The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 184 S. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 1 LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, The LORD C HA N CELLOR sa t in hi s cou rt at West- Independently of its old established influence, 1 IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM minster to-day at half•past eleven o'clock, and gave peculiarly auspicious circumstances having se cured PANIES' STOCK. seve ra l judgments. the prospects of the present season, we hear that the From the Officill List, PENNY V. TURNER.-JUDGMENT. management has for some time past been content to PUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this carry on, quietly and silently, the preparation of the ...____ 'ease, which was heard before his Lordship in Lin- new campaign. We had indeed ourselves observed, coin's I nn i n F e b ruary l as t, u p ( n a ppeal from his en passant, some days since, that the box-office was LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28. Honour th e Vi ce -Ch ance llor of England, who had open, aid busy in receiving the votes of subscribers, - TOINT-STOCIL HANES. . 1 put, as it was con t en d e d, a w rong construction upon whilst the stage-door was besieged by the newly - „.. of Comp . Div the will o f a gent l eman name d 'Paver Penny, that was arrived followers of Euterpe and Terpsichore , has ten- y par Dividend share. in th e f o ll ow i ng t erms :-"I, Taver P en ny, of the ing to the first review. The season will begin about --- - Annum. Amoreent Paid. Price - ttoyal N avy , d o d ec l are thi s my last will and testa- the 15th of next month .£ s. d. 1 s. d. . astralasie .......... 40 0 0 40 0 0 - As . far as we can glean, the following are the .crush North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - 'meet., and do hereby give and devise unto my mother, e loa .pr 1 2 00 5 0 0 00 25 0 0 0 0 - 41 arY Penny, for her natural life, all estates, real and resources of the present season, and it will he seen &- :o eY mnierc . ta .. l . o . f • • L • o • •;d • o • a • 6 1. •of at the time that, whether we look to the established talent &mi.. lolonial. - pe - Personal, ona 1 , that I may be in possession liar to us, which time has not impaired, or to the Gloucestershire .. •• • • 151 per cent. - - - of my decease, or be entitled to in reversion, as also all oth er property w h atever : an d a t the decase of new virtuosi who come to us for the first time, with lonian ........•• •• •• 6/. per cent. 25 0 6 25 0 0 Londn and Westminstr 61. rer cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2 5 my said mo th er , Id o w ill and devise that all the ample certificates of fame , the a r ray is bo t h br illiant Ditto .............. _ - 13 0 0 - .., said est a t es an d proper ty s h a ll be divided amongst and formidable. o‘llollJoint-tock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 I 0 - Provincialof Ireland • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 15 5 0 lily three s i s t ers , J une Stevens, Elizabeth Turner, The first artist to be mentioned is Jenny Lind, Ditto, New... - 81. per cent. 10 0 o 10 0 0 15 who will arrive in March. Her presence s lone en- N . :anoint' of Ireland .. 61. per cent. 80 0 0 '22 10 5 - isnd Harriet Penny, or their children, in such pro- Nat. Provnclal 4of Eng. U. par cent. 100 8 0 38 0 0 - s h a lt, appoint sures success. Her triumphs last year, when unknown plortiesne as she, my said mother,Ditto, New... - 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0f• - y her last will end testament, or by any deed to us, surpassed all precedent.; every one would see south Australia ••• • • . - - 22 10 0 - • e and but a tithe of those who wished succeeded. her, Union of Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 23 !'n. writing made by her in her lifetime.nttto - - 215 • - This will was dated the sth of April, 1792; and the Since that time her visits in the country, and her er e e e , et London .. 61. per sent. 50 0 0 10 4 o - triumphs abroad, which have kept publi c tittention Union of Madrid .-. . 1 --- 40 • 0 45 • • - ~ testator did not die until the year 1841. Mrs. Penny, constantly alive, have increased the a v idity t o b e h o ld '-. the moth er , di e d i n t h e lif et i me o f the testator, with- T OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES - -- -- -- out havin g exerc i se d th e p ower o f appointment. Jane her in England, whilst one hears on a ll s id es o f f u - Dividead Amount Stevens, o f the sisters f the testator, also died . one during the season to gratify their lo ng i ng t o b e h o ld h er . annum. Share. in th e t es t ator ' s lif et i me, w i t h out i ssue . H a r r iet, the -- -- - plaintiff, was unmarried, and the other sister, Eliza- For the subscribers of last seas on we h ear s h e h as .e 3. d. .i 1. d eth Turner, had two children. The question there . great novelty in store; not only is it intended that Bank of Scotland fore raised by the billwhether the testator's was, she should perform in new operas, but her interprets- British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 41 0 199!.i, Caledonian Bank property was now di v i s ibl e b etween th e pl a i n tiff and tion of favourite parts, like th ose o lD es d emona , D onna City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 5 5 10 0 0 11N M rs. T urner , b y th e i r eac h ta ki ng one -third under Anna, Lucia, &c., will fa r sur p ass th e a tt rac ti on o f Clydesdal e Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. '2O 0 0 10 0 0 11 1 A, the -will, an d th e o th er t hi r d as a l apse d s h are by re a- any other form of novelty. Th ere are c l ass i ca l o p e - C tl in t i e n r e n rc l ia B l . l k l a n . k . :..•• •• 71. per c c : ri n f t .. 5 2 0 5 0 0 0 , 0 ,100 : I ° . 15 10 4 % son of th e d ea th o f J ane S tevens i n th e t es tator's ras, like the Zauberflotte of Mozart, &c.-the Edinb.fc Glasgow Bank 61. percent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5/ 1 8 s most perfect works of the great masters-which have IsleEx e h o a f n ,t e a l n lnk c,, of Scot ax 6 7 1 1. . per c c e e n n t t . . 100 10 s e 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 O s 5 1 0 4 lifetime, they being the testator's coheirs and next of been totally lost to the musical public for many National Bank l' P IY 61. per per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13 kin. This construction is the one contended for by years for want of congenial talent; it is intended to . No . rt t l i t , o l f l Srtl an d Bank 71. per cent. 2 8 0 0 5 0 0 0 it 0 5 0 6 6 % the plaintiff; the children, however, of Mrs. Turner revive some of those dormant classical works this '` ea;a I tern k is ° h i s I l e a o n t k i 8 n • ~ 61. insisted by their answer that the estate and effects per cent. 100 5 5 100 5 5 143 became di v i s ibl e i nto five arts one of which shares year. Another prima donna, of European fame, will Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 • • 50 • 0 84 belong s t o eac h o f them, and p, that only a fifth of the visit her Majesty's Theatre early this season, we Zbeeszt7ene.B Fire ßk * a • n • d • * I. i • fe • 1 8 2 1 ; . per r cent. eent. 5 12 0 10 0 0 5 5 9 0 5 0 5 0 81. 6 . 8 a property lapsed by the death of Jane Stevens. The allude to Erminia Tadolini, whose appearance has B.Accord.Life and Fire - 20 • • •11 • Sc. Vice-Chancellor held this latter construction to be been so often apparently compassed, even vainly an- British Guar.ntee Ins. - 10 0 6 1 • • lee. Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 • 0 16 0 0 21 flounced as positive, in past years. This great artist's Caledonianchurehof so • 4 2 I II 2 the correct one, inasmuch as the " or" in the will pre- England Ina. - ceding th e g if t to t h e ch i ldren must b e rea d as " an d , " fame is too familiar to the musical world to need City of Glasgow Life 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 • • 21. 8s and decreed accordingly. From this decision the much corninent. At the great imperial theatre, La E as ta t o ei f ee e,t ti n e d lr it u e r 6l. per cent. 10 10 0 O s O s 12 s 1 1 0 5 O s 1 1 2 7 , 4 plaintiff appealed, and upon that appeal the Lord Scala, she has been engaged almost every year at the Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 55 5 5 117 6 2% Chancellor now gave judgment. His Lordship was brilliant epoch, the Carnival. At San Carlos, no „I I l il e i r u c r ul e c s o l n o s f u s r a c n e tele. (de . 711; 11.. per cent. 1 10 00 0 11 0 Ss iS 0 0 Os 11 clearly o f op i n i on the j udgment of the Court b elow Prima donna has been able to secure a triumphant Life Assoc . . of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 11 1 41 0 1/ 5. Mercantile Life .. • • - 10 0 4 0 10 • Bs. footing since she left it, so great a favourite was was correct, and or d ere d i t t o b e affirmed. National Fire and Life 61. per cent. • 0 10 • 245. Tadolini with the Neapolitans. In Germany her North National HI British Incur. •• 5% J. pr cent. 200 0 8 20 0 0 23 -. . , RAILWAY RETURNS success has been no less marked and constant. For- North & West of Soot. - 10 • • 1 • • 1!. Is Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 II 11 I tunately, for the variety it will afford, her style RAILWAY TRAFFIC.-The following are the Total Receipts of Ra 1- Scot. Ai as. and Gen. Life V. per - cent. 10 6 415 0 103. ;1 ways for th e p ast week-that is to say, up to t h e d a t e t o w hi c h th e and line of parts are totally contrasted with those of Scott i sh Union Dimes. 6 1 41. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. Is respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same Mdlle. Lind ; and she is about to renew in London Stan laid Life •• -- - 51. per cent. 25 5 5 4b 0 514 walk in the pr ev i ous year: - the career she followed in Vienna, where she sang, for Un i te d D ep. A ssurance 51 . per cent. 15 • • I 0 41 12s. ________ 4'' one season, at the same time as the great Swedish lac SITRANCE COMPANIES. Week Last F 1-: vocalist, maintaining the most amicable rivalry. We . ",.1 p. ,„, ‘i. a Dividend I Amount endin g NAME OF RAILWAY. week. r; have to announce another vocalist, one of the youngest Name of Company. per of raid. Price amongst the successful prime donne at present on the Annum. Share. Ct) ..9 .........._ - ..f £ made so triumphant an entrée upon the great operatic Albion a. _ .- Aberdeen -• • • •• • • _ - theatre, La Fenice. Her person, we hear, is hand- Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 5 11 0 0 1714 "n• s e e Amiens and Boulogne . • - ' l ' 4 Arbroath and Forfar ...............174 '234 some and commanding; there is the fire genius in ‘ t D i, t t i t t .. et arin e . • • • • • • 1 6 8 1 s ..p 6 e d r cent, 1 5 00 0 0 5 0 0 1 . 5 5 11 , 0 8 Sad 2 • 3 Chester and Birkenhead. ............537 413 her voice and in her dramatic action ; her intonation British Commercial .. 73. peiffhare 50 001 5 0 0 -- - is truthful, and her organ is clear, powerful, and Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 00'le 0 0 20% - Cheater and nolvhead. •..••-• • • • • • - - Gninty ........ ••• • • • al. !too oeie 0 0 - 28 Cockermouth and Workington •• • • 105 - sonorous-the latter being qualities essential for crown .. .. .. -..•• .. 13s. '5OOO 1 5 0 0 11 so Dublin and Drogheda ..... ••••• • • • • • 647 Eagle .. •. • • ...... •• • • 6s. 50 0015 11 0 61. c ( : 3 37 4 ) great success in a theatre of so large an area as that. 2 5 Dublin and Kingstovm ••••••• . • • • • • • 518 22 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •• •• •• • • 727 288 in which she made her (Witt, and qualifications which E eEu ro pean e. lc ..Sc o i t i Life Law . . .... .... 514 .5/ . p er cent. cent. 2 4 0 0 S 0 0 • A 2012 paid. 2 a d 23 East Anglian.... ••-•••••• • • • • - " " 432 - are deficient in the majority of prime donne (when ramllS Endo/rule t Soc. 41. 1 & bs. 40 • 4O 0 - 42Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • • - - 3,196 3,216 le: - eemasons' .•••• • • • • SI. per cent. 20 0 0 30 0 - 23 Edinburgh and Northern.. .. .. -•• •• 970 -. they do not strain their voca l p ower ), e ith er from •eote - 117xd Eastern Counties and North Easter- 10,050 9,038 o riginal want of p ower or f rom th e e ffe ct o f f at i gue ; uar di an ...... ••• • • • 51 . per cent. 10 0 0 0 36 10 0 45 6East Lancashire •• • ....... ~........ 933 624 mper, al Fire --•• • • 12 per cent. :100 0050 0 0 214 • Eastern Union- ............ • ....... 1,114 889 and age. Our readers will be happy to hear of the : imperial Life • • • • • • •• 11. slh2si be. 100 100 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 14% 2222 Glasgew, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge... 677 672 return of Adelaide Moltini to her Majesty's Theatre. Indemnity Marine ••••5 13 1 - 22 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 1,827 2,006 If we mistake not, she is one amongst the artists Law Fire - 100 4 0 510 0 3 Glasgow and Green0ck......... 22 already arrived. - She was always a great favourite Great Southern and Western • • ...... 1,831 1,028 Le.;al and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 - 2 3 Great West & 15,792 16,295 with the English public, and her absence has been L:..r.dcn Fire .. ••• • •• 10s. 25 0012 10 0 13% 22 Kendal ern'. e• • • • • ..• • • • • • • .. • . 22 and Windermere. •....• • • • • 99 - often alluded to with regret. Louisa Albadia, a sf Lo ar nd in o e n Ship ........ 10s. 25 0•12 10 0 13% Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ••••• . - •• 7,890 7,601 100 • 0 15 0 0 - 21 Lancaster - and Carlisle.. -- • ....... 1,047 - distinguished vocalist, of great histrionic power, Med. I ne • •11C1Se • • G ** en . ..1 * .,1 . 1 . e 41(11. per ct. 40 0 0 20 0 2% 22 _Le ,c e n , ,i ls „ and Thirsh.. -„ - who has performed with success the parts di prim° National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 6 0 210 0 - i nderry an 22 London .. d triniskillen- ••- • • 109 - \ :atonal Life •• • ....• • 81. per cent. 100 0 • S 0 0 - ft London suns Blackwell North Western, &c.... -. Z 2,874 34,102 cartello, at all the great theatres of Italy, is another e alsdium Life... -. • . 51. per cent. 50 0 6 2 0 4 - 22Blackwell.. -•••• •• - - 671 661 important acquisition announced. She is said to pos- - - 87 London and Brighton ............... 6,169 5,307 Pricenix . . - - 165 23 London sess all the peculiar gifts necessary to the faithful and , It and k •-'outh Weatern ....• .... 6,501 b,433 ietector Life.... • 5/ per 20 0 0 1 0 0 !•.2 Manchester, Sheflield, and Lincolnshire 1,981 1,611 effective interpretation of the more modern school of n.vident Life.. -.: •: * ll. 53. cent. 100 I 0 10 41 0 - - ''' M arYnort sad Carlisle • 480 420 !lock Life- .... - .... " 4s. 6• • • 111 0 40 , ,, 22 Midland Brist01, - Italian music. There will be a young debutante this 33 , and Birmingham- - 14,72 1 3 16,159 Ito} al Exchange ...... 51. per cent. Stock. - 178 xd Midland Great Western (Irish) •••• •• • 11 812 - season, in the person of Signorina Sofia Vera. If we : •.7 Fire.. ..... .. - - - Newmarket.- •• are not mistaken, she is the daughter of a lady of i•itto Lite .......... U. Se. - - - 22 Ne wcastle and Carlisle- •• - --- .. - 1,717 2,ol6U niversal Life........ 10%1. pr cnt. 100 0 0 111 0 - 23 Norfolk eminence as a vocal artist, who has married advan - 1,725 1,262 V iaoria Life.... - - 4 0 6 -- 22 22 P..,_ North2 tsh ...... ..... ••• •• - •''' l'°s7 1,367 tageously, and retired from the stage, and was de n 1 and Rouen •••••••- .. - - •• - 6,007 5,002 • GAS-LIONT AND COYLE COMPANIES. Rouen and Havre ................• . 2,216 - strolls her daughter should not enter into its trying _ - Scottish Central ••-••••••• • • • ' • • • • • career ; but, on the part of Signorina Sofia Vera, Dividend Amount le fihre - Name of Company. per I of Paid. Price wsburY and Chester ...... • • .... 489 251 the love of art has been too strong to resist, and san-annum. Share. 22 South Eastern _ 3l „ and Branches •••• • • - 6,511 5,710 South Devon.... - •• •• -'••• • • • • 652 40i guine hopes are entertained of her success. - 23 Taff Vale ...... •• • ...... 1 836 1,230 Amongst the contralti mentioned is Mademoiselle British •. - .... ••• • .. A. A. d. A. s. IL 11. ; 40 0 0 18 5 • 17 1 .. NO Meter. .•••• • :• ••••• • • ." ••• : •• • ..... ' 694 076 as Schwartz, who is immediately expected. Those who Ditto Provincial.... O. Bs. ;20 5 0 15 11 5 23S Whiteha•ren Junction •••••••• • • • • • • • 145 - Bristol .. • ........ - 111. per cent. ' 20 • 0 - -. *2 Wilhaw and Coltness::: •••••• • • • • • • 561 734 have visited the Austrian capital cannot have for- Brighton .• .... •• •• .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 - 19 21 York and N ... 10 239 8 051 ewcastle . ...• •••• • • • • • gotten the talent and prepossessing appearance of this City of London -- - 10/. 1 100 0 • 100 • • 095 22 York - and North Midland. •• • • • • - - 6,285 4,838 accomplished young vocalist. For want of time and orrainentaiconsoflaat. 925. pr share: 50 0 0 29 5 11 Ditto, New •• -. . pr share: 53 5 37 10 5 - - space we must pass over the seconde donne expected. Equitable .. .. 455. r share 50 S 55 • COURT CIRCULAR. The teneri will be, first, that great favourite of the Imperial -.: :•. :: ••: •• ' 6/. p P er cent. 50 5 • 50 0 6 all WIND SO R, FRIDAY. - The Queen and Prince public, Italo Gardoni, who, in spite of all the Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 140 0 0 40 4 0 64 Albert walked this d ......•• •• .... 2%1. pr cent. 511 • 0 50 • • - morning on the Eastern Terrace • and Slopes. interested prophecies to the contrary, will arrive in 6 Ditto ........ ••• .. . I. percent. 60 • 5 50 • 5 - Earl London en Monday next. The efforts made to tempt 8 5 1 / . . per cent. 50 5 0 45 5 0 sae xd Spencer and Lord and Lady John Russell Z e ell i a -x ...... •- **:: left the Castle this mornin The Bisho of Man- this young tenor from his present engagement auffi- United General ,iii. pr d cent.ns. 10 5 0 0 0 0 s e 5 60 0 4 0 • 5 1.1 Chester ciently attest the increasing value of his talent. WestminsterCkartered 31, 60 0 0 -55 ii ad and the lion. Sir Edward I) 1 . Cust also too - their Ditto, New .... -... 123. 60 I • 111 •• , tile departure to-day. There will be two other new tenors. Report speaks very highly of the first engage d, Signor Cugzani- ". the tones of his voice are genial, with an imps - Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner are expected to Dividend Amount arrive at the Castle this eve • ' - - rung on a visit to her 1 , impas sioned penetrating timbre, and vibrating accent; and, Name if Company. per if 1 Paid. Price. Majesty. - possessing great and intuitive knowledge of the Annum. Share. stage, he has never failed of success." Another ____ The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening young £. s. 4. ' .Z. s. 4. will includ e th e i r M a j est i es th e Kin g and Queen tenor, the news of whose en gagemen t on l y reached of Australian Aericulturl - 100 • •, 3* • • - the Bel • her R 1 Highness the Duchess of 1 gians, oya London yesterday, is supported by the warmest eulogies of the highest judges in the musical world . ' Anglo-Mexican Mint., Ditto Half Shares.. 11. 45. 10 0 • 10 •• - ; - ; 2 10 • - - Rent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de, Canada ... ..... •• .. 61. per cent. 100 • • 82 10 • st Weyer, La Marquise de Trazeynies, Lady Fanny particularly the Countess de Rossi (Sontag), the Uppr Canada Bonds 37.0 •er cent. - - - Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Westmorland, and Meyerbeer. His name is Pity 13°"'•• - " •• ••• 31" l'i. cent - - Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. Si. percent. 1041 0 0 75 41 4 - Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Sir Robert Labocetto. He has been engaged during three con- Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& be, 21104 • 5 105 5 5 190 . and Lady Gardiner, and Major de Moerkerke.. ' secutive seasons at the same theatre where Gardoni Egaitable itoversienry 434 ~ pr cent. ISO 41 5 95 0 0 90 • Gen. Steam Navigation 11 81 15 • • 14 • • 25 The band of the Grenadi er G uar d s w ill attend established his first r e p u t a ti on -th e It a li an Op era a t L ea d en I nst i tutlen ... • • during dinner. The Queen's private band w ill after- Berlin. He is young, his voice is sweet, of a very Peninslr& Orient.Strn. 21. pe - r cent. 55 - 41 0 5O - e 4 699, Reversionary Int. Sec. 3} 1. p r cent. 105 • • ; 100 0 • - wards attend in the Ca s tl e , extended register, and he sings in the style of Rubini. Royal Mail Steam- 3341. pr cent. 100 o 41 60 5 0 47% Whilst speaking of this class of vocalists, we may South Australian ••••• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 • • -- Mr Wickham, Ch • naiveiemen's Land • • airman of the Stamps and Taxes, here state that we entertain sma ll no d egre e of hope - 100 0 0 23 0 I 4 bad an interview sal Salvage ..... - 25 • 0 4• • with the Chancellor of the Ex-, from private and authentic sources of our own, that - - chequer yesterday. Mr. Rowland Hill had also an her Majesty's Theatre will be visited this season by WATER-WORKS. interview yesterday. . with the Right Hon. Baronet, at another tenor, to whom no other at present on the , Dividend A moun t ' his official residence in Downing -street. stage can be compared. Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Admiral Sir Charles Adam had an • • . interview with 1s to the bass voices announced, all the other the Right Hon. Ed _ of offic e the Birmingham .•••• • • •• 185. 25 0025 0 0 - Commissioners of Railways in the Board galaxy-were it only that there is not, and never will of Trade, East London...• ••.. • • IL - 166xd be, another Lablache, and he is once more coming to Grand Junction _ 2 -• _ head them. With him will arrive Coletti, second to I ` e n t '• ••••••••' • • • •• 31 . 100 • a - 84 MR. GUSTAV US V. BROOKE. Lablache. alone likewise that sound sterlin basso dew Itivr Lndn Brdge ¢l.lo°. - _ 65 • , .. ~ _, g , _ , Vauxha11.....,....-. . , 100.,. 0 6 -0. 101 ID, (FROM A CORRESPONDEN ''.: ' ' tOUCtiZttiteirl : :t .-• ' l %) • , •,•• -- .; ..., a excellent. musician 1. Laolache. Weld Middlesex . '. . 51.15a.prent. 63 12 9 - , The foll owing c - fished • ' . To thes been added e has Cb.ATAX.S. in 1846, in Manchester, edited by Mr. J.Easth Signor Beletti. This vocalist for several years was called the Manchester Y, 1 .i l Bee, will, we are informed, be in the same troupe, and sang constantly with Jenny e Divide nd found flames of E " Dividen ! Names of ,0 1: w hose perfect y correct as to the age of the tragedian, Lind in her most favourite operas. Ile is represented Companies. w 43 per : d , Price. Companies. 1;-4 per Price. 4 Annum. age has been so erroneously given to be full of nervous energy, L on , by the ..._ e: Annum. ao • 18 on press, and show what he was thoughtof in well as - [ 46, and what he has proved himself in 1848. other singers, such as Signors Guidi, Solari, &c., who Asian& Oldh 97 71. pc 110 Macclesfield. 100, 21. 10e. 42 "'rho entleman named ' b orn • ,g . Was in St. George's• will render the operas effective by giving full value !It rk ri i i i s k i sc es ;;;,. . ; 160 12. 180 Neath •• •• • • 1001 201. 340 lase Dublin, in 1812, and received his education at to the seconder y parts. 150 Si. i 80 Oxford.. -• • 100: 201. 200 Birmingham 35 41. 1 80 Peak Forest. 751 31. 10 3 . 68 l• , ageworthstown. He drank deep of the inspiring well-. The ballet department will, as in general, embrace Coventry.... 100 251. - Regent's • ..• ;ern- •• • • 100 6/ 63 Rochdale .• • • 33' 1/. 43. UN xd at last, a n to pass his hour upon the stage-and, successively, and sometimes at the same moment") 41. 54 , Ells rre&Chs 133 41 .. 50 Sommet Coal 150' 71.105. 130 almost ,an opening was given him which is worthy of all that is worth acquistion of first-rate Cho- sees ash ••• 1001 32i. - Do.Lk FrlSt 12 61. p . c. - II Passing notice. The late Kean-at+ ill-fated Ed- regraphic talent in Europe. There will be two Irand.lunetn 100! 61. 79 Stffrd&lVorc 140 2S 275 112 11111(1.- maitres de b Grand Surrey 100' - 30 Shrewsbury.. 128 Ist _ . WB3 engaged to play in Dublin, but ere the ballet-Perrot and Paul Taglioni •; each , . our r go.. .rand Union 100' 11. 103. 21 1 4 St bld • • 145 201. 305 time arrived he was arrested by the hand of death ; will compose a new grand ballet, besides bringing Iralitham •• 1501 121. - Severe and] 1 and th u s out the om - .iennt & Ave 39, 73. 6d. 514 Wye Rail. 26 11. 83. 30 a great chasm was created, and the theatri- c positions of others, with divertis sements, • Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 605 Warwick3tl i cal world &c. The former is already actively 00 61. 65 left to mourn over the reatest dramatic lumi- engaged in mar. I.,eicester •••• 140. 101. 75 Binning. A nary ,eicstr &Nth sal 41. 36 Warwick& 1 1 1 , y that ever trod the En lish g boards. The manager shelling his troupe. Besides the compositions of the W asmaitres de ballet, and a ou4hboregh 142; 701. 430 liapton...S 1 46 perplexed, made an overture g to Mr. G. V. Brooke mongst the works written for • Monmouttish 100 1 81. - Wercstr &1 75 ; 21 to play the art ofWilliam this theatre, is a ballet expressly composed for her Mntgemrysh 100' U. - Birming. j 1 • 85 tempt P Tell, as a trial. The at- rnpt was made and a fortunate one it proved. An Majesty's Theatre by the greatest of living pl ay - MeltnMwbry;loo 1111. - Wilts k Brie 67 11 . 11 .[: engagement followed, . wrights, the celebrated M. Scribe. We have heard and our youthful tragedian . BRIDGES then ' went the it asserted that by this ballet the season would begin. round of leading characters,' and Dividend Amount Played with distinguished Rosati, the - fascinating dancer and mime of last season, Name if Cempany. per of Paid. Price success, receiving, at various Places, fetes of ma • Annum. Share. magnificent descri tions tl is already arrived, and with her the young Marie Tag- lents and , lauded to the highest b P ' cos y pre- . . • I hone who has created a furore in Grermany. Carlotta x. s. d. lA. s. d. y all the inflesentia provincial journals. Mean whil e,flungerford ••••.. • - - - - - - his fame Grisi will arrive with a new ballet six weeks earlier 2),, and talents Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 8 - reached the great metrop olis,and - . la offer after offer was than last year. Cerito and St. Leon will re-apnear D itto liw of 734 - made to him from managerstoo • 0 - 51.. of London at their customary time, and the new ballet, Des Cing GO 4 • 28 questing him to fix his theatres, re- w Vl e t r t i o ° ol • d • *. Ann...o . f . ill 1!. i - s. 4d. - • all of which Mr. Brooke own terms for three years, Sens, will be given as soon as it is possible. The new Ditt• Nw ditto of 71. IL 23. 22. - 40 • 6 26 declined. Whilst sojourning corps de ballet has been selected from amongst the Yauxhall .... ... AY. 11. 165. 74 10 0 - 26 in Scotland, a fair and titled young lady, daughter most promising danseuses of that class of chore s.., I Scottish of DOCILE'. - . peer of ancient lineage - 1 rltori es and immense ter- graphy. This year much is expected from the young Dividend Amount .. became smitten with our hero's handsome eleves of the establishment, Thevenot, Julienne, La- , Name of CompiMy. per of Paid. trice. efrare and person b courag e b. it , ut, to the cr e dit o f hi s mora l moureex, so warmly applauded last season, but now Annum. Share. --.......-. allian recorded, he could not see, in an grown up to be accomplished dancers. To these and .- 4 s. d. A e. d. ce_, that which guide to that excellent dancer, Mdme. Petit, are added _ 7O throu-h I, life --sub ought to be every man's Commercial .... •..... 41. per cent. Stock. 118 , , to al l - and he sequent happiness and satisfaction Einilie and Fanny Pascalis : a young and interesting East and West India ... 61, p: cent. Stock. - East Country ••.• • ... 1.. per eh. 100 0 0 - Si) and made a hastily abandoned • bonnie Scotland,' danseuse, Mdlle. Ansene, &c. I andon . .• N. pr cent. Stook. - 9S 1118 first brilliant I:.rolessional tour in England. The list we give, both of the vocal as well as the ' •Itto Bonds.. ... .. 11. per cent. - - - appearance in lyrical part of the company, is very incomplete, and ILKatharine - 81x41. Egerton's b enefit ,Manchester was for Mr. Date Bonds ...... .. 4 el. pr cell). - Ed at the Queen' s theatre in 1838, as we pass over many meritorious favourites ; but we ciethampton •• .... .. . 21. per cent. 50 • e 50 - 5 • 22 gar Ravenswood, and the ' ' shall no doubt have an early opportunity of drawi• g ne created in extraordinary sensation . .' 8 thA that beautiful further and more complete information from official piece-a gem in BANK OF ENGLAND. - crow n o f , of laurel which encircles the brow sources. In the meals time the opening of her Ma- (From last night's Gazette.) one of Scotia' m ortal Sir a sweetest bards-the im iestY's Theatre being the great event of the season, An Account, pursuant to the Act 7tk and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for ever .Walter Scott-fully equalled anything we have thought that, however premature, the infor- the Week ending on Saturday, the 221 day of January, 1848. his debut witnessed in this town. He af ter war d s at the rin...- - _ Z. I Z. ~, • Weeke. Last 2 . .., it endin g NAME OF RAILWAY. L week. tti .g .........,.-- „C X - - ~ ••••• Aberdeen .. •• • •• • • van • 2 ,..a Amiens and Boulogne . • 998 - • 1.4 Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • 174 234 13 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••• • • • • • • 537 413 _ 41 Chester and Holyhead. •..••.• • . • • • • - - Cockermouth and Workington • • • . 105 - 20 Dublin and Drogheda ..... • ••••• • • • • 647 093 25 Dublin and Kingstown •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••••• •• •• 518 534 22 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •• •• •• • • 727 288 2 3 East Anglia n .... ••-•••• • • - " - ' - 432 - 22 Edinburgh and Glasgow .... ........ 3,196 3,216 22 Edinburgh and _Northam.. •• •• • • • • • • 970 -. 23 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 10,050 9,036,24 22 East Lancashire ••••• • • • - 933 ' •••••• • • • • 16 Eastern Union •••••• - - - - • ....... 1,114 889 22 Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge... 677 672 22 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 1,827 2,006 22 Glasgow and Greenock- •••. • • • •• • • 876 916 22 Great Southern and Western • • ...... 1,831 1,028 23 Great •..• 16,295 22 Kendal a n d Wi ndermere. ••.•• • • • - 99 - 22 Lancashir e and Yorkshire.. ••••• • • • • • 7,890 7,601 21 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • ' 1,047 - 22 Leeds and Thi rsk.... . • • • ' • • • - . - Londonderry and trinlskill en .. ••• • • • 109 I -22 London aid North Western, &c.... - . 32,972 34,102 22 London and Blackwall. ••••• • • - - - 671 661 22 London and Brighton .• • •• --• ••• 6,169 6,307 33 London an d South Western ' .•••• • • • • 6,502 b,433 22 Manchester, Sheilleld, and Lincolnshire 1,981 1,611 23 22 Maryport a i d C arlisle •••••• • • - - - 480 420 Midland, m •••• -- I dland, Bristol, and Birmingha 17,72 1 3 16,159 33 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • 812 - Newmarket.- • • - - 22 Newcastle and Carlisle- - .... ••• • - 1,717 2,016 23 Norfolk.... ........ ••_..- • • .. 1,725 1,262 32 North British ...... ..... ........... 1,057 1,367 22 Paris and Rouen ........... •.•• • • .. 6,007 5,002 12 Rouen and Havre ................ _ 2,216 - - Sc ottish Central ................ • - - 34 Shrewsbury and Chester •• • • •••• :: •••• :: 10 489 6,511 5.7420511 2 2 South E astern and Branches 21 South Devon.. ••.•..••• • • - - - •• •• 652 Taff Vale . 1,836 1,230 696 676 21 Whiteha•ren Junction •• •• •• •• •• •• ••••• • • • • 145 - 21 Wishaw and Coltness ...............861 • • • • • • 734 :al York and Newcastle •. ••••••' • • • • • " 10'2239 8,0514 012 22 York and N orth Midlan d .••••• • - • •' 6'85 MR. GUSTAVUS V. BR,OOKE: (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) , • The following extract from a small periodical pub lished in 1846, in Manchester, edited by Mr. J.Eastby, called the Manchester Bee, will, we are informed, be found perfectly correct as to the age of the tragedian, whose age has been so erroneously given by the London press, and show what he w as th oug ht o f i n 18 46, and what he has proved himself in 1848. " The gentleman named was born in St. George's • M ace Dublin, in 1812, and received his eduation at Mgeworthstown. He drank deep of , the inspiring we ll - -yearned to pass his hour upon the at last, an opening is stage— and, worthy of was given him w Passing notice. The late Kean—the ill-fated Ed- Mund—was engaged to play in Dublin, but ere the time arrived he was arrested by the hand of death; and thus a great chasm was created, and the theatri cal world left to mourn over the greatest dramatic lumi nary that ever trod the English boards. The manager was perplexed, made an overture to Mr. G. V. Brooke to play the part of William Tell, as a trial. The at tempt was made and a fortunate one it proved. An engagement followed, and our youthful tragedian then went the round of leading characters,' and Played with distinguished success, receiving, at various places, fetes of magnificent descriptions, costly pre sents, and lauded to the highest by all the influential provincial journals. Meanwhile, his fame and talents reached the great metropolis, and offer after offer was made to him from managers of London theatres, re questing him to fix his own terms for three years, all of which Mr. Brooke declined. Whilst sojourning in Scotland, a fair and titled young lady, daughter of a Scottish peer of ancient lineage and immense ter ritories became smitten with our hero's handsome kare and person, but, to the credit of his moral courage be it recorded, he could not see, in such an alliance, that which ought to be every man's guide to through life---subse quent h appiness and satisfaction all—fuld he h ast il y abandoned bonnie Scotland,' and made a brilliant professional tour in England. His first appearance in Manchester was for Mr. Egerton 's benefit, at the dgar Raven sw Queen's theatre, in 1838, as ood, and the extraordinary sensation he created in that beautiful piece—a gem in the crown of laurel which encircles the brow of one of Scotia's sweetest bards—the im Mortal Sir Walter Scott—fully equalled anything ever witnessed in this town. He afterwards made his debut at the Theat re R oyal as Richard the Third, and gained laurels fr om every one capable of appre ciating a sterling and startling impersonation of the 'tyrant Richard. In a short time Mr. Anderson ... ur attempted ' O t h ello at Drury-lane, under Mr. eady's reign, upon the a and the lavish praises bestowed gel:4V made all eager to see Anderson's Moor. Ile was announced to play it here, and Mr M . G. V. Brooke to represent lago. Excitement became rampant, the house was crow d e d , an d t h e w e eption of the tragedi ans tremendous. Without Wishing to disparage Mr. Anderson's Moor,' we are forced to state that Mr. Brooke's Io ecli all t hat night, an d was so admitted by the ag audienc p e. sed An offer now came from Drury-lane, which Mr. Brooke I r t i" declined, mak eight m e t ro p o lit an temptations of nurteen months There can he but one opinion •G• V • Brooke as a tragedian. He has every ?equisite for the profession he adorns, and has a voice !lnequalled for strength and harmony, which he modu lates and governs with consummate skill." Th, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.— liiS Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and the Ladies Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duke of Devonshire, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal, the Mar quis o f Douro, the Marquis of Stafford, the Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, tho Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of March, the Earl and Countess of Verulam, the Earl and Countess of Ilford, the Earl Falkland, the Earl of Auck land, the Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Clifden, the Baron and Baroness Brunow and Madile. Olga de Lechner, Sir John and Lady Kaye and Miss Kaye, Lord and Lady L,ftus, Lord Suffield, Lid Vivian, Lord Ward, Lord Garduer, tine Baroness de Rothschild, Lady Macfarlane, Lord and Lady F. Somerset, Lord Carrington, Lady Camden, Lord George Beauclerk, Lord Canning, Sir Bellingham and Lady Graham, Lord William Lennox. Lord George Lennox, Lord Aylmer, Lord and Lady Tenterden, Lord Burleigh, Mr. Mortimer Drummond, &c., have lately honoured this theatre with their patronage. FligNen GRAIN.—A Vt.FSel CAA La France has arrived from Marseilles, having the large quantity of 2,000 quarters of wheat on board. Sotes i55ned........ 26,659,265 Government debt .- 11,015,100 Other securities 2,9a4,900 G•ld coin and bullion 11,122,376 silver bullion ...... 1,436,65, X 26,669,265 I X 26,559.245 M. MAIMIALL, Chief Cashier. ISO. Dated the 27th day of January, BANLIZfiII D Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,800 Rest . .......... 3,726,364 rubite deposit,(in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, SAT. logs-bank u, and Di vidend accounts).. 4,082,448 Dther deposits .• • • 10,774,170 ;even day and other hills •• • • •• • • 903,271 Government seenri- tics (including Dead Weight ♦nnuity) • . 11,464,66 A Other securities .... 14,610,363 Notes • • • • • • • • • • • . • . 7,447,884 Gold and silver coin . • 517,647 434,039,9 , 30 34,9A9,960 Y. MARSPIALL, Chief Cashier. 1848. Dated the 27th day of January, POSTFONEMENT OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE Bisnor or HEREFORD.—We understand that the cere mony of consecrating Dr. Hampden, which was gene rally understood to he fixed fur Sunday next, at the W btu:ball Uliqvi, and to 14: pet:forru4 d by three Hight PrOttr-s. ' , ward in corutrth:sion under the autho rity of the Archbishop of Canterbury, will not take place on that day. ld astronorner, of Pulkova have ascertained th e ti?ridtence of third gateliite of Uranus. Lierschel, the : e°Ye tert thought he cc perceived six; but ustrononu:rs to Only sueeded in determining the orbit of two. IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, JAN. 25. MURDER or MR. WILLIAMRoF.—The tollowing is the conclusion of the:evidence for the prosecution : The Hon. Mr. French examined by the ATTOR N GENEEAL—I am a resident magistrate of this county. 1 remember the dey Mr. Roe was shot. As soon as I heard of the matter I went to the spot, w Inch 1 reached about one o'clock. There was a large pool of blood on the road, opposite the plantation. I went inside the grove and saw branches of hawthorn, evi dently broken by shot. That was nine or ten yards from the place where the body lay. I examined the ditch, and observed the impression as if a person had been lying on it. A right line drawn from that spot would pass through the broken hedge, and along where the blood was. A man at that opening would see a person passing on the road. There is no gripe outside, but a growth of grass inside. The impres sion I observed was fresh, and close to it I observed a piece of paper [paper produced], which is in the same state as when I found it, only that it now bears my initials. There are four letters on the piece of paper, R. G. A. N.; and on the other aide are some figures, like a sum, with a line under, and an appa rent total of I Is. 3d. To the COURT—It might hare been a portion of au arithmetical proces s , b u t I canno t sa y that it is. I also found some wadding. Constable Halloran was here examined. lie de posed that he found a piece of paper he now pro duced under a bed in th e h ouse th e prisoner lived in. The latter piece of paper was handed to Mr. French, whose examination was . .then continued. He steed that the two pieces of paper originally formed one, and when they were put together it appeared that the total of lls.11:1. was made up of two sums of Gs. and ss. 3d. The two pieces of paper were then examined by the Court and jury. Examination continued—l pointed out the differ ent places at the scene of the murder to the surveyor, and also the house where the prisoner lived at the time. It was an outhouse belonging to his brother .James. On examining the field side of the planta tion, I found some broken branches of hawthorn. That was about seventy yards from the prisoner's house. I was handed the gun-cane carried by Mr. Roe on that day, and found it capped and loaded. There was what appeared to be the mark of a foot step on the grass in the field, as if a person leaped over the ditch, or from it. Cross-examined by Mr. ROLLESTON—A stone fall ing from the ditch would make the mark I allude to. There was grass on the headland. Con Loughnane was arrested along with others. It was the day after the murder the piece of paper was found in the pri soner's house. Head-constable Hallam deposed that be searched for the prisoner immediately after the murder in his own house and elsewhere, but could not find him for a considerable length of time. He was not arrested until the 2iith of December. GRAND FREE-TRADE DEMON- The girl, Mary Lonergan, the prisoner's niece, and who refused to answer when examinod in the early part of the day, was again produced. in reply to the Attorney-General, she stated that she heard the shot; saw the smoke in the plantatior, and saw the prisoner, her uncle, in a field near the place. She saw him coming up from the ditch. Ansr she saw him she went into her own house, and saw Judith Sullivan there. The prisoner's wife wai also there. The prisoner was walking at the time she saw him. He was coming from the ditch of the plantation. She could not tell how far he was from the ditch. He did not come into the house after that. Cross-examined by Mr. RoLLEsTort—l was taken by the police after the murder, and kept by them since. I did not hear that James Lonergan was charged with this offence. Since I left the table I was told by Mr. Cox, the police-officer, that if I did not come up and give my testimony I would he sent to gaol, and that only for him I would have been sent there before. STRATION AT MANCHESTER. CHIRP JUSTICE—Mr. Rolleston, there was an order made out for her committal. Mr. E. ARMITAGE, the Mayor of Manchester, pro posed the second toast without verbal comment. The toast, which was as follows, was drunk with enthu siasm :—" The free trade Members of both Houses of Parliament, success to them in their endeavours to complete the overthrow of all monopolies." The Right Hon. T. M. GIBSON, who was received with rapturous applause, then said—As one of the free trade Members alluded to in the toast which has been submitted to you by our worthy Mayor, I beg leave to return my warmest acknowledgments for the kind manner in which the toast was given, and f o r the cordial reception which it met with at your hands. And in expressing myself in these words, I feel that, on the part of my colleagues, the other free trade Members of the House of Commons, I am . but stating w hat they would say we re they addressing you, when I say that they feel deeply the kind manner in which this sentiment has be en received.—(Cheers.) I feel not altogether free from diffidence in attempt ing to address so imposing an asse mbla g e as is now gathered within this spacious hall. I ou g ht, perhaps, you would say, to feei something like_ the . old hunter when he hears again the sound . of the well-known o t w h n e horn, as this is not the first time . I have had honour of addressing a meeting" in , the,. how Free-trademany Hall, but I assure you, when I retie. t • -eflection there are here who from experience and .., , n _ have acquainted themselv e s th o r oug hly w ith th e ._ portant subjects we have met to discuss, I cannot help experiencing something like a feeling of embarras inent ; and for your kind indulgence, therefore, I am sure I shall not appeal in vain. —(Cheers.) I have felt it my duty to be amongst my constituents to-day upon this important occasion. I have felt it a duty paramount to all other considerations to be here, for though the Anti-Corn-law League is now dissolved, I can look back with pride and satisfaction to having been a member of that great and intelligent combi nation of men w hi c h b y the force of reason and in struction formed th a t powerful instrument, public opinion, with which th e Mi n i ster of the day was able to abolish that odious monopoly, the mono poly of corn.—(Loud cheers. I look back, I say, with pride and satisfaction to having been a member of that association, and to having aided, in whatever humble manner it was in my power to aid their efforts, and still more I glory that these efforts, have been crowned with success. Nevertheless, I can not but feel that at this moment I am addressing an assemblage in Manchester during a time of greatiepres sion of trade, during a time no doubt of great anxiety amongst many engaged in commercial pursuits, and at a time when a great struggle which has been going on has not yet disappeared.—(Cheers.) But my al lusion to that depression of trade is with the view of expressing my opinion that the free trade policy has had nothing to do with producing it—(Cheers) — that, on the contrary, it would have been much greater had not free trade measures been adopted. It is to b e hoped, th a t th oug h th e presen t momen t i s one in which confidence is much shaken in the commercial world, yet that there are at present cer tain elements en which we have a right to calculate in reference to future prosperity. If I am rightly in formed, the stocks of manufactured goods are mode rate, we have a low price of the raw materials of manufactures, and we have, I trust, a prospect of a moderate price of provisions. We have all those things before us, and with the restoration of confidence I think we are justified in looking forward to a restoration of prosperity.—(Cheers.) But let me ask those who visit the free trade policy with all this distress, to condescend to particularize and to point out the particular taxes which, had they been left unrepealed, would have prevented the misfortunes which surround us. Let them tell ns what duty on any article in the tariff would, had it been unremoved, have tended to mitigate the distress. Is it the duty on cotton ? Is it the duty on wool ? Is it the duty on glass ? Or, duriug the time of a famine, would it have been wise to have retained the duty on matters of subsistence ?—(Loud cheers.) Let us then know what are the duties which ought to have been retained, and which, had they been retained, would have prevented this commercial pressure. We are accused of having advocated a policy which has im paired the revenue. Impaired the revenue ! Can gen , tlemen who make that assertion have drawn a com parison between the income of the country now and its income before the free trade policy commenced, viz., 1842, taken in connexion with ;the alteration which has been made in taxation ? What are the facts ? The income of the country made up to the sth January, 1848, the last statement which has been submitted to the country, was something like 47,500,0001. The income similarly made up to the sth January, 1842, amounted to 44,300,0001. — (Cheers.) But what has been done with taxation in the meantime ? True, you put on an income-tax in 1842, amounting to 5,500,000/. ; but, on the other hand, you took off the Customs and Excise duties, amounting in all to upwards of 8,000,0001. You put on 5,000,000/. and took off 8,000,0001. of Customs and Excise, leaving a balance of reduction to the amount of 3,000,0001., and yet your revenue, as made up to the sth January, 18-18, is greater by 2,500,000/. than the revenue made up to the sth January, 1842. (Cheers.) There can't be anything very rotten in a policy which, by a reduction of duties has increased the revenue. And let it be remembered that that policy was commenced in 1842, after you had been trying the opposite policy of attempting to increase the revenue of the country by adding to the Customs and Excise. You had added five per cent. to the Custotns, and they did not yield by one-half the estimate that was submitted to Parliament. That experiment proved a total failure, and it was after that failure that the country fortunately adopted the experiment of resort ing to direct taxation, and of trusting to that source for its revenue, giving by the reduction of indirect taxation a further development to the industry and trade of the country.—(Cheers.) If we take the simple figures of the Excise and Customs by them selves, they also present a remarkable justification of the policy pursued by Sir Robert Peel ; for after a reduction of 8,000,0001., of which 7,000,000/. applied to the Customs duties alone, the whole of that revenue, with the exception of some 700,000/. or 800,0001. had been replaced by the country. There is another charge brought against free-traders in reference to imports and exports. 'We are told that our imports are worth more than our exports, and that is made a great charge against us. I reply to that, that if they are so much the better; it would be a strange thing if merchants were to export their produce to foreign lands, only to receive in imported produce goods of precisely the same value. Let us hope that there is something like gain in the exchange of commodities, and that if our imports have exceeded our exports, the country has been the gainer.— (Cheers.) But it is said that the balance between exports and import has been paid for in treasure, which has caused a drain on your bullion, and thus has interfered seriously with commercial interests. All I can say in answer to that is, that if the balance, as it is called, has been paid in bullion, it was because bullion at that time was the cheapest and fittest commodity to export, and that there was greater gain by exporting bullion than there would have been by attempting to export other commodities.— (Loud cheers.) But the old doctrine of balance of trade is not one to be re vived now. I had hoped, till I saw it mentioned in Blackwood and in the Quarterly Review, that it was dead and buried, never again to be restored to existence.---(Cheers.) I hope I may not be considered trespassing on your time in attempting, feebly I know, to defend the free-trade policy, which truly hardly needs a defence, but really we haver been so much abused by the organs of the Protec tionist party, and we have been told that we are such wretched prophets, and that we have held out so many expectations which have met with disappoint ment, that I cannot refrain from say ing a few words in defence of a policy of which I was, and am still, a hearty and cordial supporter.— (Great applause.) Talk of prophets—are we to forget the prophecies of the Protectionists, that all the fair lands of England were to be thrown out of cultivation, the finest estates reduced to rabbit warrens, or tenanted only by wild fowl and grouse ?—(A laugh.) Do you forget the alarming menace held out by a Noble Duke,. who said, " If the corn-laws were repealed he for one would leave his native land, for England would not be worth living in ?"—(Great .laughter.) But let u s congratu late ourselves that we still have that Noble Duke amongst us—that he has not yet left hi s nat i ve shores, and I hope he may long live m them, to render better service to his fellow-countrymen than he has hitherto done.—(Cheers and laughter.) I remember many such predictions. I have heard many within the walls of the House of Commons. I remember Mr. Hudson, the Member for Sunderland, saying, in February, 1846, that it w as not a question ' of rent; for it was his firm opinioa, that if rents were entirely abolished, the farmers of England would be unable to cultivate the soil un d er the new law, and that the soil must be abandoned altogether and left waste, be cause a remunerating price could not be obtained for the produce. I am glad Mr. Hudson proved not so sound a judge in those matters as he has shown him self in the conduct of railways. In railways he has no doubt proved himself a shrewd and able man, but as a prophet I think I may safely back the very worst prophet the Anti-Corn-law League ever produced against Mr. Hudson.—(Cheers.) The worst case, however, they say, which can b e b roug ht aga i ns t us , is the West India case ; for they tell us that we have brought ruin and disaster upon a great portion of our fellow-countrymen. I have heard with great sym pathy —every Englishman must hear with regret, that any portion ofhis fellow- countrymen on any part of the earth's surface are suffering deep distress ; but I must say it is no novelty to be told of the distress of the West India interest. It is not the first time we have heard it said that West India estates are not worth cultivating, and that they must be abandoned. In deed I doubt very much if we were to go carefully through Parliamentary documents and the memorial, ' 1 addreSzed to public offices, it' we should not flea statements quite as alarming as those recently made by the West India body. I do not deny the distress, Mr. ROLLESTON—Who was in the room with you since you left this ?—Mr. French and Mr. Cox. Was there any other gentleman there ?—There was, but I don't know him. MANCHESTER, JAN. 28.—A grand free-trade en tertainment, such as could scarcely be given in any other country in Europe, took place here yesterday, at the Free-trade Hall, in honour of the return to Parliament of such gentlemen as had been members of the National Anti-Corn-law League. In addition to the attraction offered by the presence of the men whose names we give below, a kind of after-dinner repast had been provided, and the price of admission was 3s. 6d. each person. The immense and commodious hall was crowded. Twelve tables, running the whole length of the hall, and at each of which sat 120 people, filled the body, whilst the gal leries, capable of containing about an equal number with the body, were also completely filled. On the whole, there could not have been less than 3,000 people present, and those all of the middle class. At seven o'clock the chair was taken amidst the most vehement applause by Mr. G. Wilson. Around him were many of the most distinguished free-traders of the country ; amongst whom we noticed Mr. Cob den, M.P., Mr. T. M. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. He nr y, M . P ., Co lonel Thomson, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M. P., Mr. Thomas Thornel3, M.P., Mr. J. Pilkington, Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Gardner, Mr G. Thompson, M.P., Mr. John Dixon, Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. John Wil liams, M.P., Mr. James Kershaw, M.P., Mr. C. Ilindley, M.P., Mr. R. A. Thicknesse, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. Matthew Wilson, and many others. When quiet was restored, _ _ And they told you that you would be sent to gaol unless you gave evidence ?—They did, Sir ; Mr. Cox said he saved me from the gaol. To the ATTORNEY..GENXRAL----My father was in Clonmel that day,, and did not come home until night, when the police were taking me away to Cahir. Eugene Moran, a police-constable, deposed that be arrested the prisoner on the morning of the 26th of December. He saw him running across the country, and pursued and arrested him. Witness had been looking for him several times before, and on the pre vious night in the same neighbourhood. When ar rested he said his name was John Lonergan, but witness was in plain clothes. Dr. Robt. Russell proved that the gunshot wounds were the cause of the death of Mr. Roe. There were eleven wounds on the body. The gun was loaded with swan drops, almost the whole of which passed through his body. One of them penetrated his heart, and one passed through his right lung. Death must have been instantaneous. The CIiAIRMAN said that, casting his eye over that vast assemblage, characterised by more than its usual precision of arrangement, the only source of regret to him was that the committee, in their excel lent judgment, had not selected some other person better qualified than himself to occupy the position which he occupied that evening. The chief object of that meeting, as most of them were aware, was to celebrate the return to Parliament of those gentlemen who belonged to that much-abused but nevertheless successful confederation—the Anti- Corn-law League.—(Cheers.) And he thought no one who reflected for one moment on the character and composition of that audience, would hesitate to say that it was an occasion not unworthy of them, as they were most worthy of it. In the first place, it was not merely a local meeting. They had gentlemen on the platform honourably known in their respective localities for the services they had rendered to their fellow-countrymen. It was not to do honour to one man but to a number of men—it was not to celebrate a victory obtained by one constituency but by many constituencies—it was not to record a triumph carried to a successful issue in some small pocket borough, but to record results which were—patent to the people of England for successes unexampled in the history of all former elections. But remarkable as had been the victories, more remarkable still had been the selection of the candidates. They had been told that it was contrary to all former custom and usage, that all the regulations of elections had been set at defiance in the selection of the men who had been returned to Parliament to represent some of the chief counties. It had been said that they had selectetl men whose great grandfathers had never been heard of.—(A laugh.) That might be true. Very possibly the men who had been so honoured by their country men were not high in title nor great in birth. It was very likely they were not connected with those fami lies from whom candidates were usually selected ; but it was a poor compensation for a constituency to find that the only right its Member had to represent them was founded on his alliance with some great family in the county. It was a poor compensation to reflect that their Members were related to my Lord Turnip tops, or my Lord Mangold-Wurtzel, who had repre sented them for many generations.—(Cheers.) The men of whom he now spoke had stood upon their ow•n merits, upon their own titles and qualifica tions, and those titles and qualifications had been such that the highest aristocracy in the land had fled before them when they appeared.— (Cheers.) Some had been chosen, like the lion. Members for Salford and Wolverhampton, on account of their long and faithful services to the people. Others had been selected because they were the head of the highest mercantile and manufacturing establishments of this kingdom. Others, like the Hon. Members for Man chester, for Oldham, and for the Tower Hamlets, whose eloquence had passed like a talisman throughout the whole of England, or who had incorporated their opinions with the literature of this country, and had taught to an admiring nation the sublimest truths of political science. —(Cheers.) Those were their great political leaders in Parliament who had exposed the subject even before the Anti-Corn-law League was established, and had proved in the teeth of hostile majorities the soundness of their opinions at a time when little respect was paid to them. And last, though not least, there was one there that evening who, since he had last addressed them in that hall, had been received as the accredited and acknowledged ambassador of free trade and peace in every city on the Continent. —(Tremendous cheering.) Taking them one and all, and all in all, nothing extenuating nor setting down aught in malice, he did not believe, in the his tory of public meetings, that the eye ever rested upon a number of men possessing public confidence to the extent possessed by the gentlemen around him.— (Loud cheers.) It was not to be expected that a meeting like the present, with some 3,000 persons present, and every pulsation of which must be felt throughout the land, should pass off without some allusion to the success of those principles which had recently been carried into practice in this country, and though no doubt some of the speakers to follow him would much better discuss the subject than he could do, yet he trusted they would permit him to congra tulate them on the improved tone of their opponents during the last election. The principles which had been expounded in that hall were generally admitted by every man who presented himself for re-election. The success of Sir R. Peel'sfree-trade tariff was admitted by almost every one except the most extreme monopolists, whose small notes were scarcely reported in the public papers.—(licar.) The success of the free trade tariff of America had been equal to that of Sir R. Peel's in this country ; and how rapidly public opinion in this country operated upon the intelligent and enlightened classes on the Continent might he gathered from the reception which Mr. Cobden had met with abroad. — (Cheers.) It certainly did appear that their old friends the Protectionists had entirely left the field—No. 17, Old Bond-street, was deserted, and not the boldest amongst them would presume at this moment, or had presumed since the last election, to propose at any small gathering of farmers the re-enactment of the corn-law after its expiration in 1849.—(Cheers.) He did not think that they would venture to fight Lord J. Russell if he were to do that which, as Prime Mi nister, he ought to do, and suspend it until the time for its expiring came in 1849. They intended to make a fight up en the navigation. laws, but with a long pull, a strong pull, .and a pull altogether, the navigation laws must go overboard as the corn-law had gone before them. They would fight, also, a desperate action on behalf of the West Indian interest; but he had no doubt his friends would be ready for them on that question, and that the West Indian interests would share the fate of the Protectionists in corn. When the Protectionists failed of success, however, they in variably attempted to invent some great public swindle, in order to obtain an equivalent for what they had lost, and the time when public spirit was inert had invariably been selected for the infliction of grievous injuries upon the country. It was for them to be on the watch, to meet together frequently, to join with their representatives, and to give them their cordial support, in the full assurance that, united together by common sympathies and common in terests, there was no power existing in this country which could long resist the effect of such a public opinion as they would create.—(Cheers.) There was one particular connected with the last election which to him was the most satisfactory of the whole, and that was, that there had been a greater importation into Parliament than had ever before been the case of men connected with commerce and commercial interests.—(Cheers.) Hitherto they had had agricultural Governments, and aristocratic Go ♦ernments, legislating for commercial people. They had now a great number of representatives connected with commerce, who had no interests to serve lout such as were connected with the interests of the whole population of this country, and he must say he looked with great faith and reliance to those men. —(Cheers.) The present new project of a large ex penditure to increase the military safety of the country would meet, he doubted not, with a similar fate to that which had befallen the corn-law ; for he felt deafly in his own mind that every honest free trader who knew his principles would be found voting in Parliament against the advance of one single sixpence for increasing the defences of the country. — (Loud cheers.) But whether or not he placed his reliance upon public opinion—it was . from that that his friends around him first received their commissions to go through the length and breadth of the land propagating their opinions—it was that which made them meet there from week to week to receive the popular sanction and support, and it was that which had finally gained for them the triumph which had led to the dissolution of the League. A long time had elapsed since such a meet ing had assembled, and there was a party no doubt who thought that they might trifle with the people, but they forgot the power of that puissant organize r Lion which took the mace of the giant, hurled them from their counties, and placed in their stead the true representatives of popular principles, the tried cham pions of liberty and truth.—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. Geotleineri concluded by giving thb. fist toast --" The Quevii—may her reign be long, peaceful, prosperous, and happy," upstanding, uncovered, with three times three. The cue for the prosecution closed here, about half-past seven o'clock. The CHIEF JUSTICE said, as it was not likely that the case could be satisfactorily concluded that evening, and as the prisoner's counsel might wish for time to consider the evidence for the prosecution, it would be better to adjourn till next morning. The Court then adjourned. The jury weed not allowed to separate, but were accommodated with dinner and beds in the grand jury room. JArc. 26. The Chief Justice took his seat on the bench this morning at ten o'clock. The Chief Baron did not sit to-day, owing to illness. The trial of John Lonergan for the murder of Mr. pri soner was placed at the bar, and, as on the previous day, exhibited much self-possession, and seemed to deal of attention to the proceedings. was then proceeded with. The p ' * y l i l ar i a. good oo R dL o L e E STON addressed the jury for the defence. The SOLICITOE-GENERAL replied; and The CHIEF JUSTICE having charged the jury, they retired for about an hour„ and fou • d found the prisoner Guilty * of the murder. The prisoner was then removed. lie heard the announcement of the verdict with a considerable de. gree of firmness. MALICIOUS ASSAULT.---Patrich illullarzpy, Patrick El/ard, Denis Brien, George Hewit, and Patrick Ilichey, all young men, were indicted for having on the 26th of September, at Knockadeern, assaulted Edward and Judith Mullanpy, doing them grievous b o dily harm ; the prisoners were also charged with having injured the property of the prosecutor. The indictment was under the Whiteboy Act. Edward Mullanpy deposed that on the night in question, whilst himself and his wife were in a hut, watching a field of turnips, seven men came to it, and one of them, who was armed with a pistol, knocked him down. His wife and daughter were next knocked down, and whilst he was on the ground, one of the and wounded hi m in the leg ; th e witness identified all t h e pr i soners but Br i en, tovva " s take that f o r w h a t hap pened yesterday.' as p h hnu a o r dt party y. saidandA fired tfthtoelaardtt beating i mi m , a d him the man who fired the they pulled d o wn the One of the prisoners was his nephew. The circumstance alluded to by the party was, that on the previous day he pointed out his bro ther's goods to a bailiff, who s e i ze d th em un d er a decree. He went security with hi s b rot h er f or mea l , but witness had before that n i g h t pa id hi s port i on of the debt. The party called eac h other b y the num berg 1,2, 3, &c., and threw fire on one part of his oats, and water on another. The prosecutor's wife and daughter were examined to corroborate his testimony. Dr. Edward Kitson described the woun d on t h e prosecutor's leg, and said it co u ld not have been in flicted by a gun or pistol shot, His wife had three severe wounds on the head. Mr. ROLLESTON addressed the jury for the defence, but examined no witnesses. The prisoners were foun d Guilty, an d sentenced to be transported for seven years. Upon this sentence being pronounced, loud cries were uttered by the pri , soners' friends. Some per sons in Court said " God y ex ! " - be with you boys ;" and a girl who Wept bi tter l claimed, "Oh, my one only b rot her, am I to lose him The sentence of transportation in this case seemed to have come by surprise upon many in court, as well as upon the prisoners and their friend s . At six o'clock the Court adjourned till ten o'clock next morning. ANL—RES UMPTION NORTH Al D SOUTH WALES B OF BusINESS.—We have the pleasure of announcing that the directors have just concluded satisfactory arrange ments for a general resumption at the various branches, and that at a meeting of the directors, held yesterday, it was resolved to commence business forthwith. This will Ise read with great satisfaction, not only by persons in this town, but by the residents in the principality, where the general feeling is favour of the bank has been that of sympathy and suppor t. We are informed that the directors and manager have displ a y e d great energy and prudence under the trying circumstan ces i n w hi c h they have been placed, and that they richly deserve the best thanks of the depo..itors and shareholders.—Liver pool Mercury. The Ambassadors of Great Britain and B e l g i um, and the Minister of the King of Wirtemberg, pre.,, n t e d to King Louis Philippe, on Wednesday, the replies of their respective Sovereigns to the notification of the death of Princess Adelaide. DEATH or SIR GEORGE MOLYNEAUX, BA RT .—W e have to record the demise of Sir George Hart., of Castle Dillon, county of Antrim, at thy early age of 35. He succeeded to the title 'eh the demise of his father, in 1,841. The family is a branch of the Seltons of Molyneaust. but what I protest against is the remedy th at i s aske(A.- —(Cheers.) We are asked to give t o fl u • West Indian 'dy a protection duty of 10/. p e r t on up ta all the color '1 sugar imported into this country. et is the modest . request that is made to the r e p re sla k e * . tives of the people of this country-101. t ton, amounting to ~ ipwards of 2,000,000/. of taxatio n, to be upon the people of this cot mtry, imposed annei, and that not for the purposes of the St a t e , no t to b e B :reat body o f th e cons) lining' paid into the coffers. of the Exche quer , b u t t o b e pockets of the Wes's I n its transferred from the' no doubt it is vet .y easy classes of England into elm s wh y Lot grant this prot ec ti on proprietors. Now I haves for persons to say, won't be felt by the to the West Indian body, it will make very littl e addition to the price of sugar, it consumer, and you will prevent , 13 e ruin of many respectable families, and, perhaps, ins 'lre t7de restore,• tion to prosperity of many West Indi,en mercantile houses." Well, if I were asked to give ne) • own pro perty for that relief, I might say, " \Tee v we:l, I have no objection to grant you from my 0\ wn funds the amount which you ask, and I only hope it may relieve you from your distress." But that is not the position of a Member of Parliament. He is met deal. ing with his own funds.—(Loud cheers.) Ho is trustee for the people, and he is bound to act upon strict principles of justice between all classes of the people.—(Cheers.) But can a more obvious or clear right—a more inalienable title to anything be est*. te , d than that which the labouring man hies to -rd of his labour ? I never can under, tend the r ang one evve_ has a better claim to that man's that o i w t,. l lDl . l a l g at es whi ch m t as h e t . man . t himself—(Loud cheers)—and wages than the until a better title cat: o t e o show n his W.eshlndie labouring man sno of distress, in and upon that show my decline, merely at the request of the : proprietors, capacity of trustee, to transfer any p ortion of the poor man's earnings to the pockets of the W est I n die proprietors. Mr. COBDEN, rising with great animation. Three cheers for the sentiment.—(The cheers were given with hearty good will.) Mr. M. GIBSON continued : When the Sugar Duties Bill passed through Parliament all the f sotat were before the Legislature which are before them now—everything was taken into consideration, and after a mature discussion if the question, the sugar duties were placed on a permanent footin, g'• The measure of 15;48 has conferred a great benefit on the country—it has, as the free-traders pledged them selves it would do, added materially to the revenue of the State, and at he same time increased the quantity of sugar to the consumer and reduced the price...me (Cheers). I have some statistics upon this point which I should wish you to bear in your mind. For the twelvemonths ending Ateesnet, 1845 (the year preceding that in which the present Bill was passed), the revenue derived from sugar amounted to 3,339,1821. For the twelve months ending August, 1847, being the first year of our Susser Bill— the Free-trade Sugar Bill—the revenue from sugar amounted to 4,652,4021., showing an increase of 1,313,0001. gained to the revenue, accompanied, as I said before, with less taxation to the consu mer, an d an increased quantity of sugar brought at a low e r price within the reaca of all classes of her Majesty's subjects.—(Loud cheers:) lam prepared, therefore, to stand by the Bill of 1846,----(Hear, hear.) I think it is a good measure—l think it answered the pur pose for which it was intended—l think it a just IBM.. sure—l think it cis a well-considered measure, and I think the country will never regret that it was passed into a law.—(Applettee.) But after all, has nothing been ever done tot' OA' West Indian body Do we forget that when slaVonty was abolished the people of England paid them in co mpensation the SUM of 17,000,0001. out of 20,000,0004 7 e which at 4 per cent. adds to the taxation of the co untry something like 680,0001. a year ? You are noew paying out of the taxation of this country for the ealencipation of the slaves no less a sum than 680,0001. per annum to the West India body. Is that nothing ? But we are told that they did not get the 17 1 .0 , 00 4, that they were in debt, that their estates were heertgeged, at d that their merchants and brokers got posseiesision of t- But you did not pay it any the less lot' that. --- (Cheers.) The 680,000/. still remains a charge n the tax-payers of this country, and t he y can .t 11 anything to do with the previous arrangements, whe ther wise or unwise, which existed between the W 'at India proprietors and their merchants and brokers: (Cheers.) The money was paid, and, as I always understood, that closed the account, and it can no mere be re-opened. The question of slavery is settled, send let it lee remembered that the abolition of slavery watt not a law merely applying to the proprietors of esta' es in the West Indies. It was applied to all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and at the present moment I have no doubt that in many other of her Majesty's dominions—say at the Cape of Good Mope or in Australia—the proprietors, if they were allowed to employ slaves, might be enabled to make a good deal of land profitable which now returns them nothing. I was talking myself to a gentleman who has lately pur chased property in the Cape of Good Hope, and he said, " %VI - 1y you seem to talk as if no one was de prived of any advantage by the abolition of slavery but the owners of slaves in the West Indies ;" and he added, that if he might purchase slaves, much of the land which now yielded hire nothing might be made profitable. So they are not the only parties Who caa claim to have been deprived of an advantage, if there possibly can be any advantage, . either present or r , a 7 mote, resulting from such a system.— -(Cheers). I my part, I hope to see slavery abolished in e re 7 l part of the world, and I believe, leaving free e ah kir compete without protection openly in ihe Vert , ;' g markets with slave labour, that the day - will ex' e when it shall be proved that free labour is more -pro fitable than slave labour, and when men's interests will induce them to abandon for ever the horrible traffic in human flesh.—(Loud cheers). We have had so many proofs lately from the successful operation in other countries, as well as Engler: 1, of the effect of reducing duties, and giving a fre , r scope to industry and trade, that I will not dwell longer on that branch of the subject - but there is of remarkable case in connexion w ith the trade of EnE - land, to which I can't help calling a momentary attet tion—l allude to the trade with France. Now smel as that trade absolutely is in amount, there is no tra' a which has relatively shown a more rapid increase.- - (Cheers.) The declared value of our exports France has amounted, within a very short period, something like 3,000,000/., and now amounts, f believe, to 2,700,0001., whilst in 1815 they amounts-I to not more than 300,000/. But of that great iii• crease, be it remembered that the greater portion of it has taken place within a comparatively recent period, and it has taken place almost entirely in con sequence of the relaxation on our part, without an y reciprocity on the part of France. I mention this tecause it affords a strong argument against what a called the " reciprocity system," showing as it do a that you have increased materially your trade with France, by acting for yourselves, and reducing the duties on your imports, even though France has re t reciprocated and materially reduced the duties on imports into that country.—(Cheers.) But I men tion this trade with France also, to show you that-, after all, the exports to France are as great as the exports to the British Wrest Indies, so that those dreadful Frenchmen, whom we are told to regard es our natural enemies, are as good customers of out as the protected and much-cherished Wtst Indio proprietors.—(Hear, hear.) France takes of your exports 2,700,000/. The West Indians take 2,300,000/., and, more than that, want you to give them a protective duty on their sugar equal amount to the value of all the experts you send tee the West Indies. lam not over-stating these things —I am mentioning merely those facts which parlia mentary documents place before us, and I ask you. now whether we can reflect upon this gradual increase of commercial intercourse with France, without, at the same time, feeling that it must have a weight upon the ties of friendship and of interest, which it would be more difficult to break than if the trade with France were only what it used to be in 1815—something like 300,0001. a year.—(Cheers.) I think my excellent friend Colonel Thompson woul.l tell you that the two countries, with a trade of that sort subsisting between them, were less in a fighting condition than if there were no larger trade than 300,0001. a year. I, for one, believe from my con science—though I dare say diplomacy may have done much in the world—l believe from my conscience, and I state it unhesitatingly here in this public as - sembly, that the most potent of all human agency t,) prevent war and maintain peace is the extension cat commercial interests.—(General applause.) Bin, notwithstanding that growing trade, notwithstandinse that increased intercourse with trance, we were tol 1 in the south—and recollect that letter came front Lancashire, from a great man in that district—that we were frightened out of our propriety by a lettec from the north, telling us that we might expect aft invasion by the French people—that the Frencit people were actuated by feelings which I will not mention towards the natives of this country, and the we were lulling ourselves into a false security if we did not prepare an adequate force to reps t that meditated invasion. Idu not mean to say—foY. 1 should not be honest if I did say, and it has al ways been my habit in Manchester candidly In fairly to state my opinions —I do not mean to say that you can dispense with the use of an armarnere. I do not say, and I do not believe my excellee friend, Mr. Cobden, ever said that you are to abolish all your military and naval preparations—there an. those who would, bUt I do not believe Mr. Cobden has proposed that. We are all agreed, however that it would he the greatest improvement the world ever saw, if by international communication armee merits could be abolished altogether.--(Cheers.) Now we have averaged something like 16,000,0001. a year since 1815. for the maintenance of defences, and I believe, therefore, we always have had ade quate means of defence, and as far as I am capable of judging, no case has been made out which should I