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

DAY.) t the At/ recoil 0 f r opert/ 1 ) ) of s csba Won. _Till to pro. AY•) Or in the erd e i r ; a d fiat he newed r" Rd been 68 d, rs age' ertificite dule yenoY found Os d been til ; t h a t thor It had d on 1 " --. therefa been i b i n dy, 'l v of him Pt a S et 1151 ,dor an r creditor. i'lllVto (0 )' 4° P 1 n a nd nd NG, I 846' c by 115 _4 (1°. 1016 , or- 10 41 :11 Z eciP l 20 0, 11 set slll :# 6 r ko p est a ... °ll4 t, 4 J e5,5 , i re 4 i ntco7.,„ - the Sp— oor e , n e ..; ssio e dam hi 'd•kil l ro ng-' ..Neri # s.4 sof" Bede stonta ,°lli .snd _add" sin, 7 . . 4 . of Alpo folio° A DO co* • is 06 0 '0 0 , 40 4 , n d noli a t ho Actor) sta • __ ... THE CORN -LAWS. (From the Times.) tit:mNow that tf e corn-laws are indeed given up, nothing e : ins but that the deed be done with all possible :Isre — "unity and grace. For the sake of peace and good tleqople it is well that, all the actors in the drama of ptrsoe n should assemble on the stage and assist at h the the sc ene. Let nothing mar the farewell to the . past, , k the inauguration of our future career. It is true ., "1;4 brief time is given us to prepare . for these pious keeleni'e m e 3 . But ono short month is allowed . to get t be r the prejudices o f an an. e . such, however, it mu „,_ !oetubered, is the usual proportion between rec a o h n ie - . .7.'ol,tions Aber d, feuds which they heal. So intractable rV bostility and error, that they never will abate so o 7 atttihtere is leisure to be obstinate. Some sudden ca to e Or Joy, or other mighty persuasion, is necessaryhurr kap, at once ! o mi t g f ee . cur , lation of grievances, an th e pro e , • o n en ' ' I P an o we will not d f r•Tiveness. As far as e orn ,,, a , n ss itself is concerned, therefore, el, i 4i( 1 that the Premier has timed the nation . rather 4114' nad the agriculturist still , a voice in the hia r 'he would possibly ask a thousand years to forget sp e set:laments and learn to be generous. Five weeks be P li ejent to discover the wisdom of that which mu l l e ere .°°e, and the invalidity of arguments which wi then'ulseaiti reeeive the smallest attention. It devolves .lass,to persuade ell those who possess the ear of this c 4 44 4 them into a cheerful resignation, if not . an_ u .o n . - ki ssi es ent• There is nothing whatever in thF t t a tla spe e i 4l merits of the cause to justify holding out wi or teo,a,!tirutlotionadi vexatious enthusiasm. It is no aacred the illvetsi!ldSettletnent, 41 °. t e o ,no r principle that is at stake. Neither Magrla Charta, nor the Bill of Rights, nor the .be nor the Coronation Oath, preset.' koderni9g-scale. It is not only a human, but also . a . t o i tt interinesitention• The question is either one ot m. Net • °r of public expediency. A crusade for the : °l st w o 4ught, under some circumstances, be natural,. i. f reet lis rd never be dignified, and if certain . to be in '''t e co uld not fail to be ridiculous. This view of Iliditiase, howeeer, has long been abandoned. The *tielg-lleale is now upheld as a national preservative, ie in . tittelLeter3' now subject, from the Duke of R h Ittt P '°d . t he Kerry peasant, from Mr. Cayley to Mr. . a l t' s li tie l n s 1'144. concerned. As such it is a matter for 4 lsto ils v ulseussion. It would be most absurd and mis *she's to rtise the provinces, and stir the dying I t the l t ie ni .93,c quarrel, a moment after the final . decision ruht. Pstature had been put beyond all possi . bilitof !tte a p •''gitatiOn is only respectable when it is either k`,lk ilne iPle or for a purpose. Under existing circum 141;0ritLeegitation for the corn-laws would possess : 4 tillti e use claims to respect. It would neither be 141,,, nu discreet, nor anything else, in fact, but . _a 145141 h 'ale 4331:1 low.minded piece of stupidity, which %len.; no other effect than to constitute the sign tilliis2t the eeerlasting Peter Peebles of a forgotten per -111. "Y squabble'34 • It almost be impertinent to offer ti s , iie„• would 44,7 to I x , w ere there not certain parties who are ambi -1,,,416, sornebodies but destitute of all claim to that 41 7 With the "I ' ''' -'tillles s they cep get it by hanging to the corn wh, _,,,,,, p fidelity of parasites they stick to their Of course, go d 0 il ls 4,°3 litetoriety and consequence. 1 4 , 1 - 40 sia Z.° hulk goes to the bottom, the barnacles O will 4 Vt - ' sten with it. Their case just now is rather serious, oi Nki zf t heY enjoyed the utmost of our sympathy, e u ts beet, nit quite know how to advise them. They ` tieees .tabouring these many years to demonstrate N il .", ; a l ,_f P r otection, the inevitable ruin of an o a p l e e n . tltteji ~'end h n tn e Peculiar virtues of the sliding tie- 1 : 1 ? do.:ll.ed; therefore, to consider the agriculturists -sc t `°' Wlei" !or, and the whole country on the road to n e:t l . 4 . (3 til t l i e kr, and the on their showing, is not merely 4 Iliee of th e e ian and a slippery friend, but the very tikeNNtleins7le British State. Their only other choice n hts - "' It -;" t(l° humiliating for us to impose it upon 1 to confess at once that everything they pill'lb'eBe twenty years up to yesterday morning is e y eti tirthothless, and incapable of application tot the L ttek 41, that ( *Old really put its sense and truth . -se. h : .ess ll L can scarcely even wish them to do this, )Nirt nn expect them. We assume, .therefore, their Ise n ,, _ k ttite r „ te e game ; and we feel anxiety lest d an b y e • i s ie l t'Leol t o ? Portion fth a ricultural world shoal Ny en d inki`i°og a resistance which must be both use a k s ' e t ,? i; -(lLt a ° Lls• This is the time for the agricultural N Y ePlai n e ` l ° Weight to every consideration which in _ first ''''st el„„- and smooth the crisis. They are aware, . VirafS a i". of the numerous defections from e th r e e ir . teopld thie,nanitnous school. They need not beb her. litholt Ns tne Mar ket -table has long ceased to ° to ' elk] th ix or seven years s h. Ai. at many a man who s t he *no fwng pro-corn -law petitions about his titts.liditg..s,,er considers his interests . bound up in Nts q 'd reen ' l e. They know with what eircu . msp n e r c .: ,tite,„4lllae„-rte They must be treated in their ie,, i l 'tle u the-litkltseries, and how they must look , np L a te n s d t Eh , 140 ,. ;it before they can venture the sligh test 4 Their internal divisions are not lost on le s ° Pini on and ought to be owned by themselves. ists 'lid (\ NV, ,„°,f the apicultural body no longer exists • There are agricultural writers, and speakers, , k ie 1, 11 a g b "t Ho one agricultural school and autho ":"°o3etullle is one consideration which should now 4641,3'44k is irresistible force. The present preotec ,!4"lt,t)' eki i .." 'vast political responsibility. It is an - `Ol ' 44 'e •L'ost artificial interference with the . laws iti e 4 4 ( 1 4 " Pro," 41 A er,„ idence, and as such a most intole libir% -,,, an ie, t 'sela s e y reflective statesman. The . astronomer : 4 4 i', s °f th,, f,rit himself overpowered with the respon : ' O 4 - ' 4 r e B,Kies, although he did no more than sus ;st I.:lll4tieelete the system which he found. T_h !NV 4, 11 4 4344 t groan under cycles and epicycles ' a b it _ i 'cisie, t e, t ' h, Si r, Robert Peel confesses . himself un- A .. 4 . `e tn glgantic labour. He will no longer h ttli a ,--, drive the sun, control the planets, % L s t is 'it hi','" stars• fie has bad enough . of L'' hi -t kltie -4 scorched himself, and the earth into 1 4 NC% ‘` The farmers' friend " has discovered t t :p .tiii 1 4 , 44 41 th at b e cannot mete out wind, and rain, :It,leht,etit 4e,.,exactly according to the manifold . d 3 4, trifled art`tbsel)l:ohrkisi fastidious. 11 p n of his own machine. Corn clients. H . eis justly • iftest4,ll-tetattirteity Seeli g in the distance,. dark shadows -4 11, 4 .r0t ni "g distress brood over his path, the le bayOltiee eed he is seized with a panic diffidence. hat t 'il 43 pp eh 'Y Will e. Ne s -, es.. not hold himself accountable for w Ntt t tckd ticclally when a million tongues, as t our Is' Ni h t .i tl a t ".° 3 ! a lt sh te ,,stifY, are reminding him the , . N 1 ‘t .ei te ''''', he is accountable. Will the . agri • 'keu r • .°ll themselves that fearful responsibility? I N If tht uni ties _ ,a, what bail will they offer ? But o is N itill, e .ers Yti,-''''old pledge the heads of three hu ha - t As ?hal r ," E tt all the people shall be fed, I t l i t i llt 'Welt.. the hour of calamity should we find tilt'. unfelt : o r : 9 1. their bond ? The Premier has fair a. k tte le pre sldered the best judge of his own mee. 44ttlPieers4°11oces it a failure, or at least a most p te 4 ,,sll a s ! utt t ,% Who has a right to gainsay so cfam to " tem' kak i r4 3' ? It is downright cruelty to him, i 7 me eo ti ,," B to ourselves, to bind him down to . his 1, 11 ! If NO. -vPtions and compel his riper experience bar k i i . /401 T% of his' earlier rashness. Quarrel 6114/A lai,, remind him of his promises, e tok r q t Y, e,„ °lfilinent ; but, for the sake of our cora lei'', ~,'' his -I:!erate him and us from his monstrous, Ila; 1 41 4 - 041,„'`nOssible functions. If Sir Robert were NB l . l f c ; : I°6 ol of his sale, we might think it no i° : ' 2 . !.:,2" 3 ,_ interferes with the projectors of that ttli ''°'n er , - C, " ; but we, and twenty million others, tedlta ' - ""e trial. s isi,_tte s ,'t fi s It '4*...'" QS :.'s)(-e. —There was one of the largest N"ki7cikserejaknown at . a village tiNirk i h ts !tt 4, js'etashort time since, during a visit of Sir 1 4 !ii r G am Went of a gentleman in the parish. The b,ll%NreATthert reel church in the full expectation of le . - '4 '44' treacle, as they had heard he was i s ,N R t '. I, l ater... ,tlO P i 4 41;4,448 Yacq Cum.—The monthly 1 141 1 b1 : 1 ;t1 4 . 44 :C ofre :e , club svks . held on Thursday, at Cut ,st e st e nod - mele e , e„ 44 1 4 11 e'lle t ,,,t the Piazza Coffee-house, in lieu of the Covent-garden. This was the Itt?'l4lk.tlllltretlit.lereit,,'9)citsPur-strtt, a removal from whence 1t 4 J1r,,,, Or t r Witic''„ee•ssary by the want of accommodation 't , `" s ue Club, a increased importance and numerical el ItIPPor,.-"• Co mmodore Harrisonpresided, and he 0,-yeleed b,,. -or,. `t''eltb." 4 pi,,, , a numerous attendance of members, L'kcv thi . .itte e -,--Leg With their new quarters. The report eittt4ell4ingirfreci :___"",i,c,riti_Was read, and unanimously adopted, ) 'c,f , 4 it , 01 4 th e -.lt . t the committee had decided upon Zti• to 1 , eitiodziti British to the Piazza Coffee-house the LA, I.!tliti4ttri," being it was recommended tha 251. 1 a •• -it .it - a , y i k. t , cl u b ge r ao ,,, , cepted, which . was a to nd y f k0,,,F1, 11. 115 e, JrB.,,'" general meetings, and l p e a smaller E sq . and ~ .,„:,, ,e s - 1 , --, W ere b • Stovin. Esa. elected e._. ve • mi l tilit,!re or alloted for and .r i other 1 A . .- M c't.' e for n. ° . scd• Thanks were awarded to the 4,44,,cvrkk-I..dte., w-beee..r_report and exertions, and also to the t ime 3t th ckb 8111141 e business concluded. NNrto I : ll 4 4 l `lev r e h e i ....T 33 , l L—A man named Clark, a ri ll ,v i , tirsda ,‘,.-Cll at Wilton, hung himself to his tea, 0 tl s . u ta lir e , Y b 'est• Re was, however, ut down in ei, toe s .. 0 0 n out ut not until it was nearly extinct, it lli,s7tohitlie betti...te restore animation. No cause but ~,. 4,i'etl toPeo,tee„,rtgaed for the rash act. After he re ,t 44 trial l "u• uia Wife's life, for which he has been t hili t i 4 hi I erto n gaol sh 1_ oo Journal. All,4ll44,ll;44l2tylYitanci.s."-Egeerrtornen have arrived_ o i n ng a_ ",Pti,:i, qua , fro,.."° Lady Charlotte Denison, u I V lie `t th e .;,",!. Werley-hall, near Manches a t t er. " It is ,Iocieo title Lord will shortly be elevated to the C t'h t ;t: t h A b i ti t , Of the Earl of Bridgewater. A (1 1% A%R. 24 1 t • 1.11 ritol4 THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF 'N NO', illqUi Ilq,"Dt t of 4 .,t the Pilgr i mk Place last evening before W. r t ,".4 t ';' , ,l,, k oli kka ~, Tav ern, Walwortb, respecting ti i ; i li t 'N e 'o, it „i‘y-atherine Moore Rostall, aged twenty ls*hche:',.3l t j ' e u i n hete aa . ailleged, had died from the effects of 1 )1 1 41 rN Z . 17, c "r• Thomas Barratt, an ironmonger, ie,' ~,"44 0 "es his eocel-street, Walworth, deposed that li: e t• 1 1 b; ) She wBistersin-law, and occupied apartments `'iikvs 4 !eeeL it g' m a : B a female of very eccentric habits. t t ' , Et 4 314 -q atl. v., - 5 ; tr, and worked for a firm in Oxford til ' ele a e t; Thu generally of very weak health. On 1 . 4 `PO i e i 4e te1 4 ,1 4 ); efrataY, the 2 . 7 th ult., deceased came horn . e 1 1,; 4 k,,,,,a1i i,:witileu erba, which consisted of pennyroyal, w• hie *4' I:4n_ that she bad purchased them of an Ript,_ll it alitlee,lane:, who charged her Is. for them. sINlt-4 4,,evaa s t 0 Pains iu the stomach, and spasms, ~teet i hie :ilt).°Btd she took the herbs alluded to. st t te;" contNen, but had begged of her to call in a AkeLitt ~ena b, iliu m t tit she always refused to have one. klesZeie4le ° get worse ‘ v i it t n il e S ss un a d l a , 3; i m ie o r r a n c in u g p , when !'' : 1 4 e wide her bed. of tea, tot? of A e vea ~1 1 ehe , e " .in I g hope the Lord will („ I li, t I. elo,k thenied in a state of great weakness. te r 'II 41 he it 4411 abed 0 same ornine• lee went to the sur thi tlk Pre s , 0 Wile, ' e • (4:4Nte l e, et, t ,,, _ e witness described her symp -4)14103, ° get so here e Medicine for her. At half-ast oh, k o ki lt. aB Lista nt .",• Witness then sent for I%lr. Cat t 'A oqh,,WitneuTter?ded, but before his arrival she ko;:ht .I,()3erbn a sau ce 3 wife mearehed the place after her 41,1:0etoeu thPao containing the herbs. The titealsi att ious--',, u nc.ter all the circumstances of the 04 1r411241 / 4 / 4 4ti°11 .. 4 "" Itt ioirY, for the purpose of a post 4 4 , 4 0 A N I 6' , .1 4 01% t o wei Ln-Yesterday morning, be to, 7 :o.R . tttr ti a \r v . e i abo u rk,..! a serious tli44,l,lliittteklybiti:44l,44l4 iitatraltliceptfpoheleiseddovo,oerleolnce accident occurred to 'ta d r .li , e , l t t er ,;' , Esq., a "' l3l * Years of age, the daughter of loos ß ,to 0i .,... Porto), abgentletnan residing at Finchley. of the domestic, the child the nursery, and reaching the aned over the balustrades, arid, s tei t°l 3' Ilt f or 4te l and r i T L IA- . tie reania of the child quickly IN e‘ tr 's ' e v si. llet i it seL ' 3Ol O, a surgeon, was imme • it h ‘"e vart,i` "eertained that the child had 'firgin,„, rab ef the neck, besicial having Awilsi. CE• T THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENJ , NG, DECEMBER 6, 1845. 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 _ . Apiin, 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 former 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 satisfac • 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 88th. 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 viei 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. Porirsmorrit, 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, 14 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, witk 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 .oth 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 ult, 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. 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 Council was held is 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 Loan 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, wars and tight 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 less 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 spare 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 exertingourselves to combat against superior forces than we should have been had we not had to contend with you on these occasions.— (Applause.) I went to sea at a very early age, after having left and the High School ; and I had an opportunity of returning to Edinburgh nine year s a ft erwar d s , h av i ng serve d as a mid shipman post-captain, when I had the privilege of at tending your College, and studying under Phayfair, 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 able 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 cup posed to have been se vere ly trodden down by Mehemet Ali —I regret to say th a t a ft er having released them from what was called the tyranny of Mehemet Ali, they have unfortu nately fallen into .a tyranny ten thousand times worse.— (Applause.) There is nothing in my life which I regret so much as having had 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, I 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, find 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. \%'hat I think is right, I shall always do it honestly and straightforwardly.—(Appla use .) As we are now coming to a crisis, and, as your Lord s hip 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 t o 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. THE CORN-LAWS. FROM THE CITY ARTICLES OF THE MORNING rArEns.) T MES.—No topic for years past has produced more gene ral excitement and discussion in the City than the prospect, which now appears certain, of the repeal of the corn-laws. Many have supposed, from the few indications of movement heretofore among commercial men whenever this subject was agitated, that they have been indifferent to such a result, but this is not the case. By 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 of the great im portance of such a measure to them, as merchants, in simpli fying and rendering more steady all the great operations of trade. Any one who will bestow a little reflection on this subject, without beating about for opinions, may safely come to this conclusion by considering the effect of the sliding-scale and the average upon prices, . nd 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 this question, it is owing —first, to their having put corn, as an 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 accept.Fble 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 car, 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 resortsd. 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 whi c h th ey at present seem to regard with so much terror. They are evidently under this feeling, looking to low prices, such as the markets hare never known before, with the throwing, np 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, th ey would leer 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 exti rely compared with the range which prices have heretofore taken. The are of opinion, many of them, 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 the anticipated repeal of the corn-laws was the almost entire suspension 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 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 Si r R o b er t Peel should be cou rageous enough to advocate the latter extreme is deemed improbable on every account, and, as ho 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 re• union 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. 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 OF THESE THREE PROPOSITIONS IS FALSE. " Parliament WILL NOT MEET IN THE FIRST WELK or 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 hare 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 had 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 yen. 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 ment : . (Here 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 not 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 are 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 quasi-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 io 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 no decision whatever upon the subject of the corn-laws ;" after which, as our precise evening contempo rary shrewdly observes, "it m us t b e unnecessar y to add, in the third place, th a t a reso l ut i on not f orme d can hardly have a place p rov id e d i n the Queen ' s speec h." The official journalist writes in a hurry, and could scarcely be expected to say everything in a breath. But we shall hope to be informed, at th e S tan d ard ' s earl i est c onvenience, which it is of the Cabinet Ministers that has committed per jury, by revealing Cabinet secrets; also, on what principle of Conservative morality a rigidly v i r t uous Conservative journalist can"rejoice," on F ri d ay , t o b e "i n a con dition," the bare possibility of which he contemplated on Thursday with a sort of pious and constitutional horror, as implying a Privy Connciller's breach of oath ; a l so, how an d w hy it was that the " atrocious fabrication" was suffered to have some thirty hours, undisturbed run of the metropolis and the empire. We are, we need not add, no less carious to hear what the " leading journal" has to say in vindication or pallia tion of one of the most extraordinary and serious escapades on record in the history of modern British journalism. In itself, the affair does not affect us very deeply. We did not go into ecstacies at the rumour, and we are not excessively depressed b y the contradiction. We were certainly disposed to believe, notwithstanding, strong antecedent impressi ons at variance w i t h t h e Ti mes ' 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 inclinati on t o credit the fact, was the mea sure of our satisfaction at the prospect which it opened be fore the country of an early and comparatively quiet de liverance from an enorm ous ev i l. We s h ou ld h ave gr eatly 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 neat. 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, wliy 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 wheneverit 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 neat reality, and the nation never yet lacked fit exe cutive agents of its intelligent and deliberate volitions. Com paratively unimportant as this rumour and its contr a di ct i on are in themselves, at a time when events are irresistibly sweep ing along the national Mind and policy in the right directi on , the affitir 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 cOnterits, has in this instance worked well. It was truly a happy accident, or a wise policy, that allowed the " atrociote fabrication" of Thursday morning to keep unmolested possession of the world's ear during a day 'an t i a half. If Sir Hobert Peel' s well-known solicitude on the subject df "posthumous fame" extend, as we trust preshine It does; to those favourite measures of polio Vrhlch bedi his bathe, dim ate theist 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 anti learned lord, a few years ago, thrbtigh Soule mistake of ingenious device," the aiititorMiip of which Still keihaina a mystery, was ad mitted to the rare p r i v il ege o f 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 learn, by anticipation, the po,t burnous judgment of mankind on his moribund sliding -scale. - , PHILANTHR OPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORCIE'S..FIELDS.— The quarterly court of this corporation was held yesterday. Several handsome donations to the Society were reported, including one of 50/. from John Salte, Esq., and a legacy of 200/. 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 refor ma ti on a t l eas t th re e times that number. The reform school lately erected by then Society was reported to be very nearly completed- . 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 Reverenel 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 ne Lord Burghley to be Major, vice Hyde, deceased, Nov. 26. 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 ; Jordsson, 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, o ffi cial 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, officials assignee, Basingltall-street ; Lewis, Wilmington-square. 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 Birmingh am Di s t r i c t C ourt. Whi tmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Nicks, Warwick; Smith, Birmingham. _ PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the produce 'of the British possessions in America, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 2, 184 b, is 365. 7fd. 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-cutt er , Dec. 31, at eleven, at th e Court, Birmingham—J. Ashbarry, Holm Lacy, Herefordshire, farmer and timber-merchant, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Y. Betts, Cardiff, Glamorenshire, grocer, Jan. 6, at el even , a t th e Court, Bristol—r. Jenkins, Brecon, 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—lL Tune, Blackfriars-road, boot and shoe manu facturer, Dec. 31, at eleven—C. Dalton, Old Kent-road, stone mason, Dec. 31, at half-past twelve—T. Lockhart and C. Lockhart, Cheapside, and Fulham, florists and seedamen, 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. Nov. 29 Dec. 2 Nov. 30 Dec. 1 NOT. 29 Dec. 2 Nov. 29 Dec. 1 Nov. 29 41s to 413 3d; 38 pipes 22 hhds of South American nearly all taken in at 41s 3d ; 118 casks New South Wales all sold, tine at 42s 3d to 42s 6d, good 40a 9d to 4ls 9d, middling 405 to 40s 6d, low 39s 6d ; 96 casks of St. Petersburg Soap Tallow went at 39s to 40s, and low 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. 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 CHAIRMAN (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 an advertisement since published. It was stated that the expenses had amounted to nearly 6,000/. 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 th e f o ll ow i ng resolution : " esolved—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 55., 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 Com pany." This 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, bat 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 th e i r po li c y,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. Ile, 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/. had been expended, seeing that no Bill had ever been before Parliament, while the Belfast and Ballymena Com pany, which had obtained its Act, only cost 8,000/. ? The CirAittstAx answered that 2,000/. 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 paced 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. 11. 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. lie next en tered Pembroke Collage, 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, with 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. lie was also appointed revising barrister for that circuit. lie was called to till 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 the community, speaking in the highest terms of the deceased, and expressive of the deep regret 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. 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 ...... t,las;ow and Greenock.. Grand Junction • • • • • • • • • . • • Gravesend and Rochester. • .......... Great North of England ............ Great Western . .• • 566 652 927 322 672 2,418 6,196 1,839 806 123 Hartlepool . . ... London and Birmingham, . London and 81ackwa11.............. London and Brighton LondoM and Croydon •• . London and Greenwich ............. London and South Western Manchester, Bolton, and Bury . . Manchester and Birmingham • . Manchester, Leeds, and hull Assoc.. Midland Counties. • • • • • • • • • •1 1 . • • .... Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Car1i510•............. Newcastle and North Shlelds• • • • .... Norfolk.. • ..... „ ..... „ 16,223 1,164 32,014 686 4,092 1,231 5,284 930 3,989 5,731 15,132 2,665 1,930 293 1,037 2,f,63 3,634 1,473 716 13,281 North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbel], and Orleans l'ari■ and Rouen Preston and Sheffield and M anchester.......... South Eastern• • • • •. •• • • •• •• ...... Taff Vale ....... . 24,973 768 3,696 1,009 Ulster . .... • • • • 444 1,012 1,417 6,197 4,922 525 1,126 5,198 1,117 610 3,022 830 2,976 5,153 11,703 1,031 1,668 241 175 1,410 4,832 3,972 107 679 4,036 874 616 Yarmouth and Norwich ....... ..... York and North Mid1and........... 5,056 4,800 Dspo6JTS WITH THE BOARD OF TRADE.—We are requested to supply the following omissions to our list of de posits with the lio:rd of Trade :—Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junetioi:: Direct East and West Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire Junction ' • Mahon and Driffield Junction liililway ; Newcastle and Leeds Direct Railway. CAST: OF THE FELICIDADg • AND THE ECHO.— Our staten,ent of the counsel e ng age d in e last argument of this case was incorrect. Mr. Godson, Q.C., t ;:y T. Dodson, and Dr. Phillimore, appeared for the Crown ; Mr, Sergeant Manning, Dr. Addams, Dr. Harding, and Mr. CollisT , ap peared for the prisoners. General Don Francisco 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 Don Manuel has resigned the Captain-GenintleY• He _ but a very short sojourn in London, and is accompan ied his lady. TROTTING MATCH FOR TEN PO UNDS A , Yesterday the three miles' trotting match between Mr. l r D . Put tock's grey cob and Mr. Elgie's brown mare , came oil' over a match were to trot in harness for as t i urning the mile at a measured distance of road at Tottenham .e. The terms of w th a e s 33 commenced at lead, and covering th e in m 3 are minutes and secon ds. g oodsp d ee la d t , ari th ee e mile 3 second in minutes and went over t he At the conclusion of the second mile the mare still retained advantage,a ai n id3s seconds, they were then rattling away for the goal at an increased speed, when the mare broke out to a gallop and was pulled iu and turned. This gave the horse an opportu nity to make ground, and the driver of the mare finding ull chance of winning lost relinquished the race, and the horse accomplished the three miles of road in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company held their general meeting yesterday, when the usual dividend of 3 1 / 3 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 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 17,9221. To the in surance fund, on account of which 30,000/. was already in vested, the directors add the further sum of 22,000/. When the fund reaches 100,000/. the further appropriation of profits will be considered. Nine vessels are now in course of con struction, and when these are completed the company will possess an efficient fleet of 25 sea- going steam-ships, exclu sive of small vessels employed in Egypt. PROMOTIONS. Mates—W. G. Herbert, 0. Borland ; C. H. Young, of the Agincourt ; W. C. Forsyth, of the Volcano ; R. H. Mou bray, of the Hazard ; and F. D. Graham, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—F. Holland, to the Endymion ; W. Crawford, to 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 11. Collings (confirmed). to the Cruiser ; W. F. Nooth (acting), to the Scourge; C. S. Les ter, to the Victory, for service in Hasler Hospital. 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. THE 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 tons burthen 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. He 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 for a 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 busily 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 hai hour for about six weeks. The Aid, Smal'man muter, 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 so 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. agy auu nas taken up new moorings close to the docky ar d. '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 under stood that she will be recommissioned by a second master, and return to this station. The Fearless steamer has arrived from Woolwich, in the meantime, to take her place. The Viper, 6, was discharged from dock on Tuesday, and had her mast and bowsprit put in to-day.. The Electra, 19, was hauled into the dock vacated by her yesterday, to be fitted for immediate commission. The St. Lawrence, 46, having had Fullerton's manceuverer removed, has been discharged from the basin, and the Euryalus has been hauled in to be fitted as a coal depot. The Retribution, steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, has not yet arrived here from Chatham. The Snake, 16, and Ferret, 10, are being brought forward for commission with all dispatch. In the Basin—Brilliant, 20, Havannab, 20, Bittern, 16, Viper, 6, and Sampson steam-frigate. In Harbour—Trafalgar, 120 ( fiag-ship);Ocean, 46 (ordinary guard-ship), Raven, 3, and. Wildfire and Fearless steamers. HANDSOME LEGACY TO LORD BROLIGIV.M.—Under 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 30,000/. 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, 5001. ; to the Associated Catholic Charities, 500/. ; to the Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and Infirm, 5001. ; to the Society f or th e Il ouse l ess Poor, WO/. ; legacies to her executors, and to Mrs. Lee and daugh ter, and a few other friends. Her death occurred on the 9th tilt , at the advanced age of eighty-four, and she was buried in the Kensal-green Cemetery, in that part consecrated to Roman Catholics. Miss Flaherty was much interested in the great subject of the extension of 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. B an k A nnu i t i es, w i th which the "Flaherty Scholership " was founded.--Post. [ADVERTISEMENT. ` ] —F EMALE C OMPLAINTS AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.--o great are the known virtues of Holloway's Pills, that a great many titled ladies and others are purchasing them in large quantities todistribute 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 doses 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 Professnr Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. 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. Coombes, 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, malsters 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 Barnsbary- 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 tobaceo-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, Macdutf, Banff, wood-merchant, to meet within the Fife Arms Inn, Macduff, Dec. 16 and Jan. 10, at one. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the W eek ending on Saturday, the 29th day of November, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...... 26,733,810 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul lion ... 11,159,981 Silver bu11i0n..... 1,573,829 £26,733,810 M. AI DAted the 4th day of Deceml £26,733,810 JARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ber, 1845. :PARTMENT. Government secu rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Other securities 15,871,054 Notes Gold and silver coin 503,038 X 35,508,300 RSHAL2 . 4, Chief Cashier. )er, 1845. BANKING D: Proprietors' capita 1,14,653,000 Rest 'ublic deposits (in cluding Exche quer Savings banks, Commis sioners ofNational Debt, and divi dend accounts) 7,670,581 Other deposits....., 8,992,719 Seven day and other bilL3 £35,508,300 M. MA Dated the 4th day of Deceml MARKET INTELLIGENCA. From the London New Price Current of Dec. .) SUGAR.—To-day British Plantation was ii;ircha;edw 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. REVD/ED.—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. 1114turtrrius.—Importers have been less inclined to realise this week, the stock tin 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 Ixma.—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 282 to 29s per cwt for fine yellow. MOLAaSES.—Although there are sellers of Wept 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. Corm.—This 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 ea-ier 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 Congou, still the trade purchased with caution. Pouchong has slightly declined in value, and the trade have operated with caution. Twankay 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 esu• tion In-scented Orange Pekoe of fine quality a fair busi ng has been transacted. Of Hyson Skin some parcels have m is or . e extended scale, but merchants In the common kinds of Caper -ver The quantity of Tea held by the no means great. at a r t aet l u o s w po4s r nt a oa t s e 5 5. 98 for middtb:::* • town and country dear,. by SincEs.—This afternoon lb st public sale 19 packages of Ja maica preserved Ginger were feat: l a t h b i g e a me e s v i e °l o Ps f oe acceptedrljdaatb Jamaica s c t prices. mat 395, and 25 pack and Turkey FRUIT.—The great bulk of Valentia Raisit2 and Figs continuing to arrive being of such inferior 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 178,-1,530 bags of Spanish were put up, the sound was all taken in above the value. SPIRITS.—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. Gtneta for exportation has been 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 Os 7d for 17 per cent, and Os 2d for 22 per cent under proof. The value of Malt Spirit is 12s 9d to 13s 6d per gal lon according to quality.. COCRLNEA L.—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 8i 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. Madrasand 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 reluced 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 consumption. OiLs.— This afternoon Cocoa Nut Oil met with little atten tion. At public sale 14 hhds were sold, good at 321 ss, mid 311 lOs to 311 15s; 127 pipes 7 butts 93 hhds Ceylon only partly found buyers, fine at 321 15s to 33/ per ton. TALLOW. — This afternoon at public sale 35 casks of East India Tallow were sold at 41s 9d to 4.25; 15 cask/ of Italian COURT CIRCULAR. 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 cliffe, the Duke of Buccleucb, the Earl of Aberdeen, 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. itioLwAY Taarrm.—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 NAME OF RAILWAY. Lut week. •,.1 a„ • a: 7 , , , T.) t.. 'bo— cs GREAT FREE-TRADE MEETINGS. (From the Chronicle.) DEMONSTRATION AT BRISTOL. Last evening a free-trade soirée took place at the Public Rooms, Broad Mead, Bristol. The spacious hall was crowded with a vast assemblage of the most respectable inhabitants of the city, many of the party consisting of ladies. There were probably about 1,200 present. Over the platform, enwreathed with flowers and ever 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. The tea and coffee done justice to, the actual business commenced by the Earl of Ducio taking the chair. llis 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 Hon. F. 11. • 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., Hannan Nisgor, Esq., the American Consul, G eorge J ones , E sq., Joseph Eaton, Esq., W. D. Wills, Esq., Frederick Wills, Esq., Rev. J. Gran ville, Rev. G. Armstrong, MA., 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 expected 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 existisg 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.—(Hear.) 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)—l 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 had 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 reasoning, 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 lists 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, foorsooth ' as he says, did these la ws d o any h arm, the landlords and farmers would never have passed them.— (Shouts of laughter.) And then he tells you—this con summate reasoner—why it happens th a t th e a b o li t i on 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 lin 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 largel y . Now, this is the Ilibernian p ar t o f 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 made 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 himpeth— (Cheers)—and not only of the amiable, but of the talented and statesmanlike Morpeth—(Loud cheers)—and not only have we his adhesion, but we have that of Lord John Rue sell--(Loud cheers)—a man so well known for his high po litical courage, that no 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.) Yea ; he has covered himself with honour, in having openly, fearlessly, and uprightly admitted his former errors.— (Loud cheers.) llis 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 repealers of the corn-law.— (Loud cheers.) But as a member of the League, and as chairman of this meeting, composed as it is of men of every shade of political opinion, I fed 1 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 do what he may—the credit of having carried free trade will not lie 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 to adhere to the rules which we have laid down, for the exclu sion from our discussions of anything like party politics and 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 Minister 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 on the next dissolution of Parliament, and then I hope and trust that you, men and women of Bristol, will do your duty.— (Ilean) I hope you will lay aside al throy asideai little, llreco y politicalllpecettitonsofpast contests—that you will animosities—and joining heart and hand in the good cause, determine not only to return to Parliament . your excellent . rad representative, erto s i t heheside nryßreeurkl e e u l Berkeley, s b e u h t ee g r i i sue g, l a i . dawthrieeeh tthe Noble Lord resumed his seat. a t r i i rs ir t ifl r u e e a n o t lu i ) a t l io ßzist T ol he m no e lh r o j c ve l e i e a nt n le t on ) ft stood for /I m l a r. rd ti t . o T m il o ° v 3 e lAs the ( f4otisie freeholdinfluential most counties the e e n ti o u r g th w o ' f as Ei t ig o l p au ro d n a io e t , e er t a l l ie o had been thus carried , and he hoped that in the west, Bristol 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 c. ,„„ es .) Let the men of the west take a leaf out of the book of tio men of the north.—(Cheers.) The Iron. Gentleman then proceeded to review at some length the operation of the corn-I.ws, with the view of proving that their influence, while it failesi to benefit the class for whose advantage the bread-tax had been imposed, had a direct and most inju rious etikt 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 ?—(Cheers. ) Why should they be obliged to witness so frequently the recurrence of artificial scarcity in this country—artificial scarcity, such as that which they Iv itnessed every three or four years ?—(llear, 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 parties, therefore, more interested in the question they abo lition of the corn-laws than the landowners, and ought ra tion.— Wear.) It had been state( to take that subject into their matutrehrl(iliaciolivisitialitithicaomnseideteizg that they would not object to the establi~hnieut of ciples of free trade in this empire , if we coul d _ gthete other nations to agree to the adoption of those primiciples. If the pririciplOC were right and correc no lf t see any force in that principles were right and nations to agree to the adoptiontofhotwhoesveerp, h he might say had always should be the last to move in a country that England, rtion such a cause, or that s h e should not be the first to c ome forward in the as se of this great principle.—(L ou d But there was no course which tended so cheers.) directly to the abolition of these protection laws as to other nations all the indu cements that of which we had in our power by the abolition of tariffs, which hostile to them.—(hear, hear.) It was by remo v i ng a m l e i r s e uch ' thiliculties as hostile tariffs that we could induce other nations to adopt the principle' of free tricky aad it 'TfPf 'll 'IP 1 1