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Pianoforte—Mr. LAND.
PART I.
AN lIOUR Wl' BURNS.

Happy Friendship-0 whistle and I'll come to ye, my Lad—John
Anderson my Jo—Duncan Gray—llighland Mary—My Spouse
Nancy—A Man's a Man for a' that.

PART 11.
MISCELLANEOUS SONGS.

buy Caller Herring?—Come muter my Plaidie— The First
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STEYNING, MONDAY NionT.—The annual meeting of
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the Earl of March, M.P., and Sir H. Goring. About 100
persons sat down to dinner.

After the cloth was withdrawn, the healths of "The
Queen" and " The Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and
the rest of the Royal Family," were given by the chair-
man, and received with great enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN said, he had now to ask them to drink
the health of a nobleman who had for some time resided
in that county, whose ancestors had long possessed pro •
perty in the dis rict, who had subscribed most liberally
to the funds of this association, and who, but for the
fatigue he had undergone during the last ten days,
would have occupied the chair on this occasion. He
begged to give " The Health of the Duke of Norfolk,
Earl Marshal."

The toast was drunk with three times three, and loud
cheering.
Lord EDWARD HOWARD, in returning thanks, ex-
pressed his regret that the Duke of Norfolk was unable
to attend this meeting. The visit with which her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert had been graciously pleased to
honour his noble father at Arundel Castle had entailed
upon him considerable fatigue in making the necessary
arrangements for the reception of his Royal visitors, and
for paying them the respect due to their rank and station ;
and it was merely owing to this circumstance that he
was prevented from being present on this occasion.
The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the county
members, observing that he hoped March intended to do
his duty, and if he did not he tru,ted they would turn
him out.—(' Hear, hear," and laughter.)
The Earl of MARCH, who was loudly cheered, said
that he hoped, so long as he deserved to be their repre-
sentative, they would allow hire to enjoy that honour ;
but, if he failed to keep the bargain he had made with
them, the Chairman had very properly advised them to
kick him out.—(Laughter.) He (the Earl of March)
was quite willing to abide such a test.—(Cheers.) He
must say that he considered meetings of this kind were
most advantageous, not only to the landlord, to the
tenant, and to the labourer, but to the country in gene-
ral, which in a great measure owed its pre-eminence to
them. People might laugh at associations for the im-
provement of stock and say they were of no use, bet he
considered that persons who held such opinions were
among the greatest idiots that this country could pro-
duce.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He maintained that
one great advantage of these meetings, even if they were
attended by no other, was that of bringinu landlords and
tenants more closely together, and thereby preserving
those links in society which were the mainstay of the
British constitution. He pledged himself that, when
they were dissatisfied with his conduct, he would make
his bow to them and retire ; but he had now only to
thank them for the honour they had done him, and to
wish them all prosperity and happiness.
The Noble CHAIRMAN then read the prizes awarded
by the judges, varying from 81. to 11., for various de-
scriptions of stock.

The CHAIRMAN then gave "The health of the
Borough Members, and the Members for the Rape of
Bramber." He regretted to say that Sir C. Burrell,
who had come down to attend this meezing, was pre-
vented from being present by severe indisposition. They
could not forget, however, that the Hon. Baronet had
for a long period represented the Rape of Bramber, and
that he had been most zealous in his endeavours for the
improvement of agriculture in this part of the country.
—(Hear, hear.) They knew him to be an upright
and an honest man.—(Cheers.) He (the Chairman) did
not think he could be charged with any political feeling
in asking them to drink this toast; but he might be al-
lowed to say that those Members of Parliament who did
their duty by maintaining those principles which they
avowed when elected had a strong claim upon their re-
spect. (The toast was drunk with loud cheering.)
Mr. GORING, M.P., returned thanks for his colleague
and himself. As he had the pleasure of being per-
sonally acquainted with but a small number of the
gentlemen present, ho could not but attribute
the kind manner in which they had received
his health to the fact that he had not betrayed the con-
fidence they placed in him when they returned him
as their representative.—(Hear, and cheers.) He
had broken none of the pledges he gave at the hustings,
but hi had endeavoured to the best of his ability to sup,
port the interests of the British farmer and labourer.—
(Cheers.) lle might observe, that the advantage of
box feeding was now, he believed, admitted ; and his
bailiff had informod him that he (Mr. Goring) saved 31.
in every 101. by using linseed pudding instead of oil cake.
He concluded by proposing " The health of the Noble
Chairman."—(Loud cheering.)
The Duke of RICHMOND, in acknowledging the toast,
said that he had great satisfaction in attending meetino
of this description, because he was convinced they had
had the effect of producing an essential improvement in
the agriculture of the country. W hen he considered the
exertions of the landlords and farmers of this country to
improve agriculture, and to raise the condition of their
labourers, he thought that, in attending such meetings
as this, he was only performing the duty of his station.
It was impossible to travel even a few miles in the country
without observing the great exertions made be the
farmers to improve their property. He was glad to see
that the landowners and occupiers in this neigh-
bourhood were well aware of 'he great advan-
tages of thorough draining, and he hoped they would
act upon the advice he would venture very humbly to give
them,—to take advantage of the grant which had re-
cently been made from the public funds to assist them
in carrying out these improvements and that, before
long, there would not be an acre of land in the country
liable to be damaged by floods. He would also strongly
recommend the landowners and tenantry of the county
to avail themselves of the improvements which had baen
made in scientific agriculture. He did not think the
agriculturists were open to the charge of bigoted hos-
tility to all change, though they might entertain some
little suspicion and doubt as to the practicability of all the
new theories submitted fox- their consideratiou. He
considered that any new experiments should be tried, in
the first instance, by the landowner, and then, if they
failed, the landowner alone would be the sufferer, while,
if they succeeded, both the tenant and the owner must
;rbyewi
anda s
theyone
eventually be benefited ; for he maintained that if his
he (the
tenant was making a large sum of money
Chairman) would certainly get some of it into his own
pocket. (" Hear," and a laugh,) They must not mis-
understand him. He did not think it right that the
landowners should screw down their tenantry, and he
believed his conduct in that country and elsewhere would
relieve him from the suspicion of entertaining such
an opinion.—(Hear, hear.) Whit he meant was that,
if these experiments succeeded, the tenant's position
landlord.merov ednaenhdabdeneevfietr ssf-eolutldtheavtenatuaplrloyspaecreoruues
mighto th e
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landlord and tenant could
interests of their teniannktrayntyhepyolwitiecrael
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would
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maintain that the interestsr of
he divided.—(Hear,
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to secure the welfare of the
im-
provement of agriculture,
condition of the agricul-
turald to ameliorate the
tenantry, an
rersefallclasses.—(e;heers.)
them to be, would never be wanting to promote the add that his exertions,h heau2bleTahnedy
labourer—nay, of labou
"The Successful Candi-
The CHAIRMAN then
wf stern division of Sussex ;"
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didates ;" " The Judges and Stewardsr
dates ;" The Magistrategsaavned,,CTouhentyuGhseuneteleeeassefunloefatlnie_
Arundel and Bramber Corps of Yeoman y
give was, " The Prosperity of the Labounng
that toast
the Empire," and he did not mean to confine
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in it all
The Noble CHAIRMAN said, the next toast
Chleahssaeds tott.)
to the agricultural labourers, but to include
classeskingdo
kingdom.—(Hear,
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that
throughouttheere e theul
be any distinction between the interests of the farmer
and those of the manufacturer, and he therefore asked
them to drink to the welfare and prosperity of labourers,
whether agricultural or manufacturing. He trusted
their employers, be they manufacturers or farmers,
would never forget that duty which they were all called
upon to perform—to give to the labourer his hire.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought it was a high compliment to
the conduct of the Sussex labourers that they had not
a single horse-soldier in the county, with the exception
of the Bramber and Arundel Yeomanry. They owed
a deep debt cf gratitude to the labouring classes,
who toiled day after day in their service, and under
went many privations. And why did they do this?
Because they well knew that their employers in
the county of Sussex never forgot the important
maxim of doing to others as they would wish to be done
by. He believed that the labourers of that county were
an honest, upright, and independent race. He believed
that the institutions which had been established for the
reward of agricultural labourers had been of essential
benefit to this county, by raising their character, and
exciting in their minds a spirit of emulation. It was
not to be supposed, when they gave a reward of 51. or
10/. to a labourer, that he looked upon it as a pecuniary
recompense for his services. No such thing. They knew
that their soldiers who had distinguished themselves in
the service of their country, and who had pet illed their
lives to maintain its pre-eminence, deemed themselves
amply rewarded by a riband or a medal ; but, did any

one suppose that such a reward was regarded as a corn
pensation for all the hardships and dangers they had
incurred, or the wounds they miuht have received? No;
the gift was gratifyk.g to them, because it showed them
that their services were known to and appreciated by their
country. So it was with thp agricultural labourer. If h e
gained a premium, he received the money; but he wasfar
more prowl of the cant recording the circumstance, which
he hung up over his cottage chimney-piece ; and, if any
person came to inqulre the character of his daughters,
whom they wished to take into their service, he could
point to that card with honest exultation and say, "
gained that reward from such a society for my good con-
duct as an agricultural labourer, and you will take my
daughter into your service because you know she has
been well and religiously edacated."—(Hear, hear.) lie
(the Duke of Richmond) was afraid he had detained
them too long upon this subject, but he felt deeply in-
terested in the welfare of the labourers of this country,
and no man would be more ready than he was to do any-
thing to ameliorate their condition.—(Cheers.)
The toast was then drank with three times three.
The " Health of Lord Eivvard Howard" was then
given, and his Lordship briefly returned thanks. Several
other toasts were subs
quently proposed, and the chair-
man retired shortly before eight o'clock.
Several songs were sung during the evening by a party
of professional singers from Brighton, and on an inci-
dental allusion to " curry," in one of the songs, it pro
yoked a roar of lauzliter from the company.

MR. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY

AND THE COLCHESTER CONSTITUENCY.
In our last number we noticed a rumour which had
been abroad for some days, to the effect that Mr. D. W.
Harvey contempla'c d Paying a visit to Colchester, for
the purpose of making inquiries into the state of the par-
liamentary- registration : and, in doing so, we took
occasion to express our decided opinion that the electors
ought, as early as possible, to be informed of Mr. Har-
vey's intention, as a portion of the constituency were
unwilling to receive atrother candidate so long as a hope
of obtaining their old favourite remained. A singular
omission was, however, made by the printer, which gave
a meaning to our remarks very different from that we in-
tended to convey. The incorrect sentence stands thus—
" We do not, however, agree with some individuals who
assert that Harvey is the man for Colchester ; whereas
it ought to read, .‘ We do not, however, agree with some
individuals who assert that Harvey is the only man for
Colchester." By the omission of the word only we were
placed in the situation of opponents to Mr. Harvey, when
on the contrary, we should probably be found on the
side of his warmest supporters were he to offer himself for
the representation of Colchester. We have been ham as-
ingly anxious that the Liberal cause should receive no
damage from delay, which proved disastrous in 1841 ;
that the cry of " Harvey is coming," when there is no
probability that he will come, should not mislead the
electors by causing them to defer their efforts to procure
another man, until it is too late to introduce him with
any chance of success. It was this feeling which led us
to say last week, what we repeat now, that " Harvey is
not the only man for Colchester." However superior his
qualifications may be, there are, nevertheless, other gen-
tlemen, whose political principles are in accordance with
those of the Colchester Liberals, who would make hon.
ourable and effillient representatives. As the firm friends
of the Liberal cause in Colchester, we press upon the
constituency the importance of decision and immediate
effort. Let there be no dallying ; but promptitude;
union, and perseverance ; and there is reason to believe
that the result will be complete success. There is every
inducement to exertion at the present time ; no Govern-
ment, whether Whig or Tory, can adopt a non-progres •
sive policy ; domestic and foreign affairs both require
the aid of dscerning and judicious minds ; and it ought
to be the concern of every constituency to select men of
enlightened judgments, who are determined not to go
forward merely. but to go forward in the bbst possible
manner. The Colchester Reformers are bound, we con-
ceive, to strain every nerve to secure the return of men
who are resolved to see with their own eyes, to hear with
their own ears, and to do nothing whatever that will not
have the direct or indirect tendency to benefit the country
at large.—lpsteich Expre.ee.

CANADIAN WOMEN & WEATHER.
The Canadian girls a e most attractive. Brought out
young, and mixing largely in society, they are not deeply
read, but are exceedingly loveable, and possess an inde-
scribable charm of manner. Owing probably to the ex-
treme of heat and cold in Canada, beauty is there less
durable than in the mother country. Early matured, it
speedily fades. The fair Canadians make good use of
the interval, and find it abundantly long to play havoc
with the other sex. The English officers are particu-
larly susceptible of their fascinations, and many marry
in Canada; as do also a large proportion of the English
merchants who go over there. The style of dress of
these seductive damsels is simple, but tasteful In win-
ter, of course, they are iurred to the eyes, as a protection
from the piercing cold, which rivals that of Siberia.
Muffed and gauntletted, well packed in bear and buffalo
skins, they are driven about in sledges by their male
friends, who wear huge fir caps, flapped over the ears,
enormous blankets or buffalo coats, jackboots, moose-
skin mocassins, and other contrivances equally inelegant
and comfortable. The extreme dryness of the air ren-
ders the cold much more endurable ttan might be sup-
posed. The brightly, the atmosphere is crisp
and
dexhilarating
sun htiehneis.eis rarely much wind. Under
these circumstances the thermometer may go down, a; it
frequently does, to thirty or forty degrees below zero,with-
out any serious inconvenience or suffering being felt.
When a gales comes (luring the cold season, the effect is
very different. Mr. Elliot Warburton tells us of a certain
Sunday, " when the thermometer was at thirty degrees
below zero, and a high wind blew at the same time
The effect in many respects was not unlike that of in-
tense heat; the sky was very red about the setting sun,
and deep blue elsewhere: the earth and river were
covered with a thin hazy and the tin cross and spires
and the new snow, shone with unnatural brightness ;
dogs went mad from the cold and want of water ; metal
exposed to the air blistered the hand, as if it had come
out of a fire; no one went out of doors but from neces-
sity, and those who did, hurried alcng with their fur-
gloved hands over their faces, as if to guard against an
atmosphere infected with the plague; for as the icy wind
touched the skin, it scorched it like a blaze. But such
a day as this occurs only once in many years."

DESTITUTION IN THE WESTERN

ISLAND.
A gentleman resident on the island of South Uist has
communicated to us facts regarding the state of the po
'pulation in that and the neighbouring islands which are
truly startling. The statement by this gentleman Is,
the amount of provisions now in the peoples possession
cannot possibly sustain them for more than two months
to come at the very utmost. Their crop, he confidently
states, will not yield seed sufficient to be sown next
spring, allowing they use none of it for food at all.
On the 11th ult., when our informant left Uist, British
cholera and inflammation of the intestines had begun
to be epidemic; he knew of upwards of two hundred
cases of this, at that date, in South Uist alone, and
by accounts he has since received, this epidemic has
been, and still is, increasing fearfully. This, our in-
formant says, is the result of deficient feeding and
the food used being of unwholesome quality; the dis-
eased potato, while any of that food remained, and
quantities of small fish, called in that country " cud-
dies," which come to the coast at this season, and which
the people, having literally no other manner of food
whatever, have been living upon, and are now suffering
in consequence. The entire dependence of the whole
population on p.)tato diet is a fact not known adequately
in this part of the kingdom, The people are deprived of
their only food, and literally have now no food. The
gentleman who is our informant, and whose name
and address we shall be rea.iy to communicate, was
asked whether labourers wculd be found to leave
those islands and repair to the south country, where
railways are in progress? His answer was, that three
months ago, large squads of able-bodied working men
would have undertaken that labour gladly ; but that
now, in their present famished condition, those very men
were altogether unable either to travel or to work at
ordinary dad labour. Such a state of matters, at this
period of the season, is very appalling. The statements
already conveyed to the public regarding the destitution
in the Highlands and Islan:N have been considered by
some to be exaggerated. We have here the most com-
petent testimony as to the
i state of facts. A very im-
perious and solemn duty s laid upon the whole com-
munity to extend their sympathy and aid. To this
gentleman's house some sixteen or twenty men—not
the pauper class—come of a day craving food, not
having tasted any food for two whole days, and feel-
ing in themselves that their fish diet was inducing dis-
ease, they loathed tint diet, and had nothing else what-
ever to look to.— Greenock Advertiser.

OUTRAGE BY SoLDIERS.--David Oliver and John
Jones, privates in the Bth Regiment, were brought before
the county m9gistrates at Rochester, on Monday on a
charge of assault, arising out of
. the following disgraceful
eqtopped themselves in military
circumstances:--On Friday night, between nine and ten
. proceeded to the re-
o'clock, the prisoners, having escaped from their quarters
at Upnor Castle, after roll call, they removed their
bludgeons,nutn-
P.isSt'htr(aighlll, farmer, at tot bury,
cloaks,bs
ieires
re-
sidence cf re oamno
df their
armedmr. c:v:
where they commenced violently knocking at the front
door, to the great alarm of the inmates, Fortunately
Mr. Stronghill and his brothers were both at home, aad
on gonLe to the door, found the prisoners standing one on
each side of the doorway, who immediately demanded
Stronghill threatened to report them to
left.f o ocl , sweari‘ir.
Sing. that they would have some before they
their commanding officer, notwithstanding which, they
persisted in their first demand, and in the most violent
language, declared they cared no more for their officer
than they did for him. Oliver
holding up his bludgeon
in a menacing attitude, swore that he would give him
something. He was, however, overpowered, and the as-
sistance of the labouring men in Mr. Stronghill's em-
ploy having been obtained, he was safely lodged in the
station-house at Rochester. Jones escaped and returned
to his quarters at Upner Castle, where he was appre-
hended next day Jones was adjudged to pay a penalty
of 305., and Oliver, who was most violent on the occa-
sion, a-penalty double that
Maidstone Gaol,
months,
1 owneeremboontthh
amount. In default they
the former for
,coamndintihtteedlatttoerMfoair

DUTCH AND HAMBURGH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 3.—The Directors of the Dutch
Railway Company have just published the monthly
statements for November, of the number of passengers
and the receipts in that month :
Passengers
Preceding statement
Received for passengers and goods FI. 39,412
Preceding receipts ..
The number of passengers by the Rhenish Railway
during the month of N,)vember was 224,666 ; passengers'
fares, 30,3581; received for goods, 10,2031
AMSTERDAM, DEC. I.—We learn respecting the con-
cession of the railway from Amsterdam to Alkmaar and
the Helder, Ist, That the reports of the Ministers of the
Interior, Finance, and of War, are favourable, and that
some difficulties made by the war department had been
removed. It was hoped that an amicable arrangement
respecting the sum coasidered by the War Department,
as necessary for the fortifications, would shortly be ef-
fected by the mediation of the other two departments
After which the undertaking, which is heartily desired
by the whole province, will be commenced. We learn
also that several applications hare been made for
branches from this railway by the neighbouring and
principal towns of North Holland.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 2.—On Saturday last his Majesty
gave an audience of leave to Baron Bois le Comte,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
the King of the French to the Court of the Netherlands.
We learn that the King has presented to his Excellency
the Insignia of the Grand Croes of the Oaken. M. D.
Bressiere, who succeeds Baron Bois le Comte, is ex-
pected here to-morrow.
The Batavia journals, received by the overland mail,
bring the following news:—Conformably to the treaty
between the Dutch Government and that of Koctie, the
only natural son of the late Sultan succeeds his father
by the title of Nlohamad Adil Halipatoel Moeminie.
During the minority of the new Sultan, the Govern-
ment will be directed by a Council of Regency, consist-
ing of three peyouus, the choice of whom has been ap-
proved by the Governor-General of our Indian posses•
sions.

On the 15th of August, 1846, a dreadful fire re-
duced to ashes, one of the finest and most populous Dessas
in the district of Rengel, in the residency of Remburg.
The rice in the residency of Cherbon has been very un-
favourable this year, in consequence the ravages com-
mitted by insects. The situation of the farmers has been
severely affected by reason of this failure. The Govern-
ment has taken various measures in their favour, and
has given orders for the cultivation of other agricultural
products.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. s.—From the table of the receipts
of the ways and means of the first nine months of this
year, corresponding with that of the three preceding
years, it appears that there is an increase on some taxes
of 803,707 63f1., and a decrease on other taxes of
663,737 63f1. So that the total receipts for the first
nine months of this year exceeds that of the correspond-
ing period in 1843 by 140,056 90fl.
THE HAGUE, DEC. I.—Great preparations are being
made for the celebration of his Majesty's birth-day on
Sunday next.
Since our last account thirteen herring boats have
arrived at Scheveningen, with 11,043,000 herrings. The
prices have risen. Some of the owners have realised
considerable sums, and the fishing, which at the begin-
ning was unfavourable, has turned out very excellent.
Of the fleet, which consisted of fifty-three vessels, twenty-
seven are still absent.

The official communication lately made to our Go-
vernment by that of Belgium, respecting the importa-
tion of fresh fish into Belgium, completely disproves
what was before alleged against the treaty in many
quarters. A fear was expressed that the maximum of
importation under favourable circumstances, would be
exceeded; now, however, the facts show how ground-
less this fear: was, since the maximum of importation
allowed amounting for the month of September to De-
cember, inclusive, of this year, were—
Dutch pounds.
Via Antwerp .. 116,000
Ghent 16,500
Ostend 16,500
West Wezel
During the months of September and October, i. e.,
the half of the period granted, there were only im-
ported—
Via Antwerp 39,039
Ghent nil.
Ostend nil.
West Wezel
That is only a fifteenth-part of what our Government
held out under more favourable circumstances. If
we further consider the results communicated by
the directors of the fisheries in their address of
thanks to the Ministers of Finance, the Interior, and
the Colonies, we must acknowledge with gratitude that
in this matter care has been taken to secure the interest
of the public in general, and of the national fisheries.
THE POLISH FRONTIERS, Nov. 20.—0 n the 10th of
January, next year, the Custom-houses between the
kingdom of Poland and the Russian empire will be abo-
lished, and the commerce between them be entirely tree,
of which the most brilliant prospects are opened to the
manufacturers of Poland for the disposal of their goods
in the interior of Russia. The kingdom of Poland, esta-
blished by the Emperor Alexander, and sanctioned by
the European Powers in the Congress of Vienna, having
lost its Constitution in 1831 by as ukase of the Emperor
Nicholas, will be abolished at the Russian new year, and
converted into a government of Russia, for which all
the preparatory measures are already in progress.
BERLIN, Nov. 29—M. Von Kamptz has been com-
missioned to proceed immediately to Vienna, there to
regulate the commercial relations of Silesia in reference
to the incorporation of Cracow.
BERLIN, DEC. 2.—Lord Palmerston's protest, which
has been sent to our Cabinet and those of Vienna and
St. Petersburgh, against the incorporation of Cracow,
is said to be drawn, upon the whole, in very mild terms,
and to leave no apprehension of any breach. It re-
mains now to be seen how France will act in this affair,
in which it must protest alone.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.
Exning Field. First ties for the All-aged Stakes.
Highland Lassie beat Figaro—Maw-worm beat Spinster.
Omen beat Silesia—Miles beat Cloak.
Wish-you- may-get-it beat Fortune Teller—Probity beat
Mischief.
Magic beat Farmer—Lucy Bertram beat Jericho.
First ties for the Puppy Stakes.
Daisy beat Clementiva—Buonaparte beat Whiskey.
Thoresway Lass beat Farmer's Boy—Twilight beat Vesta.
The Exning Stakes for Puppies.
Mr. Buckworth's Brutus beat Mr. Vipan's Victory.
Mr. Foster's Molly beat Mr. Anstruther's Coiner.
Mr. lnskip's Idas beat Mr. Arabin's Agricola.
Mr. Parkingson's Stockton beat Capt. Wyndham's Willa.
Mr. Vipan's Silesia beat Mr. Fyson's Fireaway.
Captaiu Wyndham's Wildfire beat Mr. Squire's Orange
Flower.

Mr. Gillett's Gipsy Girl beat Mr. B. Smith's Knight
Marshall.
Mr. Dobede's Dolly beat Mr. Alastruther's Crisis.
The Rutland Stakes.

Mr. B. Smith's Sam Slick beat Mr. Arabin's All's Luck.
Mr. R. Bagge's Treasure beat Mr. Dobede's Diana.
Mr. Foster's Fancy beat Mr. Nash's Crocus.
Lord Stradbroke's Mac beat Mr. Squire's Oily Gammon.
The finest day's coursing ever witnessed on Esping Field;
all good trials, and the decisons most satisfactory.

HIGHWAY ATTACK.—On Saturday night last, about
nine o'clock, a man came to the Gloucester police-station
with his head tied up, and much bruised and bleeding,
from a very savage attack which had been made upon
him about three miles from this city on the Bristol-road.
He appeared to be an itinerant stationer, and had a
bundle of paper with him. His statement was, that
be was joined on the road by a young man apparently
not more than fifteen or sixteen years of age, who en-
tered into conversation with him, and walked in his
company for some distance. The man remarked, he
wanted to hasten to Gloucester to buy him a pair
of shoes, for he was almost barefoot. His com-
panion inquired what sort of shoes he intended to
buy, or how much he intended to give for them. The
man replied he could not afford to give much f
them as he had not much money. Soon afterwards
the young fellow, who was armed with a stout stick,
dropped a little behind, and struck the man three
tremendous blows on the head, and one on the left
hand, as the poor fellow held it up to defend his
head. Although almost stunned by the blows, he closed
upon his assailant, and in the course of a desperate
struggle, he bit off the fellow's nose, with the loss of
which important feature the juvenile highwayman made
off in an opposite direction to Gloucester. The man's
story was somewhat extraordinary certainly, but his
I badly wounded head and band plainly showed that he
had been engaged in an encounter of extreme violence.
Nothing more, however, has been heard of the robber,
although the loss of bis nose will be very well calculated
to make a marked man of hun for life, if it does not lead
to his detection at present. If any youth in the neigh-
bourhood should be found without this necessary as well
as ornamental appendage to the human face divine,"
it would be right he should be called upon to give a
good account of the missing member.—Gloucester
Journal.
A VESSEL DESTROYED BY SPONTANEOUS COM.
BUSTION.—On
,Sunday night a vessel, named the James,
Mr. Wllenzie master, was destroyed by fire off Shields
harbour under remarkable circumstances. She had
sailed from Shields on the previous Friday, with a cargo
of coals, but owing to the boisterous state of the wea-
ther was obliged to put back, and in attempting to re-
enter the harbour struck on the bar, and afterwards
drifted on to the 'Herd Sane, the crew having fortunately
been taken off. In a short time she was discovered to
be on fire, and although several pilot boats put off to
render her assistance it was found impossible to extin-
guish the flames, which burnt with so much violence
that in less than an hour her hull and mast were in a
body of fire, lighting up V.aet coast and iron- bound rocks
of Tynemouth Castle 'with singulsr brilliancy. The
flames raged several. hours, and the vessel was con-
sumed to the water 'a edge. The caul :' of the fire, there
is reason to believe, was spontaneous combustion of the
coals, the vessel having been noticed to be filled with a
gaseous matter a few hours prior to her destruction.
There was nothing else on board th it was likely to have
occasioned the are. She was a brig, and belonged to
. Perth. Her los will amount to several hundred pounds.

MALT-TAX REPEAL
ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of the central committee of this association,
which has for its object the total repeal of the malt-tax,
took place yesterday at the York Hotel, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars.
Mr. W. B. LAMB, on taking the chair, announced that
various communications had been received from York-
shire, Hampshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Oxfordshire,
Nottinghamshire, and other counties, containing most
gratifying accounts of the progress of the principles of
the association ; and that Mr. Uheetham, of Oakham,
would state to the meeting another fact, which he was
sure would be equally gratifying, as showing that the
Central Protection Society, which they feared would
be opposed to them, were now most likely to go hand
in hand with them in their struggle for a total re-
peal of the malt-tax.—(Loud cheers.) And so they
ought; for no one could doubt that such a measure,
was intimately connected with protection to agricul-
ture.---(Hear.)
Mr. CHEETHAM said, that as chairman of the Oakham
Protection Society, be attended a meeting of the Central
society yesterday, In Bond-street, at which the question
of a repeal of the malt-tax was fully discussed—the dis-
cussion having arisen out or communications from Wor-
aestershire and East Kent, demanding to know whether
it was a question which local societies might entertain—
and from all that occurred, he felt convinced that the
members of the society generally were favourable to it.
—(Cheers.) The Duke of Richmond, who presided,
and others, thought, however, that they ought not to
commit the society to a formal declaration upon the
6ubject until they ascertained the sentiments of the
iocal societies ; and resolutions were accordingly
adopted, calling upon those societies to declare whether
they were for or against a total repeal of the malt-tax,
and to communicate the same to the Central Society on
or before Tuesday, the 12th of January, when a meet-
ing of that body would be held to consider the point.
lie rejoiced that it was so, because from his observation
of yesterday's meeting, he was satisfied that the vast
majority of the local societies would embrace the oppor-
tunity to be thus afforded them of using their most
strenuous exertions to obtain a repeal of the malt duty.
As to the county of Rutland, he had no doubt whatever
chat he would have to attend in Bond-street on January
12, and declare the general reeling of the county
to be in favour of that measure. He would not
trouble the meeting with the reasons for repealing
the malt-tax. They were too well known. All they
had to consider, therefore, was the means to be used
for effecting their object. He might just remark,
however, that he had learned from a calico-printer
in Manchester, to whom he had written on the
subject, that the increase of consumption in the article
of printed calico since the repeal of the duty of 30. the
square yard, over and above what might he caused by
the increase of population, was absolutely enormous.
This was an important fact, because there was some
analogy between the manufacture of printed cotton and
that of malt. The consumption of glass had also greatly
increased since the duty had been removed. The manu-
facture of malt was just as essential as any other, and
ought to be equally free.—(Hear, hear.) They should
not, therefore, be satisfied with anything less than total
repeal; for if the duty was reduced even to Ocl., it
would still carry with it all those vexatious and oppress
sive restrictions which rendered the present duty so
objectionable.—(Hear.)
In compliance with a request from the chair, several
gentlemen who had been deputed to visit particular dia.
tricts, reported the result of their mission, which they
stated to have been in all cases most favourable to the
repeal of the malt-tax—the only opposition they had
met with being from either Chartists or teetotallers,
while from the tenant-farmers, labourers, and towns-
people, they received a most hearty and encouraging sup-
port. The places reported of %sere Berkshire, by Mr.
Collyer, who said that as the aristocracy were not with
them they should depend entirely on the tenantry ; East
Sussex, by Mr. Smith; Norfolk and Suffolk, by Mr.
C. H. Lattimore, who added that branch societies were
being established in those counties to aid the central one,
and that subscriptions were freely offered for the pur-
pose; other parts of those counties by Mr. Northhouse,
who expressed his gratification at finding the press of
England generally favourable to their object, and warmly
advocated the necessity first, and the great advantage
next, of giving to the labourer a wholesome beverage like
home-brewed beer, instead of the deleterious adulterated
stuff he was often supplied with from the beer-shops—
those nurseries of vice, and not unfrequently of poaching
and incendiarism; North Hampshire by Mr. Heriott,
who did not find a dissentient voice either to the object
of the association or subscriptions to support that
object; Nottinghamshire by Mr. Rowley, who had found
the local press generally disposed to favour the object of
the association, and thought that both landowners and
clergymen, if they were opposed to them, as alleged,
could not remain any longer-inimical to the interests of
the farmer and labourer, whom a repeal of the malt-tax
would obviously serve. It was impossible that the heavy
labours of husbandry could be borne with advantage to
theproprietary unless those engaged in them received suffi-
cient nourishment either in the shape of beef or barley.
Mr. SMITH (the treasurer) stated that the receipts to
the present day were 7131., which had been xpended is
giving publicity to their proceedings, and in other mea-
sures which had been productive of much good. He
hoped that henceforth as hitherto their funds would be
adequate to their wants.
The CHAIRMAN did cot altogether agree in the re-
mark that beer-shops were nurseries of vice. He con•
ceived that gin-shops were the worse of the two, and
that beer• shops, in some cases great nuisances, were in
many instances attended with great advantage. lie re
gretted, too, the remarks that had been made about the
aristocracy, particularly by Mr. Arkell, in Berkshire.
It was better to leave them where they were, and for
that association strenuously to follow its own course.
Mr. ARKELL (of Wiltshire) wished to explain. What
he had said was, that the tenant-farmers must look no
longer to the landlords or the clergy of the county, but
to themselves alone. They had sought aid long enough
from those above them, who, instead of affording it, had
only seduced and swindled them.—(Laughter.) He
should not find fault with the aristocracy if they kept their
proper places. He believed they were the better of
having three estates; but when he found the aristocracy
interfering to turn the tenant-farmer from the legitimate
exercise of his constitutional right, he felt that he was
justified in complaining. He had received letters from
Members of Parliament and others of the same class,
telling him that this was not the proper time to seek for
a repeal of the malt-tax.--(A laugh.) If they waited for
seven years more they would be told just the same thing.
Mr. Neeld, the Member for Chippenham, stated at a
public meeting, held at Devizes, that the poor man ought
not to pay a duty on his beer; and yet, when he ad-
dressed a letter to that gentleman, requesting him, in
consequence of that declaration, to take the chair at their
meeting at Chippenham for a repeal of the malt-tax, his
reply was, that he would do no such thing, as the time
for seeking that measure had not yet arrived.—(A laugh.)
There was, no doubt, a time for all things, and Members
of Parliament must not, therefore, forget that there was
a particular season out of seven at which the tenant-
farmers and other electors were their masters.(Hear.)
It was said that the removal of the malt-tax would cause
an increase in the income-tax. Even so ; those who
possessed large incomes ought to be the last to quarrel
about a heavy tax.—(Hear.) As for the malt-tax, he
believed that 19 out of every 20 of the farmers of the
country would wish to see it repealed.—(Hear.)
Mr. HARVEY (secretary to the Harlestowe Club) cor-
roborated the remarks of the last speaker. He yester-
day attended a meeting of the Agricultural Association
at Bury St. Edmund's, at which the chairman, Mr. Wad-
dington, one of the landowners of the neighbourhood,
said that this was not the proper time for seeking the
removal of the duty on malt, as it would cause the im-
position of another tax, and that, therefore, it was only
taking out of one pocket to put into another. He (
Harvey) thought the inference good, but with this addi-
tion, that it would be taking from the wrong to put into
the right pocket.—(Hear.)
Mr. ELMAN (of Lewes) congratulated the association
upon the fact that the Duke of Richmond had unequivo-
cally declared himself, at the meeting yesterday, in
favour of the repeal of the malt duty ; but considered it
neeessary, in order to give full effect to that declaration,
to collect the sentiments upon the subject of the tenant-
farmers throughout the kingdom. Their sentiments
would be known on the 12th of January. He was con-
fident they would be unanimously in favour of the !nee
sure ; and if so, they could then, in the opinion of the
Noble Duke, assume such a position as would deter any I
Government from refusing their prayer. Pis Grace had
also said, and he agreed with him, that nothing could
be worse than to attempt anything by agitation that
could be gained in a manner to command universal re
spect. That associaton was now in such a train, not
only to command respect, but to attain such a force as
must result in complete success. The whole opposition
they had met with at King's Lynn was from the teetotal-
lers, whose object was to discourage drunkenness ; but-
the way to do so was not by driving the labourer to the
public-house, but by allowing him to enjoy a nourishing
and wholesome beverage at home.
Mr. B. B. CARRELL, M.P. (who was warmly received)
said, that he had promised his constituency, on the oc-
casion of his election, to support any petition in favour
of the great object they had in view ' • and he should
most heartily do so.--(Hear, hear.) Being questioned
t
upon the subject of free trade, he said at once,
have a fair trial ;" and with that reply the querists were
satisfied. If he had been ask d to explain, he was pre-
pared to have answered that by a fair,trial he meant a total
repeal of the malt-tax. He was prepared to have said
that if Sir R. Peel looked to his own honour or charac-
ter as the great minister of the greatest country in the
world, he would have included that measure in his re-
form of the tariff, instead of palming upon the country
as genuine that which he knew in his heart was false,
because wanting in that particular which could alone
have rendered it just and impartial.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. T. HODGSKIN, not a farmer, but a determined
free-trader, concurred with the Hon. Gentleman in re-
garding this as a question of free trade. Our trade with
foreign nations had been relieved, but the whole of the
home industry of the country was still very much op-
pressed by our odious system of excise laws. It could
not be doubted that at present there was in the public
mind a strong tendency to free trade and an equally
strong aversion to restrictions. But then this Associa-
tion was establishing itself solely for the removal of one
of those restrictions--that upon the manufacture of malt;

wilereasif they adopted the view of the Hon. Gentle-
man who last addressed them, and placed the question
upon the basis of free trade, they ought not, in his (Mr.
Hodgskin's) opinion, to confine themselves to that ques-
tion, but seek for the repeal of thirclutroii soap, acid, elf
all other restrictions which press upon the home industry
of the country. In consequence of the remark which
fell from Mr. Cabbell he %las led to suggest that if they
regarded the repeal of the malt tax as a free-trade mea-
sure, and wished its speedy success, they had placed
their association on too narrow a basis to obtain th:t
support of the great body of the community, and muse
consequently fail.
Mr. LATTIMORE said, that making it part and parcel
of the great food question would give it popularity
enough. It was a measure which would benefit every
class, even the landed proprietors themselves, inasmuch
as it would lead to the better cultivation of land, and to
the bettering the condition of the peasant.
Mr. NORTHOUSE thought the question might very well
stand upon its own merits. It had the rare advantage of
uniting two adverse rties ; and was certainly due to
the farmers of the country as a set-off to the experiment
under which they were now suffering.
The CHAIRMAN observed that, howl ver valuable the
suggestion of Mr. Hodgskin, and however willing any
gentleman there might be t) adopt it, it was not now in
their power to alter the object for which the society had
been established. The immediate question for the meet-
ing to consider was, whether it would be advisable to
continue sending deputations to different parts of the
kingdom.

Mr. ARKELL was of opinion that no more deputations
should b 3 sent out until invited by some respectable party
in the district to which they were to go : and after some
conversation it was moved by Dr. Lamb (of East Sussex),
seconded by Mr. Elman, and unanimously agreed ta„
that the association should adopt no further active steps
until after the meeting of the 12th January. Thanks
being then voted to the chairman and the deputations,
the association adjourned to the 13th of January.

SPANISH AMERICAN BOND-
HOLDERS.

The following letters and documents, received to-day
by the chairman of the committee of Spanish American
Bondholders, have been handed to us for publication. It
will be seen from the second letter that the uncertain-
ties regarding the last Mexican conversion have at
length been put to rest, and that the operation, as car-
ried out by Messrs. Schneider and Co., is confirmed:—
FROM MANNING AND MACKINTOSH, MEXICO, TO G. R.
ROBINSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF
SPANISH AMERICAN BONDHOLDERS, L:,NDoN.
" MEXICo, OCT. 30, 1846.

"We were in due course favoured with Your com-
munications of t 1 a 20th ofJnne, Ist and 31st ofAuguet,
and paid particular attention to their contents. We
have been incessant in our applications to the Mexican
Government about the restitution of the fifth of duties
belonging to the holders of Mexican Bonds involved in the
general suspension of all pa3ments decreed by this Go-
vernment, but, owing to the disturbed state of the coun-
try, the blockade of its ports, and the imperative calla
for money upon an exhausted treasury, we have not
been able to get any satisfactory reply from the several
Ministers of Finance that have succeeded each other in
office within the last three months. Under these circum-
stances we made another attempt in applying by letter
(copy of which we enclose) to the present Minister,
Don Antonio Haro Tamariz. who has verbally
.pro-
mised to attend to the business, and return us a decision
by next packet.
" The unfortunate war with the United States is, in
our opinion, at present the chief cause of the difficulties
of the Mexican Government; and the worst of it is, that
it is difficult to assign a term to the hostilities between
the two countries.
Hoping to have it in our power to transmit you
further information by next steamer."

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