The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-08 00:00:00

lIMP OPHESENTATION of the FREEDOM T IT L ., Nion„;' , CITY OF EDIN isITRGII TO COM toiv LE SIR, CHARLES NAPIER, M.P. laht;r4u•mf, Tnu irsDAY.-To-day a special meeting of the ilt gh Tosn Council was held is the Council Chamber, i a t l k po .i s e (1. presenting Commodore . Sir Charles Napier, lidi„ ',' Los freedom of the city. Sir Charles has been th e Z ; :u . r conic weeks past in Edinburgh, and the freedom ki i ,„")• Laas conferred upon him as a mark of respect for IQ, "sgaished service,' as a naval commander. The Corm 14rsbel was crowded by some of our most respectable 5 aa ,....' s at a few of whom were ladies. Sir Charles was l'i o t"ted by Mr. Ross, 31. P. for Belfast, and Mr. French, ally a s , l i tlie, near Glasgow. On entering the room he eras It uf - th P e ` a udeSl, and was lead to the seat allotted to him by Ihe ~ , magistrates. i lat t : al) l'uovosT then rose and said-Sir Charles,. in ' hur g e h bf the Town Council and of the inhabitants . of a I base now the honour of presenting you with e t a vn , set - °f Law city, in admiration of your chivalrous maintain a naval commander whose heroic exploits s - (4 lta i it ted and advanced the glory of the British a a i l "?.aa'sr..) War -the minister of angry Hear en ass i lsses to be dsplored ; and to us quiet burgle!! r sh 4 ,P,eace are much more congenial ; and we a w n _ la n !il;o3.tre employed in industrious occupations, d °sate, "domestic comfort. But when the lusts and • ssi . s•ea and nations are uncontrolled, wars hardly and fight- Sisustvi°lll". During the late disastrous war, when s'llia ti' e t ° Europe esesped its lamentable ravages-when wot, asa sword, desolated kingdoms - our favoured issiZiaL idenc e , wapressrvd in ti:e enjoyment o peace ', l4, as s s . - fY, ard ro e hostile foot permitted , to tread npo At iaPrOtected by our wooden walls , manned by our ~,,t, itora, arm r at ssri _ mi, whop the name of . Napier was con int,3"lirsid applause.) It is pleasing to think, Sir, t t'' ' 441,7 1: 4t illt litaly and naval talents, a hen not engaged ic;.. l Lad e "Jour own country, were devoted to the de er ICere,‘Slaintenance of the liberal and constitutional n t ,' l,, s , ° ` °f her allies in oppositiou to the misrule l I, 4 `.,Pc,t,„, s _Tri . that it is mainly owing to your gallantryand k i %o y o ri Is not now enslaved under the bigotry S tor 4 , ll fll Iss Ds Miguel.-(Hear, hear, and applause. c i q 4 cod „y r s, gratifying to find the hero who fought a t n e lii e „ so 4. - fac cause of freedom on the ocean and !!•1 h ea c f"; stanch in supportin civil and religious kla ld t ar: I i , r l 'edoin of trade in the Seriate of Ins country .' - ' 1 4 4 1, -/ -. SW W e trust that your efforts will be td' w' the same socc --s at home as abroad. I cannot ')lllass,',l-uout referring' . a I,ss aas not the to the ara. rig' you birth, she can 4 1 0 "at i, of e honoure‘ot gi t v ifin fact, that though t N ' t it trai n; more importance, the honour of _ having sup ,-°°•-rissg and education which formed the hero and sr, Lear h ~,,,I -Me et; ' ear)-and I have especial delight in call a lell, s , `s the days of boyhood, when we were t'ltttlkassefBo:llthlhe High School, and when Yt il „r•ei v i, g t between your class and nel ' i ne in • an b y ut I m w ou il k l si, ti sos p re 's; ge that in those contests you could boast of 1 , - 1 ` , ..) 81,414 Your future victories.-(Laughter and „,,, , a o , e aoula your country again require your services . tril i al ss, I doubt not you will be ready to lend your . L tr sa it' lf s, asd uncon uerable gallantry in her defence , h7soaysaL firitain anci ci the other nations of the world k'sfilt ee t lceol of the folly of war, and spare no efforts for t ( rttes t ri o " of peace ; and that the hero a s „ ( st4 D,,Yepose on his nobly- earn!d la . ure o l f s t , o A an c a r d e that .neas good l '''," 41 hoa ullibli rgh burgess, you will live lli' ( 'w th. ° t ar and in eace and domestic ha cls! l tY....; r "sour of presenting you with th P e in freedo_ m ( t'',, t stntr ,Si applause.) His Lordship then haul 'ire' - '",- - 6 - 1 * Charles, enclosed in a handsome purp e to rs ,. t t iols ;"--., Ily Lord Provost and Magistrates, I can ee:itthis:.4ld-o,orl Provost, that nothing can give e • w k 1, deb.s.ancl pleasure than . the honour you have . sot "es I f ' is presenting me with the freedom of this ~, el Presesase home from Syria, ' 4 t)kh ° ,,, f lhllt e the Co rati,•n of me with the very great honourofth o e ' 4 Vutre,lt3---an honour always very acceptable tree .bombet on my returning to my . native . land, h as7 ll ;sth er , it is a ;till greater gratification that I S , b it l tai s e sdom of your city. It is true that I was tly * ,in the nun -ec, '. Ilu4r gh ' bi I r to ed my education in the l •S a well sett adjog class yo r Lordship; and kill if l ,, ern her the battles fought between the two a pi silos. th a t re not victorious at that time, your Lord ' II e Ltsa,) Vt we were the junior enemy.-(Laughter 4 1 ,7 s t o t,t'lt, nevertheless, I believe those c . ombats N th 4l ' o o a"e Place gave a bent to the young nunduato 'ttsls:,'), ro• - s tn s u et 1 larger scale. The rubs which we v ed es ,f' '' agai '- ' us much more capable of exertin oursel as. t h °' t haT't saperior forces than we should have been . hi s 1l:) -FM aentend with you on these oecaards v ; Al i 4 qi g h , Went to sea at a very early age, after la In t t s4largl, 11417601; and I hacl an opportunity of returning __ • ti n 4 44 4 ~e Years afterwards , having served . as a tnidt .thp' 4 3a5481-captain, when I had the privilege ?La e, la st i ° ,,, d ege, and studving under Play r Hope, t t o a t t ; B ati a ii,,,,. I can alWays look back to fin that time ro"Tess l 'Rh f•;'l th, - „:"," 11 1 ; and I can assure you, that the les 'Wil, I . 1 , - - 'Lays assisted me much in my p s , in wit:Stair), terror Lordship has been pleased to speak d severe ,/,!? s e ',rail ee. er tna of my services, in the lon , i ' l ,) L er •42s 041_1 have been very succe t ssfil since I went with a reverse. i t fir thou Vote instance have I me . Dof tO ard u t 8 ,.° spoke of my services in Portugal . (' li t k t ,, ,, t ( ios e ° ,,„_ -s in aisid. We went outthere a ag m ai n n a s t t i t m he . llot ceding rent. That was certainty st :, coausg,"(Laughter ) Though the Government to 44 ::, 4 1 1. , t( siti i " th f heY were no . doubt extremely , happy trlll h 4ll ° se cervices. That we rescued Portugal 'lllait-'t of shicct slay . erv, cannot be doubted ; im a g oi * ,?)}, ) , 1 try i a t ; Iles since gad various -struggles ',y i p , •stai js P,PY to say that the Government appears Nat t s sala s 'l.:toed on - regular footing, and that there i : 1 / 44 s t i ''S'yl'tit.itf's:)2 c i a tvi t l h a e n a s d e r l e . * . l e igiousliberly being carried on which I was aWe to per t cl( c lt t VrZ r e Were employed% a more legitimate manner, icali sgt e tient there - by the Government; but I re- ,(1 I I stio o Y, , after what was done in that country for l i•t' t s et li ./tve l e t et...he miseries of the people, who were s : lit to A° l /a y 4; s everely trodden down by Mehemet Ali Sk il e t at after having released them from what pp ee . Yrasu 1, 14 4 t let ° Yof Mehemet Ali, the have unfortu- C 4 i,s) There tyranny ten thousandtimes worse.- a 'ari is n o ths • m life which I regret so , 441. 4 ii 4 t g h ad trig in y . ~,lkh „avi r) , i . ) , any hand in turning that man out of 1 ' Qh'.'PaV -sowed the Turks to establish among the I t's, .4atia„l°,l of Lebanon-the only remnant. 1 may : A l re, t , sl'll A9ia-the roost infamous Govern nt m t e e n n t i a cio op pr _sad this people are at this m m . 44 8,3, ti e i ! , i t c d than they it tth e will 4 were before . -( Applause.) have always .t N. Pk.s. be , to 8 . • MY efforts in Parliament have at. •sis es ...„ se jus ice a t . :1,7 11 5e a m "'Lich we made to them when we wanted t" done to that people, and t s 4 v - • la war, Y ful ountry is 4 , filled ; but lam sorry to . say that in r 114 abl t t"uere are difficulties which . thise t,l4ltholleta. ,411z:vercome. We were al n li n ed with three the subject; ytl:l).s.ll,!ptii.lltigailltiB,l4oBll!tw;lraeme.eorYur lukewarm m nent for not having 'l ' jafit hag t ° littl e el ' k qlt e t to success . I went to Parliament am sorry that what they did was Since Omat ter the ~, act an indepen e ,,ter of , sovern men t was wri ng or Tory • to NI asen dent part. For my own tp,41 1 4` 1 t o 40 Perfect indifference. I have . always n .... till'rki •With 0 1:43' duty fearless', al':a11:111s, thrverament when thought them wro t and patiently, fi n d ki, 1,1 1 „ 1 141,41 when I thought them right ; a d Sa: {l a s t .4ll ea ; never even neglected to find fault n with t i , s „' , tO, 41 % 7 ° tlr party, because I believe they have corn 'fi tt e ,:a si,: s t. roLs 48 their successors I will further re tt I sp. "'ever Government is in, I will follow the kl as fl Ssi i ! ht t . sw .ti• li i,• •- s : i s ri, , • reeving to the right nor . to the left. : i S 041 s is gM, I shall always do it honestly and ', it k;," 11 , a, J, •-- (Applat. s - e)As we are now con - nog to In v •te s et . ,Lordship, has just l y (NI, ,for l!ty civil and religious liberty P I'N' -- . I°lll. -.- said, I have always S 4 tai lt Slo o ef , th ofrst tfine pledged myself for the com- 4 '4,Ntlq 61 , tt, ilpTea' Although feeling constantly t '' t A t , sl4 ) ;tway s ' t ` I t hought the best object was to u ft get w ar h ds. lil t t :Lta N t il 'Aire v rils er l i ng to get sornething.bentntewratheerdwn'ty of t4 , 1t4 ( k e , , , d o , v . ht i 've gone by, and it t i kl i t.l , e til sPla use. ) a r e can to forward h s e interests of the At °° Itt p re L 1 . again thank you ly1 ) , Oare se sshting me with the reedom of the city, for the honour you •li itti l ttl. ''' 4 I shall always feel grateful for it to the 4 lis ,s til es , Ilcce m c Snook hands with the members of the ••••••.„ .... __ °ll ' sod retired amidst great acclamation. (1 1k1 p i , ---....,..........a5,..• ti l k ll , 4l k lt tl ik. 41 1 , t C 0 RN-LAWS. 1, - it S ,,, -- "X eL AarrICLES OF THE MoRNING PAPERS.) 't "! t Z e llt el . - "Ple for ye in st has produced more gene lit,at4ksBlll;Zarins.,,cusBioularathe Cit than the prospect, o t : i r je ittl mpp eeec i-sstain, of the . repe y al . of the corn• laws. & Is. ts Los s _ , /torn the few indications of movement X l i ia' 4 t th,„`°,lnlnercial men whenever this subject was aS, ) " to a t i ot th? 'Lave been indifferent to such a result, 1 4 , sf f' sa, a ss- By habit, as merchants, sottoth are ,b 4 ttZ tll 4, - .`,."°n, and have been particularly the . S' Lt t 41telf,N themselves with the very - active body Y 4l te ,4, .0t1ie,.'T lead upon this question, but they have t k r i'l N al ' wise than deeply sensible of the great im - t tt j,. . I t ll ll 1 .., 4 Measure to them, as merchants, in simpli- I iN't , - ' 3 ' 04 4 g, more steady all the great operations of ; ilt t %l .tO lit t l iOt /1. 13 ` - ' e ° vs . ill bestow - a little Feflection on this k a t - 'i ll , a ~„„s t -,ni; about for opinions, may safely :, - N N ll ° ; ; °4 le - e " n e ci t s:losi by considering the effect of ade art A Ti ., the average upon ~, ,•lts P e „ to s C.:Chants have to encounter whose prices, . rid the S'S "or D .,' - 'e re arlaterl by such influences, which Zsi t Ath Lf, ts"re,id'sit or judgment can anticipate or . i'' , ll, l4 ' ts; tl ba,i,l'eft're, among certain 'classes of man 111,. 11% l ou ,s'ecs occas;nn II met with some indiffer -INst44l;:,arti;T:' ~t• is on : ing a s - Y first, to their havin NISA/ 4k Nf ' l 'd - °' coMmerce, altogether out of _their_ .. i t •a• th u sZt, to a feeling of hopelessness, as . !cps bik t.,,, 4 t 4 i r 4 4 c (.l c to o ,..Z t _Pa , e rr landlords, that such a sacrifice to VtiiNo l th re -rer be looked for from . them. Men Ittts la t la ti i lea love of quiet have nothing left, under r t Za ti ' t ,' „. ar r i v e t eS, b ,,, ut. to look on and to bide their time, if I' ll'ic‘tal - Mal, , 4() the capitalict and dealers in money s'e i ' is,s' Thse,salod not less acce table than it is to the qt',,altlsttijile-JteutitLe _constantly felt that in all the panics kt l tt 'l k ti ,tu . ry s If tie have convulsed the money market, t f t Isist corn, immediate or prospective, have a, to e Sas other inti l As o °the uence, and unnaturally increased _h ts % h i cm that r cause& These men, pretty generally, i k„ri sl t la e ,,,gr t .1 1 4_ der a free trade in corn the danger icLN, Nye ,_oeasure, cease, as there would never ar ti ` , a l "3' I,OIIT excessive importation at any one tN i ts in ev id trust to the prescience of merehant asta:ftit,sau,,,_? other article of commerce, to rovide for t, i ti ra ,te t:,. 3 ' totijit,,deinand, to which that foresight . would 04 11 i c i ti le xxctent, though all h uman sagacity was laid f,'l.•tilfh,,`'‘e% doesthey of the sliding-scale. By such means t a t , t rea l 'to -Y tot doubt that the importations of 4 41,,, a e , sp,„,, 0, Jl''t %,... nY o n ,' er the whole season, that they can 1 1 I l i oft e °ll lcl ha",rue Pressure upon the money-market and 4, 1 q t t ri r eemir e this or advantage, that it Would j c sa,l l ve r, t Siorefe PaYment for corn in bullion, as good!! it tt, 4 ,,, ts Nvbiell reify accepted, nay, preferred, to gold ,''' , l: 41 p,, h4 ve ,s 11 " , ' are chiefly resorted to because our ' } '"l:'Y t .-4s dil -res ted the disposition to trade with us as Vkl th e * t 4 'l t ' r 14 the , 111 il l' • land] may not, perhaps, be ill-timed . to ~ (. Ids themselves a word of consolation, ii r:, t ti tli; t t ' t t s. k. f e cl iiil ',, : :l l Y, as to the event which they at present f., 1 s,_o nivali terror. They are evidently N ''' f: I. } No.; -°° aing to low prices, such as the markets N 11,,,,. iti,jl4e t i, 4l n before, with the throwing ' up of mort 14.!'er It stea of rents, and other evils to follow p l. ! P l: ' ilea, t . ° . 4" i "f . the corn-laws. Were they, V ' l lg 4 ' t i °inior a visit to the Exchange, they m,. It,„ ~- , 1110,T h. la of quite different tenour, and esiisioriai.urroeqssiintg, merchants a would tell thom, tkat tek,f t ,, 11 0 „ i rent reflects will be, that of raising tne iiNl,O(l4 , vtip,,r th, is . r'‘.4lltl %,,ti(l't brit oi Id ---to allot extent no man '') , l,: . ' fr,,i en that that it must be considerable is ,' 4 l, ,ii, v - gilt, , iw tax which mere distance always im .llisars e m at ~, (alt er , coarges, is taken into account, )11,1111kr,t,fyrult the'rn4 difference would be extt nely small , ',,, t i t , , , t c , 'l)inion ran which prices have heretofore taken. ( t 'ff ~ a la spi,P l i anY of them, that when the increased i 4; 4t th e .Wttl not itt 4; ' 4 (l th 'lord s Il e " this mea , u ' re must produce is allowed ,c l rl,4rel ie , . 3 wall k e be worse any material degree . , t. 4 , 1 *1.. 4 u" back hereafter with surprise to .111, :;'' -. to, s(lay under thick they at present labour. In il l i , „ ~ 4 „ , - 11.4 trieot of tl , -. -I t'..irittli repeal of q (~ ' • , t he atria - . - ' 11 . • hail '•' • '-'l6,i i " Iti:' •k: 1,, i• lot husin . es. '°' '' W • " t" • ' •- . , , I•e Cabinet t s , t ann e ,as ..,cl i ~. -- - i '•,-, " ~_ Ineaaure ses, tit ‘0 by ti "' • • •sala s , re..;!, and the c . th e "-)'-`(' well ac uainted with the grain 4 f ullY i warruted by the ecindi- ..~ `~. .ar) • of s - 45 anag e• )11 0161 'tea to tiPg „weir ;of 0 , Ot of sical . li tract, s3'• a „jute siro ilat it h the t otive n s allot'. to (tiler 6 letter bo re, reb, of , 0 on oder' it 53/ , 6 il efil-' a CO P ic ' " t" A Pln ie f no , t a o , 1.3 e ()sits leP of icor towlhes 1 Prot 0 9 133 ti ke Orn ;f$ ou ICorr• f or ''' wel l I r is D ot b e c Y v r o • any eras, al id of ale, no 6 gol le 01. THE SUN, LONDON, MO !)A V MORN NG, DECESIBI4]R, 8 1845. tion of the country. On the whole, the Mark-lane people may be said to have received the intelligence with much more favour than could have been expected; and though no positive alteration was quoted id prices, the tendency was decidedly towards a decline. POST.—The English funds have been subject to no con siderable fluctuation to-day. At the close of the markets the quotations looked a little better; but the fears enter tained on the subject of the corn-laws, owing, principally, to the continued meetings of the Ministry, keep things in the same sensitive state. The statement hazarded yesterday in as influential paper, to the effect that the Duke of Wel lington and Sir Robert Peel had declared against future pro tection to the British farmer and labourer, has been reiterated with little or no diminution of confidence, but the contradic tions given to it in other quarters being equally bold and positive, the public are left in uncertainty as to the actual fact. A fixed duty is by some believed more likely than a total abolition to he the alteration that will be recommended to Parliament, if, indeed, there be any recommendation at all upon the matter. That Sir Robert Peel should be cou rageous enough to advocate the latter extreme is deemed improbable on every account, and, as he has heretofore shown himself so strongly opposed even to the milder course suggested, capitalists and others having a deep interest in the result must be content to await the manifestation of the truth at the proper period. The almost daily re-union of the Cabinet Ministers is, at all events, an indication that some great public question engages attention which it is extremely difficult to dispose of. - SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM TIER MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. HERALD.—We copy the following from last night's Standard; we have ascertained that every word of the fol lowing extract is strictly and guardedly true—the termina tion of the first week of "January will expose the falsehood of the first assertion of the Times, and the meeting of Parlia ment, when it shall arrive, the falsehood of the rest of the article contradicted : "ATROCIOUS FABRICATION BY THE TIMES.' "We are now, we rejoice to say, in a condition to give the most positive and direct contradistien to the statement of a proposed repeal of the corn-laws, which appeared in yester day's Times. The statement, it may be remembered, em braced three propositions— " First, that Parliament is to meet in the first week in January. " Second, that Ministers have resolved upon. a repeal of the corn-laws. " Third, that the projected repeal is to be announced in the opening Speech. " EVERY ONE OF THESE THREE PROPOSITIONS IS FALSE. " Parliament WILL NOT MEET IN THE FIRST WEER OF JANUARY, or much, if at all, before the usual time of meeting. " THE CABINET HAS COME TO NO DECISION WHATEVER UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE CORN-LAWS. " It must be unnecessary to add, in the third place, that a resolution not formed can hardly have a place provided in the Queen's Speech. " Upon what we have written above, we stake the cha racter of this journal." If the assertion of the Standard can derive any additional weight from our adoption, we cheerfully adopt it, and, like our evening contemporary, pledge the character of the journal in which we write, that on this 6th day of Decem ber, 1845, it was not, and never had been, intended to sum mon Parliament for the first week of January, and that upon this same 6th of December no resolution whatever upon the subject of the corn-laws has been adopted by the Ca binet. It must be seen in a very few weeks which is the liar, the Herald or the Times. We probably owe an apology to our readers, and we certainly owe an apology to Sir Ro bert Peel's Government, for having so long delayed the most distinct and positive contradiction to the fabrication of the Times. We could not, however, in such a case ven ture to act upon less than the most absolute certainty ; and though we have that absolute certainty now, we had it not yesterday morning. We are gratified, too, by learning that the lie did much less mischief than was intended by its authors, or than we anticipated. The dealers at Mark-lane, we are assured, saw through the falsehood, by the aid of light peculiar to the place, and scouted the fabrication. The Times, NI hich, like the frail person spoken of in " Don Juan," " with more than one profession, gains by all," is as well known at Mark-lane as the Hampshire Independent says it is in Capel-court, and about as much trusted in the one loca lity as in the other—the fact is indisputable, that its " great fact," i. e., according to the Times vocabulary, great lie, pro duced little effect upon the market. We, perhaps, have had oar share in exposing the utter falseness of the Times, and its systematic dishonesty, and therefore it is little wonderj if we are hated by the Times with a hatred equalled only by that which a particular class entertains towards the minis ters of justice—and abused with a virulence corresponding to this hatred, TIMES.—It was announced yesterday, by our early friend Mrs. Gamp, on the authority of her evening ally Mrs. Harris, that any contradiction of our intimation as to the intended repeal of the corn-laws could only be obtained by the viola tion of his oath on the part of a Cabinet Minister. This violation seems to be the work of four- and-twenty hours, if we are to believe Mrs. Harris, for the old woman herself achieved yesterday evening the following extraordinary announce ment : (Here follows an extract from th© Standard, headed "Atrocious Fabrication of the Times.") Does the beldame mean that she, too, has succeeded in suborning a Member of the Government? If the twins, so aptly described by Mr. Bright at the Bath meeting, could not contradict us till they had persuaded a Minister to com mit perjury, we must either infer that this immoral object has been achieved by the evil influence of Gemini, or that they have been made the dupes of some wag, who delights in practising on their anile credulity. It is amusing to observe the pompous solemnity with which the old scold proposes to lay a wager with the public as an earnest of her veracity, and finishes by offering to "stake the character of the journal." This is running no great risk, at all events; but, for the mere look of the thing, it would have been as well to have offered that conventional stake—a China orange, or something that would have been at least a tangible property. We have very few words to say in reply to the contradiction that has been given to our statement, and these words are simply a reiteration of those that were used in our paper of Thursday. We adhere to our original announcement, that Parliament will meet early in January, and that a repeal of the corn-laws will be proposed in oqe House by Sir R. Peel, in the other by the Duke of Wellington. The result, of course, can only show who is right and who is wrong on the present occasion. We are prepared to stand by our -announcement, and we do not anti cipate that it will be falsified byany change in the resolution that has been come to by the heads of the Government. They will not be overawed, we suspect, by the threat that what might have been their own Standard may be seen flut tering in the ranks of their enemies. CHRONICLE.—So it turns out to be a hoax, after all! The quasi-official announcement with which, on Thursday morning, the Times startled and delighted the metropolis and the country—converted civic Toryism en masse from the error of its monopolist ways—and overcame the coy re • luctance of the Lord Mayor himself to a free-trade demon stration in Guildhall, has got at last its official contradiction, and is labelled, by the real Ministerial organ, naturally in dignant at so daring a breach of privilege, " atrocious fabri cation." " Parliament will not meet," we were told last night, "in the first week in January ;" and " the Cabinet has come to no decision whatever upon the subject of the corn-laws ;" after which, as our precise evening contempo rary shrewdly observes, " it must be unnecessary to add, in the third place, that a resolution not formed can hardly have a place provided in the Queen's speech." The official journalist writes in a hurry, and could scarcely be expected to say everything in a breath. But we shall hope to be informed, at the Standard's earliest convenience, which it is of the Cabinet Ministers that has committed per jury, by revealing Cabinet seerets; also, on what principle of Conservative morality a rigidly virtuous Conservative journalist can " rejoice," on Friday, to be "in a condition," the bare possibility of which he contemplated on Thursday with a sort of pious and constitutional horror, as implying a Privy Councillor's bleach of oath; also, bow and why it was that the "atrocious fabrication" was suffered to have some thirty hours, undisturbed run of the metropolis and the empire. We are, we need not-add, no less curious to hear what the "leading journal" has to say in vindication or pallia tion of one of the most extraordinary and serious escapades on record in the history of modern British journalism. In itself, the affair does not affect us very deeply. We did not go into ecstacies at the rumour, and we are not excessively depressed by the contradiction. We were certainly disposed to believe, notwithstanding strong antecedent impressions at variance with the Times information, that our Contemporary could not have hazarded so confident a statement on a subject of such capital import ance without having good authority to go upon ; and in proportion to our inclination to credit the fact, was the mea sure of our satisfaction at the prospect which it opened be fore the country of an early and compleatively quiet de liverance from an enormous evil. We should have greatly rejoiced—we should rejoice even now—if the vast industrial, commercial, and social interests involved in the settlenient of this question could be spared the grievous injury of pro tracted delay. Where every week—every day even—is precious, we would gladly forget all considerations of party, for the sake of seeing the question of the nation's ways and means of life in the hands of men possessmg the power of effecting the necessary change quickly and quietly. Other wise it matters little. It will all come to the same thing in the end, and in any case the end is near. The decision, or no-decision of the Cabinet on the subject of the corn-law can in no way influence the ultimate fate of the question, The thhsg will be done; will be done soon ; will be done before anything else ie done; and if Sir Robert Peel will not do it, why then, as Mr. Cobden said the other day, and might now repeat with redoubled emphasis—" We are not so badly off in England but that we may find some body able to do the will of the country whenever it is unmis takeably expressed." The longer Sir Robert Peel delays his decision on the subject of the corn-law, the less does it signify how he, in particular, may decide on a question which the elements both of the natural and of the social world are de ciding as fast as possible without him. The national mind approves free trade as a principle, the national will demands it as an imperious necessity, the national presentiment counts on it as a near reality, and the nation never yet lacked fit exe cutive agents of its intelligent and deliberate volitions. Com paratively unimportant as this rumour and its contradiction are in themselves, at a time when events are irresistibly sweep ing along the national mind and policy in the right direction, the affair is fruitful of instruction, both for the Minister and the people. The Premier's habit of " not reading the news paper," or not heeding their contents, has in this instance worked well. It was truly a happy accident, or a wise policy, that allowed the " atrocious" fabrication" of Thursday morning to keep unmolested possession of the world's ear daring a day and a half. If Sir Robert Peel's well-known solicitude on the subject of " posthumous fame" extend, as we must pre r sume it does, to those favourite measures of policy which bear his name, and are most deeply marked with the characteristic qualities of his mind; and if he feel a natural curiosity to anticipate the verdict which posthu mous fame wit eventually pronounce, he has now been grati fied, on the easiest terms. As a noble and learned lord, a few years ago, through some mistake or "ingenious device," the authorship of which still remains a mystery, was ad mitted to the rare privilege of enjoying a brief foretaste of the terrestrial immortality which awaits public virtue and integrity, so our Premier, under the favour of the Times's blunder, has been allowed to leern, by anticipation, the po-t -humoue judgment of mankind on his moribund sliding-scale, RAILWAY. SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dublin and Drog heda, 5 p.—Eastern Counties, 19—Grand Junction, 235 Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32 p.—Great North of Eng land, 151. Shares, 11 p.—London and Birmingham, Fifth Shares, 21 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 104 p. —Midland, 139—Newcastle and Darlington, New Shares, 31 p.—Sheffield and Manchester, 119—Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 1, 74 p.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 5 p.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 3% p.—South-Easton and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, 2% p.—Ditto, Half Shares, 17s. 6d. p.—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13% p.—Caledonian, 3% p.—Leeds and Thirak, p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 64 p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 24 p.—Goole and Doncaster, 3s. p.—Can - bridge and Lincoln, 2 1 / 2 p.— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 4 1 / 2 p.— Derby and Crewe, 2% p.—Grand Union, 2s. 6d. p.—London and Manchester ( Rem.) 14 dis.—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, I7s. 6d. p.—Manchester and Southampton, 15s. p.—Matlock and Alidbind Junction, 2 1 / 2 p.—North Western, 38s. p.—Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, Is. 6d. dis. —Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, 14 p.—West Riding Union, 5% p.—Dutch Rhenish, 2% p.— Paris and Strasbourg canneron), par. MAINCHESTER, Duc. 5. STOCK Excumccu.—The sales are—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 2%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 34—Chester and Holyhead, 15- 7 -Clitheroe Junction, 3%—East Lancashire, No. 2, 10—East Lincolnshire, 24—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 228.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway ant Canal, 61 Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, 1:5-1..eds and Think, 9 1 / 2 ex. n.—Liverpool, Orms kirk and Preston, 4c%—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 945. 6d. c.— Manchester and Birmingham, 70—Ditto, Quar ters, 11—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 11 ►,:,—Manchester. Sheffield, and Midland, 5% —North Eastern, 2' North Staffordshire, 51. 2s. —Nottingham and Mansfield, 2%—Not tingham and Grantham, 2 1 / 2 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 3% —Trent Valley, 18—West Lancashire Coast Line, 21s. CORNISH LINES. (From the West Britin and Cornwall Advertiser.) We have now carefuly Fxarniced the plans of the various projected rail,. ays lodged in the office of the Clerk of the Pe ce for th:s county, with the view of forming an opinion fur ourselves as to the comparative merits of the various lines, and selecting the one which, as journalists labouring for the advantage of the public, we can fairly and honestly say is the most deserving of general support. In arriving at our opinion, we have kept out of sight all the preceding disputes between 'rival companies : with these we have nothing Whatever to do, our only object being to endeavonr to !Ind out which of the present com peting lines it would be most to the advantage of the county to possess. We now, therefore, feel bound to say, that we consider the Cornwall and Devon Centres to he that line which is best adapted to meet the wants of the public, and, consequently, most deserving of pub lic support We have arrived at this conclusion because it is shorter in distance—because its gradients a e much superior—and because its curves are less nume• reus and of greater radius than those of the Cornwall line. The engineering difficulties are net t f any extra ordinary character ; and the direction the line tolo s is one that affords accommodation to the greater portion of the county. We think it, besides, superior to its great competitor, the Cornwall line, in having a direct trunk communication with Exeter. Of the Cornwall Railway, the trunk, or main line, is from Falmouth to Torpoint Ferry, running into the water apparently at that place, for the plans suggest no mode of crossing the Elarnotize. From New Passage, en the opposite side of the Hemoaze, it proceeds to Eidad. There is also an alternative line in the plans, going through St. Germans to Saltash, crossing the Tamar there by a bridge, and so on to Eldad. This latter line, however, is extremely difficti:t, from the immense via ducts necessary to cross the St. Germans and Lynher rivers—in the space of four miles there being no fewer than four viaducts on arches of sixty feet span, varying from thirty to sixty feet in height, to say nothing of the bridge across the Tamar. This, let it be observed, is a mein line. The means for arriv ing at the great desideratum of the county—a direct and central communication with the metropolis—are, first, by a branch from Double Bois to Launceston, where it falls into the proposed North Devon line, by which it is taken along the margin of Dartmoor until it arrives at a point in the parish of Exbourne, where a branch line is thrown out to Crediton, joining the lire thence to Exeter—the North Devon line going on by way of Bideford and Barnstaple to Hillfarance, in Somerset shire, where it joins the Bristol and Exeter line. We beg particularly to direct our readers' attention to this mode of forming the communication with Exeter —first, by a branch from the Cornwall line to Launces ton, and then by another branch from the North Devon line to Crediton. The important fact connected with these branches is, that after the Bill has been obtained for the main line, including these branches, the parties may, if they think fit, abandon the branches altogether. The public have, therefore, no security that the central and direct communication with the metropolis will be made. This seems to us so very important, that if in other particulars the Cornwall line had been equal, or even superior, to the Cornwall and Devon Central, we should have been inclined to give our support to the latter line on this ground alone. In order that we may put the public in possession of the route pursued by these two lines, we may state that they both start from nearly the same point at Falmouth —the Green Bank Quay—and pursue nearly the same direction towards Truro, another portion of the trunk of the central line from Penzance joining the Falmouth portion about Penwethers. Near Bosvigo, in Kenwyn, the two lines diverge—the Cornwall line going through Castle Hill, Truro, into St. Clement, Pr ,bus, Ladock, St. Stephens, St. Moven, St. Austell, St. Blazey, Par, Ty wardrepth, Laulivery, Lostwithiel—runing through the loxer part of the town, and crossing the river just above the bridge—on through St. Winnow and Lanhy drock to Glynn Bridge, whence a branch leads into &A min, intended to communicate with the Bodinin and Wadebridge Railway, now in the possession of the Cen tral Company, and to go thence to Padstow. From Glynn Bridge it follows on the line of the present turnpike road, through the valley to Doubleboys, or Dubwalls, as it is more commonly called, where the branch to Laun ceston is thrown off ; then getting down into the valley of the Loce, it forms a tinsel* with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway ; under. Si . bOrsw ater. Passing about half a mile south of Liskeard, it then goes through Menheniot and St. Germans ; and a little after it has entered the latter parish is the point where the line branches cff to Saltash. But, pursuing the main trunk to Torpoint, it rues iilong the north side of Pol. bathick creak, crosses Polscove creek, and into the Lyn her river, running along the bank thereof, crossing Sheviock creek, and coming up to the back of Antony village, after which it crosses part of St. John's Lake and goes thence into Torpoint. The principal deviation from the direction of the former Cornwall line, it will be seen, is from Falmouth to Truro, and a little beyond; but the loudly and deservedly condemned route by Par and the valley of the Fowey is still preserved. The Cornwall and Devon Central line has two starting points—the Green Bank at Falmouth, and the New Quay, Penzance. These two routes unite, as we have already stated, at Penewethers, in the parish of Kea, from' thence running through part of ilendra, near Truro, and passing under Kenwyn Vicarage, on through the parishes of Kenwyn, St. Allen, St. Erme, New lyn, St. Enoder, through Summercourt—keeping a little to the north of the turnpike-road—St. Columb Major, Roche. Crossing to the south of the road, a branch to St. Austell is • thrown resat near the spot where the old and new turnpike-roads divide. The main line then goes through a part of Withiel, Lanivet, Lanhydrock, to near Carminow• cross, where it will be intersected by the proposed ex tension of the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, which will be continued to Padstow in one direction, and to Plymouth in the other, having a station in the town of Bodmin. It then passes on through Cardinharn, Blis land, and St. Breward, 'to Poundsconee, by Hawkes Torr, and Bray Down, to St. Cleather, Luneast, Trewen, Egloskerry, St. Stephens, and St. Thomas, into New port ; then crossing the Tamar into Werrington, it takes a pretty direct line to Hatherleigh, Bow, Crediton, Newtown St. Cyres, and Cowley, forming a junction with the Yeovil and Dorchester Railway at their termi nus in Exeter. This description may serve to give as accurate an idea of the direction taken by these two lines of railway as can be done without the help of a map. By it, it will be seen, that the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway forms, what we have always contended for—the most speedy, direct, and central communication with the me tropolis ; and that it does so, taking Care to provide proper accommodation for every important place lying near the direction of the line. These conditions are not fulfilled by any other of the competing lines • and, therefore, we consider the Cornwall and Devon 6entral line to be that which is best entitled to general support. The following is a list of the projected lines, the plans and sections of which have been lodged at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for this county Truro and St. Agnes Railway. West Cornwall. Plymouth and North Cornwall. Launceston and South Devon. North Devon. Cornwall and Devon Central. Direct Western. Cornwall. Great Western and Falmouth Junction. Falmouth, Holston, and P enzanc e. Delabole and Rock. The first two of these plans were deposited on Saturday, and the remaining nine on Sunday, the hearer of one of them having arrived at St. Austell only five minutes be. fore twelve on Sunday night, after performing the dis• tance from London in less than thirteen hours. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, Nov. 28.—Mr. Leckie, a mate of (the Hibernie, and a nephew cf the late Sir P. Malcolm, has received the death vacancy in the gift of the Admiral, fallen in by the late Lieutenant Hill, of the Inconstant. On presenting Lieut. Leckie with his cotnmission, the Admiral, in a neat speech, delivered on the quarter-deck, declared that he gave it him as a reward for his invariable good conduct, and the posses sion of those qualities which would do honour to the ser vice in which . he was enrolled, and for which he had con stantly evinced so much zeal, and in his future appointments and promotions he should look to the character of the person on whom rank was conferred, without any reference what ever to the circumstance of his serving on board the flag- ship. Her Majesty's steamer Acheron was submitted to a very severe inspection on Tuesday , by Captain Richards, Flag Captain to Sir W. Parker. Her commander, Lieutenant Aplin, received a high compliment, on its conclusicn, for the manner in which the duties of his vessel were carried on, and the high state of discipline which reigned on board. His Excellency the Governor this week commenced his half-yearly inspections with the reserved battalion of the 42d Regiment and the Connaught Rangers (88th), the former commanded by Major Dunamure, the latter by Co lonel Phibbs. The commanders of both regiments received high com pliments on the military appearance of their men, and the manner in which the evolutions were performed. The firing of the 42d was particularly excellent, and the sword exercise, on the new principle, elicited the highest proofs of satiifac • tion from the General. _ _ Barracks and books were next inspected, and bis Excel- I lencv afterwards dined with the officers of the regiments ; on NVednesdav with the 42d, and on the following day with those of the 813th. The India mail arrived here by the Iberia at 10 1.. m. last night, and will be forwarded early this morning by the Acheron to Marseilles ; that part via Gibraltar will leave to night by the Achilles, The French steamer Egyptus, from Marseilles for Beyrout, arrived during the night. Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus has hauled out into the stream in order to be inspected to-day. Captain Richards and Lieutenant Wyse are appointed to that duty. Portzsmorrrzr, FRIDAY.—The Lizard steam sloop, Lieu tenant Commander Tylden, was hauled alongside the jetty yesterday, to repair damages sustained in her passage from the river to this port, having carried away part of her bul warks, and sustained other injuries. The little craft behaved most gallantly at sea, but from being overmasted was obliged frequently to go at half-speed. She made, it is said, 11, knots an hour with ease, and 10 knots against a head wind and sea. She cannot " stand up ;" her masts and yards are therefore tieing taken out, and she will be newly fitted with sticks similar to those of the Victoria and Albert. The Tartarus steam-surveying sloop, Captain Wolfe, left last evening for Woolwich. The Sindbad navy lighter, and Netley tender, sailed yester day; the former for Devonport with stores, and the latter for the same port with supernumeries. The Fanny tender, Master Commander Allen, returned from Cowes this morning, with Admiral Sir Charles Ogle on board. The Persian, 16, Commander Croyton, was at Vera Cruz on the Ist ult., all well. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliot, was at Havannah on the 10th ult. The Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Carr, left Havannah for Jamaica, on the Bth ult. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour. flag of Vice-Admi ral Sir F. Austen, Commander-in-Chief on the West India station, the Rose, 18, Commander Pelley, and the Vesuvius steam-sloop, Commander O'Callaghan, were at Bermuda on the 20th ult, The Pickle schooner, Lieutenant-Commander Bainbridge, was at Port Royal on the Ist ult. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Black Eagle, Fairy, Dasher, Comet, Sparrow, Lizard, and Echo. In Dock—Prince Regent, Amphitrite, Leander, Childers, Wanderer, Rattler, and Rifleman. In the Basin Nelson, Trincomalee, Harlequin, and Scourge. At Spithead—No man of war. INCENDIARY FIRES IN NOTTING- HAMSIIIRE. During the past few weeks, incendiary fires have been blazing in different villages in this county, which have naturally created great excitement amongst the inhabi tants, particularly the farmers, who, as a class, have been selected as victims. It is not for us to assign a cause for these diabolical and grievous outrages, at a juncture when the nation is threatened with famine and distress; but time, perhaps, will urfoldiwhat judgment cannot penetrate. INCENDIARY FIRE NEAR OXTON.—ON Saturday last an incendiary fire took place at Ramsdale Farm, a dis tance of fire miles and a half from this town. This farm belongs to Mr. Joseph Whittaker, and is one of the largest in the county, and is situate near to the village of Oxton; but, happily, whatever mischief may be done upon it by incendiary acts, the occupier can sustain very little injury, as he has insured all sticks to the amount of 2,0004 The spot where this fire took place is about half a mile distant from the farm-house, and in a field at a considerable distance from any road. During the harvest Mr. Whittaker has been in the habit of having stacks put in the fields where the corn has been reaped, and in the present year he has placed upon a hill called the " Twelve Acres," three barley stacks, two of which have recently been thrashed, and the straw made into one stack. On Saturday night, about nine o'clock, Mr. Marriott, of Halam, while returning from Notting ham market, on horseback, on approaching within sight of the " Twelve Acres" hill perceived a tremendous glare of light, and on hastening towards it he found the straw stack all in flames. The horizon being extensively illuminated, several people were at the same moment on their way to discover the cause, and very soon on the spot. Mr. Marriott gallopped to Mr. Whittaker's, and then to Nottingham for the engines, but the fire had got so much a-bead, that it soon appeared useless to at tempt to put it out, and especially as there was no water at hand. The Nottingham town engine was in a few minutes on the spot, and gallopped at an expedition which soon knocked up one of the horses, which was left by the road-side; no doubt the several high and long hills on the road contributed' much to occasion this dis aster. An alarm was quickly spread, the county police, on horseback, and crowds of people, hastened to the spot, expecting to find that Mr. Whittaker's farm-yard, containing thirty stacks, was in a general state of con flagration. Fortunately this was not the case, and during the early part of the fire the wind changed, and blew the flames from instead of upon the barley stack, situate within a few yards of the burning straw. The fire being confined to the straw stack, it was allowed to burn with out further interruption, and at two o'clock in the morn ing the entire stack was consumed. This makes the seventh fire within as many weeks that we have recorded in this part of the country, and at the time (Monday) we are writing this paragraph, reports have reached the town that two other fires have taken place—one at Arnold, and the other at Sawley. We may here remark, that the circumstances con nected with the fires in Wool-alley and Robin Hood yard, on the premises occupied by Mr. Bates, frame smith, and Mr. Baldock, grocer, in the month of October last, are still involved in mystery, and it is singular, that at the period these fires took place, a tall person in the attire of a female was seen in the immediate vicinity. not one hundred yards from the two buildings, and from the auspicious appearance that it was a man in woman's clothing ; this individual was actually traced by Mr. Brierley, governor of the county gaol, who, no doubt, thought it possible to be one of the escaped convicts. A person of a similar description was said to have been at Beeston on the night of the fire at Mr. Walker's stack yard, and though on an attempt being made to trace out who this person was, Mrs. Harwood, a very respectable wo man, was found to have been in the street waiting for some members of her family coming home, yet we have heard other statements to induce an opinion that she was not the individual who excited attention, and answered the description we first heard on the night of the fire. INCENDIARY FIRE AT ARNOLD.—An act of incen diarism was committed at this village, which is four miles from this town, on Sunday night last, which owning to its being timely discovered, and the speedy arrival of the Arnold engine, did very little damage. About six o'clock in the evening, a servant in the employ of Mr. Sncath, who has only lived six months at Arnold, hap pened to go out of his master's house to the stack-yard, when he found oae of the hay:tacks in flames. He gave an alarm, and the fire was fortunately txtinguished after burning between two and three tons of hay. The stack was situate more than a hundred yards from any house. The alarm created by this and Mr. Whittaker's fire, not two miles distant, occasioned all the farmers in the neighbourhood to set their labourers and servants on watch during the whole of the night, and a report of a fire at Saw ley has awakened an excitement which will take some time to allay.—Nottingham Review. LEEDS, Dtc. 5. STOCK ExcrungE.- 7 .-rife sales are—London and Croydon, 184—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 9 1 4 p.—East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 9—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Docks, -54 c. n. —Leeds and Bradford Extensions, IVA—Leeds and Thirsk, 931—Newcastle and Berwick, 10 1 % —Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14 1 4—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 25 c. n. cash— London and York, 4 Direct Northern, 114 —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 44 —West Riding Union, 6',4—Chelmsford and Bury, 10s. dis. —Clitherne Junction, 3M—Essex and Suffolk, 10s. dis.— Grand Union, 20s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North- Eastern, 10s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, ss. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 2s. 6d. dig.— North Staffordshire, s—North Western, 3—Nottingham, Erewash, and Amber. gate, 2 1 4—South Midlands, 3', p.—Wakefield and Brad ford, Bs. 6d. dis.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 10s. p.—York and Carlisle, 21/1. SHEFFIELD, DEC. 5. STOCK EXCFLANGE.—The sales are—London and Brighton, 614—Caledonian Extension, 27 —Cambridge and Lincoln 3%—Goole and Doncaster, 2 1 5 —Grimsby and Sheffield, 9% —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 31. 35. 6d.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 21,x. BRISTOL, Dec. 5. SirocK EXCHANGE.- The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 78 gig—Ditto, New, 5 1 ,4—South Wales, 3%. YORK, DEC. 5. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, New, 18 3 4 —York and North Midland Extension, 24i /2 —Newcastle and Berwick, 93,4—Ditto, Carlisle Branch 214—Leicester and Bed ford, PA—Manchet•ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 4%. HUDDERSFIELD, DEC. 6. Sirocic EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and Man chester, 6--Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 14—Grand Union, 1 1 /—Leicester and Bedford, 1 1 4—Newark, Boston, and Sheffield, 2%—North Western, 3. HULL. DEC. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, Carlisle, 2—Ditto, Dalkeith, 5 1 ,4—Boston, Newark, and .t.heffield, 2% —Cambridge and Lincoln, 3 1 ,4—East Lincolnshire, 2 1 ,4—Hu1l and Barnsley Junction, 425. 6d.—Nottingham, Erewash, 2 1 4—North Staffordshire, 51. 4s. 6d.—Wakefield and Brad ford, 2. EDINBURGH, DEC. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Galloway, 44-Edinburgh and Northern, 665. -Ditto, Newport, 268.- Ditto, Locbgelly, 305.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 385.-Edin burgh and Perth, 925. 6d.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 425. 6d.-Glasgow and Lesmahagow, 555.-Great North of Scot land, 555.-Lanark and Lothians, 58s. 6d.-North British, Fifths, 5 1 A-Perth and Crieff Direct, 425.-Perth and Inver ness, 395.-Tyne Valley, 38s. GLASGOW, DEC. 4. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 476-Air drie and Bathgate, 525. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 625. 6d. -Caledonian Direct Northern, 505.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 20 Edinburgh and Northern, 4-Glasgow General Terminus, 6 1 ,4 -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Quarter Shat es (5 per cent. guar.), 1G 1 4 . -Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, 455.-Ghsgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardros san, 578.-Glasgow, and Dundee Junction, 47a. 6d.-Glasgow Partick, and Dumbarton, 455.-Lanark and Lothians, 555. -Lanarkshire and Galloway Junction, 505.-Scottish Cen tral, 1214-South Midland, 855.-Stirling and Dunferm line, 455. 6d. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAT TaaYnc.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the precious year Week ending Last week. g PROMOTIONS. Mates—W. G. Herbeßo7l3;iand ; C. H. Young, of the Agincourt ; W. C. Forsyth, of the Volcano ; R. H. Mou bray, of the Hazard ; and F. D. Graham, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—F. Holland, to the Endymion ; W. Crawford, Lo the Scourge; W. G. Herbert, to the Bittern; 0. Borland, !o the Nimriid. Surgeon—A. C. Air, to the Scourge. Paymaster and Purser—W. Reiland is appointed to the Heroine ; W. D. Bateman, to the Bittern. Assistant-Surgeons—J. B H. Collings (confirmed). to the Cruiser ; W. F. Nooth (acting), to the Scourge; C. S. Les ter, to the Victory, for service in Haslar Hospital. Mate—A. Wilmshurst, to the Queen. Midshipmen—H. Christian, to the Sydenham ; IL M. Bingham, to the St: Vincent. Naval Cadets—T. G. Baillie, to the Scourge ; Messrs. Law and North, to the Crocodile. Clerks in Charge— Bowman, to the Raven, vice Phil lips. to the Harpy. THE TERRIBLE, STEAM-FRIGATE. — The naval community will be gratified to hear that the first and largest man-of-war steam vessel in the world, the Terrible, of 1,800 tons burthen and 800-horse power, at Woolwich, and designed by Mr. Lang, is at length ordered to be commissioned. Captain William Ramsay (1838) has been appointed to command the Terrible. This gallant officer has seen a little sharp service, and has had vane experience in steam-vessels. He was made a lieutenant in 1821, and in that rank served on board the Albion in the battle of Navarino. Subsequently, he commanded the celebrated slaver the Black Joke, which vessel, after her capture, was made a tender on the coast of Africa. In the Black Joke he engaged a Spanish pirate slaver of double her force, and captured her after a desperate conflict, in which he was wounded. For this act• of gallantry he was promoted to the rank of commander in Is3l. He was appointed to the Dee steam-vessel is 1834, and com manded her for three years on the North American and West Indian station. CHATHAM, DEC. s.—On Monday last, the Ist inst., the Right Hon. H. T. Corry, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, attended by Mr. Fitzroy and Captain Brand reth, R.E., Director-General of Works, made an inspection of the improvements and enlargement of the Royal Dockyard, now going on under the management of the contractors, Messrs. George Baker and Son; after which they examined the advanced ships fitting in dock ; they then proceeded on board the Retribution steam-frigate, lying at Folly Point, and thence left for Sheerness Dockyard. The Fortitude coal depot was put oat of dock on the Ist inst., and the Scout, 16 guns, taken in, to be repaired and fitted for sea, and the shipwrights on this latter vessel are employed by task and job work, with unlimited earnings, for the purpose of expediting her fitting. The Cumberland, 70 guns. fitting for an advanced ship, is nearly completed, and will be put out of dock the ensuing spring tides. It is reported that she will be stationed off Gil lingham as a receiving-ship for seamen, and that the Poictiers will be done away with. The Eurotas, 42 guns, will be taken into dock on the Cum berland going out. She has already a number of hired ship wrights on her, and those that were employed on the Ara tude have been transferred to this vessel, which is to be fitted for a steam guard-ship. The Janus steam-sloop is still in the hands of a number of workman, making alterations and putting new fittings, and the engineers are busily employed in effecting such altera tions in her machinery as are considered necessary. It is, however, uncertain when she will be completed to make another trial. The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Stephen Lushing ton, returned on Tuesday, the 2d inst., to her former moor ings at Chatham-reach, to undergo very considerable altera tions in her coal-bunkers, which are to be removed further aft, for the purpose of bringing her down more by the stern, as she is down by the head about nine inches, and when propelled by her powerful engines her head is down wards nearly 20 inches. In this state she could not proceed to sea. Her cabins, by this alteration, will have to be re moved and refitted, and some repairs are required to be made in her machinery; she will therefore it is expected, be de tained in hai bout for about six weeks. The Aid, .Smallnian master, arrived on the 4th inst., with water-tanks for the Cumberland. The Adventure naval transport, Mills master, will sail about the 19th inst., with stores, for Portsmouth. SHEERNESS, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Alarm, 26, Captain Charles Colville Frankland, went out of harbour to the Little Nore on Saturday, where she took in her powder, and was afterwards visited by the Commander-in. Chief, who, it is rumoured, found her decks io lumbered up with stores and piovisions, of which she has five months' allowance on board, that he would not permit her to go to sea. He went on board again yesterday afternoon, and some arrangement having been come so, she at last got under weigh this morning, and pro ceeded to Portsmouth, with a fresh breeze from the north west. She has a party of marines as supernumeraries on board, and the kroomen recently paid off from the Eclair embarked yesterday afternoon. The Mercury and Emerald tenders, having brought sea men' for the Bittern and the marines of the Chatham divi sion paid off from the Thalia, sailed on their return to Ports mouth on Monday. _ _ . . The Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., having completed her refit, was discharged from the basin on Tues day, aad has taken up new moorings close to the dockyard. The Bitter n, 16, Commander Thomas Hope, progresses with her fittings for sea in the basin. A sergeant's party of marines joined from Chatham on Friday. The Dwarf, steam I.lcler, Lieutenant Edward B. Proctor, sailed for Woolwich yesterday, to be paid off; it is under stood that she will be recommissioned by a second master, and return to this station. The Fearless steamer has arrived from Woolwich, in the meantime, to take her place. The Viper, 6, was discharged from dock on Tuesday, and had her mast and bowsprit put in to-day. The Electra, 18, was hauled into the dock vacated by her yesterday, to be fitted for immediate commission. The St. Lawrence, 46, having had Fullerton's manccuverer removed, has been discharged from the basin, and the Euryalus has been hauled in to be fitted as a coal dep6t. The Retribution, steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, has not yet arrived here from Chatham. The Snake, 16, and Ferret, 10, are being brought forward for commission with all dispatch. In the Basin—Brilliant, 20, Havannah, 20, Bittern, 16, Viper, 6, and Sampson steam-frigate. In Harbour—Trafalgar,l2o flab-ship), Ocean, (ordinary guard-ship), Raven, 3, and Wildfire and Fearless steamers. CE TRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The next sessions will commence on Monday, the 15th instant, and though an interval of only fourteen days will have elapsed since the session just term nated, the business will be very heavy. The judges on the rota are Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Patteson. We subjoin the arrangements made at a meeting of the Judges on Thursday last, with respect to the rota for the sessions appointed to be holden in the ensuing year : For the session commencing Jan. 5, 1846—TLe Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Jus tice Erle. For the session commencing Feb. 2—Mr. Justice Wil- Mr. Baron Rolfe, and Mr. Justice Creswell. For the session commencing Feb. 23—The Judges who may be appointed to go the Norfolk Spring Circuit. For the session commencing March 30—Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Maule, and Mr. Baron Platt. For the session commencing May 11—Lord Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Coltman. For the session commencing June 15—Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice Patteson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe. For the session commencing July 6—The Judges ap pointed to go the Norfolk Autumn Circuit. Mr. Justice For the session commencing August 17 Coleridge, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Creswell. For the session commencing Sept . 21—Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Maule, and Ai r. Baron Platt. For the session commencing Oct. 26—The Lord Chief Anon, Din Justice Williams, and Mr. Justice Erle. STATE OF TRADE. - FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. s.—There has been no perceptible improvement in this branch of trade dnring the past week. Sales have been generally very limited, and no material increase is looked for until the commencement of the new year. ENGLIsII WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 6.—Sales con tinue to a very limited extent ; and prices are rather lower. LEEDS —The rise in the price of provisions, and the appre hension of a still further advance in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, has had its usual influence in our cloth markets.. There is a total absence of speculation, the buyers not daring to increase their stocks from the fear that with the great bulk of the population there will be little to lay out in clothing, after providing themselves with' the first necewsaries of life. Little was done at our cloth halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday, and only to express orders. There has also beers very little cone in the warehouses during the week; with the exception of a few of the American houses, business is very quiet. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—WOOL.—We cannot learn that any more is doing in either combing or clothing wools, and the consumption is every week declining; still there is no giving way, to induce the spinners to buy, and at present prices little can be expected to bedone. YARNS.—Each succeeding day only adds increased difficulties to know how the spinners are to continue to employ the small portion of machinery they have in work, for they do not gain relief either from wool at a reduced price or yarns commanding higher prices in the market. There is evidently no course left but to reduce the production to a still lower point, and that will at no distant period effect the desired change. This is a state of things that the most desponding could not have anticipated, for previously wools have always declined to enable the spinners to renew their business with full spirit. It would appear that the late clip of English wool must, like the harvest, have been a deficient one, and we are now strug gling under the baneful consequences of high prices, the sure preventative of extended commerce. PIECES.—The recent intelligence from America being of a less warlike character, has tended to inspire confidence that our business with that country is not likely to be retarded ; and as the quantity of goods sent to that market last season was not excessive, hopes are entertained of a rather animated spring trade for such fabrics as are adapted to that market. The business done to-day is only limited; yet with this seasonable weather, we may expect the home trade to improve. The shipping houses are doing but little, but this is generally a very dull time, being between the seasons. MANcriesTEn, THURSDAY EVENING.—WO have nothing favourable to report of any branch of the cotton trade. We are as lifeless as need be, and there are no signs ofany improvement. Prices are quite nominal, and the stocks ofgoods are fast accu mulating, which must terminate either in short hours, or a ra duction of wages. Yarns are about the same as this day week, but tLe market to-day closed more hesvily. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —DR. DE DASSEL, OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Extract o f a letter from John Knight, Esq., dated " Launceston, Ist of March, 1845.—Professor Ilol;oway,—Dear Sir, I am autho rized by Dr. de Dassel, of this colony , to i nform you that, having witnessed here in several instances the estraordinny effects of your pills,be in consequence is induced to say that %, may make use of his name as attesting their efficacy. Signed, John Knight, Carr Villa, lite proprietor of the Launceston Advertiser." These pills net upon the foundation of the system ; thus curing the most deep-rooted complaints, even when every other treatment has failed.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand ; and by all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the eirilksed.worid. ESCAPE FROM A TIGER. - - The following account of a narrow escape from a, tiger is contained in a letter from a townsman of Macclesfield to his parents. The position of the writer will be evident from the language of the letter, which is dated " Camp, near Deesa, September 17, 1845:—" On the 28th of July I and three more of 'ray comrades made up a party to get four days leave of absence to go to a place called Palempo, the residence of a native Prince. It is about thirty miles from Deesa. We got leave from the com manding officer, and hired tat Los, or horses, and bor rowed four fowling-pieces, as we were told there was plenty of game,f pheasants, deer, pea-fowl, wild ducks, boars, &c. The country is 'infested with robbers and wild beasts. We started on the morning of the 29th of July, about three o'clock, from Deese. We were not dressed in our regimentals, but we had on white dresses, being the coolest for the day time, with very large hats with broad brims to keep the sun off our faces. We had a mau to guide us on the way, it being a very mountainous country, and jungles all about. Just about daylight we had got about fourteen miles, the guide had taken us a short cut across a mountain, and our horses had hardly room to pass one abreast, it being so very narrow. When we got nearly to the top, we saw a tiger in the act of making a spring at us. I cannot describe the fright I was in—for we had all get our guns slung to our backs, and we coald not get at them in time ; and as I was in the rear about twenty) ards he made a spring at my horse, but it turned on one side and he missed his mark, and tumbled over the rock into a gulph below, on the other side of the pass ; for there was a large ravine just alongside, about 200 feet, and the tiger fell to the bottom, my hat falling with him. As soon as I got my senses, for I was nearly insensible with fright, I got off my horse and saw the tiger deep below. I fired at him, and I am sure I hit him, for be began to howl most piteously, and go under a piece of rock, so that we could not get at him, and it was too steep to go down. I had lost my hat and I did not know what to do; for the sun was very hot, and in the fright the guide had run away and was nowhere to be found. I said it would be best to go back, but the rest would not; so I put my handkerchief round my head, and we went on till we got to a native village, and then we got something to eat and another guide, and I bought a turban of one of the natives. I put it on my head, but it did not keep the sun off my head like my hat. Nothing more oc curred to us on the road, and we got to Palempo that night. We had plenty of sport at Palempo ; we shot deer, wild ducks, pea-fowl, and two wild boars." The result, however, was, that the writer was laid up with fever from exposure to the sun, and had only just recovered at the time the letter was written.—Mac• clesfield Chronicle. DRURY-LANE —The more we see of Mademoiselle Flora Fabbri, the more we are convinced of her being one of, and almost the first of, the eminent dancers who have visited this country. That this opinion is partaken of by the public at large two facts will testify—one of which is, that the ap plause attendant on her performance is beyond all precedent; and thC other is, that the theatre is crammed every night she makes her appearance. The success of Mr. Wallace's opera of Maritana increases with every performance. THE CITIZEN OF PRAGUE, EDITED EY MARY Howrrr.—We understand that the new novel, entitled " The Citizen of Prague," is likely to be considered the most striking and attractive of any that Mrs. Howitt has yet intro duced to the notice of the English reader. The public are certainly much indebted to this lady for the amusement and instruction she has been the means of affording them. As the Quarterly Review justly observes, " Among the divers writers to whose skill we owe the acquisition of many pearls of price, must be classed the translators of the present day. Among the rest, the world owes much gratitude to Mary Howitt. No language so closely resembles another, either in vocabulary or construction, as not to require considerable s kill and judgment in rendering the sense as the author in tended it should be taken—without any appearance of con straint —any leaning to that patchwork style which forces o n the mind the fact that it is a translation we are reading. That skill and that judgment Mary Howitt has shown." DEPOSITS wx ill THE BOARD OF TRADE.—We are requested to supply the following omissions to our list of de posits with the Board of Trade ;—Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction ; Direct East and West Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire Junction ' • Melton and Driffield Junction Railway ; Newcastle and Leeds Direct Railway. "A HAPPY COUPLE.—A few days since a man named Wm. Pick, of Beck street, in a drunken quarrel with his wife, was wounded on the temple and upper lip by his better half,who assailed him with a heavy brass candlestick. He was taken to the dispensary, where he is doing well. Nttingohani Journal. The importation of cattle from the Continent by sailing-vessels does not appear to answer very well. While the steamers have been making their passages regularly from Hamburgh in two or three days, and landing their live stock in good condition, a sailing-vessel has arrived here. after a week's passage, having been compelled to throw overboard seven out of seventeen of the cattle with which she had com menced her voyage. The whole seven had died from the effects of the voyage.—Hull Advertiser. The general order against smoking in the army has occasioned a deep sensation in every m ess-room in t he kingdom, and created such a panic in the cigar market, that good cheroots were done at an unsuallyilio: figure, and , and the which Manillas were down at a penny , ing threehalf-pence, with a fair sprinki g are in despair, for Ii of buyers, for the last eight months. The cabbage growers the young officers had been the chief consumers of the hardy winter savoy, which must now be sold as food for the lower classes, instead of being packed in ivory cases r mess room tables, as the best llavannahs, imported direct from - Havannali by the Hammersmith 'bus. As to the military consider whether the officers shall coolly submit to allow the Duke of Wellington to put all their pipes out. The Duke of Wellington has blown a cloud over the whole of the army by his inconsiderate endeavour to banish the cigar from the mess room. The officers naturally ask what they are to do when they meet; for they are to be restrained from boxing, wrest ling, leap-frog, blind-man's-buff, as well as prohibited from smoking. and they dread the possibility of being thrown upon their conversational resources, which must have a most dreary effect. Under their present trying position we can offer no consolation to the inmates of the barracks, except such as they may derive from taking it by turns to read Punch aloud to the whole mess. —Punch. BRISTOL SUGAR -MARKET, have still a very dull sugar-market, and prices must be quoted rather easier; the sales of this week do not exceed 500 hhds. West India and a few iota of Bengals. Nothing doing in Mauritius, ( al the deinsaid for. rum is still limited. Mercury. NAME OF RAILWAY. Nov. 29 Dec. 2 Nov.-30 Dec. 1 Nov. 29 Dec. 2 Nov. Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • Bristol and Birmingham Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • Dublin and Drogheda • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • .......... • • Dundee and Arbroath. ••••• • • • • • •• Durham and Sunderland . • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ••• • • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • • Was ,ow and Greenock. • ••. • • •• • •• • • Grand Junction • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gravesend and Rochester. Great North of England • • • • • • • • • • • • Hartlepool . • • • • • London and Birmingham, &c.. • • • . Loudon and Blackwall... • • • • • • • • • • • London and Brighton . London and Croydon . •• • • .... ..... London and Greenwich . • • • • • • • • • • • • London and South Western . • • • • • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .. Manchester and Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• Midland Counties • ..... Newcastle and Darlington • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • Newcastle and North Shields ...... Norfolk. • North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • • .... Preston and Wyre .. Sheffield and Manchester South Eastern • • • • • . • ........... Taff Vale Yarmouth and Norivich . • • • • • • • • • • • York and North Midland . ••• • • • 927 322 672 2,41 R 6,196 1,839 806 123 28 Dec. 1 1 Nov. 29 29 29 29 30 16,223 1,184 32,014 .6815 4,092 1,231 5,284 298 1,037 2,963 3,631 1,473 716 13,281 5,056 24,973 768 3,896 1,,'09 5,022 830 2,976 5,153 11,703 1,031 1,668 175 1,410 4,832 3,972 679 4,036 874 616 4,800 FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. C. G. Webb, Long-lane, Bermondsey, woolstapler, Dec. 29, at half-past eleven—J. Haycock, jun., Wells, Norfolk' corn-factor and maltster, Dec. 29, at eleven. In the Country. W. Monk, jun., Nottingham, currier and leather-cutter, Dec. 31, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Ashbarry, Holm Lacy, Herefordshire, farmer and timber-merchant, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Y. Betts, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, grocer, Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—T. Jenkins, Brecon, maltster and carrier, Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—J. Whitlow, Manchester, lacetnan, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—E. Hesketh, Hulme, Lancashire, victualler, Jan. 2, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. G. Harny, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, innkeeper, Dec. 30, at eleven—H. Tune, Blackfriars-road, boot and shoe manu facturer, Dec. 31, at eleven—C. Dalton, Old Kent-road, stone mason, Dec. 31, at half-past twelve—T. Lockhart and C Lockhart, Cheapside, and Fulham, florists and seedsmen Dec. 30, at half-past twelve—lt. Hughes, Piccadilly, uphol sterer and cabinetmaker, Dec. 29, at half-past eleven—W. G. Thackway, Union-place, New-road, Marylebone, tailor, Dec 30, at twelve. In the Country. - - - - D. Smith, King's S winford, Staffordshire, Dec. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol. At the Court of Review, Dec. 26. N. G. Coombes, Craven-street, Strand, coal-merchant--G. E. Noone, East- street, Manchester-square, engineer and manufacturer of pumps and gas apparatus--T. Cotsworth, Salisbury, builder. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Clark and C. W. Collins, Glasshouse-street, Regent street, gild and silver lacemeu and embroiderers—H. Broad and J. Broad, Stourport, Worcestershire, malsters and corn dealers—T. Forahall and A. Kirkwood, Doddiugton-grove, Kennington, surgeons—W. Archer, D. Daly, JO3. Malcomson, Joshua Malcomson, John Malcomson, W. Malcomson, and R. Malcomson, Liverpool (as far as regards D. Daly)--J. Brooker and T. Prior, Little Coram-street, Russell-square, van-proprietors—J. Jackson and J. Miller, Ratcliffe, Lancashire, iron-founders—H. Croughton and W. Harding, Upper-street, and Barnsbury place, Islington, tobac conists—S. Eyre and F. Shaw, Derby, stock and share-brokers—B. Salter and S. Knowles, Exeter, brewers— R. Long and W. Marshall, IVinsford, Chester, salt-manu facturers—R. Hammersley and T. Cook, Wigan, Lancashire, linen and woollen drapers—E. Dean and T. S. Page, Cross lane, St. Mary-at-Hill, City, general commission-merchants —S. W. Moore and A. Moore, Wolverhampton, factors—E. Potter and B. Broadhurst, Manchester, yarn-merchants— J. Proctor and P. Proctor, Bishopgate-street Without, snuff and tobacco-manufacturers —W. Glasspoole and J. Standley, Wyrnondam, Norfolk, auctioneers and appraisers—G. Learey and A Rowley, Manchester, hat-block manufactureers—J. Kent and G. Walters, Birmingham, gold chainmakers—J. Billing and G. Easton, jun., Reading, architects—T. Slagg, jun., and W. W. Hardy, Manchester, commission agents— W. Moore and S. Goodison, Lime-street, City, wholesale ' coffee-dealers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. L J. Young, Macduff, Banff wood-merchant, to meet within the Fife Arms Inn, Maeda', Dec. 13 and Jan. 10, at one. Tun WONDER OF WONDERS.—AN enormous bear, fed upon bread for the the last twelve m e onths, challengean co i s al m parison with any of prizes Bazaar. Th will be exhibited dead and dressed, so as to show the depth of fat, during Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the four days of the cattle-show, in front of Mr. Ray's pre mises, No. 8, King-street, Baker-street, two doors only from ' the Bazaar, and was fattened by those celebrated perrequiers, crforners, hair-cutters, and hair-dyers, Messrs. Ross and PIIILANTDROFIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGE'S-FIELDS.-- gons, 119, Bishopsgate-street, Loudon, of whom only can the The quarterly ( ourt of this corporation was held on Friday. Several . hana-ome donations to the Society were reported, genuine bear's-pease be obta i n ed. TROTTING MATCH FOR TEN POUNDS A SIDE. — including one of 50/. from Jchn Salte, Esq., and a legacy of On Friday the three miles' trotting match between Mr. Put -200/ from Mrs. A. Waring. Out of fifty five hoys taught tuck's grey cob and Mr. Elgie's brown mare, came off over a and placed out as apprentices, or otherwise, in different trades during the past year, all but four have turned out well. In measund distance of road at Tott enham. The terms of the reference to the increasing interest expressed by the magic- match were to train harness for 5/. aside. Th e match was commenced at good Speed, the mare turning the mile at a tracy of London and Middlesex in the reformation of juvenile offenders, it was resolved to extend the benefits of lead, of the second mile the m are still retained e conclusion and covering the distance in 3 minu tes and 33 seconds. At th the Society's religious and industrial educat ion to bo y s re- an advantage, and went over the second mile in 3 minutes commended by Magistrates, or others, on payment only of ng, It was also stated that and 3i seconds, they were then rattling a wa y for the goal at their expenses of bnard and clothi an increased speed, when the mate broke out to a gallop and the rescairas of the charity cott!ti not maintain more than was pulled in and turned. This gave the horse an opportu sixty boys, b::t thet its accom:r d,tions were alecitrat to receive for reformation at heat .te times that number. nity to n,alie ground, and the driver of the mare fi nding all , chance of winning lost relinquished the race, and the, horse The reform school lately erected by the society was reported i accomplished the three miles of wad in 10 minutes and 50 t bey nearly completed. ie444146. , GREAT FREE-TRADE IIIEETINGS• (From the Chronicle.) DEMONSTRATION AT BRISTOL. On Friday a free-trade soiree took place at the Public Rooms, Broad Mead, Bristol. The spacious ball was crowded with a vast assemblage of the most respectalsle inhabitants of the city, many of the party consisting of ladies. There were probably about 1,200 present. Over the platform, en wreathed with flowers and ever greena, was exhibited the concluding sentence of Lord J. Russell's free-trade manifesto, gorgeously emblazoned. On either side of the room temporary elevated seats had been erected, and these, as well as the permanent galleries, were densely crowded by a most orderly but most enthusiastic assemblage. About six o'clock the eating and drinking part of the pro ceeding, commenced. The appearance of tea being heralded by a most unanimous rattling of tea-spoons, and presently every body was busily engaged in the discussion of the harmless beverage. The tea and coffee done justice to, the actual business commenced by the Earl of Ducie taking the chair. His appearance was greeted with loud cheers, and Messrs. Cobden and Bright, who immediately followed him, were applauded to the echo. Among the gentlemen on the platform we observed the Hon. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., T. Milner Gibson, Esq.,M. P., G. Eddie Sanders, Esq., and John Evans Lineal, Esq., two of the magistrates of Bristol; W. Gore Langton, Esq., Hannan Nisgor, Esq., the American Consul, iseorge Jones, Esq., Joseph Eaton, Esq., W. D. Wills, Esq., fredefick Wills, Esq., Rev. J. Gran ville, Rev. G. Armstrong, Mat, Rev. P. J. Roper, T. Thomas, Esq., Rev. J. E. Thoresby. Edmund Thomas, Esq., R. Ed wards, Esq., John Wesley Hall, Esq., with many other ma gistrates, members of the TOR u Council, and influential in habitants of Bristol. The Noble ellilll3lAN opened the business of the evening . He said, we are met this evening under very different cir cumstances from thoee Limier which we assembled on the last occasion that I had the honour of addressing you within • these walls—(Hear, hear)—and I think, when I look at the meeting before me, I see indications of a very different feeling front that which subsisted when we last met here.—(Cheers.) There was then more of curiosity and more symptoms of awakened inquiry. You expected to hear from us the great principles which the League represent. You wished to have them explained, that you might test their truth and justice—but it appears to me now that there is more of decision in your countenances--(Cheers)—that you have found on sifting the arguments of the League, that they are founded on truth, and that you are now conic here decided to act, and anxious to hear our friends, Bright and Cobden, in order to know how you are to act so as to further the grand object of the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) On the occasion in question—on the occasion of our last meeting, we tried to show that more trade—that is free trade—(Hear, hear)—would benefit this good town of Bristol.—(Cheers.) We tried to show that more trade would be good for tae manufacturing interests—we tried to show that the well being of the manufacturer was of importance for that of the agriculturist, as furnishing the latter with the best market for the produce of his labour.—(Cheers.) We also en deavoured to show you bow the existing system of corn ' laws has been the primary cause of those periodically recurring tines of distress which have spread misery, star vation, and pestilence around.—:(Hear, hear.) We tried to show you that as like causes produced like effects, so—should high prices again recur—would distress and crime track their course.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, these high prices now seemed to be again threatening us. The prices of food have risen, and the wages of labour have fallen.— (Hear.) On the occasion in question we told you that the sliding-scale might be a pretty playthhig in the hands of the landlords , but that it would be found totally inefficient in the days of difficulty and distress.—(Cheers.) Our opponents—l hardly know whether I should call Sir Robert Peel an opponent — (Cheers and laughter)—but that Right Hon. Gentleman has • told us, that a fixed duty amounts to an impossibility. Now what at I want this meeting to do, is to furnish Sir Robert with an unequivocal demonstration of ycur feelings, wants, and wishes; I want you to tell him that you will no longer submit either to the fixed duty or to the sliding scale; I want you to tell him that you will be satisfied with nothing but total and immediate repeal—(Enthusiastic cheering)—l want you to tell him that you will have no more to do with a scale depending upon averages, of which the index now points to moderate prices, while provisions are dear; a sys tem which nothing on earth so much resembles as that of a man who chose to ring his dinner-bell when there was not a morsel in the pantry.—(Cheers and laughter.) When we last met here we had not overcome our opponents argu ments—we had not silenced their fire—as my friend Cobden says, we had not spiked their guns. Now it is different. We have defeated them, argument by argument. They no longer dare to meet us in the field of reasoning , exce p tin g indeed when now and then such an unsophisticated and chi valrous a gentleman as Mr. Cayley comes forward to break a lance. He has broken one already, and I thought that the result of the combat was, that he was forbidden by the Pro tection Society to attempt the splintering of another. But now it appears that he wishes to enter into the lists with Lord John Russell.—(Laughter.) I do not know if you have read his letter; but it must have been written either by—l beg the, ladies' pardon—an old woman or an Irishman.—(Laughter.) He first tells us one reason why the corn-laws do no harm, because, foorsooth, as he says, did these laws do any harm, the landlords and farmers would never have passed them.— (Shouts of laughter.) And then he tells you—this con summate reasoner —why it happens that the abolition of the corn-laws would do na good. Because, forsooth, would the repeal of the corn-laws be beneficial to the public, they would have been repealed by the land lords already.—(Greet laughter.) Wonderful logic this— why, thislStr. Cayley must be a second Joe Miller in dis guise.—(Laughter.) But he gets more facetious still fur ther on. In talking of the opening of the ports he goes on to say either you can or you cannot by this means obtain an additional supply of food. I do not mean to dispute this dictum—( Laughter)—but he continues to argue that if you could get a nl - lain' then it would be injurious to have a large quantity of core thrown upon the market. at lower _prices., so as to enable the people to consume mote largely. le ow, this is the Hibernian pai t of the argument—(Laughter)—and this, in fact, is a very fair specimen of the arguments which the few chivalrous knights who, like Mr. Cayley, yet take the field against the League, are in the habit of employing.— (Cheers.) Our position is now assured. The two great leaders of the two great political parties of this country have admitted it. The repeal of the corn-laws is only a question cf time—so say Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. Now, I want you to declare that this is the time—(Loud cheers) — and if this present time, or that which is just passed, had been made use of, we should have had corn by this hour pouring into our ports from America. (When we met you here last, although the League was a great fact, it was an isolated fact. It was strong in the union of men of all opinions; powerful in the truth and justice of its cause; great in the energy of members; and independent in the fact of its being uncon nected with any political party in the State. Then, indeed, the League . flourished on the sound sense of the people of England. Now, in one respect, the case is altered. We have received the accession of the amiable Morpeth— (Cheers)—and not only of the amiable, but of the talented and statesmanlike Morpeth—(Loud .cheers)—and not only have we his adhesion, but we have that of Lord John Rus sell—(l.ond cheers)—a man so well known for his high po litical courage, that no one will dare to say that he has been led to take that course which lie has adopted from any terror of popular outcry. Lord John Russell is a thoroughly Conservative statesman, and most unwilling to submit to change, unless he clearly sees that will be beneficial. — (Cheers.) But in what he has done I believe that he has done himself the greatest honour.—(Cheers.) Yes ; he has covered himself with honour, in having openly, fearlessly, and uprightly admitted his former errors.— (Loud cheers.) His conduct. has been as honourable to himself as it has been rare among statesmen—(Cheers) — and I heartily hope that the great political party, of whom Lord John Russell has been long the leader, will now • see the necessity of follwing in his steps.—(Loud cheers.) • Gentlemen, as an individual, I must confess that I . feel great satisfaction in thinking that there is a :probability that that great political party, with whom I have long acted, but from whom I have been separated on this one point of free trade, are at length about to become, as they ought long ago on their own prin ciples ,to have become, the repeaters of the corn-law.— (Loud cheers.) But as a member of the League, and as chairman of this meeting, composed as it is of men of every shade of political opinion, I feel I may not utter a word that can be supposed to express anything like a party feeling upon this question. But it has been said by many, that in conse quence of Lord John Russell's letter—let Sir Robert Peel do what he may—the credit of having carried free trade will not be his, but Lord John Russell's. Now, in the name of the League, I entirely deny this position, and I hope and trust that I may iu the name of this meeting also give that pro position a flat denial.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I hold that it is necessary for us, in carrying out our principles, strictly to adhere to the rules which we have laid down, for the exclu sion from our discussions of anything like party politics and feeling, and I wish you as a body to express that which I as an individual feel, that should Sir Robert Peel—as it is said he will—either open the ports or repeal the corn-laws, that we shall receive the act as one emanating strictly from, and as one for which our thanks shall be solely d ue to him,— (Cheers.) We are anxious to attain our great end ; and, in order to do so , we cons ent to throw aside all party objects.—(Cheers.) It is said that the Prime Minister is to do something. I hardly know what. if it be his in tention to repeal the c, en- laws, we shall receive the conces sion gratefully at his htaida; but having, as a body, so agreed to receive it, let him ru-o be distinctly informed that we will stand no shuffiing—(Cheers and laughter)—that we will not be satisfied with half measures, that we will not de sist from our efforts so long as one ray of protection remains. —(Loud cheers.) But it is possible that he may do nothing. In that case the question will be referred to the country on the next dissolution of Parliament, and then I hope and trust that you, men and women of Bristol, will do your duty.— (Hear.) I hope you will throw aside all recollections of past contests--that you will lay aside all little , petty political animosities—and joining heart and hand in the good cause, determine not only to return to Parliament your excellent representative, Mr. henry Berkeley, but give him a free trader to sit beside leim.—(Tremendous cheerin g , amid which the Noble Lord resumed his seat.) e object merchant)of stood for n wa r. rd G io T m n o ° v l e lAs the (a fi n rs in t il r u e e s n o t lu ial t iol3n.ristio'hl meeting was to promote the 405. freehold mov e ment. the north of England several of the most influential counties In i had been thus carried, and he hoped that in the west, ac tive enough and influ ential enou g h to win to free-trade Bristol and Bath, by their united effor ts, w ould be found the counties of East Somerset and West Gloucester.—(Loud cheers.) Let the men of the west take a leaf out of the book of the men of the north.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded t o review at some length the operation of the corn-laws, with the view of proving that their influence, while it failed to benefit the class for whose advantage the bread-tax had been unposed, had a direct and most inju rious effect on the welfare of the people, illustrating his va rious positions with copious statistical details. Why should they, he would ask, maintain laws whi c h con f err ed benefit on no one, and which were so injurious to the general body of the community ?—(Cheers.) Why should they be obliged to witness so frequently the recurrence o f artificial scarcity in thts country—artificial scarcity, such as that which they witnessed every three or four, years ?—(Hear, hear.) He be lieved that this artificial scarcity of the food of the people did no good to those whose interest it was produced to serve. On the contrary, it was of the most serious injury to them; for, whilst it did them no personal good, it brought upon them the obloquy of starving the people, and thus caused them to lose their character.—(Cheers.) There were no parties, therefore, more interested in the question of the abo lition of the corn-laws than the landowners, and they ought to take that subject into their mature and constant. considera tion.— (Hear.) It had bean stated by many in this meeting that they would not object to the establishment of the prin ciples of free trade in this empire, if we could only get other nations to agree to the adoption of those principles. If the principles were right and correct, however, he could not see any force in that argument, for it would not surely be held that England, a country which he might say bad always led the way in civilisation, should be the last to move in such a cause, or that she should not be the first to come forward in the assertion of this great principle.—(Loud cheers.) But there was no course which tended so directly to the abolition of those protection laws as that of profferirg to other nations all the inducements which we had in our power b y the abolition of tariffs, which were hostile to them.—(hear, hear.) It was by removing all such difficulties as hostile tariffs that we could induce other nations N adopt the principled of tree trade, and it ri or an d re- nroe t the ajll.r► ;sons Il?, irit Sit slid were CIE AY' oing e se• lines , give icOts 0 55. 'o'. ree to LsY b e , ca te :matt i ' ° l3 d ser 3 est fer IS• )1?* ~~ -