The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

No. 17,229.] LONDON, MONDAY, EVENING

ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NE WCA STL E-O.IT-T YNE.
CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, which
has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.
The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted in the NORTH, it is hoped will be found complete in every
respect.
. The RED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furnished in a
style which must ensure the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling .with STOCK can at all times have SHOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
-The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room
are all attached, arid tinder the same management.
The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

CILERICA 1., MEDICAL, and GENERAL
iLj LIFE ASSUVA CF. SOCIETY.
Persons of all ages, and in every station, may assure with this So-
ciety- on very moderate terms.
No extra premium is required for sea risk, or residewe in any part
of Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in other parts of the
world, may also effect Policies at a small increase of premium.
BONUSES.
.The two Rrst Divisions averaged 221. per cent. on the premiums
pid;. the third 281. per cent. Toe fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847,
averaged rather more than 361. per cent., and from the large amount
of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the
Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount.
Tables of Matee, with a cell Report (recently printed) can be ob-
tained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to
• • GEO. 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary,
No, 99, Great Russell-street, Bloombury, London.

METROPOLITAN
CIELIFE ASSURANCE

No. 3, Princes. street, Bank.
The Directors hereby ghat notice to Members whose Premiums fai
due on the sth of. January next, that the same must be payable
within Thirty days from that date
The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
cie:y as Members on the sth of January next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.
This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, 'appropriates all
its profits to the
.benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the
whole term of lite as Members of the Society.
An abatement of Premium has been made at the rate of AN per
dent. for thb-year ending the 4th of April, 1848, under the confident
expectation of a continuing abatement at that rate, at least to all
Members of Five Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes-street, Bank, December 6, 1847.

ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY..
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital 2500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each
policy effected on the profit scale.

PUBLIC: TIONS.

This Day, p Gd.,
OUGHT BARON DErice ROTHSCHILD TO
SIT IN PARLIAMET?
An IMAGINARY co,sw...RsAnoN between JUD.EUS and
AMICUS NOBILIS.

By BARNARD VAN OVEN, M.D.
Author of •' An Appeal to the British Nation on behalf of the Jews
London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange.

Price Gd., or post free from the Author, 7d.,
,N INI PORTA NT
BOOKKEEPING, which enables the Merchant to ascertain
his Assets, Liabilities, Gains, Losses, and Present Worth, either Daily,
Weekly, or Monthly, without balancing his Ledger.

By H. BOULTEIt, Accountant, &e.
M. G. Duke, 99, Chancery-lane ; Watling, Newspaper Ofike. 409,
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
Just published,
itLETTER to LORD MORPETH on the
Necessity for, and Mode of Obtaining AGRICULTURAL
STATISTICS.
By MATTHEW M. MILBURN, Land Agent, Thirik.
Price One Shilling.
London: J. Ridgway, and Simpkin and Marshall; and all Book-
sellers.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. IL
Ho'mes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine
o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr.
BACHHOFFNER—one on the Laws of Nature, in reference
to the important sabject of SANITARY MEASURES; the other
on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI-
CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of .TEAM will be exhibited, with
Novel and highly Interesting ExperimeuLs, Daily at Two and at
Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC 'TELEGRAPHS
worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER,
with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING tinder
WATER, &c. &c.

Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

1LL1.1.11. PLATED . CORNER DISHES.-
A. B. 14AVORY and SONS. Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14,
Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices
of the following Patterns of strongly PLATED CORNER DISHES,
with silver handles and edges, and silver shielo.s for engraving the
crest or coats of arms, viz.:—
The Gadroon Pattern.
Four Strongly Plated Corner Dlskes and Covers ...... •• . • X.S 0 0
The St. James's Pattern.
Four Extra-strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers •• • • £l3 10 0
N.B. The Covers are made with moveable handles, so as to form
extra dishes. Drawings of the abeve forwarded to any part of Great
Britain or Ireland, postage free.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC
EXPEDITION.
Thelfollowing is an abstract of a letter addressed
by Dr. King to Earl Grey : -
"The last whaler has arrived, and Sir John
Franklin and his 125 followers are shut up in the
Arctic regions for a third winter, which the medical
officer who served with Sir Edward Parry in all his
expeditions will, in all probability, be attended with
the most serious consequences. For this there is no
help. To save them, however, from a fourth winter,
when, in addition to disease, they will have to con-
tend with starvation and all its horrors, Dr. King has
been constantly urging the Government, since last
June, to take the most active steps for their rescue.
He directs attention to the western land of North
Somerset, as the spot where the lost expedition is
most likely to be found, and he offers his services to
Earl Grey to journey to that spot by the same route
he travelled in search of Sir John Ross. He is not
satisfied with the effort the Admiralty have resolved
to make in search of the missing party. After
entering minutely into the subject, he Mate• : "ro
sum up in a few words, the Board of Admiralty in
their effort virtually declare the lost expedition can-
not be relieved except the north-west p isFage is dis-
covered ; we must first discover the passage, and then
seek out the lost expedition. To this declaration I
cannot assent, for, by following out my plan, I can
search all that is known of the western land of North
Somerset, and be sure that every footstep I make is
so much good work for the safety of the lost expedi-
tion, and for the furtherance of geographical and
natural historical knowledge, while Sir James
Clarke Ross, before he gets a single footing on
that land, must have solved the problem which
has baffl,,,d all our ingenuity in ships for 3f cen.
turies. The facts speak for themselves. 1. Barrow's
Strait was impassable in 1838 ; it may be impass-
able in 1848. 2. Sir James Clarke
•Ross is using
the same means to relieve the lost expedition which
have brought them into their difficulty; the relief
party may, therefore, become a party in distress. 3.
The land that is made will be of doubtful character;
the searching parties at the end of the summer,
with the close of which every soul of the lost expe-
dition will have perished, may find that they have
been tracing an island many miles distant from the
western land of North Somerset, or navigating a
deep bay, as Kotzebue navigated the Sound named
after him, and as Franklin navigated the sea called
Melville Sound. The plan which I have proposed
is to reach the Polar Sea across the continent of
America, and thus to proceed on my search from
land known to be continent, where every footing is
so much good work done for the safety of the lost
expedition, and for the furtherance of geographical
and natural historical knowledge; and if the plan is
laid aside, the lives of our lost:countrymen will de-
pend upon a single throw in the face of almost
certain failure, if the difficulty in which they are
involved is the fame which, not to go further back
than 1818, has driven away every officer, including
even Parry himself, who has made the attempt in
ships "

METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MA-
NURE COMPANY.
It is with very great pleasure that we announce
to our readers who have so interested themselves
in the progress of this great national work, that the
consent of the Commissioners of Sewers, as required
by the Act of Parliament, has been formally given
to the proposed works of the company, which will
be commenced forthwith. with every prospect of
their being so far completed in the course of next
summer as to permit of the application of the sewage
to the immediate neighbourhood of the station at
Stanley Bridge, and thus to yield an early return
upon the capital. It is calculated that calls of less
than half of the shares already taken will be sufficient
to complete this portion of the works, and give the
great experiment a trial.
We have also the extreme gratification to announce
that the Earl of Ellesmere, having witnessed the ad-
vantages of the applications of sewage water to por-
tions of his own estates, has been so satisfied with
them that he has within the last fortnight joined the
Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, by becoming
a shareholder. Such an example of confidence in the
scheme, from one so well qualified to judge, is of
incalculable importance, for it will doubtless induce
the many who are wavering to follow it at once, and
take a direct interest in this grand enterprise before
all the shares are gone. When such men as Lord
Ellesmere, (perhaps better known as Lord Francis
Egerton) come forward to take shares, it may be
supposed that the subscription list will not be long in
completion.
We understand that four or five of the provincial
towns are about to apply to Parliament this session
for Acts having similar objects with this company.
We shall feel much
.pleasure in also recording their
proceedings, receiving their communications, and
forwarding their views.

STATE OF MANUFACTURES IN LANCASHIRE.—It is
satisfactory to notice that a considerable improvement
has this week taken place in the manufacturing districts
of Lancashire, so far as regards increased employment
of the operative classes. One mill has commenced
working full time with its entire complement of hands,
and three other mills ha►e also entered upon full time
with a reduced number of hands. The number of men
added to those heretofore in full work exceeds 1,300 in
one week. Within the borough of Manchester there are
still 8,622 hands on short time, and 9,629 wholly out of
employment. This state of things shows a gradual
advance in tho amount of production, and gives hope
to the large population of the manufacturing districts.
Trade continues languid; but at this season of the year,
independently of other considerations, the markets have
generally been flat, parties generally looking to their
Christmas balances. It is gratifying to observe the
patient, judicious conduct of the working classes amidst
their privations. No insubordinate feeling is shown,
and the efforts of the demagogue to incite to disaffection
would be abortive.

RUGBY SCHOOL.—During the past week the work-
men of Messrs. Bevington and Sons have been engaged
in erecting an organ in the great school-room. The
expense incurred has been chiefly defrayed by a volun-
tary subscription among the boys. The annual concert.,
given and supported entirely by members of the school,
is fixed for the 18th inst., the first part'of which (sacred)
comprises a selection from Judas Maccabeus ; and Han-
del's Coronation Anthem, "Zadok the Priest." The
second part (secular) contains several of Bishop's
standard glees, German songs, &e. We understand that
the gentlemen of Rugby School do not make music a
study, but merely practise it for the amusement of their
friends and their own:recreation, at the same time wish-
ing to instil into their hearers a taste for really good
and classical music. We cannot but hope that other
public schools will not fail to follow their example.
A man of genteel appearance, named Edward Wil-
son, was committed by the magistrates at Liverpool on
Thursday, on a charge of having forged a cheque for
2501.--Liverpool Mercury.
A rumour has been circulated within the last few
days, that the Asiatic cholera has made its appearance
in the metroplis, and that it .has proved fatal in two
cases in the borough of Southwark. From inquiries
made among the leading practitioners of the district, we
find that the rumour is without foundation.—Medical
Gazette.

MR. COBDEN'S FARE WELL AD-
DRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF STOCKPORT.
A public meeting of the electors of the borough of
Stockport was held on Friday evening, at the assem-
bly-room of the Lyceum, to receive their late repre-
sentative, Mr. Richard Cobden, on his retirement
from the representation, and his acceptance of the
honour conferred upon him by the West Riding of
York. The room was crowded to excess, and nearly
2,000 persons were present.
Mr. Alderman BOOTHROYD, in the absence of Sir
Ralph Pendlebury from indisposition, was called to
the chair. The worthy Alderman, in opening the
proceedings, called upon the meeting to exercise
patience and forbearance towards Mr. Cobden whilst
making his explanatory statement. There were
strong feelings, no doubt, existing in the borough
and it had been alleged that the Hon. Gentleman
ought not to have delayed so long in making his choice
of a seat in the House of Commons. In that opinion
he (the chairman) concurred; but he waited to hear
Mr. Cobden's statement on this point before he ven-
tured to pronounce judgment.
Mr. COBDEN then came forward amidst general
applause, and spoke nearly as follows have ap-
peared before public meetings
.of the electors of
Stockport under a variety of circumstances. I came
before you in 1837 to contest the seat in this borough,
when it was not your pleasure to elect me Member
of Parliament. I tame before you again in 1841
with better success ; but I speak unfeignedly the sen-
timents of my heart when I say that I never, under
any circumstances, appeared before you with feelings
of such regret as Ido on the present occasion.—•
(Cheers.) You has has stated that
_he thinks
I ought to haie collie 'lere before, that I ought
earlier to have appeared amongst you. It was my
intention, as I expressed in a letter to you written at
Dantaic, to appear before you immediately on my re-
turn from the continent, to thank you for the honour
you had done me ; but on my return I found
myself • unexpectedly returned for two con-
stituencies. Now, gentlemen, I must confess
that after I first found I was returned for
the West Riding of Yorkshire, my own inclina-
tion, indeed, my own determination was not to accept
that honour; but I found, on my return home, that
the opinion of my friends—the opinion of the electors
of Stockport—(Hear, hear)—public opinion in
general, as far as could be ascertained, had decided
the question for me, and I found no alternative but to
elect to sit for the West Riding. Then, gentlemen,
finding that I had the painful choice to make between
a seat for a borough to which I was previously in-
debted for kindness and confidence, and another con-
stituency—the largest, the most important, and most
wealthy in the empire—having that painful task
thrust upon me, contrary to my own wishes and
expectations, I then said, the next best thing to do is
this—to save that constituency which I cannot re-
present as much as possible a protracted contest for
my successor. It was not out of any disrespect to
you, gentlemen, nor to the West Riding of Yorkshire,
that 1 did not state for which constituency I would
pit before the night before last in the House
of Commons. I sedulously abstained both in public
and private from stating to any one what my decision
would be. In order to justify the step taken, and to
clear myself altogether from any charge of dis-
respect because I have not qualified till the present
moment, I will explain my views and sentiments
towards you.—(Hear, hear.) Some people may say,
the electors of the borough of Stockport have grounds
of censure ; that I have run away from Stockport in j
order to make it the stepping-stone of my ambition,
and find a larger and better constituency. Gentle-
men, they who charge me thus know nothing at-all
of the advantages which a large constituency can
give over a smaller one in the House of Commons.
There is no advantage whatever to me in repre-
senting the West Riding of Yorkshire after re-
presenting Stockport. Whatever I could do in
Parliament as the representative of the West Riding,
I believe I could do equally well as the representative
of Stockport. However, I am quite sure of this,
that I shall not find the constituency of the West
Riding of Yorkshire show more kindness or forbear-
ance towards me than I have found from the electors
of this borough.—(Hear, hear.) When in the House
of Commons, we are, I may say, a perfect republic;
every man who enters the doors of St. Stephen's is
there on hi's own intrinsic merits, and whatever those
merits may be he will be judged of by them ; no
matter whether he sits for a county with thirty thou-
sand electors, or ' a small borough- with merely 4200,
he will soon find his level in the House of Commons.
I consented to sit for the West Riding, because when
I returned home I found that I had no alternative but
to do so ; and I tell you what I told them in my ad-
dress—had I been in England at the time they pro -
posed to put me in nomination I should not have con-
sented to their doing so.—(llear, hear.) And now.
gentlemen, having made this explanation with regard
to my own personal feelings, I think you will not be
satisfied unless I address myselt a little to other sub-
jects of far more importance to the constituency.—
(Applause.) I am known only by the electors
say I was known at first,
caocuinrgse,moef
of Stockport—l may
and am now mainly as the representative of a principle
in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) It is to that prin-
ciple I owe whatever means of usefulness I may have
been enabled to effect through your kindness and
m o instrumentalityns. I speak ino
fp l fitththe
principleH ou se o f
fC Com-
mons. e-
trade. Well, gentlemen, Idisguise the
en, will not
matter from you that we have entered upon the
" free trade experiment," as some people still call it,
under very trying circumstances. It seems to me as
if we had to go through a species of martyrdom in
order to test- the faith of men who have avowed them-
selves thorough-goingfree-traders (Al)—ppause. The
us are
question is, how many of •
prepared
to go
through this ordeal and still adhere to our principle ?
or, how many there are who will be found to have
been merely summer birds—fair-weather ships that
will not bear a gale or storm—that run to the old
system of monopoly whenever there is a little dan-
ger?—(Great applause.) sineetay return to Eng-
land I have been delighted to find so little re-
action on the subject of free
may say that T
I find no re-action ; that
the man who 'was a free-trader, five, six, or
three years ago, is a free-trader still. If some men
are found weak and vacillating in principle, it is only
because they had no very strong principle at all to
begin with.—(Applause.) What are the grounds on
which we are now told to
free trade ? We are told that we have not been pros-
perous for the last year or two in England. It is true
we have not; but the question is, whether the ad-
versity has sprung out of free trade, or whether it has
sprung out of monopoly- Our opponents tell us that
we have had free trade, and it has not answered ; but
I say we have had thirty years of monopoly, and
have not got free trade yet. Further, it is said, that
free trade in corn has caused those disasters to the
trade of this district which we have at the present
time to lament. Why, we have not had free trade in
corn yet; we have only been passing through a tran-
sition state ; we have not got through the three years
we were to have of the fag end of monopoly, and
have not yet had trial of our principles at all.—
(Hear.) Those gentlemen who find fault with free
trade in corn, for having produced the distress of the
last twelve months, neglect to show us how the re-
striction on trade in corn would have produced a
better state of affairs. If I understand our position
for the last eighteen months, we have been suffering
from the want of the potato, from the failure of the
means of subsistence. We have had to lay out
10,000,000/. in food to keep the Irish
alive. I want
to know whether it would have benefited us, under
these circumstances, to have had a high tariff ? Peo-
ple say that it has produced drain of gold to pay
for the corn. Why, if we bad not had the corn, if
we had kept the gold, mane had
that are now alive
would have been starved. I understand (for I have
not been in the habit of reading everything pub-
lished in the borough) it has been charged against
me that I made predictions of prosperity that was to
arise from free trade in co.r_n, and that these predic-
tions have not been verified. Gentlemen, I never
did deal much in prophecies, but I possibly might
have told the working men that, with free
trade in corn, we should have American flour at
lid. per pound. I stick to that opinion still.—(Avoice,
" When ?") When we get free trade.--(Hear, hear,
and applause.) I believe I
_am charged, too, with
having stated that you would have more mills and
more employment, more
_houses, carriages, churches,
and chapels, with free trade. Yes, and I say so still.
—(Applause.) But, gentlemen, t did not say, that if
you had a failure in fhe cotton crop in the year 1846
you would have spindles running when you had no
raw material to work upoil•—(Applause.) You have
been suffering in the cotton districts quite as much
from famine in cotton as from famine in.corn during
the last twelve months; and if you had had corn ever
so cheap, and the demand for cotton goods had been
ever so great, you could not have employed all the
mills and machinery, and for this simple reason—be-
cause you had not cotton in existence to keep the
machinery in employment. To bring -this charge of
having made a false promise against me and the free-
traders generally—to make me responsible for the fai-
lure of the cotton drop—le just as absurd as it would
be if I had promised a man that, if he was mode-
rate and temperate in all things, he would have good
health, and in consequence of that man falling down