The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-05 00:00:00

ettrix Xbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. OPENING THE PORTS. MEETING OF THE WARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT..--(THIS DAY.) Mr. IV,siatEß (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition) said, it was not in consequence of the present state of the country alone that he had been induced to come forward on that occasion. Without regarding this question, as con nected with the produce of the year's harvest, their duly was still the same. They ought to have been actively anxious to have had them removed long before. They should have been impressed with the convic tion that the prosperity and well-being of the country and of the industrious classes demanded their removal, and it was oa this broad ground, ifnd not on the mere exigencies of the time, that he took his stand, Why should they be considered through the distorted medium of political considerations or party feelings ?—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that a better time was coming, and that the sympathies of all classes would be aroused; that their patriotism would be called into action, and that they would consider what were the most effectual means of promoting the welfare of the rising, as well as futons generations.—(Hear, hear.) Their cause would be successful, for it was based upon sound reason, and was not influenced by crooked or party policy ; they rose in dignity, with the consciousness that they only asked that justice which should be the foundation of all their laws, and they were anxious to see that the improvements which so eminently marked the period should be extended to their legislative enactments. By the removal of these laws an impetus would be given to the industry of the masses: the thought which inspired, the wisdom directed, and the interest which secured, would each be brought into play, adding not only to individual property, but to the efficiency of every department and institution of the country.—(Hear, hear.) And if these advantages could be secured them by the abolition of these laws, would they, he asked, cease their ex ertions until they were fully done away with ?—(Hear, hear.) In asking the repeal of these corn-laws they did not wish to depress others; all they wanted was to elevate themselves, and they felt that in thus elevating themselves they were benefiting all classes of the community.—(Hear.) With these views, he would impress upon the meeting the propriety of assisting those who had formed themselves into an union for the purpose of relieving the people from the trammels which had been thrown around them ; of assisting those who wished to break the last link of the chain which had been placed upon their necks by the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) He knew that there were many gentlemen present with more talents than he could boast of, who could do greater justice to this important subject, and he trusted that they would come forward then and do so. They could do themselves no higher honour than in being instrumental in effecting the consummation they all so anxiously desired. He would but add for himself that he had no personal object apart from that of his fellow-citizens to serve in this matter. He had come forward as an independent man, anxious to pro mote an independent object.—(Great cheering.) It was the duty of every Englishman to do his best to get these laws repealed, no matter what his station in society might be. Ile did not despair of their ultimate triumph ; nay, more, he hoped to see the day when civil and religious liberty would be freely extended over the world.—(Cheers.) They were anxious that their views should be fully understood; they were not of a destructive t r injurious tendency; but, while they sought not to inflict injury on others, they were equally determined to have jettice for themselves.—(Loud cheers.) They were anxious to have good laws, and to improve to the utmost the advantages of their present posi tion in society.—(Hear, hear.) The speaker then read and proposed the resolution. Mr. CARPENTER said that he had been requested to second the resolution Rhich had just been proposed by Mr. Walker, and he did so from exactly the same motives and feelings which had prompted that gentleman to move it. He felt that that was a time which rendered it imperative on all men to discharge a public as well as their private duties, especially in a case of great emergency like that which bad brought them together—(Hear, bear)—and no mart, however humble his station or contracted his talents, shou'd shrink from the duties which society imposed on him. —(Cheers.) The resolution which had first been read had reference to the prospective state of the industrious classes of the community, and their anticipation that in consequence of the disease of the'potato crop and the scarcity of the wheaten harvest tl a d.pressed conditk.n of those classes would be ence4dingly increased. Whatever men's opinions might be in reference to the corn-laws—whether in the eyes of one party they were unjust and not so in the eyes of another, was of no consequence. _Neither of the parties who divided the country would, for a moment Warne Sir Robert Peel for a calamity which was 21314 V attrib tat is to the seasons under Divine Providence ; at the same time it was right to look beyond the immediate emus , s of the present'pressure, and to ascertain what course should be adopted in this comparative dearth of the ordinary productions of the country.—(Hear, hear.) And they had a right also, if they believed that these laws were calculated to aggravate the distresses of the people ; if they bereved that, in the present extraordinary state of things, their removal would mitigate those evils by rendering the importation of fcod comparatively easy, in those circum stances, and with this belief they had a perfect right to have these laws abrogated.—(Cheers.) It had been even an axiom in politics that when capital was in great abundance there was an increased demand for labour, and that when there was a great demand for labour the wages of the productive classes were corm s stiflingly high. It has also been admitted that for the last ea or five years, while profits have been high, wages have been low, and this because there was too great an inequality between the two classes of society. What was the state of thongs at present? They found capital in great abundance— in such abundance, indeed, that theydid not know how to dispose of it, and the wildest projects, therefore, had been brought before the public. and such was the superabundance of capital, that men rushed, with open hands and pockets, into the arms of these who propos •sl the wildest schemes to them. Fhey had licelscl that before the railway speculation ..commenced of ba. !kers in London, who had lying in the coffers one million. er it might be two millions, of money, which they were v. ing to 1-nd at two per cent., and yet were unable Is find persons to borrow it from them.—(Hear, hear.) a'i.l what had been the tendency of this accumulation of enpical T—was it to increase the wages of the working classes din the one hand, and to enhance the profits of the ii ding classes on the other? They found that there had Sten, during the last fourteen or fifteen years, a gradual t:ecienaion in the wages of the labouring classes, and a gradual reduction in the profits of the trading classes. Now was not this state 'of things calculated to excite the sympathy of all reflecting and right- thinking men ? Let them put this state of things before those who entertained a different view of the eorn-laws from what they did, and let them be asked to e , plaln the contradiction. Let them be asked to account for an increased capital and diminished wages and profits. They would find that the corn-laws were in part the C Luse of this anomaly, because their tendency was to fetter and restrict the industry of the workmen. It was gratifying now to find that men of all parties were be ginning to see their injurious tendency, and to acknow ledge that they pressed most unjustly on the humbler classes of the population.. It was lamentable to find that is consequence of them the distinceion wag gone between the poorer classes and the industrious classes—in- , dustry and poverty were synonimous terms, as were riches and idleness.—(Hear.) But they were glad to find that the causes of this anomJy were being investigated, and he hoped, sincerely hoped, that with increased knowledge, they would do away with the causes which had resulted in these evils. We were told that the question was settled. It was nearly ten years ago that a letter was published from one of the two great leaders of one of the two great political parties in this country. He alluded to Lord John Russell, who, after twenty,years' experience, had been converted to soun d politi sal economy. He reminded him of Rip Van Winkle, who, after twenty years sleep, awoke. Lord John Russell had been asleep for twenty years, and now suddenly woke up, and came torward to aid in the work which so much inte rested them all. He had found out, after twenty years, that corn does not form an exception to political economy, and had contributed his influence to do good and realise the important aid they were seeking. It had since then been announced in a sort of demi-official way that the Premier (who ought to be called the great Corn-law Silence) had been impressed with the ne cessity of doing something to relieve the country from the oppression of these laws, which had so long disgraced it. Me was not one of those who would judge the motives of statesmen. It would be unfair to decide upon them by the same principles that were usual to men in the ordinary walks of life. They appeared to him to be governed by principles of which the generality of people had very little ides, and to which most men were strangers, and they would be in error who attempted to fathom their reasons when they were actuated by so many particular circumstances. It was enough for them; to know that if that announcement was founded in truth, the two great leaders of the two great parties had at length found it necessary to sub mit themselves to the decision of the public will, and to express their readiness to do what was required. He had heard it mentioned after the announcement of the decision of the last Cabinet Council, that this meet ing was not to be held to-day. He was delighted to find that. it was held, and that the expectations of some persons in that ward were disappointed, because it was certain that, whether else announcement of the Cabinet Council was true or untrue, there was the same necessity for the very same course of proceeding on the part of the public. If it was true, Sir R. Peel would require all the support which the Public could give, as it would give a great blow to the aris • tocratical power of this aristocratic country; and if the public mind decided that he did not intend to do any thing, there would be the same necessity for coming forward to help themselves, as the landed interest would *lse advantage of any indecision. They would fight time battle to the last step, and would not give up their last great hold on the finances of this country.—( Loud applause.) And if the public were not alive to support a ;Minister who was thrust into the battle against his will, they would not exceed in their endeavours, and would be foiled in their fttempts on all sides.. He felt that he had already occupied the time of the meeting longer than he should do—(Cries of "No, no,"„“ Go on")—and he would conclude by begging to second the resolution so ably proposed by his friend Mr. Walker.—(The speaker then sat down amidst thunders of applause.) Sir Jeans DerxE then put the resolution to the meeting, and it was carried unanimously. Mr- C. WOOD then said that he had been called on to pro pose the second resolution. He would begin by calling to their attention the resolution : " That Sir R. Peel, by not ad vising her Majesty immediately to assemble Parliament to consider the necessity of repealing the corn-laws had been guilty of a neglect of dut y, and had rendered himself re sponsible to the Country for th e presen t d e fi c iency , in corn ," In support of the resolution he would call their attention to the feeling of the public mind some live or six weeks ago, previous to the assembling of the Cabinet Council. It was then the universal feeling that an Order in Council on the more important measure of assembling Parliament, would , be necessary, in order t o open t h e ports, Sir Robert Peel Was in a situation to open them, but he required the support of the people. It was an act which, as the chief member of the Cabinet Council, he was enabled to perform, and on him lay the responsibility if he neglected this unportant duty. It was seen that there was a difference of °piston in the Cabinet Council, as nothing resulted from their deliberations. The corn market welt up in conse quence, as many persons suspected from the evident difference of opinion that the ports would not be opened. The inferior sort of corn now in the market was at from Ws. to 545. per quarter, and it wa s of such a bad quality that, in order to use it, it was mixed with a better theunlit of of corn. That better quality was at 745. per quarter, and duty was so high that the good corn , necessary to mix with the inferior stuff they had already, could not be im ported. The duty at present amounted to 14s. per quarter. ,was told that the report, that the ports could not be opened Ind; closed the hands of all who held bonded corn, and it was now worth from 4s. to ss. mole than it was at -:bat time. An objection might be made to the second reso link% ou the ground that it placed Sir Robert Peel in an improper noeition—(Hear, hear)—and he would defend it on that point, g ss Sit Robert Peel had taken no measures to as semble Parliament. Supposing_ in the Cabinet Council the Duke of W e lli ng t on , Istord Wharncliffe, and the Earl of pon should hinder him truce 44 that which he con- " TIT sidered necessary for the good of the country, and which, as First Lord of the Treasury, he bad a right to do, could he not say that if he was hindered . from prosecuting his own measure, they should seek another minister? He had not done so, but had called meetings from which nothing -had resulted. The Times had asserted one thing yesterday morning, and it was contradicted the same evening by the Standard, and this morning the Chronicle asserted the state ment of the Times to be true, inasmuch as the allegations it contained were quite consistent with the professions of Sir R. Peel and the Duke of Wellington. Whose assertion were they then to believe? If the Duke of Wellington advocates the repeal of the corn-laws in the House of Lords, while the Premier advocates it in the Commons, then by these meetings they were assisting them in their endeavour, but, if otherwise, they were forwarding their own views. He wished Sir Robert Peel to remain in office, because he did many things for them which, with all their efforts, they would be unable to do themselves. If he was guilty of neglect of duty they ought to impress it upon him, and point out to him the necessity of some immediate remedy. Supposing that Lord John Russell's letter had not appeared, would the article in the Times have appeared, or would any change in the views of the Cabinet have taken place? Cobbett and his assistants had done all in their power to forward that change, which was undertaken with the view of benefiting the working classes, and enabling the industrious man to get his own living.—(Loud applause.) He knew that from ten to twenty-five per cent. had been taken off from the wages of the men in the north, and even now in some of the large manufacturing towns they were,working short work. Take a bushel of wheat new from the last harvest, and its quality was such that it would be, if cleared, two or two-and-a-half pounds lighter than a bushel from the preceding harvest, and then let them think what a deficiency that would amount to when spread over millions of bushels. Let them add to that deficiency the failure of the potato crop, and what a frightful picture was there. They heard daily the accounts from Ireland and from Somersetahire, that the decay was going on to an alarming extent. He knew a potato-merchant who bad pur chased a quantity of potatoes at 6s. per cwt., and in a short time after he was glad to be able to sell half of them to the cowkeepers at is. per cwt iLet them, therefore, impress it on the mind of Sir Robert Peel, who was the ruling power, and who was personally responsible to the whole country for his own act, in case of an impeachment—and such a thing might occur. He saw that Sir James Duke was smiling, and well he might, and laugh also, as he knew how tenderly that word was used in the Houses of Parliament. Supposing that such a thing was to arise as an impeachment for neglect of duty—a neg lect of duty which brought hundreds of his countrymen to starvation and death—who did they think would be im peached? Would it be the Duke of Wellington? No. Lord Whamcliffe, or the Earl of Ripon ? No ; it would be the First Lord of the Treasury—the man who had the nomination of his colleagues, who has, or ought to have, the whole power of the country in his grasp. Who, he again asked, was responsible ? Sir R. Peel, who would alone be looked to for the remedy for a grievance, and who alone could remedy it. He felt that he had taken up enough of their time. He would conclude by proposing the resolution, and saying, that so long as they obtained what they re quired, he did not care who got it for them—Sir R. Peel or any body else. Mr. BOYLE was then called on to second the resolution. He said that he was taken quite by surprise. He had come there more as a looker-on. He was sorry that the task had fallen upon him, but it was necessary that those in power who did not do their duty properly should have their neglect expressed to them. Yet the gentlemen of the ward had not the boldness to come before the meeting and give ut terance to sentiments that he had heard them often express in private. There should be no question of delicacy which should hinder them from expressing what they considered the wants of their country called on them to do. They knew that in consequence of the increased prices of provi sion trade had been paralysed. Many of them knew that the mills were decreasing in work; the work men in consequence were earning less, and could not afford to spend so much with the tradesmen. around them. That train of reasoning was simple enough: It might be that the famine was further off than their fears had represented it to be, but it was; their duty to prevent its recurrence at any time. If the Prime Minister was not quick to do his duty, they should not delay. If Sir Robert Peel had not been so wedded to party, and had adopted the simple principle of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest one, there would have been no necessity for this meeting. They were all convinced of the neces sity of free trade in order to save the country from ruin. How much better off would the country have been if those engaged by right in commercial pursuits bad followed their own business and paid less at tention to railways. Had those persons whose offices in the City entitled them to go into the presence of their Sc vereign, done something for the poor instead of attending to railways the poor would perhaps have been better off. Sir J. DUKE said that the Corporation of London had done all in their power to assist the poor and to obtain the required measures for them. Mr. BOYLE said that there were splendid reminiscences connected with the city of London, but the time had passed, and they bad now become so bad and so degenerate as to become a by-word and a reproach to all men.—[A round of continued and loud applause followed this declaration.] Instead of leading on every great question, they are found the last They come in after Manchester, Glasgow, and other minor communities. One's heart throbs while think ing of the glorious deeds of old, but now the most they do is, if a gentleman's character be irreproachable, but because he differs in some sentiments from them, to expel him from amongst them, and make an election null and void.— (Immense applause.) He (Mr. Boyle,) seconded the reso lution with the greatest pleasure imaginable. He hoped this would be the beginning of a change in the ward, tie largest in London, and that it would take its proper place in leading on these great questions. When it was thought; that every luxury we taste, every gem in her Majesty's crown, comes from abroad; that not a wind that blows but wafts a vessel laden with the riches of other countries; that this inter course has a power to civilise, an effect most desirable, considering that round the globe the people are from one great hand and for one great object—(Applause)— it would be lamentable indeed if the cause of these laws being continued till now were traced to our own sun ineoess. If this [ward had done its duty— if the Corporation of the City of London had done their duty—they could have compared with pleasure the glories of former days with the present. They would, in that case, look upon each Alderman as be passed, and say, there is a man who spends all his time for the good of his fellovies,itizens ; did you read his speech ?—(Laughter.) But, on the other hand, they, the degenerate descendants of former aldermen are occupied with some trivial matter of a sewage.--(Applause and laughter.) If they are not car ried away with the gold chains, the sword, and other gew gaws of office, they would act so as to be entitled to the name of the of the poor man's friends.—(Applause.) Richard Cobden, that great man, has borne on the contest to a victory without the aid of such men as Lord John Russell or Sir Robert Peel. Is not that man of genius deserving of being presented with the freedom of the city of London ?—(Applause.) Why should Glasgow and Manchester be forward in this, and anticipate the city of London. If a soldier, who has been fighting with savages, unknown and unacquainted with the modes of European warfare—if such a soldier come home, honours are heaped upon him, snuff-boxes are handed to him, but such a man as Richard Cobden, who labours to ameliorate the condition of the people, and to christianize the world, such a man is passed by.—( He sat down amidst great applause.) Mr. RICHARD TAYWIL said he had been requested to se cond the resolution read and moved; but,having declined, be just begged to say his reason was, that while he agreed in all that had been said by the mover and seconder, he could not agree to censure the ward, or to put Sir Robert Peel in the position which the resolution puts him in. He thought that they should speak courteously of our opponents when they were coming over to the other side. The framer of the resolution perhaps had not made allowance for opposing forces. Sir R. Peel has been moving round to free trade, and Lord John Russell has but lately declared his conversion ; allowance, therefore, ought to be made for these things. He moved as an amendment to the former resolution—" That this meeting expresses its satisfaction with Sir Robert Peel's course in re• ference to free trade, and begs that, since he has admitted the scarcity of food, he would advise her Majesty to repeal the corn-laws, and thus merit the lasting gratitude of the people." Dr. LYNCH said he had great pleasure in seconding the resolution as amended. They ought to be thankful to Sir Robert Peel : he has launched the barque and it is for the people to waft it along. The intimation made in the Times is by the same journal affirmed to-day in every circumstance, therefore they owed a debt of gratitude to Sir Robert Peel. At such a moment of congratulation it is a pity to hear one word out of keeping with the spirit of the times. Such hap piness is too great indeed, he was afraid, to last long lie had read an anecdote of a gentleman who went to dine with a miser, where he had never dined before. After dinner he rhymed it thus : " Here we have dined, where we shall dine no more— Chimneys smoked that never smoked before." —(Laughter.) In public calamities it is better to try to prevent than to cure. Sir Robert Peel is trying this. Sir Robert had the best interests of the country, he believed, at heart, and would secure them, if the power with whichthe has to contend be not too great for him; for in all times, ancient and modern, the power of the British aristocracy of Eng land was unequalled ; and their interests were wound up in in monopoly. But this proud aristocracy, yielding only to necessities, must yield before the terrible necessity of public calamity.—(Applause.) Truth and matter of fact reach the peasant and the prince, the castle and the cottage. He said he would just give them a few facts. Typhvs fever and pes tilence are never out of Ireland. For one hundred years typhus fever had always accompanied scarcity, and this scarcity of food in Ireland is never absent. Our reports on health of towns prove this. Round this neighbourhood there were hovels and huts. 11l drainage and sewerage, and if there be a scarcity of food the people will die, as if the angel of death had breathed upon them. To make England the emporium of the world, and make it available to ill, should we not merge their differences for this noble object ? Sir Robert, the most powerful Mi nister ever existing, before whom Pitt sinks into insigni ficance, who puts away his sliding-scale when he finds it will not work, and every consideration natural to a Premier, and carries the object for which the meeting had come together, the meeting would be worse than foolish to censure Sir Robert or to express other than gratitude. (He sat down amid great 'cheering.) Mr. ANDERTON begged the mover and seconder of the original resolution would agree to allow it to be withdrawn in favour of the amendment. This was complied with by both. The amendment was carried unanimously. Mr. PRENDERGAST said he had been taken by surprise. He would always express himself in favour of the repeal of these laws; but to come on now with an harangue against the corn-laws seems like a person coming in at the end of a fight who had stood coldly by, they might now light their fires and glory all day. He would not debate about the share of honour due to each party in bring about this issue. He was certain Richard Cobden was a man too high for having the freedom of towns presented to him.—(" No! no!") If they knew that he was satisfied. But he must say the Corporation of London, long before Cobden or the League were heard of, was in the front of the fight.—(Disapprobation.) Lord John Russell deserved greatly the honour which any and all might be inclined to render him. He had not published his letter to oust Sir Robert from his office, but to retain him longer in it. And who is Lord John repre sentative of ? The City of London itself, which his friend had thought fit to censure so severely. Time had elapsed during the debates on the corn-laws, but there is a season for everything. Considering there was a large aristo cracy in the country, and a Church connected with odt st a tesma n that ari stocracy --considering there are so many op apinis i e n great arrived riN_. interests.e bringingS i w o u l d thbeis Ro d bert Peel has done just that which in h gr as ea d t e m la e y a e s d ur t_Lll t T he he prtpe t aris tocracy must now see that either this measure must be car • - r ied, or Sir Robert must resign his office, and throw the country into confusion : hence the propriety of Sir Robert's delay to the proper time. His friend had censured the corpo ration. He would not go ,over these p o i n t s to• d ay. as it was not St. Thomas s - day; therefore h e wou ld l ea ve corporate mat` era. But why dared his friend to to bury that great talent of his in a napkin P—(Laughter.) He has not done his duty. After this, he knows what he has to do.—(Laughter.) He moved " that, in the opini on of STYN, LONDON, FIVTDAY'ETVENING, DECEIVIBER I 5, MB this meeting, the time had arrived when the corn-laws and all differential duties should be abolished, and an outlet opened for the produce of the country into foreign markets, thereby securing the prosperity of the people." Mr. WATSON seconded the resolution. The resolution was put to the meeting and carried without opposition. Mr. ANDERTON said he would take no honour to himself in appearing there to-day, but he would say he had been one of fifty gentlemen who contributed first to the abolition of the corn-laws, when Mr. Hume and Mr. Warburton entered themselves on the long list of opponents, long ere Mr. Cobden was heard of. Not corn only, but tea is necessary to the poor. In 1804 tea was 'purchased at 10d. per lb., the duty was 2s. 3d. Now tea is down to 7d. per lb. in China, but the duty remains the same. He would draw their attention to soap. In Ireland, Dr. Lynch's country, the poor man had his soap without duty, but if he came over the water, it must be under an additional duty. He hoped Sir James Duke would draw Sir Robert's attention to these particulars. He moved that Sir James Duke be requested to present the foregoing resolutions to Sir Robert Peel, and im press on his mind the great necessity of repealing these laws at the present moment. Mr. BUCEMASTER seconded the resolution. The resolution was put and carried unanimously. Sin JAMES DUKE said he would with great pleasure wait on the Prime Minister, and give effect to the resolution. He said he owed it to himself and to them to correct any error. He had the requisition sent to him late on Saturday evening, and early on 'Monday morning he waited on the gentleman sending the requisition, to know what day would be most convenient. A gentleman had said that the Corpo ration had not been the friends of the poor; for himself he must say it did not apply to him.—(No, no.) Mr. OBBA:113 moved that the thanks of the meeting were due to Sir James Duke for his kindness on the present oc casion and on all occasions. It was unamiously carried, and Sir James shortly and warmly acknowledged the honour they had done him. It was afterwards resolved by the meeting that the reso lutions should be advertised in the papers. The meeting was then adjourned. BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM R ILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) To-day the adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of this Company was held at Mr. Routh's office, 9, Austin Friars, to receive the report of the deputation appointed at the meeting held on the 24th, to wait on the Directors relative to their paying up the deposits on their shares; and, also, to give an account of what course they intended taking with regard to the Company. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Anderson), who had been a mem ber of the deputation, reported that they had waited on the Directors on Monday last, and after a lengthened inter view, the latter came to the conclusion of dissolving the Company, and offering the terms to the Shareholders, which were given in an advertisement since published. It was stated that the expenses had amounted to nearly 6,000/. It was further intimated that the Directors had paid their deposits on seventy-five shares each. The decision of the Directors was to the following effect : "The Committee of Management, having this day re ceived a deputation from the Shareholders in this Company, have, in consequence, come to the following resolution : " Resolved—That it is desirable that this Company shall be dissolved with a view of reviving the same in the ensuing spring. "'That each shareholder shall receive back his deposit less 10s. per share, that being the rateable average proportion of the liabilities incurred; the like amount having been paid by each Director on 75 shares, and claimed from all the members of the Provisional Co mmittee; on the number of shares allotted to them at request. . _ " That in the event of the re-formation of the Com pany the present shareholders should be entitled to the same number of shares as those now held by them, credit being given for the amount deducted from their deposits, or in lieu thereof, shall, at their option, in the event of the separation of the Company receive the sum of 55., on their relinquishing all claims on the plans, sections, and property of the company, which will then belong to the newly con stituted company. "That the shareholders may on and after Monday, the 15th inst., between the hours of eleven and four, receive back their deposits less 10s. for shares on giving np the voucher delivered at the time of their execution of the deed and siening the necessary receipts at the office of the Com- Tany." his was the resolution come to by the Provisional Di rectors, and he had advised the Shareholders to accept it. Not that he considered it altogether what they should have expected, but being all they could get. If they took legal pro ceedings against the Directors he believed they would lose more than 10s. per share. It was their policy, therefore, to adopt the lesser evil of the two. Had the Company gone on, the Share holders would have been in a worse position, considering the present state of the money market, than they would be in in accepting the proposition submitted. He, as far - as he was personally concerned, was willing to accept the terms offered ; and he advised the other Shareholders to do the same. A SHAREHOLDER inquired how it was that so much as 6,000/. hadbeen expended, seeing that no Bill had ever been before Parliament, while the Belfast and Ballymena Com pany, which had obtained its Act, only cost 8,000/. The CHAIRMAN answered that 2,000/. had been paid for engineering, 2,0001. for advertisements, and the rest had been incurred in general expenses. A PROPRIETOR—If the terms are accepted, what will be done with the deed? The CHAntmAN—lt will be cancelled. After some further discussion, in which it was complained of that only a portion of the Directors had paid up thbir de posits, and that the defaulters ought to be advertised, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and de putation, the meeting broke up. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Gnildhall, before the LORD CIIIEF JUSTIRE, and a London Common Jury.) MASON V. FLETCHER• The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he would -reserve the point, if necessary. After a desultory discussion, Mr. Sergeant BYLES having addressed the jury, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 150/. Mr. Sergeant BYLES, having handed in a bill of excep tions, asked leave to abandon it at a future time, if he should think fit, and move for a new trial. Mr Sergeant TALFOURD objected to his friend taking this double course; and after some discussion, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that the Learned Counsel could not have leave to move, unless he abandoned the bill of exceptions at once. Mr. Sergeant BYLEs preferred to adhere to the bill of ex ceptions. 'TIE LONDON GAZETTE'. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, DEC. 3, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend John Peel, M.A., the deanery of the cathedral church of Worcester, the same being void by the resignation of the Right'Reverend Father in God George, Bishop of Rochester, late Dean of the said cathedral church. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Alleyne Lord Burghley to be Major, vice Hyde, deceased, Nov. 26. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Francis Robinson, cowkeeper, Princess-street, Chelsea. BANKRUPTS. This was an undefended action of assault, the defendant allowing judgment to go by default, and the only question for the jury being the amount of damages. The assault complained of was committed when the de fendant, who is a medical student, was in a state of delirium tremens, represented to be the result of intemperance. The defendant, it appeared from the statement of Mr. Nair, a medical gentleman who had attended the defendant during his illness that the latter was under a delu sion, the result of his illness, fancying that all who attended him were conspiring against his life. The plaintiff, in whose house the defendant lodged at the time (in July of this this year), was in the habit of sitting up with defendant, as well as the witness himself, and an object of the defendant's especial animosity. The plaintiff interfering in a scuffle which took place between the defendant and Mr. Nair, when the former was making an attempt to escape from the room, received a kick in the lower part of the abdomen, the result of which was a rupture, from which he has not yet recovered. Several surgeons, who had seen the plaintiff while under the effect of the injury, were examined to prove the extent of his sufferings, and also the expense to which he was put, viz., surgical attendance and medicine. The LORD CIIIEF JusTicE having summed up shortly, The jury found a verdict for plaintiff—damages, 801. HOLMES V. THE FOUNDERS COMPANY. John Spong, coal-merchant, Ockham, Surrey, to surrender Dec. 16, at half-past one, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Jordeson, St. Mary-at. hill, London. John Charles Edwards, bill broker, Conduit street, Dec. 19, at half-past one, and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assigee, Abchurch-lane, City ; Godden, John street, Bedford-row. James M'Dermott, victualler, Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 16, at eleven, and Jan. 13, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Hunt, Barnard's Inn, London. Eugene Le Roy, wine merchant, Portland-place, Dec. 10., at half-past eleven, and January 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lewis, Wilmington-square. John Elliott, coal merchant, Bristol, Dec. 19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee ; Hassell, Bristol. Joseph Mann, grocer, Warwick, Dec. 15 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; • Nicks, Warwick; Smith, Birmingham. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the produce of the British possessions in America, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 2, 1845, is 365. lid. per cwt. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria. cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 29th day of November, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. £. Notes issued 26,733,810 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul lion . 11,159,981 Silverbullion..... 1,573,829 £26,733,810 1 M. N Dated the 4th day of Deceml BANKING DE X. Proprietors'capital,l4,6s3,ooo Rest Public deposits (in cluding Exche- quer, Savings banks, Commis sioners ofNational £26,733,810 IARSHALL. Chief Cashier. fiber, 1845. EPARTMENT. Debt, and divi- dend . accounts) 7,670,581 Other deposits 8,992,719 Seven day and other bills Government secu rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Other securities 15,871,054 Noteb Gold and silver coin 503,038 £35,508,300 I M. MA . Dated the 4th day of Decemt coining a barrister, be went the Midland Circuit, where he was much esteemed by the most distinguished members of the profession. He was also appointed revising barrister for that circuit. He was called to fill the judicial bench in New f nmdland by Lord Glenelg, the then Colonial Secretary, at the age of 34. No man ever acquired more esteem for humanity, in tegrity, and amenity. In this colony he entirely discontinued the infliction of the punishment of death,. and with the hap piest of effects. He even declared his resolution to throw up £35,508,300 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. ber, 1845. his office rather than be the means of depriving any human being of life. Mr. Bourne was the author of seve• ral works, viz., "The Exile of Idria," "England Won," &c. also translated the best poems of De Beranger. No person ever passed through life with greater esteem and attachment from friends than the late Chief Justice Bourne. On leaving the colony several addresses were presented to him from all classes of the community, speaking in the highest terms of the deceased, and expressive of the deepregret they felt at his loss. Amongst the friends that followed him to the grave, we think it right to mention the name of Captain H. Pres- cott, R.N., the late Governor of Newfoundland. This was an actin❑ to recover compensation for an injury done to plaintiff by an accident, which occurred in conse quence of the neglect of the defendants. Damages laid at 500/. COURSE OF EXCH./ Amsterdam CF. 12 11 Ditto, at sight l2 7.1 Rotterdam 2U. 12 lli f Antwerp 26 15 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. s.—Wind W., light breeze and fine. DEAL, DEC. 4.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Active, Renant, Calcutta; Enchanter and Consent, Cuba; Brutus, Harvey, Nassau ; Harvest, Young, Quebec ; Ann, Eliza, and Jane, Lesanto, ditto; Somerset, Chalmers, ditto. Arrd. from the River, Stirling, May, Bombay ; Greenlaw, Johnson, Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta; Packet, M'Kinlay, Patagonia; David Carnegie, Hillman, Bahia ; Marion, Bradley, Jamaica; Lanarkshire, Turner, New Orleans. The Somersetshire, from Quebec, was in contact in the Downs with the Pilot, of Hartlepool. The latter lost bowsprit and cathead. OFF DUNGENESS, DEC. 30. —Princess Louise, Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Wind W.S.W., moderate— Arrd. Albion, late Star, Newfoundland. PORT TALBOT.—Arrd. Athelstane, Robson, MiramiahL PWLLHELI, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Donegal, Scott, Quebec. BEAUMARIS, DEC. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Put back, Islam, Morphew, for Barbadoes. DUBLIN, DEC. 2.—Arrd. John and Mary, Quebec. KINGSTOWN, DEc. 3.—Arrd. Calista, Manger, Honduras. GRANGEMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Hexham, Frost, Riga ; Heron, Taylor, GRIMSBY, Nov. 30.—Arrd. William, Charlton, St. John's Hum, DEC. 3.—Sld. Wilson, Jordan, Valparaiso. YARMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Stentor, Miramichi. CAERNARVON, DEC. 2.—A boat, marked on the stern " Speedwell, of Baltray, James Owen," and on each bow " I. M., No. 74," was picked up off the Rockabell, 29th ult., by the Maria Jones, arrived here. YARMOUTH, DEC. 4.—The Dahlia, of Whitby, got on shore on the beach this afternoon, and remains. The Eclipse, Cork, from Seaham to Ipswich, got on the beach, but was assisted off, and will proceed. LNGE--(THIS DAY.) Leghorn Genoa 26 10 Milan . .......... ' Venice .....•..... ..... Naples ........ ...... . 8 94 Palermo, per oz. 1194 Lisbon ......... 524 Oporto... ........... 524 Ito Janeiro •-• Bahia ..• ....... Buenos Ay. us.. 4111••• NewYork,2ldyssight -- Philadelphia PRIM& OF BULLION TICR OZ. Foreign Geld,bars...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons-- 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 94 Silver in Bars 0 0 0 Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Lush were for the plain tiff, and Mr. Sergeant Byles for the defendants. Before the swearing of the jury, Mr. Sergeant TALvouno inquired whether any members of the Founders' Company were on the jury? The COURT having ascertained that there were not, the jury was sworn, and Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated the case, the facts of which are as follows :—The plaintiff is a publican and eating-house keeper, ih Grocers' Hall-court, Poultry, and on the 28th of May last was passing by Founders-court, which is a passage between the Founders Hall, on the one hand, and the Commercial Bank of England, the Church of England In suranc Office, and the Founders' Arms public-house, on the other. This court is blind, but as it is lighted at the public expense, he (Mr. Sergeant Talfourd) did not conceive that it could be asserted that it was not a public thoroughfare. In this passage there were seme altera tions going on, in the course of which a deep hole had been dug in an arched recess at one side, which hole had remained there for a long time, and ought to have been removed by the company. dr. Mason had occasion to go into the court, and, though it had been represented that he went there for an improper purpose, he (Mr. Segeant Tal four:l) thought that such a pretence could not be supported, as there was a sink there with a gutter; and, indeed, al.. though the defendant had given in pleas of, first, " Not guilty"—second, that the plaintiff entered the passage for an immoral purpose, and must therefore take the consequence of the injury, the passage not being a thoroughfare. Yet, the latter plea had been withdrawn, and the only plea was not guilty. The plaintiff on entering the court for the purpose previously intimated, went to the recess, and was going into the place, not perceiving the hole, when his foot slipped, and he fell to the bottom, where he lay in a state almost of insensibility, till he was heard groaning by an old woman who was passing by, and who gave the alarm to Mr. Cutby, the manager of the Commercial Bank of England, who was going in at the private door of the bank, which is in the court. Mr. Cutby, also hearing the groans, called a policeman, who having got down into the hole by means of a ladder, he, with the assistance of other policemen, who were brought to the spot by the old woman, got the man out, and took him to the public-house. A surgeon was then sent for, and, it was found that, falling on his feet, he had suffered a compound fracture, and one of the bones of the foot had been forced out of its place so as to in jure the leg. He was indeed so much injured that he kept his bed for a period of ten weeks, and at after that time he was obliged to go about on crutches, and would, probably, be a cripple for life. He had applied for compensation to the Founder'e Company, who said they were very sorry :or the accident which had happened to Mr. Holmes, but that Messrs. Burton, the builders, were the responsible persods, and that the Company had nothing to do with ia. Now he (Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, that no sueh defence could be sustained, if intended, as every one is responsible for the conduct of his agents, and indeed it would be impossible to maintain an action against the builders in this case. _ Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75 Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Marseilles 26 10 Bourdeanz 26 10 Frankfort on Maine 123 Petersburgh, 3Us Berlin Vienna, effee. So lO 9 Trieste, ditto Bladnd 36k Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Cutby, manager of the Commercial Bank of England, Mrs. Gummer, landlady of the Founders Arms public-house, an City policeman 17, gave evidence as to the facts stated by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd in his address. Mr. Elliot, a surgeon, stated that he was called to the assistance of Mr. Holmes on the night in question. He found a compound fracture of the leg, and dislocation of the ancle. The plaintiff was confined to his bed for ten weeks, and after that time he was obliged to use a crutch. He was not yet thoroughly recovered, nor would he be for some time. He might, perhaps recover the use of his leg by next summer; but it was not certain. Witness's bill for attendance and instruments was 271. 3s. 6d. RENTS.—The estate of East Barns, in Hadding tonshire, measuring 504 acres, was lately purchased by Mr. Mitchell Imes, for 53,5001. It was expected to yield a rent of 2,000/., or at most 2,1001. ; but though the repeal of the corn-laws is now looked forward to as certain by the farmers, so little alarin does it excite, that the land was let yesterday for 2,2501., thus yielding the proprietor 4i per cent. on the purchase money.—Scctsrnan THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, THURS DAY EVENING.—The Medway has just arrived with the mails from the West Indies. Her dates are Vera Cruz, Nov. 1; the Havannah, 10th ; and Mexico, Oct. 30. She brings, on merchants' account, 285,306 dols. ; on Mexican Government account, 33,304 dols. ; and 30 passengers. Seville — MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 5.) SUGARS.—To-day British Plantation was purchased with extreme caueion, although there were sellers on easier terms ; only 140 found buyers, making the total purchases for the week only 650 hhds and trcs, and the fall in prices during that time Is per cwt. REFINED. —To-day their was little business transacted in Refined Goods by the home trade, and prices are still on thy; pecline, brown grocery Lumps selling at 64s to 655, and Standard Lumps at 651 6d to 66s per cwt. MAucrrius.—lmporters have been less inclined to realise this week, the stock in their bands being much reduced. There has, however, been little desire shown on the parr of Refiners or Grocers to operate privately in any description, and the small parcels disposed of were at a slight decline in prices. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was little wanted, and 825 bags at public sale were only partly sold at lower rates. FOREIGN.—To - day there was littte desire shown to pur chase any kind of Foreign, and only 400 chests Havannah were sold at 28s to 29s per cwt for fine yellow. MOLAssEs.—Although there are sellers of West India upon rather lower terms, still the purchases made have been ex tremely limited this week. Bengal Treacle has been less in demand, but prices are sustained. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was little desire shown to purchase Mocha, and 79 bales at auction were taken in, low middling yellowish unclean at 535, which was above the value. In Ceylon there was not much doing, but good or dinary Native was not to be had under 483. Of West India 63 casks offered, but being of the lower description a part only sold at easier rates. Java met with little attention. Of Rio 8 casks 60 barrels and 33 bags were brought forward, but a part only sold upon lower terms. TEA.—The stock has been further increased, and the deli veries not being so good as they were, merchants have been disposed to sell, and a decline in the value of most descrip tions has !taken place; there is a large quantity on offer by private treaty of both black and green. Although lower rates have been taken for all descriptions of Congou, still the trade purchased with caution • Pouchong has slightly declined in value, and the trade gave operated with caution ; Twankay is little wanted, and easier rates are taken. Hvson has been purchased with caution, although there are sellers upon low terms. In Young Hyson, however, a fair business has been transacted. Gunpowder has been purchased with elution. In scented Orange Pekoe of fine quality a fair busi ness has been transacted. Of Hyson Skin some parcels have been sold, but at low rates. In the common kinds of Caper the operations are upon a more extended scale, but merchants have accepted lower prices. The quantity of Tea held by the town and country dealers is by no means great. SricEs.—'rhis afternoon at public sale 19 packages of Ja maica preserved Ginger were taken in at 395, and 25 pack ages of Jamaica at 54s to 59s for middlint. FRUIT.—The great bulk of Valentia Raisins and Turkey Figs continuiug to, arrive being of such inferior quality and out of condition, are compelled to be forced oft' immediately, either by private contract or public sale, for whatever they fetch. In new Currants there has been a good business doing by private contrat. RicE.—To-day Bengal Rice was purchased with caution, and 1,355 bags 432 pocket at public sale were only in part sold at a further decline of Gd to is per cwt, fine bold bright clean white went at 19s, good middling 18s Gd, middling dusty 17s 6d, sea damaged 16s 3d to 175,-1,530 bags of Spauish were put up, the sound was all taken in above the value. SPIRITS.—The demsmd•as fallen off considerably for Lee ward Island Rum this week, and prices are not so fi r m. Calcutta is offered upon easier terms ; but there has been little business done. Jamaica is not cheaper, but the demand has been limited. Demerara has sustained the former value, but not much has been done. In Brandy a good business has been transacted; prices are I very firm. Geneva for exportation has been sold to a fair extent, at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and fine for home consumption is worth 2s 7d to 28 lUd. For Britis. Corn Spirits the demand is still brisk at lOs 9d nett cash. In Gin a good deal has been done at 9s 7d for 17 per cent, and 9s 2d for 22 per 'cent undei proof. The value of Malt Spirit is 12s Id to 13s bd per gal lon according to quality.. Cocinxitar..—There was little inclination manifested to purchase this afternoon, and of 152 bags of Honduras at auction, only a third part sold at a decline on former rates of ld per lb. SALTPETRE.—This afternoon at public sale 370 bags of Calcutta were taken in at 27s for 84 per cent. refraction, bad colour and rather damp. INDlGO..Although holders of East India are more inclined to sell; still exporters and the home trade have operated with caution, and some parcels have been pressed upon the market, in order to close sales, at a discount of 2d to 4d per lb on the bought in prices of the last quarterly sates, Madras and Kurpah can be purchased rath er under the rates of the October sale, still exporters and t he home trade o p erate with with little a t3 a 2 t l t e s n s: mid 311 13s to 311 15s ; 12 7 pip es 7 butte 93 hhds Ceylon pub only partly found buyers, fine at caution. Although Spanish is o ffered at the reluced rates of Friday last, still few buyers are to be met with. In the early part of the new year a bette r demand for Indi g o ma y Oir . be expected to take place, especial l y for home consum p tion. s.—This public sale afterno l o 4 n h C° h e d o s a of 32 Nut co Oil coa mot sold, good / los to 33/ per ton. TtLnow.—This afternoon at public sale 35 casks of East India Tallow were sold at 41s 9d to 425; 15 casks of Italian 41s to 41s 3d ; 38 pipes 22 hhds of South American nearly all taken in at 41s 3d ; 118 casks New South Wales all sold, fine at 42s 3d to 42s 6d, good 40s 9d to 41 s 9d, middling 40s to 40s Gd, low 39s Gd ; 96 casks of St. Petersburg Soap Tallow went at 393 to 40s, and low 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mary Jane Holmes, the plaintiff's daughter, spoke to the injury done to his business by his illness. He had, before the accident a good business, capable of supporting himself and Lis family, Isut that after he had been laid up in consequence of the accident, the busi ness had so declined,: that they were obliged to give it up. He was now engaged to manage a beer-shop for a brewer. _ _ This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Sergeant BYLES addressed the Court on the part of the de fendant, and raised three objections to the plaintiff's declaration First, it was stated that the defendants had made a hole in a certain archway, and opening into a certain public highway. Now the court in question, which the hole opened upon, was not a public highway. It was a private passage to the four buildings on either side, namely, the Founder's Hall, the Commercial Bank, the Insurance Office, and the public house. He (Mr. Sergeant Byles) contended that this court, being a caul- de-sac, could not be a public way. Secondly, the action lay, if against any one, against the builders, who were not the servants of the Company, and the Company would not be responsible unless they were their servants. Thirdly, even if the court were a public thorough fare, and if .the Company were resposible for what was done by the builders, they were not bound to cover an opening which was entirely on their own property, and not infringing the public property. HERALD.—The Times yesterday announced that Parlia ment is to be assembled in the first week in January, - and that the Royal Speech is to contain a recommendation to consider the corn-laws with a view to their repeal. We are not going to contradict this statement, because, while it is the easiest thing in the world to make such statements, it is impossible to contradict them by authority. If any Cabinet Minister, directly or indirectly, informed the Times of the alleged purpose of the Cabinet, he was guilty of a scandalous violation of his oath as a Privy Councillor; and if the statement of the Times be utterly false, as we believe it to be, any Cabinet Minister authorising us to contradict it must equally violate his oath. Under these circumstances, we can only afford to our readers this amount of information, viz., that persons in the most intimate confidence of the Government know nothing whatever of any such design as that imputed to the Cabinet : of its extreme improbability, on other grounds, readers themselves can judge. We, however, will assert nothing positively, for rash conjectural assertions may deceive as mischievously as wilful falsehoods; and if we can help it, we will never deceive. Meanwhile we may not conceal it, that the statement of the Times has obtained a degree of credit which, if permitted to extend, must lead to very serious consequences. STANDARD.—Our readers will forgive us reminding them that in every December of the last four years they have been assured of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, without, as we can recollect, a single apology having followed the discovery that the assurance was an impudent falsehood. The practice is not an inconvenient one to the League and its friends. The promised submission of the Ministers works for a time as a condemnation of all their former policy, and a commendation of the wisdom and patriotism of their oppo nents, and when the bubble bursts, resentment is diverted from those who fabricated the falsehood to those whose firm ness disappoints expectation by proving it a falsehood. It is true that the habit of publishing periodical untruths ought to prove injurious to the commercial interests of a public journal ; but does it ? Is character of the least value to a newspaper ? Whatever we may expect of the future— and we own our expectations are high in this re spect—we must acknowledge that a bad reputation does not impair the circulation of a public journal to the ex tent that it ought. The Dispatch is said to have the largest circulation among the weekly journals, the Times the. hugest among the daily journals, and so it will continue, until a strong effort of the whole of the honestly disposed part of the press shall raise it so far above contempt that men will be no longer as indifferent to the moral character of the newspaper which they patronise as to the moral character of the useful operator who empties a dust-bin. Our present business is, however, with the most recent announcement of the repeal of the corn-laws, thus given by the Times : " The decision of the Cabinet is no longer a secret. Par liament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned for the first week in January; and the Royal Speech will, it is added, recommend an immediate consideration of the corn Jaws, pre paratory to their total repeal. Sir Robert Peel in the one House, and the Duke of Wellington in the other, will, we are told, be prepared to give immediate effect to the recommen dation thus conveyed. " An announcement of such immeasurable importance, and to the larger portion of the community so unspeakably gratifying, almost precludes the possibility of comment. No pen can keep pace with the reflections which must spon taneously crowd upon every thoughtful and sensitive mind. They who have long desired this change, and have long traced its manifold bearings on the welfare and happiness of the world, will in one moment see the realisation of that fair prospect, and will hardly endure to be informed of what they already behold. The approaching event, therefore, which we this day communicate to our readers, must be left to speak for itself." The purpose of the Cabinet, as every one is aware, can be known only through the violation of his oath by some of its members, a perjury certainly not less sordid or mischievous because relating to a matter of commerce upon which im mense gains may be obtained through early information, im mense losses sustained front the want of it. Now, having to choose between the belief that some Cabinet Minister has violated his oath for the accommodation of the Times, or the belief that the Times has been at its old trilks with an aspect to Mark-lane, we cannot help adopt ing the latter hypothesis, and disbelieving the whole story from beginning to end. But it may be asked, if the statement of the Times is untrue, why not seek authority to contradict it? So we should if we knew how, but at present we cannot prepare a phrase in which respectfully to request a Privy Councillor to violate his oath. The an nouncement of the Times is, in fact, either a deliberate false hood, corruptly fabricated for some purpose of trade, or a guess, a mere " shot," as it is called in the universities and in schools, founded upon the loosest helps to conjecture. We do not dispute that the Times has many such helps ; its in fluence over inferior clerks and door porters in the public offices is, we are aware, very considerable ; nay, we have a notion that it possesses the ear of one private secretary, though we believe but one. In this way the Times may worm out probabilities. For example, a clerk reports at Printing-house square (of course for a consideration) that certain papers not usually , required until February are ordered to be ready in January. The inference is reasonably enough drawn that Parliament is to meet in January, and then it is added that these papers concern, inter alia, the Corn Returns—a less audacious builder than our Contemporary might raise upon such information, if such informa.ion has been obtained, an edifice as imposing as that which we have been contemplating. If the shot hits, the Times has the credit of early information ; if it misses, as it generally does, the falsehood is forgotten, and in either case the public is quite indifferent to the scandalous system of corruption and breach of trust by which the materials for guess-work are brought together. The Morning Chronicle (we ask its pardon for placing it in juxta-position with the Times) has also its announcement upon the subject of the corn-laws, as follows : " THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON THE CORN. J THE LATE CH -- lEF USTICE OF NEWFOUNDLAN D. The journals have announced in the ordinary manner the death of Mr. J. G. H. Bourne, the late Chief-Justice of New foundland ; but something more is due as a tribute to the memory of this gentleman. Mr. Bourne was born at East wood, in the county of Nottingham. He commenced his education at Southwell, and was h i g hl y admired for his suc cess and proficiency in his various branches of academical studies. He was then sent to Eton, where he greatly distin guished himself by his classical acquirements. He next en tered Pembroke College, Oxford. and took his degree of M.A., and was afterwards elected a Fellow of Ma g dalene Col lege. Upon his marriage he, of course, lost his valuable fellow ship, with all its prospective advantages, and this by the old law that still remains on the statutes of the Univer ity. Mr. Bourne now entered the Middle Temple, and be ing: She " don't believe a word of it," for she has heard nothing about it from Mrs. Gamp, who is the only authority for the opinions of Mrs. Harris. There is something very ridiculous in the position of these two journals, which, after doing all they could to win the favour of the Government, are not permitted even to have the credit of being the first to publish its intentions. The fact is, that the Cabinet naturally shrinks from the ridicule to which it would be exposed by accepting the in efficient services which the venerable twins are capable of affording it. Humbly and obsequiously have they been grind ing their organs under the windows of Downing-street, ready to play any tune that might be most pleasing to the Premier, but he has turned a deaf ear to their strains, and not even allowed his underlings an opportunity of throwing out an occasional morsel by way of encouragement. In vain have they looked imploringly up towards the garrets, or en treatingly down towards the kitchens ; not even the con genial flunkies have been allowed to show compassion to these miserable mendicants. The vigilance of the master or the fidelity of the servants has baffled the efforts of the per severing pair. They have not succeeded in getting hold of even a scrap of truth that they could turn to profit. The reason is obvious. The repeal of the corn-laws is a thing for statesmen to do, and not for old women to maunder about. CHRONICLE.—The Times of yesterday startled its readers by announcing that it had received intimation of the result of the recent Cabinet Councils, and that that result was nothing less than that Ministers had made up their minds to call Parliament together early in January, with a view of proposing the repeal of the corn-laws. It was added, that this might be regarded as the almost unanimous decision of the Cabinet, the exceptions being insignificant; by which all the world understood that the Duke having given way, no one but Lord Stanley, and perhaps one or two others, were opposed to the general sense of their colleagues. We cannot wonder that the intelligence thus conveyed was re ceived with some incredulity. Many innocent people still believe that it is impossible tor the present Ministry so com pletely to throw over the monopolists, who placed them in power. Many even who, on the contrary, regarded that re sult as certain, had never conceived that it could be brought about so soon. Rumour has for some time pointed rather to an opposite termination of the discussions of the Cabinet. Even so late as the day before yesterday, it was very generally and confidently asserted that Lord Aberdeen had resigned ; which, as he is understood to have been the most active partisan of free-trade in these discus sions, was naturally regarded asindicatingthat:his colleagues had determined on making a fight to maintain the corn-laws for another year. Everybody was, therefore, more or less startled at suddenly being informed, not merely that things were taking a turn in the Cabinet towards free trade, but that a decision in favour of "total and immediate" repeal had actually been adopted, was to be acted upon in January, and was to be enforced in one House by Sir Robert Peel, and in the other by the Duke of Wellington. And coins, too, were a little surprised and perplexed at the circumstance of this important change of policy on the part of Ministers being communicated to the world through the medium of the paper most personally and bitterly hostile to the greater number of them. On the other hand, it seemed inconceiv able that if the Times had not very good authority for its assertion, it should venture to trifle with its readers on a question of such importance, and especially on one about which any misinformation must so materially affect commer cial transactions. It was a case, too, on which it seemed hardly possible for &paper to trust to any but the best authority. Com paring the probabilities of the case, it seemed to be the general impression that the story told by the Times was true in the main : that the details given might not have been yet determined on ; but that it was pretty well settled by the majority of the Cabinet that the corn-laws were to be mate rially modified, if not, as was deemed snore probable, repealed at once, and effectually. We must say that the contradic tion in last night's Standard has the effect of a very strong corroboration of the Times. The Standard, after beginning with a few general remarks on newspaper lying, goes on to comment upon the difficulty of getting information from Ca binet Ministers with respect to the secrets of their delibera tions; and then, after running into a grave refutation of a squib in the Chronicle, drops the article of the Times, with a mere assurance to its readers that it does not believe a word of it. But the article in the Times, if not true, should have been contradicted on authority. Five words—" We are u thorised to contradict," would have disposed of the whole falsehood—if falsehood it were. All the argumentation of the Standard will fail to produce this effect. In the first place, Cabinet Ministers, though they are sometimes scrupu lous about mentioning what has actually passed in Cabinet, do not think themselves restrained from stating the course which the Government mean to take on anx . question. If they meant to repeal the corn-laws, they would not scruple to communicate their policy wherever such com munications might be deemed advisable ; and intentions talked of among their friends might very probably get re ported to the Times. The Standard says it cannot contra dict the Times, because it knows not how to approach a Ca binet Minister to ask him to violate his oath, by telling the intentions of the Cabinet. Depend upon it, if Ministers could with truth have contradicted the Times, they would have deemed it advisable to relieve the " agricultural mind " from the terrible agitation in which it will be tossed about for the next month ; and to spare themselves the obloquy to which they will be subjected on account of the intentions ascribed to them. And depend upon it that, had they desired to set the public right, they would have found some means of doing so without violating any oath, and would not have lost a single post in doing so. The Standard would have the greatest pleasure in giving an authoritative contradiction to the Times. Its not being allowed to do so goes a great way to prove the statement in question to be true. We must say, too, that our strongest reason for inclining to believe that there is much truth in the report is the opinion which we have long since formed, that a repeal of the corn-laws by the present Government was the result to which we are inevitably advancing. Oddly as the phrase may sound, we are convinced that the thing which Sir Robert Peel would do most to avoid is the necessity of breaking with the Liberal opinions of his countrymen. Throughout life, no doubt, he has been opposed to the Liberal party. His inclination has been to retard, but it has not been to prevent the progress of improvement. His great aim in life has, as he told us, been to acquire posthumous fame—to transmit his name to posterity in connexion with great measures and a great policy. Such fame as this be knows that lie can never ac quire as the upholder of ancient abuses, and the champion of aristocratic injustice. He knows full well that it is only from the liberal opinion of his time that he can acquire the claim on posterity which he hopes to establish. That opinion, therefore, it is that he really wishes to conciliate. His whole conduct, since he has been in office, shows that it is that opinion alone which he values. He braves it sometimes, he tries to trick it at others ; but embark in a • career of systematic, avowed, and hopeless opposition to it is what be has never done, and never will do. All his past measures have been directed to staving off the moment in which he must either frankly adopt that course, with respect to free trade, which public opinion favours, or risk his future fame in un compromising resistance to the public feeling. How long he would have gone on without taking either side, giving hopes to both parties, and committing himself irrevocably to neither, there is no saying. But Lord John Russell's decla ration has put an end to his indecision. For though it did not create the necessity, nor the general feeling, for free trade, that declaration has brought things to a crisis, in which every one must take Isis part definitively on the question of the corn-laws. That letter put an end to all divisions in the Libe ral party, and rallied the whole body in one concentrated and vigorous opposition. It roused the Liberal feeling from one end of the country to the other ; it forced into the movement against the corn-laws even those whose party feelings would have kept them aloof from that struggle until the moment in which it was to be decided for ever. Sir Robert Peel must have seen that he would now have to struggle against the whole force of tho Liberal party, backed by an out-of-doors agitation, extending far beyond any one party. He must have felt that the moment was at length arrived in which he must either lead a great movement of public opinion, or commit himself to the desperate defence of follies and iniquities over which it was clear that that public opinion would speedily triumph. In such a state of things we cannot doubt which side he would choose. And we cannot, therefore, hesitate to believe that his decision would be in accordance with the statement of the Times. Be this as it may, it makes no difference in the course which it is incumbent on the people to pursue. If the Ministry are still to be ranked among the upholders of monopoly, we must do our best to beat them ; and we shall beat them. If the news be true, and they undertake the cause of free trade, they will want all our aid, and that aid we must give them, as cordially as we would give it to the best and earliest of our friends. Even with Ministers on our side, and with all the influence of the Duke and Sir Robert Peel, we shall have a tierce struggle to go through. Nothing but the most une quivocal expression of the most determined popular will can bend the majority of the House of Lords. In order to over come that resistance we must throw aside every considera tion of party, and avail ourselves of every aid offered to us fur the great end of ensuring subsistence and employment to the people, freedom to trade, stability to agricultural indus try, and relief to the great body of the people from the most insolent injustice by which any aristocracy, in the present day, has ventured to promote its selfish interests at the ex pense of the community. If Sir Robert Peel will give us the aid of his Ministerial influence, and lead us on to com bat in our own cause, we shall be rejoiced to fight under his guidance and name. We shall leave to a future day to yin d icat e the just claims of those to whom the victory of free trade is really due. POST.—forty-one persons, who call themselves merchants and bankers of the city of London, have published a declara tion on the subject of the corn-laws. We should be over rating the importance of this paper if we regarded it as any thing else than:the declaration of a very:small,.and (compara tively) a very insignificant portion of the bankers and merchants of London. We do not dispute, however, that several of the names appended to it are those of men of wealth and eminence; they are also, however, men of noto rious political bigotry—men for whose calm impartiality of judgment in any matter subject to the influence of political or party feeling, no person of good sense has the least respect. They assert that " supplies of foreign corn destined for the relief of the people of this country, have been excluded from our ports by the high duty which, under our present sliding scale, is the inevitable consequence of the defective quality of our own harvest." It is very little to the credit of British merchants to indulge in such mere rhodomontade as this upon an important matter. What is the real meaning of such words as "destined for the relief of the people of this country?" Where is the proof of any distress for food among the people of this country ? Is it prudent, or decent, or anything but most inconsistent with the discretion which ought to belong to British merchants, to come forward in this way, the retailers of vague rumours, as mischievous as vague, which even the common rules of mercantile information con tradict ? Why should these men assume a probability of scarcity, and need of relief, when the prices of corn in the markets indicate nothing of the kind ? It seems to us per fectly clear, from the evidence of positive facts, that these forty-one persons—happily a very small and insignificant fraction of the mercantile body of London—are descending to the position of tools of a faction. For what is there i❑ the circumstances of the present time to lead to such a decla ration more than at other times, when no such demonstra tion was made? What but the unusual stir of a busy, tur bulent faction, which thinks it may make an impression now, by urging matters of a far less pressing character than those of former years, when no such urgency was attempted ? How can these forty-one persons justify to themselves the attempt to make an alarm now, when circumstances, as in dicated by the markets, are much more in favour of an ade quate supply of food than they were in former years, and when the duties on importation are very much lower than they were in those years ? And we must say that these forty-one persons, however well-informed they may be upon some branches of mercantile or monetary business, appear to be quite ignorant of the truth in regard to the foreign corn trade. It costs them little trouble, and it would seem very little thought, to put their names to a paper de claring that high import duties have of late excluded foreign corn from our ports, but in doing so they have only testified their ignorance of the subject upon which they express them selves so confidently. If they had taken the trouble to in quire among men acquainted with the business of importing corn, they would have learned that the only impediment to the acquisition of foreign corn for English use which has been felt this season, was the rumour that our ports were going to be opened for the receipt of foreign corn free of duty. So long as that rumour was believed on the Continent, it was naturally supposed that our necessity for supplies LAWS. "We understand that the following letter has been re ceived by a zealous free-trader, who was induced to write to the Duke of Wellington, expressing his conviction that the corn-laws must be given up, and regretting that the Duke should stand in the way of Sir Robert Peel's repealing them. We do not vouch for the authenticity of the letter, but pub lish it as it is sent to us. If genuine, it is a remarkable do cument : ' Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. He has received his letter. " Mr. - is pleased to say of the corn-laws that the game is up. Perhaps it is. Perhaps the Duke thinks so. But that is the Duke's business, and not Mr. -'s. " ' The Duke has long made it a rule to do his own busi ness, and leave other people to do theirs; and never inter. feres with other people, except to advise them to do the same. lie does not know how Mr. -found it out; but it is quite true that he has told Sir R. Peel, it is not his busi ness or the Duke's to repeal the corn-laws, but Lord John Russell's and Mr. Cobden's. And whatever Mr. - mar be pleased to think, the Duke means to go on giving Sir It Peel the same advice."' The Morning Chronicle is quite right not to vouch for the Authenticity' of any letter received from "a zealous free trader ;" for there is nothing in which such persons trade more freely than forgery and filseliciod However, we can not but wonder that our Contemporary could be imposed upon even to the extent of being made to doubt that the letter ascribed to the Duke of Wellington is an impudent fabrica tion. Such as it is, however, the article is just as trust worthy as the article of the Times ; and as the Chronicle de clines to vouch for it, neither so impudent nor so likely to do mischief to dupes as the Times' announcement, Which affirms, with all the gravity of "men of drab," an af f irms. tion of which the " men of drab " will make a very good thing, if they can only prevail upon extensive holders of grain to believe it. We do not believe one word of it. TIMES.—The surprise excited by the announcement in the Times of yesterday on the subject of the corn-laws has been nowhere so intensely felt as in the offices of the " twin journals" which have been kir some time under the delusion that they are the organs of the Government : It has been the monomania of these two melancholy prints to imagine that they possessed the confidence of the Treasury, and they have been babbling about the corn-laws to the very last under the erroneous impression that they would be the first to be apprised of any important resolution of the Cabinet. It was only yesterday that the morning half of these pre cicious Gemini indulged in a dreary drivel to prove that the corn-laws were " no failure," and that therefore the Premier ought not to be expected to abandon them. The aged gossip was not aware that the question on which she was exhausting her garrulity had been already virtually settled. Having been amused at the blundering ignorance of the Mrs. Gamp of the press, we looked with some curiosity to what she would say in the character of Mrs. Harris. The effect produced upon that female, nobody is quite astound- "••""'"".'''''''''''''''''''''*""'''''sBwTh - t' s ' from abroad must be very great, and that " A ldo° willing to pay a very high price rather tha n be w f o . the supply. It, therefore, became difficult to boY OOO reign corn except at a very large advance Bu t ss then as the rumour was chew :ered to be groundleesse _,ti,ist foreign core again became purchaseable at a consid2r: lower price, and was accordingly purchased for the Dr ew market. We must affirm, then, that the forty- one " other rants, however well informed they may be 1 1 1'° - n o f sc. matters, are exceedingly ignorant upon the subject ir quiring foreign corn for the English market; or, if _n i , i ,ool norant, they are something worse—that is, they at of promulgators of that which is not true, for the p _,„; 0 0. producing an excitement favourable to the views of a 0 7 t - a n r The forty-one declarants use the hackneyed phrase 0f ' Os pering with the food of the people," as applicable t0_,,,,h laws which have for their object the protection of 11 1 t 7;,. cultivation from undue foreign competition, and th „at curing to the people a far larger supply fr om the DISJ; soil than they would have if no such protective lavt The use use of such language is, in our judgment, a further either that the declarants are unacquainted with the ' t o i e on which they presume to offer their opinion, o r ohs_, d prefer serving the cause of a faction to serving the en s truth. The protection of British cultivation is no r in f. tampering with the food of the people than the protect' o ' f so forded by the police is a tampering with the libertY in ter people. It ought not to be called tampering. It i s an y / blob ference of the law in the people's behalf. It is a poliel , t bs has for its object the guardianship of these two th'n,„,irjor productive industry of a very large body of the w o ol class, and of the whole nation, from that danger whic!l,,nble beset it if it were habitually dependent for a conslu iho o portion of its supply of food upon foreign kingdonlst n osy governments might interdicti that supply fro 111 ! L o r e - 6 d of their own. A more gross and glaring irt d i 010 0 unbounded self-sufficiency, egregious vanity, and ri h Pf 1 ! prejudice than that afforded by the last. parag ra p - Ile' "Declaration," we do not remember to have saw" it is : " We declare our deliberate conviction that non r o d can justify the Legislature in tampering with the the people, or impeding the free purchase of that Sn' - ege which depends the existence of a large portion of 0 . 16 .A01 Munity ; that the removal, therefore, of all restn'"ol upon the import of articles of food is essential to themei' prosperity, as well as to the social peace of this , . or that it is a measure dictated by all sound princille firmed by a long and fatal experience of the effects, 0 001 . , posite course; that it is demanded by the want a 050 1 .5 necessities of the labouring classes; that it is se nc r t v; tli the judgment of the educated part of the comnillin , tf, o the present condition of the country renders it a I c ed! immediate necessity, the delay of which must i 1 ,, hardships on the labouring classes, must seriously "",, 4.- with all industrious pursuits, and by pertinacious l y re : • , ing the obvious and natural means by which the to.: attendant on a bad harvest might be alleviated , el u Lo l ' • an universal feeling of dissatisfaction and ill-will deft' the pence of society and to the safety of the enspire',, 4; Do these persons really mean to say that there ', so, striction upon the freedom of purchasing foreign corly,o, P there is none, More than upon the purchas e of 57, French silks, or brandy. These people frame tbeit"oftet tion as if it were against prohibition they were ce" rt jal! There is no impediment save the payment of WV ° o f o n , and that impediment applies to hundreds of a rticlos. do tid m chandise as well as corn. But the taking off them -of : I • " essential to the general prosperity and social Pee-thei country." Do these forty-one persons think t hat qualified to dictate upon that matter? Do they g ees that the welfare of the agricultural population t ;d .. 2 nothing, and that social peace is altogether coauecor2 the gratifying of their prejudices or the legislat io fe, interests? Are we to believe them, Stet then npie the labouring classes would be rentsvetl by a chalift ° o 6 which, if it should affect anythin at all, mots Iq' foreign labourers the production cf that conun,7o 12 hitherto British labourers have produced? 10 if if i l bankers and merchants think it f , their Infl o ged customers entered into arrangemsel far the eill_Moqi/ the capitalists of Hamburgh or Aiiisi.eraam, i.us ° ` - 0. 11 .• tinning to deal with them? We are surprised the! v eil have bad some experience of business should put t" e Of s i r tures to such folly. But their views, they assure 41(4 tioned by the educated part of the community., „,st n d modest ! What do they mean by the " educated Ti ros 'if community?" Perhaps the " enlightened auw", - 000,$' attend Covent. garden Theatre when the ft n ,"" the", Leaguers perform on that stage. If they meant I.!, o slA ful and studious part of the community, let them Wool of the learned pn,fessions, and see what majority A ir 2‘ get to endorse their very modest appreciation of ' e tyrj intellectual superiority. Certainly, if en ormoto st's ciency and inordinate presumption be qualities lo' b 've 9 men to respect and influence upon important Pliett rye tions, these forty-one declarants have an undoubt ;0004K be listened to. But if this be not so,isve can discovP either in the matter or in the manner of their d un e,' which should induce any man who loves his 1 o fbr i fi wishes well to its honest industry, to be affecteLle than by disgust in reading what they have put ''''. ' public attention. ) -- AU O l THE REQUISITION TO THE L ou l4D A•--- 1 the ill/ following ar ewer was received yesterday fr° ll / 4 10 0 ,2i0 Mayor by Mr. Ashurat, as the head of the depn',4lariii waited upon his Lordship a few days since with eLe'sei to convene a Court of Common Council for the PT . cprO dressing the Crown on the subject of opening ?fiesetto9 "The Lord Mayor having had under his emir °f Ceßi requisition for calling a meeting of the Court 't er A O, Council to consider the propriety of petitioning '' l i f r i o to take all such means as she may constitutieradordi for throwing open the ports of the United . 1 '. 00 0 1 : f li Great Britain and Ireland for the free importati be:l is desirous to acquaint the deputation he had the tbe Oro receive, that although lie differs in opinion wit i. h.. 4 ,019 tionists, he will afford them an opportunity of er, t12.„,‘ i subject at a Court which he will hold on Thursek' 1/ 1 ", instant, at two o'clock precisely.—blansion•honee' -op 1845." 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If, howeierosi quence of the state of the corn-market, and ° L ode , plies, the price of spirits'should still go higher„ . „ 4o o e t there is considerable apprehension—it may " Ifst,tlFe to obtain a Christmas stock at the present rates. , e ferr, fore, venture to remind our readers of the old P:111_ 1 4 "good store is no sore." And, at the same Pat ent hnr. npl do well to observa that the words " Betts's .„ e g Itfry 7, Smithfield Bars," are embossed on the P 4l `" -- ' All apsules.—Licapool Journal. Tilg ° sr?Al DUNSTER CASTLE ; A TALE or , r e !L i r, REBELLION. BY J. T. HEwLETT, 111 A.-- - , 213 t"'01 1° ' Peter Priggins' and 'Parsons and Widows'," ;to' i .4 Bull, "has established a reputation_whiell "* A tIl el era 1 1 will extend and confirm. The entire work hall, - be'' , f., of a master's hand. The characters of Julian " t de Mohun, Prudence Everard, Antony W vv ifert°7 o )7l historian of Oxford, introduced as a student of _ me w Graveboys and his man Jansen, Capt. 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