The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

____.................... _ to u!laggravate th e distress, but no practical man , o f c l ear an d °Tallhiassed judgment, could Gil to attribute that distress prin !Al,y to the restrictions on our commercial policy, and, above to Our pernici ous C orn-law.—(Cheers. ) He would refer •! , hic I° the petitions of th e people, notwithstanding the man ver in h th e li on. those Gentlemen opposite bad last night spoken of t.1410,e petitions--a manner in which he thought the petitions the People ought never to be spoken of; but in referring to th e e , P lc t it inu he would not allude to the petitions from would refer petition they l e ta r d i n t g People themselves, because it might be said that een forced to sign those petitions ; but he - to the unanswerable arguments set forth, in the .I_ 3° f the master manufacturers themselves, who stated that hey bed had been obliged to discharge those people because 1,470"4d no employment for them, for their trade was com m., ~y stag nant. He would throw overboard the petitions of pr y ear He labourers, and would advert to the petitions them their richest landowners in Scotland, who told ()nett that in their part of the country the whole scene was one ~r destitution. There was one etition he thought, that refuted the assertion that the present p state ' of misery in the coun try hail H e anl ci•no. connection with the state of the Corn-laws. other ti t e I 0 the conference he had with the Government the s ands . a y' vie hen he presented two petitions from starving thou . - least ("le house:" the vest of Scotland, praying that the beinde.dwan hinz s Were not caused by ware [€ th „ nllght r.,he unlocked, in order that they might obtain food. the Corn-laws, it was at ' n • the haledings ;e that must be cured at their hands. A little hitstneaths:t :lay ilue°ent ot curred to him that. morning, which he thought trinsoutts'ated the pernicious effects of the Corn-laws. An Indus- If m an , air optician trading to Hamburgh, had called upon lie said , mid, alluding to' the present discussion, of the , inowed the benefit that would arise from . a relaxation f rela aws regulating the importation of corn i sue s l a l n te %at ien torik place, he should be able to bay twofo r 2or -1 71h re eej te a d °o unt of provisions he now did with the money he re • t • 4h • There could he no wonder, considering the inapres- J Ministers entertained with respect to the i"'llciwledoei, that . an , u la.ws, that they should have proposed such a measure ; .he to e .„,_ bad,' it was an improvement, but it embodied same rrnd vicious principles that the law that it was to tuteeeed did coot obstructing Who, • rle did not wish to infer that he was one of those t_. but calculated to alter the opinion formed upon the u . 1 7, tit he felt that an measure which would have the effect ...nary. In the tl a'le was y pernicious to the interests of the Bight lion. Baronet's speech, which he (Mr. t”.a")dh inot hear, but which he read attentively, it appeared While that Ivor: itle)re3t t he Right Hon. Baronet argued for the protection, PCMIId 6 - "g h t to get for the landed interests upon two ra n d, s i andthese were the special burthens thrown upon the Cos' and the other ground was, that it would . be f Corn pay somethin , to be independent of the supplies Pr o In c e , - n , fr om other o f • .g . 'r'i countries. These were the two aft, - ; Pa' grounds urgesr b e y ' the Honourable Baronet in favour f• ‘' kt easure. Now h e (M, Stewart) would simply put be p• r the en ; 4 ttu d r o li th li - ures the real state of the facts ; first, with ;sespleacifij burthens upon the landed interests of the Itirtj t i Y o ; - se (Alr. Stewart) admitted that there were large t 'c de e ni e l t L es sing upon the landed interests of the country , heu Wa r not a tolt tithes formed a portion . of those bn%en t s i L s the ili political economist, but avoiding the my sti ca . it this_ cUssi n , • tt au," subjects as the House was then engaged in .burth e ,',; „ ask " how j was it possible that tithes could be a bt tht -- r n la nd? Itwas sou , ht to infuse tithes into rent, Consider,s contrary to common sense. flow could th l e, be estate we 'u to form any part of rent ?—(llear, hear. banil couldl hen Aht subject to tithes, that was 'le did pot `"eY be looked upon as a burthen upon the t rights questio n ,-,t• a clear p)arelahnadsaen? of th e a dmit that tithes tormed any item in the settlement the Corn-laws. Then there were otile e r s hould a lt d hie .h were based upon the ri,ghts of properhty.fficill doen ni int that he did not well know his way throng House the ter nQ, hilt as to county rates, he would state to theshow thWhat us ns which had been made in 1826. He wished . to e r e l e b asis and extent of those burthens were in 1826. 4 onse e „,' upon land were 4,892,00 a 2,818 'flop,.'',oher The taxes upon property, 2,074,000/., making a difference of 1 8 26 ~,,;' and amountin , in the entire to 6,906,000/. . From °' le t° CA . , the burthens increase I ; but this year owing to 'lee' as Co's th at h ad been enacted, the burthens were t o ta . -n g Considerably. It was said that land w•s subjected Itattt a nd other dues ; in 1819, the wholesum levied on spool, !tamp duties was 1,699 0001. Taking off the !trap -es • wolild be at lasi 1,000,000/ charged upo n l an d . for g ilded ; It was used as an argument in de'enee ot the sna% Interests, thatr th yw re subject to certain duties for 18 39 ' i t Th , fo r Which other p operty was n• t charge,ble. In Attip ert 'Tuld be found, a( cordinu to the returns, that p -rso a d l 2 ,170 ,nne ,"1d paid upwards of 40,000,0001. for stamp duty, an ;wh at -vv lor legacy duty. Real property was now exempt d duty. If lea' property was now ii , ibLe .t t ion of duty, upon a valuation of taxe r s I 16° kill°lln t in 9 200 000/ a-year at least ; the rental o. the be vo n , , • g i 250 4 ,, 1 " % 0, 060,00(.. l/. a-year ; the purchase 4 f that won d : 44 ,01nn"'", ° MN., and the present legacy duty would . be l 'lettn,,.;—,which would be a burthen upon land, and the special of ~ 73 h , Co , i' Would be 2,500 0001. He said nothing of the question „ 41 ° tr o - , a ; the argument for protection w, s land,, d up t o h n e a"eeeslit,7ll"B. namely, the spec al burtholts . upoo l uent , r i of Payin g something to render this country indepert ,,"Nith;°;reign sup lies • 13,000,000 quarters of A heat . we e 'Meer 'nto thiS p eoun ' try si. cc the pr.tptised law was intro thtt i t In 1828 the Right Honourable Baron,. t sta - et! all ifiel el Wa s quite c l ear t hi s country did. not produce lion j°. Th e c orn for the consumption of our popula t UluPopulation had considerably increa ed since hen, t ll e e ota;itohree years be fore the census ha d , been taken ; yet 41 ' thj, co n. Baronet in 1838 admitted , . that it was quite kte untry could not produce a sufficientity of orn 8,„ Numption of her population."—( H nt q ea ua r, he a r.) c He . , ..1 4 ,„ - Art) Was not re aired to admit . that a s t o h t i n s ei c e o n u e n y tr o y f t arti to • can a bi -, i., r ie in ordinary years, of pr°d t u li cin fli ht Hon. Ba tarot wr her a , Joyulation ; and, backed as the Right of a bolder !lid a ,„--, ne (Mr. Stewart) did expect el k. -"are effectual measure of relief than that proposed by 1•1 040 Ile should say he was e su , rpris d e ent relaxation system as of the Board 1,4titiT,44,1b,,,1e a G rg e ti n i t n l g em i a n n, fa th v e our Vic of -I t r h e e si the tariff !he t rssia ; because the fact &c.,. and now p ;•:irte4de to t i W tt r o ri b e e y r e n r a s x o , s o t i r l i , ngent as at present. th 'eoEpinegloafndßocossnia , eett ou that the Right rlon. 1 3 t er ° 11 ;let a Z t ' He (Mr. Stewart) thought . N il.. . e V independent of this country. except for one article, i' t g ieli re i i; ° , 4 4 have directed his attc:n h ti r o e n s t e o e st t l t ie o A th c e t t o r f a( l l 7 e 93 of , it s eOltei t - P e(l more stringent A A e c t ts re w m • c e: th w e 'as da a r c k, '4lar•si•aild d uri n rirtfi n a't time, it se meet i a n s ed if p t i l n ie . f ( o th r j ee for many , il4ll,hecl for which the people were now ie grop p i r ti te g e i of corn, ,s..i .c i i !! _ to obtain a stability in duringti pi e R , .he believed, did exist that time. lSi, ight Honourab e Baronet, he Member for Dorchester ago by Nth, ',_9raha.m) concluded his speech a few eveningsasabsolutely ,dltict4.°3 to that a fixed duty oi . co t r h n at was not a ways est r , t i:us to the interests of this country , 4.11)pp0t.,? o pinion of the Right Hon. Bart.—(Cheers from the quoted certain pas -4.7n.es ,; °ll benches. Mr. Stewart then titel,,,,,` e n cl•llivered by Sir •,,,11:4Clolitnions in favour of a fixe u 1 ton corn.) The Right J. Graham,in which he ex ' Aitii ! I , LP•renet the Member for Wiltshire ( Sir oF.oollueroirlent.t) Thehad 1 01)447 upon that occasion for a fixed duty % , ° 1 Ur. Huskisson had be.enealqiu,potertddiedby upon.both I.tri:o4. 6 t, the House, and uriequive .. 3 r vi iiii," near.) The authority of M.. I . I . u na sk i s ( s o m n r ' . s C i;'' "art l ' - ‘ f4ll Y :sanction e d the course taken by Hi p lI L 2yeei,/.te holding that this country show d k lT.ve n a free trade ;s,tltl6--(Rear hear.) In 1828 Mr. Hus i•so . expressed - irgetit t i tnle ° in fav i our of that principle ; he then said that h . e ' iutvoir ue,prepared the next Session to brin in a measure in • , i, aeld, °f a fixed duty —that principle was recognised g o by Mr. ''s 6 (k e °°, was fully approved of, and up l tha d t e p a os ti i r ti e o l n y J• t h f r ' S tewa t ''e ma ,, .. . r ) now stood.. le vote F d ri h e e n a d rt t i h y e ' and for •tol4‘ l l - °I the Motion 01 his Hon. • eeaetirr"allapton.—( Hear.) fromh a d the th e ih:f presenting to the H H o e u ( se ll s r eve S r t a e l wa p r e t t ) iti b o a n i s i 4 16--"ential parts of the country in favour of the principle to devise 40174'1.11 advocated, and he called upon the . H : : ta i B e ci rn u e d dy , and under no they er i m e ‘piiwooss,ce, subjectedupo n the li?„,_ he 4 1 , 4 1 1 s and so cruel a ,i" 1 " th e • .`" Ject of taxation should be the food of the . people. my ,T,inistory of the Corn-laws was a very instructive his ' le tt 1 1 4 , l 'e Ron. IVember for Canterbury told them the et effect ' 'etift:l;.larl been studying it, and let them look at - .lel4o,re• Member's sides'udy. And though he ( th r. ,r S s m ide vt , h h e i ! 7 , 4 1 the other and would vote on the o ( t ill l o wal a useful subject for those who advocated freetrade ' '„ el iv e ee t ,, e '„ 'The Hon.Gentletnan divided his admiration aliki"lorir prn .*DI ln the first instance he considered the t ', P a f - e ° ,.%. t,e- co ' u - n u t - ry es a . ver e due to Lord . ofNo . rt t l h i a f o O k r s t t h s e er a e ct doe :'— 'llitr ,-„ iree trade ; in the second instanc,, •Ils lktt'anninbe for his act of 1826 ; thirdly, the Noble Lord 4 tY.. t eber for London was entitled to thanks for his fixed 441114 ed lastly though no k e n , b., oo ~,.., , t least, the Right Hon. Baronet iiititl eti z p 7. t r larnworth %as entitled to thanks. Theo . eta f• u• not knowino• which way to '',, 4 :11" --(Hear•) ' The law of 1815 was ushered in with give his praise, divided iftil:ttlia-4,,it reco mmendation that it would reconcile all parties, • ee l';l l ,., way as it was said the present measure would sa d , _ '` it "Weyer, Mr. Hu kisson's opinion of that law. e il, titt.yel.ent from the bottom s of my soul the evils, losses, and „ e low °eeasioned by this Act, which have caused, price l s t at o'Uee lai,:`olll,an w ould - other Wise have been the case. Loo iL eall i e 4, '828 and the debates which took place upon existed n t ,' t °- '„:"Y Would see the difference of opinion that -`e•Nw4°'°tlerrion at that time and the present, though the to y er e i,„ _ . fait kkti, 4. " r,eality the same.. This was enough h 14/1 'that arms it had brought him (Mr. Stewart) to this reso to stagger tt t ' he would not leoislate on that principle, and would •Z ep k,b.d - et i ll i _ t h , at principle:Which had proved atoodbocoatfhrearaedomon , NI et ill, eierest, a fraud on the consumer, . his (Mr. Swart, Leres.—( Hear, hear.) These were etlitl4)(Lviews on the question, and he tho i u d ght that ever I tam th e 11.7 Right Hon. Bart. himself— . , the -e f l'rlo c i l e ,V°P, to be properly . settled, w L a s t be be formed convincedon • :. Rtew °4 4ik_ dl arnetrically oppo i sr_et ( o H t e h a a r t , which hear.) co i n i s e ti ( ti A it i e r d • •disa r „ell) y r ," of the psesent I3i • 0,104, mated' hut astonished that the coun m t e r a y m a r t e l , ar w g h e ett wa th s e s y o ' . t. n . lered th at the Right Hon.. Baronet's htllon. Baronet had taken •tt , Serv ec r . i ber ati e o tirne that the .4z,..i110s , a nd 1 1 , the y sterio h l u l i g d silence w i r c io h g h s ad an b d ee l IN e• b4 }or e ° I th e w'nen t m he y the be h a labour ki,ii Nhi , that Jnountain, b n e o . e wo d o i ( s le a r p , po a m s ted had at been the :s m ai i d_ ego - th ou e trio a , e the people were Me. 1 ,, • •.gli i t ~,,. •-,( Hear, hear, hear.) The miserable mouse, ( 4 4 7 % t r It Ileft "' ,. l g ht be diversion to those who had strength and ~4 1' ,,,otira ufi - .as an object of dark dismay and terror to thousands i eou ntrymen.—( Hear, hear.) This law, low t4',ll-fi,e'rft.'otittlytiestet;negntually force its way from the statute-hook. o I! 1 Pie *h. the proposed scheme was the same pernicious 4 0, ; qui , telt had f • iic. a.:". Act Grilled the evils of its precursor, and hail made_ -‘lt44os etlobiect of national distress, and as such of national , i Ali V ~,•--;,( Hear, hear• ) ~ the,.ved that the " 411 ': irik a ( ught " t u o b e li f ? .. USE * said he _alwa •s believed the Corn sir ...`- le i r Isere b onded on general grounds, and in proportion iiro,...so4itnatioasoedonthat principle, they deserved . our support this principle, and if it could be • - N e u °l4ht t o b e eo rb- e la vi vv e s worked ill for general prosperity, th,, re they arrive r d e ,1 d Hear, from Opposition benches.) la t e lf .---( h . hwas the argument on which ~ kit' je,r•ed their case he this, w ld 'e g hack to the evidence of the ;,,,, ' that th7,Ya.,Years; and lt would adin o issible of the clearest proof kid' til eendancyof this countr • both as regarded agriculture anufactures, was confined) ' within the period embraced 1/et wee Preo e h n i the war of the colonies of America and the war of the , andlBl,•°,l„,u'ion, 'Si,n other words, between the years 17fL, sl a , e '• the expor ' t of wheat prior' to the year 1792, nearly . 1' Bulell ,the iniporta An lion. Gee . tleman opposite (Mr. tons -Ore"), said last night that it was . better to depend on . •i to u pl s night than o - casionallv ; and he adverted %lie. )ear 1810. Ile (Mr. W. ) was surprised that the tiollit., kiemleman should advert to that year without men - was g the peculiar c ircumstances by which the year tic% Ina,rked. —(llear.) That was the year in which s slii„Z i L te gave his Generals leave io become dealers in corn, by p . ati op , !?3, amassed great wealth. Dantzic fell into the occu , tin 1 z,T the Pi ench in 1 806, and continued in their occupation wil ~‘., se y,ears. During the year 1806, ~.,,,,,i4lo(44eand fro would refer to the prices and import of corn • . ea t 4. , nt 1 rugsia, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany, the total import of eland and. :.'.‘enders, was 110,000 quarters, with the price 1,,19:,744.. Gd. to 765. lo . 0 7. the total quantity imrted lit tr949°lserfers, and the price was 7s. ite, r P el teU ‘v.s 40 cmarters at a price of 78s. !!! 180 , 9 ' In IsoB, the quan. sis,47, l , ( l4artee s rem tilic:yrte,ll. t the price of 945., and, ou• ' . 11)441:IT': r.usiunatnitdB4 la kl ~ 'tru e .ri it 1 019, Oiere wet•e 1,2n,00 ''garters imported. , the prie l a *4 owing to the eitinniyance rti,../, t,lie E.t.,tpryor.Na h.Thfi92s., thg tfital import was lew 44 bee no more, w hllstaufl,ie ypar immediately receding,p „,.. year well nearly one million and at oi - tivoyters. In 1812, a bs ia was 1225. there intro 100,000 M e , ! I I kn.. , xi in Yorkshire as " the dear y,eayi ;then he quarters admitted, ani in h0,i5e,339,000 quarters. aa e .. _) t ° be a most curious at i i This appeared to him (Mr. \\Wi rer the Hon. Gentle " uPposite to A'tops are as9n why they t4oyaht it,better to . • e golden eggs. The I them that the xnea insult to a starving it was insulting to r i g hts. The words wople are starving, your arrangem ents.' his speech in a very s (Sir F. Burdett's) s country were not so the word " bigottee at it had to do with free trade in corn in- That seetued.to him ther the exaggerated olverhampton. The ich in which he 1)0 I interest, asked wha ministration. To he sa id the Hon.Geis t very great improve Ni why the party of ny measure to relie s ' tnunity. Nov it sr that persons hiug rty, as the Hon If to be, stunk: roposecl no remedy o had expla.ined at no delusive hope A , expectto satisfy • as abidty in t he F lan m t h e Opp. osn)— hether fair or spot, hear.) He thought, been made.against been stated that the abler' great capitalists d looked at the price," id any result WiticP it see any of thae p vhich had been attri d that there had bee e gat period than there did not admit to the cessity for a change. did one great thiltP "an i t ,flainta ater l tale of duty a ink, " ntent and deluSik'n, f playing tricks ao thought that aw"; uty at Ss., whet ear when it It(iai:e unwise to %% t ee away b y oev- tbe wer, and Pt ia the price of Coo it said that the Cl io suing the cart be v r ',„ ise was quite osition.) Ever 9 entry went to a of rd th a t the a l l,. food a the, ) muc h laugh' r i ; competition, wat• tors. It was cerliti ttry, from the o b its i complained of tcre, of povery fro b the cal of distress to lieved, was owiaitt guard. He OS in a great det; tncy was in its 1' I there c ould 0 . ° , / t ie n-laws were o° `. Leis had not pretioi eign corn. 7-ie,r,io ear of individnaig:Ab themselves to Wit ,tin no other Plt, ` r i t l3o sons enjoyin • a l et land. He ,he world. 110r e . - e tal. :le landed proprieoei sentiment ear' Lits nag e ment of the e est id 'et , was cons or, rench ' Atuba s6 ol fev entry a w ee; nd ad the pro god consequences.;,A change. o f 1010,4rti :e. He proceed let , inpetent, as aho f abortions, one 111 ifs and mot ion.. h it s t a ting that intot consideration iiite Lore was no I • d to p rincipl e ; good ; so Set o o Right Hon. 'est. House on thelo fr sitation t of his oWn ie Alember feVtioli rich him his surer/ it was more 504, cracy of this COP 110, • Achilles t. Baronet, 0 01 Baronet, W, s ie , Ouse, the advu-atIO 3 said it wasid e ' speech he ha ,fo 00). e motion of ho Ao iiik because, in r7 fi eol Baronet at they to ar.) He ald; cier s as in its p r"' t o Jevy taxese'lt 40 _lIe• ). ro(neta state thalp ,, ioo ed by a Pr.egi 6 f 74, itection .. u e stion,,r7 7, iss,pf: ris let th e el ; o people ' r a 3 4 o ieu •oru to, 16 • t he also le ° ? on ; sto (l o on r i ot against , , d, „ mopolists. 00; look T e iic . .P . i , ost that ••.: n India , vcr tilt.. 0 !slid?,Lnd . 0 8 kin si fqi.at to rt ‘, ie HonsP , earl of lier AO. 0,, nce bad, n p roo n. Gentie o oe," r , an d ;Id? per the 111- 109 ,0' , o f the 0 0 ! orts t op oo o f the f oi l A Aid) we r f l le Cr°; . i e y him to ing 4O san discussebor .01 le bv the s weA l t o ild find the onitfoo able 0 de ln a - ol.t g l belabour , . OpPe'i tl° r e, ild hear tbe b e:, - er they 0- ,10_, 1 • 0 0 tectioa SP A .) \Oat ) kid), he 00 0 50 • tood for Easy Pr i v -r who, 'Li t 0 , 0 , he in' er el- " n tl e d country ,:ei e with h i lp & ugh ter.) ideiiid name " s' • e—a no'e .0" 1,0 9', bilis he - or) the nalne, be bii if gold iu nornen ore 0 i Li d e the °ell" bit ' a der -? t -r ilrbeit. : ;ch l' e°l 1 3 1 : biet th e e - ea r; ,n "eraara:trij,s, the first,i, th e $O 4 Houses of '''e ls l3 h . eg) : i fT:sbread:io , ",o 9 circ lo oo,4. theft Pe ) for ,it . 0 % i ske. the,, bei r thtogiriie't ro t O no t o" eotr 3Texertiitds r o nl ii i i . e l% lf i s er a b inb e g : b r t 15 0 iffs J J as a oono in light f - hi t f e ar. ) 9 ° tb s te l ues' . 4 • 5 rkinga l ' e. cO li a Ly• '"iiut!' o " o tior a T ai ,;st 000 ,iite.. f ,„, to d e , e ; 1 ,I t e _ O , It o , V:1 1U 0 055e nt; i 1 e re o f „vs . i v r e f actu rio4 n be ba }lOl :ilbaY e oe' on u f fort o u f t h : , e e e a ro t a, l it e, 3 0 i n u s r eq° e " e rn 6 a0 f ae• that t " tb and, lei d u p W 1 o , l lpe tb , L e Y ‘! ' n e t r e e rc sts itur Ai. n grie „ jifee.: , v ith° ° , 0, 011 , the ntee ttel l er iti of Pr rose h oi rit i n u e er v i ,d n o , on o 0 13 vj I, Ile"' Nlr. _ A ►i9 "' ter repr e a s o 9 . !,TiStieadr.U.l2orth.l ; that 11 ' 1 ,. L. t°to , 0 able cbe cprOP, ould the 11.1gbt 115 iffered t ) f their s .l;at eu .tiop , trF — Ineat;d' aa W d 0° „,1 1 ' 3au , ,, 3 ° 8 , p artlY je t i n t iar rierciali e u r l'og; been 4 ti rr ap e l e blecli te I ha d r te iuse 6 " have constant dependence on foreign supplies than a partial de pendence. In 1801 the King of Prussia declared that when the prices here were Famine prices he should keep his duty ny to the full, but if the prices got lower here he should reduce his. A great deal had been said with respect to the burdens upon land; it had been said that the agriculturists had no right to ask for any protection.—(Hear, hear.) On the sub ject of burdens upon land he (Mr. Wodeholise) would refer to what took place many years ago on the subject. The present Sir Geo. Phillips was connected with certain returns made at that time; by those returns it appeared that the taxes on land were four millions and a half. One million on houses, and 300,000/., and no more, was the amount of the taxes upon the trade and manufactures of the count r y. When this return came back, Sir George . Phillips said there must. be some mistake, and he recommended that a second re :urn should be made. The second account came back in the sam.s shape as the preceding one, arid they never heard Sir G. Phillips on the subject any more. With respect to wages, did they think it possible that wages should keep pace with the price of provisions—( Hear. ) The Honourable Member opposite, in speaking of this subject, had gone back to the earliest periods, when wages were 9d. a day. —( Hear, hear. ) Ile would refer them, however, to the wages of labour b3tween the years 1800. and 1810, when it would be found that wares were nearly doubled. It had been stated that these laws would be really a great obstruction to foreign commerce; he (Mr. Wodehouse) hoped he did not undervalue the commerce, but he did not believe the proposed measures would in any way materially affect our relations with foreign countries. In speak • ing of this question, however, he shoul i quote from what had been said by a gentleman,whose correctness he presumed would not be doubted by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. (The lion. Member here proceeded at some length to quote some remarks of Dr. Bowiing on this subject, which have already appeared in the course of the debate.) He believed the measure of the Government was intended to act fairly towards the landed and the manufacturing interests; but he did not view it without fear of danger—( Hear, hear) — for though there might be an obvious necessity to relax the duties on foreign wheat, which was the food of man, or on fo r eign oats, which was also the food of man, what necessity was there to relax the duties on foreign barley ?—( Hear, and laughter.) He maintained that the cultivation was most im portant to the cultivation of wheat, for the sowing of barley maintained the land in heart. Yet the correspondence laid on the table would show that the prospects of a supply of barley from Elsinore alone were enough to alarm this country. This was the principal point of objection he had to make to the mea sure, and having now stated his views, he thanked the House for its kind attention. Dr. BOWRING, in explanation, referred to the period when he met the representatives of the Govern ments composing the Prussian League at Berlin, on behalf of her Majesty's late Government, to consider the question of a mutual modification of the tariffs of Prussia and Great Britain, in order that the twenty-four mil lions of inhabitants comprised within the territories of the League, might be induced to take our manufactures, on condi tion that we should open our markets to their agricultural pro duce. The Deputies were willing enough to consider the corn and timber duties of England on this principle, but our engage ments with Canada prevented any modification in the latter, and the corn question was not so ripe in or outside the House then as it was now; consequently, nothing was done. Con sidering the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, he (Dr. hovering) was glad to recognise one great merit in it, that was, the introduction of the word " now." That word appealed intelligibly to all. There were around us multitudes suffering from want, and " now" was the time to relieve them ; and if the claims of the landed in terest interposed injustice between us and this great act of duty, let those claims be investigated, and if they were proved, not a man in the House would be more willing to afford them compensation. Before they came to a vote on this question, they should consider how it was regarded by public opinion. While every one admitted the awful gravity of tide question, two petitions, signed by less than 100 persons, had been sent to the House in support of the Right Hon. Baronet's measure; whilst there had been presented 1,694 petitions, signed by 427,600 petitioners, expressing dissatis. faction with the present Corn-laws, and almost unanimously demanding their total and immediate repeal. —( Hear, hear. ) In the House, too, the question of repeal had made a great ad vance. In 1829 Mr. Hume proposed a fixed duty of 205., and was supported by only twelve Members. In 1833 Mr. Whit.- more brought the question forward, and was supported by 106 Members. In 1834 Mr. Hume's minority was raised to 155. In 1836 the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton was supported by 195 Members ; and in 1840 it was supported by 177, in a much less numerous House than that that who heard the previous debate. Now in 1842 we saw that 226 Hon. Members declared that the present state of things ought not to be tolerated, and that the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet ought not to be accepted. Let us again refer to the evidence of advancing distress in the country. The 150 market towns which furnished the averages showed that from 1836 to 1838 the consumption had been 12,346,000 quarters, making all average of 4,145,000 quarters ; while from 1839 to 1841 the consumption had diminished to 10,938,000 quarters, being an average of 3,646,000 quarters, proving in these towns a falling off of 469,300 quarters. This referred to wheat alone. An Hon. Gentleman opposite remarked that the duty was but ss. 9d. a quarter ; but he should remember that the lower the duty the higher the price to the consumer. The Hon. Member for Shropshire said this would be but a tax of five farthing-3 a week to each man. Now there were hun dreds of thousands in the country who did riot earn more than Is. a week each. Yet on these unfortunate people the bread-tax, even according to that Hon. Member, would be 10 per cent. out of their earnings. The Right Hon. Baronet, the Secre tary for the Home Department, said the Bill of the Govern ment would give a protection of I 4s. a quarter; this would be 30 per cent. out of the wages of those miserable people who earned ls. a week ; but adding the ss. 9d. to this, they would have an aggregate of 19,000,0001; and adding 6s. more for transport, the amount of tax paid by the consumer would be 26,000,000/. The Hon. Member for Kent spoke of the burthens land was peculiarly liable to. The history of this country on the contrary, was a history of the exemption of land from burthens. The Hon. Member said the landlords were not allowed to grow tobacco. No one would object to it, if they paid the 3s. duty now paid by the consumer. Upon the same principle on which they now spoke, the landed in terest would have cultivated beet-root sugar, and would have insisted upon compensation, if the proposal by Lord Sydenharn some years ago to lay a duty of 245. on foreign beet-root sugar were carried. Returns presented to the Chamber of Deputies in 1840, showed that in forty-three departments of France east of Paris, an area of 64,600,000 acres, growing 6,280,000 quarters of wheat produced on the average 14 3.20 th bushels an acre. Now, our land produced , not less than 28 bushels an acre ; yet, while the whole direct land- tax paid by this country did not exceed 1,250,000/., that paid by those 43 departments in France, exceeded 3,000,000/., and this was but one kind of tax. After alluding to the feudal system still prevailing in those parts of Poland. Russia, and other districts to which we might look for supplies, the Hon. and Learned Gentiemari alluded to their want of capital and labourers, and added that he should be more afraid that they would not be found able to supply our growing population, rather than that our agriculture should be overwhelmed by the abundance of their exports. It was said that there were sliding scales in other countries. Would the Right Hon. Baronet adopt some of these ? The scale in France was most complicated, or, rather, there were four scales acting in the tour zones into which that country was divided. Under the French tariff, when wheat was 445., the duty was 9s. 64d. ; at 58s. 3d. it was 6d. a quarter. In Hol land, when the price was under 235. 9d., the duty was 14s. 3d. ; but when the price was above 425. 10d., the duty was ls. The Dutch had given practical application to the principles recommended by the Noble Lord the Member for London, and the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton. There the revenue was collected as well en the produce of industry as on the land, and it was taxed at the mill. He could not help saying that this was one of the causes which produced the rebellion in Holland, and led to the alienation of Belgium, and the creation of a separate Government. In Belgium the importation of corn at 565. was duty free, and when it was under 275. 9d., its importation was prohibited. Therefore, when he referred to the sliding scales of the Continent, arid compared with them that of the Right Hon. Baronet, he could not but feel that the people of England were unjustly dealt with.— ( Hear, hear.) Taxation in Holland was high, the cost of the Government was great, the comforts and conveniences of life were nearly at the same price as in England, and yet they could import corn for 425. at a duty of Is. 2d.—(Hear, hear.) He now came to the averages, and he recollected the Hon. Member for Shoreham had said the landed interest was willing to make concessions on this point. An opinion was prevalent: abroad that a fall of 4s. or 54. in the averages would take place, but the Hon. Baronet introduced new ele ments in the taking of them.—(Hear, hear.) He (Dr. Bow ring) was of opinion that the tithe commutation had been set tled on the system of averages which had been established un der the present mode, but the Right Hon. Baronet was now about to supersede it altogether. If the new system would have the effect, as he believed it would, of lowering the averages, then he was dealing unjustly with those interests for which lie professed so much attachment.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member for Pontefract had referred to him (Dr. Bowring) with regard to the Prussian League, and he stated it was a failure, but he (Dr. Bowring) did not think so. It was true that with the aid of other States it might turn out un fortunately, but the opposition of that House to the introduc tion of a moderate fixed duty, or free trade in corn, added greatly to its influence.—( Hear, hear.) The agricultural in terests of Germany were enfeebled, and the manufacturing interests were encouraged, by their legislation.---( Hear. ) 'that League was becoming more powerful every day, and a free trade was now being established without embarrassment or impedimeutbetween 24,000,000 or 25,000,000 of persons, who before gave every resistance and annoyance to each other.— ( Hear, hear.) Many others had expressed their intention to joie that League, and he (Dr. Bowring) considered its creation, both in a commercial and political point of view, one of the most remarkable events of modern times. The Hon Member for Pontefract had made allusions to the Legislature of France, and quoted the opinion of M. Dupin, whom he considered the Brougham of that country, and who looked upon the sliding scale as the beau ideal of political invention. But M. Dupin was not the individual whom the Hon. Member represented him to be. He stood high indeed, with respect to many valuable contributions which he had made to literature, but upon statistical facts his evidence was not of much value. It had been stated that the cause of the distress of the working classes was owing to the progress of machinery, but if they looked to the state of things which existed where machinery was not employed, the distress would be found equally appalling and extensive.—( The Hon. Member was then proceeding to show the great re duction in the price of wages which had taken place in those branches of trade to which machinery had not been applied, when he was met by loud cries of " Question" from the Mi • nisterial benches.) It was with great pain he spoke of the state of things which existed, but which ought not to exist, in the country, and when they came to that House to dis charge that sad and painful duty of representing their suffer ings, it was met by loud cries of Question, and he:could not but contrast the shouts which proceeded from the party opposite with the testimony of the Right Hon. hart. to the sufferings of the people and the patience with which those sufferings were en dured.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Bath repu diated the id ea o f t h e present b e ing a religious quest i on, b ut h e (Dr. Bowring) thought they were only acting and legislating be done in atrue Chaistian spirit in endeavouring, as far as it could were e a rt ef Manchester,o remove the et theydistr ess i by leoislation, that the hungry should be fed and the naked' clothed.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Honourable Member for Knaresborough had spoken of the Wll:onlywitwith which en deavoured, thaesyfar werea s they were abl e , to r emove the d istr ess wi th which they were sur rounded, and whatever obloquy may be cast upon them in that House, they would find their recompense in their own bosoms. And he thought thSt wl they had done iu M en the women put themselves forward as anchManchester, Hon. Gentlemen might anticipate out of this discussion a new state of thi ngs wou ld ar i se . 'the Hon. Member f or Fi nsb lessness of the p eop l e wily was r i g ht i n say i ng th a t t h e hope regard to the repeal of the Corn, ing laws exi would d out create new d emands for political changes. A feels ste manors, that House wery who represented it was spre a di ng w id e ly, that in a few, and h u t few wh9 represented the m an y ; and until the interests of the many were , attended to with more devotion the; demands for organic o than they had been heretofore, cla morous. The pressure from alniftehowtould become more bee bee;,recognied by the Right Hon.n—}the power of which tiate to that aipmbie, ; aro ss the re i laronet 7 -would pene tParliamartiry Worm', consecitiete nether be the removal . of everything the . .peo (4, Nol ' let! Kbuld pressive, and'which one day or other woulde deemed to be Op- BgNETT sal!, that the Hon 1 e swept away.. sat' down had made allusion to the tith,e'cr bet who Iced just mode of taking' the iticrage4 but _m „ position, and Rua tfe should t reColleet THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1842. that under the present system the tithe had risen five per cent. ( Hear.) The Honourablo Member had also spoken of the number of petitions against the Corn law, and the thousands by whom they had been signed, but with all the exertions of the Anti-Corn-law leaguers, and the expense of hiring Anti-Corn-law orators, there were only 400,000 who signed these petitions, whereas in the last year they obtained 1,300,000 signatures.—(Loud cheers.) Did he not see in t - '4is very circumstance that a reaction had taken place amongst the labouring portion of the people ? Was it net clear that they had begun to see what would be the effect of a repeal of the Corn-laws upon their wages ?—( Hear, hear. ) Attempts had been made to get up petitions against those laws by the agricultural labourers. Not a single petition, however, had been obtained from that class of society. —( Hear.) The agricultural labourers all knew, that if a repeal of the Corn-laws took place the inevitable effect would be to reduce the price of labour in proportion to the reduction in the price of corn. The amount of wages paid to the agri cultural labourer of- this country was at present 11. upon every quarter of wheat. If they imported two millions quarters of wheat they must grow two million quarters less ; and thus there would be 2,000,0001. lost to the labourers. —( ) That was a truism of which the labourers themselves were cognizant. —(llear. ) Now it had been stated that there was great distress existing in the manufacturing, districts, and he ad mitted the truth of that statement. During the war, the ma nufacturers of this country had a perfect monopoly, nearly of every article of manufacture. One of the immediate conse quences of peace was, that foreigners endeavoured to obtain for themselves a share in those advantages which had hitherto been exclusively enjoyed by our own countrymen.—( II ar.) He had the means of knowing, that they were at the pre sent time rivalled by continental nations in many of the use ful arts, and that in cotton goods, stockings, and several articles of manufacture they were constantly being undersold by foreigners. They need not be surprised at that state of things; for what was said by the manufacturers on the Continent ? " Unless your best hands can work for sd. a day, we can and will beat you ; if you cannot reduce your wages, we w ill con tinue to beat you. —( Hear, hear.) He recollected when gen tlemen in that House contended for an alteration in the Corn laws, on the ground that it would reduce wages. Now the same Honourable Gentlemen contended for an alteration on the ground that it would raise wages. —( Hear, hear.) He was an advocate for cheap corn.—( Hear, hear.) He did not stand there to plead for any class interest, but -for the country; he advocated cheap corn, but he was riot merely for having cheap corn, but for enabling the labourer to purchase it. He had always thought that 565. was the price at which corn should remain. So confident was he of that, that before the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet was proposed to the House, he had pulled out his pocket-book and written down that.—( A laugh.) Forty shillings was, in his opinion, the extreme price at which foreign corn would be brought into this country. His constituents, as well as himself, were extremely anxious that this Bill would be passed into a law. In letters which he had received from them, some of them stated that they would rather suffer by a low price of wheat, than that the price should be kept too high; the only thing which they dreaded was the reduction of the wages of the labourer.— (Hear, hear.) He hoped that no amend m e n t s wou ld b e presse d by those Gentlem en who were friendly to protect'on, but that they would all unite in passing the proposed measure into a law.—( Cheers. ) Mr. M. GIBSON said the Hon. Gentleman had tannted the supporters of the Anti-Corn-law cause, with having failed to obtain such a number of signatures to their petitions as would show that any considerable number of the people were in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws, but if they were to infer from that remark that any number of signatures would induce him to agree to a repeal of those laws, he was afraid that they would be very much mistaken.—(Hear, hear.) Certainly he agreed with one remark which the Hon. Gentleman had made namely, that no person ought to make inflammatory remarks on that subject, and, let them come from where they might, ho (Mr. Milner Gibson) should disapprove of remarks which deserved such a description. But there were occasions, and this was one of them, in which it did be come Members of that House to call things by their right names.—( Hear, hear.) The present was one of those occa sions in which they would not do their duty unless they spoke up to their convictions; in which they ought not to fear the giving offence to the over-refined and the over-delicate, or to shrink from declaring to the country what they believed to be the nature and object of the laws under discussion. There was one position, it was admitted by all parties in the House, with the exception, perhaps, of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Pay mas t er o f ! the Forces, which to his mind was highly satisfactory, namely, that the Corn-laws could no longer been maintained, merely for the benefit of a class, but could only he vindicated upon the ground of the general good. The Hon. Gentleman who had just sat dow n declared that he was of no class—he was for the country. This was a most satisfactory statement. Hon. Gentlemen now began to admit that different orders of men had a right to increase their industry in different ways, and had a right to bring the produce of that industry into the markets of the country, and thus no obstruc tions should be thrown in their way which were not thrown in the way of any other class of the community.—( Hear.) Hon. Gentlemen began to see that the corn and the cattle which were inipor ed into this country in e schange for our manufac tures and coals, were just as much the produce of British in dustry as though they were grown on British soil, and that the Legislature had no right to raise obstructions to a fair ex change between nation and nation. This position was ad mitted, and a very important position it was, compelling those who defended the Corn-laws to d fend them on certain reasons of state, ant of public utility, and also on the ground that there were certain burdens upon the landed interest which did not fall upon other classes in the community. But before they discussed the question itself, it behoved them to bear in mind the position which the supporter& of the Corn• laws held in that House and in the country. They could not forget (he said it in no obnoxious sense)—they could not forget that Hon. Gentlemen opposite had a personal inte-et in the question, and therefore it would be proper t o su bj ec t t h e reas sis which they act anted in support of the course they were pursuing t., a more rigid and seal thing investigation, than if they were perfectly disinterested parties.--( Hear, hear.) Th. re was one thing wh eh gave their cause a very unpleasant complexion ; the country believed these laws were made by the landed interest for their own especial advantage, and when Hon. Gentlemen opposite attempted to justify them, they differed in the reasons they advanced for that purpose. One Hon. Gentleman said one thing, and another Hon. Gentle man took a different line of defence. They all knew that when parties charged with an offence in a court of law differed with each other in their defence, it gave a suspicious complexion to their case. They found in this Session of Parliament the Noble Lord who moved the Address stating that the Corn laws were maintained for the purpose of enabling the landed proprietors to bear the general and local burdens of the country. The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government said that they were passed simply in order to enable the landed interest to bear the special burdons imposed upon them, while the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Paymaster of the Forces, said that the object of those laws was to keep the landed aristocracy in their present station in society. Now their different statements were at variance with each other ; and therefore threw a suspicion over the sincerity of the parties who brought forward such defences.—( Hear. ) He believed that any party enjoying the power of the landed aristocracy of this country would convert that power to the same purposes to which they had converted their power. He did not say that the landowners of England had less bene volence or a less sense of justice than other men ; and he dared say that legislators of any calling would endeavour to benefit that particular calling. Adam Smith stated that in his day no person, of the same trade could meet together without entering into some contrivance for raising their prices to the injury of the public generally. That was the disposition and tendency of human nature, and it behoved Hon. Gentlemen opposite to cons:der that that was the position which they occupied in the minds of the people in this country. It was believed that they were maintaining a particular law for their own advantage. If Honourable Gen tlemen opposite were to witness a combination of workmen forcibly preventing other workmen from offering their labour in the corn market, they would hesitate before they almitted that these parties were acting for the general good, and not for their own particular benefit.—( Hear, hear.) It should not be forgotten that Lion. Members had not lost their characters of men in entering that House, and that they were just as likely to use the power they possessed for their own advantage as any other men. Let them consider what were those special burdens to which land was subjected, which the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government offered as a defence of the Corn laws, and he (Mr. M. Gibson) did not admit that special burthens always formed a just ground for compensa tion to the landowners. If that were the case any parties who were more heavily taxed than others had a right to ask for compensation from the public. It would be an argument, for instance, for those who paid heavier highway-rates, or Church rates, than their neighbours, to ask for compensa tion, or a diminution of such burdens. But tithes existed before the Corn-laws; and he would ask any Hon. Gent. whether it could he contended that, if the Corn-laws were repealed, the should puy no tithes. That was the position, however, which Hon. Gentlemen opposite had taken ; and such an argument must of necessity create great alarm among those who consider Church property as vested property, and that the Church had the same right to tithes which the landlord had to his estates. —( Hear.) He would not go into the question of special burdens, as it had been already so ably discussed by the Hon. Member for Renfrewshire. With regard to the argument of the advantage of our being independent of foreign supplies, he was surprised to find that an Hon. Gentleman opposite had pointed out no single case of a country dependant for a supply upon other countries, which had failed to get that sup ply when they had the means of purchasing it.--( Hear, hear, hear.) On the means of purchasing, the certainty of the supply entirely depended. He was perfectly cer tain that if we were dependent on our own landlords for our supply of food, and had not the means of purchasing it, we should never get such a supply from them.--( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) But the Right Hon. Baronet the M. m her for Dorchester had quoted Scripture for the purpose of showing that a country shoulit seek to be independent of other countries. He told his constituents that there were two countries mentioned in Holy Writ, namely Tyre and Judea; and that Tyre which was a powerful country, had a quarrel with Judea, which was a weak country, and ambassadors were obliged to go from Tyre to Judea to solicit peace, because the latter country was supplied by the former. The flight Hon. Baronet told his constituents that that particular passage was written for their use and instruction.—( Hear, hoar, and laughter.) He said that it went to the essence of the question, and that it showed the necessity of an independence of foreign countries for supply of food. But did it not occur to the Right Hon. Baronet that that very dependence was the means of insuring peace, and putting an end to war? The passage which the Right Hors. Gentlemen quoted offered one of the strongest arguments in favour of maintaining a system of mutual intercourse with distant countries.—( Hear, hear.) But the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for used in the four years ending4l:iin:l:B:4ditt Tamworth would not admit that the Corn-laws had been to any considerable extent the cause of the distress now prevailing in the country,- and he attributed that distress to over-specula tion, to the connexiou between master manufacturers and joint-stock banks, and to the facilities for obtaining credit, which induced parties to manufacture more goods than they could reasonably hope to sell. But he wished to call the attention of the House to this cir cumstance—that in the cotton trade there had been no over production, and the quantity of raw cotton brought in for consumption during the four years ending in 1837 was less by many thousand pounds than the quantity t .: m et loso a ll.t r :e k utu e e_ had of late fallen off, and that was the reason why a greater quantity of cotton goods had been exported of r 0 The t a : heo l i m 4 v l tslsiet-es than at preceding periods. The Right Hon. eseetlerhan ss head of her Majesty's Government,, had also stet, o,_ _ there bad been a decline in our exports vic ii Honourable Member for Pe.,,i+:i cpwr4die li o ' c la iha lsilt the should receisre scnria accurate informatieri_ and 4 n mrliO f i t '' rth Z e i sn o : n n a t; tic Ill an o d n that the increase elf population 11.44 tleell t greate r i t i is ly s:jec7. llX ft factoring than in the ageicoliuttaltOt i t§l t m4"- WhiPh slloW4l the necPsity for eliGnliraing was a fact Rave employment to the sit. plus population manufactures which parts of the country. T. stated th at a re due,ago in ri n cu i t r tio the price of food would be attended with a • the wages of labour; but he (Mr G" retslicl lon 04 4 ' 1 w ottl d put it to Honourable oposlt w ho ler time, was, any fOree 414 algUillent, In his belief the wag e s ttf labour. were totally irrespective ef the Price of f. If wages were reduced .P m fietiOcn s would not r ood. labourer be better off i( could get a larger amunt o ie f r c iffoi hit eaps _tin if lie could on l y get a smaller 'l_ Cheers. Honourable Gentleman had in stituted 'a comuarison betweekk the English labourer and the Prussian labourer.—( Hear.) Did the Bight Honourable Gen:lemati mean to say that if there had been less food in Prussia, the Prussian labourer would have got more—(Hear, hear )—and that if there tad been a greater amount of food in England, the English labourer would have got less ?—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") It appeared to him (Mr. Gibson) that if wages were reduced by foreign competition, the difference in the price of food would make a vast difference in the welfare of the English artisan.—( Hear. ) ]f there were more food in the country, undoubtedly he would get more; and if the quantity of food in the country were re.. duced, undoubtedly he would get less. —( Hear, hear.) But how was it possible, he would ask, for the English manu facturer to compete with the foreign manufacturer, if they forced upon him the necessity of pur chasing his agricultural produce at a greater cost than tile foreigner ? — (Cheers.) Hon. Gentlemen opposite were not perhaps aware of the quantity of agricultural pro duce which was used in certain branches of our manufactures. —( Hear.) In many instances the quantity of agricultural produce consumed in the process of the manufacture exceeded in certain branches the amount of agricultural pro duce consumed by the people employed in the manufactories. If the manufacturers had to pay a large amount:for the produce thus employed, was it 110: evident that an additional difficulty was thrown in their way of competing with those who could pur chase this produce at a less rate. The action of the Corn-laws on the manufacturer was in the first place to limit his power of exchanging the produce of his industry, and in the next to render the -process of manufacture more exponsive.—( Hear, hear, hear.) This was a most important question in reference to the employment of the people. How could they extend their manufactures if they limited the manufacturer's power of exchange, and if they would not allow the manufacturer to take what other nations offered hint in ex change for his commodities ? Gentlemen opposite seemed to read the amount of our exports as if they were jealous ' of our foreign trade—as if they imagined they saw a species of rivalry existing between commerce, and manufac- • tures, and agriculture ; as if they were afraid of every advance of the commercial classes, and viewed them as a power desirous of deriving them of the stations they occupied. It was in a jealous spirit t hey read the list of the exports. They said you have added much toyour exports this year, are you not satisfied?—(Cheers.) Now it appeared to him (Mr. Gibson) that the question ought to be not what was the amount of the exports, but were they as great as they might have been if they had not been re stricted by Act of Parliament ?—( Cheers.) Was it right that trade should have only so much extent as the landed proprietors chose to partnit ?—( Hear, and cheers. )• Were the merchants and manufacturers to be considered only as a secondary class, dependent upon the indulgence and pleasure of the landowners ?—( Hear.) Was it right that they should be allowed to trade to a sufficient extent to minister to the luxuries of the higher orders, but be debarred from trading When they caught to benefit the condition of the humble?—_( Hear, hear.) They might be allowed to import wines and every other article that ministered to the splendour, luxury, and greatness of the aristocracy, but they must not be permitted to import bread to better the condition of the working classes.—(Loud cheers.) The competition for farms, to which an allusion had been made by the Hon. Member for Sheffield, was another t consequence of the Corn-laws.—(Cries of " Divide ! divide. ;) t The farmers were complaining that by damming up all the channels of trade and commerce. They were unable to pro vide for their families, except by bringing them up to agricul tural pursuits, and hence the ruinous competition for farms which the lien. Member had described. Was not such the case ? Had not the farmers sons and daughters • and how were they to be provided for, if all the Channels of trade and commerce were dammed up? He had ob served in the Murk Lane Express, which he believed was the organ of the Corn-law supporters, that the Editor ex pressed his surprise at the extraordinary apathy existing among the farmers upon the question of the Corn-laws. He (Mr. Gibson) was not surprised at it. The farmers knew well that it was a question of rent—( Loud and continued cheering)— and that if prices were reduced they would be enabled to make their agreements accordingly ; and whatever might be the state of the Corn-laws, they knew very well that competition for farms was so great that they would never be enabled to get mere than ordinary profit for their capital.— ( Hear, hear.) The present system had a tendency to make the occupation of the farmer more dangerous than it ought to be. The farmer must, under it, be prepared to meet, first the usual hazard of his calling; secondly, the chance of a repeal of the Corn-laws—(Cheers)--and thirdly, the chance of the Corn-laws not fulfilling their purpose.—( Loud cheers.) The Corn-laws had proved faithless to the farmer. They were a rotten foindation, and the farmer, when making his agreement on the faith of the Corn dews, thought anxiously of that period of agricultural distress against which the Corn laws had failed to protect him. He would admit that the agitation of Corn-law repeal made the application of ca pital to land perilous. He admitted that that agitation was an evil, but whose fault was it? Certainly the fault of those who maintained the law.—(Cheers.) So long as the Cern-law re mained, so long would they have Anti-Corn-law agitation. It was therefore entirely the fault of those who maintain the Corn-laws. —( Cheers.) He did not lay any blame to the Anti- Corn-law League. Ile believed they were performing a sa cred duty in endeavouring to expose unjust legislation. He would advise the farmers to be cautious in taking their leases. He knew the amount of this agitation. He knew what bitter feelings were rankling in the minds of many who did not openly express them. From Iris place in the House of Com mons he called upon the farmers to pause before they allowed themselves to be again deluded by the Corn-laws. —(1-leer, hear, and loud cheers.) The proposition of the Right Honourable Baronet could not be considered as anything like a permanent settlement of the question. —(Loud cheers.) He was not ono of those who would hold out to the landlords the hope that the Corn-laws cou ld b e re pealedO Hear.) He could cheap ring t o b t , h e e a i d r property.—( couldrosm b e btainede ei y.— and high rents maintained, at the same time. He believed that, ultimately the landlords would share in the general prosperity which must follow a repeal of the Corn-laws, but he believed that that could only be obtained at the expense of some present sacrifice, and if the aristocracy were so very patriotic —so disinterested, so high-minded, and so magnanimous, as they repres nted themselves, he would call upon them at once to make that sacrifice, and not for the sake of high rentt risk the per manent safety of the country. —( Cheers. ) lie would call upon the landlords not to be so blind to their own interests as for the sake of grasping at some temporary advantage to peril the permanent welfare of the country, and he would bid them recollect that it was impossible that a temporary good should be long based on injustice and wrong.—(Cheers. ) Mr. ESCOTT said it was impossible for any Hon. Mem. her in that House to be impressed with deeper feelings of the immense importance and very great difficulties of the question they were now called on to decide than he. It was said on the opposite side that the plan now proposed was for the interest of but one class. ( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Eseott) tbegged to tell- Honourable Gentlemen that, if euels were the case, no consideration would ever induce him to rise in that House as the advocate se such a class. He :mould not conceive how this earnour with respect to the agri cultural interest of the country had been raised. He could not but recollect the part taken by Hon. Gentlemen opposite on this question during the last Session of Parliament. Tnat part was now being played over again, but for different results. If ever there was a plan of mischief devised by the curnmingest of men in any country, it was that of proclaimi ng c h eap bread in a partly dis tressed country. it was striki ng upon the most tender, the most vital, the most vulnerable point —the life and existence of all those who lived by land. f he question now raised must be met be argument, not by assertion. Before the lion Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. Villiers) called on them to repeal the principle of a law under which the agricultural interest was protected, and the people of England supplied with foreign corn for more than twelve years, it appeared to him (Mr. E.) that the Hon. Gen tleman ought t ' prove two p r opo•itions—first, that the distress which they all lamented was the consequem ce of the principle of the law which he would repeal, and next, that the repeal of the principle of that law w ou ld not cause greater distress to the agricultui al interests of the country than the benefits which o n no. landowners nhoheu. eobatmoney and he thought it would confer on the working classes. Ile (Mr. E.) never heard one of those propositions either ar ued or proved in that House ; but until that were the case, that man must be a madman or something worse who sought to unsettle the principle of a law under which the great agricultural interest had thriven, and recovered from the reverses into which it, as well as the other great interests of the country, had fallen during same years preceding. The commutation of tithes had just taken place, and befor e the commutation deed was dry would they pass a law that would have the effect of bring ing down the price of wheat in this country to that of wheat Russia—namely, 405., and make that the standard o in f P la r n u mil s o la rd o s r ' rents, and the amount of tithes to be received by dependedet eantwn'tvearss not onlywh aotna those to whom such should be paid ? They talked of free-trade in corn. Was that a free grade when the produce of every other commodity in England was protected by a heavy ad valorem duty ? Did they think that wheat should be the only untaxed article, whilst every other article of production was heavily taxed? Did they forget that if they were to have a free trade there was no class in the community so able to bear free trade as the agriculturists were ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the Opposition benches.) Let them not talk of free trade, and mean a different thing? It had been admitted by the lion. Member for Wolverhamp ton, that the agriculturists had exclusive burdens to bear, but that a proposition for the reenoval of those burdens would be submitted to the House. His (Mr. E.'s) answer to that was, they did not wish to break up the financial system of the country. If they did get an increased price for the articles they pro duces& in consequence of the heavy expense of taxes, what would the Hon. Member do? He would, by introducing an unlimited importation of foreign corn, deprive them of getting that large price .—( Hear, hear.) He'admitted that they paid the malt-tax—( Hear)— the highway-rates, the tithes , and the land-tax--( Hear , hear)—he.admitted that they paid theso things, but then he said fleet they went into'the price of corn, and then he proposed a plan to bring the price of wheat down was a gross fallacy : cheap bread to ss. a bushel. That was the so d rt iv o id f e f ., r , e ) e tr l a l d e e which ßight came from the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite.—( Cries of " Ques tion, question," and " Divide, Ho nourable Gentleman who spoke last night, the cheapthe and dear . whether bread ought to be cheap or dear. The question of for Edinburgh, acid that th t e key pr i csyv,l:aersaeap goodoo dear,r nly ti;ienli relative tt, his eh e o rt i e i e i r i e i me i opinion, b e in circulation. supp cheap ness, did not see that they were far more likely to ruin the land, He was astonished that those who were_ crying out for manufacturer and trade,than the . because the land they ly and demand, but also laughter.) he owed to owners never owed to them —t ~St. them their very d. [ Tighter, a n d existenee—(Hear)—and the MITA alsotheir Oto.r!mem her whence cries of The manufacturers owed to the in the origin. They derived them from. that co mercial system country which they lose they had unless manufacturers to adopt the co too much would now annihilate. He could not think what had induced the they coul d derived l'ot theirai annihilate.—(Hear, htte. prosperity — (lle a a n: prosperity had driven them Ma the " Divide, divide.") H e believed r neglect of domestic , agriculture had been the offorerutiln.ewer.the miseries a the people. It put him in mind of ti, .s the f the Roman poet, and he woold read the original, .i; th Is e -souse would bear with him. [The Honourable Member read the nefo .. he et • d amid considerable langhsee . which r mire , ...Lion to wa. , The meaning of that quotation . • and confusion. J plain of farmers reduced to - , -- stus—he did not corn lords, or of a stem"' r overay, of the cruelty of land hem he did not knew ''s' . •"g I'M" ;• S p eak o f cla ss e s , setter than to consider agriculture as a class in of the erest—he spoke of the life of all, . whole people of his l I • provision not - on Country, reduced to fifteen days' not because they dicl net import corn, but because they would import it beeause they preferred a prec arious commerce to the improve- Ment of their own lands.—( cheers, laughter, and cries of " Divide, divide.") It was the same thing here.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") There was no country in the world, nor in any period of the world's history, in which such an experiment was more likely to fail, or more certain to be attended with extensive misery. —(Tory cheers.) He would now say one word more on the measure of his Right Hon. Friend.— (Cries of " Divide, divide.") lie could well understand the argument, that Parliament ought to stand upon that which lemei proved to be good, rather than experiment upon that which might be supposed to be better. But there was another and a wiser course to be,, taken on this oc- Oattion.—( Cries of " Short, short, and .s Divide.") They must divert mischief by time means which Providence had put into their hands for avoiding mischief; and he thought it wise to aocept the present measure as a Present. settlement of the question. —( Renewed c onfusion, and er *3 of "Divide.") He had not forgotten the year 1829, and the events conse quent upon that unhappy era—(Laughter and renewed confu sion)—nor the impetus given to the downward movement by thelyonla land- questionl the I the misguided efforts of well-intentioned men.—(Tory cheers.) • lle was sure that some of them had retreated from their mis taken line of conduct, and when he looked roucid he could not but congra'ulate some upon their glorious retreats as the most glorious of recorded victories.—(Hear, and immense cheering, hooting, and laughter.) The Noble Lord who had led that movement was beginning to perceive his error.—(oh, oh, and laught er .) The Noble Lord admitted, that while the agricultural interest made no aggressions upon the other interests of the country, it must constitute the leading party in Parliament.—(Tory cheers.) But the adherents of the Noble Lord said that this was a farming Parliament ; and under this present Constitution it was impossible to obtain redress for the wrongs of the people.— ( Loud cheers on bath sides. ) He asked, would the Noble Lord follow the leaders of the downward movement ? (Cheers.) Would the Noble Lord hold back and trerpble when pressed to juin the democratic school of Parlia mentary Reforetere ?—(Cheers, and cries of " Divide.") Whatever the Noble Lord did, or the new school to which he long belonged, he (Mr. Escott) was resolved to stand by the landed interest, which was well called the Eng lish interest—(Cheers) —and he would resist the schemes of those who, by their conduct in this debate, showed their utter incapacity to govern this country. (The Honourable member sat down amidst loud cheering, and cries of " Divide, divide.") _ _ On the motion of Mr. ENVART, the debate was adjourned. The House resumed, and the CHAIRMAN obtained leave to sit again to-morrow. The House then Adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of business. BAPTISM OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. Mr, FIRTH, of the Town Clerk's-office, read the following official record of the reception of the Lord Mayor and the She riffs at Windsor Castle, upon the ceremony of the baptism of the Prince of Wales : " The ceremony of the baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales having been fixed to take place in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday, the 25th day of January, 1842, the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs had the ho nour to receive, through the Lord Chamberlain, her Majesty's gracious invitation to attend the same ; they were also further honoured with invitations, through the Lord Steward, to the dinner at the Castle after the Christening, and to a banquet in St. George's Hall in the evening. Apartments were provided for the Lord Mayor in the Castle, and for the Sheriffs at Frogmore. In obedience to these commands the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs left London on Monday, the 24th of January, and upon their arrival at Windsor Castle in their state car riages, were received by the Earl de la Warr, the Lord Cham berlain, whe conducted them to the Waterloo Gallery, where all the distinguished guests invited to the ceremony were to assemble previously to their going to St. George's Chapel ; and at the hour appointed the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, as well as the other guests were conveyed to the Chapel in the Royal carriages. At the dejeuner after the ceremony the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs retired to the apartments provided for the Lord Mayor in Lancaster Tower, to which they were conveyed in the Royal carriage, and after attending a Levee, held by the King of Prussia in the apartments allotted to his Majesty, when they were respectively presented to his Majesty, the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs again assembled in the Waterloo Gal lery, and at the hour appointed proceeded to the banquet at which her Majesty presided. They also joined with the other distinguished personages in the Royal party in the drawing room, and after having drank bumpers of_claret to the health of the Prince of Wales, attended the Court in the evening, and quitted the Castle at half-past eleven o'clock, and returned to London on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 26. JOHN PIRIE, Lord Mayor, WILLIAM MA GNAY, Sheriffs . A. ROGERS, OFFICE OF CORN INSPECTOR. Upon the motion that Mr. Levick should be appointed to the office of Corn Inspector, vacant by the death of his father, whom he had ably assisted as deputy for many years, Alderman COPELAND raised a question as to the propriety of electing an Inspector pending the proceedings in Parlisment on the subject, but stated, in consequence of the representation s of several members of the Court, that he would not make any motion. Mr. Levick was then unanimously elected. The Rev. W. Wayte was elected Chaplain of Giltspur-streei Compter, in the room of the Rev. W. Boddington, resigned. The Court then adjourned. MARYLEBONE BANK. A meeting of the Shareholders of this Bank was held last night at the Boar and Castle, Oxford-street, for the purpose of receiving a statement of the affairs of the bank, and trans acting other business relative to the accounts and prospects of the Bank. Mr. PARNELL was proposed, and took the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed. Mr. ABRAHAM said that since the last meeeting little had been done in the affairs of the Bank beside litigation on the part of the Directors against some of the Pro prietors. With respect to Mr. Hannay's meeting, on 31st Ja nuary, they (the Proprietors) fully expected that at that time the accounts would have been gone into, and that they would have been able to have ascertained what was the real position of Mr. Hannay's affairs. They had had a communication with Mr. Roy the day previously, and he simply stated that he had a letter from one of the Directors in the country, stating that a meeting of the Direction would be called in the course of the week. Mr. Bebb and himself (Mr. Abrahams) had seen the official assignee, asho stated at that time that in all probability the meeting of the creditors could be adjourned for the purpose of giving time for investigating the affairs, and Mr. Hebb received a letter from Mr. Hannay, stating that be should be most happy to meet him at the official assignee's the following day, in order to look over the accounts. In conse quence of this note Mr. Bebb saw Mr. Hannay on the 29th of January at the official assignee's, and they went over the ac counts, but they were not so explicit as they could have wished. The official assignee said, that Mr. Hannay had been engaged many days in writing the statement of his accounts, but they were not sufficiently plain, and therefore, an adjournment must take place. Mr. Hannay was told that if he did not pre pare his accounts, so that they could be understood, an ad journment would take place sine die. This Mr. Hannay did not seem to care much about this, for he said if it was so it must be so.—( Hear, hear.) The offi cial assignee said, if Mr. Hannay did not produce a satisfactory statement of his accounts, it would be of no use to address the Commission for the purpose of naming a specific day for the adjourned meeting. The meeting was ultimately adjourned for three mouths. The Committee, upon considera tion, thought this was a reasonable time. Soon after the last meet. ing four gentlemen were served with writs. Not from Ray and Co. ; they were ashamed of the transaction ; but they were from Mes•rs. Richards and Walker, As soon as these writs were served Mr. Bebb wrote a (letter to Messrs. Richards and Walk er, this means they would decide the whole question without the additional expense. This theyrefused, askingl four, as continue b their actions upon one bill insteadby this and placed on the record, and this was the present state read a letter from Mr. Ray, the Solicitor of tie and wholethem shortly to afterwards a declaration was issued to the Directors, recommending an amicable arrangement of o the r . a t ffa e b i r r s a . l Abraham i t :t e h ni. Bebb was defending these actions A r the expenses Committee August r very last, extravagant. anl they Thewould expenses that nas Abraham) would tell them what their had not been paid out of the fund, but had been paid out of the pockets of himself and of Mr. Bohte. Mr. Bohte's account, as secretary, would be about 13/. or 141., and he thought his (Mr. Abrahams) own was something like IU. or had beenhad s not ince been v 121., and 20/. for printing, and that was all. They had endea voured to save as much as possible. He concluded by moving that the meeting at its rising be dissolved. A Proprietor thought that an amount, say 100/. might be granted to the Committee to defray these expenses. Mr. ABRAHA Ms said they could not piss a monied resolu tion without first calling a mee ti ng by circular for the purpose, with a week's notice. Mr. DEEK seconded the resolution of Mr. Abrahams, which was carried. Mr. DEER proposed a resolution, to the effect that the Com mittee should be empowered to get in any accounts, and eater into their examination, in order that they might be laid before the Proprietors at the next meeting. Mr. ABR A lIA lts seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. SALTER moved that the Committee should put them selves in communication with the Directors, in consequence of the letter received from Mr. Ray. Mr. \Vann seconded the motion, whish was carried. The meeting shortly afterwards separated. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. .1 Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Com pany, was held yesterday, at the offices of the Company, Shore ditch, for the purpose of raising a sum of money by creating riew Shares, and also for declaring certain Shares to be forfeited. lIINRY DOSANQUIT, Esq., took the Chair, and in doing so, said the meeting had been called at the earliest moment subsequent to the last meeting, this being the first legal opportunity, after due notice had been given of the meeting. in order to put them in pos session of the details of the plan they intended submitting to the meeting, for the purpose of raising the remainder of the funds necessary to carry them to Colchester, the resolution prepared by their legal adviser, would be read. These pro ceedings would not have been necessary if they could have bor rowed tho money under the provisions of the Act of Parlia ment, viz., 2,300,000/. Mr. Huta. then read the resolution to the meeting, which was extremely long, empowering the company to issue new shares. Mr. HESILTINE, in moving the resolution, wished to ask whether, it the money was paid immediately, there would bo a dividend allowed upon the new shares at the next distri. but ion. The CHAIRMAN said that if the money was paid up in full interest would be allowed up to the date of the last call, but no dividend would be allowed, because that would be unjust to the other shareholders. HESILTINE—Then they .will only participate in divi. dends after July. The CHAIRMAN—That is so. Mr. HESILTRUE then moved the resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. ESDAILE. Mr. HAMILTON said it did not appear to him that their pro. ceedings were being conducted with their usual fairness to the debenture holders. The debentures were equal to 81. s. 8k paid up, while the Shareholders had paid up, b ut 61. 6s. Sd., yet the Shareholders were entitled to the same amount at the distribution, as those who t a d paid 8/. 6s. Bd. This was giving to the Proprietors agreat advantage over th e debenture holders, altho us t g te hd paid up 30 per cent, less, H e t h ought, `.%ierefore h , th y a at in fairness the last sell on the sharesont then they NvOttid all stand ~ •, nt to be made, and were adopted and the iro an equality. If this course o f their bei n g i n 0,- ...nediate payment demanded, instead ing 200,00^' e receipt of 50,0901. they would be receiv the Ts The upon Hon. Gentleman concluded by urging the Shareholders. ,Jirectors the necessity of making the last call of 21. upon The CHAIRMAN said the question had been under consi deration for some time, arid they had come to the determina tion of not making the call, as the old Shareholders had borne the battle which the Company had been fighting for upwards of seven years. —( Hear, hear.) If they made this call they would not get what they wanted, as that would only realize about 40,0001. or 50,0001. He would state two facts in reference to this subject. The Birmingham Railway had not made their last call, and the Great Western had only called 651. out of every 1006, and yet they were borrowing money and increasing their stock. The Company had done all in their power to keep faith with the debenture holders. and they would do so still. Mr. KENNEDY wished to ask when the interest would com mence on the new shares? N HALL said it would commence on the 4th of July, and on the 4th January next a dividend would be declared with the other shares. Nlr. HERBERT wished to ask whether it was the intention of the Company to make any call upon the 21. per share not paid up during the time the new shares were paid p r being The CHAIR:4w said the questi on h ad better no - tbe pressed i-. 41 at that time, and it was withdrawn. The resolutions were then put and carried. A Paoritirrort said he had noticed in the Railway Times a paragraph stating that a reduction had taken place in the tolls upon the railway from 4d. to 2 1 / 2 d. ; and he wished to know if such an arrangement had been entered into. The CHAIRMAN said that a negotiation had been entered into between the Company and the Northern and Eastern Company respecting the tolls on goods, which had been arnica. bly arranged. With reference to the toll to be taken upon passengers for short distances, there were certain ecnditions which the other Company did not think proper to accede to; and, therefore, the negotiations respecting it remained as at the last meeting. He was happy to say that. with this excep tion everything had I een arranged amicably.—( Hear, hear.) The toll on passengers was therefore still 4d. Mr. BAXTER. then moved the confirmation of the declaration of forfeiture of 257 shares, which was seconded by Mr. MA it morr, and confirmed. The meeting then separated. PRICES O 1 CANAL,DOCK.,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 22. Numi‘er Dividend Price of per CANALS, per Same , . Annum. Paid. Share 1,70 7 pet cent. Ashton & Oldha m... Averag 6)7/. Itis.sh. "98 /,492 41. Ashby.de.le.Zonch Average 1151.5 h. 72 Errs Ba3ingstoke 1031.0, 5 1,065 if/. 13rc,fennek and Aberg,avenny -150/. sh. 92 t-,i51.1 I. 11;th, 101. Isizmingham, 1 -16th share ..,Bfl. & 711. 194 1,14,1 Ditto kLi v. pool Junct.l.'2. sh. 100 pi 21 fur! 3/. bridgewates rind 'faun 6AL li;o/ 1,. sill r i oil° sf. Cheliner and Mack w .3cl, 1001.:h. 101 500 32:. Coventry 1001,03. 300 Croydon. - 2,11L0 51. Os. Dudley 160/.s h. 92 600 131. 13,:rb0 lool.sh . 120 *20,9,0 4 per wit, Danane and :i1...) n 0 411.136. 4:l.pd 30 1,5751 4' Ellesmeeand Chester As ei r.gc 133/.sla. 73 . 411 621 Erewesn 6,4,5 8°!. Forth Lnd Clyde ....... 190/. at. 1012. pd. 1:8 11,15:4 71. Grand .1 unction 1001.sn 125 2,549 f 2.55. Grand Union lool.Bh, 27 ',51: , 0 ... Grand Surrey 1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) LC7an 100!. •596 Grand Western ... ll. sh. all pd 10 600 131.125. id. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 138. 4d. 230 749 12s. Grantham 1501.8h. 220 6 . 238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average is /I. tis.fid. en. 21% ' 100 Kensington lOO sh. allpd 10% 25,129 1 Lies. Kennet and Avon, Av. am 10i. ioa.sh 18% 11,699 f 1/. Is. Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 8d . 27 2,6971 301. Leed s and Liverpool IOOLO '730 5451 111. Leicester 140!. it. 150 ,897 51.05. Leicester & Nort laampton Aver 531.102 71% 2,409 10/. Monmouthshire 1001.5 1, 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray , • 1001. sh. 200 600 254 Mersey and Irwell lOOl.O. 510 3,000 21. 101. Macclesfield 1001..h. all pd. '2O 24'! 171, Neath 1001.61, 306 '2,400 51. Peak Forest ...... ...Avoi4e about 791. sh. 71 1,418 Bs. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.16..8d. :h. 10 1,869 111. Rochdale Average /2,15/.6h. li2 500 81. Shropshire 1251.56. 137 100 111. 10s. Somerset Coal lsol.sh. 170 3,600/. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/.los. sh. 114 700 361. Stafford and Worcester. 140/.sh . 656 500 15/, Shrewsbury 125/. eh. 280 300 01. 3 tourbridge .....,.....,.... 145!..h. 396 3,647 V. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Aver.... 791, Vs. tel. sh. 33 530 12f1 Swansea lool.s h . 265 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45 Al/lash. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, a share lOOl. sh. 475 8,149 Thames and Medway Av. 191. :is. 80. sh. 4 I,ooosh. 1 16!. Warwick and 13;rmingham lool,sh 203 I,ooofsh.l 990 131. Warwick and Napcen 100/. eh. 117 7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av.7Bl.Bs.sh. 55 5,000 365. Wilts and Berko Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 2SN 800 tis. Wytlev and Essington 125/. sh 74 „:A 905 ta Wey and Arun llOl. en. it..o DOCKS. 2,60014 i 9p. c. Commerc al lOOl. sh. 61 1,065a5h. 5 per eent. East and West India „.„,.., „,,,,, stock 103 . _ ....._ . _... 5,238,3101/. 341.p.ct. London . ..... ......Stock 75}. Ditto Bonds 2,'209 31. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14 , 1. Us. sh . 75 61,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes. various amountz lOB 3512,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine stock h 7 500,0 0 0 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .., lOO 200.000 4 per cent, Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .... ..... .......201. sh. 201. pd 10 6.14. N BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 501. sh. 21 34 7,231 Southwark, Old ...... ...Av. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 3% 1,700 11. 158. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent.,. 5Ol. sh. 15% 4,000 Waterloo 100!. sh. 3 5,000 02s. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 00/. pd '2l 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18 34 60,0001. 5!. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 271 Vauxhall ~.......Average 701. 101. 3d. eh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 50!. pd 72 ‘,„ 6 per cent. 6° ''"''' a and 15s. .5 / Albanceßritish &Foreignlool.sh. 111. pd 14q 60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pd 5 94,000 1 1. perch. Atlas 5O/, ah. 51. pd 14 1,200 }sh. 5/. Birmingham Fire 5O/. sh. 551. pd 107% 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 01, per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOI. sh. 2110 s pd 6, 1 A, 4,001) 2/ Os County lOOl. sh. 10!. pd If 3,000 ss. Eag1e,.., ....,.. 501. oh. 51. pd 4% ,(5 per cent. Economic Lite } 1600/. sh. 2501. pd 400 .'" 1 and :301 b.. 2,271 92s.percent. European Lite 201. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New '2Ol. ell. 21. pd IX 1,000,000/. t /.per ct Globe Stock 116 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. 02. Hope 5O/.lh. 51. pd 534 2,400 5/. 12.5. 60. Imperial Fire 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 126 7,500 12s. Imperial Life ... 100!. sh. 101. pd 11 13,45'2 51. percent. Indemnity Marine lOO/..h. 81. pd 3034 2,030 31 10s Kent Fire 5Ol. sh. all pd 111 31. Ditto life 'O/. pd 60 10,000 10s. Law Life lOOl. sit. 10/. pd 31% 5,000 16s. London, Fire 25/. sh. I'2l. 10s. pd 18% 3,000 10a. London, Ship .5/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 1831 1.000,1X01/. ... ..... 51inerva life 1001. sh. 25,000 W. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh '2l. 10.. pd 2% 30,600 51. per cent. Palladium Lite 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216 s 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector Lila .0/. sh. 21. pd 17. 00 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1601. sh. 5/. pd 534 2,5011 1/. Provident Lite 200,660 4s. Od. Rock Life ...... 2/. pd 4 89,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 165 6,00 4 3 5 per cent. University Lite lOW. alt. 51. pd 8% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 75( JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 ... A gric. and Com. of I reland2s/. oh. 10/. NI 15,000 ,4 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 40/. pd 53% 10,004 10 percent. Bank of 6iron ingham 501. sh. 101. pd 13 10,00 u leper cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 13% 3%000 ti per cent. London & Westminster 100!. sh. 201. pd 2270 20,010) 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10!. pd 12% 3,008 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. oh. 201. pd nO 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 121/. pd 19 50,000 71 percent. Manchester and Liver ] 50 ,.,,,.151. pd 10% pool Dia:omit 20,000 7 per ere t. Manchester lOO/. sh. 10/.pd 4% 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of relandlool. sh. 25/. pd 41 10,000 6 l er cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 1701. pd 163 4 10,000 6 per cent National Provhicial Eng.loo/. sh. 1151.1.0 35 10,0 Or/ Ditto New.... 1111• oh, 10/. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 101. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 5!. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 lis 00 Bath ' l Ol. sh. 16/. pd 22 5,0011 ......... British 'Ol. sh. 161. pd 18 5,000 in e ;i t s • . e l t i Ditto Provincial .201, oh. 101. pit 13 929 51 10s Birmingham 50/. sh . 96 1,250 9! Os Bristol 0 01. oh. 36 2,230 :31 10. Brighton 00/. oh. 13% 750 3! 10a Ditto, New 2Ol. eh. lat. lot 9 1,471 4i per cent Brighton Oenerel 2Ol. sh. all ial 954 4,000 7/. 105. Continctit..lCoasollilat.4 ....75/. 641. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. IOII/. 51). all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 751. ?d 150 4,000 31.05. Equitable .0/. :id *2O 10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial WI. it]. 60% 800 51. per cent. Isle of Menet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 1536 2,550 (0. per cent. Independent 101. oh. a 11(... 56 9,000 51. per cent. Phoenix 5O/. sh. 39/.lxl 32 1,000 41. per cent. ltatcliff Md, sh. €Ol. pel fet 4,000 South Metropolitan 501. sh. - 253g1. psi 17 9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. eli. 471, pd 28 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5O!. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 19s. Ditto New s(l. sh. 101. pd 11 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 345. Birmingham 251. sh. 25!. pd 21 1,433 71. East London 100!. sh. 1623 y 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 40. sh, 54 4,1(00 21. Kent 100/. sit. 5 . 23( 1 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle '2201. oh. 3'25 1,500 2 110 s Nt ri River London Bridge Water Ann... 00 6,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. .54 1,000 5 per cent. South London lOO/.sh, 98 8,294 411, West Middlesex Average 631.1125. W. sh, 90 1,260 11 14e York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001, sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,500 21. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...- lOOl pd 58 9,51+0 Birmingham and Gloucester ICOI. pd 55 15,060 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter ... ...... WO/. sh. 70 pd :37% 7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 1001. sh. 72)0,1, 12% 3,009 Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 pd 1/I) 8,000 . ...... .. Dublin and Drogheda 100!. sh. 51. pd 60,0 Oil Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd g.. 10,000 Great North of Englandlool. sh. 100/. pd 00 10,918 12 percent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 199 25, 0 00 :i per cent. Great Western lOOl. sh. 65/. pd 83% 25,000 Ditto New 50/. sh. 20!. pd 59 6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction... 504 sh. 50/. pd 56 9,000 6 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. eh. 1001. lid 145,, 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 504 pd 39 2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby 160 sh. 65% 5,1(10 10 per cent. Liverpool & Manchester 10(1.611. 1)0/. pd 199 7,418 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. pd 90 . 11,495 10 percent. Ditto Quarter Shares .51. pd 45 36,000 ......... London and Brighton 501, s h. 50/. pd 35% 24,000 London and Blackwell 251. sh. 251. pd 11 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sis. 201. pd 6 25,000 01 per sti. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 901. pd 167 25,000 '2l. 7s Id. Ditto Quarter Shares ....'251. sh. 51. pd 34% 31,250 31.35. 40. Ditto New Shares 32/. sh. 32/. pd SS% 30,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 38/, 17s. 9d. 59% 33,000 ......... London and Croydon} Av. 13/. 151. 11% Ditto New Scrip.... 9d, I' 19,000 2 per cont. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. oh. 701. pd * 13,000 ...... ... Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 215 2 73% 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70. apd 31% Ditto Extension . ..s h. 40/. 28 10,000 2/, les. Midland Countie5„... 15,000 Pt. Os. North Midland . OO/. sh. 1001. pd 78 11.10 s. Ditto Ns. ~, 10,256 11.10 s. Norte4o/. pd 34 e. ' - ern and Eastern.... 501. sh. 40/. pd ilsa 5,661 ••••••••• . r es t on an d W yre 5O/sh, 301.-pd !116 28,000 1,000 11)1 . 1. :cr cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... lOO/.sh. 265 -}6 - 9,00(1 Thames Haven 5Ol. sh 5/. 6 , 0.4 10/. 10/. per cent. York and N o rth Midl an d 50 . O h . 50 2 , pd 87% MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/.2 h, 3jl. pet 12 4,000 11. As. Alton lst. s h 10/. Iva pd 10 10,000 ..„,..... Anglo Itf6sican.iss. 5/ pzn.lool, sh. al 7, d 1% Ditto Subscription 231. ja i Ili 2,060 Bolanos ISO/. eh. all pit 4 10,000 U. los Brazilian I nip. Iss. 51. prn :35/. &h. :me pd d 8 , 00 0 .... ..... alacauban A Cocacs Unit.e 12015./..5hh..21451/.. 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey i p ,o o 1 3 1,1 11 ,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201.8 h. 20/. pd 1 10,0(e1 ••••••1122 Ditto Scrip lO4 eh. 101. pd '2 20,000 British Iron lOO/. oh, 701. pd 8 AO ...... ... British Copper 51. sh. 411. jal 1 ........ Cita Branca .......................... ...ha pd 61! Candonga . 7' I 0,1‘.5t10 1 1 1 1 . Pd 5 Copiapo ............ ............ 20/. sh. 131. pd 10 : , 850 •,• 31. EaglishColumbian, its. 51 . pni. -.551. sh. 55/. pd 0% 20,11A1 I 14/. ts. pd 3 General 51iningAssociation 20 1.sh.181. id I% (1,155 Mexican Company WO/. sh, 601, pd 5.00/1 ...„,„. Polberou Consols ...... ...... 101. sh. 81. pd 4 11,300 ..,„,... Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 3% ..... •••••••• Ditto Loan Notes. 1501. pd 160 50,000 ......... United Mexican, iss. 2 pot. 40/. eh. all pd 0% Ditu, Scrip l% Ditto New Scrip 41. psi 3 West Cork ......... ....... ....50/. sh 50J. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS, 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...7 sgs. et. 143 4 1,500 London University lOOl. sh. all pd 7 700 King College MISCELLANEOUS. 10, Xi 15e. Australian Agricultural.loo4 'sh. 284 pd 37 6doo S. percent. British American Land Company 3511. pd 9 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 100/. oh. 32i1, pd 28 150,000 5/. per cent. Upper Canaria Loan ............. ... ......... 82 City Bonds, 4 par rent .~ 20,000 11. 6s. GeneralSteara Navigation 151,E h.,141. pd 24% 10/.percent. Hudson's nay Stock ...... .. 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. eh, ISA; Cenutchoue Company .. ... 1211 p d 12% New Brunswick Land Co ..... i i . ; .... 7 7 ....501, pd 1.2 0,967 4/. per cent. Reversionary hit. 50c...1001. sh 1001. pd . 3 .2.6:r1 M. per cent. Ditto New ....... .. 1004 sh. .1001. pd 4 0 % 4,008 50/ . sh. all - pit 1 10 7 10,000 Os. Van Dietnera's Lali . d . . .. ..141. h 181 1, p 4 :: e . LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES FEB. 19, 1840 I,oi - 0,00134, 6 p Bank BA NKs, 4 . ct. ot Scotland -Mt. 61 8d sh 11 d 1 2,000,0001 01. p. et. Itcyal of Scotland 100/181].alli4 P d 14 55 934 500.0001. Si. p. et. British Linen Company 100/.sh. all pd 200 600,0001, 71. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 159 500 ,0004 6n. ct. National lOO/.sh. 10/. pd 14 500 , 0 001. 8/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501, sh. 501. pd 80 1,000,0001, 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 681, 4 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201, sh. 11. pd 5350.1. 7,500 10 p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 101. pd 13 100,000 10 1). ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 914 50,060 10 p. ct. North British 200/. sh. JO/. pd 1734 1,000 10 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sli. 10/. pd 20 5,000 10 p. ct, Edinburgh Lae 1001. sh. 10/, pd 15 100,000 31 p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS, 4,818 ......... Edit(. and Glas. Un. Canalso/.sh. all pd 10 Ditto Allocated' 96/. sh. all pd 45 1125,404. ( t per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 25/.sh all pd 3.1 1 2 000 sh '2l per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 48/. pd 40 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh &Leith Glass 22051.:8h11.. al6lll. pd d d 4 3 9% % 4.500 10 percent. Edinb u rgh Coal Gas 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas . ...... 251, sh. a ll pd 52 1110 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas ..... m .o. all pd 24 1 , 1 54 2222 ,,,,, Edinburgh and Dalkelth Railway 50/. sh 30 The navigation of the port of Taganrog was closed on the 6th of December last. REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. OFFICIAL PAPERS —ROYAL I'iMCLAMA UON. " Portuguese ! This kingdom eiljo ed the most complete tranquillity; the Government was of eyed, and the Ministry, supported by a considerable majority of , he two legislative chambers. It is under such circumstances that a fatal rerlign had disturbed public order, 1 aisvd the banner of disobedience to the laws and constituted authorities, and, in a word. exposed the country to the imminent risk of a civil wAr. "I appreciate the sentiments which h ir e involved many of my subjects in this revolt. The desire to :t , cnge the memory of my august father, which they deemed to be affronted by the revolution that itholithed the, constitutiomu charter, may be a generous sentiment, for the realization cot Which there exist legitimate means, but never should lead to the criminal impru dence of effecting this 'counter-revolution,' as it is called, which is in fact a tumultuary and violent attempt to overthrew the Constitution of the State, accepted and sworn to by them and by the nation, and recognised by all foreii.n Powers. " Portuguese ! My august father, for whose memory no one more than I can or should be interested, would himself refuse, if he were at the present moment alive, to assent to proposals presented to him with the illegal aceomviniment ofanarm i e , d force, and would exhibit the same It nme,, he knew how to exhibit, in like circumstances, at a lemarkahle epoch cf his " Portuguese ! Listen to the voice of your Queen. This reyulution, entirely unprovoked, whatever may be the illusions of those who actually promote it, would draw in its train, with out remedy, a new series of reactions, is ;it'll all that we need is concord to heal the wounds which remain from so many poli tical comthot ions. " Queen of the Portuguese nation, I shall always attend, as I sin bound to do, to the wishes of the majority of my subjects when they shall be legally presented to me ; nevertheless I shall never accede to the exclusive pretensions of any party, and I shall never consider, as the general wish of my subjects, propo sitions having their origin in disorder, and sustained by force, nor deem to be the true friends of my thione those who endea vour by such means to dictate the law. Finally determined, therefore, to sustain th e di gn i ty o f my Clown, I shall resist with immovable resolution all pretensions soever which tend to change, or which may possibly compromise legal order. "THE QUEEN. " DUKE DE PALMELL A. " Palace of Neeessidades, Feb. 7, 1842." MINUTE OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (PALMELLA CA BINET) HELD AT THE PALACE ON THE NIGHT OF THE BThi FEB., 1842. " The Ministers united in Council, with the exception solely of Senor Jervis d'Athouguia, who was not present, and presided over by her Majesty the Queen, taking into consideration the situation of public affairs on this day, on account of the defec tion of the battalion of 2d Cacadore, 12th infantry, and fart of the 10th infantry, and by the disposition openly manifested in front of the palace by the battalions ith, itith, and 17th infan try, and by the 2d Lancers, as also by the declarations of the commanders and officers of the said corps, were unanimously of opinion that the continuation of resistance would occasion a useless effusion of blood in the capital, and a disastrous conflict between part of its inhabitants and the troops of the garrison. In consequence of which, and in accon'ance with the condition under which, in obedience to the desires of your Majesty, they accepted office, they submissively beg your Majesty to deign to give them their dismissals. " Palace of Necessidades, Bth Feb., 1842. "Duque de PALstEnn.s, President of Coun. cil of Ministers. " Visconde de Sada BANOEIRA. JOAQUIM ANTONIO HE MAGALHAES. " ANTONIO JOSE n'Avin.t. " JoAQulst FELIPPE SOCILE. " I subscribe, and am absolutely in accord with the opinion of the above-signed Ministers. ANTONIO ALEVZIS JERVIS n' ATHOUGUIA. " Palace, 9th February, 1842: REPORT OF THE TERCEIRA CABINET IN FAVOUR OF THE CHARTER, FEB. 10, 1842. _ . " Senhora,—Your Majesty's Ministers having had the good fortune to cause to disappear from the capital the dangerous excitement and the inconsiderate armament of part of its in habitants, which were upon the point of producing the most disastrous results, come now to declare to Sour Majesty that they consider the moment arrived in which the public safety imperiously requires that your Majesty, as Sovereign and lov ing mother of her people, should hasten to suspend, while there is yet time, the torrent of calamities that threatens them, by your Majesty deigning to put in vigour the Ccnstitutionai Charter of 1826, determining the convocation of the Cortes as soon as possible under the charter, and ordering that the de puties may come to them, with all the meessary powers to alter any of their articles, if by chance such alterations shoulti be necessary for the good of the State. " The minifestatio‘:l of this feeling by the provinces of the north and centre of the kingdom, the expre,sion of the sam e wid, already evident by the majority of the people in the rest of the kingdom, and by the greater part of the army, render re sistance not only dangerous hut impossible ; and every procras tination in the decision will not be attend( d with less difficul ties or inconveniences. " This is not the occasion, nor is it the duty of your Nlajesty'a Ministers at this moment to appreciate the causes that have brought public affairs to this extremity; called to the coimeiks of your Majesty at the last hour, we can only set off from tbo fact in the state in which we find it. To nvoni civil war, to save the dignity of the throne, not to compromise either the stability of the throne or the public liberties—such is our sincere desire; as also the obligation which lies upon us, and to which we sub mit, is that of taking on ourselves the enormous weight of re sponsibility which may rest upon us I;ir this counsel, should your Majesty deign to adopt it. " Duque DA TERCEIRA " Luiz DA SILVA MOUSINIO) b'ALBUQUERQUS. " Jose Joisoe Louitruto. " Lisbon, Feb. 10, 1842." DECREE. " Seeing the report of my council of ministers, and convinced that the moment is arrived to provide for the public safety. I am pleased to declare in vigour the constitutional charter of 1826, as the fundamental law of the mouarehy ; and in confor mity with the same charter, I ordain that Extraordinary Cortoa shall meet ou the 10th day of June, in the present year, the de , putter elected to them coming provided with the most ample powers. The ministers, secretaries of state tor all the depart ments, will thus understand it, sod caus:> it to be executed. " Palace of Necessidades, this 10th of February, 4442. (Signed) " Toe QUEEN. (Countersigned) "Dube of TElicietr...a. "Lutz DA SILVA AIOI,ISINIIO D' A unusmsuctn. "JOSE Joacc kin REino." PETITION OF THE CORPORATION OF /N IN FAVOUR OF TIIE CHARTER, " Senhora,—The Municipal C• l '.,,intier of Lisbon presents • itself before the Royal 'flironc of yuur Alajesty, exposing that this day bring united its ordinary meeting at one o'clock, many citizens presei'Aed the mse l ves , g i v i ng " vivas " for the Charter of 1820, and entreating the Chamber to represent to your Majesty that the whole kingdom having adhertd to the re establishment of that Charter, it became necessary that yuur Majesty should consent to the general wishes. " The Chamber, Senhora, knows well what are its true at tributes, and also the state in which the capital is placed, but instigated by so many citizens, it conside re d that duty requ i red , it to present it se lf to your lajesty, representing to you th.i.s fact, in order that, taking it into your high consideration, Tce, might feign to resolve as may be judged most advantageous to the general welfare of the nation. " JOSE LA URENCO DA Luz. "J. M. LEt7AO. " F. A. G. DA SILVA. " F. I)1 AO. " M. J. JORGE. " .1 % DE 'MIRANDA. " J. B. P. GUIIIA RAES. a . F. FA RREIRA. "J. J. 1). CARVALHO , I: J . A. P. BAsTos. " 44,LIEEN'S ANSWER. TO Tit L CORPORATION. " Before receiving the representation that the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon has just presented to toe, I had already re solved and decred, that the Constitutional Charter of ;826 should be put in vigour as the fundamental law of the Monarchy."' " Office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department " Having been pleased, by a decree bearing date the 10th of this month, to declare the Constitutional Charter of 1826 to be in force as the fundamental law of the State, I now ordain that, for this reason, the 14th, I.stb, and 16th slays of the present month shall be slays of grand gala, and that during those three days all public offices shall be closed, and thaw there shall be illuminations, joy bells, salutes of artillery, and all other demonstrations of public rejoicing. (Signed) "The QUEEN. (Countersigned) "L.DE S. Nno n'AlauQuEßQu E. " Palace of Necessidades, Feb. 12, 1842." COMMISSION OF LIT', AC Y.-SIN GULAR 'CASE . On Stiurday a Cornmis;,ite of Lunacy was o p ene d b e f ore Mrs s:ommissioner Blunt, 'at the Greyhound Inn, Grange road, Old Kent-road, M inquire as to the soundness of mind of Jacob Emmett, s `:ed 51, the only s u rv i v i ng son o f t h e l ate Mr. Thomas E7,enett, the well-known extensive cow-keeper and markef . .gardener, who resided on the f arm near t h e Green - I ‘'..an Inn, Old Kent-road, who at one period of his life was possessed of immense wealth, and, as a proof, on one occasion he, for a wager, produced a half-a-bushel measure filled with guineas. At his death the property descended to the two brothers of the unfortunate subject of this inquiry; but in the year 1836 a fire consumed the whole of the farm, stock, and other property, to the amount of several thou sands of pounds, which was uninsureti. This circumstance so affected their minds as to induce them to neglect the busi ness. Everything went to decay, and in the following year they were declared bankrupts. Before, however, the affairs could be wound up, Jacob Emmett was left without a pro tector, in consequence of the death of both his brothers (the bankrupts), which occurred in the year 1838, within a tiw months of each other. Ili.; father had left an annuity of 60L a-year to take care of him ; in addition to which there will be, it is expected. a handsome surplus arising from the property after the creditors have been fully satisfied, eighteen shillings in the pound having already been paid. In order to protect this property and provide for the care of the lunatic, the commisseees was issued. Th. Jury was composed of fourteen freeholders of the county of Surrey ; amongst whom were T. Puckle, Esq., the foreman ; eight other Magistrates ; Mr. John Brown and Mr. Henry England, of the Old Kent-road ; and Mr. W. J. Pierce, of the Grange-road. William Humphreys, solicitor to the Commission; had era mined Mr. Jacob Emmett cn several occasions, between the early part of 1837 and the present time. He was able to read the Bible, in which he appeared to take delight, and he also attended divine service; but he seemed incapable of compre hending anything about religion. He could not cast figures in any way ; he could not count fifty, or tell whether it was more or less than sixty. lie knew the several coins by name, but was totally ignorant of their value; for instance, he would say there were three sixpences in four shilling;, and fourteen shil lings in a sovereign ; and, as regards time, though he said his own age was 51, he would, when speaking of persons whom he knew, say that he had been acquainted w ith them 60 or 70 years.. Charlotte Gigg, of Prospect-place, Old Kent-road, stated that she was cousin to Jac o b Emmett, who was now li v i ng with her, and had done so for years ; he had been iu the same state of mind ever since she could recollect. He was per fectly harmless, but he was ignorant of the value of money, or how to lay it out properly. Whenever he went to buy any-. thing he could only recollect one article at a time, and cid lite& know when the proper change was given to him. He was as doubt of unsound mind, and incapable of taking care of hiussen or his property. Several witnesses gave similar testimony. The Learned CommissioNE H summed up, and the Jury, without hesitation, found " That Jacob Emmett was of unsound mind, and incapable of taking care of himself and his property, and had been so since the Ist of August, 1837." A numerous meeting of deputies and delegates of parties concerned i n th e li nen manu f actures wa it e d on Thursday on the Minister of Commerce, to make repre sentations on the depressed state of that branch of - national industry, and to request that a rill might ba brought a few nights forward for modifying the Customs tariff so as to prevent the increased importation of linen cloths from foreign countries. Ilion The Minister promised to give the matter his deep considera tion. The meeting then waited on Marshal Soult, who ex.. pressed to them his desire to give protection to French line* cloths over those produced in foreign countries, so as to enalsto the former to compete with the latter in the French market,— "rends Paper. in the ifl Ai g :, n on tit th n e b ( a l Ts ti o l ; e :l l ie e. Twenty. five houses, and all the furniture, forage, provisicns, a sinc ' e t- at d C r Ce u s t :i f ns il, atroyed, but the cattle were preserved, Th e l • tit c., Were de.- tio,000t: s is estimated au