The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORN ING, JULY 9, 1816.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
N EW MARKET—TUESDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY.
501. for all ages.
Wolfdog, 4 Yrs, Bravissimo, 3 yrs, Cantles 3 yrs.
The Town Plate, last mile and a (iis. B. C.
Smuggler Bill, Queeu Anne; hr c by Colwicit out of the
Czar's darn Cantley, Rufus, Bravissimo (Brother to Valentis-
simo), Leaconfield, Joy.
Sweepstakes, New T. Y. C.
Samphire, Fugitive, Shartisheoter. Sercingle.
LATEST BETTING.
LIVERPOOL Cur.— 3 to 1 agst Mendicant, (t).
GooDwoon STAKES —9 to 1 agst Camera Ohscura (t),
10 to 1 agst The llro, 20 to 1 agst ,Connaught Ranger (t),
33 to 1 asst Bold Archer (t).
ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 .ou the field. 12 to 1 agst Grimston
(t), 25 to 1 ag.t Fancy Boy. 40 to 1 agairst Vanish.
LATEST BETTING-AT INIANCHESTER—(TuEsDAY.)
LIN-Er:root. Ci.r.-3 to 1 agr,t 'Mendicant (1). 9 to I cast
Satyr (t), :0 to. 1 ,gst My Mary (t). 12 to 1 agst The Con-
jur,r ( t), 14 to 1 agst Yardley (t), 15 to 1 ag:iinst High-
wayman, 18 to 1 agst Tekniachus (t), 18 to 1 against
Lightning (t), 18 to 1 agst Rowena (t ), 18 to 1 agst Intrepid,
25 to 1 agst Polish (t ).
Goonwoon STAKES.-9 to 1 agst Camera Ohscura (t
10 to 1 agst The Hero (r), 20 to 1 agst Jent y Wren (t),
20 to L agct The Giantess (9, 25 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild
(t), 25 to l agst Connaught Ranger (t), 25 to 1 agst Pe-
titioner.
ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First (t), 5 to 1 ag't
Sir Tatton S) kes (t), 8 to 1 agst. Brocardo (t).

THE COBDEN TESTIMONIAL.

LITERATURE

The Mayor of Manchester Lai issued the following
address:—

VOICES FROM THE CRO WD.
Mackay, LL.D.
So many spurious efferts at poetry are thurst upon
our attention that we must acknowledge ourselves some-
what. difficult to please in that loftiest description of
literature. Nor is this circumstance surprising when
it is remembered that every Englishman has been ren-
dered especially fastidious in regard to metrical compo-
sitions by the profuse and extraordinary excellence of
his native bards. Despite, however, this predisposition
to detect even the minutest blemishes in a new aspirant
for the bay garland, wherever we can discover the un-
forced melody and the spontaneous thoughtfulness
which is not only to be desiderated for, but which is an
essential concomitant of, true poesy, we are prepared to
welcome the writer with an open heart and an unstinted
cordiality. In Charles Mackay we reognise more than
an ordinary rhymer, and to Charles Mackay, therefore,
we tender our sympathies in all sincerity. Inasmuch
as his metrical productions have an originality of senti-
ment, a terseness of expression, and a remarkable me-
lodioasness of rhythm, ho is considerably more than a
mere poetaster. If the hippocrcne in his instance be
‘omewhat diluted, its flavour i 3 still sufficiently ap-
preciable; if many of his verses be nothing more than
the glittering of tinsel, the tinsel is more substantial
than usual, and is wrought into very beautiful and fan-
tastic devices. In selecting ballad literature as the me-
dium of conveying his ideas Dr. Mackay has acted
judiciously and not unambitiously, for our ballad writers
may be classed very little, if at all below our epic or
tragic writers. As the intellectual motors of a people,
ballads have, indeed, an indefinable superiority over any
more elaborate and stupendous kind of poems : what
Milton has been to the twos and threes Burns has been
to the myriads. One has been conned by the student's
night-lamp, the other has been carolled by the swine-
herd under the hedges. Without doubt the more
solemn and sublime glory is the one reserved for such
a bard as Milton, but the memory of your ballad-
monger lives not so much on the bookshelf or the studio
as in the people's hearts. When Sir Philip Sidney first
perused the MSS. of the " Fairie Queene," on reading
the first stanza he ordered his attendant to give to the
person who had brought the poem fifty pounds ; on
reading the second, one hundred ; on reading the third,
two hundred ; and, perceiving the servitor to hesitate in
performing so princely a commission, Sir Philip recom-
mended him to fly quickly, or he should soon be order-
ing him to bestow upon the author more than he pos-
sessed. Such was the effect of a continuous and inimi-
table poem like that of Spencer; while Sir Philip Sidney
declared that the ballad of " Chevy Chase" stirred his
heart like the sound of a trumpet. One loosened his
purse strings, the other stirred his heart like the sound
of a trumpet! Dr. Mackay has acted wisely, therefore,
in eschewing any lofter flight. He would have failed, in
all likelihood, in producing any poem of more ambitious
dimensions; but in selecting the simple and effective
strain of a ballad-maker he has succeeded. What we
particularly deem worthy of approval in these " Voices
from the Crowd" is the noble and moral tone which they
inculcate. Not only will many of the verses prove
sources of pleasure to the multitude, but through them
it will be materially benefited. Is not this a wholesome
sentiment to instill into the popular heart?
There's a good time coming, boys,
A good time coming :
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon balls may aid the truth,
But thought's a weapon stronger;
We'll win our battle by its aid;
JVait a little longer.
There are two national songs, moreover, in the'collec-
tion—one American, the other French—worthy of
emphatic mention; one is addressed to John Quincy
Adams," the other is entitled " England and France."
And if more poetry of that description were circulated
among mankind it would tend more than the most
adroitly balanced treaty to extend the spirit of peace-
fulness and brotherly love throughout nations. Charles
Mackay will gain the affection of his countrymen if he
continue to write with such generous impulses, and for
the attainment of so exquisite an object. As a specimen
of how daintily he can embellish a theme like the ad-
vancement of society and the perfectibility of the human
race, by his imagination, we shall encroach upon our
space for the quotation of a poem entitled " The Watcher
on the Tower."

" TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
The licartf It and triumph.-mt gladness with which
the nation lv:i!s the deliverance of its industry from the
restrictions of a false and unrighteous legislation were
incomplete without the recognition of that individual
agency to which this glorious consummation is essen-
tially indebted. Now that the battle is fought, the
victory won, and the charter of industrial liberty finally
recorded in the statute-book, and made part and parcel
of the law of these realms, it is felt that this struggle

ought not-sto pass away—cannot pass away—without
leaving behind it some enduring memorial of national
gratitude 'and honour to the man by whose untiring
exertions, unsparing self-slcritice, sleepless vigilance,
immo,Rjde fidelity to principle, and unrivalled wisdom
and prudence of I,...ad,rship, this crest success has been
achieved. The British noople need not b.:, told that it is
to Richard Cobden, ailed by his able, earnest, and
eloquent coadjutors, that this country mainly owes that
Act which will render the year 1846 memorable in our

annals.
"The hister; an of the national struggle, now vietoriously
eonelud. d, will dwell with grateful wonder on the record
of those labours of a hich every Englishman is now snm-
mon, dto te, tify his appreciation. As the annals of the
nation show no example of a social effort be which so
va=t a sum of good has been pur-hased at so light a cost
even of transient and iecidental evil, it were vain like-
wise to seek an hit torical parallel to those services
which the late League leader has rendered to his
country and to humanity. The name of Richard Cob-
den, as of the Anti-Corn-law League, stands alone. An
Englishman, of the middle rank of life, whom nature
inde ai marked for a statesman, and whom the circum-
stances of birth. occupation, and social position, have for-
tunately identified with the community of the in-
dustrious classes, undertakes, amidst infinite difficulties
and discouragement. the task of creating a public opinion
in unison with public rights and interests, and of identi-
fying the unrestricted intercourse of nations with the
standard of the true philosophy of the wealth of nations.
Never was a more arduous enterprise—never a more
brilliant success. Within a period of little more than
seven short years our commercial reformer has indoctri-
nated the people and the Legislature alike with the bene-
ficent and comprehensive principles of economical science
—stamped the impress of his own convictions on the
mind of an entire generation of statesmen ; and, sup-
ported by that extraordinary popular power, which his
genius had schooled to self-organisation, wrested a
fondly cherished monopoly from the powerful dominion
of class legislation.
" Such a victory has, however, not been won but at a
heavy cost to the victor. The post of honour and
triumph has been also that of labour and self-sacrifice.
We speak of the " seven short years" in which the free-
trade movement has, from his first phase of unheeded
and hopeless seeming apleals to an uninformed, apathe-
tic, and prejudiced public, passed into final statutory
realisation. The interval truly is short in the history of
a people. Seven years are short indeed, considered as
the term of a nation's apprenticeship to political science.
Tried by another and a more limited standard of mensu-
ration, seven years are a large deduction from the life-
time of the individual. Seven years of unresisting toil,
and unrelaxing mental tension ; seven years abstracted
from the ordinary associations and enjoyments of life,
and given to labours which only the impelling sense of
duty and the animating consciousness of power could
have made endurable ;—this is a sacrifice whose magni-
tude our moral arithmetic can less easily compute. To
say that this self-infliction has been as cheerfully sus-
tained, as it was spontaneously undertaken, is but to say
that the rights of industry have been championed by one
worthy of the noblest cause that ever fired the zeal and
braced the energies of a true man.
"It is now for the British people to consecrate this
great success by a fitting expression of gratitude and
honour to the man who, foremost of us all, has been the
organiser of that power of enlightened public opinion to
which industry owes its entranchisement. A moral vic-
tory so pure and peaceful, so righteous and beneficent, so
fruitful of blessings that, in their ultimate scope, are
wide as the world and enduring as time—begin-
ning with one great and simple act of national policy
and justice, and tending, in its remoter aims, to regene-
rate the pubic opinion of mankind, to cement the bonds
of amity and brotherhood among nations, to promote
the intercourse that civilise and humanise, to supersede,
by community of interest and mutuality of dependence,
a difficult and irritating commercial diplomacy, and to
guarantee, by new securities, the reign of peace on earth
and goodwill among men—such a victory, as it is with-
out example in the annals of states, should be commemo-
rated on a scale unknown to historical precedent. The
statesman who, unaided by party connexion or official
position, has succeeded in giving statutory validity to a
just and noble principle—the civic hero who has mar-
shalled a people in bloodless strife, and conquered for
them the blessings of prosperous industry—the English-
man who has plaeed his country in the world's front
rank, and vindicated her ancient prerogative of " teach-
ing nations how to live"—this is the man whom civil-
ised and Christian England should delight to honour.
"To the countrymen of Richard Cobden appeal is
now made. The appeal is to all, for all are partici-
pators in the fruits of his beneficent toils. To all
classes, sections, and parties of this British people is the
invitation now given to testify, as such a people alone
can testify, a just and generous appreciation of services,
of which even future generations will reap an ever-
ripening harvest, but which it belongs to the present to
reward. On behalf of the committee,
" W. B. WATKINS (Mayor). Chairman.
Town-hall, Manchester, July 2."

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING. —WEDNESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 501., for 3 yrs-hld, 7st 21b; 4 yrs, Bst 71b;
5 yrs, 9st 41b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 51b. To start at the
starting post of T.M. M., and run to the end of R.C.
Sir J. Hawley's Bravissimo, 3 yrs
Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 3 yrs
Betting-6 to 4on Bravissimo, who made all the running,
and won by two lengths. Run in 3 min. 21 sec.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for 3 yrs-old colts, Bst 71b; and
fillies, Bst 41b. New T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 100/.
(4 Subs).
Mr. R. J. Shaf'o's oh c Sharpshooter ... (E. Edwards)
Colonel Peel's Samphire
Sir J. Hawley's Fugitive 3
Mr. Well-man's Sircingle
Betting-2 to 1 agst Samphire. Won by a neck. Fugitive
a bad third. Run in 1 min. 17 seconds.
The Town Plate, of 50 sovs, for 3 vrsold, colts, Fat 71b, and
fillies, Bst 31b. Last mile, and a distance cf B.C.
Sir J. Hawley's Bravissimo (Butler) 1
Lord Lonsdate's Joy
Mr. W. S. Stanley's Leaconfield
The following also started, but were not placed ;—Lord
Albemarle's Smuggler Bill, Colonel Peel's Queen Anne, Lord
Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Czar's dam, Mr. Gurney's
Cantley, and Mr. Coupe's Rufus.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Bravissimo, 3to 1 agst Joy, 4to 1
agst Rufus, and ti to 2 agst Leaconfield. Cantley and the
Colwick colt made alternate running to the Duke's Stand,
followed by Rufus, Joy, Leaconfield, and Bravissimo; as
latter then took the lead, maintained it to the end, and won
by two lengths, Joy beating Leaconfield by half a length.
Run in two minute seconds.
LATEST BETTING.
CHESTEBFIELD STAKES.-5 to 2 agst Ibrahim Paella,
sto 1 agst Nerissa, and sto 1 agst Lady Lurewell. Cossack
and Madge Wildfire are declared not to start.
LivEurnot Cur.-2 to 1 agst Mendicant.
GooDwoon STASES I agst Camera Obscura (taken),
11 to 1 agst The Hero, 20 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger (taken),
25 to 1 agst Footstool, and 33 to 1 agst Bold Archer (taken).
ST. LEGE R.-5 to 1 on the field. 12 to 1 agst Griinston,
25 to 1 agst Fancy Boy, 40 to 1 agst Vanish.
DE RBY.— 10,00.0 to 200 agst Cossack (taken)
WORCESTER RACES—TUESDAY.
The Severn Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Mile and
a quarter. (10 Subs.)
Mr. E. Peel's Spithead, 3 yrs, 7st (H. Bradley, jun.) 1
Mr. J. Thompson's Hope, 4 yrs, Bst llb ....... 2
Mr. Clay's Pal. 3 yrs, 7st
Fair Charlotte and Borrani were not placed. Won by a
length.
The Two-Year Old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added.
Half a mile. (4 Subs.(
Mr. E. Griffith's Lady Litt, Bst 21b (Marlow) 1
Lord Caledon's fby Simoom, out of Pergama Bst 2lb ... 2
Mr. Pearce's Yellow Rose, Bst 21b 3
A good race, the favourite beaten by half a length.
The Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only
if declared, with 100 added; the second saves his stake.
Two miles. (20 Subs ; 12 paid.)
Captain Harcourt's The Druid, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Duncan) 1
Mr. Parr's Dalcet, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster, 4 yrs, 7st 41b ... 3
Mr. I. Da% 's 'Lela, 5 yrs, 6-t bib
I • Won easy.

The Members' Purse of 501.; 3---5:11 old, ist 121 b ; 4 yrs, 94
41b; 5 yrs, 9st. 12Ib ; G yrs and aA•ed, lost; mares allowed
3lbs, and half- bred horse, ?lbs. Heats. two miles.
Mr. G. Dumble's Rosin the Beau, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. Collett's Nannie, 3 yrs 2 2
Mr. Herbert's Powick, 4 yrs ...
• Two well-contested heats.

"What dost thou see, lone watcher on the tower?
Is the day breaking ! comes the wished-for hour !
Tell us the signs, and stretch abroad thy hand,
If the bright morning dawns upon the laad."
" The stars are clear above me, scarcely one
Has dimmed its rays in reverence to the sun;
But yet I see on the horizon's verge,
Some fair, faint streaks, as if the light would surge."

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE
M ANC HESTER ADDRESSES.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
The following communications have b:•ee received
from Sir Robert Peel, in answer to the Addresses for-
war,'ed to the Right Hon. Baronet from the different
bodies in this town, which we have already noticed:—
Drayton Manor, July 3, 1346.
Gentlemen—The severe pressure of public bu,iness,
which did not admit of delay, has deprived me, until
this day, of the opportunity of returning my grateful
acknowledgments to the bankers, merchants, and manu-
facturers of Manchester, who have signed the address
which I have recently had the honour of receiving from
that town.
I thank them sincerely for the approbation of my
conduct which they have expressed, and especially for
the justice they have done to the motives by which alone
I have been influenced, in recommending and supporting
to the utmost of my power, important measures con-
nected with our commercial policy, which have at length
received the sanction of Parliament.
Thcugh I have felt it to be my duty to relinquish
office, I shall be prepared to lend, in a private capacity,
my cordial assistance in the continual application of the
principles on which those measures are founded.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your faithful servant,
(Signed) ROBERT PEEL.
The Mayor of Manchester.
The President of the Chamber of
Commerce and Manufactures.
The President of the Commercial Association.
Malcolm Ross, Esq., &c. &c.
TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AND MANUFACTURES AT MANCHESTER.
Drayton Manor, July 4, 1846.
Gentlemen,—l have this day had the honour of re-
ceiving the address from the Chamber of Commerce and
Manufactures at Manchester, transmitted to me by the
president.
That address I shall not fail to communicate to the
other Members of the Government which has been lately
dissolved.
It was mainly through their cordial and zealous co-
operation that I was enabled to conduct to a successful
issue, the measures which it was my duty to propose at
the commencement of the present Session, for the re-
moval of many of the remaining restraints on commerce,
and for the repeal of taxes on corn, cattle, meat, and all
the first necessaries of life.
To myself personally this address must be peculiarly
gratifying, on account of the place from which it pro-
ceeds, and en account of your connexion with manu-
facturing interests and occupations, to which I am so
deeply indebted. My late colleagues will, I am confident.
fully participate in the satisfaction which I have derived
from an address which approves so warmly of our con-
dnct, and does such ample justice to our motives.
In returning my acknowledgments, allow me to make
a remark, which could not be addressed more appropri-
ately to any other body, and in the truth of which no
other body would, I am confident, more readily acquiesce.
Although, as might naturally be expected, the mea-
sures for the repeal of the corn and provision laws were
encountered by a very able and vehement opposition in
Parliament, yet full justice has not been done to the
great moderation and forbearance which were generally
displayed by that class of the community, which is im-
mediately and practically concerned in the occupations
of agriculture. They were equally displayed by that
class in every part of the empire, in Scotland and Ireland,
as well as in this part of the United Kingdom.
During the whole progress of the measures through
Parliament, there was no disposition on their part mani-
fested to offer or encourage any obstruction not required
for the purposes of fair discussion, or to insist pertina-
ciously on the continued maintenance of protective duties
for the benefit of a particular class.
Of this I am confident, that nothing passed during
the heat of the conflict which, now that it is closed,
ought to prevent the establishment of cordial harmony
and good-will between the agricultural and manufactur-
ing classes.
It is indeed to be hoped. that one of the happiest re-
sults of the measures which have been sanctioned (as I
believe, finally and irrevocably sanctioned) by Parlia-
ment, will be the determination of constantly recurring
and irritating discussions, and the removal of all causes
of jeo'ousy and contention between those who, though
occupied
in different departments of industry, have in-
terests that are inseparably interwoven.
I thank you for the hearty good wishes you express
for my welfare. I eau claim no credit for any personal
sacrifice in relinquishing office.
With whatever pertinacity I would have adhered to
it, if such adherence had been essential, or manifestly
conducive to the final success of the commercial mea-
sures of the present session, yet, now that they are
passed, I retire from office with feelings little akin to
those of disappointment or regret.
I am satisfied that, in the present state of affairs, and
in the present position of political parties, it is for the
public advantage that the power which official station
confers should be transferred to other hands, and trans-
ferred without a protracted struggle.
Being so satisfied, I cordially rejoice on every private
ground that I am relieved from a burden which was be
yond my strength, and am exempted from sacrifices for
which nothing could compensate but the ability to render
public service.
Be as,urecl that, in a private station, I shall give my
continued support to those principles of commercial
legislation which have been approved equally by the
deductions of reason and by the results of practical ex.
periment, and that I shall rejoice in the progress of all
measures, adopted with due caution and circumspection,
that shall be c ilculated, by extending commerce, to give
additional security for general peace, and by ensuring
their just reward to skill and industry, to lay the best
foundation for the intellectual and moral improvement
of the people.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen,
your faithful servant,

"Look forth again, oh watcher on the tower—
The people wake, and languish for the hour;
Long have they dwelt in darkness, and they pine
For the full daylight that they know must shine."
" I see not well—the morn is cloudy still ;
There is a radiance on the distant hill.
Even as I watch the glory seems to grow
But the stars blink, and the night breezes blow."

"And is that all, oh, watcher on the tower?
Look forth again ; it must be near the hour.
Dost thou not see the snowy mountain copes,
And the green woods beneath them on the slopes?"

" A mist envelops them ; I cannot trace
Their outline; but the day comes on apace.
The clouds roll up in gold and amber flakes,
And all the stars grow dim. The morning breaks."

LETTER OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT
TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WEST LON-
DON CENTRAL ANTI-ENCLOSURE ASSO-
CIATION. _ _ _

" We thank thee, lonely watcher on the tower;
But look again; and tell us, hour by hour,
All thou beholdest ; many of us die
Ere the day comes ; oh, give them a reply."

" I see the hill-tops now ; and Chanticleer
Crows his prophetic carol on mine ear;
I see the distant woods and fields of corn,
And ocean gleaning in the light of morn."

" June 261 h, 1846.
" Sirs,—l know not how to requite you for electing
me a useless member of your body; I am too poor to
subscribe to your funds; and it says little for my wisdom
that I never yet met with an association willing to follow
my advice. The Trades Unionists would not follow it
when I advised them to help the Free Trader; and the
Chartists, howling in my face, joined the common
enemy. Trades unions may have benefited the unionists
at the expense of victims like themselves, but I cannot
help thinking that their funds might have been better
employed than in breaking the hearts of starved mothers;
believing, as I do, that the money expended by them,
might have conferred the county franchise on a majority
of their members. One great object of all associations
aiming to ameliorate the condition of the masses, ought
now to be the county franchise; with, or without
such associations, that franchise, I believe, is within
the reach of almost all our mechanic', both in
towns and villages : by obtaining it they would
increase their usefulness, secure their well-being, and
command respect. Let the county franchise be once ob-
tained by them, and wealth and station will be respected
as they ought ; but we shall see no more doffing of
Pay-All's hat to Squire Starvation and his apes, for the
honour of being robbed and insulted. One of the results
of the uncontrolled rule of the few is, that there is not an
acre of appropriated land in this country that has not
been at some time stolen by due course of law—so
called ; and it follows that no man now can buy an acre
or an inch of land that has not been so stolen. You
can honestly obtain the county franchise by buying
land according to the law of the land, as every man
must do who buys land anywhere ; but the fact which
I have stated is unimpeachable, and the past cannot be
retrieved. Make good use, then, of the future. Unless
men ought to be stifled on the seventh day, because
their occupations imprison them the six preceding days,
all public footpaths should be held sacred ; at least
until the State shall have supplied every consider-
able town with free public walks and gardens, suffi-
ciently extensive to secure (as far as out door recreation
can) the public health. If free-trade should happily be
obtained in our day, the inclosure of waste lands cannot
he prevented ; every acre of such land, capable of pro-
fitable cultivation will inevitably be cultivated. Your
business, then, will be (if the enemy shall have left any
waste land uninclosed) to take care that snch land shall
be cultivated for the public benefit alone ; and who can
have a better claim to waste land near the town than
the inhabitants ? Obtain the county franchise, and you
not only prevent the arbitrary closing of footpaths, and
the unjust appropriation of waste lands, but do other
good to yourselves, to your children. and ther age—to
unborn millions ! Ob, infinite, endless good, with evil
to none! If the insane never co-operate; if the instinct
of self-preservation sometimes forces the sane, when
oppressed, to co-operate ; if public oppressors always
co-operate, and if you already feel the might of honest
co-operation, look back for a moment on the authors of
your past miseries, and be convinced that institutional
,
power (for right or wrong) is like the Indian tree,
which, spreading its roots on all sides, throws up a new
stem at each ramification I Your enemies know thiswell.
Obtainever t
the county franchise then, and defeat
[We are glad to see that Ebenezer Elliott is again in
the field. Be it never forgotten that Ebenezer Elliott,
The Corn-law Rhymer, was the first to denounce the
iniquity of the corn-laws. Years before the League was
whendu3 to stand up for those ' stood up for the glorious
in existence, he was a " total and immediate repealer."
He is not a rich man. Let not his claims be forgotten
by his countrymen. We hope to see a subscription
opened for an Elliott testimonial. lie is a good man
true.danodetrines of
ilfer,eointreavdiel,
doc-
trines was a service of danger. Let not his claims be
overlooked in the hour of victory. Who will subscribe
"or a testimonial to the author of " Corn-law Rhymes,"
he poet of the People ?] --ED. Sim.

" Again—again—oh, watcher on the tower—
We thirst for daylight, and we bide the hour,
Patient, but longing. Tell us, shall it be
A bright, calm, glorious daylight for the free 2"

" I hope, but cannot tell. I hear a song,
Vivid as day itself; and clear and strong;
As of a lark—young prophet of the noon—
Pouring in sunlight his seraphic tune."

" What doth he say—oh, watcher on the tower?
Is he a prophet? Doth the dawning hour
Inspire his music? is his chant sublime
With the full glories of the Coming Time ?"
" lie prophesies ;—his heart is full ;—his lay
Tells of the brightness of a peaceful day—
A day not cloudless, nor devoid of storm,
But sunny for the most, and clear and warm."
"We thank thee, watcher on the lonely tower,
For all thou tellest. Sings he of an hour
When Error shall decay, and Truth grow strong,
And Right shall rule supreme and vanquish Wrong
" He sings of brotherhood, and joy, and peace,
Of days when jealousies and hate shall cease :
When war shall die, and man's progressive mind
Soar as unfettered as its God designed."

" Well done ! thou watcher on the lonely tower ;
Is the day breaking ? dawns the happy hour ?
We pine to see it :—tell us, yet again,
If the broad daylight breaks.upon the plain?"
"It breaks—it comes—the misty shaaows fly :
A rosy radiance gleams upon the sky ;
The mountain tops reflect it calm and clear;
The plain is yet in shade ; but day is near."

In this beautiful allegory there exists a profoundity of
moral truth and of political hopefulness. To his " Sala-
mandrine" and his " Legends of the Isles," Dr. Mackay
has added a most commendable vclume in his " Voices
from the Crowd." It will tend to assure him the regard
and the affection of the people.

PORT OF LIVERPOOL.—We are agreeably surprised
by being able to announce that the Customs' revenue of this
port, for the quarter last ended, exceeds that of the corres-
ponding quarter of last year. The following is, in round
numbers, a statement of the receipts of the two years:-
1845. 1846.
April £238,668 April £240,007
May 274,866 May 279,785
June 303,745 June.......... 424,704

Total ... 817,279 Total ... 944,496
Total, 1845 ... 817,279

THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.--Since OUr
last publication, there have been a number of goodly addi-
tions to the contributors and contributions to this national
testirrrnial. Mr. S. D Darbishire and Mr. Edmund Potter
have severally enlarged their contributions from 1001. to 1501.
each. Messrs. Dixon and Sons, of Carlisle, and Mr. Thomas
Thomason, Bolton, have given 500/. each ; Messrs. George
Cheetham and Sons, Stalybridge ; Thomas Harrison and Sons,
Stalyb. idge ; and William Bailey and Brothers, Stalybridge,
each firm 3001. ; blessrs. CritehleY, Armstrong, and Co.,
Manchester, 2501,; Sir 13njamin Heywood, Mr. James Hey-
wood, and Messrs. T. and J. Wrigley, 2001. each ; Messrs.
Wells, Cooke, and Potter, Robert Platt (Stalybridge), and
Mr. William Ross, each 1501. The following additional
subscriptions have been given, each of 1001:—Messrs. Joseph
Whitworth and Co., Henry Tootal, Hardman and Price,
Boden (Derby), John and Samuel Alcock, Dufay and Co.,
Henry Newbery, Richard Potter (St. John's-wood), Thorn-
ton, Atterbury, and Co., Henry Walmsley, Langwortby,
Brothers, and Co., and Burton, Chippindall, and Co. Besides
these, there is a subscription of 80/. ; five of 501.; one of 401.;
three of 25/. ; and many of smaller amounts, making an in-
crease since Friday evening of about 5,0001. ; the aggregate
amount now exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Pounds! We
understand that the Ashton-under-Lyne subscriptions are to
be notified on Friday next. In London, Liverpool, Sheffield,
Dundee, and other large towns, preparatory measures are
being, taken for originating subteriptions to this national tes-
timoiliaL—ltrancliester Guardian, •

ROBERT PEEL.
Thomas Barley, Esq, President of the Chamber of
Commerce.
The Mayor of Manchester, &c. &c.

ACCIDENT FROM MACHINERY.—SOrne Ilsys ago the
following sad acciclent occurred at a flatting mills establish-
ment in Lycns. Part of tie dress of a yo.ath of sixteen was
aught in one of the wheels of the hydraulic engine, and lie
was drawn into it. lie was not missed at the moment, but
as the wheel st)pped, the workmen looked for the cause of
the stoppage, and found the mutilated remains of the victim;
Tbo body was Aotually torn to pivot',

IMPORTANT DECISION TO RAIL-
WAY PASSENGERS IN SCOTLAND.
By Charles In the Small Debt Court, on Thursday last, a case was
tried before Mr. Sheriff Campbell, at the instance of
Elizabeth Caldwell, Kilbarchan, against the Ayrshire
Railway Company, in which points of considerable im-
portance to passengers by railway, and also to railway
directors, were elicited. The pursuer, and several
others, had taken third-class tickets from Paisley to
Cochran Mill station, where they intended to land. On
reaching that station, the passengers endeavoured in
vain to open the carriage door. They then cried for
some one to come and open it, but nobody came until
the train was started, when a man came forward (it was
not proved whether it was the guard or a person uncon-
nected with the company), and opened the door, and
took out the passengers, including a woman and child,
while the train was running. In the hurry, one of the
passengers leaped upon the skirt of the pursuer's
gown and tore it, and it was for the value of the gown so
torn that the action was brought, on the grouud that
sufficient time bad not been allowed for the passengers
to land before starting the tram. Three witnesses were
examined for the pursuer, who concurred in stating the
case as we have narrated it. Two witnesses, the guard,
and the manager at the station, were offered for the de-
fence, but not examined, an objection having bean taken
to the competency of the guard, that he would have to
pay the damages to the Company, in the event of the
pursuer obtaining decree. The Sheriff, after shortly
running over the evidence, pronounced decree, with full
expo nses, against the Company. After pronouncing de-
cree, the Sheriff remarked that he was sorry the pre-
sent was not the only complaint that had been made to
him of the short time allowed for passengers to land at
the different railway stations, nor of the difficulties ex-
perienced by passengers at landing. It required the
strength of a man to open the carriage. doors, and in the
case of women either travelling by themselves or with
children it was often impossible for them to get out in
the time allowed at the stations, and nobody would say
that they were not proper parties to travel by railway.
Passengers should be allowed to collect their senses,
and be made aware of the stations, and not hurried out.
But, added the Sheriff, I would be even inclined to go
a step further, and say that it is not the duty of railway
passengers to open the carriage doors at all, but that
this should be done by the Company or their servants,
and he strongly impressed upon the railway directors
to attend to this in future, and not expose the lives and
property of the public in the way hitherto done.
The Learned Sheriff's remarks were most attentively
listened to by a crowded Court, and we have no doubt
they will produce the requisite effect in the proper quar-
ter, an object which the pursuer considered of far more
importance than the value of the gown.—Glasgoe, Sa-
turday Post.