The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

BANK .RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Dec. 15. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 12th of Dec. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : Nov. 47, D e . —• 097 69 1860. 1860. I ncrease. Decrease. 690 1----- - Private Banks . ------.._ Bank of England 21,203,959 20,106 , 3,501,80 , 3,339.084 ,1 1'162,724 Joint-stock Banks 3,048,128; 2,974,091 74,037 1 ---- -----_ Total in England. 27,753,895 i 26,41 ~865 1,334,030 Scotland... 4,574,0771 4,688,839 1 114,762 Ireland 7,148,779' 7,047,6001 101,179 __ .. . ....• 1... on A.IO ,Xl, 00 Irt, on., United Kingdom. 39,476,751! 38,156,304 1 ,320,447 And as compared with the month ending the 17th of Dec. 1859, the above returns show a decrease of £1,155,433 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £1,411,843 in the circulation of the United kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : fhe English private banks are below their fixed issue The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue Total below fixed issue in England £1,394,117 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue £1,939,568 The Irish banks are above their fixed issue £693,106 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 12th Dec , was £13,582,570, being a decrease of £361,191 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £3,402,648 when compared with the same period last year. The following aro the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 15th Dec.:— Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,623,013 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks .. 25,167,276 Being an in crease o f £137,035, as compared with the p re vious return, an d a d ecrease o f £76,005 w h en compared with the corresponding period of last year. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1861: MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING. A great meeting was held in the Town-hall this evening, at which the members for the borough, Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright, addressed their constituents; the Mayor (Mr. Arthur Ryland) presided. The hon. gentlemen met with an enthusiastic reception. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, as senior member, spoke first. lie referred to the great increase which had taken place in public taxation during the 14 years he had been in Parliament, and particularly to the enor mous expenditure on the army and navy. He believed that a considerable saving might be made on both those services without impairing their efficiency. The state of Europe was alarming, but he hoped that the policy of non, intervention would be maintained. As to a Reform Bill, he said, unless the Government introduced a measure of that kind in the ensuing session they would neglect a great opportunity, and the time might come when it would be too late. No Reform Bill could be satis factory which did not give a large accession to the number of voters, which did not make a material alteration in the distribution of seats, and secure a full protection to the voter in the shape of the ballot. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT then rose, and was received with loud and protracted applause. He said, he looked to that assembly with more than ordinary interest and apprehension. The House of Commons of late years had presented itself to them as a body caring little for the great internal i n t eres t s ' of the country—reckless and profligate in its ex penditure ; if that were so, and if lie could judge of what was passing in the public mind, he was forced to the conclusion that the question of taxation and expenditure was that to which men were look ing at the present moment with the greatest in terest. The past year had been one of unusual prosperity, and heavy burdens had been borne without much complaint ; but there were clouds, particularly in the west, which promised a great change of circumstances, and the question was passing from mouth to mouth, " How long will the Chancellor of the Exchequer be able to raise £70,000,000 in taxes on the people of this coun try ?" He was about to make a complaint against the governing class, which was, that it was guilty of a wasteful expenditure of the public resources. He was as anxious as his hon. friend that no body of men should effect a hostile landing on this coun try, but there were foes of their own household, as well as those who were such in a political and na tional point of view, and he would point out some of the worst. In 1830 the expenditure, including the cost of collecting the revenue, amounted to £53,000,000, £28,000,000 being set aside for the debt incurred in those vile intermeddlings which our forefathers undertook in the affairs of conti nental Europe. In 1834 the expenditure fell to £49,000,000. At that moment there had been an enormous cry of peace, retrenchment, and reform. They got a partial reform, and some retrenchment. So long as the popular voice was so raised the ex penditure was reduced to something like a mode rate amount, but, as political feeling subsided and the Tory party came into office, the expense began to creep up. Whenever the people took their eyes off it the expenditure began to rise. In 1839 to 1841 the expenditure rose again to £53,000,000, and in 1844 to £55,000,000, and remained at that amount, or thereabouts, until 1853, with the exception of the years 1848 and 1842, when there were revolu tions all over the continent ; and our Government always took the opportunity when anything was going on upon the continent to ask the people for more taxes. (Cheers.) He now came to the year 1854, when the Russian war broke out. Some people had a habit of fancying that war was so inevitable, so natural, that they spoke of it just as they do of scarlatina or smallpox. (Laughter.) The cholera broke out ; the Russian war broke out. (Laughter.) In 1854 the expen diture went up to £65,000,000, in 1855 to £83,5J0,000, and in 1856, the year the war closed, it fell to £75,500,000. Look at that enormous ex penditure. It was like a man taking a big house aa,l we El Z. k;-ct r.: , kark 0,21.4 .Va k. had not the wherewithal to continue it honestly, but lacked the firmness to bring himself to his original and due proportion. In 1857 and 1858 the expen diture was £65,000,000, in 1859 £64,000,000, and in the past year it would be something like £71,000,000. Thus in the 26 years which had elapsed since 1834 the expenditure had risen £22,000,000. But that did not give an adequate idea of the case. In 1834 the Government spent £21,000,000 in keeping the peace, in dispensing justice, in preparing what was necessary for the defence of the country. In 1860 it spent £43,000,000 for the very same purposes, being more than double the sum spent in 1834 ; and if they returned to the expenditure of that year they might abolish the income tax and the duties on tea and sugar, and at the same time a vast sum might be saved as a sus tentation fund, out of which hundreds and thou sands might obtain more steady employment and a higher rate of wages than they can attain at pre sent. Somebody, he did not know who, made a remark in the autumn, that he was not in the house when they were discussing matters of a few hun dred pounds. Now, he had spent week after week backing Mr: Hume in an endeavour to diminish the estimates ; but he had never seen in the House of Commons approaching success against any of those enormous estimates for the military services, and it was not very inviting when he saw millions run ning away, and nobody caring for it, that he should spend evening after evening in discussing a ques tion of .£lOO. But this £70,000,000 was something, though the House of Commons did not believe it. He would give two illustrations of what it was. Probably there were about a million agricultural labourers in England and Wales whose average income did not amount to more per head than £25 per annum,so that the wages of the whole body were not more than £25,000,000 per annum, being about three times less than the Parliamentary votes for the year. And if they added Scotland and Ireland, it was not more than half the taxes which their rulers had the conscience to ask, and they had the patience to pay, (Loud cheers.) Take another illustration. In Lancashire there was the most stu pendous manufacturing industry which the world had ever seen, which produced at this moment, at the period of its greatest and most astonishing ex pansion, £70,000,060 worth of yarn and manufac turing cloth. Well, then, our governing classes, our rulers, with the most docile, the most industrious, and probably the most church and chapel going people in the world, devoured every year, this year and last year, certainly more than the whole pro- , duce of the most gigantic industry the world had ever seen. (Applause.) How was it done ? He would tell them, and also who did it, and more, he would tell them how it happened that up to the present moment it had been done with apparent impunity. Parliament was composed of two houses, one of them was separate from and had no responsi bility to the people. The House of Commons was more especially intended to take care of the people and especially of their pockets, though last year it ventured to tax their pockets with the greatest audacity. He had never heard the feeblest protest raised inthe Hoe se of Lords again st the extravagance of the Government. It was worth their while toknow that with few exceptions the members of the present peerage owed the'r peerage to creation within the last hundred years. The origin of many of them arose from the rotten borough system ; any man who could get four, five, or six seats in the House of Commons at his command to serve the Govern ment of his day could, by ways known t o suc h acn tlemen—(laughter)—peooure to himself in all pro bability to be made a peer. He told them this to show that when they were asked to examine into the conduct of the _House of Peers, they were not to look at it as any thing as old as the Monarchy of England ; they might single out a few families who had come down from remote times, the majority of whom had generally shown themselves considerate and just to the people of this country ; but all the modern peerage was bred in the slime and corrup tion of the rotten borough system, and they need not look to a house so constituted for any great anxiety to save the pockets of the nation. Coming to what was called the People's House, he believed that no assembly ever existed that was less calcu lated to govern economically than the hone which calls itself a popular and representative body, though three-fourths of its members owei no alle giance to any popular constituency. JAn Milton, in describing the condition of the Choi ch and the nation in his day, made use of a metaphor which was applicable to our own time. He described a man who had the misfortune to have a wen on his head, and the wen grew so large that it had the audacity to state that it was the head, and that the head was the wen. (Laughter.) He asked them to apply that metaphor to the present position of the English nation and its naval and military ser vices. These services should be the servants of the nation, their voice as to the magnitude of those services should be held to be of very small account, civilians ought to determine the amount of danger, and the military were only wanted when certain things were to be done which statesmen and civi lians had determined to be necessary ; but now these services had become so great that the most palatial clubs built in London of late years were entirely for their accommodation. They had also a special press devoted to their cause, and were allied with the Court, the peerage, and the great territorial interest. There was a constant pressure upon the Government, which the Government found it difficult to resist, and they had great power in Parliament ; but all this could not bring about this extravagant expen diture were it not that the people were ill-informed upon these matters. The people were duped, and when a man was duped it was easy, of course, to do anything with him. Having briefly alluded to the Russian war, Mr. Bright said—Since the con clusion of that war he would put it to every man present whether the most strenuous exertions had not been made by a certain party in this country to create alarm with regard to France. Now, for some years past we had been in partnership with France—we had made two Chinese wars needlessly in partnership with France, and transactions had taken place in Italy in which the policy of Eng land had been mainly pursued. England wanted a united Italy, and for purposes for which the French did not want it. The French Emperor had done nothing actively to prevent it, but had watched the course of events, and so far as he (Mr. Bright) could understand his policy was prepared to consent to the consummation when it arrived. So far the Emperor's conduct towards this country had been friendly, conciliatory, and proper. Mr. Bright alluded to the Treaty of Commerce and the abolition of the passport system, the advantages of which he pointed out, and asked if these were signs of war. (Loud cries of "No.") Since the days when France and England waged perpetual war with each other, centuries ago, there had never Leen a monarch upon the throne of France who in the same period of time had done so much to draw the two nations together, and to put an end for ever to strife between them. (Loud applause.) He ad- I mitted that the French Government sp3nt too much upon her military armaments, but it should be borne in mind that the Emperor knew he had not too many friends among the orthodox monarchs of Europe, that the English aristocracy, whose mouthpiece was the Times, did not like him or his family, and that we have in our navy 84,000 men and boys, being more than all the men and boys in the mercantile marine of France, and 50,000 more than were in the Noyal Navy of France. He complained that our Government allowed the false statements made by the press to be repeated by public speakers, while they had not the honesty and the courage to contradict them ; for example, they had encouraged the Volunteer movement ; some people called it mania, and others patriotism. He would not give it any harsh names, conceiving that many had joined the Volunteer force from motives of patriotism. That movement might be regarded in two ways—either they were in danger of some attack from abroad, or they intended to raise a cheap force and so diminish the extravagant expenditure on the regular army. As to any attack from abroad the Government knew that it was the merest chimera, but they looked to the Volunteer force to create a greater taste for military diaplw7, vv that less pressure might be excited in favour of a reduction of the standing army. Hav ing dwelt further upon the waste in the public expenditure, Mr. Bright adverted to the session about to commence. He asked—Shall we have the same waste, the same fraud, the same extravagant estimates provided for and condemned by a great Chancellor of the Exchequer ? Let him warn them that if the estimates were as large as those of last session there was some power in this country which intended war. Let them not interfere in foreign quarrels, and nobody would interfere with them, least of all the Emperor of the French. The people of France wished for peace with Europe, and especially with England. He believed that if our own Government gave authority to Mr. Cobden to ascertain whether the Government of France would consent to an amicable arrangement by which the navies of the two countries should not pass their present bounds,—he believed that would be received by the French Government with as cordial a feeling as it received the proposition to make that great treaty of commerce. Of course, the men who suspected the French Emperor would smile at this credulity. He believed the opinion to be a sound one, but he was sorry to say that, judging from the past, he believed that the greatest obstacles would be found on this side of the Chan nel to any such convention. The Emperor, of course, would be safer the mere his people felt that they were rightly governed.. He was sure the Crown of England would be more safe to descend in an unbroken line to a late generation in the same family the more the people of England felt there was great moderation and great justice ; but there could be neither without great economy in the ex penditure of the public resources. He might be charged with unfavourable feelings towards Royal families and to people in authority, but he dared to assert that the time would come when the people would discover they had been unjustly treated, and possibly they might discover that there was no family and no combination of families connected with the Government in this country that was worth £70,000,000 a year. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Bright then concluded in an eloquent peroration, and resumed his seat amidst the most enthusiastic applause, after having spoken for an hour and a half. MR. MILNES UPON FO.REIGNIWAIRS. The annual soiree of the Pontefract Mechanics' Institution was held on Monday evening at this Town-hall, Pontefract, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. J. E. Robinson). After a few suitable remarks had been addressed to the meeting by the Mayor and the Vicar, Mr. A. HALE, the hen. secretary, read the report, which was of a satisfactory character, and from which it appeared that the number of members of the institution is 156. Mr. MILNES, M.P., then addressed the assem bly, reviewing some of the leading topics of the day. All persons, he said, had a way of fancying that the time they lived in was the most important the world had ever seen. This was a weakness to be guarded against ; but, nevertheless, he thought it would be very difficult to find, in modern history, at all events, any three or four months which pro duced three such wonderful events in different parts of the world as the three or four months of the last year, during which time the great empire of China had been opened to the world ; during which the wonderful career of Garibaldi had established in the South of Italy the same freedom for the Sar dinian dominions which had been already established in the North, and during which had occurred that event pregnant with the most mischievous conse quences, not only to another hemisphere, but pos sibly very injurious to this country—namely, the disruption of the United States of America. On the first of those points there were two or three things which struck a person very much. How strange it was the great empire of China had been opened to the world, not by any conqueror, not by any nation going forth for the purpose of driving out the Government of the country and occupying the territory itself, but by a nation whose simple pur pose was to be on the best possible terms with China, to get as much tea as it could from the Chinese, and to get them to take as much English cottons and woollens as possible. It was trade which had opened China to this country, not conquest. (Hear.) He hoped that that event, inaugurated as it had been by very little bloodshed, and only by those :unhappy cruelties of the atrocity of which perhaps the authors themselves were hardly con scious, had established our affairs with China on a more substantial basis than they had ever been. (Hear, hear.) This country had broken down by one strong blow the insane and demoniacal pride of that people, who fancied that they were the only people that God had created in the world, to govern it or to live upon it, and the Chinese had now been introduced into western civilisation. All whom he was addressing would be very glad that the future trade between England and China should go on prosperously, to the increasing advantage of both countries, and without a single shot ever again being fired in anger on one side or the other. (Ap plause.) With regard to Italy, he had mentioned the extraordinary career of the Genoese sailor who bore the name of Garibaldi, which was, perhaps, as well known as any name in Europe at the present moment. (Hear, hear.) Garibaldi was a man of great simplicity of character, more like an intelli gent and well-educated English merchant sea man than anything else, and devoted to the one idea of making Italy one nation. He had exhibited the greatest unselfishness of character, because at the time when he was, as it were, master of the whole of Sicily—when he had in his hands the whole trea sure of the kingdom of Naples, he went to live upon a little island to cultivate a farm, with a few goats, without taking away with him one shilling of all the treasures which were within his grasp. (Applause.) Besides this there was something very remarkable in the character of the man who had gained such a remarkable influence over the people of the various kingdoms of Sicily; but, perhaps, the bottom of the secret was this, that the people were very unhappy with the political condition in which they found themselves, and that they, too—the best of them at least—felt a real desire with Garibaldi that the great country of Italy, which had been broken up into so many different governments and cities, should become one of the great States of Europe. (Hear.) If the Austrians had only had the northern part of Italy, which was given to them in 181.5., and had governed it well, it was probable that they would have been there now ; but the Austrians could not get over the old habit, which the Germans all had, of trying indirectly to interfere with the other States of Italy. The consequence was that the King of Naples, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the other Italian Sovereigns, all thought themselves more bound to consult the interest of Austria than the interest of their own people. That was the real cause which had driven some of those rulers from their thrones, and compelled the last to be fighting for his life at the little fortress of Gaeta. (Hear, hear.) It was a very remarkable thing that an attempt should be made by the various provinces in Italy to give up their separate rights and power, and to join themselves to form one great kingdom. It was a very difficult thing, from the very shape of the country, for it to form itself into a solid mass, as it were. It was not even yet bound together by railways, the roads were not good, and there were great difficulties to irrigation; so that there were several material reasons why the people should like to have separate governments, and not to be joined together in one great Power. But they were the best judges of their own inte rests, they seemed to wish it, and he was sure that it was not the interest of any person whatever to oppose them in doing so. (Hear, hear.) He said this because history showed that where separate States, having subordinate interests to their general interests, could be bound together by common ties, that was one of the best securities for the peace of the world. (Hear, hear.) He knew many people said it was impossible Italy could ever become one great nation. They said that since the old Roman Empire it had never been one nation, and it never would be ; but he thought the people who said this for got that there was hardly any other nation in the world of which the same thing might not have been said at some time. For instance, France was for merly made up of a large number of different king doms, such as the kingdom of Burgundy, the duke dom of Normandy, the kingdom of Navarre, &c. There was a time when England was split up into seven different kingdoms, called the Heptarchv, and before that there were all sorts of little Govern ments—he believed there was a King of Leeds once—(laughter)—yet England gradually formed itself together till it became the great country it now was; Scotland was alive to the importance of the same course of action, Ireland was also annexed, and so in time the three countries became the United Kingdom, and had never tried to disturb that unity since. He could see no reason therefore, histori cally, why Italy should not become one of the great united nations some time or other, just as France or England had done; and if the Italian people were really fit to undertake their own Government, and were willing to get rid of any foreigner whatever, be it Germany or. France, all the English people had to say was—" God speed you. You are engaged in a good and patriotic work ; we honour all the sacrifices which you make for that purpose ; you have our good wishes, though we don't send you arms and money for this very excellent reason, that it is the business of every nation to fight out its own independence and liberty, and if it does not do that it does not deserve either the one or the other." (Applause.) As he had already said, there was another subject of a very different character to which attention was forcibly drawn at the present time. While in Europe there were separate States making all kinds of sacrifices for the purpose of forming themselves into one nation, on the other side of the globe there was a country, speaking our own language, of our own people, who, with a strange wilfulness, and urged by the worst and most unrea sonable passions, were breaking up the great Re public of the United States, leading to confusion and civil war, and possibly to the destruction of their country. Mr. Milnes proceeded to remind the meet ing that since the United States seceded from Eng land, and formed a republic under that name, the number of States had increased from 13 to 30, the population had grown to an enormous extent, the most astonishing progress had been made in every direction—the whole northern continent of America had been peopled with intelligent men of English blood, speaking the English language, possessing , the English literature, and the feelings and religion ' of the Anglo-Saxon race, and laying the founda tion for one of the greatest dominions the world has ever seen. How had this been disturbed ? By the existence of an institution of which English men could not speak of even with toleration — namely the institution of slavery. (Hear, hear.) It was true that England was to a great degree answerable for the introduction of slavery into the United States, for it was while that country was a portion of the dominions of Great Britain that slaves were imported there ; but if the Americans at the declaration of their independence had set their minds to discover the best means of gettin g rid of the evil, they would not have been witness ing such debasement, or such unhappy events as were now threatening the dissolution of that great empire. (Hear.) The little State of South Caro lina had made itself notorious by a precipitate seces sion from the Union, and had, in all probability, been followed by three or four others, with a view of forming themselves into a Southern confederacy, and carrying on slavery to the fullest extent. Between the Southern or cotton-growing States and the Northern or Free States there were three or four States known as the tobacco States, in which slavery was not a favourite institution ; and at pre sent it was not known whether they would unite themselves with the South or the North ; but it was piObable that they would hold an independent course, using their position to act as the future mediators in the restoration of their country's na tionality. (Hear, hear.) The English were often charged with rejoicing over the mis fortunes of other countries, but there was a general sorrow and universal regret at this sud den disruption of the United States. (Hear, hear.) Of course they had a material interest in this matter, and could not but look with alarm on the effects of a civil war or a servile insurrection in the States in checking the supply of cotton, and thereby restricting the manufacture of cotton and the employment of labour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire ; but this was not the only feeling which was passing through the minds of the English people, and there was no one of whatever party, who did not view with the deepest sorrow the present aspect of affairs in America. (Hear, hear.) All they could hope was that the tobacco States might check the violent fanaticism of the South, and so mediate between the North and the South as to reduce the evil to its smallest compass, and prevent any long and con tinuous civil war. (Hear, hear.) He perfectly agreed with Mr. Seward that it was quite impossible to imagine a peaceful secession of the United States, and that as long as those secessions continued civil tumults and civil war would continue, so that perhaps the present state of affairs in America was only the beginning of one of the greatest disasters that had ever come upon the human family. What a warning did the present aspect of America give of the truth of the decree that the sins of the fathers should be visited on the children! Here was an institution, begun, perhaps, with no great, sefise of its wickedness—with no clear feeling of what an abomination it was—carried on until men came to be treated like beasts, and placed abso lutely in the power of other men, and which had brought on a great calamity that threatened to destroy a magnificent empire which had grown up under a beneficent Providence, establishing the freest institutions among all diversities of men, and accompanied with more material happiness than had, perhaps, existed in any other portion of the globe. (Hear.) Mr. Milnes next observed that the three great topics to which he had alluded were fit subjects to speak upon at a mechanics' institution meeting, because they were closely connected with one of the branches of instruction taught by such institutions—namely, geography, without a know ledge of which his remarks would have been utterly unintelligible and uninteresting to the audience. (Hear.) He rejoiced to hear of the prosperity of the Pontefract Mechanics' Institution, and expressed a hope that year by year the importance of acquir ing knowledge would be more fully appreciated. lie trusted that it would be more and more felt that to send a young man into the world uneducated was to send him unprepared and unarmed into the midst of a hostile population. (Hear.) Englishmen went forth from their own country into every part of the world, and it depended upon the education which they received whether the influence which they exercised would be for good or evil. (Hear.) He urged them, therefore, to promote in every way they could in their family circles, in their schools, and in their mechanics' institutions the blessed work of education ; and he hoped the time would soon come when the disgrace which hung over the Eng lish people would be obliterated—namely, that of having a large portion of the children of the coun try unprovided with any means of education, and sending them forth into the business of life with all the disadvantages which want of education entailed. (Hear.) As an illustration of the beneficial influ ences of education and proper training, Mr. Milnes mentioned that the juvenile crime of the country had already been diminished more than half by the operation of the Reformatory movement, and he concluded by remarking that all the rising genera tion ought to have a good and sound education con ferred upon them, and impressed with the fact that o o u L t no truth, ru personth, without temperance, could succeed; but honesty was not only the best policy, but that with out honesty , e self it i control, that if he had those virtues, under th e bl ess i ng o f c w God, in this free country, he might become both useful and eminent. (The linn..member resumed his seat amid warm applause.) Other gentlemen subsequently addressed the meeting, and the proceedings terminated with the customary votes of thanks, MR. BUXTON, M.P., ON 7HE UNITED STATES AND THE COTTON SUPPLY. Yesterday evening Mr. C. Buxton, member for Maidstone, addressed a crowded meeting in the Working Men's Institute, upon the disruption of the United States and its probable effect upon the supply of cotton to this country. Mr. Buxton, who was warmly received, observed that it was somewhat remarkable that we should at the same moment be looking at two movements in two leading countries —one in Italy, the junction for the first time since the Roman empire of the various States into one king dom—the other in North America, the fall ing asunder of those which had been so long joined together. The latter event was unquestionably one of the saddest, one of the most mortifying, that had ever occurred in our time. We might have hoped that across the Atlantic, where freedom had a fair field and no favour, where a new and vigorous society bad pushed itself forward with such amazing rapi dity, where the ow grievances of Europe were still unknown, where there were no ambitious neigh bours to threaten the horrors of war—we might have hoped to see that people rising from height to height in the greatness of power, and showing to the world what boundless blessings freedom and peace could shower upon mankind. But it was mor tifying to find that in less than 100 years from their first declaration of independence these fair prospects were so darkly clouded that already the mighty fabric was rent asunder, and that possibly war might break forth—war of the most dreadful kind—civil war among brethren. One fatal crime had wrought all this evil—the stain of one sin had been enough to cloud all the greatness and glory of the United States, and to withhold them from set ting a noble example to the world—the curse of enslaving their brother men had been strong enough to ruin all their greatness. But for slavery they might have remained great and independent beyond any empire in the world. Mr. Buxton, after de nouncing slavery in strong terms, proceeded to re mark upon the supply of cotton. He said they were not at all likely to have the whole supply of cotton from the Slave States brought to a sudden termina tion. If the worst came to the worst they might still, in all probability, expect to obtain at least one third or one-half their present supply. Now, in ordinary years they obtained fully one-fourth of their supply from elsewhere. Supposing they ob tained only one additional fourth from North Ame rica, instead of the three-fourths they now obtained —still even in that extreme case they would have half their ordinary supply. (Hear.) But, beyond this experience had shown that whenever the crop in the United States fell short the small rise of price that took place at once created an immense influx from other countries. Only three years ago India sent us half as much as the United States sent us. (Cheers.) If the falling off from the United States were still greater there seemed little doubt that India could send a very much larger supply than that which she furnished two years ago. Egypt, Brazil, North Africa, West Africa, and many other quarters of the globe would also furnish their quota, and from all he could learn it seemed clear that the deficiency at the very worst would not amount to more than a quarter of our usual supply. (Hear.) That, no doubt, would be a serious evil, but the ca lamity would not be a crushing one. The general prosperity of the country would remain untouched, and after a year or two enormous resources would be opened in different parts of the world. As an illustration he might mention that a few years ago a lady of his acquaintance sent out £5O to a mis sionary in West Africa, with the request that he would spend it in promoting the growth of cotton. This trifling beginning soon produced so fair a pro spect that Mr. Clegg, one of the great cotton mill owners of Manchester, and two or three other gen tlemen, took the subject up warmly, and already the trade from Abbeokouta in West Africa had be come a very considerable one. (Cheers.) There had now been sent out some hundreds of cotton gins, which had been purchased by the native negroes, who had learnt to clean their own cotton. Four of the chiefs had ordered out from England and had themselves paid for hydraulic presses to press the cotton for exportation ; and in fact there could be no question that, unless the slave trade should in terfere, in a few years the quantity of cotton ex ported from that part of Africa would be of great magnitude, and he need not observe how it would be stimulated by even a small enhancement of the price of American cotton. He felt no doubt himself that in the long run the prosperity of the world would be largely increased by any event that would hinder the production of cotton in the United States and thus stimulate its production by free labour in other portions of the globe. (Cheers.) In conclusion he wished to express a hope that the facts, dry as they were, which he had laid before them would make them rejoice more than ever in the thought that England had cleared herself of the great crime, the great folly, and the great misfortune of holding men and women in bondage, and he thought the survey he had taken of the results of that crime in the United States must tend to impress upon them more deeply than ever the truth of the maxim that in the life of nations, as well as of individual men, " wrong never comes right." (Loud cheers.) At the close a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr. Buxton for the address he had delivered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 29. MANSION-HOUSE.—John Johnson, 45, who had been previously convicted, and who refused his address, was charged before the Lord Mayor with stealing a quantity of gas fittings. The evidence went to show that on the previous day the prisoner stole unobserved into the entrance of the Agra Bank, and also up the stairs leading to several merchants' offices in Cannon-street, and wrenched off all the gas-fittings he could find. The result was that the adjacent rooms were speedily filled with gas, to the great danger of the occupants, who were obliged to open their windows to allow it to escape. He was taken and given into custody, with the proofs of his guilt secreted beneath his clothes, and remanded for further evidence until Friday. Jane Little, 17, a domestic servant to a house keeper having the care of the offices of Mr. Rither don, a merchant, at 31, Easteheap, underwent a preliminary examination on a charge of stealing between £3 and £4 from a cashbox belonging to him. She pleaded guilty, and electing to be dealt with by the court in preference to being sent for trial by a jury, she was remanded until Friday in order to obtain the attendance of an additional magistrate. GUILDHALL.—WiIIiam Martin, aged 17, Fran cis James Burton, 16, George Gabriel, 15, and Mat thew John Cooper, 14, were charged with man slaughter. henry Bryant, potboy at the Three Coltspublic house in London-wall, said—Last night, about half past 9 o'clock, I was close to• the Albion-hall, in London-wall, in front of which I saw a number of boys fighting with a man. I know the prisoner by sight, and saw him among them. I saw them strikin the man very much on the breast. Martin then picked up a stone in the road and give it to one of the others, I cannot say which, and said, "Here's a stone, cut his head open." The boy to whom he gave the stone then threw it violently at the man. It struck him, for he called out immediately and fell, upon which all the boys ran away. Mr. Quentin Dalrymple said,—l am a bookseller, and carry on business in Great Queen-street, Lin coln's-inn-fields. I was at a meeting last night in Albion-hall, and when I came out, about half-past 9 o'clock, 1 found there was some disturbance in the passage. My attention was directed to the two boys who were fighting, and while I was remon strating with some of the boys I saw John Silver side, the hall-keeper, staggering and about to fall, and I caught him iu my arms and placed him on the ground, keeping his head raised, for I thought he was in a fit. His wife, however, said he was not subject to fits. I called for some cold water and bathed his face and opened his necktie and collar, but could perceive not the slightest animation for a minute or two, and then I noticed a slight convul sive shudder, which proved to be the poor man's death struggle. I saw blood on his mouth when he fell. I did not see the stone thrown. The pri soner:Gabriel was one of the boys I saw fighting. Some other witnesses were examined, and the case was then adjourned, in order to ascertain the result of the coroner's inquest. Edward Gandell and Henry John Todd, who carried on business as general merchants at 1, Size lane, and, covertly, at the premises of Thomas Gandell and Co., packers, of Greenwich-street and Joiners'-hall-buildings, Upper Thames-street, in which firm the bankrupt Gandell held the position of manager at a salary of £250 ayear,were brought up on remand, charged with unlawfully obtaining goods on credit within three months of their bank ruptcy, under the false colour and pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary course of trade, with intent to cheat and defraud their creditors. The prisoners were remanded for a week. WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Anne Williams, a young woman who has been several times at this court for drunken and disorderly conduct, was charged with robbery. Mr. Thomas Stuart, a chemist in Cropley-street, Hoxton, had been to a party in the city, from which he was returning, perfectly sober, at a quarter past two that morning, when on reaching the Eastern Counties terminus he was accosted by the prisoner, who engaged him in conversation and asked him to see her home. This he positively refused, but on her pleading the coldness of the night, and asking him for a cup of coffee, he consented to give her that, and paid for it at an adjoining coffeehouse, and had one himself. He now thought himself rid of the prisoner's importunities altogether, as on leaving the house he left her near there, but on getting some distance further he was disagreeably surprised to find she had again got up with him, and wished to renew her conversation. He tried again to get rid of her, and while doing so the prisoner suddenly said that she had to go to Hackney, and quickly moved away. This seemed suspicious, and on put ting his hand to his waistcoat pocket he found that his gold watch, worth £2O, and which was safe just before, had been stolen. The prisoner was then running, and he pursued her, but she was too rapid for him, and would most probably have escaped altogether had not a constable who was ahead of him heard his calls to stop her, and after a sharp chase ho did so; but on getting her to the station no watch could be found. The prisoner protested her innocence, but Mr. Knox remanded her, that the watch might, if pos sible, be traced. SOUTHWARK.—Wm. Dearmer, an ex-police man of the M division, and recently a carman em ployed at Pickford's, the carriers, was brought up for final examination charged with cruelly beating with a heavy cartwhip and otherwise torturing his two children, Edward Dearmer, aged 14, and Sarah Dearmer, 11 years of age. It appeared that the prisoner was discharged from the police force about two years ago, and some little time afterwards he obtained a situation as a carter in Messrs. Pickford's employ. His first wife, the mother of these children, died in 1851, and he married another woman, by whom he has no chil dren, and they lodged at 24, Great Union-street, Borough -road. On Monday, the 21st instant, information reached the police that the children had been brutally used by him, and in conse quence of that a constable proceeded to the house, and found the children locked in a room, and, on gaining an entrance, he found them in a dreads,l condition, They were extremely dirty, and had nothing on them but scanty filthy rags. He removed them to the station house, and finding their bodies covered with wounds and cuts, pro ceeded to Pickford's yard and took the prisoner into custody. When the children were shown to the magistrate on the following day, the miserable rags were partially removed, and a scene was exhibited that is rarely seen in a court of justice. Both children were covered from head to foot with wounds, some of them recent and others of long standing. Mr. Combe then remanded the prisoner, to give the parish authorities an opportunity of prosecuting. Yesterday afternoon the children were again brought into court, but they presented a very dif ferent appearance, being decently clad, and having been taken care of in the workhouse. The boy, in addition to his former evidence, stated that he was 14 years old last Septemb er , and his sister was 11, and they resided with their father and mother in law at 24, Great Union-street. The father and mother in law were out nearly all day, and they were locked up in a back room without food. On Saturday, the 19th, they had a little bread and water in the morning, and were locked up as usual. He got a nail and put the lock back, and went below to a lodger's, who gave them bread and butter. Their father came home at the time, and, finding them below, he ordered them up stairs, and he followed them, and after stripping them stood at a little distance from them and beat them severely with his heavy cart whip. The blood came from his back so that his trousers stuck to his legs. Their food was bread soaked in water, and some times they had a little rice boiled in water. Their clothes were nothing but rags, and they always slept in the passage on an old piece of carpet, and their covering was a sack and an old sheet. They were washed only twice during last month, and he could not recollect the taste of meat. A fortnight ago their father whipped them, and then their mother in law was in the room, but she did not interfere. Mr. Thomas Evans, surgeon of the M division, residing in High-street, Borough, said that on the evening of the 21st inst. he was called to the station house at Stone's-end, where he saw the children in presence of the prisoner, who was charged with ill using them. They were covered in very scanty rags, and on reniuv lug thew Lo tliawvc.c.2 ...ix. uu ineir bodies and limbs, which appear to have been caused by severe punishment. Mr. Combe consented to take bail, but as the prisoner could not procure it, he was removed by the gaoler amid the yells and execrations of the mob who crowded in and about the court. It was with some difficulty that they were prevented from attacking the prisoner, who was compelled to have the protection of the officers of the court. LAMBETH.--A well•dressed person, 30 years of age, was charged with breaking into the dwelling house of Mr. Jos. Henry Bills, and stealing there from a silver watch of the value of £2 10s., his property. . From" the testimony of the prosecutor it appeared that on the evening before, at about 7 o'clock, he returned home, and, on opening his front door with his latch key, he heard a rustling noise at his back kitchen door, and missed his watch from where it had been hanging, and where he saw it safe two hours before. Soon after the prisoner was brought to his house in the custody of a constable, and his watch was also produced to him. From other testimony it appeared that the pri soner in his flight had knocked over two or three persons, and when secured by the constable thrust his hand into a heap of mud, in which the stolen watch was afterwards found. The prisoner, who gave the name of Thos. James Edwards, but who refused his address, was com mitted on the charge, but was ordered to be brought up again after he had been seen by the detectives. THE BISCA COLLIERY EXPLOSION. RIS CA, TUESDAY. The inquiry was continued yesterday, after the despatch of our parcel, and was resumed this morn ing; Mr. Llewellyn still appearing for the Risca Coal and Iron Company ; Mr. 0 wen for friends of some of the deceased ; and Mr. Brough and Mr. Evans, government inspectors, to watch proceed ings and assist the coroner. Edmund Davis deposed that he formerly worked in the Black Vein Pit, and was discharged with his brother because the latter refused to work where gas (on fire) was accumulated; or, as it was put by Mr. Thompson, chief viewer of the colliery, because he refused to conform to the practice of putting up trellice to drive the gas out. This - witness made the almost incredible statement that when he com plained of the fire, English, the fireman (killed in the explosion, and to whose care and strict atten tion almost every previous witness had testified), told him that men in that pit often worked in 80 yards of fire. William Derrick, night fireman, who at the commencement of the inquiry had sworn that he regularly visited the stalls in his district up to the time of the exFlosion, and found no gas there, was recalled in consequence of statements made by dif ferent colliers that there was gas in their stalls, and that if he had inspected them, as it was his duty to do, he must have discovered the gas, and ought to have put up a danger mark to keep the men out. He, however, repeated his previo us d ec l arat i on as to the regularity of his visits, and was positive he found the stalls free from fire. More particu larly, he swore that no place in his dis trict was left unexamined for a longer interval than three hours; but upon cross-examination it became apparent that an interval of six hours occasionally elapsed between the visits, which Mr. Brough said was doubly as long as it should be for so fiery a pit. The witness was informed that a man named Phillips had sworn that he (Derrick) once fired a shot (or blast of powder) in a fiery state, the effect of which was to extinguish his lamp ; and the witness said positively that if Phillips had sworn so he had sworn a lie. Among other witnesses examined was Ellen Rosser, who deposed that before the explo sion Richard Jenkins lodged with her, and that whenever he went with her little son to his work in the Black Vein Pit he used to say " Good bye, perhaps you will never see me again." When he was asked why he said so, he replied that he worked in a dangerous place, and that if anybody was killed it would be sure to be he. On the morning of the explosion she followed them to the gate of her garden, saying to herself " Perhaps I shall never see them any more," and she never did, for both Jenkins and her own little boy were killed that day. Jenkins, the man referted to, is asserted to have been courting the daughter of this witness ; and a neighbour named Coker asserted that two days after the explosion Mrs. Rosser told her that the night before the explosion her lodger sat up writing a letter, which was subsequently found in his coat pocket, and which turned out to be addressed to her daughter. (She denied all knowledge of the court ship,) That letter, she said, her daughter opened, and found in it directions that she was to have his clothes and sufficient money to buy herself mourn ing. Mrs. Rosser also told her neighbour that as Jenkins was leaving on the morning of the explo sion he bade her bood-bye for ever; but the witness now denied that he did so, and said there was nothing in the letter at all connected with the in quiry. She admitted, however, that Jenkins had been in the habit of carrying a lamp key (strictly forbidden by the rules) tied to the string of his drawers ; but she said she horDolf throw it away some time befbre the explosion occurred. By a singular coincidence it had happened that a lamp was found in the part of the pit where the gas was first fired, with a hole in the gauze as if made by the point of a pickaxe or mandril, and it was sup posed that the gas got access to the flame of the lamp through this aperture, and that thus the explosion occurred. When the lamp was first discovered it was concluded that the hole had been made acci dentally, but coupling the existence of that hole with the words alleged to have been used by Jen kins and the alleged contents of the letter, a suspi cion arose that Jenkins had purposely fired the gas for the purpose of committing suicide, and that thus he had sacrificed 142 lives in addition to his own. It was therefore held important to get at the truth of the matter, and as Mrs. Rosser declined to give any definite information, her daughter, Tabitha Rossier, a young woman of 19, was sent for, and pro duced the letter, which turned out to be a mere com monplace love letter, so the hypothesis of suicide fell to the ground, but, notwithstanding, the tact remained that Jenki n s had somehow possessed him self of a lamp-key, and could therefore have opened his lamp at pleasure, but from a statement made . by the younger woman, it was apparent that Jenkins anticipated danger from a fall rather than from an explosion of gas. William Williams, a subsequent witness, men tioned the name of a man besides Jenkins in whose possession he had seen a lamp-key, and the name of another man who, he had been told, also possessed one. Some other but unimportant evidence was giv en before the despatch of our parcel. 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Notwithstanding the late mildness of the weather, the effects of the cold that preceded it are still legible in large characters in the registers of mortality. The number of deaths in London returned for the week that ended last Saturday, is 1,783, and exhi bits a decrease which is not very considerable, on that of the previous week, 1,926. The mean tem perature of the air at Greenwich, which had been below the average on every day since the Ist inst., rose above it on Sunday, the 20th, and, with the exception of two days, continued above it during last week. On the last two days the mean tem perature was nearly 10 degrees above the average. The average number of deaths as obtained from corresponding weeks of ten previous years 1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,330. The 1,783 deaths of last week therefore show an excess of 453 over the estimated number. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of phthisis, were 702 in the pre ceding week ; they decreased to 545 last week. Bronchitis was fatal last week in 354 cases ; the corrected average of corresponding weeks is 161. Pneumonia numbered 117 against an average of 97; and asthma 46 against 25. The deaths from phthisis or consumption were 171, the average being 151. Half of the deaths from bronchitis occurred at 60 years of age and 'upwards. Whooping-cough ex hibits a considerable increase on the former returns, for the deaths from it in the two previous weeks having been 72 and 83 they rose last week to 108. Nine persons, aged 90 years and upwards, are recorded," the two oldest of whom, both women, were aged respectively 96 and 97 years. Five infants and an adult died of syphilitic dis ease ; four persons from intemperance as the direet cause; two infants were murdered. Of 21 d eat h s from burns and scalds seven were caused by the clothes taking fire. Of the remaining 14 it is very probable that many others occurred inconsequence of clothes taking fire, though the circumstance is not stated in the returns. A man who died from this cause received the injury when in a state of intoxication. No less than 18 children were suffo cated. 16 of these in _hed _ it carman, aged 18 years, died in St. Mary's Hospital from frost bite. Last week the births of 1,034 boys and 944 girls —in all 1,978 children—were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1851- 60 the average number was 1,749. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was above 30089. On five days the mean reading was 30 inches. The barometrical readings fell fr0m:30.34 inches on Monday to 29 77 inches on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 41 deg, which is 3.5 deg above the average of the same week in 43 years, as determined by Mr. Glaisher. The thermometer in the shade rose to 53 deg on Friday, the highest point in the week ; it fell to its lowest point, 31.7 deg on the previous day. The range of the week was therefore 21.3 deg. The mean daily range was 9.3 deg. The difference be tween the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was only 1.7 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 94, complete saturation being represented by 100, which point was nearly approached on each of the first four days. The wind blew almost constantly from the south-west. The rain in the week did not exceed 8-100ths of an. inch. There was magnetic disturbances on Tues day and on subsequent days of the week. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 35.5 deg. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRI ST OL—JArt. 29. The supply of wheat was somewhat fair, but the trade ruled dull, at is per qr under the prices of last week for good sorts. Grinding barley is lower. Late rates were given for oats. LEEDS-JAN. 29. Our market to-day was fairly attended by millers, but business was of an exceedingly slow character. Wheat must be noted at is to 2s decline upon the rates of last market day. Good barley was easier to buy; inferior sorts 2s less money. Oats and beans held in buyers' favour. NEWCASTLE-UNDER , LYNE—JAN. 28. At this corn market there was a fair supply of English wheat. The trade was flit, and prices were 2s per qr ander late rates--white wheat making 58s to 725, red 50s to 688. The demand for barley was slow, and prices is reduction in value. Oats were in fair supply, with a steady sale, from 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans scarce, flora 40s to 58s per qr. LYNN—JAN. 29. A moderate supply of wheat to-day, which was in slow demand, and prices again in favour of the buyer. Barley at is lower prices. Oats were disposed of slowly, in favour of the seller. Beans less in request. Old white 568 to 60s I Old red 50s to 54. 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