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INDIA AND CHI From the 7 a libera o rumor ken oil ary comments. On a auarter. for some extracts g as an evil to among the ence of ry rivers had attracted much of the attention of the governmen , A. demand had been made upon the Ameers of Scinde for and Tatta, and which Kurrache ...nding along the bank of the Indus, with lofts of Sukkur, Bukkur, and Roree, and as aeir territory reached, ,should be made over to the e r. The Ameers appeared at first ea ger to make the towns and •-- ,resenee of the_ British army . , Sir Charles Napier, it eagerness. Major Outram, who was removed in November from the lit a ical Agency at Hyderabad , bad early in December re- sumo th rs trot ,abitants He si iard a steam , a Sir Charles was exE atisfaction of the parfes rculation respe, arbed state of Cabul, where e young son of Schah Soo .. g, at Candahar f Akbbar Khan reign of w with Lord Ellen- h at Loodianah in the beginning of December, ana was ed with an escort to Peshawur, where be was to re me, under the protection of the Sikh govern tention of the governor-general to observe e subject of the Cabul government was avowed r some t: victories in Affghanistan and China bad produced the quieting even the most disturbed parts of the Bun- It was asserted that some documents had which tended to implicate the deposed sove called, the Great Mogul dlekund district 3f Hindostan, or, as h disturbances. The vig lance of the governor nas °art. and on that of his atralised all attempts on confusion in India. was much talk in Bombay relative to an intrigue got rtain natives for the purpose of inducing the Chief of '!zd the Guicowar, to advance a large sum of even to the amount of £50,000, which, as those par etended, was to be expended among certain high influ personages, in order to gain some advantages for that an Prince. The Bombay Government, having been a d of the intrigue, ordered an examination of the papers old merchant, named Dackdee Dadajee, and of others. old merchant does not appear to be personally engaged le intrigue, but the complicity of others has been laid bare he decided measures adopted. The necessity is evident , eing continually on the alert to parry those intrigues !h are usually concocted with all the cleverness of Eastern ling. and so as to involve the unwary, however innocent, rs, to create erat, cal tttttt in the most unpleasant consequences. An examination was going forward into the means of ren dering the Custom-house of Bombay more efficient. The rumour of Tharawaddie's death has been contradicted. He appears now to be thoroughly convinced of the inutility, on his part, of trying an y struggle with the British power in East. e Hindostan steamer arrived at Madras on the At mber, and started on the following day for Calcutta. CHINA vs from China co Macao. to the 15 down to the 19th of NOTCM rom Hong Kor nd to the ler from C ang-tze I Chusar ) be statio I for a d been !atre there. Ld gained a English mer- ,ermitted,according wchowfoo, at Amoy, to have places for perpetuity as a co!or at Hong Kor repairing all their fortifi FOREIGN INTELLIGENCI FRANC} ke Paris par, ned debate ' Thursday and Frida Chamber of Deputies an immense majority adopted the paragraph of the commis• mon in the address relative to the right of search ; and thui the Guizot ministry, which h as made that paragraph its the own has accomplished a decided triumph. M. Guizot, in course of a bold, manly. and di g nified address, told the de puties that be considered the Enr of France, and the grand preventi that, after a leng lishalliance the safeguarc e azainst war with Europe EGYPT ALEXANDRIA, J. 23.—The Paella returned to the pth inst. Cairo .rom his excu rs io n to the upper country, on ; he now proposes to go again to the Delta to superintend the works at present in progress there, and, by his presence, to encourage the agricultural operations in tha LiF 11Ye t him will also leave C a i r o soon, to re. 3 in the present state of the country, require the most energ, tic attention on the part of the super iors. In of the great ex er ti ons of the government ar'' officers who have land in cultivation irn to his farms, In consequence crops will not be !nt as they were expected. urrain 3 know xists: but is said to be disappea what ravages it estimated at from 200,000 to 230,0 0 °- - for agricultural purposes have yet been imported, for spec- u lators are afraid, w hil st t h e di sease prevails, to run the risk of importation ; it i s now, however , eleven days since any case has occurred in Alexandria. is rumoured that the P ac ha is preparing a military ex pe4itionto Darfour, a n d th at H assa n Pacha is abou t to IP Cairo w i th . two regiments, to join a force of some S already in the upper country. 13,000 men TURKEY. The advises from Constantinople are to the 17th ult. They confirm the election of George Rubesco to be Hospo dar of Wallachia, who is said to be entirely in the inter of Russia. The Russian embassy does have made much he a d aga i nst the Porte in the S ervian affair, the Sultan insisting that, as he himself bad kept strictly within the provisions of the existing treatie' no power had a right to interfere. The commissioners pointed by the Porte to confer with the Persian ce sinner on the subject of the existing differ( the two countries have just set out from Con the place of meeting. musta pha pasha had from office as seraskier. A appear to ces between en displaced THE RIVET/. PLAT/I.—The following is a translation of a bulletin published in a Monte 'Video paper of the 21st of November, just received. It seems probable that the victory mentioned in it will impede General Rosas's projects for the invasion of the Montevidean provinces, and place the re mainder of his force in Entrerios in a very critical position. But.x.irrtw : OVVICIAL. Head Quarters, Nobaya, 14th Norember,lB42. " The President of the.priental.lypublic of Urguay to the Minister of War Sir,--The operation which I proposed to effect with the [ry under my orders has had a favourable result. On 12th instant our advanced guards, un d er t h e val i ant Lopez, defeated Crispin yelasquiz, between Villaguay Gualiguay, taking some prisoners and all th e reserve o f l ad, and driving him to this side of th e G ua li guay , had passed by swimming across, the river being led. Our advanced guard did the same, on the ed themselves in front of a body of about !nerny, with whom they kept up a guerilla Yesterday, early in the morning, I crosse d ?.,000 men, naked, carrying merely iefore ten o'clock my valiant fol- er in person words and la _ . ng, destroying, and pursuing the ;h is annihilated ; they fled for Our loss does not exceed fifte:n has not been small. I should IUCTION Mr. Gard t of t to read a c dMODAT I away w 13ariinirtentarp Vtortebing iOUSI t eulog a Affgl was to him a and fair iad now been s The nob: nil Ural and manufacturing y. Various exa 7,orps, a mild I Ro names jra in ps to pa aunt his and wo Cabul. explicit' Th )rd Elle peo[ on of t r, viz KOl3 Hong ?otting We learn from £l9 discon If A obtain eTiptrirki of s 4ppAllts, an ta c ,ddress ith no f a. docua Ltained The z I soon be a h the national d of N le at Cantor e; and their regiments a The Chines, and th December xtraord ar to find rc for erecti s Artillery rhinege ) WITH INS' I have e'er &c. ablished e Tarta country and honourable to the Br: pwever v noticed by aen adverted in terms of re Emperor of Russ to improve the 1131( to t s in his power the tariff d althoug h the a or dettc to be at The no ricies in the revenue, he ted to other and more _ earl then concluded by referring with pride and satisfaction to the enthusiastic reception her Majesty recently received from her Scottish subjects on her visit to that country. The noble earl then read the address, which, as usual, was an echo of the speech. The Earl of EGLINGTON seconded the address. In doing so, the noble earl apologised for his inefficiency, inasmuch as the nresent was the first time he had the honour of add rcss- t was g 3 know that the coun- ry, both internally and externally, was in a state of profound ranquillity. _Ho to be deplored, rccasioned ..ver much the loss of life in the war was t was satisfactory to reflect that the war which , ss had not its origin in any political cause. He did not take a )omy view of the fallin-g venue. which he could trace to recent changes in the He alluE ns of the country to Scotland, the loyal people, and expressed led to her •ed by the duced to go there sty might be in- gain at no distant period ; promising her, in their name, a still better reception. He briefly noticed that paragraph in the speech relative to Affghanistan, eulogi- also the peace N aina and this coup s what had been ef- and the arra overnment and Great Britain. He consic present occasion as one unfit for political discussions believing their lordships would ncur with him in that lord- hope that t. min that opinion, conclude, said that tF ch from but vet the subjects it referred to 'possible to pass them over He approved of the silence pinion, concluded with expre . . ships would concur with expressir unanimous opinion upon the °flour of second The Marquis of LANsnowN .ction being taken to it ere so important that at observation or rem of the speech upon were invited to sa las dress, because, i ar, in that case portation of ( house to subject of the Corn-laws, for if they )ri the success of ti ated from the ad- gt have diss s opinion, all laws relating to the it so as to interfere as little With respect to as possible with the usual cow. of trade the treaty with the United States of America, I it had been ratified. With reference to the in the Speech to the liberality of Parliament en- the Government to bring the hostilities in China and e, he must say that he did not know of _ n the part of the Parliament, unless, ection between the Chinese war and Par- *ghanistan to a clo any act of libera indeed, this con city was meant as an indirect compliment to the income tax The Duke of WELLINGTON said be bad hoped that the tenor of the speech from the Throne would have rendered it unnecessary for him to have addressed their lordships, but he felt himself called upon to reply to some observations which had just fallen from the noble marquis. He was sur prised at any allusion to the conduct of the war, as if nothing had been done more than would have been done by their pre decessors. They had carried on war all over the world with a peace establishment, and the noble marquis therefore con cluded that the present Government would do just the same ; but the present Government did no such thing, The war with China he believed to be a just and necessary war on the part of the Government of this country ; but, if it had been otherwise, it had been only entered upon on the score of the robbery of opium, finding the country embarked in it, and the honour of the country involved in its successful issue, he should have considered it his duty to use every effort to carry success, and to ask Parliament for assistance for This was the course which he had pursued, the part of her Majesty. _ nistan, he was prepared ssued by the Governor-General of that purpose to be a j With respect to theaffairs of Aff to justify every order India up to the present with the United States, the conclusion of which gave him the most heartfelt T .nrri - 1 3ROUG - HA.VI deft e treat and leas rred to ared, that great anted down (that f the incendiary -ned lord then dwelt at irtvalent in France and of search proposed by Great Britai❑ to those powers with the view of abolishing greed to g teelin French ns of Lord Palmerston Lord AUCKLAND defended th se he had pursued. He General of India ated the idea of a recent Govern Jught that neither _ attacking his successor as unseemly, at should indulge in terms to the disparagement or depreciation Lord ASIIBURTONT ;led the tr, aty with the United debate had extended intended amendment, and otion for a corn- ke into its serious considera conditi , ive classes, with a )n the 1 view to ide for —...p of EXETER said that Great Btitain was now Jr the first time to be introduced to China as a great and powerful country, and he hoped that advantage would be taken of such an event to make it known to the Chinese as a eople and to the The Bis Direment of their condition Christian country also. The address was then agreed to, and their lordships ad- ourned HOUSE OF COMMONS—rThuasnAy On the part of members of the government, Sir T. FRE MANTLE gave several notices of motion for different days in the course of the next fortnight. Lord ASHLEY gave notice of a motion for an address to her Majesty, with a view to the adoptio❑ of the best means for promoting the moral and religions educatio❑ of the people. The SPEAKER having read her Majesty's most gracious Speech from the throne, Lord COURTENAY moved the address in reply. in a speech the good sense and excellent taste of which was warmly and repeatedly cheered by the house. Mr. W. P. S. MILES seconded the address. and in doing so expressed his approval of the policy pursued in India by the present governor-general, and the successes in China he looked upon as the most distinguished feature in her Ma jesty's reign. After reverting to the other topics in the speech, he concluded by expressing a hope that the address would be unanimously agreed to. Mr. C. Woon expressed his approval of most of the topics adverted to in the speech from the throne, but expressed a hope that ministers already possessed information which would enable them to contradict the reports which had been circulated of excesses committed by our troops when re tiring from Affghanistan. The hon. gentleman then referred to the right of visit sought to be established between Eng land and America eventually with a view to prevent a slave vessel setting the cruisers of either at defiance by hoisting the flag of the other ; and asked if the government was pre pared to give any explanation of the correspondence on that subject. The hon. member concluded by alluding to the state of the labouring population and the deficiency of the revenue. After a pause of about a minute, Sir ROBERT PEEL rose. He trusted, from the tone of the house, that the address to he laid before her Majesty would be unanimous. On the sub ject of the American treaty he should be prepared to show, that, if it had not obtained for us all which we were strictly entitled to expect, it was, on the whole, an eligible adjust ment, giving us more than had been awarded by the arbitra tion of the King of the Netherlands, and securing to us all His own sincere really important to our claims r the arnest desire to pre eople, made it painful of the President did accurate representation of what had passed in the We had not claimed the right of search, which • --kt ! What we had claimed was only the :ood un to him to say that ,e recent messuag negociatiou right of visitation — A me the right to visit a an flag for the purpose of asce 1 beari wining whether she be sue should turn out she must be liberated, even though she should clearly appear at all points a slaver. He owned himself sursed that America, surrounded as she was with small states, by every one of which she was in danger of, having her flag as sumed, should resist a rule the establishment of which would be so much for her own advantage. It was his duty to tell the House of Commons, that not only had Lord Aberdeen's despatch of December, 18 , 11, upon this subject been main tained in all its principles, but during the fourteen months since elapsed there had not even been so much as an attempt on the part of the American government to answer it. On the subject of finance, he admitted that there was a great deficiency. He had stated last year that, in addition to the deficiency which he had found on coming into office, he pro posed to cause a further deficiency still. He had accordingly remitted duties on 700 articles ; reductions had all taken effect ; but the income-tax imposed to meet them had not yet come into productiveness. Undoubtedly there had been a great falling off in the excise, mainly on the article of malt ; but that had arisen in a great degree from the very unfavour able harvest of 1841. There still, indeed, existed severe distress ; but let not the house infer thence that there must needs be a permanent diminution of consumption. Another American ; w on that vis: I been the disturbed sta rhis s not a fit occasion for statements; but he did now changes on which he could not for hopes. It was complained that the at large upon financ )tn founding good with respect to corn. H r he should make a change, a chang ith the principles he had I remember that in this protection. He believed pound rediction that Lord J. R )rough ha Ps to Affg i up bet g eneral cheat dvert to the rumour countermanded the said that that ru- WALLACE ;enerat to with t is from Sir N. FEE Mr_ VI He was glad income-tax came into I equal the expenditure, .enzthened all his objec- —____ at was moved, of the Governor ply to Lord John Antrnent of Lord s, contended that explanation How . Icx, and seve- 1 Iressed the house, but no amend- I Lddress was ultimately agreed to, the house adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRTDAN On the report of the address b Mr. 11 Al brought up rd t Gat had to say would of a fixPa of the He he •esent law Was :d the country • of placing c, mportation, articles by its var t it appr ment was 11 been, in favour it reatest n , as a fixed duty would do, it furnishes le nature, a handle to the allegation that parli eaislating for a class. His experience as 0- 'e of an agricultural county, ar his experienc like to the result t .ween the uring town:led h. from the (16 a bourer wet to the employers, he rural advocates of the workhouse, and ho, with ministers of Ila s bleeding for the operatives, upheld the same system. ad a great objection to all leagues, whether of nianufac- of a secret charact But he equally deprecated leagues 3s he conceived to be that which combined to carry out the new poor law, and of whose real though concealed motives he would now give the house an unequivocal proof. Reverting to the corn question, he cited arguments of Mr. iluskisson and other eminent states men as authorities in support of his own views. This country, he added, should take warning from what had happened in France some years ago. That nation was then anxious to obtain a navy, and was in progress toward her object by means of a maritime intercourse with the corn-growing countries, when her landed aristocracy, tearing a reduction in the prices of agricultural produce, persuaded the govern ment to stop the importation of corn. Thousands of seamen were at once thrown out of employ, the hope of a navy cut off, and the best interests of the nation sacrificed to the exaggerated fears of a few. _ _ . . The hon. gentleman then entered at some length into the question of the poor laws, repeating many of his formerly ex pressed opinions on the subject. Mr. WARD said it was most important to hear such senti ments emanate from the ministerial side of the house ; though, for his own part, he thought a fixed duty also partook of class legislation, for if a duty were imposed on even a small proportion of foreign corn, provided that small proportion was all that was imported, that duty would in effect be a duty upon the whole corn consumed by the country, Mr. LIDDELL congratulated the country upon the firm position taken by Sir R. Peel on the previous evening in sup port of the corn law. He admitted the present depressed condition of the labouring clasees, and would have been glad had their distress been more strongly alluded to in the speech from the throne, but he nevertheless felt convinced that their distress would be aggravated by the total abolition of the Mr. EWART hailed with great delight the declaration of the hon. member for Nottingham, as indicative of a change in the sentiments of those who were extensively engaged in agri cultural pursuits. _ Mr. VILLIERS, in consequence of what had fallen from Mr. Liddell, asked Sir R. Peel whether he was resolved firmly to adhere to the present corn-law, or whether, as was understood by his side of the house, he only declined to pledge himself to mare some charge at a future period. Sir R. PEEL said he had no objection to answer the ques tion. It was not his intention during the present session to make any change in the corn law, for, in his opinion, expe rience had not confirmed the objections which had been advanced against the sliding scale. H e preferred the present bill to any that had yet been proposed, but he never would bind himself irrevocably to the maintenance of any particular law, for that would be to bind himself to exclude the bene fits of experience. _ _ The report on the address was then agreed to. Lord HOWICK gave notice that on Monday week he would bring forward a motion to be founded on that paragraph of the speech which referred to the falling off of the revenue. On the motion of Captai❑ PoLntr,L, copies were ordered of the correspondence between the magistrates of Dover and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the subject of the ill-treatment of Mr. Fitzjames. On the motion of Mr. E. ELLICE, copies were ordered of the warrant given to the commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation of the Scotch poor-law. Some returns moved for by Mr. Hume were agreed to, after which the house adjourned. THE BRITISH MUSEUM To anybody who is fond of books, or is a student, or even believes himself a student, nothing can be more delightful than a visit to the reading-room of the British Museum. Not that reading in the museum is altogether without its inconveniences, for it is not quite so easy as taking down a book from your own shelves ; but then you are rewarded by the feeling of reverential awe for the mass of learning with which you are surrounded, and by the very air that you breathe. On entering the door of this far-famed temple of litera ture, you find yourself between two good-sized rooms, in each of which fifty to seventy people may be seen sitting at the tables, reading and copying. The walls are covered with books, each room holding, at a guess, fifteen or twenty thou sand volumes ; a number that anywhere else would be thought a good library of itself; but here that number only contains the dictionaries, cyclopwdias, gazetteers, and other works of reference that should be always at hand. On asking for the catalogue, one of the attendants points to it at a desk by it self, where it stands most conveniently for the use of every body, in above forty volumes folio. Near this stands the catalogue of the king's library, which is kept separate from the rest of the collection, in about ten folios more ; and, most wonderful to say, the new catalogue, which is now in the course of printing, and which already extends to fifteen large folios, though it has not as yet got beyond the letter A. This, however, large as the library is, is stating the case rather boastfully ; for these fifteen folios are interleaved, showing as much the gigantic intention of the librarians, as the present size of the library. A reader of experience will not go to the museum unnecessarily ; he will wait till he has three or four objects of search, or books to look at, noted down in his memorandum book, to save time. With these he goes up to the catalogue, and beginning with a book, about the title of which he has no doubt, readily finds it, OS the catalogue is formed on that simplest and best of all ar rangements, the A.B.C. He then copies the title, together with its number, on one of the slips of paper which hang ready at hand ; this he signs, and takes to a window at the further end of the room, where an attendant receives it, and delivers it to the librarian, to be searched for. In the meanwhile, the economist of time returns to the catalogue to copy out the titles of the other books he may have occs sion for, and then, with them returns to the window, in hopes that the first book may by that time have arrived. But, alas! he must wait a little longer ; and though he sees a librarian come up, dragging a light truck laden with learn ing in all forms and shapes, his book has not yet arrived. However, at last it comes, and he sits down to make his ex tract, and in due time the books are, one by one, brought to him by the attendants. You may order any number of vo umes that you choose ; there is no limit to the heaps of learning by which you may be surrounded, but your own dislike to giving trouble ; and that fast wears off after a se cond visit. But, perhaps, one of the books you want is not in either of the catalogues : you ask an attendant to help you in your difficulty, and he takes you into the next room into the presence of the head of the department. He, judging by the look of your countenance that you know what you are asking for, says, " You think that there is such a book ? We have not got it." You answer hesitatingly that you have no doubt of it ; it is published at Paris. The librarian drily replies, " Then 1 will order a copy, sir ;" and you re turn to the reading-room, praising in your mind the excel lence of the management. To those who' can only read in solitude, certainly the museum reading-room is not the best of places ; but those of a more social nature, who at home study among the prattle of children and the bustle of a fa mily, only feel the►r earnestness increased by the number of students that surround them. The tread of an attendant quietly and silently carrying a load of folios only strengthens his attentions, rather than calls it from his book ; the very air of the place adds fresh zeal to his love of knowledge ; and the only interruption that he feels is, perhaps, perceiving that his neighbour is reading Guy Mannering, or that a flirtation is going forward between a polite, attentive, handsome at tendant and one of the numerous lady-authors who employ their mornings in making extracts in the museum. Admis sion to the reading-room ►s easily obtained. The librarians admit on the recommendation of anybody who is known to them, either personally or by reputation ; and as they have the largest circle of acquaintance of any men in London, no body who tries can ever find a difficulty in getting an intro duction to one of them.—Enquirer. RAFFLING SPIRIT AT BARNSLEY. — At almost all the pub lic-houses in Barnsley, may be seen printed lists for the re ception of subscribers' names to raffles they run—" Raffle for a Gold Watch ;"—Raffle for a capital Eight Days' Clock ;" —" Raffle for a rich and complete Tea Service ; '—" Raffle for a handsome Colt ;"—" Raffle for a valuable Mare ;" " Raffle for a Pig and Poney ;"—eight or ten pig raffles ; and, not least though last,—" Raffle for a prime fat Bullock !" REMARKABLE HALO FORMED BY CRYSTALS OF ICE FLOATING IN THE AlR. — This rare meteorological phenome non, which is very seldom seen round the sun, was observed and its dimensions measured by Sir David Brewster, at St. Andrews, on the 28 th of Decemb er, between one and three 'clock. It had the form of a white circle, part of which as beneath the horizon, surrounding the sun at a distance " 9 .1 degrees from its disc. This species of halo has a tinge of reddish brown along its interior margin, and is pro duced by light that has suffered two refractions in passing through three or six-sided prisms of ice. Several curious phenomena, connected with the polarizations of the sky, as modified by the circle of doubly refracted light, were ob served on this occasion, and indicate a very unequivocal manner, the cause of the phenomenon.—Fife Sentinel. THE MENDICITY MARKET.—Twins are looking up, but orphans are still below par. Blind men make but little pro gress—but their dogs, when properly trained, fetch a great deal, and that, too, at a single bidding. Crossing sweepers are firm, and still stick to their posts, though the Lascars have lately swept everything before them. The frozen-out gardeners are complaining bitterly of the mildness of the weather. Congreve matches, since the rain, will not go off at all. Ballads are largely quoted—but do not sell for more than a mere song. Begging-letters do not answer, though the chalk-writing on the pavement, especially the running hand, goes off as rapidly as ever. Wooden legs are sent away begging ; whilst sailors, who have lost their arms, go crying about the streets, but find that London is not exactly the place for alms-giving. Fiddlers continue to scrape as much as formerly ; but organs are turned to no profit, and the Scotch band, we are sorry to say, no longer pipes to the same tune that it used to do.—Punch. WEARING THE BREECHES. — IIis grand distinguishing characteristic, decision united with resistless determination to gain his end, appeared early. I well recollect of him, when he was a child in petticoats, after he had got his first 'e he was allowed to wear it daily, g ay when she was sewing in the icitchen, and saying to Ili, , - he took his stand by her side, " Mother, I should get on my other clothes now." " You will get them on," she replied, in a tone of authority, raising hpr vnire ns she snnke_ without looking at him, " you will up to his mother one c get them on when these ones are done.' The moment she said so, he left her side without speaking a word, and walked straight into the room. In a few minutes he came back slowly through the kitchen, and went out at the door, with his petticoat torn into a long narrow strip, winding out after like a serpent. Thus his end was gained; the petticoat was done, and the " other clothes" had to be " got on." Throughout life, it may be added, the same decision of cha racter distinguished him. Whenever he was pushed or in difficulty, he took high ground, and had recourse to decisive 1, the child was the perfect miniature c most ev in the dicated more or less distinctly in the child.— of Robert Pollock following INIEN OF HIGHLAND ACCOUNT KEEPING.—The is a copy, verbatim et literatim, of an account een two worthies, living not a hundred miles from !mit betwixt Hugh Roy, an alexr. makachen en receeved from hugh ruy, too pond staislin, J pond stairlin, an againe a pond 3 shullins stair . a inutchkin o wht. An alexr. makachen paid ugh roy S pond stairlin, an too bola ' • ' • oo ponds pre bol ; and again:: 17 shullins, an againe suxteen shullins, an againe a leg o pork, an againe a. pair o yung pigs, and againe 1 pun stairlin and a botle o ail."—Ross shire Advertiser. in, an a mutchkin o whusßy )F THE COUNTRY CONSIDERED SIR,—We certainly live in extraordinary times, with much that is new and ominous in the state of the country. Relaxa- s, and reduction of existing from various quarters, distress Trnment found it necessary to s, particularly for the ne ed ; with them increased con- tion in our c duties became, general, and the Gov yield to the pressure ; lower prie, cessae sumption was expected, but production has gone before consumption whilst the prices for labour have remained low and depressed, which checked consumption, narrowed our circulation, and materially injured the revenue. A superabundance of money also prevails, caused by the accumulation of the annual surplus returns from the capitals of the moneyed interest, which are deprived of the outlets or vents they have hitherto possessed, in foreign loans, and other such investments ; the consequence of the want of confidence caused by the losses they have sustained from them. The field at home has also been greatly narrowed, if not almost exhausted, such as the demand for railroads, on which above fifty millions have been expended ; nor does there appear at the present time to be a prospect of change ; the rates of interest are, therefore, greatly reduced, and whilst money, as money, has become less productive than perhaps it ever was known to be in this country, it has at the same time become of more value for general purposes, caused by the excess of operatives and labourers beyond the means for employment, the consequent low state of wages, followed by the reduced value of goods, from over-produc tion. In addition to these causes of depression, we have an excesss of population beyond our immediate means for em ployment, particularly in the manufacturing districts, which can no longer find employment for that excess, much less continue, as heretofore, to take off and employ that of the agricultural counties, whilst the vents for emigration appear, for the present, to be obstructed. We hear much of the advantages of " free trade," but hi therto our approaches towards it have produced no satisfac tory results. In truth, we can have only one half the bar gain to make, and unless the governments on the Continent, with the United States. will consent to reduce their duties on our manufactures, so as to admit them for consumption, the reduction of ours on their corn and other productions will not avail us ; we must export the fruits of our labour to enable us to pay for the fruits of theirs, or no reciprocity will exist. We have already made the experiment by reducing the duties on foreign corn, and the formation of our general tariff, and thus set them the example, but without effect; for at the same time these governments have employed themselves in positive prohibi i constructing new tariffs, which increase their duties on our productions, amounting, i n many cases, tion, thus rejecting our app roaches to an to ncreased intercourse with them. Nor ought this to surprise us, for the time has arrived when their agricultural pursuits will no longer afford sufficient employment or support for their increased and in creasing population ; therefore, in order to do so, they have either become, or are fast becoming, manufacturers ; and, to effect their object, they find it necessary to exclude ours. They are ascending the hill in manufactures and commerce, with the advantage of their home markets affording consump tion for the first, and means for extending the last; whilst we appear to have reached its top, being dependent on other markets to take off a considerable part of ours, whilst a dis position unfortunately prevails here to discourage home con sumption, by narrowing and reducing the means of our agri culturists, who have hitherto been the best and safest, as well as the most extensive, class of customers our manufacturers have possessed, and giving increased encouragement to the industry of foreigners. The Anti-Corn Law League say, " Open your ports with out restriction to free trade, particularly in corn ; ' they de sire to make the most hazardous experiment of withdrawing protection from our home growths, on which we have hitherto, and safely, been dependent for bread, without regard to the risk of consequences that would follow. I therefore say, " Do no such thing," for to become dependent on foreign supply, is to risk, if not invite, starvation ! Neither is it the interest of the foreigner to desire it. They must employ their people ; they find they can only do so by establishing manu factures such as ours ; for such to succeed and prosper, they must supply their people abundantly with food at moderate prices ; in this, to them new state of things, it is not for their interest to encourage the exportation of corn, which must have a tendency to raise the prices, and thus enhance the cost of labour and of their manufactures, and, in place of cherish ing, opposing and checking the rising industry of their peo ple ! Permit me to add, that in seasons of failure here, when pressed by necessity, we would then ask for increased sup ply ; we might be told, " charity begins at home," and be met by prohibition of export! We would ask for a fish, they would give us a stone, when, with diminished and discouraged home production, we might have to struggle with enormous prices, such as neither manufacturers (who would be them selves the first to suffer), nor the Anti-Corn Law League, have as yet ever dreamt of—this is a state of things that every prudent and wise government and even " the United States,' have studied to avoid, by encouraging and protecting the cul tivation and protection of their home growths of corn. I ask, is it not, then, our duty to divest ourselves of all party feeling, and in sober, serious truth, anticipate the pro bable consequences—l might say, next to certain results— that are to be expected to follow, if we fairly embark on this sea of novel, but likely to prove of fatal, experiment; and whilst we pause, let us turn to more cheering prospects, let us consider then with deep attention the immeasurable re sources we possess for the increase and safe extention of our trade and commerce, and consequent employment for our people, in our foreign possessions and colonies; greater in extent, importance, and population, than all that belong to the rest of Europe, but more :particularly British India, where the trade and consumption of our manufacturers, their unlimited production of raw materials of almost every description, and invaluable employment for our shipping, have increased nearly tenfold during the comparitively short period that has elapsed since the termination of the com mercial charter of the East India Company. There we have an immense range of market and consumption, under our own control, for the sale of our manufactures, to be exchan ged for their raw materials, as well as for rice, so abundant there, and required in times of scarcity here, to which the only limit is their means for payment' Let us then cultivate and I:increase those means by increased protection to the industry of the native population, and the general improvement of the country. At home much also remains 1 1 to be done; let us set our shoulder to the wheel, and by every means in our power promote and stimulate agricultural improvement for which so wide a field is now opened up to us as our best and safest dependence, for which we may justly expect to reap au aloundarst supply of fvud Co. E,cu. , .1 consumption at lower prices, such, as in all probability, will be found more moderate than any dependence on foreign supply would afford, in place of throwing and exposing our selves to the mercy. of the foreigner, who is ever ready tc take advantage of our necessities, to drain us of our circu lating coin in place of purc hasin g our manufa ct ure s . I par ticularly refer to the gener al ado p tion and ex t e n s i on of fur row or surface drainage, which may be made the means of affording employment to the excess of our labouring popnla tion, of greatly increasing the produce of the soil at reduced expense of labour, and by tending to improve our climate, counteract the effects of unfavourable seasons, thus enabling our farmers to sell their crops at lower but still remunerating prices, and at the same time affording security and safe em ployment for capital to be thus expended, when advanced on loan to the landed proprietors. The use of the subsoil plough is I believe, also productive of similar advantages on certain sterile soils, and the introduction of bone dust as a manure for green crops is now well known and admitted to be highly beneficial. By such means as these, steadily pursued and adhered to, I hope and trust that our resources, so called forth, will be found ample and sufficient to restore our energies, extinguish despondence, and bring us better times. The monied in terests will then find'at home remunerating employment for their accumulating capital—the manufacturers satisfactory markets for their goods; —the merchant and shi p owner a profitable field for safe, prudent, and judicious enterprise; whilst, with increased consumption and its attendant circu lation, our revenue will increase sufficiently to meet an ex penditure conducted on principles of justice and economy ; and, I trust, food and employment will then be found suffi cient to meet all the wants of our labouring population. With such views and hopes, I trust we shall safely escape from the designs of those who would, under various dis guises and pretences, tamper with our currency, like the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce—since the result of their measures, were they to succeed, would be to pay both public and private creditors with probably 15s. in the pound, if so much, or even at all—a position, I trust, British faith, nd integrity, will never be placed in. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN GLADSTONE. Carlton-gardens, Jan. 31, 1843 THE PRISONER M ` NALGHTEN. - -Immecliatelv after Lord Abinger agreed to postpone the trial of the prisoner, he was reconducted to the cell which he had previously occupied— namely, the one in which Courvoisier was placed, and which he will retain until his trial. Not the slighest relaxation, it is understood, will be made in the precautionary measures which have been adopted to prevent the possibility of his de stroying himself, for up to the present time he is constantly attended by two of the turnkeys, but between whom and the prisoner scarely a word passes. From the plea which he made when arraigned before Lord Abireger, and which, but for . go t i l l i t e v,, in , interposition of his lordship, amounted to a pl ea of , eeion th ; a h t e l t ie th w e ou o lt eo w t h h e e n re re .e m o o te v r e e d d , anent sullenness and apa thy were again maketmhaemanifested els hislsotme de it; former ounrwi not t a h e s e er v r ae a pn t l expectedpa tl alteration of the coureeenance was visible, but he proceeded to take up a book which had pre viously been reading, and commenced at the part he had left off. The friends of M`Naughten am extremely sanguine that the evidence which will be adduced to the insanity will- be most advi s e c r o r c n o p i l o e c t i e d , e a s n d An n o t I i t i l s o i o o p t i e n r i r o u n o „ te w d e e u t ndt e te e rs of a n i o d, ee h o i i s t legal y for s s i om e , e years serg e past Sergeant Evans, wi11, isf said,the proved,Abe division, wasont h s e en othersent to d Glasgow, obtained most important information to the con trary ; and to establis h this p oint, the Treasury caused the Beale, of the Ennist o show that of the bill which was sent before the grand jury, names o H h u e s s a p r o s t , a o n o d t S h e e r g h e a a c n k t when they endeavoured to enlist M`Naughten,. his l answers and conversation were that of d a sane a il n e d w r e a t t e iox e a ser p i r e so th n e . The persons who are connecte have for a length of time been con i l ,} d l . . la severa in- Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon to the gao , has . prisoner to be one-of the quietest and o m e i d lde w g s i t th p i r o iso th n e er w s a w i l l i s o terviews with him, and will be one of the first witnesses ex amined as to the state of mind of IVl`Naughten. The hectic flush which he had previous to his committal has left him, and his general health remains unimpaired. A FALSE ALARM.—The following alarming occurrence took place on the night of the 27th, in the town of Bromley, in Kent : — About one o'clock a j o urneyman coachmaker was aroused out of sleep by his wife, who at the same time exclaimed, " Oh! I have taken it." She held a teacup in her hand, which was empty, but appeared to have con tained a dark-coloured fluid. In a state of the utmost lisdileaimpcsebhomnens-lespeoenidottbii possible t e wb l ya y sh r i a sn followeda downssist. alarm he jumped out of bed, and on going to the other side, he iotnt :Ili : . s o ept u letpi n trayi d btnicegeai a nnl altge, s spd m sohai i iiop l ,de l u rsttf p ehuh h ,ela i t‘ with l it , tielhet surgeon. i labelled cbtho;et Almost distracted, he gave the alarm to t n h aml e cpotir p nae o gn i td i h c a e atn , o proper nh w ca h el o f, promptly called and was followed as s t o bi s o ue tli n t o h em a at full of laudanum the preceding day, no time was lost in ad and to avoid delay, the stomach-purnp was applied, a quantity after a while completely of warm water was thus injected into the stomach, and by say, the rejected fluid the combined effect of this and the emetic, that organ was emptied of its contents. Strange to had neither the smell nor colour of t h b is e i b m o p tt r l e e ss h i a o il l contained ti more than half laudanum although t m e s a t i i n n e e d s ~ in a ' t n h d e an ounce of it, and although the dark-coloured fluid still re both the odour and taste of that drug. hence it was inferred that the fluid had passed into the in up by a powerful cathartic,andthe attendants were desired to keep the patient in a constant state of locomotion for some hours. It does not appear that any bad symptoms came on, and the combined effect of the medicines has been to leave the woman at ' • this time in a state of safety. The laudanum was purchased of a druggist, and had been in the house two or three years. From this cause it had probably lost some of its active properties. This attempt at self-destruction ap pears to have arisen from low spirits, brought on by family misfortunes, and aggravated by a recent quarrel with her hus up nhodivaeglri:ta d band. The case is important, as showing, in the first place, the good effects of promptitude in similar cases, and the in valuable benefits to be ascribed to the use of the stomach pump ; and in the next place, the danger of keeping so dele te. itai. a substance as laudanum under any circumstances within the reach of those who may be disposed to use it rashly. THEATRE-ROYAL, W'ILLIAMSON•SQUARE Mr. BROWNE, Mr. RAYNER, and Mr. STUART rPHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the ith instant I 1 the Comedy of THE SCHOOL OF REFORM. / Lord Avondale Mr. Ferment.. , 111 r. Browne Robert Tyk Mr. 11„iyner. Mrs. Ferment.. Mrs. Seyrootir. To conclude with the New D/ama of NAUTICAL TOM D JERRY ; Adventures of Tif* British Sailors Or, The NOTICE.—In consequence offhe daily appeals to the sympathies of the Inhabitants of Liverpool, by persons con nected with the management of the Liver Theatre, Mr. J. HAMMOND, at the end of the Play This Evening, WILL DELIVER AN ADDRESS to the audience, explanatory of the position in which he is placed, and assigning such reasons as, he trusts, will justify him in claiming the support and patronage of a liberal and impartial public. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE RE-APPEARANCE of Mrs. FiTzTriLLIAm. FIRST APPEARANCE of Mr. BYCKSPONE. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING', the 7th, and To- MORROW, the Bth February instaf the Performances will commence with the Comedy of THE WIDOW Fitzwilliam. Widow Brady M Fitzwilliam. After which an entirely ne omedy, entitled A CURE FOR LOVE. Richard Sadgrove, E5q..... Mr. Buckstone. To be followed by the new Monopologue, called THE BELLE OF THE HOTEL; Or, American Sketches ; in which Seven Peals will be rung by Mrs. Fitzwilliam To conclude with the laughable Farce of JOSEPH BRAG ; Or, How to Make a Will. Joseph Brag Mr. Buckstone. TO CORRESPONDENTS Several communications are postponed in consequence of the intelligence by the Overland Mail, and the meeting of the Bank of Manchester, occupying so much of our space. We beg to refer our readers to a very able letter in another column from John Gladstone, Esq., on the present state of the country. We can answer two of the questions put to us by " Impa tient "—who is the author of the forthcoming opera, and who is the composer of the music ? The songs are by Mr. James Stonehouse, and the music by Mr. George Hargreaves ; and in answer to the third question put to us, we can only say that we have been informed the inte rest of the piece is likely to be very considerable. Con nected, however, as Mr. Stonehouse is with our establish ment, we decline for the present to give any opinion of our own ; but we may observe, that the songs which he has already presented to the public have, in moat in stances, become established favourites. We still adhere to our original determination with respect to the communication of " A true Churchman." We have no grounds beyond the tone of the letters themselves, for any assurance that our correspondent is favourable even to the church establishment, and we cannot consent to give publicity to such circumstantial details aathose enumerated, without receiving " A true Churchinan's" real signature:as a voucher of their truth. The stronger the impression on our correspondent's mind of the truth of his statements, and the less objection can he have to furnish his name ; and on the other hand, the more " manifestly improper" the conduct reprehended, and the more incumbent is it upon us to insist in ascertaining it. EN* Et erpool &tani:Jarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1843 The debates of Thursday night, upon the Address in reply to her Majesty's Speech, have not afforded to the " liberal" party much to chuckle over. 'We do not argue at all upon the circumstance that, in neither house, could the leaders of that party screw up their courage or their desperation to the dangerous venture of an amendment. The Speech from the Throne, we admit, scarcely left room for such a proceeding. But we may fairly point, as an unmistakeable evidence of the utter weakness of the position occupied by the opposition, to the absence of even one solitary point, in which they have succeeded in inflicting upon their opponents a damaging blow, or injuring the just con fidence reposed by the country in the wisdom of the past measures, or the honesty of the intentions, of the Conservative ministry which happily controls at pre sent the destinies of Great Britain. In the House of Lords, the principal objects of attack were the Ashburton Treaty, and the claim of Sir Robert Peel's administration to the merit of having brought to a triumphant issue the wars in India and China. We may add to these an unworthy effort to damage the reputation and misrepresent the conduct of the Governor-General of India—Lord Ellenborough. How triumphantly these ill-tempered cavillings were met ! The noble and manly address of Lord Brougham was, of itself, sufficient for ever to settle all disputes, with respect to the wisdom and perfect success of the Ashburton mission. even had not a single member of the ministry addressed himself to the subject; and with respect to Indian affairs, and to the individual conduct of the Governor-General of India, the clear and convincing and, we may add, decided speech of the Duke of Wellington, has by this time, we suspect, cooled the ardour of those few reckless statesmen, who may have been disposed to make any one or all of these questions weapons of offence against govern ment, as it has certainly effectually dissipated from the minds of the public out of doors all doubt of the prudence and wisdom which have guided the policy of the cabinet and of its officers in that quarter of the world. The Duke of Wellington is prepared to justify every act and every order of Lord Ellenborough, from his first entrance upon his very arduous task to its successful completion ; and the People and the Par liament of England will be disposed to place fully as much confidence in the judgment, the honesty, and the veracity of the hero of Assaye, as in those of the scribe of the Morning Chronicle, or of his patron, Lord Palmerston—not to mention the various small people who yelp in their train. In the House of Commons, of course, the ministerial triumph was not so decisive as in the House of Lords, although it was ample; and the discrepancy we must attribute to the different character of the two houses. The hereditary branch of the legislature contains amongst its principal speakers men of business. In entering upon a debate, they address themselves to something definite, which is at issue. They have got, too, the very valuable property of being able to confine themselves to some definite point, and are not always found wandering from the record. The members of the reformed House of Commons, on the contrary, have a provoking fashion of discoursing " de omnibus rebus et quibusdum aliis." The tongue of one of your reformed patriots, once put in motion, has no more idea of stopping until the lungs are exhausted, or the small modicum of brains or conceit which set it a-going is expended, than the wheels of a locomotive have of standing still until the steam is exhausted or the boiler has collapsed,. His eye, " in a fine frenzy rolling, Glances from Heaven to earth, from earth to Heaven ;" and, when you would imagine that it has " compre hended the universe," proceeds to poke and peer into small crannies and dustholes. It is beyond the power of any man or any minister to follow a dozen or two dozen speakers through all the topics which they may choose to introduce in their various discursive flights; and hence it cannot be said of the opposition in the Commons, as of that in the Lords, that it was en countered and crushed at every point. This much, hrever, a perusal of the debate in the former house will abundantly shew ; viz.—and we say it emphatically—tifiat never, in our recollection of par liamentary proceedings at least, was an opposition attempted which was more contemptible and ridiculous— more disingenuous, shu f fling, and dishonest ! His sublime mightiness—Lord John Russell—was dissatisfied with every act, profession, and principle of ministers. There was nothing they had done or professed which he could not have done or professed better ! His Bs. duty was the perfection of attempted legislation. It would have settled the question of the corn-laws, and annihilated the League ! Would it ? Lord Palmerston was eloquent upon his own foreign policy, a subject upon which his lordship's notions appeared to be sin gular. The red-tapist would have settled Europe, Asia, Africa, and Ainerica, by this time, had he been still allowed to protocol and draw his pay. Messrs. C. Wood and Lord Howick--the Pylades and Orestes of the house—had a hundred petty quibbles to vent. Mr. Joseph Hume was eloquent upon free trade, as was Mr. Villiers; and the two wise members for Manchester were almost electrical. But a battery of pop-guns, directed against a British seventy-four, would have produced quite as decisive an effect as this shower of words—" prave 'ords," as Fluellin would call them — produced upon the conservative phalanx, or the ministry of Sir Robert Peel. Amongst the notices of motion placed upon the journals of the House of Commons, there are two which it affords us sincere pleasure to observe. One of these is a notice, by Mr. Roebuck, of his intention to move for a committee to inquire into the origin and objects of the war With Affghanistan. We should cer, tainly have preferred a staunch Conservative, as the author of such a proceeding. We have some faith, however, in the honesty of Mr. Roebuck; and if the same energy and determination of purpose be brought to the task, which we trust he has now imposed upon himself,—the task of unravelling the disingenuous manoeuvring and concealment, on the part of the late Whig government, with respect to this question, — which he displayed to conspicuously—we say not to what good purpose—upon another question during the last session, he will he, indeed, entitled to the thanks of his fellow-countrymen. The other, and by far the most important notice, is by Lord Mahon, of a motion' for an address to her Majesty, urging upon her the necessity of steps being taken by the legislature, for the promotion of a system of moral and religious education for the people. We know not what may he the reply of the government of Sir Robert Peel to such a motion. We know, how ever, what ought to he that reply, and we hope for the best. One member of the ministry of Sir Robert Peel has already expressed himself, in terms not to be mis taken, upon the vital importance of such education to the people themselves, as promoting their happiness, temporal and eternal, and as promoting, too, the safety of the most valued institutions of the country. We refer, of course, to the sentiments uttered by Mr. W. E. Gladstone, on a late occasion, in our own town. We might also dwell upon the remarks which fell from the lips of another gentleman connected with the present administration—Mr. Sydney Herbert—upon the subject of the duties which we owe to the poor of the country. By far the strongest ground, how ever, of the hope which we entertain of government aid, upon this question, is contained in a passage of the speech of Lord. Stanley, in the debate upon the address, on Thursday night. Referring to the recent disturbances in the manufacturing districts, his lord ship—in reply to a complaint of Lord John Russell, that those disturbances were only alluded to, in the Speech from the Throne, as occurrences to repress which it was desirous of calling into operation the full powers of the law—gave utterance to the following very remarkable, and, we trust, significant intimation. We quote from the London Times:— " The noble lord" (John Russell) " was not warranted in inferring that no other measures were contemplated by the Government, which should have the effect of removing the evil to which he had adverted, and the main source of which is the ignorance of large classes of the community. I con cur certainly in attributing a great part of the disorders, which have from time to time arisen in this country, to the want of st(fficient means of religious instruction, (hear,) and I believe it was most signally manifested in the course of the recent disturbances, that they were most rife in those places in which the greatest ignorance prevailed ; (hear,) and that they were suppressed with the greatest difficulty, and took the firmest hold of the population where the means of reli gious instruction were least efficient, either under the ad ministration of the clergy of the Established Church, (an ironical Hear' from the opposition,) or the ministers of dissenting denominations (hear;) and 1 do not think cer tainly, sir, that I am not claiming too much—notwithstanding that ironical cheer—in stating that, in operating upon the minds of the people, through the medium of religious in struction, the clergy of the Church of England have been found, to the extent of their means, at all wanting." Now, are we not justified in entertaining very strong hopes that the direct admission here made—that the want of religious instruction for the people is the fruitful source of crime and insurrection—is to be fol lowed up, by government, with some practical and effective legislation, to supply such want ? The mini,,try of Sir Robert Peel are convinced, now, of the fact, which for years past we have never ceased to declare, that the manufacturing interest is drawing together, to the large towns and villages of the north of Eng land and Scotland, vast masses of population, subject to periodical depression in their condition and, hence, easily inflammable—easily led on to outrage by de signing demagogues. They see that no provision has been made, or is making, for the. moral and religious education of those massed, by those who profit by their toil; and can it be other than the duty of a paternal and wise government to take care that, even at the ex pense of the nation at large, an evil which threatens its internal tranquility, and the very existence of its most valued institutions, should at once be grappled with, at all hazards and at any cost ? We humbly think that it is a duty; and we trust that our hopes of the performance of that duty, on the part of Sir Rohm reel's Ouv ei inuent., uto nut dcatiued to In; pointed. We really must confess that we feel some degree of indisposition to approach the consideration of the say ings or the doings of the gentlemen assembled, on this day week, at our Amphitheatre. " Tedious as a thrice-told tale" were the spouters, one and all ; from Villiers down wards—if such a progression there can be, even when that self-sufficient sage is at one extremity of the scale, and our own Blackburn at the other. The latter sage, by the way, we are glad to see, was on this occasion, for the first time in his life, justly appreciated by a Liverpool audience, and especially by the ladies, who are excellent judges of a bore. The Doctor was there " big with speech,"—ready to illuminate and astonish all the world,—hut so were the fireworks ; and as the said fireworks were supposed to be likely to make the most noise and give the greatest light, they went off, and the Doctor only went home. The rocket went up; the stick came down. Alas ! alas I for the Doctor ! To two of the illustrious who figured on the occa sion we must, despite the nausea with which the sub ject affects us, say a few words; and first let us address ourselves to Mr. Daniel O'Connell—we forget whether at this moment he is the Right Honourable the Mayor of Dublin, or only plain member for Cork county, and beggarman extraordinary to all Ireland. And if we are guilty of any breach of courtesy or etiquette, he must pardon us. What brought, we ask, this very eminent personage amongst us ? His zeal for free•trade ? No, no. We Saxons are a very green people, but we can not gulp down anything so palpably absurd as that. But what did bring to this favoured town the arch imposter ? We suspect, a little private business of his own, together with, perhaps, a slight —a very slight— sympathy with the designing people of the Anti-Corn- Law-League. That an agricultural population, such as that Daniel O'Connell represents, could be bene fitted by the repeal of the corn and provision laws ; that the county of Cork could be benefitted by the ad mission into the markets of England, of foreign wheat, oats, and other grain, and of the bacon, hams, pork, butter, eggs, &c. of America and the continent of Eu rope ;—is what that eminent patriot no more believes than he or we believe in the infallibility of the Pope. Why, then, stand forward upon the platform, and pro claim as true what he knows to be so manifest an ab surdity ? Good reader, there are many reasons. First, the wallet is empty, and little chance of filling it on the other side of the channel, whilst the leaguers bleed freely. Secondly, an access of manufacturing activity would invite some thousands of his starving and beg gared dupes to fatten in the manufacturing towns; and these immigrants bleed freely, besides strengthen ing the hands of the Romish church in this portion of the empire. Thirdly, the destruction of the British market for the produce of Ireland would go a great way to destroy the established church in Ireland. Fourthly, it would go far to annihilate rent the country—Ao root out the hated Saxon race, ano esta blish "fixity of tenure" in the existing Irish popula tion. Fifthly and lastly, the success of the league would repeal the legislative union between the two countries, and establish the Church of Rome as the dominant church iu Ireland ! Surely here are reasons sufficient for the presence of Mr. Daniel O'Connell at the league banquet in Liverpool. The other gentleman, with whom we purpose having a few minutes chat, is a very modest individual, named Bright. It appears to be the " Role" of this meek personage, at every meeting which he attends, in any town except his own, to take his hearers to task for their various sins of political omission and commission, and to hold up for their imitation the very different way in which they manage things in the enlightened town which boasts the honour of having " raised" a sage so illustrious. That Mr. Bright has a perfect right to assume the part of the schoolm!ster and the moralist, must be evident, when we remind our readers that he is, first and foremost, a millowner ; secon dl y, that he breathes the pure air and moves in the polished society of the borough of Rochdale, or Rachdaw—local etymologists differ as to the spelling of the word, but Tim Bobbin has it Rachdaw. Thirdly, that he is a Quaker; and lastly, that he has studied with much nction, and quotes from -a fact of which w Byron's " Don Juan" think " the society" ought to splendid, we understand, to wit- ake notice ess the enthusiasm \Vitt] vßich lie gave at tt g on 'Tuesday the celebrated and übidne urn the very moral poem in question— " Oh, for a forty-parson power, to ellaunt Thy praise hypocrisy . . Although some people seem to he of opinion that the passage was rather teo satirical a hit at the " ministers of denominations," and one of the fraternity present, we are told,, was heard to mutter that a forty Quaker power would be quite as effectual a qualification for such a task. Upon this point, however, we leave the parties to settle their differences, and proceed to the matter we have more immediately in hand. The modest Mr. Bright, it appears, has of late been varying his studies, and by way of relief, we suppose, from the naughtiness of Don Juan, has dipped into the Prayer Book of the Established Church, in search of argument in support of his free trade crotchets. And one, which he holds up as conclusive in favour of the abolition of the corn-laws and the blessings of free trade, he has found in the prayer which our church eaches us to use " in times of dearth and famine." In that prayer we beseech " of God, our heavenly Father," to "grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly sup, - for our iniquity may, through his goodness, be mercifully turned into cheap ness and plenty." There, exclaims the Leaguer; .by that very prayer, the Rev. Hugh W.N elle and every churchman acknowledge the advantage to the working man and all classes of the community of a cheap loaf. " Cheapness and plenty" 1 how do you get over these expressions ? Stop one moment, most modest of sophists ; and tell us—what is cheapness ? Adam Smith, we believe, was of opinion that cheapness and plenty were not synonymous terms; in other words, that " an article might be cheap or low priced, not because it was plentiful, but because the money to buy .t was scarce." Now, we use the words "cheapness and plenty" in this prayer as synonymous. We pray that the fruits of the earth may be both abundant in quantity and within our reach to purchase. We pray for that cheapness which the farmer, the landowner, the merchant, and the labourer equally desire—that cheapness which is created by abundant harvests, vouchsafed us by a bountiful Providence ; and not for the cheapness which the corn jobber and the millocrat seeks—the cheapness which is to beggar the cultivator, depress the fortunes of the landowner, and reduce the labourer to the condition of a serf, eating his daily bread only in such quantities and for such tasks as it may suit the avarice of his taskmasters to allot him. Cheap bread ! Aye that would be cheap bread of which it would be left to the tender mercies of Mr. John Bright, or any other Quaker cotton lord or corn Jew, to fix the price! But we are sick of Mr. John Bright, and respectfully wish him health, more modesty and more brains ! We should really imagine that, in his lucid moments, or at least in those intervals of solitude when the un happy irritability of his temper has no object to vent itself upon, or stage upon which to exhibit, Mr. Alder man Earle must experience deep and gnawing remorse. That a man, occupying the position of a gentleman, and, we presume, possessing, at times, the feelings of one, can stoop to the bu f foonery which, upon every successive meeting of the council, Mr. Earle practises, is indeed humiliating to contemplate ; and, to his friends, ought to suggest serious doubts of his fitness for a position in which his infirmity is made so con spicuous to all the world. A man may be permitted to grin, and snarl, and snap, and chatter, for the amusement of a private circle—may stand upon his head, or enact any other similar absurdity, in his own dining or drawing-room; bnt surely it is rank cruelty to permit him thus to degrade himself in a public assembly, met together for the transaction of important business, and in which every senseless word uttered, and every grimace used, are duly recorded, for the perusal and the laughter, contempt or disgust, of an entire community. We did purpose saving a few words upon the subject of the debate itself, which Mr. Earle so completely succeeded in travestying; but we withhold, and our readers will thank us, we doubt not, for so doing. The opposition to the present system of the Education Committee we once thought worthy of being treated with something like esetioum argument and attention; but, thanks to his Reverence, Mr. Parker, and the twenty dogeared Douay Bibles, referred to.in the me morial which formed the subject of debate on Wednes day, the opposition in question has become now simply contemptible : and the efforts of ifs ablest supporters were limed twigs to catch such sparrows as the gentle man who voted that the said dogeared articles "should be given up, were it only to get rid of the question," and then jumped round and voted that they should n ot be sold, or otherwise disposed of, for the achievement of the same object. There are people, it seems, even in this enlightened age, who are ready to admit that three and two make five, but deny that two and three make up the same number ! We commend them to Cocker and common sense. SACRAMENTAL PLATE.—Mr. John Painter, of Church street, has presented St. Simon's Church, in this town, With a pair of handsome cups for the communion service. THE EATHER.—On Saturday night the wind abated, considerably, and a keen frost set in, which has continue d ever since, and we have now more delightfully seasonabl e weather than we have experienced this winter. - - The number of publicans and beer-sellers, summoned be' fore Mr. Rushton, on Friday, was 26. In all the cases proved , the defendants were mulcted in severe penalties, and a caution given as to future proceedings. It is worthy of remark, that neither on Saturday no r Sunday did a vessel arrive from a foreign port. Nor, with the exception of steamers, were there many either coastwise o r from Ireland. - ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—The stone of which this b ea utiful structure is to be compos e d w ill, we un d e r s ta n d, be supplie d from the Darley Dal e Q uarry , i n D er by s hi re , an d brough t thence to Liverpool by Messrs. G. Wheatcroft and Son s boats. THE ACHILL MISSION.—The meeting which was al" nounced for last evening, at the Music-hall, for the purpose of hearing from the Rev. Edward Nangle a detail of his in teresting operations at Achill Island, has been unavoidabb: postponed, in consequence of th e su dden illness of Oa' gentleman. ST. BRIDE'S SCHOOLS.-9 public examination of the fant department connec t e d with the above schools was held on Monday week, before the subscribers and friends, vg"`; the children w ere ques ti one d ex t em p ore by M r . S. Hacs. e ,', o ' master, in Scripture and other useful knowledge, to tP entire satisfaction of all present. Merchants, captains, &c., sailing to the West Indies' ~ Africa, or any o th er un h ea lth y c li mate , are recomm ended t take a supply of Middlewood's Botanic Hair Oil, which 'l t only prevents the hair from falling off or turning grey,. 1) ,„ f preserves the scalp cool, soft, and healthy. The propile h i s will satisfy any doubts of these facts. For price, see advertisement. DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The - Commissioner . o ,e l , the court have hitherto h e ld t h e i r s i tt i ngs i n t h e S e ssioli b ' house. As, however, the Sessions-house will, this week , t t required for the business of the Borough Sessions, and, 13 , e r , month, for the Assizes, th e b u ildi ng i n C as tl e - s t r eet, '° merly the Queen's Arms H o t e l, i s fi tt i ng up as a t e mpora ry court for the use of the Commissioners. DEATH FROM A FALL.—Some weeks ago, Hester Shit; wood, aged 80 years, who lived with her daughter in Norf%, court, top of Norfolk-street, went into the yard with a c ,. ° 0 dle, which was blown out ; and i n re t urn i ng s h e f e ll itl i f cellar hole, and broke her leg. Sh e li ngere d un til Fr' last, when she died in consequence o f th e f rac t ure and 01 " injuries. The inquest will be held this day. THEATRE ROYAL : MR. W. J. HAMMOND'S ADDR°74e. It will be seen by the Theat re R o y a l a d ver ti semen t that 0 . W. J. Hammond intends to address the audience this 0°,4 ing, from the stage, on th e su bj ec t o f th e a ttempts 1 7 0 , making in certain quarters to throw the onus of the tat! PO secutions upon him, and otherwise prejudice him ' 0 t ber mind of the public. There will be, no doubt, some 1.1 2, t he curious disclosures made. The five act comedy ° f ea rs " School of Reform" i s we ll cast. Rayner's Tyke , ago, was a fine performance. IVir • INQLEST.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of John Duncan, carter for dell, Taylor, Union-street. The deceased was on Saturda4 r 3l - vering bags of sugar from his cart, at a warehouse in t",f t er tar-row ;he had slung two bags in the jigger-rope only.,_ ; W as slinging them, an d w hile they were being hoisted up , w beo preparing some other bags to be similarly delivered , _ o t he one of those above fell down upon him, and killed Ilia? spot. As some further evidence was required the am was adjourned until this day. wo ol THE GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—The twentieth argil ro o dinner of this Society will take place, in the larg e ° o o 'er the York Hotel, this evening, at six o'clock. thew 001 stand that'great preparations are making fo e amus e dation of the gentlemen proposing to attend this , 1 !`. 0 0 0 celebration, as a much greater number is expected tr:wh° any previous occasion, to the many influential partiSi v io have promised to be present. The society is ralT e e' eo' creasing in numbers and influence, and we believe '',,ietiest rolled a greater number of members than all other s° ' o a d of a similar kind, in the kindom. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY g EVENING.—The olish e ss still exhibit some depression. There was not niucp._` or; transacted to-day, and as the chief of the opera P a d th e sales, quotations closed flatly,—Consols for moiLq ebe gee r i ee account at 94* to 4 ; Bank Stock, 173 to 174 ; bills, 635. to 655. premium ; India Stock, 266 to 2u"..' Cefl per Cents. Reduced, 95* ; Three-and-a-Half _Peer,,,, Reduced, 102 to *; New Three-and-a-Half per u , 111 ' 05 , 0 0 6toi s. ; pr L em on i g um A . nn l u n iti f e o s r , ei l g 2 n Is3ec-ul6ri;tieasnd Spanishlndia A B: t n i c s l rs ' t e left 61 18-it to I ; ditto New, 231 i; Portuguese con ve er C 0 06; to i; Mexican, 31* to *; Dutch Two-and-a-Half 85 to. o , 53+ to Dutch Five per Cents., 103 to I ; Danis% DelV r i c e Brazilian, 741 to 75i ; Colombian, 2 31 to ; 811 0 ced P 103 to 104. Russian Stock was quoted at the Ova of 106*.