The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-21 00:00:00

estrn ) inster • an early 01 ug Pewl e Master , lls. act' .ared that olton, tier law pr o ,biecte j to essarY elc. i ducts , se, sal • lered ll_ ai m ' lship. 'ective, 07. I rottlisea execu te. ; c l '. the 51113 n•ayillg ation• it i e d to ccordiogli Ater pia: t ntere,stolk DAY.) , g o )1.-111 ,upied 'be )rojec t°r l f' f ° the d e PT 5 beard trre r ill O 6 L Y.) A , 3 15.) 00 . r 0') Or.) o iog , DO ) O"! or Df that ths f o t witilelo,l 3d it s ° re ly the cooo ,he j ad dif 4 1 0 1 ' 4 0 p v re for erdic [ SDA, roi wtis f° oo - v ith 0-h 4 „cl O , 1 " 1 1, 14 en e t-s tre s e ?!l ,barg ° tter' rd, b f v 20 . v-I r eti t t yi n Itt L ies, J i " l ip' t 1) 4" ;uoteaD IRELAND. . tsea t. ,„ THE LAW APPOINTMENTS. one ", JAX. 1 0.—The Queen's Letter, appointing . Mr. k ilt e to the i ffice of Attorney-General, was received at Th tn Castle this day. 'ltat i c s? fn ee of Solicit or -G eneral is still vacant, and it is said_ ioe re k es • Brewster is pre ss i ng h ar d f or t h e o ffi ce , with_ t a h Itae„ll:tildation that he cou ld manage to b e returne d to in Par case of a dissolution. The THE IRISH PROVINCIAL COLLEGES. ke s e P r incipals and vice-principals of the new colleges p_ kirti„" assembled in Dublin, for the purposeof tterit'g Professers and shaping the statutes for the overn "tha " l • i eges The principals are—Dr. Kane, g Cork ; the' v P, r • liirwan * Galway • and Rev. Dr. Henry, Belfast. tork -ee-Principal; ar Mr ' . Berwick, Galway Dir• RY? 111, )tosend Dr. Andrews, Belfast. The duty of selecting letl,„V 3 and shaping the statutes is vested in the was 1 ° be a 4ll . ueipals alone and the statement that a board rpcarited for the purpose is totally unfounded. The ~, , REPEAL ASSOCIATION. this day ______ I,oar, to eeEIY Meeting of the Association held `v": ker tii elerously attended, in anticipation of hearing n e n r : lb tie n t atien had been arrived at by the Repeal mei I sso , Nie ti ti ns Morning in the committee-room of the . - s• il t ' at t he suggestion of Mr. O'Connell. At one o c t loc a k t •tit t • eneUrable Gentleman entered the hall, and moved h l Cali The CH ' a ile°, Esq., M.P. for Cork, take the chair. e.ng till, lkt,, artistax expressed the gratitude he fett i . n . 1) 1 44 0" to preside over the meeting of the Association t o h n e test,: aPPearance in Conciliation Hall. It gave him re liesier4 satisfaction to witness such an assemblage of re hattit coh ere ' and for h . is part he could sincerely declare, as h e _ e eyed i , eaton, reflection and conviction, that h b o tth re ta * "11 wi th could never act' in the position she ought to ii; e i °lit a domestic legislature. In his opin . ion, .it Ille n es ess to leek to En land for amelioration, and in their loliktlrt, kons4EloLnLe could the ho e for redress. nce hip intention of starting his tilt e t i, " , e ,n, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., for Dundalk at the "„, 4 wi e "°n, and he felt sure that he being a namesak% rs f T o that t i t l y e nld not tarnish him in the eyes of the repFal . e to 'eeo slit:•11e would therefore move that the Ass l oc e i o a n ti s on . - "ett -vaniel O'Connell, jun., to the specia i Th, oi_tt_the repeaters of the town of Dundalk. mono was then putand carried. g fir, 0 1 e, 0 41E ETI NG 0 - I , ' REPEAL MEMBERS. t 'kat l ' ELL said that the repeal Members had not met hi4k 114 droneralY as might have been expected, in consequence to the tb ill wa s to ...1_ members for Limerick city and county, Pi t s, ' ll ecess a ,•,"gi , e place on Wednesday. Five Members teatPrst, d'Y absent. At the time that lie suggested .' thelf can ing the meeting i in question, it was his opi w n et i r o hre s i n . e 4Y, debate n- the eni" - t la ng ould take place on Thu_ 414te;daecohalad. skin.coer b e e n : informed that no important bus Monday abi l to uaa tt ti Z es u e er e. e the House of Commons till ~r. h considered it more ds . i. 14kn otit h 4 er st tPo u t u b e e t t i , l i l n i rri n da s y t a n n e e e x s t . e the meeting of the Irish nab • ass etublo at ! . . ea _4 .ti tu of,THeetitnegi hopeiiunCtohneciliati ter; 'oa,,e.reselatati a eY might ha'ye an objection to come n n t ll h that 1 some he k kre f tai -6 10 , 1 't he vine"cluwehdQ tet them on more neutr t al t :ery fe e expressed his co n n m viction that it waedu c ' f 1 - 4 -4 4 , either of Parliament to attend in the House might The What t he opening of the session, that itlioeteproaoZere. the intentions n of ee, the 7:llltkigtben the C!o _ N-ta r m n i m ne ent an t ' l l ie i n 'e e s c t e i s e sity of adopting nmieoare st4tilh'e thellienatlitte er House and G th ov e e d rn u m ty en o t i tr e ttaru a Yert the calamity rendered his . presence of Commons than in Conciliation t he Ei jneesi tt , to i l however, would be more fully considered tepe t - 'islas to 's,, e held on Friday ! when they would has Vi t ,eil utii_er several gentlemen in lif , hem the Irish people th a 1 4 eall."nted confidence. The great object he had in tis,,ertin. in g the proposed meeting was to meet, if possible, tieltPart,, aB . ",,„f Thee Evening . 1 f r the formation of Da "lii v i ! l itli ii. „, l _ Ire 4.onourab -3 1e In Gen n tle o m f t a h n a t t h j e o n ur r n ea a d l, e n headedar !erteduteo et l i gn el , in a late number the in t ~r sera," recommending object he had . ad tei 2es 1 , 41, 1 Mark his opinion of the sentiments i,, contained I ,,'"one r ,„. . move its insertion on the minutes I„.'qter br.714,,, perpetuam tq,...0 , e :,,: sPeeches from other members, • for •erliart'3xl.l. said another reason why lie intended toow going d with the had N I , r , evut was to see what England intend ti, vitt ela I°4B 1 " -.NI , nappy a • t was idle to conceal the fa e c d t T t h h e at re A p i o n r e t r:c o a f kio e uate ‘ • ‘`eclared war against England. . liarilithe'RitL_th_e am. The filled him with apprehen- N ti e hiths7 of the President itself was mildness in com ititiVo.itoitutriage4ett The Honourable Gentleman then pp e coming Government the necessity of conciliating ISg'e• the on expected her co-operation in It •.th o 41,4ttes terkluation of the 3 p s ro 2 cledings the rent for the week 4pe meeting to be 367/. ett ng than adjourned. Oits„,..._ - ' &1 " CLSORY MILITARY 1 8 ~,_llln3 /0 , SERVICE. i tthu, G itAsf ''' 41-- LN L- s - ' AEETING AT BIRMINGHAM. in Ipi,gl ioa 4,1 TUESDAY.—When it became known Vt.: 4, bsp tuat Government intended to re-organise the it 4 4,,,,--,g.tfien3, clubs were immediately set on foot, and a_ a Publ. The is,`" n g against the proposal soon discovered ap pii lert,otinace Association considered it necessary that trar a , 4 for th g should be held on the subject, .and, having ane}l-17t.,:z7sevausseof the Town-hall for the occasion, were ,eis t ;„" und it placed at their disposal free of charge. it, obi Was . then fixed to be held on the . evening of the brat th o J c cts being thus defined, "to petition Parliament Pos,' al ecis,,,P r °Posal to call out the militia, and in favour . of 'rs.e ' nn• arbitration clause in our treaties with foreign At half'rod.pm 1 ' 2%11 after the plat' 81 X o'clock this evening the d b a a n ll ee rs opened, tb;lNieg gall great numbers were in a t ) tori l • tl 'gan e e r e . u .Pied by most of our body of tonsme b n y , T h 'ng r aeo Ls by ladies, and the body of the building tl f l t o : Pk e il aving been taken by the Rev. Thos. Morgan, e made, after which the * e _ leis„. r cot o bservations were Rev. P. l i t,' .1,78 e ,olutions were panted. The leading speakers ' r ee, en St urge, Esq., Rev. Thomas Swan, 1 - t , n. 4 I.T h e, V. John Burnet, of London. hl r fe llo - vs l4 , o ' w o h_i_le there is alarge and increasing number inof oti„.3',Bl:lape is who hold the . opinion that war 1 11„''', this . 3 contrary to the spirit and precepts of the ,sos e „, s nleeti*.g declares its conviction . that the people mt --, are t he 4 ntiec.. oPpo-sed to military establishments, both as a kei t 'ssary expense, and as a great moral injury to 4 2. , r i. kk. iiih r hat the measures contemplated by Govern d me a n la t r f m or V . il t i l l! the militia have created both s_u o r r pri t a tt ,. Meeting protests in ag t a i i m us e t t o h f e p m ea f ee th s e e se an reasons : is repugnant to i ; li ti t 4 i e la g e inga British y constitution. Because competlliinng tllitit.ae in , the militia in the way proposed inflicts a gre e a 'CI% the working classes, inasmuch as whil the 11l "I Orrtat, in nY provide a substitute the poor man has no aort a but the gaol, or else to forsake his family and the L'ltoa '''' honest industry for an irksome . and demoralising iziz s, -"e• Because the infliction of imprisonment, or the bl e _4 - I , ° ' goods, will be an act of grievous oppression .t to o '0 0 11 1 :C ° ' is a matter of conscience, can neither subtni 4shit,..service in the militia, nor be parties to prov!dinga )1114;e• Lastly, because at a time when . the principles orer th . "ra,%,,nre so much more widely recognised . than inf former h the nation is anticipating the extension and 1 4 1 os.„,;'' ll o r ! friendly commercial relations all over the world, ils!, e boa., ° Is to be deprecated which would withdraw . a 1 ' , i v, e,4 1 men from the occupations of productive in 'l4 -I ' ei all to learn the arts of war and destruction.. % r tt :l t - cola ally be petitioned to authorise the insertion astFctis e i lot treaties with foreign Powers, binding the Parties,.tratioo in case of any dispute, to submit it to the p O f some neutral Power." be t . e oto•r, , ty , ChatWl na.las AND JONES. The working classes cod a mee ta ting, at which it was resolved to petition tat i ,, ektl 'ln : behalf of Frost, Williams, and Jones, the also in progress for qki lt ial4i n nets. Arrangements as t hat l o g._le Crown for thei r r are pardon ; and we under- Pre 44 7b et i i ti r lin i e psepl Sturge, Mr. William Scholefield, and gentlemen ' have been applied to, to a re claitatil,! tu emo n r t ia a l S Graham, Bart. They --ea tlY to comply svith this request. 22410f Ic tT1 °I,OTIIE RIVE a PLATE. ? ., 20.—Advices from Monte Janeiro. the lte-lizaZelliber have been received via Ri a o tte de ries erected by !Pkii h at ettquadrons had destroyed tbeb entrance of the river ; and .the were Tb. lat e er‘, assembled at Martin Garcia large x ti p e e e c t t in e g f l 'itcl, - Port nc `Tts to proceed to their d de a st m iu o a s t t ions ou - las', Monte Video resented animated . spec : '31'40,144/141141g l ek ieore o lla c n to tni be e r n , t anticipa awnedre.2Bhin the , harbour, br t o w f a w o h f ic t h he t hi wer t " °1 *(1 300 Spann 'll of 11:4 flow from the opening t ell Iv 0 Ay , ell te rtai n e d o f extended c r h e l a c t o i u o tri n s_ s mercha_n one . etitet jololel4lly to the enterprise he ko t t e t. t o "" beneficial results of .t. *retr y rila territory by Rosas's troops, iti k: ' Vid,.._ c°4l Pensate for the continuedtraoancddceuiptwawteiasnolndboecona: ii,N1,', 4 ,3' ttore evident that the weapons so dexter a o fl u t s h b e l tli t ;le tpii l 41e Ministers of England ~e ! rielia2 ercial requirements of th a e nd lv3.', ktieP4ritries, would much more with the progress of tikrzatioe,lo a way more consistentnative population . o , effectually ran e e th than pp e b a : . 11:Ystt,„ aec,omplish the overthrow ef the anti- commer tk„7 of General Roses. ~... "'""'Y it • •rllt ' 11 ......................____ 5aid, had declwed war against the Dictator. tli ßlit 4.1. ------- Kew.—On Monday of iv zito, A_SIBRIDGE HOUSE, the residence t iv h undge -,- ..Surrey, 4 0 3 . 4 4. , aouse, .is.ew g thiliteibiretara4 t , th ef , r orn i g h uessth d e est D ro u y k e e d o b f y Ca h m re b . ridt ,r e o , m ha i d og a u n ir a ie r - s Itov,! t i t iert I,e:_pot, )slagappears that about fo h ur fi 3 r - o e p ar la s e s e in in ce h a i n s ai l ; "1,1-lith,7 wlsde in the formation of . hontkli4g.",ese'abed-room, of the south io c of tii'°orlls, in about the centre ose of afford which is situ t at e ed directly over low 4t eat tr e, b uilding, and, for the purpose ..rti, •„eti„the e -rate J.-- - , —.. Ile. %Rat, " .a ntth to room, a grate of e leat"toia e ul ?. was put in. in g peculiarly ho e4 re w ith fire bricks and Welsh lumps, but sum N' A h kL 4l4(l° il i a : t,ot at the time take th n e ; 41 th, °11441,i0 a lteration to secure art timber,ie 4boo, that th. i sil ' Le rth-stone real "1" ate ' ll A h as caused the present accident. 81° 44 1 fo ot s litte r had been placed directly heg 44 (1 4 3' th e 1 are Which, owing to t 44 t g re 10 ure 4 ? fro ol tot th e (ti:Ae girders and other portions .i 1 , kept up tc warm f , rea e t v h er ea a t b o . c e c a a m _- t h h a e d a i o g o n r i i t h ed g ,. it it ht4l',e, been destroyed, from there being no water laid on tiq t rplt'r Da YeSt er ALD EamisN.—At a Court of Aldermen, 'l4 3e d at iisaY, Alderman Wilson moved . that f th e e e r r a ta so in lut e i v o i n_ t l kee he lail,,le Previous Court, that copies . :fr: :114 ittlltter:n.'''Wilson and before it, be rescinded. The evp e e le n ncehad been ~vttiley, ok'lluatsPur-street Cornpter b prisoner charge made by one . ag f a a in n st a r ro o c t i h o e u r s , 11: l ee. I t et to excite to the commission q„teul d "ad been supposed that the evi t o d h e e nc l e ,o o w f n a x c l o e n r c c Iv ,uity stt.Properly be thus taken, but ise Alderman 4 11 4 P , O!I 0 ,, Solicitor advised the Court otherw ,ii Perl a ] . r,",,, Named that the previous Court, w . hich was for (4 ! ., o s ,ejoirors!,.had been called for a Saturday, e and no Aldermen o ff ria m 0 1 Vaairs _subject h . ad l been d e a x n p 'lllr ee i n the b e !other disc a!rne y intention to gi . ve The Lord Mayor in- Led for _ 8 Previous proceedings. laved for e15,,4_ eeonder to_ the present motion, and some tim, re, hi Pled before Aiderman Sidney rose to perform that C Ol 3 Lordship declared the seconding to be too late . _ a tha e s Child, Esq. of Greenwich, has been appointed 4.4 agiStrate for the Western division of the county of Kent, Sp ir. as such. inn " le itla .. L —Yesterday an ? At ilt w PROM RAILWAY OSS.F..S. ;ren t , ' Oa held upon the body of William Edward Barrell,. 'elf 0 7 ,, 4 C aptain in the 55th regiment of foot, who shot hirri- Ileo t 4 Qattirday last at his lodgings in Camberwell. Evi dtap:„AW,4B adduced to show that the deceased had been in a t3ilwa7,rg state of mind in consecpence of losses incurred by ha Peculation. Verdict---‘ femporary insanity." _ th e ;(7c14-11t, ---When no man can tell me the author of tiv: - lng;, and they be likey, or such as are looked for, I Whiet'lern little faith-i. because men readily invent that Str 44 , , 18 expected or is credited. I give more ear to any hi ve t•be or unlooked-for tidings, because men are . less apt to '4 0 .14 or to persuade themselves o f that which is :n no man's 11144 ' I have many times seen proofof this.— Guicciardini. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Tu ESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked out this :morning. Their Royal Elighnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed exercise in the forenoon. Prince Albert took the diversion of shooting to day. The Marquis of Granby, and Colonel Bouverie were in attendance on his Royal Highness. The Marquis of Granby afterwards took his departure for town. His Royal Higkness Prince George left the Castle this morning. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford, Sir James Graham, the Marquis of Hertford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Camden, the Earl of Powis, Earl Talbot, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, and the Earl of Jersey, took their departure from the Castle to-day. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort again walked in the pleasure grounds in the afternoon. The Royal Family were taken airings this afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince George arrived at his re sidence in St. James's Palace, yesterday, from Windsor Castle. The Queen will hold a Privy Council at half-past three o'clock this afternoon, at _Buckingham Palace. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence, in Whitehall gardens, yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle. Sir George Clerk had an interview with the Right Honour able Baronet. Mr. Hi,ham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Lincoln, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Granville Somerset, and the Right Hon. Sidiaey Herbert, had a meeting yes terday, at the office of ate Board of Trade. Mr. Meek had an interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches were rec eived yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Hong•hong, and also from the Governor of Ceylon. NAVAL IIN TELLIGENCE. Wootavicx, JAN. 20.—The Ariel steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander Mudge, has arrived at Woolwich, from Dover, to be paid off, and her oAficers and crew will be transferred to-morrow to the Onyx steam-vessel, destined for the same service as the Ariel was lately engaged upon. The Onyx is expected to be the fastest boat upon the Dover station, her speed, when tried down the river, being at the rate of 16i statute miles per hour. The Goodwill arrived frotn Deptford on Saturday, and the Duck sailed for Chatham on the same day. The Amphion, 36 guns, launched at Woolwich Dock-yard on Wednesday last, was towed to the East India docks to-day, to be fitted with her engines. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—An awful gale has been blowing all night from the south-east, and the sea has been dashing over the walls of the town, deluging the habitations along shore. The elemental war has not even yet abated, and much damage will, it is feared, be discovered to have been sus tained by the shipping. The schooner Ann and Elizabeth, of Fowey, from Cardiff, laden with iron, for London, drove from her two anchors at Spithead last night, about nine o'clock, aid struck on the Spit, where she thumped and sank. The captain and crew were in the rigging the whole of the night, until eight o'clock this morning, when they were rescued, in a state of great exhaus tion, by Reuben Maine, a Portsmouth waterman. Six hands (including the captain) were thus saved from appa rently inevitable death. The stern of the schooner has since been washed out, and the sea is making a clear breach over her. Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon, the agents to Lloyd's, promptly rendered every assistance, and suc ceeded in saving the spars, sails, three small anchors, and other stores, but all the men's clothes and property have been lost. The captain was putting his desk, containing all his savings, into the long-boat, which was got out directly the vessel struck, when a heavy sea struck her and smashed her to pieces, together with the desk and its contents, which were lost. The schooner struck and sank in less than five minutes. The captain and men describe the night as truly awful. Messrs. Garratt and Gib , bon have a heavy cutter near the wreck to endeavour to save what is possible of the cargo ; and when the weather moderates, dockyard lighters will be sent out to endeavOur to weigh the wreck. The students of the Royal Naval College will resume their professional studies on Thursday. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander M'Dowell, came into harbour this afternoon. We believe she suffered con siderably in the gale last night. The Grampus, 50, Captain Martin, C,8., has received orders to proceed to Plymouth to complete her complement. The Superb, 80, Captain Corry, remains at Spithead ; but her gallant captain is on Admiralty leave. The Scourge steam-bomb-vessel, Commander CatOn,, will leave the basin on Thursday. She will ship the mortar bed of the dEtna to-morrow. The Lords of the Admiralty are expected to visit this port in a few days. The Apollo troop ship, Commander Radcliffe, sailed from Rio for Monte Video on the 27th of November, under orders from the British Minister at Rio. The Cyclops steam-sloop, Captain Lapidge, arrived at Rio, with dispatches for the British Minister on the 7th of De cember, when it was rumoured that the Minister would de tain the Cyclops to return to England in. The Express, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Herrick, arrived et Rio on the 28th of November, from Falmouth, with mails. The Cruiser, 16, Commander Fanshawe, sailed from Trin comalee on the 19th of November, for Moulmein. The Vulture steam-frigate, Captain APDougall, arrived at Trincomalee, from Spithead, on the 22d of November. An accident happened this morning to one of the men in the employ of Mr. Peter Rolt, the contractor for the works of the new steam basin, &c., in this dockyard, by which his arm was so dreadfully fractured from one of the piles falling upon him that it is feared amputation must be performed. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., in dock, is now under the hands of the dockyard officers and artisans, who have commenced making the alterations in the internal fit ments of the ship already mentioned. FATAL ACCIDENT on the SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. We regret to state that a fatal accident, by which one in dividual lost his life and another was much injured, occurred on Monday night, or rather between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morning. On the arrival of the luggage train from Dover, at the bridge which crosses a river about a mile from Tonbridge, one of the abutments, owing, it is supposed, to the overflowing of the water and high wind which pre vailed at the time, gave way, and as soon as the engine en tered upon the bridge, one of the arches fell in, and the engine, tender, and two of the luggage waggons, together with the engine-driver and stoker (brothers), of the name of Doyle, were precipitated into the water. There were se veral other luggage carriages attached to the train, but they were not injured. The deceased was a young man about twenty-seven years of age, and bore a most respect able character. At the time the accident happened the train was proceeding at a moderate rate. The stoker is severely hurt, but not considered dangerously. The French mail, which ought to have beef's at the terminus at London-bridge yesterday morning at five o'clock, in consequence of the acci dent did not arrive until eleven o'clock. The downward trains left London yesterday morning . at the usual time, planks having been placed across the bridge on which .pas sengers and goods could be safely conveyed over the river, where another train was in waiting to receive them. Up to the time the latest intelligence was received, the engine, tender, and two luggage wagg ons remained in the water, and therefore the extent of the injury and loss of property cannot at present be ascertained. We bear that when the two unfortunate men were thrown into the water, one of the brothers, by his intrepidity rescued the other from a watery grave ; but he was so dreadfully in jured and exhausted, that he died on the bank of the river before he could be removed to the station. The body of the deceased was dreadfully cut, one of the thighs broken, and was otherwise injured. There were fortunately no passengers, and tle two brothers are the only persons injured. Yesterday afternoon the bridge was so far repaired that the trains were 'able to pass without interruption. STRIKING FEATURE IN THE SPORTING WORLD. A "new black" has recently arrived from America, of the name of W. Perry, from Annapolis, in Nova Scotia, anxious to acquire pugilistic fame, and has thrown up his hat in the P.R. as a regular tone of defiance. But, nevertheless, he has not come to quarrel about the Oregon territory, the annexa tion of the Texas, the repeal of the corn-laws, or the opening of the ports, but ultimately to decide whether the champion ship shall belong to the New or the Old World. Johnny Broome held out his hand to the man of colour, saying, " Welcome, my boy ; country or colour are all the same to us Englishmen ; we only want good uns ; and if you can show us that quality, you shall not want for patrons." Perry is a fine-looking young man, and stands 6ft. lain. in height, weighing rather more than 13 stone. His nob bas nothing ferocious attached to it. His face rather pleasing than otherwise. He had heard of the battles of the late brave, high-couraged Molineux, and he resolved to tread in his steps, if possible, and be on the qui vine to get at the top of the tree in the P.R. The challenge from Perry was nut suffered to lie on the table; but Burton, from Leicester, weighing something more then 12 stone, and said to possess good milling qualities, made a match with the black for 151. a side, which came off yesterday. "It was to be a quiet day," the Fancy observed, and the patrons of boxing steamed it down old Father Thames on the sly to gether in perfect harmony, and as to the name of the place, mum was the order of the day—but the boxers were to land at the first convenient spot which offered itself to prevent the interference of the beaks and the blue bottles. The office was to be ready—quick, and to go to work without loss of time. They landed before they came to Gravesend, and the men appeared in the ring with the utmost alacrity. The black looked like a dangerous oppo nent, with a potent arm capable of doing masterly execution, and the winning man. He smiled at Burton with confidence, showed no hesitation on his part, and seemed "eager for the fray," and soon showed himself a troublesome customer. "He'll do," said Johnny Broome. I never saw Blolineux ; but his parallel I think is in the ring to day, and he shall be matched with some of the "Big Ones yet." The black took the lead in great style, and kept it, nobbing his opponent with ease ; and the first eight minutes convinced the spectators how the battle must terminate; and in twenty minutes Burton was so punished, and had not the slightest chance in his favour, when the black was declared the con queror. He appeared at Johnny Broome's last night, with out the least appearance that he had been exhibiting his prowess in the ring. Perry is sure to prove a tearer to a few of the " Big Ones," and Caunt, Bendigo, Tass Parker, &c., must look out. The Right Hon. and Mrs. W. Ewart Gladstone entertained at dinner yesterday evening, at the Right llon. Gentleman's mansion ,Carlton House-terrace, the Bishop of Jamaica ; Mr. Alexander Wood, of the Emigration-office ; Mr. Stevens, of the Colonial-office; and other gentlemen connected with that department; Mr. Bonham, late of the Ordnance; Dr. Phillimore, and others. Covers were laid for sixteen. INCREASE OF SHIPPING IN THE WEST INDIA DocK.—The amount of shipping in the West. India Dock, according to the rotation furnished for the last year, com mencing in January, and ending in December, 1845, was no less than 1,307, being considerably above the amount from the opening in 1802. The amount is expected to be consi derably increased as soon as the branch line of railway communicating with tho Eastern Counties shall be com pleted. Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., has a " Life of his Father" in the press, with his speeches. THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENI NG. JAN'UARY 21, 1846. THE CORN TRADE. BRITISH. Though the natural effect of the uncertainty respect ing the corn-laws must have been to create great uneasi ness among all classes of agriculturists, it is a singular fact that supplies from the growers have for some weeks past been on a very moderate scale. We can scarcely suppose that this has been caused through confidence, in the present amount of protection being maintained, as each day has strengthened the belief that Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues contemplate a material relaxation in the duties on grain ; the most reason able conclusion, therefore, is that farmers are aware that the yield of the last crop is really deficient, and that they are consequently unwilling to sacrifice their property at its present depreciated value. Should this really be the case (and we see no reason to question the accuracy of the opinion expressed at the time of harvest, viz., that the produce of wheat of the United Kingdom wa•t in 1845 materially short of that of average seasons) there is certainly nothing to war rant the recent great decline. We consider, there fore that' farmers are acting prudently in not pres sing wheat to market; for, even if the whole of what is now in bond should be liberated, it would not have any permanent effect on quotations, in case our supposition that the home produce is short be correct. We are compelled to put the matter in this indefinite manner, in the absence of statistics on so important a subject as the produce of the country ; though, from careful investigation of the reports from all quarters re. ceived previous to the commencement of harvest, as well as carefully compiled estimates from practical agricul turists after the crop had been secured, we have no doubt in our own minds that the deficiency, though not so great as represented by those who raised the famine cry, is actually of sufficient importance to render it very questionable whether the value of wheat can be kept low during the ensuing summer, let the measures of the Government be what they may✓ In considering the future range of prices, the fact that millers and merchants have for many weeks past refrained from adding to their stock, must not be lost sight of. The purchases recently made have been to supply immediate wants, all parties having manifested a determination to be in a position to take advantage of whatever effect the ex pected alteration in the corn-laws might have upon the trade. It is, therefore, not unreasonable to .suppose that, when once the cause of uncertainty shall have been re moved, the demand which has for so protracted a period hem languid, will immediately revive ; and, instead of a further fall, we should not be surprised to witness a steady and gradual improvement. This eurmot, how ever, be expected till it has become definiteV known by what laws the importation of corn is for the future to be regulated ; and, so long as the matter is under discus.. sion in Parliament, no great revival in busin es will, we fear, take place. At all the principal provincial markets during the week, the utmost difficulty has been expel ienced in effecting sales of wheat; and though, as beforee observed, the supplies brought forward have not bisnli . by any means large, the tendency of prices has beep decidedly downwards. The reports from Liverpool, on Tuesday,. state that, at an abatement of about 2d. per 701bs. on - the rates of that day se'nnight, some small purchases we :r a made for immediate use, but that millers were unwi 11 ing to take more than their pressing necessities obliged tthem to buy. Later in the week, the depression rather it imeased than diminished. The accounts from the leading towns in Y 7erkshire are equally dull. The Hull advices of Tuesd my inform us that with a disposition on the part of seller s to facilitate business by submitting to a decline of qui e 2s. per qr., little progress was made in the disposal i of wheat ; whilst at Leeds on the same day, and at Wakefield on Friday, the reduction was at least 2s. per qi The depression has been nearly as great : tt the leading markets at the west and north-west ; nc r have affairs worn a more promising appearance in th, s. agricultural districts, the cessation of orders from the ( thief consum ing towns having obliged farmers, if anxi: a to sell, to submit to reduced prices. By our Scotch advices we learn that the c onainued dull reports from the south had had their usual influence on the trade, and wheat was quoted Is. to 2s . r ier quarter lower on Wednesday at Edinburgh and Gla: ig ow. Prices of most other sorts of grain, as well as t he se of flour and meal, had also receded more or less ;- all parties having acted on the reserve. The Irish markets have likewise felt the it tfluence of the fiat accounts from this side of the Chew mel; still quotations of both wheat and cats are too 1141 i to admit of consignments to London with a fair chan.-.3i of profit. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into L o ndon have been small, only 5,117qr5. having bec 5 i reported up to this (Saturday) evening. TI los quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by land-carri lige samples has been trifling, but' the millers 'baying • ad-, hered firmly to their determination not to increase their stocks in the present unsettled state c I affairs, the scanty nature of the supply has failed to im part a firmer tone to business. On Wednesday only a kw samples, left over from the previous market-day, we re offered for sale; to place these some difficulty was exi erienced, but factors refused to submit to any further re duction. On Friday there was some slight addition to tl e quantity of wheat on the Essex stands, and the inquii y being quite as languid as earlier in the week, the turn I vas rather in favour of buyers. The transaction: in free foreign wheat h: we been on a strictly retail scale ; no variation has, hoi vei , - er, taken place in the value of the article since Mond iy ; holders having, on the whole, displayed more fn mess than might, under all circumstances, have been e. el ,ected. On Wednesday bonded wheat was totally ne: gl ected, nor were the actual operations of importance on F ridr.y ; but there was certainly - more inquiry for the a rt kle at the close than in the commencement of the w g 4 ,k, princi pally, we believe, for shipment to Belgium. :Had sellers been disposed to give way a trifle in price, , business to some extent might probably have been done. The demand for flour has, throughout the -week, been excessively slow ; hitherto, however, the tc T . quotation fur town-manufactured has remained at 5f s per sack. Ship flour has not supported its previous 'value, some pressed sales having been made on Friday ast about Is. per sack below former terms. The arrivals of barley, though not partic early large, have proved amply sufficient to satisfy th e immediate wants of the malsters,and distillers, and no o no has shown any inclination to take more than necessar r for present purposes; we lire unable, therefore, to repo rt the slight est improvement either in the demand for tor the value of this grain. Malt has also been difficult of sale; lot the,. real scarcity of superior qualties has caused the finer - sorts to command relatively high rates. r. The market has been moderately suppli. ad with oats,' of home growth; from our own coast on], y 4,060 qrs.; from Scotland, 170 qrs. ; and from Ireland, none have come to hand. The smallness of this arri' ral has, how ever, in some measure been compensated I y the receipt of 11,727 qrs. from abroad. The principal de 'alers have shown far more anxiety to induce them to i aei -ease their stocks; the sales of the week have conse qu ently been on a restricted scale. Factors have, on the o ther hand, displayed considerable firmness; and the b ut mess done has been at terms quite equal to those curia ton Mon day last. Many of the cargoes of foreigt a oats have been offered, duty paid, from on board = 13 .ip; and as these were mostly purchased at high rates c.n the other sides, the result must be far from favouraa E. Beans have met with a moderate share o f attention, and handsome parcels of old have brought q u ite as much money as last week. The duty rose to 3E . 6d. per qr., on Thursday, and is likely to continue to to ec 1 upwards. The mildness of the season has great ;1 3 ' interfered with the sail of boiling peas; and though the quantity brought to market has not been large, no di fficalty has been experienced in buying at last Mon do y's decline. Grey and hog peas have also bung heas it; s on hand. The duty advanced a step on the minim an i point (at which it has stood for some weeks) on Tht trs day. FOREIGN. The reports from the different foreign a att) rkets are at present of very little interest, the uncertain (ty as to what alteration may be made in the corn-la we of Great Britain having tended to check business a 11 nest of the continental ports. The latest advices from Dantzic are of ' the 12th inst. Since the eommencement of the new yes ti very little business has been done in wheat; a parcel of very fine high-mixed, the growth of 1842, had, h ov vever, been bought for spring shipment at equal to 56 s. to 575. per qr. free on board, with a large proportion, of the pur chase money paid in advance. There bac t also been sonic inquiry for the lower qualities, 1 iii ncipally on Konigsberg account; and for a lot of new, t y no means fine, weighing only 601bs. per bushel, eqtr al to 495. per qr. had been obtained. Statements of ti ae t quality of wheat exported durin g 1845, and the stock re. mauling on hand at the close thereof, had been pal A (shed; from 23,343 lasts had that of the total 34 , 106 is sts shi pp ed, been dispatched to Great Bi itain. The which it appears, n e g xc b ee e d en ed ve t d h n e ee a d rr f i r v n a ni ls e 4 f rxcool:mBoBrltthsleahsiatidlst'ehirtieoldr, seems,t: h s e t n stock r a a h y l y v 1845, to 2 2,138 lasts on the 31st December. From Stettin we have letters of the 1 10th, but their contents are of little interest. The nor canal price of good to fine red wheat, for spring deli' very, was then 495. to 50s. per qr. free on board; but th a rates asked having been much above the limits of t be few orders received, scarcely a sale had taken place. 1 From Rostock the latest acconnts are al io - very dull. At Hamburgh, on Tuesday, there was se areely any thing passing in the grain trade; no forei: pi orders hea -1 ing . been received there, and buyers fo r c onsumption having confined their operations to as nu row as'per nutted by actual wants. Contracts for fine Waren 61 to 61:Vlbs. per bushel, to be shipped in s pring, might nave been closed at 52s 9d. per qr. free on b oard, but no buyers had come forward. Moderately goa 3 red Marks wheat, weighing 601b5., was then obtain( I ea a the spot at equal to 495. per qr. In spring corn the op ?rations had been unimportant; oats had, however, owing to their scarcity, maintained their former value. From _the Mediterranean we have n( )tb .ing fresh to communicate, business in grain having b cc ome exceed ingly dull at all the southern and eastern markets. At Odessa, however, the value of wheat al ;pears to have been pretty well supported, the latest q tuotation from thence being 355. per quarter free on 1 lotad, for the best qualities. By the Acadia steam-boat we have rep earls of recent dates from the principal markets in the United States. Shipments of flour to Great Britai a were then being rapidly proceeded with, and st. good mand for the article had been experienc led all through the month of December, but pric es were not quiteso higheexports at thefrom close o mN aesw York f theyhad r 3m a t onelt to period be3lst D o e u c r e , m a b rd eir 58,991 bushels t o o f n w o hleessat ; b than e,, 9 i t , e 7 s 9 w l hbiacrhr largeels of fl quantities of Indian corn, rye, an d ba xley had been shipped.—Mark Lane Express. Sir James Graham returned to town ;,yesterday, from Windsor Castle. ._.:, 4~. SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. tAANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. —A numerously attended meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held by acheurament at the Star Hotel this evehing; to receive the report of a deputation appointed at a meeting held la,c week to proceed to London and re ceive from the Committee of Management some explana tion respecting the recent amalgamation with the Dudley, Madeley, Broseley, and Ironbridge Railway Company. The Chair was occupied by J. Todd, Esq., who called upon the deputation to report the result of that visit. Mr. HARRISON BLAIR read a written report, the sub stance of which was that the deputation was courteously received, and that the committee thought it due to the shareholders in Manchester, whom they knew, by the re-signing of their deed last year, to be both numerous and largely interested in the Company. to send their Secretary down in order to give the fullest ex planation of the recent amalgamation with the Dudley and Madeley Company, or on any other points on which the shareholders might desire information. Mr. lieox, the Secretary - to the Company, having arrived, stated that he was ready to furnish the share holders with such information as they required, either in reference to the past proceedings, the present position, or the future prospects of the Company. Mr. SHAESPEARE PHILLIPS wished the Secretary, before he proceeded to explain the recent amalgamation with the Dudley and Madeley Company, to state whether the Company had got rid of the opposition of the Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Company, which opposed them last year, and threw them out on standing orders. The SECRETARY stated that the Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Company of last year did not now exist. It was then merely a branch of the Grand Junction Company, but in consequence of the fueling which existed in the district against the Grand Junction Company before it had amalgamated with the London and Birmingham Company, what was called an independent company had been formed, in which the Grand Junction Company had only one-fourth interest, the South Staffordshire one-fourth, and he believed the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton one-fourth, leaving one-fourth for the public. This company had adopted the plans of the Shrewsbury and Grand Junction of last year, and was also a competing line to the part of the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham scheme between ',Shrewsbury and Wolver hampton. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company bad however offered to amalgamate with it, and to re ceive half its capital and half its committee on their board—an offer which if left to the shareholders would very readily be accepted ; but the committee, from the constitution of the Company, were so allied with other parties that they could only amalgamate as between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, and even as to that they stipulated for the adopticn of their station, in order to accommodate the South Staffordshire and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Companies, whereas the line and station of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company were on a much higher level, and could not be altered this session to the level of the Shrewsbury and South Staffordshire station, without destroying the direct communication between Shrewsbury and Birming hem. It had, however, been referred to the engineers of the two companies to consider how far it was practicable in a subseqent session to adopt the lower level, and to have, for the accommodation of all the railways into Wolverhampton, one grand central station, for which the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company had some months ago purchased an eligible plot of be tween six and seven acres of land. If the con test of last year is renewed, it will be in a more friendly spirit ; and as both lines run nearly side by side all the way, it can hardly be decided upon engineer ing merits, but must be decided with reference to the claim and position of the two Companies. Upon this issue the committee of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company entertained no doubt of the result, taking into account their priority of claim, the greater extent of their schemes, and the report of the Board of Trade in their favour, a circumstance which was likely to have more weight in the present than in the last session of Parliament. A SHAREHOLDER inquired whether it was true, as had been stated in the papers, that the Grand Junction Com pany would support the opposing line in Parliament, while the London and Birmingham Company determined to remain neutral in reference to this Company ? The SECRETARY said that the shareholders could themselves judge how far such a thing was likely, seeing that the London and Birmingham Company were united with the Birmingham Canal Company and with this Company, to make all the lines in the district between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and that such lines would be useless as a communication with Shropshire if the line of the Shrewsbury and South Staffordshire Railway were sanctioned. Besides. he knew that so recently as the day on which the amalgamation with the Dudley and Madeley 'Company - was completed, the chairman and solicitor of the London and Birmingham' Company had stated to the Vice-Chairman of this Company, that it might depend upon the cordial support of that Company in Parliament. A- SHAREHOLDER remarked that the amalgamation of this Company with the Dudley and Madeley Company, which could not go to Parliament this year, and was about to return the deposits to its shareholders; seemed like joining a living body to a dead corpse. Another SHAREHOLDER asked whether it was true that this Company had got a bonus of 30,0001. in the exchange with the Dudley and Madeley Company ? He did not see how a Company whose shares were at a dis count could afford to give such a bonus. The SECRETARY said that probably the shortest plan would be to state the history of the Dudley and Madeley Company, and its amalgamation with this Company. The Dudley and Madeley Company was projected about the middle of last year, and received strong local support, having also a highly respectable pro visional committee. Its first project was a line from , 'Dudley to Madeley, with a branch from Budge Heath to Wolverhampton, and its original capital 800,0001., which was readily subscribed and the deposits laid. At this time the Shrewsbury and Birmingham committee saw the danger of a line from Dudley to Madeley, as likely ultimately to become a competing line to..hrewsbury, and, as the best alternative under the circumstances, offered to contribute half the capital required, and to be represented on the Dudley and Madeley committee. This offer was not only rejected, but the Dudley and Madeley Company advertised an extension to Shrewsbury, and an increase of its capital to 1,600,000/. There was no thing left but for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Com pany to oppose the line from Dudley to Shrewsbury, and in like manner, the Dudley and Madeley Company had re , solved to appear as a competing scheme to this Company. The plans and sections of the Dudley and Madeley Compa nies were not only not lodged in due time, but the latter were in so defective a state, that it was found hopeless to proceed for an Act this session. The Committee accord ingly published a report, in which they stated their intention to return 2/. per share to the shareholders, reserving 12s. 6d. per share to defray the expenses in curred, and to provide for the expense of proceeding in the next following session of Parliament. It was at this period that overtures for an amalgamation were again made by this Company, and as the plan originated with hiniselt, and had been carried out not without consider able difficulty, he hoped the reasons he had to state in its favour would be as satisfactory to the shareholders present as they had been to the committee, and had led them unanimously to conclude the agreement with the Dudley and Madeley Company. First, an opponent had been removed from the field and converted into an ally; second a line, which in other hands might have proved a powerfully competing line with this Company, and which in the general opinion of those best acquainted with the district is not only required and must be made by some one, but will pay for making, has been secured to this Company; third, this Company were enabled to effect an arrangement which will )btain far it a bonus of about 30,0001, being just the expenses which had been incurred in the formation of the Company and the fruitless contest of last session. It was one of those arrangements which proved also beneficial for the shareholders of the Dudley and Madeley Company, and the result is seen by the matter being no longer one of negotiation, but of history, for four-fifths of the Dudley and Madeley shareholders have already signified their assent to take shares in this Company. And last, though not least, this Company will obtain additional deposits amounting to 90,000/., besides having its maiden deposit almost untouched, and when the share holders take into account that, without contributing to the Parliamentary deposit of the joint scheme between 'Wolverhampton and Birmingham, which has lodged duplicate plans, and is proceeding with a separate and distinct Bill, that required for the lines, as lodged by this Company, will amciumt to 110,0001, they will have no difficulty in perceiving that the committee have very much better consulted their interests by the amalgama tion which had been made, than had they made a call of 21. 10s. per share, in order to supply the deficiency. The capital req' aired for the line from Dudley to Madeley would al Out equal that displaced by the alliance between Birmin gham and Wolverhampton, and as the Parliamentary estimate of the Company is 1,900,0001., there is still, room to admit half the capital of the Shrewsbury and South Staffordshire Company, if the two Companies, come to terms. The SECRETARV then read an extract from the sub scribera' agreement, to show that the committee were fully empowered - to conclude the amalgamation with the Dudley and Made ley committee, and stated that it was from no want of (courtesy towards the shareholders that they were not ,consulted, but the short period before the opening of :Parliament, and the very nature of the negotiation itsel prevented the adoption of such a course. Several shareholders expressed themselves highly satisfied with the explanation given, and a resolution was unanimor sly passed to that effect, as also a vote of thanks to the Secretary for the trouble he had taken. A SuartEw )LDEB: said he had been informed that the staff of the owo con ipanies was the only thing that pre vented an i =malga matron with the Shrewsbury and South Staffozdsliire. The SECSUETAAX stated that such could hardly be the case, as the eng?veers of the two Companies were re spectively the en gineers of the London and Birmingham and the Grand J 'unction, which had united, and i Ir. Swift had been offered to participate jointly with the solicitors of the ) .743 jr na rt_ pa T ny w ta as to A b dall as ln two H bai rmen. would be about as ba A vote of the ks was then passed to th e Ch a irman, E and the meeting elaj ntrated. de °c3G. Lord Farnham will second the Address, which Lord Home will prop o se, in the House of L or d s , i n re ply to the Queen's Speech. ;ST THE CORN - LAWS.—With a zeal GLASGOW AGM2 the cause, some of our merchants and liberality worthy of •, c ,, have this week come forward an and manufacturers, i sub - scribed the munific e nt sum of upwa r d s o f 10,000 1 . t o a id the Great League Fun d for the constitution a l overthrow cf the Corn-laws. Th is doing the work in r i g ht earliest, and , a Glasgow still holds its right position A q ue g o .p s. 7 - 7 S cotait ,Reformer position on attests that the c: a is y on this most vital 4 - it, ‘ a Gaz. • - - • - - Tilt CORN-LA.IV S; MEETING AT NORWICH. NORWICH, JAN. 20.—This evening a public meeting was convened by advertisement at St. Andrew's Hall, in this city, to which all persons interested in agriculture were espe cially invited to attend. The hall, which will hold 4,000 persons, was quite crowded, and the arrangements for the accommodation of the press were very good, but a mob of ruffianly fellows surrounded the inclosed space set apart for the reporters, and made it very difficult of approach. The chair was taken by Mr. Betts ! the Slayer; and the greatest excitement was awakened in consequence of the rumour that Mr. Wodehouse, M.P. for Norfolk, had accepted a challenge from Mr. Cobden to meet him and discuss the great question of the repeal of the corn-laws. The city throughout the day was thronged with strangers, as well as groups of townspeople, discussing incidentally the object of the meeting. The proceedings commenced at half-past six o'clock. Mr. Cobden arrived first, and was much cheered; Mr. Wodehouse arrived soon afterwards, and was hailed with partial cheering and laughter. The MAYOR rose and said, he wished every person to be fairly heard. That was an Englishman's privilege. He did not pretend to know which was right or which was wrong on the present question ; but he had quite sufficient force to keep order, and he meant to have it kept. The Anti-Corn law League of the city of Norwich were understood to have possession of the hall till Mr. Cobden had addressed the meeting. Mr. COBDEN then rose amidst enthusiastic cheering, which was again and again renewed. He said—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, it gives me peculiar pleasure on this occa sion to address you in this magnificent hall, because I under stand we are favoured with the presence of a gentleman dis tinguished as a leader of the agricultural protectionists, one noted in the House of Commons by his talents, competent to take a lead in that influential body of our fellow- countrymen, and who, I am sure, will be able here to state the case of the protectionists as successfully as any member of that body. Now, gentlemen, as I understand, this meeting is intended to afford an opportunity for a discussion between those who entertain opinions similar to my own and those who favour protection to agriculture, I shall confine myself pretty much on this occasion —(Clamour) —to the discussion of the , effects of protection upon agriculture.--(Renewed clamour.) If those men are not perfectly quiet I shall call on the Mayor to ask them to leave the meeting, for I have no idea of allow ing 5,000 people to be annoyed by the conduct of ten indivi deals.—(Cheers.) I will confine myself to the effects of pro tection upon agriculture, for I will take it for granted that there are no men here connected with manufactures who are not, as we are in the north, favourable to free trade in pro visions. I will assume you want no argument from me to convince you that it is better to have abundance of food than an artificial and legalized scarcity of food. And now, taking for granted that the manufacturers and traders of Norwich are favourable to abundance and cheapness—that you want no arguments from me to show that it is your in terest to have abundance and cheapness, we will address our selves to the consideration of protection as it affects the agriculturists. I proceed another step. I intend to define what I mean by agriculturists. Nothing has misled so much as the neglect of definitions as we go along. By agricule turists I mean men who labour on the land. Agricul ture means labouring the land. Agriculturists means the tenant-farmer, who works with his head if not with his hand, and it includes the labourer who works with his hand.—(Cheers.) It is only the farmer and the labourer who are entitled to come near the definition of agriculturist. —(Cheers.) It is true we have landowners who call them selves agriculturists—men who probably never had one acre in their own hands to cultivate, or who receive their rents and probably live at Paris, Rome, or Naples, or spend their time at Cheltenham, Brighton, or London—men who receive their rents, and then come forward pleading the cause of the agriculturists, and say to the farmer and to the labourer "We are all rowing in the same boat."—(Great cheering and laughter.) The question we have to discuss to-night is— first, what interest the farmer and farm-labourer have in the corn-laws. I say here, as I have said a thousand times before, that the farmers and farm labourers have no interest in the corn-laws. If the corn• laws do what we are told they do— keep up the price of grain—why then one inevitable conse quence follows—rents must be higher here than on the con tinent.—(Cheers.) So long as you have twenty men bidding for every vacant farm, you may be 'quite sure rents will re main up to the full extent the tenant is able to pay. If the farmer could see that an Act of Parliament could secure him 80s. a quarter for his wheat, doubtless he would be willing to pay a higher rent than if he got 40s. a quarter for his wheat, and any Act of Parliament which does really succeed in raising artificially the prices of corn and provisions, why, that is a rent-law--(Great cheering)— and I believe there are not two farmers at this meeting or in the country, with heads on their shoulders sufficiently good to entitle them to be left at large without a keeper — (Cheers and laughter)—who would not be quite willing to admit that, in the long run, Acts of Parliament that raise the price of wheat are Acts of Parliament in some degree to raise the rent of land.—(Cheers.) Then, why all this clamour on the part of the farmers in behalf of the corn laws ? What do they hope to get by the maintenance of these laws ? What have they got by their maintenance in times past ? At the protection meetings what has all the outcry been but that farming is a bad trade ? What good, then, does protection do to farmers ? You have had that protection—you have had a majority in Parliament—you have thrown up your caps at hustings for the men who .promised protection—you have ten landlords in Parliament for one manufacturer or merchant—you have had it all your own way, and yet I say farming is a bad trade, and I inow it has been a bad trade.—(Hear, and loud cheers.) I'll tell you why it is a bad trade. It has been a bad trade because you have had Acts of Parliament meddling with your trade. You have had Acts of Parliament proposing to secure certain prices for your produce, and the farmers have taken their farms expecting these prices; but when they have gone to market they have found the market prices not up to the Act of Parliament prices.—(Laughter.) They have reckoned their rents upon these Acts of Parliament prices, and paid them out of the market prices, and been losers by the bargain. I need not go over now the history of the corn-laws since 1815. I have done it already in this very room. I showed you in this very room that your first break down In 1822 was owing to the corn-laws. You had a law passed in 1815 to secure you 80s. a quarter. In 1822 wheat was selling at half that price, and in a number of the Norwich Mercury in 1822 there were no fewer than 168 adver tisements of farmers to be sold up.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, you have had two or three times since the prices down to nearly one-half the prices the Act of Parliament pro mised you. You know the distress which followed upon farmers in consequence. I need not go back upon it ; every man here of my own age can recollect it.—(Hear. hear.) But I hear. an Hon. Gentleman near me, the Member for one of the divisions of this county, cheering me when I allude to the distress of the farmers.— (Cries of " No, no," from Mr. Wodehouse.) lam not saying that he exults in it, but when we are cheered in the House of Commons by one of our opponents we always think that something ironical is meant by it, and I take it that the Hon. Gentleman means to infer that protection has not secured the prosperity of the farmers. But probably the Hon. Gentleman has some other way of accounting for the distress of the farmers than I have. Well, all 1 stipulate for is, that he shall confine him self, on the present occasion, to corn, and if they have had distress in spite of protection, what is the use of rousing the whole country and fighting the battle of protection, as if the only thing it did was to benefit the farmers ? I ap peal to pet experience to prove that the farmers have not been prosperous with protection ; but I'll go further, and maintain, ,that the farmers have not only not been pros perous, but that they have done worse as men of business — I, mean they have made less money than other classes of the community.. There is not a farmer in the country who would not respond to this assertion immediately. Our shopkeepers, our drapers, our grocers, our coach builders, every trade or profession you please—our lawyers, our doctors, every other class, has made money and become prosperous, more or less ; but, as a rule, farmers have generally been unprosperons. Now, why should it be so? Why should farmers not make money as well as other people? Why should farmers be the most unprosperous per sons in the community ? I can only account for it from this, that they have been especially protected by Members of Par liament.--(Laughter.) They have had so much dry-nursing by county Members—(Continued laughter)—that they have never grown up into healthy maturity; they have been rickety bantlings, and as they grow up, though they have now been under this system for 30 years and odd, they must still have crutches given to them.—(Hear.) Well, we hear a good deal at these protection meetings about the over grown capital engaged in manufactures; and is it not very odd, that the manufacturers, who have no protection, and who want none, should make out better than the farmers with all their protection ; that county Members should be fighting night and day in the House of Commons, and coming down to public meetings and rousing the whole country to keep up protection—that protection being intended to secure the farmer the home trade with out which you cannot possibly live, and at the same time our manufacturers in Lancashire and York shire, who are selling their goods probably to the Chinese some 12,000 or 15,000 miles off, are making money, and the farmers, who have had the home market secured to them without any competition, can't make any money at all ? Well, then, take the agricultural labourers. Why, they are at the bottom of the scale, the very lowest scale of the ladder —(Hear, hear) —making less than 7s. or Bs. a week.—(Cries of, "No, no," "Yes, yes," .and other sums named.) Well, I won't pretend to settle the question. Nothing, I find, is so difficult as to settle the rate of wages anywhere. I find that in Wiltshire the wages are 65., 75., and Bs. a week, but I hope they are double in Norfolk. ut, whether or not, this I will undertake to say, from a pretty wide knowledge of facts, that, the whole country through the lowest paid la. bourer is the agricultural labourer.—(A voice, " No, ) Now, anybody that denies that must not have had his eyes and his ears open for the last two or three years. Now, why is it that the agricultural labourers are worse id than any other labourers? I would ask the gentlemanpa who denies that the agricultural labourer is paid less than the manufac turing labourer how is it that the labourers are running away from agriculture to manufactures? Did any one ever bear of a man running away from 12s. a week to Bs. ? ( Laughter.) But I can imagine it possible that he would leave Bs. to get 12s. But how is it that the agricultural labourer is not badly off? I will not go beyond one fact, — that the farmers, as a rule throughout the country, are defi cient in capital for their land ; that they have not a sufficient capital for the acreage they occupy ; and where there is an insufficient capital, there you have badly paid and mis o er N s or le labourers. Now, Ido not apply my re marks simply t folk, for I believe Norfolk and London are two of the best counties in England, but I speak of the country generally. What I want to state is a nation's case, and not a Norfolk case; and I say that the farme rs in this country, as a rule, have not one-half the capital they ought to have.. E men in the House of Comm ons don't Why, deny this, just because haveforvlenthe told them so there. Now , how is this? they are under the delusive system of the corn ssive tenants -laws. You have had landlords living upon the capital of succe in this country. If you had 163 farm te . n d ants advertised to be sold up in the 'Norwich Mercury thela , bo ju ure g r e so o n f t t h h e e se di f s a t r r m es: which must have existed among when all the capital was swept away to pay the rent, and the farmers left without the means of employing their la bourers.(A voice—" That was owing to an alteration of th e currency.") Well, if it be owing to the alteration in the currency, call your currency meetings, but don't go to the protection meetings, and tell the farmers there that it is protection that makes them prosperous, and when I she* von that they are not prosperous; don't tell me that it is owing to the currency that they are not so. I have no ob jection to your taking your own course, but this I am quite resolved upon, that you shan't jump up behind our Anti-Corn law League, as a bad boy, that does not want to hurry him self, jumps behind a post-chaise, to any errands for other people who employ him.—(Laughter and cheers.) It is admitted that the farmers have not prospered, and that the labourers have been distressed ; protection has not prevented that.— (Hear, hear.) Let us try, then, if we cannot do with out protection. It is said that neither English farmers nor manufacturers can compete with foreigners. Why not? Are you not as good and as clever? Will you submit to have your coward ears cuffed as the farmers do?—(Laughter and cheers.) -I have been literally ashamed of my countrymen when 1 have heard accounts of these protection meetings. Dukes, lords, squires, and great burley farmers, alongside of whom I should be but a pigmy, meet together, weeping and declaring in the face of the country that they will be all ruined if they are not protected. (The Hon. Gen tleman held a white handkerchief to his, eyes amidst much laughter.) They want to be protected against the Russians and the Poles, the Germans and the Dutchmen.- (Laiighter.) They are protected. We don't ask them to send abroad and compete with farmers at their own doors, as we manufacturers do. We don't ask them to send their produce to China, and sell it there at what they can get after paying all the expenses of freight and duty; yet we find these men meeting together, and blubbering and mourning over the bare idea that they should be called upon to com pete with foreigners, either here, or at their own doors. — (Cheers.) It is surprising to hear one of those dukes and squires, when presiding at public meetings, tell the farmers that they' will be all ruined if the corn-laws should be re pealed; and that if foreign corn were ever introduced we should be unable to pay taxes. Where is the country that is not taxed? I should like to find out such a country. Show me the Government, whether Turkish or Russian, that will work for nothing, and I will go and live there.—(Hear and laughter.) And, farmers, if you had ever travelled as you ought yea would not be gulled in the way that you are. Foreigners are taxed to the extent of all they can pay, just as you are.—(Hear, bear.) That appears to me to be the chief end. of Government, as cX: as I know.—(Some confusion took place here in consequence of s. rush made by several e n persons at a side-door to force an entrance, and th t i ference of a policeman, who ejected one or ewe e! h9lter .) How the protectionists would like to have such eottipetisi.:2 for admission to their meetings !—(Hear, hear.) The protectionists talk of the ruin of the terant-farmers by the repeal of the corn-laaws. I ask you whether there have not been in the House of Commons three nsetions calling upon that House—for there are no tenant-farriers there— to show what are the burdens upon agriculture, and they uniformly voted against the inquiry I—(llear, hear.) They tell the farmers that they have peculiar bur dens. We tell them in the House that they have peculiar exemptions. I have told them, as I tell them now, that if they will show a burden borne by agriculture and the landowners, which is not borne by manufacturers and traders, I will show them that five times the burden is borne by the latter classes.—(Hear, hear.) If, then, the agriculturists have no peculiar burdens, what right have they to protection any more than any other class of the community peculiar e e e c c a ui n rl l ei i a a tr r h b b a ut u r r ad d ne e yn n ss classwo r e e m x v o i e l f l mt e ip x i et e i ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") We say, if they have o t u s h al that m ocno p sm t . n a t h ‘uv e n n ei l t 3 ; s7a y ys - i l e hw t they y eh as either be fairly arranged; and, if we have any other taxation, let us have a fresh arrang emen t, i n w hi c h a ll s h a ll b e airly treated.—(Hear, hear.) But when we seek for a statement of accounts, they come to farmers' meeti • ngs, and say "We ca nnot compete with foreigners, on account o f o u r burdens." —(A laugh.) I say this scheme of protection is one-half a political hoax, and the other half arises out of political igno rance.—(Hear, hear.) The men who play the game, and the men who are played upon by the players, mhke up the two classes of dupes and impostors.—(Laughter.) The landlords —the political landlords I mean—wish to exercise supreme authority in this country, and they frighten the farmers in order to drive them to the poll. They bellow for "Protection to agriculture.”—(Laughter.) There is nothing like a good cry at an election —(Hear, hear.) Ay; but that old banner of protection is most terribly soiled and tofu of late. — (Laughter.) I don't think the farmers will rally round it again.—(Cheers.) I want to see the farmers put upon the same footing as the tradesmen and other classes are ; and that they do not make their trade a species of party politics. No trade will ever answer that is mixed up with polities. If anybody comes to protect you tradesmen, shut up shop, and turn to honest pursuits.--(A laugh t ) Having urged his usual arguments in favour of farms being let on leases of nineteen or twenty years, and on mercantile terms, and that they should not be suffered to be infested and injured by wild animals, nor the leases clogged with covenants injurious to the tenant-farmer, the Hon. Gentleman said, you must be allowed to do as you like, and the best you can with the land, having no restrictions as to how you are to dress and crop it, or adapt it for the preservation and hunting of game. I say that one-half of the agriculturists are dupes, and the other impostors. In the first place, the farmers are made tools of, as political farmers, by the landlords ; and, in the next place, they are staved off from inquiry into the game laws tenure, and the like.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, Mr. Cobden argued that the landlords would not get less rent if the farmers were freed from the mischiefs com mitted by game, and from ancient covenants prejudicial to the proper cultivation of land. If any landholder in .Norfolk would let his land on such terms, and for a lease of nineteen or twenty years, he would under take to get him a tenant.—(Hear, hear.) Yet the landlords told the farmers that such changes would ruin them.—(Hear, hear.) What could be more degrading than to tell the farmers of England that they were the Bri tish lion, and that if they only shook their mane and wagged their tail, the miserable manufacturers would be thrown off like dew drops.—(Laughter and cheers.) They were told that they were loyal men, that they upheld our institutions in Church and Sta:e, that they were the founda tion upon which the Throne and the aristocracy rested, and that they had fought the battles of the country at Waterloo and Trafalgar.—(Laughter.) Why, if I were addressed in that way (exclaimed the Hon. Gentleman) by a body of men, I should think of the fable of the fox and the crow, wherein the fox flattered the crow that she had a most enchanting voice, and, deceived by the " soft sawder," she opened her beak to sing, and down dropped the cheese which she had held in it, and which was all the fox, who ran off with it, wanted.— (Great laughter and cheering.) I venture to pre dict ahat when the corn-laws are abolished—as abolished they will be--(Great cheering)—( A cry—" Three cheers fur the abolition of the corn-laws," which were heartily given) —you will see no more of those painful and humiliating ex hibitions. The farmers will not then be brought together and treated like children—like schoel girls—to be flattered, to have soft sawder laid on, not with the brush, but with the trowel. I wonder they don't see through it. I think they do. But I want to see all that nonsense abolished. The farmer's vote will then be his own—(Loud cheers)—and the landlord and tenant, instead of laying their heads together for the maintenance of an interest opposed to that of the community, will lay their heads together to do as much for each other as they can in an honest way.—(Cheers.) Both landlord and tenant, I think, must feel considerably indebted to me and the League for telling them that we are going to abolish the corn-laws. And we will do it.—(Loud cheers.) The old edifice is looking very shaky, but you will see it tottering and crumbling before six weeks are over.--(Cheers.) I want to do this without exciting the alarm of the parties concerned. I have held meetings from Dorsetshire to Aber deenshire ; the League, a few years ago, expended 10,000/. in enlightening the farmers; but no sooner was my back turned than up got protection societies, which say to the farmers—" Don't mind what Cobden has been saying. You cnn't thrive—you can't hope to hold your farms to any good purpose unless you ate protected against the Russians, the Poles, and the Americans. If you don't trust us you will all be ruined." And now in what a precious mess they are all landed !—(Cheers and laughter.) Now they are going to have the corn-laws repealed, and they know it. As to this galvanized movement among the far mers, we know all about it. It has originated with a few landlords—not the most intelligent of their class—who have sent about their agents to rouse the farmers. They cannot get above 60, or 80, or 100 persona to attend their meetings. Then they get their speeches put in the Morning Post or the Morning Herald, and this sort of thing they call a great national demonstration.—(Laughter.) Then, what do we see on the other side ? A meeting is called at Oxford, and every hand is held up in favour of free trade. At Brighton a thousand people are seen holding up their hands for free trade, and only six against it. At Exeter, a meeting, called by the Mayor, is unanimous in favour of free trade. And with all those meetings in favour of free trade the protection ists are unable to call a single meeting in a single town in the kingdom. The game is up, and they know it.—(Cheers.) We meet in Parliament on Thursday, and what has come of this great protectionist party? Where is their own Prime Minister, whom they made to uphold the corn-law?— (Cheers and laughter.) Run away. This state of matter reminds me of an anecdote which I once heard. A friend of mine asked a gentleman, who had to deposit stakes, whose hands he had deposited the stakes in ? "In the hands of Major so-and-so," was the reply. " Yes, but," said my friend, "who will hold the major?"—(Laughter.) In 1841 the farmers put the stakes in Sir Robert Peel's hands, and now they want somebody to bsad Sir Robert.—(Renewed laugh ter and cheers.) I ask your worthy representative to s oak out candidly to-night what h i s real o p inions are as to i 't, prospects of protection, for I thin k h e wi ll agre e with me this, at least, that if protection is likely to be abolished, nothing can be so mischievous, nothing is so greatly to be deprecated, as that the farmers of this country and kingdom should be longer deluded with the idea that protection is to be maintained.—(pear, hear.) I ask that Hon. Gentleman to join with me to-night in a candid avowal as to the prospects of maintaining protection. I can see but one danger from the immediate abolition of the duties on corn, and that is entirely occasioned by the absurd course followed by the protectionists. The protectionists have already robbed the farmer of ss. the quarter on his wheat for the last six weeks or two months by the panic which they have created. If there be a panic among the farmers, that will be entirely owing to the preaching and teaching of the protectionists, and all I have been trying to do for the farmer is undone. I shall now do my best to obtain free trade in corn instantly, if it is to be got at all.—(Cheers.) Now we are going to Parlia ment with Sir R. Peel determined th separate himself from the Hon. Gentleman and his party.—(Cheers.) There are two men in the House of Commons who alone can lead that House—Lord J. Russell or Sir R. Peel. The Hon. Gentleman will admit that such is the case. Lord John Russell is our leader.—(Loud cheers.) Sir R. Peel was their leader—( Laugh- ter) —and he is run away. But that is not the worst of it. e He carries with him Sir J. Graham and Mr. Glaronfela only two men who could possibly be conceived caopathe f protec ing the House. Well, then, what is to become en _ men, with tioaist party—oftheloo or 150 forlorn-looking g u to their waists? their hearts in their shoes and their chins down . 1 th revile Sir R. Peel, but the country say ey They may and are disappointed. They are impotent, and will sink lower lower in public opinion as the session advances. Well, what comes of the protectionists? I tell the farmers at once the game is up ; you may talk of anything you like, but if any one speaks to you again of protection, you should ask him, "Do you mean to hoax us?"—(Cheers and laughter.) A gentleman has addressed a note to me asking me to explain how, if the corn-laws are repealed, the taxes are to be paid. We don't object to pay the Queen's taxes. We object only to pay- taxes to the Hon. Gentleman's friends.—(Cheers and laughter.) I never heard of agitations being got up to main tail a tax for the Queen's revenue. If the gentleman who pus the question will show me how it would be for the be at of the Queen to pay taxes to somebody else, then I will ex plain his difficulty. Air. Cobden t nen proceeded to repeat hii statements on the subject of the ' qualification. He did no; advance the money, neither • did the League. The majority of that meet' m were free-traders; and he g begged of them to give bile Wodehouse a right frank an& hospitable welcome. If that gentleman were not a I vey plucky one, he would not have been there that 1 night. Having shown that the corn-laws were no benefit to fawner, labourer, or even landlord, Mr. Cobden, in conclusion, sad—lf that Hon. Gentleman and his order—if the aristo cracy of this country—are SO infatuated as to persist in fighting this battle against the people on that most unhal loved of all grounds—a bread tax—then I warn them, if they put us to it, we will show that the power which the middle and industrious classes possess is sufficient to put dawn the usurpations of a privileged class. The trial of strength between the people and the aristocracy has taken place elsewhere, in many countries and ages. It never proved siccessful, and the aristocracy may depend upon it their at tempt will not prove successful here.—(The Hon. Gentle- Man resumed -his seat amidst loud and long continued c seering.) Mr. GEARY then proposed the first resolution, as follows :---' " That the torn-laws, and all other laws designed to re strict trade under pretence of protecting particular classes, are unjust in principle and injurious in operation, and ought to be forthwith abolished." Colonel ANGERSTEIN seconded the resolution. Mr. WODEIIOUSE rose amidst cheering and clamour, and said, that in presenting himself before the meeting he felt that his first expression ought to be one of duty towards the mayor. He attended here in deference to that gentleman's authority. He (Mr. Wodehouse) had addressed a letter to the electors of Norfolk, telling them that though there were indications of a scarcity, the statements as to a famine were g!ossly exaggeiated ; but that at a ll times, and in?el e e ~ a I _ l circum stances, an allegation of scarcity oug ht tome sa was !' ' not p ara mount matter of interest. He as k e d if ther art of Mr. s omething of unblushing effrontery on t he p d gree to the Cobden in not alluding, even in the smalle s t __,,,,! .1,,,,,,,i to scarcity Which a few reeks i ago /Ts so i°`: : :::? .. .777 ,, , . exist ?—(Clamour.) The amendment jip intended to pro pose was as follows :- 1. That this meeting, whilst it is duly sensible of the in estimable blessings derived from the enjoyment of commer cial liberty, is still impressed with the belief that what is called " free trade," to use the words of Mr. Clay, formerly . President of the United States, is nothing more than a beau tiful vision, existing only in the imagination of philosophers and theorists, and practically repudiated by all nations, slum an indispensable condition to the adoption of it by one nation is its adoption by all. 2. That in levying a tariff of duties, care should be taken . . that all the great interests of the country, viz., agriculture, manufacture, navigation, and the mechanic arts, should, as far as may be practicable, derive equal advantage from the . incidental protection which a just system of revenue duties may afford; making it a matter of extreme importance to understand distinctly what is meant by a revenue standard, both as regards its maximum or its minimum in respect of amount ; and also as to the mode in which such duties should be levied, whether on the principle of a duty ad valorem, o r be taken in any other way. 3. That the tenses "Protection to domestic industry" are of popular import; but they should apply, under a just system, to all the various branches of industry in the country. The' t the farmer or planter, who toils yearly in his fic • 1 - is engaged in "domestic industry," and is as much en titled 1 6 ;,:ye his labour protected as the manufacturer, the man of cononerre.:, engaged else to donteefeic industry in their different pursuit t s. the navigator, or the mechanic, who are The joint labours of all the %;lea'sse? constitute the aggregate of the domestic industry of the and they are equally one of them can entitled to the nation's protection. .1:% T 9 justly claim to be the exclusive recipients which can only be afforded by increas in g burdeZa on theprotection, "domestic Industry" of the others. • 4. That whilst this meeting depends with confidence' upon the justice of Parliament for the maintenance of the rights of the agricultural interests of this country, it cannot contemplate with indifference the combinations of interested individuals of vast money power, whose professed object is to destroy the independence and control the free agency of Par liament, and whose leaders have given daring puttlicity to their intentions to undermine and control the freedom of election; and that, such being the instruments by which the agricultural interest is impugned, this meeting pledges itself to oppose, by every legal and constitutional mode, such at tacks upon our most valued institutions, and to maintain inviolate the freedom of election and the independence of Parliament, not merely as regards the eastern and western divisions of the county of Norfolk, but also as comprehend ing the city and county of Norwich, the borough of Great Yarmouth, the borough of King's Lynn, and the borough of Thetford, whose electoral privileges may, either now or here after, be brought to hazard by being subject to inroads of a similar character. (The reference to " philosophers and theorists" in the amend ment was received with great laughter and clamour.) He did not know whether by the forms of the meeting he was precluded from further discussion. He was perfectly satis trheseomluatlioth-twaticanh dhaedvebreyetnhimngo.vedniencwluadaedre j t o h ie e ed su to g fied sit do w n w ith thi s d ec l ara tion of his resolution. The ar ee d e utra ir: Cobden, but rteretted the absence of Mr. Bright. It was impossible to view, without sentiments of the greatest indig nation, the excessive bitterness with which Mr. Bright .gx pressed himself on every occasion. —(Clamour, and crieti - of " Question, " in the midst o f w hi c h) The MAYOR rose, and sold it was the right of an English man to be heard, and the more readily they listened to Mr. Wodehouse, the sooner would they hear Mr. Cobden again in reply. If the interruption were persevered in he rer taielv would dissolve the meeting, and then they would hear nothing. • Mr. WODEUOITSE said, he only asked the meeting to hear him patiently fore Single moment, till he called on them to to the lution bear in mind that note thousandth de paee, rt of Mr. reeoCobden's speech referred, in the slights gr which followed.—(Great clamour Meel laughter.) Mr. A. Hammoren, Westacre, said their representative, Mr. Wodehouse, had been checked by noise 'anu interruption.— (Criee of " No, no," and clamour.) Well, then he had not been checked by interruptions. He had been checked.—(Re newed clamour.) Mr. Hammond then proceeded to state that he would answer Mr. Cobden himself; but he would not say anything hard of that gentleman. What were they to say of the man who told them at one time that the landlord was the only party to be affected by the repeal of the corn-laws, while to-night he had said that the landlord -would not suffer, ' Mr. Cobden had said that the agriculturists had had too much protection. He (Mr. Hammond) was ready to show that they had too little. What had been the effect of the reduction of protection in 1842 ? Had it not lowered prices of wheat ss. or 105. a combl Mr. Cobden had referred to the number of sales of farmers' stock in 1822. Now, he ( Mr. Hammond) wished the meeting to remembor what had. taken place at the time referred to. It was certainly most improper and unjust to attribute the distress of that period to the corn-laws. It was solely attributable to Peel's Cur rency Bill, which doubled the farmer's debt, while it left him only half the means of paying it. For six years, ending and including the year 1809, the total cash currency of the country averaged 44 millions and some odd hundreds. The average price of wheat during the same period was 80s. 2d. For seven years, ending and including the year 1825, the total cash currency averaged 30 millions some odd hundreds, and the price of wheat averaged 60s. For 12 years, ending and including the year 1843, the total cash currency was 28 millions, and the average price of wheat was 525. This, he maintained, was an evidence of the depressing effect of the currency measure on the interests -ef. -the farmer. Cobden had tried , . to 'prove that proteetiell weould . Of PP xi use to the farmer. He (Mr. Hammond) mn tain that it was of great use not only to the farmer, but to every individual who works with his own hands.--tek voice, " Prove it.") The free-traders have tried to charm the peo ple with the cry of cheap bread ; they had talked of the lag, loaf, and of the increased quantity of food in the country ; but they had always kept out of view that cheap food meant low wages.—(Laughter, and cries of " No, no.") What they meant was that they could not compete with the foreigners because they eat cheaper bread, than the people of this coun try, and because wages were higher here than they were there, and God knew they were low enough here too. He (Mr. Hammond) did not grudge Mr. Cobden the thousands he had made by manufacture . s, but he did abominate the gross delusion which he pressed upon the minds of those men out of whom he carved that money, that it was the landlords of England who, by their attempt to keep up the price of bread, deprived these men of food. This was not the case. It merely deprived the manufacturers of a certain portion of their profits.—(llootings and laughter.) What did that great League authority, Mr. Deacon. Hume, say on this matter? In answer to a question put to him by Mr.Yillieis, when he was examined before a Committee of the House of Commons, whether he contemplated placing the working man of this country on the same footing as the working men of other countries, Mr. Deacon Hume expli citly said, that he would place him on the same footing. Well, what did Mr. Baring, another League authority, say on the subject. Ile said, e I will not deny that the desire and policy of the men engaged in trade, whatever may be said of its inhumanity, is to screw down the rate of wages as low as possible."—(Cries of " Question.") He saw that those re marks were not very palatable, so he would try another tack. —(Laughter.) He would ask why should they believe why should they trust a body of men bound together by the strongest ties of interest to aggrandize themselves at the ex pense of the rest of the country ?—(Cries of " No, no," and confusion.) Why, what had they done here? They had. come to " soft-sawder" the farmers, which, however, they had most thoroughly failed in doing. They came to tell the far merssuch cases ipg rh w i nt e e e r e r i their business, when the fact was, that they did not know the commonest part of the farmers' business. They came there to describe the landlords as tyrants, who drove their tenants to the poll like sheep. He (Mr. Hammond), as a landlord, denied that altogether. He denied that any land lord in Norfolk dare coerce • his tenantry.—(Cheers and ' laughter.) Before concluding he wished to say a few words about the use which Mr. Cobden would make of the present meeting. He would say that he had been opposed by a few booby country gentlemen—(Laughter)—but that he had succeeded in convincing and persuading the great body of the farmers of Norfolk that protection had been of no benefit to them. He (Mr. Hammond) sincerely hoped that the farmers would that night show by their voices that this was a fallacy. Mr. Cobden bad said a hundred times that lie had all the farmers with him who had any brains in their heads. Ho (Mr. Hammond) hoped that to night it would be shown that all the farmers who had brains in their beads were in favour of protection.—(Laughter.) He knew that they had many farmers with them who had brains in their heads, who cultivated their lands, who em ployed their energies, who invested their capital, who. spent their money upon improving the land, belonging, he admitted, to another party ; but did they not make such a bargain as they were safe by?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) ' Was all the nonsense true that had been uttered by Mr. Cobden about letting land to one man, and a butcher running sheep over it again ?—(Cries of " Yes.").- Bee sh b sctf l h a i reas e d b :ev uee c na a d a dr l se l l e e i r:r - d po m l u iti ch ca t l (Mr. Hammond) did not deny that there were eale rc es oa a injustice. Ile thought it was a case of injustice where and perhaps r-Oe, nch and Nottingham , who cams m a g an en i t e l t em hi a s n la f n r d om to another sport over, sh M eo r r . (misl o or bd u.ey e u n -ams h cr a ina d venon de edrs - ) butt d to not for sporting, sen kept hares and rabbits, .d for nothing but making s a ievous injustice ; but, market. This- be did cons' sr a gr c a mercantile transaction of it—who p b lves y e7 att Nf o e rn wow. ey took rents from their tenants, but unjust men on the face of La d n t nd h lo e otr w dos es nal t y e a rn division of Norfolk, not for him ahafdriesned,en iatnbdyhleanhdlaodrdhs.admoceer. Cobden ontooisseoe told than sel4 ever but fo h r e them that the League wished to increase the franchise. Mr. Cobden wished to increase why did he not, i n th e H ouse o f C ommon a, bear witness to his desire ? But the fact was, that he only wished td in crease the franchise for a particular purpose, and nothing else. But be (Mr. Hammond) frankly said that he dis approved of this interference with the representation of this country altogether ; but he no more disapproved of it than he did of the interference of the Carlton and Reform Clubs. He thought all interference bad. He begged to urge upon the meeting not to be led away by the false statements of Mr. Cobden—for false he maintained they were. He (Mr. Hammond) admitted that he had failed to convince the meet ing' that his views were right. He was sorry to say that he had been weak in argument although strong in the knowledge of what was right. He had not the ability to ad dress them as he ought, bat he begged the farmers to re member that, doing away with protection meant wheat at 30s. a quarter.—(Cries of "No 1" and shouts of laughter.) It meant the lowest possible wages for all kinds of labour. Mr. Cobden had taunted them that their labourers were only receiving Bs. per week. He (Mr. Hammond) employed a great many labourers, and at this moment they were re ceiving lls. a week ; moreover, they earned Si. 12s. 6d. in harvest. Mr. Hammond concluded by urging the farmers to continue to bold together, and all this bobbery of the League would come to nought. Mr. BALL then came forward and begged to be allowed to make a few observations. He denied that the corn-law of 1815 had been passed with a view of securing 80s. a quarter for wheat, as Mr. Cobden had stated, or of equalising the price of wheat in any way, but rather for the purpose of giving protection to the British farmers against the risk of corn coming in from abroad in such abundance as to beat down the prices here till the grower would be ruined by the ' c ompetition. With reference to the depression w hich occur among the farmers in 1822, to which Mr. Cobden had alluded, that was owing, not to the corn-law, but to the fact, that 1821 there was an unusually abundant harvest. I, tpo r o = to Mr. Jacob, there were that year no fewerinaddition to which quarters of wheat above the average: from Ireland ; and it there were 1,000,000 quarters imz quarters that prices were was owing to this excess of 5 , f'°°°ers ruined. The corn-law had beaten down, and so mane' I I depression in price. Matters were no tendency to produce t but they would have been ten bad-e worse without witlaniulite corn it. Th e y were told that there were vast times quan titi e s of corn i n America, and that if we only had free trade abundant supply of corn from A • mama, we ,should have an id that she would take our commodities in return. This sounded all very well in theory, but it would nevetdo in prac tice; One effect of the introduction of American corn would be, that it would sweep away all the milling property in this country, for America would send flour in such vast quanti ties, as he verily believed, would reduce the value of milling property at least 50 per cent. ; so be advised everybody who had got mills to look to themselves before they advocated free trade in corn. Hebelieved that Mr. Cobden wouldinot deny that the capital employed in: mills was more than equal