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l •SALFA of • PLYMOUTH. (g , 41) STORES at . . - 4,,i,:A(lmiralty, Somerset-place, December 9, 1847. The Co . missithaers for executing the Office of Lord high Admiral Of the C. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do 'hereby give notice, I,,tu on WEDNEsDAr, the sth .Tarmary next, at Eleven o'clock. LI:41184. , ... ,- the Captain Sti t iOnteriderit will put up to i Seq., - `--q - ':1 . William l'ictualling-yort ,at Plymouth, several Lots' .f • ' ' c" ES, consisting of _Prtovgions, Biscnit-bags, Staves, • . m e a Si ts kg, Slop'Clothing, &c.,,,ficc.,lte., ail lying in the said Yard . • Person wishint to view the Lots must apply to the Superintende.u.i. for Notes of Admission for that iitirpase. - Catalogues at . 2.d Conditions of Salo may be had hero and at the Yard- • '" , • ~ d • • . • 1 „ 4 111 ASO iga , "t 4 • r s - 'fr" 1 1 it; _ 4- 4 , .„ c----4 4 I 41 -4 • I t " `r • 4**ll l . • • . „ - aM~' , 7 1 7 • 4 - biA ;10 ,. 4.4 ,1 5r-1, • P. it • re t = • aIIMAPINIMI.IIIIII.I 7. / ; 2 ~• ~e, ;; 2 '. OFFICE' OF ORDNANCE. December 3, 1847. 'AIX Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance do hereby give! notice, that they will SELL, by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Tower. on S'AIDAT, the 17th ins ant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon pre.i cisetY, sundry Lots of OLD STOR'ES, consisting of Great coat.. Cranes, Fire-engines, Hose-pipe, Tools, Grates, ageel,lron,Fire-wont4 Musket -stocks, and various other articles, the wl!ole of whiEh may be - viewed at the Tower, four days previous to the Sale (Sunday ex cepted), from Ten to Four o'c , ock, upon applicationsto the' Principal. Storekeeper's Office at that place, where Cataliegaes of the Lots, and Cosolltions of the Sa e will be delivered to.fkoSii persons who may ap ply ter the same. By Order of the Board, B.:BY - HAM, Secretary. • N- • EN IX STOVES, WALKER'S PAIT\I r 'VA PH( E. for Churches, Halls, Shops. &c. The most powerful, safe, economical, and convenient Stoves made. Prices from 21. 2s. to 161. I6s. each. Small Stoves, 18s. each. Requiring no Chimneyt. 302, OXFORD-S CRF....ET, LONDON, and .58, OXFORD-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; .and of all the Ironmengers in the Kingdom. JOYCE'S PATFINT FUEL. STEAM TO INDPA, VIA EGYPT. Regular Mo - athly Mail Steam - C'onveyance for. Passengers and Light Goods to Ce:ylen„ Madras, and Oalcutta. The PE] INSU:LAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY hook:Passengers and receive Goods and Parcels for the above Ports by their Steamers, starting from Southampton the 20th, aiidfrom Suez oas or about the, 10th of every month. Por Rates of 'Passage-money, Plans of the Steamers, and to se cure rausages„ 'apply at the Company's offices, St. Mary Axe, London. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors of this Company are ready to receive TENDERS for LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, In sums of 140 t less than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable halt- Yearly., and for terms of Three. Five, or Seven years. Ajgclicatiens to bcmade to the undersigned. CHARLES A SAUNDERS, Secretary. London Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1847. MIDLANI) 'RAILWAY. The ILIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY are prepared to - receive LOANS, en security of their Debentures, for periods of Three, Five, or Seven Years, in sums of 1,0001. each and upwards, at Interest after the rato of 51. per cent. per annum, payable half 'early. . _ _ Application to be wade to the Secretary, at the Company's Office Derby. By order, J. F. BBLL, Secretary. November 26, 1847. THE PLATED SEAMLESS TEAPOTS can not be distinguished from Liver, or lea or lose their shape ; While from the peculiarity of the process of making (just patented), their prices are about one-half of any other sort. Portland. 235. ; Oval plain, 238. ; Round plain, 1 5x.; Round engraved, 30s. ; Antique ciputierior even to *lives* itself=s6=4lB. Detailed Catalogues, with - Of 4 every iron mongery article, sent (per poet) free. FENDERS, STOVES, AND FIRE-IRONS. The LARGEST ASSORTMENT of STOVES, KITCHEN RANGES, and FENDERS, as - well as General Ironmongery in. the World, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) extensive warehouses. Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto, ditto, with or-molu ornaments, front os.; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. 6d. ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 45. 6d.; 4 feet, Gs.; ditto bronzed, and fitted with standards, a, rect. 9s. ; 4 feet, 1 Is.; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet , 4 s. Gd.; `feat, 65.; bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments, and two leis Of bars, from 80s.; ditto, ditto, with or-molu ornaments , from li. 6s. ; bla ck dining-room register stoves, 2 feet, 18s. , 3 feet, 275. ; bed-room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new econo anical thermic stove, with fender and radiating hearth-plate ; fire -IrOns for chambers, Is. 9d. per set ; handsome ditto, with cut heads, 64 . 6 d. ; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, 11s. A variety of fire-irons, with or-mole and richly cut heads, at proportionate ?Prices. Any article in the furnishing ironmongery 30 per cent. tinder any other house. The money returned for every article not 4Pproved of. Detailed catalogues with engravings, sent (per post) free. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock et general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the 'World, and as no language can be employ - Ad to give a correct idea of ire variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it. 39, Ozford-street (corner of Newman-street), London. Established Wells-street, 1820. SECRET :MALADIES. Treatment of CH. ALBERT, M.D., a Member of the Univer tY of Paris, Professor of Pinhrmacy, Apothecary to the Hospitals of Lane. Professor of Medicine, and honoured with several Medals and al etiolial rewards. No. 21, Rue Montorgeuil, Paris. Ntimberless and well-authenicated cases which hitherto had been k _ ec trldered as incurable by the Faculty, and which in a short time 7 4 ,_Ve given way under this treatment, are most unequivocal proofs of euperiority over every other means as yet employed. It was for a long period of time a desideratum to discover a mode of cure naPted to all constitutions, and which should be free from the bane -4gl effects of mercury. We are now arrived at the solution of this Problem by the discovery of a mode of treatment at once simple and may, and which, without any degree of exaggeration, we can affirm to be infallible in the cure of all secret maladies, however inveterate er of long standing. The method of cure, according to Dr. Albert, is e conomical and easy, either At home or on a journey, causing not tile 'lightest derangement to tb.a general health, and safe in all seasons sad In all climates. Sold by E. W. 1111 cox, 336, Oxfisrd-street ; T. Miles, Gracechurcb- Street ; and by all the principal Chemists in London. A Treatise Is enclosed with the Medicine. THE PRIZE CATTLE SHOW The '...llristmas Cattle Show, in Portman-square, Th:aws many thousands with its prizes rare ; :Rot need we wonder much, for such a sight boalculated to afford delight. "this most amusing to behold a prize, oiling in fatness—twice its usual sze. 'The greedy pigs, reclining half asleep, With hero and there a group of waddling sheep. And the huge lazy oxen calmly snoozing, Are objects which are certainly amusing. Bat there's an exhibition, you must know, More pleasing than the Christmas Cattle Show ; MOSES and SON'S display of prize attire, la something which the public all admire. The show at MOSES' Mart does not appear -At Christmas time alone, but all the year. Trbeir celebrated Show-rooms never lack A'rize Coats and Waistcoats to adorn the back, Prize Over Coats and Trousers, too, are there, , More prized than any prize in Portman-square. MOSifS and SON beg, thareforc, to advise, An early application fora wise.- Let all who prize their health adopt the plan, Of well preparing for the outward man ; And those who prize appearance we apprize, Of what our Prize Establishment supplies. MOSES and SON'S prise garments all admire. And own them to be prizeable attire; The least dissatisfaction there is not, But all who purchase dress, no matter what, Exclaim, delighted, " What a prize I've got !" LIST OF PRICES. ELM MADE. Beaver Taghold • Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coat, handsomely trimmed,. ••• • • • •• • • •• • • The Paella Coat • • The Bullmer, especially adapted for snowy and wet wsather• • The Premier •• • •••. • • • • 0 15 0 Boy'S Winter Coats, in every style ••• • • • .... •• .. 0 6 I Men's De. Trousers, lined .. •••••••• • • • . • • • • 0 4 I Doeskin ••• • • • .... ••••••.. • • • • .. 0 12 6 Dress Coats.. ••••..••••• • • • • • • • • • 1 0 0 Double-breasted Winter Vests •••••••• • • • • • • • • 0 2 0 Bell collar •• • ..... ••••••• • • • • • • • 0 1 6 oys' Hussar and Tunic Snits.. •. • MADE TO MEASURE. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand somely trimmed Milled cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs.. 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper ••.••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 018 6 Doeskin Trousers ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 1 2 0 Best, or Dress ••.••• • • • • • ..... • • .•• .. 1 6 0 Drees Coat Best quality made.. ••••. • • • • • 2 18 0 Frock do.. ...... ••.. • • . ...... ••• • • 1 15 0 Best quality made.. ••• • • • 3 3 0 Cashmere Vests .. ••••••••••• • • • • • .. • • • • ...... 0 8 6 ,Betins, Plain or Fancy •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 12 0 'ere Hussar and Tunic Suits . ..... ••.. • • 1 6 0 Great Coat • • • 0 16 Suit of Clothes complete 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. tio 'l lt vS e attention of Ladles is especially directed to E. MOSS and stock of Furs, which will be found en inspection to E be the elie m e as et, best assorted, and cheapest in the trade. Reserve your pur bierve.—Any artiele purchased, ready made, or made to mea ilko—,„ If net approved of, will be exchanged, er if preferred, the .47 returned. —.OBMS and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for 8 4 7,7 and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Mineries, and 83, -135 . and 86 Ildgate, City, London. 'ba wl ou.—B. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the tc:', 6 agaixtst impostors, but have learned that the untradesman tykr,„`eleshood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, .4.feen resorted te in many instances, and for obvious reasons. bar have no connexion with any other house in or out of London; those who) desire genuine and cheep clothing, ite., should call at, Zud to, Mineries and Aldgate, City, London. t 4 4 ,t_tue.—No business transacted at this establishm e nt f rom sun ' 'wan till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve bit LA'RERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OX - `".lnsblished, and may be had in French o r E ng li sh, in a Sealed it nyelop , .4„ or poot-froo, front the Author, for forty-two Stamm SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physioloy of Marrige, nfelicitous and Unprodutive 'Onions, and the Secret g Infirmities a and l Disorders of Youth and c Ma turity, 'usually acquirei at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural !bangs, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice. Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, P*bother arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of . °Pleat climates: Lo ca l an d C ons tit u ti onal Weakness, Syphilis, astrkture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis "ntlon. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, I:JAWg their structures, uses, and functions, and the various & r u tin!' that are produced in there by solitary habits, excesses, and BY SAMUEL MERT M.D.. BEDFORD-STREBT, LA' BED , FORD•SQUARE, LONDON. i;Zr of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin a~ol Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. th e — , tt rriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order .444 1 t ~‘ , I n V be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the *d t uull covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, it b e true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could betz,___`raced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap bseeuerft-s• Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when tn , moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injury e r e cOn ttitntional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on ere Maure and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, Ih e „Drudretive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, il i tny other to which it is subject. Allet e ,„ " W urk contains an accurate and complete account of the toquir relative whi r - Y and Physielogy of tho Reproductive Organs, and of conditions in health and disease. It deservedly the st i be of es closeat attention and study, for what : abject can be d Mere the importance than the preservation of the health, Physical capabilities of which every man should pee, s ees ed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy & In at : ceseive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired Nu i g_,`"e or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering illy. ,7 4 r invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a tear of ap tre,..„ 1 . a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so bei,.olTtlY, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are ter a e elt,lle reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking lurg e t e *Lance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he die,ftie t h at accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of t tably 4':Yruoathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva ketue.,' Characterise the intelli g ent and practical physician, and to the tllattiii ea r t uan who ca n s h ow b y h i s posse - s i on o f t h e requ i s i te l ega l 14°11a1 lens that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes tkateursults, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. testif y, k r has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas trtiaraw.l l . z . l 4 the great extent of his practice ter many years is a 8 01e1.,, 4 7" MS his professional experience, which has reference almost jpib i 7f,tl b -reatrnent of these diseases. etreetu:erLtoster-row ; Hannay, p !..nett by the Author and may be had of Kent and Richards, 63, Oxford-street; Starle, Tichborne teade„,lt_aTmarket ; Mansell 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, reer n irml-street, London • or, free by post for forty-two stamps, rby i e e tt Al ther, Who m a ' be Consulted on these disorders personally • eke r—er . dally, from T y . till Two, and from Five till Eight at his 11 BegtOrd-s Lit treat Bedford-square London. No« 17 4) 291 LONDON, MONDAY , E ,•. N G f reta—orsaae.rbeiwirsagr;;; • - pp OYAL °TEL, GRAIN GER- STREET, NEWCASTLE-ON -TYNE. CHARLES .STATES solicits the patronage of his nßonz4n. TuAvEwills to the above •Establishment,' which has recently been newly,fUrnislied and laid out expressly for a Com mei7clal Hotel: • • - The COMMERCIAL Roo3:Lorie of the largest an d mos t e l egan tl y fitted if - fs will be found complete in every respect,- •:;,yi , - • TtleßEn-ltoo§aojsi x ty in number) have been furnished In a able wldchAqurt,cusurethe approbation of all visitors. • Gentlerku travelling. Vlrith STOCK can at all ti mes have SHOW 1100.118 Extra charge. The Melte HIM Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room aro all atfauheckand undcrAhe same management. The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle. • et - EARICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL •• • • • • LIFE - ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Persons of all ages, and,in every station, may assure with this So ciet3- on ,very motlerate terms. TEA extra premium is required for sea risk, or residence in any part of Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in other parts of the world, inhylilsO effect Pnlitdes at a small increase of premium. - • 44. • BONUSES. The twe first Divisions averaged 221. per cont. on the premiums paid ; the third 281. per cent:. The fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847, averaged rather snore than 361, per cent., and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount. Tables' of Rates; with a fill Report (recently printed) can be ob tained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to GEO. 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, No. 99, Great Rtreselhstreet, Illoombury, London. anoromTAN LIFE ASSURANCE . No. 3, Princes-street, Bank. The Directors hereby give notice, to Members whose Premiums fall due on the sth of January ne ,- .t, that the same must be payable within Thirty days front that flate. The Premiums are paid - Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of. January, sth of-April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several. days constitutes the commencement of the year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So ciety as Members on the sth of January next, should appear or lodge their proposals acne office on or before that day. This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates all its profits :to-the •benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the whole term of life us Members of the Society. An abatement of premium, has been made at the rate of 47 1 ,4 per cent. for the year ending the 4th of April, 1848, under the confident expectation of a continuing abatement at that rate, at least to all Members of Five Years' standing and upwards. RICHARD IIEATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes street, Bank, December 6, 1847. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE •ASSITRANCE SOCIETY. , .26 C.ORNIIILL, LONDON . •• Capital £.500,000. Empowered by Act of rarliament. rtfe Institntiem rntbraces important and subs advantages with reiplitt - to hfe aesurances and dothrrod annaitiedi*- *Assured has, on all °cessions, the power to borrow, Without expense or for feiture of the policy, tWo•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in lerests to meat other convenianciea or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The Increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a flirt bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. PUBLICATIONS. This Day, price 6d., OUGHT BARON DE ROTHSCHILD TO SIT IN PARLIAMENT An IMAGINARY CONVERSAPIOX between JiII:MATS and A.M IC US NOBILIS. By BARNARD VAN OVEN, M.D. Author of " An Appeal to the British Nation on behalf of tho Jews." London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Price W., or post free from the Atithor, 7d. IN IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN BOOKKEE PING, which enableS Me Merchant to ascertain his Assets, Liabilities, Gains, Losses, and Present Worth, either Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, 'without balancing his Led f. ByBO ULTNE, Aceoutttt, &c. M. G. Duke, 99, Chancery-lane ; Wal ti 4 l; Newspaper Office, 409, Strand ; W. J. Adams, 59, Fleet•strett ; and the Author, 395, Strand. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Just published, A LETTER to LORD MORPETTI on the Necessity for, Cana Mode of Obtaining AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. By MATTHEW M. MILBURN, Land Agent, Thirsk. Price One Shilling. London: J. Ridgway, and Sin - Tian mad Marshall; and all Book sellers. ROYAL • POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. 11.. Ho;mes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr. BAC4MOFFNER--one on the Laws of Nature, in reference to the Important subject of SANITARY MEASURES; the other on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited, with Novel and highly Interesting Experiments, Daily at Two and at Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING VIEWS. The ,CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING under WATER, &c. Scc. MR. COBDEN'S PAII,EVa.ILL AD DRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF STOCKPORT. A public meeting of the electors of the borough of Stockport was held on Friday evening, at the assem bly-roomof the Ly ceum , t o receive their late repre sentative, Mr. Richard Cobden, on his retirement from the representation, and his acceptance of the honour conferred upon him by the Nest Riding of York. The room was crowded to esaess, and nearly 2,000 persons were present. Mr. Alderman 13oo•rnaoYD, in t 1 absence of Sir Ralph Pendlebury from indispositios, was called to the chair. The worthy Alderman, in opening the proceedings, call e d upon , t h e meet i ng to exerc i se patience and forb earance towards M t . Cobden whilst making his explanatory statement; There were strong feelings, no doubt, existing in the borough and it had been alleged that the lion. Gentleman ought not to have delayed so long in milking his choice of a seat in the House of Commotts, In that opinion he (the chairman) concurred; butfhe waited to hear Mr. Cobden's statement on this pointbefore he ven tured to pronounce judgment. Mr. COBDEN then came forward 'amidst general applause, and spoke nearly as follows :—I have ap peared before public meetings of the electors of Stockport under a variety of circumstances. I came before you in 1837 to contest the seat in this borough, when it was not y our p l easure to e l ect me M em b er of Parliament. I came before you again in 1841 with better suc cess ; b ut I speak unfe i gne dl y t h e sen timents of my h ear t w h en I say t h at I never, un d er . any circumstan ces , appeared before you w i t h feel i ngs of such regr e t as I d o on the present occasion.—• (Cheers.) Your c h a i rman has statecl that he thinks I ought to have come here before i that I ought earlier to have appeared amongst you. It was my intention, as I expressed in a letter 4 you written at Dantzic, to appear"before you. Immediately on my re turn from the continent, to thank pit for the honour you had done me ; but an- my return I found myself unexpectedly returned for two con stituencies. Now, gentlemen, I must confess that after, I first fot , a WAS returned for the West • ;tiding of "o ~ ..,* ~ . ,my own inclina tion,., intleeciony awn ••, 4 . It - ... Atilt t 4) a that honour; but I found, on my re urn home, that the opinion of my friends—the opinion of the electors of Stockport—(Hear, hear)—public opinion in 7 general, as far as could be ascertained, had decided the question for me, and I found no alternative but to elect to sit for the est Riding. Then, gentlemen, finding that I had the painful choice to make between a seat for a borough to which I was previously in debted for kindness and confidence, and another con stituency—the largest, the most important, and most wealthy in the empire—having th a t pa i n f u l tas k thrust upon me, contrary to my own wishes and expectations, I then said, the next best thing to do is this—to save that constituency which I cannot re present as much as possible a protracted contest for my successor. It was not out of any disrespect to you, gentlemen, nor to the West Riding of Yorkshire, that 1 did not state for which constituency I would sit before the night before last in the House of Commons. I sedulously abstained both in public and private from stating to any one what my decision would be. In order to justify the step taken, and to clear myself altogether from any charge of dis respect because I have not qualified till the present moment, I will explain my views and sentiments towards you.—(Hear, hear.) Some people may say, the electors of the borough of Stockport have grounds of censure ; that I have run away from Stockport in order to make it the steppingstone of my ambition, and find a larger and better constituency. Gentle men, they who charge me thus know nothing at all of the advantages which a large constituency can give over a smaller one in the Rouse of Commons. There is no advantage whatever to me in repre senting the West Riding of Yorkshire after re presenting Stockport. Whatever I could do in Parliament as the representative of the West Riding, I believe I could do equally well ss the representative of Stockport. However, I am quite sure of thi s , that I shall n o t fi n d th e constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire show more kindness or forbear ance towards me than I have found from the electors of this borough.—(Hear, hear.) When in the House of Commons, we are, I may say, a perfect republic ; every man who enters the doors of St. Stephen's is there on his own intrinsic merits, and whatever those merits may be he will be judged of by them ; no matter whether he sits for a county with thirty thou sand electors, or a small borough with mere ly 200 , he will soon ind his level in the House of Commons. I consented to sit for the West Riding, because when I returned home I found that I had no alternative but to do so ; and I tell you what I told them in my ad dress—had I been in England at the time they pro posed to put me in nomination I should not have con sented to their doing so.—(H ear , bear.) And now. gentlemen, having made thi s explanation with regard to my own personal feelings, I think you will not he satisfied. unless I address myself a little to other sub jects of far more importance to the constituency.— (Applause.) I am known only by the electors of Stockport—l may say I was known at first, and am now mainly as the representative of a principle in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) It is to that prin ciple I owe whatever means of usefulness I may have been enabled to effect through your kindness and instrumentality in placing Inc l e itl li th n e o H t o d u i s s e guse ofiCom mons. I speak, of course, of the principle of free trade. Well, gen tl emen, matter from you that we have entered upon the if we had to go through " free trade experiment," as some people still call it, thorough-going free- tt:d s under very trying circumstances. It seems to me as question is, how many of order to test the faith of men who have avowed them selvesi:: ( o A f ppla us e martyrdom . T The in will not bear a gale or storm—that through this ordeal and still adhere ere to our principle ? or, how many there are who will be found to have upnaretod the to old been merely summer birds —fair-weather ships that system of monopoly whenever there is a little dan ger?--(Great applause.) Since my return to Eng land I have been delighted to find so little re action on the subject of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) I may say that I find no re-action ; th a t the man who was a free.trader, five, six, or three years ago, is a free-trader still. If some men are found weak and vacillating in principle, it is only because they had no very strong principle at all to whichbeg begin with.—(Applause.) e t h a .— re ( n A o w p p l t a o u l s d e . ) to for the la s t year or twWabandon t o h i a n t are Eng t l hh anee principle incipe o free trade ? 'We are told that ground s ltisltrue u on ef at we have not been pros perousyweershitayvehansostp;rubngut ou th t e nf qu f e r s e t e io t n rad is e , , o w r h w e h th e e th r e t r he it andas sprung out of monopol y. Our op we have had fre e trade, and _has not answered ; but I say we have had thirty ponents tell us that years of monopoly, and have not got free trade yet. Further, it is said, that d e t r o a f d ein this corndistr hasdistrict ca t which h ed .nt,hoosheaydeisaatsttheres presentto the free tra time to lament. Why, we have had not free trade in corn yet; we have only been passing through a tran sition state ; we have not got through the three years we were to have of the fag end of monopoly, and have not yet had trial of our principles at all.— (Hear.) Those gentlemen who find fault with free trade in corn, for having produced the di • stress of the last twelve months, neglect to show us how the re striction on trade in corn would have produced a better state of affairs. If I understand our position for the last eighteen months, we have been suffering from the want of the potato, from the failure of the means of subsistence. We have had to lay out 10,000,0001. in food to keep the Irish alive. I want to know whether it would have benefited us, under these circumstances, to have had a high tariff? Peo ple say that it has produced a drain of gold to pay for the corn. Why, if we had not had the corn, if we had kept the gold, many people that are now alive would have been starved. I understand (for I have not been in the habit of reading everything pub lished in the borough) it has be en charged against me that I made predictions of prosperity t hat was to arise from free trade in corn, and that these predic tions have not been verified. Gentlemen, I never did deal much in prophecies, but I possibly might have told the working men that, with free trade in corn, we should have American flour at lid. per pound. I stick to that opinion still.—(Avoice, " When ?") 'When we get free trade. — alear, hear, and applause.) I believe lam charged too, with having stated that you would have more mills and more employment, m _ore houses, _ carriage s , c h urc h es, and chapels, with free trade. Yes, and I say so still. —(Applause.) But, gentlemen, I did not say, that if you had a failure in fhe cotton crop in the year 1846 you would have spindles running when you had no raw material to work upon.—(Applause.) You have been suffering in the cotton districts quite as much from famine in cotton as from famine in corn during the last twelve months; and if you had had corn ever so cheap, and the demand for cotton goods had been ever so great, you cou ld not have employed all the mills and machinery, and for this simple reason—be cause you had not c otton , in existenc e t o keep the ent. ro bring this charge of having in employm h f having made a false promise against me and the free traders generally—to make me responsible for the fai lure of the cotton crop—is just as absurd as it would be if I had promised a man that, if he was mode rate and temperate in all things, he would have good health, and in consequence of that man falling down Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. QM - UR PLATED CORNER DISHES . - A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices of the following Patterns of strongly PLATED CORNER DISHES, with silver handles and edges, and silver shields for engraving the crest or coats of arms, viz::— The Gadroon Pattern. Four Strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers .... The St. James's Pattern. Four Extra-strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers • • • • £l3 10 0' N.W.'l'lle`tiovers are made with moveable handles, so as to form. extra dishes. Drawings of the above forwarded to any part of Great Britain or Ireland, postage free. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The:following is an abstract of a letter addressed by Dr. King to Earl Grey : "The last whaler has arrived, and Sir John Franklin and his 125 followers are shut up in the Arctic regions for a third winter, which the medical officer who served with Sir Edward Parry in all his expeditions will, in all probability, be attended with the most serious consequences. For this there is no help. To save them, however, from a fourth winter, when, in addition to disease, they will have to con tend with starvation and all its horrors, Dr. King has been constantly urging the Government, since last June, to take the most active steps for their rescue. He directs attention to the western land of North Somerset, as the spot where the lost expedition is most likely to be found, and he offers his services to Earl Grey to journey to that spot by the same route he travelled in search of Sir John Ross. He is not satisfied with the effort the Admiralty have resolved to make in search of the missing party. After entering minutely into the subject, he states : To sum up in a few words, the Board of Admiralty in their effort virtually declare the lost expedition can not be relieved except the north-west passage is dis covered ; we must first discover the passage, and then seek out the lost expedition.' To this declaration I cannot assent, for, by following out my plan, I can search all that is known of the western land of North Somerset, and be sure that every footstep I make is so much good work for the safety of the lost expedi tion, and for the furtherance of geographical and natural historical knowledge, while Sir James Clarke Ross, before he gets a single footing on that- land, must have solved the problem which has battled all our ingenuity in ships for 31 cen turies. The facts speak for themselves. 1. Barraw's Strait was impassable in 1838 ; it may be impass able in 1848. 2. Sir James Clarke Ross is using the same means to relieve the lost expedition which have brought them into their difficulty; the relief party may, therefore, become a party in distress. 3. The land that is made will be of doubtful character; the searching parties at the end of the summer, with the close of which every soul of the lost expe dition will have perished, may find that they have been tracing an island many miles distant from the western land of North Somerset, or navigating a deep bay, as Kotzebue navigated the Sound named after him, and as Franklin navigated the sea called Melville Sound. The plan which I have proposed is to reach the Polar Sea across the continent of America, and thus tcr proceed on my search from land known to be continent, where every footing is so much good work done for the safety of the lost expedition, and for the furtherance of geographical and natural historical knowledge; and if the plan is laid aside, the lives of our lost:countrymen will de pend upon a single throw in the face of almost certain failure, if the difficulty in which they are involved is the fame which, not to go further back than 1818, has driven away every officer, including even Perry himself, who has made the attempt in ships." METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MA NURE COMPANY. It is with very great pleasure that we announce to our readers who have so interested themselves in the progress of this great national work, that the consent of the Commissioners of Sewers, as required by the Act of Parliament, has been formally given to the proposed works of the company, which will be commenced forthwith. with every prospect of their being so far completed in the course of next summer as to permit of the application of the sewage to the immediate neighbourhood of the station at Stanley Bridge, and thus to yield an early return upon the capital. It is calculated that calls of less than half of the shares already taken will be sufficient to complete this portion of the works, and give the great experiment a trial. We have also the extreme gratification to announce that the Earl of Ellesmere, having witnessed the ad vantages of the applications of sewage water to por tions of his own estates, has been so satisfied with them that he has within the last fortnight joined the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, by becoming a shareholder. Such an example of confidence in the scheme, from one so well qualified to judge, is of incalculable importance, for it will doubtless induce the many who are wavering to follow it at once, and take a direct interest in this grand enterprise before all the shares are gone. When such men as Lord Ellesmere (perhaps batter known as Lord Francis Egerton) come forward to take shares, it may be supposed that the subscription list will not be long in completion. _ _ _ We understand that four or five of the provincial towns are about to apply to Parliament this session for Acts having similar objects with this company. We shall feel much pleasure in also recording their proceedings, receiving their communications, and forwarding their views. STATE OF MANUFACTURES IN LANCASEIRE.-It 13 satisfactory to notice that a considerable improvement has this week taken place in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, so far as regards increased employment of the operative classes. One mill has commenced working full time with its entire complement of hands, and three other mills have also entered upon full time with a reduced number of hands. The number of men added to those heretofore in full work exceeds 1,300 in one week. Within the borough of Manchester there are still 8,622 hands on short time, and 9,629 wholly out of employment. This state of things shows a gradual advance in the amount of production, and gives hope to the large population of the manufacturing districts. Trade continues languid; but at this season of the year, independently of other considerations, the markets have generally been flat, parties generally looking to their Christmas balances. It is gratifying to observe the patient, judicious conduct of the working classes amidst their privations. No insubordinate feeling is shown, and the efforts of the demagogue to incite to disaffection would be abortive. RUGBY SCHOOL,—During the past week the work men of Messrs. Bevington and Sons have been engaged in erecting an organ in the great school-room. The expense incurred has been chiefly defrayed by a volun tary subscription among the boys. The annual concert, given and supported entirely by members of the school, is fixed for the 18th inst., the first part of which (sacred) comprises a selection from Judas Maccabeus ; and Han del's Coronation Anthem, "Zadok the Priest." The second part (secular) contains several of Bishop's standard glees, German songs, &e. We understand that the g entlemen of Rugby S c h oo l d o no t ma k e mu si c a study, but merely practise it for the amusement of their friends and their own:recreation, at the same time wish, ing to instil into their hearers a taste for really good and classical music. We cannot but hope that other public schools will not fail to follow their example. A man of genteel appearance, named Edward Wil son, was committed by the magistrates at Liverpool on Thursday, on a charge of having forged a cheque for 250 1.—Liverpool Mercury. A rumour has been circulated within the last few days, that the Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in the metroplis, and that it has proved fatal in two cases in the borough of Southwark. From inquiries made among the leading practitioners of the district, we find that the rumour is without foundation.—Medical . Gazette. ~ _ cAmrLES. . I I Perma- Sum the Annual !Pol.tcy Bonus in Rent Re- Assured Age. ?•4 Pre- • ! taken addition j Bonus in duction of may bor mium. g, T out in Assured. Cash. A nnua l row on Premiums. Policy. -- -- - ---- , X s. 6 . 1 £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1837 243 9 3 112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 £ Xs.d• 1838 218 4 899 810 15 13 5 445 0 0 60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 1 10' 86 9 31 3 4 9 395 11 1 • 1840 143 5 40! 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 I lB4l 138 2, 1 61 17 6 99 2 296 13 4 1842 111 14 6 8; 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 The Anneal Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the ° g lee., or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. r. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. ./METROPOLITAN SE WA GE MANURE Incorporated by 9 and 10 Victoria. The Directors of this Company have the satisfaction to announce that they have oktained their amended Act, and will proceed with all possible speed to carry out the important objects for which the Com pany is incorporated. They are ready to receive applications for the New- Shares of 201. each, authorised by the amended Act to be Issued. Upon the amount of deposits and calls, interest, at the rate of four pefeent. per annum, will be allowed from the day of payment ; and by the Act of Incorporation Shareholders aro only liable to the amount of the shares. ALEX. GREIG, Secretary. 7, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, December 11, 1847. The Company's plans have been already tried, and their advan tages proved, on a farm of 300 acres near Glasgow. At Edinburgh the application of sewage water has raised th• value of land from 2s. 601. an acre to 151. and 201., and at Mansfield from 4s. 6d. to. 11/. 4s. • The Select Committee of the House of Commons en the Company's Bill " urge the importance of the project," and declare their opinion "that only through the agency of a company" can the objects con templated, " be combined and applied to the important purposes of Cleansing our Towns, Purifying bur Rivers, and Enriching our Soil." Again, the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests pronounces " the principle involved" to bo " national." The establishment of this Company may therefore be regarded as the commencement of a system fraught with great national benefits, contemplating not only profit upon invested capital, but increased comfort and improved health to tile inhabitants of towns, and ines timable advantages to the agriculture of the United Kingdom. The most careful calculation that has been made, exhibits a profit of from 15 to 20 per cent. ; this calculation was loped upon the esti mated supply of Sewage to 39,000 acres, but sinco that time Fanners, Market Gardeners, and LandoVeners, cultivating about 68,000 acres of land have, by petition to Parliament, expressed their anxiety to take a supply of Sewage Manure from the Company. The Act of Incorporation requires that at least three months' notice shall elapse between the Calls, which shall not exceed 21. 10s. per Share. Five per cent. Interest will be paid on all sums received in advance Of FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHAPES. To the Directors of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company. Oentlomon,—l hereby request you to allot me Shares, of 20/. each, in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same. or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 1/. per Share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds when required. *Tame in full .• Profession or Business (if any) Reference . • Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, ON nirsicAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI A. CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. Now Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. Scl. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadonhall-street. PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. . PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting fro; excessive hadal genre, and their lamentable efects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Throe Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power en the system. PART T. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE 'ORDIAL BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat ing no vows and sexual debility, impotence, &c., Ds .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic rfstatdy, for purifying the blood in cases ef infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, lls. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. M., 4s. 6d., and I Is. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhaia, gleet, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, it. 5/. Packets with advice to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee, 11. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Ber ners-street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sussdars from Eleven to One. 3N THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON TEE HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. 6d., or free by post, 3s. 6d. CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with Instructions for its Ccmpleto Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the 'various Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman, street, Oxford-street, London. Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c, CONTENTS Or THB WORK, Chap. I.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body, evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping 3telanehely, Indiges tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.--Gonorrhcea, Its symptoms, complica tions and treatment, (Beet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate. Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. Sold by Brittain , 54, Paternoster-row ; Gord n 146, Leadenhall street ; Hannay and Co., 63. 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Diffidence, or a sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un comprosing berry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happinoss and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice dernaad that health should form an item i n the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern yon, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little MEMOIRS On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is. each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively redned, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy nitainterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by nuqualified authors, which alone or are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two o th er l t i o t g u e e th together, publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume , nor are they the ou l m i feer,ewehpuh owese e r i s s c p r i r i u ) t g s e i f s t t h e c h er h r , u a b l u th tthe d study s u o u f he to a t i h t t is h o's rob servance of the maxims lie would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—tc live after nature's laws—and to keep al wa y s r ii, t r h w e o ' o 4 d su , n23n,yrsaidteeronfultltecrw.rauy." w; c T un ite „.. j a h b o o , v l e 47 7 F r i k e s et m .st a r y ue b t e ; h m a u cl ui cof l, 39 :se t j rn fr h om t ill ; he th al a se u n' o 4 r (whos7,West iay Strand be conferred cu or uf di tr r r e e c d t ( w by ith pos p t e o n r u o u t al lie ly r: w 1 laee Recent - street ; and all mornings and evenings), 10 , Arg) P Booksellers. S ay DECEMBER 13 1847. and breaking his leg you should charge me with not having fulfilled my promise. —(Laughter.) Give us ordinary—give us natural circumstances—and then when we have free trade I maintain the same doc • trines as I always did. Before we have prosperity in Stockport we must have free trade in corn and other things. We have been suffering severely in the cot ton districts from a diminution of the raw material ; and when I think of the combination of evils that have pressed upon the cotton districts, on the trade of Lancashire, during the last twelve months, lam astonished that you have not suffered more than you have. In the first place, you have had wheat at one time as high as 100 s. a quarter, a price hardly known since the war. It has been up as high as 120 s. in Uxbridge-market. At • the same time cotton was 50 per cent. higher than it was the year before, and along with these two evils you have had a high rate ofmoney, such as has never been known since the war, arising out of inordinate engagements and speculations in railroads. With the combination of these three evils—dear cotton, dear corn, and dear money—l repeat it is with me a matter of astonish ment that the cotton districts have escaped so well as they have done. It is not merely in. England that we have had this distressing state of things, but through— out Europe. With the exception of Russia, there is no country in Europe that has not suffered frcm scarcity, :and in many parts there has been famine. A large portion of our trade, as you know, is carried on with the Continent; and if the people are suffering from scarcity of food—from high-priced corn—it stands to reason that they will be unable to purchase the same amount of manufactured goods as they could under ordinary circumstances. You have then had a limited demand from the Continent for your pro duce, and a limited demand at home at the same time; and this combination of evils, I repeat, has never been known before or since the time of the war. We may, at all events, draw this consola tion from the facts mentioned to you, that free trade has been subjected to an ordeal at its com mencement which it is not likely to undergo again ; and if we pass through this ordeal without forgetting our principles, we may fairly expect in ordinary times ,to reap the advantage we looked t o f rom th em . It woiiiTaWar that we have some Protectionists still in the House of Commonseeethere are not many of them there—there are not many of them in Stockport; still we have those curiosities, those eccentricities still in the House of Commons.—(Laughter.) They tell us we have been out of our predictions. They say we promised good employment, and that you are wanting work in the manufacturing districts. They say we promised there should be no drain of gold to pay for corn, and now they say there is a drain of gold. They remind us of our promises, and say we have fulfilled none ; but they seem to have quite for gotten their own predictions. They said that if we had the repeal of the corn-laws the farmers would be ruined. Why, the farmers have never been doing better than they have done during the last year.—(Cheers.) They told us that the land would be thrown out of cultivation, whereas agriculturists have never been more busy in cultivating the land than they are at this moment ; and, instead of their predictions being fulfilled, that our landlords would run away to Australia, they are at the present time getting higher rents for the land.—(Cheers.) Now, if they have been out in their predictions, and we have been out in ours, it is quite certain that the time must come when one or other must be right ; and I only ask for the time which is necessary to test our principle, in order that we may see which party is right. They taunt us that foreigners do not reciprocate free trade as we predicted. Now, one reason why foreigners do not follow us in our free-trade experiment is, that they read Engli s h news p apers; t h at they see Noble Lords, that they see gentlemen who are Members of the House of Commons, that they see men who are among yourselves—millowners of Stockport—calling out for protection—(Cheers and laughter)—and they say, "We cannot yet be convinced that free trade is to be the permanent policy of your country."—(Hear, and cheers.) They say, " We see so many men of high rank, we see so many men in high places, who are still calling out for a re turn to the corn-law and for protection, that we are not satisfied that it will last."—(Hear, hear.) It is a question I have been asked over and over again whilst travelling on the Continent, "Do you think free trade can be maintained in your country ?" My answer has been "Certainly ; we are nut a people given to change when a question has been discussed, and when a decision has been arrived at by public opinion." " But," they said, "we see a great many lords and other men arguing for a restoration of protection and regretting that free trade has been adopted ; and we must wait; we see you are not agreed among your selves." And so it is; those men who taunt us that we do not see any progress making among other nations in free trade are themselves the very cause of it.—(Cheers.) They are the men who are throwing obstacles in the way of our progress, by exciting dis trust as to the continuance and permanence of free trade principles here. Not that I think it will be an obstacle long ; for though foreigners see that there are great statesmen, and great lords, and master spinners—though there may be some men of great in fluence and of high rank arrayed against us—though they see these men on one side, they must perceive that all the statesmanship, the great intellect, and the talent of the country are on the side of free trade.— (Loud cheers.) An as they know that brains in the end do prevail—(Cheers and laughter) —I think they are fast coming to the conclusion that we are not likely to go back again under the rule of the block heads.—(Renewed cheering and laughter.) In my travels on the Continent I made this observation, in every country to which I went—in Spain, in France, in Italy, in Germany, in Russia—everywhere I found every man of intelligence on the side of our principle. —(Cheers.) I found among the statesmen and poli ticians everywhere that the ablest men were the men most disposed to imitate the English example and carr = y out the free trade principle. And I saw there was.everywhere, on the part of the cleverest men in the country, a conspiracy to elude the vigilance of the Protectionists and establish the free trade principle. Why, I believe if our bad exzmple in England had not led almost everywhere else to the establishment of this bad principle—if - the Governments of the continent instead of their present absurd, complex, and injurious tariffs, had now sheets of white paper on which to write their tariffs, and had to write them over again, I believe there is not a country on the continent of Europe would establish a restrictive system at all ; because now the disposition is everywhere to esta blish free trade, and to undo the mischief that has been done by their predecessors.--(Hear, hear.) We have had, too, the taunt thrown out against us that we have not induced other countries to follow our example ; and one good honest gentleman in the House of Commons has said, " If you can show me one country that has followed our example, I will be oome a free-trader." Well, I take him at his word I'll show him a coun t ry t h at h as followed our ex ample—(Cheers and laughter)—and it is the country which it is of the most importance to this country .should have been induced to do so— it is , the United States of America.—(Hear, hear.) Within six months of the passing of the Bill repealing the corn-law by our Government, they remodelled their tariff, and established a tariff for the admission of our manufactures on a considerably lower scale than they had fixed it at before.—(Hear, hear.) And I look on it as a most fortunate thing that Sir R. Peel made the change at the time he did, because it gave them the opportunity of making provision for our wants. The Americans had just one season in which to prepare before our famine came upon us ; and had it not been that Sir R. Peel had changed the rate of duties to a scale ranging from 10s. to is., so that the merchant could calcu late on more steady prices, and could venture to im port corn with more certainty of remuneration, I believe that we should have had thousands and tens of thousands of our people starved to death.—(Hear, hear.) Because it is well known, gentlemen, that under the old sliding-scale the Americans never would move their corn from the interior for this market; that they never would start it from the in terior dow❑ the Mississippi and Ohio with a view to sending it here, because they could never calculate that the prices would remain low sufficiently long to enable them to introduce it at all.—(Hear, hear.) The same argument applies to Russia; for if the duty on foreign corn had not been fixed within a moderate limit at the time it was, we should not have had a quarter of the corn we had to supply our wants with from the corn-growing districts of Russia.—(Hear, hear.) It may be an interesting fact to know that so great is the distance of the corn-growing districts of Russia from the port of St. Petersburgh, from which the great bulk of the grain is shipped, that the Rus sian corn we have been eating this year is not the crop of last year, but of 1845.—(Hear, hear.) I was toll in Russia that the corn they had shipped was the crop of 1845 ; that it takes two seasons to bring it from the interior for the purpose of being shipped, it being frozen up half a year on their great rivers, and one year being lost before it can arrive at its destina tion. Now, when we recollect these circumstances, when we consider that but for the establishment of this free trade policy, the growers of corn would not have speculated with a view to supplying us, we shall see the vast advantage, the immense and almost pro vidential advantages we have derived from Sir It. Peel's repealing the old sliding-scale and establishing the [PACE corn-law of last year.—(Loud alters.) I believe we could not have been supplied with corn if we had depended upon the ordinary stacks in the ports of Ilainburgh, Leghorn, and Odessa,- and if we had not had the stimulus which was given by that measure, and which led to the extraordinary supplies we dre from the vast prairies of the interior of Russia and America. Now, gentlemen, these are the justifica tions I offer for the policy we have proposed with regard to the corn laws, and that it has not prevented great calamities from overtaking us no one can wonder. No one could have expected that we should have to purchase 10,000,000/. worth of grain for Ireland, and twice as much for this country, making in all 30,000,0001. worth of corn to meet an unex pected and unexampled scarcity ; no man could have expected we should go through such an ordeal as that without some suffering.—(Hear, hear.) But what shall we say of the men who try to palm upon their too credulous hearers the belief that we have been suffering all these evils from the effects of free trade, contemporaneously with a large importation of corn ? Why, gentlemen, we have had an increase of exportation to America.—_(Cheera.) During the last nine months of the 'present year the expor .tation of our manufactured goeds from Liverpool to America has been 90,000 packages more than we ex ported thither in the same time last year. You have had an increased demand, but you cannot suppose that you will have that increased demand to meet an im portation of corn which arises from a sudden and unexpected deficiency that we should have had under a regular and growing trade.—(Hear, hear.) If there had been some sudden calamity in America, through the destruction of all their clothing, cutlery, plows, harrows, spades, axes, and other implements of agriculture, contemporaneously vk ith our famine here, then yon might have expected a sudden demand from them just the same as we had here for their food.—(Cheers.), I have spoken of the distress you have suffered in the cotton districts through the want of the raw material ; but there is great consolation in looking to the other parts of the kingdom to find that in those places where other descriptions of manufac tures are carried on they hare not suffered so much as in like periods of high priced food before. Mr. Cobden proceedgd °Wove that he felt perfect con fidence in the future prospeiitiof the manufacturers of the district. Many people tried to mystify the matter, and talked about there not being money enough to effect this result; but the fact was, that if all the linen cloths in the country were to be made into bank-notes, and each note stamped for 1,0001., it would not enable all the railroads to be made in five years that should be made in 25 or 30 years. He was not telling them this after it had happened only ; for last year, before going to the continent, he wrote a petition from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the subject of railway Bills. Of all the mad things that were done by any body of men, he believed that the House of Commons, by granting these railway Acts during the last three years, had done the most insane act ever perpetrated by a public body. The directors of railway companies would be compelled to suspend their works, because the share holders would not be able to pay the money demanded of them; and the result would be, that which ought to have been originally attempted within 10 or 15 years would be done in that time instead of the next five years, while a great deal of mischief would still be inflicted, not only on speculators, but on th e mercan tile interests of the country generally. He had gone into these facts to show that an abund ince of raw material, with cheap food, would always produce good trade in the district ; but if they had this evil hanging over them—if they had all those demands upon all available money at 7 or'S per cent.—that would be a disturbing element in the country, and retard its prosperity. Mr. Cobden went on to show that taxation ought to be reduced. Taxation was much lost sight of. The English seemed to lose their good sense when they dealt with matters of government. Never would the House of Commons be more economical than the electors— Government would never curtail expenses if nobody asked them ; no Minister could attempt it till he could say, " The people at the hustings have demanded it." When would this demand be made ? He would tell them how the expenditure of the country Could be very much curtailed. Reduction could be made in the army, navy, and ordnance expenses to the amount of 17,000,0001. a year. Cutting down petty salaries might serve sham politicians to make a fight about, but that would never reach the pockets of the people. There must be a complete change of public opinion on this subject. If we thought we could manage the affairs of the world only with our ships of war and armies, then we could not reduce our army, navy, and war expenditure. Formerly men put the taxation question first and foremost, and that must again 'be done before we could obtain retrenchment in the national expendi ture. Mr. Cobden ridiculed the attempt made to affright the people by an alleged approaching inva sion, and concluded his address by saying, that so long as lie remained in Parliament his services would be as much at the disposal of the electors of Stock- port as of the freeholders of the West Riding of York. The Hon. Member sat down amidst enthusiastic and long-continued cheers. Mr. COPPOCIE (town-clerk of Stockport) moved, " That this meeting expresses its great regret at the determination which severs Mr. Cobden's Parliamen- tarp connexion with this borough. It still, however, lays claim to some share of his representative energies, and hopes, in whatever sphere of action he may be placed, to retain a hold on his sympathies, and rely, in some degree, upon his public services." The resolution was passed unanimously. Three cheers were given at the conclusion of Mr. Cobden's address ; and Mr. COBDEN then proposed " Three cheers for Free-trade," which were heartily responded to, and ;he meeting separated. MR. COBDEN AND THE WEST RIDING. Mr. Cobden has addressed the following letter to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire :-- " Gentlemen,—Having been anxious to prevent the inconvenience of a protracted struggle for the election of my successor at Stockport, I have postponed until the moment when a new writ could be issued, this public expression of my gratitude for the signal honour you did me in choosing me, in my absence, one of your representatives in Parliament. To have been thus returned, when 1,000 miles distant, with out solicitation, by the most numerous and influential constituency in the empire, is probably the highest electoral distinction ever conferred upon a public man. "Whilst fully appreciating the honour you have done me, I will not conceal that this double return to Parliament has imposed upon me a painful task in the selection of my seat. Although in the unexpec ted situation in which I found myself on my return from the continent, I did not hesitate to recognize your paramount claim to my humble services, yet in justice to my views of the obligations which consti tuencies and their representatives owe to each other, I must frankly declare that if I had been in England *hen it was proposed to nominate me for the West Riding, I should not have felt justified in consenting to sever my connexion with a constituency from which I have received repeated proofs of confidence and kindness. You, who have possessed, and known how to appreciate, faithful representatives, will forgive me if I cannot lightly break the ties which have united me to my former constituencies. _ . " I have only to express the hope that, at the close of the present Parliament I may find that in our poli tical views generally we are as much in accordance as we are upon those commercial principles on which you more especially pronounced judgment at the late election, and respecting which there is now very little difference of opinion amongst men of in telligent and unprejudiced minds. " I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient and faithful servant, " RICHARD COBDEN. " London, Dec. 9." MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF TEE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. VOL. Xl.—The eleventh volume of this truly charming history perfectly sustains the authoress's reputation, in point alike of truthfulness, diligence, and style. The anecdotes interspersed throughout the work are exceedingly racy, and claim credence by . the un questionable authenticity of the evidence on which they are presented. On the whole we must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian ie the English langu a g e. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scru pulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we be fore remarked, the considerable number of new docu ments to which she has had access, and the curious nature of some of these documents, imparitthtothphere predomi nated. iproi duction a character of which it would be hard to deter mineoignm- natd . whether he present the volumeutility o r entertainm enttihse occupied v: s of Mary 11. and of Queen Anne. A more interesting or exciting era has not been in the En- ' lish annals, and we heartily recommend both lives to the attention of the public.—Morning Post. 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My Lords,—l have had the honour to receive, representation signed by your Lordships on the sub ject of the nomination of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. " I observe that your Lordships do not state any want of confidence on your part in the soundness of Dr. Hampden's doctrine. Your Lordships refer me to a decree of the University of Oxford passed eleven years ago, vid founded upon lectures delivered fifteen years ago. " Since the date of that decree Dr. Hampden has acted as Regius Professor of Divinity. The Uni versity of Oxford, and many bishops, as I am told, have required certificates of attendance on his lec tures before they proceeded to ordain candidates who had received their education at Oxford. He has likewise preiched aergitomr -- which-ft-ban hew honoured with the appiiitfraMelFaseveral prelates - 6r our Church. " Several months before I named Dr. Hampden to the Queen for the see of Hereford, I signified my in tention to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and did not receive from him any discouragement. " In these circumstances, it appears to me that should I withdraw my recommendation of Dr. Hamp den, which has been sanctioned by the Queen, I should virtually assent to the doctrine that a decree of the University of Oxford is a perpetual ban of ex clusion against a clergyman of eminent learning and irreproachable life, and that, in fact, the supremacy which is now by law vested in the Crown is to be transferred to a majority of the members of one of our Universities. " Nor ' ()yid it be forgotten that many of the most prominent amoos. that majority have since j oined the . Communion of the Chlirch of Rome. " I deeply regret th e feeling I that is said to be +his subject. But common among the cl erg y on qampden the cannot sacrifice the re p u t at i on o f Dr. ..._ he , the rights of the Cr own , an d w h at I believe to true interests of the Church, to a feeling which - Neve to be founded on misapprehension and fomented by prejudice. "Ai the same time I thank your Lordships for an interposition which I believe to be intended for the public benefit.—l have, kc., ' - "J. RUSSELL. " To the Right Rev. the Bishops of London, Win chester, Lincoln, Bcc." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by the Royal Family, took a drive, on Friday afternoon, in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, left Osborne at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, crossed in the Fairy steam-packet to Gos port, and took her departure by the London and South-Western Railway, on her return to her resi dence, Frogmore House, Windsor. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked, on Satur day, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne. The Royal Children took an airing in a carriage on Saturday. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, and Sir James Clark, arrived at Osborne, on Saturday after noon, on a visit to the Queen. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtemay remained at Osborne yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at tended a meeting of the Trustees of the British Museum on Saturday. His Royal Highness returned to Hatfield House, Herts, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, in the afternoon. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three o'clock on Saturday lafternoon, at the private resi dence of Lord John Russell, is Chesham-place. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat two hours. rase- Lord John Russell was much better on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Moore. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Moore. The service was in A (Sir George Smart). The anthem was "Awake, put on my strength" (Wise). Sir G. Smart presided at the organ. The Marquis of Win chilsea, Lords Granville, Farnham, Ebrington, and Sydney, were among the nobility present. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel will preach on Sunday next, the 19th inst., in the Chapel Royal. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday, and resumed the hearing of an appea l from New south Wales, " The Bank of Australas ia v. Breillat." Mr. Bethell (Queen's Counsel) and Sir Fitzroy Kelly were heard. The case was adjourned. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Her Majesty's ship Asia, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Hornby, C. 8., has been compelled to return to Devenport, in consequence of e g r l e a r t l t e m pest leaguessast3 were er in 4 er came theam serious enaoyn owhich f h injuries ic Biscay. increased cause s d h b t y ho - • a e d n s ctoorum. s got n tre about in O the westward of the Land's End, wh en a ga le of wind blown out of the bolt- ro p es; t h e seas washed away quarter-boats and h ammoc k- nett i ng, and one sea stove in a scuttle, and the orlop deck was nearly flooded, so that the crew had to go to the pumps. The Asia strained so much in the heavy weather that her caulking was injured, and the seams opened to such a degree that she has leaked considerably ever since. Owing to the heaving, pitching, and rolling of the ship some of the iron ballast has shifted, and it will be necessary to have her in dock to re•stow her hold and recaulk her. This will occupy the artificers ten days. AMERICAN REPRINTS.—A question of interest to the English publisher attaches to tja!) importation of works, or copies of works, from a foreign state into this 'kingdom, the same being reprints of works first pub lished in this country, but which are out of copyright. The original publisher of the work here having, perhaps, expended a considerable sum to print and produce it in the first instance, requires, and is naturally entitled, in -some manner to be protected from the unlimited and un restricted reprints of the same abroad, and its intro duction into this country for the general purposes of Sale. The remedy, so far as it extends, appears to rest mainlyt' in the present state of the law, as to the actual existence or non-existence of copyright. If the fo rmer be the case, of course any copies published i n the United States of America or elsewhere, wo u ld be o.sitivelypreor hibited to be imported; but if the latter, its introduction into this country may not then b e preven ted; and if im ported from America, in the American (i. c. English) language, would be entitled to admission at the duty of 21. 10s. per hundred weight as a foreign livi ng l anguage , as it would be print e d i n the g nation from which the importationlan t u a a k g e e o takes piace f the state or . BRCIIIN.--REMARRADL E CASB.—Robert Duncan (a pensionerE be discharged from the Ist Reg iment of Foot , now aged 70), i n t h e American war in 1813-14, was wounded by a musket-shot in the left knee, , at the battle of Chippeway ; and, notwithstanding every exertion of the medical staff, the ball could not be extracted at that period ; consequently it h as rema i ne d i n hi s k nee bone until last week, when it was taken out by our eminent townsman, Dr. Guthrie—the ball having been carried about by the aged veteran for the long period of 33 years. He has been confined for the last ten weeks, in consequence of the ball shifting out of the bone into the flesh, causing him great pain, which ho has borne with great fortitude. The ball might be an excellent relic for the British Museum, is it actually is stuck round with several splinters from the aged warrior's leg. Duncan is a native of Brechin.—Montrose Review. The Honourable Robert Gore, R.N., lately ap pointed instructbeiosent n st° ot awaitv i o deo fa an eriv France, and to proceed in co m pa n y with him to the Ri v er Plate, where both will appear in concert to enforce at Rio d J c s o n n e s i u ro l at th e M a o rr n i t v e a V 1 the terms of pacification agreed upon by the Govern ments of England and of Franoe.— Observer. e "BPSla'' rtalit correspondence has taken Irence, to the - appointment of Dr. Hampden of Hereford : . Lord,—We, the undersigned Bish the if England, feel it our duty to ee ert to your .ship, as h ea d o f h er Majesty' o nment, thc.. „prehension and alarm whi c h ha x en inited in the minds of the clergy by the rumoured nomina tion to the see of Hereford of Dr. Hampden, in the soundness of whose doctrine the University of Ox ford has affirmed, by a solemn decree, its want of confidence. " We are persuaded that your Lordship does not know huw deep and general a feeling prevails on this subject, and we consider ourselves to be acting only in the discharge of our bounden duty both to the Crown and to the Church, when we respectfully but earnestly express to your Lordship our conviction that if this appointment be completed, there is the greatest danger both of the interruption of the peace of the Church, and of the disturbance of the confi dence which it is most desirable that the clergy and laity of the Church should feel in every exercise of the royal supremacy, especially as regards that very delicate 6.14 important partiezib.r, the nomination to vacant sees. • "We have the honour to E.t, imy Laid, Your Lordship's ohediaat, .tr.reihtl eery - ants, " C. J. LONDO. " C. WINTON - . " J. LINCOLN. " CHR. BANGOR. _ " HUGH CARLISLE. " G. ROCHESTER. " RICH. BATH AND WELLS. " J. H. GLOITC.EbTER AND BRISTOL. "H. EXETER. " E. SARUM. " A. T. CHICHESTER " J. ELY. • " SAML. 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