The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-31 00:00:00

SEEDS.

A moderate business is doing in Black Sea linseed, ex-
Aip, at 51s 6d ; and Calcutta, 51s to 51s 6d per quarter.
Floating cargoes of Black Sea are worth 52s 6d to 535.
For shipment next summer e,e price is 445. Rape scarce,
and East India is held at fiOs per quarter. Cakes very
firm, and rape are worth 5/ t 3/ 53 per ton.
Turnip,White, per bush. 88 to 1* C.araway, new ggs
Swede .......... 103 12. iCorlander, new ••••• •• 103 123
liastard, Brown.. ...• 78 9siHempseed, per quarter 32s P5B
White, new.. ••..7s (d 10s1Linseed, Eng.-zowing • bBs 62s
Tares,Winter, new.... 43 6d 5s Od • Crushing •••• • • • • 493 b4s
Spring .. • • ...... Os Od Os Od Baltic ••••.. • • .. 49s 52s
Canary, per quarter • • 45s 47s Odessa •• • • 495 535
stye grass.. • • .... 288 348 Linseed Cake, p:. ton—
Foreign,per ion 7110 s 101 5s
Clover,ltedEng. (cwt.) 388 bOa English •• . Os 10. 5a
TrefoWiLigateew..;.iltel
Foreign lied...—. 38s 508 Rape Cakes, pr ton Si 08 Si 51
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308549 Itapeseed,New, rwr lst 2110 s 24: Os

THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER.

The second day's busine _-; opened on Thursday morn-
ing at the Corn Exchange, Manchester. There was a
numerous attendance.
The Rev. Dr. DAVIDSON, Professor of Theology, in
the Lancashire Independent College, Vice-Chairman of
the Conference, said that war was opposed to the autho-
rity of the Gospel, to reason, justice, and humanity. He
did not trouble himself because they were as yet in a
minority, since their cause was good and true.
JAMES BELL, Esq., M.P. for Guildford, moved the
following resolution :—" That the present system of
governing India and the colonies of this country having
a direct tendency to foster a military spirit, to encourage
an extravagant military expenditure, and to involve the
nation in a constant succession of dishonourable and cruel
wars with the native races, eminently unfavourable to
the true progress of religion, civilisation, and commerce,
this confertnce is of opinion that the whole system ought
to unden?3o a speedy and thorough revisal."
Mr. TA. F. COLLINS seconded the -,solution. He said
we talked of having been at peace -^nr the last 36 years,
and yet, all that time, we had been carrying on small
aggressive wars in every quarter of the globe. (Cheers.)
The Rev. HENRY RICHARD said, that the whole and
sole cause of the war which we are now waging in Bur-
mah, and which is costing 50,0001. per month, was an
insult offered to the dignity of a fourth or fifth-rate
British officer, in keeping him a quarter of an hour out-
side the court of the Governor of Rangoon. We have
there about 20,000 men, and above twenty vessels of war.
How did this arise ? It arose from the fact that we are
in almost all parts of the world represented by military
men ; and so it was, that when some small officer got his
dignity insulted, he involves the whole of this great
empire in war, and we hear nothing of it till we are
called upon to vote thanks in the House of Commons,
and give peerages to those parties who had been carry-
ing on these wars so unrighteously. (Loud applause.)
The Rev. FRANCIS TUCKER, of Manchester, supported
the resolution.
Mr. RICHARD ALLEN, of Dublin, in support of the re-
solution, said he believed the world was rightly pro-
gressing. Although despotism seemed exalting itself,
and riveting its chains more and more closely, yet he
believed liberty was dawning, and would ere long burst
forth more brilliant than ever. Those who imagined
that the nations of the continent were much behind us
in their appreciation of liberty were much mistaken.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was then carried.
Mr JOSEPH STURGE, of Birmingham, moved :—" That
this conference( would encourage the Peace Congress
committee to hold a congress at some suitable time and
place on the continent of Europe during the present
year."

! - The resolution was seconded by Mr. SUTER.
The Rev. J. BURNETT spoke in support of the resolu-
tion, and said the friends of Peace would certainly have
a conference during this summer upon the continent, in
I the midst of some one of those foreign nations of whom
we were so much afraid ' • but it was not yet settled
where they should meet. The more we looked into the
camp of our enemy, he was sure the more should we feel
that we were mistaken in thinking there was an enemy
there. (Cheers.)
The resolution having been carried by acclamation,
the sixth resolution was moved by
Mr CHARLES GILPIN, who said he now witnessed with
high gratification the prei;ence of a body of five or six
hundred delegates from various parts of the empire—men
representing, in their pal titular localities and circles,
much social and political influence. He had thought the
Peace Society were keeping silence too long, while the
post horns of all Europe and America had been filled
with the praises of a departed warrior. Mr. Gilpin then
made some reflections on the funeral of the Duke of
Wellington, which, he s&d, was a triumph of uphols-
tery, but there was no mottling there ; although
he had nothing to say against the Duke of Welling-
ton individually ' • he was, perhaps, a good representa-
tive of the sword. He observed that their opponents had
taken advantage of the death of the Duke of Wellington.
Mr. Gilpin then moved the following resolution :
" That in the judgment of this conference, the recent
law passed for the enrolment of the militia was unneces-
sary and impolitic ; and as its inevitable effects will be
to derange the habits and demoralise the character of a
large portion of the community, to interfere with the
requirements of industry and labour, and to spread
among the people military tastes and habits, which can-
not fail to act perniciously on the national character,
the conference recommends that strenuous efforts should
be made to procure its immediate 1, epeal." The peace
party had taken an active part out of doors in opposing
the progress of this Militia Bill, and had issued certain
placards or handbills in reference to it ; and at the top
of these bills they put the picture of a man being flogged
--it having been refused, in the House of Commons, to
do away with the punishment of flogging in the militia.
Now, it was found that those handbills produced consi-
derable effect in the community—it was found that they
interfered with the work of the recruiting sergeants ; and
they were rather inconvenient to the powers that he ; and,
therefore, there had been, and there were, four of their
friends, in different parts of the country, who were at
this hour the subjects of a Government prosecution for
displaying those bills, and for circulating them. (Hear.)
Why, upon this platform there was one of the victims,
Nicholas Withers. He had showed a bill in his window,
and he was threatened with a Government prosecution.
There was one man at the present time, he believed,
imprisoned because, he could not find bail on this charge.
Well, when the Peace Society heard of this, they could
not allow innocent meu to suffer for what they had done.
He (Mr. Gilpin) thoroughly approved of its circular,
and, therefore, he was very glad to be one of a number
who wrote a letter to Mr. Secretary Walpole, telling
him that the handbills were simply what the Peace So.
ciety had been in the habit of distributing for a number
of years—that, if he was disposed to go to law,
he had better proceed against the members of the Peace
Society, and not against poor bill stickers and tradesmen.
(Cheers.) Mr. Secretary Walpo'e never took the trouble
to acknowledge that letter. When Lord Palmerston
came into power, a copy of the letter wal sent to him.
Lord Palmerston replied, " That he could not enter into
any discussion with Mr. Richard on the principles of the
Peace Society." (A laugh.) If Lord Palmerston thought
those trials were t•-) go by default, or that, because some
of these victims wc •e poor men, they would be overridden
by county magistrates, he was mistaken. (Cheers.)
Those trials should all be brought up to the city of Lon-
don • the people of England and the world should know
of this onslaught on the liberty of the press. (Cheers.)
The first counsel of the land should be engaged to defend
their cause ; and it would be seen whether a professedly
liberal Government, coalition though they be, would
venture to attack the press of England. In a subsequent
part of his speech, Mr. Gilpin stated, that at a meeting
held at the Palatine Hotel, on Thursday, it was decided
that 10,0001. should be ra'-ed for this agitation, and four
gentlemen put down their names for 500/. a piece. One
gentleman, this morning, had put down his name for
300/. ; two had promised 2501. each ; five, 2001. ; seven,
, 501. • and two, 251.
.___

Mi.. Charles Hindley, the Rev. N. Hall, Rev. J.
Sibree, the Rev. B. Parsons also supported the resolu-
tion, which was unanimously passed.
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, of Bristol, moved " That this
conference recommends that a deputation be now ap-
pointed to wait upon the RiF,Pht Hon. the Earl of Aber-
deen, her Majesty's Prime Minister, to represent to his
lordship the sentiments of this congress, on the subject
of the great military establishments of Europe, and to
present to his lordship an address.
Mr. THOMASSON, of Bolton, seconded the resolution,
and the meeting concluded about three o'clock.

THE PEACE CONGRESS AT MANCHESTER.—The pro-
ceedings of this congress concluded on Friday evening
with a great aggregate meeting at the Free Trade Hall,
which
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G. Wilson, the chairman,
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SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EARL OF TYRCONNELL, G.C.H.,
t inl e a
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—We have to announce the sudden demise of the above
nobleman, on Wednesday last, at Ripling Park, York-
shire, from an attack of apoplexy. His lordship was
John Delaval Car enter Earl of Tyrconnell, on the
peerage of Ireland, and was born 1790 ; he succeeded to
the title on the death of his brother, the third earl it
1812. His lordship married in 1817, the only daughter
of Robert Crowe, Esq., of Kiplin, by whom he has left
no issue, and the title has become extinct. Two earl-
doms, and one viscounty (Lord Melbourne having died
on Saturday) having thus become extinct within the last
few days.
A GERMAN TRAGEDY. —The second, or, as it is called
in Germany, the golden marriage of an Old couple, who
had been already united for fifty-three years, hook place
a few days since at a small Prussian village of Naswiller,
a short distance from the frontier. The religious cere-
mony took place in the church of Merlebach, in France,
after which the party proceeded back to Naswiller to
partake of the wedding feast. During the evening a
trial of skill in singing was proposed, after which three
brothers who were annoyed at being beaten fell on the
• man who had been declared the victor, and after heating
him severely with their fists stabbed him through the
b..- ••• with a knife. They then ran off; but two of them
, „I u
were soon arrested, and the third was found hanging in
a wood quite dead.

BREEDING HORSES IN FRANCE.--At the last sitting of
the Paris congress of the delegates of the various learned
societies, the question under consideration was the
breeding of horses for agricultural purposes. The repre-
sentatives of Normany and of the Limousin were agreed
in saying that the cross of English blood from race
horses had sensibly altered the fine qualities of the
French race, and that if the evil was beginning to be
repaired in Normandy, the case was very different in the
Limousin. Several speakers dwelt on the necessity of
soliciting from the Government and from the local ad-
ministrations every measure which could lead to the im-
provement of the race of horses intended for agricultural
purpoooo.