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LAMERT ON DEBILITY. NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
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A PouBLE CASE OF SUPPOSED • INFANTICIDZ IN
HTDE-PARK.—Yesterday information was given to Mr. Bedford, by
one of the inspectors of the A division of police, of the following ex-
trandinary.discovery, made by one of their men in the morning, of
the finding of two bodies of female Children in a parcel, in Hyde-park.
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he foun4, on opening it, that It contained the bodies of two fine
female infants, one was wrapped up in a piece of a lady's Muslin
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There were no external marks of violence on either, but the COrener
has iiirectecl a surgiciii osamituttion to be wade, ' •

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THIRD EDITION • OF REVELATIONS
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIA EVENING

Will be performed an original Opera, entitled DON QUIXOTE.
Don Quixote, Mr. Weiss ; Simcho Panza, Mr. Stretton ; Camacho,
Mr. King ; Rovedos, Mr. Horneastle; Basillus, Mr. Allen; Quiteria,
Miss Rainforth.
After which will be produced a new Fairy Ballet, called THE
ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplaces, :Mlles. Maria,
Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. Giubilel, &c., will appear.
To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Pantomine, ealled
HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin,
Mr. Wieland ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ;
Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING _ _ .

Will be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET.
Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Mercutlo, Mr. Holl; Benvolio, Mr. Brill-
dal; -Friar Laurance, Mr. Stuart; Peter, Mr. Buckstone; Juliet,
Miss Susan Cushman ; Nurse., Mrs. Glover.
Between the acts, the Band will perform the " Annen" and
" Cerito Polkas," "La IC,tarlita, Cellarius Waltz," the Overture
"File du Berger," and "Love's Serenade."
After which an original Comedy, entitled THE OLD SCHOOL.
Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Holl, Brindal, Mrs. Clifford,
and Mrs. Yarnold.
To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs.
Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Life's Trials
Principal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates,
and Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ale -
zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Mis.
lVoolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform.
To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHA
BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, miss
Woolgar, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
The Cricket on the Hearth," and " The Enchanted Horse" uTetv
Evening until further notice I
THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED
THE CRICKET ON THE A FAIRY TALE
OF HOME.
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The Principal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery,
F. Viniw, Mr. Meadows, and Miss Grove.
To he followed by the original REDOWA WALTZ, =isle e
posed by M. Jullien, by Miss Frampton and Master Forrest.
After whichwill be repeated a New Grand Romantic extravage nut
entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prince 'Firouz Schuh of
Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Med:;:s.
Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; Ales-
lames Keeley, Villars, 'Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c.
Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 61.

PRINCESS'S TFIEATRE, OXFORD-STAEET.
THIS EVENING

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Wll be performed MUCH AD') Anou T NOTHING. penedick,
Mr. Wallack ; Dogberry, Mr. Compton ; Verges, Mr. Oxberry ;
Beatrice, Mrs. Stirling.
To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, In which Mr. Gilbert,
Mr. Marshall, M. Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle.
Duval will appear.
To conclude with a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre,
Mr. Wallach ; Trinquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Murray ; Mar-
chioness D'Orvllle, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanche, Miss Stanley ; Blan-
chette, Mrs. Stirling.

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Two Morning Performances during the Week.
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and every Wednesday and Saturday following, it Two o'clock.
M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Ext cdments
viii be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusin Per-
formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feat of the
American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seven, to com-
mence at a quarter before Eight.
Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, 18. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Pr' Ye Boxes,
1/. Is., and U. Ils. Gd.

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THERMoNETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 50; Noon, 48.

BAROMETER. 30.24.—W1ND N. W., cold.

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SECOND EDITION.

original Poor-law Act of Elizabeth, it w;s enacted that
every man should be rated according to his ability, so
that it was not intended that it should be exelu-
sively a tax upon real property. Ile denied
that the measures proposed by the Govern-
ment offered any compensation. With regard to the
amount of protection, it was the difference between what
the farmer would obtain for his corn under the present
and under the system of free trade, which it would be
impossible to calculate. With regard to the comparative
taxation on the producing agriculturists of England and
the Continent, he contended that the producing agricul-
turists of England were much higher taxed.
He had always advocated protection, but if public opinion
declared it was to be done away with, he would submit,
and use his best endeavours to palliate the evils and the
present angry contention between class and class. He
trusted that those who acted with him would, if beaten,
submit, after a fair fight, and do their best to promote
the prosperity of the country. If, however, the measure
was carried in this Parliament it would not be the
triumph of public opinion, but of party tactics—a mea-
sure carried in opposition to the opinions of the Lords
and the majority of the Cabinet, by an able maiunuvre
of party politics.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he retained the opinion
which he had expressed in 1820, that there were bur-
dens pressing peculiarly on land; and he went further
than his Noble Friend, for he considered both
tithes and land tax: as peculiar burdens upon land.
but at the same time he denied that the proper way to
compensate the landowners was to impose a duty on
the importation of foreign corn. The recent law
changes had saved immense sums to the agricultural
interests, and the stump duties had been thereby
diminished. Yet he admitted that the landed interest,
had cause to complain of the stamp duties, and he should
wish to see the tax changed from a tax on alienation
into a tax on succession.

Lora MONTEAGLE then rose. to move the addition
to the motion of which he had given notice, viz., that the
inquiry should extend - t.. the peculiar exemptions en-
joyed by the agricultural interest. It was necessary that
this addition should be made, in order to secure at• im-
artial inquiry, and therefore he did not antici-
pate any opposition to his proposition. The Noble Lord
concluded by moving the addition of which he had given
notice.

The Earl of ESSEX expressed his intention of voting
For the Ministerial measure.

Lord STANLEY rose to protest against the doctrine
that tithes and land-tax were not burdens on the
land. The claim of the tithe owner was as
sacred as that of the landlord, and the
landowner had no right to complain of the tithe, pro-
vided he had purchased his land subject to tithe; but he
denied that rent and tithe stood on the same
footing. Rent was the surplus of profit. Tithe was
to be paid undiminished, whether there was profit or not.
and entered into the cost of production. The question
was not whether a person had bought the property
subject to a payment of the tenth of the produce, but
whether the tithe added to the cost of production. This
made no difference as long as all were protected, and all
were subject to the same burdens ; but if the foreigner,
whose land was not subject to tithe,_ were to be suffered
to enter into competition with the British farmer, whose
land was subject to tithe, he would ask, would they enter
into competition on equal terms ? They would not.
The House was subsequently addressed by the Duke of
RICHMOND, Earl GREY, Lord ASHBURTON, and the
Duke of WELLINGTON, after which the motion was
agreed to.
The Earl of ST. GERMANS brought in a Bill for the
bettor protection of life and property, in Ireland. Read
a first time, and the second reading appointed for
Monday.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and
their Lordships adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr. FixcH took the oaths and his seat for Rutland-
shire in the robm of the Hon. Mr. DAWNAY.
Several Railway Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
A discussion took place upon the motion of Mt.
GREENE, "That it be an instruction to the Committee on
Petitions for Private Bills not to hear parties on any
petition hereafter to be referred to them, which should
not be prepared and signed in strict conformity with
the rules and orders of the House."
Mr. ENTWISLE moved, as an amendment to the
motion, to leave out the word " hereafter;" which, upon
a division, was lost by a majority of 42.
The original motion was agreed to.
Mr. T. DUNCOEIBE gave notice of his intention, to-
morrow week, to bring forward the petition on behalf
of Frost, Williams, and Jones.
Lord DUNCAN postponed his motion for the repeal of
the window duties to the 26th of February.
In answer to a question from Sir R. INGLIS,
Lord JOCELYN said that the Government had received
no information with respect to the war in India, further
than that which bad appeared in the public papers. He had
no doubt that in a few days the Government would be
in possession of information which would show that the
aggressions that had taken place had been properly and
fully resented.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. S
CRAWFORD, said he was in hopes the Government
would be enabled, during the present session, to intro 7
duce a Bill relative to the law of landlord and tenant in
Ireland.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in answer to a question, said it was
his intention, if he possibly could to•morrow, to bring
forward the motion of which he had given notice, rela-
tive to the disease and famine existing in Ireland.
Several petitions were presented for and against pro-
tection to agriculture and native industry.
Lord WORSLEY presented petitions from Lincoln-
shire, praying that the House would not place any
confidence in her MAJESTY'S Ministers.
Lord J. RUSSELL presented petitions in favour of the
total repeal of the corn-laws.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from Tamwortb,
signed by the Mayor, Corporation, Town Council, and
a great portion of the inhabitants, in favour of the Go-
vernment measure for the removal of restrictive duties.
The Right llonourable Baronet presented several other
petitions to the same effect.
The Earl of Miami resumed the debate on
the Customs and Corn Importation measure.
He considered that the debate on this mea-
sure had been entirely on one side. He be-
lieved that the taking away of protection to native in-
dustry in England would ultimately tend to the
ruin of the country. He believed this measure would
injure all classes, and therefore he gave it his deter-
mined opposition.
Mr. M. GIBSON agreed with the Noble Lord, that if
protection was not given to the growth of corn, none
should be given to manufactures. Those with whom
he had always advocated the abolition of
protection
every kind. The question now was,
was
whether the corn-laws should be abolished or not. The
parties who advocated protection in that House had
led the tenant-farmers to believe that protection
would be permanently adhered to. For those
mis-statements they were now reaping the fruits
of the "agitation of this question. The protectionists
had called on the Right Honourable Baronet, instead of
the Noble Lord, to prescribe ,for them, and they were
now suffering under the severe dose he had administered
to them. The Right Honourable Baronet, in leaving a
protective duty of Is. on foreign wheat, gave to the
agriculturists more than an equivalent for the bur-
dens which they bore. The price of bread of
late had increased, and could it therefore be said
that the repeal of the corn-laws was likely to reduce
its value ? In Suffolk not less than sixty-three
farmer 3 had renewed their leases, and not asked for any
decrease of rent. He entreated of lion. Members to
put a stop to their futile opposition.
Mr. lIALsEv opposed the Government proposition.
Mr. DICKINSON supported the Ministerial plan, -be-
lieving the best course to pursue to prevent scarcity of
food in this country would be to give every facility to
its admission into England from foreign countries.
,Lord ALFRED CHUEuiLL opposed the measure.
Sir W. CLAY supported the measure.
The House was then addressed by Lord IlAnr,v VANE, Sir
J. TYRRELT,, and Mr. JAMES.
Sir R. Peer, the.i rose to defend the course pursued by the
Government in bringing forward the measures. The Right
lion. Baronet, having referred to what had taken place
with respect to the dissolution and re-formation
of the present Ministry stated that he was sorry the Noble
Lord the Member for the City of London had not taken
office, because he believed if hej had done so he would have
been successful. Though opposed to the Noble Lord in poli-
tics he had never said one word against him, and in his
character of a private Member of the House of Commons,
he should have given him his most cordial support. The
Right Hon. Baronet then referred to the letters written by
him to her MAJESTY, and stated that he had nothing to
complain of in the conduct of the Noble Lord,
or the statements he bad made the other night.
lie hoped that the letter he had read would prove that he
was not desirous of robbing others of the honour of settling
this question. He declined to receive from the Noble Lord
any statement of the details of his measure, because lie
thOught that any appearance of concert might hive
jeopardised the success of the measure ; but he was pre-
pared to give the same support to the Noble Lord which
it had been the Noble Lord's boast that he had given
to the present Government. Then, with regard to
the course he was pursuing, he had admitted that it was
contrary to that usually pursued by party leaders, but he
would ask, was not that a proof that he must be convinced
that the measures he proposed were absolutely necessary
for the safety of the country ? Knowing the party, the con-
fidence of which he had lost, he would say, that never was
there a party actuated by more honourable considerations.
But he was satisfied that the advice he had given was wise
and good advice. To have hoisted the flag of protection would
have conciliated temporary confidence, but the
month of May would not have elapsed with-
out showing that by so doing he should have
betrayed his duty to Ireland to England, to his SOVEREIGN,
to the people, and to his party. Had he maintained the
dcctrine of protection to that time, such a degree of odium
would have attached to the landed interest, that it could
not have stood against it. In one part ,of the empir there
people depending on a certain food. It
was say what would be the extent of the
were 4,,000 of
potato crop, but if they foresaw famine and pestilence, it was
their duty to provide against it. He could not conciliate
support by any expressions of regret, for the day of his po-
litical life on which he looked back with the greatest pride
was that Ist of Novemberen he had proposed to opea
the ports by an in Council for the free
importation of food. Evenif their anticipations
dproyed erroneow, he believed Parliament would have in-
.

demnified them. In December there was a temporary ces-
sation of the potato disease. He had entertained no faith in
its permanent cessation, and now what was the fact? He had
proposed a virtual repeal of all duties on food except wheat;
and before they rejected that, let them listen to the state-
ments which the last two mails had brought from Ireland—
one from Sir D. ROCHE, who had thought the fears of famine
were exaggerated. " Yet now Sir D. ROCHE wrote him a
letter (which he read), stating that the potato disease was
still fearfully progressing, and that he did not think that by the
Ist of May, out of 100 acres of pota toes on his land, enough would
be left him for seed, and that the rot was general in the county
ofLimerick, and praying the Government to look to it in time.
The state of straits in Queen's county was as bad. {The
Right Hon. Baronet read letters describing the frightful
extent to which the destruction of the crop had proceeded in
the country, some of which were from Lord STUART DE
DECIES, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, which stated
that in one Union there were 300 persons whose stores of
provisions were on the point of being exhausted.) The
House was aware that a commission was sitting in Dublin on '
the subject, but since the commission had made its report the
disease had re-appeared. (The Right Hon. Baronet then
read the report which represented the immense loss of- the
potato crop in all the electoral divisions in Ireland.) The
Government were establishing stores of corn to give it in
exchange for labour. To get seed for the ensuing
year was next to impossible. It would take 10,000
tuns to do it, and that could, not be obtained
for Europe, and they must take measures to save it from the
existing stock, in order to prevent famine next year. Now,
if they had negected these measure., and had come down in
May asking large grants of public money, would he have
proposed such votes, while at the same time he was main-
taining a duty of 16s. on the importation of corn ? Suppose
a famine should ensue, would it do for the landed aristocracy
to say, we throw upon the Government the responsibility of
providing against it, but we will maintain our protection ?
Had we encouraged them in such a course, they might, in-
deed, have accused him of treachery. In Belgium and Holland
the parts were opened by the Government, and the Legis-
lature, the representatives of the landed interest, had almost
by acclamation voted thein an indemnity. In former times,
in this country, whenever scarcity had been apprehended, the
duties on importation had been for a time removed.—
(Cheers.) lie rejoiced in that cheer, because it showed that
the proper precaution to take against impending famine was
to remove the duties on the importation of food.—(Cheers.)
If they were so, then, let them expedite the passing of this
Bill, or move, as an amendment, that the dutieS be imme-
diately suspended. He would nut say what they ought to do
after, he was only showing the face Of the Irish case, and
proving that, to hoist the flag of protection or rouse the
British lion' would have been bad policy in the present
case. Would any one contend that, at the present
moment no maize should be admitted, no oats should be ad.'
mitted, and the duty on wheat should be sustained?
From 1765 down to the present day, whenever scarcity was
threatened, the duty on the importation of corn was suspended,
and in all those cases the danger was less than it was at pre-
sent. The maintenance of the present law under these cir-
cumstances would have brought upon Parliament the greates
odium. Now in all those cases the law provided that when corn
wasabove 58s. it should be admitted at a 6d. duty, and yet
the law had been suspended in order to give a guarantee to
the foreign importer that the high duty should not be
imposed. Under these circumstances himself and three of
his colleagues advised the suspension of the law.
Parliament was now sitting, and it was not therefore fitting
to do that by order in Council, which ought to have
been done in November, but which it was new neces-
sary to do in February. He called upon Parliament
either to pass his measure or propose some-
thing to suspend the existing law. Admitting
that the law was suspended, lie asked what did they propose
to do with it? His conviction was that it would be impos-
sible, after suffering a free trade in corn for eight months, to
revive the existing law ; and he could not have advised it.
No power could have revived the present law, when it had
once suspended. It might be asked, could they not have
proposed a modified corn-law? Public feeling would have
been against it, and in matters of food public opinion could not
be disregarded. Must not the law have been altered with
regard to maize? Could they enact a new corn-law,
admitting maize for the feeding of cattle and
pigs, and keeping out the food for human beings?
Would net the fear of the suspension of the law form a new
element of consideration, and give a tenfold. stimulus to agi-
tation. When they talked of submitting to the corn-law,
let them look to the changes which had taken place in public
minion, let them look to Lord ASHLEY' Mr. ST UHT, Mr.
W I LiON PATTEN, Lord HENNIKER, and Mr. CHARTER'S,
the young, promising. and clever Member for Gloucestershire.
Did these gentlemen vacate their seats for any corrupt mo-
tive ? And even those who, during the present debate, had
opposed the great measure, were not prepared to revise the'
existing corn-law. The Right Hon. Member for Hunting-
don (Mr. T. RARING) said the time was arrived for a com-
promise—that is, for a new corn-law. What security for per-
manency would there be in that. The Member for Rox-
burgh (Mr. Scorn) who likened the Minister
of the Crown to a learned advocate, and who
was not perhaps aware that a Minister took an
oath to freely and unreservedly deliver his opinion, which
constituted a material difference between him and an ad-
vocate—even that Hon. Gentleman admitted that there
had been such improvements introduced into agriculture that
the time had come when the present corn-law must be
altered ; and when asked for whom he was counsel, he
answered, like Anacharis Clooty, that he was Attorney-
General of the human race. The Member for Newcastle-
under-Lyne (Mr. COLQUHOUN) had withdrawn his con-
fidence in him because he had not laid down a great prin-
ciple. If that were so the Hon. Gentleman ought to be
obliged to him, for he( Air. ConQuiroux), an advocate for fixed
duty, had been a strenuous supporter of the sliding-scale; and
if the Hon. Gentleman had shared in his misfortune, and read
the pamphlets of JOHN COLQUIIOUN, Esq., of Kellermont,
he would have judged that the writer of those was an advo-
cate for repeal—at all events, he was not an advocate for
maintaining the present corn-law. Neither was the Noble
Lord (John Manners) the Member for Newark. That
Noble Lord was in favour of repeal, but the present Minister
ought not to propose it. Now, he submitted that the real
question was—is repeal of the law right or wrong? If righ',
vote for it; if wrong, vote against it, let who will propose it.
The Hon. Member for Somersetshire indeed was in favour of
the maintenance of the existing law, but with regard to
those who thought the alteration ought to take place, he
stt
h' oi. int lkd
Isvaeyd,
epsaesr
vs
e theit.
.m eTashuer e,Haonnd. A
,pfuenmi sbhe
ru sfoafterwards
Somersetshire
had last year stood out against grease, and said to grease—
' " Hence avaunt !Ts holy ground!" Now, the Hon. Gentle-
man had done great damage to the cause of protection by
his defence of grease.
Mr. Minns explained he was not present at the discussion.
Sir ROBERT PEEL thought he had shown his discretion as
a leader by being absent from the discussion. The Hon.
Gentleman's argument, with regard to cattle, was a dan-
gerous one. He contended that the price.of meat was dear
because the number of cattle brought to market was less by
25,;000 this year, on account of the disease and the defici-
ency or
".
food—was it not therefore right to bring in
cattle from abroad to supply the deficiency ? Then,
with regard tO t:
with regard to flax —he te Honourable Gentleman's argument,
:vould like to know when the cultiva-
to which the Hon. Gentleman
lion of flax in those parishes ,
alluded was abandoned.
^f the last duty.
. Mr. Minas—On the last withdrawal s.- nrotectivtreluty
Sir R. Pmn--That was sd. per mg.—the,.
parts of
of 10/. was removed in 1824. In Ireland, and ott.'7 •mas ed
the country, the withdrawal of protection had ins—..
the culture of flax, which was more profitable than Idlest,'
while the manufacture of flax had increased immensely'
year by year, since the protection had been withdrawn, so
much that now three-fourths of the cambrics sold in London
carne from Ireland, and only one-fourth from France, whereas
before the removal of protection the proportions were the
reverse. The Government had proposed that the
corn duties should not cease for three years, because
he thought it would be more acceptable to the
agriculturists, awl because he thought the opportunity would
be given to make improvements in drainage and other ar-
arrangements, and that it would also be more acceptable to
Canada. Believing that proposition to be the best, it was
his intention to adhere to it, but the Hon. Gentleman speak-
ing on behalf of the- agricultural body had said
that he should prefer immediate repeal. Now if the agricultural
body thought that immediate repeal would be preferable
to deferred repeal—if, by a union with gentlemen opposite,
they should place him in a minority, the only consideration
by which he would be actuated would be how best he could
give effect to the law so amended. He would not say what
he might do, or what effect the decision of this House might
have elsewhere, but so decided was his opinion on the sub-
ject that he should feel bound to bring about the adjustment
nahlbio
ilniaaotoddeennrscoa.
oft ni
poHrn.
caseino s
which
on the basis of immediate repeal, thus forced upon him, rather
than leave the country to the anarchy and confusion
which must result from leaving it unsettled. With
regard to the price of corn under a free-trade system,
it was impossible to draw any inferences without
considering quality ; and the superiority of English corn would
always command a superior price. He did not consider the
agricultural prosperity depended on the price of corn. During
the lest few years the price of wheat had fallen, aid agricul-
tural prosperity bad increased, and these were the results
of improvements. In 1815 the rental of England was
32,000,000 f., and the price of wheat 1025., and in 1845, while
the price of wheat had fallen ta 645., the rental had increased
to 37,000,000/. Then, with regard to the argument oft the
Hon. Member for Northamptonshire, and the pathetic pure
he had drawn of an interview between a tenant farmer and
his landlord, he would suggest a better speech for the land-
lord to make to his tenant. He would suggest that theland-
lord should say that it was to their interests that the land
should prodUce fire quarters instead of three, and that he
would therefore appropriate his savings by means
of the tariff, to the improvement of the farmer for
-the benefit alike of the landlord and the tenant.
But then it was said it was a labourer's question. If they
made the land produce five quarters,. it would give increased
employment to labour, and all parties would be alike bene-
fitted. They had positively assured the Sovereign that they
would consider whether the present policy of protection
said
a thatt tariffh itat that the
tawht was !eaxtdlpt
ieeviceuhneac
eendggeifisiitisthealoleeintinp
oosaoesatqnt
cluettoleehlnnrtrsttehrteieoibststuohttteoh,
yearsid
might not be modified, and yet they now proposed for six
months to do nothing. To stand still in commercial policy
was to retrograde, and he hoped this House, which had
passed the tariff and Canada Corn Bill, would not pass such a
censure on itself as was involved in this amendment. lie
neverienochsreaadtiddhhim that cheapness and plenty were thefounda-
ehriicthy,tahnedrelitielowvoalitlodfcplrioahlliebnigueonh
not alone to the comfort of the consumer, but of the pro
ducer also. Why, there was the petition of the shipowners,
be was ashamed of it; it wished the House to make no fur-
their rash experiments in the timber trade. Why the effect of
that rash experiment of 1842, had been to increase the ton-
nage employed in the Canada trade from Liverpool, from
153,000 tons to 194,000 tons, and to increase the
import from 5,700,000 to 6,837,000, and that was the result
of the rash experiment. Now they had proposed to admit
good Baltic timber, in order that good ships might be built,
and this had increased the demand for Canada timber. Now,
they had not in Liverpool a single log of Baltic timber fit
for ship-building, and yet the shipowners, of all persons, ob-
jected to its being imported. He was laving the foundation
for increased revenue by drawing the line between duties
levied for revenue ,and for protection. They had
been gradually diminishing colonial and home pro-
tection, and that diminution had not injured the colonies.
.11e proposed to proceed gradually in the same path, and not
at once to withdraw all colonial protection. Then' with
regard to paper hanging there was an excise dutty of 14(1.
per yard, and be proposed a duty on foreign paper of 2d.
It was said our patterns were inferior, but competition would
improve them. Whenever the removal of duties was pro-
. posed, ruin to the protected had been invariably prophesied,

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and the prophecy had as invariably proved false. What
had been the result of the removal of prohibition in the silk
trade? An increase in the import ofraw silk from 19,000,0001h5.
to 52,000,0001 bs., and a proportionate increase in our silk manu-
facture had taken place, so that we now exported more silk
manufacture to France alone than we had exported to the
whole world under the protected system. The same result
had followed in every instance. The removal of the duty on
feathers had given a great stimulus to the feather manufac-
ture, and the quantity of Irish feathers conse-
quently had increased, and the price had risen—in concur-
rence with a large importation of foreign feathers.
On these facts he grounded the challenge which he had be-
fore given, to produce an instance in which either consumer
or producer had been injured. This was not a question of
confidence in the Government—it was whether they would
advance in their commercial policy or retrograde. This was
the question they would have to decide by their vote. Let
them consider the geographical position between Europe
and America—their physical advantages—their mines of
iron and stone—their acquired advantages—capital—
their skill their energy their unshackled press
their free constitution ; and with all these advantages, were
they to dread competition? Other countries were watching
their example. Sardinia and Naples were prepared to follow
their example. Russia was shaken. France was desirous of
freedom of commerce. There was a large party in the
United States in favour of free commercial inter-
course; and if no country should follow their example,
let them not punish themselves; and on the expe-
rience, not of three years, but of every reduction that had
been made, his advice to them was to set a glorious ex-
ample by freeing commercial intercourse from its restrictions,
and thus taking an additional guarantee for the continuance
of prosperity and of peace. It was possible that times of
distress might return, like those of 1841 and 1842, the me-
mories of which could never be effaced from his recollection ;
and if they should return, he asked any one who heard him
to ask himself, if it would not be a consolation that they
had relieved themselves from the heavy responsibi-
lity of regulating the supply of food, and that they should be
able to say that in the time of prosperity they had removed
every impediment to the free circulation of the food of the
people, and to reflect that the dispensations of Providence
had not been aggravated by human institutions restricting
the supply of food.
On the motion of Lord J. MANNERS, the debate was ad-
journed.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter-to Two o'clock.. •

The speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL last evening may be said,
without exaggeration, to be the most remarkable ever made
within the walls of Parliament. It did not display
the high flights of eloquence and the delightful wit
of CANNING, nor the more stirring metaphorical
figures and rich flow of language which distinguished
BURKE. With PLUNKETT'S splendid orations, so con-
cise and comprehensive, every sentence embodying
argument, and every thrust at his opponents fatal
—it cannot be compared ; but it possessed far higher
qualities—the discreet, the candid, and the liberal views of a
Prime Minister who for once threw party to the
winds, who defended his pois;cy on principles intelli-
gible to the meanest capacity, and announced
his determination to brave obloquy., submit to every
offensive epithet, and all the howlings of disappointed fac-
tion, for the noble purpose of carrying out measures which
he believed essential to the welfare of krs country,
and the best interests both of SOVEREIGN and people. He
is, perhaps, ithe first Minister that ever openly
declared that he would carry on his Government without the
aid of party; and, on this ground alone, independent of the
vastness and boldness of his commercial plans, he deserves the
unqualified praise of every enemy of cl ass-legislation, and every
friend of an independent, impartial, and constitutional repre-
sentation of the great body of the people. His opponents
have, in the most absurd manner, blamed him for deserting
his adherents, and introducing measures opposed to those
advocated by the House of Peers and a large proportion of
the landed gentry, as if he thereby obtained some personal
and selfish reward, and betrayed his friends only to obtain
honours captivating to a low, a grovelling, and unprincipled
mind. We are quite sure that ' every candid pro-
teetionist (and there are many of that character op-
posed to him) will read his speech with very
different feelings from those formerly entertained, and readily
admit that, under all the circumstances of his position, suO,
as the success of late commercial changes, the alarms of
famine, and the anxiety of our gracious SOVISREIGN for the
welfare of the lower classes, he could, as an
honourable man, and a faithful adviser of the
Crown, have pursued no other course. His statement&
on that head are so precise, clear, and unanswerable that they
must carry conviction even to prejudiced minds. " I know,"
said he, "that I might have conciliated temporary confidence
by underrating the danger in Ireland. I might have invited
continued combination for the maintenance of the existing
law—l might have talked of hoisting the flag of Pro-
tection for Native Industry—l might have exclaimed that
Agricultural Protection must be maintained in all its
integrity. That is the course which would have con-
ciliated temporary confidence; but the month of May would
not have arrived without demonstrating that it had been my
bounden duty towards my country—towards my SOVEREIGN
—towards my party—to have acted otherwise." In fact, he
showed that, but for the measures he proposed, such a degree
of odium would have attached as would have done them the
greatest disservice. His letter to the QUEEN, on Lord JOHN
RUSSELL being called to her MAJESTY'S Councils, is only
another proof of his candour and his thorough conviction.
En that he admitted the full merit of the opposite party—he
cordially concurred in the sentiments expressed by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL in his address to the electors of London—and
assured the SOVEREIGN that he would not only aid his politi-
cal opponents in carrying the repeal of the corn-laws, but also
vote with them, under our present critical relations with
America, for an increase in the army and navy. But we
have not space for further comments, and they are not ne-
cessary. The speech will be read carefully and carefully
studied by all interested in the good of the nation,
and perhaps will not afford so great satisfaction
to any as to our gracious QUEEN, who at
this crisis has displayed a magnanimity and regard for [her
subjects befitting the SOVEREIGN of a free and intelligent
people. The peroration of the speech deserves to be quoted
at length. After alluding to former periods of distress and
the extraordinary patience of the people under suffering, be
thus concludes :
" If those times return upon us, if we must again sympathise with
distress, and bestow our admiration upon fortitude, will it not prove
a consolation to us that all has been done that wisdom could suggest
to avert the misery that must fall upon us—will not our ex-
pression of sympathy be more consolatory—will it not be more
just and thoughtful that, in times of prosperity, surrounded
by no necessity, succumbing to no clamour, unopposed by
difficulty, will it not be a lasting consolation to us
that the chastening of an all-wise and beneficent Providence, given for
- some good and wise end, perhaps to abate our pride, to convince us of
nothingness, to awaken in us a loftier sense of himself, and of
Pt `* - ^rs ; will it not, I ask, be indeed consolatory to ourselves in
his PT.- •nts to find that no dispensation of a merciful Creator
those 16110' ~,rated by our own obstinacy, or the faultiness of
had been itSIP., to prevent a supply of food to a famishing people ?"
Minim Wilt Ution.

now an opportunity (not granted to
any other county in Ole
ad-
hesion to the cause of enlietes?
Nottingliamshirihas.
kingdom). of proclaiming its
pl i
eopg neo ann me;oi ast-r,
ot-
ment, the cause of generosity,
the cause of justice—Free trade: .yrom the circumstances of
in Ireland and the
2,oth divisions are
Lord Liscors's appointment as SerresiarY
demise of Mr. HENRY GALLY KNIGHI;
enfranchised
deprived of a representative, and hence tbs:
inhabitants generally are in a position to prove _themselves
capable of appreciating the exigencies of the preseys: extr!'"
ordinary crisis. It befits, however, all those who aresirtm:e'Y
interested in the advancement of commercial freedom .
to exhibit no tardiness in their movements ; it befits them f
to remember that the upholders of a policy such as protection
—a policy which has already received such a signal discom-
fiture—a policy which is now goaded on to the most fierce of
sinew to retard, if not entirely to suppress, the destruction with
all struggles, the struggle for existence—is straining every
which it is threatened. It befits them, moreover, to reflect
that if- monopoly still possess a vast secrCtion of its old
venomous spirit; and if, in the language of a oreat living
orator, it has " lost the perforated tooth through
of
fnow to di"
which to squirt it"—that same pernicious spirit ill'F'3'
still be scattered among the etc::
candidates are not wanting to advocate the interests of the
sures be not , employed. Desperate as
itrrul
agricultural
bannersbu g boefaar ;Mi
rn. tHhiemsoyuAtith:r—r.
a silent division, w e have
to his Grace's fine-spirited and dauntAlifesssT
direct
seccoaitarnsuacainaoitsintieaeanartat
antagonist
occasion of late to mention the appearance under those un-
popularyoung gentle-
manthernaddviavniceeiedebywheis Graceee
an address yesterday issued to the electors by
Lord HENRY BENTINCK, wherein that nobleman offers
himself to their suffrages as a backbone Anti-Ministerialist.
This redoubtable epistle
being
dated from Welbeck is im-
pregnated throughout with that bias towards the tperquisites
of a " protected" landlord with which his Lordship
Lordship's
the Duke of PORTLAND, is imbued and animated. Of course,
the Noble Lord commences with the hackneyed conven-
tionalities about partiality for " private life," and diffidence
about " entering - the arena," and all that sort of thing, of
politics—pas. ',ages which resemble the blustering modesty
of PAttouxs, immediately before that gentleman is drubbed
for a braggart. Of course, the Right lion. Candidate is plen-
tiful iu his magnanimity, and expresses his readiness (like a
farming Cnirrius) to " sacrifice all private considerations,"
to become what? a philanthropist on a large scale—a whole-
sale HOWARD—a giver of food, and fuel, and clothes to man•
kind in the aggregate? Far otherwise; this act of wonder-
ful self-forgetfulness is infinitely more disinterested—it is for
" the maintenance of the protective system ; ' in other words,
it is for the aggrandisement of his paternal estates, it is for
the deterioration of national comfort, it is for bloating the
pocket of the landlord and pinching the stomach of
the tenant. "So much for the personal sacrifice of
Lord HENRY BrffrisicK, so much for the average
logic and benevolence of his.party. With these dispassionate
men can have not even the shadow of a shade of a sympathy :
they are so unexplicit, so paramountly selfish, so completely
and irreparably obsolete in principle. Let the constituency
of North Nottingham tarry not another moment in
selecting some proper personage to represent the
more rational—the ,only rational- policy of commerce.
Let them give their proportion of impetus to push the
proposition of 'Sir lionnirr through Parliament with yet
greater triumph, and to oust for once and for ever these gor-
mandisers of exclusive protection. Let them, m..reover,
meditate earnestly and copiously upon the oration tittered
last night by the Premier—an oration of emphatic boldness,
the tones of which were nerved with a consciousness of recti-
tude and wisdom. Nor was the reception—the :dlent,
patient, cordial reception —of that addr.ess leSa
significant of what must prove the consummation. For
For
South Nottingham we feel an tliin LordellY LINCO
proportion of
anxiety; its former representative, . pi, has as-
sumed a deportment so manly, so uncompromising, and so
intensely iudependent upon the question now under discus-
sion. m ocuo Offp.et to the political squeamishness of the