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trunks, the enormous animal being ever ready and eager to kill the royal beast should he make the at tempt. The tiger, who had just risen, suddenly find ing himself hemmed in on all sides, glared around 1 19 n for an instant. Several shots were discharged at some of which taking effect, so maddened the already infuriated brute that he made a sudden spring llP?n the back of the elephant, on which sat the mu sicians, and bit at the principal performer, who was nearest the croup. 'Tice poor man naturally shrank back. , The tiger, however, caught his foot, and tore oh a considerable portion of it; then darting into th e jungle,• and. despite cf a volley fired at him, succeeded in gaining the thick covert, from which lbr some time we vainly attempted to dislodge him. Finding all other means fail, we at length sent in the that carried the fireworks, and began to throw them lighted into the reeds and brushwood, in order to frighten the tiger from his hiding-piace. Presently, to our great horror, the jungle took fire. The mohut in vain urged the elephant, by goading him, to leave the spot. Alarmed by the flames, he stood perfectly still ; nothing could induce him to move. The mohut, therefore, and those on his back, WFre fain to slip down, and risking even a rencontre with the tiger, make their way out of the now burning cover. This they did in safety. Never in my life did I look on a more magnificent sight than the confla gration now before rue. Disturbed by the fire, animals of every kind, serpents of every hue, burst from the burning jungle. The cries of lesser creatures, mingled with the roar of the affrighted elephant, struck awe 1 9to our hearts. The flames were high; the whole Country before us presented one mass of fire. No thing could exceed the grandeur of the scene. Standing on the plain hard by, secure from the d anger, we looked on in silent astonishment and admiration. Presently a louder roar was heard, and the elephant dashed out of the fire. He had evidently been severely burnt. The pads and trappings on his back were in flames, burning and rankling into his flesh ; the iron girths were actually red-hot, eating lnto,his sides. Ile was roaring with agony, and ran bounding along the open space, his trunk elevated, .-Ishing his back with his disproportioned tail. Screaming, mad with torture, in vain we attempted to Pursue him, or close him in. Pain had driven him mad ; and as the huge animal galloped forward, the w?ncl, acting on the flames, caused them to devour still quicker his thick flesh. His mingled roars and 49ries I can never forget. At length, dashing into a !nullah, he instantly cooled the. iron chains, which Ilizzed in the Nv a t er, and in returning once more to their natural colour, added one more pang to the Wretched animal. We now attempted to offer him succour , but it was too late. The elephant dived. , The fire was.extinguished; but as he came up he turned on his side, and with one convulsive roar ex pired. We now proceeded to return home. The whole way the cries of the poor musician were occa sionally heard. His pain was intolerable. He was but too well aware of his doom. There is a venom in the bite of a tiger almost always fatal. So, alas! it turned out in this man's case. He died Within eight-and-forty hours. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. The first thing to be noticed in this Number is George Cruikshank's ghastly sketch of -the wild English huntsman—the well-known Herne the bunter. Nothing can be finer in its way than this sketch. It is like one of Fuseli's striking fancies, but with less exaggeration. A strange, hind gloom—a sort of " darkness visible," has Settled on earth; a solitary owl is flitting above the massive folia;e of the forest; and the spec tral antler-crowned hunter, mounted on a coal • black charger—the fac-simile of that which bore the phantom knight crashing through the woods • in Dryden's noble tale of " Theodore and Ho norie_is just about to plunge into the sable, Styx-like lake, closely followed by his one - beaded Cerberus. All is in perfect keeping throughout this sketch, though it must be con . fessed, that as an engaaving, it shows, in places, ,b9lh'haste and slovenliness. Mr. Ainsworth, in "Windsor Castle," has contented himself with Just briefly glancing at this old Berks legend; but few as are his touches, they are as startling and bewildering as they should be, to be in harmony with the subject. Mr. Raymond continues his Elliston Papers," and we confidently predict that he will make a very delightful volume of the m . His account of the young actor's journey to Bath by the slow " Invalid" coach—what a vehicle fora bounding, mercurial young spirit like Eiliston to travel by !—of the snug social supper at the little way-side inn, with the corn passionate hostess and her pretty - daughter, Alice—which reads like a bit of Boz—the pas sing references to Elliston's contrition, and the • brief biographical sketch of Tate Wilkinson - these various matters are hit off with evident relish by Mr. Raymond, who, by the bye, tells familiar anecdote with pleasing, unaffected as our readers will see managerial phenorne 'l4 V 3 r l ) Tate Wilkinson. The essay on the " Plea rQs and Advantages of Personal Ugliness" %lin r.'t ' arry comfort to the hearts of all Frig b▪ 'hts—to Ortow a - phrase from the drawing-room—and • e v''o enable them to read Lady Blessington's • " I3uok of Beauty" with something like com 5031ticene.y--. it is very amiable in the author thus • t ondeavour- to reconcile the dwarfs to their .L • - 1 ltttrups—the • sons of Anak to their ogre dimen "ii 6 " -I S—the Buckhorses to their hare lips — and the JaCk Wilkeses to their buck-teeth and pug • noses. The " Cholera in Ireland" is somewhat T . doll and prolix. " Sonnets by Mr. Sergeant - -ualfourd" are in the most cordial and graceful ;rein of the stateliest and most imaginative of our 1 4' living dramatists, whose " Ion," as a recent tra veller asserts, has had the high honour of being • translated by an admiring Hellenist into the lan age of the country of Sophocles and Euripides ! We subjoin the sonnet addressed to Boz on the Publication of his " Oliver Twist:"-- TO CHARLES DICKENS, ON HIS " OLIVER TWIST. " • Not only with the author's happiest praise Thy work should be rewarded ; 'tis akin To deeds of men who, scorning ease, to win A blessing for the wretched, pierce the maze Which heedless ages spread around the ways Where fruitful Sorrow tracks its parent Sin, Content to listen to the wildest din Of passion, and on fellest shapes to gaze So they may earn the power which intercedes With the bright world and melts it ;--for within Wan childhood's squalid homes, where basest needs Make tyranny more hitter, at thy call, An angel face with patient sweetness pleads „ • For infant suffering to the hearts of all ! FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The recent " Movements in the Church," oc casioned by the zealous and somewhat dogma tical writings of the Puseyites, form the subject of an able treatise in this Number, wherein the Charges of the Bishops of London and Exeter are carefully considered, though, from the cautious character of his observations, we are at a loss to ascertain whether the writer is Tractarian or Anti-Tractarian in his sentiments. Of the Bishop Of London's Charge he says, " We rise from its Perusal with a painful feeling about us, that it scarcely speaks the real sentiments of its gifted author. The Charge might, in most of its telling .clauses, "U „ pass current for a dissertation of which I. Pusey or Mr. Newman would not he ashamed i to claim the authorship. From the view which iii• hi s Lordship takes of some of the points under • discuSsion, Dr. Pusey and Mr. Newman, Dr. •"_agot and Dr. PhillPo tts, also, would with one a ccord dissent." In other words, the discreet l'illshop is neither one thing nor the other; neither s l ob Church nor Low Church, but oscillates, like th rendularn, between the two. We mus t confess K u ! the honest straight -forward intolerance of `eYism impresses us with a greater respect this trimming, evasive conduct of Dr. ntrifield, whose w h o l e Charge seems to be I ti ;' t lier more nor less than an e laborate attem p t conceal his real opinions. In " Re miniscences Men of and Things" we find some agreeable So uvenirs of the late Armand Carrel, the bead Ot the Republican party in France; of Victor u gol the popular, and we think, overrated novelist ; and of Arago, the astronomer. T he death of Armand Carrel, who it may be remembereda• fell in a duel with Emile de irardin, is alluded to in a spirit of sincerest tenderness. " 'Twas Yesterday," is a thoughtful Poem from the pen of Mr. Charles Swain. We s ubjoin it entire : ° Twat; yestei day !" familiar sound, Heard oft as idle breath ; • •,. Yet, prophet-like, to all around, It spoke of woe and death ! A mourner by the past it stands, In mystic mantle of decay, , Shrouds in the night of years its hands, And grasps all life away! High from the boundless vault of Time The stars of empire veer ; " 'Twas yesterday they beam'd sublime, - • The mightiest in their sphere ! gria 'Twas yesterday reveal'd to Fate The rival crowns of centuries flown, Show'd where a phantom sat in state ..„ st . Upon the Caesar's throne ! • Sceptre and robe were cast aside! . The ghastly bones stood bare ; The rust fed on the gauds of pride, f . The worm held council there. . Nor answer would the phantom give, But to our constant prayer replied — "Chas 'twill be said of all that live :‘) - That yesterday' they died !" Where are the Grecian conquests now, The triumphs of her lute? Dust rests on the Homeric brow, Her genius is mute ! Where are the glorious hearts that fought For freedom in the " pass of Gore ?" • Gone —where the mightiest names are sought— With yesterday of yore ! We hope—but what we hope the shroud Wraps from our weeping sight ; We aim at stars, and clasp the cloud, — Seek day, and find but night ! Ab ! who with Life's dread woes would cope, If 'twere not for that Faith sublime, Which sees the Ararat of Hope Above the floods of Time ? What, then, is "Yesterday ?"—a key To wisdom most divine ! It is the hall of Memory, Where Fame's brief trophies shine ! The spiritual home of things, Where Intellect immortal beams, Which lends to thought its holiest wings, Inspires the noblest themes ! A drop that mirrors forth a world, Then mingles with the earth ; A star from Time's vast empire hurled, Slow falling from its birth. A presence with the sacred past To warn our spirits of delay, Which saith,—" Proud man, to-day thou !last, Use well thy little day ! We agree with the writer of the essay headed • Arnold and Smyth on Modern History," in his estimate of the literary cha racter of the former. Dr. Arnold was indeed remarkable fbr his judgment and clear-sighted ness; his style, too, was full of chastened fervour, and distinguistied by the •free and easy play of its eloquen:ie; and, had he lived, there is little doubt that he would have won for himself a foremost rank among European historians. But he was cut off in the very prime of Ins summer, when the world was eagerly anticipating the rich fruits of his ;natured intellect. The " Late Event at Cologne" is a very dull and languid ode. "Ny Namesake" is a passable story. In Nim rod's " My Life and Times" we have some inter esting particulars respecting the autobiographer's literary undertakings. According to his own ac count, he must have made considek.able sums by his pen, and turned his sporting knowledge to most. profitable account. He deserves his suc cess, for he is a manly, cheerful, unassuming writer, who gossips sociably and affably with his reader, just as though he were sitting with him over a glass of good old wine, by a blazing Christmas fire-side. NEW AIONTHLY MAGAZIAVE, " More News from China" is a whimsical arti cle by the Editor, and consists of the correspon dence of a graceless . young scamp with his mother, who is led to believe that lie is distin guishing himself by his prowtss in time neigh bourhood of Canton, when he is in reality living in the most dissipated manner in the Metropolis, and presumes on the inability of his mother to detect the local and other blunders in his Chinese descriptions. Here is his fabricated account of a battle with the pig-tail warriors of the Celestial EmpireEmpire:— "My own post was with a cloud of skirmishers that was pushed forward to enfilade our artillery, while it made a reconnaisance—but 1 do not pretend to de scribe all the manmuvres of our army, like the moves at a game of chess. Some eyewitnesses, I know, profess to have seen every thing in an action, right and left, back and front, and in the middle, as clear as the figures of a quadrille, but which is very different to my notion and experience of a battle. , To my mind it is more like a turn-up in London, where you are too much engaged with your own customers to at tend to what goes. on over the way, or at the other end of the street,—not to forget the dust and smother, for the guns and cannons, as yet, are not obliged by Act of Parliament to consume their own smoke. To 'give a clear idea of it, just fancy yourself in a London fog, so thick that you can 'only see your two next files. Well, by and by, the right-hand one, after cutting an extraordinary caper, suddenly drops and rolls out of sight into the fog, and when you look rather anxiously for your left-hand man, you see Tom Brown instead of Jack Robinson. The next minute yoU throw a summerset yourself over a log or a dead corporal, you cannot see which, and then plunge with your head into the big drum, or perhaps on a dismounted cannon, with a crash that makes you see all the gaslights in London in one focus. Of course, you're insensible for a bit till you're refreshed with a kick or a stab, and then you revive again about as cool and collected as &gentleman waking suddenly, at midnight, to a storm of, thunder and lightning, a smother of . smoke, - a. strong smell afire, and a burglar or two at his bedside. All you see distinctly is some sort of bright picked-pointed instrument within an inch of your eye, which of course you parry off by natural instinct, and then going to work at random, cut and thrust right and left with your sword, or pike, or bayonet into the darkness visible, which goes into something soft, and comes back red and dripping. That's to say, if you have good luck : if not, you get a slash or a poke yourself, from some person or per sons unknown, in your throat, or your chest, or your stomach, or wherever you like." The " Hot Water Cure" is a strange narrative, whose drift we do not profess to understand; so far as we can make out, a shrewd, worldly Lon don physician undertakes to cure a nervous fashionable patient, by telling her a long story — a most original recipe, tin. long stories have hi therto been looked upon (and most properly) as • a grievance rather than a benefit. " Phineas Quiddy" terminates happily and satisfactorily with the death of the dry, hard, mean, griping man of business, just as he has attained the acme of his ambition, and is about to be dubbed Sir Phineas by Majesty. " Story of a Genius" is well told, but the theme is hopelessly com mon-place. In the present chapter of the " Barnabys in America," we find the adventu rous heroine domiciliated with a Quaker family in Philadelphia, and preparing—by way of in gratiating herself with them—to write a book strongly denouncing negro slavery. Throughout these chapters Mrs. Trollope indulges in the most reckless caricature. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Mrs. Gore's story of " Abednego, the Money- Lender " is here brought to a close, and the de nouement is more startling than any to be found in Mrs. Radcliffe—that mistress of the romantic and the improbable—for Abednego, the usurer, is actually converted into a gentleman, just as if such a transformation were within the pale of the remotest possibility ! Henceforth let no one wonder at the Metamorphoses of Ovid. "Specimens of Modern Romance " is a clever quiz on classical fictions. The doggrel Latinity —that is to say, the English idioms rendered literally into Latin—are very archly and inge niously introduced. The egregious anachronisms, too, and exquisite ignorance of Roman familiar life and character, are scarcely a burlesque on some would-be classical novels that we have read of late years. The " Neighbours" is a laudatory notice of a tale translated fron the Swedish by Mrs. Howitt. " Cracknels for Christmas" is a smart, satirical squib; but why is Mr. Tenny son so unmercifully ridiculed 2, He is as genuine a poet, despite some affectations and puerilities, as any of modern times. In the review of" Lays of Ancient Rome," Mr. Macaulay is warmly eulogised, but not more so than he deserves. "In the unpromising field of the Roman annals," says the Reviewer, "this gentleman has found rich materials apt for his purpose, which he has fashioned and moulded with a skill and felicity bordering on creative genius. If las " Lays" are not of the solid or utilitarian kind of litera ture expected from a modern statesman and jurist, they are in nothing incompatible with the higher part of the nature of such grave characters." THE SPORTSMAN Contains this month two spirited engravings, the best of which is "Trout-fishin g ," and which has a charming'. picturesque r- back-ground. Among the literary contents, the most enter taining paper is an account of a tour to the lakes, and a visit to the house of Southey, the pJet, who, we regret to learn, still lingers under the pressure of sc vere indisposition. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1842. GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW SOIREE AT SHEFFIELD. On Wednesday evening we saw realised what we have long desired in Sheffield, a meeting in which our fair townswomen should be fairly enlisted in the war against monopoly. The meeting was of the most cheering character. The Music Hall (orchestra, saloon, and gallery) was tilled ; and had the capacity of the hall been twice as great the result would have been still a full meeting. The meeting was enthu siastic, and the readiness to engage in collections for the League was unexampled, and the proceedings were of the most gratifying and satisfactory kind. The room was tastefully decorated with evergreens and artificial flowers. On one side was a large banner, with the motto, " Free Trade and Cheap Bread ;" on the other, the British flag, with the words, "United we conquer." Edward Smith, Esq., occupied the chair, having on his right Richard Cobden, Esq., ALP., and on his left Henry AShworth, Esq., and John Bright, Esq. The principal Sheffield manufacturers and many ladies were present. Tea being concluded, The CHAIRIUAN proceeded to open the business of the evening by dwelling upon the fruits of the pre sent " protective" system, whereby he observed, our workshops are empty, our workpeople are half clad, hungry, and desponding ; and their would-be em ployers see only ruin and want approaching with rapid strides. Mr. Smith proceeded to say-1 do not know that I should from choice become a politician. I do not call these meetings political. I call this a meeting for commercial and philanthropic purposes. I call it a philanthropic meeting, because, apart from the justice of the cause, of which you will hear more hereafter, leaving that at present out of the question, it is the only course we can pursue calculated to re lieve the grievous sufferings we see about us. Per haps I may be accused of weakness, but I speak the truth whenlsay, that I have, within these few months, met with cases which I know to be true,—cases told to me by the lips of the parties themselves,—which have brought tears into my eyes. A little time ago I requested the visitors of the Bettering Society to . take the pains to collect some information, for I thought the public mind wanted informing on the subject of the destitution and want that prevail among the poor. A few of them began to visit with this view, but they were soon disheartened with the undertaking. I have a few-notes of the cases they have reported, which I will briefly refer to; fur it is necessary to know the evil, because we must be made to feel before we can be made to move.—(Cheers.) Delicacy forbids the mention of names, but I have the' names and every thing necessary to prove the facts I shall state. I take them by house-row :- 1. Very destitute, on the pariSh. 2. Only bread and water to work upon. 3. Scale-cutter; six chil dren, out.of employment five months, have sold their clock, and their bedding as far as they could. 4. A grinder ; pawned nearly everything, the bedding en tirely gone. 5. A grinder; his grinding rent is Gd. a week, his whole earnings 5s : ls. 6d. worse than if he had not worked at all. 6. A tableknife cutler; no furniture left, all gone for rent. 7. A file cutter; no work, four in family. We know what no work means—no food, no clothing, no furniture, no fire. 8. Scissors maker ; four children, on the parish. We know what on the parish means : 35., 45., 55., or 6s. a week, half in bread, and that not sufficient to keep off the pangs of hunger, and tha remainder of their allowance paid to the landlord for rent, or spent in the purchase of a few coals. 9. Edge-tool striker; two children, no work. 10. Spoon caster ; two chil dren, on the parish. 11. A working silversmith ; on the parish, though a very steady, sober family, wretchedly off. 12. A. spring-knife cutler ; on the parish, living on bread and water; no covering for their bed; the children have no shoes, no jackets. The remarks of the visitors are of this character : "No new clothing for two years ;" "Clothing patched as long as it will hold together." I will Occupy your time with but a few more details. 13. A razor grinder ; has a wife and one child ; no regular em ployment for a year and a half, has never had parish pay ; they are sometimes reduced to such extremity, as to be two days without food; at other times, a little bread, or a few nettles boiled with a little oatmeal and salt; no blanket in the house ; very destitute, but striving to do without parish pay.—How honour able, to be striving to do without parish pay, under such circumstances of suffering !—(Cheers.) But it is not what I would recommend them to do. I say, go to the parish, and get supplied liberally. Demand it as a right ; you ought to have it ; and the sooner you do this, the more completely will you open the eyes of those who stand above you.—(Cheers.) You will give me credit for disinterestedness in this. It will lay prettily heavily upon me, but I do not care for that. 14. A cutler ; has a wife and four children ; the eldest boy, about 17 years of age, whe is very delicate, along with his father, works on the roads.— " Have six shillings a week from the parish ; very little work for a long time, none for eight months ; his master gives him a good character, and the family are respectable ; altogether, they have not sufficient food, but are frequently ,starving. The wife has had no under flannel for more . than two years." This is a very common occurrence. The possession of neces sary under clothing for the women is rather the ex ception than the rule. 15. A file cutter and a hailer ; four in family, on the parish roads, 6s. a week, half in bread ; very much starved. 16. Arundel-lane ; No covering for his children ; they were very cold, so he took the matrass, wh ich was all they had to lie upon, from under them, and shook out the chaff, and laid the cover over them. 17. Rockingham-street : Came to his parish work, and his fellow-labourers saw that something was the matter with him, they found the family had eaten all the parish bread the day before; he had had nothing to eat since; and would get no more till Thursday ; must beg, or do as they could. They "do not complain, because its of no use ; all are pretty much alike." 18. Top of St. Philip's-road : nine of them in family, and only one bed. What must be the moral effects of a state like this ! 19. Husband gone away to seek work, six in family, no bed, only a small quantity of old straw to lie upon in one corner of the room, no covering what ever for it; the children, though very ragged and with little to cover them, were yet clean. This is a picture of the state of a large portion of the work ing classes in Sheffield, and an awful picture it is ! How a Christian, can know these facts, and think they do not concern us, we of sitting still—saying will not inquire into thOn ; if we give a man a half penny when he comes to our door, it is sufficient— I cannot explain. I conceive our understandings are given us for the wisest purposes, to be em ployed for the good of ourselves and those about us; and of that good, I would place foremost the investi gation of cases of distress, with a view to a remedy. We ought to get facts in the first instance; and when on every hand we receive the answer to our in quiries, "No work, no work, no work," it must satisfy our minds that the trade of the town is leaving it, and we have reason to fear is permanently leaving it. The farmers, whose arguments are listened to with more complacency than the facts of manufacturers, are speaking loudly and plainly. I have had a note put into my hands since I came into this room, a speci men of the kind of argument likely to be effective in breaking up monopoly. The writer says, "Last week I was conversing with one of our overseers, who in formed me that several of the principal rate-payers, who were farmers, had been to him, complaining that they could p their heavy rates and their rents begged he would make no more poor for th e y h a d no pr os p ec t o f paying pay rates but out of their stock. They had books ik ssbesides. at r present,spring 'they g not reaped a good crop, but all was selling low." In spite of all the attempts of the Government, and the miserable meddling with commerce by men who know nothing about it ; in spite of the wicked and fruitless attempts to frustrate the _bounties of Providence by preventing the plentiful harVests of other lands from entering our ports—there is one argument they can understand, notices to quit from their tenants, whn can no longer live cn their farms. The farmers are .beginning to see that these laws have done them harm, and no good.—(Cheers.) JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., in the course of an eloquent speech, after dilating on the distress and want of the people, observed, this scarcity is one of the most hor rible character. It does not affect the Queen ; the aristocracy have not felt it; no Member of either House of Parliament can tell of such a thing as having gone short of food; and perhaps few of them can boast of having for years known the luxury of being hungry. The large class of bankers, merchants, clergy, large manufacturers, the rich shopkeepers — these numerous classes know nothing of the want of food. But if there would be a scarcity, if the food were divided amongst all, how heavily must it press on the poorest, when so many have as much as they can eat. If a ship at sea be short of provisions, if being becalmed for weeks, the bread and water be found to run short, a council is called, short allowance is ordered, and though an Admiral be on board, lie would submit manfully to the justice of taking no more than his fair share ; and the poor cabin-boy would have as much ,as he.—(Loud cheers.) This is a fair sort of famine, and I should like to try a famine of this sort for a month or two in England.—(Cheers.) I am satisfied we should not have any longer to de- 'nand a free trade in food. The House of Lords would be the most clamourous to sweep these ob noxious laws away—and I believe that, of all others, the Bishops would find them particularly in convenient.—(Cheers.) Mr. Bright continued to observe, that owing to the enactments of Government food has been 30, 40, or 50 per cent. above, and pro bably, in some cases, double, the price.it would have been had there been no law to interfere. While this going on, what has been h do not con s id e r wages as the the effect fornfoodlvage lisa ; been I 10s., 205., or 30 8 . a Week, which a man may receive o for his work ; wages mean the quantity of the com forts and necessaries of life which a man's labour will bring him.—(Hear, hear.) The principal part of what the body of labouring men consume is food. It; then, the quantity of food be smaller than is necessary SPORTING RE VIEW. There are two embellishments in the Sporting Review, the best of which is a sketch, in which are included portraits of several fine greyhounds, the property of 'l'. S. Bowles, Esq. The literary portion of the work is as well conducted as usual; and we may single out the " Anatomy of Pugilism" as deserving of especial praise for the humane spirit that pervades it. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. The , author of " Notes on the Army," in a seventh paper, strongly advocates for general . adoption what be terms a " d service period." He shows that nothing can be more disheartening or cheerless to the soldier, than the. prospect of unlimited service, with a dis charge, as worn out at last, ou an inconsiderable pittance or pension per day. The chief diflicul tlesto this me asure a ppear to lie with the East India regiments, and those at the Cape; but these, the writer demonstrates, a rotation system and other plans could obviate. The use ironof cables instead of hempen ones, is considered as the most b e neficial change among the naval improvements of the present century , in an article treating on that subject: rudders, logs, and log-lines, have also been greatly amended and rectified; but the present greatest desideratum appears to be, the need. of a respon sble Board of experienced officers and men of science, whose express duty should be to investi- . gate and register the important plans and obser vations, which, ti,r want of such a CGmmittee, are daily . , wits► their advantages, lost. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Mr. Lever's " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman," is brought to a conclusion this month. It is. not so lively or amusing as " Charles O'Malley;" still it is well worth reading, if only for the vividness and fidelity of its sketches of Paris in the memorable year 1814, when that city was the resort of all tine leading- crowned heads of Europe. The " Three Half Crowns" is a notice or a well-known series of sonnets by the Italian poet, Casti, the majority of N% hick, if we remember rightly, have already been translated by Leigh Hunt. In the essay entitled " Poets and the Public" we are pleased to perceive that the writer undertakes the defence of Lord Byron, whose stirring and versatile genius it is now the fashion to underrate. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This periodical is much improved under its new management; and the Number before us contains, inter (Lila, several intelligent reviews, and among them, one of Mr. Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient Rome," which are spoken of in warm terms of approbation, and another of Mr. Taylor's lately published tragedy, " Edwin the Fair.' The " Fauteuil" is an interesting story, the scene of which is laid in France during the stormy period of 1794. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The first article in this Number is the best; it is an historical essay on the subject of the "Last Days of the Stuarts," wherein the author gives a very fitir estimate of the public and private cha racter of William the Third, who certainly was "an intriguer born." " Tales of the Haunted Garments" contain one or two forcible descrip tive passages. CITY OF LONDON MAGAZINE. This is an improving periodical; the last Number was a good 4 me, buCthis is much better, containing, as it does, more variety, both in prose and verse. "The Theological Argument against Capital Punishment" is a well-considered and well-digested essay. BRADSHAW'S JOURNAL. There is a picturesqUe engraving of the far famed Lake of Windermere in the present Number, together with a graphic account of a visit paid last year by the writer, who signs him self " Maurice Harcourt," to Rydal Mount, the residence of the poet Wordsworth. This account is cleverly drawn up. We may extend the same praise to the brief biographical Memoir of Allan Cunningham. THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Among other papers, relating to a variety of matters connected with agricultural interest•, a proposal appears for establishing a farmer's club-house in London. The necessity. for such an institution appears obvious, as a plaee where agriculturists from all parts of the country might mutually meet and correspond upon their affairs. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZIIVE. The usual excellent and exemplary collection of sermons, and annotative papers upon portions of the Scriptures, continue to carry out the origi nal design of this Magazine in an approved manner. It appears ably supported by the pens of many talented divines, and the lay contribu tions are also as laudable. THE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE. A very charming portrait of Medora—one of Byron's beauties—embellishes this Number: his heroine appears wistfully gazing out of her lat tice-window, and endeavouring- to descry the first glitter of Conrad's sail in the distance. A de scription of a beautiful blonde, who goes by the sobriquet La Bellissima, is drawn with much airiness and fancy ; but being the admired of every dazzling circle, she despises her suitor A , and when her beauty has faded, becomes the vic tim of a dissipated roue. A variety of interest ing tales, legends, and verses from fair penscom pose a very ao-reeable Number. Mr. 11. MANNERS SUTTON.—We believe that we may, with the greatest confidence, give an unqualified contradiction to a paragraph inserted in a Morning Contemporary of yesterday, as far as relates to the re tirement of Mr. V Manners Sutton from the office he now so ably fills as Under Secretary for the Home Department. No such change is in contemplation, neither is there any probability of any vacancy at present in the Commissionerships of Excise.—Evoning Paper. TIIE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLE-SKEET. —A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hughes Hughes, chairman, the Rev. Dr. Knapp, chaplain, Dr. Hume Wetherhead, physician, Dr. William Marsden, prin cipal surgeon, the Rev. R. C. Packman, honorary secretary, and Mr. Fenn, an active member of the Committee of this great charity, waited on Wed nesday morning upon Alderman Sir John Pirie, Bart., the late Lord Mayor, to express to him the deep obligation felt by its authorities for the liberal and invaluable countenance received from him during the year o f his occupation of the Civic Chair. Alderman Pirie received the deputation with his ac customed courtesy, but assured them how entirely uncalled for was the visit with which they had taken the trouble to honour him. He had done nothing more while Chief Magistrate than, he was sure, every succeeding occupier of the Civic Chair would be found anxious to do to promote the success of an Institu tion upon which so much zeal was exerted with such immense advantage to the most destitute forlorn of the public of this vast metropolis .; and to which, moreover, the Lord Mayor, and every Sitting Ma gistrate, had the great comfort and privilege of sending any suitable case, with the confidence that it would instantly receive every possible attention — disease and destitution being, as he well knew, the the only passport necessary to obtain the charitable aid of the Royal Free Hospital. Mr. Hughes Hughes took the opportunity of stating to Sir John , Pirie what he was afraid was not sufficiently known to the public, that the two Rev. Gentlemen present, both of them Priests in Ordinary to her Majesty, and Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, thought it not be neath them to labour in their holy calling amongst the wretched inmates received within the walls of this hospital; and, not only on Sundays, but at all times, to afford them moral and religious instruction, and that many, lie hoped and believed, received lasting benefit in that most important way, as well as bodily cure within the Institution. Sir John Pirie assured the deputation that lie had heard those particulars with great interest, and that the authorities of the hospital might at all times rely with confidence upon his best exertions for its welfare and advance ment, and particularly since the noble efforts they had lately made, in 'reliance upon the public sym pathy and liberality, in purchasing and fitting up, at a cost of nearly 10,0001. on the whole, the extensive premises of Messrs. Sedden, in Gray's Inn-lane, for merly the barracks of the City Light Horse Volun teers, to which the Charity is about to be removed.. EDINBURG II AND G LASGOW 1/ AILWAY.—A dis tressing accident occurred on Monday at the Falkirk station of this railway, by which a gentleman, whose name is Captain 11.1.`Nab, from near Callendar, lost his life. The circumstances which led to this fatal result, we understand, are these :—Captain M'Nab, on leaving the train from Edinburgh, stepped from the platform after the train had started, intending to walk across the line to the station-house. Before he was able to cross the north line of rails, the engine of the train from Glasgow, which was at that moment drawing up in front of the station-house, threw him down betwixt the rails, and caused his almost in stantaneous death.—Seotch Paper. I'NCENDIARISM IN WIGTONSIIIR E.—We regret that it is our painful duty to record, that the diabolical example set in some parts of England, of destroying agricultural produce by fire has found imitators in this country, hitherto distinguished for the exemplary conduct of its rural population. On Sunday last, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, the guard of the mail from Dumfries observed flames to issue from a stack of wheat, in the stack-yard of the farm of Bich Dargoals, parish of Old Lucas. By great exertions all the stacks were saved except two, which were completely destroyed. The intelligence having been conveyed by express to the Pr ocura t or -Fi sca l i n Stranraer, lie, along with Mr. Taylor, acting Sheriff- Substitute here, immediately repaired to the spot; and after some preliminary inquiries, directed the appre hension of Philip Lynas, a man who was lately dis missed Mr. Dougan's service, and a young man named Haswell, residing in the vicinity, both of whom have been lodged in Stranraer gaol.—Stranraer Advertiser. The town of Thetford, in Norfolk, has been thrown into a state of unpleasant ferment during the last few days, in mnsequenee of a solicitor, hitherto consi dered of the highest respectability, having suddenly absconded, leaving liabilities incurred by him to the amount, it is supposed, at the lowest, of 20,000/. He had appointed Friday last for meeting some very heavy -f mortgage accounts, and for handing over th e amount for it - tarm which lie had recently purchased ; and his non -appearance on that and the following days, led to the above unpleasant discovery. His absence has almost created a panic in the neighbourhood, as from his extensive transactions in i m ortgages, c onveyances, and other monetary matters, it simpossible t o ca l cu l ate at presentperso theperson p pointed d t oo out t his a iu defalcations. au, who hA a d a prof us i on of rings upon his fingers, to a cooper. " Ah, master," said the artisan, it is a sure sign of weakness, when EG many hoops are used." to supply the whole population, it follows that, bow ever much a man may work, he can get only a por tion of such food as there is to divide, and that some must go short. The man who works the hardest, who gives the most valuable labour, will get the highest wages in such circumstances as this. Skilled artisans have got more wages the last five years than the unskilled, and they always do. Take a man with a spade, the lowest sort of labour, in which a man becomes proficient in a few weeks, for, in fact, it re quires little more than muscle to dig—and he will get the lowest wages. Take, next, the hand-loom weaver, who can learn the trade in three or four months, and whose children, at twelve or fourteen, can weave as well as himself—he gets low wages also. Take the Sheffield artisan, or a first-rate mechanic is Manchester, or a person in a business that requires a long time to perfect himself, and who gives valuable labour—that man will get more, in the time of scarcity, than the great body of those- whose labour is not skilled. Thus, when there is a state of scarcity, look ing from the top to the bottom of the scale of society, you find the large mass at the bottom pressed almost into the earth by the present state of things, from which no power can redeem them unless you take off the restrictions on the importation of food, and increase the whole amount, so that the un skilled labourer shall purchase it at what would be the natural price in the world's market if inhuman laws did not restrict the supply.—(Cheers.) What extension of trade can be expected from the peace with China, for which, perhaps, your church bells were yesterday ringing ? I trust that the news of peace is true, for nothing can be more horrible than this butchering of men either in the name of commerce or on any other pretence.—(Cheers.) But where will be the immediate benefit to our trade of the peace with China? We have sent as many goods to China during the war as before. And if we now send ten bales of cloth, or bundles of yarn, or casks of hardware, where we sent one before, what are we to bring back ? Tea or silk, probably. These are their principal articles ; and if we bring ten chests of tea instead of one, what will it benefit my workmen ? They cannot live on tea, though they like it; and, unless we can change the tea elsewhere for necessary food, they can have no great benefit. Mr. Bright further pursued the subject, and the conclusion of his speech 'was marked by loud and continued cheering. HENRY ASIIWOUTII, Eaq., in comparing the present position of British trade in connection with that of America, remarked—Look at the position of your export trade with America. You find that the Ame ricans, finding the effect of our Corn-laws, have esta blished their tariff, which has acted perniciously on you and us. It has fostered the manufactures of America and injured this country. We are the authors of that regulation, which has ruined our trade ; at the same time I would remark, that in the late American tariff extravagant duties have been imposed. There are people who say, that now we are relaxing our Corn-laws, other people are tightening their tariffs. How is that? I will tell you as far as I can judge. The Corn-law imposes, at this moment, 20s. a quarter duty on the wheat of America, which, in the interior of that country is not worth 20s. Yet, while we are imposing a duty of 100 per cent. on their food, we murmur when they impose only 30 or 40 per cent. on our - goods. The people of America are now in a fair po sition to give us a large. portion of corn, beef, pork, and other commodities, if we will receive them. I am aware, that in the interior of America there are par ties who have produced more than they can consume, and have no market for it. They know not what to do with their produce, or how to purchase our com modities. A workman, in my own service, went to settle in the United States in March last. He chose to return : and after beating about for some time, he began to dispose of his furniture, spate clothing, and other articles he had taken out with him. Ile sold them for double, treble, and some five times as much as they cost him. This proves that they want our manufactures. When he arrived in this country, he found that a barrel of flour, which he could have bought there for 12s 6d., cost here 285., having a duty of 12s. 6d. Thus the cost of American corn is doubled to us, and the prices of our goods are much more than doubled to them. How long twenty mil lions in England, and sixteen millions in America, will look on as idle spectators of a system like this, remains to be seen. Mr. CoBDEN—(Loud and enthusiastic cheering)— My friends on my left have placed me in an embar rassing predicament, which your kindness in thus receiving me has rather increased. The three speakers who have preceded me have so exhausted the subject, that it is not in the power of any human being to do more than repeat the good things they have already told you. I rather think that, in future, I shall re frain from visits of this kind with my friends on the left, unless by previous engagement I am allowed to have my turn first.—(Laughter.) Of all the range of topics on which they have treated, my friend Mr. Bright said he had left something for me to say on the question of foreign trade. That question in terests the town of Sheffield as much as any town in the kingdom. I have heard, to my astonishment, that you have exported one-half of your manufactures to the United States alone, so that with your exports to other countries, you almost entirely depend upon foreign trade. Under these circumstances, I must say, not wishing to say anything un courteous or affronting, that you have shown a great degree of Christian meekness and Jong suffering, or we should have heard something of you in Manchester, rather than we should have come to tell you how our foreign trade is affected. One would think that when our Legislature set itself to make laws to prevent you from trading abroad, as well as the rest of the industrious community, that your first response would be an indignant repudiation of their right to interfere with your industry, and that it would have been repeated in loud and forcible terms, till the Legislature took its unholy grasp off your in dustry. How would it be if Parliament passed a law to prohibit any Sheffield goods from passing into Northumberland, that Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields should he cut off from the trade of Sheffield ? Not the smallest manufacturer who sends out a tra veller, who takes an order or two in the course of the year in one of those towns, who would not be in arms against such an enactment ! Letters would appear in the newspapers; public meetings would be called; and one unanimous burst of indignation would be manifested at this invasion of your right. But what have you been allowing to go on ? The Legislature has`cut off your trade with the continent of Europe and the whole New World, and you have never raised your voice against it. They have as just a right to interfere with your trade to Northumberland as to interfere with it to the United States. It is no part of the province of the Legislature to tell you, manufacturers of Sheffield, where to buy and where to sell. The Government passes the bounds of just legislation when it attempts to interfere with the rights of industry in any such way. But this has been done, and I need not say that it has injured you to an enormous extent. I shall not go over again the proofs you have had of the injury it has inflicted. It has been done on the pretence that it has been done for your benefit. They dared not have done it with out. You have allowed them to injure you and mock you into the bargain, without raising your voice to show that you were not duped. You have some wise men among you, calling themselves by some political nickname, who tell you with a grave face that no harm is done—that if you were allowed to trade with America, America would not trade with you ; and that if you send out goods, you will not be able to find customers. Then what are we contending about ? What is the reason of the great clamour made by the aristocracy, if no harm can be done by a free trade in corn ? Are these men so short-sighted in matters affecting their pecuniary interests, that they have been mistaken as to this matter, and have passed a law which has exposed them to obloquy, and placed the institutions of the country in danger, and all this under a mistake, and in pursuit of a mere chimera? Do you think it was a blunder, made by the keen eyed and far-seeing monopolists? At least I may contend that you might have the option of sending out your goods, or not, without having it settled for you by the Government. Take the option : require the freedom to go where you please, and that it shall be left to you to make goods to suit your customers, and to promote your own prosperity.—(Cheers.) I do not care what the tariff of this or that part of the world may be; if it interferes with the direct trade , trade is not to be repressed by such interference. We may have a circuitous trade, if we cannot have a direct one. If you cannot trade with America directly, you may carry cutlery to China, and, ex changing that for tea, exchange that tea again with the Americans for corn. You may carry cutlery to Brazil, and purchase sugar, and carry that sugar to Russia, and purchase wheat. That would be a good transaction, and what worse would the corn be for having been purchased with sugar and tea, instead of cutlery ? This is the sort of trade we are now carry ing on with Russia. The tallow and the hemp of Russia are npt exchanged for our manufactures ; but we purchase the sugar of Brazil, and the indigo of the East Indies, and send them to Russia, to the profit of all parties. Let us carry out the principle, in regard to corn, as we do with tallow and hemp, and, directly or indirectly, you will find customers for your cutlery in every part of the world. What are the requisites for trade between two countries, but mutual' wants ? What are the countries which, of all others, we should prefer as customers of England ? They are the newly-settled States, whose population is rapidly increasing ; and of all parts of England, what portion ought to find customers more readily than those who make commodities required by new communi ties, who especially require iron implements, which are the pioneers of civilization ? The very instru ments which cut down the forests, and till the fields, and with which growing manhood must cut his beard, will come from Sheffield.—(Laughter.) Those are the countries with which England must find her chief foreign trade, and they are the countries in which Sheffield must expect to find continually in- creasing customers for her commodities. If there be any place on the face of the earth, where, instead of the pauperism we have heard described—if there be any part of the country where we should be sure of finding the people well employed and comfortable, it should be such a place as Sheffield. You have around you the endowments of nature, for con structing implements equally necessary to rude and civilised society. If this town inanuf'actured luxuries—if it depended on the trade in silks or jewellery, or the more finished fabrics of cotton goods —then the same conclusive arguments would not be applicable to you. It might then be said, these rude commodities cannot always buy our silks, or our highly finished cottons, or adorn themselves with jewellery ; but there is no country that does not want primarily the articles you construct.—(Cheers.) For what reasons are you cut off from trade ? We are told that farming cannot be carried on without an Act of Parliament to protect it. This is assumed as if there were no controversy on the subject. We are told with all the confidence in the world, and it has been foolishly taken for granted, that unless we had this Corn-law, the land would go out of cultivation, and that agricultural labourers would be thrown out of employment, and the country become dependent upon foreigners for food. You have men in your town, calling themselves by some political nickname which I will not here mention, for I never mention party names on these occasions, who will swallow these things with open mouth, asking no questions, but believing all that is told them. Why, the fact is, that we have better men than the monopo lists among the landlords, who tell a different story. We have evidence from the best men among the agriculturists, who tell us that they need no pro tection, and that they are as ready for tree trade in food, as you are for free trade in razors and knives.— (Cheers.) To 'hear the language of the monopolist newspapers, and the ravings of frantic monopolist landlords, one would fancy that such a person as a great landowner, or a man depending chiefly upon land, could never be found among those who supported by their votes Mr. Villiers, in his motion for total and immediate repeal ; yet I find the name of Mr. Gore Langton, a large proprietor in Somersetshire, who has represented that county for fifty years ; Mr. Vil lliers Stuart, the representative for the county of Wa terford, and bather of the largest landed proprietor in that neighbolirhood, deriving 40,000/. a year from land ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, son of the Duke of Graften, a large kndlord in - Suffolk and Nottingham shire (his Grace, too, is understood to be a well wisher to our cause); Lord J. Stuart, brother to the Mar quis of Bute, a large proprietor in Scotland and Wales; Sir It. Heron and Col. Ferguson; Mr. Orde, of Nothuinberland, a man of large landed property, having nothing but land; the two Berkeleys, brothers of Lord Fitz-Hardinge, whose family property in Glou cestershire is enormous; and Mr. Sharman Crawford, one of the largest proprietors in the north of Ireland, an enthusiastic advocate for total and immediate re peal.—(Cheers.) I will now give the names of some of those who paired off in favour of the same princi ple—Lord Seymour, Lord Shelburn, Lord Levison, Lord Clements, and Earl Listowell. These names extend throughout all parts of England, Wales, Scot land, and Ireland, representing some of the largest landed proprietors, and containing some of the most intelligent and best agriculturist=.—(G° Lord Radnor.") Lord Radnor I do not mention, because he is in the House of Peers, and my object now is to name the representatives of counties and agricultural constitu encies. Tell me the name of any landowner, in any part of the kingdom, who is rampant against us, and furious for monopoly, and I will undertake to show you, in his own vicinity, a better man, a better agri culturist, and as large an unencumbered landowner as he—(Cheers)--in favour of our principle of the re peal of the Corn-law. Sir James Graham is the ad vocate of monopoly ' • but his brother-in-law, Sir Wilfred Lawson, of Cumberland, is a subscriber to ' the League, and one of the richest proprietors in that part of the country. If there be a party in this town who speak of the Anti-Corn-law League as a low and vulgar party, and if my good friends, the ladies, wish to have a sanction when they walk through the streets, that they may not be snubbed by the aristocracy of Sheffield—(Laughter and cheers)—let them carry these names with them, and show how many of the sons and nephews of Dukes and Lords are for total and immediate repeal, and I will undertake to say that the cause will be fashionable with the aristo cracy of Sheffield from that time forward. I will just tell you how the case stands between the League and its opponents, and who its opponents are. 1 We are not opposed to the Executive Government, 1 Our conflict is not with the Government. My firm belief is, that Sir R. Peel, Mr. Gladstone, and Lord Ripon, the three most efficient members of the Admi nistration, that these three men would rather wish success to the League, than the Duke of Buckingham. --(Cheers.) Our battle is not with the whole body of the landed aristocracy. I could give you a long list of Peers of the realm, but I need not go far from Sheffield for an honoured instance—(Cheers) — who are not only favourable, but earnestly anxious for the repeal of the Corn .law. We are not against the whole aristocracy of England, for we have never found in the history of this country, whenever any great principle was being advocated by the people which had justice on its side, that we have wanted some honoured and distinguished members of the aristocracy to come out from their ranks, and head the people even against their order or supposed in terest, for the purpose of obtaining for the people of this country justice.—(Loud cheers.) This it is which has preserved the aristocracy beyond the period 'of the feudal system in other countries. Had it not been for these exceptions, for the Radnors and Fitz williams, to set against the Buckinghams and Rich monds, the aristocracy of this country would have been Macadamised 50 years ago.—(Loud and con tinued cheering.) Who, then, are the opponents with whom the League is engaged in contest ? It is with a Pro-Corn-law League, of which the Dukes of Buckingham and Richmond are the head, and Twill put down Sir James Graham and Lord Wharncliffe as nearly on a level with them.—(Cheers.) Well, but you say there must be a reason why some portion of the aristocracy are so bitterly oposed to the League. There is a reason, and I will tell you the reason. We are principally opposed by the more impoverished sec tion of the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) It may probably 'recommend this cause to the aristocracy of Sheffield, if they know that that portion of the aristocracy which is opposed to the League is not the richest portion of it.—(Hear, hear.) I need not tell you how it is that a section of the aristocracy, which had vast advantages during the war, and received wealth untold into their coffers, I need not tell you why they are now em barrassed. 'When merchants are embarrassed, it is generally considered that theyvebeenhrmo ; yet, improvident or imprudent, but that is not always the when a noble family, holding - large possessions in landed property, and having held them for the last sixty years, during which they have increased fourfold in value, without the slightest effort or risk on the part of the owners, when such a family is embarrassed, we need not go far to find out the cause of it. It is accounted for by their extravagance and wasteful im providence.—(Cheers.) :That is the section of the aris tocracy which is opposed to us ; and why ? Because they have their fixed money incumbrances on their estates. In some instances, four out of five parts of their rents only pass throne' their hands into those of the mortgagees. They fear, therefore, lest by the repeal of the Corn-laws, the rents of the land may so fall, that the one-fifth might pass away from them, and that the remainder should become the property of the mortgagees. That is the whole secret of the opposi tion on the part of the aristocracy I am speaking of. I do not say that there are not some individuals leagued with that party who may themselves be rich. There are unworthy members of the aristocracy, who, though rich themselves, have leagued themselves with this band of men of desperate fortunes, because they wish to maintain an undue supremacy over the rest of the community. I have described, and none dare dispute it, the character and nature of the opposition we have to encounter, and the class of men who are more especially opposed to us. Well, now, Gentle men, as we have dealt with this question on the ground of justice and its merits, let us look a little at the case of the landowners, and inquire whether the repeal of the Corn-laws would necessarily confiscate their small remaining properties. It is the opinion of the best agriculturists, that if all the land were culti vated like that of Northumberland and some parts of Scotland, particularly that of the Lothians, it would still maintain the same rental as now, but that is not to be done without an outlay of capital, and consider able improvement in the mode of cultivation. If we repeal the Corn-law, and the landowner has not capi tal, he must let his land for at least 19 years to men with capital; but they will not take it to set out at once with improvements in draining, and many other ameliorations, unless they have a consideration for it ; therefore they will be compelled to let the land at a moderate rent. 1 will not attempt to put salt on the bird's tail, by saying that it will not ruin the men who have been desperately mismanaging their pro perty. In the transition state, there must of neces sity be a number s offrotmhe theirs. more embarrassed no rra ssetddeny i whose.t. property must pass On the contrary, I ask, are the manufacturing in terests of this country, the might, interests of the great body of the people, to be sacrificed for ever, be cause, in the transition from wrong to right—from in justice to justice, from bad to good, these men, who h ave been prodigal of their property, and embarrassed themselves, may be ruined in the process ? What is the course when any one of us falls into embarrass ment ? Does the law step in to shield him from time Gazette ? Is there any Act of Parliament to stand between you and the creditor, if you happen to be ruined by an unsuccessful speculation ? If not, why should there be an Act of Parliament to ruin the ho nest and industrious, and shield these desperate men, who never oug ht t o have been in their present posi tion ?—(Cheers.) So far as speculation may carry me, I have stated my belief, and I repeat it, that un- der a free tradesgklimelandlord who has capital to lay out on his land, or who could wait the transition state, and could afford to let his land to a skilful capitalist for nineteen or twenty years, to improve it, would be no loser. Under a free trade, the value of such land would increase rather than diminish. But how ? Not merely by leaving the land, and going to Paris or Italy, or remaining in London, haunting the scenes which the aristocracy have been exhibited as frequent ing, and leaving his lands in the hands of voracious agents. The process would be by acting like a man of business, improving his property, and adapting all the ameliorations that modern science can af ford, to produce the greatest quantity at the least expense. It has been demonstrably proved that the land of England is capable of producing double its present quantity, if it was cultivated as some parts of Scotland are now ; and where then would be the loss to the landowner ?' Do you think it would be more unworthy in him if, instead of being known at Crock ford's, Newmarket, and,Doncaster, or in the saloons of the London Opera, he took his estates into his own management, and assisted his farmers by adding his superior intelligence to their less mental cultivation, to aid them in the breeding of cattle, to look abroad for stock t o i m p rove th e English breeds, to go to the sea-ports, and see if he cannot purchase a cargo of fo reign manure to divide among his farmers, instead of leaving them to purchase it at a dear rate, by retail, or by purchasing cargoes of seeds to enable them to sow their land at a less cost ? Are these occupations that would be less worthy in the landlord than riding with a harlequin's jacket at the races, or exposing him self to the censures of the press for still more shame less proceedings in the vicious haunts of the metropo lis ? Is there no economy that the landlord might ap ply in the management of his property—no lawyers, with red tape, that might be dispensed with? Why should the owner of acres be above letting them to tenants himself, and being a party to an honourable transac tion between himself and his tenants ? Why should he be above being a party to the receipt of his money rents, the man who can soil his palm by receiving the gains of the gaming-table or the winnings of the turf? Why should not the landlord, like the manu facturer, be acquainted with every man on his estate, and know whether they were proper characters and worthy of his patronage ? See how the manufac turers in the neighbourhood of Manchester, the much maligned cotton-lords, do their business—men worth 150,0001.,000/., invested in bricks, mortar,. and machinery. The Manchester man is on 'Change every Tuesday, from twelve to one, when business to the amount of five or ten thousand pounds is transacted with a nod of the head, or a monosyllable. He goes to Liverpaol the . next day, to buy cotton. He examines the staple, and looks to the quality ; he brings away the invoice in his pocket, and pays the money himself.—(Hear.) He goes home, and do you think he goes a fox-hunting ? He daily superintends the process of cotton spinning and weaving. He has no lawyer with red tape to tell him when a spindle is out of place, or he wants a new loom. He knows where every strap and wheel about his premises should be ; and if they are out of order, he himself directs them to be properly adjusted. And what does he do with his son ? 1)o you think his son is sent to the Continent, to come beet: preco cious in the worst vices to be picked up there ? No ; his son rises at the ring of the factory-bell ; is in the factory at six in the morning; sees every man at his post; and knows every one by sight and name. This is the discipline of the factory-lord. How does the land lord, who has 150,0001. vested in his estate, which consists of green fields—how does he manage his busi ness ? I should rather say, how does he mismanage it ? He places his affairs in the hands, first of a land steward, and then of a law-steward ; and if the one does not fleece him enough, then the other will finish him off.—(Laughter and cheers.) If a new barn be wanted on my Lord's estate, or a gate be off its hinges, or a fence be broken down, or a homestead out of repair, or a fold-yard want a wall or a pump, the land-steward must be applied to, for lay Lord must not be troubled; he is off to the opera with my Lady, and his thoughts are filled with the last skip of Taglioni.—(Laughter and cheers.) Does my Lord let his farm as the cotton lord buys his cotton ? Not he. He will not even condescend to know the names of his tenants. The law-steward must travel probably 50 miles, carrying a clerk with him, to carry his papers and red tapes. He takes up his quarters at the nearest town, where there is a good inn, and the quality of the wine is very good. There he waits a day or two, to see the applicants for the farm. He receives the bidders, and may please himself whether he lets it to the best man or the worst. His Lordship is above inquir ing into such matters. The farms are let, and the rent day comes again. The law-steward attends at the hotel, and notice is given to the tenantry, that dinner and punch will be prepared for such as are punctual. We have heard grave censure on the smaller manu facturers, who pay their workmen at public-Iraises. You have no idea with what holy horror the land lords—sweet innocents ! in the House of Commons talk of the payment of workpeople at public-houses. The real cotton-lord, a man of wealth and capital, would feel disgraced by allowing his wages to be paid at a public-house. Yet the landlord's rents are com monly paid there. - This is the rule—l do not say there are no exceptions. The rents of the landlords are paid in taverns, and it ends generally in a scene of debauchery. Here you have the contrast between a man of property, subjected to the wholesome breeze of competition ; and the other, who has property, but under the narcotic influence of protection. Is there no good margin to turn in ? By getting free trade in grain, landowners will be most strongly incited to attend to their own affairs. They will take their business into their own hands. (I cannot expect that the lawyers will be in love with the League after this.) Thus the landlords will be enabled to compete with foreigners, as the manufacturel:s now do. Not only will he compete successfully, but we intend him great benefit by the process. We will make him what every man must become, a man of business. By giving him occupation, we shall render him a more useful member of society, and entitle him to self-respect, and the respect of his fellow-country men. I have now stated the case of that portion of the aristocracy who are opposed to us. It is neces sary to understand this. We have heard talk of such absurdities as that the Government intend to prose cute the Leaguers. After what I have told you of the nature of our situation, you will see how absurd is the report. All that I have told you is well-known to Sir Robert Peel and the influential heads of Go vernment. They know that the Executive is placed between two fires—the fire of the League, and the fire of the mortgaged landowners. Do you not think that, in this country, where there is some rem nant of freedom, that we have as good a right to exist as an Anti-Corn-law League, as our opponents have to exist as a Pro-Corn-law League ? This is not for Attorney-Generals, but for public opinion to decide. Therefore am I come here to-night, to ask you to say, in this most influential town of Sheffield, where, I may add, without flattery, that all classes have a reputation for intelligence and order which has been justified of late; and I ask you to throw your moral influence into the scale of free trade against monopoly.—(Loud cheers.) I want the moral weight of your intelligence to support us in the House of Commons, in the coming session. We can meet no opponent out of the House— we can get up no con alone we now opponents.troversa-. c h ais o I s , a s e y o f f al c l s o fl, , ons because we want find men who dare, in the face of the world, to get up and defend the bread-tax. If you want to know how d b e e rs s t e o e od n out of e d e o r o s ; r . most effectually to put do you can enable the huml)lestwirtildtihviedidiaelfeinndtehrastolptuhaset o ha n v let Let it be understood , when one of Mr. Villi ers' party t s ha st t e tt y qu ou est i e s t e h n o l y r out to g n it gets up to denounce this system, that he i s arme d with the convictions, and, I may say, the holier pas sions of our countrymen. Let him who dare uphold the system, speak under the withering consciousness that he is frowned upon by the intelligence and moral feeling of his countrymen and women. With this view, let it be seen that you will no longer be content with the passive endurance of this enormity. Look at the state of your borough. I have heard that the oldest inhabitant never knew it in such a state as it is at present. lam told your prospects are worse than ever before. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, is there no duty incumbent upon you under such circum stances ? If I may be allowed to leave one word of exhortation with you before I go, I would say— Throw away all party differences, and come to the rescue of your poorer countrymen.—(Cheers.) Roneour R. lt. MOORE, Esq.,'said,—The landlords were leagued together to keep up the price of bread, to keep down trade, and literally to root out the manu facturing towns. Their league was permanently sitting in London ; it was a powerful league ; it could spend five or ten thousand pounds to secure a single election, knowing that every vote gained helps to keep rLe most (Loud t down your town of Sheffield. It came not before the public, for it had no public truth to teach. — (Cheers.) It held no tea-parties, knowing that the public could not bear its falsehoods and its trash. — (Cheers.) Now and then, at some meagre agricultural dinner to some special tenantry, or some degraded county constitu ency, it put out its sophistries to perpetuate delusion. Th e farmers were nominally. independent, but, in the poor dumb drudges of their landlords.— cheers.) This league of landlords numbered at thirty thousand persons, and was combined against the vital interests of this town.—(Hear, hear.) The Anti-Corn-law League strove for the preserva vation of the town ; it would restore to prosperity the little masters, and light the fires again in cold forges; it would restore the scissor trade, the edge .tool trade, the cross :saw and the machine-saw trade ; in short, it would restore Sheffield to prosperity.—(Cheers.) All Sheffield should have been one great League, not to war against any interest of the country, bUt to de fend their own, and defeat the efforts that were made for their ruin. The Pro-Corn-law League taxed itself to secure the power of making the laws, by which it taxed the people to support its own idle scions. Lee - urers would be sent throughout the country to talk