The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-12 00:00:00

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He understood that th e aon - i- Nuiart‘• I nUilication was conveyed to Lord Auckland, in a pri tate letter from Lord Ellenborough. In reference ,:(ta the G o v ernor o f so di stant a p l ace as I n di a, is' s-441 e- _Noble Lord must concu r w i t h hi m as to L1",..117a1 course which one government, succeeding another, ."uld pursue. lie was surprised at the refer e n ce th at , NI been made to Affghanistan in the debate ;he was ' Prepared for it ; and on an y su bj ec t at a ll affecting Itstia,;7' 4 •Gavernor of India, so soon about to return to this Vetintry, he had been desir o us o f collecting the most cor reet information before he offered any conjecture iaej 48 to the statement. He (Sir R. Peel) certainly did 4 9t recullect any such communication as that atit, w hich the N o bl e L or d sa id was conveye d to L or d Auck ;•4ll,' Ikaud.; bu conveyedt, at the same time, as it was stated to have bee n Lordship in a private letter from 1 " 4 re, • Lo r d Ellenborough, it was difficult for him to offer any ' co ntradiction to a letter which he had never even seen. He could find no recor d o f it, an d certa i n l y no ; 4 '; such communication had been made w ith th e • Rilowledge o r consen t o f h er Majesty's Government. As he had before said, he could not undertake to an ' • slyer for a communication which he had not seen, and t w hich might h ave b een a dd resse d b y L or d E i l en b oroug h to Lord Auckland, in a spirit corresponding to ' that which marked his public opinions of that -"•‘' `Wobletnan. Immediately on his (Sir R. Peel's) Ittla a a ucceptin office he had made inquiry respecting the Goa " g , received from the G is k. era , r-General of India, and he - ' ternor of the East India Company a minute to the ed Zec ow t that the Governor-General would not abruptly up the trust which had been confided to him, nor ~6 1 shrink from the responsibility of his office, so as to cause i'44Y inconvenience by his re s ign a ti on . Th ey t h en f ound Da•Lord Auckland continuing in office at the express re. t , • quest of the Board of Directors. If he (Sir It. Peel) ;4 he that Lord Auckl an d h a d, i n comp li ance w i th ;. . .. 'the wishes o f t h e pu bli c aut h or i t i es at home, %salved b4l own personal considerations, in remaining at the head ,;44lje affairs, he (Sir R. Peel) w ou ld never, on any ‘ .4cco .tint4etaining, however, hi s own op i n i ons on the matter--h retaining, urged the withdrawal of Lord Auckland ; should in advising the erown to dispense with tfll l43he , c . 4 si rd Auckland's servii"-s under such cireure `Nis '• f"csses, have cons . s iered himself as aeii ng w i t h us r e injustice towards that Noulacnan. That ...t "ter Was wri•aen on the 7th. Lard Auckland ex ressed a de ire to return, and therefore he (Sir R. Peel) t he at lib erty to a d v i se the Crown in respect t ll % appointment of a successor On the 24th Sep ,:aber he rec e i ve d a l etter from the Chairman, alluding ;. this letter, in which he sa id t h at i t was hi g hl y impor , L,nt a communication should be made between Lord Auckland and his successor. That was on the 24th •' •• of September, and on the Bth of October he (Sir Ito- IV7,t‘ Peel) proposed to Lord Ell en b oroug h to go out, he acc e pt e d t h e o ffi ce ; therefore, it was impossible Roposal at there could be any time to receive Lord Auckland's io remain in India. These were the facts of the ,77e. Whether Lord Ellenborough mi g ht h ave wr itt en Otter to Lord A uc kl an d, i n f orm s i m il ar to t h at wh i ch Zag been a l lu d ed to, he could not ' say. That Lord Auck -7d had expressed an intention of r e maining un til a sue 114.sser arrived, he c ou ld rea dil y b e li eve. H e ( Si r • • ?eel) considered that he was perfectly at liberty to up , toint a successor. Yet, if any such letter as had • "eon referred to had been written, he could only protest ag ai nst i ts bring considered that it conveyed, directly or ' .• th."' r et tly expressed, or by implication, any approval of yo u pursued w i t h respect to Affghanistan. In the in rstof the d e b a t es i n t h at House he had . considered it be his duty to avo id t h e expression of any opinion on 7. 41 t 8 0 1 i h b a d i e c, He had his own opinion upon the subject; t u . pon public considerations, avoided any expres r as to the future course of her Majesty's Government. 4 ! could show, indeed, that by the directions given to Lord .I.ll4ekland himself, it was consistent for him to remain. P assed n ow f rom t h at su b ject, before he moved the the o f Day, to explain th e p os i t i on o f t h e Go . f:rrunimat with respect to the supplies. The estimates ' ale the servi ce o f Chi na rema i ned to be voted. It was ah e r Y•IL fortnight since that vote was moved for, and `• • 4.1 tountr 14y would be pl ace d i n great diffi cu l ty, un theyat sancti one d t h e vote. It m i ght be said • call her Majesty's Government ought earlier to have ~ •s a ., ed the attention of the House to the Votes of Supply. Mier to that he would remind the House of the ,7,7 tier in which the House had been occupied with res ,l7t to the measures relating to the financial and com a: amerai a, policy of that country. The House had then sin policy February, 41 and during that period t wo d a y s i n 4 •:,;•. 1 w eek had' been at the disposal o f h er M a j es ty' s Go piv.ll4lntAnd during part o f t h at t i me a t hi r d d ay h a d b een la — J l P.. to her Ma esty's Government. He believed ever da th j at her Majesty's Government ' . ver flare applied to the purposes of the Go ntaent had been occupied, and he thought they to'uuttaistard of fifty-four days. With the general st eurrence of the House, and upon considerations ~..4,,,__PUblic advantage, every day was devoted to the 7,gress of the three measures he had had introduced ?•lai,V . ,e Corn Bill, the Income-tax, and tasty, the Tariff. • 1 41 the Corn Bill the House was occupied 16 days. • s'4,,,.,.property-tax took 17 days, and the tariff 14 days, these added, were 47 days out of the 56 which at.' the disposal of her Majesty's Government. c was House aware that it was highly ti 31.tant' that the tariff should he passed. It 4 .l.Z9assed last Saturday, and, he hoped, that the returns 441,4414e:Cu5t0m-house would show that it already was a if- j::1" fi t• to:the country. Even if it only removed the sus tr•W'the re mova l o f t h at wou ld b e an advantage. Ow. ey bad to vote, with the sanction of t i - " Al sef . the vote for the miscellaneous estimates—the "as. ei‘2lestiMates. The vote fur Aina was urgent : the .. • ' , :'lto - 171.9bleut of India had decided in making no advance gar far in Afikhanistan. With respect to the a t 5 Th .,,`juina, an Indian loan had been agreed to ',.Ppli4: : _eent. The C o urt, in c o nseq u en ce , h a d ma d e an • = 4 :he n "on to the Chancellor o f the Exchequer for 800,000/. tulik a -chr ernment of India had advised that they should 41)further advances upon merchants' hypothecated I until December next. The Court of Directors .1 144 ed that they would a bstain from drawing bills on likt„, s rea sury of India for six months. The Government I‘.., •g gaged to supply the India Company with funds, and 4 0 f a of th e utmost importance to the Hon. Service that tes Dp , o 4l ,ther delay should take place.—(Cheers.) With recTLto the misc e lla neous es ti ma t es , it s hould be Jea r • o IL'ted that they were from the 21st of March of one I.lth 11 - ) the 21st of March of the next. It was now the ti, July : h e h a d a b sta i ned from propos i ng )att:4 estimates before, because he would not Aai t t h t4 Pt the Government measures then in progress, hea lk Lhegged to state th a t man y o f th e votes were ex ' 'thin-74ai He would mention a s a n i ns t ance th e vo te for ~gslie.at prosecutions in Ireland. The Government had e lled the p a y m ents as far as they could ; but it k itt "L the u t most i mportance to t h e public service Ivo t o n ° further delay should take place. He of not take upon himself the responsibility en Chrtoor delay. He did nut appeal to Hon. Gentlemen bli the ground of courtesy to her Ma j esty's Government, ih no e stated that the public service would be seriously . .I:::vvnienced if the estimates were any longer delayed. tkpi 41 PALMERSTON lelt called upon to give some sltlation, and he hoped he should be able to fe e e With the same ealinnesss and absence of party Th t tl t that the Right Honourable Baronet had done, • 11.1, 4 1 ', 4 Was nothing that could offend him more than tria o , l4 ,e Should be supposed capable of making; a state- Th.",til that House tor which he had not good'grounds. state trio _tight Hon'. Baronet had resolved the matter into Of Questions—a question of inference and a question °uld t'• With regard to the question of inference, he ' 4 4 r , not agree with the Right Honourable pres ent ; for he certainly considered that if the Bone Government had asked Lord Auckland . to . con to p Governor-General of India, the inference (he drawn was that they approved of his policy.— . " 1 itr ' h ear •) - W th regard to the question of fact, he ti ght he 1 • ttsti a was justified in what he had stated by the ' k ge fro m t h e letter which he had read, and which Nin l . reported very correctly. Wh a t were t h e cir . Aq„ - ,7, 11 ces of the. case ? Lord Auckl an d h a d cont i nue d A n,;""A the usual t i me, when, i n May 1840, he receiveu •I•tulakunication from Government requesting him to 'Nut' His reply was that, allowing personally it Yet if ." matter of inconvenience to him to remain, 4, 4 y It were desired, in order that he might complet e ~.N4 , r ea t measure, he would remain for a year longer. ;"% P r esent G overnmen t came i nto o ffi ce i n S ept . 1841, ,'!tb3'aar after Lord Auckland had consented to ;'ton, and when he was expected home in the E fLof the year, and then Lord Auckland '' _"‘l_ the letter, ;to which allusion had been made, '%114, 01 -114 cord, Ellenborough, the President of the Board of 4 1 ' 0 , a .of the .new Government. He certainly felt Kati the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet, lialowLitat communication had been made without his 4 04, ge, but at the same time he hoped the Right . '" l ,aronet would exonerate him (Lord Palmerston) 44 ord made the statement without foundation. llvitho za lenborough might have written that letter Atte4 'co mmunicating with his colleagues, but Lord ' 44 0 tti e 'g Could have looked upon it in no other light than . gliti 44-official communication. Where persons in office in the habit of ac ti ng together, and when le b si een red that the service of an officer abroad should ' o llba ,I%ota kt iz,tied, it was always customary to make a private i tse tt o,, c ation, in order to ascertain wheth er it wou ld b e ate"etothtt officer so addessed to remain, and that pri •! •.cottu u , utequest Was the usu a l prelude t o an o ffi c i a l uusetr illea tion. That was the course which he had "-opted in th e case o f L or d H eytes b ury, w h en h e St, it u esled that N o bl e L or d t o con ti nue as A m b assa d or 4 e, t b etersburgh. The communication, therefore, would considered as a confidential one, and he (Lord Ar tillton) considered that he hau had good grounds Sirltstatement he had made.. ,00lu to • zEEL said that he had read to the House ab ord tevery thing that had passed between himself and •-tb.,,ught _le.nberough on the subject, and from that he 41 , bihty that House would perceive that there was no pos -41/ su a t he (Sir R. Peel) could have been a party to Lord.;d.ocatnunication to Lord Auckland. Nick ALAIERSTON said he had forgotten to re- u that the h ow , letter stated that it was very lucky Lord `trothad sent in his positive resignation. ,• 41 ':EL said this t - e • was datd the 7th of Sep of6ettab)erdr. Elleuborough's eti own appointment was the lai 4 ' 44Tl ' HOW - • t o rti P.ll e b ICIs. said it only followed from that that in l °rough wrote very shortly after he arrived. ietteinburough wrote by the first mail a most press , ; ta t to .I„,rd Auckland, enjoining him in the hCI term s to remain. He presumed that on the eeiv ed r,." Auckland's formal resignation had been re ' t o , Lord Ellenborough. When Lord Ellenbo . re-4:4ll'34llt9tter arrived in Calcutta it was received with uaious on by Lord Auckland's friends, who were Alr f "r his ret _ urn. ai. 4 %gli to 1 . -*ti - said he had only entered the House early • aa. 4 ,t'ar the Noble Lord speak of the eourt f THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JUL! 12, 1842. Directors having requested Lord Auckland to remain, aini state that he justited in inferring from that their approbation of his policy. He thought the Noble Lord was not justified in drawing that Inference. In the then state of the Allkhakt war and of the war with China, the Court of Directors thought the best thing that could be done for the public service was to request Lord Auckland to remain, and Lord Auck land, on public gr,unds, accede, lei their request. To prove that the letter Li Lord Auckland was a mere private intftwititib, he begged to say that he had nevee htlrd of it. It should be rinderstood, that it was not competent to the President of the Board of Control, to make an official request, without the sanc tion of the Court of Directors. Sir J. HOBHOUSE said fils rion. Friend had made a direct application to him with reference to a request of the Mod of Control in 1840, that Lord Auck land might remain in the Government a year longer. lie begged to say that it was his intention to have kept all these communications between himself and the Board of Directors private, but when the Hon. Gentleman asked him, in the face of the House and the public, whether he consented to the request of the Board of Direct.ws, that Lord Auckland should remain in office beyond the term fixed for his retirement, and whether he considered it conveyed an apps Nation of Lord Auckland's policy and conduct— why without the slightest hesitation he said, Yes.— (near.) The question was lik the lion. Gentleman's agreeing to the word " sagacity" in the vote of thanks to Lord Auckland from the Board of Directors, and then saying that in that place the word sagacity did not mean sagaciousness. —(Laughter.) He wondered that he should have had, he would not say the sagacity but the goad nature, to have put such a question to him; and when he asked him whether lie considered the continuation of Lord Auckland in office as un ap proval of his policy, why what, in the name of God, could he think it was ?—(lmmense cheering.) When he was told that not one of the twenty-four Directors approved of the Affghanistan policy, he would say, ask Sir J. Lushington, the present Chairman. He did not mean to say that every Director approved of the Affghart policy; he knew, for example, that his Hon. Friend opposite ( Mr. Hogg), Mr. Tucker, and Sir H. Wilbek did not approve of it, and it certainly was new to him (Sir J. C. 'lob house) to hear tell that the Directors did not approve of Lord Auckland's policy ; he never knew that before.- ( Hear, hear. ) His lion. Friend opposite had quoted Lord Etlenborough's opinion of Lord Auckland. He (Sir J. C. Hohhouse) thought that what Lord Ellenborouah said could not be considered otherwise than as most unqbalified praise. The Hon. Gen tleman had read those praises, and he (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) would not troube the House with reading them again. Let the }louse bear in mind what Lord Ellenborough said. He raid that Lord Auckland had exhibited great practical ability in the administration of affairs, and that it was a matter of great personal gratification to him to observe the inde fatigable industry, great ability, and extensive knowledge which he exhibited in the investigation of all great questions that came before him. What was the greatest of all ques tions? Was it not whether a great army should march across the Indus, and we endeavour to establish our influence in Cen tral Asia ?—( Hear, hear ) Was it possible for any human being to convey praise in less measured language than this ? To make it more sure, Lord Ellenborough mil that there would still be something for him to do; he yet felt that he had much to do to terminate the war in China, and to restore tranquillity to the banks of the Indus. That was Lord Ellen borough's duty ; but was there anything in that statement qualifying the praises he had before bestowed ? He was sure Lord Auckland would form the idea that what Lord Ellen borough had said was intended as a great compliment, ansi he (Sir J. C. Hobhouse), acting on the same idea, wrote to Lord Auckland, expressing his gratification at the opinion which Lord Ellenborough had expressed on his poiicy. In conclu sion, he must again l epeat that he certainly never heard one word of the East India Directors not approving of Lord Auck land's policy. Mr. HOGG explained. Mr. HUME deprecated as unusual the course adopted by Sir Robert Peel in referring to correspondence which was not before the House. The Right Hon. Gentleman had refused to grant documents respecting the war in Affghanistan, and lie could not therefore think the Right non. Baronet was justi fied in bringing forward any private letters on the subject. But the flight Hon. Baronet had addressed the House on what was of much greater importance, with respect to the supplies to be granted to her Majesty's Government. The Last India Com pany having, he was aware, made arrangements with their Go vernment abroad to pay their part of the debt, great incon venience would arise from any delay of the supplies in this par ticular respect. He (Mr. Hume), therefore, would not object to the vote relating to China. But with respect to the other supplies, a strong opinion pre vailed out of doors, that the Right Hon. Baronet, on having got the supplies, meant to close the House, and not bring forward any further measures. The distress was augmenting every day, and something ought to be done to remedy it. The Right Hon. Baronet ought not therefore to allow Parliament to close without coming forward with some remedial measure or other. Indeed he (Mr. Hume) had heard that intimations had been given at the public offices, that the Right Hon. Baronet meant to bring the session to a close by the 25th of this month. He could assure the Right Hon. Baronet, that if he came for ward and stated what in his honest conviction would afford re lief, and also stated he was prepared to carry such a measure, there would not be the smallest opposition, as far as he knew, given to the granting of the supplies. Sir R. PEEL said, that the report which the Hon. Gen tleman had heard of an intimation being given at the public offices of the intention of Government to prorogue Parliament on a certain day, was utterly without foundation. When the supplies were voted, there were other important measures to be brought forward—continuing Bills, &c. Even if Hon. Gentlemen gave the. supplies to-night, it was impossible that Parliament could be prorogued at once, Mr. B. D'ISRAELI, in reference to what had been stated respecting the opinion of Lord Ellenborough, relative to Lord Auckland's administration, said, that subsequently to Lord Auckland's declaration being submitted to the House of Lords, Lord Ellenborough declared, that as far as he could form an opinion of Lord Auckland's policy it amounted to only an error. But he (Lord Elienborough) gave him credit for explanations which had arrived, and but for them, he should have deemed his conduct amounted to a crime. Mr. SHIEL said, th 4 as the Government had by some ac cident lost a day, he would not bring furvrard, this evening, the motion respecting the case of Mr. St George, of which he had given notice upon the House going into Committee of Supply. He would postpone the motion, therefore, to the next supply night, when he should take a review of the conduct of the Irish Government, since they came into office, and of the various cir cumstances which amounted to a departure from the solemn pledges which the Government had given to govern Ireland with impartiality. He thought it his duty to give this notice to the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland. As nothing had been brought forward this session on the state of Ireland, he thought he was justified in drawing the attention of the House somewhat fully to the subject. On the Order of the Day being read for going into Com mittee of supply, REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. Mr. VILLIERS rose to move a repeal of the Corn-laws. If that amendment were a mere personal matter, nothing would have been more likely to induce him to withdraw it than the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet with respect to the interruption of the public business, but the case was one of too much urgency to allow of his accedingto any such suggestion. The amendment which he proposed was, that previously to going into Committee of Supply, they should take into consideration an en rmous grievance ; a greater grievance than that to which his amendment referred could not be inflicted upon the pr ople. It was a grievance which interfered with their liberty, with their industry, and with the free interchange of the necessaries of life. He would not then enter into the general argument, for everything which he could say he had already said upon that subject.—( Hear, hear.) Ho did not act solely upon his own judgment in bringing that matter be- fore the House. He acted in compliance with the wishes and in accordance with the expectations of those great masses of the people who were now suffering from this law, and who regarded themselves as the victims of its operation. He gathered this information from the gentlemen who had been delegated from the manufacturing towns to lay before the public the state of the p.spulation. They were well acquainted with the distress of the country, and they were of opinion that the best plan was to ask their friends in that. House to meet them in a conference, to con sider what would be the best way of bringing their grievances under the attention of the House— what should he the remedies. They had met last Fri day, and it was carried by acclamation that the question he was now about to make should be submitted to the House. In consequence of that request he was now about to avail him self of this opportunity to ask the House to review these laws. In the unprecedented position which both Houses assumed to wards the people, he thought it not unreasonable that the peo ple should demand the repeal of the Corn-laws. He should, therefore, move that this House do resolve itself into a Com mittee to inquire into the best means by which this law could be repealed. The law itself contained a provision that it should be open to any Member of that House to move its repeal, and it was perfectly consistent with that provision that the pre sent proposition should be made. If the object of the present Bill was to remove the defects of the old law, such a failure had never been seen in legislation ; every evil that had happened under the old law, had happened under this; the reduction of duty bad had no offeet, fur the price of corn had risen ever since it came into operation. Since the law had passed, all the evils had increased in intensity, and that was a ground for inquiry into it. Since that law had been passed, various were the admissions of the extent and amount of misery which had resulted frown that law. One million two hundred thousand persons were dependent on parochial relief. Manu factured goods were not saleable; and it had been admit ted that the people ought to obtain the essentials for life at the places, and in the manner, that they could obtain them cheapest. Since the Bill had passed, which he asked the House tow to repeal these. S,veral admissions had been made by the Ministers of the Crown. The people could not believe that, admitting as they did, the distresses of the country, they could refu-e to give relief to the people. It was impos sible to disguise the extent to which the distress really slid ex - ist. He believed the gentlemen opposite had admitted it to its fullest extent, and he understood that the Right Hon. Ba ronet when he sax the Anti-Corti-law Delegates, considered that their statement offered ineentrovertible proofs of that dis tress. Ile (Mr. Villiers) had observed that gentlemen on the other side sat perfectly quiet when any statement was being made of the distress existing in the boroughs, or districts to which they belonged. They appeared tacitly to admit the truth of those statements. This distress was not confined to the manufacturing districts, and such statements had been made in Committee lately by clergymen, who were the only intelligent people in agricultural districts, as to leave no doubt that the distress in the agricultural equalled, if not surpassed, that in the manufacturing districts. The clergymen stated that in Devonshire the people never were worse off, and could not be worse off than they were at present, and in Dorset shire they were quite as bad. This had been at tended by its usual consequence, the great increase of crime. The Judge, Mr. Justice Coleridge, had observed on the in ' crease of crime, and had made many learned remarks on the want of a proper education, but in looking over the calendar of prisoners which had given rise to the Learned Judge's ob • nervations, he found that out of 80 offences, 47 of them were for stealing food and articles of subsistence.—( Hear, hear. ) In every manufacturing district there was but one complaint. He had seen hundreds of letters from those districts, and they all opened by stating that the multitudes were out of employ ment—that the distress was increasing—that there were no hopes of relief—that they knew not how they should escape starvation—that the people were sinking into the lowest depths of destitution. Under these circumstances be called upon tho House of Commons for relief. 'I he Corn-law which they had passed had utterly failed in its professed object ; it had not made food plentiful—it had raised its price ; and under those circumstances, and seeing the admission that had been made by the Ministers of the Crown since that Bill had passed, he called upon them to repeal that law. The people stated that they were in distress, and they also stated that the repeal of the Corn-law would be a remedy for that distress. The repeal of the Corn-law would afford them instant relief. Under those circumstances he called upon the House of Com mons to exercise their constitutional right, and not to grant to the Ministers the supplies they asked until they had first ob timid a reclross.of grjevanuee by' the repeal of . dile was:depressing the energies of the people. He should there fore move that the House do resolve itsel , ' into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the laws regulating the importation of corn, with a view to their total and imme diate repeal. The question having been ptit, FIELDEN *ho *as heard very indistinctly in the gallery, lifter a few introductory observations proceeded to submit to the House a statement of the gradual decline of the wages of the hand-loom weavers, from 1815 down to the present year. By a Report published by the House of Commons, it was stated that at the present time the hand-loom weavers of Yorkshire, were not earning more than 3s. per week. The quantity of cloth woven by a single weaver for 3s. could not be produced by the most expensive m ichinery, and in fact the hand-loom weavers were now successfully com peting with machinery. Unless they did something to increase the wages of the people, or give them bread cheap, they could not expect to govern much longer in quiet; and therefore it was that he said that they must repeal the Corn- laws.—( Hear, hear.) The proprietors of one of the largest mills in Man• cheater dismissed all their operatives about two years ago, be cause they could not compete with those mills where machinery was used. They then expended 30,000/. an the purchase of the best machinery they could obtain, and commenced working again about six months ago. Notwithstanding the former suc cess of the proprietors of this mill, and notwithstanding all their new and effective machinery, such was the state of trade that they had now stopped again. The manufac turers had, of late, been paying wages which considerably exceeded the amount of labour they had received in re turn ; they had now, however, arrived at such a crisis that they could not pay such wages any longer, and they would not be able to pay any wages at all, unless the restrictions which at present existed were removed from trade.—( Hear, hear.) At the close of the war they enacted the Corn-laws, and they had repealed the Property-tax. Now they had re-imposed the Income-tax, because the revenue was failing. When the Pro perty-tax was proposed, he supported it, but an Income-tax was unjust. ''hose who thought that the Corn-laws were the cause of this national embarrassment were justified in taking any constitutional steps to secure their repeal. ;Mr. P. HOWARD said he thought an entire repeal of the Corn-laws would superadd to manufacturing all the dismal disasters of agricultural distress. It would cer tainly lead to throwing out of cultivation a large quantity of land. The true friends of this country would be satis fied with a moderate fixed duty, which should give the country the advantage of a barter, without exposing it to these di-advantages. The statements of the Hon. Member for Oldham certainly carried wiih them much weight, and he hoped the Government would give the motion every con sideration. Mr. AGLION BY would not allude now to the stopping of the supplies. He could not give his support to the motion of the Hon. Member for Greenock, because it was vague and un defined, but the present motion was a specific one. He had always been for a fixed duty, but the unparalleled state of things had convinced him that the agriculturists had outstood their time. He did not believe that in the present state of the country any measure short of the repeal of the Corn-laws ought to he adopted, nix ought they to separate till such a measure was carried. He did not believe that the distress arose from the competition of labour with machinery. He did not, however, think that the Corn-laws were the entire cause of this distress ; on the contrary, he considered them only one of the causes. He certainly should vote in favour of the motion. Mr. HAW tsS thought it of some little consequence, whilst they were discussing the distress, to call the attention of the House to the grounds upon which the Corn-laws were passed. He maintained that they were passed for no other purpose than to keep up the rents of those times. High prices and high retie, prevailed, and it was assigned as a reason by Sir Henry Parini, in June 1813, that it was necessary to protect the capital which had been invested in tillage. Could it be said that that was a just reason for passing a law ? He said that a more narrow-minded view could not have been taken in passing a great law which affected the trade, the commerce, the hap piness, anti the commercial prosperity of a great nation— ( Hear, hear)—and Lord Liverpool clearly attributed the pass ing of that law to the necessity tor upholding the rents of the landlords, and to allow for the changes incidental upon passing from war to peace. The circumstances under which Lord Liverpool advocated the passing of that law had passed away, and he (Mr. Hawes) contended that it should now eerepealed.—( Hear, hear.) When the law of 1828 was introe:uced they had a Report from an honest and upright man (Mr. Jacob) upon the Cern-laws. Mr. Jacob touched in his Report upon the state of manufactures in Prussia; and if he (Mr. Hawes) referred to the Report of Dr. Bowring he should find a most remarkable contrast between the two. Mr. Jacob, in 1826, stated that the people in the Prussian pro vinces, who had not hitherto been manufacturers, where the people indeed were purely agricultural, were commencing to manufacture a little yarn and wool, but their attempt did not appear to be at all successful. Now contrast this Report with Dr. Bowring's Report of 1839. He stated that the price of the Prussian woollen cloth was lower than ours : some of the woollens were bad but others could not be surpassed. Here was this country, now our greatest rival in the markets of the world of our woollen manufactures. He thought this was a fact with which the House ought to be struck ; he did not expect to convince her Majesty's Ministers, for he well knew that it was impossible to convince them, when they could answer him by the most convincing of all arguments—numerical force. He maintained, however, that he had a right to raise his voice in favour of trade being freed from all restrictions. What was Sir Robert Walpole's system of taxation? It was to divide the tariff into taxed and untaxed articles, and amongst the un taxed articles were to be placed all those which were necessary to the maintenance and support of the people.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Colonies, had stated with an air of ridicule the different assigned causes of the distress. They had never heard, either from the Noble Lord or from the Government, what was their explanation of the distress ; they were alike silent upon the cause and the remedy.—( Hear ) References had been made by the Noble Lord to the falling off of the trade with China. He did not believe that that falling off would at all account for the distress. In his opinion the Corn-laws were the main cause, and their removal was the most efficient re medy which could be adopted. There was no part of the world in which it would not extend our market; and, therefore, gists employment to the operatives. He knew the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) had deprecated this country becom ing so covered with manufactories that nothing but the factory bell should be heard through the land. But what, in fact, was the source of the greatness and prosperity of this country? It was manufactures which had given to England her superior prospe rity, and the revival of manufactures was the only hope of the revival of prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) Most important mea sures were proposed last session, the tendency of which was to reduce the price of sugar and ether articles of consump tion. It was the intention of the late Government to have re moved many of the monopolies which added to the people's dis tress. He could not help contrasting this conduct with the con duet of the Right Hon. Baronet and the Government of which he was the head. The country, since the accession of the pre sent Government, had undergone twelve months' distress with out anyt ling being proposed for the amelioration of their condition.—( Hear, hear.) The Corn-laws might have been settled a year ago, so also might the sugar question. But they had got an Income-tax, and that tax was proposed to relit ye the poor.—( Hear, hear.) He did not hes,tate to say, that so far from relieving the poor, it was cal culated, by diminishing the means of employment, to inflict a deep and lasting curse upon them. He could not but think that the present state of the country was generally one of alarm, and he could not help stating his belief that the middle classes shared largely in the general distress. If the Govern ment viewed this state of things without proposing an altera tion, the time would come when the people would desire further political changes ; the time would come when all their Conservative doctrines would be swept away before the irre sistible torrent of the people's will.—t Hear, hear.) Mr. G. KNIGHT said the speech of the Hen. Gentleman opposite was not only his own speech, but that of the Anti- Corn-law League, and however high that body might stand in their own estimat:on, he was convinced they did not stand so high in the opinion of the House, that they would submit to their dictation. —( Hear, hear.) He believed that the repeal of the Corn-laws would increase the distress a hundred fold, and cause a general stagnation in trade. Certain he was that it would throw a vast quantity of land out of cultivation. He was no advocate for class legislation, but he desired as, much pro tection as would enable the farmer to pursue his employment. The sincerest advocates for free trade in corn, admitted that the price of corn would not exceed 475. He was sure, at that price, poor land could not possibly be kept in cultivation. He thought the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir R. Peel) had struck the balance fairly between the two great interests, into which this country was divided. The Hon. Member for Lambeth found fault with them for not going far enough, but, at present, they were pound to consider the actual affairs of the world, and though they acknowledged the excellence of the principles, yet they should not carry -them out in such a manner as should domore harm than good. He was inclined to hope that the accounts they had heard from the other side of the House had been to some extent exaggerated, though there could be no doubt but gi eat distress existed. But as far as Nottingham was con cerned, it entirely repudiated the measure under the considera tion of the House. The Hon. Member for Bolton a short time since went down there to do a little in the way of agitation, but was met by a feeling by no means unanimous on the part of the population, as he was unfortunately hooted out of the public hall.—(Laughter.) He traced the dis tress in a great measure to over-production, and re peated his conviction that the. accounts of it were exag gerated. He deprecatt d the language used in depicting it, which only made the people believe that things would be still worse, and excited them to deeds of violence which they would else have never thought of. He looked forward with confidence to the approaching harvest, and expressed his fears that a remedy was out of the power of any Ministry. He thought that affairs would mend the sooner when such discussions as these should cease. Mr. HINDLEY said that the mere fact of such a body of men as the Corn-law Conference coming to London twice during the same session, was a great proof of the urgency of the case. This very circum stance, instead of preventing them from going into discussion, ought to be an adcitional reason for doing so. He had bean induced the other night to support the adjournment of the de bate, and he thought it would have been better for Hon. Gen tlemen opposite if they had agreed to it, when, after the elo quent speech of the Hon. Member for Bath, he saw no less than six Members of the Governmert asleep on the Treasury 'lnches ; he thought there was no chance of a speech from so obscure a Member as himself being listened to. Now to the question before the House. The distress, he believed, was ad mit• ed and deplored by every party, and he believed that all parties sympathised with it. But various causes had been as signed for it. Some had said it was machinery, but SO far from machinery having caused an over-production of the supply of the world, it had failed to provide clothing for their own land, for never was the wardrobe of the people in so poor a condition. He quoted the price of corn for a series of years, to show that when food was cheapest the people had more money to dispose of for other articles. At present they had not enough to purchase clothes ; all the machinery of the country had not been able to supply clothing to their own population. He regretted the Right Honourable Ba ronet had not acceded to the proposition of the Member for Aberdeen, the 'other evening. Were there a pros pect of the people obtaining corn at a reasonable price, they would be encourag , cl to spend something in clothing. He hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would not let the ses sion pass without stating that he would endeavour that the price of food should not be so extravagantly high next year as it now was. Mr. F. SCOTT did not think the existing distress attribut able to the Corn-laws, nor did he believe that the repeal of those laws would alleviate that distress. The Corn-laws had not, he thou ;ht, got a fair trial. Let them get a fair trial, and then if it should be shown that those laws were the cause of the distress of the country, their repeal might be taken into consideration. The great evil of this country was its inability to produce sufficient corn, which was particularly the case t, hen corn was unprotected in the time of James the First. the Honourable Gentleman quoted Sir Thomas Culpepper, who wrote in 1661, in proof of his position; and went on to show from other writers, that in the following cen tury, when agriculture was protected, France had recourse to this country to he supplied with corn. Sir C. NAPIER would not detain the House by any length ened observations on the subject of debate, as it hadalready been so amply and ably discussed, and that too with arguments which had been hut feebly answered on the other side. He regretted that the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton had thought it ne cessary to bring forward the question again. His (Sir C. Napier's) advice to Hon. Gentlemen would be, to allow the supplies, and then go to their homes, and endeavour to pre serve the peace of the country. L -E.i r a, PEEL Ina happy to hear from the Crillint .( O a sentiments so congenial to his own: The Gallant Commodore thought those discussions an unwarrantable waste of time. Sir CHARLES NAPIER—That is, of curse, only my own opinion. Sir R. PEEL—The Gallant Commodore did not do himself justice. He did not stand alone in that opinion.—( Laughter. ) It was said that the Corn-laws were inefficacious, that they would do nothing to relieve the distress of the people. But he ( Sir R. Peel) contended that they did not allow the present law a sufficient trial. Hon. Gentlemen opposite were, not in tilstionally perhaps, but certainly practically, preventing a fair trial being given to the new (3orn-law. He would bring before the House some of the experiments of the new law which were proceeding so very unsatisfactorily. For the last week following the receipt of the averages, and ending June 30, 1842, the quantity of colonial wheat en- tered for home consumption at a duty of Is. per quarter, was 5,002 quarter!. The quantity of foreign wheat imported was 48,112 quarters. And the quantity taken out for home con sumption, at a duty of 9s. per quarter, amounted to 48,460 quarters. During the week 53,500 quarters of wheat had been taken out of bond for home consumption. He had re ceived information that the harvest had actually commenced in some favoured districts, and he was assured that in the mar ket at Alaldun, wheat had fallen 2s. a ,carter. He deprecated these motions, as calculated to induce speculators to keep back the corn ; but, at the same time, he thought that those who were holding back corn, in hope of getting it admitted at a Is. duty, would find that they had been in error, and that ultimately they would incur a great loss. It was unfair to give a judgment of the Corn-law on a seven weeks' experience ; but he thought that, as far as that experi ence went, it proved that the new Corn-law was a beneficial measure. No one could attempt to deny the existence of great distress, and it was impossible to withhold the expression of the deepest sympathy with those who were suffering from it ; and it he believed that that distress could be materially or per manently alleviated by an alteration in the Corn-laws, he should not hesitate to propose a relaxation of them—(Cheers) — and he felt assured that if the landed inierest could be con vinced that an alteration of the Corn-laWs would permanently relieve distress, they would not refuse to relax those laws mate rially.—(Cheers.) He feared, however, that the alterations they hail already made in the tariff, alterations which bad been approved by all parties, had tended temporarily to increase the stagnation. The Customs returns showed a decrease in the re venue on wine—that perhaps was owing to the uncertainty which had hitherto prevailed on the subject of the wine duty, but he was happy to be able to inform the House that the re sent Government had at length been able to carry Into effect the intentions of the Noble Lord opposite, and that the commercial treaty with Portugal, the negotiations for which had been begun by the late Government, had at last been signed, and that the signing of it had been followed by nego tiations with Portugal respecting an amended tariff, which he was happy to say were proceeding satisfactorily.—(Cheers.) He hoped the effect of that treaty would be to induce the Govern ment and people of Spain to relax their commercial regula tions, seeing the immediate result of that uncertainty on the subject of the wine duties, had been to cause a reduction in the last year of 108,0001. The next article in which a reduction had taken place was deals, batty, and timber, the reduction in which amounted to 113,0001. This he attributed entirely to the uncertainty occasioned by the alteration in the tariff. In the articles of brandy and rum a reduction had taken place to a large amount, which he attributed to the same causes ; and in coffee a reduction of 31,000/, had taken place. The anieles in which an increase had taken place, were articles which had not been affected by the late alteration. On sugar there had been an increase of 113,0001., on molasses of 34,0001., on cotton wool of 26,980/., and on tea of 16,7181. This showed that the reduction of duties on articles was not followed by an immediate increased demand, and that the reform even of admitted abuses was not unfrequently followed by temporary deficiency and distress. The Hon. Member for Stockport bad the other night accused him of att.ibuting the distress to ma • chinery. He certainly did say that the immediate operation of the introduction of improved machinery was to produce in many instances local distress and want of employment, but would he therefore undervalue the introduction of machinery? far from it; lie admitted that it was impossible to check the march of improve ment in mechanics, that it would be impolitic to do so if it were possible, and that the ultimate effect of the improvement ; of machinery would be to increase the demand for labour ; but still the immediate effect of the sudden application of machinery was in many instances to throw persons out of employment ; and in a country in such an artificial state of society as this, it could not be expected that we could be exempt from partial suffering. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Stockport, had had borne testimony to the efficient manner in which the Assis tant Poor-law Commissioner, who had been sent down to Stock port, had conducted the inquiry. Now from the evidence taken by this gentleman, it appeared that many of the most respectable inhabitants of Stockport agreed with bim in opinion as to the consequence of the immediate results of the sudden introduction of machinery.—( The Right Hon. Gentleman here quoted the evidence of Mr. Lawton, of Mr. R. Maclean; of Mr. Proc ter, who stated, that by means of machinery, one house in Stockport could turn out twenty miles of calico a day; of Mr. Foster, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and one of the deputation which had waited on the Right Hon. Gentleman on Saturday last ; the evidence of all thesegentlemen went to show, that since 1834 the introduction of improved machinery had tended to throw many hands out of employment in Stockport.) It was true these gentlemen attributed a great part of the dis tress to the existence of the Corn-laws, hut the evidence went to show, that in such an artificial state of society as that under which we were living, great commercial prosperity might co-exist with great local suffering and distress. It appeared fiom the statistical details that the Corn-laws had nothing vs hatover to do with the wages of the operatives. Re ference had been made to the patience with which the poorer classes had borne the distress which the pressure of the times 'had inflicted upon them. He did not know that those who had I so much lauded that patience had done a great deal to cause that patience. When a bill was exhibited in that House some time ago, headed " Murder," he (Sir R. Peel) was glad to hear the Hon. Member opposite assert that the members of the Anti-Corn-law League had deprecated the issue of such bills, which certainly were of a most inflammatory nature. He ( Sir R. Peel) bad lately received intimation that bills of an inflammatory character, headed " Murder," continued to be exhibited in a shop, No. '22, Market-street, Manchester, and on the shop was printed " Depot for the National Anti-Corn law League."—( Hear.) The man who printed the bill was printer to the Anti-Corn-law League, and his shop was only instant a few doors from the depot.—( Hear.) He did trust that the Hon. Member would take some steps to prevent the },ersons composing that League making such appeals to the feelings of the people. Amongst the steps which he (Sir R. Peel) had taken for the relief of the poor was that of recom mending to her Majesty a general alms-giving, and he did trust that the country would still tee] the obligation to contribute to the funds for their relief. He (Sir R. Peel) felt that this was no permanent, no satisfactory mode of reliet, still it might do much to mitigate the distress and sufferings ut the people, and he trusted that those who were opposed to her Majesty's Government would not refuse to contribute towards these tundt.—( Hear, hear.) He was ready to admit that the tr n u d e se principle .l inthe of dearest,c om m a e n r d ee teas such to was buy in the the principle whichh ema should rk et himself adopt, were it not for the complicated interests in this country, all of which required to be consulted in a greater or less degree. He did, however, reduce the duties on foreign corn, and that to an extent which led many of those opposite to upbraid him for having broken faith with those who had placed their confidence in him. lie had reduced the duties more than one half, and he did trust that a fair trial would be given to the alterations which he had proposed. In the article sugar he had not felt justified in }imposing any alteration ; he denied, however, that the Government adopted that measure for the purpose of obtaining Parliamentary support. At the commencement of this year there were constant comparisons between the prices of meat in this country and other countries, and they were constantly told that they dared not attempt to deal with the monopoly which existed in meat. With respect to rice, bacon, and fish, the reduction had also been very material; the effect of that re duction had not been seen, but the effect would be very con siderable.—( Hear, hear.) One Hon. Gentleman had asked them why they had not meddled with the banking laws? Why, what encouragement had they to meddle with the banking laws ? Had not every proposition they had made met with opposition? Had not the whole of the Session been taken up with the discussion of the great measures he bad proposed? and up to the present, time they had not been able to pass the Ist clause of the Poor-law Bill. What encouragement then had they to meddle with the Banking-laws? I f he had tossed the Bill upon the table in the present state of things, he maintained that he should only be adding to the pre sent confusion.—(Cheers from both sides.) He had proposed the Income-tax, and he must say that a measure never met with the more general approbation of the country than that ineasure—( Hear, hear)—and he contended if they had to raise 4,000,000/. in the country, the best course was to raise it on the property of the country rather than on articles which sus tained the industry of the country. if after a fair trial those measures which he had brought forward should not prove ade quate to meet the distress under which the country was suffer ing, he ( Sir R. Peel) should be the first to admit that no former opinion should interfere to prevent a revision of those measures ; but he did say that no conclusion should be formed until a fair trial had been afforded, to see whether these mea sures would contribute to alleviate the prevailing distress, and to the revival o f that prosperity for which no parties could be more anxions than those who were entrusted ;with the con duct of public affairs.—(Long-continued cheers.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the Right, Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government had made so many general observations on his policy, that he feund it impossible to refrain from following in his steps. Let him (Lord John Russell) add, that he should judge from the concluding sen tences of the Right Hon. Baronet's speech, that however much he had recommended his measures to the adoption of Parlia ment, he was not very confident of success himself. The tone in which the Right Hon. Baronet spoke of those measures, that if his measures succeeded it would gratify his hopes, and if they - failed', they-would require a revision—certainly implied to his ( Lord J. Russell's) mind, that he had no very sanguine 1 expectation that those measures would attain the objects for t which they were proposed. The Right Hon. Gentleman said 1 that those who brought forward motions on that side of the I House were preventing the admission of foreign corn. he begged to recal to the recollection &of the House, that for . eight weeks after the Corn Bill received the Royal assent, there of the Right Hon. declarations, very w H a ar s o n n o et. D interferenceuringthawtitthirntehtehemreeawsuerreesonly natural ones he thought, that the principles promulgated in the tariff must finally be applied to corn. If he looked back to the proceedings under the Corn-law of last year he saw still less reason to believe that the Right Hon. Baronet was justified in his statement. The Right Hon. Baronet attributed it as a great merit in the existing Corn-laws, that 25,000 quarters were introduced in one week, and upwards of 48,000 in another. Now it appeared that the admission of foreign corn in the week ending the 16th of April, 1841 was 38.825, and the admission in the week ending the 21st of May Was 71,040. The duty in the first of those instances was 225. Bd., and in the last 235. Bd. It was thus clearly shown that the diminution of duty which the Right Hon. Gentleman had made was nothing more nor less than a loss to the revenue ; it was no gain to the people. ( (..heers from the Opposition, answered by cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Th e great bulk of the foreign corn, by the introduction of which the price would be reduced, remained cos in bond, as it did during the course of the last year. In the last year, 1,852,000 quarters of corn were introduced in a single week ; they had now 15.000,000 quarters in bond, and by the operation of the laws which the Right Hon. Gentleman had introduced, the greater portion of that quantity might be increased, just as it had formerly been. The vice of the law was the vice of a continual temptation to hold back the c orn w hil e price was rising. Even supposing that the Right Hon. Gen tleman's best anticipations were realised, the country had suf fered, and not only the manufacturing but the agricult ura l por t,on of the c,,mmunity had suffered by the delay. If they had had an Bs. duty at the commencement of the year, the farmer would not have been terrified at the prospect of our immense quantity of corn in bond. which would sooner or later lower the market. —( H ear . ) He could not agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman that the success of his measure had been pre vented by trig motions on that side of the House. The Right lion. Gentleman had spoken with great caution respecting the effects of an admission of foreign cern, but he had never gone so far as to say that he would not expect from it a permanent al leviation of the distresses of the people. lie stated that if he and his colleagues expected a permanent alleviation of the dis tresses of the people from a relaxation of the Corn-laws, they would then lwAlispnsed tolisten to such a proposition. But wasit not something when they heard such harassing tales of distress, when the Members for the manufacturing towns, one after another, declared to that House the miserable condition to which the inhabitant, of -their towns had been reduced, when they heard that theta bad Hitherto been U° alleviation of that distress—was it not something that they should pass a measure which the Right Hon. Gentleman did not deny would be a tem porary alleviation of the distress?—( Hear, hear. ) He quite I , g,reed with the Right Hon. Gentleman that it was unfair and mischievous to deprecate subscription, seeing that they were calculated to afford temporary relief ; but if it was desir able from alms, from charity, to relieve the public distress, why should it not be done by law ? why should not the people receive the same relief from the exercise of their own industry, and the produce of their own hands ?—( Hear, hear.) That had not been the course of the Governments to which the Right lion. Gentleman had belonged. The Noble Lord then referred to the sveeches of Mr. Canning and Lord Liverpool to show that they were in favour of affording relief in times of distress, by means of alterations in the Corn-laws. Lord Liverpool was of opinion teat a reduction in the price of corn would be a mate rial alleviation of the distress existing in 1e26. If the Go vernment were not prepared to enter into the whole question of the Corn-laws, could they not agree to the proposal of his Noble Friend, the Member for Sunderland, to admit cot n until next spring at a moderate duty, which would secure a market for our manufactures ?—( Hear, hear.) He thought the f loose might very well waive the general question of the Corn laws, in order to agree to such a motion. Hon. Gentlemen op po,te stated last year that the measures of the late Govern ment were not calculated to afford relief to the country. All that those Honourable Gentlemen now said with respect to the oistresses of the people was, that they hoped for a good harvest. Why, he thought, although the abilities of the late Government were not very shining, they were, at least, equal to looking at the barometer, and crying, •' We hope for a good harvest."—( Great laughter. ) It corn had been admitted at a moderate duty last year, though the distress had not been wholly removed, it would have been greatly alleviated.— ( Hear, hear. ) But let them really look at the distress which prevailed, and the patience with which it had been borne. It was impossible to exaggerate, or to praise too highly, the forti tude and the patience with which the people suffered their life to ebb away, without anything like anger, resistance, or impatience.—( Hear, hear. ) It was admitted by the first Minister of the Crown that the admission of foreign corn would be at least- a temporary alleviation of that distress, and he thought he was bound therefore to have re course to it. He did not say that he agreed with the Hon. Gentleman who proposed a total repeal of the Corn-laws. If the first question should be negatived of going into supply, he should propose to leave out all the latter words of the Hon. Gentleman's motion by which the repeal of the Corn-laws was made a part of that question. He thought the best motion would be, that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider the Act of the present Ses sion relating to the importation of foreign corn.—( Hear, hear.) lie retained the ()pillions which he had formerly expressed on this subject.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had spoken of the injury which had necessarily been done to cominerce by the proposal of the tariff. Ile readily agreed with hitn that it was impossible to propose any great change, however wholesome or politic, without for a time interfering Kith the pursuits of trade ; but he thought a great part of the delay which had taken place in this instance had arisen from the contradiction between the principles propounded by the Government aryl the tariff which they Lad proposed.—( Hear.) A mere enunciation of principles would neither teed nor clothe the people. It was an objection made to the late Go vernment that it was unable to carry its measures. But where was the d,fference between a Ministry that did propose mea sures according to its principles, and one who proposed mea sures not in accordance with its principles, because if it did it could not expect to carry those measures?—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had done justice to the negotiations which had been going on with Portugal, and with regard to other treasures, he did not blame the policy of the late Govern ment. He had alluded to the order in which measures had bi en prepared ; he (Lord J. Russell) had last year intended to bring forward an Irish Registration Bill, and thought the Poor. law ought. to be afterwards considered, and now the Right Hon. Gentleman stated that an English measure of Registra tion should precede a measure of Irish Registration. It had been said by Mr. Herries, with regard to certain public mea sures, making use of the remark of a French critic on a book he was reviewing, that they contained some things which were good and some which were new, but unfortunately all that was good was not new, and all that was new was not good. Now that was just the remark he might apply to the measures of the present Government ; the Poor-laws, the Colonial Customs Bill, the Colonial Passengers Bill, the South Australian Bill, the New South Wales Bill, the Justices Jurisdiction Bill ; in fact, to the principles of the tariff itself, which, the Noble Lord truly said, was founded on the principles prepared by the late Government. There was another measure which was good, but not new—the Poor-law ; and the Income-tax was new, but not good. The same thing might be said of the Corn .law measure of the present year—it was new, but not good. Such was the view he tolk of the measures of the present Government.—( Hear, hear.) The Government had no reason to complain of the present application, for during this session more days had been devoted, in the earlier part of it, to Government business, than he ever recollected. On the questions of foreign anti colonial policy, and the much-agitated question of the government of Ireland, there had been no dis position on this side of the House to oppose the Government. 1\ or was he willing to obstruct the general progress of the measures of the .Government, and the public business of the country, and therefore he should give his vote against the resolution. Air. Ct. iBDEN repudiated the declaration that machinery was the cause of the distress. It had never been so in periods of ordi nary prosperity, and he defied the Right lion. Baronet to prove it. So many people had never been thrown out of employment as to cause a general and universal distress; he therefore thought it unworthy to bring forward such an argument. It would be more statesmanlike in the Right Hon. Baronet to look back at the condition in which they once were, when they were prospering, with a view of returning to it. The prosperity of 1824 and 162.5 might now be said to be no pros perity at all. Some years ago we exported to America mere than they imported, by way of loan, and it was now returning to us in the shape of goods for the payment of debts due to us. There was a mission gone out from this country, with a view to reconstruct the credit of America ; it was a futile errand ; the gentleman who had gone out knew nothing of the unwieldy and unmanageable democracy of America.—(Cheers from the Tory benches.) Yes, they would go to Washington, and they would find that they could not earwig a Minister, nor pull the wires that governed the destinies of seventeen or eighteen miliions of people. And happy would it be for this country if they were not. at the mercy of a few selfish jobbers in the city of London. They had nothing to hope from imports to Spain and Portugal ; they must go to America. Their re medies lay within their own Statute-book, and they could not evade the repeal of the laws that prevented the importation of food. But the great objection was said to be that it would throw land out of cultivation ; he would not believe it. Would it throw Ireland out of cultivation ? In Scotland the farmers laughed at it, and at the English system of agriculture. They were actually bringing Scotch farmers into Cheshire, at double the rents, and yet having larger profits. Let them recollect that the tide of pauperism which hitherto set into the towns, was flowing bar; upon the country, and when that mass of pauperism came to be supported by the land, upon which they had the first claim, what would became of their estates ? He believed that if the Corn-laws were repealed, that would be the very time to purchase land. The sym pathy of the whole world was with the, working classes in the battle against the Corn-laws. And what was it they were contending against the people for? Was it not enough for them to have the Church, the law, the army, and the navy at their disposal ? Must they also seek for the phantom advan tage of the Corn-laws? Would they risk their coronets, their titles, their estates, their dignities in the battle with the people for bread ? lie was ashamed to think that the aris tocracy would contend with the people on such ground. Let them take care of pushit ' s the con test too far. Th e l ate M r. C ann i ng was kill e d by his at tempts to govern far the aristocracy—(oh, oh, and Hear, hear )—let the Right Hon. Baronet take care lest he should share the same fate in his attempts to maintain these monopo lizing laws.—( Oh, oh.) When that House undertook to le gislate on matters of trade—that House, the majority of which consisted of landowners--it was to that House, to those land owners, and not to the manufacturers, that the people of this country were to look for a remedy for their distress. Mr. GULVISDITCH opposed the motion. He believed that the improvements that had taken place in machinery had been greatly instrumental in causing the distress that existed in the country. Lord ItOWICK could not give a silent vote on this ques tion. He thought the course that had been pursued by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton was extremely incon venient. It was not to be expected the House would retrace its steps, or make such sweeping alterations in the Corn-laws as Were proposed by the Hon. Member. Taking these views of the question, it might he expected he should oppo,o the motion, but as he thought the Corn-law question ought to be fully considered, he would vote for the motion to go into a Committee or, the Corn-laws. He would not take the course he intended without protesting against the course which had been taken in interrupting the public business.—(Cheers on the Ministerial side. ) lie thought it was an injury to the great -question they were dis cussing. He was aware that the motion about to be submitted must be negatived, but he could not help recommending to her Majesty's Government the adoption of some measure similar to that which he intended to propose on Thursday. Such a measure would teed very much to relieve the present distress, and might with perfect consistency be adopted by those who differed with him in opinion with respect to the Corn law s. The Hon. Member for Inverness had said that it was to be deplored that America had not the opportunity of send ing some of her produce to this country in return for our manufactures. Nov the principal produce of America was agricultural, therefore the Corn-law must be the immediate cause which kept that produce out of this country, and yet the Hon. Member said that it was only an increase in the imports of ihat produce that was wanted to improve our export trade to America. The Right Hon. Baronet the other night, or, the motion of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, seemed inclined to adopt a course of temporary relict, provided he could do so without objection. Now he (Lord Howiek ) did not think that the objections urged on that night by the Bight Hon. Baronet could apply to the proposition which he ( Lord Howiek) in tvud.•d to make. He took the amount of 6s. as the duty, as that was the amount at which the Right Honourable liiironet said the corn now in bond was likely to be liberated. This measure would also tend to the advantage of the revenue ; and he also believed that it would benefit the agtieulturists ; for although the Right lion. Baronet said that a great deal of corn was being liberated, yet corn would be held in bond till the duty came to what the torn dealers called the minimum duty. Atter the debate of this night, he should not bring forward his motion, which he knew, if opposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman, must be lost by an overwhelming ma jority.—( Hear, hear.) It was a remarkable feature in this debate that no lion. Member on either side of the House had held out great hopes from any measures which they proposed ; th-v only could tell them to look to the barometer, and look fora good harvest. lie, however, did fear that the harvest would not be such a plentiful one as the Right lien. Gentleman had anticipated. Sir ,10HN HANMER was in favour of a moderate fixed duty, and would vote for the motion of the Honourable Member merely to indicate the opinion which he entertained on the sub ject.—( Hear, hear. ) He should feel it his duty, however, as an independent Member of the House, to vote against the motion of the Noble Lord the Member for London. about to be ii,oposed, as an improper method of postponing the business of the country. Stranger• were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided when there appeared, For the original motion For Mr. Villiers's amendment Majority in favour of the original motion —ll4 SUPPLY. Sir R. PEEL said he had uo objection to tell the Honourable Gentleman the course which he meant to pursue; notwithstand ing the late hour, he felt it h s duty to proceed immediately to propose a vote for the China expenses. When that vote was agreed to,. lie then proposed to go on with tho other votes. At the same time if any particular vote, like the Syria vote, were objected' to, in order to have an opportunity of discussion, he would waive proceeding with that vote. Mr. WILLIAMS did not know a single•vote, especially in the Civil Contingencies, to which he should not object. Mr. DUNCOAIRE gave notice, that when the Rouse went into Committee of Supply to-morrow, he woad propose that t h e votes, with the exception of those for Syria, Canada, and China, should be given for three months only. The House then went into Committee. Sir G. CLERK moved that a Km of 06,566/. should be ap plied to defray the expenses of the war in China. Mr. O'CONNELL wished to remind the Gallant o(Ocer opposite, that in the early -part cif the session he brought under attotticn and that c. 4 thoZkAise tine spt 1 WWf-' of the British soldiery of the Catholic religion in India. He regretted that no additional assistance had been since afforded to them. Sir H. HA RDINGE said that the order had been issued by the late Government, and he was not aware that it had not been attended to.—The vote was then agreed to. On the motion that 103,000/. be granted to defray the expenses of her Majesty's Government in Canada, Mr. HUME objected to the vote being agreed to until the estimates were before the House, and he hoped that the item would be postponed until the necessary information was laid on the table. Sir G. GLERK said that the accounts of the past year, ups which the present estimates were founded, had already been laid on the table. Mr. C. BULLER protested against the principle of grant ing money for the military expenditure of a colony, without any specification of the details of that expense. He was satisfied from his experience, that if the colony had an adequate repre sentative Government, it would willingly pay the expenses of the volunteer corps.—( Hear, hear.) There had been the greatest jobbing in the payment of the volunteers. He knew of seventeen regiments within a space of eight miles; and in o ne rtgiment there were fifty o ffi cers of the same family, although not of the same name. After a conversation in which Lord Stanley, Mr. Hume, Mr. Goulburn, and Mr. Jarvis took part, strangers were ordered to whitdraw. No division took place, the vote being agreed to without one. On our admission to the gallery, we found Sir G. CLERK on his legs, moving another vote. Mr. WILLIAMS would object to a single ►ote of public moral taking place after twelve o'clock, if he could get a single Member to vote with him for reporting progress. Atter a short discussion, strangers were ordered to with draw, and the Hollfe divided upon the question of reporting progress.. - For the motion 2l Against it Alajority against the motion. —l79 On the vote of 10,000/. being proposed for the repairs of ports and harbours, Mr. HUME rose and moved that the Chairman report progress.— (Groans. ) Strangers were again ordered to withdraw, and the House dividing there appeared— For the amendment Against it . . Majority against the amendment 166 Dr. BOW RING having, during the absence of the reporters, again moved that the Chairman do report progress, strangers ithdrew, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment Against it Majority Mr. NAIVE'S said he extremely regretted the course which was being pursued by his Hon. Friend. Ile thought the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had been most moderate with respect to motions on that side of the House.—( Hear.) Mr. SHIEL said the plain effect of the conduct of Hon. Gentlemen on that side of the House, was to keep gentlemen in town, who were anxious to go to their country residences. They rid not all reside in town, like the Hon. Gentleman. sir R. PEEL said the conduct of Hon. Gentlemen opposite was calculated very much to injure the public service.—( Hear. ) What was the Hon. Gentleman's purpose? Was his opposition founded on the lateness of the hour, or on his objection to supply. If he objected to the supply, the sooner they fought that battle the better.—( Cheers. ) Nothing should in duce him to ; propose a measure of which he disapproved, for the purpose of going through a Committee of Supply.—( Hear, hear.) He would be willing to postpone these votes, only on condition that they should proceed with them on Wednesday and Friday. Mr. H '15 . 111E said that he was as anxious as the Right Hon. Gentleman to proceed to business, and he had no desire what ever to impede the discussion of the supplies, but the public money ought not to be voted away at such late hours. Mr. AGLIONBY disclaimed any intention of obstructing the supplies, but he had always understood the practice of the House to be that when the progress of the Committee at so late an hour was objected to, the Government did not persevere in pres3ing the votes.---( Cries of " Oh, oh," from the Tory benches.) He knew that habits were tolerated in that House which would not be endured elsewhere—( Cheers from the Opposition)—but he would not be deterred by taunts, nor disgusted by ill-manners—(Cheers)—from doing that which he considered to be his duty.—( Cheers.) After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, who spoke amidst great interruption, Sir R. PEEL said, that he would have no objection to make an arrangement for taking the supplies at an early hour on Wednesday or Friday. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he had given notice of a motion for limiting the supplies to three months, and it was bona fide on account of the lateness of the hour he would now sup port a motion for adjcurnment. He would not object to al lowing the votes to be taken on Wednesday, if it were an understanding that he should not be precluded from moving that the supply should be for three months only. The vote was then agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Wednesday. The other Orders of the Day were then proceeded with. RETURNS OF PLAG OFFICERS. On the motion for the resumption of the debate with respect to the return of flag-officers. Sir G. COCKBURN objectad to the motion. Atter a few observations from Mr. HUME, strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided— For the motion Against it Majority against the motion The Chelsea Hospital Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed this day. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he should bring on the Poor law Amendment Bill at half-past four this day. Mr. HUME moved for a " Return of the steam and sailing packets employed under the Admiralty for the conveyance of mails ; stating the name and tonnage of each vessel, and where stationed and employed ; the numbers of officers and men, and the expense, in the year 1841, for each of the ves aa, and the aggregate charge fur all the packets; stating also, as far as the same ran be given, the amount received for the conveyance of passengers and parcels, and for the postage, by each of those vessels, or the amount received for the same in the year It4l, for the several packets, so as to exhibit the net charge to the public, after deducting the amounts received for passengeis and postage," &c. which was agreed to. Lord LINCOLN moved for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the fourth year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act to enable the Com missioners of Wide Streets to sell, and her Majesty to purchase, certain hereditaments in the city of Dublin, on the north bank of the river Anna Liffey; and to vest in the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, the powers now vested in the Commissioners of Wide streets, so far as the same relate to the said herediments. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Three o'Clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS, July 11. THE REV. JOHN FERGUSSON, V. THE EARL OF RINNOUL.- THE AUCHTERARDER CASE. Their Lordships met to-day to hear the further arguments in this important case. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Cottenham, the Marquis of Bute, the Earl of Dalhousie, and the Bishop of Chichester. Tne ATTORNEY.-General concluded his reply, which he commenced on Friday. The Lotto CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the Learned Gentleman's arguments, observed, that their Lordships consi dered the queiitton involved in the case one of such import ance, that they should take titre to consider their judgment. TORTERFIELD V. CORBETT. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed. POLICE INTEL LICIENCE. W-S7TEET. A slippery- looking young man, whom one would suspect, from his appearanc e , t o b a regular professional cadger, was placed at the bar, under the following circumstances:— Inspector Martin, of the A division, stated that he was on duty, in private clothes, on Sunday in St. James's Park, between twelve and one o'clock, and his attention was attracted to a crowd of about 100 persons, collected round Captain Ackerley, who was lecturing about the square and angle of truth, &c. Witness joined the crowd, and after a short time observed the prisoner, whom he suspected, front his movements, to be a bad character, transfer a white cambric handkerchief from the person of a gentleman near him to his own breeches pocket. Witness secured the prisoner,took the handkerchief from the place of safety where it had just been deposited, and the gentleman iderititied it as his. On searching the prisoner, witness found two other silk-handkerchiefs on him ; one was an old one, and the letters had been picked out; the other was a better one, and was marked with the initials "J. B." The'prisoner, who stuttered.... much, told some cock and a bull story about picking up the white handkerchiot ; the others, he said, were his own. Inspector Martin said he thought the prisoner was known to the police, but he was not quite sure. HALL remanded the prisoner for a week that it might be ascertained whether he was an old offender or only a novice in the profession %, hich teacheth the art of conveying property from the person of another to one's own pocket with such ad mirable dexterity and ingenuity as a regularly bred pickpocket exhibits. CLERKENWELL. William Clarke, a baker's man, was charged with furious driving. It appeared that on Saturday night last, the prisoner being much intoxicated, got into his cart and commenced driv ing, the policeman deposed, at the rate of twelve miles an hour. Passing through ilfidaleton..street, a gentleman in attempting to cro,s over the street was knocked down by the horse, and the wheel of the cart passed over his body, from which he re ceived st vere injury. He, however, refused to prosecute, but Dlr. COMBE said lie could not let such violence go un punished. He was fined li, , or three weeks' imprisonment. 4,......—. ,-. _,Th Mr. THESIGER said there did not appear' to b e ,iinsing Jec-r . . - 5.....2.04„ ; trial. , . hut the Special Jury cases, and it was not k ' l ",t 4 ' tir° WO- ) ;"..7 ,*,:- ~,.}C them on the first day of the Assizes; indeed, Ili ' 'not be..;"'„1..:?;. , , .±... lieve any of the parties were ready to proceed to' i', the ClerkffliZ.. / ....,../ ...) Mr. Justice COLTMAN, ha v i ng consu l ted with . Assize, adjourned the Nisi Prins Court un til thi s lb 611440he_i I .2 - ' ..° business not having lasted more th an an h our and al 14 ic a cir '',..• cumstance of very unusual occurre nce on t h e f i rst a Yof an ti AI iik 7 Assize. His Lordship afterwards disp ose d o f severa l cases o r L.A.' felony ; and this morning he will proceed with the Sirecia.' Aeries. CONCERT IN AID OF THE in S TRESSED MAN UFA CT URERS.. • On Saturday evening the spirited proprietor of the Adeitsis 1,1 Gallery, gave the use of this institution for the purpose WO concert in aid of the suffering population in the manufacturiaA districts. The band which was considerably augmented ona this occasion was most efficient. Ihe Misses Coveney s , with Madame Cestini, were the vocal performers. Miss Cove-• ney and Madame Cestini elicited much applause by their execution of the duet "As it fell upon a day." Master Sims mons, a juvenile performer on the violin, met with much ap plause, teoin the masterly manner in which he ,execteed some of the most difficult compositions for that most difficult of all instruments, the violin. Mr. Julian Adams was also much applauded in a Tyrolean air of his own composition, as was Mr- Louis Emanuel, in a divertimento, for the piano torte, corn - roses( in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, and called the " Royal Fireside." At the conclusion of the entertainment. Mr. JONES, the proprietor, came forward and said, that perhaps man y of the au di ence were not aware of the object or that evenin gs entertainm en t. I t was not usual to open the institution on a Saturday evening, and as many present were probably casu a l visi t ors , h e wonld explain why it had been opened on that evening. It was for the purpose of offering a small assistance to the su ff er i ng population in the manufactur ing districtso—( Applause. ) l'he institution would be open f or the same object on the three following Saturdays. He held in his hated a report which he had received from the Committee formed for the purpose of disbursing a fund placed at their disposal, for the benefit of the distressed poor. In Paisley the sum of 6001. per week was distributed. Now Paisley consisted of a population of 46,416, and of this number 2,586 were out of employ. These men were all able and wil ling to work. Before they were allured to receive a single farthing of the 600/. they were submitted to the labour test. 1 hey were asked if they would work, and if they said they would, they were placed on the highways, and that was con sidered a sufficient test. Of these 2,568 there was no less a number than 4,319 depending for support, so that 60il. would go but a very little way towards their relief. The distress wan not confined to Paisley alone. In Lancashire there was equal distress, as there were at present '20,000 persons out of employ ment, with 40,000 individuals depending on them for support. Every one ought to strive to ameliorate the suffering and distress consequent on an extensive population being out of work, He would read an extract from a letter inserted in the Morning Chronicle, (hated June 22, and written by Dr. Taylor. Hr said, "On reaching Colne, I went to the Market-place, and addressed myself to the most intelligent looking of the many idle operatives by whom it was crowded. I asked him to guide me to the streets where the unemployed work-people resided. that I might see with my own eyes the condition to which they had been reduced. As I had never been in this part of the country before, it was impossible for me to select specimens, and I took care that may guide should not, for, though he led to the streets, I took the houses at random. In all I visited eighty-three dwellings selected at hazard—they were desti tute of furniture, save old boxes for stables and stools, or veers large stones for chairs. The beds were composed of straw and shavings, sometimes without any kind of covering what ever. The food was oatmeal and water for breakfast, flour and water, with a little skim-inilk for dinner, and meal and water for a third supply, with those who went through the form of eating three meals asclay. I was informed that, in fifteen families, their children went with out • blue milk,' or milk from which the cream had been taken on alternate days. I was an eye-witness to children appeasing the cravings of the stomach by the refuse of decayed vegeta bles in the root market. I saw a woman, in the very last stage of attenuation, suckling an infant which could scarcely draw a single drop of nutriment from her exhausted breast. I inquired the child's age? 15 months. Why was it not weaned? An other mouth would be added to the number of those for whom the present supply of oatmeal was insufficient." When they reflected on these facts, he was sure that there was no individual that heard him but would feel a desire to alleviate that suffering and distress as much as they possibly could (Hear, hear, hear.) With this object, he had opened the Institution that day, and although the sum collected on that occasion would be but small, still he trusted that, if they approved the plan, that they would second his efforts, and make it known to their individual friends and connections, and, he hoped, at the end of three weeks to be able to place at. the dis posal of the Committee, a sum worthy of their acceptance. Thank ing them for their attendance that evening, and hoping to see a more numerous one next Saturday, he respectfully wished them arewell.—( Cheers. ) SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE AN TI-CO RN-LAW DELEGATES. TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN. was present at the audience which Sir Robert Peel granted the Delegates of the Anti-Corn law League on Saturday last, and L Wish it were in my power to convey to your readers my impression of what occurred. The bearing of Sir Robert Peel was constrained and mournful, courteous, but not open (shall I say sinister ?), as of a man admitting the greatness of the evil and deploring it, but refusing, at least not consenting, to apply the remedy, and therefore conscious of underlying a two fold censure. On the other hand, the bearing of the gentlemen who addressed him was open, earnest and sincere, respectful to the Minister, but resolute to discharge their duty to the millions in behalf of whom they spoke—and they spoke boldly, as men so commissioned ought to speak. Their arguments were plain and striking, arid urged with all the power of deep and settled conviction. 'When one of the Delegates stated that if markets were not. opened to the starving ope rative and half-ruined manufacturer, British skill and capital would e mi gra t e t o the countries of our com mercial rivals; .and after attempting to describe the ruin which has already occurred to master • manufac turers, and the wretchedness into which the starving operative is sinking deeper and deeper, this strong minded man burst into tears, and was unable to pro ceed, it appeared that plain truth could not - have been urged with stronger sense and deeper feeling ; and when two ministers of religion spoke to Sir Robert Peel in the forcible language of their Master, and with an affectionate earnestness which -well became their office, it was not difficult to understand the constrained and mournful manner, and the few hurried words, with which the Tory Minister, after admitting the greatness of the evil, avoided all promise of the only remedy which can be effectual ; and when for a moment the Premier, with looks and manner how different. from those of Sir Robert Peel in happier days, stood fronting the Chairman of the Delegates, in whose kind and manly countenance disappointment and indignation were contending with respect. and de corum, there was a sinister and ominous pause of a moment, before Sir Robert hurried out of the room. It was not so that the British merchant and the Prime Minister of England should look upon each other. lleretotbre the merchant has been the firmest support of the Minister in peace and war, and domestic broil, and there is something ominous of great evil, when sinister looks take the place of hearty respect on the one side, and frank confidence on the other. 11 - hat were the arguments which the Delegates of the Corn-law League urged on the consideration of the Premier of this great mercantile country, and what the Premier's reply, I leave it to others to state. The bearing of the parties, such as I have described it, will not soon be forgotten by either. i t would he doing injustice to Sir Robert Peel to be lieve that he was not deeply impressed by both the matter and the manner of what he heard respecting the present state of the trade and labour of all the great mercantile districts of this country. Uod grant that he may yet be wise in time—wise before it is too late. I have stated merely what I heard and saw, at the conference between the Delegates and Sir Robert Peel. So sad were the details of suffering, so fear ful the anticipations of evil, that it was impossible not to apply to those who spoke, and to him who heard, words of a still hopeful augury I have strange power of speech, The moment that his face I see ; I know the man that must hear me ; To him my tale I teach. To whom, if not to Sir Robert Peel, niny the com merce of England look, not for pity, but effectual aid ? 14 the commerce of England to be sacrificed to aristreratic selfishness, when Sir Robert Peel is at the. helm ?—I am, Sir, your obedient servant. A DELEGATE OF THE ANTI:CORN. LAW LEAGUE. Lord Sichnouth having resigned the High Steivard ship of Westminster, the Dean and Chapter have appointed the Duke of Buccletteh as his Lordship's successor, and his Grace has signified his acceptance of the office. The General. Steam Navigation Company'a fa vourite steam-ship, Rainbow, Captain J. Fife, arrived at slack wall yesterday morning, at sia,making the passage frost Antwerp in her usual time of sixteen hours and a half. The same Company's ateener, Wilberforce, left the Brunswick wharf, yesterday, at, two o'clock, for Antwerp, having on board the Earl of Arundel and the Hon. H. Upton. II o YAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Bristol, which commences this morning, will, it is expected, be much larger than any hitherto held by the Society. The number of certificates taken out for exhibiting stock is larger than on any former oc casion. The proprietors have granted the use of the Victoria rooms, one of the most splendid buildings in the king dom, for the purposes of the Society. It is slat expected that Prince Albert, who had originally been expected, will attend ; but his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridg e will be p reseut. A: (as many a s th e hose who w i ll meeting of the Town Council is an nounced for to- morrow tii. vote an address of congratulation to his Ro y al Highness, who: will on Tuesday dine at a ma g nificent banquet to be g iven by the Right Worship ful the Ma y or, Mr. George W. Franklin, at the Merchan ts ' Hall. His Worship has sent it,.. a d e i c stoingmuodte) distinguished indivi d uals Among ndividuals h v a it l a i t , i , o i n ll s tceonnyeeanrilyenltry accommodate). honour his Worship with their company, ih addition to his Royal Highness, aro the Dukes of Richmond, Beaufort, B ut - deuch. B uc ki n gham, and Rutland ; the l'ilarquis ses of Down. ' , shire and Worcester ; the Earls of EtFCX, Il e ester, nu, b e 'e, Pitzbardinoe, Devon, Longford, and Hard w i Portman, Stavordale, Radnor, Sandon , Wersiby I,e ; Lords Spencer, ; Lord Min Somerset, Lord Charles Beauclerk ; the Right 6 er lii.hop o f Gloucet , ter and Bristol ;. th e k V. the Lord y R ev , the Dew; 1 t he Rey. Lord William Somerset ; his Excellency Baron Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador • s' sir Charles Morgan, Bart. ; Sir F. Burdett , Bet ' M.P., and ir B . Hall, Barr., 111, P. a number of Members of Parliamen t. w The Italian opera as first. e.stabliAild in 41114 country in 1700, though believed to have been introduced so; early as 1688 by a company of sing ers an d pl a y ers fr o m Venice. the site of the p resent H Its representation was erected near on the 9th of April, i7o;ymarket Theatre, in 1704. It opened Thirty subscribers at first, at 1001. each, begzu its building, ' ' who, nearly all Whigs, had the inscrip tion " Little Whii ~ it ick written on the first stone of it. In 1720 as threatened .' ..,....,.._,_„: ~ w ith extinction, but 50,000/, spliscritted Viy, the *S 7 ‘ , "RiV•I I 511.14 1 1nid it ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE HOME ClRCUlT—Cliebus . furd, July 11. 'Both Courts this morning proceeded to business (the Com mission having been opened on Saturday), Lord Ab►nger pre siding on the Crown side, and Mr. Justice Coltman at Nisi Prius. Owing to the Quarter Sessions being held last week, when a great number of cases ware disposed of, there were very few prisoners for trial, and none of the eases are of a serious character. CROWN COURT. Lord A BINGE]: briefly charged the Grand Jury, when they retired, and a number of cases were tried, but they were desti tute of public interest. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) HOULDITCH C. THE EARL OF LICHFIELD. This was an action to recover the sum of 3,50 W., the amount of three bills of exchange drawn by a person described in the pleadings as Margaret Edmonds, and accepted by the Noble defendant. The cause stood first oa the paper, but before the Jury was sworn, Mr. TIIESIG it (with whom were Mr. Platt and Mr. Peters durff) fur the defendant, moved to postpone the trial, on the arimail that. Mrs. Edmunds, whose name was stated in the ide.dings, and who was a material witness, could not be sub ilenaeil, although great diligence had been used by the defend ant's attorney, to procure her attendance. Under those cir cumstances, it was hoped the trial would be postponed. Mr. Sergeant CHA NNELL ( with Mr. Bagley) resisted the application, on an affidavit, stating that the defendant's goods at his house in St. James's-square, were all einiy sold, and that his personal property at his Seat in Staffordshire, was advertised to be sold on the Ist of August. There was no affidavit of a good defence, although a number of pleas had been put upon the re cord. and it was clear the application was only made for the purposes of delay. a. r. Justice COLTMAN thought the application for post ponment should be granted, but at the same time said it wa certainly desirable the trial should take place before the trial defend ant's property was cold. Ile therefore suggested that the stand over to be tried in the course of the . pr m ese a zt . eircuit. An arraruernent to this effect was accordingly jury go to trial, The Court then proceeded with the other causes. In some the parties were not prepared to others, the records and they were struck out of the list t ; at twelve o'clock the were withdrawn, and the result was,o.hat causes, who'e Of the with the exception 1 the Special Yetoommon had been gone through. td w h et h er thire waf nob, i -51 T. Justice COLT/44N inquired vi t l e ; 9a0t,4 cctu, cool ea "Pt.-. I