The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

TIIE NEW MINISTRY.

The following additional appointments have been
made and accepted:—Socretary to the Admiralty,
Mr. A. Stafford; Under Secretary for the Home
Department, Sir W. Jolla& ; Judge Advocate, Mr.
Bankes; Lords of the Treasury, the Marquis of
Chandos, Mr. Bateson ; Chief Commissioner of the
l'oor-law Board, tqr John Trollop° ; Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, Lord Colchester.
_ .

Tho statement which has been circulated, to the
effect that Lord Jocelyn had accepted office, has
been formally contradicted.

MR. G. F. YOI*NG AND TILE MINISTRT.--Mr.
George Frederick Young has, for the present, declined
to accept the office of Vice President of the Board
of Trade, offered to him by the Earl of Derby. This
decision has been taken by the hon. gentleman on
the sole round that his health is not yet sufficiently
re-established to justify his undertaking the labo-
rious duties of the office. It is, however, under-
stood that when his recovery is complete arrange-
ments will be made for his Joining the administra-
tion of the noble earl.

DEPARTURE OF TUE ARCTlC.—Yesterday after-
noon, at ono o'clock, the United States mail steamship
Arctic, Captain Lure, left the Mersey for New York direct,
with a full cargo of fine goods and 20 passengers.
EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICII WITH RIFLE CAN-
NON.—Yesterday Lord Clarence Paget, Sir Thomu Down-
man, and areat number of the officers of the Royal Ar-
tillery, It et Engineer., and 4th Light Dragoons, assem-
bled in the marshes at 2 o'clock, p.m., to witness experi-
ments with rifle cannon. The shot and shells fired from
the rifle cannon were constructed on Lord Clarence Pa-
get's plan. They are made of cost iron. of a conical or
sugar-loaf shape, and having attached at their base a ring
of lead rather more than half an inch in thickness, and
about two inches in depth, which, when fixed, projects
nearly an inch beyond the iron of the shot and shell, form-
ing a hollow similar to the bottom of a common black
bottle. The outside of the lead is cut with three threads of
a circular character, similar to the threads of a sharp screw,
which renders the shot and shells easy to ram home, and
when fired the lead expands and fills the four groves, each
being about an inch in breadth by nearly an eighth of an
inch in depth. The firing took place from two 9-pounder
field battery guns, ono supplied with the usual field battery
9.pountler service, a solid shot of elbs. weight. and a charge
of three pounds weight of powder, at a range of 1.000
yards. The other, the rifle cannon, was supplied with Lord
Clarence Paget's conical shot, which, from their elongated
shape, weighed 151bs. 0 ounces each, and the charge of
powder was only one pound weight. NVhen the firing took
place with the rifle cannon it was difficult to ascertain the
result, as the lead part generally became detached during
the flight of the projectile, and striking the ground at from
600 to 700 yards distant, the movement of the iron part
was lost sight of, as it did nut appear to strike the target or
enter the mound behind it. A light 3.pounder field bat-
tery gun rifled in a similar manner to the 9 pounder can
non, but with len depth of groove, was then taken to
within 300 yards of the target, and fired with shells made
on Lord Clarence Paget's plan, having a common percus-
sion cap placed on a nipple, and the second round entered
the target near the centre, bursting immediately on striking
the bulk-bead behind, throwing down the target and bury-
ing the iron part of the shell in the massive hard wood.
The experiments were concluded on firing the two shells
from the 3-pounder rifle cannon.
DIRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY.
—Yesterday, Mr. Roxburgh, with Mr. W. Gabworthy,
solicitor to this estate, attended before the Master in Chan-
cery Ferrer, relative to the appointment of a permanent
official manager. Mr. Roxburgh stated it would be in tho
recollection of the Muter that this company was brought
antler the operation of the Winding up Act, to recover
from the directors 7,6001., alleged to have been improperly
paid over by them to the directors of the Derbyshire, Star.
fordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Company. Mr.
Jay had for this purpose held the appointment of interim
official manager, but having been appointed manager to the
Monarch Insurance Company, it was now proposed to ap-
point in hie place Mr. Hutton, who had received similar
appointments from the other Masters. The Master having
signified his approval, Mr. Roxburgh intimated that Messrs.
Oalsworthy, the solicitors, were now prepared to bring in
the charge against the directors, for the recovery of the
funds. The case was precisely similar to that of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway, where a large sum
had been recovered on behalf of the shareholders,
and was now in course of distribution. The
operation of the Acts for Winding-up Railway
and Joint-Stock Companies, though much abused,
was found to be one of strict justice, and there
was no other means of bringing people to account
but under their efficient and summary jurinliction.—The
Muter: No doubt.—Mr. Roxburgh: Tiny held the balance
evenly between parties, and in the case of the Madrid and
Valencia, and Direct Loudon and Manchester, thousands of
pounds, but for their operation on defaulting individuals,
would have been lost, and the shareholders would never
have received a shilling of money they were justly en-
titled to.
A COMMON ON Fine. Between twenty and
thirty acres of fume was on tiro near Ilythe, In Hants, on
Tuesday night. It is supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary. The fire illumined the sky for miles round.
MISCHIEVOUS lloga.—A correspondent states that
the Liverpool watch committee are engaged in investigating
the circumstances under which an audience mumbled in
the Catholic Chapel of the Holy Cross, Great Croshall-
street, to hear a lecture from the Rev. Dr. Cahill, on Mon-
day evening, were attacked and many of the congregation
severely injured. During the lectnru some mischievously-
disposed
person entered the plain and called out that a
beam was breaking. About the masa time, the police state,
they were informed that a number of Orangemen had en-
tered the chapel, and that their presence was immediately
required to quell a serious riot. A strong furce of police
was soon mustered, who proceeded at once to the supposed
scene of conflict. Here they found the people rushing out
of the chapel poll well, under the panic caused by the alarm
of the broken beam. On their arrival outside the doors
they were attacked by the police. One poor woman had
Iher arm broken, and many are confined to their homes by
the *juries received.

THE DISRAELI-DERBY MINISTRY.

(Vrons the Daily News.)

To-day the New Ministry are to " kiss hands ;"
and to•day the Old Palace of St. James's will exhibit
the well-known features of a levee. Carriages will
throng Pall-mall, and St. James's-street will be all
animation. Soldiers drawn out and busy. policemen
will keep back the curious throng of the oi lionoi who
gaze with a greedy wonder upon the jostle of
vehicles filled with wonderful people, all crimson
and gold, and feathers, and swords, and all framed
and glazed in carriages of every imaginable sort and
size, from the dignified yellow chariot with marvellous
hammer-cloth of the peer, to the dingy hired
brougham of the lieutenant of marines. With a real
loyalty,—now &most singular in Europe,—crowds of
dignitaries, ministerial and non-ministerial, naval,
military, legal, clerical, will, to-day, flock about
the QUEEN to pay to her position and her dignity
that homage which her virtues render so pleasant a
duty. In the midst of this curious crowd will be
one man to whom the situation may be novel, but
the triumph great. The day will lift him fo the
' crowning point of a long-wrought ambition—
will reward a fierce struggle unceasingly kept
up for years with the steadiness of purpose
that can alone secure the realisation of any
lofty effort. The lords whose boast is a lengthy
penigree, may frown, and the hangers-on of the
state may titter; the old aristocratic tories may flat-
ter themselves they are using him; whilst he knows
he is using them : they may doubt, or deny, or re-
pudiate as they will, but this one plebeian of the
throng to-day it is who has created the ministry
about to "kiss hands" on taking their places. lie
alone saw the way of linking together the elements of
a once powerful but disorganised party; he it was who
" felt his way" towards healing prejudices in one di-
rection and widening them in another ; insinuating a
doubt here and administering a campliment there;
takingupthecudgelsofdebate when hereilitarydulness
was suffering from the onslaught of economic truth;
or wielding his rapier for defence when the youthful
cleverness of modern England fleshed its keen blade
in the slothful stupidity of those who think mil-
dewed prejudices sufficient to satisfy the needs of
our time. Beady, witty, fluent, dexterous—and
with steady and adherent purpose—he has at last
achieved the point he has striven for. Today he must
remember the parliamentary scorn that, years ago, sa-
luted his first parliamentary effort; to-day going on his
knee to the QUEEN as one of her appointed ministers,
memory can scarcely fail to mai his bitter reply,
hurled as the return for that scorn—" The day will
come whcu you shall be glad to hear me." And it
has come. And Lord Dratuv niay flout, and his
friends may scoff if they will, but the men who
"kiss hands" to-day arc and can only be re-
garded as Mr. DISRAELI'S ministry. The son
of the scholar and author—himself a novelist
and a writer for the press—a wit and au ad-
venter, r—has banded together, and in reality
lends, the lords and lordlings who go with him
through the court pageant of to-day. The hope and
the anticipation of years has been realised, and—Mr.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, junior, is Chancellor of the
Exchequer of Great Britain.
And what next ? He has reached the apex,
scaled the height, mastered the pinnacle, and become
"right honourable." He tastes the alleged "sweets,"
—and will take the useful salary—of office. lie will
have patronage--that will worry him ; colleagues
who will use and scoff at him. lie is too quick not
to see, too sensitive not to feel, too clever not to ap-
preciate all this. But the malice of the vain and
envious may not surprise, the animosity of the
malicious can only amuse him. The bitterness of
the showy cup will come from another quarter. The
glitter of the levee will not hide it, nor will the
jingle of " right honourable" drown its voice.
The talent that has lifted the plebeian
into the gaudy unrealities of modern aristo-
cratic life will, also, show its owner the falsity of
his position. He is a genius amongst dullards; an
emanation of the present amongst those who believe
only in the past; a flatterer of prejudices he knows to
be hollow; and a preacher of the wisdom of theories
long since exploded. Ho takes his place amongat
these noblemen of the Cabinet because they have been
persuaded the magic of his genius can put new life
into their defunct political shams, and that his dex-
terity will enable theta to juggle and cajole and
mislead a straightforward working-day nation who
have thriven by their adhesion to political common
sense.

The ceremonial of to-day must, alas, be followed by
the work of to-morrow. Even new-bora ministers
cannot always be going to palaces kissing the
QCEEN'S hands. The people who only hear of these
grand things—and pay fur them—will look for results.
They must know upon what terms this tory ministry,
reared by an architect from their own ranka, intends
to ask for national support. The men who work
and the men who think—the men whose busy in-
dustry gives power to the state and riches to the
realm—whose ingenuity asks a fair field, whose la-
bour requires freedom, and whose children want
cheap bread—all these will wait to know what the
DISRAF.LI-DERBY ministry intend to do. With the pro-
verbial generosity of their race, they may say "Give
the Ministers time"; with the honourable spirit
which every true Englishman in his heart loves, they
may cry " Let them have fair play ;" but the time and
the law cannot be expected to last long. Mr. l)ts-
RAELI must pronounce. With all his power for ap-
preciating the realities of a question he may pretend
to believe in its shadows ; in place of economi-
cal truths ho may offer us political shams ;
and where wo ask for prompt statesmanship, may
propose procrastination and official juggle. lie may
do all this in a very atmosphere of eloquence
sparkling with jokes and pungent with re-
partee. But it will never do. In the broad
clear light of the common sense of England
in l8:12 to bring forward the old political stage tricks
of the last century would be an insult ; in the pre-
sence of the free industry that, despite reductions of
taxation, offers at this hour a national treasury con-
taining a surplus of three millions sterling—to pro-
pose a rent raising bread tax would be sheer selfish
mania. To offer legislative leading strings to a na-
tion long since able to run alone would be insolence.
The new CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is far too
clove, not to know all this. Let us hope ho
is far too sensible to take any step he believes
to bo absurd. With a hostile parliamentary
majority ; with an expiring income tax; with bla-
tant bigotry asking impossibilities; with an unde-
fended coast in very presence of an armed despotism ;
with an army and navy scattered over the extremi-
ties of an empire whose heart is left exposed, whilst
its coffers arc groaning with repletion; with a po-
pular demand for extension of the suffrage whilst
his colleagues think Parliament already too demo-
erotic ; and with loud requirements for an extension
of free-trade principles whilst his colleagues are
pledged to protection ; with the innate aspirations of
a man of genius towards liberty, and his official
pledges to oligarchic service—with all these difficul-
ties in his path men need be merciful and patient
towards the man sprung from the people—although
in the full pride of a realised ambition ho this day
goes to " kiss hands" on the formation of his new
obstructive Tory Ministry. Ho has reached the top
round of the ladder. With an overload of promises
it is impossible to fulfil, and of pledges no man could
I keep, how can he avoid toppling over?

Kiss's AM UON.—Professor Wagner, of Berlin,
one of the fortunate council medal men, has now on view
at Messrs. Watherston and Brogden's, of Hrnrietta-street,
Covent-garden, a small reduction of this well-known piece
of sculpture—eo well-known, indeed, as to allow of no
shortcomings on the part of the copyist. This Herr Wag-
ner seems to have well understood hie diminuive imitation, I
being on the whole spiritedly modelled SI to the action, and
executed with equal fidelity in the minor portions of the
work. For the purpose of attaining somewhat of the bronzy
texture of the original, the artist has resorted to the two-
fold method of oxidising and engraving the silver. Oxidised
metal we had noticed in abundance at the Crystal Palace,
but the application of the graver to modelling purposes, on
a round surface, certainly lays claim to all the merits of
novelty. However, it can scarcely be said the present spe-
cimen will be apt to make converts of our silversmiths ; for
whatever may be gained in truthfulness is u certainly lost
in lack of finish. In other respects Herr \Vagner's work is
eminently satisfactory.

Tu FIFESIIIRK :Manes.—From a communica-
tion received yesterday (Sunday) by the authorities here
from the police superintendent at Cupar, we learn that the
murderers of the old woman, Margaret Maxwell, who was
deprived of life in ouch a barbarous manner a few days ago,
have been apprehended. The watch which was stolen
from the house by the wretches has at the mine time
been recovered. There are three parties implicated in the
murder, but the names have not reached us.-111ifth British

PROPOSED REVIVAL OF THE ANTI.
CORN LAW LEAGUE

MANCHESTER, Fr.e.
The free traders have thoroughly taken the Itlann
at the nomination of a protectionist government under the
Earl of Derby. The pli rig° which the noble earl gave y
the first night of the session to restore the corn law—the
composition of his cabinet—everything indicates a ...lied
and unmistakeable design to pursue a policy utterly at
variance with the opinions and wishes of the country.
Such an exclusively "country party " was, perhaps, tosser
installed in Mike kefore. So lar as the stover iiiii re. are
represented in the House of Commune they inclip!. 1,0,0
county members from purely agricultural constituenti..;
whilst the town members might have been chosen eslae
in contempt of the public conviction that the time bad COW
fur blotting out from the representation the s)st‘ in or no,ei,
nation and rotten boroughs. 'lll.l include two no toilsri
for Wenlock, two for Lynn, and 0110 each fur the towns of
Midhurst, Droitwich, Abingdon, Staniford, ("olehis!.r.
Scarborough, and Enniskillen. Not one menial .etu ing
county ur borough is to have a voice tbrouah the a,/
administration.

Under these circumstances it is that •• a meeting wa, h,
last evening, ut the rooms of the Manchester Financial awl
Parliamentary Reform Association, Newall'aoltuiliiiie,, far
the purpose of considering the steps it we,
take iu the prelient position of political parties—the Ead .4
Derby having been named the heat of a new govtrao,,,,t
under a pledge to restore a duty uu turn." Althanuil t:..
meeting bad been summoned by circular only, at a slots,
of barely five to six hours, it was one of thi• mint Mewl,.
tial and numerous gatherings that have been tritiii,a
the council of the league since the old and p‘may
power. There was no mistake in the spit which ammo.
the assembly. It is well known that many of the pinm,
went with the express intention of subscribing large MUr
of money at once, and assuming a firm and delem.,,r aii,.
bade; and from the proceedings it will he Will fit
chairman's was a task rather of restraining than of
raging his forms. There were in all, though calle.l ,t tour
o'clock in the aft, rnoim—at all times a must imollai i:a
hour—not leas than lob gentlemen present, of anus, tic
following is a list :

Sir E. Armitage, George Wilson, Manchester; st
N. Philipe, The Park; John Cheatham, Du/Siete
Bayley, Stalybridge ; Wm. Rawsen, Monclicat r • l• .
Platt, Stalybridge; P. It. Arrowamith, The Yearns, p.s.'
N. Buckley and Sons, Ashton; Chants l'otter, Here.s;
Thos. Bright, Manchester; Jacob Bright, Roth ,s.
Nicholas Heald, Ilenrlf Baxley, Manchester; John la
wick, Jas. Chadwick, Eccles; John Petrio, Rochdale; .1 f•
Dyer, Manchester ' • 'I hoe. Barnes, Fern werth ; Netter., Is -.
Dukintield ; Wm. Sale, Manchester; John Platt, (11.111
P. Thomson, Alderman Bradford, Wm. Biekham, Male
ter; John Whittaker, Hurst; Councillor Ivee MerSi , 11.
Rawson, Manchester; Therms Ashton, ; 11. or,, A,ll
worth, Tartan ; Edmund Potter, Jointing ; Es as,
Alderman Harvey, W. A. Cunningham, lam. Witte),,,,
cheater; Aldermen Iligginbattom, Ashton; J.
Werrinetun ; William Below, David Ainsworth, C.one ....r
Joseph Simpson, Manchester; Abraham (keret-ea, Josii
Vernon' Tostmorden ; George Parr, Manchester; es-S
Bayley,Stalybridge ; A Intalom Watkin, ManeLe.b r; rya
Whittaker, Hurst ; Councillor Then. Wortlanaton,
Johnson, S. P. Itoliinson, Manchester; J. Dewnhana Iran .
Watkin Lees, Dukititield ; J. Hamer, W. Mills, 11. ye. al .
Peter Walker, Broughton ; Waage Kraus, Beul. ss.'dal..
Samuel Pope, jun., hi:mile:ger ; Joe. Barrett, sal. Meer
James Leigh, Stockport ; Charles Ridings, Motel ese. r ;
I)an. Cullinge' Oldham ; A. Ireland, James Rob. rte,,', a.
M'Evren' R. Milner, Manchester; J. Schofield,
rough ; J. E. Nelson, R. Rummy, W. Massey, Mantle :,r;
J. L. Whitehead, Raystenstall ; Mr. Van litys, Jams
Woolley, John Armstrong, J. C. Saul, William a sheers;
John Hodgson, Manchester ; William Collier Siellord . J.
Gaudier, W. Son ' Manchester; J. E Itnylr, alsesie
ter; W. Whitehead, Bradford; Harry Rawest, ('hme s
Bury, J. Whitworth,Walter Gow,W. Bradford, J. Wired( v,
W. r. Robinson, Ben Selo:field, C. Duffield, Jas Bry.les
Sam. Hewitt, J. Wilson, J. G. Lavinia George Rotansen,
J. Spencer, H. Davenport, Manchester ; J. (leap, Kane:
U. C. Whittinghina, 11. It. Jackson, J. Ea wank
Woolley, D. Wills, J. Skaylur, Sam. Lees, W. 11. P. tii.
jean, Manchester ; Jonathan Gast Bank; Jaers
AUport, Plymouth Grove ; James Moorhouse, John FiShs,
A. W. Poulton, 11. B. Peacock, Manchester ; T. Taylor,
Wigan, dise.
Mr. GEORGE WILSON, in taking the chair, sa4l they
(the executive of the Financinl and Purliemeinary R. form
Association) had taken the liberty of culling this melee
at an exceedingly short notice, in consequence u; the sed.lia
change which had taken place in the government of I;.it
country. Must gentlemen would be as well int...need el
this change as he sus; and he dared say they were all
agreed that if it were a mere transposition of partes—the
substitution of • tory government fur a sing geii ens
ment—there would have been nu occasion fur this rn. et-
iug, but that they would have been content to wept
until the new administration bad had an oppertunity of
announcing to the country the principles on which they
intended to base their prote. dings ; but he thought
the question at present riiaid was one so different
to a party political question, and one so important te
the country, that they were only acting a wit(' and pre
dent part m at the earliest tnerucut unneunciug to
country the course—if they could agree upon a
e'uoM
the manufacturing districts intend to take with regard to tle
new government. Now, he believed, and many of lau
friends thought with him, that it would be impossible fur
any government to reimpose the bread tax—(hear, tear) ;
but they all knew that if the new government had any
particular and distinct feature iu contradistisction to ROT
other torus of co...creative government, it was that the Leal
of the government himself—Lord Derby—was pledged to
the restoration of protection—(hear, hear) ;—that it was at
a question with him of Maley or yesterday, nor would i:
be a question of to-morrow until it was disposed of. With
him it was the Pole object, and almost perpetually the aim
of his party, in desiring to renew the conservative element
in the uovernment, to restore protection. (Hear, bear.)
Ile did not know if gentlemen had read attentively he
statement at tho opening of the present parliament,
but he (the chairman) perceived, on reference to
that statement, that l:c was as distinctly plisleed as
he could be—or as any man not in au official position
could be—to the restoration of the corn law.. Ou the vary
first night of the session he says : "Fur the last three or
four years the price of wheat bad been perpetually tallies
in this country ; and his firm belief was now, as it had been
three years ago, that the production of wheat in this tom
try, unless some alteration of the law took place, must to
great extent diminish—an extent that would be incon-
venient, not to say dangerous, to the agriculturists. (hear,
hear.) Ile did not look with indifference at the question of
the importation of the at ticle of wheat from foreign mare
tries, because, unless he was misinformed, we had had peg-
tical proof that foreign countries considered it their own
interest to prohibit the exportation of that supply on whicS
we wore mainly led to depend. Ile was by no means can.
winced that the repeal of the corn laws might not lead is
some instances to extreme fluctuations in price, and, ter
a short period, to very aggravating and digressing prices:
but he was confident that the affect of the relwal, the
total repeal, must be to render this country more aid
mere dependent on foreign countries for the principal pne
portion of its supply. lie thought such a state of thiner
dangerous to this country, and he had nut in the slightest
degree altered his opinion, that, for the purpose of 'avenue,
and protection to native industry, it was desirable that agri-
cultural produce should be included among the list of those
articles of import upon which a revenue should be raised
(Cheers from the protectionists )'' Now, to show that he
(the chairman) was correct in assuming that Lord Derby
did there pledge himself to the restoration of protection, he
might refer to the sense in which the Duke of Richmond
applied the observations now referred to. The Duke of
Richmond, on that occasion, said, "the farmers would hail
with delight the 'Teeth of his noble friend. fur it 'horrid
that he still held to the opinion that • eel roue duly ought
to be laid on corn for the purposes of proteetion.'"f hen the
Earle(' Winchilsea expresses his opinion that they should re-
impose a duty on foreign corn," and the Earl of Yarborough,
"implored noble lords opposite not to allow the farours
longer to remain in uncertainty as to their intentions. He
hoped either the noble earl (Derby) or the noble duke
(Richmond), would state whether they sought to re.impose
a duty on foreign grain fur revenue or for protection. (Hear,
hear.) Ile could state from personal obeervation that the
condition of the farmers was greatly improving; Senna the
present winter he had heard of them executing large
drainage and other works. He was satisfied that so small
a duty as 3s. or 45., there being a duty of Is. now, would
not be considered sufficient by the farmers, so long as they
were led away by the hope of regaining what they tilled
protection."—The E al of Derby said: " Ile should answer
the noble lord's question by another and ask him what was
the point where he supposed that a duty ceased to be a 4.1
for the purpsse of revenue, and became one of proteetien:
(Hear.) He was quite at a lons to know how the noble lord
drew the distinction between the two. His opinion was,
that any duty to be imposed, tither for the purpose of re-
venue or of protection, must to a certain extent art a. a
protective duty, and that the amount of protection allardid
was to be measured only by the amount of the duty. The
principle was the same—the detail might be dill...nine Ile
was desirous of levying duties upon the import of fare
produce, not for the purpose of revenue alone, but for
purpose of revenue combined with the collateral object of
affording due protection." ((fear, hear.) Well, now,
until next Friday evening, when we should have the noble
earl's own statement of what it was the intention of his
government to do, they were bound to assume that
these were the principles on which he intended to
acit, and that if they were consistent, three INTO
the principles which he and his government would
be intent upon putting in operation. If that was tho
case they would probably have a struggle with Lord
Derby till this question was once more settled.
(Loud cries of " blear, hear.") It might be a short
struggle. That depended altogether upon themselves, epee
the tone they gave to the struggle at the oneet—(eheeri)—
upon whether, if they went for • new settlement of this
question, they would be disposed to let it rest on its preeent
basis. (Hear, hear.) lie confessed that lie was litlf,tat to
mix up as essential to the further settlemen, of this ques-
tion—if it was to he further settled—a reform in parlia-
ment. (Hear.) And he would tell them why. He knew
if they went to an election the protectionists would poll 33
boroughs, returning frfi members to parlianient, every one
of which possesses as much political influence as the
borough of Manchester did, though their constituencies un-
doubtedly were scarcely equal to that of Manchener;
she
knew that in these boroughs they would have coercion, in-
timidation, bribery, corruption, and all those influences tho
landed aristocracy couldwield at pleasure, and whichi
wd
fur centuries made aristocratic governments a thing
for pleasure and for profit, rather than for the pule'
gttooh;.l
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pro,,,,ttosita) obtained • ity twice es ma es
L. did boors, and which rape the ant laws, OM um
lenty would he iespoteM if the people of the nsaidlisslllß
asiets are prepared es my to my Lard Derby, u gear the
goniition of the agriculturists if you can—do whet viten
so improve their condition, so that it is not at oat game—
kat the monwat you put one penny of dot up&riiis dea broad
▪ On poor min, look toP yourself, Lord Tsar
eider—ad cheirs)—for this question Ites sitUrd
▪ 504 beware how you and your order passim Ss dis-
sepiol2 of a question again which will involve in itself the
dispeeition of many things not to the interest of either
or sour order." (Great cheering.) He wished to
hay • that in ...ailing this meeting they (the executive) had no
.a„„. not. ...lotions, to lay before it ; they rather sought the
"numl of (be meeting, and hoped Ho ryf
Zatemoii ...old express Dimwit' freely, maw *at
they obi ,s, rutin.) might feel it desirable le Mims any
"ouru. i. Liiiire, they might know what were the soil spF
sural• Awl unguents of their constituency in this Mem
piny, reel act accordingly. (Hear, hear.)
Mir. USER had warned gentlemen when It ass
pr laced to lay on what was once termed • low fixed duty of
les. per qa it r, that it was not • question of lbs., 10s., or
even ,hatofehether the British people could any longer
afford to '• .y for high rents in dear bread ; and he said now
Mutt the British people were too much enlightened to bear
the r.-iinposition (such a tax. lie thought then that free
trade principles were secure—secure from the conviction
of the feeiple that they were the beet for all classes, even for
the .04,10 do themselves who stood up for protection.
(Rae. heir.) Ile recollected that the noble earl, now the
bead of tee adminietration, was the great obetructur of all
worm, even under Lord Beep's administration, of which
be was a ober. 1k (Mr. Dyer) had then the power to
do some sees ice, End he headed a subscription with 300 or 400
pines., which was followed by others in the same spirit, for
earbasoctitary reform. W. were somewhat in a better pesii
Lon by that measure, bat we had the old hydra, the old
11(4,1.01the fo mer system of ol igarehiral sorer nme nt rearing
Itself in spite of the public will, and he trusted they should be
able to slow them that it was not an easy task to go back.
(Hear, heir.) lie was willing to Ro with caution ; he was
milling to make some stile if they could not make bold
psi.; but let teem not go beck int • a state of barbarism.
(Hear, 11...ur.) He could not subscribe as he did before ;
but what h, could do, even at • greater sacrifice, he was
prepared to do to come forward and sustain their old prin-
ciples. It would re-unite those who split upon smaller
matters, for toryism and protectionist principles, his took
It, were but short-lived among us an these districts.
(Applause.)
Mr. IL ASHWORTH thought they little expected to be
Called together again un a subject which so ementially con-
cerned to e titan of the Anti-corn-law League as this did,
hat the cv. tits of the last few days had brought the question
Cf protectiou before them, and on that quietism they could
Cat afford to stand still. (Hear, hear.) If the party
Miming into power were to be taken at their word, the
'Wet they meant was the tarty restoration of the corn-
laws, in the .hole of a fixed duty, and they had before been
given to understand that • fixiai duty was " a Hoed injus-
tice." IV, r.• they now prepared to have restored that
which they bad bestowed so math patience, so much
labour, energy, time, and mode such great pecuniary sacri-
fices to overthrow ? (Cheers.) Those with whom he had
convened had expressed their willingness, one and
all, to make as large, or indeed larger, sacrifices both of
time and money, than they ever did before, rather than
allow our vestige, one rag or tatter of protection to be re-
Imposed upon us. (Loud cheers.) like was to believe the
spirit betrayed to-day, he hail not the least doubt,
if we were called upon to undo stake the question again,
we she have more support than we hod before,
and that the should not run short of those means
which were called the sinews of war. (Hear, bear.)
Ile bib- veil it would be but • short battle, though
it miglit he • warm one. Opplausel If they understood
Lord Di illy, it was his intention to put a cloak over the de-
aims as well as he could, by pretending that the duty on
corn would not be on. of prediction but of revenue, bat the
people w vie It+. much awake to be drawn into that trap.
(" Hear. hear," and laughter.) It was pretended to
sweeten the measure by taking ief the income tax. The
cleaning, of that was, to take the tax off the mercantile,
agniultur il, and middle classes. to put it upon the shoulders
of the ts ork iw c:asseS. Were they prepared to suffer that ?
(('ties of " No.") It was mid that it would be enough for
present to interchange sentiments, without coming to a
resolutiun, and in this lie egret di but he thought they
Should bold themselves in readiness to see what the coming
events were, and to meet them promptly. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheer.)
Other gentlemen having spoken, it was stated that •
letter had been received at Bury, from Lord Derby, saying
a shesolution would take place almost immediately, and that
Alf. Fox had written to say parliament would not meet
Vein.
Mr. A. WATKIN (who was called for) said he did not
come prepared to speak, but merely to listen. He hoped
their measures would he worthy of former days, do what
they might, and that they would be prompt, energetic,
and, of course successful. (Applause.)
Mr. PETRIE, of Rochdale, said he believed the people
titre were ready to make any sacrifice if this qneetion was
to be brought forward again ; but they did not think it a
"maim.
A 0 . AA . We shall never be elan of this clues-
lion till we have %MOM in parliarneut. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. EVANS said, to bring the matter to a point at
Gnu, he would move the adjournment till Tuesday. lie
Nought it hardly compatible with the dignity of • body
like the league, that they should tale any further step_ till
they had the of announcement as to what would be
Lord Derby's policy on the question.
Mr. I'. AItIIOWSMITH, of Bolton, believed with thou
who thought the tonics might as will attempt to restore the
beptarchy; but if this battle was to be fought again, he
was ready to take part in it, knowing that thaw who paid
their hundreds before would be ready now to pay their
thousaaus. and willingly do so in such a Cause. (Cheers.)
He quite sgetvd thin they should fight under the old title
of the " Leagoe," believing that, like the old lronsides of
Cromwell, it was • arm which would win, and that under
it the? should se W virasn. _ _

Mr. J. KNIGHT confessed that he was rather glad than
otherwise that Lewd Derby wee in otSee, for he wee not in
power—(A Imagh)—becoose he believed by hie amnion to
elks we should get rid of the stumbling block no•v in the
way of political anima, by mew who were too easy or too
timid to 1101,11 unless t►ey were (Weed on by • powerful
motive such as the attempted restoratioo of the bread tax
would be. (lieu.)
Mr. SIMPSON suggested that Mr. Evans should put
his motion in. the following form " Resolved, that the
gentlemen who formed the executive council of the late
Anti-Cora-law Leagns be requested to watch the proceed-
ings of the new adninistranos ; sad, should the necessity
anw, to all together the parties who formed the general
council of the teem ; sod that this meeting stands ad-
journed to Tuesday neat."
Mr. EVANS mid be would most willingly adopt and
move this reselotion; sod Yr. Puna AIIOWSIIITH OS.
goaded it.
The motion was tweed ominously. and the proceed-
ings stood adiounied, with the understanding that the exe-
cutive should have power to call the meeting together
again at an mallet period than Tuesday if neeeseary.

REPRESENTATION or SOUTHAMPTON.—II is noW
stated that Mr. Willcox and Sir A. Cockburn, the present
meathero for /Southampton, will come forward ..in aa
cosididotte for the repreetatatios of that town, in ease of an
election. It is /apposed that the conservatives of that
town will bring forward a candidate to oppose Mu present
members.

THE SPIPSOTOD MURDER Of AN ENGINICIL—
Yesterday inneming Mr. W. Carter raNISISII ad sasrlmimd
the inquiry tweehiss the death of Aiteed Jetta.
SA engineer, who Well Mad coke the isstioesd
of the Surrey Camel waist eirmemslemssa eddii doe—S
the suspicion that hie death wawa iessk of issi Us.is
Mr Jenkins." solicitor, appeared, es beim. bodes
of deceased; and if,. Prendergast, Q.O vereemelsil the
Amalgamated Society of Engineers.—MaiiiissMlPolle_
stated that he had made a post mortem ISM
body, and found the heart and langppeellsmiybegliby. the
bone of the head was quite math*, and tire vas ss meek
if violence whatever. Ile had as doubt Iles desseesi bed
died from suffocation by drowning.—Ann Jewell, the wife
of deceased,was led into the room almost in a fainting state,
sod said that on the Friday morning, whoa the doISSOSI
left hese to pr ceed to his work he was is pub* Wilt
sad spirit.. He had not been at work ia ereesienee stele
dispute between the masters and worbsies if ghost Ilsts
weeks. She was certain that he hail net ertsepol lie sus
raisteuet, as he valued life too highly and wee
happy. He had no motive whatever to fie tgli:g=
of the canal. Thomas Poulter, 36.5 l', and dm ouustablos
proved that they were on duty on the Friday morning, and
that they heard no noire or cries of distromMent the spit
whi re deceased was found. Mr. K. fesszlidingst to Mears.
Futon and Amos, the employers of angsmed that
he was a young man of particularly semi mei of the
most cheerful disposition. Several remasks were Rawls,
tending to show that threats had been used teem& dm duo
sewed, but the COMMIT refused to receive them as whinge.
After some remarks from wand of the jury, Mr. Kay
stated that the deceased had told him that soma after he hos:
signed the masters' declaration he was met by several mem,
who asked him if he had gone back to work, and, open
replying in the affirmative, they said " Any min that has
done so ought to have his head cut off." Evidence having
been given to show that the deceased hail no occasion what•
ever to go on the bank of the renal, the Coroner summed
up, and the jury, after about half an hour's consultation,
returned a verdict " That the deceased was found drowned,
but how or by what means he came into the water there
was no evidence to show." The Coratier remarked that,
although they had recorded a verdict of found drowned, he
was certain that it would not at all interfere with the in-
quiries of the police, or defeat the ends of justice in this
moot extranrdinery cam.
'rug STRIIIII.—LIVERPOOL.—Tho dinpute here
h!twein the masters and men may be said to have ended
of itself neither of the parties having made any enneessioa
to the other, and the men having ceased to expect an sewn-
mutating. Of the thirty-five members of the Amalgamated
&ui-ty dismissed by Messrs. Forrester and Meters. Few-'
sett sod Co., only eleven now remain out of work, twenty-
one having engaged in other shops in the town, and three
is the Country. Of the former, three ere shortly to sail in
the City of l)ublia screersteamer Emerald, bawd on a
enable to the West Coast of Africa. Five of the remaining
sk ten have been engaged on board the Sesellias deems;
reoestly built is Liverpool, to pressed* Nis Jambs. The
general position of the trade is theosibrie Was iiiihrest
whet it is in ordinary periods of depmseiem

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

Toisrday evening the animal meeting of the
RUMfiaties foe Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Know-
ledge was bald St St. Martin'toball, Long-acre. The large
rum was greatly crowded ea the occasion, and several per-
saws were iseethdrid from want of spice. Mr. M. OitYloo.
M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Seholefield, M.P. and Mr.
Hume, M.P. were loudly cheered on making their appear-
saws is the platform.
Mr. GIBSON, who wu voted to the chair, said it
devolved upon him as chairman of the meeting to explain
why it had been called. They were anembled in exercise
of the right which, as Englishmen, they possessed to deli-
berate upon and pronounce an opinion in reference to the
policy and laws of the country ; to express their views
upon • part of the national policy known wader the
came of the system of taxing knowledge. (Hear,
hest.) The meeting was conbued to that one oli-
ject only, and although it was not intended to
preclude the great possible expression of opinion, whether
Vin support of or against the taxes on knowledge, as they at
present exist, it should be understood that all observations
that might he made should be confined to that one subject.
Therefore, if there was any gentleuisn present who wished
to point out to them the benefit of the impost on the data-
! sion of knowledge, he should have the utmost liberty of
speech. (Laughter.) He should have been proud ou anv
occasion to bare been asked to assist in promoting the
object of the association connected with the repeal of the
I newspaper stamp, end other taxes un knowledge, and
• to co-operate with any individual in pursuing so laud-
able an object. On an occasion like the present,
i however, he would have been glad to have seen
in the chair come distinguished a literary gentle-
man, for he thought that this eubji et was eminently
not one of a party nature, nor was it one of mere polities,
hut it was one which men of all political views or iutereste
and most especially literary gentlemen, might join in ad.
vacating. But although they were not favoured, from
an unfortunate accidevit, by the presidency of some distin-
guished litteruteur, yet he had the e oisfaction of being able
to read to them one or two letters from gentlemen who hal
been requested to preside on that occasion. The first he
would read to them was from Mr. Leigh Hunt, which was
as follows :
" Kensington, Feb. 2-1,
" Sir,—l regret extremely, sometimes, that the state of
my health prevents my attending public meetings, espe-
cially on such an occasion as yours. Taxes on Knowledge
appear to me very like tun for the prevention of finger-
posts, or for the better encouragement of " erring and
straying like lost sheep." Miedirections may be set up
here and there, but how could it he anybody s intent in
the long run to give wrong information, when everybodv
was concerned in going right ? Partial knowledge, indeed,
is foolish enough to do so ; hut that is the very reason
why partial knowledge should be displaced by knowledge,
alistompluting and universal.—l am, S.r, your faithful WI,
lea .• I,IIIIOH
"tiro J. D. Collett, Esq., Seceders of Association for the
Se lof all 'races on Knowledge!'
ad next to lay before them the following communi-
cation, received from Mr. Douglas Jerrold :
" West Lodge, Putney Lower Common,
February •25tli,
"Dear Sir,—Disabled by an accident from personal
attendance at your meeting, I trust I may herein be per-
mitted to eviller, my heartiest sympathy with its great
social purpose. That the fabric paper, newspapen and ad.
vertisements, should be' taxed by any government professing
paternal yearnings for the education of a people, defies the
argument of reason. Why not, to help the lame, and to aid
the short-sighted, lay • tax upon crutches, and enforce a
duty upon spectacles? lam not aware of the number of
professional writers—of men who live from pen to mouth—
flourishing this clay in merry England; hut it appears to
me, and the notion to a new Chancellor of the Exchequer—
(l am happy to nay one of 'my order ;' of the goose-quill,
not of the heron's plume)—may have some significance ;
why not enforce a duty upon the very source and origin of
letters? Why not hove a literals pull-tax—a duty upon
books and " articles" in their rawest material ? Let every
mother pay for his license, poetic or otherwise. his would
give a wholeness of contradktion to • professed desire for
knowledge, when existing with taxation of its material
elements. Thus the exciseman, beginning with authors
brains, would descend through rags, and duly end with
paper. The profeseed tax upon news is captious and arlii-
trau ; arbitrary, I say, for. what is not news ? A noble
lord makes a speech: his rays of intelligence com-
pressed like Milton's fallen angels, die in a few black
rows of thin type • and this is news. And is not a new
book news ? Let Ovid first tell us how Midas laid
himself down, and—private and confidential—whispered
to the reeds, ' I have gars ;' and is not that news ? Do many
noble lords, even in parliament, tell us anything newer ?
The too on advertisements is—it is patent—a tax even
apes the industry of the vera hardest workers. Why
should the Exchequer waylay the errand-boy, and op-
press the maid-of-all-work ? Wherefore should Mary-
Anne he made to disburse her eighteen-peace at the
Stamp Office ere she can show her face in print, wanting
a place, although to the discomfiture of those first-created
Chancellors of the Exchequer—the spiders ? In con-
clesion, I must congratulate the meeting on the advent
of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right lion.
Benjamin Disraeli, who is the successful man of letters.
He has ink in his veins. The gornequill —let gold and
silventicks twinkle as they may—Lads the House of Com-
mas'. Thus, I feel confident that the literary instincts of,
the right honourable gentleman will give uew animation to
the coldness of statesmanship, apt to be numbed by tight-
nese of red tape. We are, I learn, early taught to despair
of the right honourable gentleman, because he is allowed
to be that smallest of thing., ' a wit.' Is arithmetic for
ever to he the monopoly of substantial respectable dulness ?
Must it be that • Chancellor of the Exchequer, like fentio's
portrait, is only to be found in lead? sir; I have •
cheerful faith that our new fiscal minister will, to the
confusion of obese dulness, show his potency over
pounds, shillings, and pence. The Exchequer
£ a. d. that have hitherto been as the three
witches—the Weird Sisters—stopping us will
turned, the right honottrabde gentleman will at the least
transform into the three Graces, making them, in all their
salutations at home and abroad, welcome and turnable.
Hat with respect to the £ a. d. upon knowledge, he will, I
feel confident, cause at once the weird sisterhood to melt
tato thin air; and thus—let the meeting take heart with
the iresurance—thus will fade and be dissolved the penny
news tax—the emw‘beys' and maid-of-all-works' tax—
sad the to on that lamemat white thing, the tax on paper.

With this begs. I 'main yozin faithfully:
" °LAI .111.11,0LD.
"Alfred Koval* Sq., Qa6Ttwurer to the Association
for the Rawl et all Tease spas Knowledge.

Ito 1111•11 now powel to asks a few thervations on the
Millipities of the Yea Mhos Oben. Sometimes
ime ill IV SMII Mkt Woe was maintained
he OS - - sewage, WinaWon they were told
=LZ
Oopesount no sissehlts of cheap newspapers,
wpm if riarallilleg the diffusion of social
swam no webby elms of the country.
to al" mos she original intention
Metneset Of des Monr. With regard to
oerr ilhe duties sal lie advertisement duties,
there was mere wealm for sal sag that those im-
mere origin*, tolled In /scream
ssoose. ;Mr woes horned M slim whom It was
to ratio dory wend Illosay ilit dr mho pos-
. Probably they vise Imposed is dee thee notenee
wooky for revenue • bat be bed a strew Ono met the
slimasty and wewortisoust duty be ben ann.
IS • part of oak wink havisS hr its obleat the
tof the ebent of cheap noOvre cede
eelespapers. (Hear, bees) For that rows he bad aware
Ihoght it wise to ask be Ike repeal of Ore tams, and in
ISMS pond he saw a principle-that principle being,
Is it is be the beet social interest of the country
lls Sete *old be se obstacles in the way of lb. levee
olhossdasties of howledge - (hear, hear)-ber, ,
hot by the Malin ef social informatics mom I
: Ihe pin bod of the
a moioadim m eiall
as roolaty by gine. ion
Ink osi hoty , end icol s.d a
other mottors, a
be pada moan be puma beet mieshied Is
=:lso swan asZid laws, awl wand an no
of the te antigen ma a Moines
the meet .did -thus as esdrhmosi ea adoesesi
wen. (Boer, bear.) Then" inns the Iris sod
owner ground al revenue, Moessesded dust it woe so
loredsse pithy, sod on did ought sot to Mt monniool.
It woo ost emoosh to rag
any ho scary was woad, IP
Litiwas, was that soagesalesol es a earn to be ?
ellilleto doubt that that whoonsing air
Sediont of military I. gnaw sirrills??ottever popsy dig
odd moot with, if tool a mod, of raisins may was
mmillised of, would =ewer that be could set apse the
imE Bat they migie reply to him that woo soots r
or mesa of rellth_wersay. And so they wry
of Issas os -ialso-Pat it wee an wrowess Psis
d WO/ p Alb many, mil that it was isenolimmt wish
dm poodnine non Its favour of general edasollea to be.
pow &est ling obsesalea is the way of the diembnehot
of hosidedge. Inn be wean to know we Ob-
it roe iowirePor limn woo blemed, es tier hod
his. iii it was Be no pawn of revenue, war no
all Sir Mated in the pesamW of the act of pedleoset.
W dew% they tall vs Am that it is for this moms they
loonsma all newsmen e Moo of Id. He went beg 1
bison bey behuo noon, tonal words whin an used
bin ponablo at 1110 NOW aet,-not thus poi he the '
bli el, be... Is set merely seatordand sod mousiest
*son son 2. right hon. gelation= wed M prerabie,
silk ins Is affect that the tax as swappers was im-
plodes assesat of observations tending le excite hatred
sad sorosopt of the government and eftetitution, and to
vilify ' our holy religion.") lie might be permitted, there-
fore, to claim fur their side of the questing that the news- 1
paper stamp wee imposed for the mews of restraining
cheap literature, and to prevent Gm circulation of
sheep newspapers. (Hear, hear.) Pat what a stupid,
it had es
becomecarried out in these days,
Mew permitted persons to observe and remark upon
of church and state ; they might write and publish
la • drop form, but if they gave the facts, the news, or if
litegialieesepanied the diseminoa of theories with the narra-
tion current events, then they became liable under the
of the Newspaper Stamp Act. (Hear, hear.)
Lela m
p„..,i,,,e to conceive a non stupid policy than that
they should permit the diffusion of all kinds of speculative
Iliseries, and he alarmed at the diffusion of the truth and
bermiedge of facts, which we the only true antidote for
alMaasous opinions and erroneous view. founded on opecu-
lades theories. (Ilear, hear.) Nothing could be more
striking than the fact that at the present moment there
was a large demand for cheap publications. (Hear, hoar.)
An immense sale of penny literature of one kind
Of another found its circulation amongst the educated por-
ticos of the industrious classes. Why, then, should they
day to this class the benefit of having also tot cheap news-