The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY MpRNING, JANUARY 8, 1846.

GREAT FREE TRADE MEETING

year of income was equal to 201. a year now, became in
the progress of time the value of the precious metals has
been depreciated. I ere that at state of the late protec-
floe meetines they have been talking of altering that
franchise. I only say, I wish we catch them trying
to do this.—(General cheering) We'll have such a ru,h
for 40s. freeholds directly anybody gets up in the House
of Commons to propose it. We'll have every man to
get a 40s. freehold to defend the rest, as soon as that is
talked of.—(Renewed applause.) We have not raised
40,0001. to spend it in Manchester. We have literally
nothing to do there. Manchester, and Salford, and Stock-
port, and South Lancashire, require no more money to be
spent upon them, for no bread taxer would dare to show
face to those constituencies. Our object in raising this
money is to get a guarantee fund, for that is what it
amounts to. We call upon the country to guarantee to
us, the Council of the League, 250,0001., if wanted, to
fight this battle to a successful issue. We had got
nearly 75,030/. put down in Manchester when I left yes-
terday, and we shall get the rest. We don't come here
to beg money. I would not give one per cent. to guaran-
tee the whole sum in our exchequer. We have this
guarantee fund to show to our opponents that, if neces•
sary, we can fight this battle for another five years,
spending 50,0001 a year; and that would enable us to
plant an efficient organised( al—a qualification committee
—in every district of every county in the kingdom.—
(Applause.) Lord Morpeth is walking over the West
Riding.—(Tremendous cheering.) He is walking over
after one year's registration by the League. Our oppo-
nents say they do not fight it because there is to be a
general election soon, and then, they say, they will
show us what they can do. Why, we shall have
two thousand more upon the register before the
30th of January.—(Loud cheers.) And now I shall
fail in my object here, it I merely show you the
power you possess, if I don't leave behind some
organisation—some assurance that you will do the thing
when we are gone. lam told that there are people here
from Durham, Shields, Sunderland, and all the neigh-
bouring places. I entreat them, when they go
home, to work. They must not lose a day in can-
vassing, for there is nothing to be done without that.
Canvass your neighbours—canvass everybody that has it
in his power to qualify for the county, and induce him
to put his name on that muster-roll which can alone se-
cure his freedom. I got a letter the other day from a
person in Durham, who tells me that >he has eight sons
on the register. There's a pate iarch for you.—(Laugh-
ter.) Now, how many scores and hundreds of me-
chanics are there in this and the neighbouring towns
who can easily possess the franchise. You must
change the complexion of the register in these counties,
and before the 30th of January too. You must organise
committees, canvass your neighbours, put advertisements
into your papers, and over your committee-room
have a sign, inscribed in large letters, " Free trade
county qualification committee within ;" let a secretary
be there, and be sure that you employ none but good
free trade lawyers. We are going into Cumberland to-
morrow—a number of our friends are at work there al-
ready. Then we shall visit that snug little pocket county
of Lord Londsdale's—Westmoreland. In olden times
there used to be great battles there between Henry
Brougham and Lord Lonsdale, but Lord Lonsdale al-
ways beat Brougham. Both parties used to get their
friends in other parts to qualify for the county, and Lord
Lon-dale cannot complain, therefore, if we now add two
thousand voters to the register. In Lancashire, Lord
Francis Egerton and Mr. Entwisle know right well
how they stand on the register. Lord Francis Eger-
ton knows that it is as impossible for him to be elected
with the present register, as it would be for him to fly
to the moon. Of course, then, he tells Sir Robert Peel
this. Sir Robeit Peel knows what is going on, and is
influenced just as much by it es he would be by ark
election. I have been a year and a half working this
question, and I am convinced that this county qualifica-
tion movement is a leverage by which we can transfer
the power of the monopolist landlords utterly and for
ever into the hands of the middle and industrious classes
of this country. I eheuld despair of ever succeeding in
this question by anything short of a physical force revo-
lution, unless I saw in this 40s. freehold qualification
the means of doing it. This is the argument which we
are furnishing to Sir Robert Peel. If these men yield
next session—as I predict they will yield—it will be
because they know we have the power to force them
to yield if they attempt to procrastinate the settle-
ment of this question. I say I have no doubt that
they will yield next session. I don't know that we
shall get what we want through Sir R. Peel ; I don't
care whom it comes from ; get it we will.—(Deafening
applause.) If Sir R. Peel bring forward any half-and.
half scheme, then we have a power in the Opposition to
bring against him which we have never had before.
We were never a united Opposition before. I declare to
you most solemnly, that up to within the last six months
I have b. en more afraid of the Whigs than of the Tories.
Not that I think worse of those who are nearer us on
some points than of those who are further off; but I was
afraid that if they proposed a compromise, there would
be a disposition in many parts to coincide with them, in
order to keep them in power. But all that is past. We
go to Parliament this next session a united Opposition.
If Sir R. Peel does not go straight, then the sooner we
find him in a minority the better. If he does not bring
forward a full measure, he'll not live through the ses-
sion. With two hundred men opposed to him in a com-
pact body, and—leaving myself out of the question—
comprising nine-tenths of the talent of the House, it
is utterly impossible for his Government to stand
through the next session, unless he takes a course
which will secure to him the support of the country in
this question. If Sir R. Peel proposes to abolish the
corn and provision laws, I'll cling to him as faithfully
until he has done his work, as I would to Lord John
Russell, or anybody else.—( Applause.) The Hon. Gen-
tleman concluded his address, by briefly expressing his
thanks for the cordial reception which had been given
to him, and sat down amidst cheering, which continued
for a considerable period.
A resolution, expressive of thanks to Messrs. Cobden
and Bright for their attendance, and pledging the parties
present to carry their recommendation into effect by
every means in their power, was then proposed, and car-
ried amidst loud cheering.
Mr. COBDEN briefly returned thanks.
Thanks was then voted to the Chairman, and, after
giving three cheers for Messrs Cobden and Bright, the
immense assembly separated.

AT NEWCASTLE ITPON-TYNE.

their condition in life. If I now To-enter Parliament,
! after the lone interval of ahsPnce from its riclih,ratotts,
,nct withoui• ,t,;-1 the rmilly jatr,ort,,nt
c,nnectPri untler
My ',inlet', I 111U,t, ri-,'sc'l,-0 to ro;.Aclf efl ne trc Mora to
• deal with the propositions which may be submitted for
adoption ; but I shall bring to their consideration a keen
feeling for the wants and wishes of the working-classes,
and a resolute determination to do my whole duty
towards them.

The largast in-door meeting el er held in Newcastle-

up-n-Tynir: assembled )1-1 Monday evening, to rec Ave
Me,,sr. Cobden and Bright. as a deputation from the
Anti Corn-law League. The place selected for the ga-
thering was the Corn Exchange, which is capable of
holding nearly 5,000 persons. Every portion of the vast
area was filled, considerable numbers having arrived
from Sunderland, Darlington, Shields, and the other
towns in the vicinity.
About seven o'clock Mr. Bright and a large body of
gentlemen took up their position on the platform. Mr .
Cobden arrived soon afterwards, and was welcomed with
loud cheers. •
_ _ _

" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your most faithful servant,
" MORPETH.
" The Delegates of the Shert Time Committees
of the West Riding."

Alderman Sir John Fife was called to the chair, and
introduced

Air.BRIGHT, who was received with loud cheers. He
commenced by stating that every one must be convinced
that, at this moment, some great question was exciting
the minds of almost the whole population of this coun-
try. A meeting of so many thousands could not have
been assembled in Newcastle unless there were some
question which the inhabitants believed to be of vital
'importance to themselves and the country. They ad •
socuted the principle that every man shout be at liberty
to employ his inoustry and skill fairly, and that when
he produced anything as the result of that industry and
skill, he allowed to trade in all the markets of the
world without the leave or hindrance of the law. They,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER. —TIIE‘DAY.
DERBT.-6 to 1 agst Sting (offered)-15 to 1 agst Bro-
cardo, 30 to 1 agst Malcolm, 30 to 1 agst Tag°, 5 to 1 agst
Scott's lot.
Cl/ESTER Cu .-40 to 1 agst Warrior, 40 to 1 agst Alice
Hawthorn. Offers to back the field agst 20.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1846.
The Newmarket Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5

only if declared on or before the 24th instant.
Lothario, 6 yrs, 9st 101b—Oakley, aged, 9st 101 b
Alsrm, 4 yrs, 9st 51b—Minotaur, 6 yrs, 9st 31b—The
Baron, 4 yrs, 9st 31b—Inheritress, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—Queen
Mab, a'ed, 9st Ilb—Corranna., aged, 9st—Mickey Free,
5 yrs, Bst 131b—St. Llwrence, aged, Bst 121b—Winesour,
6 yrs, Bst 101b—Woltdog, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—Trueboy,
6 yrs, Bst 101b—Eboracum, aged, Bst 91b—Pine Apple,
6 yrs, Bst 81b—Antler, 5 yrs, Bst 81b—Needful, 5 vrs,
Bst 71b--Weatherbit, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Ionian, 5 yrs,
Bst 71b—Warp, 5 yrs, Bst blb—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs,
Bst 31b—Miss Elis, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Rowena, 5 yrs,
Bst 31b—Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Refraction, 4 yrs,
Bst 21b—Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs, Bst Ilb—The Pacha,
4 yrs, Bst lib—Boarding-School Miss, 5 yrs, Bst—Na-
worth, aged, Bst—Sorella, 5 yrs, Bst—Ruff, 4 yrs, Bst
Queen of Tyne, aged, 7st 13kb —b h by Velocipede, out
of Fair Jane, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—What, 6 yrs, 7st 111 b
Idleness, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Pugilist, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b
Event, 4 yrs, 7st 1 Ilb—Fitztllen, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Satyr.
5 yrs, 7st 101b—Crim. Con., 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Venus,
4 yrs, 7st 101b—sEgis, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Lady Wildair,
4 yrs, 7st 91b—Little John, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Alamode,
5 yrs, 7st 91b—Anna Comuena, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Joe
Lovell. 5 yrs, ist 81b—Haitoe, aged, 7st 81b—The
Roper's Daughter, aged, 7st 8113—Chertsey, 4 yrs,
1 7st 71b—I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 71b—Johnny, aged,
7st 71b—Young Locbinvar, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Ould Ireland,
4 yrs, 7st 51b—Duc an Durres, 4 yrs, 7st 51b —King
Cob, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Captain Flathooksr, aged, 7st 31b—
Metal, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Beaumont, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Laird
o' Cockpen, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Wee Pet, 6 yrs, 7st 21b—
Bourse Tomacha, 6 yrs, 7st 21b—Doctor Husband, 5
yrs, 7st 21b—Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs, 7st 216—My
Mary, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Leoperd, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—May-
nooth, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Fuzbos, 4 yrs, ist Ilb—Judex,
6 yrs, 7st 11b—Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, 7st—Clumsy, 4 yrs,
7st—Kesheng, 4 yrs, 7st—As you like it, 4 yrs, 7st—
Miss Burns, 6 yrs, 6st 131b—Elemi, 5 yrs, Est 121b—
b h by Velocipede, out of Amulet, 5 yrs, Est 131 b
Best Bower, 5 yrs, sst 121b—Foremast, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b
—Dean Swift, 4 yrs, 6st 1 Ilb—Plaudit, 4 yrs, 7st Illb
—Hawkesbury, 4 yrs, Est 91b —Symmetry, 4 yrs, 6st 91b
—Mongrel,4 yrs, 6st 91b—Merryman, 4 yrs, 6st 91b—c by
Slane, out of Frill, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Sir Dig-gory Diddle,
5 yrs, Est 71b—Arthur, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—c by Elis, out of
Mopsa, 4 yrs, 6st 5113—Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, Est 51b—
John Davis, 4 yrs, fist 51b—Moline, 4 yrs, Est 51b—f by
Defence, out of Nike, 4 yrs, Est lb—Chemise, 4 yrs,
6st 51b—Correct Card, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—Bretwalda, 4 yrs,
6tt 41b—Lyons, 4 yrs, 6st 31b—The Wieek, 4 yrs, fist
31b—Energy, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—Dexterous. 3 yrs, Est I lb—
Stoker, 4 yrs, Est Ilb—Anti-Repealer, 4 yrs, 65t llb
—Sister to Robert de Gorham, 3 yrs, 6st—Cor
nelius, 3 yrs, 6st—Devil's Dust, 4 yrs, sst
131b—Astonishment, 3 yrs, sst 121 b —The Hero,
3 yrs, sst 121b—Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, sst 111 b
Rosa, 4 yrs, Sat 111b—Tug Net, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Scarlet
Runner, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Timbria, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Sis to
Ma Mie, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Deodara, 4 yrs, sst 81b—Black-
bird, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, sst
51b—Ukrain, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Thrapstone, 3 yrs, sst 51b
—Terrier, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Breastgirth, 3 yrs, sst 21b—
Punch, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Chandelier, 3 yrs, sst 11b—Curi-
osity, 3 yrs, sst 1 lb—Ohio, 3 yrs, sst—The Little Vulgar
Boy, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b—f by Discord, out of Soldier's Joy,
3 yrs, 4st 1 llb—Killikrankie, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—br f by
Retriever, out of -Emilia, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—b cby Mus,
out of Guava, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—c by Venison, out of
Pet, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Spur, 3 yrs, 4st 91b —b f by Stock-
port, out of Ganymede, 3 yrs, 4st 91b—Sharpshooter,
3 yrs, 4st 91b.

as manufacturers, did not ask for free trade for the benefit

of Lancashire, Yorkshire, or Newcastle, but they asked
for free trade for the benefit of the landowners, of the
farm labourers, and of every class of the community.
They wanted a fair field and no favour, that every man
might make the best use for himself of the power and
capacity with which God endowed him, and that no law
be allowed to step in to interfere with the free working
of his industry. There were two reasons why they
objected to the principles of the protectionists. The
one was, that it was utterly impossible that they could be
applied to every man; and the other was, that, if applied,
they would be injurious to every man. There was no
law or Act of Parliament to raise the price of goods in
foreign countries The cotton trade had no protection,
and the system could not be applied to a trade that ex-
ports abroad. It was unjust to the manufacturer and
workman, if the price of food was raised by law, while
what they produced was allowed to remain at its natural
level. The law extorts from the manufacturer part of
his capital, and from the labourer part of his toil, is
order that the owners of the soil might obtain more for
what they sell than they have any right to. [Mr. Bright
was compelled rather abruptly to conclude, owing to
hoarseness. During the delivery of his address he was
rep, arecily and loudly applauded.]
Mr. COBDEN was received with enthusiastic and pro-
longed cheering. When this had subsided, he said—
edemen, this meeting makes me almost fancy I am
Di the Free trade Hall in Manchester. I think it is the

largest mi,etitig under cover that I nave ever addrissed
out of that ball ; and altiv,ugh it is but a bad prepara-
tion for an address to such nu audience as this, to have

travelled two hundred miles in the cold to visit you, yet
I think I must be almost an icicle if I was not warmed
by such a reception as you nave given me.—(Applause.)
Gentlemen, you are not brought together in this manner
without a pretty unanimous conviction that the time is
come for a great and united demonstration to help those
who are willing to put down this law, or to compel those
who are unwilling to do it.—(Cheering.) And how
different are our meetings to the meetings of the protec-
tionists! At Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, they ven-
tured to call a public meeting, the mayor in the chair, and
there—in the heart of the most purely agricultural
county in the kiesdow—an amendment was carried in
favour of the total repeal by 20 to I.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) And yet these gentlemen, when they have got
together in their protection meetings, are always telling
us the country is with th, m—ttia: the British lion is
reusing, itselt in all its majesty; but they take care al-
ways to talk when the British lion is not looking at
them.—(Laughter.) The aristocracy- and landowners
who attend the protectionist meetings are men of mea-
sure—men originally of college education—men not like
us, brought up in counting-houses or warehouses—but
men whose whole lives have been at their disposal to
gain knowledge and to cultivate their natural talents:
how is it that these men stand up in the face of their
fellow-countrymen and make such lamentable exhibi-
tions of themselves? Why, the fact is simply this—
their cause is so had that I defy the best of counsel
to be able to say anything in its favour. They have
only to resort to that old standing stratagem of which
all have heard—l mean that resorted to by a lawyer
who to, •k a brief to counsel endorsed "No merits,
please to abuse the plaintiff's attorney." Now, as they
have no merits, they take care to abuse the League,
which is the country's attorney in this case. They not
only abuse us, but tsey misrepresent us. They tell the ,
country that we have all sorts of designs in view, which
I never contemplated at all events. They tell us we I
want to deprive the landowners of protection, and to
keep protection for ourselves. Why, we have never
held a meeting of the League— a great aggregate meet.
ing, I mean—but we have always unanimously passed a
resolution, " That whilst we seek free trade in corn, we
are willing and anxious that free trade should be ap-
plied to every description of manufacture."—(Hear.)
That was our first resolution in the winter of 1838, and
we have repeated that resolution every year since. And
now I'll offer them a bargain. If One of these protec-
tionists will only move in the House of Commons, at the
beginning of the next session, for a free trade in corn,
I'll get up to move, as a rider, free trade in all kinds of
manufactures.—(Hear, hear.) Having made that offer
to them, let us see if they will misrepresent us in future.
My friend Mr. Bright has alluded briefly to the fact,
that manufactures are not, and cannot be protected. A
very large portion of our cotton goods is sold abroad,
and goods sold abroad can have no protection from our
Acts of Parliament. The very fact that we send goods
abroad is a proof that we have more made than we can
sell at home ; and our manufactures, therefore, cannot
be protected. Well, then, all the great manufacturing
interests of the kingdom are altogether unprotected, and
incapable of being protected. And I would ask, if it is
likely that the vast body of the industrious classes en-
gaged in these manufactures will ever submit to any
small portion of the community being protected at our
expense ?—(Loud cheers.) lam glad the protectionists
have been brought to this. They cannot sustain their
cause whilst they talk only of protecting themselves.
They dare not face us in Parliament again on that ground ;
they have been too soundly drubbed for that. Well, let
us go a little further, and ask, are the people that are pro-
tected by their laws better off than those that are left to
their unaided energy, and who have to find a market for
their produce in the open world ? Who are the people in
this country that are receiving the lowest wages ? Pre-
cisely that portion of the community for whose benefit
these protection societies pretend to exist. The agri-
cultural labourers, who are getting 75., Bs., or 9s. as
week—aye, in Hertfordshire and parts of Somersetshire,
6s. a-week. The unskilled labourers in the manufactur-
ing districts, who are working for Russians, Poles,
Americans, and Chinese, are, as a rule, without excep-
tion, getting 50 per cent. more wages than those who
are at work for these protected interests.—(Applause.)
Aye, and whilst these men are pretending to maintain
this protection for the benefit of the peasantry, the pea-
santry are running away from their protectors, and
coming to our manufacturing districts, seeking better
wages and better employment from the hands of those
who have no protection, and who are making for the
open markets of the world. I do not 'profess to be
particularly democratic. I would have no objection
to changes going on in this or any other country gra-
dually ; but positively I begin to fear that these men
by their folly—their absolute silliness and stupidity—
will precipitate changes faster than any man who likes
ordinary movement would wish. I'll tell you why. Men
are not prepared to leave their counting-houses and ware-
houses, and carry on the affairs of state instead of them.
We have plenty that are able to do it. We have tens of
thousands and hundreds of thousands of men in our
workshops, in our warehouses, in our counting•houses,
tha
have than theseot ready,and
maundering
er fit, and willing to do the nation's work better
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hour's notice.—(Laughter and applause.) What I should
like to see would be a movement amongst the wiser part
of the aristocracy to save the rest. I would begin with
the Dukes, for the Dukes seem to be the most infatuated
class. There are the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Rich
mond, the Duke of Cleveland. the Duke of Newcastle,
and the Duke of Buckingham. Why, these five Dukes
are enough to ruin the aristocracy.—(Laughter.) If
you had five shipowners in Newcastle so infatuated, so
silly, so positively incapable as these five Dukes are,
why the shipping trade would leave your port. And
then the Marquises—the next in rank—seem to be just
next in folly. I observe that the Marquis of Salisbury
has been having a meeting in Hertfordshire, at which he
lalked about the League being a great unconstitutional

SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1846.
THURSDAY.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each, with 50 sovs. added, for
two yrs old.
Duke of Be( ford's Eothen—Lord G. Bentinck's Black-
cock—Mr. R. Boyce na Cottisford—Mr. Coape's Bro
to Pawnbroker—Mr. Cheshire's f by Redshank, out
of Delhi—Mr, Clifton's Dromedary and Conceit—Mr.
Douglas's f by The Doctor, out of Bupta—•Mr. W. Key's
The Hosier—Lord Lpnsdale's f by The Saddler, out of
Barbakin—Mr. Marson's Borrachio—Mr. Newton's Re-
tniniscenee—Mr. O'Brien's Emerald Isle—Col. Peel's
Isis—Mr. Payne's f by Slane, out of Elissa—Duke of
Richmond's Vampire—Mr. Shelley's Broadsword—Mr.
R. T. Shafto's Pepper.

FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1846.
The St. Leger Stakes, for three yrs old. D.I.
Sir Rupert, Green Pea, Joy, Footstool, Sting, Tugnet,
Sister to Flambeau, Lynceus.

SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1846.
FRIDAY.

Duke of Bedford's Paragon, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b, against
Mr. Merton's Mouseling, by Mus, 2 yrs, 6st. T.Y.C.
200, h ft.

HOUGHTON MEETING, 1846.
TUESDAY.
The Criterion Stakes, for two yrs old, &c.
Colonel Anson's Bingham—Lord George Bentinck's
Planet, Projectile, Slander, Blackcock, Devil me
care—Count Bathyany's Teresina—Mr. R. Boyee's
Cottisford—Mr. Cheshire's br c by Redshank, dam
by Dr. Syntax—Mr. E. R. Clarke's Miles's Boy
Mr. Drewitt na Galvanic Ring Lord
Eglinton's Van Tromp—Mr. Etwall's f by Sir
Hercules, out of Passion—Mr. W. Etwall's Sister to
Agis—Mr. Ford's Millwood—Lord Glasgow's Chain
Bearer—Mr. Godwin's Adroit—Mr. D. T. Grant's
Shahzadee—Mr. Gratwicke's Little Julia and Joy-
ful—Mr. Greville's Apricot and Ferina—Mr.
Gully's f by Sheet Anchor, dam by Bay
Middleton—Sir J. Hawley's Vanity—Lord Lons-
dale's c by Camel, out of Young Dean's dam—Mr.
G. Maugham's c by Slane, out of Corumba—Mr. l'ayne's
c by Venison, out of Sister to Cobweb, and f by
Venison, out of Cobweb—Colonel Peel's Oregon
and Palma—Mr. Quartermaine's c by Liverpool,
out of Mona— Mr. C. Smith's Hornet—Mr. Steer's
c by Redshank, out of Dublin—Mr. Henry Stan-
ley's f by Gladiator or The Doctor, out of Flam-
beau's dam—Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby—Mr. Thomp-
son's gr c by the Skater, out of the Dosie Beebee—Mr.
Watson's Doctor Goodall—Mr. Wreford's c by Venison
or Sultan Junior, out of Monimia—Mr. Worley's Go-
lightly.

body, which, if allowed to go on, would deprive them of
all their rights, and liberties, and franchises. That was
in Hertfordshire; and all this scolding is simply because

the League recommend the middle ancliudustiii,us classes
to possess themselves of 40s. freeholds in the counties.
Now directly I had read the speech of the Marquis of
Salisbury-, I wrote to a friend to buy me a 40s. freehold
in Hertfordshire. I'll be on the list for Hertfordshire
next year, and I will entreat all my friends, a'l good
leaguers, to follow my example and qualify for it. We'll
very soon show the Marquis of Salisbury how easy it is
to send him back to his privacy, and just leave him as
much power over the representation of Hertfordshire as
any man wearing a round frock upon his estate. What
we have done in South Lancashire we can do in Hertford-

shire. What we have done in the West Riding we'll do
in Buckinghamshire; and the object of our coining here
to-night is to talk to you a little about this mode of setting
the aristocracy in their right position, by taking political
power out of their hands, and putting it into the hands
of people who will use it more for the benefit of the
state, and consequently, ultimately more for the benefit
of these Dukes and Marquises, and their successors. I
Flo not think that in this part of the country you are at
all aware of the power that is slumbering, and of which
you ought to have availed yourselves long ago. I believe
there is no county which affords so many facilities for
getting votes as the adjoining county of North Durham.
You may qualify there for 30/. ; you may even buy a
freehold for 201. Any number of qualifications ma) be
had in North Durham for 301, or from that to 361. Bear
in mind that we do not ask you to give 301. for a vote.
We only ask a man to invest 301. in a property which will
bring seven or eight per cent. interest, instead of putting
it into the 11.tik, er in the savings-bank, where it wculd
bring only three or three-and .a-half per cent. interest
And bear in mind, when a men has saved his 201., 301.,
or 401, and invested it in real property, he has what is
commonly called a " stake in the country," he feels that
he hag Aomethin g to lose, he feels that he is bound to take
counsel in what be does when he gives his vote, that he
won't injure his ownproptrty ; and it is by such a class
of men as this that, in the enlightened state of this age,
.j shotild like to see the political power of this country
wielded.—(Hear, hear.) When this 40s. freehold frau,
also w4s4 created, more than five centuries ago, 40s. a

THE ARMY.

PROMOTION „PROM THE RANKS AND REWARDS

FOR GOOD SERVICtS.

„.arrant was p-orinrlgn'ed i fer.iay, b:- c o ;mud of
her iqnjeaty, for the purpose of affording "a gre..ter en-
couragement to the non- conmissioned officers and soldiers
of the army who may have distinguished themselves, or
who mai have given good, faithful, and efficient service.”
It is dated Windsor December 19, and is comprised in forty-
four articles ; by the first of which, 4‘ Whenever her Majesty
shall sanction the grant of a commission without purchase to a
non-commissioned-officer, selected and recommended for this
distinction by the Commander-in-Chief, there shall be
granted to such officer in aid of an outfit as a commissioned
officer, a sum of 150/. if appointed to a cavalry regiment,
and 1001. if to an infantry regiment."
2. That a sum not exceeding 2,0001. a year be distributed
for the purpose of granting annuities, as rewards for dis-
tinguished or meritorious service, to sergeants who are now,
or may be hereafter in the service, either while serving or
after discharged with or without pension, in sums not:ex-
ceeding 201., which may be held during service and with
pension.

3. Sergeants selected for this honorary distinction en-
titled to receive and wear a silver medal.
4. Commander-in-Chief to select individuals for this mark
of applobation.

5.' With the view of further rewarding meritorious sol-
diers when discharged, and encouraging good conduct in
others, warrants of 1829 and 1833 altered, and a gratuity in
addition to ordinary pensions may be granted upon discharge,
to men who shall have served twenty-one years in the in-
fantry, or twenty•four in the cavalry. Gratuity to sergeants
who shall have served ten years as such, 15/. ; corporal seven
years as such, 10/. ; private, 51.
6. Commanding officer of every regiment may annually
recommend such individuals while serving as he shall consider
best entitled to gratuity, provided amount recommended in
any one year does not exceed 30', for regiment of establish-
ment of 700 rank and file and upwards, and 201. for regiment
of lower establishment than 700 rank and file.
7. Men recommended must have completed twenty-one
years actual service in infantry, and twenty-four in cavalry,
and have borne irreproachable character, or, if not strictly
within latter conditions, must have particularly distinguished
themselves in the service.
8. Soldiers recommended to receive gratuity for good con-
duct shall, by approval of Commander-in-Chief, be entitled
to wear silver medal.

_ .
Articles 9, 10, and 11 further refer to medal gratuities, &c.
12. Directs that all corporals, trumpeters, drummers, lifers,
buglers, and private soldiers, enlisted or re-enlisted after the
Ist of September, 1836, shall have no claim to additional
pay after any pet iod of service, but that a reward of addi-
tional pay for good conduct be granted under rules in
articles 13.414, 15, 16, 17,'and 18, by which a progressive in-
crease of ld. a day up to 6d., and certain distinguishing
marks under regulations specified to soldiers who shall have
completed ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years'
service.

19. Soldiers who shall have completed'eighteen years' ser-
vice without having names entered in regimental defaulter?
book for last sixteen years shall be allowed good conduct
reward after twenty, twenty-five, and thirty years of actual
service, two years earlier.
20. Service to entitle soldiers to rewards granted after each
period of five years must be service in the ranks.
21. Soldiers who accept employments will receive good-
conduct pay, by special sanction only, in consideration of
circumstances:mentioned in this article.
Articles 22, 23, and 24. Regulations as to good-conduct
pay, distinguishing marks, &c.
25. Service requisite to entitle men to distinction and re-
wards granted may include former service in all ranks after
age of eighteen.
26. Regulations as to men diicharged on reduction or for
disability.
27. Forfeiture of service attaching to individuals in re-
spect of additional pay, in consequence of sentence of Court-
martial, or of conviction for desertion, will equally attach to
them in respect of good pay.
28. Solaieis of good conduct, who may be permitted to
purchase or obtain free discharges at their own request, shall
be allowed discharges upon terms in this article specified.
29. Soldiers enlisting since March 1833, who are in enjoy-
ment of two or more distinguishing marks, and of good con-
duct pay, may obtain permanent pension as an indulgence, at
rate fixed in warrant of Feb. 1833, two years earlier than
men who have not earned this distinction, and receive same
amount of good-conduct pay which would have been added
to their ordinary pension, under rules laid down in this war-
rant if they had been discharged as unfit for further service
or by reduction.
30. States that as it is her Majesty's pleasure that this
reward shall be strictly an honourable distinction, to be con•
ferred only upon the well-conducted soldier, commanding
officers of regiments are strictly enjoined to enter in defaulter?
book the name of every soldier who in consequence of
misconduct shall have been subjected to any punish-
ment beyond six da3s' drill or seven days' confinement to
barracks, and the Commission of every offence which shall
impose upon commanding Officer the necessity of recording
the soldier's name in the regimental defaulters' book, shall
render the man ineligible for this reward for two years from
that date ; and, if he be already in possession of this distinc-
tion, shall deprive him of his distinguishing mark and good
conduct pay for one year ; and a second recorded offence
within twelve months shall render two years of uninter-
rupted good conduct necessary to obtain a restoration of such
reward.

31. Refers to forfeiture and restoration of good conduct
pay and distinguishing marks.
32. Any soldier who, by having been recorded in the re-
gimental defaulters' book, shall have been adjudged to haVe
been guilty of an offence by which he is to forfeit the whole
or a part of his reward for previous good conduct shall, if
he denies the commission of such offence, have the right of
appeal to comt-martial.
33. A soldier may, for first offence of serious nature, be ad
judged, by court-martial, to forfeit all or any part of the ad-
vantage he had derived from previous good conduct, abso-
lutely, or for period not less than eighteen months.
34. The distinction and rewards for good conduct do not
extend to sergeants and other non-commissioned officers
above the rank of corporal, and they will not be allowed,
while serving, any addition to established pay; but if per-
mitted to purchase, or obtain free discharges at their own
request, they will be admitted to benefits of article 28, and if
discharged to pension they may for peculiarly good conduct
be allowed id., 2d., 3d., 4d., 5d., or 6d. a day to pensions,
provided aggregate pension shall in no case exceed far a ser-
geant is. 10d., quartermaster-sergeant 2s. id., and sergeant-
major 2s. 4d. a day.
35. Soldiers in her Majesty's service who enlisted before
September, 1836, shall have the option of relinquishing addi-
tional pay of 2d. a day, to which they are now entitled after
completion of fourteen years' infantry or seventeen cavalry
service, and shall then be entitled by good conduct to advan-
tages of good conduct pay while serving, of pension on dis-
charge, and deferred pension, granted to soldiers enlisted
after Septembet, 1836.
36. Soldiers now serving who enlisted on or before the Ist
of March, 1833, by relinquishing right to additional pay for
length of service, be entitled to claim advantages of good
conduct pay while serving, hereby granted; but as warrants
which were in force at the time of their original enlistment
give them a right to higher rates of pension on discharge
than those to be granted to men enlisted after March, 1833,
not entitled to good conduct pay added to
,pensions on dis-
charge.
37. In special cases of men enlisted on or before March,
1833, who have obtained one or more mark or marks, and
who after short service may be discharged for disabilities or
reduction, either without pension or with temporary, condi-
tional, or permanent pensions, the good conduct pay may,
by consent of the Secretary at War, be added to pensions;
and such men, if not placed upon permanent pensions, be re-
gistered at Chelsea for deferred pension.
38. Soldiers serving who enlisted on or before September,
1836, and who have completed twenty! twenty-five, or thirty
years' service may, on relinguishing right to additional pay,
receive 4d., 5d., or 6d. a day good conduct pay, provided
name shall not have been entered in defaulters' book im-
mediately preceding exchange for periods prescribed by this
warrant.

39. Soldiers who have completed fifteen years' service
may, on relinquishing right to additional pay, receive 3d. per
diem good conduct pay, provided names shall not have been
entered in regimental defaulters' book six years preceding
exchange.
40. Soldiers of legs than fifteen years' service, already in
receipt of additional pay at 2d. a day for length of service,
may, on relinquishing right to additional pay, receive same
amount as good conduct pay, provided names shall not have
been entered in defaulters' book two years preceding ex-
change.
41. Soldiers already in receipt of additional pay of ld. a
day for length of service may, on relinquishing right to ad-
ditional pay, continue to receive same amount as good con-
duct pay, provided names shall not have been entered in
defaulters' book at least two years immediately preceding
exchange.
42. Soldiers not yet in receipt of additional pay for length
of service may, by relinquishing right to same, receive good
conduct pay on completing periods of five, ten, fifteen,
twenty, and thirty years, if names not entered in defaulters'
book two, four, six, eight, ten, or twelve years Immediately
preceding.
43. In establishing claims to glod conduct pay, soldiers
who were present at the battle of Waterloo shall be allowed
to reckon two years in addition to actual service, and those
enlisted before December, 1829, shall be allowed to reckon
three years for two of actual service after the age of eighteen
in East and West Indies (in other than West India Regi.
ments), but in claiming discharge under 28th article actual
service only shall be reckoned.
44. Soldiers enlisted before September, 1836, shall be en-
titled to distinguishing marks whether they accept or not
the option of relinquishing additional pay for good conduct
pay, and be entitled to same addition to pensions as number
of distinguishing marks they may severally possess at the
period of discharge as is allowed to men in the receipt of good
conduct pay.

By her Majesty's command,
(signed) SIDNEY HERBERT.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6,1846.—Her Majesty's steamer Janus,
the projection of Lord Dundonald, arrived at Spithead in the
course of the night, and went,* the harbour early this
morning. She carried the broad paiidant of Captain-Super-
intendent Sherriff until coming under the command of a senior
officer. It appears the Janus left Chatham in the forenoon of
Saturday, and by aid of steam and sails got to Margate Roads
the same night, where she anchored. On Sunday moiling
she put to sea again, and contrived to reach Dungeness on
Sunday night. During Monday she managed to work up
to Spithead, and anchored during the night. At no
time could more than seven knots be got out of her,
and it is therefore very evident that, although Lord Dun-
donald's rotatory engine may be a good one, it is not a
powerful one in this vessel. The Janus is au ugly-
looking steamer, of about 800 tons; her head and
stern are unlike others, but that may arise from
the plan of her projector. She has two funnels. It is, how-
ever, satisfactory to know that before any further expense is
to be entered into about her, a committee of scientific men
are to be sent to Portsmouth to try her engines, and make a
full report to the Admiralty if it is desirable to introduce
them into her Majesty's navy, or let the Janus be the first
and last expense. Professor Airey, and Mr. Lloyd, chief
engineer and inspector of machinery at Woolwich, will form
two of the committee. Lord Dundonald, of course, came
round in the Janus. She was made fast to a buoy off the
Dockyqd. The people who came in her say she is a good
and safe sea-boat under sail. The foregoing is an account of
the JAnus's trip to Portsmouth, and her appearance in the
harbour. Soot), after one the steam was got up, and Lord
Dundonald, Capt. Sherrill; Capt. Denison, R.E., Director of
works in the dockyard, Mr.Taplin, chief-engineer, and soma per-
sons connected with the metal mills, went on board, intending
to try the Janus's engines by an excursion to Spithead. The
necessary preparations were made as much as if she had been
going over to France, the boats being hoisted up, Tid men
with lead lines put in the chains. Captain Sherrifl 'a broad
pendant was displayed, and the pilot went on the paddle-
box; the signal was given to cast off from the buoy, and
after about six revolutions of her wheels the Janus stopped,
and, to prevent her getting foul a, the dockyard wall her
anchor was let 6, and the steani commenced blowing off.
She was then hauled back to the buoy, it being evident to
the spectators that something had gone wrong. So much for
the trial. The Janus's engines and boilers generate A great