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deeply- regret any abandonment of the policy of pro
tection, or any material alteration of the tariff of 1842,
which has worked so well. If its operation had been
even doubtful, would it not be wiser to await further
developments from experience, before we plunge into a
new and unexplored theory ? Scarcely any misfortune
is so great to the business and pursuits of a people as
that of perpetual change. -
I am sensible that I have extended this letter to a
most unreasonable length. I hope you will excuse
arid attribute it to the beautiful fruits of a favourite and
cherished policy which you have kindly sent to
Your friend and obedient Servant,
(Signed) H. CLAY.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—WASHINGTON,

were 6,000 bales, and for the week ending 27th inst.
about the same ; yesterday, 1,000 bales.
In regard to the crop, public opinion, which has been
at variance so much during the season, has centred on
2,050,000 bales, although some parties are disposed to
push their estimates a fraction higher. The growing
crop has lately commenced to assume an important po-
sition in the calculations of future prices for this staple.
The season, throughout the whole extent of that
section of the country, has been unpropitious for the
plant. During April and May severe rains, accompa-
nied by a remarkably cold temperature, inflicted so
much injury as to render transplanting necessary over
a very large extent of that region. The first bloom of
cotton on record this season in Georgia was on the 10th
June; and in the year of the large crop in 1842, on the
17th May ; again, in 1844, another large crop year,- the
first bloom there was on the 25th May, and about that
date commencing to be general in that section. It is
remarkable that there never has been a large crop of
cotton raised, where the bloom has appeared later than
the 26th May, for long experience has proved that the
advantages of a late autumn have never counterbalanced
a late bloom.

Freights are steady at quotations. Exchange is in
moderate request.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
MATRICULATION, 1846.
EXAMINERS.
Ix CLAssics.—Rev. Joseph H. Jerrand, D.C.L., and
T. B. Burcham, Esq., M.A.
IN MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-
Rev. Prof. Heaviside, M.A., and G. B. Jerrand,
Esq., B.A.
IN CHEMISTRY.—Prof. Graham, M.A., F.R.S.
One hundred and seven candidates presented themselves
at this examination ; of whom the following have
passed :

FIRST DIVISION.
Addison, William Henry—King's College.
Agnis, John Crown—University College.
Allen, Paterson—Private tuition.
Ashton, Eccles Shorrock—University College.
Ashton, Ralph Shorrock—University College.
Bagshawe, Edward Gilpin—St. Mary's College, Oscott.
Bailey, George Hewlett—University College.
Barker, Philip Chapman—Spring Hill College.
Bates, Jonathan—Huddersfield College.
Berkeley, John—S tony burst College.
Beverley, Edward Parry—King's College.
Bolton' Thomas Alfred—St. Mary's College, Oscott.
Bond, Stephen—Stonyhurst.
Booth, Samuel Harris—Stepney College.
Bristow, John Syer—St. Thomas's Hospital.
Bromley, Henry William—University College.
Brooks, James Howard—Manchester New College.
Bruce, Samuel—Private tuition.
Burns, James—Stonyhurst College.
Byrnes, Lawrence Henry—Cheshunt College.
Callaghan, Henry—St. Edmund's College, Ware.
Carey, Jonathan Pearce—Stepney College.
Conder' Charles Edward—University College.
Corry, James Henry—Stonyhurst College.
Daniel, Jesse Cato—Cheshunt College.
Darbishire, William Arthur—Manchester New College.
Davis, George Decimus—St. Gregory's College, Down-
side.
Doubleday, James—Private tuition.
Evan, Cadwalader William—Airedale College.
Evans, Edward Josiah—Universifty College.
Fletcher, James Bealey—University College.
Foote, Richard Ford—University College.
Fowler, Robert Nicholas—University College.
Fowler, William—University College.
Goulty, John Russell—Mill Hill Grammar School.
Gowlland, Peter Yeames—London Hospital.
Green, John Philip—University College.
Hepburn, John Gotch—University College.
Hewitt, Wm. Morse Grailey—University College.
Hodgkin, John Eliot—University College.
Hoyle, Joseph—Airedale College.
Jackson, Edward—Wesley College, Sheffield.
James, John—Private tuition
Jefferson, Henry—Wesley College, Sheffield.
Lakin, James Henry—King's College.
Lee, JaPaes—Western College, Plymouth.
Leyne, Edward—Carlow College.
Lobb, Henry William, King's College.
Locock, Henry Smyth—Blackheath Prop. Gr. School.
Long, George Rogers—Private tuition.
Lynch, Sidney Somerford—King's College.
Manley, Edmund—Private tuition.
Marten, Alfred George—Mill Hill Grammar School.
Maugham, Henry Macdonald—King's College.
Morgan, David—King's College.
O'Brien, Patrick—St. Gregory's College, Downside.
Parley, Charles—Mill Hill Grammar School.
Parker, Henry, University College.
Reynolds, John Russell—Private tuition.
Robertson, Charles Nice—University College.
Robertson, William Tindall—University College.
Sharpe, Samuel —Wesley College, Sheffield.
Sloan, Joseph Ware—University College.
Soper, Richard George—Lancashire Independent Coll.
Speciall, William—University College.
Steel, William Palmer—King's College.
Stocker, John Sherwoon—King's College School.
Thomson Henry,—Stonyhurst College.
Thornely, Alfred—University College.
Thornely, John—University College.
Vaux, James—King's College.
Waite, Edward—Cheshunt College.
Welsh, Henry, King's College.
Williams, Robert Griffith—University College.
Wilmott, Henry George—University College.
Wills, Alfred—Edgbaston Proprietory School.
Wood, John—Private tuition.
Worthington,AlfredWilliam—Manchester New College.
SECOND DIVISION.
Brabant, Herbert—University College.
Bullock, Charles Joseph—King's College
Burch, Augustus Edgar—University College.
Carpenter, Jabez Grey—Cheshunt College.
Collier, James—Private tuition.
Evans, John—Western College, Plymouth.
Foster, Joseph—Private tuition.
Gilfillan, Thomas—Cheshunt College.
Grundy Robert—Private tuition.
Harnett, William Francis—Private tuition.
Haywood, George Robert—Private tuition.
Head, Edward Abraham Hancock—Private tuition.
Isard, James Chapman—University College.
Lee, Richard—University College.
Nlead, Eusebius—Private tuition.
Murray, Charles M'Leod—Private tuition.
Paliologus, William Thomas—Private tuition.
Rigby, James—Private tuition.
Sherring, Matthew Atmore—University College.
Stebbing, John—Westminster School.
Upton, William Carey—Stepney College.

TWENTY-THIRD REPORT FROM
THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY
BILLS CLASSIFICATION.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of
Railway Bills according to the resolutions adopted by the
House, have further considered the several matters re-
ferred to them, and agreed to the following report :
Your Committee recommend that the South-Eastern Rail-
vs ay, from the Waterloo-road, near Hungerford-bridge, to
the Greenwich Railway, Bill, be referred to Group No. 67.
Your Committee recommend that the Stamford and Spald-
ing Railway Bill, and the Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge
Junction Railway Bill, be referred to Group No. 69.
Your Committee recommend that the Dublin and Sandy-
mount Atmospheric Railway Bill be referred to Group No. 70.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

TUESDAY, JULY 14.
The undernamed Railway Bill was withdrawn:—
Leeds Central Railway Station.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.

The following resolution was r:pori;clllQ—the above
Committee :

That, in the case of the Argyll Canal Bill, amendments
on further proceedings on third reading, the amendments are
of such a nature as may be adopted, if the House shall think
fit, so far as regards the omission of the names of Sir James
Campbell, Knight, and of Alexander Downie, of Cross-
basket.—Report to lie on the table.

Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
to which Chair Lordships had agreed :
Amendments made by the Commons to Waterford, Wex-
ford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Bill—Templemore and
Nenagh Railway Bill—Midland Great Western Railway of
Ireland (Liffy Branch and Longford Deviation) Bill, without
amendment—Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway Bill—
Great Western and Wycombe Railway Bill—Guildford,
Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway (No. 2) Bill—New-
castle and Darlington Junction Railway (Durham and
Sunderland Railway, and Wearmouth Dock Purchase and
Branches) Bill— London and Croydon Railway (Thames
Junction) Bill—Buckinghamshire Railway (Tring to Ban-
bury) Bill—Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Bill—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Rail-
way Bill—Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway
Bill—South Wales Railway (No. 2) Bill, with amendments.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town
at nine o'clock yesterday morning, for Ravensworth
Castle, Durham, to honour Lord liavensworth with a
visit. His Royal Highness travelled' by • the London
and Birmingham Railway..
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Meeklenliurgh Strelitz on
Monday evening, after their arrival at Cambridge House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
His Highness Ibrahim Pacha and suite honoured the
establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, in Bond-
street, with a visit on Monday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honuured the Italian Opera with
their presence yesterday evening.
Lord Sandon, M.P.; Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.; Mr.
Philip Miles, M.P.; Mr. Henry Berkeley, M.P.; Lord
Ingestre, M.P.; Mr. Spooner, M.P.; Mr. Russell, M.P.;
Mr. Barton, M.P.; Lord Duncan, M.P.; with a deputa-
tion, consisting of Captain Claxton, Mr. Brunel, Mr.
Saunders, and the Directors of the Great Western
Steam Ship Company, had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Lord Kinnaird had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Most Reverend Dr. Polding had an interview
with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, attended yesterday, at the
office of the Board of Trade, for the first time since bis
appointment to office.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group No. 67.
Mr. Cardwell discharged, Hon. E. Yorke selected, and
added to the Committee.

Select Committee on Group No. 69.
Mr. Power discharged, Mr. Estcourt selected, and added
to the Committee.

MR. NOTTER'S BENEFIT.-Our old friend Notter, to
whose civility every frequenter of the boxes of our theatres,
has on divers occasions been obliged, takes his benefit to-
morrow at Astley's. How often has Notter been thus ad-
dressed—" I have taken these places, you will remember, Mr.
Notter," and Notter always has remembered. Let all those
therefore whom he has thus remembered return the compli-
ment and remember him.

NOTlCE.—Messrs. Ferguson, of Holme Head Works
(trading under the firm of Joseph Ferguson),having a second
time obtained an injunction in the Vice-Chancellor's Court
against the use of their trade marks upon Silesias, and it
having been deposed to at the trial that other houses besides
the defendant had so used them, Messrs. Ferguson give this
public notice, in the hope that it will be a sufficient warning
to the parties in question, and obviate the necessity of fur•
ther proceedings. Holme Head Works, near Carlisle June
30,1846.
PRESENTATION OF A PRINTING MACHINE.—On
Monday last the ceremonial of presenting a steam printing-
press to Mr. J. Barker, the well-known lecturer, took place
at New Wortley, near Leeds. The press was valued at
4001., and had been raised by the subscriptions of those who
admired the principles which he advocated in the several
periodical publications which he had issued, from time to
time, from a handpress, which had been given to him by his
religious friends some years ago. The sheet for the first im•
pression of the new press was laid on by Dr. Bowring,
and was taken off by Dr. Bateman of the Excise Office,
London, in the presence of a large number of friends; after
which about two hundred ladies and gentlemen sat down to
a luncheon, under the presidency of Dr. F. R. Lees, a tee-
total lecturer. In the evening of the same day, about five
hundred persons of both sexes took tea together in the saloon
of the Music Hall in Leeds, at which Dr. Bowring, M.P.,
Dr..Bateman, and other gentlemen attended. Amongst the
company were about one hundred and fifty persons from
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who arrived by train from that place
too late to witness the ceremonial A Wortley.—Leedspaper.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1846.

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.
EDINBURGH.
RETURN OF MR. W. GIBSON CRAIG.
Morn)Ay.—The nomination of a candidate to fill up the
vacancy created by the appointment of Mr. William Gibson
Craig (now a Lord of the Treasury), took place here to-day.
Mr. Dunlop was solicited by the complete suffragists and a
small section of the Dissenters to come forward in opposition,
but having refused to be put in nomination at this time, Mr.
Craig was allowed to walk the course. Rumours existed,
however, that Mr. Ayton, advocate, would take the place of
Mr. Dunlop, even up to the hour of nomination. From 2,000
to 3,000 persons were present.
Dr. MACLAG&N proposed Mr. Gibson Craig, and eulogised
his excellent business talents, his unswerving integrity and
independence, the purity of his public and private life, the
readiness of access he afforded to men of all parties and per-
suasions, and his earnest endeavours to promote the public
good on-all occasions. In office he felt assured they would
find both in him and Mr. Macauley the same devotion of
their duty to their constituents, and the same earliest endea-
vour to promote the general welfare of the country, which
they had always so well shown as their representatives.—
(The worthy doctor was repeatedly cheered in the course of
his address.)
Mr. M. LOTHIAN seconded the nomination.
The SIIERIFF (no other candidate having been put in no-
mination) declared Mr. William Gibson Craig duly elected.
Mr. GIBSON CRAIG returned thanks at some length, and
after stating that he regarded his re-election as a vote of
confidence in the present Government, referred to his vote on
the Mayneoth grant. This subject, he was aware, created
much interest amongst the electors at the present moment.
This question (said the Hon. Gentleman) is the only one on
which, during the eight or nine years I have been in Par-
liament, I have had a difference with my constituents. Though
I did regret that difference, I do not regret the vote which
I gave, and I have nothing to retract.—(Applause). When
you had elected me, I had always voted for that grant to
Maynooth ; and I stated to you that I should be guided in
every case by the principles of civil and religious toleration,
and with equal justice to all classes of her Majesty's subjects.
That grant I looked upon then, and I regard still, simply as
a grant for education ; and I do solemnly declare, that I
never have seen, and am not yet able to see, that there is one
atom, that there is one iota of principle involved in it. I see
around me, on this hustings, men of all religious persuasions
—men who are leaders of the different sects of religion to
which they belong. I find many of the most distinguished
members of the Free Church of Scotland—l find many
leading members of the Established Church—l find the
Lord Provost and other leading Dissenters—all coming
here to declare that they hold there is no principle in this
vote, several of whom have said that if they had had a vote
to give, they would have given it for this grant themselves.
—(Cheers.) When you have such a unanimous opinion from
Men of all classes, men of the highest moral and religious cha-
racter, men of the most acuteness of mind, and some of them
the ablest lawyers in this city—l ask you whether this point
of principle does not resolve itself into a mere point of casu-
istry?—(Cheers.) I use that expression, I trust, without
offence, seeing it is impossible for me to look upon it other-
wise. Sir C. E. Smith has declared that he will not rescind

the vote to Maynooth, because he holds Maynooth to be one
of the establishments of the country.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
My Right Hon. Colleague and myself are not prepared to
rescind that vote either; but we are also prepared not to go
farther. We are prepared to say that we will never vote for
the endowment of the Catholic priests, either out of the
funds of the State, or out of any appropriation from the eccle-
siastical revenues of the Irish Establishment. The Hon. Gen-
tleman then referred to the importance of promoting sana-
tory measures for the city of Edinburgh, and especially of
securing an abundant supply of water. To the annuity tax
he objected, but could not promise to sweep it away, unless
some feasible substitution were proposed. The Hon. Gentle.
man concluded by an earnest appeal to the electors to return
Mr. Macaulay as his colleague.
Mr. MACAULAY having been loudly called for, addressed
the electors. After dwelling on the merits of the Hon. Gen-
tleman whom they had just returned, he said, I haee never
as you well know, been in the habit of resorting to claptraps
or vote traps.—(Laughter.) But this I do say, that if any
mitigation, any salutary change of the system under which
the clergy of Edinburgh are now paid, can be effected, I am
confident that it is by the advice of such men as those I now
see around me that there is the best chance of obtaining it.
Perhaps you will permit me, having discharged the duty of
congratulating you, to say a few words respecting myself. If
the opposition to me had been raised on any other grounds
than that on which it has been raised, I should not, on this
occasion, have come forward ; for if a large party had chosen
to oppose me, and yet if they supported my Hon. Friend on
the ground that his qualifications for his business, and his
local knowledge, were so greatly superior to mine—on the
ground that he, as your townsman, and as the son of one of
your most eminent townsmen, had peculiar claims upon your
favour, I would not have contested the correctness of such an
opinion. Most readily shall I admit that on every ground
but one my Hen. Friend's claims are superior to mine;
but on the particular ground on which 1 am opposed, I affirm
that we stand exactly on the same footing.—(Cheers.) I
would not have said this till my Hon. Friend was elected.
I would not have said so, while by pointing to this argu-
ment I would seem to be endangering his return ; but as
that is past all danger, I will ask you to observe what is the
relation between him whom you have unanimously re-
turned, and him for whom a poll is to be taken to-morrow.
Both of us voted for the Maynooth grant. Both of us voted
for it through every stage.—( Hear, hear.) That paper of
which so much has been said—that resolution, in which cer-
tain of the electors of Edinburgh said that they would never
again return a man who voted for the grant to Maynooth,
was sent to my Hon. Friend as well as myself. That reso-
lution was answered in the same manner. Both of us de-
clared that we could not change our opinions—that we
thought we were right, and that we thought the memo-
rialists were wrong, and that we would continue to vote as
we had done ; and we continued to vote as we had done
before. And now, I ask, is it principle that my Honourable
Friend should be returned unanimously, and that any of the
persons who acquiesced in returning him can consistently
oppose me ?—( Hear.) And observe particularly how absurd
this is, from the very nature of the opposition, because if it
were put on the ground of mere expediency everybody could
understand the principle of saying that we will drive the
nail as far as it would go, that we will keep out the weaker
candidate. That is all fair on the ground of expediency ;
but it is different when put on the ground of Christian
duty. Now, I put the point of Christian duty. Both candi-
dates have voted for the Maynooth grant. If it be upon
Christian duty that you are rejecting me, would not
Christian duty call upon you to oppose my Hon. Friend
whom you have allowed to be unanimously returned? This
is mere paltering with Christian duty.—(Cheers.) We stand
before you on the same footing in reference to the question.
We stand before you in respect to the Catholic priesthood
exactly on the same footing. Every word that I spoke in
the Music-hall my Honourable Friend afterwards adopted.
Every word that he has spoken to-day I now adopt.—
(Cheers.) The poll, which comes on to-morrow, I regard as
one of no common importance. It will be, I believe, the
single poll which will be taken on the occasion of the forma-
tion of the new Administration. If this great city, the
capital of Scotland, shall pronounce that she has confidence
in her Majesty's Government—if she shall ironounce that
she approves of a conciliatory spirit being followed towards
Ireland--if she shall pronounce that she is determined not to
insult and to oppress one-third part of the population of the
United Kingdom, she will render a great service to the cause
of good government and of civil and religious freedom.—
(Cheers.) The contrary result I will not permit myself to
anticipate. I believe that our victory is certain ; but it must
be your care to make it decisive. 'Let me entreat you to
remember that every vote is of consequence, not so much
because the event is doubtful, as because the majority will
produce an effect which will be felt all of over England and
Ireland.—( Cheers.) I have two requests to make—first,
that you will be early at the poll ; and, secondly, that if you
should see, as I hope you will see, that early in the day the
contest is not matter of doubt, you will not, on that account,
think you are dispensed from doing your duty. On Wed-
nesday, victorious or vanquished, I will meet you here again ;
for, be the result what it may, I will look you in the face
without shame.—(Cheers.) I trust, however. that I shall
come here to congratulate you on another triumph, and to
return you thanks similar to those which have been with so
much propriety, manliness, and eloquence, addressed to you
by my Hon. Friend.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Fox MauLE, in obedience to the loud calls of the
assemblage, addressed the electors. Had I the honour to
possess the franchise of the city of Edinburgh, there is no
man who would go to the poll to-morrow with a more
thorough conviction that he was doing that which was for
the benefit of this city, and of the country at large, than I
would have in voting for my Right Hon. Priend Mr. Macau.
lay.—(Cheers.) I cannot understand the nature of the oppo-
sition which has been given to my Right Hon. Friend. Had
it been on the subject of Maynooth, I might have been sup-
posed to have some sympathy with it; but it is not upon the
subject of Maynooth, otherwise that opposition would have ex-
tended to the Hon. Gentleman whom you have just returned
as your representative. And I cannot but believe and avow
that Maynoeth on this occasion has been made the stalking
horse of some paltry, miserable, mean feeling of a personal
nature towards my Right Hon. Friend.—(Great cheering.)
Why, if it had really been the case that Maynooth was the
subject of their opposition, would his opponents have brought
forward Sir C. E. Smith, who openly declares that, though
the endowment of Maynooth in the grant involved a vicious
principle, still he would continue to maintain it on the sta-
tute-book.—(Cheers.) I trust that to-morrow the citizens
of Edinburgh will show the feelings with which they regard
such conduct by putting my Right Honourable Friend at the
head of the poll. The honour of your city is involved in
thin question—the honour of Scotland is involved in this
question, and I stand here speaking in the character of one
belonging to the Free Church, and declare that the gratitude
and the honour of the Free Church is also involved in this
question. I tell those belonging to that Church that in all
matters concerning that body in which I have been engaged,
and with no little prominence, in Parliament, upon every
occasion my Right Hon. Friend has voted with me, given me
cordial support, and, in that last question which I had the
honour to bring forward in which their interest was concerned
had the debate on that occasion resulted in a vote, my Right
Hon. Friend would have been found standing by my side.
I will not believe it till I see it recorded, that any Free
Churchman will be guilty of such ingratitude, as for private
consideration and personal views alone to desert him in
this moment of trial.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, my Right
Hon. Friend has stated that this is the single solitary
instance of a contested election upon the return of Members
who have taken office under the present Government. I
regret that it should have occurred in this great and intel-
lectual city, but the only way to wipe out that stain is to
place Mr. Macaulay in an enormous majority—(Cheers)—to
proclaim in his favour the general opinion of a vast number
of this constituency, in order to prevent in future the recur-
rence of a similar event.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. RUTHERFORD' M.P., was next called for. He said, I
have never witnessed in the course of any election, a greater
abuse than the use which on this occasion has been made of
the principles and feelings of the Free Church.—(Hear,
hear.) Members of that Church have come forward, and
in respect, as they say, of the Maynooth grant, have
excited your feelings in the strongest degree to oppose
the re-election of both my Honourable Friends. Though
they have relinquished that opposition as to one,
they still persevere in it as regards my other Honourable
Friend. Though I do not belong to the Free Church,
it enables me to reflect with great satisfaction upon
all I have been able to do in its service to find my Right
Hon. Friend (Mr. Maule) come forward in his own person
and disclaim, in the name of that body—of which I venture
to say he is one of its greatest ornaments—the scandalous
proceedings which have in their name been brought forward.
—(Cheers.) The principles and feelings of that. Church,
which is based upon religious freedom, have been made the
ground of one of the most intolerant and oppressive proceed-
ings which I ever witnessed.—(Cheers.) My Right Hon.
Friend (Mr. Mauls) voted differently from me on the May-
nooth grant, but our difference of opinion and difference of
vote on that question did not, and I am sure never will, for
a moment interrupt not only that private friendship, nor
that feeling with which, in matters of public interest, we
have ever regarded each other.--( Loud cheers.) lie has
told you that if he had been one of the constituency of
Edinburgh he would have voted for Mr. Macaulay. I
thank him for having said so, and I should like to see
any layman or any reverend man who shall dare to
come forward and say that they represent better
than he does the opinions of the Free Church, or

that they are doing that which is more acceptable to the
Free Church—or that they are acting more in accord-
ance with the principles of the Free Church, than those
who follow the example which my Right Hon. Friend would
have set, and will give their votes with the number who shall
form a cloud of witnesses that shall better establish the Free
Church than anything else could do, and shall prevent a
great severance of that most respectable and valuable party,
who testify that they will not let a slight difference of opinion,
even touching religious matters, trench upon that great
principle to which they owe their origin, and for which they
have borne so many privations and so many sacrifices,
namely, the great principles of civil and religious liberty and
freedom of opinion.—(Cheers.) I have had the very good
fortune to be returned by a constituency of whom I am an
unworthy representative—(Cries of "No, no")—without a
contest, and almost without any trouble. I therefore rejoice
with my Hon. Friend whom you have to-day returned, but I
only sympathise the more deeply with my Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Macaulay), who has been put upon trial, and I only
long the more ardently to see, since his opponents have sub-
jected him to a contest, how heavy their fall shall be.—
(Hear.) I fully believe that to-morrow and Wednesday
will put at once and for ever an end to this attempted
tyranny—the more intolerable from being maintained by an
abuse and prostitution of the name of the principles of free-
dom and religious liberty.

RICHMOND.
MONDAY EVENECG.—The election for the borough of
Richmond, Yorkshire, took place this morning, when Henry
Rich, Esq., the late Member, who had vacated his seat, by
accepting the office of one of the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, was re-elected without opposition.
The Hon. Gentleman briefly addressed the electors, and urged
the necessity of adopting a milder course of policy towards
Ireland than had hitherto been pursued. Alluding also to
the policy of the new Ministry with regard to timber, sugar,
and many other articles of consumption, he observed, that
protection in reference to them would share the same fate as
it had with respect to corn. The question of the revision of
the duties on these articles would receive the sedulous atten-
tion of the present Government. The Hon. Gentleman then
referred to the address of Lord John Russell to the electors
of London, as indicative of the course which the Whig Mi-
nistry were about to pursue, and concluded by thanking
the assembled electors, assuring them, at the same time,
that he would do his utmost to promote a liberal policy in
the administration of affairs in this country. Thanks were
then given to the Mayor, and the meeting separated. Mr.
Rich left immediately to return to London.