The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

nillaN AND CANADA e transatlantic mail ate im Ryr e, arrived at tl s port A'cadia left Boston at ha f pas' lithe Ist instant, and /1 dila' noon of the 3d. She arrived o Tuesday, hw g made the per sta at Hit brought o join. The A stant, from Boston to t wenty-two pass evening of the 28th ult. inclusive _ The congressional session wa forward ew bankrupt law has passed the Lily waiting I general a sident.that he should state what was paid in that quiet and peaceful Derail) , rather dull. There had been been discovered, much .. to the delight of those who had the village. One letter said they had been constantly employing The prices were from 4 dollars opportunity of availing themselves of the benefit of their pas- Cotton was in moderate de- tnrage. In the Sydney markets a moderate business was seven men on the farm at piece -work. They earned 10s. p er week, and shepherds 9s. a week, and £2 extra at sheepshear transacting at late advanced prices. The merchants were, however, cautions in their operations. ing and harvest, besides other wages. That an emissary of Jilowing is a list of the passengers : DISTRESSING ACCIDENT : —We learn, by the last arrival R. Farebanks, Mr. M. Rossin,the league had been to this place he undertook to prove. I Boston.— r. *••l me, Captain Thomas Bell, Mr. from Sydney, that, on the 25th September, five young men, Mr. CORDEN.—I told you so at the time. named Thomas M'Nab, Henry Forbes, John Forbes, ale Mr. John Heaslip, Mr. John Bottomley, Mr. BANKES complained of the interruption. How- Mr. and Thomas Davies, having ventured out in a small ever suitable it might be in 'the society in which the hon. 3, Mr. G. W. Putman, Mr. Richa_rd L. boat, near Point Piper, during a heavy gale of wind, the boat member ordinarily moved, or to the association of which he wyer, Mr. William Wagstaff, Mr. Green was swamped, and two of the party, Mr. M'Nab and Mr. was so admired an ornament, he would not be tempted to .trt Dalgelle, and Mr. P. Murphy. H e nry Forbes, were unfortunately drowned. follow him into any of those usages which he might endea -Mr. Mar ri ot, Mr. Wilson , M r. A. Fen- A public meeting was held on the 24th September, for the your to introduce. He spoke to him as a member of parlia 'artriv ssoc t i h a e ti i o n n tr t o o d p u r c o t c io u n re o t f he c r o e o m i jeorlintoof ment—as one who had a right to expect from him that corn in forming preventing an a mate, and -fight seamen, taken from pthnerproessetriocftfioonrms mon courtesy. which. hv the eetablichea ~.,1,. -e ~ • turn to ature of the t a Flour liars 56 on ingland was 5i to_6- John I Mr T 18, Mr. Robe a Halifa. n. and M K 01 i. N. B Partrige. uirkaldy, on her passage from the -- colony. 7 the American ship A delaide, The accounts on. 9 30. from f avo urable. Cultivation was Plymouth are on the whole very Live stock the New York had ueen unpin Lcu ,achy still held out. isting demand, and hopes 3 had been suppressed. tim e the settlers would be ra ti on more republi can, ba a beeri s ome disputes w one period to be attend one hon. member expected from another. The letter went These seven men have all as much turf as they like This turf was used as fuel, and better it was im. St. Doming, series discuss the re- le to supply them& short t r ocoal " The; have cottages and gardens rent free, with There the exception of two or three." It was tine that to a person atives which threatened at going from the manufacturing districts, or from the environs fatal con,equences. The of the metropolis, the cottages would appear to be not of the ago overran the Taranaki most desirable kind ; but the reason was, that the cottages if the inhabitants as slaves. WPTP t he nronprtv of these oeoole. and they chose to have ) Repub- 1 them as ti d • • • y were, and to go down in that state from father etter had been published in the papers, without inkes') sanction, far from his desire, by one of , c h port ) nla - I the tenants of t property, denying the statements of the honourable member for Stockport. The farmers of Dorset shire got it printed and caused it to be stuck about those s in w a-Corn- Law Leap( The title of the letter was offensive, and he should therefore not read it. The substance of the 11, 1 letter he however felt bound to give, as it reterred to L• r , (NI r flnhden) his attention. The letter was signed by man of considerable talent and a farmer. ;aid " the statements made by the honourable Stockport were decidedly the reverse of facts— H • ifi, (hear)—and he (the writer) considered it to be his duty, as Ha tenant of about 600 acres witbin two miles of the residence of the county member, to state that his labourers, though 6d. under the sum named by the hon. mem- 1,300; Percy Hill, ill, £1,300 ; Horace their wag for Stockport, bad their cottage and gardens rent free, :rches of land ploughed and manured without charge, upplied for nothing, and wheat sold to them at 6s. the ihatever the market price might be at the time. Thus the higher cost of wheat the greater the pro of the labourers' wages through this arrangement, and this was not only granted at day-work but it was conti nued at piece -work, when the men were earning double the usual rate of wages." (Hear.) He had many more state ments of the same sort, which were at the service of the hon. butler (should he be 1 “"' bushel, s% Hear.) 'here. was another c e to the treat,, ,oh the matter had not yet been rood quality of t f ftepresentat rated, and fin wale that harp co aised to cleav and quiet Rev. J ,osition in the deliberation of plained, and greatly com . pfaineci, that this quiet village should Sheep farming at Port Philip have been selected by the agents of the body of which the hon. ployment, the abundance and member for Stockport was amember in order to excite un- Wool making a satisfactory _re- (Hear, bear.) It was necessary, t of any favour s about 50 per en car' vement [nt-a- P' age of the aid to be I appeared was robbers were all sailors ptain, all of whom h 3. - old of some I have just learns error is on the pc at Point-a-t and Co osen and Co and Cor, nd co., 1,500 Defoe _ Lefrbv fie! Other and ( to Dassier, 1,00( , negsarts , and - Urribarren,- 4,6001; L ; J. C. Davillier and Co. 1,0001 ; Emile Pereire, 50( ..f. Y. Pes gswarter, 500 f ; very de )e Douro 26th Jan rt Gertrude nundations in Portugal, caused by the late heavy mint active both to life and property. The Mnndego, and indeed an th 200 of the na, had t; bequeathed e of th um for the pur- nephews ' John Hill and George Staveley Hill, and his friend thought it right to answer, as it was one of a serious cha- Richard Egerton, Esq. The last-named gentleman is left a ratter. The hon. member for Stockport had not only said legacy of £2,000. that the labourers on his estate were worse paid than any The following is a comparative return of the season . of 1841 other labourers in the county, but that they were worse off and 1842. recently received by the directors of the New as far as respected clothing, health, and education. To these Brunswick Land Company, of the crops raised, and stock charges he would say a few words ; and if he had a difficulty remaining in the possession of the settlers holding lands in in dealing with the other part of the charges, that difficulty the township of Stanley : 1841. 1842. was much increased here, for those actions which might de ' : name of charity, lost all their grace when they to be told by those who had themselves performed (Hear.) But having been defied by the hon. mem ber for Stockport, and called on to state what the actual situation of his labourers were, be would state what had passed with reference to his property in autumn last—not, however, in consequence of any apprehension entertained of an attack through the instrumentality of, the statements of the Anti-corn-law leaguers. (Hear, hear.) In November last, he (Mr. Bankes) left that part of his estate where he usually resided, and went to another part of his pro e,-I.,hard I serve tt 611 Wheat bushels Oats ditto 2,375 4,808 653 1,367 I them Buckwheat ditto Barley Potatoes Turnips Hay Horses 11,610 1,110 Oxen or steers Cows Heifers 130 181 123 127 I perty, for t winter 4;s reason—that foreseeing an early and a ...pproaching, and hearing that the labouring classes .e suffering privations in consequence, he went to live among them for six weeks, with the view of affording them relief. His first act was to require from his steward the name of every man, woman, and child on his estate. The list was placed in his hands the following morning, and from that list the ladies of his family proceeded to relieve those who needed Yigs .. Calves Acres cleared Acres prepared for 1843 . This summary shows a consid zuw •.‘ tr.i able excess in every article of farm produce and stock, with the exception of hay and I horses ' • the termer is atErmutame LO LUG Uay ion+.o being thrown into pasture in 1842, and also to the general failure of this crop throughout the province last year. The decrease of horses is accounted for by the discovery the settlers have at length made, that oxen are far more useful on recently cleared land in America than horses; hence the great increase in this description of live stock. were supplied ; so that if, in the month of January following, when the hon. member sent, down his spies and informers, the clothing of the labdurers and their families was in a bad condition, the tact could only be accounted for by the articles having come from Manchester—(laughter)—the greater por tion of the articles being of Manchester manufacture. He did not, however,follow the line recommended so strongly by some persons, namely, to buy in the cheapest market. He bad gone to the small trader in his neighbourhood to get sup. plied, thinking it but fair that every one should have a chance of maki , g some fair profit.—(Hear.) H e wished to place this list in the hands of the hon. member for Stockport; and be " ao more further than to remark that the number and to be many hundreds.—(Cheers.) Now as to 'ould b the charge that his labourers were the worst educated of any theta in the country. This would be, he admitted, the most ions charge if true.—(H ear.) The persons who furnished member for Stockport with his information must or concealed the truth, unless they stated efforts had been made, and were still making, in reference to education. Those persons should have told him that subscriptions were raised for two schools at least. That at the head of one list the proper name—the name of the county member—stood for £lsq, and at the head of the other a loan of X5OO from the county member. for which no in terest was to be demanded, and which was not to be recalled as it Wail needed. There were also annual subscrip- the hon have p DU iutis aa st. cam tions to six schools. There was a seventh, but that belonged to the county member. (Dear.) Did he show these things as an evidence that he had done more than his duty, or that he was perfectly satisfied with what had been done? Nothing of the kind ; but he did state them, because he was bound to repel, and with the utmost indignation, those accusations which the honourable member for Stockport had so boldly brought against him. But was it to be per- ignorance of the facts .•••••,, . any place or on any occasion, should venture to make charges of this kind? (Hear, hear, hear.) And it did surprise him when he found, subsequent to that debate, and he only referred to it as an excuse for the statements he had been compelled to make, that large bodies of persons had thought it necessary to congratulate the hon. member for Stockport A„,,rß' hp dianlaved that night, and the ression On LLIC nista' c which his statement had made on the country, and that they should have made this the ground of their congratulation Annrobation. that the member for Stockport " had stern regard to tice." (Laughter.) Was this a specimen of the hon. mem. ber's "stern regard for justice," to proceed to cast censure before he had collected evidence ? (Cheers.) Was this the hon. member's notion of fairness. justice, or Christianity, to choose a time to attack an individual when a debate was at its conclusion, and thus to take his chance of the subject of his attack having an opportunity of replying to charges that were not true? (Cheers.) If such were the honoura ble member's notions of "stern justice," he trusted with --Mice he should not come into contact. (Cheers.) to trusted he had now said enough at least to vindicate iruself from the mistakes—for he was yet bound to suppose le hon. member for Stockport had acted on erroneous in nmation—which had been put forth against him. It was, however, necessary to be on his guard against ble member for Stockport, and therefore he' begged it to be understood he did not claim any merit whatsoever in what Id done with respect to those on his estate. All he iished to show by proof was that his labours were not, as asserted, in a worse situation in point of education and com fort than the labourers of any other part of England. He did not mean to say his labourers were in a better condition than in any other parts of the country. He had heard that higher wages, and he hoped they would continue, were paid in other portions of the country. He only intended to show that they were not in that situation which the hon. member for Stockport had declared them to be. THE GOVERNOR, THE MIDSHIPMAN, AND TH3 OR, WHICH IS THE BEST ?—ln the House of Commons ILOR ; Tuesday, Sir Charles Napier put a curious sort of question to Lord Stanley, secretary to the colonies. Two or three months ago, he said, one of the mail packets on the West Kitt's, pro- ceeded on her vc d upon being landed )nsulting his officers, After the bi r of one of the to St. Thomas's, fined to return to Bas and a boat was sen land him at Basseterre ; but this the youngster refused to do, it being contrary to his orders. After some altercatioa, the governor told the youngster that if he did not land him at Basseterre he would throw him overboard. The young gentleman still refused to comply with the request, and at last the governor seized him and threw him overboard With some difficulty the midshipman succeeded in layin hold of one of the oars, and was hauled into the boat governor repeated his request, but the midshipman s fused compliance, offering to land him at the point, a governor then threatened to through him overboard s•• ron here; the only person we know is the youngster; and if ron try to throw him overboard I'll put this oar down your ,hroat." (Laughter.) The midshipman landed the governor, et on putting on to sea be loon( hoisted his sail, he ran from St. Kitt's to St. Thomas's, I distance of 200 miles, and there picked up his ship. (Cheers., He (Sir C. Napier) had heard of the circumstance, and hi thought that if the governor bad acted in the manner impute( to him it was highly necessary that he should be called ti Hear, hear.)—Lord Stanley promised to mak account GALLANT CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The Persian, 16 sloop, commander T. N. Eden, appears to be very fortunate in her crui exploit of an officer belonging to this sloop is narrated in letter brought to this port by a vessel from the coast c Africa. The Persian was off Whydah, in the bight of Benin when early in the morning of the 17th of December, large suspicious-looking _vessel was descried , at some dia as in command of two t six men in each, immediately pushed towar wood,althc der a broiling stin— essel in the mean t and in heir opponents were treble i ;is, cutlasses and pistols, drove them below, and establishe iemselves in possession without t , und their prize to be a Portugu,. She had mounted two long gu,_ th canister shot, and had a complemen e loss of a man. They se slaver, a fine brig of 248 Birdwood soon after joined his slpop, mi les distant, when be and his companions were congratulated by his brother officers and ship's company on the success of their enterprise. The prisoners were put on shore at 1,1 , hy dab, and their valuable prize was sent into Sierra Leone for adjudication. There is no doubt Mr. Birdwood's gallant conduct will not escape the attention of the admiralty.— Standard, ARRIVAL OE THE CHINESE RANSOM, MARCH 15. Her Majesty's ship Blonde, Captain Sir T. Bouchier, ar rived at Portsmouth on Friday last from China, having on board Sycee silver to the amount of 3,000,000 of dollars. The Blonde is the third ship that has brought to this country a freight of this description. Mr. J. W. Cooper, of her Majesty's Treasury, who has received the whole of the treasure brought over by ber Majesty's ships Modeste and Columbine, on the two previous occasions, was directed by their lordships to proceed to Portsmouth to receive the amount now brought by the Blonde. The silver was packed in 523 cases, some of them containing 20,000 dollars each, and weighing each half a ton. The unloading corn • menced on Monday morning, under the immediate direction of Mr. Cooper, it was a task of considerable difficulty, the weight of the metal and the motion of the ship having so severely tried the strength of the packages, that a large num ber of them required repair. This was so successfully ac complished, that not the slightest loss took place during the transfer. By great exertion the unloading was completed on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday morning one-half of the whole amount brought by the Blonde teft Portsmouth at eight o'clock, by the Southampton Railway. It arrived at the Vauxhall terminus shortly after one o'clock. Mr. Cooper came up by the same train, in charge of the treasure. On its arrival it was transferred to waggons, which, at a quarter past two o'clock, started under the escort of a party of the 75th regiment, for the Royal Mint, where it was safely lodged. Mr. Cooper was to return to Portsmouth by the train in the evening, to take charge of the remainder of the silver brought by the Blonde, which will be brought up to the Mint on Friday. Her Majesty's ship Herald, having on board silver to the amount of nearly two millions dollars more, is daily expected at Portsmouth from China, and when this sum is received it will complete the first in stalment of the ransom payable under the late treaty with the Emperor of China. - - IMPROVED CRAXES on Saturday. His principle Mr. Gale's crar he Cour as fairly tried s in spreading over seve- e strain which is usually made In the crane fitted on one of the si l up by Mr. Ytiille, at implest of the models ty of Arts, the ,d and lowered a double chain, working over a pulley on the upper side of the jib, and tied by a fn tho aTie of the nullev on the nose One end ( e chair length of the That whict which the principl, prejudice easy man remove( gement of_the loon be univers called by Mr. G. his quadrt n. we ha 3. and a pi the proof of truction and tli 'met any otb Far less risk of accident than b ks an illustration of the effect of Mr. Gale's / ng only the double line, we that by striiction of cranes, when the 50 feet jib is at an angle of 45 deg., with a weight of only 2 tons attached, the strain on the jib chain is no less than 8 tons 7 cwt.; while by the n ew principle the strain is only 3 tons 17 cwt., considerably less than one-half. Taking, however, the quadruple line, tbt strain on the jib chain is reduced with the same weight nf two tons at 45 deg., to 1 ton 181 cwt.,—less than one - scribing the effects of this —Glagow put aucie vention, because we know it abits to the blush, however cl ILLEGALITY OF THE LEAGUE (From the Speech of Mr. Bankes, M.P.) The government were no doubt aware that the Anti-Corn- Law League, if they had not absolutely set the law at de fiance, had gone so near, that it required a very nice discri mination to say whether or no they had already overstepped (Hear.) The league were to try a large expe- The hon. member for Stockport would its bon rirnent the neat d rehearse his to-morrow's speech—he was announced for his benefit—he was the great lion of the show, and the house could only expect to be favoured with a small portion of his oratory that night. (Laughter.) It was his duty to direct the attention of the government to that body, which undoubt edly bad shown that it possessed considerable power—at least in the way of raising money. He begged to ask the hon. member for Stockport one question—where was all this mo ney lodged ? The league said they bad £50,000 this year, and they expected £lOO.OOO next. The average would be £75,000, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to have his eye on this a— If umouut to add to the income tax. (Laughter., the league did not pay the tax oh this sum then the public would be robbed to that extent. (Laughter.) As be found some - observattous in reference to his amendment so much better made in 1825 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer than he could make them, he should prefer giving them to any thing of his own. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, after describing the peculiar features of the association to which he alluded in 1825. concluded by saying that no man who rightly understood the constitution of this country could contemplate the power assumed by an association of levying money to carry out their special objects with any other feeling than that of unqualified disapprobation. The right honourable baronet who followed condemned the prin ciple as subversive of government. "If that were so there would be an end of all deliberations of that house; if that doctrine were to prevail, it must follow that the subjects of this country, if they should imagine themselves to be labour ing under any grievance of that or any other sort, might re sort to unconstitutional measures for their redress, and which Parliament would not be authorized to check until those grievances were redressed. He maintained that if for a moment Parliament recognized such a doctrine it would abdicate its legislative functions altogether. If they ad mitted the present measures, they must expect that they would be used for the removal of other grievances ; and to any remonstrance the answer would be, that the subjects of the country, and not the legislature, were the proper judges of what those remedies should be. That, however, was not his reading of the law. He conceived Parliament to be the role constitutional judge, and if Parliament thought these 'ught to be continued, those who found themselves ag rievea must not resort to unconstitutional measures to re- The people might meet and petition Parlia . . . . .ss them nd the Parliament would take their petition into eon on, but it would abandon its duty if it allowed any body of men to act independently of Parliament, and only according to their own free will." s ' I An hon. MEMBER on the opposition benches inquired speech that was? BANICES.-Sir Robert Peel's Hear, hear.) noble lord the member for Sunderland had cheered his re ference to that association, and the cheer probably inferred that although it bad been censured by parliament, it bad ul timately succeeded. (" Hear, hear," from Lord Howick.) He was right, then ; but it would be his duty to refer to another association, which bad not succeeded. In 1778 the Protestant Association was formed, and when it was formed it attracted as little attention or observation as any other of the kind. That association chose for its head a person who had obtained some notoriety in history, Lord George Gor don, who was selected, as was observed by Mr. (afterwards Lord) Kenyon, for his blameless . life, his not having mixed re in his 111 LUG VIM." moral and religious habits. That association met in large halls in London, but when the body had outgrown its places of meeting it did not hire theatres, but met in the open air, sh and .ess in advar kZILS j iIIIU zas ,ch connected with I to the over- sioned I r by the revolutionary row , v• an Paulo and Minas Geraes •,, the )W settled tranquiny `'ve, business in nianufae ' One essenti-1 which of eat is, however, step to a firm and steady ffradual decrease of sup- :ical data p001'5..., The quantity of coffee mi that date, an increase The quantity of sugar advance of that in 1841, Thef jacaranda, cent. in advance of 1840• of bides was 65,447 over 1841• exports exceeded those of any previous m arket must be The fluctuations of value in the money confined to the rates of discount and exchange, and these in the main appear to have been influenced by the financial measures of the government respecting an increase of the paper issues of the country. The rate of discount had been Is high as 10 per cent., and as low as 7 per cent., while the 'n rate was 8 per cent., the then quotation of the day. the circulating medium was increased 2,952 contos of reis (£320.002), the internal debt by the issu ee of the Five per Cent. stock for 88,600 dollars, and Six p Cnt. e xtent of 6,333,200 dollars ; and, in addition to ' , Ms are stated to be afloat, and have to be • that. with this During the year amount of 2,457,6 W dollars , f the public debts, and the responsibility of the -^nsequence, in addition t t ure o th when coe 6,000 coated contos, a s existing in the expendi .al condition of the reverrue, there is considered my prospect before those who have in their hands enaent of these affairs. The highest rate of ex .ge on London during the year had been 291, and the ,west 24i; the present quotation was 26. The rate on Paris had fluctuated between 380 and 325, and was he settled to 365. Hamburgh had been as high as 715, and as low as 646, 1........... at the close of the year' 670. -----. menE to be a g manag ------ EARTHQUAKE AT GUADALOUPE AND MARTINIQUE. We regret to announce, that accounts have been received of the destruction of the tow . n of i .Po mm i nenset-a-Pitre andlife other °laces in Guadaloupe, and ot an loss of by The subjoined extracts, embodying the principal facts, are from a letter in the Commerce, dated Martinique, February 14 : day of the catastrophe which reduced ap o f ruins and ashes . I was going to . . twpnty minutes past ten o'clock ben 1 heard cries of The people -Pi*tre to ot the palace ushed frog of We I then fel Aeet, and began to hasten my own ,cies continued with increased violence for fortunately there was no vertical have inevitably thrown down our ascertained that our town re d and experienced inhabitants - .nlv the tail of an elt was (. --, -- ear of some great two minutes ; bu 'blob wou 1839. _ Wesooni 1;lu-rea, but the t tnat. and that we should A.L. „ LIUU tit Admiral de Moges suffering inhas?!. rigate Gower, sent by .1e;, praii!fint a surgeons spatcbed them a large i. land is an more re remained for _,_ Limed much Find co 1 .6auouring 'manila. ..as verified on the 9th by letters from 'latch made us acquainted with the to otal rnor a destrund c - city of the Antilles. Our Gve iceeded to take measures for the relief an ts of Point-a-Pitre. T admiral sued for Guadaloupe, followed by the r_ sent by the Governor. They took with an d stores of all kinds , ns. The mo.oitants of St. Pierre de rge collection of similar supplies and mo !rson who has arrived at Fort Royal from licted n, dis an old retired captain, aged 72 years, 4caDed a s ov a miracle. He was buried in the ruins, „,; a n hour the killed " Among Lae -- 3orne de Grand Pre and M. C wife and thA nosPita l was In( after the shock, fires t had spared. In this it escape, o ur. ....„ ..__ - No calculation can yet be -A . hat it is estimated one tinguished advocates, M. - M. G re ffier, the . . en children ot Ind Supenntendent of e ; M. Deville, sen., for --a • MM. Margan and Procur • of the-Cou: s to create garter e lite of the inhabitants it the moment of the were assembled at th a w ing of a lottery for )f Marines guar -I,llled. and one of Some wretches took swn W plunder. At first, the• it men were ,-__. man of colour, but this in error, and that the bea un ded feeiibyng m e say Americans, QOP been arrested and confined iint of sending f the Gower, WWII Li,. On her off to France. r,.;,,te found the town . . and no one orbsu.,..-- visions and money she had broug from Martinique. rrried 150 wounded to Basseterre, where they received .t; to receive ntirely evacuate all their condition required. " It was found necessary to amputate both the legs of one young lady, an operation which she bore with truly christiap When the fa fortitude, and she will, it is hoped, recover. gate left the island Point-a-Pitre was still burning- A gi:eat number of bodies had been got out of the ruins, and carried by a schooner into the Channel of the Saintes, where they received _a watery grave. The site of " t h e town one d become pestilential, and every fled from it . The Menager adds i•—• By a happy circumstance, the leis of the garrison of Point.ii-Pitre bad time to evacu their quarters, and lye have only to deplore the loss of Martinique only felt the earthquake Slightly f them, We heard of no victims or an i m portant damage. The Moniteur Pa ris i an says :—" The calamity was in ceased by the occurence of a vast fire. Two thousand bodies sak i to have been dugoutof the ruinClind it was reckoned at there was an equal number of wounded. At the moment a ccount left, 500 persons had undergone amputa when the -c operation." _.d9, that most of the houses, and more than ~ablishments were destroyed. ~slowing are extracts from letters in the Presse :-- " Point.a-Pitre, Feb. 9. Basse-Terre has suffered but little ; and although a num of houses are uninhabitable, all remain standing, and no I, as been injured ; but at Point-it-Pitre all was over the wooden houses. Immediately after the nut in 200 or 300 places together, and At present the flames are and in the whole of the town, . contained 16,000 souls, there are not ten houses inha _.able. No description can give an idea of our this disas The ter. We can scarce l y credit what we see before eyes. -dred times more horrible than a field of battle. _ S ,A, and the crop of sugar )vernor is admirable in the midst .ion, and died after t The Pa fifty sugar shocK, II g over t s a hu sc Most of ed the houses sugar mills are l os t. The canes w___ of all this afflicted ulatior Taz EA glad to find that subscnp led in every quar- as been f to pubh s re wade to MIYAKE. AT GUADALOVV,--- of subs, er and C Blanc, I COLONIAL IVTIsLLI CE The I iuri the afternoon 1 i f-past three in the after port at three o'clock on from Boston, including it of whom we sub- Dm Halifax New York to the ails are very heavy. to a close, and the ,„ _ In the Senat ct of the speech of I r , rnig“ ccasioned I of thos •espectiv have lately been 1 r lands had been c a by a muake 'he real chiefs ha, ,ss was restored le Horie Guards (BI e l even 0 1 1 - 11!3 ab !DHOWS :- £1.300 ; ; Richard Frederick Hill, £1,300 Clement Delves Hill, £1 Hill, £1,300 ; Alfred Edward Hi £1,300: Francis Hill, £1,300 ; Artl Hill, £1,300 (and an annuity of £1 and Charles Hill, £1,300. To his Emma Hill, an annuity of £5O. To in his service at the time of his Beat i:i — cil - 11;ald F:lair,ysq g curious Five guineas per annum to the person who bas charg :olumn at se of lighting the top of t night laving delivered the mail at St when tE bout let reached was within 40 yards of le nearl from China, between two Si AUSTRALIA ie subject chiefly a prominent t was expected th all damaged. W he Malikel Bahor, rth of Pulicat flag- she was at the ) in fiumber, were of October. I toexci,idet the attention I parks and nd disadvan- ferred r in the baggage, acc about four ae north, but that every 1 the 25th ents, anc the shore, I H with its :en prove effects have a with a cr s her, an Mr. BirC ANTI•CORN•LAW LEAGUE CAM. iv Mr. I .ecei r ed sent by the Ant rable alarm in t w Leagu , I and, we g eye from sharing in the luxurteb .es. His tastes were different. He pi living in a retired, quiet, cheerful village ; and he coE )pened of their S-lieldE o attend the goer:l4olM of a ottia o the houses of parliament. It was House of Commons was rrounded by that body. not one of the members felt that the ; indeed, 'e the house ali who showed any prudence whom his (Mr. Bankes's) r the anti-corn-law Papers )r common sense friend had spoken as " that stupid mild ask, was not the Anti- ntending to bring their peti aeatre, to give still greater pub- Now,' he submitted to the it was not a fit subject for their considera that from day . to day some new expedients r proceedir not wee were devised to create public notoriety and excitement? (Hear, hear.) Excitement was what they profoundly desired, and endeavoured to obtain, and now the theatre was to be hired to ascertain if it would answer that object. (Hear, hear.) Until the excitement was got up, the hon. member for Wolverhampton did not intend to bring forward the question of the corn laws, and, at present, he (Mr. Bankes) believed that there was no feeling in unison with the Anti- Corn-law League, either in the metropolis or throughout the country. (Hear, hear.) At least there was very little in his opinion. He submitted to his right hon. friends and the house, whether that was a matter which did not interest them. Ministers had not the power of knowing the enormous amount of evil and mischief which was produced and at tempted to be produced by the emissaries of the Anti-Corn law League. He had no fears personally of any attack upon his interest in the county of Dorset, although, if the hon. member for Stockport could, as he had stated, affect public opinion, there was no seat in that house that could be so easily shaken, for it rested solely upon the force of public opinion. (Hear, hear.) He had never sought nor never should seek ministerial support ; but he looked to the ministry to secure to him peace at home at his fireside, and the comfort and happiness and welfare of the peasantry who lived around him. (Hear, hear.) He trusted the govern ment would devise some means of driving away these novel sort of emissaries—those paid and avowed—(for the hon. member for Stockport had boasted of it the other night)— emissaries and spies. Of these he complained; and he be seeched the ministry to protect them as faithful and dutiful subjects of the Crown—he requested it, be begged it, he de manded it. (Loud cheers.) MR. COBDEN AND MR. BANKES (From the speech of Mr. Bankes on Tuesday night.) He had been asked by the hon. member what he intended to say at the next agricultural dinner at Blandford. If he hesitated to reply at all, it was only on the ground that he had strong reasons for believing that the hon. member for Stockport would be there himself— (laughter) and his ground for this belief wastbat the hon. member in his speech said, at the next agricultbral dinner, there would be " one black sheep in company." (Laughter.) Having told him, (Mr. Bankes) what the black sheep would say, he would tell him (Mr. CobdenThis answer. The black sheep promised that when he (Mr. Benkes) was talking of the "agricultural sunshine gilding Ora-church, the palace. and the cottage," to add, " Yes, and the landlord's chimney." To this he, (Mr Bankes) would rejoin, " Yes, and your factory chim neys, too—(laughter)—your tall, gawkey, ill-looking, un graceful factory chimney, which—' " Pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and—lies." (Laughter.) That would be his answer; and if the hon. member wished to hear more of the speech he was ready to give it. (Cries of "Go on.") It would, at this dinner, be his duty to rise and say—" We have this day been honoured by the company of a distinguished individual, whose health I am about to propose—(laughter),—and I shall have the less difficulty in doing so because the party is no personal friend of mine. (Renewed laughter.) He comes here as the son of a farmer, as he has told us, descended from a long line of Sussex yeomanry, he comes here in sheep's clothing to tell you what he will tell you when his, time comes to respond to the toast." (Laughter.) So much for the speech at the Blandford dinner. The hon. member for Stockport put another question, which it was his duty to return an answer to. He said, " I put you on your defence, and I call on you to prove the benefits which the corn laws have conferred on agriculture ?" His answer was that with respect, to the county be represented the benefit which had resulted was, that thousands and thousand of acres, which otherwise would never have been cultivated had no protection existed, were brought into cultivation. (Hear, hear.) The labourers who tilled these acres would never trive found employment—and enclosures and appropriations of waste lands ware going on and affording further opportunity for employing labourers, until the time when a check to agriculture had taken place; and he could further state, if some means were not found to encourage and animate agriculture, and to give life and spirit to the interest, that this source of employment would speedily stop. (Hear, hear.) There was a time when, travelling from his father's house to London, 100 miles of waste land were to be seen. Bue now if the same ground were gone over not ten miles could be found. What was the reason of this difference ? There was no land formerly less encouraged and more barren than the waste lands in Dorsetshire, Hamp shire, and Sussex, but now villages were springing up and cottages were seen, where all heretofore was desolate heath. The husbandmen were all deriving employment from the soil, and he trusted they would find further employment from this extended system of cultivation. There was one point which he had neglected to set right in his previous statement—it related to the poor lavi union where his pro- perty was situated.' He had stated that the union embraced a space of 14 square miles, and included a population of about 16,000 souls, and that in the whole district there was not one able-bodied labourer who received parish relief. Since he had made this statement he had been informed that there were two able-bodied labourers who had parish relief. He had stated some of the advantages of the enclosure and cultivation of waste lands ;—advantages which the honourable member for Sheffield would check by his present inquiry. (Hear, hear.) THE NEW TARIFF.—The first importation of Dutch sal mon this season, under the new tariff, was brought over by the Columbine steamer, from Rotterdam. They are of a very fine quality, weighing from 361 b. to 401 b. each, and at tracted general notice on Monday in the city. A few hampers of soles were also imported, weighing from Glb. to Sib. per pair; some were as heavy as and particularly firm. A very large quantity of Dutch salmon is expected this season, as the Scotch fish are seldom caugh t til l May. This is a proof of the mildness of the weather in Holland. New pn tatoes ate very plentiful; several baskets have been brought Over —London - Paper. PORTUGUESE TARIFF.--THE BUTTER TRADE.—The fol lowing letter has been addressed by the firm of Morrogh and Walsh, of Lisbon, to their correspondent in Cork " Lisbon, Feb. 27, 1843. "My dear Sir,—l have reason to believe that the Portu guese government have at length submitted such proposals to our government that they will be accepted, and that, there fore, we may look for the speedy conclusion of the Tariff Convention. I know that a reduction on Butter from 50 to 30 res was proposed, and that will give your Butter an ad vantage of 20 res over that of Holland and Hambro' ; and if this does not give you the exclusive supply, it will certainly tend to diminish the imports of Butter from those places, and more particularly from Holland, on account of the high cost there. " I flatter myself, therefore, that we may very confidently look for an increased business between us; and, as to Beef and Pork, I furnished Lord Howard de Walden, our Mi nister, with information thereon, and probably—indeed I doubt not—there will be a reduction on the actual heavy duty. " A reduction will take place in England in the duty on wines, and this will enable us to ship low priced wines. We could send good white wine which could be afforded to be sold, with profit at Is. 6d. per bottle, and we could also send good and full bodied red wine at a less cost.—Reporter. THE COAL TRADE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND•—OH Saturday last a meeting, consisting of several hundreds of pitmen, and attended by a band of music from Sheriff-hill, Gateshead, and was held at Scaffold-hill, near Longbenton, within five miles of Newcastle•upon-Tyne. Speeches were made by several men of the locality, and by Mr. Cloughan ' (a Scotch delegate), Mr. Swallow (from Wakefield) and Mr. Brophy (a Chartist lecturer). The condition of the pitmen of the ryne and the Wear, which is now sorely depressed, was depicted in forcible language ; and one of the speakers (the Wakefield delegate) stated that he had been in commu nication with Lord Ashley, who was ready to support their Cause if they would only be true to themselves, and had sent him one of the Commissioners' Reports, containing statements and pictures that must harrow up the feelings of every man of common humanity. Resolutions were passed in favour or a national union of coal-miners for the protection of their interests; of the repeal of the export duty on coal ; and of the retention of Lord Ashley's Mines and Collieries Bill unim paired. Thanks were then voted to the noble Lord for his humane and zealous efforts to improve the condition of the people. . - WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE !—While our agricultu rists are eagerly discussing the comparative advantages of particular soils, and studying the theory of manures as pro pounded by Sprengel and. Liebig, a countryman of these distinguished professors comes forward to proclaim that their labours are vain ; for, if we are to believe him, he has discovered the art of growing luxuriant crops on the poorest land, and without any manure whatsoever ; and the cost of the process is so trifling, that, for the acre of wheat or maize, it does not exceed five. Fence sterling ; and for rape, cabbage, &c., amounts to only about half that sum ! At first we were disposed to consider such extraordinary pretensions as an effusion of quackery, and entitled to little or no credit; but our incredulity has been somewhat shaken by numerous and respectable attestations which the author has appended to his pamphlet,.andwhich tend to prove that his method has . . been practised with success, during the last twelve years, in various parts of Germany and Holland. Thus the certifi cates from Vienna, dated in 1825 and 1830, declares, that Mr. Bickes's process, vvbich would seem to consist in some preparation of the seed, `,re.nders all clanging unnecessary, is applicable to the poorest soils, and to all sorts of plants, and imparts to them a wonderful degree of vegetation and fulness ; ' and they give the results of the experiments in the Imperial Garden of the Chateau ; from which it appears, that wheat raised from seed sown by Mr. Bickes had larger ears and more grains than that produced from unprepared seed ; that the barley showed ears with four rows and a larger number of grains, while that from unprepared seed had only two rows, and a smaller proportion of grains on each stalk; and the Indian corn exhibited a hirer number of much stronger and thicker heads At Offenbach, in unmanured and light sandy soil, the prepared wheat produced 10-15 stems from a single grain, with larger and fuller ears ; rye and barley presented the same vigorous growth; and flax had stronger stems, with heavier and more numerous cap. stiles, and was of a dark-green colour; while the plants from unprepared seed had become yellow. Potatoes had seldom fewer than ten shoots from a single tuber, and some as many as twelve, fifteen, and even seventeen strong stems; while the green crops —namely, grass, clover, beet, white cabbage, savoys, &C.—were equal, if not superior, to those raised in gardens. At Bildingen, again, some plants of the sunflower, treated according to Mr. Bickes's method, grew to the height of ten to eleven feet, with woody stems of eight and a half to nine inches in circumference. Ten or twelve potato plants, of a large yellow sort, called Marburger, yielded each, on the average, thirty good-sized tubers, with stem and branches seven feet lo ng ; an d maize, which grew partly singly and partly i n rows, had from . two to five, and in some instances as many as eight and nine heads. These crops were obtained in the garden of Count Isenburg ; and we are further assured by the certificate, to which are attached the signatures of two burgomasters, the court gardener, a grand ducal councillor, and other official personages, that they were raised in ground but partially dressed, and in the midst of tall weeds! The trials of this method in Holland, made in the summer of 1834, were attended with results not less astonishing. Prep are d wheat an d rye, though sown thick, gave from fifty to s i x t y , an d even eighty stalks from one grain ; and a plant of b ar l ey b ore eight large ears. Buck wheat rose to four and a half and five feet; flax had four and five stems from one see d ; an d I n dian corn grew from nine to ten feet in height, w i t h f our or five stems, and four to five heads from a singl e corn. . Th e gree n crops were equally luxuriant. Red an d w hi te c l ove r and lucerne grew three feet high. From t wo t o b acco P l a n° ' 541 seed capsules and 200 large and small leaves were cut ; and a second blossom ing yielded 742 fresh capsules, and of larger size ; the seed from the whole weighing two hectograms, or upwards of six ounces. At the date of the report (October 30th), these plants were budding anew; and all this, if we read the de scription aright, was effected in the shifting sand (Flag- - sande) of the downs of Holland ! The method of preparing the seed is a secret,—Gardeners' Chronicle. liartiainottatp Vroattititg HOUSE OF LORD MONDAY The LORD CH AN CLLLOR called the attention of their lord ships to the state of the law regarding persons committing crimes under the influence of insanity. The noble and learned lard referred at considerable length to the recent trial of M`NauEthten, commenting on the various circum stances attending it, and contending that it was impossible for the jury to have come to any other conclusion than that which they had arrived at, although he would have preferred that the case had been heard to an end instead of being stopped, as it had been. With respect to the law itself, it was similar to that which had always prevailed, not only in England and Scotland, but also in France, Germany, and other countries, and was in fact the law of humanity. He thought that no alteration of the law either could be or ought to be made, and their lordships, he hoped, would direct their attention to measures of precaution. To a certain extent in this way their lordships might proceed, and within a few days he should lay upon the table a hill for that purpose—a bill which he hoped would be effectual, though he would not assert that it would absolutely prove so when he considered the nature of the disease, and the latent character which was peculiar to it. Such occurrences occasionally had happened, not only in this but in other European countries, and he feared might occur hereafter; but the bill which he should present would, he hoped, be a considerable check upon their repetition. The bill would be ready in two or three days. Lord BROUGHAM said the whole question ought to be whether a man, in killing another, was so insane as not to know right from wrong. Now a man might imagine he was quite right in shooting a particular individual, but that was not the sort of right and wrong alluded to by the law. It was this :—lf a man took all the precautions that a sane man would for the .purpose of carrying out his purpose, concealing that purpose till the proper moment came for carrying it into effect, that man must be presumed to know he was doing wrong, because, after all, doing right or wrong meant doing so according to law. Judges should direct juries to ascertain if such persons as M`Naughten knew whether they were doing wrong according to law ; in other words, whether they were violating the law, for if so they were liable to punish. ment, no matter what might be their abstract notions as to the value of the lives they were taking. Lord CorrENIIAM said he quite agreed in the definition of the law as relating to right and wrong laid down by Lord Brougham. Lord CAMPBELL thought the law admitted of no altera tion, and quite agreed in the interpretation of the law laid down by his noble and learned friends. The LORD CH AN CELLOR said that the consideration of the Government had been directed to the prevention of such persons as Francis and Oxford, &c., being made public spec tacles; but there was no necessity for legislating upon the subject, as her Majesty had already the Dower of confining such persons wherever she might think proper. He would take the earliest opportunity, if their lordships desired it, of summoning the judges to give their lordships their opinions upon the whole question. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. In answer to a question from Mr. MACKINNON, Lord STANLEY said the accounts received from Antigua by the Government were very imperfect, but he feared the news paper accounts were not exaggerated as to the extent of the damage from the recent earthquake. It might become his duty hereafter to call upon the house to aid the colon) with a loan, which was the only shape in which they could afford relief. Mr. FERRAND, in moving for. papers containing a list of the guardians, &c., of the Halifax union, said that the mill erected in the workhouse of the Halifax union, described by Sir James Graham as a hand corn-mill. was, in fact, a rag mill, used for crushing rags collected on the Continent, and impregnated with all manner of diseases. Sir J. GRAHAM said that Mr. Ferrand was sometimes led astray by inaccurate information, arid had originally de scribed this mill as a tread-mill. He had himself, in this in stance, been so far misled as to call the rag-mill a corn-mill, yet, upon the whole, his statements on a former evening were substantially correct, and he should therefore oppose the motion. Mr. C. WOOD defended Mr. Clements from the imputa tions thrown out against him by Mr. Ferrand. Mr. WALLACE regretted the refusal of the papers, because he wished to see every complaint made on the part of the poor fully gone into. After some discussion, during part of which strangers were excluded, Mr, Ferrand withdrew his motion. On the motion for going into committee on the Registra tion of Voters Bill, in reply to a question from Mr. Lin- DELL, Sir JAMES GRAIIAM said that clauses had been prepared with a view to provide against the fraudulent personation of voters. Mr. HUME said that unless more ample practice were given to voters, he anticipated but little benefit from the ------ measure The house then went into committee. On the filth clause, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved an amendment with a view to compel overseers to state the grounds of objection to a voter in addition to saying that he was objected to. On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 57 to 47. Mr. TUFNELL moved as an amendment, that when an overseer objected to vote he should be compelled to have notice of such objection given to the party objected to. Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the amendment, which, on a di vision, was negatived by a majority of 91 to 38. On the 11th clause being proposed, Mr. ELPHINSTONE objected to the continuance of the tax paying clauses as necessary to the qualification of a voter. He thought the payment of the taxed should have nothing to do with the exercise of the franchise. He moved the omis sion of the clause. Sir J. GRAHAM could not assent to the abolition of the payment of taxes and rates as a qualification, reinernbering . as he did that at the time the Reform Bill passed it was said that had it not been for the tax-paying clauses a higher quali fication would have been demanded. The clause now before the committee was an amelioration of the existing law. After a short discussion, in which Mr. BROTHERTON, Mr. HOME, and Mr. EWART took part, the committee divided, and the clause was retained by a majority of 118 to 58. On the clause imposing costs to the amount of 20s. against parties making frivolous claims to vote or frivolous objec tionsagainst a voter, Colonel StuTtioni. moved that the costs be three pounds instead of twenty shillings. After some discussion on this point the committee divided, and the amendment of Culonel Sibthorp was negatived by a majority of 154 to 34. The T committee having got through 48 clauses soon after midnight, The CHAIRMAN, OD the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a bill for dissolving certain corporations and regulating certain muni cipal corporations in England. The motion was agreed to, and the remaining business being disposed of the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a select committee to in quire into the operation of the corn-law of the last session of Parliament in connection with the distress which prevailed throughout the country. The noble lord entered into a variety of arguments in order to show that the distress was mainly attributable to the corn-laws. He felt himself called upon to enter into details in order to establish his argument, but these details would be wholly unnecessary if he believed their lordships would grant the committee. The noble lord then recapitulated all the arguments which have been so re peatedly urged against the existing corn laws, and after a speech of two hours and a half duration, left the whole matter to the calm consideration of their lordships. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that if he were certain that the evils complained of were to be attributed to the corn laws there should be no doubt but their lordships would instantly take steps to repeal them. He did not however believe this to be the case, nor did he believe that the corn law of last session had anything like a fair trial. He should oppose the motion because the bill had only been nine months in opera tion, and a government having the slightest pretensions to stability would not chance its policy with such an insufficient experience of the propriety of its measures. The EARL of CLARENDON said there could be little use in speaking to a starving man of what would be done for him six months hence; and it could bring little satisfaction to the working classes to find that they had nothing immediately to expect. The house should be on its guard, the power of en durance appeared to be nearly exhausted ; and unless the house entered boldly and resolutely into an inquiry into the whole state of the operative classes, there could be no secu rity for the preservation of the tranquility of the country. lie thought it would give great contentment to the country if their lordships would agree to the appointment of such a committee of inquiry, and hear impartially all the evidence which could be presented to it. He believed the sliding scale was one of the greatest evils which could befal the country. It was almost a matter of necessity that it should be so, for it professed to do that which it was impossible it could effect, namely, something like a stability of price in corn. Lord ASHBURTON attributed much of the distress of the country to the failure of the markets in America, and was glad that there were already symptoms of improvement ma nifesting themselves. The iiuke of RICHMOND could not agree in the policy of those parties who were for changing the corn-laws every day. lle could not agree with those parties who, belonging to the corn-law-league, thought it right to set one class of me❑ against another; but he had sufficient confidence in the ma nufacturing and commercial interests of the country to feel satisfied that they would despise those who sought to lead them astray. Earl FITZWILLIAM was astonished that the noble lord should have felt so strongly the effects of the loss of the American markets, and yet have a disposition to refuse in quiry into the operatiau_olthe corn law, to which the loss of those markets was mainly attributable. Their lordships might rely upon it that if they persevered in the present re strictive system foreign tariffs would become less and less favourable to British commerce and manufactures. The for mer corn law he always maintained must' have been altered, and of the present law he would also say that it must be al tered, and in so saying he was the best friend of the British farmer ; for he warned him that it was beyond the power of man to secure to him those artificial prices to which he was always looking forward. Lord BROLGH m praised the calm and statesmanlike man ner in which Lord Monteagle had brought the question before the house, contrasting it with the manner in which the sub ject had been discussed out of doors. A very considerable step had been made in the progress .of free trade, not alone in the corn laws but also in the tariff, and yet the zealots of free trade instead of thanking Sir Robert Peel for the extra ordinary strides he had made, united with the ultra opponents in abusing the right lion. baronet for the very concessions which some time ago would have been deemed most extraor dinary. The noble and learned lord, after some most severe and unmeasured animadversions on the leaders of the Anti- Corn-Law League, contended for the necessity of an inquiry which could only be feared by those who were wrong. He denied the statements which had appeared in the papers be longing to the league, to the effect that he had applied to be come the medium of communication between the Anti-Corn- Law League and the House of Lords. It was altogether false--the truth being that he had been applied to for that purpose and had refused. The noble and learned lord then contended, at considerable length, for the propriety of a free trade in corn, asserting that no revenue should be levied upon corn for the purpose of protection, though a duty may be im posed for the purpose of revenue. Earl St. VINCENT thought that the distinction between a duty for protection and a duty for revenue was merely nomi nal, for any duty must operate to a certain extent in the way of protection. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL did not support the existing corn-law, for it did not give sufficient protection to the agri culturist, and the same motive induced him to oppose the al teration of the tariff. He could not, however, support . the motion of L or d M onteagle, for it did not go into the wade question ; but he hoped before the session closed, a select committee wou ld b e appointed to inquire into the distress existing amongst both agriculturists and manufacturers. Lord MONTEAGLE replied, after which their lordships di vided, wh en the motion was, defeated by a majority of 200 to 78. HOUSE OF COMMONS.---TVESDAY. Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention on the 28th of March to move for leave to bring in a bill to complete a sur vey map of the metropolis, on scientific principles. Mr. BAN KES moved as an amendment—" That it is ex pedient as a remedy for a state of anxiety, embarrassing and unfair to the agriculturists and injurious to commerce, that the attention of this house be directed to the continued ex istence of associations, which, in matters. affecting agricul ture and commerce, pretend to influence the deliberations of the legislature, and which by their combiisation and by their proceedings are at once dangerous to the public peace and inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution." If protec tion were to be removed, it should be removed impartially — the landed interest should not be the only sufferers. The hon. member replied to many of the arguments used by Mr. Cobden on a former evening. _ _ Mr. COBDEN regretted tCat a great national question should be mixed up with anything like a personal altercation. As for the attacks on the Anti-Corn-Law League, their only effect was to contribute to its extension and to the propaga tion of its opinions. He had on the previous evening at tended a meeting at Southampton, at which there were farm ers who had come forty miles to hear him. Thus, it was that the league was paving the way for the repeal of the corn laws. Mr. W. MARTIN entered into arguments in order to prove that the landlords enjoyed no peculiar exemptions. Mr. W. WILLIAMS contended that by the present system of corn-laws the British public was taxed to the extent of £20,000,000 per annum. Mr. WODEHOUSE said, that if the corn laws were not de fensible on general grounds they could not be defensible at all. The hon. gentleman entered into calculations showing the different proportions in which land and mills were assessed in the different counties. Mr. B. COCHRANE denounced the Anti-corn-law League as an illegal and seditious body. Mr. M. GIBSON hoped that before the house came to a decision on the motion of Mr. Ward they would come to a decision on the amendment of Mr. Bankes. What did that amendment imply ? A suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and nothing less. It should, however, be remembered, that there were corn-law as well as anti• corn-law leaguers, and that the one had as much attempted to intimidate the legislature as the other. Those corn-law associations were not content with this, however, but were at the present moment proposing to rob the national creditor, as was clear from a letter purporting to come from the secretary of the Central Agricultural Society, in which it was proposed that the Anti-corn-law League should give up agitation, and join in an attempt to establish an irredeemable paper currency. He would not assent to any improper mode of propagating his own opinions, nor had the Anti-corn-law League resorted to any but legitimate means for enlightening the public. The motion before the house did not necessarily involve the repeal of the corn-laws, but of the sliding scale. He must say that the alteration of last year was a virtual acknow ledgment, on the part of the landed interest, of its great injustice. Sir R. PEEL did not think the amendment a proper one to the peculiar motion before the house, and he should, therefore, meet it with a negative. If the Anti-Corn-Law League were deemed an improper association, the existing law should be enforced against it, or the defects, if any ex isted in the present law, should be supplied. It would ill become him, as a minister of the crown, and more particularly as an individual who owed all he possessed to manufactures, to sneer at the manufacturing interests. He could not per ceive any good that was likely to result from such a com mittee as that proposed. Let returns be called for, to show, for instance, what proportion of the probate and legacy duty was contributed by land, and let these be submitted not to a committee, the opinions of whose members were pretty well made up, but to parliament itself. So also of other burdens respecting which there prevailed great difference of opinion. He was prepared to agree to returns which might show what proportion of such burdens were borne by the landed in terest, leaving it to parliament to deal with it as it pleased. He had never argued for protection solely on the gronnd of the peculiar burdens pressing on the land ; he had rested it on other grounds, the capital invested in the cultivation of the soil under a long continued system, the danger of sudden disturbance, &c. It was said he had unsettled the minds of the agriculturists by the corn law of last session, but what settlement could result from a protracted inquiry such as the one proposed? The government had consulted what they conceived to be the interests of the country, and though be was the author of the corn law of last session no fear of any imputation of inconsistency or loss of power would re strain him from repealing that law, if the evidence of facts convinced his judgment that it was injurious in its operation. He was, however, by no means satisfied that any change of the present law would be advantageous. Lord Howicx said that it would be absurd to move for returns which might be made to prove anything on either side of the question. The report of a select committee would be a valuable document, even if it were drawn up by members all from the ministerial side of the house. The ex istence of the anti-corn-law league he thought a great evil, but, in the words of Lord Plunkett, it was " the spawn of their own wrong." Mr. BLACKSTONE said that the letter referred to by Mr. Gibson was not authorised by the Agricultural Society. It was the letter of a Mr. Brown, who had intruded himself upon them as a secretary. Mr. VILLIERs read other letters from secretaries of other agricultural societies, in which it was suggested that even the supplies should be stopped until an inquiry should take place into the state of the agricultural interests. Under these cir cumstances the hon. member for Dorsetshire had better look at home before he attacked the anti-corn-law league. Mr. WARD replied; after which the house divided, and Mr. Ward's motion was defeated by a majority of 232 to 133. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--WELINESDAY. The adjourned debate on the question of privilege was re sumed by Lord J. RUSSELL, who referred to what had been done upon former occasions, in order to show that the house was in these matters surrounded with difficulties. He feared that the course suggested by Sir T, Wilde would be attended with the most serious inconveniences, while on the other band the course proposed by the Solicitor-General was making the courts of law judges of what were the privileges of the House of Commons. It would at once invest those courts with the power of curbing and controlling the House of Commons in the exercise of its privileges. The House of Commons was the only check upon the misconduct of the courts of law, and those courts might be very much gratified to find that they had the power of limiting the privileges of the house in return. If the judges went on enlarging their own powers, while curtailing those of the House of Com mons, the result might be that the latter branch of the legislature would become less beneficial to the country than it was intended that it should be by the constitution. See ing all the difficulties of the case, be should feel disposed to say that they ought not to allow the plaintiff in the action to be entirely free from examination. It would be very absurd to have committed the present plaintiff when acting as a subordinate in opposing the privileges of the house, and yet take no step against him when he proceeded to act as a prin cipal. He would therefore suggest that he should be called to the bar and examined, and if he was proceeding against and in despite of the authority of the house that he should be committed. This wound deter others from a similar course of procedure. The noble lord concluded by moving that Thomas Burton Howard should be desired to attend at the bar of the house on Thursday (yesterday.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that in theory he quite agreed in the resolutions which had been formerly agreed to by the house. After the former debate it was impossible to doubt that the house was the only judge of its own privi leges, and from that principle he never would recede ; but he still thought it was not becoming of the house to commit attorneys' clerks and sheriffs' officers, and plaintiffs, for seek ing redress for what they conceived to be a wrong done them in the only way which appeared to them to be open. In th e former case the privileges of the house were admitted, hot damages were given for excess in the execution of their war rant. The object of the plaintiff was. no doubt, to get as much money as he could, and if was called to the bar he would probably provoke the house to commit him, in order to en hance the damages by holding himself up as a martyr to op pression. In the case of " Burdett v. Abbot," the house had not only pleaded but had obtained a verdict ; and yet it had permitted one of its own members to defy its powers so far as to carry the question to the House of Lords. When the former case was decided in favour of Mr. Stockdale, he was of opinion the House of Lords should have been appealed to, that the opinions of all the courts of law should have been exhausted, or that they should have proceeded at once to le gislate. The Court of Chancery had this power of commit tal, though it could not trace that power to its origin ; but this was not the sort of precedent which the House of Com mons should choose to follow. He thought the course the house ought to adopt would be to plead to the action, taking it for granted that the courts of law in Westminster Hall would take cognisance of the privileges of the house as part of the law which they had to administer. He should there fore oppose the motion of Lord J. Russell. Mr. ELPHINSTONE said that great inconvenience might arise if the privileges of the house were permitted to be ques tioned. He suggested the propriety of passing an act autho rising the Speaker to stop actions by injunction, being in each case empowered to issue such injunction by a vote of the house. Mr. BORTHWICK opposed the motion of Lord J. Russell. Sir R. PEEL said he would readily accede to the suggestion of Lord J. Russell for a select committee had he not, on the part of the Government, determined to assume the direct responsibility. He was at first strongly disposed to refuse to plead and to rely upon their privileges, but recollecting that if the action went on the house would be compelled to com mit innocent parties who were merely subordinate functiona ries, he came to a different conclusion. He was the more induced to this by the consideration of the powerful minority opposed to the former course of proceeding, and to the fact that public opinion was against such a stretch of power. He felt deeply that t whole of the privileges clainaed in modern time by the House of Commons were essential to the exercise of their functions, and he also feared that the courts of law, naturally jealous of their own authority, and closely looking into all the technical bearings of the case, might not take a favourable view of the privileges. According to the consti tution, the house had a controlli ng power, and if the decision of the Queen's Bench in the case of Stockdale had been al lowed to pass unquestioned by parliament, it would have been a foundation for the complete degradation of the house. Although he would not hesitate to commit the plaintiff in this case to Newgate if it were necessary to do so for the pre servation of their authority, yet under existing circumstances he did not think it would be judicious to do so. It would not be advisable to enter upon a contest with the plaintiff at the bar unless they were ready to go through with the pro ceeding by committing him. He thought it would, upon the whole, be better for the house to obtain a clearer definition of the law, and then pass an act which would give them full and unquestioned authority to support their privileges. Mr. WYNN was of opinion, that all modern precedents committed the house to the necessity of pleading in the pre sent instance. Mr. ESCOTT supported the proposal of pleading to the ac tion. Sir T. WILDE regretted that the course re commended by Sir R. Peel did not correspond with the senti ments he had expressed. All difficulties might be obviated b y a manly assertion of their privileges, of which they were a f ter all butY trustees for the benefit of the public. As to pas s i ng an art of Parliament to define their privileges, it was not in the power of mortal to surmise what might be the functions which that house might not be called upon to exercise, n or perhaps was it desirable, on public grounds, that those privi leges should be defined. Eminent as were Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Patteson, they had laid down most startling provisions as regarded the privileges of the house, and if they persevered in their present course they would place the House of Commons subordinate, not only to the House of Lords, but to the courts of law also, and thus make a serious inroad on the constitution of the country. The precedents relied upon should be rather regarded as so many warnings that a similar course should be avoide d hereafter. They were by the proposed course of pleading to the action onl y postponing the evil after all, and renderi n g it more difficult t o be dealt with when it should arise. He could not admit the unpopu larity of the power claimed by the house to be a legitimat e reason for not exercising it,when, in any other point of view circumstances demanded that it sho uld be exerted. He op., posed pleading to the action, because, in so doing, they were not following bad precedents, but making a new precedent which might become seriously injurious to the authority of Parliament. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he admitted the import. ance of not taking a false step in the present case, and he regretted that, notwithstanding all the learning displayed by FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1843 Under the circumstances attendant upon our posi tion, with re g a r d t o t h e aut h or i t i es an d t h e peo ple China, a feeling of jealousy, if not of active hostility, towards us might well have been anticipated. 'We 1 0/ extorted from that people, by force of arms, vast con cessions for our commerce —concession s in the benefi t of which it is as yet uncertain how far other nations were to share ; we had inflicted, too, a deadly violi nd upon their national pride; and we might have safely calculated, therefore, not only Upon being met, for a time, in our new relations with them, by every Petty annoyance within their reach, but, as well, by t he secret intrigues of the residents of other nations, t ° embitter and increase existing jealousies, and impe de the march of our commercial enterprise in that coun try. What, then, under such circumstances, was the imper a ti ve d uty of every British merchant, and 1 every command er o f a B r i t i sh mercant il e vessel , trading in a Chi nese port ? Obviously, it wa s t° exercise every possible circumspection, to use every effort, in the carrying on of their business operation, to avoid any unpleasant embroilment with the popula tion, and by conciliatory and careful conduct to allay 9 the ill-feeli ng so naturally existing against themse lves and th e i r country. Yet this, we regret to say, (13es not appe ar to h ave been the policy pursued by the rwea sidents a t t h e port of Canton ; and, as the result , are advised by the last mail of a serious outbreak I ' l the popul at i on, d i rected exclusively against the British residents, an d attended with the destruction of I° factory, whil st t h e property of every other foreigner..., was protected —a calamity out of which may a rise v, i e j " ct serious resu l ts, and which at all events serve to inn re , injury upon B ritish commerce, by retarding the od turn, on the part of the population, to a state of g e feeling towards the entire British nation. Whether the tone of reproof, in which the mercan tile body in C anton have been addressed on the occaE i° e by Sir H enry P ottinger, is fully merited or no t ' n , 4 ,v' oe r shall n o t presume to express an opinion. That °w e the entire the extreme length of stating that, dur i n g entire p er i o d of eighteen months, during which bep huato been e ngage d in the effort to settle our entanglel3 " with China, the merchants trading in the wa ter ! 0 Canton h ove, b y their conduct, retarded, rat her th an aided, hi s success. If such be the case, we htt,bw of no languag e t oo strong to characterise their folly a nd wickedness. Trusting, however, that no Engli sh i l o st chant, i n C anton or elsewhere, can have been so i . pia to every feeling for the honour and advantage 0 ' country as to h ave pursued the course po i n ted at by the Briti s h p l en i potentiary, there does certainlY aP from every i n f ormat i on which we can gather, have° of been most unjustifiable proceedings on the P ert , o f some of them. O p i um smuggling, and sinugglini6pd every description o f merc h an di se, have been openly 300 insultingly carried on, both at Canton and Wh a l t b; and to an ex t en t w hi c h , h a d even the conduct °L not riotous crews of th e Fort 'William and other ship s precipitated a popular commotion, must nltiel, Chinese have dra wn d own a remonstrance from the authorities, if no t l e d to a second rupture between two countries. Indeed, it is openly hinted, that.e's is a consummatio n wou ld not, to some o f the Polio question—the s p ecu l ators i n tea—have b een une to be very unwelcome. ton , rqj We trust, f or th e cre di t of the merchants o f d it that su c h con d uct will not be persisted i n ; of might to so me extent conduce to the pres ervatin' . .. tranquillity i n Chi na, if t h e owners at h ome , °f Bri t te ships tradin g t o Chi nese ports, were to i ns ist ulr o 0 exercise of s t r i ct regulation over the conduct t,O least' is by whom they are navigated. This much, a t le e certain. If our commerce in China, h o wever val u abl e..c to us as a nation, cannot be carried on withou t res on the part o f tra d ers to a system of gross disbonesil t i n g tO and outr age of all l aw — a system a l mo st at: oo ° l3 , oo r piracy —it can no long er b e consistent with t he I n vas t of Great B r it a i n to equ i p fleets an d m aintain armies and es t a bli s h ments for the protec tion of r r so flagitious and disgraceful. • ate le tter We tak e th e f o ll ow i ng extract fromn v a p dated Hongkong, Dec. 31, 1842: riots °Jeri" " The co rrespon d ence relat i ve to t h e C a nton 1 1 s perusal, a n d w ill prove t h at t h e Plenipotentiary actedhots, The feeling here, or rather at Macao, among the % jo b the is that th e C h i nese will break faith. I b e li ev e they orlon that would, as it would give a grand lift to tea at home; gar iol ground alone th e y h ave se t up suc h a howl. The n ° circ uttv of the Imp er i a l C omm i ss i oner at C an ton is an ugly o oil' stance. However, here at the Government-ho use 0 0 trust or appr e h ens i on o f b a d f a ith on ti. part of t . 4 _ . : 0 o f all is entertained ; at the same time, the non-reesir WAP inouti fbr i s'ccial cotlittlate to inqiiir6 re any pteuliti 4 burdens spee!ally ufk.ctin landed interests, or N4lietlie there were aryst pe exemp Lions enjoyed by that interest, and if sr_ Certain their nature and extent. lie was of opinion thz'A Inquiry would show a case of exemption on the part of the landed interest without parallel in the history of the world. A corn law was per se a bad thing, and could only be justified by very pecu- liar circumstances. . , . Sit' T Wilcit, he had net sagge,iteti hoW the houst Was fA proceed in order to avoid the difficulty. Ile quite agree d that no one eotxld be a proper judge of the privileges of the House of Commons. It must itself be the only judge ef those privileges. Still pleading to the action mould not pre vent the house from taking any other step it thought neces sary; and if they did not plead what would be the result? Judgment would go by default, and the under-sheriff woul d have to assess the damages with the aid of a jury. Would the lion. member for Worcester, in that case, imprison the under-sheriff and the jury, and also those who were subse quently called on to levy the execution ? If the sheriffs re fuse to levy the judges will issue an attachment against them; and in that case would they call the judges to answer at the bar before them ? The honourable and learned gentleman argued at great length that it was impossible to exclude the jurisdiction of the courts of law, and quoted a variety of pre cedents in which privileges claimed by the house were dis cussed in courts of law. If the latter decided against the privileges of the house (which they had no right beforehand to assume they would do), the only remedy was by a legisla tive enactment. He also contended against the propriety of calling Mr. Howard to the bar, even if they should decid e upon telling the officers of the house to plead to the action. Lord Howtcx protested against the course they were about to adopt. The whole argument of Sir William Follett amounted to this—that the House of Commons ought to be and was the only judge of its own privileges, but that they had no earthly power to enforce them—that to enforce them they must trust to the courts of law, although those courts had, according to Sir William Follett's own opinion, decided wrongfully against the privileges of the house in the case of " Stockdale v. Hansard." The house had sufficient power to enforce its privileges, for though its power of commitment was confined to the session, yet the session might be length ened by adjourning instead of proroguing parliament. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that this action was on the part of Mr. Howard a wanton defiance of the authority _of the house, for he questioned the legality of the Speaker's war rant after stating formerly that it was not his intention to do so, and thereby having obtained the omission from the Printed Papers Bill of the clause which would have put an end to the actions then existing. He supported the motion of Lord J. Russell, for if the house did not make a stand, there would be no end to these actions. Sir R. INGLIS opposed the proposition of Lord Jolla Russell. After a few words from Mr. HARDY the house divided , and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 157 to 31. The original motion was then agreed to by a majority of 135 to 71. THEATRE-ROYAL. For the BENEFIT of MISS FANNY TERNAN, The celebrated Juvenile Actress, only Seven Years of age , and positively the LAST NIGHT BUT TWO of her ap pearance, on which occasion she will, for the first time, perform the Last Act of KING RICHARD the THIRD• ON WEDNESDAY EVENING next, the 22nd instant, will be presented Mr. Inchbald's celebrated Comedy , called EVERY ONE HAS MIS FAULT, In which Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Ternan, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Ternan, and Miss Fanny Ternan will perform. After which, the Fifth Act of Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD 111 Richard, King of England.. Her first appearance in that character. To conclude with, (by desire,) and positively for the last time, the YOUNG ACTRESS. Written expressly for Miss Fanny Ternan, in which she will sustain Six different Characters! TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c. 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