The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-06 00:00:00

[oak TERTAINMENT TO IBRA.HIM health of " Mehemet Ali and Prosperity t o Egypt," Valera vra4 received wits loud cheering.) InitAit:3t again. through the medium of his inter— preter, retu , ced thanks. It 11:.d always, he said, been the , ar. xious wish of the present. Pacha of Egypt to cultivate the nu.st friendly relations with England, audit wouli be a source; oftit. 4reatc,t grazitic,tun that his motives were appreciatel by so ia!port,nr a acction of ti c British people as were then. rated i i I hat room.—(Applause.) Mr. Ross, M.P., then in a brief, but very effective speech propo,ed, "'The Sultan Abdul Meshid," which was drank with cheers. )1 1 Frid ay PACHA. . evenn menibers of the :Rform Ciu en ll"tined Ibrahim i Pa g ella the and his suite at a ma e gnliicent b ban ,at the Club House, Pail -mall. ~,,L 3 Highness, attended by S imi Pacha, Coivatel Donfort, Aubar, and Major C. Dickson,' arrived at the Cit,- se, i n p -even Ll_ all-mall, precisely at ten :Moo! cs ulcer ,..,, . r. , , _ f"x, and wasreeeived by Viscount Palmerston, Sir C ll4 , '. s tl)ior, Mr. I3annernan, Mr. Bond, the secretary,the a was crowded by the members of the dub when i t le !t a reached the club-house, and the gallery surrounding !esplendid apartment Was throng-ea by ele4an'iY"'' . e ' - s. The band of the Scots' Fusilier Guards welcomed . 1 presence of his Highness by playing the Sultan'. kelt Bit Charles Napier ceneucted the illustrious Pacha . to l a g r and itig-room . the leading followed by Visco,,nt Paliners,on fhness. members of the club, and the suite of his : dib Effendi, the Turskish Charee d'Affaires, came cha had al ready arrived. envards, and was uAtered to the drawing-r o om, where the In ithe meantinie every necessary arrangement had been bpieted for the banquet, and it', is P, the entertainment was served up in a style of consum scarvely necessary to ung7room, 9 . e Splendour. The baoquet took place in the sacious fled covers bein I.'l for 1 , 1 gu e sts. 'll le table I:Te a splendid ensemble, a a h ndNvas ° 411 sil-,•er candelabra arrargea along the centre, altercating th v a principally illuminated ses of the choiePst flowers. The repast was most mptuoti ' --8 ' and did infinite credit to that culebra,ed (live de Theit,et and did • subjoined is the bill of fare : nws the 6er. ing- The Turkish CHARGE D'AFFAIRES returned thanks. The nest toa•;t was • The Army and Navy." Captain VIVIAN returned thanks for the army, and all officer, whose name did not reach us. for the navy. ince ook Si- The CHAIRMAN said, the next toast was one of some diffi culty to propthe. It was, "Her Majesty's Ministers."— (Cneers.) The toast was difficult, because he was really uncertain who were to be called her Majesty's Ministers; however, he would leave it to the company to decide, and merely propose, "Her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheers.) Lord l'Al.mansToN then rose, and was received with loud cht.ers. lie ,aid, that if his Gallant Friend had felt a diffi culty in knowing which Ministry was in existence that even ing. he intut feel some difficulty in returning thanks, for the 1 on 38 of role sey, nem; and the ited day, s of vine mth on ided ling SEIZE POTAGES. later ii la Victoria titre i, 1, L • p ' ~. Louis hnippe. 'etre a la Colbert. latre I la Comte de Paris aux Legumes printaniers. SEIZE PolSsus. later de T ur b ots Sauce a la M."zaritine. la te r de S aurnons de Severn a la Creme. lie d e -il uissons de Fil e t s de Merlalis a l'Essyptienna. 'etre de Truites Saunionns en Matehate Mariam. SKIZE RELEvES. Quatre de Chapons a la Nelson. 'elf.atre de Saddleback of Southdown Mutton rt,ti I Is ..,00yer. tt Quatr e de Poulardes en Diademe. -„ i n e_ Quatre de Saddleback d'Agneau roti a la see g Six CINQUANTE-QUATitE , rxT b a , E ss z a s d . rice. it de Pouissins printaniers it I Am Si Cr; Quatr e de Cotelettes de Mouton a la Reform. ' hu rt de Ris de Veen piques en Macedoine de ,4 2, Lecs a 0 nies. Quatre de Petits Vol-au-Vents aux Laitances de el tl aquerea ux . Qua -re de Th y : Quatre de de Dia aux Queux d'Agneau. ~,cs ,de Jambonneau braisees an Vin tie Madere. a Quatr e d e Volailles farcies ala Russe aux Legumes ~,-..: 1 f v ertex, e, QUatre de Pater chaude de Cailles ala Banquiere. a - i - QQuatr e d e Rissolettes a Ia Pom te,padour. ua tre de Grenadins de Bceuf it la Bey rou t. el I. de Cotelette, d'Agneau a la Viconite,ee. lla tre de Turb ans E p i gramme de Levercau au Aimee. 4Satr e SEIZE iITS. de T ur k ey Poult pique set bardds. ,t i. r: de Canneto ns au J us ,le Bigarades. de Levere aux au Jus de GroseiLes. rate e de Gros Chapons au Cresson. t e _ ~.. _ CIISQUANTE-QUATRE ENTILEMETS. Imre de ist m r e , tiles Madelein e de Fruit s au D antzic. _arbans de Meriegues demi giacee. x de croCliarlottes Prussieline. due.ntea.erstinatles aux Mises. V.luatre e (salatanes a/a ere. qttrreed_dee Quart _slklirotone de Romani 6 l'lndienne. alades de Volaille sI. Seyer. sail re de Haricots ,i-rts au Beurre as Noisette. Ix de Tartelette Mitre de Pai n d: g abn ees MIX Abricots. aiatre de petit s p . e ciles art Noreen. tatre de G 1 ulB a l'Angio-P - c i.e e ies cristalisees a l'A r n d a r na l s - . . I.iet Gateau 'Eg d E3I:EVEs DE ROTS. •!-t.ieteau Britannique a "Admiral. pte, a "Ibrahim Pacha. Quatre de Jambons *lac en Surprise. looter de Manivaux de Champignons au Curacao en Sur- Prise. l i ta....lre . ds Cotelettes en Surprise a ',:siede Meringties Chinoise Pagoda aux Fraises. la Reform. 4.: tTembers of the Club having taken their seats at the Ited ri „, e , Pacha, punctually at half-past seven, passed from faei -- "ing-room to the diiiing-rooni of the.elub ; Sir Charles ierdnocompanied hit Highness. The military band, as I,...',4tloguished guests entered the room, struck up 11 7 1 ,',_` , beef of Old England." I'4 a e chair was occupied by Sir Charles Napier, upon whose . !sat the Pacha (with his interpreter), and next to to i t i_m me a e c r allt erston. Amongst those present, in addition tott,and his suite, we observed Edits Effendi, ge ' leh,__, d'Affaires;,,,. Viscount I'almers e ton, r the_ as Mark Phillips, pl:':iliz.L.all,• orsSltitil,nSir J b ohr i i kl l4. it istZ. r p . iv. Collins, in e .p. ii i . v . . , t l i i i i e gh t Hon. • Lillialts, M.P., Dr ui lTow e 'ritig - , .k.P., 1 3 1 1 1; A- ., 11 r. .1, a ;lia'w, Sir %Ia Gisborne, M.P., Mr. 'lu Tir , William rd E lpbinstone, Bart., _ M.P.,_ _ It.P 1' P + Mr. M. Mitcalf , e, a , . ~ "el', Mr. Morgan J. 0 on i r P. br. Prendergast, Mr. Chapma a [ 'am Molessvorth, C nell, M.P., Mr. D. It. Ross, Mr. J. Collett, M.P., Chapman, M.P., Mr. Bellew, itil.tr. M'Gregor, Hon. Captain . i , untr, xp., Mr. H. G. Ward, M. , Vivian, p i f i l r on. D C r . u L m a i l n y t l l e n s o s : tr II() Shelley, Mr. Shafto Adair, Mr. j. I'. Mr. J. Parkes, ie s . B , Watt, M..P., Sir James Carmichael, . with the * Leader, M.P., ki o e • r, D. O'Connell had intended to dine le t a,,l,,this occasion, but the honourable and learnefflorgehiiis teat: lied been called out of town, which accounted The; h et. and performed a variety of music during the b i o s n: h ea l and on the cloth being removed a corps of goes, isa;ocalists enlivened the party by the singing f 11 Pee L • pro t 0 _ tint the cloth being removed, the 4 , Non Nobis" was ka t ' . , w h Sir Charles Napier rose to propose i g, 'lt' The clueen,,, which was received with loud cheer the first luee n i _>! l d runk with the usual honours. " God save the Th e ad the ret toast was," Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, The e ir ' t r the Royal Fainily."—( Three times three ) 'er'ing, th L'l" then rose to prepose the toast of the 0 k . _ _ ~ e health of II ibrah• Pacha, and prosperity ki ll '' , ggit. --::,f(lluude ela:fers) Their illustrious guest l wa_s, apiar s) fortune t 8. c h bri a e r n a i t e a g s l e ;lt .f e or 7 b il e o r,, t (ge h t t eeb h er t 'most e paracterised as been" the great hostilitie %haring their hillustrious remarkable mei 0. 0 have been engaged inThis eras not those. hostilities h It had actgr (Siri.et Which tlie time an. which Ibrabil nor Cantlee place g t u o es a t d f: e r r aim o o opponent. egi.ic7 in _ l i r ast or an impolitieP Id place to Hear, hear.) 1. • a a c.la had to sustain may have been en bed Dog it into ..n• "e---he vf -sed a -aect -..(up met determi ned that - ear, hear. e Patella of to 1:: aS Only the instrumet_it i3 f . 4l tollliitan, and Ibrahi Syria should be held in opposition to ta to tionaest th e oceupatiom Paella Was deputed by his father c... He was right to obey the . /e e of ids auperiorn--* (Hear h inArn leetlatlee, and indomitable , ear while re leleotni! tbe highest honou n coura h ge he displayed, , the ) and the skill, perse opratio had been made of ir mail•tun, showed how , 1 iv ..i l lic ' t Iheee ter 4 "8* Looking to the past mil tart' chiefto con as a sol aoa! nd to the future as the rul, en,'" was only they had sp ec 'of Ibrahim P;eha. (ii er of Egypt, that a eoldier, lie one of the most gallant of n ea le r t ' i lle° l l l % e ) h A d s hint ' self led a th e ettnil attack upon Acre with a gallantra a - unsurpassed in altd h,,,,a s of personal bravery in ancient or modern times, Viet ° 'I crowned a long and brilliant military career by the 'itakri'„°f Xoniab, an achievement which might take high 5.. 8 4 4 " Modern military h istory(llar ) But it was nut thi w 48 II soldier that Ibrahim' Pacha was diatirguishtd. *tea k ", nut less addicted to the pursuits of peace than Mao -14 ed to tho soldier, he was t o se 8 ,,, i ,Se of war. If he was a 1 • 'rt-d the best pe,nts cultunst, and this it was that insp ruler (th e , Ithe future happ'n 9of Egypt under such a 1 rule , best thiit's. , lie (Sir C. Napier) l es felt much gratified that l i i . e n fi t . - e bere-tertaiinnent offered to Ibrahim Paella in , E t n e , bn by — th e hieved h e ~ hsay in Europe—was offerer! o . h of the ' r e'rna er 11 . 4 ' .t oi , - geed f • p _o l of this country .—(Hear.) to Mehemet Ali . 11 ,11- ' hi 'n'g of this country was due Id never forget that ' 14 stri for Englishmen shou . d eti ,, °u s son I stilitiea which had at ;:actea ,J:g the course of those io • communications "' t it I %sell ' in 1840-41, our __ ( I ,o h milt attention month interrupteo. • - Pod e h were never for a single to pass Z.gliet ttters.) Cur Indian Ltters . were permitted as broken.— e e l e !ar, hee,..74,..01 atingle one being so much ble to the good x, ti, g of t h e 1.60e1i forbearance was honourable all classes of ,_. glia!lroon hail lathe of Egypt, and lie was sure . _ showing f "'w high' it wan with delight the opportunity o este li n 3' it e „, larl.p, Th -nourable aPpreciated. After some further ren ~,,Is heel % of toe' Gallant Officer concluded by proposing een ' t La tout i,,tts'brahira Pacha." u td tor receive 4 with enthusiastic applause, which rtan,,, ..io n , kid - - ac tt. „ 4 - k —o•es. Marks were his ti; .l .,„_ e n r ose, and with considerable anima anddoreance.° a t N l slat e . ,j P reter in Turkish, by whom his re ex - r ' e t the Na,, i!Ito French. He thanked Comm°- 11. a. pressed bitnaait•3;.%.,.n*hieb be had proposed his health, . r_cl e Met with horn th e e-o• -t sensible of the kind reception it t_el with everything which 1 , He had been highly gra b nit el .the disposition re -4191 - " t had seen in England, and ek _ciprocal feelin of ki n t restea e‘ . , towards him by all classes. 111 Egypt, between t hat eh - Whieh ri n—' l owards this country existed h e t + amity wouldcinl•rY and England lie trusted :4After a few minutes L o bi ed with a loud burstord p.,,,31 beer rose, and was re lilt time A of chee ' •.h "tinned for 1.,, t 0 . • AS soon as silence riti g , whit . . 3 .. • h Lordship izei4abac.l a toast to propose r. obtained 1 would be 4 Ilealt with great satiafaction T itch he was su , re It was the 4„,,,, h of Mehemet Ali" coon (Crud y the compan3. 13;1 ‘lallant Friend in tla ' his Hon. cheers eeeeh,tal Reformer arid aecliair had designated as " time great , bay' the most renn arkab g le le i n ult n uri st." Ile was undoubie it' tug by the force and energ3, (J o t the ag e in which . he lured, h ar io th e hi gh position in wi Iris character raise d d . and him coeih,g introduced civilisation hand he is now place , _ n a dad°,T 'which, when first he came to j e t stablished or e d r er ed i in lai d, h „eas and overspread with confu slen was (a in e l es s ) He bee t hat he felt the greater pleasure in p r ;*---, - er ?tills toast, Ithiell,se,some years ago, as the organ of the ' G ' o l 'vernment of se e _ ' 'le was then a member, it had been hia dutv to pur 4ii aanpdolicy ~ which had created differences betwee n `mehs met senr Logland. The British Government had pursued that causecse ?t Policy solely from a afro n . tne , iit essential I g sense of duty, and be s4,e ) deemed ,or the preservation of the be. of power, and the maintenance thereby of the peace of ••r e tie, e •--(llear, hear.) He should,,however, advert to those Fri es only for the purpose of contir i , ni iii. what bit Gallant la ett cl had said of the conduct of :Mehem e t All towards Eng.. Alia , ( 11 4 ring that period, namely,tlattiliine iw4tBastioroPfr(i" f"' e el ; at whatever might have beenfi rl every possible 1 le ni°- ti `, he had never ceased to a protec tkl t afford British P • e ititereste that ti t 0 those British subjects an turn r —(Hear, hear.) Re nts,stances placed within his Pc , '" • of difference were 4 0 , hovrever, that all such matters w s . sides ; and he sta, one by, and would be tbrgotten on all country was era . bo t ii t l . iire that the universal feeling of this which lie was 1),,,,,' in the concluding wish of the toast d prosperity to v 't to give, namely, ,' _.:theinet Ali, an no views or illi Pt"--(Loud cheers.) England, Indeed, had the -.li-litest t, ts in regard to Egypt witieh could afford . vrsh in re i ; )1114 1 for jealousy to any —llear, hear.) Our 1 , . _ t _ y ,D t E - i- • the ''should be w eal b ;tia pit 0 Pt was taat countr3 s . . ,;_..... IsaeVerous, and the people happy and thriving. _ .lusii te desires with Egypt intimate, and extensive, and I t Netv„°!nraercial relations, relations which must be equally to tOageoua to both parties concerned ; and with reference . ` ) t ti l l wish he saw with great pleasure the visit to Englund Itai:tr illustrious guest, who, regardless of personal ir . icon-_ tte.'nee and fatigue, had come to visit the countries of (C l eki i i:Pt. in order to enlarge his wisdom by increased know results '' o strengthen his natural sagacity by observing c tla . , of advancing civilization in foreign lands.— v ;sit: r ' . ,j lie wart especially glad that their guest had kie t 4 -Liiglaiid, becataers after witnessing everywhere the t h vit 4tit 14. ' 44 which liiivP Piet his eyes ~t the energy and -•ri,, Y. of tlni .13riCsli charaeta, ot the productions of e h their Industry, ma i o f the immento realoatects of the British kl e ,,,e, lie must be more than ever coevineeei ea the lingual !•ote qtagevii I E 'I d.a d Egypt must derive frofo thPke te... C. •e i ng an n ktk i . reirtl relatiuns which it is our desire to perpetuate and rm, 1 -•" 0 '~Mlle Lord c-oncluded by proposing the the id ge is of and with N in ten- Inn and. mrd the Ise- in, lord loon Icel. icial dal- tur- ts of ilet, ter non ally ore, lion rect ►nel 'ge t t in :o1 01 1 or- inis! ry to which he 'belonged was scarcely a day old, and could teal cely as yet be supposed, at so early an ago, to have beg.:in to speak. lint by the end of the week he hoped they woul,l have the faculty of speed. conferred upon them, and they would then also begin to walk.—(Cheers.) It would be for the Literal party to see how they walked, and he hoped they would be found to walk straight.—(Laughter and cheers.) It would be out of place on this uccasion to dis cuss late events, but he could t of refrain from saying that it mu , t be highly gratifying to the Government and so the whole of the I.i l Jeral party to see that those doctrines of commercial improvement, for the maintenance of which, five years ago, they had beeen deprived of power, have since, upon reflection and experience, and by sincere conviction, been adopted by those who then opposed them— (Loud cries of "Hear, hear,")—and that thus even their former oppo nents Lave acknowledged that they all along have been right. —(Hear, ar.) He was not expected, he was sure, to give what in the phraseology of the day would be called a programme of the measures of the new Government—(A laugh)—but they might be assured that the new Ministers would continue to be actuated by that spirit of progressive improvement which had hitherto obtained for them the confidence of the Liberal party, and he hoped that that party would give the Government a cordial and effective support as long as they should cow inue to deserve it. Mr. 'Warn :then, in a speech which produced consider able effect, prop- , sed, " The Lord-Lieutenant, and Prospe rity to Ireland."—(The toast was received with loud ap planie.) Mr. 6itea—lt is a source to me of the greatest gratifi cation t hat the sentiment proposed by my Honourable Friend, Mr. Ward, should have been received with such genuine enthusiasm in the presence of your illustrious guest—the son of that great man who has been justly called this even ing " the great Oriental Reformer," and of whom it may perhaps, without exaggeration, be said, that his mind has been the auxiliary of the Nile, and that he has helped the great river in fertilizing the desert. It is right that this eminent stranger—that the world, indeed, should know that Englishmen have begun to feel a deep sympathy for Ireland The Lord-Lieutenant, the head of the house of Ponsonby, which was always true to the cause of civil and religious liberty—has been justly associated with !he prosperity of Ireland. That prosperity. which was re cently su little the ()Eject of hope, has become one of glorious and almost assured expectancy, and we confide in what we had hardly ventured to conjectute. Forty six years have elapsed since the unio:l, and - during those forty-six years, however ponderou> the fetters that were fabrica•ed fur Ire land by the Minister, the Parliament, with a disastrous alacrity, hastened to put them on. But a new order of things has, thank God, commenced ; the monotony of op pression has been inter' opted, and for the first, and, I may add, for the last time, a measure of coercion has been thrown out.(Loud cheers.) A general persuasion is spreadiog through the country that it is not by force that the govern ment of Ireland can be carried on. Conciliation is indis pensable ; and it must be of a large, a liberal, comprehensive character. It must consist of concessions flowing out of the deep and abundant f untain of justice, instead of being drop by drip from the inglorious sense of English necessity. sordidly and ignominiously squeezed out.—(Cheers.) The Minister for whom the pacification of Ireland was reserved. must grasp the whole mass of hish grievance at once, instead of touching the details with a timorous and tentative hand. The true and perfect pacification of Ireland, founded upon complete justice, is the last great thing which it is left to a British Minister to accompli h. To the attainment of this great purpose, every man of name and mark should lift hie aim—to this object the statesman to whom reference has been made in the course of this evening should direct his undivided aspirations. My Gallant Friend, the Chairman, has spoken of Sir Robert Peel in the language of commendation—any excess of eulegium in an epitaph can scarce be blamed ; and I must llckno - . ledge that the testamentary declaration of Sir R. Peel, that Ireland must be governed upon the principles of unqualified equality, deserves the highest commendation. Although out of office, he cannot be stripped of the power of doing great good, or great mischief, which great abilitie, confer ; aed he has the opportunity of doing most signal benefits to Irelaud. He has been recently made the sub ject of grave, and I willingly believe of unfounded, imputa tion. It has been said that he has been consumed by sucl an avarice of praise, that he will not accept a mere divi dend of renown, nor take any part in the performance of a great action , unless all its glory shall be in enti re ty hi s own. Let him confute the men who speak thus of him: Let him prove that he possesses the magnanimity by whi c h th e Minister of a high-minded people ought to be distinguished, by becoming the auxiliary of the statesman who is now at the head of her Majesty's Government—who never for a moment swerved from the interests of Ireland—who was faithful to her when fidelity to her was almost fatal to him self—and who, in recompense for his undeviating adherence to her cause in every political vicissitude, will, I trust, derive from his s,irvices to Ireland a renown which shah add nobility to a house already sacred to liberty, and, how ever great it be already in the annals of England, still with new lustre illuminate his name. The Right lion. Gentleman immediately rose, and in a complimentary speech proposed the health of Sir Charles Napier. As soon as the applause had ceased, the Gallant Officer returned thanks, and after some further toasts were proposed his Highness Ibrahim Pacha, who seemed bight . ) gratified with the proceedings of the evening, retired to the drawing-room and partook of coffee. Several of the ladies, who had remained during the evening, were presented to his Highness, who, shortly after eleven o'clock, with his suite, closed his visit, and left for Mivart's. His Highness expressed his obligations to the members of the Reform Club for the magnificent entertainment they had given him. M. Nubar communicated the Pacha's grateful sentiments as interpreter. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—A meeting of the friends and sup porters of Air. Brown was held at Eastwood's Hotel, at twelve o'clock this day. There was a considerable attend ance of the loading merchants and gentlemen resident in the Liverpool polling district, in favour of the claims o! the honourable candidate. At about half-past twelve R. Ellison Harvey, Esq., was called to the chair. The CHAN:MA:I said that on other occasions when the 3 met in that room their first business was to select a candi date, happily on the present they were prodded with one, and the object of their meeting was to secure his return. They had cause to rejoice at the promotion of Lord Francis Egerton, but would have more by the return of Mr. Brown. lie would advise strenuous exertions on the past of all in terested in the cause of free trade, and to make such arrange ments as would render it impossible for them to be taken by surprise, should there be, what he did not expect, a contest. Ile would be happy to hear any observation or re s lution which gentlemen were prepared to propose to the meeting. IVILi.tA3I RATHnoNE, Esq., moved the first resolution Ile s:tid that as he was one of those gentlemen who ha(' convened that meeting, he would propose the first resolution which was to the following effect :—"That this meetim, pledges itself to use every constitutional means to secure the return of 'IV i!liam Brown, Esq, as representative it: Parliament for the southern division of the county of Lan caster." The resolution, having been seconded by Mr. HOLM ES, passed unanimously. Mr. BLACKIWKNE proposed the thanks of the meeting Mr. Brown, 1 , r his promptitude in accepting the invitatica, of the electors who had signed the requisition presented tt hint a few dir‘s ago. South Lancashire was not like almos , any other county in England; it was a kind id extensive borough, whose people were mostly engaged in manufac turing and commercial pursuits. The representative o such a population, therefore, required to be a representative of extensive knowledge on these great subjects. Here Mr. Blackburne spoke in very commendatory terms of Mr. Brown's talents and commercial knowledge. Mr. Hota.aND, in a few words, seconded the resolution. which passed unanimously. Mr. RavriaNs then rose for the purpose of proposing s chairman of the committee for conducting the election in the Liverpool polling district. In doing so he remarked that as it was desirable to have a free-trade candidate, it was as important to have the committee free-traders also ; and that the committee have for its president a gentleman, who was not only a free- trader in principle but in prat. tice. He would therefore propose one whose whole heart and soul was bound up in that question, one whose nano was intlis , olubly connected with the cause, W. Rathhcne. Esq.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. RATIMONE stated that he bad made up his mint not to act as chairman, and concluded a short but spirite, speech by proposing as an amendment " That R. E. Harvey Esq., be tile chairman of the Liverpool committee for con ducting the election cf Mr. Brown." The Crtainstan suggested Mr. William Earle, but there were cries for Mr. Harvey, upon which Mr. RaTrissoNE called tor a show of hands on his amend ment, which appeared in its favour. Subsequently it was agreed to request Mr. Bracken to act as chairman, or, in case of . his refusal, to try and recur. the services of Mr. Joseph East. A committee was then ap pi.inted, consisting of the following gentlemen:—John Pen nington, L. Heyworth, T. Blackburn, James Mulleneux, J. Walthew, J. T. Crook, C. E. Rawlins, jun., James Sharp. Samuel Buller' , James Crossfield, W. M'Kee, W. H. L Svrrs, --Simmons, Samuel Thornely, T. Blackburn, jun., W. F. Sim, C. Th,bertson, W. 11. Darby, Charles Tayleur. John Tayleur, R. K Harvey, W. Earle, S. T. Hobson, Thomas Booth, Dr. Bradley, J. Tomkinson, James Stitt. Samuel Stitt, J. D. Thornely, W. Robinson, James Aikin. John Aikin, Hugh Hornby, W. M'Gregor, F. Pennington. D. M'Vicear, James Macrea, Morrish, James Mellor, James C. Ewart, Charles Holland, Vincent Higgins, Isaac B. Cooke, Eyre Evans, G. L. Cox, R. V. Yates, George Timothy Jevons, James Harvey, Maxwell, Christopher Bawdon, John Finch, jun., C. E. Jam Rawlins, Thomas Urquhart, Thomas Jevons, James Rylev. J-vons, SaMll , imotlßlackburn, Edward Fi nc h, Ur James Brancker, R. W. Ronald, Hai esgh, Lewin,,fltosy William Rathbone, George Holt, ania, ? Edward Breth erton " 4 „ re, A. C. Jeffrey, J. R. Jeffery, W. Thorn hill Joseph A el4', Owen Williams, Wm. Baitierston, Rd. Bright, G eorge James Rawdon, Charles Rc, W. Rathb on G. Cowie, :ick ( . 3 hua Heap, David Maclellan, Thomas Thomas Hibbert, Andrew Melly, Henry homily, Thornely, John Holt, ylra Thomas Bolton, William Wood, S. S. Gair, James Damson, William Brancker, James add to their number). 'Hies Rushton (with power to Sir Robert Peel has defQrred his d an intimation rre late o l ai e the Rightabinet, Draytm Manor for town , in consequence efpartpre from from Lord John Russell that all the Ministeralrr.anget7nts f C ofEce to would not be completed until this day. To_ a l t o e n n . d ß a a t r ß o u n c e k t, in a g n h d am h p is ajo c e o e ll t k , a , g res ue i s gn of the t their successors in the Government. i HE SURREY ATLIENIEUX.—ti new literary an d sei tide mechanics' institution, under the above designati on , is about to be established, for the forma tion of w hich Cord . I)lin Russell, M.P., has consented to preide at a public IneoliT4g, to be held on Wednesday next at the Rotunda, in thy , Blackfriawrou), THE SUN, LOllthON l _ MONDAY I:IORNIN'G, JULY 6, 1846. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5, 1846. No. I.—An Abstract of the N:I Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1845, arAd sth a or Decrease on each head thereof. July I, 1d46, showing the Increase QUAE.TERS ENDED . YEAR QjARTERS ENDED YEAR H Year ended July 5. 'Quarter ended Jul y 5. [ . r - _______A____ , ended f ^ i ended . ,-.----... A-..---, r ----... A..--.-, • Oct. 10, Jan. fp, April 5, July 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, . April 5 July 5, July it, i .. . 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1848 1 1846 1846 1846 , Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. _ - £££X£l££ X X X 1 £ £ £ X Customs .•..••• • • • • . • • 6,002,855 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807,044 4,848,363 4,364,789 3,961,918 • 4,523,391 17,688,461 Customs .. . •• • • 2,118,583 23,843 - Exc:s2.• .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,960,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 2,965,684 12,074,999 3,955,106 3,338,837 1,626,458 3,104,711 12,025,112 I Excise •• • . .........., 49,887 139,027 Stamps . .... ...... 1,665,688 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,883 1,780,175 1,792,402 1,685 , 86 8 1 , 730 , 495 6,98 0 ,940 ' S tamps . ......... .. 142,057 • • . • . • • • 106,581 Taxes 201,439 1,880,490 145,945 2,000,567 4,228,441 201,279 1,876,051 146,142 2,006,427 4,229,899 Taxes ............. 1,458 •• • • 5,860 - Property Tax .. .. .. • ... I 1,958,711 487,541 1,90 5 ,7 11 9 1, 9,991 5,261,954 1,823,883 386,985 1,963,882 1,009,162 5,183,912 Property Tax...... 78,042 99,171 •s- Post-0dice.............• • - 200,000 146,000 178,000 155,000 679,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 181,000 794,000 i Post-oflice 115,000 •• • • 26,000 - Crown Lands. 10,000 50,000 35,000 30,000 125,000 30,000 25,000 45,000 - 100,000 i Crown Lands ....... 725, 277 25,000 • • • • 30,000 Miscellaneous ...-. . • • . 220,961 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 465,102 369,471 91,522 /58,001 1,384,0961 Miscellaneous 6 5 : 5 14 2 0 3 i i l l t in e p p a r m e s n t t - A s l 0 o i nly d s v , n .k e c c 4 . 7. • 0 . .. 069 .. . . .... 444,349 - • • • • Total Ordinary Re-venue 14,220,544 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,682,140 13,312,903 '12,332,535 9,735,790 13,013,187 48,394,420 47 2 3 4 :6 5 5 9 1 1 40644:017804 45 5 6 2 :4 9 7 0 3 9 Total ...... • • 983.792 2,271,51 - 738,250 136,531 Irnpfest Moneys, &c. •• ' 28,117 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145 194,612 44,677 .... - RepaymentsotAdvances 123,692 250,980 418,545 182,354 975,571 70,747 , I Total Income ... 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,856 113,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,172 13,198,733 i 50,050,083 1 , Total .... .• .• 1,454,361 2,41:73,134 782,927 207,328 1 7 1 3 1:6 2 0 3 7 5 1, 2 44 1 ;I - , , Amount applied to Con- i 11, i, I Deduct Deduct 1,454,361 207,3281 solidai ed Fund increase Decrease. Ditto, as Advances Ditto, as Ways & Means ! of th e year .. .. .. .. on 1,011,773 575,599 on the , Total 14,372,35:„ i , 2,705,693 .11,366,679 l 12,623,134 51,067 , 856 • 13 , 811,380 J 12,800,798 10 ,245,172 13,198,733 50 056,083 . the Year. Quarter. No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1845, and the sth July, 1846. Quarters ended Jnll 5 1845 I 1846 CIIARGE. Permanent Debt • • • • •• • • • • •'• " " '• • ' • • " ••• • " '• • • • • •• • • •• • • •• ' . • .. Terminabl e Annuities— • • • • • • • • • • • • • Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund .... Sinking Fund • • • • • • • • • • • ' • - • • • • • • " The Civil List . • • • • • •• • Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund .. To pay off Exchequer Bills, raised per Act 6 and 7 Vict. c. 87, for Opium Compensation . ForAdyances .. Total Charge ...... The Surplus • • • • • • • • The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund tbr the Quarter ended Anti 5, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1846, after deducting 900,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •• •• The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1846, in part of the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services ...... ............... The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1846 . The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet Quarter ended July 5, 1846 •••• •• •• •• ••• • ~ X the sums granted by Parliament out of the Charge on tl e Con, ,a 1 Fund, nicalities surrounding its sale and transference should be done away with, and it should be rendered as easy for a man to buy an acre, or ha!f an acre of land, as a cow or a sheep. The immense tract of country kept waste by the nominal titles which a few possess to them, should be given up to the husbandman, the value of those nominal titles paid, and the drones driven from the hive. When such things are done, a free and independent resident proprietary would spring up. In a few years the greater portion of the land in Ireland would change its owners, greatly to the advantage both of the present owners and the tillers of the soil. The country would be held by five millions of its own people, instead of by fire hundred foreigners. The advantages are obvious. Its wastes would be reclaimed, its fruitfulness in creased an hundred fold, its population would be all busy and industrious, we would hear nothing of discontent or dis turbance, and plenty would overspread the land " I have now stated my case and given my proofs. To my mind, it is as clear as daylight, that all the political vicissi tudes, not only of this country but of England, are traceable to the land monopoly, and the absurdities of land tenure. It is not merely an Irish question ; but with y3u English it is not, as with us, one of life and death. You have large and profita:de manufactories to provide bread for your people ; and your land-owners, though too often opposed to anything that - has a tendency to elevate humanity, are yet English men, and live in England, and are consequently less likely to abuse their power, and more under the influence of sympathy and public opinion. Yet you are deeply interested : this worst of the heir-looms of accursed feudalism yet remains; it must be struck down by the same hands that felled the giant monopoly. No greater boon could be conferred on our involved aristocracy, than to give them facilities, and urge on them the necessity for selling off large portions of their estates; most of them are only nominal owners, and are in reality but a sort of land-agents to a host of money lenders. lawyers, and relatives. It is for such reason, and in connexion with measures of a more comprehensive character, that the proposed expedient of compensation to tenants would be of value; it would force sales, for few of our proprietary would be able to pay for improvements in their lands, and there fore should sell them." There is much fierce in the above observations, and it is true that England is as much interested as Ireland in getting rid of insolvent proprietary of mere nominal landowners, and substituting for them a solvent proprietary, who would have not only the desire, but the capital, to improve their estates to the utmost. " St. Giles and St. James" is continued in this num ber, and we have papers by Cooper, the Chartist poet, by Angus Roach, and by several of our old favourites. but the paper of the number undoubtedly is " Ireland and the Irish." Quarters ended Julys. 6,670,128 643,844 1,559 1,585,609 97,835 438,490 101,501 8,533,966 4,349,167 12,868,133 5,650,119 618,886 1,467 595,150 98,004 370,584 91,501 7,425,01 5,785,5i2 13,211.203 1,953,799 4,631,097 5,785,552 1,154,445 ECLECTIC REVIEW. Schllsser's " History of the Eighteenth Century" is reviewed in the Eclectic, and although the dissertation which grows out of this review is a very scrambling cata loeue of the literary characters of that eventful age, it is nevertheless the most striking article in the number ; and this from the momentous naotre of the subj A cheap and popular edition of this really remarkable work would be a most useful publication, and we corn mer d this fact to the consideration of those adven turous publishers, who have followed the example of that celebrated society, of which the Ex-Chsn cellor Lord Brougham was the originator and chairman. Ancient History, like the dead languages, is taught with infinitely more assiduity than those histories which pertains to modern times, and those vernaculars, the knwladge of which w0i.14 be of such immeasurable efficacy in spreading civilisation and brotherly love throughout the various nations of the globe. From this preposterous disregard to the develop. went of the p pular mind, of rendering the mas , f :miller with the occurrences in which they are in reality more interested than in all the achievements of antiquity. a monster ignorance still hangs over the population. Thousands are intimately versed in the half-heroic and half-voluptuous career of Alciabiades, who have but a feeble notion (if any notion what. ever) of the hlnndering policy of M. Necker : and yet the life of Aleiahiade- is little better to them than a fascinating fiction ; while upon the mistaken political economy of M. Necker depended the social emancipation of millions. Thousands again are intimately acquainted with the mellifluous odes of Horace, to whom the writings of Hobbes ere as a book never written; and yet the Roman poet is nothing better than a minister to our intellectual luxury, while the pen of the old Malmesbury philosopher burst asunder many of the ma naeles which bound the continental populace in a general serfdom, and inspir .d his suecessors, Le Clere,Bolingbroke. Montesquieu, Voltaire, Boyle, and Rousseau, to the production of such a system, or rather of such systems of philosophy as shook kings upon their thrones, and have totally changed the character and position of mankind. Schlosser, therefore, to our thinking performs, with regard to modern times, what Plutarch performed with regard to ancient. He divulges the progressive advance of those illustrious men who were destined ultimately to dissipate the political dark ness of many centuries, to arouse the people from ages of political stagnation and of subjection to the present state of enlightenment and freedom. Hence it is that the mere criticism of his singular work upon the eighteenth century—that century of change!—is invested with a charm and an importance quite irrespective of its literary merits. Other papers, such as one on " The Lancashire Operatives," another on Mackenzie's Memoirs, and a third upon the writings of Mackintosh, render the Review of this quarter attrac tha. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE. A very sensible course is taken by the conductors of this publication, as regards the great question of the past five months. Seeing that so many of their countrymen have declared themselves opposed to the so-called protection to native industry (which was about as much protection as a Chinese shoe—cratnping and crippling the national resources instead of placing them upon a souni and healthy footing) ; finding moreover that the vast majority of Legislators in both Houses of Parliament have declared themselves in favour of the free trade measures ; and knowing, in fine. that complaint is now altogether useless, since the Corn and Customs Bill has become the law of the land, the Farmers' Magazine determines henceforth to drop all political considerations upon the subject, and "not to wage a war against what they have no power to avert." From the " Review of the Corn Trade during June," it would appear that the prospects of a wheat harvest throughout the country are rather favourable than otherwise, though the spring-sown corn has suffered materially from drought. The erroneous statement of the Protectionists we pPrceive is still persisted in in the pages of this m namely, that nearly a million and a half quarters of wheat have been waiting in bond to he produced in the market immediately after the Ministerial measures were passed. The Earl of Dalhousie stated in the [louse of Peers that there were merely 900,000 quarters of wheat in bond ; not a million and a h a lf. therefore, farmers of England! but nine hundred thou sand! Th's is, nevertheless, of little importance to our corn growers, for the supplies of home grain have been very scanty during June ; and the Far mers ' Maga zine comes to this conclusion, " that there is less wheat of home growth remaining in the country than many supposed." The fears of the agriculturists will in time wholly evaporate. MONTHLY l'1?IZE ESSAYS. Though the first number of an entirely new descrip tion of periodical, the present bears a rather substantial appearance. Whether it can take a p er manent stand, where so many promising publications have failed. is a question which time alone can testify, an d which it is also in the power of the edit or to assure. " Reasons for a Ne v Edition of Shak spere," is the most ea'. b ora te article in the collection, and will somewhat astonish Mr. Payne C o lli er. It is remarkable enough that no edition has yet appeared in any degree worthy of the Napoleon of P oets. If we could have an accurately collated text, printed in full lines (not those detestable " double column s to a page"), interspersed with the dainty devic es o f Kenny Meadows ; embellished with the choicest notes culled from Knight, Johnson, Malone, Collier, Ayscough, and the rr et ; pref ace d w i t h that masterly prefaco of the lexicographer, an entirely new memoir of the dramatist and an antiquarian disser tation upon the dresses and appurtenances of the various plays ; if to this were subjoined an appendix of fragments from Hazli: t, Charles L , lnah, and the like, toge ther" with certain chaptt rs from chleizel's History of Dramatic Literature," and others from Mr s . J am i esot ' s " Female Charact ers o f Shakspere, ' we almost think we should be contented. The attempt may possibly be made in time s and we realli believe would INCOME, Customs .• ................... Excise ••..,• Stamps . • .. . . Taxes • . . . . Property Tax ..... Post-office Crown Lands.. ......•...• Miscellaneous • • Produce of Money received from China Imprest and other Moneys • • • • Repayments of Advances ••• ••.• • • To Cash brought to this Account to bel applied to pay off Dellciaucy 4,499,548 2,980,653 1,537, 76 2 1 '0,5 2 b 00,991 155,000 30,000 13,653 :2°,262 182,354 12,633,123 250,000 12,888,132 4,523,391 3,117,181 1,730,495 2,006,427 1,009,162 181,000 MOOl 440,000 73,939 111,607 13,211,203 13,211,203 MAGAZINES —( CON TIN UED.) COLB URN' S UNITED SERVICE. To an enterprising young legislator, desire us of distin guishing himself, we could not recommend a subject more promising than that of army jobs. Of the grossness of ale jobs perpetrated in the army, we had no idea until we read Colonel Firebrace's paper on jobs in general, in the present number of the United Service. The following extract, partially anatomising what the writer calls the great job in the army, is long, but the subject so important that we feel it necessary to give it : "All the regiments that were raised up to the end of the eighteenth century, however proud they may be of their fame :and honour at the present day, were originally raised by job. A sort of contract was given to gentlemen, some of whom were not officers at the time, to raise regiments ; they made a bargain with subordinates, few or none of whom had been previously in the army, to raise a certain number of men, and according to their success in that way, they were rewarded with Ensigncies, Lieutenantcies, and companies, the Colonels retaining the absolute property in the regiments so raised, with all the profits of clothing, &c., and the regiments bore for many years afterwards, and until they were numbered, the names of thesa worthy personages, who turned the affairs into an excellent job. Many of the inferior ranks, who only ;aye their assistance to their patron for the sake of getting a sort of position in the world, and some pay, or were actuated by the vanity of wearing the King's livery, soon found out that they had mistaken their trade, and that a soldier's life vas not what suited them. In this dilemma they applied to their Colonel, who, pitying their embarrassment, said he would endeavour to release them from their engagements, for s con-si-de-ra-tion, not openly to be avowed, but by permit ting these persons to sell their commissions to others whom he would nominate. A portion of this traffic no,doubt fell to be Commandant, in the shape of commission, &c. The job •,f raising the men originally, was one of constant deception, 'rand, debauchery, and drunkenness. Such was the origin of the British army, arid I blush to say, that it still bears about with it undoubted traces of its polluted birth. "Tae Colonels, who had not unfrequently expended large sums in these levies, looked on the soldiers of their respective corps exactly as the Russians and Poles do on their serfs; ,he rigour of martial law hung constantly over their heads, and as to any amelioration of the hard life of a soldier, or bestowing any instruction ,on him beyond the drill, they -could just as soon have thought of sending him up in an air balloon. Besides the original bargains between those who retired and those who purchased, the Colonel had all the waifs and strays, men dying or being killed, or resigning, whale commissions he might dispose of as he . pleased; when it might not appear decorous to sell the commission, he had mnly to put in his own natural son. or that of any friend. I have known myself of a General Officer pensioning off his autler in this manner. There were no records kept at head platters, and officers might be kept on the pay-lists years after they w re dead ; and as in the early stages, the Colonel lad the whole management. of his corps, he might continue drau ing the pay of dead officers and men, if not withheld ly principle. I can perfectly recollect in the regiment I was in, that we had a Captain in our pay-ists who had been lead five years—who got his pay I never heard. To help along the emoluments of the poor Colonel, he was allowed a certain number of imaginary beings—men of straw—for whom pay was drawn, under the name of non-effectives, , yhicli name was borne after I went into the army; it was afterwards altered to commuted allowance, and is now given in the infantry to the Captains of companies, for the repair , f arms, and to meet any losses they may suffer from deser ion ,sr dying in debt. A ves.ige of these non-effectives for he benefit of the Colonel is still to be found in the cavalry, where they are called hautbois—not amis , ., for they are all en Pair. Further to assist the Colonel who had spent money in raising a regiment, he was made a tailor, and, I rejoice to say, he still continues so—the cabbage being denominated off-reckonings ? " The Colonel thus, besides his pay of 20s. a-day, had the :ale of the commissions of his regiment, and all the under band negotiations inseparable from such transactions. lie might draw the pay of dead officers and men, as there was no check on him; he had invented for his use a set of imaginary beings, for whom lie drew pay ; and he was master-tailor of , is regiment. I ask if this was not altogether a very nice job? "These little pickings were not thought adequate reward for their arduous services, and they were prcmoted in large hatches to the rank of Major-General, and successively to Lieutenant-General and General, and this is the respectable origin of General Brevets, which in time of war annually hoisted up, like sacks of flour through a miller's loft, a cer ;ain number of officers, whose commissions were dated in one year, without the slightest reference to talent, ability, or even bodily capability. Without running through the long :accession of these promotions, I may be allowed to notice the last year of war-1814. here were in the "Army List" of that year 5 Field- Marshals, 87 Generals, 196 Lieutenant-Generals, and 321 llajor-Generals; give to each of the last-named rank a com mand of 3,000 men, and it would require an army of 963,00; give the whole of the 609 Generals the same small command ,f 3,000 men each, and it would require an army of 1,827,000. Of these 609 Generals, I have counted out 188 that never saw the face of an enemy, and at least as many more who were lever entrusted with any command as General Officers ; and, I ask, is this not a splendid job? "Notwithstanding the Brevets are far apart since the Peace, one might have supposed that thirty years would have entirely done away with this burden; but I find by he "Army List"'of 1843, that there were still 414 General Officers receiving pay; of these, 42 are since dead, leaving a balance of 372 : give each of these, as before proposed, a com mand of 3,000 men, and we should have a numerical force of 1,116,000 men, just about the strength of the British army— griking off the million. But this is not all ; the power of selling half-pay coin nissions has given occasion to the grossest jobbing, and he consequence of all this is, that the officers of the British army are, generally speaking, profoundly igno rant of their profession, and would, in the opinion of the writer of this article, be found utterly incompetent to defend their country in case it should be invaded. He also makes out a strong case of jobbing against the Ordnance Department. The statements contained in his paper may be exaggerated, but unless they are iitegether fictions, the writer has made out a prima facie case for inquiry, and we join with him in expres ing a wish that Mr. Hume would devote his attention o the subject. This magazine, in addition to its valu able papers on professional subjects, contains, as usual, much pleasant reading. DOUGLAS Jh_. ' Rß('Ll►'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. There is in this number of Douglas Jerrold a most va !cable paper, entitled "Ireland and the Irish," which it •could be well that all those who talk or write daunt Ireland should read, and that those who .re called upon to legislate for that unfortunate and ill-used country, should study. That Ireland is suffering under great and intolerable evils it is impos ib'e to deny, the question to be considered is, how are tiose evils to be remedied? - " There is but one true remedy for the evils of Ireland, and it is comprised in one word—JUSTICE ; justice to her toiling, ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed children. She might, with a fair claim to being heard, ask of England mercy, and a helping hand as well. From her she I a rect ived the deep wounds ,hat vet rankle in her sides; but let her receive justice, free and unstinted justice, and rapidly will the evils of her condi tion disappear, and plenty and prosperity visit her. This is vague: I will explain what I mean. It is security for life and property—the cant phrase of some of her doctors, but ot as they mean it :—security, not for the lordling in his castle, he does not require it, but for the peasant in his cottage ; tot for the landowner, but from him ;—security to the poor man for the just results of his industry. There are robbers and murderers in Ireland who disturb its whole moral and physical constituti , n, and prevent its progress; but they are not clad in rags or frieze, but in brocades and broad cloth, reclining in saloons, living in clubs and palaces, and received and acknowledged in the houses of the great—not the puny midnight assassin doing his solitary murder, but wholesale slaughterers, who sweep away whole families by tens and hundreds at a time—not the caitiff wretch, driven by penury to snatch from the traveller his gold, and trembling for the consequences, but men of title Voblemen, as they are called, wresting from the trembling hand of penury the bread of life, from the toiling hand of industry its hard-earned profits, and i .e; 'he whole with legal sanction, according to Act of Parliament. •".ro do that justice, to effect that security, the whole sys tem of landed tenure should be altered—it is at present most artificial and absurd. Improvements are proposed, and they show a disposition to grapple with the monster evil of Ire land, but they are but tinkerings. It is not enough that a simple form of lease should be appointed ; landholders should be obliged to give them, by decreeing that in all disputes about land, where there is not documentary evidence to the contrary, a , d in all doubtful cases, the occupier should be deemed to be the owner. This is the case with regard to all other property ; why is land an exception ? Thus would the granting of leases be enforced. These should be as simple as possible, and always at the expense of the landlord, as they would be for his protection, and not that of the tenant. With regard to the proposal to remunerate the tenant for improvements, the writer consieers it good, as far as it noes, but it does not go to the root of the evil; to do that the writer says every encouragement and faci lity must be given to the purchasers of land : " Th. laws of entail and all the legal difficulties mid tech • 799,344 prove successful. The fellow-burghers of the re nowned Flemish painter have erected, in a conspi cuous part of their city, an effigy of Sir Peter Paul Rubens ; the Parisians not long since raised a simila r monument to the memory of Moliere ; everybody re members how last year a colossal statue of Beethoven was uncovered in Germany in the presence of sovereigns; the Scott testimonial is already a famous stru?ture in Edinburgh, and the Burns mausoleum is equally celebrated ; how is it that no national memento has ever been adventured in any quarter of Great Bri tain to demonstrate the reverence of the English nation to the genius of William Shakspere ? Thousands of pounds are collected as a gift to a man who has been successful in huckstering railway scrip :—what a profligate instance of mammon worshipping is this ! And twopence has never been subscribed as a gift of gratitude to the memory of the most wonderful poet who ever breathed the breath of life. We are proverbially the wealthiest nation on the earth ; and we have nev er ra i se d even a plaster of-Paris bust to him in any public place of any of our towns or cities. 'We speak thus not because such a monument would add one spark of glory to his fame, but because it would show we were not altogether unworthy of being his fellow countrymen. Poets are the truest regenerators of man kind, and that is why they deserve honour. And the French have afforded us an example of doing this economically, and yet beautifully : they christen their streets after the most illustrious men of France, and, by so doing, associate glorious thoughts with their very household. Nor are they de terred from so doing by the most lengthy titles, one of the thoroughfares in Paris being designated Rue de Jean Jacque Rousseau. Hew much better than Tom kins's-plaee, Snooks's-terrace, and Jackson-villas, would Dryden.street, Crom we ll- s t ree t, Coleridge-street,Hamp den-street, and the like, be ! The notion is not un worthy the attention of the Commissioners of Metropo litan Improvements. OUR OWN TIMES. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank. A glorious etching of " Almack's over the water," where " no gentleman is allowed to smoke except at re freshment time," and " no gentleman is allowed to dance with his hat on," is the frontispiece to the present num ber. Then we have a most original sketch of railway deposits —to wit, the hats and bonnets left in the first, second, and third-class carriages, arranged on shelves as they are to be seen at the station; and under the title of the " Moderns in Beards and the Ancients in Spectacles," we have an admirable quiz upon those white vested gentlemen who insist upon wearing beards and naoustachios, and, sticking the head of a Venetian senator on the body of a Bond-street lounger, fancy they look artistica' and aristocratic. As appendant, George Cruikshank claps a pair of spectacles on a ferocious Baron " of the good old times," who, dagger in hand, is about to strike! and the whole countenance reminds you "Instead of Fitz-Walter, or of Guy of Warwick, or blood spilling Bagniolles—of a grinning hyena, in a fancy dress. "That being the case, my grotesque young artist, all cf the modern school, be kind enough to turn to your mirror, and tell me if your shoulder-sweeping masses of hair, , and your Spitalfields figured waistcoat, your renaissance mousta chios, and square -cut coat, your curled whiskers, and your star-bespangled satin stock, are not equally as incongruous companions as a feudal baron in spectacles. And does not the suspicion creep over you that you aro nearly as fertile an object of merriment ? Von don't think so. Very well :we will go a little further, and try back as far as the classic ages, and if that does not convince you we shall hand you over to Trufit and to Stultz, to do their worst upon you. "The incongruity which a mixture of modern with bygone costume produces is, of course, increased in proportion as we dive into antiquity. We have heard of an ingenious artist, moving in no elevated sphere, who obtained his livelihood by painting pictures for peep-shows. His drawing was always vi g orous, and his co l our i ng uncommonly bright, but for want of a knowledge of ancient history, his composition and ac cessories were somewhat incorrect, inasmuch as he clothed all his figures in modern costumes, and attributed to them habits of life p ecu li ar to t h e c l ass of society in which he him self moved. He was also a severe moralist, who, wishing to combine instruction with amusement, invariably treated his juvenile patrons with pieces, in imitation of the early dramatists, whose equally grotesq ue mys t er i es were— i n t he best faith, and with a really pious purpose--representations •if passages from biblical history, only that our friend mixed up sacred with profane history, with the mast anachronistic miscellaneousness. His master-piece was a family group of King Solomon, and when he exhibited this composition be hind the glazed peep-hole, his description of it ran somewhat as follows : The next piece in this ere show, is King Solomon—King Solomon on his golden throne. Look to the right, and you'll see Nimrod a standing with his back to the fire. in top-boots, Juskins, and red upper Benjamin, just come in from hunting. He is a talking to King Solomon, who is smoking his pipe and a reading the Times newspaper. A sitting on the steps of the golden throne is the queen of Sheba untwisting a pair of stockings as fast as Mrs. Penelope—(there you see her, in the arm-chair in the cott on gown )—h as k n i tte d them. Look to the left, out of the open window, and you behold Nebu chadnezzar sitting down on all-fours, and waiting for Mer cury to bring him a cold salad.' "The extravagant absurdities of the showman are easily wrought, in actual life, by inattention to propriety in cos tume. The figure of Diana, for example, carved with its far from ample drapery, by hands said (scarcely with pro fanity) to be immortal—so exquisite is their work—excites no feeling but that of the purest pleasure—that pleasure which the chaste and beautiful are calculated to call up. But place a Bond-street bonnet on the headof the sculptured goddess, and she is immodest ; add a pair of spectacles, and the statue becomes a ridicule." There is much sound Sense in this good-humoured satire. THE LIFE ASSURAA CE CHRONICLE. This is the second number of a new periodical devoted to the subject of Life Assurance. It contains muct valuable information. THE MUSICAL TREASURY. Pale LXI. This is a marvel of cheapness. The present number c.,ntains all the best of the vocal music of Flotow's new opera of " Stradella," with English words by Mr. G. Soane. BANKER s' MAGAZINE. In an article on Post-office money orders, the follow ing suggestion is thrown out which will, we hope, be uteri on by bankers generally:— " But without entering fully into a discussion of all the questions which may be raised either for or against the pre sent system, it is certainly deserving the considerrtion of bankers in large commercial districts, whether they might not add considerably to the profits of their business by grant ing letters of credit on London and on their correspondents generally, on the same terms for commission as are now charged for Post-office orders. The charge might be propor tionally increased for sums above 51.; that being the highest amount the Post-office will remit by a single order. We think that a trial of the plan, on an extensive scale, would show it to be worth continuing." The carr3ing out this plan would be a great public convenience. RAILWAY REGISTER. In the opening article of the present number, on the contest of the gauges, the writer, who confesses that his sympathies are with the broad gauge, after going through the whole of the evidence adduced before the Commis• sioners, comes to the conclusion that the inconveniences of a break of gauge have been greatly exaggerated— that they are more than counterbalanced by the benefits arising from the existence of the broad gauge—that the report of the Commissioners " is a very creditable docu ment for honest men, who were appointed to report upon a subject, the correct mode of investigating which they did not understand, and who possessed among them every qualification except that of being men of business," and that the Board of Trade did right in setting the report aside. The article thus concludes:— " For our own parts, we see no occasion for any decision at all ; we think it would have been better for both parties to have been left alone to fight it out; but if any decision was to be come to, that of the Board of Trade seems to be more consistent with equity than any other." Atter an article on Indian Railways, we have a minute account of the working of the Leviathan loco motive Great Western on the Journey to Bristol on the memorable 13th June, 1846. In an article on the deci sion in Walstob and Spottiswoode, the writer pleads the cause of the provisional committee as against the allottees, and considers that the former have in many instances been rather hardly dealt by. Th e "R a il way Portfolio." which is now incorporated in the Register, is intended to furnish a complete record of the prospec tuses and other documents of railway and other joint stock companies, and preserte them in an acßessibla form. In addition to many valuable articles on railways and mines, the present number furnishes some curious details relating to staging and slagdom. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. We rejoice to sf e this publication succeeding; it de serves success. Seldom does a periodical advance with such high aspirations, with such a corps of admirable contributors, or with such a consistent enthusiasm for the interest and instruction of its readers. It cannot fail to become a favourite. • THE PATRICIAN. In addition to a variety of papers on historical, genealogical, and antiquarian subjects, we have, in the present number, a well-written notice of the doings at the Italian Opera, and an excellent critique on De Vigney's novel of " Cinq Mars," an 1 on Victor Hugo's " Notre Dame." FINE ARTS. THE INDEPENDENTS ASSERTING LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. This splendid picture of the first assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents, is the work of J. R. Herbert, Esq. The scene is laid in the Jerusalem Chamber, where the Westminster assembly of Divi!les were accustomed to hold their sittings, and may be said to be one de:criptive of a most interesting period of our history, thong's unfortunately but litzle known. It is almost impossible to criticise the merits of the piece, without taking it in an historical point of view ; but even looking on it as a mere work of art, though there are some blemishes we would wish away, yet we must at once accord to it to ordinary degree of merit. In many of the portraits the artist has shown a master hand—that of Cromwell is drawn with great power, freedom, and expression, and the beholder at once recognises in his lineaments the subtle statesman and the daring leader. The portrait of Bulstrode Whitelock, one of the lay assessors, ' is also exquisitely handled. The colouring is rich yet truthful, and we do not observe that " garishness" which is the fault of many modern artists, when treating an ambitious subject. The discontent of the zealots at Philip Nye's address is well expressed. While the calm manner of the speaker, and the dignified, yet re solute composure of his adherents, is powerfully de veloped. On the whole this piece must secure to the artist a rank in his profession, to which it is but the fortune of few to attain. We understand that Mr. Agnew, of Manchester, has purchased it for the sum of five hundred guineas, and that he has given an order to the artist to execute him a picture of Mr. Cobden and the Anti Corn-law Leagae in council, for which he is to receive one thousand guineas. The picture is to con tain upwards of fifty portraits. The present exhibition is at No. 23, Cockspur-street. THE COMMERCIAL POLICY OF RUSSIA. EXTENSION OF FREE-TRADE PRINCIPLES TO THE NORTH OF EUROPE. (From the Hull Packet.) The following document was ufficially promulgated al St. Petersburgh, on the 20th of June, a copy of which, by especial favour, has been forwarded to the Packei office : Note of some of the chief reductions in duties in Russia, per ookaz, dated Ist (o. s) 13th (N. s.) June. Published at St. Petersburgh, Bth (o. s.) 20th (N. s.) June, 1846. To take effect immediately. Amount of I. Ox EXPORTS. reduction in Old rate. New rate. sterling, about Tallow., per berqt. S.R. 2 S.R. 1 per ton £1 2 6 Hemp " " 1 " 50 " 011 3 Flax ...... 2. ON IMPORTS. Spices " " various " various " Logwoods and all red dyewoods FtLdic and all yellow dyewoods " 140 " —BO " Indigo ... ...... Lac dye ... ..... Extract of dye- p. pood 580 " 350 per lb. woods, &c.... Cochineal Quercitron Annatto Cocoa, in nuts " 620 " 3 per cwt. 113 7 Coffee " 615 " 370 " 1 5 6 Earthenware, white, . , or of one colour, without borders or coloured patterns " 465 " 3 49i N.B.—ln 1847, to be S. Ro. 2.32 k. Eeathenware, with borders, variegated with patterns, &c. " 12 " 9 N.B.—ln 1847, to be S. Ro. 6. Woollen cloths and 0 12 0 " 1 11 0 kerseymeres, black, blue black, and dark green ...per lb. " 350 " 280 per lb. 0 2 7 N.B.—Other colours remain S. Re. 1.80, as hitherto. We have reason to know that the merchants of St. Petersburgh hare thought for some time that the exam ple of England would be followed soon ; but they did not expect the movement to occur at so early a date. We have only to repeat the language which we used in March, in substance, namely, although the intelligence we afford from St. Petersburgh proves the correctness of Sir Robert Peel's declaration, that he bad no doubt the liberal example set by England would he gradually fol lowed by foreign powers, yet we question whether the Premier himself, at the time he developed his commer cial policy, anticipated that there would be, at so early a period as the present season, an announcement pro nouncing a reciprocal sentiment on the part of Russia. THE SUN EXPRESS.—By the spirited exertions of the proprietor of The Sun newspaper, ➢lrs. Noble, news agent of this town, received a supply of papers at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, with the whole of the parlia mentary proceedings of the previous evening; including Sit Robert Peel's speech in full. The morning papers were by this means anticipated nearly twelve hours. These endea yours to put the public in possession of the earliest inform. ation are most creditable to all the parties concerned.—Hu' Packet. THE LATE B. R. Haynos.—The following additional subscriptions towards the fund for the relief of the widow and and children of the late Benjamin Robert Haydon, Un historical painter, have been received :—His Grace the Duk( of Sutherland, 2001. ; Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 501.; W. R. Hamilton, Esq., 50/. ; Earl Howe, 251. ; Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, 50/. Total amount subscribed nearly 7001. THE Citors.—The effect in the great change in the weather has been to restore freshness to vegetation, and to renew the year; the birds are again singing as cheerfully as in spring —the lelv..s of the forest trees have recovered their bright and glossy hue, and fresh herbage is springing up in the pastures and meadows. The crops, which were con-idered in the greatest danger, are now quite safe. The spring corn, which threatened to ripen prematurely, is begin ning to grow again, and, even if it should not be very long in the straw, will be heavy in the ear • the root crops are throwing out fresh le aves an d branches, and will soon cover the ground with a coat of verdure thick enough to protect them, even if the heat should return ; the meadows, which were becoming brown after the removal of the hay, are throwing up a second crop of clover and after grasses; and the pastures are also sending up a plentiful green herbage amidst the withered stems of the earlier grasses. From present appearances, we trust that there will be no failure in any single crop. Even the potatoes and turnips, which were looking very drooping ten days ago, are begin ning to grow vigorously. The latter of these crops, which the t ;iodation of English and Scottish husbandry, and which will, we hope, become the foundation of Irish husbandry also, has not yet made any great progress, but there is still abun dance of time for the growth of a heavy crop, as the heat and moisture together are producing a most rapid vegetation. The same observation also applies to the potato crop, which is somewhat backward, owing to the drought, but not injured to any extent. The heavy rains of Monday night beat down the wheat very much in this neighbourhood, but it has since risen again wherever the fields are large enough to allow scope for the action of the wind. In small fields, under hedges and trees, and in places where the crop was exces sively heavy, it is still down, but even there it may rise if the brisk winds of the last two days should continue. Little hay was made during the last week, but Sunday and yester day were fine drying days, and much would be carried yes terday.—Liverpool Times. INDELIBLE ORDERS.—The case of the Rev. Mr. Shore has brought up again the curious question of the indelibility of orders; but there seems some difficulty to know what or ders are indelible, and by what virtue they are so. Mr. Shore is " a priest in holy orders " of the Church of Eng land, and therefore by the canon law he is subject to the Bishop, and he cannot secede. Mr. Shore was the minister for some ten years of an unconsecrated and unendowed chapel, built by the Duke of Somerset in the parish of terry Pomeroy. The Duke was willing to endow the chapel, provided he retained the patronage. Two successive incumbents agreed to Mr. Shore's ministry, but a third refused to permit him unless the chapel were endowed and the patronage vested in the in cumbent. Hereupon the Duke turned the chapel into a Dissenting meeting-house, and licensed it under the Tolera tion Acts; and hereupon Mr. Shore took the oaths as a Dissenting minister. The Bishop prosecutes him in the Arches Court; and, because orders are indelible, he is pre vented from becoming a Dissenter. But now the question arises as to Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and all the other seceders to Rome ? Were not their orders indelible ? Could net they be prohibited by the Arches Court ? We can fancy the enormous hubbub about " liberty of conscience," which the whole corps of Popery in the House of Lords, the House of Commons ' at the press and el sew h ere, as t h ey swarm through the land, would raise, if the " seceders to Rome" were assailed in the Arches Court, and imprisoned 'for contempt because they exercised their liberty of going to Rome.— Statesman. ~ The New Corn-Law Repeal Bill came into operati,e. on Monday, and, since then, about 75,000 quarters of wheat, quarters of barley, and 1,800 4,000 quarters of oats, 3,000 quarters of beans have been taken out of bond. This is a greater quantity of these descriptions of grain than was released in Hull for a period of twelvemonths. Yet there is no panic in our Corn-Market, nor are any fears entertained that prices will fall much lower than they are at present. The market is dull, but the causes of the dulness are not to be sought in any superabundance of foreign corn. The best qualities of wheat continue to maintain former prices. —Hull aldvertisdr. SWANSEA. — COPPER ORE FROM A 138TRATZA.—The staple trade of our town is now certain of receiving large ad ditions of the raw material from the antipodes. The first cargo direct arrived on Saturday, in the brig Amelia, of Kirkcaldy, Reid, master, having made her passage in 150 days, calling at the Cape, &c. She has 200 tons of ore from the Burra Burra mines, and 50 tons of bark, likewise an Emeu, the ostrich of the country. Parcels of copper ore have been rent as dead weight in the wool ships trading to London and Liverpool, for nearly three years past. The ores are very rich, some of them essaying as high as 40 per cent. of pure copper.—Cambrian. DREADFUL FlRlL—Shortly before three on Saturday morning, the family of Mr. Powell, earthenware dealer, o Commercial-road, St. George's-in -the-East, were fortunat •ly rescued from being burned to death. The fire broke out in the back warehouse, and spread most fearfully. Previous to the arrival of the engines a good supply of water had been obtained from the mains of the East London Company, and they were ably worked by numerous assistants; but notwith standing the torrent thrown on the destructive element, by four o'clock the premises were nearly gutted of the contents, and damage done to the adjoining houses. The cause of the fire was unknown. A most formidable gang of thieves, as usual, assembled on the occasion. The police force, however, were too powe r f u l f or them. various. 1 5 2 0 12 7 0 0 110(FIDALE. SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ITS MINING INTERESTS, &c. Our attention has been called during the past week to this thriving settlement, by the delivery at Crosby Hall of the first of a series of three lectures on its past and present condition, by James Allen Esq., for severa l years the editor and p ro p r i etor o f the South Australian Register, the leading Adelaide newspaper. Mr. Allen's fitness for the task of lecturing on this subject is as great as it is undeniable. To considerable talents as a public speaker he subjoins an intimate acquaintance with all the local interests of the colony, and has been for years an attentive observer of all that has been passing around him in the whole of our southern de pendencies. He has, too, the confidence of those whose interests he represents, although, as we have reason to know, his advocacy is an unpaid and a disinterested one, But our object is not so much to call attention to Mr. Allen's lectures as to intl.,. duce a few facts connected .vith the mining interests and general statistics of the ,edony, which have lately been brought under our antic . In this, the youngest of our Australian ,adonies, there are at this rnement, it seems, six copper lnd three lead mines, in full work, and that others are about to be opened, For the purchase of public lands, which these mines are situated, there has been paid. Into the hande of the Commissioners and into the Colonial Treasury, during the past year, a sum of not less than 75,000/., and a great part of this is now being expended In sending out miners, and other free emigrants, to the colony. Its export of co pp er ore to this country, 'during that period, under all the disadvantages attendant upon the first opening of mines, has amounted to nearly 50.0001., and its export of lead has been considerable. rhe value of this ore, as appears from the returns of the sales at Swansea, is much greater than that of any other British or Foreign mines, if we except Chili, and hence the ore is sent home, fur the most part, not in its raw, but in a calcined state. The returns of the South Australian ores have been from 13/. lls. 2d. t 0241. 153.3 d. per ten. Of course, the opening of these mines hare been, and must be, a great source of wealth to the colony, and are now attracting a large amount of capital towards it. At the end of 1845 the population of this colony was 22,000 souls, and of these about 9,000 resided in Adelaide, the capital of the province, the rest wing engaged in mining and agricultural pursuits. Adelaide is a large and well-built town, and is daily in creasing in its size and comfort. The port is a free port to ships of all nations, the Colonial Legislature having lately abolished all harbour and pilotage dues ; and the Colonial Government being now dependent for its sup port upon the customs duties, which are found to be ample. The imports of the colony for 1845 were 156.240/., and its experts 134.1241. Its exports of wool alone amounted to 1 , 2 31,9201 b., valued at 56,4631. Of sheep it has at present between 700,000 and 800.000 ; horned cattle between 30,000 and 40,000 ; and of horses about 1,500. A large export in grain is carried in to the other colonies, and some of it has been brought home, And has fetched the highest prices in Mark-lane. Alto gether, the colony is in a most thriving condition, and is likely to continue so, if the mines hold as well as they at present afford promise. Mr. Allen, we hear, is about to deliver a separate lecture en the mines of South Aus tralia shortly somewhere in the City. AN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN FRIENDLY COHNIINI CATION WITH THUNDER -STORMS.—A very extraordinary phenomenon was observed on the electric telegraph between New York and Baltimore, on Th urs d ay a f ternoon , th e like of which was never before known to man. Three thunder storms, each some thirty or sixty miles from the other, were all coming east on the telegraph route about the same time, and every discharge of electricity from either was duly re corded, by lighting It se lf , in the telegraph offi ce , at Jersey city, Philadelphia, I`, ilmington, or Balt imore. The wires altogether beFame unmanageable, and the operators being obliged to withdraw th e batteries used for writing, the visitor from the clo u d s h a d the field to itself. The lette rs' of Morse's telegraphic alphabet w hich this natural lightning seemed to be most partial to, were L and T, but occasionally It went at the numerals, and dashed off l's, 50's, 55's, 500's, and 5,000's in its own rapid style. We learn, that when two or more thunder clouds get in the same vicinity, and dis charge their electricity at each o ther, or receive the fluid from the earth and return it again, or when ground light ning prevails, the effects on the telegraphic wires is to pro duce a strange and original language, which may yet be made intelligible. In fact, each kind of lightning speaks for itself, and writes what it sa3 s.—New York Sun. THE LORD MAYOR AND THE SPECTACLE MAKERS' COMPANY.—The Lord Mayor has fall en i nto awful disgrace w ith the Spectacle Makers Company, of which he is a mem ber, in consequence of his Lordship's non-appearance at their dinner at Blackwell on Friday last. It appeared that his Lordship had some time ago engaged to dine with his Com pany on th a t d ay, b ut that the Association of Licensed Victuallers' School having waited upon him with a powerful appeal in favour of their charity, urged by Mr. David Wil hams Wire and other eloquent friends, he consented to violate etiquette in favour of so unanswerable a claim, and took the chair of the Licensed Victuallers' Association at White Con duit House on the day of their annual festival. The apology which his Lordship sent to the Spectacle Makers' Company was treated with contempt by the great body of the Com pany assembled at dinner; and Sir George Carroll and Mr Clarkson the barrister made ineffectual attempts to reconcile the malcontents to his Lordship's absence, in consideration of the occasion on which the chief magistrate had made his election against the invitation, which was merely one o r ostentation and conviviality, and in favour of one which must inevitably tend to render service to a great charity', aril as surely draw money from his purse. It was in vain every aft - y:1 was made by several other gentlemen to make allowance for the motive which the Lord Mayor had showrt for giving the preference; the moment his name was men tioned the room echoed with groans and hisses, and the in dignation of the company vented itself in a variety of ways in the course of the evening interfering most seriously with the conviviality of the party. RUINOUS EFFECTS OF THE REPEAL OP THE CORN LAWS.—INFORMATION FOR THE DUKE OF RICALMOND.--LaSt Saturday, a sale of property belonging to the late Mr. John Nunn, of Hitcham, took place at the King's Head Inn, Bil det4m. Thellot, containing eight acres of arable land, thatched cottage, small barn, and a few out-buildings, sold for 480/., and have since been let for 301. pt r annum.—Stiffolit Chronicle. FREE TRADE MEASURES.—On the receipt of the intelligence at Truro, on Saturday last, that the great free trade mea-ures of Sir Robert. Peel had finally passed the House of Lords, Mr. Charles Hawke, woolstapler, of Pydn street, hoisted a flag on his premises, bearing the inser;ption " Death to Monopoly," fired a salute of 51 guns, gave the workmen in his e mpl o y a goo d substantial sur:p er in cele bration of the event.— West Briton. 11 THE PASSING OF THE 1. , 0gN BlLL—Every prepank--- tion was made by the Free Traders of Rechdale tify their joy at the passing of the Corn Bill. 0 . day last, a messenger w as sent to Manchester Y.9r'414-ge•- purpose of bringing. the glad news as soon. as egte t .4l, arrive in that place, by the first train that left for,Roch•eet : 1 t„,".,.....1. , „„':::" dale. It was well known that t h e Vicar who canie*:efr,e47, his present living fresh from the Queen abusing Brad . - Shaw dinner, would be opposed to the ringing - of;Vu? I Nia hells .at the parish church. At two o'clock on Friday • - 7 afternoon, the churchwardens had a meeting in the vestry, which gave them full possession of the church. On the outside were the ringers, ready for action as sot a as tlet signal should be given, from within. By the two o'clock train, the messenger arrived with the newspaper, and intimated the nets to the wardens, who threw open the doors for the ringers. Wardens, ringers, and a few dauntiess friends, who were there in case of need, proceeded to the b. lfry, and when there, not only locked the door after them, bat barricaded it with a large piece of woo'', to prevent any one from ttithout entering. This being done, the b lls struck up a merry pe it of tejoicine, that the starvation laws were repealed. Ere long, the very thing happened ill it was expected. The Vicar is heard thumping at the door for admittance; he begs, he prays, he threatens awl entreats, but all to no purpose, a deaf ear is turned to both prayer and threats —6‘ the hells go merry as a marriage peal." Finding this unavailing, he departs, but soon returns again, accompanied by hi s - oen war d en, the clerk, and the grave digger, "grinning horribly a ghastly smile." This time the party had a crow bar with them, which was used in breaking open the door. Seeing the door • give way under this mechanical power, Mr. George Proekter, one of the wardens, open( d it, and let the party rn. The Vicar advanced to the middle of the roeea r ordered the ringers to cease ri ng i ng , an d l eave the steeple. Then he desired the clerk to take down the games of those he knew. Mr. Preckter entreated the Vicar to subdue his passion, as he had given orders for the ringing of the belle, and would take all responsibility upon himself. He feared no citation to the Ecclesiastical Court on that score, as the bells were under the control of the wardens, and not the vicar. Upon this the Doctor threatened what he would do if they did not cease ringing and leave the place. Mr. Thomas Livesay, one of the outgoing wardens, who was present, said, if he was warden the bells should be rung in spite of ••• anybody; the Doctor had only power of the pulpit, not the belfry. Upon this the clerk took Livesey by the collar, and the latter seized his assailant in his iron grasp, by the breast, saying, " but for the place in which they were, he would mash his frontispiece." The vicar interfered,. and deprecated the conduct of his clerk for resorting to physical force. Mr. Prockter then ap pealed to the Vicar on the propriety of ringing the bells on this occasion. Ile said it was not a party, but a great public question ; the Commons of England sanc tioned it, the peers had passed it, and the Queen bad riven her gracious consent to it. Even the bench of Bishops had supported that measure in their place in Par liament, and he wished to call his attention to the speech delivered by Dr. Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, on this subject. It was worthy of perusal, as the Learned Pre late was a century in advance of his cloth. Every night when he (the speaker), fell upon his knees he had been taught to say—" Give us this day our daily bread ;" and he had frequently heard him (the vicar) make use of the same form of prayer in the pulpit. Now that prayer had been answered, the law that prohibited the poor man goiog down to Egypt in a time of scarcity tor corn, had baen repealed • and he had order e d th e b e ll s to r i ng i n celebration of the triumph of freedom over tyranny, for freedom is the original gift of God, and tyranny is the inno vation. —On Monday evening, the friends of free trade held a meeting, which was called by circular, at Mr. Twee dale's hotel, to take into consideration the best means ,if celebrating the triumph of free trade. Resolutions were passed that Wednesday, the Bth of July, should be kept as a holiday, and that there should be a pro cession on the occassion, commencing at Cronkey Shaw, near Mr. Bright's factories. It was also recom mended that the factory masters and others should regale their workpeople with a dinner on that day, after the procession. A resolution was passed, that an address, approving of Sir R ;bete Peel's free-trade policy, should he got up and presented to him. This resolution, did not pass without opposition from a part of the meet ing, on the ground that Sir Robert did not see the ne cessity of free-trade till its advantages were pointed out by others. When the news arrived in Rochdale, flags with free-trade mottoes were exhibited upon the tops of many of the factories and mills, and the great mass of the people appeared highly pleased with the passing of ;he Bill.—Leeds Mercury. '1 4:: r . - .; ' #