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Richards, Davis, and four [e, Mr ', Henr From Fla per, James Johnson, Kenney, A. G. Fyfe J. Coleman, Ca, Henry Mignowitz, Robert Mor'ro , Salter, H. W. Knowlan, Alin Owen, I six soldiers, one woman and one child. Captain Clegg, Jam Mr. Stewa Billing, H. Edey, Sir Francis Bond Head is, it is rt Governor of the Cape of Good HoF Two children were drowned in whilst sliding on the ice. pond, on Friday last xpecting inform n the enure it deprive ittarti r 43 L( ~S6s~~l 1 the 13th of May, and NoTos said h petitions were presented, and the house adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY ANLEY S, on from Mr. Laboucherf Canadian I that ti] uty of three s oer construction to the despatch by which the kt this moment the - A been led to do so government were Governor-General as to the ling frat ...0 and collusion, by transferring the tons imported to this country as colonial wheat. Upon ' , motion the ' the measures government would res which they might find it necessary to adopt G. PALMER a committee was ap ) the shipwreck of British vessels, and neserving the lives and property of shipwrecked motion of M ;overnment of this country . - relating to the detention or search of French vessels on sus picion of being concerned in the slave trade. f investigation, and he therefore hoped the n would not press the motion, as he must op- He hoped the house would leave the matter in the The adjourned debate was resumed b han had e s and their pke of the distres er befor and more experienced, but both ed in obscurity. medy were alike invol returns quoted by Sir James Graham on the pre king, for they led to the inference that the more the ere starved the longer they lived. He corn- stated that on Portuguese wines a dot less than 700 per cent.. which not only c as levied of no Ited as a barrier ltroduction of our own manufactures to Portugal. humbler classes of this country of a good they drenched t iends. Mr. D'ls Mr. B. COCRRANE S nd the c ho was, he sup- I that' it was remark auction of Brazilian sugar indition of the country he did, that con- 'ram Canda Sir A. L. Flay moved the a which was immediately agreed tc bournmer.t. of the Alebate, HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY of. Lans- The Duke of WELLINGTON informed the Mar., downe that inquires had been made respecting the letters he had referred to relating to the Affghanistan war, but was only able to find one of them, which he laid upon the table. He could not find the letter of General Nutt, but he must nnv nrtiprc In reply to a question from Earl FITZWILLI Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated that .£75.000 had been col lected in consequence of the Queen's letter, to %•hich was added 1.:25,000 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 earl HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY The Forged Exchequer Bills Bill was read a second time The adjourned debate was resumed by Sir A. L. H AY, 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, be 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 LAYARD, 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 tress. Mr. BLACKSTONE would oppose the motion, but still must state that he was not satisfied with the speech of Sir R. Peel related to the c orn -laws ; t the commen cemen t of the sess i on , as far as that speech 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 )tiators that I Canada. ie commencement 'ssion the state of trade in Lancashire had become more unsatisfactory ; and with respect to China, he was of opinion that-our merchants and manufactruers shotild be very cautious how they shipped more goods to that country than was justified by the demand. With re,trd t. merce of the country m u st decline under it s operation. — He regretted that although on all sides the greatest sympathy was expressed for the distress of the people. vet from the on.prn_ :ed for its relief vosition more necessary, and, if considerately ful measure, can scarcely be adopted pects populous and increasing districts COLERAINE ELECTION.- after a three days Dr. Boyd Sir H. Bruce Majority for Dr. Boyd The election may be considered virtually over but Dr. Boyd I to that circumst CHINESt TOOLS AND CH MECHANICS their iron work is not good, yet their tool lanes, axes we should have irc arved is traced on the wood from t ng along the a . These are eit eat many tailors t i a good pattern that there w as they s rticle At the close of the poll on Fr iggle, the candidates stood 1 Both candi ,by terian re excellent, and kept very sharp ned that the work had bee ade of it consists merely of gh which the wire is passed and mad :h is kept outsi'l ie of an adz way the front sideboards for they copied t I mat- done with a chisel single piece The patter n to b, attempt to imPate t absurd sonal appearan ing th 'e them uzzled them- about our r y answered the purpose ta eping our hands warm, being lined with fur. Only on lan succeeded in turning out a pair at all resemblir lisn glove did not di RANCI LADY MEN OF TH. irt the city, and they had always plenty to d BY THE WO- the most picturesque sites in 'Syr al occu ended on bEgn mins, witn Ene snows or riermon above it 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 which became more narrow and precipitous as we at no gre, thousands Nablous i. Itw 3 great number and, as the Queen . of England's ind in tbeir best dresses st scene I ha tnessed s to burn incense nflux of strangers - to the Fr for the day to stare' a prised probably the whol louvers b-- - and variety of the costume oi LUG Imre mingled bete• was at times oppressiv gbbour tion of t d themselv ho came up and stablib son of rank, was as had walked ulse in apprc her hard fate apar trod uction 3 our pro/ to sketch from Hasbya; but had met with sc Lrdy Francis' tent, and, not haN .ved. I .ved unfair cl a lar kesie Y FOR IRE ?iittick's ( EDWARD 1 chief Board of Trade v to the cause E *d had it gone farther sed because they and we were disc I because to maintain th Loy ,overnment refore hoped the Govern eeling of stability. tate of thin I Howick and his supporters as cure of the prevailing evil, and he cost or living e been no necessity Thr the discussion he present operation c he corn The Americans were distres -1 more food than they could dispose of ; had not sufficient food !ctly heard, var th.r IMP aid that SANooN, who was very impe crease our fore Did it not stril n trade without any sacrifice on our part. them that if they diminished the price of ice at home, they would thereby reduce the employment of labour by narrowing the home market; and the question to be taken into considration 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 nothing but the foreign trade, whilst the borne market, notwithstanding all that had been urged, was the at protection, but he would ask, did shoemakers, glovers, and other artizaris, 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 based v being contracted into ;ollntry were 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 'm to this that means should be.adopted icility of credit, which had always been the too gre its commerce on some more In addition to the too great , other causes were in operation to Istomer (hear, hear It would sound and substantial bas facility afforded for c produce country o had to contend with the barrier's reared uVagainSt our Pro ductions in all the countries which formerly dealt with us. (Hear, bear.) These causes operated powerfully in pro lucing the present distress. It appeared to him that the iresent debate had no other object than to let out the fixed it which had been pent up during the recess. (" Hear," 1 It had no practical tendency, and was, in ) more than the dim shadowing forth of a cor❑ Id understand the motion if it were for s, but in its present shape it appeared the house have somethine snhAtantint his opi cne country be misled by such a beating of the the present distress was not owing to the high price of , aut to want of employment for the people; and yet it was proposed to sacrifice great permanent interests for a pros -I benefits from America and Poland. of which pect of conjectura toe nouse could have no assurance (hear, hear) ; and thereby run 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 ? Lle 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 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, he 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 manufac tures ; and, under such circumstances, was it possible for the manalacturers to raise the wages of their labours? It must at last come to this—that they must adopt either of two courses—they must either repeal the corn laws or reduce the value of the silver coinage. Sir J. HANMER said be 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. Ile 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 tl commerce of this commercial country, the home market would prove insufficient to save our manufacturers from ruin. They must abandon the fallacy of protection and embark fear- on the sea of commerce, if they hoped for general pros- Mr. P. M. STEWART said that every interest in the coun try was in a state of depression and distress, and he could not therefore see with wh a t p ropr i ety th ey could vote against the motion of Lord Howick. It was neither natural nor right that the people should be famishing in the midst of plenty, and if they rejected this motion they must not be surprised if they should be told, on their return to th e i r dis . . as the madness of many for the gain Mr. COLQUIIOUN 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 repea!ed had heard used in France during a recent visit was this—" It is very well for England to propose the adoption of principles )f free trade amongst all nations, because her manufactures I at such a pitch of perfection that, together with enormous capital, and her mines of coal and iron, they give facility of producing so cheaply that no other country her ; but with us the case is very different, wain our manufactures by the principle of unlikely, therefore, thit underany course iberal, foreign countries would have ar nd we can on bt pursue, boweve.r.l follow our example. The evils of the country, he contended, were mainly attributable to overproduction, fictitious capital, and derangement in roreign mar not attempt to remedy all this by destroying the bdme mar- hey wou Ket aiso, ny witnarawing all the protection v turies had been given to the landed interest. Mr. BARING said that he presumed Sir James 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 ur cen- made some most extraordinary observations. The right bon. gentleman then contended that Lord Howick's motion was justified by precedent, and that it was not necessary for him to state what remedy he proposed for the evils he corn 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 commercia mneficia The right hon. gentleman then attacked the Government for unsettling the sugar trade, by holding out an expectation that the prohibition of foreign sugars would he repealed, and now announcing that they had no intention to do anything. The corn laws were also unsettled—so unsettled that be would have no objection to place the members of the Go- box and heir oa 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 whiz Government for proposing to ile with the former corn law, and having placed Sir R. in power for the purp ose o f ren d er i n g th a t l aw per . .. ere not very well treated by the bill of last dmitted that there was some reason in the stion of the Government that it would not alter the I w of last session until it should have had a further 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 Dectation of such a result. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was at a 3 know the object of the motion, or what course the was to pursue in the event of its being carried. He ned it would be an immediate proposal for the total of the corn laws, leading to interminable debating as 1 repeal, or to the proper amount of duty, should a uty be agreed upon. and leading to no practical result er. The object was too vague; it pointed to nothing ; and he was opposed to any proposition so futile, and he could look upon only as an insult to the distress country, which its professed purpose was to alleviate. ion. gen aring) hac nd secure d that if t Mr. DARBY opposed the motion, which was admitted even on the opposition side of the house could lead t o no p rac ti ca l .. _ ;vas 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 never knew a free trader in the article be dealt in himself. They heard a great deal of the repeal of the duties on corn, but why should not vs+ GU ,rum en (nun' armies as well: Tilt 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 trade in matters which did not affect their own interests. Lord H. VANE reluctantly opposed the motion of wanted free Howick A Lord One of the objects in view was clearly an altera. ion of the present corn law, and he could con sen t to no • • sudden change in that law which would have the effect of leading to serious perturbation in agricultural affairs. Mr. BROTHERTON supported the motion of Lord Howick, not from any party motive, but 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 becom e 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 bon. 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 Howick, 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 02pended 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 cpuntry 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 lievethe distress of the country, and the plain meaning of the 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 commerci a l treaties and negotiations, he must say he did not expect much from treaties which were made a pre text for continuing the corn laws. It was this country that should concede instead of requiring concession from others, for while the Brazils levied only 15 or 20 per cent. on our had placed 400 per cent. c sugars. He repudiated the notion of maintaining a preponderating landed interest, and said that the manufacturing and mercan tile community would not. submit to be treated as a secondary class. The landed proprietors created a vested interest as a reason fnr ~nt repealing the corn law. He called upon the he responsib Government to consider . ../ty 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 one had proposed a remed y for this distress, but he was prepared with a re med y — p artia l it is t rue — of no great weight, and only tempo rar y , a s he trusted was the cloud 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 steam had given the fullest development to our ma nufacturing power, than to any protection given to agriculture. Mr. CoungN denied that this was a party move, and said the motion should have been to inquire into the state of the manufacturing and a gricultural 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 c ontinued. 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 farmers, and next quarter day the landlords would find it out, for every free holder in Dorsetshire, and every farmer also, had received a sealed packet from the Anti-corn-law league. The hon. gentleman then commented at great length upon the injustice of the corn law, which was admitted, he said , by w Knatchbull. when he said that the co— • iws were necessary. in order to keep 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 was 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 the country, .that this state of things was te? -.y snortly to ne 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 _pon the right lion. baronet at the head of the government the whole responsibility of the present position—to throw the responsibility on him, the right honourable baronet. individually—(cheers and counter cheers). Sir H. 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 R. PEEL said that iuti.ces or me non. mernber snould not influence him in the discharge of his public duty. He regretted that-the debate should have taken a character so political. He had no objection to the form of the motion of Lord Ilowick, and he would meet the question entirely upon its own merits. If they went into committee would the noble lord propose a reduction of the duty on tea, cotton, to bacco, and wool, and, if s o , 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 recov ere d from the ef f ects o f t h e suspens i on of trade during the p ass i ng and imme di a t e l y subsequent to the passing of the new tariff. The right hon. baronet then gave a sketch of the difficulties I.e 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, It sh , .1' pled ge himself to the maintenance of that .aw it it should be tou a nd — tliat 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 their conduct, in 1840, in vo ting against Mr. Ewart's motion —l ""tion of the duty on foreign sugar from 635. to - i n pressing the reduction of 355., wit fteir rece my upon their opponents, as if they had themselves been all their li ves the most strenuous a d voca t es f or suc h reduction. Th e present Government h a d b roug ht t o a c l ose two wars, and h e h oped would b e a bl e t o e ff ect re d uct i ons in the army, navy, and or d n ance estimates to the extent of £850,000 this y ear, and that in future years s till f urt h er re ductions might b e made. The r i g h t h on . b aro n e t conc l u d e d an admirable sp eec h by an enumeration of the various objects which the G overnment had been ena bl e d to e ff ect d ur i ng t h e short period th ey h ad been in o ffi c e, an d a d ver t e d t o t h e present position of the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Soul:, 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 hon. 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 system s o f restriction. The right lion. baronet subsequently admitted the correctness of the principle, but it was then too late, because foreign countries had already de- termined upon the restrictive system, and some five or six hostile tariffs were already adopted. If the right hon. baronet 4i0C444 ttiF niAt ilsWar4l4 tt,#4l,4l , 4iith. Pi . fro? ti'aPt irim e d i4 t 4 V 414P;ii:i 4 1 4 hut If o u r rue S , artettlqari; attcolted hilt) for lojwiniz Olent by his taria, 1)p initatitiv replied that it w,;..; th 4 tariff c.f he boasted had had littla or no effect at ail iq reducing prices. With respect to the corn laws, he was of opin an eight shilling fixed duty would not now settle lie question, but he had no doubt it agreed to when he first proposed it, the question would have been settled for many years. Mr. COBDEN explained, that by the use of the words " individually responsible " he meant nothing more titan as the head of the government. Mr. ROEBUCK 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 who 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. tie 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. FEREtAND having withdrawn his amendment, the house divided, and the motion of the noble lord was defeated. For the motion Against it Majority THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE MR. BROWNE AND MR. S7'U4RT. Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST,Aith the whole of the New Scenery, Machinery, &c., atIIALF PRICE. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st instant, the Opera of THE BARBER OF tEVILLE. After which. the New Farce of FORTY AND FIFTY. To conclude with TEMPES 1' H E ROYAL LIVER THEATRE. Trll IS present TUESDAY EVENING, th e 21st i ns t an t, the performance will commence with a new Drama, called YOUTH AND AGE ; OR, THE YOUNG COLONEL AND( AIS OLD WOMAN Michael Witzgoff Mr. Buckstone. The Countess Xenia.. ( - the Old Wotan) Mrs. Fitzwilliarn To be followed by a new Vaudeville, called FOREIGN /IRS AND NATIVE GRACES ! Emily Staples.. Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Sam Buckland After which, the original Duo-Drama, called THE SNAPPING TURTLES ; OR, ➢fATRIMONIAL MASQUERADING. Mr.'"Timothy Tantalus Timms Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Matilda Timms To conclude with the laughable Farce of JOSEPH BRAG ; OR, HOW TO MAKE A WILL. Joseph Brag .... Mr. Buckstone.. TO CORRESPONDENTS " Curliamis" in all probability on Friday. We cannot insert the letter of " A Reformer" without his 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. 4Lb# 7Libtrpoot OtanDart. TUESDAY MORAING, 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 which has ever been next our hearts, to abandon the effort—and the reward of perseverance is now before us. \Ve enter upon our fifth year of proprie torship with brightened and brightening prospects, with added triends to support us—with increased in fluence with - tite 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 returning 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 be somewhat supererogatory. We shall continue to follow the straightforward path of honesty, as we have, to the best of our judgment, followed it hitherto. We 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 lirice. 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- V 406004 in thif tioiefittoirlfig romitggiktorldr, Pfriwo i Why aro OH ~ ', A part; • ;rit row ill'olterlatt eap i n f l imcl, up o n milch poionninitii to %;,iiit creatures as these ? Ara «'C to lio inactivity, whilst these mountehankp play put their farce ? We say, distinctly, o ! :t;ch 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 let the voice of this great community be heard expressing its 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, titan 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 storm 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 the 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 the 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 right—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 the Leaguers of the large town of Sheffield; and in the course of his remarks gafe 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 MON' PARLIAMENT, BUT FORCE ; THIS SHOULD HAN EFFECT IF THEY DID NOT CHANGE THEIR SYSTEN HE HAD HEARD OF A GENTLEMAN WHO, IN A PR] VATE COMPANY, SAID THAT :F A HUNDRED PEI SONS CAST LOTS AMONGST THEM, AND THE LO FELL UPON HIM, HE WOULD TAKE TH LOT TO DEPRIVE SIR ROBERT PEEL 0 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 ATTEAIR 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 HE WAS PERSUADED OF THIS, THAT WHENEVER SIR ROBERT PEEL WENT TO HIS GRAVE, THERE WOULD BE BUT FEW TO SHED ONE TEAR OVER HIM"! !! How 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, from 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, th e p arty was d i spersed; 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 BE 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 alba was, by a character no less illustrious and re splendent in talent and worth than Lord Brough am _. by a Whig 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 NAt5 14 OP' . , 10v.46 tit i.rit4P, fonlivitish ihrortorsid th° t'rni,lo;l intorrore be viii; i~iis 1)4;, , ,t 1 - 4mdtwt of " ii u diggenti,,g /ould bring upon himselt the hostile interference of the league in Bath—the city which he represented' with a view to oust him. by tracts and " the holding of tea parties," (!) 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 mart of cotton, in the library of rile House of COI' mons ; aid by so doing, we maintain, rendered in' famous, 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 th 3 present session the gentleman in question has not made his ar pearance upon the arena of political agitation. A do mestic bereavement, we regret to say, has been th e cause. Well, on Friday night, for the first time, he 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 language directed against Sir Robett Peel : " It was the duty of every individual member of th e house to throw on him" (the Premier) " the INDIVI DUA L AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY of the present state of affairs." The hungry and starving, maddened by the sedi' rious appeals of a revolutionary faction, are to bold Sir Robert Peel,—not the Government, but the Premier himself,—individually and personally responsible for their sufferings ! But proceed— " He w::•ould tell the Right Honourable Baronet that the whole responsibility of the present lamentablelan d dangerous state of the country RESTED UPON 1118 SHOULDERS I" Need we wonder that the response of nine-tenths of the House, before which this infamous language Was uttered, was a perfect shout of indignation ? Ther e was not, we venture to say, one member present who did not recognize it at once in the sense in which 11 was understood by Sir Robert Peel himself, As THREAT—an attempt to turn that statesman from / 116 course by the fear of personal consequences. Now we ask the dispassionate consideration of our 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 cas e which we have placed before them. Can any humeri 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 no Me" 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. Bailey 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 al least, without avowedly flying in the face of that re' ligion from which we suppose he derives his sustenance , he would probably have said jnst what he did ;" and in relation to what fell from Mr. Cobden, the same j o urnal remarks as follows, " We must observe, that we do net impute to Mr. Cobden an intent to murder; but w e 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 popula r odium, with no other purpose than to increase hi s own credit and power with the most violent class Of politicians. he feels no scruple at recklessly and un" teasingly labouring to direct that odium " personally and individually" on the Minister whose life has been once already attempted. If he is not anxious to Pt ly the Premier out of th e wor ld , lik e t h e " gentleman '' that lie wots of, he cannot by the extreme of charity he 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 th e suspicion that, though he has no intention to use the pistol himself, he does not find himself at liberty l' 3l affront those who have." Well, the debate on Lord Howiek's motion, laid' at one time threatened to " drag its slow length along" to the end of the session, has at last been conclude"; and, we ask, what.has it added to the previously e:i l4 ' ing stock of human knowledge, ,beyond a somewb i l better acquaintance with the morality and designs 0 ? 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 the ir various homes to enlighten the atmosphere of the me tropolis ! Yes—we beg pardon —one fact we ha ve learnt ; and that fact an astounding one : the fact tha t one hundr e d an d n i nety-one members of the House °I , Commons entertain the opinion that an enquiry, by committee of that house, into the distress of the n a i tion, a n d t h e propounding before such committee-4 f the wh o l e h ouse, m i nd—of all the various nostrums ° f its assembled sages ; — t h e i nterruption, during t hetr performances, of the entire business of the legislatur e ', —the interruption of every negociation in which it° vernment may be en g a ge d w i t h f ore i gn nations; tile. unsettling of the p u bli c m i n d , and the stop put to all commercial transactions, by the uncertainty 'O le o must exist as to the r esu lt o f i ts d e lib erations :—s uc a course we have l earn t i s , i n t h e op i nion of the tn i n ° , ~, rity in th a t h ouse , th e course most likely to relieve eaisting distress of the country, and to snatch the cod ' merce and industry o f t h e nat i on from its state °i stagnation and difficulty! Surely, this is a fact worth recording ; f o r only as ourself, kind reader, what must have been the pro' ,ical result of the success of Lord Howick's wise Pr e; position. Imprimis the Speaker mus t h ave left th e chair, which would have been forthwith taken by IViP Greene, the chairman of committees, and then what ? Was Lord Howick prepared to propose are; medy f or t h e national distress, and what was tha t remedy ? P er h aps h e was so prepared. We sho uld have b een to ld , in very general terms that we roust " unfetter th e commerce of the country"—the last new recipe propounded in a very elaborate article 1 . the Edinburgh Review, just published—and, in party cular, we must change our present corn-law for a fixed duty. And then up would have bolted the men i ; hers for Stockport and Manchester, and Bolton, an d I host of other places—about half of the Whig-radicai phalanx—and kicked the fixed duty proposition out °. the hand s o f t h e h eir of the house of Grey, and si:it, upon it. Then Willi am E wart, perchance, woul d ha proclaimed th e repeal of all protecting duties— A li .r e e annihilation o f customs and excise, and ten millions of annual revenue—to be replaced by "direct taxation and at the mention of these words— " unpleasing to a Whiggish ear". we should have been treated to such a storm from rho eft of th e c h a i r as would have set the very hairs uP"no ;he Speaker's wig bristling on end, Like quils upon the fretful porcupine,', whilst from some Dumfries baillie, in the Strang -t o , Gallery, a groan would have burst, at the horri d Pr o position of the member of his choice, which w otl to have melt e d t h e h eart of a stone or a philosopher seen hear. A n d a ll t hi s time, whilst this amusing geof was enacting i n t h e H ouse of Commons, not a piPetto wine, o r a h ogs h ea d of sugar, or a cargo of tea 6101 have b een so ld f or l ove or money; our merchants %ir broke rs must h ave looked on with folded hands; jy vessels must have been laid up in dock ; exery ► 910 ported arti c l e must h ave b een b onded on arr i va l, ow the l awyers an d b ankruptcy of f icials become t he ° trtt busy p eo pl e i n t h e community ! A hopeful wa y - of relieving the distress of the country ! a _. of Such must h ave b een t h e resu l t of t h e su cee- i ' ia l Lord H ow i c k' s propos i t i on. There was no Pr° eao, good to w hi c h i t cou ld poss ibl y l ea d . It was a jt and despicable party movemen t ; an a ttack ' _vbic ea ,/ wanted the quality whi c h ma k es it s au th or respec t . i t boldn ess . I t sa id to t h e Government against ` v t il t co : ) ic• it was lev e ll e d, " Y our po li cy i s erroneous "; - proposed, for the d ec i s i on o f th e h ouse an d the of t gill'sa. try, no pla ns o f i ts own. I t was, i n f act, one t efforts of obstructive policy, which we fully exP e a c tir ioX be the policy pursued by the opposition party the present session Do we regret, however, that it was made t r e el 'or it drew from th e G overnment o f Si r It° l3e ; b e ;everal declarations of o pi n i on w hi c h we 11°I." to