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Sl7 N JANUARY 10, 11446.

Court there had been no bills presented, they were discharged,
and the sessions were adjourned until the 9th of April.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE
IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—To-day, at one o'clock, a meeting
of merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool was held in
the Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street, "for the purpose
of considering the best means of aiding the operations of the
Anti-Corn-law Lague at the present crisis." About 4,000
persons were present, the galleries being densely, and the
boxes and pit, to which the charge for admission was is.,
being also well filled by ladies and gentlemen. The only
extra decoration in the entire building on this occasion was
an immense inscription, stretching the entire length of the
stage, immediately over the chairman's seat, bearing the
words "We will stand it no longer."
At one o'clock precisely Mr. W. Brown took the chair ;
on the stage, surrounding him, were Mr. Richard Cobden,
Mr. John Bright, Colonel Thompson. Mr. Thomas Thornely,
M.P., Mr. 'William Rathbone, Mr. R. E. Harvey, Mr. Vin-
cent Higgins, Mr. John Finch, Mr. John Pinch, juti., Alder-
man Eyre Evans, Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, Mr. James H.
Macrae, Mr. George Crossfield, Mr. William Gardner, Mr.
Blackburn, Mr. J. Cox, Mr. J. Ryder, Mr. Henry Romilly,
Mr. Charles Robertson, Mr. 11. Jevons, and many other of
the leading merchants of the locality.
The CHAIRMAN, after the requisition calling the meeting
had been read, commenced the proceedings by saying that
they had met together to co-operate with, and to strengthen
and sustain, their friends of the Anti-Corn-law League—
friends who had, during the long and critical period of seven
years, fought 6)r them with unflinching firmness and unabated
zeal the great and glorious battle of free trade. He hoped,
and, indeed, he was sure they would not let the present occa-
sion pass with the simple approbation of the manner with
which that battle had been fought; but they would, one and
all, unanimously and eagerly come forward and bear testi-
mony to their appreciation of such exertions by a large and a
creditable subscription—such a subscription as would, com-
bined with that of others, enable those friends fully to carry
out and accomplish the objects for which they had so long
contended. They had arrived at the crisis of their affairs,
and it now rested with them, and the demonstration they
made, whether they obtained total redress, or were offered
a disgraceful compromise ; and that the latter would
be rejected he had only to look around him in that vast
assembly to be convinced.—(Hear, hear.) No less firmly
was he convinced that those who had hitherto taken an ac-
tive part in advancing and giving effect to the enunciation
of their principles would not surrendor the ship until they
had brought her safely into port.—(Cheers.) Mr. Brown
concluded by calling on
Mr. RATHBONE, who rose to propose the first resolution :
"Thai we, the inhabitants of Liverpool, do hereby repeat
our solemn protest against the laws which prohibit the free
importation of foreign grain and provisions, or interfere in
any way with the natural operations of commerce, believing
them to be most oppressive to the great mass of the people,
and destructive alike to the manufacturing and agricultural
interests of the country; that, relying upon the justice of our
cause, and intelligence and honesty of our countrymen, we
do declare most emphatically our firm determination not to
relax in our exertions until those laws be totally repealed ;
that we hereby express our high sense of the invaluable ser-
vices which the National Anti-Corn-law League has ren-
dered to the cause of free trade, and in order to enable its
council to make renewed and increased exertions, a subscrip-
tion be now entered into in aid of the great fund of a quarter
of a million, 20 per cent. to be paid up immediately; and
that the following gentlemen be appointed a committee, with
power to add to their number, to canvass for further sub-
scriptions in this town and neighbourhood."
That was a long resolution, and when there were long reso-
lutions he made it a point to make short speeches. As in
some way an illustration of the present proceedings, or rather
of the new aspect which those proceedings assumed, he would
take them back 50 years, and tell them that then Mr. Wil-
liam Roscoe, Mr. Edward Rushton, and many others, were
stoned in Williamson-square, not many yards from that
theatre, for protesting against the iniquitous and ferocious
war with France. At that time, they would all remember,
they had the life-and-property men coming forward, and
conspicuously declaring that they would give away their last
shilling in support of Church and State, and all that fine sort
of thing—declaring that it was a glorious war. But how did
those same life-and-property men redeem their pledges?
When, in 1815, the war ceased, and the extent of the debt
became known, how did the agriculturists come forward to
redeem their pledges and give their aid in relieving the
people from the burden? By passing a corn-law which gave
them protection and added to the burden.—(Hear, hear.)
They will not share those burdens, but the free
traders will have justice. There is justice for Ireland
and justice for England, and, as there is a God in Heaven,
they shall have its-s-(Great cheering.)
L. Heywonm, Esq., seconded the resolution. He said
it would be superfluous and unnecessary on that occasion to
expose the fallacies which had been put forward by the ad-
vocates of monopoly, and to show that distress and injury to
the national prosperity had been produced by the operation
of the corn-laws. The purpose which they had now in view
was one that affected not this country alone, but the whole
human family, for the various nations of the earth were now
opening their eyes to the importance of the subject.—(Hear,
hear.) On the last occasion upon which he addressed a
meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool, he stated to them
that General George M'Duffie in America had, in a manner
creditable to him as a Christian and a patriot, declared his
abhorrence of all protective duties, and since that declara-
tion of General M'Duffie's appeared they had heard the sen-
timents of a member of the American Government, Mr.
Walker, to the same effect. Mr. Walker, alluding to this
subject, had said, " Let our commerce be as free as our poli-
tical,institutions; let us with revenue duties only open our
ports to all the world, and nation after nation will soon follow
our example. If we reduced our tariff, the party opposed to
the corn-laws of England would soon prevail, and admit all
our agricultural products at all times into her ports in ex-
change for her exports. And if England would now repeal
her duties upon our wheat, flour, Indian corn, andother agri-
cultural products, our own restrictive system would certainly
be doomed to overthrow."—(Cheers.) It was plain, there-
fore, as he had already remarked, that this was a cause in
which the whole world was concerned, and which every man
who was a patriot and a Christian might safely support.—
(Hear, hear.) He hoped, therefore, that the inhabitants of
Liverpool would put their hands in their pockets, and come
forward in a proper spirit to support it.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., who was received with much ap-
plause, spoke as follows :—I cannot for the moment help
looking back at the period when I first formed one of a de
putation from the Anti-Corn-law League to visit the town
and port of Liverpool, to invite its large, intelligent, and en-
terprising population to assist us in the great contest upon
which we were then entering. I recollect that, although
there was a large audience to greet us, it was felt by every-
body in the town, that amongst many very influential per-
sons there was extremely little sympathy with the object we
had, in view. We .have found, however, that here, as else-
where, by persevering labour, by honest devotion to one
great cause and to one good principle, we have gradually
stimulated our friends to renewed and increased exertions,
and diminished, to a very large extent, the opposition we
encountered from those who did not coincide with our views.
At present we have, I believe, the whole kingdom in favour
of the principles we have expounded.—(Cheers.) The
townspeople, as a rule, are in favour of the emancipation
of the industry of the people.—(Cheers.) Intelligent land-
lords we have had from the beginning along with us, and
we find that the number of such who approve our policy and
unite with us increases every year. Intelligent farmers,
too, we have had from the beginning, and we find that
farmers even who are not the foremost in their class for in-
telligence and general knowledge are receiving willingly the
principles we have expounded to them, and are beginning to
doubt, or altogether to disbelieve, the advantages which
their landlords have asserted they would derive from a
maintenance of the protective system.—(Cheers.) But of
the vast body of farm labourers throughout the kingdom,
I believe we may say that they are with us as unanimously
as are the labourers in the manufactories of Lancashire and
Yorkshire.—(Cheers.) We have succeeded, if not in con-
verting, at least in changing two Ministries since our agita-
tion began—(Cheers)—and we have rendered it impossible
that any party should now take office who is in favour of
maintaining, or will pledge itself to the attempt to maintain,
the corn-law as it now exists, or in fact any corn-law at all.
—(Loud cheers.) But there is a class of our opponents who
are still unchanged; I mean that class represented by the
dukes, the high aristocracy, and squirarchy, whose speeches
have recently occupied so much space in the columns of the
Morning Post. I have been charged with endeavouring to
bring the aristocracy into public contempt, and certainly I
have said harsh things of them, for I have felt harshly to wards
them.—(Cheers.) No man can see what I have seen in con-
nexion with this question holding the opinions I entertain, and
knowing that this corn-law has been supported by that class,
without feeling his blood at times boil within him, and feel-
ings not, I admit, the most Christian rising within him with
reference to the conduct of a class which has systematically,
for a generation at least, sacrificed the great interests of the
people to the selfish and miserable interests of a class.—
(Cheers.) But I defy any man living to point to any speech
made by any member of the Anti-Corn-law League which
deals such fatal blows at the permanence and supremacy of
the aristocratic element in the British constitution as the
speeches which have been made within the last month by
men who are so fond of that element and so devoted to that
supremacy that they would willingly sacrifice even the people
to maintain them. Most of you have read what has been
said by duke, lord, and squire, within the last month. Now,
I ask you, as representatives of a great commenrcl!sleyi-
munity, are you of opinion that these men are q
their intelligence or their sympathy with right
`alma
mer-
people to rule ovor and to regulate the trade an and the
al empires?
cantile affairs of this the greatest of all comm
--(Cheers.) Arc you in Liverpool willing
nten.r cseiiat
stung]: and
i and
that other towns should sit still, making, .ass_verPy
i calling
living just as you can, all merely p
yourselves citizens of this great
kingdom, and if law
gathering to
did not interfere, having the power of g
your-
selves the riches of the whole earth, and adding
incalculably
whole
to the comfort and well -being of the pop a
i ion—are
you willing that these men,
who have proved their ignorance
and incompetency so that everyone must see it, should still
the commerce of this
rule over and legislate for . • great king-
domand cries " We'll stand it no
?—(Loud cheering,
h b • •'
longer.") e said from t e eginnisag, and all experience
has confirmed the opinion then expressed, that the com-law
did good to no human being, unless it starved some human
being. I could refer you to the report of a meeting which
took place a few days since at Lyparn, in Wiltshire, where
1,000 labourers assembled by the light of the moon to discuss
the grievances they suffered under this, law. Talk of a reign
of terror in another country, what a reign of terror is it not
in this country when these 1,000 labourers come out from
their hovels almost at dead night to tell of the tyranny
under which they believed themselves to labour, and
proclaim to the world that the magnanimous aristocracy
who ruled the country let them cultivate their lands for 55.,
65.. 7s. a week, while in Parliament and before the world
they had avowed for the last thirty years at least they had
maintained these laws ostensibly to protect these very
labourers.—(Cheers.) These are critical times. Mr. Hey-
worth has spoken of the United States, :Sad read a paragraph
from the report of Mr. Secretary Walks r, which ought to be
published in every newspaper in the kingdom, and be read
by every man in Great Britain and Irelland—a report which
extends the friendly band of America to this country, asks
us to forget bygones, and be brethren, as we ought now to
be.—(Loud cheers.) A great reduction of the American
tariff must follow the abolition of our cams-law, and the abo-
lition of the corn-law will for ever destroy all chance of war
between this country and the United StsGtes.—(Loud cheer-
ing.) Recollect, too, that the Prime Min later of England is
in a position of extraordinary difficulty—ouch a position as
no Prime Minister, perhaps, has occupiet 1 in the memory

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PRICE SD.

of any one-now present. He is the leader of a party who
change not, whose obtuseness, whose infatuation, must even-
tually be their ruin. He is much wiser than they. He sees
that Parliamentary majorities go for nothing against the
necessities of an united people.—(Cheers.) At this moment,
in all human probability, he is balancing within his own
mind what shall be the precise measure he will submit to
Parliament the week after next—shall it be total and imme-
diate repeal? shall it be total but not immediate? or shall it
be neither immediate nor total, but some compromise which
shall leave this question unsettled? These are the questions
which are passing through the wind of the Prime Minister,
and the questions which ho must weigh, hoWever well he
may be disposed to do that which is really right and just.
How can he come to the decision to which we wish to invite
him? Not by his own individual strength—he knows that
argument does nothing with the men whose champion he has
been in former years.—(Cheers.) He knows that all per-
suasion with them is unavailing. He knows they saw the
trade of the country sink—aye, and their fellow creatures
dying of hunger, inflicted by the corn-laws, and yet they
did not quail nor give in.—(Loud cheers.) He calls to
you and to the whole kingdom to help him—(Cheers)—
to obtain redemption from this thraldom.—(Cheers.) On
Wednesday next we shall go to Leeds, to add to the sub-
scriptions to this fund. We want this money, and we must
have it.—(A voice, " You shall have it," and loud cheers.)
If you aro not disposed to pay it, we must go somewhere
else, where the people are so disposed. No man could look
around him upon the vast changes that had taken place
without acknowledging, with regard to the position that the
cause of free-trade now occupii d, that if ten times the money
had been expended, and ten times the amount of labour
had been encountered, the result would have been cheaply
purchased as a glorious consummation.—(Great cheering.)
Every man here who had ever given a farthing in pro-
motion of the objects of the League should consider the
position in which .he was now placed. If the object
were worth fighting for at all, it was worth fighting for
until attained—if this great struggle were worth commencing
at all, it was wo th carrying out to a final and successful
issue—(Cheers)—if they wished the money they had in-
vested in this great undertaking for national emancipation
to bear its fruits, let them add to that investment now.—
(Cheers.) Liverpool had had no great reputation heretofore
as connected with this great question, but there were still
men in the town who had done as much for the cause of free
trade as any in the kingdom, with the means they had at
their disposal.—(Hear, hear.) Hitherto Liverpool had sent
to Parliament—and still did send to Parliament—as their re,
presentatives, men who did not represent the true interests of
that great commercial community.—(Hear, hear.) But he
was happy to believe with confidence, that as soon as another
occasion should come—and come he believed it would before
another summer should shine over them—(llear, hear)—all
that past disgrace would be wiped away, and Liverpool
would take her just position in the front of this great battle.
—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member concluded his speech amidst
the most rapturous cheering.
It was then announced that a ',note had been received from
Mr. Wilson, regretting his inability to attend, in consequence
of pressing engagements.
Amongst the various subscriptions announced were the
following :
Messrs. Mather £3o6 0 0
Hamilton
Lawrence Heyworth 5OO 0 0
Tennants, Clow, and Co.
James Mellor
Thomas Thornely, M.P.
Rathbone (Brothers) and Co 3OO 0 0
James Stitz and Co.
John Finch and Co.
Sir Joshua Walmsley
J. D. Wood lOO 0 0
J. E. Irrell
J. Dawson
J. Molineux
William Stewart
James Branker
Mr. Rawlins, sen.
James Ryder
C. and J. Rawden
Vincent Higgins and Son 250 0 0
Charles Vincent 3OO 0 0
Darby and Sim
Higgins (Brothers)
Alexander Allen 2O 0 0
Charles Holland 2OO 0 0
C. C. Rawlins, jun.
James Harvey
J. B. Cooke l5O 0 0
Henry Crossfield
Thomas Harrison ... 5O 0 0
James Crossfield, jun.
Edward Lane
J. H. M'Cray and Partner ... lOO 0 0
J. T. Hobson lOO 0 0
Andrew Kirk
Samuel Johnson
Richard Johnson
Richard Sharp and Son ... 5O 0 0
Thomas Lilwall 25 0 0
William Crossfield 5O 9 0
John Carmichael ... 100 0 0
Thomas Hibbert
Lloyd Reyner
Wellwood Maxwell
F. Bolt, jun.
D. Cameron
James Riley
W. Blane
J. D. Thornely
J. R. Evans
Jeffery Morris and Co.
V. Vesis
R. Slid!. and Co lOO 0 0
P. Quirk lOO 0 0
Joseph Kemp lOO 0 0
Joshua Kemp 5O 0 0
J. M. Syers 5O 0 0
J. M'Clellan
H. Horsley
Tayler, Brothers
Mead, King, and Co 25 0 0
Firth Goodhead • - 5 O 5O 0 0
M. Andrew lOO 0 0
Thomas Blackburn ... 100 0. 0
Samuel Blackburn lOO 0 0
A Friend to Repeal, per Mr. Rawlins lOO 0 0
William Wright 5O 0 0
D. M'Viccar ••• 5O 0 0
F. Pennington
William Evans
John Muir
Samuel Thornely
E. Evans and Co. 26 5 0
Joseph Mondle
Rev. J. H. Thorn
William Reynolds ..
George Maxwell • 50 0 0
Grote Tomkinson
Henry Wood 5O 0 0
J. P. G. Smith
H. Marshdale...
C. C. Swabe
Robert Abbott ..
G. P. Lee

A. H. Wylie ... 50 0 0
J. Hodgson and Co.
C. Blackburn .........
Of the aggregate sum of 14,000 L, there are, we under
stand, about 3,000/. which were subscribed at Manchester,
but, being the subscriptions of inhabitants of Liverpool, were
again announced at this meeting.
Mr. COBDEN now rose to address the meeting, and was re-
ceived with rapturous applause. He said—Mr. Chairman
and Gentlemen, Ifeel that lam unable to say anything
which could have such effect upon public opinion, or upon
the Government, as these manifestations of zeal and determi-
nation which you have so liberally exhibited to-day.--
(Cheers.) Nor is it necessary that I should appear here as
a beggar, and, in fact, I am not at all apt at that work, but
fortunately for me, I have a colleague in my friend Bright,
who has the best face for a beggar of any man I know.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He has impressed upon him-
self the belief, that by persuading others to come
forward in the same munificent manner in which
he has come forward himself, he confers upon them a great
advantage, by inducing them to co-operate with him in
the support of the cause which he advocates, and en-
abling them to reflect in future days upon having been
concerned in the exertions to accompLsh one of the
greatest reforms which the world ever witnessed.—(Cheers.)
There is one point to which, on this occasion, it is necessary
that I should refer. An attempt has been made by our 0131:0-
nents to convey the idea that by some ingenious ilecTrartg
we are to turn the 250,000/. which we intend to raise to
body of
loouwr
ocrpeapotnioenntso foucgohn county ttyo voters,take
ttime to
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those raw jokes of their leaders.—(Cheers.) They ought to
recollect that a sum of 250,0001., of which only one-fourth is
to be called for at present, would be able to create no mere
than 500 votes, and that fact alone ought to satisfy their
minds on the subject of our intention to createear.lcowunetydvoonteost
by this subscription of 250,000/.—(Hear, h
propose any such thing as the creation of county votes by
this fund. We only propose to establish a proper machinery
to carry out our purpose--to create a fund which would pay
the expenses of having a secretary and clerks, of printing,
advertising, and other indispensable outlays, in order to put
the operatives and middle classes of this country
in such a position as to enable them to carry
out the course which we propose—(Hear, hear)—to
enable them to place other counties in the same
situation, as regards the registration, which South Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, and Yorkshire now occupy.—(Cheers.)
There is nothing to be done in South Lancashire, but in a
neighbouring county the effects of that course can be most
successfully exhibited.—(Cheers.) There is an important
district on the other side of the river, and Liverpool and Lan-
cashire have it in charge to make South Cheshire as safe as
South Lancashire.—(Hear, hear.) 1 cannot allow this occa-
sion to pass without saying that the subscription you have
made to-day does infinite credit to Liverpool. In Manches-
ter we are differently situated : we have no monopolist inte-
rest, we have no West India or Canada merchants to give a
fashionable tone to society, and favour monopoly.—(Hear,
hear.) We are in Manchester unprotected cotton manu-
facturers. In Liverpool there is a divided interest, and
there are no `tributary towns to swell the sub-
scriptions ; and, taking these circumstances into considera-
tion, I loek upon the subscription of to-day as fully
equal to the subscription in Manchester.—(Loud cheers.)
What you have done to-day .encourages the hope that what
you are about to do will be decisive of this question. I have
no doubt that there will be a dissolution of Parliament be-
fore this question is settled—l have no doubt that before
Midsummer there will be a dissolution of Parliament, and
you cannot over estimate the importance of the course
which Liverpool shall pursue on the occasion of the ensu-
ing election.—(Hear, hear.) In speaking of the probable
results of the anticipated election, I have always heard it
asked, " What will Liverpool do in the case of an elec-
tion 1 " I wish to give the friends of free trade an oppor-
tunity of returning advocates of free trade at the next
election ; and let it be remembered that this is no party
question, but, on the contrary, it is likely to break up all
political party feeling. Within the next fortnight you will
be placed in a position in Liverpool in which you were never
placed before. We have evidence before us that the Govern-
ment will bring forward a measure opposed to the views of
the monopolists. Mr. Christopher, who, on a former occasion,
was looked upon as the pilot-balloon of Sir Robert Peel
rn
(Laughter)—has stated that he is opposed to the govern-
(Laughter)—has
ment ; and the Duke of Newcastle, who owns the iborough
o f Newarkstates
tha
hear.) H
that Mr.
Here
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returned.—(Hear, wilt separate him
Peel is going to propose a measure whith

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from those former supporters of his, and believe me, that sal
rupture in the House of Commons will soon be followed by al
rupture of the same party in Liverpool. On this day fort-
night the great Conservative party in Liverpool will be scat-
tered to the winds.—(Cheers.) Next Friday week, when
you meet your fellows-townsmen in the Exchange, you will
not know what to call them.—(Laughter.) You have in
Liverpool two sections of Conservatives, the moderate Con-
servatives or Peelites, and the Ultras, or what may be called
the Buckingham or Richmondites--(Laughter)—but three-
fourths, or I should perhaps say four-fifths of the Conserva-
tives in Liverpool are Peelites.—(lleat, hear.) When Sir R.
Peel introduces his measure, that party Will find themselves
in a different position. The moderate Conservatives may
not, perhaps, come round and join us at once, but this is
quite clear, that when Sirßobert Peel introduces his measure
they will be absolved fram all party ties, and they can bring.
their minds to the discussion of this question on it own merits,.
This day fortnight, the merchants of Liverpool will see that
free trade means more trade, and with all the countries of
the globe. Your brokers, too, who have been sometimes ac-
cused of being a little venal, and of following the merchants
rather slavishl3, will be released from their party ties.
Brokers must see that more imports must produce more safes
upon change, and that more sales will produce more busi-
ness to the brokers. Shipowners and builders, also, must see
that the adoption of free trade, requiring the adoption of
more vessels, must bring more vessels to the port;
that mere vessels will, in consequence, be re-
paired there, and that more vessels, too, will be
built there. On these principles the interests of shipowners
and builders must be as completely identified with the cause
of free trade as are the interests of the merchant and the
broker. Again, with regard to labour; does it not appear to
those who have been accustomed to vote. only with their
party, that. more ships coming into the port will bring mote
work to the shipwrights, the ship carpenter, the caulkers,
and the smiths ?—( Hear, hear.) And not merely those, but
every porter, every man engaged in manual labour, must see
that his interests are as completely identified as those of
the others with this change. Therefore, every man
capable of reason, having an honest desire to arrive
at the truth when released from these bonds of party,
will become as sound a free trader as any one in the .room—
(Cheers)—but let us have no impediment in the way of these
conversions. Let us do as they did in the West Riding of •
Yorkshire the other day—throw away the old colours and
adopt the pure white as the emblem of our peaceful and just
cause.—(Cheers.) Ido not know what' your eolours are. I
think I have beard that one party adopts scarlet. Well, that
is a bloody colour; away with it. Some they say adopt the
blue. We will have nothing to do with that, for it is the
colour of the cholera in the potatoes. Let us adopt white as
the colour of the banner of peace, the flag of truce at the
next election. And if, as I venture to prophecy there will,
a dissolution ahbuld take place on this bread question, it will
be again as it was in the Reform crisis, when General Gas-
coigne could not get through his canvass, that a protec-
tionist, a pro-corn-law-man, a curry-powder candidate will
not dare to show himself here.—(Enthusiastic cheering, in
the midst of which the Hon. Gentleman sat down.)
Colonel TnomPsox and Mr. THORI.TELY, M.P., then ad-
dressed the meeting, and the proceedings terminated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—lt being found more convenient
for the defects of the Bittern to be made good in the
narbour, she was towed in by the Echo steamer, on Wed-
nesday. The dock-yard artificers expect to complete her
next week, when she will be paid, and proceed
.to the

coast of Africa.
The Daring brig sailed for Bermuda on Wednesday
afternoon, and is to be attached to the squadron in the
West Indies, under command of Vice-Admiral Sir F.

Austen.
The Scourge steamer was moved out of dock yester-
day, and the Rattler put in her place; she will continue
until the tides will admit of the Rodney being taken in,
which will probably be to-morrow or Monday.
The Alban steamer is to go to Plymouth and Cork on
Monday, taking marines for Ireland.
Mr. Kerley, Master Attendant of Chatham Dock-
yard, and the people who assisted him in navigating
the Janus steamer to this harbour, returned to the
River Medway yesterday in the Emerall and Mercury
tenders. The Janus is of course now in ordinary, and,
until the committee appointed by the Admiralty, have
examined her engines, and reported on them, no further
work will be executed in her. The hull of the Janus is
new, and, should it be considered advisable, other en-
gines could be substituted, or she could be fitted with a
screw. In her present state, there is great prejudice
against the Janus.
The officers selected to revise the rigging-warrants
of her Majesty's ships consist of Captain Sir Richard
Grant, and Mr. Elson, the master of her Majesty's ship
St. Vincent, William Purdo, Esq., first master atten-
dant of this dock-yard, and Mr. Flinn, the master of the
Victory. They commenced the duty yesterday on
board the Rodney, when she crossed royal yards, and
had all her running and other rigging in their placer. A
vessel of every class will be brought forward, and have
the rigging warrant revised.
A trial has been made this week by Captain Chads,
of the Excellent, of a method to break, or displace, a
boom placed across a creek or harbour. Instead of the
tedious and hazardous plan now generally adopted, of
sending boats under cover of a heavy fire from the ship
(and in some instances not even with that), to cut it
away with axes, &c., as was the case recently at Borneo,
it is proposed to fix a breaker, or iron cask, to the boom,
with a charge of about 25 or 301bs. of powder, having
a proper fuse attached, and endeavour to blow it free of
the passage. Yesterday a spare mast being obtained,
and chained to a floating buoy in the Channel, near the
Excellent, a breaker, filled with powder, was made fast
on it, a fuze lighted ; in about eight or ten minutes,
allowing sufficient time for the boats to get clear, the
explosion took place, and large masses of the piece
of timber, of from six to ten feet in length, were
torn off. Of course the parties, not being under
fire of an enemy, had no risk to encounter. The
time occupied in fixing the charge was only a.
minute or two ; and, from this trial, it is evident the
plan is a good one, and may, if adopted, be the means of
saving many lives in future operations where a boom, or
obstruction to the passage of armed boats up a river, is
to be removed in face of an enemy. At Borneo, the
other day, some hours elapsed before the boom which
the pirates had placed across the river could be dis-
placed, and Mr. Gibbard, mate, and some seamen, were
killed while doing it. Next week there will be some
more experimental firing from the Excellent. The fun-
nel of a steam-vessel is ordered to be fitted on a floating
stage, secured by iron chains in the usual way, for the
purpose of ascertaining what effect, and how soon, the
firing of shot or shells may have on it; the stage will
be anchored at a regular distance from the Excellent,
and then practised at. As this has never yet been tried,
it has, on the suggestion of Captain Chads, been or-
dered, and the Admiralty have caused an old steamer's
funnel to be sent from Woolwich for that purpose.
Commander R. S. Hewlett, late gunnery lieutenant et
the Illustrious is appointed commander of the Excellent,
in place of Captain Begot, promoied-
Letters have been received front her Majesty's brig
Kingfisher, from Teneriffe, dated the Bth of December.
She had a very wet and bad passage out. It was in-
tended to call at Madeira, but the tempt tuous state of
the weather would not admit of Commaoder Brown
going in. The Kingfisher was to sail on the i;;th of De-
cember, and the officers hoped to get to the la.land of
Ascension by Christmas-day.
The enlargement of the new steam basin at the nor'th
part of the dockyard having been approved, the neces'e
sary orders from the Admiralty have this week been is—
sued, and the work will be carried into operation with—
out loss of time. The place called the Buildings bas,
been cleared of all the erections, and now belongs to the
Crown. The basin and east sea wall are to be extended
300 feet. Two additional docks are to be made on the
east side of tho basin, capable of holding the largest sized
steamers; on the west side there is a double dock in a.
forward state, one entrance being from the harbour,
and the other from the steam basin. At the"
north angle of the dockyard a fifth new dock ia;
to be made, instead of a building slip, and'
this will open direct from the harbour. The contractor
Mr. Peter Rolte, has now about 500 mechanics and
the clot
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bourers at work on this great undertaking, and as the,
season advances will take on about 200 more. A hard,,
or landing place, for the use of the inhabitants of the,
town, will
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moorings opposite the Woolwich Dockyard, is to have
her bottom examined at Greenhithe, on Saturday, by the
divers from the flag-ship at Sheerness.
The Polyphemus steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Spark, was paid off on Tuesday ; and the Black Eagle
steam-vessel, Master-Commander S. B. Cook, and the
Lightning, Master-Commander Brockman, were paid
wages on the same day, to the 30th of June last.
APPOINTMENTS.
To the Gladiator—Lieutenant George Webster.
To the Phoenix—Assistant-Surgeon R. Galon, M.D.,
confirmed; Richard Hire, clerk.
To the Grampus—W. L. Pemberton, naval cadet.
To the Harpy steam-vessel—W. L. Scarnell, master's
assistant.
To the Terrible steam-frigate—Mr. Charles Keys,
gunner, vice Houghton.
To the Dasher steam-vessel—William Pitt, third
engineer, vice Eyres, promoted.
The Emma Eugene, hired convict ship, was brought
down from Deptford on Thursday, to moorings off the
Royal Arsenal, to take on board female convicts for
Hobart Town.
CHATHAM, JAN. 9.—The Scout, 16 guns, was com-
missioned on the Bth inst., by Commander William
Loring hoisting his pendant. She is to have a comple-
ment of 130 men and officers. Lieutenant W. H. Alcock,
from the Canopus, 80 guns, at Portsmouth, is appointed
to this ship. The Raleigh, 50 guns, fitting in dock as
an advanced ship, has had an additional number of
hands put on her this week, to complete her as soon as
possible.

DEATH OF MR. JAMES DEWAR.—We
regret to
who expired
announce the death of this eminent musician,sisck. His
at his residence yesterday morning,
atfeof. auwhich he was
loss will be severely felt by the professionpublic, with whom,
deservedly an ornament, and also by
the
he has been an especial •
for upwards of forty years, he some of our finest
favourite. His
melodiesarrangement
will long be cherished
by the lovers of music,
national overtures and
as
much for their graceful harmony
as th genuine spirit of nationality for which
ehed. Mr. Dewar's kind and unassuming
g
they
edy s
the •
him universal respect and esteem of all
manner won for
with whom he associated ; and although others may
those
be found occupying a more prominent position in the musical
circles, we may confidently assert that no one has done more
aimrepslioliAinguis
for Scottish music than Mr. Dewar.—Caledonian Mercury of
Monday.
SCILLY.—On Sunday, the 4th instant,(the French
brig Leoni, from Charante, laden with brandy, for Liverpool,
in beating up St. Mary's Sound, missed stays, and went on
shore on. St. Agnes, where her masts were cut away, and the
followins tide she was got off, making but little witer, and
will be towed in to-day (Monday) if the weather keeps fine.—
Penzance Gazette. "'4.