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kNNUA FF3►iAl and SON, Bold-strt The ;ERAR FF and E PRIETORS w NOTICE IS GENERAL the C Twel' room attache from He Y BALI opened at Half-p, Pict of I vs and Mr Februar allowa: GrimsJ at One o'clock in the Atte Direct W. WILSON, Ma shortest notice snt to the See Di t Twelve Solicitor ier affairs ntiers t " Man's -street Mr. ktnong LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the PRO- CLARENDON Rooms, I LIVERPOOL GAS LIGHT COMPANY. -lEREBY GIVEN, that the ANNUAL 'TEETING 'of the PROPRIETORS of AS LIGHT COMPANY, will be 64, 5 n at the COMPANY'S ST. MARYLEBONE JOINT STOCK BANK. • t HALF be PRO- Noon pr Dated BOROUGH O THOMAS CARSON, Secretar THE COMMITTEE of INVESTIGATION inform their Co-Proprietors, that they have ascertained from LABS • n9rtlP nnmerOUS 841, by a Check of Mr r Bank. J. B EBB, 12, Ar R. RAILWAY BRISTOL AND EXEI NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of PRIETORS of this COMPANY will be hi - - of the Act of Parliament, at the WHITE I 'our Di and for FREDERICK RICKETTS, Chai Directors may be re-elected. The Ret e holders to The Transfer Books w of Feb- e Close cl on MONDAY lot Reopened until after Meeting on the 2d of March. . By orde of the Board of Directors, J. B. BADHAII, S street, Bristol, Offiee, 30, Broa 10th Feb., 1843 ye been From the Second Edition of Grimatone's Weather Almanac SIGHT RESTORED ! NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE & DEAFNESS CURED UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF lair late Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, And authorised by Her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury. Mat. vi. 22.—The light of the body is the eye.—Luke ii. 34. 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Sir, lam now in my ninety-third year, and a native of Holland. b years ; whether from change of This ex traordina: en in this countr I cannot sic therefore unable to believe I should ha or my advanced age . but for six years I have been deprived sight I do sincere!,mos 3, Marylebc e without st es became sul Ge :dient hu mII E. RossoN ear and free frequently I glasses, and 110 W Wilt remained in darkness and pain, bt the kind recommendation of a friend use your invention. Agent, Mr. Wilcock. to be facts, and will I purchased a 2s. 4d. caniste son, Tobacco year witness to m extraordinary reco , ry of that most esti iffht"—l declare has .ssing of ou site. For the sake of lose suffering you may make wn aL use you please of this ;tter ; Mr. Wilcockson and many others will vouch for:its tlennan, being your ruth: I refer the sufferers to thisg 11 known in Nottingham. I am, sir, your oblig es servant..WASSENIA August 28th, 1841. A . ZENIA 1 Agent, and so 're:sr ton Gravel Pits. ~, Abstract of a Letter from Mrs. L. S. Brewer 3, Edge-terrace, Kettinag To Mr. Grim:stone, love] Eve Sn sth Decerr seven Yea, )een a sufft being so swoll medical gentle' Dr. Alexander case was seed, I do belies, )leeding all kinds of lotions, f I had tried , nrchaseil a 1 and was greatly relie t, and make Snuff curet: at it wa answer a your I To Wm. Grimsto my son, who was suf Deafn e had used ha abled him to follow his profess :er, Surgeon, 2, Cross- To W. Grimst SIR,—I have with tr n afflict led with yes, for which I ugh I am in A any respectabl Sir, 1 s Edgeware-rc could not do jus' tantaneous. My E Bs., 4s. 4 Eve S mister, opeuv' - a before I re, sth if _r Broad-. 10th D I lan; no, amour, and b: _ ad small print to enjoy God's greatest blessing—Sight I free from i to be grateful, and do recommend your A. Z. M., Nottingham. bled to thout the aid of all I know The following is one of Don G. Lobe's letters : Havannah, 14th August, 1841 fence and supply of E Snuff on the 15th 13th October last year ; howeve of asking •-•• ucus.mul astone's Eye Snuff, I take to forward by first ship 1500 more as last Messrs and Co., Crutched nt received le Zugasti, f Span tORD'S DAY SOCIETY NIEETING d°: 00 Priem ety w ill J. WILSON, EI kyLEE, 8.A., C r to be he Hon ELAND SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR 11l MO-MORROW (Wednesday) EVENING, the the ANNUAL CHRIST CHURCH, MARKS, D.D., Dea Dublin, and a SERMON s Vicar of Si. Pat The ANNUAL ME ETINC ILIARY ASSOCIATION w ScOOOL Room, Christian-stn hen the Rev. Dr. MARKS men will attend, a ' th the progre Chair to r be - taken% at Hal FIELDING OULD. Education in IrelanC kRRIVAL OF THE u "ALEDONIA The Royal Mail St from Boston and Halif on Tuesday. " all well," came up tt ,t thirteen days and three hour she encoa run. St 2d instant; reached Halifax a the morning of the 4th ; sailed he , same day, and at half-past N.W. lightship. It will b .t a 4-.. E übjmned, to a ssage, were from the :•N g a little west only on one •s, of whose names a list )rought 58 pas. he Rev. J. T 3) , the Rev. EDWARD LIVERPOOL AUX d, in CHRIST CHURCH d othe n the Rev iver at 11 o'cloc from the latter port c 3ole time, was a fin, lock on the fore 3 - ast 12 at noo .st of th .nd occasionally from th will be four 3 TUESDAY, the )'clock at _ ,r instead of the hand-saw. They have fine work, which, if we had not seen , oth eyes )US Oct beyond all eaton, and shop, took clio do so Shall be happy to rough work, they make use of a small sort of axt rounded on one side. This answers the purpose of In peaceful times, the streets of a Chin city must L. S. BI q• Yovember 6, 1841. s. I inquired of some ported from the root of the hous , ing, or, in order to admit the lig! ,e. - Theseare either of ht, are made of oyster-. Had-ache4...l:Jccuarne s:t and m. HAcKETT !On's Mediterraz gined that the work had beeu them using, we should have ima done with a chisel. The blade of it consists merely of a re jagged with a sharp instrument. he pattern to be carved is traced on the wood, and a hole s bored in it, through which the wire is passed and made fast to the handle, which is kept outside the wood : the drawing 4 my home. I is then cut out with the greatest care and accuracy. For all a very tine appearance, from the way the front sideboards are painted and gilded. The inside of the shops are protected from the sun by screens extending along the streets, sup- Taped tint eat ff y tailors to work for us, who r if they had a good pattern ; but it was necessary Co be careful that there was no defect or patch in it, for they copied exactly as they Fa w the article before them. Our gloves puzzled them of very particular red the purpose of about our personal apf keeping our hand man succeeded in They were almost the only tradespeople who _ d they had always plenty to do.— Lieutenant Murray's Doings in China. lish gloves. did not des the cit gEN OF THE HOLY LAND. — The town of that name bya] occupies o . ne of . the r . riost picturesque sites in Syria, hiffh cliffs. with the snows of Hermon above it at distance. Its population must amount to some ; and I had seen no buildings so respectable since Our ascent lay on the other side, however, of the , wnich became more narrow and precipitous as we ~anted. It was a holiday ; and, as the Queen of England's reputation bad preceded her [Lady Francis,] the inhabitants po ured o assn was the ers gayest sc ene their I had witnessed in gre at numb, and in best dresses, to p Som . e algted f e males went so far as to burn incense seee her forber horse's nose, and others presented her with * * The conflux of strangers to the Frank stran . thousands Nablous. , _..e. Besides the popula 4e, the parties from Hasbya, w ho came up and es tablished themselves for the day to stare at us were numerous, and comp Th erisedrac pro e is ba a bl fine y th one, and whole • from the great richness ger s and variety of the costume of the tt mingled here, was at times op tion of the neighbouring villa e sects which seem much ....__ _ woman, evident! of the former commodi )y the valt One young wellery she Wore, a iy a creature as eyes could behold. Jp from Ilasbya ; but bad met with some .hine Lrdy Francis tent, and, not having person of rank• was as She had walk( the perseve her hard fa t when I heard ofl hdeserved er case, nd procured The Druse her the it; Auction she .cies behaved unfair nest rec seated I sinning stones. o bracelets T pretty knother Dri ditb ented with and other o Englan? —Lord I table rel, a letter f they were or Led at Boston until the 2d, (her da insequence of the non-arr i Mail Steam Boat. We also st took plac The excl . Nlnnov ge was a little f ply owing to ti) s. The corn The cotton marke The sales from A for the season, t the usua ,er on boa S . plentiful in the hands of ca arket at New Yor aughout the country are ing trade commencing ieme — uts of the Vew Yorl New Y was every prospect of eather w earlier than usual Banks showed a larg I this, of cou Heir circ ength and imparted liv s estimated according 31st ultimo T he items of in: steamer ari anal growth in o assume he trial of Comm they took to sup cliarges - preferred by the and opf Bagot was nearly being one-half of the whole tured by the Mexicans, and conflict, howe' Mexicans wer Texans were shot It is stated that _tl mount of specie as compared witl rse, created an impression s to all onied operation oing Ex once brough ave 'ordered a court-martial for ier Mackenzie and others, for the steps the mutiny nn board the United States Wackenzie has been arrested on three Navy Department, viz. murder, scion, and the third is not known. iz new from Canada. All was quiet. Sir 'erect, and would soon leave tl telligence from theirepublic'of Texas is of a d ^"-_l, ~....A „s - rr ...,,gar VII field to Mexico to have be, a killed, while only t obstacles in t of the sailing c the Texian men of war at New Orleans, have been removed and they would be immediately removed to Campeacby. The sales of cotton at New Orleans were on a very lime' -d —Arrived at H 5 p.m. h.—Wind S.E lay was 2, of price sailed for Liverpool stance 210 miles; mode a.m.. modera h a heavy cross sea d a heavy cros: scale, and very irregular, t downward Februai The ave ABSTRACT Lst 7 o'clock, A.M., abreast of the N.\ Lightship. On the 14th instant, in lat British Barque Crusader pool, out 32 days g. 17 25, spoke the from Savannah, bounA to Liver- LIST OF PASSENGES For Halifax : Miss Mary E. Coolidge, Rev. Mr. Breare, Alex. Ballock. John Cox and Son, Mr. Simpson. (6.) From Boston to Liverpool : Major Campbell, Mrs. Campbell, and two servants ; T. Y. Hall, Miss Hall, W. Chapman, Miss Chapman, Mr. Ibbotson, Charles Lutke, Dr. A. Farnworth. Miss Jeunness, R. M. Harrison, A. Borrowman, S. Macauley, Alex. Ewing, J. Connell, Jos. Milnes, Chas. Peddes, Mr. Moffatt, Timoteo Hoalilo, Rev. Wm. Richards, Chas. H. Meade, Mr. Bruncler, Henry Davis, and four sailors. (29.) From Flail= to Liverpool:—Charles Robson, E. Tup per, James Johnson, A. Ritchie, Francis Ferguson, Thos. Kenney, A. G. Fyfe, W. K. Milward, John Robertson ; W. J. Coleman, Captain Jarvis, Captain Clegg, James Purvis, Henry Mignowitz, Robert Morrow, Mr. Stewart, B. W. Salter, H. W. Knowlan, Miss Owen, E. Billing, H. Edey, six soldiers, one woman and one child. (29.) Sir Francis Bond Head is, it is rumoured, to be appointed Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Two children were drowned in a pond, on Friday last whilst sliding on the ice. It is understood that Capt. Fitzroy, M.P., seeing that his bill for the examination of masters and mates of vessels in the merchant service is not satisfactory to those most inte rested in the measure, has consented to withdraw it foi the present. A bill has been prepared, and will shortly be introduced into the house of Lords by the Bishop of London, for amending and consol;dating the Church Building Acts. A more necessary, and, if considerately planned, a more use• ful measure, can scarcely be adopted; so far, at least, as respects populous and increasing districts. COLERAINE ELEcTipx.—At the close of the poll on Fri day, after a three days' struggle, the candidates stood as follows : Dr. Boyd . Sir H. Bruce jority for Dr. Boyd The election may be considered virtually over. Both candi conservative, but Dr. Boyd is a Presbyterian, and dates al, his success is at I to that circumstance CHINESE TOOLS AND CHINESE MECHANICS.-T their iron work is not good, yet their tools, such as chisels, planes, axes, &c., are excellent, and kept very sharp niake use of the circ a saw for particularly and E.S.E rate and titb.-- and doe Wind S., 121 —Wind S.W g gales ) miles 190 miles oderate br s, and thick foggy weather. 9th.—Wind S.W. and variable, 241 miles; moderate breezes, and fine clear weather. 10th.—Wind variable, 196 miles ; moderate breezes and fine clear weather. 11th.—Wind variable breezes, and cl 12th.—Wind E.S.L heavy head sea. 13th.—Wind E.S.K breezes, and squally. 14th.—Wind E.S.E . breezes, and a squally sea 15th.—Wind E.N.E squally sea. 16th.—At ha N.N.E d E.S.I s; moderate weathe breezes, and a E., 165 miles ; strong 190 miles ; strong strong breezes, past 5 o'clock, A. m., Cat Clear, bore m., stri army in ti laarlianuntaip isrottrtinils tg to the affairs of Al al General Pollock, d if the , / we NVELLINGTC re not in exis :o.morrow, (Frida , and the hous HOUSE OF CO In reply Lord S' given a y expect INioNs -TH URSD TAN LEY said that the Canadian Legislature, in e act by which a duty of three shillings was imposed imported into Canada from the 'United States, had roper construction to the despatch by which they heat thu to do so. At this moment the trovernment were *ormation from the Governor-General as to the 'venting fraud and collusion, by transferring. the ry as colonial wheat. Upor that information the government would rest the measures which they might find it necessary to adopt. . . On the motion of Mr. G. PALMER a committee was ap nted to inquire into the shipwreck of British vessels, and s of preserving the lives and property of shipwrecked Mr. HARDY moved for a copy of any complaints made by be French government to the government of this country ie detention or search of French vessels on sus. Sir R. PEEL said a )rity of the complaints were still n the course of inve,tigation, and he therefore hoped the lemur) would not press the motion, as he must op- He hoped the house would leave the matter in the hands of the government. hon. gen motion 'rued debate was resumed by Mr. Borthwick. who NAPIER Sp( f the distre ;reater and more general than had ever before been experienced, but both the causes and their remedy were alike involved in obscurity. The perplexity on this subject was only increased by the urns quoted by Sir James Graham on the pre for they led to the inference thnt the more the starved the longer they lived. lie coin duties imposed on our imports, and peopie wer plained of 700 per cent to the introduction of our own manufactures to Portugal but deprived the humbler classes of this country of a goot substantial wine, instead of the currant and gooseberry wines wi those of Mr. D'lsr i, who was, he sup- 'ip, had said that it was t of the negotiators that 'ortugal, and he feared The West India in- posed, bidding for an ambass owing to want of ability on t we had failed to effect a treaty there was some truth in the remark rest might be injured by a r ction of Brazilian sugar ) reason why the whole country should be advised the government to effect a compro- -corn-law League, to a ish the s Mr. B, COC . HRANE said that the condition of the country was full of danger. and the cry through the country was for a repeal of the corn laws, and feeling, as he did, that con- ,e operations of thi agriculturist, he was convinced that a total and immediate repeal of the corn law of last session would be preferable to e also thought that a tottering government with - firm principles was preferable to a strong government with vacillating ones, and he therefore hoped the Govern- uncertainty .11c1 inspire and secure a feeling of ital)ility Mr. VILLIERS said that it t present state of things was dens should in consequence become too great to be sustained the greatest perils would threaten our institutions. The Vice-President of the Board of Trade was, it appeared, of the same opinion with Lord Howick and his supporters as to the cause as well as the cure of the prevailing evil, and towards the latter object the new tariff was a good beginning afid had it gone farther in cheapening the cost of living there might have been no necessity for the discussion they were then engaged in. The present operation of the corn law was not aittle singular. The Americans were distres sed because they had more food than they could dispose of ; and we were i because we hadnot subiccent food to maintain the peopi Lord SANDON, who was very imperfectly heard, said that hon. gentlemen opposite seemed to think that we could in crease our foreign trade without any sacrifice on our part. Did it not strike them that if they diminished the price of agricultural produce at home, they would thereby reduce the the question to be taken into consideration was, whether the sacrifice which they proposed to make would not be greater than the prospects of gain upon which they calculated? (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen opposite used the word "trade" as if it meant nothin- but the foreign trade, whilst the home market, notwithstanding b all that had been urged, was the most valuable and the most permanent. Gentlemen railed at protection, but he would ask, did shoemakers, glovers, and other artizans, show a disposition to be unprotected, and, if not, why should protection be withheld from agricul ture? It was said that there was a redundancy in America of the food which our people wanted here, if we only opened the door for it; but the fact was, that we took more of their produce than they took of ours, and paid them the difference in gold. The present difficulties of the country were based upon the circumstance of its industry being contracted into too narrow a space for the increase of our population or capital and the enormous productive power of our machinery, and from these causes the distress would arise with or with out a corn law. If any remedy was to be found by the efforts which it was to be hoped the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs would make in endeavouring to open new markets, it would be well in addition to this that means should be adopted to limit the too great facility of credit, which had always been at the bottom of the evils under which the country laboured. It would be wise to establish its commerce on some more sound and substantial basis. In addition to the too great facility afforded for credit, other causes were in operation to produce the present distress. The difficulties in which America had been recently involved had deprived this country of one great customer (hear, hear) ; then, again, we had to contend with the barriers reared up against our pro ductions in all the countries which formerly dealt with us. (Hear, hear.) These causes operated powerfully in pro- ducing the present distress. It appeared to him that the present debate hail no other object than to let out the fixed air which had been pent up during the recess. (" Hear," and laughter.) It had no practical tendency, and was, in his opinion than the e: a corn n, no more Arm shadowing forth or _ He could understand the motion if it were for a committee upstairs, but in its present shape it appeared unintelligible. Let the house have something substantial, Ind let not the country be misled by such a beating of the air. The present distress was not owing to the high price of )read, but to want of employment for the people; and yet it e great permanent interests for a pros ,ectural benefits from America and Poland, of which ~se could have no assurance (hear, hear); and thereby the risk of adding to the commercial distress one equally great in the depression of agricultural interests. Did not every manufacturer feel that every country town in the king dom offered a lessening market for his produce, and how much more would the decrease be if the notions of the hon. gentle. men opposite were carried out ? He was perfectly convinced that we should sacrifice more by opening up our agriculture to a competition with every new soil, than we could possibly gain by the speculative projects of those who contended for such a course. law debate was proposed to sacrific Mr. MUNTZ said he did not approve of the Motion. It was not straightforward and English enough for him, but as it bore upon its face a proposal for inquiring into the distress of the country, be felt it his duty to state why he should give it his support. The foreign markets could not stand an in. crease of even two and a half per cent. on British menthe. tures ; and, under such circumstances, was it possible for the manufacturers to raise the wages of their labours? It must at last come to this—that they must adopt either of two —they must either repeal the corn laws or reduce the value of the silver coinage. Sir J. HAMMER said he was of opinion that the existing distress might be remedied by legislative measures, and it might also be remedied by administrative measures—namely, by effecting foreign commercial treaties, the importance of which latter object he strongly pressed upon the government. He also avowed himself, though all the property he had was invested in land, a decided advocate for a moderate fixed duty ; and said that this country should look to the whole world, with a view to comprise every nation in the list of its cus tomers, for without foreign markets for the extension of the commerce of this, a commercial country, the home market would prove insufficient to save our manufacturers from ruin. They must abandon the fallacy of protection and embark fear lessly on the sea of commerce, if they hoped for general pros perity to the country. Mr . P. M. STLWART said that every interest in the coun as in a state of depression and distress, and he could not therefore see with what propriety they could vote against the motion of Lord Howick. It was neither natural nor right that the people should be famishing in the mid s t o f • plenty, and if ih rejected this motion they must not be Surprised if they should be told, on their return to their dis appointed constituents, that their offence was not the less grave because " party was the madness of many for the gain Mr. COLQUHOUN said he approved of the most liberal policy in trade that could be adopted consistent with the in terests of this country. Our manufactures were struck at by hostile foreign tariffs, which it'was hopeless to get repealed whatever course we might pursue. A common argument he had heard used in France during a recent visit was this—" It is very well for England to propose the adoption of principles of free trade amongst all nations, because her manufactures have arrived at such a pitch of perfection that, together with enormous capital, and her mines of coal and iron, they give her a facility of producing so cheaply that no other country can compete with her ; but with us the case is very different, and we can only sustain our manufactures by the principle of protection." It was unlikely, therefore, that under any course however liberal, foreign countries would The evils of the country, be contended, were mainly attributable to over production, fictitious capital, and derangement in foreign markets ; but surely they would not attempt to remedy all this 1:4 destroying the home mar- ketalso, by withdrawing all theprotectionwhich for cen- tunes had been given to the landed interest Mr. BARING said that he presumed Sir 'amea Graham had been started by his party on the previous evening be cause they were dissatisfied with the defence made for them by Mr. Gladstone, and they therefore got the right hon. baronet upon his legs to make what was technically called " a stout speech," in the course of which speech he had made some most extraordinary observations. The right hon. gentleman then contended that Lord Howick's motion was justified by precedent, and that it was not necessary for bim to state what remedy he proposed for the evils he com plained off—it was not necessary for him to enter into any details—and his noble friend had done quite as much as he was called upon to do, in stating his belief that a mitigation of commercial restrictions might lead to a beneficial result. The right hon. gentleman then attacked the Government for unsettling the sugar trade, by bolding out an expectation that the prohibition of foreign sugars would be repealed, and now announcing that they had no intention to do anything. The corn laws were also unsettled—so unsettled that he would have no objection to place the members of the Go vernment in the witness-box and ask them on their oaths if they themselves thought so. Indeed the universal feeling amongst the tenantry of this country was that the present corn law could not stand ; and they further believed, that, having turned out the whig Government for proposing to meddle with the former corn law, and having placed Sir It. Peel in power for the purpose of rendering that Jaw per petual, they were not very well treated by the bill of last session. He admitted that there was some reason in the declaration of the Government that it would not alter the corn law of last session until it should have had a further trial; but still it was a reason which should be overruled by the distress of the country, and he therefore hoped that the motion of his noble friend would be agreed to, though he had no expectation of such a result. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was at a loss to know the object of the motion, or what course the 4s to pursue in the event of its being carried. He sumed it would be an immediate proposal for the total • 4-orn laws, leading to interminable debatinz house Wa eat or to the proper amount of duty, should a xed duty be agreed upon, and leading to no practical result which he cou look upon only as an insult to the distress of the country, which its professed purpose was to alleviate. In reply to what the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Baring) had tis to the blgat dtly.e, be would tt . ll MO, ttet the duties were tempor:lry duties, end 'multi ape - r than_it_had been whi Chatirellor of the Exchequer he had L carried Sir tie course, come ijournment of the debate, s of Lans- Jill was rest Mr. H ARDY then withdrew t The a rticula s not aware w ce, but he would let the noble and und( would fall to had I t. L. HAY moved the which was imrced ately agreed t( HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDA The Duke of WELLINGTON informed the Marc downe that inquires bad been made had referred to relating to the Aff rghanistan only able to find one of them, which he laid upon the tabl He could not find the letter of General Nutt, but he mu state that that gallant officer had never disobeyed anv orders from. Candahar, and had actually stat had not done so In reply to a question from Earl FITZWILLIAM. Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated that ei5,0(0 had been col lected in consequence of the Queen's letter, to which was added £25,C00 collected by public subscriptions. This money was placed in the hands of the committee, who had the distribution of the money accruing from a royal letter some 15 years ago, and they had distributed it most exten sively over those parts 'of the country in which distress was most prevalent. Their lordships adjourned early HOUSE OF COMMON '9rged, Exchequer lit -FRIDAY The adjourned debate was resumed by Sir A. L. HAY, who observed that if he were unacquainted with parties in that house, he might easily have supposed that Lord Howick was bringing forward his motion as a minister of the crown, in order to carry out that portion of the royal speech relating to the distress of the country. If the debate should have no other effect it would at all events inform the country who the mem bers were in that house who were determined that the general distress should, if possible, he relieved. Mr. RASHLEIGH believed the motion of Lord Howick to be intended as an impediment in the way of the government, and should therefore oppose it. Captain LAYAR,D, after expressing his thanks to Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham for the lessons of liberty he had in his boyhood received from reading their speeches said that parliament ought not to leave the country in its present position without some attempt to relieve the prevailing dis- Mr. BLAcicsToNE would oppose the motion, but still must state that he was not satisfied with the speech of Sir R. Peel at the commencement of the session, as far as that speech related to the corn-laws ; nor was he better satisfied with the conduct of the government in reference to their avowed intentions as to the introduction of American wheat into Mr. M. PHlmps said that even since the commencement of the session the state of trade in Lancashire had becbme more unsatisfactory ; and with respect to China, he was of opinion that our merchants and manufactruers should be very cautious how they shipped mote goods to that country than was justified by the demand. With regard to - the sliding scale of duties on corn, he firmly believed the trade and com merce of the country must decline under its operation. He regretted that although on all sides the greateit sympathy was expressed for the distress of the people, yet from the govern ment side of the house he had heard no one proposition suggested for its relief. Mr. DAnnY opposed the motion, which was admitted even on the opposition side of the house could lead to no practical result. It was intended as a decided party move, in order to lower the government in the estimation of the people. Hon. gentlemen talked of free trade, but he neve r k new a f ree trader in the articl e h e d ea l t in himself. They heard a great A -- .L • n - • dear of the repeal of the duties on corn, but why should not the protection be taken from all other articles as well? The Anti-Corn-Law League would not advocate a doctrine like this, and therefore it was that they had not adopted the name of the Free-Trade League, because they only wanted free trade in matters which did not affect their own interests. Lord H. VANE reluctantly opposed the motion of Lord Howick. One of the objects in view was clearly an altera tion of the present corn law, and he could consent to no sudden change in that law which would have the effect of leading to serious perturbation in agricultural affairs. Mr. BRoTHEB:roN supported the motion of Lord Howick, not from any party motive, hut from a sincere desire that the dreadful distress of the people should be alleviated. From the justice or humanity of the landed interest he expected little, but he expected a good deal from their self-interest, when they should become convinced that their own welfare depended upon the prosperity of commerce. He admired the principles of the present government, but he wished to see those principles carried into practice. Mr. M. ATTWOOD said the feature in the state of the coun try which caused him almost to despair of its recovering from its present depressed condition was the absence of any sug gestion as to the causes of that depression from either side of that house. The hon. gent. then proceeded to refute the inferences drawn by Sir James Graham as to the increase of labour as evidenced by the increase of deposits in the Lancashire saving banks. The fact was that those banks were trading banks, and were paying a much greater interest for money than they could obtain for it. If any joint stock or private bank were to proceed upon the same principle, bankruptcy must be the inevitable result. He could not agree with the remedies suggested by Lord Howielc, nor could he therefore vote for his motion. • The principles of free trade were first broached in the year 1820, when a pe tition was presented to that house from the merchants of London, in which the doctrine was laid down that the pros perity of the country dmended upon being able to by in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest. Those princi ples were taken up, and measures of free trade had been gradually adopted until they now saw in the present state of the country that they had sacrificed the industry of this country for the advantage of the industry of their neigh bours. The shipping interest had also been sacrificed to the free-trade theory to an enormous extent, and was now in a most alarming condition. Mr. M. GIBSON said the question resolved itself into an emphatic appeal to the Government to do something to re lieve the distress of the country, and the plain meaning of the division would be that those who voted for the motion would vote that something should be done to relieve the distress, while those who voted against it would vote that nothing should be done. He impeached the accuracy of the statistics read by Sir James Graham respecting the establishment of new mills, &c., and contended that instead of improving, the state of things was most disastrous. With respect to the pending commercial treaties and negotiations, he must say he did not expect much from treaties which were made a pre t .*;--' n laws. It was this country that .ex. .or continuing the corn should concede instead of requiring concession from others, for while the Brazils levied only 15 or 20 per cent. on our manufactures, we bad placed 400 per cent. on their sugars. He repudiated the notion of maintaining a preponderating landed interest, and said that the manufacturing and mercan tile community would not su bmit to be treated as a secondary class. The landed proprietors c r eated a vested interest as a reason for not repealing the corn law. He c a lled up on th e Government to consider the responsibility they were incur ring by refusing to do anything to mitigate the sufferings of the people. Lord F. EGERTON admitted the distress which prevailed to an extent which demanded all their attention. It was said that no o ne h a d proposed a re med y for this distress , but he tempo rary, as he trusted was the c l ou d was prepared with a remedy--partial it is true—of no grea t weight, and o nly which hung over the country, and that remedy was the volun tary dissolution of the Anti-Corn-Law League. The distress, he contended, was more fairly attributable to an unusual stimulus given to trade at a time when the application of the power of s team had given the fullest development to our ma nufacturing power, than to any protection given to agriculture. Mr. COBDEN denied that this was a party move, and said the motion should have been to inquire into the state of the manufacturing and agricultural distress, and then the landed proprietors would be placed upon their defence, to say how they.allowed their dependents to fall into such a terrible con dition. The hon. member for Dorsetshire, on his own estates, paid his labourers only Ss. a week, so that if their families consisted of five they were forced to live on less than paupers in the workhouse, or felons in the gaol. And yet the landed proprietors, who reduced all around them to a condition worse than that of felons and paupers, still asked to have this state of things continued. He (Mr. Cobden) lived in the country, he employed out-of-door labourers—labourers utterly unskilled—and to those labourers he paid 12s. per week, while agricultural labourers were receiving only Bs. Light was, however, peeping in upon the farmeis, and next quarter in terda D y landlo rds otrhseetshirei and every farmer also, had received a would fi n d it out , f or every free holdernaa sealed p ac k e t from the Anti-corn-law league. The hon. which chw said as thatthe were necessary. corn-laws gentleman then commented at great length upon the injustice of the t c hcbour whenll, w, w admitted, be said, by Sir Edward ic in order to k e ep country gentlemen in their present posi tion—in other words that they must continue to live upon the industry of the labouring classes of the community. The capital of the country wa s wasting away—pauperism was in creasing —and while trade and commerce were rapidly de clining, the taxes were fearfully increasing. In such a state of things, what assurance could the right hon. baronet give to his sovereign or the country, that this state of things was likely shortly to terminate? The corn law of last session was disapproved of by the whole of the mercantile and ma nufacturing classes throughout the 'kingdom, and it formed no portion of their orders abroad. The trade consequently fell into the hands of speculators, all of whom were ruined. In the course of his speech Mr. Cobden made use of the fol lowing remarks :—lt was the duty of the independent mem bers of that house to throw upon the right hon. baronet at the head of the government the whole responsibility of the present position—to throw the responsibility on him, the right honourable baronet, indiv idually —(cheers and counter cheers).. Sir PEEL said he would never be influenced by the me naces of the hon. member, that he would be held responsible for his measures. Mr. COBDEN said he did not mean personal responsibility, but responsibility in virtue of his office. Sir It. PEEL said that the menaces of the hon. member should not influence him in the discharge of his public duty. He regretted that the debate should have taken a character so objection to the form of the motion of political. He ,ol, hl a i li d ri d h o ew ould meet the question entirely upon its own merits. If 'hey went into committee would the noble lord propose a reduction of the duty on tea, cotton, to bacco, and wool, and, if so, what, he would ask, was to be come of the revenue? Or, if he proposed to reduce the du ties on wines and fruits, what would become of the pending commercial negotiations? The fact was, that the country had not yet recovered f rom the effects o f t h e suspens i on of trade during the pas s i ng and immed i ate l y su b sequent to the passing of the new tariff. Th e right hon. baronet then gave a sketch of the difficulties he had to encounter on entering office, and defended the course he had pursued as the best which could be adopted under the circumstances in which the country then was. With respect to the Corn-law, he did not intend to alter it ; but he would never, for the support of any gentleman, pledge himself to the maintenance of that law if it should be Found that it was injurious. The right hon. baronet then proceeded to retort upon the late Govern ment the charge which Mr. Baring had, on the previous evening, made against the present Government, of having unsettled everything and settled nothing, and contrasted in their conduct, in 1840, ; voting against Mr. Ewart's motion for the reduction o f t h e duty on foreign sugar from 635. to 355., with their r ecent conduct in pressing the reduction of the duty upon their opponents, as if they had themselves been all their lives the most strenuous advocates for such reduction. The present Government had brought to a close two wars, and he hoped would he able to effect reductions in the army, navy, a n d ordnance es ti ma tes to the exte n t o f £850,000 this yea r , an d that in future years s till f ur th er re ductions might b e ma d e. The right h on . b arone t conc l u d e d an admirable speech by an enumeration of the various objects which the Government had been enabled to effect during the short period they had been in office, and adverted to the present position of the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Soult, in their respective countries, both anxious for peace and soothing the jealousies of the two nations, which the anonymous writers in the public journals were endeavouring to excite by misrepresenting tne motives for every proceeding of the Government of either country. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was too ill to make any very extended observations, but he felt it necessary to reply to some of the arguments of the right lion. baronet. In 1841 he had stated the necessity of adopting principles of free trade, and predicted that, unless they did so, foreign nations would adopt systems of restriction. The right hon. baronet subsequently admitted the correctness of the principle, but it was thql too late, because foreign countries had already de tern:4lld upon the restrictive system, and some five or six hostile tariffs were already a d opte d. If the right hon, baronet vere elfacked - foi Ira ha-ritg: dune towarda tht iarthet: ance of free trade, he immediately quoted his tariff; but if nny of the Agriculturists Attacked him for injuriht then) by replied that it for the - . - - tariff of which he bo as t e d had had littleor iiu effect at all in reducing prices. With respect to the corn laws, he was of opinion that an eight shilling fixed ditty would not now soda the question, but he had no doubt if agreed to when he first proposed it, the question would have been settled for many years. Mr. COI DEN explained, that by the use of the words " individually responsible" he meant nothing more than as the head of the government. Mr. ROEDUCIti called for an explanation from Mr. Cobden of the word " maniacal" used by him, in reference to some arguments used by a noble lord in another place. He had used the same word to him before the debate, and he told him he would defend that noble lord, upon which Mr. Cob den told him he had better have nothing to do with it, or the Corn Law League would go down to Bath. (Tremendous cheering.) He regretted to be called on for this explanation, and he would only say that he had nothing but contempt for the judgment of the man xho could use such language in re ference to his noble friend. Mr. Roebuck then quoted from the speech of a clergyman at a corn-law meeting, a passage in which he spoke of a person who talked about casting lots as to the taking away the life of Sir R. Peel. Mr. BANkES denied that the situation of the peasantry of Dorsetshire was such as it had been described to be by Mr. Cobden Mr. COBDEN said that Mr. Roebuck had misrepresented his words. He had not described the noble lord alluded to as a maniac. He had said that if the noble lord spoke as he had been reputed to have done, his language must be consi dered as the emanation of an ill-regulated intellect. Lord HOWICK shortly replied, after which Mr. FERR AND having withdrawn his amendment, the house divided, and the motion of the noble lord was defeated. For the motion Against it Majority MOSEIMIM= . THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE MR. BROWNE AND MR. STUART. Shakspeare's Play of TH E TEMPEST, with the whole of the New Scenery, Machinery, &c., at HALF PRICE. 'PHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st instant, the Opera of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. After which. the New Farce of FORTY AND FIFTY. To conclude with T E M P E S T. T H E ROYAL LIVER THEATRE PHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st instant, the performance will commence with a new Drama, called YOUTH AND AGE ; OR, THE YOUNG COLONEL AND HIS OLD WOMAN. Michael Witzgoff Mr. Buckstone. The Countess Xenia.. (the Old NVuman).. Mrs. Fitzwilliam To be followed by a new Vaudeville, called FOREIGN AIRS' AND NATIVE GRACES ! Emily Staples.. Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Sam Buckland Mr. Buckstone. After which, the original Duo-Drama; called THE SNAPPING TURTLES ; OR, MATRIMONIAL MASQUERADING. Mr. Timothy Tantalus Timms Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Matilda Timms . To conclude with the laughable Farce of JOSEPH BRAG ; OR, HOW s'o MAKE A WILL Joseph Brag .... Mr. Buckstone. TO CORRESPONDENTS " Curliamis" in all probability on Friday We cannot insert the letter of " A Reformer" without Ms name. The letter of " A Pewholder" was received too late to be attended to in our publication of to-day. None of our correspondents are justified in expecting us to insert or notice any anonymous communications which contain remarks on the private conduct of private individuals. Zitnrool OtAnDarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1843 On this day, we commence the fifth year of our proprietorship of the Liverpool Standard, and, we be lieve we may state, with truth, that our own case is the only one in which an English provincial Con servative paper has been published twice a-week for a similar period by the same proprietors. We do not refer to this circumstance in a boastful spirit. It is one, nevertheless, of which we may justly feel proud, at the same time that we feel grateful to a discrimi nating public, by whom our efforts in its behalf have been appreciated and rewarded. Relying upon our own resources alone to carry it on, we entered first upon the arduous career which such an undertaking involves; unaided, except by the kind preference of our friends, we have thus far carried it on, with much occasionally to annoy us—much which might have tempted some men, less earnest than ourselves in the cause Ivhich has ever been next our hearts, to abandon the effort—and the reward of perseverance is now before us. We enter upon our fifth year of proprie torship with brightened and brightening prospects, with added friends to support us—with increased in fluence with the public to render our exertions useful to the cause and the principles which we advocate— with ample resources of talent, information, and the other indispensable requisites in the successful ma nagement of a newspaper property, within our reach, to enable us to command attention. For this we should be less than human if we did not, along with the gratitude which we owe the public, entertain at the same time some little self-pride. The public has been good to us; we feel that we have deserved well of the public. In i eturning our thanks, therefore, for the past, and making our profession for the future, we have little to say. The former we pay in all sincerity ; the latter we take to he somewhat supererogatory. We shall continue to follow the straightforward path of honesty, as we have, to the best of our judgment, followed it hitherto. Vtre shall maintain, at all hazards, our independence. In politics, we remain the unflinching supporters of the Throne, the Church, and the Constitution. We take our stand, as we have ever done, upon the " old ways" of our fathers, with " Hearts resolved and hands prepared, The blessings we enjoy to guard." We adhere to the Protestantism of the Reformation ; and abjure popery and every system hostile to the principles, discipline, and doctrines of the Established Church. Need we say more, to entitle us to the con tinued favour of the Conservative community of this great commercial metropolis, when we have the past to point to as the surest and best guarantee of our prin ciples, and of the truth and faithfulness with which they have ever been upheld ? We need not And now, a word to our advertising friends. In disputably, we now occupy, in influence and respecta bility of circulation, a prominent position amongst the Conservative journals of the country, and are fully justi fied in claiming to be regarded as second to no journal in the town, of whatever politics, as an advantageous advertising medium. We beg to impress this fact upon the attention of our friends amongst the advertising public; and whilst we assure them of our gratitude for past favours, we can now with confidence urge our claim, upon grounds which they will readily acknow ledge, to future patronage and support. We can give ample circulation, in the most influential circles, to whatever advertisements they may honour us with. Men of business require no more ! It may now, we think, be viewed as an established fact, that every effort is to be used, of which agitation is capable, to prolong the existence of the present de pression in commercial affairs—in the hope of using the consequent sufferings of the people as a lever for the attainment of the political ends of a party. What is it which the mercantile classes, and the working classes as well, have most to pray for at the present moment ? The answer, which thousands of voices throughout the country are ready to accord in is CON FIDENCE IN MERCANTILE TRANSACTIONS ! The amelioration of the tariff, during last session of Par liament, unsettled for a time many important branches of foreign commerce and native industry. Some mil lions of active capital during the past year, partly owing to legislative changes, and partly to the prospect held out of further changes, have been withdrawn from productive employment, and are lying idle in the coffers of the Bank of England, and other similar places of security. What does it want now to set this capital in motion—to give impetus to the wheels of commercial enterprise—to remove the icy chain which binds up the fertilising streams of industry ? The answer is still—" CONFIDENCE"! Vast markets in India and China are open to us. We are in the en joyment of peace with all the world. The food of the people is almost unprecedently reasonable in price. What aid then do we require to enable us to avail our selves of those facilities to the attainment of our usual condition of successful commercial energy ? The an swer is again—CONFIDENCE; and the cessation of that political agitation which alone retards our return to that position ! We submit then that, in such a state of things, the mercantile community of Liverpool have an imperative duty to themselves to perform. Why are WE to be the unresisting sport of a few reckless and incendiary ad- venitiret6 hO,g,hbourinA Why are the important conimere'ial interests of this influential community to wait, cap in hand, upon creatures as these ? Are wz to lie down, In helpl :inactivity, whilst these mountebanks play out their farce ? We say, distinctly, No ! Such is not the course which the mercantile body of. this great town ought to pursue. We have a duty to perform, not only to ourselves and to our children, but to the com munity in which we live—aye, and to the God-who gave us wealth and influence to be used for the benefit of his creatures! That duty is to place ourselves in the path of this insane agitation ; to say to these reckless men, " You shall no longer be permitted to obstruct the commerce of the empire ; you shall no longer sow mistrust, and stir up revolution ; you shall no longer dash the cup and the food from the lips of famishing men, to speed on a frenzied and selfish poli tical object !" This is the duty—the plain and palpable duty of the Conservative merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool; and its performance is an easy one. Let a meeting be called at the Amphitheatre —never fear that it will not be a crowded meeting !—and is voice of this great community be heard expressiiWts confidence in the Conservative government of Sir Robert Peel, and de precating, as the main hindrance of a return to a state of healthy commercial activity, the incendiary agita tion, with which we are surrounded, and the obstruc- tive policy with which that government is threatened in Parliament. Let that voice be fearlessly and stre nuously raised ; and we venture to say that it will be echoed, and blessed, by nine-tenths of the industrious and deserving population of Great Britain, and do more, in a single day, than all which mere legislation can effect, to save the land from the anarchy into which it is rapidly sinking ! Unqualified disgust and indignation must have been the uppermost feelings in the breast of every right minded Englishman on perusing the report of the epi sode which occurred, during the debate in the House of Commons, on Friday night. The organs of the Anti-Corn- Law League will attempt, we doubt not, to explain away the circumstances and expressions out of which it arose, and to divert from that body the store of execration which it is calculated to call down, and has already called down upon them. But we ask, let the people of England look attentively and dispas sionately at the facts; let them look at the atrocity of language, at the atrocity of action by which that lan guage was followed up, and by which tee life of an amiable and exemplary servant of his country was sa crificed; at the attempt of an eminent leader of the offending body to suppress the publicity of the fact that such language had been uttered—(by a threat le velled against an independent member of the legisla ture)—and, lastly, weigh the tendency and spirit of the remarks of that reckless man himself, on Friday night, in which he held up the prime minister of Great Bri tain as the party alone " responsible" for th 6 existing sufferings of the people. Let the public weigh these things well, and then say if any contemptible and shuffling palliative can, or ought to, divert from the authors and abettors of a course of conduct so revolting, the disgust of a Christian community. For the information of, and as a warning to, the thoughtless amongst our fellow -townsmen and towns women, who have suffered themselves to be entangled in the agitation of the seditious body in question, we shall briefly place the whole case before them for their serious and calm contemplation. On the 17th of July, then, a convocation of Anti-Corn-Law delegates held a meeting—if we remember tight—in palace -yard, within a stone's throw of the houses of parliament, then sitting. At this convention a certain Rev. (!) Mr. Bailey—a minister of the Gospel I—represented 1 —represented the Leaguers of the large town of Sheffield; and in the course of his remarks gave utterance—according to the,Morning Chronicle—to the followiug atrocious lan guage, which, for the benefit of dim-sighted people who can only see one side of a controversy, we print in very readable type. Hear, then, the Rev. Mr. Bailey, of Sheffield : "IT WAS NOT WORDS WHICH WOULD MOVE PARLIAMENT, BUT FORCE ; THIS SHOULD HAV EFFECT IF THEY DID NOT CHANGE THEIR SYSTEM. HE HAD HEARD OF A GENTLEMAN WHO, IN A PRI- VATE COMPANY, SAID THAT :F A HUNDRED PER- SONS CAST LOTS AMONGST THEM, AND THE LOT FELL UPON HIM, HE WOULD TAKE THE LOT TO DEPRIVE SIR ROBERT PEEL OF LIFE." (! !!) Most Christian sentiments these, ladies and gentle men of the League party ! a most patriotic and Chris tian character this Reverend Mr. Bayley! If WORDS could not move, FORCE should. What kind of force ? The answer, which we gather from the subsequent sentence of the reverend dissenter, is scarcely sought to be cloaked. There cannot be the shadow of a doubt as to the interpretation which would be put, by igno rant and brutalized men, upon the word " force," re ferred to by the reverend gentleman. But he pro ceeded, as if startled " Even at the sound himself had made," to deprecate such a mode of advancing towards the achievement of a political end as follows :—We give it in the same type. " HE FELT CONVINCED THAT NO SUCH ATTEMP OUGHT TO BE MADE ON ANY. PRETENCE WHAT EVER"—(the consciousness of his clerical duty told him that the doctrine of killing no murder'—the doc trine by which regicides had sought to defend their crime—was not defensible on scriptural grounds, or even on scriptural morality; but mark the gingerly and delicate terms in which he virtually counterpoises the denunciation to which he had been constrained !) " BUT RE WAS PERSUADED OF THIS, THAT WHENEVER SIR ROBERT PEEL WENT TO HIS GRAVE, THERE WOULD BE BUT FEW 'l'o SHED ONE TEAR OVER HIM"! !! Hove irresistibly this conclusion reminds one of the great Daniel ! " Don't hurt him, boys; but •if ye kill him, there will not be a wet eye at his funeral." Well, this seditious, this inflammatory speech, was, according to the Morning Chronicle, made on the 17th of July, and on the 18th of the same month was duly reported in that journal, frym which we have copied it—shorn, perhaps, by that organ of the League, of somewhat of the baseness which characterises it. In August parliament was dissolved. Shortly afterwards her Majesty and her Royal Consort, accompanied by Sir Robert Peel and the Court, proceeded on a visit to Scotland ; and there it appeared that the carriage of the Premier was an object of attention to an individual of the name of M`Naughten ;—the carriage in ques tion, however, being occupied by his secretary, Mr. Drummond, who, throughout its route, from the city of Durham to Glasgow, was mistaken for the right hon. baronet himself. Upon the return of the royal cortege to England, the party was dispersed ; the premier proceeding to his seat in Staffordshire. Shortly afterwards, it would seem that the individual, previously mentioned, betook himself to the Metropo lis; and, in the beginning of January, began to pa rade the neighbourhood of the Government Offices, with a regularity which acquired for him the reputation of being a police officer. On the 20th of January, the secretary of Sir Robert Peel—the same gentleman who had been mistaken for him in Scotland by the miscreant before alluded to, was, treacherously as. sassinated in Parliament-street by that individual, M`Naghten ; and subsequently, during his confine ment, the intimation was made by him to the police man in attendance, that it was his impression that he had shot Sir Robert Peel—the same party who had been pointed out as one whom a band of Sheffield patriots had marked for assassination, and over whose grave "THERE WOULD DE FEW TO SHED ONE TEAR." The world set down this attempt as that of a maniac. We admit this much of the apology offered for his con duct by Mr. Richard Cobden. But this maniacal effort was, by a character no less illustrious and re splendent in talent and worth than Lord Brougham— by a lVhig Exchancellor—denounced in a recent de bate, as incited by the speech of the Rev. Anti-Corn- Law Leaguer in question ; and what was the course pursued by Mr. Cobden ? The dignified denunciation of Lord Brougham had cut deep into the withers of the Anti-Corn-Law League; and the apostle of that body—Cobden—having learnt, from a private conver sation with that gentleman, in the library of the House of Commons, that Mr. Roebuck had determined to defend Lord Brougham from an attack to be made upon him, by referring to the passage which we have quoted, to which Lord Brougham referred during the etiaie in the 14ot ..„.et, honautabie them lothitith tine_ attcmpteJ to interfere gitntd to flee niluigters, , vould bring iTon bitnsvli the hose interfereixe the league in 13ath—the city w iicl he represented with a view to oust him. hy tr.icls and "the holding of tea parties," (1) from its representation. The. honour able ultra-radical, however, was too chivalrous an or ponent to be thus put down. He detailed, to a startled house and country, the atrocities of the Rev Mr. Bailey, and, as well, the threats held out, by the paltry man of cotton, in the library of the House of Com mons ; and by so doing, we maintain, rendered 10• fatuous, to all future ages, participation the most sligh t in the sayings and doings of the Anti-Corn-Law League! The climax, however, it remained for Cobden him self to perpetrate. Since the opening of the present session the gentleman in question has not milde his ar pearance upon the arena of political agitation. P- de mestic bereavement, we regret to say, has been the cause. Well, on Friday night, for the first time, lie made his appearance ; and, fresh from the bed of death—with one assassination before his eyes, the re' sult of the murderous appeals of a . ferocious agitation he proceeded fo the utterance of the following languag e directed against Sir Robert Peel : " It was the duty of every individual member of the house to throw on him" (the Premier) " the INDIVID UA L ' AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY of th e present state of affairs." The hungry and starving, maddened by the sedi rious appeals of a revolutionary faction, are to hold Sir Robert Peel,—not the Government, but the Premier himsey,—individually and personally responsible for their sufferings ! But proceed—. " He would tell the Right Honourable Baronet that the whcr r responsibility of the present lamentableland dangerous state of the country RESTED UPON 018 SHOULDERS V' Need we wonder that the response of nine-tenths o f the House, before which this infamous language was uttered, was a perfect shout of indignation ? There was not, we venture to say, one member present who did not recognize it at once in the sense in which it was understood by Sir Robert Peel himself, AS A THREAT—an attempt to turn that statesman from his course by the fear of personal consequences. Now we ask the dispassionate consideration of ou r readers—we ask the attention of the female portion of this community who have given their countenance to the agitation of the Anti-Corn League —to the case which we have placed before them. Can any human being, from this time forth, esteem it an honor to have to do with a party which fights with weapons so atro cious ? Surely no Englishman can ? Surely n o mo ther, or sister, or wife of an Englishman, can in future countenance an agitation so cowardly and disgraceful With reference to the speech of this Mr. B a il e y the Times of yesterday says that "if he had intended to suggest and familiarize men's minds with the idea of assassinating Sir Robert Peel, without directly, or at ' least, without avowedly flying in the face of that re ligion from which we suppose he derives his sustenance , he would probably have said just what he did ;" and in relation to what fell from Mr. Cobden, the same journal remarks as follows, " We must observe, that we do not impute to Mr. Cobden an intent to murder; but we do impute —we cannot avoid imputing—to him this-- - that with his eyes open, knowing fully the threaten ing consequences to Sir Robert Peel's life of popular odium, with no other purpose than to increase his own credit and power with the most violent class of politicians. he feels no scruple at recklessly and un ceasingly labouring to direct that odium "personallY and individually" on the Minister whose life has been once already attempted. If he is not anxious to put the Premier out of the world, like the "gentleman" that he wots of, he cannot by the extreme of charity be fancied very careful to keep him in it. And further, his movement in favour of Mr. Bailey, taken with all its circumstances, makes it difficult to avoid the suspicion that, though he has no intention to use the pistol himself, he does not find himself at liberty t° affront those who have." Well, the debate on Lord Howick's motion, which at one time threatened to " drag its slow length along" to the end of the session, has at last been concluded; and, we ask, what has it added to the previously exist ing stock of human knowledge, beyond a somewhat better acquaintance with the morality and designs of the Anti-Corn-law League furnished by Mr. Cobden? Not a single stray fact, or conclusion, with which We were not acquainted long before the various philoso' phers who have exhibited during the week, left their various homes to enlighten the atmosphere of the me tropolis ! Yes—we beg pardon —one fact we have learnt; and that fact an astounding one : the fact that one hundred and ninety-one members of the House of Commons entertain the opinion that an enquiry, by committee of that house, into the distress of the na tion, and the propounding before such committee—of the whole house, mind—of all the various nostrums of its assembled sages ;—the interruption, during their performances, of the entire business of the legislature —the interruption of every negotiation in which go vernment may be engaged with foreign nations; the unsettling of the public mind, and the stop put to all commercial transactions, by the uncertainty which must exist as to the result of its deliberations :—such a course we have learnt is, in the opinion of the mitio" . rity in that house, the course most likely to relieve the" eaisting distress of the country, and to snatch the any' . merce and industry of the nation from its state of stagnation and difficulty ! Surely, this is a fact worth recording ; for only ask : yourself, kind reader, what must have been the prac tical result of the success of Lord Howick's wise pro' position. Imprimis : the Speaker must have left the chair, which would have been forthwith taken by Mr' Greene, the chairman of committees, and then- - what ? Was Lord Howick prepared to propose a re medy for the national distress, and what was that remedy ? Perhaps he was so prepared. We ) .hould have been told, in very general terms that we must " unfetter the commerce of the country"—the last new recipe propounded in a very elaborate article 10 the Edinburgh . Review, just published--and, in party cular, we must change our present corn-law for fixed duty. And then up would have bolted the mem bers for Stockport and Manchester, and Bolton, and 11 ' host of other places—about half of the Whig-radical phalanx—and kicked the fixed duty proposition out of the hands of the heir of the house of Grey, and spit upon it. Then William Ewart, perchance, would have proclaimed the repeal of all protecting duties—the; annihilation of customs and excise, and ten millions or , annual revenue—to be replaced by "direct taxation J and at the mention of these words— " unpleasing to a Whiggish ear", we should have been treated to such a storm from th ° left of the chair as would have set the very hairs uP° ll the Speaker's wig bristling on end, Like quils upon the fretful porcupine,', whilst from some Dumfries baillie, in the Strangers Gallery, a groan would have burst, at the horrid pr°' position of the member of his choice, which would' have melted the heart of a stone or a philosopher W . hear. And all this time, whilst this amusing scen e ; was enacting in the House of Commons, not a pipe of wine, or a hogshead of sugar, or a cargo of tea call° have been sold for love or money; our merchants and brokers must have looked on with folded hands; our' vessels must have been laid up in dock; exery ported article must have been bonded on arrival, an ° the lawyers and bankruptcy officials become the onlY busy people in the community ! A hopeful way troll of relieving the distress of the country ! Such must have been the result of the success of Lord Howick's proposition. There was no practica l good to whi c h i t cou ld poss ibl y l ea d . I t was a mesl and de s pi ca bl e party movement ; an attack which _ wanted the qu a lity w hi c h ma k es it s au th or respe cted - 7 boldness. It said to the Government against who ; it was lev e ll e d, " Y our po li cy i s erroneous "; proposed, for the decision of the house and the ceuP_ _ try, no plans of its own. It was, in fact, one of th°l efforts o f o b s t ruct i ve po li cy, w hi c h we f u ll y expec t be the policy pursued by the opposition party dttri 4 the present session. Do we regret, however, that it was made ? for it drew from the Government of Sir Robert re v several declarations of opinion which we hold to