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London : Longman, Orme, and Ce. rk„. This day is published, in 3 vols. post Bvo., ICHE HU-GUENOT: A Tale of th• French Protestants. 0 the Auth or o f " Th e Robber," &e. whi ch r of the m os t b eaut if u l an d i mpress i ve wor k s o f its c l ass .... It ail.bee n pro d uced since the palmy era of Walter Scott. t , exhibit s a h appy medium between the lightness requ i red i h i tt 'fe !ehicle of romance and the dignity which is demanded 3,orical narrativ e ."—U n i te d Service Gazette. : Longman, Orme, and Co. Now ready, One Volume Svo., 125., 4 M SLICK'S BUBBLES OF CANADA. SECOND EDITION. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ria 3 THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. t",,,E GENERAL CONVENTION OF to ndo :II, E INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES now assembled the 1. 011 0 „:•) have appointed Members of their body to visit tio e ingraces in the ensuinn. fortnight, to explain the pm- I t l i3f THE PEOPLE'S 'CHARTER and NATIONAL 111jTION :___ 111: 1 4 it- Lowrey and A. Duncan—Devon and Cornwall. • 11 . 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Lords last night, and contained nothing fi let 4 : 1 131toncrwt having asked whether any satis litial: information had been received from the Mauri tiN.reartive to the extinction of slavery, received an an t4kei f ?na Lord GLENELG that measures had been % Yri, l ib Le effect the termination of the apprenticeship e eli ti " : ', either with or without the consent of the Lj a " , Which Lord BROUGIIAM considered satisfactory. 1 . 1 a4 q -1 . - ErrELG then announced to the Peers that he cOterday resigned his office as Colonial Secretary, te ttl.,Plaen ce of some change of offices basing been - d u b ; the Cabinet, of which he did not approve. I ; C irtI S :I,;: . 4O UGH ANI , after presenting a petition on the ° n l t 1 gave notice that on Friday or Monday he 414 ia that evidence be produced at the Bar 1113 Nitirnt laws. d' t' what Lord JOHN t." " The Earl of RIPON took that Sg x Y to state, contra lc mg I . ` had stated the previous evening in the House ° tllnn ', that he was in Earl GREY'S Cabinet, ri 4L iti e et -r ,.. ll ' l avy was not ?pen . question, but that the ' lt '. I/ were decided to maintain that scheme . of plun „ f i'ern,, l l . ° anxiou s is this poor Peer to convict himself b. " 4 th,"nng Worse than folly. Lord FITZWILLIA . M S e p x o a k g e . ,erat subject, and expressed regret at the ll et _ lc" aced lan g u age used on both sides. The we c r3 D ": rise nicely -balanced phrases, hut that . can - n f o i.. l th rii l)%l,,, te(l of hungry and untutored men. His Lon total e 8 48 0 to think that the people who demand Loraib r qeal of the Corn-laws are not in earnest ; Lora Ro ticliAst satisfied him that he was mistaken. *tntanEEN ade some observations on the te nkled °mine t r o cie d Treaty with Austria, which nobody at- Lo or answered. keen .(1; 13nouGuArbt brought in his Bill to prevent ''eekreilin3 consumed on the premises of the beer-shop L O 4 411 incr . I)uttnAM complainedcomplained of the injustice of pub ntatj' th o did, the tail of his report ; ao l d i 100 that his unfortunate mission had cost hii Vi se (IF the runt MELsouaNE could not account for the tail head eport gettin g into the Times almost before its eon,e wag seen 1,3, the Government. Some further and n rsa tian took place on the subject of Canada, the the military festival given there, in which t hat' Arguts of L ONDONDERRY too k a pr i nc i pa l lik e e :. It hi may be read in the report by those who Lord s hi p ' s Attic wit. for Commons, several petitions were presented a itti against th e C orn -laws, for t h e B a ll o t, an d p re 'lst t h:Beer Bill pea took place on t4 4ti ; but no ski ng th em . ng h ate LEA DER LEADE R i nqu i red when the Commons was to i e" i nth "rd uAm's Report, which had been pub n the T mi imes Lord JOHN Itubtema. had that this was not the only change, and we are informed that many are contemplated. In fact it is obvious that the Cabinet, as now constituted, and as it has been constituted for some time past, is not efficient to carry on the or dinary business of the country, and that it must gain an accession of strength, talent, and popula rity, by admitting some of the leaders of the Liberal party into its ranks, or it must make way for the Tories. Amongst the changes, we have heard the rumour is revived, that Lord NORMANBY is to take the Colonial Seals, and the Duke of Sus- SEX to go to In-land. That would be a popular measure ; and the Noble Lord would be of use in the Peers. But that alone will not suffice. With some improvement in the personnel of the Ca binet, there must be an improvement in its mea sures, or, we say it with sorrow and regret more than anger, it cannot go on. In one point, we look with satisfaction on Lord GLENELG'S retirement. If not the ac tual parent, he was the foster-father of the present Corn-laws, and his presence in the Cabinet might impede the Cabinet in assent ing to its abolition. A feeling of personal honour might not allow him to side with his colleagues, who arc prepared, we hope, to brave the indignation of the country gentlemen, and give bread to our suffering people, and peace to our disturbed country. Lord GLENELG has retired from the Cabinet e the Colonial Office. According to the state ment his Lordship was .understood to make last night in the House of Peers on announcing his re signation, the Cabinet had resolved, and communi cated its resolve to him, without first consulting him, to make a different distribution or arrangement of offices to which he could not accede, and there fore he resigned. He said, " a communication was • made to me on Tuesday morning utterly unforeseen, and unexpected by me, which involved—it was a communication from the Cabinet—which involved alterations in the arrangement of offices—utterly, as I before said, unexpected on my part, but which it was said had been resolved upon. My Lords, to that change of the distribution of offices, after maturest consideration, I found it impossible for me to accede ; consequently, I felt it my duty to tender my resignation. My Lords, among my re grets on this subject, it is painful for me that this event should take place at such a moment as this, when Colonial subjects involve so much discussion in Par liament. But, my Lords, I can fairly say that no other reason but the necessity under which I felt myself could have led me to such a step—in fact I found no other alternative before me but to take that course." The arrangements to which Lord GLENELG was expected to submit were, we have heard, that Lord DuNcANNoN was to give up the Privy Seal, which he holds in conjunction with the Woods and Forests, and Lord GLENELG was to receive the Privy Seal ; Lord HOWICK, it is said, was to re ceive the Colonial Seals, and be raised to the Peerage. Probably, but this is only a sur mise, it is intended that Mr. MACAULEY shall enter the Administration. If such were the pro posed arrangements, which appear we must own not very feasible, we are not at all sur prised that Lord GLENELG should not have acceded to them till after the questions concerning Canada have been discussed and settled. He has bee❑ at the head of the Colonial Department at an eventful period—he is, in fact, now placed on his trial before Parliament, and to have resigned office under such circumstances, without an absolute necessity, would have been tantamount to a confes fession of error. To ask him to resign, appears to imply a conviction on the part of his colleagues that they think he has been wrong. He seems, therefore, under these circumstances, to have - been compelled to separate himself from them, though to retire till the Parliament had wholly absolved him, must be extremely painful to a man of sense and spirit. Lord - GLENELG is the first to leave the Cabinet—will he be the only one ? We know not, but the country will not infer from Lord GLENELG'S retirement the stability of Lord MEL BOURNE'S administration. We learn with pleasure, from the Hull Adver tiser, that Hull has moved effectively against the Corn-laws. Resolutions to petition for their re peal were unanimously adopted, and the Mayor of Hull, with Colonel THOMPSON, were ap pointed Delegates to act with the other Delegates now in London. The strength of the party accu mulates, and the longer the laws arc continued the more powerful it will become. Colonel Trio mr sON's speech at Hull, defending himself against some friendly strictures of ours, and explaining how the prohibition to bring wheat from abroad injures all trade, deserves to be read. It will perhaps appear far-fetched to remark that the accounts from Greece say that a dearth is felt there, and to connect this with our Corn-laws. A connection, however, may be traced between them. Our Corn-laws, by shutting our markets against all the nations of the Continent, unless under extraordinary circumstances, virtually pro hibit them growing corn for us, and to a very considerable extent check the growth of corn in them, and check their prosperity. That they thus make U 3 a curse to other countries, and actually invest Great Britain with the diaboli cal character of seeking to injure other nations, which her enemies have ascribed to her, though worthy of being always remembered, is not at present our chief object. The Corn-laws prohibiting other na tions from growing corn for us in ordinary years, in The Paris Journals of Thursday, received this morning, announce, among other changes in the subordinate offices of the Administration, the dis missal of M. PERSIL from the Mastership of the Mint. Different parties assign different reasons for such sweeping changes in all the inferior offices of the State. By one party it is contended that the Ministry aim only at the securing of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies ; while another urges, with no less plausibility, that Count MOLE and his friends, already aware that they cannot remain in office a month after the meeting of the Chambers are intent only upon rewarding their supporters, and planting, as it were, thorns in the path of their successors. _ _ _ On Thursday Lord GRANVILLB, the British Aml)assador, had an audience of the KING, at which he delivered an autograph letter of condo lence on the death of the Duchess ALEXANDER Of WIRTEMBURG from her Majesty Queen VICTORIA . . - One of the Journals reports that such was the discontent of the French frontier troops at the idea of hostilely entering Belgium, that it was found ex pedient to explain to them that hostilities were not contemplated, and would not be resorted to under any circumstances arising out of the Ultimatum of the London Conference. The latest advices from Madrid are to the 30th ult. The weather was frightfully severe in the ca- In the provinces trifling skirmishes were daily occurring between small bands of Christinos and Carlists, but they led to no important result. MM. INcLAu and MARLIA NI, Commissioners appointed by the Cabinet, arc on their way to Lon don to offer proposals for the revision of the Com mercial Tariff between Great Britain and Spain. Our Private Correspondence from Brussels of Febru ary 6, says:— " The effect produced by the prorogation of the Cham ber is bad. It wholly destroys the good impression which was produced by the firmness displayed towards the Am bassadors of the two Northern Courts. The effect is that the very same men who without any doubt could have taken part with the Government if it had frankly come forward to state the necessity of yielding, are now irritated at what they consider as a roundabout way of attaining the same end. The acceptance of the resignation of Messrs. Ernst and D'Huart is also considered as a very bad sign. These two Ministers do not conceal their motives. They hda required that the Government, while urging the necessity of further negociations, should formally declare that it would resist, even by arms, unjust conditions. Of six Ministers (for M. Felix Merode must be included in the Ministry, because, though not holding a department, he has a vote in the Council,) four thought the time was not come to assume so hostile an attitude ; and then Messrs. Ernst and d'Huart tendered their resignation, which was accepted. When they took leave of the King he expressed his regret at being deprived of their services, but made no attempt to change their intentions. In general, people are inclined to see in all this the influence of the Mole Mi nistry, so that it is even imagined that the Duke of Orleans has arrived here incegnito."—Le Constitutionnel. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) John Douglas, 20, was indicted for having stolen, on the 4th of January, in the parish of St. Pancras, four books, the pro perty of Mr. Gregory, a bookseller, residing in Chapel.strect, 'rot. tenham.court-road. The prisoner failed to account for his possession of the books, or to call evidence as to character, and The Jur : ) , without hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was also charged in the same indictment with hav ing been convicted of felony at the October Sessions.—Guilty. The Cou RT sentenced him to fourteen years' transportation. LATEST NEWS FROM THE CANADAS AND MEXICO. By the arrival of the Europe at Liverpool yesterday, we have re ceived New York Papers to the loth ult., from shich the following are extracts LOWER CANADA. The division of the 11th Regiment from New Brunswick reached Quebec on Thursday week. They suffered but little. The second division was crossing the St, Lawrence the same day. The court.martial was going on in Montreal. Brien, who is a medical man, pleaded guilty, and the rest of the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY,-EVENING ED extraordinary years like the present, we draw it from all quarters. This year it has been brought from Odessa, Italy, and various other places in the neighbourhood of Greece, from which places if Greece be not accustomed to obtain her supplies, she might now obtain them, but for our excessive prices, and unusual demand, which thus operate to inflict the miseries of famine on a distant na tion. Such considerations, however, are not likely to intrude themselves into the selfish councils of our landlords, who are as regardless of the national repu tion as they arc the sufferings of the working classes. Sir ROBERT PEEL described the Parliament the other day as " notorious for slovenly and inefficient legislation ;" and yet we find him, and the rest of the fools, who " rush in where angels fear to tread," who cannot even make efficient laws about highways and gaols and paupers, interfering with the exchange of corn, which, being a part of trade, really affects the whole commercial world, and the growth of which depending on the seasons, is as much a Fart of the course of nature as the rolling waves of the ocean or the winds of heaven. Before they interfere with such a subject, even if they were efficient law-makers touching hackney coaches, they should have been quite sure that they could controul sun-shine and rain, and could by their laws adjust the commerce of the whole world. Among the rumours circulated last night in the House of Commons, it was mentioned that Mr. STANLEY, the Secretary of the Treasury, is to go to Leland, but we cannot guarantee the rumour. Letters . from Constantinople of the 17th, and from Athens of the 19th ult., have arrived this morning. The former announce the arrival of letters from Alexandria, stating that MEHE MET ALI and all his attendants were drowned by tire upsetting of the iron steamer i❑ the Nile, in which he was prosecuting his voy age to the Abysinian frontier. We need not add that such a statement was not generally cre dited. as it was apprehended that the old fox, ME HEMET ALI, had himself caused the report to be set abroad, with a view to ascertain more correctly the real sentiments of the Porte. The accounts from Athens represent the aspect of affairs in Greece as very unpromising. Bread was dear, money scarce, the populace discontented, and Russian in fluence every where paramount. TUE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY•) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies were very good, with the exception of greens. The dealers in French Fruit carry away nearly all the trade from our own country growers. Trade generally was good. Plants, 4s. to 48. 6d. per dozen; Asparagus, Bs. to 10s. per bundle; Celery, Is. to Is. 6d. per bundle; Onions, Is. per sieve; Carrots, ss. per dozen ; Brocoli, Is. 6d. to 3s. per bundle; Turnips, 4d. per bunch ; Oranges, 2s. Gd. to 14s per 100 ; Apples, 4s. to 21s. per bushel Rhubarb, Is. to 2s. per bundle; Cabbages, Is. to Is. 6d. per dozen; Spinach, 2.5. Gd. per sieve; Sea-kale, Is. Gd. to 3s. ; French Beans, ss. per 100 ; New Potatoes, 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Old l'otatoes ran generally from 50s. to 705., and some of the very best to 80s. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Trade very languid, owing to the mild weather. The supply large, and prices without variation. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Mut. ton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd.; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 45. Bd. ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Geese and poultry in large supply, but the demand was dull, and prices for the most part rather towel. Hares, 2s. tid. to 3s. Geese, 6s. to Bs. Rabbits, Is. 6d. to !s. 6d. ; wild, 9d. to Is. 2d. Pigeons, 6d. to 10d. Woodcocks, 4s, to ss. Gold I'lover, Is. to 2s. Snipes, Is. to 2s! Teal, Is. 6d. to 2s. Gd. Wigcon, Is. 6c1.: to 2s. 6d. Chickens, Is. 6d. to 25.3 d. Ducklings, 2s•. 6d to 4s. Turkeys, 4s. to 9s. Eggs, 5s 6d. to 'is. Gd. per 120. BILLINSGATE AND HUNGERFORD MARKETS. Supplies and trade good, prices much as previously quoted. Ws'. Salt Fish, 4d. per lb.; Turbot, is. to 10s., 155., 20s , and :255. ; Cod, to 55., Ss., and 9s. each ; Lobsters, Bd. to 45.; Soles, Pd. to per pair; Whitings, 3d. to Bd. each; Haddocks, B.d. to Is. each. seen the Report there with the greatest astonishment, and announced that it is to be presented to the House on Monday. In reply to Mr. T. DUNCOMIIE, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said be meant to introduce a 13i11 continuing the Poor law Commission. Mr. CHRISTOPHER announced his intention of moving a call of the House when Mr. VILLIERS brings on his motion. The adjourned debate on Petitions was renewed, and, after a short discussion, decided by 183 to 43, that the present practice of not making a speech, when Members present petitions, shall be continued. The House went into a Committee of Supply, when Mr. HUME complained bitterly that the practice at present of the Commons was to vote money and refuse redress of grievances. Mr. WAnnunToN and Mr. O'CONNELL both took the same opportunity to make some pertinent remarks on the right of petitioning, and the wrong of refusing to hear speeches on presenting petitions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Said in reply to 111 r. O'Connell, he meant at an early day to bring iu a Bill relative to the Bank of Ireland. Bills were brought in arid read a first time, to Amend time Highway Acts, and provide a general form of Affirmation for those who objra to taking an Oath. The House adjourned at six o'clock. \Vc announced the resignation of Lord GLENELG in our Morning Edition. We subjoin the article. Ile have since heard it stated that the Noble Lord was either present at the deliberation of the Cabinet ill which it was decided that there must be some change in the distribution of offices, or that he was immediately informed of it. In fact, he was present at the meeting at the Cabinet on Monday, when we be lieve the decision was adopted, although it might have been come•to in opposition to his wishes. We have heard that it was partly brought about by some difference between the War Office and the C , :mmander-in-Chief on the one side, and the Colonial Secretary on the other, relating to the Sloops ; the War Department complaining that it cannot, by the manner in which the Colonial De partment dispose of the troops, keep an efficient con trol over every part of the army; and the object to be effected by the proposed change was to introduce an improved system of management. Lord GLENELG, we have heard, knew all this, and he knew the resolution of his colleagues on Tuesday, and he took till Friday to make up his mind. It is rutnoured that the appearance in the Times of Lord DURHAM'S Report on that day, contri buted to hasten the Noble Lord's decision, but we only mention that on hearsay. The result is that Lord GLENELG retires on the pension to which he is entitled. In our Morning Edition we ventured to hint UPPER CANADA The Toronto Examiner says, tha it is now generally believed in town, that the Hon. J. Elmsley is about to be tried by court martial. SANDWICH FarsoNeas.—Hiram B. Linn, the first of the Wes tern District invaders put on trial, was to be executed on Monday, the 7th instant. He acted as adjutant in the ranks of the invaders. He made no defence. On Saturday Davis Bedford, a captain in the band, was put on trial. Ile lived in Norwich, London district, and was out in the rebellion of last winter, under Dr. Duncombe, but was afterwards pardoned by Sir G. Arthur on giving security for his good conduct. On Monday tive prisoners were brought before the Court. Their names are Clark, Snow, Stevens, Woodbury, and Whitney— all Americans. On Tuesday they put in their defence ; all de claring that they went on board the Champlain merely from cu riosity, and were taken over to Canada against their will. On Wednesday John C. Williams, American, and John B. Tyrill, Canadian, were tried. Williams acted as orderly sergeant. On Friday Joseph Grason and John 0. Mabey were tried. The whole number of prisoners at London was 38. Three more prisoners were expected up Irons Ainherstburgh, making 41 in all. A company of provincial artillery arrived at London on the 27th of December, with 40 loads of arms and ammunition, destined for the western frontier. FROM MEXICO, The Diario de la Habana, of the Ist instant, received by the brig Douglas, arrived yesterday, contains the French account of the affair at Vera Cruz, differing in no important particulars from the state. merits previously published. Santa Anna reocived several severe wounds, which it was supposed would prove mortal. His life was despaired of at the last accounts. The French troops, before they were driven into their boats, succeeded in effecting the aim of the expedition—the dismantling the fortification of Vera Cruz. Eighty. two cannon, mounted on the different batteries and forts of Santiago" and Conception, were spiked and rendered useless. The loss of the French is stated at eight killed and filly-six wounded. The Prince de Joinville commanded the vanguard of the attacking columns, and distinguished himself for his intrepidity. Of the prospective operations of the French fleet nothing further is said than that the blockade of the Mexican ports was resumed. — New Orleans Bulletin, Jan. 8. l'art of the French fleet has removed from Vera Cruz in order to renew the blockade of other Mexican port:. The corvette Creole, commanded by the Prince de Joinville, has gone to Havannah on a cruise, and there now remain but four vessels of war before Vera Cruz. The army of Santa Anna, about 7,000 strong, is said to be encamped at ten miles' distance from the town. The schooner Cora, from Metamoras, brings news that the town is besieged by the Federalists, about 900 strong, and is defended by a similar force under General Filosila. No action had as yet oc. curred there. The assailants, we are told, arc but poorly equipped, being unprovided with artillery, and principally composed of dragoons and musketeers.—New Orleans Bee. MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS. New YORK, JAN. 18.—The Money Market is becoming easier, and the Banks begin io let out more freely. Southern exchanges arc much more favourable. Bills on New Orleans are drawn at j per cent. The amount of Southern Funds here is greatly reduced. Bi'ls on London to-day were plenty at 109 to 109,!!. The packet sails to-morrow. Freights have declined, and flour would be taken at 3s. 6d. ; no purchases of flour, however, for the foreign market within a few days. All the American wheat, comprising about 7,000 bushels only, has been taken for the British market. Last year the course of trade was the other way. YARMOUTH ELECTION.—Mr. Baring has, we understand, given up the idea of contesting Mr. Wil shere's scat, or of calling on him to resign. Mr. Wilshere, therefore, will continue to represent Yarmouth, and those who anticipated a new election, will Le disappointed. Penang Gazettes to Sept. 16, have been received. COMMERCIAL REMARKS—IMFORTS FROM EUROPE--COT. TON NIANUFACTURES.—Imports from Singapore and sales as usual, at bare cash price. The demand for White Cot tons continues steady. The only- sales reported this week arc 210 pieces Madapollams, and about 150 pieces German Turkey red cloth, at Si dollars per piece. MUSKETS.—Imports from Singapore of new Birming ham, with black stocks and bayonets. Exchanges : London Navy Treasury Bills, 30 days, 4s. 3d. per dollar ; private bills six months, 4s. 4d. ; Cal cutta Government Bills, 30 days, 2s. sd. The only news we have this morning, and which has surprised the public, is the resignation of Lord Glenelg, and all are very anxious to ascertain the person who is to be appointed his successor. It appears, according to the French papers received this morning; that the news from Mexico, received by the late American papers from London, has caused a great sensa tion in the above capital. We apprehend that when they receive Santa Anna's official account, the sensation will be still greater. lIIONE and COMMERCIAL NEWS. L IVERPOOL, FRIDAY. --_Off port, inward, Europe packet, rrom New York, 19th ult. COTTON MARKET. —The demand continues moderate, and the trade are still disinclined to purchase freely, yet upon American descriptions no impression has been made, prices being much the same a s at t h e c l ose o f l as t week. Brazil have offered more freely and are selling at a decline of d to Id per lb. ; Surats are also not quite so steady in price ; Eg ) ptian without change ; Sea Islands, from the large busi-' ness during the week, cannot not be bought under an advance of Id. to 2d. per cent. Speculators have taken 6,500 bales of American, and 4.50 Carthagena. The market closes flat; sales, 3,500 bags of all kinds, 1,200 on specu lation. Singapore papers received to the 4th October : Our private advices from Batavia are to the 22d ult., the market for British cotton manufactures was much de pressed. The John o'Gaunt and Malcolm, from Liver ' pool, and Dumfries, from the Clyde, arrived about the same time, with considerable supplies, and sales were very difficult to effect, except at very low rates. The Produce Market was very firm, Coffee had been sold at 28f. ; Sugar continued in good demand at Batavia, 12f. to 15f. Exchange Bills on London, six months, were in demand. at 121 f., and some sales had been made at 131. Treasury bill, were slleable at I3lf. CHlNA.—Since our last the Bengal packet has come in from China, to the 11th of September, putting us in pos session of the Canton Register of the 14th, 21st, and 28th August, and the Canton Press of the Ist September. The deliveries of opium, although proceeding freely, had not been so brisk as during the previous month, and the market exposed to considerable fluctuation, from the state of the river trade, which most of the smuggling schooners had abandoned, owing to the search they weresubject to. Opium, however, did nevertheless find its way into the market, the Manderin boats having become the carriers. The Canton market had shown a great deal of activity, and ex tensive sales of the Bombay staple had been effected. The Canton Press cont w ainsa statement of the terms on which the claims of foreign creditors on the Hongtae had been adjusted ; the creditors are not, however, unanimous in the arrangement, several withholding their conset. By the arrival of the Fingal packet cvo have advices from Manilla to the 14th August. The market was still dull for British imports, but had improved a little, and some considerable sales of grey and white shirtings had been effected. _ _ TUE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yesterday, Money, 92k; for the Account, 92k 4-; Ex chequer Bills 64 66 ; India Bonds 62 64 ; Bank Stock, 202, 203 ; India Stock, 252 253. _ _ 'I no official report of Lord Durham respecting Canada, and the debates, sufficiently occupy the attention of the public this morning. In the Foreign Market, Spanish cloud at 18i 19 ; at present they are a shade higher, 188 198; Portuguese continue at the leaving off prices 37 ; Three per Cents. 23; Belgian, 971 ; Brazilian, 79 ; Colombian, 281 ; Mexican, no alteration, as they left off, 23} 24; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 543- 3.; Fire per Cents , 1023 No papers or letters rece packet cf . the 19th ult. tved as yet by the New York PRICES OF STOCKS THI! hank Stock 3 per Cent. ..... .921 i 3 are 3 per Cellt. CODS 354 0 per Cent Ditto lied. loot , New :I% per Cent 99 % New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 l4 15-16 15 Oct. 10, 18.59 J: n. 5, 1t.450 14 11-16 Jan. 5, 1880 April:), 1580 Jan. 5, 1870 VRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS' Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds 98% Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto ..... da 64 ppy South Sea ..... Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 6t 66 pm. Ditto 500 ... 61 66 pm. Ditto Small 64 66 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... tO3 India Stock for Account Consols for Account 9iti% 711 IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account.... Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1821 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1834 Ditto Account. French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 4 per cent. ---3 per cent. --- Exchange. Dutch, 2X, per cent. 54%% Ditto Account 545i, Ditto, 5 per cant... 102% Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Sh4,e Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds —! Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Danish Bonds " .7(") 51 Ditto Account Greek. Bonds... DIU° Bonds, 1825 — Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account — Ditto, ti per Cent...." — Ditto Account — Neapolitan I'ItICES OF SHARES THU Hull and Selby rtailway Company and Birmingham Ballet ay British American Land Company, Colonial Bank Catiady Company 9 372 4 9 29%% 20 Company so 1.8 25 30 kNOE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 4B I •egnorn 91 Genoa 25 80 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon 54 Ororto Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia 46 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ Portugal (}old, 16 8 Foreign Gold, in bars... 3 13 0 New Doubloons New Dollars ..... 0 4 101 4 Silver. bars, s tandard _tl 5 0% HALF-PAST-ONE. A Singapore Paper of October 11, contains the fol .owing : " We have received during the week the Maubnain Chr nide up to the 29th August last, from which we have acc ounts of Arralban, conveying a flattering picture of the condition of that province since its occupation by the Bri tish Government, and of the rising importance of the port of Akyab, which is stated to receive the visit annually of no less than six or seven hundred vessels. Consols continue firm, and may be quoted rather higher than in the early part of the morning, 924. g. for the Ac count, Money, 92+ ; Exchequer Bills, 64 66; India Bonds, 62 64 ; Bank Stcek, nothing doing ; India, also. 16 the Foreign Market Spanish is also rather better, 191 +; Portuguese, same as in the m ornin g , 37 1 per Cents., 23+ ; Belgium, 98 i; B raz ilian , 74 T; Co. lombian, 9 91; Mexican, no alteration, 23 2 24; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 54 ; Five per Cents., 102 THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stack ........................ Ditto Bonds .................... 64 D i tto Old Annuities ......... D i tt o New Annuities ....... B i l l s , 1,11001 ...... Ditto 5001 Ditto 5001...... ........... p in (i 8 pin Bank Stock for Act. ........ ,India Stock for ..ct. ........... `° 31 ,4 ( Consols for Act ...................... S FUNDS. . 92% Portuguese Bonds, sper cent Ditto. New Ditto .... Prus sian, 5 per cent....... 314 Russ i a n Bonds, 5 rerc ent .... Metallic. ......... Span ish, 5 per cent....... Ditto, Consolidated ............... '". F re nch, 5 per cent. . . ....... .... —c. Exc hange .. ... ......... F re nch, p e r cent .......... — f Dutch, 2% per Ditto, 5 per cent. .................... 1 : - ;;n • 01.. S. .............. COURSE EXCHi tmsterclain C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at ;Tilt Rotkrtiani 2U. 12 4 An , ,cerp..„ Hunburg, M. B l3 10 A1t0na..... Park', 3 days' sight 25 35 Ditto ..................3 M 25 60 25 65 Bourttnaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 17)1 I .'etersbut gh, ruble... 3 Us l l l4 Berlin Vienna, effective 6...2 M. 10 5 frieste ditto lO 6 liadrl , l 57 Cactiz••••• •••••••• ............... 37 BveckalA Seville 36 4 lank Stock .............. 3 per Cent. Rod .................. 9314 3 per Cent. C. .................. 3g, per Cent. Red ................ 100% New 3}.4 per Cent ............... SKI% New 5 per Cent................... — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186 .................. 15 0ct.1359 .................. ! 11-16 Jan. 1860 FOREIti Asturian, 5 per cent............ Belgian, 5 per cent , . ............. $446 B raz ilian 80nd5...... 79% Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent ............... Colornb.an, 6 per cent. ......... Ditto, 1 824 .......................... ' ) 4 7a 1 4 Danish, 3 per cent ............... Greek Bonds, 11.325, 5 per ct. Nlex ican, 5 per cent............. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ......... Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... $ll. Great Western Railway Hull and Selby ................ London and Birmingham It London and Croydon Itatlw ... ............................. 7714 .................................. 11 Y.', diway .. .: ... , ................ 174 Ly (New Scrip) ....... 6% Lord Durham, according to his own account, will incur a loss not far short of 10,0001. We thought at the time of the appointment that he was more chivalrous th an wise in refusing pay for his servi▪ ces, like that gi ven to all other Governors; and Lord Londonderry, when he makes his mo tion about the 4 , uu military festiv• al," will no doubt concur with us and state that to undergo so much anxiety A and so much abuse in the service of his eountrn and after all be out of pocket, is " too bad." We regret the premature expla nation of his Lordship, because it will deprive the public of the amusement which a Ga llant Member wa s preparing for them respecting the number of .co . rks drawn from the commencement to the end of the mission'. TIIE " SUN'S" CELERITY. --/he Sun N ews _ paper,containing her Majesty's Sp eech at the opening of Pa rl i ament, was received 150 miles from London the same evening the Speech was delivered and the conclusion of the debate and the division on the address during the same night. An express to Ireland brought bcth into this town en Tuesday, and copies of the paper were liber ally forwarded by Messrs. Mansell, of Birmingham, without expense •r trouble to the recipients.—Shrewsbury Chruntcle. TION,-FEBRUARY 9, 1 SECOND EDITION. MEETING OF THE ANTI-CORN LAW DELEGATES.-(THIS DAY.) INTERVIEW WITH LORD MELBOURNE Zoe Delegates met at Brown's Hotel this afternoon at the usual hour. Among those present we observed the following Members of Par. liament and Gentlemen :—Sir G. Strickland, M.P., Mr. 11'ark Phil. lips, M.P., Lord Nugent, Mr. G. A. Young, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Howard Elphinstone, Mr. Bcnj. Hall, M.P., Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P., Mr. Scholefleld, M.P., and Mr. Villiers, M.P. Lord NUGENT stated that he rose for the purpose of handing a letter to the Chairman, signed by the Vestry Clerk of the parish of St. Marylebone, on behalf of the Vestry of that parish, appointing himself (Lord Nugent) and Mr. Gilbert Young as Delegates to this Association. His Lordship expressed his pride and pleasure in accepting this office, and that he was sent here to repre sent a large and populous parish, in which the feeling on this subject was almost unanimous. The letter was then read by the Chairman. It was signed "C. Flood," Vestry Clerk, and after stating the appointment of Lord Nu gent and Mr. Gilbert Young as Delegates, it proceeded to express the lively interest the Vestry and Parishioners take in tl is subject, and their destre to assist the exertions of the Committee by every means in their power. . . The CHAIRMAN expressed the great pleasure he felt in receiving Lord Nugent and Mr. Young as Delegates from Marylebone. The CHAIRNIAN said it teas his duty now to communicate to the meeting that the Delegates appointed at a previous meeting, con sisting of himself and the Delegates from Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Bolton, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, had waited on Lord Melbourne this morning, and had had an interview of an hour and a quarter's duration with his Lordship, who received them very kindly, and listened very attentively to their stattments. If it was the pleasure of the gentlemen present, he would mention what the general facts were which they had laid before his Lordship.---(Yes.) They explained, then, to his Lordship the reason for their waiting on him in so small a number, that they thought it was the best course, and one that would be more agree. able to his Lordship ; that they were sent as representatives of the Delegates from different parts of the country, on the question of the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws, and they were anxious to lay before his Lordship their reasons for taking this step. They endeavoured to show his Lordship that their exports to Europe were now confined chiefly to raw materials, that their exports of manufac tured articles to Europe had been constantly diminishing since the xce, while their exports of raw materials had been increasing, and that notwithstanding the population of Europe ince the Peace had probably increased 50 per cent, our exports to Europe were less by 20 per cent, for the last five years than they were the first five years after the peace. These exports were now principally confined to cotton twist (a raw material in the first process), iron, steel, coals, wool, and different other articles which fund hid foreign manufacturers with the means of manu facturing fort temselves, and of competing with British manufacturers in u•_utral markets. They also stated to his Lordship that in many cotton articles, woollens, hosiery, and in hardware and cutlery, the Germans and Russians a ere not only supplying the de. mand of their own markets, but were also supplying foreign neutri.l mat kits. It was difficult, in the first instance, to establish manufac tories in any country, but when once established they progressed ra pidly. The articles in which the foreign manufacturers had the great est superiority were those itt which manual labour formed the chief ingredient ; but that, from the great increase in machinery in almost every town in Europe, and from the continual export of our mechanics and artizans, there was the greatest reason for fearing that by-and-bye the superiority which we at present possessed would be lost, and that foreigners would compete successfully with us in our natural markets. Mr. Stanfield, the Delegate from Leeds, read an in teresting paper to his Lordship, relating to the exportation of foreign and British woollens.—(Mr. Greg asked whether Mr. Stanfield would not read that paper. The Chairman said he had better first conclude Isis statement, and continued.)—As regarded cotton hosiery—it was stated to his Lordship that so lately as 1614 we exported cotton hosiery from this country to Saxony . . —that it was a branch of manufactures which had existed in this country for more than 200 }Tars, but that since 1614 the Saxons had established a manufactory of cotton hosiery, anti that they had carried it to as high a pitch as our own, and in fact to a much higher, for their exportation of cotton hosiery to the United States was as great as our experts of the same article to the whole world.—(Hear.) Then, as respected hardware and cutlery, it was stated to his Lord ship, and offered to be proved l that in Wolverhampton, where the pelvic had the raw material under their feet, the Germans had successfully competed with them in almost every article; that l'sts could be shown, comprising about 1,200 articles, almost every one of which the Germans could supply in the natural markets at from ten per cent. to fifteen per cent. less than the people of Wolverhampton could furnish them— (Hear, hear)—and the inferiority of price in theforeign articles was most to be observed where manual labour formed a considerable portion of the manufacture.—(Hear, bear, hear.) It was also stated to his Lordship that last year an act had been found necessary with respect to the bonding of foreign cutlery—that foreign cutlery had been made in imitation of British—sent, with British marks to London, and other British ports, and there bonded for exportation. That when, for instance, an order was sent for some of Roger's cutlery (Mr. Roger being a celebrated Sheffield cutler), one house would send the order to Mr. Roger; another would go to the Custom-house, and there buy " Roger's cutlery," made in Germany, at 10 or 15 per cent. less than Mr. Rogers himself could furnish it.—(Hear.) It of course excited no small surprise that one house could get Rogers' cutlery at a price so much less than another. The cause was inquired into, the trick was found out, and Mr. Hawkes, the Member forDudicy, last Session had'lntroduced a Bill to do away with the bonding of foreign cutlery. Was not that a strong case?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The depute tion stated to his Lordship, that, although the exports from the country in many articles (cotton, for instance) were increas ing ; that the increase had taken place on manufactured goods, only to those countries whose produce we received in return ; and that our exports to some of the most populous and wealthy countries in the world, were limited by the circumstance of our_ refus. ing to take the only articles that they could give us in exchange.— corn and timber. They informed his Lordship that although our exports had increased, our population was increasing in a greater ratio, and that, compared with other countries, our increase in manu factures had not been in proportion to those of Belgium, Saxony, or Switzerland—that the repeal of the Corn-laws was not with them a question of the price of food, but simply that they might be allowed to go to the same markets for food that their competitors did—that it was impossible we could long stand competition on other terms, for the price at which foreigners could afford their articles must be the price at which we could sell ours—that for the last few years we had been carrying on an unprofitable trade, and that his Lord ship must see thatl,an unprofitable trade could not be long carried on— that since the Delegates had arrived in London, they had heard of four or five large establishments in Manchester working short turns, and that unless there should be &speedy improvement in trade that would become more common. The deputation directed his Lordship's attention to the resolution which which was unanimously passed by the General Committee on the sth " That this meeting, whilst it demands of the Legislature as an act of justice, the total and immediate repeal of all laws, imposing duties upon or restricting the importation of corn, and other articles of subsistence; is prepared to resign all claims to protection on home manufactures, and to carry out to their fullest extent, both as effects agriculture and manufacture, the true and peaceful principles of free trade, by removing all existing obstacles to the unrestricted interchange of industry and capital between all nations." - - They wished to impress upon his Lordship, that while they did not wish to be deprived of going to the cheapest market, they had no wish to prevent others from so doing. His Lordship listened to the statements of the 'Deputation with great attention, and made many inquiries. Of course they could not expect his Lordship to give any opinion on the question, but he assured the Depu tation that he would take the subject into serious consi deration, and consult with his colleagues on the matter. The Deputation were highly gratified with the attention which they had received, and with his Lordship's attention. It would be interesting to the meeting to hear from Mr. Stansfeld the im portant statements which he had made to his Lordship.—(Hear.) Mr. HAMUR StANSFELD, of Burley, at the request of the tneeting, read the following paper : " The woollen manufacture of England had already suffered ma- terially, and is threatened with still more serious injury, from the competition of Continental rivals. In proof of which the following facts were offered : " Ist. Until a few years ago, the English wool buyers at the great German wool.fairs predominated so much in number, and in the extent of their purchases, over the buyers of other countries, as to rule the prices; but within the last few years the German and Bel. gian buyers have exceeded them in their purchases, and the English buyers arc now regarded as of small comparative importance. " 2d. The exceedingly rapid growth of the woollen manufacture in Prussia, and the other countries of the German Continental league, is shown by the fact, that five or six 3 ears since, the quantity of German woollen cloths exhibited for sale at the Leipsic Easter Fair was only 50,000 ends (an end being half a piece), whereas last year the quantity exhibited was 350,000 ends, — being an increase of 600 per cent. 3d. That, independent of the duty laid on English cloths in Ger many, Prussian cloths are sold much cheaper than English. A large wholesale buyer from London states that a Prussian cloth at 16s. per yard is equal in quality to an English cloth at 225. per yard. This difference in favour of Prussia has now been discovered by the Americans. English fine woollens are al_ already excluded from Germany, and from several neutral markets ; and as soon as the Prussians can sufficiently extend their manufac ture, which they are doing with astonishing rapidity, they will beat the English in all neutral markets, and probably even in the home market of England itself, notwithstanding the import duty on foreign woollens in this country. 4th. That the increase in the Continental manufacture of wool is shown by the fact, that foreigners purchase a very increasing quantity of the wools of England and Ireland, of which formerly the home manufacture had the exclusive use. The export of British wool in 1838 was of the declared value of 432,0001., whereas the average of the four years preceding was only 274,0001. This, therefore:shows an increase of 57 per cent. in the exportation from Great Britain of the raw material of the woollen manufacture. The quantities of wool and woollen yarn, forming the raw materials of tnanufactures, ex ported from the United Kingdom, gave an annual average for the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 of 178,035; and for the years 1835, 1836 and 1837 an annual average of 3,744,295. These facts not only prove an increase in the manufacture abroad, bul the competition for the article raises the price to the home manu. facturer. It is believed that the French will shortly take nearly all the Irish wools The rapidly increasing export of worsted yarn for the use of the foreign manufacturer, also proves the increase of the manufacture on the Continent. sth. The policy of foreign Governments in imposing merely a nominal duty on the import of yarns tends to raise the price of the raw material to the British manufacturers, and consequently to make their competition with foreigners in the finished goods more diffi cult. The new Austrian Tariff will still further increase this effect. 6th. The decline of the British woollen manufacture is proved by the expo' ts of last year, compared with the average of the four preceding years. Export of British woollens in Is3B-6,157,0001. Average of four years, from 1834 to 1837-6,542,0001. Decrease —385,0001. Mr. STANSFRILD observed that these were the evils arising in the natural order of things from apse Corn-laws whichthe Legislaure had once thought fit to impose on the nation. Mr. STURGE said that it would net be right to repeat the con versation which had taken place between the members of the Depu. Cation and Lord Melbourne, but he must bear testimony to the urbanity with which his Lordship had received the Deputation, and also to the great attention which his Lordship had paid to the corn_ municat:ons which they had inside to him, particularly to those facts which bore upon the agricultural branch of the subject, and which tended to show the unnecessary alarm which existed among the agricultural interests on this subject. He had risen thus early, because he was about to leave town this evening, and before his departure he wished to bring forward a resolution, which was rendered necessary, in consequence of what fell from Earl Fitzwilliam last night in the House of Lords. He would read the passage to which he alluded, from the report which had appeared of the Noble Earl's speech in the Morning Chronicle. The passage was as follows :—" Ile believed that when the opinions of the manu facturing classes were examine Lordships and he trused that the House would examine into them, their would find that they would be satisfied with much less than they were enabled to claim, and perhaps then they sought claime pebtions wich would be P resented to that /blo us e. Therefoin th ere i those petitions went to the full length of calling on their Lordships to abrogate all Corn-laws, and to put an end to every regulation upon the impartation of fo reign corn, lie apprehended that they would not be able upon these petitions to form a just estimate of what were the real views of the more reasoning part of the petitioners."—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. Sturge) was delegated from a district of the country in which no lower ground will be taken than a total repeal of the Corn-laws ; and if this were refused, it would be better to go home and give up the question altogether. He was also cons ineed that it was for the interests of the agricultural body that the question should be settled at once and for ever, inasmuch as their property would suffer a much greater extent of depreciation from the continual agitation of this subject than they could possibly suffer in consequence of an immediate and total repeal of the Corn-laws. lie was convinced, from a careful and at- tentive examination of the subject, that the rental of the landholder would not be permanently lessened by a repeal of the Corn-laws. He thought that not quite sufficient publicity had been given to the iestlitition of the bth instant, which resolution is as follows: "That this iiiedtiiig, whilst it demands of the Legislature as an Act of Justice, the total and ifttnediate repeal of all laws, imposing duties upon or restricting the importation of corn, and other articles of subsistence; is prepared to resign all claims to protection on horse manufactures, and to carry out to their fullest extent, both as effects agriculture and manufacture, the true and peaceful principles of free trade, by removing all existing obstacles to the unrestricted in terchange of Industry and capital between all nations." He had this morning conversed with Dr. Lushington on the subject of this resolution, and the Doctor had expressed his great satis faction at this recognition of the necessity of the freedom of trade from every restriction. Mr. STURGE then proposed the following resolution:— " That it is the conviction of the Delegates, that in advocating !he total and immediate abolition of the Corn and l'rovision Laws, they shall be able to produce evidence, showing that such a measure will be greatly to the ultimate advantage of the agricultural interest " That this resolution, together with the resolution, which was passed on the bth Inst., be advertised in all the London Daily Papers. Dr. BOVVRINV seconded the resolution. He said that he also bore testimony to the urbanity with which Lord Melbourne had received the Deputation, and to the attention which he had paid to the communications which had been made to him. This was not a question of duty imposed for the purposes of revenue, but of one impose,' for the object of protection. The manufacturers were perfectly wil- ling to give up all their claims to protection ii order that the great, the noble system of freedom of trade might be generally recognised. —(Hear) He beleved that they should be able to prove, by evidenc that the agriculturists were in possession of much greater protecction than they were at all aware of, their ignorance of this subject could be established by the evidence of incontrovertible facts. The great cheapness in foreign countries arises from there being no vent for the small surplus produce. That vent would be given by the repeal of the Corn laws in this country, and the buoyancy and elevation which would be consequently given to manufactures would more than compensate for any depression which might take place. Under the most favourable circumstances for production the utmost extent of importation that would probably take place would not exceed two millions and a half of quarters annually, and this surplus would be more than compen sated for lay the increased consumption which would take place consequent upon the increased manufacturing pros. perity. Lord Melbourne had said everything that could be ex pected from him, considering his situation; and the facts:introduced to his notice could not fail to produce an effect on his mind. Mr. EWART heard with satisfaction that the Prime Minister had received the Deputation with that attention which its great inm,ortance demanded. Any Prime Minister who nould not so receive a deputation of such a character would be un worthy of treading in the footsteps of his great predeus. sors, or of wielding the destinies of this mighty nation. To such a deputation Pitt would have paid attention; even Lord Liverpool did pay great attention to one such: Great Tory thorigli he was, he always was a friend of the people, by being a strenuous enemy to the Corn-laws. He trusted that the intelligent landowners would come forward to the relief of t! e Eceo ian Squires, and lead them to the knowledge that the rei.eal of the Corn-laws—that the pure principles of free trade was the only way to make the agricultural interest flourish. By the agitation of the question of slavery, West India property was depreciated from year to year; so also if they did not obtain repeal of the Corn .laws, the agitation of the question from year to year, which now would be inevitable, would far more de preciate the landed interest than the immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Emancipate the land from what was falsely called protection, and It would inevitably thrive—continue it in its unnatural state, and it must flag. Lord Melbourne had been told that they were not wishing for free trade themselves alone, but they wished to obtain it for all. Mr. WEIR said Glasgow wished for and would take nothing else than a total repeal of these laws. The landed interest ought to know that this was no transient feeling, but one long thought of and now calmly persevered in. He and his colleague had brought up a pet;ii.n from Glasgow signed by 4,300 persons. In 1534 Glasgow and suburbs sent up a petition signed by 60,000 persons. The present one was confined to the city alone, which accounted for the different numbers. The softer sex in Scotland very sel dom indeed put themselves forward out of their own legiti mate and more natural duties, but they fult so much upon tho present question, that: he war advised that the joiners, openers, winders, and tambourers, and others engaged in the muslin trade of Glasgow, were about to petition, and as there were some Hon. Members present, he hoped their gallantry would induce them to support the prayer of the fair sex. Sir J. STRICKLAND—It would have given him great pleasure to have supported the prayer of the petition from the ladies of Glas gow ; but according to the present practice of receiving peti. Lions, lie was prevented from saying one word in support of a prayer of such an interesting nature. But now they were com pelled to disoblige their constituents on many occasions.—(Hear.) Although it might not be necessary that discussions should extend to the length which they have formerly done, he was convinced that some intermediate steps might have been adopted. He could not help saying a few words on this great and important question, and perhaps he ought to apologise that his zeal had brought him here yesterday before a general invitation to Members of Parliament had been given—(Hear, hear)—but he was an old worker in the vinpard. He was entirely a landed proprietor.—(Hear, hear.) Although he was the representative of the great mercantile in. terests of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the opinions which he en. tertained on the question of the Corn-laws were taken up many years before he had even the most distant notion that he should ever be placed in that proud situation. If proof of his sincerity were wanted he might refer to a document which he published many years ago. In 1825 he was: invited by a number of agriculturists to take the chair at a meeting which was called for the purpose of supporting the Corn-laws, but he refused, stating that he was decidedly op posed to their views, and even published a short letter, stating that they were blind to their own interest, and that it would ultimately be found that the Corn-laws were not to their advantage. Before the question was brought before the House on Tuesday week there were many matters deserving of the most serious consideration. Ile was as zealous as any man that all restrictions on commerce should cease, and was therefore glad to see the position which had been taken by the Delegates—that they wanted no protection for them. selves, whilst they were willing to give none to others. lie was glad to find them advocating the general freedom of trade, that things might take their natural course, and that England should be free from any monopoly whatev:r.—(Hear) If they had fallen short of that—if they had not shown their general desire for free trade altogether, they would have taken the argument out of their own hands and placed it in the hands of their opponents. At the same time, while he admitted that they ought not to look for restrictions, Dr. Bowring had alluded to a subject of great importance—the necessity of taxation for the purpose of raising the revenue. It appeared to him that a tax on one part of the community for the benefit of another, was the grossest injustice, a fradulent and immoral act—(llear, hear) and he wished to impress . on them the maxim of Mr. Fox, that . . . that which Is morally wrong cannot ho politically right."— (Hear, hear.) In a country like this there must be taxation, and if it should be found necessary that the importation of corn should be subject to a Custom-house tax, he did not sec why it should not be taxed as well as any thing else—should be taxed for the purpose of raising the revenue, but not for the purposes of pro tection. Now, as to the mode in which the question was to be supported in the House of Commons when brought forward by Mr. Villiers.—(Hear, hear.) The present demand, he believed was, that evidence might be given at the bar of the House of Commons; but then came the important question, whether in the present constitution of the House of Commons, and con sidering the majorities that existed there, it was possible to carry that question. The next consideration for them was what, according to common discretion, they ought to do, and what they ought to be prepared to do.—(Hear.) _ Mr. E. BAINES, junior, believed that, on the part of the towns of Leeds and Halifax, and of the West Riding of Yorkshire generally, he might state their demand was for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn.laws.—(Hear, hear.) They were convinced that that was what would most tend towards the general prosperity of the nation ; and it was his (Mr. Baines') conviction that the abolition of all duties of this:nature would raise the prosperity of this country to a far higher pitch than it had hitherto attained. Ile wished to make an observation upon what Sir George Strickland had said relative to there being a duty on corn for the purposes of the revenue. Sir George strickland was an old friend of free trade in corn, and had published his *pinion on this subject many years before he came into Parliament, or was connected with any manufacturing community, and was himself solely dependent on land. He (Mr. B.) ventured to ex. press a different opinion from his Hon. Representative on the subject of the revenue in the importation of foreign corn; and begged to point out this great difference between taxes on corn and on most other commodities : while a:tax:on tea, coffee, and sugar raised the price of Ithearticles which were imported or a tax on corn had this additional serious effect, that it rose the price also of the whole of the same commodity grown in this country.—(Hear, hear.) It was not merely a tax on one or two or three roil lions quarters of foreign grain annually imported into this coun. try, but it was a tax on the whole of the twenty millions quar ters of wheat, or fifty millions quarters of all other grain grown in this country. There could be but one price for the article in this country, and if that price was raised by a tax on the quantity im ported, it would be a tax to the same extent on all the corn grown in this country. That was a protection to the agriculturists which, as Mr. Walmsley would show, extended to a verylarge amount. Mr. Walmesley had stated to Lord Melbourne that the average expenses attending the importation of wheat from the North of Europe to this country was between nine and ten shillings per quarter ; and that the average cost, in addition to that of bringing corn from the soil on which it grew upon the borders of the Vistula to Dantzic, the port of exportation, was an additional ten shillings per quarter. Now the greater part of the British agriculturists had their market at their own doors, and dispofed of their commodity themselves without incurring the expence of a factor. These causes would produce a permanent protection to the British farmer; of which he could not, from the nature of things, he deprived. He (Mr. Baines) begged leave to express his conviction against any duty on foreign corn for the purpose of raising a revenue.—(Hear). lie had at one time been of opinion that such a tax would have been desirable. But after reflecting more deeply upon the subject, he had come to the conclu•ion—taking into consideration the amazing extent to which such a tax went in raising the price of Corn in this country—(Hear)—that it was for the great, permanent interest of this country—including the landowners themselves—that the trade in corn should be as free as the waters of the ocean or the air we breath.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN then read the resolution as it had been moved by Mr. Sturge and seconded by Dr. Bowring. Mr. E. BAINES, Jun., objected that it contained terms expressing the conviction of the Delegates that the abolition of the Corn-laws was ' supported by the wealth, the numbers, the intelligence of the country. ' a conviction for which lie himself confessed that he did not possess any evidence. He proposed therefore to omit those words. While the Delegates were waiting to hear what Dr. Bowring had to say to the proposition, the Learned Doctor having left the room. The 01411101 AM said he wished it to be known, that notwithstand ing what had been promulgated by Earl Fitzwilliam, the delegates did not intend to abandon their instructions, which were to go for the "total" as well as the " immediate" repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. ASHWORTH observed that he had pressed that point to the utmost with Lord Melbourne, representing that a fixed duty would be a fixed injustice, to whatever extent it went.—(Hear, hear.) Dr. BOWRI NG having re-entered the room, he said that he, for one, believed the bulk of the numbers of the wealth and of the intelli gence of the country was against the Corn-laws ; wherefore he was for the resolution as it stood. Mr. BROOK said he thought it was important that they should not ' try to make out too good a case, and he therefore concurred in Mr. ' Baines suggestion. Mr. EWART said that though he believed the preponderance of numbers and of intelligence was against the Corn.laws, he did not see the necessity of stating their conviction on that point, but rather considered that they ought to state their own opinions fairly and fully, and appeal to the country.—( Hear, hear.) It was agreed that the words objected to by Mr. Baines should be struck out, and the resolution, as amended was passed. Mr. G. WOOD—In consequence, gentlemen, of having made h seen ere a report in the public papers, of c omments having been upon what I said on Tuesday night, to the effect that what I then said would have an injurious effect on the object of the Delegates, I have waited on you for the purpose of hearing on what grounds it was that you thought I had unfortunately made that mistake. I s hould be very glad to he ar any explanation. The CHAI RM I N—lt would be best for the Hon. Gentleman to refer to the debates in the public papers, which caused the impression that was produced on the minds of the gentlemen wino attend here. I understand a similar impression was created out of doors.—(Hear.) mr. G. NV. WODD-13t t :‘ou leave me in the dirk as to the particu lar circumstance which gave rise to that impression, and it is upon those grounds that I should be glad to hear your explanation. Mr. Bitootces, of Huddersfield—lf the Hon. Member would refer to those parts of his speech so loudly cheered by Sir It. Peel, I think he would be able to solve the difficulty.--(Loud cries of " Hear.") The CHAIRMAN-1 had not the pleasure of hearing the Hon. Baronet speak, and therefore I cannot tell what effect may have been produced in the House by it, but I had the pain of hearing Sir Robert Peel's reply to it, and noticed that the Right Hon. Baronet's . speech was cheered by all those parties whom we consider as 01)1,0- itself. nts to our s iews on this question, which I thoughoi . as si gn ifi cant of the manner in which they understood the Hoer-Gentleman._ (Cheers.) Mr. WOOO said he should be very glad to know in wkat respect the statements lie had made on Thursday night could be at all con sidered as inaccurate or injurious to the gentlemen present. He was not aware of those statements being inaccurate ; if they were he was very sorry for it. If they were not inaccurate he could hardly see in what way they could be injurious. It did not appear to him that the great object they all had in view, in seeking t o remove those unjust laws, could be Injured by the truth being tknown.—(Loud cries of " 'Hear, hear, hear. 1 .) In the discharge of a duty that had devolved upon him, it appear,' to him necessary to take a review of all those circumstances connected with the subjects that had attracted public notice. In taking that review, it seemed to him necsssary to advert to the state of the trade of this country. When Parliament was assembled twelve months ago they were suffering from a state of great convulsion in the com mercial world--the manufacturing interests were in great diffi.. culties ; business had been suspended, and the labouring popu_ lation had been deprived of their ordinary means of subsistence. He thought it his duty to show that the industry of the country had recovered itself, that trade had returned to its ordinary channels. If it should be thought that in going into those state ments he had a special reference to the repeal of the Corn.. laws, he could only say it was by no means a desirable opportunity for doing so. In a speech of that nature he was limited for time, and he should have thought he was compromising the object they have in view by mixing with a statement respecting the trade of the country, matters involving such deep interest as the Corn-law repeal. He apprehended that from what he then said in the discharge of a public duty, no one would have drawn such an erroneous conclusion as some seemed to have done. He had not then concealed his earnest desire for the repeal of the Corn-laws. He was yet perfectly ignorant how anything that had fallen from him could possibly injure the cause the Delegates had at heart. If it could be shown to him that such had been the case, or that his speech could have such an effect, he should most unfeignedly lament it; but until that was shown to him he must still feel that he could not retract. He believed thathe had only spoken facts. His sentiments upon the subject were not of late formation, and he went as far as any gentleman present for the re. peal, and whatever might be the opinions that gentleman might form of his speech, he would still do everything in his power to further their views. He intended to have requested an explanation as soon as he saw the attack, but lie was obliged to attend the Speaker on that day, and he was told yesterday that it would be better to delay it till to-day. The CHAIRMAN said it was rather unfortunate that the intention of the am Member's speech had been so misunderstood, both in and out of Parliament=but more unfortunate still that he should fancy that he had done nothing wrong after such an impres sion had beet , ' created. That the President of the Manches . - - ter Chamber of Commerce—one who had presided at a meeting where a petition was agreed to, which said— " That your petitioners view with great alarm the rapid exten sion of foreign manufactures, and they have in particular to deplore the consequent diminution of a profitable trade with the continent of Europe, to which, notwithstanding the great increase in popu latim since the termination of the war, the exports have actually been less in value during the last five years, than they were during the first years, after the peace; and whilst the demand for all those articles iu which the greatest amount of the labour of our artisans is comprised, has been constantly diminishing, the exportation of the raw material has been rapidly increasing' =was to himastonishing. It did appear to him rather extraordinary, that the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce should talk of the extraordinary property and the export of our manufactures. He (the Chairman) did not deny the statements which the Hon. Member had made; he believed they were correct, but his sin appeared to have been a sin of omission. lie could show that the statement which the Hon. Member had brought forward in the House of Commons, fully bore out the paragraph in the petition which he had just read. It was the declared value of the principal articles of British produce and manufactures reported from the United Kingdom. It commenced with the average of the years 1834, 1835. 1836, and 1837, and then stated the amount in 1838. It showed the incrcose in cotton manufactures to be 642,0001. That might be true, but he wished to ask if any increase had taken place in the exports to Europe. He then went on to say that the increase in cotton yaru was 1„432,000/. This, it should be borne in mind, was a raw article. There was a diminution in woollen manufac. lure of 385,000/. The decreese in cutlery and hardware was 232,0001., while the increase in the faw material of iron and steel was 686,000/, and in copper and brass 159,000/. ; tin in bars 52,000/., in plates 83,000/. ; and in sheep's wooi 158,000/. This fully bore out the statement which had been made by Mr. Stansfield. In coal and cam there was the enormous increase of 180,0001., being sixty per cent. in the four years. The exportation of raw iron, steel, and coals was what he complaned of, becauee they furnished the foreign manufacturer with the means of competing with us. It was the omis sion of this important part of the statement which was calculated to give a wrong impression. At the Chamber of Commerce it was stated that during the last two years trade had been in a most unprofitable state, and the Hou.:Member knew that, for he had been a cotton. spinner. The Hon. Member had been getting up an illu sive picture of prosperity, when he had said not one word of the suffering below the surface. The Honourable Member had alluded to one subject which he trusted he would take the opportunity of explaining in his place in the House of Commons, and that was the relative exports and increase of trade in our country, compared with foreign countries. In the year 1315, Great Britain exported to the amount of 51,603,0291. ; in 1836, to 53,369,5711. Its 1815, the exports from Franec amounted to 15,908,1741., and in 1836 to 38,451,390. The ex. 'ports from the United States in 1815 were 10,959,5311., and i❑ 1836 they amounted to 26,804,799, so that while our exports had increased only 4 per cent„ those of the United States and France had increased 260 per cent.—Hear, hear.) He wished to ask if that was a subject of congratulation. Ile was sorry that he had been obliged to make these observations, although no one regretted the necessity of doing so more than him self, and no one felt greater mortification than he did on bearing the speech of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. G. W. Woon desired to offer a few observations on the rtt marks of the Chairman. He bad stated that he was not presets_ during his speech In the House. With respect to the countries to which our exports had gone, he had not then in his possession the necessary particulars, and had consequently no means of im parting information to the public. With respect to other branches of trade, they would no doubt be useful in a discussion on the Corn -laws. He did think on that occasion, speak i n e t as he was upon another subject, they would have been considered out of place, and of no service to the cause. The petition from Manchester stated of course the sentiments of those by whom it had been adopted ; and it was hardly necessary to go over the ground again in the discussion to which he (the Chair. man) had alluded. Mr. GREG proposed that a private Committee meet on Monday next. at ten o'clock, for the purpose of considering the course to be taken with respect to the witnesses that might be called.-- Agreed to. The Committee then adjourned. - NEW COURT OF CHA: CERY. We are informed on very good authority that it has just been: determined upon to have an additional Court of Chancery in consoquence of the impossibility of the Judges of the present Courts getting through the arrcar of and accumulating business before them. W e are told that there is no less than an arrear of a thous an d causes. The Solicitor-General is mentioned as likely to be the new Judge. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the cx.duty price of West India Sugar In Mins_ ing-lane, and comparing the same against foreign sugars: London, Fel), 8,183 g. The Gazette of this day quotes the average price of Brithit re: swot, Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at • , 371 3d, M.scovado Sugars raised by free labour in the MaiiiPa are worth this week from 225. to 245. per mi., being about las. per cwt. less than the average ps ea of West India sugar. er last, been rs The bounty on refined Sugar having, in Octo; duced to 355. Sd., per cwt., no sales for exportation at that rate at bounty have been effected; the excessively high prices paid by :At British consumers cannot, therefore, now be attributed to tn e bounty. Nevertheless, this reduction still leaves, allowing la, /„:.• cwt. for the poisonous dirt contained In the Muscovado or triomf. Sugar—and which is extracted by the process of refilling, a elcc.2 bounty of 10s. ed. per cwt., which would, in the event of an ample supply of Sugar from the West Indies, come into active operation, and by stimulating the exportation of relined Sugar, always main. tain the average price of West India Muscovados at 10s. par cwt . above the price of free labour Sugar from other quarters. British Treacle is worth Ss. 6d. per cwt. in the foreign markets. The same has been sold this week at 325. per cwt., being an excess of price paid by the nation of 235. gd. per cwt., in other words, 6d, per cwt, on Treacle contributed by the poor man towards tVcst India Bounty, and not, as it is erroneously supposed, towards re. venue. CorFax.—The duty on West India Coffee, the price of it rangin g from 935. to 138 s. per cwt ,, is 50s. per cwt., about 5 0 per cent. act valorem. The duty on St. Domingo Coffee, the average price of it being 425. per cwt., is 140 s. per cwt., or about 300 per cent. ad vak rem. TI , L I protective duty, therefore, on West India Ogee is equivalent to 251) per cent. Some importers of Coffee, avail themselves of the pri_ vileges conferred by the East India Company's Charter, to ship Cof. fee from the Brazils to the Cape of Good Dope, and thence t ) 12„. land, where, in consequence of the privilege alluded to above, it i e admitted for home use at a duty of 545, per cwt. Sales of Brae 1 Coe. fee brought by this circuitous route have occurred in Mincir ;Jane, so that through trickery, and favouritism in duty, the Bribsh public are unconsciously made consumers of coffee raised I; &ay. labour, to the exclusion of that cultivated by f?te hands in St. Do mingo. We have already shown that the gain to the m onanolists, and the loss to the British community by the protective laws on West produce amounts to 4,210,080/. per annum. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRIiSPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTH, FEB. B.—ln Harbour—The Britannia, 120, flag. ship ; Victory, 104, ordinary guard.ship ; Excellent, gunnery-ship; Roy al George yacht ; and Pantaloon tender ; l:ialatnander strain. vessel ; Messenger, steam transport; Soaflower,catter ; and tendets Fanny, Gossamer, and Emerald. In Basin—Not anything in commission. In Dock—The Cracker, cutter. At Spithead—NO vessel of war. ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, &c, DURING THE WEEK. On Saturday the tid. — Th e Daphne, 18, an d Electra, 18, both at „i A:)out twenty hands soiled from Spithead ; the former for Lisbon and the hlediterra. nean, the latter for South America, in gettiug On Sunday, the 3d.—The Ganges, 8-1, attempted to get away. but after having hooked the cat, the bolt to whicb the leading bl oc - K for the cat-fill had been hooked gave way, were hurt fortunately no lives were lost. Some five or six were sent to the hospital, and the vacancies thus eau-ed were filled up ny the flag ship's supernumeraries. She succeeded, however, away on Monday, her destination being Lisbon and the mediter_ rancan. On Wednesdy, the 6th. —Ai rived the Pantaloon, 10, from the North Coast of spain ; and the Gossamer tender, from Sheerness ; also the Dasher steam-vessel, with new-raised men from Weymouth. On Thursday, the 70.—TLe Dasher steam-vessel returned to her station. On Finlay, the 8111.—Sailed the Portsmouth buoy.boat, with sii. pernumeraries for the Powerful at Sheerness. Again, we may almost say, we have had a blank week here, wit, anything of importance having taken place. The Etna is not y et ready far commission. The Revenge, 74, it is said, will be conm,;,, sioned by Captain Basil Hall. The City of Rochester (hired troop_ ship) has received on board during the week detachments of th e S9th and 67th Regiments for conveyance to the West Indies, A nu now remains at Spithcad. IRELAND. ATTORNEY RIF.NEIINI..—Mr. Brady succeeds Att orne y-General; and here we may as N l‘ v r e r l . l noticenall report in circulation —namely , that an arrangement is contemplateda: by which the duties and responsibilities of the Attorney-General are to be altc red and impaired. There is not one word of truth i n the report, that such an alteration is intended, or that any alteration was ever contemplated, that could have the effect of interfering with the personal rights and duties of the Attorney General, EXECUTION IN CLON.NlELL.—Yesterday, Cornelius Hicke y and Wm. Walsh were executed for the murder of the late li e , srp. Cooper and Weyland. RESPITE. —The prisoners, Kelly and Hourigan, who W ere sen - f en ced to be executed to-m o rr ow, have been res p ited, an d their ser, tence commuted into transportation for I. fe , on the express recom mendation of the Judges who tried them. The Lord Lieute nant has sgi given vessel enc stow at directions that Kingstown, :i l should b.:hiceiihts will ytariel in themored to the convict eour se of a few days.— Lublin Evening Nit, )0- ! re )us of DTI, nce and i n - I of ocr tie' ula e l a id the 05 311 1 13(1