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

MISCELLANEOUS.

74. All- communication to the comptroller-general
from officers of the establishment will be forwarded
through the visiting magistrate, who will inquire into the
points referred to, and will request the superintendent to
transmit the necessary information respecting them. In
any case of urgency, a statement may be made to the
comptroller-general direct.
75. Visitors to the officers of the establishment must
be furnished with an order of admission from the Lieu-
tenant-Governor or the Comptroller-General. They
will enter their names and address in a book to be kept
for that purpose. They are not to go over the establish-
ment unless accompanied by an officer. Visits made to
the superintendent, matron, or religious instructor by
their personal friends, are not included in the regulation
rendering previous permission necessary ; but the names
and address of such visitors are to be recorded in the
book referred tea
76. No female convict is to be allowed to leave the
establishment, unless under a contract for service,
without the Lieutenant-Governor's sanction being pre-
viously obtained.

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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE
MANCHESTER ADDRESSES.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
The following communications have been received
from Sir Robert Peel, in answer to the Addresses for-
warded to the Right Hon. Baronet from the different
bodies in this town, which we have already noticed:—
Drayton Manor, July 3, 1846.
Gentlemen—The severe pressure of public business,
which did not admit of delay, has deprived me, until
this day, of the opportunity of returning my grateful
acknowledgments to the bankers, merchants, and manu-
facturers of Manchester, who have signed the address
which I have recently had the honour of receiving from
that town.
I thank them sincerely for the approbation of my
conduct which they have expressed, and especially for
the justice they have done to the motives by which alone
I have been influenced, in recommending and supporting
to the utmost of my power, important measures con-
nected with our commercial policy, which have at length
received the sanction of Parliament.
Though I have felt it to be my duty to relinquish
office, I shall be prepared to lend, in a private capacity,
my cordial assistance in the continual application of the
principles on which those measures are founded.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your faithful servant,
(Signed) ROBERT PEEL.
The Mayor of Manchester.
The President of the Chamber of
Commerce and Manufactures.
The President of the Commercial Association.
Nlalcolm Ross, Esq., &c.
TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AND MANUFACTURES AT MANCHESTER.
Drayton Manor, July 4, 1546.
Gentlemen,— I have this day had the honour of re-
ceiving the address from the Chamber of Commerce and
Manufactures at Manchester, transmitted to me by the
president.
That address I shall not fail to communicate to the
other Members of the Government which has been lately
dissolved.
It was mainly through their cordial and zealous co-
operation that I was enabled to conduct to a successful
issue, the measures which it was my duty to propose at
the commencement of the present Session, for the re-
moval of many of the remaining restraints on commerce,
and for the repeal of taxes on corn, cattle, meat, and all
the first necessaries of life.
To myself personally this address must be peculiarly
gratifying, on account of the place from which it pro-
ceeds, and on account of your connexion with manu-
facturing interests and occupations, to which I am so
deeply indebted. My late colleagues will, I am confident.
fully participate in the satisfaction which I have derived
from an address which approves so warmly of our con-
dnct, and does such ample justice to our motives.
In returning my acknowledgments, allow me to make
a remark, which could not be addressed more appropri-
ately to any other body, and in the truth of which no
other body would, I am confident, more readily acquiesce.
Although, as might naturally be expected, the mea-
sures for the repeal of the corn and provision laws were
encountered by a very able and vehement opposition in
Parliament, yet full justice has not been done to the
great moderation and forbearance which were generally
displayed by that class of the community, which is im-
mediately and practically concerned in the occupations
of agriculture. They were equally displayed by that
class in every part of the empire, in Scotland and Ireland,
as well as in this part of the United Kingdom.
During the whole progress of the measures through
Parliament, there was no disposition on their part mani-
fested to offer or encourage any obstruction not required
for the purposes of fair discussion, or to insist pertina-
ciously on the continued maintenance of protective duties
for the benefit of a particular class.
Of this I am confident, that nothing passed during
the heat of the eonfiict which, now that it is closed,
ought to prevent the establishment of cordial harmony
and good-will between the agricultural and manufactur-
ing classes.
It is indeed to be hoped, that one of the happiest re-
sults of the measures which have been sanctioned (as I
believe, finally and irrevocably sanctioned) by Parlia-
ment, will be the determination of constantly recurring
and irritating discussions, and the removal of all causes
of jeolousy and contention between those who, though
occupied in different departments of industry, have in-
terests that are inseparably interwoven.
I thank you for the hearty good wishes you express
for my welfare. I can claim no credit for any personal
sacrifice in relinquishing office.
With whatever pertinacity I would have adhered to
it, if such adherence had been essential, or manifestlyconducive to the final success of the commercial mea-
sures of the present session, yet, now that they are
passed, I retire from office with feelings little akin to
those of disappointment or regret.
I am satisfied that, in the present state of affairs, and
in the present position of political parties, it is for the
public advantage that the power which official station
confers should IN tvausforred to other hands, und trans-
ferred withoet a protracted struggle.
Being so satisfied, I cordially rejoice on every private
ground that I am relieved from a burden which was be.
yond my strength, and am exempted from sacrifices for
which nothing could compensate but the ability to render
pnblie service.
Be assured that, in a private station, I shall give my
continued support to those principles of commercial
legislation which have been approved equally by the
deductions of reason and by the results of practical ex-
periment, and that I shall rejoice in the progress of all
measures, adopted with due caution and circumspection,
that shall be calculated, by extending commerce, to give
additional security for general peace, and by ensuring
their just reward to skill and industry, to lay the best
foundation for the intellectual and moral improvement
of the people.—I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
your faithful servant,

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

FRENCH PLAYS.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by Prince Leiningen, and attended by the
Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Miss Devereux, Lord Ha-
warden, Colonel Seymour, and Colonel Arbuthnot, honoured
Mr. Mitchell's benefit last evening with their presence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de Speth, Sir George Couper,
and the Hon. Captain Murray, also honoured the theatre
with her presence. There were also present his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Louis Napo-
leon, the Duchess of 13eaufort and party, the Duchess of
Sutherland, the Duchess of Beauclerc and party, Lord and
Lady Dalhousie, the Countess of Kinnoul, the Earl of Shel-
burne, the Marquis of Titchfield, Lord and Lady Aylmer,
Lady Charlotte Guest, Lord Willoughby, the Earl of Ork-
ney, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord C. Fitzroy, Baron
Hugel, the Marchioness of Donegal, Baron and the
Countess Rothschild, Lady Fitzroy Kelly, Sir W. Massey
Stanley, Sir George and Miss Talbot, Sir John H. Lowther,
the Hon. Spencer Cowper, Sir Henry and Lady Meux,
Lady Grey, Lady Jodrell, Madame Van de Weyer, Hon.
Miss Campbell, Sir Henry and Lady Webster, Hon. Mr.
Abbott, Sir H. Webb, Lady and Miss Quentin, Hon. R.
Law•ley.
Dispaches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governers of the Mauritius, West Aus-
tralia, and Malta.

THE COBDEN TESTIMONIA.L. •
The Mayor of Manchester Las issued the following
address:—

" TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
" The heartfelt and triumphant gladness with which
the nation hails the deliverance of its industry from the
restrictions of a false and unrighteous legislation were
incomplete without the recognition of that individual
agency to which this glorious consummation is essen-
tially indebted. Now that the battle is fought, the
victory won, and the charter of industrial liberty finally
recorded in the statute-book, and made part and parcel
of the law of these realms, it is felt that this struggle
ought not—to pass away—cannot pass away—without
leaving behiud it some enduring memorial of national
gratitude :and honour to the man by whose untiring
exertions, unsparing self-sacrifice, sleepless vigilance,
immoveable fidelity to principle, and unrivalled wisdom
and prudence of leadership, this great success has been
achieved. The British people need not be told that it is
to Richard Cobden, aided by his able, earnest, and
eloquent coadjutors, that this country mainly owes that
Act which will render the sear 1846 memorable in our
annals.

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

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

" June 26th, 1846.
" Sirs,—l know not how to requite you for electing
me a useless member of your body; I am too poor to
subscribe to your funds; and it says attic for my wisdom
that I never yet met with an association willing to follow
my advice. The Trades Unionists would not follow it
when I advised them to help the Free Trader; and the
Chartists, howling in my face, joined the common
enemy. Trades unions may have benefited the unionists
at the expense of victims like themselves, but I cannot
help thinking that their funds might have been better
employed than in breaking the hearts of starved mothers;
believing, as I do, that the money expended by them.
might have conferred the county franchise on a majority
of their members. One great object of all associations
aiming to ameliorate the condition of the masses, ought
now to be the county franchise; with, or without
such associations, that franchise, I believe, is within
the reach of almost all our mechanics, both in
towns and villages : by obtaining it they would
increase their usefulness, secure their well-being, and,
command respect. Let the county franchise be once ob-
tained by them, and wealth and station will be respected
as they ought ; but we shall see no more doffing of
Pay-All's hat to Squire Starvation and his apes, for the
honour of being robbed and insulted. One of the results
of the uncontrolled rule of the few is, that there is not an
acre of appropriated land in this country that has not
been at some time stolen by due course of law—sa
called ; and it follows that no man now can buy an acre
or au inch of land that has not been so stolen. Yon
can honestly obtain the county franchise by buying
land according to the law of the land, as every man
must do who buys land anywhere ; but the fact which
I have stated is unimpeachable, and the past cannot be
retrieved. Make good use, then, of the future. Unlesa
men ought to be stifled on the seventh day, because
their occupations imprison them the six preceding days.
all public footpaths should be held sacred ; at least
until the State shall have supplied every consider-
able town with free public walks and gardens, suffi-
ciently extensive to secure (as far as out-❑oor recreation
can) the public health. If free-trade should happily be
obtained in our day, the inclosure of waste lands cannot
be prevented ; every acre of such land, capable of pro-
fitable cultivation will inevitably be cultivated. Your
business, then, will be (if the enemy shall have left any
waste land uninclosed) to take care that snch land shall
be cultivated for the public benefit alone ; and who can
. have a better claim to waste land near the town than
the inhabitants ? Obtain the county franchise, and you
not only prevent the arbitrary closing of footpaths, and
the unjust appropriation of waste lands, but do other
good to yourselves, to your children, and ther age—to
unborn millions 1 Oh, infinite, endless good, with evil
to nonel if the insane never co-operate; if the instinct
of self-preservation sometimes forces the sane, when
oppressed, to co-operate ; if public oppressors always
co-operate, and if you already feel the might of honest
co-operation, look back for a moment on the authors of
your past miseries, and be convinced that institutional
power (for right or wrong) is like the Indian trees,
which, spreading its roots on all sides, throws up a new
stem at each ramification ! Your enemies know this
well. Obtain the county franchise then, and defeat
them for ever ! " EBENEZER ELLIOTT,
" Great Houghton, near Barnsley."
[We are glad to see that Ebenezer Elliott is again in
the field. Be it never forgotten that Ebenezer Elliott,
" The Corn-law Rhymer," was the first to denounce the
iniquity of the corn-laws. Years before the League was
in existence, he was a " total and immediate repealer.
He is not a rich man. Let not his claims be forgotten
by his countrymen, We hope to see a subscription
opened for an Elliott testimonial. lle is a good man
and true. He, in evil days, stood up for the glorious
doctrines of free trade, when to stand up for those doc-
trines was a service of danger. Let not his claims be
overlooked in the hour of victory. Who will subscribe
for a testimonial to the author of " Corn-law Rhymes,"
the poet of the People ?] —ED. Sun.

THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.—S;.IICO 011 r
last publication, there have been a number of goodly addi-
tions to the contributors and contributions to this national
testimonial. Mr. S. D. Darbishire and Mr. Edmund Potter
have severally enlarged their contributions from 100/. to 1501.
each. Messrs. Dixon and Sons, of Carlisle, and Mr. Thomas
Thomason, Bolton, have given 5001. each ; Messrs. George
Cheetham and Sons, Stalybridge ; Thomas Harrison and Sons,
Stalyb;idge ; and William Bailey and Brothers, Stalybridge,
each firm 3001. ; Messrs, Critchley, Armstrong, and Co.,
Manchester, 250/, ; Sir Benjamin Heywood, Mr. James Hey-
wood, and Messrs. T. and J. Wrigley, 2001. each ; Messrs.
Wells, Cooke, and Potter, Robert Platt (Stalybridge), and
Mr. William Ross, each 1501. The following additional
subscriptions have been given, each of 1001:—Messrs. Joseph
Whitworth and Co., Henry Tootal, Hardman and Price, IL
Boden (Derby), John and Samuel Alcock, Dufay and Co.,
Henry Newliery, Richard Potter (St. John's-wood), Thorn-
ton, Atterburv, and Co., Henry Walmsley, Langworthy,
Brothers, and Co., and Burton, Chippindall, and Co. Besides
these, there is a subscription of 80/. ; five of 501.; one of 401.;
three of 25/. ; and many of smaller amounts, making an in-
crease since Friday evening of about 5,000/. ; the aggregate.
amount now exceeding 7'wenty;fiee Thousand Pounds! We:
understand that the Ashton-under-Lyne subscriptions are to
be notified on Friday next. In London, Liverpool, Shefraeld4
Dundee, and other large towns, preparatory measures sae
being taken for originating subscriptions to this natiased tea-
timonial.—Manchester Guardian.