The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-08 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION not bestowed these advantages in order that one class Might live in magnificence and splendour and the great bulk of the population starved. It was never intended that machines which gave a productive poWer to this country equal to that of the population of the whole world, should cause men to work twelve and fourteen hours a day at machines that never tired, for paltry wages, which, when they had obtained, they were not allowed to spend where they could get most in exhange.—(Hear, hear.) But the agricultural districts were in no very prosperous condition. In Wiltshire, at the present moment, one man out of • every seven was a pauper, and in all the agricultural counties the Pauperism was double what it was in this district. Surely this ought to be enough to convince even the Duke of Buckingham of the impolicy of the Corn.laws. The other day he (the speaker) said toe gentleman of Sussex, when speaking on this subject, the Scotch never applied for a Corn-law, and they say tnat they can live very well if they get 40s. or 50s. a quarter for the wheat. "Oh," said the gentleman," we cannot do that in Sussex, we should have to improve our agriculture wonderfully." And why should they not improve their agriculture as much as the Scotch had done The farmers of England had this advantage, that they were able to buy all the things not produced on their own farms at the cheapest market in the world, and sold their produce at the highest rate of any other country on the face of the earth. The rent of land here was also higher than in any other country, and this could be attributed to nothing else than the manufacturing and commercial prosperity of Great Britain. One thing was certain, that ilmanufacturesavere destroyed, and undoubt edly they would; be if this tax en bread was continued, the prin ciple of the old and new Poor-law, that the poor have the first right to the soil, must be adhered to; and if paupers become so numerous that they would swallow up all the produce of the soil o f a given parish, they must take it, and the landlord would have no r ent. This result had already been wiinessed at one place in Bu ckinghamshire, where the landlord had refused to own the soil, saying, " No, no, don't tax me with the rates." He was sure, however, that the present system could not continue. Neverthe. less, if it did continue for another fifty years, and the population went on increasing, as it had done during the last fifty years, every • green thing in the land would be eaten up by paupers, and not a single estate would be worth sixpence of rent to any man who might call himself the possessor.--(Hear, hear, hear ) Solemnly convinced as he was of these .kings, the meeting • need not wonder that he should feel deeply interested its this ques tion. But should not Liverpool feel deeply interested in it as well as Manchester. Should the latter town alone bear the burden of the contest, raise its thousands at a time in support of the opera. tions of the league, and alone produce men who subscribed their 100/. and 2001. a year to spread information ? In wealth this town was equal to Manchester—for enterprise it was not surpassed —its lame was known in every part of the globe—and was it right that such a town should stand by while a contest was going on in which . it as well as every ether . part of the empire, was vitally affected? • Why, if he were an inhabitant of Liverpool, he should be ashamed of its — (Applause.) Rochdale contained at the last census a po. pulation of 25,000 persons, and there was in the neighbourhood also a considerable population. There in a few days a petition , against the Corn.laws received 12,200 signatures. He believed that , not a single man within the sound of the old Church bells neglected to sign it. If Liverpool, Hull, Birmingham, and other large towns had made one half the stir that Manchester had done, the Corn.laws would have been repealed long ago. They ought to get every man to speak, and every clergyman to preach on this all ab sorbing question. There was hardly a party in the House of Lords or Commons, barely, indeed, a single individual that would stand up for the present law. An alteration must be made, and it depended much upon this town, which had great influence, whether the duty, which Ministers proposed, was merely a registration duty or not. If it were, then the League would die a happy death, but .if not, it would continue, and the meeting had heard sufficient of it dlrringt he last three years to know that it contained men who had courage enough to proceed, and intelligence enough to disdain and thwart all sophistry.—(Very loud and Imig-continued cheers.) JOHN BROOKS, Esq., late Boroughreeve of Manchester, next ' Stepped forward, and was much applauded. He addressed the meeting in a homely but very very argumentative style, on the evils of the present Corn.law, and particularly addressed himself to the .following effect, that the repeal of that law would be detrimental to the working classes and cause a reduction in the amount of their earnings. His observations occasionally exhibited • /Math humour as well as force, and excited mingled laughter and • ?MIMIC. RICKARD COBDEN, Esq., was then introduced by the Chair. Man, who spoke of his literary talents, his great and continued exertions for the abolition of the Corn laws, and of the vigour and ability which Ire had manifested as a member of the Anti. Corn.law League. The Speaker on presenting himself was most raptuously received. After a few words of introduction, he proceeded to say, that after so much had been said, and well said on this subject, it would be quite unnecessary for him to Walt at any length. There was a word ortwo, however,to besaid,and by way of being systematic, he would begin atthe beginning. This Corn-Jaw, this bread-tax, which he hoped they had met to pass judgment against was, he most of the meeting were aware, passed as the year 1815, and he would tell them under what circumstances. England had been engaged for twenty years in war; some called it a glorious war, but he himse f was not fond of such glory. By that war the prices of all sorts of commodities were stimulated to an artificial extent. There was a perfect fever. As soon as peace came a great depreciation tack place in all kinds of goods. Men of business, those, for ins ance, engaged in the cotton trade, imagined In 1817 and 1818 that peace was going to bring great prices, but a Sudden collapse took place, and to their amazement down went the prices of all kinds of gr'ods. Many merchants and wholesale ma. nufacturers were ruined by this depreciation. Others struggled on, and by dint of increased exertions, diminished expenditure, improved machinery, and economising in every possible way, succeeded in adapting themselves to the circumstances .of the times. They did not appeal to Parliament to keep em their prices, and if they had, very little attention would arrive been paid to them by the 658 sworn landowners, Who ;„ were at that time busy in keeping up the prices of their manufacture, corn, to the price it was during the war. That was the origin of the law, and the nature of it was well un derstood by the millions at the time, for it was passed at the point of the bayonet, and amidst such tumults, riots, and bloodshed as had not been witnessed since the House of Commons was sur rounded by a dense body, infuriated against the Bill, and the I.l.oUse, contrary to the Constitution, was surrounded by armed soldiers, to keep off the people whilst the law was ! eing passed. For three days and three nights London was one scene of riot ; the house of the mover of the Corn-law, Mr. Robinson, now le rd Riponewas gutted ; so also was that of Lord Eldon and of others. In the Noah of England there was an universal ris ing against the measure two millions of persons, he believed, against it ; and the people surrounded the House of Lords to protest against it Was not that a protest loud and deep enough to warn the landowners that they Were infringing upon the sights of the people, to how that in the opinion of the people the law was an unnatural and unjust one, and had been passed in fraud and in violence ? Though he was just old enough to remember these scenes, he was not then old enough to raise either his hand or Isis voice against the passing of the measure; but he had never lost sight of the impression which was then made upon his mind of tho injustice of that law ; and molten he arrived at the years of citizenship, he never allowed an Opt sortuality to pass of protesting against it. Two or three years ago he was one of the first, though not the first, as had been stated by the Chairman, to join a chosen hand in Manchester in a movement age inst it, to disseminate information, and to raise an agi. tati on throughout the country in opposition to the law. He corn. Ineseced with furious tir .des against the authors of the law, and many of leis friends would recollect that he shocked them with the strong language which he employed both against authors and benefitters. His _language bed now become cooler, because in 25 years there had ;grown up a generation habituated to this law. They did not feel its injustice because they were not at its birth. The conse quent e was that he had found to his astonishment that Englishmen Thema elves had to be converted before they could begin with any 'how ,of fairness to attack the aristocracy. Two years and a half ago, a large majority of the spinners, manufacturers, and other capitalis 's in Lancashire would, if appealed to, have voted for the law as it sands. This was not so now, and he doubted whether one capitaliat could be found to vote for it. How had the con version beae effected? Not by the humble advocacy of the members of ahe Anti Corn.law League. There had been ut work a much harder, a much more efficient agent, adversity had held her school every slay in the week on the Exchange, and taught the capitalists, that this was a law which grinds them to dust, and inflicted pauperism on those dependent on them for la bour. But they had found another and snore lamentable feature its the course of their agitation; they had discovered that the Younger men had grown up almost unconscious of the operations of this law. The old working men were well aware of its effects on them, but the young men, the active spirits of the day, did not pos sess: that knowledge, and they had raised a cry, " You wain' to get rid of the bread-tax to reduce wages," He asked them, " flas the law - served to keep up your wages ?" and they replied, No, they are reduced constatr ly." " Very well then," he asked, " of Iv bat use is th e l aw to you ? In this dilemma they re. torted to declamations against machinery, and he would aslt them whether machinery would not be a very good thing if iis produce were fairly divided ? The reply would be yes. And lam is it, Ire went on to say, that you do not get a fair share of its Pet elueing? Because you are not allowed to exchange your pro. dut ee for tile food of other countries, which would be glad to teem abu edance into your lap. Machinery eats nothing and drinks no thing; and would you not he more able to compete with it if you got yen r bread at half the price you now pay ? These ignorant erro rs .ef the people it was the intention of the Anti-Corn-law League so do away with. Mr. Brooks had glanced at the high Psi ce bread as affecting wages. He (the speaker's) own trade *meld ar. 'era as good an illustration as any other. lie was a cabers psi,. 'Cr, employed 500 or 600 people regularly, and had paid 20, 00001, a '.year for wages for many years. The scale of wasees had b. en the same fur the last ten years. How did he s how the eft 'set of the high price of corn on wages ? In 1835 he I aid 20,000/. to his workmen, and the same sum in 1839. In the 1 rat year the food that the men were obliged to consume colts torn 6,0001. to 5,000/. m-re than in 1835. Where went the differottice ? The Arlene amount of food roust be obtained, and less would consequently be expendod on manufactured articles. It was a mist.. Se to suppose that the higher classes supported the menu. facture, elf this country. They were supported by '20,000,000 of people a acti if they were obliged to pay for their food nearly twice ass anuoh in 1839 as in 1835, was it not clear that they must have so entreat less to expend with the draper, the hatter, the shoe- Maker, mad so ,sn ?—(Cheers). The consequence had been, that from the rise in the' price of food i n 1839 , trade had been much aliminished. He ,had fortunately been able to find employ for his Men for the last ten,' years, but many manufacturers of the coarser kinds of goods had n . of been able to find the workmen half labour. Where could the fall. scy ever have been bred—where in the world could such an insane no. 'lon have originated, or that the workmen could be in any way benelitted, protected, or relieved, by having a tax placed on his bread ? Of all conceivable follies or fancies this was the last that he shoual have expected to take root in the minds 4.)f working men of common sense. To those who were still in clined to place faith in the t fallacy lie would say, " Go down to Yonr own quays on any day between this and September—look at the ships conveying away hundreds of emigrants from your shores— itiok upon the scores of Tamil, es transported to other lands in order to .get bread to eat, and their you will see a specimen of tine protection ht it is afforded to you.—(Cheers.) His friends had said a good den I about the distress of the manufacturing districts, and had tal iced to the meeting as though they were residents of a kind of El) 'sium, where serest pigs ran about the streets, where no want was experienced, and where people lived in palaces. Now it was a fz ct which appalled some of the gentlemen of the meeting of the Brit soh Association in this town, th at 50,000 people were living in cella rs in Liverpool. Oh ! this is • ery deplorable, said the Cone mitts e of the House of Commons, wt, en the fact was made known to the m, and forthwith sur representatives proceeded to pass laws proved 'sag that the people should have better houses, that towns ' shoo Id b a batter drained and cleaned, and that proper sewers should be ms tde. Now how w ere those 50 , 000 emp l oyed ?—(Hear, hear.) They wee, principally, aro doubt, carters, porters, and others worm ng at t `le docks. What did the breach tax do for them ? It att a penny 0, t every pound of flour tisey bought. Take the prise Nose York a. id at Liverpool: at New York the ballet of flour of 19 61bs might be . had for 18s, or 195., and might be sold here for 2 25.—( A cry of . 64 20 a") He would not exaggerate, and would say 225 • but when it arrived h ere it had to he locked up in what ; was call rod the Queen 's ware houses, which would be better deno. Wanated the werehoue es of the landed aristocracy. It was put under th e Q ueen ' s k ey, ,which would b e better styled the Duke of B ucking ham's k e y , arid a iuld net b e t aken out of the Duke of Buckin gharn's purgatory tie til it had paid a duty of 14s. or 15s. a S. mposing this sy stem were done away hush el.—(Sname, sh ame .) With, what a forlorn and des elate creature the poor man would be ! In every shilling that` he now expended in food he might save fourpence at the least; and what harm would that do to the working men ?—(liear' hear.) But they were told that t lie merchants would make a monopo'y. Did they think that Sir, Sanders and Sir Joshua Walassley would lay their heads to. gether to starve the peopl e ? That was very unlikely, The bar. rel of flour might be , obtained ft am their warehouse at little more than one half, list say two-thirds, or th e price that was now paid, and what effect would this have The increased importation Would demand more ships the arra val of more ships would make swore hampers, perterse and carters n ecessary—more shops welsh' be tee:attired for vending the additional rsuantity of flour, more shop. keefasts and shopmen would be neessasery, and was not this the way THE SUN, LONDO SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1841. to increase the prosperty of the town ? But if this were allowed, then the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Richmond would be obliged to sell their flour at the same price as Sir Joshua, and that was the real grievance. To talk, however, of the working man being protected, or benefitted by this law, was preposterous. The rate of relief of the New Poor-law was the whole amount of protec tion that he would get. While from fifty to e ighty thousand per sons were yearly expatriated, torn from their relatives, and from all that they had been accustmed to look upon as dear, never let him hear of the working man receiving any protection from the bread tax. Why did those poor emigrants bear themselves from this country ? Was it to find cheap clothing ? or to go in search of habi tations ? Why, there were 20,000 empty houses within a nide or two of the Exchange of Manchester, and in many of those that were inhabited, two or three families were driven by poverty to live together. Was it then to find better cloth, better iron im plements, or better utensils of any kind to number to their demestic comforts that Englishmen in thousands left their native shore? No. wherever they went they took these things from England. They went away to other lands to obtain the very bread which was de nied to them here under the plea of protecting them, and the last sight they may behold on leaving their native shores may be those towering warehouses called the Queen's, in which are deposited hundreds of thousands of barrels of American flour, which was de nied to them in the place of their birth, and which they were obliged to go 3,000 miles to cat.—(Loud cheers.) The quantity of American flour which now came to Liverpool was no criterion of what it might be if trade were free. He never talked of foreign competition—whenever he talked upon this subject, it was of our inherent right, as free men, to exchange the productions of our lrbonr for the food grown in every part of the world, and if this right were conceded, abundance might be found without complaining of foreign competition. Three-fourths of the earth were at present lying fallow, or were very thinly populated, and some people were living in the midst of superabundance of that which we wanted. They would exchange that superabundance with us for our manufactures. They would exchange with the Germans too. Why let them. The storehouse of the world lay open, and there was enough for all.—(Much cheering.) There was a country with which England was most intimately connected, and it produced by slave labour cotton, tobacco, and rice. These were the only articles of any magnitnde which we were allowed to take from the United States. There were two millions and a half of slaves in America toiling, he was sorry to say, for this country ; but there were twelve millions and a half of free men in the splendid prairies, who pastured cattle and raised corn, and with these we were forbidden to treat (Hear, hear.) Mark the hypocrisy of those men who forced us to treat for slave.raised produce alone with the United States, and who yet at public meetings pre. tended to have so great an anxiety that we should not treat with the Brazils fur slave-raised sugar.—(Much laughter, followed by very great applause.) But this was not all, England compelled the great communities of free men to purchase their commodities through the slaves. The free State of Ohio could not receive our goods unless through the slave states, and they were consequensly compelled to minister to slaves as much as we are. Now, what was the prospect which opened up to Liverpool as well as Manchester if the Corn-laws were repealed ? Why, the trade we might do with the I welve and a half millions of freemen, speaking our own language and having our own sympathies, was infinitely greater than that we now had with the stave states. Would not this, he asked the meeting, minister to their prosperity ? Would not it be advantageous to them, if twice as many ships came hither freighted with flour as there came ships from New Orleans? There were boundless praries in the United States, on which suc cessive crops of corn might be raised almost without labour. There was the State of Illinois itself, and he had been told by an intelli gent American in Birmingham, that that single State was capable of producing as much wheat as would give to every man in the United States, England, Fiance, and Germany 31bs. of bread every day; and that State was as accessible to us as the counties of Sus sex and Devon, and only comprised one-thirtieth part of the sur face of the United States. We need not talk of the danger of Arne. rica not taking our goods in return. The fact was, that they did take our goods ; and the only complaint that he had ever heard of was that they had a habit of taking more that they could eonve. niently pay for. It was not with them as with the ports in the Bal. tic. Was there a man with the spirit of a Christian, who would not rise up and protest against this mighty grievance ? He knew that they should have to encounter difficulties and ob jections, and this reminded him that one of the great lights of this town, one of the Nestors of commerce, Mr. John Glad stone, had said that we could not send out goods for corn, and that therefore there would be a drain for bullion if corn were imported. He the (speaker) had never heard this argument em ployed to restrain the importation by the aristocracy of one arti. cle that ministered to their luxury or convenience. In the course of his travels he had inquired wherever he went whither the best of the productions of the place went. Lately, for in stance, he took a trip up the Mediterranean, stopping by the way at Lisbon. At Oporto there were immense cellars of wines, and on inquiry he found that all the tine brands were going to Eng land. Malaga produced fine raisins and plums, and when he asked where the best were going to the answer was all to England. A little further on he encountered a specimen of the ingenious partiality of our law-makers. At Genoa there is manufactured of fine flour an artic'e called maccaroni, which came hither to mako soup, and was packed up in very delicate boxes and ha was told on inquiry that the finest are sent to England. Thus the aristocracy bad no objection to the importation of flour when it came in the shape of an article of luxury for themselves. At Smyrna they talked of figs as the people in Manchester did of cotton, and he saw:that the plumpest and most delicate of the fruit was packed up in drums to be sent to England. In Egypt he found persons employed in packing up luscious dates, and they told him that all the deli. cate qualities were going to England. To complete .the climax he got to the top of theAlps,and found that the Swiss were manufacturing Gruyere cheese, the finest of which went to England. It was very curious too that the beautiful and fine damasks, and the splendid silks of China worn by his family, and even the mahog any table he ate from, should never have entered into Mr. Glad_ stone's recollection, when speaking of the sudden peril to this country from the drain of gold. Did he not fear that there should be a drain of gold for all the articles that had been enumerated ? If he (the speaker) were to go on from the places mentioned to the v . ast plains of Russia and P o l an d , or t o th e a l most b oundless . _ . prcirie lands of America, where he might see pigs in the corn fields, stacks of wheat lying there to rot and waste, and the peo ple clad in the mean time in sheep skins, and ask why the superabundance was not sent thence to England. in exchange for the fustians that they would be de lighted to wear, he should be told that there was a sliding scale of duties on corn in England that prevented their doing it.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He calculated that during the last 25 years we had imported about a thousand mil ,: lions worth of foreign produce into this country. He meant of foreign luxuries or conveniences. This would give from 40 to 50 millions every year, and he belie red that the whole amount of gold which was in circulation did not reach 25 millions at any time, and was it not curious that though we had imported so much there had never been a drain of gold for any of those things. When Mr. Gladstone; wailted to show that drains of gold might happen, he lost sight of those things imported for his luxury and pointed close to the small amount of corn imported, and to the consequent drain of gold. Yes, it was true that this drain of gold did follow that slight importation, and this was the very argument which they used against the sliding scale.—((Hear, hear, and cheers.) After a few further observations, in the course of which he con tended strongly for a total and an immediate repeal of the Corn. laws, the speaker concluded an idst vehement and prolonged applause. Mr. DICKS, a tailor, then came forward to advocate the existing Corn-laws, of the justice of which he professed himself a firm sup. porter, and entered into a long argument to show that the Anti. Corn-law League was only deluding the labouring population, as much as their object was so to reduce their.wages as to enable hem to cumpete with foreigu labour in a neutral market. Mr. COBDEN briefly, but triumphantly replied, and carried with him the suffhtges of nearly the whole of the vast assembly. Mr. W. RATIIBONE then came forward amidst great applause, to propose the following resolution :—" That this meeting, deeply sensible of the gross injustiae, as well as impolicy cf the existing system of Corn-laws, pledge themselves to persevere in their exer, tions for the total repeal of those laws." Mr. L. HEYWORTII seconded the resolution, which was carried by three dissentients only, and amidst the most rapturous demon. strations of delight. Mr. Alderman SHELL then proposed that the best thanks of this meeting be given to the members of the Manchester Anti-Corn. law League, who have this day honoured Liverpool by their pre sence, for their powerful advocacy of the cause of justice and humanity. Mr. C. HOLLAND seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously, and with loud acclamations. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and themeeting sepa rated at a quarter to Twelve o'Clock. CORN-LAW CRISIS. The following extracts from the Countr% Papers will give some idea of the excitement which Lord John Russell's motion has created. (From the Derby Chronicle.) A more important week than that which is now ended will probably never be witnessed in the political history of this Empire. Since the days of the Reform Bill, no measure at all comparable to the momentous one to modify the Corn-laws, announced by Lord J. Russell has been brought forward. This great question has come upon us with the rush of an avalanche alien seemingly most rooted and remote ; just as the Reform Bill itself exceeded by its extent the most sanguine hopes of its expectants. A political, a financial, and a commercial crisis have happened at the same moment in conjunction, so as to force every man in the empire to range himself on one or the other side of this battle. This Ministerial defeat on Lord Morpeth's Irish Bill forced the Cabinet to pay their trump card at the end of the game. While an annual deficit in the re venues of the State, amounting to upwards of two millions, in the face of declining commerce and the expiration of our com mercial treaties with the Brazils and the United States, and the mole and more rigid exclusion and compatition of the Ger man States, all combined to threaten with malign aspect the star cf England's supremacy. To resign inglori ously the Palladium of European liberty and progress into the hands of its deadliest foes, the Tories—to hang on in el: riously in a state of inaction " bombarding the Lords and the Commons with good measures" amidst the taunts of friends and foes, or to make one last final appeal to the magic of Re form, and to the enthusiasm of popular principles, were the al ternatives which presented themselves to the Whigs. The Ministry were not the a:en to " bow beneath the ills upon them piled." By one vigorous effort they have cut their way through the serried ranks of the monopolists, and once more stand in the vanguard of the battle. Disguises are thrown aside, and the twenty-seven millions of people and the thirty thousand oligarchs stand face to faee, " foot to foot and steel," under tried and trusty leaders. (From the Durham Chronicle.) THE CORN-LAWS—MINISTERIAL PROGRESSION.—ORCe more we hoist our flag for the Ministry I They reformed the Poor-law, which was eating up the land ; and with equal wis dom and courage they have announced their purpose to alter the Corn-law, which, for years past, has been undermining the commerce of the country. It is a bold and manly course ; and regardirr , it as such we seize the earliest opportunity to declare our adhesion to their new scheme of , fiscal policy. We feel the greatest satisfaction in doing this, because it has been more t h an once i mputed to us, that we were amongst the unreasonable grumblers who had deserted the Reform Ministry to play the game of the Tories. But suffering by-gorses to he by-gones, we now see the Whigs taking up "the question of questions,"—that on which the wel fare of the country depends—with something like the spirit which distinguished their conduct on the introduction of the Reform bill. They have intimated their determination to stand or fall by the measure ; and the circumstance of one of their official connections-11r. Gordon—having resigned his soa-, through dissatisfaction with their movement in commer cial reform, is an s artiest that they are as film in their pur pose as just and enlightened in their policy. This, we con cei%e, to be precisely the point at which a reunion between 'tern and the earnest Reformers of England ought to take place. (From the Western Times). The falling state of the revenue has driven Ministers to a course pregnant with the most momentous consequences. They have determined to grapple with the existing Corn-laws, and alter the whole system of protection. The announcement was made by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons, last Friday night, and to-night he is to state the specific na ture of the proposed alteration, which is to substitute a fixed duty for the present sliding scale. This step has gained for the Ministry a burst of enthusiastic approbation in the manufac ttu ing and popu'ous districts ; but in the rural districts it will of course be differently received the amount of the duty to be proposed being now the sole question of interest—when that is declared we shall haw° an opportunity of seeing how the matter is received in th a.ricultural districts. All the towns of the north are already t 1 and alive, anxiously waiting for the Ministerial proposition, and prepared to give it effect. (From the Staffordshire Examiner,) W e will not deny that on this struggle depends the existence of a Alinistry hitherto deservedly obnoxious to thorough-going Reformers, and to the great bulk of the people. We do not seek to disguise that by assisting this movement of Govern ment, the people will renovate Ministers in office. Never theless, we conscientiously call upon every class of Reformers strenuously to espouse the cause. By supporting Ministers on the present occasion, the various classes of Reformers whom they have dissatisfied, will best obtain the ability to discharge them for better men, in event of future provocation. By sup porting the present movement, those who advocate propositions to which Ministers are inimical, can best remove the obstacles to their propositions. Chartists, Anti-Poor-lawites, Educa tionists, and every other peculiar class, cannot further ad vance their particular projects, if their views be right, than by contributing to destroy the bread-tax. (From the Coventry Herald.) . . Let every homely working man do his duty himself, and in his own sphere, and we shall then fear nothing for Charlatans, either of one sort or another. The abolition of the bread mo nopoly is offered. The abolition of the sugar monopoly is offered. The abolition of the timber monopoly, which en hances the rent of every dwelling house erected, is offered. If the Tories and the Chartists combine to get these offers re jected, let every man put the question to these unnatural agents —can or will the Tories or the Chartists give anything better ? Succeed in breaking down these monopolies, and other monopolies of less magnitude must inevitably share the same fate. There can be no better rule adopted at the present crisis than to take exactly the opposite ground to the great landlord interest, and to imitate their energy at this opposite point—that is to say, exert as much energy as the landlords ; but let it be in favour of what they oppose. (From the Hutt Advertiser.) Wi!h heartfelt satisfaction we congratulate the friends of the national interests and the industrious classes of this country upon the wise and patriotic course adopted by Ministers—a course which has awakened both terror and exasperation among the supporters of monopoly and class legislation. If the people of the United Kingdom only prove true to themselves, the day of their deliverance from want, the consequence of iniquitous ptivileges and insufficient employment is at hand. An en lightened system of finance is now offered for public acceptance, and such a revision of the accursed Corn-laws as will render justice to the many without oppressing the few. (From the Leicester Mercury.) Men and measures must sometimes be distinguished. We will not, like the Ministerial Papers, call on the people to rally round the Ministers, but we do invoke them to assemble, in all their might, beneath the banner of Corn-law Repeal. We deem it a sacred duty to support so good a cause, by whomso ever it may be advocated ; and were Sir Robert Peel to come into office next week—which, for ought we know, he may— and to propose an alteration of the Corn-laws, we should re commend just the same course as we do now, and that is, to petition agitate in every possible way—not for the measure be for:. Pai liament, but for total and immediate repeal, leaving the House to draw its own inference as to how much short of jus tice it may be safe to grant. (Fri.m the Brighton Herald.) All suffer now. Trade being bad, wages are low, millions unemployed, and many of those employed not half paid. With more trade would come increase of wages; with increase of wages, increase of consumption ; and all, even the agriculturist, would benefit. As it is certain that the Government will ap peal to the country before long, it as ill depend much upon the people whether they will have more trade, good wages, cheaper food, or whether th e y wl ll h ave increase, of taxation without any advantageous adjuncts ; the continuation of the Corn-laws; and misery and crime rapidly increasing. If they support and urge on the Government, much good may be done ;if they blindly and selfishly :oppose the intentions of the Government, let them not he eafter complain, but submit quietly to the tyranny they wi - .1 have assisted to establish. ( From the Plymouth Journal.) That this question of opposing and various interests and of party spirit should be so manfully grappled by the Govern ment was beyond our fondest hopes. We honour the courage which has induced this bold adherence to this great measure of reform ; but that courage is upborne by the broad principles of wisdom and justice on which the alteration is founded. Nahing could follow more opportunely the late Government minority than the Ministerial adoption of this measure. It will establish the present Ministry more firmly than ever in their country's esteem and confidence and ensure their sup port. The question of Corn-law repeal has within the past year made astonishing ground in the general conviction of its high expediency. We shall reserve any further remark until the Goverment measure is more fully knewn. In the mean time petitions should be sent up. Not an hour should be lost. ( From the Nottingham lieview.) This is a new prospect; this is a bright era opened to the view. All the lords will band together—the land-lords, the corn lords, the timber-lords, the West India-lords, the aristo crats and monopasts of every size and feature, will conjoin with the Tories in a determined effort to overthrow the Minis ters. Were it a conflict only for power and place, we should say, let them alone, let them waste their time and their powers in the unholy strife, the time of the people will come. but the case is very oifferent; if we are not mistaken, the time has now come. Let this long oppressed, burthened, and insulted nation unitedly avail itself of the opportunity offered at such an unlooked-for moment, and by putting forth its powers, as at the Reform Bill, crumble all monopolies to the dust ! Probably there ' may never be another opportunity offered, in which it can be done without a bloody struggle ! " The people must gird up their loins for the battle, and consider that it is one for life and death. Not a day, not an hour is to be lost. Let every man bare his arm for the fight. A brief display of vigour and energy now may avert years and years of suffering. The best interests of the country are at stake, and the interval must be turned to account. England expects every man to do his duty.' " (From the Kent Herald.) NECESSITY FOR FREE TRADE.—In making the financial statement fur the year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer de veloi,e,l principles of commercial liberality, as welcome as un expected, in a reduction of the sugar and timber duties, and Lord John Russell crowned the dismay of the monopolists by announcing his intention of bringing forward the question of the Corn-laws with a view of substituting a moderate fixed duty for the present almost prohibitory restrictions. This at tack on the stronghold of the the aristocracy excited among lards and gentlemen" the utmost astonishment and conster nation. The landed monopolists, the grinders of the poor, the oppressors of commerce, the destroyers of the national prospe rity, burst at once into loud expressions of fear and anger. The et yof exul'ation out of doors was scarcely less. The pro pest of food becoming cheap and plentiful, of trade reviving, of England's commerce again resuming its ascendancy, of na tions becoming bound together in amity by the enduring ties of mutual interest was hailed at once with grateful acclamations. (From the Wilts Independent.) THE CORN-Laws.— We hail the announcement with joy ; not that we approve of any duty at all on the first necessary of life, but that we see a clear indication in it that public opinion is operating upon the Government, and that those who have buckled on the armour of Anti-Corn-lax agitation need but proceed in their course to achieve the most important vic tory that ever was won by human means. (From the Derby Reporter.) We remind those who deprecate this struggle, that it is in evitable. They may di sa pp rove o f t h e Anti-Corn-law agitation, but it will go on, and no earthly power can stop it. 'The mer chants and manufacturers of England are not a class to be put down by legislative enaciments, aided by the sword. It would be a dark day for England that should witness the attempt. They will go on to agitate, and rouse the masses; every year their exertions increase, and the Tory Poor-law agitation is adding to the vast amount of discontent, rapidly spreading throughout every part of the land. All this is tend ing to the overthrow of a monopoly which enhances the price of food. The opportunity for settling this question is most op portune ; if neglected, such an one may not occur again, and hence it becomes an urgent , duty that all whose habits and views lead them to deprecate strife, should join her Majesty's Government in the attempt to reconcile these conflicting in tei eats by such an adjustment as will at least put an end to dangerous agitation, if it do not give universal content. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council, at one o'clock this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Se rene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, arrived in town at half-past five o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a car riage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal with her at tendants, and the Royal suite, followed in four of the Royal carriages. The suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady in Waiting; Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hun. Miss Cavendish, Maids of Honour in Waiting; Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting ; Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting ; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom to P r i nce Alb ert ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to hi s Royal Highness. The Queen and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Comptroller of the Household, and Colonel Wemyss and Lord Alfred Paget, Equerries to her Majesty. Immediately on her Majesty's arrival at the Palace the Royal Standard was hoisted on the marble arch. The Royal dinner party at ilu;kiniam Palace last evening included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, their serene Highnesses the Prince and Princes of Leiningen, Earl of Erroll, Viscount Melbourne, Baroness Spaeth, Sir George Couper, Countess of M oun t Ed gecum b e, Lady Anne Mari‘i Dawson, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, Captain Francis Seymour, and Dr. Pt cetorius. The Band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards were in attendance at the Palace during dinner. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her Suite, left Sudbury Hall yesterday morning, and came to town by a special train on the London and Birmingham Railway. Her Majesty's Suite consisted of the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Charlotte Hudson, Maid of Honour in Wait ing; Earl Howe, Earl of Sheffield, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir David Davies, and the Rev. J. R. Wood. Her Majesty arrived at her residence, Marlborough House, Pall mall, from the Euston-square terminus, at ten minutes past seven o'clock last evening. Her Majesty, we are happy to state is quite well. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady, Anne Maria Dawson, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens and Lieut.-Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday afternoon from his residence at Kew. In the evening his Royal Highness honoured the " Nulli Secundum" Club with his company at dinner, at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Handley and Mr. Grattan had an interview with Vis count Melbourne yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. PERTH CIRCUIT COURT.—At the Perth cir• cuit Court on Thursday, Catherine Symon, from Dundee, was charged with murder, in so far as she did, on 15th March last, wickedly and feloniously throw her infant child into a sheet of water, to the north-west of the terminus of the Dun dee and Arbroath Railway, foot of Trades'-lane, Dundee, in consequence of which it was drowned ; or did strangle or suffo cate the said child, and then throw it into the water, where it was found dead. The panel pleaded not guilty. After a lengthened trial, Lord 11edwyn summed up; and the jury, after retiring about half an hour, returned a verdict, finding:, by a large majority, the panel guilty as libelled, but unani mously recommending her to mercy. Lord Mackenzie, after a feeling and impressive address to the prisoner, proposed that she should suffer the punishment of death; after which, Lord Medwyn sentenced her to be executed at the common place of execution at Dundee, upon Wednesday, the 26th May. ROYAL ARTILLERY. --_A General Court- Martial is ordered to be held at Woolwich on Monday, at which Lieut.-Col. C. Cruttenden will preside as Judge-Advocate. The part;es under arrest at present are Lieut. E. %V. Dance, of the second battalion, appointed June 20, 1840, and Lieut. Percy Francis Gother Scott of the ninth battalion, appointed Dec. 18, 1640. Ihe breaches of discipline with which they are charged have not het bei.ln made ptolie ; hut, from report, the differences betwixt those two officers took place in a billiard room, by Lieut. Dance applying an unofficer-like expression to Lieut. Scott, who immediately retaliated by personal resent ment, the ultimate result of which was a challenge sent by Lieut. Dance to Lieut. 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With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma chinery, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. After which, the Comedy of WILD OATS; OR, THE STROLLING GENTLEMAN. Rover. Mr. J. S. Balls. To conclude with the Romance of Diablerie, entitled APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND. Apollyon, Mr. O. Smith, The Last Night of his Engagement. IHOIL WATER AT LONDON 'BRIDGE TO-MORRO W flung :6 minutes afar 3 1 Evening IS minutes after 4 :he Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Sus corn, meneLd at 10 minutes after Three. LONDON: SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1841. Both Houses were engaged last night with very interesting dis cussions, the Lords on the Corn-laws, the Commons on the Sugar duties. Every night the former is likely to occupy their Lordships' attention, as they are intensely interested in it. We shall not, for want of space, further notice the debate, than to say that it was spirited, and that we were glad to hear the Marquis of LANSDOWNE give there, as Lord Jou r; RUSSELL gave in the other House, a flat and unqualified contradiction to the statement, that the Cabinet had taken up the question of the Corn-laws and the Sugar-duties on the spur of the moment, and after they were defeated on the Irish question. The de bate in the Lords arose on presenting a petition, and led to no other result than the debate itself. In the Commons Lord J. RUSSELL announced the duties that be proposes to levy on corn : Bs. on wheat, ss. on rye, 4s. 6d. on barley, and 3s. 4d. on oats. The announcement immediately excited the ire of the Earl of DA RLINGTON, and Mr. flaximmr declared in the course of the evening that they were lower than the most sanguine opponents of the Corn-laws would expect, and would be worse than no protection at all. On the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of Ways and Means being read, Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a masterly speech on the policy of the' Government, on the state of the finances, on what was due to the people of England, and on the prorosition which the Ministers have submitted to Parliament. The Noble Lord spoke for nearly two hours, and though terser and more pointed speeches have frequently been heard, a speech more replete with good sense and right feeling towards the people of England, and replete with more compre hensive views, was perhaps never heard within the walls of Par liament. Nor was it destitute of caustic remarks applied to the Tories, who now trade in philanthropy, and wish to seize the Go% einment by pretended or sudden affection for the slave population, lraving themselves a hole to creep back to taxation and trade when their present purpose is answered. It gratified us to hear views which we have laid before our readers, both of the conduct of Ministers in proposing these measures, and of the bearings of those measures, con firmed and corroborated by the observations of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. His remarks on England being unable to supply the Brazilians with cottons if we would not take the produce of slave labour from them, were excellent, as were many of his il lustrations. Put the crowning excellence of his speech was the vigour with which he enforced on the House the duty of attending above all things to the people of England. Of the condition of Bolton, for example, as contrasted with the blacks of Jamaica, he drew a most mournful picture, which wade us wish that the negroes would send forth from Jamaica to emancipate the starving slaves here. Lord J. RUSSELL con- eluded his speech by an eloquent vindication of the principles of free trade, and an admonition to the House not to lose the opportunity of acting on them. He left the House to adopt the plan ; the Ministers had done their duty by presenting it. Lord SA NDON followed, and after a heavy speech full of sta tistics, to show that there would be plenty of sugar without al lowing foreign sugar to be imported, he concluded by moving the resolution which we have already published. Mr. Hoco seconded the motion in a neat speech, in which he was all for the East Indies, and making common cause with the West Indies in assaulting the pockets and the health of the people of England. Mr. 11A IVES made a speech full of good details, but it did not tell with any force on the House. Mr. HANDLEY explained that he meant to vote against the Ministers, and plainly avowed that he united with the West In dians and the East Indiaus in wringing taxes from the people of England. Mr. JAMES assigned a few reasons why he meant disinterest edly to support Ministers, as he has an estate in Jamaica. The crack speech of the night, however, after Lord JoHN's, a speech very much to the purpose, snore to the purpose than any other speech, from the familiarity of the speaker with the subject, was the last of the debate. It appeared to make a great impression on the House, and we regret to say it was againht our cause. Dr. Lusiiiiic.rox spoke with energy, and carried conviction because he spoke w i t h s i ncer i ty. He op posed the Ministerial measure, as te n di ng to encourage the slave-trade, to make slavery in Cub a an d ot h er places more hateful, to increase human misery, as unjust to our colonies, and he said there is no necessity for it. He dwelt at considerable length on the supply of sugar for this year, which he had esti mated at 205,000 tons ; he was eloquent on the misery of the slave trade and of slavery ; where slaves only are employed, and are used up and then cast out to die like hack horses. He ex patiated on the propriety of continui ng t h e protection on sugar for the sake of the emancipated negroes, and he justified all his statements by quotations from letters, authorities, and books. He could beast of his own undeviating consistency, and de dared though others had changed he had not changed one iota of his opinion. It was impossible to hear him and not feel that he must be answered, or the Ministers will suffer in character. We trust they will find some man of greater calibre than Mr. EWA RT, who rose to speak, but moved the adjournment of the debate —some practised orator, as well sk lied in the arts of his trade as Dr. LUSHINCTON himself, to refute his speech. _ _ Dr. LUSHINGTON is obviously fanatical for philanthropy. Such a man cannot be answered by the cold calculations of a political economist, who weighs, balances, and refines doubts, and yet dogmatized, but who never is and can never be pas• sionately in love with a theorem. Dr.ri a. r USHINGTON must be answered by some man fanatical for justice. He must be ;minded there that he is not sent to the House of Comm ons to legislate fo r the blacks of sin in the wor ld_ a f ar unable to accomplish that—but le of E ng l an d . He is to greaterCt tba, o th r an to he e h x a t s in b g e u e is n h the B raz ili ans, or t h e l t e o g i i ) s r l o a m te ot fo e r th th e e h m a , p n p o in t e f s o s r o t f h e t the f p r e i c o a p n Spaniards. He must look at the real misery at home, not gloat over the factitious and imagined misery of the slave-ship or the sugar plantation. To the people of England he owes the duty of justice; to the suffering Africans he must be content to give his compassion. But when he taxes the people of England to the fraction of a Lathing on the supposition that he is thereby conferring a benefit on the negroes, he commits a positive injustice, and is as criminal to the houseless and starving poor of Bolton as the Brazilian planter is to his slaves. Dr. LUSHINGTON has no faith in his own principles. He professes to be an advocate of free trade, and he has no confi dence in it. Hence he fancies that the man who buys slaves can grow sup? cheaper than he who finds labourers un bought. How much the wages of a labourer in Jamaica surpass the cost of buying and maintaining a slave in Cuba was not told, nor was the division of labour, which can be extended only among free men adverted to, neither was the ingenuity which s'aves cannot possess taken into consideration. When these points are carefully examined, we have no doubt that slave la bour will be found dearer even now than free labour, and that Jamaica, if left to itself, would soon undersell Cuba. But Cuba has not to maintain a large wealthy proprietary in Spain ; there are few or no mortgages there hungering for interest on money borrowed on the supposition that sugar was never to be so'd for less than 4()s. per cwt. ; and if Cuba had these plagues, with a great protecting duty, the sugar grown there would be dearer than the sugar grown in Jamaica. If Dr. LUSIIINOTON had looked on some of the gentlemen around him, he need not have despaired of the efficacy of free labour, and been false to his own creed. If Dr. LUSHINGTON be opposed by some man who is fanatical fur justice, who has a strong conviction of the duty of a legis lator to the people of England, he may be answered and refuted, but he will not be answered by any pert, insincere, mere man of expediency. The Ministers must put up a good man to answer Dr. LUSHINGTON. The Debate was adjourned. We rejoice to see the address of the Anti- Corn-law League. They remain true to their principle, and still demand the TOTAL AND IM MEDIATE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. Their declaration has relieved us from a difficulty. We adhere to the same principle; we were not quite sure how the League might act, and we have been comparatively silent, lest we might be a cause of embarrassment to our friends. We can agitate with a clear conscience rbr the total and immediate repeal; to ag:- Ate for a fixed duty, however small, would be to sanction an abominable bread-tax. By the declaration of the Ministers that the landlords' tax, and the public taxation, and the na tional prosperity, are hopelessly incompati ble, a blow has been given to the worst monopoly that ever cursed a nation, tin der which all the monopolists of the em pire reel like drunken men. It depends on the people to send that blow home, and extin guish the bread-tax for ever. Let us all work, then, in conjunction with the League, for a total and immediate repeal. To agitate for that will com pel Ministers to act boldly. All the possible evils of agitation will be as much caused by agitation for a fixed duty as by agitation for the total abo- lition of the law. He is not a good surgeon who risks a patient's life by a large amputation, and yet fails to cut away every atom of the dis ease. The good of the country, the ne cessity of avoiding a future agitation, requires the people now to exert themselves, let who will be Ministers, and insist on the total repeal of the scoundrel bread-tax. Up, then, men of Eng__ land, and wipe awa3 this badge of sla very. It is a hateful poll-tax. Show yourselves worthy of your sires. Exhibit their energy combined with your own modera- tion and wisdom. Tell the Legislature—tell the owners of rent—tell all the brood of monopolists who have so long sucked your blood, under the name of PROTECTION, that you will be their slaves no longer. We have only room to call attention to the great Anti-Corn-law meeting held at Liverpool on Thursday, of which a full report is given in another part of The 57.01. The extracts from the Country Papers, which we also give this day, will be read with the highest interest and delight by every enemy cf monopoly, and every friend ofthe poor. The Provincial Press is doing the work manfully, deterred neither by the frowns of the landlords nor the dire hostility of the aristocracy and the Church. Men who thuslend their aid in the cause of the starved and oppressed will meet with the reward promised in Scripture, " Blessed is he that pleadeth for the poor and needy." In Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S admirable speech last night, this topic was handled with great skill and eloquence. His words will make a deep im pression throughout the country; and in order that they may have fall effect, we advise the Anti-Corn-law Association to print the whole speech in a cheap shape, and distribute it in every city, town, and hamlet in the United Kingdom.] Having received and published in our After- noon Edition of yesterday the only important news in the Paris Journals of Thursday, nothing remains for us but to quote the following addi tional extracts from them : The grand mass on the anniversary of the Emperor Napo leon was celebrated yesterday in the Church of the Invalides. The choir vas hung with violet velvet, enriched with escut•• cheons emblazoned with the arms of the empire, flags, and trophies. Above the high altar was an immense banner with the arms of the empire, surmounted by a golden eagle with the wings displayed. On the altar, resting on a cushion, was placed the golden coronet presented by the town of Cherbourg. On each side of the choir was stationed the King's Aides-de- Camp, the Peers, and Deputies, including Marshals Moncey, Grouchy, and Gerard, Admiral Duperre, Generals Gourgaud and Petit, Messrs. de Las Cases and Marchand, and the Abbe Cnquereau. Under the dome was collected a large body of officers, among whom were some who wore the uniforms of the empire. The Cure of the Invalides performed the service, and the music was executed by the band of the 66th of the line. After the absolution, Marshal Moncey, supported by General Petit, and attended by his aid=s-de-,camp, was carried into the Chapel of Saint Jerome, and there received the golden coronet from the hands of the Mayor of Cherbourg, and deposited it on the coffin of the Emperor. This duty being performed, nu merous persons were admitted into the chapel to do honour to the remains it enclosed. We have often said that the surrounding of Paris with bas tiles was a precaution taken ' not against foreign enem i es , b u t against the interior. We have repeated this to the National, we have repeated it to M. Barrot, all our representations have been in -vain; they stopped their ears to the very clear decla ration of M. Guizot in the Chamber of Deputies, and to the still more explicit revelations of several Members of the Court party in the Chamber of Peers. Now the mystification is complete—the law is voted—the treason of M. 1 biers has suc ceeded by the aid of those on whom he had the least reason to reckon—the Ministry no longer fears to make known the idea which predominated in this fatal law, and the following are the clmr and precise terms in which it expresses itself :—" As for the faction, as for that handful of agitators, enemies of the Government, and so often admired and pro tected by the Journals of the Opposition, the Government has proceeded with vigour against it wherever it has shown itself. It is especially against the hopes of this faction, it is in spite of it, it is for ever to destroy the only probability of its future triumph, that the Ministry has asked and obtained of the Chamber the project of law on the fortifications of Paris." The Journal -which contains these avowals is in some mea sure more than an official Journal, it is the expression of the real opinions o. M. Guizot—it is the Memorial de Rouen. This paper has always been the faithful organ of the party of the Doctrinaires. It was to the Memorial de irouen that M. Guizot, when Ambassador at London, addresssed those confidential notes which presaged the fall of the Cabinet of the Ist of March, and which excited so much anger in the journal of M. Thiers. When the Memorial advances a fact, we may say that it is the echo of M. Guizot and the pa lace, for it was established a: Rouen to represent the ideas of the personal Government. Thus, then, according to M. Guizot, the fortifications are directed especially against intes tine parties. We believe, for our part, that they menace them alone. The Courrier Francais, the confident of M. Thiers, had made confessions nearly similar, by declaring that they would be good against internal and external enemies, But who canbelieve that the Government would think of expending a thousand millions to fortify itself against that handful of agi tators of which it speaks, isolated from the population, and which the National Guard alone would always crush by its numbers and spirit. It would be an act of extravagance, and the affrays in the streets, which we have witnessed during the last eleven sears, abundantly prove that the Constitution and order have no need to defend themselves with fifteen bastilles and 2,000 pieces of cannon, with which it is intended to surround Paris. It is evidently to keep the Parisian population in awe that the fortifications have been planned, and now that the Mi nistry has obtained the law, it no longer condescends to con ceal its thoughts.—Le Commei ce. BO UR SE.—PARDI, THURSDAY, MA Y 6 . first Highest Lowest L ast Price Price. Price. Pr ice french S per Cents ll4 ... 114 50!... 114 4 per Cents.... ...... b 9 20 ... 9 p 9 20 ... 89 20 114 50 99 20 3 per cants 79 55 55 79 3 , ' ~9 55 Bank of terance: 2 1040 —lO4O 182 50 ... 3182 50 „Also ” 31 4 0 ...1040 iseigian Bank 1841 5 per Cents. 101 3 per Cents 7l 20 71 20 71 20 71 6 20 New Loan lOl% ... 111% 10th 101 k. :npnish 24% 2 Portuguese 3 per Cents 2 0% 20% 20 7 Scapotimn _lO3 (30 102 75 ... , `.13 60 ... '75 Roman EAILWAII SHARES. $t Germain 244) ... 240 ... 240 ..: 240 Rouen 4t 0 ... 460 4:.7 50 ... 457 LO ()gleam ;. 487 50 ... 4:0 ... 487 50 ... 420 Strasburg to Jiale '426 25 ... ( .433 21 ... 236 9.5 zz:6 25 The official despatches giving an account of the actions in Canton River appeared in the Ga zette of last evening, and are precisely the same with those we published on Friday, and which were communicated by the respective Comi nand ing Officers to the Governor General of India. GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH RA ILWAY .__ The contractors on the above . lin e o f railway art: getting for ward with their respective portions in a mannwe highly satis factory. It is expected the above railway will te opened from end to end in the month of August next, and, should favoura ble weather continue we have no doubt but. such will be the case.—Glasgow Chronicle, CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) ORDS V. LYON—LYON r. ORDII. His LORDSHIP gave judgment in these causes, in which cross bills had been tiled, and which arose out of a suit to com pel the specific performance of a contract. (They have been already noticed in The Sun.) His Lordship ordered the bill to be dismissed with costs. The cross bill must also be dis missed with costs, for his Lordship did not think a sufficient case had been made out to authorise him to do otherwise. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Court was engaged this morning in hearing petitions, by order, which presented no feature of general interest. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE. ) MOOO RIDGE V. DREW. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a dentist in Old Burlington•atreet, against the defendant, an elderly lady, to recover the sum of eighteen guineas, for a set of artificial teeth. 'I he defence was, that the teeth did not fit, and were of no service whatever to the defendant, who could neither masticate nor articulate with them. The case was tried before the Under Sheriffs of Middlesex, and the Jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiff. Mr. HILL had obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, or a new trial granted on the ground of misdirection by the Sheriff. After Counsel had been heard at length, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE made the rule for a new trial abso lute, and directed that such ne A trial should take place before a Judge. Rule for new trial made absolute. ------- - - LLOYD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY B.—Wind this day at noon light breeze from S., cloudy weather. STAN ;ATE CREEK, MAY 7.—Arrived the Independent, from Ancona ; Melville, Mejorna ; Fama, Tarragona ; Eli zabeth, ditto ; Isabella, Leghorn ; Albanian , Vostozza, Conservative, Smyrna. DEAL, MA Y 7. —Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Courier, from Mexico ; Busy Yacht, Faro; Albatros, St. Michael's. Arrived from the river and sailed, the Laura, for Algoa Bay ; Mariner, Quebec ; Jew, Marseilles. Sailed all the Outward bound. SHOREHAM, MAY 7.—The Diadem Lee, bound to New haven, is on sh ore b e hi n d t h e East Pier, at the entrance of this harbour. RAM GATE, MAY 7.--Arrived the Gem° Giorgo, Ibrail, from London, leaky, and with foremast sprung, &c., and has proceeded for the Creek. Ponisstounr, MAY 7.--Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Same rang, for Madras. COW ES, MA Y 7.—Arrived the Elise, from Buenos Ayres Verstocht, ditto. SEAFORD, MAY 7.—Arrived off port the Harriet, M'Haren, from Sierra Leone ; Charlotte, Anderson, Torrevechia. LIVERPOOL, MAY 7. —Wind S. S. E. to S. S. W.—Arrived the Cambers, Green, from Pernambuco, sailed sth ult. ; Nor val, Corbin, do. ; B arone t, W y li e, Monte Video; Wanerer, Cowan, Honduras; Reindeer, Kemp, Messina. The Eliza beth, from Anclam did not arrive, reported yesterday. Sailed the Alfred, for New Orleans • North America. N ew Y or k ; Torolusta, do ; H e l en M ar , ; Grace, Quebec ; Indefati gable, Africa. Arri ve d o ff, St. Vncent, from St. Vincents. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of Meat were small, trade was brisk, and prices of some articles rather dearer. Mutton improved fully 6d. per stone since last week, Veal and Lamb sold readily at rather higher rates. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 6d. ; Lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. 4d. ; V ea l 4 s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. Poultry in rather short supply, trade good, and prices the same as last quoted. Eggs dull of sale at 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per 120; and Plovers 3s. per dozen. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. There was an active demand for Meat, and prices advanced, the supply being small. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. ; Lamb, ss. to 6s. 4d. Clover, 41. to 5/. 17s. ; Meadow Hay 31. 10s. to 41. 17s. ; Straw, from 1/. 15s. to 11. 18s. TEA MARKET. There was a fair demand for Free Trade, and the rates have been fully supported. Company's Congon, Is. Bd. cash, with a firm Market. The stock is on the decrease. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian Tallow do not give way, but the market was dull. P. Y. Candle 475. 9d. to 48s. on the spot, and 48s. 3d. for delivery in last three months. OIL MARKET. Fish Oils firm, and the demand good for all sorts. Seed Oils rather dull, and prices on the decline. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum dull of sale, and prices were sustained. Brandy rather cheaper, and the demand limited, 13Litish Corn Spirits steady at 9s. l Id. cash. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, ALIT 7.—The sales of to day are 2,500 bales to th e t ra d e . LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 7.—The Share Market to-day has been limited, without alteration ofprices to any ex tent :--Eastern Counties are quoted at 84 ; Ditto, debentures, 7 ; Glasgow, Parley, and Greenock, 29i ; Great Western, 5/. Shares, 44; Manchester and Leeds, 52A ; Liverpool Union Eank, 12. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.—The Share Market still continues depressed, and prices have an inclination to give way :—Manchester and Leeds,sli to 53i, ; Ditto, New, 21 to 22; Manchester and Birmingham, 254 ; London and South Western, 58 58 1 % • Ditto, Tenths, 44 ; Easter n Coun ties, t i to 91-; Bank of Alanehester, 7h ; Manchester and Sal ford Bank, 10. By the llamburgh Mail received yesterday afternoon the Extthange upon London comes 13 5 ; Gold, 432 ; Metalliques, 107 i; Bank Actions, 1,655. In consequence of what Viscount Melbourne stated in the House of Lords last night respecting the affairs of China, teas got up 2d. in the lb. This is a godsend for the tea holders. TILE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of yes terday, 90 to A for the Account ; Money, 891 90. Up to the present timo thcreis not a feature worth attention in either of the markets. Exchequer Bills, lower, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 24i ; Deferred, 12& ; Passive, 53 ; Portuguese, 34} ; Th ree p er Cent:., 201 ; olombian, 22 3 4 ; Mexican, 29A ; Bra zilian, 68} 69i; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 524 3 ; Five Fer Cents. 99k. Sir a icxs.—Great Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14* prem. ; London and Brighton 21 14 dis. ; Blackwall 6i 54 d's. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 57i 581 per share ; Croydon 133 14i per share ; Greenwich 83 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New 5O 64 ...... to London and South Western 3B& 574..... to London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13/ 14*...... to COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 6* Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 124 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz 114 Ditto, 3 months 25 75 'Lisbon Marseilles Bout deaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150* Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres 'Perlin. Vienna effec. 11. 3 M lO 0 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz Bilboa 35 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville . .. 35 Silver in Bars 0 5 0* HALF-PAST ONE. Consuls are h lower than in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted at present 90 for the Account ; Money, 89i 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 6 85 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 ; India Bonds, 2 prem., 2 dis. In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing. Spanish Active 24% ; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese nothing done ; Colom bian, 224 ; Mexican, 29%; Dutch nothing done. The Share Markt:t is inactive. Great Western, 92 93% ; New, 64 ; Croydon and Trunk, 14%. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Account, 90%; Mexican, 281- 29 ; Portuguese, 34% % ; Spanish, 24%. No business doing. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank •Stock ... 168 India Stock — 3 per Cent Red. BB% Ditto Bonds 2 pat 3 per Cent Cons 89% Ditto Old Annuities ... 3% per Cent Red 97% Ditto New Annuities... _ New 3% per Cent 98% Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 7pm /Cew 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 7pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm Jan. 1860 il 1. Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 9O FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent ... 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOO% 'Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2 4% Ditto, 1824 . ...... ... ..... Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent....... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent ... French, - 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2% per cent. ... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 99j SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)...... ..... Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 7% Great Western R a ilway (65 p a id) 93% Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64 London and Brighton (50 paid) 47A London and Sou4h Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 14% North Midland Railway (100 paid) THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE.—When Lord Waldlegrave arrived in the Queen's Bench on Monday, he pro ceeded to the coffee-room of the prison. In the course of the evening Lady Waldegrave came in her carriage, and was im mediately conducted to his domicile ; but her ladyship was so annoyed by the gaze of the prisoners (who formed an avenue through which she had to pass) that she determined never to go within the prison again ; in consequence of which Lord Waldegiave has the apartments over the lobby of the prison, occupied by Sir Francis Burdett when he ir.is committed to the custody of the marshal. His Lordship since his imprison menth has been very liberal to the roar debtors. Heasa and numerous retinue about him, sees a good deal of company,e had lives in excellent stile. When Sir Francis vi.asher . of ueen's a parole of honour between gates, which the Co urt Bench can grant, but the marshal (Mr. Chapman) ,a Q ha the s e ._ h power himself to allow such liberty. DREADFUL SUICIDE ATLONDON-BRIDGE.--- uLrano:cialoac.kh,raidgmeo,shtldread fYa e l s a t:: d a a f y s a u f i t c e i r d n e o ownasabut hcommittedalf-pasattfo and S W I e i a ll h i raaemd spectable young female, to be • been observed for a short time previously pacing up and about twenty years of age. down the bridge in a state of great excitement, which attracted Storey, 572, who were on duty on the bridge at the time, and the attention of City policemen William Wood, they watched her motions; but with singular rapidity, and be fore they could reach to prevent her, she ascended the parapet over the centre arch and leaped into the river. In her de scent she fell upon one of the starlings of the bridge, and from thence rebounded into the water. Two waterrnen who were in a skiff, and were passing through the bridge at the mo ment, observed the splash, and immediate]e y made to the ;pot, and succeeded in picking up t h e unfortunate 'lir . On being conveyed ashore mid taken upo n a stretcher to St. homas's Hospital, it was found that she was quite dead. ,A 1 ortk -t - , 1 5 1 % 4 071 bt tn EVEN ING EDITION. LITERATURE. " d GRATTAN'S LIFE AND TIMES' V` Colburn, London, 1841. • This volume commences with G - rattan's mar= riage w th Miss Fitzgerald, in the year 178'2, and closes with his return for the City of Dublin at the general election in 1790. It is not so gene rally entertaining as its predecessors, being taken up, in a great measure, with details respecting the business proceedings of the Irish Parliament, many of which—with the exception of the de-' bates on the Regency question—have now little public interest, and are valuable only as furnish ing materials for some futur4historian of Ireland. Notwithstanding, however, the frequent heavi ness, and, we fear we must add, prolixity of the details, the volume is worth an attentive perusal, if only for the insight it gives us into the-public and private character of Grattan, who appears to have been as irreproachable in the one capa city • as be confessedly was in the other. There are also several graphic sketches of eminent men who figured daring this period, which relieve the tediousness of the volume, and reconcile the reader to the task of wading through it. Here is a portrait of Cur ran, which is drawn with great accuracy and in a very spirited manner :—" Mr. Curran was a very extraordinary man. From nothing he be came everything. Without family ' friends, or fortune, he raised hims e lf to one of'the first judi cial offices in the State, and, despite his love o. liberty and attachment to Ireland, he succeeded. He was a man of surprising natural tail&t. In this respect there was no one i n Ireland*Zqual to him, and certainly none in England. His mind was a perfect p r ism, a n d cas t th e colours of the rainbow on whatever passed through it. He was never at a loss—he was never puzzled.- His vo cabulary was rich to overflowing, and never failed him,, whether in description or in argu ment. His understanding was not correct, and he •was sometimes deficient in statement. He loved , magination better than close reasoning. In private life, Curran's conversation was sin gularly entertaining, full of vivacity and:Aumour, and sometimes instructive, tinged, howeier, in a degree, with affectation. His powers of ridicule were astonishing. It was not possible t? resist the drollery of his descriptions. He kb. 4. not read very profoundly ; he wanted the buirit of application, and was too easily satisfied: with superficial knowledge. In the House r ',Com mons he did not succeed so well as - , • bar. He was an ardent lover of liberty; ssed great public spirit; and felt a strong - ation against all abuses. He was, however,...ko fond of applause, and possessed too much vanity, so that the ends of justice and the interests of his client did not always seem his. favourite. objects. He possessed great courage, personal as well as political, and did what few men would do, and what no other man did—he defended tliftinited Irishmen. When the Whigs came into' power, in 1806, Curran was not well us.ol. They paid him with reluctant hon'esty, and treated him with marked neglect, and he felt it deeply. Justice here compels one to say, that in his subsequent condnet Cur ran committed a great mistake. He allowed Poiisonby to pay 800/. a year for him, the salary of the clerk of his Court. Thus he became a pensioner of the.party, and placed himself com pletely in the wrong, as any man would -*di# who would suffer another to pay a penny fbil Sheridan, Curran, and Fox are striking intztinces how necessary it is for eminent public men-to be good private characters. Curran was not suffi ciently select as to his company, nor was he fund of the best society ; neither was he a very happy man. In private he was unfbrtunate, and full of sores. His griefs too were frenzies. He had moments of rapture, but few of repos e — none o f content. Towards the close of his career he grew restless and dissatisfied. His brilliant imagination saw everything through a distorted medium." HALL'S IRELAND. PART • VI I. How and Parsons, London, 1811. We are glad to learn that this intelligent and entertainilig work is rapidly increasing in popu larity. It is, beyond all cimparison, the most amusing and comprehensive account of Ireland we have yet met with, and preserves a general raN tone of calmness and impa r ti a li ty t h at will make it acceptable to all classes o f rea d ers. The Part before us contains two hi g hly-finished ezig ings, one representing the Quay at 'Waterford, a:id the other Lismore Castle, a noble pile, embosomed in woods, and rising abruptly from the river's bank. The literary department- com bines useful statistic information, with piquant sketches of Irish peasant character, hit off in Mrs. Hall's most felicitous style. Referring cur sorily in a note to the question of the Repeal of the Union, this lady relates the following anec dote, which shows how detrimental to the best interests of Ireland is the agitation of this im practicable question:— We are compelled to admit that while this " Repeal Agita tation" continues, capitalists generally will he reluctant to in troduce manufactures into Ireland, notwithstanding the pros pect held out for their own advantage, as well as for the be nefit of the country. On this subject, one fact is worth a thousand arguments. A few months ago, we voyaged from Dublin to Liverricol in company with one of the most exten sive of the Manchester manufacturers—a genileman of im mense wealth, who holds nsarly the highest position among the wealthy cotton-spinners of that town, asid is a " Liberal ' in politics. He informed u', that his main object in visiting Ireland was, to ascertainwhat prospect existed there, that nfght induce certain indi‘iduals to remove their mils from the neigh bourhood of Manchester to some parts of Ireland— in order to in troduce among the people of that country a new mode of employ merit. The result of his inquiries via., he said, in all respects satisfactory ; and he should, undoubtedly, have recommended the parties, who had faith in hi: judgment, to establish cotton works there, with a view, especially, to the export trade with America—but for the repeal agitation, which so unsettled men's minds, a , to create strong doubts whether such ureter takings were justifiable; or, at all events, convinced him, that to postpone their introduction for a time was the surest way cf rendering them permanent. He could net, therefore, ad vise the experiment, until ' the repeal agitation ' was aban doned." TALES OF A GRANDFATHER. PART L Cadet!, London, 1841. Another of those cheap and elegant reprints of Walter Scott's Works, for which we are in debted to the taste and enterprise of Mr. Cadell. For the comparatively insignificant sum of four shillings we have here the first part of the Tales of a Grandfather, comprising the History of Scotland from the earliest recorded period down to the accession of James the First to the throne of England. The Number is got up in a style of singular beauty, and cannot fail to ob tain an extensive circulation. ANATOM [CAL' MODELS. The society of Arts, at their meeting on Wednesday even ing last, voted their Gold Lis Medal to Mr. Simpson, surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, for the application of papier 2nache to the making of anatomical figures and models of morbid anatomy. Mr. Simpson, some sears ago, turned his attention to the constructing of anatomical models, in ceasequence of the (dill culty and expense at that time attendant in procuring subjects for dissection. The materials iu general use for anatomical models were wax and plaster, of which the former was found to be ten ex pensive to come within the means of lecturers and students in general, and was too delicate to be handled in the lecture room, without incurring the chance of considerable damage- The plaster of Paris mcdeis were also objectionable on account of their great we i g ht an d b r it t ! eness . Th e ma t er ial which Mr. Simpson u ses , i s paper , wor k e d i n t o mou ld s , taken from dissec tions; this p ro d uces a mo d e l o f extreme li g htness, anti is so hard that it m a y b e freely handled without danger or damage. The external surfa ce i s pi ,i nte d i n o il co lour, representing- the appearance of the dissection. The right side of the figu ti r i e e which Mr. Simpson exhibited to the ,Socicty, representsride, superficial arteries, veins, nerves anti muscles ; the left seated u e i s , c , e r e a . shows the second and third layers of muscles, the .. deep . operations. vessels, and more particularly those parts concerned m surgical The internal parts are removeablc, so as to a e , xl v i , ibit the na ; the Tong brain and its members ; the spi d n tural arrangement of the thcracic and arr abd o o w n: that his invention would be Mr. Simps.n having coneeive of Anatomy in warm particularly serviceable for the study be used, nor the cli mates, where wax models cannot natural sub ject be conveniently dissected, submitted e a, he some specimens Company, who to the Honourable East India some time since purchased forty of his figures, which we; e sent to various set tlements in India forth us e of the eEuropean surgeons, as also for the instruction of the nativesurgeons, who were a4sistants military hospitals ; the in the Company's . from dissections. .religion of the latter studying nom cussections. prohibiting their _ _ _ COMMISSION OF LUNACY.---EXTRAORDl- P Cm hil ni lim m o i 7e i r Wi o n f slo L w u , n a a n c d y E • Arms 'l' • at the Eyre Tavern, St. John's Wood, to in quire3lurra) , into the state of mind of Mrs. Maria Ramsay, formerly 'of . s .pa-k. Mr. A. J. Stephen s , P a rk-streets , Grosvenor-square, and now of No. 1, Grove-read, vaNssonpse-neD.cit teufeoiroes.c—Yesterday mission, observed, in support of the Corn that Mrs: Ramsay was the daughter of a wealty gentleman, named Ferrier, lately residing at Tusmore, in Oxfordshire, and wile, upon his death, devised to her very considerable landed property, which was upon her decease to pass to her chilli en. Airs. Ramsay had formed a matrimo nial alliance with a gentleman of private fortune, and the fruits Regent of the union had been six children, namely, five sons and one daughter, the eldest of whom had not attained the age of thir teen. In 1838 Mrs. Ramsay was first affected in her mind. In July last her husband was afflicted with dropsy, which soon afterwards proved fatal, and since his death the unfortunate lady's intellects had been so much impaired that he was fearful no improvement would take place. The pre sent proceeding had therefore been adopted at the instance of Miss Harriet Eliza Ramsay, the sister-in-law of the object cf this inquiry, with the view of protecting the interests of the unfortunate lady and those of her fani.ly. Ir. Ramsay la- The Learned Coun sel then stated the delusions under which boured, and ob.crved that she had only completed her 34th year in April last. Evidence having been given, Mrs. Ram , say was introduced into the room. She was dressed in deep mourning, and laughed as she approached the Commissioners. In person she is tall, with an elegant gait, and an extremely pleasing- countenance. In the course of her examination she declared her inability to take care of herself, her property, or children, assigning as a reason that she wa s d ea d, an d a l . though the Learned Comm i ssioners took considerable pains to convince her that she laboured under a delusion, she obsti nately persisted in her assertion that she had ceased to exist. The Jury found that she had been of unsound mind, and in capable of taking care of herself or of her property, since the It.th of November, 1640. t L\ ~$