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On Friday there will be no performance. baue oaaer 4 7 "•.3 •••=45- 2, ;,4F t rr ,e tr: LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 139. Chartists were honoured last night by the Duke GINGHAM inquiring. whether Lord MELBOURNE nno of them were arming, and Lord MELBOURNE he did. They have now taken their place in the It wi!l be curious if their conduct should riltneatto take steps to prohibit 'nail ideals float arts. 3. Oar Gov( rnment being one: of fictions, c,o security flr either libeity or life, if one of clr a part of the community, shall be au ', to carry arms, such, for instance, as the the hreal-taxing Dukes and Squires, ;r serfs—and the rest of the community must a pike or a pistol. The temper of mews' well as that of their weapons will yet be tried, we a2vi;'s laws be continued. cf LONDON brought under the notice of some ineg;il proceedings under the New Mar t, the SJpotintendent of the Oundie Union li.:mnized a marriage between a young marl grandmother. The LORD CHANCELLOR grandmother was under age, ranAriber the circumstances correctly, there A in them to deprive the proceeding of 'tie attributes belonging to its name. EDAM took the opportunity to advert to the which still exist in our marriage law, :1 that the n:toarked that it was nol',as"those who or Westrainstor Hall well know, an easy make a wo: king I,lw, though people ecntinually aws t:) he. made to remedy every single evil that r ti.eir notice. Lord MELBOURNE admitted ef,:ity of watching over the working of the Act. 1 .3 of LONDON blso complained of the Re. t.,4s tel , aling to keep the people from send. didren to be Captised. LLENBOIIOUGH said that the Clcrg-y sould the peop:e, and teach them their duty, wa3 rebukcd by the Bishop of No reap must find fault with the :0 arc, by office, fault-finders. The convt.rsa nothing, but it made the fact plain that the ,ot Ike the Marriage and Itzistration Laws, what thrl can to make them unpopular. thcr surprised that they have not complained, F on the score of registration preventhq ,ore loudly and more frequently. conversation which took - place on the subject t-laws between the Marquis of SALISBURY and UGHAM, it appears that Lord FITZWILLIAM to decide when he will bring the question Lords, and we are afraid that it will be post tfter Easter. Their Lordships adjourned - at hour. the Commons, immediately after the petitions wero tted, Sir E. CODRINGTON made his motion for ex 'g the inquiries of the )Military Commissioners Luniry abases of the Navy, which after a considera sfatssion was negatived without a division. We elsewhere adverted to this motion. !. MACKINNON moved for a Committee to inquire best means of consolidating turnpike trusts, and ie.tio; the debts on them ; the establishment of in several instances rendered turnpike-roads no r a security for the money borrowed on them. Dlr. F. LE oons'outed to the Committee so far as to inquire ae effect of railroads on turnpike-roads as a source :tome. Mr. 'W ARBURTON showed that the COM- mittee roust be endowed with second sight, for tl:e inquiry must be into the effects of the future. tuot:oa was withdrawn, but the subject is a s ono, and it indicates clearly how the .tore might, if it had any wisdom, confer great Ltei,u ;in the country. The deterioration of turn ro-Acls, and the decay of hand-loom weavers, are two of the many instances which continually e'-:car of new inventions and great social improvements snio injury to numerous individuals. Now a V:: se Lezislature—not wholly given up to factious brawls and party disputes, would, and ought, we think, to take osur, to soothe, if it cannot prevent, such evils. 'there should pro b a bl y b e an i nsurance , or na ti ona l juid, to guard against the misfortune of being ruined :y 4n Improvement, as there is against being ruined by l''". We apprehend that at present the former cala wi,ty i 3 more frequent than the latter. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Registration of Voters in Ireland. The Bill is t o be similar to that of last year, and to make the A!sistant Barristers the Revising Barristers. No oppo sit:on was made to the motion, though it caused some conversation. Captain PECHELL asked leave to bring i■ a Bill to • reduc e the liabilities of innkeepers to 101., unless the gue.st gave his money or baggage to the landlord. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion ; Mr. M. i i iIILLIP3 would consent to it if the Bill were to be ern:fined to Brighton. The House divided, and the Gal:ant Captain was ungallantly refused by a majority 156 to 20. Mr. BAINEs withdrew his motion for a Committee on First Fruits, because Lord JOHN RUSSELL has a plan for providing for the poor Clergy. Mr. MILNER GIBBON, the Conservative Member for Ipswich, moved for a return of despatches and corres cc between the British Mission at Stockholm r MAJESTY'S Minister for Foreign Affairs, during e ytilr:l 1837 and 1838, relative to the port of Slito, in the island of Gottland. Attempts, it appears, have been r.ale to get Slito declared a free port, which would be ad vant?geous to our commerce,and the correspondence was ' rcquired to show what had been done. Lord PALMERSTON resisted the motion on the ground that the matter in ques tion was an internal regulation of Sweden, with which i other countties had no right to interfere, and was yet 1 under discussion. A considerable body of Liberals, I such as Mr. IhwEls, Mr. GRoTE, and Mr. HUME, sup i ported Mr. GIBBON. Besides Lord PALMERSTON, the . „ Etzal CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the PRESIDENT oF the BOARD of TRADE spoke against the motion, which was finally- negatived by 140 to 118. Mr. PACKINGTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to put tio , !11 the too great number of beer-houses. He will graciously allow them a little time to get out of the trade, ti.thl after that will not license those who are nut rated to a certain sum in towns, and to a somewhat less eurc. in rural districts. His Bill will be very popular, we ,r,:rc7itli.L' i with certain Monopolists, Squires, and elderly ildies, who_ ar3 dreadfully- alarmed at the progre3s nude in beer-brinkincr ' by a peasantry starring en Bs. cr a- week . If Mr. PACKINGTON were to oppose the it would be more creditable to his love of ;ice Han is the Beer Bill. me Ilaynooth College question was postponed, and of Sir FRANCIS HEAD'S despatches having ordered, the House adjourned about Half past i some I been Twe The Government of this country is, and has long been, the prey of factions. Now that \\ hilts pntominate, Colonel VERNER and other gentle ' men, who toast the " Battle of the Diamond," are disil.issed from the Magistracy—Lord FORTESCUE with his friends, who are inimical to the Orange party, are pl ace d i n o ffi ce . If t h e T or i es were in power th e rryerse would be the case. For them to com plain of this, the consequences of beim: , in a minority, H puerile ; they ought to help themselves, and • get a majority. The proceedings against ssellich they rave are according to the best prac bees of the Constitution, at the best times, and they on7ht to be the last, surely, to complain of When the Whigs were in opposition, in 1, they did not whine like the Tories ; they and would no more allow Lord LONDON- Y to proceed to St. Petersburg, because of his 'nfli than they would subsequently allow Col. :zit to remain in the Magistracy. Why the Tories follow such a laudable ex- Their Journals go on, morning and denouncing Lord FORTESCUE for his op:- .Anil vet the party makes no attempt to turn We repeat that this is puerile and con , and utterly unworthy of the tactics of and utterly contrary to the principles and ;es of that old unreformed Constitution which object of Tory veneration. lieges, indeed, this perpetual contention and factions makes the Government not but a curse. Why cann o t such a pro soeial lif e as a system of rail roa d s or - roatis, which are of infinite more use to 'innity than a standing army, be carried thcn~. ? lt Russia, it appears, is destined to find the con quest of the Circassian Tribes a work of more diffi culty than was ever anticipated by the least san guine of her Ministers. During the last year she has had nothing but reverses to record in a country which she imagined the very terror inspired by her name would reduce to bondage. For several months her official organs were instructed to publish lying bulletins from the Generals in Circassia to the Impe rial Government, in which evety defeat was blazoned forth .As a splendid victory ; but the presence of English travellers near the theatre of war—led thither either by sympathy or curiosity, and the necessity of con stantly sending large reinforcements to the invading army, combined to make the real facts known to Europe. But if the statements contained in the following letter from Odessa, of the 6th ult., which we copy from the Commerce, a French Paper of Monday, be correct, Russia only begins to. feel the dreadful results of her own aggressive policy. The seeds of revolt have been long sown in her army ; and the discontent of her Nobles keeps pace with the spirit of insubordination which, on many occasions, has recently been exhibited in the conduct of her military serfs. That the EMPEROR is ex ceedingly popular among the native boors of Russia is true ; but it is equally undoubted that he is disliked by the Nobles, feared and hated by the army, and regarded as a mere martinet by such officers of his fleet as understand the elements of seamanship. Uridcr these circumstances, the symptoms of general disaffection manifested in the events narrated in the following letter, must greatly disturb the equanimity of the Imperial Cabinet. We tremble for the fate of Mr. BELL : A letter from Odessa, dated 6th February, is to the following effect :—" The accounts which we receive from Anapa are of the highest importance. The Lesghis (the most numerous tribe of Circassians), who have been sub ject to Russia ever since 1829, have revolted against that power. They have massacred the civil and military who were in their villages ; nor have they stopped there ; they have invaded Georgia, and have invited the inhabitants to take arms against Russia. Genera Jest (Military Com mandant of the territory of the Lesghis) has beet. obliged to make his troops retire into the fortified places till the arrival of the reinforcements, for which he has applied to General Golovine. The latter his sent General 017. ff with a brigade of infantry and 12 regiments of Cossacks against the rebels, and is going to march in person with all the remaining troops that can be spared from 'reins. He has even ordered the detached corps of General Re gewske to join him. It is doubtful whether it will be p ,s- Bible to subdue the Lesghis, a warlike tribe, who have the mostinviterate hatred ot every thing that bears the Itus- sian name. Desertion continues to prevail in our army, especially among the Cossacks of the Black Sea, who desert in such numbers that they are no longer employed in the advanetd posts. The Regiments of Infantry posted in the intrenchments are guarded by the 1.),.;t1 Cossacks, tie only corps that re mained entirely faithful to the Czar. You may imagine what is to be expected from troops whom it is necessary to place under a guard in the presence of the enemy. The revolt of the Lesghis is ascribed to Mr. Bell, the agent of England in Circsssia. This indefatigable man, who is well acquainted with the language and manners of the people of the Caucasus, has introduced himself among them under various disguises, and exhorts them to ris, against the Russians. lie spares neither money nor pro. mises to induce them.. It is affirmed that he has visited in disguise Tefiis, and other towns of the countries subject to the dominion of Russia, and that he has connections with their inhabitants. - Accordingly, Lieut.-General Golovinc has offered a reward ut 300 ducats, to whoever shall deliver up Mr. 8,11, either dead or alive, at all events. it is certain that no native will have the baseness to b, tray Mr. Bell, whom all Cireasslans consider as their pro tector, as a man sent by [leaven to free them from the Muscovite yoke. . _ . . Prep trations are making I:ere to send 30,000 men to Georgia by sea ; and it is affirmed that 100,000 men have already set out from the north of Russia for the same desti nation, by way of Moscow and the country of the Don Cossacks. Those troops are not merely to fill up the vacancies caused by disease, the sword, and desertion. As to the project of sending troops to the assistance. Persia, we are•assured that the army of reserve of 70,000 men, lately assetchlod fur that purpose in the southern provinces of the empire, will rot march until England should openly commence hostilities against the Shah. The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday hive been received. By four o'clock on that day the Go vernment had received telegraphic information of the return of 160 deputies out of 459, of which 78 belonged to the Opposition, and two were doubtful—thus leaving the Ministers only the chance of a majority of two votes. Of the 14 departments of the Seine, 8 returned Opposition candidates, 4 Ministerial, and 2 continued undecided. There appears no longer a doubt of the defeat of Ministers. When the contest is decided, we will publish a list of the returns, with the state of the polls at the close of the election. The Journal der Debals states that the Prince DE JOINVILLE mistook the British packet Express for a merchant-man, in the Gulf of Mexico. This is making bad worse. 'Were this true, it would reflect no credit on the Minister who appointed him Captain of a corvette. There is not a cabin boy in the fleet, would be guilty of such a professional blunder. The Crown Prince of BAVARIA arrived in Naples on his way to Greece to visit his brother, on the 15th ult. He was treated by the KING and Royal Family with great distinction. The Journal in which we find this quotes the following frightful accident from a Neapolitan Paper : Last week a part of the building appropriated to foundlings was destroyed by fire. The flames spread so rapidly that twenty-three children perished. One of the nurses, in her despair, threw herself out of the winch.w with two children in her arms; all three were found dashed to pieces, and quite dead, in the street. The firemen distinguished themselves by their efforts, three of them were killed, having fallen from the upper story to the lower, where they were buried under the ruins. The institution is very defective, only small portable fire-engines are used, which are utterly useless when the flames spread rapidly. However, the houses being built with great solidity, the danger is not great, and there is hardly ever any reason to fear that fire will extend to the adjoining buildings. BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 4. First Highest Lowest Last. Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 111 10 ... 111 .5 ... 111 15 4 per Cents lO2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 :0 3 per Cents 79 20 . 79 20 ... 79 5 ... 79 10 Bank of France Laffitte Bank I,ooof. So 1025 —.1025 ...10-5 225 5,0031 :7h 5200 ...5200 ...519 -.5150 Belgian 5 per Cents lOO% ... 101 ... 100 4 ... ,01 3 per Cent 5......, 69 25 ... 69 25 ... 69 15 ... 69 25 Bank 560 ... 560 ... 550 ... 555 S, anish Ac ive 19% ... 244 ... 19% ... 2034 Passive ... 4 .. Neapolitan 99 30 ... 99 30 ... 99 1.5 ... 99 30 Roman RAILWAY SHA: St. Germain ... 6!9 ... 615 Versailles, R. B 560 ... 575 ... 560 L 8.... ............ 170 ... 170 ... 160 Rouen 930 ... 930 ... 930 Orleans . • 572 • uso ...930 ... 4:15 Strasburg to Bale 321 50 ... 325 ... :322 50 ... 325 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViimeNs, FEE. ',ll Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1491 —AllgemeineZeitung, Feb. 28. into effect by the Government, and which, con— cerning not an individual interest but the interest of the whole, appears as if it could only be ' well carried into effect by the Government — why cannot such a necessary provision be made by our Government as by the Government of Belgium ? Because the faction, let whichever will be in office, will make a job of it, will increase its power to the discomfort and weakness of the other faction, which would therefore resist it to the -utmost. A system of railroads is essential to the public prosperity ; to be executed well it must be executed on general prin siples, and must embrace the whole empire ; but it must rot be allowed, because it would give the faction which might he in office when it was car ried into effe a long lease of place. This is bad enough, but i is not the worst consequence of this state of things. Why cannot the Government provide for every necessary part of the public safety, such as by police, external defence, etc., etc. ? Because the factions which have alternately possessed it, and have alternately worked it to the promotion of their own interests and the treading down of the other faction, have made the Government an ohject of suspicion and mistrust. It has misused its po - ver to serve bad purposes ; it has been so long the enemy, not the friend of the people; so long the tool of fac tions not the instrument of the public good, that all persons, except those who mmediatcly administer it or share its emoluments, look on it with suspicion, mistrust, and even hatred, and will not willingly concede it an atom more power, whether by esta blishing railroads or providing a general police, than they can help. These are some of the gene ral consequences of the old English constitutional practice of making the Government the prey of fictions, of which the Tories, forsooth, now that they arc the outs, and feel the hoof of the Whigs on their necks in such appointments as that of Lord FORTESCUE, bitterly complain. Wise men however, 11.21 p themselves ; and if the Tories can not turn out the Whigs, they ought to have fora ' rude enough to bear the consequences of their own inferiority without alternately whining and bluster ing. It will be an eternal disgrace to the Tories, as a faction, if they do not, after w hat they have said, make an attempt to stop Lord FORTESCUE from going to Ireland. Admiral Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON'S motion for an Address to the Crown, praying her MA JESTY to enlarge the powers of the Naval and Ali , • litary Commission now sitting, so as to embrace the subjects of pensions, pay, the manning of ships, and what other points might occur to the Commissioners as bsnefitial to the public service, was last night negatived. without a division. The Gallant Ad miral could hardly expect a different result if he was sensible of the vagueness and informality of his motion, which was introduced with out . notice, and so worded as to mix up a poposal definite resolution of the House with the question of an Address to the Crown. Still the debate upon it will assist in opening the eyes of the country to the peculiar grievances of a service upon the efficiency of which depends the safety - of the country. The Honourable and Gallant Admiral complained that the rate of. payment in every grade of the service, from the highest .to the lowest, was shamefully disproportioned to the duties required ; and he cited several instances, all proving that nothing was more common in the adminstration of the Navy than the neglect of veterans whose honourable career had entitled them to the gratitude of their country. Nobody, we be lieve, will question the accuracy of this statement. And yet this happens in a country where maids of honour, palace grooms, porters, scullions, and we know not how many besides, are quartered upon the Pension-list, at a rate dictated by the wildest mania for extravagance. The fleet is starved to keep up the dignity of the dowager service about the purlieus of the Palace. Admirals are com pelled to go on short commons, that Honour able Misses may draw quarterly for pin-money upon the Treasury. The right arm of the nation is sacrificed to the more pressing necessities of the butterflies of a Court, or the tools a Minister ! And yet we have no doubt the Go vernment will have the hardihood to make any at tempt to improve the Naval Service a pretext for the imposition of fresh taxes ? We trust that be fore consenting to any such measure, the honest Reformers in the House of Commons will insist upon the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the particulars of the expenditure of those now raised, and whether they will not admit of the car rying out of all desirable projects of improvement in the Navy without entailing another farthing in the shape of taxes upon the nation. , The Right Rev. Father in God CHARLES JAMES, that meek and pious successor of the Apostles, last night poured forth a heart-piercing lamentation on the awful corruption of morals for which the present generation is remarkable above all that have preceded it. To such a pitch of in iquity have we arrived that a man has actually mar ried his grandmother ! What that man will do next it is impossible for us to conjecture, but we are of opinion that the Bishop ought to keep an eye upon him, for it is clear, he bears no goodwill to the Establishment. Had he married his grandmother, or even his great grandmother, according to the rites of the Church, we should never have heard a word about the mat ter ; but, as he has had the impiety to slight her marriage ordinance, his sin is of the blackest dye. Now, every body knows that it is, and always has been, forbidden to marry one's grandmother ; but in this case the relationship is not that of a grandmother and grandson, properly so called, there being, in fact, not a drop of the blood of the one party in the veins of the other. There is affinity, but no consanguinity, and the grandmother is, besides, considerably younger than the grandson. It is further to be observed, that although this marriage is illegal, the law which makes it so is only a few years old. If these things are duly considered, the enormity may perhaps ap pear not quite so heinous as the good Bishop would represent it to be. But why should this God-fearing Prelate lay this sin at the door of the new marriage law ? It is true, no doubt, that the marriage did take place before the Registrar ; but is it not equally true that under the old law there was, anti indeed there is still in Church marriages, ten times the facility for clandestine operations that there is under the new system ? Is this candid ? Does it not smack somewhat of that hypocrisy that can measure the guilt of a poor player, who exercises his calling in Lent, by the locality in which he sins ? Then again the Bishop would not only repeal the New Marriage Act, but also the Registration Act. And why ? Because says he, it has made the Church " lose its influence over the lower orders of the people." Well done, CHARLES JAMES I The Church lose its influence over the people ! We should like to know when it had any influence to lose. If the Right Reverend Bench could command their countenances when this " screamer''—to use brother Jonathan's favourite phrase—was uttered, their features must be cast in bronze. " Not a person," continues the Bishop of LONDON, " will now bring a child to Church for baptism ; 1 and in proof of this, one case is adduced in which the Clergyman was obliged to refuse the rites of burial to a child be cause it had not been baptised. All this is no doubt exceedingly hard upon the Church ; but we dan give the Clergy a recipe for securing baptism to the children of the Establishment, which will be infi nitely more efficacious than the repeal of the Re gistration Act—let them abolish their baptismal fees. The trial Of ARCHIBALD BOLAM, for the murder of a man named MILLIE, at Newcastle, has bee❑ postponed to the Summer Assizes, Mr. Baron ALDERSON observing that by having his trial put off, the prisoner would be tried in the or dinary course, by a jury coming from a distance. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1839 METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times, as old Polonius said of Hamlet, is " still harping on my daughter." Lord Ebrington and his speech is again the theme of discussion with our Contemporary, who bristles up at the very mention of his Lordship's name, observing that he " aggravated infinitely the evil which existed under Lord Normanby's Government. By an nouncing with marvellous intrepidity to the House of Lords that he had the example of Lord Normanby before him, and would endeavour to make him his model—by such emblazonings of his resolution to follow the pestilential course of Lord Normanby, the Noble Vis count indorses, as it were, with his own signature, the worse than suspicious drafts of his predecessor upon the national credulity and confidence. He goes to impart an undeserved credit to paper originally bad." In another leading article on Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Copy right Bill, the Times says, "although that ingenious ar.d warm-hearted gentleman deserves the utmost credit for purity of motive, he is, in reality, with all respect be it spoken, the mere catspaw of a literary clique, who, being actuated by a lust for money, and reinforced by divers neglected authors desirous of aff.xting importance for their works, have cajoled him into an enterprise whose ap parent chivalrousness blinds him to its injustice." The Morning Chronicle contains an ingenious and smartly written leading article on the Bishop of London's speech last night in the Lords on the subject of the Mar riage Act ; in the course of which, alluding to his Lord ship's touching anecdote of the man who married his grandmother, our Contemporary says, " the Bishop should not be very severe on an alliance which is very analogous to that of Church and State. The severe Lent on which the Bishop insists, belongs properly, not to the Church t,f . England, but to that Church of Rome which many Divines assert to be its mother. The State therefore, as a son of the Church, in keeping Catholic Lent, is spiritually mar rying its own grandmother This very incestuous alliance the Bishop wishes to consummate. The House of Corn. mons forbids the bans." In a leading article on the present state of the Navy the Morning Herald, cursorily speak in g of Sir E. Codring ton's speech on the subject last night in the Commons, re marks as follows : —" His statements ought to be weighed with the utmost care. They are calcu lated to induce a universal feeling of shame for the mismanagement of a noble branch of the public service." Th e Herald contains another article which is strenous in condemnation of the Beer Bill, and, what our Contemporary calls, " the per nicious gift of a free-trade philosophy." The Morning Post, speaking of Lord Ebrington and his speech in the Lords on Monday night, observes, " What is now most to be feared is that his Lordship's want of ability may make him a pliant instrument in the hands of those with whose cunning he has no pretensions to cope. He could not do better than have prepared for him a nice little pocket copy of the speech made on Monda y evenin g by his friend Lord Brougham. He will there find, elo quently pointed out, the influence against which he should guard, and the dishonour which awaits him, if he yield to it." The Morning Advertiser, commenting o n Mr. Wood's speech on the Navy in the House of Commons on Monday night, observes us follows :—" Being perfe ctl y convinced that Mr. Wood's statement is perfectly correct, we must, nevertheless add, that the Navy of England can never rest on a sure foundation until these points have been conceded —first, that impressment shall no longer exist; secondly, that the wages of British Seamen in the Navy ahall exceed those which are given in the merchant service ; and thirdly, that every man entering the Navy, whatever may be his position, shall have the opportunity of r ising by merit to the highest grade in the service." ------- - At a Meeting of the Royal Botanic Garden Society, held on Tuesday, at their Rooms, in Pall-mall, attended by the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Teign mouth, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P., John Ellis, Esq., M.P., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., &c. &c., the charter «as finally arranged, previously to laying it befora Lord Melbourne for her Majesty's assent. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The reported arrivals of English Grain and Flour small, but of foreign wheat considerable. Some fresh runs of Essex Wheat appeared, which were offered at Monday's terms, but did not meet buyers, and foreign Wheat was extremely heavy. Barley also met a very dull trade at last quotations. I n Beaus and Peas little doing. For Oats: the' demand was scanty, at the terms last qu iced. Scarcely any sale for Flour. ARRIVALS Wheat. Barley. tests. English lrisn - I !,580 Forei,,n NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, 2,'230 acks - brli, Supplies good, and so was the demand ; prices a little higher. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. Irish, 3s. to 3s. ad. Game and Poultry in good supply ; trade lively, and prices tending upward. Turkeys, 4s. to 10s. each. Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 4s. Chickens, 2s. 6d. to 35. Ducklings, 2s. 6d. to 4s. Goslings, 7s. to 9s. Hares, 3s. Widgeons, Is. Pigeons, 6d. to 9d. Teals, Is. Pea Fowls, 105. Guinea, 2s. 6d. to 4s. Ducks, 2s. 6d. to 35. Woodcocks, ss. Snipes, Is. 6d. ; and Gold Plovers, Is. 6d. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and trade brisk. Turbot, os. to 10s., 154., and 20s. ; Cod, 2s. to 55., Bs., and 10s. each ; Salmon, 2s. 91. to 3s. 6d. per lb. ; Mackerel, 4d. to Is. each ; Lobsters, is. to Bs. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Whiting, 3d. to Bd. each ; Haddock, sd. to 10d. and Is. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The New York Papers have been received this mornirq by the George Washington, but they 'are not of later dates than those previously received by the above vessel. We copy the following extract from th e N ew Orlems Papers i TEXAS AND FRANCE.—The fact has been generally known for some time that negociations were on foot to ef fect a commercial treaty between France and Texas, the dif f iculties with Mexico, no doubt, has contribut-d to hasten this event, by influencing the inclination of t',n French Cabinet for the arrani , :ement ; we are not surorised, therefore, to see it announced in the New York Event.v Star, that the Texian representative, General Henderson, has concluded a Treaty, whereby the ports of Texas end France are opened to the vessels and commerce of each other. The trade bAween this city and Texas is rapidly on the increase, bcsid.'s a number of vessels engaged in the trade; we have three fine steamers. MExico, DEc 21.—' •" Department of War and of the darine, " Stu —I have had the honour to lay before his Excell( n.q the President, the request addressed to you by the Com mander of the French frigate Nereidc; his Excellency ap: proves your conduct in this affair, brcause the nation laciug at war with the French Government, no succour 'can be furnished to the enemy ; I also have orders to recommend that you exercise the utmost vigilance, that our unjust to vadersreceive neither at Vera Cruz,' or at any other point, provisi.ms, water, and no kind of succour whatever. " TERNEL." We have received Montreal Papers to the 2d February, . - from which we extract the following : " The weather has become steady again—clear and frosty. The severe frost that set in after the drenching rain, has covered our streets and roads with a thick coating of ice, which mtkes them in prime order for sleighing." THE FUNDS We have few arrivals this morning, and they are of little importance ; consequently, to the present time, there is but little doing either in the British or Foreign market. Consols are not quite so good as they left off yestercley, at 93i for the Account, opened 93—for Money, 921 K ; Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; Bank Stock, for the opening, 206 207 ; India Bonds, 64 66 ; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 191 B ; opened at 19i ; Portuguese closed 344 1; at present 341 4 ; Three per Cents., 21i ; Belgian, 101 102 ; Brazilian, 80* ; Colombian, 29i; Mexican, 23f 24-1- ; Dutch Two-and-a. Hal per Cents., 551 ; Five per Cents., 104 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Sto& India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9-2% 3,4 per Cent - Ditto Red. Ditto Bonds 64 66 pm South Sea Stock — Old Annuities — New Ditto - 77 I New t k per Cent IONOi 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 65 i.m. Jan. 5, 1860 Oct. 10, 1859-- ..... 14 15-16 151 Ditto Commercial — PH'. Jan. 5, ISGii ... 14% I Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 180. — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1570 Consols for Account 93 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl.O . r. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account — Russian Bonds, 1822 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account — I Ditto Metallic ... — Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account —l Ditto Account....ln 20 0) ~, i Creek Bonds French, 5 per cent....... --f. —c. Ditto Bond:, 1525 Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —a Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — I Exchange. —f. -- e , Ditto Account ......... Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account 55 Ditto Account Neapontan 1 Ditto Account---- ..... fItICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.. Paid. Per Sh e. rriatol and Exeter Railway Company 2O Brighton Railway ....... ...... ...... 1 tendon and LiacKwail Railway • '.O on and trreenwich Aailway Compan London and :::outnampton Railway Company 581. 17s. N. ii.L.f.chester and Birmingham Railway l5 Do. Do. Extension - 7 South Eastern and Dover Railway Company P London Joint Stock Bank lO Australian Company 27% - 12 1 / 4 6 3 0!al 12N 44 5 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. trasterdam C.F. 12 4 1 Gibrzitar 44 Ditto, at sight ..... .......... 12 lhit Leghorn 20 Rotterdam 2U. 12 4 i Genoa 25 80 Antwerp... Hamburg. ....... ..... M.B l3 11 Venice 47 Altona.... Paris, 3 days' iigllt 25 35 i Palermo per oz. 118% Ditto. ..... ........... 3 Ms. 25 60 ILisbon 54 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 455 - Peterebutgh, ruble... 3 U. :0% Berlin _ 0 . Vienna, effective ft Trieste......dit to Iladrld Caw Liz.... BM= , ............ Barcelona ..............» ........»,».» ►o 10 5 31 )4 37 36 36 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight _ _ Philadelphia - 46 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ, Portugal C4old, 18 0 Foreign Gold, in liars 0 0 0 New OouOloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 lii Silver in Bars HALF-PAST ONE LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY. —We have again to report an extensive demand for Cotton. 'I he sales to-day are 10,000 bags, principally American, and full prices have been obtained. During the morning the British funds have had rather a heavy appearance, owing to two caus e s—the fi r st, th e re turn of the French Prince from the blockade of the ports of Mexico, and that the explanation or the excuse he gives for taking the pilot out of the British Packet will not be taken as satisfactory by our Government; secondly, the answer given by Lord Melbour,e, to a question from the Duke of Buckinghem, that Government were well aware that reports were prevalent that parties, who were called Chartists, were occupied in arming themselves ; these subjects, wlich have been caught hold of by the speculators, have had the effect of damping the market. Consols 921 93 for the Account ; Money 92/ I I; Exche quer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, 64 66; Batik Stuck Shut; India also. Spanish Active 191 ; Portuguese, 341 35 ; Dutch, 551 4; Belgian, 101* 102; Brazilian, 80 61 ; Colo.n bian, 29k; Mexican, 231 241; Three per Cents. Por u guese, 21122. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, Matten s.—Wind, E.N.E., fresh breezes.—Sailed the Vigilant, Grey, for the South Seas. Remains the Amelia, Thompson, for Amsterdam. PoaTsalouTH, Maacn s.—Wind, E.N.E., fresh breezPs. —Arrived the Achione, De Jonge, from Rotterdam; Victor.a. Off port the Lady Browne, Down, from Messina. Sailed the Renewal, Wilds, for Malta; Turk, Penton, St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, Manca s.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived the Helen, Lindson, from Oporto; Mary Walker, Denniston, Trinidad; Ledour Le Triumphante, Lavide, Nantes; Sedura, Oliva, ditto; Gertrude, Malvina, ditto; St. Julian De Meaux, l're val, ditto. Sailed the Ram, Laily, Liverpool. FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Wind S. S. E., fine.—Arrived the Palmyra, Gill, from Malta ; North Esk, Spragar, Lisbon ; Josephine, Victor, Names ; Devonshire steamer, We Is, London, and proceeded for Dublin ; Juno steamer, Mo nody, ditto, and proceeded for Cork. Sailed the City of Londonderry, Ellis, for Vigo, &c. LIVERPOOL, FEB. s.—Wind ' S.E., fine.—Arrived the Ceorge Washington, Aldridge, from New York. Sailed the Sampton, Briggs, for Valparaiso ; Jamaica, Perry, Bahia; Dalunia, Havannah ; Brilliant, Griffiths, Jamaica; Hanover, Bruel, Trinidad ; Providence, Shaw, St. Tho mas's; Allegbany, Michaels, Philadelphia; Nicholas Bi I dle, Heron, New York ; Adam Loder, Main, Now Or leans ; Hebder, Fowler, Marseilles ; Criterion, Wallac., Lady Louisa, Henley, Baltimore. Off port, the Medora, from Charleston. CORK, MARCH 3.—Arrived the Betsy H a ll, Coke, from Monte Video. Sailed the Strathmore, Gavinf for Nadtes. LYNN, Masten s.—Arrived the Gregorious, from Ostend; Jacobo Catherine, Mehoff, Dieppe; Lord Hawkesbury, Strad ley, Ostend. DUBLIN, Mane!! 4.—Arrived the Duke, Cambridge (steamer), Balby, from London. KINGST OWN , AlARcit 4.—Arrived the Trinity, yacht, Johnston, from Livelpool. SHIE Lns , MARCH 4.—Arrived the Mauritius, Graffe, Castle Belbeen i z ,ii N ns lli c A a ci 3 n N y t, c a a E r ci from Danzig; Zealous, Bruce, Rouen ; St, Jacque, Macular', Dunkirk ; Argo, Rrstock ; St. Joseph, Baines ; Sir J. Theodore; Webster, Odessa. LIVERPOOL, MARCH s.—The Rouence, Williams, from stone,B ri an t h , a f \ r i o u m g. Liverpool to Siera Leone, was driven on shore near Point Lynas, on the night of the 3d instant, and it is feared will not be got off. be DARTMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Arrived off port the Mary Ann, from Odessa. Sailed the Olympia, from Cayenne ; Providen on, with t tia, Hoare, Lisbon. st r c i. hai ß iri c snh i ee l r 4.---Arrived quarterpeh OFF THE WlGHT.—Arrived the Sir John Rae, Reed, from the Mauritius; Sander, Calcutta. s.—Sailed the Gle aner, Rees, for M.:- badoes. REDEAR, MAR. 4.—The Reform, Si m p son, fro m Suther land to Jersey, ran upon Coathern Sands this morning, and is not expected to be got off. She has five feet water in her boil The Flower of Whitley ran upon these rocks on the night of the Ist inst., but was got off the following tide, and proceeded for Hartlepool. CORK, MAR. 3.—The Betsey Hall, Coke, from Monte Nideo, experienced a rreadful gale, on the 30th ult., 30 miles S.W. of Cowes, and was th•own on her brain-ends: lost tore.. tap-sail, jibboom, &c. THE WEATHER.—London has been visite d for the last three d ays w i th easterly winds and frosts as bitt , T as the depth of winter. This afternoon there is a heavy fall of snow, with an easterly gale as cold as charity. MANCHESTER CORN-LAW ASSO- CIATION. (BY EXPRESS.) MANCHESTER, THIS MORNING. TWO O'CLuCK. In consequence of the interruption given to the proceed. ings at the Meeting on Thursday evening last by parties who had not any right to attend the meeting (the terms of the advertisement restricting the meeting to those persons .... who had signed the petitions praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws, the Anti-Corn-law Association determined that the parties really interested in the matter should have an opportunity of expressing their sentiments uninterrupted (if possible) by parties who have declared their intention of turning all public meetings, of whatever description, into " Universal Suffrage Meetings." Accordingly it was determined to hold another meeting, which was fixed for last (Monday) evening, at the Corn Exchange,.and in order, if possible, to prevent the intrusion of disorderly persons, admission was granted by tickets, which were to be had at the rooms of the Anti-Corn-law Association, and at the office of the Manchester Times. In the interval be tween the last meeting and the present one, an address written by a working man, and characterised by the ex pression• of sound principles, made its appearance', and it is understood has greatly enraged the leaders in the dis orderly proceedings of last Thursday evening. The fol lowing is a copy of the placard : WORKING MEN OF MANCHESTER. FaLtow SUFFERERS,—An attempt, a successful attempt, has been made to degradelyou in the eyes of the country and the world, by a number of individuals who have violently assaulted peaceable men, assembled together to enjoy the sight of free citizens to discuss their grievances; and this has been done in your name, and in the name of Fr.edom: Shall we evince our love of liberty by depriving others of that precious right ? we who denounce the tyrants who drove us like sheep from the field of Peterloo—shall we attack others under pre cisely the same circumstances ? Can it be just or right to :To that in the name of the Charter at the Corn Exchange which it was unjust and wrong to do in the name of Castlereagh at Peterloo ? We are demanding Universal Suffi - age. It is our right, and we shall ob tain it. But will not our enemies point to such scenes as that of Thursday evening, and ask triumphantly whether men who dare not listen to discussion, who clamour down all who differ from them, and attack, net their minds with arguments, but their bodies , with chairs and stools, are prepared for self.government ? Will not even our friends, who were driven from the platform on Thursday, some of them with broken heads and bruised limbs, begin to doubt the safety of placing their lives and fortunes at our mercy ? Would not their wives and children cling about them when they returned wounded to their families, and beg them not to give them up to be governed by the terrible Chartists. But we are told the Corn-law agitation is a Whig trick, to put down the cry for the Charter. Are we then so little in earnest about the suffrage as to be decoyed aside by smother cry? Are we really such children that our leaders are afraid of losing us at the sound of a Whig rattle? What a compliment to men who demand a Charter of self-government! But what proofs are there that the Anti-Corn-law agitation is a Whig trick ? Do Manchester men subscribe thousands of pounds, give up their time to go to London, work their mills short time, sell their yarns at less than cost price, and become bankrupts, all to amuse you with a Whig trick ? No ; the masters are up in agitation because, like ourselves, they are suffering om the badness of the times. We are told again that the Anti-Corn-law agitators are upon a wrong scent, that they will never succeed in their attempt for a total Repeal of the Corn-laws; but may we not then the more safely leave them to find that out? Surely that is no reason why we should deprive them of the freedom of action. We have had our Regenera. tion Societies, our Ten Hours' Bill, our Socialism, and other vlans for the mending of our condition, and now we have our Charter ; how should we hke it, if the middle classes had interrupted our pro ceedings, and prevented the discussion of those schemes peaceably ? But I hear it whispered in private, we will force the middle classes is join us for Universal Suffrage, by preventing them from holding meetings upon the Corn-laws, or upon any other question, until they do. If this be the real motive, then ail the other pre tences are hypocritical, and the opposition resolves itself into a case of downright tyranny; and this mode is adopted by men professing a love of liberty, at this day, when press-gangs are no longer tole rated in our streets. Suppose we could succeed, without regard to reason, justice, or law, in forcing the middle classes into oar ranks, would such unwilling allies serve us in the day of need ? Should we not despise them if they tamely submitted to such coercion ? But be assured we shall not succeed. We are dealing, not with slaves, but with Englishmen—with men who fought for us at Trafalgar and Wa• erloo, whose courage has conquered half the world, whose Ratitude has borne them equally along the burning sands of Africa and on the ice-bound shores of the Pole. They are not to be subdued by physical force. You may destroy them and with them the hopes of the empire, but they are Britons, and you cannot, and I glory in the fact, compel them against their will to obey you. Let us no longer then go out of our way to oppose our fellow. countrymen in their honest endeavours to break down tho monopoly of the Bread Tax. Let us learn to do unto others as we would that they should unto us, and may Heaven defend the rights of the poor. A WORKING MAN. In order to confine the character of the meeLing to the parties really entitled to be present, and to repress any disorder that might possibly arise, a strong posse of police officers was stationed at the doors of the room, and the fofms and chairs being removed from the room, a much more ample space was afforded for accommodating the parties. At about a quarter before seven o'clock the doors of the room were opened, and several hundreds of persons speedily entered the room. As the Anti• Corn-law Asso ciation had given the tickets without much discrimitiation, it was apprehended by many persons that some . Chartists were present, and would attempt to raise a disturbance. They certainly did attempt to disturb the Meeting, but were soon put down. On the motion of Mr. Alderman KERSHAW, seconded by Mr. Alderman Coulee, Thomas Harbottle was called to the Chair, there not being more than a dozen hands held up against him. The Room was now quite full, and The CHAIRMAN, on taking his seat, was loudly cheered. He said—Not in the least degree discouraged by one of the most violent outrages upon a respectable public assem - blage 'as that which was last week experienced, he had not thought that there would or could have been persons who were capable of insulting and assaulting the persons who met together ; and yet he had no doubt but that the interruption was the act of previous concert—of pre-con certed arrangement, as indetd at all public meetings, the object of which had not been in perfect accordance with the notions of Mr. Nightingale and his friend Pat Mur phy, and his few choice associates, whose invariable price tine had been always to interrupt, and sometimes to de stroy those meetings. It had been surmised by some of their friends, who knew the character of that gentleman, that such would be the case on the former occasion, and so it had been. He (the Chairman) knew not whai might be the precise object Mr. Nightingale had in view by such a course of proceeding, bnt he was perfectly satisfied that, whatever was his motive or object, be certainly took a most improper mode of forwarding his objects. The course pursued by these individuals had had one ef fect.—( Hear.) It had caused every trade in Manchester to:send to the Anti-Corn-law Association their strict adhe sion to the principles of the Association, and they had sent subscriptions in order that they might be enrolled as =Sn ipers of the Association, and had determined to snpport the Association to the utmost of their power.—( Cheers.) They might therefore thank Mr. Nightingale and his friend Mr. Pat. Murphy for the demonstration. It would be an act of extreme imprudence for them to take up the position which they were prepared to - carry out ; or if they hesitated one moment as to the course which they ought now to adopt. There could be no halting between two opinions; they had formed an attachment to their princi ples, and were prepared to the utmost to carry those principles into full effect.—( Hear, hear.) He was happy to say that he had no fear of their being disturbed that evening.—( Cheers.) He should deem it his duty to protect by every legitimate means in his power, the Gentlemen who were authorised to address the Meeting on that occasion ; and although it bad been thought advisable to admit persons by ticket, he begged it might be distinctly understood that it was not on the ac count that they were afraid of the most full investigation, or of the utmost publicity. They courted publicity, they courted inquiry and investigation ; otherwise they would not have dared to have submitted their cause to the bar of the House of Commons.--( Cheers.) They had been as sailed on the one hand by ignorance and prejudice, and they had been interrupted by others from cupidity. Having stated that the object of the meeting was the re moval of the most abominable of all imposts, the tax upon grain, the Chairman called upon Mr. Cobden to address the meeting.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. CoBDEN then came forward and was received with , tremendous cheers, and a very feeble hissing. He said that there was nothing that he liked'so much as, free discussion, and testing the truth by reason and argument ; and he should never be opposed to reasoning with any man who, as a reasonable being, was determined to take up the advocacy of the Corn-laws ; but he must protest in the ' name of the working classes of Manchester against the con duct of men, who would prevent all discussion of this ins ' portant question ; and, be would venture to say, in the name of the great body of intelligent, hard-working, re spectable men of this town, that they were as deeply dis gusted, and felt themselves disgraced—if they could be disgraced by the conduct of others—by the conduct of those men who, in their name, feloniously broke into that room and eventually took possession of property which the Anti-Corn-law Association were pledged to replace or pay for; and having driven out the lawful occupants, took upon themselves to conduct the riotous proceedings which the meeting had already heard of. Working men of Man• chester (continued Mr. C.) look to yourselves—you who are members of Benefit Societies, you would not wish to dis cuss your own trade concerns. Look to yourselves, for those lawless men who took possession of this room occu , pied as it washy the Anti-Corn-law Association—those men who make inroads-into rooms engaged by the anti. Slavery Society—those men will take possession of your cottages and clothing unless you check them in the bud.---( Cheers. ) Nay, I have no hesitation in saying that even your quiet and happy, and well-regulated firesides, will not be safe unless the strong arm of the law is brought to interpose be tween the wishes of these lawless men who would have no other restraint but the fear of the law, and its consequnncei. (Cheers, and some cries of "Question.") lam glad to find that we have in this room men who are opposed to us, so I will proceed to the question. The question is, whether all classes of this great manufacturing community are inte rested alike in the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws ? Now I hope I have hit the question.—( Cheers. ) But we are told by certain individuals in this town that this is a question in which the master manufacturers are alone interested, and that the working men' are not. We are told that we are not working men.—( Hear, hear, hear.) I am a working man, for I work as hard as any man can do in my own business ; and I say that the labouring men are the most interested of all others. Mr. Cobden here took a review of the commercial relations between this country and Spain, Portugal, Africa, China, and South America, observing that there was a reciprocity of commercial intercourse in those countries only which yielded the luxuries of life—such as never come into the possession of the operatives ; whilst, on the other hand, there were in Russia fifty millions of people, in America thirty millions more, and in Prussia and Germauy a further . population, who, during the last few years, whilst our trade had been standing still, were willing to grow corn and breed cattle, and exchange them for our manufactures, whilst the operation of the Corn-laws prevented the free inter change of corn for our manufactures.—(Cheers.) Now they had heard of the talk in the Chamber of Commerce about the great necessity of getting cheap corn, because the labourer abroad was able to work cheaper than we could in this country, and we wished to undersell the Americans, Russians, Prussians, and Saxons. Mr. C. confuted the notion that cheap food must of necessity produce lower wages, and referred the meeting to the year 1835, when EVENING EDITIO corn was about 405. per quarter, and when wages were connversation amongst the Counsel and the Judges, tile better then than they had been since.—( Mr. Cobden was application of Mr. Dundas, to try the prisoner in the loudly cheered throughout his address.) I County Court, was agreed to. Mr. ABSALOM WATKIN next came forward, and moved I Mr. DUNDAS, as Counsel for the prisoner, hoped their the following resolution :—" That this meeting offers its I Lordships would consent to postpone the trial, in support cordial thanks to the gentlemen of the Delegation for their I of which he read an affidavit from the prisoner's solicitor exertions in London, and highly approve of their resolu- ! that if the prisoner was tried in the county at present, 1i lion not to remain there after both Houses of Parliament' could nut have a fair and impartial trial. He would content bad refused to hear evidence of the injurious effects of the ! himself with reading the affidavit, which would show their Corn-laws, and the meeting welcomes them back with the I Lordships the grounds for the application, and he was sure assurance of their determination to renew, with increased I they would at once say that the trial ought not to proceed. zeal, their labeurs for the total destruction of the 1 Mr. Dundas then read the affidavit of Mr. Se inburne. monopoly of the landowners." Mr. Watkin pre- It went on to say, that at an inquest taken before the faced his motion with a short speech, in the course of Coroner, Archibald Bolam was charged with the murder which he said, after Mr. Cobden's address there would be of Joseph Milne. The deponent was present at the in no necessity for him or any one else to argue the question quisition, which was attended by great crowds of peop le, I of the necessity of the abolition of the Corn-laws, for Mr. and there was a general expression of satisfaction, shown Cobden must have convinced every attentive bearer that by the clapping of hands when the verdict was p r onounced.. those laws were founded on injustice, and therefore they The circumstance caused a strong irritation in the minds ot must of necessity be impolitic and injurious not only to the the inhabitants of Newcastle and the county of Northum manufacturing and labouring classes, but else in their alter- berland, and the accounts circulated iu the local newspapere - nate results to those who sought from them the protection contributech to and kept up such irritation. In the news of their present revenues.—( Hear.) The alternate operatien papers published in Newcastle and the adjoining counties, of these laws, would be not only to ruin the manufacturer were plans and views, some of them re=presenting' the 0 I and grind down the labourer, but ruin the country, and situation of the body of Millie, and wbere liolam was found. , with it the men whose injustice kept those laws in opera- In the _Newcastle Journal of the 15th December last, tie' Lion, from an unfounded supposition that they were essen- day after the inquest, an engraved portrait was given ot tial to their welfare. —( Hear. ) What had we asked the Bolam, with a fee-simile of his signature, and the same Legislature? For liberty produce at the bar of the House newspaper, among other observations, said " that the ro of Commons evidence, to show that the laws against suit of the inquiry fixed guilt upon an individual moving which we petitioned were founded on injustice, and in a respectable situation; and no other conclusion coul• . were deeply injurious, not only to ourselves, but to be drawn , in their opi ni o n, from the evidence adduced.' , the country at large._( Cheers.) Could any request In the same newspaper of the next week, the 22d Decent be more reasonable than this ? What wis it that her, were plans and a view of Mr. Bolam's house, with a appeared to oppose the success of our exertions in this great portrait of Mary Walker, his housekeeper. It also con cause? However black and lowering the clouds which hung tained an observation, ' that although there could be now in the distant prospect—however powerful the opposition little doubt that Bulem had stained his hands in the blood arrayed against us in the Upper and Lower Pouses of the of Millie, and perpetrated the foul crime of murder upoe Legislature—it mattered not. Our cause being righteous, his person, the intsence of all motive up to the time of it only remained for us to adhere to the principle Opel , the murder ahriest staggered belief'." Ahdfurther on, hi ' which we had begun our operations—to pursue that ps in- I the same paper, it stated "it might have been expect ed ciple steadily and untiringly : to accumulate evidence; to ' when Bolarn had time to reflect, immured in prison, enlighten the great mass of the people; to carry along eith and branded by a Coroner's Jury with the crime of mur us all reasonable men, and ultimately we must and would tier, that he would hive made a confession of his guilts .succeed.—(Cheers.) To those who were dispirited and and made atonement ftr the unprovided orphans cast upon desponding he would beg of them to bear in mind the the world, but he had not done so." In the same news beautiful old Irish proverb, " The darkest hour of the paper of the sth January, an account was inserted of co-- twenty-four is the hour before day."—(Cheers.) lie min additional evidence obtained from a person of the called upon all to remember that England expected every name of Appleton, which evidence was contrasted with man to do his duty; the contest must not be left to a few ; the examiria• ion of Mr. Bolam before the Coroner, and at. but every man in his own sphere ought to be an apostle in extract is given from that examination which is not found this great cause.—( Loud cheers ) to be contained in it. An argument is drawn therefrom , Mr. EDWARD CURRAN, haiel-loom weaver, begged to that it was "only reroncileable by the black man having second the resolution, and said he was gird put his ( Boiarn's) hat on, or that Bolam had done eo in a that the delegates had returned to their con- state of insensibility." The same newspaper, of Feb. 9, stituents, .as the only tribunal left when the suited that •• Bolam bad a freehold estate in Idexhamshire , Parliament had refused to bear them.—(Hear.) He end some other property, which he had assigned to his condemned the disorderly proceedings of the previous friends, as in the event of teconyirtion, they would be Thursday, expressing his conviction, that by such pee- forfeited to the Crown. In the Tyne Mercury of the ceedings the people would get nothing, because the Aris- 12th Feb. last, were the following statements :—.' We tocracy who fatten on the industry of the people live upon have heard that Bolan' last week expressed a; wish to so' our divisions.—(Loud cheering.) The people must de- a Magistrate, and one would have been sent to him, We clam with a voice of thunder, that this unjust monopoly his solicitor came in the way in 'the meantime, and nothing must be destroyed. fie must tell them, and he hoped the . more was said about it. Bolam has, by the advice of hit gentlemen of the press would take it front him as the go- solicitors, made an assignment of his property to his re neral sentiments of the working classes, that the working latives." That after the publication of the last mentionen people of this country wanted nothing in return for paper, the same statements were printed as handbills, mid their labour but food, shelter, and clothing ; hawked at the price of a halfpenny, and it contained ties they wanted no extravagance, no luxuries, no other addition :—" We understand that Sir Charles 8011, man's property, no destruction of property—( Con, Knight, one of the eminent surgeons of Edinburgh, will tinned, tremendous cheers)—and he trusted that it would be subpeenaed at. the trial. It will be recollected that S 0 never again be said that the working men of Manchester Charles wrote one of the Bridgewater Treatises, and wa 3 were other than an industrious, honest, and determined snt on the Field of Waterloo immediately after the battle. of men. Entertaining these sentiments, he thought it his " From the . inquiries we have made in the country, T , ce duty to thank the Delegates for their exertions, and nett find a strong feeling in the minds of the yeomanry uperi 1 less because they had been unsucessful. Referring to this murder." The deponent further said, that besides the 1 one of the Chartists calling him a traitor, at the meeting - newspapers mentioned, the papers published in Newcastio on Thursday last, Mr. C. said he shouidhave thought hire- and Durham had almost every week published paragraph self worthy of being designated as a traitor if he had not and placarded handbills respecting the murder, and therein' taken those steps which be thought advisable—to take the kept up the excitement; and the newspapers in Newcastle necessary steps to preserve his family from a state of star ea- and Durham are the only papers published in the county of lion by trying tp obtain the repeal of these unjust laws. Northumberland. If they looked at the panel for the jury, There was much 'difficulty to overcome, and the more una- they would find them drawn from within fifteen miles of nimity that prevailed amongst them, the better chance there the town, principally from Tynemouth and Shields. The, would be of their ultimate success. In the year 1815, at the deponent further said, that he had conversed with many close of the war, we were told we were to have peace arid persons in Newcastle and Northumberland on the subject plenty, but, the aristocracy said " No;; we'll prevent plenty, of the murder, and from such conversations he believed that any way." And in order to effect this, they enacted the in. a general excitement prevailed; and he verily believed that famous Corn-law. From that period to the present, the a strong and general prejudice existed in Newcastle and hand-loom weavers as a body had been going to decay. In Northumberland, in and from where the jury would be conclusion, he declared that be would he content with celled. He further believed that the prisoner could not, a' nothing short of the total repeal of these iniquitous present, 'have a fair trial, either in the said town or the laws. —( Cheers and hisses.) county of Nor thumberland ; and the statements made ; 1 i Mr. Alderman &woes next addressed the meeting in a newspapers that " Bolam had sent for a Magistrate," and humourous speech, in which he stated the ignorance of the " that he had assigned over his property," were wholly and Aristocracy npon most national questions, and ridiculing absolutely untrue. Mr. Dundas stated that he had read evert' Lord Howiek's plea for not allowing evidence to be ten- word of the affidavit, and he was sure it would tell its own dered at the bar of the House of Commons. He ascribed story to the hearts and minds of their Lordships. the presenti distressed state of the manufacturing interest Sir GREGORY LEWIN said, however ungracious it might to the operation of the Corn-laws, as preventing the free appear, and however reluctant he was to do it, he was led exportation of our manufactured ' goods for the grain of to oppose this application, and he hoped it would not b" other countries He called upon the meeting to remain received. There was no reason why the notice respecting united, and, like the bundle of sticks, they would set at the application, which they only received last night, should nought all efforts that might be made to break their union. not have been given many weeks ago. Sir Gregory t wa s A man named Tonge, from Bury, one of the Chartists, proceeding to argue on this point, when he was interrupte d who took part in the proceedings of the last meeting, then by Mr. Dundas and Mi. Baron Alderson. After a shoi mounted the table and was saluted with cries of " Off, off," conversation, the Learned Counsel proceeded to say, tha t end some faint cheers from his friends. As soon as he a fter the Circuit be g an, noti c e mi g ht have been giver'' could be heard be said he did not want to create a disturb- even on the first day of the Assizes, and the prosecution ance.—( Cries of " You do.") Mr. Cobeen had invited had been put to enormous expenses, and were only las' discussion, and if parties were for the repeal of the night made acquainted with the intention to make the Corn-laws, they could not better establish their cause, nor application. The statements in the papers might he could his party better establish theircause than by hearing called the twaddle of the Editors, they were merely ob both sides of the question. If the repeal of the Corn-laws servations regarding the crime itself, and there was nothing were a just cause it must prevail because it was of God ;if it to show there was a prejudice against the individual. It were a wicked cause it must fail, because it was of the devil, WAS not excitement that was existing, that was a wrong thereforein the name of God, let them drop party n.tines. fie name for it ; it had no resemblance to any political excite -- did no eiddreser them in i'he thimeof party. hoe•ddrt . ssed teem ment, it was merely an individual interest created after as a Christian, and be did say that a more Abominable tax reading the evidence. . never Was laid in any country in the world, than that which Mr. Baron ALDERSON made an observation about it was laid on bread, —( Hear.) Mr. -Cobden had asked the being a very improper thing for any of the evidence to have Meeeting, was the course based on the principle of justice, been made public. now he must say, for one, he must differ a little from Mr. Sir G. LEWIN said they were not to be charged with Cobden.—( Question.) He would state his objections to being accessories to the publication in question, but tln' the Anti-Corn-law Association and his reasons, and if there observations contained in them were made with regard t° was a majority in favour of Mr. Cobden, they ought not to the murder, and not against the man. That the circurn fear him.—(Confusion.) stances should have created interest was not at all to he Mr. ARCHIBALD PRENTICE rose to order, amidst cheers wondered at, but it was not to be compared to the excite and cries of "Go on," hut the confusion was so great that meat that existed w i t h regar d t o t h e L u ddi tes i n Notting' he could not be heard, and he retired. ham, or the corn riots in London. Was it to be said th.,t, TONGS continued, The principles which were advocated there could not be found 12 unprejudiced men in the vih° l ' by the anti-Corn-law Association did not meet his appro - count y of North umberland , to give an individual a f " r baton, and he gave his reasons on the part of at least trial. It was a libel on the inhabitants of Northumbe r- '200,000 persons.—(Laughter, and Cries of " Oh, oh.") land. He held in his hand a letter from Mr. Swinburne uhlished in reply to some of the statements that ha` They were based on injustice in the first place. Mr. P Cobden had advanced an argument that they did not want been made ; and he was sure that gentleman would 01 to crop the price of labour, but they wanted to raise the once admit it to be his, and prevent him (Sir G. Le‘ti' ) price of labour in the Foreign market, and thus to raise the from procuring an affidavit on the subject. T he price of wages. Now, be would ask in the first place, Learned Gentleman then read from the Tyne Mercurg what business had this country to interfere in the labour the following extract from Mr. Swinburne's first letter :en market of other countries?--( Loud hisses, which lasted for " It was su ggested to him , that an applica ti on mi g ht be several minutes, and Cries of " Off") At length the made to put off the trial till the Summer Assizes, on th e Chairman put it to the mneting whether Tonge should be ground of prejudice at this time pervading the public allowed to continue his harangue, and the majority against mind, which application be was told would in all prob" ( i him beingeabout fifty to one, Tonge retired. The resolu- bility be successful. On the same ground it waasuggeat e tion then passed. to him, that he might appiy to have the trial at York or Mr. ARCHIBALD PRENTICE then proposed the following some other distant place. The subject of assigning b i ' - resolution :—" That this meeting, having learnt with property was also brought under his notice. All the' ' mingled feelings of surprise and indignation, the facts suggestions , and others which I might mention, he at on e respecting the petition presented by the manufacturers and and unhesitatingly rejected. Respecting his properq' traders to the - Lords and Commons, praying to be. allowed his answer to me was, "If they take my life for a allot; to prove at their bar the injurious tendency of the corn of which lam innocent, they may take my property al' e je and provision laws upon the commerce of the country, de- The Learned Counsel stated, that their Lordships wo u 7 Glares as its deliberate opinion, that the refusal, even see that the subject had been brought under the pris onel ; to listen to the complaints of the nature of these laws is an consideration from Mr. Swinburne's letter of the 12th, a n example of unreasonable oppression unsurpassed in this or another letter of the 20 th , arid he did say , it was n ot re',- , any other civilized country. Being thus repulsed in theattempt sonablo that he should the night before the day o f trial to expose to Parliament and the world their individual wrongs and after great expense had been incurred and preparati o ' this meeting recommend to the manufacturing and cor- made, to ask their Loidships to put off the trial. Sir Gr` d . " , mercial bodies to agitate the question of the Corn-laws gory then referred to the case of a person named Mea n henceforth not as a sectional, but as a national question— which occurred in June 1830, as a precedent for th e . / 0 " to extend the right hand of fellowship to the ,Lordships' declining to postpone the trial • and s ett suffering agricultural labourer and cultivator—to contended, that the excitement existed ag a t e make common cause with _ all the town popula- the crime and not against the man. - There was 't s combination which could operate upon the loah, i lien of the empire, and to cause the best energies of the whole people to throw off, by an united effort, the most of n, the Jury in this case. They must have b esj e baneful and destructive laws ever devised by the Legiela- of the murder, but no facts had been decided , 11 ( ture." meetings had been held; it was merely the twaddle °,. RICHARD Moose, a hand-loom weaver, seconded the newspapers, and were they to say from an ex parte sta te g . motion ; and, in the course of his speech, stated, that such intent having been !published, that they had made tiP thy was the distressed state of that branch of the manufacturing minds? Sir G. concluded by stating, that the p risoni to business, that the band-loom weexers could not earn more would have his challenge, and they should not objec t than ss. 6d. per week ; and if the Corn-laws were conti• the removal of jurymen, and the substitution of othe' ' ' eaWIY cued much longer the other artizans would shortly be in The object of the prosecution was to have the thing he no better a condition. investigated : they wanted no unfair advantage , bu rlier A young man named HOWARTH, from Salford, ntxt did contend that notice should have been given at an ear addressed the meeting. He said it was the assertion of Period. . t e Judge Blackstone that a law, to be binding, must be in Mr. DUN DAS observed in reply, that he knew his Lee h a d accordance with Christianity. He would ask whether the Friend too well not to be convinced that the zeal be " te Corn-law was in accordance with Christianity ?—( No.) shown in his remarks was altogether a zeal for his ca ti c iet Was it not in direct contradiction to the law of Gad?— and no zeal against the person of the prisoner; but it g ( Yes.) Ought it to be repealed ?—( Yes.) In the 11th appear to him that his Learned Friend had made tw e o ,`,, t Proverbs 26th verse, it was stated that "be who with- expressions which in a grave matter like the present i 1 t he boldeth corn the people shall curse him." At a recent extremely wrong to have employed. He talked about A meeting of the Central agricultural Society, which was " twaddle of an Editor." What , he would auk , " was,.c - presided over by the Earl of Tankerville, who seemed as man to be twaddled out of his life ? If it had bee° itet if he had just awaked out of a trance, his Lordship said peated again and again, that he (Mr. D.) had irob r in t that the manufacturers had forgot that there was the Na- his hands in the blood of a fellow - creature , was not t f we tional Debt, and that the landed interest paid the whole the worst of means , must likely to prejudice his cause b e f w e whole of that debt. He begged to inform the Noble those siren who would have to try him, and prevent hint, r ee d Chairman, through the press, that the working classes bad having a fair and impartial trial. His Learned .nr l the t not forgotten the existence of the National Debt, nor the had several times challenged him (Mr. D.) to show i s it purpose for which it had been contracted—viz. to support t hi s wa s a char g e a gainst the individual , and no t mere %Ytith legitimacy ; and what good had that done to the Menu expression of indignation against the crime itself , en i facturing districts ? As to the statement that the landed in- which the indi vidu al was charged. surely he bad I 3ot r i : 13 terest was paying the interest of that debt, ho must tell h:s the affidavit. The document mark e d w ith the icttefgte lordship that the manufacturers and working classes knew c o nta i ned an e xtract fr om the Newcastle Journal, cc De e d ' better than that.—(Cheers.) stated as follows ; —" There can be littl e d o ubt that ' P eso Themotion was then put and carried almost unanimously, has imbrued his hands in the blood of' Millie." Ape fact there being only about five or six hands he'd up against it. Swinburne , in his affidavi t , distinctly deposed to tio, The Chairman then left the chair, when M r . Alderin in that a strong and general prejudic e , exc it e ment, an g . e intt Kershaw having been called ther e t o , t h e th an k s of the tattoo existed in t h e public mind, not generally, b ut 8 1,ort i t meeting were given to Mr. Harbottle for his conduct in the Archibald Bolam. His. Learned Friend spoke to thet r „ t re" chair. The meeting then separated. ships of the enormous expense which would be t e- of During a _great portion of the time, a body of the Char- by a postponement of the trial, as if there would be l life We was in jeopardy. He (Mr. D.) hoped he should n eve i e lif' - ' tists made several forcible attempts to get into the room, weight in a mere pecuniary consideration when a ° an r lit! ! but were with some difficulty prevented by the police. observed that the individual who styles himself the Rev. Mr. to see the day in_England when the weight of a rnVeoo Jackson obtained access to the room. Some confusion woul be placed against the weight of gold. To tell hint v e t t : was created by one fellow displaying a dagger which he sands of Funds would be incurred by postponing th" four;" • that the ends of justice would be best secured by Iv by tV" encased in a large stick, and which be was observed to it would only be as dust in the balance, if it %ve r b % post; pouemetit. Again, his Learned Friend said--- '' never brandish about to the alarm of several persons. He crept under the hustings, but we believe was ultimately taken i I they not come sf .7 ' ld it WO , fat` out of the room. ? a m H a e n ( too late to come°oneur . foundl; e ) have it if it was at the eleventh hour that be Old a 3 . it postponed, be hoped he would not be consider such coming too late ; and that there was no time whiell the n h e o u p l e c i not have a , to an application would be refused. With regar" towcre letterswritten written by the solicitor for the prisoner, thly ',eel in denial of certain assertions contained in til l tlie newspapers, which were finding their way througuder., country. W he t he r h Lie acted the part of a wise or P ou t; mar, in writing those letters, be (Mr Dundas) kaei%en,c but the fact of his writing them, proved the "ferrO l of that kind of excitement which Mr. Swinburne rt;3olBa,, to in his affidavit. All the law was pressing. up" a ddi• and he had enough to bear, wit haut having , anY ie of tional burden placed upon him. It was big setl re fasc innocence that made Bolam , in the first instance,iicatioo all e.ffers on the part of his attorney to make arP oua d be to have his trial postponed; but now, when be 1 THE SAVINGS' BANK MURDER. NEWCASTLE, MONDAY, MARCH 4. Mr. Baron PARKE, and Mr. Baron ALDERSON, took their seats on the bench a few minutes after nine o'clock. The Court was almost immediately completely filled. The Clerk of the Court then called upon Archibald Bolam, and he was led to the bar, the greatest anxiety being mani. fested by the immense crowd to get but a glimpse of him. pcomposure ha He was considerably altered from what his appearance used to be. His countenance showed the inwa rd working of his f ee lings, and the loose manner in which his clothes h ung ees aod o wept. atiot?s, After bulk.up o He n him, stood no at d doubt b t as ar to n. i twith whatapparent his ar e nt person until h M e r. he D ld his iuttlalhad handkerchief made t his o concluding his ywhen -- co» suli ci.. ti on do T han; ; tot Prigtu L Th, °Ut th RNA A T and hr, Mr ‘'as ti, Cliu se " gi th , ""jest chid ed kei ho 41.(1 eo- u . , v th : , beld tu ry. of m i b rok Itmer % al; , 1. th to Qa},f t (;„ a 70.. 14 111 tq