The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

• r.) itice pck !her, end, and' lectq sion lt it ical. and )etb and pear and the had, .ager non' tort g, I at hich FtiCa hl did' aelf. erita iy, of tend lent ially,- rrit such' tam/ t fir But the :our*. ttor-' Irged pfthe say that hint been with card• e ad the veil It b d his first 0R n send Lay'o,r anted cleat tbst 1 lila Iv till vril map witb f bit nor of try foi pathy es, ' !end thelkins 4 ten h to t 4 INOI gee: ear V to 81 strni at 1 rate' and' :tOV, ladrict arle noo' ie hl talc' ,ten 5, )1 n line ddr' khn d ins 7 fou sal )11 to ( tht '3l 1 old dlll t', II 1.6 till it to nd oars to 'ed • a :4; lid I' 1 art: Ist 14 ros' e br ;rb bil )11 oil 4 ind a 1 reP 135 §f ,bc on Let alt e 10, P;1 •1; of r$ 0( 30 el d ,a 1 cc 5t Ai nc 11 e, Fc it s Il )1 5 ? ' such' tit, be _ . eee aa „l . 44 l o,i_, hed, were found. to exhibit in every peiet thatliirV 4 5 Piarance. 'Mr. Hill, the stock-broker, admitted siet, to hi rr , tter was a member of the same literary. Society -etlf. That Society. was composed of persons in knou inte,grity Was character to IltiVt no influence 1, decision, or were literary men likelpto be engaged . th14714,a.1 APsactlo n of this nature? It Mr. Herber had suspected w a forgerY ' wo u ld he hat n- signed his own name St e ,_fluar-? •Believing the person who called .herself Miss. Pi to be Miss Stewart, he snapped his fingers at Messr : tlis - i ▪ t t in g , and acted upen her instructioas,-When 30!. was all n ben " waB- to ...haY-t,for his services, if he were . a guilty , m maddeSt: guilty, man ever heard of. %.% eu ld Sp ?' e .,P a !tuled his name before the pUblic for such a paltry :.711:1:4:str:ftiting to Mr. Barber's writing to Mr. Strode, he der e ,' that Barber are his own name, and that this ren improbable that he. should before have-given the ire'ett,,ttPecklaam, as the incAmsisteacy Would probably hare .earZ' l3 ,!_° l7 red by Mr; Strode, and would have excited r kt his •mind: In commenting on the letter of tha t i f ' 4. l i i a t to that o f M essrs . l'i c kering and 4t. letter failed t o convinc e th e j u ry of h' in he innocence, cora_said aothi 13 gWineh he could d o wou ld h ave t h at e ff ec t. If this doo ikigseet did not Prove innocence; he (Mr. Wilkins) was . n t theep,°fTs.hlttnan character. He made an application to 4.-ickering and Co., for the . payment of a small balance _ teli„t i ldtle to the brother of Miss Stewart. The . Batt Bank - had had Identity, and he now made this claim in the who, to lumself. Was this the conduct of a man,. to the Meridian of existence, was . exposing himself risk of ignominious -.punishment ? It appeared ( t w at," e l egacy duty had not been paid. It was very common tw n - V l4 l's to leave the duty unpaid for elghteen months lea J.P 3 . - s, the Government not insisting on earlier pay not being paid in this instance, showed that Barber ilav e - "):t e l'dY man; but had he been dguilty one, it would not tt ea , 3l ;:etn left unpaid. This delay of payment would to tho as 1 1 Provoke the inquiry which he must be anxious t i ts t t ,PPeared that Griffin who, there could be no doubt, " 1, fre f i t h r,„"tY &arty, had received 51. from Mr. Fletcher and j " 4 ra. rey. s Mr w.4l443—Mrs. Dorey's mother. siazttLfitvs thanked.his friend for correcting him.. .No would be further from his wish than to do anything to ti"eth er he L ease .of that Unfortunate woman, for whom, i Z 1 144 flAe;cent or guilty, he felt sincere p,ty e . "%la " °/ r gone through the while of the evidence, th e , not trouble them with many more remarks. What, isp' d lr oti a ht s the ease against Mr. 'Barber? - Supposing they had tespeeting the testimotty of Hyatt, there was not ~.`rant,a , .;,'4 evidence to show that Barber appeared in the flet.4"l')tl until long after the bond was executed. Mr. Wh o , t r was the party who took lodgings for Miss Stewart,. tr , -, all the directions, and who took the leading part till o :t l is_ ?°e "dillgs. If Mr. Barber did not visit 'Mallow. th e di f ietr all the difficulty vanished. He- had explained u° word eu ltY arising from 'tame " Peckham." He arF-all witnesses who would Prove that Mr. Barberwas 111%1284'41T character. His literary pursuits were altogether . *ll lgar te • nt with his - being guilty 'of this charge. With a t• ,s,T,Md these pursuits would have no weight . ; but to ied, t3, ° jFneW how literary tastes rarified and ennobled . the •ur. na--41, would appear worthy of great consideration. 144 1 tber 1 ,„ ,aPpealed, however, to their sense of justice. He . 111 lustli."„Pt.)'--he asked them not to be . guided . either by rase „ .. e " ° l . by Sympathy; but he appealed simply to their' s ue m ade ius t The 'noblest sacrifice which could 4 w as that of ' prejudice to ...truth. That sacri "au to called • upon them to make. Iu proor tits4Ceeclt'avdestitlition and misery of the prisoner, he asked_ eigh well the considerations which he -had ad "). tilo s , hie Meridian of life, the prisoner was deserted t i Viy ar ," f °lll whom he had been accustomed to receive sym sha-pc, caresses. Mr. Barber looked to them alone for `‘atia e ee r• There he stood a withered Man ;" but at then 'weak e felt confident. j ustice be.done to him and this kg % some compensation to him fur being deserted ' by 5 L .,.„ - ' l4B - Ile trusted that the jury would, .by their ver- Tli due hiui from Obloquy and disgrace'. etit3rteaeLart:trocisetdtee.. j Oltbael. spoke for abant"three hours and a s 4p Til e Pris.oler Barber appearedlo be deeply affected by "in at the close - Of his address. • tts, a ipe- and the jury then retired for a few mi. el 4 114 °a their return, l!tter hialt.,AA'xs applied to their Lordships for permissicn . to uelence-of th prisoner Fletcher until Mr. Wilkins de' re . "" h through the e evidenee 'which he intended to bring I )! W eilli c i! ° f. Barber, on the: eOund. that until_ that period Itao.-..,-"e,illipOssibie for him to understand in what position placed. le . • ▪ oNsiaips declined to grant , the application. -4t- icr ltE hen rose to addrcs,s the Jury iu defence of wheatur repeater le ON- _ . .., ~._ . tr AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. ta t - , • CITY,. QUARTER TO TIIREE . . ta.o.pt,s. Cotton 3 farket at Liverpool underwent i no sh im are alszkZ'tett Yesterday, . Sales, . - 3,000 bags.— Th e Share ape_ ~ ativ,„' W 6 B not quite so good for - the . lig ht" ,(64 „-, otocks; but in the - leading railwa ys ther e few tioivil-v e hn_ge. - Caledonian were 5i ;- ;;Yofew, tl, 7; Dublin and Cashel, 51;; Edinburgh Parisa.nd Galansd ti, 3 f '" Manchester and 'Birmingham, 484 . ;_ • 4 4, 1 ., ii , 2s 6d._ ; Paris and Strasburgh, 2t, ;Rouen and' and' hi; . ; S outb-Bastern New,_s. tttzi m I s the pay-day on the last Consol Account, which ea. ti4f4e-ts:oY.eeterday, and, as far as we hear, tr t i tri inA. rll37 * - .Consols for Money and Acc ount 11141,4'1 to iooi • The Commissioners did not pur chase have itbas h g° av n e e off rallied 14t "en e llii n The New Three-acid-a-Half per t Ited C u en ced se Three l .• e t t ta it 31 to 4i per ' cent. above far. at 765. 745. prem. 134 e,k 11 1. 8 L L Ik t 99 i i; and Exchequer Bills ti the..tZilteo. ntinues at2ooi• "4 , tit to , ions in the Foreign Funds _ have been qvueorYt ,t -t . 1; 1.,,,i5'4. Spanish Three per Cents. .. Cents: at 106',A,i the pi - per Cents. at 261 ; Dutch Five per _R I l ie a v a z , Nt ., ,,i o ; n e i t 35i ; .and Colombian, ex Venezuelan, thA MI 4 , ` L 'A. e 11.,,,_ erase amount of, business has been transacted in tztlieo"..oray b hares,-but with different results. I , l •xt )3.1,.„,",a1ue. North Midland has been sold at 10 discount, I, 4lo nz i fi - " ll ,glitun and Gloucester have receded to 7 discount, a few . having .4 41 - 1) , 11 °W 5i dincotint. Bolanos . Mine Scrip is at 7. ; 40 , e,, Mone, Unregistered, at 0 ; Santiago da Cuba at -: L'ondon aud Westminster Bank oRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. gam, Stock, (Froth the Official List.) . Per Cont. Consols. Annuities "*"..." ''''''' !03.-11%4...% ' . a. Per Cent. lieciUC:ci;Kiiiiiiiiiei'' ******* -. 99 1% 31s)d per centlßeduced Annuities I :! v ng ‘ tCt AnnUities Ditto 30 ears, An n uities , aN iire sth jar'. 186° ********* ii127:i161". 34 Ditto 30 Years, Expirree 10th Oct. 18 ****** ...... Consols for Account sth 'lan' 16°. la) L ic h enue , „, .. ******* . .... .. ..... ..... ........ _ . . 1010/ u " 1- '' 5001 iNd. - I%d. • ... 74 pm. • Ditto lim . .................. 74 pm. Colinnbi m liinn THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. °spiEni.itilet:oo:::fo}3.oo._;;;;datespini:Ads.r....c..o..u...n...t....::--........................... 3614tii3A5: .....,.p2r Lent 36 p 11 .' 1$ 1. Five per Cent IE3IO Ditt v biDitto !pe- °rids' ""'" ....... .." IS •- • tto __ erred ......................... rvettlittzttooufebioriereeftEetztorn:lia.cent. ........ . .................... c :. c . 2a . u p,. n r t ..c.., b i ...... ... .. 8 10 1:f. 75c. it e t tj t n en e ttl i :i pe r eent: Dutch 4 :t a;a.e........ .1.54.4%. , • Ditto for COZ;;; the AcC:: :::::::::: . :::::::‘.::::::: 100% PRICES; OF SHA RES THIS .DAY ' AT 'ONE. . inn, .._, ' RAILWAXII. PAID. PER Sam tiaiianani "Rd Gloucester .. 100 .... . 9:1 • tltteti -44 .., ................. 5 ... '5 % to """ • liotili n r l'od Holyh e ad ....... ..... . ..... fi - tut mid Casl.el ............... :: 2% 5%5% to bi e tr7, . c°u atiel .. ..... , ............. T.i tdio,..ew Registered..." 8/. 6i. Ad. Citbi,rah and Glasgow .. . , ........ 50 . 60% ' to te,4"'N4tegistered .......... ........ 2% bit extern ........................ 75 to „NI", S tares ........... . 50 ..... .... 70 %% ••• to ''''' ri- ifths ..... ..... .. . .... ........ 12 Llllitilch 4 r aithwatt . e .. .. .. .. . 2 - 9 . ... .... to rs, ticl h l) ' . I bY . . ..... " ... ............., 50 _5_lN •••••• t° hs ° ,„ - ' " r4 _ , , Birmingham ....... ". 100 ....2c7 ...... to -- •-end. - a4 ° Brighton 5O ... ..... 4414 14 1 ,. ; 11 16 1 4 ,, a n er 'l SORIh Western 41 %. ...... 84 ..... ..... to ... ‘ Ni"castt and Birmingham 11;42% to 41 o 41 rth !end Darlington Junct. 18 Ilt.th Britiih 2% "iitiki,. 4 l ., 4ll and - 9 O 9O nert,i,, and - Brandon Iltt;',,d Manchester rh o p_;l Share. 32 ........ 36 35%... to 36 rDp„. ) Th'tern and Dover 4 ' 9% . -to 10% bitte4ed No rthplidland t '' , bu Sc ' irb ° ,o ' Branch ! - lit arid Basle .... to ~041 RT BTOCE BANES. m and Iv x - 2l ..,...... te --, - .•eatminster a PRI CES OF IRISH STOCKS APRIL 11. er Cent. _ Consols .... ..' 1 % 99 02 IZosildeda Half Stock ....... a4nk r Cent. D ebentures . - Ditto Ni ew u i ced it,:lo .. ... . o ... pe 9-I,s Stook Grand ,___•:.... ................ . ....... . Dittolo,ati_.?..t..e.bnentures, 6 per Cent ' . r t.... ......... 8731 ... ' LAST PRICES OF SHARES. - i N ho b l iihne,i‘ryllVßlos'ad ................ 100 .... pAID. PER SNARE. Ub Hibernia n l tlCAs .. i d..it..t.0.................. ................ Y i 6 ... ..... ~ n .._ Sank .............................. 25 itoyz Batik ........... ..... ............ 17% );.1;;r;:i,i1....i.......7:...................................... 21 1 - 3411831% 13 i fi tY ti e e) f Du.ndbyril.hstrrnt esornpai; .. ......... 1 5 00 ......"- 70 /9 It -.:i..4.l:ellearnEETSElll BuSiTlOCintif 76;liFF4CliSnliY.G".E::, 3°51 ramp.risl:2e.":":7'elel. ttPor6- had an animated K rket to-day and .ted.. The i 1 •t o a t e ri red t° l l ,,, n.d : G louceste7 l4g u s4 echave been re ported . ~,,, .; ) , -- 2 ; Eastern Counties Regis . , 4 , 4 L,--i Lancaster Fes' "lrt nin.ha, , "'" 34- 're ston, 311 i 3911 Manchester i iter n , , 3 5 0 i . l's,i, 49 and' ; Paris and Rouen, 38 ; South u_,:rsru6selledeJauuraiic',ti2oinize M i l dli and M anchester, Quarter, 81 1 ; Caledonian, 5/. 3s. 91. ; Hud .... _........................—........... L o nay a iinbozi ixr, BIRMINGIIAM RAILWAY.—Yester- to ~ ulcerous meeting of the Proprietors, Shareholders, ably uDr r' of the London and Birmingham Railway o illj was held at the grand to Euston-square, for tw ets-namelY, for the purpose of considering the dra ft ofa h€B,°*, before Parliaxnent, for making a railway from r .i er to Holyhead, whereby it was intended to take power s th,l° Company to subscribe the sum of 1,006,0001. toward s approvalfictionconst of the same, and to express approval or dis the Bill ; and also to consider the draft of an trer bill now befbre Parliament, for making a railway from Le_ tancaster and Preston Junction Railway, at or near 10 7eitater, to or near the city of Carlisle, and the raising o f 000/. tO Carty it out. George Carr Glynn, Esq., Ch th` t i oft ile Board of Directors took the chair. In opening the he he touched first on the Holyhead scheme. He it3iv'rY glad to announce that Government were fully in ~u r m'our; that by it an immense Irish traffic would be se iio ed to the new harbour at Holyhead from the centre sta ll (4 the C. rnPaily at Dublin ; that' the traffic list and the li2stialates had been carefully gone through, and all promised ,ttto4table return to the London and e ion that the line be made and the money be granted Birmingham Company. ,sl/I.4444,tltl:.Oll.l:ntc a k s n t d er P a ass nd ed C a u r r a i had si n e i i n i i n o e u , sly. The next subject which the tt, t c,e !auguine e xpectations of ; and it w as anti d ter 10iiie•-:,uairman that the Board of Directors had fully e , Companyce by a l . in " to take no further part in any' Scotch hues poa 4'13% PNress. Tho second proposition was agreed t oa ste r at th:3l"' , Afr. Pease, of Darlington, expressed his pleasu re Pp' Last aznottheement. The meeting then separated. t 'HREADISTILtDLS•STREET.—That portion of Thread pant T 4 in the City, immediately in front of Mer- Zult Tailorsi-hall, is now reduced to a width of from bar and a half to six feet of cat-liege-way, a boarding oltr,„vmg been temporarily erected for the inclosure of a 1540 .olti front of the building., within which a number urers are now employed in clearing away the rub these &e. When these improvements are completed the ir is v ial, of course, gain a large additional " width of ltei4:lge-waY, and the western end having been also rifned by the concession of ten feet frontage .by the igLugPrietors'_ of the Hall of Commerce, this important hfare w ill '3,011, tfixoniv„sounfx ,444,041 for p., ---14 al'PrOae4 to the hew goy -al -Exc.:tango. PliE SITk; LANI) ON, S N- G, APR I under indisposition. Having the honour of being their chair man, he might also consider himself a sort of stage manager ; and it therefore behoved him to look about for some one to.. take the part.---(Cheers and laughter.) He begged to pro pose as a substitute his respected friend Richard Cobden, Esq.—(Greit cheering, the whole company rising.) He would only say, as their Speaker says,;" The ayes have it."— (Cheers and laughter.) In connection with the Anti-Coin law League, he begged to propose the health of Richard Cobden, Esq.—(Great cheering, the company again rising.) Mr. COBDEN, on rising to respond to the toast, was received with, many rounds of most enthusiastic applause, which it seemed very difficult to restrain. Silence being obtained, the Hon. Gentleman proceeded to speak nearly as follows : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, fortunately for me, as the phreeolognits tell me who have examined my head, I have neither sell-esteem nor the love of approbation, or you would spOil me.—(Laughter and cheers.) I regret exceed ingly that our friend Mr. Wilson- is not- here to return his thanks for the honour you have done him. In his absence, I shall be sorry to let the occasion pass of giving my humble tribute to his great worth and usefulness to this great cause. (Hear.) He is not much accustomed to public exhibitions; but to those who have been constantly and actively 'engaged in this cause for the last five years like mrlf, Mr. Wilson's merits are known and well appreciated.— Hear.) I have no hesitation inaaying, that without hi s c a and cool judg ment, his clear - sagacity, his great perseverance, and his courage, Which never knows what it is to be beaten—if we had not had his power of combination, his suggestive mind, to have guided us in' our operations, the League would not have been -what' it at The present day.—(Load cheers.) For myself-:--it may be said of Mr. Wilson, as applied to me—" Go, and lie goeth ; come, and he cometh ;" for I am always perfectly safe when I am at his disposal, be cause I am sure, if he has made an engagement for me, it is always to do good to the cause.—(Hear, hear.) You have spoken of the League in connexion with his name. It is five years this week since the first number of the organ of the League, the Anti-Corm-law Circular, first appeared—on the 16th of April. And it is more than five years since the first great meeting was held in Manchester, where the great movement of this agitation took its origin. During that time we have had considerable changes in the aspect of our cause. When we began our' agitation, we had many difficulties to encounter ; but the greatest of all our difficul ties was, that nobody would pay any attention to what we said, or take the trouble to answer us. We were literally the creatures of contempt ; and if in the course of our early ad vocacy of this cause, we were a little more boisterous, or, as our enemies say, we swaggered too much, it was literally no more or less than the assumption of a degree of importance which we knew we had not in the world, and we thought by that means to draw a little attention.—(Hear.) Well, La dies and Gentlemen, we have arrived at that point now when our enemy comes down from his lofty eminence, and, no longer viewing us with scorn and contempt, condescends to take level ground with us and contend with us in this great cause. Now we have home forbearance to show them. --(Laughter.) They are youtig in agitation ' • and if they should commit a few blunders, we must learn to look with leniency upon them.—(Hear, hear.) I recollect five years have elapsed, and they are not aware of it—five years since this great controversy began.—(Hear.) What wonder it we should see, that whilst we have been making great progyess—while we have been changing, altogether changing in the circumstances of our case—they hive been fast asleep, and they are unconscious of all these 'things ; and they are now treating this cause precisely as they ought to have treated it, and would have treated it, if they had begun five years ago. .They take our arguments as we applied them 'then, and they are now beginning to condemn those arguments, forgetting the change that has taken place in the circumstances of the day.' I find them answering my speeches that I made in 1840, and when I complained that we should not have corn cheaper if we had free trade. They don't know—how should they know?—they have been fast asleep all the; time—they do not know that wheat, run up in the spring of 1839 suddenly to 80s. the quarter, and that last June it was down to 745. the quarter—they do not know that all this has taken place—and, therefore, if they blunder in their arguments—if they are out of time, out of tune, and out of place—let us learn to look upon them with a lively dis play of charity, and forgive thetn.—(Cheers.) Then, gentle men, I find many of them not very well informed on other matters. They donot seem to have had very extensive read ing—some of them. The 'other day one of' my friends hers, who is fond of reading from the works of an author whose name appeats among the list of invited guests, Thomas Car lyle(—Meers)—one of my friends, I say quoted him. The 'next day we' heard one of our opponents charging us with being infidels, and said we had been quoting a man who was convicted and imprisoned for blasphemy ! They do not read Thomas Carlyle it appears I I would ad vise them to _do so, for there is more of suggestive thought in the price of his books than in a volume of what they are ordinarily accustomed to read.--(Hear, hear.) Again, our opponents—some of them—are not very learned. (Hear, hear.)' The other day one of the free trade newspapers in Hertfordshire, in a very able leading article upon the . Anti- League movement, alluded to the defection from the right cause of an old and very esteemed Nobleman there, Lord Dacre, and he exclaimed in the familiar_ phrase, Et tu, Brute?" The next day a long letter came from his Lordship's land steward, but an active opponent, denouncing the editor for calling Lord Dac:re, bratet--(Loud laughter.) I might multiply these instances, showing that our opponents neither learned rn ha ed happened but I willare verytroubigee you h onlyodlogwiictiansn yetonorem v o e r ry e. a southern village where the derv/n ail of the parish presided at a public meeting. t was held in a small parish, . and. some of our friends called it " a little go ;" it was an Anti-League meeting, where about a hundred people ;were assembled. One of the leading persons in it was the sexton. In the course of the clergyman's speech he said we were a body of utilitarians. The next day the sexton was busy spreading the report throughout the village that there was not a single churchman among us all, for he had heard the parson himself say we were all Unita rians I—(Laughter.) So you see, when you -take into account the extent of the experience of our oppo nents, the amount of their knowledge, and the quality of their natural talents, you must make allowances for any little blunders they may fall into.—(Hear, hear.) I have seen it stated the other day—the day before yesterday, I think—in the Times newspaper, that this League—this" great fact," as they call it—is upon its trial, and that these Leaguers, a few. cotton men, and men of that stamp, who have been suddenly thrust into notoriety, are upok a pinnacle, and in dan ger of a great fall, Now I do not think the League or the Leaguers are upon' their trial ; it is some thing . else which ais upon trial, namely- 7 -monopoly. That is the culprit on trial, the English public is the Jury, and from the evidence which pours in from all quarters, we have no doubt that the verdict will be Guilty.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Cobden then pointed out the baneful effects of on the audience, and, on taking hi s seat, was enthusiastically the present system, in a way whi c h ma d e a great impression cheered. leases for their farms—they hairs called upon them to be no longer serfs, but to demand that just portion of protec tion which the law ought not to deny to any man. They have not appealed in vain ; for the tenants are now deter mined that they will have that protection of long leases which is given by our friends in Scotland, and which sound policy denies to no man.-(Hear, hiar.) It is shown that they are now protected by laws which are on a false basis. They have gone further ; they have Ahown that the agcul turists are worse off than the manufacturing popul ation. They have called upon the peasant- to vindicate his rights. They have asked him whether it is to his interest to have cheap bread, cheap clothing, cheap butter, cheap bacon, and other articles ?—(Hear, hear.) They have asked him whether keeping _up the prices of : such articles is not an incumbrance upon his rights ?—(Loud cheers.) These gen tlemen have, by their exertions in the diffusion of knowledge on this subject, produced the most heneficial influence—dif fusing the light of truth and intelligence even to the hum blest cottage in the country.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, we are united in one common caise, involving the inte rests of the :commercial, manufacturing, ,and agricultural population, against one predominant and controlling in terest—the unjust, tyrannical, and , oppressive land lords of this country.—(Cheers.) Let -me not be sup posed to speak of the whole mass, but of a class determined to uphold monopoly, and at war with the best interests of the community. I have opposed them in Parliament, and will continue to oppose—knowing Many of them-4s an oppres sive and tyrannical class of persons.—(Loud applause.) Then I look around, and :I see intelligence on the subject of free trade—thanks to the exertions of those around me—univer sally diffused from one end of the toutitrx.ta. the other. I behold the darkness dispersed, and the bright-beams of me ridian splendour supplying its place.—(Hear.) (After some further observations the Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud applause) The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I am quite certain that I speak the opinions of every individual in this assembly when I say, that no circumstance connected with our meeting this evening affords us, more sincere gratification than the pre sence of the Right Hon. Fox Maule.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Fox Made, I need not tell you, is a member of one of the most distinguished families in Scothind.—(Cheers.) Mr. Maule belongs to a family of great- lauded property and wealth ; and yet he has the good sense _to, see that the pros perity of land does not depend upon the restriction of trade, but, in faet, depends upon the removal of commercial restric tions.—(Great cheering.) - Gentlemen, -Mr. Fox Manle has filled various offices in the Government of the country with high credit to himself. He is a gentleman of excellent talent, of exemplary private character, a most welcome guest among the free traders of Liverpool, and I am, 'therefore, proud to introduce him to your notice. (The health of Mr. Maule was then drank with great enthusiasm.) - The Right Hon. Fox MAULS. M.P., rostamidst the loudest plaudits, and said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, the very flattering reception which you have been nleased to give to this toast has almost:rendered me -ineapibli; of uttering the few sentences which I feel called- upon to do, in returning you my thanks, for I entirely and cordially respond to the senti ment which this toast contains. ,-(Cheers,) With no other prospects to look to but those which emanate from land, I entirely concur in' the view, that the interests-of the position which - Inlay be called upon hereafter to occupy, can only be promoted . to their utmost extent "by unrestricted commercial intercourse with all the world. (Tre inendous cheering.) Gentlemen, I feel that in ut tering that sentiment I deserve- -- no credit, be cause I am merely taking that course which I know is best to promote my own personal and " selfish" ends—(Cheers) — and I am surprised that those who are similarly situated with myself have been so slow to view the matter in the same light that I do. What is it, gentlemen, if we inherit lands— if we are entitled to support our rights, as you call them here —if at the same time we are to be looked upon as an incubus upon the face of the country ? Ai a body,' we always stand in the way of improvement of the commercial intercourse of the world, and the improvements of the habits and position of our countrymen.—(Cheers.) According to the mode in which society has been ordered by Providence, men may be born to station—they may be born to title—they may take to themselves credit for the position in which they stand ; but I would remind there of the words of.the poet— " Et genus et proavos, et qua non feclinns ipsi, • Vix et nostra voco." - • That is my motto, gentlemen. I want to be distinguished, not by any nobility or title; to which I may be called by the accident of birth, but I wish to be distinktiithed by the one, through life, of doing as much good as- can to others.— (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, in forwarding that object; I think that those who are connected with land will do it beat by forwarding amongst the agricultural-population of this country correct and proper views of free trade.—(Hear.) I delight to say that I can myself testify to the citizens of Liverpool, and this assembly and motif respectable company, that amongst our agricultural body- in Scotland free trade principles are making rapid advances--(Loud cheers) — and I say it without wishing to cast any reflections upon my southern neighbours—l say that they will make more ad vances with us in the north than it is possible they will for some time do with you in the iouth. :Too will ask me my reason for this, and I tell you it is that our tenantry are in a moreindependent position.—(Cheers.) - ,In our country our tenantry have leases.—(Cheers.) I am sorry to say that a great many of them have not much capital, but it has been frittered away, because they have been pursuing unsound • views ; but they are independent, so far, because of their leases. That I consider one of the greatest safeguards which the farmer can enjoy. We have another system that in our country puts the tenant-farmer out of all risk • of loss by changes, such as we hope to obtain by the abo lition of the corn-laws—l mean a system of grain or corn rents.,-(llear, hear.) Then, gentleinen, we have that which I hope you will never have in this country ; we have an- Other obstacle to agricultural improvement—we have a stern and relentless climate sometimes to, contend with ; and it is to put ourselves upon somewhat of, a footing with you in the south that we are obliged to study the utmost economy and the best means of managing our farms,' and that we pay the' rents that we are enabled to pay in Scotland.—(Cheers.) I trust, however, that the views of free trade, notwithstand ing the progress they • have made, will yet make 'gall further progress in my native= land; because I am quite sure that there is no system se lad as that which leads the farmers to consider themselves, a distinct body from the rest of the community. The farmers, as a body, do not surely mean, in this great country, to be a distinct race among themselves. Farmers' eons are not all farmers. in their turn ; farmers' daughters are not all destined to wed farmers' sons.--(Cheers.) They must branch out into the other stems of society,. and, among the rest, the army. It is true you are told, it is culled from the agricultural as well as from the manufacturing districts; but let us look to the nursery for our navy. Surely those who say that the agri cultural interests are those which ought to be most fostered, and to be the most prominent in -the country, over look the fact, that the great glory of. this country, the " wooden walls of old; England," owes - its greatness not to the agricultural race, but to the .commercial marine of the country, which is supported by the commerce which flows from foreign lands ?—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the farmers will soon come to see, that without a thorough amalgamation with the manufacturing classes, 'neither of them will at tail/ to that height of prosperity - to which, united, they may fairly aspire.—(Hear, hear.) It is commerce that has raised this country to the position which it now holds. Agri ,culture has been fostered, in order to .do that in the home markets which it has engaged, and which it has failed to do. ' Each by itself will fail, if it be attempted to support each in the position in which they stand, unless they agree now cordially to amalgamate ; and yoikmay depend upon it, that however prosperous they may be at- this moment, that that prosperity is merely ephemeral t and that a day of reckoning will come, when we shall.: sink . into one common - abyss. Arr. Ewart has just stated to you , that a for e i g ner, .landing here, would naturally reckon upon a great town like Liverpool as the source from which free trade principles would emanate. When I landed upon. :these magnificent docks, and saw the flags of every different nation floating, and the mercantile marine up on them, I; could not help saying. to myself, " Is it possible that thisgreat city, instead ofbemg the 'beacon light of free trade, should: be one of the closest and restricted with respect to commerce little of any city in the worl d?" • I look around, and see" e knots of monopolist interests in various quartet 8. I see the timber frightened for its existence ont Ihe one hand, and see he timber trembling on the other--(Leughter.) Isee various interests all at work, and I see them limiting together to sup Port in the rosin the mostabjeet of altmonopolies—the mono poly of food.—(Hear.) But I trust. he day is coming, when ppurebvliaielo,p,ainuilowntipwehaivrcha,yastkhise stotzatells existwhich now upo n th our t must sooner or later commercial statute-book. It is truly impossible a thos e Wl6 are engaged in commerce in this c o mmunity- 7 -thoseln are the owners of capital, and those who can command e wealth and resources of the land—it- is truly . impossible that they will sit quietly -by.:--be their politics ealled m b ar y k e w t ha s t tole n n am . .and country this s e market after by our own foolish acts, and wretched legislation.—(Tremen dous cheering,) I think I can tra&—without pretending to see further than my neighbours-1 think I can see a latent p ted leas .rro an in d disposition in certain quarters—l . think I can see certain signs of the times, which convince me that the loss Of dthewyres forei markets is coming somewhat homelto the considera - d gn on of the powers that be.—(Hear.): When we see our busy neighbour anxious—and Ido not blame her for that take advantage of every opening for her infantine commerce--when we see that busy neighbour nibbling at the Brazils—a market which, if we were to lose, (and we might retain it with the utmost ease) —a market which, if we were to lose, there are many in Liverpool will rue their obstinacy—(Tremendous' applause)—when we. see that busy neighbour at work, it • behoves us to put all our energies to work, and it behoves the people of this country to ring-by agitation if you please—in the ears of the Go vernment of the day, that such things will not be submitted to.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is impossible for us to main tain foreign markets, unless we are prepared to give to foreign traders a , retiprocity of trade. And after all, what is the pure system, the plain system - of commerce ? I see it, gentlemen, stuck up with • your mottoes there : Commerce is barter." Call it by any . other name you please—let writers mystify it, or . give any other description of it—commerce is barter in the end ; -`and every man ought to be entitled to barter with his neigh bour that which he produces for that which his neighbour produces; without injury to himself„—(Cheers.) That is the sure, the plain, simple policy of a commercial nation ; and as for that which is required in the way of taxation, to support the credit of the country, and to support the administration of justice, and other ends which are necessary for maintaining the dignity of the Constitution, it is indirect taxation— and as little indirect taxation as is. possible will be suffi cient—and this great country will soon be ready to afford it without any feeling of misplaced economy.—(Loud cheering.) I, for one, have no feeling of jealousy of my own countrymen that they would refuse indi rect taxation that was ever necessary to maintain the dignity of the country--(Hear)—but at the same time we should have it admitted that we should know to what extent we were taxed, and that we should be enabled—to use a homely but rather expressive phrase—to cut our coat according to our cloth.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, I am straying from the subject of my toast. The subject of the toast is purely in reference to the interests of agriculture• as connected with the interests of commerce. lam glad to find that we may reckon on many names of great landed proprietors who are connected with the viewswhich /on And I take upon this sub ' ject. There are Lord FitzwiMim. and Lord Radnor, who are veterans in this cause.—(Loud cheers .) We have the direct testimony of the Marquis of Westminster, Lord Spencer, Lord ICinnaird, and many other parties whose names are familiar to you, and who are distinguished as men whose object it is to maintain , themselves—net upon any fleeting popularity of the day, but upon the sound opinion of their countrymen, which is the best reward, let me tell you, that public men can possibly have.—(Loud cheering.) Gen tlemen,'l,ahall close.with this observation. I thank you for the reception which I have this day received from you. The hospitable reception which you have given me will ever be my greatest reward—no, not my greatest reward—my greatest reward will be to live to see carried out the prin ciples which we together have been advocating, and to be permitted at all - times to join yeu in 'your noble endeavours to break clOwn monopoly, place; this great country in her pos natural ition, and make heethe mart of the world. , The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the next toast, " The Anti- Corn-law League, and thanks to-them for their zealous and persevering endeavours to liberate British industry from the bondage' of monopoly," the toast would be responded to b t y he cr pt r tr e I w ist i4 sta o r x tli n at , '""but be wa6 ' Ilantkast 6l .7 64110 us. AlanQopter, Übounile Mr. Bright, Colonel Thompso n , . an d other speakers fol. lowed, and the meeting broke u p, ev id en tly highly delighted with the evening's entertainment. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, car r i ages, mer chandise Week ended horses, mails, and mu- Name of Railway. Total. L. I. d. - -- -- - April- Arbroath and Forfar 6 Birminghani and Derby Junction 1,415 8 2 • 5 Birmingham and Gl oucester * 2,108'12 7 6 Brandling Junction - ' 772 011 5 Chester and Birkenhead 650 18 9 -- 9 Dublin andliin' town • - • 903 17 11 7 Dundee 'and Arbroath 224 1 8i 6 Durham and Sunderland 498 5 4 .. , . 6 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,339 11 10 7 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,293. 6 6 • 6 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 6 Glasgow and G reeno C k BBO 1 3 6 Grand Juncti on - - - 7,443 8 2 6 Great North of England .........•••••• 1,319 18 7 7. Great Wester n 29 Liverpool and Mancheater 30 London and Birmingham 11 London and Bfackwall 1,131 12. 8 6 London and Brighton 9 London and Croydon • 4Ol 3 • 3 11 London - iMd Greenwich 2,595 4 3 ' 7 London*and South Western ....... • -5 , 575 . 19 4 Manchester, Bolt on and Bury ..... . ... - 774 3 4 • - 6 Blanchester and Birtningham - 3,086 5 1 6-Manchester, Leeds,_ and Hull Assoc. 76,094 13 8 6 BlidlandCounties - 6 Newcastle and Carlisle ' 1 , 3 75 17 5 7 • Newcastle and North Shields 352 15 5 6 North Midland 4,296 I 2 0 5 - North Union andßolton and Preston 1,242 19 9 2 Paris and Orleans 4,587 3 4 8 - Paris and Rouen '4,510 0 0 6 Preston, and l'Vyrs 237 18 7 6 Sheffield and Manchester 577 11 8 11 South' Eaatern 6 Taft' Vale] 686 12 6 7 Uliter 731 9 8 .6 York and North Midland BANK STOCK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I find by the newspapers that much surprise has been expressed at what is called "the very high price of Bank Stock;" parties expressing that surprise cannot possibly be aware of the immense value of the property in which the proprietors of Bank Stock have an interest. I will shortly endeavour to explain it. In the first instance, I will explain that the Bank stockholders have not one penny of their advanced capital employed in the banking department ; what is called the rest, now amounting to upwards of 3,000,0001., is most undoubtedly the property of the stockholders, but it never was part of their advanced capital. It is profit accrued from banking that has not been divided when dividends have been declared. The whole of the capital was in the hands •f Government, for which they paid the Bank three per cent.; thus, when the Bank pays seven per cent. dividend to the stockholders, they receive out of that three per cent. from the Government and four per cent. from the ptofits of banking. lam not aware of the precise amount of Bank Stock on which the dividend is declared. By taking it at 14,686,8001., the amount due by the Government to the Bank in 1833, and on which four per cent. was paid to the stockholders in addition to the three per cent. from the Government, it is evident that a profit of nearly 600,0001. must have been made annually by banking over and above all and every expense ; and this enormous profit may be deemed to have been made on the capital employed of only 3,000,0001 (the amount of the rest) with the employ ment of other parties' capital which has been deposited at the Bank without interest. However the Directors may have been attacked for want of judgment in their proceedings as bankers, I believe as regards the public and the proprietors of stock, no company was ever con ducted with such strict regard to honour and honesty. As to the policy of the charter of the Bank as a monopoly, that is another question. Now as to the value of the property of the Bank stockholders : In 1833 the debt due by the Government to the Bank was 14,686,8001. Parliament in that year agreed to pay off one-fourth of the debt, which left a balanoe due to the Bank of 11,015,100 2. The mode by which the one-fourth of the debt due to the Bank was paid was this : that for the quarter, or 3,671,7001., the Bank was given 4,080,0001. Three per Cent. Re duced Stock, rendering the Government liable to pay the Bank, at a future period, just 405,3001. more than was duo ;_so this one- - fourth of the debt due to the stockholders in 1833 is now worth to them 3. The balance over assets and liabilities, called the "rest," which is the property of the Proprietors, as declared 24th Feb., 1844, 3,137,000 4. Estimated value of Bank notes lost or destroyed by parties out of the Bank, which it is not probable will ever be demanded . 400,000 5. Estimated value of the Bank buildings... 1,000,000 6. The value of the banking business, which is the cause of the additional four per cent. paid to the Proprietors over and above the three per cent. paid by the Government on the present debt of 11,015,0001., and the three per cent. realised on the 4,080,0001. Three per Cent. Reduced stock, the proceeds of a quarter of the debt paid by Government in 1833, estimated to be fully equal to the value of the amount of Bank stock itself, which we will take to amount to the sum due „...5.,... .... _ by Government to the Bank in 1833, before the quarter was paid off 14,686,000 The grand total of the sum in which the stockholders have an interest. 434,318,900 Thus we see that the value of the interest of the Pro prietors of Bank Stock is 150 per cent. more than their amount of stock, or as 100 to 250. Yet, strange to say, exclamations are made, " How very high Bank Stock is," when it is but double, viz. 200. I do not consider that I have exaggerated one single point, but I feel assured that I hare considerably under rated the value of Bank of England property, in conse quence of the Proprietors having an interest in other funds and securities that I am not able to get at. On the 4th of February, 1843, in a letter of mine to you, I stated that in the returns of the Direetors of the Bank of England to the Stamp-office, they calculated all the notes issued and not paid since the original grant of the Charter in 1696 as being in circulation, and that according to returns made by the Bank to Parliament in 1832, nearly half a million of notes were in circula tion, that it was probable the Bank would never be called 'upon to pay. Mr. Salomons, at the following general meeting of the Proprietors, asked the Governor if such were the fact—it was admitted by the Governor to be so. Bank Stock instantly rose seven per cent., so I may flatter myself that I conferred a benefit on the Proprietors by my announcement, and I have no doubt that if parties should find my statement as to the value of Bank property to be correct, that we shall see Bank Stock quoted at 2051. or 2061. in less than a week from the publication of the above.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., Ilfracombe, April 10, 1844. G ORDIUS. P.S. I send you a paragraph for your City articleifor September 1, 1844, viz., "Bank Stock at or above 2201." TESTIMONIAL TO MR.ROWLAND HILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU? Slll,—On reading in your edition of yesterday the article respecting the testimonial to Mr. R. Hill, I beg to suggest that yogi would further Mr. Hill's interest greatly, by informing the public what the testimonial is to consist of, as a great many of my neighbours would become subscribers, provided the money thus raised were given to Mr. Hill, so that he can lay it out for his own benefit. The rumour of a piece of plate being intended to be purchased as a testimonial to Mr. Hill, prevents Many people from adding their names to the subscription list, and among them is the writer, who would gladly re mit you a guinea for Mr. Hill if he was assured that his well-meant suggestion, or some similar plan, were to be carried into effect.—l am, Sir, -- X CONSTANT READER OF YOUR PAPER. Huddersfield, April 12, 1844. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prinee Albert, and their august visitors, the King and Queen of the Belgians and also some of the Royal suite walked this morning in the grounds about the Castle. Colonel Buckley arrived at the Castle to-day, and has succeeded Major-General Wemyss in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. The Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maid of Honour to her Ma jesty, has arrived at the Castle, in place of the Hon. Alias Devereux. The Royal Family him been taken out airings in carriages to-day. In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert left the Castle for an airing in an open carriage, the Prince driving. Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty, was in attendance on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Lady in Waiting, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, will join the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness afterwards went to his residence at Kew. Sir James Graham, and other Cabinet Ministers, had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Count Kielmannsegge, the Hanoverian Minstar, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. DEATH FROM STARVATION —An inquest was held at Rothwell; on Monday, before Mr. Jewison, Coroner, and a respectable jury, on view of the body of William Ward, aged 52, when the following evidence was ad duced :—Charlotte Ward, being sworn, said, " I am own cousin to the deceased William Ward. He resided in Rothwell; is 52 years of age; was formerly a coal miner, but has lately been employed three days a week by the overseers of Hunslet, at Is. 6d. per day, to which place he went to work at any kind of labour in the morning and returned home at night. He has a wife and six children, four of whom are unable to work. The other two, when in full work, earn l ls. a week, but they were only partially employed, until the colliers' strike ceased about a month since. The last month de ceased's income has been 15s, 6d. a week for eight per sons. I am sure he has sometimes wanted food ; has often left home to go to his work at Hunslet without breakfast, and taken nothing for his day's support but a small piece of bread. He complained on Saturday of pain in his breast, which continued till Sunday morning, and then he was better until night, when the pain be came worse until Monday morning ; then they fetched the doctor, who ordered a mustard plaster to his breast, but gave him no medicine, and said be was unfit to work, and that it was a shame he should be set to work,' Deceased had very little use of his bands when they were cold. He continued to get worse on Monday, but walked about. He could not bear to lie down for pain. I was sent for between four and five o'clock to his house, when I found him lying upon the floor behind the door insensible. Some persons raised him up, but he was dying. He breathed once or twice, and died. He has complained of want ing food many a time. I think he would have been living now if ho had been better provided with food. There are no marks of violence upon his person. The deceased was a pious man, of ex cellent character, was well known to the jury, by se veral of whom he had been occasionally assisted, and they were unanimously of opinion his death had been caused from want of food. The following verdict was re turned :—That the„ . .aaid William Ward, on the Ist day of April, at - his own house in Rothwell, suddenly fell down upon the floor, and then and there instantly died. That for the last twelve months he has suffered great privations for want of the common necessaries of life, and that be died from the effects caused by ex. haustion and want of food.—Leeds Intelligeneer. SOLICITOR.GENERALEHIP.—(From a Correspon. dent. , --A general impression p r evails in Lincoln's Inn, that ) Mr. John Stuart, Q.C., at the Chancery bar, will have the Solicitor -Generalship conferred upon him. He is a gentle man of the most unassuming habits, of great experience and ability, and, by.his courtesy and highly honourable principles and conduct, is a favourite with the bar. VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT TO GERMANY His Serene Highnesa the Prince of Leinengen, who arrived at Windsor on 'Thursday evening, with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, having accompanied the Prince Consort from Ostend to England in the Princess Alice Government steamer, will remain in this country upon a visit to her Majesty for about a fortnight. At the end of the present month his Serene Highness will accompany his illustrious mother, the Duchess of Kent, to the Continent, where her R o yal Highness is expected to re ma i n for abetut three weeks or a month. It is stated to be the intention of her Royal Highness, upon leaving England, to proceed to Paris, and thence to Germany, after a brief - soj ou r i i i n this French capital. The Royal Duchess is expected to pay a visit to her brothtr,- the . 1. 7 ,1ng cf: the gel ,any, durin,g ho,r ab co = Z. 13g, rettga4tbd CiPthna,it opt cl the Oft:- act Mow* GREAT FREE TRADE BANQUET. (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, MIDNIGHT. One of the greatest Free Trade displays ever witnessed in the town of Liverpool, took place to-night at the Amphi theatre, which was filled by an - elegantly-dressed company of ladies and gentlemen. The speakers were the Chairman (Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P. .for Wolverhampton), the Hon. Fox Maule, William Ewart, Esq., M.P., Richard Cob den, Esq., John Bright, Esq, M.P., Colonel Thompson, and other gentlemen. To save the post, we are obliged to give only the principal points of the leading speakers. The proceedings did not terminate'until near midnight. Tomas THOR,NELY, Esq., M.P., the Chairman, on rising to open the proceedings of the evening, at seven o'clock, was greeted with loud cheers. He said—Gentlemen, you will please to fill your glasses and drink to " The health of her Majesty the Queen, Mr whom we all entertain the highest honour led regard." (The toast was then drank with musi cal honours, the band playing the national anthem.) The CHAIRMAN again rose and said—The sooner, Gentle men, we drink the health of the. Consort of her Majesty the Queen the better. You will please, therefore, to fill. your glasses, and we will include in - the toast " The. Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and.the rest of the Royal Family." —(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN again rose and said--Gentlemen, our meet ing this evening is not upon any particular occasion, but it has been thought desirable by many of our friends that occa sional meetings should be held of the free traders of Liver- , pool, and if we have the good fortune, as we have this even ing, to be honoured by the attendance of distinguished strangers, of Right Hon. -and Hon. Gentlemen who hold a high place in their country's regard—gentlemen of great in telligence and:standing in the nation—and gentlemen who see the beatings of the free trade question, and come forward before' the public to show their adherence to the prin ciples. of free trade,—l. say if occasional meetings like this be held in a -commercial community like Liverpook great good must be the inevitable result of such meet ings.—(Loud cheers.) I have great pleasure in witnes sing the attendance of strangers, such as I have faintly de scribed, at a meeting like this, because I want these gentle men to know, that although the voice of Liverpool" as now expressed in Parliament, is exercised on the side of mono poly, yet I desire these gentlemen, who stand before Parlia ment and before the world as free traders, should know that in this community there is a body of enlightened intelligence which earnestly seeks he extension of commerce, and desires to enforce on the Parliament the principles of free trade. To these strangers I appeal to the present meeting. How can it be otherwise that a community like Liverpool, which has its agents in every part of the civilised world, and by their exertions in remote regions extend the commerce of Liverpool -how can it be otherwise but that those agents fi nd all the intercourse they would establish in foreign. countries is crippled and restricted, and in some cases destroyed by our present restrictive commercial system ? From the pro ceedings in Parliament I tnin - with the greatest satisfaction to the great advance which free trade principles have made in the public mind. Gentlemen, it is my great hope that the public mind is being impressed with the importance of these riuciples. I look back with great satisfaction upon the Committee that my Hon. Friend Mr. Ewart and I sat and served upon—the Import Duties! 'Committee—which brought to light a great deal of the embarrassment under which the commerce and manufactures laboured, and which en lightened the public mind npon such subjects. Gentlemen, you know how;much our respected friends Mr- Cobden and Mr. Bright have done. And here at my right hand is my Right Hon. Friend—if I may take the liberty of so calling him,—born of one of the high - est familiei in the land, and largely . interested in the agriculture of the country, from the extensive estates of that family—here is the Right Hon. Gentleman, who has held an important office under the late Government has done us- the 'honour to meet us this day to express his decided opinions in favour of free trade.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, we did expect that the Earl of Ducie would have doge us the honour_ to attend upon this occasion. I have here a letter which that Noble Earf has addressed to our worthy, secretary, Mr. Rawlins, in which the Noble Earl expresses his regret at finding it impossible to undertake a journey to Liverpool so soon after attending the meeting at Bristol. The toast lam about to propose - to you was, intended 4' have been given In the presence of the Earl Duple. That Noble Lord; for the reasons I have mentioned, is not present, - and I will, therefore, take the liberty, as it has been suggested to me, of making an alteration in the toast. in order to introduce, instead of the name of the Earl Ducie, the name of a distinguished nobleman, almost a neighbour Of ours, the Marquis of Westminster.—(Lond cheers.) If yon, .please, then, we will drink- the toast in this way-" The Marquis of Westminster, and the Earl Ducie."—(Cheers.) The Caantstasr—Gentlemen, I had hoped that one of the best Members of the House of Cominons, and one of the belt men out of the House of Commons, would have been here this evening to acknowledge the toast which I shall now, by your leave, propose to the-meeting. My respected friend, Mr. Charles 'Villiers, had engaged to be here this evening.— (Cheers.) On Monday last, there was a public meeting in Wolverhampton to promote the cause of free trade—a meet ing at which my respected colleague, Mr. Villiers, and I at tended, along with Mr. Cobden, Colonel Thompson, and Mr. Moore. Mr. Villiers had come down from London in a very indifferent state of health, and he remained in Wolverhamp ton aday or two, in the hope that he would recover suffi ciently to attend this meeting. This Morning, however, Mr. Rawlins received the following letter from him : " Birmingham. " Mr Dnin mith.great regret that I am com pelled to forego the pleasure of joining the free trade banquet on Friday. I have been suffering from indisposition for three weeks past, and it was not without considerable incon venience that I attended a dinner on Monday at Wolver-, hampton, and it has so far postponed my recover, as to pre clude the possibility of my attending the dinner in Liverpool. Believe me nothing eke would have prevented me from keeping my engagement. I have written to Mr. Thornely to beg him to make my apologise to the Committee.--I remain, my dear Sir, very till} , yours, " E. - Rawlins, Esq.' - "C. P. VILLIERS." Now, I have seen enough .of Mr. Villiers' state of health to know it would have been extremely imprudent for him to attend this meeting this evening ; and I could not, as his friend, and as a friend to the cause of free trade, desire him to come down to Liver . pool . at the risk of his health. Now, gentlemen, I beg to introduce to you, not for the first time— because he was a public man in Live rp ool before I had the honour to fill any situation of the sort—<Hear)—l beg, I say, to introduce to you our, *petted friend Mr. Ewart.—(Great cheering.) gefitlemen, Mr. Ewart has been so - obliging as to al low the toast to stand, in the way it is printed in the list.-` The Chairman concluded by saying, " And'now, if you please, we will give three cheers for Mr. Villiers."—(Three tremendous cheers were then given for that distinguished gentleman.) - WILLIAM EWART, ESQ., M.P., rose to respond, and was received with loud and long 7 continued cheers. When it subsided, he said—Gentlemen' I remember that it is re marked by a character in. Shskspeare, "that some men are born to honours, some men achieve honours, and some have honours thrust upon them." In the last of these characters I` appear before you this evening ; but I have a peculiar plea sine in being present this night, being only, as it were, the shadow of my friend, .Mr. Villiers—the man to whom we all owe -so much, whether , as. a legislator or as a citizen. — (Heir; hear.) If, gentlemen; I am to be considered but as the shadow, you will. recollect that the shadow proves the substance true ; and, however defective my reflective powers as a shadow may be, they prove the increasing value and lasting fame of my Hon. Friend Mr. Villiers.—(Cheers.) But I am called upon to respond to this toast in another capacity; because it includes the free-trade Members of the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) Would you Could num ber, not only . a more zealous, but a more numerous band of supporters, in that House—(Hear)—for, unfortunately, whilst they command the esteem of a great portion of the people of this country, their numbers are neither pro portioned to their -- cauie, nor, with the exception of myself, their talents ; but they are . now, I believe, making considerable progress in the country, and the country will eventually . carry them through, and ensure a final and effectual triumph to the principles of free tracie.—(Cheera.) Gentlemen, when lam called upon to re spond in behalf of those Members of the Home' of Commons who-have recorded their votes in favour of free trade, I turn found; and ask who they are ? Many of them the most distinguished that ever graced the annals of any country.— FHear,. hear.) And, aranngst them, is my Right Hon. riend on my right—your chairman—one known to you by local connexion, as .well as, by national celebrity—(Cheers) —and also those around me, whom . I may truly call the epos. ties of free , trade—!Mr. ebden and Mr. Bright-(Loud cheers)—men, my sense of whose services, I want words to express my approbation. I now see before me some of the real representatives of free trade in the House of Commons, but are there no latent and concealed free trade representa tives, who ought by proxy also to thank you? Why, if pro fession is to be relied on; the Prime Minister of the present Government is a free trader ; for to borrow an expression from a candidate for,the City of London, he is " a free trader in the abstract."—(Hear, hear.) If profession is to.be relied on, the Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department is a free trader in the abstract."—(Hear, hear.) If the Right Hon President of the BOard of Trade is to be measured, not by the profession of his princiPles, but by what he - has published, he is " a free trader in the abstract." These men only want moral courage to carry out their principlea; and I must say, if they would only come forward' With ''some.great and comprehensive mea sure, suckles a boldvirit like the elder Pitt, Lord Chatham, would have prodimd; they would carry with them all the sympathy, at well as support, of the present generation, and would command the gratitude of all posterity.—(Applause.) This I maintain and modestly profess, not only on behalf of the advocates of free trade generally, but also on behalf of the latent friends of free trade.—(Loucl:cheers.) But how stand we in the House of Commons? Not many years ago, • meet ing with my Hon. Friends Mr. Cobden and Mr, Thornely, in Palace-yard, near the House of Commons, I was called upon to declare by what means we could carry free trade in the senateof Great Britain? I took the liberty to state that you could only be successful by the use of one lever, and that must be the mechanical power exerted with out—that nothing could be done till the country took up the cause.—(Cheers.) Has not that prediction "been verified? Has not the country taken up the cause, and has not its in fluence been felt, even within that almoist impenetrable se nate, the Commons . House of Parliament ?—(Hear, bear, and cheers.) We _owe this to those friends of ours who have perambulated the country ; and what ever may be the • effect on the country, I can as sure you the effect within the walls of Parliament—those walls of tenfold brass—is but slight indeed. Conviction, reason, eloquence, must bring home the truth, not only to the Minds, but also to the feelings of the Members of that House, where not only a great portion of the capital, but also of the intellect of the country is to be found.--(Cheirs.) But, gen tlemen, however much I may respect the sincerity of ' those who luxuriate on the verdant Treasury benches of the House Commons, and m hoze w ve h r o m s zc as h Ifarmaasy men n e acorrectnesssee yet of or iheir Com I maintain, they aught not to be the judges of this question. They are in fact the advocates on one side, and as one-sided ad vocates, and one-eyed judges, they will never have their vision completely restored until p urge d b y the invigoratin g influence of the public mind —(Applause.) Thus i looltto the House of Commons, and see the Ministers convinced, but not changed. Thus they will remain - until we have stirred up, not only the' manufacturing interests, b u t the - co and agricultural also. And here I turn round mmercial operation of the Anti-Corn law and look at the Coen-law League has achieved thi s League—the Anti great triumph. It has broken, down the false barrier— the adamantine * which has long separated the manufact uri n gwall rural inhabitants of this country. It hasigo them wn and that the interests of the rural, and tile commercial, and the manufacturing classes are one.---(Loud cheers.) .To m e it appears as plain as the noon-day sun, that the rural popu- - lotion of this country is not a whit less interested than the manufactiring in repealing 'laws which make subsistence dear, and retard employment.—(Hear.) The Anti-Corn-lasi Leagtte kavegent 'amongst thispopUlatied. They hive a,ealed to tip tout furaervi-Lmallgcl, tTou tlitatodow4l. DRURY•LANE THEATRE. Duprez took his farewell last night of the English public, in.the same character in which be first ap peared before them, in 'which he won their favour, and kept it, to the end of his engagement—Arnold, in William Tell. ' The house Was filled, and the opera was exceedingly, well played ; the number of times it has been repeated having rendered the public familiar critical we analysis of the are spared the both with the music, of w hich none can grow weary, however often heard , a nd with Duprez' singing, nwohoiesschiwtye of h going ope to performance. It seems almost . a pity that, just when the different actors are ac quiring smoothness and finish in the parts, and the ch orusses have been drilled into precision, the engagement of the s t ar s h ou ld ter ihnetnar any it gain ter minate. He was last night encored in the grand solo in the last scene, throughout which he both sang and acted with e xtraordinary fire and energy, and at the end of the piece was called be fore the curtain to receive the farewell plaudits of his English audience, which were accompanied by a shower of garlands, wreaths, and bouquets. We trust his brief visit has been satisfac tory, both to himself and the manager. The per formances terminated with the revived melodrama, the Tale of Mystery, which dragged through two acts, frequently intempted by hisses; it was only saved by the PasStyrien, danced by Miss Webster and M. Delferier. The piece is evidently opposed to the taste of the day. THE NEW NOVEL, EY THE AETEORESS or "THE FLIET."—We are requested to state that the " Wilful nessb of Woman," a novel,y the auth oress of "The History of a Flirt," " The Manceurring Mother," &c., in 3 vols., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had at all the Li braries. Mr. Colburn has also just published :-2. Mr. Lever's new work, " Arthur O'Leary," illustrated by George Cruikshank, 3 vols. 3. " Whitefriars ; or, the Days of Charles IL," an historical romance, third edi tion, 3 vols. 4. " Chatsworth ; or, the Romance of a Week," edited by the author of " Tremaine," "De Vere," &c., second edition, 3 vols. S. " The Perils of Beauty," by Captain Frederick Chamier, 3 vols. 6. "The Brothers," by the author of " Oliver Cromwell," &C., 3 vols. 7. " Windsor Castle," an historical romance, -with -110 illustrations by George Cruikshank, &c., 1 vol., price 145., eleently bound. Lord stan)ly aiFiyed tcFAT,yp,t4piti•y,P7.o l .;tb.ig, , UowSteT Lucelbin 13, 1844. Y:S. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Ozrom), APRIL IZ.—There will he exercises in the Divinity School, for the degree of 8.D., on Thursday, the 18th, and Friday, the 19th instant, on the following subjects : 1. The Church of England does not teach, nor can it be proved from Scripture, that and• change takes place in the elements at consecration in the Lord.'s Supper. 2. It is a mode of expression calculated to give errone ous views of Divine Revelation, to speak of "Scripture and Catholic Tradition" as joint authorities in the matter of Christian doctrine. Respondent—Rev. Richard ()ell Macmullen, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College. The exercises will commence at two o'clock on each day. i2AMBRIDGE, APRIL 12.—The following appointments have taken place : The Rev. Daniel Nihill, M.A.. of St. John's College, to the Vicarage of Bridgwater-cum-Chilton, Somerset. —value, 3421. The Rev. William Nassau Molesworth, M.A., of Pembroke College, to the Incumbency of St. Clement's Church, Spotland. The Rev. Wiiliam Curdall, 8.A., of St. Peter's Col leFe, to the Incumbency of the Holy Trinity Church. IN est Brotriwich. The Rev. William Goodwin, M.A., of Jesus College, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Benedict in Norwich— value 951. The Rev. Edward Rudg►e, S.C.L., of -St. Catherine's Hall, to the Curacy of Chelsea, London. The Rev. J. Augustus Williams, 8.A., of Clare Hall, to the Curacy of Roughton, near Cromer, Norfolk. Term commences on Wednesday next, April 17. REGISTRATION SOCIETY, ISLINGTON.—A meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Mary, Islington, was held on Thursday night, at the Old Parr's Head, Upper street, to take into consideration the conduct of the parochial authorities as connected with the omission from the Parlia mentary Register, and consequent disfranchisement, of a large number of the occupiers of small houses in the district. The exposure which had taken place in the vestry on Tues day last on the subject, had created great excitement in the neighbourhood, and caused the meeting to be fully attended. W. Harvey, Esq., of Cleudesley-terrace, was called to the chair. He opened the business by impressing upon the meeting that the question was one of considerable importance to the inhabitants of the parish, and one which should be met promptly, as it attacked the dearest political rights of the people. Mr. Wickham detailed the particulars of the at tempted infringement on the elective franchise, an infringe ment which, had it not been taken up as it had in the case of Mr. Hewston, might, and doubtless would, be carried to an extent which would prove prejudicial to the best rights of citizenship, and dangerous to the principles of public liberty. Mr. Wickham was followed in the same spirit by Messrs. Alt, Healey, Mabbs, and several other gentlemen ; and a re solution was unanimously passed for the formation of a Society to watch over the interests of the elective franchise, and by its operation to counteract any such attempt as that complained of in the cane of Mr. Hewston and other inhabit ants of the parish. COMMISSION OF LUNACT.—Yesterday a writ de lunatico inquirend• was executed at the Sheriffs' Court. Red Lion-square, before Mr. Commissioner Barlow, and a jury of nineteen householders, to inquire into the state of mind of Mrs. Mary Bagnell, aged 84, a widow lady of some property, residing at Bamsbury Park, Islington. The Commission was unopposed, and was sued out at the instance of the trus tees under the will of the late Mr. Charles Bagnell, the hus band of the alleged lunatic. The unfortunate lady had be come a widow in June last, and the loss of her husband, to whom she had been married between fifty and sixty years, had so affected her reason that she had been incapable of managing her affairs ever since. The principal delusion under which she laboured was that her husband had been restored to life, and that her father and grandfather had likewise risen from the dead, and were in the habit of visiting her. She would not go to bed of a night, and had assured Dr. Munro that Prince Albert had got under her chair in the form of a little dog, and that she could not get any rest on account of his barking so loud. The appearance of the venerable lady did not indicate the least imbecility of mind, and she scarcely looked above sixty years of age. The jury dated her insanity from the 6th of September, 1843. PROJECTED POST-OFFICE CHANGES.—It having been officially announced that her Majesty's Birth-day celebra tion will take place on Thursday, the 25th instant, active exertions are being made at the General Post-office in pre paring the uniform of the letter-carriers. This year nearly a thousand suits (with the exception of trousers) will have to be provided for the London and suburban letter-carriers alone, exclusively of two-thirds of that number for those of Edinburgh and Dublin. The celebration is three weeks earlier than usual. The increase; in the deliveries of the London district post, and other contemplated changes in the department, it is said, will take place the same week. POPULAR DELUSIONS.—The undermentioned are remarkable modern instances of popular delusions :-1. The belief in Sir Robert Peel's promise, that the income-tax was only to last for three years.-2. The idea when the said Sir Robert last came into office, that he had - any particular in tention except to retain The ridiculous notion still entertained by a very few weak people, that the Cabinet will make any attempt at legislation on the Corn-law, Irish, or Duelling questions, or any other subject of national import ance, till agitation thereon shall have reached the verge of rebellion.-4. The supposition that Ministers, in the present posture of affairs, know, in the slightest degree, what to do. —Punch. A stable behind Milburn-place, North Shields, in which were four horses, was discovered to be on fire on Sun da .y morning, at three o'clock. After great exertions two of the poor animals were saved, but one was burnt to death, and another severely injured. The stable, with another similar building adjoining, was. entirely destroyed. W FLA LIE FISHERY .—As ERDEZ N, APRIL S.—Yes terday, the St. Andrew, Penny, left port, for Davis' Straits fishing ; this is the only vessel on a like adventure from this city ; the trade having been discontinued for some years past, while upwards of twenty years ago, fifteen ships went to the northern seas from Aberdeen alone. THE ROYAL MARINE RESIDENCE.— We have the gratification of announcing that the Osborne estate is now in the actual possession of her Majesty—the " writings," as the phrase is, having been ratified and exchanged.—Hamp shire Advertiser. ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. — Yesterday afternoon a public meeting of the members of the Veterinary College was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the purpose of receiving the Royal Charter of Incorporation, lately granted by her Majesty. The meeting was attended by the principal veterinary surgeons of the metropolis and suburban districts, and the Presidents and Professors of the Schools of London and Edinburgh. Mr. Thomas Turner, the President ap pointed under the charter pro tem., took the chair. The charter was then formally presented to the meeting and read. The election of officers, &c., followed. POLICE SUMMONSES AGAINST LICENSED VICTUAL LERS.—The system of persecution against licensed victual lers, which has already rendered the Bow-street district and the F division of police most conspicuous in the eyes of tradesmen, seems, if possible, to be on the increase in ac tivity. Not content with having case after case dismissed— with Mr. Jardine's firm opinion that proof of serving must be given e'er ho can convict—with giving the licensed vic tualler the trouble of leaving his home and business—the anxiety consequent upon being threatened by law, which Ma pervade some portion of his family, if not himself—and thel annoyance of bringing his whole household to rebut a charge which requires no answer, but to which the fullest defence must be made, and the most private intricacies of an esta blishment must be sacrificed—the Commissioners of Police have, under the advice of the superintendent of the F divi sion (Sandrock), approved of the issuing of no less than eleven summonses for the appearance of licensed victuallers at Bow-street, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next, to answer various charges preferred against them. Among those summoned are Mr. Edward Lacey, the Garrick's Head, Bow-street; Mr. Rhodes, the Coal-hole Tavern, Strand; and Mr. Rhodes (brother of the last mentioned), Cider-cel lars, Maiden-lane. During the year, from March, 1843, to March, 1844, one hundred and seven summonses under the Police Act were heard at Bow-street against licensed vic tuallers, being one-third of the number of licensed victuallers in it, viz., three hundred and twenty, while in not more than forty cases were convictions obtained, and the greater number of those stretched to the utmost extent of the law.— Advertiser. A PRIMO TENORE IN ARREST.—MONS. PILLET.— The directeur of the Academie Royale at . Paris made a journey last winter to Italy, to engage a primo tenore for his establishment, and not long • since dispatched M. Dietsch, attached to the Academie Royale, to bring him over. The primo tenore being still under an engagement for several years with Merelli (the impresario of La Scala), had recourse to a stratagem to escape the Argus eyes of the suspecting manager, and, consequently, adopted the disguise of M. Dietsch's servant, and so they departed. Arrived at the frontiers, they performed their part admirably, but, from some trivial circumstance, sus picions being aroused, the Italian gendarmes insisted on a second examination of their passports. The tenore, annoyed by the frequent and inquisitorial questions of the police, and giving way to the pride and impetuosity so characteristic in the Italians, exclaimed, " Well, no, am not the servant of M. Dietsch, I am Signor and glory in being so," upon which both were immediately arrested and are at present prisoners at the Italian frontiers. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS' ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday the Journeymen Tailors' Association resumed their sittings at their room in St. Martin's-lane. They received a number of provincial delegates, and proceeded to the formation of a Central Executive Committee, under regulations agreed u 1 3 9 0; and which are to belmblished. The system of organization laid down appeared to be founded upon very rational o princi ples, and was carried unanimously. The convocation th in ca t t there con cludes for this year to .clay; on the understanding a The German is to be an annual meeting-of delegates Committee. with the Central Exe cutiveiLErnAsißsTligiQUl. o f recent earth , quakes :--‘• On the 7th ult., between nine and ten i n the evening, a violent shock was felt at Braila, in W;11- c Ai t the following TC a o c is c -r o accounts I : lachia. It lasted two seconds, with the noise of a report of a cannon at a great distance. The movement seemed to come as it were from the centre of the earth to the surface. The weather was at the time mild and serene, as it had been throughout the da .famage was done. In With. the exception of a few cracks in the walls no the evening of the 15th the town of Ragusa was alarmed by a similar visitation at a quarte r past nine. A slight shock was felt, preced e d and fo llowed . by a rumbling noise. It lasted three seconds. At seven minutes past three in the morning a second but lighter vibration was perceived, and some persons have affirmed that they felt a third betw een five o'clock and a quarter past. At - Zara, about a quarter past nine in the morning, on the 22d, during a violent gale from the north and a cloudy sky, a shock was felt, which lasted several seconds, and greatly alarmed the inhabitants." DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—A circumstance occurred at East Ilardwicke, near Pontefract, on Wednesday Reek, exceeding anything we have lately heard of for its atrocity and cool-blooded villany. The wife of Mr. Frankish, gardener to Mrs. Bland, of Houndhill-hall, picked up in their garden a piece of wood, about the size of a common brick, aid which she placed on the fire. In a short time she was alarmed by a report, and hastened to the fire, and with the tongs removed the piece of wood into the yard, which was scarcely done when a second report took place, as loud as that of a gun. .On examining the fragments of the wood, it was found that a 1-101 e bad been drilled and charged with (it is supposed) five ounces of gunpo% der. Fortunately, the daraii..stata of the wood prevented the .thirnestateezplostou... A. reward is c.fered for this dis•- tvarya the cr.teat•;344 it is tc, 114 hoped e. 4 clUtz:4 1 4 4.4 *la te tc ) WiiiirroP 47 4o ll 640141 t NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTII, APRIL 10.—The British Soiweign freight ship, with stores and troops, for the Cape of Good Hope, arrived on Sunday from the river, and embarked upwards of 120 soldiers from Pasishurst barracks, Isle of Wight, being detachments to . join regiments serving in the east. She 'sailed this day' fur the Cape of GoOd Hope, Mauritius, and Ceylon The Admiralty yacht Black Eiticle'"Mr:S. B. Cook, Master commanding, arrived from Cork. on-Tuesday evening, came into harbour, where Stie_iril)ooait fur-. ther orders. It is reported here that the Malabar, 72 ClPtiktit Sir G. Sartorius, has arrived at Plymouth from th Mediterranean, but instead of coming to this port he paid off, as was expected, has been ordered to Cade t having, like the Vernon, taken in :a - reinforeement dF Marines, to join the squadron of Rear-admiral Bowles. - A detachment of Marines is also ordered from Chat * ham, for the same destination. • NAVAL BOAT PRACTICE.--This afternoon, the weather being delightfully fine, and the water smooth the inhabitants of this famed port were gratified by the exhibition of a mimic engagement at the mouth' of the harbour. Seven boats, well manned and armed, belonging to the flag-ship St. Vincent, came out of the harbour about '2 r.m., and when abreast of the Platform battery, opened a sharp and vigorous fire upon each other. The launch and the pumice, -the former commanded by the flag-captain of the port - (. F. Rowley), mounted large guns in the -hew and stern, apparently 12-pounders, which, torther with the musketry, gave the practice the Apliginftce of reality. The large. guns are adapted to these boatel upon a new principle. They arecmade to ship and un ship in a way heretofore, we are informed, unpractised , Thus they are fitted wit h the improved slides, by which with the use of an inclined plane, the guns can, in few moments and with less trouble and labour than in any way before experienced, be converted into ballast ey removal into the bottom of the boat, and van be as quickly remounted. Such au unusual sight drew some hundreds of persons to the ramparts of the town, who were highly gratified spectators of the mock gallantry of our modern tars. This kind of practice is admirably adapted to bring seamen forward in this mode of naval warfare, and infinitely preferable and better calculated' to inspire an ambition to enter the service than the dull monotony of the daily avo cations in a guard-ship. The tars themselves seemed much invigorated by their exercise. The squadron having tacked about for upwards of half an hour, much to the delight of the assembled multitude, pulled into harbour, and returned to their ship. The exercise I will be frequently repeated. WORKMEN ABROAD. The following is an extract from the evidence given before the Factory Commissioners, by Mr. E. Rose, a millwright and engineer, who bad worked at several places on the Continent; he was called : " Is a man with thirty-five sous a day in France better off than a man with is. 6d. in England ?—Ac cording to their way of life, certainly he .s. They had generally little plots of ground which their wires cultivated, and his wages seemed to be for other things than necessaries. A man there is satisfied with a deal coarser clothing than those here, and the climate was so warm that very little did in summer. They seemed to be more contented to their work than men are here. They were mostly Protestants at Mulhausen, and after going to the church of a morn ing, where they were regular enough, they could fro out into the country to dancing, or skittling, or dif ferent games and pastimes, and so they seemed to go more content to their work again ; for here a mate must break a day if he wants to get a little diversion. Should you say the Frenck were a sober set ? Yes, they appeared a very comfortable set of people. 1 am very well pleased with them for my own part. I did not see them get beastly drunk as working men are inclined to do here. What amusements or innocent recreations has s working-man here on a Sunday ?—None at all that I know, but taking a walk in the country, which is not forbidden that I know of. Did you go to church at Muihausen ?—Yee ; but from not so well understanding the language, it made it very awkward. Igo to the old church here pretty regularly, but having the care of Mr. Roberts ma chinery, and living on the premises, I cannot al ways go. Judgingfrom what you saw in France and Switzer land, do you think it conducive to the morality and good conduct of the working class that they should spend a portion of Sunday in such recreations as you have described ?—Judging from what I saw there, I should say that it was much better than the way in which people are forced to spend Sunday in England, It is a thing I have thought of ever since I was there. Here a man can do nothing but go to the public-house on a Sunday, and he goes with the in tention to get drunk, as it were ; and sit drinking glass after glass ; there, people going out to dances and Ilifferent games, and having different recreations at :the places where they go, such as cards and dominoes, can cheerfully enjoy themselves, drinking but little. But here a man can do n othing at a public-house, if he goes there, but drink, and lie can go nowhere else on a Sunday. It seemed to me that they went easier and happier to their work again there than they do here. Everybody has a right to his own opinion ; but, after what I saw I there, am confident that nothing would be more conducive to the good behaviour of the working class here than for them to have such innocent recreations on a Sunday as they have there. I was left fatherless myself here at seven years of age, and I went to a Methodist Sunday school in Lever-street, where I was taught hymns and prayers, but nothing of reading and writing, when a young fellow with whom I was acquainted took me to a Sunday-school in Mosley-street, belong ing to the Unitarians, where they taught reading and writing on a Sunday. This I found of great service. lam not a Unitarian. I know that children do not get any good by being taught prayers and hymns, so I was at a Methodist school. They sing and say, but don't understand them. Something useful should he got into their heads. There are thousands of children that go to Methodist schools : they are never taught anything but to read the Bible, and not to write. - lam sure they should be taught something else. Judging from myself as a child, and from others that I have seen, I consider the manner the Methodists treat their children in Sunday schools a complete loss of time; it keeps them out of the streets, and that is all. Then your opinion is, that religion among the working class would not b e i n j ure d by s p en di ng the Sunday in England as they do in France and Switzer land ?—I do really consider it would be improved; for even now, if a young fellow wants a little recreation on a Sunday, he gets up early and takes e stroll into the country, and comes home in the middle of the day tired, and then he thinks of a public-house. But if he knew that, after the middle of the day, he could go out into the country to cheerful society arid lively meetings, I do really believe he would be more apt to go to church of a morning. I. was struck with theadvantages that the working class seamed to me to have in }ranee and Switzerland over us here is spending their Sundays. It does produce there what I never see in England. THE LATE FATAL FIRE IN OXFORD-STREET. Ft - NERAL or THE SuFFEßEEs.—Testerday afternoon the mortal remains of Mrs. Williams and her two children were removed from the house of herbrother, Mr. Abbott, a licensed victualler, in High-street, St. Giles's, te.tbeir last resting place, at Kensal-green cemetery. The funeral was an nounced to take place at two o'clock, and long before that time crowds of persons were collected round the house anxious to catch a glimpse of the mournful procession. It must lady to hear of the respect which was paid to her upon this be a source of gratification e friends of the doceasei shops around the n eighbourhood w h ere melancholy the fire took plate occasion. With one or two exceptions, all th e , were closed. _The bodies of the servants had, from the time t hey were dug out ef the ruins, been lying at the undertakers', o o h f n ac K tin o g ru t b h le e e it h ig a, L r t E a i l n N e d F t A b L be intentionTA I' . J and they were yesterday conveyed to, and met the pr0e.443i011 at the cemetery. ° lt li n s ow i n E e m nt n e meter of Falstaff ; indeed, unless we ors much mistaken welt his appearance in the part was actually announced. From this undertaking, how ever ' he was dissuaded by his see nothing friends, who co u ld of the humorous fat knight in the grave and dignified representatives of the heroes of old Rome. lo ut far other than the conven tional stage-Falstaff the model followed more or lets closely by the generalit }of • actors, was Kemble's notices of that extraordinary Shaksperian character, the Falstaff of Peery the Fourth, not he of The Merry Wives air Windsor, for between them there are wide differences in many essential respects. Dr. tiaginn, is his " Skit speare Papers," says—" we must observe that he (Fal staff) never laughs. Others laugh with him, or at him, but no laughter from him who occasions or permits it. He jests with a sad brow. The wit which he profusely spatters about is from the head, not the heart. Its go itre-, is slight, and never malignant or affronting ; but still it is satirical, and seldom ,joyous. It is anything but fun. ..,---, .!•thLiear-that this conception of the chit reeler could never be rendered popular on the stage; but I have heard in private the part of Falstaff read with a perfectly grave, solemn, slow, deer, and sonorous v oice, touched occasionally somewh at with the broken tone of age, from beginning to end, with admirable effect. Hens I can imagine him painted according to my idea. always caricatured., and so be is in the actingZ Did Kemble's conception of the character bear any aftity to this of Dr. Maginn's (which not unlikely it did), his , performance, though it might not at once have sup. planted the popular ides of Sir John, would at least hare taught the public that he was something superior to the mere fat buffoon to which they had thereto been aecus • toured EFFECTS OF GRIEF.—A few days ego one of the men belonging to the detaclunent of the aSth Foot, about to proceed to New South Wales as a convict guard, was =p ia& affected by parting with his parents at Chatham. Hie father and mother had stayed with him during the night, and he bade them farewell before going on parade, where he seemed rather low-spirited. As the detachment, however. was marrhing_along the military .road, the poorfellow r e. cognised hie.mother, who was weeping at a little clistam o =lithe sight 3 0 engted him that it appeared to lel% 44 ti:Z gt:tr.gth, =I he was at last p:acid 04=1'111:4 43 b,e‘iev vaibie to watt= in tte mu* ..;*, r.) NT. itice Dckce ,her, 'ern ,