The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 711 * sales o! C o tt on a t Li verpoo l yes t er d ay were 8,f,00 bales, t he Market b •ing quieter, but steady. There was some im rovement Share: —Grand Junction were 233 ; ditto Halves, 16 ; Birna'n.tham, Quarter, ; Brighton, 43 ; Manches „ter and Leeds, 100; South Eastern, ; ditto Nw, 36/ ; ra T ri h s e a . n n d ly Orleans, :32i ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 17s. 6d. e arrivals to-day are from Van Diemen's Land, from !thence we have accounts to the 12th of September last. We can ha r dly b e li eve th e re p resen t a ti on ma d e in some tth 1 e advices that have reached us to-day, that a slight had Wilmot, ► by Sir John Franklin ; but so is it stated, and we earmot refrain !rim mentioning the assertion. A de parture from the ordinary rules of courtesy, how ever alight or unintended, once imagined, trifling cir ,°_nestances are readily advanced to support an idea 'oat an affront was intended. It is in this light that we W ould throw overboard the statement that Lady Franklin had Bone on a pleasure water trip, in the only available vessel at con uand, when the New Governor was in the offing. The : leader bushranger, Cash, had been captured, and no ques tion his f ate would soon be sealed. This villain was the bard in the bush that have committed the tost horrible atrocities, and the capture of the rest of ' sn e gang was looked forward to as a certainty. They will eet with no sympathy at the hands of the colonists. The I t l e rut advices do not notice any alteration for the better in t "lue or commerce in the colony. There are no accounts ° ,daY from Sydney. , he following letters (copied from the Chronicle), which nave and Eassed between the firm of Salomon and Co ,of Panama, -' Mosquera, the Minister for New Grenada in this ut eon 41 : tris show that the exclusive privileges for opening a corn na-41eation between the two oceans across the Isthmus of Pa granted to the Company of which the above firm was the a"party concerned, are still acknowledged by that Republic, that surveys have been made by them for the execution of the undertaking : " Paris, Nov. 24, 1843. o b s " Sirs:—.A. letter from London informs me that many taeles are thrown in the way of my agents there, in con tsVeaoce of false statements circulated in the-Gity_concerning c: privilege granted by the Republic of New Grenada to the ies tn PeaY in which my house at Panama is principally -e.erested. in : l As it i 3 of great importance to an undertaking of such IDs etaude, and of su general interest, that the üblic should e acquainted with the ch real state of the question concerning the privl Pre s , ege, I take the liberty of applying to you, as the re t._ ntative of the Republic in England, to enable me to con alrutret. in the most explicit terms the statements to which I `theo If following to take the trouble of giving a positive answer ptlrposet questions, it would, I think, fully serve my ao 4 ` i• Has the Republic of New Grenada granted to any other pri cross Luvßany than the on e i n whi c h I a m i n t e re s t e d, an exc l us i ve "'lle for opening a communication between the two oceans, 0,,„.,,T ; Isthm us o f P anama , or any ot h er part o f N ew 2. granting as any party, excepting those named in the decree to f o he privilege, received any power from the Republic 4,1 v. a company for the same purpose? . Ilas the Congress of New Grenada passed any decree, or 7iettoned, resolutions to deprive us of the privilege so granted? sur 4 . Has it come to your k now l e d ge t h at we h ave caused via vey s to be made across the Isthmus of Panama, with the for e of asce rta i n i ng the most eligible line to be adopted, either rititting a shi p cana l , er ma ki ng a roa d ? a tm .beg to apologise f or t rou bli ng y ou t o g i ve me wr itt en . _ e , ers to the abo ve quest i ons ; b ut; as t h e su bj ect i s one o f " a general i mportance, it will, I trust. be considered by you sufficient excuse.—l have the honour to be, " AUG. SALOMON. 4 ! To Monsieur Alosquera, Chargé d'Affaires for the Republic of New Grenada to England, now in Paris." " Paris, Nov. 27, 1843. to " Sirs—ln reply to your letter of the 24th inst., asking me to 1 . give an answer to the several questions contained therein, t beg to say, in reference to the first question, that since lie date of the privilege granted to the Franco-Grenadian I, 4l° Pany, no oth er p r i v il ege h as , t o thi s d ay , b een g i ven ;Y tee Government of New Grenada for the purpose of P e lting a communication between the two oceans, across the sthrou s of Panama, or any other part of the territory of the " Your second question is virtually announced by what is Stated ab ove. "As to your third question, I can only say th a t I h ave re - 41'eived neither official nor private information that the above privilege has been declared forfeited. " And as to the last question, it is acknowledged that the said Company have caused surveys to be made, for the execu tion of the work they have undertaken. " I auth er i se you to ma k e w h atever use you t hi n k proper o f thisietter.--I have the honour to be, &c. " M. M. MOSQUERA. " To M. Augustin Salomon, of Panama, in Paris." The public securities have remained this morning at about the same rates as they left off yesterday. The business done was small, and the brokers for the Sinking Fund Commissioners did not make any additional purLhases. Consols for Morey have been quoted at 96} 4, and the same for the Account. Bank Stock is up to 187, India Stock for the Account to 2 74, but Exchequer Bills are heavy at 655. premium. , A fall has taken place in Belgian Bonds thi s morn i ng from 104 to 103 i. Dutch Bonds remain much about the same as Yesterday. Spanish Stock has improved, the Three per Cents. ; and the Five per Cents. for Account to 24. Alexi 'i▪ n Bonds were a shade lower than yesterday. In the other °r e• ign Stocks there has not been any material alteration 1 In the Railway Share Market not much alteration has taken to-day, if we except Bristol and Ex e t er , w hi c h h ave • ,va. The other Shares are steady, f rac ti ona l a lt era ti ons -4 . y .have occurred. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9743 'I3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 96i4 t. per Ce n t. R educed Annuities ...... e e * Sit Per Cent. A nnu iti es nngsoiAs n fo n r ui o ti p e o s n , jog Expire sth Jan. 1860 963 India Stock for Opening tzeltequel. Bills 2734 , 14d. 14d. 1000 soot. 65 ..... 65 pm. . ' 65 bit, . ...0 ~,, - all 67 VORizi rm , gl If e i g i — a .O_ND 8 THIS DAY AT ONE_ IO O 4 T IO L 3 O 4 CK. oluniCnds, 5 per Cent 11% litn I3onds Mett le 8 .an Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent... 2 3 1 pantsh Bonds, Five per Cent. Diotto Deferred c(°" tilittitto for the A . t 22% 124 T hrea Ditto for per Ce n t. . . . 30li D utch 2 the Account 4 per PRicpO Cent 544 u nteh 5 per Ce 7' t .. 1004 - "'n F SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RA. ILWA TS. Paid. Per Share. Brutal and Exeter .. 70 .. ... 644 to 654 44 Jr % Counties ..... .... ............. 23 ... 104 t din % New Registered ........ 12%...... to Ore m 44 h and Glasgo w ......... 50 ditto Western ............. 75 1064 to °n t o _ l ,` t ° it Shares ................. 50 ..... 684 to 1 _ u and Bright ....... 50 "ud ou on .. __ L ow , and South Western ... 41% .....74 Itt.._' l , l l and Croydon (Trunk).-• 131 154...... to I;44•!?tiester and Birmingham 40 pitr7nerti and Eastern 1'4 1 . 11 . °A Orleans .... 3344 . to -- t , • a n d r , .......... 20 .14. 1 . ~..-• .0 lien :.:: . .. ._ 20 . . 3 9 1 to Ditt o mastern and Dover... SO I_,Scrip... . _.. ... Z l it end N:oth *Midland 11...0 JOINT STOCY EA NYS `l.` 41Provin cialofEisglaiid... 35 - ~, r PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, JAN. 11. 41,7 e told a Half Stock 4 „-Li D i tto N ew, 1 830 10114 bejper Cent. Debentures and Canal Debs. 6 per Cent Cent. Ballast Office Debentures u Per Cent, new Pipe Water Debs LAST PRICE OF SHARES. Dublin Paid. Per Share. on a d aiLw ß s o y cl . 100 ......118 Drogheda .. —K. •: Road 50 Hibernian 13 ... k ... •••••-•• ......... 25 C it ef D !n ... 924 1., .Y. üblin Steam Company ...... 100 tzritish and Irish Steam Company ... 50 4 114 , C UE OF EXCHANGE.--(YESTERDAY.) bitts:rdara ...... CF. 12 7 Gibraltar .. AT, ,at sight ......... 12 b Leghorn .. kitt,rdara ...... ..2 0. 12 74 Genoa iarp ................. 12 7 Milan 41t o : r etil ......M.B. 13 15 Venice Ikl'zi," . ., ................ ,14 0 Naples t - ' u days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz • 114 A tiors. soolzonths ......... 25 95 1 isbon ........ ... . 26 5 Oporto 524 rlrdeaux .. 26 b Rio Janeiro 23 r ati ,,, rt ... : ....... th ete 'go on Maine ...122 Bahia terir b urgh, 3 Us. ... 364 Buenos Ayrea . v ie n .......... 7 New York, 21days sight 464 Iri ni la, effec. tl. 3M. 959 Philadelphia 4e 11„ e se, lath •11) 0 PRICES OF BULLION, PIA oz. 36% Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 - di , r t icl 36% Portugal Gold Coin,. 317 5 b h i lbao.. ....... ..„ 36 New Doubloons OO 0 •.• ..... k at eelona -Iva'. .. . ..... , M A ... ~-. o i s 4 NCHESTER • TOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 12.—There . "haw% to ourmarket ; usines is b 4lll . l l!ery limited. notice The in followin mar g are our q ay uot b s ations : )elln and Drogheda, 54 ,• Lancaster and Preston, 36* ; Ltehester and Birmingham, 371 ; Manchester and "'us, quarters, 8 to 84 ; Bolton and Preston, 251 to 25i. To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. t ot ,ut 1,14 t Y our animadversio ns o f thi s even i ng ' s date on the of the Common-Sergeant of the City o f L on d on, i n 'to Th . n ee to a r ecent case at the Central Criminal Court, appear Al e , — to be of so severe a nature that lam sure in common jus rtttj.,°O will insert this explanation. If any blame is to be th at to the nature of the question left to the jury to decide b~heise, that blame is attributable t o th e su b tie d i stinction for:ti.,l*d bth l. The law is that " if A. tonli fide hire a Nish a p a rti c ul ar a purpose, and after that purp ose i s accom chivied, using sell the ho rse , i t i s no l arceny; for unless he had an ,telonious intention, th e su b sequen t w i t h o ldi ng or dig ; Si e z 'i , or th e hor se d oes not constitute a new felonious taking. ?14 3t • V. Bank s, R . and R. 441, overt uling R. v. Tunnard, st b . •C. 687. I n order to constitute a larceny the jury satisfied that the possession was obtain . edaatmofurandi. the point left to the jury to determine, in the case so at Y.orntnented on in your recent article. Ido not say call w as put to the jury in that distinct and simple way that 1 44 , 11 loch cases is de.irable, but I think your censure of the attio t " Judge was rather too severe, and as the author of your the was in all probability a person not very well versed in this illAtleties of the law perhaps you will give insertion to 2, rPretation by - A BARRISTER. ttreeourt-buildings, Temple, Jan. 12, 1844. TR 01, • .- NRW HISTORICAL RO➢IANCE—" WHITEFIA RS . ; )rod.TRE I)Avs op CHARLES II."---In presenting this Vue ( 4, 7 f'3l' Publication to Mr. Colburn, through the d tbe l4l3l of a friend, we understand the author preserve pkiltrictest incognito. Whether the eulogiums so justly present aPon it by the press will draw him from his AOlll concealment, remains to be seen. It is certainly 4 ,, g Since any similar production has created so great kulinterest in the literary world, or given rise to so W inquiries respecting the authorship. (et e „,, r n, ~ail coach has commenced running daily ktegv`t''' Nlndays) between Hexhain and Bellingham ; it R4411i V Ilexharn at four o'clock in the afternoon, and Bel -1 at eight o'clock in 11 e morning, and affords Type uncut:en:iodation to the retired district of North e"--Newcast/e Adoertiatr. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1844 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.) LoNnorr, JAN. 13.—Moderate breezes from N. W., and cloudy. It rained hard last night. DEAL, JAN. 12, a.m., Wind, light and variable.—P. M. S.S.W., fresh.—Sid. Alvirna and Clara, Pernambuco. Arrd. Stad Gwolle, Amsterdam, for Surinam ; Antoinette, do., for Texas. A brig, name unknown, got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, during a fog, but was assisted off, and proceeded towards the North Foreland. OFF HASTINGS. JAN. 12.—Goifrey, Hamburgh, for Valparaiso. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12. —Wind E. S.E. to S. S.W.—Arrd. Arminius, Otto, Port au Prince, for Bremen, leaky in top sides; Hendrik Hudson, London, for New York ; Eudora, M'Mickau, Hobart Town, sailed Sept. 15; Phoenix, Suter, Havannah, for amkturgh. • COWES, JAN. 12.—Arrd. Aurelian, Quebec. OFF BRIGHTON, JAN. 12.—Eliza Ant,, Batavia, for Am sterdam. FALMOUTH, JAI. 12. —Wind W. S. W. —Arrd. Lucretia, Headberry, Laguna. RATHMULLIN (LOUGH SwILLY), Jar/. B.—Arrd. Sally, Stevenson, —, with damage, having been in contact ott the sth instant, off Tory Island, with a schooner, which was not seen afterwards. GALWAY, JAIL 9.—The John Bog!, bound to London, which grounded in leaving the harbour, 4th inst, got off next tide, without damage, and proceeded. STUDWALL ROADS.—Arrd. and proceeded Haidee, Clyde, to St. Vincent's ; William Russell, Liverpool to the Brazils. RAMSGATE, JAN. 12.—The Pomona, from Amsterdam to New York, and the Dolores, from Havannah to Hamburgh, have been surveyed, and must discharge. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Wind S. to N. W., moderate.— Arrd. Eliza, Woolley, Valparaiso (Oct. 8.); Mary Bidley, Honduras ; Isaac, Allerton, Natchez ; Emblem, Dyll, How ard, Hill, Sobieski, Greay, Ewatara, Davies, and Essex, Welch, New Orleans. Sld. Ana, Joven Pepita, and Joven Victorians, Havannah ; Harriet Rockwell, Mobile; Barbadian, and Agnes Jane, Jamaica. CORK, JAN. 10.—Sid. Freeman, Jamaica; John. Charles. tors. Off, Ceres, Smith, Honduras; Martha, Steele, Bay of Fundy, with loss of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, and one man overboard, having been struck by a sea in lat. 41, lon. 50. SHIELDS, JAN. 11.—Sld. Stark, Ceylon. ALDBOROUGH, JAN. 10.—The fishing smack New Flora, Long, of sandwich, foundered yesterday bntween the Kentish Knock and the Largstone, having been in contact with the Rebecca, of South Sheilds. VESELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Nellor, Cowes to Genoa, 29th ult., off Tarifa; Henderson, Liverpool to Gibraltar, 30th, by the Mary Ridle7, arrived at Liverpool. Barque Canada, 7th inst., lat. 46, lon. 12, by the Phoenix, arrived off Portsmouth. Warren Hastings, Liverpool to New Orleans, Nov. '2B, lat. 25, lon. 87 ; Isabella, from London, 9th inst., lat. 49, len. 9; Racer, from London, 10th, lat. 49, lon. 7, by the Lucretia, ar rived at Falmouth. Lady Rowena, of Liverpool, bound to London, 1I th ult., lat. 13 N., lon. 29 W. ; Charles, Boston to Calcutta, 16th. A ship, No. 3,571.1, distinguishing pen dant, standing W.. lat. lon. • 23; Earl Essex, supposed from Liverpool to Buones Ayres, 4th inst., lat. 46, lon. 11, by the Eliza Ann, off Brighton. COURT CIRCULAR The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday in Claremont Park. Ilis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an airing in a carriage at Claremont yesterday forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal rode out on a pony in Claremont Park yesterday morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting in the forenoon. His Royal Highness was attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Wait ing, and Lord Rivers. The Prince and suite returned on horseback to Claremont, shortly before two o'clock, to lunch. The unfavourable state of the weather during yes terday afternoon prevented her Majesty and her Illus trious Consort taking a drive. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has ar rived at Belton House to honour the Earl and Countess Brownlow with a visit, from 13elvoir Castle, Leicester shire, the seat of the Duke of Rutland. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat three hours. Mr.y. Shand and Mr. Langford Hodge had an inter view yesterday on -the affairs of Antigua with Lord Stanlcy at the Colonial-office. The - Committee on Education of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hot ourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterda . v at the Council• office. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Dulte of l3uccleuch, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Granville Somerset. The meeting broke up at three o'clock. The Earl of Ripon had an interview with Sir R. Peel yesterday. Mr. Sanford had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade. THE STATE ROOMS, ST. JAMES'S. - These splendid apartments have recently undergone a complete renova tion. The ceilings have been painted, and the orea mental stucco work regilt. The walls have been hung with crimson, either velvet, satin damask, or flock paper. The richly -carved architraves, and cornices of the doors and the mouldings of the penelings, and also the window frames, have all been gilt, and the wood work painted of a white colour, tinted with crimson. The magnificent pier glasses have been,restored, and the frames new gilt, and the carved marble chimney-pieces, some of which are handsomely sculptured, have been carefully cleaned. The entire suite (with the exception of the Grand Banquetting-room) consisting of the Royal Closet, the Throne-room, the Entree or Drawing-room, and Queen Anne's-room, have been decorated. The Throne-room is more magnificent than the other apartments, being more highly ornamented and enriched with gold. On the north side of this saloon, in the centre, is a grand whole length portrait of his Majesty George the I ourth in his Coronation Robes, painted by Sir Thomas Law rence. This portrait has a very handsome frame, and is placed in a compartment hung with crimson velvet. On either side of this portrait are pilasters of crimson velvet, tastefully ornamented with beautiful specimens of carved fruit and foliage, reaching to the ceiling, and gilt. The other parts of this room (with the exception of the throne itself) are hung with rich satin damask of a handsome pattern. In addition to the State rooms, the Queen's Robing room, the Portrait Gallery, the Presence Chamber, and the Grand Chamber will also be renovated. The Gallery will be fitted up to correspond with the State-rooms. The tapestry in the Presence Chamber is being cleaned. The Corridors and both the State and Private Stair cases will also be cleaned and painted. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the we€k ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer ehandize : Week ended Name of Railway. Total. E. a. d . Jan. 6 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,170 17 9 5 Birmingham and Gloucester 6 Brandling Junction . 5 Chester and Birkenhead 7 Dundee and Arbroath .. 6 Edinburgh and Glasgow... 2,068 17 2 7 Eastern Counties 6 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,548 4 4 6 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenoc•k BlB 5 5 6 Grand Junction, and Chester & Crewe 6,218 13 6 6 Great North of England 7 Great Western 5 Liverpool and Alanchester 4,206 4 3 6 London and Birmingham 12,322 12 3 11 London and Blackwall 6 London and Brighton 9 London and Croydon 213 11 8i 11 London and Greenwich . 681 3 7 7 London and South Western 4,847 18 0 4 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 9ll 14 7 6 Manchester and Birmingham 6 Manchester & Leeds & Hull & Selby 5,095 6 8 6 Midland Counties. 2,178 7 9i 7 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,127 17 3 7 Newcastle and North Shields ... Northern and Eastern 6 North Midland North Union.... 2 Paris and Orleans.. 8 Paris and Rouen... Preston and Wyre 6 Sheffield and Manchester 11 South Eastern. Taff Va1e....... 7 Ulster.... ................. 6 York and North Midland 1,269 10 2 3,732 10 7 2,892 0 0 669 15 1 2,248 13 4 WILL OF THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. ! --The will and codicil of the Marquis 'Wellesley have just been proved by Mr. John Thornton Down, the sole executor, who has a legacy of LOCOL He bequeaths to Mr. Alfred Montgomery, his private secretary, 1,0001., "in regard of his affectionate, dutiful, and zealous services," and the-residue of his property to his wife, Mary Ann, Marchioness Wellesley. By the codicil he gives to his secretary (Mr. Montgomery), in addition to the legacy in his will, all his manuscripts ; and gives the following directions, which are verbatim :—" And I desire him to publish such of my papers as shall tend to illustrate my two administrations in Ireland, and to protect my honour against the slander of Mel bourne and his pillar of state, O'Connell." To Lord Brougham he leaves " Homer," in four vols., and earnestly desires him to assist in publishing his MSS., saying, " I leave any memory in his charge, confiding in his justice and hcnour." To Earl Grey, " my George, carved on an Amethyst, and worn by George II." To his valet he leaves his wearincr apparel, robes, stars, &c., " for his kindness during my illness.' 'I he property is swGrii under 6,000/. COLONEL SIODDART ALIVE.—We understand that what may ba considered authentic intelligence has reached town, to the etYect that Colonel Stoddart is still alive, and at large, though strictly watched, by orders of the Khan of Bukhara. It is stated that he has been employed by that Prince in the drilling of his troops. We also learn, through the same source, that Captain Conolly is dead ; but whether he has fallen a victim to imprisonment and disease, or been put to death, is not pesitively , ascertained. MAILS FOR SYDNEY.—A contract has been entered into by her Majesty's Government for the conveyance of mails, monthly, from the United Kingdom to Sydney. British newspapers will be forwarded free of postage. THE PURITY OF THE LAW.—That th 3 adminis trators of the law should be clean- handed is the universal admission of the whole civilised world ; but it has re mained for an Irish votary tif"Thernis to carry the prin ciple of legal purity to its fullest extent, as will be seen by the following notice, which we extract from Saunders's News-Letter of this morning:—" Notice.— Mr. Molloy, Provisional Assignee of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, requests that all clerks and others having business to transact with him, will make use of the rug and scraper for the feet, previous to their entering his apartment." Perhaps Mr. Molloy has found that the " clerks and others having business to transact wit), him," resemble the French lady, who, when some sur prise was expressed by an acquaintance at the impure condition of her hands, pathetically responded, " Ah, mon Dieu, if you were only to see my feet l"—Dublin GLASGOW }REE TRADE BANQUET. This great and important demonstration in support of the principles of free trade, and especially in behalf of a total repeal of the corn and provision -laws, took place on Wednes day, - n the City Hall. In point of respectability, according to the ordinary acceptation of this term, the meeting, was perhaps never surpassed in Glasgow. The entire nun.brr of persons in the hall was about 2,000, including ladies, of whom 50 occupied the western gallery. The Chair was occupied by the Hon. t he Lord Provost. Vice-Chairmen—Walter Buchan-n, Esq. ; John Tennant, Esq. ; Alexander Graham, Esq. ; William Cross, Esq. On the Chairman's platform were the folbrwing gentlemen ; —The Hon. Fox Motile, AL P. ; James Oswald, Esq., M.P. ; Richard Cobden, Esq, M.P. ; Colonel Thompson ; R. R. R. Moore, Esq. ; John Bright, Erq., M.P. ; Arc hdeaeon Hastie, Esq., M.P. ; Rev. Dr. Ward'aw, Rev. Dr. Peugh, Rev. a. Willis, George Stirling, E.q. ; Samuel Iliggirsbotham, Esq ; John Wilson, Esq., Dundyvan ; P. W. Kennedy, Esq., of Drumellan ; Robert Stewart, Esq. ; George Ander son, Esq. ; David Chapman, Esq ; William Gemmel!, Esq. ; Walter Crum, Esq. ; Alexander Cooper, Esq ; David Mur ray, Esq. ; George Brown, Esq. ; Charles Gray, Esq. ; James Scott, Esq. ; John Ker, Esq. ; Andrew Galbraith, Esq. ; Thomas Sprirs, Esq. ; John Young. jun., Esq. ; George Stevenson, Esq. ; John Ker, Esq. ; John Kerr, Esq. At the other end of the table were—Provost Bain, Gree nock; Bailies, Hamilton, Whitehead, Hastie, and Andcrson ; Provost Bankier ; Bailie Bunten ; James Dunlop, Esq. ; George Crawford, Esq. ; George Wilson, Esq. ; John Wil son, Esq., Aueheneden ; John Robertson, Esq. ; Robert Hutchinson, Esq. ; Robert Bartholomew, Esq.; William Gray. Esq. ; John Pattison, Esq. ; John Anderson, Esq. ; 11. E. Crum, Esq. ; A. C. Dick, Esq., Advocate; Alexander Denny, Esq. ; William Couper, Esq. ; William Logic, Esq. ; and P. Cowan, Esq. Letters of apology were received and read from Lord Dun fermline, Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. C. P. Villiers, N.P. ; I'. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P.; C. Duncan, Esq., IMP.; J. Fel gus, Esq., late Al. P. ; and %V. D. Dillon, Esq., of Walls house. The LORD PRCVOST, in rising to propose the first Watt, was loudly cheered. He said—Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 have great pleasure in taking the chair on this occasion. The question of free-trade has long occupied the attention of the citizens of Glasgow, many of whom, towards the close of the last cen tury, zealously maintained ',the sound principles which the cerebrated Adam Smith so ably and admirably propounded and practically illustrated, whilst he filled one of the chairs in our University..—(Cheers.) I am happy to fled that ro many of our intelligent merchants and manufacturers of the present time are becoming every day more and more alive to the im portant principles involved in this all engrossing subject—the abolition of all monopolies ; and I assure you that 1 feel gra tified, when an opportunity occurs, that 1 can, in the exercise of my duty as chief magistrate, give countenance and support to any measure that will tend to ameliorate the condi:ion of the working classes, or improve the commercial and ma nufacturing interests of this great and flourishing city, the mercantile metropolis of Scotland.—(Great cheering.) We have met here to-night to express our abhorrence of those laws which, by enhancing the price of bread, cut deeply into the comforts of this great community, as well as of the coun try generally. They also tend, by restricting our intercourse with foreign nations, to limit the demand for our manufactures, diminishing the employment of the working population, and the necessary consequences follow—the redurrion of the wages of our operatives and artisans.—(Hear.) I am well aware there are many gentlemen whom I have the pleasure of seeing around me, who wilt in the course of the everting explain art;; enter upon the details, and picture to you, in more glossing terms than I can, the misery those unjust laws inflict cn the vast majority of our population. To them I leave the task; and I now request you will fervently join in doing special honour to one whose father's principles, as well as her own education and feelings leave us no room to doubt that in her we have a friend to every measure that can promote the social happiness, core fort, mad prosperity of the people —" I he. Queen."—(Great cheering.) His LORDSHIP then proposed successively—" Ills R o y a l Highness Prince Albert,' and " The Prince of Vales and Royal Family," which were drunk with applause. The LORD PROVOST then called on the Hon. Fox Maule for the next toast. Air. Fox ALAULE, who was loudly and enthusiastically ap plauded, and " one cheer more," was given for the lalembet for Perth, said—Ladies and Gentlemen, in rising to address you on this occasion, I feel that to-night I have been placed in a position which there are many here present much mots worthy to occupy than myself. Indeed I should have bees disposed Lather to follow those who have already led the way ii bringing the great principles of free trade before the public, than to be put forward as the first to introduce that subject to you this evening. But it has been the pleasure of the Com mittee to arrange it so, and I shall, therefore, endeavour, in as few words as can, to give the toast which they have allotted to my share. It embraces the great and wide subject or " Free '1 rade"—(Cheering)—a toast into all the ramifications of which I will not enter in detail—for, were I to do so, in the first place 1 should weary your I atienee, and in the next place, I should do that of which I have sometimes had occasit n to com. plain in folls.wing the toasts of other speakers I sheltie trench upon my neighbour's ground. 1 shall endeavour to avoid that it possible, and 1 shall endeavour to speak to those paramount principles which, if they exist any where, I should imagine must and will exist in that city in Meet' Adam Smith taught ar.d wrote— ( Hear, hear) —in that city which boasts itself not only the commercial ant manufactut ing metropolis of Scotland, but is second scarcely to any city in the enipire.—( Applause.) Thu principles of free trade, Gentlemen, have begun to force themselves so con vincingly, day after day, upon the minds of the inhabitants of this country, that it scarcely requires—indeed it would be at, insult to your unaerstanding—that I should go back into their origin, cr trace them to their ultimate objects. I consider that the proper business of such a meeting as this is to consult-toge ther, and to listen to practical suggestions as to how, in the speediest and most effective, and, at the same time, in the safest manner, we can carry these principles into effect in the Government and Legislature of our country.—( Loud cheers.) I think 'you will admit that we have had of late years pretty clear and plain proof that the old systems of special protectiot are not these upon which--even though you might believe ant' countenance them for the moment—the vast interests of such a country as this can permanently stand.—( Hear, hear, and ap plause.) Like a plant, which may be reared or forced in ti hot- best or hot-house, monopoly may be of benefit for the moment; but to stand all the tear and wear of a changefu climate—to be thoroughly fixed and permanently rooted it our soil, it is not destined, and you may rely upon it, that monopoly is not the plant to flourish in this country ; nor i our soil likely to be burdened with it much longer. (Cries ot " Hear.") We are free men, and why should we cot hay. free trade 2—( Applause. ) I think it stands to reason that the system is best, and promotes to the greatest extent the well being of all, which shall give to us the easiest enjoyment of that which the rest of the world produces, and which shall con vey to the rest of the world the produce of our own industry it. return. Now, these are the principles ui on which I for one wish to see legislation ; and 1 wish to see the m embraced nor in this point only, but in all. In fact, I wish to see no taxation in his country which is not solely for the purpose of maintain. ing our national credit, and answering our national engage ments— ( Hear, hear)—and I would further vs ish to see that taxation so levied that its pressure might be equal on all classes. and that no class or section should have exemption at the ex pense of another. There are various subjects to which the principles of free trade have been more peculiarly directed ; bus as one deeply interested in the prosperity of agriculture, I an. not sorry to have the opportunity before this company, in this great city, to bear my public testimony to that which has been asserted by others—that I believe free trade in agriculture, or, in other words, the repeal of the corn-laws, which give a mono poly to the owners or holders of land, should be, for the genera good of the country, conceded—that these laws should be imme diately repealed.---(Loud applause.) I have not come to this opinion suddenly, nor have I arrived at it from any personal motive or purpose; but the more I have considered the sub. jest, the more I have been convinced, not only that the land. owner or laneholder will r.ot be losers by the repeal of the corn-laws, for that is a narrow view of the question, but they will to so far gainers that, without any less to themselves, the repeal of these laws Neill confer an immense boon on the rest of the community.—( Hear.) Now, in reference to the article corn, I would like to say one or two wore;s on that subject it any farmers who may be here present, and I would wish tt express my conviction, from the little experience 1 have bat in communication with agriculturists, and especially esith the tenantry of this country, that I believe there is a growing ul inion amongst the tenantry, that the sooner the corn-law i settled the better, and that they will not consider any settle ment satisfactory which does not involve a total repeal of these laws.—(Applause.) This I believe to be a growing feeling among the agricultural population ; and our agricultural popu lation, you w ill bear ire mind, and the gentlemen from Englane ill bear in mind, depend mostly upon leases arid ui on fixes engagements with their landlord. But to w hat do I trace this change and growth of opinion ? I trace it to the t irons of body of which, though I am rot a member myself, yet I can not have lookrd unebservantly upon what they have beta, doing during the last twelve months. It was not my inten tion to base entered into any details regarding the Ant, Corn-law League; yet when 1 see a body of men as much entitled to hold their opinions, and to press thOm on the public as I or any other class of the community are entitled to Lots opinions—when I see a body composed of such gentlemen a: these on my right and left, to whom have been attributed ma licious motives, and who have been falsely attacked and chal lenged for using the most atrocious of language, and the mos horrible of doctrines—when I see this I must take the libertyo , stating my opinion of the high merits of that body, and of the important, services which the Anti-Cern-law League have ren dered during the last twelve months.—(Hear, bear. ) I have often remarked quietly to vat ious members of that body, tha: in the first commencement of their career, they, as seella „. their opponents, dealt too much in bandying hard words with each other. I told them that this was not only a waste of their time, but a highly impolitic proceeding into the bargain ; but timing the last twelve months we have seen that body scattering arguments throughout the length and breadth of the land— reams of reason flowing from their press, and working by that machinery, and fighting with those weapons which are most worthy of reasoning men, and most likely to convince reason ing beings.— (Loud applause.) 'I here may, no doubt, have lit es hero and there, in a large body such as this, sem men whose vivid imagination and fiery temperament ma) have occasionally run away with them; but we must judge r body like this by its written feelings and opinions, not Iron the sudden speeches of some of its members. And when we look upon the endeavours of the Anti-Corn-law League ti inform the public upon all the bearings of the great question, of free trade, I must admit 1 have seldom seen an associatlou —and I do not in general approve of such associations for the purpose of urging on legislation—l have never known one which had such beneficial objects in view, or urged them with such legitimate and laudable weapons. I have thought it right to say this much, and to express publicly my opinion in orde, to show that though I do not belong to them, 1 am so far Iron. discouraging their efforts, that 1 regard them as the means of vast good, and it is our duty therefore to bear up against those who would foully and unjustly calumniate them.—( Hear. ) Having said this much in regard to this great and grossing body in the country, permit me to go on to state that I believe that cause they have been advocating is coming by slow and sure degrees to a crisis. —(Hear, hear.) When I look into England—% hen I regard the counties of England, and observe the different tone of language which is now held at.agricul tural meetings, I cannot help being struck with a strong feel ing that the landlords and farmers e.f England. thote : b the} won't confess it themselves, are making up their minds foi what they see is inevitably approaching.—( Hear, hear," am. applause.) "Why, we begin to hear in the counties of Eng land remarks on the necessity of leases, and suggestions a , to the utility of draining—we begin to have the practice of the Lothians quoted in Devonshire and Dorsetshire—ane we find that agricultural associations are no longer mere bodies met for the purpose of dining together, and hearing ce making speeches in favour of monopoly; but they have se t themselves earnestly to do business in their own line, by en. deavouring to point out to the tenantry of the country how they may make the land grow more, and how, by increased production, they may meet the defalcation, should there be a defalcation, produced by a repeal of the corn-law s.—( Hear.) It has been generally imagined that the most prosperous tenant was the man who held his farm at the lowest amount of rent; but let me tell you, and in doing so I have the authority of eminent agriculturists, that a rent inadequately low is nothing more nor less than a reward for indolence. The man whose rent is so low that, with the merest daily labour, he can extract from the ground that which is necessary for his ordinary wants, will leave his land in t:.e same state that he got it.—( Hear, hear.) But the man who is spurred on by a long rent, or a large family, will exert every nerve to make the ground pro ; duce to the uttermost; and th a t man of all others is he who will not fear any repeal of the cot n-laws, but will rather court the settlement of a question which distracts his attention, arid which, when settled, vs ill leave him at liberty to ap ply his energies in a manner from which he will be be sure to derive a fair return. Such sentiments, lam con vinced, will in due time prevail all over England ; but I be lieve we shall not succeed in this great question till we can se cure leases to improving tenants. But some of the English landlords complain that they cannot do without the corn-laws because their estates are burdened with mortgages. These. men, then, may not be able to afford the money to improve their own estates ; Lot, if they give least s, eiVerprising tenants will be found to improve these lands and lay out the money. And shall the indisposition of the proprietors to lay out this money, which may more properly be stated as an indispOsition to part with their hold over the consciences of their tenantry— shall this indisposition interfere between the public and their obtaining this great been ? A boon it is not—it is their right. It is the right of the people of this country to have food at the lowest possible price; and when this can be had without in jury to any class, I say the longer we are in obtaining this right from the G overnment, t h e more blame w,e should " take to out selves that the question is so long unsettled. But that we shall obtain it in a few years I am convinced—we shall secure it, either from the principles of" a' Liberal Govern ment, or the fears of a Tory Government—we shall either have it in the same spirit in which the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts or Municipal Reform were given, or we shall obtain it in the same way as Catholic Emancipation was secured in 1829.—( Hear, hear.) But it is a most wretched state for the country to be in in the mean time; and it is worse to have men in power who will nibble at reforms without making them while there is time. There must be no nibbling in the case of free trade. " Nibbling," as Lord Joint Russell said to Sir Robert Peel, "that unsettles everything and settles nothing." And, therefore, the safest, and wisest, and best course for all parties is, to let us have done with all those laws which give any one class a superiority over another —which gives a boon and protection to which they have no title in lustice; for I maintain that no men or class is entitled to protection in the shape of monopoly on any pretence whatever. —( Applause.) It is not my intention to detain you longer from the business of the evening. I have merely made these remarks as leading to the practical development of the subject before us, and I conclude by inviting you to join me, in drink ing the toast of " Free Trade," in condemning all of posits principles of legislation, and in pressing for a speedy abolition of those monopolies which are a burden to the country and a bane to the people.—( The toast was given with the most en thusiastic plaudits,, alter which the lion. Gentleman resumed his seat.) The LORD PROVOST, after adverting to the fact that the Legislature had turned a deal ear to reasonable remonstrance, and thereby given the League enormous power, requested the meeting cordially to join him in the" Health of the gentlemen composing the deputation from the Leagne."—( Cheering. ) Mr. COBUE aeknowledged the toast, and was received with every demonstration of the most enthusiastic welcome.—(l he cheering continued loud and long, and the Hon. Gentleman, at the outset ot his speech, was more than once interrupted by a repetition of the plaudits). He said—llly Lord Provost, Ladies, and Gentlemen, it gives ms great happiness to have the honour of appearing before such an audience as this, especially when I have fresh upon my recoilection the proceedings which took place twelve months ago, and the gratifying and Haltering circumstances which then attended my visit here. Since wo last had the onortunity of meeting, important circumstances, not a few, have marked the progress of our movement ; and if we score to be asked at what time free-trade mdinions were inakiog the most raf:id prcgress, I would say that now they are progressing more than at any former period. While we had ten converts yesterday, we have 100 —nay, I,ooo—to-day ; not only its nverts, but active missionaries in the cause. And iris impossible fur any one to suppose that our cause, marked by the circumstances which have attended the movement, can ever go back. Our excellent Lord Provost has alluded to the tabours of individuals in ecnnexion with this movement ; but I would be ashamed of myself, as my friends here would a!so be, were we to arrogate to ourselves the prin cipal merit of the great advance which ':as been re cently made. There are many men whom I could name—men not publicly known—who have done as much to promote the advance of the catie, and ensure its success, arid • who are still !assuring in their own circles, as those who have bt en constantly b e f or e the world, and had all the echtt of the movement. Well, then, if I were asked w h a t i s t h e reason o f the rapid progress we have lately made, I would say, that next to the justice of our cause, and to that wise discretion that has induced the League to adhere to the one great question—l should say, that we are more indebted to the conduct of our opponents than to any other circumstance.—( Hear.) .1f I had been requested to prescribe the course of conduct which our opponents, both in Parliament and out of Parliament should pursue, I would however, having a due regard to the interests ot free trade, have prescribed that very course which they have been kind enough to adopt.—( Hear, and a laugh. ) I should have recommended the exercise of tricks and chicanery .11 the House, and the emp l o yment of ruffianism out of it ; and if I could Lave raled up from the kennel the ready tool of any party—if I could have found men abandoned in l üblic and pri vate life, and induced our opponents to employ them as the organs of monopoly, 1 should have recommended those very men whom they have taken. 1 shou'd have advised them not to advance by slow degrees in the charges of a crimioal nature against members of the League. I should have advised to take calendar of crime to assassination itself.—( Hear, and a laugh.) .dirteges of petty larceny in the outset, and ascend through the 1 hat would have been the peculiarly proper course, for it. is by some such gradations that human nature advances from little to the great depths of criminal ty ; and I should should have • said—charge the men who have the merit of ordinary propriety end decorum in their lives —charge them with assassination t once. By so doing, I should have known, that in dealing with the people of England—the shrewd and right-hearted people or England—weshouldhavecovered our accusers with . . ignominy Imre ntempt. Having said that I am obliged to our °peon. tits for the course they have pursued, I would also say, hat we are not setting up for ourselves the merit of possessing any superior amount of virtue. We do not say that we have a claim for more than a man could expect in a servant at eighteen shillings a week. We only say that we stand hese Arcs sating i favcurable contrast to the champions of monopoly, by whom we have been assailed. The champions and the eiiuse are werthy of each other. The lion. Member then adverted to what the League had done and what it proposed to do, arid spoke at corsiderable length of the rapid and vast prowess it had made at the meetings it had held in the agricultural dis riets, of the benefit of the repeal of the corn-laws to the capi talists and labourers, and cot eluded thus :—And now I have had a toast put into my hands to which I find it necessary to eslvert. My friend, Air. Alaule, made a promise he would eot trench on any other j. erson's ground, and, like every ether promise of the kind, given at a public meeting, he era e it, by going over the whole of my ground.—(Laughter.) But as he did it so much better than I could hate dole, and with much greater authority, I ant happy that he took up the .gricultural view of thi s quest i on ((beers.) I sh a ll an t, Gentlemen, telaeim,neont,hteouichch dwelt tion upon, thetogoromunud,thl.i_ke(lec' to Le taken For telli'e taken up by ither speakers, the me ta l ground of th i s ques tio n , whi c h is etc h .ve consider i' as one of p ounds, shi lli ngs an d pence, let us re member that there are b ear i ngs in the f ree t r ade question f a r higher than these—th a t f ree trade is t h e mos t b e nigna n t o f arinci} les. As Sir R o b ert Peel sa id , it i s to buy in the eheapest, and sell in th e d earest market. Thi s may be said to he a s e lfi s h pri nc i p l e ; b ut it is in fact, j ust to ta k e your pro dime that is cheap, t o t h ose countr i es w h er e it is dear.— t Cheers.) And it is cur ta ki ng t hi s pro duce, because it is much.—(Cheers.) cheap there, and bridging it to cur country, because it is dear here:— ( Cheers.) If you view fi de trade with this definition, you will never arrive at the opinion, that there is anything selfish in free trade ; but, on the contrary. you will find that it is the reverse—that it is feeding the hungry and clo t hing the naked, in the m os t comprehensive manner all over the world. dr. Cobde n then gave " The agricultural interests of the eountry, and may all classes connected with it become satisfied ;hat they cannot prosper while commerce and manufactures decay."—(Drunk with loud cheering.) Mr. AI.FXANDEFt GRAHAM prop os ed "The ministers of ,- eligion who h ave ident.fied themselves with the cause of free rade. , A few years ago two clerical convoc ations were hel d es this special subject. The first was at Manchester, anti eon- 1 ested of 6,50 dissenting mi n i sters o f a ll denominations. Besides, nearly 900 ot h er aLsent ministers also ad d resse d l e tt ers t o t h e ess.enibly, exp ress i ve o f t h eir approbation o f it s t bject.—( H ear , 1 tear.) The o th er convocation, held at Edinbu r g h, cons i sted if 2(10 ministers. E ac h assembly closed its sittings with a i ' solemn address t o t h e public, con demning all monopolies , as Alike offensive to G o d an d i n j urious to man . United, they form t sacred cloud of w i tnesses to the j us tice of our cause.— (Cheers.) I would no t ma li c i ously k ee p alive from oblivion he memory of that act of the General Assembly, by which they eetitioned Parliament against a repeal of the corn-laws, as hreatening to depreciate the value of their grain revenues ; but he fact is worthy of record, as an illustration of this one Incst ' repulsive aspect of a bad system, um!• r which the ministers of religion have become vested with an interest antegonal to that if the people, and are exhibited before the world as collateral sharers in the spoils of an unjust monopoly—one even tempting hem, in the secrecy of their hearts, to contradict and recal the weekly public prayer of their lips for plenty in the land both to man and beast.—( Hear, hear. ) The Rev. Dr. Petrol!, amidst ,loud cheering, proposed— ' The progress of knowledge, a necessary guarantee for the extension and permanence of free institutions. —(lmmense Alter adverting to the moral bearings of the ques :peering.) - Peel too much.—(Hear, hear.) We must be just to that %Roister ; and in some points of view I think• he is entitled to `ion, he said,—l think we are apt sometimes to blame Sir R. , tir hearty thanks, and especially for conferring on time country a great boon which Sir Robert Peel never meant, perhaps, to bestow upon it, but which, nevertheless, does not alter the nature of the gift. But for Sir Robert Peel contending for the corn.law, and using every effort to keep it as it is, I suppose not e few of the distinguished persons who figure most proini- ! eently at the present day might have lived and died in the pri luxuly, to bring them into the racy of retirement. But Sir Robert has wrought them out of eoutiti y and contrived to marshal :hat privaey, which to them was farm rs themselves. And we may arena of public life, to fa-ten on them the eyes, tne confidence, Robert is preparing the way for and the affections of this ender them the people of all classes—baekers, merchants, whose efforts I trust Robert Peel a public benefactor tradesmen, and even the , e ,t v i e ie n ri bu t i o ipo fi s , e liow tha t t hos S e ir (lasses, from that he and his associates will either withdraw or be iriven- from I say then, my ' yoU 'OU li?A n' et a l . what you have heard p ower ,—( Vehement cheering.) ps sa y y to ( L L or a d tig P h r t o er vo )_ st, u i n s co n l e i s s t ei S ou ir s s ay — condeseemline, you may say—but, after all, is lie not a.sublime benefactor?—( Re newed laughter. ) Gait ironical —bat yet exult ing the right hand of the chair, and what you will no dauht yet hear front the left hand, and yet say that Sir Robert Peel us not entitled to your—l iiig approbation ?—(Coritnaued laughter.) Yes, let Sir Robert persist, and we will persist also ; let Sr e.e• Hobart support mono poly, we will oppose it ; let hint and his friends club their • nd let it money, we will do so too, e , be one or two years, if use only continue true to ourselves, and to the great cause we are engaged in, we are as sure to beat him as we are en :?aged in conflict with him.—( Loud cheers.) The Rev. Gen ileman gave the tozst amidst loud and repeated cheering. perlia Mr. BRIGHT now rose amid loud and prolonged cheering. When silence had in some meature been restored, he said—l have been requested by the Committee of management to speak to this meeting on a part of the subject which contains the which—that is, that part which is included ie th e phrase-- ' The total and immediate repealof the corn -law s"—( t ht err.) and if I had not been so requested, I have no doubt but this particular part, or whole of the suhject, % ven al have presented itself to my mind at the very first. For the total repeal we ask because we are resolved never to be satisfied with I. ss than complete justice; for immediate repeal we ask, because having discoveied what would be complete jus tice, we are resolved that that justice will not be de layed one moment if we can help it, _ ( Great cheeritg.) Re have Leen for twenty-eight years living under the opera tion of this corn-law, and have, as men generally do in such eases, become so accustomed to it, that we are almost unable to discover the hideousness of its features, or the deformity of its character ; but that it is hideous, that it has been most mis iihievous, that it is to this hour destroying the hope and the happiness of thousands, we are well aware. The Hon. Gen tleman then entered at great. length into the history and effects i of the corn-law, a e d spoke with his usual force and eloquence, proving to the company that none of his energy, or his hearty abhorre nce to the law, I ad been diminished by his recent ill- 1 ness, and coneluded thus i—l speak net without authority. We have attended hundreds of meethsgs. No men in this country Lave seen the faces of so many of their countrymen as we hate.—(Cheers.) We have shaken by the hand, from ; our heart of hearts, hundreds of thou Sands of the intelligent 1 population of this country; and we have authority for saying, that it is the opinion of the middle classes of this country, who are intelligent. and the p ovverful, and the electoral classes, that this law is bad, that it originat e d i n i n j ust i ce , an d h as b en maint a i n ed b y an unjust exsrcise of power —( Cheers. ) And we ask you, the people of this city, whether you are wiiling to term, with us to the breach, to bear all, to suffer all, and work all that is necessary for the carrying out of cur principle, the fundamental principle of the Anti •Corn-law League ?—( Great cheering.) I know you well—l have not read the history of your country for nothnier ; and I treed nut point out to you passages in the history of your country that prove beyond dispute that there is in the people of Scotland a love of liberty that can never die.— (Cheers.) Your country has been the cradle of liberty, the home of freedom fur centu ries back._.( Cheers.) You have not been oppressed and tram pled on by England, as some other part; of the world have been-4 Chi-ers)—and now I trust that what you have done for freedsm—what you have done for civil and religious freedom, you are 110 W ready to do for yourcornmercial liberties.—( Cheers.) I a‘k you to resolve with me that— " By oppressions woes and pa:ns— By our sons in servile chains, We will work while strength remains, Butwe shall be frce."— (Cheers.) Mr. Bright then gave, " The total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws," which was drunk amid enthusiastic cheering. Colonel THOMPSON, who was received with loud cheers, said —My Lord. Provost, Ladies and Gentlemen,it is well that our friend who spoke last has interposed a few matters of finance, for it would be hard to take a man from hearing " Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace Lled," and carry him directly to the discus sion of a dry point of political economy like that which has been put into, my hand.—(Laughter.) It was, perhaps, so placed, because there was a confidence that I at all events should not withhold a reply when I was regularly called on—that I should net demur to give the most honest and clear opinion I was able upon a point of such importance. The question lam to speak on is :—ccAn adjustment of taxation to give r e li e f t o th e industry of the country and the masses of its population." True, you might ask your gentles to tell how this might be accom plished, and perhaps they would not give you such an answer as I would hint at. They would probably propose some cha::ge in the duties of oil olive, or a relaxation of those of stick liquoriee.—(Laughten) Well, here is a sort of professional workshop, out of which Parliament, and Acts of Parliament, hereafter are to be made. There let us pause a few minutes, endeavouring to clear our own ideas upon, this question, although it be a dry one, and perhaps we may at some time find our opinions mounting into those regions where they shall have tome chance of being re duced to a practical result. I pars by, as a mere piece of by play, those specimens of taxation in which the poor, or nume rous classes, are ma 'e to pay in something like proportion to their poverty. —( Laughter.) The invention is a silly one, Lut quite effectual. It is hut this, to lay on a fixed duty upon all articles of one kind, whatever may be the differences of value amongst them.—( hear, hear.) Tobacco—for instance—some here are erhaps not teetotallers i n th a t aromat i c: wee:!-- ( Laughter —well then, in consequence of the application of this principle, the pooreq, man here pays eleven titres the tax ation on the tobacco whirl he whiffs on the streets, compared with that which the dandy smokes in cigars.— (Laughter. ) With tea, Ladies, it is much the same. —( Laughter.) '1 he pour have to pay the greatest proportion of the duty on tea he Duchess pap; but a fragmented portion of the value of that %%hie!' they imbibe. he vs asherwoman—tell it to your washer women wken you go forth —pays the same amount, or some thing like it, for the Bohea with which she refreshes her irri tated nerves.—(Laughter. ) There seems nr this some prospect of a possibility of a mixture of taxation in that form ; but there is another form more important still, be cause it is more extensive than vie now imagine it to he. The Gallant Colonel proceeded to say that he would dlr• et the attention of the meeting to the same sr bject as he had brought before them when he last had the honour of appear.rg 1 ofore them. The question was simply this—were they to pay a higher price instead of a cheaper, for the bent fit of some class of the community or other : so that a national gain might be derived from it, or whether there should be a national gain or a national loss? Colonel Thompson went on to show that in every such instance, where one individual gained, hundreds of individuals lost. lie illustrated this in his quaint and pointed style hy the hi ead tax, the injustice and impolicy of %O dell he Lriefly but powerfully expo.ed. But then, he said, there has ! gone farah a fear and apprehension, that, since there must be a large revenue raised, how imprudent to shake the fabric muter which it is collected—if you do anything to impoverish the race of rich men, where are we to get the taxes ? Why, where but from those who get richer by the alteration ? (Cheers and laughter.) Now, you appear a calculating race, whom no man can beat at Yulgar fractions any more than in the field of action.—(Laughter.) rook into those things against I came again, arid let us then compare notes. Another time I will ace wnether we have not made some progress in tape:sing w hat species of taxation it is that ought to remain, and what should be removed, in the support of my toast, which is, ', An Adjust ment of Taxation, to give Relief to the Industry of the Country, and the masses of its Population."—( Great ch. clang.) Mr. OSWA r.n, M.P., gave the healthy of those members in the Upper ]louse who support the principles ref tree trade.— ( Loud cheers.) The toast was given with all the honours. Councillor Caoss next addressed the meeting, and in a neat and appropi iatc speech proposed " he Abolition of the Sugar and all other Colonial Monopoly," which was received with enthusiastic applause. Dr. WiLiss proposed " The speedy repeal of all those laws which enhance the price of toot, and are proeuctive of poverty, immorality, and crime." Mr. Conners', with many well-merited compliments, pro• posed " The health of the Lord Provost." Drunk wish loud cheering. The Loren PROVOST briefly thanked the meeting fur the honour they Lad conferred cpon him, and, after passing a high eulogiurn upon " The free trade Members of the Ilouse of Commons who have honoured us with their presence," pro posed the toast, coupling it with the uame of Mr. Hattie, M.P. for Paisley. Mr. HASTIE, ALP., soke to the toast. At the conclusion the Loan PROVOST proposed three cheers for the Anti-Corn law League, which were heartily given, and tl.e large meeting separated in the most decorous arid orderly manner. IRELAND. (From the Times.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. DunLIN, JAN. 1.-1 his belt g the first day of the term, the C. of Queen's lunch was mote than u_ually crowded from an sail) ur by persons anxious to witness the opt ning proceed:rigs. A considerable number of ladies were press Di. shortly- before two o'clock Air. Justice Burton entered the Court, and the swearing in of the city and county gramd juries was proceeded with. '1 here was a very full attendance ok the gentlemi n on both panels. CITY GRAND JURY. Mr. Francis Blake Kni.x, Foreman ; Messrs. William R. Box, ('harks Carotin, Homy S. French, Vicars Boyle Wm. Watson, Cuthbert E.'ecles, Lucius 11. D eer i ng, RobertA:ham ley, Peter R. Mike, John Campbell, William Deane, Joseph lloniy, homas . 111‘F.nery, Wiliam Andreas, Thomas Fut troll, John Molloy, Richard Wilson, .I..seph Cassin, William It. Fa} le, Wiliam Curry, jun., Fergus Frsrell, and I'. D. lardy. COUNTY GRAND JURY. Mr. James Hans Hamilton, M.P., foreman; Hon. A. F. Southwell, Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., Messrs. William Rath borne, Alexander Kirkpatrick, A. S. Hussey, Thomas R. Needham, Benedict Arthure, Richard Manders, C. Fitzsimon, Francis Savage, Arthur B. Crofton, John Brennan, Robert Alexander, Edward 11. Casey, William Caldbeck, David Henry Stierrard, Charles Davis, Emanuel Bailey, Arthur Neville, William Worthington, Henry M‘Matius, and Charles Jones. The Foreman of the County Jury, addressing his Lordship, said that he took that opportunity of mentioning to the Court that there was a feeling among the gentlemen o: the jury that they ought to have the right of sitting in their box during term. He believed, however, that the right of occupying it during the State trial bad bt en ceded to the Sneriff of the city. The High Sheriff for the County said, that he believed the City High-Sheriff had arranged that the box should be occupied by the press during the trial, but, in his opinion, the applica tion of th e county grand jurors was a very reas onable one. Mr. Justice Be wrosi said, that he had a strong opinion on the matter himself; but it would be necessary for him, before giving any reply, to confer with his brethren on the subject. The Foreman of the City Grand Jury said that he had been requested to make a similar application to his Lordship on be half of the gentlemen acting en that jury.—(Laughter.) Mr. Justice BURTON replied, that in a few days a trial was to take place in that Court in which there was a special jury, to the aecommodation of which the box in which the gentle men of the city grand jury sat was to be applied, and it would not therefore be possible that the grand jury could continue to occupy it. His Lordship then retired, and in a short time retutned into Court, accompanied by Mr. Justice Crampton and Mr. Jus tice Perlin. Judge BURTON, addressing the gentlemen of the county grand jury, said that before he left the Court, the foreman had communicated to him the desire of the jury that there should be no interference with their right to come into their box when husii.ess made it necessary that they should appear in Court. Ile hail been informed, that the high Sheriff for the city had allocated their box for the reporters of those journals in which what took place in Court was to be published. Ile had con ferred with the Lord Chief Justice and the other members of the Court on the subject, and they were all of opinion that it was not only proi.er and expedient but indispensible, under the circumstances of the case, that there should be a place in that Coutt for the reporters of the public press, and they accord iagly felt what had been done for their accommodation by the Iligh Sheriff was perfectly right. If the gentlemen of the grand jury, host ever, should have occasion, in the discharge of their business, to come into Court, every facility should be afforded them; and in such an event the reporters could leave a portion of the box for their accommodation. With regard to the other grand juty-box, the application far it by the city grand jury was altogether cut of the question, because that would be the place occupied by the special jury who were to try the case. _ The matter then dropped, and the gentlemen of the grand juries returned to their rooms. THE STATE TRIALS—THE WITNESSES. Although there appears to be no longer any further occasion for the observance of s, crecy with respect to the act u.I name of at least one of the parties suspected of having broached to the Government some of the vcret doings at the Corn-Exchange, and who, it is now openly stated by the Repealers, will be pro dtu ed as a very material witness at the appreaching state trials ; still, until the fact, should it prove to be such, is announced through some more authentic medium that that of mere public conversation, it would be manifestly improi,er to make any more distinct allusion to the matter. It may, however, Le mentioned as the very general belief that the Executive has been put in possession by the susi.ected individual of some re markable doeurn, nts, which, says report, may hereafter be pro. duced in evider.ce against the traverse, a. There seems to be an impression here that after all Government are by no meats as anxious as their opponents suppose about the result of these State trials; fur, let the verdict be what it may, it will, it is be lieved, in nowise.influence Alinisters with regard to what ult er i or course they may adopt for the total supFression of the Repeal agitation ; and that some stringent measure; with that object will be submitted to Parliament early in the ensuing sessizn ap pears to be the opinion of all classes a politicians. THE PRESS. The following appears in the papers of this morning :—A special meeting of all the reporters of the Dublin newspaper press, and the cot respondents of the London journals, was held on Wednesday evening,.at No. 4, College green, to take into consideration a subject of deep importance to them in their professional capacity. The cause of the meeting and the pro ceedings, are embodied in the following resolution : "At a special meeting of all the reporters of the Dublin press,' and the correspondents connected with the London journals, held on the 10th inst.', at No. 4, College-green, the following resolution was unanimously adopted and signed by the respective individuals present : " Resolved, that we, the reporters connected with the public press in Dublin, and the correspondents of the London journals, having been inform( d that several members of our body have been summoned to give evidence on'the approaching State trials, touching certain proceedings of which they rre svppcsed to have become cognizant in their professional capacity, we feel it incumbent on us to protest firmly against the principle involved in this proceeding ; and do declare our conviction that to compel reporters and correspondents of the public press to give evidence in the course of judicial proceed ings respecting matters which come under their observation exclusively in that capacity, would be attended with great public inconvenience, would embarrass us in the discharge of our onerous duti. s, and, by t ompromising our neutrality, would compensate for errors in legislation not committed by them, but materially impair, if nor estroy, that confidence we Lave here- by their rulers, lmides the greater part of 14 million_ more for tofore been favoured with by all classes of the public, stamps and postages, houses and windows, the whole of which - .4. Signed, on-behalf of the meeting, ought to be paid by the rich, or by those who are above want, ae• "CH RI sTOPIIER HES, Chairman. cording to their respective means, is an impest of such magni- STEPHEN N. ELRINGTON, Secretary. tube, to be made without reason on men who are wholly " January 10.' unprepared to meet and unable to bear it, a s canno t f a il to ex- When the above reso!ution was adopted, the meeting cite feelings, not merely of disconteot in those whetn it Ores, adjourned." but of indignation in e v e ry lib:lid mind.- REPRESENTATION or TIPPERARY. I t came suddenly upon the people, and such was their eon , There is a letter in town to-day which slates that the Re- stern lion at the time, such their perpetual harass of Mind ever peelers are coniplet,ly nonplussed for a candidate, Mr. Maher since to be able to stand their ground, that they have not yet havieg declined the honour %Odell was cut out for him. Tie had leisure to inquire how, or why, or by wh , se fault, they are lion Mr. (-'Callaghan, son of Lord Lismore, is now spoken thus overwhelmed with difficulties which thicken as the years of ; but it is ar more probable that Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., roll on. In the interim, they are told by those public wrttors will be the opponent of %Ir. Ponsonby Barker. and public speakers who profess to be their friends, that all is "NATIONAL" POETRY. going on right. " Wait a little longer (they say), and we will The following specimen of Irish manufacture, being a corn- j get the taxes repealed which oppress you.' But if a mistake has panio.,-piece to the exquisite lyric, " Papa, who is the Saxon?" been committed, if those taxes ought not to fall upon them at and from the same hand, makes its timely appearance in the why should they wait a day ? Why should they not petition at Freeman of this day. It is headed— once that these taxes should be charged as before to the eon " MILLIONS, TO TIIE RESCUE r sumers of commodities? If Government will not furnish the " Up. up, to th e rescue — t h e war-w h oa? , resounds, means of carrying them to their desti na ti on b y an issue of And your bravestare game for the Sassenach hounds ; paper money, they can, at all events, commute them for a pro- Up, to th e rescue , an d ra ll y to save perty tax, and so relieve the producer. But w h atever is done Or ye boast no t one d rop o f the blood ' of the brave. should be done quickly, firthousands of liv e s are l ost wh i le " Old tyra nn y o f t p l aye d t h e game w i th our sires, we hesitate. And they pert-hed, alas ! in rebellion's dread fires; But your tactics are now to await the attack, And you scatter, for ever, the Sassenach pack. " Each moment of life is a moment of pain To the bondman who tamely submits to the chain, And remember, posterity honours his grave Who tights I:ke the valiant, or falls like the brave. "Be true to your chief—hold the hell-hounds at bay— Shun treason and traitors, but shun not the fray; Let the onset be theirs, and each forest and glen shall rock at the rush of our warrior men. " Together, together, stand firm as yet, Aud fling fierce defiance at tyranny's threat— Up, up, to the rescue, and. rally to save, Or ye boast not one drop of the blood of the brave." THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, _ . • Dear Sir,—Your Correspondent, Mr. Vedic, has favoured us with an article on the Currency, exhibiting much industry, but, unfortunately, based upon erroneous principles. He assails a most mischievous institution, but dues so upon utterly untena ble grounds. As the error is in principles, more than in details, and, as the latter are v o l um i nous , I shall confine myself to one sentence, which is the key to Mr. Pedie's position. This - gentleman. after comparing the average issue of the Bank of Eegland, for the three mi nths ending January, 1841, with the i sue in those ending January 1843, and showing that the issue in the latter exceeded that of the former by five mil lions, proceeds thus:—" This expansion of the currency,. it is clear, raised the money price of all commodities about 33 per cent. above those at which they stood for the three Months cr.ding with January 1841." Now if " all commodities" rose in prie, of course land and the Government securities rose likewise. We cannot suppose that a merchant who, dealing in 500 articles. of each of which he possessed a thou Sand pounds' worth, found each 1,0001. bud defile raised to 1,3304, could find no alteration in the nine of the s.um he might have in the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. If corn is at a high price, land becomes more valual le, as the instrument by which corn is produced. If iron douh!'es in value, an iron mine fetches more in the ma: ket. Now the capital ecs:essed by the inhabitants of this country, if we incluite the funds, is probably litt!e under 3.500 millions. It may be objected that Consols are cot a capital. Assuredly they are not national wealth ; but being in the na ture of a mortgag e on the physical and m e nt a l cling es of the popelation, they become a saleable capital to individuals. Mr. Pedie's proposition, then, taken rigidly, is, that a traria tint of five millions in currency makes an alteration of 1,155 millons in the value of our capital I l —a disproportion between cau•e and effect with a vengeance !! ! However, we will eltal gently and liberally with the proposi tion, and assuming a vastly smaller ratio of operation on land and funds than on other commodities, we will take the amount at only a fourth part, say roundly 288 millions—nay, let us throw in the odd 34 millions, and confine ourseives to the neat, compact little sum of 250 millions—arid then ark tie most desperate and credu , ou, of theorists, whether it is pose Oak, for him to believe that a public company can, by theissue of fire millions of notes, raise the value of our espttal to the extent of 250 millions !! ! Mr. Pritie cannot be otherwise than honoured by compari son with a . writer whose admirable virtues so well accord-with her splendid and powerful talents-1 allude to Miss Martineau. That lady, in one of her tales, intended to enforce and illus trate the doctrines of political economy, introduces a bode. of people in Siberia, who established a currency of mouse- - skins, and the amiable authore.' 'icing an unflinching believer in the potent rictim of a currency) finishes her account nf a- day's trailing thus:— THE CURRENCY. PAPER MONEY VINDICATED. A certain measure of value is necessary, if we would hold commerce with foreign counties; and the average price of wheat over the Ct.ntinent of Europe in gold or silver gives that m. a•ure. It three quarters of an ounce of silver be the average value of a bushel of wheat in England, and that quantity be coined into s. 100. (at ss. 2d. per ounce), the quarter will be worth 31a. If one ounce of silver be its average equivalent, the price of the quarter will be 41s. 4d.e To preserve perfect unio-may of price in gold or silver at all timers, on the average of seven or ten years, it should he the duty of Parliament, on any petition to that affect being presented from those who con e...lye the mselves aggrieved, to ascertain whether the measure has departed from the standard ; that is, whether since the last arrangement more or less silver or gold had become the average ria.urai equivalent of a bushel or a quarter of wheat; and to slier the shilling and the pound sterling in weight accordingly. Finless this be done, a sudden influx of the precious metals might take place, from•new discoreriei of mines, or from im proved meteods of working th ose i n use , which would have .he effect, m a few years, of altering the m easure o f va l ue to so great a degree tha t fixed sums payable for a lorg series of years, might not be of half the worth they are at present. How many payments made by public companies and other corporate bodies, on account of trusts confided to them centuries ago; are reduced to eomparatiaely nothing, from the want of such a committee for the supervision of the coin as that which is proposed ! How many charities have bran injured by inattention to this plain duty of Ciovernment ! Perhaps nothing has so much contri buted to deter people from making charitable bequests in money, as the thought, that in the lapse of years it will have become of little value. But without taking so wide a range, every anitlord who lets a farm or house on lease, and every teriaat also who takes eith er , oug ht to b e protected from such natural dierease or diminution in the value of our coin as he finds to be attended with practical loss or inconvenience to liimeelf. From 1287 to 1338 that quantity of silver which is now (entree it to 335. Bd. would purchase, on the average a quarter of wheat. From 1339 to 1451, the price of a (emitter was 21s. 3d. of our present money. From 1453 to h;6O, it took only 10a. of the sanic money to buy a quarter of wheat. During the whole period silver had become so enhanced in value that on., shilling was worth in the last I.undred years as much as three hart been in the first hundred years, and as two in the tnidele period ; so that in the course of a century he who • oritracted at the beginning to pay a certain sum, th n called lON., had to ray at the end what was still called 1001., though it was really weal' 204)1. From 1561 to 1700 the value of silver decreased in comparison with corn, being on the aver.. fie of that whole per ott exchangeable in the proportion of 15s. against the quarter of wheat, by which the receivers of fixed in come were injured, being paid notquite 25/. in the name of 1(101. Ender the direction of a " Canunittee for the Supervision of Coin," the pound in gold or silver will always represent, or he exchangeebie for, an equal quantity of %sliest, taking the ave• rage of a number of years. Let it be supposed, then, that 31s. or 3.5 s or 40, is the true measure of value for a quarter of wheat in Eriglane ; as there is no doubt that this sum reprc sera, the natural value of wheat, it is just and necessary as a measure of value between different rations, for without this or some such meani e they could not adjust the value of their re spective mnimed ties io the common market of the civilised world. But what is ju t and necessary between the inhabitants of erifferent countries may not 1 e equally or at all so between the different inhabitants of the same country. Before we can dere canine whether they are all entitled to be treated as the inhabitants of another State, and paid according to the natural measure o value, we 'nu t see whether there are not some eir, cuniatances affecting the value of money, applicable to them, and not to the foreigner. They differ from him in the fact of being liable to a different degree of taxation. Every man is protected in his person and p.op, , rty by the State in which he resides, f r which protectiere he has to pay the State ; and this is evidently a payment which neither ought to be nor can be exacted from the inhabitants of a for. ign state by another Power, but e hich allay reasonably enough be required of the denizens of each particular county. Whether it ought to be so required from them, as to cause Buy difference in the price of commodities, will deliefid upon the erode or taxation, Suen taxation as falls upon realised Property, independent of lamb-, needs not at d will not add to prices. Whatever suns are 1. vied as a tax on land, or on capital in the abstract, as to. impel ty in the funds, arediaeetly takan frtan ;he parties, and Deed not add to prices. If the landowner says, " I ray all tee bureees of the State, arid for some cf them, at least, I ought to be reimburs d ; it is but tair, therefore, that I should be allowed to dernaad more rent for my land than before this tax was levied :" the ease r would be, " If you increase the rent of your .and, the farmer must have an increased price for his corn ; and the manufacturer who consumes it, paying that advaneed price, must have an increased price for his pro• dilations. If Le gets this by our interdict of foreign goods, except under payment of a certain duty, which is the only way he cart ge. it and keep it, you must pay a higher price for every thing you buy, and the outgoings would, in that case, greatly exceed the additional sum you receive from your increased rent. If we do not protect him from foreign competition, he cannot produce his goods with so much advantage to himself here as abroad, and he will soon transport his manufacture to countries where corn is cheaper, by which means you will lose far more in the end than the tax for which you are contending."—Such taxes then as these, wh.ch do not require or necessarily lead to an advance in the price of confine dities, may be levied without causing a difference ;o die individuals of a country in the price paid by them and by those of other countries. But thiS is not the general character of our taxation. There may be, th4efore, other circumstances connected with it which will have an effect on prices, considered with reference to individuals of the same count, y. 'I hat there are such circumstances will be clearly evident, when we consider that our large revenue is nearly all derived from titres on the following articles : —Malt, hops,•beer, wine, spirits, sugar, tea, coffee, tobacco and snuff, corn, butter, cheese, currants and raisins, cotton, wool, silk, printed goods, hides and skins, paper, soap, candles and tallow, auctions, licenses, coats glass, timber, bricks, &c. From the taxes laid on these articles, under the head of Customs and Excise, we raise the sum of forty millions annually, and horn the Stamps, Assessed Taxes, and Feist-office about fourteen minions more, making in the whole about fifty-four millions for the year 1830. All these taxes, or nearly all, are not directly drawn from the parties who are intended ultimately to pay them : they are first paid by the producer or vi nder, and he charges them, with some profit for his outlay, to the consumer, whence they ere called taxes on consumption. Now how is the producer to charge these taxes to the con sumer. unless he can add them to the natural price ?" There is clearly no other way. But if he adds them to thenatural price, his commodities will then be so much dearer than the same kind of articles pro weed on the Continent by all the difference be. tweet, our taxation and that of other countries. The conse quence of this will be, that the Englishman cannot afford to take the same price in the common market of Europe which will compensate nu ri of other countries ; he must have more, or he must lose the extra amount he has paid in taxes. lie cannot get mole in an open market, and therefore he is shut out altogether ; or he loses the amount of his taxes, in which case, the producer, and not the consumer, pays those taxes which ate then erroneously called taxes on consumption. Perhaps you will say, " Ile has got die home market to him self, and in that he gets repaid his tax." If Government were to lay protecting duties on all the above commodities, and the preventive-service men were to exercise a vigilant scrutiny, we might prof ably succeed in keeping up such a price at home, in gene. al, as would repay him ; but he is at all times liable to be injured in the extent of his trade by the successful issue of smuggling transactions ; to guard against which additional sums of money must be spent, which will render additional taxes necessary. We will suppose, however, that he could be protected from competition with foreigners in the home market, on all articles specially taxed ; what in the next place is to save him from that same competition to all other things? Men who pay taxis on corn, neer, clothing, &c., on everything, in short, which is needful for their support or c.omfort while engaged in pro ducing the various commodities by the sale of which they live, niust charge for everything they produce a price as much higher than the natural price as that taxation which is peculiar to them amounts to. They must therefore be enabled to advance every commodity that can be offered for sale to a higher price than their conti nental rival, or they are not repaid in the same degree that he is. All competition must therefore be guarded against in the home market, in every kind of good., or the Englishman has nut jusico done him. As this cannot be done, it follows that with a metallic currency he cannot escape suffering in the de gree in which he is taxed beyond these persons who ate engaged in the production of commodities in other - countries. But it will be said that there are some article; which the foreigner produce-, and the Englishman cannot pretend to produce, such as wine, brandy, &c., and he is at least not liable to injury here ? I tear, however, that this fact alto will militate against him. Whatever is imported for sale here ought to be paid ter by the exp or t o f some ot h er art i cles. The foreigner has a bill on England for the amount of his wine, which he wenta to make the most of. If he buys English goods with it, he most pay so much more for them, as the taxation adds to natui al p. ice. He prefers going to a cheaper market, and con seqaentry receives gold tor his bill, with which he can buy more goods in other countries than here. Heavy sacrifices are made by the Englishman to prevent this; and, especially after his gold has been tarried away, his price lowers; fir he has then to tempt the foreign purchaser, in order to get it back again, by the superior h. apness of our commodities compared i with those of ;ess taxed eountries. In doing this he loses even more than the , taxes whie h he has paid ; and that he loses these is the point which I have been proving. If this representation be true, it will follow that prices in a metallic curieney cannot be maintained in England, fur a continuance, higher than they are in neighbouring countries, or than natural price warrants. Ity a desperate struggle for life or death, our productive classes have for along time upheld them, in defiance of every disadvantage under which an unwise Go reinment has compelled them to labour; but prices still are gradusliy sinking, and must soon find their true level. For s.xteee yearat the productive classes have been paying the gi ester part of forty millions a year in ta s tes, which ought not to h:.ve been required of them ; taxes whiZ:h should have fallen al together on the consumer ; and they still remain 'crushed to the eat th by this terrible visitation upon them of a burden which they were never intended to bear, nor can bear much longer. Forty milli ne to he taken every year from the working classes, to •• By Er nest's help, and to her own utter astonishment, she" (the lucky original possessor of a mouse's skin, intrinsically worth one fatthing) ‘. presently fund he , self inis•rets of a prfect pa's of patter's of the finest wickerwork, a large packet of tea Odell had just crossed the fr artier, pepper enough to last the winter, and a vigor.;us young reindeer ! !!" Your readers may rssibly smile. at this astounding specimen of the lenwh to which a thorough theorist wid go ; Lut as sert dly Alr. Pedie beats the lady hollow The real truth is, that, with certain snialeree allowances end res, rvations, prices are but Rile affecte.l by variations in the currency. I' (feet has been confounded with cause. trade is not brisk because currency is abundant ; hut currency is abun dant because trade is brisk. If the transactions of a country are doubled, its currency must be increased ; if greatly diminished, p per goes back to its issuers. Bankers' issur's are naturally governed by the de mand for their goods ; they may be occasionally rather- too facile in parting with teir property, as the wine merchant or diaper is, but, as a general rule, the body trust, on the only those SN I Q may reasonably be cal:cued to rim them, and who will not borrow, and pay interest on, more capital than - they think they can advarragrously employ. The fundamental " original sin," which lies at the boo of all ecrrency theories (of the usual school), is the mystiticaim sb tri a .‘ standard of value." There is no such vandard—if it means something which' will always command the saw amount of those other things which men consider valuable. PRESENTATION OF THE lIUM kNE SOCIETY'S MEDAL TO A FRENCH SAlLOlL—Yesterday a deputation from the Humane Society, consi,titig of Sir E. Cothington, Captain Codrington, M.P., Mr. Ilao es, M. P., Ste., presented to Jean J. Gasvert, a sailor on board the French f.igtee Cuvier, lying off Mad:wall, a siiver medal, for having, at the, risk of his °on life, saved a gentlcaman of the name of Turner from drowning on Christmas-eve. 'I he gtn;letuan had ;arm into the liver from Blackwall-pier. 11. G. WARD, ESQ., M.P —We tire rtjuited to learn that our able representative Mr. Ward, in a letter to Mr. Alderman Dunn, has arranged to meet hiconstit2ents iu Shef field, on Monday, the 22d instant. PIZEACHERSIIII' Or LINCOLN'S INN.—Yesterday the Bev.- J. S. Anderson, M.A. incumbent of Trinity Church, Brighton, and ch a plai n t o the Queen Dowager, was elected Preacher of Lincolh's Inn, vice - the Rev. Dr. Lotudale, pro moted to the see of Lichfield. A grand Masonic hall will he given next week in uid of " 'f he Aged Masons' Asylum." The proceeds are set .apart entinly for this charitable purpose, and, we have no doubt, the " brethren " s i il, as usual, show their liberality on the oe cmion. ENCROACHMENT 01 . TIIE SEA.—ill consequence of scvelal falls of the cliff at Black-rock, the eastern extrerr\ity of Brighton, the carriage road is considered dangerous, ar,d a new road is now forming, nearly fi.ty feet more inland, whieh makes the third road rnarle within the last twenty-five years. One has been completely washed away, and the seccnd now on the very brink of the c li ff . Forme rly cricket matches were played by the Brightonians, on a green in fr, nt of the Aberga vertu), Arms Inn, which must now be occupied by the carriage road. FLUENCY OF TIM EMU SEX.—Mr Yoaniley, speaking of the eause, varieties, &c., a stammering, observes, " It is of rare occurrence in the female sex, the proportion of female eases bring not more than seven per rent !" Married men, we opine, have h•ng been aware of this great fact." 11'hen the late John KernMe was one day pat•sing along Cheapside, he was met by two chimney. sweet s, the younger one accosted the elder one thus—'• I say, Bill, there goes a player man." " Oh, don't insult him, Jack," raid the other; "no one knows what anybody may come to." lIEFINEMENT.—In Dresden, a little ragged * . child was heard to call from the window of a mean house, to her op posite neighbour—" Please Mrs. Muller, mother scads het best compliments, and, if it's fine weather, would you go a begging with her to-morrow _ . IVIANCHE,,TEIt UNION HOSPITAL.—The. Senate of the University of Londun has recently r«, ,, gni4d- Ccr titica!es or Attendance, on the Medical Pracuce and Clt nical Lectures of the ALtnchet:tpr Utii.,n Hospital.— ilfedicit Garcite. On the last Sunday in the old year, as the governor of the Bingham Union Poorhouse was escorting the inmates to the pari*h church, which has bcen custom ever since the formation of the union, a number of the pnupers withdrew front the proees:ion; and entered the Primitive Methodist Chapel ; for this breach of discipline, the governor br,mght them before the magistrates on the 4th instant, %ago the Bench decided in favour of the paupers, allowing them the privilege to attend What place of-worshio they thought proper, so as they returned in the pr, per time to• the workhouse. On Sunday lust, they embraced the privi lege of attending the Wesleyan chapel in the morning, nubile Primitive. Methodist chapel in the afrernoem.— Not I.nglia ni Review. While fishing for pike in the river . ill on Thurs day wct Ic, John Care, Esq., of' Heti& ley, hook.-ti and killed a fine speeimen of sea trout, Or Salmi) Trutta, Marina, ‘veiglit six and a hall pounds, a cfretuns! ance not usual at this season of the year.--Newcastle Adeo * 1 have mated the natural trice of corn in silver or gold thus h)pothesically because opinions differ on the•subject of its actual 41119Ulit. fi This was written in 1833: Did a pound weight of gold cenimand the same number of posuds weight ef iron, sugar, and - tour, six months prier and six months subsequent to the bat le of Waterloo? A circulating medium., f any Lind is merely an instilment .1 exchange—a kiod of unit of cemparison—a cenvenieuee, saving the trouble ~t barter ; -an a l such a convenience will always be created by tke •itigeouity of man. In one State luather, in another iron, in a third shells, in a fourth pi:o, in a fifth silver, in a sixth p.iter, has been used. It is a curious fact that the most abskract and I.l,iloSephical view of the matter is takers by the n'-glue's of Africa. who have an entirely ideal -unit of compari s on, called a " bar,' and • ho cx,hatige so many " bars" of tobacco fur to many " hara" of ivory —so many " bars" of gold du.t against so many "bare" of rum=-so many ',r bars" of palm oil against so many " bafa" of .poe r, he. It would be a"conE•UTumation devoutly to he wished" if we cou'd ship off our cur: eney theorists to catharia BEIRNIARD. l'. S. The wisest mea- use, in respect to tie cur:en , y, would be that s,ggested (I believe) by some of your correspecdeeta, viz., that Government should issue, by d, gr,es, forty or ii.ty ruilii.ins of Sfate notes, receivable in payne nt of taxes. ilts would certainly drive in a considerable amount of our present paper (and release much p',l f,:r purposes of I,rtigi: merce), but it would make the pubis:. indept-ndept of barking whims, and do away with all the stuff about "a metallic' 'cur rency"—physically impossible, if even desirable ; and hot to he desired, were it otheraite. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SL?.V. Sir,—Since writing my observations en Mr. Pedie's first letter, I have s,.en, but not had time kro peruse his secand ;' if I// find anything requiring further übseAatior, I will trouble you with a few lines. I row address ou chiefly to notice some observations of Germ/mica' my last. It is sciireely nece y more than that he offer., no proof that paper was ted, nor even a shadow of argu ment. Supposing we •e to concede all he assumes, as to variation of relation be: teen gold and pal er, it would not in validate my obser , atjasn that the Change of ratio was occasioned. not by diminishs44l`alue of paper, but enhanced value of gold ( which was Mt it at demand to pa y a million of soldiers of dif ferent nations under arms during t he late war). If a banker elle, issued a hundred thousand pounds worth of notes were required to withdraw them when gold was at an ad= vaneed pi ice, his property might be diminished by the reee s- sity of buying the gold, but earls note, instead of being depre ciated, would (as I have observed in a prior cummunicition) be enhanced, because by its exchange far gold every hbltier would be iut in the command of more sugar, iron, he., than he could have e-mmanded when he took the note. As to Parliament preventingethe depreciation of paper' the job would be by no• means harder, nor a whit less difficult, than the same body r,gulating the quantity of sunshine which should fall or, each acre of land in the country. Parliament may enact that a turnip shall be of equal value re a pine-apple —and when alter such an rnactmert we find the holder of a pine-apple exchange it fur a turnip, I will concede the Whole question of depreciation to " Gerinanicus."—Always yours, HEIR:SI/EMI VS e putiei o f that yea a t " %age ° ni raont t S• 1 neriel. );v 23' ca used of tile D ll4l bieleo~a las .0 1 10 101 ., h utthraoe°r h tbel ) : ford' p lice fr o ° h e w '. Lust , er ring , I Lot hi. ar t ar t did v.,' we'" Jou of' It ends °D r# - 4 i est ele*# le , - Alt ' F it) 0" 'eo %) s e t 4 v e e . Ole et Lb t ° SI ) IP r 0"' ri tCP ij • 13 sj 6,1 ES• Sze 41 cft 0 0 1 t Of' JAY too ett Itryi r 0,4 IP ... ir