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fps. „ e or ith o bi to )C IC. . 1P 19 2 , s 46 4 Y 1 5- to " .. o t .'• .eY r e 11 3 ;.0 t iø o '11: oo toill corj 1 „7,g011, , ..y , e .••• „pl 11 :r ° *" 19 .2 " 094 ' ..,- ot, 441, Jr . 1 1 ar ris ~d, b s : _ oot , bet t rejjiore^eff r btli le °I 99 ter 00, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Claremont in a carriage and four, shortly before five o'clock on Tues day a ft ern oon, from town. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess i oyal, the Countess of Mount Ed2ecurnbe, Col. Arbuthnot, and Col. Wylde followed, in two of her Ma jesty's carriages and four., The li on . C. A. Murray arrived at Claremont on Tuesday, from town. Yesterday her Majesty and Prince Albert walked, during the forenoon, in the grounds of Claremont. Their Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken airings yesterday, in the gardens of Claremont. fler Royal Highness, the Duchess ofCambridge vi site I t h e D uchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, on Tuesday. The Duchess of Cambridge took an airing yesterday in an open carriage. A. numerous deputation, on the Savings' Bank Bill, had an interview with the Chancelb.r of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Sir Thomas Baring, Mr. John Martin, M.P., Mr. Petty Vaughan, Mr. Esdaile, Mr. Tiarks, Mr. Green a w a y, Mr. Hawthorn, Mr. Be vington, Mr. Knox, and Mr. David Martin. From Exeter, Mr. Divett, M.P. Mr. Lee, Mr. Buck, and Sir John Yarde Buller, M.P. From l)evonport, Mr. I)awe, Lord Ebrington, Sir Thomas Acla n d, M r. M'G eachy, M.P., M r. Th omas Sill, M.P., and Sir George Grey. Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from the Governor of South Australia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord St an l ey left town. yesterday to attend the funeral or the Hon. R. Bootle Wilbraham. - n , r. Wi c kh am, Chairman of the Stamps and T axes , ad M an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday. , o The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most nonourable Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords resent were Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor. 4l light Bruce, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, l i the Judg e of the Admiralty Court. same Mackenzi e 11 PPe r. li f inde "leY, Queen's Counsel, was heard on an " al -r ° 4l th e Prerogative Court of Canterbury, side. The Court Dr. Addams followed on the ue then rose. THE FACTORIES BILL. Sir R (From the Times.) fthe --acto(ther ft Peel i s f or t h e present the undispu ted arbitrator y 41 question. Of Lord Ashley's merits and demerits needless to speak. His part in the business is a matter hstory, and a matter of history it will probably . remain. Fori thefuture, he will find himself most at dome in those . l ases and ass em bli es w h ere religious and charitable feelings m ay be safe/5, awa k ened without the peril Of an immediate, vital, and painful test. He is not made for the House of t runl ons, nor the H ouse o f C ommons f o r him. It scarcely 11its a cknowledged only to reject. A Legislature which tr ifles the gravest questions of humanity - , which gathers round 1 , 01 7 , teacher one day, and runs away fr m him the next, calls he application of a sterner hand, and , in due . time will -- auly receive it. But is Sir Robert s position, on the other han ne to be proud of ? He has gained the day ; but so 11 d ' a o y an unprincipled man, and many a trickster. Itohe Premier i n s - neither . of these, h y . et, , after all, we see nothing n ., e a,,v3' or to admire in his ac ement, or in that . whole 7,,„"an---that whole series of positions—of which this is only 4 1I c irnen. His strength consists in the weakness. of others. t he knows his ground, he distinguishes with a practised eye `ue salient points of the various difficulties which immediately t ur rixind him and, above all—a rare gift in statesmen I L aPPreciates the virtues and capacities of those "a 8 to deal with, As far as virtues are con cerned, he does not fall into the error of an exaggerated stiniate. He knows what stuff millowners and land ?weners are m a d e o f . Thi s i s hi s great secret o f state He ws that every party has its price. He has also the ;culty of appealing with decent solemnity to respectable sel vsliness- He is eloquent on gain acid loss. Private corrup lan is but a vulgar expedient. It disappoints the many anal raakes the few insatiable. So a kind of public and wholesale Pamcorruption is th e gran d er p l an o f our t i mes . Th ere are t w o t a at thi s moment in actual possession of Eng l and ' s des tittl,',les,—the landowners and the millowners,—rival capi bothL't'• The Reform Bill, contrary to the anticipations of _ friend and foe, has sent to Parliament the representa tlves of wealth rather than of men. Mere proxies of corn and cotton crowd the house. Sir Robert Peel's position is to t a y off these interests against one another. He is the /Eolus so at k ee couth, p , s in mutual check the squally north and the steamy -out first it is necessary to propitiate them at the of inferior, or less efficacious parties. If there is any • Irt on whi c h th e D uke of Richmond an d M r. B r i g ht are re' to discover a community of interest, or any measure urofiY t able to o ne an d not injurious to the other, that will be _. re to su i t Sir Robert's purpose. Such is the Premier's posi tion in the present i ns t ance , an d suc h hi s p o li c y. He is beset by certain inconvenient demands from a particular class of b_ s l _ ll . l % An actual case of suffering, backed by a little stray olence, and possibly by some other less assignable syins t.athies or antipathies, finds its way into Parliament anddi - t Lr e t's the equilibrium. If it is relieved, then confessedly that [ re arises a degree of peril to the capital connected . wit h with labour. That capital must be -supported, if possible Ntri:nout r ic . "'linage to the rival capital. Sir Robert does the gent to admiration. He takes a general view of the ienT i "• " This is a case," 'he' says, "Of labour insur lilt— against capital. All you capitalists have ,a common Ls' t7s es t in protecting the free development of caital which at,oe. source of employment. Restrictions on labour are re ions on capit a l, and conseq uen tly on th e universa l divi ild of ch and oor. One labour to B . ll f)th artm -er, ri without end." Every now concession and to then be spices leads the 1 . 0 „ mein with an allusion to the fact that manufacture is a 1,," very close indeed in the market of nations, that we have once been obl ged to surrender every natural advantage u ee L ". s essed by our manufacturer, that he suffers peculiar as thin " von , labour 9 a race and carries weight," and, therefore, acheat present we cannot clog him by restrictinthe , in his employ. ' .The speech is descriptive of the Pre caseier s Ppiti on, and f nothing else. It does not meet the lo in debate, and hardly deserves to be called an argument i J" it, l'rom the first - to the last sentence not only ist there Rliollone a sl s mind 3 lable on that case, but the tenor shows that it is f° ,rgOtten, and something . else is present in the Pre the Nra • The real question proposed by Lord Ashley s not and labour should be protected, but whether the female and the youthful labourer should be protected as _ le not • and youthful capitalist are. Protection was asked ly eak u t er behalf of labour against capital, but in behalf of the ca sc , sex and age against the stronger. It was a speci g ave The slightest recollection of the point at issue would ari t h excluded as wholly irrelevant the pretty . dilemma te nce which th e P rem i er adorned his opening sen cosi;, Re charges s om e of his opponents with in the j, - " I °Y, because, while they are against restricting it a h o rtation of corn, they propose to restrict labour. But ne ees ,. quite compatible to desire an open supply of th the i•s\aries of life and also legal protection for those whom ag a i ti 4 s l T has ever held to require it ? But even as arguing r.L.the legislative protection of labour in general, Sir a tis almost studiously flimsy and negligent. He states rq.'-ertain loss likely to arise to the manufacturer from the rnacrsed.restriction on time. The particular documsnt he th at e ( B l hls text for this purpose is one obviously of a kind tim e :es not apply, as it dates at a period (1842) when d uct , , ' eras shortened,' with an express wish to diminish pro d to )4 i n the same ratio. Again, the loss to the master an oPerative, as he states it, is within the compass of are fiscal c°mOensation. Further on, the foreign hours of labour notirluoted from a publication of 1837, with the bare an and l c ..ntent that there may have been subsequent changes, fo r , i "thout any allusion to the hoped-for probability of of (iegtrs following our good example. The Premier's mode tr ate a s "ng with the moral argument of Lord Ashley illus : did h is s much th e pecu li ar temper o f hi s ar g u ment as it - c annot utter forgetfulness of the question at issue. He test a ' eny that the nation is morally bound to protect are 8 c cdlasses naturally weak, where it can, and where they pass nul nerous that it cann ot help observing them. We ass a i l a few other conspicuous flimsinesses. But why tut,anta,osPeech with newspaper criticism which was never A • It told ' r newspapers ? It was aimed at . a eight . e'n• the Conservative mind. Eighty-g of Lord of co:: supporters took the hint and withdrew. Most had, It wa `,, 4 r B e, already taken a hint—perhaps the whole body. aft er ',Painful, of course, to announce desertion immediately ration"rcl Ashley's first triumph, and the consequent decla that t i u ' Ministers ; so, possibly some day it _ will come out Acla n d e Y drew up a round robbin, and the redoubted 1414, 4 \ Yas the spokesman of the eighty-eight, as being their Acon:heal chief. Unhappy pre-eminenee Were we Mr. "rselv' we should take some early opportunity of burying_ "eestr es , in the midst of the alphabet, even at . the loss of vlthiela yh a e l le a ss i o le c g ia ,, t , ions. Fifteen of these eighty-eight " went and voted against Lord Ashley. Think w as ' all avalanche of rats ! Talk of faggot peers !—that coar s. eas 4 work. Sir Robert pitches about faggots of turn we m i ,„ 1 ,,,e is an honest man ; we know of no man to whon . i any p ""l• commit our purse with greater confidence; but if „pon oarliamentary gentlemen wish their honour free from keeping Wa ste, we advise them to reserve it in their own R -at least, not to commit it to their Premier. W e l (From the Herald.) acco nlr , c o s.et with that melancholy kind of satisfaction which ti on, f r a mes the departure of a painful topic, the consider,a final a „ (4 ,, ti le present session, of the Ten Hour clause. The illiupstconclusive argument, brought forward by the Prime Dect ed r himself, had its full effect, and a majority, unex at th e large, testified the alarm felt by the House of commons ni n4t bare idea of a dissolution of the present Government. We aired casto4rye to lament the issue, partly because we feel as tice this decision the question is not settled. Jus wiii re - not been done and until it is done, a festering sore hour a main in the minds of the aggrieved classes. The long ista gn i v ,tect, too, will render over-production, gluts, and as the "on, almost inevitable; and when these evils occur, ela pse d Ire very likely to do before many months will have avoid rem aow will it be possible for the poor operatives to feet tb..enthering the late discussions, or to overlook the ti t •:,..,_in"d,:4lnoderate work at all times is far preferable to henver e.e;wentor seventeen months, and half starvation for next minor, but not an inconsiderable cause of pain to lly, has been the necessity of opposing with anT" t ness wfiat we have regarded as, on the whole, a wise l o e r h t s li t y e - , A a d d m er i ( n ts is u tr s ati on . A glance, however, even t the sti;": _ln a discussion in which tsl(: e rnLc v onsolation in this matter. ight, our support would be rather out UnAtessrs. Roebuck, Ward, Bright Govern of ment Philips, and Gaily total does 't 0 ., la seem that the Morning Herald •shoul:el‘bsleotrhfeoeunanaidd , utu COr„e of parties, __f t side which obtains the suffrages of Sir Robert Inglis, , mixture Wortley, Mr. M'Geachy, and Lord Pollington. indeed, has been a strange one, but othsz :2411..1.L1dd act,.,"7.4 could doubt as to which was the Conservative side. r4Lerurrvafitim Robert,... Peel's final argument, too-thirds of the Ye members would have preferred the Ten Hour Government ell's sentiment was that of a multitude of feelin are with Lord Ashley ; but as the Ahorn.„ make t e a vital question, my vote will be with - - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. G ORI - I A MBURY RACES— WEDNESDA Y. The abundance of racing reserved for the second day rendered a closer adherence to the " order of running" necessary than was observed on Tuesday ; accordingly it commenced a few minutes after one o'clock, anti was brought to a close shortly before five, leaving just time enoughfor those who were bound for the metropolis, to avail themselves of the special train from Watford at six. , The sport, good, and plentiful enough to satisfy any rea • • sortable appetite, presented only two features of any in terest beyond the moment—the Park Stakes for two year olds, and the Double Headed Oak Stakes. The first, for which twelve out of the eighteen named came to the post, was run in " heats," owing, as esta blished before the Stewards, to the horses having started before Mr. Robert Grimston, who officiated on this occasion, lowered his flag, Treen alone having pulled up on hearing that gentleman declare that it was flo start. This contretemps, the only one that inter rupted the harmony of the meeting, would have been avoided, had there been a flagstnan in advance of the horses; or, we say it with all deference, had the start ing been left to the Clerk of the Course, who proved his fitness for the duty at the last meeting by getting off 19 horses without the slightest failure. The Double Headed Oak Stakes was an agreeable surprise to the fielders. Charlotte, upon whom 6,7, and 8 to 1 was laid, a: soon as it was made public that the Devil-to-Pay had paid, having been beaten in a trot. Of these, the other races, and of some important fluctuations in the betting on the Derby and Oaks, we have below given all needful par ticu!ars. The company on the ground included, besides the Gorhamhury party, which was joined on Tuesday even ing by the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, most of the fashionables whose names have already appeared ; of ' the middle classes the assemblage was not so numerous. The weather was fine, but many degress colder than on the first day. The racing came off in the following order : - - The Pondyard Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 20 added. Winner to be sold for 1501, &c. Stand Course. (7 Subs.) Mr. Wilson's Hampton, 5 yrs, 9st 31b...(Bemetzreider) 1 Lord Chesterfield's The Artful Dodger, 5 yrs, Bst I Ilb 2 Mr. Coleman's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs, 95t... 3 The fol!owing also ran:—Mr. Parr's Xanthus, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—Hon. G. Ongley's Utica, 4 yrs, Bst 41b; and Mr. Land's Phingari, 6 yrs, 9st. Betting-7 to 4 agst Utica, 4to I each agst Hampton, Artful Dodger, and Devil-among-the-Tailors. The run • ning was made alternately by the -Devil-among-the- Tailors and Xanthus to the distance, where Hampton went in front, scattered the field in a few strides, and won easy by a length. The Devil a Middling third, and all the others beaten off. LITERATURE. ANECDOTES OF ACTORS. Ntwhy, London, 1844. The character of this volume may be pretty well guessed from its title. It is a rambling, desultory production, full of anecdotes illustrative of the man ners, social peculiarities, &c., of some of the most eminent tragedians and comdians who have flour ished during the last fifty years and upwards. The Kimble family, of course, figure in the fore ground; and next to them, the authoress—Mrs. Mathews—is most copious and circumstantial in her reminiscences of Theodore Hook, whose, wit, good-humour, address, and general intelligence, seem to have made an indelible impression on her mind. She is never weary of relating anecdotes of those practical jokes and hoaxes, in which he was so great a proficient ; and takes leave of him in these terms, which, though to our taste not a little ridiculous, were, we presume, meant to be quite toughing and sentimental Alas ! Theodore, thou art pale in the tomb—in the winter-house! Thy friends have bent the red eye over thy grave ! They shall seek thee in their halls, but they shall not find thee. Thou shalt come at times to their dreams; thy voice shall remain_ in their ears; but they shall see thee no more." Had Theodore Hook been alive, he would have been the first Waugh at this Ossianic lament over a defunct friend. Not a few of the anecdotes of this prince of after-dinner wags—for no humourist of his time equalled Hook in the variety and liveliness of ; INCREASE OF DOG-STEALING. The New Sporting Magazine, for this month, contains a paper on the increase of the crime of dog-stealing, which is now carried out on a perfect system, by which contributions to an almost incredible amount are levied on those who value a favourite four-foottd companion more than they do a tolerably heavy sum in hard cash. So great has the evil become, that application is to be made to Parliament for an Act making dog-stealing a felony, and putting that animal on the same footing as the horse. The paper gives some curious details con nected with the practice, or with what may be called the statistics of dog-stealing. The following sketch is also given of the rise and progress of the plan for applying a remedy by legal means :—" The idea of first petitioning the House of Commons to have this - Act of Parliament passed, 'originated with that well-known and eccentric character, Mr. Bishop, of Bond -street, the justly cele brated gun-maker ; the petition being signed by great numbers of the first nobility and gentry in the country. In his inner shop—or rather studio, as it may be termed —is held atKall seasons of the year, till grouse-shooting rather thins its daily attendants, a kind of sporting levee, where the merits not only of guns, but all de scriptions of sporting dogs, are talked over by their various owners or admirers; the conversation being ren dered doubly agreeable by te accompaniment of a large brown loaf and 'ripe Stilton,' and divers foaming pots of Barclay and Perkins' entire. Now The Bishop, is, and has been for about 30 years—that is to say, as long as he has been upon the town,' or rather before the public —an eccentric character ; from his long attachment to all descriptions of fun pervading this great and tasteful metropolis, whilst his acquaintance with innumerable • queer character.' of every grade has given him an insight into society rarely to be met with in any man, however long an apprenticeship he may have served. Many of the unfortunate attendants at the aforesaid levee,•having been deprived of their favourite dogs by the hands of the dog-stealers on whom we have been descanting, applied, in the mements of their distress, to Mr. Bishop for his advice in the matter, himself' hay • ing been a fellow-sufferer, and, to regain his favourite,' having been mulcted by these harpies in a considerable fine upon the occasion. His knowledge of the town and of many of the queer characters' of whom I spoke, has enabled him to get some of the stolen dogs restored to their owners, upon paying, through the medium of a third person, a most exorbitant and shame ful ransom. This part of the transaction is generally negotiated by a man who may be termed the Jonathan Wild of the fancy;' who prefers neglecting his busi ness by seeking after the enormous profits arising from, the degrading and rascally negotiations above alluded to. Since Mr. Bishop has become an accidental assistant in many of "these canine transactions, not only has the levee become - daily increased in the interior of the studio, but numbers of carriages may be seen in the morning, containing ladies, anxiously inquiring if any thing has been heard about their Floras or Phillises." The following is a slight outline of the amount of the ransoms paid for the lives and liberty of the canine favourites:—" The immense sums of money which have been lately paid for the restoration of stolen dogs is per fectly incredible: the large amount of 9001. and up wards has been extorted upon these occasions alone where Mr. Bishop has personally interfered for the restitution of the stolen property, in some instances for dogs, which have been stolen twice, and even more fre quently. Amongst those persons who have been suf ferers, may be enumerated his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 301; Wyndham Bruce, Esq., 25/.; Capt. Alexander, First Life Guards, 221.; and many others, :oo numerous to insert in these pages." his conversation—have already made their appearance in print ; and those which are new, are by no means specially remarkable for point or oddity. The volume is a passable one—nothing more—so far as matter is con cerned; and, as regards manner, the authoress's style is much too processional, being plentifully besprinkled with indifferent puns, and heavy attempts at v►vacity, which constantly remind us of the sort of conversation that from time immemorial has been so prevalent in the green-room. We quote a strange anecdote of Pitt, whom Mr. Mathews, it seem, was once invited to meet at the late General Phipps's : " In my husband's earliest years as a London actor, be cherished a strong desire to behold the great statesman Pitt; and in the course of conversation one day with our early friend General Phipps, referring to this desire, he promised Mr. Mathews that'his longing should be grati fied, for he would, he said, ask him to dinner on some occasion when he expected, the great man at his table. For a time some difficulty was found in arranging the matter to suit all parties—my husband having to per form at the Haymarket 'nightly. However, on the de mise of the Duke of Gloucester, in' 1804 or 5, the thea tres were closed until after the interment, and a day was arranged for the promised *Peat, but to the actor's chag rin, the royal funeral took place sooner than expected, the theatres were re-opened on the very evening fixed for the dinner, and all hope of the gratification intended was fading, when it was suggested to my husband's kind inviter that he could perhaps manage to reach his, the General's house, after the theatre closed, and as the din ner hour was a late one, arrive in time to catch at least a glimpse of Mr. Pitt, before the party broke up. As soon therefore as the green curtain dropped, my hus band hastened to receive the delight he anticipated— namely to behold the most extraordinary political genius of England, and listen to his accents, prepared _to trea sure up in memory ever word that tell from the eloquent lips of the great politician ; and it was not without a sensation somewhat approaching to awe, that the actor followed the servant, who ushered him into the dining room where the party still remained, though nearly mid night; for, like Norval —" Never b«•fore stood he in such a presence But as he entered. he was started by a crash of something breaking, followed by a suppressed titter, and he found the table in great disorder, the guests silent, the General, and the candles burning blue—the new guest looked a little blue also at the constrained, nay vexed, manner with which his heretofdre warm and cor dial host received him, and who, without a word of wel come, pointed to the chair just placed for him by the servant. My husband's eye glanced from face to face in the fear that he was too late to behold the only one he came to see, and having hastily scanned each counte nance, his quick eye, long familiar with Gilray's and other likenesses of the Prime Minister, could not fail to recognize, though in a haze, in the sharp features of the long slim personage seated at the top of the table — the political guiding star of Britain, the great son of the great Chatham, the dignified statesman, the observed of all observers—undisturbed by the entrance of the new guest—gravely, and even thoughtfully employed in collecting the wine-glasses within his reach, and piling them one upon another as high as they could balance, and then with the fragments of the dessert pelting them down into pieces (the crash and suppressed mirth heard by my husband at his entree being occasioned by' the destruction of the first batch) and not till all the glasses upon the table were—in auctioneer's phrase— showed up, did the mighty perpetrator think of desisting. He then arose with something like an effort, and with a silent bow to his host, not very steadily withdrew, accompanied by two of the gentlemen present. The much annoyed General then explained to my husband that the scene he had just witnessed of the self-diversion of his illustrious guest was not infrequently the result of his having suffered too much of the " molten ruby" to pass his lipQ, as on the present occasion, when he taxed his hospitable entertainers in the manner described. This was the only time my husband saw this great man, who died, I believe, shortly after." --- The Selling Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added. Stand Course. (10 Subs.) Mr. Booth's Donnybrook, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Sly) I Lord Stradbroke's Repealer, 3 yrs, 6st Ilb The following also started :—Mr. Oshaldiston's b c by The Saddler, out of Miss Etty, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Mr. Cowley's Adrian, aged, Bst 81b—Mr. Perry's Dart, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—Lord Glamis's Sister to Ramadan, 4 yrs, ist—Mr. Nightingale's Ascot, 6 yrs, Bst 31b—Mr. Brown's Pauline, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Mr. Hewitt's Midnight Star, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (carried sst 121b)and Mr. Cole- , man's eh 11 by Sir Hercules, out of Tarantella, 4 yrs, 7st 71b. Betting-3 to 1 a g st Repealer, 4to 1 agst Miss Etty colt, 4 to 1 agst Adrian, 7 to 1 agst Donnybrook, and Bto 1 agst Midnight. Ascot jumped off in front, but resigned the lead in a few strides to Dart and the Taran tella colt, who made joint running for about a mile and a half ; Donnybrook, who had followed them in com pany with Repealer and Adrian, then went in advance, ran by himself to the end, won in a canter, by nearly two lengths, and was claimed for 1501. Dart and Cole man's colt were third and fourth, and everything else beaten off. The Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added, for two yrs old ; colts. Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b ; win ners 41bs extra. T.Y.C. (8 Subs.) Mr. J. Day's The Maid of Orleans (J. Day, jun.) 1 Mr. Hooks' Bastion ... Mr. May's Corinthian Tom The following also started :—Lord Verulam's c by Sir Hercules, out of Christina—Lord G. Bentinck's Nereus—Mr. Walter's My Mary—Mr. Ford's Piccolina —Mr. Ongley's Mystery—Mr. Wilson's Gazelle—Mr. T. The“bald's Chemise—Mr. Booth's New Year's Day —and Lord Exeter's f by Velocipede, out of Czar's dam. Even betting on the Maid of Orleans-6 to 1 agst Mystery, (t)-6 to 1 agst Bastion, (t)—and 6 to 1 agst My Mary. The first start, as we have already stated, was a failure, at the second, all got off, except Bastion, and ran the entire distance, the Maid of Orleans winning easily by a length and a half ; Mystery second, and Chemise third; but, on their return to the weighing stand, an intimation was given to the Stewards that Bastion had been left behind, and that the others had started before Mr. Grimston dropped the flag; this, although denied by several of the riders, was declared by Mr. Grimston to have been the case ; and the Stewards, in consequence, pronounced it a false start. 2 to 1 was then laid on the Maid of Orleans, 4 to 1 against Mystery, and 5 to 1 'against Bastion. In the actual race, which did not take place till after one more failure, Bastion made the running to the distance, where the favourite went in frant, had the rest of it to himself, and won in a canter by two lengths. Corinthian Tom was a bad third, Chemise and Piccolina next, and OA others beaten off. Gazelle and My Mary were drawn after the first heat. The St. Alban's Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 25 added, with a whip presented to the winning Jockey by the Ladies. Heats. Stand Course. (6 Subs.) Mr. Wesley's Counsellor, 5 yrs, lOst 21b Captain Martyn's Emilian, 5 yrs, lOst 12Ib Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, list 41b 3 3 The first heat was won by a head, and the second by a length. Naworth , was beaten two lengths in each heat —6 to 5 was laid on Naworth before the first heat, and 2 to 1 on Counsellor after it. DER BLAUBART; EINMARCHEN IN FUNI. AKTEN. Von Ludwick Tieck. With a Translation of all Dffficult Words and Passages, explanation of Grammatical Peculiarities,ft. By H. Ap#l. The tale of Blue Beard has furnished the English stage with a musical melodrama, a pantomime, and may, perhaps, afford Planche the materials of a clever burlesque ; but it has not been recast by any hand capable of lifting the old tale to a higher level than the literature of the nursery. For the Germans it has done more; it has given to their literature a comedy which may rank with the best for the purity of its language and style, well marked variety of character, and playful satire. Tieck has dramatised, in the same form, most of the popular nursery tales common to both countries, and his Puss in I3eots, is an admirable specimen f his style ; but for the purpose of M. Apel " Blue Beard" is the most suita ble. It is intended as an assistance to the student of German in acquiring the idiom, and turns of ex pression, of familiar, every day conversation, far more likely to be acquired from a perusal of a comic pro duction, than from the more elevated style of tragedy. On the same principle, a foreigner learning English would form a better notion of the familiar language of the time from a modern comedy, Bell's Mothers and Daughters, or Jerrold's Bubbles of the Day, than from Macbeth. It is no slight credit to M. Apel that he has been the first to depart from the usual mode of putting intQ the hands of the learner the highest works of Goethe and Schiller, which if they could be read, certainly would not be fully comprehended by a child, who would be perfectly at . home with his old acquaintance "Blue Beard,' though presented in a foreign dress. The publica tion of Tiecks' tale will also make him better known to others than beginners ; for it is here, for the first time, printed in a separate form, being extracted from the collection of the author's tales and dramas, enti tled " Phantasus." But whether it is read by the pupil or the proficient, it cannot fail to please. The conversion of the Eastern Wife-killer into a partly German Baron of the middle ages, half soldier, half robber; the use of the machinery of a feudal time, combined with the language and ideas of yesterday, and the continual contrast of the characters, kept up through out with admirable artistic skill, all arrest the attention by exciting us to a good-humoured laugh. Nothing can excel the rich stupidity of Heymon and Conrad, who, at the commencement, are leading an expedition against Peter Berner (the Bluebeard), and mar it with a pompous blundering that renders the whole a most happy burlesque of campaigning. The Coun sellor and the Fool are capital pendants to the two most incapable of commanders; the sisters, Anne and Agnes, are finely discriminated, and there is an equal distinctness in the characters of their three brothers, while old Mechtilde, the housekeeper of Blue Beard, has a careless malignity in her, which, combined with the effects of " age and envy," make her a sort of domestic Sycorax. The work is clearly printed in roman type, a departure from the usual "black letter," which will be acceptable to many; we believe the use of this antiquated form is becoming' less general in modern German works. A translation is given at the end of the work of the difficult words and passages, which the learner will find always useful and often in dispensable. Asa work both u etul to the beginner and agreeable to the more advanced, M. Apel's edition of " Blue Beard" will secure an extensive circulation. 0 COMOM.M.II7IMMI The Double-headed Oak Stakes of 20 sors. each, h ft, with 100 added; for three yrs old colts, B.t 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b; winners once, 41b; thrice, 71b extra. About one mile and a half. (10 Subs.) Colonel Anson's Buzz, by Muley Moloch...(P. Butler) 1 Lord Verulam's Charlotte 6tol on Charlotte. Buzz made all the running and won in a canter by three or four lengths. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; 3 yr olds, 7st 41b ; 4 yrs, Bst , 51b; 5 yrs, 6st; and aged, B st 111 b. Mares, &c., allowed 3lbs. The winner to be sold fur 120 sovs., &c. T. Y. C. (8 Subs.) Hon. G. Ongley's Camelino, aged (Sly) 1 Mr. Stanborough's Isleworth, 5 yrs Mr. Hewitt's The Midnight Star, 3 yrs 3 The following also started but were not placed : Mr. Shelley's Omphale, 3 yrs—Mr. Parr's dianthus, 4 yrs—Mr. Wilson's Conjugation, 5 yrs—and Mr. S. Scott's Grey Hercules, 4 yrs. A good race b3tween the first two from the distance, and won only by a neck. Midnight Star a bad third. The winner was claimed. BETTING ON THE COURSE.. DERBY. 9 to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck 4 to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Ratan—taken freely 12 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Bay Momus 15 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando 16 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander 22 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken 25 to 1 agst Ford's lot—taken 25 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lonian—taken 700 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Lancet—taken 1000 to 16 agst Mr. Dickson's Dick Thornton—taken OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Bariicade—taken 7 to . 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale—t 8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Merope—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's All Round my Hat—t. PRZE STAKES.—In the return of this race in our last, the betting was mistakenly stated at 5 to 1 on Charlotte, it should have been even on her, and 6 to 4, agst Welbeck. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday afternoon in formation was received at the police-station, Arbour-square, that a man of the name of Simonds, residing at No. 25, East field-street, Limehouse, had written a letter to a relative, in timating that it was his intention to destroy himself. A constable was instantly sent to investigate the matter, and on forcing an entrance into the house, and bursting open the door of an apartment which was locked from the inside, the unfortunate man was found lying upon his bed, quite dead. Beside him was a coffee cup. which smelled strongly of laudanum, and a bottle labelled " Laudanum-:--poison," which contained a portion of the deleterious drug. A surgeon who was called in gave it as his opinion that life had been extinct for several hours. The deceased was stated to be forty-four years of age, but looked much older. He had been a seafaring man s and had received some injuries of the e 3 es and hands, which had much enfeebled him, and considerably soured his • temper. Amongst ether documents left behind him by the deceased, is a letter addressed to the Coroner, which, it is pre sumed, will disclose his reasons for committing the rash act. He was not in want, as he had only recently purchased the house in which he resided. SUDDEN DEATl4.—Between ten and eleven on Monday . night, an awful instance of sudden death oc curred, in the case of Mr. G. A. Wood, commercial traveller for Blakemore and Rock, Birmingham. He was proceeding towards a boarding house in Scott's yard, Bush-lane, where he lodged, and, as he was at tempting to turn the corner, he fell upon the pavement, and was picked up dead. Upon his person was found upwards of 401. in notes and gold, and a variety of trading samples. Dus PROPORTIONS.—" Jock," said a farmer's wife to the herd callant—" Jock, come in to your parritch—the dies are drowning themselves in, the Nae fears," ‘ p N le: e t; ear for g th ; e pa r replied Jock, moving very deliberately towards the scepe of :c o ti u on a , 7 :they'll ntcli w ., a7 Od, little raFal; do you say you dinna get eneugh o' milk ?" THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY lkfoßNii4d, MAY 16, 1844. GRAND WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-L AW LEAGUE SHIFFNAL RACES-31oxpAy. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 35 added. Mile and half. (4 Subs.) Mr. Dale's Jack, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (Kitton) 1 Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs, 7st 31b Mr. Denham's Harriet, 3 yrs, ist ••• 3 Mr. Raworth's Vibration, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ... Sweepstakes of 5 says. each, with 25 added. Mile and half. (11 Subs.) Mr. Moore's Tippoo, aged, 9st 81b... (G. Francis) 1 Mr. Wesley's Miss Lucy, 5 yrs, Sst 41b Mr. Raworth's Kilgram, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b 3 Retiarius, Fickle, and three others also started. The Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added. Mile-and. a•quarter. (15 Subs.) Mr. Walters's '9l, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (W. Arthur) 1 Mr. Parr's Delusion, aged, 9st 61b Mr. Jones's Caitiff, 5 yrs, 9st 21b Several others ran, the winner was claimed for 100/. The South Shropshire Stakes of 3 soya each, with 25 added. Heats, One-Mile-and. a-quarter. (12 Subs.) Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs, 6st l llb (W. Arthur) 1 0 1 Mr. Smith's Charity, 4 yrs, Bst llb 0 1 3 Mr. Wesley's Miss Lucy, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b 2 2 Mr. Jones's Caitiff, 5 yrs, Bst 21b 0 0 2 Mr. Tempest's Sportsman, aged, Bst 61b 0 3 0 Six others started, but were not placed. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. GORIWIBURY Raiinicar.—Even on The Devil to Pay, DERE'f. 5 to 2 agst The Uglyßuck—off 25 to 1 agst Akbar—t 7 to 2 agst Ratan—t 22 to 1 agst Running Reiii 12 to 1 agst Leander—off 40 to 1 agst Campania° 15 to 1 agst Orlando—off 40 to 1 agst Qui Tam 23 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire—off 50 to 1 agst Foig-a-Ballagh 23 to 1 agst Bay Momus—off 9to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot 25 to 1 agst lonian—off In the early part of the day Ratan was backed freely at 3 to 1, but at the close 7 to 2 was offered currently. The Buck was repeatedly mentioned but not backed. OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Princess I 10 to 1 agst Sis to Martingale 8 to 1 agst Barricade I 11 to 1 agst Merope __________________________ ~... AZUNHEI, MAY LA T , I¢ •—.INCENDIARY FIRE ON THE 11 ,1 M OF ANORPOLK'S LS' 'TATE.—On Saturday evening, about Alf‘taTylllE2,DlNV62ißflolßliCYoo.—ncotai B itnine:m l _r columns } f sporting f e i n L i n o g n s d o b n y , of Pegasus—lndexS u n d Past ten o'clock, a portion of the inhabitants were to the Winner—'The Bars Life of last Sunday, • be a wheat ' cry of fire, which, on inquiry, turned out to liminary information. Contents o events. An epitome of , . dairy. ••=iltuate in - i • cry to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Theark Botto.n, about a quarter of a mile from the a" 19, • The Derby ore P w r a o m phecv, and important pre- The insertion of a l a ire fire engines were SOH on the spot, and the attention chiefly connected with sporting matters. hundred advertisements -brigade, under the di' Fact i o n of Mr. John Hart- A sixpence, or six , were direct • • -buildindirected principally to the saving of the adjoining the 3 w ' eek's miscellaneous newps,oarntidnga be equally beneficial Strand, will at the seagrcs? which was with great difficulty effected, owing to penny that stamps, to M. Clement, junior, 170, of ost. The single i t advertisement o f balf-a.d oz einn inß eslorros load 1 scarcity of water. The rick, which contained about tau : •e ,_a. !asliterally burnt to a cinder, and was insured in the ' all tPli ensure s ' a copy of Bells L i fe c b : getioal return n as ro nit " sale of ifoeurninaalys. afta i rnoon railway t s. ,' ; ',7_ l l ,er Exchange office. Every exertion has been made to , weeklylisped in time for the Saturday no ical 11; c e o, . _the perpetrators by our police, but hitherto without I ry, 4 7 . t,. 1. -N 9 reward has yet been offered. This is the first and ' observable Bell's Life exceeds 20,000 copies. 1 7ft is pub (says a correspondent) 101.1,%1112: incendiarism that has ever occurred on the Doke - p hen omena HE PLANET VENUS. s estate ; and, of course, has caused the greatest Her position is 140_excitement in the town and neighbourhood, as well with is visible to the naked eye at midday. above the hori4cin. during the reepnt brilliant weather. The planet Venus " connected with the estate.—:(Prytn a Correspcmdent. i neatly due east," and - about' 60'd - e - grees —A bas been MEETING AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The usual weekly meeting of the League was held last evening in Coient-garden Theatre, which was as densely thronged as it generally is upon those occasions. Among those present were, John Bright, Esq., M. P. (in the chair), The Hon. Charles Pel ham Villiers, M.P., Major-General Briggs, James Wilson, Esq., R. J. Burnet, John Travers, Esq., William Leavers,. Esq., Dr. Cook Taylor, George Offer, Esq., R. S. Johnson, Esq., John Lambert, Esq., (Salisbury), Samuel Wilson, Esq., Colonel Tucker, Isaac Mollett, Esq„ R. Woodgate, Esq., R. Jupp, Esq., Francis Stokes, Esq., Press Granger, Esq., Charles Geach, Esq. (Birmingham), Thomas Gammon, Esq., Martin Thackery, Esq., Henry Gunning, Esq., T.. Bailey, Esq. (Colne), Thomas Besley, Esq., Richard Ware Cole, Esq., David Blyth, Esq., Robert A. Blyth, Esq., Walton Little, Esq., Samuel Tomkinson, Esq. (Liverpool), J. Turner, Esq. (Othery, Somersetshire), Thomas Ro gerson, Esq. (Liverpool), W. D. Starling, Esq , Rev. Richard Fletcher (Manchester), W. Geesin, Esq., J. B. Scott, Esq : (Manchester), F. Scheer; Esq., - . . . Edward Foster, Esq. (Cambridge), J. P. Barnard, Esq., J. Brownsell, Esq , Leslie, Esq., J. W. Langtree, Esq., John Pike, Esq. (Oxford), John Poulter, Esq., &c. At half-past seven o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Bright, M.P. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The CUAIRMAN advanced to the front of the stage, amidst the cheers of the meeting. He said it had been intended that the Chairman of the Council of the League should preside over the meeting that evening, but when he (Mr. Bright)should explain the cause of his absence, he was quite sure the meeting would be satisfied that he was - as usefully employed where he was as he could possibly have been if he were present there that night. He was engaged at that moment in the preparations that were being made in South Lancashire for the approaching election— (Cheers)—and knowing, as he (Mr. Bright) did, how many were his qualifications for the conduct of an election, he was quite certain there was no man con nected with the contest who could be worse spared than could George Wilson—(Hear, hear) —and when he looked around upon that meeting, and thought how often some of them had been there—how often that building had been crowded with an enthusiastic audience assembled—not for the purpose of being de- lighted with the charms of oratoxy—but for the purpose of exhibiting to the world their full conviction that the League was right in the position it had taken up, he was quite certain there were thousands within those walls at that hour who were anxious that that great contest which was now . _ commencing in Lancashire should end in the signal triumph of the free trade cause.—(Cheers.) There were small boroughs from which an independent voice was scarcely to be expected. They viewed that con test, then, as one of infinitelygreater importance than the contests in a dozen, or a score of boroughs like Woodstock or Abingdon. The present meeting sym pathised with that contest.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It was anxious to convey to those electors their sense of the importance of that contest ; and he feared even they, anxious as they were, did not regard that struggle as of all the importance which it merited. He had met persons in the south of England who spoke of Lancashire as if it were a county of no more than ordinary importance—as if they knew only this, that there were in that county a number of grasping, avaricious, and some of them rich manufacturers, with rather a dense population of working men, brutalised, ill-paid, and degraded. They seemed to think that Lancashire was merely a county in which there were several considerable towns of a very dull character, connected by rail roads ; that, in fact, every feature in that county was one affording rather pain than pleasure, and that it was to be looked upon as a county only valuable for what could be got out of it—one which the tourist and the lover of the picturesque should on all occasions care fully avoid. Now, he (Mr. Bright) had been born in that county, and he had lived there something like, thirty years. He knew much of its population— much of its trade, and much of its resources, and he was quite convinced there was no other county in England which could compare with it in real impor tance as affecting the welfare and power of this empire.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was the most populous county in England; it was the most manufacturing county, and, as far as its ' productive power went, it was the richest county in England ; and what had it done ? Time was when it presented a very different aspect from that which it now did. Some 240 years ago it was considered a wilderness. Camden, in his survey, after having tra- veiled the country from York to Durham, men tioned that he proposed to enter Lancashire, and that his mind was filled with apprehension at the prospect. . His remark was " And first of the people of Lancashire, whom I approach with a kind of dread"—(in those latter days there were some persons also who looked upon Lancashire with dread (Cheers and laughter) —" may it forbode no ill. However, that I may not seem wanting to this county, I will run the ha zard of the attempt, hoping that the Divine assistance which has favoured me in the rest will not fail me in this." Camden mentioned some of the towns. Roch dale, (to which he had come first from York shire,) Bury, Blackburn, Preston, and Manchester. But he spoke of those only as being towns of trade, and as being principally connected with woollen manufactures. He mentioned Liverpool, or Lither pool, or, as it was sometimes abbreviated, Lirpool, as a small place on the sea coast, and as the most conve nient spot for setting sail to Ireland. But, of Ash ton, Bolton, Oldham, Salford, and many other towns now existing in Lancashire, he did not say one word ; and they had no reason to believe that such towns were known at that time. It might be worth while for a few moments to examine, and see how wonderful was the increase in the value of property in that, county. In 1692, that was 150 years ago,-the whole annual value was 97,0001. In 1841 the annual value was 6,192,000/.—(Cheers.) Thus, giving an average increase throughout that county, in the space of 150 years of not less than 6,300/. per cent. Now the land-owners should look at that as showing how trade was advantageous to them. Lancashire, as had been truly said, contained just as much land as any other county. That must be very clear.—(A voice, "No, no.") He remembered a person standing on a rising ground, andlooking over the neighbourhood, re marking to another who stood near him that they seemed to have a great deal of land in that neighbourhood, which remark occasioned him some surprise ; but he (Mr. Bright) supposed that it might be made with equal truth of any other neighbourhood. Lan cashire had landowners, and was divided into districts, called " hundreds."—(A voice—" Yorkshire," and some interruption.) Of these hundreds, three were agricultural, and three were manufacturing ; and th 9 improvement in the value of the agricultural portion of the county amounted, in the time he had men tioned, to 3,500/. per cent., and that of the manufacturing districts to 7,0001. per cent. In one estate in the neighbourhood of Man chester—Charlton Hall estate—there was a mar vellous increase of its value. In the year 1590 it sold for 320/.; in the; year 1644, that was, fifty four years later, it sold for 3001., the value ius not having increased at all ; and in 1794 that same estate was sold for 70,000/. The annual value of the town ship in which this estate was situate was 19,0001. in 1815 ; in 1829 it was 66,0001.; in 1841 it was 137,000/.—(Hear, hear.) In a space of time of not more than two hundred years, the value of this estate had increased from 3001. to 3,000,0001.—(Loud cheers.) There was another district in Lancashire called the Forest of Rossendale, containing from twenty-two to twenty-four square miles. In the early part of the sixteenth century about eighty per sons lived in it; now it contained twenty-one thou sand. Land for farming purposes in that dis trict now let for ten times as much rent as it did one hundred years ago ; and there were men now living who recollected the time when they cul tivated certain farms which paid seven or eight times more rent now than in their youth. The dis trict in which Liverpool was situate was then known as West Derby Hundred. It was then assessed to the land-tax at 135,0001. • its annual value was now 2,124,0001.--(Cheers)—being an advance of more than 5,900 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) Liverpool, 150 years ago, was not larger than Wigan at the present time. It was a mean fishinif village then—now it was the largest sea-port in England, perhaps in the whole world.—(Hear, hear.) What was it that pro duced this wonderful change in Lancashire ? Was it the landed proprietors of the county ?—(No, no.) About 44 years ago, Mr. Whittaker, in his "His tory of Whalley," describing the lan ded proprietors of Lancashire as they were 2%.)0 years ago, says they were men fond of the marriedlife.—(Laughter.) He mentions they were fond of quiet, domestic com forts, and had little curiosity and ambition.— (Laughter.) They resided much at home, and pur sued domestic amusements, which were more gross than costly. He says he only met with one literary character who was possessed of the family estate.— (Laughter.) The landed proprietors, if they Were m en of this character, did not make Lancashire what it was now. There were a number of old houses there, where old families used to reside. Those families were now extinct; they were passed by s off' s men.—(Hear, h ear .) in the race by a new cl l. Their mansions were now inhabited by the thrifty and industrious manufacturers, and the old families had been swept away from the southern division of the county; Not that there was any war against them, for they had the same chances as other men, but, being born to broad acres, they did not think it necessary to cultivate their minds, and exert them selves, like other men.—(Hear, hear.) The inven tions of Watt and Arkwright enabled others to sur pass them, and those who were once magnates in the country were now nowhere, and a new class of men were leading on its dense population.—(Loud cheers.) It was the industry and intelligence and perseverance of the manufacturing population that made Lan cashire what it was. Its coal and iron were invalu- able, but they were underneath the surface for ages before. It was only in later times—in fact, in their own generation—that they had learned to bring them up, and manufacture from them those machines which so many despised ; but which enabled the population of Lancashire to stretch out their hands to every district on the face of the earth, and make the riches and prodmets of other countries supply their own wants.—(Cheers.) And that little soft flakey substance which they took from the pod of the cotton tree, and which was first imported into this county (Lan- cashire) about seventy' or eighty years ago L-ft was the fibre which they got from this that had given that county its greatness.---(Cheers.) Lancashire was a child of trade and industry in its most remarkable form.—(Cheers.) That trade was, not long ago, an infant struggling into life ; it was now grown up, and was become a giant of enormous proportions ; and yet that giant, great and powerful as it was, was lying prostrate under the 'fetters and shackles which an ignorant, and short•sighted, and tyrannical legislation bound around it.- 7 -(Loud cheers.) The question now was, would the people of South Lan cashire _ any longer endure those fetters ? or would they alloWthemselves to be bound by them for ever? Would they allow them to be rivetted firmly, or would they snap them asunder, and give freedom to this giant to become more powerful, and give a more extensive growth to that great county and this great empire ?—(Cheers.) If the electors of South Lancashire knew how much depended on the votes they would give, would there be any man in that county who would go to ask their suffrages for that worst, and vilest, and most pestilent of all curses —the corn-laws ?—(Cheers.) If these electors were conscious, and he believed many of them were, that the disasters of the last five years owed their origin to that law—if they knew that that law had cast their merchants from prosperity to ruin—that it had driven many thriving shopkeepers and traders into misery and ruin, and even expatriation—that it had desolated hundreds of thousands of cottages, and car ried poverty and sorrow among millions of the people. If they knew all this, did they think, they would give their voices on this occasion in favour of perpetuating the most blind folly that ever entered into the minds of any legislators upon earth. —(Loud cheers.) If those electors saw this meeting. —if they had before their eyes 4,000 of their coun trymen who looked into their hearts and Consciences —to see if there dwelt any care for their coun try's good—'was there one of them who would have such callousness and hardness of disposi tion as to vote for the perpetuation of such an evil? He had hopes that the result of the struggle would be glorious to the country.—(Hear, bear.) Free trade was gaining ground everywhere. It might be they would not find that the minority now in Par liament would speedily become a majority—it might be there were portions of the public that sneered at their efforts—they wholly denied that they were making any progress, and which, if they could, would extinguish their efforts altogether. But, notwithstanding, the wave was swelling on, and in public and private life they found that the delusions about protection were dispelled, and that the truth of free trade principles was be coming apparent to all minds.—(Loud cheers.) There was one subject of congratulati on i n l oo ki ng a t what was now going on in South Lancashire. The free trade candidate was, perhaps, the most ex tensive merchant in this country, and almost in the whole world.—(Hear, hear.) He was a merchant of long standing and experience, great wealth and high character—he had a large property invested in commercial undertakings, and was also a proprietor of the soil. In business he was mainly connected with the trade of the United States of America. lie looked on him as the better candidate for that.— (Cheers.) He had extensive establishments there, and he knew how abundantly Providence had given to that country the means of supplying the wants of this, and how eminently the manufacturing skill and industry of this country were calculated to give abun dant blessings to that country in exchange for what they gave us.—(Cheers) Why, he was like a man who stood on the shore of the island representing the millions who worked in this country to clothe the inhabitants of the prairies in America, and he stood there to receive that which America produced, and which this country asked for; and were it not for this law, which he was going into Parliament to uproot, how easily might they bring not only the cotton, rice, and tobacco of America into this country, but food, substantial food for the people, for the want of which thousands of their fellow countrymen were suffering the deepest privations ? (Cheers.) Considering the responses which met the sentiments he uttered, he might conclude that there was no want amongst those who filled the theatre of deep and earnest feelings for the success of this strug gle.—(Hear.) If they who were more immediately connected with them might in thelineetings held there, in the speeches they made, in the letters they wrote, communicate to the 18,000 electors of Lancashire, who were interested in this decision, the feelings of the citizens of this metropolis, represented by the thousands whom he saw present, he prayed—he im plored—he exhorted—and he besought them by all they held sacred and valuable, to cast away all the trammels of party feeling—all the old war cries of faction—and declare that the flag under which they would fight should be that which was inscribed with Free trade all over the world, and perfect justice to the people of this country.—(The lion. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) Mr. JAMES WILSON then came forward and ad dressed the meeting. He said he did not appear there to amuse or excite them, but rather to endeavour to throw some light on a few fallacies which, being little understood, operated to the prejudice of free trade in certain circles. As there was some ap pearance of reasonableness in 'those fallacies it was the more incumbent on him to try and remove them. The two points on which he wished to address them were these—They were charged with saying that the corn-laws were disastrous to trade in conse quence of the high prices which they inflicted on the consumers, and then with saying that free trade would not injure the interests of the agriculturists, and would have even little influence on relative prices. Now those were two statements which he was willing to admit bore on the face of them some appearance of inconsistency, yet he believed nothing was more easy than to prove that both were correct.—(Hear, hear.) It should always be borne in mind that dearness and cheapness might be produced by two distinct causes. Dearness might be produced on the one hand by scarcity, and on the other by large consumptibility on the part of the community. If dearness were produced by scarcity, then price kept no relative proportion to the means of the community to pur chase the article. If, on the other hand, dearness were produced only by a large demand for the com modity, it argued, in the first place, a great con sumptibility and the wealthy condition of the con sumers in order to produce that dearness. Cheapness, on the other hand, might be produced by two causes. It might be produced by plenty, and then it was a blessing ; or it might be produced, as it had been for the last two or three years, by an inability on the part of the consumer to command even the first neces saries of life. Now, what he contended was, that the principles of restriction and monopoly had a tendency to create the dearness which was objectionable, be cause it was a dearness arising from scarcity ; that free trade, on the other hand, although, if followed out, it might produce dearness, would only produce it in consequence of this increased wealth and the increased means of consumption.—(Hear, hear.) He contended also that restriction had a tendency to produce cheapness, but not the cheapness which was derived from plenty, but the cheapness w hich arose from diminished means on the part of the con sumer.—(Cheers.) The very object and aim of the corn-laws, and of their commercial laws generally, was to restrict quantity. If "they restricted quantity, the first effect might be, he admitted, to raise prices. But the first tendency of restricted quantity was to restrict trade; the next tendency was to restrict em ployment ; the next tendency was to restrict the Means of consumption; and the next, and last, ten dency an impossibility to consum e , an d a price.— (Loud cheering.) On those[ g rounds, therefore, he co n t en d e d that neither di . m w in as ished the corn-laws nor any oth er commercial restriction could ultimately be of any service even to those for whose benefit they were intended. Although such laws might first produce a hi g h pr i ce, that high price was delusion, it could not be maintained. Bar gainsnoetbed maintained; contracts contrawctesrewemreadeentewreildieih could into which ended but disappointment; and the resources of this com munity were sapped to their foundation. How clearly and palpably was this effect exhibited in the case of this restriction, which they were assembled to oppose. The first tendency of the corn-law was to restrict quantity and raise price. But the next tendency was to destroy trade. The farmer, having made his contract, cal culating on a high price, found that the means of the consumer had been destroyed, and the price fell, to the disappointment of the Parmer, and to the ruin of all around him,—(Hear, hear.) If they had free trade in corn, the first tendency would be to increase the quantity, and that would, perhaps, diminish the price. But, with an increased quantity , they would have increased trade; with increased trade, they would have increased employment for their ships, for their sailors, for their millers , and for all . those who were engagedtin the manufacture cf A NEW TRICK. The following statement may have the effect of put ting-persons upon their guard, and prevent them from being defrauded, under similar circumstances : A short time back an advertisement appeared in some of the papers, offering for sale a splendid modern phm ton, which was represented to have been very little used, and to be sold, under peculiar circumstances, at a very great sacrifice. A gentleman, who was in want of such a vehicle, went to the place indicated in the adver tisement, where he received the address of the seller, and in due time the vehicle was shown to him, and to appearance it was all that could be desired. The paint and varnish was in excellent condition, the tyers of the wheels seemed nearly, new, and the rivet-heads were not in the least worn ; in fact, the carriage had all the ap pearance of an excellent article, and the gentleman who desired to purchase, readily consented to give thirty-five guineas for it. He directed it to be sent to a livery-stable in the neighbourhood on the next day, where it was arranged he should send a cheque for the amount. The carriage was sent, of course, but, fortunately, in the meantime something had occurred which induced the purchaser to delay sending the cheque. Upon the carriage being washed, the man who was employed for that purpose fancied something was not right about the vehicle, and he informed the master of the yard, and his examination confirmed the original suspicion. The result was, that a coach maker was sent for, in order that the vehicle might be properly examined, and it was then discovered that a most gross fraud had been attempted. The axle trees, which had all the appearance of being patent, were found to be, in reality, of the commonest kin& the . woodwork was of 'the most paltry description, and, upon a more minute examination, it was discovered that it was literally "stopped up" with putty, painted and varnished over in every direction. Upon this dis covery, the vehicle was sent back; but the owner, or rather the party entrusted with the sale of it, was not to be deeated so easily, and he had the temerity to talk of instituting legal proceedings to recover the amount for which the vehicle had been sold, and the preliminary steps to an actin were actually commenced. In the meantime another advertisement appeared, which there was some reason to believe referred to the same vehicle, and the gentleman who would have been the victim gave directions to the same coachmaker to answer it ; and upon his desiring to see the advertised vehicle, he was introduced to the one he had former:y seen, but which had been " re-puttied," and strengthened by iron stays in one or two places where, when he saw it be fore, he had pointed out that it was actually fall ing to pieces. The party was expatiating,. with great warmth, upon the value and genuineness of the article, 'little knowing who he was addressing, when he was cut short by the coachmaker telling him his business, and at the same time informing him that he had seen the " valuable article" before, and pointed out where it had been doctored up after the former ex amination. It is hardly necessary to say that this was a complete damper, and that no more law proceedings have been heard of. It is understood that there are a set of fellows who get their living by frauds of this de scription, and that horse-chaunting having become a little stale, they have resorted to chaunting vehicles, and however unsound the chaunter's horses may have been, it is doubtful whether the vehicles are not more so; in fact, they are made up " to sell," and many unlucky purchasers have found to their cost that their " nearly new" vehicle, after three or four times using, has, lite rally, tumbled to pieces. CRICKET. The " Alphabeti ca l M atc h" was p l a y e d at "Lord's" on Monday, w h en some excel l ent hi tt i ng was made by Mr. A. Geor ge , w h o , for many years , has been a sue eessful member of the Clapton and Montpelier Clubs, Mr. R. Barker, another new member of the Marylebone Club ; Captain Smith, Mr. Kynaston, Mr. R. P. John son, Dean, and Royston. The result of the first in nings of each party was that the " A to K" scored 79, whilSt the " to Z' i fell short of that number by 6 only. It was thus far a very good match. The score was— A. 'TO K. R. P. Johnson, Esq., c. Smith b Dean : 0 not out l9 Capt. Drake b. Roysto n ' 3 leg b. wkt. b. Dean 0 A. K. George, Esq., b. Dean l9 b. Dean 0 Hillyer b. Dean 6 b. Royston . 0 Good b. Royston 6 c. Dean b. Royston 4 R. Kynaston, Esq., c. Royston b. Dean lin. R. Grimston c. Moise b. Dean 0 b. Royston . 4 A. Haygarth, Esq., c. Moise b Royston R. Barker, Esq., not out ...... E. Hartopp, Esq., b. Royston.... 1 Bulwer, Esq., b. Royston 4 G. A. Hicks, Esq., b. Royston Byes 3, wide 4 . 9 L. TO Z. Marshall, Esq., bowled Good 1 Capt. Smith b. Good - C. Morse, Esq., c. Bulwer b. Hillyer ...... Sir T. Moncrieffe b. Hillyer 0 Royston c. Haygarth b. Good l6 W. Mills, Esq., c. Haygarth b. Good 2 Deau c. Good b. Hillyer. Hon. W. Neville b. Good Capt. Mackinnon b. Hillyer.., . . .. .... 0 E. Wilmott, Esq., b. Good Capt. Price, not out Byes .... . ...................................... ..... 7 73 Such was the state of the game at the moment of striking the wickets at half-past seven o'clock, when it was understood that the match would not be further proceeded with. DEPARTURE OF THE BAROSSA, CONVICT SHIP, FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.—On Tue day, the Barossa, having taken on board upwards of 300 convicts, cleared from her moorings off Woolwich Dock yard shortly before twelve o'clock. She had on board male convicts only. For some days past it had bet n rumoured in the neighbour hood that Barber and Fletcher (whose connection with the wills forgery cases has recently occupied so much public attention) would be dispatched to a penal settle ment by this vessel, and up to a late hour last evening it was universally believed in the town that both of them had been put on board before sunrise. Upon inquiry, hoWever, at the police station within the gates of the dock-yard, on Tuesday night, our reporter was informed that such was not the fact, and that the Baroslia, weighed and was towed down the river without Barber or Fletcher being on board of her. Whether . they will be put aboard this ship before she leaves the British shore is not known, but it is considered not at all improbable. THE MEDITERRANEAN AND INDIA MAILS.—The following notice is put up at the General Post-office:— " The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands, via Southampton, will be dispatched hence on the morning of the 16th instant (this day) ; and the mails fur Egypt, India, &c., via Southampton, on the morning of the Ist of June ; the mails for India via Mtirseilles (if not detained) w ill bedispatched on the 4th of June. The Dee will take out the mails for the British and foreign posse: lions in the West Indies, on the arrival of the morning mail of the 17th instant, atSoutharaPOP. i The Caledonia, for the American mails of the 18th in. stant, on their arrival at Liverpool. The Garland Grove vill•talte - Ciut the Sydney mails of the 31st instant:" t those goods which they gave in exchange ' imports.—(Chcers.) Therefore he conte although the first effect of free trade might duce price, the ultimate effect would be t higher than it could possibly be under a s restriction. There was no error into whit, were more apt to fall than that of attillal. too much importance to mere price. When they talked, for instance, of the reduction of the duty on sugar, they were incidentally told that a farthing, or even a penny, a pound could not make any material difference to the con sumer. Now, even if it made no difference in price at all, if the only effect were to give them an addi tional quantity of sugar, the change could not but be beneficial to the country.—(Hear, hear.) If they imported a larger quantity of sugar, and paid the same price, nothing in his opinion could afford stronger evidence that an advantage had been conferred on the community, because it would prove that by the additional trade which had been created, the wealth of the community had been in creased to such a degree that they could afford to pay for the larger quantity the same price which they had paid for the smaller.—(Cheers.) They had seen some of those principles illustrated in a remark,. able manner during the past year. They had be &un last year with extraordinary low prices. Agri cultural produce of every description was very cheap ; manufactured goods of every description were very cheap; and the raw material was cheaper than it had ever been known to be before. In consequence of the extreme cheapness, and in accordance with their principles, which for many years had been as true in their operation as the barometer in indicating the state of the weather—(Cheers)—in consequence of the cheapness they found a revival of trade. That revival of trade had had a great influence upon. prices. During the last year there had been an in creased import of many of the most important kinds of raw material ; and one of them, which was now before the Legislature, afforded triumphant evidence of the truth of their principles. The Duke of Richmond complained bitterly because Sir Robert Peel had made up his mind to reduce the duty on foreign wool, believing that the effect would be to diminish the price of the fleeces which were cut off his flocks in the north of Scotland.—(Laughter.) Now, if he had taken the trouble to look into the statistics of the trade of wool in this country, he would have found, that just in proportion as the price of wool had been high, they had imported largely from abroad, and that in thoze years when their imports were the smallest in amount, the price of home-grown wool was also the smallest. In 1819, foreign wool was subject to a duty of 6d. per pound. Their imports were then only about 19 millions of pounds weight. Mr. Huskisson induced the Legislature of that day to reduce the duty to a penny per pound. The consequence was, that, in a few years, the import of wool gradually in creased, until, in 1836, it amounted to 64 millions of pounds. During that period the price of home-g rown wool, instead o f f a lli ng, rose from 13d. to 19d. per pound. It was very remarkable, that since 1836, during the bad years of trade, the import of foreign, wool had fallen from 64 millions of pounds to 40 mil lions of pounds, which was the amount in 1842 ; and that, during that period, wool lied fallen in price, in the absence of twenty millions of pounds, in the shape of foreign competition, from 18d. to 10d. p er poun d . During the last year they had had a little change. • He held in his hand a return of the compara tive trade of the three first months of the last year and the three first months of the present year. He found that in the first three months of last year they imported 41 mil lions of pounds; in the first three months of the present year they imported 91 millions of pounds; and at the present moment the English grower re ceived 25 per cent. more than he received last year. So true were free trade principles that the more they were examined the more did they appear to operate as an index to the trade of the country, front month to month. He would refer the Duke of Richmond, and all who were against this reduction to the solution of this question. Last year, when they imported four and a half millions of pounds of wool, the price was 10d. per pound ; this year, when they imported nine and a half millions, the price was is. ld.—(Hear, bear.) But he turned to another fact ; he looked to the exports of manufactured goods. They could not buy without also selling. It was quite obvious that if they received more from abroad they would export more.—(Hear, hear.) In the first three months of last year, when they were import.. ing very little wool, and when wool was at a low price, they exported 1,300,0001. worth of manufactured woollen goods. In the first three months of the present year, they had exported 1,700,0001. worth of the same description of goods. The increased exports af forded an explanation of the increased imports. If the principle of restriction were followed out, there would necessarily be a diminution of exports, and a decrease of employment, and increasing poverty on all hands. On the other hand, the more , free trade principles were acted upon, the more would trade flourish, and the more would it contribute to the wants of the whole country. The principles of re striction were principles which, if acted upon, be came more difficult at every stage; on the contrary, the principles of free trade, if acted upon, became at every stage more easy, and diffused more widely the benefits which resulted from them. Their principles were by no means new. There had never been a great statesman, a great philosopher, or a great merchant, no, not even a great landowner, with enlightened views, who had not, in one way or other, advocated those principles. Eighty years ago Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, speaking of the extension of the trade of the country, said=" I do not des pair of my country, and I have no objection to state what, in my opinion, would restore the country to its once flourishing condition. Give freedom to commerce, lighten the pressure of taxation; and you will have no complaining in your streets. As commerce is always a change of equivalents, a nation that will not buy cannot sell, and every restriction of imports is an obstacle to ex ports. On the other hand, the more we admit the productions of foreign nations, the more extensive becomes their demand for our commodities. Let the accursed system of our corn-laws be gradually and cautiously abromted, and allow the cheap agricul tural produce of t the north of Europe and America, to be freely introduced, and we shall obtain an ex tended vent for our manufactures."—(Cheers.) These principles had been reiterated by almost every man who was celebrated in history. There was the great est perverseness, however, on the part of almost every Government, for they excluded those articles which they really wanted, and admitted those which they did not want. A friend of his had been em ployed, three or four years ago to negotiate a treaty with France to admit our hardware and cutlery. The French would only consent to enter into the treaty on the condition that we exported our flax machinery. The stipulation was agreed to; the English manu facturers, on being consulted, were so liberal as not to offer any objection. Our Government, last year, introduced a Bill, permitting the free exportation of machinery, as it was very right and proper that they should have done.—(Cheers.) The free exportation of machinery being thus permitted from this co untry, what was the first step adopted by the French t Government ? They placed a large protectivedu y on its importation.—(Cheers.) On the importation thirty o n f o t cotton „a.ant m t it h c e h y i n ery placed into a duty o France, fwhicihrty they did francs per hundred kilogrammes, and on the importation of k .—(Cheers.) ob tain,fla x a nd machinery, which kilogrammes.— itvhheiychdtildiey want, bed been theylaced a protec tive duty of one hundred rammes so p anxious to Now this was the explanation of this conduct on the ax machinery in th e i r opoaortiaogfetthheelm'raeonochfaoGtuovreernomf e fi nt they wished t o en own country, and therefore they imposed a high duty upon its importation.—(Cheers.) But this was not more absurd than the conduct of our own Govern ment. Our Ministry had no right to find fault with the French Government for their conduct. Let therm look at our own Custom-house Acts, and they would find that they had no reason to congratulate them selves. Those things which they most wanted were kept out by a prohibitive duty, while the free im portation of articles, which they did not stand in need was permitted. The same perverseness characterised our legislation with regard to our colonies. There was one article, a principal article of exportation for our colonies, but which was not produced in sufficient quantity by the colonies to supply the consumption of this country, he meant the article of sugar.— (Cheers.) The quantity of sugar produced in our colonies was not sufficient for the consumption of this country, and yet that sugar was protected by the imposition of a very high rate of duty. Now, he considered that the conduct of the Ministers in regard trade principles. to this icle of sugar had was baee great triumph conductthe Ministers on the sugar question ? They stated that they would only permit free labour sugar fo of r free to be brought into the market of this country. Now, he believed that the friends of free trade bad always been found to be the greatest_ advocates of personal liberty ; but he denied that the course was at all likely slavery. They pro posed to admit free labour sug ar twohoicohodthoeoeGtoovetrhnomaebnotliwtiaos pursuing o of at a less duty th an sugar the produce of slave labour. Now, the pr o d uce of sugar in J ava , Sumatra, and Manilla, in th ese cou ntries in which sugar was" produced by free la bour, was about 93,000 tons per annum. About 40,000 tons of this would be imported into this coun try, thus withdrawing that amount from the markets of the world. This quantity would be supplied from slave labour countries—from the States of South America. Holland, Germany, and the other countries of continental Europe, would make up the deficiency in the supply of sugar, consequent upon our taking these 40,000 tons of free-labour sugar from Java, Sumatra, and Manilla. 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