The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

A FRENCH OPINION OF ENGLISH FREE

M. TRIERS ON PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
111. fliers during his speech, referred binthen
letter of Me Paris easesopoudeut published y*.-
lerdmT, aid:—
That sine*. the corementememt of this greet die•
evasion certainly very euellmet things had been lewd
from the 'p'uk'es es both sides of this ga'mi'n; yet
it append to bits that the bill itself had bees comewhat
neeltred. lie could say, from his own espartos's, that it
ens sot 'sough to merely read this bill, in mime to under-
maiod it; it was neceseasy, is addition, hi peruse ekes eon..
Dietary, like the report, to pertisetly comrelased It. Re
would coinage to show what the bell nein wee. emd est
loathe oaly object 'bet he should sin at is the
Tee hilt lad hiss the mat of the labours et two eemmietem,
• mu of obit\ he had hod the hcesens of bong president.
He emasegmade was perfently well mane( the iendeney of
*We labours. The memene lbw of all, was a kind of mem
premier, wish sedeavoured by gemilistory mesas to draw
eaftether puttee previeeale at various. This the bill, hem.
enact, would asst. The ordinary remelt of such arrange-
wow was to put ea ad to extreme parties, sad musty tea
german eaten the nave lawmen comerasd. They else p.
smelly led to loud represent easiest the parties who sew
looted to them. The posses* bill, at ell events, had Willed
this latter geninfien, as it bed Men iteedly Feinted against
sed attacked. 11. de Mostalsonhat had bees shamed with
apestsey, and meowed somewhat amt. d by the aseseaties.
As to tom (M. Thins) lie had bees similarly amend, his
had sot bees is the slightest degree disturbed by what wee
sme, d• Mestalembert lied this advantage, tbat hawse
gull yeses ia mildest ; but that eiresiestame also res.
dead kiss Ism moistened to the imenage of partiesthes he
who sow addressed the seimably. Hs Amon this 'mesa
M all parties would de kiss the jostler to believe In eis W-
hereon Is kis sonvietions and his indepesdeme. He had
gins the peesent seder of things his loyal Median, ash •
las had not abmilemed kis former views, het had remained
Mafia to with he had previously sowed and snood. (Ap-
phiesse) He mild, therefore, with trash Manse that in the
Olen% and unhappy, although honourable part, which he
led twee playbog her the Int tere yam, be had rs noised
penestly soM sad impassible to all repreeshes directed
nano hies. (Hem, bees) Os use post In bed, however,
seedifted hie news, is prenem of the Inman perils whin'
bed messed the seem, define the last two yeses, sad ail
es still. It was that Mites that bad inflomeed him la hie
desire to draw slow together and reessesile the partisans of
the state sad these of church. Yes I he had gives the
land freshly to M, de Illostalembat, with a view to coacalt.
mama Yes! it. tho measure whits was made tektite for
the eiergy use kw the university, bet for society, adveatages
ewe given to the clergy. But they were not those which
*d bees stated ; I. would show whet they were—sad he
did sot deny that they were considerable. They had bees
effected is vine, of the emitituticie—they were the result,
not of the opinions of the u•jority, but of the Left In the
two committees what part bed he filled ? He would tell
them, aster toning first briefly ezpisised the organisation of
iestrectise in Frame. At presest there ewes the state
schools, Mows by the same of lyceums; communal col-
leges ; tree establishmeets; and lastly, seminaries, or schools
carried us by tlw clergy tor the education of persons in-
tenaed for the church, altbouph other penons were elm
• d there. Diapason, who founded this oysters, and was
couistent is his views, said, " I must give this new indite
too a goversesest," and he est..hlished the university. He
per. to that nuiblishment property and an ansinistestin
organism, n—the govenmeot of the university, in fact. re-
presented the state. He gave it the privilege by which no
Khoo'. could be established in Francs without the authcs
restos of the uninnity. But nothing was more easy than
to obtain that pensions, and so many institutions ..en
formed under it, that if liberty of instruction mid note list in
ereace ne jure. it did in fact, the university esereising its
monerly with great moderation. Thus, by the side of
300 lyceums and 300 communal colleen, More were 800
private institution. lei addition to the lay establishment.,
there was mother dewription which he bad Cready alluded
to, which should not be omitted in the list. By th - account
1t.,, each bishop had a right to keep up a religioue secon.
dui school, called aseninoire, of which he was the tele head
bed sup. nutendent But to make up on the other side fur
this Neon. , the law said to the " You cannot bring
up popi s extopt for toe priesthood, and your pupils whl not
he &cheated to the nomination for the d of bachelor of
letters." After this preparatory explanation, the Amiably
could better undentand the new bill. They all were aware
of the great oispute Mein to public intention, which
had arum during the last years of the monarchy of July.
Ile would not enter into all the points of differeme which
were witeted; be wou'd simply mention three principal
one.. The clergy said to the University. "You instrue.
t.on is not worsl; it is irreligious." Other adversaries
said to the ttttt ity, though not in the name of the
chureb, but in the name of liberty of instruction, "You
follow the old beaten poth; you cause young men to pew
the best years 01 their lit. is learning Latin, which will he
of little me to them in life; you do not give us 'nth
educated men as we want is the present day." The Uni-
versity replied, " Oar education is as morel es that of the
religious estabiashments; we do not impose religion on our
pupils, bet we tea bit with respect. We bring them up
mono the mutton of antiquity; we form their style ;
we It them for the active position of lite, and for 'he
present times. Such is our plan." Then the Coiner.
ear in its turn addressed the el.rgy and said.
•• You want to seize on ins ruction. If you wanted to
ezer.i.e it yourielvis• well sod good ; but you do not aim at
that course, you want to deliver it over to a celebrated
hair ow h. dy ten Jesuits), who profess, wider a eltree COll-
- the Court of It me, opiniens which we dread.
Yee mote hood cilia-as of the pupils ambled to
you." Sack were the reCriatilletiorie of the dispute is the
mien of *Mk the revolution of February bunt forth.
N hat 'Mann had that change produced in him ? He bad
not been a pietism of liberty of instruction ; he had oft- n
el...tided the Weenie of the state. But when once the
ciesitutios was pissed, as • good citizen, and owing to it
lawful °lndian, he Wad himself obliged to change his
vas on tee subject, and foe this reason that by it full
Leery ut ins roc ioe was formally established—union in
direct oppo.i.vin to the eoaatitution, he could not any longer
iciest on Lis former opinions. The constitution was formal,
red he, in order to be cossistent, was forced to support that
liberty et tastnetio which he had previously poised.
(Bea. bear.) He sail to himself besides, that it the quarrel
contused, it meld not but be with great danger to the coon-
try in the present critical state of things. It was not 1,"
panted tie his, gentlemea, " who made the coestittitien, it
was yin- I was, so debt, member of the second committee
es the westitathe appointed to criticise the work of the first.
I noggin I had rornied en eon points the members of
that canine*, but w. afterwards found that the melbas
Sr the woad committee made converts on very few points of
Amber. of the firs.; in fine, the constitution exists, and
ti• liberty of ism ructiqn. But with Art. 9 conciliatios
'rc d event—is • matter of absolute necessity. Yes., by
. we have made a great concoction, or rather we have
non OYU to the church an important eight; yes, we
s elide to the church a great conctssion, which nom of
snout ee hal thought of pointing out. They have
ill t istt chetinctuios and groundwork for dictum-
hat not *single en, has shown that he comprehends the
(Movement ) Are you aware what most offended—
it our the wren pont with the clergy ? It was the re'piese
tee wasiaaries ! There is not a single minister of public
•rwoos of Power brass who will not tell yes that, if
.rt W ierrartion was given to then establishment., the
erel would c. ase lat omit The clergy used to may,
ewe to risme men to educate, and you forte them to
r 'l4 priest's habit ; they cannot exceed 20,000, and Pal-
aver the lowed profession. This would not annoy us
• t were all to be priests, but that is not the case ; many
.1. Were to enter the lib eel professions ; but you re-use
!iot them to the eamanation for the diploma of M-
oe of letters, sad they ars so prevented from following
heft of their iaelieia, ass " Ail that was true, and then
c ,hoysehtly good ground for their complaints. Tee Si-
weres and pupils chi, fly from the poor, as, by not being
wtiontments, they saw themselves deprived of the chil-
e 't the owlish ; the consequeses was that these eats-
to. ati oiesis,ed with difficulty. But what was not Ilion
crises, yon have effete. d since for you have introduced
orostittal in the hi.l of M. Jules Simon. You have
that all establishments of education shall hi per-
hut that they shall be subject I. inspection. That Is
ow commas which has been made, the seminaries
resin what pupils they please, but subject to inspection
''eh ley man to those me any other matter of great int-
me in the bill. (Movement.) As to the presence of
;0 in the council, as the Bishop of Langres obeened, it
,ot a favour, but an meanie. (Approbation on the
t sand essureours on the Left.) The partings of instroc-
ay the stets must seems me, but with the constitution
3no longer any conceesion, there is a right. Ws have
Peened of debvs ring up the youth of France to the
7. Ihe gnat esoncession is that the small wminaries
net freely. It is the enestitution which wills that
ele ell be the ease. (" Hear, hear," and murmurs )
!hewer 'sad " Toe organisation of freedom of instruc-
t 1. take place as promptly as possible," and if it had
• • puitive an the constitution, its fulfilment would
•*a eosins, d to the very letter. Bet the constitution
sh establishments shall be fres without enerion.
witted to i. sp chum. That charge has been imposed,
• Inirine inep.etiOß yes naturally give liberty. (Ex-
.., on the Left) The avenues given to
oti is tie fa. ul•y of tesehian greeted to the small
•. ; that i a serous adman's given to the church.
•: es y..tr, since I should have regretted this. but
i.,•. 1 stldrsell myself to the Left, and I wit
. • • y wool, have weeded the bill. I confess to
•• ' odeiit ; I have bequeath asked myself
• vermin would employ to prevent the Con.
o ,ioplied to all, eves to the clergy. Adler/win
• •hi• non of your principle*, how would you
• taking pert in instating' ? You naked
• i wserty under the old government, and now yes
inked. s and Milked, and you tell us that
Jesuits
..rif Own the tribune, the bon. meatiness was
too/retained by a great number of the men-

this limo /aroma dii &has.)

As animated debate has eenzmeacied is Behead,
rapastiog the merit sad the advantage: cd free 17"11 in it.
Mallow with the aaticsalsgricalittra 'hi fermis nffer
eatrevaitly from the low prise et sera, sad livers! emu
paths Nam that free trees am. eaves. It is snider alto tin
eitasstaaree that Bit Robert Peal has Jaw addressed to itis
tomato a letter is whisk he makes knows his well-weislted
epithet whisk, like ever, sottor emanating from that Illus-
trious 'lateness. is adagios& to preeam a deep lepresioa,
mot wily fa Great Britain, bat shoed.

Is in, trade to beer the Mite for.this sodden fall of the
pries of son, white, if esstlaued, weld reader its midvatlon
is Zeeland almost impeastioshie 1 X% replies dir It. Peel
emphatioally ; the prinelphs fuss trade awn set
De rendered yesponiible for a redoetina ef whisk is net
only abeemem, but a profound This dorm
elation of the price ef seen arise tho dessmitime that
alter the wool famine it 1847 as Asa all acheinn% the
fear it • smelt, der sa sad the bop el pasalinfl by Wes
NW* mused ealtnatios to bs unmanly naeasad ; such
awe ant was rows Una lernerly. It so Iced that
the seeps wan nun antaint I. saarkst
we naesqualb atatted, awl the =result was that
the scot Me mid at a less. The proof that free trader not
the origin of this serims mess is this—that the fall was as
great, nay, create/ than in England I. thole states of the
continent of Europe where the tors law underwent so al
oration whatever. Prone Is a etsatirs example of this feet.
Here, in Paris, we awl the Inerallwo ci sees at 13f., instead
of at 20( the amigo prise; and an a Sailer has been laid
on our esstom-house misses. It Is ma to be remarked that
the adoption is Eaglaad of Me trod' ia ern most ham
prevented the prim :loom from falliag in Paris as sinek as
it would have dose if left to itself; for England has taken
• pretty large quantity of gran from Normandy, mad the
glut of the markets In the meth of Frame, icionsive of Paris,
has been diminished by so much.
Nettling is limier than to 'Disbud the man whose temper
Is scared by suffering and privation. The English harem
at this mutest are rather severely tried. Woes they se.
orpted their looms, they foresaw set that they would have to
sell sirs at meant prima. They lien only Mel their ea-
gigemiste, eissequently, at • great lose. TM " protec-
tionist " ladies, in this conjuncture, hopes to succeed in
rallying the counties round Its standard. But Sir R. Peel
boldly baffles this cannine iIICHITINI with the resolution
end the authority which have never yet failed hies. It is
flrm conviction," writes this eminent statesman, that
nether the pr. sent nor say future parliament will commit to
lovy duties on article which aro essential to the sustenance
of was, either with a view to pr...tection or
Bash is the style in which as aristocracy which would endure
morasses itself when speaking of popular interests ; and this
by which the dominant dames in Great Britain ars
animated, mplains more clearly than anything else why sad
how it is that the politial constitution of that country re-
sists the thick of continental revolutions.

But whet is to be done? The slats,a quo is impoesible.
Free trade in corn, if not the saws of agricultural dewier,
may, nevertheless, place the farmers in a disadvantageous
position. The old leases, plurally granted fora long term,
may, under the new system, be onerous to this important
clam. Is there no room for an arrangement, and what ought
the terms of that arrangement to be?

The manner in which Sir R. Peel considers this question
is worthy of notice ; it contains a lesson for everybody's use.
He adweiM that the old contracts must be amicably revieed.
He adjourns that revision until the moment—which he re-
gards as proximate—when the secichntll crisis that now
prevails shad have pulsed away. But he does not hesitate,
yen n.iw, to declare the bases on which he will accept the
revision. Calculations must be made—not limited to a mere
taking account of the fall of the average selling price, bat
embracing all the elements of the question. Many improve-
ments have been made, and a great many advantages secured
to the farmer of late years, so that the cost of cultivation
has been materially lessened. Again, a dirinctiou must be
drawn between the laborious, intelligent, and active culti-
vator who keeps up with the progress of apiculture, im-
provement, and the degenerate clodhopper who detests work,
and is utterly devoid of intelligence and moral force. In-
ternal competition will ruin these laggards far more surely
than that from without.
The principle of commercial policy of which Sir R. Peel
has secured the triumph may thus be enunciated—every one
is responsible for his own destiny, and ought to seek for
success in sustained efforts, activity, intelligence, and good
conduct, and especially to forbear from demanding that a
tax be levied on his fellow-citizens for his owa especial be-
nefit. This ought to be the law of agriculture as well as of
manufactures. But between the landed proprietor and the
farmer relations of mutual assistance are proper, and at cer-
tain times necessary. Sir R. Peel now intends to put in
practice this sort of fraternity or patronage, without preju-
dice to ulterior concessions. Under various forms he pro-
poses to encourage the schemes of improvement of his tenants,
with this proviso, that he will do nothirg except for those
who shall have paid their nate. He firmly maintains his
rights of property.

It is the general opinion of the beet judges that English
agriculture will suecesatully emerge from the trial of free
trade, and succeed in producing corn at such prices as will
prevent the native cultivators from being supolanmd by
foreign growers. Admitting that this antiopetion will be
realised, it must be attributed to two special causes—first,
the countries which export corn do not grow it so cheep',
es we are told; and 'gain, they have commonly only a
trifl'ag eaves of produce. ordinarily not more than 6,000,000
or 7,000,000 hectolitres can be taken away from the general
market without itducing a marked rise in price ; secondly,
an sgrkulture which enjoys the twofold subtends of science
and capital posses es great advantages, and hie very little to
fear from the cultivators of new regions, where land costa
nothing, but where capital is scarce, and even science does
not ;abound. The art of serialises is broueht to a great
degree of perfectas in Great Britain. The English farmers
—persons in may cireusastaecee, and often szoadiney rich
—bring up their eons to succeed them, and notes in Prance,
to make them, at all hazards, magistrates, tams ia the
army, or attachis of embassies. They give them a special,
hat distinguished education, with that object in view.
Lastly, capital in England is far more multiplied than else-
where. The English do not make revolutions once every 15
years, by which a great part of the movable capital of the
country is consumed.

The cepi•al of England is constantly increasing, and gives
an admirable impulse to all branch.' of production. Now,
capital is the material element of the progress of 'isolating
and popular improvement. Where capital abounds society
with the labor, of the ssme numb., of persons may obtain
a far larger mar of artiege to distribute amongst men—
a far larger amount of satisfaction for the average number of
MOIL

It England had not had much capital at command, she
wild not have accomplished with each rapidity the evolu-
tion by which she hail pared from the old system of " pro-
tection" to that of free trade. Aud now that she enjoys that
liberty she will pores., in a far larger proportion then in
past times, the means of forming capital—that instrument of
power over the Ifeeld- that m►terial foundation of the poli-
ties' g►eatams of nationii—that marvellous ag. nt of the in-
ternal order detain; for under that system every fragment
of the national labour is employed in the most fruitful man-
ner, obtains the largest retort', sad consequently permits
the largest saving.
England, therefore, has no reason to regret—far from
it—the great political saanccuvre which she accomplished,
after the brilliant campaign of Mr. Cobden and his friends,
by mauls of the energetic and farsighted care of Sir A.
Peel. The principle of free trade will be maintained,
bat it might have been compromised, had not that emi-
nent man delt a deathblow to the protectionist faction by
his retreat derisive demonstration. He has just done what
was required to avert the tempest which was gathering.

(..Flfat AND EATING HOVER KEEPERS'
• en ain't the half-yearly Meeting of the
frt. ads of this sessiciatloa was held at the
1•• Tavern, (heat Quern• , Lincoln's. inn-
' 1 hoses Sherwood, the president of the institu-
' The charisma haring briefly opened the
• r•errsry, Mr. S. Abbott, read the report,
.t th; r. cripts and donations for the past
ew,,u4.1 to ltd. 14e., which, added to the modal
Hawed that the assets of the society were
I ; sum di,hur.ed In pensions in the half-
-2,. Tee eh.irnian moved the adoption of the
* "assay been seconded, was carried nasal-
Posetedings closed with a Tow of thanks to
•dlasa,

MURDEROUS ATTACK AND HIGIIWAT ROBBERT.-n•
Oa Timidity night last, u Mr. Abraham Mallinson and Mr.
Joseph With'', onnufeetursin, residing in the neighbourhood
et Kirkheatoo, near Huddersfield, were retuning from
market at the latter place, they were attacked by a peg of
robbers, felled to the earth, and most brutally maltreated.
Kirkheaton is situate about two miles to the east of Hud.
denfield, and is itself a Mrs/sling vilage, with other and
smaller villages at sheet distances from it ; sense to most of
whisk villages is readily obtained by means of footpaths
woes the fields, the route by the cart roads being longer,
from the hilly Deckle of the district. The two gentlemen
above rimmed left Huddersfield between nine and ten in the
evening in question, and called at the Tandem lea, on the
Wakefield read, to se if any other parties were going
their way. They left the len between eleven and twelve,
passed Kirkheaton, and took • footpath leading through
the fields from Kirkstyle to a place called Gawthorpe
Osten. When they had proceeded • abort distance from
Kirkheaton, the time being about twelve o'clock, they were
attacked by • party, who music them to the ground, with
weapons of which • pair of stilts that had been spaded from
the parsonage at Kirkheaton farmed a part. The violence
used was considerable; for the two gentlemen were beaten
is a dreadful manner, and the ground for a considerable die-
tepee was covered with blood. Both of them were left
insensible by the ruffians, after each had been plundered of
the money and other valuables he had in his 'on.
They lay for some hours before they recovered sufficiently to
be able to crawl towards their respective homes, where they
are both now lying in a dangerous state, particularly Mr.
Joeph Wilby, who, at the time when this was seines,
costumed lasensible to all passing. On the arrival of Super-
iatondent Heaton from Huddersfield neat morning, that
oiliest trued footprints in the snow, from the plan tef attack
across the fields to • small plantation in the grounds of Mr.
John Labrey ; and in this plantation a number of payers,
which had been taken from the persons of Mr. Manias=
and Mr. Wilby, w. n found. From the plantation across
Mr. Lebny's perk the footsteps were ctintinued ; sad is •
hedgerow at • considerable distance from the spot where the
gobbler bad been rthettd was found a part of one of the
stilts that had been used in the attack. Several other
pens had been left on the ground where the attack took
place, these weapons, from um violence used, having been
heokea in pieces. From information eollected by Mr.
Heaton, that racer apprehended John Wood, John Sykes,
and James Castle, all weevers residing at Lascellee Hall,
• short distance from Kirkheaton, on the charge of being
eoneerned In the murderous attack and robbery. Oa
Thursday they were plaeed before George Armitage, Erg,
J.P., and sufficient evidence adduced to justify their de-
tention on • remand until Thursday neat, that the fate of
the parties so brutally maltreated may be known. Doriag
the last two months no fewer than lout eases of highway
robbery, accompanied by more or less of violence to the
person, have occurred in the roads and bye-roeda of the
Kirkheaton district, one of them so lately as ta Freida=
Saturday night.—Mancherter Guardian.

.o;ti_,

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1850.

THE UNITED STATES.

tiS7 Electric TekerlPM

PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

[non ova own oolansroinninr.)
LIVERPOOL, Tummy Moanuta.
The Royal yid steamship Cambria, Capt. Leittt,
hu antyed hen 1:-.)m Boston and Halifax, bringing
the mile and peeleiege.-4 from the United Stake,
Canada, and the Lower Provi,c'est
She sailed on the 9th inst., eessequeotly brings
fourteen days' later news than previously received.
The steant4tip America, which sallsilheatte for Hali-
fax and Bost.on on the 15th alt., had arrived oat at
the latter port.
The eseeeediag.inail steam ship Canada, hones on
the 29th Dee. for Halifax and New York, had sr
rind out at Halifax, and landed her mails and pia-
angers and proceeded to her pert of destination.
The only political news of moment by this arrival
is the fact that the bill for diplomatic
relations with Austria had been iatrodnsod into the
Renate, and the subject was ander discumion.
There is nothing new from Canada or California.
The captain and other cants of the Caleb Grim-
shaw had arrived at New Ybrk.

rraRTING AT IP ty..2.70.

•
A atiltiV wee held yeeillrffay liee,aig, at the
es Mall, Baling, to hear from some winbers of
the oilmen al the Metropolitan Reform Association an ex-
position sage rteefejee uped which that aeweiation
towagen, to obtain the tworration of the locality.
The mem was quite fell.
The Weir having been taken by Mr. FLOWlian,
Mr. WILEINSON reseeded to address the sliest-
isg. He monaminced by oisserving that Sew men in
t*a fwors.matry
al couldlibe oc,
but iesplaia
all of aay
anapl ourtaßwat
and
of
uprces
:rrtyaised 0,
nadir, exve taxation. (Hem, bear.) The
o of thie taxation was heavily felt by the middle
claws, but the great pressure fell after all on those vest
maw WWI emathated the working dame of this enstry.
(Hear.) To offset a reformation of so videos
• Mate of things the Parliamentary and Mazola Reform
Amplifies had been galled late existents*. The objects
whisk
that sesesiation prepesed to itself were a completeextenekin of the suffrage, wee by holliat, abolition of the pee-
party qualtleatioa. sad Ma SUM measures as were meow
easy to wake the Howe of Omemene what it released to be
—the representative of the were people of England. He
Galled upon his Wavers to in genres eat those
°biotin, and. kyy. their mimed wad sweet/ NOT* ell-
nosey to the wane of the pawed amseistim (Lewd sham)
Mr. HANNAN, the sett speaker, said he would trouble
them with a few words an one brawls of the subtest which
it was weaseary they should all sodomised. R. believed
that every penes pressed wished to redoes the taxed= of
the omitatry. (Hear, War.) The 'meal amount of oar
twee, bat emseially of ow national debt, was priestly in-
conceivable. It had been will put, by a correspondent of
the Deily New, that ow debt amounted to fifteen pounds
per hear Maw the tweaks of the world. Bat to Co.. to
mew modern dm'', and to ismer berthas, it mist w you
guy:: Sewn pew& per Waists to pay Inc tho army, end
per linage pep fee the navy of the country.
Nay, iriVrtilrie possible ado* thew items sovereign by sove-
reign, into a box, it weal amemotteena sommeiga persesond.
Having swiped with reit rem the various fallacies by
which the abuse in our gemegumenMl system are attempted
to he supported in argument, the speaker concluded by
stating that all the people waited was good government,
and that that was only to be obtained from a real repreeenta•
Wu of the people. (Cheers.)
Mr. II'ORATH, who was warmly elteered, congratulated
himself upon finding that reform was not without its sup-
porters even in that small village. He saw before has the
germ of a powerful memlatioe, and it was the
bounden duty of those who heard him to bring
that germ to maturity.
Mr. T. ATKINSON then rose Meacham the meeting, and
was received with loud chew. Having complimented the
premiums speaker, whom he designated as one of the eloquent
representatives of the working cleanse, and expressed the
pride and platoon he (Mr. Atkinson) felt an his oo operatiois,
he proceeded to say that one of the principal objects of the
assaciatioa was to embody • public opinion tensed of the re-
flective portions of the middle and working claws, which
should strike terror into that idle class who were living on
the burdens of the country. (Cheers.) There were
two principles is the guestimate& of this country
the aristocretio and democratic. The monarchical principle
had formerly been tolerably active. (Hem, hear.) It hat
been active down to the death of Charles the First—(bear) ;
and subsequently is the winterise; times of the amenities.
Junes 11. strained it a little too hard, until at teat he found
a resting-platy for the soles of his feet in another country.
We had 1.1.17 returned tho complimeat by rain, shelter
to a flying renclt King of the present day. (Cheers.)
That mamma went on until William 111. cams over,
accompanied by several worthy Dutch gentlemen, who,
having made cheese in the flats of Holland, came
over hers to revel in the milk and honey of England. Those
gentlemen were pensioned, and not only them, but their de-
scendants, and even assignees, down to the present time.
(Cheers.) Then came bloody wars—the wars of Marlbo-
rough, to find work and places fon lords' younger sons, and
for the support of which the labour of the English working
man was mortgaged to all euriity. But there was a love of
right and justice, imprinted in the mind of the
Anglo-Saxon, whether ignorant or enlightened, which
in the end would find a way of remedying them
evils. He had already obtained relief for the dissenters,
tor the Roman cotholics, as extension of the franchise, in
1832, and the more recent emancipation of trade. But he
had as yet got in only the small edge of the wedge, it re-
mained yet for him to drive it home. The Saxon had im-
bibed the principles of freedom in the depths of the German
fornsts, he had cherished them even when crouched nutter
the hoof of the conqueror, and they wore alive and
vital at the present day, and in direct and active
antagonism to the aristocracy of the country. (Hear,
hear.) It was the object of the association to give their
principles efficient force and direction, and to establish such
a state of things tie should prevent the aristocracy Laving
I any influence, direct or indirect, over the deliberations of the
Howe of COOIIIIGIIII. Mr. Atkinson next alluded to the
pension list, and gave a history of the origin of the Duke of
Grafton's pension which elicited the loudest laughter and
cheerios from his audttory.
Mr. WYMON moved the following resolution
That this meeting having heard the deputation of the
National Parliamentary aim Financial Reform Association,
approve of the principles of the society, and pledge them•
Selves to give it their warmest support.
Mr. GROVER seconded the resolution, which was car-
ried unanimously.
A local committee was formed, subscriptions were opened,
end sneaks basing been valid to the chairman, the pro-
ceedings terminated.

Mr. Meredith, secretary of the treasury, in answer
to inquiries, has replied that in all cases of importa-
tion duties Rut be attested on the entire
quantity imported. Whenever the quantity im-
ported is ascertained to nosed that specified in the
invoice, &ammo intention to defraud the United States
appears, the merchandise will be admitted to
entry, and :the proper duties attested on the whole im-
portation. Whatever the value of the whole importa-
tion, including the quantity stated in the invoice and
that in excess, exceeds by more than 10 per mat. the
value declared on the entry, the proper penal oe addi-
tional duty must be exacted.
The Governor of Maryland, in his annual message,
represents the finances of that state to be in a most
prosperous condition, leaving 376,000 dollars over all
current demands for the annual extinguishment of
the public debt. The governor predicts the total ex-
tinguishment of the state debt in 13 years.

COMMERCIAL
NEW YORK, Jaw. 8.
Business fair. The market for breed-stuffs was
active, and priors very firm, at the following quota-
tions, via.:—Western Canal flour, 7 dole. 750. to
7 dole. 8710. per bathe!, steady. Gamesome p,ime
wheat, 1 dol. 26c. to 1 dol. 280. per bushel of 60Ibs.
Southern wheat, 1 dol. 80. to 1 dol. 10e. per 601 b.
Indian corn, round yellow, 62r. to 64c. per bushel,
steady. Indian corn, flat yellow, 63c. Southern
white, 58c. to 60a, very firm. Indian meal, 3 dole.
100. to 3 dole. 121 c. per barrel.
Daring the last week the sales of cotton were to
about the extent of 2,000 bales per day, and each day
higher prices were demanded and obtained than on
the preceding, the operations being for demestic con-
sumption, and for export to France and the continent.
The larger proportion, however, was on speculative
account in this city. Very little has been done for
the English market in the past two weeks, our prints
being above the limits of orders, and there being no
general disposition to ship on American account.
Yesterday there was a good inquiry, and 2,500 bales
were sold, the market closing very firmly with a de-
cided upward tendency in prices, and a strong specu-
lative feeling, induced by the accounts from the
south. The sales to-day are 2,000 bales. The quo-
tatiocs annexed are three quarters to seven-eighths
per cent. higher than the prices sent by the last
steamer. Inferior Uplands none. Florida none.
Mobile and New Orleans, 101 to 101; ordinary, 114
to 111, 111 to 111, 111 to 111.; middling,
114 to 114, 11/ to 111, 111 to 121; middling fair,l2
to 121,124 to 12:, 124 to 12; ; fair, 121 to 12: ; no-
minal, 12: to 13 ; good fair, 13. The accounts from
the south received outing the past fortnight, in rela-
tion to the incoming crops, have been more decided as
to the general results than any hitherto received this
season ; the estimates appear to have settled upon
2,100,000 bales as the maximum, while very many
insist upon less than 2,000,000 bales.
There was a fair business doing in exchange. On
London, 107: to 108, pretty firm. On Parts, 6.30,
very little doing. On Hamburg, 341 to 391. On
, Bremen, 791 to 794.
Freights remained unchanged at the departure of
the steamer; the quotations are: Flour to Liver-
pool, le. 6d. to Is. 9d. per barrel; cotton, to Liver-
pool, 4d. to 3-16 d. per lb.; cotton. to Havre, Id. to
ad. per lb.