The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

TFIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAT

commenced a most important year. We resolved to adjourn
our ordinary meetings of the council for a month to London ;
also the weekly meetings. We then commenced at the
Crown and Anchor; thence we proceeded to Freemasons'
Hall;-and then; invited by that distinguished man, Mr.
Macready, took possession of Drury -lane Theatre. From
week to week meetings were there held ; our tract distribu-
tors were at work, traversing hill and dale, delivering to
very elector in the register a packet of tracts, containing an
exposition of our principles; and, over and beyond this, the
first broadside was given to the agricultural monopolists by
Mr. Cobden announcing his intention of holding a series of
agricultural meetings. These meetings were continued, and
with one questionable exception, in 31 or 32 open county
meetings, the monopolists, on their own ground, were over-
come and ' defeated.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) We thus
closed the year 1813. We had lectured the people;
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tions had waited upon Government; petitions had bee
presented to the Ministers; information was spread widely
and freely to the people; and at our county meetings we had
every one, save one, declared in our favour. We have made
a report to our constituents, and then we proposed that which
they at once conceded, that the fund to be collected for the
next year should be 100,0001. It was agreed upon at a
meeting held in this room, and presided over by Mss
Greg, when 12,0001. was given at one collect It was
afterwards increased to 20,0001. I shall not go over a de-
tailed history of our proceedings for 1844; they were in
almost all respects similar to those of 1845—public meetings,
agricultural meetings; lectures, and the distribution of pub-
lications; nor shall I refer to the proceedings of the League
during 1845, because they were in all respects, save the
agricultural meetings, of the same character as those of
1844. Nor will I refer for one moment to that extraordinary
exhibition of man's ingenuity and woman's devotion, the
Anti. Corn-law Bazaar, which was held for 21 days in the
Theatre Royal Covent-garden. But in order, after having
educated the country, that we might bring all the influences
of the past agitation to bear on the Legislature, we projected
the last and greatest movement—the registration.—(Cheers.)
I may say of that movement, much as it has been objected
to, that every vote which has been acquired, according to the
suggestions laid down by the League, has been pronounced,
when presented for the consideration of the Lord Chief
Justice, good in every respect—(Hear, hear)—that the de-
sire and disposition of the operatives, or others who may seek
to possess the franchise, has been said by the same eminent
Authority to be laudable and commendable.—(Cheers.) I
have thus gone over the principal plans pursued by the
League ; they were confined to a few leading operations ; it is
for you to judge whether those operations are such as should
entitle any man to say they were at variance with the princi-
ples on which this League was established;', or in any respect
other than legal, peaceful, and constitutional.—(Hear, and
cheers.) It has been a glorious thing, that, to the men of
Manchester, and to those of other large towns, who have
connected themselves with the League, the country is mainly
indebted for the abolition of the corn-laws. It would have
been glorious to have carried our flags over the heads of our
hostile opponents to victory; but surely it is more glorious,
more desirable, to see our forces recruited, and our armies
led, by men who, all their lives, and up. to the present mo-
ment, have opposed the abolition of the corn-laws—(Hear,
hear)—and that the flag of free trade should wave in
peaceful triumph over the heads of a reconciled and united
people.—(Cheers.)
Mr. COBDEN—If this were a meeting for any other purpose
than that of business, in the strictest sense of the word, I am
quite sure that I should feel more embarrassed at meeting
you on this occasion than I have done at any previous time ;
for feeling myself almost oppressed with the consciousness of
the importance of the events we have been passing through
lately, and of the great interest which is involved in the pre-
sent meeting, I am sure I could not do justice to the feelings
which are now affecting me. We are met here on the present
xcasion as a:meeting of the council of the League. We have,
in the working of this body, as you are aware, an executive
committee of gentlemen living in Manchester, and also the
council of the League, consisting of the subscribers of 501. and
upwards. The executive council of the League have called
you, the council, together, for the purpose of taking your
opinion as to the course we shall now pursue; and I think
the importance of that question is such that I shall confine
myself as strictly as possible to business details in what I
have to say, because I do not wish to prevent many gentle-
men who have come from distant parts having the opportu-
nity of giving their advice and assistance on this occasion.
The executive council of the League in Manchester have
talked over the matter repeatedly, and are now prepared to
submit their views; and as I may as well put you in posses-
sion of what the general purport of all the resolutions is, I
will just explain the substance of the whole.—(Hear, hear.)
We propose to recommend, not that the League shallbe ab-
solutely dissolved in the strict sense of the word, and yet we
propose to take such steps as amount to a virtual dissolution
of the League, unless the protectionist party compel us again
to revive our agitation. We propose to ask from you the
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shall pass a resolution, authorising the gentlemen in Blan-
chester who have acted on the council of the League, in case
they should see any serious efforts made by the monopolists
to revive the system of protection, or to induce Parliament to
retrace its steps, again to call the League into active exist-
ence. Gentlemen, we have thought that the course by which
we shall fulfil our duty to the general body of subscribers, and
likewise our pledges to the public. We have pledged ourselves
not to retire from this agitation, or disband the League,
until the corn-laws were totally and immediately abolished.
We are therefore not competent to dissolve this League. At
the same time I ought to say, that with reference to our
practical operations, it would be exceedingly difficult to
draw a line between a total suspension of the League and a
partial suspension. If we continue active operations at all,
it must be on a large scale and at an enormous expense.
I do not think you can draw a distinction between 500/.
a week and nothing. We have been spending, the last
three years, at least 1,0001. a week. Under these circum-
stances, I think it is a fair practical question to consider
what can be the object gained if we continue the active
agitation of the League. In two years and a half the corn-
laws will be abolished by an Act now upon the statute-
book ; and suppose our efforts in agitation out of doors
should be ever so successful, it is hardly possible that in
less than two years and a half we should succeed in altering
the law which now exists ; therefore I do not see that any
practical good can result front continuing the agitation in
my form whatever. Now, many people may say, " Are you
sate in disbanding this great organization ; are you safe in
taking off your uniform (if I may use the expression), or
casting aside your weapons of moral warfare ? not the
protectionists gain strength and confidence if they see you
abandon the field ?" lam of opinion that there is no danger
of anything of thekind. I look upon it that the mere boasting
and vapouring of a few of the less wise part of the protec-
tionist party may be very well excused by us. It is quite
natural that men, who felt worsted in argument and in all
the tactics of political acting during the last seven years,
should console themselves with the promises of what they
will do the next seven years. But I hold that you may as
soon abolish Magna Charta, or do away with trial by jury,
or repeal the Test and Corporation Act, or the Catholic Eman-
cipation Act, as ever re-enact protection as a principle in this
country. Some people say we go back in this country—l
maintain that we never go back after a question has been
discussed and sifted as ours has.—(Hear, hear.) You have
never gone back in any of the great questions •, if settled once
they have been settled altogether. People do say that we
went back after the Reform Act was passed. I will tell
you what we did. We got hold of a machine which we
did not know how to use, and the proper use of which we
are now learning, but we never went back. Nobody ever
proposed the repeal of one enactment of the Reform Act.
Therefore, having made friends everywhere, our minds
should be at ease, and if we should see a Noble Lord or even
a Noble Duke talking of what they will do, don't let your
nervous system be excited or alarmed. They. must raise a
fresh crop of statesmen to carry out their principles,
for we have all the statesmen now on our side of the
question. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Such being our
position, we have very good grounds for gratulation on
the present occasion. In consequence, I hardly know
whom to thank, or how to account, for our present
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I believe, gentlemen, we at all events may say that, humanly
speaking, we owe one debt of gratitude to our gracious Sove-
reign the Queen.—(" Hear, hear," and cheers.) I believe it
is not in strict etiquette to allude to the Queen's personal
views and feelings in any matter • but it is well known that
tier predilections are' strongly in favour of the cause we agi-
tate. Then there's her late First Minister. Well, gentle-
men, along with our success we have seen the downfal of
that Minister. Some people say he has lost office by giving
us free trade. Well, if he has lost office, he has gained a
country. For my part I would rather descend into private
life with that last measure which led to his discomfiture in
my hand, than mount to the highest pinnacle of human
power.—(Cheers.) Well, among the statesmen, we owe one
debt of gratitude to Lord John Russell.—(Hear, hear.) In-
dividually, I believe, we owe to him and his firmness during
the intrigues of the last six months in London, the support
of the Whig aristocracy at all in this measure.—(Hear,
hear.) lam anxious, as an individual, that all should have
their share of the gratitude due for the passing of tkese mea-
sures. I would not forget the late Deacon Ilume, Mr. Mac-
gregor, and Mr. Porter; their writings have done more
than any declamation can possibly do. I would wish not to
forget Colonel Thompson.—(Cheers.) Colonel Thompson has
made larger pecuniary sacrifices than any man, and he
has contributed intellectually. Gentlemen, I said I should
not detain you with a long speech, and in fact I cannot do
it, for I do feel oppressed with the feelings which now per-
vade my mind.—(Hear, hear.) I believe we are at an era
which, in importance, socially, has not its equal for the last
1,800 years. I believe there is no event that has ever hap-
pened in the world's history, that, in a moral and social point
of view, there is no human event that has happened in the
world, more calculated for the enduring interests of humanity,
than the establishment of the principle of free trade; I do
not mean in a pecuniary point of view, or as a principle ap-
lied to England, but we have a principle established now
which is eternal in its truth and universal in its application,
and must be applied in all nations and throughout all times,
and applied not simply to commerce, but to every item of the
tariffs of the world ; and if we are not mistaken in thinking
that our principles are true, be assured that those results will
follow, and at no very distant period.--(Loud cheers.) Why,
gentlemen, it' is a world's revolution, and nothing else.—
(Hear.) And every meeting we have held of this League,
and this its last meeting probably, may be looked back upon
as the germ of a movement which will ultimately compre-
hend the whole world in its embrace.—(Cheers.) I see and feel,
and have always felt, the great moral and social importance
of this great question.—( Hear, hear.) I believe many who
have taken an active part in this question have been in-
fluenced solely by its moral and social consequences.—(Hear,
hear.) Gentlemen, we have amongst us on this occasion a
gentleman who has come; from a neighbouring country,
France, an eloquent advocate of free trade there, M. Duflour,
the mayor of Bordeaux.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is grati-
fying that we should attract by a kindred sympathy the visit
to our meeting of so distinguished a man—(Hear, hear)—
and I know he will go back, not with fresh emotions of sym-
pathy towards our cause, for those he has entertained al-
ready, but I have no doubt he will go back inspirited by
what he sees here, and that he will be anxious that France
should not stand long apart from England in this glorious
career, but that we should join hand in hand in setting na •
tions the example of the mutual advantages of peace.—(Loud
and prolonged cheering.) Well, gentlemen, this League must
dissolve—it must suspend. Our elements must be scattered.
Well, I cannot help saying personally for myself, that the
greatest pleasure I have found in the course of these pro-
ceedings has been in the acquaintances I- have formed
with, arid the leindnese I have received from, the men con-
nected with this association.—(Hear, hear.) If I could
Ever have despaired of this country, after the acquaintances
which I have made with men in connexion with this
question—men who will be found the salvation of this
land in whatever good is to be accomplished—having
known what I do of my
.fellow-countrymen in this agita-
tion, I shall never despair of a moral power
ar to conduct
this good ship through whatever sterna may ise, which
will save us froth anarchy at the one end or tyranny at the
other of society.—(" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) I am,
going to he egotistical ; but I will say that, so far as I my-
self am concerned,-,so far as my tastes go--a release from
an active life of agitation will not be unacceptable to we.

-(" Hear, hear," .and cheering.) I ought, in order to
enjoy the full pleasure of an agititor, to be differently
constituted, and I don't think nature ever inteaded me
for that line.—(Laughter.) I say it most unaffectedly,
that I entered upon the career of agitation without the
slightest idea that it would ever have conducted me to the
poins to which I have arrived.—(Hear, hear.) I had not
the most distant idea of it. I don't think circumstances
would have warranted me in taking the step eight years
ago if I could have seen what it would lead to.—(Hear, hear.)
We got into the groove and were pushed along, and we
found ourselves carrying a train of good hardy spirits who
would not leave us ; and having given us their support we
were impelled forward in the groove at an accelerated
speedi and with a constantly accelerated sympathy. Well,
gentlemen, you will hardly credit it, when I say that with
respect to myself, I have precisely the same feelings now
with respect to the ordeal of public meetings that I had
when I began this agitation. It is a matter of great reluc •
tance and difficulty for me to appear before an audience at
all.—(Hear, hear.) Many people would think that we had
our reward in the applause and éclat of gublic meetings, but
I declare, upon my honour, that it is not so with me, for the
iuherent reluctance I have to address public meetings is so
great that I don't even get up to present a petition in the
House of Commons without reluctance. I therefore hope I
may believed when 1 say that if this agitation terminates
now, it will be very acceptable to my feelings; but if there
should be the same necessity, the same feeling which has
impelled me to take the part 1 have would lead me to parti-
cipate in a new agitation—aye, with tenfold more vigour after
having had a little time to recruit my strength.—(Loud
cheers ) Well, gentlemen, we are going to dissolve; those
good spirits must disband, and I am not quite sure that
it is not wise and proper that it should be s 9. Now, we
have been kept together for seven years without one single
dispute—without anything to cause the slightest aliena-
tion. We have had the bond of freemasonry and bro-
therhood so closely knit about us, that I don't think
there has been a keen word in the happy family of the
Anti-Corn-law League.—(" Hear, hear,' and cheers.)
Well, that is the spirit in which we should break off. Were
we to continue our agitation, when the object for which we
associated is gained, 1 am afraid that the demon discord will
be getting in among us. It is in nature so. It is in our
moral nature necessary that, when an organised body has
performed its functions, it must pass into a new state of
existence, and become differently organised. We are dis-
persing our elements to be ready for any other good works,
and it is nothing but good works that will be attempted by
good Leaguers.—(Cheers.) Our body will, so to say, perish,
but our spirit is abroad, and will pervade all the nations of
the earth.—(Renewed cheers.) It will pervade all the
nations of the earth, because it is the spirit of truth and
justice, and because it is the spirit of peace and goodwill
amongst men. I move—
'" That an Act of Parliament having been passed provid-
ing for the abolition of the corn-laws in February, 1849, it is
deemed expedient to suspend the active operations of the
Anti-Corn-law League, and the Executive Council in Man-
chester is hereby requested to take the necessary steps for
making up and closing the affairs of the League with as little
delay as possible.
" That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the
League, now presented, be passed.
" That after payment of the first instalment the subscribers
of the 250,0001. League Fund be released from all further
liabilities.
" That in case any serious attempts be made by the Pro-
tectionist party to induce the Legislature to retrace its steps,
or prevent the final extinction of the corn-law in February,
1849, the gentlemen who have hitherto to ably fulfilled the
duties of the executive council be hereby authorised to all
the League into renewed existence.
" That this meeting views with feelings of unfeigned ad-
miration and gratitude, the long, arduous, and invaluable
services rendered to the League by the chairman of its
council, George Wilson, and hereby authorise the executive
council to present him, and to request his acceptance of, a
sum of not less than 10,0001., to be paid out of the funds of
the League.
" That the members of the executive council of the League
are entitled to the warmest gratitude of ,the League and ot
the country, for their high-principled, laborious, and most
successful exertions during the seven years of our constitu-
tional agitation ; and that a committee be appointed, con-
sisting of Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P., and such gentle-
men as he may associate with himself, to determine on some
suitable testimonial to be presented to those gentlemen out
of the funds of the League.
" That the Council of the League, whilst discontinuing its
own operations, cannot be insensible to the intimations given
by the leading Protectionists in both Houses of Parliament,
of a determination to contest the ensuing general election,
with a view to obtain the repeal of the Corn Importation
Bill ; and, under these circumstances, the Council offer their
earnest recommendation to the free-traders in the Parliamen-
tary constituencies to continue their vigilant attention to the
registration, so as to be able to return a decided free-trade
majority to the next House of Commons."
Mr. J. BRIGHT, M.P. rose to second the resolution, and
was greeted with loud Cheers. He spoke as follows :—I need
not say that I participate to the fullest extent in the feelings
which have been expressed by Mr. Cobden—feelings which
must arise, I believe, in the hearts of most of us, when we
contemplate' the fact, that this is in all probability the last
meeting of the Anti• Corn-law League.—(Hear, hear.) lam
at this moment impressed with a feeling of the greatest pos-
sible delight that the object for which we have been banded
together is at length accomplished ; but that feeling is tinged
with one of another character, when I remember that in all
probability we are now about to separate from friends with
whom we have been long connected, and that have no
longer in pursuit an object which has been the dearest and
most cherished of our lives.—( Hear, hear.) At such a meet-
ing as this, and in such circumstances, I would be the very
last man to utter one syllable of unworthy exultation over
those who have been defeated.—(Hear, hear.) I would not
add one word to the unpleasant sensation of a party whose
hopes have been'altogether destroyed; I would not say any-
thing that should add to the exasperation and the bitterness
we have introduced to some extent between various classes
of this community during the protracted struggle which is
now concluded ; but I am of opinion that this final meeting
may have some result beyond that of merely determining to
wind up the affairs of this League—that it may have some
result, that upon it we may point a moral, and may learn a
lesson—we may contemplate the past, and we may for a
little survey the future.—(Hear, hear.) To the public, the
men especially who don't think very deeply, the object
of the Anti-Corn-law League is accomplished when the
corn-law is repealed ; but if a thinking and philosophic)
mind were asked what the League has done, I am of opi-
nion that his answer would include many other points
and many other things beyond the repeal of a particular
statute.—(Hear, hear.) We have taught the people of
this country the value of a great principle.— ( Hear, hear.)
They have learned that there is nothing that can be held
out to the intelligent people of this kingdom so calculated
to stimulate them to action, and to persevering action, as a
great and sacred principle like that which the League
espoused.—(Hear,tear.) They have learned that there is in
public opinion a power much greater than that which resides
in any particular form of government ; that, although you
have in this kingdom a system of government which is called
" popular" and called " representative," a system which is
clumsily contrived, and which works with many jars and
clatters, that still, with a great principle, and with great
labour, and with great sacrifices, all those obstacles are
overcome, and out of a machine specially contrived for the
contrary justice and freedom at length is achieved for
the nation ; and the people have learned something beyond
this, that is, that the way to freedom henceforward is not
through violence and bloodshed,—(Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) Why, there can be no power on earth with which
we can ever be again called to contend more powerfully
than that which we have overthrown on this question---(Hear,
hear)—for we have had the particular Privileged class banded
together, many of them strong in prejudices, many of them
believing that their personal and class interests depended
upon the views which they then held being maintained ;
and we have had also mighty prejudices and ignorances
among the people to contend with ; and yet all these have been
dispelled ; and there is nothing in the whole United King-
dom at present to oppose us except the miserable remnant of
the ignorance which once prevailed.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
I take it that there is no better lesson for the people to learn
from it than this,—that by persevering effort. that by no in-
fraction of moral law, by strict obedience to the principles
which we believe to be enjoined by the Christian code, they
can obtain so great and signal victories, and victories which
are not tarnished in the gaining, and victories which can
never be lost,—more great and more glorious than any other
nation ever achieved by force of arms.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) But this Anti-Corn-law League will stand before
the world as a sign of a new order of things.—(Hear, hear.)
Until now this country has been ruled principally by the
class of great proprietors of the soil. Every one must have
foreseen, as trade and manufactures extended, that the
balance of power would at some day or other be thrown into
another scale. Well, that time has come—(Hear, hear)—
and the rising of this League seven years ago was sufficient
to have pointed out to any statesman that the power of the
landed aristocracy had reached its height, and that hence-
forth it must find a rival and an opponent to which eventually
it must become subjected.—(Hear, and cheers.) Now, we
have been living through a revolution without k9owing it.
In 1832 the House of Lords deemed itself a power in the
state irresponsible except to heaven, and took upon itself to
say that a law should or should not pass. The House of Lords
now makes no such pretensions; Lord Stanley declared,
" God forbid that your Lordships should set yourselves against
the clearly expressed will of the people"—(Hear, hear)—and I
heard (for I listened to most of their debates on this ques-
tion)—l heard several other Members of the House of Peers
make use of very similar expressions.—(Hear.) They there-
fore understand ;their position now—that they meet there,
not directly representing certain constituencies or elected by
them, but still that they are supposed to represent the people
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has intrusted them with.—(" Hear, hear," and cheers.) But
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The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. R. H. Greg
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Mr. Edward Baines, jun., Leeds ; Mr. P. A. Taylor, London ;
Mr. ‘Villiam Brown, Liverpool ; Mr. John Cheetham,
Staleybridge ; Mr. F. R. Atkinson. Blanchester; Mr. G.
Thomas, Bristol ; and Mr. John Whittaker, Hurst. Mr.
Cobden moved a vote of thanks to Mr. George Wilson, chair-
man of the League, for his invaluable services. By the re-
solution conveying this vote, the executive council are au-
thorised to present to Mr. Wilson the sum of 10,0001.
Mr. J. B. SMITH seconded this resolution, and it ably
supported by Mr. JOSEPH BROTHERTON, M:p.
was
Thelproceedings terminated at half-past two o'clock.

LETTS' BRITISH TARIFF.-----
Messrs. Letts, Sons, and
Co., has just published a neat little edition of the
new British Tariff, arranged alphabetically. The book
and the whole neatly got
itself is so small, that it can be carried in the waistcoat
pocket, or enclosed in a small envelope for transmission
Co. have conferred an obligation
by post (its weight is under a quarter of an ounce), while
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by this elegant and opportune
The Chevalier Bunsen, yesterday visited the New Zea-
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by Mr. Levein. His Excellency expressed his entire
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of the North British
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castle to Edinburgh by the western road, now run between
Berwick and Newcastle, in addition to the mail, the Magnet,
Union, and Royal William. The coaches between Edin-
burgh and Berwick are discontinued. As the greater por-
Railway, the ligShifin;
tion of the traffic between the two countries will, until the
completion of the Caledonian Railway, be brought by this
route, it is doubted whether these six coaches will be suffi-
cient for its conveyance, and several others will, in all pro-
bability, be put upon the road. Two of them, we believe,
will run from Berwick to Newcastle, vid Wooler.—Scetch
raper.

FLANDERS MAIL AND DUTCH

PAPERS.

• BRUSSELS, JUNE 29.11;fhedhamber of Representa-
tives met to-day, but there was not a sufficient number
of Members present to transact business, only 46 Mem-
bers were present at two o'clock, so that the Chamber
was obliged to adjourn till to-morrow.
A courier arrived yesterday from Rome with dis-
patches from his Excellency the M. de San Marzano,
Archbishop of Ephesus, Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy
See. The same courier then proceeded to the Hague
with dispatches from the Ambassador of the Holy See.
The purpose of these dispatches was to announce the
election of the new Pope Pius the IX. M. de San
Morzano has already had a private audience of the
King and Queen to deliver his dispatches.
The barley harvest has commenced in a great part of
Germany. The wheat will be reaped in a few days.
Public attention is entirely absorbed by the Ministe-

rial crisis in England.
The debate on the proposed convention with France
will commence to morrow. It is probable that the op-
portunity will be taken to enter on the subject of a
customs' union between Belgium and France.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 29.—His Majesty the King re-
turned last night, at about eleven o'clock, from his ex-

cursion to the Loo.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Nassau arrived here
this evening.
We understand that the Government has purchased
600 acres on the south• west coast of the island of Texel,
the soil of which is said to be of excellent quality. It is
intended to inclose this land with dikes. This operation
will commence in the spring of 1847,-so that a portion
of land in the province of North Holland will be reco-
vered from the waves, and converted into fertile arable
land. We are happy to add, with the consent of
his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands,
that new Polden will have the name of Prince Henry.
Polden. The serious apprehensions that the long con-
tinued draught would do much injury to the standing
crops, have been happily dispelled by the welcome rains
which have fallen in this country, and in the neigh-
bouring states. The hot weather had continued in some
parts from thirty to forty days, without any interrup-
tion, and gives occasion to unfavourable reports respect-
ing the corn, and the reappearance of the disease in the
potatoes, which, as far as the neighbouring districts are
concerned, we are happy to be able to refute.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 27.—His Royal Highness Prince
Henry left the Hague yesterday evening, for Flushing,
to take the command of the squadron destined for the
Mediterranean.
THE HAGUE, JUNE 30.—Yesterday evening, at eight
o'clock, his Majesty the King, their Royal Highnesses
Prince Henry and Alexander, his Serene Highness the
Duke of Nassau, and his Excellency the Minister of
Marine, left this town for Rotterdam, where they were
to embark on board the steam-boat for Flushing. Our
readers know that the departure of the three squadrons
assembled at Flushing is fixed for to-day, and that his
Majesty and their Royal Highnesses desire to be present
when they put to sea.
LUXEMBURG, JUNE 27.—An event of great import-
ance to the Grand Duchy is the signing of the concession
Hof the iron railway, between the Government and Mr.
Closeman, president of the Great Company of Luxem-
burg. The concession (or grant) is for ninety years.
The railway is to come from Arlon to Luxemburg, with
full power to prolong it (with the consent of Prussia) to
Treves.
BERLIN, JUNE 25. —The monthly table of the price
of the four principal kinds of corn in all great market
towns of the Russian dominions is now published, and
shows the very great difference of the prices in the pro-
vinces. Taking for instance wheat, it appears that the
average price in eight Saxon towns was 67 11-12 dollars,
and in fourteen Rhenish towns 104- dollars. The
lowest price of wheat in the whole kingdom was 53f
dollars at Breslau, and the highest 124 7-12 dollars.—
Universal Prussian Gazette, June 26.

TARIFF OF THE GERMANIC
CUSTOMS' UNION.
There has just been laid before Parliament a copy of
be tariff of the Germanic Customs' Union for the years
1846, 1847, and 1848, agreed upon with the States of
he Customs' Union, apd carried into effect from the
Ist of January last.
The following is Section I. of that Tariff, containing
a list of all the " articles not subject to any duty."
1. Trees, shrubs, and vines for planting, also plants
in pots and tubs.
2. Bee-hives, with live bees.
3. Brandy wash.
4. Dung, animal ; also other manure, as buck-ashes,
lime-ashes, bone•scum, or sugar-baker's clay. dung-salt,
the latter only by particular permits, and under control
for use.
5. Eggs.
6. Earths and ores, which are not by name rated with
duties, as bole, pumice, blood stone, manganese, gypsum.
loam, marl, sand, emery, heavy spar in crystallised
pieces, common potter's clay and pipe-clay, trepoly,
fuller's earth, &c. &c.
7. The agricultural produce of and the cattle bred on
any single estate crossed by the frontiers, the dwelling-
houses and farm-buildings of which are situated within
those frontiers.
8. Fresh fish and craw-fish ; also fresh unopened
mussels.
9. Field produce, and corn in sheaves, as imported
from the fields direct ; flax and hemp, steeped or not ;
also grass, fodder, hay, and hayseed.
10. Fresh garden produce, as flowers, vegetables, and
herbs, potatoes, and turnips, eatable roots, &c. ; also
fresh madder roots, and agaric, raw as it comes from
the trees ; also undried chicory.
11. Poultry, and small game of all sorts.
12. Varnish and potter's ore.
13. Gold and silver, coined, in bars, or in pieces, with
exception of foreign small coin containing silver.
14. Domestic implements and goods which have been
used ; worn clothes and linen, manufacturing utensils
and tools which have been used and brought for per-
sonal use ; also, on special permission, new apparel,
linen, and furniture, brought by foreigners about to
marry in the country, with the view of setting up house-
keeping.
15. Wood (for burning), and timber and osiers,
transported by land, and not intended for a depot and
for shipping ; brushwood and brooms of the same.
Note.—Single logs floated on floating canals and
rivers are rated the same as if conveyed by land carriage.
16. Clothes and linen which travellers, carriers, and
navigators have for their own use ; also tools of travel-
ling mechanics, as well as utensils and implements em-
ployed by travelling artists in the exercise of their call-
ing ; likewise books of patterns, and patterns in sam-
ples intended to be used only as such; also the carriages
of travellers ; likewise the carriage and barques exclu-
sively and expressly employed for the conveyance of
persons and goods on the passing the frontiers, such
barques including the equipment implements and uten-
sils necessary for working them, provided the barques
belong to foreigners, or provided national barques im-
port the same or similar equipment, implements, and
utensils of constant use, as they had on board at their
departure ; travelling gear, and provisions intended to
be consumed in travelling.
16. Objects of art imported for exhibitions or for
Government establishments intended to encourage art,
and for museums; also other objects designed for the
libraries and other collections of public institutions and
relating to science, more especially to natural history.
18. Tan-cake (soaked tan for fuel).
19. Milk.
20. Fruit, fresh.
21. Paper written on, such as law proceedings, and
other manuscripts.
22. Seeds of forest woods.
23. Shave-grass, rushes, and reeds.
24. Wool-shearings (the waste in cloth shearing), also
flock wool (the waste In spinning), and shreds of cloth
(waste in weaving); also lint.
25. Silk cocoons.
26. Stones, hewn or unhewn, quarry-stones, lime-
stones, slates, tiles, and bricks, transported by land, and
not intended for a depot for shipping; mill-stones, and
coarse polishing and grinding stones, under the same
limitation.
27. Straw, hay, and chopped straw.
28. Animals, alive, not mentioned in the tariff.
29. Turf and bovey coal ; also pit coal ashes.
30. Still bottoms and husks.
(The rest occupies upwards of 20 folio pages of print).