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

EDINBURGH ANI) GLASGOW RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE LINE. The opaiir , of this great line of communication, which is destined to . form an era in the intercourse between the two cities, as well as throughout Scotland, and as making one of the great steps in the progress of internal prosperity, took place last Friday morning. The road leading to the station was crowded with spectators, hastening to different places where they might obtain a view of the train as it came along the lits.. The embankment, along which the carriages were to pass, is elevated twelve or rourtkn feet above the fields through which it stretches westward in a direct line upwards of two miles, and every elevated spot near the station was occu pied by dense ma s ses, while inside the walls great numbers were stationed in galleries, in the different houses and offices, and along the lineof the railway. . In Glasgow, as might be expected, the epening excited con siderable interest. 'the coaches were filled as fast as parties arrived. The band of the regiment stationed in Glasgow was present, and played several lively airs. When the first ten coaches were filled they were attached to a rope and drawn up the tunnel and inclined plane to Cowlairs station, where they remained till other two trains of ten carriag es were in like manner drawn up. When all were attach ed together, the whole train, forming a magnificent array of thirty first-clsss carriages, and drawn by three engin•s, set off soon after half past nine o'clock. There was also a pilot eng . ine s .which kept from half a mile to a mile in front of the tram, to ascertain that all was safe and practicable for the progre:sof the carriages. The rate of travelling, on an average, was twenty .niles an hour; but it often reached thirty; the pace being, of course, much slower at other parts of the line. At Falkirk the train' stopped for about twenty minutes, to supply the engines with water'; they then set off again for Edinburgh. At ten minutes lust twelve the train, consisting of tirentPsix carriages,. drawn by three locomotive engines, approached with great rapidity, and landed at the station amid the cheers of the assembled" multitude. There were about 1,000 persons in these carriages. - . _ The first ermine was directed throughout the day by Mr . Miller, engineer of ht , hue. _ . It was a considerable time before all the preparations were Made for the setting out of the Edinburgh train. It consisted' of twenty-seven carriages, and left the station at ten minutes past - one. In its progress it was hailed as before with the acclamations of the spectators. In all the towns and villages through which the line of carriages passed, the inhabitants welcomed its approaeli in crowds with every demonstration of wonder and delight as the vast trains, each" extending in length between 200 and 300 yards, swept along. In some parts they proceeded at the rate of thirty miles an hour; and the general speed was from twenty to twenty-five, and some times less at particular parts of the road. It was 34 minutes past one when the train passed the Almond Viaduct ; and the view here, aided by the fineness of the day, of the distant and romantic scenery of Arthur's Seat, the 'Castle, and the Pentland Hilts, as they gradually receded from the sight, was rema kali: ) , striking and beautiful. At 43 mi nutes past one the train entered the 'Winchburgh tunnel, which it passed in little more than half a minute. It then proceeded along the deep cutting in this part of the line for several miles; when at 55 minutes past one the ancient Palace of Linlithgow was descried in the distance. After a short stoppage at this place for water, the - train proceeded, and immediately crossed the splendid Mori Viaduct, when the beautiful scenery in this neighbourhood preseatiitt new attractions. About half-past two the Callender Tunnel was entered, and passed in a minute and a quarter ; and after 'iitnthei stoppage at the Falkirk station, the train emerged into iravide and open country, with the Carse of Falkirk ; the Frith of Forth, and the high grounds in the dis tance. The train arrived at the station, at Cowlairs, at 47 minutes past three, and then descended the inclined plane and tunnel. The second train, which left Edinburgh at about Mir an hour after the first, occupied nearly the s•ime time in the journey to Glasgow. tiAIiQUET. On arriving at the station at Glasgow, proceeded at they once to the banquet-hall, which was an extremely e'egant and spacious building, handsomely decorated, and the cross sup ports of the roof stutldoil with small jets of gas. Soon after five o'clock, John Leadbetter, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors, took the chair, supported on the right by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mille Robertson of Glasgow, Colonel Fleming, Commander of the district, William Gray, Esq., Dean of Guild, Glasgow ; Bailies Richardson, Thom son, Johnston, and Wilkie, of Edinburgh, Dean of Guild Ramsay, Treasurer Drysdale, Convenor Scott, &e. ; on' the left by . the Lord Provost of Edinburgh ; Sir Wyndham Carmichael An,truther, A. Macneil, Esq., Advocate, L. Colquhoun, Esq., Sheriff of Dumbarton; Provost Repel' of Leith'; Crossfield, Esq., of Liverpool; B. 'Scott Monereiff, Esq , Mr. Miller, eng.neer of the rail way, &c. John Learmonth, Esq., Chairman of the Edinburgh Board of Directors, -tilled the office of croupier, supported right and left by;Thomas Douglas, Esq., Sutherland Mackenzie, Esq , Captain Sinclair, It. N., Mark Sprot, Esq., Mr. Simp son of Pitcorthie, 11. G. Bell, Esq., and W. H. Dunbar, Esq., advocate. The usual lops and constitutional toasts having been pro posed by the Chairman, The Loan Paovos•r of Edinburgh rose, and proposed • Success to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway." —( Cheers. ) The exertions, he remarked, of the Directors and Shareholders of the railway bad been brought this day to a happy conclu sion, and it seemed as if the &stance between Edinburgh and Glasgow were this day annihilated—( Great cheering)—as if by some gigantic power the two cities had been uprooted from their old foundations, and forced into immediate-contact. Mr. LEADBETTER said—When I look back upon the past, and trace the progress of this undertaking through all its va rious fortunes ; when I find that its germination took place in 1835 ; and that after a deadly struggle during three Ses sions of Parliament, it received the Royal assent in July, 1838; when I find that subsequently a million and a quarter of money was earruled on the formation of the line—an ex penditure requiring the utmost care and anxiety—l cannot but regard this day as the crowning termination of all our labours. • —( Great cheering.) The other toasts, to the Lord Provost, the Magistrates of Edinburgh, &c., were-drunk, and the party broke up. On leaving 'the train was delayed for more than two hours by an unexpected occurrence, namely, the breaking of the rope on the inclined plane, when the last train was proceeding up wards. Or. examieing the rope in the part where it was broken, it. :seined evident that. it was done by design. This sualriciou4iirair is utidyr judicial inquiry. It was twenty mi nutes past nine when'the train, in cons-quence of this delay; left the station at Glasgow, and, after halting a quarter of an hour at Falkirk, rein:llrd Edinburgh at twelve o'clock. We subjoin an account of the extent and direction, and other circumstances connected with this railway. _ The improvement of the intercourse between the east and • west of .Scotland, by uniting the two cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and with them the two opposite seas of the Ger man Ocean and Atlantic, has been long agitated in this coun try. So long ago as the year 1797, the whole intervening country was surveyed, and various levels and lines laid down, in the view of determining, by the advice of John Rennie, and ether eminent engineers, the best line for a navigable canal. These plans ended iii the construction of the Union Canal about the year 1810; but there still seemed wanting a more direct line of communication, and a new company having been formed in the year 1835, the present line was adopted by the advice of eminent railway engineers called down from England for the purpose of determining this great and important preli minary question, The whole length of the line is 46 miles. It passes suc cessively through the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Stirling, Dumbarton, and Lanark, including a population in and near the line of upwards of 600,000. From the ter• minus in the Haymarket, the line runs westward for eight miles, where it sweeps round to the north, and crosses the wide and low valley of the Almond Water, by the great viaduct formerly described in our paper, consisting of 36 arches, each 50 feet span, and rising from 40 to 100 feet ; and immediately adjoining there is another smaller bridge of seven arches across the turnpike road. The line still sweeping round, passes Winchburgh-hia. by a tunnel 360 yards in length. Emergin g from this the line has been cut through vast clay and rocky excavations, extending in one continued- cut for nearly four miles, and in some parts 50 feet deep. The line now runs neatly due west to Linlithgow, partly on the natu ral surface of the • ground and partly on various small em bankments and cuts ; and from Linlithgow still westward about a mite further, to - the next great valley of the Avon, which is crossed by another magnificent viaduct, also formerly described, consisting of 20 armies, 50 feet span, and rising in the deepest part 100 feet, besides three smaller arches. The line proceeds westward!, and parallel with the Union Canal, towards Falkirk, and passes under Callander ridge by a second tunnel 830 yards in length, and 130 feet under the surface. Emerging from this the whole low country of the Carse of • Falkirk opens into view, and the line runs westward to Lock 16, where it crosses the Union Canal by a magnificent bridge of a single span 130 feet across. From this point the line runs westerly, and nearly along the surface for seven or eight miles, when it enters the great whin stone Cut of Croy ridge, extending about a mile in length, anti in the deepest parts, at the summit level, consisting of very hard reek, fifty . and sixty feet deep. The line then continues west.grly, inclining to the south, and passing over severa l mo ws, and soft alluvial hollows, enters the Crosshill cutting, and then the last great tacky exca vation of Colston and Kamuir, consisting of solid freestone rock for nearly a mile, and upwards of fifty feet deep in the centre, terminates at Cowlairs, where the inclined plane and tunnel • descends for '2,200 yaids to the Glasgow station and -terminus, at the head of Queen -street, forming, in point of • convenience and vicinity to the centre of the town, one of the • -most perfect termini to be found on any .Railway. A»ELPIIi THEATRE. M. Scrilitiso;igi;al comedy of La Chaise, consideredone ofhis best pieces, appeared in an English dress at this theatre on Monday night under the title of the Breach of Promise of Marriage. The immorality grafted on it by the taste of the French stage has bsen dismissed by the adapter, and it also partakes of other general alterations. The chief sustainer of the piece is Amery EMr. Lyon), a yonn,t,v musician, who is patronized by Lady astland (Mrs Yates), and who becomes in love with him. Amery, preliminarily to this, had attached himself to Ellen ( Miss E. Chaplin), the daughter of a Bristol merchant, hut reit dered vain by the condescension - of Lady Eastland, he returns . her passion , Her brothe r, however, Lord Starboard (Mr. Yates), being cognizant of these circumstances, urges, by all the in ' -' tuential means of which he is master, the marriage of Amery ' with his sister's rival. ellen. This is effected, and Lady East land Some light under-play on the part of Dabbleton (Mr. Wright). a spruce and coxcombical attorney, who addresses letters to Lady EaStland, without knowing her rank, and who, by rea rn of his uncourageous nature, is constantly in dread of duels rani her b r ..th er , furnishes some happy points and witty escapades. Mr. Yates made an excellent Admiral, and the drollery of Mr. Wright was very effective. The house, which wd! crowded, rece i ve d th e piece with great applause, and it certainly promises to become a favourite. --,---- , Lord and L i ' 1 ' , Petre are expected in Mansfield- At.ee t early next ' '. Laniship ss ou t :vck from Kemp Town for the season. His 3, lscrWilliam Petre, h on the eve sof Coin enikin for t h e e II " . hienrY g• colony of New Holland. CORN-LAWS. _ A discussion was held on Friday eri ening, at the Union That t it t e 'ruus fore a respc:ctable ~,„1 : i ‘ n ral , .. Pantoti-street, Haymarket, be meeting, when it was unani- M ikUsly resolved— , • emu. try, since 113. 1.4, tended system existing in this front the markets of other : a d . to exclude our manufactures wizen .tins country lias required na t ions, and that, consequently, for i t i t , gold, which has caused c orn , it has been obliged to pay o f t he pi educing classics. t he presant distress and ruin DEsTRUCTI V E Ft ItES.--0, M o nday, shortly after Ave o'clock, a fire. attended with the 1 •ty broke out in the shop of Mr. propse , ‘, lire , of considerable ~ builder, No; ti'2, I;apping-street, opposite lirii. carpenter and .... tunately the Aremen succeeded in obtaining a T . -street. For -, supply of water on land, and by the continual wo rkingt excellent engines, as well As that of the lower float belongin g tclth 'f eight don establishment:is succeeded in confining the danwseet.Lon house of Mr. Hare and two others (unoccupied) in cl o t h : court. The inmats'l,all escaped in their night-clothes. Mr - Hare is insured fteJsis property (about 5001.) in the Royal Exchange-offiee.• 3 4 bont half-past two o'cloek another fire was discovered in the drying-rooms belonging to Mr. Cooke, currier, Arbite's-grsounci, Bermondsey, and no: withstanding .itily &few minutes elapses before the Southwa rk-brid g e, Wa -Ift.lios.,:road, and West of England engines w ere brou g ht into lie• a portion e considerabl of or,ginated in the P the stock was, destroyed. It e dry ing-roosts near the stem IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, Fcb. 22. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly . after Five o'Clock. Mitford's Divorce Bill went through Committee. and was ordered to be reported on Thursday. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented peti tions from Presbyterian Congregations in Donegal, Ty rone, and Armagh, praying an alteration in the law with respect to Presbyteriam marriages. CREDITON UNION. " The Bishop of EXETER gave notice that he should on Thursday present petitions on the subject of the conduct of the Poor Law Commissioners, with reference to the Crediton Union In Devon. CORN-LAWS. Lord HATHERTON presented petitions from New castle-under-Lyne, Handsworth, and other places in the county of Stafford, praying for the revision of the Corn and Provision-laws. The House then adjourned to Thursday. HOUSE OF CO4IIIIfONS, FEB. 22. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. Sir C. LEMAN took the oaths anil his seat for West Cornwalk and Lord BERNARD fOr Bandon. The Midland Counties Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be-committed. The Hinckley Road Bill was read a second time, and ordcred to be. Committed. The Stanhope and Tyne Railway Bill was brought.in, read a first, atakordered to be read a second time. • The South Eastern Railway Improvement Bill was brought in, read . a first, and ordered to be read a - second time. The T. 4 cicester small Debts Bill was brought in, and read the first time. BURIALS IN TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition, which the Hon. Member said was of great importance as regarded the health of the metropolis, recommending that burials in large towns should cease ; he begged to move that the petition be printed, and a Select Committee be ap pointed to inquire into its merits. CORN-LAWS. Mr. R. E. BULLER presented a petition from Stone, in Staffordshire, praying for a repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws. Mr. THORNLEY presefited a petition from a place in Scotland, complaining of the distress existing in the commercial districts, and praying for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws, and a general re vision of the import duties, with a view to their reduction, Mr. RAIKES CURIdE presented a petition .from Northampton, praying for the total and immediate re peal of the orn-laws. Mr. EVANS presented two petitions from places in Derbyshire, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws us soon as p,..-ssible, and for an inquiry into the duties on sugars and other foreign produce with a view to their reduction. Lord DALMENY presented a petition from Stirling in Scotland, prayi ng f or th e t o t a l an d i mme di a te repe a l of the Corn-laws. Dr. BOWRING presented forty-one petitions, signed by upwards of 10,000 individuals, complaining of the oppressive operation of the Corn-laws, and praying for their immediate repeal. TOLLS ON METROPOLITAN BRIDGES.. Sir GEORGE BANKES presented a petition from Westminster, for the abolition of tolls cn the Metropoli tan Bridges, which, together with those previously pre sented, made 150.000 petitions for that object. PRESBYTERIAN MIX.FI) MARRIAGES. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the Ministers, Elders, and other Inhabitants of Banbridge, in connection with the Remonstrant Synod, The peti tioners referred to the late decision of the Irish Judges with reference to marriages by Presbyterian ministers, and prayed for an Act t o ma k e va lid a ll marriages here tofore solemnised, or which shall be hereafter solem nised by. a Presbyterian or other Dissenting minister, between parties, one of whom may be a member of the Established Church and the other a Protestant Dissenter; a petition from the Minister and, Members of the first Presbyterian congregation of Cromlin, in the county of Antrim-, and another from the Minister and other Mem bers of the Presbyterian congregation of Carlingford, in the county of Louth, praying for a law to render valid all marriages which have taken place by Presbyterian Ministers ; and further, that the law of marriage in Ire land be henceforth definitively settled on the basis of religious liberty, and affording equal advantages to all sects, in like manner as in England and Scotland. Sir R. BATESON presented similar petitions, very numerously signed, from places in Derry, Antrim, Rings end, and Donegal. ELECTION COMMITTEE. The petition from three electors of the borough of Queensborough, praying for a scrutiny into the conduct of the Mayor and Corporation respecting the election, having been referred to the Election Committee, was ordered by the House to he printed. CORN-LAWS. Sir B. lIALL presented a petition from Paddington praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. IIAWES presented petitions from Kennington, St. Mary's, Newington; and other places, praying for a repeal of. the • Corn-laws, and another praying that Waterloo and otherbridr!es be .thrown open. A petition was' i*lited by an MN. MEMBER on the Ministerial benelieditiying that the Gilbert workhouses ' be not ineorporuted.wiih the New roZif=laW Unions. The petitioners went.into thegrom ids of their objections to such incorporation,, stating; 0443 that the regulations of the New Poor-law arc not suited to rural districts. Mr. COBSON presented thirteen petitions, all praying for a' total repeal of the Curn-laws. Sir E.-S. HAYES presented a petition from Donegal, Ireland, on the subject of Presbyterian marriages. Colonel ACTON presented a petition from merchants and traders of the-eastern part of the metropolis, for throwing open 'Waterloo and Southwark bridges ; also a petition for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the har bour of Wicklow. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from the Corn millers in Manchester, praying that, as they had invested large sums in mills, the House would not consent to the encouragement of foreign wheat in preference to flour. Lord J. MANNERS presented a petition from the parish of St. James, praying for the opening of the Metropolitan Bridges. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir mingham, against the Corn-laws. _Air. HiNbLEY presented six petitions from Sunday schools in connection with DisSenting Congregations to the same effect. Mr. WYNN ELLIS presented a petition from .a con gregation of Wesleyan Methodists, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws ; also, a petition from a Con servative gentleman, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for the Leicester Union, to the same effect. Sir G. DE LARPENT presented a petition from Not tingham, against the Corn-law's. IPWICII ELECTION PETITION. Mr. RIGBY WASON presented a petition from the agent to the sitting Member of the borough of Ipswich, stating that one of the witnesses who had been summoned under the Speaker's warrant, to give evidence in the election petition against the return for that borough, was about proceeding to the Continent. He (Mr. Wason) would call the attention of the House to the subject to-morrow, and in the meantime he would move that the petition should be printed with the votes. The SPEAKER intimated that such a course was not usual, but as the circumstances of the case were of a pressing nature, he supposed there would be no objection to the Hon. Gentleman's motion. Mr. RIGBY WASON said, that as the gentleman was about to leave on Saturday, there would not be time to give longer notice. . _ - Leave was then given to print the petition, with the Votes. Mr. S. O'BRIEN presented a potition from the West Riding of Yorkshire against the Corn-laws. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from a Presby terian Church in Coleraine, respecting mixed Presby terian marriages. CORN-LAWS. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition against the Corn-laws. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from the confectioners of London, praying that some steps might be taken to prevent competition in the trade, by the inhabitants of the Channel Islands. Mr. COBDEN preSented a great number of petitions from Scotland and!)ther places against the Corn-laws. Mr. AINSWORTII piesented a petition, signed by 11,000 persons, from 111lton, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Petitions to the same effect were presented' by Mr. J. Fielden, from Oldham ; by Mr. Villiers; froM several parishes in the cities of London and Westminster; from the town'of Paisley, in Scotland ; from places in Derby shire and Somersethire; seventeen from Lancashire; also from place's in - Yorkshire, and from the borough of Wol verhampton; also by Lord 'John 'Russell from the town of Harwtch, and. from places in Forfarshire. Sir ROBERT PEEL presented certain papers by command of her 'Majsty, which were ordered to be laid on the table. COLONIAL DIFFERENTIAL. DUTIES. Mr. LABOUCHERE seeing the Right Hein Gentle man, the Vice. President of the Board of Trade, in his place, wished to ask him a question on a subject which hud out of doors created considerable anxiety. In the measure which he (MY.Labodchere) had introduced last year flir regulating_ the' commercial relations of the colonies, he had proposed that there should be a protect ing duty of - 7s. per cwt. in favour of British manufac tures. He was desirous that in all other respects the Colonial Legislature should be allowed to form their own fiscal. regulations, but he thought it was the duty of the British Legislature to secure a protec tion of 7s. per cwt. for British manufactures. He hoped that the Right lion. • Gentleman intended to legislate upon the same principle ; but the resolution was ambi guously worded, and great anxiety existed out of doors • on the subject. lie wished to know, whether it nas the intention of the Government, in their proposed measure on this subject, to secure a protection of 7 per cent. on British manufacturers. Y Mr. GLADSTONE was much obliged to the Right lion. Gentleman for giving- him an opportunity o f allaying ally anxiety which might prevail out of doors on the sub kid, although he was not aware of the existence of any such impression. Nothing could be further from the in tention of the Government than to leave the differential duties imposed on foreign commodities imported into the colonies, liable to be neutralized by the Colonial Legis latures. It was the intention of the Government that the protection of seven per cent., or whatever other protection might be given, . .should be a bona fide an_' real protection for British goo d s . That was the principle on which th e Government pro posed to legislate, and he had no doubt or hesitation in stating that it was his intention to carry that principle into effect. The language which bad been used by the Right lion. Gentleman last year had been altered, not for the purpose of narrowing the principle, but for the purpose of increasing it, effect. There were certain cases in which the Colonial Legislatures had themselves imposed differential duties on foreign articles, and the Government did not propose to interfere with the pro tection which the Colonial Legislatures might be disposed to give, in the shape of differential duties. They merely intended to give to the Colonial Legislatures the power of continuing any differential duties they might think proper, in addition to the protection of 7 per cent., whicl', by an act of the British Legislature, it was in tended to give to British manufacture, in all the Colonies For this reason, instead of the words of the resolutions of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he (Mr. G.) had intro duced a separate clause, which would have the effect of securing independently of colonial enactments, pre ference to articles of British produce or manufac- tures, and in case the Colonies themselves should lay on, or wish to lay on any further differential duties on ar ticles of foreign manufactures or produce, under parti cular circumstances, the Bill which the Government meant to introduce would not interfere with such acourse. SPAIN AND THE GREAT POWERS... Mr. HINDLEY begged to ask the Right Hon. Baro net, at the head of her Majesty's Government., whether this country had made any efforts' to induce Russia, Austria. and Prussia, to recognise the present constitu tion and Government. of Spain, and whether the Right Hon. Baronet could. say.when such a recognition was likely to take place ? Sir R. PEEL—It is not easy to give, a simple and brief answer to . questions of this nature. The Hon. Gentleman asks, as I-understand, whether any communi cations have taken place between her Majesty's Govern ment and the Great Northern Powers respecting the recognition of- the present Government of Spain, and whether there is any prospect of such recognition taking place ? I wish to take this opportunity of stating, in answering the question, that our policy respecting Spain has been perfectly simple and open,and without anyreserve. Our anxious wish has been to see Spain a prosperous, a powerful, and an independent nation.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.), Our wish is to see Spain independent of all foreign protection, and that no power which she can possess for her own just defence, should be an object of jealousy to any other power,—(Cheers.) It has been our desire, certainly, to give strength and stability, as far as is possible, by our councils and by exerting our influence, to the present Government of Spain ; for we thought we saw under that Government growing indications of advance of civilisation and prosperity; and certainly we have exercised our influence as far as could be done with , . propriety to induce the Governments of the Continent of Europe—to induce the three Great Powers to recognize the Government of Spain.—(Cheers.) We have thought that such exertions on our part would give effect to the advancing civiliiation of - that country and stability of the Government which, in the present general condition of Spain, seemed to us best calculated to promote the interests of that coun try.. It is impossible to answer the Hon. Gentleman's question as to the period when tbe.desired recognitions are likely to take place. All I can answer is, that our exertions have been made in an amicable and friendly way, to giVe that stability to the Spanish Government. which we thought would result from such measures. Sir, we have no interest to serve, but I think that one. of the greatest objects in promoting the tranquillity of Europe is that the stiite of that country should be re stored to prosperity and independence, and that Spain should hold the place which she used to fill amongst the family of European States—(Hear, hear)—and no exer tions on our part shall be wanting to bring that about. Members of the General Committee. The most convenient mode would be to grant the leave of absence, and then sotto arrange the panels that the Members should not be called on duty during their absence. The members of the legal profession migh rest assured that the House was not unwilling to treat them with fair consideration. THE CORN-LAW DEBATE. Mr. E. BULLER asked the Right Hon. Baronet whether in the event of the House coming to a decision to-night, he would proceed with his own plan imme• diately ? Sir ROBERT PEEL said he hoped the House would see the necessity of bringing this long and protracted discussion to a close—(Hear, hear)—and in the event of a division,' he should be prepared to go on with his prososed measure to-morrow (Wednesday) ; should any thing occur to interrupt this course, he should propose to proceed with it on Friday. DETENTION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. Mr. .MURPHY rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the detention of British subjects by the authorities of Central America. A grant of land had been' obtained fi om a petty king in Central America, and money had been ob tained, 'and an association, cOnsisting of fourteen individuals, had been appointed for the purpose of carrying out the objects for which the grant had been obtained. A ship had been chartered, and indivi duals selected to explore the country. One of those in dividuals was a professional gentleman, and the other an individual named Bell, who was well known from his connexion with the Vixen. These individuals had an interview with the king pf the country, who confirmed the grant; but wishing to explore the country they ascended, a 'river in the Mos quito country, and from thence they got into the Blue Fields river, which they ascended till they came into the Spanish territories. Here, being fatigued and wearied, they were seized by the Spanish Government, and after being taken a distance of 30 miles, were cast into prison. The only reason assigned for such conduct on the part of the Spanish authorities was, that these individuals were taken by way of reprisal for some in dignities cast upon Central America by Colonel Al‘Donnell. At the end of forty days all the prisoners were liberated except Mr. Bell who died from the seve titles he endured. Under these circumstances he islied to bring the facts before the House, and in the words of* motion, of which he had given notice— to call the attention of the House to the detention and imprisonment of certain British subjects by the authori ties of Central America; and to move for copies of any correspondence which may have taken place with her Majesty's Government upon that subject ; and of any despatches which they may have received from Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Governor of Jamaica. Lord STANLEY said it would be unnecessary to enter into the details of the case after the statement which had been made by the Hon. and Learned Member. From what he (Lord Stanley) understood, Mr. Bell and othergentlemen entered into a speculation, and contracted for a certain extent of territory on the Mosquito shore, but these gentlemen, wishing to explore .the country, had ascended the Blue Fields River, and having entered into the Spanish .territories, they were seized and imprisoned by the Spanish authorities.—(Hear.) That was, however, the information of the party them selves, and it was entirely an ex-parte statement. Restitution and reparation, unless the individuals in question had been seized in consequence of some violations of the laws of the State, were de manded by her Majesty's Government. The explana tion of the State had not yet been received in this coun try. Such being the case, the House would not, he con ceived, require an ex-parte statement, and he hoped, 1 1 therefore, that the Hon. Gentleman would withdraw his motion. Mr. MURPHY, after the explanation of the Noble Lord, would of course comply with the request of withdrawing the motion. He (Mr. M.) had been under the impression that despaches on the subject had been received from Sir C. Metcalfe. However, he presumed the Government would adopt the measures that seemed best in the case.—The motion was then withdrawn. COLONIAL DUTIES—VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Mr. G. HOPE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to confirm an Act of the Legislature of Van Diemen's Land for authorising the levy of certain duties of cus toms, and on spirits.—Leave granted. MINISTERIAL FINANCIAL MEASURES. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know if the Right Honourable Gentleman would now state to the House the course he meant to pursue with regard to the other important measures of the Govern ment. The Right Honourable Gentleman had stated that he was anxious to take the earliest oppor tunity of making that statement. The reasons were obvious why such a statement should be made -as early as possible. Various rumours were afloat, and questions asked in public on the matter. The Right Hon. Gentleman might be of opinion that it would be dangerous to the public interest, for some reason or other, to make that statement nowi lie (Lord J. Russell) wished to leave it entirely to the Right Hon. Gentleman's judgment as to the course he ought to pursue. If the Right Honour able Gentleman thought it was necessary to make an early statement, he (Lord J. Russell) conceived that by taking votes on account, without going through the estimates; he might obtain the necessary votes to enable him to go into a Committee of Ways and Means. He (Lord J. Russell) did not say that that coarse ought to be taken, but he wished to know whether the Right Honourable Gentleman meant to go formally through the estimates in Committee of Supply. Sir R. PERI, was experiencing the same difficulty that the Noble Lord would have experienced at the cona mencement of last Session if he had continued in the Go vernment. He.had called the attention of the House . to the subjects of the Corit-lawS and the Import Duties, and it had been stated, in the Speech from the Throne, that, it was the intention of the Govern ment to bring those subjects under the consideration of the House, therefore the Noble Lord, had he continued in the Government, would have experienced precisely the same difficulty which he (Sir Robert Peel) was ex periencing at present. He (Sir R. Peel) had thought it infinitely better to proceed at once with the question of the Corn-laws, than to 'postpone the consideration of that question until he could bring forward his general financial statement. He was not aware of any consideration of public interest which should interfere to prevent explanations on the part of the Government • which they might think it necessa ry to make in the Committee of Ways and Means, and, so far as the public interest was concerned, he was prepared to make his statement at as early a period as possible. He had not expected that the discuSsion on the Corn-laws would have been so long. It was desirable that the House should come to a decision on the question of the Corn lawsa period as possible.—(Hear, hear.) -rha a That measure as eas ar ur e ea l tr y eeted the duties on corn, and he hoped that after the House had decided on the measure, those who were opposed to the sliding scale, and those who were opposed to any duty whatever, would receive the Government measure as a great relaxation of the existing and not t o b e di s p ose d to throw ob stacles system,it the way of its becoming the law of the land as speedily as possible. As soon as lie possibly could, he would bring in the Bill. He had not been able as yet even to introduce the Bill, on account of the length to which' the preliminary dis cussions had extended. He did not complain of that; he had no right to complain of it; he merely men tioned the fact. He proposed at the earliest oppor tunity, after the debate on the Corn-laws should be closed, to take the Army and Navy Estimates in the Committee of Supply, and if the House should feel disposed to vote those estimates, he would, at the earliest possible moment he could get those votes, propose that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, when he would explain the whole of the intentions of her Majesty's Government with regard to the finances. The moment he had an opportunity of making that statement, he would • avail himself of it. If they were to interrupt the discussion on the Corn laws now going on, they would not elicit my opinion from the House, while great inconvenience would be offered to the public service.—(liear.) What he proposed, was to take the opinion of the House on the principle of the law and on the duties, and then to take a 'vote ; after which, in a Committee of Supply, .he would state his financial proposals. GOLD COINAGE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to an Hon. Gentleman whose name we could not learn, said that the attention of her Majesty's Government had been for some time directed to the state of the gold cur rency, and that they had - in preparation a measure to remedy the inconvenience now complained of. CORN-LAWS—ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the Order of the Day. for resuming the adjourned debate being read, Mr. S. CRAWFORD said, that being the represen tative of a constituency, which had sent a petition, signed by 20,000 persons to that House, but which their rules prevented him from entering upon at the time of the presentation, he was now anxious to say a few words on the subject of that petition, as iliinehesiTasteing,unqualified, support to the motion a duty, he owed to himself and, his constituents. and therefore,co of the lion. Member for 'Wolverhampton. He (Mr. Sharman Crawford) . called for the imme diate and total repeal of the Corn-laws, not only on the part of his constituency, but on the part of every class of the nation, not protLsiigigive his even excepting the landlord, for, as a landed proprietor, he felt, that though the Corn -laws gave an apparent ad vantage, yet the landed interest would suffer ultimately more from their continuance than from their repeal.— (Hear.) It had been alleged that it was injudicious to bring forward this motion, because lie knew it w as impracticable to carry it. He asked would it not be also impracticable to carry a modification of the mea sure now introduced by her Majesty's Government? The Government was so powerful that they Could carry their own measure without noticing any modification,and therefore it was right to make a stand upon true principles. The Corn-laws were not supported by justice, or by wisdom, • and therefore, we were right in demanding their immediate and total repeal. He demanded a total repeal because he thought it was only consistent with justice, and he demanded the innne diate repeal because t h e necessities of the people required that it should be immediate. He felt that those who supported the total and immediate repeal were bound to bring the subject before that House • for he was of opinion that no Mem ber shoul d agitate the public upon a question which they were not ready and willing to discuss within the walls of the House. Those who main tained the principle which he maintained, might be called impracticables ; ' but he would ask, how could any great principle be supported or defended, if there Were not some parties ready to stand upon the high grinind of principle. Compromises might be useful ; , but there could be no compromise unless there were some who strictly adhered to principle, Out though he would not compromise the question of a total repeal, he would be ready to take into icon sideration the just claithil of the agriculturists THE SUN, _LONDON, = WEDNESDAY .NORNING, [TAT S. 23, 1842, to relief and indulgence. It had been stated that the County-rate, the Poor-rate, and ' the Land tax, were burthei.s whiCh pressed peculiarly upon the landed interest. Now, he thought, those, claims had been satisfactorily answ ere d, an d th a t th e l an d e d interest were not subject to any burdens in these respects, which they , were not justly entitled to bear. He held a different opinion, however, with regard to the tithe taxation: He could not admit that the tithes were justly chargeable to the landed interest. He would be ready to make a comparison with the' landowners on the tithe question ; if tithes might be considered national property, he would be willing to extinguish tithes altogether, and to let every man pay for his own clergyman.—(Hear.) There was another question which he conceived ought to be attended to. It was alleged that tenants who had taken out leases at a rack-rent, and on the high duties, would be • subjected to very great hardships by the lowering of . the averages. He admitted that there would be hardship, and was pre pared to consider some mode Of protecting them. He thought the suede by which -they would he • protected was this, that incases where tenants had taken out leases at a rack-rent., since the year 1815, if it appeared in five years after the Corn-laws were repealed that the average of prices were lowered, there should be a proportionable lowering of the rent. In the speech of the Noble Lord who opened that discussion the Noble Lord called for such a settlement of the question as would remove all complaints. The Noble Lord deprecated conceding without conciliating, altering without settling. When he heard that speech he hoped that the Noble Lord was about to advocate a repeal of the Corn-law ; for he was satisfied that no measure short of a total repeal would satisfy the people of this country. The proposition of a fixed duty, or any other measure short of repeal, would only excite fresh agitation. The Hon. Member for Liskeard spoke of the Corn laws as a vested interest, and deprecated dealing with them •in any other light. He denied that they were a vested interest; they were proposed by the landlords themselves for their own protec tion, and therefore they could, not be considered as a vested interest. He would give the House an instance of the powerful feeling which had been raised out of the House in reference to that object. At a meeting held at Rochdale, the working classes and the manufac turers had come into collision. Two propositions were put to the meeting, one related to the Charter, and the other to the Corn-laws, and the upshot was that two resolutions were carried—one for the adoption of the measures demanded in the People's Charter, and the other for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. That was a meeting convened by the High Constable of Rochdale, and the resolutions agreed to were to the effect, that the proposition of Sir R. Peel, en the sub ject of the Corn-laws, was an agravated insult to the inhabit ants of the United Kingdom, and that whilst the meeting pro tested against the Ministerial plan as an insult to the people, yet they considered that the only remedy to existing evils, was the adoption of the People's Charter as the law of the land.—( Hear, hear.) here was place in the kingdom which could be a greater proof of the desolating effects of the Corn-laws than Rochdale. Before their enactment it was the flourishing seat of the flannel-trade. But upon the passing of the present law, the Americans enacted their tariff, which destroyed that trade in Rochdale and elsewhere in this country. He ( Mr. C.) advo cated the total repeal of those laws, because they occasioned the utmost misery and suffering to the people. Whilst the House was sitting considering the amount of protective duties fur one class, the people were perishing of hunger. Now, could it be denied that it was a kind of slow murder to uphold laws which deprived the people of food, and produced famine, disease, and death?—( Hear, hear.) He felt that it was neces sary to agitate this question, not only in the House, but out of it ; and he spoke in these strong terms in that House, because it was his determination out of the House to take every means constitutionally to agitate this question, as he con sidered that to be the only means by which the people would obtain a redress of their grievances. He had only one word further to say, and that was with regard to Ireland. He was a landed proprietor there, and had the in terest of that country at heart, and he was convinced no good would be effected there till these laws were repealed. In that country 2,500,000 persons were in a state of pauperism. 'f he average rate of wages which the agricultural labourer received was about 4d. a day ; when such was the case he thought that some other experiment should be tried to promote the union of the manufacturers and agriculturists of Ireland, because of this he was sure, if the union was to subsist between Ireland and this country, they must legislate for both on more equal terms. Mr. W. M A RTYN trusted the House would allow him to make a few observations up:in a topic that had been a good deal adverted to in the debate, he alluded to the Poor-rates. Within the last twelve months he had acted as one of the six Magistrates for the purpose of revising the rentals in the county of Kent, and at that time they heard a good deal of the Poor-laws and the Poor-rate. It was said by the Hon. Mem b r for Bath that every person in the country paid the Poor rates ; there was no one exempted. That was impossible to deny, but it was utterly impossible to say that the Poor-rates fell equally upon every description of property. Suppose a person possessed of 500/. a.year, the proprietor was liable for poor-rates for every shilling worth of that property, because the tenants were entitled to deduct a portion of it from their rent: The poor-rates payable for 5,0001. a year would be no less than 750/. a year. The Hon. Member then en tered into a calculation, with a view to show that the poor rates pressed more heavily upon the agricultural interests than upon the manufacturing interests of the country. .It ap peared that many Hon. Gentlemen made similar objections to the highway rate, which was levied in. the same way as the poor-rate upon the land. The amount of poor-rates during the year was 6,067,420/. ; the hlthway-Tate was 1,267,000/. Hon. Gentlemen must bear in mind that the income of funded property amounted to 30,000,0001. a year, and if that were rated to the poor, or 30,000,000/. of landed property, at 3s. in the pound, it would be a very considerable sum ; and if applied to the poor-rate would considerably reduce the rate. If stock in trade, and utensils were also rated, it was more than probable that one-half at least of the rate would be re lieved from the land. In revising the ret.tals of the county of Kent, he (Mr. Martyn) paid considerable attention to the pro portion which buildings bore to the gross property of the re spective parishes. He had not the papers by hun now, hut he knew that in most of - the parishes, containing generally from 600 to 700 inhabitants, the landed property formed about two thirds, and the building property about one-third of the whole parishes. It was Not till they came to the large and populous towns, that they found the value of the buildings anything equal to the value of the land. Out of 480 parishes of Kent, there were not six towns in which the value of the buildings exceeded the value of the land of the district. If the trades men of those towns paid their share, that alone, without having recourse to funded property, would cause a great diminution of the burdens of the land. He did not like to remain silent on this subject, when, night after night, it was almost ad mitted as a fact that the land did not contribute more than its just share to the burdens of .he State. Several Liberal Members rose together, but _ _ _ Mr. F. VILLIERS remained in possession of the House. His opening observations were almost inaudible, but he was understood to be supporting the resolution of the Member for Wolverhampton, on the ground that it would tend to reduce the undue power of the landlords. Hon. and Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite stated that it was necessary to support the interests and station of the agriculturi s ts, but he (Mr. V. ) did not understand what they meant by die word " station." He considered it a very undefinable word, and one which should be explained before it was made a subject of argument for the maintenance of the Corn-laws.—( Hear, hear. ) He observed that many Members had spoken in favour of the abolition of theCorn-laws,who objected to theword " immediate. 's but he coud not help thinking that if it were good, the sooner they were repealed the better. He also heard it objected to, that the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton was opposed to a full consideration of those claims (if there were any) which the agriculturists had. But he did not think that the Hon. Member fur Wolverhampton intended to prevent calm discussion ; but that he wanted, if the agriculturists had all claims, they should prove them to the House. The I-lon. Gentleman concluded by thanking the House for the attention with which it had heard him, and saying that he would vote fur the motion of the Hon. Member fur Wolverhampton. Sir C. BURRELL said, that in addressing himself shortly to the House, he would cite an opinion of Mr. Canning by way of comment. In the discussion on the Corn-laws on the Ist a March, 1827, Mr. Canning said, " that various as were the opinions on both sides of the House, he ha never yet heard the landlord's case unequivocally answered." He ( ssir C. Burrell) considered that the attack which was being made upon the landed interest was not at all justified by the circumstances. It had been stated by several Hon. Gen tlemen that the Corn-laws were maintained solely for the benefit of the landlords. He put it to Hon. Gentlemen whether, in case of disdress among the agriculturists, that distress would not affect the other classes of the community ? There never was a time so disastrous for the labourers as the year 1816. The people then could not get employment, and the shop keepers were ruined. The home tra.le would be ruined if the Corn-laws were repealed. and that must affect the manufac turer. The first to feel the ill effects of such a measure would be the shopkeeper, the second the factor, and then the manufac turer. The home trade was the most certain, and the most to be depended on. To repeal the Corn-laws would be subver sive of the best interests of the country, and all classes would eventually suffer. Any one who would propose to open the Corn-trade would be an enemy to his country. When they recollected that in former times the trade of Ire land was shut out from this country, and now that the markets were entirely thrown open to that country, it became the chief mart. He could not understand the policy of those gentlemen who wished a measure to be brought into operation that must be detrimental to the interests of their country, Mr. POWELL concurred entirely with the Hon. Baronet who had just sat. down, that the discussions in that House should be conducted totally divested of asperity, and especially personality. But he (Mr. Powell) conceived that the depar ture from that rule first occurred on the part of an Hon, Mem ber on the Ministerial side of the House, whom he (Mr. Powell) now saw in his place. That Hon. Member indulged in sneers, which he ~Mr. Powell) had no hesitation in ad mitting would be unimportant, if that tone of feel ing were not re-echoed by Honourable Members who con stituted the majority on that side of the House, and were supposed to represent the feelings of the aristocracy. He was not opposed to protection to agriculture, yet, he thought that landlords ought not to tax manufacturers to maintain them selves, in otio cunt dignitate ; but, within the last 140 years, complicated interests had been established, which it would be most lamentable to disturb. He, therefore, wished to see this great question compromised by a liberal mutual concession be tween the landlords and the manufacturers. It was now useless to think of confining our population to agriculture ; there was no resource with our twenty-five million inhabitants, and their great expansive powers, and the distress they suffered, but to extend our manufactures. He was sorry, the evening before, to hear an Hon. Member condemning the Dissenting clergy men for participating in the Corn-law repeal, and praising the clergy of the Established Church for having taken no part in it. But, perhaps, this praise was ironical—perhaps, the Honourable Gentleman meant to convey that they, the clergy of the Es tablished Church attended to the shearing of their sheep instead of the feeding of them.—( Hear, and laughter.) Though a friend to free trade, he could not agree with the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. The Marquis of GRANBY said, that the question before the House was one of the utmost importance, and upon which depended the happiness or mi ser y of milli ons . He trusted, there fore, that it would be discussed with calmness and discretion; he felt sure that if it were so treated by the agricultural interest, they would find it for their own advantage. It was impossible to hear of the distress prevailing iss the manufacturing districts, and not to sympathise deeply with that distress. But he thought that in proportion as the House sympathised with that distress, it was their bounden duty to take care, that by a repeal of the Corn-laws, they did not increase that distress by depriving the agriculturists of their means of subsistence, and causing them to seek for employment in the manufacturing towns.— ( Hear, hear.) It was said that a. remedy for the maw facturing distress was to be found in a repeal of The Corn-laws; but he did not agree in that opinion. It was true that they might cheapen food by such a measure, but it was not true that by doing so th ey wou ld i mprove th e con diti on o f the labourer ; If they cheapened food, the natural consequence would be that wages would be lowered in proportion. That had been the consequence of cheapening food in all the countries of Europe. Cheapening of food was not synonymous with plenty of it..—. ( Hear, hear.) He did not think that a repeal oF the Corn-laws would produce the good which some Honourable Gen tlemen opposite anticipated; if he did, he would be one of the first to unite his exertions with theirs.—( Hear. ) He was convinced the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, must deserve the gratitude of the people of the country fur the proposition he had brought forward, for it wan likely to confer the greatest benefits. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL would not venture to intrude himself upon the attention of the House to the exclusion of so many others who were anxious to speak upon the subject under discussion, were it not that he wished, for the reasons he would state to the House, to explain his motives in taking the course he was about to take, especially as it totally differed from that course which he would have taken a year ago, or two years ago, had the present question come before the House. In considering this question, it was impossible it could be considered disconnected with the Right lion. Baro net at the head of her Majesty's Government ; and as one of those who listened attentively to the measure brought forward by that Right Hon. Gentleman, he (Mr. O'Connell) must say that great and general expectation was never more signally dis appointed than it was by the speech of the Righ Hon. Baronet on that occasion. A more completely negative speech he (Mr. O'Connell) never had heard : it was completely nega tive in reason, negative in calculation, and negative in every other respect. The contrast between the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet, and his speeches upon all other occasions, when he had heard him in that House, never was so great. The Right Hon. Baronet told the House that there was distress throughout the country, and he (Mr. O'Connell) was glad to see that assent had at last been given by the Right Hon. Baronet to the existence of that distress, of which they were so repeatedly told by the Hon. Members for Stockport and Bolton.—( Hear, hear.) Yet, though that distress did exist to an alarming degree, the Right Ho nourable Baronet plainly said that the measure which he proposed would not afford any relief whatever If wages were lowered, it was not the effect of the Corn-laws; if manufacturers were being destroyed, they did not do that. Whatever distress existed—whether commerce arid trade were restricted, the profits of the capitalist destroyed, or the im provement of the operatives diminished. With all that distress the Corn-laws had nothing whatever to do. What were the conclusions which the Right Hon. Baronet drew from these premises? They certainly were the strangest that he (Mr. M. O'Connell) ever heard from the lips of a reasonable man. Most strange, if he believed the measure he proposed one of importance; for, after telling us that the Corn •laws did no harm, he said we must alter them. One would have supposed that, in the words of the Hon. Secretary for the Home department, made use of in the debate of 1839, they might let well alone—one would have supposed that they would have allowed the Corn-laws to pursue their course, harmless at least, if not beneficial. When he considered the real nature of the question as it appeared to him ( Mr. M. O'Connell), and not • withstanding the panegyric which had been passed upon the proposed plan, as it appeared to the country at large, the very slight change on the present laws, when they considered the time the Right Hon. Baronet had taken to mature the ques tion, and that after all the inquiries made at home :and abroad, during autumn and winter, after all these inquiries into the financial difficulties of the country which he had to consider, from the overdrawn . matters in South Australia down to the heavy works to be carried on in the island of Hong-Kong—he would not say what his own opinion was, but he would ask the House if a Whig Ministry had taken so much time, and had brought forward such an abor tive measure as this, whether one universal cry would not have been raised against them, if the Press would not have univer sally attacked them from the thunder of Printing house square down to the Bucks Herald. There were two or three points of objection against the measure, which occurred to him (Mr. M. O'Connell), and to which he would briefly advert. He objected to the plan proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, because it appeared to contain the same vicious principle, how ever modified, which had been the cause of the failure of all previous Corn-law measures. And he had heard no ar gument to convince him of this, that, under all cases, a fixed duty was not better than a sliding scale. He should say nothing on the point which Hon. Gentlemen had seemed so anxious of dwelling on—the point that had been alluded to in the speech of the Noble Lord, the Mem ber for London, namely, that the inconvenience of a sudden diminution in the duty should be controlled by the existing Government of the day ; a plan, which, in case of a fixed duty being adopted, he should prefer. It appeared to him that a fixed duty avoided all the evils which he perceived in a sliding scale. But with regard to the new plan, he did not think that the tendency and tempt a ti on t o w i t hhold corn would be diminished by it to the extent which the Right Hon. Baronet seemed to anticipate. If the temptation to withhold a stock of corn was not so great as under the 'old system, vet they must remember that the risk of loss by doing it would also be diminished; and if that were the case, he thought that, prac tically, they would find the largest quantities of corn would be imported at the lowest point of duty.—(Hear, hear.) In a paper that. had been laid before the House he found a clear proof of this, and an instance of how small a difference in the duty would cause a quantity of corn to be withheld. In the week ending the 3d of April, 1840, when the duty was 16s. Bd., the quantity of corn entered for home consumption was 194,000 quarters. In the week ending the 17th of April, when the duty had risen a little, the amount entered was only 3,122 quarters; while for the week ending the 24th of April, when the duty was 13s. 3d., at that amount the enormous quantity of 341,925 quarters of wheat were entered. The difference of duty between ss. and 45., and 4s. and 35., would give ample roorn.for profit by specula tion ; and he was afraid that from similar causes similar results would follow. Another part of the plan he should not allude to fully at present, as he did not see many Members from his part of the kingdom in their places, and he was anxious to notice it in their presence. The agriculturists of Ireland were much interested in oats, and he had not yet heard any reason alleged by the Right Hon. Baronet for diminishing the duty on oats to a greater extent, in proportion, than he had done with the duty on wheat. It was singular that this difference should be made. The vanishing point of the duty on oats was fixed at from 345. to 375., while for wheat it was left the same under the new plan as the old. He could not think why this should be, when in the course of the Right Hon. Baronet's own speech, he appealed to the trade in oats as the most satisfactory trade that had taken place under the existing system. Some said, it was because they, the Irish, were to be punished for the opposition they had shown to the Right Hon. Gentleman's Government. —( Hear, bear.) fie would not pursue this point, but of course, in the absence of any reason, many things were said which were not correct. He would not, however, detain the house by entering on this. He had said he preferred a fixed duty under all circumstances to a sliding scale, but he must admit he heard some objections to a fixed duty which struck his mind wish great force. He heard one from the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member fur Tamworth, which he considered to be very powerful, and it was, that in time of scarcity they could not maintain a fined "duty, and that if a fixed duty was once taken away, it could never be re-imposed. He asked the House, and he appealed to the country, whether there was anything half so strong urged against the Corn dew as that objection of the Right Hon. Baronet against a fixed duty ?—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Could any hired lecturer, or any minister of the Gospel, who had, so cre ditably to themselves, taken up the Anti-Corn-law question, have said anything half so strong, or half so capable of in flaming the minds of the people, as the admission of the Right lion. Baronet that when once the duty was taken away it could never again be imposed.—(Hear, hear.) He warned the Right Hon. Baronet, and those who joined him in making that objection to a fixed duty on corn that for every one they converted from the ranks of the supporters of a fixed duty, they would draw 100 from those ranks to the advocates of a total repeal.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to the effects of an immediate repeal on the agricultural interest he must say that he did not attach any importance to them. What he feared most was the effect of the alarm that had been excited on the subject. —( Hear, bear.) He could not but recollect what took place when the question of lowering the duties on wool came before the House, and the cry which was raised by the wool-growers—lie was almost inclined to say the wool gatherers—in the House on the subject.—( Laughter.) But the result showed how entirely fallacious were their fears.— ( Hear, hear.) But it was said that wool was an article of manufacture, and, therefore, was not a case in point. Well, then, he took the case of butter, and he knew that when the duties on foreign butter were lowered, the graziers in the south of Ireland were greatly alarmed, but the only result was that the butter trade had increased, he would not say in spite of, but in consequence of, the change.—( Hear, hear.) He had heard with great astonishment the Right Hon. Gentle man, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, repeat the fallacy that the admission of two millions or three millions quarters of fi,reign corn would have the effect of excluding from consumption an equal amount of home-grown corn. He would prefer a gradual departure from the present system, by a gradually diminishing duty, but fixed for a time at each stage. Still believing that the motion before the House was based on justice, he would support the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton.--( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet opposite, the Secretary for the Home Depart ment, drew in 1839 an affecting picture of agriculture climbing to the hill tops under the influence of protection, surveying thence, and rejoicing at the progress of commerce. Now he (Mr. 31. O'Connell) confessed he would rather see those hill-tops feeding good sheep than growing bad barley—( Hear, hear)._ and he thought it would be better to let barren fields go out of cultivation, for which they were unfit, than to see factories dila pidated, furnaces blown out, and the people lately employed by them wandering in destitution.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that agriculture could succeed without protection, for it was not the law that had advanced it to its present advanced state but the industry and skill of the people. It had been pro meted by science, and assisted by the aids of modern chemistry. Should we then be told that agriculture so sustained could not stand its fah; chance with the rest cf the world? His own prospects - and those of his constituents were connected with agriculture; but he thought he would injure neither by supporting the present motion. Sir F. BURDETT said that the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down had made a most severe criticism on the speech of the Right Honourable Baronet who had brought for ward the motion. He (Sir F. Burdett) was not there to de fend the speech of the Right Honourable Baronet, but he was well aware 'of the effect it had made upon the most important and most interested class of the community. He had it from a gentleman connected with the agriculture of the country, who had attended at the markets of Nottingham and its neighbour hood, that the farmers and agriculturists were perfectly well satisfied with the proposition brought forward by the Right Ho nourable Baronet. The) thought as much had been yielded as possible to those whom they looked upon as their opponents— the manufacturers—and at the same time they considered that it was as low a protection as could be given to the agricultural interests. No people were more inclined to conciliation than the agriculturists : of all people and classes they were the most disinterested, liberal, just, and considerate.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down said that he meant to support the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolver_ hampton ; if he did so, in his (Sir Francis Burdett's) opinion, he would do more than the Honoura'ole Member, had done himself.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Wolverhampton began his speech by stating certainly, in a most gentlemanly manner, doctrines as strong and outrageous as it was possible to imagine. He had heaped invective upon invective, on the agricultural interests, and had described them as the mest atrocious of classes. He repre:ented their num bers as being most contemptible, and that those who suffered fium the oppression were most numerous. He spoke of 40,000 persons being in a state of starvation, and described their suf ferings in a tone of sympathy which certainly would have been called for had the account of their sufferings been true ; but he (Sir F. Burdett) did not believe it was; at least not to the extent described by the Hon. Gentleman. What could the Hon. Gentleman mean by thus pointing out the landowners to the indignation of a starving people? What was the meaning of this counting of noses —of saying that the oppressors were only thirty thousand. and the, oppressed millions ?' What was it but pointing out the landowners as monsters to be destroyed? Why the Mon. Gentleman had outdone'what had ever been done by the Jacobins in France. Although the manner of the lion. Gentleman was kind and gentlemanly, it did not make up for the doctrine itself. Having deliiered these invectives against the landed interest of the country the Hon. Gentleman had gone on to say that he should like to see a debtor and creditor account stated, between the landed interests and the other intersts of the country. Now, althbugh they could not have tire minutiae of that account stated, vet the result was stated in the fact that the landowner was content to receive 3i per cent. for his capital, while no other interest in the country was content to receive so little. The lauded interest was the foundation of every other interest,; and the h valuable u tradeahle was the most va l ua b le of any. It was inf i n i te l y more than the foreign trade, and if the manufacturers ruined the landed interest, they would find themselves in the situation of 'WEST INDIA P;iCKETS. In answer to a question from Captain PLUMRIDGE, who was very indistinctly heard, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said, that in the printed pt.uers relating to the Admiralty regulation of the West Luba packet stations, the word Liverpool was, by a printer's error, substituted for Falmouth. COMPTROLLER OF THE EXCHEQUER. Coionel SIBTHORP begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it was his intention to submit any measure to the House for regulating the manner of issuing Exchequer Bills, and the other duties of the Comptroller and the Deputy CoMptroller of the Exchequer. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped to be able on an early day to lay before the House all that he proposed to do respecting the issue of Excite qt.er Bills. The subject was a matter of serious consi deration to the Government, as well as to the Comp troller-General of the Exchequer, and some proposition in relation to it would shortly be made to Parliament ; bat beyond that he was not able to make any statement at present.. In respect to the latter part of the Hon. Member's question, he should say that there was at all events no intention of abolishing the office ofComptruller- General. Colonel SII3THORP then gave notice that it was his intention on an early day to take the sense of the House on the subject of both the offices of Comptroller and Deputy-Comptrolle(Hear, and laughter.) INTERMENT' IN TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON gaVe notice that he would to morrow move for leave to bring in a bill on the subject of interment of - the dead in towns. PUBLIC WORKS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on Friday next, in a Committee of the whole House, he would call the attention of the House to the Acts which regulate the advances for public works. THE CORN-LAW;:it,--TIIE WAGES OF LABOUR. •Mr. COBDEN gave notice that on the first opportu nity he would move, tha inasmuch as that - House had repeatedly declared by its - votes and by the Reports of its Committees, that it was beyond the power of the I-louse to regulate the wages of labour, it would be manifestly unjust to pass any law raising e price of food without previously considering and determining what the opera tion of such law would be upon the rate of wages in this country.—(llear, ltear.) LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Leave of absence was granted to several Hon. Members until after Easter, or for shorter periods. Mr. JERVIS moved that leave of absence should be given to Mr. Grainger, to go on circuit.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") Leave of absence was granted to Sir Hesketh Fleet wood on account of ill health. Mr. C. BULLER wished to call the attention of the House to the exceeding hardship of refusing leave of ab sence to Mr. Grainger.—(Cries of "Question.") It ap peared to him that it should be the object of that House to snake attendance upon their duties as couvenent to lawyers as they possibly could.—(Laughtero He meant as convenient to them as to:other Members, consistently with the proper discharge of their duties. When this question arose last session, it was snggested that as it was in the power of the General CoMmittee of Elections to place different Members on the several Committees as they chose, the best coarse would.be to place those Hon. Members who had to go the circuits upon those lists in which they would not be called upon during the period whilst the circuit lasted. Surely that was a course which could not be attended with inconvenience to the public business. What was tho state of things at pre sent ? The Northern Circuit commenced on Wednes day, and gentlemen were obliged to go down imme diately, if they intended to attend the circuit, without knowing in what list their name would be placed. If the suggestion to which he had referred were adopted all difficulty would be removed. Mr. JERVIS could not see what possible inconve nience would arise from granting leave of absence to Mr. Grainger. Of course the ti.ne would allow but one panel to sit before Easter. A barrister could not be excus xl from. being placed upon a particular panel : but the Committee had row the power, if leave of absence were granted, to substitute another name for that of the absent Member. Supposing that a certain number of gentlemen of the legal profession were appointed to act as Chair ; men, it was manifest that no Committee could sit • before Easter,. except one ; and therefore there could be no practical inconvenience arising if the indul gence F ought for were extended by the House ; in deed, if it was the ,object of professional gentle Men to be dispensed with, or to escape the duties of attending on Coinsnittees altogether, he (Mr. Jervis) would agree with the. House that they should be obliged to perform those duties ; but it was not so ; all they sought for was to be exempted from those duties during the circuits; he, therefore, hoped the House would reconsider their deter mination, ar.d that Hon. Gentlemen would not be carried away by any feeling, that lawyers had any intention or anxiety to shrink from the performance of the ar 'duous and responsible duties of acting on Committees as well as other lion. Members-on the whole, he Submit- 1 ted that indulgence should be extended to professional gentlemen daring their absence on circuits. Sir GEORGE GREY agreed with i his Honour- , Ale Friend in saying, that if Honourable. Gen- t tensest were bona fide practising_ barristers, they should be exempted from bei n g on _Committees during the circuits, . and their names reserved for those counties • where they could attend and perform their duties con veniently and efficiently. Mr. MURPHY observed that the subject was of first importance to the profession ; it' they sought the relaxa tion alluded to for the purpose of escaping attendance' altogether, he would say it was unreasonable.—(Hear.) Ile thought it a very hard case that they should be denied the indulgence which they sought,' it being simply, not that they should escape any duty, but that they might be allowed to defer it. He trusted he should be excused for making his first appearance before the House in a matter of a personal consideration; but he thought it best openly and at once to state his views on the subject, as he slu:Suld consider it a great hardship if he were not allowed that privilege which he now sought to obtain for another. Lord MAHON thought the application before the House was quite just and reasonable. The indulgence claimed was not for the benefit of barristers only, but the interests of the clients also might suffer much. He did think the indulgence sought was one which the house ought in justice. to confer. Lord G. SOMERSET said it would not be convenient at present to make an examination thedesire of the intothepanels. He should suggest, if it were House to gi ant any indulgence, that it should not be done till after The appointment of the.o aiit'us House, ti e , a l t a i n ea d v t e h o e f a g b e s n e e n r e a e l shouldpttne s. not N b v e o pressun.lrdanted ti t i 4th thee expiration of that period which would be ' some time about the middle of next week. As h e had said before, to release the variou4 Mem- Grs of' the legal profession from their duties in this pest, would throw impediments in .the way of their, ex ercising their Committees. discretion E Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was inclined, 011 general grounds, to join with the noes .on the motion for granting leave of absenee to 'Honourable frequently Members t under ordinary circumstances ; but i t was of the utmost importance to a memberof the legal pro f ess i on, an d m i g h t, i n f ac t, determine the whole career of a lawyer, hi s b e i ng. able to attend, or being debarred from attending a circuit. In such a case, it was better that the mode of carrying 'it into effect should be considered by the Hun. Member foe eVolverhampton had told them that the pa tie the man who had killed his goose with the golden eggs. Tel:! sure of the Right Hon. Baronet was an insult to a starving people—that when people were starving wordsi them to talk of a regard to vested rights. it was insulting to of the Hon. Gentleman were " The people areMsetaarnei“, and cannot wait until you have nude your arrang in em a : I And yet the Hon. Gentleman concluded his speech in different tone, saying all. at once, to his (Sin F. great astonishmens, that the people of this country were not ', e , foolish and bigotted (he did not see why the word" bi t e t 1 , 7 ) esit was brought in on that occasion, nor what it had to the question—as to demand an immediate free trade in cl a m tt°' . stead of waiting three or f our years . That. s eemed in' entirely to d es t ro y the areument, or rather the esagge ra„Tee statement, of the Hon. Afember for Wolverhampton.. el:II Hon. M e mb er f or Fi ns b ury , i n t h e speec h in whichnd sha poured so much abuse upon th e l an ded interest, asks the people h a d ga i ne d b y a c h ange o f adtninistration. Tr,oelista. sure they had g a i ne d a very a bl e Mi n i ster, sa id the Hens _`!,/„, tleman, and they were about to obtain a very great inse t "; ment in the Corn-laws; but still he asked whY the it that side of the House had not proposed any measure to it 01) , the sufferings and distresses of the community. l' i " jeees es peered to him ail extraordinary thing that 1 Hon in that House who were of no parry, as the Aok i . ourable Gentleman declared himself to h ' rees eity abuee other people because they proposed n° ed e particularly the Right Hon. Baronet, who had explain e hop e, self so explicitly on that point, holding out no delu'i sar eey ' exciting no expectation which he did not expect ,t' the pan and, in short, showing as m uc h i n t egr it y as a bility ut itian )-- he finally proposed—(lronical cheers from the OPP. e r s e e not, and which removed all the objections, whether fair thouo' made against the old Corn-law.—( Hear, hear.) He, ~..-a ess t however, that all the charges which had been nta, tie ,47, t die that law were not established. It had been stated s ; wets combinations to affect the averages had enabled great cal ) " r i c o to accumulate immense gai ns . N ow h e h a d l oo k e d at the prices for the last ten years, aril he did not find any resulthit.,q countenanced that statement. He did not see any of t ' orr and down, sliding backward and forward, which had been a bos h to the Corn-laws. It would b e f oun d t h a t there a l oe more ups and downs in America d ur i ng th a t p er iod the, n t e tee had been in this country. The re fo re h e did n ot ado:me i:4 e. extent for which it was contended, the necessity for a eiei el e The scheme of the Right Hon. Ba rone t did on e g reat " It takes away," (said the H on . B arone t) " an ieflatura to e: subject from people who make the hi g h sca l e o f duty a to e et e of exaggeration to produ c e pop u l ar di scon t ent an d del li eli Besides that it did not afford the m eans o f pl a ying triek s oeit the averages, and it satisfied the people who thought tha t or 1 protection ought to be. It did no t fix a duty at Ss., Chic po t duty was wanted, or not, and even when it ttere , necessary, or even when it was unwise to de the any duty at all. But it did away by " tbe with all bounty to the h ome grower , an d 1 , e g 40 I same time it would not pr ac ti ca ll y re d uce t h e pr i ce of e w e- i this country. He was astoni s h e d t o h ear it sa id t h a t Maas 1 laws affected the currency. Th a t was putt i ng t h e cart e re the horse. Every one knew that the case was quite Oslo verse.—(Cheers and laughter on the Opposition.) Eller/004 knew that the surplus produce' of the country went to $ o f to feed and clothe the labourers, and that the e tti e le price of corn did not affect the food of t e lden) bourer. (Cries of Oh, oh, oh, and much laug h Labour, like everything that met with competition, 70, duce(' in value by the number of competitors. It was e e iein that from the increased wealth of this country, from tee ' we ed and wishes of the people, the distress complained of Ire' not exist if it were not for the inundation of povery piesfro land. There was no doubt a good deal of distress l i e country, but much of that distress, he believed, was l l og ebt ' causes against which no prudence could guard. lie t ie that the present state of our currency was, in a gr eat 9 e r the source of the evil. While the currency was in it e e t lt e sent state all would remain variable, and there could "' k ite a constant price for any article. The Corn-laws were 11 0 0 4 source of our embarrassments ; and those laws had not P r i theetal the importation of large qu an tit ies o f f ore i gn corn . OW was more common in this country than to hear of individo,,,, had begun life in the lowest situation s ra i s i ng t h emse lves tor i e at and independence. He was persuaded that in no other ,P s s i eto 1 the world was there so gr ea t a mass o f persons enjoying te ak' advantages and comforts of lif e as i n England. He et' jeit' that there was not any set of pe o pl e i n the world. 1 1, '" L eetal more upright, or more honourable th an th e l an d e d er°P,; o or of this country. He had heard this sentiment f te lst 6 , abroad, even in France, where the m i smanagemen t of L lie reo Government, which, by an u n t owar d act , was e°, 1391 e 4 ,04 to have offered an insult to th e F renc h ' Are°7 o lo had produced throughout the country a „eel which it would require all the caution, and all the Pr" .., of the Right Hon. Baronet, to avoid the consequene e e t l e ittu he believed that if there had not been a change. of 'Ad e l ° 'those consequeuces would have taken place. He proe e :ete," condemn the late Ministry as t o t a lly i ncompe t en t, a , " see,,, du nothing but to produce a parcel of abortions, on e 1 1 , another, but none of which ev er came t o lif e an d mooiol.oo then reverted to the l a nded i n t eres t, stat i n g that tlis il opinion none were entitled to more considerati° eill: f they were. He was certain that there was n e i e " rest so easy to gover n , or so b oun d to prinee c h 0 1 public utility or measures for the public good; s° /o° l that be was happy to say he believed the Right lion. was firmly fixed in the esteem of that interest. he ( i,ord DUNCAN rose to a dd ress t h e H ouse on ,t'fr°' sent occasion with some hesitation—a hesitation arieeti no doubt as to the cause he ad voca t e d, but of his my" aria ; e He was not going to follow th e s p eec h o f t h e M e mber t? r fr Oi , " Wiltshire he was not going to disput e w ith him his a oieer s for the landed interest ; he only trusted it was mere Olt than the affection he once bore to the aristocracy of this e° How was old Cato changed - Oh ! quantum mutatus ab illo, • Hectore, qui rediit spoliis indutus Achilles ! p eel —( Cheers.) How changed wa s that Hon. Baronet, ,s'' oes fel l i appeared on his knees at the bar of this House, the au/ fe et popular opinion !—( Hear, hear.) But he said it wasieete intention to follow him in the course of the speech he 11% lep,' He would give his most cordial support to the motion of In d ok Friend, the Member fur Wolverhampton, because, in s! ~ b el, he opposed the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet atthaeote; of her Majesty's Government.—( Hear, hear.) He 4 ,teeiA l y much object to that measu d r o o n - e He thought the Government had a right to levY r“ es i ',(,,, thought it should be with surprise he heard the Right Hon.. Baronet state the , ato p in e i g te u sle uv ta . ils as in its I!. oil ought to deal lightly with interests suppor — te ( d ii h ea y n ac r r 1 .41 '; of 150 years ; but every hour that the protection ' 4 : 1 7 . : , A; „ added to the difficulty of solving the questioe e r ,T o n, i Let them not look back to 150 years, but let the e :',osteeSisOt eyes six centuries beck, when, to relieve the people '"eds a/ 1 6421 the mailed Barons of Runnymede made their sv it) i to, the their scabbards.—(Cheers.) Let them also 1 0 °, 000 lu ; when Pym, and Selden, and Hampden, s t o od; mee t fioorr of that House, and argued against, - , ,A,„;, - ., and he need not say how the monopoli , t , i ' eMee day fared.—( Hear, hear.) Let them look:. t e t k o' cr ie tti P i , times. The principle of unjust taxation lost theln:ceeye e st (Hear, hear.) They founded an empire in lndia, de 'th l ties ing protection against unjust taxntion; and,"cii.igoptio them an empire in the West, protection against i t eae • pep an empire in the East.—(Cheers.) Let the noire, Ate speech of the Right Hon. Baronet at the need of 'Hesse teed Government. Did they find any finality in it . ?•-•cr„., - eile. %le During the last century and a half intelligence had , ,ij, ' n elfeli strides throughout this country. Let Hon. Gen,t" the f I ? .s e' st site follow him into the cottage of the villager, an°, i ss earr I. find that there tea and tobacco, which were once tee the 'Ale the few, were now be come th e comforts 01. ' eel° 11 Let them come with him i n t o th e wor k s h op o f the met' and they would find bins perusing books which w en s i i i , e Cl e e only in richer hands. L e t t h em accompany h i m to ' wl) and Anchor, and they would hear the artisan diseu' s :jolarees tions, which f ormer l y were enterta i ned alone by the s et er!ee the statesman.—( Hear, hear.) They would find th e _ se tisrisl i man deep read in political economy, and able to dele o ey that wages depend upon the demand for labote t t io e,) // 0 upon the supply of food.—(Cheers from the 014 05 , 1 e re. e r.) them eompare the speeches which they would hear e" / blief those which were delivered in this House.—(g e L t; Ifrell He would then ask the aristocracy, whether they w" a lep • . to rest their claim is station upon a protection 1 o ti people's food?—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Wha t ci es A they the aristoc r a c y o f E ng l an d, o f w hi c h, be ece92o, sto up to scramble with the peopl e f or th e ir food ?" - Iceitte o r He would not appeal to the H on . M em b er for Ea'' - t he would not appeal to the Cabinet Minister who, l e °, t e ,: t e e tcenth century, came down, and, while the in'e r e ee i t; fs ) manufacturers of this great manufacturing country h w i , se bling in the balance, enlightened the Hou e with , filed the home-grown tobacco.—(Cheers and lauglitele/ i tae ,ies) appeal to that Right Hon. Baronet, whose name " er e with our greatness, industry, and commerce—a "7 c, he might say—' " Labitur, et labeler, in om n e v o lubilis wve ttl ire i b Pv- '4/ tetd he appealed to the Hight Ho n B arone t by the nar e t ee 11 ' a name which should be written in 'letters of geld ' a of the English nation— " --- clarum et venerabile nomen. ' 're 01 Gentibus" . ente e Well might the people .of Manchester conclude th e 6 ' 0 . 4( the poet, and add— rb;• le e is ii —( Cheers.) He appealed to the Right Hon. Ha e rl, ttl i etre' s he would turn his back upon that ladder by ";000, , tit' ambition of his ancestors attained its goal,- - CO P :, Y!'; ( 1 . He appealed to him as the first Minister of the first of t" - p; n, the world—having a large majority in both Houses wee, / liarnent, and trusted with the confidence of b l%pO t tltiti looked up to by the people with anxious e ie.l o o o - 0 When he saw men bending the knee to him for br a . 0 0 11 : 0 0 .4 ,, give them a stone ? He stated that he was in c an hi e fe i / s of difficulty ; he stated that he heard whispers or tl it f i i i t well as on that side of the House. He asked / tb , i ,ein s .. vice, lie would give him his advice. He ku e , e ‘itbe e h e el e t worth nothing, but he would give it to him :.' tie:tfedP, / , asked.—( Laughter.) He advised him to Ouse, poeqero e , ~ rosily of the people of England ; lie advised b,.tr i i 1 con, to the tender mercies of the veterans of his Prxt,'" bite t elkeetnr4 Mr. W. H. STANTON said he should fee' elone, 505 , pelted to vote against the motion of the Righ t ea t t", "ere " i es for Wolverhampton. He thought, however, t '""alse ' eetel scale prepared by the Right Hon. Baronet Wa s e e r flu tr e i e te' - ) jectionable, and he trusted that the H i g" 7 o ( b. e• 0 e the Baronet would apply the great energies rice ,, ; e t , to a more satisfactory settlement of the W i re "di'letilrl u e He could only say, that he was sure the wer.lut"a•resie cop Corinthian capital of the pillar of Society•i ; ' put h 'iesen . trouble the House with any further obserVitinaef ter frog ceived that his duty compelled him to vote a g a ' : l ite f t he of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton; s e eele!e ' 'if t o Mr, P. M. STEWART should be unwillinket, vot e ' e s 14 the plan he had hitherto pursued in giving ri e s a l t /10. 00 teie t e. were not placed in a particular position in t " s eire)! ( 'iptel of representative of an important county (Renf r e ew e s t irin&„ beh a- leit a combination of the agricultural and man wa lpuse I her' pe' They had had pathetic appeals made in that „ e st al l i Un, h e the agricultural interest of England. Ther w eeert ;e t bf ' OO the force of those appeals, but he though t t al iere a r ee e;:Or e es cessary, for no man of sense would seek t ?„ on sequ e 7 ittie u e• community so important, and of such vitae‘ that elle, t i end iv e agricultural interest. He (Mr. S.) held a d UP ‘9 oOV e ibil taring and agricultural interests were bon Le , were. iti, ,a, t " ' 'ote re It° pendent on each other. If by any chan ge variaee 1 agr iee affe ts to make a choice among the t he m ut ,-.l o o' House would no doubt, select oa , s vie ehe . P o They could pass no law which could affe c t ot. ing the other, and in the wise words °f eot p ro_ ero pe e o the of talon rid Baronet the Member for Tamworth, tthhe cuo)eteatieetieohanaYst.oiltrauele, agricultural interest could receive, was of commerce and manufactures.—(C hee istight f or. 13 ,',0 the advantage of hearing the speech f 0 _ the . f ee, e _ eat eo, e , when he brought forward his measuee• be eeprej ed e l or a r , Stewart) was at that time in the coen:l surpr ise_r s/ . ? el , he could not describe to the House tit . 4 ,e. .„._.(1 - 1 t e ue i s ole; nation which that speech had occasioneu lu t hat roue rt:" ., 74 . prise that the Right t Hon. Hon. Baronet should dutiablettrib to pre3Pnet present distress of the country was a w eiph y e euld.n e f e„ te laws, and consternation at the measure -, s :bt .P.'l the PeU ntrY ,l this g'g hit in the present circumstances of t ent s. d greell. at i too deeply lamented that the ju: ea aiffere._ a pe l, Baronet, on this question should hays g _7_ o o e their s eet P". 4 of all those who were residingsat the see" en „ ef toe Aiit ren s ee the eu " d the " 01" and that he should have failed to Co , n o as es en . d _ e al 0 sisted between the principle of the e .teni tm ich4cl_ r: 4 , 0 1. g, of the country. The Right Han. "al . L , n etlrrUnt t . ! 2 , 1 11 eti t / o der rightly, that there were Ulatse e . h t i e that " merea l, ► Wit produce that divress. 4. , • i d &nue been 4 0.- _ . ..,11 'fie said rig 4 i ott Oat ha d mectiterne 4 nnane States u United vi . ; „ • t he ,_ d to l i v r h ib ie u t t i a ( b m ie r t b o e t s f r eu d s t' t r o a in ag erth e : .I.)oubtles la and to the war in that it was partly a c t i t i r i l a b a u e table to the ~ ,r_e s' ; cop es ea