The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-24 00:00:00

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The publication of Tni SUN NEWSPAR commenced this day at 10 minutes past Four o' Clock. - .•' l 7 \ 'AI-15.4„.•4' ' WITH WHICH THE ce TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1839. The Chronicle denies, on authority, the statement we yesterday made respecting the marriage of her MAJESTY. We beg leave to inform our Contem porary that we place more reliance on the authenticity of our information than on his contradiction. Technically, perhaps, the Chronicle may rot he in error. The event may not be announced in the Speech from the Throne, but may be communicated to Parlia ment by a separate and distinct message ; but substan tively our information, and not the authoritative denial of the Chronicle, will be found correct. We wait with calm confidence for time to confirm the truth of our statement. Some time ago we adverted to the strong language used by the Herald against the manufacturers, accusing them of desiring to plunder the agriculturists, and af firming that the tax levied on the community by the Corn-laws was the property of the landowners. We then expressed our conviction that to such accusations the manufacturers would disdain to submit. Nobly have they redeemed their character, and convinced the world that the robbery is committed by the landlords, and that the manufacturers only seek protection for their own property, and freedom for their own industry. The Tory Journals, however, continue to blow the same bel lows, and a scorching, perhaps consuming, dissension will be the consequence. That hitherto lady-like Journal, the Post, is so carried away by the controversy that it forgets altogether the language of the drawing-room, and accuses the manufacturers and the Journals which advocate the abolition of the Corn-laws of "misrepresen tation," "falsehood," and " enormous lying," and repre sents the repeal of the tax on food as a legislative confis cation of the property of the landowners. Rational men would at once conclude that the true remedy for this enormous lying" is the solemn investigation demanded by the manufacturers, and that the surest protection of the landowners' property against legislative confiscation is not to base it on legislative plunder ; but the Tories deny us both. Such language as that of the Post and other Tory Journals brings the matter to a short issue. We acknowledge that we use similar language, be cause we are convinced that the Corn-laws are an unwarrantable act of legislative robbery, that they violate the tight of property in all other classes, which the Legislature is bound to protect, for the sole advantage of the landlord, and impede the exercise of honest industry, which the Legislature is bound, if it interfere at all with the matter, to pro mote. The question, therefore, is no longer one of expediency on either side ; it does not depend on prices here and abroad, or on statistical tables, but of right and justice, and neither party can allow it to remain as it is without permitting imputations on their moral cha racter, which, if applied to individuals, would make them worthy only of Botany Bay. We are glad to find, also, that under this aspect the community at large is beginning to see the question, and that it will be decided by the principle of morals : I will not (said Mr. Black, at the Edinburgh meeting) talk of the immense pecuniary interests at stake; I will take higher ground. I object to these laws on account of their immo rality—they are one unmitigated, superlative, and all-per vading evil.—( Hear, hear.) Their roots are selfishness, their trunk is oppression, their branches are ramifications of in justice, and their fruit is poison.—( Long continued cheering.) We rejoice to see the matter brought to this short issue, because there is no end to the fallacies which the perverse ingenuity of public writers, under the in fluence of strong emotions, continually coin, which they, we admit, honestly believe, and which delude others as well as themselves. An outcry, for example,- is made about the great fall of prices which will ensue, should the Corn-laws be totally abolished ; but on the moral principle we at once see that the greater would be the fall, the more impudent is the plunder of the land owners, the more gross is the violation of property they commit, the more grievous is the injury they inflict on individuals, and the more ex tensive is the mischief they do to the manu factures and commerce of the country. Again, it is said that the abolition of the Corn laws would lower the wages of labour ; but that on moral grounds is a question for the labourers, and not for those to decide who, while they actually tax the la bourers' bread, hypocritically pretend to take care of their interests ; and unless the whole of the labourers ask for this tax, it is very scoundrel-like in the rich landlords to impose it. It is also averred that several past generations of landlords have been subjected to unjust taxation, from which capital embarked in ma nufactures has been exempted ; and, admitting this be so, for the sake of the learned Theban's argu ment who puts it forth, is it not plain that his own condemnation of that injustice to past generations of agriculturists, is an equal condemnation of the unjust taxation by Corn-laws on the existing ge neration of manufacturers, which he advocates ? As well might he, on moral principles, recommend the manufacturers to arm their people and sally forth to sack the houses of the squires, because the Barons, the ancestors of the latter, levied a kind of black mail on the ancient inhabitants of our towns. Further, an advocate of the Corn-laws musters together a long file of taxes to ‘A hie!' the landowners are now subject more than the manufacturers, as he saws, and instead of requiring, as he ought on principles of honesty, that the unjust burdens should be taken off' the agricul turists, he argues that the latter should be relieved by a general tax on the people's bread. At the utmost he ought only to require that some taxes should be devised to fall exclusively on manyacturing capital, but on the one dishonest action of the State—as he describes it—towards the landowner, he justifies the law continuing the unjust tax on the bread of every labourer. To make two classes of the rich suffer under equal disadvantages, he adds another stone to the load which before almost broke the back of the labourer. Moreover a great display is made of the superior wealth and numbers of the agriculturists to the manufacturers; but suppose they were ten times more wealthy and numerous, on what principle of honesty or of social union can the rich and the powerful justify taxing and plundering the weaker class ? All these and a thou sand other similar fallacies disappear at once when the question is placed, as it now happily is by both parties, and by the community at large, on the principles of right and wrong—•of robbery or no robbery. The corn averages published to-day show so slight a difference from last week as to make us continue to hope that prices have at length reached the highest point. The weekly average is 2d. lower than last Thursday, the average of the six weeks is is. higher. The price for the week is 81s. 4d., and the average price which regulates duty 795. Bd. The Post of this morning announces the settlement of the Hollando-Belgic question, as far as it can be de termined by the London Conference. The final me morandum was signed yesterday by the Representa tives of England, France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia ; consequently the " frontier preparations" will all terminate very amicably. In the conducting of this intricate business to so desirable a termination, Lord PALNIERSTON has displayed equal tact and sagacity. We have not room to-dav for Lieutenant-Colonel A NGERSTEIN'S letter to Sir JOHN BARROW, in de fence of Commander CRAUFURD'S exposition of the state of the Russian Navy in 1837, so unsparingly attacked by the latter in his supplementary chapter to the "Life of Lord Anson," but we will endeavour to find space for it to-morrow. A most respectable Naval Correspondent has likewise called our attention to the defence of the " Flag Officer," so roughly handled by Sir JOHN in the same chapter, which appeared in the Times of yesterday, in the hope that it may find a place in our columns. He shall be gratified with as little delay as possible ; not so much because the article in question is a defence of any individual, as that it will serve to correct the erroneous inferences likely to be drawn from Sir JOHN BAR- Row's too highly coloured and over-confident state ment of the real strength of our hitherto much neglected Navy. The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received, but their contents, with the exception of a Royal decree prohibiting the exportation of grain, are of very little interest. This decree, preceded by the Ministerial Report upon which it is founded, appears in another part of The Sun. According to the current rumours Count MOLE tendered his resignation on Monday, but the KING refused to accept it. His MAJESTY is reported to have said that a slight modification of the Cabinet would secure a majority in the Chamber ; that he would have Count MOLE as President; and that sooner than dismiss him, he would resort to a dissolution. M. MOLE was then instructed to make overtures to cer tain Members of the Opposition, but to the no small surprise of the KING he could not prevail on a single influential member to join him. In con sequence of this a dissolution was expected on Tues day, but the sitting passed without any communication upon the subject. The first business done was the voting for Chairmen for the nine Sessional Commit tees, which terminated, to the further mortification of Mi nisters, in the election of six members of the Opposition, including MM. THIERS and ODILLON BARROT. This, it was presumed, would give the finishing blow to the Cabinet ; and, in fact, it was confidently affirmed that the Ministry had hurried in a body to the KING, and laid their resignations at his MAJESTY'S feet. The eyes of the Courtiers are all turned to SOULT, between whom and THIERS same arrange ment is likely. The concentration of Dutch and Belgian troops on the frontiers of the two countries seem to have induced the French Government to adopt the most suitable measures to prevent the inconveniences which might arise from this state of things. Orders have been given to form into brigades, to place in can tonments the troops which the Ministry had assembled last spring on the northern frontier, and which, including the ca valry and artillery, form the total of 35,000 or 36,000 men. The 3lemorial Bordelais of the 20th of January says : " This morning at six o'clock, five companies of the 37th regime:at of the line, in garrison at Bordeaux, embarked on board the steam-boat to go, it is said, to Casteljaloux, where their prt sence is required to prevent the return of the distur bances which were caused in that place by the high price of bread, and which have happily been suppressed." " By an ordinance of Jan. 20, the Custom House of Sarge remines is added to those which the law of the 9th January, 1832, opened for the transit of prohibited articles. We have the following letter from Casteljaloux of th e 18 t h January :—" You have,doubtles., heard of the distil, bances which took place yesterday, on account of the high price of corn. The Mayor, the Commissioners of police, and some gen darmes, who were besieged in the town.hall, had very nearly fallen victims on this occason. They succeeded in corning to a compromise with the rioters. This concession gave our national guards time to take arms. The rioters, surrounded on all sides, were obliged to surrender, and twenty-two of them who were arrested are going to be sent to-day to Nerac, escorted by a detachment of the national guards."— Le Commerce.. BOURSE—PAms, TUESDAY, JAN 22. Hatv.rarr THRZE.—For the Account the Three per Cents., after having been in the morning, at Tortoni's, dcne at 78f. 50c., opened at 78f. 60c., and without briskness improved to 78f. 80c. last price being a rise of 15c. The Five per Cents. front 110 f. 35c., declined to 110 f. 30c., rose to 110 f. 50c., and closed at 110 E 45c., a rise of 10c. For money, the Three per Cents. are 10c., and the Five per Cents. are 15c. better. The I.afitte hank I,ooof. shares are sf. higher, and those of 5,000 f. are 55f. lower. The Belgian Five per Cents. are percent. lower, and the Bank Shares have dec'ined 2f. 50c. The Coupons have not varied from 27. The Spanish Active, from 18 improved to 184, being a rise of The Portuguese Three per Cents, have fallen i. For the Account they h sve been 22i. There is no material alteration in Railway Shares, in which little business is done, and the prices of which continue in a limited circle. First Highest Jow st Last l'rice. Price. Price.. Price. French 5 per Cents. 4yl per Cents. 3 p ••r Cents. Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 5,000 f. Sb. Belzian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents. 66 ... 66 ... 64; ... 66 Bank 575 .•• 580 ... 575 ... 577 50 Coupons Spanish Active Portuguese 3 per Cents. Neapolitan Roman EXCHANGE ON LONDON One month, paper, 2:f 7 1 / 2 c , m ney, 2.5 f sc. ; three month 3, paper, 241 90c., money, 24f. 87!4c. RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 593 ... 595 ... 592 50 ... 592 50 Ve sailles, H.B. -5 ... 565 ...:65 ... 565 Rouen Orleans 450 ... 450 ... 4'o ... 450 St. - asburgh to Bale . 347 50 ... 347 50 ... 347 50 ... 347 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDA3I, JAN. 22. Money. Bolls. Actual Debt, 234 per rut Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Syndic, 434 per cent 9414 95 Ditto, ditto, 331 per cent 795;1 60 1 3 Commercial Company, 4 per cent l7sk 176 Ditto (1332 and 1833) 5 per cent. Loan 1866, 4 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 0:34 Two mon :ha CELGIAN 1 , UNDS—Baussu.s, JAN. 22 Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. ... Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 9714 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 8 7% 3 per Cent. 6734 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4 Sa per Cent ll5 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 4O National Society . —Brussels Papers, Jan. i 22. Madrid Journals of the 15th instant have reached us. In a secret sitting of the Deputies on the 14th, copies of notes addressed by the REGENT to the Governments of England and France, praying for immediate intervention, were read by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The dates of these notes arc not stated, but the communication of them to the Cham ber excited a strong feeling in favour of Ministers. We have no news from the theatre of war. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 23.—Wind N., hazy.—Came down from the River last night and to day, and proceeded, the Ann, Murray, for Sydney; Duke of Manchester, Palmer, Jamaica; Peter Linn, Fleming, Leghorn; Tees dale, Sterling, Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind fine.—Arrived, the Harriet, Jopham, from Scaham ; Iris, Oak, ditto; Apollo, ditto; Canny, Slater, ditto ; Eclipse (steamer), Russell, London. The Arnot, M'Arthur, from London, got on shore on Rysie Sand on the flood, where she re. mained about an hour, came off, and proceeded for Southampton. Sailed, her Majesty's brig Camelcon, for Lisbon and South America; Lastres Humanos, Cartman, Cadiz. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 22. Wind N.E.—Arrived, the Lousitania, Gib. bons, from Oporto; Maria Francois, Sablen. Sailed, the Roxburgh Castle, Cumberland, for the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney; Asia, ditto, and ditto; Victory, Frost, Marseilles ; May Isabella, Davison, ditto; Isabel, ditto; Victoria, ditto; Essex, St. Michael's; Flamer, ditto; Dart, ditto; Gazelle, Port-au-Prince; her Majesty's brig Rolla, Africa. FALMOUTII, JAN. N.E. to E.N.E., strong breezes.—Ar. rived the Eleanor, Furney, from London ; Duke of Cambridge, Bafty, ditto; Sirius steamer, ditto. Sailed the Ann, Griffith, for --.. Spartan, Sydney; Forrester, M'Arthur, Tobago; Medborough and Elea. nor, Barbadoes ; Hunero Habunero, Savannah; Elizabeth Marie, Port_ au.Prince ; Andromache, Hunter, Charleston ; Amphitrite, M'Neil, Athens; Alamode, Bartlett, Lisbon ; John, Cooke, Galway; Duke of Montrose, Gloucester; her Majesty's brig Mastiff, Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Wind N., iight sirs.—Arrived off, the Watt, from Africa; Jamaica, Bordeaux. Sailed the Fenella, Wilkin, for Gibraltar ; Splendid, Bordeaux ; Albania, Leghorn ; Funds, Lisbon ; Emma, Jarvis, ditto; Lo Z., Bordeaux ; Charles, Banks, New Orleans; Ritson, Johnston, Tortola ; Lady of the Lake, Banks, Messina; Suir, Bellato, St. Joseph's; Alcyon, Mucrs, Darien ; Active, Russel, Lisbon ; Sophia, ditto; Eliza Killock, St. Übe's ; Amanda, Naples; Le Chausse Rochelle; Clementine, Naples ; Eleanore, Ostend ; Romulus, Naples ; Auguste, Ostend; Actit, ditto; Pauline, ditto; Sultana, Messina; Queen Victoria, Chambers, Savannah. Y♦RMIDUTII (Isle OF WIGHT), J►N. 22.—Sailed the Thomas Wood, Cooper, for Malta; Catherine and Mary, --; Whitby, Well. bank, DARTMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Arrived the Pallas, Martin, from Lisbon; Heart of Oak, Evans, Limerick. OT Port, the New Thomas Adams, London, after slipping her anchor and collar. Sailed the Alert, for St. Croix ; Bestha, Young, St. Michael's ; Forrester, BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Sailed the Liverpool, Rowe, for Cape de Verde ; Eigerend el Paulin, St. Übe's; Nansteaper, Cadiz; Caledonia, Tucker, Trinidad. COVE OF CORK, JAN. 21.—The brig Westmoreland, of St. John's, New Brunswick, having on board a cargo of potatoes, was this morning unmoored by a mob and brought alongside the Quay, to compel her to discharge her cargo—the potatoes are to be landed, the vessel is safely se cured to the Qua;, and is under the protection of a military force. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21.—From slx to eight gallon kegs of brandy, marked on the head M—B, were picked up yesterday ten mites west of the Eddystone, by the Speedy, arrived here. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 9.2.—Arrived the Tasso, Christie, from London to Sunderland, with mainmast cut away, having been on her beam ends during the gale of the ith inst. LEITEI, JAN. 22.—The Fame of Aberdeen, was fallen in with 10th inst., 100 miles E. N.E. of the Isle of Man, in a sinking state —crew saved by the Frederlek, Bernot, arrived in the Bonds. The crew of the Nor val, of A eerdeen, lost at Newcastle, were on board the Fame of Aberdeen. WATERFORD, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Harmony, Blanch; Victoire, Crouch; and Joseph and Ann, Reed, from London. YARMOUTH ROADS, Jas. 23. Arrived the Laura, Henery, from Gergenti ; Charles, Peters, Seville. Sailed the Rover, Douglas, for Lisbon. Heawica, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Courier, Cers, from London. HULL, JAN. 23.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrived the Brunswick, Porter, Revel ; Annette, Hog; Lunds ; Two Sisters, Neustadt ; Maria, Kid ; Lacken, Torpe, Sligo ; Hope, Sawyer, Riga. HUMBER, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Watson, Frost, from Itiga; Orien, Odessa ; Olive Branch, Cousins, HOLYHEAD, J liN. 21.—Arrived the Torin Tuff; Williams, from Liverpool. CLYDE, JAN. —Arrived the Duchess of Portland, Kerr, from Demerara ; Melville, Trieste. SWANSEA, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Amethyst, Davidson, from St, Jago de Cuba ; Cabrera, Darling, ditto. The George and Jane, Greig, from London to Newcastle, was driven oft the Sand , , during the gale, 7th inst. ; she fell in with the Headley', of South Shields, with loss of mainmast and rudder, leaky. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DA YY, T IVEL VE 0' ?LOCK LIVRP.P3OI. COTTON MARKET. WEDNESDAY.—We have had a dull Market for Cotton to-day, and without any inquiry from speculators. The sales :re 3,000 bags of all kinds at previous prices. Arrivals this morning—French Mail, ship letters from Bahia and Demerara. Accounts have been received from Rio Janerio a few days later by way of Havre. They state that the Exchange was in a very unsettled state ; that business to a small extent had been done at 28, and little mon , y was to be had. Coffee was in good demand, and obtained high prices—large ship ments are making for the United Slates. 6 per Cent. Stock 78. The advices received yesterday by the Hamburg mail men tions the decline of gold in that market, owing to the great quantity lately exported from London to various cities on the continent, for speculation, which is said to exceed the corn shipped. This morning has produced but very few arrivals, no doubt owing to the adverse winds, otherwise we should have the ar rivals of the New York packet ships of the Ist instant, which have been due for some days past. THE FUNDS. The Funds in both the Markets were rather depressed yes terday, but towards the close of business they rather improved, and left off at 92i a for the Account, opened this morning at the same price ; Money, 921 Exchequer Bills, 63 67 ; India Bonds, 62 64 ; Bank Stock, 2021 203 ; India Stock, 254 - 255 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the favourite spe culation at present, and improved from the closing price of 181 to 19i; Portuguese also higher, 351 4 ; Three per Cents., 224 ; Belgian, 98} 99} ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 548 55 ; Five per Cents., 1021 8. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. I India Stock :1 per Cent. Red. 93% % , ,f, Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 92%-M4 South Sea Stock...—. — 34 ? per Cent. — Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 10 0 ,4,; ;; New Ditto New 354 per Cent... 90%14 100 994 , 3 per Cent. Annuiti?,, 1751 — New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire - I Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860 l5 , Ditto Small 6B 65 pm Oct. 10, 1859 ... Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1960 — iDitto Advertised Jan. 5, ISSO — I Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1880 —l India Stock for Account Jan. 5. 1870 — Consols for Account —9214 5 1 , PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account . T Portuguese Bonds. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bands Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Accoun` - 35% 6 Ditto, 1 per Cent. na i ,6 A. , Ditto Account 24a A : Prussian Bonds - - i Russian Bonds, 182'2 •• —1 Ditto Account - -' Ditto Metallic — Columbian 80nd5,1824 -.8% Spanish Bonds Ditto Account aSN% Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account :heel: Bonds Ditto Accotint. 18i 19:17,1 French, sver cent. Ditto Bonds, 18`2.5 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan 4 per cent. ----- 3 per cent —f. —c. - -- Exchange. f. Dutch, 2 , 4 per cent. Dia; eccCount 55% . 5 _I Ditto, 5 per cent 102% Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 51. pm ) 20 Ditto Macanbas Cocaes 25 Great Western itailway Company (is Brighton Railwas , I • !mon and Birmingham Railnay Company no London and Croydon Railway Company 2O North Midh.nd ll'ailway Company 55 London and Westminster Bank 2O 11% if 5.4 104, 1 4 167 2-04, HALF-PAST ONE. We have just received the Journal of Commerce of Ant werp, of yesterday date. (From the Dutch Papers.) News received from Batavia of the month of August, state that operations continue, at the east of Sumatra, against the insurgent chief Tamboesi, on the side of Palemban , . S4veral chiefs have submitted, hut they have not as yet got hold of the principal chief, Tocan Penschawer. An Arab has hoisted the fl,g in the north of Palembang. Dutch funds cone lower, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54+; Five per Cents., 101‘. The chief operation in the foreign market this morning was in Spanish Active, which improved 2 per cent., which is said to be owing to one of the five Powers:stating, thlt the moment the affairs of Belgium were settled, he wished that a Conference should he held respecting the affairs of Spain, and to put an end to the civil war going on in that country. We believe it is one of the Northern Powers who has communicated the above message to the various Ambassadors here. It is also stated that the improvement of Spanish is attributed to the general expectation that Thicrs will come in as Minis ter of the French Government. The accounts from Belgium continue to be of a very warlike description. Consols, 9c)l for Money ; for the Account, 921 ; Ex chequer Bills, 65 67; India Bonds, 64; Bank Stock, 2021 3. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active was not so good as in the morning, when they were 20+, at present 20 ; Portu guese, 35i 36, better ; Three per Cents. 22, 7 ; -; Dutch Two and-a-half per Cents., 55k; Five per Cents., 1 02-a The Dutch mail h as just arrived, 23,1 January. Two and a-half per Cents, 54 7-16 ; Five per Cents , 10l N. VIRZI, O'CLOCK. Consols for the A eoount, 0 F • n . riday, December 28, 18e8, Ann Bates, housemaid to Mrs. Wilson, 18, Old Bond-street, was sent to book a parcel at Hatchett's Coach-office, Piccadilly, and which parcel duly reached its destination, but since that time no tidings have been obtained of the young woman. Her father, who is a labouring man at Richmond came to town, but could not learn anything about her. She left without a bonnet, only having a shawl on, which the cook advised her to wear, as it was very cold. She has left her box of clothes, and no reason can be assigned for her absenting herself. She is apparently about 20 years of age, rather short and stout. THE SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT Woomvico.—A correspondent states that the soldier Warden, who was accused of having maltreated Anne Matthews, has been liberated, the Magistrates who privately heard the case being of opinion that, as the girl had been drinking with the accused, it would be better not to prosecute the matter fur ther, for the sake of her character. There must, however, have been other grounds for such a determination, of which our correspondent is not aware. On Tuesday the labourers employed at Messrs. Coles, Child, and Co.'s wharf, at East Greenwich, disco vered, while excavating a portion of the bed of the river, a human skeleton. It was found about thirty feet from the river wall, and at a depth of two feet below the surface. It belonged apparently to an old person, tile teeth being ne,u•ly all gone. The spot in which it was found was formerly an osier bed, avid its proximity to the surface would appear to indicate it had not been there above 50 or 60 years. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY.) THE CANADIAN PRISONERS, Mr. ROESUVE said he was instructed to move for a writ of habeas corpus, directing Wm. Batchelor, the gaoler of Liverpool, to bring up the bodies of James Brown, John Geo. Parker, Andrew Wilson, Leo nard Watson, and others. He moved on the affidavits of two persons, one, William Waller, clerk to Mr. Ashurst, which stated, that on Sa turday last he had received from the gaoler of Liverpool the docu. ment annexed, in consequence of demanding to be furnished with a copy of the warrant of commitment ; and that he did at the same time examine it with the original warrant then in the custody of the Town clerk of Liverpool, and was informed that the prisoners were detained in custody solely on the authority of the warrant so produced. The second affidavit was that of William Henry Ashurst, which stated that although in the warrant it was recited that the said James Brown, &c., had been convicted, he believed such statement seas untrue, and that such prisoners had not been arraigned, tried, convicted, and sentenced by any Court of Lord ABINGEn—Is the affidavit made by the parties in custody ? Mr. ROEBUCK—No, my Lord, the writ has often been granted without. Lord ABINGER—That is where there was no access to the parties in custody. Mr. ROEBUCK referred to a case in the 3d East, Commonly known as " the Hottentot Venus case." She was completely accessible to any body for lialf-a-cro.vn—(Laughter)—but there were parties who stated that she was coerced. Lord ABIXGER—Some reason was given why an affidavit could not be expected from her. If we grant a habeas to remove a party in custody, we ought to ascertain that no affidavit can be reasonably ex. petted from him. Mr. HOEBUCX—Your Lordship thinks an affidavit absolutely Ile. cessary ? Lord AnINGER—Yes; an affidavit from the parties who claim the writ, or from some other party, to satisfy the Court that they are so coerced that they are unable to make it, or some adequate cause. Mr. ROEBUCK—It shall be attended to, and I will move again. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) THE MAIDSTONE ELECTION.-FECTOR V. BEACON, This was an application to the Court made on behalf of Mr. Fec tor, the present (Conservative) Member for Maidstone, to enter up judgment against the defendant on the Speaker's certificate for costs incurred in defending Mr. Fector's seat, on the petition presented against his return; to which petition the defendant was a party, and which was declared by the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to try the merits of the petition—" frivolous and vexatious." The application was made last term ; on which occasion Sergeant Wilde and Mr. Cookson for the defendant argued against it, making several objections to the authenticity of the Speaker's certificate. Mr. THESIGER (with whom was Mr. Channell) now appeared in sup. port of the rule, and replied at great length, answering the various ob jections, among which was that one of the electors had been admitted a petitioner in defence of the return, and his costs had been included in the Speaker's certificate ; and it was contended that this being illegal vitiated the whole of the certificate. Mr. Thesiger, on the other hand, urged that the objection, if worth anything, ought to have been made before the Examiner, and that parties could not be allowed to lie by and make the objection before a Court of Law, which was not competent to enter into the costs. The Learned Couns2PB arguments were not concluded when we left. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fer the Week ended Jan. IR, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Twwns in England and Wales, per Imperial °water. . _ IN'fie , t Pls. 4d I Oats Barley IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE P.:3C WEIACS PRECEDING. 795. Bd. Oats I Barley DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Mat ls. Pd. Oats Barley 4a. 10.1. I Rye EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM FRANCE PROHIBITED. (From the Moniteur.) " PARIS, JAN. 21. " Sire,—The crops of grain of 1838 are for France, if not the most abundant, at least quite sufficient for her consumption. All f.•ar of a want of the means of subsistence is, therefore, totally without reason in our present situation; and it; by the course of affairs, the price of wheat, which has for a long time been but too low, has risen, the in. crease is not excessive, and in general is rendered nearly insensible by the activity of trade and the increase of wages. " Until now insignificant exportations of grain have not afforded pub lic confidence, but lately the demands from abroad have become consider able—the exportations have multiplied, and others are preparing in seve ral ports. The wants of some neighbouring countries have occasioned this increase of demands, and the advance of prices and the augmenta!ion of the export duties which result therefrom according to the terms of the laws of the 15th of April, 1832, and the 26th of April, 1833, have been useless in checking them. Certain parts of France are, therefore, exposed in consequence of the local deprivation of their grain to see mo mentaneously their wants exceed their means. " It is believed to be the duty of Government to prevent by all the means which the legislation places in its power such a result ; and I have therefore thought it my duty to propose to your Majesty to use the fa culty which belongs to you in case of urgency, by the terms of the 34th article of the Law of Customs ((it:manes) of the 17th of December, 1814, and to suspend provisionaliy, by ordinance, the exportation along our Atlantic harbours of corn and flour. " Besides, there can result from this measure no prejudice to other interests equally worthy of the solicitude of the Government. The price of corn in the interior assures the cultivators and merchants an advantageous price. " I have considered it my duty to propose to your Majesty to pro_ hibit the exportation from the ports of the Atlantic only, the expor.. tion by the Mediterranean or the land frontiers being of no importance. " I am, with the profoundest respect, Sire, your Majesty's very humble and faithful servant and subject, " MARTIN (DU NORD), " Minister of Public Works, Agriculture, and Commerce." ROYAL DECREE. " Louis Philippe; Xing of the French, to al present and to come, greeting. " Upon the Report of our Secretary of State of the Department of Public Works, Agriculture and Commerce, " Whereas the laws of the 15th of April, 1832, and the 26 t h of April, 1833, relative to the importation and exportation of corn— " Whereas the 34th article of the law of customs of the 17th of Dec. 1814, thus couched— " Royal ordinances may provisionally, and in case of urgency, sus. pend or permit the exportation of the productions of the soil, or of na• tional manufacture, and determine the duties to which they ,shall be subjected; all the dispositions ordered and executed by virtue of this present article shall be presented in the form of a project of law to the two Chambers before the end of their session, if they be assembled, or the next sesiin if they be not :' " We have ordered the following:— "Art. 1. The exportation of grain is provisional'y suspended on all points of the maritime frontier of theocean. " Art. 2. Our Ministers in the department of the Public Works, Agriculture, and Commerce, and in the department of Finance are charged, each as it may concern him, with the execution of the present ordinance, which will be inserted in the Bulletin des Lois. " Made at the Palace of the Tuileries, Jan. 21, 1539. "LOUIS PHILLIPE." PIST-OFFICE ALTERATIONS. The following alterations took place in the departure of three of the mails on Sunday:— The Second Grand Junction Railway diapatch will be at 10 29 A. M., instead of at 11 20, as heretofore, and the box will be closed for this despatch at 10. The Carlisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh mail will be de spatched r.t 6 P. hi., instead of at 8 (including the sixth bag to Manchester). The 1101Y/wad mail will also bo despatehed at 6 P. Nl., in stead of 7. The letter-box will be closed for these mails at 5 P.M., at the same time as for the third Grand Junction London, Bristol, and Falmouth despatches. The London day mail will in future be due about 9 P.M., and the letters ( Sundays excepted) will be ready for delivery, to persons who regularly call at the Office, in about half an hour afterwards.----Liverpool Courier. The Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson entertained the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lord Suffield, Hon. George 13yng, Hon. Miss Forester, Hon. Charles Gore, Mr. George Anson, Mr. Stewart, and a select party at dinner on Tuesday even. ingat their residence in Hill-street. Jr. Hope Vere gave his first dinner for the season yesterda3 at his residence in Park-lane. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge issued cards yesterday for a select dinner and evening party to-morrow evening. His Grace the Duke of Wellington will give a sumptuous entertainment at Apsley House on Monday, the 4th• of the ensuing m6nth, to the Conservative Peers. His Grace is not expected in town until the close of next week. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIETY.-From a Corre spondent. )—A very animated and interesting public discussion, testing the truth of the five fundamental facts upon which the principles of socialism is founded, took place on Tuesday evening, the 22d inst., between a student in Theology and the President of Branch 16, of the Association of All Classes of All Nations, at the Hall of Science, Commercial-place, City-road, and which was adjourned until next Tuesday evening. There could not have been less than 400 persons present, who appeared perfectly satisfied. Mr. Owen was present, and at the close addressed the meeting. THE A Itm Y.—The. 15th Hussars move immediately rem Glasgow for Chatham, preparatory to embarkation for India, on board the Minotaur, 74. The uniform of the regi ment is to be changed to skyblue, the facings red. Sir Walter Scott gets the augmentation Lieutenant- Colonelcy ; Captain Wathen the Majority, and Lie utenant and Adjutant Hecker the troop. The 11th Light Dragoons to be made Hussars, the uniform the same as that of the 15th. The 10th Hussars is the next regiment for foreign service, and it is supposed will relieve the 4th, now in India, in the course of the present year. The 7th Fusileers are under orders for India. The 42d for Canada. We understand from the best authority, that the Military Commissioners are determined to recommend, in the strongest terms, the abolition of the traffic which now prevails in the purchase of promotion, by giving enormous sums beyond the regulated prices. DURHAM DINNER.—On Tuesday the Tories in and about Sunderland sat down to a dinner in public, that they might celebrate the sixth anniversary of the " Durham County Conservative Association." It is said that they mustered on this occasion 300 strong. And besides a long list of notorious gentlemen belonging to the Tory tribe, with hangers-on and small fry, there were present the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Seaham, and Mr. Liddell. The after-dinner harangues of the Sunderland speechifiers need not description, and our readers, we are persuaded, will be well pleased that we dis miss these dinner doings without further notice. Brighton has lately been the scene of several radical demonstrations. A great number of idle paragraphs are circulating through the Papers respecting the health of the Duke of Wel lington. With the exception of a slight attack of rheumatism, we believe his Grace is in as sound health a he has been for the last 20 years.— Times. MANCHESTER. DINNER OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.-(LAST NIGHT.) BY EXPRESS. A public dinner of the Manchester Anti- Corn-law Associa tion took place at the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, last night, which was attended by delegates from many' of the large towns in England and Scotland. Several Members of Parliament, advocates for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and the Mayor, and members of the Municipal bodies. of Man chester and other neighb luring towns. Th e room was very tastefully fitted up for the occasion, end arrangements were made by placing three tables across the extreme end of the building, and eleven others running at right angles along its entire length, to accommodate about nine hundred persons. A temporary gallery was also fitted up at the end of the room, opposite the Chairman, capable of holding about one hundred persons. Such was the demand for tickets that one to two guineas were freely offered in the course of Tuesday and yes terday. At the ballot for the remaining tickets there were more than two hundred applicants for seven tickets. The price of the tickets was fixed at 3s. 6d., but a very large num ber to admit re.rsons after the dinner were subsequently is sued and eagerly purchased at five shillings each. It is sup posed that if accommodation could have been provided for 2,000 persons every ticket would have been disposed of. Over the s=at occupied by the Chairman was a large white banner, fringed with pick, bearing the inscription, " The Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws." On the Chair man's right was another, with the words, " The Repeal— the Total Repeal, and Nothit g but the Repeal!! !" and on the left a similar one, having incribed on A Cheap Loaf for the People." And at the end of the room, opposite the Chairman, a banner, with (in large letters) " England expects that every man this day will do his duty." From the cast-iron pillars by which the roof of the building was supported, depended festoons and wreaths of roses, laurels, and evergreens, and the whole was brilliantly lighted with gas. At a 20 minutes past five o'clock the Chairman, J. B. Smith, Esq., accompanied by the members of the Committee, and the Members of Parliament, and other gentlemen who had been invited to attend, entered the room, and were received with loud and general cheering. Among the gentlemen present we observed Sir W. Moles worth, M. P., Mr. Clay, M.P., Colonel Salwey, M. P., Messrs. J. B. flobhouse, M.P., John Easthope, M.P., Jos. Seholufield, M. P., J. Brotherton, M. P., C. P. Villiers, M. P., J. T. Leader, M. P., Ainsworth, M. P., W. Marsland, M.P., Finch, M.P., John Fort, M. P., Richard Walker, M. P., William Ewart, Colonel Thompson, Dr. Bowring, the Mayor of Manchester, the Mayor of Leeds, the Mayor of Hull, the Mayor of Stockport, the Master Cutler of Sheffield, John Bright, Esq., and a Dcputaticn from Rochdale; Bigg, Esq., and a Deputation from Leicester; Messrs. Bomer and Frost, Deputies from Derby; J. Armstrong, Esq., Mayor of Lancaster; Mr. Higgins and Mr. Sattesthwaite ; Robert Segur, Esq., and Messrs. Ashcroft and Baker, Depu ties from Preston ; Bailie Johnston and Mr. Weir, Deputies from Glasgow; Hon. J. E. Murrry, Deputy from Edin burgh; Mr. Boultbee, and four other gentlemen, Deputies from Birmingham ; Messrs. Walker and Wynne, Deputies from Wolverhampton ; the Mayor of Bolton, and two other gentlemen, Deputies; Messrs. J. Bradley, R. Sands, and Keely, Deputies from Nottingham. Letters approving of the objects of the meeting were re ceived from Ebenezer Elliot, the Corn-law rhymer, Colonel Torrens, G. W. Wood, 'M. P., Stansfield; M. P., &c. &c. After the cloth had been removed, the CHAIRMAN rose and was received with loud and general cheering. lie said— Gentlemen, at the request of the Committee I have taken the chair this evening, but you will not be surprised that, on so great and important an occasion as the present, I should feel it necessary to bespeak your indulgence. Gentlemen, I beg to remind you of the objects for which this Association was este . - blished, and also of the very important point, that this is not a political meeting.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) I beg for that purpose to read one of the rules of the Manchester Anti- Corn-law Association, which is, that "no party political dis cussion shall, on any account, be allowed at any of the general or committee meetings of the Association ; nor shall any re solution be proposed, or subject entertained, which shall be at variance with the declared object of the Association." That declared object being, Gentlemen, to obtain by all legal and Constitutional means the total and immediate repeal of the existing Corn and Provision-laws. Gentlemen, the Com mittee have most scrupulously adhered to the rules of the As sociation ; and the distinguished strangers whom you see here to-day have been invited not on account of their party politics, but from the circumstance of their being friends to the repeal of the Corn-laws. Invitations have been sent to every Mem. her of Parliament who voted in the minority on Mr. Villiers's motion in March last, and it is in reply to these invitations that you see so large a number of Members of Parliament here to day ; but the near approach of the meeting of Par liament has prevented a great number from attending on this occasion, and numerous letters of apology have been received. We are therefore the more indebted to these gentlemen who have done us the honour of attending at great personal inconvenience to themselves.—( Loud cheers ) I have to regret also that we have been deprived of the company of our excellent Member, Mr. Mark Phillips—( Hear, hear) a.....fr0m whom I have had a hry: ;otter, in which he deeply re grets his unavoidable absence ; but you will be quite satisfied that his heart is with us in this cause.—( Loud cheering.) I have also had a letter from our other Right Hon. Member, Poulett Thompson.—(Cries of " Read, read.") Gentlemen, I shall read the letter to you; it is as follows Si:nth Audley.street, 15th of January, 1839. MY DEAR SIR,-1 have delayed replying to your letter inviting me to dine with the Anti-Corn-law Association on the 23d inst., because I was unwilling to decline the invitation at once, and therefore waited to ascertain whether it would be possible for me to get down to Manches ter, upon the occasion. I now however, regret to say that I am com pelled to refuse myself the pleasure of meeting the gentlemen in whose names you write, as I find that the pressure of public busijess just be fore the meeting of Parliament, and the necessity of frequent attendance at Councils render it impossible for me to leave London. I beg you will convey the expression of my regret to the Committee. I am, y dear Sir, yours faithfully. C. POULETT THOMSON. I hope you rill not think me trespassing on your time, if I read to you two other letters; the one is from Lord Brougham, addressed to myself (loud cheers):— Grafton.street, January 10, 1839. am sorry that it will not be in my power to accept the honour of the invitation which I have just received to the Man chester Dinner, to be held upon the occasion of the opposition against the Corn-laws. My opinions upon this most important subject have been frequently declared in Parliament, and I shall not fail to do my duty there when it again is brought forward. It is given out, I perceive, that those who could really help forward the question, will only be likely to exert themselves if the country shall press them. I do not well understand this principle of public conduct, but I am sure it will be the country's own fault if any excuse remains for any one doubting what opinion generally prevails upon this question, so universally interesting to all classes. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your faithful and obedient servant, (Signed) BROUGHAM. —( Great cheering.) I shall trouble you with one other, and that is from Lord Durham.—( Loud and continual cheering.) Jan. 15, 1839. regret that the pressure of public business, which detains me in London, will prevent me from accepting the invitation to the public dinner at the Corn Exchange, which you have done me the honour to transmit to me. My opinions on the subject to which that meeting re fers, hive been long entertained, and decidedly expressed in Parliament. It was my belief in 1815, when I moved the amendment to the second reading of the Corn-law Bill in the House of Commons, that the mea sure was unwise and impolitic, and subsequent experience has confirmed me in that opinion. I am convinced that the operation of the Corn Laws is as injurious to the agriculturist as to the manumcturer, and that their repeal would equally tend to the mutual advantage of both classes. I believe that any diminution in the price of corn would be more than counterbalanced by that increased consumption of all Other articles of agricultural produce, which would be created by the extension of com. mercial enterprise—the fresh impulse which would be given tomanu facturing industry—and the great additional employment which would be consequently afforded to the labouring classes. I have the honour to be, your most obedient servant, (Signed) DURHAM. J. B. Smith, Esq , Chairman. ( Cheers.) I am happy to see around me on this occasion gentlemen of every shade of political opinion, and I think the toast I am about to propose will find a response in the breast or; every one present —" Our Queen, the Duchess of Lan caiter, may she long reign over an industrious people, un shackled by Corn-laws and all monopolies." The toast was drank with great enthusiasm. Tha CHAIRMAN shortly afterwards rose and said—Gentle men, the next toast I have to propose is " The total and uncon ditional repeal of the Corn and Provis'on laws."—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers for several minutes.) Gentle men, that the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws is indispensible to our commercial and manufacturing prosperity I think must be evident to every impartial mind who has perused the important proceedings of the two meet ings of the Chamber or Commerce of this tt‘wn, and I think it is clear that the repeal of these laws is equally necessary to the welfare of the agriculturists, to all those who have perused the important report of the Parliamentary inquiry into tee agricultural distress of .1836.—( Hear, hear.) That evidence Gentlemen, is of the most extraordinary character, and I am surprized that hitherto, so little notice has been taken of it. There were two classes of witnesses examined before the Com mittee. The English farmers stated that there was nothing but thin staring them in the face—that their capital was con stantly diminished—they complained of the low prices, and that they could not pay their rents, and that the taxation was too heavy. But, on the contrary, all the Scotch evidence given on that occasion demonstrated that there was nothing to complain of.—( Hear, hear.) Be it remembered that at that time wheat was remarkably low—lower than it had been known for 70 years—the average being below 40s. a quarter. Notwithstanding all this the Scotch witnesses stated that they were doing well, that they were getting money, that they did not complain of high rents, and that they did not want to shift the taxation from their own shoulders to those of other persons ; but of the Corn• laws they said that they were most mis chievous in execution.--( Cheers.) That they cheated both the farmer and the landowner. Now,. Gentlemen, how is it that we find the Scotch farmer who is absolutely paying a higher rent for a worse soil, and in a worse climate, saying that he is doing well, while the English agriculturist complains of bad times? Why, Gentlemen, the reason was this, because the English farmer has been going on year after year in the old track which his father and his grandfather pursued, while the Scotch farmer has applied capital and skill to the task. We hear in Scotland of a steam-engine being placed upon an estate, but have you ever heard of a steam-engine in the English agricultural districts? The effifts of capital and skill in Scotland are of the most extraordinary character. Mr. Smith, of Deanstown, who is well known as one of the first mechanists and agriculturists of the age, and who has turned his attention to the draining of land by draining and sub plowing, states that he made land, covered with peat and worth only ss. an acre, of the value of 403.—(Cheers.) In Scotland, it was well known, that they obtained one-third one-fourth, and even one-half more, produce from worse land than in England. He was asked if the plan had been tried in England, and he answered, in one or two cases. And what was the result? Why, Gentlemen, Admiral Fleming drained and improved some grass land on his plan; and this land, which for twenty years had been let at 20a. an acre, after being drained and improved, was let at 56a. an acre.--- (Cheers.) R. Laurence Oliphant, the Member for Perth, states that the progress of farming in England was coin. ',Neely arrested, because of the ignorance of the farming interests, and that there were thousands of acres of land in England yielding only one quarter of the produce which a very small amount of intelligence and industry would produce.--- (Hear.) Now it secma to me that the English farmers are pretty much in the same state as if the manufacturers had re sorted to the same machinery as their grandfathers used.--. ( Hear.) From such a stupid blockhead we should not be sur prised to hear a complaint of bad times, of loss of capital, of inability to pay rents, and a wish to remove the taxes from themselves to others. But I ask would you sympathise with such men ? Could you be persuaded that it was a want of pro tection that had made them poor ? No such thing—you should say that his old clumsy machinery had been the cause of his run Gentlemen, I have never heard this evidence referred to before, and it appears to me to bring the question into a very narrow compass. Here are we oppressed by this monstrous monopoly, which is destroying our commerce and manufactures—which has covered our land with paupers which has filled our prisons with criminals, which has filled our streets eith prostitutes, and exposes our lives and proper ties to the dagger and torch of the assassin and incendiary.-- ( Loud cheers.) And all for what ? Because the farmers will persist in using their old clumsy machinery, instead of using the new and improved minas at their disposal. Was ever any country oppressed with such a Legislature and such a Govern ment as this ? Will such folly be continued ? you say it ought to be persisted in ?—(Loud cries of " No.") I think you will say it ought not, and the only remedy for agricultural distress is to let in competition, and to spur up the drones.-- ( Ile sr, and cheers.) By this means, Gentlemen, we will soon see the English agriculturist approximating to the Scotch, and then all parties would be relieved.—( Much cheering.) Mr. R. 11, GREG having been called upon said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, when I look around and see the distinguished Gentlemen below me—when I look around and see the immense multitude of merchants and manufacturers of this town and neighbourhood—wh en I see before me deputa tions from every part of the United Kingdom —and when I see here the formidable array of Reporters, who are about to transmit what passes here to the remotest corners of the civi lized world, I feel oppressed with the weight of the task corn mined to me, and I sincerely regret that it has not been en trusted to other hands. But, Gentlemen, when we enter into the battle, we must take that post which our leaders assign us, whether it be in the front rank with the forlorn hope, or whether it be to bring up the rem.—(Hear)—and in this most important battle which is now about to take place upon this interesting subject, I trust that every man, however weak he may think he is, will cast a stone at the Philistine—( Hear, hear)—and perhaps some la'nd Providence may send a pebble into the forehead of the monster,--( Loud cheers.) It is not, Gentlemen, my intention to enter into lengthened discussion on the subject of the Corn laws, because I see around me many gentlemen far more competent to the task if it were necessary, Were it necessary to expose the fallacies of the advocates of the Corn laws, I ee before me Cul. Thompson, who has done it so ably.._( Loud chsers.) Nor is it necessary to go into any minutiae as to the amount of taxation which these obnoxious laws impose upon the rest of the commun:ty, I will iefly assume that the consumption of wheat is about sixty millions per annum--that the price is raised by the operation of these laws 15W. per quarter, and that half of the w hole amount goes for seed and other purposes, and consumed by the agriculturists., and that would leave about twenty millions of taxes imposed upon the rest of the community. But whe ther the amount be twenty millions, as some have estimated it, or 150 millions, as others say, for remember it is not only corn but the whole amount of agricultural produce which is affected by it. And this is not the greatest or the worst evil of the corn and bread taxation—the worst danger is, that it has en dangered and is endangering our manufactures and commerce, and in both the rosperity ofthe empire.—( Cheers.) It is q uite clear, although many gentlemen did not give it proper weight, that where we d not buy we cannot sell. If we do not take their productions from other countries they cannot take ours ; if we do not take their corn and timber they will not take our manufactures ; and if they are not clothed with our manufac tures they will necessarily be driven to manufacture for them selves. If, in 1814, when the present Corn-laws were passed, a fixed duty of 20s. a quarter had been imposed, I believe the agriculturist might have enjoyed the benefit of high prices without any of the serious evils that are now banging over us. At that period, after long and desolating wars, such was the feeling of the insecurity of property that capitalists abroad would as soon think of throwing their money into the D a nube or the Elbe as of investing it in the establishment of manufac tories.--( Hear, hear.) They would have given us corn and we would have given them manufactures--th e golden dream of the agriculturist would then have been realized, and I believe that they had no wish to injure Os, but merely to benefit themselves. They have but fallen into a fatal mis take, and in enacting the present Corn-laws they have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs ; or, like the boy in the fable, they have grasped so many filberts that they.cannot draw their hands out of the pitcher.--( Cheers and laughter.) As it is now, a duty of 20s. a quarter is not to be dreamt of—a dug' of 10s. a quarter is not to be named.—( Loud cheers.) No thing but the total and unqualified repeal of the Corn-- laws can save us from those serious evils which I, for one, have long seen impending. (Vehement cheering.) Nothing but their total repeal will prevent those countries which were formerly our customers from be coming our rivals—nothing else will prevent those enemies which it has - raised up from becoming our executioners. The interest which the proceedings in the Chamber of Commerce in this town has excited, has called forth a warm response from every part of the country, As our present object is to alleviate the danger to which the country is exposed, I shall read you a rather long extract from a letter from Sir Samuel Stirling, a Scotch Baronet, who has for many years resided abroad, and who, although formerly an advocate of the Corn-laws, when he now looks ore at a distance, and is no longer mixed up in the muddy and turbu lent contest going on here, has completely altered his opinions. Mr. Greg here read a lengthened ex tract from a letter, dated from the Grand Duchy of Baden, which stated the great progress that had been made in the establish ment of manufactories in Germany and other parts of the Continent, and proenosticating that very shortly British goods would be altogether driven from the foreign market. He would read one extract more, which was this :—" Unless an alteration of our Corn-laws produces this effect nothing on earth will, and in a very few years British goods will be driven from the Continental Markets.''—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) I will not read any further extracts though I have many of a very interesting nature, which I may may make public on another occasion. It may be remem bsred by some gentlemen I mentioned at the Chamber of Commerce, that the house with which I am connected had, in consequence of foreign competition in a certain article, been compelled to break up 200 looms at one of our establishments last year, and that we were about to break up 200 more at another place this year. The article I allude to is velveteens- I have here a sample (exhibiting it) of beautiful velveteen, made at Moscow. The state of our trade in that article with Russia I will briefly enumerate. In 1834 we shipped 345 000 yards; in 1835, 177,000 yards; in 1836, 9 3,000 yards ; in 1837, 8,000 yards. The trade has departed. The exports of the same were, in 1834, seven million and a half; in 1836, 5.800,000; in 1837,:4,600 000. The export of our manufactured goods to Russia is, in fact, gone.-- ( Hear, hear.) To give you some notion of the Russian cot ton manufacture at present, I will mention that it is one-third the amount of the cot tonlmanuf ictures in England. Nankeen are wholly supplied from Switzerland. I have also a specimen of German Prints, made at Camlet, in Germany.—(Mr. Greg here exhibited specimens of prints of German and English manufacture. The German exceeded the En g lish both in execution and work. The German Print was sold at 153. 6i., the English at 17s. 6d. We merely enjoy the mar ket till they can fit! it up.--( Hear, hear.) I have some inte resting letters from America, which I will not read, but will merely state with respect to the manufactures of America, that in the year 1814, /be time of peace, America consumed about 100 bales of cotton. Last year the consump tion amounted to 30,000 bales. It new stands, in consump tion, whe re we stood in 1816, and she has become a large „ex i porter of cotton goods. In 11435 her exports amounted to 2,800,000 dollars. In 1836 and half of 1837 she exported of cotton goods 17,000 bales to the Cape of Good Hope—to our Indian possessions arid to Canada. In the same time she exported 34,000 bales of cotton goods to South American markets alone. Sixteen years ego the Forest of Lowhill —the Manchester of America—echoed no sound but that of the cataract; but now there is water power of 5,000-horse there, which is one-half of the whole of the water power of Great Britain applied to cotton manufacture. It is not alone in the cotton manufacture that America is making great strides. In 1835 17 millions of sheep were bred in America for the sake of their wool. In 1838 they amounted to 28 millions. I believe the whole quantity in Great Britain amounts to 32 millions, and I believe that next year the number of sheep bred in America for this purpose will amount to upwards of 30 millions. We know there is no wool exported from this country, and upon the American sta tistics I have seen, I have reason to believe the lowest class of woollens is as cheap in the market of New York as in the Cloth-hall of Leeds. It has been said by some newspaper that the agitation going on in Manchester is disgusting. To that I would answer that our prospects are equally disgusting.. —( Hear, hear, hear.) For the last two y ears the greater part of the manufacturers of Manchester have had no profits whatever; and a friend of mine asked very properly, "what would the Landed Gentlemen say if they had been two years without receiving one penny of rent ?"—( Cheers, and a laugh.) All we ask for is free. trade—a fair field, and no favour.-- ( Cheers.) If the Landed Gentlemen had received no rents for two years, what proposals would they have made ?—(llear, hear.) Would they have been as fair? Would not one proposal be, at least to wipe off one half of the national debt ?—( Cheers.) But it may be asked, if such is the state of your trade—if such are your pros pects, why do you go on building fresh mills? It certainly is a poser. —( Laughter.) But there are many reasons that I could give, but will got : but I will answer that question by asking another—la it not a fact that all profes sions—the Church, the Law, and Medicine are quite full —(Laugh)—and is it not a fact, that fresh members knowing this, are continually running into thee e professions are not those already engaged in them, bringinfd; up their chi'. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1839.