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

No« 17 4)291
LONDON, MONDAY, E ,•.
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-pp OYAL °TEL, GRAIN GER- STREET,
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
CHARLES .STATES solicits the patronage of his
nßonz4n. TuAvEwills to the above •Establishment,' which
has recently been newly,fUrnislied and laid out expressly for a Com-
mei7clal Hotel: • • -
The COMMERCIAL Roo3:Lorie of the largest and most elegantly
fitted if-fs will be found complete in every
respect,- •:;,yi, - •
TtleßEn-ltoo§aojsixty in number) have been furnished In a
able wldchAqurt,cusurethe approbation of all visitors.
• Gentlerku travelling. Vlrith STOCK can at all times have SHOW
1100.118 Extra charge.
The Melte HIM Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room
aro all atfauheckand undcrAhe same management.
The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

•
et-EARICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL
•• • • • • LIFE -ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Persons of all ages, and,in every station, may assure with this So-
ciet3- on
,very motlerate terms.
TEA extra premium is required for sea risk, or residence in any part
of Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in other parts of the
world, inhylilsO effect Pnlitdes at a small increase of premium.
- • 44. • BONUSES.
The twe first Divisions averaged 221. per cont. on the premiums
paid ; the third 281. per cent:. The fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847,
averaged rather snore 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 Rates; with a fill 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 Rtreselhstreet, Illoombury, London.

anoromTAN LIFE ASSURANCE
.
No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
The Directors hereby give notice, to Members whose Premiums fall
due on the sth of January ne,-.t, that the same must be payable
within Thirty days front that flate.
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-
ciety as Members on the sth of January next, should appear or lodge
their proposals acne 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 life us Members of the Society.
An abatement of premium, has been made at the rate of 471,4 per
cent. for the 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 IIEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes street, Bank, December 6, 1847.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
•ASSITRANCE SOCIETY.
, .26 C.ORNIIILL, LONDON.
••
Capital £.500,000. Empowered by Act of rarliament.
rtfe Institntiem rntbraces important and subs advantages
with reiplitt-to hfe aesurances and dothrrod annaitiedi*- *Assured
has, on all °cessions, 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-
lerests to meat other convenianciea 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 flirt
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each
policy effected on the profit scale.

PUBLICATIONS.

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
Just published,
A LETTER to LORD MORPETTI on the
Necessity for, Cana Mode of Obtaining AGRICULTURAL
STATISTICS.
By MATTHEW M. MILBURN, Land Agent, Thirsk.
Price One Shilling.
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ROYAL • POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. 11..
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on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI-
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MR. COBDEN'S PAII,EVa.ILL 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-roomof 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 Nest Riding of
York. The room was crowded to esaess, and nearly
2,000 persons were present.
Mr. Alderman 13oo•rnaoYD, in t 1 absence of Sir
Ralph Pendlebury from indispositios, was called to
the chair. The worthy Alderman, in opening the
proceedings, called upon, the meeting to exercise
patience and forbearance towards Mt. Cobden whilst
making his explanatory statement; There were
strong feelings, no doubt, existing in the borough
and it had been alleged that the lion. Gentleman
ought not to have delayed so long in milking his choice
of a seat in the House of Commotts, In that opinion
he (the chairman) concurred; butfhe waited to hear
Mr. Cobden's statement on this pointbefore he ven-
tured to pronounce judgment.
Mr. COBDEN then came forward 'amidst general
applause, and spoke nearly as follows :—I 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 came 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 I do on the
present occasion.—•
(Cheers.) Your chairman has statecl that he thinks
I ought to have come here beforei that I ought
earlier to have appeared amongst you. It was my
intention, as I expressed in a letter 4 you written at
Dantzic, to appear"before you. Immediately on my re-
turn from the continent, to thank pit for the honour
you had done me ; but an- my return I found
myself unexpectedly returned for two con-
stituencies. Now, gentlemen, I must confess
that after, I first fot , a WAS returned for
the West •;tiding of "o ~
..,* ~ . ,my own inclina-
tion,., intleeciony awn ••, 4 . It - ... Atilt t 4) a
that honour; but I found, on my re urn home, that
the opinion of my friends—the opinion of the electors
of Stockport—(Hear, hear)—public opinion in
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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 est 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
sit 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
order to make it the steppingstone 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 Rouse 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 ss 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 his 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 200,
he will soon ind 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.—(Hear, bear.) And now.
gentlemen, having made this explanation with regard
to my own personal feelings, I think you will not he
satisfied. unless I address myself a little to other sub-
jects of far more importance to the constituency.—
(Applause.) I am known only by the electors
of Stockport—l may say I was known at first,
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
instrumentality in placing
Incl
e itllithne
oHt oduisseguse ofiCom-
mons. I speak, of course, of the principle of free
trade. Well, gentlemen,
matter from you that we have entered upon the
if we had to go through
" free trade experiment," as some people still call it,
thorough-going free- tt:ds
under very trying circumstances. It seems to me as
question is, how many of
order to test the faith of men who have avowed them-
selvesi::
(o
Af
ppla us
e martyrdom. T
The
in
will not bear a gale or storm—that through this ordeal and still adhere ere to our principle ?
or, how many there are who will be found to have
upnaretod
theto old
been merely summer birds—fair-weather ships that
system of monopoly
whenever there is a little dan-
ger?--(Great applause.) Since my return to Eng-
land I have been delighted to find so little re-
action on the subject of free trade.—(Hear, hear.)
I may say that
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
whichbeg begin with.—(Applause.)
et ha.—re (nAo
wp p ltaoul sde . )
to
for the last year or twWabandon tohiant areEngtlhhanee principle
incipe o
free trade ? 'We are told that groundsltisltrue
uon
ef
at we have not been pros-
perousyweershitayvehansostp;rubngut
outhtenfquferseteiotnradise,,
owrhwehtheethretrheit andas-
sprung out of monopoly.
Our op
we have had free trade, and
_has not answered ; but
I say we have had thirty ponents tell us that
years of monopoly, and
have not got free trade yet. Further, it is said, that
d et roafd ein
this corndistr hasdistrict
ca
t which
hed
.nt,hoosheaydeisaatsttheres
presentto the
freetra
time to lament. Why, we have had not 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 di • stress 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
10,000,0001. 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 a drain of gold to pay
for the corn. Why, if we had not had the corn, if
we had kept the gold, many people 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 t hat was to
arise from free trade in corn, 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.—alear, hear,
and applause.) I believe lam charged too, with
having stated that you would have more mills and
more employment, m _ore houses,
_ carriages, churches,
and chapels, with free trade. Yes, and I say so still.
—(Applause.) But, gentlemen, I 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 upon.—(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
ent. ro bring this charge of
having in employm h f
having made a false promise against me and the free-
traders generally—to make me responsible for the fai-
lure of the cotton crop—is 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