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By order, JOHN SMITH, Clerk. setilnnlittee-Room, 3, Crosby-square, July, 1847. t4,l;:sliptions received at th e Model Establishment, the Commit -118,7"wil, and the Bank of England, and by almost all the London CHEAP EXCURSION TO LIVERPOOL, tAithr AI ANCFIESTER, and CHESTER, for 215., in CLOSED ,40,1 - ,,`AGES, affording an excellent opportunity of visiting IRE ' ni,tie`-_FICOTLAND, ISLE OF MAN, WALES, &c., &c., at a laent,;lr coat. —The public are respectfully informed that arrange esten,an_..Ve been made with the Directors of the London and North ' 7't., and b-1., Way Company for EXCURSION TRAINS to Liverpool, Of Trains will leave the Euston Station on the morn ;,etoelt n - „,7,"AT, July 26, and WEDNESDAY, July 28, at Six ".,verpe'elL..uaily each morning, allowing seven or fourteen days in Tick ets , :."uctor 411 eve ry Information can be had only of H. 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Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.. -1)1/T, 10,000 POTS SOLD MONTHLY. 11 '‘EE'S GREEN MOUNTAIN VEGE to,_ TABLE OlNTME NT.—Prepared from a vegetable peculiar f ~,,7_T green M ountains of Vermont ; the astonishing properties o f 4it:"._ene Were.first discovered by the Aborigines, and the knowledge . ? /lcd'3,,_ Paration disclosed to the present proprietor, who, after D w u i -- Igor more than twenty years its wonderful effects in SUB , in.o. clue. o ;1 -r ( I.A NI VATORY ACTION', and the extraordinary cure t rono T ti oat Rheumatism, Scrofulous Affections, Ringworm,Piles,Nipples, Chilblns; Inf lammation of the Eyes, Swelled Breasts, Sore t o ;,...__ , Scalds, Burns, and old and inveterate Ulcers, determined ii'atyr?duce it as a public medicine. and ;eau received high testimonials from the Surgeons of the Army With th Y, of the important cures effected by this Ointment, together pricier immense sale it has obtained in the (Jetted States, the Pro and ha. has considered it a duty to extend its use to Great Britain, gist s 14,, aPPointed Messrs. 11. Preston and Son, wholesale Drug the ,-..'n't, Smithfield Bars, London, sole wholesale Agents, to kElst2 ment is. ennslgned. It is also sold by the respectable i w Clie 28, ‘, l a e f eh M . edicum Vendors throughout the Kingdom, n pots, ARRI A G E itirlingotnheeinhalf th e world are desolately single, a ffi nd ae t n h e e e, o n th r e a r sens e of ' ht d t L,, ng e emu married, questionably contented. Di ne the former, and miscalculated hopes ern ..itterthe latter. The yaolitarYone may ' s f h h i e eldhl self under the plea Or caution and worldl eolnprosing Prudence, and burn/ ; but th t and broken health e ruth lies deeper. 9 and socialueontent. The dowry In indissoluble, sfea 1 I regret t u t fl y ; , are the great hindrances to domestic happiness Bement. set in n th e should not be the only marriage onour andjustiee demand that health should form an item , compactalone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or 9 olect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if ' nese surmises concern 3700, procure Dr. CU pub. little 41e4E01510IRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., ls• refined(,bYorpose, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively by prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered . f, Misinterpretation of their Supposed contents, from obtaining 1-4ern• They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but - t ?r e the closet not of those more deeply interested, to whom n til e Yap Y ap offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth o ~ are stiblects by unqualified authors, which alone or li"gother, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other b ttle ~, publications claim your attention (same price la. each, A " , Pon Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and - ,, - :! °, c 1 " and " How to be Happy." They are not merely zonphlets but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the Ike-'ere e Pher ' neral scribblings of the hour, but the study of tbe thisos_ , who owes his present existence, health, and positiontons hel. rrance of the maxims he would immlcate—to do unto others Would be done unto—to live sate , : nature's laws —and to keep always II oo the "sunny side of the way." The above works may S herwood, 23 , Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet -street ; Mann, Oxford-street • 39, corn 11; Naison, 457, West Strand ; Barnes, 420, . or direct (by post or otherwise) from the author (who may be con ferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, ArgYll-Plaee, I tegent-street ; and all Booksellers. ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. ,;,,,, WITH TWENTY-FIVE COIOIIIIED ENGRAVINGS. "ua day is published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, tri. , 2s. 6d. or forwarded, post paid, to any address, secure frora ~,o bse rvation, for 3s. Gd. in Pos.ase Sterna , . N ELF-PRESERVATION: A Medical Treatise 1. 04 on Marriage, and on those Secret Infirm i ties and Disorders of lire 404th and Matur,ty, that are usually acquired at an early period of il :, W hich tend to destroy phYs'cal and mental energy, ardour, pas -11,7%-' ,all'a all the attributes o Manho i V a . tom lll y ns , trated with Twenty- Physiology, and Dia etan.uolaured Engravings on the r tr r o 0 1 the Urinary and Reprodn ' ctive Orgars, explaining their are pr 4 s tructures, uses, and fiinctions, and showir.g the injuries that Natt.Ldiseed in them, by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. Loes,' T actlcal Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, . tlite.74:l4d Constituti ona l Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and other ... (t -L'll7 S AMUEL L 4,'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, k 41 b ., enl ated 9 , Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London; Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorer , a l , o 7,aar of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of be arleal Hall, London, &c., fec. . N, t CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE. ..% 41 401 .4 11 1 I. • On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances vati,„Ltations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.- I)l ',_aa,,''' 2 . On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative . as t ,, -- -, 3 , their Rinetions, structures, and secretions, proving that grea Hans' and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action 4 111 t ,, 44P r„, ..!ft 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the ''t ti t . "' Q. conolny ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions 41 s4i t t ""aell, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness ef the a t 4 is t t 'ac ,ulties. Cheri's' 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth s, - sate, -- .tY, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness, ''''' la - I,,N b uttY, and Premature Decay.--Cnerisas 5 and 6. On t order. der bi leasea. arising from indiscriminate Excess, Strictures, and ,I,Aim REVIEWS OF THE WORK. h .,,k b -. 14 1 1. ON SELF -PRESERVATION.--KENT AND RICHARDS.—This — itte ."ses advantages over e^ery other other of the kind sub -144 a t 4 Du ' Arr,:kble t bite notice. The author is a medical man of some con- Z,, - 'essio n aie nt, Who has devoted many years to the study of his i•alia tati , and as a guarantee of his pretensions has published his f le s t 1 )111a: 48 and diplomas in the work, and several testimonials o r i , 8 fr °ra physicians and surgeons of great eminence, which 1 4t aren important consideration to those wh •, from the peculiar , - tair ts - , l ° , tlieir infirmities, are obliged to - seek medical assistance ; 444 tte r , an gers. The subject le treated altogether in an excellent -4 , and 4 1 4 e tA .,,, by its perusal the unfortunate victim of vicious habits I t blatiZuvo d isspation, will be enabled to account for peculiar , 4 11 e,',.: , and to discover the means of alleviatiw their sufferings atjablitgeciand effectual manner.—United Service Gazette. O kf k i kent and the Author, and may be dal at his residence; also -, as,. *L iftre;rUchard.3, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 63, 114,-,T4stilitat.,_• tarie, Tichborne-street, Quadrant; Gordon, 146, a a3r ~, ,atreet, London • Newton, 16, Church-street, Liverpool tit t(01.....z001tae ll era. ' tk e v e.tlii irpjo.r CO nsultstion daily, from Nine till Two, and i fr: n m o 1igi A8,... 6 % et if . l. , anmall letters immediately replied to, if conta_ ~ -.. " 44 . 14):t r iA 1 1. CO, &C.-9 BEDFORD-STREET BEDFO TILE LIBERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THE RETURN OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL, JAMES PATTISON, ESQ., SIR GEORGE LARPLNT, AND BARON LIONEL DE ROTHS CHILD. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN, AStatement addressed to you by the Committee for conducting, the City Election on behalf of the Conservative candidates clumsily conceals distress and weakness uu ler misrepre sentation. The intemperate language used by gentlemen who presented them selves at the General Conservative Meeting, while it indicated that sense of insecurity which usually vents itself in abuse contained dis creditable imputations afreinSt the Liberal candidates, to which this Committee felt they sold not appropriately reply, without sortie de parture from th ats Self-es which they have determined to make their rule at' conduct. — When these ImpUlations aro reduced to the more cl . e' , :; A they feel it de.; ~ c rate ("arm of n official addr ess, however, not only to the neral body of the C onst i tuency, but to the intelligent and respecgetable portion of the Conservative electors, to give such an explanation of their position as will show that this Committee arc not insensible to the responsibility they have undertaken, • The unvarying support which the great majority of the citizens of London have given to the cause of Reform is matter of history. The change in the franchise created by the Reform Bill produced additional evidence of the predominance of those opinions in the return of exclusively Liberal representatives for the whole metro politan constituencies. Fr, rn that period Until the general election of 1841, London uniformly returned to Parliament }oar Liberal re presentatives; until, from peculiar circumstances, unconnected with the general_ current of part sent , ti an took place. y polities, an e qua l di v i s i on of the repre .. - Ad the Conservatives rest satisfied with this arrangement ? Did afr. Russell Ellice, whose name is attached to that manifesto of Moderation with which his recent ohjurgations have indicated so little sympathy, acquiesce in the vie . ' he now enunciates ? Were he and his party contentea to perm! li'g vacancy to be filled up by a Reform candidate ? No—when ey considered either that the advantage of their positionoor the Slate of the register, warranted s i . them in placing a third candidate in the field, they di I not hesitate to venture into the lottery et run election. upon data as fallacious as the ground of their preeaat hopes. Against the most powerful and theism influential -p eat and the most unscrupulous use of the Moister agenc l C;s Of every protected interest of the reigning Govern'- . Mont, and af the aristocracy, whose monopoly was pained in the contest. Mr. Pattison, in 1843, aided by nothing but his principles cod the party predilections of the constituency, was returned by a Ma ioritY sufficiently indicative of the predominance of Liberal opi • nions iu the city of London. Have any circumstances occurred since which would warrant the Inference that the Reform interest has retrograded and is no longer in the ascendant? From the hour of Mr. Pattison's triumph this Committee have in cessantly " fought the battle of the Constitution in the Registration .Courts," and with such success, that not from the vague calculations and presumptions of an electioneering agent, founded confessedly upon the state of the register in 1843, but upon an actual canvas of those electors whose opinions were Liberal or unascertained, com- 1 menced and completed within the last six months, they are fully That 'Warranted in the a ssurance to which they have pledged themselves, electo r . on the present re g i s t er th ere is a large majority of Liberal s . In the knowledge of such facts, and is the face of the past pro . Vocation wantonly offered to them by ',he opposition to the return of lir. Pattison, this Committee felt 'atty. would have altogether pros tituted the pu r p oses for which the representative system was en . trusted to the people by the aunstitution, if they bad deprived the o co nst omal ituency of the pow er of retrieving their character from the anomaly of in a state of putterglacin tlse community of the greatest city o f t h e world rfolitical negation. With the proceadinga of this Committee, founded on these views, an att empt is rayea made invidiously to conne c t L or d John Russell, on ho d arl ot her found'atior, than that that great s t a t esman is the deliberate Thet hot ae o', the Meant electors. In, Com . .mit ee regard, with great complacency, an imputation of l iVlr rlv i t ,..„... olaratteo, based-solely on the fact th at no ether'alterna ,F7 t um . t - ier offered to them than a contest, or the peremptory de •re, • 01 the co ncession of nothing less than an equal division of the ~.fetssentation betwixt a Liberal ma j or i ty, and a not very fermi able Conserrvative minority. When some organic machinery is discovered la t y which it s h a ll b e found either expedient or practicable to redueeth e it Will i c t. re presentative syst em to fractional rules of proportion, Patto n t tme enough t o consider the reasonableness of the propo o have the minority represented by cue candidate, and the tos ioritY by another. With regard to therelation in which the Prime stand to- Wards one of the h Minister is alleged to Rothschild is th e candidates, it is sufficient to reply that Baron mi tuency ; and thcaandidate, not of Lord John Russell, but of the con the ordinary amenitiest While t his Committee regret that departure from of tempts to implic political warfare, which indecently at in, peculiar t ate the first Minister of the Crown, in the proceed to take the o the tactics of contested elections, they are prepared of their feleixelusive responsibility of recommending for the suffrages racier and ell ow citizens a gentleman whose unsullied private eha ,.___es . ratted commercial station. alike qualify him to be he Also entative of the • t mercantile eity in the world. That c h e 43 a.lso the symbol of agrea.,aetst n ri a ti er e pie will not be regarded as a dis cll!alificatlo for the ".: enjoyment p of the equal rights of the free citizens ot a free __ as and just-minded people of England, country wuntry by the generous This 0 • 0, th e , , - mnittee receive with cordiality the assura nce th a t , among - 'a - Mindedentlemen whom they are proud to in the of heir opponents," Lord John Russell has been treatsd with Ds ,. D s , respect by the Conservatives of London." To these they con . IldentlY appeal against the 7i 'lent language in which it has not been iniConsidered inconsistent with the character of gentlemen to assail the toootives of the Prime Minister in reference to this contest. His la ae„ri„°llB Public duties, and his ofticial position, by leaving him de teillas, ought to have spared him the indignity of such attacks. tkeir ~.e whole body of the Litjeral electors feel constrained to ask es,,,,'Tiservative fellow - cit'fzens whether the following report of a (11.7 d delivered at the Lo'adon Tavern is consistent with those pre lavishly o r a lavishi perfec est" for Lord John Russell which are so Y effused in kn ew Prime' . . the w ess of their Committee &new could not inns ~,,. ttr tad associated himself with a gentleman he on the conten." — "e lli's seat for the purpose of getting funds to carry fob Airh n it is addoil • ed inst oup , . that the name attached to this unworthy and un these claim s ~ ....a9 on is that 'which subscribes the address containing feet resp eet,, ,, n the credit of " treating Lord John Russell with per good tast .4 .s,„ the Public will b e at no loss to appreciate either the In cr.„o, l _the s Peech, or the sincerity of the document. teller.,..eitizaesnon, the Committee leave it to the sound seuse of their the. Candidate' of all opinions to decide upon the relative merits of t_tttach them ts before them, persuaded that the comparison must then 0 those whose political consistency, moderation, posi , and qualifleat* nt the vast td , ari ..._ ions most eminently fit them to represent ca Interests of the city of London. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Chairman. THOMSON HAISKEY Jun., P. A. TAYL OR, , 1 Deputy Chairmen Price Bs. 6d., a Fifth Edition of BLACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST OF SCOTLAND, with 24 Maps, Plans and Charts ; and 50 Views of Scenery and Public Buildings. A. and C. Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers. Price 55., a Third Edition of BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO THE ENGLISif LAKES, with an Essay on the Geology of the District, by Professor PHILLIPS; minutely accurate Map and Charts ; and Views of the Mountain Ranges, and other Scenery. A. and C. Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers. Price 2s. 6d., a Fifth Edition of BL AC K'S GUIDE THROUGH EDIN 13IIROIT, with a DESCRIPTION of the ENVIRONS. Illustrated with a Plan of the City ; a Map of the Country ten miles round ; and Views of the Public Buildings and Neighbouring Scenery. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers. 0,17,107, LOIN DON, SAT U R DAY EVENING SUN TnE lIITNDRED AND MST SALE. CUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON, JULY, 1847. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on Tuxsnar, 27th, WEDNESDAY, 28th, THURSDAY, 29th, FRIDAY, 30th July; and on MONDAY, 2d, TUESDAY, 3d, and WEDNESDAY, 4th August, 1847, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, the following GOODS for home consumption, viz. : Agate Brooch Pieces Lace, Cotton Buttons Bathes Beads Berthes Boxes r Collars Seal-handles, &c. Shawls Artificial Flowers Scarfs Almond Paste Veils, &c. Bronze Candlesticks Meerschaum and other Pipes and Candelabras, &c. Bowls. Buttons, various Musical Boxes and Instruments, Beads viz. : Boxes, Brass Pianofortes Glove Accordions Buhl Organ Wafer Marqueterie Tables Needle, &c. Chairs Barege Shawls, Scarfs, &c. Cabinets Bandannoes Bookcases Baskets Drawers Brandy Escruteires, &c. Chinese Paintings Matting, E. I. Catlings Marbles China Ware Jars Marble, Manufactured Ewers and Basins Opera (11a.ses Bottles Paintings for Brooches Toilet Pots Porcelain, Plain and silt Flower Vases Pongee, Silk Figures . Paper, Gilt, &c. Cups, Saucers, &c. Percussion Caps Coral Negligees Pictures Caps Pomatum Cambric Handkerchiefs Perfumery Curtains, Embroidered Pepper Clocks, various Pencils, Slate Carved Wood Rugs, Persian Cameos Turkey, &c. China Crape Cologne Water Cordials Cheroots Drawing Instruments Embroidered Slipper and Chair Pieces Envelopes Earthenware Embroidery and :Needle Work viz.:— Rum - Ribbons of Satin Steel truckles Steel:Purse Slides Garnitures, Ste. Segars Segar Moulds Snuff Silk Worm Gut Slippers Shawls, Long and Square Stays Swiss Cottages Sugar Silk and Cotton Stuffs Do. and Goats Hair ditto Silk Manufactures, viz.: Net Caps, Cuffs, Collars Chernisettes, Sleeves Shirt Fronts Habit Shirts ' Lace, Veils, &o. Flock for Paper Stainers Feathers, dressed Feather Boas bluffs Tippets, &c. Itracelets Garters Purses Laces Gloves Mitts Ties Handkerchiefs Transparencies Porcelain Fans Frames for Pictures, &c Gauze, gummed Geneva Hat Crowns and Linings Hand Screens Hair Manufactures Ivory Card Boxes Toys Counter Boxes Tobacco Chess Men Tea Napkin Rings Varnish Brooches Watches Backgammon Watch Hands Men, &c. Springs Leather Segar Cases Keys Pocket Books, &c. Maker's Tools, &c, Lutestrings Walking Sticks Labels Waistcoating Lace, Thread Wine Silk and various other Goods For Exportation only.—Gold and silver watches, clocks, books spirits, extract, sugar, a brass gun, muskets, &c., &c. For Exportation, or, for Home Consumption, on Payment of Duties.—Wood, wine, coffee, tea, saccades, preserved ginger, provi sions, sugar, soap, books, silver plate, &c., &c. For the Benefit of the Crown.—Sundry old boats, oars, sculls. &c. To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames street ; at the London and West India Docks, at the Tobacco-ground ; Rotherhithe, on Friday, the 23d, Saturday, 24th, and Monday, 26th of July, 1847, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of sale, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Twelve o'clock at noon. Take notice, goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of Receiver of Fines after Two o'clock in the afternoon, and on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'clock in the forenoon. PUBLICATIONS. In a closely-printed and portable volume, price 10s. 6d., B LACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST AND ROAD BOOK OF ENGLAND, With numerous Maps, Railway Charts and Views. A. and C. Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers. On Saturday, July 17. LETTER from SIR ROBERT PEEL to the ELECTORS for the BOROUGH of TAIibiIVORTH. London : James Bain, 1, Haymarket. RIDDLE'S LATIN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARIES. ACOMPLETE ENGLISH-LATIN AND LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. By the Ray. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A. 6th Edition. Biro. Gd. cloth. Separately The English-Latin Dictionary, 10s. 6d. [The Latin-English Dictionary, 21s. THE YOUNG SCHOLAR'S ENGLISH-LATIN and LATIN ENGLISH DICTIONARY. New Edition, corrected and enlarged. Square 12mo. 12s. bound. Separately The English-Latin Dictionary, Ss. 6d. [The Latin-English Dictionary, 7s. Also, New Edition, royal 32m0., 4s. bound, A DIAMOND LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; John Murray, Albemarle street. Just published, in post Bvo., price Bs. 6d., PHE REV. DR. HUME'S ACCOUNT of the LEARNED SOCIETIES and PRINTING CLUBS of tke UNITED KINGDOM. "This is a most useful volume. In looking at its contents we can not help feeling that such a work has been long wanted. The object of the author has peen to give a concise account of the origin, history, objects, and constitution of the numerous learned societies of the United Kingdom. We are much mistaken if there are not many who are entirely ignorant of the history and constitution of the so cieties of which they aro members. To all such, and to those who take an interest in the progress of scientific unions, Dr. Hume's work will be most welcome."—Medical Gazette. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the Nine Elms Station, Vauxhall, London, on FRIDAY, the 6th August next, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon precisely, when the Directors will submit a Report of their Proceedings on the Affairs of the Company during the preceding Half-year. A dividend will be de clared, and the General business of the Company transacted. And notice is hereby further given, that the said Meeting will be a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, to consider the propriety of Purchasing or Accepting a Lease of the undertakings authorised by the " Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Act, No. 1, 1847, and the Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Act, No. 2, 1847," upon the terms embodied in a Memorandum of Agree ment, dated 19th January, 1847, and made between the Committee of Management of the then projected Windsor, Staines, and South- Western Railway Company of the one part, and the Lond and South-Western Railway Company of the other part; and to autho rise and approve such Purchase or Lease. And also to consider and determine whether any and what number of New Shares shall be created under the powers contained in the several Acts of Parliament passed in the present session of Parliament, authorising the London and South-Western Railway Company to create further capital in Shares of what amount, and upon what terms and conditions, and with what rights and privileges Such new Shares (if any) shall be created. And notice is hereby farther given, that the BOOKS of the COM PANY, for the Transfer of Shares, will be CLOSED from the 30th day of JULY, to the 6th day of AUGUST, both days inclusive. _By order of the Court of Directors, P. LAURENTZ CAMPBELL, Secretary. Nine Elms Station, Vauxhall, July 16, 1847. ._____ BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. Second Call of 21 per Share. Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Resolution of the Board of Directors, the Proprietors of Shares in this Company are required to PAY a CALL of 2/. per SHARE on their respective Shares on or betbre WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August next, at the Banking-house of Messrs. Denison and Co., Lombard-street, London. A Circular will be sent to each Proprietor previously interest te of payment, which must be deposited with the Bankers. at the rate of bl. per cent. will be charged on all Calls remaining unpaid after the 18th August next. By order, Brighton, July 12, 1847. Wed. J. IRON, Secretary. BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM PA CKET COMPANY. Notice is hereby given that a GENERAL MEETING of the PRO PRIETORS of SHARES in this COMPANY will be held at the Com pany's Office, London-bridge Station. on FatnAy, the 23d July, 1847, at Twelve o'clock precisely, for General Purposes. By order. WM. J. IRON, Secretary. Brighton, July 12, 1817. HOLDS pyIIo W L E D S s T A B N IJ D OR ONG LEAs x t. CO TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an ORD ER of the lIIGII COURT of CHANCERY, mad e i n a against LYNE, with the ap probation of Sir Gsresi s of the Masters of the Court , some time in the month of (of which due notice will be g iven), at Westbourne, in th e August Sussex, a Dwelling. house, Garden , and A ppurtenances, formerly the h o e f residence of Philip Lyme, Esquire , decea sed, a nd two old Cottage. I d : joining thereto, two small Dwelling-houses and Gardens, and a Meadow called Ballads Mead, containing one acre and three-quarters. The premises are situate at Westhourne, and are partly — 0 1)311,1d of the Manor of Westbourne, and partly Leasehold for the residue of a term of 1,000 years. Particulars and conditions of sale are in preparation, and may shortly be had gratis, at the Master's Office ; of Messrs. W. and E. Dyne, 61, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; of Messrs. Leblanc and Cooke, Bridge.street, Blackfriars ; of Mr. Smart, solicitor, Emsworth, Hants ; and of Messrs. Sowton and Son, solicitors, Chichester, and the pre mises may be viewed on application to the tenants. W. and E. Dyne, for Daniel Smart Emsworth, plaintiff's Solicitor. GOLD, SILVER, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, and all the most precious and costly gems, are imitated to such perfection, that but very few uninitiated persons can positively tell a paste brooch or a ring from a diamond, the real pearl from the imitation, or German Silver from the genuine; but put them into the hands of the connoisseur, how soon the delusion vanishes when he affirms they are but vile and base imitations. So it is with the most valuable inventions as well as stones and metals. done but the inimitable in value are imitated in appearance, and as soon as the consumer (the best connoisseur) attempts to use them, how soon he finds out their utter uselessness. Thus it is with the most valuable of all inventions ; the celebrated ➢LETALLIC RAZOR TABLET of GEORGE SAUNDERS has been the target for imitation for the last thirty years. To Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query is pro posed.—Why do all the first cutlers in Europe use and recommend Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop ? The answer is simply because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keen and smooth edge. DEPOT, 278, STRAND. To wholesale purchasers A liberal discount will be made. TO THE ELECTORS of WEST SURREY. GENTLEMEN, In consequence of the approaching dissolution of Parliament, I again take the liberty of requesting your suffrages and Support. During the many years that I have been honoured with your confi dence I trust you have ever found me a warm friend of civil and re ligious liberty, and a steady supporter of those principles which first procured sae your favour and protection. In that long period I have never made a profession on the hustings which I afterwards forgot, or forfeited any pledges I have- given, but uniformly persevered, during a long and chequered political life, "through good and evil report," in that course which I thought most conducive to the wel fare and prosperity of the country. Though unable from attacks 9f the gout to make again a personal canvass (which I am sure your long-experienced kindness will par don), yet, keeping a regular register of our Parliamentary proceed ings, I shall be happy to answer ninon the hustings the question of any freeholder, and defend or explain every vote I have given. Should I once more be honoured by your suffrages, you may de pend upon my best attention to your local interests, and my support of every measure that will, in my humble opinion, alleviate the burdens, increase the commerce, and improve the social Condition of the empire. 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The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be ha.z --- 7;7rie office, or any of its branches In the country; or, on application. will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S MANIFESTO TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE BOROUGH OF TAMWORTIL Drayton Manor, July 15. Gentlemen,—There appears every probability that a dissolution of Parliament will immediately take place. If it be your with that I should continue to represent you, I place my services at your command. I have received the offers of support from more than one place of the first importance in respect to com mercial enterprise and wealth, and to the number of the constituent body ; but having represented you for many years, and having received from you, under trying cir cumstances in public affairs, signal proofs of your esteem and confidence, I ant unwilling, by any act of mine, to interrupt the connexion which has long subsisted be tween us. But I cannot seek your support on any other than publie grounds, and as the position in which I stand is in some respects a peculiar one, I feel it necessary to transgress the limits of an ordinary address, in soliciting your attention to the course which I have pursued in the present Parliament, and in explaining, so far as is con sistent with that freedom of discretion which is essential to the proper discharge of Parliamentary duties, the general principles to which, if re-elected, I intend to conform. When you last returned me to Parliament I held the chief office in the Government of this great empire. I am now addressing you in a private capacity, rejoicing in the recovery of leisure and independence, without the intention or wish to resume either that authority which belongs, or ought to belong, to the possession of office, or that influence which is conferred by the lead and guidance of a great political party aspiring to power. But I am not, on that account, the less anxious to vin dicate, to your satisfaction, the motives by which I have been influenced, the measures to which I have been a party, and the general course of policy of the Adminis tration with which I was connected. The chief acts of that Administration, and the circum stances which led to its dissolution, must be familiar to your recollection. - You have now ample means for judging whether the conduct of the Government, in respect to the external relations of this country, was calculated to promote the public welfare. You can contrast the position of affairs in 1841 and 1846, and can determine whether the sta bility of our Indian empire has been impaired, or whe ther a succession of glorious achievements in the field, and the vigour and firmness, and, above all, the justice and moderation of those who have directed the public councils in India, have not increased throughout the East respect for the British name, and promoted willing obedience to British authority. There is, I fear, some justice in the reproach, that the people and the Parliament of this country are com paratively indifferent, excepting under circumstances of sudden excitement, to the administration of foreign affairs. But it would be a grievous neglect of duty on the party of those whose choice of representatives will determine the general character of the future Parlia ment, to exclude from their serious consideration this great department of the publie business. When the late Government was formed, the charge of that department was committed by the Queen to a Minister of whom I may say with truth, that he suc ceeded in acquiring the esteem and confidence of every honest man engaged in the diplomatic service of other and c s o ta n t d e u s, civeto he the madegreat object that eefsteheima politicalnd confi dence feie i maintenance of honourable peace. ali—t It is for you to judge whether Lord Aberdeen acted wisely in disregarding those appeals to national pride and national sensibilities which, if not provocations to war, were great impediments to the maintenance of o p f e a c at i a c n a d b l i e n a resolving e t a o t adjust, an if d mutual concession,possible, the petty differences which constantly occur between powerful nations, and which, if treated in any other spirit, are easily inflamed into national quarrels. It is for you to judge, in reviewing our discussions with the United States, whether it would have been wise to have insisted on extreme rights of territory on the north-eastern frontier of the province of Maine, and on the banks of the Columbia river, and thus (even if war could be avert e d), t o h ave ensure d for another half century a controversy full of bitterness and irritation; or whether it was not the better policy to propose, in the spirit of peace, conditions perfectly compatible with the honour o f each country, and not requiring from either any sacrifice, territorial or commercial, which would not be dearly purchased by the cost of a single week's hostilities. But, Gentlemen, however important are the considera tions to which I have been adverting, there are others, in respect to which, from their relation to our social condition and domestic policy, you will probably feel a more immediate concern. The most prominent at the present time are those connected with questions of reli i gion, and with the recent changes in our financial and commercial legislation. On these points I desire to enter into unreserved ex planation with you. I write without concert or com munication with any other person whatever, and the views and opinions, therefore, which I may express are expressed on my own behalf exclusively. I feel, Gentlemen, the deepest interest in all that con cerns the welfare of the Established Church. I feel that interest, from sincere conviction of the truth of its doc trines, and from the firm belief that the Established Church is capable of being made, and through the tem poral zeal, and active ex er ti ons of the highest spiritual authorities, is in the progress of being made, the most powerful instrument that exists for administering the consolations of religion, for spreading the knowledge of divine truth, and for supplying the imperfections of human laws, by the obligations and restraints of religious duty. I have resisted, and shall continue to resist, every proposal for appropriating any portion of the revenues of we th ha e lrum C rhc hurch, in any part of' the United Kingd om , t o ot h er than ecclesiasti ca l purposes i n direct connexion with the a e leading t the ah ai e t a partcf eh a t it, however, t h t t o ho w o st e eh v e e m r i e , 11a :f ur re be et w q o u hf t et e hh cons ah acdh i fu s o t r e ra n h t t w io their th o b takea. ja abolition of ecclesiastical sinecures, the curtail ment of e xcess i ve emoluments, and the application of such a portion of the revenues of cathedral and col legiate churches as was not required t f or t h e purposes of l) those institutio ns , to the condition remedy o f great evils in the A v e s r oc y i f a e l w a nydearsn si spiritual a ee ocnd destitute tp ly declared on p this country, were i t a wavutublie tai instruction." Of this fact, such r t o e p o of t the n o o p f p t o h r tunities of public t h e e o p h l i e g o h f e t this authority, aoan tr y thatere f worships the followin g and were adduced --- proofsa Christian That there were in London and its suburbs four h . " containing an aggregate of 166 ,000 persons, with church roomp"ar for 8,200, being not quite one-twentieth of the population—that there were in the same district 34 parishes with a population of 1,137,000 inhabitants, and church-room for 101,632 persons—that in our own neighbourhood, in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, there were 16 parishes, each having above 10,000 inha bitants, with an aggregate population of 235,000 persons, and church-room for about 29,000. -- "No doubt it was within the competency of Parliament to make provision for the supply of these alarming defi ciencies in the means of religious instruction, by large grants of public money derived from general taxation; but I felt persuaded that it would not be for the advan tage of religion that such a proposal should be made, until after all the resources of the Church, which could properly be rendered available for the purpose, had been applied to it. I felt also persuaded that the appropria tion of those resources, with the willing consent of the Church, to such objects as the augmentation of poor benefices, the establishment of new ecclesiastical dis tricts, and the general improvement of pastoral super intendence in very populous parishes, would not only increase the local efficiency of the Istablishment, but would tend to confirm its hold on the respect and attach ment of the people. It was for such purposes that, with the willing consent of the church, I proposed, in the year 1843, a Bill, which passed into law, for making better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes in England and Wales. Under that law there have been constituted, and agreed to be constituted, 218 ecclesiastical districts and new parishes; and spiritual instruction and pastoral su• perintendence will thus have been provided for a popu lation of above 764,000 souls. I oppose this fact to the charge of indifference or hostility to the welfare of the Church. I certainly did not think it inconsistent with the true interests of the Church, in cases wherein I deemed the claim a just one, to protect the rights, and to consult the feelings and wishes of those who dissent from its doctrines. With these impressions, I gave my support to mea sures for quieting th e t i t l es to Di ssen ting places of wor ship, and for rep ea li ng many pena l s t a t u tes in matt ers o f religion, obsolete so far as their practical operation is concerned, but at va r i ance w i t h t h e mild spirit of modern legislation, and giving gratuitous offence by implying suspicion and distrust, without offering the slightest re medy against any apprehended danger.- With these impressions also, while cordially approving of the proposal of her Majesty's present Government to extend the system of public instruction in this part of the United Kingdom, I expressed an opinion that it ought to be sufficiently comprehensive to hciade the children of Roman Catholic parents. During the period to which £ am-Satereidg, the state of Ireland (that fruitful source of constantly recurring and painful discussion), was repeatedly forced upon the consi deration of Parliament. I shall, in this address, advert only to the topics in connexion with Irish affairs which have excited the chief interest in this part of the em pire, and in respect to which opinions and pledges are r r e t a fa n c t e s u t h b j e e o c b t observationsa t l i ot a f v r e o m t o t h m e a w k e r i o t i n n g this mostimportant sub j ec t byaquota j 0 from t he writings of now demanded by m an y const i tuencies from those who m ar ol e st c wi a mi n llp d po idates for their favour. that eminent man whom posterity will regard as the most eloquent of the orators and the most profound of the philosophic statesmen of modern times. It is now fifty years since Mr. Burke, in a letter ad dressed to his son, placed upon record the following opinions:— " Being myself," he says, " no more than a common layman common l y i n f orme d i n controversies, leading only a very commo n life, and having only a com mon citizen's interest in the Church or in the State, yet to you I will say, in justice to my own sentiments, that not one of those zealots for a Protestant interest wishes more sincerely than I do, perhaps not half so sincerely, for the support of the Established Church in both these kingdoms. It is a great link towards holding fast the connexion of religion with the State, and for keeping these two islands, in their present critical independence of constitution, in a close connexion of opinion and affection. I wish it well, as the religion of the greater number of the primary land proprietors of the kingdom, with whom all establishments of Church and State, for strong political reasons, ought in my opinion to be firmly connected. I wish it well, because it is more closely combined than any other of the Church systems, with the Crown, which is the stay of the mixed con stitution, because it is, as things now stand, the sole connecting political principle between the constitu tions of the two independent kingdoms. I have another and infinitely a stronger reason for wishing it well; it is, that in the present time I consider it as one of the main pillars of the Christian religion itself. The body and substance of every religion I regard much more than any of the forms and dogmas of the particular sects. Its fall would leave a great void, which nothing else, of which I can form any distinct idea, might fill. I respect the Catholic hierarchy, and the Presbyterian republic. But I know that the hope or the fear of establishing either of them is, in these kingdoms, equally chimerical, even if I preferred one or the other of them to the Esta blishment, whichi certainly do not. "These are some of my reasons for wishing the sup port of the Church of Ireland, as by law established. These reasons are founded as well on the absolute as on the relative situation of that kingdom." To the reasons thus adduced by Mr. Burke for the support of the Church in Ireland, must be now added the weight and authority of that compact, guaranteeing its maintenance, to which, at the time of the Legislative Union, the Parliaments of the two kingdoms were con senting parties. In a subsequent part of the same letter Mr. Burke proceeds to observe : " Ireland has an established Government, and a reli gion legally established, which are to be preserved. It has a people who are to be preserved toli. - and to'be led by reason, principle, sentiment, and interest to acquiesce in that Government. Ireland is a country under peculiar circumstances. The people of Ireland are a very mixed people, and the quantities of the several ingredients in the mixture are very much disproportioned to each other. Are we to govern this mixed body as if it were composed of the most simple elements, comprehending the whole in one system of benevolent legislation ; or are we not rather to provide for the several parts according to the various and diversified necessities of the heterogeneous nature of the mass? Would not common reason and common honesty dictate to us the policy of regulating the people in the several descriptions, of which they are composed, according to the natural ranks and classes of an orderly civil society, under a common protecting So vereign, and under a form of constitution favourable at once to authority and to freedom, such as the British Constitution boasts to be, and such as it is, to those who no wenjoy it? " Yo'u have an ecclesiastical establishment, which, though the religion of the Prince, and of most of the first class of landed proprietors is not the religion of the major part of th e inhabitants, and which, consequpt l l, does not answer t o th tni any one purpose of a religious establishment. Thi s i s a state of things which no man in his senses can call perfectly happy ; but it is the state of Ireland." was with reference to that state of Ireland, and with reference to such considerations as those to which Mr. Burke has adverted, that th e G overnmen t with which I was connected brought forward measures which consti tute no precedent f or any other part of the United King dom, but are specially applicable to the peculiar con dition and structure of society in Ireland. Some of those measures encountered vehement opposi tion; the more formidab le, o li t i ca l con siderations, than because it was offered muc h less from party p or pur e l y from sincere conscienti ous scruples. But, G en tlemen, I am bound to avow, that I look back with cordial satis faction to the part which I took in support of those mea sures, and to the spirit in which they were conceived. It was a spirit of justice and kindness towards our Roman Catholic fellow-subject s in Ireland—a spirit which will, I trust, animate our future legislation with referenco to that country. It is strongly recommended to us by many powerful considerations, by painful recollection of our relations with Ireland in earlier periods of our history— by sympathy with her present sufferings—by the urgent necesssty, not more for her welfare than our own, to improve the condition, moral and physical, of her people. I will not be deterred, by the risk of provoking new, or reviving dormant hoitility, from recalling to your re collection the general character and object of the mea sures to which I have adverted. In the first place, we altered the law in respect to Cha ritable Donations and Bequests in Ireland. We enabled the Crown to appoint Commissioners for the better management of such donations and bequests, of whom one-half in number must necessarily be persons profes sing , questions relatin to buests which con: the Roman Cath o li c f a ith. For the exclusive con sideration of th e R oman C a tholic Commissioners were corned the all usages cr disciplineg of the eq Church of Rome. We gave full power to all persons and bodies corporate, by deed or by will, to give estates or property of any description, in trust, for the b uildin g or u p holdi ng of Roman Catholic places of worship, or for the mainte nance of any person in holy orders of the Church of Rome having pastoral superintendence of a con gregation. We enabled her Majesty to endow new colleges for the advancement of learning in Ireland. We gave every facility to the students in those colleges for re ceiving religious instruction accor din g to the creed whi ch they might profess, and for attend ance on divine w orship at the church or chapel which should be a pp rove d by their parents and guardians. We at the same time pro v id e d that there should be no obligation to attend any theo of Mayn oo th. That logical lecture or religious instruction, exc epting with the approbation of parent s and g uardi a ns ; an d we pro hibited the administration o f an y reli g ious tes t as a qua lification for the admission o f students, or for the tenure of an office, or the enjoym ent of an y privile g e or advan tage in connexion with the new colle g es. We gincreasedoriginallythe grant mfoardethein the Coll reignege of G eorge 111., and by the advice of M r. Pith at a period o f great national peril, " when, to guard this empire and Ire land in particular, from the enterprises of a d angerous and malignant power, and to protect all civilised society from the inroads of anarchy, the King found it neces sary to avail himself of every rational aid, .foreign and domestic, and to call upon the skill, courage, and exp_ rience of all his subjects, wheresoever dispersed." It was at such a crisis, and under such circumstances. that an Irish Parliament, exclusively Protestant in its character, established the College of Maynooth, and re ceived from the Throne congratu l a tions " on having laid i a wise foundation for educating at home the Roman Ca. tholic clergy." Fifty years bad elapsed in 1845 since those congra tulations were offered. For fifty y e ar s a grant of gb pu lic money b a d b een ann ually continued for the avowed pur pose of aiding the education of Roman Catholic youth Roman Catholic doctrines, and fitting them for holy in or ders in the Church of Rome. We considered that . t ere was, at any rate, no new violation of religio ns • a in making that grant less inadequate to the Princi p le Purpose for X IX s. d. 100014 3 4 s d. 1112 8 5 99 810 )1 86 9 3 1 1 6 G 8 4 61 17 6 49 10 0 .£ s. d. 18 4 6 15 13 5 13 4 9 9 19 1 9 9 2 7 10 4 £ S. d. 494 8 10 ,445 0 0 1395 1 1 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 PRICE SD. Bonus in Cash. 1 Perma nent Re duction of Annual Premiums. Sum tla Assured may bor row on Policy. JULY 17, 1847. which it was destined, and in giving to it avowedly that character of permanency which it had acquired practi cally by the prescription of half a century. We thought this a wiser and more dignified course for the House of Commons to pursue than to exhibit annually the surly acquiescence in a niggardly vote,which was equally open to any just objection on the ground of violated principle, and which effected no good and excited no gratitude. In the course of the discussions which took place on the Maynooth Bill two questions were put to me—the first, whether the increased grant to Maynooth was part of a systematic arrangement which contemplated ultimately the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ire land ; the second, whether I would give a pledge, on the ground of conscientious objection, against the en tertainment, at any future time, of a proposal for such endowment. To the first question I returned an answer on the part of the Government collectively. I stated explicitly, that the increased grant to Maynooth was proposed as a single and separate measure, not intended to facilitate, in the slightest degree, the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. I knew, indeed, that many members of the Government, not adverse to the grant to May nooth, would offer the most decided opposition to any proposal for endowment. In answering the second question I spoke then, as I am speaking now, for myself.exclusively. I said, in sub stance, that I would not give the pledge required from me; that I foresaw, indeed, very great practical difficul ties in the way of endowment—great difficulties, as well from the declared objections to such a measure on the part of the Roman Catholic laity and Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, as from the strong repugnance to it in the public mind of this country; that I had no plea for solving those difficulties; but that I would not fetter my discretion as a legislator by a positive pledge to refuse even the consideration of any such plan, at all times, and under all circumstances. The occasions are very rare on which it is consistent with the proper discharge of Parliamentary functions to enter into specific engagements of this nature. They might, perhaps, in this case, be entered into justifiably by those who, after extended inquiry and mature deliberation, have come to the conclusion that by allowing a decent stipend to a Roman Catholic priest, instead of leaving him dependent for the means of sub sistence on an impoverished flock, of which he is the spiritual, and, in truth, also the temporal guide, we should be confirming an influence already too great, and obstructing the diffusion of a purer faith—still more justifiably by those whose conscientious conviction it is, that by such an act we are sanctioning and adopting error, and sinfully offending Almighty God, by consent ing to the endowment of men who deny and reject Divine truth. But I cannot give my consent to either of these con clusions. I feel with regard to the first that nothing can be less successful in weakening the influence of the Roman Ca tholic religion in Ireland than the course we have hither to taken—that we have made no advance towards that object, either by penal laws or civil disabilities, or by a system of complete alienation from the ministers of that religion. With regard to the second, I cannot admit that the payment, with the sanction of Parliament, of a given sum to the minister of a religious creed not being that of the State, is tantamount to the adoption or sanction, by the State of the doctrines which that mi nister may teach, and is subversive of the prin ciple of an established church. If it be so, we ought so to rescind many acts of the Crown and of Parliament, which are open substantially to the same objection. Year after year (frequently without one dissenting voice), we have voted the sum required for support of the Presbyterian ministers in Ireland, there being included among the number many pro fessing and teaching Unitarian doctrines. We have provided by Act of Parliament fixed allow ances, paid from a public fund, to Roman Ca tholics chaplains in attendance on prisons and on workhouses. In order to facilitate the submission, and to retain quiet possession of important colonies, we have not hesitated to guarantee, not only the endowment of Roman Catholic priests, but the continued establishment of the Roman Catholic religion. If, on the ground of conscientious scruples, we are bound to refuse even the consideration of any proposal for allotting a stipend to the Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, if, by entertaining such a proposal, we imply the sanction of Roman Catholic errors, and justly incur Divine punishment for our apostacy, is it safe to maintain our connexion with Canada and Malta, and continue parties, not merely to the payment of Roman Catholic priests, but to the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion, in dependencies of the British Crown? Consi derations, political or constitutional, may, no doubt, for bid that to be done in Ireland which is permissible in Canada; but can that which is prohibited in one part of the Queen's dominions on purely conscientious and re ligious grounds, be consistently tolerated and encouraged in another? I, for one, cannot undertake, on these grounds, to fat fer my discretion for all time to come on the subject to which I have been referring. I have thus addressed yon, certainly without any in tentional reserve, on the domestic questions which, from their connexion with religion, are of pre-eminent im portance. I approach those (the next in point of interest) which have reference to our commercial and financial policy. When the late Government succeeded to power, there had been for each of some years preceding a deficiency. in the amount of revenue, as compared with the expendi ture. The amount of that deficiency in the year 1841 was not less than 2,100,0001. An attempt had been I made in the year 1840 to supply the deficiency by an addition of ten per cent. to the assessed taxes, and of five per cent. to the revenues of Customs and Excise. The increase thus made to the scale of the assessed taxes answered the expectation with which it was imposed. But the far greater part of the amount expected to be raised was to have been supplied by the addition made to the duties of Customs and Excise —that is to say, by increased taxation upon articles of general consumption, and upon the raw materials of domestic manufacture. The estimated produce of these additional duties was 1,910,0001. They actually realised, on the most favour able supposition, not more than 750,000/., falling short therefore of the estimate by no less a sum than 1,160,0001. Under these circumstances, it became my duty, as the chief Minister of Finance, to advise the adoption of effectual measures for supplying the deficit between the public revenue and the charge upon it. As the organ of the Government, I proposed a tax upon all incomes above a certain amount. I accompa nied the proposal of that tax with a partial reformation of the commercial code, reducing many duties onerous to the trade and commercial enterprise of the country. The principal of reformation adopted in 1842 compre hended the abolition of prohibitions, and the abatement of duties of a prohibitory character; the reduction of duties on raw materials to an amount not exceeding five per cent. ad valorem, and on articles partially manufac tured, and completely manufactured, to an amount not exceeding twelve and twenty per cent. respectively. The total amount of reductions of duty was, in the year 1842 1843 1844 £1,092,690 411,821 458,810 £1,963,321 Notwithstanding th ese reductions, the ordinary re venue of the United Kingdom, that is, the revenue de rived from the Customs, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Post-office, amounted in the year 1841 to £47,917,000 1844 to ... 48,125,000 In taking the revenue of the latter year, I have, of course, excluded alto ge th er t h e rece i pts from the Pro perty-tax,, and also the receipts from casual sources of revenue, such as the payment of China money in re imbursement of the expenses of the war. The period of three years, for which the Income-tax was originally passed, expired on the sth of April, 1845. Encouraged by the experience of the past, the Govern ment proposed to Parliament the renewal of the Income tax for a further period of three years, and the ex tended application of those principles of commercial re form which bad been previously acted upon. The duties on raw materials used in manufactures, on dye stuffs, on oils, as well as on various articles pro ducing little or no revenue, were altogether repealed. The manufacture of glass was relieved from the duties of Excise, and from the supervision and interference of Excise officers. The amount of the duties remitted in 1845 was not less than 4,511,0001. In 1846 duties were again remitted to the extent of 1,151,000/. The total amount of taxation remitted between the commencement of the session of 1842, and the resigna tion of the late Government in 1846, was 7,625,0001. The ordinary revenue of 1841 was 47,917,000/. That of 1846 (again deducting the receipts from Pro perty-tax and casual revenue) was 47,554,0001. A portion, however, of the receipts of this latter year, amounting to 416,0001. must be attributed to the in creased revenue from sugar, in consequence of the re duction, by the present Government, of the duties upon foreign sugar. After making duo allowance for this increase, it will be seen that the reduction of taxation effected by the late Government, to the amount of 7,625,0001., were accompanied by a diminution of re venue to the extent only of 779,0001. The result of these two experiments has therefore been that, in the years 1842, 1843, and 1844, the whole amount lost to the revenue by reduced taxation was more than replaced. In the two years, 1845 and 1846, nine tenths of a far larger reduction had already been re placed. But the case does not rest here. Notwithstand ing the disastrous circumstances of the late harvest, and the depression of trade, the revenue of 1847 again ex hibits a considerable increase on that of the preceding year. The last published balance-sheet of the United Kingdom is that for the year ending the sth or April, 1847. If we compare the ordinary revenue of that year (after deducting the Property-tax) with the ordi nary revenue of the year ending sth of April, 18 41, We find Year ending sth of April, 1841 £47,218,178 1847 Difference in favour of 1847 .... `943419 This difference in favour of the latter year far ex - - needs any increased receipt from the admission of foreign sugar. A statement published on the 6th instant carries the accounts for Great Britain down to the present time, viz., to sth July, 1847, those for Ireland being not yet com plete. It exhibits for this portion of the empire a total increase of ordinary revenue, as compared with the year ending sth July, 1846, of no less than 2,615,8711., of which (notwithstanding the remission of the duties on corn), 1,812,773/. comes under the head of Customs and Excise, or, in other words, arises from increased con sumption. The whole effect, therefore, of the measures of the late Government had been to remove more than seven millions and a half of taxes; while the ordinary revenue of the last financial year, for which they were called upon to provide, has considerably exceeded the ordinary re venue (derived from the same sources) of the financial year that immediately preceded their accession to office. In the foregoing observations I have made no reference to the reduction of duty on wheat and on those other I kinds of grain which were i nc l u d e d i n the Corn Bill of last year. The amount of seven and a half millions of taxation, to the reduction of which I have just referred, does not include any advantages which may be derived to the consumers from the reduction in 1842, and pro spective repeal in 1846 of these duties. I have already mentioned to you the general objects contemplated by the reformation of the tariff—the abo lition of prohibition—the reduction of prohibitory duties —the repeal of duties on the raw materials of manufac ture; but I am desirous of calling your attention specially to the removal and relaxation of duties levied on the import of articles from abroad, which enter largely into the consumption of the people as articles of subsistence. You are all well aware that it was upon this point that the greatest difference of opinion prevailed, and that the proposal of the Government to repeal, at an early period, the duties upon foreign grain, was the main cause of its dissolution. I wish to place before you, in the clearest and most in telligible form, the extent of the several measures pro posed by the late Government, for the abatement and the repeal of the duties to which I have above referred. The first column of the following table specifies the amount of duty on the several articles payable on the Ist of January, 1842 ; the second column the amount of duty on the Ist of August, 1846: RATE OF DUTY CHARGEABLE. Ist Jan., Ist Au 1842. 1846. Animals living, viz., oxen. cows, sheep, &c Prohibited ... Free, Meat, salt and fresh £ s. d. X s. d Bacon, per cwt 1 9 4 ... Free. Butter, per cwt Cheese, per cwt 0 11 0 ... 0 5 0 Cocoa, foreign, per lb 0 0 6 ... 0 0 2 Coffee, foreign, per lb 0 I 3 ... 0 0 6 Currants, foreign, per cwt 1 3 2 ... 0 15 0 Hams, per cwt 1 9 4 ... 0 7 0 Lard, per cwt 0 8 0 ... Free. Rice, per cwt 0 15 0 ... 0 1 0 Spirits, per gallon 1 2 10 ... 0 15 0 Sugar, per cwt. (British Colo nial) With respect to the corn-laws, there were in force on the Ist of January, 1842, rates of duty on the importa tion of foreign corn, varying according to the average price in the home market. When wheat was 625. a quarter the duty was 245. Bd. If 68s. a quarter „ 165. Bd. 735. a quarter „ ls. Od. Corresponding duties were levied on the same prin ciple on the import of other descriptions of grain. On barley, for instance, and on Indian corn, when the price of barley was under 345. the quarter, the duty on the import of a quarter of barley, and also of a quarter of Indian corn, was 12s. 4d.; when above 41s. the duty was reduced to ls. These several duties were reduced in the session of 1842. In that of 1846 provision was made for their total repeal on the Ist of February, 1849. Of the various proposals made by the late Govern ment for the reduction of duties on articles of subsistence and general consumption, that which contemplated the ultimate repeal of the duties on foreign grain encoun tered the moat decided opposition. Let me recal to your recollection the circumstances under which the proposal was made. In the months of September and October, 1845, there were indications in many parts of the United Kingdom of that mysterious disorder which has effected to so serious an extent the potato crop. There was great alarm, in Ireland especially, as to the consequences. From various authorities in that country entitled to great respect representations were :received calculated to make a deep impression on the minds of those who, as servants of the Crown, were responsible for the adop tion of every reasonable precaution against a threatened scarcity of food. To some of the representations I will briefly refer. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, writing on the 20th of October, stated—" Tee accounts of the potato crop continue to be of the most discouraging nature. Pota toes dug up to all appearance perfectly sound, after a short time begin to decay, and very soon rot altogether. Under such circumstances it is impossible to form any decisive opinion as to the amount of the calamity." On the 24th of October the Lord-Lieutenant wrote— " We constantly receive satisfactory reports of the state of potatoes when dug, and learn a few days after wards that they have all rotted in the pits. We do not know, and cannot know, the extent of the evil." The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Association (an association formed of the chief landed proprietors in Ireland), writing about the same time, observed— " When I issued a circular about a month since to the secretaries of 120 local societies in connexion with the central one, I got several answers from persons stating that the disease was not apparent in their immediate neighbourhood ; but I have since received letters from most of them stating that, upon digging the crop, they found the disease in almost every quarter ; and I may safely say that at present there is not a county in Ireland that is not more or less affected by it. I shall barely add that the greatest panic appears to exist in all parts of the country." At a public meeting, held in Dublin, on the 31st of October, 1845, at which the Duke of Leinster presided, it was resolved, " That it has been ascertained beyond a doubt that famine, and consequently pestilence, are im mediately imminent, unless the Government, without hesitation or delay, take the most prompt measures to provide for this people." It was resolved also, " That we respectfully call upon the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire• land to order the ports of Ireland to be opened for the importation of Indian corn, rice, and other articles suited for human food." We thought it possible that reports even from such authorities, sent from the spot at a period of great ex citement, might be unduly influenced by the prevailing alarm. We dispatched, therefore, to Ireland, in the month of Octeher, two men (of the highest eminence in the departments of science to which they belong), hav ing no local connexion with Ireland—Professor Lindley and Dr. Lyon Playfair. We sent them to Ireland for the double purpose of suggesting, if possible, some remedy against the threaten ed evil, and of conveying to us their impressions as to its real extent. Their report was more unfavourable than any other. They stated "that they had consulted persons acquainted with the facts of the disease ; that they had visited the district lying between Dublin and Drogheda, and in spected various potato fields and stores in the counties of Dublin, Louth, Meath, Westmeath, and a part of Kildare ; and that judging from the evidence thus col lected, and from what they had seen of the progress of the disease in England, they could come to no other conclusion than that one-half of the potato crop of Ire land was either destroyed or in a state unfit for the food of man." It was no doubt possible that all these parties might be, in some degree, mistaken —that events might subse quently prove that they had magnified the extent of the evil, but place yourselves in the position of those who were responsible for the public safety, who received such reports at the commencement of winter, without a hope of additional supply from internal sources for the 10n,., period of ni ne months, and you will not be disposed to m for pronounce a h arsh j udgment on their motiv es advising th at i ncreased facilities should be given for the importation of food from other countries. You will bear in mind that the visitation uf w th as e a L v o e r r d y . peculiar one. "Th a t," t o use t h e wo u rd d s extent Lieutenant , of " the e w v e i l; d " i d a u n d o that tkn o i w t a to these islands ; th a t ma ny other in some ce , w:s n d u ke ne l tvriiie n su o u t int k c ni nu w arou t pe h de e were suffering from it ; and restrictions on the import of that in suspended. hadbe o e f n th a e l m rea t d h y e h o o t resistance superfluous, t h o a iv its s probably wou i i m I i t a e m d b t o o u n u d s t u o s p a e d u rn s i i u t that li () f islfdi similar the inlso advice r t restrictions have been had bveeenai been u vtehriys country, there were n id y d % n' serious difference o f o o n a d M e a c b d we o oi u un bgl would e tda probablykwhether haveth the u p ff r e e The point on which there was, and still is, the greatest conflict of opinion, was the proposal t o reconsider the ulti whol mate e question of the corn-l aws, with a view to their When I proposed to the Cabinet on the Ist November, 1846, the temporary suspension of all duties on foreign corn, it became necessary for me at that time to decide whether I could undertake to support, after the period of suspension should have expired, the restoration of the pre-existing law. Such an undertaking imied, ot course, resistanc e w i t h the whole weight and au pl thority of the Government to any proposal that might be made in Parliament, by others, for the modification of that law in its principle or in its leading enactments. I found it impossible, consistently with my sense of public duty , to give an assurance to that effect. In justifying my decision in this respect, I have no desire to take any undue advantage of events which have since occurred. That terrible scourge which has . s i m r ce afflicted Ireland, which has demanded an extraordinary advance advance of ten millions of money, for the purpose imust averting from that country the horrors of fami taken in not, be,igp,aded as a vindication of the course January. 1846. -, tot,. But, G ent l emen, noprudettg tritititQr deciding on that exclude from his con course at th a t ti me , cou ld sa f e ly siderati on t h e pro b a bi l i ty t h at had affected the potato crop 0- r 1845 . theexscamtimieehdtisaoffredoetrtwhabticohf 1846. The experieudeOf other countries th• blight had apeated, tended to show that it was not limited to a single season, and as an early proof that apprehensions on that head were not without founda tion, I will quote from a letter receive d from Professor Lindley on the 18th February, 1846, the following ex tract:— feel it my d uty to apprise yeu tngbf in regard a aets, t ao d n iseased s sible moment, o f t h e following alarm; the earliest pea set been ascer ttaointhede pboeytaotnodcraolpl doofurbirt.retbsaes s duce a diseased crop. E v id ence in conformation 11 f pr?. was produced yesterday b e f ore the Horticultural this so ciety, in the presence of Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Philip Egerton, Lord Grey, and others ; and for your own in formation I enclose you some proofs of it in the shape of the haulm of the new potato plants grown at Bicton, in Devonshire. Th e y were per f ect l y healthy in aPpear ance in January, and now they are advanced beyond the first stage of decay. " I would have communicated this information to you yesterday, if I had not wished for leisure to re-examine and re-consider the evidence in my possession, so that all possibility of error or misconception might be guarded against. I have now spent some hours in re. examining the evidence, and not a doubt remains in my mind that next year's crop is in jeopardy." Such was the opinion of Professor Lindley, tending to confirm the apprehension, that from the same cause, a second suspension of the corn-laws might becomi necessary. It appeared to me that, considering the nature of that l ave — considering that it was passed with a view of in. Suring, through its own unassisted operation, an ade swioonul(cishboeualdpitoet:oeorufiri)l, quate supply of foreign corn in case of necessity—a single suspension of it on the first occasion of severe trial awrgouulmdeandtdaggarienasttlyittos the e rm w s e n tg en h t t o u t t h t e h r a a t u a d eg ua u: steen continuance, and that the necessity for renewed suspen sion of this consideration,there important reasons which influenced my But, . were decision. confidence in th e va li d i ty of the reasons on which I had myself heretofore relied, for the maintena nce of restrictions on the import o f corn, had beenmaterially weakened. It had been we a k ene d b y the conflict of ar gument on the principle of a restrictive policy —by many concurring proofs that the wages of labour do not vary with the price of corn—by the contrast presented in two successive periods of dearth and abundance, in the health, morals; tranquillity, and general prosperity of the whole community—by serious doubts whether, in the present condition of this country, cheapness and plenty are not insured for the future in a higher degree by the free intercourse in corn, than by restriction on its importe r Lion - for the purpose of giving protection to domestic agriculture. It had been weakened also by the following considera tions, which were in a great degree new elements in forming a judgment upon this vital matter:-- The general repeal of prohibitory duties, and the re cent application of the principles of free trade to almost all articles of import from abroad, made the corn-laws the object of more searching scrutiny and more invidious comment, and narrowed the ground on which their de fence could be maintained. Among the articles of foreign,import prohibited up to the year 1842, and then admitted at low rates of duty, were some important articles of agricultural produce, salted and fresh meat, oxen, sheep, cows, &c. You pro bably recollect the panic which this admission caused— the forced sale of stock, the prophecies that it would be impossible to compete with the foreign grazier, and that meat would be reduced to 3d per pound. Five years have passed since this great change in the law took place, and your own experience will enable you to judge who ther the panic was well founded, and whether the pro phecies have been fulfilled. The complete failure of those prophecies had naturally had its effect on public opinion, with regard to the pro bable consequences of a freer intercourse in other articles of agricultural produce. There vvas another circumstance still more calculated to diminish apprehensions as to the risk of opening the corn market of this country to foreign competition. There has appeared of late years a tendency to increase in the consumption of articles of subsistence much more rapid than the increase in the population. Lis difficult, if not impossible, on account of the absence o f statistical information, to measure accurately that in crease in the case of articles of the first necessity, such as corn and meat. But it may be inferred from the rela tive consumption, at different periods, of articles in re spect to which the comparison can be instituted. The following is an account of some of the principal articles entered for home consumption in the years 1841 and 1846 respectively:— Cocoa, lbs Coffee, lbs Currants, cwts Rice, cwts Pepper, lbs Sugar, cwts Molasses, cwts Tea, lbs 36,681,877 ... 46,728,208 Tobacco and snuff; lbs 22,308,383 ... 27,001,908 Brandy, gallons 1,165,137 ... 1,515,954 Geneva, ditto British spirits, ditto 20,642,333 ... 23,122,581 Malt charged with duty, bushels Surely it is impossible to refer to this comparative table without being forcibly struck by the rapid increase in the consumption of the articles which it embraces. Can there be a doubt that if the consumption of articles of secondary necessity has been thus advancing, the consumption of articles of first necessity, of meat and of bread for instance, has been making at least an equally rapid progress ? During the greater part of the period included in the return, from the middle of 1842 to the end of 1846, the free-trade measures have been in operation. They have been in operation therefore, concurrently at least, with these evidences of the increasing ease and comfort of the people. Other causes have no doubt contributed to that ease and comfort; but even if the whole effect be assigned to those other causes—to railway enterprise, or anything else—it does not affect my present argument. If there be from any cause a tendency to the consumption of articles of the first necessity much more rapid than the increase of population, the responsibility of undertaking to regulate the supply of food by legislative restraints, and the difficulty of maintaining those restraints in the event of any sudden check to prosperity, or increased price of subsistence, will be greatly augmented, while, on the other hand, the danger to be apprehended from foreign competition is materially lessened. It was from the combined influence of these various considerations—from diminished confidence in the neces sity or advantage of protection—from the increasing difficulty of resisting the application to articles of food to so many o th er ar ti c l es —f rom t h e resu l t o f t h e experi of those principles whi c h h a d b een gra d ua lly a ppli e d ment made with regard to cattle and meat in 1842 from the evidences of rapidly increasing consumption— from the aggravation of every other difficulty, in the maintenance of the corn-lams, by the fact of their sus pension on the first real pressure— it was from the com bimd influence of such considerations, that I came to the conclusion that the attempt to maintain those laws inviolate after their suspension would be impolitic, that the struggle fur their maintenance would assume a now character, and that no advantage to be gained by success could eouqterbalance the consequences of failure, or even the evils attending protracted conflict. `z- My opinions in respect may have been erroneous, but they were not formed with o ut ma t ure an d pa i nful deliberation, and I am wholly unconsc i ous o f any single motive of self-interest, personal or political, which was not calculated to bias my judgment in favour of an opposite conclusion. If, from the confidence which the agricultural interest had reposed in the Government, and the support they had freely given to it, that interest had a special claim upon me, I should have ill-satisfied that claim by giving advice at a very critical period, which might certainly have been more acceptable—which might have protected myself from the imputation of being in consistent and unfaithful—but which in my heart and conscience I believed to be, as applicable to that time and those circumstances, unsound and dangerous. no Between the maintenance of the corn-laws and a measure involving their ultimate repe s a to any. in middle course satisfactory or advantage e o r u advantage in terest; I saw still less of satisfaction Icould not admit the indecision and irrational delay, Parliament to deal with ; incompetency of the present question Ii saw no of public concern. this as with every other deliberate convicti on, I felt There appeared to me, thewhole, whole, much less of o ther that could b e t h en. of the corn laws than in any my adopted, and that being incur the painful sacrific es w hi ch the must e inevitably f public evil in the resolution finally to adjust the questi on it to be my duty to entail, u e : , t i o n that has since occurred (I speak o f There is no event which does not confi rm me in the belief that, events e e ven with special referenc e t o t h e agricultural interest, acting ü b p a o r n in t g ha d t i c r o ec n t v ly icti u o p n o m n the course taken was p re f erable to any other. So much, Gentl emen, w i th regard to the past. In at issue.) re spect to the future, it is my intention, if re elected, to conform on all matters connected with our financial and commercial concerns to the general principles on which I have acted while in power. Acting with the caution and circumspection which tend to make reformation permanent, by making it safe, and which are indispensably requisite in all cases wherein the public credit, or wherein extensive and com plicated interests are concerned, I shall feel disposed to support such measures as are calculated to remove any 4eetnaining restrictions on commerce—to abate duties that are levied tor the purpose of protection, or that, 1, ? their amount, defeat the purposes of revenue— h to ttee appor tion equitably the burden of taxation— andto better condition of those who labour for their subsistence. with, Such measures are not only compatibl e perfectly at bjects of con but are mainly conducive to, thoe great ? the commence ment policy which it has been, 11 be to its close, nay ment of my public life, as it w unvarying purpose to uphold that the course sanctioned by It is my firm withpersuasionn reference to our financial the present Parliament, has tended to fortify the esta blished commercial policy, flais country, to inspire confidence blished institutions o benevolence of the Legislature, to in the equity and authority of an hereditary •'• nobility, maintain the just . _ discourage the desire for democratic change in the and to constitution of the House of Com mons. It has aided the Governme n t i n conducting the admi nistration of internal affairs, and in maintaining the public tranquillity, even during 'a period of sunering from depression in trade and a high price (f food, much more through the mild influence of general contentment, than through the appliance of force, or the harsh coer cion of the civil power. And if the sad times of a yet severer trial should return, that trial will not be borae with the less fortitude and patience, when the privations that accompany it can be ascribed solely to causes over which the Legislature has no control. 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