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EAST INDIA HOUSE, 211 earn 27, 1950. To the PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA ;• STOCK. Ladles and Gentlemen, no ELECTION of SD: DIRECT:IRS of the East India Com pany being appointed for WZDNESDAY, the loth April next, the favour of y,lll . Tote and interest is requested for the following Gentletner, : Lient.-Gencral Sir JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON, G.C.B GEORGE LYALL Esq. ELLIOT MACNAGHTEN, Esq. JOHN PETTY MUSPRITT, Esq. MARTIN TUCKER SMITH, Esq., M.P. WILLIAM WIGRAM, Esq. Which will mach oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tour most obedient Servants, W. B. Bayley Robert Campbell J. Caulfield John Cotton Wm. J. Eastwick Russell nice A. Galloway J. W. Hogg Rd. Jenkins John Loch Ross D. _Mangles. J. Westerman W. L. Melville C. Mills J. Oliphant W. IL C. Plowden H. Shank John Shepherd W. H. Sykes John C. Whiteman F. Warden Henry WUlock Hy. Alexander *** Proprietors desirous of Voti of Attorney for that purpose at the Ling by Proxy may obtain a Letter 3 Treasury in this Muse. FAST INDIA 110 USE, MARCH 27, 1850. TO the PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK. Ladies and Gentlemen, Having the honour of being recommended to you by the Directors of the East India Company as CANDIDATES for the DIRECTION to be chosen this year, w e take the liberty of requesting the favour of your VOTE on the day of election, WEDNESDAY, the 10th of April next, ; We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tour moat obedient and most humble servants, J. L. LUSIIINGTOS. GEORGE LYALL. • E. MACNAGHTEN. J. PETTY MUSPRATT. N. T. SMITH. W. WIGE.CM, *. 4 Proprietors desirous of Voting by Proxy may obtain a Letter Attorney for that purpose at the Treasury in this llonse. CONTRACTS for CANVAS Department of the Storekeeper-Genseral ef the Navy, Somerset -place,, March 2, 1850. • The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, de hereby give SD Noti that II TrAY, the 23d of April next, at One o'clock, They will be ready to E treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for suplying her Majesty's Dockyards at De p tford, Ports mouth, and Devonport, with 14,415 BOLTS of C ANVISS, (including 1,045 Bolts of 18 inches wide), to be delivered by the Slit of December next. Tenders may be made for any quantity not less than 1,000 Bolts, and ne Tender will be received unless made on the printed form, properly filled up, which, together with " Instotrac is oftions fifce.or making the Canvass." may be which on appation t No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of for tre him aty, nor any noticed, unle ss the p arty attends, or an agent duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of th' Anti ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Can vass," and must also be delivered at Somerset -place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound wi gth the person tenderin in the sum of 251. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the Cntract. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND 112, EISHOPSGATE-STREET. London, March 27, 1953. The Directors of the National Provincial Bank of England hereby give notice. that in consequence of the death of Horace Twice, Esq., there will be one vacancy in the direction to be fill ed feup 9th day at the Anor - nual General Meeting of t he Society, to be held he May next, and that every Shareholder intending to become or to pro pose a Candidate for the office of Director, must within ten days from the date hereof, signify by some writing under his or her hand, to b left at the office of the Society, in the City of London, either hts in e tention to become a Candidate, or the name and place if abode of the Candidate intended to be proposed by him or her. By order of the Court of Directors, DAN. IitOEERTSON, Agent and Manager. N.B. No Proprietor is eligible to be elected Director who has net been a Proprietor of at least twen to propose a Candidate unlessty 1001. shares, or one hundred 20 a 1. 'shares for six ca l en dar months ; or Proprietor of at least ten 1001. shares, or fifty 201. shares. ART -UNION OF LONDON. Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Subscription List for the current year WILL CLOSE on SA TURDAY NEXT, the Seth inst. Each Subscriber of One Guinea will receive, in addition to one share Ia the next Annual Distribution of Prizes, a Pair of Liu* Engravings after T. Webster, E.A., " The Smile" and " The Frown," WEICII MA`' BE HAD AT THE TIME OF PAYING THE SUBSCRIP TION, aid a Series of Etchings after D. Macßae, R.A., illustrating Shaksperes "Seven Ages." GEORGE GODWIN LEWIS POCOCK, '1 Hon. Secretariat. 444, west Strand WHITE HART HOTEL, LEICESTER. F. BARNARD, formerly of the Essex Arms Hotel, NVat ford, and subsequently of the White Hart Hotel, 1 iigbeth, Itirtrinz ham, takes leave to return his sincere and grateful acknowledgments for the kind support and patronage he has experienced from com mercial and other friends in the above houses, and aken he avanaidls en hims tered elf of this opportunity of informing them, he has t upou tho White Hart Hotel, Leicester, and assures those gentlemen who have fio numerously visited that Old Established Hotel, and whom he hopes may now honour him with their favours, that it will be his unceasing endeavo ur to pursue the same system of manage ment as heretofore, with a due regard to choice Wines and Spirits. FRAUDS AND COUNTERFEITR. BURGESS'S ESSENC E of ANCHOVIES EN CIIANCERY3 —.' Burgess T. Collins," and "Burgess T• Hail." - On the 7th of March, 1850, his Honour Vice-Chaneellor Sir J. L. Knight Bruce granted an INJUNCTION to restrain John Collins, positionm- Liverpool, from manufacturing any sauce or com pi purporting to be " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies," or so contrived or expressed as to represent that the sauce or composition manufactured and sold, or exported, is the same as the essence of anchovies manufactured by John Burgess and Son. And on the 14th of March, 1850, his Honour Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce granted another injunction to retrain Triel hall, of 3, Satelivrell -ren composition ts, Bethna l- g reen-road, London, from s elli ng any sauce or described as or purporting to be " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies." And notice is hereby given, that proceedings will be immediately taken against all other person , manufacturing and vending or ex porting essence of anchovies in bottles labelled in a similar manner to the bottles In which the genuine essence of anchovies manufac tured by John Burgess and Son is labelled or labelled in any manner calculated to induce the public to believe that such spurious essence is the genuint , essence of anchovies manufactured by John Burgess and Son, of 107, Strand, London. THOMAS PRYER, Solicitor to the Plaintiff. 11, Artillery-place, Finsbury-square, London. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, TIIROAGMORTON-STREET, BANK; And 14, PALL-MALL. Chairman —The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR. Deputy-Chairman—WlLLlAM LEAF, Esq. Richard E. Arden, Esq. J. Ilumphery, Esq., Ald., M.P. William Banbury, Esq. Rupert IngleSy, Esq. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq. James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq. 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The Tables on the non-part icipating prmciple afford peculiar ad vantages to the assured, not offered by any other Office—for where the object is the least possible outlay, the pay ofment Assu of a red, certain a re- I s secured to the Policy-holder, on the death the at laced rate of Premium. PREMIUMS TO AtISTAIII .£lOO. I WHOLE TEEM, one Year. 'Seven Years, With Profits. Without Pr•flts. Age• Xll 17 IS £0 7 19 1 1 11 1 2 1 15 0 16 9 114 1 119 10 32 4 317 0 £1 15 10 2 I i 3 • 7 4 6 9 6 12 9 X 1 11 10 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 6 0 10 One-half of the " Whole Tenn for seven years, or one-third of the debt upon the policy at 5 per cent., without notice. Claims paid in one month after proofs have been approved. Loans upon approved security. The medical officers attend every day at Throgmorton-street at a quarter before two o'clock. Premium may remain on credit Premium may remain for life as a ~ or may be paid •Q at any time E. BATES, Resident Director. rirflE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL JL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Enrolled under the Friendly Society's Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I W. G. Prescott , Es q . Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. TREASURER OF THE BENEVOLE MNT.P FUND. J o hn Abel Smith, Esq., . POIICISS issued in the year 1848-434, for 5,110. Do. do. do. 1849-568, for 1X1i15,865. ---- Increase ••• • • . Every description of Life Assurance effected daily. Last Report and, detailed Prospectuses, showing the very peculiar advantages offered by this Association (especially the rights to nominate any party to receive the amount of a Life Policy, tree of Legacy or Pro bate duty, or any expense whatever, a privilege which is almost ex clusively confined to this office), ma y be had at 42, Moorgat c-street, London. By order of the Board, riumr lIENRY BYRNE, Secretary. N° 17 943.] LONDON , THURSDAY r le art !" .4 S i g7 .r 'A; =';'! 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The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaun diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health will bo the quick result of taking this medicine, according to the directions ac companying each box. As a pleasant, safe, easy apperient, they unite the recommenda tion of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement dishy; their use ; and for elderly people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hi therto prepared. Sold by T. Front, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. 134 d. and 2s. 9d. per box; also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the Wane and address of " MUM Prout, 229 Strand, Loudon," en the GOVO/11110Ilt TAIT'S ED INBURGII MAGAZINE. 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JEFFERSON, in a speech of some length, proposed the following resolution : " That this meeting views with the greatest alarm the agricultural distress which at present pervades the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, and which, if not checked, must inevitably end.in the ruin of all who are interested in the cultivation of the soil; and this meeting feels convinced by practical experience that, notwithstanding the mast vigorous efforts which may be made in agri cultural improvement, th e f armers of this kingdom, weighed down as they are by the heavy burdens falling upon the land, will be unable to compete with the un taxed producers of foreign countries, and, that if the present system of legislation continues, not only will ruin fall upon those persons who are immediately inte rested in the cultivation of the soil, but also as a natural consequence, the manufacturers, shopkeepers, workmen, and labourers of all classes must be involved in the same calamity." Mr. W. B. PEItitAND, being called upon by the chairman to second the resolution, rose and was re ceived with loud and reiterated applause. He said, — Mr. Chairman, farmers, and inhabitants of the Pon tefract polling district, when the Free-traders in this country a few years ago commenced a violent agita tion in favour of their favourite doctrine of free trade in corn, Mr. Van Buren, the President of the United States, when addressing the people of that great country, told them that nothing could compensate a nation for being dependent upon another for the food which it consumed.--(Hear.) Some three or four years ago Mr. Clay, an equally able man, told the people of that country that free trade was a beautiful vision. You have found it a dreadful reality.— (Hear, hear.) And even among the manufacturers themselves the bubble has burst.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) In Lancashire they are closing their mills and running short time. On this day fortnight, in the town of Rochdale and its immediate neigh bourhood, 22 mills were entirely closed. (Hear, hear.) IVe leave them to settle now in Lancashire the practical results of free trade, even to the cotton lords.—(Hear, hear.) But in what a state are you, —not only the farmers of the Pontefract polling dis trict, but also in Great Britain and Ireland? You no longer can " lt,ee with the lark and sprightly hail the morn ;" you now till a profitless soil ; your sweat drops upon land which gives no longer a fruitful return to you.—(Hear, hear.) The more you till, the more you cultivate, the deeper you sinls into ruin.—(llear, hear.) Under these circumstances, you have met here to-day to assert the right of every free-born Englishmen, and to consult what steps you should adopt to save you from this impending ruin. And here let me call your attention for a few moments to your present position, when standing before the public of this enlightened empire. In 18.11, when Sir Robert Peel was bidding against the Whigs for popular favour—the Whigs who offered you an Bs. fixed duty upon all foreign corn, he told you in his Tamworth manifesto, as he told the people of the whole united empire, that no farmer, with the burdens and taxation upon land and the burdens upon his common country, could produce wheat under 565. a quarter.—(Hear, hear) —and I have carefully watched his career since he became a base and unprincipled renegade, to find whether he ever alluded to that de claration either in the House of Commons or out of it. He never has done so.—(Hear, hear.) He knew as well as either you or I that no farmer can produce it in this country at a less price.—(Hear, hear.) Well, you believed him. The people of this empire be lieved him.—(Cries of " We did believe him.") They placed him in the Ilouse of Commons with a glorious majority of 91, to carry out protection ani not free trade.—(Bear, hear, and applause.) As soon as he had seated himself in the office of Prime Minister, to ease the country from its awful position at that time, he proposed to the people of this coun try the property and income-tax, but pledged his word and honour, as a statesman, that it should only last for three years.—(llear, hear.) The Members of Parliament believed his assertion ; they voted for it ; they saddled themselves and the people of this country with those extra burdens—the income and property tax, to rescue the country from the terrible position to which it had been reduced under Whig misrule.—(Hear, hear.) But before the three years passed—uncalled-for, undemanded, and unexpected— Sir Robert Peel took off the duty upon cotton to the amount of 600,0001. per annum—(Hear, hear)—to loosen, as he said, the springs of industry. When asked to do - something for the farmers, he shook his head and said nothing; and the Manchester cotton lords laughed in their sleeves, ridiculed his folly, and thanked him for presenting to each of them 1,0001. a year. " Well," he said, " you have got your pro tection—your sliding scale to protect you from the introduction of foreign corn into this country. Therefore, I think I am justified in giving the cot ton spinners this 600,000/." lie did so; but he said, " I pledge my word that I mean to stand by protection to agriculture."—(Hear, hear.) Well, in a very short time, to the amazement of the whole country, he brought in his Bill to repeal the corn law.—(A. voice----" Ile is a traitor.") He said at the time that it was the "unadorned elo quence " of Mr. Cobden which induced him to dc it.—(Laughter.) Yes, he has been laughed at and ridiculed for making use of that e xpression. I think he has been ill-used by the public, because it was the unadorned eloquence of Mr. Cobden which did it ; but what was that unadorned eloquence ? It was Mr. Cobden's celebrated speech in the House of Commons. —(Hear, hear.) Scarcely had the grave closed upon Sir Robert Peel's private secretary, Mr. Drummond, who was murdered in the streets of London by a man who had hardened his heart by listening to Anti- Corn-law League advocates, and who meant his victim to be Sir Robert Peel himself, when Mr. Cobden stood up in the House of Commons, and in language unmistakeable gave Sir Robert Peel to understand that Sir hew Robertouldbe feelheld personally and in a onally r esponsible by the people of this country, it h e re fused to repeal the corn law.speech de n 7gavewhich told with stunning influ ence upon M r. Cobden, him such a castigation as he will never forget to the last moment of his life. Well, but what said Sir Robert Peel now ? " Oh" he said, the other day in the House of Commons, "it was the famine that made me repeal the corn •laws ?" It was not the unadorned eloquence of Mr. Cobden it was the famine.— (Hear, hear.) Well, to use the language of our worthy chairman and Mr. Jefferson, not exactly the language, but I will go further and say that when Sir Robert Peel made use of that lan guage he either proved himself to be the most heart less wretch or the greatest fibber that ever stood upon the face of the earth.---(Hear, and cheers.) The famine ! Why his own sliding scale under a system of famine in this country would have introduced foreign corn at a nominal duty of Is. a quarter; but his Bill to repeal the corn-laws placed upon foreign corn a fixed duty of 103. a quarter for three years.— (Hear, and cheers.) Therefore, to prevent foreign corn coming into this country in a period of famine, he placed a fixed duty of 10s. upon it instead of a no minal duty of ls.—(llear.) But, I always notice how sensitive Sir R. Peel is when attacked out of doors for his base and unprincipled apostasy. He watches the opportunity when the Whigs are likely to be hard pressed in the Ilouse of Commons, when the division is sure to be rather close he stands upon the floor of the House in opposition to Lord John Russell, and talks about the purity:of his motives, the honesty of his principles —and then he sits down. Up rises Lord John Russell, not knowing which way to go, and he speaks to his character. " He is amazed at the Right Hon, Baronet feeling so sensitive. He is sure he acted upon the purest and most honourable principles and motives, and be hopes he will not take any further notice of any further attacks made upon him." Well, and they go into the same lobby toge ther—(Hear, hear, and laughter,)—Lord John Russell all the time in his conscience despising Sir R. Peel, and prepared, if the country only backed him with sufficient determinatiyn and support, to place a fixed duty of Bs. a quarter upon foreign corn.— (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) I know that what I say is true. But now let us turn to the Free traders. They asked three years' trial for their grand free-trade system. Mr. Cobden declared that England before three years were over would take the world in its wake.—(Hear, hear.) Well, there was to be uni versal prosperity. I ask the Free-traders to show me any little petty state, any principal district that has been dragged into its wake. Every little state that has the welfare of its people at heart looks down with amazement on the ignorance, the folly, the stupidity, and the madness of the English nation.—(Hear, hear.) - Why, agriculture now is sinking into ruin with strides more rapid and more fearful than in a quarter of a century can be retraced back again to a state of pros perity. What is the price of wheat ?-235. a quarter less than Sir R. Peel declared the farmers of this country could grow it for—(Hear, hear) — barley 15s. less ; oats 103. less ; butter half the price for which it can be produced ; meat, 2s. a stone less than what it can be fed for.—(Hear, hear.) Timber is half the price it was under protection. Bark is one third the price. Willows (and I believe you grow willows here) are half price—(Hear, hear) —and I heard your Member, Mr. Monckton Milnes, in the House of Commons, make a most eloquent speech in defence of protection. He said that about half his constituency would be ruined if the duty were taken off foreign willows.—(Hear, hear, laughter, and an exclamation of "He is a great grower of willows.") But what has been the result of free trade in cattle ? Tens of thousands of far mers in Great Britain and Ireland have almost been ruined by disease being introduced amongst their cattle.—(Hear, hear.) But amidst all this misery and suffering, what are the farmers told ?—(Hear, hear.) We are told, as Mr. Jefferson says, that we are only in a state of transition. Transition ! Where to ? From our gree❑ fields to the back settlements of America ; from our comfortable homesteads to the union workhouse ; from full purses to empty purses; from a state of prosperity to ruin. —(Hear, hear.) And now, gentlemen, what is our present position ? Parliament has been sitting two months. It has decided by a majority of 119 that the corn laws shall not be re-enacted. I am not surprised at it, for it was a free-trade Parliament ; but filet us see another general election, and then we will find whether the corn laws are to be re-enacted or no.—(Hear, hear, and loud applause.)—Parliamen has decided by a narrow majority of 21 that the agri culturists' burdens shall not be reduced. Well, it is high time for us to look to it, and we are assembled here to-day to do it. I will show you how to do it. We have opposed to us the Lancashire cotton-spin ners, who are known as the Manchester school. They have a number of hired agitators—Cobden received his three guineas a day and travelling expenses— (Hear, hear, and laughter)—who have gone through the country, and are prepared to go through it again, to stir up a bad feeling amongst the different classes of this country against each other.—(Hear, hear.) We have a Whig Government opposed to us at pre sent; but, mark my words, that if the country speaks out, and most unmistakeably, so as to convince Lord John Russell that he is backed by the feeling of this country—not looking upon:the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire as the whole of Great Britain and Ireland—backed by the general voice of this country, he is prepared to re-impose a duty upo❑ foreign corn.—(Applause, and an exclamation of "No doubt of it.") Then we have Sir R. Peel, who tells us that he feels deep sympathy for the agriculturists, and he lays his hand upou his heart in the House of Commons when he says so.—(Laughter.) He says he hopes never to live to see protection restored. I tell you that his life is in your hands if you choose. It' you will follow the advice, farmers of Great Britain and , Ireland, which I shall give to you, in two years you will see protection restored.—(Cheers.) Mr. Cobden, in his speech at Leeds in December last, said that if the farmers and the landed proprietors of this country attempted to get up petitions or address Parliament and the Queen in favour of the restoration of protec tion, he would take up his abode in Yorkshire, stir up a rebellion, and make the farmers and landed pro prietors compound for their existence.—(A Voice— " Let him try it.") That is plain language, and was used at Leeds, within a stone's throw of the place where lam now addressing you. Now, I am going to take him at his word, and will see if we cannot make the cotton lords compound for their existence. Let us see who the people are in this country that Cobden says he'll make compound for their existence.— (Hear, hear.) Ah !he is something like a tomtit on a church steeple.—(Applause and much laughter.) Why, the man must be mad. There are 200,000 landed proprietors ; and, let me tell you, that above 50,000 of these 200,000 landed proprietors possess less than 30 acres of land, each of them.—(Hear, hear.) Now, this is a body of men that are to compound for their existence—not the rich aristocracy. There are 700,000 farmers, who, two years ago, possessed a capital of 250,000,000/.—(Hear, hear.) . I should like to see the cotton lords of Lancashire weighed up. I will stake my existence that three-fourths of them could not pay ss. in the pound.—(Hear.) I know that is a fact. Mr. Bright said the other day that the great majority of the cotton-spinners had been labouring men. (Hear, hear.) That shows how rapidly they can make money by spinning cotton. Now, the farmers of Great Britain have 3,000,000 of labourers regularly employed under them, receiving daily wages from the farmers. You have besides that every profession and trade resident in the whole of the agricultural districts. Now, let me ask you who the people are that are going to make us compound fur our existence ? I tell you there are those 600 cotton-spinners, and Cobden at their head ; a few more hired agitators—the man who "has whistled at the plough," who was whistled out of the army with a cat-o'-nine-tails at his back ; you have some twenty political parsons that would side with them because they hate the institutions of the country—they want to down with the church and uproot the monarchy. --(Hear, hear.) Mr. Bright at Manchester one day had the audacity to say that a republic would be as beneficial here as in America, and then he talked about the cheapness of it. Why, Lord John Russell talked about low prices, and he said, "It seems to me that low prices are introducing low views." Yes, and he might have added, " low practices, low principles, and low men into power."—(Hear, hear.) Now, lam going to give you some advice ; and if the landed proprietors, farmers, and labourers, and pro fessions and trades depending upon them, will adopt the advice that I am now going to give, it is my firm belief that protection will be restored in less than two years, and the cotton lords, and I believe Mr. Cobden himself, will petition for it to he restored. Now, far mers, and men of the Pontefract polling district, I advise you to convene a meeting in this town of all the landlords, clergy, freeholders, barristers, attor neys, physicians, surgeons, bankers, land surveyors, wine merchants, spirit merchants, innkeepers, beer sellers, builders, joiners, masons, mercers, linendra pars, tailors, butchers, bakers, grocers, druggists ve terinary surgeons, lime burners, saddlers, wheel wrights, cabinet makers, carpenters, ironmongers, blacksmiths, nailmakers, tinners, farm implement makers, corn-millers, tanners, shoemakers, horse breakers, horse dealers, cattle dealers, seedsmen, gard eners, clock and watchmakers, glaziers, plumbers, brick makers, tilemakers, hatters, honnetmakers, glovers, dressmakers, basketmakers, ropemakers, farm la bourers, and every person depending upon agricul ture. When assembled, tell them that they are de pendent upon you and your capital, upon your in dustry, upon the land you till—(llear, hear)—for all their comforts, their prosperity, and advantages wt ich they enjoy —(Hear, hear, and applause)—that your ruin will speedily fall upon their heads ; that you must all stand together or together fall; that you all swim in the same boat; and that you are determined that every trade or profession shall stand by you, and that you are going to form a Wool League. Now, then, farmers, there's more in that short proposition than you are aware of. Let the farmers of Great Britain and Ireland enter into a wool league, and vow they will never again wear cotton if they can be provided with woollen or linen goods, and in two years the cotton. spinners of Lancashire will com pound.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, and notwithstanding Mr. Cobden said he would make us compound for our property and for our existence, I for one will pledge myself here—let it be taken up throughout Great Britain and Ireland—that cotton will be kept in America—let wool be kept in England.—(Loud cheers.) Who will you bare to back you ? The South Down breeders of the south, the Highland breeders in Scotland ; but, alas 1 from the consequences of free trade 150,000 poor Highlanders are now starv ing to death. \Vales will come with you heart and hand, with all her mighty mountaineers ; you will have every sheep-breeder throughout Great Britain and Ireland crying, " Hail, fellows, well met, but we are now striking home !—(Loud cheers.) And, further, you will have the woollen-manufacturers of the West Rising themselves—they will cease to mix their nasty cotton with their wool—they will have no occasion to consume a million and a quarter of wheat in daubing their nasty calico.—(Hear, hear.) And let me say one word for the woollen manufacturers of Yorkshire. They have never joined those Lancashire cotton lords in their virulent and infamous attacks upon the landed interest of this country.—(Hear, hear.) They are a noble race of men, take them all in all, ever ready t o hold out the hand of hospitality and friendship to the landed interest, ever ready to subscribe to the insti tutions of the country, Attritable as well as loyal, whose motto, like ours, is "live and let live," and who blushed with shame when they saw men engaged in the trade of England so degrading themselves as to subscribe money to send such foul-mouthed libellers as Cobden to Parliament.—(Hear, hear, and ap plause.) But I may be told that the wool of this country will not produce all the articles requisite for the clothing of the people. It may not, but still if necessity arises we can fall back upon flax and linen. The linen trade of Ireland alone—that is the linen and the oilcake trade—require 6,000,0001. of capital to keep it in a state of existence. It requires 1,500,000 acres of land to produce the flax that is now consumed in Ireland alone ; and, for God's sake, let us see if we cannot hold out the right hand of good will to the Irish people, to enable them to keep their labourers at home instead of overrunning England.— (Hear, hear.) Perhaps when Lord John Russell hears of this determination he may scout it and turn it into ridicule. I warn him that the Duke of Bed ford put down the hair tax in England by wearing cropped hair, when hair powder was almost as gene- rally worn as cotton is now. In France they scarcely manufacture cotton at all. Woollen lace is now chiefly worn in Paris. Light woollen fabrics are used by them for summer dresses, and for curtains, and heavier woollen goods for winter. Some few months ego an announcement came from America that there was to be a short crop of cotton ; that raised your wool 3d. per lb. Let 200 meetings of farmers take place throughout Great Britain and Ireland, and let them pledge them • selves to form a wool league, and before next clipping time the price will be raised a further 6d. per lb. When you employ your labourers now throughout Great Britain and Ireland, let the cry be " 11 . 001 for ever—you shall wear no cotton ; and encourage tradesmen who scout cotton, who do not allow it to enter into their shops.—(Applause.) What farmer of you who farms 100 acres of land would wear a cotton shirt if he were told he should pay 1001. a year for wearing it ? Why, as soon would I wear a perpetual blister as a cotton shirt.— (Laughter and applause.) Now, before I leave this ' question I ask you, farmers of the Pontefract polling district, to consider well the power you have in your hands. When you return home discuss this question with your wives and daughters ; say, of what are your clothes composed ? You'll have a short limit to cotton. Your grandmothers did not wear cotton. They wore wool and Eeglish flax. It is only about 70 years since cotton has been in troduced into this country as a great article of trade —and where are we ? Why, it is cotton above, cot ton below, and cotton everywhere.—(Applause and laughter.) You have been reminded that you are re presented now by Free-traders. Why, farmers of Pontefract, the tradesmen of Pontefract exist by you alone. If they send Free-traders and enemies of your interest to Parliament why should you support them ? —(Hear.) Let Mr. Milnes remember that he made an eloquent speech in favour of protection to willows. —(hear.) Let him remember that he came here and was introduced into Parliament by talking protec tion ; but if he remains a free-trader where are you ? I would sooner pick a torpid serpent from the high way and place it in my breast to warm it into life and vigour than vote again for Mr. Milnes.—(Cheers.) Look after it, farmers of Pontefract, and throughout Great Britain and Ireland, the agricultural districts have returned, as they almost unanimously will at the next election, Members to sit in Parliament who will vote for protection ; make them pledge,themselves that if the cotton lords wish to keep up the present great naval and military establishments at Hong- Kong, in order that it may be able to sell their cotton, that at least they shall pay the expense.— (Hear, and applause.) Let them strike out the whole of the expense that we have to pay for the establishment at Hong-Koag, with Dr. Bowring as the Chief Commis sioner. Ah, he is a cunning doctor—l watched him in Parliament for years, and I knew he had his price. And remind your Members that 4,000,000/. a year are now expended in keeping up the military establishments in the colonies—colonies which once were to Great Britain a support, but which are now used to stab you to the heart and to destroy the agricultural interest of England.—(Hear, hear.) They merely exist now for the use of the cotton lords, that they may send what they call their surplus production to the colonies and elsewhere. It shall be greatly increased very soon, if you will followjmy ad vice. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) A few words as to the conduct of Ministers during the last few years. The qualification of the Prime Minister of England now is that he shall be possessed of a cotton soul.— (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Honour, honesty, in tegrity, are never thought of. Cotton and base apostasy are all that are required now to make a Prime Minister of this kingdom. Every other inte rest is pooh-poohed away from Downing-street when they go to complain. The agricultural inte rest say, " We bear more than our proper burdens— for God's sake save us, or we perish." " Oh, but look at the cotton districts—how flourishing they are. We cannot do anything for you. We are very sorry in deed. Good day, Sir; good day."—(Laughter and ap plause.) Well, the shipping interest goes and says, "You are going to destroy our prosperity." "Sorry for you ; we have really a deep sympathy for you ; but the cotton districts are very peaceable. There are no outbreaks. We cannot do anything for you. We must keep Lancashire quiet."—(Hear, hear.) Then go the West India interest and make long complaints. "Oh, we admit you have complaints ; we are sorry to see you in such a position. Cannot be helped. It is a lamentable case, but we cannot do anything for you ; for if we did the cotton-spinners of Lancashire would close their mills and tell their hands to go and riot. We are obliged to keep Lan cashire quiet."—(Hear.) This is a true picture. It is the way in which England has been governed for the last 25 years, and I ask you if you will submit to it any longer ?—(No, no, and applause.) This is done for 600 cotton-spinners in Lancashire who dare not hold an open meeting for fear their own people should go in and oppose them. What are these men ? They are men who turn their counting-houses into their church ; their ledger is their Bible, and their money is their god. They are men who spin slave grown cotton ; they insist upon sweetening their tea with slave-grown sugar; they daub their calicoes, to defraud the public, with slave-grown flour paste ; they ,work their women factory slaves 15 hours a-day in an atmosphere more destructive to human life than the climate of Sierra Leone ; they are only prevented from working little children to death by a stringent Act of Parliament.—(tlear, hear.) They are themselves slaves of the devil, and during the last seventy years the cotton trade of the country has destroyed ten times more human beings in England than the cholera has destroyed in the whole of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, having gone through with some of the leading inte rests of this country, it is my intention to address my self to the labourers. And I call upon the labourers of this country to pay due attention to what shall now fall from my lips. 'I have fought their battle for twenty-five years and more. I have spent thousands in their service, and never received one sixpence as a hired agitator.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) I can have no object but that of their welfare. I employ a few of them, and those I do employ I give more wages to than others, but as a friend who has stu died deeply their interest for twenty-five years I call upon them to listen to me.—(Hear, hear.) They may fancy now that all is sunshine. Alas ! the sha dow of desolation is fast approaching. The cheap food which they are now consuming is but the final denier of labour's due reward. Truly may they say, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we starve." Yes, free trade is nothing but a heartless competition. It is, indeed, true what Alderman Brooks said to me, that "we are all for ourselves in this world"— among Free-traders.—(Hear, hear.) They shake off the awful responsibilities which attach to them as Christian men, to observe the rules, the laws, and the regulations laid down in that holy book the Bible; they live as if the world was made for them, and as if there was to be no future state. But let those labourers now listen to me. Where are the poor, wretched needlewomen of London ? There were in the days of protection some 4,000 or .5,000 of them. Three years of heartless competition has increased their number to 30,000. The trade which free trade has destroyed in this country has deprived them of employment.—(Hear, hear.) Listen to what Lord Dudley Stuart said the other day in the House of Commons. Surely no man can be a more rampant Radical than he is. He pre sented a petition from 2,000 or 3,000 j ourneymen tailors of London, complaining of the grievances felt by the men from the masters giving out their work to the most wretched an d d estitute persons and paying them miserable p r i ces. W hy, that i s free trade—buying in the cheapest markets and sel ling in the dearest.—(H ear, hear.) The next i s a petition from the f ac t ory workers, deman di ng pro tection for their labour.—(Hear.) And, oh / what a sight has free trade made for Ireland. It is awful to contemplate it. 200,000 farmers have already fled to America. 100,000 labourers have sought shelter in Great Britain, deprived of the means of existence at home, ready to tear this cheap food out of your mouths, and to struggle even to death to get employment in stead of you. I have been residing two months in East Lothian. Oh, it is a fearful sight to behold that once fruitful land. You cannot travel either high roads or bye roads without meeting three or four parties of destitute Irish, 'without sufficient clothing to corer them.—(Hear.) A medical gentleman at Haddington informed me that three years ago he knew every Irish person there, whereas now one quarter of the population is Irish. Now the farmers are catching at straws to save themselves from ruin. They are turning off their old Scotch labourers and employing the Irish. They must do it or go to the workhouse. Who can blame them for it ? 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' , U.' • '§' i ~,., ~, ,:',::,_ I )-- ), ~...‘ ~",..„4,4 -i),,,,, ..,,,,,,,. . 7 , 271..../., Wp.- -, - 0.-- : :•:'..i , V • r~ c [PRICE eSD. (-- -f -marri women ,s,/ were sleeping in one room. Th ese ;are nglish. You may fancy the state of Ireland is Air from you, or that you are far fren that fearful state. I solemnly believe that three years hence, with free trade, England will have become another Ireland. (Hear.) I see no chance of escap e—no more does a singl e Mi n i ster o f t h e C rown. If things are to im prove, as they say they are, let them hold out some authority to tell us when, where, and eow ttiis i.e to happen ; but all is silence, and it is the silence of de spair. They themselves, so far from that, are con vinced that the present race of farmers must be swept away to make room for those Manchester men who find fault with you because you cannot grow corn by steam and drain by electricity.—(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) But five years of this system will abolish the poor-laws.— (Hear.) No labouring man will be able to obtain relief from the parish five years hence if this free trade continues. Why, the guardians of my union told me the other day that if there was to be a slack trade in our neighbourhood, where manu facturers are now comparatively flourishing, that in twelve months of depression in trade more than one half of the farmers in the Keighley union will be sold up to pay the poor-rates.--(Hear.) But reoolleet it is the land which keeps up the charitable institutions of this country. In three years more of free trade they will be bankrupt. There is scarcely an institution in this country that is supported by charity but wind will be bankrupt. I tell the factory operative that free trade will repeal the Ten Hours Bill. The landed gentry are the men who will pass that measure. Free trade will drive them all to beggary and ruin, and they will then cease to be Members of the House of Come mons if it continues. They then will leave those men to grind the faces of the poor and trample them under their feet, that they may grow more rich by the ruin ing of their own workpeople. But what is to be the short result of all this state of things ? As I said when addressing the farmers of Haddington, transpor tation awaits the labourers, as it has been the lot of the needlewomen.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Sidney Her bert, one of Sir R. Peel's Cabinet Ministers, is now openly engaged in raising a fund to transport the needlewomen. What have they done that they should be torn away from the land of their birth ?—(Hear.) What is the system now adopted by Sir R. Peel and his friends but the transportation of white slaves ia stead of the transportation of the black ? Gentlemen, I must apologise to you for having addressed you at such length.—(Cries of "Go on, go on.") I feel so deeply upon this question that you must forgive me if once more I warn you that in your hands alone rests your future fate.—(Hear, hear.) If your landlords choose to join you, I would in kindly language rebuke them for their pre vious neglect. I would remind you that they have stood aloof at a period when you trusted—alas! too confidently—in the honour of English country gen tlemen.—(Hear, hear.) But let me remind you, like the lark in the fable when it told its young ones that were trying to be off—let me remind you that you must trust in your own efforts, in your own strength, and in your own power, which, when united in Great Britain and Ireland, is irresistible.—(Load cheers.) And when I see such a meeting as this before use, convened on so short a notice and in so slightly popu lous a district as this, I feel convinced that if you will take my advice and warm yourselves with one twentieth part of the spirit which glows within my breast, in two years the cotton lords of Lancashire shall either be annihilated, or on beaded knees they shall sue for your protection. I beg leave to second the resolution which has been moved by Mr. Jeffer sou.—(Loud and continued cheering.) Several other resolutions were proposed and car ried, after which three cheers were given for the chairman, and three for Mr. Ferrand. The latter gentleman, in taking his leave, called upon the farmers not to forget the " Wool League," and the proceed. ings were brought to a close about half-past five. `e -G. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMIS.-IVe ask for five minutes' attention while we du our best to improve an occasion. We cannot indeed say that its occurrence is unparalleled, or that it is never likely to be repeated, but the et., ample is at any rate the most extraordinary yet sup plied from a tolerably extensive assortment. People will confess, we think, that they had yet to learn what a concern could be brought to by irresponsible management on one side and unreasoning confidence on the other. The Caledonian Railway is a line con necting the three important stations of Carlisle, Edin burgh, and Glasgow, and draining by means of its tributaries some of the remotest districts of the north. Its affairs have been entrusted to the management of a certain body of directors, on whose ability, integrity, and judgment the most implicit reliance was placed by a numerous and intelligent proprietary. For a very long period indeed all insinuations to a contrary effect were indignantly rejected, and the suggestions of a few malcontent shareholders were overwhelmed and lost in the resolute acclamations of their brethren. At length the truth began to dawn ; the directors were superseded by a fresh election, and as these lines meet the reader's eye this morning the new administration will be communicating to their constituents the veritable state of affairs which on their accession to office they found to exist. For the benefit of our constituents we will go through the same process, although the task preents some difficulties from the inadequacy of common arithmetic to represent the vary peculiar re sults of the calculation. In fact, though we have had a fair amount of practice lately in estimating un productive properties, we are almost at a loss for appropriate expressions of the values before us. Com pared with the Caledonian Railway the rental of the New Forest shows a creditable profit, and Mr. Dela field's estate might be said to yield a handsome com petence. To begin with, it is only by an algebraical sleight of hand that the general purport of the balance-sheet exhibited—that is to say, the proportion borne by the income of the company to its outgoings —can be intelligibly represented. It seems that the ratio in question does not admit of expression in what theological disputants term a " naked verbality ;" but is obtained by the well-known mathematical process of augmenting invisible quantities in order to bring them under the operation of ordinary rules. If, therefore, for calcu lation's sake, we increase the receipts of the Caledo nian Railway by 30 per cent.—a result not really very probable, as the permanent wa y i s s till i mperfect —and diminish its working expenses by 8 per cent.— a contingency less unlikely, seeing that its engines have been seized for debt, and that no more coke is procurable upon credit—we shall learn that the con. cern may be expected to yield a gross annual l.ss of 28,5891. This statement, however, is far too favour able to be maintained. The phrase of " less than nothing" conveys no adequate idea of the property in question. The negative assets of the company are claimed by a swarm of competitors ; and, though it is difficult to appreciate the value of the object thus sought, we are gravely told that several companies are clamouring to establish their own interest in this desirable concern. Its liabilities, moreover, are yearly on the increase. It was a favourite practice with the late directors to buy up or take leases of all rival lines. Thus in the single month of Novem ber, 1848, three new purchases were made, each of which averaged a guarantee of 7 per cent. on the part of the Caledonian Company, although it was unable at that moment to meet its own current obligations. In particular there was the Clydesdale line, now paying not quite the whole of its working expenses, which eligible property was secured to the Caledonian share holders by the cleverness of their directors at a cost of a 6 per cent. guarantee and 50 per cent. bonus upon its capital. Guarantees of the same kind to the Greenock Company and the Barrhead Company will shortly be coming into operation, and so promiscuous indeed have been the attentions of the proprietary that they are likely to be sued for breach of promise by half-a-dozen other lines. These transactions were devised to secure the Caledonian in a monopoly of traffic against all in convenient rivalry, and the judgment which presided at the negotiations may be inferred from the fact that at this moment its receipts are vitally endangered by the impending competition of the Nithsdale line. So much for a broad general prospect of the company's affairs. As regards the chances of creditors, it is an. nounced that the income of the last half-year, after snaking all allowances for curable disorders of management, would be too little by about 50 per cent. to meet the first class of guaranteed or pre ferential claims, and would show au actual deficiency of upwards of 5,0001. even if the liabilities to other lines were left undischarged. No supposition, is fact, short of total repudiation could bring the con cern into a state of solvency. Touching the item termed " cash in hand," or ways and means at pre. sent existing, the new directors report that they fiticl the treasury absolutely empty, from which extensive store they have to meet bills to the amount of 74,0001. falling immediately due, whil e whatever has been mad e f or the accruing interest on debentures, for r en t s l eng overdue noft:: ottaet claims upon the company. Even the Queen's taxes have fallen heavily in arrear, and the general stores of the establishment have been left to tab care of themselves. We can only sum up these disclosures in a series of paradoxes. After so many years' working the company have got nothing; they are likely to have less. There are scores of squab. blers for all they have, and as many more for all they have not. The ultimate expectancy of the original shareholder is a quantity which nobody attempts to symbolise. We admit that this is an extreme cuh and not exactly to be represented as a fair specimen of railway properties. Still it is no more than may be the lot of any company under the same manage. ment ; and this management is no other than that for which the adversaries of a Government audit are so desperately battling. In fact, the ex-directors of the Caledonian Railway enjoyes iri n eminent degree that confidence of the shareholders which is s o speci. ously appealed to. They met their constituents fre quently they propounded their scheme s in full ineeting they were supported by the tasjorltY