in his speech delivered at Tamworth in the year 1840._( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then read that portion of Sir Robert Peel's speech, in which he stated, in reference to the corn laws, " That he could not think of obstructing that magnifi cent plan, for he found that there were great interests which could not be disturbed without creating many perils—(Great cheering from the protectionists)—and he would not consent to put his hand on those interests for the purpose of trying new and dangerous principles.—( Renewed cheering from the same.quarter.) It seemed to him (Mr. Finch) that that speech looked like wisdom, compared to that which they had recently heard. He did not like to detain the House— ( Hear, hear)—but he was anxious, before he concluded, to refer to the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, who had a very happy knack of expressing his opinions. (Loud laughter.) He gravely informed them that while the price of food was low in Poland, wages were high in America—(Laughter) —which might take place in any case. In a country like Poland, where the people possess no constitutional advantages, they could not, of course, be in as good a position as the lower classes of other countries. He thought they would admit that even in England there were various rates of wages ; in some places eight shilling', in other places nine shillings, and ranging to twelve shillings. In some parishes that were over-populated, it was true that the farmers called the labourers together and made this proposal. They said they could not employ them all at full wages, and offered to employ them all at a lower rate of wages, or a portion of them at the usual rate, and the labourers generally accepted the farmers' proposals. The farmers were obliged to adopt that course in consequence of the home competition, and the soil being poor they were not enabled to give the same rate of wages. In some counties the price for labour was not always to be depended on as an index of prosperity, as in Buckingharashire formerly, where silk was manufactured, and where the price of wages fell on its being discontinued. It was always known, as far as his experience went, that whenever the farmers were prosperous, the labourers were benefited in a like ratio. He found that that was the opinion of the Right Hon. Baronet, for he at one time stated, "that when there was a low price for corn, the manufacturing interest would be depreciated, and that low wag es would always be the cons equence o f l ow p r i ces ." The Hon. Baronet went on to prove that when bread was cheap the ratio of crime diminished. He took a period of six years to prove his position, commencing with the year 1840, and terminating with 1845, This he divided into two portions the one when the price of bread was high, terminating in 1 e42, and the ether when bread was cheap, ending in 1845, he then showed what was the amount of crime in the two portions, and he showed a falling off of eighteen per cent. in the latt er half. He also pointed out to the House, that in the first period, the price of corn averaged from 60 to 70 shillings, and in the second, from 50 to 60 shillings. Now, he (Mr. Finch) ad mitted the decrease of crime, but he attributed it to a far dif ferent cause ; it occurred in a period of great manufacturing prosperity, while the first period was the season of great manufacturing distress. The increase and decrease of crime were, therefore, dependent upon their manufactural prosperity, and the price of bread had nothing to do with it. It was, urged, however, by the Government that the sliding scale be came locked, and that it became necessary to make a change in the system. Why, it was the Government themselves that locked the scale. It locked fast enough until they commenced to talk of opening the ports.—(Hear, hear.) The report of their intentions having been whispered, it raised the price of corn abroad, lowered it at home, and raised the duty from fourteen to fifteen shillings a quarter. He again asserted that the Government had to blame them selves. It was also urged that this was a final settlement of the question. He could not agree to such an assertion—an appeal must be made to the country either in that year or the next, and the question, no matter how carried, would he just as open as before. Sopposing them easure were carried early in the next year or the present, there would be petitions for the repeal of the malt-tax—(Hear, hear)—and petition on petition would be presen'ed for the repeal of the land-tax and property-tax— (Hear, hear ) and probably for some organic change in the Constitution ; there would then be such a fear and panic among the fundholders, that the free traders' would be burnt in effigy, and the whole question be settled by retiring to old British principles.—(Laughter.) The Right Hon. Baronet said that the principles of free trade were the principles of common sense.—( Hear.) That might he true in the abstract, and perfectly true in some planet which he was not aware had been as yet discovered, and which was never disturbed by war. But upon the earth they dwelt the principles of free trade would be discovered to be of uncommon nonse sense. Prussia could not be depended on, neither could France. Every one knew that the latter country was in every way op posed to the commercial policy of this country. The great passioc of the French people was glory, and the smallest possible circumstance was sufficient to induce them to gratify this passion by a sanguinary war of conquest or invasion. With regard to America, it could not be denied that she was desir ous to embrace the first opportunity to extend her posses sions—have uncontrolled empire wherever she had a chance of being successful. There was no country with which he depri. cated wnr more than with America, as he firmly believed that they would out be two years at war with her before they should be involved in a war with France, nor would they be two years at war with France before they were engaged in a war with America. To such an event look then at the consequence; de pending as they were on America for tobacco, cotton, and a considerable portion of their employment for the manufacturers.—( Hear, hear.) Now, he did maintain that the system proposed to be adopted with regard to the agriculture of the country was essentially unjust. During the last fifty years more than 400,000,0004 or 500,000,0001. of money had been invested in land under the imp ession that protection would not be withdrawn from it. He could not, therefore, but think that it was essentially unjust that the agriculturists of this country should be now brought into com petition with the labourers of other countries, who were only paid at the rate of 6d. per day. Every country should, in his opinion, have a. system of poor-laws (and Heaven forbid that this country should ever be without a system of poor-laws); but with those heavy burdens which were pressing upon the English agriculturists, he considered it impossible for them to be able to compete successfully with those countries which were not so burdened. They might be called upon to use machinery to a greater extent in agricultural operations andisteam-ploughs, had been recom mended, but if this were the case, the first result would be the setting on fire of their corn-stacks. He contended that it was utterly impossible for them, under any circumstances, to com pete in corn with other countries, in consequence of the low price of foreign labour. In a speech made by the Right Hon. Baronet a few years ago, it was stated by him that the price of corn in Denmark for the twenty-five years preceding was only 20s. 10d., and that there was a surplus of 700,000 quar ters ready to be exported after the demands of that country were fully supplied. Now, if so much might be expected from Denmark, what, he asked, might not be expected from Russia and other countries ? The Right Hon. Baronet stated that, in the course of three or four years, there would be a glut in the market, and in that case there would neither be rent for the latAllord, profit for the tenant, nor .wag es for the la bourer. lie made those remarks when it had been proposed that there should be a fixed duty of Bs., and he (Mr. Finch) wou!d ask, if the Right Honourable Baronet expected such a complete glut in the market then, what might not be expected when the duty was abolished altogether? There was a period when the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government had it in his power to do away wish the malt tax, and relieve the agriculturists from it, but he did not do so; he contented himself with taking the duty off glass. Neither had he reduced the land tax ; and he was therefore guilty of another act of injustice. (Hear, hear.) He would then conclude by offering his opinions as to the result of the division.—(Hear, hear.) There could be little doubt that the Right Hon. Baronet would have a nominal majority, but whch, in fact, would be a bona fide minority. And when Hon. Members who had misrepresented their constituencies had been deducted from that majority, there could be no doubt that, in the estimation of the country, it would be regarded as a minority.—(Protectionist cries of " Hear, hear.") As, far as he (the Hon. Member) was concerned, he would ever be found battling on the present side of the question; and, he doubted not that, on their first appeal to the country, which they would make on the first occasion fearlessly and boldly, they would have the majority of the population with ahem.—(" Hear, hear," " Oh, oh," and laughter.) The appeal would shortly be made to the nation ; and he feared not they would have the constituencies with them, when 300 protectionists would 'be returned,—(Laughter.) The cause of protection was not lost. No, it was still dear to the hearts of the nation, because it was in consonance with their feelings and habits.—(Hear, hear.) They were strong in principle and consistency, and they! were prepared to defend and support that principle as long as they had voices to utter, arms to raise, or shots to dis charge.—(Cheers and laughter. ) Mr. SEYMOUR said that on rising for the first time to address the House, he hoped to be able to enlist their sympa thies in his favour, and he was certain of being suc cessful, when he assured them that his speech would not occupy more than a few minutes. --(Hear, hear, hear.) He was not going to discuss the principle of protection, which had been canvassed mush at that (the Ministerial) side of the House; and had not allusion been made to the opinions of the tenant farmers, he would not have risen then. It struck him, indeed, that some Hon. Gentlemen, who had been elected six 3cars ago, appeared at that moment to be quite forgetful of their own opinions, as well as the feelings of their constituents. —(Hear, hear.) But he doubted not, the time was not far off when their memories would be thoroughly refreshed.— (" Hear, hear," from the protectionists.) He (the Honourable Gentleman) had the honour of being elected on last Thursday for Dorsetshire, and he should-then state the opinions of the Imam of that district) which he feared not to assert were the opinions of nine-tenths of the farmers of England.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Mem ber for Finsbury, in the course of the debate, had been pleased to state that what the farmers required for the advancement of agriculture was not protection, but the shield of the ballot to , protect them. Now he should inform the Hon. Gentleman, and other members who supported his views, that they could not labour under a greater mistake in saying that the farmers were not in favour of . protection.—(Hear, Le sr, from the ; Protectionists.) He looked on the assertion as a R radical shot fired at random by a gentleman who might be qualified to represent a metropolitan constituency, but who knew nothing of agriculturists.—( Hear, hear.) There were a few circumstances connected with the Dorsetshire elec tion which could not fail to prove that the farmers were in favour of protection, and which he begged to trouble them with.—(Hear, hear.) When the requisition calling on him and his Honourable Colleague to come forward for the repre sentation of the shire was in progress of signature, some of the tenants who held under free-trade proprietors—three or four of whom held the largest properties in the locality-- naturally held back and refused to sign the requisition until they knew what the wishes of the landlords were.—(Hear, hear.) He believed it was notorious that English tenants always wished to consult the opinions of their landlords; and in that they were not, in his opinion, to blame. They con sulted thtir landlords, who, he was happy to state, did not interfere, the question being solely a farmer's question, and the moment the will of the land lord was made known, they, ,without exception, came forward and signed the requisition.—(Protectionist cheers. ) That was a proof of his assertion that the farmers were in clined to protection.—( Hear, hear.) Another statement made was, that the small farmers alone were in favour of free trade ; or in other words, that class of farmers who, from their indo. lence and ignorance of political matters, did not ddserve to be farmers at all. Now, as far as his (the lion. Gentleman's) ex perience went, he should say the v ry contrary was the fact.— (Cries of " Hear, hear.") In his opinion all classes of farmers were protectionists, particularly the large farmers, the em ployers of labour and capital, and who, moreover, had leisure and inclination to master the details of political affairs.--( Hear. ) In the course of his canvas he had heard strong language used with respect to the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government.—( Hear, hear.) Farmers were plain men, and consequently used plain words, the introduction of which in that House might not be deemed Parliamentary.—(A laugh. ) He had heard these observations made use of ; yet, though he had been much amongst the farmers, he did not observe an atom of turbulence, or a single jot abatement of their usual loyalty and peaceable demeanour, which could not be said of the gentlemen composing the Anti-Corn-law League. Hear.) Indeed, it was his firm belief, that if the farmers of England had been more seditious in their bearing and expression they would have had more weight with the Right Hon. Baronet.— ( Loud cries of " Hear" from the protectionists.) If the Anti-Corn-law League should at any future period be inclined to attack the ancient institutions of this country, they would find that the lo3alty of the farmers would meet them in the spirit of opposition dictated by the loyalty for which they were proverbial, and with far more effect, than they had opposed' them on the present occasion. Having said thus much, he had nothing more to say than to thank the House for the patient hearing granted him, and to declare bis intention of voting sgainst the measure before the House.—(Cheers from the Hon. Member's party. _ Mr. VILLIERS had some difficulty in rising to address the House after the speech of the Hon. Member who had just sat down ; more especially after the manner in which they had been used to the course of Gentlemen addressing them on both sides of the question, for, if he was not mistaken, the Hon. Member, who had last addressed the House, said he was in favour of a repeal of the corn laws.—(Loud cries of " No, no," from the protectionists.) If the cries on the op_ posite side were correct, then the Hon. Member was greatly misrepresented by the papers, for there was not a paper which did not state that, if there was to be a repeal of those laws, he was for an immediate repeal.—.( He - r, hear. ) Mr. SEYMOUR wished to explain. What he had said on the hustings was, that he was against the proposed change in the corn-laws; but that if there was to be any change at all, he was for an immediate repeal in preference to the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet ; and such was still his opinion. Mr. VILLIERS was most happy to find that the accuracy of the gentlemen of the press was not called into question.— (Cries of " Oh, oh," from the new Member's party.) He be lieved the Hon. Member was in favour of this measure.— (" Oh, oh.") He took the Hon. Gentleman's own explana tion. He had stated that the farmers were in the habit of going to their landlords and asking their opinions, and it was really wondrous how they had preserved their loyalty.— ( Cries of " Oh, oh.") The Hon. Gentleman had given proof that the farmers were generally loyal and well affected, and that was a proof that they were not under the influence of their landlords.—(Great laughter and cries of " Oh, oh.") He believed they were loyal and not disaffected because they were not affected by the disloyal views of their landlords.—(" Oh, oh," and cheers.) He believed that the farmers were men who did not believe the stories of the interested landlords. As far as he had understood the Hon. Gentleman, the farmers were in favour of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws.—( Groans from a section of the House.) The point of the Hon. Member's speech was to show that the farmers were not under the influence of their landlords. The Hon. Member for Rutlandshire had said the same thing. The Hon. Member who had spoken last was like the gentlemen who spoke the chorus in the Greek play, which stated all that had taken place, and all that was to take place in the drama.—(Laughter.) He had told the farmers that they were to be ruined by the present measure, and all gentlemen on the protectionist side of the House had told them the same thing. He (Mr. Vil liers) felt great difficulty in rising to address the House after the speeches which had been delivered on the question, for there was nothing that he or any other Hon. Member could say, which had not been already said by the Right Honourable Baronet at the bead of her Majesty's Government. He could not help contrasting the attention shown to the Hon. Members who had addressed the House on the present measure, to the scenes which, on a former occa sion, when he (Mr. Villiers) brought forward the same ques tion at a former period. The groans and cries of parties in the House at that time still tingled in his ears.—(Cries of Hear, hear.") At that time, however, the country was in a state of great suffering, and much disorder was the consequence. The gentry were crying out for time, soldiers surrounded the House, and the people were declaring that time had not been afforded them to present their petitions against the measure; and again, he would repeat that the measure passed the House with greater rapidity than any measure had been known to pass it before.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Notwithstanding this, they were now to have this question postponed in the present session for a longer period than any measure that had been known before. For three weeks now had they been discussing the merits, and during the whole of that time they had heard nothing but the same arguments over and over again.—( Hear, hear.) What then was the conclu sion the public were to come to, but that a distinction was made in this House between the interest taken in the affairs of the rich and that of the poor.—( Hear, hear.) However, as the time was to be wasted—(Laughter) —in those discussions, he would proceed to express his sentiments, and he would say that he did not think he would be doing justice to his own feel ings, or the opinions of those whom he represented in that House if he did not declare that he hailed with joy and sa tisfaction the present measure, which he looked upon as one dictated by feelings of honour and justice.---( Hear, hear.) It must, of course, be gratifying to every Hon. Member in that House to have observed the number of Hon. Members who had become advocates of this cause, from a conviction of its utility, and many of those Hon. Members occupied positions which rendered their motives perfectly free from suspicion.— ( Hear, hear.) When the Noble Lord the Member for Lon don delivered his sentiments on this subject, in a letter to his constituents, he (Mr. Villiers) sincerely believed that the Noble Lord did so from an honest conviction that an imperative sense of duty called upon him to declare those sentiments, and that he was not in the slightest degree influenced by party feeling.--( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Villiers) was also at a loss to understand how it was that the Right Hon. Baronet oppo site deserved the reproaches by which his introduction of this measure bad been received, because the Right Hon. Baronet had not introduced this measure under the influence of any private or personal feeling, but solely because he believed it necessary for the benefit of the country ; and he (Mr. Villiers) did not think that the Right Honourable Baronet had any reason to be discontented by the manner in which the measure had been received by the public, because it was quite evident that Fe had thrown over and utterly disregarded the importunities of an insolent domination.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet had been told that if he persevered in carrying this measure to a division, that he would deeply regret it ; but the Right Hon. Baronet, wills a characteristic perseverance for which he was remarkable, disregarded all those remonstrances, and he (Mr. Villiers) really did believe that the public were delighted to seethe Right Hon. Baronet throw off with so much determination those party trammels.—(Cheers.) An Hon. Member opposite had asked him how it was possible he could show his face to his constituents after giving the vote he intended upon that occasion ? But he would ask the Hon. Member in r a e or t i u r th n he , ea h ro t oH h s i e et ow intended rdee to o hl aar a te c ds t o Om a p t ei nNi t o h on e bs eunpeoant Lords, tehl c m is q t i u o e ( b i r e s tion as contradictory as any that had been assailed in that House.—( Cries of " Name, name.") He (Mr. Villiers) could have no hesitation in naming the parties ; one of them was the Earl of Essex, who had declared that the free im portation of Indian corn into this country would be of the greatest possible benefit to it.—( Cheers and laughter.) Hon. Members might shake their heads at that as sertion, but it was nevertheless true. ( Hear, hear.) He had heard, in the course of that debate, that it was for the purpose of raising a question as to a great principle, viz., the system of protection a a) stem of policy long believed in this country, and which was now about to be abolished. Its friends were about to resist its abolition, and the object of their resist the system em o f abolition. protection, T h is was aod the now h l 1 t he wouldday of ask, what was the system ? Had anything fallen from discussiont m h o e tion to of the Gentlemen en the other side of the House as to what the principle was—whether it had any rule, or whe ther anything would result from it? Was there anything to be dignified by the name of a system ? The House had not a single idea on the subject. He had asked on his own side, whether the system of protection could be universally applied? The answer was, certainly not ; it would raise the prices of food and diminish the price of labour. There was no definite test by which protection could be tried. Was it opposed to the principle of protection ? No ; for Lord Stanley had said that protection was competition subject to regulation. (Laughter.) They had no idea of what the system was. The protec tionists say that they did not want to oppose all the advantages that free trade might give. At least, so said the Hon. Mem ber for Shrewsbury. He (Mr. Villiers) had asked, whether the system of protection had not dwindled down on the subject. He (Mr. Villiers) listened during his speech, and all that he heard was the reading of a speeech of the Attorney Ge neral's—at least that was all he could collect. These persons would go any length, at any rate they would go great lengths, in throwing the Right Hon. Baronet from the heed of the Government, though they were unable to give the House a single motion of the way in which it would benefit agriculture. Mr. Wawn says that the farmers must take as their text low prices, and trust to an improvement in agriculture. That they must not look any longer to high rates, but endeavour to produce a larger quantity, so as to meet the reduction in the price of grain,-- (Hear.) Ile would ask the Hon. Member for Norfolk how it was that, in disciesing the merits of the protective system, so little reference was made to the farmers and labourers, However much they might be referred to out of doors, he did not find the farmers and labourers brought forward prominently in that House. There was hardly a word about the farmers there, though there was no lack of reference to them out of the House. He thought that a farmer who had prospered under the protective system during the last thirty years, would be a strange animal—an extraordinary bird, that from its rarity ought to be catched and stuffed, in order to be placed in British Museum.—(Laughter mid cheers.) It was, indeed, a rare occurrence for the farmer to thrive under this protec tive system. Again, had they heard any evidence respecting the condition of thelabourer. He was aware that it had been said of the Goatacre meeting that it had been got up by the Anti-Corn-law League—( Hear, hear, from Conservative benches)—but he knew well that the Anti -Corn-law League had had nothing to do with it.—(Hear, hear.) He knew it to be one of a series of meetings that had been held for some time in Wiltshire, at which the labourers assembled to express the miserable and deplor able condition in which they were placed. If they would look at all the reports on the agricultural districts that had appeared for many years—from 1824 to 1 843-11 on. Members would find the same re presentations of the extreme distress and degradation of the agricul tural labourers. It was evident from all these that the condition of the labourers was as bad as bad could be—(Hear, hear)—par ticularly in the most agricultural counties. He would call the atten tion of the Hon. Member for Suffolk to this statement, as the county he represented specially merited this charge. He (Mr. Villiers) knew of no county that cont a i ne d more gentry an d clergymen, and yet the people of it were sunk in the lowest state of degradaion, demoralisation, and misery. —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Disraeli) had stated that the country had thriven under a protective system, but lie (Mr. Villiers) would meet him with these facts, which could not be gainsayed. A Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) had stated once in another place, on the hustings, at his election, he (Mr. Villiers) believed, what the pro tective system was. That Noble Lord said that it was a system to raise rents, and keep up the price of food, but it did not raise the condition of the farmer. That was what they had been fighting for for the last eleven days, in the present debate, and on which they were going to a division. That being the case, was he not justified in saying that a prosperous farmer was a rare bird, that ought to be stuffed and placed in the British Museum, and that the labouring population were sunk in the lowest state of degradation and distress? The Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary at the head of the Home Department, had made a statement which they had no reason to disbelieve. lie had shown the effects of the system on the people at large And what he stated the other night, he also stated last year. The case the Right Hon. Baronet had placed before the House was such as fully justified the Government in the course they had taken ; and, instead of railing at them, lion. Gentlemen on the opposite side of the House ought to have supported them by every means ha their power. The Right Hon. Baronet stated the effects that seasons of scarcity and abundance had upon the people —how that a season of sca rc it y , m i ser y, immorality, and disease extensively increased, while a period of abundance brought a mitigation, of all these evils ; and that therefore he could no longer, in face of this conclusion, support the system that kept up an artificial scarcity, and therefore perpetuated misery.—(Hear ' hear.) To the present moment no answer had been made to the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet, The High' Hon. Baronet, last year in reply to the speech of the Noble Lord the Member for London, in proposing his resolutions, stated the same doctrine he did the present year, and yet no one on behalf of the system of protection got up to answer him.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") When they said that high prices in provisions were good for the poor, and when they heard the Right Hon. Baronet rise and say that it was time this artificial system was abolished, because it militated against the comfort of the working classes, why was it that no one on that side of the House had arisen to deny it? He thought that before the debate closed some of them should answer the Right Hon. Baronet. They ought not only to look at the "Price Current," they ought also to look to the mortality among the lower classes, and to trace the effect of high prices there. They would not then, perhaps, have to charge the protectionists with the misery that existed with the spectacle of a people willing to work yet wanting employment.—(Cries of "Oh ; oh ! " and cheers.) He maintained that the Right Hon. Baronet had stated last year, and the Noble Lord the Member for London had reiterated the statement in a letter addressed to his constituents, that the consequence of high prices were co-existent with low wages. He wished to know how they were to get out of that difficulty ? They wished to keep up high It was all very w e ll f or a N o bl e L or d prices, and the purpose of this law was to do so, otherwise there was onno that t n s i i n d g e in of ire House to rs.)say_,. God forbid that we s h ou ld keep the prices high at the expense of the people," but how did the Noble Lord vote ? Corn had never been at a low price in the market, but they had Members coming to that House to complain that the agriculturists werebeing ruined. In the year 1822, the Hon. Member for North Devon might remember that it was a grievance of county Members that the prices were low. Some Hon. Member—he be lieved the lion. Member for the West Riding—had said, in the course of this debate, that this made no difference ; bat let them look to the years 1822, 1825, and to the last year, when the prices were low, not arising from importation, but from the blessing of God in sending them good harvests, than they complained that they had been dece i ved. L or d Castlereagh came down to that House and proposed a scheme for raising the prices of food. He proposed a vote of money to buy up what was called the surplus food. In the years 183.5 and 1836 there were no grounds of complaint but what proceeded from a good harvest, yet the Marquis of Ckandes came down there and proposed a repeal of the malt-tax and a Committee of the House to inquire into the distress which pressed upon agriculture. What was the speech made last year by the Hon. Member for Somerset ? He said that the Right Hon. Baronet had broken his promises, because the prices of corn were low, there being a too great abundance in the home produce. -The Right Hon, the Secretary for Foretgn Affairs had, however, said, that he could not resist the conviction that low prices were a blessing to the working classes. But they wanted also pro tection to domestic industry. What was the meaning of the word " domestic industry ? Did it mean something that the working classes were interested in? Did the working classes agree with them in their admiration of the corn laws ? Had they the authority of any working man to quote in favour of their sehemes, or to acknowledge that they were benefited by these laws ? He would venture to say that they had no such authority from any town in England. He keld in his hand a communication sent by a working man since this debate had com menced. A resolution was agreed to at a meeting at Sheffield, an open air meeting, that this law had deranged their whole mercantile system; it had made numbers of merchants and manufacturers bankrupts ; it had checked the natural currents of trade ; reduced thousands of families to misery and starvation ; neither did the good to the great mass of the agricultural population, those who tilled the ground under these laws receiving but the slightest share of the blessings they produced. There was another meeting at Liverpool—a meeting of respectble artisans whose characters were avouchod by the leading merchauts of Liverpaol ; and they stated that the manufactures were in a state of great distress—that things were getting worse, and that crime increased in proportion as food diminished. They stated that the working classes were unable to purchase articles necessary for their existence, because they found that as wages were low prices were high, and they affirmed also that when wages were high the price of food was low.—(Hear, hear.) There was another argument used by an Hon. Gentleman opposite, who, from his position in the country, would be looked upon as an authority, he meant the Hon. Member for Sunderland (Mr. Hudson). That Hon. Member was very much alarmed at this measure. He was afraid of the effect of a free importation of corn upon the ex changes. The Hon. Gentleman quoted several papers to terrify the country gentlemen and the agriculturists, and he stated that he him self had imported grain fit for human food at 255. per quarter in the year 1837. It was impossible to doubt the truth of anything the lion. Member for Sunderland said ; but when he stated a fact of that kind, he intended something, and he wished country gentlemen to draw the general conclusion that wheat could be imported at 258. He thought the Hon. Gentleman should have stated where he im ported his corn from, and what were the charges attending the im portation. Mr. HUDSON made some remark which we did not hear. Mr. VILLIER i continued—He believed that the Honour able Gentlemen would admit that we could import corn in considerable quantities from Poland and Russia. We could get a million, or two millions, or four millions of quarters of wheat an nually. Now it so happened that he (Mr. Villiers) had an authority as to the amount of corn Imported, and the price in the year 1837. Now, the price of grain at Dantzic in that year was not lower than 295.--(Cries of " At Odessa.") The freight was never less than 4s. 9d. per quarter, and yet the Hon. Gentleman said he had pur chased grain at 255. The price at Dantzic was 295., the freight to Liverpool and London never less than 4s. tild s and in one case 65., and other charges 35., and yet the lion. Gentleman said he purchased grain at 255. Another peculiarity in that year was, that a very large portion of corn went front the Baltic to America. The Hon. Gentle man the Member for Sunderland was one of that school who had an objection to free trade, because they thought the imports would have to be paid for in bullion. Now he (Mr. Villiers) would tell the Honourable Member what was the state of the money market during four years in which we imported corn, namely, from 1839 to 1841. After 1839 we had 4,000,0001. in the Bank of England, and we imported 2,700,000 quartere Of Wheat, and during the year the amount of bullion in the Bank fell to 2,000,0001. In 1840 we imported 2,60(1,000 quarters, and by the end of that year the amount of bullion had risen to 3,100,0001. In 1841 we imported 2,800,000 quarters, and at the end of that year the bul lion in the Bank amounted to 4,580,0001. In 1842 we imported 2,600,000 quarters, and at the end of that year the amount of hellion had reached 10 , 00 0,000/.. What were the exports to corn growing countries ? In 1837 our exports of manufactures amounted to 12,800,000/. ; and in 1842, after four years of im portation of corn, the exports were to 16,800,0001.—(Hear.) The argument of country gentlemen was, that the home trade was better than the foreign. That was their case, and they maintained that nothing affected this market so much as the high price of corn, The Hon. Member for Sunderland appeared to be of this opinion, that the home trade was better than the foreign. That Hon. Mem ber was well acquainted with the midland counties, and he would just read to hint the opinion of an extensivs manufacturer in Lei cestershire upon this question. His correspondent stated that the wages of the artizan were extremely low ; the distress and suffering was s at dwehpernespserdov;ishinor vr l - e et r t e h pr ig o h ri t s h io e ns Le w ice er which prevailed in the town of Leicester had never been known to be greater than it was at present. This distress and suffering was attri buted to the high price of provision, and his correspondent added and flourishing. No. The fact s e te lo r w, trade manufacturingheraintretahrrki.sekt was, the agricultural labourer, as well as most other labourers, were paid so low that when food was dear, he had nothing 10 spend on stockings andsuch likearticles. Hon. Members opposite appeared unwilling to listen to this matter ; but they might depend upon it that the surplus population of the agri cultural districts could never find employment in manufactories, unless the price of food was diminished, and the home manufacturing trade improved. The Hon. Member for Northamptonshire, who was the leader of the protection party, and generally proclaimed their views to the world in that House, declared that the price of food should not be cheapened, and stood up for a system which pro duced three-fourths instead of five-fourths. The Hon. Member and his party objected to Increasing the foreign trade, and called loudly for a diminution In the business of the manufacturer. With the aid of their Quarterly Reviews, their Standards, and their Heralds, they pro clahred to the world that If some of the manufacturing towns were razed to the ground, this country would be more moral, more con tented, and more happy. With an Increased population and diminished employment, they wished to have fewer manufactories, and told the House and the world, that if this measure was abandoned, theywould provide for the surplus population, and diminish the prevailing dis tress in the manufacturing districts. Now he wanted to ask them a simple and plain quefition—llDW did they propose to do all this ? Upon what did they depend ? From what had fallen from some of them, he was led to understand that they depended upon the present distri bution of the constituenees and the House of Lords. Now that was the position of this question at this moment, and that was the nature of the latrine that was going on with some Noble Lords upon this subject. They hoped to throw out this measure, and to form a Go vernment, and they hoped by the influence they could exercise over dependent voters to get a majority fvr the purpose of maintaining the present corn-law system. Now he wanted to know whether Hon. Gentlemen had considered the position of this question? These corn-laws must either b e supported by force h or by reason —(Cries of " O, oh," from the protectionists, followed by Opposition cheers.) They h a d t rie d force when this law was introduced and carried by force.--(Opposition cheers.) Four e ars after it was carried it was maint a i ne d b y f orce. The people had been cut do wn for the purpose of ma i n t a i n i ng th i s c ut down in Manchest er f or resisting this lcaowrri The people were -law in 1819, and t he y were attempted to be put dow n b y f orce in 1830, but that was f ound too difficult a task. In 1839 they found the people discontented with the results of former years, and the Go vernment was not able to persuade them to give up th e i r oppos i t i on to the corn-law. it was that ag itati on that first gave rise to,th e League. Their protection societies were created for Anti-Corn-law League. people, those pose o f deceiving and societies gave the express purpose rise to the Anti-Corn -law League, which was induced to exhibit itself in the extraordinary manner that it had done, to circulate, not its own doctrines or view., as been ascribed to it by Honoura bl e Gentlemen opposite,_ a had ad 'the deliberate con v i c ti ons of the most enlightened men that ever wrote or ever existed n an d by their extraordinary exertions, the members in this country ; that body brought about the opinion of the country in favour of the emancipation of trade, and the removal of the restrictions on commerce, and the abolition of the corn-laws.--(Hear, hear.) And he state o the af maintained that tha t was the question at this rao• th ment. They could n ot support e law by force ; they could not support it by deluding the people, or inducing them to quarrel with a minister who had conscientiously come forward with the present measure. Ile would ask them whet her they had ma& any security for a period of scarcity; or if the people were to call for universal suffrage, or were to rise up in arms against the law, what position would the protectionists be in ? lle would onty ask them to imagine such a Government as they had described with a Noble Duke at its head.—(gear, Marl) The country w ou ld b e i n a s t a te of tumult, and lion. Gentlemen opposite would be responsible for the peace and order of the et?untry. (R ear, hear,) The state of the country would really be In a miserable position. And what would they do? They would do what they did in Hai their knees, hear.) They would come upon prayi n g the Right l Honourable Gentleman at the lead of the Government to taiee office again.—(Opposition cheers.) Then the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Rutlaads ~ w e e quarrelled with the Right Hon. Baronet because he did not stick to his guns.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Would the Right Hon. Member himself stick t o hi s guns if h e saw a starving people before him ? Would he attempt to put the people down by force ? They dare not. That was their position, therefore, at the present moment. Re would ask them wh e th er it w as rea sonable to resist the demand of the peimle to remove this corn-law ? The Right Hon. Baronet, In bringing forward his motion, was con sulting the interests of the agriculturists, for it would have the effect of giving them the protection for which they sought. It seemed to him (Mr. Villiers) that the Right Hon. Baronet had maintained their interests.—(Hear, hear.) Would the Hon. Member for Dorset wish such a man as Neckar to get into the Government? The French Minister, Totirgot, in 1775, repealed the cern• laws as soon as he went into oftace.—(Flear, hear.) That Minister said " There are two things to be avoided in every commu nity, and if they are net averted in this country -we should have na- Waal Pealkruptot and revolution, ". - That WSI itablitfteen years be. to an attempted continuance of the sliding scale. Every Member who had spoken on the subject had hardly been speaking five minutes before he began to discuss the horrors of free trade in food. The question was whether they should continue the system of the sliding scale—and that they call protection. Had there been the slightest information given about protection to agriculture?—had they heard any way in which protection assisted agriculture by capital or otherwise? They had only heard the calamities which free trade would cause to agriculture. He would ask, had any agricul tural authority been quoted to show that the System of protection was advantageous? No such quotation had been given —there was not a single man who had given any explanation at all. Many persons on the other side of the House said that the principle of protection to agriculture de pended upon none of the causes he had stated, and that it did not require to be assisted or explained by an Act of Parliament. For the last two nights there had been in the gallery of the House. a gentle man said to be one of the largest occupiers of land in the kingdom— a man who was spoken of as being a great authority on the subject of agriculture. That gentleman was In the Howe in order that he might give some answer to the silly statements which had been put forth. That gentleman occupied 3,200 acres, extending into six counties, and he received rent in eight counties. No wonder that they were so adverse to any inquiry by way of a Committee embodied by the House, for they knew that this person would come forward and give evidence against their views. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) They never wished to refer the question to a ComMittee for fear this person should come and demolish all the fuv,uments of their side.—(Cries of " Oh, oh 1" from the Ministerial benches) They cried out " Oh, oh 1" but why did not they go be fore a Committee ? They were on their trial before their country, and they could not find any person in favour of their views. He (Mr. Villiers) would venture to say then what he had said before, that if they went before a Committee of inquiry they would find farmers from every part of the country to give evidence against their !principle. They would find land agents whose opinions were hostile to them. There was a society of land agents in this town, .and the majority of that society were of opinion that the total and ' immediate repeal of the corn-laws would do no harm if it did no good. What was the case with the Honourable Members for Essex and Suffolk—they both plumed themselves on their knowledge of the subject, and they both spoke. The Honourable Member for Essex, after uttering some very questionable jokes, ended by quoting a chapter of Mr. Arnold's work. The Honourable -Member for ttiMk, who was returued to the #Towle u the Armen, friend, spoke - - • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORN ING, FEBRUARI 27, 1846, fore the revolution occurred. He said, " You must take care that your revenue is maintained. and that you avoid scarcity."—(Cheers.) His very first Act in 1775 was to make Internal trade free, and he put on record his views at the same time with respect to corn com ing from foreign countries. And he observed that the effect of the then existing law was to make the provinces dependent upon the season. They were always . exposed to scarcities. He also stated that it would improve the commercial interests of a country, by removing this prohibition on corn. Now, what was his fate ? He would mention it to the House, as It was not unlikely that the same fate would befal other 31inisters. Condorcet says there was a corn. bination of all the people, All classes of the people in the state— young girls and kept mistresses—all combined to drive him from power, and every. Minister who succeeded him, between the years 1775 and 1789 were driven in like manner from power, when they thus adopted measures to' prevent the emergency which they fore saw. It is such men as those of whom the Hon. Member for Dor setshire is afraid lest they should come into power. Mr. Carlisle, in his " Historory of the French Revolution," states that the prevalent opinion among the Nobility was, that. they could not live alone upon the rents which they derived from their estates; they wanted something more. They could not parade themselves at court —they could not preserve their equipages—they could not maintain their proud position unless they had some exemption of privilege, In the 'Bt there was a scarcity, and in '69 there was a comprehensive scheme such as the Honourable Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Disraeli applauded; and the results of that measure was known to all. Ile maintained that it was impossible to provide against the season of scarcity, or a famine, or a failure in the revenue. He there fore recommended Hon. Members opposite to consider whether the Right Hon. Baronet was not a real Conservative—whether they did not think he was really doing what he thought was best for their own interest? Hon. Members opposite had not one security against time of scarcity. They had heard the Right Ilon.Baronet state his apprehension and his dread of a recurrence of that time. After all this discussion, all the enlightenment of the public on the subject, it would be an impossibility to deceive them again. They had now an intimation of a famine in Ireland, and they had not the least cer tainty that such' a season would not recur again. If such an event should occur, what would they do ? It was a fact that the people were not fed, that the people were distressed, and what did they un dertake to do for them ? Did they mean to answer that question in the year 1847 or in the year 1848 ?—(Cheers.) He would assure the party who were opposed to the present measure that if a period of famine should arrive it would not be a question of corn-laws ; if the people were driven to a dangerous extremity he was quite sure that It would be very much for the interests of the aristccracy that before such a period should arrive that that question should be settled. He thought if there came a period of famine, confusion and distress would follow, and the people would look to the cause, and would come to no other conclusion than that for the last forty or fifty years the aristocracy of the country were using the powers of legislation against them, and that they had been faithless to their trust, and he (Mr. Villiers) therefore urged them at that moment to reconcile themselves with the people by giving their hearty compliance to that measure, by voting in foto for the aboli tion of the corn-laws. If they did that he would venture to predict they would follow only that course which would win for them the respect of the country and the people over whom it ought to be their guide and glory to rule with mercy and with justice. (The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) Mr. HUDSOII rose (amidst loud cries of "Adjourn, adjourn)" to explain that he could give the name of a gentleman who imported grain at 225. Mr. FERRAND rose and said that he was informed that he was grossly attacked by four Members of that House that evening, during his absence, and he begged to state that to-morrow evening lie should be in his place to defend himself from any charges that might be brought against him.—(Loud cheers,) Mr. ISANKES then rose and moved the adjournment of the de bate ,when Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose and said that he hoped, as it had con tinued so long, it would be brought to a conclusion to-morrow evening. Colonel SIBTHORP observed, that having failed in many endea vours to say a few words on the subject of the present measure, he hoped he should not be out of order in putting a few questions to the Right Honourable Baronet.—(Hear, hear.) The country at the present moment was in an extraordinary situation, in fact it was be coming a laughing stock to the nations of the earth.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) There was no Secretary for the Colonies—there was no Secretary for Ireland—there was no Attorney-General for Ireland—there was no Solicitor -General for Ireland within that House; what an anomalous condition was that, when Honourable Gentlemen, who, like him, were anxious to put a question to these gentlemen, had no opportunity of doing so. lie had a right to presume that the Secretary for the Colonies was a very important person in that House. His salary was not less than 5,0001. a year, yet he was not there ; and the Secretary for Ireland, who had promised himself success in Nottinghamshire, where he (Colonel Sibthorp) thought it his duty to go to oppose him, had been re jected, a pretty plain proof that the Prime Minister was not very popular among the agriculturists. He felt an honest pride that not a tenant of his was bound down to any particular course ; he had no communication with them, nor did he know which way they voted, but he had no doubt— (Laughter)—th at they voted in the manner most conducive to their interests, namely, by supporting protection to agriculture. There was a Lord of the Admiralty, where was his seat in the House?—(Hear.) Why the Minister should have little weight indeed who could not secure him one, though he received a salary of 1,2001. a-year. They were informed there were two vacancies in the Lords of the Treasury, at 1,2001. also; where were they?—(Hear, hear.) Of the gentlemen who held the offices and resigned he held the highest opinionfor their highmindedness, and the independence of the course they pursued in throwing off the Government livery under the circumstances.—(Hear, hear.) There was the Commissioner of Woods and Forests at a large salary, where was he, or what became of the salaries ?—(Hear, hear.) He thought it the duty of the Right Hon. Baronet to satisfy the country of its present condition, and the likelihood of its future condition.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet had said in his speech " that never should the year 1841 be effaced from his memory ;" but he (Col. Sibthorp) wished that the Right Hon. Baronet would not permit the year 1839, when he first embodied the Conservative body to escape from his memory. Mr. SPOONER said after what had fallen from the Noble Lord (Russell) as to the debate closing on the nett evening, he could not think of disagreeing with the views of the Noble Lord, but he could not agree to that without expressing his opinion that the debate should not close without giving an op portunity to Hon. Members to express their opinions upon the measure before the House.—(Cries of "Go on, go on.") He was not at that time of the night prepared to go on, but on the next night he would be enabled to inform the Hoa. Member for Wolverhampton why it was that he was opposed to the present measure. He was in favour of cheap food, but he was not in favour of a measure which was nothing more than a delusion. The debate was then adjourned. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter to One o'clock. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A new grand opera, in three acts, entitled The Crusaders, the music by Benedict, the libretto by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn, was produced here last evening with the most triumphant success. The playbill contains the - following notification Notwithstanding the various novelties which have been produced in the course of the pre sent season, the preparation far this opera (which was entered upon at the end of last summer) has never been suspended; it having been deemed essential, while every necessary care has been bestowed upon other entertainments, to pay minute attention to the produc tion of a drama more elaborately and 'expensively worked out than perhaps any other previous performances which have been fortunate enough to obtain'snch favour at this establishment." For once the playbill does not exaggerate. This drimais more elaborately and ex pensively, and, let us add, tastefully worked out, than any that has ever been produced at this establishment. The scenery, by Grieve and Telbin, is exquisitely beautiful; the costumes and proper ties are magnificent, and the spectacle gorgeous in the extreme. To attempt to do justice to the splendour of the scenery would be im possible—suffice It to say that it is a perfect realisation of some of the most splendid descriptions of Tasso. We have, for instance, in the first act, " The enchanted wood ;" and, in the second act, " The planting the cross on the walls of Jerusalem," descriptions which any lover of poetry knows by heart, and which he will here see re alised. But the Crusaders is not a mere spectacle —as a musical composition it is certainly the greatest work that Benedict has yet produced—learned, profound, fully instrumental, elaborately worked out, as every composition by such an accomplished musician as Bene dict must necessarily be. The Crusaders surpasses all his former compositions in originality, variety, and dramatic point. There is, moreover, a rich vein of melody running through the whole com position, which we seek in vain in his former productions. There is an unity and a purpose about the music of the Crusaders which stamps it as, par excellence, an opera. It is a work which will undoubtedly enjoy not only an English, but an European reputation. The following is the cast of the characters: Conrade (King of Jerusalem), Mr. Howell; Bohemond (Prince of Tarnetum), Mr. W. Harrison; Raymond (Count de Toulouse), Mr. Borrani ; William (Archbishop of Tyre), Mr. Weiss ; Hassan (Prince of the Assassins, surnamed " The Man of the Mountain"), Mr. Stretton ; Ismael (a yo un g Fedavi, or follower of the Sect of the Assassins) , Mr. D. W. King; Aimee (a Sumnite Girl, of the Sect of the Assassins), Miss Homer; Iseult (Daughter of the Count de Toulouse), Miss Rainforth. The opera opens with a scene of revelry in the palace of Tyre, on the occasion of the coronation of Conrade as King of Jerusalem. Various Sumnite girls are seeking to intoxicate the Crusaders, and plying them with wine, and dancing around them. The Archbishop in the orgies, orders the Sumnites to leave the city, and the Crusaders, recalled to a sense of propriety, renew their vows to march to Jerusalem ; and the scene concludes with an energetic chorus, without accompaniment, "On, Chieftains on," a delightful composition, which was deservedly encored. Bohemond refuses to permit Aimee to depart, and swears to protect her, and while the caber Crusaders go to:attend the coronation, he returns to her, tells her man loves Almea, nowa and d h r as agsheroff accompanied ; as his b r love, which is retu rn e d, and she g ives him an assi g na t ion in the vrl or d o e f t A o , l3ln th e e n o . ld of mountain, Ismael, he Crusaders enters terrified, Conrade has been parchment threatening every future king of Jerusalem with a te rti to him stabbed by byte) the ry of the old man of the mountain, ilar fate. They cast lots for the crown, and it falls to Bohemond, who, and by his side has been ..." and a 2ndeterred by the fate of his . r' The next" scene 2san of the introduced i p s re i d n ec t e h s e so f r zre a s e t ce o p f t A s la th m e e d n i — gs t fi h ty e apiryoodpoesoedf the ole for the her love for Bohemond , and at the same time beseeches him to cut moun tain—who,thefin first B on unn ti l l n e fo E rm ng s li u sh s, i s n ta h g is e. pre A fa im ee e , a is r n e s; p 7 his enchantments in practice for the purpose of so intoxicating the senses of Bohemond that he may become hers. Bohemond now enters the wood, and here is the realisation of the beautiful descrip lion of Tasso, in his 18th canto—Almea, of course, being the Armida of the scene. Bohemond, however, escapes from all the snares, and returns to Tyre. In the second act we find him, as King of Jerusalem in the camp near the city to which he is lying close siege. Among his army are the old man of the mountain, Is mael, various other assassins disguised as crusaders, and Alm6a dis• guised as a young knight. She overhears Hassan directing Ismael to assassinate Bohemond, and knowing her power over Ismael, she promises to become his wife if he will save Bohemond. There is a beautiffil dttet in this scene which was very tastefully sung by D.W. King and Miss Homer. The Count of Toulouse and his daughter Iseult (the affianced of Bohemond) tides arrive in the camp, and here is intro duced a delightful ballad "In the heart's early dream," which was so exquisitely sung by Miss Rainforth as to call forth a rapturous encore, and which very narrowly escaped a second encore. It is certainly the most exquisite ballad in the Opera. This is followed by a duet equally beautiful, which was given most effectively by Harrison and Miss Rainforth. His love for Iseult has returned ; lie has forgotton poor Alma, and indulging in pleasing reveries of his loVe Bar Iseult, he has sunk into repose, when Hassan enters, and dragging In Ismael, commands him to assassinate Bohe mond. lie is in the act of So doing, when Almea rushes forward, and uttering a scream, snatches the dagger from his hand. Hassan hurries out Ismael, and Almea is arrested as the assassin, and con demned to die, notwithstanding afi 23ohemond's efforts to save her. We then have a gorgeous spectacle of the u;'fftult on Jerusalem, and the planting the cross on the ramparts, which i; another realisa tion of Tasso. In this scene Alma is saver by Ismael, who comes forward and confesses that he 'v - Zs the assassin, and is led out for execution, while the Crusaders deterMii:P to attack Hassan In his stronghold. The third act opens with a pretty chorus of female voices attendant on Iseult', liftman, dis guised as a Christian Pilgrim, informs her of Bohemond's love for Aimee, and she determines to reject him. At the same time, Bo hemond receives a communication offering to deliver up to him the old man of the mountain if he will marry Aimee, and thus unite the European and Asiatic races. He consents, and llassan, who has taken poison, delivers himself up, and dies, but not until he has heard that Aimee is turned Christian. She overhears a scene between Bohemond and Iseult, and discovers that Bohemond still prefers Iseult. The last scene is the grand marriage procession of Bohemond. Alines, approaches covered with a bridal veil, but when she takes it off she is discovered in the costume of a nun ; she has taken the vows, and gives Iseult to Bohemond as his bride. The final is a duet between Miss Rainforth and Miss Romer, in which both ladies sung most exquisitely, which was deservedly encored. Benedict and the two ladies, and Harrison and Bunn, were all called for at the fall of the curtain. The house was crowded to suffocation, and a more successful piece has not been produced for years. We heartily congratulate M. Benedict. The Crusaders is worthy of the pupil of Weber. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. An unusually thin atterdance, and business flat in the extreme. t a t' i s o l T ot ib a th n o d r ß pe r , oca n rd ai o n , s w t h l t N 3 Th w on er i e th a e at a n ie discountonly fluctuations on tuthaetiolansstwqeuroetaintio cos highest offer was 25 to 1. We have but a carry list of prices t o submit : LivEaroot STEEPLE Cnisg. 6 to I agst Mr. Murp h y' s St. Le g er 7 to I agst Mr. Brooke' s Ea g le 7 to I agst Mr. Hey' s Lancet. Even on the fled agst the above three, Veluti, and M ame l u k e, and ucSn, even on the field agst the first four and Carlow. MESTER CUP. 18 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat —taken to 75/. & aft. off. 22 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Mermaid—taken and aft. offered 2 5 t o I agst Mr. Merry's Whinstone—taken and aft. offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Woffenden's Miss Burns—taken to 50/. 40 to 1 agst Lorti G. Bentinck's Discord 500 to 1 agst Mr. Ongley's Roderick—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Worloy's Columbus—taken to 1001. DERBY. 9 to 2 agst Lord H. Russell's Sting 13 to 1 agst Scott's lot —taken to 1001. and afterwards offered 17 to 1 agst Gen. Shubrick's Brocardo-20 to 1 laid two or three times 20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago—take 22 to 1 25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe— take 30 to 1. BRIGHTON, FEB. 25.—The General Steam Naviga tion Company's steamer Menai arrived this morning from Dieppe, after a fine passage of nine hours. Among the passengers were Mr. Coxe and family, and the Hon. Mr. Peel, MR of the Premier, who was the bearer of dispatches from her Majesty's Ministers in Madrid and in Paris, for Lord Aberdeen. To Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query is proposed— Why do all the Rrot cutlers in Europe use and recommend Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop? The answer is simply because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keep and smooth edge. Manufactory, 25, Strand. - HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING- ROOM. The Queen held her first Drawing-room this season yesterday after noon, at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, at tended by the royal suite, arrived from Buckingham Palace shortly before two o'clock, and were received by the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness. In attendance were the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Ladies of the Bedchamber, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe (in waiting), the Duchess of Norfolk, the Marchioness of Douro, the Countess of Charlemont, the Viscountess Canning, and the Viscountess Jocelyn ; the Maids of Honour, the Honourable Misses Stanley and Dawson (in waiting), Paget, Kerr, Napier, and Lady Caroline Somers Cocks; the Bedchamber Women, Honourable Mrs. George Campbell, Lady Gardiner, Honourable Mrs. Brand, Viscountess Forbes, and Lady Theresa Digby ; Lord in Waiting, Lord Glenlyon ; Groom in Waiting, Colonel Drummond ; Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot; Pages of Honour in Waiting, Messrs. Wortley and Gordon; Treasurer to Prince Albert, Mr. George Edward Anson ; Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness, Lord George Lennox ; Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness, General Sir George Anson ; Equerry in Waiting to his Royal High ness, Colonel Wylde. Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by her Lady in Waiting, Lady Fanny Howard, and her first Equerry, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart., was present at the Drawing-room. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by his Equerry, Major Stephens, and his Royal Highness Prince George, arrived at St. James's I'alace, and were received by the Vice- Chamberlain, who conducted their Royarliighnesses to the royal closet. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, com manded by their Lieutenant, Sir Henry Robinson ' was on duty at the principal entrance, in the State-rooms, and also in the Portrait Gal lery and Presence Chamber. Before the Drawing-room, her Majesty, according to annual cus tom, received a deputation from Christ's Hospital in the Throne room. The deputation, which was ushered to the royal presence 143 - Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting, consisted of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., the President; Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer; Mr. Thomas Poynder and Mr. John Alliston, two of the Almoners of the institution ; accompanied by the Rev. William Webster, M.A., the Mathematical Master; Mr. W. H. Back, the Drawing 11faster; and the forty boys of the Royal Mathematical School, founded by King Charles the Second, and was most graciously received. The Queen condescended to inspect the charts and drawings of the boys, and to intimate her approbation of their performances. Her Majesty was also pleased to express the lively interest she felt in the continued and increasing prosperity of Christ's Hospital, of which ancient institution her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have for several years past been Governors. The deputation having retired, the Foreign Diplomatic Corps was introduced, when the following presentations to the Queen took place in the diplomatic circle:— . . _ By her Excellency the Countess Dietrichstein—Her Highness Princess Nicholas Esterhazy and Mademoiselle Dedal, daughter of the Netherlands Minister. . _ By Madame Bunsen—The Baroness de Langen, wife of Baron de Langen, Officer in the Prussian Guards, and Attaché to the Prussian Legation in London. By Iris Excellency Count Dietrichstein—His Highness Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, and Count Rodolph Kinsky. The Fareign Diplomatic Circle was attended by Count de St. Au lake, the French Ambassador, M. George de itabaudy, Chancelier de l'Arnbassade, and Count de is Grange, Attaché to the Embassy ; the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, and Baron Koller, First Secretary to the Embassy; the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; Baron Dedel, the Netherlands Minister ; Count de Pollen, Sardinian Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Por tuguese Minister, the Chevalier de Ribiero, Secretary, and Baron de Lages, Attaché to the Legation ; the Russian Minister and Baroness de Brunnow, M. Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary, and Baron de Nicholay, Secretary of Legation ; General Prince Castelcicala, Nea politan Minister, and M. G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation; Count de Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wur temburg Minister, and Baron de Linden, Attache to the Legation : the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, and Mademoiselle Bunsen ; Baron de Langen, Attaché to the Legation ; le Com mandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister; Count de Reventlow, Danish Minister, and M. de Bielke, Secretary of Legation; Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister, and M. de Somara, Attache to the Le gation; the Duke de Sotomayor, Spanish Minister ; le Chevalier de Pedrorena, Secretary, and M. Javier Romano, Attache to the Lega tion; the New Grenada Chargé d'Affaires, and Madame Mosquera ; Mr. Raphael de Ayala, Secretary to the Mission, and Madame de Ayala; the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires, and Baroness de Rehausen ; Mr. Charles Drouet, Belgian Chargé d'Affaires, and M. Delepierre, Secretary to the Mission. The General Circle was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gen tlemen-at-Arms, the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Wait ing ; the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household,: Mr. Mandeville, her Majesty's late Minister at Buenos Ayres; the Vice-Chancellor of England, Major- General Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.B. Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; the Master of the Cer e monies, Sir Henry Robinson, Lieu tenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms •' the Solicitor- General, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Mr. Sheriff Chap lin, Mr. Sheriff Laurie, Colonel Sir George Cooper, first Equerry and Comptroller of the Household of her R o y a l Hi g h ness the Duchess of Kent; Dr. Chambers, Physician to her Majesty and the Queen Dowager; Captain Francis Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, and Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert ; Mr. M. Wyatt, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms ; Lieut-Colonel Hall, Silver Stick ; Major-General Wemyss, Equerry to the Queen; Major Stephens, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; Captain H. Hope, C. 8., Naval Aide-dc-Camp in Waiting ; Colonels Weare, Owen, Dyneley (C. 8.), and C. Kennedy (C.B. and:K.ll.), Aide-dc-Camp to the Queen; Mr. J. B. Heath, Governor of the Bank of England ; Rev. Charles Farebrother, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor; Rev. William Hutchin• son, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Chaplin ; Rev. S. R. Cattley, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Laurie; Mr. James Bunce Curling, Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant of the Yeomen Guard; Captain Bellairs, Exon in Waiting; Captain Kin caid, Exon of the Yeomen Guard ; Sir Benjamin Smith, C. S. ; Chevalier Hebeler, their Prussian and Wurtemberg Majesties' Consul- General; Mr. Charles Castellain, Vice-Consul for Belgium; Mr. Robert A. Heath, Sardinian Vice-Consul ; Hon. Frederick Byng, Mr. Beresford, Captain Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Captain Green ; Mr.- Des Vceux, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty ; Colonel Godwin, Gentleman Usher to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert ; and the following Ladies : DUCllESS—Sutherland MARCHIONESSES—Westmeath, Londonderry, Exeter COUNTESSES—Mexborough, Rosebery, St. Germans, Dalhousie, Jersey, Delawarr, De Sails, Dowager De Salts, Haddington, Poulett, Ranfurly, Chichester, Hardwicke, Home, Limerick, Sheffield, Essex, Rosslyn, Dowager Winterton ViscouyrEss—Newport, Dowager Galway, Gage, Pollington, Sidmouth, Barrington, Dowager Glentworth, Dowager Torrington, Ashbrook, Hawarden, Palmerston, Hereford, Duncan BARONESSES—Anthony de Rothschild, Lionel Rothschild LADIES—Laura Meyrick, Page Turner, Yarde Buller, Simpkinson, Serail Lindsey, Claud Hamilton, B. Johnstone, Louisa Primrose, Anne Primrose, Byron, Mahon, Bowyer Smyth, Kelly, Wheatley, the Lady Mayoress, Eleanora Paget, Adelaide Paget, Constance Paget, Suffield, Napier, Aldis, Dowager Napier, Blake, Langdale, Mary Sackyille West, Isabella Wemyss, Caroline Kerrison, Charlotte Egerton, An trobus, Scudamore, Erle, Dorothy Walpole, Mary Knox, Elizabeth Knox, Lucy Bridgeman, Charlotte Bridgeman, Maitland, Colborne, Mary Fitzroy, K. Douglas, Alderson, Dalrymple, Lister Kaye, Farn ham, Hamilton, Spencer, Stopford, E. Dawson, Burrard, F. Sandon, Peel, J. Stuart, Monteagle, Susan Habroyd, Frances Cole, Coote, Clerk, Lyttelton, L. Perham, Adelaide Capell, A. Beckett, M. Alford, A. Wentworth, Goldsmid, Cottenham, Dowager Abinger, Dalmeny, Wade, C. Villiers, Dillon, K. Jermyn, Stabley, Cockburn, Lynd hurst, Beauvale, U. Lennox, Davis, Margaret Grey, T. Murray, A. Barnes, J. Walsh, Caroline Gower, Fremantle, A. Vane, F. Egerton, Graham, Goring, Caroline Bathurst, Brickman, Colchester. Shadweli Canning, Harriet Anson. RIGHT HONOUEABLE-LLady COMIC. ' 11oNouRABLEs--Mrs. Feßowes, Mrs. hall, Mrs. Monckton, Mrs. Methuen, Mrs. Henry Walpole, Mrs. 11. Tufnell, Miss Maude, Miss Gage, Mrs. A'Court Holmcs, Caroline Gage, Louisa R. Colborne, Caroline Lyttelton, Miss Flower, Miss Ryder, Lady Cockburn, Mrs. P. Barrington, Mrs. K. Stewart, Mrs. R. Currie, Mrs. A. Duncombe, Mrs. J. Mackenzie, Louisa Addington, Mrs. Carew, Charlotte Bar rington, Mrs. Phillips, Miss Eden. MISTRESSES—Stewart Mackenzie, Chaplin,"ShaW Lefevre, George Jenkinson, Tinney, Laurie, Matheson, Langford, Henry Beauclerk, Jervis, Henry Creed, Charles Farebrother, J. B. Heath, Aldis, Yards Buller, John Neeld, William Paynter, A. G. Roberts, Whitworth Russell, Escott, Ram, Sandon, Newte, Montefiore, Willats, Henry Harvey, T. Willis Fleming, Kinloch, Edmund Campbell, Kingsmill, Robert Stopford; Walrond, Rosa, Howard, George Maclean, Arden, Vincent Thompson, Locke, Hamilton, Arbuthnot, Edwin Leaf, C. Low, Rowland Cooper, Jones, David Salomons, F re d er i c k B re tt , E. T. Coke, P. Gipps, F. H. Brett, R. Neville, C. Bruce, Howley, L. Brooke, W. G. llayter, M. Gibson, Russell, Stephenson, Fitzßoy, Hamilton, Newete, W. Chute, E. Cardwell, Austen, Taltburd, Cooper, Deedes, P. Bennett, toting, E. Grove, Barkly, Ogle, R. Ellice, P. Reading, Morrison, Hume, G. Taylor, A. Montgomery, H. Ad dington, J. Gladstone, W. Campbell, Steuart, M. Gaskell, W. Glad stone, G. Barc'ay, H. Burr, Gascoigne, Maberly. MISSES— Hallam, Meyrick. Laura Meyrick, Frances Chambers, Rosalind Chambers, Shaw Lefevre, Helen Shaw Lefevre, Mary Wheatley, De Sails, Wilberforce Bird, Chaplin, Augusta Bird, Sarah Chaplin, Marianne Chaplin, rage Turner, Emily Page Turner, An trobus, Carolina, Antrobus, Ram, Paynter, Lockhart, Johnstone, Elizabeth Johnstoue, Christina Perceval, Bowyer Smyth, Shadwell, Fanny Russell, Spencer, Mary Spencer, Hill, M. Ely, C. Baker, Charlotte Hill, Eliza Hervey, Fanny Hervey, Hubbard, Cardwell, Spearman, Louisa Stopford, Morrison, Jane Walrond, Cole, Gold ! staid, Louisa Cole, Murray Macgregor, Arden, Emily Davis, Newte, Thompson, Mater Kaye,. Panton, Stuart, Davis, Emily Timmins, Mary Sulivan ' Baring, Timmins. Be Horsey, Walrond, Stewart Mackenzie, Baker, Ellice,'Emily Morrison, Lacy treys, E. Murray, H. Campbell, Catherine Bathurst, .Tervis, C. Sulivan, Copley, Coote, Sophia Copley, Philips, Eliza Fremantle, M. Fremantle, Elizabeth Dawson, Louisa Alderson, Mary Plume, Charlotte Hume, Wemyss. The fbllowing ladies had the honour to be presented to her Ma jesty ; The Countess of Limerick, by the Dowager Vicountess Glentworth Countess of Rcnfnrly, by Vicountess Canning Vicountess Newport, by the Duchess of Buccleuch Vicountess Sidmouth, by Mrs. Howley The Dowager Vicountess Glentworth, by the Countess of Ranfurly Vicountess Hereford, on accession to the title, by the Hon. Lady Cockburn . . Lady Page on coming to her title, by the Vleountess Can ning _ _ Lady Simpkinson, by the Lady Langdala Lady Sarah Lindsay, on her marriage, by her mother, the Countess of Mexboreugh Lady Kelly, by Lady Pe el The Lady Mayoress, by Lady Peel Lady Napier, on her marriage, by the Dowager Lady Napier Lady Blake, by Lady Palmerston Lady Caroline Kerrison, on her marriage, by Lady 3fahon Lady Dorothy Walpole, by her sister, the Viscountess Pollington Lady Lucy Bridgeman, by the Viscountess Newport Lady Charlotte Bridgeman, by the Viscountess Newport Lady Elizabeth Knox, by her mother, the Countess of Itanfurly Lady Mary Knox, by her mother, the Countess of Ranfurly. Lady Susan Holroyd, by the Countess of Sheffield Lady Spearman, on her return from the Continent, by Lady Mont eagle Lady Mary Fitzroy, by the Countess Delawarr Lady Adcla Capell, by the Countess of Essex Lady Wade, on her marriage, by Viscountess Palmerston Lady Maitland, by the Viscountess Jocelyn Lady Erle, by Lady Langdale Lady Seudamore, by the Countess Delawarr Lady Davis, by the Dowager Lady Napier Lady Margaret Grey, on her being raised to the rank or dignity of a Peer's daughter, by her aunt, Lady Jane Walsh 'Lady Goring, by her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk iicn. Mrs. Hall, on her marriage, by her mother, Dowager \ls. cotUltess Torrington The Hon. ;In. H. Tufncli, on her marriage, by Lady Cottenham The Hon. Mrs. Henry Walpole, on her marriage, by the ViscounteSs Pollington lion. Mrs. Monckton, by the Dowager Viscountess Galway L P ad ow y l S e o tt nd" ilpn. Mrs. Fellowes , on h er marriage, by her mother, The flan. Mrs. Methuen , o n her marriage,Countess by The Hod. Louisa Addington, by her mother, the r ineattutess Sid. mouth. Mrs. Langford, by the Countess Dowager of Winterton Mrs. Lamle, by Lady Graham Mrs. Tierney, by Lady Cotteniutm Mrs. Yarde Buller, on her marriage, by Lady Yards Buller Mrs. George Jenkinson, on her marriage, by Lady Gardiner Mrs. Chaplin, Isr , Lady Graham Mrs. Stewart M'ackenzie, on her marriage, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzi6 Mrs. Escott, by Countess PolViZtt Mrs. Whitworth Russell, by Lady C.ttroline Russell Mrs. John Neeld, on her marriage, by John N. Gladstone Mrs. J. B. Heath, by Lady Peel Mrs. Charles Farebrother, by Lady Peel Mrs, Jienry Creed, by Lady Thesiger Mrs. Jersti, by the Dowager Viscountess Torrington . MIL Mrs. Perk; Barrington, by Viscountess BarringtOil . Hon. Miss Ryder, by - Lady Frances Sandon Mrs. Ralph Neville, on be; marriage, by Lady Lyttelton Mrs. Rowland Cooper, on her marriage, by her mother, Lady Burrard Mrs. Frederick Brett, by Lady Ashley Mrs. Frederick li. Brett, by Lady Ashley Mrs. Plumptre Gipps, by the Viscountess Forbes Mrs. David Salomons, by the Baroness Lionel do Rothschild Mrs. Jones, on her marriage, by the Dowager Lady Abinger Mrs. Arbuthnot, by the Countess of Dalhousie Mrs. Locke, by Lady Goldsmid Miss Hallam, by Lady Monteagle Miss Frances Chambers, by Lady Fremantle 3tiss Rosalind Chambers, by Lady Fremantle Miss Laura Meyrick, by her mother, Lady Laura 31eyrIck Miss Chaplin, by Lady Graham Miss Sarah Chaplin, by Lady Graham Miss Marianne Chaplin, by Lady Graham Miss Page Turner, by her mother, Lady Page Turner Miss Emily Page Turner, by her mother, Lady Page Turner Miss Caroline Antrobus, by Lady Antrobus Miss Shadwell. by her mother, Lady Shadwell Miss Paynter, by her mother, Mrs. William Paynter Miss Lockhart, by the Duchess of Bnceleuch Miss Fanny Russell, by her mother, Mrs. Whitworth Russell Miss Christina Perceval, by her sister, Mrs. Matheson Mrs. Hamilton, by the Countess of Rosebery Mrs. Colonel Low, by the Lady Frances Cole Mrs. Edwin Leaf, by Lady Edward Chichester Mrs. Vincent Thompson, by Lady Alderson Mrs. Arden, by Lady Dillon Mrs. Ross, by Lady Cockburn Miss Arden, by Lady Dillon Mrs. Walrond, by the Lady Caro li n e Bathurst of Hartilington Mrs. George Maclean, by the Countess Mrs. Rober t Stopford, by the Hon. Lady Stepfurd M rs.M T. Willis Fleming, hy Mrs. Howley Lady Spearinin. Edmund Catnpbell. b 7 i r st Jervis, by her mother, Mrs. Jervis airs. Wlllatts, by Use Countess of Erroll. kiattry liarrey, by Ludy C9ckburu Mrs. Sandom, by the Lady Colchester Misr Eliza Fremantle, by her mother, Lady Fremantle Miss Thompsen, by her mother, Mrs. 'Vincent Thompsoir Miss Penton, by her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk. Miss Coote, by Lady Coote Miss Scpbia Copley, by Lady Lyndhurst Miss Charlotte Hume, by her mother, Mrs. Hume Miss Mary Hume, by her mother, Mrs. HUrne Miss Wcmyss, by Lady Isabella IVemyss Miss Davis, by her mother, Lady Davis Mrs. Hamilton, by the Countess of Rosebery Miss Emily Davis, by her mother, Lady Davis Miss Timmins, by Lady Dalrymple Miss Eleanor Murray, by Lady Sarah Murray Miss Louisa Alderson, by her mother, Lady Alderson Miss Emily Morrison, by her mother, Krs. Morrison Miss Stewart Mackenzie, by - her mother, the Hon. Mrs. S. Mackenat Mrs. E. T. Coke, by Lady .Alderson Miss Baker, by the Countess of Erroll Miss Walrond, by her mother, Mrs. Walrond Miss Jane Walrond, by her mother, Mrs. IValrond Miss Baring, by Lady Arabella Baring Miss Goldsmid, by her mother, Lady Goldsmid Miss Murray MacGregor, by the Viscountess Canning Miss Spearman, by her Mother Lady Spearman . _ Miss Cardwell, by Mrs. Edward Cardwell Mrs. General Taylor, by Lady Alderson The Lady Harriet Anson, by the Countess of Lichfield Mrs. Cooper, of Pains Hill, by Lady Burrard Miss Hubbard, by Lady Napier Miss Fanny Hervey, by Viscountess Gage Miss Eliza Hervey, by Viscountess Gage Miss Charlotte Hill, by the Lady De Saumarez Miss Catherine Baker, by the Countess of Errol Miss Mary Spencer, by Lady Cockburn . _ Miss Spencer, by Lady Cockburn Mrs. Austen, by Viscountess Mahon Miss Emily Timmins, by Lady Dalrymple The following Gentlemen were also present at the Drawing Room:— Dutme—Buccleuch, Norfolk. Msactuts—Exeter. EARLS—Selkirk, Rosebery, Uxbridge, Oxford, Ellenborongh, Ripon. Haddington, Limerick, Essex, Sheffield, Howe. Viscousn—Pollington, Newport, Palmerston, Alford, Goderich. Northland, Duncan. LOADS—Byron, Claud Hamilton, Cottenham, R. Taylour, Stanley, H. Lennox, Granville Somerset, Colville, F. Egerton, A. Vane, Brougham, Brooke, Dalmeny, A. Lennox, Napier, Keane, M. Kerr, A. Churchill, Sandon, A. J. Churchill, Colchester. Manx HONOURABLFS—Sir Robert Peel, William Gladstone, Sir George Clerk, James Stuart Wortley, Sir George Cockburn, F. Baring, Sidney Herbert, Sir R. Gordon, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir James Graham. JUDGES—ErIe, Alderson. HONOURABLES—E. Gambier Monekton, W. A'Court Holmes, Capt. Duncombe, J. Lyttelton, R. Carew, M.P., H. Fitzroy, Captain K. Stewart, W. R. Colborrib, M.P., P. Barrington, Rear-Admiral Poulett. COUNT—De Salis. BeimNs—AntitOng de Rothschild, Lionel Rothschild. BAnosmrs—John Yarde Buller, Ed. Page Turner, T. Brinkman, D.J. Narreys, M.P., J. Tyrell, I. Lyon Goldsmid, H. P. Pattirn, R. Barclay, C. H. Coote, J. L. Kaye, A. K. Macdonald, H. Goring, A. Spearman. SIRS—Francis Simpkinson, Q C., Chas. M. Fitzroy, Chas. Aldis, W. Medlycoff, G. Scudamore, J. Walsh, G. Wilkinson, R. Comyil QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—Tinney, Jervis, M.P., W. G. Hayter, M.P. REVEREND DOCTORS—SyMOnS, D'Arcy Irvine REVEREND MESSIEURS—George Jepson, J. Jessop, E. J. Ireland DOCTORS —Chambers, Billing, W. Pitcairn, F. H. Brett, Mackintoah, J. Barry, 11. Falconer, it. H. Alackenzie, Outram The Accountant-General. The Mayor of Norfolk. MESSIEURS—Matheson, M.P., Poynder, Wilberforce Bird, Arden, Jeston Homfray, Wallace, Ram, Yarde Buller, William Poynter, John Neeld, M.P., John Lockhart, J. Booth, 11. Beauclerk, H. Tufnell, M.P., Francis Burgh, Stewart Mackenzie, A. G. Robarts, Escott, M.P., Walrond, J. Bowring, S. O'Brien, Cardw , ll, C. Gibson, J. Gibson, W. Chute, M.P., P. S. Butler, M.P., J. Gilbertson, Martin, M.P., W. D. Bruce, Iloward, M.P., R. Currie, M.P., G. Fraser, Kirk, M.P., Hume, M.P., Sulivan, J. Gibson, Fellowes, Molyneux, G vsynne, J. Banks, Alliston, C. Wynn, R. Cooper, J. Harford, R. Bewicke, H. Colston, D. Salomons, P. Burnet, Arbu thnot, C. Newte, Young, Kingsmill, Hicks, G. Egerton, V. Wentworth, Jones, Wil shere, M.P., De Horsey, H. West, R. Neville, M.P., H. Burr, W. Raleigh, Gilborne, J. Eld, Stephenson, J. Morrison, M.P., W. Lock hart, M.P., C. R. Gibson, M. Gisborne, Packe, 31. P., Barkly, M.P., T. Baker, M. Gibson, M.P., M`Gregor, Clarke, G. Gill, Sergeant Thompson, Young, M.P., R. Ellice, T. Fleming, A. King, M. Milncs , M.P., Kinloch, Gwynne, Sergeant Talfourd, P. Hamilton, Deedes M.l'., Fitzgerald, E. Saunders, F Hogge, W. Judd, H. Hughes. FIELD-MAXSRAL—The Duke of Wellington. GENERALS —Sir Patrick Ross, Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.11., Sir Dudley Hill, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Anderson, C. 8., Sir Thomas Hammond, Taylor, C. 8., Sir John Gardiner, Sir James Bathurst, Sir James Cockburn. _ . COLONELS—Sir Claude Wade, CM., Sir George Cowper, Bart., Thos. Wood, Gascoigne, F. Cannon, Brandling, G. Everest, F.R.S., E. W. Bray, C. 8., Charles R. W. Lane, C 8., Austen, M.P., Mabee)", Murton, H. R. Hartley, J. I. Underwood, J. Low, C. 8., Matheson, Owen, Sir James Scholder, Parlhy MAJORS— E. T. Cooke, M. G. Wkite, Brookes, Carvick, Le Missu rier, Turner, Proby Cantley, Blood, Onslow Baker, Edmund Camp bell, W. M. Mills, Gordon, Algeo, D. Ewart, Sir James John Hamil ton, Bart., Wilkinson, C.B. Cerrairrs—Jenkinson, Hon. James Lindsay, Frederick Gaitskell, Polhill, M.P., De 6alis, George Maclean, Francis Percy Nott, J. Godfrey, Surtees Cook, H. Dalrymple White, Hamilton, Knox, W. Wood, R. H. S. Jackson. Sanders Geo. Lewis, RE., Montague Mcryweather, James Goold, Sir Thos. Maitland, Compton, E. Kevin, Taylor, M.P., Bateson, M.P., H. P. White, G. Emery, W. Wood, Haughton James, Fred. W. Hamilton, Francis Percy Nott, render, Sandham, Shea, H.C.S., Hon. James P. Maxwell, M.P., Kirkland, George F. Sympson, Hamilton, Mitchell, H. Rudd, A. Creed, Stuart Farquharson, C. Sidney Hawkins, W. A. St. Clair, Wetherall, C. Randell, _ _ LIEUTENANTS —Riddell, William Philip Snell, Henry Bliss, G. Dis browe, Hon. Horace Manners Monckton, Fitzroy, S. R. Lugg, Ha milton, Arthur H. H. Mercer, Singleton, Saunders, I. Kendall, A. D9uglas Smith, Mowbray Smith, B. W. Arthur Sleigh, James Money, Portal, Bray, Maxwell, J. Chambers, Charles Lewis, Pitcairn Onslow, John H. Mercer, H. Ponsonby, G. G. Bowring, Reilly, C. H. Hut chinson, Young, F. Waugh, I. B. Jones, E. J. Charter, Manners Wood, George Scriven, I. L. Bolton, Ellison, T. W. W. Whittard, Charles Cameron Shute, E. J. Christie, Somerville Buirney. CORNETS—COIstOD, Fredcroft. ENSIGN—GWyII. ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Malcolm, Ross. C.B. CAPTAINS (ROYAL NAVY)—Wood, Sir Henry Loraine Baker, Bart., C. 8., Troubridge, G. G. Lock, Sir W. H. Dillon, Robb, Sandour, M. J. Currie, W. H. Hall, A. R. Sharpe, Willis, R. F. Stopford, Carter. COMMANDERS (ROYAL NAvt)—Mathison, Cheere, James Booth, Cooper, Montagu Ilayes, C. 11. Jay, J. S. Ellman, Henry %Vedder burn Johnstone, Arthur Grant, Walter Kendall, Gladstone, M.P., W. Ellis, lioseason. LIEUTENANTS (Royal, NAvY)—Oldmixon, John Blackmore, Sickle more, Edward Le Messurier, M. H. Perceval, W. W. Dwarris. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite, re turned to Buckingham Palace after the Drawing-room. The Countess de Reventlow, the lady of the Danish Minister, was prevented by illness from attending her Majesty's Drawing-room. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness Prince George, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfteld, the Earl of Liverpool, the Right lion. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Lord and Lady Lyttelton. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance during dinner. and performed the following pieces : Stnfonia Walzer .. • • ..•• .. •••••• • • .• Carolus • ... • • ...... .. Meyer Introduction and Aria, from Alessandro Stradella ........Floton Quadrilles, Scotch . . Polonaise .. ....Schneider Quick March, Prussian. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Palace. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms dined together yesterday evening at the Thatched House. Mr. Thorburn was honoured with the final sitting yesterday for the portrait lie is painting of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. The Hon. William Victor Anson, second son of the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, has entered the navy as cadet on board the Hibernia, Sir William Parker, flag-ship at Malta. SOUTH NOTTINGHAM ELECTION NEWARK-UPON-TRENT, WEDNESDAY NIGIIE. GROSS POLL AT THE CLOSE. MR. HILDYARD'S COMMITTEE REPORT. SUTTON- UPON -T REN T. Hildyard ... Lincoln ... SOUTIIWELL. Flildyard Lincoln ••• • •• L4)WDIIAIL Hildyard ... Lincoln ... NEWARK. Hildyard ... Lincoln ... ... 279 ... 229 BINGIIAM. Hildyard ... Lincoln ... ... 481 ... 102 Hildyard ... Lincoln ... ... 214 ... 167 EAST LEA KE. Total numbers polled for Mr. Ilildyardl,72B Total numbers polled for Lord Lincoln 1,033 Majority for Mr. Hildyard ... 695 LORD LINCOLN'S COMMITTEE REPORT. SUTTON. UPON-TRE24 T. Lincoln ... Hildyard ... 106 ... 307 SOUTIIIN'ELL. Lincoln ... Hildyard ... ... 131 ... 267 LOVrDJIAM. Lincoln ••• Hildyard ••• ... 809 ... 189 NEWARK. Lincoln ... Hildyard ... ... 283 ... 277 rING HAM. Lincoln ... Hildyard ... ••• 102 ... 481 EAST LEAKE. Lincoln ... Hildyard ... ... 167 ... 214 Total numbers polled for Lord Lincoln 1,048 Total numbers polled for Mr. Hildyard 1,735 Majority for Mr. Hildyard ... 687 ELECTION MOVEMENTS. NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAT t FOUR o'CLocK.—Up to this hour no candidate has been announced by the free-trade party, and, according to the best formed opinions, it is pro blematical whether any opposition will be made to the elec tion of Lord H. Bentinck. Should the Earl of Lincoln be induced to come forward as a candidate, he will receive sup port, it is generally understood, from the Conservative part-, in Nottingham, many of whom are electors for the north division. The register is considered to be in favour of a Liberal candidate, but there is not much reliance to be placed upon the calculation. The populous villages in the neighbourhood of the town contain a large number of voters, who are principally de pendent upon manufactures for support. We have been informed that an offer of support was made a few hours ago, but whether Lord Lincoln will comply with the wishes of his friends in this division of the county is not yet known. An active canvass, however, has been com menced in favour of his Lordship. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. A meeting of the prin: ipal free-trade electors for South Lancashire, residing in Oldham, was held on Monda_y even ing, at Oldham, to promote the requisition to the iron. C. Villiers, M.P., and Wm. Brown, Esq., to become ca di candi dates for this division of the county at the election. ne xt sa. _ et. M r. t e ,:ry Lyons, of the Anti-Corn-law League: in Lancign;:e, since the last contested raem 300,000/. had bet.? expended by free-traders, in purchasing alone ; and this freehold qualiticatioi;_s for election, said i ne t a h rly of a liberal commercial policy-fs. showed a determination GUILDFORD. rettuliftnaonncehoestiheerrsatuhaannaian. supporters REPRESENTATION c.. .Sir ,Sir 11. E. Austen, has G qiiford in which he in o f offering himself as a candidate for his intention e xpresses i iss ll u f e r d . an RobertaddrAesus Austen, n o f t h a t in the event of a vacancy. t h e representation P t the electors eldest sou boroughoo f tested the borough in 1835. u nsuccessful WIGAN. Mr. Austen is a Liberal, but oppses Sir Robert Peel. Ile l IEPRES ENTATIOA W e may look for t he issue of a writ for a new ele ction on or s hortly Notwithstanding the fact, that a numberaftretheoflT3oth prriesionxtihmeo. borough are, to som e ex tent, pledged to invite Thomas Bright Crosse, Esq. (late th e High Sheriff), to offer himself as a candidate, we understand that the only step taken by the Conservatives, so far, is the origination of a requisition (which is nowin course of signa ture) to a brother of the retiring candidate, Captain Charles Hugh Lindsay, the third son of the Earl of Balcarres, who is in his thirtieth year. No public steps have yet been taken by the free-traders to supply the vacancy ; but there is no doubt that Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., will again be brought for ward.—Manchester Guardian. The sum allotted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to the Earl of Haddington for the loss of hlelriterest in the Park of Liolyrood is 30,0141, IE. 9d.