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t o the interests which—(The conclusion of the sentence restrictions on commerce to abate the motives for enter was drowned in loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Well, at prise and encouragement to perseverance and industry. opinions least so far as intention is concerned, I ent reat y ou to —(Loud cheerin g .) These, Sir, arthe which, upon a deliberate which consider whether I could have any personal—(Cheers) I adopted some years ago, and —or political object—(Hear, hear) —in giving the review of the condition of t he country, T _o these opinions have been con counsel which I gave and in recomme ndin g the mea- firmed b y all subsequent exper i ence. sores which were adopted. Wit h re g ard to other I adhere, and I ho p e I shall no t live to see the day when charges or other language—admitting that there ought to the House of Commons will retrace its steps.—(The be, with respect both to the conduct and the motives of Right Hon. Baronet resumed his seat amid loud and public . men, the utmost latitude of discussion—l shall continued cheering.) not complain of any terms which have been used. The Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, before the House came only charge that I shall refer to is one which was brought to a division, it was his duty to state , wh y , as a Minister against me by the Noble Lord the Member for Notting - of the Crown, be felt it incumbent on him to resist the haeashire (Lord IL Bentinck), who not only imputed to motion of the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire. The me misstatements, but who publicly declared at a meet ing in his county that I had a pri va t e an d pereonal in- Hon. Gentleman had proposed to go into a Committee terest in recommending those changes of the law which to consider the poor-rates and other burdens affecting I had proposed in 1846.—(Cheers.) Sir, I think it would the landed interest. The Hon. Gentleman had told be as well if we abstained in our political controversies them, that if they so went into Committee, he should from imputing to each other dishonest motives.— propose three resolutions, the effect of which would be (Cheers.) I should be disposed to give to the Noble to transfer to the Consolidated Fund the whole ex- Lord, in any course he might take, credit for the purity penses of the poor-law establishment charges, and some of his motives, even while I felt it my duty to censure half-million of other charges. The Hon. Gentleman had and denounce that course.—(Cheers.) But the Noble said, that upwards of two millions would be so trans- Lord has not treated me with that consideration. He f erred ; and then he went on to state that this was the first not only thinks that my course has been most impolitic of a series of measures which it was intended to propose, and most unjust—he not only thinks that I was un- with the view of lessening the burdens on land. He faithful to the interests I was bound to protect—(Cheers objected tot he propositions, in the first instance, because and counter cheers)—but he says that I was influenced he thought the allegations were founded on an injustice. by considerations of private, paltry gain in advising the If it had been established that this sacrifice was just, repeal, of the corn-laws.--(Cheers.) And the Noble then why, he asked, should not the remaining ten Lord founds his charge against me on this allege- millions which the Hon. Gentleman contended were Lion—that my interest in funded property far exceeded unfairly planed on the agricultural interest also be the interest 'Mich I had in land.—(Cheers and laughter.) transferred to the Consolidated Fund? The claim of The Noble Lord had, it appears, condescended to make justice—if claim existed—applied to the whole twelve inquiry into my private circumstances, and undertook td millions, as well as to the two millions which the Hon. inform those who listened to him at the meeting that my Gentleman proposed to transfer. The Right Hon. interest in land was only one-fourth of the interest I had Gentleman the Member for Ripon was fully justified in the funds, and that, therefore, I had a direct pecuniary when he said that the Hon. Member for Bucks contem motiveimadvising the repeal of the corn-laws.--(Cheers.) plated that this was not the only charge unduly affect- Well, lam sure, Sir, Ido not deprecate any reference ing the landed interest, but that twelve or fourteen ma to mrprivate affairs which the Noble Lord may think lions would follow the proposal that was made. In the it consistent with his public duty to make. I may say I next place, he (Lord John Russell) did not believe there shouldhaveborne with much less calmness andequanimity was any justice in this claim. He did not think, if they the charges against me if I deprecated inquiry and exa- compared the whole burdens of this country laid on va mintition into any act, public or private, connected with rious classes, that there was that unfair pressure on: the the discharge of my duty to the Crown.—(Cheers.) landed interest which the Hon. Gentleman asserted. But this I think I have a right to complain of—that the Let them consider how far the other classes, as cora- Noble Lord did not act fairly—that, if he thought it pared with the agricultural classes, were affected by fitting to charge me with personal motives, and founded taxation. With regard to the legacy duty, it did not his charge on circumstances of a private nature, he affect landed property, while it applied to personal pro should, I think, have made himself intimate with the perty. There were also the excise and customs duties. facts, and not have preferred charges on assump tions Having shown that the claim was not founded in justice , utterly - ' and totally erroneous.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, I he asked, was it expedient to make the transfer pro shall not trouble the House with reference to private posed. As a Minister of the Crown, he was not bound matters; I shall only say on this point, that if the Noble to presume that there would be a surplus revenue of two Lord happened to state exactly the reverse of what he millions, ort hat the House would deal with that sum as did say he would have been much nearer the truth. — available, and if there were not those two millions, (Gheers and laughter.) I hope, therefore, that however then the Honourable Gentleman would have to pro • ungrateful he may think my course, or however impo- pose new taxes, but further than that, he litic, he will at least acquit me of any intention to derive must say, that having increased the debt of this personal gain from the policy I have pursued; and in country within the last few years, it would be their duty future, before you denounce the conduct of any public to see that any probable surplus over expenditure should man as treacherous, let me advise you to place your- be applied to the diminution of the debt, as so increased. selves in the l situation in which that public man was In the next place, supposing that the House was to de placed, and to consider the duties which devolved upon cide that the whole surplus should go at once to the re him. •When I .and those with whom I acted in concur- vision of taxes, he did not see that they were called upon reties', my valued friends and colleagues—when we de- to decide:at onceithat the whole of the revision should be termined that it was our duty to propose to the Legisla- on the taxes of real property, and thus preclude them ture the repeal of the duty on food we were threatened selves giving any relief to those engaged in industry.— with a+ortentons and most grievous calamity, and it (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman whomade this pro was impossible for us to know to what extent the din- position said he did not ask for relief for the great landed order which affected the food of a large portion of the proprietors, but for the 240,000 small proprietors, the people-of Ireland might go. We knew this, however, yeomanry of the country, whom he professed to repre that in Ireland alone 4,000,000 of men depended on one sent. Well, then, how would his proposal affect them as article of stibsistence. We knew that that article of sub- compared with the removal of other taxes? In the evi sistenco was seriously threatened, and I must say for one deuce given before the Lords' Commttee, he found that I did feel it my duty as a public man to take pre- that the present taxes oa stamps were in the following cautions, even should they turn out to be superfluous, ratio:—On 501. there was a duty of 30 per cent.—upon agairse the occurrence of a calamity which might be fatal 12,5001. 1 per cent.—upon 25,000/., 15s. per cent.—and to the peace of the country, and to the existence of upon 100,0001. a duty of only 12s. on the 1001.—Hear, many thousands.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, I did hear.) It appeared, therefore, that the small landed believe it would not be conducive to the interests of the proprietor who wished to effect a mortgage for 501 would agricsaltural classes themselves to see the effect of disease have to pay in stamps and law charges a duty of 30 per and famine, and yet refuse the natural remedy—namely, cent., while the rich and large proprietor who might effect increased supplies of the means of subsistence. I did a mortgage of 100,0001. would only pay 12s. percent. He also feel, Sir—this duty once removed—that in the thought it was nut consistent to ask the House to come state of public opinion and of public predilecti , .n which to any resolution which might have the effect of pre existed, a conflict for the revival cf it would not be for eluding the Government from proposing, or the House the interests of the landlords.—(Cheers.) The Noble from making, any revision of those taxes which would Lord opposite (Lord J. Russell) had come to the same lighten the unequal burdens which pressed upon the conclusion. He did not, I believe, intend to emhaerass small yeomanry themselves. He did not mein ti cuter the course of Government; but he had also come to the upon topics which had been so ably treated by the conclunion that the duties on corn ehould be repealed or Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, or the suspended, and that after their suspension their revival Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamwoite. There would-be impossible—at least impossible without a con- was only one thing in the speech of the Right Hon. flint which would be injurious to the interest of those Member for Ripon which he felt compelled to notice, for whose advantage protection was established.— which might otherwise give rise to very serious appre (Cheers.) Sir, it was my sincere belief—l thought it hensions in one of our colonies. He meant the proposal my duty—a duty I owed to God and to my country—if that a tax should be put upon colonial timber.—(Hear, there was a chance of famine, to take the precau- hear.) He would not they discuss the question whether tion which alone could be taken, and to suspend the Parliament had done rightly in reducing the duty on daties.- I (Cheers.) I did conscientiously believe that Canadian timber to one shilling per load. The act had after that suspension it would be most unwise to been done, and considering that in 1843 the Canadians give a pledge for the revival and renewal of those had been induced to expect the; they would have a pre duties as they then stood. I may have been mis- ference in the corn market of this country—an expecta taken, Sir, but all subsequent events have confirmed tion which had been disappointed by subsequent legisla my impression that we were not in error, tion—he did think that it would now be a great injustice and that the course we have taken has been a wise one. to levy any further duty upon timber. But reverting —(Cheers.) But if it had been mistaken, would I have to the proposal of the Hon. - Member fur Bucks, he had any personal or political object to gain in for felting repeated that its adoption would preclude them your good opinion—in relinquishing office—in exposing f rom ta ki ng nay steps to diminish the debt which had myself to the abuse and vituperation of those who had been contracted within the last few years, and would been my friends, and—infinitely more galling and more also deprive them of any opportunity of reducing the painful—in losing your confidence?—(Loud cheers.) taxation, which now pres,.ed either upon the industrious But I must submit to it, and, submittirge I declare that or the propertied classes. It would, he thought be wiser the interval which has passed has only confirmed my to wait until the fir ancial statement for the year we; confidence in the prudence of the course that was laid before the House, and ti ey were in a condition to adopted in pursuance of the policy of those commercial judge of the whole case, before they came to any resc principles which .voro acted on subsequently to 1312, and lution :Jet:fetes% The Right Honourable Member for to which the prevent Government has, infinitely to my the Oxford University had said that his Right Honour satisfaction, steadily end consistently adhered.—(Cheer- 41.1 e Friend (Sir G. Grey) stated that the resolution ing.) Sir, I agree with the lion. Gentleman—l am no would not preclude them from considering the pro enemy to the landed interest; all my prejudices, sympa- priety of transferring these charges to the Consolidated thive, and interests are connected with it—l agree with Fund; but then his Right Honourable Friend stated, him, that the land is the stable basis of the countrj.— that he merely meant certain small charges which could (Loud Protectionist cheering.) I should deplore the day be more t ffectually dealt with in that way, but which when the land lost its legitimate influence, but ray belief would not be of any great advantage to the agricultural is that that day will never come. My belief is that the land classes specially. Nor, indeed, did he think that real will always retain its legitimate influence. Why, you property was a species of property that had any special are now exclaiming that if there were a dissolution of claim upon them for relief.—(Cheers.) Besides this it Parliament, and new elections took place, so predomi- was not certain that this remission would in the slight nant is the influence of the land that you would re- est degree benefit the tenant-farmers, fur whom it was turn a. Parliament which should revive protection.— ostensibly asked. But there was another circumstance (Loud cheers.) I totally diffor from you with respect to of great importance, which must not be overlooked that result. It is my firm belief protection never will in considering this question, and that was the in and never can revive —(Loud cheers and counter-cheers) creased expenditure which would be caused by the —but you convince me you think the just influence of transfer proposed. As long as that expenditure was the land is not diminished when you prophesy that you defrayed out of the local rates, there was a guarantee can restore protection .—(Renewed cheering.) The for economy, and a strong disposition on the part of lapse of time, the progress of public opinion, the altera- guardians to use it, which it would be very difficult for Lions of institutions and manners, make great changes in his Right Hon. Friend, the President of the Poor-law the causes which contribute to the influence of landed Board, to enforce if the whole was transferred to a ge property. It would now be utterly impossible to clothe neral fund. But besides the transfer of the establish the land with the privileges it possessed at the time the meat charges, the Hon. Gentleman proposed to transfer feudal system was imposed. All institutions have alike the casual poor.—(Hear, hear.) He had heard that been compelled to change and modify the grounds on proposal with great surprise, because, if there was one which- they maintain popularity. Queen Victoria can- class of poor that was liable to increase more than an not speak to the House of Commons in the tone in which other, it was the casual poor. Upon a former occasion, Queen Elizabeth addressed thorn; but I doubt whether Mr. Ward had stated in that House that the cost for the the influence of Queen Victoria, though great preroga- casual poor had increased in Sheffield, in the course of Lives of tee ICrowa have been relinquished—l doubt if a few years, from 131. 15s. to 5001—(Hear, hear.) He her influence in your affectionate attachment and willing, did not see how his Right Hon. Friend could control or obedience is not greater than that which Queen Elisabeth- check expenditure in that class. It could only be enjoyed.—(Loud and universal cheering.) So it has been done by vigilant local control. He came to the with the privileges of the aristocracy—so it has been with conclusion, then, that it was not desirable to make the privileges of the House of Commons. There was a the proposed transfer, either on account of the time when he who fished in your ponds would have been apprehended and punished f or a b reac h o f privilege.— charges themselves so proposed to be transferred, (Laughter.) You made wise concessions to justice—old or on account of the increased expenditure it would ' occasion. But there was another part of the state abuseseare gone, but has your legitimate influence de .- melit which the Honourable Gentleman had made, and creased? No, but it has been derived from other sources. Your willing abandonment of wh a t cou ld not b e justly which had also been made by others holding the same maintained has given you ampl e c om p ensa ti on in views, which deserved serious consideration. The Hon. t h e hearts of the people; and so it has been with the land. Gentleman said that this must not be considered as a payment of the whole debt due to the landed interest, The froward retention of old enactments and old privi- but merely as an instalment, and had intimated that he lege; would only undermine, not sustain your power. was prepared with a series of measures to follow this as But the time having arrived when the relinquishment of further instalments of the assumed debt. Well, were protection was more for your permanent advantage than they prepared to adopt these measures.— (Hear, hear.) relining it after a severe struggle, my belief is that, The Right Honourable Member for the University of by relinguishing and by giving to the poor and to the Oxford, said he was not, and that agreeing to one did labouring classes j ibe advantages of unrestricted imports, not imply support of the others. But that it was part by doing it ivillingly, when there was no immediate pros- of one consecutive policy was akown by the speech of sure upon you, when there was no threat, no menace, the Hon. Member for Bucks, and by the views of those you have received ample compensation in the point of in- by whom he was supported. The petition presented by creased influence and authority. Your great influence Ron. Member from his own constituents prayed for cannot be diminished. It is founded en ancient institu- duties on all articles of foreign] import, cii course in tions-ein the nature of the Constitution, and in your eluding corn. The measure, therefore, was intended, in high character, and depend on it th a t it w ill no t b e the first place, to lead to the placing the poor-law este abated because you have refused to receive pecuniary bitshment charges on the Consolidated Fund, and in the advantage by incre as i ng th e pr i ce o f corn, an d rev i v i ng next place to lead to the restoration of protective duties. the restrictions on the rood of the people.—(Cheers.) I felt sure your interest was i nt i mately connected and in- He must confess he was considerably surprised at the manner in which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. terwoven with the gen era l prosperity of the country. It may be premature now to d ec id e on the ultimate results Gladstone) bad argued this question. He said of the policy we have pursued—(Ch e ers)—but • give the Protectionists the first of these series not entitled prematurely to condemn it.--(Cheerosa)arel of measures in oiler to weaken their chance of its restoration. The Right Honourable Gentleman was am s peaking at a moment when the exports of mandae celebrated for his logic at the University, he now luring produce in this the first year of free tr a d e i n corn have exceeded by 10 , 000 , 000 /. the exports of the last represented, but he must certainly say that such logic as year during which restriction on food prevailed. lam that was widely different to anything he had ever heard before. fro The usual process was to prevent an opponent speaking at a time when there is general contentment and submission to the law, when crime has been dimi- themlrtitiing any advantage or accession of power, but nished, when prosperity has been increased, when there process. e H onourable Gentleman would reverse that has been an increased consumption of food—if you lf the House was to agree to go into. Committee no doubt the Protectionists would immediately intro will not admit that all these have been the results duce some measure Ri ht t r the restoration of the duties on Y food, which the of our commercial policy you cannot deny that the sisted in abolishing. g If they gave such paltry re lief, Honourable Gentleman had us have been effects concurrent with it.—(Loud cheers.) refuseda s it wouldthe be restorationconsidere d o f b by the m , a s ohnotteww million, would that tabuidt I don't taunt the Honourable Gentleman for not bringing forward the question of protection • but Ido deplore that 'there has not been, an d . is not likely to be, weaken or allay agitation in the country. He believed on the contrary, that this agitation would La ten times an opportunity for testing, by d iscussion, the merits of t th u at great question. It is, I cannot help feeling, unfor- greater than now. Though he confessed he under nate• that, by some direct vote, we cannot decide s tood the object of the Honourable Member for Buck whether p ro t ect i on s h all b e revived or not. It would be inghamshire, he could not understand those who, being important to set at rest the minds of the occupying against the end, yet voted for the means.— tenants on this subject—it would be important to en- (Hear, hear.) The agriculturist's might think the Go courage them to apply themselves to the imp rovement distress, and of the land.—(Cheers.) I wish the landlords w ouldon ly understand that it is by improve at by thHe sincerely symp athised with vernment was insensible to their refused them relief. tion of skill, by facilitating the exertions ' of his e a pplies- tenantry, that distress, but he bel ieved that they wo ul d .. not h only that he must rely for the ability to meet foreign compe tition, and that he must abandon the hope of protection. seriously disappoint them, but serious At ly i t n o ju th r e e h t u e rd m ou i s t such a resolution as that was passed. di -(Cheers.) My firm belief is that protection isan te-1815, less than on the land, he would state, that while . 28. 3d. c-f the nable; but lam sorry it is not brought to the test b y rent taxation fell upon real property in distinct motion by which the opinion of the House a f the land had also one-half fell upon it in 1849, and as . Commons could be ascertained. If it were brought o risen in value, he did not see any just ground in the pro forward, I should then state at length e posal now made. The true interest of the landed pro forward, ou which I adhere to the principles prieto commerce, rs of this country was to encourage manufacturi,s ' on which I acted in 1842 , and on whi c h I and to promote the General :prosperity of the should implore you not to check the confi- coun t r y. because nobody would more largely participate denee that has been reposed in the justice and wisdom in it than they would. If they did this, it they bent of Parliament. I should ask you to trust to the revival their energies to the improvement of the cultivation of of agricultural prosperity, by continuing the encourage- the land, instead of employing their time and money in men; of labour, by increasing the demand fur your pre- au agitation which a Noble Duke hat avowed was in duce, by tended to turn a Government out of o ffi ce and restore removing every remeret of restriction, by giving to this great people, possessed of such advantages protection, they would most effectually promote their as no other own prosperity.—(Hear, hear. ) The continuance country in the world enjoys—in the com mand of s,kill, of coal, of capital—of every element of of this agitation could onl y tend to prolong prosperity--a free supply of food; I should implore you the distress that existed, and to unsettle men's to trust; to these privileges,awe. If it was terminated, he had no doubt that ~...-3- • 'the agricultural - classes would act as Mr. Lind- to your superiority, and all Lind these " tiell "Tantfiges, and never again to seek by I THE StN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE-NING, say had done in the case of the navigation-laws. He fought stoutly for them last year, but as soon as they were repealed he said—" I feel it to be my duty now to make the best of my ships, to introduce a supe rior class of officers and men, and to take every measure that might enable me to compete with the world." If the shipowner could do this, who had to send his vessels abroad, why could not the farmer and landlord do so, who had their own market at their own doors?—(Hear, hear.) Another great error was committed when it was stated that the land in other countries was less heavily laden than in this country. In France the proportion was 80 per cent., in Prussia 20 per cent., of the whole revenue. If this was the case, let the landed interest of England look to their own means, their own intelligence, for success in the great and useful pursuit in which they were engaged.—(Cheers.) For his own part, he be lieved with the Right Ron. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) that they would preserve the influence they had hitherto exercised. In the course of his speech that Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to some matters personal to himself. He must express his regret that the Right Hon. Baronet should have been induced by any attack upon his motives to notice such attacks.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever might be the motives by which the Right Honourable Baronet was actuated in the course he adopted in 1846—a course in which he con curred—his belief was that full justice would be done in this time and in all future times to the purity and disin terestedness of those motives by which he was actuated. —(Loud cheers.) The Right Honourable Baronet at that time commanded a great majority in the House of Commons. It was in his power, if he thought fit, to maintain the corn-laws he had himself brought forward, and he (Lord J. Russell) fully believed that nothing but a sense of duty to his Sovereign—(Cheers)—to his country—(Cheers)—to those with whom he acted— (Loud cries of " Oh, oh," from the Protectionists, answered by cheers)—a sense of duty alone had induced the Right Honourable Baronet to take the course he then did.—(Renewed and louder cheers.) He did not mean to express any opinion whether the course adopted was at the time the best calculated to produce all the benefits which undoubtedly he intended, but this he did say, that it would be to reduce the noble science of social and economical legislation to mere party :squabble, and to degrade the statesmen who led that House, if such sordid and selfish motives were attributed to them when they acted in accordance with their deep conviction of duty. —(Renewed cheers.) He trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would in future think it unnecessary to defend himself from such attacks, but whenever he did he would be certain of a generous response.—(Great cheering.) Lord H. BENTINCK rose, amidst considerab'e ex citement. He said, that at that late hour of the night it was from no feeling of vanity that he ventured to claim the attention of the House for a few minutes. If the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth had con fined himself to what he really did say, and had adminis tered a rebuke upon that, the sharper his criticism the better. But he had not confined himself to the expres sions of which ho complained, but had given way to a weakness which sometimes induced him to fasten upon men inferior to himself in standing and ability, and had expressed opinions which he thought bad been rather hastily endorsed by the Noble Lord.—(Protectionist cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet bad accused him of falsehood and treachery. Sir R. PEEL—I said falsehood, not treachery. Lord H. BENTINCK continued—Well, treachery and falsehood amounted to the same thing. He pre sumed that what the Right Hon. Baronet alluded to was what had taken place at the meeting at which he (Lord H. Bentinck) had been present, and had stated that he believed that the Right Honourable Baronet was better enabled to deal liberally with his tenants than many landlords who had 'no funded property, and that he believed that only one quarter of the fortune of the Right Honourable Baronet was in vested in land, and three-quarters in the funds. If the Right Hon. Baronet would now get up and state that the contrery was the case, he would retract that statement. — (Oh, oh.) He had also stated that the measure proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet bad had the effect of im proving his own fortune at the expense of the country, and in support of that statement he would merely quote the statement of the late Sir Robert Peel, that the Cur rency Bill of 1819 would ruin the country, but it would raise the fortune of his family.—(Loud cries of " Oh, oh," and Protectionist cheers.) Sir R. PEEL—I am really quite ashamed to trouble the House again on this subject.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord was reported to have said at a public meeting that I was directly and personally interested in proposing the repeal of the corn-laws, because he had good reason to believe that, with respect to my property, it consisted three-fourths of money in the funds, and one-fourth in landed estates.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord now asks me whether I have not something on mortgages? —(Much laughter.) Now, I hope it will be satisfactory to the Noble Lord, if I tell him that I have not one single shilling upon mortgages.—(Laughter.) What I said was, that if he would just reverse his proportion, and say that my property consisted three-fourths in land, and one-fourth in the fends, he would be nearer the truth.—(Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI said that when he looked to the meaning of the motion he was bound, as he believed every other unbiased Member was, to aver that every Hen. Member who opposed it had altogether avoided dis cussing the question at issue. For he would ask the House, was the support of the poor looked to in any other light than that of throwing the onus of their sup port princieally upon the landed interest? He did not mean at present to allude to the law of settlement, as to the support of the poor, nor should he make the slightest allusion to it, but that the Right Hsu. Baronet (Sir George Grey) had laid such stress and emphasis on it In his very elaborate speech. For his own part he would avoid alluding to it any further, Particularly as he intended to make it a distinct question at another time. When the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) said that he (Mr. Dis raeli) confounded agricultural property with real pro. party, as to the assessment of the poor-rate, he felt bound to state that the Right Hon. Gentleman was inistalw. He raw nothing more important than that the landed interest should be as it ought to be, and that public opinion should be as much as possible advanced in the cause of truth, humanity, and justice.— (Hear, hear.) In a word, he believed the returns brought forward by the Right Honourable Gentleman to be erroneous, though he would not have recourse to the system of special pleading, by objecting to a single tittle of them, as they di el not at all mar the object he had in view, nor appertain to the motion which he proposed. The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) had attributed to him and his party a degree of selfishness in wishing to get rid of taxation, and re ferred him (Mr. Disraeli) to the railways; but to him he would reply, that his motion tended to serve net only the landed interest, but the railway interest, and every other interest in the community; and when that Hon. Baronet had pronounced his measure as enormous, he would not make any reply to that assertion, as so many Honourable Gentlemen had clearly and Intelligibly controverted his arguments.—(The Honourable Gentleman here read a part of the speech of the Right *Honourable Baronet (Sir J. Graham) delivered on March 17, 1845, in which he adverted to the landed interest as being un duly burdened). Again, the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth (Sir Robert Peel) said that he wished that an opportunity would be afforded him for discussing the merits and demerits of protection; but to that he should say that he had frequently that opportu nity, and.whenever it was alluded to by that Right Hon. Baronet, it was always attended with the gravity and importance of Parliamentary mystery.—(Laughter.) Yet he should say that the Right Hon. Baronet had ad mitted, when in Committee with him, that the landed interest was unduly oppressed. He also recollected that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) answered to a ques tion as to his opinion on this point, that he was of the same opinion as the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel); but what the benefit of this similarity of opinion was no one ever knew since. The only thing he could infer from it was, that one of the Right Hon. Baronets was for the reduction of the duty on bricks, while the Noble Lord was for the reduction of stamp duties.—(Laugh ter.) Now, it is necessary to look to the interest that both *hose parties took in the case of landlord and tenant. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), who was a great landed proprietor, said he had made a great sacri fice for the interest of the community at large.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Wolverhampton made a magnificent array of the intention of the Government, for the purpose of reducing taxation as much as possible. He would refer to the speeches of those Honourable Gentlemen, and find a con siderable contrariety, if not a :contradiction, existing among them. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) pointedly alluded to the speech of a Noble Duke, and seemed to infer that there were apprehensions that it was the intention of their party to subvert the Govern ment, and to dissolve Parliament.—(Hear', hear.) In his (Mr. Disraeli's) opinion there seemed to be no appre hension that there were " two Richmonds in the field." Ho would next refer to what the Right Hon. Baronet had said respecting the decision of the House, yet he should say, though he did not wish to oppose the opinion of the House, that the Right Hon. Baronet had exag. gerated his views of Parliamentary authority. He (Mr. Disraeli) denied that a question of such importance could be settled by the House of Commons. He considered that his motion affected no less the interests of England than it did that of Ireland, and he hoped that the Irish Members would look to their own and their country's interest. (Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman's speech that night was one in vin dication of character, and he had been making such speeches for the last four years. Eminent as the Right Hon. Gentleman was, he was not too great, sad he would recommend him to say, as did Cosmo de Me di cis, that for the future he would appeal to posterity.— (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") He (Mr. Disraeli) de nied that his motion was a reversal of the measure of free trade. Ho denied above all that it was a measure to assist landlords, and for the benefit of the aris tocracy. It was a measure for the benefit of 250,000 landed proprietors and 100,009 farmers. It would be the commencement of a new era, which would increase tho resources of the country, and would be the fore runner of measures which would elevate the character of the peasantry of England.—(The Hon. Gentleman then resumed his seat amid loud Protectionist cheers.) The House then divided, when there appeared — Fur Mr. Disraeli's motion 252 Against it Majority against the motion --21 The announcement cf the numbers was received with cheers by the Protectionists. The House immediately afterwards adjourned, at Half ost One o'clock. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY qOMrANY.- The hall-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the company's offic e s at the Bishops gate station; Richard Paterson, Esq., in the chair. The attendance cf shareholders was but scanty, and the wh o l e of the business consisted in reading the report and de• claring a dividend, after which the meeting separated. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. NEW, ENLARGED, AND CHEAPER EDITION. With the Omitted Passages Restored, numerous additional irc , tes, and a General Index. Now ready, complete in 5 vols., wittrll lus /rations, 10s. 6d. each bound, PEPYS' DIARY and CORRESPONDEN(;E. Edited by LORD BRAYBROOKE. " A work of standard importance in English literature."—.ll the =um. " Pepys' Diary is in a very high degree historically valuabl )." Timm. " The most remarkable production of its kind which has ever been given to the world."—Edinburgh Review. " These volumes are unique in literature."—Blackwood's Ma L. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, :11r. J Anderson ; Beauseant, Mr. Montagne ; Glavis, Mr. Parry ; 6. eneral Daman, Mr. Baker; M. Deschapalles, Mr. Davidge ; Pauline. Des ehapelles, Miss Va,ndenhoff. To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Charade rs by Messrs. Baker, Davidgc, Rafter, Artaud ; Mrs. Winstaniey, Miss Nelson, and Miss lluddart. Private boxes, 21. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11. Ils. 6d., and 1/. Is. Stalls, ss. each. 5. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 4 0 Boxes - - 2 0 Fit - - - 2 0 Pit • - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper G. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. . THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Selo Lessee and Manager, Old Brornptc THIS EVENING. Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Soh+ s, Il r. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buck stone ; William Walker, air. Charles Kean; Mrs. Flora Floweeew , Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which WHO'S YOUR FRIEND ? To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, ca lied an &LARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buekstone ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The Box-offise is wider the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer . THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Calcite. THIS EVENING, - I Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WI ILOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, l?. Bed fare, 0. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY: CharUcters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matth caws. To conclude with FRANICE N STEIN; or, The Model Man. r .•anken ;tein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel , Mr. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss B. Chapli ; Agatha, Miss Coeeny ; undine, Miss E. Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING _ _ Will be performed the Opera of THE NIGHT DANCERS. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Mai lc Fiddle, iariequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, .1 tr. Flex nore ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mi.'. Daven• port ; Mrs. Haller, Miss F. Vining. After which CATCHING AN HEIRESS. To conclude with DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cm ear, Mr. Davenport; Lazarillo, Miss Marshall; Maritana, Miss Vining. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA comur. Last Week but One of M. CHOLLET'S Engagement. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that tb. ) French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING, At Half-past Seven, when will be performed LES FRE/tES DONDAINE. After which LE rosiiiroNi)u LONJUMEAU. Cha I telou, M. Chollet. _ _ _ _ ox-oiltlee of the Theatre is open daily from E leven till Five. Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, (Al Bond. street. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrla. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles JEathe we. THIS EVENING. Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. Dress Boxes 5 , . , Upper Itoxeb, 4s. ; Pit, 21. ; Gallery, le. No Calf-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. All croft, 15 New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A.MPHITHEATitt. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven. with a new Grand Spectacle of THE CORSE DE LEON ; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the t itablisli- went. To conclude with BESS OF THE BELL; or, The Love Story. Box-office open trum Eleven till Four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM Day orning, 26 min. after 9 I Evening, 7 min- alto , 10 To-Mosaow—M mning, 81 min. after 10 I Evening, 34 mina after 11 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 22. DIEBNOMETER, Lowest, 35; Higheit, 50, Noun, 52, BATIORUCTER. 30'36. WIND W.N.W.—fine sunshiny weather. vinced of this, we see in the cause of monopoly a cause altogether so hopeless and impotent that we regard the fuming and vapour ing of its advocates with a feeling of contemptuous indifference. Their noisiest orations are so entirely the flatulent ebullitions of an innocuous revenge, that we have heart to cry out defiantly with LEAR in the play,—" Blow winds, crack your cheeks I" But, it may be asked, how it comes for the nonce that a minority, in itself so contemptible, should find itself swelled out to such respectable dimensions in last night's division ? We reply, that for this the bickerings of faction are answerable—that the Irish representatives are re sponsible for a large portion of the odium thereby attached to the Legislature. Were the same spirit of petty revenge carried out much further, we should soon perceive that if the principle of JOHN MITCUEL has obtained small recognition, his example has proved largely contagious among his fellow-countrymen in the Legislature—their aim being, in fact, identical with his, namely, " the disruption and downfal of the bloody old British empire." Before this can be accom plished, however, it should be borne in mind that the British empire is" still defended by the stalwart hearts and brawny arms of the great race of the Anglo-Saxons. Most appropriate and felicitous was the quotation from ALEXANDER POPE cited yesterday, at the meet• ing at Willis's Rooms, by Lord CARLISLE. The happy prophecy of the poet as to the advent of a day when " Unbounded Thames should flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide" will meet with a very literal realisation at the period of the Great Industrial Exhibition ; and not only will the letter but the spirit of the prophecy be than ful filled. Not only will individuals of all nations be actually gathered together by the great meeting to be holden in London in 1851, but the very proposi tion, and the peculiar terms of the proposition, for that assembly will effect much, and have already effected much, towards strengthen ing and developing the bonds of interna tional amity. The meeting held yesterday in Westminster was in this, as in all other respects, worthy of the occasion on which it was convened. At that meeting the Foreign Ministers of France, of America, of Prussia, and of Belgium, vied with each other in tendering, in the names of their re respective nations, an expression of generous admira tion at the suggestion, and an offer of cordial co operation in the furtherance of the proposed under taking—an undertaking in every way worthy of the British nation, and eminently creditable to the en lightened Prince who has rendered himself so honourably conspicuous in its promotion. The very appearance of the various Ambassadors on the platform yesterday was an exquisitely appropriate recognition of that universal character which forms the peculiar and glorious feature of the proposed exhibition. In addition to the appearance of those Ambassadors, and in addition to the eloquent truths set forth in their various discourses, the meet ing of yesterday was rendered attractive by the pre sence of the Earl of CARLISLE, whose enlightened and accomplished mind and liberal principles eminently qualified him for taking a conspicuous part on sue} an occasion. Very justly did the Noble Earl re mind his auditors of the peculiar fitness of the pro posed festival for the peculiar characteristics the age we live in. " If," he argued, " in cultivated Greece they delighted in games adapted to the public taste, if the sterner Romans took pleasure in the dying throes of the gladiator, or the bloody struggles of wild beasts, very surely at the present day, in order to be national and becoming to the spirit of the age we live in, industry, skill, and enterprise, should have in their turn their own ova tion!, their own triumphs, their own high holding, when the workmen and workwomen of the world may escape for a time from their unceasing toils, for the purpose of seeing what their fellow-workmen are doing, and can do, the whole world over." Very justly did Lord CARLISLE cite this peculiar feature of the Exhibition as one which entitled it to general support. It is to be, in fact, an ovation to Skill and Enterprise and Industry, those three great powers to whom, humanly speaking, this great country is wholly indebted for her national prospe rity and magnificence. Therefore, as the French Ambassador truly said, there could be no better arena for the contest than the metropolis of England. A nation of shopkeepers we have been styled in de rision, and we are now about to show that in the noblest signification of the word—inasmuch as it signifies individual skill and industry, and mutual co- operation and beneficence—we are proud of the title. Some few years back a member of the aris tocracy boldly ventured to assert the pre-minence of mercantile over hereditary honour— " The land it boasts its titled hosts, they cannot vie with these, The merchants of old England, the Seigneurs of the seas." And now we find all classes, from Royalty down wards, uniting to afford a world-wide evidence of the high estimation in which this country holds the noble industrial arts. It is, however, superfluous again to enumerate the excellent effects likely to arise from the industrial festival. Regarding it merely as a sign of the times we live in, it is productive only of satisfaction. It is satisfactory, inasmuch as it is a na tional homage to the peaceful arts, and it is more than satisfactory, as being, as the American Minister happily styled it, a great Peace Convention. While foreign nations have, by the lips of their Am bassadors, freely tendered us all the assistance we re quire of them, it remains for the British nation indi vidually worthily to consummate that portion of the arrangements in which she asks for no foreign help. " This country," said Lord CARLISLE. " enters the lists of competition with the whole world, but it does not forget that it bas to discharge the office of hospi tality. The competition is to be international, but the preparations ought to be wholly national." This determination is entirely consonant with the national feeling—it:remains to be seen whether in a financial point of view the undertaking will be rendered worthy of its high object, and of the liberal character of the British people, a question which can hardly be con sidered as admitting of the slightest doubt. Among the speakers at the meeting of yesterday was Lord BROUGHAM, who for that occasion only transgressed a rule he has kept for twenty years, namely, never to attend a public meeting. The occasion was well worthy of forming an exception to the rule. WEST INDIA MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 22.—The Trent arrived this morning with West India and Mexican mails. She brings 450,000 dollars en merchants' accounts, and the exact number in manifest for the Mexican divi dends is 1,392 dollars. There is also on freight a quan tity of cochineal, jalap, cigars, &c. Tho Jamaica markets bad undergone no reaction since the 17th ult., the date of advises via Now York per Em pire City steamer. The Clyde had arrived with the Mexican mails, which was transhipped on board the Trent, on account of its being necessary for that ve3sel to return to England for repairs. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COM PANY.—The usual half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held this day, at twelve o'clock, at th e Euston-square station. The report recommended that a dividend of 2/. 15s. per cent. be declared for the six months. The proceedings had not concluded when we went to press. SINGULAR RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPER? Y. On Saturday week, near twelve o'clock, a party of the detective officers, either from information supplied, or from their own suspicious, entered the small cheap auction shop of a man named Burns, situated on the south side of Tron gate, for the purpose of making a survey. The man knocking off silk and other goods at what is termed :in •• immense sacrifice," when the police found it expedient to stop the sale, and clear the shop of the onlookers and purchasers. On an examination, they turned out 139 silk and satin handkerchiefs, cravats, &c., many of the articles of a very superior description, and which there is now no doubt formed part of the plunder of the shop of Miss M‘Rinlay in Kilmarnock, which, ono night last rzonth was broke❑ into by bur• glars, and almost the whole stock carried away. During the pa.t winter the housebreakings in Glasgow have not exceeded an average ; they have possibly been less ; but in several provincial towns, such as Ayr, Lilmarrock, Paisley, Stirling, Fal kirk, and Perth, there have been many daring cases of housebreaking, in which, in the aggregate, property to the amount of some thousands of pounds had been stolen. We trust the seizure which has now been male will throw some light on these proceedings..— Glasgow Herald. MR. COBDEN.—We regret ,to learn that a domestic nffitetion prevented Mr. Cobden from attending the de bate OA Mr. DiUSW§ motion. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW !.F. CITY, QUARTER TO THU P. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken on specula tion. The market closed steadily, but all dt , !criptiens were p. per lb. lower.—ln Railway Shares only a limited business was done, and the market closed heavily. We observe that there continues to be a marked degree of caution observed in the produce markets, and the speculators have temporarily withdrawn, so that tee business doing is principally for home use. Holders, on the other hand, do not press sales, and thus there is a manifest want of activity in the two great staples, Sugar and Coffee. Tea also is in lees rt quest; and at the public sales a limited proportion only has found buyers, at lower rates. A demand has ariseo for Cassia and other spices have been more dealt in. Tallow has been heavy. The Wool and Indigo auctions have been well attended, but there is a dull trade in Cotton and Hemp. The following is a statement, received per Overland Mail, of the quantity of Ceylon coffee to arrive:— Per Sailed. Bags. Casks. Reflector. 23 Oct., 1549 ... '2,400 ... '253 Garland Grove 8 Nov. „ ... 5,967 ... 212 Olinda ...... Sarah 6 Dec. „ 2,799 .. 99 Cambria.., 6 Dec. „ 3,131 ... 233 Hope Calphornia... • Nile Robert Seppings 7 Jan., 1850 ... 2,142 Asia . Kestrie Dispatch ... . ... 12 Dec., 1819_... 74,4 Narcissus ... 221 .. 1,147 ... 415 ... 543 ... 1,198 693 ... "1 2,859 cwt. 35,578 5,239 The telegraph announces the arrival of the Trent steamer with late advices from the West India Islands, as well as the Mexican mail. Tho specie on board amounts to 200,000 dollars. No letters have yet ar rived, but the summary appears in another column. Port Philip and Adelaide advices of the 2d and 6th November state that trade was rather dull. The new wool ha l not come down fur shipment. These accounts are by overland mail, and consequently there is not the usual supply of letters and papers. The Funds are rather heavier to-day, owing to the smell majority ef Ministers in Parliament last evening; but aaother and more potent cause is the anxiety to wait until the anniversary of the French Revolution is over. Consols have been 951 to for Transter, and 951 to 1 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 971 to 981, and the Three per Cents. 958- to Bank Stock is 206 to 207. Exchequer. bills are 545. to 575. premium. In the Foreign market Peruvian Bonds have partially recovered, the Active Bonds being 784 to 80, and the Deferred 33i to 341. Mexican Stock is at 29g. The remittance for the dividend, per Trent, is 80,000 dollars, as wee edvised per telegraph to New York early this welt. Grenada Bonds have been nominally 17i to 181, and Equador 31 to 4. Brazil Stock is 88 to 90; and Buenos Ayes 58 to 60. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 18,1 to 19, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 32" to 33k. Dutch Two-and-s-Half per Cents. realise 55. Railway Shares are quiet. P • •4:•;; , 4 OF .`.ILITIsFi uta)z. ONE G O'CLOCK. PRIPES. - auk Stock 207 206 206 3r er Cent. Reduced Arms . • 95% % 955 , :per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 95 , 4 1 / 4 95 i 4, ‘ew 314 per Cent. Anal... ... ...... ... 98% 97 97% New 5 per Cent. Annuities long Anne. to expire J en. 1560 . -16 8 9-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 -16 8 7-16 Ditto 30 year:, Jan. 5, 1860. B% 8% Yndie Bonds, 1,0001. — Ditto under 1,000/... South Sea Stock i onsAs for Account 9 5 % 1 / 2 1,4% it x chequer Bills. I'4o. it 2u 500/. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. TYNE O'CLOCK. E 8 p 10534 354,3 54 p 51 p CLosui, rßicEs Brazilian Bonds ........ .... ..... .... Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 - Ditto, Account . — Danish Bonds, 1325,3 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. Grenada Bonds, 1 1 / per Cent — Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons •......., Ditto. Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account ..•...... Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account — Russian Bonds .0... Ditto Scrip 2 14 p Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 55 1 4 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates— 861 2 86 86 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAM. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Bristol and Exeter 92 ...... 64 Ditto, Thirds ..»..... 28i Caledonian - .. 50 Uhester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference Eastern COUR tie 5........ 20 ...... 7 1 4 'A ... .... Do , New Prcf.rence, 6 per Cent.. ... ...... 10 ...... 113 /a .... . , ... -. l l 3 /4 East Lancashire ..„. ........ ..... 10 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 27 1 4_ ...... ...... 27 1 4 Great Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref I2IE 1 0 34 lO% “rsatNorth of England.loo --227 Ditto. Now, 301 '3O Great Western 100 ...... 6 2 '4 14,........... 62% Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, New 171 l5 ... ~ 7 1 h 4 ...... ....- 7% Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Do. Fifths L3eds and Bradford Leeds and Tbirsk ..... • 50 Landon, Brighton, and South Coast... ..... 109 ...... 801 ... ....... . Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . _.IOO L9ndou and N Western 1 00 lO3 108% , Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 D:t to, Fifths l3 ..... 12% 1 % l 2 l /2 Midland ...... ....... .....1( 0 .• - 44% . 42 Do. Consol.Bristol and Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ....• 5 4 5% .Birming., 6 per et... 100 .. ... 123 3 / Norfolk ............ ....• 100 &orth British ........ .... 25 ..... 10 1 4 10 Ditto, Quarters % Ditto Preference ...... 5 ...... 51 ,0's ••• 5i [Worth Staffordshire ..• 17 1 / 1 6 I j i 6% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 .... 1 53 / 4 5 / a , - l5 South F.astern Do.. Registered No. 4 10 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. s Guaranteed ... .. ...... 60 Do. do. do. —25 - •••••• 25 1 4 York, Newcastle, and Berwick. ... _ Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 ...... 10 9% •• 9 i f ; Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... -2% 2 1,4 York and North Midland 50 ...... 18'% 4 i i i .. ...... Ditto, Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN .R.A.I. .... LWA ;c I . 17 ( 7 iv 7% 6 Boulognl and Amiens... 20 . ~. x.d Dutch Rhenish .•.••.... 8 ... _ MINES. _ _. Australian... 4 „. 534 United Mexican 2B 99% 17 1 /i 48 - 29N 33 1 / 4 33 2 1 / p 34 s' l / 2 i MAREET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) . CORN-EXCHAN GE—FRIDAY. Notwithstanding that the arrivals of English Wheat have increased to some extent since Wednesday, the show of samples of that grain here tc-day (as the car goes had been chiefly disposed of prior to being ins ported) was small. Selected qualities moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. In the middling and in ferior kinds, so little was doing, that prices were almost nominal. Upwards of 7,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come to hand this week. This addition to the sup ply checked the pretensions of the importers, and only a moderate business was transactel, at unaltered curren cies. Fine Seed Barley was firm, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling sorts ruled dull. A large supply of Malt was on offer. That article moved off heavily, at barely late rates. The snow of Oats was trifling. Fine parcels sold freely, at full prices. Damp qualities were neglected. In Beans and Peas, as well as Flour, no change took place. Indian Corn, afloat, was offering on easier terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Malt. I Flour. Barley. Oats. Wheat. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks English •• •• .• 1,580 2,390 2,980 3,710 5,960 5c0tch........ Irish ........ Foreign .. •• 7,220 600 130noUGEr EOP itirrs.ENET . Our Etat kct is very bare of fii o samples of Hops:s t th thmud for ttn.in i, in a sluggish , t .te,st la st week . ,i ° prices. In elt other kinds next to nothing is doing, and we have sliers on rather lower terms. New 3iLd. and East Kent pockets, 61 6s to 111 Ils ; new Weald of • Kent ditto, 61 3s to 81 • new Sussex dit t o , 51 85 1 0 '3l 61 10s; nt.w Furnhams, 121 to 134 yearling t", 1 ‘ 41 logs; yearling Sussex, 2/ 8s 10 3/ 15 s ; old Hole, 4 ;co 3/ 155. etf4,44,4 COLONIAL. SUGAR —The rnarka has ruled quiet this week for' all dEscripti•;ns, and price; have been fsvourab le to buyers. Barbadoes, by auction. has realised 41s 6d to 42s 6d for fine yellow, and 38s to 40 s 6 d for middling to god. Crystalized Demerara has been sold at 40 to 475. REFINED.—Grocery lumps have been at 483 ed to 516 per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Mauritius at p u blic sale: wait off hravily, yellow 38s to 38a 60, and brown 23s lo 32s 6d. Bengal has bleu 6d to is lower for the inferior descrip tions ; fine white Benares has been sold at 416 to 426, strong yellow at 42s to 445, and brown at 293 to 3 1 s• Madras declined is per cwt, good And fin e soft brow' st ]ling at 29s to :As 6d, low to good yello w at 318 33s 6 i, and white at 395 to 395 6d. FOREIGN—White Savannah hes been sold in bond 14 25s to 25s 6d rer cwt, yellow has been taken in at 3 1 • to 39s 6.1 for low and mid, and at 40s to 42s for g° ° .,, and fine, duty paid; brown 36s 6d to 375 6d. Ri°l/3111 white has found buyers at 403 6d to 41s; and Pernsul" buco was taken in at 20s to 23s for dark wkite. COFFEE. —Thin article also has ruled ll ; but as holders do not press sales, prices have varie d but little. Good ord Native Ceylon effared by auction was tal l in at 61s, and Plantation Ceylon has been sold a,t 6Cs 6 to 67a for low mid, and 64s to 65s for fine o rd el 3 68s to 72s for pea berry. Jamaica low mid was b fir 665. Costa Rica has been cheaper, good and ha ord 48s to 51s, and Java sls to 523 6 d; La Guaira h realised 44s to 44s 6d for good ord,, an d 49s ed f or fine' COCOA.—Trinidad has realised 44s to 493 6d per cwt. , being full rates. SPICES . —Cassia has improved, and a large buri n !" has been done, but the advance was not wholly s'sord tained upon the lateq sales made. Prices have ra,"! tit from 105 s to 1133 per cwt. Pimento has been so' t; 7d per lb; Bengal Ginger at 20s to 223 61 Pe r n o and White Pepper at 64d to 7il per lb. Nutraso begin rather dearer. Sumatra Pepper has been boughtbso at 4d, and Malabar at 4ed to 41d. Bourbon Cloves realised 8d to Sid. SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta has been at fall cud uotations; dc s e i rna p ts, e: m, e c n i e dt n s t aotr2t, 32 refraction, 6tso 62d5, s good 3t . per quality,cent; 287 3 s t 0 63 2 , 8 as n 6P RICE. —Bengal has ranged from fis 6d to 93 6c l, 911 d: Madras from 8s 9s 6d. INDIGO.—The to public sales have progressed stesdil/uPf to this time. is 3/ 8 ' TALLOW.—The market is very dull, and P.Y.—' 1 per cwt on the spot. „3, of TEA.—At the public sales 8,200 packages Pa ss ' I, a; which about 2,000 were sold, the total sold being sv?„.l .5,000 packages out of 18,900 offered, withou t alterst7 : in prices. The sale rather improved towards the ,1 100 GREEN Faurr.—The market for Oranges opese. to week with an advance of 2s to 3s per box , but owls got, numerous arrivals here as well as at the outports oir s advance Michaelha s sol n d ot bbyeieineesliunsgtaiannedd, Hunt, at OM ° e at e, s w e e v n i t lle a s t o a urs r , ed so u l c d tio b n y a t publi% o o f o t f he l a sa t 2os parties, iitAndecdartt ifl frosted state, sold at a low figure, and but one carg o ' a re good condition now remains in first hands, and s° snore expected this reason. The holders of Barcelons wish continue film. The stock of Chesnuts bes v P an indifferent rale. Lemons without alteration. al A Ir.) LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(THIS .1" o d LONDON, FEB. 22.—Wind W.Y ., .W fresh breeze 5 fin De. FEB.'ver EAL, B. 21.—Wind W.—Arrd. from the --1 tb Eliza, Trinidad. Put back, Santipore, Adelaide, s°ll Australia. OFF DOVER, FEB. 21.—Slandering, 1,51111..,C tv' Sid , PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 21.—Wind W. to W•D""* .-- 9 atoe• 1 American Eagle, New York. A Albiel l ' K un O g ly st E e s a , FE dt,P s e . rna 2 m l. b — uc lh o lind W.N.W.- 11m. mid. BRISTOL, FEB. 21.—Wind W.N.W., st rong." Maid of Et in, Harry, Buenos Ayres. 00 , 1 0, mo M b r a r e .F ; O G nn e , o F r ; a n t;a 2 , o W .— i W im i i n n d gton. N.W.—Sid. Kitty, - ; h fro ° LIVERPOOL, FEB. 21.—1 t bles hard last 1 1 . g.,. - t icii r . the westward, but to-day it is more moderate at v", Oft —The William Rodger, of Drogheda. has put back Je Arr j, having been on shore on the North Ban k ' We sl ' Wyoming, IVliereker, Philadelphia; Star of the Lomber, New York; Middlesex, Snow, Boston• to f 6 MARGATE, FEB. 21.—The stern and stern-P°4ob, wreck, with yards and sails, supposed of the elliP ' have been fallen in with. "'" A °CI* SOUTHAMPTON WATER, FEB. 22, 8 30 A. 0 ,-. The Steamer from the West Indies. Or BIDEFORD.—Arrd. Emma, from Newport for mouth, leaky. WARE - WORTH, FEB. 21.—The Mary, 1 0l t° Ef a rt.eP e ° oc bs. Grangemouth, has put in herr, having been ou t he r AX' HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS , It IV The House sat again to-day to hear spri"' Lo rcl Peers preheat were, the Lord a NOtiel u Brougham, Eurl Nelson, and the Bishop PETRIE V. LORD GRAtl r * t i ° col' The further arguments in this art-heard aPr e ' ' pied their Lordships the whoteti p tornl n g• ES A 1451 THE DUKE OF HAMILTON v. TTik% MAGISTR AT TOWN COUNCIL OF lIAMILTON• . thif Their Lordships gave • 'gm It yesterdsY 111 appeal, affirming the ,judgment t"f e t i l.e Court be.l oo '. o ft). Nothing of the least interest occurred to•du / Vice-Chancellor's Court. Chancellor, Norwich• „ I ...., The Alast(r of the Rolls s9t. pt the Privy Co u- rp hrIP JUDICIAL COI I II3IIT - I:_b_E OF :y.) PRivy COUNCIL.—(THIS 1) Aq 01 11 (Before Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMP BELL , th e t i o 4t g. of the ROLLS, Sir EDWARD RYA N , an d the 4- --- , PEMBERTON LEIGH.) 011 ANUND LAL SING DEO, A PPELLANT, AND - I t II= : DHERAJ GARROOD NAR AYUN DEO, BALan°— SPONDFNT. . the P e n r' This appeal arises out of a di sputed claim I,,forf - ,,, r gunna of Kasaeper, formerl y part o f the ZPlnnaeg`- Rajship cf Pacheet, situated in the district of t" ( !„ e oft; Mahals, in the presidency of Bengal, and cOosil' i ti- j Or to o at t i h on e ginally of twenty-two pergunnas. The sPP e i . : ili%; whose respondent are both members of the Narayu ° 111 .30 — possession the itujahip of Pacheet ha s re r - re ' he' Council n s c e i v l e r r a e l l a t g e e d n e sume the pergunna of K .which had b een g el t he asaeper, - by an ancestor of the respondent to the f atherf o appellant for his life. A me n sr;igahntdofthethequie.eBstipOnedhee°°t 01°Itreei The MASTER of the ROLLS delivered the ,1 11 4, 5 , O a , the Council this morning, and their deeisio,_: open : they would recommend to her MajeetY ant te le c o up ought to be dismi sre d, and that the decre e Of t acr e below in India ought to be affirmed. slaula ~e . Mr. Turner, Mr. Forsyth, and M. J. 13 . •"",, 0 , 0 dee- counsel for the appellant ; and the respori 1 Apar presented by Mr. Wigram, Mr. Lloyd, an d 3 ' r. 4 -it.) Q Dr" •ce QUEEN'S BEN C H.—(ll-11 Pet i (Sittings at Nisi Prior, at Guildha l l , before M COLEIIIDGE and a Special Jury.) e BARKER V. GIUSON. the res pecter. This action is brought by Mr. 13arker, l d a nt,a advertising agent, to recover from the ck . 7 90,0 16 1 0, Gibson, a banker at Saffrod Walden, 7 974 i° ~ ra C °ll hs d North roug a railway scheme called the Eastern an don b 00 0 ties Junction Railway, 66/., the cost of an s° _,l 211, c by the committee in Mr. Barker's name, au' 00 re in another similar action. day', - The care, which was part-heard } rester de' ,12 , sumed this morning • f or 1,..- Sir F. THESIGER. was addressing the jury fence when our report left. 0 Stamps ChairmanLONDON GRANGESandof WEDNESDAY the Ni Exe THE INLAND R LVEsUELIErA°II"(II4.I;i "."...lr. Thornton, late Deut-Chairman of the B oar d ° f ments in dne t 3 h d e ti Series" of these Dy e ß s s , : h 3r a Dd s Aeyf succeededlenloalacdoßgt o eTv t s e h , nefe:eirni;:ofti b, : p r r 0 i 0 0 ; : Hart Davis, Esq. who has retired. , 1 : 1• 1, —On W e more worthy at Exeter Hall, with various decided „„,teri b i where the directors g c,f ni lm g a h ne t si t e h e e l -first en Concertteosino ools ris;:pgroilvo:o; to render the programme higher in eo°,o o se lw. London ma provem , specters er.ts are alluded to in the passage: . tbe, t :0 L u i u nc a e t that' i°l P which,neralannounce n conduced e 1* , ' 1 ..7. operatic sire of Wednesday Concerts will genet:l'lo o' 4 ' o h with a grand of u the subscribers, the Spring‘..cooo,_.; ssing orchestral symphony; ! with such selections, which have 113"heucef°11-he distinguished in th favour, will be given " m ot t , second part, while, in order to sic u f t o ll progre • taste of the public for u: , . a ,asioo s — 4 exce elevated order, the first part will, on several. ''''' t i c ely " the lusiTely devoted to the performance resPrfeti, piaci s&is works h of ElLndel, Haydn, Mozart, Deetn° 0 ,0 13 e, lai c a l o n, ltmini, A über, Meyer beer, and other r ~ s o t 01 miscellaneous sters. On such occasions the second part will eTpieeee•f In iscellaneous selection of vocal and instrurnenr part ,°,, confined s lvelY to 'l t o l c z 1 e accordance with this pledge, the f ui " Orc" -- dey "Lion vsa' Wednesday evening's concert F!rformers were Mrs. A . Nevrton, gistr,, ad, miss Eyles, Herr Fo; NI S'Ens Bee ve s ' and mes, r. 1 , e , yielie,, 0 Mr . s the second a s n e d een t d he pmairste.ellar,iehoeusprsieeleeivaipveibi, • H. Drayton. Ernst performed on tu „„ jec isi i'L.terndale Bennett on the pianoforte. signor v_„ (1 p er" made his first appearance at these coneerte. rbooti f e o f rased a solo on th e flute with great taste anni.sii of intonation. lie was much applauded. The crowded ----••••• _ ...._. BIRTH'S. r B• ° al ' On the 19th inst., at Brighton , the wife 0- - Esq. (late 93d Highlanders), of ;son. ...-, stoif er ' S Es o q. n , t o h f e a l d 9 a th ug i i n i s e t. r: at Kennington, the wife of ~ ' A 11• sg lii° (At the 19th inst., at Mortlake, Surrey , -. lr2 ' _. of a daughter. Fred e ' MARRIED. . On the 19th inst., at St. Giles'e Camberwelqtr:diter of rick Pickton, of West-square. to 'Jane, second J. B. Wilks, Esq , ot Camberwell. Wight, DIED of DIED. t Is le f On the 15th inst., at Bledina-cottage, •,-'ruvill°,,r,./1' erill a Hospitals, aged Be. Dickins Buckle, Esq., Deputy inspector -LA. .10 3116° 1i - • • r On the 16th inst., at Barnsbury-villa, ge`,, r f e rrJe: Katherine Ferrier, sister of the late f3'ir Aictialatied it s el: - K.G.H., her Majesty's Consul for the Hagu e a Pewter:cies. 41; f r A , • r • ( 1.'4 4 CI) VIA= 71111: LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1850. Amusingly enough the Protectionists are actually pluming themselves on the result of last night's divi sion in the Commons. What where the numbers ? they inquire in a tone of exultation. For Mr. DISRAELI'S motion, 252. Against it, 273. Majority for Government, 21. " This," saith the organ of monopoly, floating over the bottomless gulf of Oblivion, with the red flag of Protection nailed to the mast, " this is a virtual majority for Protection. Deduct the placemen who voted with Ministers, and to-morrow the Court Circular would have announced that Lord STANLEY had the honour of an interview with her MAJESTY yesterday." A DANIEL! yea, a very DANIEL come to judgment ! " Deduct," say we, _" from the foregoing declarations all its gigantic absurdity and impossibility, and within a fortnight all the journals of Europe would contain the particulars of a tremendous revolution in this country." Little do these wiseacres of the Country Party dream of the terrific powers, the irrepressible groundall-conquering on which they are ambition they are now performing their grotesque antics is already quicken the ing with a political earthquake. passions, trifling with. he T Before it be too late for themselves, it would be well that they should beware ! There is a story told by certain travel lers of countries in which the soil is perfo rated by the craters of apparently extinct volcanoes, into which cavities, if a pebble be cast. the abyss groans, the earth becomes tormented by sudden con vulsions, and at length an eruption of great violence commences, the mountain vomiting forth as of old its molten lava and red hot ashes. It may be so with reference to the frivolous taunts and pertina cious provocations of Protection, continually hurled as they are from county platforms and from the Oppo sition benches of the Parliament into the seemingly extinct volcano of the Anti-Corn-law agitation. Let these legislative triflers be more cautious, if they have any regard whatever for the maintenance of na tional tranquillity. Let them beware of rousing that storm which of all tempests is the least easily allayed—the storm of popular indignation! They are rubbing away very industriously at the old lamp of Protection : let them beware, we repeat —or they may summon up the Destroying genius of Re bellion 1 _ _ sometimes blow across the level countries of America We have read descripti a ons h o bo f autst t eo h n e —where at the indications of their approach the inhabitants of passed over, and the people down into its subterraneous the those hurricanes have trap-door afterwards. Not unfrequently, wh en emerge from their refuge underground, they behold nothing but the sky overhead —all vestige of their dwelling-house having disappeared. During 1648, and many times previously, we have witnessed political hurricanes quite as destructive —hurricanes sweeping away like dust the colossal institutions of the dif ferent states of Christendom, and clearing the ground for the erection of new fabrics of a severely Demo cratic character. Those men in England who are now tempting upon themselves their evil des tiny should bear in recollection that, in the ntidst of these hurricanes of popular wrath, they will find no crevice in which to creep from the fury of the prevailing devastation. Before the withering breath of a revolution men as well as institutions are liable to perish. They should take these considera tions into account, for we tell them plainly, we tell them boldly, and without any hesitation whatever— Before you can restore the great wrong of _Mono poly, before you can cause the law to retrograde from the present system of unrestricted commerce, before you can contrive to replace the new scheme of Free Trade by the old scheme of Protection, you will find it necessary to force the country through all the horrors of a Revolution hurricanes that Trait evening it was most solemnly and emphati cally proclaimed in the British House of Commons by the late Prime Minister of England—" It is my firm belief that protection never will and never can be revived." It assuredly never will be revived, it never can be revived, except by force of bayonets and gun powder,- - Nevertheless while we are profoundly eon. FEBRUARY 22, 1850 SMITHrIELD. Compared with that exhibited on Friday last, the supply of Beasts on offer to-day was somewhut extensive; but its general quality was by no means first-rate. As the attendance of buyers was small, the Beef trade ruled exceedingly heavy, and Monday's prices were with difficulty supported—the extreme figure for the best Scots being only 3s led per 81bs. The numbers o' foreign stock, especially Calves, were considerably on the inereare. Amongst them we noticed thirty oxen from Spain, in excellent condition. There was a decided in crease in the arrivals of Sheep from the Midland counties. On the whole, the demand for that descrip tion of stock was heavy, and the late improvement in value was barely maintained. Calves ruled heavy, at a fall in the quotations of 2d per Blbs. In Pigs, very little business was transacted. Mulch Cows sold slowly, at from 141. to 181. each, includilg their small calf. Per 81bs. to sink the Offal. s. d. to e. d,' Inferior Bearts..... 210 3 2 Second quality ••• • 3 4 3 6 ['rime large O:.ea.• 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots •••• • • 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 4 Prime small ditto .. 3 6 310 Sucklinf Calves —lB 0 25 0 Infbrior Sheep •• • 3 2 3 4 TOTAL SUPPLY Beasts. Sheep. 530 I 3,210 FOREIGN I Sheep. 340 SCO Sheep. 50 B. d. to s. d. Second qual. Sheer 3 6 310 Coarse-woolledditto4 0 4 2 Southdown Nether 4 4 4 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs •••• •• 3 4 3 8 Sinai! Porkers •• •3 10 4 0 Quarter old Pigs ..10 0 21 0 Lambs .. •••••• •• 0 0 0 0 AT MARKET. I Calves. I Pi gs . 241 300 SUPPLY. Beasts. 180 Calves. 1 Pigs. 20 1 Pigs Beasts. 160 I Calves. NEWGILTZ AND LEADEN=ALL. Those markets ruled heavy to-day, at barely stationary priers:— l i; 1 1 Beet,lnferlor...... 8 2 . t o 2 8 d 6. At per stone by the Carcase. s d. to s. d r 0 14)1jj. d DIP I/1) r4°. n'idalbag .• •..2 8 210 ' I Mutton,inferior .. 2 210 primelarge .. 3 0 32 •- prime •• 3 6 31 d No. 112, strand, Printer, at Th t, tOe w - prime smail.• 3 2 3 4 Pork, large. •••••• 2 10 3 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the D0...,,,v-st Yeal lit •..•.••• •11 3 310 , m 4 1.1 1,,... a 6 4 4 I. iddiewsis y r id a j u bniary 2; lOuve