The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-25 00:00:00

01“1" et The h c aracters are all perfect. Little Dot, the carrier's Wife, w:Il be a universal favourite, so brisk and blithe, and animated and cheerful—just the thing to Make a fireside happy. And then the eccentric little nursemai I, and the baby, who, to use its mother's Words, is "two months and three days! considered oy the doctor a remarkably beautiful child, equal to the general run of children at five menthe old ; takes notice in a way quite wonderful; may seem impos sible to you, but feels his legs already !" All these, find Boxer, we must not forget Boxer, who contri butes greatly to the happiness of the family ; all these, described in the language of "Box," render the carrier's home and hearth a picture of domestic corn fun. There are other individuals well worthy of notice ; Gruff Tackleton, the toyman, who despises the harmless articles he manufactures ; and, above all, there is Caleb and his blind daughter, Bertha, one of tho se un f ortunate yet h appy creatures i n which" Boz" delights. The poor father, anxious to render his daughter happy, adopts the expedient of representing the world not as it is, but as it should be. The fol lewing is an account of his fond, affectionate deceit : I have said that Caleb and his poor blind daughter bred here ; but I should have said that Caleb lived here, find his poor blind daughter somewhere else ; in an en 'Minted home of Caleb's furnishing, where scarcity and shabbiness were not, and trouble never entered. Caleb Was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still re r;ills to us ; the magic of devoted, deathless love, tare had been the mistress of his study ; and from aer teaching all the wonder came. The blind girl never knew that ceilings were diss co loured; walls blotche'l, and bare of plaster here and re; high crevices unstopped, and widening every day; L e • , "sins mouldering and tending downward. The blind girl never knew that iron was rusting, wood rotting, PikPer peeling off ; the very size, and shape, and due Proportion of the dwelling, withering away. The blind girl never knew that ugly shapes of dell and earthen ware were on the board; that sorrow and faint-hearted i sw , were n the house; that Caleb's scanty hairs were !i,ring gre y er an d m ore grey before her sightless face. blind girl never knew they had a master, cold, Xacting, and uninterested: never knew that Tackleton 118 Tackleton in short; but lived in the belief of an 4 , l ecentric humourist who loved to have his jest with L _ !etn; and while be was the guardian angelof their lives, ' 4l clained to hear one word of thankfulness. Caleb and his daughter were at work together in their :anal working.room, which served them for their ordi arY living room as well; and a strange place it was. a' S 0 you were out in the rain last night, father, in sour beautiful, new, great-eoat," said Caleb's daughter. " In my beautiful new grea - -coat?" answered Caleb, 1 !lacin g towards a clothes-line in the room, on which F . ! sackcloth garment previously described was care uud'' hung up to dry. Flow glad I am you bought it, father!" f „:: And of such a tailor, too," sid Caleb. " Quite a lionable tailor. It's too good f o r me." The blind girl rested from her work, and laughed 11 4 delight. " Too good, father! What can be too good for you?" "I'm half ashamed to wear it though," said Caleb. fit i c itthin g th e e ff ect w h at h e s aid, upon her brightening b „ e; " upon my word. When I hear the boys and dsay behind me, ' Hal-lea ! Here's a swell!' I ) 7 11 t know which way to look. And when the begga r °lll dn't go away la s t night; and, when I said I was a e h t Y common man, said, • No, your Honour! Bless your f e ; 3ll° ur, don't say that!' I was qu ite ashamed. I really Las if I h a d n 't a right to wear it." ttriPPy blind girl ! How merry she was , i n her exul ten! pi ': I see y ou , f a th er ," she said, clasping her hands , " as w "I t ,T I Y, as if I had the eyes, I never want when y ou are u me. A blue coat " "Bright blue," said Caleb. I , Yes, yes! Bright blue!" exclaimed the gi rl, turnin g her radiant face ; the colour I can just remember b.the blessed sky! You told me it was blue before! A t lght blue coat " Made loose to the figure," suggested Caleb. 1 1 4 Yes! loose to the figure!" cried the blind girl, y tl ghiog heartily ; and in it you, dear father, with : o ur merry eye, your smiling face, your free step, and r dark hair: looking so young and handsome! bp 4 ' tialloa! halloah!" said Caleb. "I shall be vain, `' e s . B ( - otly." bn , - I think you are, already," cried the blind girl, 41 1 ting at him, in her glee. " I know you father! Ha I ,a; I've found you out, you see!" 1 1 ,•Ow different the picture in her mind, from Caleb, a' till sat observing her! She had spoken of his free step. e was ri g h t in th a t. For years and years, he never dt e e had crossed that threshold at his own slow pace, hwith a footfall counterfeited for her ear ; and never t h he, when his heart was heaviest, forgotten the light , d that was torenderhers so cheerful and courageous! s ne heave n knows! But I think Caleb's vague bewilder ent:lft of manner may have half originated in his havi n g 1 1 6 used himself about himself and everything around Ili? for the love of his blind daughter. Hew could the to, e man be otherwise than bewildered, after labouring tit:° many years to destroy his own identity, and that itthe objects that had any bearing on it! 4; h % " Cricket on the Hearth " is a " fairy tale of c ot ai l ' and it does ample justice to its title. It is in to think that if at '` 'east Mi some of thpllions of s em ir ituareal creatures walk the earth," occupied with our domestic °farthe crickets, it appears, are a potent tribe Of • • B Pirits, whose object is to promote the delights of t he fireside, arid render the domestic hearth a scene of l ove and happiness. Taking this " Cricket" as an example, we shall not hesitate to agree to the hypo thesis, and can only wish every heart h in the king %) blessed with such a faithful monitor. THE FREE HOSPITAL. yesterday the adjourned inquest upon Susannah Ste Gwas resumed by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Lion, ~gaY'a Inn-road. It will be recollected that about a di n th a go , twoyoung g i r l s , l a b ou ring under pulmonary ah , ‘ le lt,.tie, in the last stage, came up from Windsor, and 4 1 ;' d for admission into the Royal Free Hospital, n ee ' e h was refused them, as the beds were completely They then obtained shelter in the Lion, but v o t i elder girl, named Erle. aged twenty-two, died at• five Of the the following morning, and the other, the subject °e present inquiry, who was only eighteen year , of fie, died in the Holborn Union workhouse last Friday The case excited general sympathy. tae i nquest - ro om was crowded yesterday. and 1 ) 7 ngst the gentlemen present were Mr. Pritchard high I t :liff of Southwark ; the Rev. Dr. Worthington, the !. Mr. Packenham, &c. Mister attorney, attended by Mr. Wingrove Cook, the ""`rrister was in attendance on the part of the Hospital. I , , Hannah Fisher, nurse in the Holborn workhouse, ex titlllnled—Deceased was brought into the workhouse on h 20 th ult., suffering from weakness and cough. She a t c l wines, broths, and other stioaulants. She was sen kLe the whole time, and was anxious to recover. She ed last F r id a y wee k. She told witness that she came sl ll Windsor to be admitted into the Free Hospital, q that she and her deceased companion applied or admission the previous morning. They were kept tq Ai % Cold room, in which there was a sink, and the floor which was stone, for two hours before a doctor saw e to who told them that there was no room for them. 4s i t Was raining they could not go out, and were almost rshed from the gate. They asked the porter for :ome iltd, and he got them what he called broth and bread. ime broth was no thing but salt and water, the porter in foi.„°l4ed them that it was against the rules to give them • While they were standing in the porch at the t L'llital gate, two other women were brought in and irived. They were desired to go to Bartholomew's h ospital, but were unable to do so. They had only t t 3d. when they left Windsor, of which they paid 2s. to e waggoner, and paid 3d. for coffee. After being re ...used admission to the hospital, they were afforded food . " 1 „ (1 shelter by the landlady of the Sun, where the ' h oer died. Dr Marsden said that 300 men were daily relieved by "'e hospit a l, and that from Finsbury alone they had . ' l lnually 20,000 patients who got relief. t he that was proved to the satisfac t ion of i q o inh a bit a nts of Finsbury, they would willingly sub crtbe 20,0001. annually towards the hospital. Mr. White, surgeon to the workhouse, proved the o ,eased died ' of a pulmonary disease, and condemned itie conduct of the medical officers of the hospital towards 4 eased. Mrs. Tiffen, landlady of the Lion, reiterated the c adence given by her on the inquest of the girl Gill, end co rroborated the evidence of the last witness, adding , i t when they entered her house they had death in weir eyes. Mrs. Dymes, the landlady of the Calthorpe A rms, ad r(*ing the hospital, stated that after they had le ft the Dual they came to her house, and that from their ap taranee she was convinced they were dying. She ga ve th eir food and is. 6d. to procure a bed. 421largaret Triguno, her housemaid, confirmed her tes- William Evans, assistant relieving officer to the City f c !' London Union and his son deposed that three entales from the Peckham workhouse, labouring under t t l h c ertain disease, were admitted from the workhou s e to te ! ) • hospital on the day the two deceased persons wer e I ,Jeeted, the latter were offered to be conveyed thence to e e, kham house ' of which they refused to avail them stating that they had enough of workhouses, and at it was an hospital, not a workhouse they wanted. tr 7 s4r. Th wa it es , re li e ving officer of the City of London, th ili "n, said that during the year between forty and fifty w o usand casual poor were relieved by it, and that many ~.e r e sent to the Free Hospital during the year for medi `l,,,and surgical assistance. he porter of the Hospital, Mr. Cook, the assist:int s„ ' . 1 1° 0 n, and Alice Warner, the cook or the Inst i t ution, e've evidence contradicting the statements of deceased. h The Rev. Dr. Worthington, chaplain to the Hospital. , ku r st in u g ity been sworn, charged the Coroner with unvaried against the Hospital, and designated him a Partial judge," when The CORONER threatened him with committal if he ted such language, at the same time ordering "' to quit the room ; with which order the chaplai n tenvi ed. 4.be i11 1 7, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Natural death." ~_1 31% Marsden inquired if they censured the conduct of *Lis officers of the hospital? The foreman replied that the majority of the jury found fault with them for having refused admission to the deceased to an hospital professedly established for the benefi destitute and houselesr. Another juror said that no blame was attributable t , the ( A m .,. A third juror said that the landlady of the Calthorre I lion was more adapted to be a surgeon than the medical gentleman of the hospital who refused them admission. The other jurors declared that they concurred in the litgioturas passed upon the hospital by their foreman, THE CONDITION OF THE AGRI CULTURAL LABOURER. (From the Dover Chronicle.) " Protection to native industry" is the plea urged 1)3, monopolists for the continuation of the corn-laws. In the teeth of evidence the most clear and irrecragable, they will tell you that free trade would destroy the agricultural labourer—that, in other words, the only Way to avoid the danger of starvation to the working man, is to create an artificial scarcity. Of course, thepradox involved in this opinion is scouted by every one who, possessed of the least grain of common sense, has thought it worth while to examine never so slightly into the subject. But there are many persons who have been content to let others think for them en tirely on this head, and who have consequently been cajoled into the belief that the corn-law repealers are anxious for a free importation of corn to displace home cultivation, instead of to supply the deficiency caused by the inadequacy of our home cultivation to the wants of our increasing population. With this belief—entertained without the least examination of the premises—they ji-np at once to the conclusion that the labourer must suffer by a free importation of corn, and, therefore, that the corn-laws are a benefit to him. Not a single fact or argument can be urged to justify the assumption that free trade will throw the labourer out of employment ; on the contrary, the most undeviating experience, as well as the most unvarying testimony, is against it. Food was grown in this country before food groan in foreign countries was taxed, and will continue to be grown when the tax on foreign food is removed. if the condition of the agricultural labourer was such that the patriot and the philanthropist could look upon it with complacency—if plenty smiled upon his cottage, and the result of his labour was a sufficiency of food and clothing—if he enjoyed a fair proportion of the good things which are produced by the wormauship of his hands—then would there be some slight grounds for de scribing the corn-laws as " protection to native industry," at least, so far as the cultivation of the soil is concerned; and however urgent might be the claims of the other branches also of " native industry," for the destruction of all favour to any one branch—however irresistible the de mands for consideration urged by the alarming vicissi tudes to which our manufacturing operatives are subjected, there would be a more cautious approaching of the great question—there might be a lingering fear in the minds of many that the repeal of the corn-laws might banish the rural felicity enjoyed by our ploughmen and 'shepherds, and bring destruction upon the Arcadian bowers of peace and joy wherein they dwell. But the fact is—and it cannot be too strongly dwelt upon in the important anti corn-law agitation now progressing— that the condition of the protected is not a whit better than, scarcely indeed so good as, that of the oppressed. The man who works in the fields is, notwithstanding the laws professedly enacted to favour him, as badly off as his brother who works in the factory ; nay, I question much if he be not worse ; for while occasional gleams of prosperity visit his manufacturing brother, when food is cheap, and give him hopes of approaching days that shall be permanently better, his own wages are re duced, and a gradual deterioration of his social position takes place. I have assailed myself of a few weeks' residence in a district purely agricultural—in the neighbourhood of Guildford, in the county of Surrey—to make myself ae • quainted with the condition of those whose occupation consists in tilling the land. I have conversed with them in the field, and visited them in their homes ; arid, from what I have heard and seen, the irresistible conviction has possessed my mind, that the abolition of the food monopoly will confer the greatest possible blessing on the agricultural population. The field labourer, lam fully persuaded, will have cause to hail with the deepest gratitude the day that witnesses the repeal of the corn- laws. Lot me illustrate this by an example of their pre sent position:— In the course of my rambles I became acquainted with an old man, over whose head more than sixty winters have rolled. .To those who are callous and indifferent to the sacred claims of humanity, his ap pearance would be considered a fit subject for ridicule.; but, to those of better feeling, it unfolds a tale of pro tracted human suffering, and a long career of unre quited toil. I will endeavour to describe it as first saw it. His face was thin and long ; and from his pointed chin depended a beard which had not had an acquaintance with a razor for some months, and which imparted to his sallow, wasted, and wrinkled features , a greater expression of forlorn woe than they would otherwise 17ave borne. His dress consisted of corduroy breeches (the original material of which was almost concealed by sunttry patches and darns), and a discoloured jacket of thin flannel, similar in appear ance to those worn in the field by gentlemen cricketers ; and might, for aught I know, have been given him by some charitable and condescending partisan of Young England. In order to obtain greater warmth than this jacket would afford, the door fellow had obtained an old sack, which he had ingeniously contrived to fix on his person, by making a slit in the bottom of it through which to insert his head, and one on either side for his arms. But he was not so extravagant as to permit a whole sack to hang pendant from his shoulders : he had taken enough from the top (now the bottom) to fasten round either leg as a substitute for stockings. In the course of conversation with this specimen of a " bold peasantry—his country's pride," I ascertained that, after toiling a week, he could earn the munificent sum of six shillings, which he was allowed to appropriate in the best way he could, to ob tain food, dolling, and lodging. The repeal of the corn laws being now, as it should be, the all engrossing topic, I asked him what he thought would be the result of such a measure ? His reply was, "Some of our people think the corn- laws doan't ought to be done away with, but it makes no odds to I." " Why not ?': was my in quiry. " 'Cos tneaster says I are vetting too old to work, and must soon go to the parish." " Then the corn laws have not enabled you to lay up in your young days s.tifficient to keep you from the union . now you are old?" " Na, Sir ; things is been gettin' worse every year since I wur a boy ; and this year it's worser than ever, 'cos the 'caters are bad." " But," said I, " the farmers pay their men greater wages this year than they did last, in consequence of their realising from 15s. to 20s. per quarter more for their wheat?" " Na, indeed ; I doesn't get so much, 'cos they say I doesn't work so hard ; but the others doesn't get a bit more, and work is hard as ever : if wheat wur twenty point' a load (80s. a quarter), they might get a shilling a wet k "That is, in consideration of their paying from 2s. to half a-crown more per week fur their bread a!one?" " That's it, Sir.". A glerious proT ct. truly, was before the eyes of this old man ! Many a year has he lived alone in tht world, fer he was never married—no opportunity has ever been afforded him of cultivating the social and domestic affec ti.,n. His life has been spent, and all his energies wasted, in calting forth the hidden resources of the earth, and producing food for the use of man ; performing thus a far greater and nobler service to his country than he who takes a shilling from a recruiting sergeant, dons a 15ed jacket, and goes abroad with murderous intent, to low out the brains of his fellow creatures who have never injured him. And the reward of his honest labour is a poor-house for life ! Happy it may be tor England that asylums, in the shape of poor-law unions, are pro vided for enfeebled age ; but how much happier if such a s:ate of things existed as enabled the hard-working man to reserve a fund for his support when his frame become's too old for toil ; and exist they would, it' labour had its open market. The conoition of the labourer in the full possession of his physical powers is scarcely better than that of my aged din the sack. If married, he receives about 10s. per week, of which from 2s. to 2s. 6d. goes out in the shape of rent for his cottage. Food and clothing for themselves, their Nlives, and families, have to be pro vided with the remainder. I have, in the course of my sojourn, become acquainted with many labourer's fami lies, whos.e expenditure for food is necessarily limited to a halfpenny per head per meal. I have sometimes ven tured to suggest to the heads of families, that it was to be regrew d that they had so many children to keep. The answer was, that they could not get so much wages if they had not, and they should also be without the hope of ultimately realising something by their chil dren's labour. The objection to our manufacturing sys tem—that it fosters child labour—cm be urged, I find, with as much truth against our present system of agri cultural industry. In no instance can I find that thip labourer has re ceived even a nominal increase of wages in consequence of the increase in the price of provisions. He r e,ives the same sum per week this year as he did last, while he has to pay for bread alone from one to two shillings more weekly ; and he has to contend, moreover, with the failure of his little garden crop of potatoes. Simultaneous with the gradual dAerioration of the condition of the labourer, has been the gradual increase in the rent of land. Only a few y ears ago, good land could be rented in this neighbourhood for 20s. an acre. It is now realising from 365. to 405., and the tendency to rise continues. The fact that the rent receiver grows richer and richer, while the land-tiller grows poorer and poorer, owes its existence to the wickedness and perversity of the men who, by a legislative act, have limited the supply of food, and created an artificial scarcity on the one hand, and enhanced the importance of capital on the other. Away with the corn-laws ! They are a libel upon God's providence, and an abomi nation upon the earth. LAMBETH POLICE COURT.—Yesterday morning Mr. Henry received 10s., sent by the Editor of The San, from " A Friend" at Sheffield, for the sufferers by the late high tide:at Lambeth. Earl and Countess De Grey come to town on Saturday next from Bath, and early in the ensuing week repair to Wrest Park, Beds, where they purpose to receive a succession of distinguished visitors during the next month. REMARKABLE BIRTH.—Mrs. Shee, the wife of respectable victualler, at Enniscorthy, in the sixty-sixth year of her age, gave birth to a male child on the 27th or : 28th of last month, to the surprise of the inhabitants of that locality. Her eldest child is upwards of forty-seven years of age.— Wexford paper. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT ST. KATHERINE DOCKS.—On Tuesday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, a frightful accident occurred at the St. Katherine Docks which, it is feared, will be attended with fatal consequences , to a labourer named Robert Bland, aged fifty-nine years. He was at work in A and B vault, when he fell through a loop hole, a height of sixteen feet. He was found totally insensible from frightful injuries sustained about the head. Both upper and lower jaws were fractured in a shocking manner, and he received other severe injuries about the head and body. He was removed to the London Hospital. DESPERATE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A YOUTH IN O X FORD-STREET, BY THROWING HIMSELF OUT OF A I Wisinow.—On Tuesday morning, at half-pa• t eight o'clock, a desperate attempt at suicide was committed by a young in i named James Bowles, eighteen years of age, resbling at No. 68, Oxford-street, next door to the Princess's Theatre, by throwing himself into the street from the second-floor window Several persons who were passing ran to his assistance, and raised him from the ground in a state of insensibility. He was removed immediately to the Middlesex Hospital, where he lies without hopes of recovery. It is reported that Mr. Deane, the Chairman, and another Commissioner of Customs, 'will shortly retire from she Beard, - THE srx LOSDON', TTITIRSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, MI IMPORTANT SALES. Mt. W. Simpson offered by auction, at Elalesworth, last week, the remaining estates of the Birkett comprising five farms, situated near Hale worth and Debenham, in the tounty of Suffolk. The sale was very numerously attended. Mr. Simpson adverted at considerable length to the agitation and fears which pre vailed as to the apparently unsettled state of political affairs in respect of Legislative protection for the landed interest. From the above circumstances, such successful results could scarcely be expected as are shown by the following statements, which will best prove that farms which were let on leases of fourteen years, at fair rents, in 1839, not only support their value, but sell on higher terms by two years' purchase than those sold by Mr. Simpson, situated, in the year 1842, in the same district, and belonging to the same proprietor:— Lot 1. A farm of 79 acres, let at 1001., per annum, sold to Daniel Wenden, Esq., of Yoxford, for Lot 2. A farm of 56 acres, let at 601. per an num, bought in at Lot 3. A farm of 51 acres, let at 531. per an num, bought in at (For both of the last lots offers have since been made by private contract', at nearly the above prices.) Lot 4. A farm of 85 acres, let at 1201. per an num, sold to Major Forster, of Ditchingham, Norfolk, for Lot 5. A farm of 75 acres, let at 701 per an num, sold to James Gooderhani, Esq., of Eye, for £2,800 1,580 1,340 3,440 2,000 Total £11,160 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.— The Lizard steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Tylden, having completed her alterations, left' yesterday morning, with dispatches for Admiral Inglefield in the River Plate. Soon after she had left the harbour signals were made from the St. Vin cent and Victory to recal her, but the weather was too thick to enable her to see them, at least we may surmise• so, as she did not return, although four guns were fired to call her attention—two in the harbour, and two from the Superb at Spithead. The Polyphemus steam-ship, Lieutenant-Commander Spark, left yesterday, having replenished fuel, for Wool wich, to he paid off. She was afterwards recalled, and is now waiting further orders at Spithead. The Baretto Junior transport arrived at Spithead yes terday from the eastward. The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Harris, was at Arguin on the Ist of September; all well. • The Hermes steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Carr, arrived at Port Royal from Havannah on the 13th ult. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., sailed for Bombay for the Persian Gulf on the 14th ult. The Pilot, 16, Commander Jervis, left Bombay on a cruise on the same day. The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Hayes, left Sin gapore for New Zealand on the 6th ult., with stores and ammunition. The following were in Victoria harbour, Manila, on he 18th of October:— The Agincourt, 72, Captain Lyster, flag of Rear. Ad miral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief ; the Samarang, 26, Captain Sir Edward Belch6r; the Vestal, 26, Captain Talbot; the Daedalus, 20, Captain M'Quhar; the Minden, 20, Master-Commander Wellington ; the Royalist, 10, Commander G. Ogle; the Alligator troop ship, Master Commander King; the Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Gifford; and the Hon. Company's steamers Medusa and Pluto. The Iris, 26, Captain Mundy, sailed from Hong-Kong for Singapore on the 12th of October. The Wolverine, 16, Commander Clifford, sailed from Hong-Kong for Amoy on the 17th of October. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Thompson, sailed on the 30th of October from Hong• Kong for Foochowfoo. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander M•Donald, remains at Spithead wind-bound. The Echo steam-tug went down to Cowes this after noon to assist in getting off a foreign brig, driven ashore by the violence of last night's gale. THE EAST.—There is an instrument invented called an " orientor," to assist Anglo-Catholics in discovering the right i e r e j c t o is h n n , w h h v e i r n e r E they ~ may M.P.b e. the East; so that they may be able t o sa y t h e i r prayers i n for Antrim, late of Magheranemona, near Lisburne, Ireland; of Ashford, Middlesex ; Richmond -terrace, Whitehall ; and Tokenhouse yard, London. By his will, which was proved in Lon don on Friday last, the 19th inst., by his nephew and sole executor, John Irving, Esq., and which was made in August, 1845, he therein confirms a testamentary disposition executed by him according to the law of Scotland, whereby he devised his estates at Newfield, in Dumfries, North Britain, to his brother-in -law, Alexander Currie, for life ,• and at his decease to John Irving Currie, the son of the said Alexander Currie, and his heirs. All other his estates in Scotland he leaves to his said nephew, John Irving, and ap points bin - residuary legatee, subject to a provision for the yayment of certain annuAies and legacies; and amongst other bequests he leaves to his nephew, John Davidson, 2001. a year, and a legacy of au to his children. To his nephew, William Davidson, 2001. a year ; also several legacies of 500 i to nephews and nieces. To his partners, Sir John Rae Reid, Bad., George Reid, and James Milligan, 5001. each ; and has remembered other of fiis friends with similar bequests. The personal estate in England, within the province of Can terbury, was sworn under 30,0004, which is independent of his property in Scotland and Ireland. The Hon. Member died at his residence, Richmond-terrace, on the 10th ult., at the age of seventy-eight.—Post. DONATIONS TO THE POOR.-011 Monday the magis trates at Bow-street, Lambeth, and Thames Police-courts,ac knowledged having received Si. each from "E. C." for dis tribution to poor objects who are deserving of relief. SAVINGS BANKS.—The law applicable to banks for savings distinctly points out the classes of persons for whom they were instituted—namely, to provide for the safe custody and increase of small savings belonging to the industrious classes; to receive deposits of money for the benefit of those persons; to accumulate the produce thereof at compound in terest on Government securities ; and to return the whole, or any part of such deposits, and the produce thereof, to such depositors. Scarcely have greater impositions been practised n any respect than by persons very different from those mentioned, depositing fur themselves and their children in those institutions, and it now behoves trustees and managers to put an end to it.. It is a great disgrace to those who have been, and still are, committing this imposition, tend it is the bounden duty of trustees and managers to eradicate it thoroughly. iiattnotins ON THE COAST or OREGON.—A corre spondent of the Morning Chronicle, who has cruised on the Oregon coast in sailing vessels and steamers, states that although there are scarcely any harbours from lat. 42 to the Columbia River, yet to the northward of this the harbours are numerous and splendid; in fact, there are two in Juan de Fuca Straits, that will take nearly the whole of the British , and American fleets, and on Vancouver's Island there are two more from eight fathoms upwards. The harbours from 46 17 to 54 40 are so numerous, and have such famous soundings, that the Hudson Bay vessels cruising on the coast never think of remaining under sail all night, as they are in such regular soundings as afforded capital opportunity -of anchoring. He has in his possession a list of harbours to the northward of Columbia, amounting to upwar4ls of sixty, with their latitude and longitude. At length we. are enabled to give a satisfactory reply to the many anxious inquiries which have been ad dressed to us respecting the distribution of the promised de coration for the service performed by - the British forces in China, and to explain the cause of its issue, having been de- , laved for so long a period. It appears that due diligence was used in getting the medal struck, and that it was ready for delivery in proper time. But in accordance with the policy of avoiding the possibility of creating any misinterpretation • of the pacific intentions of the British Government, it was deemed prudent to alter the original device on the reverse of 1 the medal, viz., "The British Lion tramplingon the Dragon,' I and to substitute a trophy incapable of giving offence, by being less emblematical of conquest, and more appropriate i to commemorate the expedition. The obverse of the medal, as it now appears, exhibits a faithful likeness of her Majesty, and on the reverse is the motto, " Peace in Asia restored by Victoria, 1842." It is to be worn suspended from the button-hole by a red ribbon, with yellow edges. — United Service Gazette. The. late Sir Matthew John Tierney, M.D., left behind him personal property estimated at 30,000/. He died without issue, but by his will be has bequeathed to his niece, Mary Tierney, (the daughter of his brother Thomas Tierney, late:Pa} master of the 43d Regiment of Light Infantry, who resided with him, a legacy of 8,000/. for her absolute use. To his brother, now Sir Edward Tierney, Bart., a legacy of 10,000/. ; and to his niece, Harriet Mary, daughter of Sir Edward, lie leaves 5,000/. The residue of his property, real and personal, he has given to his nephew, Matthew Edward Tierney, of the Coldstream Guards, son of Sir Edward ; and appointed his said brother, Sir Edward, and nephew, Matthew E. Tierney, Esq., his executors. The latter alone obtained probate on the 18th inst. The will was made in January 1843, and a codicil last September, a month before death. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER MEDWAY.— Yesterday, Mr. J. Lewis, the coroner for the city of Roches ter, held an inquest on the body of Edward Chidley, a very intelligent boy, ten years of age, who lost his life on board the steam-boat Lilly, on Saturday last, by falling into the river. The deceast:d was with his father on board on Satur ' day last as the boat was on its passage to meet the down train of the Rochester and Gravesend Railway at half-past four o'clock ; and on the boat arriving in Limehouse-reach, the deceased was observed by the helmsman to take up the bucket, and immediately dropped it into the water as he was standing on the larboard side, and before the helmsman could call out the lad was overboard. The steamer at the time was going at the rate of ten miles an hour. The boat was almost momentarily stopped, and the deceased and bucket rose to the surface on the larboard side, both having passed u o n f d t e h r e t w he at v e e r s f s o e r l, a a n b d imi t t he fiv b e boy was was seen str u g g li ng at when he sunk. the o The party on board could render no assistance, as there was neit her e boat-hook or rope on board. The feelings of the father were most distressing, and although the accident oc curred opposite to one of her Majesty's snips in ordinary, the party in charge could render no assistance, not being pro about eleven o'clock, near to the spot w h ere v ided with a boat. The b od y wa s p i cked up on Sunday morning last, the deceased lost his life. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," with a recommendation to the owners ofAhe boats to provide things necessary for the preservation of life in case of accidents. TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS —The J, seph Soames, hired convict -ship, left her moorings off the Royal Woolwich, at 4 o'clock A. sr. yesterday, towed by Arsenal, the Lion hi re d steamer, with 286 convicts for Vim Diennen's land. The convict guard of the 65th Regiment, on their ar rival at the penal settlement, will deliver up the convicts and then proceed to New Zealand. The China hired convict ship still remains at her moorings off the Ro} al Arsenal, and another vessel having been engaged to take female con- victs, the China will embark 210 male convicts. all sentenced to transportation for life, and convey them direct to Norfolk Island, .METROPOLITAN PRISONS FOR DEST.—The new metropolitan prisons for debt do not contain at the present period more than 240 persons. The London prisons for debt, including the Fleet when it was in being (it now stands in ruins), numbered as inmates from 1,000 to 1,500 individuals. There are various charities devoted to prisoners for debt, by which they will be supplied a ith beef, bread, &c. to-morrow (Christmas -day). The numbers yesterday were respectively —Queen's Prison, 160; Whitecross-street Prison, 145; and llorsensouger-lane Gaol, 83. THE QUARTER MILLION FUND. G R AT M OF THE ANTI-CO kiN-L A W LEAGUE AT bIANCHESTER. (FRODI oun OWN REPORTER.) The following is a more complete report of this important meeting than we had space for yesterday morning : MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, IT ALF-PA ST FOUR. Manchester aid Ml.nebester men have spoken out nobly en the questitn of free-trade—in a manner which cannot fail to strike terror into the ranks of the monopo lists. It will be recollected that two years ago a meeting was held in the Manchester Town-hall, when Fourteen Thousand Pounds were subscribed in a few hours. The Sun was the first to publish that " great fact." To-day more than four lines that amount has been subscribed i❑ an equal space of time. One of the mosti nfluential meetings ever known in this town was held to-day at the Town-hall, for the purpose of adopting the necessary steps for raising the sum of 250,000/. for the purposes of the League—i. e., to " libe ralise" the county electors. The meeting was held in pursuance of a requisition signed by the following gentlemen :—Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Marsland, M.P., Mr. Walker, M.P.,Mr. Watkins, mayor ; Aldermen Ksfrshaw, Walker, Mayson, Boyd, Armitage, Potter, and Harvey; Messrs. Maley, Brooks, Munn, J. B. Smith, Henry, Brickley Whittaker, Matley, T. 'Thomson, George Wilson, R. H. Greg, Henry Ashworth, E. Ashworth, P.R. Arrowsmith. W. Bickham, W. Rawson, W. Evans, T. Whitehead, T Taylor, J. Wrigley, J. R. Barnes, Barnes, jun., J Barrett, E. P. Thompson, J. Simpson, E. Hall, H. Ban nerman, J. Acton, W. R. Callendar, Nathan Lees, J Scholefield, A. Prentice, John Harding, T. B. Putter, T. Woolley, R. A. Thicknesse, Wigan; J. Midgeley, Rochdale; W. Morris, C. Potter, Darwen; J. Graham, S. Lees, N. Heald, T. Bright, E. J. Kay Whitworth, R Platt, Staleybridge; E. Grundy, Rusholme; W. Alcard, Warrington; R. Stuart, H. Rawson, T. Ashton, W. Ross, J. Whitworth, J. Gallemore, J. Cheetham, J. Hoyle, Rochdale; T. Booth, Rochdale; J. Petrie, Rochdale. The meeting, which comprised many of the leading merchants, bankers, manufacturers, and traders of Man chester and the surrounding towns, though held at the early hour of 11 o'clock precisely, was most numerously attended, the spacious hall being densely crowded from the very commencement of the proceedings. Robert Hyde Greg, Esq., took the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said— Gentlemen, if my feelings meet with any echo in your breasts, which I am c',nvinced they do, you will think with me that we are met here to-day, in this most in teresting, anxious, and unprecedented crisis of affairs, rather to back up the resolutions of the League, which I will read to you, than t'..) go through any formal course of proceedings, by making, speeches or otherwise. Tee resolutions to which I refer were contained in a circular, of which the following is a copy : " At a special general meeting of the Council of the National Anti-Corn-law League held in Manchester, on Saturday, the 13th of December, 1845, "It was moved by HENRY MARSLAND, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by R. H. GREG, Esq. ; and resolved unani mously—' That from the altered position of parties in the House of Commons, in reference to the repeal of the corn-laws, it is desirable to rescind the existing resolu tion against petitioning this present Parliament, and that this meeting recommend that petitions be sent from every town and district in the kingdom, as numerously signed as possible, praying for the total and unconditional abolition of the corn and provision laws. " Moved by JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P.; seconded by R. WALKER, Esq., M.P.; and resolved unanimously— ' That a subscription of a quarter of a million sterling be immediately commenced to meet the present emer gency. That a call of twenty per cent. thereon be forth with made. That a public meeting be called in the Town hall, Manchester, fur Tuesday, the 23d December instant, for the purpose of giving effect to the foregoing resolution.' " Gentlemen, I think you will agree with me that we are met here to-day, in this extraordinary crisis, rather fur the purpose of backing the resolutions I have read by our deeds—(Loud cheers)—than for discussing them in words; and as we have on former occasions cashed the cheques which the League has drawn upon us, for 2,000, 10,0001, 50,000/., and—two years ego—for 100,0001.—(Loud cheers)—so, now that they have thought fit to draw upon us another cheque, for 250,0001.—relying upon us that we shall accept their draft, and that it wilt be 'laid when at maturity—(Loud cheers)—we will not deny them that confidence we have shown on former occasions. —(Vehement cheering.) Gentlemen, when we think of the very great services the League has rendered by their unwearied struggle during seven years—with the prejudices against them s i of the greater part of the mercan til e an d manu facturing opposition, even to open violence I say, when we recol lect these things, we must he fill e d w i t h a d m i rat i on now we are about to see their effo rts crowne d w i t h comp l ete ence of classes—with se— owphetr a t the ves uccess.—(Cheers. ) And if from the body of the League we turn our eyes to its leaders, we must say that their sacrifices of time, and health, and every comfort in life —services which they have never alluded to themselves .......(Cheers) —are such as we cannot, and which the country can never forget.—(Cheers.) If we reflect upon this, and upon the consummate skill and upon the bail liant talents they have displayed from the beginning of this contest, we must be filled withthe deepest gratitude. Gentlemen, this is an important appeal, m.d I hope it will be met as it ought to be, and we shall then be secure of triumph. But, Gentlemen, until that time we must not be caught napping. We must not fly from the helm, as some other parties have done on a late occa sion. —(Hear.) It is clear that the termination of our struggle cannot be far distant ; if any one doubts it, let him put the heartier hand to help it forward.— (Cheer-.) The very uncertainty that prevails on this question, and the mischief that results from it, must make every one desire its end. If any one doubt the desirability of putting an end to this law, let him look at the result of that uncertainty ; let him look at the state of the money mat ketat the panic in railway affairs—(Hear, hear)—let him look at the circumstances of a famine actually existing in the sister country, if not in this, and at the same time the price of bread rising, and the ports the more firmly closed the more the ne cessity becomes apparent for opening them.—(Cheers.) Let us, then, gentlemen, stick to our standard, and de pend upon it in a short time the whole country—every interest and every Mass—will feel and join with you, and call, in one universal voice, for the immediate repeal . of. the corn and provision laws.—(Loud cheers.) Gentle men, I will not detain you longer, but call upon Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the League, to give you an ab stract of the Treasurer's account in connexion with the 100,0001. fund. Mr. WILSON CAMP forward amidst loud cheers, and said he had been instructed by the Treasurer to present his accounts ;' and as it was desirab'e, before gentlemen committed th,tuselves to a new subscription, they should know what had been done with the money already paid, he would request the patient attention of the meeting while he read the statement put in his band. He then read the two statements following ; LEA GUE FUND, £lOO,OOO. Dr (A) - January 1, 1845. To balance on ban d ...... 4,26,675 19 9 December 6. Subscriptions and Bazaar re- ceipts to this date ................................. 35,678 8 10 To discount and interest received this year... 820 411 £63,17413 6 expenses Cr. s . , sundry cts, incidental 83, 4. , distribution distributorso,fetarrare,inilieleu. din g ......... By expenses of furniture and fi . xtures ...... By deputation expenses, including travelling expenses to attend meetings and Parlia mentary elections in various parts of the United Kingdom ........ By grants to local Free-trade Committees „, By general salaries of office-staff, including all employed in Lon don . and Manchester w en eek tl l i; Igvaegneesr,al&cb.,usknee.ss of the L eague, .............. Byo ffipcoes postage-stamps and e-tat3n.d cash po s t a a n g d e expenses, including repairsand alterations, coals, cleaning, Ste•••• .... ••••••••••••••:...„ .., By expenses of/ meet i ngs, i nclud ing hire of roon s, erecting hustings, and. all othe r expenses connected with public meetings By salaries arid expenses of lecturers, includ ing travelling expenses, &c. .... ! ........... N. . By rents, taxes, and , g as , inclunn g rent of Covent-gar&ti Theatre, ;rouse and offices, London and Manchester By stamped publications, printing and sta tionery, reporting, &c. Sgc ......... By bazaar expenses , in cludin g wa ges of per sons employed during the bazaar, fitting .up Covent-gargen 1 heatre, and g enera l expen dit u re in advertising, printing, tra velling expenses, &c. ie. .................... of registe a l By expenses of League newspaper, in.. eluding salaries of conductors, editor, and contributors, stamps, paper, and printing ................. • ... .£11,388 ' i Deduct receipts for casual sale 1,227 6 3. By registration expenses, including salaries expensesexpenses, W ages of stationery, et t i r ine a ir v ik e : a : i g t p l e g rii,tist zd gle o ag t na li ld er expenses in registration courts, and general expenses on registration business ............... Balance ou hand ............................. ...... 349 1 7 218 19 0 462 12 4 1,000 17 0 1,336 14 6 1,528 1 5 1,669 16 6 2,320 4 9 5,992 1 8 6,854 9 2 5,712 13 4 , - 10,161 7 1 15,534 4 12,033 11 £63,174 13 6 WILLIAM BICKHAM, Members of the Finance SAMUEL LEES, Committee. W. RAWSON, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. WILLIAM EVANS, Member of the Council. LEAGUE FUND, £lOO,OOO. Dr. (B) January 1. To amount of receipts as per statement rendered December 6. To amount ut subscriptions and bdzaar receipts from January Ito this date 35,678 8 10 December 8. To discount and interest re ceived this year 320 4 11 4122,508 1 0 Cr. December 6. To balance in hand January 1. By amount of expenditure, as per sta.ement December 6. By amount of expenditure to this date as per statement Balance ... 12,033 11 1 4122,508 1 0 WILLIAM BICKHAM,) Members of the Finance SAMUEL LEES, Committee. WILLIAM RAWSON, Treasurer. Examined and found to be correct, NVILLIAM EVAN S, Nleinber of the Council. The report was receiv'ed with lcr.d applause. Mr. Alderman CALLENDER moved that the accounts were satisfactory, and be approved.—(Cheers.) He had been connk cted with the League from its commence ment. There aas not a single farthing, except petty cash, expended without a vote of the Committee. There was not a farthing expended without full value received. They were now in sight of the accomplishment of the great measure which they wished to see repealed, and there was no measure which to sueh an extent promised to forward holiness, godliness, and homely comfort to the pe, , ple of this country.—(Cheer.) LAURENCE lIEYWORTII, Esq., of Liverpool, in second ing the motion, said that he was one. of fifty gentlemen who guaranteed 1,0001. each two years ago. He had paid more than a thousand pounds. Would it become them, now that they were in sight of their much-to-be desired ohjeet, to be silent ? No ; it would ill-be• come Englishmen. They must not only get that, but they must also give the franchise to the bulk of the people. These things could not be done without funds, and the meeting must come forward liberally. The aristocracy even would be enriched by free trade. Had not trade been unprecedentedly profitable during the last twelve months, in consequence of the cheapness of bread? lie appealed to every gentleman present to say whether that was not the fact. The Chairman put the motion, which passed unani mously. Mr. Alderman NxILD moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting, composed of the merchants, traders, and other manufacturers of Manchester, repeated their so lemn protest against the laws which prohibit the free im port-tion of grain and other provisions, believing them to be opposed to the interests not only of the people of the masufacturing classes, but also of the agricultural interest, and pledging itself not to relax in its exertions to support the League. He considered that they bad gained a great morel victory upon this question. Had the corn-laws been abolished by a mere numerical vote of the House of Commons in six or twelve months, the victory would not have been so great. After an earnest appeal to the meeting to support the League, he said that if the corn-laws were onee repealed, every man must know that they were abolished for ever. He called upon the meeting to show that the men of Manchester were in earnest upon this momentous question. Mr. H. ASHTON, of Hyde, seconded the resolution, which passed amidst great cheering. Mr. H. ASHWORTH, of Bolton, moved a resolution, ex pressing the greatful sense in which the meeting viewed the exertions of the National Anti-Corn-law League in the cause of freedom of trade ; and, in order to enable the council to make renewed and increased exertions, a subscription of 250,000/., be entered into.—(Loud cheers.) He had seen a subscription of twelve millions entered into for the purpose of saving an hour in the distance between London and Manchester, and he called upon the meeting to come forward with their subscrip tions towards the funds of the League. He dwelt upon the necessity of the League turning their attention to the registration courts. No man had suffered any in jury from the purchase of a freehold, for he could get greater interest from his investment than he could get from the savings' banks. They had once seen the ports open—not to let in grain, but to let it out. The Govern ment had sent out doctors, not to repeal the corn-laws, but to see whether they could convert rottenness into glutin. Alderman KERSHAW seconded the motion, observing that he had known the League wLen it was no bigger than a man's hand, and he could truly say that no insti tution so much de,erved public support. He rejoieed to see the importance of the meeting duly appreciated by the people of Manchester, who had met once more, and, as he understood, once for all, to express their disgust and disapproval of the laws which affected the industry of the people.—(Loud cheers.) He believed this would be the last time that the League would appeal to the people, and he never subscribe d money with so much pleasure as to the fund of the League, for he considered it the best investment which he could make.—(Cheers.) They must back their friends who bad to meet a band of monopolists in the House of Commons. They must attend to the registra tion of counties, and the late of those laws was sealed for ever.—(Loud cheers.) A motion for a subscription was then agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said he would set the example. For himself and brothers he would subscribe 1,0001 (Tremendous cheers.) Last time they gave 5001. He understood that twenty-five gentlemen would do the same.—(Loud applause.) The following subscriptions were then an nounced : J. ehadwick, of Eales Laurence Heyworth . . Thomas Thomasson, of Bolton Kershaw and Co. .. . . Thomas Hoyle and Sons ... 1,000 .. 500 . . 1,000 . . 1,000 . . 1.000 Mr. COBDEN said that he had been commissioned by Mr. Brooks to say, that he would not be " second chop" to any one, and if any one gave a larger subscrip tion than 1,0001., his name must be put alongside of it. He must Le at present . .. 1,000 Robert Ashton, of Hyde ... 1,000 W. Bayles and Brothers, of Staleybridge ... 1,000 Robert Platt, of Staleybridge .. 1,000 Robert Lees and Son, Dukenfield 1,000 J. Whittaker and Sons ... 1,000 J. Bright and Brothers ... .. 1,000 Samuel Ashton and Brother... 1.000 Thomas Ashton and Sons, Hyde ... 1,000 James Xing and Son, of Rochdale .. 1,000 Messrs. Booth and Hoyle, of Rochdale ... 1,000 Peter Dixon and Sons, Carlisle ... 1,000 Mr. Joseph Eccles, Mill-hill, near Blackburn 1,000 Eccles, Shorrocks, and Co., Darwen ... 1,000 Henry and Ed. Ashworth, of Turton .. 1,000 Pilkinton, Brothers, of Blackburn .. .. 1,000 James Buckley, John Buckley, and Brothers, J. Buckley and Sons ... A. and S. Henry and Co. •• ... Messrs. Mather and Family, of Liverpool .. Alfred Reyner and Brothers, of Ashton J. B. Smith, Manchester .. John Cheetham, Staleybridge Richard Matley Gardner and Bazley'... John Ashton, of Hyde .. Callender, Beckham, and Co. J. Heywood, Acrestield John Fenton, of Crimble M'Connel and Co., Manchester John and Thomas Potter H. Bannerman and Sons • •,. ... 500 500 Richard Cobden—(Loud cheers) .. • • 500 CHAIRMAN—It goes against my conscience to take t.— (Cheers.) E. Armitage and Sons ... Robert Johnston, Manchester F. Steiner (of Church) Anonymous, per J. Bright . . SI. Fletcher, Son, and Co. ... 500 500 500 500 500 CHAIRMAN—I receive this with the greater plea sure, f)r it is the first time they have come forward. It was always a matter of regret to me that they did not come forward, and join us in all our engage ments.— (Cheers.) George Foster, of Sabden Wm. Ross ... John Munns . . 300 400 250 250 400 £250 250 250 250 200 • 200 •• ••• •• . 500 . 500 Hyde, Sons, and Sowerby, Dukenfield Thompson, Brothers, and Son • • Wells, Cooke, and Potter W. Maris V. Rawson, and Hall and Rawson .. J. Mason and Co. R .A. Thicknesse, Wigan James Carlton (new subscription) A Friend W. Hargreave, of Grange ... W. Taylor, Wigan ... Messrs. Murray Robert Stuart Ilindl9y and Sutcliffe Christie and Son Whitehead and Brothers W. and J. M'Ca?l Mrs. and Miss Wall E.ans and Nicholson Simpson, Thomsod, and Co. Burzons and Hunter J. Beattie and Co , Rochdale Alkard, Varrington J. and J. Allen, Warrington . . J. and P. Schofield, Littieborough S. Brewer and Co. Robert Crewdson Btnns, Dean, and Co. . . Thos. Mason and Sons, Ashton Marlow and Brothers, J. Tweedale, Rochdale H. Crossfield,Liverpool E. Howarth, Rochdale Chas. Howard, Hyde • . ••• •• • • .. Si. Lucas • • ••• ••• An admirer of Sir Robert Peel (Laughter) ... George ►N'ilr.,on (Chairman of the Council) .. B. Sm . th and Sons ... .. .. .. .100 • • ••• ••• H P a e r n r r , Curtis, y oh n s ( a m n ,d jun. Co Co. Henry Bagley • •• ••• ••• A. Merry, Liverpool ... • • • • Thos. Harvey, Liverpool ••• •• W. B. Watkins (Mayor of Manchester) S. P. Robinson . .. ... T. T. T. P. A. W. Thornely, of Gorlby James Knott and Sons, Ashton Wilson ... Stanley awl flardwich, Ashton James Ogden, Dukenlield Thos. llunter . • • • Benj. Nichoil Curry Powder, per J. II don—(Laughter).. W. Ed ds Chlsrles Potter, Darwen ••• H. Potter, Dif,i wen Edward Potter, Darwen Henry Lee, of Glossop t.. R. Atkinson E. Potter and Co. ... R. Holroyd and Co. ... Nicholson and Evans .. A. Walker, M.P., Bury J. Grundy, ditto ... R. Ashton, ditto T. and J. Wrigley, ditto IJ. and E. :-'rrundy, ditto . T. A. and J. Grundy, ditto ... Walker, Smith, and Co., ditto J. Walker, ditto Riwaid Grundy, of Park hill, ditto . • J. IVrigl y, ditto . • • • L. and R. Openshaw ••• •• Forh and Howarth, Todinorden IV. Hallowell, ditto ... ••• •• A. Orrnerod and Brothers, ditto J. and A. Stansfi•-ld, ditto .• • J. and W. Barker, ditto ••• , R. Hibbert and Sons, Godley IR. Clarke and Sons ... ••• Procter and Co., Rochdale ... T. Chadwick, ditto ~. ••• S. Taylor, ditto ••• • • J. Chadwick, ditto ... ••• Henry ditto ... • • B. Kelsall, ditto ••• Robert Heap, ditto ••• Robert Schofield, ditto ••• George Howarth, ditto ••• Joseph Crook, Bolton ..• P. R. Arrowsinith, ditto .. Joseph Whitworth and Co. .. Henry Walmsly, Fulsworth J. Barrett and Sons ... • • E. and J. Jackson, Manchester J. Midgley, Rochdale .. ••• Jacob Tweedale and Sons, ditto Joseph Fenton, ditto ... • Thomas Shaw, ditto ... B. Heap, ditto Ogden and Co. ••• J. and J. Bancroft, Ashton John Turner, of Godley (new subscriber) ... Prentice and Cotterell Petty, Ernest, and Co. ••• ••• •• Edwin Moorhouse, a working man, from Ashton ... ... 25 J. and J. Platt, Oldham ... 100 Harvey, Tysoe, and Co. .. ••• • • 200 J. Heginbottom, Ashton ... • • • • 100 W. Richardson and Co., Stand • •• • 200 J. C. Dyer ... • • . 50 Thos. Roberts ... ••• • • 100 J. Gatley and Brothers . • • • 100 F. Schwann, of Huddersfield ••. 400 Mr. Bright said, Huddersfield will send at least 5,000 Crossfield and Co., St. Helen's ••• ••• 50 0. Ormerod, Rochdale ••• • • 50 J. Howard ... ••• ••• • • 20 Sugden ••• ••• • • . • ••• C. Littlewood ••• • • ••• R. Taylor ••• • ' J. Cropp, of London .. • • A Friend ••• ••• ••• Ryland • • ••• ••• Mullrneux •• ••• • • R. Wray •• ••• • • Jos. Acton, Wigan ... . Johnson and Co., ditto J D. Fernley, Stockport IV. Johnson J. Evans, Wigan ... IV. Riley, ditto ••• J. Aspinall, ditto ... • J. Acton, ditto J. Aspinall, ditto .. L. Parker and Co ditto • • R. Rawson and Co. ... H Wood's workpeople, and others J. B. Pearson ... • . W. White, ALondon . J. Chadwick ... • • J. Hampson, Stockport ••• ••• Dixon and Galloway ... ••• D. Morris ... Ken worthy Booth ••• •• ••• J. Yates •• ••• ••• ••• R. Owen • • ••• ••• ••• Professor Newman .. ••• • • Mr. COBDEN announced Lord Duck's name for 1001., and to be doubled if necessary E. Walmsley, Stockport .. Silas Leigh, Worsley ••• ••• Evan Leigh, Ashton ••• Jos. Brotherton, M.P.—(Cheers) W. Sagan ••• Clarke Brothers ••• ••• J. and IV. Malden • 'l'. B o tt om l ey •... •• • • J.lllason ••• ••• • J. R. Bcirties and Sons W. C. Chambers • • J. Nuttall • • . L. Wilson • • • J. Stanfield ... E. Whittaker ... Three others ... C. J. Darbashire E. Roy le J. Standing • • • • • 100 o • • ••• ... 2110 ... 150 ... 100 100 100 100 200 200 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 .. .. )8031. 15s. 6d I larvel, Liverpool Simpson • • • • Leigh ••• Walker, Eccles • • Gaskell • • • • • • Two others • • ••• ••• From Todmorden • • ••• Small sums from ditto •• • J. Branson • • ••• • • • • J. Mallenson and Sons ••• • • J. Pollock, Esq. • • ••• • • J. Chadwick and Brothers, Eccles .. ••• J. Marshall, Horsforth, near Leeds .. H. Stanfield, of Leeds, says their subscription will be doubled R. Romney 25 W. Wilson, Stockport 25 G. and E. Waters, Manchester • • ••• 25 Ellis Cunliffe, ditto 50 B. Whitworth, ditto .. 15 W. M`Cartney, ditto .. 2.5 Thomas "Johnson ... 20 E. West 10 • • • • ••• • • John Kay, Huddersfield .. 100 I • ••• ••• Cro‘sfield, ditto • • • • ••• 100 Edw. Heaps, ditto ... 50 ••• • • Poster Sliaw, ditto 50 • • ••• ••• ••• R. Welsh C. 11. Jones 50 • • ••• ••• •.• G. Cooke and Sons, Ashton .. 50 R. Devrhurst, Huddersfield .. 30 Mr. COBDEN, who was received with the most deafen ing plaudits, which lasted several minutes, addressed the meeting as follows :—Two years ago, when we held a meeting in the small room adjoining, and when 14,0001 was subscribed to th:, great League fund, an influential Lond..n paper designated us, in its own graphic mode, " a great fact." Now, Gentlemen, 1 believe to-day our subscription already amounts to upwards of 50,0001., and that, I suppose, may be designated a still greater fact.— (Cheers.) Without the slightest exaggeration (we are apt, in addressing public meetings, sometimes to ex aggerate a little), I believe I may say that this meeting, in the middle of the day, on a market-day, in Manchester, is unprecedented in its numbers and the influential cha• meter of the individuals who compose it.—(Cheers.) I take it, no one will dispute that the amount subscribed in this room to-day far surpasses any subscription ever entered into in one room for any public object whatever. —(Cheers.) I em glad to witness altogether the tone of this meeting. There has not been the slightest reference made to the changes that have been going on at Govern ment head-quarters almost as rapidly as the entrances and exits of pantomime on the stage. We have not lost our time by speculating on what this or that Administration is wing to do for us ; we have resorted to a much safer mode of defending ourselves.—(Cheers.) This meeting will afford to any Administration the best possible sup port in cirryirg out our principles. If Sir Robert Peel has an intelligible and straighttorward course to pursue —if he will promulgate plainly and candidly that he purposes fully to carry out the principles of free-trade — if he will oily avow his determination to practise what he preaches, he will see there is strength enough in the country to support him ; and I am sure I should not be speaking the voice of this great meeting did I nut say that if he skia take that straightforward and honest course he will have the suppert of the League as fully and as cordially as any other Prime Minister her Ma jesty could appoint.—(Laud cheers.) This subscription has been entered into by all present without a full ex planation of what mode we intend to adopt in collecting it, or how we intend to apply it, and I am glad the money has been put down without that explanation, inasmuch as it shows that you are determined, at all events, what ever comes, that funds shall not be wanting to fight the battle. But, as what passes here will be read by our friends throughout the country, and with interest through out the world, it is quite right that we should explain the plan we have in view in calling for this large sum. We are not bankrupts—as you have heard, we have a sum of money in hand ; but we who take a prominent part in the executive department of the League wished to have the assurance that, however much this battle may be prolonged, however obstinate the resistance that may be offered to our just demands, there is a de termination ii, the coui:try to back our exertions with adequate funds.—(Cheers.) I knew, Gentlemen, w e ahoutd have your support ; I never doubted it. I would not have given 1 per cent. to any one to guarantee me the full awount of the quarttr of a million when we called for it.—(Cheers.) The plan that has been pro posed. is this :—To eall for an instalment of 9 03 per C#ll on this subscription at once, and the rest when neces sary. You are as well able to judge ;is lam whether it be likviy that the curl:est will he prolonged beyond ano ther. session. For my own part, I think that our oppo nents (with any sense of prod. nee or policy— I mear with regard to their own interests) cannot carry it on beyond the next session. I don't believe they will find men of intellect sufficient to lead them and undertake , the departments of the Government to maintain this sty-stem. —(Cheers.) It is quite clear that the Queen has been wanting servants simply because none could be found worthy to serve her Majesty, and willing - to do the work of the Duke of Richmond.—(Clicers.) We are go verned in this country nut by enlightened men like Lord John Russell, or Sir Robert Peel, or Sir James Graham, fit to take office and serve the Queen and the country—we are governed by the ignorance of the coun try—we have an inert mass of landlord political power to deal with, impervious to reason, inaccessible to argument, and unconscious of defeat in argument, or they would not have resisted us so long as they have done. The monopolist landlords of this country receguise but ene power—the power of force. They will yield to nothing but pevver, and that post er you have armed es with by the subscriptions of this day.—(Cheers.) I have said I think it would be wise in them to yield next session ; but let us tell them what we are prepered to do if they do not yield honestly.—(Cheers.) Allusion has been made to day instinctively, by all the speakers almost, to the necessity of increasing our exertions in the c: unty registrations. The cenety qualification is the leverage by which we can svlio.l7 overturn the ignorant authority of the se monopolist landlords—(Cheers) —by which one ein transfer the power from the Duke of Richmond, and the Duke of Norfolk, and their peers, to the intelligent, middle, and ieidu,trious classes of the towns of this country.—(Chi ers.) I have no hesitation in telling them, and I think they will now believe what I say, when backed by such a demonstration as this, that if they resist the settlement of this question—if the next session does not bring this question to a just settlement, we will plant our registration agents in every county in the kingdom—(Cheers)—and I pledge myself, from a long study of the subject and a wide investigation of it. that in less than three years from this time, armed with the funds you have placed at our dispos el, I can unseat 100 monopolist county members, and place in their stead men who will vote in accordance with the interests of the great body of the people, instead of the interests of an ignorant class.--(Cheers.) They know what I am telling them to be true ; they have felt it already ; and I have no hesitation in saying that the speedy settlement of this question will he brought about (more by the demonstra tion we have already made in the counties, and the suc cess which has atteeded our efforts in four or five of the most important of them, than by anything else we have ever done or attempted to do.—(Loud cheers.) Gentle men, as we are here speaking to our friensis all over the country, I should wish just to add a remark upon the mode in which this subscription must be raised. Many of our friends elsewhere may probably expect that Mr. Bright and I Might be in a position to pay them a suc cession of visits, us we did two years ago, and hold public meetiegs throughout the country, and fttsist them in making their subscriptions ; but that is, unfortunately, impossible. Mr. Bright and myself can be nue bete so serviceable for the next six months its in the House of Commons, and as it is not in our power to visit our friends elsewhere, I hope, and feel coiiiident, when they see how Manchester, at one meeting, has subscribed a quarter of the whole sum required, they will, in other places, by their own spontaneous exertions, make up the remainder.—(Cheers.) I may add, that I have not can vaesed a single individual for one farthing of this sub scription ; therefor e, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen have come forward in this noble manner without any personal trouble to myself. I mention this that others may mark the spirit which has prevailed here, and act themselves accordingly.—(Cheers.) There is another point to which, in all frankness, I must allude. It is the opinion of many sanguine minds that this question must now be settled within the next two or three months ; I am not so sanguine, although I don't see how the• mono polists can tide over another session ; but we mast be prepared for all accidents. These sanguine friends, how ever, may ask, " Shall we be liable to pay all this money we have put down our names for if the corn-laws are abelished in the meanwhile ?" It is quite fair that the most explicit understanding should be had on that point. Our object in associating together was to procure the abolition of the corn and provision laws, and of this we believe there is but one fair and candid interpreta tion—we meant corn, we meant beef, butter, cheese—in short, we meant the primary elements of human subsist ence grown on our own soil.—(Cheers.) We said, " We don't want a league to put down the sugar or coffee mo nopoly," feeling assured that the landowners themselves, stimulated by a sense of their own interests, would do all that for us, when once we deprived them of their own monopoly.—(Loud cheers.) The total abrogation of the corn and provision laws would at once dissolve this League, and altogether exonerate every gentleman from any further claim to contribute to its funds.— (Loud cheers.) I think it may be useful to some of our Imost candid opponents that they should know that now. It has been reported that this is a body seeking anarchical objects ; that we want to do away with primogeniture; that we want to root up the Church; that we are opposed to all law and constituted authority in the country; bat I defy our opponents to find in the House of Lords itself a body of men so interes ed in public order, so identified with the maintenar.ce of our institutions, as the body of capitalists 1 see before me in this room.—(Cheers.) We have no such objects. Our object is bond fide. We are united fer one object; we are a rope of sand on any other question. Mr. Bright, Mr. Wilson, and myself, differing on a di zen other ques tions, are united for this only, and therefore I tell the monopolist landlords, who are afraid of what we are doing in the counties, if they think this may go on to more than corn—if they think the qualification we are now procuring may be good fir other questions as well as corn, they may now stop and dissolve us by the aboli tion of the corn laws.—(Loud cheers.) But if they want to keep alive this association—if they want to give some of those gentlemen among us who have ulterior objects, and I don't know but there may be some who have—if they want to give them the power of keeping our bond of union intact, then they must keep up some wretched rag of their system of monopoly.--(Cheers.) If Sir Robert Peel wants to root out his friends in the counties more than they are, let him come down to the House of Commons with some new " dodge at the opening of the session. —(Load cheers.) We say distinctly we will have no conditions.—(Long continued cheering.) If they ask us to pay for the abolition of the curn-lawa by a grant of money, by traneferring their taxes to our shoulders, if they can find any they pay exclusively, we say, " You have been challenged to show your peculiar burdens, and uniformly ran away. We ask you to show us one tax you pay which we do not, and we in return will undertake to show five taxes we pay from which you have exempted "yourselves."—(Cheers.) They have abolished the duty on your yarn. By far the largest industry of all your manufacturing processes is the spin ning of cotton yarn. The 10 per cent. duty On that article was abolished last year ; as if Sir R. Peel wanted to furnish a strong argument against the corn laws, he did away with the 10 per cent. which some might have considered a protection to you, in order that we might say we .ball not allow the agriculturists to have protection at our expense.—(Cheers.) We say, then, we will have no conditions, no qualifications.—(Cheers.) Let this matter be settled fairly and justly,without terms or compromise, and the League is abolished.—(Cheers.) Bear in mind, if we talk of compromise or concession, we will admit that the corn-laws have been a benefit to those who have maintained them ; that I altogether deny.—(Loud cheers.) I challenged their advocates twice is the House of Commons, but they dared not go into committee, for I could have prove I from the mouths of the best agriculturists they have never been a benefit to either "farmer or landlord.—(Cheers.) We do not proceed on the nar row basis that this question is one merely affecting our interests, We say that the land of this country main tains a value only in proportion to our wealth, and the prosperity of manufactures and commerce ; and to ad mit that the core-law had been beneficial to its upholders, to come to any terms of compromise, would be to give up our whole case.—(Cheers.) I cannot say how proudly I feel in being surrounded here by a body of men prepared to make such magnanimous sacrifices to the cause of free-trade.—(Cheers.) You have been complimentary to us for the exertions we have made ; but we should have been nothing without the magnificent support you have given us.— (Cheers.) I cannot help feeling gratification at this movement, which has taught the leading men in this country—the most useful and important in the kingdom—the power the% possess ; and I hope they will use it to elevate themselves in the social scale.—(Cheers.) You, Gentlemen, are not promoting any narrow interest—you are promoting the cause of the whole kingdom, of the whole world—(Cheers)--and in carrying out your principles Manchester will hereafter be recognised as the birthplace, the cradle of free-trade. As Jerusalem is identified with the origin of our faith, as Mecca is with that of the Nlahomedan, so in history will Manchester be recognised as the birthplace and spring of that great movement, the greatest since the invention of printing, which will have the greatest effect in the world's history of any struggle that ever took place in the annals of civilisation —(Loud and vehement cheering.) Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then said—l am at a loss for words to express the delight which I feel at the event which takes place this morning in this town. I am surrounded by some gentlemen who have attended meetings in Man chester f'er the last thirty or forty years, and they have never met in their experience any circumstance of a public character in this town at all to be compared with that which we have all here witnessed. No man here after can say there was anything unsubstantial or insin cere in the character of the great movement with which we are connected. Past meetings have demonstrated that we are in earnest, and, if confirmation were necessary, wu have now read that confirmation in the fact of these suuseriptions, It is a fact which will ti II most power fully on public opinion, and most powerfully also on the decision at which the now-forming Cabinet must spee dily arrive. —(Hear, hear.) We have told the world that trade in this district is resolved no longer to work in fetters ; that we are determined to emancipate our in dustry and ourselves. We are held to be valuable as creators of wealth, and held specially valuable by the most powerful class in the kingdom so long as we will create wealth for that class to enjoy ; but the moment we raise ourselves and look up from the circumstances of suffering and oppression in which we are placed, then that class and its organs in the press heap slander and obloquy upon every person connected with manufactures in this part of the country. I have in my hand two extracts, which I am desirous of reading to the meeting, to show what is the feeling with which we are regarded by that class with whom we are now coming into serious collision. On the 16th of this month a morning paper, —supposed to be, assuming to be to some extent, the organ of the late Ministry, and hoping also, I presume, to be the organ of the present Government—the Morn ing. Herald—(Hisses) —published the following para i graph:--" It may he, however, that Sir It. Peel contem plates the accompaniment of a modification of the rilLy , n a v. l „ g id. Irks tut rtsi- olste J 1 its this tieed Fence V re r dol o i e t.' a ;. do stir to a al :et 0- i lO , tbe the ° rte' DA