The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

- 'AIQH•HUNIMIRD AND THIRD BALE. CIIST6I4-HOLTbE, LONDON , JAI VART, 18,48. For SALE, by Order of the Honourable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing lane, on Monday 7tb, Tuesday Bth, Wednesday 9th, Thursday 10111, Friday 11th, Monday 14th, and Tuesday 15th February, 1848, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, the following GOODS for home consumption, viz.:— Amber and other mouth pieces Agate Brooch Pieces Buttons Anchors Stick Handles, &s, AstMclal Flowers Bronze Cancielabias Leather Souvenirs, &c. Liqueur Cases Lutestrings Lase, Thread, Silk, Cotton Barbel Collars Shawls •-• &aria Veils, &e. sfeerschaum Alai other Pipes and Bowls Musical Boxes Musical Instruments, viz.:— Accordions Cori:epee:ls Flutes Violins Ophecleides Piano-Nrtes, &C. Mousseline•de-latue Matting, E.I. Merino for Dresses, &c., Embrol• dared Mo her.o'-pearl Counters (Eiliettes Otto of Hoses. Porcelain, Dresden French Paper, Gilt and Fancy Box-tepl Bordering, &c. Pies Hair Prints Pipe Stems or Tubes Raw Silk, Turkey Rugs, Persian Turkey Buttons Beads, Amber, Coral, Ste. ke. • Berlin Iron Ware -• • .•-• • Boxes, bonbon • Glove '▪ • Ilauctkercldef •ICuclfer Needle ' Pilaff • Wafer, Soc. • - tare•le Shawls, &C.. l; Bendannoec. Butter ••• - Baskets Brandy Bronze Powder • Bisquet Figures - Catlings and tkilvered Strings Canvass for Etubroidery Ckina Ware Jars Garden Seats, ke. Cape Cambric Handkerchiefs, Bmbroi- dared. - Cloaks . • Clocks, Anuirieah Bronze Carriage cv2 Dutch • • • Inlaid • `1 01 • Marble • Ormolu . Z.: rereelain, &e. Catneo4 China Crape Shale's, ita: Ram Steel Purse Garnitures, Tassels, &c. Segars Segar Tubes Scent 13:,ttles Snuff Soap Shawls, Long and Square Stays Swiss Cottages Sugar Silk and Woollen Stuffs Ditto and Goat's Hair Stuffs Silk 3fanufactures, viz.:— Aprons Carpets, Turkey ' Cologne Water . Cordials Cheroots - Cheese Curiosities - Curtains, Embroidered Coffee I)unnage Mats •-• t:f . . Dolls Embroidered Shoe-pieces " Braces Chair Pieces, Le. 4artheuware mbroidery - and Needle Work, Role sr Drees Pieces Purses Laces Mitts Ties t 4 .. v. n.l ,- Scarfs. Bags Damask for Curtains Poplin Plash Waistcoatlag, &c -lilver filagree Braeelets Transparencies, Porcelain Toys Tobacco ' Tea Tomata Sauce Umbrellas Vanehoes Cellars, 'Barbell, Shirt Fronts Scarfs Cap-pleces liandkerchiefis - Terthers, &enact Pans Geneva Gloves, Angora Brand Screens Hair Fronts, Scalps, &C. Inkstands Ivory Card Cases Cribbage-board, Chess-men Brooches Backgammon-man, &c. Jewellery Kaitting-needles Loather Garters Purses Pockut-books • SeZar-cases For exportation only—Book!, Clocks, Coffee, Rattans, Spirits, Var • hush, &c. For exportation, at buyers' prices ; or, for home consumption en PaVment of duties—Arrow Root, Books, Bonnets, Biscuit, Bottles, Coffee, Cordials, Clay Figures, Chillies, Cologne Water, Fish Oil, Jewellery, Lacquered Ware, Porcelain, Tea, Spirits, Wine, Moss, Tin Manufactures, Lard, Ale, Vinegar, Silk Handkerchiefs, Succades, Pickles, &c., For the benefit of the Crown—Spirits, Tobacco Ashes, Old Stores, Old Rope, &e. To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames street, at the St. Katherine, London, East and West India Docks, and at the Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe, on Thursday the 3d, Friday 4th, and Saturday sth February, 1843, from Ten o'clock in the lie rninZ until Three o'clock in the Afternoon, and on the days of Sale from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at Noon. Take notice, goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the receiver of fines, after Two o'clock to the Afternoon ; and on the days of sale, money will not to received by the receiver of fines after Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom - house , Loudon, price Is. seek. Veneers Watches Watch Hands and Springs Maker's Tools, kc. Writing Desks Walstcoating Wine Woollen Handkerchiefs and va rious other goods. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, 1 26th January, 184$. r IIHE Right Honourable the Lords and others Commissioners of this Hospital, do hereby give notice, that they are ready to receive TENDERS from, and to treat with, such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for VICTUALLING the I N - PENSIONERS of the said HOSPITAL for SIX MONTHS, from the Ist April, 1848, to 30th September following, both days inclusive, for the following articles of provisions, viz. :—Beef er Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Oatmeal, Salt, Cocoa, and Sugar, at per head per diem for the whole ration, according to the established allowances of the house, as specified in a form of tender. Also for the supply of the undermentioned articles for one year, from the lot April, 1848, to the ilst March, 1849, viz. : For Milk, at per quart, in a separate tender. Candles, at per dozen lbs. Yellow Soap, at In one tender. Soft ditto, at per cwt. Pearlash, at Potherbs, at per diem Onions or Leeks, at per lb. one tender. For the supply of Oil, Cotton, Sec., and for Lighting a portion of the hospital I.amps. Forms of Tender for the several articles required, and further par t'l!alars, may be obtained upon application at the of fi ce of the Secre tary, any day between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which Tenders must be filled up and delivered sealed at the Board-room of the said hospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on Tuesday, the Sill February next, al One o'clock, at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. ENGLAND to INDIA and AUSTRALIA The IND IA and AUSTRALIA, MAIL STEAM-PACKET rroratol by Royal Charter, which limits the re a-v--.wdliY of Om shareholders to the amount for which they Melly'. ' ftell Y "hsoribe, and authorises the Company to establish eorantu- Rications to aad and from the Uaite4 Kingdom. the Scut "di"' ALlSltalasia. rid Mew Zeeland. Capital One Milli°. sterling. bitlds4 lets series of shares of 201. each. Mr George Larpeat, Raft., Chain's' of the London Corarnittea of I 6411 for Nratemsion of Steam Navigation to Australia. Eltr •Williala Tomer, Dart., M.P. Don. Primate !mitt, Agent fir Raw South Wales. gir Themma L. Xitattell. sarvoyor-Gensral of lien South Wales, London. Lieut.-C*l. Ably, Indictee Army J. Maclean Lee, Elm, Thomas Browne, Rm. Captain Riohard Lloyd, Indian Captain Cogan, Indian :Ivry Navy Archibald Caninghaine, E. Milbourne Marsh, Esq. Captain A. M. Dekko's, F.E.S., it. Montgomery Martin, Esq. Royal Navy J . Montefloro, Esq. ft. 11. Donaldsei, Egg. Sir P. Waekett Myers, X.C.S. Capt. I. J, Payrer, Royal :Navy Alexander C, Ogilvie, Esq. Captain Bork East %Ala Maritime Richard Paterson, Esq. Sunrise Robert Manley Payne, Esc OaptaLls T. Gorion,RoYal ItilTy John Wilson Fillans, Esq. N. d. llaiewell, Xeq., M.A., F.R.S. O. N. Skead, Esq., Master, Royal Capt. E. liamliton, Royal Nan Navy Gnetnele Raiiiiton. Esq. Colonel Torrerui, Jams Hunter, MN. Willi am Gordon Thomson, Esg. J. A. Jackman, Esq. Lieut. Waghera, E.B.A.S„ Royal Charles Joyce, big. Nary Frediriok Lamb*, Edq. Melvil Wilson, Ea/. itAitales--Meders. Currie and Co., Cornhill. SaLlCtioss—Xesors. Barron and Starke, Bloomsbury-square. India. Australia, China, and the adjacent regions, contain a papa /M.lw of more than half the number of the inhabitants of the globe, and loom with every prodmot which eon minister to the wants of man. 'To carry out *actually and economically steam communication with thane ebantries is the object of this Company, for whose ope- Zellloa Ileir • Is en ample and profitable field, especially as regards Ilier numinous and valuable talon lea in the Southern Pacific, which have an hereminv tutareouree wi th India as well as with England - "we So only eortleas of the iri tish empire aneonneeted by steam 11471 1 . aNen with the parent state, and for which a charter by the overland routs has been exclusivelly granted to this Company. The route sanoticated by the Loi•don of the Admiralty for thfa Corn- Ceylon, Singapore, and Torres Straits, the advantages of litatqa are, that tyliney, the metroplitai capital at the whole of the Alatralantan colonies, would be brought to a certainty within 64 or 43 Ars of ',NAN' (frimusatly in CS), and within less than 30 days of In4k. Ilia seal stations are convenient, excellent coal from the Pita at Nowriastlie, Nev South Wale's, can be pat on board there at is. be Ts. H. per ban. Prospeatuael, irith forms of application for shares, and Author titairmatlon may be lad on appllesAloi at the ekes of the Corn- P° 4 7. Wilms a O. py of the Royal Charlac of Incorp•ration may be obtained. Ogees, SI, Cerahill, Linden. JOAN TATES, See. ELATE SUITED for PRESENTATION._ Committeesc• private individuals requiring splendid or almplo articles of PLATE for presentation, may , by a ddressin g a Paid letter, have drawings sent fbr their approval. A number of large articles. as Epergnes, Cups, Waiters, &c., are always in stack, second-hand ; a List of them, with price, can be furn ished.-- door'oX sAvORY arid Co., Silversmi th s, &e., 47, Cornhill (seven s from Gracechurch-street, London. QTANZAS for the SERPENTINE , Whoa Winter comes chilling the air, &rad his subjects are alibi' a shiver, What. thousands are seen to prepare Icor a skate oa the Serpentine river. Mies the Dress-mart of MOSES aid Is furnished with Coats for the skaters, Which garments at all times have WOll The title of being "Arst-raters." Whea the river a twelvemonth ago Was glazed by the clerk of the weather, What a sight did the Serpentine show, With its thousands assembled together. The wrappers of MOSES were worn By the gents cm the hard-freeziag water", While the furs were observed to adorn 'rut numbers of England's fair daughters. Ind may we net view them again? Ye•, the ricer once moil.: may be frozen !Skates again may be called for, and then Will the Warehouse of MOSES' be chose*. It once lot the putille prepare, For truly there is very good reason ; flute to MOSES' famed Warehouse, for there Is the cboicost of dress for the season. LIST OF PRICES. 1144/br Taglletl MAW! NADI. £0 9 11 Chesterfieldand Codrington's, aad every description of Over-coat; handsomely •••• • • • 1 b 0 The Packa Coat 1 0 0 The Rellraer. especially adapted for snowy and wet wcather.............. ...... •• •• • •.. 1 0 0 The Premier ..... •• •• Sore Whiter Coats, in every style ••.• .• 6 0 Do. Trousers, liaod .................. 0 4 0 Doeekia 0 12 6 Dress C0at5.....••..•••••• • Frock do. ...... .............• •• .. 1 4 Doable -breasted Whiter Tests .. •............... 0 2 0 Roll collar •••••.•• • • • • • • • • II 1 6 toYe' Monier and Tonic Salts 16 6 Maus TO Whiter Coats, ht every style and shape, Sand wady t r i mmed .. .................. front 1 6 Mill • ed cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cars .• 2 4 II Tweed Wrapper.... •••••• • " • .. 16 6 rkleekin Trousers • •• • ..• •••.••• • • • • • • • s • 2 0 Zest, or Dre 55.................... 1 0 0 Dross Coat .... Beet quality made.. •• • • •• •• 2 IS S Frock de 1 IS 0 Beet quality made.. •••• •• .• 33 0 Cashmere Teat.... ... • • ...... .......... 08 8 Sethi', Plain or Fancy •• • • • • a' ** •• • • • • ..• •• • • ° 12 ° Bey's Hussar and Tulle Gults 1 o 16 6 OB Great C0nt..... .. A Suit of Clothes complete ....... •••••• • '' • • 1 18 • 11 ° 1 mi- 111 3 to any extent at Five 'Minutes notice. Observe.=-Any article purchased, ready Made, or made to mea l:ire, if not approved of, will be exchanged, of if preferred, tke money roturned. B. MOSES and S€)N, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothier., Matters, Nodes, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minerlea, and 63, 84, B b, and 116 .kldgate, City, London. itantin.—B. Mese. and Son regret being obliged to guard the Public, against impostors, but have leaned that the untradesman lke falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, kiss been resorted to in many instances, and for obvions reasons. They have no connexion with any ether house in or out of London; and those who desire genuine and cheep clothing, Ae., should call at, or send to, liinories and Aldgate, City, London. lielice.—lie business transacted at this establishment from sun lat rri43 7. WI ousel fisturdAy. whoa bums... Is resumed tILI twolvs o'clock. , ~ ..,e ~~r No. 17,271.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING R OYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEWCASTLE.'-ON-TYNE. CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, whick has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com mercial Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly fitted in the NORTH, It Is hoped will he found complete in every respect. The BED-ROOM 3 (Sixty in number) hare been furnished in a style which must ensare the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have SNOW ROOMS vrithout any extra charge. The Music hail, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room are all attached, and under the same mana:.,ement. The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation In Newcastle. r 4 ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. :4 Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this COMPANY will he held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on SATURDAY, the 26th day of February now next ensuing, at Half-past Twelve o'clock in the afternoon, when the Drafts of the undermentioned Bills to be intro duced into Parliament in the present Session will be submitted to the Proprietors tor their approval, viz. : " A Bill to explain and amend certain provisions of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, for enabling the Eastern Counties Railway Company to enlarge their London and Stratford Stations. " A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway at or near Forest Gate Station to Southend, with Branches. "An Act to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to mate a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near Cam hedge to the Hertford and Ware Branch of the Northern and Eastern Railway, with a Branch." GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. "" O' DAVID WADDINGTON, Depnty Chairman. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bishops/rate Station, January 27, 1,41. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. T ENTY-TIIIRD GrICERAL MEETING. Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the Act of Incorpo ration, the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Share holders of the Company will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street,Lendo% on SATuaDAT, the 26th day of February nett, at Twelve o'clock precisely,. for the purpose of receiving a Reporffrom the Direetfors of the progrlii of the undertaking, anti for the transaction of other business. The Dividend for the half-year ending 4th January hut will - .be payable to those parties who, on the 16th of February, shall be the registered Proprietors in the books of the Company The Transfer-books of the Company will be closed on Wednesday, the 16th of February, and will not be opened until Monday, the 28th of February. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. DAVID WADDINGTON, Deputy Chairman. By order, C. P. MONET, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, January 27, 1848. P 0 S T-0 FFICE CORRESPONDENCE. Bankers, Public Companies, Merchants, and Traders, are in formed that, erring to the immense consumption of, and inereasing demand for, the PATENT 311.:TAL-SEAL ENVELOPES and OFFICIAL ENCLOSURES, the Patentee is encouraged and enabled to offer them at reduced prices. The perfect security and the ready dispatch afforded by the use of these envelopes render this notitica tioa of vast iraportarce to the business public, especially to those making foreign commonleations, avoiding the use of sealing-wax, is compliance with the Fostantster-General's instructions. Speci mens of the above will le forwarded oa application to the Patentee, 4, Castle-street, H•lbon, London. Authorized agents travel through he principal cities and towns in the kingdom. RAISING WATER, discovered by the FOUN TALIK UMr', which roll the water upwards, without either frietion or caltorin, therefore can never be surpassed ; eouse enently this is the 'lest important discovery ever made for the pro !crustiest elite aid property either at Sea or on Laid. AT SRI lament's skips it ins already Bared, and the captains gratethlly ac knowledge the zlorieus results. Two testimonial extracta shall sufillee " Captain Greig, Nom Quebec to London, states that the Fountain Punt, being fitted In the Caroline, its great power was the means of saving the slip and 231 souls on hoard, two seams in the t)otte,m being partly left without calking." " The Argas brig, from Cadiz, sprang a leak when throe days out at sea, and soon after her common pump chocked and became use less. Captain Rutherford states all thou depended upon her Foun tain ramp, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was in ac tion without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely in London, with a thank God for Ike lountain Pump." ON LAND the Xerw Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service thait a Are brigade. They net tristantaneensly at the ontbreak,of a fire. " Re are delighted with the invention—it is a great boon to so elety."—Editors Liverpool Mail. The New Portable Fire-enginee have preserved a large portion •f Norwich from destruction, fur out of eighteen different properties on Are in aid sear the city, they saved eleven solely and gel - en mainly, includin is the sever the Qneeit's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the eleven, Messrs. Herten's dyery, and MVO/. worth of consigned pro perty ; Stoke mustard, starch, and lour rails, and Messrs. Butcher's grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun powder therein from exploding, which mast have spread around de struction and death. _ . '• 1 girth Walskam.—At this Ire the Portable Engine was •f great service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt hat half the property new destroyed might have been saved."—Norfulk Chro nicle, ♦ugust 22, 1846. At a Norwich fire June 2, 1847, the two Portable Engines were the pets of the public. The cry was, feel the little engines and they will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present proved useless. Portable Zugines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atm,- apheros. Now the fact is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-force Pumps, Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines: they rub, grub, and serape the water upwards by frictian, which wastes two-fifths of the power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented thus :— . the quantity oh water actually raised by any machine seldom exceeCs half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and leakage , and notwithstanding the beat engineers in the world had tried in vain for two thousand years to abate these palpable defects la hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is secs, and won for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by the new rolling principle is pumps, and their effect augmented from twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with out more outlay. Most mew can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 46 seconds, but some seen drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric tion Pump an active sound-winded young man of 140 lbs. weight can raise 12,000 lbs. of water ono foot high in a initiate, and with a Foun tain Pomp 9,000 lbs. in half a miaute. Thus a continual and most extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power. John Cient•a Roberts, Esq., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did well in plating Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water upward) side by side with the Fountain I'umnp, which upset a good deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump maker, Mr. Raddley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr. Ewbaak, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, asserted that the two pumps were identical. But the Yankee out-fooled John Bull and Paddy in N.. 1,183, and in No. 495, Book-maker Millington's remarks are prspostsroae. However, ea the other hand, Dr. Birk beck, Iteitimr, Hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men, atter witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the rifling principle, gave the invent] on the following true and susta'n able chreacter:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve ment In the art of raising water that has appeared within the last two thousand years—the greatest advancement in the asefill arts in modern times. The Consummation Fountain Pumps are successfully carried out for private arid public uses, at lifts below and above 100 Chet altitude, Ibr man, horse, and steam power; delivering from half a pint per stroke to 100 barrels of water per minute, and rendering every fair trial at competition ridiculous, whilst their durability is guaranteed at less east than common pumps. W. iIIIALD/7/te. Instals Pump Worts, /Tor/rich, Noy. SO, 1847. See Medtanie's Magazine, Nos. 231 4 , /64, 333, 429, 480, 433, 482, 486, 417, 489, 492, 491, 496, 608, 569, 511, 325, 533, 658., 727, 884, 1,040, I,llo*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked this. P A TENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATION (Provisionally Registered.) COUNTIES of SURRET and KENT. Capital, 40,0001. in MOOS Shares of 31. each. Deposit, 11. per Share on complete registration. No farther call will be made without throe months' previous metice. The liabllitles of each shareholder limited to the astoant subscribed for. The PATENT lI.MONEUR MACHINE is exelnsively used in the offices of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Treasury, the Royal Agrisulteral Society, the Royal Horticultural Society ; the Royal Rachange-buildings, &c. The objects of the promoters are ap proved by The Moot N•blo the Ifunais of NORTHAMPTON, President of the Royal Society. The Right Hon. Earl DE GRRY, K.G., President of the Royal In stitute of British Architects. Elm RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President of the British Issocia Hon for the A.clyanemneat of Science. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop' of Norwich The Right Hon. the Earl of Lei cester The Lord Itendleshant, M.P. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol Ile Hen. and Rev. Edward S. Neppel The Very Rev. the Dean of West minster, Dr. Buckland The Venerable Archdeacon fdtir ley Sir John P. Belleau, Zart. Sir Richard Paul Joddrell, Bart. In- Dr. sp ectOutran,or ofa; Fs (ilrt.Bl Right Hon. Earl Fitchardingo Naval o His Grace the Duke of Beaufort Philip W. S. Miles, Esq., ILP, Right Hoz. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P. W. Miles, Best., M.P. The object of this Association is totally to abolish the use a climbing boys, who, notwithstanding the penalties to which those employing them are subjected by the Sd and 4th Victoria, cap. 85, are osatinually resorted to. This breech of the law is acquiesced is by a large portion of the public, from a eonvictios of the utter int possitility in inanmerable cases of cleansing a ckinutey or fine with the old machine. Fir the laudable purpose of furthering the objects of the law by avoiding all Necessity for its infringement, the loge aloes and effective Rarneneur machine has bees invented. This laveitien consists of four brushes forming a square head, which by meals of elastic spriags contracts or expands, according to the small or extended space la which the machine moves, thereby treating an even pressure in all four sides of a chimney. The rods attached to this head •r brash are supplied at intervals with aniversal spring joints, capable of taming oven a right angle and the whole is 'amounted with a double revolving ball, having also a universal spring joint, which leads the brush with certainty past every angle, and late every corner, cleansing he :mite most perfectly. The capabilities of this machine are best demonstrated by the fact, that it is exclusively used the Government and numerous public offices, while the patronage bestowed by a large number of the nobility and gentry is continuing their annual eon tracts to the patentees evidences their sense of its superiority, as well as of the philaathrople views of the projectors. Detailed prospectuses may be obtained., *ad a working model of the machine seen, at the oilers if the solicitor, F, Dolman, Esq., 35, Jerrayn-street, St. Jaime's ; at Messrs. Barry and ed.'s, brokers, 7, Birchin-lane ; at W. Heath, Req.'s, Nag's Head-court, Gracechurch-street; and at the principal *flee, I, Wellington-street, Lendsa-bridge, Borough, where applioatiens for shares stay be addressed. The /tight Bey. the Lord Bishop of Liehlield The Moot Noble the Margit!' of Bristol The lien. and Be - . Thomas E. Koppel The Hen. Fred. Byng The Rev. Sir Thema' Gray Cal- Ihum, Bart. Sir William Foster, Bart. Sir Robert Harland, Bart. Sir Francis Darwin The Norwich Union Fire Office the Suffolk Fire Office The District Fire Office of far ! riingliana !The Norwich Equitable Ilsaraace Oftica ltiottinghamshire and Darby- shire Fire °nee The West of England. Fire Once, &c. A It It I - A G E. m One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, er a sense i f right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worl dl y p rudence, and the indis s ol uble , regret us coreprosing hurry ; but the trath lies deeper. rhy ideal incapacity, and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The do wr y should not be the only marriage set tlement. Renoir and justice demand that health should form as item In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er neglect wound more sorely than poverty er inisfhrtune. Reader, if these surmises concern yea, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little MEMOIRS ' Single and Married Life, " pub. In 2 vols., Is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. cull). Let no imaginatively ^Mined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, front obtaining them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth ost the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two ether Attie publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are net merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as ke would he done unto—tc live after nature's laws—and to keep always on the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet -street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, Mornings awl wroalngs), IQ, Azgyil-plati Regent-street; $441 All 3voloollers, CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LJ LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIILICTORS. JOSEPH MOORE, M.D., Chairman. George G. Babington, Esq. Rev. Richard Garvey, M.A. John Blacleall, M.D. Joseph Henry Green. Esq. Sir Benj. C. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S. Oliver Plargreave, Esq. Rev. Alfred B. Clough, M.A. Clement Flue, MD. Samuel Cooper, Esq. Samuel Merriman, M.D. Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. Andrew A. Mioville, Esq. Thomas Davles, Esq. John Rt. Mowbray, Esq. James Dunlap, M.D. Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq. In addition to Assurances on Healthy Lives, this Society continues to grant Policies on the Lives of Persons subject to gout, asthma, rupture, and other diseases, on the payment of a Premium propor tioned to the increased risk. The plan of granting Assurances on Invalid Lives originated with this office in the beginning of 1824. Every description of Assurance may be effected with this Society, and Policies are granted on the lives of persons in any station, and of every age. The Rates of Premium are Lower than at most other offices. BONUSES. The two first Divisions averaged 221. per cent. on the premiums paid ; the third 281. per cent. The fourth bonus, declared Jan. 11347, averaged rather more than 361. per cent., and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future approprta , ion and otkor causes, the Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount. The Society'► Income, which is steadily Increasing, is now upwzrds of 116,0001. per Annum. Tables of Rates (with the last Report), (lan be obtained of GEO. EL PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, No. 59. Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. GRAND FREE-TRADE DEMON STRATION AT MANCHESTER. We give the conclusion of the proceedings at the great free-trade banquet at Manchester, on Thurs day, in continuation from The Sun of Saturday:— 1 _ Colonel THOMPSON then came forward, and was received with several rounds of applause. He said— Mr. Chairman, I rejoice to see that you have forsaken the " assembling of yourselves together ;" because it is to me an intimation that, although a powerful body has ceased nominally to act, there is another able and willing to take its place when need shall be, which body is none other than the public, whom you are. — (Applause.) I wish I could impress upon you bow politic it is to put your trust neither in the House of Lords nor yet of Commons—(Hear, hear) —but to look to your own assemblage for the expression of public opinion as the means by which you are to ward off the evils which you fear, and to obtain the good which you prize. The memory of the Anti-Corie law League will last all of us our lives. There is no necessity for me to recal the good it has done to you, nor to the world. The object now is to reap the greatest amount of harvest from its efforts; and I may say, too, to prevent the success of those counter efforts which seem to be set on foot for the purpose of nullifying your labours, and destroying your sue cess.—(Hear and applause.) I might be a little out of order, perhaps, if I were to drop the subject of the League for some minutes, and :sink it in another question, upon which I have also heard my name mentioned, as possibly being of some small authority among you. There are those who say I ought to know somethitg 'on the4thject. ATI here I am afraid I must begin with Stating the difference there is between my opinions and those of many men whose alliance I am glad to profit by, whose multi plication I see with great delight, and yet with whom I cannot go to the whole extent of their most bene volent wishes and opinions. Ido confess, if I speak to you upon the subject on which I intend to attempt to address you, I must put myself forward to you as a man who has not yet been convinced of the abstract possibility of doing without war, either now or here after. We shall always have too much of it, Ido fear. And our wisdom will lead us, I think, rather to take the means which shall produce the maximum of de pression of the evil, rather than to lose ourselves in theories, which if they may be suitable to a better and a happier time, 1 do fear are not completely adapted to the present moment.—(Hear, hear.) I wish the time may come when we may do without surgeons, for instance—lawyers, too, if you think they may be dispensed with.—(Cheers and laughter.) Not the smallest objection shall you find from me to such a process when you can do without them. Clergymen, too ; I never hear of any that are to exer cise their office in the better and happier world which we all look forward to. All these things are evidence 1 of human infirmity, of human suffering, which it is our business to diminish ; but a man may lawfully doubt whether to express an abtract desire to abolish all appearance of them at this present time be the direct way to produce the effect we aim at.—(Hear.) I have fairly stated that I do not come before you as a believer in an abstract possibility of doing without war ; but I do mean as an ancient soldier, which I am in some degree entitled to call myself, to question the necessity there may be for this present war,which it appears is to be forced on your stomachs and purses.—(Laughter and applause.) The articles of war as every old soldier here well knows, are written in, rather an antiquated style, and have no reference to military mal-practices, which, in some instances, puzzle a soldier of the present day. Among others, I have often heard a discussion on what it could be which alarmed our fathers under the name of " false alarm."—(Hear.) There is an article of war against false alarm.—(Hear.) If we have not known what it meant hitherto, I think we ought to know it now.— (Applause.) I do believe a lieutenant commanding a picquet, would be brought to a very severe reckoning if he had turned out his force, to their annoyance and loss of their repose, upon so slender a pretext, as, so far as I can see, has hitherto been exhibited.—(Hear.) Who has frightened you ? Who is coming near you. —(Laughter and applause.) Who is going to eat you ?—(Renewed laughter) Who has opened their mouths, or shown any intention of permitting such a process? Why, if a period had been picked out in which there was the greatest quiet among the Euro pean family, at all events, it would have been the years whLu sciae it t xely g.stie by.—(Dear, hear) Why, truly, the spear and shield did seem in a fair way of rusting through, being up-high hung, because nobody saw occasion for them ; and then there must stand forward an aged man, who has had his full share of worldly success and worldly honours, and nothing can serve him but that, on parting witl, this world, he must throw a torch into the fabric of European harmony, and rouse up all those passions which, we thought, had long since gone to that place where all these passions tend, and from which they originally come.—(Great applause.) " There is meaning in it," depend upon it. It was not one had invented that. It was many heads; and heads you know of, and heads you have been familiar with before. Shall I tell you what is my nation of the origin of this huge alarm ? Some seventeen years ago there was a h a ppy change in France, which brought on here a happy change, because a most successful one—that Reform Bill in which we all glory, and which we hope to live to be able to improve.—(Applause.) Now, then, the affairs of Franc. point to some danger of a renewal of that scene. It cannot be long before there mast be a crisis in France; let us hope that it will turn out for the benefit of the human family at large, as it will do if it promote the happiness of that gallant aid most meritorious nation.—(Applause.) Let us hope, that if it do, we here shall be in some sort the better for it.—(Hear, hear.) I know nothing else that is likely at this moment so strongly to arouse the sentiments of political reform in our own country as such an event would do. This, then, believe me, is what they fear. This is what they want to provide against. When they fortify Sheerness and loop-hole Temple Bar, it is not the French they want to keep away ; it is the reform which they think might be brought over from that side of the Channel. —(Applause.) Forewarned, then, is forearmed. Knowing that it is not French bayonets but French reforms which is feared, you will direct your attention to welcoming the one and intriguing to keep away the other. Surely there never was a period in which so many tokens of true reconciliation between two hostile countries, were presented. Have not our missionaries gone forth through every part of Europe, and there sowed the seeds of lasting and permanent peace ? How different was their conduct to that of the ill-judged missionary of war whose conduct we have been deploring !. Nay, in a military sense, was it any better than in a civil ? What did he do ? He wrote them a " Lon don Made Easy." He called, almost by names, on 40 of the boldest soldiers of France to head each man 1,000 men, and try the experiment of how easily they might be landed in England.—(Cheers.) I wonder what would be said to you or me if we followed such aline of conduct. Would they have called it levying war against the Queen or not ? Would it not have been called doing all within the power of living man to bring on those evils which it was our professed desire to avoid ? No, no ; I hope that storm has partly blown over already. The English people have raised thei poor pretence ; and have come, by this time and period everywhere, to a knowledge of its value. We shall not see our prospects of free trade, and living in brotherhood throughout the world, disturbed by this rattling of the drum, and getting up of a new armament.—(Hear, hear.) They want to see the glories of the volunteers time renewed.—(Laughter.) Some of us are old enough to remember the glories of that play; hew valiant men marc h e d f or th, an d then came home ;,with improved stomachs and eat their dinner.—(Renewed laughter.) I would recom mend fox-hunting instead, or anything more harmless and less expensive than actual war.—(Hear, - hear, and cheers.) As I said befor e , t h e good sense o f t h e English nation will put down this threatened danger; and I hope none will blame me, if in my character of an ancient soldier, which, from my years, I have a right to claim, I should dare any and all military men in this country to prove, or attempt to prove, that there is any shadow of a prospect authorising the course which has been taken.—(lmmense cheering.) But, as I told you before, it is not f ear ; it i s t h e pros pect of preventin g your political a men d men t. Know ingmore boldly, that, go on still taking strength from the very evidence they have given of their own:weak ness. Th ey f ea r you here much snore than they fear Hear.) Th ey k now th a t the House of Commons.--(Hear.) a man speaking here has vastly more chance to be heard, and to be understood, and to be remembered. —(Cheers.) Thy know that you are the true field in which all good seeds may be sown ; and they, to say the best of them, are but the court of register in which is to be carried on that contest of the powers which you are to create.—(Applause.) The toast which I have been directed to propose to you is, " The Anti- Cern- law League—the labours and success of which have rendered such essential service to our country and the world at large." If you think that is the truth, testify it by the manner in which you shall receive the toast, and you will give strength here, and in many a country, to the principles of peace, and testify your abhorrence of all unjust and foolish war.—(Cheers.) [Mr. Jame' Heywood, M.P., and 181 r. Alexander NEW PART OF DR. 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With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the varlet's injuries that are produced In them by solitary habits, excesses, and Infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MEItT, M.D.. 9, BEDFORD-STREET. ItEDFORD-SQUARB, -- LONDON. actor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the Iniversity of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &e. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. 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The principle of action is, we understand, as follows : A self-acting winding npparatus in the form of a lamp, is dropped into a socket on the last or on any carriage when the train is put together; the line is then drawn out and passed through open rings, and the outside edge of the tore. of the carriages, from which it can be instantly detached if required; and the end is attached to a hemmer, which upon the line being slightly pushed, strikes a bell within hearing of the engine -driver, by as many distinct sounds as may be wished by the guards, within reach of whom at any moment the line passes — or what is a better signal still—the line is attached to a wire upon the engine acting upon a lever bar, which being raised by the same means lets off the alarm whistle. This is a second whistle of great power, attached to all the engines on this line, and only to be used in cases of danger. We hear that the trial with the whistle was so satisfactory as to impress those gentlemen who witnessed it with the opinion that it was by far the best means of communication which has yet been heard of, as by means of it the guard can from any part of the train, and at any moment, signal to the driver by letting off the whistle, and the driver answers the guard immediately by pressing down the bar and stopping the whistle; and this can be repeated as often as required.—Norwich Gazette. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Saturday a meet ing of the delegates of the shipping interests ut the ports in England was held for the purpose of adopting mea sures and making the necessary arrangements for 20,000 sailors, with the masters and mates of all the vessels at present in the port of London, to proceed in procession to Buckingham Palace for the purpose of presenting a memorial to her M a j es ty, pray i ng th a t s h e wou ld b e graciously pleased to give her consent to the repeal of the navigation-laws. It was agreed that the procession should take place on Wednesday next, if that day was approved of by the Queen. At five o'clock, Mr. Meather and a deputation had an interview with the Lord Mayor, who, after ascertaining the object in view, expressed his opinion that so great a body passing through the City would put a stop to business, and might tend to much tumult. lie could not, therefore sanction the intended procession, but recommended that if the sailors should be determined upon going to the Palace in pro cession, they should go as far as Westminster by water. • . ' / ~•-!" --- - ‘• i . . ‘ . A . e......./". S____./2 / . . ,-..„ 4 ,. r - ~ .--- ? V- /-x • Pi..-':, - .., - - -- -- ( Z ' 7-7--- - . --Z-...t '&' 4.-. ) ~,/ e e(--- , -- ----- - --- --17-V r') 7 f i . t . TI-Vik 1, F . 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We find agafti we have to deal with those who have always been in favour of free trade in the abstract, anti, there are many persons who very much disapprove of drunken ness in the abstract, and I don't believe ti'Ere is a thief in the New Bailey but is in favour of honesty in the abstract—(Laughter)—but in the preseht *We of public opinion, and under present circumstancesa am obliged to violate the law in order to provide Or my family.—(Laughter and applause.) And, Sir, I r very much incline to believe that among our military gentlemen there are many who disapprove of war in the abstract, and who are in favour of peace ; bat, then, under peculiar circumstances, it would not do to depend upon any of these principles. Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, our best security is in- act:ng according to what we believe to be right. We have heard a great deal about Christianity. We' know that any man who is really a believer in those prin ciples has a reliance and a faith that they are the beat means for attaining the end. We suppose that we cannot brook insult. But I remember when I was young I read an anecdote of Lord Chesterfield, which relates that when he was walking on a footpath there came a man who knocked him is the . gutter, saying, " I never give way to puppies! Lord Chesterfield coolly replied, " Oh! well, I do." And depend upon it if you wrestle with a sweep you are sure to be black. Now, nations are only composed of individuals, and what is right as regards individuals will be applicable as regards a nation.--(Hear, hear.) And I know that love by love is won; and if we do ki n d ness t o o th ers we s hall be benefited ourselves; and if we only believed that the good we do to the community was really a benefit to us, and that the injury we do to others will ulti mately come upon ourselves, we should then believe that it was our best interest as a nation to endeavour to cultivate that general opinion that will have an effect upon Governments ; and if we only have the people really imbued with the spirit of peace, de pend upon it the Governments of the world must conform to that opinion, and public opinion will prove stronger than arms.—(.Applause.) I will not detain you at greater length, knowing who is to fol ' low me. The CHAIRMAN then put the toast to the meeting, and it was enthusiastically responded to. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, M.P., on rising to re pond to the toast, was warmly received. Ile said — Sir, if it were necessary for the last speaker to crave 'he kind indulgence, for a few minutes, of this vast assemblage, already detained here to I believe an un precedented extent, and yet with attention unwearied, or I honestly believe that those who have departed have un willingly departed—how much more neces sary is it for me, rising at a still later period, to solicit from you that which under any other cireum- Aencee I would not ask—your attention for a few seconds.—(Applause.) I have been moved to-night to an extent to which I believe I never was previously moved by the proceedings of any meeting I ever at tended.—(Hear, hear.) If I am not greatly mis taken, we shall from to-niht date the commence ment of a new era in reference to foreign politics in this country.—(Cheers.) I never was so struck before as to-night with the marvellous consequences flowing from the agitation of the free-tradeprinciple. If it should come to pass that the intelligence of this country should take upon itself to inquire into the origin and authors of wars; if it should assume to itself its undoubted prerogative, since it is to furnish both the treasure and the blood, to know the grounds of the quarrel, who are to sustain it in the lists—who are to he entered—whose hearths are to be made desolate, and whose pockets are to be emptied ; I say if this should come to pass, then the other benefits flowing from trade will sink in comparative insignificance be fore the majesty of a people, wresting a pen from the hand of a foreign secsdary, hit4gto wielded to plunge the nations into war and delu7he the earth in blood—and claim for themselves the right of settling, by reason and the law of kindness, the quarrel hi therto determined by the power of the sword. (Great applause.) A digher destiny and mission seems to be ,reserved for him who has led us in a preceding struggle. God grant him life and health, and wisdom and courage, and men to sup port him.—(Applause.) Need I hope for that ? He will have this nation as one man, deduct ing those who live by public plunder, and seek to inscribe their name upon the page of history with the point of a sword dipped in the blood of their fellows. —(Applause.) And yet, Sir, every preceding speaker, although they have been of one mind upon this question, has contradicted himself. They have all been invaders to-night. I charge them with in vading my castle ; with taking my fortifications by storm ; with entering my territory, assigned to me, guaranteed to me under the hand and seal of the chairman.—(Hear and cheers.) They have violated the treaty ; they have come without even a declaration of war.—(Applause.) They have entered my citadel; but I do net mean to follow one individual's advice ; and because they have entered in at one end of the castle, march ingloriously out at the other. Now, Sir, we have heard of wretched prophets. Who knows that I may be among the number ? But I would venture to fortel that the Free-trade Hall of Manchester will be more than a match for Apsley House and the Horse Guards together. One old gentleman has taken his pen in hand to write a letter. There is another old gentleman, whose phy siognomy you may see in every shop window where periodicals are sold, that always holds his pen with a sage looking dog by his side, and, my word for it, Punch and Cobden will beat the Duke of Wellington and Lord Ellesmere to boot.—(Applause.) Sir, I heard something in London the other day, and that may account for this outcry of an invasion. I heard that there had been within a very short time 20,000 applications at the Horse Guards, which they had not been able to supply with commissions. See you any thing in that? Can you not put that and that toge ther?—(Laughter.) Is it not just passible that there may be 20,000 human beingswho require to eat, and require to be clothed, and seek for a little pocket money besides, for whom their parents and guardians desire such situations as will enable them to strut in brilliant scarlet, in gilded epaulettes, and live, free from charge to them, upon the pockets of the English people . 9—(Hear, and applause.) I think it is just pos sible it may be so, but of this I feel certain, arguing, not only from the temper of this meeting, and three others of a similar character, though less in number, that I have recently attended, that there is to be made an appeal to the people of this empire, and their uni versal voice shall contradict every one of those lead ing articles to which reference has been made to night. Is it now that we are to war with others; now that we are to revive extinguished animosities ; now that we are to adopt again the irrational phrases and the dehumanising epithets of fifty years ago, when France herself is setting an example which we may do well to follow ? What were the toasts given at those sixty reform banquets which have lately taken place in France ? This has been given at one of them, at all events,—" Fraternity, liberty, and equa lity."—(Great applause.) Let us echo from these shores the shouts which have been raised—and, I am sorry to say, stifled, as far as Paris is concerned, for the banquet did not take place there ; let us send back the echo, " Fraternity, liberty, and equality." (Cheers.) Sir, this is a missionary town, proverbial for the munificence of its offerings at the shrine of Christian missions; though, unhappily ,while we are putting mites into the sanctuary of the Lord, we are putting ingots into the altar of Moloch. But what, Sir, if some converts that have been made to Christianity by our various mission aries—and where have they not made converts in all those lands referred to by my excel lent friend who preceded me, and in every land popu lated by the human race ? I say, what if a ship-load of these converts were to come to these shores when the Duke of Wellington had accomplished his wish, and we—before any preparations—what, if they should see our channel filled with war-steamers—.. what, if they should see at their first landing the in dications of war, and ask what those things meant, and be told that, without a declaration of war, with out a quarrel, without a symptom of an unfriendly kind on the other side of the channel—what though we had sent our missionaries to the islands and con tinents from which they came, to teach them to put their trust in an overruling Providence, and in the omnipotence of their lelaker, without whose permission not a hair of their heads should perish—that we, prac tical Atheists as we should be, without one indication of a hostile intention on the part of our neighbours, or one upward look to that Being in whose arm is omnipotence, were resorting to all these infernal agencies to ward off an evil not to be perceived even in the remotest distance !—(Applause.) But, though the prospect is tempting, I will suppress what I might otherwise have said.—(Cries of "Go on, go on.") Gentlemen, the toast that I have to propose couples peace and free trade with the cause of popular rights. Yes, popular rights—(Hear, hear, and great ap ;lens, ;)—and, on the subject of popular rights, a vol - to the working classes. Brethren, before you tigut, know what you are going to fight fur. I charge the working classes from this platform, if there shall Rio,* eking pre orations to tyro pettoe...; We have paid ave high prmainma think, in favour of peace. Again, it is/no man but whet will admit it h should reman at peace; that war is a ; but then will any man say that under n,tabees, and 't he pm ent Etzte of I, it is safe to du 'and our army, and )ur fortications. That, as has been Cobden, is not the question at thin iestion is, whether we are prepared S N, JANUARY 31, 1848. Henry, M.P., entered the room at this stage of the proceedings, and were greeted with loud cheers.] The CiranistAsrsaid—l dare say you have noticed that we h ave j ust rece i ve d an access i on t o our num ber in th e p ersons o f our exce ll ent M em b er f or S o uth Lancashire, Mr. Henry—(Applause)—and in our excellent friend the Member for North Lancashire, Mr. Heywood.—(Applause.) I should tell you that these gentlemen had, previous to the public announcement of this meeting, accepted an invitation to dine with his worship the Mayor of Liverpool ; but that, being most anxious to be present this evening, a special train has brought them from Liveepool, since they re ceived the hospitalities of his worship the Mayor of that place.—(Cheers.) I will now convey to them, in your name, our assurance of the great gratification we have in seeing them present.—(Continued cheer ing.) I now beg leave to call on Mr. Bright to re spond to the toast. Mr. BRIG uT, M.P., came forward amidst deafening cheers, which continued for several minutes. When the applause had subsided he spoke as follows :—lf any person here present was in any doubt as to the purpose of this meeting when he came here to-night, by this time I apprehend his doubt must be entirely removed.—(Hear, hear.) I have been asked why this meeting has been convened when the political world was so calm, and the object for which we have con tended in this room was for the most part accoin plished. My answer has been that we were coming together for the purpose of doing honour to a great principle which has triumphed, and to another prin ciple which is marching on to a still greater triumph —that which embodies the demand that in future the opinions of the people shall guide, and the interest of the people shall be the object of government in this kingdom.—(Cheers.) Of the first principle which we have so often spoke of in this hall, I will not now speak in those terms of apology which I have heard it treated with on some recent occasions. —(Hear, hear.) If ever there was a prin ciple which was triumphant, if ever there was a po licy which was vindicated, if ever there was a course pursued by a great public confederation which was justified by the results,—l say we may point to the principle of free trade, and to the course pursued by the agitators from this platform.—(Loud cheers. Did we not hear for years that we were to be, and that it was the policy of this country to be, totally inde pendent of foreigners; and yet now we have to make the confession, that, by the supplies of food received from foreigners, some millions of our coun trymen have been kept alive during the last eighteen months ?--(Hear.) Were we not told that the best security for a full, for a permanent supply of food, was by giving protection to the cultivators of our own soil; and is it not proved, that after 30 years of strict pro tection, millions of our countrymen would have died of famine if it had not been for supplies received from abroad ? And were we not told that when we had importations from abroad we should have abstracted from us large sums in gold, and that these large sums would go to build up rival manufactories in foreign states ? Well, we have had large importations, and large exportations of gold in payment for the corn. But where is the retention of the gold ? Is it not at this moment coming back about as fast as it went ? (A voice, " Faster.") And more than this, has not the country which took the largest portion of the gold, has not that country—the United States of America—doubled, I believe trebled, its purchase of our manufactures within the last twelve months ? (llean) If any man complains to me of free trade— and I confess I meet with few men who do so, but those obtuse individuals whom we were never able to convince—if any man asks me if free trade has triumphed, and if our policy has succeeded,J point to 16 millions of quarters of grain which have come into the country during the last 16 months.—(Ap plause.) I say, what would you have bad ? Would you have had the anarchy, the famine, the mortality, the ruin, unparalleled in any age and in any country, which must have overspread this land, if your policy of restriction and exclusion had been carried out ? (Great cheering.) There never was exhibited a more magnificent proof of our position than that which the last twelve months have shown. If a man could have stood upon an eminence, and looked over the whole world, what would he have seen ? What would he have seen that the spirit of commerce was doing for this nation ? We were panic-stricken, we were prostrate, we were famine- steiekene we implored the whole wrielti the spirit of commerce responded from every portion of the earth.—(Applause) By the shores of the Black Sea and the Baltic, by the classic Nile and the sacred Ganges, by the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi, in the tar-off islands of the Indian Ocean, in the nascent empires of Australasia, we find human beings, active, energetic, like yourselves—gathering harvests, or dispatching the fruit of harvests for the supply f the famishing people of this kingdom.— (Great cheering.) And what is the lesson we should learn from this ? That there is little dependence to be placed upon human governments and human con trivances, and we should receive this universal ser mon to the world, that our greatest dependence is in the laws of nature—(Hear)--in obedience to them, and in the universal bounty of the common Father of mankind.--(Cheering.) But,what are the politi cal results ? For there are political results of no slight moment which have followed the triumph of the free traders of England. The repeal of the corn-laws is in the political world to be likened to the breaking up of a long frost. You find that when the river is unbound vast masses of ice become dislocated and dis jointed; they go in separate directions; 113 W they touch and now they separate ; but still there is one tendency—they are all flowing on towards their kin dred ocean. And what is it in Parliament and out of Parliament but that your parties—and that party, one of the worst which ever was bound together, has been disjointed, separated, weakened, perhaps dis united for ever ; and there is in Parliament and out of Parliament a general, a strong, and all-pervading tendency in favour of liberal measures and greater freedom in the Government of the kingdom.— (Applause.) And to what are we tending? To some things which have not been mentioned here to night. Take your own town. A number, not very large, but daily increasing, of sincere and honest, and good men, are protesting against the misappropria tion of funds which the State has applied to religious purposes. (Hear, hear.) Look again at what has recently taken place with respect to an elevation to the episcopal bench.—(Hear, hear.) I have never said a syllable since I spoke in public against the Church of England as a religious body.—( Hear, hear.) But at this moment I can appeal to thousands of in- telligent and pious churchmen, and ask them whe ther they are not themselves driving in the direction which I have long travelled in ; are they not them selves of opinion that it would be better for religion that Bishops were not made by Prime Ministers, as Prime Alinisters make them.—(llear, hear.) I say that it is derogatory to the character of a Christian church that its highest dignitaries should be nomi nated with as little—l will not say consideration — but precisely in the same manner as a clerk in a Go vernment office, or an exciseman, is nominated to his place.—(Loud cheers.) There is the question of tenure of land ; the mode in which land is transferred from hand to hand and from sire to son ; that question is important to England and Scotland, as well as to Ireland. These gross evils, which have so long existed, arose in times when the population was thin and the people were powerless. They are worn out now, and so sure as Parliament has admitted foreign supplies of food, so certainly before long, whatever aristocratic influence may say to the contrary, will freedom be given to the land as freedom has been given to the produce of the soil. —(Applause.) But it is a curious thing that at this meeting the speaking has all turned upon a question which, but a few weeks ago, was scarcely thought of at all—the question of the war cry which has been raised. I have not said much about this war-cry, because everybody who knows me believes that 1 must, from the mere fact of my connexion with a religious society which as a society is known to have been always a peace society —that I must go along with the friends of peace. — (Hear, hear.) I hear on every side that there has been a panic ; but I do not believe it at all. There is no panic ; there has not been a panic. My Hon. Friend, the Member for the 'West Riding, has been down in Cornwall. He has not been here. He has read in the London papers, and he fancies we would believe in the London papers.—(Laughter.) I will just give you another instance of his credulity.— (Laughter.) When he was in Spain he wrote to me a letter, about the time that there was an apparent quarrel between Lord Palmerston and somebody in Paris, about the marriage of the Spanish Queen, and he begged and implored that we would not go to war about it, and that we would not get up a war mania here. The fact was, that being in Spain he forgot the character of the people he had left.—(Renewed laughter,) He read the London papers, and fancied we were all writing leading articles for the London papers. The fact is the panic has been entirely among certain leaders of the ilitary party in thi s coun t r y, and among the "leaders" in the newspapers.—(Hear.) There is another class that the panic has been among, that distinguished body who go by the name of the Yeomanry corps.—(Laughter.) However, I marvel greatly they should be alarmed, because it is, or was proposed to be expressly provided for them, that whenever there was an invasion they should be per mitted to go abroad.' (Loud laughter stud cheers.) • Now, I assure you I am not in the smallest degree afraid, and I believe that the whole of this cry and this panic has been a sham.—(llear, hear.) I would, however, be permitted to state one ,thing, I believe in my conscience that there is not a man in England more innocent of bringing this war-cry upon this country, or more unwilling it should go on, than the present Prime Minister of England : -- (Hs ar, hear.) It would be madness in a Prime Minister, in any man who has to maintain his reputation as a statesman, and who wishes to see the country prosper, that he should get up a cry like this, or in any way advance it. Great taxation, a deficient revenue — these are things which an honest and a wise Mi nister would avoid, and I believe that Lord John Russell has no more sympathy in this extrava gant outcry, than any man on this platform or in this room.—(Hear, hear.) But the Prime Minister of England is not a man exactly at his own disposal. For example, we are trying to keep him in one po sition, or press him in another, and those who live by military t a cti cs a r e tryi n g to persuade him to go in another direction. I think I can give you the secret of all this. In this country it is the custom for men, the larger the property they have, generally the less they leave to the majority of their children.— (Laughter and c h eers .) N ow, an h ones t cot t on spinner or calico printer down here, if he makes 20,0001. or 30,0001. he genera ll y di v id es it t o l era bl y equally among his child ren , w h en h e l eaves t hi s world. I can't tell how any man , w i t h natura l af jections anti common honesty, could do otherwise.— (Cheers.) But the more property a man gets, and especially if it is in green fields, he think s it neces sary that the oldest should get it all ; and, I believe, Col. Thompson gave a right explanation of this when he said, "It makes one hand in the family so strong that he can force the public to keep all the rest of the family."—(Loud cheers.) Well, now, bear in mind this, that among aristocratic families there is a natural increase as there is in families of other sorts of people.---(Laughter,) There is one child or two children about the board at first, and by and by six, eight, ten, or twelve, as the case may be. All these children, for the most part, are brought up with the idea that it would be lowering to their dignity if they were seen offering anything for sale, or offering to purchase anything on your Exchange. They don't go to trade. They go to the public departments. They are so o ver d one w i t h pa t r i ot i sm , th a t no thi ng will serve them but they m us t be con tinually givin g their services to the country.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Well, the pastur e i s ge tti ng ra th er b a re. The middle classes are gradually throwing up more and more of their number of active, clever, and intel ligent ,men, who become competitors for offices of every description in the public service with the aristocratic class. Well, the consequences are very evident. The fact is, as political econo. mists, or as our friend Colonel Thompson would say, if he was writing upon it, " The numbers are pressing upon the means of subsistence"—(Laughter and applause)—in fact, that they must have a wider scope for their engines, those energies being princi pally employed in doing nothing, and eating taxes. — (Renewed laughter and cheers.) But, then, bear in mind, that during these thirty years of peace, there has been a process going on in this country which has caused the utmost possible despondency among a large portion of the aristocratic class. Take the last twenty-five years, and any preceding twenty-five years of our history, and you will find we have been going through a revolution, a glorious revolution, but a tranquil one, and the more glorious, infinitely, because it has been tranquil. We have se.n changes in the law and institutions, we have seen changes in the policy of Government, and changes in the temper of our executive, such as, with many nations, have cloody revolutions, and yet they have not suttee a in• .securing them. (Hear, hear.) Who knoxiw4aapapsemarewext? "If we are to have other 30 year i of pate, with a Free Trade Hall in every large town, I should like to know what is to come next," says a member of the titled and aristocratic class. I have no doubt some thing very seriotiffor them, and they seem to be per fectly aware of it. There is a deadly ilfeud between the spirit of war, and political, and socia*and indus trial progress ; and, therefore, it would servesthe pur pose of this anti-national class, if it were possible to get up the war-spirit in England. For let that pre vail—let war again overspread the earth, and there will be no social, no industrial reforms wrung from the Government of the United Kingdom.— (Applause.) I know that if you look upon the page' of history, the last thirty years do not show quite so brilliant a picture as the thirty years preceding. So many men have not grown up to be great generals and admirals; we have not had so many victories by land and sea, and the churches and cathedrals have not been—shall I say ornamented—l will say desecrated by the ban ners and trophies of war.—(Applause.) A dis tinguished French writer (Mons. Lamartine) has said that blood shines more in history, .it is true ; but it taints : blood and liberty effectually exclude each other. I do beseech you, then, as you value all the victories which you have already won, as you value all that is before you, and that which you may yet attain, make a firm, a resolute resistance to whatever comes from the highest, from whatever quarter, that shall engen der a hostile feeling towards foreign countries, and shall induce you to spend large sums in your military armaments and preparations.—(Great cheering.) What is this meeting called for ? Why, but that men—a score of men here, who have been returned to Parliament by free constituencies—should have an opportunity of meeting this large assembly, repre senting the intelligent classes of this country, and of discussing these great national questions with them. The popular power is spreading every day. Let it be enlightened, that this power may be a blessing to its possessors.—(Hear, hear.) I can fancy what will be the exclamations of the United Service, the Army and Navy Club gentlemen, when the papers arrive in London with an account of this meeting.—(Hear ) Oh! it is a glorious time that we are come to, when thousands of us come here and meet together free— for there is no greater freedom than that which we enjoy to-night ; free fully and openly to discuss, free to approve, and free to condemn the policy of those who occupy the highest places in this great empire. —(Loud cheers.) I have stood upon the sea beach sometimes, when there was not a breath of air to ripple the surface of the ocean, and I have seen the tide rising, as though there were some hidden secret, and irresistible impulse, by which wave after wave leaped upon the beach. Let us, then, as a great and magnanimous nation, as I honestly believe we are, — let us have within our souls that hidden, that irresis tible impulse,—that love for freedom, that love for justice, which will enable us now, and in all future time, to move onward and onward, making triumph after triumph, until this great nation may be what all nations, I trust, may one day be, a community of happy people, to which all men will look up as an example throughout the world.—(lmmense cheers.) Mr. BROTIIERTON, M.P., rose amid general applause, and said—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,— In order to bespeak your indulgence , I promise that I will not detain you more than five minutes. I have the honour to propose a sentiment which I am sure will be cordially responded to by this company; and I will adopt the principle that I generally observe in the House of Commons, that when I have heard my sentiments expressed by others I generally remain silent.—(Hear, hear.) My sentiments upon the sub ject of this toast, if it may be called a toast, have been already expressed by gentlemen who have pre ceded me, and particularly by the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Anythi ng th at I can say cannot add any weight to the sentiment I am about to read :—" Free trade and p eace : t h e b est guaran tees of popular rights, the best promoters of national industry, and the most effectual means for the reduction of our national burdens." We are at present at peace with all th e wor ld. Th e qu estion for our consideration is, how are we to re main so?—(hear, and applause.) It is proposed by one party as a means that we should increase our army and our navy. It i s p ro p ose d by ano th e r—the party on the side of peace—that we should adopt and encourage a friendly intercourse with all nations, and act upon the pri nc i p l e o f j us ti ce an d o f a conc ili a t or y policy. A nobleman who has been alluded to this evening, one of great influence in this country, and from whom I had expected better things—(Hear, hear)—" saluted" this country, I may say, through the medium of the Times newspaper, on Christmas morning, with these emphatic words, " Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen !" This was not to announce the birth of a Saviour, but the incarnation of a demon. —(Hear, and applause.) It was not to proclaim glad tidings and peace on earth, and among men, but it was to sound the trumpet of war and desolation. Therefore, the question that I have to ask yo u this evening is this,—Are you in behalf of war, and po verty and misery, or are you in behalf of peace and plenty ? No doubt you are for the latter ; and therefore let us consider whether free trade is not the best guarantee for peace. I would ask whether you wish manufacture of to see your people employed 111 the food and clothing and in the building of houses, and adding to the comforts of the people ; or wheth e r aou wish to see your artisans engiged in milking guns and swords and bullets, in order to sho o t .ur le-st 1 customers. — (Hear, hear.) We find th a t t h ere i s a maxim among warriors that i n order to ~,,„ p,,,,,,, we should always be ready for war. W e c o n s i de r that for the last thirty years we have spent 500 ~ ~1 I' I ~. vll re.