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tent—we have not that very first and the foundation of all liberty, the liberty to work freely and to enjoy in security and unplundered the fruits of our own labour.—(Applause.) And what is the most extra- Jrdinary part of the business, we have been argued into the belief that this very infraction of our liber ties was a benefit conferred upon us by a paternal and protective Government. There can be no doubt that multitudes of people in this country have believed that the protective principle had something in it likely to intrease national and individual bensifit ; and the same belisif is in operation now to some extent. We are not to suppose that the men who are in favour of the corn-law are necessarily dishonest men. I believe there are landlords so extraordinarily stupid as still to believe the corn-law is beneficial to the land, and not injurious to manufactures—(Applause)— and it would be hard for me to assert that all the persons in our town—and there a few of them, middle-class men and manufacturers—who support this protective system, are dishonest in their views. I believe many of them are honest in what they do ; but I believe they cannot be honest and intelligent if they support a law so wicked and mischievous as this.—(Applause.) But amongst the working classes this principle is now held to a very great extent; and there are found in all towns of the kingdom combinations to exclude their own order from certain privileges, in certain trades ; and there are many regulations which, how ever injurious to trade and to the employers of labour, are more so to the labourers themselves. This I only mention as a circumstanise arising from the very same spirit, the very same mistake by which protte tive statutes; and enactments have crept into the code of this and every other country.—(Applause.) I be lieve no man has ever yet been able to assign any cause for the late period of depression but the recur rence of bad harvests, and the existence of a corn-law preventing us from removing the evil effects of those bad harvests.—(Applause. We have trade now com paratively prosperous ; for a period there has been a better profit to manufacturers generally, and far more employment and considerably better wages for the workmen ; and I have no doubt whatever, if the shop keepers of this town were to meet together and com pare notes, they would find universally that, contrast ing their business now with what it was three years ago, other circumstances being the same, their busi ness had greatly improved, and that they had fewer debts in their books than they had at that period. —(Applause) I was epeakinif the other day with a gentleman who lives, or is often engaged in pusiness, in a part of this town where he has the op portunity of seeing people passing to and from a large establiiinnent for the sale of furniture; and he said he had noticed, for soma months past, an amount of business going on at that shop and warehouse which he had not seen for years before. We all know that three or four years ago the pawnbrokers were the people who were (Ling all the business; in some towns there was more poverty than the pawnbrokers could live upon.—(l ioar, hear.) Now those things which had gone to the sign of the three balls are gra dually making their way back again to the cottages of the working people.—(Applause.) And when we consiiler how much there is in all this, how much there is in the impa.vement of trade of all that is im and 1838, the commitments in England and Wales averaged about 22,000; in 1839, 24,000; in 1840, 27,487; in 1841, 27,760; in 1842, 31,309; and 1843, 29,501 ; thus rising so long as the pressure existed, and then diminishing; so that we were now becoming a people among whom less crime was committed. With these facts before them, how could any man withstand this evidence, brought forward by persons totally disinterested ? But beyond the preservation of life, the diminution of crime, and the checking of forced emigra ti on, whew* game the !Feat effort now making throughout the manufacturing districts to ameliorate the physical condition of the working classes—an effort which would have been altogether impossible three years ago, when bankruptcy stared almost every one in the face ? These facts only proved that they had been right in the beginning, right all along, and right in the end, and that conse quently they were sure to triumph.—(Applause.) But it should be remembered how many had been swept away by the storm of destitution which had passed over them, how many children have been doomed to ignorance by the necessities of their parents at that period, how many men had been driven into unwilling pauperism, broken down in spirit, thus inflicting a wide-spreading evil on so ciety, as it infected their children and their chil dren's children.—(Hear.) The past five years heing thus full of instruction—perhaps more so than any five years heretofore—he thought the public of Roch dale would be readily persuaded to give their cordial co-operation to all that the League might do. The chairman had complimented, not flattered the inha bitants, and he hoped they would still go with the League in future. Great wealth existed in this town : they were much of one opinion as to free trade ; and under these circumstances he could not but hope that what they might do in future would eclipse the past. —(Applause.) The woollen trade was once the chief trade of this town, employing thousands, and yielding great wealth to the manufacturers. How was it that that trade had not extended, that no more flannels were made here than were made twenty-five years ago, and that the workmen in that trade were the worst paid ? Assuredly from no other cause but our blind restrictive legislation, by which our woollens had been shut out of the American market. Had it not been that another trade, cotton, had been intro duced here, which was almost entirely an export trade, the town and district alone had been saved from decay. The woollen manufactures were now almost all going into the cotton trade. Why ? Not because they liked it better, but there was no field for them in their own trade, one-half of which had been cut off by the American tariff. And yet there were men in this town who would not lift a finger to remove that tariff, and the corn-law which caused it.—(Applause.) Contemptible fellows ! Were all such as them the country would soon be in a state of anarchy, were it not for those who sought to lead the people into the right paths. They had heard the direction about to be taken by the League. They had been charged with sedition, and with stimulating insurrection. Abandoning everything which could countenance such a charge, they would lay hold of that truly constitutional weapon—the electoral franchise, and would lay claim to the county representation—(hear, hear)—and if there were any truth in the opinion they had formed as to the prevalence of free-trade principles, the balk of the middle and working classes would unite with them.—(Applause.) He was delighted to hear shat an outcry there would be in a low months when they found the \Vest Riding of Yorkshire and North Cheshire w( re wrested from the monopolists. Squire after squire, noodle after noodle—(Laughter) —would rise to protest against the unconstitutional proceedings of the League, and would call on the Secretary of State to interfere.—(hear, hear.) But when those counties, the seats of the manufacturers, were secured, and the system was extending to War wickshire and other large midland and southern counties, the monopolists would take alarm, and would surrender the question of free trade, in the hope of preventing further progress in that direction; but he hoped that, having once obtained possession of a weapon so pow erful, they would continue to use it, and that if there were any other right on which the working classes had set their minds, they would not rest satisfied till they obtained it by the sure con stitutional means.-- (Cheers.) W. S. CRAWFORD, Esq, M.P. for the borough, next addressed the meeting, and was received with great and prolonged cheering. GEORGE ASHWORTH, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the gentlemen who had addressed them ; which was seconded by Mr. JOHN PETRIE, and carried by acclamation. The Cuantsfast acknowledged the compliment; and Mr. BRIGHT having explained some arrangements for enabling parties in Rochdale, so inclined, to be come purchasers of qualifications to vote for the county, the meeting separated. MR. WARBURTON'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 3 vols. small Svo., withiliiiMerous Illustrations, pries _ - 235., bound, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS ; OR, ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL, By ELIOT B. G. WARBURTON, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. REAL TURTLE SOUP.—The extravagant cost, besides the difficulties arising out of the killing and dressing of the live fishes, has cireumscribed the use of this most nutricious and delicious Soup, whilst the quality has never reached that perfeetion which it might have done, by reason of the bat poyerished and diseased state of the fishes from which it has been made. So much SS is this the case, that there is hardly one Turtle used in this eountry that would not be rejected in a West Indian market. The causes of this are so obvious as not to need repetition here. GUNTER'S TURTLE, preserved under patent at Honduras, from fish just taken in their native waters, obviates every difficulty that has been known to operate against the general use of this flak, by its incomparable superiority in fullness, firmness, and flavour of meat. By the convenience of the 21b. package, which will keep fresh for any length of time, and by the enormous reduction effected in the cost of producing this soup, whilst it renders it as always in season. Bach 21b. tin is calculated to make soup for sixteen persons, at a cost not exceeding 18e. to 20s. There are attached for its preparation ; and the public are invited to try whether every obstacle to the general con sumption of the finest Turtle Soup be not removed. Wholesale Depot, St. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill, and Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street. On retail with all oil and Italian warehousemen, grocers, &c., in town and country. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, Will be performed a New Grand Opera, In Three Acts, entitled I'HE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Bonen! ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. To conclude with the Grand Fairy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM, In which Mdlle. Plunkett, Mdlle Clara Webster, O'Bryan, Mrs. W. H. Payn e , an d M a d ame Guibilm will " Vh ar. e Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Wiri be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG MEAETS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe. s; Tom Coke, Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Je sse R ura l , Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of Fnn , pion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, Mr. Charles Mathews' Bur'etta of HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Motley, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dicky Darling, Mr. Strickland; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Caulfield, To conclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Bucieftne, entitled THE THIMBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Bach e, Sam Shindy, Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, M rs . W. Cliftb Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even ing), be. each. First Price—Boxes, ; Pit, 38. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price a t N.iie o'Clock—ii Ss. ; Pit, i 2s. ; Gallery, Is. • Upper Gallery, 6d. Uoors opened at Haltpast Six, Pei formance commence at Seven. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. L T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, from l'en till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled I'HE MYSTERIOUS STRANGE& Court Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille, Mr. Selby; The Mysterious Stranger , Madame Celeste ; Crequet, VI% Wright ; Chechore Mr. 0. Smith. After which will be repeat e d VICTOR! E; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alexandre, Mr. Hudson • Michael, Mr. Sal u y, Vi c t or i ne , M rs. Yates • Elise, Mrs. Fitzwilliaia. To Conclude with a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford; Dinah, Mr. Cowell. Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, 'Jr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-orlite open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STItE LT. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, WI , I he repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivie - , Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. thine ; Reaaucl, Mr. Matlacks• ; Ivon, Mr. Leffler; Hermine, ' Helen Condell ; Gertrue, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be followed by MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with a New Grand Orieatll Ballet, called THE ENCHANTED BELL. Azolin (an Hindoo Peasant), M. Roussett ; Palmira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mille. Caroline Noumea; Naire (her Friend), Mdlle Teresine; Ding Daog (the Genii of the Bell), 'Miss arshall Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. H a lf -pr i ce at Sine o'clock—Dress Circle,2 s . 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 641 Private Boxes, Iwo Guineas , nd One Guinea and a.Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the l'hcatre. portant to a country and a people, I think vv(181s11 not ind.ce lightly or 1111,1 isely in considering this question to I eat this moment the most important that can engage the re son of intelligent and reflectinz nwn.—(Applause.) No-x, what is meant by improve ment in trade ? Most pyo j A e think that it means that nannufac`urers are gettinv n:ore profit. Well, it does mean that, anti a great dual more ; it means that the workpeople are better emphyed, and gating better wages; it means that now and then a man who is an °vet-looker in a factory or a workshop is finding the means to set up for him:,elt; and that is one of the finest things that can be f ,und in any country. It is just one of thase thing; that are never found in the agricultural districts; but it is found here every day. HE ATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management or Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, 23, Will be performed a New Cemedietta, NOVEMßEß entitled WATCH A N D WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin o.h, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keele. Ater which, a New F arce , ca ll e d. T O PERSONS ABOUT' TO MA BR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner, and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. W oolli4ge. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in Iv% ich ddlks. Louise laid Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their appearance. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. C o lli er , M r. G our i et, Mr. 'k raven, and Mr. Keeley ; Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woolli Ise, Mrs A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Ma .s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A DMISSION.—BaIcouy Boxes. 4r. ; Upper dozes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the it tlcony Tier holding eight persons), Teo Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private dozes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir•en, The Box- ace is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direct i n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. But it means a great deal more than this. Improvement in trade means that there is a saving in human ; not that men are not cut off by the hand of the executioner, or by the sword, but that they are not cut off by the hand of famine—(Hear, hear) — which is abaut the most ruthless, most relentless, and most crud of all modes of disposing of the human rare.—( Loud applause.) It may not have come within your observation, but from the returns made by the registrar- general, it ;,ppears that the mortality in the district is very greatly diminished since the period of high prices of ; and it has been observed in France, as well as in this country, and I believe it will be observed in all countries whets any accurate statistical account is kept, that just about in propor tion as the price of the staple articles of human food rises, just in that proportion the human animal sinks, decays, dies, and ultimately must become extinct.— (ilear, hear.) I have here an extract from the regis trar's report for the district which he calls the north west division, and I'll read you the number of deaths which were registered in 1840, when prices were very high, w hen there was , great stag na ti on i n tra d e, and great distress, owing to the very high rate of food, and the number registered in 1843. It is as follows : STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS. THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, Will be repeated DougLs Jerrold's NELL GWYNNE. Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Orange Moll, Mr. H. Hall. After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, In which H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgotnerie, Mrs. C. Pope, and Miss Bromley will perform. To conclude with THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwlndow, Attwood. COURT CIRCULAR. Yirtbinson, FRIDAY.-111S Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, and the Earl of Liverpool, and attended by Lord Rivers, Mr. Anson, Baron de Alvensleben, and Colonel Wylde, went to shoot in the royal pre serves this morning. The royal party returned to the Castle about two o'clock. 1840. 1843. Bolton Bury 2,170 Rochdale Preston 2,637 Blackburn Wigan Prescot 1,155 Manchester Ashton 4,873 Great attuction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This E;eniig, at ASTI, PY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. RATTY. EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, Will be repeated THlS a New Spectacle, O entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled Natimal Fetes. Real Fnx-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. lipsorn Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclufterpiece. Acin and stagearisnade with agFavourite Aerisroadfoot. Rox-office t ope g n from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding ;.y Mr. R. Smith daily. Their Royal highnesses ihe Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken for an airing in the pleasure•grounds to-day. The Marquis of Granby arrived at the Castle to-day. Her Royal Higlnless the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined the royal circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attendance at the Castle during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the remainder of the evening. 213,196 23,334 " Here is a difference, in the deaths, of 2,862 indi viduals in one year, in nine districts only of the one hundred and fifteen comprised in the return. What can be the cause of this ? A sufficient answer to us ;nay be found in the words of the worthy registrar for Little Bolton—` that it is chiefly owing to the im proved condition of the working classes.' It is a great and convincing f,:ct of the murderous effect of the famine laws, and restrictions upon trade." But this involves a consideration of much higher import ance than whether manufacturers get little or great profit. Who are the individuals, those 2,862 indivi duals, whom this return proves to have fallen victims to these laws ?—(llcar, hear.) Not the indivi duals who passed the law; not lords, not rich men, not people in comfortable circumstances; they are of a different order altogether —men whose only inhe ritance is the strength of their arm and the intelli gence of their head—the working class of this coun try.—(Loud applause.) Old men and old women, who might have lived yearn Linger to watch the pro gress of their families, are eat off and hurried to the grave by this law.—(Hear, hear.) Aye, and many a poor unfortunate child, who came into existence during that disastrous period, which might otherwise have lived to have blessed its parents, has been taken to its grave, even those parents blessing God that he had removed it from the misery it was likely to share. And these men, who talk about State policy, and about expediency, and about the burdens upon land, and mortgages to be paid, and marriage settlements upon daughters—(Applause)—if it could ever enter into their minds that horrors like these were being perpetrated in every district of this country, their inhuman law doing its working, and doing it most faithfully, I ask you what must be the character of those men if they could resist the fer vent call made upon them, by the united working people of this country, for the abandonment of this system, and the liberation of the industry of this trampled and insulted nation ?—(Loud applause.) Bat there is another point to which I would refer you. The people of this country are of an order who will not sink down and die without making an effort to save themselves. It is said " the mighty camel dies 'neath heaviest load ;" but man was not made for an end so ignominious and contemptible as that. —(Applause.) The people of this country will .travel all earth b e f ore they will die of starvation in their own country ; and, driven by excessive penury to seek a refuge in foreign lands, they find that bread under the Republican Government of America, which their own paternal Government denies them at home. —(Applause.) I have here a return of the number of persons who have emigrated from this country since 1838:-- 1838 1839 1840 1841 . 1842 . 1843 DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS 23, Will he repeated a New EVENING I ram , , entitIed NOVEMBER THE SEALED SEN TENCE, supported by Niessrs. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnson, Morrison, Mrs. R. Honner, Mes, Lewis, &c. After which, the Farce of THE TWO GREGORIES. To conclude with the New Drama, entitled DON C.2ESAR DE BAZAN, supported by the entire Company. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Alice, from Eleven to Four. Their Royal llighnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrived at Kew on Thurs day evening from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, Sussex. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Lord. Granville Somerset. The Council sat upwards of three hours. The Bishop of Carlisle had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. A deputation from the Scottish Central Railway, consisting of the Marquis of Breadalbane, Mr. Oliphant, of Condie ; the Lord Provost, and Mr. Reid, city clerk of Perth; the Provost of Stirling, and Mr. Galbraith, town clerk ; Mr. Locke, engineer ; and Mr. Weems, Parliamentary agent, had an inter view with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir George Cockburn and the Hon. Sidney Her bert had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the Board of Trade. A deputation from the Bolton, Wigan, aad Liver pool Railway, consisting of Mr. Brancher, Mr. Dar beshire (solicitor), Mr. Thomson (engineer), Mr. Peace, and Mr. R. Ellicombe, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. A deputation from the Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Hindle, high sheriff of Lancashire ; Mr. John Hornby, M.P. for Blackbu rn ; M r . G reenway (Darwen), Mr. William Henry Hornby (Blackburn), Mr. Kay (Tur ton Tower), Mr. Roxburgh (Entwistle), Mr. Shor rock (Darwen), accompanied by Mr. Cardwell, M.P. for Clitheroe ; Mr. Vignoles, engineer in chief; and Mr. Robinson, solicitor, had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie. A deputation from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, including Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Langton, Mr. George Loch, and Mr. Booth, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. A deputation from the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway, consisting of Mr. Joseph Arm strong, chairman ; Mr. Joseph Brook, vice-chair man; Mr. Joseph Locke, engineer ; and Mr. James C. Fenton, solicitor, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at th e B oar d of Trade. A deputation from the Great North of England Railway Company, consisting of Mr. George H. Wilkinson, the chairman ; and Mr. Edward Oxley, the vice-chairman, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, on th e su bj ect of their proposed branch railway to Richmond, in the county of York. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THI S EVEN S ING, 23, Will be repeated THE TRANGE NOVEMBER INTRUDER, ha which Messrs. Seaman, Higgie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perfo rm. After which, A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Lenisberg, Mr. Higgie; Baroness, Mrs. W. West To conclude with THE WANDERING JEW, In which Messrs. Seaman, Dale, Higgie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear. Private Family Boxes, £1 Is. Pd. and LI Ile. Pd. THE WEATHER,.--SU N OFFICE, Nov. 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 43; Noon, 42. BAROMETER" 30.2.—Wirm, E. NoTE.—The numbe r 32 on th e Thermometer denotes the rtezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u , ually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. gurntng ... BS minutes after 0 I Evening ... 'minutes after lk SECOND EDITION.. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDWY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 18,4. in the Register as it has recently done—reforms which, at the next election, will illuminate Sir Ro- BERT PEEL'S mind in a very effectual manner, and go far to convert a majority against the Corn-laws in the House of Commons, into a majority in their favour. Mr. COBDEN gave his Rochdale hearers some sound advice on this important subject of the Registration. " Hitherto," he said, " we have been an Anti-Corn law League instructing the people, and agitating them about Free-trade ; now I really think we are going to take my friend SHARMAN CRAWFORD'S busi ness out of his hands, and advocate an extension of the suffrage. We want to persuade our fellow countrymen to buy the property that will qualify them to vote ; and I most sincerely wish that every ,head of a family in this country was worth the money necessary to buy that vote. But that is much easier done than many people suppose. Another meridian has dawned upon us within the last few months. We pledged ourselves some time ago to contest the boroughs and try what we could do to gain them ; but it never occurred to us that we could win counties in this country. And yet with 252 county Members in the House, and not six of them voting for Free-trade, it has occurred . to us that unless :we can make some change there, we shall not be likely to get a majority in that House. Now, I believe the counties may be won in many instances, as I have be fore said, much easier than the little pocket boroughs." If the League, following the advice given some years since by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Conservatives, sticks to its present determination of fighting the battles of Free-trade in the Registration Courts, we cannot for a single instant permit ourselves to doubt 'of its success. It has a vast majority of the middle classes in its favour, but unfortunately not a few members of this class, however well disposed towards the cause of Free-trade, are apt to be sluggish and inactive in the discharge of their duties as electors, and to neglect to qualify themselves at the proper time and in the proper manner. Now, by the exer cise of a little tact and perseverance the League may easily manage to rouse the dormant zeal of these lethargic but well-intentioned folks, and will reap the benefit of its exertions in a vast increase of the numbers of its supporters at the next election items in the statistics of his Lordship's speech (which, on a balance of its arguments, really vindicated the "Resolutions" it was delivered against). His Lordship assumes the gold circulation of England to be 23,000,0001., exclusive of what is in the Bank. Take this Bank store in round numbers at 1 4,000,0001., and Lord Mar.s.u.Lm's credulity must have exagge rated this enormous aggregate of 37,000,0001., we venture to tell him, by nearly one-half. (We take this amount of Bank bullion from last week's returns. At another time we shall contrast the point it has thus gradually decreased to with the maximum amount of seventeen or eighteen millions which it touched at the passing of the Bill of last session.) Lord MxLYILLE ' wisely, yet surely inconsistently with his own pre mises of satisfaction at the system of gold currency now established in England, states that notwithstanding the vast aggregate of our gold circulation, drains had occurred upon the Bank of England, and might occur again, which would again leave her coffers almost empty. "We may," continued is Lordship, " have drains from short harvests—we may have drains from foreign speculations, no matter whether wise or unwiso..people come demanding money, and they will have it. We may have drains for foreign wars and subsidies, and from various causes, but the greatest danger is from short harvests. It was the duty of a wise Government, then, to see that the circulation of this kingdom was in such a state, that when any emergency shall occur, we shall be able to supply the deficiency caused by the outpouring of the coin of the kingdom. He wished to know what Scotland was to do in such a case ? Could she furnish her quota ?" Will his Lordship be so kind as to point out what England " is to do in such a case ;" how she is to furnish her quota ?" What golden currency that ever yet existed in any empire of the ancient or modern world, would suffice to answer the demands which la domestic panic or a foreign war would in stantly produce for gold, in exchange for the millions, multiplied by hundreds, not by scores, of British securities represented in convertible paper ? How does his Lordship suppose that the possible " de ficiency" he speaks of "isto be supplied ?" A case occurs, no matter what, to create a run for gold. The Bank, in contemplation of the probable extent it may run to, contracts its issues ; and the security Sir R. PEEL leaves to all the operations of the immense mass of represented property, or property struggling for development into capital, is the balanced amount of convertible Bank paper, and of—in fact, for this is the ultimate resolution of his bullion problem—Bank bullion. The enterprise of mercantile speculation animating the energy of ready capital, is to be brought up certainly, though at some uncertain moment, when its action shall have exceeded the limited revolutions and obstructed movements of Sir ROBERT'S double balance-gold -and-paper engine. Talk of a "standard of value !" He has only succeeded—and but too well —in devising a standard of limitation. The proceedings at a recent meeting of Road Trus• ees, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace for the county of Edinburgh, convened for the consideration, among other business, of Sir JAMES GIBSON CRAIG'S " Resolutions" touching the Scotch banking system, were of unusual interest and im portance. The "Resolutions," which have already been before our readers, embodied the powerful case of the people of Scotland against the extinction f their one-pound, or small note circulation ; and the not less powerful case of the Scottish banking in terest, against the introduction into that country of the gold " standard of value," as it is called, which Sir R. PEEL has been permitted to set up, by statute, in this. The principal speakers at the Edinburgh county meeting were the Viscount MELVILLE, the Earl of ROSEBERY, the Lord DUNFERMLINE (for. merly the Right Hon. Mr. ABERCROAIDY), and Sir J. G. CRAIG. On the original motion for the adop tion of the report embodying the "Resolutions" in question, Mr. TYTLER, of Woodhouselee, moved an amendment that it was expedient for the meeting to defer the expression of any opinion on the subjects of their discussion until the intentions of her MA JESTY'S Ministers thereupon should have been made known. Fifteen hands were held up against, and fifteen in favour of the original motion ; which was finally affirmed by the casting vote of the Chairman, Sir Jousr Hors, Bart. The various speeches delivered at the meeting appear to have ranged over all the principal grounds on which the general question of a currency, its na ture, relations, and management—must be considered; although, of course, the chief topic enlarged upon was the tendency of any proposition for depriving Scotland of her present small bank-note circulation. As some of those speeches involved the most frequent and specious fallacies advocated by the bullionist dis ciples of Sir R. PEEL, whilst others were remarkable for the perspicuity and force with which they illus trated the argument in favour of retaining —for Scotland—her present paper currency —we venture to crave attention for the remarks we propose to offer upon them. It will be recollected, that after a vast deal of re monstrance, agitation, and debate, at public and other meetings throughout Scotland, and a memorable pamphleteering warfare, in which Sir WALTER SCOTT took an active and most useful lead, under the signa ture of " Malagrowther " —Scotland was rescued from the operation of the general principles and the particular measures that had been brought forward by the present Sir R. PEEL in 1819 for the re• organisati In of our monetary system. Again, when Sir ROBERT submitted, in the course of last session, what he calls "the complement" of his legislation in 1819, he was reluctantly compelled to postpone its application to Scotland; for we will do him the jus tice to declare that he fairly and distinctly intimated his purpose to bring her also within its scope in the now ensuing year. 'We are, therefore, unable to see the ground of Mr. TYTLER'S and Lord MELVILLE'S hypothesis, that the intentions of the Premier on this point are not yet sufficiently known. We warned the banking interest, and the whole people of Scot land, at the time, when remarking on the fatal supineness with which the parties who represented them in Parliament, looked on at the visitation of the Bank Charter Renewal Bill on the people of the other portion of the United Kingdom —that their own turn of suffering would, assuredly, come next, unless they then, and at once, vigorously combined with the English opponents of the measure in arresting its further progress. We repeat, with regret, that, generally speaking, the gentlemen connected with Scotland held aloof. They saw that the Right Hon. Baronet's "fire-raising"—in the legal phraseology of their country—was about to consume the monetary resources of England (and, eventually, of Ireland), but they reflected that it was still a twelvemonth's journey for this statutable conflagration from West minster to Edinburgh; so, on the night of the main division, they went home quietly to their beds, some of them without even the effort of contributing the scanty buckets of their individual votes to the miserable minority which represented the whole force of extinction that could be brought even to attempt to play upon the " devouring element " —as the Bank Charter Bill might well be called with reference to what it is, assuredly, even now consuming. But we return to the Edinburgh county meeting. The speech of Lord MELVILLE, much as it is to be commended for its general good sense and modera tion, will scarcely escape the censure of those who may carefully peruse it. It was a trimming speech the object of which seemed to be to avert, by post ponement, a collision between the principles of cur rency (to the general soundness of which he testified) embodied in Sir GIBSON CRAIG'S "Resolutions," and the incompatible, but inevitable, tendency of those on which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measures are based. To talk of the country's not knowing what monetary measures applicable to Scotland are in contempla tion of Government, is not to deal in earnest with the fact, or with the question. It is but attempting a compromise between present expediency—founded, we fear, on some political prepossessions—and perma nent principles, that must affect the most vital inte rests of the empire. On the engrossing matter of the small bank-notes, his Lordship said, "He was not in the secrets of Government ;" yet "he did not hesitate to say he did not believe they intended to meddle with the subject ;" and yet, again, "at all events, he did not think such a measure called for." Substantial reasons, these, after the significant hint, too, of the Premier, last session, for postponing the consideration of the "Resolutions" upon which he was called to vote! But his Lordship, on a great economic State question, has the vision of a Cyclops. He has but one eye to look through. He can see Scotland, only, as she stands before him. Ilis bounded horizon does not comprehend England. A bank -note currency, he more n r more preferable ext e n ive argues, "i s a system to which the Scottish people are accustomed. " (Have not the Eng- Cliegshreebe?e)n "Goldused it,mtoight b i e n a far solid ao on the whole; but, so long as the people (of Scotland) preferred this system (bank-notes) themselves, he thought that Parliament would do very Wrong to compel the abolition of one-pound bank notes"— quoild Scotland. And wherefore not quad England ? But lie approves of the gold standard for England-- whether because gold is more " solid " here, and the people more "soft," than in the north, he does not tell us. We must take leave to dispute some imporlsost But we must postpone our further notice of the Edinburgh county meeting till a future opportunity. Madrid journals, of the 15th, announce the con viction and sentence on General PRIM and the other prisoners. Previous accounts stated that the process was brought to a conclusion on the evening of the 14th at nine o'clock, and that the Court was cleared. The members, it appears, had no little difficulty in agreeing on the judgment and sentence, for they sat all night, and only a little before six in the morning the sentence was pronounced. By this PRIM is con demned to six years' imprisonment in a fortress, but was to retain his rank and decorations. His fellow prisoners had .been condemned, some to two, and others to three years' imprisonment, on similar terms. The Supreme Military Tribunal was ulti mately to decide on the fate of the prisoners, and point out the places of their imprisonment. The discussions on the Reform Bill were continued, and occasional amendments made, which, of course, were rejected. The public take no interest whatever in the affair. The Bourse was closed on the 15th, being the feast Of ST. EUGENIUS. The Paris papers contain little interesting to the English reader. The Moniteur officially announces the convocation of the Chambers for Thursday, the 26th of December, as previously stated in The Sun. The Journal des Debats has an article on electric telegraphs, and urges the Government, as a matter of economy as well as State convenience, to establish them on all the new lines of railway. " The present defective system," it says, " costs the State .500 francs per mile, so that a vast saving might easily be effected. The same journal contains a letter from its Madrid correspondent, giving details of the pro ceedings which took place on the 14th, at the trial of General PRIM ; but they add nothing to the previous intelligence. The writer denounces the un fair mode of trial, and says " the precipitation with which the affair has been proceeded with and judged, the want of proper formality, and the indifference of the public, have confirmed me in my first impression. Judicial proceedings, above all, demand reform in Spain. An oral defence, public examinations, more respect for the judges, more liberty to the advocates, are the most urgent and useful ameliorations?' These papers contain no further particulars respecting the movements of ZURBANO, and merely publish the extract from the Phare de Bayonne, which has already appeared in this journal. As far as can be ascertained from the various accounts, the affair has been much magnified, and probably will end in smoke, The following are miscellaneous extracts:— " A Berlin letter of the 15th states that the King °I Prussia has accepted from the King of Hanover an invi tation to a grand hunt, which is to take place in the forest of Gcerde. We read in a German journal : " A secret agitation is at work, and will soon explode, in accordance with the plans prepared in Greece. Con siderable sums have been sent to the frontier provinces, and as much as several hundred thousand drachmas have been spoken of. In Epirus and Thessaly a considerable sum of money has been collected. Th e re d uct i on of the Greek army favours this project, f or many b rave officers have been thrown on their own resources, and they turn their eyes to the frontiers of Turkey.' ‘• The Augsburg Gazette states that the Porte, after having promised M. de Bourqueney to have the Domi nican convent at Mossul re-established, has sent word to Sheriff Pacha to have the house rebuilt, such as it was, that is, a storey and a half high, but to go no further. The Porte has also formally forbidden the Rajas to pur chase the land round the Catholic churches whether at Mossul or in other places, in order to give it afterwards to the churches, as that would place it under the protection of France. Such a measure,' remarks the above jour nal, is evidently hostile to the interests of Catholicism in the East as well as to France. Mde Bourqueney took his departure without having settled this difficulty.' " THE BOURSE- THURSDAY, Nov. 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents•• •••• 119 50 .. 119 55 .. 119 45 119 55 Throe per Cents.— •• 82 90 .. 83 10 .• 82 90 .. 83 10 Bank of France . 3120 —3130 —3120 ..3130 Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBo ..1085 ..1080 ..1085 5,0001. Sharesso2s —BO3O ..5022 50 ..5030 Belgian Bank...—. •• •••• 625 .. 625 .. 615 .. 615 Belem' Fives, 1831. 1840 •••••••• 1031 1033 .. 1033 .. 1031 1842 •••••••• 1661 .. 1063 .. 1063 1063 Two-and•a-Half.... 61 65 .. 61 65 .. 61 65 .. 61 65 Spanish Passive: 6 .. 6 .. 6 .. 6 Portuguese Five per Cents— 531 54 .. 531 • • 54 Neapolitan .. 97 90 .. 98 15 .. 97 90 .. 98 15 Rosin ••..••••• 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ....... ..... 930 930 .. 930 .. 930 Versailles, R. 8... • • .....• 427 50 .• 430 .• 427 50 •• 430 L.B.•••• .• ...• • • 302 50 .. 310 .. 302 50 .. 308 75 Rouen .• ••••••••••• • •• •• •• 996 25 . 1000 .• 996 25 .. 998 75 Rouen to Havre.... 7BO .. 780 .. 780 .. 780 Orleans • Strasburg to 8a1e."... •• •• 276 25 .. 276 25 .. 276 25 . 276 25 Avignon to Marseilles."... 875 .. 875 • 872 50 .. 872 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEc. 3. St. Germain • • • 930 .. 930 .. 930 .. 930 Versailles, R. 8.. •• . .•• . • 430 .. 432 50 .. 427 50 .. 432 50 rL 8 ......••••... 302 50 .. 310 .. 301 25 .. 307 50 Rouen • Rouen to Havre. •.••. • . • • 777 50 • • 778 75 • • 777 50 .. 778 75 Orleans ••••••••• Strasburg to Bale.• .• •• 276 25 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 277 50 Avignon to Marseilles......; 872 50 .. 876 25 .. 870 .. 873 75 The high price of the funds naturally causes the value of all eligible securities for the purpose of invest ment to fetch proportionably high sums. This fact was fully exemplified last week at Mr. George Robins's sale of ground-rents at Lisson-grove, which, being freehold, may certainly be deemed the next best security to the funds, but, when the expenses of transfer and other con tingencies be considered, cannot, in our opinion, be pro nounced equally eligible; yet Mr. Robins was enabled to obtain thirty-one years' purchase, thus yielding a pur • chaser less than 3 per cent.; for, although he becomes entitled to a reversionary interest, yet, at the remote period of 76 years, no calculation could at present be made for this expected advantage. The ground -rents amounted to 240/. a year, and sold for 7,500/. A re markable fact attends this sale—viz., one of the lots, the Hope and Anchor public•house, which for 76 years pro duced simply a peppercorn, fetched 100 guineas ; this stun during the period before any rent can be received will, at compound interest, amount to the enormous price of 4,6001., and certainly double the value of the pr. oper ty.—A dyer tiser. It gives us great pleasure to announce that her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch was safely delivered of a daughter at Dalkeith Palace on Tuesday. This happy event will be the occasion of much rejoicing throughout the wide-spread domains of the Noble Duke, the young stranger being the first daughter of the noble pair.— Caledonian Mercury. THIS DAY'S NEWS. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THR QUEEN V. JENKIN JONES. The defendant in this case was brought up for judg ment. He had been a clerk in the Poor-law Commis sioners' office for several years. About twelve months since he procured the appointment of secretary to an insurance company, and through his recommendation a person named Charles Boisson was taken upon trial at the Poor-law Office, Boisson having given defendant 1501 for the situation. After the period of his trial was ex pired, the appointment of Charles Boisson was not confirmed, whereupon he complained that he had been defrauded by defendant. An investigation took place ; a prosecution was ordered by the Government, and the defendant pleaded guilty, and was now brought up for judgment. Several affidavits were put in and read, both on the part of the prosecution and on the part of defendant. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL then rose to speak in aggra vation of punishment. The offence with which the de fendant was oharged was one of very grave importance. This case was considered of such mischievous con sequence to the public that the late Attorney-General, who had exercised his powers at least as mildly as any of his predecessors, felt it his duty to file an ex officio information, to which defendant had pleaded guilty. There were no circumstances of mitigation in the case. The defendant was in communication with a person named Marshall, who was now dead. A person named Boisson was anxious to get a Government situation of 80/. a-year. Marshall offered to procure it for him for 200/. Boisson, who was a needy man, offered 1001., and it - eventually agreed that he should give 150/. Marsha, then directed him to go to the Poor-law Commissioners office, and ask for Mr. Jones, and say he had been sent by Mr. Angus, who was connected with a morning paper. He did so—the defendant took him into the Poor-law office, and there could be no doubt but that Jones thought he had interest sufficient to procure him then a permanent appointment. Jones still continued a short time in the office. Boisson had not been there a fortnight before he was pressed for the money, and told that he should lose his situation unless the money was paid. Boisson, who was in great poverty, was com pelled to raise the money by borrowing it of a Mr. Hutton, and paid that money over to Jones. Shortly after Jones left, and on an acct being called for of the names of the clerks to be returned to the Treasury, the name of Boisson was found there. The Commissioners inquired into the circumstances of his appointment; Boisson was dismissed. He insisted that the money should be returned, and the law officers of the Crown ordered a prosecution. At that time Mar shall, who was included in the prosecution, was living, and the defendant pleaded guilty ; and now that Mar shall was dead, the defendant, who, in Marshall's life time, had pleaded guilty, now came forward and in his affidavit stated that Marshall alone had made the bar gain —that Marshall alone had received the benefit of the money—and that Marshall had lent him (Jones) 100/. This statement was clearly contrary to his plea of guilty, and he called upon the Court to pass an exem plary sentence upon him. Mr. JERVIS then addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment, :and regretted that the Solicitor-General should have thought it necessary to impute falsehood to Jones. He had pleaded guilty, as he had stated, to the Commissioners in the lifetime of Marshall, for the pur pose :of avoiding 'publicity, and he had during the lifetime of Marshall made to the Commissioners an ample statement of all the circumstances of the case. He had repaid the money ; and he produced affi davits from persons high in authority in the office, from which it appeared that during seven years he had been a most useful servant to the public, and that his quittiurthe office was considered a serious loss. That publicity which ho so much dreaded had taken place. He would lose the confidential situation he now held, and he trusted the Court would consider that a sufficient punishment for his offence. Their Lordships having consulted together, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS proceeded to pass the judg ment of the Court upon the defendant. The Court had heard the arguments urged in mitigation, and they would have been very glad if they could have con sidered this case as any other but of a very serious nature. If he really had authority to recommend, he abused the trust reposed in him, and deprived the public of the benefit of compe tition, for his own personal advantage. If he had not authority, and it appeared that he had not, then the fraud was quite as great. If Marshall alone had been the person who had made the corrupt bargain, and if the defendant had nothing to do with it, then that would have been an ample answer to the indictment. But the fact of his pleading guilty during the life time of Marshall p rove d that Marshal was act ing merely as his agent. The Court regretted to hear that there was a family and an aged relative dependent upon his exertions, but it could be matter of regret only. Under the circumstances, the Court felt bound to pass a severe sentence upon him. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be im prisoned in the Q ueen ' s Prison for one year. The defendant was then removed in custody. THE QUEEN V. BARNARD GREGORY. Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD said that in this case his Learned Friend who appeared for the defendant had handed to him certain affidavits, which were anything but satisfactory, and that therefore he should wish to have them read. The affidavits, having been handed in, were read by the officer, The first was the affidavit of Mr. Lewis, the attorney for the defendant, in which was set forth a medical certificate as to the unsatisfactory state of the defendant's health, signed by Dr. Ayre, Dr. Hume Wetherhead, and Sir James Anderson. That cer tificate had been signed in the deponent's pre sence, but the physician had refused to make an affidavit, :as being contrary to the usual custom of the profession. The deponent stated that be held an office on the Midland Circuit, to the duties of which he should have to attend at the approaching assizes, and that, therefore, he should not be enabled to prepare de ponent's defence to go to trial on the 29th. The affi davit of deponent himself was then read as to the state 'of his health. lie also prayed that judgment might be postponed on the indictment to which he had pleaded guilty, because on the trial of the other indictments facts would come out which might materially influence the judgment of the Court. In opposition to the application there were read the affidavits of the Duke of Brunswick, the prosecutor, and his attorney. The affidavit of the latter stated that he had inquired of various medical men who had visited defendant in Newgate, more particularly of Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon to the gaol, as to the state of defendant's health, and that the reply was, that although he was thinner, he was in as good a state of health as when he was first committed to prison. Mr. PLATT submitted to the Court that this was not a case of conflicting testimony. On the one hand, they had only the loose affidavit of an attorney, setting forth that he had made inquiries of different persons ; while, on the other, they had the formal certificate of the medical men who had examined the defend ant. He took it that their Lordships would not try an issue upon minute points as to the state of this man's health, when he pleaded want of health as a ground for postponement of the trial. If there were any doubt upon the subject they would give him the benefit of that doubt. It also appeared that by the rules of the prison he was not permitted to have ac cess to his private papers, which were necessary for hi m to prepare his d e f ence , an d that he was anxious to dis cover the address of persons who were material wit nesses. His attorney also, to whom he entrusted the whole conduct of his defence, was an officer of the Mid land Circuit, and must depart to attend to the duties of that circuit. He thought, therefore, that he had made out a case which would induce their Lordships to post pone both the trial and its judgment. He was under recognizances to appear to receive the judgment of the Court, so that the only effect of granting the application would be to postpone the trial so as to give him a fair and legitimate opportunity for preparing his defence. He, therefore, applied for the postponement of the judg ment until next term, and also for the postponement of the trial. he was indicted, but he stated in his affidavit that it lot! .'! private prop er t y an d was not a public thoroughfare. 6 . also stated th a t i n or d er to have an impartial trial 1, would be neces sar y t o h ave the case tried before a judge of assizes.—Rule nisi granted. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY) The Court was occupied the whole morning with 113 i tions of di s t r i ngas an d others, relating to po i nts of practice. ADMIRALTY—(THIS DAY.) The Court sat at eleven o'clock this morning, for the purpose of hearing cases of collision and salvage. THE JANE-SALVAGE. This was a proceeding instituted by the master sod, crew of a brig called the Dolphin, against the owners,T the Jane, which was a Newcastle vessel, bound, wi th coals, to the port of London, for services rendered to her while in distress at the mouth of the Channel. It appeared by the affidavits of the salvors that the observed th e J ane aground and otherwise very n3o' disabled, when they bore down as close to her as they safely could without injury to their own ship, and then hoisted out boats, and, by the assistance of the crew: succeeded in getting the same off. The services rendered extended over about seven hours, and the salvors con' tended that if th e w i n d h ad at all freshened, she must have gone to pieces ; and they also stated that they exposed themselves to great personal hardship and dal' Igen The sum claimed as salvage was 1504 For the owners it was contended that the alleged se' • vices were not required, and that the vessel would bare floated with the next tide. Eventually 701. were awarded as salvage. was BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner Goniaitax.) There were a few cases put d own on the P&P " for hearing, but none of them were of any interest. IN RE EDWARD BOUCII. The insolvent, a beerseller, applied for his interi m order, but was refused because he had distributed 11 P property unduly among his creditors. The Hon. COMMISSIONER remarked that it ought to be generally known, that the fi na l or d er wou l d b e in s g cases refused wh ere th e i nso l vent had paid one cre dito r _ and left another un p a id. Th e law had laid down the principal th a t th e estate s h ould be equally divided, ea" was determined to see it so carried into effect. .ouni --- GUILDHALL.--(THIS DAY.) A young man named Cooper was charged with os saulting Sarah B era h Bernot, Jane Myers, and Emanue l Solomons. Miss Bernot said she lived at No. 9, Field-lane, and • that the defendant was in the habit of passing her rea l : , dente frequently. She b ad been in the habit of ant4l ing witness an d Mi ss M yers for some time past w i t h o ut any reasonable cause ; the consequence of which wet that she was char ge d at t hi s off i ce a few days ago with On saulting Miss Myers, w h en s h e was held to baiL Abou t !, o'clock last night s h e came i nto her shop and saidshewauteu to fight Miss Myers. She told her that she would fight no one there, and told her to go about her business. She immediately laid hold of witness's sister by the head, al ld dragged her ou t i nto t h e street, where she grossly tt saulted her. A m an w h o was i n company with the Ili soner knocked witn ess on t h e s h oulder with so mu° violence, that she had had no sleep all night, and she be' lieved it to be dislocated. Mr. E. Solomons said he was at the last witness's sh°P last night, and saw the defendant come in, and offer t 1; fight Jane Myer s , an d w i tnessed the assault on g l s Bernot. Whil s t en d eavour i ng to part them, the defendan t scratched his fa ce i n several places, and a watch-guar d was stolen from his pocket. Miss Myers said she was in great danger from th e threats and violence of the defendant. The defendant said that Mr. Solomons knocked W down. Alderman HIIMPHERY said she must be bound ove r in sureties to answer the charge at the sessions. She was then locked up in default of bail. The lad named Edwards, who was charged °, ll Thursday with having near l y murdered a fellow-aPPre' i tice during a t r ifli ng quarrel, was brought up on region to-day. A certificate was handed to Alderman Hum" phe ry, which s t a t e d t h at the boy was not yet out o f danger, and could not therefore attend. Edwards was remanded till Sat ur d ay , w h en the lad, it is expeulew will be called upon to attend. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. (THIS DAY.) The vestry met to-day at the usual hour, eleven o'clock , and several letters having been read, the clerk called th e attention of the vestry to a letter from the auditors, answer to a communication made by the vestry t?'" Saturday, Nov. 9. It will be rembered that on the day in question, the clerk read a letter which had been inserted 1° the Times newspaper, announcing a supposed intentle t . l on the part of the ves t ry to abridge and mutilate 07 accounts of the a u dit ors b e f ore their publication,! and also a lett er , i n answer to that which he the clerk had sent to the Times, and which stated that the vestry had not mad e an y suc h resolution as that which te.e, auditors compl a i ne d o f, an d on the same day the vest''' sent a letter to th e au di tors di sclaiming any such jute °. tion, and expressing their (the vestry's) entire a pprohe tion of the conduct of the clerk. In the letters which the clerk read to the vestry 0 " day, the au dit ors expressed great pleasure at finding that the opinions of the vestry were so entirely in se" cordance with their own (the auditors). The auditors also expressed great regret for the mistake they be' fallen into, and for the publicity which had been given tc l it in consequence. Mr. RIDGWAY said that, in his opinion, the conduct of the auditors had been very imprudent, that having heard that the vestry had such an intention as to mutilate their accounts, they ought, instead of writing to a news paper, to have written to the clerk of the v estry; for by the manner in which they had acted they be' caused a great public feeling of indignation against the vestry. He thought, too, that certain members of the vestry were much too willing to bring its affairs before the public, and some i n fl uent i a l person connected silt the Times newspaper was very much in the habit of in serting articles in that paper which would be much bette r left out. Mr. JOSEPH suddenly rose and said that the affairs of the vestry had been very much before the public for the .. last ten ye ars , an d t h at i t could not but be expected that they would remain so. After some further conversat i on, t h e clerk read a letter respecting a nuisance in the neighbourhood of All Sain ts Church, which had been received from the churchwarden s this day. It appeared that for some time a certain house , adjoining the Ch urc h h a d b een inhabited by persons o` , a most dissolute and abandoned character who bad be en frequently dri ven away, b ut as soon as one set of them had been compelled to leave the house they sent a notbef to take posses s i on i n t h e i r p l ace. Lately a new door had been made le a di ng t o t h e ga l lery of the Church, would prove a great convenience to the parishioners, but that this very d oor was exact l y opposite to the house 11 question, and no one cou ld pass i t without being shoc ked at the obscene conduct carried on there. After much discussion it was decided that the vestry' clerk be d es i re d t o wr i te to the rate-payers of the sa id house, and report thereon on next Saturday. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD rose to reply, but was in terrupted by Lord DENMAN, who said, I am disposed to think that there has been no case made out which requires the Court to do anything. If the medical men had made an affidavit, that possibly might have afforded some ground for asking for delay ; but they have abstained from doing so. I wish that medical men should know that their certificate is really nothing. If they wish to come before the Court, they must come before it as other per sons do, on affidavit, and this they have not done in the present case. What appears to me might be a satisfac tory arrangement, Brother Talfourd, if you are inclined to accede to it, is, that the trial should be post poned, but that the judgment should not be postponed. If persons conduct themselves in the manner in which this defendant has conducted himself they cannot get rid of the consequences of their conduct in this manner, but must suffer the punishment which they have brought upon themselves. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. CHESTER CUP. 40 to 1 agst Foig a-Bal lagh—t 40 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn —taken 40 to 1 agst Pastoral—t DE, 40 to 1 agst Ratan—t a . 40 to 1 agst E x t e mpore- - " , 50 to 1 agst Morpeth—t ~ 50 to 1 agst Portobello--" 10 to 1 agst Alarm 16 to 1 agst Kedger 20 to 1 agEt Cobweb c 25 to 1 agst Idas—t 25 to 1 agst Pam—t 25 to 1 agst Old England 28 to 1 agst The Rebecca c 30 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's two Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD—The prosecutor in this caso leaves himself entirely in the hands of the Court. It was then arranged that the defendant should be brought up for judgment on Monday on the indictment to which he had pleaded guilty, and that the trial of the other indictment should be postponed until the sitting after next term. The Duke of flrunswick was in Court, and sat in the Queen's Counsel seat, next to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. aBY. 33 to 1 agst Young Eclipse , t 33 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen 35 to Iragst Minikin c 35 to 1 agst Weatherbit 35 to 1 agst Laird o'Cockpen 35 to 1 agst Anti-Repeal er 40 to 1 agst Connaught Ran' ger BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR , &C., OF DOVER. Mr. WHATELY applied for a mandamus directed to the Mayor and Corporation of Dover commanding them to insert the name of John Mills :on the burgess list of the borough, he baying been rejected on the ground that he had not paid certain poor rates. There were several objections to the validity of these rates, though if even the rates were good, he would contend that the non-payment of them did not operate as a disqualifica tion. The: first objection to the rates was that the Town Council did not order the overseer to make the rates. The second objection was that the rate of 1842 was re trospective. There were various other objections be sides against the validity of the rate.—Rule granted. The Learned Gentleman then said that there were 24 other cases of a similar description in which he was instructed to move for rules.—Application granted. Mr. PEACOCK said he was instructed to move for 15 rules of a similar nature.—Application granted. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 23.—Wind N. to N.E., fresh breeze and cloudy. DEAL, Nov. 22.—Wind N.N.E. to E.—Arrd. Sle er ' Olesin, Buenos Ayres, for Hamburgh ; Prince„Quebe e • Sld. Buteshire, Ichaboe ; Thomas King, Grenada. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. An' thony, Batavia ; Glaphyra, St. Kitts ; Mediator, 1 0 ^ York. Off, Nautilus (transport), St. Helena. HARWICH, Nov. 22.--The Pocohontas, Higgins, frcir il , Rotterdam to Li verpoo l, grounded on the Shipwso,7 Sand this m orn i ng , b ut was washed off on the fl oo d, an d proceeded. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.—Wind S.S.E., Pilgrim, Rawlins, Calcutta ; Conway (steamer), Cartier; von, with 730 p ac k ages o f tea, ex Urgent, more or les s damaged. Sld. Zenobia and Triumfante, Havannsh% May, Africa. The James (steamer), in crossing the river to Birkenhead last night, ran foul of the Roya list, from St. J o h n ' s , New Brunswick, and was severely in," jured ; it i s f eare d i ome o f her passengers were drown ed' The wreck that was fallen in with, 20th inst., by the Achilles (steamer), was seen yesterday a t midday b e : tween the Isle of Man and Liverpool, in tow of tw.4r steam tugs, by the Ad m i ra l ( steamer ) , arr i ve d here. the others st e a m t ug h as b een sent to the ass i stance of : others : 700 packages tea, ex Urgent, have been lanctuu on the beach, and two boats filled. The Erin go 13111 g (steamer) was alongside the ship loading. SHEERNESS, Nov. 18.—The Thomas, Price, of Sun' derland, got ashore last night on the ou ter Skerryinn Sound, and i s expecte d to b ecome a tota l wre ck ; C re w saved. m NORTH SUNDERLAND fro , Nov. 21.—The Defiance, ds Inverness t o Sunderland, struck on the Fern this morning, but was afterwards got off, and grounde d at the entrance of the harbour, where she remains. . ' NEW LIFE-BOAT.—A life•bout, built of Ind ia/ wreck. rubber and cork planking, has recently been constrd under the direction of Lieutenant G. Walker, ship _ which promises to be of great service in cases of su b t The objects to be attained are to combine lig. ness with strength. so that the boat may be readily launched, be able to resist the waves and collisions withe rocks, and at the same time be incapable of sinking. Z- o n st former requisites are attained by constructing th e u . n d India rubber, which may be made into of courses of planking, composed of ground cork - s & any length and thickness, and the prevention from ._planks of almost sink ing is attained by air-boxes placed under the Boil The boat that has been constructed on this prineiPle4 thirty-four feet long, a n d e l even an d a half wide from tn o outside, and it is calculated to be capable of taking I . persons at a ti me f rom a wrec k i n sa f e ty. With twentr five persons on board it draws only fifteen inches °I. rf 4144". 101• - -or 4; •-::‘ , ..4 - -stw "41„t.7-P,4-4114440 • ' -;., \ t ' 411 " I. ' ' 111.11110*„ ' -1 ' Lir"' : 4..... . , ii r - • .... ... l• . mos '. , , .../.40..A.-` 'ioo t r„ 4- g trieltill C 21,1 tit _, - LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1844, Another great meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League took place on Wednesday night, in the New Hall, at Rochdale. The organs of monopoly must be grievously perplexed by this additional proof of the vitality of the League, for according to their accounts it was in a state of fearful decrepitude full three months since, and there was not the slightest probability of its ever again disturbing the slumber of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or giving occasion for any further manifestations of eloquence on the part of Mr. BANKES, whose description of his Dorsetshire Arcadia caused, it may be remembered, a very considerable sensation in the House of Commons last session, if not by its matter-of-fact accuracy, at any rate by the brilliant inventive genius by which it was characterised. The Post, the Standard, and the Herald, having already pronounced the Anti-Corn law Leagu e t o b e a ll b ut in articulo mortis, and THE VALU E OF reassriosn. s Co f u or nz o N ffi a c n i d ati ß ng litlG a ti s T chiefengaged mourners in busy at its - - pre obtained for money on s o lid secur i ty was made manifest Pttlt 490,320 last week at the Auction Mart, on the occasion of Mr. funeral, it must be a great act of presumption in this Total w contumacious ard and declare, b c o o i m ng e i.n publiclyill-health fo r- , How does it happen that all these facts come together George Robins having to sell freehold ground -rents and corroborate each other ? They are not picked amounting to 2401. a year. A reversionary . interest was it never was in a more thriving o,ut of returns prepared and got up by the members of appends d 4 to . this sale, at the expiration of 77 years, but condition in its life, the Anti-Corn-law League, hut from raturns fur- this . rever ion, at such a distant period, was worth no- thing', and yet the ground-rents averaged more than 31 and as for dying, it never had the slightest intention Wished by Government.—(Applause.) Arguments of giving up the ghost ! 'We remember a remark ably robust and vigorous gentleman, with a are as plentiful as blackberries in the season ; you may years' purchase ; and a peppercorn rent for 77 years, -- a I (when the fee simple will be possessed), of the Hope and go to any district, agriaaltil al or mainufacturing,, and I declare it is impossible to fix on any point, or get Anchor public -house, estimated at 1001. a-year, actually produced 100 guiacss. The interest upon this sum, with face like a full-moon, and a chest like that 1101 d of any statistics but what will conduct to the compo u nd int er , s t f or 77 yeafs, will amount to 4,600/. lof Hercules in the El g i n mar b les, the same conclusion ; th e y a ll con d emn t hi s infamous which is co n se quen tly th e enormous va l ue t h e pepper - f k and wh o Jaw.—(Applause.) The li on . G ent l eman referred to corn produced.--Iferning Post. never in his lire what it was to have the circurnstancas under which these emigrants left, THE RAILWAY RIOTS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.— a headache, modestly observing in reply to some anal observed th a t it wa s no t lik e t h e sons of aristocrats Several examinations Gf parties concern e d i n th e r i o t s common - p l ace i n t eroga t ory o f a friend, that, thank going to make the grand tour ; they tore themselves consequent upon the attempt of the railway surveyors to I GOD, h e enjoyed excellent health, though he looked away from losociations as strong as any men felt, and get upon Lard Harbor . ough's property, have taken place f.:r why ? That hen,: ekes and their chikirt n might befare the county magaarates. In some cases the par obtain a maintenance. He had s - • grants 1 . seen an emi op ties have been held to bail for assaults; in others the' excellent health, though it looks delicate—at . l ea s t in delicate; and so may the League reply ;—it enjoys :euving the dock at Liyarpool, all weeping on board, magistrates have rani:net to grant warrants. On Monday I the estimation of our Tory Contemporaries, who •ards of 200 s rcial constablas were sworn in for auld their friends on shore equally weeping, at t.lting u P" P - • • . never will be persuaded but that it must very shortly was remarked i _ . that their lust leave of them. It waS oft taenty-one days, and placed in various parts of Staple •langliimen who had gone to America,ford Park, and there are also several in the neighbour spo {e bitterly i ng go off in a galloping consumption. Those, however, elf their own country ; but when it was villages, headed by some of the Leicester county 1 whose judgment is not wholly eclipsed by their pre y that they had been forced away by the G e o ni ve e nun . ent eightaateh i i i n ou p r a s r . ties lt of w a a b s ou s t t t a w te e ( n i tweet i i judices, take a very different view of the case, and a p n o d lic a e re for r c e e lieN t -e h d eY e l v7 , d saw the very wheat for which they pined Melton on W d , 1 • h e ne.a.ay that the surveys had re-com- I consider that at the present moment the Anti lock -4-1 up in by the t e Oakh:,!rn Canal towing path, and as; Corn-law League exercises a greater moral influence . , st. that they left this land with a inaledie4i on ' there apopnearts flared in 1 Ilarborough his advi'sers will venture Act of pabrie ja a m r ( tht it of is wo n y o r t eserved to the public over the public mind than it has done at any time to seek a living under a . more just thought that L in their it4 " ths ' . Lord tablishment. Were it not so, we aa , With reelect tco Crime, again upon i 1 - 1 ' since its first es Governme. v ' should not find it effecting such searching reforms .. 1836-7, ejecting the ailrvvay agents from it. 33,222 65,207 90,743 118,502 128,344 57,212 THE QUEEN v. WHITTAKER. Mr. COWLING moved for a certiorari to remove the judgment against the defendant. This was an indict ment for a violation of a local Act of Parliament, the 11th of Geo. the 4th sec. 39, which required that no street should be made in Manchester of less width than eight yards. It appeared that the defendant i❑ this case made *sound only six yards - in width, and for this I