The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ETENING, JANUARY 17, 1846.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE

AT MANCHESTER.

Possibly the greatest meeting yet held by the League at
Manchester, took place last night in the Free Trade Hall,
Peter-street. Besides all the principal merchants and manu-
facturers who thronged the platform, every available comer
of the building was literally crammed.
Mr. GEOR.GE WILSON, the Chairman, in the course of his
address, mentioned the following additions to the Quarter of
a Million Fund, viz..—at Leeds, 34,0601.: at Dundee,
2,000/. ; and at Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1,300/., making
the subscriptions already made amount to 128,8011. 10s. 6d.
Mr. COBDEN then proposed as a resolution, " That mer-
chants, manufacturers, and other members of the National
Anti-Corn-law League claim no protection whatever for the
manufactured products of this country, and desire to see
obliterated for ever the few nominally prutective duties
against foreign manufactures which still remain upon our
statute-book." He acknowledged the receipt of a requisition
for free-trade meetings about to be convened in Belfast and
Drogheda—the latter superscribed by the Catholic Primate,
Dr. Crolly, and all his clergy. He then animadverted upon
the non-co-operation of the Church of England, as a body,
in this great agitation for the abolition of important duties;
and concluded by predicting Sir Robert Peel's withdrawal
from the protectionist party, and the ultimate victory of the
present movement.

Mr. BRIGHT, who seconded the proposition, attributed the
recent discomfiture of the Ministry to the pertinacity of the
League, and the miserable advocacy of Peel's Administration
by the Morning Herald and the Standard, He declared that
the League would continue in existence as long as there was
one sixpence of duty on the importation of foreign corn.
After some very long and argumentative speeches from
Mr. Fox, Colonel Thompson, and Mr. Brott.erton, the usual
vote of thanks to all who had spoken was moved and car-
ried; whereupon the meeting separated.

MEETING AT SHEFFIELD.
_ MR. WARD AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

On Thursday Mr. Ward met his Sheffield constituents in
the Town-hall, for the purpose of explaining to them his past
conduct, and intimating his views as to the future.
Mr. Alderman Durex was unanimously voted into the
chair, and introduced
Mr. WARD, who received a most warm welcome. He
spoke nearly as follows :—This was, he remarked, the seventh
time that, since he had been favoured with their confidence,
he had come before them in the intervals between sessions of
Parliament to explain and to answer, to vindicate the past,
to talk over the future, and to strengthen or to correct his
own political impressions by comparing them with those of
the constituency.—( Hear, hear.) The custom was a virtual
repeal of the Septennial Act, so far as Sheffield was concerned.
He looked upon the great questions now occupying the
public mind quite as much in the light of a struggle against
monopoly in votes as against monopoly in food.—(Hear.)
Why, if we had had a Reform Bill in 1815, we never would
have had the corn-laws.—(Hear.) And did any man believe
that we should have a corn-law now for any length of time,
were it not for the power entrusted by the vicious nature of
the present constitution to the smaller venal agricultural
rural constituencies, which put themselves up to auction—
sold themselves to the highest bidder—and were only secured
from disfranchisement by the universality of their cor-
ruption,—but which counterbalanced the votes of such towns
as Sheffield and Leeds, and such counties as the West
Riding.—(Cheers.) Now, the first step towards making their
representative what he ought to be, was to act as they had
acted—to make the representation of their town a question of
principle, not of money. When he was here last, he had
told them that the conduct of the Conservative party in
power was such as almost made him look on inconsistency as
the most valuable of public virtues.—( Hear, and laughter. )
He did not mean that inconsistency which was always ask-
ing for loopholes to creep out of; but that bold inconsistency
which scrupled not to claim credit for doing that which it
drove another set of men from office for attempting to do.—
(Cheers.) His principles on direct taxation he had already
stated. He believed that no Minister in future would be able
to dispense with it. They would not be able, as before,
to raise a revenue upon articles which formed the food
of the people ; and he was, therefore, quite will-
ing to countenance direct taxation, provided he saw
every year fair terms offered to the country.—(Hear, hear.)
After taking a survey of the measures which had been
passed during tho last session, and his sentiments and be-
haviour with regard to each, Mr. Ward continued :—He was
here compelled to touch on a topic upon which the course
he bad pursued had been, he was aware, disapproved of by
some of his friends in Sheffield for whose opinions he enter-
tained the highest respect. He alluded to the Maynooth
Grant.—(Hear, hear.) He had no hesitation in saying that
if the thing were to do again, he should act precisely as he
did last session.—(Cheers.) his principles on Irish matters
were perfectly well known. He thought that we had three
centuries of injustice to atone for to that country, and he
would not stand upon trifles to effect that object.—(Hear,
hear.) All that injustice had been put upon the ground of
necessity to maintain exclusive Protestantism tin Ireland, and
last session the same argument had been put forward when
the attempt to maintain this exclusive Protestantism had
degenerated into a "No Popery" cry that was disgraceful to
the country. For his own part he never would give way to
blind bigotry or unreasoning prejudices. There were two
classes of opponents to the Maynooth Grant. There were the
Dissenters, who maintained their own ministers, endowed
their own schools, build their own chapels, and who, taking
those burdens upon themselves, thought they ought not to
be called upon to pay for a second State Church in addi-
tion to that which they were already obliged to sup-
port. With that class he sympathised. But there Ras ano-
ther class which took its stand upon this ground—that they,
a small section of the Christian world, enjoyed the exclusive
monopoly of Christian truth. With the first class, as he had
said, he sympathised, and had endeavoured to point out a
fund in the Irish Church by which the object might heve been
attained in regard to Maynooth without pressing at all upon
the Dissenters. By the simple suppression of those parishes
where there were no Protestants, a fund of 58,0001. would
have been placed at the disposal of the Government, when
only 26,0001. were required for Maynooth. So irresistable
was this case, so unanswerable the argument, that if the Dis-
senters, as a body, had taken it up and supported it, he did
not believe any party or Government could have resisted it.
But instead of this, they took up the ground of religious truth,
as being in their exclusive possession. The Church party in
England were not against the injustice of taxing,the Dissenters
for the maintenance of a Church to which they did not
belong, but against the application of Protestant money to
what they called anti-Christian purposes, the promotion of
idolatry, and a defiance of heaven itself. The abhorrence of
the Catholic faith was made the bond of union in Exeter-hall
among those otherwise of most opposite opinions.—(Hear,
hear.) Now, it was all very well to talk about exclusive
Protestantism in the British empire, but the Queen of Eng-
land herself was one of the greatest Catholic potentates in the
world.—(Hear, hear.) She ruled over eleven millions of
Catholic subjects in England, Ireland, Canada, India, and the
Mediterranean. Those Catholics were men, and must be
governed, and they should be governed upon just and intelli-
gible principles. Every other system of government but this
had been tried. They had tried persecution, and they had
tried proscription, but none of these courses would succeed. In
fact, there was no iniquity that had not been perpetrated to-
wards that unhappy country, Ireland. Just one hundred
years ago that day, in the age of Addison and
,Swift, which
was called the Augustan age of England, an Act of Parliament
was passed, which for its monstrous enormity was almost
without parallel. It would be scarcely.believed that by that
Act, which was called the nameless statute, Catholic priests
were rendered liable to an operation which, to put it
as delicately as I can, I will describe as one
which qualified them to be the guardians of the
Grand Seignior's seraglio.—(Hear.) That Act, which was
only repealed by the intervention of Cardinal Fleury, was
one of the remedies for Irish Catholicism that had been re-
sorted to. Would Englishmen sanction a return to such a
state of things, even if they had the power? Certainly they
would not. The only policy, therefore, which was left to
adopt towards them was to treat them with justice and
mercy, and according to the great principles of Christianity.
A generous treatment on our side would inspire a generous
feeling in return. His motion last session was to endow, but
to endow from a proper source—not from the pockets of
English Dissenters—not to tax a man opposed to Catholicism
for the support of Catholicism, but to make as ample a pro-
vision as Government might choose to recommend from funds
at the disposal of the State, and which must ultimately
be applied to the support of the church of the
great majority of the country. (Great cheering.)
That motion created no ordinary difficulty and alarm.
For a little time, and a little time only, he was a man of
great political importance—the fate of Government seemed
to hang upon this auestion. He had no reason to distrust
the importance of its effects He had seen the appropriation
principle break up two Cabinets, and it might have broken
up a third. Well, under those circumstaeces, he had thought
it better to give up the opportunity presented to him than to
damage a principle in which he concurred. And he did not
regret the course which he had pursued; for when he looked
to the sort of opposition given to the measure, he could not
compliment his Dissenting friends on the company with whom
they took their stand.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Refer-
ring then to the manner in hich this question had been
treated by Lord Winchelsea, the Duke of Newcastle, and
others, he continued :—Now he had *gone over a good deal of
ground as to what was past, he wished to say a few words
now as to the future.—(Hear, hear.) There was a great deal
at the close of last session to foreshadow what had since hap-
pened. There was a debate upon Mr. Villiers's motion, in
which he had had the pleasure of hearing from Sir Robert
Peel—as he understood him—the clearest possible notice to
quit given to the agricultural protectionists.—(Cheers.) Sir
Robert Peel then said that the question was one of time only.
The advocates of free trade had in their ranks great intellect,
great names, great activity, but they wanted some of those
high aristocratic names of practical statesment who must
form a part in the Government of this country. They
wanted Lord John Russell.—(Cheers.) They wanted Lord
Morpeth—(Loud cheers)—and the men of the West Riding
were now sending him—(Applause)—while from Lord John
Russell they had at last received a frank declaration 'of his
adoption of free trade principles. The landowners would do
better with free trade, because the manufacturers would do
better ; for what the landowners wanted was wealthy
and well-employed customers. To say that we
could not compete with foreigners in any part of
Europe was a libel upon English honesty and Eng-
lish ability, and provided the settlement of the corn-
law was comprehensive and final, he had no doubt
all the alarm now felt would evaporate and pass away.
He recommended, however, the free traders not to fancy their
victory as yet certain. They might have a majority in the
House of Commons ; but it was rumoured that the Lords had
determined never to pass a measure of the kind without an-
other appeal to the country. If that appeal was made, every
man must be prepared to do his duty, and take his part in
the great struggle. Let them but be united and firm, and
they would be successful ; for there never was an instance in
history in which an aristocracy, contending for its own selfish
and sordid emoluments, was successful, when opposed to the
great body of an intelligent and united people.—(The Hon.
Gentleman resumed his seat amidst prolonged cheering.)
Mr. FISHER, after passing a high eulogium upon Mr. Ward,
moved a resolution to the following effect :—" Tbat the
thanks of this meeting be given to our much respected repre-
sentative, H. G. Ward, Esq., for his annual visit to his con-
stituents, and the candid and explicit exposition he has
given of his Parliamentary conduct during the last session;
and that he be respectfully requested to support to the ut-
most of his power any measure that may be proposed for the
total, immediate, and unconditional repeal of the corn-laws."
This resolution having been seconded by Mr. JACKSON,
was carried unanimously: and after the customary business
hdd been transacted the meeting separated.

AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT
BRIDGE WATER.
A large concourse of protectionists assembled yesterday, at
the Clarence Hotel, Bridgewater, for the purpose of discussing
the merits of the present taxation upon corn, and an excellent
dinner into the bargain.
Mr. Miles, M.P., presided on the occasion; and after the
usual loyal and popular toasts had been given, a long array of
orators addressed the meeting in succession.
The Rev. Mr. THRING maintained that on the abolition of
the duties in question "it was impossible the taxes could
be paid, and what then would become of public credit ?"
Mr. SEALEY, the Mayor, felt satisfied that the assembly
which he addressed " must have an influence throughout the
country."

The CHAIRMAN declared that the League were raising an
opposition power, which would ultimately defeat both them-
selves and Mr. obden ; and, after some similar observations
from Lord Waldegrave, Mr. Moody, and Mr. Popham, the
dinner terminated to the satisfaction of all present.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
CHESTER, 1846.
Handicap for the Tradesman's Plate.
Faugh-a-ballagh, 5 yrs, 9st 81b'Rowland Hill, 4 yrs, Est 131 b
Alice Hawthorn, aged, 9st 21b1Crim. Con. 4 yrs, 6st 131 b
Lothario, 6 yrs, 9st 21b Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, Est I 31b
Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 10Ib Patriot, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b
The Baron, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib Judex, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b
Coranna, aged, Bst 91b Whinstone, 4 yrs, Est 12Ib
Sweetmeat, 4 yrs, Bst 91b Pedometer, 5 yrs, 6st I llb
St. Lawrence, aged, Bst 81b Rose of Cashmere,4 yrs,6st I Ilb
Pompey, 6 yrs, Bst 81b Mervis, 5 yrs, Est 10Ib
Zanoni, 6 yrs, Bst 71b Lycurgus, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
Wolfdog, 4 yrs, Bst 7lb Merryman, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b
Discord, aged, Bst 61b Turk, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b
Winesour, 6 yrs, Bst 61b Redstreak, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
lonian, 5 yrs, Bst 61b Javelin, 4 vrs, Est 81b
The Libel, 4 yrs, Bst 51b London, 4 yrs, Est 81b
Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 31b Flahowlagb, 4 yrs, Est 81b
Mosstrooper, aged, Bst 21b Duc-an-durras, 4 yrs, Est 61b
Morpeth, 5 yrs, Bst llb Clumsy, 4 yrs, fist 61b
Sorella, 5 yrs, Ist 131 b Colleen Dhas, 4 yrs, Est Est
Needful, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b Gr f by Rust. out of Annie, 4
Winchester, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b yrs, Est Clb
Glossy, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Cataract, 6 yrs, Est 51b
Joe Lovell, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b Miss burns, 6 yrs, 6st slb
Rowena, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b Little John, 5 yrs, Est 51b
William, aged, 7st 1 llb Flattery, 4 yrs, 6st 51b
Ironmaster, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b Anti-Repealer, 4 yra, Est 51b
Yardley, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs,
Intrepid, 5 yrs, 7st 91b 6st 51b
Miss Elis, 4 yrs, 7st 91b Columbus, 4 yrs, Est 41b
Xanthus, 6 yrs, 7st 81b Elemi, 5 yrs, 6st 31b
Weatherbit, 4 yrs, 7st 81b Plaudit, 4 yrs, 6st 3lb
Pythia, 4 yrs, 7st 81b The Magnet, 4 yrs, Est 31b
' Event, 4 yrs, 7st 81b Portrait, aged, Est 21b
Queen of Tyne, aged, 7st 71b Advice, 5 yrs, Est 21b
What, 6 yrs, 7st 71b Fitzallen, 4 yrs, Est 21b
John Goldham, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Queen Pomare, 4 yrs, Est 41b
Example, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Teetotaller, aged, Est
Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Vitals, Est 61b
Eboracum, aged, 7st 61b Best Bower, 5 yrs, sst 121 b
Mickey Free, 5 yrs, 7st 61b Mongrel, 4 yrs, sst 121 b
Hope, 4 yrs, 7st 61b Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, sst 121 b
Satyr, 5 yrs, 7st 51b Devil's Dust, 4 yrs, sst 101 b
Prince Royal, 5 yrs, 7st 51b Black Strap (late Euston),
Laird o' Cockpen, 4 yrs, 7st 51b 4 yrs, sst 101 b
Ruff, 4 yrs, 7st 51b John Davis, 4 yrs, sst 10Ib
Game-cock, 6 yrs, 7st 41b Valiant (h b), 4 yrs, sst 101 b
Dr. Husband, 5 yrs, 7st 41b Artist, 6 yrs, sst 81b
Pride of Kildare, 5 yrs, 7st 41b Arthur, 4 yrs, sst 81b
Lancashire Witch, 4 yrs, Stream, 4 yrs, sst 81b
7st 41b Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, sst 81b
King Cob, 4 yrs, 7st 41b CEoline, 4 yrs, sst 71b
Hooton, 6 yrs, 7st 31b The Warrior, 3 yrs, sst 71b
Yates, 5 yrs, 7st 31b The Hero. 3 yrs. sst 61b
Valerian, 5 yrs, 7st 51b Correct Card, 4 yrs, sst 51b
Little Hampton, 5 yrs, 7st 21b De odara, 4 yrs, sst 51b
Warp, 5 yrs, 7st 21b Outcast, 3 yrs, sst 51b
Pilot, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Pal, 3 yrs, sst 51b
Mount Charles, 5 yrs, 7st 21b Astonishment, 3 yrs, sst 51b
Sir
st Dig2lbsgory Diddle. 5 yrs, Marquisst of Conyngham, 3 yrs,
7
Roderick, aged, 7st 21b Blackbird, 3 yrs, sst
Milden, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Camera Obscura, 3 yrs, sst
Ould Ireland, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Mermaid, 3 yrs, sst
Salopian, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Isabella, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b
Extempore, 6 yrs, 7st llb Peasant, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
Beaufront, 5 yrs, 7st llb Punch, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
My Mary, 4 yrs, 7st llb Muscatel, 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib
Polish, 6 yrs, 7st Finvaragh, 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib
Surety, 5 yrs, 7st Spur, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
Lady Wildair, 4 yrs, 7st Bro to Sir Henry, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
Roper's Daughter, aged, Tell, 3 vrs, 4st 81b
6st 13Ib Billy Purvis, 3 yrs, 4st 61b
Sarah Rebecca, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b Little Cassino, 3 yrs, 4st 61b
Johnny, aged, Est 131 b Elena Clara, 3 yrs, 4st
Highwayman, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b
Bath Handicap—Ninety-on

nli weight should be 7st 31b.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham ; Wed., iface Course ; Fri.
Dyke-11.
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Tals-
combe Tye.
Findon hds., Tues., Parham Park; Thurs., Wapping
Thorns; Sat., Ditchling Beacon-11.
Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., the Star, Horsham Com.
mon ; Wed., New Inn, Ciielmsford ; Fri., Breadfield— 104.
Montgomeryshire lids., Tues., Brittledir Hall ; Fri., Bryn-
der gen Bridge-10.
Mr. Horndon's lids., Mon., Trelash Lodge ; Thurs., Chap-
man's Well--10i,
Mr. Trelawny's hds., Tues., Skinner's Bridge, near Totnes ;
Fri., Leather Tor-10i.
Atherstone hds., Mon., Gopsall ; Wed., High= Grange ;
Fri., Mastock Castle; Sat., Pailton-11.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Usselsby House ; Wed.,
Bradley Wood ; Fri., Langmere Furze-11.
Holderness hds., Mon., North Dalton ; Tuesday, Catwick
Village • Thurs., Cavil Hall ; Fri., Cherry Burton; Sat.,
Constable Burton.

Sir T. Sykes's hds., Mon., Raeethorp ; Wed., Castle
Howard Inn; Fri., Fluckham-1.011.
Captain Candler's hds., Mon., Croome Perry Wood; Wed.,
Ombersley ; Fri., Shrawley Wood-10}.
Shropshire hds., Tues., Fifth Mile -stone on the Baschnrch-
road ; Fri., Cloverley-10i.
Wheatland hds., Tues. Sidbury ; Fri., Hempton-10i.
Devon hds., Mon., Whiteway Lodge-11.
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Venn Wood; Fri., Wall-hills.
Mr. Roe's hds., Wed., Whitemoor-cross ; Sat., Ludbrook
Gate.

Suffolk hds., Tues., Rushford Village ; Fri., Denston Arms.
Badsworth hds , Tues., Fenwiek ; Thurs., Grove Hall ;
Sat., Hensworth -lane-end-10i.
Lord Galway's hds., Tues., Headon Clump ; Fri., Piper
Wood.

Whiston hds., Mon., The Oaks; Thurs., Dinnington ; Sat.,
Maltby Common-10i.
Rutford hds, Mon., Walesby Village; Thurs., Thurgarton
Priory; Sat., Rufford Abbey-10y.
Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Harewood Bridge ; Wed.,
Collingham Bar; Fri., Bickerton Bar-10h.
Lord H. Bentinck's hds., Mon., Burton Hamels ; Wed.,
Blankley ; Thurs., Fisherton Long Wood ; Fri., Midge Inn ;
Sat., Norton Place-11.

Cettesmore hds., Mon., Scottlethorpe ; Tues , Rocart;
Wed., Casewick ; Fri., Coby Pasture ; Sat., Tilton Wood-11,
Earl Fitzwilliam's lids., Mon., Orton ; Wednesday, Thrap-
ston Bridge; Thurs., Thornhaugh—lo.
Duke of Rutland's lids., Mon., Goadby ; Tues., Weavers
Ledge ; Fri., Kirkby Laigthorpe-10i.
Cambridgeshire lids., Mon., Waresby Turnpike; Wed.,
Warden Village; Fri., Morden Heath-10i.
Quorn lids , Mon., Teddinworth Hall ; Tues., Bardon
Hall ; Thurs., Houghton-on-the-Hill ; Fri.,Inn.
Widmerpool Donnington lids., Mon., Cotgrave Village; Wed., Cavendish
Bridge ; Sat., Lomet Tollbar-114
Southwold Hunt., Mon., Raithby-,
by-Louth ; Tues., Burgh-
on-Bain; Thurs., Hagworthingham ; Sat., Willoughby Wood
Cheshire hds., Mon., Dunham Massey; Wed., Hankelow ;
Thurs., Cholmondeley ; Sat., Roscommon Windmill-10i.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Mon.. Iscoyd ; Tues., Allan Sad-
ler's ; Wed., Erthing ; Sat., Carden-10i.
Mr. M. lngram's lids„ Mon., Rollestone ; Thurs., Eggin-
ton ; Sat., Wichnor-10i.
East Essex hds., Tues., Sturmer Lion; Thurs., High
Garret; Sat.; Waltham White Hart-10i.
Essex Union lids., Wed., Kits Hill ; Sat, Danbury Griffin.
Essex and Suffolk lids., Tues., Mistley Lodges; Fri., Tat-
tingstone. _ _

Horlock's hds , Tues., Bradford Wood.
Mr. A. Smith's lids., Mon., Conholt Park ; Wed., Ash-
man'sworth ; Thurs., Lower Wick Farm: Fri., Everleign ;
Sat., Speerey Well-11.
Duke of Beaufort's lids., Mon., Hawkesbury Upton; Wed.,
Avening Village ; Sat., Wraxall Village.
B. V. H., Tues., Chesilborne Common; Fri., Pointington
Ridge-11.
York and Ainst y hds., Mon., Linton; Tues., Green Ham-
merton ; Thurs., Copgrove ; Sat., Moreby-10i.
Sinnington hds.., Tues., Helmsley; Fri., Gillimoor-10.
• Bedale hds , Sleningford Park ; Wed., Pickhill ;
Scotton Village-10i.
Hurworth,hds., Tues., Leven Bridge ; Sat., Kennels-101.
Cleveland hds., Mon., Goldsbrough-10 ; Thurs., Nun-
thorpe.

BOroughbridge harrs., Tues., Red House, Dishford-road ;
Fri., Mmskip—k
Lieut.-Col. Hil 'yard's harrs., Mon., Acklam Blue Bell;
Wed., Kennels; Fri., Faceby Guido-post-10i.
Whitecross harrs., Tues., Tring Ford; Sat., Wingrove
Cross-roads-12.
Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Boulter's Barn ; Wed., Ensham
Hall; Fri., Tangley ; Sat., Ranger's Lodge.
Ludlow hds., Wed., Serpent Inn ; Sat., Norton's Camp.
Sherwood harrs., Tues., Rainworth Bar ; Fri., Robin
Downs Hill-11.

Raby hds., Tues., Hartforth ; Sat., Legs Cross Turnpike.
Mr. Drake's hds., Mon., Edgeott Village; Thurs., New-
marsh Guide Post ; Sat., Barton Common-10i.
Mr. S. Lowndes's hds., Tues., Swanbourne ; Thurs.,
Shenley.

Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Harcourt Arms, Nuneham ; Sat.,
West Wickham Park-14.
Earl Fitzhardinge's Ms., Mon., Queen Wood ; Tues.,
Withington Village ; Thurs., Greet Green ; Sat., Broadway.
Cheltenham stag hds., Fri., Seven Springs.
Berkshire hds., Mon., Longcot; Wed., Foxcombe Hill;
Fri., Hinton House.

Warwickshire hds., Mon., Snitterfield ; Tues., Metford-
bridge ; Thurs., Shuckburgh Park ; Fri., Church Tysoe ;
Sat., Stoneleigl Abbey.
.W. H., Tues., Bibury ; Thurs., Sevenhampton ; Sat.,
Charlton Gate.
Mr. Fane's harry., Mon., Haddenham Field ; Wed., Wat-
lington ; Sat., Little Milton.
Mr. Morrell's lids., Wed., Gore Hill, Ilsley Downs.
Oakley hds., Mon.,Cranfield ; Thurs., Riseley ; Sat. Roxton.
Durham County lids., Mon., Kennels; Wed., Witton Gil-
bert ; Fri., Painslaw-101,2.
Tiverton hds., Gibbet Moor; Thurs., Morebath Village.
Lord Elcho's hds., Mon., Detchant Wood; Wed., mug_
hame ; Fri., Lilburn ; Sat., Budlo-101,6.
Sir W. M. Stanley's lids., Tues., Woodchurch ; Sat., Hid-
derton-11.
Haydon hds, Wed., Kennel; Sat., Langley Castle--.9,
F. B. hds, Mon., Constantine; Fri., Truck Hill-104.
Mr. ,Brand's hds., Mon., Farling Green ; Fri., Little Berk-
hamstead-10i.
Lord Southampton's hds., Mon., Stowe-nine-Churches;
Wed., Plumpton Wood; Fri., Foster's Booth ; Sat., Preston
Booth.
Mr. Watson's hds., Wed., Whalton Village; Fri., Nunnykirk
Prudhoe and Derwent hds., Mon., Ryton Kennels; Fri.,
Whicham— 10.
Baron Rothschild's staghounds, Mon., Dinton Castle;
Thurs., North Marston-11.
Mr. Villebois's harm., Mon., Barton Church ; Thurs., Mr.
Gamble's, Shouldham Thorpe.
Norfolk harrs., Tues., Kerdiston ; Fri., Kelling.
Norfolk staghounds, Fri., King's Arms, Reenham.
Pytchley hds., Mon., North Kilworth Village; Thurs.,
Maidwell-12 ; Fri., Finedon ; Sat., Clipstone.
Glyndebourne harrs., Mon., Newhaven Barn ; Fri.,
Eastbourn harrs., Mon., Willingd3n Old Mill ; Thurs.,
Paradise Hill-10i.
Puckeridge hds., Mon., Furneaux Pelham ; Wed., Wad-
dington ; Sat., Ardley Bury-106.
Fowelscombe harrs., Tues., Aveten Gifford ; Thurs , Hary-
ford Moor-10.
Bxrtuosn) ; Fri.,hford c
hares.,
11%,eiyollo.W insford Hill ; Wed., Friscombe,
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MANCHESTER BETTING—FRIDAY.

CHESTER CUP.-1,000 to 10 agst Pedometer Was the only
bet laid ; offers to take 15 to 1 about Mr. Drinkald's Lot;
1,000 to 30 agst Wasp, and 1,000 to 30 agst Ould Ireland.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITIIEATRE.—Mr. Batty, the enter-
prising manager of this popular establishment, which is
nightly filled with crowds of admiring visitors, notwithstand-
ing the attractive nature of the present entertainments, has
purchased two large elephants which are (laxly expected, to
arrive in England, when they will be introduced in a grand
Oriental spectacle, in preparation in a style of magnificence
which will support the well-known reputation of Astley's.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16 —The experiment of firing from
the Excellent, Captain Chads, at a steam-ship's funnel, to
ascertain what resistance (if any) it would offer to a shot or
shell, took place yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a
distinguished assemblage of scientific officers, naval, military,
and civil.

The funnel, which is a common one, of the average mann-
' facture for Government steamers, of about three-fourths of
an inch thick, was moored at about 600 yards distance from
the Excellent, in the direction of Porchester Castle, placed
upon a butt of timber 14 feet wide, and of about the same
substance, secured as in the usual manner on board vessels,
by chains, the butt being rendered immoveable by heavy
moorings.

About 2 o'clock the firing commenced, and a number of
shots were directed against the funnel. Five or six struck
the object, a 64 and the rest 32-pounders, all going through
the funnel without knockin r it down or shivering it to
atoms, as was expected. The practice concluded about
half-past 3, without having done any very materiat damage
to the funnel.

This afternoon, about 2 o'clock, the firing was resumed,
but at targets, and not at the funnel, as was anticipated.
This morning, a little before 12, another experiment was
tried upon a boom. Two masts were towed up to the spot
where the former experiments took place, and lashed to-
gether with chain lashing and hemp cable; but instead of
having the breaker of gunpowder hauled and fixed under the
spars, it was floated down to the boom upon the top of the
tide, in order to save the risk (we presume) of fixing it by a
boat's crew; sufficient time being calculated upon for the
breaker reaching the spares after the lighting of the portfire.
The result, however, was not satisfactory, the explosion
having taken place without doing any material damage to
the boom.

This afternoon another experiment was made upon the
same boom, after the plan adopted on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. About half-past 3 o'clock a boat's crew from the Ex-
cellent fixed the breaker of gunpowder, containing 1121 b.,
underneath the spars, and having ignited the fuse or portfire,
rowed away. In about eight, minutes a tremendous explo-
sion took place, the spars being snapped asunder in the cen-
tre, and huge masses of the timber hurled into the air 50
feet, which, together with the immense body of water dis-
placed by the submarine blast, bad a very grand and highly
interesting effect. Thus ,the experiments of displacing a
boom have been pre-eminently successful, the whole process
of destruction not occupying a space of time exceeding ten
minutes.

Further experiments upon the funnel will take place in a
day or two ; these, we believe, will be with the shells, the
shot having injured the funnel only as far as regards perfo-
rating it.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was brought down
alongside the jetty to-day, to have the centre shaft taken
out of her, in order to its being differently refitted.
The ships on the undermentioned stations have served the
usual term of commission (three years), and may be expected
home shortly; many of them having been relieved, are on
their way :
Mediterranean Station, under the command of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir William Parker, Bart.—The Acheron steam- sloop
Lieut.-Commander B. Aplin ; the Orestes, 18, Commander
E. S. L. Cannon, and the Warspite, 50, Captain Wallis.
North America and West India Station, under the com-
mand of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen.—The Pique, 36,
Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford ; and the Pickle, 2,
Lieut.-Commander Bainbridge.—(Period of service expires
on the 28th inet.)
Pacific Station, under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir
George Seymour.—The Daphne, 18, Capt. Onslow ; the
Frolic, 16, Commander Hamilton; the Salamander steam-
sloopCommander A. S. Hammond; the Talbot, 26, Capt.
Sir T. Thompson, Bart.
East India Station, under the command of Rear-Admiral
Sir Thomas Cochrane —The Agincourt, 72, Captain John-
stone (flag-ship); the North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E.
Home, Bart. ; the Samarang, 26, aptain Sir Edward Bel-
cher; the Fly, 18, Captain F. P. Blackwood; the Hazard,
18, ommander Egerton ; the Wolverine, 16, Commander
Clifford; the Wolf, 16, Commander Gordon ; the Serpent,
16, Commander Nevill ; the Bramble, 10, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Yule; the Sapphire troop -ship, Master-Commander
Fittock ; the Driver steam-sloop, Commander Hayes; the
Spiteful steam-sloop, Commander Maitland ; the Vixen
steam-sloop, Commander Giffard.
South-East Coast of America Station, under the command
of Rear-Admiral Inglefleld.—The Gorgon steam-sloop, Cap-
tain Hotham ; and the Spider schooner, 6, Lieutenant-Com -
mander Pym.
Cape of Good Hope Station, under the command of Rear-
Admiral J. R. Dacres.—The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden,
flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, having been relieved
by Rear-Admiral Dacres, in the President, 50, Captain Stan-
ley ; the Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill ; the Thunderbolt
steam-sloop, Commander Broke.
West Coast of Africa Station, under the command.of Com-
modore Jones.—The Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke; the
Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Commodore Jones ; and the
Wasp, 16, Commander Ussher.

Tile Netley tender arrived from Plymouth and Devonport
on Monday with supernumeraries, and sailed on her return on
Tuesday, taking men for the ships fitting at those poi ts.
The Mercury and Emerald tenders, which took back the
hands who navigated the Janus from Chatham to this port,
returned on Tuesday.
The Alban steam-vessel, Master Commander Aylen, left
on Tuesday for Plymouth and Cork with supernumeraries, &c.
The Bittern, 16, Commander Hope, which sailed on Tues-
day, took out specie to the amount of 10,000/. to Ascension,
on account of the Paymaster-General of the Navy.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, was docked yesterday.
It was discovered she had lost about half a sheet of copper
on the starboard side, about six feet under water amidships,
and about the same quantity off her forefoot. Her maga-
zines, &c., are to be altered.

The Sparrow Ketch, Commander Otter, was undocked yes-
terday, and retaken to her hulk, the Topaz, where she will
complete her refit for sea.

The General Palmer transport, Lieutenant Wooldridge
agent, came into harbour this morning to refit.
The Bee experimental steam-vessel, tender to the Excel-
lent gunnery-ship, was undocked yesterday, having under-
gone a refit.
The Fairy, Royal Yacht tender, Master-Commander Ro-
berts, went down to Cowes to-day with a select party on
board, to make another trial of her new screw.

The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admiral
Seymour, was at San Bias prior to the 16th of November
last, from the Sandwich Islands.

A fatal accident occurred last night on board the Rodney,
92, in dock. A corporal of Marines fell off the gangboard
alongside into the dock, and so seriously fractured his skull
and some of his ribs that he died this morning in Haslar
Hospital, where he was promptly conveyed after the ac-
cident.

The paddle-box boats of the Retribution have been found
to be so heavy and unmanageable that leave has been given
to return them to the dockyard; lighter ones are to be con-
structed in their stead. The boats, without gear or shifting
thwarts, weigh four tons each; and the two with their gear
and davits weigh twelve tons!
The Drake lighter. with stores for Plymouth, sailed on
Friday evening.

unusually large number for a sailing vessel of limited dimen-
sions, arrived in good condition and perfect safety.
The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Att-
wood, from Schiedain, specially dispatched for the purpose,
brought 49 cows, 26 oxen, 3 bulls, and 370 sheep to the same
wharf, also the produce of Holland ; and the Giraffe steam-
ship, arrived later still from Rotterdam, brought nearly 4,000
cheeses, 460 packages of butter, 21 of poultry, 26 cows, 16
oxen, 160 packages of yeast, 380 of fish, and other articles,
the produce of the tame country.
The Company's steam-ships Belfast, from Calais ; Harle-
quin, from Boulogne; and Wilberforce, from Havre, since
arrived, have brought large supplies of poultry, fruit, &c.
And the Augusta, a sailingivessel fromPravelines, 87 pack-
ages of eggs, 100 of apples, &c., tke produce of France; and
two vessels arrived from Trieste, having on board conjointly,
2,254 bushels of wheat, 330 of peas, and 328 of beans, of
Austrian produce.
In closing the list of the enumerations of importations of
articles of food up to the present time, we may state that the
assertion which we advanced at the commencement of this
article, of the extent of the arrivals which have taken place,
has been fully borne out. The arrivals have evidently been
of a very extensive nature, and we are indebted to our con-
tinental neighbours for a continued and unceasing supply of
articles of general consumption.
It is not necessary to eater further into particulars with
respect to the several importations, as a glance at them will
show their extent, and the importance of the several coun-
tries in the matter, according to the amount and nature of
the supplies. We may, however, mention that since Christ-
mas poultry has been remarkably cheap in the metropolis,
and in consequence of the extensive arrivals from France,
Belgium, &c., turkeys of excellent quality and large size
have been obtainable in the markets at a very moderate
price.
We may be thankful that the weather has been and con-
tinues so mild, for, in addition to the vast importance of such
a state of things to the poor, no mean consideration in the
general estimation of matters, and the consequent total
absence of any. stoppage of out-door manual employment, we
should not, had it been otherwise, and which was much
dreaded at this time of assumed scarcity of provisions gene-
rally, have been supplied with so extensive a variety and
quantity of every kind of food from abroad as has been the
case.

THE PROJECTED RAILWAYS.
We are requested to state, that the undermentioned com-
panies have lodged their plans, &c. :
Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Ruabon, and Vale of Llan-
gollen.
Cambridge and Lincoln Extension, and Lincoln, York,
and Leeds Junction.
Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junction.
Great Southern and Western, and Waterford and Li-
merick.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extensions.
Port of Wisbeach, Peterborough,•Birmingham, and Mid-
land Counties Union.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction and Extension.
St. Ives and Wisbeach.
South Midland, or Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, and
Huntingdon.
York and Carlisle.
And that the " Goole and Doncaster" is in effect
" Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction Rail-
way," for which an Act has been obtained.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN
MAILS.
The following notice relative to the departure of the Fo-
reign Mails was yesterday posted at the chief office, St.
Martin's-le-Orand:—
" The Royal Tar will sail with the Peninsular mails on
the morning of the 17th inst. (this day), viz., for Vigo,
Oporto, Spain, Lisbon, Madeira, and Gibraltar.
" The Great Liverpool for the Mediterranean, Egypt, India,
&c.—Mails of the morning of the 20th.
" The next mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, and China, vie/ Marseilles, will be dispatched on the
evening of the 24th inst.
" A3IERICA.—The Cambria will sail from Liverpool, with
the mails, on the evening of the 3d of February.
" MADEIRA, BRAzu, AND BUENOS AYRES.—The next
mails 1%111 be dispatched from Falmouth on the evening of the
first Tuesday in February. From August to January in-
clusive the packet touches at Pernambuco and Bahia on her
outward passage to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months
on her homeward."

TAB LATE SIR HENRY J. TICARORNE, BART.—
The British Gallery, Pall-mall, late the property of this
deceased baronet, with other freeholds in Tichborne-street
and St. James's, he has left by his will to the Marquis of
Clanricarde and the Hon. Thomas W. Gage, in trust for the
benefit of his wife, Lady Tichborne, and daughters, to whom
he has also left the residue of his personal estate, valued at
10,0001.; a legacy of 501. to his chaplain, the Rev. H. Philips,
and le.gacies to his servants. His freehold estates at Tich-
borne, West Tested, and elsewhere, in Southampton, and the
manor of Sevington, and other estates, he devises to his
daughter, Elizabeth Lady Dormer and to her sons, or, on
failure, to her daughters. The tenant in tail in possession—
except the elder son of Lady Dormer—or other like tenant,
who shall. be a :Peer of the realm, shall apply for a license
from the rown to use the surname of Tichborne. Bequeaths
to the successor to his mansion-house at Tichborne the
furniture, pictures, and other effects, which he succeeded
to on the death of his father, as well as such things he may
have added since and not otherwise specifically disposed of.
Leaves to Lady Tichborne all his plate, books, pictures, &c.,
purchased before his father's death—except such as he has
made heir-looms with the estate—and leaves to her all his
farming stock, and the carriages, &c., absolutely. The will
was made in 1831, and a codicil in August, 1842. The exe-
cutors are the Hon. Thomas W. Gage, of Westbury House,
Southampton—who alone is acting—and Sir John Burke,
Bart., of Marble Hill, Galway, Ireland, to whom a power is
reserved. Sir Henry died on the 3d of June, 1845, in his
67th year. His brother Edward, now Sir Edward Doughty,
Bart., of Snarford, Lincoln, and of Upton House, Dorset, has
succeeded to the title; he assumed the name of Doughty by
royal license, under the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Doughty, of Snarford.—Post.

MEI:ANCHOLY DEATH OF J. UNWIN, ESQ., OF
BRE3I3IINGTON HALL.—The exeeedingly romantic but retired
village of Bremmington, about two miles north of Chester-
field, has, since Saturday last, been the scene of great excite-
ment, in consequence of a most fatal accident which occurred
to James Wheeler Unwin, Esq., of Bremmington Hall, a
gentleman of independent fortune, the ron of the Rev. Mr.
Unwin, of St. Aukmands, Derby. The deceased was pas-
sionately fond of hunting, and was remarkable for riding
high-spirited horses, and thought no price sufficiently remu-
nerative for what he termed a magnificent hunter. On
Saturday afternoon Mr. Unwin, who had been to Chester-
field market, was returning home, and was riding a high-
spirited black horse, and which, in consequence of the horse
having been ill, had not been ridden for two months. When
Mr. Unwin had proceeded about a mile from Chesterfield, the
horse took fright, and Mr. Unwin, who was riding at the
time in a very careless manner, with an exceedingly loose
rein, was thrown to the ground with such violence that his
skull was fractured, and he was taken up in a state of insen-
sibility, and conveyed to his residence in a cart, where he ex-
pired on Wednesday morning last. An inquest was held on
the body on Thursday, when the jury returned a verdict of—
Accidental Death.

SUICIDE INDUCED BY A FALSE ACCUSATION.—
Yesterday, Mr. Payne, City coroner, held an inquest at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mary Day, aged 26,
late a servant to Mr. Goodge, surgeon, of 106,Cheapside.
Leopold Coben said that the deceased had been in the same
employ as witness for a period of three weeks. On Saturday
last she told witness that she was going to leave her situation
in consequence of a female named Hannah Snowswell having
told her mistress that she (the deceased) had been the worse
for liquor on twa occasions. The allegation was stoutly de-
nied by the deceased. Mrs. Goodge gave the deceased warn-
ing to leave her service, and said she should not like to have
her in the house any longer, as she did not consider it safe.
Witness never saw the deceased the worse for drink, and
never suspected her of being so, but he thought her mind
affected. Elizabeth Marsh, of 40, Turnmill- street, said that
the deceased complained of being unwell on Wednesday last.
She then went out, saying at the time that she was going to
purchase an ounce of Epsom salts. She returned shortly
afterwards, and after mixing something in a cup, swallowed
the mixture. She then took up a novel and started off, say-
ing that she was going to her mother's. Witness never saw
her afterwards. Police-sergeant Haines found deceased in
company with another female on Wednesday night last; she
then said she had taken poison, and was dying. Witness
took her to the above hospital with all expedition. Mr. P. J.
Hurlock, senior medical officer of the hospital, said that de-
ceased, when admitted, was quite dead. He had since
examined the stomach, which was extensively inflamed, no
doubt caused by oxalic acid. Verdict," Temporary insanity."
THE ROYAL STIGHOUNDS.—A field of upwards of
two hundred, including his Royal Highness Prince George
of Cambridge, the Earl of Rossyln, Mr. George Wombwell,
Captain Seymour, and a sprinkling of military officers, were
at the meet on Friday morning at Stoke-common. The
turn-out was delayed until between twelve and one
o'clock
on account of the heavy fog which prevailed during the
earlier part of the day. Upon the deer (Tom Thumb) being
uncarted in Farnham-lane, it took away to Two-mile Brook,
on to Burnham, crossing the Great Western Railway, to the
Mile House, on the Bath-road, down to Mr. Pocock's farm,
crossing the Thames at Bray. The hounds were taken over
Maidenhead-bridge into Berks, and laid on between Maiden-
head and Braywick ; Tom Thumb making away through
Mr. Briggenshaw's farm to White Waltham, and thence to
Laurence Waltham, where the deer was run into and
secured, after a goal run, from first to last, of an hour and
forty minutes. Prince George of Cambridge and a goodly
number were up at the finish. The meet on Monday will
be at Winkfield-row, and on Friday at Maidenhead. Wed-
nesday will be a by-day. The fixture has not yet been de-
termined upon.
[ADYEItTISEMENT.]—MR. LODGE'S PEERAGE AND
BARONETAGE FOR 1846.—The high honour conferred on Mr.
Lodge's Peerage by the royal patronage, a
it has so long enjoyed of being corrected
nbi the distinction
in-
vests it with an authority which it was the nobility,
esirable it should
possess as the authenticated history of the British Peerage.
Every line of the work is kept constantly standing in type
that no change may
edition is thus corrected
be unnoticed or error occur, and each
throughout to the date of publica-
tion. The new editron for 1846 is now ready, and may be
had of the publishers, Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-
street ; of their agents, Mr. Cumming, Dublin ; or Messrs.
Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and of the booksellers in
every part of the kingdom.
THE ALLEGED CASE OF MURDER AT BROMLEY.—
The unfortunate death of Harriet Monkton, so frequently
noticed as I egards the mysterious delay in bringing the co-
roner's inquest to a conclusion, seems to be as far off as ever.
It was stated in nearly all the Sunday papers a fortnight ago
that a memorial had been forwarded by the jury to the Se-
cretary of State, Sir James Graham, and that he had written
to Mr. C. J. Carttar, the coroner, with a view of bringing
the inquiry to an immediate termination. This turns out not
to be the fact, as the coroner has received no such intimation.

MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MARQUESS
WELLESLET.—BY ROBERT ROUIERE PEARCE, EsQ.—The,
importance of this work can hardly be overrated. The name
of Wellesley is a talisman to claim the earnest attention of
every British reader; and when it belongs to one of the
greatest statesmen and most accomplished gentlemen that
the last and present generations have seen in F,nrope and
Asia—for such was the Marquess of Wellesley, we are not
sure that even the memorable exploits of his immortal
brother deserve more public regard that, the immense
civil, political, and national services of this illustri-
ous individual. That Mr. Pearce has done himself honour
by his diligent research ; that he has had access to
the best sources of information, and that he has ac-
quitted himself of his task with much ability, and in a
scholar-likc style, is at once evident and unquestionable.
After an account of the Wellesley family, from 1239 to the
present day, he gives us the personal biography of the Noble
'Marquess, and then disposes of his public career in England
and India. The exposition is clear and full ofinterest;
and as
there will be more of novelty in the correspondence ; an as
we cannot fully examine it for this Gazette, we must till
next Saturday conclude with this summary announcement,
of one of the genuine historical publications of the age.—
Litermy Gazette.