The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-14 00:00:00

FINANCIAL REFORM MEETING AT LEEDS. VISIT Or MR. COBI;EN, M.P. . _ LEEDS, FRIDAY, NOON.—At the Music Hall, Leeds, last night, a very crowded meeting was held to receive Mr. Cobden, M.P., Colonel Thompson, M.P., A. Henry, M.P., and other guests of the Cobden banquet, held on the previous evening at Wakefield. During the proceed ings very great enthusiasm prevailed. Mr. J. G. Mar shall, M. P., occupied the chair, and was surrounded by nearly all the leading Liberals of the district. Mr. COBDEN, who, on rising, was greeted with the warmest enthusiastic plaudits, spoke as follows :—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—l am sorry to say that, be ing a little out of practice, and having had last night oc casion to address an assembly of friends met at Wake field, I feel myself rather hoarse, and am therefore quite unable to speak but in a conversational way; but as we are met here to talk over matters of busi ness, and as it may be called a sort of domestic inquiry into the affairs of the state--(Laughter)—we shall be able to get on, ln I dare say, by preserving the conversational tone. fact, our situation now, as it seems to me, is very like that of certain railway shareholders —(Laughter)—who have had occasion to call meetings of the proprietors to appoint committees of inquiry into the management of the directors.—(Cheers and laughter.) And the people of England have also had public meetings to form finan cial returns associations to inquire into the conduct of the Go.vernment.—(Hear, hear.) And really I think it was high time ; for the resolution which has been moved, and in the sentiment of which I cordially con cur, has correctly told us that during the period since 1835, the national. the public expenditure of the c, untry has been increased nearly ten millions. It was quite ten millions when we began to appoint these committees to inquire.—(Laughter.) Now, mark me, the increase in our expenses since 1835 is as great as the whole expenditure, nay much greater than the whole expenditure of the United States for the government of 20,000,000 of the people there — (Cries of " Shanfe.") Well, how has this arisen? Some people account for this in one way and some in another. We know that the money has been raised, and as it has been truly said by this resolution that it has been vainly spent in warlike establishments. But how is it that this expenditure has gone on without being checked by one party or another? Why, it is simply because the people, after 18:35, having withdrawn their attention from the conduct of their representatives, the old system which prevailed before the Reform Act passed was renewed, and the Government made and the Parliament sanctioned this increase of expenditure, partly and mainly, I believe for the purpose of increasing the patronage of Govern ment.—(Hear, hear.) Now, down to 1835, after the passing of the Reform Act, there was a very considerable amount of retrenchment. I do not attribute to the Re form Act that it was like the new broom sweeping clean; but I attribute it to the low price of agricultural produce in 1835, and a year or two previous. It is a singular fact, but if you look back for the last thirty years you will find that whenever the price of agricultural produce has been low the Government expenditure has been cut down; and, on the contrary, when the prices of agricultural produce has been high, notwithstanding the terrible distress which has been coincident with that fact in our manufacturing and commercial districts, I repeat, that when the price of agricultural produce has been the highest the expenses of Government have increased. This is so remarkable, that it' you take a list of the expendi ture of the Government, and put it parallel with the price of corn for the last thirty years, you will find that the one is a pretty good barometer of the character of the other. And the solution I derive from this fact is this, that the Government of this country is mainly in the hands of the landed proprietors; that in times of great excitement, which must in thir very nature be evanescent—for the people cannot always be in a state of popular fever—in times of popular excitement, no doubt, the great communities—such as I have now the honour of addressing—the great and popular communities, exercise a great power, because, when they express their opinion, it either convinces, or if it does not convince, it alarms the agricultural interest into an acquiescence in re form. But as the rural and landed interest governs this country, when they are doing well and getting high prices they are willing for taxation to be high and ex penditure to be lavish; but when prices come down they look for a diminution of the national expenses. It is one of the great advantages which I should calculate on from the repeal of the corn-laws, that it will put the agricultural interest in the same boat with the rest of the community.—(Applause.) Although they may for a time try to delude themselves—or the landlords may try to delude the tenantry—with the idea that they will get back protection again, and they will return to high prices once more, yet when they are once con vinced, and they will very soon be convinced, that they cannot return back to the tax upon corn, then, in spite of all you may hear to the contrary, you will see the Members for the rural counties walk into the same lobby with myself and Joseph llutne.—(Applause.) They tell us they cannot compete with the foreigners in the present state of taxation, and therefore I am very glad that we hove been the first—that we, the pre tenders, have been the first—that the manufacturing dis triets have been the very first—to come forward and offer to help the agriculturalists to reduce taxation; and more, if they will co-operate with us—that those taxes shall be reduced which I believe press particularly upon that interest. But I don't want this to be misunderstood. Our ;excell, nt friend, the chairman, very properly said, that we have burdens upon our shoulders which will im pede us in the path even of free-trade; and to have the ftf I advantage of free-trade—it is to be sure not perfect freedom of trade yet, but I suppo,e we shall soon make it so (cheers) —to have the full advantage of that freedom of trade w.' must remove the burdens from our shoulders. Bet I don't want it to go forth, or to be understood by our opponents, that we are making this outcry because we think we shall not be able as well to compete with foreigners without corn laws as with them. It was always my opinion, before the corn-laws were abolished, that whatever taxation we might have to bear, and what ever our competition with foreigneri might be, you will bear it all the bt tter without the bread-tax than with it. And I say so still.—(Loud cheers.) But if the agricul turists complain that, -now that they are for the first time suffering under competition, they cannot carry on their business without reduction of taxation, we have not placed ourselves in opposition towards them, but we have been the first to come out and offer to aid them in reducing taxation. I had occasion last night at Wake field, to allude to the attempt that is now being made to raise the outcry in favour of reaction; that the people are tired of having corn at 455. per quarter; whereas they would have had it at 70t. if they had had the late sliding scale.— (Loud Cheers.) I had occasion, last night to say a few words upon this subject, because I am anxious that these people, these parrots, who keep re peating words till they themselves believe them to be true—that they should not run away with the delusion that the people of the West Riding, who, more than any others, have contributed to the repeal of the corn -laws— I say I am anxious that they should not delude them selves with the idea that you are in favour of a return to the old system of corn laws.—(Hear, hear.) They tell us all sorts of things have happened in consequence of the repeal of the corn-laws. There is nothing that is rnyaterious that has happened, but it is said was in consequence of the repeal of the corn-laws. They have lately had the impudence to tell us that Ireland is suffering in consequence of the repeal of the tax upon corn. I thought we had had some inquiries into the state of Ireland before the corn-laws were repealed ; I thought I had read some letters of Edmund Spenser, con taining a description of Ireland three hundred years ago, much the same as if they had been written yesterday. I thought I had read something in Dean Swift which might have been received from a correspondent a week ago; and I thought that there had been a Devon com mission, producing three blue books that disclosed a state of things most disgraceful to this country, and un paralleled on the face of the earth.—(Hear, hear.) And yet they now come forward to tell us that free-trade has ruined Ireland. Why, if any country has been in a state of ruin for 300 years, it is Ireland. What has ruined it? Ireland has been ruined because she wanted some thing better than potatoes for her people to eat. And what has helped them to live? Why, Indiaa corn, which was brought cheaply from abroad. Why ? Because you had removed all obstructions to its importation. I have heard that some graceless wight once said that the best remedy for the evils of Ireland was to let the Atlantic over it about ten feet for twenty-four hours. My nostrum is different. I say inundate Ireland with Indian corn and good wheat, and that will cure them better than by letting the ocean upon them.--(Loud ap plause, and a voice—" It you feet them, they won't work.") Oh, yes they will work, if you will give them two shillings and sixpence a day.—(Vehement applause.) Well, then, gentlemen, these people who want to per suade us that there is a great reaction in favour of an other corn-law, complain to us in agricultural meetings in the south of the low prices of their produce. They say they have got sprouted wheat. I read this account in a report of an agricaltural meeting in Sussex, where one of the Duke of Richmond's friends got up and said —" I have had to sell my sprouted wheat for 325. 6d., and to give some to the pigs, as no one will buy it now, but before the repeal of the corn laws I could have sold it at a good price for the people to eat."—(Hear.) This may be very well for the farmers; but you will not have to complain that instead of eating sprouted wheat, which might produce cholera or dysentery, or some bad disease, You can hay good flour; and I don't think you will have any right t o complain or wish to go back to the o ld sys tem.-(Applause.) I can understand that a bad crop is a very bad-thing for weal eS o urex farmers. We know that in the south andwest weather, which fell i n the England we h a d bad wet critical time w h e n the wheat was upon the ground; thatc in lLand,sast n au t t o um K n en t t h i s That bad weather extended from th e was an unfortunate thing for th e farmeds and landowners, who had their corn exposed, and were r ready to gather it up; but in the north of England and on the east coast they were more fortunate; the crops were got in in good state. What I want to draw your attention to • a this, that if these farmers in the West of England have misfortune once in four or five years with their crops, it is just what every manufacturer has with his manufactures. Look at the change of fashons ; look at the breaking of machinery ; at the new inventions of machinery : look at the civil war in Germany ; at the outbreak in China, and many other things which have happened in our experience —look at all these things, which may operate upon and interfere with our trade and manufactures.—(Cheers.) You must bear in mind, oleo, in this calculation, that when the year is pros p'ereus the manufacturer does not come to the public to a , ,k them to have a share in the balance ; he pockets the profits of the good year, and when from rain, or fire, or any other accident, the year happens to be bad, the manufacturer I.cannot say pockets his loss, but he puts up with it, and does not come to Parliament whining and saying -he has had a bad trade, and wants the law passed to protect him and to make his trade profitable. We say the same thing to the farmers—make your own arrangements—make your own bargains. We have got land to let, and you must take into oon3idera" tilts that you will have bad seasons and bad crops occa ionally; it is your business, and not that of the public, to see to this. And if you omit to take into account these things, it is of no use your coming, like children, whining to Parliament or to us. All that we can pro mise is, that when you have good profits we wont come in for a share of the profits. — ( Hear, hear.) Some people ask," What has free tra de done for us?" I have stated at Wakefield what I have to-night repeated in a.paren thesis. From the best opinions I have been able to gather, I believe if you had not been able to secure the repeal of the corn• laws when you did, you would have bad corn at 70s. per quarter now—some say 725. Before this year you never knew a deficient harvest, with a failing market afterwards.—(Hear, hear.) Well free trade has done that for you, at all events; and whatever your other troubles may have been—whether your poc kets are boring out at the bottom with railway shares — (Laughter)—whether your trade may be interrupted for a time by the Schleswig-Holstein quarrels, or the con vulsions in Hungary and Italy; whether these, or what ever other things, may happen, be assured that you are better off with wheat at five and for:v shillings a —that you have more power to mainN your nquarter position, and more chance of averting the evils c o ' these events; that you are in every respect better off than s.f. you had the sliding scale, and its concomitant of wheat at swenil shillings a quarter.—(Applause.) Now, I have me: 4l Y said this that we may put ourselves straight, and keep ourselves straight with our opponents; that we may un derstand how we are, and let others know that we are satisfied with the results of the repeal of the corn-laws, and with free-trade, so far as it has gone. With regard to the national expenditure, you are aware, pro bably, that I proposed we should make an effort to get back again the public expenditure to what it was in 1835. I believed then, and I maintain still, that I acted exceedingly moderate in proposing, as the great object of financial reform, that we should revert to that period—(Applause)—because I am assured, that by the time we have got to that point, the discussion which we shall have had, and from the light which has already been let into this matter, we shall be able to get a great deal further.—(Great cheering.) Fur we shall not get this all at once. I never expected we should get it all at once. If I were despotic—if I possessed absolute power in this country—l don't pretend to say that we could get it all at once. My plan extends to the anti podes. You must put your colonies on a new footing, and I want you to tell the colonists how to govern them selves.—(Applause.) They will be very glad to pay their own expenses, if you will leave them to manage their own affairs—(Cheers)—and so long as you refuse them that they are right in taxing you for their govern ment, for their bishops, and in putting you to all the ex pense they do. Well, this involves things so far off 12,000 miles away, that, as I have said, if I bed despotic power, I could not carry it out at once. But what I want is, that public opinion should so exercise itself as to con vince the executive Government that they should set about arranging these things as quickly as possible. We have made a step or two ; we have made some reduc tion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated it at something like a million and a half. I think that very little, and I don't believe it has been done the right way. It will be said, "He is talking against the aristocracy again."—(Applause.) I scarcely know how really to talk to a large and good-humoured public meeting like this; because, when I get back to the House of Com mons, they will say, " This man has two tunes; he talks to one tune in Yorkshire, and to quite a different tune here." Now, I say, I don't like the way in which these reductions have been made; they have all been made from the lowest end of the scale.—(Hear, hear.) It seems to be intended, from the way in which they have been made, to bring financial reform intodisropute. Hors is a reduction in the army; and how do they go to work? They pretend they are going to reduce 10,000 men. Would it not be thought that the simplest way would have been to reduce ten regiments, or as many regi ments as would embrace 10,000 men—and thus getting rid of the officers—(Cheers)—of the staff—of that pro portion of the civil service which is required for that large army—reducing the ordnance stores in proportion. In fact, reducing the whole scale of the military esta blishment by one-tenth. Instead of that, what do they ' do? They send orders for the Horse Guards to dis charge 10,000 drunken men, and men of bad character —men who have been put in limbo and flogged—(Great laughter)—keeping up the whole staff, the whole este.- ' blishment, the whole skeleton of the regiment, and leaving the same number of officers. I wonder if there are any drunken officers or bad characters among them? —(Cheers, and laughter.) They keep every General, and Major, and Captain still standing, with the same pay, though he has got fewer men to look after.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") What does all this mean? I believe it means—and I may as well out with it at once, though I believe I shall catch it when I get back to London —it just means this, that the Govern ment look upon this cry for retrenchment only as a mere passing fever fit, such as has been seen before. They say we must attend to this cry; we must meet this demand—in appearance at least; we will reduce these 10,000 men to satisfy them and give an appearance of economy; but we will keep the whole skeleton stand ing, like the scaffolding of a house, so that we may build up the edifice again so soon as these financial re• formers have turned their eyes another way.—(Ap plause.) Well, now, I say this is calculated to bring us into disrepute, because it seems as if this reduction is intended not to press upon the poor only, but is also calculated: to let loose upon society men who can be of no use, but who may be more burdensome to keep than in the army.—(Hear.) The same rule has been applied in the dockyards, they have been sending away from the dockyards shipwrights and others; and I have had letter upon letter from these dockyards, telling me of the scenes which have taken place when these men have been dismissed without notice; and it has been said, " That fellow Cobden is the reason why you have been turned away;" and I have got letter upon letter saying that it is my fault. But go to the dockyards and see the number of supernumeraries employed there, the number of admirals and others who know nothing of their du ties, yet must be kept without one shilling reduction in their wages—(Hear, hear)—though they have got fewer men to look after. This, I maintain, is calculated to bring financial reform into disrepute. We have heard it said (I believe the Duke of Richmond said it some where) that if you will reduce the army it will be only to keep as poor in the workhouse those who would have been kept as soldiers; but if you reduce the army in my way, and not in yours, the result would be different; for suppose these able-bodied men were going into the work house, which I don't believe would be the case with many, nobody pretends that you would have to keep the officers at the workhouse.—(Laughter and applause.) Let us meet this fallacy, as you will hear of it after this evening. If you had all the men that are in the army to keep in the workhouse, how much would they cost? Do you think they would cost seven millions sterling? It does not cost that, you know, to keep a million and a half of paupers in this country. Every man of the army, I should say, taking officers into account, costs 100/. a year; but they would not cost 100/. a year in the workhouse. Now, if any man talks to you of this, just remind him that our reduction would begin at the other end. It is not our plan to dismiss the men and keep up the officers. • I confess, though I may be blamed for it, that I should like to begin with a field marshal or two.—(Loud sheers.) Well, you know, they blame us exceedingly in the House of Commons if we make this a question concerning the aristocracy. They say it is not the aristocracy that is concerned in this matter. We are going to put this to the test by and by. I have told you how they propose to reduce the army; here is a proposal on the books of the House of Com mons by my indefatigable friend, Mr. Hume—(Loud applause)—and the vote will come on before long— before another month I predict—that we shall reduce the number of admirals from 150 to 100.—(Hear.) I will show you how. We have now more than 150 admirals; and, mark me, you can't employ more than fourteen of them, do what you will with them.—(Laughter, and hear, hear.) In the height of the French war, when we had a thousand armed vessels afloat, we never employed forty admirals at one time. You cannot now employ fourteen, though you have 150. My friend Mr. Hume's proposal is this, that there shall be only ode post-captain promoted to the rank of admiral for every three admirals who may die, until the number of admirals is reduced to 100. Mind, at pre sent, for every admiral dying there in one post-captain promoted. This reasonable proposal of Mr. Hume's is opposed by Government, and it is talked of in the clubs of London as something very little short of high treason. When that proposal comes on keep your eyes on it, and look to the votes. They siy that we do wrong when we call this an aristocratical system; they say it is no aris tocratical matter: we shall test it upon this question of admirals. You see how they prepare to reduce the army; and if you find that they oppose this motion of Mr. flume's, I don't see that we shall be very immodest or audacious if we say that it is an aristocratic question. —(Loud cheers.) I have said that one way of reducing our establishments is to alter our colonial system. Now there is another question I want to see altered. We keep too many soldiers in this country and in Ireland. You are aware that there are at this moment, as near as pos sible, 50,000 bayonets kept up in Ireland, at the expense of this country, and paid out of the Consolidated Fund. I have heard qualified persons say that the 12,000 or 14,000 police there are the most highly trained and finest men in Europe. In addition to these, the pensioners er invalids are liable to muster when called upon, so that we have altogether very nearly 50,000 armed men in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I believe this is more than the whole number of British troops engaged at Waterloo. What are they there for ? They are employed, I will admit, to keep down a very restless and insubordinate population ; but why are they insubordinate ? Is the system of maintaining an armed force to be kept up for ever, or not ?—(Cries of " No.") Then who is to alter it ? I say that no Government is deserving of support which cannot find the means of governing Ireland with out the enormous and overwhelming expense of keeping up that army in Ireland.—(Applause.) I throw that wholly on the Executive Government, and I say that that Executive Government is bound to resign.—(Applause) —and more especially do I say that this Whig Govern ment is bound to resign, unless they . can find means to keep th e peace in Ireland without putting yogi to the ex pense of this army. I speak out upon this qtrstiOry because I have been once or twice dragged through the have, I confess, w mud in voting for from coercion Bills coercion Bills fur Ireland ; and I walked out of the House in disgust more for Ireland_ so o ro r e lreland. We want something poor-laws.—(Cheers.) Now,ing more than bayonets and a dead lull in Ireland; no V this moment, there is o m tt u ic e tt h l action ; no political feeling. The people are tooPhorrorintense s struck, fferings tct to much exhausted with their too inte a more ed suited think of politics. There never was for a Minister to devise measures for im re e m the evils of Ireland. It is the spirit of landlordismytiong stand in the way of improvement in Ireland, and unless our Minister in Ireland is in alliance with the s pi r i t o f land lordism he will submit a plan to remedy the evils which afflict the mass of the people, regardless of the sinister legume of the landlordism of Ireland,—(Hear, hear.) THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1849. i i He ii e ll, le will npd throworrt spoor- law , upon the people of England, and into the navy, and upon another this year t o i nqu i re i nto .., Here is a plan devised not to I the army ; and the chief good thi s d oes me i s, that I am htioms say,elt vpense—not to give loans, not I learning my lesson while they think I am s itti ng idl e .— will oe I to ma i n tain a great arm s - , not to place a temporary (Applause.) Another result of these Committees and the l k a e at your e. cicatrics over the evils of Ireland, but a r e m e dy t o inves ti ga ti on to which the financial reform agitation has I reach the foundation of the evil, and give permanent 1 given rise, is the exposure of the reckless waste and ex j happiness to Ireland." Let t he Government throw travagatice in our dockyards; but it, p er h aps , i s not I themselves on the people of England with such a rnea- to be wondered at that ships should be ordered by per tsure as this, and if they are turned out to-morrow by a sons who do not know what a ship should be, when vote of the House of Commons, or of the House of every two or three years there is a change in the Lords Lords, the people of this country will carry that Go- of the Admiralty, one of whom is occasionally turned moment back to power ten times stronger than ever out to make room for a fresh one. Take the case of the it was before.—(Vociferous cheering.) Gentlemen, present Secretary for the Admiralty, Mr. Ward; he is this is strictly a matter of economy.—(Loud cheers.) a person of great official aptitude, and he has performed The greatest drains made upon the people of this his duties at the Admiralty so well that I should have country for the last four years have been for loans and liked to have seen him made Secretary of the Admiralty grants and the expenses of military establishments in for life. But now he is appointed Chief Commissioner Ireland.—(Hear.) I speak of the Executive Govern- of the lonian Islands, and another secretary will come ment, and I would say the same of the present Lord- who will have his lesson to learn, and he will learn it at Lieutenant, Lord Clarendon. He is a nobleman of your expense. There is no remedy for this but to keep whom everybody delights to speak well.—(Hear, hear.) your establishments as low as possible,—(llear, hear, But I would apply unto him the scriptural maxim, "Woe and applause.) We have raised this question, and what unto you when all men speak well of you"—(Laughter) we have said is not only telling upon the Government, —for you are apt to stand on the good word, and are but upon other Governments. There is not a meet not anxious to merit it by your actions. Lord Clarendon ing we hold but a report of what I say is trans is a nobleman whom everybody who approaches him cribed into the Paris papers, and is read ex -1 must like. I had a prestige in his favour, because I tensively on the Continent ; and if we succeed liked his brother, Mr. Charles Villiers, before I saw the in reducing our army, I believe it will be only con elder brother. But it is not enough for the Lord• Lie- temporaneously with reductions in other countries; and, L 'enant to keep the peace in Ireland with fifty thousand therefore, I look on these peace meetings and these h av emets, at your expense, and with no threatened in- financial re form meetin g s wi th some complacency, as bay ' surrec . :ion. That is doing nothing to maintain his fair being lik el y to p rove a means of d i minishing the horrors i fume wit,. , this generation, or to hand down his of war. Gentleme n, I tol d you that I would talk to you name to pos,. era)... . I believe that Lord Claren- in a familiar a nd conversatio nal way, and lam afraid I I don possessessoundest views upon political have done so very inefficiently. I have only, in conclu the to recommend that you will cal - matters generally. Let him sion,carry out the valuable economy and polite'. chairman, e condition• of-Ireland question. suggestions of your _ and qualify yourselves apply those views to ti:. ral courage, and he wouldby . He has only to exercise me' if I toldyou that I have himself the credit of redr.:‘ssing the evils of society deceive you have n®t fewser than 150 different any ex t en sive reform in the pres en t const i tut i on of Par in Ireland, where you barracks for the lodgment of troops. It is generallylfyou want to extend the a liawent. _._ ~ suffrage, I ask you d to do so by qualifying yourselves for voting in the ' great encampment; and the people of this country should i declare that no Minister deserves their ccnfidenca who county. I advise you to follow the examp l e which has been set you in the midland court lis not able to propound a measure totally different from . by Mr. Taylor and others. You i that of any man now in power. Lord John Russell says ties 4 cannot lay 01. or 50/. better than by the purchase of i you cannot apply a panacea for Ireland. Suppose you out As means of ref I ' , advise any man, if i cannot get any plan to effect all you desire in ten, twenty, a vote. a if he hasvote,and the means, to qualify surate with the evil, and if it be different from grants, himself by purchasing . a votefor the county. Especially or loans of money, or rates in aid, so much the better, should he do this when he does not possess a borough because neither grants, nor loans, nor rates in aid, are vote; and if he is a borough voter, he should still be s necessary for the regeneration or prosperity of Ireland. anxious to gain a county franchise. And if this pro- I I have spoken of Ireland ; but I will come now and say , cess goes on, it will be the readiest me ans of carrying on though treading on delicate ground, that we have too financial reform, which, sooner or later, will come, and I many soldiers in England. We have departed from hope it will come tranquilly; and that its progress will the maxims of our ancestors in having soldiers not be dammed up until the flood comes, tearing away to keep the peace in England.—(Hear, hear.) I will not its banks, as on the Continent, leaving everything in confine myself to the assertion that soldiers are kept to confusion and out of its natural channel. (Mr. Cobden maintain the institutions of the country ; I will admit, resumed his seat amidst reiterated plaudits.) if you like, what I have heard stated in the House of E. BAINES, Esq., proposed the second resolution. Commons, that soldiers are not kept to maintain the in- Alderman LIICCOCK seconded it. stitutions of the country, or to uphold the throne ; but Colonel ynosfitsots, M.P., came forward to support I will say that it is contrary to our ancient constitu- the resolution, and was received with enthusiasm and , tional maxims, and contrary to the interests of the t prolonged cheerin g . H e sa id—M r. Ch a i rman an d gen - Ipeople, to rely upon the military arm of the country to ti eman, I know not what I can better do toward s keep the peace.—(Hear, hear.) I do not sa y that in promoting the ob jects w hi c h h ave b een so a bl y sub times past it may not have been necessary t o em p lo y the mitted to you than t o sa y th a t I am s u r e th a t y ou w ill military to preserve order, but I say that you have been receive in a kindly manner any man of my habits constantly increasing your reliance upon the military to who comes forward to declare that he, with many keep the peace. I look with great concern upon the others of his ancient comrades, is scarcely of the constant increase of the military in the neighbourhood same opinions with those who have already ad of all your large towns. Ido not now say that it may dressed you.--(Cheers.) Knowing something, or at not have been necessary to employ the troops to keep all events wishing to know something, if that be order ; lam sorry for it ; but what I wish to hear is, English — (Laughter)—about the subject which is that something may be done to diminish the necessity for before you, we are glad of the opportunity of rendering having recourse to the troops to keep order.—(Hear, what we think a useful service to our country, and hear.) We have had a return laid before Parliament of of saying that the whole thing which you desire is , the number of barracks in this country, and the periods within the compass of an able and reasonable Govern when they were built.—(Hear, hear.) It was a re- merit, and that there wants nothing but for you to get turn devised for a very different object to that for up that steam force which shall compel them to exert which I will use it. It was obtained with a view to themselves to accomplish it.—(Loud cheers.) But it is show the kind of accommodation, the size of the sleeping a matter which will require judgment. No human affairs ; rooms, the ventilation, conveniences for washing, and so that I ever heard of conduct themselves, or can be con , on, together with the date of the erection of every bar- ducted, without the application of experience and coin rack. Now, it isi to me a very interesting document, mon sense. You have not been invited to call for any and from it I learn, that before 1790 there was hardly such thing. A period has been pointed out, not so long such a thing as a military barrack is the neighbourhood ago either, because to some of us it seems only yester of a large town. I scarcely find one in the whole list. day, when our establishments were thought to be great We had thirty or forty stations for soldiers in the neigh- and magnificent, and were allowed by universal consent bourhoods of our large seaports and arsenals, and for- to be sufficient for our use and necessity. —(Hear, hear.) tified places • but previous to 1790 there was scarcely a What, in th e name of common sense , h as h a pp ene d t o permanent barrack for the use of the troops in the make it different? Show me what has increased in pro neighbourhood of a large town. It was a maxim of portion to the demands now made upon it. Is it your our forefathers in those days, a maxim; held by Lord health and happiness?—(Laughter.) lam afraid not.— Chatham—who declared that from the moment there (Clear, hear.) If it were, there might be some show of are barracks raised in England, then farewell to the reason for what we h ave witnessed since, but it has not liberties and privileges of England.—(flear, hear.) It been pressed on any side that I know of that such has was a maxim of our forefathers that there should be no been the case. No, no, it is the propensity which all war. Then came the war of 1793, the French revolu- men have to spend other people's money for them which tionary war; that was succeeded by distrust and excite- has led to that extravagance that you complain of.-- ment, and almost insurrection in our country, owing to (Cheers.) Don't quarrel with us old files who say we the pressure of the war establishment. From 1793 the are quite ready to give you the benefit of any knowledge barracks spread rapidly over the country ; an d lam sorry and experience we possess.—(Hear, hear) We are al to say that for the last twenty-five years they have been ways glad of an opportunity to point out how and where spreading more rapidly than before. Now, mark how the the evil can best be remedied, and to offer our services war spirit generates the spawn of its own curses; see on these points, as we are on any others that may be how these barracks, brought forth by this war spirit, proposed to us. You have already made a great advance have brought their evils with them. Why, the first out- on one important point. You have got freedom to exer cry for financial reform stopped the expenditure of cise your own industry, and to bring back in exchange 100,000/. for barracks in Birmingham. It was down in for it the products of other countries.—(Hear.) There the estimates, and it was withdrawn to make a show of is more to get yet—not so mach as if you had got nothing, concession. It was only withdrawn, and will be found but there is that which is important still, and you will there again the next time you go to sleep. I attach as have it, depend upon it, because there will be no stop much importance as any man to the preservrtion of order, ping it.—(Cheers.) There will be opposition, and my and think you cannot pay too high a price for it; and, I counsel, therefore, is, that you omit no effort—relax not repeat, that if troops have been necessary to keep order in any attempt that you can make to push forward to in large towns, rather than have anarchy, I would say I perfect success the freedom of trade and commerce.— would rather have them than not; but what I want to (Cheers.) There are symptoms of an expectation in see is whether we cannot do as our forefathers did, and certain quarters, I can tell you, that there should be as the Americans do now, keep the peace without these something like a retrograde movement on that head. I armed men.—(Applause.) For mark me, they are the think they are simpletons who indulge this expectation, most expensive description of police that you can keep whether they be lords or commoners.—(Cheers.) Yet I up. Let us take stuck. In Leeds we have horse, do see signs of it, and lam obliged to acknowledge foot, and artillery, a staff of officers, a commander, and that I believe there are men foolish enough to his aide-de-camp, the commander of the district entertain some such hope.—(liear, hear.) Now, lately, —why you could keep five times the number of police- when a large collection of agricultural members and the men in your town for the same money. And remnant of those who, having enjoyed privileges for a when are our military called out? Only in times long time, would like to have them again, if they were of political excitement. We don't want the troops to able, assured another sinful interest—the ship-owning protect the town from the blackguard boys who break interest, that they would not allow it to suffer, were th e y windows; and it is 30 or 40 years since an attack was not dreaming, mad as it may be, that a ti me m i ght come made on your gig mills; and in 1842, when the country when they should re-impose those fetters on our arms was disturbed by the great plug riots, not a thread was which have so lately been broken off.—(Hear, hear and disturbed from the spindle, and not a farthing's worth cheers.) You exert yourselves—keep the Government of injury done.—(Applause.) Look at the effect of de• moving. Human affairs never stand still, and here is pending upon the military for preserving th e publi c an opportunity to advance in the ri g h t direction. Having peace. Take the case of Louis Philippe 18 month s ago . go t on e thing, pitch for another. C all out for financial Who could have supposed any Government mo r e sa f e re f orm —you have need enou g h of it.---(Cheers and than that of Louis Philippe? I saw him about two years laughter.) There is not ono of us but who could ago pass from his palace to the Chamber of Deputies, tell where he would be better off by a reduction of between a double line of soldiers armed, one line being taxation.—(Hear, hear.) Why should we not expend regular troops and the other N a ti ona l G uar d s; an d yet t h at amount e ither for our own use or for the use of our , with this 50 or 100,000 troops at his command, what was wives and families which we are now obliged the end? He trusted to them inst ea d o f t o Surely public for something else?—(Hear.) to give there is nobody so opinion, and they all fell from him like a pack deluded. I hope yon have not lost so much of your own of cards.—(Loud applause.) I wish that we should reputation in this county for common sense, look at this matter ;as a part of our finan c i a l re f orm comes to a s i m pl e questi on o f paying t money, as, if it movement, and avoid the old vague p ar ty cr i es , i s any man or woma n wh o d oes not think we h that there without reason for them. The reason why old agitati ons by a di m i nu ti o n of the unn ecessary tax es whis should gain which we have did not succeed is, that the people -were not educated now to pay.—(Cheers.) 1 Follow the or taught what they wanted, and the reason for their d e - h as b een reco mmended. Endeavour t o then, that P mends. This we will now avoid, and in meetings like p resen t p owe r on the regist er . Pay less anmdcreas vote e your this prepare ourselves to learn what is better, and, taking —(Cheers.) Take the plan which is offered more warning by our French and other continental neigh- increase your power of voting, an d t • to you rust in Providence bours, take a better way for securing what we want. I for that which will come after. There is a struggling gas will tell you candidly that I consider the extension of the in this country which will have vent some way e suffrage to be part of the plan of financial reform ,— other. Everybody begins to see a n d b e li eve this. Our r (Cheers.) I want to see more men enlisted within the working classes are not so ignorant as to have grown pale of the constitution, and interested in keeping order; up to manhood without seeing that sooner or later and I want to see fewer men excluded who are interested the ark of the constitution must certainly open its at particular times in creating a fear of disorder, in door to admit them as well as those who are there order to obtain their particular ends. I have a lways b ee n a l rea dy.—(Loud cheers.) There will be no violence— of opinion that the most conservative thing to do is to no outbreak about it.—(Hear.) It may y not come all at extend the suffrage; because: you give the surest gun- once—it may come by degrees, but so surely as the child rantee of public opinion in everything you do, and avert which was once weak grows up to the strength of man, the danger of the stone overturning when you attempt to so surely shall those classes whom we now see in the set the social pyramid on its apex instead of its base.— possession of political rights, as well as those at a dis (Cheers.) To put a stop to that increase in the army is tance from them, arrive at the full enjoyment of all that the neighbourhood of large towns the best means would they can desire.—(Cheers.) And why? Because it is be a large extension of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) I so manifestly for everybody's good that it should be so. look upon the barracks in large towns as more than an Rich men believe in it, and great men confess it. Is not expense—as a great moral evil.—(Hear.) Apply one test. this confession spreading and extending? Do we not Ask the value of land in the neighbourhood of barracks, see in our political proceedings that universal confession, Wherever you plant a barrack there a blight immediately that man, intelligent and wise, cannot for ever be kept falls; people would rather go into the neighbourhood of from the enjoyment of political freedom?—(Hear.) a prison or a cemetery than they would carry their wives What is the continent struggling for ? For that very and children into the neighbourhood of a barrack.— thing, and nothing elie.—(Cheers.) Never give up the (Hear, hear, and an exclamation, "I have property opinion. Stick to the belief in what has been so ably unlet near the barracks.") Hero is a gentleman who proposed to you here, that you have a strong sympathy 1 speaks feelingly, for he has property unoccupied near and fellow-feeling in the attainment of political freedom the barracks; and it is no doubt sensibly deteriorated on the continent of Europe, because political freedom in value from that cause. People seem to shrink from brings peace, and harmony and commerce with it.— proximity to a barrack, but would they do so from a (Cheers.) It is not the people of Europe that are want police station.—(No, no, and Hear, hear.) Will any ing to go to war with one another.—(Haar.) It is the one tell me that it is dangerous to trust the hard-work despots and the aristocracy, unchecked by popular feel ing mechanic, living day and night in the presence of ing.—(Cheers.) See what a mighty change has taken his wife and children—those men whom we trust in place within these three years in the feelings of the warehouses and mills, on whose honesty we depend, and people of England and France towards one another. from whom we derive that upon which we live—is'it not I was fortunate enough myself to see some of those safer to trust to them for the safety and prot e ction of early symptoms in France, where I happened to be, our institutions, than to depend upon those armed men and, which I hope will ultimately be productive of who live in the barracks of which we hav e b een speaking? the most beneficial results.—(Hear.) At this very Well, gentlemen, I may have appeared to wander moment hundreds of our fellow-countrymen from the wide from the question of financial reform; but it is a metropolis, and vario us p a rts of the country, are en. wide question, and if you will reduce your army and joying the hospitality o f t h e French nation in the capital other establishments you must alter your policy as re- of France.—(Rear, hear.) It was not so when we were gards Ireland, England, and the colonies, and your sys- boys.—(Laughter.) The drumm r and the recruiting tem of interfering with people abroad. I am free to sergeant were our only music. We know better now.— admit that wars have sometimes been popular, but this I (Cheers.) Our friends in London and elsewhere have must say, that the people have had no power to make had free admission to the opera—a thing that we wars or to stop their going on. No one seems to have should not have thought of; and all this proves that remembered yet that we are an island. We have not men are not influenced by suc h sanguinary disposition s taken advantage of our insular position. Since the time towards each other by nature.—(Hear, hear.) No, no, that Nelson destroyed the combined fleets of France and men were made for better things; and we are advanced Spain at Trafalgar we have been as safe from attack as if far enough to show that we may, if we like, check the we bad been in the moon.—(Applause.) Yet after that progress of those practices which in past times have en we got involved in four or five hundred millions of debt. tailed such a vast amount of misery and suffering i n Two little powers quarrel in the River Plate; and you the world. — (Cheers.) I do confess I am Utopian have had for the last six years a fleet of 2,000 men—a enough — that is the phrase —to look forward t o th e fleet large enough to protect all your commerce—lying time when men shall learn war no mare.—(Hear, between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. We next put hear, and cheers.) We have been nearer to the the Queen of Portugal on her throne; we had a fleet of completion of that prophecy than some thought 5,000 men in the Tagus; but as soon as I mentioned this of. What have sensible men to do with in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester we found learning war, much more, at all events, than learning that they were dispersed.—(Applause.) We have surgery 2 We may want surgeons still, but in the name had a large fleet running to and fro, carrying of common sense let us have the fewest we can do with. messages between the Neapolitans and the Sici- —(Laughter.) This is the point which strikes me all lisps; just the same as if the Americans had sent a fleet wise and sensible men will choose to mark upon. I hope last year to carry messages betwe n the English Govern- that we shall see a cessation of those miserable times ment and Mr. Smith O'Brien.—(Hear, hear.) Now the when men, because one called a hat a hat, and another a reason of all this is, that if they did not employ them- chapeau, shall think that they were born under a natur a l selves in doing mischief they would have no employment necessity of being each other's enemies. —(Cheers.) You at all.—(Loud laughter.) Since we have been looking have within your reach an opportunity of promoting atter them at Malta, in the Tagus, and in Sicily, they this happy and desirable consummation. You know, and have been so perplexed th a t I firmly b e lieve that by and therefore I need not point out to you, what vast influence by the officers will insist on coming home and lying in the county of York, and this riding in particular, has Portsmouth Harbour; for it is utterly impossible for always had on political objects and transactions.-- them to persuade the people of England that they are (Hear, hear.) Why, if the county of York doing good where they are.—(Applause and laughter.) was to choose to make a peace, I have my I was ignorant of the gross nature of all this expenditure doubts whether anybody else would dare to go to war. until I was p u t u p on a committee last year to i m piref --(Cheers and laughter.) You are Dot without co-ope- ration in the great objects which we are seeking to pro mote. Lancashire and Yorkshire will now stand to gether, for I perceive that you have just destroyed that barricade of hills by boring through them, whereas when I was a Lk)) , it would have taken almost endless labour to climb them. You, Lancashire and Yorkshire, are re sponsible for your own position. If you allow yourselves to be defeated it must be because you are slack and care less in your efforts. If, on the contrary, you put your shoulders to the wheel and join heart and band in this good work which has beef( set before you, depend on it there will attend that success which has always marked the exertions of the West Riding of Yorkshire.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) The other gentlemen who addressed the meeting were A. Henry, Esq., M.P., George Goodman, Esq., Darnton Lupton, Esq., C. G. Maclea, Esq., E. Smith, Esq. (of Sheffield), Joshua Bower, Esq., and Thomas Plint, Esq. The proceedings terminated shortly after ten o clock, with enthusiastic votes of thanks to the guests and the chairman. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, A PIM, 12, 1819. The Queen has b,r,cli pleas,d to 4pprovo of Adolphe de Maussion as Consul at Edinburgh for the Fr , !nch Republic. CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 12. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TRIS PRESENT LIAMENT. County of Southampton (Northern Division)—Mel villa Portal, Esq., of Freefolk Priors, in the said county, in the room of Sir William Heatheote, Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 13. 3d Dragoon Guards—Captain Fen wick Boyce Barron, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Pure foy, who exchanges, April 13. 4th Light Dragoons —Captain Edward Bagwell Pure foy, from the 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Barron, who exchanges, April 13. 16th Light Dragoons—Cornet Lancelot Halton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dimsdale, who retires; David Barclay, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Halton, April 13. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Alfred Tipping, from the 68th Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Udny, who exchanges, April 13. 17th Regiment of Foot—William Henry Earle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice de Veulle, promoted in the 24th Foot, April 13. 24th Foot—Ensign Acton de Veulle, from the 17th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham, who retires, April 13. 28th Foot—Robert Mark Halyburton, Gent., to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Walsh, promoted in the 75th Foot, April 13. 48th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Augustus Chapman to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir John E. Harington, Bart., who retires ; Ensign Oli ver M att h ew L at h am to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chapman ; Henry Glynne Earle Welby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Latham, April 13. 621 Foot—Ensign Richard John Edward Reed to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wandesforde, who retires; Charles Morgan Smythies Langheme Gwynne, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reed, April 13. 68th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet Major John Augustus Udny, from the Ist Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Tipping, who ex changes, April 19. 71st Foot—Ensign Robert Charles William Stuart to be Adjutant, vice Loftus, promoted, April 13. 83d Foot—Ensign William Cumming Shiels. from the 67th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gage, promoted, April 13. 85th Foot—Lieutenant Hugh Massey to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dering, who retires; Ensign James Gubbins to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Massey; Henry Godolphin Rooper, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Gubbins, April 13. 86th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Lecky, to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Joseph Edwards, deceased; Ensign George Sherman Nunn to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lecky; Hugh Stewart Cochrane, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Nunn, April 13. 88th Foot—Captain George Hamilton, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Gould, promoted, April 13. 91st Foot—Ensign Edward George Mainwaring to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dickson, promoted in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment; Robert Borthwick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mainwaring, April 13. 94th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Sykes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Desb oroug h, w h o ret i res; Ensign Henry Vansittart Stonehouse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sykes; Ramsay Cunliffe Siaden, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stonehouse, April 13. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Edward John Dickson, from the 91st Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Bonnor, who retires, April 13. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major John Gould, from the 88th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, April 13. ERRATUM in the Gazette of the 10th April, 1849. 12th Regiment of Foot—For Philip Limborch Till brook, Gent., to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Cowell, appointed to the 75th Foot, 10th April, 1849, read 11th April, 1849. 17th Regiment of Foot—For William Lewes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Nolan, promoted in 75th Foot, 11th April, 1849. read 10th April, 1849. 24th Regiment of Foot—For Brevet-Major John Par ris, to be Major, vice Paynter, Jan. 14, 1849, read Brevet- Major John Harris, to be Major, &c.; for Lieutenant Robert Halahan, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Spring. Jan. 15, 1848, read Jan. 15, 1849. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Esq., to be Major. BANRUPTCY SU PE RSEDED. Benjamin Moss, draper. Hartlepool, Durham. BANKRUPTS. James Fraser, draper, Brighton, to surrender April 20, at two, and May 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Evershed, Brighton; Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford row. William Bewick and Geol. ) . e Burrows, railway son tractors, Derehaw, Norfolk, April 20, at two, and May 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Bell, Bedford-row. George Row, boot maker, Kingsland-road, April 25, at eleven, and May 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall chambers; Lloyd, Milk-street, Cheapside. Thomas Charles Clarkson, loather merchant, Stam ford-street, 13lackfriars-road, April 23 and May 21, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham official assignee Coleman-street; Lloyd. Milk-street, Cheapside. Richard Williams, undertaker, Bristol, April 27 and May 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hut ton, official assignee, Bristol; Baykett, Chancery-lane; Ayre, jun., Bristol. John Adam, fuller, Laverton, Somersetshire, April 26 and May 24, at twelve, at the Bristol Distiict Court. Acrarnan, official assignee, Bristol; Frampton, Gray's Inn; Miller, Frome. George Cowell, news and advertising-agent, Birming ham, May 1 and 29, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Mot teram, Knight, and Emmett, Birmingham. John Grosvenor, beer seller, Wolverhampton, April 19 and May 26, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Corser and Underhill, Wolverhampton; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. John Meredith, maltster, Tattenhall, Cheshire, May 11 and June 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Philpot, Mon tague-street, Russell-square ; Hambertson and Co., Chester. Richard Milner, timber merchant, Darlington, Dur ham, April 25, at eleven, and May 23, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Marten, Thomas, and Holism, Mincing lane ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The following is a full report of the speech el . Colonel Thompson, delivered at the dinner given to Mr. Cobden, at Wakefield, on Wednesday last:— Colonel Triomesox was r‹ ceived with immense cheer ing, which was again and again renewed. The Hon. and Gallant Colonel said, that at this period of the meeting it was becoming to be brief, and therefore he should compress into a few words the expression of his thanks for the honour they had done him; and inaamuch as all that was past had gone for ever, whether for good or for evil, he would apply himself rather to that which was to come, than waste time by lamenting in any degree that which was numbered among the things that were not.— (Hear, hear.) Aud his counsel was to speak the truth, and to say that they should not plume themselves too much on any past success, or forget the observance of those rules which prudence might suggest as to the future. —(Applause.) It was their turn to be conservative now —and why? They must keep what they had got, and the way to do that, he believed, was to get more.— (Loud cheers and laughter.) Now, when he looked around him, he saw reasons why they should flat omit to follow that course of action. Did they ever know such a thing in human life as a needle standing on its point?—(Laughter.) Did it not ulways go one way or the other?—(Hear, hear.) Let them take care, then, that their needle be pointed in the right direction. They had still many enemies. These envied them, and those hoped still to damage them. Expectation was not dead in their political opponents —on the contrary, every day they cherished the spirit of hope. Did he not hear the other day many of them boast—their enemies, he meant, in the agricultural body—for some there were who had left it—that they would not betray another im portant interest. What did this mean? Why, that they hoped to come back to power.—(Hear, hear.) They held forth the promise that if another interest would help them, interest should be helped in turn. The meeting could know to what he alluded. He referred to the next important change which they hoped to see accomplished —the removal of the monopoly in the trading by sea. —(Hoar, hear, and cheers.) Their opponents supported this monopoly—why? Because they thought it afforded &chance for other monopolies returning.—(Hear, hear.) Those whom he addressed, therefore, would see the ne cessity of acting vigorously against all monopolies that happened to have life in them still, if they would pre vent the old ones coming back. Why, there was not a man, woman, or child within these districts that was not able to tell their opponents that the principles on which all monopolies were based were foul and injurious to the country ; and if they looked at the state of feel ing as manifested in certain places, was there no reason to be seen why they should endeavour to carry forward their successes like able and reasonable men ? Look how their opponents delighted to damage every chance of success in the popular cause, how they gloated over every failure, and sympathised with every satellite of despotism.—(Loud cheers.) Was not the animus most apparent in all this? Did it not show that they cherished the hope that times might still mend with them to the detriment of the people.—(Loud cries of " Hear, h-ar.") He strongly recommended those present to cherish everything they heard to-night on the:ways and means by which they might carry the great object they had in view. There was a struggle now going on for the eman cipation of the working classes, by an exttnsion of the suffrage, which at present was confined to a few.-- (Hear, hear.) Till that was granted, and only as it was granted, would there be peace and quiet in the country. —(Cheers.) As wise men, then, let them look to the measures essential to the success of this righteous movement. Their interest, as well as their duty, was to put themselves at the head of it, instead of opposing it, for surely it was wiser to do so than to oppose that which they could not hinder in the end.—(Loud cheers.) His advice was, that they should exert themselves for union with their less fortunate brethren. He addressed those who, in common parlance, might be denominated the wealthy and middle classes. There were myriads less fortunate ' who were watching the proceedings of this day, and who would look forward to the conduct of those who had taken part in them, after they left this meeting, to see whether they should count them among their friends or not.—(Cheers.) Oh, there was something so plea sant in the idea of peace and harmony in the different classes of society, and something so useless and unne cessary in having dissensions and distractions, where all had but one common i nterest, that it seemed something like an insult to the understandings of an assemblage like this, that any voice should be lifted up to urge the ' exercise of their best efforts to bring about so desirable a consummation.—(Cheers.) They had had sufficient experience of the disastrous consequences of having class against class in this country; and he would urge upon them, therefore, in conclusion, to take that opportunity of promoting an union so indispensably necessary, which a return to their respective localities would give, and let this meeting be held up as the period at which that union commenced and ended in great advantages to their com mon country, and left their names among those which were to be counted by posterity as their friends. (The Hon. Member concluded amidst loud cheering.) TO THE BISHOP. (From the Western 7 imes) My Lord, I hope you will excuse lily sending you a bit of news, Turned into ooggrel rhymes, Which, with your Lordship's leave I'll send To have them printed by our friend, The wicked Western Times. In the " Subscription Rooms" last week, A clergyman was heard to speak In praise of a petition For liberating one from gaol— A man you lately sent to hell,• For clerical sedition. There was a time when Parson Sh—re, And half-a• dozen culprits more Within this diocese. Would show an ugly looking scar, Resembling much the letter R, On either side the face. But Bow (forsooth) those parsons laugh At you, and Dr. Fust, and Ralph, And say they'll wag their jaws In spite of all that you can say About compelling them to pay Fur breaking Canon Laws. There was a time when kings and queens Would look on mitred men and deans With reverential awe; But now a British Parliement Presumes to patronize dissent And bids us hold our jaw. We want a zealous man of God, Like you and like Archbishop Laud, To go from town to town, And urge the foes of old John Bull To go to work forthwith and pull Disserting chapels down. We also want, nay lord, more funds For building churches for our sons, Our nephews and our friends. We also want more deaneries, More tithes—more Easter dues —more fees — Mere penalties and pains. I wish, my lord, that you would pen And preach a pamphlet now and then In praise of popery; For this is just the thing we want To put down puritanic cant And low-church heresy. * The Arches Court. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. M. Marentie, King William -street, City, merchant, May 4, at twelve-A. Anderson, Philpot-lane, City, merchant, and Whitechapel, brewer, May 4, at eleven- N. Butler, Portsea-place, Edgware •road, wholesale sta tioner, May 4, at twelve-J. Arnold, Oxford-street, linendraper, May 4, at eleven-R. H. Moore, Pater noster-row, bookseller, May 10, at one. • In the Country. W. E. Holmes, Lichfield, coachmaker, May 15, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham-T. Towerson, Tudholes, Cumberland, miller, May 8, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle -npon-Tvne -C. Bertram, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, merchant, May 4, at twelve, at the Court, New castle-upon-Tyne-I. Booth, Crew, Cheshire, linen• and woollen draper, May 18, at eleven, at the Court, Liver pool-H. Roberts, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, draper and grocer, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-T. Hughes, Liverpool, woollen draper, May 18, at the eleven, at the Court, Liverpool -W. Shaw, jun., Salford, printer, May 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester -W. B. Walters, Skipton, Yorkshire, cotton spinner, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds-T. Barraclough and J. Eve ritt, woollen drapers, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds-C. Jepson, New Mutton, Yorkshire, innkeeper, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds-J. Davison, Dud ley-hill, near Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler, May 8, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds-S. Stead, Gomersal, Yorkshire, woolstapler, May 8, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds-J. J. Palmer, Birmingham, wholesale jeweller, May 12, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. G. Lloyd, Shrewsbury, ironmonger, first dividend 3s. 6d. and second dividend, Is. 4d., on Thursday, April 12, and any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. R. Jones, Tottington Higher End, Lancashire, cotton • spinner, lie. 9d., on Tuesday, April 17, and every fol lowing Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr Hobson Manchester. F. Gill, Manchester, dealer in hardware, Is. 30., OR Tuesday, April 17, and erery following Tuesday, be tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. J. Taylor, Hollingwood, Lancashire, and Manchester, rope manufacturer and slate merchant, 2s. 6d., oa Tues day, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. E. Briggs, Castleton Mills, Lancashire, hatter and silk spinner, ls. 6d., on Tuesday, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Senior, Salford, Lancashire, common brewer, 3d., on Tuesday, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Hunt, Manchester, merchant and commission agent 5d., on Tuesday, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one at the office of Mr. Hob son, Manchester. C. R. Berry, Manchester, drysalter, Is., on Tuesday, April 17, or any subsequent Taesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, :Manchester. R. Dawson, Thorney, Isle of Ely, grocer and draper, 9s. 2d., on Wednesday, April 18, and three following Wednesdays, hi tween ten and two, at the offiee of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. J. Every, sen., Lewes, Sussex, ironr.,under, 4d. 53. on new proofs, on Wednesday, April 18, and three follow. ing Wddne,dayo, between ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall•ahambers, Basinghall-street. T. C. Knight, Forte-street, Spital-square, undertaker, ss. Hid., on Thursday, April 12, and three following Thursdays, between twelve and three, at the office et Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall street. T. Broad, PoilZ 111CP, Cornwall, liliendraper, Is. lid., on Thursday, April 12, and three following- Thursdays. between twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall street. SOLOMON SIMPLE. DARING ROBBERY AND GALLANT RESISTANCE.— On Friday evening, a little before ten, as Josephus Glo ver, Esq., of St. John's College, was returning to Cam , bridge, after having taken tea with a friend at Grant ) cheater, on arriving at the swing gate at the end of the , fourth field from Grantchester he observed a man stand ing on the contrary side of it, and holding a large cudgel in his hand in a suspicious manner. Mr. Glover at once ) perceived that he must either hastily retreat, or have an encounter. As there appeared only one man, he chose the latter alternative. The moment he had become en tangled with the gate the ruffian struck him a tremen s dous blow on the forehead with ►he cudgel. Mr. Glover sprung from the stile, seiz"d the fellow by the throat, and endeavoured to throw his assailant. At the seine instant another ruffian sprung from the hedge, and, seizing him by the collar, held him back while the other aimed blows at Mr. Glover's face, which, with the exception of one, he succeeded in warding off with his arms. At length Mr. Glover contrived to wrest the cudgel from his antagonist, and flung it a few yards from him. He was then taken by the feet and thrown on his back, in which position he fought as well as he could. His pockets were then rifled. The ruffians did not succeed in getting all his money, but they took from him a silver watch, a penknife, a latch key, and U. 2s. in money. They then tried to tarn him with his face on the ground; Mr. Glover seized the op portunity, sprung on his heels, slipped his head between the legs of one of the fellows, throw him on his back, and sprung towards the other, with intent to serve him the same. The other, however, darted towards the cudgel, and the one thrown, not having yet got fairly on his feet, Mr. Glover had an opportunity of getting through the stile, and feeling himself all safe again. He speedily obtained assistance and reached Nownham, where his wounds were dressed by Mr. Fawcett, and the police set on the alert. Early the next morning, two teen, named Hayes and Wilson, were taken into custody, and, on being brought to the county court, before Lord Godolphin, the Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P.. a, d other ma gistrates, they were at once identified by Mr. Glover, and committed to take their trial at the ensuing assizes. —Cambridge Advertiser. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial -office for the Governors of the North Atzerical ; colonies, E. Hopewell, Leadenhall•street, outfitter and clothier, Is. Id., on Thursday, April 12, and three following Thursdays. between twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall street. J. Welsh, Carlisle, tailor and draper, final dividend of in addition to 3s. 6d. previou ------ dy deeldred, on Satur day, April 14, or any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. C. Wright, Sunderland, hatter, 51, on Saturday, April 14, or any following Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, T. Dalton, Darlington, Durham, rope manufacturer, 2d., on Saturday, April 14,,0r any following Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Trewick, jun., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper, lid., on Saturday, April 14, or any following Saturday, be tween ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, New castl... upon-Tyne. W. Linley, Conisborough, Yorkshire, acythe•manu facturer, 45., on Saturday, April 21, or any following Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. J. Gurney, Sheffield, ivory scale-cutter, 35., on Satur day, April 21, or any following Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, SheflUld. T. ('toper, York, stockbroker, id., on TharscleY, April 19, or any following Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. F. Kirkly, Leeds, grocer, 5d., on Thursday, April 19, or any following Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Sheffield. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. F. B. Stacy, Albion-place. Blackfriars-road, law sta tioner, May 4, at twelve—W. Allen, Watton, Norfolk, innkeeper, May 9, at half -past eleven —11. P. Wills, High Holborn, victualler, May 4, at twelve—W. Solomon, Union-street, Southwark, and High Holborn, teadealer, 3,lay 4, at eleven. In the Country. C. J. Spence, Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, timber. , merchant, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle upon Tyne—J. R. Simpson, Sheffield, spring knife ma nufacturer, May 5, at ten, at the Court, Sheffield—J. Kyrke, Glascoed, Denbighshire, lime burner, May 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —A. Mongredien, Liver pool, merchant, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Liver pool—A. J. Swift, Liverpool, ironfounder, May 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —J. Hitchen, Beeston, Cheshire, joiner, May 11, at eleven, at the Court, Liver poA—J. E. Christian, Liverpool, shipbroker, May 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Booth, Crewe, Cheshire, linendraper, May 11, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—H. Whitfield, Stafford, builder, May 5, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, May 4. J. Parker, Prince s-road and Addison road North, Notting-hill, coach -proprietor—J. Willis, Oshorne• street, Whitechapel, ale and porter merchant—T. W. Hornsby, Darlington, Durham, miller—T. Hill, Red ditch, Worcestershire, builder —E. Perks, Redditch• Worcestershire, needle manufacturer —T. Potts, Biv mingbam, metallic tube manufacturer—H. Cogswell, Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, paper maker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Pass and C. H. Keech, Berners-street, Oxforde street, surgeons—J. Gilbert and J. Adsbead, Noble street, City, commission , agents—A. Acheson and IL Acheson, Leadenhall-street, City, wine merchants—U. Lemmon and E. Cauham, Gray's Inn-road, watch and clock makers—M. Whitehead, Jas. Whitehead, and Jn Whitehead, Sheffield, joiners and builders (as far as re. gards Jas. Whitehead)—A. S. Baldwin, T. J. Pigg and Elizabeth Pigg, Norwich, carpenters—W. Strong. Buck ingham Cottages, Westminster, and W. Hawkins, Paris' street, Lambeth, plasterers—ll. A. Rumsey and J. Burn" sey, Rockingham-wharf, Middlesex, bone boilers—C. W. Alexander and W. Smith, Denton Mill, and Graves end, Kent, mealmen and bakers —R. H. Goodridge, S. Revell, and R. S. Damerell, Plyritouth, wine and s pirit merchants (as far as regards S. Revell)—J. Osborn, J. Osborn, jun., and J. White, Linsdale, Buckinghamshire, general merchants (es far as regards J. White)—J, M.la tosh and C. M. M'l ntos b , Kingston -upon-H u ll, nursery- men—C. Cook and W. J. Back, Regent-street, furriers-- J. Vale and E. Yee, Liverpool, paper dealers —T. Bach, Eliza Gould, and Mary Gould, Aldgate, City, coffee house keepers—E. Blake and C. Rugg, Newcastle-undeee Lyne, and Mitchell's Wood, Staffordshire, ironstone merchants—H. Woolrioh and C. J. Ellis, St. Paul's Churchyard, muslin manufacturers—J. Lang and J. Ws Kingston- upon-Hull, booksellers and stationers—B. Harmston and J. Smith, Boston, Lincolnshire, linen' drapers—W. Dyson, W. Evers, and M. Dy son , Leech', corndealers—S. O s mo n d and H. Osmond, Sherborue lane, City, tailors —W. Manby and J, Hawksford, Wol verhampton, attornies and solicitors— W. S. Matthew* and E. Bostock, Minories, leather merchants—H. Hue" sey and G. N. Hussey, St. Svvithin's-lane, City, hoard dresser—J. Robinson, J. Thompson, and M. Thompson, Carlisle, Cumberland. slate and stone merchants (as far as regards Mark Thompson)—John Richardson and Joseph Richardson, Burton upon-Trent, Staffordshire, attorneys and solieitors—Hartley Kenyon and Heel/ Kenyon, Haslingdon, Lancashire, tailors—T. Kay, W. S. Kay, and J. Kay, Woolford, Lancashire, and Man' cheater, cotton spinners (as far regards the said T. Kay) —C. Doherty and J. Prince, Liverpool, contractors—W. Thompson, J. Fothergill, H. Scale, H. F. Cheshire, Mary Cheshire, and T. S. Forman, Aberdare, Glamor.. ganshire, ironmasters—W. R. Bentall and S. D Lott; East Bergholt, Suffolk, millers—R. W. Dare and Holland, Queen-street, Cheapside, boot and shoe mane' facturers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Edward James, Walsall, Staffordshire. William Clowes, sen., Swansea, licensed victualler. ' John Powe, Swansea. Isaac Taylor, Dudley, W orcesters hi re, licensed brewer. Paul Elwell,Dudley, Worcester, miner. Robert Morrell, Matinslee, Shropshire, pudler. Thomas Cole, Portsea ; baker. John Bracegirdle, Over. Cheshire, slater. John Pay, Portsea, carpenter. Daniel Moore, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, black' smith. James Spalding, jun., Cambridge. John Wilmott, Cambridge. printer. William Woods, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. James Richmond, Bond-street, upholsterer. Howell Davis, Toxeth-park, Lancaihire, book keeper. Henry Edward Cooper, Wolverhampton. John Corns, Wolverhampton. William Ridding, Walsall, spring hook manufacturer. Thomay Lynex, Walsall, spring bar maker. James Coleman, Bristol, grocer's assistant. Richard Ingram, Cambridge, plumber. Jobn Hooker Chatterton, Nottingham, ahopman. Robert Smith,EaatDereham, Nortulk, veterinary surgeon Charles 14 , y, jun., Nottingham, cooper. Thomas Brooker, Speen, Berkshire, plumber. Samuel Bennett, South Retford, Nottinghamshire, inn' keeper. Thomas Bolton, Knighton, Leicestershire, gardener. Edward Cracknell, Oxford, stage coach proprietor. James Jones, West Cowes, grocer. Thomas Osborn, West Cowes, cooper. Charles Smith, Stamford, baker. James Henry Thomas Rogers, Freshwater, Isle of Wigl, cord ainer. George Thorn F ox , Sh epton Mellott, Somersetshircr tailor. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. N. Robertson and J. T. Rattray, Dundee, grocer'► to meet April 18 and May 9, at one, within the Rollo' Hotel, Dundee. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cool' puted from the ret urns made i n the week ending April 10, 1849, is 265. o%d. per cwt. RAI LWAY SHARE M ARKETS. STOCK EXcitANGE.—T he BRISTOL, A PRIL 13. sales are share market was b e tt er t o-day. Tb: 13ristol and _Exeter New Shares, lON Midland Stock,'76—Ditto, 6'per cent. (Birmingham and Gloucester), 1223 i • —North Staffordshire, 14— Taff Yale (New), % p. STOCK " EX CIIANCI.E. —LllVVeEhttarvTltdAa"fiaLirl3b.usiness transacted to" . day, and prices had an upward tendency. The sales are—Aberdcetil Preference, 6 per cent. in perpet., 4 p_ Birkenhead, Lancashire, a, 11 ,7 C 21. e ster (lae C. dis. and G B.), guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 13—Ditw' 1 Shares t , 7% —lasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Preference. 7 % —Lancaslure and Yorkshire, 32i. Shares, 7% dis.—Ditto, Prefer ence, 11% —London and North-Wostern, 132 %—Ditto, New Quarter" 4% p.—Ditto, ;Fifths, 6% p. —Midland, 76— Ditto, naives, 9 dis! Sc.,ttish Central, 23%—Shrewsbury and Chester (N. W. MO, 1 0 " Preference, % dis. - Ditto, Preference guaranteed I per cent., 10 "; ' South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Thirds, 7—York, Newcastle. en d chase), (Extension, Nos. 1 and 2), 3% dis.—Dltto (G. N. E. re' . chase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 1% dis. :MANCHESTER, Aram 13. Weet STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Dovor (No. 4), 7 1-16— Riding Union, 414 c. dis.—Grimsby, Quarters, 7% dis. London Stoq: 132 ti —Leeds, Preference, 11% — Manchester and Birmhigham (C), (Qta:tteerr,s,p3refleteTicep..-14Enas_tecrihiesChoiurenti jesu,nBetll3.-1.6-14trewdusb._urLyeeedinl: Fifths, 3 13-16 die. BIRMINGHAM, APEIL 13. STOCK Exclusion.— The transactions to-day hive been as fel , ' lows :—Biriniugham, Wolverhampt on , and Dudley, p.—Coventri and Nuneaton, % P. — Lon.on and N orth- Western, 133—Nort!1 Staffordshire, 31. 13s. 94. din.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A ) ' din.—Ditto (8), 31. 16s. 3d. dl. YORK, Ar am 12. STOCK EXCHANGE —The 3 12111183Ctd to-day w as . lows :—Sheilield, llothernaln busitie , and Goole, N.D., e guaranteed 5 u per cen o,l ' 97s—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Extension), (G. P . E. Purchase), 63i. RTHS. On the Bth i ns t ., at Balm BI aduthy.house, N. 8., the wife of Sir Evan MacKenzie, Bart, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., the wife of D. Bennett, Esq, of Faring don-house, perks, of a daughter, stillborn. On the 10th inst., at North lodge, Teddingten, the wife of James Strachan, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th inst , at Tooley-street, Sf,uthwark, the widow of the late Alexander Stewart, Esq., Collector of her jesty's Customs, Batbadoes, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Loughborough, Mrs. W. J. Woolley, of On n So t n he 12th inst., at Hyde -park -gate South, Kensington' gore, the wife of G. Jeudwine, Esq., of a son. ARIED. On the 11th inst., at St M . Pe ß ter's Church, Eaton-square, the non. Lawrence Parsons, brother of the Earl of Bosse, to the Hon. Jane Duf combe, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Feversham. On the 1 . th inst., at Shermanbury Church, Ile-iry Hunt Esq., NI.D., of Brook -street, London, to Maria Harriet, eldest daughter of Stephen IL Chanel], Esq., of Shermanbury" park, Sussex. On the llth inst., at St. Mary's Church, Bath, Mansfeldt Forster Mills, Esq., youngest son of Major-General Mills, 0 ,,f Willington-house, county o f D ur h am, to Frances, younge st (laughter of li. Fenwiek, Esq., 0! Bishop Wearmouth. _ DiED. On the 2d inst., at Maesgamedd, near Corwen, aged 84 ; Hugh Davi es , E sq., D eputy-Lieutenant of the county 01 Merioneth. On the 9th inst., at llestalrig-house, near Edinburgh, th e inf an t s on of Lord and Lady Elibank. On the 10th inst., in Saekville-street, St. James's, John Al inghatn, 1 q., aged 75. On the 10th i ns t., at L echlade, aged 51, Elizabeth, wife O f Capt a: nW. I. Cole, N., On the 11th inst., ilenrietta,yonngest daughter of the late T. Partingt , n, Esq., of Offhatn, Sussex. On the 11th inst., in Cambridge- s t ree t, H y d e-par k , C o rns' hus .:uller, Esq , of Ramsgate, aged 78. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG46I No. 112, St ran d, P r i nter , at Th e Sun Office, No. 11" Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is A. county fP4 Middlesex, BAlurday, April 14, 11149.