The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

MR. COBDEN.

Mr. Alexander Laing, manufacturer, Hawick,
has received the following letter from Mr. Cobden,
in acknowledgment of a copy of resolutions passed
at a public meeting in ,that town, sympathising
with Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Gibson on their
recent defeats at Huddersfield and Manchester :
" Midhurst, April 30.
" Sir.—l have had the honour of receiving your
letter, enclosing resolutions passed at a public
meeting in Hawick, declaring its attachment to
those general views which, in conjunction with my,
friends Messrs. Bright and Gibson, I have advo-
cated, and expressing its regret at the result of the
Manchester and •Huddersfield elections. Pray do
me the favour to assure our kind neighbours that I
appreciate with grateful warmth this generous mark
of their approbation. To be cheered with the sym-
pathy of one's countrymen in moments of dis-
couragement or defeat is the most gratifying reward
and the most useful support that can be rendered
to a public man.

" It is, however, but just to all par ies to add
that far more has been implied from my accidental
defeat at Huddersfield than can be fa;riy attributed
to it. I had no connexion with or claim on that
borough, and no acquaintance with its inhabitants
beyond that which I formed in almost every con-
siderable pace in the kingdam in the course of the
free trade struggle ; and Mr. Ackrayd, the elected
member, is as sound a freetrader as mys-lf. The
invitation to become a candidate, which emanated
from a public meeting, did not reach me till after
my opponent, who occupied an influential local
pr,sition, was already in the midst of a canvass from
door to door throughout the borough—an ordeal
which I at once declared I could not go through
for all the seats in Parliament—and his success was
insured against all possible opposition, no matter
from what quarter it might have come. In fact, my
entrance upon the contest was at the time simply
and solely a mistake ; but, owing to the circum-
stances under which it was fallen into, it involved no
blame or serious responsibility to any one. I should
not presume to think these particulars worthy of
being mentioned but for the impression which I
see prevails that I deem myself aggrieved at the
result of the contest, and regard it as a delibe-
rate judgment of a popular constituency on my po-
litical principles. The el ctors of Huddersfield
were not regularly or fairly empanelled as a jury
to try me, and their verdict. could not therefore
involve either credit or discredit to me or them-
-8 Ives.

" To complete, since I have commenced this little
narrative, let me add that the real cruse of my
finding myself at this moment out of the house is
to be trace I as far back as 1847, when, owing to the
over z'alous kindness of my friends, I was, while
1,000 miles distant from England, returned for both
the West Riding and Stockport. On my return
house, at the urgent request of those friends, I re-
luctantly dissolved my connexion with the borough,
and elected to sit for the Riding. I should have
ben) but a cold-blooded pil,ician if I had acted
otherwise. But I had a full foresight of the conse-
quences, fir I was the first to declare that it would
be impossible, after- the free trade question was
settled, that the largest county constituency in the
kingdom should continue to be represented by one
wholly unconnected with it by birth, property, or
residence. I accepted its representation ad hoc, as
the diplomatists would say, knowing that in with-
drawing myself from the safe anchorage of Stick-
port I wal endangering my return at some future
election by casting myself adrift amid the storms
and breakers of the political ocean. The result has
only veri6ei my predictions. But let it not be sup-
posed that I am so unreasonable as to feel aggrieved
by the result. I should be about the last man
living to be justified in giving way to such a feel-
ing. I have had more than my share of the honours
of political warfare, and why should I expect to
escape its reverses ?

"For personal rersons it is convenient to me at
present to be relieved from the duties of Parlia-
ment. I must confess, however, at the same tim.,
thatt there never was a moment when, on public
grounds I would have more gladly taken my seat
in the House of Commons. Agaiu thanking you
and those whom you represent for your friendly
manifestations of feeling.
"I remain, Sir, yours faithfully,

"RICHARD COBtiEN.

"Alexander Laing, Esq., Hawick.
" P.S.—I regret that in consequence of your
first letter having failed to reach me there should
have been so much delay in sending an answer."

At a meeting of the Caiho'ic electors of Leeds,
held at the rooms of the Catholic Literary Institu-
tion, on the 17th of April, it was unanimously re-
solved that the following address b 3 presented to
Mr. Richard Cobden :

" W.., the Catholic elelt,)rs of the borough of
Leeds, ent,‘rta'niug a grat3ful recollection of the
many and successful services rendered by you to
the great principles of civil and religious liberty
throughout your brilliant career in Parliament, and
by the influence of your name on the large number
of those who have espoused the liberal cause in
England, feel it a duty imposed upon us by the
present crisis of public affairs to render to you our
most sincere and hearty thanks for the labours you
have undergone and the zeal you have displayed on
behalf of that cause in which we, among many
others, have so deep and important an interest.
" Aware that, in opposing to the enemies Of
freedom the great abilities which you possess, and
the untiring energy with which those talents have,
been exercised, you have incurred obloquy and en-
countered prejudice by advocating our claims to
the rights of conscience, we feel that it would be a
stigma on us as men and. citizens, and that we
should be justly esteemed unworthy of the assist-
ance
we have received from you, if we were to
withhold this public expression of our gratitude and
sympathy.
" In, begging you, then, to accept the thanks we
thus respectfully tender to you, we desire at the
same time to expre4s our deep regret that by un-
toward circumstances we are deprived, for a time
at leist, of your valuable aid so freely given in our
behalf, and that the country should lose the Par-
liamentary services of so great, so useful, and so
honest a man."

Die following is Mr. Cobden's reply to the al-
dress :

" Midurst, April 24, 1857.
" Sir,—Your letter, enclosing a copy of a rzso-
lution agreed to by the Catholic electors of. Leeds,
has, after some delay, reached me here, and I have
to beg you to be so good as to convey to them my
grateful acknowleth;ments foc- their kindness, and
to assure them that my gratitude is the warmer
from the consciousness I feel that I am quite un-
de+erving, of this special mark of their ftvour.

"It is true that I incurred some little obloquy
in cert sin quart?rs by opposing the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill in 1851, but I did so inconsistency wi h
that principle of religious liberty which has always
been the maxim of my political life, and which I
apply alike to all denominations. Had the mea-
sure affected the church government of the Wes-
leyans, the Independents, or the Baptists, I should
have equally opposed it. That Bill was a res-wt to
the civil power forpenAties to prevent a religious
community from carry in' o t t an organisation which
they consider needful for the full and free exercise
of their faith—an organ'sation, be it rem,mbeieri
to our humiliation, which is in force in every other
country, in some, as in Prussia, with the co-opera-
tion of the Government, and in others, as the
United States, with its neutrality-. Such a re-
course to the secular arm in matters of opinion is to
my judgment to return to the perseervinr4 policy of
the dark ages; for whether we seek to tiiwatt the
free exercise of religious faith by the dungeon and
the stake or by the milder penalties of an Eccbsi-
astical Titles Bill, the principle is the sane, modi-
fied though it be in its ac ion by the spirit of the
age.

" With these views strengthenel by every day's
reflection and experience, I beg to assure you and
the respectable body of my fellow-countrymen who
have done me the honour to address me, that my
humble support may, regardless of consequences t
myself, be always reckone I upon for emancipating
them from every vestige of religiouAdisqualification
or inequality to which they are unjustly subjected ;
and I remain, Sir, yours very sincerely,
"R. COBDEN.
“j. Hint, Esq., Coopr-house, Kirkstal."

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UNITED'STATES, CANADIAN, AUST.RA-
LIAN, AND AFRICA MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, TIIESDA.Y.

The screw steam-ship Circassian, Captain Powell,
sails this afternoon for St. John's, Newfoundland,
Halifax, and Portland, with a considerable number
of passengers and a full cargo. The steamer only
arrived ou Sunday morning, and since then has dis-
charged and taken on board a full cargo—a proof of
the facilities this port affords for shipping.
The screwsteam•ship City of Manchester Captain
Petrie, sails to-morrow forenoon, f►r .New York,
with cargo and passengers. She will carry a ship
letter-bag, letters for which must be posted at nino
a.m., or with late fees before half-past nine a.m.
to morrow.

The Royal mail screw steam-ship Anglo-Saxon,
Captain M'Master, will also sail to-morrow fore-
noon for Quebec and Montreal, with the Canadian
mails, passengers, and cargo. Letters must be
posted before eight a.m., with late fees until nine
a.m., and at the landing -stage until ten a.m., to-
morrow.

The weekly mails for the United States and
British North Amei ican provinces will be carried
out by the Niagara, Captain Wickman, on Satur-
day next. Letters must be posted here before eight
a.m., with late fees until nine a.m., and at the
landing stage on Saturday morning up to ten
o'clock.

_
The next mails from the United States may be ex-
pected by the screw steam-ship Canadian, Captain
Ballautyne, which would leave Pot-Vaud on the
25th ult. _

Mails will be made up here on Thursday next,
the 7th ins'ant, for Melbourne, for conveyance by
the Black Ball clipper Commodore Perry, Captain
Webb. (It may le added that the Commodore
Perry will carry out 650 passengers and 2,000 tons
of cargo.)

A mail wag made up here to-day for Fernando
Po, for conveyalice by the new screw steam-ship
aty Spring, Capt. Grant, built at Birkenhead by
Mr. Laird, and inteoded for the Niger expeditiou.

SIB JOHN BOWRING AND THE CHINESB

BARBARIANS.

(From the Western. Times.)
At the beginning of this month we published a
letter received from Sir J. Bowring by a gentleman
in this city. We have since observed the following
letter of Sir John's addressed to a gentleman in the
Isle of Man, written several days after the letter
above alluded to :

" Hong Kong, Feb. 24.
"My dear Sir,—l doubt not that it will be a
gratification to many friends to hear from the best
authority that we are all recovered from the effects
of the poison of which several hundred persons par-
took on the 15th January. Abfeit 101bs. of arsenic
had been mixed w‘th a batch of bred issued from
the largest Chinese bakery in the colony, and the
•excess of the quantity led to immediate alarm—
application of emetics, and speedy ejection of 'the
perilous stuff.' It left its effects for some days
in racking headaches, pains in the
_labs and
bowels, &c. In my family, my wife, daughters, 3
guests, my private secretary, and myself, besides
several servants, ate of the poisoned bread. Lady
Bowring's has been a bad csse, as it was thought
some of the arsenic had got into the lungs, but
danger is now over. This mode of warfare is hard
.041011 with, and *ill, I am sure, excite a general
sympathy and indignation. Large premiums have
been offered by the Mandarilksto nay one whosball
set fire to our houses, kidnap or murder us, and
many unfortun,te. wretches of all naoions (as the
hatred of the Chinese is indiscriminating)havebeen
seized, decapitated, and their heads have been ex-
posed on the walls of Canton, their assassins hav-
ing been largely rewarded ; they have even torn up
the bodies of Christian men from their graves, in
order to decapitate themandexpose their mutilated
skulls to the public gaze. All this is sufficiently
horrible, but I doubt not the results will be most
beneficial, for certainly we shall exact indemnities
for the past, and obtain securities for the future.
We shall not crouch before assassination and in-
cendiarism, you may be assured. I did all that
depended upon me to promote conciliation
and establish peace. This was obviously my
duty, but every effort I made was treated
with scorn and repulsion. The forbearance
with which the Chinese have been treated has bee!'
wholly misunderstood by them, and attributed to
our apprehensions of their great power and awe of
the majesty of the Son of Heaven.' So they have
disre4arded the mo st solemn engagements of treaties,
and looked upon us as barbarians, who, in a mo-
ment of success, imposed conditions from which
they were to escape, when occasion offered, and
when they could, (in their judgment) safely do so.
I doubt not that Government, Parliament, and
public opinion will go with us in this great struggle,
and pray that my life may have been preserved for
the real and enduring benefit of my country and
mankind.—Ever faithfully yours,

" JOHN BOWRING.
" W. Kelly; Esq., Douglas, Isle of Man."

Sporting Intelligence.

CHESTER SPRING MEETING-TUESDAY.

The Grosvenor Stakes of 10 cove each, ft, with 50
added, for 3.yr-olda and upwards ; certain winners
extra. Grosvenor Course (one mile and a quarter).
Twelve subs.
Mr. T. Walker's Gemma di Vergy, 3 yrs, Est 121 b

(Bullock) 1
Mr. Howard's Dratnour, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (inc. 51b extra)
(Fordham) 2
Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 4 yrs, Bit 71b (Wells) 3
Colt by Touchstone, Vandermeultn, and Melissa also
ran.

Betting-5 to 4on Gemma di Vergy, 7to 2 agat
Fisherman, 5 to 1 az,st Vanderrneulin, 10 to 1 ugst any
other offered. Drumour led, with Gemma di Vergy
pulling double second. Opposite the stand the favourite
challenged, and won a most interesting race in by a
head. Fisherman, who took third place on turning into
the straight, was beaten half a length from Drumour ;
a length between the third and fourth, two lengths be-
tween the fourth and fifth. Melissa was last from start
to finish. Immediately after the race 16 to 1 was hid
against Gemma di Vergy, and 1,000 to 30 was taken
about Drumour fur the Chester Cup.

The Chesterfield Stakes (aandicap) of 10 am each, with
100 added, for 3-yr-olds ; the second to receive 25

- -
cove out of the stakes ; winners extra. Once round
and a distance. Twenty-seven subs.
Mr. J. Merry's Spcial Licence, 7st 21b ...(Snowden) 1
Mr. Wind,or's Kenerdy, bit (Bray) 2
14,rd Wilt9u'a Ma Mie c,JI-, 7st 111.1
Mr. Ilawkin's MastPr 8a..;(4, 7st 41b (Frost) 4
Qa,en Bess, Rd White and Blue, and Old Ton* also
ran.

Betting—Even on SpeciAl Licence, 7 to 1 agst Ma
Mie colt, Bto 1 agst Master Bagot. Won by half a
length ; same distance between the second and third ;
bad fourth.

After the race 1,000 to 20 was taken twice about Spa•
cial Licence for the Derby.
The Mostyn Stakes of 10 cove each, with 100 added, for
two-yr-gilds ; colts, B,t 7lb ; fillies and geldings, Bst
31) ; the second to rec.sive 20 sovs out of the stakes ;
winners extra. Three quarters of a mile. 17 subs.
Mr. J. Scott's Llti4r,,n4e, Bst 71b (Wells) 1
Mr. Howard's Jack Horner, Bst 71b (J. Coster) 2
Mr. La Mert's Melita, Bst 3ib (Bates) 3
The foil swing also ran—Terrific, Harry Stanley,
Mufti, and Lady Ann.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Jack Ef,rner, 4b 1 each agst
Lady Ann, Terrific, and Harry Stanley, sto 1 agst
Longrange. Won by a length, two lengths between
the second and third, a head between the third and
fourth ; Harry Stanley and Lady Ann finished close to-
gether, about two lengths behind Terrific; Mufti was
beaten off.

Sweep,takei of 5 sous each, with 30 added, for three-
yr- Ads and upwards; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs,
&e. Once round and a distance. 7 subs.
Lord Chesterfield's Schneider, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b

(Fordharo) 1
Kr. Ferguson's Alcyone, 5 yrs, Bst 31'1 (E. Sharp) 2
Mr. J. S,:ott's Thames DArrell, 3 yrs, Est 1214
(Cresswell) 3
The following also ran—Sorceress, Coal. Black Rose,
and SZnon

B ,ttiog-5 to 2 asst Thames Darrell, 7 to 2 each agst
Alcyo❑e and Schneider. Won by
.a head ; two lengths
between the second and third ; Sorceress was a bad
fourth.

The Wynnstay Handicap.

Mary
Riseber
The Martlet
Seven ran. Deal beat for second place.
Palat'ne Sakes.

ZaidPe .
Janet

Five ran.

LATEST BETTING.---CLOSE OF ROOMS LAST

NIGHT.
CHESTER CUP
sto 1 aget Learnit gton (taken)
9to 1 agst Dulcamara ( ,ff,red)
11 t 1 aget Torbit (taken)
12 to 1 aget Warlock (taken)
100 to 0 agst Mincepie (offered)
30 to 1 agst Drumour (taken)
30 to 1 ag,t Pretty Boy (taken)
30 to 1 agst Peeping Tom (taken)
30 to 1 aget Riseber (taken)
4,1 to 1 agst Commotion (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lance (taken)
40 to 1 agst Polestar (taken)
40 to 1 aget Pantomime (taken)
40 to 1 agst Van Dunck (taken)
50 to 1 agst Bey Hilton (offered)
100 to 1 agst Aleppo (taken)

The London Racing Indicator, private circular by
Chi fney, of Saturday next, price thirteenpence, contains
probable Winner of the Derby, and Summary ; what to
back arid lay against ; alio probable Winners at Shrews-
bury and Ludlow. Sent four winners at Chester, on
Tuesday. Office, 1, Savoyhill, Strand, London.