The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

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He did not mean to assert that such e tY woual be a great relief to the agricultural interest; was rather di spose d to think i t would not have the vet of raising prices, but it would at least assure the there fa_rroers that th e y wou ld not go supposing lower, that the s nircee o f import wou l d be circumscribed, and that consequently Would t be a mo re li m i te d supp l y i n future y ears . 1t the effect t o b e th e rising of the price to ine what i n j ury would that do to neighbour e it b uuntries, or what perceptible increase would wake to the consemer at home ? If they Waited until 1851, agricultural discontent would be ai k r in element in a com pl e t e cau ld ron o f national cu ' , tY• Then the income-tax would have to he re newed; and before that WAS done there must be a genera' theie ion of taxa•ion. Would it be politic, then. to have great landed interest injured and oppressed, smarting buutdeir recent injury, a nt i n di s p ose d t o any additional r"ell.—(llear hear.) Ministers would, then, perhaps, bed:weed to remember that that interest supported pe culiar burdens, and th a t th e d submitted to them tind er Y h a - compact that they were to be protected from cieo comp et i t i on with other countries. When th i ngs tac ma to extremity, Ministers could not rely on Gentle n on their Own side of the House, their domestic op- P° ' i tten, he might call it, who, like the natives of certain enrage countries, whipped their idols more than they W on r•h Wed them.—(Leughter.) They might depena 1 ; 11 it that their main stay in the hour of trial would „ e the landed interest. Objection was made to the term c_.ee P r otection," b ut t h e protect i on t h ey c l a i me d on t h at e of the H ouse was only simple j ust i ce.— (l ron i ca l ee rs .) Protection against injury. —(Cheers and ha ti,nter che ers. ) I t was argued that manufacturers if? no protection, and why should agriculture claim if But they were not in the same situation. It so tt7PPened that the manufacturers were able to produce tutgoods cheaper than the continental manufacturers; ," 1 ` exactly the reverse was the case with the agricultu ral • ier 1. interest. They could not produce as cheap as mgners•— of a • (Ironical cheers.) He . would take the case countryre where the state of things was exactly the duerse• In Prussia th e manufacturer could not pro et cheep goo d s, but the farmer cou ld pro d uce c h eap e, 11 ; but the Prussian Government could not sacrifice . ee e klutzto Freer by letting in the cheaper produce of our te n 3 -- (Protectionist cheers.) But here it was forgot that there was a unity of interest between the two t iat es, and the cry was, " Sacrifice one, that the other th a e Y ,„ e ,,njoy a factitious prosperity." They forgot that ne .' "ad one common country, and that the interest of du ) Wall the interest of all. The motion was, no s uppo t i rt to re-impose protection. He gave his warmest to it, believing that while it would nct me ats any class, while it would not be in any way detri ria,Ofal to the community, it would nevertheless give sa laction and defence to the agricultural interest. Some thingtiki had be en said about reaction and a change the e m t g e Place- No man surely could look about him but telt. be convinced that there had taken place, and was q u la g place a great change in the public mind on this ti e eqi°ll, of ' the - ultimate decision of which he had the k e d a t te , s t confidence. He did not know that any change tio taken Place in the agricultural districts, but a reac tit° had taken place in the other classes of the commu thl; T here were signs not to be misunderstood of a di atel le of opinion in the industrious classes, not imme- Y *h et Connected with the cotton manufacture. And stoat was the re ac ti on b u t a d e sire to return to protec th,:" Yet he feared Government was so entangled that th e l w ould listen to no such sober counsel, and that af re Was not the s li g ht e st hope they would return to it. tht i n thout any hope of that, but with the warmest hope D e a t no distant period the object would be attained, pre his h earty support to the motion.—(Cheers.) ee fi r ,CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was ex e-'ngiy gladthat this motion had been broueht for- Ward. th e because it was much better that the . opinions of l• eaders of parties should be stated in Parliament,. sha pe they could be discussed, than published in the, ap p l e ) : f c'f manifestos in newspapers.—(Hear, hear.) It . red that a Noble Lord had now put forward a ta 4 e 4 te lf es.to of his principles, and that the standard of rh ctio n e , was now fairly unfurled.—(Loud cheers from 'Pposition.) He was glad that this was so..— hed een t) The Hon. Member for South Lincolnshire t spoken o f the necessity of reconsidering recent le _ pr e n°n, but th e grea t leader of the party confined his k t eTiiion to the transfer or removal of local burdens. tha t tue „gentlemen who waited on his Noble Friend said wee / t nothing but protection would answer their purpose. h s now quite clear that the object to be attained i to a fixed duty of eight shillings.—(Hear, hear.) An nourable Member said it would be better to post- a nY motion on the subject until a new Parliament e th cH lki be elected by an amended constituency. But t wa e d tlier the Hon. Member was prepared to bring for beers;,4 new Reform Bill, he must leave the Hon. Mem erlid' explain. He believed the greatest benefit had been 0 - fi erred on the country by the policy which had been Ile I T Years adopted.—(heers, and cries of " Oh, oh.") thi e ‘" (l not believe that the great body of the people of • id c ountry wh o h a d tas t e d the benefit of cheap food t o three years hence, or at any other time, return th e Itr ilarefint a body of gentlemen who would reverse • Pal ieY , —(llear, hear.) It had been said that he (the I ' ua nc 11 went e or of the Exchequer) considered this an experi- Now he denied, in the strongest terms, ever ' ief t ,,',"g used a single expression which could lead to the (Gear that ho considered this an experiment.— sta ted , hear.) hear.) The Right Honourable Gentleman bad 0r,." very clearly what he conceived to be the object ite'oteetion. He stated that be did not think the benefit of an Bs. duty would be of any great tei s "t to the agriculturist, or that it would materially thee p t he price of corn. And he (the Chancellor of Luria must say that supposing the agricul the look for comfort to the other side of the House, ' tl ee , Y had derived very little from the Right Hon. Gen itie:lll,,_tretiato,u t o c : from an admission on that side of the Coul ee that the large importation of foreign corn in 1849 could. n o t be supposed in the slightest degree to have to the alleged distress, which was the sub areet,°„l two motions the last session and one during the he as `" f • The Right Hon. Gentleman put the case of the Can et:4 ahurists in this way. The English manufacturer P, Produce cheaper than the foreign manufacturer; the s ° hea • ios t i agriculturist cannot produce corn as cheap as the keielli.Producer; and the Right Hon. Gentleman . would th e rh —fi la Protection on English corn in order to maintain —onopoiy for the English produce—that was to say, le l i t :° 111 d raise the price of corn to the consuming popu kee,lit'ss(Hear, bear.) What the Right Hon. Gentleman Prot„ ,was that the price of food should be raised by eee - s• t `ng laws. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) price Bred it manifestly unjust and impolitic to raise the ar ee l ; i ef bread to the consuming population, and that *h en " Principle on which the Government proceeded te ppo the alteration in the law was proposed, and it was The measure by the members of the present Government. Go vre — r easure was not proposed as an experiment by the hat • ree l:c ement then in existence, or supported by the r er a of the present Government on that ground, kn e l l w as supported by them on the principle that the foo d ' e of this country should have the main articles of Th at a s cheap as the world could produce it.—(Cheers.) wen t W as the principle on which the present Govern lei," were prepared to stand, and there was not th . e Nreteut shado w of misgiving on their part that their date W as just.--(Cheers.) With respect to the re sho: of the Hon. Member for Wakefield, they went to than that the importations of last year were not more fel et ." ° " , cient to supply the deficiency occasioned by the im po r t of the potato crop. Upon his own showing, the th e -rtation of for e i gn grain had nothing to do with Was ride of produce in this country.—(Hear, hear.) It of 41Infair to co m p are t h e p r i ce o f a year with the price 18 49 we ek- If they compared the average price of li en With that of 1835 it would be found that the varia tieer,," 4 1. lld , the prices being 445. 3d. and 395. 41 . l ona Y, was enough to show that it by no means fol. to re : that it was simply from the importation of foreign Pea led bat statement in one of the London papers it ap han wheat was now 4s. or ss. a quarter higher • %Ural w as a month ago, and other species of agricul arise Produce was also advanced in price. That did not Journal t° any extraordinary demand, for the same sli er k o bserved that purchasers were manifesting con had Ve caution. I t was man if es t, th ere f ore , th a t th ere as it, a considerable rise in the price of wheat as well tlo t t .fli oth er sorts of agricultural produce. He would teentrolible the H ouse by giving them any detailed state- L ord 0 13 f the a verage price of barley an d oats. T ho N o bl e c latee r f ?Pnsite told th em that there were considerable log os of grain accumulated in the continental Th at and the same thing was alleged also of ea let 'rated States. Now, what was the fact? It b Y the last quotations from New Orleans to PPeared that the price of wheat had advanced Liose ni s and 445., and that it could not be laid , F riend this country under 525. per quarter. His Noble `ngly h ad also stated that there was an exceed ,able n ! ° nd harvest last year, and therefore a consider -ISt° Z ati ,titY more of agricultural produce was brought du st Craet than in the previous year. That certainly Me e. 5 ,,, v e had a considerable effect in reducing the ther e His Noble Friend had told them further, that an w as consid era bl e distress exist i ng i n t h e country, thateotra that di stress was pressing on every part of the tse e d " i tY• Now h e d e fi e d any Hon. Gentleman to L a titg ; I P in the House an d asser t that distress was ex who ' ll every part of the community.—(Hear, hear.) Dre,,a7oald Venture to get up and say that distress was k W, t tt in the manufacturing districts?—(Hear, bear.) - Ina - same allegation was made in the previous ses t,alteti t , e nth after month, and early in that year he had 'he Do ue e PPortanity of stating what was the result of r_,. or-law ex e lteveeexpenditure and of the number of persons 25 t 1 fie had showed that in the year ending ess M 1849, the expenditure had been ye ar i , eri al in the preceding year—that in the half :been Michaelmas last the expenditure also had i te ding ei ,L th an in the corresponding period of the pre t te h tet e felt at the time that itmight be oh- De e° low price of corn made a difference as to r aill f "nt expended, and he took, therefore, the num 184' Persons relieved . the year ending sth July, il:.hataitiasoc°rnorPared with the in year e - nding sth July, 1848. 'test Period to his assertion. Even up to the nate e r"lod to which the returns had been made out— gilBso, the hefirat January, 1849, and the Ist January, ven untereace was in favour of the latter period. ho wet©'en they Caine to the able-bodied poor, the class lisved suPos d e be thrown ot of employ men gre atest p extent, to he found that u the number re t 'rrel a l 1 .c. 8 8 than in the former year. But a Noble _are a, tlotn r place was not satisfied with those re- Perioeuu moved for others up to the latest possib'e !he titciicilWhich they could be made out—namely, e orro eof February ; and the result was entirely , borativof ''tzeh en „ , the statements he (the Chancellor of the e P r ° *ite C a e d r o h i a d d Previously made. The Noble Lord op .ehe House that there was great and in- Les distress °eat the midland counties of England. take the returns with regard to Lei ,tl sc'era,;i_re_, No rthamptonshire, and Rutlandshire, as toed wa s Probably the counties with which the Noble 140 ‘10e lei,rat acquainted. He would not trouble the "vm SU the detsila, Nit !Yu rather late ; but THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1850. he would take the Noble Lottl' own county: That was fair, surely. In the county ot: Leicester, in the second week of February, 1849, the numbers relieved were 18,731, and in the seine week of the year 1850 the number was 15,742.—(Hear, hear.) In North- amptonshire, the numbers relieved in the second week of February, 1849, were 15,855, and in the same week of 1850 the numbers were 15,530. In the small county of Rutland the numbers were, in the former year 1,410, and in the latter 1,292. He contended, therefore, that. according to the returns made to that and the other House, the diminution in these three counties was plain and evident. He would take the county of the Hon. Member opposite—Suffolk, and he found that in the same period, the second week of February, 1850, as oompared with 1849, there had been also a diminution in the number return( d. But he would take the year in which the price of corn was high—the year 1847, and he found in that year the numbers, in the second week of February, were 30,329, while in the same period of 1850 the numbers had fallen to 29,320.—(" Oh," and cheers.) The returns that bad been received from Ireland were down to a more recent date than those from England— they came down to the middle of April. He found, in the year ending the 14th April, 1849, the total num bers relieved in Ireland were 815,829, and in the year ending the 15th of April, 1850, the numbers had fallen to 338,000. The diminution in the present year as compared with the former one was not less than 476,933, or more than the whole number rscieving relit f in the present year. The decrease of employment was also alleged ; but he found that iu the week ending April, 1849, the number re lieved was actually 6,000 more than in the correspondicg period of last year. Now, he thought it important that they should have facts to bring forward to meet the statements that were prepared by deputations for the occasion.—(Hear, hear.) They would not meet them by counter assertions, but by facts that were undisputed and indisputable. His Right Hon. Friend bad furnished the House with a still more convincing proof of the effects of the Government policy in the diminution of crime. It appeared from his statements that the number of persons committed fur trial at the assizes and sessions for Epiphany, 1849, was 4,443. and fer 1850, 3,980. The next was Lent assizes, and he found that the number of persons committed for trial in 1846 was 2,805, and in 1850, 2,558. The number in the Easter sessions 1849 was 2.334, and in 1850, 2,oo7.—(Hear, hear.) Surely that was a most satisfactory statement to make to the House as regarded the diminution of crime. To a cer tain extent the revenue of the country was a fair test ef the well-doing of the country. He found, comparing the months of April 1819 and 1850, excluding corn, that there was a slight diminution in the customs. The excise, which was the best test of the prosperity of the country, showed an amount in the lastyear of 14,025,000/. as compared with 13,932,0004 in the previous year. There was also an increrse on the taxes, and in the in come-tax; and he could not possibly give a better proof of the general well-doing of the country than the im provement in all those branches of the revenue. And he was still more happy to state that, taking the month since the sth of April last, the same improved appear ance was maintained; and that under all the heads of re venue, except taxes, the improvement in the last month corresponded with that of the preceding year.—(Hear.) As a test of employment, he would compare the exports of the first three months in each of the three last years. They were as follow:—In the first three months of 1848. 11,684,0001. ; in 1849, 12,822,0001.; in 1850, 14,950,0004 —(Hear.) How were these exports produced? By the labour, by the employ meat of the people.—(Hear, bear.) They must have been earning wages; it was known that they had been well paid; and with good wages they had had the additional advantage of cheap food.—(Cheers.) He would only mention one article of those exports connected with the agricultural interest; he hoped it would be a source of comfort to the gentle men connected with that interest, for he should be most happy to afford them comfort in every way in which he was able.—(Hear, hear.) The exports of British wool in the first three months of each year bad been -1848, 975,0001bs ; 1849, 2,080,0001b5. (more than double) ; in 1850, 2,l62,ooolbs.—(tlear, hear.) That was an indication of an improved demand for agricul tural produce; there was also an improved demand fur corn and stock. The price of stock had been kept down by an increased production of stock in this country. The reports of the Newcastle market showed that the quantity of stock brought to market had been gradually increasing, week by week; for the last four years; and the increase upon the whole was very considerable in deed; while the importation of foreign cattle and sheep had been steadily diminishing.—(Hear, hear.) He re joiced that they had at last come to a broad point at issue. Lord Stanley bad characterised the policy that had been pursued as mistaken and insane; those where his words—(Cheers from the Protectionists)—and they seemed to be adopted by Hon. Gentlemen opposite.— (Cheers.) He took issue with them upon that; he believed that policy to have been both wise and just; by that policy the Government was prepared to stand or fall.— (Loud cheers.) He believed that, so far from sowing the seeds of dissension between two classess, that policy was essentially necessary for binding together all classes of the community—(Hear, hear)—and he be lieved that by the adoption of that policy peace had been hitherto preserved.—(Loud cheers.) • lie did not mind the violent language that was used in public meetings— (Hear, hear)—he was not afraid of gentlemen mounting their horses and riding into the towns.—(Loud cheers, and laughter.) It was well known that gentlemen got a little heated at meetings of that kind, and'talked them selves up to a fever heat.—(Laughter.) He did not attach much importance to what was said on such occa sions, though he (lid not think it was very wise language to use.—(Hear, hear.) But he did believe that the policy which had been pursued was essential for the mainte nance of good feeling and tranquillity, and for binding together all classes of society, and that no other policy contributed half so much to the permanent stability of those institutious which they were all anxious to up hold.—(Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI said, though it might not be very agreeable to take advantage of the opportunity then af forded him to address the house, still he hoped that after the observations and criticisms which the House had heard from the Right Hon, Gentleman on the policy that be assumed would be pursued by him (Mr. Disraeli). and those with whom he usually acted, that the House would allow him, before the division took place, to set before them a more accurate conception than the Right Hon. Gentleman had presented of their views and in tentons. He must begin by saying that the motion now under consideration came upon them somewhat unexs pectedly, and, when he said, that he believed that he ox pressed the general feeling of the House. The motion upon which they were required to decide was this,— " That this House will resolve itself into a Committee of the wh le House, to take into consideration the laws re. latng to the importation of foreign corn." It was not the first time, of late years, that they had been called upon to take into consideration the laws relating to the importa tion of foreign corn. It was not the first occasion that they found such a motion on the table of the House. Not four) ears ago that identical motion came before the House of Commons, and the object with which it then came forward was, if the House should resolve itself into Committee, that then the repeal of the laws affect ing the importation of foreign corn should be proposed to Parliament. He would not remind the House of the language used at that time, of the lengthened debate which then took place, of the ample discussion which the whole question underwent. He bad then the honour of voting in the minority—a minority which, though not successful, was very far from being contemptible , for its numbers. In the majority which voted upon that oc casion there was to be found the name of the Hon. Member fur Gloucestershire. the mover of She present motion; that gentleman, a Whig Member, a member of a Whig family—a county Member—supported a repeal of the corn-laws, and formed one of that triumphant ma jority before which the present opposition fell.—(Hear, hear.) After the lapse of less than four years they found themselves called on to pronounce a decision upon the same proposition for a Committee, though with an ob ject different from that which was now set forth, and with a purpose the contrary to that which was at pre sent felt, and acknowledged. When they found a Mem ber for a county bringing forward such a proposition, and when they found him seconded by a Member for a town, what were they to think? In that he recognized this fact—that two Members sitting on the Ministerial side of the House —one representing .a county, the other a town, moved and seconded the proposition.— (Hear, hear.) When such a motion was made, and so seconded, all that he could rm,gniza in it was the act of two repentant Free-traders.—(Hear, hear.) He could not for a moment imagine that any light or temporary consideration—any mere caprice—could tempt those Hon. Gentlemen to take :such a step as to solicit the attention of the House in such a manner to so grave a subject—a subject the gravity and importance of which had been acknowledged by several Honourable Members in the course of the present discussion, and so important did the subject appear to some Gentlemen, that in the course of the evening the Hon. Baronet, the Member for Marylebone, thought proper to taunt them with the emptiness of the Opposition benches, observing how scantily they were filled; he believed he might point to them now as not being so empty. A painful and laborious experience in that House had informed him that at the moment of the evening to which that taunt referred the benches at neither side were usually very full. But, to pass from such points in thee early part of the discussion, he would remind them of what they had heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who repeated much that he had fa voured them with at the beginning of the session, and they had in addition to his observations the speech of the Hon. Member for Westbury. They had from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer the statements and inferences which he drew from the poor-law returns, from the cri minal returns, from th e C us t oms , the xcise, and the taxes, to show the condition of the working classes; but he begged to remind the House that there might be very great distress in the country without its having yet reached the working class. The intense suffering of the middle portion of the agricultural body could not be &nth:of —it could not be disputed successfully by any one, and least by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, who once told the House that more millions had been lost than Cali fornia would produce. There was great and general dis tress—distress amongst the middle portion of the agri cultural interest; was there not also great distress in the towns, in Manchester, in Liverpool, in most of the pro vinces, in the great towns of the north? But they were told that much of that proceeded from the vast invest ments in railways, a fact which afforded another speci men of the data through the influence of which those laws were repealed which consummated the ruin of the agricultural interest.—(Hear, hear.) If the middle class of the agriculturists suffered losses almost unpa ralleled, what must they suppose would be the near con s( quences of that distress upon the most unfortunate and depressed portion of the agricultural class ? What must soon be the effect upon those labourers Who, for the present, were factitiously employed, and to which were ftotitini eruploym latl eni MeS OP *or aide. obligt d to refer as evidences of the prosperity of the country ? He wished frankly to express his opi nion of the motion. It was not one which, had he been consulted, he would have recom mended. If he had thought such a motion ought to have been made, he would either have praposed it him self, or asked some person mere competent to do so. His objection to the motion was, that it was of a partial character; that it asked the House to take into con sideratio❑ the interests of one class; and however just the claims of that class, if it were suffering, he would rather that they should at the right time be called upon to take into consideration the state of every class than inferentially to legislate for the advantage of one. — (Hear, hear.) Much had been said to-night on %hat was popularly called protection; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, assuming that those who sat on the Op position benches meant by the word " protection" what they in fact did not mean, had delivered himself of a violent invective against a phantom of his own creation. —(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Disraeli) would tell the House what he and his friends meant by " protection;" for he had no wish to change the word now popularly ac cepted. He looked upon it as a fact that the legislation of 1846 was the foundation of a new commercial system. He knew it was an inconvenient fashion in the debates on these economic subjects to treat the legislation of 1846 as the completion of the legisla tion commenced in 1842. lie found in the two systems features of a most contradictory character.—(Hear, hear.) In the legislation of 1842 he recognised a wise effort to extend the commercial relations of this country upon scientific terms of interchange, so that the labour of this country should not be brought into fatal compe tition with the labour of other countries; it being re solved, however, that there should be no longer protec tion to any particular class at the cost of the community; and at the very moment thlise measures were brought forward the great feature of which was that commercial interchange between countries should be balanced by countervailing duties, efforts were made in perfect unison with that wise policy to induce foreign nations to enter into commercial treaties and tariff regulations with this country. That very policy announced that while this country was ready to open its ports to the world, it was resolved that the stranger should not come and enjoy its market unless his was equally open to it.—(Hear, hear.) All those principles were entirely discarded in the fatal and insane (he quoted expressions thrown into the discussion by the Chancellor of the Exchequer) mea sures of 1846.—(Hear, hear.) The Government then commenced that struggle which had ensued on allowing free imports into this country from countries which met them with hostile tariffs. They then took a step most injurious to the rights and interests of labour in this country.—(Hear, hear)—that is to say, the English producer was not only to give what he produced in ex change for the foreign article, bat to pay the amount of duty they placed on his article of production in addition to what he gave. In fact, he paid, and did now pay, tribute to the foreign country to the amount of the duty they imposed.—(llear, hear.) He, and those who occu pied that side of the House, maintained as the real prin ciple of protection, as a general rule extending to every producer in this country, that free imports should not be received from any foreign country which by hostile tariffs refused the offer of an equally fair in terchange.—( Hear, hear.) That he called the principle of protection to native industry—one which could be supported not only as a matter of high policy but be de fended as of scientific truth—(Hear, hear)—and the motion, as preliminary to the proposition of a fixed duty on the admission of foreign corn, so far as that principle was concerned, was justified both in policy and in econo mical science. There were exceptional circumstances which solicited attention. If the principle of their com mercial code were that every foreign country should send its imports free here which received the produc tions of this country free, were they prepared to let any country send corn here free which should receive Bri tish manufactures free? He was not prepared to do that unless he found the question connected with agricul tural produce met by Hon. Gentlemen opposite in a fairer spirit. There were burdens peculiar to the soil from which other producers were free. It had been calculated by men of great eminence, and whose works were continually cited, that a fixed duty of 6s. to Bs. should be imposed on foreign grain as countervailing the burdens to which the agriculturist was liable.— (Hear.) He was not one of those who wished the agri culturist so compensated. He would rather see the question of the peculiar burdens settled as he had indi cated it ought to be, by a fair adjustment of taxation; so that they should no longer go on as they had in this country, one-third paying for two-thirds who went scot free. But if the Legislature persisted in the system which made the tiller of the soil maintain the roads, sup port the poor, build magnificent establishments for the reception of lunatics—out of his hard-earned gains, the agriculturists had a right to say that, having been placed in competition with the whole world, they could not longer postpone the question whether compensation should be given for these burdens, either by their taking a share or by their giving a countervailing duty.—(Hear.) A tax for the benefit of a class was not protection; it was plunder.—(Hear.) What he asked the House was to protect the native industry of this country, the rights and interests of labour; first, by allowing no free imports from countries which met them with countervailing duties, and secondly, in re gard to agricultural produce, he maintained that they were bound to give an additional countervailing duty or to take a share of the burdens ex pended, as much for the advantage of other classes as fur that of the agricultural. A commercial system founded on such principles would very much tend to in crease the prosperity of this conntry, to terminate the misery which was allowed on all sides partially, at least, to prevail, to change for the better that perilous position of the great middle class which more than one Member had admitted to exist. Such a protective policy would, he believed, ere long be recognized by Parliament.— (Loud cheers.) He had thought it but justice to those with whom he co-operated to make these remarks; for to be told that they were the advocates of a system which had no resemblance to that oa which they were prepared to act, was a statement too monstrous to be allowed longer to remain uncorrected. There was an important corollary. If the first principle he had stated were followed out, a greater portion of the revenue would be raised by Customs' duties. There might be a question as to the degree in which the foreigner might pay a portion of a Customs' duty, but nobody of a tem perate order of mind who had given attention to the subject would maintain that the foreigner paid no portion. What portion did ho pay to the revenue raised by inland taxation? Their lamented leader, Lord George Bentinck, laid it down as a great principle of policy, that in all their attempts to relieve the great body of the community they ►hould attack the Excise; and not that external revenue, which, under all circumstances, must be partially contributed by the foreigner.—(Hear, hear.) Had the same fiscal intelligence which in 1842 dwelt with the Exchequer of England directed the power of this House with reference to the inland revenue, it might so have been diminished that, with the exception of one or two taxes, the English people would have got quit of that burden which was entirely contributed by them selves. The people of this country always connected the rights and interests of labour with a revenue raised from Customs' duties. The revenue had been founded upon a principle favourable to their interests —namely, that in every country where taxes were raised, and es pecially in Great Britain, with its vast national debt, the revenue that was raised from the foreigner was more welcome than that which was absolutely wrong from the native producer.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Disraeli) thought that foreign grain, like all other productions of foreign labour, ought to contribute to the Treasury, put he should deplore any partial or limited legislation on so important a matter as the reconstruction of our com mercial code—that, bit by bit, they should recon►truct it, and that the first article dealt with should be that in which many Members of that House were interested. — (Ironical cheers.) He wished that such a reconstruc tion should go upon the broadest basis, but when he was taunted with not bringing forward a motion on the whole subject, in which he should be told he had consulted the interests of parties, the chances of a good division, and the getting up of a temporary cry in the country, his reply was, that he never would be a party to such con duct.—(Cheers.) However he might differ from the policy of 1846, he respected the gravity of that policy, and of the great contingencies involved.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to see the Legislature pass laws, and then, like a capricious woman, within a year or a year and a half, turn round and repeal all they had done. No; he had said before, and he repeated now, that no vote of that House, full as it was at the present moment, would decide with any satisfaction the great question in which were concerned the rights and inte rests of labour. It was by sharp experience—by the distress which, according to the Hon. Member for West bury (Mr. Wilson) " universally" prevailed among the middle classes, and which was now descending to those who depended upon them; it was in the terrible travail that he knew awaited them that the salvation of the people was to befound. The House were called upon I 3• night to vote for a motion, limited in its character, par tial in its results, but, inasmuch as it was founded upon scientific truths, and conducive to the general pros perity of the realm, he could do nothing but register his vote in its favour. Mr. COBDEN would not delay the House more than a very few minutes, and, indeed, he confessed that he really did not know whether he quite understood the , mystical delusions propounded by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. He had endear oured to follow him, and he would try to put clearly to the House what the Hon. Gentleman had just stated relative to the principles he had advocated. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) had laid it down that the policy pursued by their legislation in matters of trade in 1846 was quite different from that which it had pursued previous to 1842, in regard to the enforcement of reciprocity. But since 1823, when Mr. Huskisson commenced the intreduction of free trade, down to the conditional clause in the late Navigation Bill, there had never been a stipulation with any foreign country for any rec iprocity. The Honourable Gentleman, it ap peared, was a Free-trader, if we had reciprocity with foreign countries. Now, the Honourable Gentleman's definition of free trade and protection differed very much from that given by the Right Honourable Mem ber for Stamford (Mr. Herrie3), and wool f not be found to harmonize with that given by Lord Stanley the other day—(Loud cheers)--and the silence which prevailed upon the benches behind the Honourable Gentleman when he was speaking just now showed that Honourable Members opposite had penetrated the mystery of the Hon. Gentleman's declaration, and that they saw the danger of the position which their leader was taking up—(Cheers)—because the Hon. Gentleman, as the advocate of reciprocity, was advocat ing competition between foreign and domestic labour as much as he (Mr. Cobden). The Hon. Member made an exception with regard to the agricultural classes, but with respect to the needlewomen, of whom they had been told so much, the glover, the shoemaker, and all the other industrious classes, the Hon. Gentleman said there muss be a special exemption of agricultural pro . , duce; " and thea, 7 ' said he", " I will be a Free-trader like the rest."—(" No, nu," and cheers.) Why, the Hon. Gentleman was in favour of free imports with the excep tion of agricultural produce, provided that our gouda were taken by the foreign state. But what advantage was it to the needlewoman, the glover, the shoemaker, and the rest cf oar domestic industry? What compen sation would it be to them to allow the free impor tation of foreign goods such as they made, because the French, Germans, and Belgians agreed to take the manufactures, the cotton, and iron of this country, free of duty?—(Hear.) Ile (Mr. Cobden) would ad mit the advantage of reciprocity in a direct trade. The Hon. Gentleman said, let the agriculturists have com pensation for the special burden; on land. But what said the tenant-farmers at the Crown and Anchor the other day. They resolved that no remission of taxes could be a substitute for protection, and that the Legis lature must maintain a protective duty upon foreign grain, or the farmer could not carry on a competition with the foreigner.—(Hear.) The farmers were nut so blind to the incidence of taxation as not to know that it was one thing to tax the raw material, which was land, and another thing to tax the produce of that capital which belonged to the farmer.—(Hear.) Now the Hon. Member for Bucks proposed to remit the taxation upon land, and then he would admit foreign corn. But the farmer was for protection, and they were much mistaken if they thought he would a ll ow t h at to b e ta k en awa y from him as compensation because they chose to remit the taxation upon land. And the farmer would see also the clumsy process by which these burdens upon land were proposed to be remitted, because the Hon. Gentle man took off the tax froze real property of all kinds— houses, mills, railways, and the rest. He (Mr. Cobden) did not see how that would be a com pensation to the farmer.—(Dear, hear.) The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. 'lorries) told the House they could not protect the manufacturers, for they had arrived at that point, and by the absence of protec tion too—(Cheers)--that they were able to send their produce to Germany, and pay 30 per cent. duty, and to America, and pay 20 per cent. duty; and yet, after pay ing these duties and transit charges besides, they were able to sell cheaper than the foreign manufacturer. But the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) differed from the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Herries), for the Hon. Gentleman objected to the motion, because it did not include manufactures of all kinds.—(Cheers.) He found fault with its partiality. But Mr. Herries, with more candour, said, "Yon caanot be impartial, and the protec tion you enact must be for that interest which cannot compete with foreigners at the expense of the manufac turers who can compete with manufacturers abroad after paying 20 per cent. on the cost of transit."—(Hear, hear.) The proposal of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Dis raeli) was to exempt the land from taxation, and then to bring in foreign agriculture into competition with our farmers at home. And then, is order to make that ac ceptable to the country, he included in his speech some claims to protection for the Bradford stuff manufactu rers, a branch of our industry of which we might well be proud, and which had no rival in the world.— (Cheers.) But these manufacturers would laugh at and repudiate such a proposaL They would not listen to this offer to take them into partnership with Hon. Gen tlemen opposite, when in return lion. Gentlemen oppo site proposed to tax their bread.—(Cheers.) The in dustrious operatives of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, and Ireland were laughing at such a proposal as that which the Hon. Gentleman was making. The Protec tionists had gained a convert in the Hon. and Gallant Member for Gloucestershire (Mr. G. Berkeley), and he wished them joy of him.—(Much laughter.) Why (con tinued Mr. Cobden), if you had gi ven me the pick of this House, and had said to me , " Make a pr esen t of one of your colleagues," I would have presented you with the Hon. Gentleman.—(Continued laughter,) The Hon. Member for Gloucestershire had dune right in coming forward frankly and boldly, as be was sure to do every thing, for he was a bold and gallant man in his very looks—(Laughter)—and saying, " I aria for putting a tax upon your bread," and he did not attempt to mystify the thing by talking of cotton all the while.—(Hear, hear.) They had been talking all night about the price of corn as if they were in Mark-lane, or sitting in a counting-house. They were indebted to the Hoc Member for Paisley (Mr. Archibald Hastie) for givitig this turn to the debate, which he regretted, and the Hou. Member had been followed by the Lion. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Sanders). I would vote on that side (continued Mr. Cobden, pointing to the Opposition benches and to Mr. Sanders) if I were he. His speech was on that aide. Take courage! (said the Hon. Member, pointing to Mr. Sanders, and addressing that gentleman in a taunting and ironical tone) and vote for the motion.— (Cheers and laughter.) The Honourable Member had been followed by others, who had taken pains to show the price of corn, and the whole discussion had been a pure waste of time and wholly beside the question. Nay, more; he would say it was discreditable and derogatory to that House, when they had gentlemen there who were supposed to be interested in the price of corn and cattle, that they should be spending a whole evening in discussing whether the price of corn should be 365. or 565. a quarter. What would be thought if his Honour able Friend the Member for Manchester, who was a great spinner of yarns —(Much laughter and cheering) —were to produce his list of prices and say, " see how my yarns have fallen in value" ?—(Laughter renewed.) Would that not be thought derogatory to the character of the House ?—(Hear.) The case was precisely the same as regarded the complaints of the agricultural Members, and that they did not perceive it was only a proof of the inveteracy of the habit in which they in dulged.—(Hear, hear.) In that House they had nothing to do with the price of corn. As far as he was concerned he did not regret that the price was so low. The people of this country had a right to obtain corn at the market price of the world, and as long as they could get it at that rate he was satisfied,let it be 355., 405., or eas. It had been said that the present prices were exceptional, and that a great experiment was going on; but for his part he did not look upon the existing system as an experiment, nor did people out of doors so regard it. If a Cabinet Minister in another place had dropped the word " ex periment," it would meet with no response from the people, who held that they were entitled to the cheapest supply of corn the world could furnish. The advantage' of a low price of corn must be tested by experience, Bed the Chancellor of the Exchequer in hie able speech said all that could be urged upon that subject.—(Hear.) Those who wished to re-enact a corn-law should endeavour to invalidate the facts which the Chancellor of the Exche quer had stated. If Hon. Gentlemen opposite were as sured that they had facts and experience on their side, they should court discussion. Was it true that, With a mo derate range of prices fur the prime necessaries of life, pauperism—that curse of the country—had greatly diminished ? • Was it true that crime had de creased in gravity mai amount ? That question did not refer to the manufacturing districts only, but was equally applicable to the rural dis tricts. A considerable diminution of crime was apparent in 'the counties .of Mirka, and Hants. At the Easter Quarter Sessions held in the rural towns of Devizes, Salisbury; and Winchester, there was not a single prisoner to be tried—(Hear, hear)—and at Ando ver there was only one. Was it true that the revenue had increased during the prevalence of a moderate price for food? Was it true that our exports had increased concurrently with an augmentation of the quantity of gold in the coffers of the Bank? If these things were so, then he was justified in saying that the advocates of an increased price of corn wished to augment pauperism, to diminish exports, and to reduce the people to misery and want.—(" Oh, oh," and Hear.") But Honourable Gentlemen did not dare to propose another corn-l aw in that i House. the H ouse wa s not prepared to reverse Defective as the represen a:inn& third year of its existen c e y j h gd e y h endeavoured to escape from th e i r er d et c usually followed pretty closely any change ot publi c opinion. But if there was no .change in public opinion upon this questio n, b ow coultLa change be produced ex cept by discussio n ? Could Abe advocates of a corn-law speak from a more loft y pedestal than that House? Their t o l nnma its war, bfyo thers andam house speeches would be advertised, in every journal, anti their arguments addressed at once to the whole com munity. Why did they not avail themselves of those advantages? The Hon. Member for Sumersetshire said it was useless for them to talk because they were in a minority in that House, but when a general election should take place they would carry their object. But if they had a majority they would not want discussion.— (Hoar, hear.) Ddsjoritiea could only be created by dis eussion in that House, but Hon. Gentlemen avoided dis cussion because they knew that argument, facts; and experience were all against them.—(" No," from the Opposition.) \ Then, ' said the Hon. Memb e r, " if argumen ts, facts, an d experien ce are on your side, what miserable debaters you must be." (Cheers and laughter.) It had usually been his lot to talk to mi norities during • the ten years he had sat in the House, and if the Hon. Gentlemen opposite w e r e i n earnes t i n i what they sad out of doors, thoy would not shrink from addressing a minority in the House of Commons. —(Hear.) You allege that • the farmers are suffering distress, and yet you advise them to sit with folded . arms and calmly await a dissolution of Parliament. The present Parliament might endure three years longer; and in that time the farmers must be ruined if the re presentation given by their friends of their present con dition were correct. It did not seem likely that the landholders would aid the farmers in passing through the ordeal said to be prepared for them by any remis sion of rent. When gentlemen talked of a dissolution they did not know what they were preparing for them selves. They could not be aware of what would be the result of a general election on the question of the corn laws. It would be very agreeable for the county Mem • berm to go down to their districts and be re-elected, but other Members would have to undergo a severe ordeal. When there was some talk of a dissolution, in 1846, he told Hon. Gentlemen opposite what he now repeated, that this great metropolis, with its 2 , 5 00,000 of inhabi tants, would not return one of their body, and he believed that no Protectionist would be returned for any place having a population of more than 20,000.—(Oh, oh.) It must not be forgotten that not more than one-sixth of the adult males in this country had a vote at elections, and that this was a cause of great discontent. Would it be wise in Hon. Gentlemen, in connexion with the question of the people's bread, to bring on their backs the question of the people's representation ? If by a dissolution the Hon. Gentlemen opposite could obtain a majority—which he did not believe —would the votes of the two Members for Stamford be equal to those of the Members for Marylebone or Finsbury?—(Murmurs.) He was not afraid of a dissolution.—(Question.) That was the question, for he understood that Gentlemen op site were going to lay UP the question of the corn-laws until the dissolution of Parliament. If they were sin cere in wishing for a dissolution they should support the motion for triennial Parliaments.—(" Oh, oh.") If the wishes of Gentlemen opposite were realised, they would bring about the most complete democratic revo lution that the world had ever seen .—(Divide, divide.) Mr. NE WDEGATE rose amid loud cries of " Divide !" and, with frequent interruptions, proceeded to say,— , That the Hon. Member (Dir. Cobden) had appealed Y with confidence to the result of a dissolution.T He would ask him, however, whether it was true that in a speech delivered out of doors he had said, "I am told on good authority, that if a dissolution took place next year 90, at least, of the 105 Irish Members would come up Wedged to restore the corn-laws?"--(Cheers.) He asked if that language was consistent with what they had heard from the Hon. Gentleman that night?—(" Hear, hear," " Divider) He believed the Hon. Member had spoken the truth at Sheffield.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had showed an excessive anxiety for discus sion in that House, and spoke of the propriety of 'dis cussion being carried on even by a minority. But he forgot that he had himself told his constituents at Leeds that he only wasted his time in that House, and it was useless for him to discuss questions of national reform there unless they were taken up by the country. — (Hear, hear.) They (the Protectionists) were following therefore, the example of the lion. Gentleman; and if they did not at this time promote discussion by the in troduction of their measures it was out of deference to those who were showing that their opinions were chang ing upon this question.—(" Oh, oh!" and " Divide.") He appealed to the House whether the statement which the Hon. Member (Mr. Cobden) made with reference to the measure of 1846 was not doubly true now that a large number of the majority were voting against their con victions.—("No, no, and "Divide.") The Hon. Gentle man told his constituents that he could not find in that House 200 men who voted heartily for the repeal of the corn-laws; and as to the Upper House, he said he had gone through the list, and could not find twelve men who voted,beartily for the measure.—(Hear,:hear.) The Hon. Gentleman used two languages—one language in the West Riding, and another in that House.—(Cries of " Divide.") The Hon. Gentleman endeavoured to find some fanciful differences between the arguments used by the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire and the Hon. Member for Stamford; but he differed from both of them in this, that he urged the blind application of the privilege of unrestricted intercourse with reference to the policy of other countries, and without any consi deration of the state of the people of this country— (Hear, hear)—and all this for a class purpose, for the benefit of the manufacturing against the industrial classes.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel DUNNE, in consequence of what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Disraeli), begged to say that at no moment of his life was he ever a Free-trader, or ever had any sympathy with the Hon. Member for the West Riding in his free-trade views. Ireland had not received the slightest advantage from free trade; for, in truth, there was not a class in Ireland that was not suffering. It was folly to talk of the condition of the people being improved when there were millions in Ireland subjected to every kind of misery that human beings had ever been called on to endure.—(Divide.) Mr. G. BERKELEY replied. He did nut propose an 8s duty as had been stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but only asked the House to consider the whole subject of the corn-laws. The Hon. Member for the West Riding said no reciprocity bad been broken through; but he asked, if no reciprocity had been broken between this country and Brasil?—(Hear, hear.) The same Hon. Gentleman said no borough with 20,000 in habitants would return a man opposed to free trade; but what did he say to the case of Cork?—(Hear, hear.) He regretted that the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had not favoured the House with his opinion. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion ... 184 Against it 298 Majority against the motion ... —ll4 The announcement of the numbers was received with cheers from the Ministerial side of the House. FACTORIES BILL Sir G. GREY, in answer to a question from Mr. P. Howard, stated that since the recommitment of the Factories Bill was fixed for the 23d inst., he had had communications with certain gentlemen interested in the subject, and as that day was considered inconvenient, he should fix some other time for the recommitment, though he could not name the day at present. KINGSTOWN AND HOLYHEAD MAILS. The following gentlemen were nominated on this Committee:—Sir Richard Bulkeley, Mr. Cowper, Mr. Parker, Mr. Corry, Mr. Hayter, Admiral Bowles, Mr. French, The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Mangles, Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. Childers, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Chi chester Fortescue, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with power to • send for persons, papers, and records; five to be the quorum. NAVAL AND MILITARY OFFICERS. Sir JAMES DUKE—Address for "Return of the names and present rank of all naval and military ofi• cers holding any civil appointment; stating the nature of the office held by each, date of appointment, and the rank held at the time of such appointment; the amounts of salary, half pay, pensions, and allowances, received by them respectively; and whether in the active or re tired lists; distinguishing the total amount received by each." The other business on the paper being then disposed of, the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two o'clock until Thursday. on the duties remitted and reduced on raw materials of manufacture, 272,000 thalers ; by allowance of drawbacks on exportation, 198,000 thalers ; of this amount of loss to the whole revenue of the Union, about .517,000 thalers will be borne by Prussia alone. The reduction of transit: and river tolls will be at tended by a decrease of revenue to Prussia alone of 347,000 thalers ; so that she gives up by the revision in all a yearly revenue of 918,000 thalers. A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, of the 13th inst., in the Kelner Zeitung, states, that in the con ference which took place on the 1 1 th, Baden and Lippe-Schaumburg revoked the conditions which they had advanced on the subject of the League. Electoral Hessen, however, still refused to give a declaration before the definitive constitution of the Federal authority at Frankfort. In the same conference Prussia made sundry pro posals for the constitution of the " Board of Princes" and the Cabinet of the Union. The propositions were accepted ad referendum, and the debate on them was to take place on the 13th. Respecting the revision of the Bund Prussia pro poses that the League shall take part in a Con gress, but that they shall adopt the Prussian pro test of the 3d of May, and that they shall add another protest to the effect that they will not consent to the definitive constitution of the Grand Confederacy unless the League be recognised as an integral part of the same. Letters from Erfurt of the 10th inst., in the Ober postamts Zeitung, states that instructions have been issued by the Berlin llcme-office, from which it ap pears that the Parliament is to meet again on the 26th inst. The Frankfort journals publish the dispatch of the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents in the different states of Germany, with respect to the Austrian circular on the establishment of a new Central Government. It is dated the 3d, and commences by expressing regret at the negotiations of Austria and Prussia for the establishment of a new Central Govern ment having been without result ; but it says that the Prussian Government had made the propositions which it considered most simple and the best adapted to circumstances, and that in consequence it declined to assume the responsibility arising from the fact that the powers of the ad interim Central Commission of Frankfort had expired before a new Central Govern ment was appointed. With respect to the Congress convoked at Frankfort by Austria, the dispatch observes that the King of Pussia had invited his allies to honour him with their visit on the Bth, accompanied by their Ministers, in order to deliberate on the measures to be adopted ; and it says that it is on the result of these delibe rations that the subsequent policy of the Govern ment will entirely depend. The note then gOes on to protest against the language of the Austrian note, which causes it to be supposed that the Austrian Cabinet convokes the Congress at Frankfort to re present the old Diet, and in virtue of the powers which the presidency of that Diet conferred on it; as it says the Diet is dissolved, and the powers have ceased. Nevertheless, it does not dispute the right of Austria to convoke a Congress; but it declares that the states which may not take part in it will not be bound by its decisions. _ The Berlin committee for managing the transport of articles to be sent by German manufacturers to the Exposition of Industry in London, has issued advertisements requesting exhibitors to send in descriptions of the goods to be sent. They will be carried free of expense to the three cities of Cologne, Dantzic, and Berlin, and from thence to London; free carriage back is also guaran teed. The Government undertakes to insure them, during the period of the exhibition, from damage or destruction by fire. Similar arrangements have been made in Brunswick, and will probably be made in most of the States of the Zollverein. The new railway that will connect Dresden with Prague, passing along the valley of the Elbe, and for a considerable part of the way on the immediate bank of the river, was opened on the 10th from Dresden to Konigstein. The Austrian Congress of States was opened at Frankfort on the 11th. Ten pleiaipotentiaries took part in the proceedings ; among them was the re presentative of the Electorate of Hesse. The So vereign of this State is still among the princes at tending the Congress of Berlin. rourttXbitton SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) FALSE IMPRISONMENT-MACDONALD V. BROXIIOLME This was a writ of inquiry to assess damages for false imprisonment, defendant baying admitted his liability by allowing judgment to go by defhult. Mr. SI3ION stated the case. The plaintiff is a young gentleman, a surgeon's assistant, and was formerly in the service of a gentleman named Brown, from whence he went to live with the defendant, who is a chemist at Holloway. In October last a disagreement took place between the plaintiff and defendant, and the plaintiff in sisted on leaving. Defendant, however, charged the plaintiff with stealing a book, and sent a servant to him to say that if he would confess that he had taken it and return the book he (defendant) would forgive him. Plaintiff, knowing himself' to be innocent, of course could not comply, and defendant ultimately sent a policeman, who took the plaintiff into custody at eight o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 7th of October, and he was taken to the station-house, where he was locked up till Monday morning, when he was taken before the magistrate, and was remanded at his own request till the next day, when he was admitted to bail. Whilst plaintiff was in custody ho was searched, and a key was found, which he said belonged to a box of his which was at his late master's, Mr. Brown's. The officer proceeded there and searched the box, and also a small parcel which had been left by plaintiff with the servant girl, in which were a few lozenge drops and other trifling articles, which defendant claimed as his own.- Plaintiff was tried at the Central Criminal Court, when defendant admitted .that he had not lost the book, and the jury stopped the case before the defence was concluded, and gave a verdict of not guilty. The Learned Counsel contended that the charge was completely tramped up, and that the defendant's conduct was either malicious or had been made to prevent the plaintiff from claiming the salary he would have been entitled to at the expiration of six months. He founded this opinion on the tact that after plaintiff had threatened to bring an action against defendant for slander in charging him with stealing the book, defendant told Mr. Brown that he was obliged:to give plaintiff in charge, or on the Monday he would have had an action brought against bim for defamation of character and for wages The Learned Counsel ccnsidered this a case calling for heavy damages. Police-constable, S 154, proved' the apprehension of the plaintiff under the circumstances described by the Learned Counsel. Mr. Brown, son to the plaintiff's former employer, was called, and proved that the defendant said that if he had not done as he had he would have had an action brought against hits for defamation of character and for wages. Georgina Borthwick, who was servant to defendant, proved that he had sent her to plaintiff to charge him with s tealing the book, and defendant said he would forgive him if he confessed. On another occasion ho said that he would see the plaintiff hanged. Her master had spoken to the customers in the shop, and charged plaintiff with misconduct. Mr. PARRY cross-examined the witnesses and ad dressed the jury in mitigation of damages, urging that there were reasonable grounds of suspicion to justify the defendant giving the plaintiff into custody. lie con tended that defendant would have been able to prove the facts, if the action had been for malicious prosecution, instead of trespass for false imprisonment. The Learned Counsel denied that there was any malice. The jury gave a ♦erdict for 701. FRANCE. The President of the Republic, on the proposition of the Minister of IVar, has removed M. Terchon from the command of the battalionlof sapeurs-pom peurs of Paris, and replaced him by M. Vives, who was sent away by the men in a sort of iiiteute in the days of February. M. Terchon, on that occasion, was named to the command by the men them selves. In a report to the President on the change, the Minister says :—" A double cause has induced me to propose to you this measure. On :the one hand, it will consecrate the restoration of the prin ciple of the inviolability of command by th e recal of the superior officer in whase person it was dis regarded ; on the other, M. Vives possesses in the highest degree the aptitude which the re-organization of the new battalion requires, by the profound knowledge which he has acquired of the wants of the service, and of the interests of this corps. On the whole, the recall of M. Vivas will be a lesson of high morality, which wil place in evidence the value of dismissals pronounced by revolt, and of appoint ments it may make, and at the same time it will be a pledge for the good and prompt re-organisation of corps destined to render great services." The old Legitimatist General d'llautpoul has com pletely " bamboozled" the President of the Republic in the above case : for M. Vives read M. Louis Na poleon Bonaparte, and for M. Terchon read " the Bourbons," and the occult meaning of the remarks with which General d'lJautpoul concludes his report will become evident. GERMANY. The sittings of the delegates from the cities of the Zollverein, called together to consider the changes in the tariff about to be proposed by the Minister of Trade, will be concluded in a week or eight days. The financial result of the contemplated alterations in the scale of import and export duties will be a reduction of the present revenue of the Verein to the amount of 1,045,000 thalers. The loss on the duty on articles of food is estimated at 571,000 algae STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The advises by the America making the deficiency in the receipts of cotton at the ports of the states 586,000 bales, have added id. per lb. to the prices of most descriptions in the Liverpool market. The effect on our Exchange has been a slight enhancement of the quotations for water twist, and for some counts and qualities of male also. Both the shippers and home consumers, however, have met this small requirement very coolly ; for the most part contenting themselves, in the absence of any urgent orders, with what was to be had at previous rates ; yet thus, in many instances, paying what they refused to give last week. We have had some degree of irregularity in the prices asked by spinners; but notwithstanding the inanimate character of the day, and the limited extent of the business effected, they have manifested much indif ference about selling, except on their own terms. The tone of things is less favour able in the goods department. It is in vain to ask higher prices. While the better printing cloths are in moderate request at previous rates, the lower qualities are rather more difficult of sale than they were. Madapollams and low 6-4 jac conets are very flat, and inclined to droop in value In 40-inch skirtings hardly anything can be done. Contracts are still in existence to a considerable ex tent ; but as they run out merchants are not disposed to renew them. Long cloths, TS's, and domestics are again neglected; but the prices of last week are the lowest that would be accepted. ROCHDALN, MONDAT.—The flannel market has been dull and inactive to•day, and prices stationary. Wool has undergone little change, and the manufac turers continue to buy very sparingly. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAT.—We have still to note business doing to a moderate extent in manufactured goods ; several buyers have paid us a visit the last few days. We hear, however, of weavers now waiting for work, which may be owing to the change of patterns for the autumn season. The throwsters, although working full time, are in the same dull po sition we have noted for some weeks past. In the raw silk market, some of the merchants having lowered their pretensions upon the extreme rates they were holding for, a few large parcels of Chinas have found ready buyers at about previous prices ; in other classes not much doing. HALIFAX, SATURDAT.—The worsted trade eOn tioues steady, but by no means animated, and there is no alteration in prices. The demand for yarn is pretty much the same as it was, and the quotations are Stationary. The wool market is quiet, and the staplers are free sellers at late rates. LBED!, TUESDAY.—We have had fair average mar kets at the cloth halls, both on Saturday and to-day. The manufacturers continue busy, and stocks keep low. There is a fair business doing in the ware houses, but the unfavourable weather has somewhat curtailed the sale of spring goods. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY—Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock the prisoner Wm. Threlfall, wi.o was Fl. ap prehended at the George Hotel, in thiston day, charged with extensive forgeries, pr i nc ipally on e againupon the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company , w placed in the dock. Mr. Blair, the barrister, instructed by Mr. Harvey, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution M r. ;jrmaendr!rire of this. Aspi nall, the barrister, instructed by town, and Mr. Barrett, solicit or of Leeds, a g ain de• fended the prisoner. The court was crowded by mercantile men, as on and every a vailable seat was the previous occasion the had so that t re presentatives of the local p ress had to stand by th e prisoner In ,. the . dock. The pri soner, who is a s t o ut man, of fl ori d complexion, and rather grays appeared deeply to feel the a w k war d po sition r in which he was placed. i‘i. T. Bourne, the broker, and M r . L angton, the manager, of the borough bank, wer e aga i n examined, and spoke to the bills of exchange purporting to be accepted by Mr. Rylands, the (chief manager of the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, Superintendent Towerson produced the two stamps or frames of letters alluded to in the examination on Saturday. The inscriptions on the frames were, "Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company," and the other, " Chief manager." He also found in the bag a tin box, containing red paint. He had compared the stamp with the impressions on the bills, and they perfectly corresponded. He produced a piece of paper on which there were some impressions of the stamp ; also a piece of cloth with a preparation of red paint upon it, together with a bottle of red ink. He pro duced two pieces of paper, one of which contained a copy of a bill of exchange for 8541., dated the 2d of October, 1849, and drawn by the prisoner, purporting to be accepted by Joseph Rylands, per pro. H ull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, and also copy of a bill of the same date and same drawer for 5001 : ac cepted by the chief manager of the above co m p any also a paper purporting to be the copy fa bill for 5001., dated August 1, 1849 ; dra wn and sThelfell, and accepted per pro. the 11 Flax Cotton Mill Company, by Joseph 'a similar cha racter. lands ; also another bill for the same a mount of nutter. There were numerous coer papers in the bag, consisting of bills, letters , books, memoranda, and so forth. The letters were addressed to the pri soner. He found the book which the prisoner was oduced, which contai ne d particulars of the two bills charged with forging. There were in the b ag several blank bills, which be F rodu_ced : on asked the In croes-examiost i , t _ 2ll. contents of s he bag ' a au be officer pointed to several bundles of papers upon the table, which the Learr ed Counsel requested might be marked. Among,t otl ler documents he found a banker's bill for 8971. 105. --- [Mr. Rushton objected to this course of examinatit )11 as irrelevant] He found a Bank of England note of 1,0001. in the prisoner's pocketbook, and another of 2001. ; and in the bag 31. 14s. 10d. in coin ; also ten blank bill stamps. He also found a bill for 2,0004, dated " Manchester, Dec. 19, 1849," drawn by W. Threlfall to the order of himself, at three months' date, upon the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company. at Hull, payable in London, accepted at Sir Charles Price and Co.'s bankers, London • pp. Hull Flax and Cotton Mill C ompany , J. Rylands, chief manager, due the 22d March, and endorsed, "W. Threlfall," paidiMessrs. Overhead and Co., or order; Oakes, Bevan, and Co.; p.p. Overhead and CD.,.R. Pelly ; received for Barclay, Bevan, and Co., C. T. ICing, or some name resembling that. Another Bill was for 1,0001., Manchester, at three months' date, drawn by William Threlfall, to bis order, upon the Hull , Flax and Cotton Mill Company, pay able in London, accepted as in the last bill, and not endorsed. Another bill was accepted the same as the last, but the body of the bill was not filled up at all, neither was it signed. Another for 1,5001., dated Manchester, 3d May, 1850, drawn by W. Threlfall, at three months' date, to his own order upon the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, and accepted as the last, was endorsed " W. Thelfall." Another for 2,0001., dated Manchester, 26th April, 1840, drawn by W. Threlfall at three months' date, upon the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, payable in London, and accepted as the last bill, and endorsed, " W. Threlfall." Another was for 1,0001., dated Manches ter, 24th April, 1850, drawn by W. Threlfall to his own order at three months' date on the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, payable in London, and accepted as the last bill, endorsed " W. Threlfall." Mr. J. Rylands, chief manager for the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company at Hull, was next exa mined, and proved the several bills purporting to be accepted by him to be forgeries. In cross-examination by Mr. Aspinall, witness stated that the prisoner had bought shares in the Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company, but he, witness, did not know whether he was registered for them or not. He had had money dealings with the prisoner on ac count of the company. Had dealt with him to the extent of 10,0001. or 15,000/. during the last twelve months. They held securities of the prisoner's to the amount of 516,0001. There were 150 proprietors in the company. The prisoner was then committed to take his trial at the next Liverpool assizes. Mr. Rushton refused to admit the prisoner to bail. There are various rumours in town as to the extent of the forgeries, which are variously stated at from 20,0001. to 60,000/. ; but there is a desire to make as little as possible of the case, on the part of the autho rities and the professional gentlemen employed. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE or TUESDAY. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Hobart Lord Howden, now h er Majesty's En voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to ap point James Hudson, Esq., now Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to the Emperor of Brazil. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Loftus Charles Otway, Esq., now paid attach& to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Madrid. DOWNING-STREET, Mar 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Andrew Col vile, James Cavan, William King, Charles M'Garel, Charles Cave, and Michael M'Chlery, Esqs., to be her Majesty's Commissioners in England, for borrowing, rais ing, managing, and expending the funds to be borrowed and raised by them in pursuance of an Ordinance of the Governor and Court of Policy of the colony of British Guiana, entitled " An Ordinance to authorise the raising on loan of the sum of five hundred thousand pounds for immigration purposes." Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint George Lowenfeld, Esq., to be Receiver-General for the colony of British Guiana. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Thomas Stringfellow, Esq., to be Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Fort Beaufort, in the settle ment of the Cape of Good Hope. Commissions by theLord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. 2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry— Cornet William Northey to be Lieutenant, vice Love ridge, resigned; William Blandy, Gent., to be Cornet, vice King, resigned, April 26. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Lock, auctioneer, Stoke D'Auberton, Surrey, to surrender May 23 and June 20, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings; Blake, Sergeants' Inn, Fleet -street. George Healey Ward and Bailey Griffith, printers, Bear-alley, Farringdon-atteet, May 20, and June 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official as signee Creasy, John-street, Oxford-street. Edwin Jackson Gill, auctioneer, Gloucester, May 31, at two, and June 25, at one, at the Court cf Bank ruptcy. E lwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Rogerson, Lincoln's Inn-fields. William Farr, beer-shop keeper, Broadway, Black friars, May 20, at two, and June 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings, Moorgate-street; Devonshire, Attain Friars. Agnes Ashcroft, shipowner, Liverpool, May 28, at half-past twelve, and June 27, at twelve, at the Coact of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee Coleman-street; Parnell and Willaume, New Broad-street. William Pilo and John Pile, shipbuilders, Monk wearmoutb, Durham, May 29, at eleven, and July 2, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Cooper, Sunderland; Loveland and Tweed, Lincoln's Inn-fields. John Ryder, victualler, Liverpool, May 28 anti June 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caaenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Thomas . Smeeton, tailor, Ipswich, May 24 and June 28, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannon, official assignee, Birchin. lane, Cornhill ; ere(' and Son, Verulam- buildings, Gray's•inn; Lowrance, Ipswich. William Breed, dealer in sheep, Amersham-common, Buckingham, May 25, at eleven, and July 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Befiinghall-street ; Scott and Tahourdin, Lincoln's Inn-fields. George Cooper, -linendraper, Northampton, May 25, at two, and June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall•street; Pai❑ and Hatherly, Gresham•atre•t. William Henry Ethel!, saddler, Birmingham, May 30, and June 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Smith and James, Birmingham. John Lawrence and Henry Dixon, military ornament manufacturers, Birmingham, May 23 and Juue 20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Underhill, Birmingham. Mr. Alderman Humphery paire d at Mr. Grantley Berkeley 's William Cubitt again d offw m i o t t h ion M fo r r . a committee on the corn-laws. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The Postmaster-General of that country is about, to fork, ll letters, Sec intended , of the United States having anisntooubilliesehdetohnattratchte mail Governmentpackete l s e -e w sselsmu a st, until further orders, d, "By United States' Packet from Liver pool." addresse . to between he forwarded vr L a ii, t - Liverpool o b 3, 1 ,and these p l o Th e postage will be the same as that charged upon let tern'oo' newspapers conveyed by British packet, viz.: —One shili a n n g d for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and so on, and one penny for each newspaper. The former m ay either be paid in advance or left unpaid, at the option of the sender, but the postage upon newspapers must be paid, or they will not be forwarded. No particulars have yet been received with respect to the periods at which these packets will leave this country. The public are very much like children in the matter of fame. If you are constantly stretching forth your hands for it, they will find a curious, half-spiteful pleasure in putting away the previously offered wreath, while if you sit down in a state of perfect indifference the chances are they will come and cro wn yeu.—Eliza Cook's Journal. [Anvizi rssimml—Declaration of a Dutch soldier who fought at Waterloo, cured by Holloway's Pills and Ointsient.— " I publicly state that Professor Holloway's Pills and Ointmeat hare cured rue of several ulcerous sores, which had their origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle e! Waterloo. The pain was of constant daration, and I was con fined fined to my bed always during the harvest months. i e ,"7 now for two years been enjoying the best of lsealtli !... lo y/' consequence of using Holloway's Ointment and whet 7_ s n Ti cured me in a very sho:t time ; in gratitude Tor o _ _h est : , o i n PZ I: :: la tc s il t d i lish this testimony. (Signed) J. de Swart, of fI. h V y o s a i l a l p " ; lrou, Druggist., s a t r . , N a y n m d 444, Strand, Leaden. h object of this eagtenP'rolifeoeleisonrd'hlsolleotw. ay' h s r4 -1 44 -84 b 9 lish " „,,,,o —T e BILE (HENLEY ON AN C) P l, O L ILTOAsND twos A A T Q E u It y.D W I J O E I 6 TIL IE L E wasreading the introduction into Lon on Tuesday in the Orders o ß f il t l ik w e h H ic o h u s s t e oo o d f for see Commons,second .twea d quantity of water ; so that don of practically an unlimited high service. file source bnosuts::ball have water perpetually thewatera of the Kenne h tt e su v p er p y lie fl d oo t r o of it e b v 3e7 ery 0 Henley Reach of the River Thames, resorted to is th htas inquiries; r ecejuv reidtY a to n hf d e the Bill contains clauses The 1 1 w ater there is este - a a n ft d er th th e a L t o r d i d v o e n r . past of the navigation ofthe ' roster s ar h t eetdrh ewbiylpi r a d:e l , i bu c i 1 . no li 0. brought rYa by an aqueduct sometimes river. The part navigable, to a reservoir at the open, some times covered, foot of Hampstead-hill , whence it will be pumped up to suc h an elevation 25 to supply the t o p o f t h e highest house i n London by its own gravity. I n t i mes of flood, water w ill be poured through the G ran d J unction and Padding ton Canals, for the purpose of flushing the sewers. The execution of the powers of the Act is entrusted, not to a Crown Commission or to a joint-stock company, but to a representative commission, elected in the first instance by the boards of guardians in the metropolis, and subsequently by the rate-payers in the same way as they elect guardians of the poor. No profit i s to b e d er i ve d from the under taking. Th e rate-payers of London are to fi n d money fur the execution of it, and to them the Bill gives, as to them constitutionally belongs, the administration of the funds which they contribute. Powers are contained in the Bill for the purchase of existing water-works, if the companies tbi,l6 . fit to sell them. Vic Toms Docxs.—On Monday the preamble of this Bill for the establishment of new cloche, in connexion with the Eastern Counties Railway, opposite Woolwich, was declared proved. It is proposed to have a capital of 400,000/., with power to borrow 135,0001., and to run the line of docks and canal nearly parallel to the river Thames at 600 yards from the bank, commudoesini with the river at either end by locks