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as contras'ed wit e at what prices larg ' e country. He might lemen on ly t't sides , rid the Member' for n. Gentleman (31e. ,000 quarters of oats hat those oats were t price of foreign was the lowefri before the Mate 190.000 quarters of Lowed that the trans. ions; 19J,000 (vau lt House, but if any as sufficient for the, not be considered a • s of oats for instance 15.000,000 quarters tiled Kingdoms it 190,000 qur'ters quantity. 'There n. Member: that -e hundred thousand to average price be n referred to junior' ears; the duty then s now proposed, it uld allay the whole lin the idea that 11 atl Is., 125., or 13i , for Essex referred t 0 • and there wit' tile experience was e best oats maid 1 , 1 uppose, freight ill; ' d make it 16s. la' cular parcels of oats mild not be taken as he r eturns, it would lot likely to Foal!' ▪ Then That vas 110 was 'certainly • aunt reliance, b oth calculation in the isposed to do so, as r any body Of men, se calculations, or that Report were the discnsslottn fur!: nose relied Upol. Gladstone) d d or oats were a t an 'he returns shoola • I and the quintiti, of s 835,000 quart'° tort 83110tfilted N ll.l , I c 7 ?3s. 2d. a quartot, . ity supposed to 11 had free in eight to be s t.of the price at vrtilei ; il srd added would gi ie ' it s ho was at all reiv it : rould be admitted 0 appeared that nail nit the low , at rere only 13e. 0 0 '2 , it wed(' make WI. , q , t, according to the 4 House, the protte ord a the scale pter-, ore suffi c ient r( l °': , tat barley and vrheto a quarter. The'e night be, and upon the grolverl to the alteratiod net (Sir R. p e el ) 1 3 1 1 4 ' rmly convinced th3t.d rkets with referencP,,ifj the law that exi4ert.',., 074 as for their produl, ions were extreel m teen always dispos e n was not sub.' v i' rays petitioned Pit,' stir tr instance in 1 8g9.4 ) .td that it was quit: ' protection or; tole, he conceived s' won oats and bold sufficient protean° . 10 ,1 at he had not speech of o.:e re hail risen In e. or i, n up on the ed, ad been def ar die t was stated ni sed the House 01 r , he relative pror t , ;3. It appearer._, hat the Hight between wheat b e , •proposition, 0.) ad held.-0 4 e to 20. Tn a ` tation why the : lotto ta l p ;10 , 1 and minimute l 6 o . I the Right e was sufficie it ,,, a 4 o r , the proportion Hear, bear.) e trade in oats es! p it isting laws beca 50,..1 11 in the 'ewer do t Y with regard t° Hear; h ea t r e rs 40 1 ; 3,000,00° C l °ar t f i r .0 1 , 1 L rters taken er,. et ;90,000 gill!' r e nd.: at 65.. 3 ",-; A lle•„ lonourable in oats rnp ocd in, heyet than i n that N;_,'o,ol m ight have 00 of uarters, • 3 , 4 1 ,ad .40 t uarters, d, with that r „et tuld have bee n ) ` 11 :e ,;14 ? He hear'', f, 4! h•-• (Mr* I‘j johl ants; o 5 nut; _but it. 0 1 ' conduct o t o Si d ; 4 l 4 , inexplie 0 able the Bight 00 ere so a.t.nL inn hoW it 110 e price of Irk, i lan had . he.Tyliil4,l l° J. to an cra in ,LF. 10,0 - tm-est,, , t *° y ction were g" r ` h i . it;to l like to know ` / 1 , given to the ee5 ( 4 0 1 ,.1! ten, might coe•ii ho it try well—wh ic acir Right Hon. e ir i s ihject ; and h. intent to reriolisi of for the relne- r d t bo .) Ile 'lope d of whyv h • d' r e d why he d eP. 3 tion, and the id r .oposal nen' r of the Hon ~ to i e. was mpo-,..• lut ie .etween the d id ' Hon. F. ie ll° ,. o 4P emetically e er or t io . O4oi 1 equal r rop . 1 1 ..- - ! and wheat ;lo' l for an e fro4 o hat it was te ought to COI.' whf t r el r (me time.. b u t i errs.) The c e t i with refer eli oitli dealing fairly ba ld ut hory h e c f the or , ,ad given peel l c (Sir R. 01;1 front Den ui ri , etinent, tha d t: ce of .' • ded 11 • oo • much oats protection l ise die ruined bee3 ighter)— Aol, itto' ouldrnak ea or ote e oduce of ' 4„ r tha t tuld reconoile4 the unreal eaalnin' to it dd • e la oro e .ugh)—he• o ry t greates t inJ, pe rt unreasnaloc so• man called ted if she ' woo l) ing conntl• '`h ° Gentlernee'd 0111 rer vrhisP er . et e I th e debates la'' tiorP, would ask . for ! ie p e ople , o ti t re i iri Heinen Si• e ili ffiett.,4l li es %rasa men We r !- witii ii 1010" interests.7.o4i4o 7 wag becan' - s as o so' 0 —(C hee alt l 'a e luty,o o ..,' eo trot a '; tore .ll " 4. c onra' that the l a te re best ea lc re u e st . ed l . r, de f e ct ( I ", .4,, pre-.- I in , s e AlUra` comec2ettir' id rnatiu—d ul• st • and ) I on fair is ri f the , l ; dt , .t p r ti°u °st s'l was 4 the be R - 011t it' GCntler° 3". lo l; o f fre , ,duce , than. vated tail _OlOl t land vre,s;,), tae ain vv..- tor. Igrt:lto cultivao, Right 1/ 0 " I ', • Y e had ~y! 0 throw 1- 010 ire of t he t io th e tic poi! ar a 1 ° wit h tvm f pr o f the Claig., t wish °, vesr-, er e. ; it wag, "20e,, r i i . " o f thian t s of to the to o urahle tee louse w ith 0 , the t h e l Were, coi lle . n they h a o of d s ome r ob al. he she ~,,hen subject, lly (1153.1:0r,ghg he hat i h' bl ed he " a . 5 or even by le , ,ca e xisting l a d a a , g ge pare th at. 4 •D e jo ntoientns.ea IPot ttlilit yof stating that, instead of changing his had his seat in that House, he could retort upon ep etoion n oeposite the accusation which they sought to fix Jr. h Alembers upon that side of the House. o ei.. eOWRING, amidst cries of " Oh," " oh," and itif6"ll4 "order," which rendered him for some time inau eenitedi that he should vote against the proposition of the itetze'eetjcZel"o6f"' tittle! phteloepCalettim' i becausee that conveniently proposition •im lied that and implied ef te R i l f, the Hon. Member proposed a higher duty than that pro,esylgoltit. Hon. Baronet, then he should higher against such . a t e e. IL, 'reorder to carry out his (Dr. Bowring's) own prin. let Filet concludin g o b servations of the Hon. Member were te r i 4 aTteh! cries of " Divide," which rose from the Minis- Ale lic '' li ouae r I. BARING would in a few words 'express to the i s aeoue o easoe s h y he. thought it his duty to give his vote in dei n , Jthe Right Hon. Gentlemen's proposition. But before Os e e le "" , he must say that he did not think the Right Hon. stee l raheeerha,d. !efficient grounds for the triumphant tone in bpeet se , 'Peed to the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. M. J. O'C. ) erti m=ete of the House. He ( %Ir. B. ) apprehended that it he r e for coexistent for those eentlemen who advocated and ell e , tb r the principle of total repeal of the duties on corn. toll,,:irs_t:iast.igtuienstion had been disposed of, and the House had te,i ts eeeed on adoptinee the rinciple of a duty, and had come detail—it was P then, he apprehended, perfectly 1 :1 te st " j'e those gentlemen to argue ' that the protection given e eri „, : ety was not as fair a protection as that given to other as i t P e ens of grain. Upon a previous occasion, he (Mr. B. ) ?rot s :" the first opportunity they had had of entering their 1114inm at3ai_nst the-scale of the" [tight Hon. Baronet, had voted 4, 11° 4 e ightrir proposition upon the rpiesion of wheat He . had t l t - lere ett e ie e Purpose of etering his protest, not only aganist e ditty iL e ?Pee which the duty was founded, but also against 11F*teen 4 - le But he apprehended that the present was a fije,ll .proportion —e het her they should follow the same 'Feed a t in barley and oats that had previously existed or I : k 4l e e it o d ,, _lei si l tsteivat! !lite ae a !idon that proportion, and adopt some new principle sealed ellitional protectien to oats beyond what it before re tinositthpiretend to speak in the same manner ect as other Hon. Gentlemen had, but attentively to the debate, he felt that the much des it for was to adhere to the old proportion, and not aban :;',itl.e amietficthe purpose of introducing a new pr . inciple,. an!". tC not e . i Iprotection to one particular article which it c 4. , ere receve. On those grounds he should vote with A lr 'ght R on. /3 I. . 1/An, armlet. "'Nltt lr ; ' i '() RD thought the protection granted to the St rl 'SO qllitC SUffiCient. itipiLWero, then ordered to withdrew, and the Corn of fr i '.w . hen t,bere Appeared-... b , e revolution " 1. ;he amendment 236 53 The teals edejority for the resolution e s th of duties o scalese through Committee. -41. .e P r eeceal of t n he r with respect to wheat-meal and I.' it to s t o e , Ctee le A tt lif t °ON said, under the circumstances in which e l l of eotte • , ee was placed, after a series of succeses. he did , 11 . 1 1 1 , ire e, intend to trouble the Committee with enore l e A te at Ple statement of the reasons which induced him to kltssd,eeither th e l aw as i t t h en stoo d , nor as proposed to 0 411 ra tt , lorded an adequate protection. He thought the 11,1 4 'l e re ra " of flour would be placed under a disadvantage te:med Vileten(' rile sure. When the present Bill was esta• eeetite et,h?, the. e was no regular trade in corn. The sub ? "t t hs C 1 "e people was the prime object to be co- sidered, ii; lt i` „cslature ;ere not required to take into account the to 'Y 'ettlitrettortions between wheat and flour. At present t ie ree e; to provide for a new -state of things, and cittei4te whether, in laying the foundation fo 1h1, 4 t1G 4 ~f 'Ysteni of trade, they were establishing the im• f ite''''''llit r "In upon such a footing that the mill-owners o l t, '"te e t ih Y would not be placed at a disadvantage when com- Sh 7t Ne e fe reighers The proportions between wheat and l'h • -. "4 val. .• d• "le ' t would tY) aelel:mto to the quantity of fine flour Hit, es extract from the quarter of ek: t b!...,e i e glidn e ot wish . in desirableany way to vary the calculation of t ,,, .a tt „utir as equivalent . to 88% gallons of wheat, but 1, 11 11 '1 4 el,etee to impress upon the House was, the neces . sity ', I l t e ileu t han iller of this country some protectioe equiva. Ole ,adeantage which the foreigner would derive from lON e ts nls corn at a reduced cost.—( Hear, hear.) They 0,, i ,.; . , by referring to the papers before the House, that ih! l l 4 R ,,,, r , r)f corn in Poland and Prussia, or other countries,. , f 1 t0.,41a. Advantage in sending flour rather than wheat into 6t I 'llie i r tl Y* It appeared fr=om a merchant who sent 100 barrels N . :°l ep '2o this country the remoter parts of the Unite 4 ' ma tt !'4 have an interest to send flour rather than the liiii ka tAe rz • al e f ss• lid. per barrel. Now, that was so much Wee s e e le favou r of the foreign miller, as compared with the its w e th e tui ' country. He believed that if the proposition is te Ivo tid li c'use were • adopted a vast quantity of foreign pro 'ft 4 , " Coin © into England in a manufactured rather than t i '- ',l tale. They would find, even under the present eeise '"at since the year 1831 a very large proportion of 11, 41 '; L, r , i ° dUce had come into this country in the shape of e; ° fltige . " the English miller was thus deprived of the le "flier of grinding the corn. Now, that was a mat e, he e l , deserved the serious consideration of the House, tt the es r easons. In the first place, it was the usual policy ii,'tier:gt,lature of this country to , favour the importation of listing, aterial instead of the manufactured artieee. In no „ fle e Le sit of p e i tQ "e was aware of had the House adopted a different ilet ertn Y ; and it was but the natural policy of a great ma ieNese 4 c ountry. In addition to that di sa dv an t age , th e rtm l .fht of foreign flour instead of wheat would prevent the 1 1 , 14'4 of the coarser kinds of produce, and they would l i i:tts e iT,c o of the food of the poor. He found that this le fl ett , t _ been the case for the last ten years, during which etl e „ "ad been five ercent dearer than in the ten years e'ley es while the coarser quality of flour had been I , t ,'lre, te l' e ci r i cent dearer as - compared with the . same period li g t lese t e , t "er in removing the existing protection, the Go -1,, 'op, ' ",°uldtake care not to prejudice existing interests. itelt!ent et ;"FY. would examine the subject minutely, not taking e ~r,t,, the reports of the millers only, er indeed of any ie',Ni se e d 't e xclusively, which would probably be more or less e 'es, , e e but that they would look at the question for them • e th e 4 7 'tee wheth er th ere was not an a d vantage i n b r i ng• Oise ar ts into the country in- a raw state, leaving the ettleteqrteiller the a d vantage o f manufactur i ng i t i nto flour. e7ley f oe he amount of protection was to - be Is., 25., or 35., ,47,es,ed'jld that it would not compensate for other advantages he I,, i 'tr e.,:e . the foreigner, he hoped they would a se t e , that e the t l l le . sea: ti t i lLa not be compelled to work at a disadv n. g e He a e ret i e a ' the amount of duty was no more now than s i Nie n ,adeeutte protection ; he did not wish to press the I;'' the 19 a division, he only wished to hear the Government 'hi 0.." rVasonsihat had induced them to think that they had ei r ii pull andadequate protection. 11 ; 11 1.4'. 1 EL said, while he was fully aware of the im ttlitty ',lititerest referred.to by his Nob'e Friend, and of how Wa s efl n '-e_ te re'eennected with it who had strongly urged the teeseeeeteernillers to an increase of protection, it would be ; 4 , ler" state that. hiving given the subject a fall considera tOileb.'eutik not, consistent with a sense of public duty, tie r e z e " l Y itterease of protection to that which they at pre or ; VV. In the first place, this subject was fully consi testrate,l,7,Year 1827. At that period he was a Member of the li t ' Y klee t e'•rthich proposed that 1961b5. should be considered Itjeteee to five bushels of wheat, or forty gallons. kilt orPed perfectly well that the duty on wheat relatively k t i, ete t 'tour was as 2 to 5, and that it was reduced from 40 leelej,' 35 . Again, with respect to barley and . oats, it was d 441, and et they were departing from the proportion they he I km * ese 1., t hat they could not justify the proportion of the scale heithe Berle and wheat. The law, as it at present stood, 11 li tia , iuty o f 1961b5. of flour at the equivalent duty on 38i t e , , tlt t usf,,wheat, and that proportion they proposed to con lieelsie:PPosing they nsade an alteration, it would operate k,,,,' 1th,, 1°,1- 15 , on the two countries with which, of all others, 4,,", th e dished to establish commercial relations—Canada s ir e , esit ed States. They must all feel that the state of tele 11 1 4 Mercial re l a ti ons w i t h t h e U n i te d S tates were tent e t it there was any coun t ry i n t h e wor ld w hi c h t h ey t e e e tt ' t i at liberty to place on a footing of advantage with thetare istil,lteek",l.ilnpor'tion" of corti, it . was the United States. If !h k ,',4ei t let state of their direct imports with Russia, It,' lt t h utreet imports with the United. States, it was clear e: te„ AY wished to establish a preference, they should give . hetreei'eited State. Now, if they made a departure from Iss; i trlii,l 4 teak, it would tell most against the Ueitee States, 4, 1 1 ,' 11 4 IC t neY most wished to establish an intercourse. Ase Ile 'Pee e 'e as the advocate of a qualified free trade against . thelear'ee held the same opinions now as he held in bi l fr etb 'ee7. The Honourable Member then read a quota ith'e^etee' „a speech delivered by him at that period li l'ete ti - [ lege, not to throw impediments in the way of the it. 4 l's tt4 e e - '1" of nod- from the United States. That was the ee e e e - ec teld in 1827, and that was the language he must IP ike ',, If lie felt that the claim of the millers was a just ll,e t eeneld be disposed to admit sigh but he would be the ts'es of reeoilect that the mille ad the grinding of the It:,,," t iee th e wheat grown in this kingdom, amounting to te;'e thi s Millions of quarters, besides barley and oats. Sup- Ikte tll l-e - : o es tienate was rather large, supposing he took it at 14,14 millions if quarters, the whole of that must neces ltekeerY°und by the Britieli millers, it was impossible that th; N e l l l eeller could enter into competition with them. It Ile: 4 41 0 4 , 1 true with respect to the wheat imported, they had ki' t i, l tit li: i. d ,Y of grinding that also. His Noble Friend had argued Pt, 're w - ' ,‘‘ at a great improvement on the existing system, teatle'ed, °l nd he a mere regular import than had hitherto been le Tis e ie . e alarm of the millers was based, not on the sup ehe et the pro rtion between the duty on flour and Nt,' t ‘eP l e unjust. one , but because a large importation of liS tit e e '" come in more favourable terms than hitherto. Il le ' e l l'ek" d it Might on be true that to a certain extent they kie s ee es er a disadvantage, as flour was not so fitted for 1 .; 4 % of '-, w heat, as it was more hazardous, and though 38e fee IDA .t"elleat would not produce 1961bs of line flour, ye, e th 'as '''' quantit r s cond flour which was produced L nee T 0 C. . / q),1 1, t t ig ° ll 39 in addition to the . fine flour, he them 'ache protection given to flour in relation to tr4 4 s 'lles e an iPly sufficient. Coupling this with the monopoly 'hiss' we - ne cessarily have of grinding all their own . horot h -, th Q q, and all the foreign corn . imported, he did not s 411 at th • ~q ,.°411 1 b e claim to additional protection was well founded. 'Vete ti,e rel nembered, alto, that there was a disproportion is, t 's de pri ce of wheat and the price of oats.—(Hear.) litAite t;rele ir tion existed to such an extent in times of lei t i ee ' iC t , he could nut h e l p t hi n ki ng some additional fact. th e th e Importation of foreign flour might . greatly tend, eieeleeePrice of provisions was exceedingly high, to reduce e i , l t a 11„V . ) ,ortio n of price which was sometimes perceived. a t a sse e c' t Inust decide 00 general principles ; and with. (!4. ..te • i nto any minute estimates, and looking th dipped stle•euliar position of this country, and should I t ere th tes, he could not consent to any proposal that shou e Ire 1. Ae existing relations between bread and flour. t l it l ' a 9 4 13 t C) ,,yCHEP s E concurred with the opinion had e h it e p e r n es t s m ee . N e d la r,„ on. Baronet. Since 1828, there ela nd "0"" u ° 00 I f of corn, and of flour only 4,300,000 is "aed (Jr only of the bread stuff imported into t til ile e ti ' t i e l lkie '‘' g 4 : hat brought in in the shape of flour. He quite agreed e Price thet the was most important to the interest of the con- Perliee of b Power which the millers possessed to enhance 14,71 0 , of read should not. be increased, and that the im- ° s ^o ,I,.e:ieZs t sh o o aae h rtain proportion , de certainly not less He wished he could o nue . 0 )5' 01 t t le SangUine u expec e ta c tio i n iti of the Hon. Member for Li i ati, '.tclat hereafter ,s,,l:t.e,:tove-,:td,liiirikes_aoittah..eicri countries. Though it might be somewhat there would be a regular foreign corn le,'lane "e„ could not look forward to the trade becoming le s 'llini e e begged, howev Right express his satisfaction at e dl . nen by the Hon. Baronet with res ..a.t.le quesequnnu norm. "hit ee t V„,„ was then put, and negatived without a division. pit h e ` L ` it 'BRIEN then rose to make the motion of 'tup., 0 , uad given twice :--,, That Olson% of grain, the to pe 1 the Colonlal possessions of Great Britain, should be ie 'lt all t' ' Itit rd sT . imes at a duty of Is. per quarter." teeell by th e was fully convinced of the importance,. as IV, ,1 1 - iezi ' Hon. Gentleman, of improving and encouraging th 04, ons between the colonies and the mother country. hi : tt,dec°,uld look, with more friendly interest than he did, to TO or hr t ween this country and our North American Colo . - Otki7 ceelesetrnere.desirous to remove all impediments to their %:eeenleo_cial interceur e. But he did not understand the _ylo tt .. r. the Hon. Gentleman, that this Bill would place g ro g et.,e?". A A colonies in a worse position than they t present a duty of ss. attached, until home ''etiltle 'whea t /led' atta c h: a. " " 7 s ; under the new Bill a duty of Sc. I , ti _ eiee until the price of our markets was ses. e h es, the"lug to avoid sudden falls and rises in " it t , h , e itanle Coyeenment would legislate for the colon . ies ;4Q4se eeete. xrinctple that. they adopted • towards the United ,6- There would be a good deal of foreign wheat the ttse theereleman had said if the produce we now im e d th! ` " i t h e 01 C'anada , and our settlements ; and he ported be e fr s , is e n griculturists at home would not be at all jealous at m P o rtation of wheat and flour bona ,ficie the produce of Canada.—( Hear, hear.) -But the fact was. what we had ' been importing from Canada was: not Canadian wheat and flour, but the produce of thosi, vast adjoining districts of the United States—( Hear, hear)—the corn from which, coming into Canada, and being there ground into flour, acquired the a aracter of Canadian flour.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The rionourable Gentleman argued that we were bound to give every facility and encouragement to those persons who, emi grating from the United Kingdom, settled in our Colonial pos sessions. But the fact was, as regarded Canada, the lion. Gentleman would find that if he had consulted the agricultu rists of that settlement, they would tell him that the present footing between Canadaand thel4nted States called for no such regulation • and, in fact, the farmeri of Canada would depre cate the lion. Gentleman's intended kindness. What was the fact of the relations between Canada and the United States ? The United States imposed on Canadian flour and corn com ing into them a duty of is or Is. 3d. a bushel, being about Bs. or 10s. a quarter ; whereas those commodities were allowed to come from the United States into Canada duty free. It would be unjust to allow such importation under the appa rently plausible pretence of encouraging Canadian agriculture, and to relax the duty on the importation of flour from Canada without taking security that we should not be inundated with American wheat passing as Canadian flour. He believed it was generally allowed that if an alteration were to take place in the law in Canada, and that if. the Canadian legislature were to impose restrictions upon the importation of wheat into that colony, so as to secure the agiieultural interest of this country from the competition of American wheat under the denomination of Canadian flour, then the case would be altered. But if they refused to set free the trade in American wheat directly, surely they would not co that indirectly which they refused to do directly. He thought the agricultural interest was not unreasonable, not in opposing the importation of Canadian wheat, but in opposing the im portation of American wheat under the denomination of Canadian wheat. Mr. LABOUCHERE did not pretend to have any very exact information on the subject, but he could not help smpect log that the Noble Lord had greatly exaggerated the real state of the case, when he described a'l the flour imported into this country as Canadian flour, as being the pr;duce of Ame. rican wheat. He believed" that a certificate was re , qnired on importation, showing not only that the Hoar was ground in Canada. but that the wheat from which it was ground was Canadian produce also. Ile would admit that it was impossible to form any system so stringent as to pre vent absolutely s - eli practices from taking place ; but he (Mr. Labouchere) dal not think they had taken place nearly to such an extent as the Noble Lord seemed to imagine, and he trusted the House would not deprive the colonies of the advantages they had hitherto enjoyed. He had no doubt that when th; Canadians found it to their advantage to send their flour here, they sent the whole of their produce to this country, and imported their own supplies from the United States across the frontier. ' That was precisely what took place on a small scale in the Channel Islands, The Channel Islands were permitted to import their produce duty free into this country, and he believed it was well known that the Guernsey and the Jersey people never con sumed a grain of Guernsey or Jersey corn, but sent the whole of their produce to England, and imported their own supplies from France. He (Mr. Labouchere) did not pretend to any very accurate knowledge on the subject, but be could not bat suspect that the Noble Lord was not quite accurate in representing the Canadian trade in flour to this country as a mere transit trade. 1 here was one .o•her subject to which he would allude, which although net exactly before the House, yet was so intimately connected with the subject under discussion, that he could not help alluding to it. He trusted that if it was intended to legislate on the subject of the importation of corn or flour from the United States into Canada, the legislal :ion on that ►ubject would be left to the Canadian iegislatui:e. If they chose to impose a differential duty the British Government would certainly be right in confirming it ; but it was a subject which the British Parliament certainly ought not to meddle. He should be glad, before giving his vote, to 11, at' some explana tion from the Vice-President of the Beard of Trade on the subject. >lr. GLADSTONE thought that it was agreed on all hands that it would be improper to suffer American produce to be imported 'as the produce of Canada, The question to be decided was whether the flour imported was the produce of the United States or of Canada. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would look to returns of the imports during the last three years of flour and grain from Canada, he would perceive that the greatest part of the flour im ported recently, must have been manufactured- from .wheat, the produce of the United Sta'es of America. From 1828 to 1839 the annual amount of flour imported from Canada underwent little alteration.. In 1839 the quantity of floor imported from Canada was 44,009 cwt. ; in 1840 it was 380000 cwt., atAl in 1841 it had risen to 682,000 cwt., be sides 64,000 quarters of wheat. Now, making all allowances for the improvement of agriculture in Canada, it must be evident that such an increase cou'al riot be accounted for, except on the supposition that at least four-fi ths of the importation must have been the produce of the,United States. He t, as afraid he had misled the Right Hon. Gentleman by what he bad stated the other evening, on the subject of the certificates. He considered that according to the clause in the Act, a certificate was required that the flour was not ground in Canada, but that it was the produce of Canadian wheat. It appeared how ever, on reference to the Custom-house documents, that Ame rican grain ground in Canada was legally and practically hell as entitled to importation as Canadian flour. There was ne doubt whatever of that. In point of fact, then the Canadian Act had not made any miraculous spring, but what it exported in 1839, was the grain of the United States. No one Gould suppose that American grain was carried all over the country, avid was substituted in all the districts of Canada for Canadian grain, but there was no question that American grain did cross the border and was shipped over to this country. They were now about to propose a duty of 2s. a barrel on the importation of flour fom America. They had brought for ward this motion, with neither a British or a Canadian object ; the reference to Great Britain was altogether trivial and re mote, and he did not think it would have been worth while for England to pass such an Act, but it was relative to nrercolonial trade. and justice to all our colonies. Canada - had at present the privilege .of charging the duty on flour and exporting it, and our other colonies were compelled to purchase corn from Canada; take Newfoundland for example. Was it not most unjust that the consumer in Newfoundland should be prevented from going to the cheapest place for his flour; in other words, that he should be comp 41ed to go to Canada for his flour, when he could get it. much cheaper in the United States. It was to prevent such a state of things as this that they proposed to lay a duty of 2s. on th importation of American flour into Ca n ida He thought they should either equalize the tax on importation of corn in all the coloni2v, or else abolish it alt. Tether. The state of that law, therefore, would be to place a duty of 2s. on the importation of corn into all the Colonies of 'North America. Canada was the only one exempt at present. ss. was the duty in the other colonies, it was now proposed to reduce the duty in all to 2s. Mr. LABOUCHERE having briefly explained, said he wished to know which of the British Colonies would be benefited by the prop;sed measure. Canada took no flour from any other country but the United States. By putting a duty on American flour, they were protecting no produce whatever of the manufactures. It appeared to him, and he did not make use of the term out of any disrespect —to be done in a spirit of malevolence; every other colony had some duty on imports, and it was too bad to leave Canada out. After listening very attentively to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite with great attention, and though he was always re markably clear in his statements, yet he (Mr. Labouchcre) was utterly unable to reconcile them ; he hoped that the Government would reconsider that question, for they must see, if they did reconsider it, that it could effectuate no good whatever; a more unwarrantable, foolish, or absurd Mot never was imposed.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) He trusted the Right Hon. Gentleman, if he could find no other better reasons than those he stated to maintain the propthition of the Government, would not stain the Statute-b sok with such a measure.—( Hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE said the astonishment expressed by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite appeared to be so great, that he could not resist saying a word with reference to it. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) asked upon what principle this measure had been brought forward ? The Go vernment intended to do the same—the very thing which the Right Hon. Gentleman himself (Mr. Labouchere) had done last year when he was passing his Bill with reference to East India rum.—(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) The Right Hon. Gentleman then gave a privilege to purchasers of East India rum in another market.—( Hear, hear.) He pro posed a prohibition upon the importation of rum into the East India markets. That article was prohibited there. Now, it was precisely upon the same principle that Canada claims, as an exporting country the privi lege of other exporting markets; that they should not be subjected to prohibitions, but to a moderate tax. What he (Mr. Gladstone) meant by saying that this was not a British object was, that it was not - exactly connected with the British markets. The object of the Government was to do justice to Canada and to all parties interested. Mr. C. BULLER asked, how could this measure be upon 'be same principle as that of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. La oouchere)? In what colony was it that the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) proposed to put on a duty upon Canadian corn, to give a fair chance to the importation of American corn? The Right . Hon. Gent.'s ( Mr. Gladstone's) statements were quite at variance with his magniloquenee at the beginning. It appeared that he found one colony better off than another, and he told the House he was determined to place both on the same footing.—( A laugh.) He would now apply another argument. The quantity of flour and corn im ported amounted to 593,0,0 quarters, or 43,000 quarters per annum, and the price, according to their own ri.turns, was 'rote 50s. to 52a. The freight to ,England from Montreal could not be less than 133., so that the price was 635. or 655. in this country. It therefore appeared to him, that placing any duty on Canada produce was quite nugatory, because it could not come int&the market without any duty at all.—( Hear, hear.) They might make the most of Canada fur the purposes of trade, but Canada would make returns, and they had already put a duty of 5 per cent. on . Britiah manufacture+. Surely, an importation of 43,000 quarters at a rate of 635. or 659. would not ruin the agricultnrists, and they might get their duty of 5 per cent. taken off their manufactures —( Hear.) He would suggest to the Honourable Member not to press his motion to a division at that late hour of the night, because a question of so much impnrtance ought not to be so disposed of, and the best course, in his opinion, to be pursued, would be to put it off till the House went into Committee on the Bill, and thus he by that means would he giving the Go vernment an opportunity to do away with a substantial in.. justice.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. S. WORTLEY rose for the purpose of expres.iog his concurrence with what had fallen from the Noble Lord near him. He considered it fair to take steps to make that privilege in favour of Canada, as being one of their own colonies, and that if they did not so act, they would be conferring an advan tage on America, which deserved no such airantage at their hands. He did not consider the reasons given by the Hon. Gen tleman opposite valid or substantial. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the resolution 135 For the amendment Majority in favour of the resolution......-97 The remainder of the scale was then agreed to. The scale of duties upon rye, peas, anibeans, was agreed to. In answer to a question from Air. II AWES, Sir R. PEEL said :hat, in his opinion, it would be better to discuss the averages when the Bill was in Cominiree. It would then be perfectly open to the lion. Member, after the list of the towns had been laid before the House, to move that the whole of them should be omitted if he thought prt per. Mr. BARCLAY had no objection to this Bill being pro ceeded with, if he should have an opportunity of pressing his amendment in Committee. Mr. C. BULL Ett—The rrason why he proposed the course he was about to suggest was, that a great many Members of this side of the House had quitted it, under the impression that there would have been an adjournment of the discussion. lie would propose that they, should agree to the resolution now, leaving them quite at liberty to take ary course they m ight th nk expedteht.—(Hear, hear. ) After a short conversation between Sir R. PEEL and Mr. H A wEs, the resolution was agreed to. Co l onel SIBTHORP left it to the decision of the House whether he should go en with his resolution or not. Sir IL PEEL suggested that the Speaker should state whe ther it would be consistent with the forms of the House for his Gallant Friend to move his resolution in Committee on the Bill. The SPEAKER said, if the resolution would have tre effect of increasing the duty on corn, it could not l e. Colonel SIBTHORP then withdrew his resolution for the present. Sir V. BLAKE then rose to move that corn should be THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 1, 1841. admitted free of duty for a year, or for such other limited pe riod as Parliament might deem fit and proper, but at the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel he withdrew his motion. The Report was then brought up and ordered to be received this day ( Tuesday), and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. SIR WILLIA,IVI WRAXALL. (No. I.) TO THE EDITOR, OF THE TIMES. No. 8, Albion-place, Feb. 25, 1842. SIR,—I called on Sir William Wraxall, in the Times of the 24th inst., to produce theletter returned to him by me on the 20th Dec., 1841, to which he refers in his letter in the Times of the 23d inst., as evidence of his imputations against my veracity and courage. He has failed to produce it. I will do it for bim. He must, he says, write to Tours to obtain its transmission. I have its contents nearer home. With a view sole'y to protect myself from that falsification of it which has occurred, a copy of that letter was verified by Richard Napier, Esq., Sealed, and kept by unopened until this day. Allow me to illustrate the, veracity of Sir Wiliam Wraxall by a brief extract from its contents, in juxta-position with his representation of what passed at our interview on the 18th Dec. Speaking of that interview in his letter in the Times of the 23d inst., he says I did not refuse to retract any insinuation against Mr. Symons, unless he proved them to be false.' But;- on the contrary, required proof of my having made 'any such insinua tions as would justify either tile demand or the alte native pro , • posed." In his letter referred to of the 18th of December last and re- turned by me as above stated, he writes thus of whit passed at the interview in question : " That there may be no mistake s to what my answer to you was this morning, I think it necessary to send it you in writing, viz.:— That I will not retract that phrase of my last letter to you from Versailles, in which I stated that Mr. Symons played the same game at Stroud in 1E37, as he did lately in 1841. 141 y meaning being, that after becoming a candidate, he ret'red, in stead of gone to the poll, on bOth - those occasions. Before he has a right to call upon me for satismetion he must first dis prove this." In Sir Wm. Wraxsll's letter in the Times of the 23d, Sir Wm. Wraxall deliberately asserts, " That at the moment when Mr. Ley and Mr. Symons, one or both, were asking fer me at. the Parthenon Club, I was in the act of addressing to Mr. Ley a letter, written in, and dated from my 6wn residence in the Regent's Park, a letter, too, repeating in writing what I had said at the interview ; namely, that I was ready to name a fi iend upon proof of any insult, or insinuation anigunting to it, having been made by me against Mr. Symons ; and, finally, inasmuch as Mr. Ley received that letter, opened it, and re turned it to me at my residence, it is to be regretted that his valour shoubt have so soon evaporated, for he surely knew then where to find me." Now the letter here referred to contains no mention what ever of his residence. It is dated solely as ‘ollows :- 3 o'clock Saturday evening, 18th Dec., 1841. No place whatever is named from the beginning of the letter to the ending, nor could the porter at the Parthenon give me his address; it was therefire left with the porter for Sir W. Wraxall, and not at his residence ; my first knowledge of which was obtained through the police report in the newspaper, after he was bound over to keep the peace. I have said that Sir W. Wraxall's letter to me would de termine the truth or falsehood of our respective asserti in,. I am now perfectly content to abide the judgme:.t of the public, as to whether I am the liar, pr Sir W. Wraxall. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, JAMES PEARD LEY. P.S. Sir William Wraxall, in his letter to the Time 3 of . . . . . the 24th inst., is pleased to conclude that my valour eva porated, because, as he affirms, I addressed the returned letter to his residence, and therefore knew where to find him. It may be proper to observe, that when I left the letter with the hall-porter at the Parthenon Club. I had myself no personal quarrel whatever with Sir William Wraxall, nor, as he ex presses it, any " dire intent" towards him, but as the frient of Mr. Simon•. 1 have n 9 wish to speak of my own courage, be it much or lit:e ; if much, there is no occasion to talk about it ; if little, the less that is said of it the better. (No. 2.) 68, Upper k eley-stre et , Portman square. Sir,—The letter I now deliver into lour hands, marked on the cover, " Copy of Sir Wm. Wraxal s letter to Mr. Ley," and scaled, has been in my possession from the day I received it uctil the present moment. I compared it with the original letter shown to me, as from Sir Wm. Wraxall, and finding it to be a correct copy of such letter, I sewed it up immediately, and the seal has never been broken open.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient sorvant, Rican. NAPIER. To Chas. Augustus Tulk, Esq. (No. 3.) February 25th, 1842. Sir,—The sealed letter which you delivered into my hinds this evening, marked on the cover, " Copy of Sir Wm. Wrax all's letter to Mr. Ley," I opened in your presence, and the enclosed is an accurate copy of its contents.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, Richard Napier, Esq. CHAS. AUG. TULK. Unaltered is thy graceful form, - Thy trusting heart is still the same, Kee; ing those true affections warm As when, bef re I dreamt of fame, You sang me that old strain. Yes, sing !—as in those golden hours • Wh.n life, aid love, and hope were young,. When fancy s reared our path with dowers,_ Oh I sing the strain that then you sung I Your voice may have a sad& r tone Than made sweet music in that time, Ere grief or trials we had known When first you sang in youthf u l prime That old familiar strain. Methinks that on thy placid brow—,. So lightly tour:he - I by furrowing years, Since first we plighted love's fond vow— Thought's graver shadow now appears ; But yet ii,in thy very mirth Ren embrance of cur Dead will come, Strong ti s yet bind thee to the earth— So breathe once ano - e within our home The old familiar strain. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Poole here continues his piquant story of "Phineas Quickly," and shows himself in every chap ter a shrewd and caustic observer of the every-day world about us. We relish his tale the more, that it is not pitched in too high a key, but represents life as it really is. Much of the dialogue is dramatic enough fbr comedy, and the descriptions are invariably spi rited, without being overcharged in the colouring. " Sketch on the Road" (which we subjoin) is by Mr. Hood, as the peculiar tone of observation will at once show :—" It is a treat to see Prudery get into an omnibus. Of course she rejects the hand that is held out to her by male Civility. It might give her a squeeze. Neither does she take the first vacant place ; but looks out for a seat, if. possible, between an innocent little girl, and an old woman. In the mean time the Omnibus moves on. Prudery totters—makes a snatch at Civility's nose—ar his neck—or anywhere—and missing her hold, rebounds to the other side of the vehicle, and plumps down in a strange gentleman's lap. True Modesty would have escaped all these indecorums?' The particulars, which are detailed with infinite gravity of the "Life and Writings of th a t remark able• Child, the late Miss Margaret Daw," forms an amusing quiz on precocious genuises. We must con fess to an innate distrust of all precocious genuises. In seven cases out of ten they end in confirmed blockheadism. Is it not a little singular that in this article, as also in another in th e pr esen t N um b er , th e memorable couplet written by a'young London pick pocket on the walls of Newgate—as was duly stated in the Police Reports of the day---;are twice quoted, and twice quoted erroneously. .The following is the correct version : Him as prigs vot is'nt hisin, Ven he's cotched, will go to pris'n. Never had poetic couplet so many commentators as the above ! It has been honourably noticed by Oliver Yorke, by Christopher North, and most of the ima ginative spirits of the day; yet all have'quoted it erroneously, and it is with a :justifiable critical pride that we now (for the second time) give the true read ing. But, alas, for the destiny of genius ! We have every reason to believe that the author of this immor tal distich is now wearing away the cheerless hours, with a chain round both legs, in the imaginative re gions of Botany Bay ! He was transported —your true poet is very apt to he transported—for making a mistake with a gentleman's watch and seals in the Strand—no very flagrant offence, for great gofuses are proverbial for their absence of mind, and are not to be tried by the laws of ordinary humanity ! " Graduates and Under- Graduates" furnish us with whimsical details of certain fishing excursions on the Thames and else where. " Recollections of Eton," will be read with pleasure by every Etonian. They are genuine and heart-felt reminiscences. " A Record of the Police Office" is an affecting anecdote told with an earnest.; ness and simplicity worthy of Dickens. The " Schoolmistress" is a highly humourous journal of a pedantic schoolmistress's excursion to the Continent. We quote a portion of her prudish and characteristic letter to a young pupil : For your amusement and improvenfent Fetid hope to com pose a journal of our continental progress, with such references to Guthrie and the School Atlas as might enable you to trace our course on the map of Europe. But unexpected vicissitudes of mind and body have totally incapacitated me for the pleasing task. Some social evening hereafter I may entertain our little juvenile circle with my locomotive miseries and disagreeables ; but at present my nerves and feelings are too disconiposed for the correct flow of an epistolary correspondence. Indeed, from from the Tower-stairs to Rotterdam I have been in one universal tremour and perpetual blush. Such shocking scenes and positions, that make one ask twenty times a day. is this de corum ?—can this be manners an this be morals ? But I must not anticipate. Suffice it, that as regards foreign travel ling it is my painful conviction, founded on personal experience, that a woman of delicacy or refinement cannot go out of Eng. land without going out of herself! The very first step from an open boat up the windy shipside is an alarm to modesty, exposed as one is to the officious but odious attentions of the Tritons of the Thames. Nor is the steamboat itself a sphere for the preservation of self respnt. If there is any feature on which the British female justly prides herself, it. is a correct and lady-like carriage. In that particular I quite coincide with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Hannah More, and other writers on the subject. But how—let me ask—how is a dignified deportment to be maintained when one has to skip and straddle over cables, ropes, and other nautical hors d'oeuvre —to scramble up and down impracticable stairs, and to clam ber into inaccessible beds! Not to name the sudden losing. one's centre of gravity, and falling in all sorts of unstudied at titudes nn a soppy and slippery deck. An accident that may say reduces the elegant and the awkward female to the same level. You will be concerned therefore to learn that poor Miss Ruth had a fall, and in an unbecoming posture particularly dis tressing—namely, by losing her footing on the cabin flight, and corning down with a destructive launch into the steward's pantry. For my own part, it has never happened to me within my rinuembrance, to make a false step, or to miss a stair ; there is a certain guarded carriage that preserves one from such spraw ling denouentens—but of course what the bard calls the poetry of motion," is not to be preserved asnidet the extem- pore rollings of an ungovernable ship. Indeed, within the last twenty-four hours, I have had to perform feats of agility more fit fur a monkey than one of my own sex and species. Par example—getting down from a bed as high as the copybook cupboard, and, what really is awful, with the sensation of grop ing about with your feet and legs for a floor that seems to have no earthly existence. I may add, the cabin-door left ajar, and exposing you to the gaze of an obtrusive cabin-boy, as he is called, but quite big enough for a man. Oh, je ne jamais I (No. 4.) 19, Duke-street, We'stminster, Feb. 25, 1812. Sir,—l have in my possession the copy of a letter from Sir W. Wraxall to Mr. Ley, dated 18 h Dec., 1841, which was ielivered to me this evening by Mr. Napier, with tho seal unbroken, and opened by me in that gentleman's presence. 1 blg further to !tate that its contents have been communicated by me to Mr. Ley, and that the copy itself has not been out of my possession. May I:request that you will insert this in your paper, with the accompanying notes between Mr. Napier and myself. I have the honour to be, Sir, ',touts very obediently, CHAS. AUG. TULK. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL . Yesterday, a Court was held for the despatch of bn'iness, and for the election of a Judge of the Sheriff's Court for the Poultry Compter, vacant by the death of Sergeant Arabin. The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a very long letter from the Commissioner of the City Police relative to the Report of the Police Committee. The letter was then real, anti referred to the Police Committee to consider and report upon. After some discussion respecting fire escapes, and a testimo nial to Mr. Jones, Chairman of the London Bridge Committee, which led to no result. Mr. Jurr proposed Mr. Bullock, the senior pleader, as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Judge in the Sheriff's Court. Alderman T. Woon ncorided the nomination. Mr. NoRMS proposed Mr. Ryland, and Mr. SELsoN se conded the nomination. A poll was demanded and proceeded with; at the conclusion of which Mr. Bullock was deitlarcd to be the successful candidate. Alderman T. Wool) postponed his motion for the eketion of a Judge of the Sheriff's Court for the Giltspur-street Compter till next Court day.—Adjourned. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YEsTERDA V. The extent of our list of favourites and the figures pre fixed to each, will corroborate" our report of an amendment in the business transacted yesterday afternoon. The betting, in fact, was quite animated, and in smne instances, highly im portant. is principal featu. es were t h e d ec li ne of Attila and Chatham—the first from 7 to 9 to 1, laid to nearly 2001., and afterwards offered, and the other to 20 to 1, laid to 75/., this latter movement is attributable to unfavourable reports from head-quarters. Wiseacre and Auckland were also under sus picion, notwithstanding the odds (40 and 50 to I) were taken about each to above 100/. Robert de Gorham was likewi-e on the retreat, 40 to 1 having been laid to 3.5/. The Three colt and Meteor were in frequent demand at 30 and 40 to ). and the final offers against the first showed an improvement of five points on last week's prices. Palinurus had several backers at 50, but, as on former occasions, made no advance. Several outsiders were backH at the old average. The only movement in the Oaks was the appearance of Lord Exeter's filly, out of Maims, which was backed at 25 and 20 to 1 by " intluentials." Closing prices : DERBY. 24 to 1 agst Mr. Forth'S lot—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's lot— taken 3000 to 1 agst all the mares—taken 9 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila--taken, and aft. offered 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken 25 to I agst Lerd Chesterfield's Dirce colt 30 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ball'nkecle —taken ,0 to 1 agat Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—tk., and aft. off. 40 to 1 agat Mr. Bowes' Meteor—taken freely 4) to 1 agst Lord Verularn'S Robert de Gorham—taken . 50 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—tk, and aft off 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Joanna c.—tk, and aft off 50 to 1 agat Mr Pettit's Espartero—taken 50 to I agst Mr. Payne's Palinu'us—taken, and aft. offd. 59 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Rover—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Connop's The Oneida Chief 50 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Acacia colt 66 to 1 agat Mr. Wood's Timoleon 2000 to 30 agst Mr. G. Glarke's Lord of Holderncss—t 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Greville's Gunter—taken 1000 to 10 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Wild-duck colt—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Blad's Dr.. Allan—taken 3000 to 25 apt Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—taken 5000, to 30 agat Mr. Goodman's Gobbo—taken 8 to 1 agst Attely and" Canadian—taken 500 to 400 on Joanna colt - agst Artful Dodger. OAKS. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall ; ;i 3 ;;sion—talce, and aft offered 13 to I apt Mr. Wilson's Sister to Yorkshire Lad 14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly—taken 21 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Amima filly—taken CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Kirby's Lanercost 16 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Lea's George 40 to I apt Mr. Greville's Rory O'More 40 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Billingham Lass HAMPTON SPRING MEETING. The following races will be run on Thursday neat : The Albert Stakes of 5 sovs. each, &c., for horses the pro perty of officers on full-pay, and ridden by the same ; 3 yr-olds, 9st 41b ; 4 yrs, lOst 71b ; 5 yrs, list 41b ; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Heats. Lord Longford's The . Harlequin, 5 yrs; Lieut. W. Crofton's Alule'eer, 5 yrs ; Mr. Cunningham's Mungo Parke, 5 yrs ; Mr. Pitt's Discovery f aged. The Palace Sta' es of 3 sovs. each, &e., for 3 yr-olds, 7st 711); 4 yrs, Sit 101 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 31b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 101 b; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Heats. Once round. Winner to be sold for 601. Mr. Haines' Blue Eyes, aged ; Mr. J. Follett's Miss Adams, aged ; Mr. Coombes' Haidee, 5 yrs ; Mr. Bushell's Ophelia, 6 yrs ; Mr. Pitt's Cornet, aged ; and Mr. Clifton's Whalebone, aged. Tho Military Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sovs. each, &e. Two miles. Mr. Beauchamp's .Mermaid; Lord Longford's The Harlequin; Mr. Cunningham's Tom 'rug. The Holme Park Stakes of 5 soya, each, &c. Twice round. Mr, Beauchamp's King Cole, Mr. Pollard's Mad Moll, Mr. Haines' Ploughman, Mr. G. Follett's Mistake, Mr. Crolan's Cannon Ball, Mr. Pitt's Discovery, Mr. Clifton's Whalebone, Mr. B. Fagg's Polly. Match, 251., llst 7lb each—Lord Crumlanrig's The Cardina asst Major Ogilvy's Flower Pot. The Hon. Charles Stuart Savile has just published a new Romance of Persia and Koordistan, called " Karah Kap. lan." This is the name of the most prominent character of the tale, signifying " The Black Tiger.'' Oriental stories are cele brated for the interesting complication of their plots, for the pic turesque grandeur of their scenery, for the hurry and variety of their action, which keeps the reader in a perpetual state of excite. inetit, and for the unwonted aspect which human beings in the East and Eastern institutions present to European eyes. Though in the most brilliant and wonderful details of this story the author has adhered strictly to verisimilitude, his narrative possesses as much of the charm of mystery as 'one of the tales in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A Berlin correspondent of the Gazette of Upper Germany writes on the 13th inst. :—" Affairs on the frontier, be. tween Prussia and Russia, are assuming a serious aspect. Con tinual conflicts are occurring between the peasants of the two na. tions, and they are so inveterate that they give each other no quarter. It is said that the troops are to besent to such of the points where these battles are most frequent, in order to put an end to the smug gling and the incursions of thiCossacs over the Prussian frontier.', The General Steam Navigation - Company's vessel the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custon-house on Sunday, with the Dutch Mail. MAGAZINE DAY BLACKWOOD;S MAGAZINE. Though there is no lack of erudition in the essay on the " Pagan Oracles," which leads off the present Number, yet there is a vagueness and mistyness about it, which is anything but inviting to the general reader. The author does not keep his theme sxtffi.- ciently in view, but is constantly wandering fromit. His ablest passages are theintroductory ones, wherein he casually alludes to the Greek and Latin FatherS'Of the early Christian Church, of whom he justly 'Ob serves, they were the eliie of their own age, but not in advance of it. They, like all 'their contemporarrais, were besieged by errors, ancient, traditional, invete rate ; and accidentally, from one cause special 1 :10 themselves,. they were not Merely liable to.error, but usually prone to error." The Emperor !Julian—of whom also a passing mention is made—is much too harshly dealt with, for though he was not th e h ero and sage that Gibbon, in his avowed admiration, has' made it. appear that he was, yet he certainly was not' " a malicious and unprincipled liar," for, at least, he is entitled to the merit of having acted from convic-' lion. There is much truth in this remark respecting . th&famous Grecian Oracle Prudence it was, and state-policy, not the power of Christianity, which gave thel.final shock to the grander functions of the Delphic Oidele. In the new condition of the Roman power, there virtis a perpetual peril, lest an oracle so potent as that orYelhi, should absolutely create re bellions, by first sugiestins• hopes to men in high commands." In the " NOtes, ' ,on the Fishers of the Scotch East Coast," we recogn isq,,thp pen of a lively and forcible descriptive writer. Here is a vivid sketch of the interior of a Scottish fisherman's cottage : Let us enter one of their villages-one of their cottages. The outside of every row of the low-walled cottages is festooned on ropes with jackets, petticoats, and bright-patterned handker chiefs, or else these articles dry peacefully on the thatch. Oc casionally haulins, tipped with hooks,. are seen; or creels or marlins, clustered round a pole, which overtops even the wooden mum or chimney itself. The men are at sea, many women away disposing of their fish, and only nursing mothers, and happy, noisy, playful, and dirty children enliven the scene. A solitary sullied scagul, or a scrath (cormorant), a huge grey creature, three feet long, with wing clipped, a captive, struts with a solemn half-happy pride about the mussel mid dens, or wades through the gutters, or approaches the edge of the undulating wave, which rushes gently up to kiss the smooth sand-beach. Enter one of their cot tages. The floor is earthen; but being Saturday afternoon, is neatly sanded over, from the door inwards to the hesrth. There is no pautage. The cottage consists of two rooms, a " but and a ben." At the far en d from the doer, the turf fire is burning on a hearth of becks, and the smoke ascends past the couples out at a hole in the roof. As the evening is approaching, the fish oa hakes (wooden triangles, with nails for hooks), which, during the day, hung outside the walls to dry, are now su pended on them inside. In one corner a few deal boards are nailed. so as to make a bed for children above, and a place for fuel below. A wooden cradle is opposite. The seats are fir stools and chairs, and the little round turning-up table is of the same material, and all arc as clean and white as snow. Oars, wicker baskets, avid creels and nets, are placed on the couples. Let a re.ard fir Finnan paddies invest these details - with in terest and respect; for, from'such a scene, and such an envi ronment, do they pass on their way to make up that feast for the gods—a Scotch breakfast. The evening darkens in, and the " eruisie," a small iron lamp, is lit up. A patriarchal family assembles, including sometimes four generations. Let a reverence for the great domestic drama of every-day life, of which these humble details make up the scene, stir the imagi nation to realize them all—the grandam with her grandchild upon her knee—the nursing mother, the toiling fatker, the children gazi ng a t th e i r e lders studiously—th, s , little fellow asleep on the net on the floor, and the small light struggling with the smoke to display all. I will look at the Claudes and the Titians in your pictured dravving.room another time. It is a poor place, but you cannot fill your palace with more interest ing things than it se es—births, deaths, marriages —lif e . Of the fishwom en o n the eastern coast of Scotland, we are told that they are all married young, and that an old maid is scarcely known among them. " Sel dom," adds the writer, " are their marriages un happy. Prostitution is hardly known. Occasionally the first child comes very soon; but generally the women are chaste." We have been - pleased with the following. anecdote :—" In the spring of last year the traveller was shown the entire clothing of two sea men, who had been cast ashore and decently in terred on the spot. The clothes lay exactly as they had been taken off the bodies, the braces still hooked to the back-buttons, the boots and everything were good. Yet the neighbouring poor had left them scrupulously untouched! A boat, which has once cost a life, is never again used by a Buchan fisher ; it is drawn up on a lonely part of the beach until it rots, or is destroyed by the first storm that reaches it." " Caleb Stukel,y" is an entertaining story, the scene of which is laid in Cambridge. The sketch of the gouty Vice-Chancellor, who, after delivering a devout and eloquent homily on Christianity, " damns" his listener for a "young villain" because he happens accidentally to break the bell-rope, is highly charac teristic. The " Portraits of Versailles" is sufficiently explained by its title. The writer's lamentations, however, for the loss of the "glorious times of Ver sailles," are sheer cant. What Frenchman, with his country's interest at heart, could possibly sigh for the restoration of such times—when dissipation and reck less extravagance were esteemed virtues, and passive obedience was the fashion of the day ? Thank God, times like these are past for ever, in France as well as in England! The " Prussian Monarchy" is a re view of an amusing work lately published, entitled, " Frederick the Great, and his Times." The " North ern Circuit" is cleverish, which is as much as we can say in its praise. The "World of London" justly satirizes the doeknes for their inordinate passion for shows and processions. The " New Houses of Par- iament" contains several judicious observations on the, ,aw of design. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The variety of matter in this month's Miscellany, which alternates most agreeably between the grave and the gay, proves that it has lost nothing by its change of .Editorship. Neither is there any falling off in the illustrations, which tare more lively and numerous than they have been for some time past. Alfred Crowquill contributes two highly humorous plates illustrative of the " Philosophy of Physic," one of which, under the quaint title of " Two Pumps Con sulting," represents a fat phySician with a bald head, and spectacles on nose, engaged in learned conference with a pump, on which are stuck a doctor's wig and hat, while the handle does duty as an arm. Of the two medical professors, the . --pump looks by far the most sagacious, though there is an air of dignified, goose-like gravity about his companion by no means to be despised, for we verily believe that half the secret of a physician's success consists in a grave and formal phiz. No patient ever encourages, a sprightly-visaged' doctor. Such a biped is 'an impertinence = a solecism —in a sick-room. If we must have an M.D. by our bed-side, with a watch *in one hand, while with the other he fumbles about for our pulse, we prefer one who looks as solemn as if he had just come from the funeral of one of his patients. Another illustration represents Death poking his grim, fleshless counten ance out of a mortar, evidently more to the annoyance than the surprise of an apothecary, who accordingly aims a vicious blow at his' skull with a pestle. The sarcastic leer on the face of the gaunt phantom is very archly pourtrayed. Of the article which these plates illustrate, we cannot speak so favourably. It is, in truth, a flippant, common-place affair, stuffed full of excruciating puns, which it is clear that the writer mistakes for wit and humour. The theme, though not novel, was a tempting, one, but it has been marred in the treatment. The " Harmonious Owls" is a spi rited quiz on singing clubS,.introduced by some pithy, pertinent remarks on the system of clubs in general. The satire is justly applied, and.is remarkable for its breadth and freedom. The "Enthusiast at Shak spere's Tomb"—a ShakAperian enthusiast, by the bye, is apt to be an awful bore, a n d m os t superficially acquainted . with his author—is, an account of a visit paid last year to Stratford-on-Avon. The descrip tion is3lively and graphic, and the colouring not over charged. The illustration, representing the interior of an old-fashioned chamber is as picturesque as the best of Cattermole's plates in "Master Hurnphrey'S Clock." rite well about St. " Valentine's Day" is a pleasant, seasonable subject, need not wonder therefore, that Miss Carey has acquitted' herself sue PlVeaalesnantitnlye _h i t t h o e iffr. pet s Ladies ain a t l — w a y, y e s cessfully. But the Penny Postman is the man to write most feelingly, if not complimentarily, on this topic, bending, as he does, from morning till night, beneath a load of delicate embarrassments. " Rambling Reflections on St. Valentine" from his pen would he a great treat. In the present chapters of " Richard Savage," we are introduced to the acquaintance of Sir Richard -Steele,:whose -conversation is characteris tic enough. The scene of his quarrel with Savage is among the best, because the most natural, incidents in the story.. " Tommy Doddy is a passable account of a Lord Mayor's Pageant in the year 1633. "Aunt Sarah's Ghost" is one of those supernatural traditions which we all affect to laugh-at, but all read with avi dity. The description of the phantom is very ghastly and bewildering.. " Old Green, Offiey's Regular Customer"—a sketch introduced by an admirable half length portrait of the hero, by Leech —represents to the life one of those gross, animal voluptuaries who may occasionally be met with in London taverns, and who have about as much intelligence and sensibi lity as the turtle and venison on which they make such desperate assaults. Old . Green, says his biographer, lived but to eat and drink, and when his appetite failed him, he committed suicide. Of the "Philosophy of Physic" we have already spoken. " The Old Fa miliar Strain," though it cannot boast of much vigour or originality, is yet agreeably versified, after the Haynes Bayly fashion. We subjoin it acoordingly Sing me that old familiar strain Which touched my heart in boyhood's yo ars, Before its chords were jarred by pain, Before its hopes wet.e dimmed by tears. Time has fled last since first I heard Its mu:ic from those lips of thine ; But well remembered is each word: Se sing once more, oh, Mary mine, The old familiar strain. Thine eyes have their soft radiance kept, That won my hearths life's your g pp r i a , And o'er thy beauty Time bath swept Gently, with light and charined wing. FI?ASER' S MAGAZINE. There are one or two more than usually entertain ing literary sketches, or criticisms, in this Number; and the best is " Hints for a New Book of Literary Parallels," in which occur some clever, cursory re marks on Dante, Virgil, Chaucer, Milton, and Pe trarch. The writer, however, entertains, we think, too high an opinion of Virgil's poetiCal powers, who, master, as he undoubtedly is, of versification, labours under a striking deficiency as respects vigour of ex pression, and originality of thought and invention. With the sole exception of Dido—his most consistent and animated portrait—he has no characters in his tE'neitl—none, at least, that are in the slightest degree marked by individuality. What is his " pius 2Eneas," but a maudlin, sentimental hypocrite, a Methodist in his sayings, a scoundrel in his doings ? Lucan has delineated character with infinitely more truth and vigour, yet for one man that reads the " Pharsalia," a thousand dote upon the " lEneid." The writer's observations on Milton's language are just and forcible. It is described as " moving with a mighty, a stately, and a resounding step, at once majestic, and yet sweet; at once ancient, and yet intelligible to every pausing listener; the war-note of the giant, the harmony of wisdom, and the sigh of beauty." But this praise applies only to Milton's poetry ; his prose —though it contains numerous splendid passages— is stiff and pedantic, frequently confused and clumsy in its construction ; and at all times it jars harshly and painfully on the ear, like the grating of a file upon steel. The " Forsthaus in the Soiling" is a wild German story, exaggerated to an almost ridiculous degree in description —as, for instance, where the re later details the impressions prodUced on his imagi nation by witnessing the opera of "Don Juan." In the " Chapter on Dogs' we have an anecdote highly cre ditable to the courage and humanity of Mr. Duruset, the singer, who, it seems, once saved the life of a poor dog in the street, which was pronounced by the crowd gathered about it to be mad, and was just about to be murdered as such, - when its protector interfered, at the hazard of being bitten by the animal fbr his pains, or " pitched into" by the disappointed mob. In the "Vagrant's Lodging- House there is one graphic passage, descriptive of the horrors of poverty. "Dickens in France" no tices with contempt and indignation the vituperative criticism of Jules Janin—a well-known Parisian li terateur—on the novels of this popular author. In the remarks on the "New Edition of Campbell's Poets," the Reviewer, cursorily alluding t o Il az litt, says of him that "that he is an unsafe guide." This is true, for his criticism, were almost all fashioned according to the mood of his mind, while he happened to be penning them; and he was seldom in the same mood for half an hour together. In a fit of dyspepsia he would discover nothing but absurdity in Cole , ririge's " Christabel ;" when his digestion was sound, he would find out that it teemed with beauties. In two points Hazlitt was consistent—in his love of the old painters, and his democratic predil ec ti ons . From " Nimrod's Life and Times" we quote Mr. Ap perley's recollections of Wynnstay, its fashionable company, and its private theatricals : Young as I was, I was honoured by being admitted into the dinner-room, siting by myself at a side-table; and on being called by my godmother to approach her for some purpose,— a glass of wine, it may be pretimed,—the following unfortunate discovery was made :—" Bless me !" exclaimed her Ladyship, " this boy cannot perform to-night; he smells of onions enough to frighten away a Welshman !" The fact was, amongst ether things on this side-table, placed there until wanted, was a plate of young onions, considered rarities at Christmas; and rari ties must I have considered them, for I ate them all, and thus was my dilemma occasioned. Orders, however, were given to me to keep orange-peel in my mouth as the means of ma ki ng myself bearable ; and, with the exception of my failure, the thing went off well ; the acting of " Young Sheridan," as he was called, was very highly extolled. Itt 4ct, he was what is now called the star. Amongst the visitors at W_hin:ley ynnstay, and t frequently, was the still more renowned She ridan himself, the author of the Critic, and nothing more is scanting to establish any man's fame. I have a perfect recol ' lection of his person and manners, as also Of hearing his lady— Miss Lindsley that was—display her musical and vocal talents, to the great delight of her hearers. Until lately, my acquai t wice with the name and family of Sheridan was confined to a period when I was too young to appreciate the high talent with which they are endowed, but which appears to have regularly descended through at least four generations, and with little diminution from that of the parent tree. In the company of the late Tom Sheridan, when arrived at manhood, I never fell but twice. On one of these occasions, the first, he was not himself. A cloud appeared to rest upon and obscure his usual brilliancy, and I was disappointed in my anticipation of the pleasure he might afford me ; but on the second he made ample amends. He was, to use a phrase much in vogue in those days, " in high form ;" and although there were two other clerer men of the party, neither of them equalled him in the ta'ent to amuse, which he appeared to possess to its full extent. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. -- Mr. Ainsworth continues his "Miser's Daughter" with spirit, though we must enter our protest against one of the incidents, as wearing too much the aspect of improbability. For instance, he describes a Sir Bulkeley Price as riding through the streets of West minster at the head of a troop of fourteen armed horsemen, " every man being provided wiih two bags, each containing five houndred pounds in gold, slung over his saddle-bow ;" and then laying down these " precious sacks" at the street-door of the Miser's house, to whom the Baronet owed the money. Now, this is a " New Way to Pay Old Debts" which we cannot help thinking is somewhat at variance with the ordinary usages of the period at which the circum stance is supposed to have occurred ! We should have doubted its probability even in the turbulent times of the Plantagenets ; but it comes on us like a shock when we bear in mind that it is represented to have taken place at the comparatively modern and business-like period when Fielding was alive, and writing his " Tom Jones." Sure are we, that there is no incident so strange or out-of-the-way in the pages of this novelist. If we except this defect, there is no fault to be found with the present chapter of the " Miser's Daughter," which contains an ably con ceived character in the person of one Crackenthorpe Cripps—a good-for-nothing fashionable valet, who bids fair to furnish the reader with no ordinary amusement. " Proverbial Philosophy" is by Mr. Tupper. Some few of the thoughts are subtle and ingenious, and we at once acknowledge the force and truth of the aphorism that " Pride kicks at obligation awl pushes the giver from him." Would that all the proverbs were equally natural and intelligible ! But many of them are so cloudy in thought and vague in expression, that «c can make nothing of them. We quote one of the best, which will con vince our readers that Mr. Tupper—despite his occa s'onal quaintness and obscurity—is a just and earnest, if not deep or original, thinker:— " Give to the Poor discreetly, Nor suffer idle sloth to lean upon thy charitable arms; To Diligence give, as to an equal, cm just and fitting occasion ; Or he bartereth his hard-earned self-reliance for the casual lottery of gifts : The timely loan hath added nerve, where easy liberality would palsy ; Work and wages make a light heart, bat the Mendicant asketh with a heavy spirit. A man's own self-respect is worth to him more than money ; And evil is the Charity that humbleth, and maketh man less happy." These striking thoughts deserve a more lasting re cord than is to be found in the perishable pages of a Magazine. Dr. Franklin would have been delighted with them; and even Paley would have confessed that they were worthy to vie with the shrewdest reflections in his " Moral Philosophy." The " Grave-digger" is an interesting story, told with feeling and simplicity, and the sketch of a village churchyard, with which it is introduced, is as just in idea as it is easy and grace ful in expression. " Science and Good Humour" is an airy, sportive poem, full of delicate raillery. " Strawberry-hill" is an account of the curiosities to be found in this " Birmingham Toy-shop," as Burke, not inappropriately, styled Horace Walpole's favourite retreat. The "light of the Fiddlers" is a so-so tale by Mr. James. From " A Day and Night on the Banks of the Euphrates," we quote a passage that may possibly- amuse our readers : Our road lay along the banks of the Euphrates, which was now seen to the greatest advantage in the moonlight, broad shadows being thrown on the lucid bosom by the dependent landscape. In a short time, si e began the ascent of some hills, the crest of which we had no sooner gained than my guide laid himself down on the ground, and scanned the naked upland that now extended before us. I sat down in the meantime. When no had finished his survey, he slowly muttered the words " No Arabs," as if he himself had not been ale. He then came and placed himself by my side, in closer propinquity than was desirable, while he put forth his hand to examine the steel buckles of my braces (for I wore no waistcoat), which shone like silver in the moonlight. In doing this, his hand trembled, and betrayed his intentions. I rose quickly, and seized a stone, he at the same moment lifting his club, and holding out his hand, rubbing the thumb and forefinger together—a significant manner of asking for money, common to many parts of the world. The indignation with which I regarded my antagonist was now at its height. It is true he was tall and bony, but he was aged, and not even active; his forehead " villanous low," his nose long, his eyes red and turulent. It was, however, for our mutual advantage that peace should be established ; so walking on, and keeping all the time beyond the reach of the club—retaining, moreover, possession of the stone for fear of renewed hostilities, we argued the master over in a pleasing and edifying manner. Pint; he asked frr money; I told him I had none : then for my fez-4 said I could not expose my head to the sun : then for an Arab kerchief I had tied round my whist ; knowing the value he would set upon this, I deter mined to propitiate him, if possible, and gave it up. He then put his club in his waistband, and a temporary confidence was re-established. We now. turreid . flown a ravine, and then crossed some low hills, when my guide again resumed the re cumbent position—the usual reconnoitring posture of the Arabs. I advanced, and to my delight, for it was jest break of day, found the river flowing below, , with inhabited islands on its bosom, and between me and it a cultivated and peopled country. My guide went no further than this spat • it was in vain to urge him : he was as much in dread of fellahs as he might have been of Turkish authorities; so I descended the hills by myself. But my mishaps had not quite terminated; for some fellahs labouring in an adjacent field observing me, hurried away at full speed to intercept me. They were armed with small hatchets, which they waved ovrr my head. I told them that I had been robbed of everything on the hills, and they did not discredit the story, but contented themselves with the ker chief round my neck, without examining my person. It was the third and last I had to give. Proceeding a short distance beyond this, I came to some cottages. Here there were some Arab women, who received me most kindly, and gave me milk. From them I first learned, to my infinite joy, that the steamer was not far distant, behind one of the islands. This turned out to be the case ; and I had not travelled many miles down the river, before I distinguished the funnel among the column-like date-trees. TAlrs MAGAZINE. The " Peel Mystery" is an energetic, shrewd, pithy, political article, suggested by the recent discussions in Parliament, and exhibiting a sturdy spirit of libe ralism. The writer observes that the time for com promising or shilly-shallying with the Corn-law ques tion is past, and that " now it must be either total repeal of the taxes on food, or something better still, which shall include this among other gains." Ile goes on to say, " a storm of wrath is meanwhile bursting round the head of the unhappy Minister, whose condition really moves compassion. How could he avoid failure ? Finesse was of no use here. Those who doubted of his statesmanlike capacity in an era like the present, yet had faith in his sagacity and tact as a party leader. And there he stands, con fessing himself in the predicament of th e o ld man and the ass in the fable, who, tiTing to please every body , pleased nobody, and lost his ass into the bar gain." is hard hitting, but our stern Radical friend Tait seldom spares his political enemies. " Abednego, the Money-Lender," is a graceful and lively tale, from the pen of Mrs. Gore, one of the most prolific novelists of the day. " Laing's Notes of a Traveller " is an intelligent notice of a recent book of travels. " Miss Burney's Diary and Letters " is another review, but much too eulogistic. What the succeeding volumes of the Diary may be, we know not ; but the one just published—namely, the first—is full of the most sickening egotism and self-conceit, just as if the writer believed there was only one subject worth talking about—and that one was her own over-rated novel of " Evelina!" As a favour able specimen of Tait's poetry, we quote the "Song of March :" Hark ! hark !—A crash is in the woods ; The gnarled oak bends like mountain-larch : Who shakes the forest—whips the floods, Like March, mad March ! I slid down the storm from the drifting cloud, To frolic awhle in sour mansions proud. While the usurer dreameth of thieves, in affright, I will rattle his casements and blow out his light. I will hurl on the head of the learned owl, While he studies the stars, the huge chimney cowl ; It shall cut his nose, and black his eye, To test his sublime philosophy. Thence, where hard Asthma hacks and houghs, With purple face and vital sloughs, Against the windows, I'll batter the rain, And thrust the thick smoke down the flue again, And just ere your dinner 'neath the cover is put, I will dredge it defty with ashes and soot; I will rend the furled sails as I ride on the bast, Singing hurricane tones Through the navy ; And I'll fling the bold mariner down from the mast, To Davy, For gravy To his marrow bones I will bleach for the laundress, and blacken her starch, Such a whimsical fellow is roaring mad March. Look ! look !—Amidst yon Ocean's strie, Feles fever brave men's lips d ;th parch ; Shall mourning mother—widow'd wife, Curse Merck, mad March ? I am not to be bounded, nor curbed in my glee, By the phantom of human sympathy. I will search round your jaws for the carious teeth, And fiddle away on the fibres beneath. I will blast the old miller, and ruffle his dam, And strip off his mill-top like the bladier from jam. The dishelout dank from a beggar's mail, I will o'er Patrician 'scutcheon trail_; While crieth priest, " Lord I I have drouth," I'll whiff a cobweb in his mouth. Wherever I find a nervous heart beats, I will fashion the curtains like winding sheets. While the grey sexton dreameth he hears his death-knell, I will sweep out his mattock and toll the church-bell ; I will shake down the mansion, the trees will uproot, Decree'd, and confest Yours eternal. Then, Sir, how will you pay for the Chancery :tut? . Infernal Hard kernel For man to digest ! I will droll with the gloomy, and growl at the arch, Such a whimsical fellow is roaring mad March. NiftioNN CHARTIST MEETING. Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the Journeymen Tailors was held at the Institution, John-street, Tottenham Court-road, for the purpo se o f a d vanc i ng th e pr i nc i p l es con tained in the People 's Charter. Mr. CUFTEY having been called to the Chair shortly before 8 o'clock, said, as one of the trade who was anxious for the ultimate success of the principles of the People's Charter, he at once acceded to the proposition that he should preside over the Meeting, and he hoped every person would be heard with fairness and impartiality. The working classes in the connbry had never before been sunk so low in misery and starvation, and it was therefore the duty of every one, who wished well tohis country and his specks, to unite heart and hand to exterminate class legislation. If the people stood true to themselves and their cause, and were not led away by the aristocracy and the middle classes, who sought, by impracticable schemes, to deceive them, they were sure of gaining their political rights. In the late debate in the House of Commons his attention was particularly attracted by the speech of Captain Rous, the Member for Westminster, who might not inaptly be called " Young Glory." —( Loud laughter.) That Tory luminary stated in his place s that the journeymen tailors in London were able to earn from 30s. to 365. a week, and he (Mr. Cuffey) requested the Se cretary of the Society to which he belonged to write a letter to the Hon. and Gallant Captain, informing him that he had grossly exaggerated the amount of wages paid to that class of artisans, and in reply the following letter was received:— " Sir, I bare to thank you for your resolutions, passed at a meeting of the General Council of the National Charter As sociation, relative to the amount of wages, and to what they are pleased to call th e principles embodied in the People's Charter.' In return, I send you a true copy of my speech in the House of Commons. I have carefully read over your resolution. You will permit me to observe that the working classes of all descriptions in Great Britain are better off than the working classes of the same rank in any part of the old world, and that the wages you receive (when in full work) will produce more comfort. Your misfortunes are owing to the increased popu lation in this over. peopled country. Every trade, every pro fession, is overstocked. We are starving one another, but She remedy is s)rnple ; emigration to our colonies, where men of your trade will earn great wages. I see no hardship in living in another country, under a better climate; with all the civil advantages of the mother country, and where the tax-g atherer is unknown ; this app ears to b e t h e on l y mo d. of redressing your physical ills by the exercise of your reason ing capacity. Depend upon, it, no political power will im prove your condition ; far it is a curious fact that those per sons who, through your exertions, are placed in high political situations, advocate ' Free trade principles.' Free trade will be your particular ruin. All the Continental workmen can afford to under- work you, because they live upon coarser food and choose to endure greater privations. What you call privations they consider as comforts, their ideas being infinitely inferior to yours ( Hear, hear) therefore, instead of free trade, you want additional' protectiny duties, which are not to be had namely, a fine or tax upon British subjects who wear clothes made by foreign tailors. I repeat, therefore, there is nothing like our Colonies for our working classes, whatever may be their trade, where the demand for labour greatly exceeds the supply, in stead of our old country, where the supply exceeds the de • mand ; and I do not give you advice which I would not follow myself, for I have visited every Colony, from Upper Canada to New Zealand. Whatever may be our difference of opinion on Political subj.-cts, you will be pleased to consider me willing and anxious to serve you to the best of my humble abilities, and be assured that I have nothing so much at heart as the amelioration of all the working-classes, for, on their moral worth, their stern courage, and good feeling, depends the prosperity of this great empire. —Yours, &c., H. J. Rous, 28, Ch a pel- s tre e t." —LThe passages in italics were underscored in the Gallant Captain's manuscript.] The Chairman, after commenting at semi" length, and with considerable ability, en what he styled the overweening impudence of desiring the industrious and produc tive classes to leave their father land for the back woods, read letters from Ales•rs. Uuncombe and Leader, M.P.s and Dr. Al'Douall, apologising for their absence, and expressing their concurrence in the object for which the meeting was called. Mr. PARKER moved the first resolution, which was as fol lows :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the dis tress and misn'y that exists in the trade of journeyman tailors has been brought about by and through class legislation, and hereby recommend a union of the trade, with a view to alle via'e their sufferings." He said this meeting was called for the purpose of testing the feelings of the operatives of the as est end of London respecting the People's Charter, and he was happy, from the number and respectability of those in atten dance, to be able to say that the will had been warmly re sponded to. Mr. thrones seconded the resolution. Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR rose to address the rceeting, and was received with loud cheers. He said the main-spring of legislation should be free and impartial discussion. They were for that principle, because they knew the truths they ad vanced would become more self-evident by it, whilst those whose deeds would not be ir the light sought to malign and misrepresent the arguments of their opponents. Nothing could speak more forcibly in favour of the people than the manner in which Young Glory's" letter was received, for a grosser tissue of absurdity was never penned. In that letter it was stated that the distres'cs of the people arose from over-population ; but any man of common perception must see that the class of per sons to whose Secretary it was addressed was interested, above all others, in a large population, for unless the overplus went naked, the tailors, of all others, were most interested in having a large population. The Member for Westminster told them to emigrate to a foreign land. They would do no such thing. But he (Mr. O'Connor) would tell him what they would do. The working bees might yet, in a voice of thunder, tell the drones to emigrate, or, perhaps, they might sting them out of the hive—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—for if emigration were necessary at all, let the idle and the slothful be the first to go. and the industrious producers be the last. As the Chairman had very properly observed, the aristocracy told them to emigrate to the Colonies where they and their connections were pos sessed of large grants of land, which they intended to make available by the capital of industry ; while as being the authors of the infamous Poor-laws, they would cry out, "be joyful," as they saw each ship load of emigrants depart from the shores of England.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was astonished to find that those who were comparatively comfortable were satis fied with the compararive comfort, for. he thought the working classes of this country had no right to be satisfied with out increasing production. The rights of all descriptions of property were protected, save those of labour, whi h ought to be the most respected ot . all. In travelling through the country a person will frequently see placards in grntlomen's.do., mains, having such inscriptions as these :—" Whoever is f mud trespassing here will be prosecuted according to law," but no one saw a caution to the effect that, he who trespasses on - the poor man's labour should be punished. Such a thing was never thought of, because they who could make the law to, prevent others from trespassing were themselves the tres passers. There were two classes whom in his heart he dis pised, and those were the persons who, having votes, gave them corruptly, and those who, not having theM, re fused to struggle to gain them. He would tell " Young Glory" there was no necessity for the people of England to seek foreign clime for food. He also disagreed with those who c nsidered that the people were necessitated to bring the waste lands of this country into cultivation, in order to enable them to raise the necessaries of life. He might be allowed to liken the waste lands of this country to the cold meat in the larder, which .would serve those who came after them. There was capital to so large an amount vested in manufactures in other countries, that it rendered them, in some degree, independent of England; and if they were to let their lands out of cultivation, as some folks advise, the foreigners, who hate England, would, in the time of scarcity, turn round and say, England at one time put an ex clusived duty upon her manufacures, and now we will put the same upon our corn. For ten years, whilst in office, it was Lord John Russell's cry that the sufferings and privations of the people were the consequence of great commer cial prosperity in the country ; but the moment he found himself on the bleak side of the Treasury benches, then his political vision became cognizant of the fact, that the dis. tress was general throughout the country. He (Mr. Feargus O'Connor) and his colleagues, Aim were struggling to gain the People's Charter, were accused of being firebrands, agitators, and torch and dagger-men by the Whigs, but seven months had now ela;wed, during which it was acknow ledged by all parties that the most appalling distress prevailed, and yet there had been no violation of the law, whilst during their time the Whigs could not agitate for three months without such events as the burning of Bristol and the sacking of No tingham. The people should be cautious, and not join this deceitful faction, for their policy always had been first to urge the people on, then when they got into power upon their shoulders, turn round with state prosecutions and packed juries. He did not care for parties or factions, but let any one point out to him a principle, and to that principle he would adhere. The mass of the people had witnes s e s ' the introduction of steam and its manifold applications; they had witnessed all the great magical improvements of their genera tion, political and scientific, but yet, could they lay their hands to their hearts upon returning to th it squalid houses, and say those grand developments of nature's resources had in the slightest degree ameliorated their social position. Mr. O'Connor concluded amidst loud and long continued cheering, by parodying an old proverb—God gave us the land, but the )evil gave us the landlords. Mr. KNIGHT proposed the next resolution, which was seconded by Mr. M‘Gaant, a working-man, in a very able and effective speech. The resolution was as follows—" That this meeting is of opinion that the only means left for the trade and the working-classes generally of bettering their condition is by adopting t'le principles contained in the People's Charter." Several other persons addressed the meeting, and it broke up ahout 12 o'clock. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. Loxnox, Frs. 28.—Wind this day at noon, W. DEAL, FEB. 26.—Wind S. W. to W.N. W., moderate. 27, A. S. S. W. ; r. sr., W. S. W., moderate— Arrd. Milford, S .ields, for Grenada. Arrd. from the River, Eliza,' Sc, Helena; Ocean, Sierra Leone ; Orleans, Hobart Town ; Mid• Lothian, Bombay; Eblana, Trinidad; Hope, St. Vincent. It' has blown hard throughout the day, during which several vessels drove considerably, but have brought up with a second anchor. It is now (7, r. as.) more moderate. The Ergo, for Malta, slipped anchor and cable, and proceeded for Ramsgate. LIVERPOOL FEL 27.—Wind S. S. W., fresh.—Arrd. dale and Trinidad packet, Demerara—sailed 16th ult. ; Sharon, Pennington, New Orleans; General Parkhill, Hoyt, and George Wa.hington, Burrows, New York—sailed Bth inst. ; Gazelle, Newfoundland; Magellan, Bouch, Lima; Jem, Menzies, Tam pico; Adams, Gay, New Orleans; Gondola, Rennie, New York and Charleston—sailed 6th inst. The General Parkhill and George Washington, got in contact this morning in the river ; the latter lost bowsprit, had bow stove, Ike. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27. —Wind S.S. W. to N.W., strong.— The Isadore, from Cardiff to London, which was ashore near Ryde, has been got off, and towed in here. COWES, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Medora Norna, Bridgeman, Charleston ; Magnet, London, for Grenada. GUERNSEY FEB. 2.3.—Sailed John, Havannah. BRISTOL, FEFL 26.—Sailed Emley, St. Vincent. SWANSEA, FEB. 25.—Arrd. Enchantress, Edgar, Cuba. FALMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind N.W., to W. S. W strong breezes, and squally. 26.—Wind W. S. W. to N. W., do., with violent squalls.—Arrived the Wanderer, Palk, Ancona; Tyrian packet, Vera Cruz, sailed Bth ult., Tampico 19th, Havannah 2d inst. ' with 170,000 dollars; I3raganza steamer, Gibralt ar , left 17th inst., Cadiz 18th, Lisbon 21st, Oporto 22d. and Vi g o 23d ; Traveller, Brand, Jacmel, soiled 3d inst. Eliza, Comish, Constantinople, sails split, &c. ; Briton's Queen, bound fur St. Michael's, with fore and mainmasts carried away, 24th inst., in lon. 9. CORK, FEB. 25.-81 d., Mozambique, for Bermuda. i(iNsALE, Fitz. Cantab, Rio Grande; Diadem. Bahia. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 26. Sid., Mary Wood (s.), Gibraltar. OFF DARTMOUTH, FEB. 25.--Eli,e, 'Baltimore, for Bremen. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind, variahle—Arrd., Wolverme, Portsmouth, for China. It has blown all night fr , in S.S.E. to S.S.W., but is now moderate. The William and Charles, Butcher, fouled another schooner in the Sound, slipped, and ran into the pool with damage. PENZANCE, .FEB. 23.—Arrd. William and Ann, Casey, Swansea, with bowsprit, &c. carried away, and other damage, having been in contact ?:ith a large brig 18th inst. off Lundy. MILFORD, FEB. 26.—A head-board, marked " Michael Edwards," in gilt lett ers o n a black ground, was picked up yesterday near the C row n Bock. GALWAY, FEB. 25.—The Albert Edward, Prince of W a l es , sailed the 18th inst., put back 20 th, with pump s out of work ing order; ,be hat had to discharge part of cargo, but will proceed in a day or two. DUBLIN, FV3. 25.—Arrd. Demerara, Miller, Demerara. •. .~.....