The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

FERRAND AND COBDEN.

W. Ferrand, Esq., has, dnring the past week,
been one of the gnests at Bearwood, Berks, the
seat of J. Walter, Esq., of the Tithes. He has
addressed the following letter to Mr. Cobden :

TO R. COBDEN, ESQ., MANCHESTER, " COMMERCIAL

TRAVELLER," AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE

SIR,—If you believed in the political principles which
you professed, both in the House of Commons and out
of it, during your anti-corn law league agitation, you
are the greatest political Impostor of the age :—if you
merely avowed them as the paid agent of the Lancashire-
Cotton Lords you are the most " artful dodger" that
ever " supremely diddled" his deluded dupes.
"We are all for ourselves in this world," said anti-
corn law league Alderman Brooks of Manchester in the
lobby of the House of Commons, when he asked me to
aid him fn keeping up the price of his sugar, and the
consummate impudence with which you wear his mantle
and act upon his principles would be "supremely"
ludicrous were you not producing frightful distress.
During your whole public life you have raved against
" commercial treaties" as the drag chain to commercial
prosperity :—you denounced them in Parliament as " an
insult and mockery to the inhabitants of the British
Empire ;" " only intending to throw dust in the eyes of
the people ;" and you emphatically called upon the
House "not to allow the Government to interfere with
trade, but to settle its own Commercial policy, and to
leave other countries to settle theirs, FOR TO ASK THEM
TO REDUCE THEIR DUTIES. WAS PLACING THE Com-
MERCE AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE MERCY OF EyEfVy COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE
EARTIL"

The energy you displayed was backed by an prganised
in civil war ; the
confederacy of selfish and unscrupulous demagogues
pprriepmaerei‘diintoisteprlusnhrgeuntkhefirrom cotintilr
the
conflict, and shaking
off all " personal responsibility," avowed that " the
unadorned eloquence of Richard Cobden" had alone
achieved " commercial freedom."

The Manchester free-traders in their blind phrenzy of
success decreed you "a national tribute," and £BO,OOO
were exacted from the public as your reward for giving
" unrestricted freedom to trade," of which you declared
yourself as proud as Wellington was of Stratliteldsaye.
But what has been the rewar4 of those who paid it ?
what the gratitude cf him who received it ? Hear, you
" supremely diddled " dupes : the destroyer of the
" foulest monopolies "—the denonneer of " commercial
treaties." has recently gone to Paris "as a private
individual"—has stealthily taken the first opportunity
ever given to him of binding England in a " commercial
treaty" with France, which has given her " a foul
monopoly" in our markets ; in which he has ignored
his own free-trade principles—has granted to France all
that she required and demanded to make her a success-
ful rival to England :--has forced England to be and
pray of the dreaded Emperor for " p.ro4ction from
the ruin in which her commercial interests are involved,
unless he deigns to grant the humble petitions of the
crowds of suppliant manufacturers and merchants driven
to Paris by Mr. Cobden's scandalous blunders and
treacherous conduct.

And what, sir, is your present reward ? The Lanca-
shire cotton lords, false as yourself to their political
principles, have just collected for you 440,000 as a
return for this apostate, treaty, under the expectation
that .4t would destroy many important manufacturing
trades in England, give them the " monopoly" of the
labour market, the sole power of ruling wages, and
extended commerce upon the ruin of their neighbours.
What retributive justice it will be to Awl ems e,l,yes
" supremely dicidlecrl by tl4ol' ' (:',uratrci,el traveller'
and liapoleqo tool
August 6th.

PERRAND,

ROYAL AUPHiTHEATRE.

SIR WILLIAM DON, BART., AND LADY DON

Sir William's personal adaptability for the personation
of Long Torn Coffin, in "The Pilot," was abundantly
appreciated by a good audience last night. Lady Don,
of course, fascinated all beholders as Peggy Green ; and
the usual unequivocal success attended " lienilvforth"
as the great standing piece ty (lay.
This will be a grand fashionable' night, and the house
is sure to be crowded in all parts, being for the benefit
of Sir William and Lady Dos, and wilier the patronage
of the volunteer officers, Lieut.-Cols. Bousfield, Brown,
Adam Gladstone, and Bourne, and the other of of
their several corps. It will also be observed that this
is the last night but‘ of. the fog4Xeinen of these
distinguished ortiVo. "Everybody should see Lady Don
as ,Josephine, in the " Child of the Regitltelit," The
other pieces are very attractive—namely, "A Rough
Diamond," and the great burlesque "Kenilworth."

ACCIDENTS.—PhiIip
m‘carihy, a labourer, residing
in Cu
eet, etwas knocked down by a spring
cart in m
Fbeernanedk-street,
and sustained a severe concussion
rililwi
of the brain.—Edward Griffith, a labourer, residing iii
Salisbury-street, sustain°4 4 ''''-'11?P01.1114, 'the upperper part of a fractured leg'by
w bale of cotton ang on NM. fYam
warehouse', in orleiOn-stree't.
a la-
bourer, 'residing in Ben Johnson-street, fell into the
hold of the 'steam-ship British Queen, lying in the.AP,
,a:_miehui
.Baine,
kisson Dock, and received severe contqsioAS of the body.
-They were talCel. to 91.9. NP,4lelerti Aospital.
c oilnt de. ?..,crslgliy, the FrOoli Ambassador, wilo
received
directions from ici2,poleon, to have " une COll-
versatign d cceur ouvert" with Lord Palmerston, arrived
at the Plymouth station of the South Devon AO7:I?YA
by Monday's afternoon exp.res.-1 dile at 4.'40: in cause=
quence of this t.T* 1104 late,
I the Count missed the
Cornish exliTe:sa,' ~+;,..1 1;'... and :
.... he his suite were sent on" to
Bodmin Road 'station` by special train. The AinbTisa-,
der is on a visit to Lady Molesworth, at reppsow•