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SALES BY AUCTION.

THE GREAT AND. VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE OF.

WHITTLESEA, EXTENDING 10 WITHIN TWO MILES OF
THE CITY OF PETERBOROUGH.
mEssßs. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned by the Noble Proprietors to SELL by
AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on THURSDAY,
24th of September, at Twelve (unless an acceptable offer shall be
previously made by private contract),
The above truly important and valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY,
between Peterborough and Wisbeach in Cambridgeshire ; comprising
the vast manors of Whittlesea, embracing nearly 25,000 acres, and in
which are nearly 200 or 300 copyholders, paying quit-rents and fines,
the greater part of the flourishing town of Whittlesea, the bank
premises, several private residences, inns, shops, &c., being held, of
the said manor. Also, above 2,100 acres of most fertile
land, divided into compact farms, and let at low rents to a
highly respectable and intelligent tenantry, with some very valu-
able dispersed parcels of land adjoining, avid contiguous to the town,
portions eligible for building. Also, the Advowson of the Vicarage
of St. Mary, and the Freehold Rent Charges in lien of tithes, ex-
tending over nearly 18,000 acres, of the annual value together of up-
wards of 6,0001., exclusive of the valuable manors and living;
offering with its many advantages, a fine, influential, and solid pro-
perty for the investment of capital. There is a navigable river
through the estate, and the railway from Peterborough to Ely
passes through Whittlesea.
The entire _property will be first offered in One Lot, and if not sold,
will be immediately put up in Three Lots; viz.,
1. THE TITHE RENT-CHARGES.
2. THE MANORS AND FARMS.
3. THE ADVOWSON.
Particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Jones, Bateman, and Ben-
nett, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; at the Auction Mart ; of Mr. John
Waddelow, Whittlesea, who will show the estates ; and of Messrs.
Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Wa•erloo-place, Pall-mall.

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Very IMPORTANT and VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE,
embracing ,the entire PARISH of ADDINGTON, free of Tithes
and Land-tax, and almost of Poor-rates, with its spacious Mansion,
excellent Manor for Game, the Advowson, and several first-rate
Grazing and Dairy Farms, extending nearly to the town of Win-
slow, and• only live miles from the county and borough town of
Buckingham, distinguished as the family seat and domain of the
late Hon. General Vere Poulett, forming a singularly eligible rand
solid investment for capital, in a proverbially rich and fine sporting

country. . -
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to announce that the above remarkably
valuable and truly important FREEHOLD ESTATE will be SOLD
by AUCTION, at the Mart, near the Bank of England, on THURS-
DAY, 24th of September (unless an acceptable offer shall be previ-
ously made by private treaty).
It comprises the spacious and substantial MANSION OF AD-
DINGTON, with walled garden, capital stabling, &c., placed on
a gentle elevation, nearly in the centre of one of the MOST
FERTILE DOMAINS in the county, embracing the entire
parish, nearly encircled by a fine brook, and chiefly rich
grazing and dairy land, the whole tithe free, and let to old
respectable tenants at rents amounting to about 2,6001. per an-
num. The perpetual Advowson, with its parsonage and glebe, and
the Manor, which is well stocked with game, appertain to the es-
tate. The timber is nearly all elm, a certain proof of the fertility of
the soil. The high turnpike road from Aylesbury to Buckingham
passes through the property, close to the town of Winslow, and it is
within a very easy distance of the several markets of Buckingham,
Bicester, Stony Stratford, &c. This description of grass land is
unlikely to be affected by any change as to Corn-laws or Tariffs, and
the property therefore presents, with its peculiar and great local ad-
vantages, an indisputably fine and choice property for the invest-
ment of money, with a most enjoyable domain for residence, being
in a perfectly rural district, and in the centre of several packs of
hounds. A station on the Buckinghamshire Railway will be very
near.

The property may be viewed by application to Mr. King, surveyor,
Winslow, of whom particulars may be had ; also of Messrs. Walker
and Gridley, solicitors, 5, Southampton-street; of Messrs. Karsiake
and Crealock, solicitors, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street.; and every
information obtained of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents
and surveyors, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

The ESTATE of NEW PLACE, with its MANSION and famous
TROUT FISHERY, close to ALRESFORD, Hants, about six
miles from Winchester, and 18 from SOUTHAMPTON.
31 ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to SELL by:AUCTION, at the Mart, near the
Bank of England, on TUESDAY, Sept. 18, at Twelve o'clock (unless an
acceptable offer shall be made by Private Treaty), the above valuable
FREEHOLD PROPERTY; comprising the mansion of NEW
PLACE, the prominent feature amidst the picturesque
scenery on approaching the town of Alresford from Win-
chester, at present occupied by Lady Paxton,' whe will
give early possession. The house stands elevated, sur-
rounded by well planted grounds, having an extensive and impor-
tant frontage upon the high road, frem which it is screened by orna-
mental plantations. The estate comprises, in a most perfect and
compact ring-fence, about ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE ACRES,
part very valuable water meadows, extending to and embracing
the river, which bounds it on the lower or n( rth side for a mile, afford-
hig some of the best trout fishing in the county. It is a remarkably
healthy and a famous sporting part of the country.
It may be viewed with cards, which, with particulars and litho-
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Winchester ; at the Hotels, Southampton ; at the Mart ; of Messrs.
Dunn, Hopkins, and Carter, solicitors, Alresford; and of Messrs.
I)aniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

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BIRKIN MANOR HOUSE, HORTON, BUCKS. remarkable as

having been the retreat of Milton, whose mother's grave is in the

Church.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
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OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, in September
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Apothecaries'Memb er of
HAPTER 1. On7the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrances
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the London Hospital Medical
CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative
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—CHAPTER 3. on solitary Habits; their various effects on the
indiscriminate Excess, Gonnorhcea,.
Animal Economy; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions
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NEW WORK ON THE FOOD OF ANIMALS AND
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On Thursday net will be published, in 1 vol. fooslcap Svo.,
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES on the
FOOD of ANIMALS and the FATTENING of CATTLE :
with Remarks on the Food of Man. By ROBERT DUNDAS
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" The question of the origin of the fat of animals appears to be
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London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

31ACCLE SFIELD and LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY, 11, New Palace-yard, Westminster.

In answer to many inquiries, the Committee beg to state that
through the respective Chairmen, the under-mentioned Agreement
has been brough• about between the North Staffordshire Railway
Company and the Provisional Committee of this undertaking, viz. :
" That an extension of the North Staffordshire line shall be made
between Tamworth and Uttoxeter as shall hereafter be decided by
the North Staffordshire engineers.
" That half of the capital required for this line shall be allotted to
the Churnet and Blythe Company.
" That scrip shall be issued for this Half, and that if the line be
carried through Parliament, it shall-be registered as North Stafford-
shire s ock."

As soon as the details are-completed for carrying out the above
arrangements, notice of the same will be advertised.

C. T. RATTENBURY, Secretary.

GREAT FREE TRADE FESTIVAL
AT THE MUSIC HALL, SHEFFIELD.
(Abridged from the Sheffield Iris.)
The commemoration of the passing of the glorious
measures of free trade was celebrated on Wednesday, at
the Music Hall, by the Free Trade Association and their
friends, and throughout the town by the majority of
tradesmen closing their shops at noon, to give their
assistants and apprentices a holiday. The soiree, at the
Music Hall, was held at six o'clock in the evening, when
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every part, to say nothing of the occupants of the gallery,
who attended as spectators of the scene. In the centre
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Esq., H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., Mr. Alderman Dunn, R.
R. R. Moore, Esq., and Richard Solly, Esq. ; and on the
left of the chair were John Parker, Esq., M.P., Edward
Vickers, Esq., Colonel Thompson, W. Jeffcock, Esq.,
H. Wilkinson, Esq., and S. Butcher, Esq., Mayor. In the
orchestra seats we also observed T. A. Ward, Esq.,
town regent, T. B. Turton, Esq., master cutler,
Ashmead, Esq., from Pniladelphia, U.S., Eckman,
Esq., from Sweden, Dr. Bartolome, F. Hoole, Esq., R.
J. Gainsford, Esq., John Ryalls, Esq., John Yeomans,
jun., Esq., C. Appleby, Esq., Wm. Waterfall, Esq. ;
Revs. B. T. Swamis, Rhodes, and Wright ;Aldermen,
Carr, G. Turton, and W. Hoole ; Councillors, H. Wil-
kinson, Thompson, H. Atkin, W. Fisher, jun., I. P.
Cutts, J. Stevenson, G. Tucker, Jon. Roebuck, T.
Rodgers, Roper, and Jackson ; Edward Bramley, town
clerk ; Henry Vickers, Esq; Messrs. W. A. Matthews,
Hobson, Unwin, Moss, Oates, David Johnson, Zechariah
Dyson, and George Johnson. Immediately behind the
chair were several sheaves of wheat, ripe and full, and
inscribed on a large banner, at the back of the orchestra,
" Union, Perseverance, and Victory." The railings in
front of the orchestra were ornamented with flowers and
evergreens—with a fine wheat sheaf in the centre. On
the sides of the orchestra were splendid stands of rare
and choice flowers, from which, along the sides of the
building to the gallery, ran superb festoons composed
of evergreens and flowers. In front of the gallery
hung a spacious banner inscribed, " Wisely use the pre-
sent, learn from the past, and trust to the future." " Time
works wonders." One cross table was placed for the
distinguished guests in the orchestra. The platform
contained six tables at right angles from the orchestra,
and nine other tables occupied the remainder of the
saloon. At the bottoms of the chandeliers hung gigantic
ears of Indian corn—showing that the increasing popu-
lation of our own little island, can, through the blessing
of free trade, be sup Flied with the surplus produce of
other and distant lands. In front of the chairman was a
superb silver vase, on an equally magnificent silver
waiter, filled with a most beautiful bouquet of flowers.
The company consisted of some of the best men of Hal-
lamshire. 'Their wives and daughters also graced the
scene with their presence, and it was truly gratifying to
see so noble and immortal a cause countenanced by so
many hundreds of the lovliest and fairest members of
creation. Both from the orchestra and the gallery the
scence was a most imposing one, and will be long im-
pressed on the memories of those who witnessed it.
At the conclusion of the repast, the CHAIRMAN pro-
ceeded with the business of the meeting. He apolo-
gised for having taken so prominent a position, and
regretted his inability to fulfil the duties in connexion
with it. He paid a high compliment to the ladies of
Sheffield for the part they had taken in the victory
which had been achieved, many of them having ren-
dered the most valuable services in connexion with the
bazaar at Covent-garden Theatre, and having shown
that their sympathies were enlisted in this great cause.
He was satisfied in his own mind that by a repeal of
the corn-laws the labouring population would be
much better clothed, and many other happy results
would arise which he hoped they would live to see.
At any time the repeal of the corn-laws would have
been acceptable, but it had come at a time when cir-
cumstances rendered it doubly so. They were fearful
of a great falling off in the potato crop, a more early
and more extensive failure than last year, and in
the face of such a calamity free trade in corn was indeed
a great and important benefit. He hoped they would
all live to see the sentiments of free trade more fully
appreciated and understood. They had not yet got
quite all they asked for, but a good instalment of some-
thing like seventeen and sixpence in the pound, and
very good security for the remainder.---(Hear, hear.)
The corn-law being repealed was the removal of the
centre arch of monopoly. Sugar had already given way,
and they might infer that all other monopolies would
soon go in the same way. As a proof of the good likely
to be effected by such proceedings, and their effect upon
other countries, he referred to the alteration already
made in the United States, and to the reception which
Mr. Cobden had met with in Paris. He (the Chairman)
was of opinion with the Frenchman in the observation
lesser nous faire, meaning in English "Let us alone,"
and all he would ask was permission to buy in the
cheapest and sell in the dearest market. Having said so
much, he would not occupy the time of the meeting, but
would proceed to the business of the evening, and leave
it to others to address the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN then read the following letters, which
had been received from the parties, in excuse for their
non-attendance:—

Wentworth, Aug. 14, 1846.
Sir,—Being otherwise engaged on the 2d of Sept.,
and at a distance from home, it will not be in my power
to attend the soiree intended to commemorate the great
step in commercial reform by passing the recent Corn
Act.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your very faithful
servant, FITZ WILLIAM.
5, Charlottte-street, Bedford-square, July 18, 1846.
Dear am much gratified by the request of the
Association of which you are the President, that I
should join in their rejoicings for the recent free-trade
victory. lam sorry to have to add, that I can only sym-
pathise with them from a distance, as it will not be
practicable for me to be in Sheffield at the time men-
tioned.

With thanks for the added kindness of your son's
invitation, I am, dear Sir, yours truly,
To Wm. Fisher, Esq. W. J. FOX.
West Lodge, Putney Lower Common, July 27.
Sir,—lay its
transit,
some accident your letter was delayed in
transit, or I should have earlier replied to it. Now,
and for some time I fear, the increased occupation laid
upon me by this new paper, will render it more than
inconvenient for me to leave London, otherwise I assure I
you I should have most gladly availed myself of the
honour of the invitation conveyed to me—the more so, '
too, as I am anxious at the first opportunity, to pay the
debt, or part of it, that I already owe to the courtesy
and forbearance of the good people of Sheffield.—Yours
faithfully, DOUGLAS JERROLD.
Leeds, July 24, 1846.
My dear Sir,—l feel greatly honoured by the invita-
tion of the Sheffield Free-Trade Committee to attend the
public soiree. I assure you it would have given me the
greatest pleasure to be present on that interesting occa-
sion; but a business journey, previously fixed, and which
cannot be put off, compels me to deline.
Accept, my dear Sir, my hearty congratulations on
the great constitutional victory which you are about to
colebrate.—l am, dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
EDWARD nAINES, Jun.
W. Fisher, Esq., President.
Great Houghton, near Barnsley,
29th July, 1846.
Dear thank you for your invitation, and wish
T. deserved it; but I could not accept it without becoming
an object of derision to myself. Tieing taken no part in
your four years' battle, why should I share in your tri-
umph? Without the funds of the League, even the abi-
lities of Mr. Cobden would have been useless; and to
those funds I contributed not a farthing! On the 21st
Instant, in reply to a letter of invitation from John Yeo-
mans, jun., Esq., I said all this in many more words, my
cibjects being to express, however inadequately, my
sense of the appalling difficulties encountered and over-
'come by Mr. Cobden, and to remind the world of an-
) other benefactor, Colonel Thompson, who, to say the
least, is the father of free trade agitation, and whose
,deeds, in their blessed consequences, will not be found
-to be " of the things which pass away."
I am, dear Sir, yours very truly,
EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
EDWARD SMITH, Esq., the Vice-President, next rose
and read the report of the Free-trade Association:—
" THE FINAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE
SHEFFIELD FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION.
"On former occasions we have met to keep alive our
hopes, to note the progress of our cause, or to devise
new and liberal measures for its promotic n. We now
meet for the last time, but we meet to congratulate
each other that the principles of free trade have pre-
vailed. That their opponents have become their Mi-
nisters, that every statesman has acknowledged them
to be true and just—that they have received the au-
, thority of law, and that therefore our labours have
ceased. We shall not weary
.you with a retrospect of
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market. Now I certainly cannot see anything ignoe
minions in such a maxim. On the contrary, it seems to
me that if we should actin any other way it would beb to
act in despite of every-day prudence and of plain common \,
sense. But Ido not stop here, for I would ask whether' -
buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market
is not the only course which can enable the indivlelutale
who practise it, orthe nations, which are formed of-itiet
individuals, to put a larger surplus into their pocketer---sse_Y-- -
than if they had bought in a market less cheap, or sold'
in a market less dear? To put a surplus in one's pocket
—" Oh, what a low idea," it will be said.—(A laugh.)
; How very unlike the days of chivalry—how very unlike
the days of Archbishop Laud, the eavesdropper. But
this practice of putting a larger surplus into your pocket,
paltry as it may seem, what does it represent? It repre-
sents the power, in the first instance, of having a larger
meal, a rasher of bacon, or a jug of milk, when these
things, under other circumstances, would have been
forbidden luxuries. It represents the power of having
better furniture in your houses and lodgings, of mend-
ing your broken panes of glass, and of stopping the
holes in your roofs to keep out the cold :and rain, when
under other circumstances it would have been a sort
of waste to do so. It represents getting better clothes
for your children, which will enable you to take them
to church or to meeting, or to walk out on a Sunday
afternoon, or to send them to school to receive the bene-
fits of a good education.—(Hear.) It represents, as you
rise still higher in the social scale, a choicer collection of
books upon your library shelves, or more favourise prints
and pictures upon your parlour walls. And it represents
navy
the power, without having recourse to additional taxa,-
an
thelt willn a
y enable
estimates,3e tion, of providing better :security
r
for the wars of our na-
ti e Id. awithout calling orndonuo:
to increase Mr
other Member, Mr. Parker, to devise a fresh tax for this
already heavily-taxed people.—(Cheers.) It will also
represent additional comforts toe your soldiers and
sailors; it will provide new sources o,c recreation for your
labourers and mechanics, by opening eublic walks and
galleries, supplying them with the sigist of works of
art, and with the exhibition of works of science. It
will make the nation at large, not only more wealthy in
the lowest and grossest sense of the town, but more bril-
liant, more refined, more benevolent.—(Loud cheers.) In
short, it is the talent which, put out to interest, will .wake
it,' possessor wealthy, and worthy to rule over ten cites.
In the measures lately adopted we have, of course, mainly
sought our own good as a nation. But other nations will
see what we have done, and will copy us, for their own
good.—(Hear.) The more you establish and extend the
benefits of tree trade, the ereater security there is for a
good understanding and the harmony of nations. Talk
of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest
market being a low cod paltry maxim, why it is to se-
cure that cheapness and to acquire that dearness that
nations will be brought to se.' the guilt of war.—(Hear,
and cheers.) No sooner has this country, in her impe-
rial Legislature, given lofty utterance to tire doctrines of
free trade, but already we hear the echo across the At-
lantic. Even Russia is contracting the giant limbs of
her prohibitive system; Sardinia and Sicily are also
giving in to that maxim of law and prudence; and even
the Pope of Rome has become the promoter of railways,
and I hope he will end by becoming a sound commercial
reformer.—(Hear, and cheers.) And fate whispers that
we are beginning to instil these principles into the
hitherto closed ears of Germany and the Rhine. OaX
charmer charms too wisely for parties to stop their ears;
and I look forward to the day when the sword will drop
from the hand of the soldier, and the red artillery shall
quench its murderous flashes.—(Hear.) And now I
hope you will go with me in saying that this derided
maxim of buying in the cheapest and selling in the
dearest market, besides the immediate benefits it confers,
must tend to the sublimity, the charity, and the blessed-
ness of peace.—(Loud cheers, during which his Lord-
ship sat down.)
JOHN PARSER, Esq., M.P., was sure that the meeting
would think, from the speech which they had just heard,
that the Noble Lord had made a very recent incursion
from the woods and forests, and happy was itfor them that
he bad carried into that district all that poetry of nature
and truthful portraiture in the speech which he had just
made. But as he (Mr. Parker) had not the advantage
of presiding in so poetical a region, he had no occasion
to dwell upon those beauties, or to enter at all into the
question of woods and forests. They must be content to
hear his humble views advocated in common and prosaic
English, and showing the triumph which truth had
gained over prejudice and error. They had very pro-
perly put upon one of their banners, " Time works
wonders"—that was an undoubted truth ; but he would
ask which of them in the course of a few years would
look back to anything compared with the magnitude of
the struggle that that great commemoration had con-
summated, or could have thought that they should have
met at that period to speak no longer of the law as it
exists, but which was obliterated, and gone to that place
from which he hoped it never would return. Some time
ago the persons who entertained these views were not
many. Col. Thompson had certainly given the country
some sound opinions, which he had taken from Adam
Smith, who had lived before him, and illustrious writers
who had gone before their time, and had constituted the
age in which they lived by their discoveries. But the prin.
ciples of commercial freedom, though popular here
some few years ago, were inadequately understood,
and it was not until the mind of the nation had had
the stirring events of late years applied to it, that they
saw before them the reality of this question in all its
importance. They had industry enough to deal with
these monopolies as they had been dealt with. He re-
membered well when this question was first raised in
Sheffield. He remembered, in 1840, when the ques-
tion first took a formidable position, he took the liberty
of asking some friends as to the great difference between
this question and others which bad been easily carried.
Ile contrasted this question with the slavery question
and the reform in Parliament. In slavery there was
none to oppose them but the planters, while in the
abolition of boroughs, there was none but a power-
ful aristocracy and a powerful party in those bo-
roughs—but there was a mighty majority in the
nation. Now in the question of the corn-law matters
were in a different position, because they had not only
the great proprietors, but also the small landed pro-
prietors against them in the three kingdoms. He
therefore saw from the first that it would be a
severe struggle, and therefore they ought to thank
those who had shared in the struggle, and whose
services could never be sufficiently appreciated. The
corn-laws were now, he believed, settled for ever.
But if Mr. Fisher's doctrine of letting things alone had
been applied some ten years ago to the corn-law, they
would have been in a different position. He meant
letting things alone when they were in a natural and
inartificial state. He wanted to clear away these in-
jurious laws, and then, when the coast was clear, let
things alone. He trusted it would be the maxim of
every future Minister who should conduct the affairs of
this country. There was another victory not less im-
portant than that of corn, he meant sugar. It was emi-
nently useful and desirable that when the corn-law was
settled. and before lassitude came over the public mind,
the Government should address themselves to the sugar
question. They did so, and taking advantage of cir-
cumstances within their reach, they had succeeded, he
hoped, in settling that most difficult and perplexing
question, and putting sugar as well as corn upon the
principles of free trade.—(Cheers.) He must say, with
respect to this great achievement and victory of free
trade, he could not pourtray its results in such lan-
guage as they had heard from his Noble Friend, but
all must see that it was in point of fact the necessary
result that when that cloud in the west appearW,
frightening statesmen from their propriety, and alarm-
ing every lover of peace and good order—(Hear, hear)—
when there were rumours and reports as to the possi-
bility of our friendly connexions with America being is
jeopardy, they must see that if this great question of
free trade had not intervened there would have been
little hope of these dangers being averted ; but they were
now holding out the olive-branch of peace and the right
hand of fellowship. They could rejoice that the quarrel
was over, without having recourse to the department of
his Honourable Friend, or to to his own department, to
' maintain the dignity of England. He was happy to see
Colonel Thompson present, one of the great veterans
and champions in the cause. During the fourteen years
i
which he had had the honour of a seat n Parliament,lfrons
whatever side the question had come, his vote had always
been recorded on the side of free trade.—(Hear, hear.)
He had voted with Colonel Thompson when perhaps
not more than a score were with them ; with Lord Mor.
peth, when the votes did not reach 100 ; and with Mr.
Cobden, since he had taken the command of that great
cause. lie had not expected that for some years they
would have obtained that great victory ; but it should
teach them that where a mighty nation and an intelligent
people employed their minds and energies in the right
way, without mixing the question up with party objects,
looking only to truth, that power is irresistible. He hoped to
see in future the absence of that vindictive and party
feeling by which the affairs of the country had been too
much agitated. He hoped to see a prospect of some
armistice and lull of party warfare. The result of the
struggle must impress them with the truth that there
were means in store for carrying out great social results.
It taught him—and he hoped it would teach all—that if
they had but steadiness and industry, honour and ho-
nesty, they would have the support of nations, and be,
as we were—victorious. (Mr. Parker sat down loudly
cheered.)
Mr. WARD, on rising, was received with', lone and
loud cheering, which lasted some minutes. After it had
subsided, he said, that if he had looked only to personal
feelings and circumstances, he should have preferred to
meet that company at a future period. He had, how-
ever, felt it to be his duty to do so, and had accordingly
come amongst his old friends. He wished to remind
them that it was not a convivial meeting, but one to
celebrate an important operation in our history
—and to pay respect to that company withoutdisret-
spect to others. He felt that he had a difficult
tasto follow those who had preceded him—and who
had left him so little to glean, particularly as he !Tel,
the fourth commentator upon the same resotutteer
Lord Morpeth had taken an intellectual, and Mr.
Parker a practical view of the great question of fre
trade—and he would therefore like to know what her,
had left for those who followed them.—(Hear anti
laughter.) The course which that meeting was adopt.
ing was one which was suitable to the great occasion—
and singularly so, as regarded its time and character,
and constitution. In all the speeches which he hay;.
heard that night it had been made a matter of astonish.
ment that they should have been then meeting for such
a purpose, and at such a time. If, at the same perio
last year, any one had predicted the most impossibh
thing, it would have as easily gained credit, as to_ haeli:,
prophecied that his Noble Friend, Lord Morpeth, shoal;
now address them, not only as a member of the CAD
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but also as Member for the West Richngsicab
the count:-
lating that company upon the positiowte believed, hi
had assumed. This position,
ill however,
nt minds which he
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entertained the question. 1-1.
dily to a suesessful issue.
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