The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

which was about 25/., or a tax of about 51, as compared
with the poor man's U. 2s. 4d., whereat:, to be gird to
the tax of the poor man, it ought to be 1531. 3.;, 9:1.
N.,,v as to their saytii that they did not send out
their reanufac!..urt,s for corn. he wi,iheti to k:low whether
gold was pr,duced in thi4 c,un:ry, and if it wa. not,
how di i th,,,y get it exc.v. in xchange for their uPinu-
ftet.ires? They w,•re told tht.r. free trade would ruin
the agriculturist, but they had heard the same prognos-
tics with regard to other trades, and they failtd. It: the
manufacturers of cloth carried on their trade iu the
same bungling way as the farmers did the raising of
corn.—(Uproar, cheers, and cries of " Turn him out,"
which lasted some minutes.)
Mr. ONsLow called upon the meeting to hear Mr.
Bowley.

Mr. BOWLEY was afraid he had spoken too plainly.—
(Renewed uproar.) He could not understand what they
were hissing at.—(Uproar, and cries of " Go on!"
, " Don't be four hound"—" Let's have fair plat !") He
did not mind a sentiment being objected to; but if he
was stating anything that was untrue and foolish,
the better it was for those who opposed him. In-
stead of the country laying out so much menu in
railways, which would only give them two or three per
cent., it would have been better laid out on the land at
five per cent. He knew tenant farmers who would gladly
pay that amount for money to improve their farm.. The
landlords should do this inatead ef keeping farms merely
to create political voters to he driven to the p
(Cheers.) Let them carry out free trade to the full, and
get security for the tenant. end they might be all h-tppy
and contented together.—(Cheers )
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, SLY., as a colonial pro-
prietor, said that their in, ere-t had been!, ailing a forlorn
hone against free trade f,r some time. He did mot com-
plain of free trace, but he centended, that before it was
ever introduced the Ministers ought to hare made a
general and great reduction of taxation
both the colonies and England ought to have
been put into preparation for the change. If there
had been a reduction of the malt tax, and the expai-
diture of the country modified, they weak! have been
prepared to have given a fair trial to free trade. He
did not think that free trade was yet half felt in its
effects, or that the farmers had discharged hale the la-
bourers they would have to do. There must be a great
reduction in taxes and expenditure before they
could compete with Russia and other countries.
Mr. Cobden was fated in foreign countries because the
cunning foreigner was aware that England was nut pre-
pared to compete with foreign countries in the mlrk,t
be had opened. If they were to continue in the pre-
sent system he advised the tenant farmers to strike
for a reduction of rents, that the rich mart
might feel the effects of free trade as well
as the poor, and by that means, and that only,
they would raise a party, both in the Lords and Com-
mons, who would compel the Government to make a
reduction in taxation. The manufacturing arid agri-
! cultural interests must stand and fall together, and that
had always been his opinion. He could not agree with
the amendment of the Noble Lord, because it did not
Jude to the fact that the Government hal not
prepared the country for free trade measures by a
reduction in taxation. He positively denied that the
farmers were lightly depressed at the present time.
He wondered the Noble Lord did not go on with his
barber simile, and compare the present circumstances
under which agriculture suffered to the shaving
of the ladies." He called upon the meeting
to adopt such resolutions as would restore to
old England that upright, honest, and merry name she
had ll:Arlen° delighted in. The Honourable Gentleman
concluded by moving. as an amendment, " Tnat the
tress felt by the agricultural interest was chi, fly attri-
butable to the non-introduction of a system or revised
taxation, which would have secured a fair trial to the
principle of free-trade, and rendered it a benefit to the
people."
Sir W. CODRINGTON, M.P., then presented himself
amid loud cheers. Nobody regretted more than he did
the necessity for that meeting, and he highly approved
of the original resolution tnen before them. He thought
that all taxes pressing on the farmers ought to be
removed, and thus free trade might have a chance ;
but under existing circumstances it was impuseible to
compete with the foreigner.—(Cheers.)
The Marquis of WORCESTER, who was also received
with loud cheers, supported the original resolution, and
contended that the opinion of M. Guizat, with regard to
the government of this country, was not worth much,
seeir.g that he could not govern his own country.
Mr. HUMPHREY BROWN, M.P., seconded the amend-
' ment of Mr. Grentley Berkeley. He had always been a
free-trader, and he hoped he should see the system car-
ried fully out among all cla,ses of the community.
Under a system of protection they had had Committees
to inquire into agricultural distress both in 1821 and
1839, and in neither instance could they come to any de-
termination on the subject fur its relief;
Lord DUCIE hiving withdrawn his amendment in
favour of that of Mr. Grautley Berkeley,
The question was put, when the show of hands ap-
peared to us to be as nearly as possible equally divided,
taut

The CHAIRMAN, after consulting with other gentle-
men, declared the amendment to be negativA, a r,sult
which was received with loud cheers and counter cheers.

'fiv. original motion was thin put and carried.
R• solutions having be' n passed, pledging the meeting
to use every effort in endeavouring to obtain an altera.
Limn in the present system, p. titions were adopted to both
Houses of Parliament, in ace .rdance with the resolutions;
and thanks being •oted to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.

EXAMINATION FOR THE ER

CIIANT SERVICE.

A Lit of the Musters aid Mates in the Morehin

Service who have voluntarily pls.eti an fxitnina,ion
and obtain( d certificutes of qualification for !he class
agsin.t t ach ass geed, ut,der the regulations issued by
the Board of Trade since 30+h April last.
M AS I'ERS.

FIRST CIASS.—Jihn Nixon, David Balderston, Mat-
thew Cr twtord, John n, Robert Steels, rhoinas
William Sawyer, Gilbert Sc,itt Msrshall, Daniel Heat-
ley Birne<, L-wis Baton, Frederik Satiila (extra)
FR RI as ‘Villimnsoa Hall, Thomas Dunn. James B Lird,
Jam .3 Jao3`.4 Brown, Andrew Ch, ue, John
Ogilvie, James Wlite, Cecil Mackintosh Stephenson
(extra). I leery Coriass, Robert Mill, r.
SECOND CLASS.— Arthur Parker Turner, William
Taylor, Samuel Radford Thomas, William Henry Bent,
James Hay, William Deane, William Edward Ward
Griggs, James Brack, James Raitr, James Budge, Angus-
.
•"

„ . _
tug Bergh, Charles litany, Edward Pigon, Ge i. Skinner,
(
Alfred :Matson Cit ve'and, J ihn Hor ,tio Woodhatn, Robt.
l'homps in, John Jardine, St. phew Retcher Scan more,
L,urence William Vail', Alex Ader Strachan, Richard
James Reynolds. Hugh Ross, John Thonass Jones. li,r
ben Hildretb, Henry Denny, Charles Gordon, Thomas
Chaplin, Peter Brown, Edward Duncan, William Dun-
das Cloete, John Henry Travi-rs, Thomas Humphris.
Fleury Archbold, Robert Gleacow, Robert Carter
Hu'chings, John Armon, :Michael Youeg, Charles H) nr,
Frederick Arrow, William Spencer, Hugh Macmeikan,
David Gray.
THIRD CLass.—Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Watson,
Thomas Rawe, Richard Henry Barnes, Thomas Preist,
John Edward Philpor, *E tor Child, James Furnell,
John Tinn, Martin Wlntyre, Thomas Gray, James
Connell, Samuel Evans Smith.

MATES.
SECOND CLASS.—.John Charles Ahnond, Arthur
ThornAs aillas, John Wilson, Arthur Kingsford,
Jan Venables.

THIRD CLAM—John White, Francis Hayes, John
George Th..rnas, *Charles Henry Treweeke.
* Qualified •or steam vessels only.
Board of Trade, Whitehall, June 7.

SPORTING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

`• M n's judgments are
A parcel of their turtunt•s:9—SHAKSPERE.

SIR,—My judgment w tolerably correct on most of
the stakes run for at the right royal meeting on the Heath
of Ascot just pass, d away, but particularly so on the race
for the imperial gift of the Emperor of all the liiissias,
for in my obstrvations on this race, published on the
22d ultimo, I placed Van Tromp first, Chanticleer
second, and Cossack third. exactly the order in which
they passed the judge's chair; the struggle between
" the grey" and " Vali" was int,•nsely exciting, the lat-
ter winning by sheer gameness by half a length. Cos-
sack was well up, being beaten a short length from
•• the grey," and having only a neck the advantage of
Col Kingwood.

The Ascot Triennial Stakes riddle I cannot solve
iturneo's victory over Nunnykirk, Honeycomb, Osterloy,
Elthinn, Vatican, and Hotspur, completely sets at
defiance all my calculations Of one thing lam con-
vinced, that Borneo is superior to Hotspur, the acci-
dental s.co-id of the Derby, but decidedly inferior to
Nunnykirk and Honeycomb, whom be, however, by
some extraordinary means managed to defeat easily
enough on Tuesday last.

—AII. Dixon's Blarney, by Mulatto, or Bsllinkeele,out
of BohNntenne, by C. nfederate, made a triumphant
debit, by defeating the " Derby premier," by a neek
for the New Stakes; L irl Chesterfield's Penang, only
succumbing by a head to William the Conqueror fur
second place; all three will figure prominently in the
Derby market, but are in my opinion at the present
time, not good enough to do the " deed of note," next
year.
For the Derby of 1850 my fancy pnints to Pongex,
by Touchstone, out of Crucifix, by Priam; and The
Italian, by Touchstone, out of Florence, as the most
dangerous nags to be against; but the following lot, one
and all, will mike a noise before the day, viz., Sidus,
St. John, Blarney, William the Conqueror, Witch-
craft, Penang, Sergius, Compass, GNillie Callum,
Decoy colt, Windbqund, Crossbow, The Bat, Hardinge,
Stingo, colt by Ballinkeele, Earl of Strathmore, Flare-up,
and the Knight of Avenel.
The present week contains two meetings of but little
note, Hampton and Newton. At the former, on Wednes-
day next will be run the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes,
which has an acceptance of eight, and will probably
hare six starters, with either Durdans or ChicA, fu
winner, the Dark Lady 13,Ang close up ; and on Thurar
day the Clarem.nt Stakes for two years old, which
ought to be won by itoyal Hart or Ballet Girl.
Mr. Green is in iininen,;o force at Newton, it is just
"on the cards," he may win the Golon,ine Stakes with
the Seignor of Hulderness ; the G ,Id Cup with Swiss
Boy or Westow ; the Borough Cup v%ir,h Westow ,•
and the St. Leger Stakes with Garrick; the last named
the most improbable, as Strongbow and Magician figure I
in the race.

Duxbury will be very forward in the race for the
Golll,rne Stakes, and will in all probability win the
Drawing Room Stakes.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE OF THE TURF.
June 11,1849.