The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON SAT ILA DA Y EVENI NG, DECEMBER, 6, 1841). NAVAL INTELLIGENCE: MALTA, Nov. 28.—Mr. Leckie, a mate of the Hibernie, and a nephew of the late. Sir P. Malcolm, has received the death vacancy in the gift of the Admiral, fallen in by the late Lieutenant Hill, of the Inconstant. On presenting Lieut. Leckie with his commission, the Admiral, in a neat speech, delivered on the quarter-deck, declared that he gave it him as a reward for his invariable good conduct, and the posses sion of those qualities which would do honour to the ser, vice in which he was enrolled, and for which he had con stantly evinced so much zeal, and in his future appointments and promotions he should look to the character of the person on whom rank was conferred, without any reference what ever to the circumstance of his serving on board the flag ship. Her Majesty's steamer Acheron was submitted to a, very severe inspection on Tuesday by Captain Richards, Flag Captain to Sir W. Parker. Her commander, Lieutenant Aplin, received a high compliment, on its conclusion, for the manner in which the duties of his vessel were carried on, and the high state of discipline which reigned on board. His Excellency the Governor this week commenced his half-yearly inspections with the reserved battalion of the 42d Regiment and the Connaught Rangers (88th), the further commanded by Major Dunsmure, the latter by Co lonel Phibbs. The commanders of both regiments received high com pliments on the military appearance of their men, and the manner in which the evolutions were performed. The firing of the 42d was particularly excellent, and the sword exercise, on the new principle, elicited the highest proofs of satiefac • tion from the General. Barracks and books were next inspected, and his Excel lency afterwards dined with the officers of the regiments ; on Wednesday with the 42d, and on the following day with those of the esth. The India mail arrived here by the Iberia at 10 P.M. last night, and will be forwarded early this morning by the Acheron to Marseilles ; that part via Gibraltar will leave to night by the Achilles, The French steamer Egyptus, from Marseilles for Beyrout, arrived during the night. Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus has hauled out into the stream in order to be inspected to-day. Captain Richards and Lieutenant Wyse are appointed to that duty. Ponzsmouzir, FRIDAY.—The Lizard steam sloop , Lieu tenant Commander Tylden, was hauled alongside the jetty yesterday, to repair damages sustained in her passage from the river to this port, having carried away part of her bul warks, and sustained other injuries. The little craft behaved most gallantly at sea, but from being overmasted was obliged frequently to go at half-speed. She made, it is said, 1 knots an hour with ease, and 10 knots against a head wind and sea. She cannot " stand up ;" her masts and yards are therefore being taken out, and she will be newly fitted with Sticks similar to those of the Victoria and Albert. The Tartarus steam-surveying sloop, Captain Wolfe, left last evening for Woolwich. The Sindbad navy lighter, and Netley tender, sailed yester day; the former for Devonport with stores, and the latter for the same port with supernumeries. The Fanny tender, Master Commander Allen, returned from Cowes this morning, with Admiral Sir Charles Ogle on board. The Persian, 16, Commander Croyton, was at Vera Cruz on the Ist ult., all well. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliot, was at Havannah on the 10th ult. The Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Carr, left Havannah for Jamaica, on the Bth ult. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice-Admi ral Sir F. Austen, Commander-in-Chief on the West India station, the Rose, 18, Commander Pelley, and the Vesuvius steam-sloop, Commander O'Callaghan, were at Bermuda on the 20th uhf, . The Pickle schooner, Lieutenant-Commander Bainbridge; was at Port Royal on the Ist ult. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Black Eagle, Fairy, Dasher, Comet, Sparrow, Lizard, and Echo. In Dock—Prince Regent, Amphitrite, Leander, Childers, Wanderer, Rattler, and Rifleman. In the Basin Nelson, Trincomalee, Harlequin, and Scourge. At Spithead—No man of war. PROMOTIONS. Mates—W. G. Herbert, 0. Borland ; C. H. Young, of the Agincourt ; W. C. Forsyth, of the Volcano ; • R. H. Mow bray, of the Hazard ; and F. D. Graham, to the rank of Lieutenant. THE CORN-LAWS. Fro Times. Now that tl - .e cor ( n-law m s the are indeed ) given possible up,n nothing aitet but that th e d ee d b e d one w i t h all i niinity and grace. Fur the sake ofpeace and good ex ample it is well that all the actors in the drama of pro tection should assemble on the stage and assist the past, el °'ing scene. Let nothing mar the farewell to t a I is true atel the i nauguration of our future career. that brief time is given us to prepare for these pious keen:lllWe*. But one short month is allowed to get "er the prejudices of an age. Such, however, it:must be reuietubered, is the usual proportion between recon- CiliatiOnS rid the feud s w hi c h they heal. S are li ostinty and error, that they never f, ever will abate t r s a e C t l a o b n i g e 8 there is leisure to be obstinate. Some sudden ca 1111°ItY or i nN , hurry or other mighty persuasion, isnecessary Ca to 'la " the Yong accumulation of I,rie . vance Q s, til t Pr at once into friendship and foreivenes... . "e proces itself is concerned, therefore, we will not and As far as ;)it•plaiii that the Premier has timed the nation rather , et 3. Had the agriculturist still a voice in the i._ re'' "' - ' o ld possibly att '' lie• ask a thousand years . to . forget weeks ar t sti,entments and learn to be . generous. Five b: , i) tlici nt to discover the mustwisdom py o u f m t e h n a t t s w w h h ic ie h h.eiil r „;_' . _ ti's, and the invalidity of t arguments It devolves th :r u again receive the smalle „rrauar,,.nt all tlpse . whoos s s s the ear of this class, to resignation, if not atriellinn-- 1 4 roti l eehnsme into .. cheerful is nothing whatever in w _ t _ a trirs;ierarnteeritsonf the cause to justify holding out i h ettois,s,etitutional and vexatious . enthusiasm.. 41 le ' n°" principle that is I k t e. is n N o e l t a h c e r r ed thh o e r at stake. IVagna Charta, nor theßillof o ß a ig th h , ts p , th`oltZliSettlement, nor- the Coronation ta prescribe din taotlere il-scal.e. It is no u t e o so y n a human, but also . a ) is either one of pri e „_ ,nt vention. The el f" 1 erest or of public expediency. A crusade for the r 'II. ight, under some circumstances, b . e na b t e ur i a n l_, off_otud never be dignified,.an . and if certain to 0; 44 1 could not fail to be ridiculous. This view of abandoned. The cease, however, has long e wkeir,ig-scale is now upheld as a n b a e f n onal preservative, in mood t , l every British subject, from ' the Duke of Rich- Mr. Cayley to Mr. e at° tho Kerry peasant, i ttia t t l i , is equally concerned. fr r i such it is a matter for Id b s e most absurd and mis ehi._ ti,ve discussion. It would e li 4 . s to raise the provinces, and stir up the dying of t h 4 et the quarrel a moment after the final decision t i %h 4 e Le g i s l ature had been put beyond all possibility of ,-tation i for o f A.,is only respectable when itise e it u h m er . itaileePsTinci Ple or for a p ur p ose . Under existing Ilatther' an agitation for the corn-laws would resattriet these claims to resp , e t c in owulodulndeipthosesrebses very Pros our discreet, nor au), h 'of stupidity, which . alllterinstalt eouirale and low-minded piece thing else, in fact, but a no other effect than to constitute the n ag p r e i - - ct eii r the everlasting Peter Peebles of a thh,a.,_Y quibble. It would almost be impertinent to offer tious"utten were there not certain . parties who are ambi tligti t ° .be s omebodies, but destitute of all . claim to that Ites s ti°ll , o , ll . unless they can get it I)) hanging to the corn -0413, la ith the fidelity of parasites they stick to their *4 4 oaleans of notoriety and consequence. Of barnacles will to do s . old hulk goes to the bottom, the . 1,4 e. , Allth it. Their case just now is rather serious, of our sympathy, a s sh ' c a if they enjoyed the utmo hav e 1), 111 t 1 not quite know how to advise to th d e e til t , -ell labouring the- - e many Tears . m ni . ons T t demonstrate raeri.e_eeasity the ro, [virtues inevitabtleherusTidoifnagn.soepaieen. 'l`4", and peculiar .of Se 3 ' ttre b ound, therefore, to consider the ag t r h i e cu r l o tu ad ris t t o s "IY do h r u i n ' ``hi e for, and the whole country on t qst s „!, llo Str , R. Peel, on their showing, is not merely e ittit''''' ° only' other choice P and a slipper! friend, but the very ie sn i ao of the British State. lheir t impose it upon 4 1 ._ e. alreoat too humiliating for us tae said ,is esterday morning is to confess at once that ° everything they 4401.49 these twenters up to y _ a otb,a_telY worthless, ands ncapable? of p lication to the the t : v s ant that could really put it i s sh sen t p h se em an t d o t d r o ut t h hi t s o , l atish t' We can scarcely even w It ess expect them. assume, therefore, their , 4 Pinv h ' , eli.„ l '', -P the game ; agricultural world should be 4 tatting portion of the and W e w, feel anxiety lest any 1 -it e d t il ts,,, ad iongPirt4ong a resistance which_must b a e g l r s i o e t u h lt u u s r e a - 1 c i-y t,„ . - °nous. This is the tune e f o o n r si t d h ros y (~_ :I , e due weight to every hey e and smooth the crisis. They ee a r r a e ti a o w n a w re h , i ii . h n (1 4e$ 2 : I st Place, of the numerous defections n fr o o t m be th r e e ir . raii,d fist unanimous school. They need b , ee t h '''asi e ,„ at the market-table has long si c x ea o s r ed se t v o en be y h ea a; IN 14. ,' , and that many a man who I)7tris4 hawking pro-corn-law in his the lii,P°lenger considers his interests a bound eireum u s p pe i e n_ he --ing-se-‘1 The y know with what ir aori -4 44 c1 r ' e. o - ey t te r , eserve poatics must be treated in we e _ Ll° lve a i linnirersaries, and how they je,,,,he table before they can venturearetlhoeoksliugphatensdt t he p'`,'',. Their iriternal divisions mus t by liot ' themselves. T he e1,1?"e, and ought to be owned lost on Iwriters a n ds peakers, a 4 1 ; 1 ,'° 1 1 of the 4 g ricultural body no longer exists ttee , ."Y• There arq agriculture. , hich should now i t Y. Di n i°ll3 , but no , one agricultural sc h ool and autho aor4 11 ' 1 4 there is one consideration w It is an t i' , " 8 le With irresistible force. The . p . resent protec stbitter° is a vast political responsibility. a most intole °l l'at tl i t : 3. a lid most artificial interferen h ce with the laws tble bur and Providence, and as such with the respon 'll `` P ' rd 'n to any reflective statesman. The astronomer E'ii)ibt'asselas" felt himself overpowered d The 4141 Y of the skies, although he did no m or a e un th_a . n sus- Itiqd:4ll t he the system which he f himself na g' hi .ll 4tlas must groan under cyclesand epicycles t qaaj ( , 151, Sir Robert Peel confesses . I tail ' 0 the • . labour. He will no longer !tad 'a to drive the sun, t. jPe the stars. He has had enough of qtal "anti° control li the the planets, discovered Ili a le.4° the scorched himself, and the earth into a n le;rgain. "The farmers' friend '' has discovered d and rain, q ; aest that he cannot mete out He is justly i'llill'ell,r.ishine, exactly according to . th w t e e l . n manifold and tri'e,ht:lll needs of his fastidi h ol i t s s o c w h n en machine. Corn t i i ,aes , I ,F I L - i at the working . over his path,. the le ' tsaa,,,'" 'scarcity is seen in of the distance, dark shado e ws . ttsze4 flacturing distress broo d . for what 1 ,,, 1e potirpTh, and he is seized with a panic diffidence. ''Yl l l elY will not hold himself accountable that, as Natea„PPa, especially when a million tongues, m as our t as4s to-day te s tif y , are reminding Will the agri- I v ll t i te •attl°a, stand, he is accountable. offer ? But alat4iti securities, what bail will 11" ta ke on themselves that fearful responsibility? they 9 of three hun. ti4cl 1 1 1 th eY should pledge the heads be fed, what sand that all the people . shall we find , 11 , th f ." l On in the hour of calamity s ho uld own mea :thtstis.°l:_faiture of their bond ? The Premier has a fair 11 r• e. 3,,Qe considered the best judge of his pe. Sa so C0M ‘1,111.,.." Pronounces it a failure, or at least a most nttn'4Perirnent. Who has a right to gam uel y down to his lit elms authority ? It is downright ?r tto him, to tl ade (4 % 48 ma peas to ourselves, to bind him experience k. Pa) Hs_ conceptions, and compel his riper t h tif 01Pellialty of his earlier him o r 13 s i promise f s, e r x e h o i m bit_ rashness. Quarrel with tat :44,eratleenfuififmement ; but, for the sa h ke s o m o onstrous, "la flit:b% exone te him and us from . 1 obert were If Sir R think it no t(I I, b- Ch' e ' his irnp ra ossible functions. 4111 "I"ictim of his scale' we ' migh ' t ctors of that Il ttee. e :s of oura to interfere with the projectors n others; io 44 "in" )4B iiincrack • but we, and twenty mi ' 4°l 'A in the trial. [ gte . not twenty tilll gre 141 Mt aTAxE•—There was one of the largest ii 10,4 tNiens ever known . at a village church, '('llrtr°4lllPawich short time since, during . 1144 I)" ' a gentleman in the parish. The M ahn a Polat' at the seat of a of a visit of Sir th i g si r ii % went to church in they had heard he was ` Prhoe , dart Peel preach, as the full expectation 14 , 1 ,,_ 4‘ niqer." 't•i4 ,1- R (t t he above held on Thursday, at Cut ' q " .1L I •RAm a YACHT CLUB.—The monthly t r 4 1 l 'ia z e above club was I.l, i „tee ttin 4 a Coffeeshouse t Cove_poiree house, lieu of the ht% nee held at the Piazza U h nce Co v ent-garden. in Thi . s was the e tion by the 'want of accommodation tfi ri , cii re' n e- d h e o r treockspurstreet a removal from whence inoa tito4lll34Tate w e ith ne h e e ss 7reased importance andnumerical R sell ° f the club. t an Commodore Harrison presided,embers, 5 ' Ila 0 the by numerous attendance of The report .11t114,,,s,meci pleased with their new quarters. and he '' l ts t.,nnittee which. was read, and unanimously adopted, upontkeh Lois erect . " That the committee had decided oefor that the 4 ttk t tl a g e i c n ,„R from 171; British to the Piazza Coffee-house f ,..q ef. At ntraodation and it was recommended . it f'h '''' eintriss be accepted, which was to koh l. -r the l a - meetings,smaller • and a d pay 25/. a b r. for 0 rge room for general Esq., an lit 4. • L. / 3 1 b uses." W. Stovin, Esq., C. Cole, I Iltl e ,, t awarded to the 4 u•c erl W er e Thanks were ts, were balloted for anelectecl. Five other ~0,.._ oenzir,proposed. 'ttlaelor [omit[ for their report and exertions, , AT T ', &e, when the business concluded. ...Ater d Clark, a and also to the ;344 NI- 'rEn SUICIDE. —A man named Clark, t o his _,ad master, tntea t i l t , th „,a, New Church at Wilton, hung nim cut down in —ea ~:r a s t k , 4 . s auroday last. He was, however, extinct, it cafe her place. q,illir tth ,'‘o bio life, gut not until it was nearl y.. ''' ca k on Tuesday, and No cause but dint from doc •aalt tWo hours' restore animation. via. ta" sa ‘,..... tIZ.) he re -day. f the rash act. After mu writ put by her gamer has arrived ' , .42 4 :` ,1 L e ti 7_ ll be wife9r life for which he has b 1 red r _ „eatened his s_ I ~. o, commission. immediate , V borne Journal. for he fitted , anceuverer e,,,:k4ord a „ . ; r isherton gaol. —, lei had Fullerton 's m have arrived on a • i.° 6 having and the e, t ,o k and Lady Francis Egerton 6f. Lawrence, 4 ~ the basin, t. ' - NI r Evelyn and Lad Charlotte Den i son, at Ossing - • - "I d has been discharged from was hauled into the deck vacated fit m ted as a coal depo has t aati ' X otts y b en hauled in to be L e shington, 1 1 tired t , ~ from Worsley-ha , Euryalus hag ? -frigate, Captain r eat the Noble Lord will swatl be elevated t io the The Retribution, steam 11 near Manchester. , lit iF , , ‘eniove , h tham. d 1 , At.i,.., v thQ title of the Earl of Bride v er. a 10, are being brought forward qtte e '''Lla D E II " not The Snake, 16, and Ferret, , _ 01 ,,. ~.A , ATI; mos" THE INCAT 4t i E us sE with all dispatch. 20, Bittern, -- 16, the "ri P '''' eg inquiry took place le.- 4 e evening be . before W. for commission _ yet arrived here from C d e ' s q., at the • Tavern., Walworth, respecting I n e,, ath 0 ,, , . e pilgrim 11 ' fri ate. someear ' alias Catherine Moore Rostall, aged twenty- Viper, 6, and Sampson steam. gb• )'Ocean,46 120 (flag-s IP , (ordillarY of I 1-1 b or—Trafalgar, . . s, who it ' led from the effects n ar o thi d . leas neo , , , was alleged haa d the Bamin—B 'lliant 20, Havannah, steamers. Raven, 3, and i h Nat No. herb. 111- '. ‘: Thomas llarratt, an ironmonger guard ship), that ' 4`c ' 0 - 17, C- -1 Walworth, deposed k l 4 h i eaaixl Was ,-. ~.neel-street, it 4 ho lit. • -.IS ester-En -law, and occupied apartments .habits. Wildfire and Fearless titr e was,, a , dive Was a female of very eccentric Oxford -114, e`• ijj/Nlet maker. and worked for a firm in )vit f a d N ein was generally of very weak health. On a zt, ll k quantity hursday, the 27th ult., deceased came e home ral, tid ke l :l l titY of herbs, which consisted of Pea themroi a n 11, trorna„)!l witness that she had purchased for asms, V ltil ich .a . 43 subject topains in the stomach, an sp _ l'e';tta'q ''' in East - lane, who charged her Ise them. it e it 1 „,,,„ se call in a kee' l s an t i , . supposed she took the herbs alluded to. 1.) '4l r...,, nis wife had bogged of her to eticSedZiLria:lllan, but she always refused to have one. Vi t '49 t obtt , Lulled to get worse until Sunday morning, when 1 14, 1 ' vibi,h . i e to leave her bed. Witness gave her a cup of tea, it e ' and she s din state of great weakness. 44 : 14 " alle s aid, " Oh, Thomas, I hope the Lord will d ry - t ires ~,, [ seemed a ~;:q_of ~ clock the same morning, he went . to the s omup..r -:o, "dkev,attermei e, where witness described her y e ; sh e be; Prescribed some medicine for her. At half-pasta.. c , 1 1:11 ,, t'ls, O TI to get worse. Witness then sent for 11 , !r , . as. t e : ea t' to exap assistant attended, but before his arariserl her C er , and f.'l. Witness's wife searched the place ft i , on e ,. ~ ound The pan con . -Me, she eete rvect rh sauce taining the herbs. bee shw a . at, under all the circumstances of the Brie anl . aiJourn the inquiry, for the purpose of a post tv,ttlination. %„ b el ?' bin e „ e , v 4. ? A. CHI LD. —Yesterday morning, be t'''. NI, --` '-ea 'clock, a serious accident occurred to blltryjni paislrrav,e, about four years of age, the daughter of X),,,,!!R tho t a , i l b e r ,' Each a gentleman residing at Fuichaci. a t „ di t:,,t to 0,.,„:1411try aboan ce o f the domestic, :, .. istaht:: : cit , 4 i ,t a i i \t., : e : co : l:t:fil ia : : e l 1 ( 1 , O vu 0 e T r . the totf.i Ithe screams nursery, ot a , n th d e reaching ehil e s au th , e bro - ' s , a ts bal an ii'''• ir,l over the balustrades, quickly 9, 4 4 1 4 05 . 115 fol, lc .„7 11 ; ' 4l .d Air. Hicks, a surgeon, was imme ts.4,, Y irl ux , when it w certained that the child had Ort4sP.- v e rteb ra e of the neck, besides haring APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—F. Holland, to the Endymion ;W. Crawford, o the Scourge; W. G. Herbert, to the Bittern; 0. Borland, to the Nimrod. Surgeon—A. C. Air, to the Scourge. Paymaster and Purser—W. Kelland is appointed to the Heroine ; W. D. Bateman, to the Bittern. Assistant -Surgeons—J. B H. Collings (confirmed). to the Cruiser ; W. F. Nooth (acting), to the Scourge; C. S. Les ter, to the Victory, for service in H aslar Hos p ital. Mate—A. Wilmshurst, to the Queen. Midshipmen—H. Christian, to the Sydenham ;H. M. Bingham. to the St. Vincent. Naval Cadets—T. G. Baillie, to the Scourge ; Messrs. Law and North, to the Crocodile. Clerks in Charge— -- Bowman, to the Raven, vice Phil- lips, to the Harpy. TIIE TERRIBLE, STEAM-FRIGATE.—The naval community will be gratified to hear that the first and largest man-of-war steam• vessel in the world, the Terrible, of 1,800 tonsturthen and 800-horse power, at Woolwich, and designed by Mr. Lang, is at length ordered to be commissioned. ,Captain William Ramsay (1838) has been appointed to command the Terrible. This gallant officer has seen a. little sharp service, and has had some experience in steam-vessels. ile was made a lieutenant in 1821, and in that rank served on board the Albion in the battle of Navarino. Subsequently, he commanded the celebrated slaver the Black Joke, which vessel, after her capture, was made a tender on the coast of Africa. In the Black Joke he engaged a Spanish pirate slaver of double her force, and captured her after a desperate conflict, in which he was wounded. For this act of gallantry he was promoted to the rank of commander in 1831. He was appointed to the Dee steam-vessel in 1834, and com manded her for three years on the North American and West Indian station. CHATHAM, DEC. s.—On Monday last, the Ist inst., the Right Hon. H. T. Corry, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, attended by Mr. Fitzroy and Captain Brand reth, R.E., Director-General of Works, made an inspection of the improvements and enlargement of the Royal Dockyard, now going on under the management of the contractors, Messrs. George Baker and Son; after which they examined the advanced ships fitting in dock; they then proceeded on board the Retribution steam-frigate, lying at Folly Point, and thence left for Sheerness Dockyard. The Fortitude coal depot was put oat of dock on the Ist inst., and the Scout, 16 guns, taken in, to be repaired and fitted for sea, and the shipwrights on this latter vessel are employed by task and job work, with unlimited earnings, for the purpose of expediting her fitting. The Cumberland, 70 guns. fitting for an advanced ship, is nearly completed, and will be put out of dock the ensuing spring tides. It is reported that she will be stationed off Gil lingham as a receiving-ship for seamen, and that the Poictiers will be done away with. The Eurotas, 42 guns, will be taken into dock on the Cum berland going out. She has already a number of hired ship wrights on her, and those that were employed on the Forti tude have been transferred to this vessel, which is to be fitted fora steam guard-ship. The Janus steam-sloop is still in the hands of a number of workmen, making alterations and putting new fittings, and the engineers are burly employed in effecting such altera tions in her machinery as are considered necessary. It is, however, uncertain when she will be completed to make another trial. The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Stephen Lushing ton, returned on Tuesday, the 2d inst., to her former moor ings at Chatham-reach, to undergo very considerable altera tions in her coal-bunkers, which are to be removed further aft, for the purpose of bringing her down more by the stern, as she is down by the head about nine inches, and when propelled by her powerful engines her head is down wards nearly 20 inches. In this state she could not proceed to sea. Her cabins, by this alteration, will have to be re moved and refitted, and some repairs are required to be made in her machinery; she will therefore it is expected, be de tained in hat hour for about six weeks. The Aid, Smallman master, arrived on the 4th inst., with water-tanks for the Cumberland. The Adventure naval transport, Mills master, will sail about the 10th inst., with stores, for Portsmouth. SHEERNESS, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Alarm, 26, Captain Charles Colville Frankland, went out of harbour to the Little Nore on Saturday, where she took in her powder, and was afterwards visited by the Commander-in-Chief, who, it is rumoured, found her decks ro lumbered up with stores and provisions, of which she has five months' allowance on board, that he would not permit her to go to sea. He went on board again yesterday afternoon, and some arrangement having been come so, she at last got under weigh this morning, and pro ceeded to Portsmouth, with a fresh breeze from the north west. She has a party of marines as supernumeraries on board, and the kroomen recently paid off from the Eclair embarked yesterday afternoon. The Mercury and Emerald tenders, having brought sea men for the Bittern and the marines of the Chatham divi sion paid off from the Thalia, sailed on their return to Ports mouth on Monday. The Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., having completed her refit, was discharged from the basin on Tues day, and has taken up new moorings close to the dockyard. The Bittern, 16, Commander Thomas Hope, progresses with her fittings for sea in the basin. A sergeant's party of marines joined from Chatham on Friday. The Dwarf, steam tender, Lieutenant Edward B. Proctor. sailed for Woolwich yesterday, to be paid off; it is y stood that she will be recommissioned by a see m* return to this station. The Fearless s' from Woolwich, in the meantime, t" ' The Viper, 6, was disci's* had her mast and bow- - The Electra, " yesterday. ' HANDSOME LEGACY TO LORD BROUGHAM.—tinder the will of the late Miss Mary Flaherty, after leaving cha ritable bequests and a few legacies, this benevolent lady has appointed the Right Honourable Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux her residuary legatee, "out of respect and admiration for his unequalled abilities, public conduct, and principles." The amount coming to his Lordship, from the funded and personal property alone, will considerably exceed 20,000/., the personal estate being valued for probate duty at 30,0001. To his Lordship's brother, William Brougham, Esq., a Master in Chancery, she has left a legacy of 500/. ; to the Rev. N. Conway, a Chaplain of the Benedictine Convent at Hammersmith, 500/. ; to the Associated Catholic Charities, 500/. ; to the Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and Infirm, 500/. ? • to the Society for the Houseless Poor , 500/ ; legacies to her executors, and to Mrs. Lee and daugh ter, and a few other fi lends. Her death occurred on the 9th ult , at the advanced age of eighty-four, and she was buried in the Kensal-green Cemetery, in that part consecrated to Roman Catholics. Miss Flahertv was much interested in the great subject of the extension trf education, without regard to any religious direction. In the year 1836 she presented the Council of University College with a donation of 5,000/. Three-and a-Half per Cent. Bank Annuities, with which the "Flaherty Scholership" was foutided.—Post. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —FEMALE COMPLAINTS AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—So great are the known virtues of Holloway's Pills, that a great many titled ladies and others are purchasing them in large quantities to distribute to poor fami lies. These Pills act in so wonderful a manner upon the system and constitution of females generally (even on infants at the breast), that whether taken when entering into womanhood, or at the turn of life, or any other time, a few dotes of this fine medicine will always produce the desidered effect and restore health when every other remedy has failed. Sold by all druggists and at Pogessor Holloway's Establishment, 244 , Strand, London. tion of the country. On the whole, the Mark-lane people may be said to have received the intelligence with much more favour than could have been expected; and though no positive alteration was quoted in prices, the tendency was decidedly towards a decline. POST.—The English funds have been subject to no con siderable fluctuation to-day. At the close of the markets the quotations looked a little better; but the fears enter• tained on the subject of the corn-laws, owing, principally, to the continued meetings of the Ministry, keep things in the same sensitive state. The statement hazarded yesterday in an influential paper, to the effect that the Duke of Wel lington and Sir Robert Peel had declared against future pro tection to the British farmer and labourer, has been reiterated with little or no diminution of confidence, but the contradic tions given to it in other quarters being equally bold and positive, the public are left in uncertainty as to the actual fact. A fixed duty is by some believed more likely than a total abolition to be the alteration that will be recommended to Parliament, if, indeed, there be any recommendation at all upon the matter. That Sir Robert Peel should be cou rageous enough to advocate the latter extreme is deemed improbable on every account, and, as he has heretofore shown himself so strongly opposed even to the milder course suggested, capitalists and others having a deep interest in, the result must be content to await the manifestation of the truth at the proper period. The almost daily reunion of the Cabinet Ministers is, at all events, an indication that some great public question engages attention which it is extremely difficult to dispose of. PRESENTATION of the FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF EDIN BURGH TO COM MODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER, M.P. EDINBURGH, THURSDAY.—To-day a special meeting of the Edinburgh Town Ceuncil was held in the Council Chamber, for the purpose of presenting Commodore Sir Charles Napier, M.P., with the freedom of the city. Sir Charles has been residing for some weeks past in Edinburgh, and the freedom of the city was conferred upon him as a mark of respect for his distinguished services as a naval commander. The Coun cil Chamber was crowded by some of our most respectable citizens, not a few of whom were ladies.• Sir Charles was accompanied by Mr. Ross, M.P. for Belfast, and Mr. French, of Pinkstone, near Glasgow. On entering the room he was loudly applauded, and was lead to the seat allotted to him by one of the magistrates. The Loin PROVOST then rose and said—Sir Charles, in the name of the Town Council and of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, I have now the honour of presenting you with the freedom of our city, in admiration of your chivalrous conduct as a naval commander whose heroic exploits have maintained and advanced the glory of the British flag.—(Applause.) War—the minister of angry Heaven— is at all times to be deplored ; and to us quiet burghers the arts of peace are much more congenial; and we would far rather be employed in industrious occupations, and in the enjoyment of domestic comfort. But when the lusts and passions of men and nations are uncontrolled, ware and fight ings will come. During the late disastrous war, when hardly, a country in Europe escaped its lamentable ravages—when rapine, fire and sword, desolated kingdoms—our favoured isle, under Providence, was preserved in the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, and no hostile foot permitted to tread upon our shore—protected by our wooden walls, manned by our gallant sailors, among whom the name of Napier was con spicuous.—(Loud applause.) It is pleasing to think, Sir, that your great military and naval talents, when not engaged in the service of your own country, were devoted to the de fence and maintenance of the liberal and constitutional Government of her allies in opposition to the misrule of despotism, and that it is mainly owing to your gallantry that Portugal is not now enslaved under the bigotry and tyranny of Don Miguel.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) It is still more gratifying to find the hero who fought and conquered in the cause of freedom on the ocean and in the field, no loss stanch in supporting civil and religious liberty and freedom of trade in the Senate of his country —( Hear ' hear)—and we trust that your efforts will be attended with the same success at home as abroad. I cannot conclude without referring to the gratifying fact, that though Edinburgh has not the honour of giving you birth, she can claim what is of more importance, the honour of having sup plied that training and education which formed the hero and the man—(Hear, hear)—and I have especial delight in call ing to recollection the days of boyhood, when we were school-fellows at the High School, and when many mock battles were fought between your class and mine ; but I will not acknowledge that in those contests you could boast of triumphs presaging your future victories.—(Laughter and applause.) Should your country again require your services upon the ocean, I doubt not you will be ready to lend your powerful talents and unconquerable gallantry in her defence; but I trust that Britain and the other nations of the world will be convinced of the folly of war, and span no efforts for the maintenance of peace ; and that the hero of Acre will be permitted to repose on his nobly-earned laurels, and that as a donee Edinburgh burgess, you will live to a good old ago in honour and in peace and domestic happiness. I have now the honour of presenting you with the freedom of the city.—(Loud applause.) His Lordship then handed the document to Sir Charles, enclosed in a handsome purple velvet case. Sir C. NAPIER—My Lord Provost and Magistrates, I can assure you, my Lord Provost, that nothing can give me greater satisfaction and pleasure than the honour you have done me this day, in presenting me with the freedom of this city. When I came home from Syria, the Corporation of London presented me with the very great honour of the freedom of that city—an honour always very acceptable to a British officer; but on my returning to my native land, after a long absence, it is a still greater gratification that I now receive the freedom of your city. It is true that I was not born in Edinburgh ; but I received my education in the High School, in the adjoining class to your Lordship; and I perfectly well remember the battles fought between the two classes, and if we were not victorious at that time, your Lord ship will allow that we were the junior enemy.—(Laughter and applause.) But, nevertheless, I believe those combats which used to take place gave a bent to the young mind to wards war on a much larger scale. The rubs which we used to get then, made us much more capable of exerting ourselves to combat against superior forces than we should have been had we not had to eontend with you on these occasions.— (Applause.) I went to sea at a very early age, after having left the High School; and I had an opportunity f returning to Edinburgh nine years afterwards, having served as a mid shipman and post-captain, when I had the privilege of at tending your College, and studying under Playfair, Hope, and Dugald Stewart. I can always look back to that time with great satisfaction; and I can assure you, that the les sons I got in those days assisted me much in my_ progress through life. Your Lordship has been pleased to, speak in complimentary terms of my services, in the long and severe war with France. I have been very successful since I went to sea, and in only one instance have I met with a reverse. Your Lordship also spoke of my services in Portugal being of an arduous kind. We went out there against the will of the Government. That was certainly a most im proper proceeding.—(Laughter.) Though the Government could not consent, they were no doubt extremely happy to see us perform those services. That we rescued Portugal from a state of abject slavery, cannot be doubted ; and though that nation has since had various struggles to go through, I am happy to say that the Government appears now to be established on a regular footing, and that there is every prospect of civil and religious liberty being carried on in that country. In the services which I was ab:e to per form in Syria we were employed in a more legitimate manner, because we were sent there by the Government; but I re gret exceedingly, after what was done in that country for• the alleviation of the miseries of the people, who were sup posed to have been severely trodden down by Mehemet Ali —I regret to say that after having released them from what was called the tyranny of Mehemet Ali, they have unfortu nately fallen into la tyranny ten thousand times worse.— (Applause.) There is nothing in my life which I regret so much as having bad any hand in turning that man out of Syria, and having allowed the Turks to establish among the Christian population of Lebanon—the only remnant, 1 may say, of Christians in Asia—the most infamous Government that ever existed; and this people are at this moment ten times more oppressed than they were before.—(Applause.) I can only say that my efforts in Parliament have always been, and will be, to see justice done to that people, and to see the promises which we made to them when we wanted their assistance duly fulfilled ; but I am sorry to say that in politics, as in war, there are difficulties which this country is not always able to overcome. We were allied with three other nations. which were very lukewarm on the subject; and, although I do not blame our Government for not having exerted themselves, yet I am sorry that what they did was attended with so little success. Since I went to Parliament my object has been to act an independent part. For my own part, whether the Government was Whig or Tory was to me a matter of perfect indifference. I have always en deavoured to do my duty fearlessly and patiently, land ing fault with Government when I thought them wrong, and praising them when I thought them right ; and in doing so, I have never even neglected to find fault with what is called your party, because I believe they have com mitted as many errors as their successors. I will further re mark, that whatever Government is in, I will follow the same steps, neither swerving to the right nor to the left. What I think is right, I shall always do it honestly and straightforwardly.—(Applause.) As we are now coming to a crisis, and, as your Lordship has justly said, I have always been a supporter of civil and religious liberty and free trade, I, on Tuesday, for the first time, pledged myself for the com plete abolition of the corn-laws. Although feeling constantly in favour of it, still I thought the best object was to get what we could, always trusting to get something better afterwards. Those days, however, have gone by, and it is now the duty of every man to do what he can to forward the interests of the people.—(Applause.) I again thank you for-the honour you have done me in presenting me with the freedom of the city, and I can assure you I shall always feel grateful for it to the end of my life. Sir Charles then shook hands with the members of the Council in succession, and retired amidst great acclamation. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. HERALD.—We copy the following from last night's Standard; we have ascertained that every word of the fol lowing extract is strictly and guardedly true—the termina tion of the first week of January will expose the falsehood of the first assertion of the Times, and the meeting of Parlia ment, when it shall arrive, the falsehood of the rest of the article contradicted : " ATROCIOUS FABRICATION BY THE ' TIMES.' " We are now, we rejoice to say, in a condition to give the most positive and direct contradiction to the statement of a proposed repeal of the corn-laws, which appeared in yester day's Times. The statement, it may be remembered, em braced three propositions— " First, that Parliament is to meet in the first week in January. " Second, that Ministers have resolved upon a repeal of the corn-laws. "Third, that the projected repeal is to be announced in the opening Speech. " EVERY ONE or THESE THREE PROPOSITIONS IS FALSE. " Parliament WILL NOT MEET IN THE FIRST WERE OF JANUARY, or much, if at all, before the usual time of meeting. " THE CABINET HAS COME TO NO DECISION WHATEVER UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE CORN-LAWS. " It must be unnecessary to add, in the third place, that a resolution not formed can hardly have a place provided in the Queen's Speech. "Upon what we have written above, we stake the cha racter of this journal." If the assertion of the Standard can derive any additional weight from our adoption, we cheerfully adopt it, and, like our evening 'contemporary, pledge - the character of the journal in which we write, that on this 6th day of Decem ber, 1845, it was not, and never bad been, intended to sum mon Parliament for the first week of January, and that upon this same 6th of December no resolution whatever upon the subject of the corn-laws has been adopted by the Ca binet. It must be seen in a very few weeks which is the liar, the Herald or the Times. We probably owe an apology to our readers ' and we certainly owe an apology to Sir Ro bert Peel's Government, for having so long delayed the most distinct and positive contradiction to the fabrication of the Times. We could not, however, in such a case ven ture to act upon less than the most absolute certainty ; and though we have that absolute certainty now, we had it not yesterday morning. We are gratified, too, by learning that the lie did much less mischief than was intended by its authors, or than we anticipated. The dealers at Mark-lane, we are assured, saw through the falsehood, by the aid of light peculiar to the place, and scouted the fabrication. The Times, which, like the frail person spoken of in " Don Juan," " with more than one profession, gains by all," is as well known at Mark-lane as the Hampshire Independent says it is in Capel-court, and about as much trusted in the one loca lity as in the other—the fact is indisputable, that its " great fact," i. e., according to the Times vocabulary, great lie, pro duced little effect upon the market. We, perhaps, have had our share in exposing the utter falseness of the Times, and its systematic dishonesty, and therefore it is little wonder if we are hated by the Times with a hatred equalled only by that which a particular class entertains towards the minis ters of justice—and abused with a virulence corresponding to this hatred, TIMES.—It was announced yesterday, by our early friend Mrs. Gamp, on the authority of her evening ally Mrs. Harris, that any contradiction of our intimation as to the intended repeal of the corn-laws could only be obtained by the viola tion of his oath on the part of a Cabinet Minister. This violation seems to be the work of four- and-twenty hours, if we are to believe Mrs. Harris, for the old woman herself achieved yesterday evening the following extraordinary announce men FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, DEC. 3, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend John Peel, M.A., the deanery of the cathedral church of Worcester, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Father in God George, Bishop of Rochester, late Dean of the said cathedral church. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Regiment of. Militia—William Alley ue Lord Burghley to be Major ' vice Hyde, deceased, Nov. 2G. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Francis Robinson, cowkeeper, Princess-street, Chelsea. BANKRUPTS. John Spong, coal-merchant, Ockham, Surrey, to surrender Dec. 16, at half-past one, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Jordeson, St. Mary-at- hill, London. _ John Charles Edwards, bill broker, Conduit street, Dec. 19, at half-past one, and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assigee, Abchurch - lane, City; Godden, John street , Bedford-row. James M‘Dermott, victualler, Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 16, at eleven, and Jan. 13, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman - street ; Hunt, Barnard's Inn, London. Eugene Le Roy, wine merchant, Portland-place, Dec. 10., at half-past eleven, and January 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basingball-street ; Lewis, Wilm ington-squa re. John Elliott, coal merchant, Bristol, Dec. 19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee; Hassell, Bristol. Joseph Mann, grocer, Warwick, Dec. 15 and Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,, official assignee, Birmingham ; Nicks, Warwick ; Smith, Birmingham. BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM RAILWAY. Yesterday the adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of this Company was held at Mr Routh's offices, 9, Austin-friars, to receive the report of the deputation appointed at the meeting held on the 24th, to wait on the Directors relative to their paying up the deposits on their shares; and, also, to give an account of what course they intended taking with regard to the Company. The CILURMAN (Mr. Anderson), who had been a mem ber of the deputation, reported that they had waited on the Directors on Monday last, and after a lengthened inter view, the latter came to the, conclusion of dissolving the Company, and offering the terms to the Shareholders which were given in au advertisement since published. It was stated that the expenses had amounted to nearly 6,0001. It was further intimated that the Directors had paid their deposits on seventy five shares each. The decision of the Directors was to the following effect:— " The Committee of Management, having this day re ceived a deputation from the Shareholders in this Company, have, in consequence, come to the following resolution : " Resolved—That it is desirable that this Company shall be dissolved with a view of reviving the same in the ensuing spring. " that each shareholder shall receive back his deposit less 10s. per share, that being the rateable average proportion of the liabilities incurred; the like amount having been paid by each Director on 75 shares, and claimed from all the members of the Provisional Committee on the number of shares allotted to them at request. " That in the event of the re-formation of the Com pany the present shareholders should be entitled to the same number of shares as those now held by them, credit being given for the amount deducted from their deposits, or in lieu thereof, shall, at their option, in the event of the separation of the Company, receive the sum of 5s , on their relinquishing all claims on the plans, sections, and property of the company, which will then belong to the newly con stituted company. "That the shareholders may on and after Monday, the 15th inst., between the hours of eleven and four, receive back their deposits less 10s. for shares on giving up the voucher delivered at the time of their execution of the deed and signing the necessary receipts at the office of the Corn- pan." This y was the resolution come to by the Provisional Di rectors, and he had advised the Shareholders to accept it. Not that he considered it altogether what they should have expected, but being all they could get. If they took legal pro ceedings against the Directors he believed they would lose more than 10s. per share. It was their olicy, therefore, to adopt the lesser evil of the two. Had the Company gone on, the Share holders would have been in a worse position, considering the present state of the money market, than they would be in in accepting the proposition submitted. He, as far as he was personally concerned, was willing to accept the terms offered; and he advised the other Shareholders to do the. same. A SHAREHOLDER inquired how it was that so much as 6,000/. bad been expended, seeing that no Bill had ever been before Parliament, while the Belfast and Ballymena Com • pang, which had obtained its Act, only cost 8,000/. ? The CHAIRMAN answered that 2,0001. had been paid for engineering, 2,000 1 . for advertisements, and the rest had been incurred in general expenses. A PROPRIETOR—If the terms are accepted, what will be done with the deed? The CHAIRMAN—It will be cancelled. _ _ After some further discussion, in which it was complained of that only a portion of the Directors had paid up their de posits, and that the defaulters ought to be advertised, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and de putation, the meeting broke up. THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEWFOUNDLAND. The journals have announced in the ordinary manner the death of Mr. J. G. H. Bourne, the late Chief Justice of New foundland ; but something more is due as a tribute to the memory of this gentleman. Mr. Bourne was born at East wood, in the county of Nottingham. He commenced his education at Southwell, and was highly admired fcr his suc cess and proficiency in the various branches of academical studies. He was then sent to Eton, where he greatly distin guished himself by his classical acquirements. He next en tered Pembroke College, Oxford, and took his degree of M.A., and was afterwards elected a Fellow of Magdalene College. Upon his marriage he, of course, lost his valuable fellow ship, wits all its prospective advantages, and this by the old law that still remains on the statutes of the Univer sity. Mr. Bourne now entered the Middle Temple, and be coming a barrister, he went the Midland Circuit, where he was much esteemed by the most distinguished members of the profession. Ho was also appointed revising barrister for that circuit. He was called to fill the judicial bench in New foundland by Lord Glenelg, the then Colonial Secretary,at the age of 34. No man ever acquired more esteem for humanity, in tegrity, and amenity. In this colony he entirely discontinued the infliction of the punishment of death, and with the hap piest of effects. He even declared his resolution to throw up his office rather than be the means of depriving any human being of life. Mr. Bourne was the author of seve ral works, viz., " The Exile of Idria," "England Won," &c. ; also translated the best poems of De Beranger. No person ever passed through life with greater esteem and attachment from friends than the late Chief Justice Bourne. On leaving the colony several addresses were presented to him from all classes of community, speaking in the highest terms of the deceased, and expressive of the deepregret they felt at his loss. Amongst the friends that followed him to the grave, we think it right to mention the name of Captain H.Pres cott, R.N., the late Governor of Newfoundland. PRICE OF SUGAR. ...sere follows an extract from the Standard, headed Atrocious Fabrication of the Times.") Does the beldame mean that she, too, has succeeded in suborning a Member of the Government ? If the twins, so aptly described by Mr. Bright at the Bath meeting, could nut contradict us till they had persuaded a Minister to com mit perjury, we must either infer that this immoral object has been achieved by the evil influence of Gemini, or that they have been made the dupes of some wag, who delights in practising on their anile credulity. It is amusing to observe the pompous solemnity with which the old scold 'proposes to lay a wager with the public as an earnest of her veracity, and finishes by offering to "stake the character of the journal." This is running no great risk, at all events; but, for the mere look of the thing, it would have been as well to have offered that conventional stake—a China orange, or something that would have been at least a tangible property. We have very few words to say in reply to the contradiction that has been given to our statement, and these words are simply a reiteration of those that were used in our paper of Thursday. We adhere to our original announcement, that Parliament will meet early in January, and that a repeal of the corn-laws will be proposed in one House by Sir R. Peel, in the other by the Duke of Wellington. The result, of course, can only show who is right and who is wrong on the present occasion. We ate prepared to stand by our announcement, and we do not anti cipate that it will be falsified byany change in the resolution that has been come to by the heads of the Government. They will not be overawed, we suspect, by the threat that what might have been their own Standard may be seen flut tering in the ranks of their enemies. CHRONICLE.—So it turns out to be a hoax, after all ! The guasi-official announcement with which, on Thursday morning, the Times startled and delighted the metropolis and the country—converted civic Toryism en masse from the error of its monopolist ways—and overcame the coy re luctance of the Lord Mayor himself to a free-trade demon stration in Guildhall, has got at last its official contradiction, and is labelled, by the real Ministerial organ, naturally in dignant at so daring a breach of privilege, " atrocious fabri cation." " Parliament will not meet," we were told last night, "in the first week in January ;" and "the Cabinet has come to nn decision whatever upon the subject of the corn-laws ;" after which, as our precise evening contempo rary shrewdly observes, "it must be untietettary to add, in the third place, that a resolution no t formed can hardly have a place provided in the Queen's speech." The official journalist writes in a hurry, and could scarcely be expected to say everything in a breath. But we shall hope to be infbrmed ) at the standard's earliest convenience, which it is of the Cabinet Ministers that has conimitteci per jury, by revealing Cabinet sezrets ; also, on what principle of Conservative morality a rigidly virtuous Conservative journalist can " rejoice," on Friday, to be "in a condition," the bare possibility of Which he contemplated on Thursday with a sort of pious and constitutional horror, fig implying a Privy Councillor's breach of oath; also, how a nd why it was that the " atrocious fabrication" was suffered to have some thirty hours, titidiettithed run of the metropolis and the empire. We are ) we need not add, no less curious to hear what the " leading journal" has to say in vindication or pallia tion of one of the Mat eXtraordinaty atid serious escapades on record in the history of modem British journalism. In itself, the affair does not affect us very deeply. We did not go into ecatacies t the rumour , an d we are not excessiVely iephissetl b y the contradiction. We were certainly disposed to believe) notwithstanding strong antecedent iiiipiegsiont at variance w ith the Times' information, that our Contemporary could not have hazarded so confident a statement on a subject of such capital import ance without having good authority to go upon ; and in proportion to our inclination to credit the fact, was the mea sure of our satisfaction at the prospect which it opened be fore the cduritry of an early and comparatively quiet de liverance from an enormous evil. We should have greatly rejoiced—we should rejoice even now—if the vast industrial, commercial, and social interests involved in the settlement of this question could be spared the grievous injury of pro tracted delay. Where every week—every day even—is precious, we would gladly forget all considerations of party, for the sake of seeing the question of the nation's ways and means of life in the hands of men possessing the power of effecting the necessary change quickly and quietly. Other wise it matters little. It will all come to the same thing in the end, and in any case the end is near. The decision, or no-decision of the Cabinet on the subject of the corn-law can in no way influence the ultimate fate of the question, The thing will be done; will be done soon ; will be done before anything else is done; and if Sir Robert Peel will not do it, why then, as Mr. Cobden said the other day, and might now repeat with redoubled emphasis—" We are not so badly off in England but that we may find some body able to do the will of the country whenever it is unmis takeably expressed." The longer Sir Robert Peel delays his decision on the subject of the corn-law, the less does it signify how he, in particular, may decide on a question which the elements both of the natural and of the social world are de ciding as fast as possible without him. The national mind approves free trade as a principle, the national will demands it as an imperious necessity, the national presentiment counts on it as a near reality, and the nation never yet lacked fit exe cutive ageats of its intelligent and deliberate volitions. Com paratively unimportant as this rumour and its contradiction are in themselves, at a time when events are irresistibly sweep ing along the national mind and policy in the right direction, the affair is fruitful of instruction, both for the Minister and the people. The Premier's habit of "not reading the news papers," or not heeding their contents, has in this instance worked well. It was truly a happy accident, or a wise policy, that allowed the " atrocious' fabrication" of Thursday morning to keep unmolested possession of the world's ear during a day and a half. If Sir Robert Peel's well-known solicitude on the subject of "posthumous fame" extend, as we must presume it does, to those favourite measures of policy which bear his name, and are most deeply marked with the characteristic qualities of his mind; and if he feel a natural curiosity to anticipate the-verdict which posthu mous fame will eventually pronounce, he has now been grati fied, on the easiest terms. As a noble and learned lord, a few years ago, through some mistake or " ingenious device," the authorship of which still remains a mystery, was ad mitted to the rare privilege of enjoying a brief foretaste of the terrestrial immortality which awaits public virtue and integrity, so our Premier, under the favour of the Times's blunder, has been allowed to leern, by anticipation, the post humous judgment of mankind on his moribund sliding-scale. PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGIeS-FIELDS.--: The quarterly court of this corporation was held yesterday. Several handsome donations to the Society were reported, including one of 501. from John Salte, Esq., and a legacy of 2001. from Mrs. A. Waring. Out of fifty. five boys taught and placed out as apprentices, or otherwise, in different trades during the past year, all but four have turned out well. In reference to the increasing interest expressed by the magis tracy of London and Middlesex in the reformation of juvenile offenders, it was resolved to extend the benefits of the Society's religious and industrial education to boys re commended by Magistrates, or others, on payment only of their expenses of board and clothing. It was also stated that the resources of the charity could not maintain more than sixty boys, but that its accommodations were adequate to receive for reformation at least three times that number. The reform school lately erected by the Society was reported to by y ry nearly completed. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the produee of the British possessions in America, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 2, 1845, is 365. Md. per cwt. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. C. G. Webb, Long-lane, Bermondsey, woolstapler, Dec. 29, at half-past eleven—.J. Haycock, jun., Wells, Norfolk, corn-factor and maltster, Dec. 29, at eleven. In the Country. W. Monk, jun., Nottingham, currier and leather-cutter, Dec. 31, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Ashbarry, Holm Lacy, Herefordshire, farmer and timber-merchant, 'Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Y. Betts, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, grocer, Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—T. Jenkins, Breeon, maltster and carrier, Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—J. Whitlow, Manchester, laceman, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—E. Hesketh, Hulme, Lancashire, victualler, Jan. 2, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. G. Harny, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, innkeeper, Dec. 30, at eleven—H. Tune, Blackfriars - road, boot and shoe manu facturer, Dec. 31, at eleven—C. Dalton, Old Kent-read, stone mason, Dec. 31, at half-past twelve—T. Lockhart and C. Lockhart, Cheapside, and Fulham, florists and seedsmen, Dec. 30, at half-past twelve—R. Hughes, Piccadilly, uphol sterer and cabinetmaker, Dec. 29, at half-past eleven—W. G. Thackway, Union-place, New-road, Marylebone, tailor, Dec. 30, at twelve. _ _ _ In the Country. D. Smith, King's S winford, Staffordshire, Dec. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol. At the Court of Review, Dec. 26. N. G. Coombe.% Craven-street, Strand, coal-merchant—G. E. Noone, East-street, Manchester-square, engineer and manufacturer of pumps and gas apparatus—T. Cotsworth, Salisbury, builder. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Clark and C. W. Collins, Glasshouse-street, Regent street, gold and silver lacemen and embroiderers—H. Broad and J. Broad, Stourport, Worcestershire, maleters and corn dealers—T. Forshall and A. Kirkwood, Doddington-grove, Kennington, surgeons—W. Archer, D. Daly, Jos. Malcomson, Joshua Malcomson, John Malcomson, W. Malcomson, and R. Malcomson, Liverpool (as far as regards D. Daly)—J. Brooker and T. Prior, Little Coram- street, Russell-square, van-proprietors—J. Jackson and J. Miller, Ratcliffe, Lancashire, iron-founders—H. Croughton and W. Harding, Upper-street, and Barnsbury- place, Islington, tobac conists—S. Eyre and F. Shaw, Derby, stock and share-brokers—B. Salter and S. Knowles, Exeter, brewers— R. Long and W. Marshall, Winsford, Chester, salt-manu facturers—R. Hammersley and T. Cook, Wigan, Lancashire, linen and woollen drapers—E. Dean and T. S. Page, Cross lane, St. Mary-at-Hill, City, general commission-merchants —S. W. Moore and A. Moore, Wolverhampton, factors—E. Potter and B. Broadhurst, Manchester, yarn-merchants — J. Proctor and P. Proctor, Bishopgate-street Without, snuff and tobacco-manufacturers—W. Glasspoole and J. Standley, Wymondam, Norfolk, auctioneers and appraisers—G. Learey and A Rowley, Manchester, hat-block manufactureers — J. Kent and G. Walters, Birmingham, gold chainmakers--J. Billing and G. Easton, jun., Reading, architects—T. Slagg, jun., and W. W. Hardy, Manchester, commission agents— W. Moore and S. Goodison, Lime-street, City, wholesale coffee-dealers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. J. Young, Macduff, Banff, wood-merchant, to meet within . the Fife Arms Inn, Macduff, Dec. 13 and Jan. 10, at one. MARKET S INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 5.) SuGen.—To-day British Plantation was purchased with extreme caution, although there were sellers on easier terms ; only 140 found buyers, making the total purchases for the week only 650 hhds and tree, and the fall in prices during that time is per cwt. REFINED.—To-day their was little business transacted in Refined Goods by the home trade, and prices are still on the decline, brown grocery Lumps selling at 64s to 655, and Standard Lumps at 65s 6d to 66s per cwt. MAuftrrius.—lmporters have been less inclined to realise this week, the stock in their hands being much reduced. There has, however, been little desire shown on the part of Refiners or Grocers to operate privately in any description, and the small parcels disposed of were at a slight decline in prices. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was little wanted, and 825 bags at public sale were only partly sold at rather lower rates. FOREIGN.—To-day there' was little desire shown to pur chase any kind of Foreign, and only 400 chests Havannah were sold at 28. to 29s per cwt for fine yellow. Mot.Assgs.—Although there are sellers of West India upon rather lower terms, still the purchases made have been ex tremely limited this week. Bengal Treacle has been less in demand, but prices are sustained. Comic.—ibis afternoon there was little desire shown to purchase Mocha, and, 79 bales at auction were taken in, low middling yellowish unclean at 535, which was above the value. In Ceylon there was not much doing, but good or dinary Native was not to be had under 48s. Of West India 63 casks offered, but being of the lower description a part only sold at easier rates. Java met with little attention. Of Rio 8 casks 60 barrels and 33 bags were brought forward, but a part only sold upon lower terms. TEA.—The stock has been further increased, and the deli veries not being so good as they were, merchants have been disposed to sell, and a decline in the value of most descrip tions has taken place; there is a large quantity on offer by private treaty of both black and green. Although lower rates have been taken for all descriptions of Congon, still the trade purchased with caution. Pouchong has slightly declined in value, and the trade have operated with caution. Twatikay is little wanted, and easier rates are taken. Hyson has been purchased with caution, although there are sellers upon low terms. In Young Hyson, however, a fair business has been transacted. Gunpowder has been purchased with caution. In scented Orange Pekoe of fine quality a fair busi ness has been transacted. Of Hyson Skin some parcels have been sold, but at low rates. In the common kinds of Caper the operations are upon a more extended scale, but merchants have accepted lower prices. The quantity of Tea held by the town and country dealers is by no means great. Swor.s.—This afternoon at public sale 19 packages of Ja maica preserved Ginger were taken in at 395, and 25 pack ages of Jamaica at 54s to 59s for middling. FRUIT.—The great bulk of Valentia Raisins and Turkey Figs continuing to arrive being of such inferior quality and out of condition, are compelled to be forced off immediately, either by private contract or public sale, for whatever they fetch. In new Currants there has been a good business doing by private contract. RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice was purchased with caution, and 1,355 bags 432 pockets at public sale were only in part sold at a further decline of 6d to is per cwt, fine bold bright clean white went at 19s, good middling 18s 6d, middling dusty 17s 6d, sea damaged 16s 6d to 175,-1,530 bags of Spanish were put up, the sound was all taken in above the value. Srthrrs.—The demand has fallen off considerably for Lee ward Island Rum this week, and prices are not so firm. Calcutta is offered upon easier terms; but there has been little business done. Jamaica is not cheaper, but the demand has been limited. Demerara has Sustained the former value, but not much has been done. In Brandy a good business has been transacted; prices are very firm. Geneva for exportation has keen sold to a fair extent, at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and fine for home consumption is worth 2s 7d to 2s 10d. For British Corn Spirits the demand is still brisk at lOs 9d nett cash. In Gin a good deal has been done at 9s 7d for 17 per cent, and 9s 2d for 22 per cent under proof. The value of Malt Spirit is 12s 9d to 13s 6d per gal lon according to quality.. COCIIINEAL.—There was little inclination manifested to purchase this afternoon, and of 152 bags of Honduras at auction, only a third part sold at a decline on former rates of ld per lb. SALTPETRE.—This afternoon at public sale 370 bags of Calcutta were taken in at 27s for sit per cent refraction, bad colour and rather damp. INDIGO. —Although holders of East India are more inclined to sell, still exporters and the home trade have operated with caution; and some parcels have been pressed upon the market, in order to close sales, at a discount of 2d to 4d per lb on the bought in prices of the last quarterly sales. Madras and Kurpah can be purchased rather under the rates of the October sale, still exporters and the home trade operate with caution. Although Spanish is offered at the reduced rates of Friday last, still few buyers are to be met with. In the early part of the new year a better demand for Indigo may be expected to take place, especially for home consumptio n. Orts.— This afternoon ocoa Nut Oil met with little atten tion. At public sale 14 hhds were sold, good at 32/ ss, mid 31/ 10s to 31/ 15s ; 127 pipes 7 butts 93 hhds Ceylon only partly found buyers, fine at 321 15s to 331 per ton. TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 35 casks of East India Tallow were sold at 41s 9d to 425; 15 casks of Italian 41s to 41s 3d ; 38 pipes 22 hhds of South American nearly all taken in at 41s 3d ; 118 casks New South Wales all sold, fine at 42s 3d to 42s 6d, good 40s 9d to 41s 9d, middling 40s to 40s 6d, low 39s 6d ; 96 casks of St. Petersburg Soap Tallow vent at 39s to 40s, and low 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. THE CASE OF THE FELICIDADE AND THE ECHO. — Our statement of the counsel engaged in the last argument of this case was incorrect. Mr. Godson, Q.C., Sir T ,Dodson, and Dr. Phillimore, appeared for the Crown ; Mr. Sergeant pett. e d n for era t l h D e prisoners. ners. Manning, Dr. Addams, Dr. Harding , a nd Mr. Collier, Franciscoal.- de Mazzaredo, and his son, General Don Manuel de Mazzaredo, Captain-General of Ma drid, arrived yesterday at the Euston Hotel, from a week's tour to Birmingham and Manchester. It is not true, as has been stated in some of the daily papers, that the General Dim Manuel has resigned the Captain-Generalcy. He ma d kes but a very short sojourn in London , and is accompanieby his lady. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company held their general meeting yesterday, when the usual dividend of 31, per cent. for six months on the paid up capital was declared, the income-tax to be paid out of the surplus profits. The nett profits for the year ending Septem ber 30, after making provision for the outlay of the next half -8001 already mr h i n e n year and setting apart five per cent. for the last year as a de preciation fund, amount to 29,1751.. which exceeds the amount of the corresponding period of 1844 by 17,922/. To the in hrtihcleir 3 e o u , m ooo e l f . w 22 a , exciu tbe fund reaches 100,0001. the further appropriation of profits 1 v s u e r s a t enr the th e r o e n c t account r s dt of which f w a will be considered. Nine vessels are now in course of con -1 struction, and when these are completed the company will eLye of gull TWA , employed ba ,bgypt , possess an efficient fleet of 25 sea-ping steem.ships, CIAO 71:titian EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) JAMES 17. BOSTON. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The LORD CHIEF BARON, in his summing up, directed the attention of the jury to the fact that the Bishop of London communicated to the plaintiff the letter of the defendant con taining the alleged libel, and the plaintiff made some answer to the charge, which must be considered to have been satis factory to the Bishop, for that dignitary did not deem it ne cessary to institute any further inquiry into the matter. It would, therefore, have been as well and more in accordance with the customary forbearance of a clergyman of the Church of England, the Learned Judge thought, had the matter rested there, but such not being so, the jury had to decide whether the defendant had sent the letter with the single ob ject of calling his Lordship's attention to the circumstances it alluded to, or whether he had written it with the view of slandering and injuring the plaintiff's character. If they were in favour of the first alternative, the Learned Judge was clearly of opinion that the defendant had been guilty of no libel in law ; but if they adopted the latter, then a libel had been committed, and it would be for the jury to say what damages the plaintiff had sustained in consequence of it. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant. COURT CIItCU LAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House. There was no addition to the royal dinner circle in the evening. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con sort took their usual early walk on the sea beach. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princes Alice, were taken in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House, and also took their accustomed exercise on the beach. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The following were the Ministers present :—Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharn cliffs, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdee n, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Council broke up at a quarter before six o'clock. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY Taarric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail• ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : Week ending Nov. 29 Dec. 2 Nov. 30 ?TAME Or RAILWAY. Arbroath and Forfar • Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Drogheda. • • • .. - • • • • Dublin and Kingstown Dundee and Arbroath . ••- - • - • • • • • • Durham and Sunderland . • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •- • • • •• • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern • . Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • • Glacow and Greenock. • •••• • • • • • • • Grand Junction •• • • Gravesend and Rochester. • • • • • • • • • • • Great North of England . • • • • • • • • • • • Great Western. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Hartlepool ........ ••. • • • • • • • • • • . • . • London and Birmingham, &c. .. • • • • • London and Blackwall • • . • .... London and Brighton . • ...... Londoa and Croydon . • • ............ London and Greenwich .• • ........ London and South Western .•• • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham .. • • Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. Midland Counties Dec. 1 Nov. 29 30 29 Dec. 2 Nov. 29 30 28 29 29 29 29 30 30 28 Newcastle and Darlington •• •....... Newcastle and Carlisle•• •••• .... Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbel, and 0r1ean5.......... Paris and Rouen . •• •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• Preston and Wyre•• •• •• •• • ...... • •• Sheffield and Manchester•• •• •• •• •• •• South Eastern•• •• •• •• •• • ....... •• •• Taff Vale •• •••• • ..... •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Nov. 29 29 29 29 30 Yarmouth and Norwich • • • • • • • • York and North Midland •• •• • - - 5,056 4,800 DEPOSITS WITH THE .BOARD Or . TRADE......We are requested to sly the following omissions to our list of de posits with theßoard of rpfriardecet:—EDasetrbyanshdirlev,eSsttaffjounrdesthioirne; and Worcester Junction South Staffordshire Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield, and. Mallon and Drillield Junction Railway; Ntwcastle and Leeds Direct Railway. TROTTING M ATC H FOR TEN POUNDS A 51D17.4.-- Yesterday the three miles' trotting match between Mr. Put tock's grey cob and Mr. Elgie's brown mare, came off over a measured distance of road at Tottenham. The terms of the match were to trot in harness for 51. aside. The match was commenced at good speed, the mare turning the mile at a lead, and covering the distance in 3 minutes and 33 seconds. At the conclusion of the second mile the mare still retained an advantage, and went over the second mile in 3 minutes and 36 seconds, they were then rattling away for the goal at an increased speed, when the mare broke out to a gallop and was pulled in and turned. This gave the horse an opportu nity to make ground, and the driver of the mare finding all chance of winning lest relinquished the race, and the horse accomplished the three miles of road in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. "A HAPPY COUPLE."—A few days since a man named Wm. Pick, of Beck-street, in a drunken quarrel with his wife, was wounded on the temple and upper lip by his better half,who assailed him with a heavyy . brass candlestick. He was taken to the dispensary, where he is doing well. Nttingohant Journal. GREAT FREE-TRADE MEETINGS. (From the Chronicle.) DEMONSTRATION AT BRISTOL. Last evening a free-trade soiree took place pt the Public Rooms, Broad Mead, Bristol. The spacious hall was crowded with a va-t a.ieerahlae•e of the most respectable inhabitants of the city, many of the pai tyxonsisting of ladies. There were probably about 1,200 present. • Over the platform, en wreathed with flowers and eves greens, was exhibited the concluding sentence of Lord J. Russell's free-trade manifesto, gorgeously emblazoned. On either side of the room temporary elevated seats had been erected, and these, as well as the permanent galleries, were densely crowded by a most orderly but most enthusiastic assemblage. About six o'clock the eating and drinking part of the pro ceedings commenced. The appearance of tea being heralded by a most unanimous rattling of tea-spoons, and presently every body was busily engaged in the discussion of the harmless beverage. he tea and coffee done justice to, the actual business commenced by the Earl of Ducie taking the chair. His appearance was greeted with loud cheers, and Messrs. Cobden and Bright, who immediately followed him, were applauded to the echo. Among the gentlemen on the platform we observed the lion. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., T. Milner Gibson, Esq.,M.P., G. Eddie Sanders, Esq., and John Evans Lunell, Esq., two of the magistrates: of Bristol; W. Gore Langton, Esq., llarman Nisgor, Esq., the American Consul, George Jones, Esq. , Joseph Eaton,, Esq., W. D. Wills, Esq., Frederick Wills, Esq., Rev. J. Gran ville, Rev. G. Armstrong, M.A., Rev. P. J. Roper, T. Thomas, Esq., Rev. J. E. Thoresby, Edmund Thomas, Esq., R. Ed wards, Esq., John Wesley Hall, Esq., with many other ma gistrates, members of the Town Council, and influential in.- habitants of Bristol. The Noble CHAIRMAN opened the business of the evening. He said, we are met this evening under very different cir cumstances from those under which we assembled on the last occasion that I had the honour of addressing you within these walls—(Hear, hear)—and I think, when I look at the meeting before me, I see indications of a very different feeling from that which subsisted when we last met here.—(Cheers.) There was then more of curiosity and more symptoms' of awakened inquiry. You expezted to hear from us the great principles which the League represent. You wished to have them explained, that you might test their truth and justice—but it appears to me now that there is more of decision in your countenances—(Cheers)—that you have found on sifting the arguments of the League, that they are founded on truth, and that you are now come here decided to act, and anxious to hear our friends, Bright and Cobden, in order to know how you are to act so as to further the grand object of the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) On the occasion in question—on the occasion of our last meeting, we tried to show that more trade—that is free trade—(Hear, hear)—would benefit this good town of BristoL—(Cheers.) We tried to show that more trade would be good for the manufacturing interests—we tried to show that the well being of the manufacturer was of importance for that of the agriculturist, as furnishing the latter with the best market for the produce of his labour.—(Cheers.) We also en deavoured to show you how the existing system of corn laws has been the primary cause of those periodically recurring times of distress which have spread misery, star vation, and pestilence around.—(Hear, hear.) We tried to show you that as like causes produced like effects, so—should high prices again recur—would distress and crime track their course--(Cheers.) Gentlemen, these high prices now seemed to be again threatening us. The prices of food have risen, and the wages of labour have fallen.—(llear.) On the occasion in question we told you that the sliding-scale might be a pretty plaything in the hands of the landlords, but that it would be found totally inefficient in the days of difficulty and distress.—(Cheers.) Our opponents—l hardly know whether I should call Sir Robert Peel an opponent — (Cheers and laughter)—but that Right Hon. Gentleman has told us, that a fixed duty amounts to an impossibility. Now what I want this meeting to do, is to furnish Sir Robert. with an unequivocal demonstration of your feelings, wants, and wishes; I want you to tell him that you will no longer submit either to the fixed duty or to the sliding scale; I want you to tell him that you will be satisfied with nothing but total and immediate repeal—(Enthusiastic cheering)-1 want you to tell him that you will have no more to do with a scale depending upon averages, of which the index now points to moderate prices, while provisions are dear; a sys tem which nothing on earth so much resembles as that of a man who choSe to ring his dinner-bell when there was not a morsel in the pantry.—(Cheers and laughter.) When we last met here we had not overcome our opponents argu ments—we had not silenced their fire—as my friend Cobden says, we bad not spiked their guns. Now it is different. We have defeated them, argument by argument. They no longer dare to meet us in the field of rea..oning, excepting indeed when now and then such an unsophisticated and chi valrous a gentleman as Mr. Cayley comes forward to break a lance. He has broken one already, and I thought that the result of the combat was, that he was forbidden by the Pro tection Society to attempt the .splintering of another. But now it appears that he wishes to enter into the lista with Lord John Russell.—(Laughter.) I do not know if you have read his letter; but it must have been written either by—l beg the ladies' pardon—an old woman or an Irishman.—(Laughter.) He first tells us one reason why the corn-laws do no harm, because, feorsooth, as he says, did these laws do any harm, the landlords and farmers would never have passed them.— (Shouts of laughter.) And then he tells you—this con summate reasoner—why it happens that the abolition of the corn-laws would do no good. Because, forsooth, would the repeal of the corn-laws be beneficial to the public, they would have been repealed by the land lords alreadv.—( Greet laughter.) Wonderful logic this— why, this Mr. Cayley must be a second Joe Miller -in dis guise.—(Laughter.) But he gets more facetious still fur ther on. In talking of the opening of the ports he goes on to say either you can or you cannot by this means obtain an additional supply of food. I do not mean to dispute this dictum—(Laughter)—but he continues to argue that if you could get a supply, then it would be injurious to have a large quantity of corn thrown upon the market at lower prices, so as to enable the people to consume more largely. Nrimv, this is the Hibernian part of the argument—(Laughter)—and this, in fact, is a very fair specimen of the arguments which the few chivalrous knights who, like Mr. Cayley, yet take the field against the League, are in the habit of employing.— (Cheers.) Our position is now assured. The two great leaders of the two great political parties of this country have admitted it. The repeal.of the corn-laws is only a question of time—so say Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. Now, I want you to declare that this is the:time—(Loud cheers) — and if this present time, or that which is just passed, had been mule use of, we should have had corn by this hour pouring into our ports from America. (When we met you here last, although the League was a great fact, it was an isolated fact. It was strong in the union of men of all opinions; powerful in the truth and justice of its cause; great in the energy of members; and independent in the fact of its being uncon nected with any political party in the State. Then, indeed, the League flourished on the sound sense of the people of England. Now, in one respect, the case is altered. We have received the accession of the amiable Morpeth— (Cheers)—and not only of the amiable, but of the talented and statesmanlike 31orpeth—(Loud cheers)—and not only have we his adhesion, but we have that of Lord John Rus sell- --(Loud cheers)—a man so well known for his high po litical courage, that Ito one will dare to.say that he has been led to take that course which he has adopted from any terror of popular outcry. Lord John Russell is a thoroughly Conservative statesman, and most unwilling to submit to change, unless he clearly sees that will be beneficial. — (Cheers.) But in what he has done I believe that he has done himself the greatest honour.—(Cheers.) Yes ; he has covered himself with honour, in having openly, fearlessly, and uprightly admitted his former errors.— (Loud cheers.) His conduct has been as honourable to himself as it has been rare among statesmen—(Cheers)-- and I heartily hope that the great political party, of whom Lord John Russell has been long the leader, will now see the necessity of follwing in his steps.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, as an individual, I must confess that I feel great satisfaction in thinking that there is a probability that that great political party, with whom I have long acted, but from whom I have been separated on this one point of free trade, are at length about to become, as they ought long ago on their own prin ciples to have become, the repeaters of the corn-law.— (Loud cheers.) But as a member of the League, and ma chairman of this meeting, composed as it is of men of every shade of political opinion, I feel I may not utter a word that. can be supposed to express anything like a party feeling upon this question. But it has been said by many, that in conse quence of Lord John Russell's letter—let Sir Robert Peel dee what he may—the credit of having carried free trade will not be his, but Lord John Russell's. Now, in the name of the League, I entirely deny this position, and I hope and trust that I may in the name of this meeting also give that pro position a flat denial.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I hold that it is necessary for us, in carrying out our principles, strictly tw adhere to the rules which we have laid down, fur the exclu sion from our discussions of anything like party politics andi feeling, and I wish you as a body to express that which 1 as: an individual feel, that should Sir Robert Peel—as it is said. he will—either open the ports or repeal the corn-laws, that. we shall receive the act as one emanating strictly from,and as one ;for which our thanks shall be solely due to him,— ' (Cheers.) We are anxious to attain our great end; and, in order to do so, we -consent to throw aside all party objects.—(Cheers.) It is said that the Prime Ministat is to do something. I hardly know what. If it be his in tention to repeal the corn laws, we shall receive the conces sion gratefully at his hands; but having, as a body, so agreed to receive it, let him also be distinctly informed that we will stand no shuffling—(Cheers and laughter)—that we will not be satisfied with half measures, that we will not de sist from our efforts so long as one ray of protection remains. —(Loud cheers.) But it is possible that he may do nothing,. In that case the question will be referred to the country eta the next dissolution of Parliament, and then I hope and trust that you, men and women of Bristol, will do your duty.— (Hear.) I hope . you will throw aside all recollections of past: contests—that you will lay as ide all little, petty political animosities—and joining heart and hand in the good cause, determine not only to return to Parliament your excellent representative, Mr. Henry Berkeley, but giye hammidawcricceh trader to sit beside him. — ( Tremendous cheering, the Noble Lord resumed his seat.) (an fi rs in t fi r u e e l zt l i v a t l io t s e m o e b r I c a:1 t o ) f stood r counties; fon l \ i n r. rd G io ri m 'il o ° v 3 e LAs the promoteau dseveral th the f4O thes. m freeholdost movement.influential meetingt he d n o h r e t e l n i worhEunstgocarried, and he hoped that in the west, t a ristol and Bath, by their united efforts, would be found active enough and influential enough to win to free-trade the counties of East Somerset and West Gloucester.—(Loud cheers.) Let the men of the west take a leaf out of the book of the men of the north.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to review at some length the operation of the corn-laws, with the view of proving that their influence, while it failed to benefit the class for whose advantage the bread-tax had been imposed, had a direct and most inju rious effect on the welfare of the people, illustrating his va rious positions with copious statistical details. Why should they, he would ask, maintain laws which conferred benefit on no one, and which were so injurious to the general body of the community?—(Ch eers .) Why should they be obliged to witness so frequently the recurrence of artificial scarcity in this country—artiticial scarcity, such as that which they witnessed every three or four years?—(Hear, hear.) He be lieved that this artificial scarcity of the food of the people did no good to those whose interest it was produced to serve. On the contrary, it was of the most serious injury to them ; for, whilst it did them no personal good, it brought upon them the obloquy of starving the people, and thus caused them to lose their character.—(Cheers.) There were no pariies.„ therefore, more interested in the questio tohfetyheohagbholt lition of die corn-laws than the landowners, and to take that subject into their mature and constant considera tion.—(Hear.) It had been stated by many in this meeting thgtheet eptrhilei cipr altestloiefyfrweeoutrldedneoitnotbhj e ie ct em to p t i h te e , i e f st w a e bl P o t tlM not the see co is rld ell o t li e ly f c p n r a i t h io c ris iple to s ma.grereee right t o n e a d d o c p o t rr ion ec of h o th owu o e s v e p r i h n e c that England, a country w any force in that argument, it mighthe l e r ri , ot s a s y u r h e 1 a y d be w h a e 3 l , d s led the way in civilisation, should be the last to move in such a cause, or that she should not b e the first t o come forward in the assertion of this great principle.—(Loud course which tend e d so of those protection laws cheers.) diteotly t ß o u t the there abolition w no as that of proffering to other nations all the inducements which we had in our power by the abolition of tariffs, which were hostile to them.—(Hear, hear.) 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Many have supposed, from the few intlicatioiA of inevement heretofore among commercial men whene've'r this subject was agitated, that they ha\e been intlieerent to such a result, but this is not the case. lly habit, as merchants, they are averse to all agitation, and have been particularly so to the notion of identifying themselves with the very active body who have taken the lead upon this question, but they have never been otherwise than deeply sensible a the great im portance of such a measute to thciii, as merchants, in simpli fying and rendering tilOre steady all the great operations of trade. Any one who will bestow a little reflection on this subject, without beating about for opiniclA bay safely come to this conclusion by tonsidezing the effect of the sliding-scale and the average upon prices, :ad the additional risk merchants have to encounter whose profits are to be regulated by such influences, which no degree of foresight or judgment can anticipate or control. If, therefore, among certain classes of mer chants. there has been occasionally met with some indiffer ence to t'ois question, it is owing —first, to their having put :,orn, as au article of commerce, altogether out of their operations ; and next, to a feeling of hopelessness, as legis lators are for the most part landlords, that such a sacrifice to the public good could ever be looked for from them. Men of sense and with much love of quiet have nothing left, under such circumstances, but to look on and to bide their time, if ever it is to arrive. To the capitalist and dealers in money the measure will be found not less acceptable than it is to the merchants. They have constantly felt that in all the panics which from time to time have convulsed the money market, the importations of corn, immediate or prospective, have exercised a sinister influence, and unnaturally increased the danger from other causes. These men, pretty generally, are convinced that under a free trade in corn the danger would, in a great measure, cease, as there would never occur in future an excessive importation at any one period. They would trust to the prescience of merchants in that, as in every other article of commerce, to provide for scarcity or unusual demand, to which that foresight would then be fully competent, though all human sagacity was laid prostrate by the vagaries of the sliding-scale. By such means and principles they do not doubt that the importations of corn will be so spread over the whole season, that they can never cause any undue pressure upon the money-market, and the trade would have this further advantage, that it would far less often require payment for corn in bullion, as goods will then be more frequently accepted, nay, preferred, to gold and silver, which now are chiefly resorted to because our corn-laws have created the disposition to trade with us as little as possible. It may not, perhaps, be ill-timed to convey to the landlords themselves a word of consolation, picked up in the City, as to the event which they at present seem to regard with so raueh terror. They are evidently under this feeling, looking to low prices, such as the markets have never known before, with the throwing up of mort gages, reduction of rents, and other evils to follow the meditated repeal of the corn-laws. Were they, however, to pay a visit to the Exchange, they would hear opinions of quite a different tenour, and very good-judging merchants would tell them, that one of its almost instant effects will be, that of raising the prices of corn all over the world—to what extent no man could of course predict, but that it must be considerable is certain ; and when that tax which mere distance always im poses, of freight and other charges, is taken into account, they believe that the difference would be extii nbely small, compared with the range which prices have heretofore taken. The are of opinion, many of then, that when the increased impulse to trade which this measure must produce is allowed for, the landlords will not in any material degree be worse off, and that they will look back hereafter with surprise to the apprehension under which they at present labour. In Mark-lane to-day the first effect of tha anticipated repeal of the corn-laws was the alines', entire sthp?usion of business. The feeling described in the Times as existing in the Cabinet on the subject was generally credited as correct, and the con clusion come to by those well acquainted with the grain trade was, that the measure is fully warranted by the condi . Dec. 290 1,037 2,063 3,634 1,473 716 13,28 24,973 768 3,896 1,009 5,022 830 2,976 5,153 1,410 4,832 3,972 307 679 4,036 874 616 -WV 1 - C• r l ~ 1 "/"