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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 15 The Sraixra took the Chair at Fourro'Clock. The Salford- Improvement Bill was read a third time and passe!,. Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the time for Com rni tees on Turnpike Road Bills to make their re po. ts, Le enlarged till Friday, the 21st day of June Dent. —Agreed to. '1 • m.. M. O'CONNELL preSented a number' of pe titions from Ireland, against Lord Eliot's Irish Re gistration Bill. The Earl of -MARCH presented two petitions from Sussex, against the union of the sees . of St, As :and' Ban got.. Mr,BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol, pAYing.that the excise duty on soap might be repealed. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Gataere, near Liverpool, in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The petition, amongst oshers, contained the names of three magistrates of the county of Lancaster. Mr. BROADLEY presented a petition from Yorkshire, against the Bill. Mr. 'T. EGERTON presented petitions from Cheshire, in favour of protection to agriculture. Mr. GT, DSTONE brought up the fourth report of the Select Committee on Railways, which was laid on the table. Lord INGESTRE moved that the petition of Captain Dickenson, presented on the 14th May, re specting the ship Thetis, be printed.—Ordered. An Hox. MEMBER here moved that the House be counted, and there being but thirty-four Members present, the House adjourned at Half-past Four. . . _ moved her rising surprise by a proposal, second by argu ments weak and untrue. They were, nevertheless, held forth in a manner, which, by banishing her doubts, so raised her confidence, that, in a weak moment, she fell is with his wishes. They remained an hour and a half in the room, during which time the -gallant accomplished the ruin of her virtue, -and gave rise to a remorse which destroyed her peace of mind. Finding herself ill in January, 1843, a Mr. Collin!. son, 'of Deptford, attended, and discovered the cause of her in disposition. In April .she exhibited sins of pregnancy, and defendant being consulttni about- it, was alleged -to have ap peared quite ignorant of Miss Carey and her condition. A child was born on the sth of July, she being then-under the care of a Mrs. Elliott, of Mason-street, Kent-road, and had been so for sixteen weeks, at the charge of 2s. 6d. per week.. Mr. Collinson's bill was 3 1 . lla. 2d. ; and Miss Carey could no longer collect her mother's rents. Mr. Shaw defended the action in propria persona. He is a respectable, industrious man, and . none of the letters putin evinced any intention on his part that was not honourable. HaVing cross-examined the witnesses, ha declared himself to be without the means of discharging a verdict ; admitted the walk to the house at !Islington, but denied having been ac cessory to the birth of a child. It, appeared from his employer, that his salary was at pre sent about 1001. per annum, and that he exerted talent and application in the prosecuting of his-duties. rho LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up, Oving de fendant- all the - advantage be could 'expect, the jury gave a' verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 201. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. _ A respectable young man of the Jewish persuasion, named David Symonds, was summoned before the Lord Mayor by a very sharp-looklag hackney-coach driver, who called himself Alfred Marling, No. 1,706, for hav ing refused to pay for 'the hire of the said coach. The case attracted a crowd of fair auditors. It appeared that the complainant having determined to leave the condition falsely calle4 " single blessedness," hired two carriages to convey Ow lady to whom he was to be united, and himself and a fair friends, to the syna gogue. Although abounding with bridegroom feelings, he did not forget that it would be prudent to - make a' bargain with the drivers, and a bargain he accordingly made. The ceremony having been performed, the happy pair and their friends returned tO Mr. Symonds' house, and upon their arrival a demand was made which he did not consider he was bound to pay, as it exceeded the contract, and wag, in his opinion, evidently made an a draw upon the weakness of his altered state. As love had not quite blinded hire in the matter of - his pocket, and as he entertained no idea of being swamped by a mere driver of a hackney-coach, he re solved to have the judgment of the Lord Mayor upon the subject, and the driver summoned him, in order to ob tain the just amount he claimed, and in the hope that the decision would operate as a warning to other people of the Jewish religion how necessary it was for them to behave honourably to the whip fraternity: The complainant said the Jew gentleman, wanting to get married, engaged him to take some of. tke party to the synagogue, and after the knot was tied, which occu pied them nearly two hours, refused to pay him more than half-a-crown, four shillings or four shillings and sixpence being his regular fare. It was in vain that assurances were made that the money paid was much below the sum which the law assigned, and the affair was the more vexatious, as the driver of another coach, in which others of the party were accommodated, received five shillings from the bridegroom. He (complainant) considered that he was very ill-treated in the whole business. Sir Joint should like to know whether you and the other coachman were engaged together ? Complainant—No, my Lord ; I knew nothing about him, only that he got five shillings, and I only got half a-crown, though I carried the bride and bridegroom. Sir JOHN PIRIE—NeII, what has the defendant to say ? Mr. Symonds said that the complainant and the other driver had agreed to take the bridal party to and from the synagogue for five shillings, after having tried to get six. Upon the return of the party home he put into the hands of the other coachman the fire shillings to discharge the whole coach hire. They both appeared to be going, when the complainant suddenly returned and said they had not reeeived enough, and began to make a noise about the premises ; and, to prevent any further annoyance, he (Symonds) threw th e man half - a - crown , and then both went away perfectly satisfied. It was not therefore without surprise that he received a summons calling fur additional money. Sir .1. Putzn—Have you got any witness to prove the contract ? Here a man stepped forward, who stated that he heard all the particulars of the agreement, and that the defendant had accurately described what had occurred. Sir J. PIRIE—I see plainly how it is. The driver thought he had the Jew upon the hop. It was a ma noeuvre between the two whips to do the bridegroom, but he has resisted the attempt. They thought that a Jew in such a situation was easily to be imposed upon, and that• he would not stomach any question of his liberality; but he has very properly refused to submit. 'discharge the summons. Complainant--My.Lord, I do assure you I knowed nothing of t'other driver. I hope you'll give we my ex penses at any rate. Sir J. FIRM-I'll give you no satisfaction, except that of telling you that the comp'ainant is discharged, and that you have failed to do the Jew as you expected. THE FACTORIES BILL. (From the Times.) Sir Robert Peel is tbr the present the undisputed arbitrator of the factory question. Of Lord Ashley's merits and demerits' it is needless to speak. His part in the business Is a matter of history, and a matter of history it will probably remain. For the future, he will find himself most at home in those places and assemblies where religious and charitable feelings may be safely awakened without the peril of as immediate, a vital, and painful test. He is not made for the House of Commons, tor the House of Commons for him. It scarcely deserves an early renewal of those stirring appeals which it has acknowledged only to reject. A Legislature which trifles with_the gravest questions of humanity, which gathers round the teacher one day, and runs away from him the next, calls for the application of a sterner hand, and in due. time will probably receive it. But is Sir Robert's position, on the ether hand, one to be proud .of ? He has gained the day ; but so has many an unprincipled man, and many a trickster. The Premier is neither of these, yet, after all, we see nothing to envy' or to admire in his achievement, or in that whole position—that whole series of positions—of which this is only a specimen. His strength consists- in the weakness of others. He knows his ground, he distinguishes with a practised - eye the salient points of the various difficulties which immediately surround him, and, above all—a rare gift in statesmen I— he appreciates the virtues and capacities •of - those he has., to deal with, As far as virtues are con- cerneel, he does not fall into the error of an exaggerated , estimate. He knows what stuff millowners and land owners are made of. This is his great secret of state I He knows that every party has its price. He has also the faculty of appealing with decent solemnity to respectable sel fishness. He is eloquent on gain and loss. Private corrup tion is but a vulgar expedient. It disappoints the many and makes the few insatiable. So a kind of public and wholesale corruption is the grander plan of our times. There are two parties at this moment in actual possession of England's des tinies,—the landowners and the znillowners,—rival capi talists. The Reform Bill, contrary to the anticipations of both friend and foe, has sent to Parliament the representa tives of wealth rather than of men. Mere proxies of corn and cotton crowd the house. Sir Robert Peel's position is to . play off these interests against one another. He is the eEolus that keeps in mutual check the squally north and the steamy south. But first it is necessary to propitiate them at the cost of inferior, or less efficacious parties. If there is any point on which the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Bright are likely to illscover - a - comninnity Of interest, or any measure profitable• to one and not injurious to the other, that will be sure to suit Sir Robert's purpose. Such is the Premier's posi tion in the present instance, and such his policy. He is beset by certain inconvenient demands from a particular class of labour. An actual case of suffering, backed by a little stray benevolence, sled possibly by some other less assignable sym pathies er antipathies, finds its way into Parliament and dis turbs the equilibrium. If it is relieved, then confessedly there arises . a degree of peril fo the capit a l con n ec t e d w ith that labour. That capital must be supported, if possible without damage to the rival capital. Sir Robert does the thing to admiration. He takes * general view of the question. " This is a case," he says, "of labour insur gent against capital. All you capitalists have a isemmen interest in protecting the free development of capital, which is the source of employment. Restrictions on labour are re strictions Ontapitel, andOonsequently on the universal divi dend of rich and poor. One concession to labour leads to another, without end." Every now and then he spices the argument with an allusion to the fact that manufacture is run very close indeed in the market of nations, that we have already been obliged to surrender • every natural advantage once possessed by our manufacturer, that he suffers peculiar burdens, " ho runs a race and carries weight," and, therefore, as things arc at present, we cannot clog him by restricting the labour in his employ. The speech is descriptive of the Pre anier's position, and of • nothing else. It does not meet the case in debate, and hardly deserves to be called an argument upon it. From the first to the last sentence not only ie there not one syllable on that case, but the tenor shows that it Is wholly-forgotten, and something else is present in the Pre mier's mind. The real question proposed by - Lord Ashley was not whether lahour should be protected, but whether the female-and the youthful labourer -should be protected as , the female and youthful capitalist are. Protection was asked not in behalf Of labour against capnal, but in behalf of the weaker -sex and age against the stronger. It was a special case. -The slightest recollection of the point at issue would have excluded as wholly irrelevant the pretty dilemrha with which the Premier adorned his opening sen tence. He charges some of his opponents with in consistency, because, while they are against restricting the importation of corn, they propose to restrict labour. But is it not quite compatible - to desire an open supply of.the necessaries of life, and also legal protection fat thoae•whoM the law has ever held to require it? But even as arguing against the legislative protection of labour in general, Sir Robert iealmost studiously flimsy and negligent. He states a certain loss likely to -arise. to the manufacturer from the proposed restriction on time. The particular docum int he makes his text for this purpose is one' obviously of that does not apply, as it dates at a period (1842) when tirtte-was shortened, with an express wish to diminish pro duction operative, a s h e s t a t e s it , i s w i t hi n the compass of in th e same rat i o. A ga i n, t h e l os i to t h e master find to the l are fi quoted ipen from a on. pu F b u irie th at e iei ron,etfhlesfl7 with _ t hours h theb areof l labour bot an nouncement that there may hare been subsequent changes, ' and without any allusion te e the hoped-for probability of of dealing with the moral are7uamepenlrte.of foreigners following our [sood Lord Ashley The Premier's mode illus trates as much the peculiar temper question issue. He did his utter forgetfulness of the of u argument as it cannot deny that the nation is morall yge to it protect certain classes naturally weak, where it can, and are so numerous that it cannot help observing them. W© t ‘T ,Y e pass over a few other conspicuous flimsinme.s. But why assa il a speech with newspaper criticism which , was never meant for newspapers P It was aimed at a mark and hit it. It told on the Conservative mind. Eighty-eight of Lord Ashley's supporters took the hint and withdrew. Blest had, of course, already taken a hint—perhaps the whole hods?. It was painful, of course , t o announce desertian immediatel y after Lord Ashley's first triumph, and the consequent decla ration of Ministers; so, possibly some day it will come ` out out that they drew up a round robb in, and the redoubted Acland was, the spokesman of the-eighty - eight , as b ei ng their alphabetical chief. Unhappy preeeminenee I Were we Mr. Acland, we should take some early opportunity of burying ourselves in the midst of the alphabet, even at the loss of ancestral aseociations. Fifteen of these eighty-eight " went SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. STAND ARD.—There is something not altogether satisfactory in the story of Mr. Gray's dismissal, alluded to last night by Lord Norinanby, though we think that the dismissal cannot be denied to have been proper and even necessary. The story is this—a person named Osborne was seized in the act of offering for sale some seditious ballads in the town of Kilkenny ; he was convicted before Mr. Gray, a stipendiary magistrate, and, in default of bail, committed for trial at the assizes, less, howevee, with the purpose of punishing him than to secure his evidence against the printer of the ballads, one Moran. Mr.' Gray, probably compassionating Os borne's condition, wrote to the Government to solicit the man's release, intimating that that indulgence would not deprive the Crown of his evidence against Moran. The application appears to have been answered by a gentleman named Brewster, who in Dublin Castle occupies an inexplicable, irrespon ' Bible, and not very constitutional, office, long familar to Ireland, though we have happily nothing like it in this country—WQ may call it " Attorney-General of the back stairs.' Mr. Brewster, in his answer, declined to liberate Osborne, intimating at the same time an opinion, that other sufficient evidence against Moran might be easily obtained. Such intimations from official superiors, written on official paper and sealed with official seals, are always read as commands, and very peremptory commands too. Mr. Gray accordingly set to work to obtain the re quired evidence against Moran, only going so much further than Mr. Brewster as to give specific direc tions to a policeman how "to do the trick"— namely, by going to Moran's in disguise, and trying to purchase the song from him, the police man being at the same time furnished with a -manu script copy of the song, to prevent mistakes. The policeman set out upon his mission, but, it is asserted, improved so much upon his instructions as to have the song printed from his own leanuscript ; thus, in fact, em ploying the printer to commit the offence for which it was sought to punish him. The progress of error in the business reminds one of the growth of the baker's leg of mutton ' • he buys a very little leg of mutton, substi tutes that for the smallest sent to his oven, substi tutes that in turn for the next in size, and so proceeds upward, until the largest and best joint sent by any customer remains for the last, and to that the honest baker sits down with his family. So it was Mr. Brew ster's hinted demand of evidence to be obtained was a little wrong, though questionless it was wrong ; Mr. Gray's suggestion of a disguise and of a de mand was a greater wrong, not, however, much greater ; the policeman's proeeedine , was the worst of all. However, we must still think ' that Mr. Brew ster ought to have foreseen the necessary effect of his hint. There is but one safe and honourable course for a Government or a Government officer in such matters, and that is, never, except in very grave cases indeed, to look for evidence. What is offered take, and that which is exhibited in the street or in a shop window is offered ; but even a simple demand of a thing not offered for sale is, in case the sale be a crime, a prompting to commit a crime ; and he who, from any motive, prompts to any crime is not free from guilt. GLOBE.—Ministers come with flying colours out of the factory discussion; and deserve, as it appears to us, great credit for the attitude they assumed. Whatever party may title us, we do hope to see followed by those on whom rests the practical responsibility of administer ing affair, this example of resisting momentary pressure. when they do not believe it backed by the sense of the country. What a premium on the nonsense of the country, if this is not dared ? It would hence forth be matter of calculation what expenditure of " enormous lying'—what staff pf disreputable delegates —whet organs, auricular and oral, of credulous Lords, with feeble-humane ambition—what numerical force or Wrongheads of Old. and utter Addleheads of Young England—what series of' neck-or-nothing broadsides of the Time.; with articles-in-aid from the Northern Star=would be required to carry any given project of • mob tyranny. We thank Ministeraforaa first resistance to the most senseless of all regimens. We thank them for 'showing that the shallow frailty of a Commons' ma jority may disgrace it elf—but not rule England. Sir Robert Peel has carried a victory scarce less damaging to the prestige of power and principle in the House of Commons than Lord Grey carried over the Lords in May, 1832. Mr. Milnes anticipated (from an opposite course) that " the people would repose in that House Ruch confidence as had never been reposed in it since the time of the Reform Bill."' There is a little mistake in this. The Tory Minister has forced the Commons to eat the same humble-pie which the. Whig Minister forced the Lords to eat on the former occasion. He has forced them to stay away from , the division, if they were not re idy to vote at his bidding. It is difficult to conceive a greater humiliation to any set of men. Thit—" On ne nseart pas de cela, cornme vous saver, Mesdames f' —as the Frenchman said to another set of virtues. It has been much questioned whether the Minister bee a right to impose this humiliation on his fol lowers. Now we hull that, in such cases, the right to do so is prove I satisfactorily by the power. Whatever humilia tion an assembly will submit to, it feels its 'due. We hope no hollow vote will escape a similar self-expo sure. We hope no Minister will tail to act on a similar confidence that pretexts are . not realities. The Reform . Bill would have been a great cala mity. if every piece of paltry competition between parties for momentary popularity were thenceforth tA I be embodied in Acts .of Parliament. If 'Ministers cannot, 'since that era, prevent such votes being given, they must stak: continuance in office on their being reversml. They have done a° in this case suwess r ully; and have set a goo] example (at no great risk to be sure to themselves) in what manner a vote of the House of Commons should hence forth he treated, when it is backed no better than by a pressure from without, worth so little as in this ease. Mow little that pressure was ivorth was shown to Mr. Ward and Mr. Bright ; and if the filets which the • latter Member stated cannot be contradicted, we cannot 'conceive what leg the short time agitation:lms: left to stand upoa. It may be asked, if this Measure is not de manded by the operatives themselves, when it is prac tically pnt to them, by whom then is it demanded, and what is the Foureo; of the loud cry that has been raised ? In answer to this piestion, we may say that it cannot doubte I that many, working men, in and out of mills (a large PreOrtion,,pect,hap;, out of them), believe that law can fie: the . .of wages, as well as the maxi m:pa of work—and that employment .will be extended by curtailing the time and products of labour. But what is not.so well known is the length of time a small knee of persons, assuming the function of trades' dele gates, and iivingsby the agitation they can keep up, have been employed in propagating the most extravagant notions• on these subjects. • LA WY INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP.QUE FY 3,8 E N Cif, May 15. (Wittiilp at - the Guildhall, at. Nisi ,Prina, before Lord DisN.stax and a London CoMMon Jury.) PERGUSSON V. CLA.TWORTII AND WIFE!. This was an action to recover damages for defamation of character. The defendant's wife kept a poulterer's shop, and the plaintiff's daughter having gone in to mike tv. - irne parchases, Was accused by defendant's wife of having Stolen an egg. The defendant's wife fol lowed her .out of the shop, and abused her in the street, telling the . mob Which had collected to witness the dis turbance, that the plaintiff got his living by robbing the public. • • Th e cage having been proved on the part of the plaintiff, no witnesses being called for th e d e f ence, the jury found for plaintiff—Dam ages, 401. . Mr.' Platt and Mr. Warren were for the plaintiff, and M,r, James for the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 15. • CAREY V. SHAW. This was an action by Mrs. Elizabeth Carey to recover dintragts rot the loss of the services of her daughter, Eliza beth Carey, who had been seduced by the defendant. In the absence of Mr. Crowder, his junior, l!dr. Simon,stated the case. it appeared that about nine years ago the defendant, who was in the employ of Messrs. Wilson, German wool-im porters, Newgate-street, formed an intimacy with the piain ttiff's daughter, which Tasted a very colisiderabletime. Some years ago this intimacy suffered an interruption fr om a p er • son named Cooper, who came forward with 'serious advances to the lady. Six weeks having elapsed, the defendant slipped • a note into her hand as she stood at her mother's door, in the London-road. His purport of renewing the acquaintance succeeded, and they frequently walked out together. During • the progress of this connexion, Miss Carey often urged him to introduce her to his friends. He studiously declined these proposals, alleging that circumstances which he could not control were an i nsurmounta b le b arrier in h i s way, b ut th a t a short time would work the only change he waited::: for. One of the ramble s we have allu ded to took place . onothe / 20th of October, 1842 . O n that occasion she met the de- L : Jvidant, by appointment, at the eonter of Queen-street 4 a d cheapside. The object of the walkbei s ng e a visit to - a friend of his, the } ,vent en‘to;uusgton. As h wished his friends to see her before she celled on them, she w as at first unwil ling to enter a house at which h e knocke. A middle-aged woman at length admitted them into a front parlour, in which there was a bed. The woman l e ft th em , and he' re. lom sri yr s UONDON,, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY la, 1€144. . . the whole hog," and voted against Lord Ashley. Think disposed for conversat i on. be dull and silent; and when what an avalanche of rats I Talk of faggot peers I—that ever you see that he is interested in what he is talking was easy work. Sir Robert pitches about faggots t-f turn- about, especially if he wishes you to attend to him, keep coats. He is an honest man; we know_ofAiirnan-to whom yawning. There are two ways, of discharging your house we should commit our purse with greater confidence; but if - hold. duties. If you are - languid and listless, you may let any Parliamentary gentlemen -wish their honour flits from them alone ;if not ab:e, you should be continually turn spoil or waste, we advise them to reserve it-in their own mg the .house topsy-turvy, 'under pretence of setting it to keeping--at least, not to commit it to their Premier. rights. You can either let 'your servants do just as they (From the Herald), , please; or you may be continually in the 'kitchen, looking We close, with that melancholy kind of satisfaction which after them. In the latter case, scold them frequently, and in accompanies the departure—of -a-iutinfel topie,--the-considera- - 1 audible voice, so as to be heard up-stairs. Never thick of tion, for the present session, of the Ten Hour clause. The looking to your husband's shirt.-buttons; leave that to the final and conclusive argument, hrotight foiwardlY the Prime laundress ; or, if you must attend to his linen, superintend Minister himself, had its full effect, and a majority, unex- your washing in person, and have" frequent water-parties; pectedly large, testified the alarm feltby the llouse of Commons and, especially in winter, always have the clothes dried be at the bare idea of a dissolution of the present Government. We fore the parlour fire. If your husband has to go out to a must continuo to lament the issue, partly because we feel as- business dinner, or to the play, never let him have the latch slued that by this decision the question is not settled. 4 . us- key ; and should he, on any occasion, stay out late, send the tice has not been done; and until it is done, a festering sore servant to bed, sit up for him yourself, and make a merit of will remain in the minds of the aggrieved classes. The long the sacrifice to " the wretch." Have a female confidant, who hour system, too, will render over-production, gluts,• and will instruct you in all the ill qualities of husbands generally, stagnation, almost inevitable ; and when these evils occur, and will supply any deficiencies in the above hints. In as they are very 'likely to do before many months will have conclusion, bear these grand principles in mind--that men elapsed, how will it be possible for the poor operatives to must be crossed and thwarted continually, or they are sure avoid remembering the late discussions, or to overlook the to be tyrants—that a woman, to have her rights, must fact that moderate work at all times is far preferable to over- stand up for them—and that the behaviour which won a work for seventeen months, and half starvation for the next man's affections is by no means necessary to preserve them. seven. A minor, but not an inconsiderable cause of pain to —Punch. us, individually, has been the necessity of opposing with earnestness what we have regarded as, on the whole, a wise and praiseworthy Administration. A glance, however, even at the late debate, affords us some lonsolation in this matter. For in a discussion in which the Government receives the aid of Messrs. Roebuck, Ward, Bright, Mark Philips, and Gally Knight, our support would be rather out of place. More na tural does it seem that the Iktorning Herald should be found on that side which obtains the suffrages of Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. M'Geachy, and Lord Pollington. The mixture of parties, indeed, has been a strange one, but no man could doubt as to which was the Conservative side. But for Sir Robert Peel's final argument, two-thirds of the Conservative Members would have preferred' the Ten Hour clause. Mr. Liddell's sentiment was that of a multitude of others :--" My feelings are with Lord Ashley ; but as the Government make it a vital question, my vote will be with them." INCREASE OF DOG-STEALING. The New Spotting Magazine, for this month, contains a paper on the increase of the crime of dog-stealing, which is now carried out on a perfect systera, by which contributions to an almost incredible amount are levied on those who value a favourite four-footed companion more than they do a tolerably heavy sum in hard cash. So great has the evil become, that application is to be made to Parliament for an Act making dog-stealing a felony, and pdtting that animal on the same footing as the horse. The paper gives some curious details con nected with the practice, or with what may be called the statistics of dog-stealing. The following sketch is also given of the rise and progress of the plan for applying a remedy by legal means .—" The idea of first petitioning the House of Commons to have this Act of Parliament passed, originated with that well-known and eccentric character, Mr. Bishop, of Bond-street, the justly cele brated gun-maker ; the petition being signed by great numbers of the first nobility and gentry in the country. In his inner shop—or rather studio, as it may be termed —is held at all seasons of the year, till grouse-shooting rather thins its daily attendants, a kind of sporting levee, where the merits not only of guns, but all de scriptions of sporting dogs, are talked over by their various owners or admirers; the conversation being ren dered doubly agreeable by the accompaniment of a large brown loaf and 'ripe Stilton,' and divers foaming pots of Barclay and Perkins' entire. Now ' The Bishop,' is, and has been for about 30 years—that is to say, as long as he has been ' upon the town,' or rather before the public —an eccentric character ; from his long attachment to all descriptions of fun pervading this great and tasteful metropolis, whilst his acquaintance with innumerable ' queer character' of every grade has given him an insight into society rarely to be met with in any man, however - long an apprenticeship he may have served. Many of the unfortunate attendants at the aforesaid levee, having been deprived of their favourite dogs by the hands of the dog-stealers on whom we have been descanting, applied, in the moments of their distress, to Mr. Bishop for his advice in the matter, himself hav • ing . been a fellow-sufferer, and, to regain his favourite, having been mulcted.by these harpies in a considerable fine upon the occasion. His knowledge of the town and of many of the ' queer characters' of whoni I spoke, has enabled him to get some of the stolen dogs restored to their owners, upon paying, through the medium of a third person, a most exorbitant and shame ful ransom. This part of the transaction is generally negotiated by a man who may be termed the Jonathan Wild of ' the fancy;' who prefers neglecting his busi ness by seeking after the enormous profits arising from the degrading and rascally negotiations above alluded to. Since Mr. Bishop has become an accidental assistant in many of these canine transactions, not only has the levee become daily increased in the interior of the studio, but numbers of carriages may be seen in the morning, containing ladies, anxiously inquiring if any thing has been heard about their Floras or Phillises."l The following is a slight outline of the amount of the ransoms paid for the lives and liberty of the canine favourites :—" The immense sums of money which hive been lately paid foi the restoration of stolen dogs is per fectly Incredible: 'the large amount of 9001 and Up wards has been extorted upon these occasions al9ne where Mr. Bishop •has personally . interfered for the restitution of the stolen property, in some instances for 1, dogs, which have been stolen twice, and even more le quently. Amongst those persons who have been s f ferers, may be enumerated his Royal Highness the D e of Cambridge, 301; Wyndham Bruce, Esq., 251.; Capt. Alexander, First Life Guards, 221.; and many others, too numerous to insert in these pages." STATE OF TRADE. (Prom.the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) The last arrivals from the United States having brought intelligence of heavy receipts of cotton at the ports, and caused general belief that the total amount of the crop will not fall short of two millions of bales, — our market yesterday were somewhat depressed, espe • cially for yarn; which, in some cases, was sold at rather lower prices than last week, though there is still a fair amount of business doing. Manufactured goods were in rather less demand than last week, but there was no change in prices. Indeed, the manufacturers of most fabrics are so generally engaged that no anxiety to make sales is manifested. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 13. We have had an improved demand for flannels to-day, and rather more business has been transacted, but at very low prices. There is very little change in the wool market; the manufacturer manifesto no disposition to purchase beyond what is required for immediate use. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.i Oxronn, MAY 11.—A Fellowship is vacant in Magdalen College, which is open to graduates of this University who are natives of Lincolnshire. It will be filled up on the 25th of July next, being the festival of St. James. Gentlenien who desire to be candidates, are requested to call on the Pre sident between the 18th and 21st of July. They must brig with them a'copy of their baptismal register, and a testi o nial of good conduct from the College to which they belong. There will be exercises in the Divinity School, forhe degree of Bachelor in Divinity, on Monday and Tuesday next, at three o'clock. Respondent, the Rev. T. Niche% of Worcester College. Subjects-1. Our Lord Jesus Christ came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it. 2. The mi racles of our Lord are a satisfactory evidence of his divine mission. On Tuesday, the 21st instant, a convocation will be holden to elect a scholar on the foundation of C. Viner, Esq., to pro mote the study of common law. Stipend, 301. per annum, tenable for ten years. 1 At the next meeting of the Ashmolean Society, Dr. Dan beny will read notes by Captain Widdington and himself ion the Natural History of Spain. 1 Th e R e v. T. L. Claughton, of Trinity College, has been tlp pointcd an Examiner in Theology, and the Rev. I'. ie. Claughton, of University College, and the Rev. E. Cockey4 of Wadham College, Examiners in Arts in the University! of Durham. 1 Tho Lord Bishop of Exeter has presented the Rev. 11.1 G. Adams to the Vicarage of Cornwood, Devon—value, 4q51. presented the Rev. Dr. l E. per annum. EN T •e h ra e rd R ev. tot h i e . I W "er . p ßa etu w a l l in C gs ura h c a y s of Bishop's Hall, Somerset shire—value, 1221 . per a n num. The Rev. E. Goddard has presented the Rev. T. L. Fel- Noires to the Perpetual Curacy of Lingwood, Norfolk—valpe, 55/. per annum. The Earl of Lichfield has presented the Rev. J. GuntonJto the Rectory of Marsharn, Norfolk—value, 2811. per annum H. Holloway, Esq., has presented the Rev. 0. Sadler to the Rectory of Brancaster, Norfolk —value 9791. per annurn. The Hon. J. Talbot has presented the Rev. C. W. A. Na pierft, o the Vicarage of Evercreech, Somerset—value, 2261 per annum. Sir E. B. Smyth, Bart., has presented the Rev. W. W Hobson to the United Perpetual Curacies of Hales and Heck- . ingliam, Norfolk—value together, 631. per annum. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.--Th e anniversary meet ing was held on Saturday, at the rooms in Grafton-street, the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, late Governor-General of India, President, in the chair. The report of the council gave a gratifying account of the Society's proceedings, which had been conducted without trenching upon the accumulated funds. Much stress was laid upon the deslr ableness of obtaining public apartments free of expense, and for the Society to enjoy the same advantages as other public scientific societies. Amongst the losses which the So ciety had experienced by death was the Hon. J. R. 3forri son, interpreter to the English Government in China ; the Hon. G. Tumour, late in her Majesty's civil service in Cey lon ; Dr. Rossellini, the celebrated Egyptian antiquarian :ot Pisa, &c. The progress made by the Oriental Translation Fund was stated as very satisfactorY, several new Works having been added to the list, amongst which was the Da bistan, an account from an old Persian author of all religicins and creeds. This,. which was considered a remarkable work, is published in three vols. Bvo. A second donation of 100/. towards the objects of the Society, was announced from ,J. Alexander, Esq. The Earl of Auckland was 're-elected president, and the various vies-presidents and officers were. appointed. BRUTAL ACT or CRUELTY TO A LAMB.—EXTRA" onnixAnt DECISION OF A MAGISTRATE.—On Tuesday, two men of decent appearance, named William Smith, of No. 76, Salisbury-street, Portman-market, St. Marylebone, and Richard Jeffs, of No. 13, David - street, York-place, Baker street, Portman-square, were brought up in the custody 'of the police before the Rev. Dr. Walmesley, the sitting ma -gtArate at New Brentford, charged with having wilfully and maliciously killed a lamb, the property of a farmer named George, at Hanger-hill, Ealing. It appeared *Om the evidence that, about half-past four o'clock that morning, as Edmund George, a son of the farmer, was minding the sheep, several of which had lambs, he saw the pri soners come into the field, and Smith go up to the lamb 'in question, and strike it violently in a most brutal manner on the *head 'six or seven times, with the thick hedge stake produced. The lamb staggered backwards into a - ditch, where it immediately fell 'down and died. The prisoners instantly made the best of their Way hi the dyection of Har row, and the boy ran and awoke his falher, who mounted, a pony, and proceeded in pursuit of them. At Alperton he procured the assistance of police constable O'Neil, 154 T, .who accompanied him along the Harrow-road until they overtook them, and conveyed them back to the station.: house at Ealing. The prisoners said they had been drink ing until between three and four o'clo ck at a raffle, a n d theft made up their minds to walk to Preston, near Harrow, to sober themselves, and Smith declarell that, while passing through the field in question, his dog flew at the lamb, and while knocking him off, he unfortunately struck the lamb and killed it. The magistrate considered there was no proof that the act was a malicious one, and, therefore ordered Smith to pay the value of the lamb, twelve shillings, with seven shillings costs, or fourteen days, and Jeffs was discharged. THE SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.—The_ mystery connected with the discovery a few mornings ago of a woman's bonnet, cap, shawl, a front of false hair, and other articles of attire, which were found in a field at Sarley-hall, near Windsor, has been cleared up, by the property being claimed of the Superintendent of the Windsor police by a respectable woman, n amed Pratt, the wife of a farmer, ' who lives at Maidenhead-thicket. Under the full convic tion that a murder had bees committed, and, from the close proximity of the field in which the articles were found to the Thames, that the body had been thrown into the river, the water was dragged for a considerable distance by the order of the local authorities. The tale told by Mrs. Pratt to Mr. Gillman, the Superintendent of the police, was to this effect :—She was returning across the fields to her home at Maidenhead, in the evening of Saturday se'nnight, when she was knocked down by a man, who gave her a violent blow in the face, blackening her eyes. She ran one way, and her assailant ran off another, and she saw no more of him. She then ran her head into a hedge, and thus she ac counnted for being deprived of her cap and false curls. She fell down in a fright, fainted away, and did not recover her senses until the _middle of the night, when site awoke and fancied she was in her own orchard. She then made the best of her way to her own house, which she found she was much further from than she expected, reaching home early that morning, when she missed her bonnet, cap, shawl, false curls, and waistband. DUE PROPORTIONS.--" Jock," said a farmer's wife to the herd eallant—" Jock, come in to your parritch—the flies' are' drowning theinSelves in the a'filk."-L" Nae fearA," replied Jock, moving very deliberately towards the scene of action, " Nae fears ; they'll wade througlet."—" Od, you little rascal, do you say you dinna get eneugh o' milk ?"—. Ou ay, plenty for the parritch." GRAM) WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-L NW LEAGUE MEETING AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The usual weekly meeting of the League was held last evening in Covent- garden Theatre, which was as densely thronged as it generally is upon those occasions. Among those present were, John Bright, Esq., M. P. (in the chair), The Hon. Charles Pel ham Villiers, M.P., Major-General Briggs, James Wilson, Esq., R. J. Burnet, John Travers, Esq., William Leavers, Esq., Dr. Cook Taylor, George Offer, Esq., R. S. Johnson, Esq., John Lambert, Esq., (Salisbury), Samuel Wilson, Esq., Colonel Tucker, Isaac Mollett, Esq„ R. Woodgate, Esq., R. Jupp, Esq., Francis Stokes, Esq., Press Granger, Esq., Charles Geach, Esq. (Birmingham), Thomas Gammon, Esq., Martin Thackerv, Esq., Ilenry Gunning, Esq., T. Bailey, Esq. (Colne), Thomas Besley, Esq., Richard Ware Cole, Esq., David Blyth, Esq., Robert A. Blyth, Esq., Walton Little, Esq., Samuel Tomkinson, Esq. (Liverpool), J. Turner, Esq. (Othery, Somersetshire), Thomas Ro gerson, Esq. (Liverpool), W. D. Starling, Esq , Rev. Richard Fletcher (Manchester), W. Geesin, Esq., J. B. Scott, Esq. (Manchester), F. Scheer, Esq., Edward Foster, Esq. (Cambridge), J. P. Burnard, Esq., J. Brownsell, Esq., Leslie, Esq., J. W. Langtree, Esq., John Pike, Esq. (Oxford), John Poulter, Esq., &c. At half-past seven o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Bright, M.P. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The CHAIRMAN advanced to the front of the stage, amidst the cheers of the meeting. He said it had been intended that the Chairman of the Council of the League should preside over the meeting that evening, but when he (Mr. Bright) should explain the cause of his absence, he was quite sure the meeting would be satisfied that he was as usefully employed where he was as he could possibly have been if he were present there that night. He was engaged at that moment in the preparations that were being made in South Lancashire for the approaching election— (Cheers)—and knowing, as he (Mr. Bright) did, how many were his qualifications for the conduct of an election, he was quite certain there was no man con nected with the contest who could be worse spared than could George Wilson—(Hear, hear) —and when he looked around upon that meeting, and thought how often some of them had been there—how often that building had been crowded with an enthusiastic audience assembled—not for the purpose of being de lighted with the charms of oratory—but for the purpose of exhibiting to the world their full conviction that the League was right in the position it had taken up, he was quite certain there were thousands within those walls at that hour who were anxious that that great contest which was now commencing in Lancashire should end in the signal triumph of the free trade cause.—(Cheers.) There were small boroughs from which an independent voice was scarcely to be expected. They viewed that con test, then, as one of infinitelygreater importance than the contests in a dozen, or a score of boroughs like Woodstock or Abingdon. The present meeting sym pathised with that contest.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It was anxious to convey to those electors their cense of the importance of that contest; and he feared even they, anxious as they were,- did not regard that struggle as of all the importance which it merited. He had met persons in the south of England who spoke of Lancashire as if it were a county of no more than ordinary importance—as if they knew only this, that there were in that county a number of grasping, avaricious, and some of them rich manufacturers, with rather a dense population of working men, brutalised, ill-paid, and degraded. They seemed to think that Lancashire was merely a county in which there were several considerable towns of es very dull character, connected by rail roads ; that, in fact, every feature in that county was one affording rather pain than pleasure, and that it was to be looked upon as a county only valuable for what could be got out of it--one which the tourist and the lover of the picturesque should on all occasions care fully avoid. Now, he (Mr. Bright) had been bore in that county, and he had lived there something like thirty years. He knew much of its population— much of its trade, and much of its resources, and he was quite convinced there was no other county in England which could compare with it in real impor tance as affecting the welfare and power of this empire.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) it was the most populous county in England; it was the most manufacturing county, and, as far as its productive power went, it was the richest county in England ; and what had it done ? Time was when it presented a very different aspect from that which it now did. Some 240 years ago it was considered a wilderness. Camden, in his survey, after having tra velled the country from York to Durham, men tioned that he proposed to enter Lancashire, and that his mind was filled with apprehension at the prospect. His remark was " And first of ,• the. people of Lancashire, whom I approach with a kind of dread"—(in those latter _days there were some persons also who looked upon Lancashire with dread (Cheers and laughter) —" may it forbode no ill. However, that I may not seem wanting to this county, I will run the ha zard of the attempt, hoping that the Divine assistance • which has favoured me in the rest will not fail me in . this." Camden mentioned some of the towns. Roch dale, (to which he had come first from York shire,) Bury, Blackburn, Preston, and Manchester. But he spoke of those only as being towns of trade, and as being principally connected with woollen manufactures. He mentioned Liverpool, or Lither pool, or, as it was sometimes abbreviated, Lirpool, as - a small place on the sea coast, and as the most conve nient spot for setting sail to Ireland. But, of Ash ton, Bolton, Oldham, Salford, and many other towns now existing in Lancashire, he did not say one word'; and they had no reason to believe that such towns were known at that time. It might be worth while for a few moments to examine, and see how wonderful was the increase in the value of property in that county. In 1692, that was 150 years age, the whole annual value was 97,0001. In 1841 the annual value was 6,192,000/.—(Cheers.) Thus, giving an average increase throughout that county, in the space of 150 years of not less than 6,3001. per cent. Now the land-owners should look at that as showing how trade was advantageous to them. Lancashire, as had been truly said, contained just as much land as any other county. That must be very clear.—(A voice, "No, no.") He remembered a person standing on a rising ground, and looking over the neighbourhood, re marking to another who stood near him that they seemed to have a great deal of land in that neighbourhood, which remark occasioned him some surprise ; but he (Mr. Bright) supposed that it might be made with equal truth of any other neighbourhood. Lan cashire had landowners, and was divided into districts, called " hundreds."—(A voice—" Yorkshire," and some interruption.) Of these hundreds, three were agricultural, and three were manufacturing ; and the improvement in the value of the agricultural portion of the county amounted, in the time he had men tioned, to 3,5001. per cent., and that of the manufacturing districts to 7,0001. per cent. In one estate in the neighbourhood of Man chester—Charlton Hall estate—there was a mar vellous increase of its value. In the year 1590 it sold for 3201.; in the' year 1644, that was, fifty four years later, it sold for 3001., the value thus not having increased at all •, and in 1794 that same estate was sold for 70,000/. The annual value of the town ship in which this estate was situate was 19,0001. in 1815 ; in 1829 it was 66,000/. ; in 1841 it was 137,000/.—(Hear, hear.) In a space of time of not more than two hundred years, the value of this estate had increased from 3001. to 3,000,0001.—(Loud cheers.) There was another district in Lancashire called the Forest of Rossendale, containing from twenty-two to twenty-four square miles. In the early part of the sixteenth century about eighty per sons lived in it; now it contained twenty-one thou sand. Land for farming purposes in that dis trict now let for ten times as much rent as it did one hundred years ago ; and there were men now living who recollected the time when they cul tivated certain farms which paid seven or eight times more rent now than in their youth. The dis trict in which Liverpool was situate was then known ' as 'West Derby Hundred. It was then assessed to the-land-tax at 135,000/.; its annual value was now 2 , 12 4,000/.—(Cheers)—being an advance of more than 5,900 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) Liverpool, 150 years ago, was not larger than Wigan at the present time. It was a mean fishing village then—now it was the largest sea-port in England, perhaps in the whole world.—(Hear, hear.) What was it that pro duced this wonderful change in Lancashire ? Was it the landed proprietors of the county ?—(No, no.) About 44 years ago, Mr. Whittaker, in his " His tory of Whalley," describing the landed proprietors of Lancashire as they were 2JO years ago, says they were men fond of the married life.—(Laughter.) He mentions they were fond of quiet, domestic com forts, and had little curiosity and ambition.— (Laughter.) They resided much at home, and pur sued domestic amusements, which were more gross than costly. • . He says he only met with one literary character who was possessed of the family estate.— , (Laughter.) The landed proprietors, if they were men of this character, did not make Lancashire what it was now. There were a number of old houses there, where old families used to reside. Those families were now extinct; they were passed by in the race by a new class of men.—(Hear, hear.) Their mansions were now inhabited . by the thrifty and industrious manufacturers, and the old families had been swept away from the southe rn di v i s i on o f the county. Not that there was any war against them, for they hod the same chances as other men hut, being born to broad acree they did no think it accessory to cultivate their minds, are'. exert theta s:dyes, like other reen.—(ileac, hear.) The inven tions of Watt and Ark w right enabled others to sur pass them, and those who were once magnates in the country were now nowhere, and a new class of men were leading on its dense population.—(Loud cheers.) It was the industry and intelligence and perseverance of the manufacturing population that made Lan cashire what it was. Its coal and iron were invalu— able, but they were underneath the surface for ages before. • It was only in later times—in fact, in their own generation—that they had learned to bring them up, and manufacture from them those machines which so many despised; but which enabled the population of Lancashire to stretch out their hands to every district on the face of the earth, and make the riches and prodects of other countries supply their own wants.— (Cheers.) And that little soft flakey substance which they took from the pod of the cotton tree, and which was first imported into this county (Lan cashire) about seventy or eighty years ago—it was the fibre which they got from this that had given that county its greatness.—(Cheers.) Lancashire was a child of trade and industry in its moat remarkable form.—(Cheers.) That trade was, not long ago, an infant struggling into life ; it was now grown up, and was become a giant of enormous proportions ; and yet that giant, great and powerful as it was, was lying prostrate under the fetters and shackles which an ignorant, and short-sighted, and tyrannical legislation bound around it.—(Loud cheers.) The question now was, would the people of South Lan ' cashire any longer endure those fetters ? or would they allow themselves to be bound by them for ever? Would they allow them to be rivetted firmly, or would they snap them asunder, and give freedom to this giant to become more powerful, and give a more extensive growth to that great county and this great empire ?—(Cheers.) If the electors of South Lancashire knew how much depended on the votes they would give, would there be any man in that county who would go to ask their suffrages for that worst, and vilest, and most pestilent of all curses —the corn-laws ?—(Cheers.) If these electors were conscious, and he believed many of them were, that the disasters of the last five years owed their origin to that law—if they knew that that law had cast their merchants from prosperity to ruin—that it had driven many thriving shopkeepers and traders into misery and ruin, and even expatriation—that it had desolated hundreds of thousands of cottages, and car ried poverty and sorrow . among millions of the people. If they knew all this, did they think they would give their voices on this occasion in favour of perpetuating the most blind folly that ever entered into the minds of any legislators upon earth. —(Loud cheers.) If those electors saw this meeting —if they had before their eyes 4,000 of their coun trymen who looked into their hearts and consciences —to see if there dwelt any care for their coun try's good—was there one of them who would have such callousness and hardness of disposi tion as to vote for the perpetuation of such an evil? He had hopes that the result of the struggle would be glorious to the country.—(Hear, hear.) Free trade was gaining ground everywhere. It might be they would not find that the minority now in Par liament would speedily become a majority—it might be there were portions of the public that sneered at their efforts—they wholly denied that they were making any progress, and which, if they could, would extinguish their efforts altogether. 'But, notwithstanding, the wave was swelling on, and in public and private life they found that the delusions about protection were dispelled, and that the truth of free trade principles was be coming apparent to all minds.—(Loud cheers.) There was one subject of congratulation in looking at what was now going on in South Lancashire. The free trade candidate was, perhaps, the most ex tensive merchant in this country, and almost in the whole world.—(Hear, hear.) He was a merchant of long standing and experience, great wealth and high character—he had a large property invested in commercial undertakings, and was also a proprietor of the soil. In business he was mainly connected with the trade of the United States of America. He looked on him as the better candidate for that.— (Cheers.) lie had extensive establishments there, and he knew how abundantly Providence had given to that country the means of supplying the wants of this, and how eminently the manufacturing skill and industry of this country were calculated to give abun dant blessings to that country in exchange for what they gave us.—(Cheers) Why, he was like a man who stood on the shore of the island representing the millions who worked in this country to clothe the inhabitants of the prairies in America, and he stood there to receive that which America produced, and which this country asked for ; and were it not . for this law, which he was going into Parliament to uproot, how easily might they bring not only the cotton, rice, and tobacco of America into this country, but food, substantial food for the people, for the want of which thousands of their fellow countrymen were suffering the deepest privations ? (Cheers.) Considering the responses which met the sentiments he uttered, he might conclude that there was no want amongst those who filled the theatre of deep and earnest feelings for the success of this strug gle.----(Hear.) If they who were more immediately connected with them might in the:meetings held there, in the speeches they made, in the letters they wrote, communicate to the 18,000 electors of Lancashire, who were interested in this decision, the feelings of the citizens of this metropolis, represented by the thousands whom he saw present, he prayed—he im plored—he exhorted—and he besought them by all they held sacred and valuable, to cast away all the trammels of party feeling—all the old war cries of faction—and declare that the flag under which they would fight should be that which was inscribed with Free trade all over the world, and perfect justice to the people of this country.—(The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) Mr. JAMES WILSON then came forward and ad dressed the meeting. He said he did not appear there to amuse or excite them, but rather to endeavour to throw some light on a few fallacies which, being little understood, operated to the prejudice of free ' trade in certain circles. As there was some ap pearance of reasonableness in those fallacies it was the more incumhent on him to try and remove them. The two points on which he wished to address them were these—They were charged with saying that the corn-laws were disastrous to trade in conse quence of the high prices which they inflicted on the consumers, and then with saying that free trade would not injure the interests of the agriculturists, and would have even little influence on relative prices. Now those were two statements which he was willing to admit bore on the face-of them some appearance of inconsistency, yet he believed nothing was more easy than to prove that both were correct.—(Hear, hear.) It should always be borne in mind that dearness and cheapness might be produced by two distinct causes. Dearness might be produced on the one hand by scarcity, and on the other by large consumptibility on the part of' the community. If dearness were produced by scarcity, then price kept no relative proportion to the means of the community to pur chase the article. If, on the other hand, dearness were produced only by a large demand for the com modity, it argued, in the first place, a great con sumptibility and the wealthy condition of the con sumers in order to produce that dearness. Cheapness, on the other hand, might be produced by two causes. It might he produced by plenty, and then it was a blessing ; or it might be produced, as it had been for the last two or three years, by an inability on the part of the consumer to command even the first neces saries of life. Now, what he contended was, that the principles of restriction and monopoly had a tendency to create the dearness which was objectionable, be cause it was a dearness arising from scarcity e that free,trade, on the other hand, although,if followed out, it might produce dearness, would only produce it in consequence of this increased wealth and the increased means of consumption.—(Hear, hear.) He contended also that restriction had a tendency to produce cheapness, but not the cheapness which was derived from plenty, but the cheapness which arose from diminished means on the part of the con sumer.—(Cheers.) The very object and aim of the corn-laws, and of their commercial laws generally, was to restrict quantity. If they restricted quantity, the first effect might be, he admitted, to raise prices. But the first, tendency of restricted quantity was to restrict trade ; the next tendency was to restrict em ployment ; the next tendency was to restrict the means of consumption ; and the next, and last, ten dency was an impossibility to consume, and a diminished price. (Loud cheering.) On those grounds, therefore, he contended that neither the corn-laws nor any other commercial restriction could ultimately be of any service even to those for whose benefit they were intended. Although such laws might first produce a high price, that high price was delusion, it could not be maintained. Ber -1 gains were made which could not be maintained; contracts were entered into which ended in nothing , but disappointment; and the resources of this com munity were sapped to their foundation. How clearly and palpably was this effect exhibited in the case of this restriction, which they were assembled to oppose. The first tendency of the corn-law was to restrict quantity and raise price. But the next tendency was to destroy trade. The farmer, having made his contract, cal culating on a high price, found that the means of the consumer had been destroyed, and the price fell, to the disappointment of the farmer, and to the ruin of all around him.—(Hear, hear.) If they had free trade in corn, the first tendency would be to increase the quantity, and that would, perhaps, diminish the price. But, with an increased quantity, they would have increased trade; with increased trade, they would have increased employment for their ships, for their sailors, for their millers, and for all those ho were engagekin the manufacture of emeeeeeee em eeeee-kee.e........... e eeeremretemeeale e e we i,eee those goods which they gave in exchange for t imeert..—(Cheers.) Therefore he contended, Vies, although the first effect of free trade might be to r 'hoe price, the ultimate effect would be to raise iot, higher than it could possibly be under a sy stem restriction. There was no error into w hich __ ei were more ept to fall than that of attribu,Cinegn too much importance to mere price. 1 % h of they talked, for instance, of the reduction t told the duty on sugar, they were incidentally that a farthing, or even a penny, a P il o , could not make any material difference to the ca._ sumer. Now, even if it made no difference in at all, if the only effect were to give them an tia (l ,`. tional quantity of sugar, the change could not but be beneficial. to the country.—(Hear, hear.) If they imported a larger quantity of sugar, and Paid, er d same price, nothing in his opinion could afford stronger evidence that an advantage h ad be le conferred on the community, b ecaus e it so u prove that by the additional trade which had' he. e r. preated, the wealth of the community had been . '; o creased to such a degree that they pay for the larger quantity the same price wh e ic t i they had paid for the smaller.—(Cheers.) They a, 9 .. seen some of those principles illustrated in a remar be g . able manner during the past year. They ha d ., r gun last year with extraordinary low prices. fie s e . cultural produce of every description was very ch el r o : manufactured goods of every description were I f:a cheap; and the raw material was cheaper than it P o t ever been known to be before. In consequen e t e e the extreme cheapness, and in accordance with their to principles, which for many years had been as truths could afford. h their operation as the barometer in indicating o f state of the weather—(Cheers)—in conseellel ha t the cheapness they found a revival of trade. , pe g revival of trade had had a great influenc e n x i - s . prices. During the last year there had been an. o d s creased import of many of the most importante'tioe of raw material; and one of them, which w es ' n ce before the Legislature, afforded triumphant eeldend of the truth of their principles. The Du ite he rt Richmond complained bitterly because Sir R°, o n Peel had made up his mind to reduce the duty foreign wool, believing that the effect woo l° :• T o f• f diminish the price of the fleeces which were o ji L l ; r ,) his flocks in the north of Scotland.—(Laer te - tes Now, if he had taken the trouble to look i a r" he statistics of the trade of wool In this cottall:'' t ici would have found, that just in proportion as th e r; t el of wool had been high, they had icar'pee largely from abroad, and that in those ) . when their imports were the smallest s'io amount, the price of home-grown wool wa s - l o t the smallest. In 1819, foreign wool was subl et ill duty of 6d. per pound. Their imports were then, O about 19 millions of pounds weight. Mr. H t ea induced the Legislature of that day to reduce is, duty to a penny per pound. The consequence fir that, in a few years, the import of wool gradually, of creased, until, in 1836, it amounted to 64 millte pounds. During that period the price of home'gr o et wool, instead of falling, rose from 13d. to 19°•8 5 6, pound. It was very remarkable, that since, 1 during the bad years of trade, the import of not' wool had fallen from 64 millions of pounds to 40,,4 lions of pounds, which was the amount in 1842; 90 that, during that period, wool bed fallen in ri l e the absence of twenty millions of pounds, in the' se, of foreign competition, from 18d. to 10d. per 1 3 1 8 1. During th e l as t y ear th e y h a d had a little c h ' r e. He held in his hand a return of the corall s e tive trade of the th ree fi rs t mon ths of the, t ee year and the three first months ef t hree present year. He found that in the firs! months of last year they imported 4# e , tie lions of pounds ; in the first three months present year they imported 9i millions of P°'l-re' and at the present moment the English growers. ceived 25 per cent. more than he received last Chef So true were free trade principles that the mar e er ets were examined the more did they appear to °P ir o as an index to the trade of the country, Duke month to month. He would refer the, no tion of Richmond, and all who were against this red 'hen to the solution of this question. Last year , as of they imported four and a half millions of wool, the price was 10d. per pound ; this year, - 0 , 0 they imported nine and a half millions, the Pri e ! et eer ls. ld.—(Hear, hear.) But he turned to tw e - e . le fact ; he looked to the exports of manufactured gy70.4 They could not buy without also sellinge• it br oel quite obvious that if they received more from In eio they would export more.—(Hear, hear.) - 111 ,; o tt. first three months of last year, when they were imr loll ing very little wool, and when wool was at 'Poll price, they exported 1,300,0001. worth of T alllittle 0 0; woollen goods. In the first three months of the redo year, they had exported 1,700,000/. worth of the S' o f. description of goods. The increased expert' If forded an explanation of the increased imports.keie the principle of restriction were followed out , ° di would necessarily be a diminution of exports, a ll A ll decrease of employment, and increasing povertYP,,' ea hands. On the other hand, the more free principles were acted upon, the more would " - t ee flourish, and the more would it contribute t e t e e e , wants of the whole country. The principle' ° .be striction were principles which, if acted uP°l',. e rf , came more difficult at every stage ; on the 0 31) "^e it the principles of free trade, if acted upon, becan' t t ee every stage more easy, and diffused more w' if benefits which resulted from them. Their PO I " e o• et were by no means new. There had never been at o ll statesman, a great philosopher, or a great Ine r h e t iosa, no, not even a great landowner, with etd, i g ee te views, who had not, in one way or other, ae' Y t eeeh those principles. Eighty y ears ago Lord Chi! tt of irk the House of L or d s , s p ea ki ng o f the extensio or, the trade of the country, said-et; Ido o. t et ion pair of my country, and I have no °lel owe to state what, in my opinion, would r a ition; the country to its once flourishing con r e Give freedom to commerce, lighten the Pre S , s ' - yolic taxation, and you will have no complaining ' n ee streets. As commerce is always 0 14° 7 sell , equivalents, a nation that will not buy can e t o and every restriction of imports is an obstacle 3 the ports. On the other hand, the more we o' ll l l o o productions of foreign nations, the more ex et the becomes their demand for our commodities. 'li g Or accursed system of our corn-l aw s be grad° 'o l ' cautiously abrogated, and allow the cheae4sgieeics tural produce of the north of Europe and to be freely introduced, and we shall o btain :0• 0 ° tended vent for our manufactures."—(Cheers./ 010 principles had been reiterated by almost eerie, who was celebrated in history. There Was the 0 8 1 est perverseness, however, on the part of aloe - Government, for they excluded th os e articl es w hic h they really wanted, and admitted those, eO l they did not want. A friend of his had 1 " - tre sti e ployed, three or four years ago to negotiate a, 1 1) with France to admit our hardware and French would only consent to enter into 0 %001 on the condition that we exported our flax: 1 ; 1 1 ; 1c on in e ll i The stipulat:on was agreed to; the Eng":„ - i 0 • , c utler)" t ' r otf lecturers, on being consulted, were so lih e 'r,t yet o f to. offer any objection. Our Government, I°t-stion introduced a Bill, permitting the free exP er t h a t th o u machinery, as it was very right and prefe r "„orts' k e should have done.—(Cheers.) The free er o otitc; of machinery being thus permitted from thi s e ftrell i what was the first step adopted by t he t iee (211 ! n o Government? They placed a large protfeeneetst'le on its importation.—(Cheers.) On the 1111[eey dog of cotton machinery into France, w elch food not want, they placed a duty of thi,`stionh, per hundred kilogrammes, and on the irni)°. oo , to ter flax machinery, which they had been so an,s i a pra t o tain, and which they did want, they pla ce " (Clie er t y five duty of one hundred kilogrammes•Tot on 4 , Now this was the explanation of this concii!'ed to ` e i t part of the French Government : they Wi6il to eel JO) courage the manufacture of flax niacin, _ ev e own country, and therefore they impose th is vess - rt e upon its importation.—(Cheers.) Go ve ith more absurd than the conduct of our own fau lt 0 , 10 ment. Our Ministry had no right to fia t ' Let then' the French Government for their conduct. they ei o e e ta , look at our own Custom-house Acts, and bate to ere find that they had no reason to congr 3 elin fea selves. Those things which they mos! "; he free_eof, kept out by a prohibitive duty, while stank in n e 7 s ed portation of articles, which they did not sta_ eerec ter_ 4 o was permitted. The same perverseness_ 7,:rbere,"ool. our legislation with regard to our c olonles oo for eeo t ,one article, a principal article of exportalin s ofc o ' ri of colonies, but which was not reduce d p s oipt- 1 4. ...-- , quantity by the colonies to supply this country, he meant the article in o f (Cheers.) The quantity of sugar prona_"sueleptionthe colonies was not sufficient for the e__ n , eot ed this country, and yet that sugar wasp tior. _..5 in imposition of a very high rate t o g in istee fo r he considered that the conduct the of re. , tr i ti al_P n _ t o f regard to this article of sugar was a grea t eoo due „ e a free trade principles. What had beei e tn7e, he y s s t n a g _l ar the. or our the Ministers on the sugar questione r l a bou r to ol' that they would only permit fre o , co to o to be brought into the market . f r ee _ to had always ' been found to be the great the .jieelf Now, he believed that the frien r o e s_ Lest adOcu'rel of personal liberty ; but he deniT vas at _ro . t han to conduce to the abolition of slalea J e ss du e duc e which the Government was pursueng r ‘; TheY Y posed to admit free labour stager a_t_ rov , e , the En t hese sugar the produce of slave labour.d fret countries in which sugar wasp annuo .5 coo , hour, was about 93,000 tons Pered into thl ete leete 40,000 tons of this would be import em tee le ed fool be sul j r f try, thus withdrawing that amoutdat teu of the world. This quantity eve , states 0 entr ies slave labour countries—from the the oth er T e iencl America. Holland, Germany, an the de upo n in the supply of sugar, ~'";...e el abollf 'd e r of continental Europe, would Inal‘_elnPseauent ,oar our taking these 40,000 tons gartnal e , ou ld from Java, Sumatra, and Manill a •e e eted, 11 he re v many, an Europe genera YI A NEW TRICK. The following statement may Rave the effect of put ting persons upon their guard, and prevent them from being defrauded, under similar circumstances : A short time back an advertisement appeared in some of the papers, offering for sale a.splendid modern phx ton, which was represented to have been very little used, and to be sold, under peculiar circumstances, at a very great sacrifice. A gentleman, who was in want of such a vehicle, went to the place indicated in the adver tisement, where he received the address of the seller, and in due time the vehicle was shown to him, and to appearance it was all that could be desired. The paint and varnish was in excellent condition, the tyers of the wheels seemed nearly new, and the rivet-heads were not in tile least morn ; in fact, the carriage had all the ap pearance of an excellent article, and the gentleman who desired to purchase, readily- consented to give thirty-five guineas for it. He directed it to be sent to a livery-stable in the neighbourhood on the next day, where it was arranged he should send a cheque for the amount. The carriage was sent, of course, but, fortunately, in the meantime something had occurred which induced the purchaser to delay sending the cheque. Upon the carriage being washed, the man who was employed for that purpose fancied something was not right about the vehicle, and he informed the master of the yard, and his examination confirmed the original suspicion. The result was, that a coach maker was sent for, in order that the vehicle might be properly examined, and it was then discovered that a most gross fraud had been attempted. The axle trees, which had all the appearance of being patent, I were found to be, in reality, of the commonest kind, ' the wood-work was of the most paltry description, and, upon a more minute examination, it was discovered that it was literally ." stopped up" with putty, painted and varnished over in every direction. Upon this dis covery, the vehicle was sent back; but the owner, or rather the party entrusted with the sale of it, was not to ' be defeated so easily, and he had the temerity to talk of instituting legal proceedings to recover the amount for ' which the vehicle had been sold, and the preliminary steps to an actin were actually commenced. In the meantime another adiertisement appeared, which there was some reason to believe referred to the same vehicle, and the gentleman who would have been the victim gave directions to the same coachmaker to answer it ; aad upon his desiring to see the advertised vehicle, he was introduced to the one he had formerly seen, but which had been " re-puttied," and strengthened by iron stays, in one or two places where, when he saw it be fore, he had pointed out that it was actually fall ing to pieces. The party was expatiating, with g..eat warmth, upon the value and genuineness of the article, Mae knowing who he was addressing, when he was cut short by the coachmaker telling him his business, and at the same time informing .him that he had seen the " valaable article" before, and pointed out where it had been doctored up after the former ex• amination. It is hardly necessary to say that this was a complete damper, and that no more law proceedings have been heard of. It is understood that there are a set of fellows who get their living by frauds of this de scription, and that horse-chaunting having become a little stale, they have resorted to chaunting vehicles, and however unsound the chaunter's horses may have been, it is doubtful whether the vehicles are not more so; in fact, they are made up " to sell," and many unlucky purchasera have found to their cost that their " nearly new" vehicle, after three or four times using, has, lite rally, tumbled to pieces. • CRICKET. The " Alphabetical Match" was played at "Lord's" on Monday, when some excellent hitting was made by Mr. A. George, who, for many years, has been a suc cessful member of the Clapton and Montpelier Clubs, Mr. R. Barker, another new member of the Marylebone Club ; Captain smith, Mr. Kynaston, Mr. R. P. John sow, Dean, and Royston. The result of the► first in nings of each party was that the " A to K" scored 79, whilst the "L to fell short of that number by 6 only. It was thus far a very good match. The score was— A. TO K. R. P. Johnson, Esq , c. Smith b Dean Capt. Drake b. Royston 3 leg b. wkt. b. Dean 0 A. K. George, Esq., b. Dean l9 b. Dean... 0 ifillyer b. Dean ... 6 b. Royston - .. Good U. Royston., R. Kvnaston, Esq., c. Royston b. bean !In. R. Grimston c. Moise b. Dean 0 b. Royston A. Hay,, , rarth, Esq., c. Moise b. Royston R, Barker, Esq., not out ...... .. 25 b. Dean 9 E. Hartopp, Esq., b. Royston.... 1 Bulwar, Esj., b. Royston 4 „ , G. A. Ilicks, Esq., b. Royston 0 b. Dean 6 Byes 3, wide 4 . L. TO Z. —Marshall, Esq., bowled Good - • • 1 Capt. Smith b. Good • .3r ) C. Morse, Esq., c. Buivrcir b*. Ililiver ...... 5 Mir T. Moncrietre b. - • 0 Royston c. Ilaygarth, b. 7 Good. W. Mills, Esq., c. llaygarth b. Good. Dean c. Good b. ' l2 ' lion. W. Neville b. .. , . . 0 Capt. Mackinnon b. ~... 0 E. Wilrnott, Esq., b. G00d,,...-4. ‘. 0 • I Capt. Price, not out By u 3 7 Such was the state of the game at the moment of strikint , the wickets at half-past seven o'clock, when it das understood that the match would not be further proceeded with. MORE HINTS TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. To Wivms.—Your first consideration before marriage was how to please your. lover. Con s id er any suc h en d eavour a ft er marriage to be ;unnecessary and ridiculous ; and, by way of amends for you! former labeur, let your sole object be to please yourself. De at no pains to look w e ll o f a morning. Along toilet is tiresome, particularly when it is cold. " Taking the hair out" occupies nearly ten minutes; come down to break fast, therefore; in curl papers, also in a flatmel dressing-gown, and, unless you expect callers, remain in deshabille all .day. Husbands are nobodies, and comfort is to be studied before appearance. But are you to neglect your attire alto gether? By no means. Indulge your taste in dress to the utmost. Be always buying something new : never mind the expense of it. Payments belong to husbands. If you see a shawl or bonnet in a window, order it. Should a silk or a muslin attract your eye, desire it to be sent home. Does a feather, a riband, a jewel, strike your fancy? purchase it instantly. If your husband is astonished at the'bill, pout; if he remonstrates, cry. But do not spoil your finery by cl9mes tic wear. Reserve it for promenades and parties. It is the admiration of society that you should seek for, not your husband's. • Be constantly seeing tables, chairs, window cur tains, and other furniture which you like better than 'our own, and insist upon their being got. Want to get rid of your old piano, and have a now one. If your husband keeps a carriage for you, desire a better ; if he does not, and can not afford it, complain. Whenever your desires exceed his means look unhappy, and hint how Much more advane , tageously you might have married. Never smile and hope for better things, but make your husband feel as keenly 1 as you can the inadequacy _of_ his_ means to support you. Practise, however, a reasonable economy. Take every op portunity of making a cheap' purchase. and when asked of what use it is, reply that is " a•bargain."- Enjoy ill health, be very nervous, and; in partieular, Subject to fits, which you are to fly into as often as your husband iS unkind; that is, whenever he reasons with you. Make the most of every little ache or pain, and insist upon having a fashionable phy sician. There is very elegant in illness ; a pretti ness in a delicate constitution ; affect this attraction, if you have it not ; men adthire it exceedingly. Put yourself un der no restraint in your husband's presence ;, sit, 1011, or lie, in just what way you: like, lookin4 Only to: the entse of the posture; not. to ita-gmestie lehmalut" eties,GT saaaershditiiiai d sentiment to the single; never mind how you express your self; why Should wives be _particular? 'When your - husband wishes to read or be quiet keep chattering to him ; the more frivolous and uninteresting the subject the better. If he is • or