The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE

AND THE DERBY ADMINISTRATION.
MANCHESTER, TIIESDA.Y.—An important meeting
was held this afternoon in Nowall's-buildings, for the
purpose of considering the measures necessary to be
taken in consequence of the accession to power of the
Earl of Derby and the Protectionists. The meeting
was convened by circular at only a few hours' notice;
yet it was :mended by more ban one hundred gentle
men, from various parts of the naanufacturing districts of
the duties
Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Mr. George Wilson was called to the choir, and in a
brief speech he salted attention to the present posture
of affairs, and to the necessity which
oitor, it was
6 to re-imexpiossteed for being
uppreFnerteelirdent'omortcioii:olfny Mr.attWeuriPLumn EvANs, of Manehes
such ,aand that they ter, seconded by Mr. ARROWSMITH, of 13 1
y which time it was
late Anti-Corn-
to watch the
the
By a subsequent resolution it
ceedings of the flaw Administration • policy and pro-
luconrwaranLei unanimously. yob
xe
trite,
usqui resolved,
tde,ca
oe
i, That o f
thet
h e ge n t ,
Da e n
who
dc-
sired, should the ram•saity f',,r
together the General Council of step arise, to call
t6e policy of the Government with expected that
the meeting League."
till Tuesday ii,xt, b- was resolved to adjourn
regard to Protection
The opinion of :was strongly in favour of
would be known.
the immediate resuscitation
the materials are eset of the League, for which all
the cause of free trui; u rut
the chairman urged that
would he e* which appeared now to be im-
perilled,best
promoted by waiting until the
Earl of Derby had f
The formally announced his intentions in
Parliament.
new Premier had, at the commence-
ment of the sessi
corn for the on, urged the imposition of a duty upon
that he sakewa; of revenue; but it must be remembered
‘,4,._":_ , . . now invested with the responsibilities of
e an ?ht2views on this subject might have under-
goneT,
emodification.
The meeting consented to act upon Mr. Wilson's sug-
gestion.

In the course of the proceedings it
i was repeatedly de-
clared, amidst much cheering, that, f the Leegue were
once resuscitated, its operations would never be sus-
pended until the permanency of free trade had been
thoroughly established; that more money, more time,
and greater efforts would be devoted to this great pur-
pose than had been given to support the free trade move-
ment prior to 1846; and that, before embarking on the
ofei..etorllts uponuegemonopoly, Lord Derby would
dwoildweelnl tteorperoienssidz its ei
the position and in-
terests of his order.

METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.dit are
The annual statement of the receipts and expn
under the commission has just
.been issued, from which
it appears that in February, 1851, the balance of cash in
band waslld., and the total receipts during
the yea r have amounted to 129,100/. Os. 9d. The ex-
penditure, as returned under the general bead, is for
works, 95,5391. 19. i. 3d. This item includes the cost of
supervision and compensation for damages. The cost of
surveys has been 6,332/. 19s. 9d.; management,
16,430/. 9s. 2cl • leans, 10,041. 10s. 2d.; con-
tingencies, 2,749. j. Ip. id.; total payments,
131,4941. 19s. 5d.; and balance in hat=s, 3,3551. 1 Is. ad.
Idtisbiusruiseumt
,of ohothirs tare regretted chat,
the commission, partlyat, notwithstanding the
from its constitution, and partly from the fact of its
rating powers having been limited to 3d. in the pound,
has been unable to commerce the formation of t.hu
general drainage system about which to much wag said
eighteen months ago.

New York this week describe
steadiness-,----
bsef r°m .
market. The amount of
continued in the money
shipped by the present packet (190,000/.)
wasspecie
arger than had been anticipated, and the firmness in the
rates
of
exchange at the period of its departure indicated
The s
b (a,
about
titer large supply would most likely be sent by the
that a fur
succeeding one. The.se ➢circumstances, however, had led to
no distrust, business in all its ordinary departments being
intrinsically sound. A proposition in Congress for the sub-
stitution of specific for i:d vtdortsn duties wherever practi-
cable, and which had been brought forward by the PAW.
tionists with the View of opening up the tariiiquestion, had
tv
to
coe
been rejected by 108 to CO. TL ere was nothing later from
California. The Spanish Consul, who was forced to fly from
New Orleans at the time of the excitement about Cuba, had
resumed his post, official licitoins thing paid him upon the
occasion. The latest advises horn Alesi,•o w ere to the Nth
of January, but they contain nothing of inintanCO•