The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-13 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 176.

Abciy, Thomas N. Ferguson, Sir R. C.
Newdegate, C. N.
Aclitnd, Sir T. Filmer, Sir E. Newport, Vint.
A repdall, Captaid- Fitzpatrick, J. W. Nicholl, J.
Arundel, Earl of Forster, M. Nugent, Sir Percy
Bagshaw, John Freestun, Colonel O'Connell, Maurice
Baltlock, E. H. Frewen, C. H. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Bating, Sir F. T. Galway, Viscount Ogle, S. C.
Baring, Thomas Goddard, A. L. Owen, Sir J.
Bafringfon,-Visconnt Godson, R. Paget, Lord Al
Bellew, R. M. Gooch, E. S. Paget, Lord Clarence
Bennet, Philip Gore, W. R. 0. Palmerston, Yisceunt
Bei!tinck, Lord H. Granby, Marquis of Parker, John
Beresford, William Greene Thomas Patten, J.IW.
BerOteley, Captain Grey, Sir George Philips, Sir G. R.
Blake. Martin J. Grey, R. W. Pugh, David -
Bowles, Admiral Grosvenor, Earl Raphael, Alexander
Boyle, Colonel Guernsey, Lord Renton, John C.
Brackley, Viscount Guest, Sir John Rich, Henry
Bramston, T• W. Haggitt, F..lt. Richards.lltichard
Brand, Thomas Hale, R. B. Romilly, Sir John
Britco, M. Hallyburton, Lord Rushout. Captain
Brooke, Sir Arthur ' lial§ey, T. P. Russell, Lord. John
Bruce, C. L. C. Marris, Captain ' Russell, F. C. H.
Bulkeley, Sir R. B. _. Ilastie, Archibald Rutherfurd, A.
Banbury, W. Hawes, Benjamin St. George, Chris.
Burke, Sir T. J. Hay, Lord J. Sanders, Joseph
Buxton, Sir E. Hayter, W. G. Shane, K. D.
Campbell, W. F. Heathcoat, John Shell, R. L.
Carew, W. P. Heathcote, G. J. Shelburne, Earl of
Cagier, J. B. Heneage, G. H. Simeon, John
Cavendish, C. C. Heneage, E. Slaney, Robert A.
Chartens, Francis Henley, J. W. Smith, J. A.
Chllders, J. W. Hervey, Lord A. Somerville, Sir W.
Christy, Samuel Hill, LorkE. Stansfleld, W. R. O.
Cliye, It. H. Hobhouse, Sir John Stuart, Lord J.
Clive, H. B. Hodges, T. L. Sutton, Ii 31
Cobbold, John C. Hollond, Robert Talbot, C. R.
Cocks, Thomas S. Hope, A. Tancred, H. W.
Coles, H. R. Howard, Lord E. Taylor, T. E.
Colivile, C. R. Howard, CW. G. Wilson, E. K.
Compton, 11. C. Inglis,-Sir R. 11. 1 hicknesse, R. A.
Corry, ii. Jervis, Sir John Thompson, Alderman
Cowper, WF. Keppol, George T. Tollemache, John
Craig, W. G. Knox, Colonel Trollope, Sir J.
Dalrymple, Captain Labouchere, Henry Turner, G. J.
DitNieS, D. A. S. Lascelles, W. S. Tyrell, Sir J.
Denison, W. J. Lemon, Sir C. Urquhart, David
Denison, J. E. Lennox, Lord HG. Vane, Lord H.
Dodd, George Lewis, Sir T. Vesey, Hon. T.
Drumlanrig, Vls. Lewis, George C: Vivian, J. E.
Dancuft, John M'Gregor, oJhn Watkins, Colonel
Dundas, Admiral '' Mahon, Viscount Williamson, Sir 11.
Dundas' Sir D. Maitland, Thomas Wilson, James
Ddnne, F. P. Martin, C.:SY. Wood, Sir Charles
Du Pre, C G. Manic, Fox Worcester, Marquis
Ebrington, Viscount Milnes, R. M. Wyvill, M.
Euston, Earl Moore, G. H.
Kvalls, William Mostyn, E. 3f. TELLERS.
Farnham, E. Mulgrave, Earl Tufnell, Henry
Ferrer, James Mailings, J. R. Hill, Lord Marcus

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.

SIR, —On Monday the 11th, the Secretary for Fo-
reign AffAirs, in moderate but indubitable terms repu-
diated the intimation conveyed in the French Presi-
dent's Address, that England had bf en a consenting
party to the the lamentable events at Rome. If it was
not excused by folly, there would be something intensely
wicked in this attempt in France to involve the honour
of Great Britain in the foulest transaction of modern
times. Let France bear her own burden, and heaven be
thanked that Englishmen are unscathed. There is
something peculiarly unfortunate in this attempt to
mi,represent the triendly bearing ot Greet Britain; the
country, like the individual, which indulges in buck
practices, can have no fritnds after warth. The case is
like that of a man, to whom You have been civil, or
perhaps friendly; and the next thing you hear ot him,
►s that he has been giving out that you are his partner
in business, and were concerned with him in his last
fraud.

In a general view, the consequences are important.
After what has happened at Rome, Frenchmen must
stand throughout the Continent in precisely the position
in which they stood in Spain after the treacherous occu-
pation of Madrid by the first Napoleon. hatred, mixed
with pity for the ticcessiy which made many good men
bow to it, will be the feeling of all of Europe which is
not Absolutist. Don't trust France; France comes only

to spiry France comes only to occupy; France 'has no
politics 'but what she has learned from the Algerines;
no principles but those of the barbarian and the slave.
Such are the feelings she has laid up for herself in store.
How the people of France, intelligent and brave, can
ever have submitted to be the instruments of such a
mere fraud as their Government calling itself Republi-
can, is only to be accounted for on one ground. The
mistake of mixing up the most execrably bad political
economy with the demand for free institutions, is what
has marred all. France and Europe might have been
free, if Socialists and Communists could have abstained
from perplexing the question with a demand for the
abolition of property, or what their enemies were able
to represent as such.

In all this it is happy to see that the English Govern-
ment has taken the great and the honourable part.
Weighty as was the temptation to men avowedly of
aristocratic origin, to join in the hue and cry against the
progress of liberal institutions on the continent, they
have not dune it; but on the contrary have recorded,
with less success than was deserved, their consciousness
ut their country's interest in the advance. It is true
yet, as in times past, that things can be done in Eng-
land which can be looked for nowhere else.
On the same evening the Parliamentary Oaths Bill

was read a third time and passed, by 272
_against 206.
•

The cheers of the opponents appearid to indicate, that
they thought the division not au good as it might have
been. The people of Great Britain must feel more of the
ecclesiastical cudgel, before they have an efficient com•
miseration for those on whom its blows fall heaviest.

On Tuesday the Member for the West Riding brought
forward his motion for Arbitration Treaties. After a
lucid introduction by the mover, the opposition com-
menced by simulated scorn from the Conservative
benches, but with results which only illustrated the
operatic apophthegm, that " where the judgment's weak,
the pr. judice is strong." The Secretary for Foreign
Affairs met the motion with the Previous Ques-
tion. A remarkable difference was discernible
between the tone of his commencement and his conclu-
sion ; whether accidental or derived from per-
ception of the feeling of the House, it was not easy to
determine. What he said, amounted to admitting,
that he fully approved the principle, but did not think
this the time ; the standard expression of a diluted
hostility.
The Prime Minister advanced an extraordinary
reason against the practice of arbitration. He said a
case might occur, when a foreign nation might break its
engagements with you, and the existence of an appeal
to arbitration might make it more difficult for you to
submit to the breach. He said this, and gave the in-
stance of the French Government in respect of its en-
gagement to make no permanent conquest in 'Algiers.
Necessity acquaints men with strange arguments, as
well as strange bedfellows.
The Previous Question was finally carried in the nega-
tive by 176 against 79. The principle will take no
damage.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, June 13, 1849.

THE FISHMONGERS AND POULTERERS' BENEVO.
LENT INSTITUTION.—The members and friends of this
institution celebrated its thirteenth anniversary last even.-
ing, by partaking of an excellent dinner at the London
Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, and by taking increased
means to augment its funds and promote its benevolent
objects. W. Forbes Stuart, Esq., discharged the duties
of the chair on the occasion. After the usual loyal
toasts, the chairman, in proposing " Success to the In-
stitution," alluded to the circumstance that during the
past year two members of families who bad been amongst
the most liberal of its supporters, had unexpectedly be-
come recipients of its benefactions. During the evening
reference was also made Co the new asylum, founded by
the institution at Wood-green, between Tottenham and
Hornsey, and the warmest hopes expressed that the trade
would, by increased contributions, enable the society to
find adequate funds for the support of the inmates. The
subscripiions and donations for the evening amounted to
a very handsome sum, and included the sums id twenty
guineas from the chairman, ten guineas from Wolverley
Attwood, Eq., president, of the institution; ten guineas
from John Grove, E,q ; and six guineas from the jour-
neymen in the employ of Air. William Hunter. Is the
course of the evening allusion was made to the lasts
mentioned contribution, and confident hopes expressed
that the journeymen convected with the two trades would
extensively imitate the example that it furnished. The
vocal arrangements for the evening included various
songs and glees by Messrs. Young, Turner, Spoils,
Bruton, and Lawler. Altogether a very pleasant evening
was passed, and the result of the festival was satisfactory
to its supporters.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the North American
provinces.

THE SUN,

HS LEGAL TITLE ASS URANCE
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.)
Capital, 2,000,,t0C1., in 80,000 Shams, of 251. each.
PreliroinAry Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share
Prospe.ltnses and Pall information may be obtained at the Tempo-
..ry ott! es of the Company, 12A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap-
pli,:ation to

ment were personally interested in their continuance.
The great majority of " hereditary " or " elected "
legislators know but little of shipping, of ship-
owners, or of sailors ; they do not speculate
in freights, or undertake maritime specula-
tions. They might be charged with having
arrived at an erroneous and impolitic decision, but
the purity of their motives could not be assailed ; no
charge of selfishness could be preferred if the code
should still be maintained in all its stringency. An
adherence thereto might, therefore, have been
regarded with greater indulgence than if they
had been more directly interested in the result.
Many wealthy Peers and Commoners might be
induced to persevere in their opposition to the mea-
sure, who for very shame sake could not offer so
determined a resistance to enactments demanded by
the entire community, and by the passing of which
they might suffer serious pecuniary losses. Several
votes might have been influeLced in the existing state
of affairs by such a consideration.
But the argument chiefly relied on by the
opponents of the Bill was the probable results of the
abrogation of these laws on the maritime defences of
the nation. The " wooden walls of England" would
then, indeed, cease to afford protection to our shores ;
" the honour of the British flag would fur the first
time be tarnished ;" " the sun of England's glory
would set for ever ;" and " a gloomy darkness
would succeed the brilliant light that had so long shone
with a clear and steady lustre." Such were the
vaticinations uttered with grave aspect and in por-
tentous tones. The high authority of ADAM SMITH
1 was adduced to show that " the Act of Navigation
was one of the wisest of the commercial regulations
of England," and that " opulence was of greater
importance than wealth," was repeated in every pos-
sible form. Many enthusiastic free-traders were de-
ceived by these prophecies, and induced to sanction
the continuance of a code which their reason
condemned. The cause of truth and justice has,
however, triumphed, notwithstanding those difficul-
ties. Sagacious and prudent counsels have at length
prevailed, and we may now congratulate the
nation on the removal of the last remnant of mono-
poly and exclusion, and the establishment of our
national trade on a basis of perfect freedom, without
restriction or impediment.

G. F. HOWE. Hon. Sec., pro tern.

ROYAL IT'A-LIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
MADAME PEI:SIANI'S BENEFIT.
On THURSDAY EVENING, June 21, will be performed
IL MAT RIMONIO SEGUETO.
After which, the Third Act of •
LA SONNAMBULA.
To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT,
winch the prinuipal Artistes of the Ballet Department will appear
Thep erformances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Compot-ertDirector of the Music, and Conductor. Mr. Costa.
QT.

'JAMES'S THEAT RE.
Season 1849.
ifIWINCH PLAYA and OPERA COMIQUE.
THIS EVENING,
The performances will commence at Halt-past Seven o'clock with
'SJADLLE. MARGUERITE.
To conclude with
• ICE 'SOI;CIiEZ PAS A LA REINE.
Lc DOMINO NOIR.
Lord Elfort, M. Chateaefort ; Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horace, M.
Couderc ; Gil Pere:, M. t; Angele, Mdlle. Chartou ; Brigitte,
M tile. Martial ; Ursuie, McUle. jtorei ; Jaciathe, Madame Mancini ;
Gertrude, :Rolle. Vigny.
Mr. milcoeu begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in-
creased expenses of the present eutertaiument, the prices of admis-
sion are determined as follows:
Po:es •• •• 6s. Od.
Pit .• 3: Od.
Amphitheatre .. .. 2s. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library. 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ;
Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signsr L IBLACHE'S BENEFIT.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Will be presented,
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO.
In the course of the evening a new Diverdssement, entitled
LA PRIMA BALLERINA.
With various Entertainments in the Ballet Department.
Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made ainedt the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obta as
usual, price 10s. 6d. each.
Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past
Seven o'clock.

THSATRE ROYAL, lIRCRY.LANE.—GERMAN OPERA.
PILL, P.:YE/11144i.
Will be produced the admired Opera,
_MARTHA ;
Or, The Marke' of Richmond.
Performances to commence at Eight o'clock.
private Boxes and Ptices may be obtained at the Boxeofilce ; and
at kdes,rs. Jallien and Co.'s, 214, Regent street.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
TO-MOnROW EVENING
Will be performed LES HUGUENOTS.
With the following powerful ensemble, viz. ;
mAlarne Grisi, M4llle. Angri, Signors Tamburini, Marini, La'ia,
Bache, Soldi, Tagliatito, Polonini, Luigi Mei, Mario, and Mr. Sims
Reeves.
Boies OM one guinea and a half ; Stalls,• 16s. ; Pit Tickets. 55.,
at CRANLEO, B EALE, and Co., 201, Regent-street.
)ireetor of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa.
Composer.

f :ATIZE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
mr. B. webstei,, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.

Nothing further remains to be don; at any rate
this session, in the Imperial Legislature, with re-
rerence to the scheme of Arbitration. After the

Fit. EVEN' .44

Will be performed the Comedy of TOWN and COUNTRY. Cha-
racters by Messrs. J. Wall,,ck, Wigan, Keeley, Buckatone, and Web-
ster ; Miss P. Horton, Mies Ceynolds, and Mrs. Glover.
To conclude with the Cot.
icdy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr.
James w ailack ; Harry Thunder:, Mr. ll.' Vandenhoff ; Lady Ama-
ranth. Miss P. Horton.

lengthy debate of last evening the public have had
quite enough of it for one while in all conscience.
Of this we are the more particularly satisfied, from
the knowledge that the masses of our countrymen have
no very great appetite for those " political crotchets
and international vagaries" which yesterday passed
under the incidental sarcasm of the Hun. Gentleman
the representative of the county of Buckingham.
However ingenious may be the arguments of the
Member fur the West Riding, they failed to persuade
the House of Commons that the acceptance of
his motion would be other than a subject of scorn
and ridicule to every nation in the European conti-
nent. Surely we don't want Mr. Counzres assurance
that war is wrong to satisfy our judgment upon a
point which, eighteen centuries ago, was decided by
the divine and inspired pen of the Evangelist. The
blessedness of peace among nations, as among families,
is too self-evident to require any illustration that can
be gathered by the members of the Arbitration Society.

TiIEATIM ItOYAL.
Gilder tiae dirreticn of _M.ACIAIMO Catena,
THIS tvExn4474,_

Will be performed BORN TO GOOD LLCK.
After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S
VlOl IN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS.
To be followed by a novelty in the thane of A MOST UNWAR-
RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
to the annoyance of Mr. Patti Bedford.
To conclude with JOHN JONES.

IXOYAL LYCP,UIit TiltATK.n.
Uhder the Management ot Madame Vann&
ole Lessee. Mr. Charle - Ma•he
THIS EVENING
Will be performed PROMOTION.
To be followed I,y A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
To'eonelude with BOX AND COX.
Drop 0... Upper ►ioaee. 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No
tali-Price to any pert ot the house.
Toe New Rox-o!lice, No. 2, We:lin:11o,- street, is open to the
pnblie • %cry clay. tram Tan 111 Six.

ROYAL AMPHITILEATUE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Mdlles.. Adelaide ilinnie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane
Josephine ; Miss Wooltord, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Patty has great pleasure in a:nounc-
ing that he has env,agel that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac-
quired for her the aciiellation of the Equestrian Enchantress.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJEKAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs.
TI ty, ienowed by an inimitable display of SCENE:, LA THE
CTRCLE. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the first
Equestrian tal.nt of the aa,,.
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled THE WHITE
FARM.

Both the Hon. Gentleman who frittered away the

time of Parliament last evening by introducing his
very amiable but very absurd, because very im-
practicable and visionary scheme, and the sup-
porters of the Honourable Gentleman, have com-
mitted a most extravagant blunder in supposing
that the Houses of Legislature have to be schooled kv
them, forsooth, in the doctrines of Christianity.

Why, there was not a man with two grains of com-
a:ion sense who had not long ago known and ac-
knowledged that war was a grievous and perilous
necessity, contrary to the impulse of every humane
feeling, and in direct opposition to the dictates of
religion. Mr. COBDEN is marvellously mistaken in
imagining that the world waited to be enlightened
upon this subject by himself and his coadjutors. The
world knew it years and years (and the truth bad
been discovered and proclaimed ages and ages) before
he was born. The whole project, however, being one
vast fallacy, one preposterous day-dretim, it has been
appropriately based upon this preliminary blunder.
Another monstrous error which the Peace Society
seem-to be very solicitous to promulgate is this, that
no one but themselves and their sympathizers can
entertain a proper appreciation of the horrors of blood.
shed, that no person opposed to their idle and im
possible aspirations can be sincerely and conscien-
tiously solicitous for the general pacification of man-
kind. This impudent pretensio❑ we altogether and
at once repudiate. And we insist upon the truth
which has lung since been condensed into an axiom
that virtue does not exclusively belong to those who
announce themselves to be its po>sessors. Because
a man does not choose to make himself ridiculous by
joining in the demonstrations of some eccentric phi-
lanthropists at Exeter Hall, he is not surely on that
account to be regarded as a bloody-minded indivi-
dual, gloating over the returns of the killed and
wounded received at one moment from Hungary, at
another from Jutland, at another from the Italian
peninsula. Neither is a Member of the House of
Commons to be abhorred as a hater of his kind—a
sort of compromise between TIMON and SAWNEY
BRAlN—simply because he votes against some fanciful
project introduced by the Hon. Representative of the
West Riding.

Box-office open from Eleven till Four,
-ewe MAnager. Mr. W Wen.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS_
Engagement of M. JULLIEN.
IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.
Under the patronage of her Mos- Gracious Majesty, he Majesty the
Queen Dowager. h s Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c.
The. l'u'dic Press has unanimously pronounced the storming of
Badajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition.
The N,,buity, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed
that this faviditite place of fashionable resort is open every
61ONDAY, TUU:DAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY.
Danson's gigantic modelled Panoraina of the TOWN AND
FO:IT Oh' BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public
opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever
pre •ented—splendid Menagerie—Ju lien's unrivalled Band—Vo-
cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and
Ballads by Miss Frances Mildmay, Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. G.
Tedder Selos by Koenig, Jlichardson (Flute)—Violin and 'Violon-
cello by Viotti and George Collins, varicd alternately—Remington's
Magic Aerial Bridge—and other attractions, concluding with a vivid
representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraying the advance
of the British army—bombardment and attack—gallant defence—
rush to the breac:i by real troops—and final ta'Jleans in honour of
the " hero of a hundred fights."
Doors open at Nine o'Clock. A.3r. ; feedirg of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and Virilite Bears half-past l'ive; Concert at Six; *loaning
of Badajoz, dt Dusk.—Admission One Shilling.
REF It ESIIM ENTS.— The frequentera of these G irdens have long
complaint d that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only
could b • procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinet
portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had
of the first quality, and at the usual Prices.

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Let Mr. COBDEN carry out his project for the sub-
stilly ion of Arbitration for War, and consequently
for the ultimate disbandment of the army and the
total abolition of the military profession I Let him
send the artillery to be broken up and melted into
peaceful articles of ironmongery—let him turn the
swords and hangers into toasting forks—let him re-
strict the employment of gunpowder to the brown
paper pods of the pyrotechnist—and what would be
the result? Why, we warrant him, the noble
science of self defence would be very soon in the
ascendant. The military tacticians would be
succeeded by the heroes of the Ring I Mr.
BENJAMIN GAUNT might hope to replace
the Duke of WELLINGTON at the Horse Guards.
%Ve should find Mr. Thomas SPRING gaaetted vice
the Right Hon. Fox Matrix, and Signor BENDIGO
in lieu of the Marquis of ANGLESEY. JOHNNY
Baooms might hope one of these days to be Governor
of the Tower, and OWEN SWIFT aspire to become
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Deprived of all
other means of perpetuating contention, men would
fly to any accidental instrument as a weapon of self-
defence or of vengeance. Turn, in proof of this, to
the popular outbreaks of the French. Look at the
revolution. of February. We are told by the
historians of that great movement that when
the populace were streaming in multitude's
through the streets in the direction of the
Tuileries, for the purpose of storming the palace
of so many sovereigns, they were armtd not merely
with swords, and muskets, and daggers, and knives,
and pistols, but that among the combatants hundreds
were recognised with all descriptions of outlandish
weapons. One man, says Mr. WALTER
KELLY, in
his narrative of the " Days of February,. was seen
carrying a rod torn from some area railings
fromingsand
sharpened to a point, the surface still glistening
its recent application to the grinding stone. Another,
says he, bore a huge block of granite pendant from a
cord. Another toiled along under an immense plank,
to be used ai a battering rain. Another had no better
contrivance than a piece of steel wire, heated, to be
employed as an instrument for puncturing. Besides
these, there were numbers of children, the enfans de
Paris, carrying stones, gathered in their caps and '
pockets. This, be it remembered, was for war in the
streets ! And 3et we are told by Mr. COBDEN and
his colleagues to disband our army, to do away with
our navy, and to set about esrablishing an universal
system of Arbitration 1 If History, past and present,
assures us, as it does, that it is impossible to pre-
vent fighting within the frontiers of one country,
does it stand to reason that this system of general
international arbitration is in the smsllest de-
gree feasible ? No : before the Peace Society
can work this sublime miracle they must
effect a complete change in human nature. They
must eradicate from the breast of man all evil pas-
sions, all hatred, all envy, all rage, all revenge, all
cruelty, all cunning, all impetuosity; they must po-
pulate the earth not with fallible beings like ourselves,
but with infallible ; they must improve upon the

LONDON, WEDNEBOAY, JUNE 13, 1849.

The Navigation Bid is now virtually the law of
the LH. It was read the third time last night in the
Hou-e of Lords, i s noble opponents contenting them-
selves with merely reiterating the objections they
had already put fil-ward at considerable length
against the measure, but without going through the
useless form of a (livi,ion, from which (as was candid'y
admitted by the Protectionist Leader) "it was im-
pOssible to anticipate a different result from that which
followed on a former occasion." A clause, subsequently
moved by the Bishop of OXFORD to be added to the
Bill by way of rider, to the effect that Brazil should
be excluded from the advantages afforded to other
nations by the measure, was ultimately rejected
by a uttjority of 14, and nothing now remains but
that the It ,yal assent should be formally declared, and
the unwise and impolitic restrictions established
under the Protectorate in 1651, and confirmed,
with some slight modifications, in 1660, under
CIIAICLES IL, will be at once, and, we trust and be-
lieve we may add, for ever abolished.
The beneficial re,ults of a free and unfettered com-
merce are now thoroughly appreciated. The spe-
cious fallacies of protection have ceased to impose
upon the nation, and although interested parties may
still ascribe the evils under which the country has
suffered to the removal of the monopoly, by which
the industrious classes have so long been taxed for the
benefit of a privileged few, they can no longer
hope to deceive the people, or to produce a reaction
in favour of their narrow and shortsighted views.
Some degree of hope, however, exi-ted while the
navigation code remained on the statute-book. So
long as the unnecessary impediments to free inter-
course with any nation remained—so long as it could
be asserted that any class were still
protected that any duties were imposed
for purposes other than those relating to revenue—
a lingering hope remained that the " good old times,"
as they were pleased to call them, of high prices,
might be restored. If our merchants were prevented
from transporting, without let or hindilince, the
commodities which they were entitled to purchase in
any country, it could not he said that commerce was
really free. If the principle of buying in the
cheapest, and selling in the dearest market
be really well founded with respect to articles of con-
sumption, no valid reason could be assigned why
the doctrine should not also be-applicable to the car-
riage of those articles, and to the vessels in which they
might be borne from one p)rt or country to another.
By retaining, therefore, an exclusive system with
respect to ships, it might eventually be re-established
in every other respect.

There were certain grounds on which the naviga-
tion•laws might be maintained which did not apply
to the corn-laws. In the first place, it could not be
expected that the Members of either House of Paths-

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1849.

Lond. &S. Western...... 50 -
Do.. New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Mancheiter.Buxton,and
Matlock ...
7`s
Midland
Do., do., rioi. Shares 25 ..... 12 1134 1214 , 121 A
Do. Consol. Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... 125% 125%
North British .. .... ... 25 .... , ... ..... ,
.....
Ditto, Halves .
North Staffordshire 17% l2 11% ..„
Shrewsbury and Bins... 11
Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 ...... 23%
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
South Devon
Do. Preference
South Eastern
Do., Registered No. 4 10
Wilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth ........ ......... 45
York. Newcastle, and
Berwick..... ........... 25
00 Newcastle EKten. 20 ...... 13%
Y , k and North Midland 53 ..... 31:% 4-,,3/4 Li
Ditto, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
• •••
Central of France (Or-
Vierzon )
Northern of France...... 13

MINES.
Barrossa Range ..... 28s.
Brazilian Imperial
Do. St.Johu Del Rey 15 .....
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
Union of London.... ..... 10 - IOI,E

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 13.—Wind N., moderate breeze, and
fine.
CLYDE, JUNE 11.—Arrd. Scotch Lass, Campbell, St.
John's, Newfoundland. Sld. Sophia, M'Kenzie, St.
Andrew's, New Brunswick.
LEITH, JUNE 1 I.—Sld. Marll, Grenada.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 12.—Wind variable and light.—
Arrd. Telegraph, Herlofsen, Havannah. Off port, 11th,
Nelson, Dimond, Port Philip; Aboukir, Calcutta.
OFF TORBAY, JUNE 12.—Aboukir, Scott, Calcutta
and Cape of Good Hope.
DEAL, .JUNE 12.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd from the
river and sld., Charles, Fleming, Tobago; Bolivar,
Brown, St. Vincent; Prince Albert, Freeman, Quebec;
Ma) flower, Joll, ditto.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 12.—Arrd, H.M. steamer Crap•
pier, Sierra Leone. Off the Start, Guurgia, Savannah
for Havre.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE N.N.W. to N.N.E.—
Arrd, Ancona, Perry, Laguna and Bermuda; Pero, St.
Andrews. Sid., Anna, Port Philip; Sworiiti,h, Perwau-
buco• SAdons, New York; Tuscarora, Philmielphia;
Pandora, Quebec. The Glenroy schooner, Gatiiff to
Liverpool, is on shore on East Hoyle, with rudder un-
shipped. Off port, Peterel.

. •
fABLIN, JUNE 11.—Some deckphinks, fastened with
composition nails, fresh painted, and part of bulkhead;
also a barrel for holding tar, marked " Belfast," were
fallen iu with about 3 leagues S.E. by S. of Kish light-
ship, by the Mary, Harvey, arrd. here from Wismar.

MARKET NEWS -t THIS DAY.

CORN-EXCHAN6-E-WEDNESDAY

A slight increase has taken place in the arrivals of
English Wheat for our market, since Monday; yet the
show of samples today was again small. Although
the attendance of buyers was limited, the demand fur
all kinds of Wheat of home produce was steady, at fully
Monday's quotations. The import of Foreign Wheat.
has been confined to 2,530 quarters, acid the number of
vessels off the coast grain-laden is small. All descrip-
tions were in moderate request, and prices ruled firm.
No English Barley on show, but the supply of Foreign
was large. Grinding sorts were quite as dear. Other
kinds ruled dull. The sale for Matt was again inactive,
at last week's currencies. We had au extensive supply
of Foreign Oats on offer; hence, the Oat trade ~a$
heavy, at the late decline in value. In Beans, Peas,
Indian Corn, and Flour, scarcely any business was
transacted.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
I Wheat. I Barley. , Oats. I Flour.
140 qrs.
I 1.320 qrs. 2,930 qrs. I 1,710 ,ar.
8---060 117,730 1 ----__
Malt. 820 qrs.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
Reports respt cling a great increase in fly being very
prevalent, the demand fur Hops is, film, and prices are
again higher. The duty has been as low as 90,0001.
Sussex p.ekkts, 21 lOs to 31 8s; Weald of Kent ditto,
2/ 15s to 4/ ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 lOs to 71 8s
per cwt.

English •• •• ..
Scotch ......
1ri5h.........
Foreign •• •• ..

2,520

WHITECILELPEZ.
Our market was tolerably steady to-day, at full prices.
Beef, from 2s 2i to 3s 2d; Mutton, 3s to 33 10d; Lamb,
4s 81 to 5s 10d; Veal, 3A to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 2d to
4s per Bibs, by the carcase.