The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-02 00:00:00

MR. COBDEN AND TLIR ROCHDALE

MANUFACTURERS.

A meeting of woollen manufacturers was held on
Wednesday at the Wellington Hotel, Rochdale, to
hear the report of the deputation appointed on
Monday week to confer with Mr. Cobden, in Paris,
relative to the admission of flannels into France.
The MAYOR stated that soon after their arrival
in Paris, the deputation had an interview with
Mr. Cobden, and learned from him that it was
contemplated to fix a specific duty on all
woollen goods. The deputation endeavoured
to show Mr. Cobden that flannels ought to be
admitted at an ad valorem duty. Mr. Cobden
at one saw that, in the case of flannels,
an ad valorem duty would be best, and said
he would do what he could for them. In
the evening Mr. Cobden met them again and in-
formed them that, after some discussion, the com-
missioners had given up the specific duty, and that,
under the new treaty, all woollens or fabrics in
which wool predominated, would be received at the
same duty. The deputation then tried to get blankets
and low flannels introduced at a duty lower than on
fine flannels, stating that same deseriptions were so
near the raw material that they considered a
distinction only proper; but they were reminded
that the lower the price the lower would be the
duty. He (the Mayor) considered that there was a
probability, almost amounting to a certainty, that
all woollens, and all fabrics in which wool pre-
dominated, would be admitted at 15 per cert.,
that rate to be reduced in 1864 to 10 per
cent. It was probable, too, that the date of the
treaty coming into operation would be anticipated.
He could not close his report without stating that
the deputation was met in a cordial manner by Mr.
Cobden and his English coadjutors. The amount of
fatigue which was undergone by Mr. Cobden was
very great, and must tell on a man of his age. He
received deputations from as early hour till the
time at which the commissioners sat, and again
after their sitting ; and he (the Mayor) was assured,
by other deputations he had met at the hotel, that
they were all satisfied with the attention paid by
Mr. Cobden to their representations. The deputa-
tion had been assured that the treaty, when con-
cluded, would be a most complete and perfect
treaty, and that it was likely that Mr. Cobden's
assistance would be asked for in the arrangement
of treaties for other countries.

Mr. Webster, the director and proprietor of the
New Royal Adelphi—en passant—the prettiest theatre in
London, has lately been in Paris, and has, it is said, taken
back with him the MS. of a very remarkable drama by one
of the first of French writers, not yet produced in Pans.
Mr. Carles Brahani, son of the late great Eng
lish tenorh has just passed through Paris, en route for Italy.
This gentleman heretofore has been heard as a tenor eingeF,
but it appears his organ recently changed into alo w_
ebaterir:
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tone of such power and extent of compass that be
mined to return to Italy to study under one of the great

professors of the day.
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boat, by the
landed them atpStullelena on the 10th ult. Another boat's
ber, landed at Reunion, and were after-
crew, sevennton
Mmauritius ; but the third boat's crew, con-
waisatridnsg,tait is believed, of the first officer and seven men, is
in The Oliver Putnm States, a fine ship of 1,121
still rn,Z-b-uilt English, the United and despatched by
tons, Don't, and Brandon, of this port.—
Messrs.
Liverpool Mireury.
CANNING 'S GREAT SPEECH.—Perhaps the most
false, the most unreasonable, and in every way the most
absurd speech ever uttered by a British Minister, was that
of Canning, when he said in those much-quoted words-
4, I called the New World into existence to redress the
balance of the Old." He had no more to do with calling
the New World into existence than he had to do with the
discovery of America. If anybody had a right to claim
that honour it was Castlereagh, who sketched out in papers
now lying in the Foreign-office the course that Canning
afterwards followed ; but even for Castlereagh to have
claimed such merit in such terms would have been false
and ridiculous bombast. We cannot in a single sentence
point out the still greater absurdity of the subsequent
statement, that his object was to redress the balance of the
Old World. The meaning of the sentence is, that he ruined
Spain in order to weaken France. To any one acquainted
with the history of the transaction, as it has since been re-
vealed in various State papers, Canning's sounding phrases
are a tissue of the most glaring falsehoods and absurdities.
Nothing can well bs more unreasonable. And yet this was
the most successful piece of oratory delivered in the present
century. The effect was electrical. The House of Commons
rose to its feet as he uttered these words, stared at him in
blank amazement, and then burst into such tremendousnado,a!
cheering as even the walls of St. Stephen's had rarely
echoed. Shall we say that a speech thus effeetyVVire
assembly of the most educated gentlemen of the
not eloquent because of its turgidity, its &lex
utter absurdity?—" Cornhill Magazine" far ~bard.
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