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order that he may delay for a little longer the sentence, condemnation, and execntion of the corn laws. There is, I contend, every motive to urge us to pro ceed. The triumphs which we have obtained in the recogni tion of our principles, the abandonment of the fallacies with which we had to grapple, the giving up of all those excuses which were once pleaded for the corn - laws—these triumphs, I say, of the justice and reason of oar cause, are so many , motives to increased exertions.—(Hear, hear.) While pro tection exists, the Anti-Corn-law League must proceed, adding strength t o strength, numbers to numbers , force to force. We have made thus far amazing progress. greater progress than any similar Association ever made, I believe, in the history of the world. And when men reafter shall inquire in what way they may overthrow some oary abuse protected by power, surrounded and defended by wealth and rank and corruption—when, I say, they inquire whether they may venture to hope that by exertion and toil and sacrifice they may bring such an abuse to the ground, they shall tern to the pages which record the history of the Anti-Corn-law League ; they will therein learn that voluntary association will work greater miracles than the hands of those who reared the pyramids; that bloodless revolutions are only to be brought about by the agitation of men's minds ; that there are walls which must be struck down in the warfare; that our sower is one which, though impalpable and invisible, is yet universal and irresistible, and shall outlive Ministers and Go sernments and States, and rule the world when man is man indeed. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He said—l may be excused if 1 feel some anxiety in being called upon to address this meeting after the two speeches to which we have listened—one delivered by a gentleman who is well known as a perfect master of the science of political economy—the other by a gentleman cele brated, not only in this kingdom, but in distant parts of the glebe, as a perfect master of the art of oratory. My confi deace, however, arises from the fact, that the question which we are met to s night to discuss is one of vast importance, and of almost limitless extent. I know, indeed, that the pro foundest thinker or the most powerful speaker, however winch he may exert himself, can get no further than the very borders of this question—for day by day, as we are con nected with it and investigate it, we find continually more and more beauties, and become more and more enamoured of the great work in which we are engaged. Its course is like that of every great question : its beginning was feeble enough. At its commencement it was wrapped up in much sophistry and mystification. Fallacies the most ludi crous, pretensions the most absurd, were brought forward to oppose those principles of which we have been the humble exponents to the public of this country. But now this so phistry—this mystification—these fallacies, and these preten sions have vanished, and the question of ree trade—the ques tion for the promotion of which the Anti-Corn-law League is organised, stands before the people of this country in this simple form—we have justiceconfronting wrong and oppression, and we ask the people of this empire to side with justice against oppression.—(Cheers.) Two principles are offered fur your adoption—the one goes by the name of Protection—the other is known by the title of Free Trade. At the Mansion bonier, and at an office not far off this place, men sometimes give false names. If they have committed any act which is dis graceful and criminal, not being entirely lost to shame, they give a name by which they were not commonly known. The men who support this system—the men who for thirty years at least have laid hold with a re'en less hand of the subsistence of the toiling millions of this country—these men dare not call their system by the name which only it can justly claim, but they have assumed that of protection—an amiable and harmless thing.—(Laughter.) On the other hand, the free-trade principle is offered to you ; and I believe that so many meet ings have not been held in this building and elsewhere, with out the effect being that from one end of this country to the other there is now almost a universal assent to the beauty and honesty of the principles which the League is established to promote. This great principle— or rather these principles are faithfully represented by the two societies—the Great Central Society for the Protection of Agriculture, and the National Anti-Corn-law League. He had learnt that protection is not only a robbery of those upon whom it acts, but that it is ener vating and injurious even to those who profit by it. It is sup ported, for the most part, in this country by landowners, great and small, not by facts, reason, argument, and proof, but by force and fraud, and calumny, and delusion, practised upon any class which comes within the range of their influence— The Protection Society, formed twelve months ago, sought the means of obtaining this odious system. From them was formed the Great Central Association, which has opened an office in this metropolis. To be particular, lam informed at No, 17, Bond-street.—( Laughter .) In the north of England have occasionally seen circulars sent down from certain, not very respectable firms in the city of London, offering to any party in the manufacturing districts, whom they supposed to be short of capital, certain accommodation bills, to be drawn and accepted, and endorsed and d shonoured. and renewed to be dishonoured again.—( Cheers and laughter.) These firms may be called 'swindling concerns. Now, I have endeavoured to discover whether that estabishment at No. 17, Bond-street, is not of this c haracter.—(Laughter.) I told them in the House of Commons, the other night, that they ought to put a sign over their door, with this inscription upon it—" British Farmers regularly taken in and done for"--(Great laughter)— and a brass plate, with the words " Richmond and Co." en graved on it.—( Renewed laughter.) They offer to the far mers, in order to help them out of their distress, fraudulent bills of every description—promises which can never be rea- Reed—Acts of Parliament of no more value for the purpsses for which they are passed than the parchment upon which they are engrossed alluring thousands of farmers to place reliance upon a support which must lead them to ruin, and from which there is no escape.—( Hear, hear.) This society is curiously framed—Political land lords, Dukes, Earls, Lords, Baronets, and so forth, and a sprinkling of a certain sort of amphihious animal, known by the name of land-valuer—(Laughterl—a person who was a half-farmer, and half-squire. —( Cheers.) There is a little, also, of steward and auctioneer in his composition. Now, the leaders of this firm are the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham, and time was when Sir Edward Knatchbull might have been considered a leader. It reminds me of a society which we hear of in" Martin Chuzzlewit"—the Anglo- Bengalee Disinterested Loan Society.—(Laughter.) I be lieve the chairman of the board of directors and the one indi vidual who formed the board were enriched, and all those who trusted to their professions duped and ruined.—( Hear, hear.) Now first, as to the Duke of Buckingham : When the Government came into office, that great man—Plantagenet his name, I believe—was a member of the Cabinet. He was then called the " Farmers' Friend." It became necessary to alter the corn-law, and greatly modify the tariff; and it was desirable for the purposes to be hereafter accomplished, that the confidence of the farmers in the Duke of Buckingham should not be entirely destroyed; and therefore he left the Cabinet, and did not interfere with the carrying out of this free-trade mea sure. Did the Duke get nothing? lam not able to estimate the compensation which he received, but it was stated in the public newspapers that he received what is called a Garter.— ( A laugh.) Let no one imagine that this Garter is that homely article by which stockings are kept up. —( Great laugh ter.) I don't know exactly what it is, because 1 never saw one, but I have learned from the ordinary sources of informa tion that it is a decoration—a sort of toy, which you in the pit of the theatre would laugh at, or be insulted if any one told yen sou coveted, but yet a decoration far which great men, with a long line of ancestors, will do any dirty work for. —( Hear, hear.) I know not its use, unless it be to give one precedence above another. I have heard of magnetic or metallic rings—some contrivance by which either very wise or very superstitious people fancy they can cure the tic-doloreux, or such complaints.—(Laughter.) It may be, that this Collar or Garter may have some effect on the body ; but of this I am perfectly certain, that it comes like a shock of paralysis upon anything like independence and honourable feeling.-- ( Great cheering,) I next came to the Duke of Richmond. NOw it is hard to tell whether he is not a bigger man than the Duke of Buckingham. He talks as though he had made the Cabinet, and that if the Cabinet did not do his bidding he would unmake it. Well, one would suppose that a free-trade measure of Government would make the Duke of Richmond exceedingly hostile—he talks to the farmers of ancestors of his having led soldiers to battle costae generations ago, and that so long as there is a drop of hosd in his veins he will stand by the British farmer. What does all this mean The Duke of Richmond is believed to be a rich map, but he has brothers who are thought to be very roor—he allows his brothers a small ineeme from the family prole) ty until he can get them settled under the Government. —( Hear, hear.) One of his brothers, Lord Arthur Lennox, who is, I am told, colonel of a regiment, was lately placed in office under the Government as a Lord of the Treasury. I believe he still retains command of a resiment. The salary of a Lord of the Trea-ury is reported to be 1,2001. a-year, a thing having much the same effect now as when Butler wrote ‘. H udib r aa"— What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About twelve hundred pounds a year ; And that which was prove,) true before, Proved false again ?—Twelve hundred more. —(eheerc.) But the Duke of Richmond has a son, known by the title of Earl of Nlarch. He represents a district in the west of Sussei, and has had special favours from the Go vernment. lam told that he explained to some farmers in Sussex last year, that he left the army, and shaved his moustachir.s.—(Great laughter.) I had often suspected that there was a vast deal of the gallant bearing and cou rage of these men in their moustaches.—(Laughter.) I am told that he left the Blues, where he was a lieutenant, and is now unattached on half-pay, and fully paid as well for .Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief the Duke of Wellington, a Cabinet Itinister. It appears to me that this trade of " Farmers' Friend" is not a bad one.—(Hear, hear, and great cheering.) The Duke of Richmond, you roust know, is said to be in the habit of withdrawing his family allowance when his brothers, &c., have been settled in life, that is, settled upon you.—(Hear, and great cheering.) By his brother becoming a Lord of the Treasury, he will be able to dispense with the allowance of 3M/. a-year, which will be some compensation to the Duke of Richmond for the losses he has sustained owing to the free trade in salmon.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) We come now to Sir Edward Knatchbull.— ( Laughter. )You will remember that he comes from the county of Kent ; that he made a speech on the question of the corn laws, in the House of Commons, and a country gentleman, a Member of the House, told me the other day, that it certainly was a most imprudent speech. He spoke of the marriage set tlements of the daughters of the nobility and gentry, but he never thotight a moment upon the settlements of tho daughters ef.firmers anti labourers.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was about to be called to the other House of Parliament, or, as some people phra'ed it, translated —( Laughter.) It was un dersto id that Sir Robert Peel declined to give a peerage, since his accession to office, unless on the ground of special ser vices—for good and weighty reasons.—( Hear, hear.) If not, he would have had a list of applicants for the pee. age, so long, that it would have reached from Charing-cress to the House of Commons.—( Hear, hear. ) But he would not ratarnk,i o'e i any one except for special reasons.—( Hear. ) for granted that there have been special services in the cas: rrng of Sir Edward Knatchbuil ( Hear, hear.) He is to be created, a.co to the ICA;p . a — pers, Viscount Penenden. I say a ga i n I believe there are special services. He was taken to the Cabinet in 1341 along with the Duke of Buckingham, as s a u s ,: h )rt a t n )f u d n e t c l ' e q m d is u hed duck—' f Lajghter) —he was supposed to hav e re , i h )u , t t ation, to stand .with a character so entirely una , mailabl e , remaining there w as consideredbig coming into the Cabinet and undeniable guarantee to the farmers that protecti, had as o m an i not been interfered with. And with his lards in his pocket and his yet there Sir Edward sits, enjoyin g the most comfortable slumbers chin on his breast, through Parliament, imaginable, whilst laws we re ' which if the principles he and hislipa"rtingceontei.dedfor were true, be inevitably the aloe. paramount interests of the country ,t, thatnty must sacrificed. However Ido not rear Com mons is to be released front the the House of of his presence. ( Hear, he ar .) t ryorifle influence House which has been not inaptly term '. edi4oesh to that of Incurables, and I declare, without any re-ervatiotn e h House that I never beheld a man w ho, from natur e and habit, Meyer ' T likely to occupy in a be nch in that Howe as Viscount P ' en as e'''. '° den. Now you wil see from all this the cases of B uc ki ngham, Ri c hmond, and Knatebhull , tha t this trade of f armer's friend i; a very thriving affair.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is like the trade in guano from Ichaboe, only it cannot be considered nearly so clean. — ( Roars Of l a egliter. ) Now. I will ask you to go that class who really are agriculturists, for these men are not agricu Iturisfs, and ask the f a rmers how the y g ot on under this system. I have heard of some of them obtaining rich church livings—no garter s —some labourers have no stockings _(Hear, h•ar, and cheers) —no naval, military, or civil pro- Ingtjon, for the man who invests his capital in the s oi l of Eng 14fIrtt . o iteese corn-laws. And if the laboure r s t heat :• .OPit is hard to speak jocosely of them, 4 ab ~.1 . , , 4: 4.i c 1i 7j , ,,:i,, , .. .wf l ul d lo w b o e n jo ti s o t n eda it h ), b i u d t if it were uid not At ;; '':4 l -11 "= '7..7 i..,,-, ..i., th ey 9°u .' w 9 .0464 4 4 - • . ... ---.:;-: 4'14 . --- • zi VAZI T 44 •., si THE SUN, LONDO - N, THURSDAY rEVENING, FEBRTJARY 20 1845, condition of the working classes. They blame as for not sur rendering a portion of our principles in order to obtain a more speedy relief for the sufferings of the masses. I do net pro fess to be more patriotic than other persons, the principle of justice may not be more deeply implanted in me, but I will answer for myself and my friends that we shall adhere to the principles with which we have started until we bring them to a triumphant end. It had been stated in the House of Commons that since the passing of the Corn-law Bill in 1815, no less than 200,000,0001. had been taken from per sons to support the poor-rates, and this independently of sums distributed by charitable institutions and by private benevolence. It has been said that in one-tenth part of England and Wales—the richest portion of the empire—there are no less than a million and a half of persons depending for subsist ence on parochial relief. Look at that mass of misery, and ask what charity—what beneficence can do—to alleviate it. It will not touch the edges—it will not affect the fringes of that enormous evil. Private charity cannot prevent its rapid increase; but the Anti Corn-law League provides a greater remedy than that. We have a charitable plan—not indeed designed by us—for it is a plan involving the principles that were laid down by the Great Creator of the uni verse. This plan is self work—we do not look to patronage— we ask no string of names distinguished in the world. We have no committee with books of subscriptions lying on the counters of West-end bankers, we have no charity that will comprise machinery of the most cumbrous kind. Our principle per vades all classes of the community—wherever misery is there we endeavour to bring relief—( Hear, hear)—whether in the garret or in the cellar—we endeavour to illu minate: the darkness of despair by the propagation of this great principle. Nor shall we be deterred by difficulties from persevering in this glorious course, until the principles of free trade recsive the fullest sanction of the law.—The Hon. Gen tleman sat down amidst great applause. The CHAIRMAN then came forward and announced, amid loud cries for Mr. CAden, that the proceedings of the even ing were over, and that the next meeting would be duly ad vertised. Mr. COBDEN then came forward, and demanded three cheers for the Anti-Corn-law League. His request was enthasiasti•• ally responded to, and the meeting separated. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of LAST (Wednesday) EVENING contained— The Report of the Railway Committees of the House of Commons. A Report of the Day's Proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Spirit of the Public Journals ; and A Full Report of the Parliamentary Proceedings up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. The whole was published in time for transmission by the Evening Mails. 13, Great Marlborough-street. rrHE NELSON LETTERS and DISPATCHES, yoLITME IL, WILL BE READY on the 25th. v..* Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. OURDEAUX, TOULOUSE, and CETTE RAILWAY COMPANY. The Letters allotting the Shares in this Company have this day been distributed. . . The Provisional Directors beg to intimate to those applicants for Shares who may not have received answers to their letters, that they have been unable to include them in the apportionment, and to ex press their regret that they have not had it in their power to satisfy all the Applications By order, 31, Lombard-street, Feb. 19, 1845. C. T. BEKE, Secretary, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1845. To the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Publie, The following Outline of the Arrangements for the ensuing Season Is respectfully presented to the Nobility and Subscribers : LiNGAGEMENTS FOR TILE OPERA:— Madame Grist, Madame Anaide Castellan, (Of the Imperial Theatre, St. Petersburgh—her First Appearance at • this Theatre) Madlle. Brambilla, • Madlle. Roseetti, • Madame Rita Borio, (Of the principal Theatres In Italy, and of the Royal Theatre, Madrid . —her First Appearance in this Country) And Madame Rossi Caccai, Of the Theatre Royal, Lisbon—her First Appearance in this Country.) Signor Moriani, Signor CoreHl, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Rota!, (Of La Scala, Milan—his First Appearance in this Country) and Signor Mario, Signor Fornasari, and Signor Lablactic In addition to the above combination of Talent, a conge has beer obtained, and an arrangement effected by which Signor Barroilhet, (Of the Academie Royale de Paris) will be secured for a limited num. tier of Nights. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Signor COSTA. The Orchestra will be on the same Scale as in the past year. The Chorusses will be numerous and effective. Chorus Master—Signor Bonconslglio. BALLET. Madlle. Carlotta Grist, --- -. Madlle. Lucile Grahn, Madlle. Czrito, Madlle. Louise Weiss; Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Casson, Madlle. Deinclisse, Madlle. Moneelet, (Of the Academie Royale de Paris—their First Appearance at this Theatre) and Madlle. Taglion( (llor Farewell Season.) The talent of this eminent Artiste hal been secured for a few Farewel Nights, previously to her taking leave of the Stage. 31. St. Leon, M. Gosselin, M. 1)1 Matte (of the Theatre Royal, St. Carlos, Naples), M. Bertrand (of the Academic Royale de l'aris), M. Perrot, and M. Toussaint (of the Academie Royale de-Paris—his First Appearance in this Country),. With a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Engagement has also been effected for a few nights, with the Thirty-six Danseuses Viennoises, . _ Who have lately appeared with extraordinary success at the Aca demie Royale de Paris, and who will appear at the Opening of the Theatre before Easter. Principal Artiste of the Theatre • . Mr. Marshall. ',ceder of the Oichestra Maitre de Ballet M. Perrot. Sous Maitre de Ballet.- • .. • • Regisseury de la Dense •••••• • • • . • • M. Bertrand. Leader of the Ballet• • • • • • • • •. • • • Nadaud. Composer of the Ballet Ifusie• • • .4. Slg. Pugni. Arrangements have been made for the appearance of Signor Morlani and Signor Fornasari for the Opening of the Theatre before Easter. - - - The Sutsseription will consist of the same number of Nights as Last Season The Repertoire will consist of a Selection from the works of the moss admired Composers. The THEATRE will OPEN On SATURDAY, the FIRST of MARCH, When will be produced (first time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. With new seenery by Mr. Marshall, Ernaal, Signor Moriani; Ruy Gomez, Signor Foruasari Carlo Quinto, Signor Botelli ; and Elvira, Madame Rita Bort°. To conclude with a new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled LA FILLE DE LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pupil. .The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear Mddlo. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Louise Weiss, Mille. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Demel!sse, 3fdlio. Casson, Mdlle. Moneelet, &o. 3f. Toussaint, 31. Gosselin, M. Di Mattis, 31. Bertrand, M. Perrot and the Danseuses ViCnnoisos. THEATRE ROYAL, DRUIRY•LANP.:. THIS EVENING Will be performed GUSTAVUS TILE THIRD ; or, The Masked Ball. Gustavus the Third, Mr. Cooper ; Colonel Lilllenhorn, Mr. D. W. King ; Captain Ankerstrom, Mr. Stretton ; Oscar, Miss Romer ; Madame Ankerstrom, Miss Betts. . After which, a Grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. Cha :acters by Monsieur 11. Vestige ; Monsieur and Madame Final% and Mdilc. Maria. To conclude with the favourite Drama of MARI ; or, The Maid of Milan. Clari, Miss Rainforth ; Veapino, Miss Poole. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New and Original Comedy, In Five Acts, entitled ')LD HEADS AND 'YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket, Mr. 'trickla d ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Tern Coke, Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr. Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Darren ; the v2ountess of Pompiou, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket, Misi Julia Ben.•ett. After which, USED U'. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles Mathews; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. . THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. • UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING , Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundrett Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr: Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; 'duster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yateo ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Madame Celeste. To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beattpre, Miss Fortescue.. TO conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. LEsSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beaumanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen ; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Ilime ; Renaud, Mr. )attacks ; Ivon, Mr. Lefller ; Hemline, Mdlle. Helen Conde!! ; Clara, Miss Brentnall ; Yolande, Miss E. Bonner Eglantine, Miss )'Connor ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which, MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Mon leigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry ; Rosanne, Miss E. Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be followed by the Comedietta, entitled THE BRIGADIER. Principal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton ; Miss E. Bonner, and Miss E. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed A TRIP to KISSENGEN. After which, TILE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining. Collier, and Turner ; hiss Walcott, Mrs. Usher, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by ;Messrs. A; Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea lows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairbrother. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kisloch, Yaraold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grim, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. Entire Change in the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To be followed by the rustic Pageant of THE FLITCH OF BACON. To conclude with the Spectacle of THE FORTY THIEVES; or. The Tiger Horde of Bagdad. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL. SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a NenDraraa7:WitliNew Scenery and splendid Appointments, entitled 31IDNIGHT ; or, the Sentinel and the Hour. A Legend of St. Paul's. In which the entire Company will perform. After which, a Ballet, to be called THE GNOME OF THE BED RUT MOUNTAIN. To conclude with THE WHISTLER. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Will be repeated TH THIS E LADY OF EVENING TROPEZ ; or, The Bride of Woe. George Maurice, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Antoine, Mr. 11. Howard ; M. Langlois, Mr. E. Jones; Charles D'Arbell, Mr. J. T. Johnson ; D'Anbrine, Mr W. Searle ; Jerome, Mr. J. Herbert ; Hortense (the Bride of Woe), MIAs Vincent ; Madame Langlois, Miss Eliza Terrey ; Charlotte, Miss Cooper. After w.iich, TIIE HOUSE DOG. Supported by Mr. C. J. Higgle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, Miss E. Terrey, Miss Jefferson, &c. To conclude with JOCKO; The Brazilian Ape. In which Monsieur Gouffeo will perform the most wonderful and un-imagin-ble Feats. THE LORD MAYOR AND THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE WOMEN.—A ball being about to be given fur the distressed needle women, Lord Mayor Gibbs was applied to for the usual permission to exhibit the printed announcements in front of the Mansion-house. Ilk Lordship refused the request, and his name does not appear as one of the patrons of the charity. The latter we did not expect ; but we thought he might have placed the Mansion-house wall at the dis posal of the committee to post a bill upon. Though we did not think he was likely to give the poor needlewomen bread, we fancied he was just the sort of man to have offered them a .tone.—Punch. ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING AT DORCHESTER.- Another child murder by arsenic has been committed at Dorchester, by a loose women named Warr, and the victim is her own illegiti mate child, only a few months old. The offence was committed in December, and has only been just brought to light. A coroner's jury yEs b " 4 i nveStlgatieg the matter, but the inquiry had not concluded THE WEATHER.—Stng OFFICE, FEB. 20. rHERMODISTKA, Lowest, 19 ; Highest, 32 ; Noon, 29. BAROMETER, 30.22.- - WIND, S. NOM—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the l'hermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 54 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 12 minutes after 1. may believe the Morning Post, the disciplinarian Premier reads a " Select Lesson" every evening to the more refractory of his Conservative class. But really, we do not see that it met the argument of the Learned Member for Bath on the positive inequity of the distinction between Ireland and Great Britain, or the relative degree in which that inequity is enhanced by the fact that Ireland has enjoyed a long exemption from the assessed taxes paid by the people of Great Britain. We put the case, not in reference to the question of the ability, or inability, of Ireland to take her share of the burden of property-tax and assessed taxes—a question we are not called upon now to enter into ;—but, in reference, solely, to the fact admitted, that she does not take that share, and to the sort of argument on which the Premier may have attempted to defend her exemption. The case urged by Mr. ROEBUCK as showing an equitable ground why Ireland should bear her pro portion of property-tax was strengthened by the consideration which Mr. ROEBUCK enforced upon the House, " that the Irish landlord had been recently much benefited by the amount of tithe added to his estate ;" and the reflection, so successfully enlarged upon by all popular Irish speakers, that the Irish landlord could travel from Limerick or Dublin to London, from London to Naples, winter in Rome, lounge through a spring in Paris, pass an autumn in Saxony, and return to Cork, Waterford, or any other part of Ireland where his property might happen to lie, " without being once molested by the demands of the tax-gatherer." Mr. Saetes was a singular answer to the demand of Mr. ROEBUCK. " The Irish absentee landlords already drained the country of large sums." But the English income and property* tax payers are not the cause of their absence; and why should they contribute the proportion which the Irish landlord ought to pay, in addition to their own ? " The Crown rents and quit rents of Ireland were also expended in the embellishment of London and of Windsor Castle." In what relative propor tion,—Mr. RoEnucx might have asked,—to the sums contributed from the Consolidated Fund (en which the Exchequer and other issues for public works are charged), for the improvement and construction of roads, bridges, harbours, &c., &c., in Ireland ? The truth seems to be that the acute mind of Mr. SHELL was sensible of the feebleness of such an argument; and therefore rushed into vaticinations and warnings connecting the experience of the past with the proba bilities of the futnre ; SwirT's agitation of Ireland, about WOOD'S half-pence, with Mr. O'CoNsiELL's agitation, should you put into his hands such a weapon as the opposition that would blaze up throughout Ireland to the introduction of a pro perty-tax. But all this is rather ad hominem than ad rem. Mr. WILLIAMS'S subsequent amendment, declaring that all persons in the receipt of the public money in Ireland, should be liable to the same in come-tax as that paid by the people of England, does not at all go to the extent of the broader prin ciple of Mr. ROEBUCK'S proposition. If the latter be good for anything, it cannot be satisfied by limiting its application to an income-tax, instead of one on property, and its levy to the recipients of official in come. If the amendment of Mr. WILLIAMS fell to the ground from its own imperfections of scope, better suc cess must be allowed to have attended the arguments of Lord BERNARD, Mr. BELLEW, and Sir 11. W. BAR noN, inasmuch as they voted in the majority against the Learned Member for Bath's proposition, than they merited. They were speeches whose only remarkable quality consisted in the intensity of their selfish unreasonableness. We shall not pursue this matter through the observations of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, Lord PALMERSTON and others who followed on the same side. The principle of equitable division of the burden between the two countries, which was the strength of Mr. ROEBUCK'S address, was never once grappled with. Mr. GouLnuari's Exchequer statistics were responded to by Mr. HUME, in a speech which closed with this fair and dispassionate remark :—" If the people of Ireland demanded equal rights and equal privileges with their fellow-subjects, let them first be able to stand up and say they paid equally towards the expenditure of the country." The opinions of Mr. lIUME, strange to say, found fast backers in Col. SIBTHORP, Mr. BLACKSTONE, and others of his " ancient foes." But the finest thing of the evening was decidedly the acting of Sir R. PEEL. He has studied the very idiosyncracy of " SAM SLlcx." The great modern master of " soft-sawder" could not have ac quitted himself more creditably than Sir ROBERT, in his honeyed compliments and elaborate, though some what tardy, praise (for he admitted to the Member for Montrose 40 years' of most emiaent public service) of Mr. HUME. But what was Sir ROBERT'S conclu sive and "sufficing reason" for exempting Ireland from this tax ? That there did not already " exist in that country a machinery for collecting it," and that to create a new one would be so operose and expensive an undertaking as to make it not worth while to impose the tax there. In the first place, Mr. HUME had pre viously shown that there does exist in Ireland the whole staff for the collection of poor-rate, which could be made instantly available for property-tax. In the second, how could Sir ROBERT preserve his gravity when he suggested the difficulty of organising a new one I But why a new one at all ? We will venture to promise him that the people of England, Scotland, and Wales, could be persuaded to deprive themselves of the tender attentions of his income-tax commis sioners, their clerks, boards, and collectors, without one murmur; and he would undertake to bring, at twenty-four hours' notice, 50,000 of the payers of this tax down to' Blackwell, to greet the exporta• tion of this whole army of officials, with bags, books, and baggage, schedules, ledgers, papers, and distress warrants for " Ireland," by the GREAT BRITAIN. We have accounts from Madrid to the 12th inst. In the discussion on the Clergy Dotation Bill on that day the Finance Minister, in order to allay the public alarm as to the Church property already sold, announced that the Government were fully resolved to maintain the inviolability of the property that had already passed out of the hands of the clergy, and that they would suffer no encroachment on acquired rights. It appears, however, that, owing to the folly of the priests, the purchasers of this property were seriously alarmed, and had called a public meeting on the subject. The Three per Cents. closed at 32k for cash, and 33f at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 24} for cash, and 25f at 60 days; the Coupons at 26} at 60 days; the Vales at 10 19-6 at 60 days ; and the Debt with out Interest, at 7f at 60 days. We regret to learn from the Paris papeis that the excitement caused by the Jesuits in Switzerland is still on the increase, and that serious disturbances may be anticipated before the question is settled. The canton of Lucerne has resolved that the educa tion of the people shall be placed under the control of the Jesuits; and against this resolution not only many of the inhabitants of that canton, but the Go vernments of Berne, Zurich, and now the provisional Government of the Pays de Vaud, have protested against the introduction of this system of education into the Federation, and seem disposed to resist it by force. On this important subject, the Great Council of Vaud had been engaged for three days, at an extraordinary meeting held at Lausanne The object of the meeting was to come to a vote on the instructions to be given to the Deputies to be sent to the General Diet—one party contending that the Diet should not concur in any resolution for the expulsion of the Jesuits, while the other was for more violent measures, and were supported by 32,000 per sons, who had signed a petition against the Jesuits. After lengthened discussions the Grand Council, by a majority of 104 to 63, resolved that a polite but press ing request be addressed to the state of Lucerne, that it should not act upon its resolution relative to the introduction of the order of Jesuits into its canton. It founds this request on the grave troubles which that decree has occasioned in Switzerland, on the fact that the order of Jesuits are essentially hostile to Pro testantism, and especially on the fact that the canton of Lucerne, as directing canton, should be still more circumspect as regarded the other cantons. Since that event the whole of the Council had abdicated, and at a general meeting of the people at Lausanne, a provisional Government, composed of nine members, and having for its president M. DRUFY, Councillor of State, had been appointed. These events, which had for their motive the fact of the Grand Council not having paid sufficient attention to the petition sent in by 32,000 persons, for the expulsion of the Jesuits, took place on the 14th and 15th. In the meantime, Lucerne is preparing for a contest, by assembling and levying troops. On the other hand, popular meetings hostile to the Jesuits had taken place, at which most exciting language had been used. Vo lunteer bands were assembled ir► various places, and drilled, evidently prepared for resistance. Should a civil war take place little doubt remains that Austria on the one side and France on the other would take steps to prevent any serious consequences. The forthcoming discussion on the Secret Service Money Bill and the affair of the Archbishop of LYONS occupied the public mind at Paris. According to the Journal des Debats, the Oppositic • n are at a loss what course to pursue. " A meeting," it says, " was held on Sunday at M. Timm's, which was attended by the leaders of the coalition, among others MM. BERRYER, BILLAULT, and ODILON BARROT. Some wanted to recommence the discussion on the foreign policy, whilst the others were of opinion that it would be better to cut short the debate, and vote at once. In the impossibility of coming to any understanding on the conduct to be held, the meeting separated with out having decided on anything. It was merely agreed that a fresh meeting should be held before the discussion." The Lcgitimatist journal, the Quotidienne, thus adverts to th• proceedings against the Archbishop of LYONS : " The prosecution of Cardinal de Donald, in the name of the State, on the part of M. Dupin, is a resolution which pleases us, as does everything which evinces a logical charac ter in any direction whatever. The Government could not escape the necessity of pronouncing between a Bishop perform ing an act of religious and civil liberty, and a Government functionary laying down an official doctrine in matter of be lief. It pronounced for M. Dupin : the matter is natural enough. Let us be far from feeling sorrow or complaining M. Guizot has just assumed an excellent determination. By this pretension of the State to interfere in the matters of the Church, he proclaims its separation from the Church ; or else he constrains the Bishops to see if it suits them to have a civil Pope, Protestant or Jew; he takes from the priesthood all idea of obedience to a power without faith ; he enlightens consciences still undecided ; he settles what was doubtful ; and he places all Catholics in the best possible position for acquiring a just idea of their duties. We shall narrowly watch this affair. At present, we confine ourselves to noting Clown the eagerness with which the Opposition of the Left hurry to meet the Council of State, in order to pronounce beforehand their sentence against Cardinal de Bonald. And liberty of cor.science is spoken of 1 Falsehood!" The following eulogium, passed by the Presse on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S financial statement, is evidently directed against the French Chamber, as well as the Minister : " Here is, at least, one man who knows what is wanted, and who, having come to a resolution, also knows how to convince those around him that it is right ; The Tories who support him have, it is true, some severe moments to endure. It is certain that the projects of the Minister are grating to their ideas, and in several respects injurious to their interests. Nevertheless, the Minister marches on with a straightfor ward step and drags them on with him. The conduct of Sir It. Peel attests a great Parliamentary power, and at the same time claims the approbation of every elevated mind. There tl!e majority has really a chief who leads and guides it. A strong hand is felt to rule the Government, and we do not find, as with us, a Cabinet made the prey to a thousand subaltern influences, which dictate the law instead of obeying. Nothing can be more bold and energetic than the plans pro posed by Sir R. Peel. The system commenced in 1842, when the first reform in the tariff was made, now re ceives a complement worthy. of it. Eight days ago the French Ministry caused the rejection of a reform which would have been eminently beneficial and popular—we mean the postal reform—by alarming the Chamber with chimerical tears of a deficit. With these timid and common-place tac tics compare those of Sir R. Peel, What is the Exchequer about to lose by the reforms he proposes? A revenue of 84,000,000 f. This is a calculation made by Sir Robert him self. He sacrifices without hesitation the surplus shown by the last financial year. He makes this sacrifice deliberately, voluntarily; well knowing to what he exposes himself, the vast responsibility he incurs in the eyes of his country. The sense of this responsibility does not stay his hand. Ile leaves all vain terrors, all puerile fears, to the mere calculators of figures. lie is perfectly aware that the Treasury will find under a thousand forms, through a thousand different chan nels, in . the increase of th e genera l we lf are, an ample com pensation for these temporary losses. One more word. Sir R. Peel thinks and acts like a statesman. This is rare now a-days ; for what has been said of the gods and of kings has become much more true with regard to great ministers—they are leaving the earth." - *ZI . -= -0 4 9010•" . 41,4 ec= , s• • 'IJ ••. 4.0- -NH.* - • • SECOND EDITION. the order of the union tworkhousel.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Well, if those 17, Bond-street gentlemen played such fantasti c tricks with the interests of the farmers, how do they conduct themselves in the House of Commons? They sit by the side of Ministers—though they distrust the Government—they look uneasy, they are a little sullen, but they do not make any great demonstration of resistance. I told them the other night that the character given in a very innocent book of certain faithless guardians, of old " dumb dogs who either could not, or would not, bark" was applicable to them.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This was considered rather vituperative.—(Laughter.) Sir Robert Peel, not wishing to displease his party, took it upon himself to lecture me for want of manners.—(Renewed laughter.) He forgot the charges which he himself had made against an Hon. Friend of mine. —(Loud cries of " Hear, hear,"—" Hurrah for Cobden," and great cheering.) There was another Member on the Ministerial side of the House, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, the Member for Northampton, Chairman of the Publication Committee, of the Great Central Committee, which meets at No. 17, Bond-street, who lectured me like wise. Mr. Smith O'Brien was, he was going to say, guilty —no, but he must be held answerable for the publication of a pamphlet in which the sentiments of the venerated Adam Smith were garbled and perverted—when he was told that the land lords ought to serve their tenants and labourers, Mr. O'Brien said that was not a way to speak of the gentry of England. Nos it is a great mistake in Mr. Stafford O'Brien to clothe himself in the lion's skin, and then take upon himself the cha racter of the most sincere man in the House of Commons; he disappointed the designs of nature very much, for, from his dress and manner he showed that he was much more suited for a roan-milliner.—( Great laughter,) I believe he might have filled with great respectability such an office.—(l-aughter.) They don't, then, make a great demonstration against the Go vernment—it is only a sort of human growl they utter, but no great resolution on which the body agree. Their cause is bad, and they know it, and their courage oozes our, for they have no faith in the maintenance of their principles— they never had any soundness. Sir R. Peel drags them along and they can make no opposition. A very beautiful and pleasing writer, Leigh Hunt, in one of his essays, describing a number of pigs being driven to Smithfield—(Laughter)-- says, " Unwilling was their subjection, and more in sorrow than in anger, they were overgone from rage, their cause was hopeless, they did not see why they should proceed, but felt themselves bound to do so—they first conglomerated, crowded, grunted, but onward went, impelled by fate and Peel. Often would they have rebelled under any other master—they halted and grunted in ordinary—they sidled and shuffled, half stopped, turned their eyes towards all outlets and lanes by which they might escape, hut in fine there they stuck, for their very progress was a sort V sticking-charm at the centre ef their sphere of action— laying their heads together but to no purpose, looking on all sides—shrugging their shoulders and eschewing the knotty end ef the whip of office—much eye had they to their left legs. " They shrink backward with groans—not an incipient squeak—but a sound suspicious - in character and violent to a degree." But pigs find it more difficult than any other animals to accommodate themselves to circumstances. — (Shouts of laughter.) "He with his tail out is in the highest state of wonderment, is sluggish and obstinate, not very civil, and has no desire to see foreign parts. Think of him in a multitude forced to travel, and wondering what the devil it is that drives him."— ( Continued laughter.) Well, as far as the great Central As sociation for the protection of British agriculture is concerned, I think it will make a very ridiculous figure in the pages of his tory—that is, if any historian will deem it worth his while to notice it.—(lronical cheers, and laughter.) It was an impos ture when first started, got up .for the purpose of making a spasmodic effort to propagate a gigantic and monstrous injus tice.—(Cheers.) But now its true character is begin ning to be clearly developed, and all the intelligent classes see through its motives. This knowledge is extend ing, and even the farmers are beginning to find that it. wears the features of an imposture, so that we may speedily expect to see it put down altogether.—(Great cheers.) But now of that other Association—that which we are here met to-night to sympathise with—the Association which ever has advocated and tried to promote the truly grand principle of free trade, and perfect freedom to industry.— ( Immense cheering.) We have no Richmond. or Bucking hams, or Knatchbulls, to whom we can point as ornament ed with stars and garters, or to whom we can give promotion in the army or in the civil service. The prominent men in the ranks of the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers here, or (for they are widely extended) in other parts of the kingdom, have sprung from the ranks. They are not joining in agitation for the purpose of obtaining places or power or station—( Cheers.) If there is one rank that they covet more than another, it is this, that they may occupy a place in the minds of their countrymen— that now and in after times it may be remembered by the grateful people of a happy land, that they did something in their day and generation to strike off the shackles that fettered their commerce and their industry, and that they contributed, in however little a degree, to make their beloved country happy and prosperous.—(lmmense cheering.) From the beginning of our exertions, some six or seven years ago, we have had no reliance on any interests further than these—first, on the eman cipation of truth ; and, then, on the intelligence and the virtue of our countrymen. We have appealed to you time after time. We have unremittingly appealed to you and my fellow-men in all parts of the country—( Cheers )—and nobly have you and they responded to that appeal.—( Cheers.) No man in this country, be he who he may, connected with any political movement whatever, has met or can meet with so hearty, so efficient a response, as was given to the appeal which the members of the Anti-Corn-law League addressed to the people of Great Britain.—(Great cheers.) In 1839, we asked our friends and neighbours, principally in Lancashire and Yorkshire, for sub scriptions to begin to carry on the war against the corn• laws, and 5,0001. was almost immediately subscribed. In 1840 we asked for further subscriptions, and 7,000 i or 8,0001. was sub scribed for that and a portion of the following year. In 1841 we sent out circulars to every county in the kingdom, asking the men who were engaged in teaching the doctrines of Christianity, what they thought of the corn-laws, and re questing them to meet us at Manchester, and no less than 700 of these men did leave their districts at immense inconvenience and at great expense, because they were summoned to discuss this great question.—( Great cheering.) In the year 1 842 we had a bazaar in Manchester, and the ladies there pr lidded arti cles, sold them at the bazaar, and handed over a sum of 10,0001. to the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League.—( Great cheer ing.) In 11343 we asked for 50,0001., and 50,000/. was at once toll acted.—( Continued cheers.) In 1844 we asked for 100,0001., and between 80 and 90,0001. has been already sub scribed, although the great bazaar to be held here in May next was considered when we asked the country for 100,000/. —( Tremendous cheering, which was continued for some minutes.) This year is but young, as yet but two months are almost gone. In the first month of this year, and in three months of the last, we ap pealed again to the free traders in the Northern counties, and we asked them, not to subscribe money, but to do something far mere beneficial—we asked them to invest some of their pro perty in the purchase of a powerful weapon by which they could at the election hustings defend their dearest rights and liberties.—( Cheers.) And how was that appeal responded to ? I will tell you. The free traders in the Northern coun ties, principally in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, at the recommendation of the League, invested a sum no less than 250,0001. in the purchase of county qualifications.—(Great cheering.) You are aware that there is a class of men every where who de not take the trouble to inquire into the truth of any matter, but who nevertheless go about spreading that which is not true. Such men had they here. Many in the country said, "It is quite unconstitutional in the League to collect money for the purpose of buying county qualifications." —(Laughter.) These are fictitious assertions. The League never collected a pound to buy qualifications for anybody.— (Cheers and laughter.) The members of the League pur chased these qualifications for themselves.—(Cheers.) My five brothers--there are six of us—and myself have spent 9101. in buying qualifications for counties in the North of England —( Cheers )—and so these 250,0001. have been subscribed wholly by individual free traders throughout the country, who have resolved to get within the pale of the Constitution, and to fight the battle firmly, and coustitutionally too, on the hus tings at the next election of theirrepresentatives to Parliament. I have said that we shall have a large bazaar here in this house in May next, and I may also tell you, that in this me tropolis, in Manchester, and in a large number of towns in England, committees are formed, and at work, for the purpose of providing materials for that bazaar; and a magnificent col lection of articles, the production of ladies, who have kindly aided us, will be then submitted for your purchase.—( Cheers.) Every body in the country asks—" While we are doing so much, what are they doing in London ?" In the country the connexion that binds society is favourable to projects like these, and we can get the ladies, therefore, to do it in first-rate style—( Laughter )—but here it is not so easy. One does not know one's neighbour so well as in the smaller towns of the northern counties. I do not doubt that a great deal has been done, and I expect that a great deal more will be done before three months are expired --(Hear, hear,) And when this bold speculation is fully matured and perfected, it will be no discredit to the Sovereign of these lands to be pre sent in this building.—( Cheers,) Now, I take it that our pre sent position is a very prosperous one. I never advise any one to look at the dark side of things. I always look myself on the cheerful side of the picture, and troubles we know come fast enough without our going to meet them. Recollect what the present Prime Minister says—he came into office on the shoulders of the Central Association, but what says he new, and what was his opinion in past times ? He no doubt hopes that a liberal policy, and liberal measures at this time, will at an after period induce the people of England to remember him without unkindness, if not with attachment. I will read you an extract from a speech of his in 1824, when Mr. Huskisson brought forward some measure of free-trade, in the article of ribbons, &c. Mr. Secretary Peel is reported to have exhorted the House to firmness. He reminded the House that the eyes of Europe were upon them, and how greatly their commercial policy would be prejudiced if they yielded to the force of circumstances. He knew a good deal about these questions iu 1824, and he certainly could not be less familiar with them in twenty years after. In 1842 he an nounced the important principle, that the true policy of the nation was, to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest. In his speech on Friday last, when alluding to a combination among the coal-owners of the north of England, he said that there could not be a greater ab use o f nat i ona l resources, than for a combination to exist among coal-mine propriet ors f ur th e purpose of raising the price to the consumer. I shall read it in another way. I know of no greater abuse •f a national monopoly than for a combination to exist among landlords for restricting the supply of corn, in order to raise its price in this country. Can we doubt that the man who can be so right in his , conception of the blessings of a free-trade in coal i s not equally right with regard to the principle of a free-trade in corn ?—(Cheers. ) It was said, in the conclusion of his speech, that his object, while establishing the principle of a extension of reduction of taxation was to realise the utmost degres of good, without the disturbance or alarm of interests which could not be rashly interfered with, without para lysing the industry of the country. He openly acknow ledges the very principles which we have advocated out of doors and in the House of Commons. All his sympathies are with the Anti-corn-law League at present. But let them look to the other side of the House of Commons. There was Lord John Russell, who was altogether stationary for three years on this question. He advocated an adherence to protection. What is Lord John Russell's opinion now? On the very first night of the present session he expressed his full conviction that protection was the bane of agricul ture; and the night before last, in the discussion on the income-tax, he said that he still adhered to this declaration; • and ho went further, for he not only said that protection was the bane of agriculture, but the bane of every other interest to which the principle could apply. He referred to our colonial interests—to our silk manufacturers, and to our timber growers in our North American possessions. We are associated to carry out the principle of liberty and freedom in every branch of trade. We are associated to carry these principles out by concentrating the invisible but the almost omnipotent t'ithni:o u ( r . : y u in nt P r athy endeavours of power of public opinion in their favour. We have p th ro e sper p i n ty bl o ie f p a r o m o l taer large e inter e sts seeti e n a e n f d Masted, ancsl'.. Our . opponents are broken—their courage is in Parliament or out of they'thave confi dence to advocate their opini on password b e s till" Onward, 0n 5 w .. , 1)7 course is plain—let ou r , faith in the intelligence, in the power, Let us have continued the people of England to second on e s i nd ert p the capacity of no thought of going back. but let us press forward us have achieve a complete and final trinnaph.—(Cheers.) m until we charge us with adhering too strictly to a dr prineiplean 2 , f men litical economy. Such attacks are equally harsh and tinge: neroug, and they may in like manner characterise all attempts to relieve the distresses of the country and to ameliorate tile Oxt*n_c LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1845. The House of Lords did not sit last evening. The House of Commons met at Four e'clock. The Chairman of the Sub-Committees on Standing Orders brought up reports on several Railway Bills. Various petitions were presented and notices of motion given. Among these latter was one by Lord DUNCAN, for Monday evening, for the repeal of the window tax. Lord Gits.xviLLE SouEnsEr was understood to say that he intended to propose that the House should hold morning sittings, to commence en Friday, for the purpose of disposing of the Railway Laws Consolidation Bills; but the Noble Lord, as usual, spoke in so indistinct a tone, that it was impossible clearly to understand what he said. Indeed, Mr. AGLIONBY complained of the very indistinct manner in which the Noble Lord had spoken, and said, that although he had listened attentively, he had not been able to catch one simgle word which the Noble Lord had uttered. After a short explanation from Sir J. GRAHAM on the subject of one railway share which he had once possessed, Sir R. PEEL,:in answer to Mr. M. MILNER, stated that the Foreign Secretary had never communicated either to the Austrian or Neapolitan authorities, or to the autho rities at Rome, respecting any particular designs isiedi fated at Corfu ; and that, so little apprehension had he entertained that any attempt would be made from Corfu, that no ectnmunication whatever had been made cn the subject to the Governor of the lonian Islands. The fact was, the expedition of the brothers BANDEIRA had taken every one by surprise. No communication whatever had been made to the parties themselves, inasmuch as it had never been suspected that such an attempt was contem plated, and any impression that the Government had allured these individuals to destruction, was erroneous and without foundation. Mr. GEO. Slam asked if the duty on sperm oil was to be given up ? Sir R. PEEL replied that, after January 5, 1849, the duty would cease. The duty on whale oil would be taken off at an earlier period. After some conversation on the subject of the sugar deities, the House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, and Mr. Romisucx moved the amendment of which he had previously given notice, for extending the income-tax to Ireland. The exigency that required the impsition of the tax was common to the whole kingdom, and their united wants should be met by their united means. He therefore asked the Government to tax, not the professions, not the trades, not even the offices in Ire land, but to tax the realised capital in that country The Hon. Gentleman then taunted the agriculturalists with their support of Sir H. PEEL, the manufacturers with having been bribed into supporting the Budget, and the Irish Members with having run away from their posts. He thought it would be just to remove the stamp duty, which fell on the retail tradesman, and substitute for it a property-tax, which would fall upon the rich landholder. Mr. &LEM opposed the motion, as unjust to Ireland. He defended his absent friends from the attacks which had been made upon them, and concluded by urging upon Parliament the necessity of giving good govern ment to Ireland, even in an economical point of view. If they were to adapt their institutions to Ireland, instead of attempting to adapt Ireland to their institutions, they ,would make money by it, for they would secure peace, which would throw open a vast field of enterprise in Ireland, and in the prosperity of Ireland they would for all their munificence be usuriously repaid. Sir JouN TYRRELL supported the motion. Mr. WILLIAMS had heard nothing from the Hon. Member for Dangarvon to show that this tax ought not to be imposed on the landlords of Ireland. Mr. Ross, Lord BERNARD, and Mr. BELLEW, defended the Irish landlords from the attacks which had been made upon them by the Honourable Member for Bath. A smart and somewhat angry discussion ensued, in the course of which the words " foul calumnies" were used by Mr. NEWDIQ&TE, who, on being called to order, apo logised to the House. At length Sir R. PEEL rose, and admitted that, although strict justice might require the extension of the tax to Ireland, yet, as there was no machinery for its collection in that country, the creation of the machinery would be so ex pensive, that the Government would not be justified, in an economical point of view, in proposing its creation ; therefore, he considered that it would be better to accept from Ireland an equivalent fur the property-tax, and, comparing the benefit which would accrue to Eng land from the removal of the impert duties with that which would accrue to Ireland, the latter country would not be justly dealt with if the property-tax were im posed on her. The di,eussion was continued for some time after the Right Hon. Gentleman had sat down, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, MY. WALLACE, Colonel SIBTHORP, Lord PALMERSTON, and several other Hon. Members taking part in it, after which the Committee divided, when their appeared for the amendment 33, against it 275. The Committee then divided on the original resolu tion, when there appeared for it 228, against it 30. The other orders cf the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. The clever s peech in whi c h M r. ROEBUCK last night brought forward his unsucc ess f u l amen d ment on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S proposition f or renew i ng t h e income-tax, sth Vxcroau —namelv, And that th e provisions of the said Act, as tar as regards the tax on property, be extended to Ireland "—provoked a somewhat smart debate. Nor is this any matter for wonder. The warmest and most consistent friends to the great principle of "justice to Ireland" might well imagine themselves not precluded from advo cating, with equal earnestness, "justice to England." When a people conceive that they are unnecessarily subjected to an odious and inquisitorial impost, they are very apt to become at least didactic on the enor mity of grinding taxation, in general. But when they find themselves selected, exclusively, to bear the whole of the detestable burden, and their brethren and compatriots of one great integer of the national union or confederacy, to which they belong, altogether exempted from it, that people are sure to perceive the practical hardship they suffer through so invidious and unequitable a distinction. Their protest and remonstrances against the unfairness complained of become animated and indignant in proportion to the distinctness with which they can detect it. Those remonstrances and that protest have found a caustic and sharp-witted exponent in Mr. ROEBUCK. In the very first course he ran at Sir Ronsa - r, he fairly un horsed his adversary. He pushed the Premier home with the undeniable discrepancy between his own avowed plea of Friday night last, in apology for the heavy tax he had to propose the con tinuance of, on property and income, " that it was in order to meet and satisfy the com mon exigencies of the country," with the fact of his having excepted Ireland from its operation. If the exigencies to be provided for by the stringent and extraordinary course the Minister has taken be com mon, in relation to all the components of the United Kingdom, why was Ireland to be thus invidiously released from her liability to her proportionable con tribution ? If those exigencies do not affect Ireland, why was it not shown that they could affect the condition and interests of England, Scotland, and Wales, only ? " Frotn Tamworth Tower to Leddlesdale" is not one• twentieth part of the distance of Sir Roneser PEEL's:reply from these interroga tories. The Right Hon. Baronet faced about to make a showy feint at tha granite outworks of Mr. JOSEPH HUME. He hovered about that Hon. Mem ber's speech with all kinds of unwonted courtesies, salutes, and compliments, at the expense of a speech which was delivered on Friday by an Hon. and Gal lant Conservative follower of the Right Hon. Baro net, which speech the latter unkindly characterised as " very foolish," and in a moment of unpremeditated candour, admitted that " he had heard it with dismay." Characteristic soothing, this, to be sure, for the Irish Tory agricultural interest. A leaf, if you will, out of the same primer, "Discouragement to the Landed Proprietary made easy," from which, if we THE BOURSE7TuEsDAy, FEB. 18. First Highest Lowest Last Pries. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents.— • • 122 65 .. 122 80 .. 122 65 •• 122 75 Three per Centa••••• 85 .. 85 10 .. 85 .. 85 5 New L0an•.....•. B5 95 .. 85 95 85 95 .. 85 95 Bank of France •• • • .8255 —3255 .•3255 .•3255 Gouln Bank, I,ooof. Shares. • 1085 "1087 50 • • 1085 ..1085 helgiaa Bank •• •• •• 655 •• 655 .. 655 .. 655 Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 •••••••• 106% 1063 .. 1064 .. 106% Four-and-a-lief ..• 10330 .. 10334 .. 103% .. 10334 Two-and-a-Half— • 61 . • 75 .. 61 • • 75 Spanish Threes • .• Active •• •••• •• 38 3 4 .. 38% .. 38% .. 38 3 4 Passive ... • • Gs .. Gs .. Gs .• Gs Portuguese Five per Cents.. 59% .• 59 3 .. 59% .• 59% ;Neapolitan •••• •• •• 100 .. 100 .. 100 .. 100 Roman •• • •••• • .•• •... 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 1.5 RAILWAY alliAltY.K. St. Germain • • • ...1095 .• 1100 ..1095 ..1100 Versailles, Rat.— ... •• • ... 560 .. 562 50 .. 560 .. 562 50 •••••• •• •• 376 25 .. 382 50 376 25 381 25 Rouen-- ..••••••••••••••11. , 0 —llOl 25 —ll .0 ..1101 25 Rouen to Havre.. B9O 890 .. 890 890 Orleans •••. • • •...1160 ..1166 25 -.1158 75 -.1170 litrasburg to Hale-- •• •• 317 50 .. 318 75 .. 316 28 .. 318 75 Avianon to Marseilles.... 975 .. 97.5 .• 972 50 .. 972 5 Bordeaux to Teste .... •. • . 205 .. 205 .. 202 50 .. 205 RAILWAYS FOB THE ACCOUNT, MARCH 3. St. Germain •• •• •• —lOB5 —lOBO ..1080 —lOBO Versailles, R.B • • •• 560 .. 567 50 .. 560 .. 567 50 L. 8.• . Rouen • • • • •• • . . . /lotion to Havre— •• •• •• •• 890 .. 895 890 .. 892 50 Orleans •.• Strasburg to Bale.. •• •• •• 317 50 318 75 .. 317 80 . 318 75 Avignon to Marseilles 975 980 .. 975 .. 980 THIS DAY'S NEWS HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. RENNIE V. RITCHIE. The further argument in this part-heard appeal occupied their Lordships the whole day. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day and took appeal motions, it being the second Seal after term. MANN V. RICKETTS. This case occupied his Lordship the whole morning. The question in this case was of no public importance, as it re lated to the practice of the Court. EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chief Baron took common jury cases during the day, but the proceedings were entirely devoid of public in terest. INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RZ BENJAMIN BURROWS. The petition of this insolvent, who had carried on an ex tensive business as a carcase butcher in Courtney-terrace, was opposed by Mr. Dowse, on behalf of Mr. John Lyon, a slop salesman. The grounds of opposition were that the insolvent had procured from the opposing creditor, upwards of a hundred head of cattle, for payment of which he was compelled to sue him, when he defended the action, whereby Mr. Lyon was sent unnecessarily to law, incurring expenses exceed ing S(V. Mr. NICHOLL, on behalf of the insolvent, contended that he was justified in the course ha had adopted, inasmuch as the jury ultimately returned a verdict for less than the sum for which Mr. Lyon went originally. The COURT held that the opposition upon this ground could not be sustained, after the verdict of the jury, and or dered the insolvent to be discharged. IN RE JOHN WRIGHT. In this ease, which had been adjourned previously, in order that the insolvent might file a new balance-sheet, and render further information respecting the disposal of certain property of which he was possessed previous to his insol vercy, the Court ordered the case to stand further adjourned to next Saturday. IN 111 SAMUEL CHANDLER. The insolvent had been the proprietor of the Commercial inn, at Barnet, called the Old Salisbury Arms. Several creditors had entered an opposition to the petition, but none appeared in Court when called upon. The Learnedthfixr COMMISSIONER examined the insolvent at great length, when it appeared that he had kept livery stables, although he had not described himself as of that occupation in his schedule. It also appeared that he had received certain moneys from Mr. Riley, the clerk to the board of guardians, for which he had not satisfactorily accounted in his balance.—The case was adjourned to compel the attendance of Mr. Riley. The following petitions were heard during the morning, and the applicants ordered to he discharged forthwith : Thomas John Alger, George Noble, Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Holton, Henry West, John Stent, and James James Thomas Beard. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THISDAY.) LONDON, FEB. 20.—Wind southerly, fresh breeze and fine; last night it blew cold with a smart frost. OFF DOVER, FEB. 18.—Leda, New York for Antwerp; Kron Prindessian Caroline, Charleston for Copenhagen. COWES, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Norwegia, Stewart, Rio. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind S. E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Johanna Dettard, Ludenig, Galveston for Bremen. PonTsmourir, FEB. 19.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. her Ma jesty's ship Eagle, Sheerness. Sld. her Majesty's steamers Rattler, Black Eagle, and Victoria and Albert, on a cruize. H. N. M. S. Huzaar and Lancier, Guinea ; Courier, Cape of Good Hope. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind E.—Arrd. J. P. Howard Duncan, New Orleans for Havre. FALMOUTH. FEB. 19.—Wind E., strong breeze.—Arrd. Cornucopea, Carr, Ichaboe ; Crusader, Labalestier, Honduras ; Jacot, Pennell, Mobile for Havre. OFF BEACHY HEAD, FEB. 18.—Fendon, Barkinstien, Rio for Antwerp ; Egmond, Surmam, for Amsterdam. SWANSEA, FEB. 18.—Hazelrigg, Prince Edward's Island. DEAL, FEB. 19.—Wind E. to E. S.E., fresh.—Arrd. Adolph, Schwenson, Valparaiso for Hamburgh. Std. Berkshire, Bombay; \Vahan, Cuba; St. James, New York. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Commerce, and Sir C. Camp bell, New Orleans ; Clara, Powhat tan, Mobile; Albion, Avon ; and Flora McDonald, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Peel's One, Quebec. Sld. Livingstone, China; Circassian, Lima; Hero, Rio Janeiro; Bristol, St. John's, New Bunswick ; Mars, Halifax. Off, City of Adelaide, Ichaboe; Abbot, Lord, New Orleans; ISlandane, Charleston. CLYDE, FEB. 13.—Arrd. James, Henderson, Ichaboe, part of cargo thrown overboard, having been struck b . y a sea, 18th inst., lat. 44. lon. 20, during a gale at N. Sld. Ellen Gowan, Port Republicain. HULL, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Foster, St. Andrew's. Sid. Mary Miller, Valparaiso. DUBLIN, FEB. 17.—Arrd. Coolock, St. John's, New Bruns wick. WarrEHAVEN, FEB. 18.—Arrd. Brazil packet, Beckett, Antigua; Camilla, Demerara. N MONEY and COMMERCIAL IEF.1 EF. CITY, QUARTER TO TILR irde , There was no change in Cotton at Liverpoe l Le s b o; Sales, inclusive of 3,500 bales on speculation, 7, 1 x" , - ( 1,; viz., 400 Surat at 3d. to 334 d.; 1(X) Egyptian at 5 1 Ad. to „;, a , 200 Pernam at 5%d. 534 d. ; and the rest American at aZ ir to 6d. per lb —Shares were quoted as follows f-1570. donian, Bv i 7% ; Chester and llolyhead, 8 ;• Wir lin and Belfast, 574 ; Churnet Valley, • ;,.. slid burgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 15%. ; Glaso"Diito , Greenock, 15% 16 ; Grand Junction, 224 226 ; T o Halves, 111 1 / 2 • Great Western Extension, 0/4 Half' caster and Carlisle, 30 • Liverool and Manchester Pro, 103 ; London and Birmingham, 238; Ditto, ( 2%tir 29 3 / 4 30; London and Brighton, 58 1 A ; Ditto and and Western, New 501., 6 3 / 4 74 ; Manchester Ana l '; 1 mingham, 62%; Manchester, Bolton, and BuTY , 14 i Midland Counties, 128 1 / 3 127 1 A ; North British, i .: Preston and Wyre, 22 1 A A ; Scottish Central, ' d ' o l Sheffield and Manchester, - 106 1 ,0 ; Shrewsburiyineff 4518 4 Grand Junction, li ; South-Eastern, 42%; Tren t tf.; 19 3 % 34 ; Paris and Lyons. 3 ; Central of France. 127 Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2 1 ., ; Northern of France,S7;o l. There are no arrivals to-day, and parties in the ,!_faii!. watching with great interest the proceedings in ParflAlor The value of sugar is firmer, and there has been a r:n d e ness doing this week. The amount of the differentwb t 1 on Colonial, it is considered, will average 14s. s alth ° lt Wil l respective sums are but 9s. 4d. and I Is. Bd., becsus!,44 be only the fine white clayed foreign descriptions .7 oh 28s. duty, that will come into extensive comp etiti sos the produce of the colonies. The present value ofJara. i n in bond, of the same quality as the average of We',Froll Muscovado, is stated in the Grocers' Price Current ot dlof a c i : and Millard to be 20s. per cent., making with the k while West India, with the duty of 253. 3d., is be t :c e Or, cording to this view of the question there will not o f if . , foreign brought into consumption until the produ,_F:, pi tP' colonies rises to 48s. ; and this would only give re7 . o 1 0 consumer to the extent of about 3/ 4 d. per lb., by n 4 0 sufficient to stimulate a greatly increased use of thew, 0 or to yield the gross suns calculated lilt 0 1 11 . . 4 6 Robert Peel. These views may be partia"J I r ' but we believe they are also a little one-side!d•orotr smack, in short, too much of " trade," and the r r.val rested opinions, and we trust no effort will be sPi l f — t hi a t i s , as fair competition goes, to give the pooree,class'' “ benefit of the reduction, which if the •`discriraina tie tios culty does not prove a hindrance, ought, is th e 4 s o l o /1 competent judges, to be such as to give good r• .l sugars at sd. per lb. . .. . OP The Funds are rather firmer, the majority , j in the House last night having produced P i r effect. Consols are 99 1 A to ee% for I k e 4 have been 99% for Account. bank St Dc d ; 0,4 ;to 212 and 212 1 A and India Stock is stear' d , ,P" to V,. Exchequer- n 1 bills realise 555. to 565. pre" ll '. do Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 103% te 74•,,i51i,,, r The Foreign Bonds are also rather firmer. ;.;.„r` ts , 4 per Cents. realise 284 to ' ; the Three per Lfie.,4 1.. 4 0 Portuguese Converted, 59q to 60 ; Mexican,,"4.4' Brazilian, 904. Dutch l'wo-and-a-Half per Cep ,„4 been 62% ; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half, 101'41,gli i'" There is not much doing in Shares, but they ; po p prices generally. '` rit ici* , ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 2I2 . P 4 O: Bank Stock . '97 3 per Cent. Reduced 3lper Cent. Consols i ii' ll New 34 per Cents Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 12 1 % 1....16 I, 4 '' Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ll -, Z V, .8 OP India Stock Bank Stock for Account... ...... Consols for Account.... .. fill. Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 / 2 d 55 16 11. 0 6 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ONE Ye PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCX. ' '/ Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... Ditto, Deferred Stock. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted DV 60 ••- A Ditto, Account e6o 5 9 r 59 4 - gli Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account ..... ... .... Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Belgian Scrip, 4 1 / 2 per Cent. 101;1 ! A• Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9B 40' PRICES OF I'AID. AT ONE O'CLOCf . r /., RAILWAY SHARES . P .•••• Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New Shares ... 17% — ...... '''... 01 Ditto 1 / Shares Bristol and Exeter ... • Ditto New.. . Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Ca 12don ian Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 3 th3i ; s/4 ' ~ .fl Chester and Holyhead... 5 . Churnet Valley Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1% 2 ........ . 7 • "11 Direct Northern 2%14 ...... . .. . . 0 Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3 .......... Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 1734 18 '" s '' Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... ................ $ Eastern Union lO .. ... ............... Ditto Extension ... ... 7 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Ditto Great North of England..loo - . : .0 , Ditto New 19 ..... %.. Great Western BO ...... 173% 174. kli Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2%... 31/._, ... ... : ....... :: • I, Harwich _ _... Al 132 133 ••N' • . ...• . . Hull and Gainsborough 1 1 ,4 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% ......•• London and Birminghin (Stock) —3l% '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' :.... ~. Ditto, Quarters .. .0 . London and Blackwall.. 16% 7%y ...... ; .. London and Brighton... 50 London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d ll ... ; ....... r ' London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 80 .............. •,• London and Croydon, 131. 15 s . 9d. ............ Ditto Guaranteed 5 per : Cent. 6 1A 4R••. London and York •)% 71.4 7.•••• .. Manchester and Birmin. 40 Ditto 4 Shares 4 Midland 100 Ditto New 2 ..... 81;4 ....... ~ . • Midland, Birm., Derby 100 Newcastle and Darling- ~•• ton Junction 24 . 5O 51 ..... .. Neweas.le and Berwi c k 1 1 / ? , North British ........................... ....:..... 7 1 , h 1 1 3 3 5 % 42 ..... 5 .. 3 :: : ::: . . .... Ditto New Richmond and West End •.• ..... Junction Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp , • Dudley, and Birm 214 5 371 .... '•• ......... South Eastern & Dover 331 2r4d 4 O 3A 1 ( 41 . .. Ditto, No. 3 South Wales 2 l /2 si 5r ... . ..... . Trent Valley 2 19 1 %4 -: ... .. West Cornwall Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ... —.. „•• ...... ' Yarmouth and .Norwich. 20 ..... , Ditto, New 8 York and North Midland 50 lO5 ........ .... Ditto, Selby Ditto Extension ...... 14 — ••• ....... FRENCH RAILWAYS- ••• Boulogne and A mien5... 2 ... ... ••• Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 .... •• Great North. of France.. 4 ..,., . Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. •-• be 0 9 Tours and Nantes 1 ...Are • c e.i b MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE,' FEB. 19; a nd P i r • i p belp, rather loss animation in our market to-dsY , - ...-Ell o ic, not quite so firm as yesterday. Our sales are ;0 13 , ' 01 1 ' and Glasgow, New Quarters, 65% ; London Old A 58% ex new and ex div. ; London o' o % "n er IVestern, New, 12% ; Manchester , ~J 3ur' Prelt °( oo fte i sendale, 11 10 3 / 4 ; Midland, 401. Shares , 6 % 2 ,' DitP 3, o o•o l . . d , Wyre, 22% ; Sheffield and Manchester , 10104 ; p ore e ; Shares, 12 15-16 ; South-Eastern, Nn• ,-, 3 l ac kborr,L ; 01 Junction, 6%; Ditto, Half Shares, 2%) •"''" 1, . , r'l A il and Bolton, 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Livell: ' Glese l y ' - ' 6 l donian, 71/ 2 , 8 ; Churnet Valley, 814 ter Pit A, All Dumfries, 14 ; Huddersfield and Manches.l6 ; yee4ito_.. o ' Canal, 5% :Y. t ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 15 ,. r i c ,aud ; or', West Riding Junction, 6 ; Liverpool, 00 115 , 1 _,,. j4evr '11 4, !, 3 1 4 ; London and York, c., pc 3 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton Dudley, , . 274 , Valley, 20 19 3 4 ; Bordeaux and Toulouse, Fire and Life Assurance, 11%. 7% ; North British, 6:14 ; lop rivlereart orn the ß'lur to or - -----; " — n - -- -- cted looP g four , 10 a. cp i k e ai s vn t r y l and ihoanm al; a P lß r a i cr n ei c g e thht A iosn l b a. e f t r e t rnaotoen e:c o p : srot , ; 1 vat . travel fr from Brighton by a special t T ra h i e n. r°j- k t h is o Off A Cabinet Council was held at two street. goo t. noon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-stree I• / the Ministers attended. $ ' SOY* P.. 1 At th e Sergy ~,,, or mr ili • .. lic c a. : ,,aasi o tve D . r e , : l E a lear the workhouse, Olerkenwell, on the boll A t .--14_, • Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest much respected by his employer, who Allow ~ , ,t v .ror:A A, ::ss,;:::ThhiAllN,daeiclOdesiLsnendmh,AisaNedqpireneFert:sl4T:era:strieecri-troo- ri : us g ..,, i_ ..1. 7 10 :; . genres. As he was proceeding to his residence in the C ity - the he dropped suddenly in Goswell-strcet, 811 " 0 . ...La Stli ca ter SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN FLEET-STII,E.IIT,oct from Die os lt a i b ii o .n u i t ng te t n h( o , ' , c , l , o rn ck e , r asogmeenwtlhemata:hwaraps:iving I .__ ri tot l e d sttlf (by the League office) Into Fleet-street,-Liaritiop:pedit wg ,, t1,1 if 000,7 /7 ; bled. The consequence was that the owne r, w ith gre . ' io, O n tallied, was a medical gentleman, WAS thrown out soterrlh.,,,A on cep's On n ,T s Li, : segAfd: y : upon the road. Being a heavy mall, the fall was . .,, A 0 Itl i n o v- tO O those who beheld the accident thought that lie a",, ts 7ieri 1 00 the spot. He was, however, immediately raised _ 101 ,; . it we e „,._..o chemist's shop close to where the accident u sed _1 ea...i/10 found there were severe injuries on the head, _t_ a _,, e , were ZOO cuts and bruises, but that, fortunately, those I l. u .` e an d fv , " means of a dangerous character. The horse, a P ------- beast, was perfectly unhurt, having only sliProl• On the 14th inst., fat Wytham-on-the-nillt BIRTHS. Lipcolllsbire the N n vif t e h of Lieut.-Gneral Johnson, M.P. , of a„ s f c 7; a rd 11 01/ Winstanle3 e 1 - 4 o ti f i woo On the 14th Inst.:at Bridgewater, Mrs. J. 'WWI 13000' inst., at Wandsworth, /t.fre..w 0 On the 14th inst. at Mornington•creEcant, Dins. 'fa ° f of a daughter. ' the /11 On the 14th inst., at Dalton, near Ulverstone, the Baldwi of a Bon. ' ha r esrse' On the 14th inst., 'at Dunstable, the wife of Jo Esq., of a daughter, still .born. rer MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at Staverton, Devon, v,tl Robins, Esq., to Emma Ann, eldest daughter of H• L'rTe'laeo! On the 13th inst. at Trevor Chapel, Charles Eavair secooo son of Seth Smith, 'Esq., of Eaton-square, to Grace, daughter of Ilugh Garden, Esq., of Piccadilly. sliclOreeennto:ttiihJoeh6nth.jesinses,tl.,:saqt..,Asgrld):wdf2c6ll!....greent Manchester' o°o St. e James's,9thi n st, ag L e e d ah 3B , .the wife of Ur. C. gootsl,ltPll p 'O d yotir _.a. L m )11. , t. • 'od and Publishad by AWED° izo. PL. ' trig: Prin The Sum Ofac,ciNs eti Strand, 2 in S id t the Precinct- of the Savoy', in t he Middlesex, Thursday, February 20, 1845 * • 4 4 i / 4 1 4 az do t . • 1 )1 4 ' Ir ° 4 o l . ri t Z),, e4 Z g o 0 ,, 4 bt t . . hr r 4v i t ea A r p t i Z ) , d 1 , 1 41 t, t4i;l: re -q„ Pr, the 36,C Dane Dly t. Ly on this ( teno c , eon PiRIII n s -, 111) VA t th, 'N, 4 4 ri e kre444e Atethr.; N t