The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

! ;1 ;en lunily arrived Christina has of Ministers. e marriage of who accord' take such t ti on presided?en-Mother the leader of Governtao4 merston, paid a long h him on th ° s intended to )rdship being ration of WI .esden on tilt/ n ordonnance, s of trades la now free to .ny of the Tr cessary. Nothing,- he Stock El" ,he ball, nest the o. portic th e• trees on e sere courteous ;hem with tb' lers to WI omed train. to murder his the Centro.; years' tra°s• 11.4 committed lying a man Prfectly away )bberies, an" d at the gal 1: . n tly receive"eclosed. T Ives were not :s it was Cll9. en stolen. witted to t u fr rly curang WI a brelu' reet-keeper of were boon; ?s Thwaite g n % ow, value 4v " . belonging 0 le use of t h „ e trustees. • t the Disg l ;, • stice of th ey ,mpenseiti ol3 o aal h the J. v 'alace ce at Winds`",,, a select rsday even l . o F Lady Colv‘hille: sale, and )onald. dLt Rnt staying " ear Y led to R—a 1 ,, :s at the Pi— )n. Miss Cho i ; y Wenlock, ' iss Hope Ir' l3 r e ruesday 10 ,, 4 igton will g b i ;companied r, 1 Lords 11,e li t i,' i's Hotel, I ,r ° ,, the roarrtf l . MarquiV er e, th Hope L e ,/ to be ow" o te 1 haviog dao ;11t at ° l eis his returs l others to Ise. ;heir son, Vil; ng at Swill ° , Earl at Pre nd the Loo ahneney Pal, :emaia till ' vening at tb e y iHe s a flu t e ° he Dorset Ji° y Agrietinu,. l4 : o ['his being w o n for all so f it pigs cho fr' npetitors, I. s the field a s arty pigs, 0 , sere large 7yne and Prl' 'rs of the WI sell ° e town ot incurn be re animously oseph WC" - r , roa d suryeif b e s paid by t he mpensatie o sje t over Hun d t trusteese view of e lt o r to the iab ti t o employing jo i) ng dere° ek the busli, re 0 05 Sessions /Pe ory" ck this J u b i lee the ° ti t t to n ig) ' off rbeforP tic k iier bet, to sb° re tb• tin dern el ` tbe ril ' rescu e -rif ft r, for me g ibe' ,d to b=e f og per s()° ,!h re' was r ow , - pre ,ily to de _P t he yawl on ;cle. e•share is re _ l at 156 ' P . 1 59 !D. The .1. ISphelle COURT CIRCULAR. t TV-1"81, SOli. Princn Albert uok so 'equestrian exercise in the riding - school for t 1 1: time this morning, attended by Major-Generel tv Vas and Colonel Bouverie, the- Equerries in "aitin n - T he iron Harriet Paget and the Hon. Georgiana e L c i ddle arrived yesterday at the Castle, and have sue yeded the Hon. Misses Murray and Kerr as the of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. aft 'ne Right H o n. Sir James Graham arrived this e , r neen at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. ee unfavourable state of the weather during the d -L aY prev en t e d t h e R oya l F am ily from taking their ae e ., l !Aelmed airings. ti_tler Majesty honoured Mr. Thorburn with a sit - Thorte-day, The Prince of Wales also sat to Mr. burn, ciller Royal Hi g h ness the Duchess of Kent, Lady rlotte Dundas, and the Countess Wratislaw, 11 join the royal dinner circle at the Castle to-day. Majesty's private band will perform in the everting. Cambridge, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of and the Hereditary Grand Duke and b .uchess o f M ec kl en b urg h St re litz, attended by Baron resebeck left Kew yesterday morning, to honour Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury with a at their seat, Tottenham Park, Marlborough , '" litg. Sir R o b er t P ee l arr i ve d at his residence in White b!` - gardens on Thursday evening, from his seat, 1 ,2,3 1 0 n Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Henry Pottinger an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet Yesterday. A il_ deput a ti on f rom th e Cambridge and Lincoln `„waY, consisting of Mr. 11. Barnett, Chairman , ( l e Mayor of Cambridge (R. M. Fawcett, Esq.), Mr. eorge Furber (Cambridge), Mr. Thomas Webster (Standing Counsel), Mr. G. W. Buck (Engineer), I . l r. Ilumphrys (Solicitor), and Mr. Walmsley (Par. i l rlentary Agent), had an interview with the Earl of ~alhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Sir James Graham left town yesterday afterno on ' ll a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. i n ,t ~dePatatizn from the Grand Junction Railway, If„ ; ll ,u'ng Mr. Robertson Gladstone and Captain Dalhousie had an interview yesterday with the Earl of i,'","usie, at the Board of Trade. - tne Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, trans acted, business yesterday at the Foreign-o ffi ce. The .Earl of Ellenborough entertained a select 11 :tY at dinner at Farrance's Hotel on Thursday L en ing• Amongst the company were Lord and 4;3Y' Colville, Lord Brougham, Sir Robert a nd Lad y is' and Mr. Sturt, Sir George Murray , and Sir M`Dongld. P i t,. deputation from the Severn Com mission, Mr. kid i u n gt°n , M.P. Mr. Spooner, M.P. , Mr. J . W. Lea, \v„ '"-tr• Water, 'Solicitor ; from the Staf f o rdshire and Ak i r cestershire Canal Company, Lord Hatherton b an 3 l 4 r. Harden, had an interview with the Earl of ousie yesterday. OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. PREPARATIONS IN THE CITY. re o „, th e day approaches for the above intere stin g cere- Plet; the preparations are rapidly ad v a ncin g to com bee"". The noble building itself — t he sashes having tow n all The and the squares of gla ss p olished —has h t a highly interesting appearance , and , notwithstand thro e very unfavourable weather yesterday, attracted au i v ?,gbput the day a vast number of sp ectators, parti ben:Y Cornhill. The chimes of the clock , b y Mr. T he ' Were again tried several times during the day. Mondayk itself will be in full operation this day or , 1, 0 4 ,. 1 1 1 1 1,... e barriers by the Mansion-house, King William, of a Newgate, and other streets, were in the course re °n yesterday, and all are expected to be com pleted.l,,in the course of this day. i no , ‘ '`ue fronts of several public as well as private build b' are being cleansed and beautified, and at all 1. 0 -3 of business in the line of procession, where the a IQ arms are displayed, the latter have been regilt and "ecorated. lk it t the Bank the seats erected on the roof are covered h t the top, as well as the east, north, and west sides, 14, - Stout weather boarding. At the Mansion-house tosteps at either end leading to the balcony beneath e Portico h ave b een c overed with flooring boards, so as i l ur Plane the esplanade of the balcony, and upon which th. be erected seats, to be covered with scarlet cloth , an d f,whole decorate d beautiful draperies in the sty le op th e Duke of Devonshire's splendid pavilion, which e a - Zerected in Piccadilly at the time of her Majesty's nation. The seats at the Mansion-house and Bank Vat t , e4n lizand the best external views of the gorgeous the 1 7 ‘ai t t3 , throughout the line. The next best will be ' t .i'Page of s°ats on the south side and east end of "e So T '4 %thedral, and the places for standing beneath Ind u r ,": Portico. seat,s t e V i clent of the vast increase of announcements of shop tv .ue let, exhibited in the windows, several of the aad i n :Mews have been removed, the goods taken out, 0 3v er a ue ir place ranges of seats have been fixed up, a‘ u with crimson, purple, and other coloured cloths, hibi t 3 everal houses designs for illumination were ex ed. OFFICIAL NOTICES. 4141 0 , 'IV the following notices, issued by the . L . ord at a ll the printed in large characters, were exhibited „ `` O rd e Pr inoipal entrances into the City ere Atr Z e r b y the Court of Mayor and Aldermen, .that lktivp„ -- `" and thoroughfares in the line of procession Temple -bar and Leadenhall - str eet— namel y , t ry, (l e h gate-str ee t, G rac echurch-street, Cornhill , "di eapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, Ludgate-hill, th e leet street, will be closed from seven o'clock in 1144 more- of Monday, the 28th of October, and will of th e agsun re-opened until six o'clock in the evenin g said day. ° etober 24, 1844. " MEREWETHER.' " SMITHFIELD MARKET. ti p„, a NOTICE TO DROVERS AND OTH ERS. PaSs jsuat 11 0 cattle of any description will be allowed-to . scree,T r er Bhzekfriars-bridge, or through any of the Te r 7, o r thorou-rhfarem in the line of procession from hev e r` e- bar to the New Exchange , between the hours of i tiz; ll oclock in the morning and six o'clock in the even blarka,l,(Li. that the route for cattle leaving Smithfied we st i," °e Smithfield-bars and St. John's-street for th e Qii s ,;", and northern districts ; Long-lane , Barbican, e ttste vii-street into Sun-street, to Hounsditch, for the to aee rn and southern districts. The police have orders these directions carried out. I ` BY order of the Lord Mayor, " S. R. GOGDMAN, clerk e n f rr t n owing police order was iss ued this mornin g :- . ATION 9 FOR PREVENTING OBSTRUCTIONS OF TIIE TROROUCHFARES, TO BE OBSERVED ON OCTO -41 .'"lt 28 110r h a N O carriage of any description, nor person on th i .„aelc, will be allowed to remain in the streets h er -Il u gh which the royal procession passes, until after riesty's return. itted top, N carriage of any description will be perm tl l s Into the streets of the line of the procession after 1 0w8 )11 r of nine o' c l oc k i n the morning, except as fol , I' a ‘ ,, tl , ir st• The carriages of the family of the Royal 1 3', the Cabinet Ministers, and the Officers of State, precede the procession, may pass at any hour. the R e : G n i & Company having tickets for admission to Vel,- )e iY a l Exchange, will be permitted to pass until ten . Th cha 3 t e company having tickets for the Royal Ex- Rill and wishing to follow in the royal procession, stree ue admitted through the barrier in St. James's via ° l l showing their tickets to the police, and a place , ' Ja e e assigned for their carriages to draw up in St. past m , s ed s-str eet , unt i l t h e roya l p rocess i on s h a ll have foi Pall-mall, after which such carriages will i 9 of her those of th e A m b assa dors and Foreign Ministers, thee h cr Majesty's Ministers, in the order in which have sucessively drawn up. tion 4 . The p o li ce h ave or d ers to prevent all obstruc to: of th e thoroughfares, in the vicinity of the line of o Casio; and not to allow carts, carriages, or waggons w ev _ i ld in such th oroug hf ares a t an y time from ten uc in the forenoon until after the return of the royal 13r°eession. " RICHARD MAYNE, " Commi ss i oner o f P o li ce o f t h e M e t ro polis. Metrop o litan Police-office, Whitehall-place, Oct. 26, 1844." The ST. MARTIN'S-IN-T HE- FIELDS. Issue fol l iowing • no ti ce h as b eenl. • dby the paro al autho ties of th e p ar i s h o f St. Martin's-in-the- Field — Mnaerte thatt ie in's4n-the -Fields Vestry-office, Oct. 24. 'wing s treets bh7rie- l rfi gh wi o ll n be th e e rect , in this par.. 9 n . 11)7 1 Y , 8 proceeding into the occasion e erected n the of fo herl ko. Exchange, on the 28th instant: " OPEN BARRIERS. t 43 open the New k ‘. 44 T he Haym ar k et, in conjunction with the hog dames, at the north-west corner of Suffolk-place. " -Vi lliers-street, at Duke street. " St. .Martin's-place, at the north corner of the Church steps. '3lrec Spring- gar d eßS, at the crossing, east end of New.. " found ary. Warwick -st ree t, across the same, at the parish " " CLOSED B A R RIERS . Do rset -place, at St. Alartin's-street. "Xing William -street, at the west end. Adelaide -street, at the north end. ' Agar -street at the north end. " Le dford -street, at Maiden-lane. Southampton- street, at the parish boundary. Eur leigh-street, at the north end, in conjunction with the parish of St. Ch ment's Danes. " Exeter -street, near the Strand. " Adam- s t reet, Adelphi, at the corner of John•street. "Buckingham -street, at Duke-street. Brewer's -yard, at the back front of the Strand n ooses. h e ' Durham- s t reet, at the back front of the Strand ses. t he " 11, e open b arr i ers w ill b e c l ose d at n i ne o ' clock in morning until a ft er h er M u j esty ' s return, a ll other riers Will be c l ose d at s i x o ' c l oc k i n t h e morn i ng, and 2‘e,maiu. so until a f ter h er M a k sty's return. No vehicle of any description, or horses, will be allowed to remain 211 a ny of the streets or places within the barriers, in the line of her Majesty's progress to open the new Royal Exchange ; an NP:mlay, the 24th inst. " ihc: Ci.mittee, " A. BURSTALL, Surveyor." POST-OFFICE REGULATION FOR AIONDAY NEXT. The following notice was issued last evening by com mand of her Majesty's Postmaster-General :—" General Post-office, October 25, 1844.—Notice to the public. — The several departments of the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, except the inland and foreign, the ship letter, and the London district Post-offices, will be closed for business after twelve o'clock at noon on Monday next, the 28th inst., on the occasion of her Ma jesty's visit to the City, to open the Royal Exchange. The offices, above excepted, will remain open for the receipt and dispatch of letters as usual. The Money Order Office will be open from ten o'olock until twelve o'clock at noon, for the payment and issue of money orders." OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF THE STATE PROCESSION. The procession is to leave Buckingham Palace at a quarter to eleven o'clock. The route is along the Park, through the iron gates by the German Chapel, into Pall mall, along Pall-mall, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross, the Strand, Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, St. Paul's Church yard, Cheapside, to the Royal Exchange. Detachment of Life Guards. _ _ Her Majesty's Carriages, each drawn by six horses. Two Grooms The first Carriage, Two Grooms walking. drawn by six bays, walking. Conveys Gentleman Usher of the Sword of State, Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber, Exon of the Yeoman of the Guard, Page of Honour in Waiting. Two Grooms The second Carriage, Two G rooms walking. drawn by six bays, walking. Conveys Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert (Lord Geo. Lennox), Groom in Waiting (the Hon. Captain Duncombe), Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert (Capt. F. Seymour), Silver Stick. Two Grooms The third Carriage, Two Grooms walking. drawn by six bays, walking. Conveys Lord in Waiting (Lord Byron), Treasurer of the Household (Earl Jermyn), Vice-Chamberlain (Lord Ernest Bruce), Comptroller of the Household (the Right Honourable Colonel Dawson Darner). The fourth Carriage, Two Grooms drawn by six bays, walking. Conveys, Groom of. the Stole to Prince Albert (the Marquis of Two Grooms walking. Exeter), Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (the Earl of Be verley), Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms (Lord Forester), Master of the Buck Hounds (the Earl of Rosslyn). Two Grooms The fifth Carriage Two Grooms walking. drawn by six bays, walking. Conveys, Maid of Honour (the Honourable Lucy Kerr), Bedchamber Woman, Earl Marshal (the Duke of Norfolk), Gold Stick. Two Grooms walking. The sixth Carriage, Two Grooms drawn by six blacks, walking. Conveys, Lady of the Bedchamber (Lady Portman), Maid of Honour in Naiting (the Honourable Miss A. Murray), Lord Steward (the Earl of Liverpool), Lord Chamberlain (Earl Delawarr). Yeomen of the Guard. Twelve Footmen, four and four. Four Grooms THE STATE COACH, Four Grooms walking. Drawn by eight cream- walking. coloured horses, Attended by a Yeoman of the Guard at each wheel, and two footmen at each door, conveying THE QUEEN, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, The Mistress of the Robes (the Duchess of Buccleuch), The Master of the Horse (the Earl of Jersey). Escort of Life Guards. The carriages of the Ambassdors and Foreign Minis ters are to assemble at the lower end of St. James's street, to be in readiness, at half-past ten o'clock, to fall into the line immediately after the Queen's procession. The carriages of the Cabinet Ministers will form in like manner, and be ready at the same time, to fall into the line immediately after those of the Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers. The general direction of the procession is under the orders of Lord Charles Wellesley, Clerk Marshal ; Major-General Wemyss, Equerry to the Queen ; and Lieut.-Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert. On the arrival of the state procession at Temple-bar, and after the due reception of the Sovereign by the Lord Mayor, the order of the procession will be altered by the accession of the Civic cavalcade (the order of which pro cession was inserted in our journal yesterday). The Lord Mayor and the authorities of the city of London, with their officers, taking place in the royal cortege immediately after the sixth royal carriage, and the Yeoman of the Guard, as seen in the above official progr amine. The following is a list of the present Masters of the twelve principal Companies of the city of London, in the order of their precedency, invited by the Gresham Committee, at Mercer's Hall, to the opening of the New Royal Exchange by Queen Victoria, on Monday, the 28th of October, 1844 : 1. Mercer's Company, incorporated 1393, George Aston, Esq., Master. 2. Grocers' Do., incorporated 1345, Cornelius Paine, Esq., Do. 3. Drapers' Do., incorporated 1439, Thomas Walker, Esq., Do. 4. Fishmongers' Do., incorporated 1384, William Wan sey, Esq., Do. 5. Goldsmiths' Do., incorporated 1327, Henry Blan chard, Esq , Do. 6. Skinners' Do., incorporated 1327, John Locke, Esq., Do. 7. Merchant Tailors' Do., incorporated 1466, William Gilpin. Esq., Do. 8. Haberdashers' Do., incorporated 1447, James Law Jones, Esq., Do. 9. Salters' Do., incorporated 1558, J. Fisher, Esq., Do. 10. Ironmongers' Do., incorporated 1464, John Birkett, Esq., Do. 11. Vintners' Do., incorporated 1437, L. D. Jacquier, Esq., Do. 12. Clothworkers' Do., incorporated 1482, Edward Gregory, Esq., Do. Inscriptions on the exterior of the Royal Exchange:— " The Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." " Anno Elizabethw It. XIII. Conditum—Anno Victorise R. VIII. Restauratum." Fortun a My. Honor Deo, Due Dirige Nos l. Prosperity to my House. THE ROYAL PROCESSION. A very judicious alteration has been made in her Majesty's route on Monday next. Instead of going from Pa to Pall-mall East, as stated in the bills, the Royal Procession will pass down Cockspur street in front of Nelson's Pillar along the Strand. „: s ' # :~ ~: ~I; j ,~. 1111 S ITN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1844. LITERATURE. DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. E. Wilson, London, 1844. This neat and cheap little volume is brought out just at the fitting season, when public attention is fixed on the imposing ceremony of the opening of the New Royal Exchange, under the auspices of her Majesty, which, as every one knows, is to take place on Monday next. Mr. Wilson, the compiler of this work, has not only given us a circumstantial account of the Exchange as it at present exists, but has added an historical notice of all the former edifices, written with evident care and attention as to facts, together with a brief Memoir of Sir Thomas Gresham, the well-known founder of the original Exchange in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The volume is embel lished with several appropriate illustrations, and con tains a great deal of curious historical and anecdotical matter within a small compass. FINE ARTS. DRAWINGS FROM THE PRIZE CARTOONS. We visited, a day or two since, the drawings made by the Messrs. Linnell, from the eleven cartoons to which prizes were awarded by the Commissioners of the Fine Arts, previously to the public exhibition last year in Westminster Hall. These drawings which, as might be expected, are on a considerably reduced scale, have been executed under the auspices of Messrs. Longman and Co., and are remarkable for their strict accuracy a 3 copies, and the exquisite finish that dis tinguishes them. The outline, expression, and general effect of the original designs, have all been most care fully preserved; and indeed the drawings have received the warm approbation of all the artists to whose inspection they have been submitted. As most of our readers are, no doubt, acquainted with the originals, which were publicly exhibited last year for several weeks, we shall content ourselves with ob serving that they will find no cause for disappointment in the copies. In particular, Parris's graceful design of " Joseph of Arimathea converting the Britons," has been executed with singular spirit and elegance, especially as regards the upright figure of the preacher, which blends ease with dignity in no ordinary degree. Watts's picture of " Caractacus led through the streets of Rome"—a favourite subject with modern artists—exhibits not less excellence. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. Sln,—l have just read with disgust the regulation of the Lord Mayor, which excludes people walking in the streets of the City after nine o'clock on Monday. Every one seems to think it must be a hoax. In fact, that was the first impression on my mind. It seems the act, of either a tyrant or a madman, to shut up the streets of London after nine o'clock. Let me beg of you, Sir, to exert your beneficial influence to endea vour to prevent this evil. Your constant reader, Lombard-street, Oct 25, 1844. JANUS. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. OCT. 23. Ann cutter, Hon. William Hare, from Ly mington. 24. Ganymede cutter, I. H. W. P. Smyth Pigott, Esq., Plymouth and Torquay. SAILINGS. OCT. 21. Xarifa schooner, Earl of Wilton, for Ply mouth. 22. Kestrel ketch, Commodore Earl of Yarborough, Cowes harbour, to lay up. 23. Jack o'Lantern schooner, Earl of Orkney, ditto. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners—Flirt, Gem. Cutters—Phantom, Ann, Ganymede, Turquoise, Ariadne, Noran, and Nautilus yaw --eport says that her Majesty proposes visiting us again this season, and the 24th of November is men tioned as the day appointed. We have no great faith in this report, but we know that workmen are employed on Osborne House, and it is hardly probable that if her Majesty intended giving it up on the Ist of May, that this would be the case, or that the orders would have been given to fill the ice-house, or to lay down perma nent moorings for the royal yacht in Cowes roadstead. The cause of the late dreadful accident at Portsmouth was doubtless some of the wadding left on fire in the breach of the gun. A correspondent, who is in the woollen trade, informs us that there is a quantity of cotton in all low-priced flannels, and the cotton so intro duced was the cause of this and numerous other dreadful accidents. STEAM V. TIME.—THE QUICKEST TRANSIT YET KNOWN.—A gentleman left London last Friday morning by the ten o'clock train for Fleetwood, where he joined the Royal Consort steam-ship. Leaving that place at half-past eight o'clock in the evening, he arrived next morning at Ardrossan at half-past eight o'clock (twelve hours), where he left per special train, and was in Glas gow by ten o'clock A.M., thus accomplishing the distance of 400 miles in twenty-four hours.—Ayr Observer. WEST RIDING REGISTRATION.—The registration for the West Riding has closed with a gain of 40 for the Reformers.—Leeds Times. PRICE OF COAL.—We were yesterday informed, that owing to a strike for wages by the colliers of Staf fordshire, coal has increased ls. per ton.—Leamington Courier. It is generally expected that the Earl of Glasgow will be appointed to the situation of Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, vacant by the death of Mr. Speirs. STATE OF TRADE.—The Leicester trade still re mains dull for the season, though a further demand be fore orders close for Christmas is expected. Spinners are flatter, and orders fall off; in wools not much doing, and no change in prices.—Leicester Journal. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.—A rail way from Waterford to Limerick, via Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Caber, and Tipperary, has been brought for ward under most powerful patronage, and with a list of local Directors more influential than we have seen for a long time. The engineer is Mr. Vignoles, with whom lies the honour of having been the first to construct a railway in Ireland. The length is about 70 miles, and so easy is the country, that it is believed the works will cost only 10,000/. a mile, The capital is 750,0001., in 501. shares, with a deposit of 2/. 10s. A return of at least six per cent. is anticipated. The promoters in their prospectus very properly repudiate the newly-revived quackery of paying interest on calls. —Railway Record. The Provisional Committee of the London and Norwich Direct Railway met at Bury St. Edmund' s last Thursday, to apportion the 35,000 shares for this under taking, on which occasion there were applications for upwards of 60,000 shares.—Norwich Mercury. TILE RUMOURED ROYAL VISIT TO BURGHLEY.— For these two years past it has been repea tedl y stated f r om Burghley that Queen Victoria was on the point of visiting the Marquis of Exeter. This story is now renewed ; and it is added that great preparations are making at Burghley House for the reception of her Majesty, who is expected on the 4th of next month. It is even said that so large a retinue is expected with her Majesty, that it is necessary to fit up the house of the late Edward Brown, Esq., in Stamford (which, after his death, was purchased by the Marquis of Exeter), in order to accommodate some of the guests.—Stamford Mercury. We are happy to be enabled to state that, o n the occasion of the Queen's visit to the City, on Monday, her Majesty will lay aside her mourning, and appear in a full court dress of white. Full court dresses will also be adopted by the ladies who have received invitations to attend, and we learn that a great variety of gorgeous costumes are already in preparation. At this dull season of the Sear, her Majesty's determination on this point is calculated to give an important impetus to trade. —Court Journal. The boats employed in the herring fishery are doing much better than they were last year. The quantity of herrings shipped to the London market on one day last week, from Yarmouth and Lowestoft, amounted to the enormous quantity of 91 lasts.—Suffolk Chronicle. EXPLOSION AT THE WESTMINSTER GAS WORKS. — Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, the workpeoplo and others employed upon the premises of the Equitable Gas Company, Horseferry -road, Westminster, were thrown into a state of considerable alarm, in consequence of a terrific explosion which suddenly took place in one of the principal rooms adjoining the gasometer. William Godwin, who had charge of that department, was found lying upon his back, in a state of insensibility, and his face and head so much disfigured with burns and scorch ings as almost to defy identification. He was promptly removed to Westminster Hospital, and hopes are given of his speedy recovery. TERRIBLE FLOOD.—Never in the recollection of the oldest man living in the neighbourhood was the river of Ayle, above Westport, so swollen as it was last week, occasioned by the late continued heavy fall of rain. In the immediate vicinity of the beautifully pic turesque and truly magnificent subterraneous passage , extending from behind the church at Ayle to Bally burke, a distance of about two miles, the mountain flood had risen to a height of more than 80 feet from the ordi nary level of the river, carrying everything before it ; turf, hay, oats, and even cabins, have been swept away by the mighty torrent. The men labouring in the fields which cover this subterraneous water- course describe the noise of the moving torrent embowelled in the earth beneath them as the booming of many cannons, or re sembling the sound pf the loudest thunder.—Castlebar Telegraph. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY FARES IMPROVED.—We had the great pleasure last week of aro:roping a considerable reduction in the fares charged to passengers on this line of railway, namely, from 75., 55., and Bs. 6d., to 6s, 45., and 2s. 6d., with the addition of one.third class train from Liverpool In the morning, to return in the even ing, to take effect from to-morrow week, Saturday, November 2d. In these concessions to the claims of the public we have an instalment, for which we are truly thankful ; but we have not bad time during this great Birkenhead week to inquire into several particulars of deep interest to the community, and which shag her, our best attention next week.—Liverpool Mercury. MOST Smockwii4,—The Pottsville (Pa) journal Vip, gives the following horrid partici - flap of the finding of the teatly of a young German, in the bushes neaF the canal at Fortfno Tuesday last. The body was fou nd sta in a bs of ;malty, pa.rt,pidly pat,pn by hogs. His clothes, a blue frock coat, liuen pater anFl Vest lay 4 hisside. He arrived at Fort Clinton in a line beat; few clap be, fare, and being without means !Tinlge his propensity for drink, it is supposed he was attacked with a fit, aml died whey he was found. The remnant of his remains were gatberea in a boX andburied at the spot where they were found.—New York MorningliJourier,Oct.'l. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.—AII that art has invented, or nature can supply, will be called into requisition to grace the fair actresses on this national event. It is on such occasions of festivity that the vir tues and singularly happy properties of those auxiliaries of personal beauty, Rowland's Kalydor, Rowland's Ma cassar Oil, and Rowland's Odonto, shine pre-eminent in their power ; while the white and swan-like neck, the rich luxuriant tress, and the pearly set of teeth form ad mirable trophies of their inestimable qualities I The august patronage conceded by our gracious Queen, and the several Sovereigns of Europe, together with the beauties which adorn the circles of princely and regal magnificence ; and the confirmation by experience of the infallible efficacy of these creative renovating specifics, have characterised them with perfection, and given them a celebrity unparalleled. They have proved the theme of the poet ; they are celebreted in the periodical litera ture of the whole civilised world ; the lays of Byron, and the voice of the universal press, have proclaimed the in comparable virtues of the " Oil Macassar," and of its accompanying preparations. The Wymondham and Dereham Railroad Company has purchased the property of the late Thomas Smith, Esq., and lately occupied by Colonel Oakes, at Dereham, for their terminus, and certainly a most advantageous situation for the purpose, being nearly in the centre of the town. We understand the buildings are to be com menced immediately ; arrangements are being entered into for the purchase of the land for the entire line, and the Company anticipate having it nearly completed by the time the Act is sanctioned, Surveyors are actively engaged in taking their levels and observations for bringing their lines of rails into Dereham, from Lynn, Wells, and other places ; if all the lines are carried out now contemplated, Derehana must form a junction of some importance.—Norwich Mercury. A country Correspondent informs us that an ex press with dispatches from Sir Robert Peel arrived at Powis Castle, the seat of Earl Powis, between two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning ; that another express from the same high quarter arrived at Powis Castle at six o'clock on Wednesday evening • and that a reply to both expresses was immediately dispatched to London by the Noble Earl. The quidnuncs in the country are represented to be full of conjectures as to the subject? ter a this correspondence ; but the general belief is Lieutenaetc7 of Ireland haebeen offered to Earl Powis. ertford has contributed 200/. to that the _tort ,filne..s, thelblueill‘dfinagrqtu'uinsd°olflrthe new institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind of Oster. CORONER'S INQUEST AT TIIE ETON UNION WORK* HO USE. —SLOUGH, FRIDA.Y.—The inquiry into the cause of the death of an illegitimate male child, belong ing to Martha Hitch, before Mr. Charsley, one of the Coroners for the county of Berks, which was adjourned on Wednesday last, was resumed at two o'clock this afternoon, in the board-room at the workhouse. Mr. Rigby, the gentleman in whose house the mother of the deceased lived as cook ; Mr. Rigby, solicitor ; r . Maurice Swabey, one of then county magistrates ; the chaplain of the union, Dr. Dodwortli ; and some of the guardians, were present during the inquiry, whieh lasted nearly four hours. The jury retUrßecl verdiep of " Died from natural causes, and that no blame is t,O bo attached to any one." The Berlin journals state that Lord Palmearslongton, previous to leaving that cap ital for Dresden, paid visit to M. de Cornelius, and conferred with him on the subject of the fresco paintings witi4 whip it is intended to adorn the new Parliament Houses, his Lorktsiiip being one of the committee for directing the decoration o - f at edifice. Lord Palmerston was to letwe Dresden on th the sth for Vienna. G REAT ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAD J E MEE TING AT a landed proprietary with a territory almost unknown in any other county. At the last election, the first con test on free trade principles, we all know the trifling majority which gained the victory of the monopolist can didate. It has been no secret that the work of registra tion has been going on ever since that time. The monoplists placarded the walls immediately the contest was over, inviting their friends to come and claim to be on the register, and the League gave them due notice to put their house in order, and hold themselves ready against another election—(Applause)—and if they have not done so, it is for the best of all reasons, because they could not.—(llear, hear.) Well, the first reports from the monopolists Of what we were doing was an index to what would be the result, for they began to cry out against the shameful number of objections made by the free traders.—(Laughter.) We admit there were a great number, and why? We took the register, and every one knows that it was in a most shameful state. The properties giving qualifications were described in the most vague manner. We took the registration in our hands, and with the greatest anxiety to place it in the best possible state, we induced 2,600 of our friends to reclaim, in order that they might give, as they were bound to do, the best and fairest description they could of the property for which they claimed to vote.—(Hear, hear.) Then we objeCted to our opponents, finding they had not done so, on that ground; and I am sure no man here will feel sympathy for men wishing to remain on the register with a wrong description, while they had it in their power to amend that description.—(Hear, hear.) We had not the means of striking off these voters if they attended before the barristers ; but we considered ourselves justified, in order that we might have the de scriptions corrected and given in accordance with the law. Most of you are probably aware of the result of the last election for South Lancashire. There were 14,544 votes given for the two candidates together — being for Entwisle 7,571, and for Brown 6,973, and leav ing a majority for Entwisle of 598. On the objections against those 7,571 voters who polled for Entwisle, we struck off 878 at the revision.—(Loud and repeated rounds of applause.) And of the 6,973 who voted for Brown, our opponents have struck off 422; we striking off upwards of two to their one, and having a majority or gain on the objections over them of 456, and within 142 of the whole majority by which Mr. Brown was defeated at the late contest.—(Loud applause.) Then, again, at this revision, there were 4,982 new claims ; of these the free traders made 3,141, and established 2,B2l—(Loud applause)—being a failure of only 320 of the whole of the claims made. So much for the reports propagated, week after week, that the free traders were filling the registers with spurious claims 1 The number of claims made by the monopolists was 1,841, of which they established 1,357 —being a failure in 484 cases, and giving us a majority on the claims of 1,464 votes.—(Cheers.) Well, then there are 109 new claims, belonging to parties whose opinions we have not yet had.time to ascertain ; but we willgive the monopolists the whole of these, and we shall still have a gain on this revision, taking claims and objections together, of 1,751 votes.—(Great and prolonged cheering.) Now, it is quite right that we should see in what districts this great gain has been accomplished. In the first place, in the polling district of Ashton, we have 40 of the 1,751 ; in Bolton, 142 ; in the district of Bury, 75 ; in that of Wigan, 11 ' • in that of Ormskirk. 17 ; in that of Old ham, 102—(Applause)—in that of Newton, 106—(Bravo) —in that of Rochdale, 233—(Applause)—at Liverpool, 490—(Applause)—and in the district of . Manchester, 704. —(Loud cheers.) This makes a total of 1,920, from which deduct the 169 unascertained ones, and that leaves us a gain of 1,761. Then take from these 1,920 the 598 majority of Entwisle at the last election, and the 169 , unascertained, traking altogether 767, and we have a working majority upon this register of 1,153 votes. — (Loud cheers.) An analysis of the new register, there fore, shows of old electors (free traders), 6,551 ; new electors (free traders), 2,821 ; total free traders on the register, 9,372. Of the old eectors, beim ,. monopolists, 6,093 ; ditto, new electors, 1,357; neutrals,' 169; leaving a tote. of 8,219, or a working majority, as already stated, of 1,153. (Applause.) And now, gentlemen, we come to the Northern Division. We have not done much there, but we have done something ; we have obtained a gain there upon the revision, with comparatively little exertion, of 533.—(Applause.) The result has been, then, to give us again of 533 votes for North Lancashire; to give us two seats for South Lancasaire—(Cheers)— and to leave the monopolists three seats in the boroughs, or five out of the whole 26 Members for the entire county; and I think you will agree with me that there never was, in the history of registration, so complete a sweep of a county as this has been.—(Loud cheers.) I have also in my hand a list of returns for 70 out of the 140 boroughs over which the League has exercised some in fluence, and of these there are 68 in which there has been a clear gain upon the registration—in some a great gain ; but less or more in all.—(Applause.) Well, now we will leave these results to speak for themselves. They are here before the country. Our opponents may gather from them whether the League has been dead or slum bering, and they will, accordingly, derive what consola tion they may from them.—(Applause.) We have con centrated our energies on these points. We thought it was where, for the season, our efforts were most re quired ; and although I may say we have done much, I believe the League is but yet in its infancy, and that in opening up this field of labour, it is occupying ground nut before ocenpied, and to which the exertions before made afford no parallel.—(Loud cheers.) I now beg leave to call upon Mr. Cobden to address the meeting. RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P., then came forward. After much cheering the Hon. Gentleman said—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, I congratulate you upon this magnificent meeting. I was thinking as I sat there, that probably there never had been so many per sons assembled under a roof in England or in Europe as we have at this great League meeting : and the occasion and circumstances under which we meet afford the most encouraging symptoms—(Hear)—encouraging, inasmuch as they prove that it is from no transient motive that you have Joined together in this great cause—(Hear)—that it is not from the pressure of distress, temporary dis tress, that you have banded yourselves together—that the cause of free trade is, in your minds, something more than a remedy for present evils—that you look at it, under all circumstances, as a great and absorbing truth, and that your minds crave for it with an intel lectual and moral craving which has made it almost a part of the religion of your souls.— (Hear, hear, and ap plause.) I venture to say that this meeting, held under these circumstances, with no pressure or excitement to call you together, will have more weight, more effect, upon public opinion than a score of those assemblies we used to hold when we were driven together, as it were, under the pressure of local and temporary distress. — (Cries of " Hear, hear.") And quiet as have been those statisical statements that you have heard from our chairman, I venture to say they will strike more terror into the ranks of the monopolists than the loudest demonstrations, or the most brilliant declama tion with which we have tried to interest you.—(Cheers.) Upon the subject of this registration there is one thought that occurred to me as our chairman was giving you an account of the proceedings in the county revi sion. It is this—that the counties are more vulnerable than the small pocket boroughs, if we can rouse the free traders of the country into a systematic effort, such as we have exercised in the case of South Lancashire.— (Hear, hear.) In many of the small boroughs there is no increase in the numbers ; there is no extension of houses ; the whole property belongs to a neighbouring noble, and you can no more touch the votes which he holds through the property than you can touch the balance in his banker's hands.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Now, the county constituency may be increased indefinitely. It requires a qualification of 40s. a year in a freehold property to give a man a vote for a county. I think our landlords made a great mistake when they retained the 40s. freehold qualification ; and mark my words, it is a rod in pickle for them.—(A laugh and cheers.) I should not be surprised if it does for us what it did for Catholic Emancipation, and what it did for the Reform Bill—give us the means of carrying free trade ; and if it should, the landlords will, very likely, try to set ve us as they did the 40s. freeholders in Ireland when we have done the work.—(Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.) The 40s. franchise for the county was established five or six centuries ago. At that time a'man, in the constitu tional phraseology of the time, was deemed to be a " yeoman," and entitled to political rights, provided he had 40s. a year clear to spend. That was at that time a subsistence for a man, probably it was equal to the rental of 100 acres of land. What is it now ? With the vast diffusion of wealth among the middle classes, which then did not exist, and among a large portion lam happy to say in this district of the superior class of operatives too, that 40s. franchise is become merely nominal, and is Within the reach of every man who has the spirit to acquire it.—(Cheers.) I say, then, in every city where there is a large town population, as in Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, South Staffordshire, North Cheshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and many other counties I could name—in fact, every county bordering upon the sea-coast or having manufactures in it, may be won, and easily won, if the people can be roused to a sys tematic effort to qualify themselves for the vote in the way in which the South Lancashire people have reached to this qualification. We find counties can be won by that means and no other. It is the custom, sometimes, for many to put their savings into the savings'-bank. I be lieve there are fourteen or fifteen millions, or more, so deposited. I would not say a word to lessen the confi dence in that security, but I say there is no investment so secure as the freehold of the earth • it is the only in vestment that gives a vote along with the property. — (Hear, hear.) We come, then, to this—it costs a man nothing to have a vote or the county.—(Hear, and a laugh.) He buys his property-601. for a cottage is given-301. or 40/. in many of the neighbouring towns will do it ; he has then the interest of his money, he has the property to sell when he wants it, and he has his vote in the bargaln.—(Loud cheers and cries of " Hear.") Sometimes a parent, wishing to teach a son to be eco nomical and saving, gives him a set of nest eggs in a savings' bank; I say to such a parent, " Make your son, at twenty-one years, a freeholder ; it is an act of duty, for you make him thereby an independent freeman, put it in his power to defend himself and his children from political oppression —(Loud cheers)—and you make that man, with 60L, an equal in the polling booth to Mr. Searisbrook with his eleven miles in extent of' territory, or to Mr. Egerton,"—(Renewed cheers.) This must be done. In order to be upon the next year's register, it requires only that you should be in possession of a free hold before the Vat of next January.—(Hear, hear.) We shall probably be told that " this is very indiscreet — what is the use of coming out in public and annoulyitig (dear, hear.) In the first suchthat e our u f plan opponents, as aswellthis, a s y v t 9h h ue e n u youreenemiesA:el t first answer t t t s t9 k oe that i:•, ies: monopolists,~agp of it a. 4 Svell as an sylvp , o4s ,par) I),peii blunted by already iossessiug im ago a l l are of wealth.—(nettr, hear.) " the next place, if they wJ li to large ripen Cth, Is of a rank below ith imem to qualify for a vote, tli a ey t, calnwonotuitaruastlistlh:emr. those use of the vote when they have got ant‘ cheers.) But apart 'from that, AIANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.—The League opened their winter campaign of agitation in Manches ter by one of the most crowded meetings in the Great Free Trade Hall which has ever yet been assembled in that building. The admission was by ticket, and so great was the number of applications, and the anxiety manifested to be present, that not a place was to be had, except for the few seats reserved, after Wednesday noon. . A. .mong the principal persons present were—Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. for Stockport ; John Bright, Esq , M.P. for Durham ; Thomas Bazley, jun., Esq.; William Evans, Esq. ; Thomas Woolley, Esq.; Samuel Lee, Esq. ; Peter Seville, Esq. (Oldham) ; Samuel Eveleigh, Esq. ; Edward Shawcross, Esq.; Joseph Brotherton, jun., Esq. ; J. Atkinson, Esq. ; R. Nicholson, Esq. ; J. Whitlow, Esq.; D. Ainsworth, Esq.; C. J. S. Walker, Esq,; W. It. Callender, Esq.; T. Chadwick, Esq.; Wil liam Morris, Esq.; J. Charlton, Esq.; William Shuttle worth, Esq.; HigginF, Esq.; T. Whitworth, Esq.; William Lockett, Esq. (Mayor of Salford); J. T. Crook, Esq. (of Liverpool); P, Walker, Esq. (Patricroft); W. Walker, Esq. (London); Charles Cobden, Esq., W. Raw son, D.q., A. Prentice, Esq., Thomas Bright, Esq., Jacob Bright, Esq., jun., R. Maley, Esq. (Mottram); R. R. Moore, Esq., William Rowland, Esq., J. B. Scott, Esq., T. Woodcock, Esq., John Shuttleworth, Esq., W. Sale, Esq., John Shawcross, Esq. (Gorton) ; Alderman Armitage, Esq., F. A. Atkinson, Esq. Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright entered the hall, accom panied by the members of the COmmittee of the League, who had arrived precisely at the time the meeting had been advertised to commence (half -past seven o'clock), and were received with great and prolonged cheering. • --- George Wilson, Esq., took the chair, and called upon %Ir. Ilickin, secretary to the League, to read the minutes ,f the last meeting in London ; and these minutes were then, on the motion of Alderman Callendar, seconded by Alderman C. J. S. Walker, approved by the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then said—Ladies and Gentleman, if ;here should happen to be any strong monopolist here his evening, I would ask him if he believes the rumours circulated by his party as to the death of the League.— ( s Laughter and applause.) I would ask him to look at this meeting, and judge for himself how far it is worth his while to place any reliance on the veracity ofa party. instrumental in circulating reports to which this immense gathering gives such a triumphant and practical refuta tion.—(Loud applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, after a comparatively " still" public life of the League for some ,en weeks past, we resume our meetings here this even• ing; and it will be my duty to give you some informa tion as to what has been the occupation of the League during the last ten weeks, in order that you may inform yourselves and judge for yourselves, whether, at this particular season of the year, there could have been any other business in which they could engage, so likely to contribute to the success of the cause of free trade s as that in which they have been occupied.—(Applause.) Some months ago we Made no secret of a resolution to which the Council of the League had then come, to in .titute a searching inquiry into the condition of the re sister of nearly 140 boroughs of the country ; and we were compelled to do this from the knowledge that some one should do it, and that no other body existed, whose funds, whose agents, whose correspondence, and informa tion in every other respect, entitled them to do this so fully as the League.—(Hear, hear.) And although we have heard that the League have undertaken to do .uany things for which they have deserved the censure of their opponents, I have never heard it said of them that they had undertaken anything in which they have manifested a deficiency of energy in the business, and ~hat energy, I will undertake to say, has never been shown to greater advantage than in the present regis tration.—(Applause.) The moment we announced our intention, a cry was set up as to the unconstitutional proceedings of the L e ague.—(Laughter). " Oh "it is said, " Look here ! here is the League going to pry into every one of those snug little properties that have escaped schedule A. What business has the League to inquire into those little family jointures of men, wko, as Byron de scribes them, were only born to hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn!' "—(Applause and laughter.) fhey were greatly offended at this interference; some threatened to resign—some of them thought it was of no use to have a Parliament if these things were not to be put an end to, or to have an Attorney-General, or to have law, or anything else.—(Laughter and applause.) Now, :That is this interference of the League after all ? The League is a great, a national body; it has its ramifica tions in every district of the country, and its registered members in every district. It may have its head-quar ters in Manchester or London, or elsewhere, but still it is the recognised organ of free trade in the country, and, as such, it has its agents in every part of the country. Well, what then? The members of the League are the Agents of the League for that district, and, as such, have a right to interest themselves and interfere in the repre sentation of those districts; and we say that we interfere by correspondence and otherwise in perfect good-will and fairness in those districts, and upon these letters and i n f or mation we determine what steps we shall take in that locality where we are requested to interfere; and in no other case.—(Bear, hear.) What is the nature of this interference? We want to make the honest voter an independent and free voter.—(Hear, hear.) We in terfere,, not to bribe or corrupt, but to enable the honest voter to drive away the corruptor and briber from his premises. We interfere to show him that the vote is his, and to be given for the best interests of himself and fellow-countryman, and not to be used by any man for the advancement of his own purposes. Well, gentlemen, we are here to-night to give some account of these last ten weeks' work in the registration in different parts of the country—not merely here, but in the country gene rally, though more especially in these districts, which were the birth-place of the League.—(Applause.) And first, as to the boroughs of South Lancashire. Well, we all know the position of the boroughs in South Lan cashire at the last general election. The boroughs re turned at that election twelve free traders and ten monopolists. There were seven boroughs which re turned free traders (or a free trader), and five which returned monopolists (or a monopolist). There were two boroughs which returned one and one ; and of the other boroughs there was one which re turned a free trader (who has become a monopolist), and another which returned a free trader, who was un seated on petition ; but the Members for each side of the question are 12 and 10, as I have already stated. Well, over and above these we have four county Mem bers, making fourteen monopolists to twelve free traders for the county and boroughs together ; and I am-sure no man in this room, knowing the state of feeling, but will say it is high time such a condition of things was put an end to.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, I hold in my hand a list, showing the result of tho attempts made to purge the register in the boroughs ; and in the first place I would draw your attention to this fact, that in four of the boroughs returning seven free traders, the monopolists have never shown their face in the registra tion courts—a pretty fair proof that the change of opi thon, and the attention of the free traders to the regis tration has induced' them to look with no expectation to the likelihood of altering the state of things in those bo roughs.—(Applause.) Now, those boroughs are—Man chester (returning two Members), Salford (returning one Member), Preston (returning two Members), and Oldham (returning two Members) ; in all these boroughs on the recent revision, the alteration has been on the side of the free traders, and the monopolists have not shown their faces.—(Applause.) Then we have, in ad dition, three boroughs returning free traders at the last election, in which the gain on the registration this time has been so considerable as to place the Members of the boroughs out of danger. These are Ashton, Bolton, and Rochdale.—(Rear, hear.) You have, then, seven bo roughs in this county, returning ten Members to Parlia ment, in each of which there is not the slightest possi bility of a monopolist being returned to Parliament, provided a general election took place upon the present register.—(Loud applaUse.) Then we have two bo roughs which return one and one ' • and I blush to name as the first that of B olton, which returned at the last e lection two free traders; but t h e only man wh o has per to change his opinions on this question t he town of Bolton has the misfortune to thoug againstht u p s r o re turn to Parliament.—(Hear, and a laugh.) Well, the gain there is 57. The register was fully as good last year as at the last election, and there is no doubt that, at another election the burgesses of that borough will amply retrieve the mistake of the last election, and re turn two good free traders.—(Great applause.) The next place is Wigan ; and this was the only loss we have had ; we have gained, in 13 cases out of 14 ; we have had a loss there of two votes, and we give them the full benefit of it.—(Laughter and applause.) We have next Clitheroe, which was represented at the last election by a free trader, but who was unseated on petition. The state of the borough on this revision is suck as to render the return of a free trader safe there—at least our infor mation leads us to this belief, and we have the informa tion upon good authority. Then we have the borough of Lancaster, which returns two monopolists ; the gain on the revision there is greater than to cover the majo rity by which the highest of the monopolist candidates was returned at the last election.—( Rear, hear.) The borough of Lancaster may be considered, with exertion,. safe, should an election take place on this register. — (Applause.) We next come to Blackburn, which re turns two monopolists to Parliament. The highest of the monopolist candidates there at the last election had not a majority of more than half of what we have gained this year, and the borough of Blackburn may . be added this year to the gain. At Warrington the gain on the revision is 32 votes. Our friends there believe it quite sufficient to change the representative for a free trader at the next election.—(Applause.) I have now shown that we shall have a gain if an election takes place on this register in the case of Bolton, two in the case et' Lancaster, two in the case of Blackburn, and one in the case of Warrington ; and wp comp lastly to the borough of Liverpool. I wish I could report or the borough of Isiverpool as of the others, but I am happy to say, tiplugli such is not the case, that there has been gain on hthalrof the fie traders' of 452 over their oPpo ij.enis.—(Loudapplause)—and alit that dose repeated geilf be gufficielt to pho:tig? the W Toprospnt§tipil of that 'Bell ; cpl - 4 46 t 0 tlie'es u nty. We I may k no w the hand you have evidence of the gr eatest amount, peSitiOn, f3outh Llnctohire, On fie one sey the gigantic amount, of energy , of industry, of ca pital, and sysalth ever ssen g.ncl, on the 9ther, yeni have ) c' 7 4 - l - ' ' '44' • people who cavil', at this public appeal and say—" you What do we care what they i ~eye - their ancl— -- 4 ) will not put salt upon the enemy's tail—it is much too (Hear) — whet h e r the y put down driining tiles or not ??, , wise a bird. They have been at this work long ago," 'All we say is this, "If you do not make the most a ss and they have the worst of it now.—(Hear, hear.) your land, it is no reason why we should be sterVnig What has been the conduct of the landlords of the coun- that you may grow rushes."—(Cheers.) It is a gross try ? Why they have been long engaged in multiply- humbug, to use no milder term—(Much cheering)—on ing voters upon their estates, making their the part of those who come forward at the floricultural farmers take their sons, brothers, nephews to meetings, to glori f y themselves ab out the mode in which the register—making them qualify as many as the they choose to dispose of their private property. — rent of the land will cover ; they have been making (Great laughter.) There is a gross delusion lurking their land a kind of political capital ever since the under it.—(Hear.) It is intended to make us believe passing of the Reform Bill.—(Cheers and a laugh.) You that we are indebted to them, and must wait until they have then a new ground open to you which has never choose to supply us with our food—that it is something yet been entered upon, and from which I expect—in the like a condescension, or at least an act of favour on course of not more than three years from this time— their part, that they give us their food in exchange that every county, if we persevere as we have in South for our manufactures.—(Hear, hear.) Now, what is the Lancashire,. possessing a large town population, may reason that the land has not been improved before ? carry free traders as their representatives to Parliament. Lord Stanley tells us here when these great improve -(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, with just these prelimi- ments began, and mark what he says :—" Even within nary remarks, I was going to notice a common objectilm the last tew years—within a much shorter time than. five made to us during the last two or three month s, that the that which I have named—within the last four or ve League had been very quiet of •late—that we have been. years—l see strides which, small as they may he, corn doing nothing.—(Hear.) Many people have said to me, p ared with what mi g ht be done, are gigantic, ashen come" When are you going out into the agricultural districts pared with what was done before." What was " done again ? I think they will be quite ripe for you now, for before" ? What has been done " within the last four or most of your predictions have fallen true, and the farmers five 'years" ? Lord Stanley takes credit for agricultural will come and listen."—(Hear.) My answer has been, associations. Why, what have they been doing ? Up "We are better employed at present at home, and the to within the last year when did they condescend to talk landlords are doing our work very well for us at their about the corn-laws ? From one end of the kingdom to agricultural meetings."—(Loud laughter and cheers.) the other they were nothing but . political clubs, for the What have been the features of the agricultural meetings purpose of drawing the poor tenantsfarmers together, in we have heard of in the last two months ? There is one order that they might be drilled by the land-agent, to be very striking circumstance, that from the Puke of made subservient at a future voting day ; and the whole Buckingham downwards every president of an agrieul- talk of these agricultural associations was, not about ins tural association has always begun the proceedings of the proving the land, but maintaining protection to. British day by saying, "We must not introduce political topics agriculture.—(Cheers.) And now what can these agri in the discussions of this association."—(clear, hear.) cultural t associations do for agriculture ? They meet That means, "It is not convenient to us, the political once a year ; they generally have a man in the chair landlords, to talk about the corn-laws just now to the who begins, as Lord Stanley does, by admitting his farmers!!"—(Cheers) —and so they talk of everthing else practical ignorance of the subject upon which he is going but the corn-laws, and a very pretty business they make to dilate ; and the chairman is generally the man who of their discussions.— (A laugh.) We hear in every case occupies three-fourths of the time of the meeting by his in which I have read their reports of the deplorable state speech.—(llear, bear.) I have watched the proceed of the agricultural labourers. Now, I beg to premise, ings of these associations, and I have observed they have from my own personal observation and much inquiry, had all sorts of people except farmers in the chair— that the agricultural labourers, as a class, are better off (hear, hear)—and upon one occasion, in a part of Mid now than they were when corn was 70s. the quarter, in dlesex, I observe the late Attorney-General, the present 1839 and 1840.—(Hear, hear.) I watched the poor-law Chief Baron Pollock, was in the chair as president ; and returns during those years, when we had such deep dis- I must do him the justice to say (for he is a moat candid tress in this district, and I found that able-bodied pau- and excellent man) that he began his opening address by perism was increasing faster in the corn-growing coun- declaring he did not know anything concerning Anat. ties of Sussex and Kent than they were in these menu- they had met about.—(Loud laughten) What have facturing districts. When we called together the con- these associations done for agriculture ? They assemble ference of ministers from all parts of the country, the men together once a year ; they bring prize cattle to be accounts they brought from the rural villages were as exhibited ; they bring agricultural implements to be exa heart-rending as anything we had ever known in these mined. Are improvements only to bo sought for once manufacturing districts.—(Hear.) You did not hear the a year in agriculture ?—(Cheers.) Would that do for clamorous cry from the agricultural districts then, be- manufactures ?—(Hear, hear.) Only think of a corn cause they were drowned in the concentrated cry from mercial meeting once a year to see what our neighbours these populous regions; but they were suffering as much are doing ; whether there was any new machinery in as you were suffering.—(Hear.) And now, when in this vented ; or which of the hands had discovered some near district employment and comparative prosperity have re- process in calico printing ! Would that once a year go turned upon us, we hear of the state of the agricultural down, with the chance merely of finding se,s ee tei eg of labourers, which has been always bad, always at the that sort ? Could not the farmers see what superior lowest level of wretchedness, only because you have farming there was to be seen by ridin out every day in ceased to occupy the public mind with your complaints the week to look over their neighbesars hedges ? Could and your distresses.—(Hear, hear.) But if what they they not learn where the best breeds of cattle were to be tell us is true, that the agricultural labourers are so dis- had from the advertisements of those who had them to tressed, what becomes of their plea in the House of Com- sell ? And could they not get the best agricultural im mons, that the corn-law was passed and kept up for the plements by writing for them any day by the penny post, benefit of the agricultural labcurers ?—(Loud cries of whether they were to be found in Manchester, London, " Hear, hear.") After what I have heard from these or Ipswich ?—(Hear.) The thing is a farce ; and when gentlemen, the squirearchy in the House of Commons, my Lord Stanley takes credit to these agricultural asso- I should have expected that they ought to have been the ciations for having improved agriculture during the last last upon the institution of agricultural associations to five years, I say it is not duo to those agricultural complain of distress, and of the dangers impending over associations, but to the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Great them in the future, to have said, " I have a nostrum in applause.) It is owing to that that the agriculturists my pocket that will quite prevent distress among agri- and the landowners have been roused from their lethar cultural labourers. Have we not got the corn-law ? gic sleep.—(Cheers.) They are buckling on their ar- I)id we not pass it upon the pretence of remedying the mour to meet the coming competition, which competi distress of the agricultural labourers ? Here it is. We lion will do for them what nothing else will do, and what have the sliding scale, and depend upon it our agricultu- it has done for manufactures—it will make the agricultu ral labourers have nothing to fear. —(Dear.) But in- rists of this country capable of competing with the far stead of that, in no instance do they ever allude to the mers of any part of the world.—(lmmense applause.) corn-law, as either a cause of employment or as a means They give up the whole case when they talk in this of remedying the evil.—(Hear, hear.) They never al- way.—(Hear.) When they tell us what the land might hide to any Act of Parliament of the kind at all; and do, and what it ought to do, which they admit it has not they seek wide and far for some other remedy for their done, they plead guilty to all we have ever alleged distresses.—(Hear, hear.) What are their remedies ? against them and their system of corn-laws.—(hear.) I One of the latest declared is allotments of land. To hear ask this—Can they bring a Member of Parliament, a the outcry that we have from the leaders of the country, theorist, into Manchester, with his books in hand, and glorifying themselves with the idea of giving a patch of can he suggest a single improvement in any of our pro land to the labourer, you would have thought they had cesses of manufacture, whether they are connected with resolved all at once to make a present of a little slice of mechanical or chemical science ? No.—(Cheers.) I their estates to the labourers around them—(Hear, hear) went the other day into several establishments with one —but what does it amount to ? It is proposed that each of the most eminent French chemists, a man renowned cottage should have a garden attached to it ! The ge- in Europe ; he had nothing to say on visiting the dye neral advice is, I see, that it should be not more than works or the print works of this neighbourhood, but to half an acre, and some are recommending it to be a express his unqualified admiration of the perfection to quarter of an acre in extent ! It amounts to this, that which they had brought the arts among us.— (Cheers.) the landlords, benevolent souls, are going to allow the Can they come here and 'say, as they say of themselves peasantry that live upon their land to have a garden to in connextion with their industry, " you ought to pro their cottages.—(Hear, hear.) Why, there was a law duce three times as much as you produce from your ma passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, ordaining that ehinery, for it is already done in other places which we no cottage should be built in this country without a gar- can name to you ?"—(Hear.) No ! But what do they den being attached to it.—(hear.) I do not believe say of their own land ? I have heard Mr. Ogilvy, who that law has ever been repealed to this day • and the was engaged by Mr. Brooke, of Mere, and other land landlords, after violating the law, are now taking credit lords of this and the neighbouring county, as superin to themselves, and glorifying each other, that they are tendent of their estates, declare—and he is willing to go going to allow their labourers to have a garden to their before a Committee of the House of Commons to prove cottages.—(Hear.) Now what is the mode in which it—that Cheshire, if properly cultivated, is capable of these gentlemen go to work to benefit the agricultural producing three times as much as it now produces from labourers ? They call them together for a ploughing its surface, and he is willing the statement should be match, then they bring them into the room and give Made public upon his authority, and there is no higher them a glass of wine, and they give a " reward' of authority in the kingdom.—(Cheers.) I say, whatever thirty shillings to the man who has ploughed the best ! improvement has been made in this respect, it is to the Then they inquire who has served twenty-five years in Anti-Corn-law League we are indebted for it, and more the same place, and perhaps they condescend to give —the most bigotted of our opponents have made the ad him thirty shillings as a reward for good conduct.— mission. Whilst they abhor the League, and detest its (Hear.) Then the farmers. The farmers who sit at principles, they have made the admission—" at all the table have their names read over, and prizes are (-vents," they say, " you have done good, and are doing awarded to one for successfully cultivating turnips, to an- good to agriculture.' I passed last year, about this other for having produced a good fat ox, and to another time, over to Knutsford, where I held a public meeting for having accumulated the greatest quantity of fat upon "lose to the gates of Mr. Egertee e of Tatton. As I went a pig.—(Laughter.) And this is the way in which agri- from the railway station across to Knutsford, I rode at Culture is to be improved I—(Hear.) What should you least five or six miles through the estate of that large think if a similar plan were adopted to prot ec t you in proprietor, and I Saw the land was in the same state as your business ?—(Hear.) L e t us su pp ose that a number I believe it was at the time of the Conquest, and growint , o f monopolists came down once a year — once a year just about as plentiful a supply or ru s h es as o f grass.L. mind you—for the lesson is only given once a year, and (Mar, hear.) It so happened that upon the day I was then only about two hours and a half long—that they addressing the meeting upon the race course at Knuts held a meeting, in which they would have a spinning ford, Mr. Egerton, of Tatton was paying a visit t o Man match or a weaving match.— (Hear.) And after they ehester, to preside at the -Manchester Agricultural As had been into some prize mill to see this spinning and sociation—(Hear, hear)—and I took the opportunity of weaving match, they sat down to dinner and Job Har- saying, in the course of my remarks, that i thought a greaves or Frank Smith is brought in, stroking his head gentleman who had such an extent of territory as he down all the while as he comes before the squirearchy— had, might be better employed in exterminating his. (Laughter)—and making his very best bow, to receive rushes, and setting a better example to his neighbours from the chairman thirty shillings as a reward for having at home, than in travelling to Manchester to preach up been the best spinner and the best weaver.—(Hear, and improvements in agriculture.—(llear, hear.) The other laughter.) And this being disposed of, imagine next the day I met a gentleman who happened lat,ly to be at manufacturer getting a prize of 5/. for the best piece of Knutsford, and.he told me, that, whilst s itting at the inn, fustian.—(Cheers.) And another, ditto, ditto, for the there came in a number of neighleouring farmers, whose best yard-wide calico.—(Laughter.) Then imagine a conversation turned upon agiteulture. In the course of shopkeeper rising from his seat at the table, while the their conversation, one of 'diem remarked, " What a deal chairman puts on a grave face, and addressing him in of draining has been going on here since Cobden was complimentary terms, presents him with 51., for having here blackguarding him about the rushes !"—(Cheers.) kept during the past year his shop floor and his counters We have, indeed, given them a fillip ; we have stirred in the cleanest state.—(Shouts of laughter.) Then they them up a little. lint, gentlemen, if mere alarm of call up a manufacturer, and he has an award of 51,, be- the approach of free trade has done so much for cause the inspectors had found his mill to be in the best agriculture, what will free trade in corn itself do for it? working condition.—(A laugh.) Then the merchant —(Ch eers .) 4, Why," they say, "we should be an rises up, and gets his reward of 51., for having been exporting country it' we only grew as much as we may found by the inspectors to have kept his books in the grow." I have no objection to it if; besides feeding the best order by double entry.—(Renewed laughter,) You whole of the people as they ought to be fed—no short laugh at all this, and well you may. You cannot help commons !—(Cheers)—if besides feeding them well, they it. Where is the difference between the absurdity, the could send four or five millions of quarters of corn mockery, of bringing up men in round frocks to a dinner abroad, and bring us back tea and sugar, and such like t a ble and giving them thirty shillings because they have matters in addition. We shall then have no reason to ploughed well, or hoed wellOor harrowed well ; bringing complain of the British agriculturist.—(Rear.) But up farmers to give them prizes . for having the cleanest we do complain that, whilst they stop our supplies from field of Swedish turilips, or for having managed their othereountries, under pretence of ben fitting agriculture, farm in the best way ? 'Where is the difference, I ask, they at the same time come before us at these meetings between offering these rewards and the giving out here of our own, and plead guilty to our charge that, under of such rewards as I have just now alluded to ?—(Hear, this system of protection, they are not making the most hear.) Let us suppose, if you can keep your county- of their land.—(Hear, hear.) I speak my unfeigned nances, that such a state .of things existed here, and conviction—and we have the very best agriculturists what must be the concomitant order of things ?—(Hear, with us in that conviction—men like Lord Duck, and hear.) It would -argue, in the first place, that the pro- others, who are agriculturists by profession—when I say prietors who were so treated were an abject and a ser- I believe there is no interest in this country that would vile class.—(Hear, hear.) It would argue that the receive so much benefit from the repeal of the corn-laws trader who could condescend to be treated so, would as the farmer-tenant interest in this country.—(Cheers.) himself be little better than a slave.—(Cheers.) And if And I believe, when the future historian comes to write you needed such stimulants as these to make you carry the history of agriculture, lie will have to state, "In on your business as you ought to do, how do you think such a year there was a stringent corn-law passed, for you would be found in the race of industry as compared the protection of agriculture. From that time, agricul with other countries, where they were not quite so ture slumbered in Engiand, and it was not until, by the childish as to be fondled and dandled by a body of aid of the Anti-Corn-law League, that the corn-law was Members of Parliament ?—(Hear, hear.) Why, there utterly abolished, that agriculture sprung to its full would not be a country on the face of the world that you vigour and existence in England, and became what it could compete with—that is evident. You would, like now is, like her manufactures, unrivalled in the world:' them, be going to these same Parliamentary men who —(Loud cheers.) It is a gloomy and most discouraging were your nurses, in order that they might pass an Act thought that, whilst this system of corn-laws alterna of Parliament to protect you in your trade.—(Hear, tively starves the people in the manufacturing districts, hear.) But the landlords themselves, they do not give and then ruins the farmers, that it really in th end con themselves praises, but they hold up their conduct as fors no permanent benefit upon any class.—(Hear, hear.) something deserving of reward, of public admiration, I told you in the begiuniiig I did not believe the agri because they can come forward and tell us that they cnitural labourer was now so badly off as lie was when make the most of their land forsooth.—(Hear, hear.) corn was 70s. a quarter, but I will tell you where dis. I was reading just now, in this morning's paper, tress in the agricultural districts is now. It is among a report of Lord Stanley's speech at the Agri- the tenant-farmers themselves.—(hear, hear.) They cultural Society's meeting on Tuesday, which by the are paying rent with wheat at 455. a quarter, which they magic power of steam has bee n , carr i e d t o London, and have bargained for at the calculation of wheat being 565., brought back to us here in Manchester, in two days.— and in many cases 60s. the quarter. It is owing to this (Hear.) Lord Stanley tells us w h a t mus t be done with discrepancy in the prices that the tenant-farmers c a a je rti n icn c le i land. He says :—" And I repeat what I have already paying rent out of capital ; they ar discharging said said on a former occasion in this room, that there is no their labourers, unable to employ them—and willn nthoet theirs ' investment in the world in which a landlord can so is the real distress now exsting in safely, so usefully, or so profitably invest his capital, as tural districts. This state of things in the n b ncultural districts. What is in the improvement of his own farm, by money sunk in either here _d t ro is ps from these landlords at s " We shall not very likely draining, on security of the land which belongs to him- tne language which we hpy m er u ? s c t et l e a c i a t tuh fo sei r s self."—(Hear, and cheers.) Well, what does this amount of their meetings I to ? That it is the interest of the landlord to make the have higher prices for corn this year ; most of his land.—(Hear, and a laugh.) And he goes better , tin N le o s p ; er m in 'e an w e i n il t g r i‘ e 'e du y c o t li ton b , a a ck nd te w n on to say, and he takes some little credit to himself and year. that by the certain operation of this system, to his father for what had been done with his land here they know ~ . n; have in less than five years from this time, this wheel of for. in Lancashire. He slays 64 la" yearwe hun- tune, or rather misfortune, will go round again laid down in deep draining somewhere about three will be at the bottom, and the farmer the ;yen dyed miles of drains, at an expense cf between 5,0001. _ million and have wheat again at 70s. or 80s. a quarter, i i and 6,0004 ; and, I think, employed about a friend g-v-.lig thus I believe mya pretended prosperity a half of draining tiles."—(Hear.)among the farmers, As sure 'as h • had Mr. Bright here—(Cheers) —who has beenbuilding a you havethis revolution before., so sure will u have down about a the same time been laying yo mill, has during it again. There is nothieig in Sir - Robert million and a half of bricks in erecting it—(Laughter Peel's corn-law to prevent the recurrence of similar and cheery)—but you would be astonished, would you disasters. The law is as complete a bar to legitimate not, and I am sure the squirearchy would be rather trade in corn as the old law was. I speak in the pre puzzled, if Mr. Bright were to get up here and talk of sense of merch •" ants shipping to every quarter of the that as something for which he might glorify himself', globe, men who having first of all declared it was the most profitable in- bring back the produce of every q uarter of the and globe, I put it to them whether, with this, vestmeut any man could make.—(Loud cheers and sliding scale, they dare to order from a foreign count laughter.) .By the way, I wish my friend here 1 wo'll ( 1 calculate how much duty his million and a halfof la a single cargo of wheat in exchange for the mane i r ae e netts turee which they sell ? This being the case— 1r d it - pay to the Government, which duty my Lord Stanley 4 is and his fellow , -landlords have waga d • • ' •ge to exempt drain- to provide for your future o; ants, ing tiles from.-Hear, and applause,) ) • 0•.-,- ause. Now, .Kentle- no store here, or storeo. abroad, and there will be a re e men, I do not want to say anything -,. I through.— will s hot &n o.. g rude or uncivil, and armee Of the (masters we have passed .ri my remarks Pers^hall to t •-, y TAi t ti lieuley, (After some further observations, the Hon. Gentleman gut I will say this, that the - whole cours.a of the conduct resumed his seat amidst enthusiastic cheers.') of these gentlemen in thexhibitions—the'Mr, . • • per landlords— DItIGHT, M.P., then stepped forward amidst rraca he lic i y w- Al i. p . 4ratielO‘the world what they condescend to, enthusiastic cheering, and, when it had subsided, he dd' With their land, is just a gratuitous piece of iinperti- spoke as follows:—When I entered this room to-day, and nenee to the rest of the comtuttuity.—(Loud cheers.) 4 cast my eyes over the vast meeting, I was led to puke IL